Report on the 1980/81 angling census in the Sanyati Gorge, Lake Kariba

The angling census carried out in the Sanyati Gorge, August 1980 - March 1981, is reported. The results are compared to those obtained in the 1973 census. The objectives of the census were: 1) to determine the extent of angling mortality on tigerfish (Hydrocynus vittatus) thereby quantifying this previously neglected component of total mortality; and 2) to assess the economic importance of tigerfish to the recreational fishery on Lake Kariba.

Nutrient Enhanced Coastal Ocean Productivity (NECOP). Data report: CTD and hydrographic data, R/V Pelican cruise, April 3-11, 1993

The Nutrient Enhanced Coastal Ocean Productivity (NECOP) Program is a component of NOAA's Coastal Ocean Program. The central hypothesis of this research is: Anthropogenic nutrient inputs have enhanced coastal ocean productivity with subsequent impacts on coastal ocean water quality, living resource yields, and the global marine carbon cycle. The initial study area for this program is the Mississippi/Atchafalaya River Outflow and adjacent Louisiana shelf region.

N=81近球形141Nd和142Pm核高自旋态能级结构

本论文首先介绍了原子核高自旋态研究的一般概况以及其物理解释的基本理论，然后介绍了在束Y谱学及其实验技术。在此基础上分析和讨论了141Nd和142Pm核的高自旋态实验研究。利用能量为75-95 Mevl0F束流，通过反应128Te（19F，5ny)142Pm研究了双奇核142Pm的高自旋态能级结构。实验中进行了丫射线激发函数和Y-Y符合测量。建立了限Pm核高自旋态能级纲图，位于前人建议的一个2毫秒、8-同质异能态之上。由测量的丫射线激发函数和Y一Y符合关系，澄清了一个67微秒同质异能态及其衰变混乱的指定，本论文把67微秒同质异能态及其衰变指定给了142Pm，建议此同质异能态的激发能为2828.5 keV，推断此同质异能态的自旋宇称为13-。在本实验研究的同时，有人利用133Cs（13C，4n）142Pm反应报道了一个建立在2毫秒、8-同质异能态之上的142P亩高自旋态能级纲图；除了相应Y跃迁的多极性有较大差别外，他们报道的瞬Pm高自旋态能级纲图与我们建立在67微秒同质异能态上的基本一致。根据能级结构的系统性，识别了四个两准粒子态，一个为g7/2质子空穴耦合h11／2中子空穴激发，另外三个是h11／2质子藕合h11／2中子空穴多重态成员。根据经验壳模型计算建议了几个新建的关键能级的组态。67微秒同质异能态的组态被建议为一个四空穴态（πg_(7/2)~(-1)d_(5/2)~(-2)vh_(11/2)~(-1)）_(13)-。通过130Te（16O，5nγ）141Nd反应布居了14tNd的高自旋态能级。对反应产生的在束丫射线进行了γ射线单谱和γ-γ符合测量。基于γ-γ符合关系，对原来的141Nd的高自旋态能级纲图做了很大修改，建立了14lNd核高自旋态能级纲图。新观察到了一个由八条γ射线组成的长E2级联跃迁，并指定给了141Nd。基于实验测量的γ跃迁各向异性，建议了141Nd部分能级的自旋值。根据经验壳模型和粒子震动祸合理论，用一个h11／2价中子空穴祸合142Nd核芯晕态激发定性地解释141Nd的能级结构，新发现的长E2级联跃迁很可能涉及两个hu/2质子激发。

Levantamento exploratório-reconhecimento de alta intensidade e aptidão agrícola dos solos da área compreendida entre os km 81 e 152 da Rodovia Santarém-Cuiabá e o Rio Curua-Una.

Foram estudados os solos de uma area com 390.000 ha, situada a margem esquerda da Rodovia Santarem-Cuiaba, num trecho compreendido entre a cidade de Santarem e a Ruropolis Presidente Medici, no Estado do Para, com o objetivo de fornecer elementos basicos ao planejamento para ocupacao da area, atraves projetos de colonizacao. O trabalho constou do levantamento pedologico e posterior determinacao da aptidao agricola dos diferentes solos identificados e mapeados. Predominam na area os Latossolos e os podzolicos, ocorrendo em pequenas proporcoes as areias Quartzosas. As principais limitacoes se referem a fertilidade e a deficiencia de agua, enquanto que nos podzolicos, porquanto existam as limitacoes supracitadas, e o relevo que exerce em sua maioria, o principal papel de limitacoes das terras para o aproveitamento agropastoril. De acordo com o sistema de aptidao agricola adotado, os Latossolos, apesar de apresentarem baixa fertilidade e alta saturacao de aluminio, dada as suas propriedades fisicas, podem ser utilizados em empreendimentos agropecuarios com bons resultados, assim como os Podzolicos de relevo forte ondulado, recomenda-se a sua utilizacao para pastagem plantada ou silvicultura, e, para as Areais Quartzosas a melhor indicacao e a silvicultura.

Anti-AIDS agents 81. Design, synthesis, and structure-activity relationship study of betulinic acid and moronic acid derivatives as potent HIV maturation inhibitors.

In our continuing study of triterpene derivatives as potent anti-HIV agents, different C-3 conformationally restricted betulinic acid (BA, 1) derivatives were designed and synthesized in order to explore the conformational space of the C-3 pharmacophore. 3-O-Monomethylsuccinyl-betulinic acid (MSB) analogues were also designed to better understand the contribution of the C-3' dimethyl group of bevirimat (2), the first-in-class HIV maturation inhibitor, which is currently in phase IIb clinical trials. In addition, another triterpene skeleton, moronic acid (MA, 3), was also employed to study the influence of the backbone and the C-3 modification toward the anti-HIV activity of this compound class. This study enabled us to better understand the structure-activity relationships (SAR) of triterpene-derived anti-HIV agents and led to the design and synthesis of compound 12 (EC(50): 0.0006 microM), which displayed slightly better activity than 2 as a HIV-1 maturation inhibitor.

Yeast screens identify the RNA polymerase II CTD and SPT5 as relevant targets of BRCA1 interaction.

BRCA1 has been implicated in numerous DNA repair pathways that maintain genome integrity, however the function responsible for its tumor suppressor activity in breast cancer remains obscure. To identify the most highly conserved of the many BRCA1 functions, we screened the evolutionarily distant eukaryote Saccharomyces cerevisiae for mutants that suppressed the G1 checkpoint arrest and lethality induced following heterologous BRCA1 expression. A genome-wide screen in the diploid deletion collection combined with a screen of ionizing radiation sensitive gene deletions identified mutants that permit growth in the presence of BRCA1. These genes delineate a metabolic mRNA pathway that temporally links transcription elongation (SPT4, SPT5, CTK1, DEF1) to nucleopore-mediated mRNA export (ASM4, MLP1, MLP2, NUP2, NUP53, NUP120, NUP133, NUP170, NUP188, POM34) and cytoplasmic mRNA decay at P-bodies (CCR4, DHH1). Strikingly, BRCA1 interacted with the phosphorylated RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) carboxy terminal domain (P-CTD), phosphorylated in the pattern specified by the CTDK-I kinase, to induce DEF1-dependent cleavage and accumulation of a RNAPII fragment containing the P-CTD. Significantly, breast cancer associated BRCT domain defects in BRCA1 that suppressed P-CTD cleavage and lethality in yeast also suppressed the physical interaction of BRCA1 with human SPT5 in breast epithelial cells, thus confirming SPT5 as a relevant target of BRCA1 interaction. Furthermore, enhanced P-CTD cleavage was observed in both yeast and human breast cells following UV-irradiation indicating a conserved eukaryotic damage response. Moreover, P-CTD cleavage in breast epithelial cells was BRCA1-dependent since damage-induced P-CTD cleavage was only observed in the mutant BRCA1 cell line HCC1937 following ectopic expression of wild type BRCA1. Finally, BRCA1, SPT5 and hyperphosphorylated RPB1 form a complex that was rapidly degraded following MMS treatment in wild type but not BRCA1 mutant breast cells. These results extend the mechanistic links between BRCA1 and transcriptional consequences in response to DNA damage and suggest an important role for RNAPII P-CTD cleavage in BRCA1-mediated cancer suppression.

Respuesta del cultivo de maíz a la fertilización nitrogenada en la pampa ondulada, campañas 1980-81 - 1983-84 : I- análisis de los resultados

p.45-64

Respuesta del cultivo de maíz a la fertilización nitrogenada en la pampa ondulada, campañas 1980-81 - 1983-84 : modelos predictivos y explicativos

p.65-84