The spanish professional soccer foundations. (Las fundaciones clubes de futbol profesionales en España)

Sports foundations aiming at promoting sports activities partly outline the nonprofit area with specific concern. This study attempts to know the functions, general interests of professional soccer foundations in Spain, to describe their main characteristics and to ascertain if there are significant differences among them, according to their descriptive features. A document survey and analysis was carried out, with an assistance of own establishment of documental database. The findings not only indicate a significant difference between the classification of Spanish soccer foundations and their antiquities, but also manifest the tendency of the existence of physical person in members of founders with regard to its antiquity. The results of the present work implied that there were great dissimilarities of the elaboration of regulations depending on different regions in Spain.

Optimizing the creation of base populations for aquaculture breeding programs using phenotypic and genomic data and its consequences on genetic progress

The success of an aquaculture breeding program critically depends on the way in which the base population of breeders is constructed since all the genetic variability for the traits included originally in the breeding goal as well as those to be included in the future is contained in the initial founders. Traditionally, base populations were created from a number of wild strains by sampling equal numbers from each strain. However, for some aquaculture species improved strains are already available and, therefore, mean phenotypic values for economically important traits can be used as a criterion to optimize the sampling when creating base populations. Also, the increasing availability of genome-wide genotype information in aquaculture species could help to refine the estimation of relationships within and between candidate strains and, thus, to optimize the percentage of individuals to be sampled from each strain. This study explores the advantages of using phenotypic and genome-wide information when constructing base populations for aquaculture breeding programs in terms of initial and subsequent trait performance and genetic diversity level. Results show that a compromise solution between diversity and performance can be found when creating base populations. Up to 6% higher levels of phenotypic performance can be achieved at the same level of global diversity in the base population by optimizing the selection of breeders instead of sampling equal numbers from each strain. The higher performance observed in the base population persisted during 10 generations of phenotypic selection applied in the subsequent breeding program.

Richard Baxter Foster Letter to his wife September 29 1865

Letter from Richard Baxter Foster to his wife Lucy from Brownsville, Texas on September 29, 1865

Richard Baxter Foster Letter to his wife June 4 1865

Letter from Richard Baxter Foster to his wife Lucy from Brownsville, Texas on June 4 1865.

Richard Baxter Foster Letter to his wife Sept 3 1865

Letter from Richard Baxter Foster to his wife Lucy from Brownsville, Texas on Sept 3 1865.

Richard Baxter Foster Letter to his wife September 14 1863

Letter from Richard Baxter Foster to his wife Lucy from St. Louis on September 14, 1863.

Richard Baxter Foster Letter to his wife (October 4, 1865?)

Letter from Richard Baxter Foster to his wife Lucy one month after he submitted his request to be discharged from service.

Richard Baxter Foster Letter to his wife March 12 1865

Letter from Richard Baxter Foster to his wife Lucy from Brazos Santiago, Texas on March 12, 1865

Daniel Foster Letter to Richard Baxter Foster May 11, 1863

Daniel Foster's letter to his brother Richard Baxter Foster from Camp of the 33rd Miss. Vol. near Aquin Creek, Virginia on May 11, 1863.

Richard Baxter Foster Letter to his wife May 24, 1865

Letter from Richard Baxter Foster to his wife Lucy from Brazos Santiago, Texas on May 24, 1865

Richard Baxter Foster Letter to his wife September 1 1865

Letter from Richard Baxter Foster to his wife Lucy from Brownsville, Texas About Sept. 1 1865

Richard Baxter Foster Letter to his wife March 7 1863

Letter from Richard Baxter Foster to his wife Lucy on March 7, 1863

Richard Baxter Foster Letter to his wife July 6 1865

Letter from Richard Baxter Foster to his wife Lucy from Brownsville, Texas on July 6, 1865

Richard Baxter Foster Letter to his wife July 8 1865

Letter from Richard Baxter Foster to his wife Lucy from Brownsville, Texas on July 8, 1865

Richard Baxter Foster Letter to his wife October 17 1865

Letter from Richard Baxter Foster to his wife Lucy on October 17, 1865 at Texas En route to Ft. McIntosh