La izquierda burguesa y la tragedia de la II Rep??blica

Se ofrece una visi??n de la II Rep??blica Espa??ola y se realiza un an??lisis de la tendencia pol??tica que m??s se identific?? con la democracia republicana, la izquierda burguesa, reformista y anticlerical, que tuvo en Aza??a su l??der m??s destacado. Se examinan con rigor hist??rico sus aciertos y sus errores, sus ideales y sus intransigencias.

Efficacy of neem (Azadirachta indica) formulations on biology of root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne javanica) on tomato

Second stage juveniles of Meloidogyne javanica were exposed to aqueous extracts of neem crude formulations (leaves and cake) at 10%, 5%, and 2.5% w/v and a refined product, Aza at 0.1% w/v. The 10% extracts of neem leaf and cake caused 83% and 85% immobility and 35% and 28% mortality, respectively. Aza caused neither immobility or mortality of juveniles. When egg masses were placed in extracts of these formulations, hatching did not occur at all the concentrations (10%, 5%, 2.5% and 1.25% w/v) of the crude formulations. When the treated egg masses were returned to water, the eggs resumed hatching. Aza did not affect the nematode hatching. In glasshouse experiments, soil application of neem formulations significantly reduced the invasion of tomato roots by root-knot nematodes but once the nematodes managed to invade them, no effect detected on their development. Soil applications of Aza at 0.05% and 0.1% w/v significantly reduced the invasion and delayed development of nematodes within tomato roots whereas 0.025% did not. There were significantly fewer egg masses on tomato roots exposed to single egg mass in neem amended soil as compared to control. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Systemic and persistent effect of neem (Azadirachta indica) formulations against root-knot nematodes, Meloidogyne javanica and their storage life

Neem leaves, neem cake (a by-product left after the extraction of oil from neem seed) and a commercially refined product aza (azadirachtin) extracted from seed were evaluated. Aqueous extracts of crude neem formulations used as a seedling dip treatment significantly reduced the number of females and egg masses in roots whereas the refined one did not. A split-root technique was used to demonstrate the translocation of active compounds within a plant and their subsequent effect on the development of nematodes. When applied to the root portion all formulations significantly reduced the number of egg masses and eggs per egg mass. Whereas on the untreated root portion, neem cake at 3% w/w and aza at 0.1% w/w significantly reduced the number of egg masses as compared with neem leaves at 3% w/w, aza at 0.05% and control. All the neern formulations significantly reduced the number of eggs per egg mass on' the untreated root portion. The effect of neem leaves and cake on the development of root-knot nematodes was tested at 2, 4, 6, 8, and 16 weeks after their application to soil. Even after 16 weeks all the treatments significantly reduced the galling index and number of egg masses but their effectiveness declined over time. After storing neem leaves, cake and aza for 8 months under ambient conditions the efficacy of neem leaves and aza, against root-knot nematodes, remained stable whereas that of cake declined. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Protective and curative effect of neem (Azadirachta indica) formulations on the development of root-knot nematode Meloidogyne javanica in roots of tomato plants

Two types of neem formulations, crude and refined, were tested. The crude form was neem leaves and neem cakes (a by-product left after the extraction of oil from neem seed) and one of the neem-refined products was "aza". The protective and curative soil application of these formulations significantly reduced the number of egg masses and eggs per egg mass on tomato roots. Protective application of neem crude formulations (leaves and cake) did not reduce the invasion of juveniles whereas aza at 0.1% w/w did. Curative application of neem formulations significantly reduced the number of egg masses and eggs per egg mass as compared with the control. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Response of free eggs on infective juvenile root-knot nematode Meloidogyne javanica through neem (Azadirachta indica A. Juss) amended soil

Air-dried and 3 mm pore size sieved soil was amended with neem crude formulations (leaves and cake) @ 3% w/w and a refined product, aza @ 0.05 and 0.1 w/w. Three days after treatment, 500 eggs of M. javanica held in 2 ml water were added in each dish. In another experiment, soil was amended with neem crude formulations @ 10. 5, 2.5 and 1% w/w and refined formulation aza @ 0.025, 0.05, 0.1 and 0.5% w/w. Three days after amendment 1000 plus minus 21 freshly hatched J2 held in 3 ml water were added to the amended soil. Untreated soil was kept as control. Comparison of treatments means showed that all the neem formulations caused significant reduction of hatching. Neem crude formulations were more effective in reducing hatching as compared to commercial product aza. Among the crude formulations, neem leaves were most effective in reducing hatching. In other experiment all the doses of neem crude and refined formulations differed significantly with control in reducing the mobility of juveniles. It was observed that by increasing the dose of the formulations the mobility was reduced accordingly.

Synthesis, crystal structure and hydrolysis of a dinuclear copper(II) complex constructed by N2O donor Schiff base and 4,4 '-bipyridine: discrete supra-molecular ensembles vs. oligomers

The tridentate Schiff base ligand, 7-amino-4-methyl-5-aza-3-hepten-2-one (HAMAH), prepared by the mono-condensation of 1,2diaminoethane and acetylacetone, reacts with Cu(BF4)(2) center dot 6H(2)O to produce initially a dinuclear Cu(II) complex, [{Cu(AMAH)}(2) (mu-4,4'-bipyJ](BF4)(2) (1) which undergoes hydrolysis in the reaction mixture and finally produces a linear polymeric chain compound, [Cu(acac)(2)(mu-4,4'-bipy)](n) (2). The geometry around the copper atom in compound 1 is distorted square planar while that in compound 2 is essentially an elongated octahedron. On the other hand, the ligand HAMAH reacts with Cu(ClO4)(2) center dot 6H(2)O to yield a polymeric zigzag chain, [{Cu(acac)(CH3OH)(mu-4,4'-bipy)}(ClO4)](n) (3). The geometry of the copper atom in 3 is square pyramidal with the two bipyridine molecules in the cis equatorial positions. All three complexes have been characterized by elemental analysis, IR and UV-Vis spectroscopy and single crystal X-ray diffraction studies. A probable explanation for the different size and shape of the reported polynuclear complexes formed by copper(II) and 4,4'-bipyridine has been put forward by taking into account the denticity and crystal field strength of the blocking ligand as well as the Jahn-Teller effect in copper(II). (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Self-assembled columns of fullerene

Columnar mesophases based on alternating triphenylene and hexaphenyltriphenylene moieties are exceptionally stable and able to accommodate bulky side-chain substituents within the alkyl chain continuum between the columns. This paper presents a system in which the triphenylene bears a fullerene on its side-chain and the hexaphenyltriphenylene equivalent is the aza-derivative hexakis(4-nonylphenyl)dipyrazino[2,3-f : 2'3'-h] quinoxalene, PDQ9. The mesophase formed was identified as hexagonal columnar (Col(h)) by X-ray diffraction (a = 25.2 angstrom and c = 3.5 angstrom) but, in addition to the expected peaks, there is indication of a two-dimensional hexagonal superlattice with d-spacing 59 angstrom. This superlattice is believed to arise from ordering of the fullerenes within the liquid crystal matrix. It can be explained on the assumption that, to maximise fullerene-fullerene contact, the fullerenes form chains which wrap around the central column in every group of seven columns of the triphenylene : PDQ9 Col(h) array.

Synthesis and characterization of nickel(II) and copper(II) complexes with tetradentate Schiff base ligands

The 1:1 condensation of 1,2-diaminopropane and 1-phenylbutane-1,3-dione at high dilution gives a mixture of two positional isomers of terdentate mono-condensed Schiff bases 6-amino-3-methyl-1-phenyl-4-aza-2-hepten-1-one (HAMPAH) and 6-amino-3,5-dimethyl-1-phenyl-4-aza-2-hexen-1-one (HADPAH). The mixture of the terdentate ligands has been used for further condensation with pyridine-2-carboxaldehyde or 2-acetylpyridine to obtain the unsymmetrical tetradentate Schiff base ligands. The tetradentate Schiff bases are then allowed to react with the methanol solution of copper(II) and nickel(II) perchlorate separately. The X-ray diffraction confirms the structures of two of the complexes and shows that the condensation site of the diamine with 1-phenylbutane-1,3-dione is the same.

Flow synthesis of organic azides and the multistep synthesis of imines and amines using a new monolithic triphenylphosphine reagent

Here we describe general flow processes for the synthesis of alkyl and aryl azides, and the development of a new monolithic triphenylphosphine reagent, which provides a convenient format for the use of this versatile reagent in flow. The utility of these new tools was demonstrated by their application to a flow Staudinger aza-Wittig reaction sequence. Finally, a multistep aza-Wittig, reduction and purification flow process was designed, allowing access to amine products in an automated fashion.

Chemically tagging the Hyades stream: does it partly originate from the Hyades cluster?

The Hyades stream has long been thought to be a dispersed vestige of the Hyades cluster. However, recent analyses of the parallax distribution, of the mass function, and of the action-space distribution of stream stars have shown it to be rather composed of orbits trapped at a resonance of a density disturbance. This resonant scenario should leave a clearly different signature in the element abundances of stream stars than the dispersed cluster scenario, since the Hyades cluster is chemically homogeneous. Here, we study the metallicity as well as the element abundances of Li, Na, Mg, Fe, Zr, Ba, La, Ce, Nd and Eu for a random sample of stars belonging to the Hyades stream, and compare them with those of stars from the Hyades cluster. From this analysis: (i) we independently confirm that the Hyades stream cannot be solely composed of stars originating in the Hyades cluster; (ii) we show that some stars (namely 2/21) from the Hyades stream nevertheless have abundances compatible with an origin in the cluster; (iii) we emphasize that the use of Li as a chemical tag of the cluster origin of main-sequence stars is very efficient in the range 5500 K <= T(eff) <= 6200 K, since the Li sequence in the Hyades cluster is very tight, while at the same time spanning a large abundance range; (iv) we show that, while this evaporated population has a metallicity excess of similar to 0.2 dex with respect to the local thin-disc population, identical to that of the Hyades cluster, the remainder of the Hyades stream population has still a metallicity excess of similar to 0.06-0.15 dex, consistent with an origin in the inner Galaxy and (v) we show that the Hyades stream can be interpreted as an inner 4:1 resonance of the spiral pattern: this then also reproduces an orbital family compatible with the Sirius stream, and places the origin of the Hyades stream up to 1 kpc inwards from the solar radius, which might explain the observed metallicity excess of the stream population.

Att se framtiden an med IUP : En analys av framtidsplaneringen i individuella utvecklingsplaner

Denna uppsats syftar till att undersöka hur den framåtsyftande planeringen i individuella ut-vecklingsplaner, IUP, formuleras i förhållande till elevernas framtida lärande. Undersökning-en har genomförts genom att vi gjort en innehållsmässig textanalys av 127 IUP:er. Tidigare forskning har uppmärksammat att IUP är mer tillbakablickande och nulägesbeskrivande än framåtblickande. Skolverket har i sina tidigare undersökningar sett att mycket av ansvaret som skrivs in i IUP ligger på eleven och föräldrarna. Resultatet av vår undersökning visar att de IUP:er som vi har analyserat inte är tillbakablickande och nulägesbeskrivande, utan formu-leringarna syftar framåt i tiden. Däremot håller vi med Skolverket om att mycket av ansvaret fördelas till elever och vårdnadshavare. I vår undersökning kan vi konstatera att de handlingsstrategier som formuleras i IUP:er oftast är kortsiktiga och många gånger syftar på andra saker än kunskapsmål. Vår övergripande slutsats är att planeringen i de IUP:er vi analyserat är kortfattad och ofta vagt och lösryckt formulerad, det saknas oftast konkret formulerade lång-siktiga mål och det saknas också tydliga tillvägagångssätt för hur målen ska nås.

Protection of spruce seedlings against pine weevil attacks by treatment of seeds or seedlings with nicotinamide, nicotinic acid and jasmonic acid

Sustainable methods are required to protect newly planted tree seedlings from insect herbivore attack. To this end, here Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) seeds were treated with 2.5 mM nicotinamide (NIC), 2.5 mM nicotinic acid (NIA), 3 mM jasmonic acid (JA) or 0.2 mM 5-azacytidine (5-Aza), and 6-month-old seedlings grown from these seeds were planted at a reforestation area in central Sweden. Attack by pine weevils (Hylobius abietis) was reduced by 50 per cent by NIC treatment, 62.5 per cent by JA treatment and 25 per cent by 5-Aza treatment, when compared with seedlings grown from untreated seeds. Watering 18-month-old spruce seedlings with 2 mM NIC or 2 mM NIA did reduce attack during the first season in the field by 40 and 53 per cent, respectively, compared with untreated plants. Girdling was also reduced by the different treatments. Analysis of conifer seedlings treated with 5-Aza points at a possible involvement of epigenetic mechanisms in this defensive capacity. This is supported by a reduced level of DNA methylation in the needles of young spruce seedlings grown in a greenhouse from NIC-treated seeds. Seed treatment for seedling defense potentiation is simple, inexpensive and also a new approach for forestry with many potential applications.

A influência do parâmetro de avaliação no diagnóstico do estado nutricional de pacientes transplantados renais

O transplante (Tx) renal é atualmente considerado a terapia de escolha para o paciente com insuficiência renal crônica terminal (IRCT). A preocupação em se fazer uma avaliação nutricional criteriosa dos pacientes transplantados renais, buscando-se o diagnóstico e o tratamento de anormalidades nutricionais, tem sido prejudicada pela falta de consenso na literatura a respeito de um parâmetro nutricional ideal. O objetivo deste estudo foi comparar diagnósticos do estado nutricional obtidos com quatro parâmetros comumente empregados na avaliação e a presença de desnutrição. Foram avaliados cem transplantados renais em acompanhamento ambulatorial regular, com função renal estável, mais de um ano de transplante e idade maior ou igual a 18 anos. Cinqüenta e três por cento destes eram do sexo masculino, com predominância da raça branca (89%) e média de idade de 44 anos. O tipo de diálise pré-Tx mais freqüente foi hemodiálise (95%) e o tempo desta variou de 1 a 36 meses. O tipo de doador predominante foi cadáver (60%). O tempo de Tx variou de 1 a 18 anos. A etiologia da IRC não foi determinada em 33%, hipertensão arterial sistêmica foi diagnosticada em 22%, glomerulonefrite crônica em 20% e outras patologias em 25%. Quanto à terapia imunossupressora, esquema tríplice com ciclosporina (CyA), azatioprina (AZA) e prednisona (Pred) foi mais freqüentemente empregado (71%). Os pacientes não apresentaram rejeição aguda em 71% dos casos. Dislipidemia ocorreu na maioria dos pacientes (77%) e DM pós-transplante foi encontrado em 22%. A depuração da creatinina endógena (DCE) foi maior que 50ml/min em 56% dos pacientes Quatro parâmetros nutricionais foram empregados na avaliação: avaliação nutricional subjetiva global (ANSG), índice de massa corporal (IMC), circunferência muscular do braço (CMB) e albumina sérica (Alb). As variáveis foram expressas como médias e DP ou mediana e intervalo inter quartil (percentil 25 e percentil 75) ou freqüência absoluta ou relativa. O nível de significância adotado foi P< 0,05 e IC 95%. Dependendo do parâmetro empregado, a eutrofia foi diagnosticada em 42 a 89% dos casos, obesidade de 26 a 55% e desnutrição, de 3 a 35%. Observou-se uma intersecção de resultados na avaliação nutricional: alguns pacientes classificados como obesos por um parâmetro, foram avaliados como desnutridos por outro e vice e versa. Dos 55 pacientes classificados como obesos pelo IMC, 35,8% foram considerados desnutridos pela Alb e, 1,8% pela ANSG. Dos 26 pacientes considerados obesos pelo CMB, 44% foram considerados desnutridos pela Alb e 3,8% pela ANSG. Dos 11 pacientes classificados desnutridos pela ANSG, 9% foram considerados obesos pelo IMC e CMB. Já dos 34 pacientes classificados como desnutridos pelo parâmetro Alb, 58% foram considerados obesos pelo IMC e 33% pela CMB. Conclui-se que diferentes parâmetros podem resultar em diferentes diagnósticos para uma mesma população, podendo ocorrer uma intersecção de diagnósticos para um mesmo paciente. A ocorrência de desnutrição foi observada nesta população com percentuais importantes.