Phytoplankton pigment concentrations during POLARSTERN cruise ANT-XXVII/2

Photophysiological processes as well as uptake characteristics of iron and inorganic carbon were studied in inshore phytoplankton assemblages of the Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) and offshore assemblages of the Drake Passage. Chlorophyll a concentrations and primary productivity decreased from in- to offshore waters. The inverse relationship between low maximum quantum yields of photochemistry in PSII (Fv/Fm) and large sizes of functional absorption cross sections (sigma PSII) in offshore communities indicated iron-limitation. Congruently, the negative correlation between Fv/Fm values and iron uptake rates across our sampling locations suggest an overall better iron uptake capacity in iron-limited pelagic phytoplankton communities. Highest iron uptake capacities could be related to relative abundances of the haptophyte Phaeocystis antarctica. As chlorophyll a-specific concentrations of humic-like substances were similarly high in offshore and inshore stations, we suggest humic-like substances may play an important role in iron chemistry in both coastal and pelagic phytoplankton assemblages. Regarding inorganic carbon uptake kinetics, the measured maximum short-term uptake rates (Vmax(CO2)) and apparent half-saturation constants (K1/2(CO2)) did not differ between offshore and inshore phytoplankton. Moreover, Vmax(CO2) and K1/2(CO2) did not exhibit any CO2-dependent trend over the natural pCO2 range from 237 to 507 µatm. K1/2(CO2) strongly varied among the sampled phytoplankton communities, ranging between 3.5 and 35.3 µmol/L CO2. While in many of the sampled phytoplankton communities, the operation of carbon-concentrating mechanisms (CCMs) was indicated by low K1/2(CO2) values relative to ambient CO2 concentrations, some coastal sites exhibited higher values, suggesting down-regulated CCMs. Overall, our results demonstrate a complex interplay between photophysiological processes, iron and carbon uptake of phytoplankton communities of the WAP and the Drake Passage.

Acoplamiento coherente de cuatro ondas de Alfven

Interacciones no lineales de ondas de Alfvén existen tanto para plasmas en el espacio como en laboratorios, con efectos que van desde calentamiento hasta conducción de corriente. Un ejemplo de emisión de ondas de Alfvén en ingeniería aparece en amarras espaciales. Estos dispositivos emiten ondas en estructuras denominadas “Alas de Alfvén”. La ecuación Derivada no lineal de Schrödinger (DNLS) posee la capacidad de describir la propagación de ondas de Alfvén de amplitud finita circularmente polarizadas tanto para plasmas fríos como calientes. En esta investigación, dicha ecuación es truncada con el objetivo de explorar el acoplamiento coherente, débilmente no lineal y cúbico de cuatro ondas cerca de resonancia (k1 + k2 = k3 + k4). La onda 1 que corresponde al vector de onda k1 puede ser linealmente inestable y las tres restantes ondas 2, 3 y 4, correspondientes a k2, k3 y k4 respectivamente, son amortiguadas. Por medio de la utilización de este modelo se genera un flujo 5D formado por cuatro amplitudes y una fase relativa. En una serie de trabajos previos se ha analizado la transición dura hacia caos en flujos 3D (Sanmartín et al., 2004) y 4D (Elaskar et al., 2005; Elaskar et al., 2006; Sánchez-Arriaga et al., 2007). Se presenta en este artículo un análisis teórico-numérico del comportamiento del sistema cuando la tasa de crecimiento de la onda inestable es nula.

Colección de las obras sueltas, assi en prosa, como en verso

Contiene : Relación de las fiestas que la ... Villa de Madrid, hizo en la coronización de ... San Isidro ..., p. VII-LXXIV ; La niñez de San Isidro, p.1-74 ; La juventud de San Isidro, p.75-148 ; Justa poetica, p 149-426

Alegacion en derecho en el pleyto que sigue en grado de vista por la Real Audiencia de ... Valencia ... Juan Bautista Aparici ... con D. Blas Aparici ..

Precede al tít: "Jesus, Maria, Joseph"

Demostracion legal de que se apresó injustamente el bergantin sueco, llamado La Libertad mas dulce que el oro : y conuencimiento de que el armador del corsario apresador debe reintegrar "a los napolitanos" dueños de la carga que conducia, todo su valor, y "al capitan sueco Juan Sundahl" en todo acontecimiento los fletes, estarías, daños y perjuicios, sin embargo : de la sentencia de vista del Supremo Consejo de la Guerra, cuya correccion y enmienda se solicita

Ejemplar gillotinado afectando al pie de imprenta

Ordenanzas del Colegio de Escrivanos de la ciudad y Reyno de Valencia aprobadas por S.M. en su Despacho dado en Sevilla à 18 de mayo de 1731, en que restablecio dicho Colegio : otro Real Despacho ... en Madrid en 7 de febrero 1765 en que su magestad ... quiere que se conserve dicho Colegio de Escrivanos ... : y la cedula de S.M. de 24 de diciembre 1734 sobre inventario, y custodia de los Protocolos de los Escrivanos difuntos

La cabecera del tít. del Real Despacho de Sevilla de 18 de mayo de 1731 de Madrid de 7 de febrero de 1765 cambia: "Colegio de Escrivanos" que dice en port. por "Colegio de Notarios"

Integración numérica de la ecuación DNLS

Interacciones no lineales de ondas de Alfven existen tanto para plasmas en el espacio como en laboratorios. En ingeniería aeroespacial amarras electrodinámicas espaciales ("tethers") generan emisión de ondas de Alfven en estructuras denominadas "Alas de Alfven". La ecuación Derivada no lineal de Schrödinger (DNLS) posee la capacidad de describir la propagation de ondas de Alfven de amplitud finita circularmente polarizadas tanto para plasmas fríos como calientes. En esta investigación, dicha ecuacion es solucionada numéricamente por medio de tecnicas espectrales para las derivadas espaciales y un esquema de Runge-Kutta de 4to orden para evaluar el avance en el tiempo. Se considera la ecuacion DNLS sin efectos difusivos, sin embargo se mantienen el termino lineal y lineal y el dispersivos. Se ha trabajado con dos condiciones iniciales: 1 - Una onda, 2 - Tres ondas cerca de resonancia (k1 = k2 + k3), la primera onda (correspondiente a k1) está excitada y las otras dos amortiguadas. En el caso de una única onda los resultados numéricos verifican las condiciones analíticas de estabilidad modular, adems se ha encontrado que el tiempo en el que se produce la inestabilidad y la forma en que evoluciona el sistema depende, para un mismo número de onda, de la amplitud inicial. Con tres ondas se realiza un estudio numérico tanto para plasmas frios como calientes encontrándose que aparece redistribución de energía en un gran número de nodos tanto para ondas polarizadas hacia la izquierda como hacia la derecha.

Exact solution for the conjugate fluid-fluid problem in the thermal entrance region of laminar counterflow heat exchangers

A generalized Lévêque solution is presented for the conjugate fluid–fluid problem that arises in the thermal entrance region of laminar counterflow heat exchangers. The analysis, carried out for constant property fluids, assumes that the Prandtl and Peclet numbers are both large compared to unity, and neglects axial conduction both in the fluids and in the plate, assumed to be thermally thin. Under these conditions, the thermal entrance region admits an asymptotic self-similar description where the temperature varies as a power ϳ of the axial distance, with the particularity that the self-similarity exponent must be determined as an eigenvalue by solving a transcendental equation arising from the requirement of continuity of heat fluxes at the heat conducting wall. Specifically, the analysis reveals that j depends only on the lumped parameter ƙ = (A2/A1)1/3 (α1/α2)1/3(k2/k1), defined in terms of the ratios of the wall velocity gradients, A, thermal diffusivities, α i, and thermal conductivities,k i, of the fluids entering, 1, and exiting, 2, the heat exchanger. Moreover, it is shown that for large (small) values of K solution reduces to the classical first (second) Lévêque solution. Closed-form analytical expressions for the asymptotic temperature distributions and local heat-transfer rate in the thermal entrance region are given and compared with numerical results in the counterflow parallel-plate configuration, showing very good agreement in all cases.

Análisis del rendimiento del Complejo 1 Feel Volley Alcobendas

El análisis de juego en voleibol es cada vez más importante en voleibol, y es uno de los elementos fundamentales en el alto rendimiento para ganar partidos, así como las herramientas utilizadas para la toma de datos. El objetivo de este trabajo es, a través de los datos obtenidos de la herramienta Data Volley 2007, hacer un estudio de juego de la fase K1 del equipo Feel Volley Alcobendas en todas sus rotaciones, a partir de los datos de recepción, colocación y ataque. Asimismo se muestran los datos de cada una de las jugadoras del equipo en todas las acciones que han realizado en los partidos. El equipo se encuentra actualmente disputando la Superliga femenina, y los partidos que se han tomado para dicho análisis son los 11 primeros correspondientes a la primera vuelta de la temporada 2013/2014. Tras analizar e interpretar los datos, se presentan las conclusiones sacadas del estudio.

Control of phosphatidylserine biosynthesis through phosphatidylserine-mediated inhibition of phosphatidylserine synthase I in Chinese hamster ovary cells

Phosphatidylserine (PtdSer) synthesis in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells occurs through the exchange of l-serine with the base moiety of phosphatidylcholine or phosphatidylethanolamine. The synthesis is depressed on the addition of PtdSer to the culture medium. A CHO cell mutant named mutant 29, whose PtdSer biosynthesis is highly resistant to this depression by exogenous PtdSer, has been isolated from CHO-K1 cells. In the present study, the PtdSer-resistant PtdSer biosynthesis in the mutant was traced to a point mutation in the PtdSer synthase I gene, pssA, resulting in the replacement of Arg-95 of the synthase by lysine. Introduction of the mutant pssA cDNA, but not the wild-type pssA cDNA, into CHO-K1 cells induced the PtdSer-resistant PtdSer biosynthesis. In a cell-free system, the serine base-exchange activity of the wild-type pssA-transfected cells was inhibited by PtdSer, but that of the mutant pssA-transfected cells was resistant to the inhibition. Like the mutant 29 cells, the mutant pssA-transfected cells grown without exogenous PtdSer exhibited an ≈2-fold increase in the cellular PtdSer level compared with that in CHO-K1 cells, although the wild-type pssA-transfected cells did not exhibit such a significant increase. These results indicated that the inhibition of PtdSer synthase I by PtdSer is essential for the maintenance of a normal PtdSer level in CHO-K1 cells and that Arg-95 of the synthase is a crucial residue for the inhibition.

Isolation of a Chinese hamster ovary cell mutant defective in intramitochondrial transport of phosphatidylserine

A CHO-K1 cell mutant with a specific decrease in cellular phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) level was isolated as a variant resistant to Ro09–0198, a PE-directed antibiotic peptide. The mutant was defective in the phosphatidylserine (PS) decarboxylation pathway for PE formation, in which PS produced in the endoplasmic reticulum is transported to mitochondria and then decarboxylated by an inner mitochondrial membrane enzyme, PS decarboxylase. Neither PS formation nor PS decarboxylase activity was reduced in the mutant, implying that the mutant is defective in some step of PS transport. The transport processes of phospholipids between the outer and inner mitochondrial membrane were analyzed by use of isolated mitochondria and two fluorescence-labeled phospholipid analogs, 1-palmitoyl-2-{N-[6(7-nitrobenz-2-oxa-1,3-diazol-4-yl)amino]caproyl}-PS (C6-NBD-PS) and C6-NBD-phosphatidylcholine (C6-NBD-PC). On incubation with the CHO-K1 mitochondria, C6-NBD-PS was readily decarboxylated to C6-NBD-PE, suggesting that the PS analog was partitioned into the outer leaflet of mitochondria and then translocated to the inner mitochondrial membrane. The rate of decarboxylation of C6-NBD-PS in the mutant mitochondria was reduced to ≈40% of that in the CHO-K1 mitochondria. The quantity of phospholipid analogs translocated from the outer leaflet of mitochondria into inner mitochondrial membranes was further examined by selective extraction of the analogs from the outer leaflet of mitochondria. In the mutant mitochondria, the translocation of C6-NBD-PS was significantly reduced, whereas the translocation of C6-NBD-PC was not affected. These results indicate that the mutant is defective in PS transport between the outer and inner mitochondrial membrane and provide genetic evidence for the existence of a specific mechanism for intramitochondrial transport of PS.

Efficient exchange of the primary quinone acceptor QA in isolated reaction centers of Rhodopseudomonas viridis

A key step in the conversion of solar energy into chemical energy by photosynthetic reaction centers (RCs) occurs at the level of the two quinones, QA and QB, where electron transfer couples to proton transfer. A great deal of our understanding of the mechanisms of these coupled reactions relies on the seminal work of Okamura et al. [Okamura, M. Y., Isaacson, R. A., & Feher, G. (1975) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 88, 3491–3495], who were able to extract with detergents the firmly bound ubiquinone QA from the RC of Rhodobacter sphaeroides and reconstitute the site with extraneous quinones. Up to now a comparable protocol was lacking for the RC of Rhodopseudomonas viridis despite the fact that its QA site, which contains 2-methyl-3-nonaprenyl-1,4-naphthoquinone (menaquinone-9), has provided the best x-ray structure available. Fourier transform infrared difference spectroscopy, together with the use of isotopically labeled quinones, can probe the interaction of QA with the RC protein. We establish that a simple incubation procedure of isolated RCs of Rp. viridis with an excess of extraneous quinone allows the menaquinone-9 in the QA site to be almost quantitatively replaced either by vitamin K1, a close analogue of menaquinone-9, or by ubiquinone. To our knowledge, this is the first report of quinone exchange in bacterial photosynthesis. The Fourier transform infrared data on the quinone and semiquinone vibrations show a close similarity in the bonding interactions of vitamin K1 with the protein at the QA site of Rp. viridis and Rb. sphaeroides, whereas for ubiquinone these interactions are significantly different. The results are interpreted in terms of slightly inequivalent quinone–protein interactions by comparison with the crystallographic data available for the QA site of the two RCs.