A diagram of public spaces within urban landscape as a strategy for sustainable urban planning in Chinese cities

Destruction of historical urban fabric in many Chinese cities and towns, without the possibility of its recovery as an urban asset, leads us to consider alternative strategies and criteria for formulating new urban projects, using creative urban planning instruments and strategies to provide a sense of place and identity to the urban landscape. The challenge is to set up an urban structure that constitutes a spatial reference system, a structure consisting of a set of urban landmarks that construct a system of related public spaces, endowed with collective significance and identity. Such a network could include a wide variety of urban typologies and natural elements. An important result of this strategy would be the recovery of the social and cultural values attached to the natural landscape in Chinese civilization. Hangzhou city will be analyzed as a case study

Monitoreo y marcación de invertebrados marinos, Callao, Perú, 2014

En los alrededores de la isla San Lorenzo, en el 2014, bimensualmente se efectuaron muestreos en siete estaciones, monitoreando a los bivalvos Argopecten purpuratus, Glycymeris ovata y los crustáceos Romaleon polyodon, Cancer coronatus, Cancer porteri y Hepatus chilensis; también, se efectuaron experimentos de marcación y recaptura para determinar tasas de crecimiento en A. purpuratus, G. ovata, Semele spp., Gari solida y Protothaca thaca. A. purpuratus fue más abundante a finales del año, periodo en el que (como en el 2013) se registraron mayores valores de oxígeno a nivel de fondo del mar. R. polyodon presentó tendencia creciente de la talla media y biomasa. C. coronatus fue observado frecuentemente al norte de la isla San Lorenzo con densidades máximas de 10,67 ejemplares.10min. El cangrejo Platymera gaudichaudii fue observado solo en diciembre con densidades medias de 24 ejemplares.10 min de buceo. Se marcaron 7214 ejemplares y recapturaron 2730 ejemplares. G. ovata tuvo el 80% de recaptura y A. purpuratus 24%. Las tasas de crecimiento presentaron tendencias decrecientes a mayores tallas en todas las especies. En G. ovata la tasa de crecimiento fue mayor en ejemplares liberados en La Pampa diferente al comportamiento en Cabinzas; también se observaron diferencias entre las almejas Semele spp. y Gari solida. La abundancia de G. ovata en mayo y setiembre fue de hasta 190 ejemplares y 648,6 g por m². Las mayores densidades se registraron al noroeste de la isla San Lorenzo, mayor incidencia de esta especie estuvo en el substrato formado por conchuela molida. El rendimiento de G. ovata fue mayor en el área La Pampa respecto a Cabinzas, Palomino y Mal Nombre.

Effects of recreational fishing on three fish species from the Posidonia oceanica meadows off Minorca (Balearic archipelago, western Mediterranean)

Experimental fishing and visual censuses were conducted at nine Posidonia oceanica sites off Minorca exposed to different levels of fishing intensity to assess the effects of recreational fishing on the species that dominate the catch. Total catch per unit effort (CPUE) was highly seasonal and a statistically significant interaction term existed between the season and the level of fishing intensity. CPUE decreased everywhere at the end of the fishing season (autumn), but such a reduction was more intense at those sites exposed to the highest level of fishing. Visual censuses confirmed that there was a lower abundance of vulnerable fish in autumn. Differences vanished in spring probably because fish reshuffled between the considered sites throughout the winter, when the level of fishing intensity was extremely low. Although the average total lengths of Serranus scriba and Diplodus annularis were unaffected by the level of fishing intensity, the average total length of Coris julis was smaller at the most heavily fished sites. In conclusion, recreational fishing has a relevant impact on most of the exploited species and some of the seasonality reported for the Posidonia oceanica fish assemblages might be caused by the seasonality of the fishery.

New insights on the crystalline forms in binary systems of n-alkanes: Characterization of the solid ordered phases in the phase diagram tricosane + pentacosane

X-ray diffraction analyses of the pure components n-tricosane and n-pentacosane and of their binary mixed samples have enabled us to characterize the crystalline phases observed at low temperature. On the contrary to what was announced in literature on the structural behavior of mixed samples in odd-odd binary systems with D n = 2, the three domains are not all orthorhombic. This work has enabled us to show that two of the domains are, in fact, monoclinic, (Aa, Z = 4) and the other one is orthorhombic (Pca21, Z = 4). The conclusions drawn in this work can be easily transposed to other binary systems of n-alkanes.

Submacular fluid after encircling buckle surgery for inferior macula-off retinal detachment in young patients.

PURPOSE: Characterization of persistent diffuse subretinal fluid using optical coherence tomography (OCT) after successful encircling buckle surgery for inferior macula-off retinal detachment in young patients. METHODS: Institutional retrospective review of six young patients (mean age 31 +/- 6 years; five female, one male) with spontaneous inferior rhegmatogenous macula-off retinal detachment. All patients were treated with encircling buckle surgery and five out of six underwent additional external drainage of subretinal fluid. Mean follow-up was 37 +/- 25 months (range 17-75 months) and included complete ophthalmic and OCT examination. RESULTS: At 6 months, 100% of patients showed persistence of subretinal fluid on OCT. Four patients had diffuse fluid accumulation, whereas two patients showed a 'bleb-like' accumulation of fluid. This fluid was present independent of whether or not patients had been treated with external fluid drainage. Subretinal fluid only started to disappear on OCT between 6 and more than 12 months after surgery. CONCLUSION: Young patients with inferior macula-off retinal detachments and a marginally liquefied vitreous may show persisting postoperative subclinical fluid under the macula for longer periods of time than described previously.

Stationary states and phase diagram for a model of the Gunn effect under realistic boundary conditions

A general formulation of boundary conditions for semiconductor-metal contacts follows from a phenomenological procedure sketched here. The resulting boundary conditions, which incorporate only physically well-defined parameters, are used to study the classical unipolar drift-diffusion model for the Gunn effect. The analysis of its stationary solutions reveals the presence of bistability and hysteresis for a certain range of contact parameters. Several types of Gunn effect are predicted to occur in the model, when no stable stationary solution exists, depending on the value of the parameters of the injecting contact appearing in the boundary condition. In this way, the critical role played by contacts in the Gunn effect is clearly established.