At the heart of celebrity: celebrities’ children and their rights in the media

Based on a comparative analysis of celebrity magazines in Portugal and Brazil, this article analyses the representation of children of celebrities. Those magazines privilege an extreme personalisation of the stories and a strong valuation of the photographic image, representing children as a source of happiness and affection within the family. Nonetheless, drawing on celebrity studies and on children’s rights and their implications for journalism, we concluded that this positive representation frequently collides with the children’s rights to privacy, to be protected from public embarrassment and to be heard in the issues that affect them.

Cross-scale determinants of palm species distribution

We investigate palm species distribution, richness and abundance along the Mokoti, a seasonally-dry river of southeastern Amazon and compare it to the patterns observed at a large scale, comprising the entire Brazilian territory. A total of 694 palms belonging to 10 species were sampled at the Mokoti River basin. Although the species showed diverse distribution patterns, we found that local palm abundance, richness and tree basal area were significantly higher from the hills to the bottomlands of the study region, revealing a positive association of these measures with moisture. The analyses at the larger spatial scale also showed a strong influence of vapor pressure (a measure of moisture content of the air, in turn modulated by temperature) and seasonality in temperature: the richest regions were those where temperature and humidity were simultaneously high, and which also presented a lower degree of seasonality in temperature. These results indicate that the distribution of palms seems to be strongly associated with climatic variables, supporting the idea that, by 'putting all the eggs in one basket' (a consequence of survival depending on the preservation of a single irreplaceable bud), palms have become vulnerable to extreme environmental conditions. Hence, their distribution is concentrated in those tropical and sub-tropical regions with constant conditions of (mild to high) temperature and moisture all year round.

Digestibility of palm seeds and bruchids larvae by Neotropical rodents

Vertebrates show different tendencies in regard to their preference for seeds or fruits infested by insects compared to non-infested ones. Behaviour may include rejection of one type, preferential consumption of one type or no differentiation among them. When comparing infested versus non-infested fruits, most studies have focused on energy content and nutritional components of the food items; but the energy input provided to the consumer is a better measure for the comparison of the value of each type of food. In this study, I calculated the energy assimilated by rodents for the seeds of the palm Attalea butyracea contained in non-infested endocarps and from bruchid beetle larvae contained in infested endocarps. Using the energy assimilation and time of handling by rodents for both types of endocarps, I quantitatively demonstrated that both infested and non-infested endocarps produce a similar energy input. This finding is consistent with the previous hypothesis that there is a trade-off between the energy content and the time required to extract the insect larvae compared with the seeds in endocarps of Attalea butyracea.

Reaching the Heart of the University : Libraries and the Future of OER

University libraries are well positioned to run or support OER production and publication operations. Many university libraries already have the technical, service, and policy infrastructure in place that would provide economies of scale for nascent and mature OER projects. Given a number of aligning factors, the University of Michigan (U-M) has an excellent opportunity to integrate Open.Michigan, its OER operation, into the University Library. This paper presents the case for greater university library involvement in OER projects generally, with U-M as a case study.

Impaired glucose metabolism in the heart of obese Zucker rats after treatment with phorbol ester.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the influence of obesity on the regulation of myocardial glucose metabolism following protein kinase C (PKC) activation in obese (fa/fa) and lean (Fa/?) Zucker rats. DESIGN: Isolated hearts obtained from 17-week-old lean and obese Zucker rats were perfused with 200 nM phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) for different time periods prior to the evaluation of PKC and GLUT-4 translocation. For metabolic studies isolated hearts from 48 h starved Zucker rats were perfused with an erythrocytes-enriched buffer containing increased concentrations (10-100 nM) of PMA. MEASUREMENTS: Immunodetectable PKC isozymes and GLUT-4 were determined by Western blots. Glucose oxidation and glycolysis were evaluated by measuring the myocardial release of 14CO2 and 3H2O from [U-14C]glucose and [5-3H]glucose, respectively. RESULTS: PMA (200 nM) induced maximal translocation of ventricular PKCalpha from the cytosol to the membranes within 10 min. This translocation was 2-fold lower in the heart from obese rats when compared to lean rats. PMA also induced a significant translocation of ventricular GLUT-4 from the microsomal to the sarcolemmal fraction within 60 min in lean but not in obese rats. Rates of basal cardiac glucose oxidation and glycolysis in obese rats were approximately 2-fold lower than those of lean rats. Perfusion with increasing concentrations of PMA (10-100 nM) led to a significant decrease of cardiac glucose oxidation in lean but not in obese rats. CONCLUSION: Our results show that in the heart of the genetically obese Zucker rat, the impairment in PKCalpha activation is in line with a diminished activation of GLUT-4 as well as with the lack of PMA effect on glucose oxidation.

Heart Of Iowa Regional Transit Agency, June 30, 2002

Other Audit Reports

Heart of Iowa Regional Transit Agency, Independent Auditor's Reports, Financial Statements and Supplementary Information, Schedule of Findings and Questioned Costs, June 30, 2004

Other Audit Reports - 28E Organizations

Heart of Iowa Regional Transit Agency, Independent Auditor's Reports, Financial Statements and Supplementary Information, Schedule of Findings and Questioned Costs, June 30, 2005

Other Audit Reports - 28E Organizations

Audit report on the Heart of Iowa Regional Transit Agency, Des Moines, for the year ended June 30, 2006

Audit report on the Heart of Iowa Regional Transit Agency, Des Moines, for the year ended June 30, 2006.

Audit report on the Heart of Iowa Regional Transit Agency, Des Moines, for the year ended June 30, 2007

Audit report on the Heart of Iowa Regional Transit Agency, Des Moines, for the year ended June 30, 2007

Audit report on the Heart of Iowa Regional Transit Agency, Des Moines, for the year ended June 30, 2008

Audit report on the Heart of Iowa Regional Transit Agency, Des Moines, for the year ended June 30, 2008

Audit report on the Heart of Iowa Regional Transit Agency, Des Moines, for the year ended June 30, 2009

Audit report on the Heart of Iowa Regional Transit Agency, Des Moines, for the year ended June 30, 2009

Audit report on the Heart of Iowa Regional Transit Agency, Des Moines, for the year ended June 30, 2010

Audit report on the Heart of Iowa Regional Transit Agency, Des Moines, for the year ended June 30, 2010