Uma nova espécie do gênero Mesus Chevrolat do Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Scaritini)

Mesus pseudogigas sp. nov. é descrita de Corumbá, Mato Grosso, Brazil, com base em duas fêmeas. A nova espécie é muito semelhante a M. gigas Reichardt, 1974, principalemente pelas dimensões e pela projeção supra-ocular triangular. Ilustrações da nova espécie e chave para identificação das cinco espécies conhecidas do gênero são fornecidas.

Manual de Operaciones del Proyecto Bitácoras de Pesca

Examina detalladamente las actividades de las embarcaciones de la flota industrial en cada viaje de pesca, con la finalidad de determinar adecuados índices de captura y esfuerzo en pesquería pelágica, especialmente del recurso anchoveta. Adicionalmente, se brinda información sobre la interacción de la pesquería pelágica con los cetáceos, a fin de estimar la mortalidad de mamíferos marinos en la pesca industrial.

Distribución y abundancia relativa de cetáceos durante el crucero de BIC Humboldt 9709-10, de Matarani a Paita

Información obtenida a partir de los avistajes de cetáceos efectuados durante el Crucero BIC Humboldt 9709-10 realizado entre Matarani (17°26 ' S) y Paita (04°54 ' S), hasta una distancia máxima de 100 mn de la costa, del 1 de setiembre al 11 de octubre 1997. En un total de 150,8 h y 1512,53 mn de observación, se realizaron 97 avistajes de cetáceos, 71% de odontocetos; 27% de misticetos.

Registries in rheumatological and musculoskeletal conditions. Paediatric Behçet's disease: an international cohort study of 110 patients. One-year follow-up data.

OBJECTIVE: To set-up an international cohort of patients suspected with Behçet's disease (BD). The cohort is aimed at defining an algorithm for definition of the disease in children. METHODS: International experts have defined the inclusion criteria as follows: recurrent oral aphthosis (ROA) plus one of following-genital ulceration, erythema nodosum, folliculitis, pustulous/acneiform lesions, positive pathergy test, uveitis, venous/arterial thrombosis and family history of BD. Onset of disease is <16 years, disease duration is ≤3 years, future follow-up duration is ≥4 years and informed consent is obtained. The expert committee has classified the included patients into: definite paediatric BD (PED-BD), probable PED-BD and no PED-BD. Statistical analysis is performed to compare the three groups of patients. Centres document their patients into a single database. RESULTS: At January 2010, 110 patients (56 males/54 females) have been included. Mean age at first symptom: 8.1 years (median 8.2 years). At inclusion, 38% had only one symptom associated with ROA, 31% had two and 31% had three or more symptoms. A total of 106 first evaluations have been done. Seventeen patients underwent the first-year evaluation, and 36 had no new symptoms, 12 had one and 9 had two. Experts have examined 48 files and classified 30 as definite and 18 as probable. Twenty-six patients classified as definite fulfilled the International Study Group criteria. Seventeen patients classified as probable did not meet the international criteria. CONCLUSION: The expert committee has classified the majority of patients in the BD group although they presented with few symptoms independently of BD classification criteria.

Ecological assembly rules in plant communities--approaches, patterns and prospects.

Understanding how communities of living organisms assemble has been a central question in ecology since the early days of the discipline. Disentangling the different processes involved in community assembly is not only interesting in itself but also crucial for an understanding of how communities will behave under future environmental scenarios. The traditional concept of assembly rules reflects the notion that species do not co-occur randomly but are restricted in their co-occurrence by interspecific competition. This concept can be redefined in a more general framework where the co-occurrence of species is a product of chance, historical patterns of speciation and migration, dispersal, abiotic environmental factors, and biotic interactions, with none of these processes being mutually exclusive. Here we present a survey and meta-analyses of 59 papers that compare observed patterns in plant communities with null models simulating random patterns of species assembly. According to the type of data under study and the different methods that are applied to detect community assembly, we distinguish four main types of approach in the published literature: species co-occurrence, niche limitation, guild proportionality and limiting similarity. Results from our meta-analyses suggest that non-random co-occurrence of plant species is not a widespread phenomenon. However, whether this finding reflects the individualistic nature of plant communities or is caused by methodological shortcomings associated with the studies considered cannot be discerned from the available metadata. We advocate that more thorough surveys be conducted using a set of standardized methods to test for the existence of assembly rules in data sets spanning larger biological and geographical scales than have been considered until now. We underpin this general advice with guidelines that should be considered in future assembly rules research. This will enable us to draw more accurate and general conclusions about the non-random aspect of assembly in plant communities.

Enhancement of the photoelectrochemical properties of Cl-doped ZnO nanowires by tuning their coaxial doping profile

Arrays of vertically aligned ZnO:Cl/ZnO core-shell nanowires were used to demonstrate that the control of the coaxial doping profile in homojunction nanostructures can improve their surface charge carrier transfer while conserving potentially excellent transport properties. It is experimentally shown that the presence of a ZnO shell enhances the photoelectrochemical properties of ZnO:Cl nanowires up to a factor 5. Likewise, the ZnO shell promotes the visible photoluminescence band in highly conducting ZnO:Cl nanowires. These lines of evidence are associated with the increase of the nanowires" surface depletion layer

Didácticas luces y sombras platónicas en la poesía de Luis Cernuda

El objetivo de este artículo es revelar el uso reiterado de las luces y las sombras en la poesía de Luis Cernuda, como imágenes que tienen como referente concreto ¿aunque no mencionado- la imagen platónica de la caverna. Es justamente gracias a las imágenes que el poeta nos muestra su mundo ideal, en el cual la oscuridad simboliza el mundo material condenado a morir, mientras que la luz es el símbolo del mundo bello, perfecto y eterno en que Luis Cernuda necesita creer. Se trata, una vez más, de la tensión entre realidad y deseo que define la esencia de su poesía.

Changes in the Structure of a Nigerian Soil under Different Land Management Practices

Quantification of soil physical quality (SPQ) and pore size distribution (PSD) can assist understanding of how changes in land management practices influence dynamics of soil structure, and this understanding could greatly improve the predictability of soil physical behavior and crop yield. The objectives of this study were to measure the SPQ index under two different land management practices (the continuous arable cropping system and natural bush fallow system), and contrast the effects of these practices on the structure of PSD using soil water retention data. Soil water retention curves obtained from a pressure chamber were fitted to van Genuchten’s equation, setting m (= 1-1/n). Although values for soil bulk density were high, soils under the continuous arable cropping system had good SPQ, and maintained the capacity to support root development. However, soils under the natural bush fallow system had a worse structure than the continuous arable system, with restrictions in available water capacity. These two management systems had different PSDs. Results showed the inferiority of the natural bush fallow system with no traffic restriction (which is the common practice) in relation to the continuous arable cropping system in regard to physical quality and structure.

Educação, trabalho e o delineamento de novos perfis profissionais: o bibliotecário em questão

O movimento de reestruturação da qualificação profissional não é exclusivo da área de informação, mas se insere nas transformações por que passa o mundo do trabalho. O texto contextualiza o cenário em que emerge a demanda por um trabalhador mais qualificado e mostra a discussão em torno das qualificações necessárias para que o bibliotecário interaja como sujeito frente aos novos requerimentos do mundo do trabalho.

Efeito da ventilação natural e mecânica sobre o desempenho de porcas em lactação

O controle efetivo da ventilação é fundamental para maximizar o bem-estar, o desempenho e a saúde dos suínos. Este trabalho avaliou o efeito de sistemas de ventilação natural através de janelas basculantes (com e sem exaustor eólico) e mecânica, dimensionados para a retirada da carga térmica incidente, nas condições de verão, sobre o condicionamento ambiental e desempenho de porcas em lactação, em Concórdia, SC, no período de 1991/92. Embora tenha sido observado efeito da estação do ano (P<0,05) sobre as variáveis ambientais, não houve alterações significativas na resposta animal (P>0,05). O condicionamento térmico no verão foi considerado estressante em todos os sistemas, com temperaturas (Ti) elevadas (> 22,0°C), taxas de ventilação (Vi) deficientes (< 0,2 m/s), baixo consumo alimentar (CR) (<4,3 kg/dia) e alto intervalo desmama-cio (IDC) (>13 dias), em comparação com as observadas no inverno: Ti (<19,0°C), Vi (<0,1 m/s), CR (<4,57 kg/dia) e IDC (<7 dias), respectivamente. Concluiu-se que sistemas de ventilação dimensionados apenas para a retirada da carga térmica incidente (radiação solar, calor animal e fontes internas de aquecimento) são viáveis para o inverno, mas resultam em desconforto térmico no verão, em face da maior exigência de ventilação.

Aplicación de gestión escolar

Desarrollo de una aplicación de gestión escolar que ayudará a mejorar la comunicación entre los profesores y padres de alumnos de un centro escolar.

Molecular epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from 4 Cuban hospitals.

During a 1-year period, 87 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates were collected from 4 major Cuban hospitals for epidemiological analysis. The majority (86%) were related to the community-associated USA300 clone, whereas the remaining belonged to a new clone ST72-V. Interestingly, no hospital-associated clone was found in these Cuban hospitals.

Impact of the Advisa MRI pacing system on the diagnostic quality of cardiac MR images and contraction patterns of cardiac muscle during scans: Advisa MRI randomized clinical multicenter study results.

BACKGROUND: The Advisa MRI system is designed to safely undergo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Its influence on image quality is not well known. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) image quality and to characterize myocardial contraction patterns by using the Advisa MRI system. METHODS: In this international trial with 35 participating centers, an Advisa MRI system was implanted in 263 patients. Of those, 177 were randomized to the MRI group and 150 underwent MRI scans at the 9-12-week visit. Left ventricular (LV) and right ventricular (RV) cine long-axis steady-state free precession MR images were graded for quality. Signal loss along the implantable pulse generator and leads was measured. The tagging CMR data quality was assessed as the percentage of trackable tagging points on complementary spatial modulation of magnetization acquisitions (n=16) and segmental circumferential fiber shortening was quantified. RESULTS: Of all cine long-axis steady-state free precession acquisitions, 95% of LV and 98% of RV acquisitions were of diagnostic quality, with 84% and 93%, respectively, being of good or excellent quality. Tagging points were trackable from systole into early diastole (360-648 ms after the R-wave) in all segments. During RV pacing, tagging demonstrated a dyssynchronous contraction pattern, which was not observed in nonpaced (n = 4) and right atrial-paced (n = 8) patients. CONCLUSIONS: In the Advisa MRI study, high-quality CMR images for the assessment of cardiac anatomy and function were obtained in most patients with an implantable pacing system. In addition, this study demonstrated the feasibility of acquiring tagging data to study the LV function during pacing.

Bud dormancy in apple trees after thermal fluctuations

The objective of this work was to evaluate the effect of heat waves on the evolution of bud dormancy, in apple trees with contrasting chilling requirements. Twigs of 'Castel Gala' and 'Royal Gala' were collected in orchards in Papanduva, state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, and were exposed to constant (3°C) or alternating (3 and 15°C for 12/12 hours) temperature, combined with zero, one or two days a week at 25°C. Two additional treatments were evaluated: constant temperature (3°C), with a heat wave of seven days at 25°C, in the beginning or in the middle of the experimental period. Periodically, part of the twigs was transferred to 25°C for daily budburst evaluation of apical and lateral buds. Endodormancy (dormancy induced by cold) was overcome with less than 330 chilling hours (CH) of constant cold in 'Castel Gala' and less than 618 CH in 'Royal Gala'. A daily 15°C-temperature cycle did not affect the endodormancy process. Heat waves during endodormancy resulted in an increased CH to achieve bud requirements. The negative effect of high temperature depended on the lasting of this condition. Chilling was partly cancelled during dormancy when the heat wave lasted 36 continuous hours or more. Therefore, budburst prediction models need adjustments, mainly for regions with mild and irregular winters, such as those of Southern Brazil.

Novel 2-[(benzylamino)methyl]pyrrolidine-3,4-diol derivatives as alpha-mannosidase inhibitors and with antitumor activities against hematological and solid malignancies.

Novel alpha-mannosidase inhibitors of the type (2R,3R,4S)-2-({[(1R)-2-hydroxy-1-arylethyl]amino}methyl)pyrrolidine-3,4-diol have been prepared and assayed for their anticancer activities. Compound 30 with the aryl group=4-trifluoromethylbiphenyl inhibits the proliferation of primary cells and cell lines of different origins, irrespective of Bcl-2 expression levels, inducing a G2/Mcell cycle arrest and by modification of genes involved in cell cycle progression and survival.