Determinación del agregado fino (agregado de rio o agregado de peña) con mayor adhesividad al ligante asfáltico

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Lecture by Guillermo Gómez-Peña, given at Florida International University, November 4, 2005

This lecture begins with a piece of a video work followed by a performance piece by Guillermo Gómez-Peña. He shares his views on politics, life and art. Introduction by Stacy de la Grana and director ameritus Dahlia Morgan.

Los vasco-navarros ante la España y ante los otros españoles : tres capítulos y un epílogo / por F. R. de la Peña.

Area de publicación tomada de: Palau, 282267

Metagenomic detection of viral pathogens in Spanish honeybees: co-infection by Aphid Lethal Paralysis, Israel Acute Paralysis and Lake Sinai Viruses

The situation in Europe concerning honeybees has in recent years become increasingly aggravated with steady decline in populations and/or catastrophic winter losses. This has largely been attributed to the occurrence of a variety of known and "unknown", emerging novel diseases. Previous studies have demonstrated that colonies often can harbour more than one pathogen, making identification of etiological agents with classical methods difficult. By employing an unbiased metagenomic approach, which allows the detection of both unexpected and previously unknown infectious agents, the detection of three viruses, Aphid Lethal Paralysis Virus (ALPV), Israel Acute Paralysis Virus (IAPV), and Lake Sinai Virus (LSV), in honeybees from Spain is reported in this article. The existence of a subgroup of ALPV with the ability to infect bees was only recently reported and this is the first identification of such a strain in Europe. Similarly, LSV appear to be a still unclassified group of viruses with unclear impact on colony health and these viruses have not previously been identified outside of the United States. Furthermore, our study also reveals that these bees carried a plant virus, Turnip Ringspot Virus (TuRSV), potentially serving as important vector organisms. Taken together, these results demonstrate the new possibilities opened up by high-throughput sequencing and metagenomic analysis to study emerging new diseases in domestic and wild animal populations, including honeybees.

Qual é a peça que me falta?: um estudo sobre a qualidade das relações amorosas e as competências interpessoais

O amor é uma das emoções mais intensas e transformadoras no ser humano. Por este motivo o presente estudo propôs-se a investigar a qualidade das relações amorosas, tendo em conta o tempo de duração do relacionamento: curto (até 12 meses) e longo (mais de 12 meses), verificando a influência das competências interpessoais e da proximidade assim como do tempo despendido nas redes virtuais a comunicar com o parceiro. A amostra foi constituída por 198 adolescentes e jovens adultos/as portugueses/as com idades entre 16 e 24 anos que mantem uma relação amorosa. A investigação quantitativa utilizou um protocolo constituído pelos instrumentos: Questionário do Relacionamento Amoroso, Escala da Inclusão do Outro no Self e Questionário de Competências Interpessoais. Considerando os resultados obtidos concluiu-se que não existe uma relação entre a qualidade das relações amorosas e o tempo de duração das mesmas. Porém, admite-se que as competências interpessoais interferem preponderantemente na qualidade das relações; ABSTRACT: "What is the missing piece of me?". A study on the quality of love relationships and interpersonal skills. Love is one of the most intense and transforming emotions in humans. For this reason the present study was to investigate the quality of relationships, taking into account the relationship duration: short (up to 12 months) and long (over 12 months), checking the influence of interpersonal skills and proximity as well as the time spent in virtual networks to communicate with the partner. The study sample consisted of 198 Portuguese adolescents and (young) adults aged between 16 and 24 years. The quantitative research used a protocol formed by the instruments: Loving Relationship Questionnaire, Other Inclusion of scale in Self and Interpersonal Skills Questionnaire. Considering the results obtained, it was concluded that, there is a not relationship between quality of relationships and the duration thereof. However, it is assumed that interpersonal skills affect mainly the quality of relations.

Aphid resistance in brazilian hexaploid wheat does not correlate with levels of the benzoxazinoid natural product DIMBOA.

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La aprobación de la ley Sáenz Peña

Introducción La reforma electoral Sáenz Peña de 1912 es un hecho interesante y complejo en la historia de la evolución política argentina. Paradójicamente, significó tanto el comienzo del fin para la generación del 80 como la culminación de los alcances del ala modernista de este grupo. Aun  cuando no se logró todo lo que  sus seguidores habían esperado ni todo lo que sus detractores terminan, la reforma marcó un cambio definitivo en el estilo de la política argentina, un paso en la dirección de la participación de las políticas de las masas.

Detecção de Cowpea aphid-borne mosaic virus em feijão-de-porco no estado do Pará.

O feijão-de-porco é uma leguminosa utilizada em recuperação e recobrimento do solo e controle de plantas invasoras, por possuir efeito alelopático sobre outras espécies de plantas. A sua produtividade pode ser afetada por doenças, entre elas destacam-se as causadas por vírus. Em Altamira-PA, no campo experimental da Embrapa, observou-se plantas de feijão-de-porco apresentando os sintomas característicos de viroses como o mosaico, nanismo e deformação foliar. Assim, o objetivo deste trabalho foi identificar a espécie de vírus em amostras de feijão-de-porco. Para isso, as amostras foliares foram avaliadas utilizando os testes ELISA e em sequida o de RT-PCR com primers específicos para CABMV (CABMV-F e CABMV-R). No teste de RT-PCR obteve-se a banda esperada de 221 pb correspondente à parte do gene da capa proteica do vírus CABMV. Este foi o primeiro relato de CABMV em feijão-de-porco no Estado do Pará.

Distribución Espacial de la Pea y Estructuración del Espacio Urbano Metropolitano en el Valle Central de Costa Rica 1960-1973

Estudio de la distribución geográfica de la población económicamente activa en el Area Metropolitana, que permite entender la estructuración del espacio metropolitano; por un lado, y el asentameitno de los diversos grupos sociales, por el otro. Una serie de mapas, precisan ese ordenameinto espacial de actividades y categorías socio-profesionales.

Situation Review of Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus in West Asia and North Africa

Symptoms of barley yellow dwarf (BYD) have been observed on cereals in nearly all countries of West Asia and North Africa. Its incidence. however, has varied during the last 15 years. Observations from field surveys are summarized. Since symptoms of barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) are of low diagnostic value, especially in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), more precise qualitative and quantitative detection was derived by vector transmission and serology. In 1985 and 1986. preliminary surveys by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELlS A) indicated that BYDV incidence in the regions surveyed in Syria, Morocco, and Tunisia was around 7. 22. and 24%. respectively. By vector transmission PAV-, RPV-, and RMV-like isolates ofBYDV were identified in Morocco and the PAV-like isolate in Syria. By serology PAV-like isolates were identified in Ethiopia, Lebanon. Morocco. Syria. and Tunisia. and MA V-like isolates were identified from Morocco and Tunisia. The PAV-like type was the most common in all countries surveyed. Screening for BYDV resistance by natural infection has been carried out in a number of countries of the region during the last few years. Screening for resistance by aphid inoculation was initiated in Syria in 1986 at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA). Such screening is expected to follow in other countries of the region soon.

Broad Bean Mottle Virus: Identification, Serology, Host Range, and Occurrence on Faba Bean (Vicia Faba) in West Asia and Norm Africa

One of the faba bean viruses found in West Asia and North Africa was identified as broad bean mottle virus (BBMV) by host reactions, particle morphology and size, serology, and granular, often vesiculated cytoplasmic inclusions. Detailed research on four isolates, one each from Morocco, Tunisia, Sudan and Syria, provided new information on the virus. The isolates, though indistinguishable in ELISA or gel-diffusion tests, differed slightly in host range and symptoms. Twenty-one species (12 legumes and 9 non-legumes) out of 27 tested were systemically infected, and 14 of these by all four isolates. Infection in several species was symptomless, but major legumes such as chickpea, lentil and especially pea, suffered severely from infection. All 23 genotypes of faba bean, 2 of chickpea, 4 of lentil, 11 out of 21 of Phaseolus bean, and 16 out of 17 of pea were systemically sensitive to the virus. Twelve plant species were found to be new potential hosts and cucumber a new local-lesion test plant of the virus. BBMV particles occurred in faba bean plants in very high concentrations and seed transmission in this species (1.37%) was confirmed. An isolate from Syria was purified and two antisera were produced, one of which was used in ELISA to detect BBMV in faba bean field samples. Two hundred and three out of the 789 samples with symptoms suggestive of virus infection collected in 1985, 1986 and 1987, were found infected with BBMV: 4 out of 70 (4/70) tested samples from Egypt, 0/44 from Lebanon, 1/15 from Morocco, 46/254 from Sudan, 72/269 from Syria and 80/137 from Tunisia. This is the first report on its occurrence in Egypt, Syria and Tunisia. The virus is a potential threat to crop improvement in the region.

Survey of Viruses Affecting Faba Bean in Six Arab Countries

A field survey of faba bean (Vicia [aba L.) for viruses in six Arab countries showed the presence of nine viruses. Bean leaf roll virus (BLRV), bean yellow mosaic virus (BYMV), broad bean mottle virus (BBMV) and to a lesser extent broad bean stain virus (BBSV) were the most common. When testing with ELISA 789 samples with symptoms suggestive of virus infection collected from Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Sudan, Syria and Tunisia, BBMV was detected in 203 samples, BBSV in 151, broad bean true mosaic virus (BBTMV) in 7, broad bean wilt virus (BBWV) in 47, BYMV in 314, cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) in 96, pea enation mosaic virus (PEMV) in 31, and pea seed-borne mosaic virus (PSbMV) in 49 samples. Identity of selected field isolates was confirmed by electron microscopy and host reaction studies. In a yield experiment, infection with BYMV, BBMV and BBSV 11 weeks after sowing (pre-flowering) led to 81, 54 and 84% yield loss, respectively. Inoculation with the same viruses 15 weeks after sowing (flowering) and 20 weeks after sowing (pod setting) led to 56, 84 and 18%, and 39, 37 and 18% yield loss, respectively.

Once Upon a Misconception : Mark Juddery's Busted [A Review]

Forget Disney's timeless tales of rags-to-riches. Princesses are the most overrated public figures of all time. Apparently. Cinderella, after all, was 'a calculating, sinister go-getter' who murdered her step-mother at the instruction of a jealous governess (88). Sleeping Beauty was raped as she slept, woken not by the wet kiss of a handsome prince, but the kick and punch of twins stirring in her belly. Over the centuries, only the pea-detecting princess has remained herself: hedonistic, melodramatic and 'still perhaps the most pampered, precious wimp in the history of fairy tales' (88). There are, however, shards of truth to be salvaged from the fractured lives of these glassy-eyed women. After all, even Princess Mary worked in real estate.

Russian wheat aphids (Diuraphis noxia) in China : native range expansion or recent introduction?

In this study, we explore the population genetics of the Russian wheat aphid (RWA) (Diuraphis noxia), one of the world’s most invasive agricultural pests, in north-western China. We have analysed the data of 10 microsatellite loci and mitochondrial sequences from 27 populations sampled over 2 years in China. The results confirm that the RWAs are holocyclic in China with high genetic diversity indicating widespread sexual reproduction. Distinct differences in microsatellite genetic diversity and distribution revealed clear geographic isolation between RWA populations in northern and southern Xinjiang, China, with gene flow interrupted across extensive desert regions. Despite frequent grain transportation from north to south in this region, little evidence for RWA translocation as a result of human agricultural activities was found. Consequently, frequent gene flow among northern populations most likely resulted from natural dispersal, potentially facilitated by wind currents. We also found evidence for the longterm existence and expansion of RWAs in China, despite local opinion that it is an exotic species only present in China since 1975. Our estimated date of RWA expansion throughout China coincides with the debut of wheat domestication and cultivation practices in western Asia in the Holocene. We conclude that western China represents the limit of the far eastern native range of this species. This study is the most comprehensive molecular genetic investigation of the RWA in its native range undertaken to date and provides valuable insights into the history of the association of this aphid with domesticated cereals and wild grasses.

The Prehistory of Potyviruses: Their Initial Radiation Was during the Dawn of Agriculture

Background: Potyviruses are found world wide, are spread by probing aphids and cause considerable crop damage. Potyvirus is one of the two largest plant virus genera and contains about 15% of all named plant virus species. When and why did the potyviruses become so numerous? Here we answer the first question and discuss the other. Methods and Findings: We have inferred the phylogenies of the partial coat protein gene sequences of about 50 potyviruses, and studied in detail the phylogenies of some using various methods and evolutionary models. Their phylogenies have been calibrated using historical isolation and outbreak events: the plum pox virus epidemic which swept through Europe in the 20th century, incursions of potyviruses into Australia after agriculture was established by European colonists, the likely transport of cowpea aphid-borne mosaic virus in cowpea seed from Africa to the Americas with the 16th century slave trade and the similar transport of papaya ringspot virus from India to the Americas. Conclusions/Significance: Our studies indicate that the partial coat protein genes of potyviruses have an evolutionary rate of about 1.1561024 nucleotide substitutions/site/year, and the initial radiation of the potyviruses occurred only about 6,600 years ago, and hence coincided with the dawn of agriculture. We discuss the ways in which agriculture may have triggered the prehistoric emergence of potyviruses and fostered their speciation.