Transferencia de tecnología “Protección y Pre secado de frijol con cubierta plástica” en Departamentos de Nueva Guinea, Matagalpa y Nueva Segovia con Proyecto Red de Innovación Agrícola del Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura: Informe de Pasantía 2014

La pasantía como forma de culminación de estudios es la vinculación del egresado al mundo laboral en función del ejercicio profesional y se orientan al desarrollo de competencias del perfil de la carrera. El período de pasantías se efectuó en El Proyecto Red de Innovación Agrícola, iniciando de Junio a Diciembre 2014. La pasantía como forma de culminación de estudios estudios consiste en poner en práctica los conocimientos adquiridos por el estudiante durante su vida estudiantil permitiendo al pasante ampliar conocimientos, habilidades y destrezas. El informe está estructurado en 10 capítulos los cuales se trabajaron según Normativa y procedimiento de la forma de culminación de estudios, para la ejecución de las actividades se coordinó con el enlace técnico del proyecto durante los seis meses de pasantía. El Proyecto es ejecutado por el Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura con recursos donados por el pueblo suizo a través de la Cooperación Suiza en América Central, su labor principal es la búsqueda, captura y difusión de tecnologías apropiadas y demandadas por los pequeños productores de maíz y frijol del istmo centroamericano, para mejorar sus sistemas de producción y contribuir al mejoramiento de los ingresos. Durante el periodo de pasantía en el proyecto el pasante tuvo la oportunidad de colaborar en difusión de la tecnología protección y procesado de frijol con cubierta plástica en los días de campo, al igual colaboró con la logística en los diferentes talleres. En el informe encontramos dos funciones realizadas por el pasante como es, facilitador del proceso de difusión de la tecnología Protección y pre secado de frijol con cubierta plástica en Nueva Guinea, Matagalpa y Nueva Segovia y Analista de base de datos, en cada función se detalla cada actividad realizada por el pasante en el área de trabajo. Uno de los resultados obtenidos mediante la pasantía, es la colaboración en la difusión de la tecnología Protección y pre secado de frijol con cubierta plástica, donde el pasante brindo información de la tecnología a un total de 273 productores que participaron en los tres días de campo realizándose uno por territorio. Como una lección Aprendida de acuerdo a los resultados fue la interacción e intercambio de experiencia con productores mediante días de campo en la presentación de tecnología, teniendo en cuenta que el productor juega un papel muy importante y fundamental ya que son los que deciden si adoptan una tecnología o no. Como conclusión se puede decir que a medida que se va ejecutando la pasantía se hace familiar la labor y se va obteniendo nuevos conocimientos y más ampliados sobre la misma. Como una recomendación enfocada a la Universidad es dar mejor seguimiento para los pasantes durante el periodo de pasantía, constando en supervisión al pasante.

Caracterización estructural de complejos ribosomales de iniciación y de pre-translocación mediante microscopía electrónica

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The Loss of Functional Caspase-12 in Europe Is a Pre-Neolithic Event

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Squaring the circle. Social and environmental implications of pre-pottery neolithic building technology at Tell Qarassa (South Syria)

We present the results of the microstratigraphic, phytolith and wood charcoal study of the remains of a 10.5 ka roof. The roof is part of a building excavated at Tell Qarassa (South Syria), assigned to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period (PPNB). The Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) period in the Levant coincides with the emergence of farming. This fundamental change in subsistence strategy implied the shift from mobile to settled aggregated life, and from tents and huts to hard buildings. As settled life spread across the Levant, a generalised transition from round to square buildings occurred, that is a trademark of the PPNB period. The study of these buildings is fundamental for the understanding of the ever-stronger reciprocal socio-ecological relationship humans developed with the local environment since the introduction of sedentism and domestication. Descriptions of buildings in PPN archaeological contexts are usually restricted to the macroscopic observation of wooden elements (posts and beams) and mineral components (daub, plaster and stone elements). Reconstructions of microscopic and organic components are frequently based on ethnographic analogy. The direct study of macroscopic and microscopic, organic and mineral, building components performed at Tell Qarassa provides new insights on building conception, maintenance, use and destruction. These elements reflect new emerging paradigms in the relationship between Neolithic societies and the environment. A square building was possibly covered here with a radial roof, providing a glance into a topologic shift in the conception and understanding of volumes, from round-based to square-based geometries. Macroscopic and microscopic roof components indicate buildings were conceived for year-round residence rather than seasonal mobility. This implied performing maintenance and restoration of partially damaged buildings, as well as their adaptation to seasonal variability

Pre-construction coral survey of the M/V Wellwood Grounding Site: April 23-24, 2002

This report documents abundance and cover for selected elements of the benthic coral reef assemblage at the site of the 1984 grounding of the M/V Wellwood on Molasses Reef, Florida Keys. The purpose of the effort was to establish a pre-construction baseline before the installation of reef modules at the site. The installation process is intended to stabilize fractured substrates that were recently exposed by storm impacts, and to provide three-dimensional relief in order to enhance reef community recovery. It is hoped that the restoration effort will result in a biological assemblage with the character of the transition community that would exist there had the incident not occurred. To date, the assemblage has developed the character of a comparatively featureless hard ground similar in composition to hard ground areas and transition zones surrounding the grounding site. These data will allow scientists and resource managers to better track the trajectory of recovery following the installation of modules. Direct counts of scleractinian and gorgonian corals, hydrocorals of the genus Millepora, and zoanthids of the genus Palythoa were made in three areas within and around the grounding site. The site is poorly developed with respect to scleractinian colony size and cover compared to surrounding areas. Key scleractinian species necessary for the development of topographic relief in the area denuded by the grounding are not well represented in the current community. Though gorgonian cover and richness is similar in all study areas, gorgonian community recovery in the damaged area is not complete. Unlike surrounding areas, one species, Pseudopterogorgia americana, accounts for over half of all corals at the grounding site, over 80% of all gorgonians, and nearly all the coral cover. Based on these findings and other observations made in the 18 years since the grounding, recommendations are made that should be considered in the course of human intervention targeted at stabilizing and enhancing the site. (PDF contains 24 pages.)

Pre-Cruise Plan N.B. Scofield Cruise 66-S-6

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Effects of the Maryland hydraulic clam dredge on populations of the soft-shell clam, Mya arenaria: final contract report

Final report on a three year study designed to investigate the effects of the Maryland hydraulic escalator clam dredge on populations and recruitment of the soft-shell clam, Mya arenaria. Experimental plots were established in the Potomac river, Maryland, and were dredged ina commerical manner by removing only legal size clams. quarterly samples were taken in the experimental and control plots by means of a van Veen grab for juvenile clams and the hydraulic dredge for older, deeper burrowing clams. Sediment samples were taken at selected periods for organic carbon and grain size analysis. Clams were separated into two size-groups. (PDF contains 38 pages)

Pre-Cruise Plan: Cruise 64-S-3 - Albacore Survey

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Resveratrol Metabolites Modify Adipokine Expression and Secretion in 3T3-L1 Pre-Adipocytes and Mature Adipocytes

Objective: Due to the low bioavailability of resveratrol, determining whether its metabolites exert any beneficial effect is an interesting issue. Methods: 3T3-L1 maturing pre-adipocytes were treated during differentiation with 25 mu M of resveratrol or with its metabolites and 3T3-L1 mature adipocytes were treated for 24 hours with 10 mM resveratrol or its metabolites. The gene expression of adiponectin, leptin, visfatin and apelin was assessed by Real Time RT-PCR and their concentration in the incubation medium was quantified by ELISA. Results: Resveratrol reduced mRNA levels of leptin and increased those of adiponectin. It induced the same changes in leptin secretion. Trans-resveratrol-3-O-glucuronide and trans-resveratrol-4'-O-glucuronide increased apelin and visfatin mRNA levels. Trans-resveratrol-3-O-sulfate reduced leptin mRNA levels and increased those of apelin and visfatin. Conclusions: The present study shows for the first time that resveratrol metabolites have a regulatory effect on adipokine expression and secretion. Since resveratrol has been reported to reduce body-fat accumulation and to improve insulin sensitivity, and considering that these effects are mediated in part by changes in the analyzed adipokines, it may be proposed that resveratrol metabolites play a part in these beneficial effects of resveratrol.

The Expanded mtDNA Phylogeny of the Franco-Cantabrian Region Upholds the Pre-Neolithic Genetic Substrate of Basques

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