Number of living and dead foraminifers in the upprmost layer of bottom sediments from the Pacific shelf of South America and environmental characteristics

After death of benthic and planktic foraminifera their tests intensive dissolve in sediments of the upper sublittoral zone (depth 30-60 m) in the highest productivity area of surface water in the northern Peruvian region. Dissolution of fine pelitic ooze is more intensive than of sandy sediments. Rate of dissolution is lower in the lower sublittoral zone (60-200 m) than in the upper part of the zone. Within the upper bathyal zone (300-500 m) dissolution decreases and results to accumulation of carbonate test in this zone. Benthic tests are more abundant than planktic ones. Very poor species composition and a peculiar set of species are characteristic of foraminiferal assemblages found in the sublittoral and upper bathyal zones along the Peruvian coast.

Offices of the Official College of Architects, Sevilla (1976)

Proyecto de la sede del Colegio de Arquitectos de Sevilla

Molecular and genealogical evidence for a founder effect in Fanconi anemia families of the Afrikaner population of South Africa

Fanconi anemia (FA) is a rare, genetically heterogeneous autosomal recessive disorder associated with progressive aplastic anemia, congenital abnormalities, and cancer. FA has a very high incidence in the Afrikaner population of South Africa, possibly due to a founder effect. Previously we observed allelic association between polymorphic markers flanking the FA group A gene (FANCA) and disease chromosomes in Afrikaners. We genotyped 26 FA families with microsatellite and single nucleotide polymorphic markers and detected five FANCA haplotypes. Mutation scanning of the FANCA gene revealed association of these haplotypes with four different mutations. The most common was an intragenic deletion of exons 12–31, accounting for 60% of FA chromosomes in 46 unrelated Afrikaner FA patients, while two other mutations accounted for an additional 20%. Screening for these mutations in the European populations ancestral to the Afrikaners detected one patient from the Western Ruhr region of Germany who was heterozygous for the major deletion. The mutation was associated with the same unique FANCA haplotype as in Afrikaner patients. Genealogical investigation of 12 Afrikaner families with FA revealed that all were descended from a French Huguenot couple who arrived at the Cape on June 5, 1688, whereas mutation analysis showed that the carriers of the major mutation were descendants of this same couple. The molecular and genealogical evidence is consistent with transmission of the major mutation to Western Germany and the Cape near the end of the 17th century, confirming the existence of a founder effect for FA in South Africa.

The declared end of South Stream and why nobody seems to care. CEPS Commentary, 5 December 2014

More than seven years after the South Stream pipeline project was first announced in June 2007, it finally seems to have been dropped by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on his visit to Turkey this week. This CEPS Commentary looks at the ostensible reasons for President Putin’s decision as well as on what’s potentially behind them. It concludes that the EU may actually benefit from this decision in being able to secure more gas with less political interference from Russia.

Astrology in medicine : the Fitzpatrick lectures delivered before the Royal College of Physicians on November 6 and 11, 1913 : with addendum on saints and signs /

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School legislation : enacted by the General Assembly of North Carolina, regular session 1927, regular session 1925 and extra session 1924.

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On mammalian descent : being nine lectures delivered in the theatre of the Royal College of Surgeons during February, 1884 /

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The South African law reports. South-West Africa. Decisions of the High Court of South-West Africa

None published in 1946

The public acts of the General Assembly of North-Carolina /

Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker, American Bibliography, no. 6940-6941.

The military adventures of Charles O'Neil /

Facsim. of the ed. Worcester : E. Livermore, 1851.

Dune stabilization with vegetation on the outer banks of North Carolina /

"August 1967."

Report of radiometric reconnaissance in Virginia, North Carolina, eastern Tennessee, and parts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama.

"Contract Number AT (49-1) 860 - Mod. # 1-4."

Letters on the United provinces of South America, addressed to the Hon. Henry Clay, speaker of the House of representatives in the U. States.

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Scientific reports on the investigations of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, under the direction of the Royal College of Physicians of London and the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Report no. 1: ... Cancer Research Fund ...

The great states of South America, a concise account of their condition and resources with the laws relating to government concessions,

The republic of Argentina.--The United states of Brazil.--The republic of Bolivia.--The republic of Chile.--The republic of Peru--The republic of Paraguay.--The republic of Uruguay.--The republic of Guatemala.