985 resultados para Nematodes -- Classificació


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Aquest article recull un mateix procés metodològic en el qual s'emmarquen diverses investigacions presentades en aquest volum de la revista, amb un mateix objectiu: la construcció de tipologies en diferents àmbits temàtics. L'article especifica el marc general del disseny, descriu el seu procés metodològic i d'anàlisi de dades que pot caracteritzar-se per: (1) La font de dades prové d'una gran enquesta sobre hàbits i condicions de vida de la població, l'Enquesta Metropolitana de Barcelona 1990. (2) El plantejament d'un objecte d'estudi concret dins d'una realitat multivariable. (3) La utilització de tecniques d'anàlisi multivariables, en concret,l'Anàlisi de Correspondències Múltiples i les Tècniques de Classificació Automàtica.

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The pathological formation of proteinaceous aggregates that accumulate into the brain cells of patients are hallmarks of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and the heterogeneous group of polyglutamine (polyQ) diseases. In the polyQ diseases, the most upstream events of the pathogenic cascade are the misfolding and aggregation of proteins, such as huntingtin in Huntington's disease, that contain expanded stretch of glutamine residues above 35--‐40 repeats. This expanded polyQ stretch triggers the misfolding and aggregation of cytotoxic polyQ proteins in the neurons that cause cell death through different processes, like apoptosis, excessive inflammation, formation of free radicals, eventually leading to neuronal loss and neurodegeneration. This study focuses on the cellular network of chaperone proteins that can prevent protein aggregation by binding misfolding intermediates and may, as in the case of HSP70, actively unfold misfolded proteins into refoldable non--‐toxic ones (Hinault et al., 2010; Sharma et al., 2011). The chaperones can also collaborate with the proteasome to convert stable harmful proteins into harmless amino acids. Thus, the chaperone proteins that are the most important cellular factors of prevention and curing of protein misfolding, are negatively affected by aging (Morley et al., 2002) and fail to act properly in the neurons of aged persons, which eventually may lead to neurodegenerative pathologies. The general aim of this research was to identify least toxic drugs that can upregulate the expression of chaperone genes in cells suffering from polyQ--‐ mediated protein aggregation and degeneration. The specific aim of this study was to observe the effect of ten drugs on polyQ aggregation in a recombinant nematode Caenorhabditis elegans expressing a chimeric protein containing a sequence of 35 glutamines (Q35) fused to the green fluorescent protein in muscle cells, which causes an age--‐ and temperature--‐ dependent phenotype of accelerated paralysis. The drugs were selected after having proven their causing the overexpression of chaperone proteins in a previous wide screening of 2000 drugs on the moss plant Physcomitrella patens. The screening that we performed in this study was on these ten drugs. It suggested that piroxicam and anisindione were good reducers of polyglutamine disease mediated paralysis. A hypothesis can be made that they may act as good enhancers of the heat shock response, which causes the overexpression of many HSP chaperones and thus reduce motility impairment of polyQ disease expressing nematodes. Piroxicam was found to have the greatest effect on reducing polyQ35 proteins aggregates mediated paralysis in a dose--‐dependent manner but was also found to either have a toxic effect on wild type C.elegans, either to change its natural motility behavior, eventually reducing its motility in both cases. Chloroform should be preferred over DMSO as a drug solvent as it appears to be less toxic to C.elegans.

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The relevancy of parasites as potential indicators of environmental quality has been increasing over the last years, mostly due to the variety of ways in which they respond to anthropogenic pollution. The use of fish parasites as bioindicators of heavy metal pollution in aquatic ecosystems has been widely studied. However, little information concerning terrestrial habitats is presently available. In fact, in the last two decades several studies have been performed worldwide in different habitats and/or conditions (theoretically both in polluted and unpolluted terrestrialecosystems, but mainly in aquatic ecosystems) in order to investigate heavy metal pollution using parasitological models. Different groups of vertebrates (mainly fish, mammals and birds) and several parasitological models have been tested involving acanthocephalans mostly, but also cestodes and nematodes. It is not the aim of this chapter to do a complete revision of the availabledata concerning this subject. Instead, we emphasize some general aspects and compile a mini-review of the work performed in this field by our research group. The results obtained until now allow confirming several parasitic models as promising bioindicator systems to evaluate environmental cadmium and mainly lead pollution in terrestrial non-urban habitats, as it was already demonstrated for aquatic ecosystems. The present knowledge also allows confirming that parasites can reveal environmental impact. Environmental parasitology is an interdisciplinary field, which needs simultaneous expertise from toxicology, environmental chemistry and parasitology. Furthermore, environmental parasitology should be taken into account in order to increase the efficiency of environmental monitoring programs.

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The relevancy of parasites as potential indicators of environmental quality has been increasing over the last years, mostly due to the variety of ways in which they respond to anthropogenic pollution. The use of fish parasites as bioindicators of heavy metal pollution in aquatic ecosystems has been widely studied. However, little information concerning terrestrial habitats is presently available. In fact, in the last two decades several studies have been performed worldwide in different habitats and/or conditions (theoretically both in polluted and unpolluted terrestrialecosystems, but mainly in aquatic ecosystems) in order to investigate heavy metal pollution using parasitological models. Different groups of vertebrates (mainly fish, mammals and birds) and several parasitological models have been tested involving acanthocephalans mostly, but also cestodes and nematodes. It is not the aim of this chapter to do a complete revision of the availabledata concerning this subject. Instead, we emphasize some general aspects and compile a mini-review of the work performed in this field by our research group. The results obtained until now allow confirming several parasitic models as promising bioindicator systems to evaluate environmental cadmium and mainly lead pollution in terrestrial non-urban habitats, as it was already demonstrated for aquatic ecosystems. The present knowledge also allows confirming that parasites can reveal environmental impact. Environmental parasitology is an interdisciplinary field, which needs simultaneous expertise from toxicology, environmental chemistry and parasitology. Furthermore, environmental parasitology should be taken into account in order to increase the efficiency of environmental monitoring programs.

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No pretendo presentar un erudito trabajo histórico sobre el tema. sino que. a través de un sucinto paseo por la historia. en el que incluiré alguna anécdota para hacer más llevadera la exposición. intentaré explicar mis propias ideas sobre la Matemática Aplicada y sobre cuál debería ser su papel en una sociedad tan compleja como la que actualmente tenemos. En el fondo. incluso el título que he elegido es una coartada . Va a servirme exclusivamente de camino para llevarme a las conclusiones adecuadas. Espero que las ideas que expondré no sean consideradas innecesariamente provocativas. No es esa mi intención. Por el contrario. deseo hablar de lo que pienso sobre algunos temas. del porqué lo pienso y de cómo lo pienso. Y opino. con palabras del gran matemático español Puig Adam. que "conviene ser prudentes. no sea que por convencer a los ofendidos. ofendamos a los convencidos". No se si lo conseguiré. pero al menos no habré dejado de intentarlo

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Aquests instants memorables, que en general formen la part més noble de les monografies i revistes científiques, es produeixen sempre, és clar, al final de la 'línia de producció i sovint ens fan oblidar la primordial importància deis processos intermedis,en els quals les eines per a la generació d'idees i enunciats, i per al seu refinamentprogressiu, són ordinàriament molt més variades. De fet és una opinió força estesa,almenys entre els investigadors, que en aquests processos intermedis 'de gestació' éson realment rau el major atractiu de la recerca, on hi tenen una funció l'especulació,l'analogia, la simulació, la hipòtesi de treball, la conjectura o la predicció (6), tot i quemalauradament sovint no en resta cap reflex, especialment en el cas dels matemàtics,en les conclusions finals dels treballs (1).Els paràgrafs precedents no són res més que una presentació en miniatura deqüestions que resulten ser, per més clares que semblin a primera vista, delicadesi controvertides quan se'n fa un escrutini més reposat. No disposant de l'espai nidel temps que caldria per a una anàlisi detallada, el lector que desitgi aprofundir enaquesta direcció haurà de consultar obres adients sobre aquests temes (8). En tot cas,en la resta d'aquesta secció exposem a1guns exemples per il•lustrar alguns deis puntsmés destacats de les idees anteriors.

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Com a conseqüència de la celebració, l'any 1989, del 15O aniversari de la American Statistical Association (ASA) s'han publicat nombrosos treballs que analitzen I'evolució de la estadística al llarg d'aquest període i en el futur. D'altra banda, l'lnternational Statistical Institute (lSI) ha debatut a la sessió celebrada el passat mes d'agost a Florència l'informe Moriguti (1992) juntament amb al tres ponències sobre el present i futur de la professió d'estadístic, Bradley (1993), així mateíx, la Royal Statistical Society ha ampliat el seu caràcter i com a conseqüéncia ha canviat els seus estatuts a principi de 1993 .

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La modelización matemática pretende describir la realidad en términos matemáticos,una tarea difícil y que, sin embargo,está jalonada de éxitos sorprendentes. Elproceso de modelización matemática puede esquematizarse en el cuadro de la figura.A partir de un problema dado, de Índole físi ca, tecnológica, biológica. económica.ete., la primera etapa consiste en la formulación matemática del problema. Suobjetivo es asocia rle un modelo matemático que lo describa. Ello obliga a teneren cuenta únicamente una parte de las características que in tervienen en el problemainicial y prescindir de otras que se consideran accesorias o incluso irrclevantespara su resolución. Hay que hacer hipótesis sobre la influencia de los diferentesfactores que intervienen . Son elecciones difíciles y susceptibles de ser modificadasposteriormente. Para obtener el modelo matemático tenemos que conseguir traduciral lenguaje matemático las características seleccionadas. En el modelo matemáticoéstas apareceran en la forma de variables, funciones, ecuaciones, ete. A continuacióndebemos resolver el problema matemático resultante para obtener resultados concretos,normalmente numéricos.

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Lliçó inaugural del curs 1994/1995. Diplomatura d'estadística

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L'objectiu que m'he proposat al preparar aquesta exposicióha estat el de mostrar. per una banda, com alguns delsproblemes bàsics de la teoria de Sistemes Dinàmics Linealstenen una resposta senzilla en termes de l' Álgebra lineal i,d'altra, com alguns problemes importants d'aquesta teorias'entronquen amb conceptes i tècniques bàsiques de la geometriai la topologia

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El problema de la modelización dinámica enfinanzas tiene mucho que ver con el tipo deproblema que se pretende estudiar. Es preciso teneren cuenta el subyacente así como las magnitudesque se pretende estimar para elegir el modeloadecuado.-

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En aquest projecte es reflexiona sobre l’ensenyament de les ciències al parvulari i com els infants aprenent conceptes relacionats amb el regne animal. La ciència escolar classifica la gran diversitat d’espècies que formen aquest regne en dos grans blocs, els vertebrats i els invertebrats, però en els patrons que ens ofereixen els animals per descobrir a ull nu aquestes particularitats són molt complexes d’observar. La visió que tenen els infants de parvulari sobre els animals del seu entorn sovint és molt allunyada de la realitat i els alumnes es creen concepcions alternatives per entendre els animals que observen. En l’estudi es realitza un recull de dades, a l’inici i el final d’una unitat didàctica, analitzant les representacions i les diferents formes de classificació dels animals de l’entorn que utilitzen els infants. Les conclusions són una reflexió sobre el perquè d’aquests coneixements alternatius i la manera de com aconseguir un canvi conceptual.

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A prominent categorization of Indian classical music is the Hindustani and Carnatic traditions, the two styleshaving evolved under distinctly different historical andcultural influences. Both styles are grounded in the melodicand rhythmic framework of raga and tala. The styles differ along dimensions such as instrumentation,aesthetics and voice production. In particular, Carnatic music is perceived as being more ornamented. The hypothesisthat style distinctions are embedded in the melodic contour is validated via subjective classification tests. Melodic features representing the distinctive characteristicsare extracted from the audio. Previous work based on the extent of stable pitch regions is supported by measurements of musicians’ annotations of stable notes. Further, a new feature is introduced that captures thepresence of specific pitch modulations characteristic ofornamentation in Indian classical music. The combined features show high classification accuracy on a database of vocal music of prominent artistes. The misclassifications are seen to match actual listener confusions.

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We face the problem of characterizing the periodic cases in parametric families of (real or complex) rational diffeomorphisms having a fixed point. Our approach relies on the Normal Form Theory, to obtain necessary conditions for the existence of a formal linearization of the map, and on the introduction of a suitable rational parametrization of the parameters of the family. Using these tools we can find a finite set of values p for which the map can be p-periodic, reducing the problem of finding the parameters for which the periodic cases appear to simple computations. We apply our results to several two and three dimensional classes of polynomial or rational maps. In particular we find the global periodic cases for several Lyness type recurrences