The effects of soil moisture, field-scale toposequential position, and slope on yields in irrigated upland rice fields in Flores, Comayagua, Honduras

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is an important cash crop in Honduras because of the rice lobby’s size, willingness to protest, and ability to negotiate favorable price guarantees on a year-to-year basis. Despite the availability of inexpensive irrigation in the study area in Flores, La Villa de San Antonio, Comayagua, the rice farmers do not cultivate the crop using prescribed methods such as land leveling, puddling, and water conservation structures. Soil moisture (Volumetric Water Content) was measured using a soil moisture probe after the termination of the first irrigation within the tillering/vegetative, panicle emergence/flowering, post-flowering/pre-maturation and maturation stages. Yield data was obtained by harvesting on 1 m2 plots in each soil moisture testing site. Data was analyzed to find the influence of toposequential position along transects, slope, soil moisture, and farmers on yields. The results showed that toposequential position was more important than slope and soil moisture on yields. Soil moisture was not a significant predictor of rice yields. Irrigation politics, precipitation, and land tenure were proposed as the major explanatory variables for this result.

Holocene palaeoclimate and palaeovegetation on the islands of Flores and Pico

Palaeoclimatic stability is regarded as an important factor in explaining patterns of endemism in the Azorean flora. However, modelling simulations and quantitative reconstructions for the last 6000 years suggest considerable palaeoclimatic variability. Here we explore the link between Holocene palaeoclimate and palaeovegetation on the islands of Flores and Pico. Modern pollen assemblages indicate that most major plant communities can be detected using pollen analysis and that, in some cases, the pre-colonisation vegetation was quite similar to present-day relict vegetation. A 200–500-year pollen record from Alagoinha, a low-elevation mire in western Flores, shows that Juniperus brevifolia-dominated communities were widespread at lower elevations prior to large-scale deforestation. Today these communities are generally restricted to higher elevations. While our results are preliminary, there appears to be a weak link between palaeovegetation (which was primarily influenced by volcanism, soil formation and human impact) and palaeoclimatic changes detected through geochemical proxies. Even if the Azorean palaeoclimate varied substantially, its impact on the pristine vegetation, at least in terms of pollen production, was relatively small.

Ms. Praed. 75 - Flores ex libris Bernhardi Claraevallensis

Vorbesitzer: Dominikanerkloster Frankfurt am Main

Ms. Praed. 70 - Flores beati Augustini

Vorbesitzer: Dominikanerkloster Frankfurt am Main

Le développement des Flores dans les Alpes occidentales, avec aperçu sur les Alpes en général

Par John Briquet

Flores musici seu divinae laudis odores suavissimi : in quibus cantiones cum missa, senis decantandae vocibus, adiuncto basso pro organo continentur

per Christianum Keifferer

Emilia Flores de Tejada (ed.). La justicia, pasión y reflexión en la Grecia Antigua. Esquilo, Píndaro y Heródoto. San Juan, Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Facultad de Filosofía, Humanidades y Artes, 2012, 202 pp.

Fil: Poquet, Adriana. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo

O comércio de medicamentos de gênero na mídia impressa brasileira: misoprostol e mulheres

Este artigo analisa como a mídia impressa brasileira noticia o comércio clandestino do misoprostol, o principal medicamento para aborto. Foram recuperadas 1.429 notícias, de 220 veículos de informação impressos e eletrônicos, entre 2004 e 2009. A análise foi realizada em 524 notícias de 62 veículos impressos regionais e nacionais. O misoprostol é pauta permanente, mas o enquadramento das notícias é policial, diverso do aborto como uma questão religiosa, política e de saúde pública que domina a mídia brasileira. O misoprostol está inserido no mercado ilegal de medicamentos de gênero, tais como os para emagrecimento, disfunção erétil ou anabolizantes. Sessenta e quatro (12%) notícias impressas apresentam histórias de vida de mulheres que abortaram com o misoprostol. As mulheres têm de 13 a 46 anos e sua inserção de classe demarca diferentes experiências de aborto. Três personagens foram identificados nos itinerários de aborto: amigas, intermediários e médicos. As histórias de aborto tardio são confundidas com a tipificação penal do infanticídio e são casos-limite para a narrativa midiática.

La (im)plasticidad de las viviendas sociales y su adaptación a partir de las estrategias de reproducción de sus residentes. Aproximaciones al Conjunto Urbano "Sector Polideportivo Ex Villa 1.11.14" del Bajo Flores

En el siguiente trabajo se tratarán algunas aproximaciones sobre las adaptaciones en los usos del espacio predeterminado del Conjunto Habitacional "Polideportivo". Este Conjunto es construido en 1998, producto de la implementación del "Programa de Radicación y Transformación de Villas y Barrios Carenciados" del Gobierno de la Ciudad en la Villa 1.11.14. Siguiendo a la concepción de vivienda de Bourdieu, ésta no es una mera inversión económica sino también es considerada una inversión social bajo la forma de reproducción social y biológica, ligando a la familia en tanto hogar. En este sentido, nuestra aproximación busca indagar hasta qué punto los espacios rígidos previstos por las tipologías del Conjunto han sido susceptibles de ser adaptados por parte de sus residentes para dar cuenta de sus estrategias habitacionales y de reproducción. Asimismo, queremos indagar estas estrategias en tanto se vinculan con una creciente informalización de los usos del espacio en la formalidad de los conjuntos, implicando una adaptación del espacio a las lógicas de habitar de sus residentes