Kipus: revista andina de letras. 34 (Reseñas)

Presenta las reseñas de los siguientes libros: Luis Aguilar Monsalve, Mímimo mirador, Madrid, Verbum, 2010. -- Guido Tamayo, El inquilino, Bogotá, Mondadori, 2011. -- Fabiano Kueva, dir., Poesía mano a mano: memoria sonora de poesía ecuatoriana, Quito, Centro Experimental Oído Salvaje, 2011. -- Aleyda Quevedo Rojas, La otra, la misma de Dios, Quito, El Conejo, 2011, 150 pp. -- César Chávez, Herir la perfección, Quito, Ediciones Antropófago, 2012, 103 pp. -- Salvador de Madariaga, Guerra en la sangre, Madrid, Fundación José Antonio Castro, 2012. -- Raúl Serrano Sánchez, comp., Rondando a J.J. Tributo a Julio Jaramillo Laurido, Quito, Ministerio Coordinador del Patrimonio, 2012, 178 pp. -- José Joaquín Olmedo, La victoria de Junín. Canto a Bolívar (1825), Estudio introductorio: Raúl Vallejo; Prólogo: Fernando Iwasaki, Quito, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Sede Ecuador/ Ediciones Doce Calles, S.L., 2012, 114 pp. -- Abdón Ubidia, Callada como la muerte, Quito, El Conejo, 2012, 109 pp. -- Sandra de la Torre Guarderas, El hueco en el zapato, Quito, El Ángel Editor, 2012, 84 pp.

Reviewing Member States’ Commitment to the European External Action Service. EPIN Working Paper No. 34, 20 November 2012

Based on interviews with diplomats from a representative cross-section of nine member states and members of the EEAS itself, the research findings of this EPIN Working Paper confirm long-standing traditions and member state perceptions of cooperation with European institutions. The paper also reveals new aspects of the intergovernmental method of foreign policy shaping and making in the European Union; in particular how different national positions can positively or negatively affect the consolidation of the EEAS and the role of the EU as an international actor. As such, the Working Paper makes an original contribution to the existing literature on one of most discussed actors in the European Union’s post-Lisbon architecture in the domain of EU external action.

Estimating surface net solar radiation by use of Landsat-5 TM and digital elevation models

The ground surface net solar radiation is the energy that drives physical and chemical processes at the ground surface. In this paper, multi-spectral data from the Landsat-5 TM, topographic data from a gridded digital elevation model, field measurements, and the atmosphere model LOWTRAN 7 are used to estimate surface net solar radiation over the FIFE site. Firstly an improved method is presented and used for calculating total surface incoming radiation. Then, surface albedo is integrated from surface reflectance factors derived from remotely sensed data from Landsat-5 TM. Finally, surface net solar radiation is calculated by subtracting surface upwelling radiation from the total surface incoming radiation.

Enhancing the selenium content of bovine milk through alteration of the form and concentration of selenium in the diet of the dairy cow

Since estimated dietary selenium intake in the UK has declined steadily from around 60 mug day(-1) in 1975 to 34 mug day(-1) in 1997, there is a need to increase selenium intake from staple foods such as milk and milk products. An experiment was therefore done to investigate the relationship between dietary source and concentration of selenium and the selenium content of bovine milk. In a 3 x 3 factorial design, 90 mid-lactation Holstein dairy cows were supplemented over 8 weeks with either sodium selenite (S), a chelated selenium product (Selenium Metasolate(TM)) (C) or a selenium yeast (Sel-plex(TM)) (Y) at three different dietary inclusion levels of 0.38 (L), 0.76 (M) and 1.14 (H) mg kg(-1) dry matter (DM). Significant increases in milk selenium concentration were observed for all three sources with increasing inclusion level in the diet, but Y gave a much greater response (up to +65 mug l(-1)) than the other two sources of selenium (S and C up to +4 and +6 mug l(-1) respectively). The Y source also resulted in a substantially higher apparent efficiency of transfer of selenium from diet to milk than S or C. Feeding Y at the lowest dietary concentration, and thus within the maximum level permitted under EU regulations, resulted in milk with a selenium concentration of 28 mug l(-1). If the selenium concentration of milk in the UK was increased to this value, it would, at current consumption rates, provide an extra 8.7 mug selenium day(-1), or 11 and 14% of daily recommended national intake for men and women respectively. (C) 2004 Society of Chemical Industry.