Using GPS, GIS & remote sensing to understand Niagara Terroir : Pinot noir in the Four Mile Creek & St. David's Bench sub-appellations

The relationships between vine water status, soil texture, and vine size were observed in four Niagara, Ontario Pinot noir vineyards in 2008 and 2009. The vineyards were divided into water status zones using geographic information systems (GIS) software to map the seasonal mean midday leaf water potential (,P), and dormant pruning shoot weights following the 2008 season. Fruit was harvested from all sentinel vines, bulked by water status zones and made into wine. Sensory analysis included a multidimensional sorting (MDS) task and descriptive analysis (DA) of the 2008 wines. Airborne multispectral images, with a spatial resolution of 38 cm, were captured four times in 2008 and three times in 2009, with the final flights around veraison. A semi-automatic process was developed to extract NDVI from the images, and a masking procedure was identified to create a vine-only NDVI image. 2008 and 2009 were cooler and wetter than mean years, and the range of water status zones was narrow. Yield per vine, vine size, anthocyanins and phenols were the least consistent variables. Divided by water status or vine size, there were no variables with differences between zones in all four vineyards in either year. Wines were not different between water status zones in any chemical analysis, and HPLC revealed that there were no differences in individual anthocyanins or phenolic compounds between water status zones within the vineyard sites. There were some notable correlations between vineyard and grape composition variables, and spatial trends were observed to be qualitatively related for many of the variables. The MDS task revealed that wines from each vineyard were more affected by random fermentation effects than water status effects. This was confirmed by the DA; there were no differences between wines from the water status zones within vineyard sites for any attribute. Remotely sensed NDVI (normalized difference vegetation index) correlated reasonably well with a number of grape composition variables, as well as soil type. Resampling to a lower spatial resolution did not appreciably affect the strength of correlations, and corresponded to the information contained in the masked images, while maintaining the range of values of NDVI. This study showed that in cool climates, there is the potential for using precision viticulture techniques to understand the variability in vineyards, but the variable weather presents a challenge for understanding the driving forces of that variability.

Empathy and Emotion Processing in Mild Head Injury and Sub-clinical Psychopathy

The current study sought to investigate the nature of empathic responding and emotion processing in persons who have experienced Mild Head Injury (MHI) and how this relationship between empathetic responding and head injury status may differ in those with higher psychopathic characteristics (i.e., subclinical psychopathy). One-hundred university students (36% reporting having a previous MHI) completed an Emotional Processing Task (EPT) using images of neutral and negative valence (IAPS, 2008) designed to evoke empathy; physiological responses were recorded. Additionally, participants completed measures of cognitive competence and various individual differences (empathy - QCAE; Reniers, 2011; Psychopathy - SRP-III, Williams, Paulhus & Hare, 2007) and demographics questionnaires. MHI was found to be associated with lower affective empathy and physiological reactivity (pulse rate) while viewing images irrespective of valence, reflecting a pattern of generalized underarousal. The empathic deficits observed correlated with the individual’s severity of injury such that the greater number of injury characteristics and symptoms endorsed by a subject, the more dampened the affective and cognitive empathy reactions to stimuli and the lower his/her physiological reactivity. Importantly, psychopathy interacted with head injury status such that the effects of psychopathy were significant only for individuals indicating a MHI. This group, i.e., MHI subjects who scored higher on psychopathy, displayed the greatest compromise in empathic responding. Interestingly, the Callous Affect component of psychopathy was found to account for the empathic and emotion processing deficits observed for individuals who report a MHI; in contrast, the Interpersonal Manipulation component emerged as a better predictor of empathic and emotion deficits observed in the No MHI group. These different patterns may indicate the involvement of different underlying processes in the manifestation of empathic deficits associated with head injury or subclinical psychopathy. It also highlights the importance of assessing for prior head injury in populations with higher psychopathic characteristics due to the possible combined/enhanced influences. The results of this study have important social implications for persons who have experienced a concussion or limited neural trauma since even subtle injury to the head may be sufficient to produce dampened emotion processing, thereby impacting one’s social interactions and engagement (i.e., at risk for social isolation or altered interpersonal success). Individuals who experience MHI in conjunction with certain personality profiles (e.g., higher psychopathic characteristics) may be particularly at risk for being less capable of empathic compassion and socially-acceptable pragmatics and, as a result, may not be responsive to another person’s emotional well-being.

Identificación de factores de riesgo para crisis familiar en una comunidad sub-urbana

Tesis (Maestría en Enfermería, con Especialidad en Salud Comunitaria) UANL

Caracterización y evaluación del bosque natural del pino azul (Pinus maximartinezii Rzed) en el cerro de Piñones de Juchipila, Zacatecas

Tesis (Maestría en Ciencias en Producción Agrícola) UANL

Lenguaje e inmortalidad en la poesía de Rosario Castellanos [por] Sergio Alejandro Valdés del Bosque

Tesis (Maestría en Letras Españolas) U.A.N.L.

Desarrollo de un modelo de regulación forestal en un bosque de clima templado empleando programación lineal

Tesis (Maestro en Ciencias Forestales) U.A.N.L.

Reestructuración de las prácticas de laboratorio como un recurso didáctico para la comprensión y asimilación de conceptos en Biología II, para el nivel medio superior de la U.A.N.L. [por] Hervey del Bosque Villarreal

Tesis (Maestría en la Enseñanza de las Ciencias con Especialidad en Biología) U.A.N.L.

Evaluación del bosque mesófilo de montaña de San Carlos, Tamaulipas

Tesis (Maestría en Ciencias Forestales) U.A.N.L.

Estudios ecológicos y estructurales en el bosque mesófilo de montaña El Cielo, Tamaulipas, México [por] José Javier Corral Rivas

Tesis (Maestría en Ciencias Forestales) U.A.N.L.

El ciclo presupuestal y la alternancia en el poder : un estudio para México a nivel sub-nacional.

Tesis (Maestría en Economía con Orientación en Economía Industrial) UANL, 2012.

Preferencia de hospederos y distribución vertical de epífitas vasculares en un fragmento de bosque mesófilo de montaña de la reserva de la biósfera El Cielo, Tamaulipas, México.

Tesis (Maestría en Ciencias Forestales) UANL, 2012.

Evaluación de la captura de carbono en un bosque de ciprés de Guadalupe (cupressus guadalupensis) en Isla Guadalupe, Baja California.

Tesis (Maestría en Ciencias Forestales) UANL, 2013.

Relaciones ecológicas de los macromicetos en diferentes tipos de vegetación presentes en la estación científica Bosque Escuela, Iturbide, N.L.

Tesis (Maestría en Ciencias Forestales) UANL, 2013.

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