Nexos recíprocos entre desarrollo humano y crecimiento económico

En este artículo se presenta un análisis descriptivo, explicativo y reflexivo de la relación recíproca entre desarrollo humano y crecimiento económico. Por un lado el crecimiento económico promueve el desarrollo humano a medida que la base de recursos se amplía, en tanto que un mayor desarrollo humano genera más crecimiento económico en la medida que una población más sana y educada contribuye a mejorar el desempeño económico. El propósito de este estudio consiste en fundamentar teóricamente la relación de cadenas existentes entre desarrollo humano y crecimiento económico. La investigación, es documental, se centra en la revisión bibliográfica, y análisis teórico y conceptual de diferentes bibliografías relacionados al tema. Entre los principales resultados de la investigación figuran: el desarrollo humano es el objetivo central de la actividad humana y el crecimiento económico un medio que podría llegar a ser muy importante para promoverlo. La asignación de recursos al mejoramiento del desarrollo humano, es una función del gasto total del sector público; existen fuertes conexiones de dos vías entre el crecimiento económico (CE) y el desarrollo humano (DH) y finalmente los vínculos entre desarrollo humano y crecimiento económico pueden hacer que uno y otro se influencien recíprocamente.

DANTE: Un MEGA dinámico para el control del cambio climático en España

El estudio de los impactos económicos de las políticas de control del cambio climático requiere del uso de modelos adecuados. Este artículo presenta un Modelo Dinámico de Equilibrio General Aplicado tipo Ramsey. El modelo implementa un mercado de permisos de emisión perfecto que garantiza una reducción de emisiones eficiente y efectiva, permitiéndonos calcular los costes económicos mínimos asociados al control de las emisiones de efecto invernadero. Además aprovecha al máximo la disponibilidad de datos existentes en España 1) utilizando una matriz de contabilidad social (o SAM) energética mediante la integración de la información económica de la Tablas Input-Output y la información energética de los Balances Energéticos y 2) considerando todas la emisiones sujetas a control además del CO2. Los MEGAs dinámicos son inéditos en cuanto a su elaboración y aplicación en España y permiten investigar ex-ante los efectos de políticas públicas en el medio y en largo plazo.

Harmful algal blooms in the PICES region of the North Pacific

Foreword Background and objectives [pdf, 0.84 MB] Country reviews and status reports Section I. Western North Pacific Japan Yasuwo Fukuyo, Ichiro Imai, Masaaki Kodama and Kyoichi Tamai Red tides and harmful algal blooms in Japan [pdf, 0.7 MB] People's Republic of China Tian Yan, Ming-Jiang Zhou and Jing-Zhong Zou A national report of HABs in China [pdf, 0.24 MB] Republic of Korea Sam Geun Lee, Hak Gyoon Kim, Eon Seob Cho and Chang Kyu Lee Harmful algal blooms (red tides): Management and mitigation in Korea [pdf, 0.27 MB] Russia Tatiana Y. Orlova, Galina V. Konovalova, Inna V. Stonik, Tatiana V. Morozova and Olga G. Shevchenko Harmful algal blooms on the eastern coast of Russia [pdf, 1.4 MB] Section II. Eastern North Pacific Canada F.J.R. "Max" Taylor and Paul J. Harrison Harmful marine algal blooms in western Canada [pdf, 0.87 MB] United States of America Vera L. Trainer Harmful algal blooms on the U.S. west coast [pdf, 0.5 MB] Mexico Jose L. Ochoa, S. Lluch-Cota, B.O. Arredondo-Vega, E. Nuñes-Vázquez, A. Heredia-Tapia, J. Pérez-Linares and R. Alonso-Rodriguez Marine Biotoxins and harmful algal blooms in Mexico's Pacific littora [pdf, 0.2 MB] Summary and conclusions [pdf, 0.6 MB] Appendices A. Members of the Working Group [pdf, 0.1 MB] B. Original terms of reference (Vladivostok, 1999) [pdf, 0.08 MB] C. Annual reports of WG 15 [pdf, 0.15 MB] D. Workshop report on taxonomy and identification of HAB species and data management [pdf, 0.15 MB] (Document pdf contains 156 pages)

Springs of Florida

bulletin which documented the major and important springs in the state (Ferguson et al., 1947). This publication was revised in 1977, with many previously undocumented springs and many new water-quality analyses being added (Rosenau et al., 1977). The Florida Geological Survey's report on first magnitude springs (Scott et al., 2002) was the initial step in once again updating and revising the Springs of Florida bulletin. The new bulletin includes the spring descriptions and water-quality analyses from Scott et al. (2002). Nearly 300 springs were described in 1977. As of 2004, more than 700 springs have been recognized in the state and more are reported each year. To date, 33 first magnitude springs (with a flow greater than 100 cubic feet per second or approximately 64.6 million gallons of water per day) have been recognized in Florida, more than any other state or country (Rosenau et al., 1977). Our springs are a unique and invaluable natural resource. A comprehensive understanding of the spring systems will provide the basis for their protection and wise use. (Document pdf contains 677 pages)

Florida's ground water quality monitoring program: background hydrogeochemistry

The purpose of this report is to present the results of the initial quantification of background water quality in each of the state's major potable aquifer systems. Results are presented and interpreted in light of the influencing factors which locally and regionally affect ambient ground-water quality. This initial data will serve as a baseline from which future sampling results can be compared. Future sampling of the Network will indicate the extent to which Florida's regional ground-water resources are improving or declining in quality. (Document has 378 pages.)

Agricultural Best Management Practices and Treatment Wetlands in the Gabilan Watershed: Project Asessment and Evaluation Plan

Several local groups have come together for this project to addresses water quality concerns in the Gabilan Watershed – also known as the Reclamation Ditch Watershed (Fig. 1.1). These are Moss Landing Marine Laboratories (MLML), the Resource Conservation District of Monterey County (RCDMC), Central Coast Watershed Studies (CCoWS), Return of the Natives (RON), Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF), and Coastal Conservation and Research (CC&R). The primary goal is to reduce non-point source pollution – particularly suspended sediment, nutrients, and pesticides – and thereby improve near-shore coastal waters of Moss Landing Harbor and the Monterey Bay. (Document contains 33 pages)

Springsheds of the Santa Fe River Basin

Powerpoint presentation (PDF has 45 pages.)

Joannis Clerici ars critica, in qua ad studia linguarum latinae, graecae, et hebraicae via munitur : veterumque emendandorum spuriorum scriptorum a genuinis dignoscendorum, & judicandi de eorum libris ratio traditur

Jean Le Clerc nasceu em Genebra em 1657 e morreu em Amsterdã em 1736. Erudito suíço distinguiu-se como historiador, crítico, teólogo e filósofo. Suas doutrinas filosóficas carecem de unidade e foram, basicamente, fundamentadas em obras de escritores ingleses. Como pastor protestante exerceu o sacerdócio em Londres, tendo aplicado em seus estudos de teologia e exegese bíblica um critério de extrema liberdade, o que o levou a ser acusado de sociniano. Alguns de seus trabalhos foram publicados sob o pseudônimo de Joannes Phereponus. ‘Ars critica’ teve sua primeira edição em 1697. Editado em dois volumes. Contém regras para o estudo dos autores gregos e latinos clássicos, constituindo um tratado de crítica geral e dicionário para o entendimento desses autores. A quarta edição de ‘Ars critica’ foi acrescida de um terceiro volume. Considera-se a edição de 1730 a melhor dentre as publicadas. E uma obra que exigiu uma imensa erudição e grande conhecimento filosófico para sua realização

Aquaculture Asia, Vol.13, No.4, pp.1-51, October-December 2008

Editorial An increasingly secure future for wastewater-fed aquaculture in Kolkata, India? by Peter Edwards. First culture-based fisheries growth cycle in Lao PDR is overwhelmingly encouraging, by Sena De Silva. Revival of abandoned shrimp farms in Krishna District of Andhra Pradesh, by National Centre for Sustainable Aquaculture (NaCSA). Growth of forward and backward industries linked with aquaculture in Kolleru Lake area, Andhra Pradesh, India, by A. K. Roy, G. S. Saha, P. Kumaraiah and N. Sarangi Effective marketing strategies for economic viability of prawn farming in Kuttanad, India, by Ranjeet K. and B. Madhusoodana Kurup. Applications of nutritional biotechnology in aquaculture, by S.D. Singh, S.K. Nayak, M. Sekar and B.K. Behera. Some technical and management aspects of catfish hatcheries in Hong Ngu district, Dong Thap province, Vietnam, by H. P. Hung, N. T. T. An, N. V. Trieu, D. T. Yen, U. Na-Nakorn, Thuy T. T. Nguyen. Nodavirus: An emerging threat to freshwater prawn farming, by Biju Sam Kamalam, J., Saravanan, S. and Ajith Stalin, J.L. Asia-Pacific Marine Finfish Aquaculture Network Magazine: Asian seabass farming: Brainstorming workshop and training in India. Comparative study for broodstock management of grey mullet (Mugil cephalus L.) in cages and earthen ponds with hormone treatment, by Nani Gopal Das, Md. Shahadat Hossain, Sushanta Bhattacharjee and Prabal Barua. Cultivation of gilthead sea bream (Sparus auratus L.) in low saline inland water of the southern part of Israel desert, by Samuel Appelbaum and A. Jesu Arockia Raj. Mariculture development opportunities in SE Sulawesi, Indonesia, by La Ode M. Aslan, Hotman Hutauruk, Armen Zulham,Irwan Effendy, Mhummaed Atid, Michael Phillips, Lars Olsen, Brendan Larkin, Sena S De Silva, Geoff Gooley. Improved hatchery and grow-out technology for marine finfish. NACA Newsletter

Proceedings fo the Seventeenth Annual Sea Turtle Symposium, 4-8 March 1997, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.

The 17th Annual Sea Turtle Symposium was held at the Delta Orlando Resort in Orlando, Florida U.S.A. from March 4-8, 1997. The symposium was hosted by Florida Atlantic University, Mote Marine Laboratory, University of Central Florida, University of Florida, Florida Atlantic University and the Comité Nacional para la Conservación y Protección de las Totugas Marinas. The 17th was the largest symposium to date. A total of 720 participants registered, including sea turtle biologists, students, regulatory personnel, managers, and volunteers representing 38 countries. In addition to the United States, participants represented Australia, Austria, the Bahamas, Bonaire, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, England, Guatemala, Greece, Honduras, India, Italy, Japan, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mexico, The Netherlands, Nicaragua, Peru, Philippines, Republic of Seychelles, Scotland, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, Uruguay, and Venezuela. In addition to the 79 oral, 2 video, and 120 poster presentations, 3 workshops were offered: Selina Heppell (Duke University Marine Laboratory) provided “Population Modeling,” Mike Walsh and Sam Dover (Sea World-Orlando) conducted “Marine Turtle Veterinary Medicine” and “Conservation on Nesting Beaches” was offered by Blair Witherington and David Arnold (Florida Department of Environmental Protection). On the first evening, P.C.H. Pritchard delivered a thoughtful retrospect on Archie Carr that showed many sides of a complex man who studied and wrote about sea turtles. It was a presentation that none of us will forget. The members considered a number of resolutions at the Thursday business meeting and passed six. Five of these resolutions are presented in the Commentaries and Reviews section of Chelonian Conservation and Biology 2(3):442-444 (1997). The symposium was fortunate to have many fine presentations competing for the Archie Carr Best Student Presentations awards. The best oral presentation award went to Amanda Southwood (University of British Columbia) for “Heart rates and dive behavior of the leatherback sea turtle during the internesting interval.” The two runners-up were Richard Reina (Australian National University) for “Regulation of salt gland activity in Chelonia mydas” and Singo Minamikawa (Kyoto University) for “The influence that artificial specific gravity change gives to diving behavior of loggerhead turtles”. The winner of this year’s best poster competition was Mark Roberts (University of South Florida) for his poster entitled “Global population structure of green sea Turtles (Chelonia mydas) using microsatellite analysis of male mediated gene flow.” The two runners-up were Larisa Avens (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) for “Equilibrium responses to rotational displacements by hatchling sea turtles: maintaining a migratory heading in a turbulent ocean” and Annette Broderick (University of Glasgow) for “Female size, not length, is a correlate of reproductive output.” The symposium was very fortunate to receive a matching monetary and subscription gift from Anders J. G. Rhodin of the Chelonian Research Foundation. These enabled us to more adequately reward the fine work of students. The winners of the best paper and best poster awards received $400 plus a subscription to Chelonian Conservation and Biology. Each runner up received $100. The symposium owes a great debt to countless volunteers who helped make the meeting a success. Those volunteers include: Jamie Serino, Alan Bolton, and Karen Bjorndal, along with the UF students provided audio visual help, John Keinath chaired the student awards committee, Mike Salmon chaired the Program Commiteee, Sheryan Epperly and Joanne Braun compiled the Proceedings, Edwin Drane served as treasurer and provided much logistical help, Jane Provancha coordinated volunteers, Thelma Richardson conducted registration, Vicki Wiese coordinated food and beverage services, Jamie Serino and Erik Marin coordinated entertainment, Kenneth Dodd oversaw student travel awards, Traci Guynup, Tina Brown, Jerris Foote, Dan Hamilton, Richie Moretti, and Vicki Wiese served on the time and place committee, Blair Witherington created the trivia quiz, Tom McFarland donated the symposium logo, Deborah Crouse chaired the resolutions committee, Pamela Plotkin chaired the nominations committee, Sally Krebs, Susan Schenk, and Larry Wood conducted the silent auction, and Beverly and Tom McFarland coordinated all 26 vendors. Many individuals from outside the United States were able to attend the 17th Annual Sea Turtle Symposium thanks to the tireless work of Karen Eckert, Marydele Donnelly, and Jack Frazier in soliciting travel assistance for a number of international participants. We are indebted to those donating money to the internationals’ housing fund (Flo Vetter Memorial Fund, Marinelife Center of Juno Beach, Roger Mellgren, and Jane Provancha). We raise much of our money for international travel from the auction; thanks go to auctioneer Bob Shoop, who kept our auction fastpaced and entertaining, and made sure the bidding was high. The Annual Sea Turtle Symposium is unequaled in its emphasis on international participation. Through international participation we all learn a great deal more about the biology of sea turtles and the conservation issues that sea turtles face in distant waters. Additionally, those attending the symposium come away with a tremendous wealth of knowledge, professional contacts, and new friendships. The Annual Sea Turtle Symposium is a meeting in which pretenses are dropped, good science is presented, and friendly, open communication is the rule. The camaraderie that typifies these meetings ultimately translates into understanding and cooperation. These aspects, combined, have gone and will go a long way toward helping to protect marine turtles and toward aiding their recovery on a global scale. (PDF contains 342 pages)

Social media and the balanced value impact model

Implementing resource discovery techniques at the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture, Middlesex University Social Media and the Balanced Value Impact Model

光学蛋白质芯片关键技术研究及生物医学应用

蛋白质芯片，又称蛋白质微阵列，是继基因芯片之后又一对生物医学研究乃至人类健康具有重大应用价值的生物芯片。目前，蛋白质芯片的发展还处于初级阶段，还没有真正走出基因芯片的阴影，在蛋白质芯片的制作和检测中借用了很多基因芯片技术。许多在基因芯片上没有解决的问题，如低丰度信号的检测、不同的点样质量带来的干扰和基于标记方法的检测技术问题，也同样在蛋白质芯片上出现，并表现得更为突出，主要原因在于蛋白质分子与DNA分子之间的巨大差异。基于椭偏光学成像技术的无标记光学蛋白质芯片技术的提出正是为了解决目前蛋白质芯片发展中存在的一些问题。椭偏光学成像技术是近来发展起来的一种新型的光学检测技术，目前国际上尚未发展出适合于其检测特点的蛋白质芯片技术。本文研究的无标记光学蛋白质芯片是多学科高度交叉的生物技术，它主要包含五方面的内容：（1）芯片设计；（2）配基装配；（3）芯片反应器；（4）芯片信号采样和处理；（5）芯片数据库。本文的研究工作集中在前三部分内容，创新性主要表现在以下几方面：研制了微流道蛋白质芯片系统；建立了高通量蛋白质芯片制备方法；发展了多种芯片表面改性和配基固定方法；开展了无标记光学蛋白质芯片在生物医学领域的应用。本文研制了微流道蛋白质芯片系统，建立了化学格式化法高通量蛋白质芯片制备方法。通过这两种方法制备的蛋白质芯片能够满足椭偏光学成像技术定量检测的要求，而且这两种蛋白质芯片与本实验室早期发展的生物活性探针和多元蛋白质芯片结合在一起形成了较为完整的无标记光学蛋白质芯片系列，使之不但能够简单方便地进行低通量蛋白质检测，而且也具有了高通量蛋白质分析的能力。本文建立的微流道蛋白质芯片系统把微流控芯片和微阵列芯片二者的优势结合在一起，以微型流动控制见长的微流控芯片被设计成微阵列芯片的微型点样仪与微型高效率反应器，而以并行分析见长的微阵列芯片成为微流道系统的专用传感器件，并且实现了在同一微型分析系统中进行蛋白质芯片的制备与检测。微流道蛋白质芯片系统改变了阵列式生物芯片整体反应模式，使得芯片的使用更加灵活方便。通过微流道蛋白质芯片系统进行蛋白质芯片制备与检测，显著降低了试剂和样品的消耗，缩短了检测时间，把检测灵敏度提高到了纳克／毫升量级。能够多次重复使用的微流道蛋白质芯片系统，使得蛋白质芯片的使用成本大幅度降低。本文针对椭偏光学成像技术的检测特点、不同的芯片设计和配基发展了多种表面改性及配基固定技术，实现了配基分子共价连接、抗体分子定向固定、混合硅烷膜层对硅基底的表面改性以及混合烷硫醇SAM对金基底的表面改性。这些技术的使用明显提高了配基分子在蛋白质芯片表面上的稳定性，较好地保持了配基分子的生物活性，从而大幅度提高了无标记光学蛋白质芯片的检测灵敏度。本文在上述关键技术发展的基础上，还成功地开展了无标记蛋白质芯片在生物医学领域的应用。实现了在一块蛋白质芯片上进行乙肝五项指标同时检测；通过蛋白质芯片对病毒一噬菌体进行了直接检测；乙肝表面抗原检测和乳腺癌标志物定量检测已经能够达到临床免疫检测的水平；还通过无标记蛋白质芯片技术同时研究了多对生物分子之间的相互作用，并通过模型化分析获得了相互作用动力学常数。

SAMUDRA Report No. 56, July 2010

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SAMUDRA Report No. 57, November 2010

Mackerel mayhem: On the ongoing dispute in northern Europe over the boom in mackerel stocks. Small and mighty: The Banjul civil society declaration on sustainable livelihoods in African fisheries. Building partnerships: The case of Red Sea fisheries management shows how fishers’ rights can be strengthened. The write stuff: The website of Comité Local des Pêches Le Guilvinec celebrates its second anniversary. Frankenfish salmon: The United States is close to approving genetically engineered salmon. Trawl brawl: Indian and Sri Lankan fishermen have worked to co-exist in the Palk Bay. Tsunami recovery: On the traditional tenure system of the fishing community of Juan Fernández. New goals from Nagoya: The Nagoya meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity made some progress. Beyond Bangkok: The civil society workshop in Costa Rica focused on small-scale fishers in Latin America. Securing small-scale fisheries. Recommendations adopted at the San José FAO workshop dealt with small-scale fisheries. (PDF contains 56 pages)