Handbuch der zoologie, von Jul. Victor Carus ... und C. E. A. Gerstaecker.

Bd.2 (1863) [Lacks:pg.465-642]

Poesiepädagogik : Poetisches Schreiben als Unterstützung bei der Bewältigung pubertätsbedingter Identitätsdiffusionen von Jugendlichen

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Etablierung von Kallus- und Suspensionskulturen bei Tagetes erecta L.

Diese Arbeit soll im Rahmen eines kooperationsforschungsvorhabens des Julius Kühn-Institutes in Quedlinburg und der Technischen Universität Wien einen Beitrag zur Aufklärung des Syntheseweges von gelben Flavonolen in der Pflanzengattung Tagetes leisten. Angesiedelt ist dieses Forschungsvorhaben im Institut für Züchtungsforschung an gartenbaulichen Kulturen (JKI) und im Institut für Verfahrenstechnik, Umwelttechnik und Technische Biowissenschaften (TU Wien). Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei die Aufklärung des Syntheseweges von gelben Flavonolen (Halbwirth et al., 2004). Innerhalb dieses Synthesewegs ist die Hydroxylierung von Quercetin zu Quercetagetin durch das Enzym Flavonol-6-hydroxylase (F6H) von besonderem Interesse. Die für die F6H kodierenden Gene könnten zum Beispiel anhand einer Pflanze lokalisiert werden, die aufgrund einer Mutation keine F6H-Aktivität aufweist. Bisher wurden keine derartigen Mutanten bei Tagetes gefunden. Für Mutationsversuche zur Klärung von Fragen der Biosynthese oder des Abbaus von sekundären Pflanzenstoffen sind Gewebekulturen besonders geeignet (Heß, 1992). Für die weitere Forschung sollen im Rahmen dieser Arbeit Kalluskulturen von den Tagetes erecta-Sorten „Antigua“ und „Bianca“ etabliert werden. Sieben Kulturmedien und vier Explantattypen wurden von der Autorin ausgewählt und sollen hinsichtlich der Kallusinduktion getestet werden. Der Einfluss von drei Belichtungsvarianten auf die Kallusinduktion wird untersucht. Der etablierte Kallus soll in Suspension überführt werden. Die Suspensionskulturen können für molekularbiologische Arbeiten, Mutationsversuche sowie Versuche zur Flavonolsynthese verwendet werden. (...)

The story of food plants / by B. E. Dahlgren, Chief Curator, Dept. of Botany.

no.25(1940)

Catálogo sistemático dos pólens das plantas arbóreas do Brasil meridional: I - Magnoliaceae, Annonaceae, Lauraceae e Myristicaceae

Wir beginnen mit dieser Arbeit einen Katalog der Baumpollen Suedbrasiliens, der als Unterlage zum spaeteren Studium der Humusablagerungen in Brasilien dienen soll. Die Reihenfolge der Familien stuetzt sich auf die Phylogenie der Pflanzenfamilien, weshalb wir mit den Polycarpicae, im besonderen der Magnoliaceae s. lat., Lauraceae, Annonaceae und Myristicaceae, beginnen. Obwohl die Abstammungsfolge der verschiedenen Familien noch sehr hypothetisch ist (vergleiche zum Beispiel WETTSTEIN, 1944, und HUTCHINSON, 1946 und 1959), konnten wir Aehnlichkeiten zwischen den Pollen der behandelten Familien feststellen. Vergleiche zwischen den verschiedenen Gattungen dieser Familien fuehren zu keinem sicheren phylogenetischen Schluss. Die Pollen der verschiedenen Lauraceengattugen, ausser Cryptocarya, aehneln sich untereinander so, dass dadurch die Gattungs-und Artbestimmungen unmoeglich gemacht werden. Im Gegensatz treffen wir bei den Annonaceengattungen, so wie auch bei den Magnoliaceen s. lat., typische Formen und Strukturen an. Hierzu machen wir auf die pollensystematische Zusammenfassung am Ende der Arbeit aufmerksam. Die Praeparate wurden nach der Acetolysemethode (beschrieben in ERDTMAN, 1952 und 1954) hergestellt. Da alle Pollen, ausser Drimys und Virola, eine sehr duenne Exine besitzen, war groesste Vorsicht geboten, um sie nicht zu zerstoeren. Gleichzeitig wurde zum Vergleich jeweils ein Objekt nach der Wodehouse'schen Methode (WODEHOUSE, 1935) behandelt.

The Sanctified ‘Adultress’ and Her Circumstantial Clause: Bathsheba’s Bath and Self-Consecration in 2 Samuel 11

Bathsheba's actions in 2 Sam. 11.2-4 identify crucial aspects of her character. Past commentators interpret these words in connection with menstrual purification, stressing the certain paternity of David's adulterine child. This article demonstrates that the participles rōheset and mitqaddesšet and the noun mittum'ātāh do not denote menstrual cleansing. Bathsheba's washing is an innocent bath. She is the only individual human to self-sanctify, placing her in the company of the Israelite deity. The syntax of the verse necessitates that her action of self-sanctifying occurs simultaneously as David lies with her. The three focal terms highlight the important legitimacy of Bathsheba before the Israelite deity, her identity as a non-Israelite, her role as queen mother of the Solomonic line, and her full participation in the narrative.

Aplicacions de reconeixement de la parla: sistemes de respeaking III

En aquest projecte es fa una introducció als reconeixedors de la parla, el seu funcionament i la seva base matemàtica. Un cop tots els conceptes han quedat clars, es mostra el mètode de creació que hem seguit per obtenir el nostre propi reconeixedor de la parla, utilitzant les eines HTK, en català. S’avaluen les seves virtuts i els seus defectes a través de diferents proves realitzades als seus components. A més a més, el projecte arrodoneix la feina implementant un sistema de dictat automàtic que explota el reconeixedor de la parla utilitzant Julius.

Consensus summary statement of the International Multidisciplinary Consensus Conference on Multimodality Monitoring in Neurocritical Care : A statement for healthcare professionals from the Neurocritical Care Society and the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine.

Neurocritical care depends, in part, on careful patient monitoring but as yet there are little data on what processes are the most important to monitor, how these should be monitored, and whether monitoring these processes is cost-effective and impacts outcome. At the same time, bioinformatics is a rapidly emerging field in critical care but as yet there is little agreement or standardization on what information is important and how it should be displayed and analyzed. The Neurocritical Care Society in collaboration with the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, the Society for Critical Care Medicine, and the Latin America Brain Injury Consortium organized an international, multidisciplinary consensus conference to begin to address these needs. International experts from neurosurgery, neurocritical care, neurology, critical care, neuroanesthesiology, nursing, pharmacy, and informatics were recruited on the basis of their research, publication record, and expertise. They undertook a systematic literature review to develop recommendations about specific topics on physiologic processes important to the care of patients with disorders that require neurocritical care. This review does not make recommendations about treatment, imaging, and intraoperative monitoring. A multidisciplinary jury, selected for their expertise in clinical investigation and development of practice guidelines, guided this process. The GRADE system was used to develop recommendations based on literature review, discussion, integrating the literature with the participants' collective experience, and critical review by an impartial jury. Emphasis was placed on the principle that recommendations should be based on both data quality and on trade-offs and translation into clinical practice. Strong consideration was given to providing pragmatic guidance and recommendations for bedside neuromonitoring, even in the absence of high quality data.

A Possible Role for Rusa Deer (Cervus timorensis russa) and Wild Pigs in Spread of Trypanosoma evansi from Indonesia to Papua New Guinea

Movement of transmigrants and livestock from western Indonesia to southeastern areas of Irian Jaya near the border with Papua New Guinea may pose a risk of introducing Trypanosoma evansi into Papua New Guinea via feral Rusa deer (Cervus timorensis russa) and wild pigs which inhabit these areas in large numbers. Pilot experimental studies were conducted to observe infection in pigs and Rusa deer with a strain of T. evansi isolated in Indonesia. Parasitaemia and signs of clinical disease were monitored each second day for 120 days. Trypanosomes were observed in haematocrit tubes at the plasma-buffy coat interface of jugular blood of deer and pigs on 86% and 37% of sampling occasions respectively. Parasitaemia was at a high level in deer for 35% of the time but for only 11.5% of the time in pigs. Results indicate that both Rusa deer and pigs have a high tolerance for infection with T. evansi. The deer suffered mild anaemia evidenced by a 25% reduction in packed cell volume (PCV) 14 days after infection which coincided with the initial peak in parasitaemia. However, PCV had returned to pre infection values by the end of the experiment. The pigs showed no change in PCV. There were no visual indications of disease in either species and appetite was not noticeably affected. It was concluded that both Rusa deer and pigs were capable reservoir hosts for T. evansi but that Rusa deer, with their more persistent higher levels of parasitaemia, have more potential to spread T. evansi into Papua New Guinea from West Irian than pigs.

Evaluation of susceptibility of pear and plum varieties and rootstocks to Ca. P. pyri and Ca. P. prunorum using Real-Time PCR

Real-time PCR was used to quantify phytoplasma concentration in fifty inoculated trees from five Prunus rootstocks and in forty-eight symptomatic pear and Japanese plum trees from orchards. Seasonal fluctuation of Ca. P. prunorum in different Prunus rootstocks, over three years, showed that the highest percentage detected by nested-PCR was in the ‘Garnem’ rootstock on nearly all sampling dates. Intra-varietal differences were also observed. Phytoplasma titer could be estimated by real time PCR in some trees of the rootstocks ‘Garnem’, ‘Barrier’, ‘GF-677’ and ‘Marianna’, and ranged from 4.7x105 to 3.18x109 phytoplasmas per gram of tissue. Quantification by real-time PCR was not possible in the ‘Cadaman’ trees analyzed, probably due to a lower phytoplasma titer in this variety. Samples from infected trees from commercial plots had different phytoplasma concentration and detection percentage depending on the variety, both being lower in ‘Fortune’ and ‘606’ Japanese plum and in ‘Blanquilla’ pear trees.

Evaluation of detection methods for Virus, Viroids and Phytoplasmas affecting pear and apple

The RT-PCR technique for the detection of apple stem grooving virus (ASGV), apple stem pitting virus (ASPV), apple chlorotic leaf spot virus (ACLSV), apple mosaic virus (ApMV) and pear blister canker viroid (PBCV) was evaluated for health control of fruit plants from nurseries. The technique was evaluated in purified RNA and crude extracts and also in phloem collected in autumn and from young spring shoots. The results obtained for phytoplasma detection with ribosomal and non-ribosomal primers are also presented.