Oak Mere continuous monitoring summary report, 1997 to 2000

This is the Oak Mere continuous monitoring summary report, 1997 to 2000 from the Environment Agency North West. This report focuses on the continuous monitoring programme made by a multi -parameter probe in Oak Mere since summer 1997. From 1999 nutrient and chlorophyll samples were taken when the water quality instrument was serviced. Water level measurements were made since 1998. Moreover, the report shows a summary Oak mere water quality of each year (1997-2000). The physico-chemical parameters and nutrient levels included are: temperature, specific conditions, dissolved oxygen, pH, Depth, secchi disc measurements, chlorophyll a, total Phosphorus, orto-Phosphate, Nitrate, Ammonia, and Silicate.

Cheshire Meres 1994 November surveys

This is the Cheshire Meres 1994 November surveys report produced by the National Rivers Authority in 1995. The report focuses on some of Cheshire meres, which were showing evidence of increasing eutrophication, commonly due to anthropogenic inputs. Concern for the deterioration of the water quality of still waters has been translated by incorporating these priorities into the NRA North West Regional Environmental Strategy for Stillwaters. The meres were also being investigated as possible polluted waters under the EC Nitrate Directive. The ultimate aim is to formulate lakes management options in order to help preserve North West still waters and minimise future restoration programmes. For such pro-active work to be carried out, sufficient background data must be available. It should then be possible to fully assess the current status of these lakes, identify seasonal trends and detect significant point/diffuse pollution inputs. These surveys were the first of a series, and it was intended to repeat similar surveys in Summer and Autumn 1995, and include a further 20 meres.

Cheshire stillwaters summary results 1999 of different Meres

This is the Cheshire Stillwaters Summary results of 1999 produced by the Environment Agency on February 2000. The report highlights the water quality concerns of those areas surveyed by the Stillwaters Monitoring Programme: Oak Mere, Betley Mere, Petty Pool, Tabley Mere, Comber Mere and Norbury Mere. The report contains divided by area sections on physic-chemical characteristics and water chemistry, Algal and Zooplankton surveys, Discussion, Planned Surveys 2000 and survey maps. 1999 data from Petty Pool, Betley Mere, Comber Mere and Tabley Mere were classified by the trophic status of each stillwater as hyper-eutrophic/ eutrophic, and Oak Mere were classified as mesotrophic/ eutrophic.

Sexualidade na saúde mental: revisão da produção científica brasileira (2001-2014).

Com o objetivo de analisar estudos sobre sexualidade e saúde mental, particularmente artigos publicados no Brasil entre 2001 e 2014, esta dissertação apresenta uma revisão de literatura conduzida em duas bases de dados: Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde e Portal de Periódicos CAPES. Nota-se que os estudos sobre sexo, gênero e sexualidade mostram a complexidade do entendimento sobre a vida sexual humana, oscilando entre as perspectivas essencialista e construtivista, concebendo a sexualidade de diversos modos. Já os estudos sobre loucura, saúde mental e atenção psicossocial apontam para as diferentes concepções acerca do processo de adoecimento mental, a saúde mental sendo ao mesmo tempo um campo científico e um valor de bem-estar psíquico a ser alcançado. Pesquisas em instituições asilares mostram que os agentes institucionais representam a sexualidade da pessoa em sofrimento mental (PSM) como anormal ou inexistente. A revisão da produção acadêmica sobre o tema, após a promulgação da Lei 10.126/2001, que dispõe justamente sobre os direitos das pessoas portadoras de transtornos mentais, reuniu 685 publicações (549 na CAPES e 136 na BVS), 43 delas duplicadas, dentre as quais apenas 109 nacionais, estes tendo sido sistematizados pelo título e resumo, apenas 11 foram selecionados e investigados na íntegra. Os resultados mostram que a produção científica analisada é escassa, sendo a temática incipiente na saúde coletiva, predominando abordagens biomédicas com foco no comportamento sexual, com especial atenção à vulnerabilidade às IST/HIV/AIDS, bem como a concentração dos estudos na região sudeste do país, a ausência de educação sexual e lacunas na formação para o trabalho com a sexualidade. Conclui-se que a produção científica brasileira analisada sobre sexualidade no campo da saúde mental não é centrada nos direitos sexuais e reprodutivos das PSM, enquanto as práticas sexuais dos usuários e as representações dos profissionais ganham relevo nas análises.

Produção da Educação do Campo no Brasil: das referências históricas à institucionalização

A presente Tese traz um estudo da produção da Educação do Campo, no Brasil, com foco na análise das referências históricas produzidas pelos Movimentos Sociais Populares (MSP) e o processo de sua institucionalização, nas tensas relações entre os Movimentos Sociais e o Estado. Parte da constituição do campesinato como sujeito histórico-político nos embates do espaço do campo brasileiro desde a Primeira República e das referências do projeto educativo dos MSP (1979-1997), aprofundando-se na discussão do processo ao longo do qual a Educação do Campo se produz como um projeto histórico de educação e de escola (1998-2012). A pesquisa, de abordagem qualitativa, contempla um estudo bibliográfico, documental e de campo, tendo por principais referências autores como Edward Palmer Thompson, Antonio Gramsci e Florestan Fernandes, cujas formulações trazem relevantes contribuições para a compreensão dos processos de mudança com base na constituição histórica dos sujeitos coletivos neles atuantes e nas correlações de força presentes em cada contexto. A Tese tem por base a compreensão de que a constituição do campesinato brasileiro configura-se por projetos em disputa que, contraditoriamente, produzem diferentes formas de consciência e organização dos trabalhadores do campo como grupo histórico-político, resultando na consolidação de Movimentos Sociais Populares do Campo (MSPdoC) que em luta possibilitam aos camponeses reconhecer-se como sujeitos de direitos. Essas movimentações antagonizam com as concepções e práticas de educação e de escola rural, criando sustentações a um projeto educativo dos sujeitos do campo. Tal dinamismo histórico materializa-se em referências formativo-educativas (1979-1997) que funcionam como ancoradouros na produção da Educação do Campo (1998-2012), no bojo de um projeto de desenvolvimento do campo do qual faz parte, desde o qual, contraditoriamente, se disputam políticas públicas buscando ampliar espaços no Estado. Formula-se uma legislação com potencial para instituir uma escola de novo tipo no campo que, por assumir dimensões das referências históricas, produz descentramentos em relação à escola convencional. Organizado em quatro capítulos, o estudo aborda as forças sociopolítico-econômicas e os projetos em disputa na produção do campesinato; as referências e o projeto educativo dos MSPdoC; as relações entre os Movimentos Sociais, o Estado, a educação e a escola do campo; e as tensas e fecundas relações entre as ações orientadas pela experiência histórica dos MSP e as novas questões postas pelo processo de institucionalização da Educação do Campo. Nas considerações finais, reconhecem-se as potências e as contradições da Educação do Campo, dentre elas as que se configuram na perspectiva da institucionalização, que pode tanto cristalizar uma forma escolar sem a potência das referências históricas tecidas pelos MSPdoC quanto produzir ancoradouros políticos e institucionais às Escolas Públicas do Campo. Esses novos alcances dependerão da materialidade de seu enraizamento na luta social de projetos antagônicos e em disputa na atualidade, como os projetos de desenvolvimento socioeconômico-cultural da agricultura familiar-camponesa ou do agronegócio e capacidade de manter-se o movimento desde o qual, os sujeitos políticos se fazem e produzem novos alcances ao projeto histórico

Technical and mapping support for marine spatial planning: Final report

Washington depends on a healthy coastal and marine ecosystem to maintain a thriving economy and vibrant communities. These ecosystems support critical habitats for wildlife and a growing number of often competing ocean activities, such as fishing, transportation, aquaculture, recreation, and energy production. Planners, policy makers and resource managers are being challenged to sustainably balance ocean uses, and environmental conservation in a finite space and with limited information. This balancing act can be supported by spatial planning. Marine spatial planning (MSP) is a planning process that enables integrated, forward looking, and consistent decision making on the human uses of the oceans and coasts. It can improve marine resource management by planning for human uses in locations that reduce conflict, increase certainty, and support a balance among social, economic, and ecological benefits we receive from ocean resources. In March 2010, the Washington state legislature enacted a marine spatial planning law (RCW §43.372) to address resource use conflicts in Washington waters. In 2011, a report to the legislature and a workshop on human use data provided guidance for the marine spatial planning process. The report outlines a set of recommendations for the State to effectively undertake marine spatial planning and this work plan will support some of these recommendations, such as: federal integration, regional coordination, developing mechanisms to integrate scientific and technical expertise, developing data standards, and accessing and sharing spatial data. In 2012 the Governor amended the existing law to focus funding on mapping and ecosystem assessments for Washington’s Pacific coast and the legislature provided $2.1 million in funds to begin marine spatial planning off Washington’s coast. The funds are appropriated through the Washington Department of Natural Resources Marine Resources Stewardship Account with coordination among the State Ocean Caucus, the four Coastal Treaty Tribes, four coastal Marine Resource Committees and the newly formed stakeholder body, the Washington Coastal Marine Advisory Council.

光周敏感核不育水稻phyA基因的RFLP分析

本文用RFLP方法分析农垦58和光敏核不育水稻农垦58S以及其他一些水稻品种如IR36等，得到如下结果： 1．以第5染色体上8个RFLP标记(RG】3、RG】19、RG470、RG573、RG360、RG403、RG229、RG556)作探针对58和58S进行RFLP分析．没有发现多态性。 2． 58和58S光敏色素(phyA)基因内部（或附近）一些CpG岛的甲基化程度不同。 以IR36 phyA 基因的c DNA克隆作探针，用限制性内切酶EcoRV、Dra I、HindⅢ、Xba工、BglⅡ、Sca工、Msp工对58和58S进行RFLP分析，没有发现多态性，但用HpaII现了多态性。 3．根据IR36 ph yA序列，在5’一非编码区设计一对PCR引物，在IR36、58、58S等水稻品种中均扩出了一段DNA，此DNA片段大小在这几个不同品种中都相同。以此DNA片段（称为PCRI）作探针进行RFLP分析．发现在58S和IR36之间具有多态性，根据测出的58S的PCRI序列以及RFLP分析结果，推测58S和IR36之间的差异是由于插入或缺失引起的。

Assessment of existing information on Atlantic coastal fish habitats: development of a web-based spatial bibliography, query tools, and data summaries

The primary objective of this project, “the Assessment of Existing Information on Atlantic Coastal Fish Habitat”, is to inform conservation planning for the Atlantic Coastal Fish Habitat Partnership (ACFHP). ACFHP is recognized as a Partnership by the National Fish Habitat Action Plan (NFHAP), whose overall mission is to protect, restore, and enhance the nation’s fish and aquatic communities through partnerships that foster fish habitat conservation. This project is a cooperative effort of NOAA/NOS Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA) Biogeography Branch and ACFHP. The Assessment includes three components; 1. a representative bibliographic and assessment database, 2. a Geographical Information System (GIS) spatial framework, and 3. a summary document with description of methods, analyses of habitat assessment information, and recommendations for further work. The spatial bibliography was created by linking the bibliographic table developed in Microsoft Excel and exported to SQL Server, with the spatial framework developed in ArcGIS and exported to GoogleMaps. The bibliography is a comprehensive, searchable database of over 500 selected documents and data sources on Atlantic coastal fish species and habitats. Key information captured for each entry includes basic bibliographic data, spatial footprint (e.g. waterbody or watershed), species and habitats covered, and electronic availability. Information on habitat condition indicators, threats, and conservation recommendations are extracted from each entry and recorded in a separate linked table. The spatial framework is a functional digital map based on polygon layers of watersheds, estuarine and marine waterbodies derived from NOAA’s Coastal Assessment Framework, MMS/NOAA’s Multipurpose Marine Cadastre, and other sources, providing spatial reference for all of the documents cited in the bibliography. Together, the bibliography and assessment tables and their spatial framework provide a powerful tool to query and assess available information through a publicly available web interface. They were designed to support the development of priorities for ACFHP’s conservation efforts within a geographic area extending from Maine to Florida, and from coastal watersheds seaward to the edge of the continental shelf. The Atlantic Coastal Fish Habitat Partnership has made initial use of the Assessment of Existing Information. Though it has not yet applied the AEI in a systematic or structured manner, it expects to find further uses as the draft conservation strategic plan is refined, and as regional action plans are developed. It also provides a means to move beyond an “assessment of existing information” towards an “assessment of fish habitat”, and is being applied towards the National Fish Habitat Action Plan (NFHAP) 2010 Assessment. Beyond the scope of the current project, there may be application to broader initiatives such as Integrated Ecosystem Assessments (IEAs), Ecosystem Based Management (EBM), and Marine Spatial Planning (MSP).

大蹼铃蟾皮肤分泌液中抗菌活性肽的分离纯化及其性质

从云南产大蹼铃蟾( Bombina maxima)皮肤分泌液中分离得到了一种有广泛抗菌活性的多肽,被命名为MSP-VII。用快原子轰击质谱(f.a.b.m.s)分析其M+/Z=2648,即此活性肽的分子量为2647D。用自动氨基酸分析仪分析,含有26个氨基酸。抗菌实验结果表明,此多肽对格兰氏阴性和格兰氏阳性细菌以及真菌都有较强的抗菌活性。溶血实验表明此活性肽有很轻微的溶血活性。此外,MSP-VII也可以促进平滑肌收缩和增加微血管的渗透性。

Methylation of tumor associated genes in tissue and plasma samples from liver disease patients

To investigate whether aberrant hypermethylation in plasma DNA could be used as diagnosis makers for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), we performed methylation-specific PCR (MSP) to check the methylation status of five tumor associated genes in 36 cases of

Study of inter species diversity and population structure by molecular genetic method in Iranian Artemia

Artemia is a small crustacean that adapted to live in brine water and has been seen in different brine water sources in Iran. Considering the importance of genetic studies manifest inter population differences in species, to estimate genetic structure, detect difference at molecular level and separate different Artemia populations of Iran, also study of phylogenic relationships among them, samples of Artemia were collected from nine region: Urmia lake in West Azerbaijan, Shoor and Inche-Borun lakes in Golestan, Hoze-Soltan and Namak lakes in Qom, Maharloo and Bakhteghan lakes in Fars, Nough pool in Kerman and Mighan pool in Markazi and DNA extracted by phenol-chloroform method. Primers designed on a ribosomal fragment (16s rRNA) of mt DNA sequence and PCR was done. Digestion of the 1566 bp segment PCR product by 10 restriction endonuclease (Alu I, EcoR I, Eco47 I, Hae III, Hind III, Hinf I, Mbo I, Msp I, Rsa I, TaqI) showed 25 different haplotypes: 9 in Urmia, 4 in Shoor and Inche- Borun, 1 in Namak and Hoze-Soltan, 3 in Mighan, 1 in Bakhtegan Maharlo, 3 in Maharloo and 4 in Nough. Measurement of haplotype and nucleotide diversity intra population and nucleotide diversity and divergence inter populations and evolutionary distance between haplotypes showed a high diversity in mitochondrial genome of Artemia in studied regions whose results are similar to those explained for highly geographic expansion organism. In addition, results showed considerable heterogeneity between different populations and there are enough evidences in haplotypic level for separation of studied samples and division of Iranian Artemia to seven populations including Urmia, Shoor and Inche-Borun, Hoze-Soltan and Namak, Maharloo, Bakhteghan, Nough and Mighan. Phylogenetic analysis of the 16S rRNA data set resulted strict consensus and neighbor joining distance trees, demonstrated that all samples were monophyletic and parthenogenetic form derivation from bisexual populations and genetically high resemblance to those of A. urmiana. Study of 270 specimens from different region showed the genus Artemia in Iran clustered into three clades including: 1- Shoor, Inche-Burun, Hoze-Soltan, Namak, Bakhtegan and Maharloo 2- Nough and Mighan 3- Urmia. Totally, obtained results indicated to ability of used techniques for study of inter species diversity, population structure, reveal of phylogenic relationship and dividing of different populations of Artemia in Iran.

人工湿地中试系统基质中藻类组成的研究

从2003年3月到2004年2月,在水力负荷为600mm/d的条件下研究了人工湿地中试系统(mediumscaleplot,MSP)基质中藻类的组成.结果表明,栅藻、小球藻、盘星藻、空星藻、纤维藻、舟行藻、小环藻、平裂藻和颤藻属的一些种类在下行池基质各层不同季节均有出现,下行池表层藻类较丰;上行池基质中不同季节的藻类组成中念珠藻和鱼腥藻均为固氮种类,菱板藻、舟行藻和卵形藻属的一些种类在上行池表层出现较多,上行池藻类组成较下行池少.本实验探讨了在人工湿地基质中存在的藻类组成,为湿地除藻机理和评估系统的稳定性

Polarized photoluminescence and temperature-dependent - Photoluminescence study of InAs quantum wires on InP(001)

InAs quantum wires (QWRs) have been fabricated on the InP(001), which has been evidenced by TEM and polarized photoluminescence measurements (PPL). The monlayer-splitting peaks (MSPs) in the PL spectrum of InAs QWRs can be clearly observed at low temperature measurements. Supposing a peak-shift of MSP identical to that of bulk material, we obtain the thermal activation energies of up to 5 MSPs. The smaller thermal activation energies for the MSPs of higher energy lead to the fast red-shift of PL peak as a whole.

A modified criterion for shear band formation in bulk metallic glass under complex stress states

A new criterion for shear band formation in metallic glasses is proposed based on the shear plane criterion proposed by Packard and Schuh [1]. This modified shear plane (MSP) criterion suggests that a shear band is not initiated randomly throughout the entire material under stress but is initiated at the physical boundaries or defects and at locations where the highest normal stress modified maximum shear stress occurs. Moreover, the same as in the shear plan criterion, the shear stress all over the shear band should exceed the shear yield strength of the material. For a complete shear band to form, both requirements need to be fulfilled. The shear yield strength of the material is represented by the shear stress of the point at which the shear band stops. The new criterion agrees very well with experimental results in both the determination of the shear yield strength and the shear band path. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Análise da variabilidade intra-espécie dos genes pld e rpoB de Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis por meio de marcadores PCR-RFLP.

Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis é o agente etiológico da linfadenite caseosa em ovinos e caprinos, uma doença infectocontagiosa crônica caracterizada por abscessos em linfonodos superficiais ou internos. Os animais acometidos podem apresentar lesões internas ou externas, o que representa perdas econômicas graves na caprinovinocultura, como o comprometimento da produção de lã em ovinos, deficiência reprodutiva, condenação da carne ou morte do animal. Uma vez estabelecida a infecção no rebanho, torna-se difícil sua erradicação. Com o objetivo de avaliar a variabilidade genética intra-espécie em C. pseudotuberculosis, 31 isolados provenientes de seis municípios do Estado de Pernambuco, sendo 23 de caprinos e oito de ovinos, tiveram os seus DNAs genômicos extraídos e analisados por reação em cadeia da polimerase e análise de polimorfismos por tamanho de fragmentos de restrição (PCR-RFLP). Os locis escolhidos foram os genes pld e rpoB, cujas seqüências dos oligonucleotídeos amplificaram fragmentos de 924 e 447 pares de bases (pb), respectivamente. Os produtos da amplificação foram digeridos com as enzimas Pst I e Msp I (gene pld) e HpyCh4 IV e Msp I (gene rpoB). Os fragmentos de restrição foram corridos em gel de poliacrilamida a 15%, os quais foram corados com brometo de etídeo. Para o gene pld, digerido com a enzima Pst I, foram obtidos fragmentos de 566, 195, 91 e 72 pb; e com a enzima Msp I, fragmentos de 395, 369, 108 e 52 pb. O gene rpoB digerido com a enzima HpyCh4 IV apresentou fragmentos de 235, 126 e 86 pb; e com a enzima Msp I apresentou fragmentos de 222, 93, 78 e 54 pb. O padrão de bandas obtido para os 31 isolados de C. pseudotuberculosis, analisados neste estudo, foi monomórfico, não havendo, portanto, polimorfismo entre os diferentes isolados, independentes da espécie hospedeira ou da área geográfica estudada, o que corrobora com o padrão homogêneo da infecção para a região.