Equilibrium profiles of liquids in tilted Taylor-Hauksbee cells

In this work we study theoretically and experimentally the equilibrium profiles attained under spontaneous capillary rise of viscous liquids in the wedge-shaped narrow gap between two vertical plates intersecting at a tight angle α<<1. We contrast the differences among the case with vertical edge and those in which the arista is tilted to the vertical. Our theoretical description agrees well with experimental data for several analyzed inclinations.

Una Epistemología de la matematización del movimiento: caso de predicción y variación con la serie de Taylor y diferencias finitas

El estudio de predicción y variación de R. Cantoral (2001), así como la evolución a través de los marcos epistémícos del movimiento de: Aristóteles, Galileo y Newton (de la predicción de un estado conociendo un estado de facto Muñoz, 2000), proporcionan la base epistemológica para una epistemología inicial de la matematización del movimiento, y la búsqueda de los mecanismos de transición del binomio de Newton a la serie de Taylor; para ello revisamos textos antiguos, artículos relacionados con la investigación y textos escolares vigentes. Lo anterior nos proporcionó referentes para analizar la construcción de significados con los estudiantes de la carrera de Ingeniería Civil, así como incorporar contextos físicos donde las estrategias vertidas por los estudiantes para resolver problemas propios de la física, son de naturaleza tal que las ideas de cambio y variación están presentes (Solís, 1999). Nuestros resultados permitirán que los mecanismos de transición entre el binomio de Newton y la serie de Taylor profundicen las cuestiones teóricas y metodológicas para establecer la reorganización del discurso matemático escolar desde la matematización del movimiento y considerando como eje organizador la noción de predicción.

La escritora panameña Melanie Taylor Herrera ganó el Premio Centroamericano de Cuento “Rafaela Contreras”, 2009

Con su obra titulada Camino a Mariato, la escritora Melanie Taylor Herrera fue la ganadora del Premio Centroamericano de Cuento “Rafaela Contreras” del año 2009. Dicho premio lo otorga la Asociación Nicaragüense de Escritoras (ANIDE). La obra de Melanie consta de 100 páginas y fue escogida por el jurado por hunanimidad. El Premio Rafaela Contreras promueve la literatura escrita por mujeres.

Charles Taylor et la thèse des « langages plus subtils »

La thèse des « langages plus subtils » (subtler languages) constitue l’une des pièces maîtresses de la philosophie herméneutique de Charles Taylor. Elle nous situe à l’intersection de ce qu’il caractérise après Isaiah Berlin comme le tournant « expressiviste » du XVIIIe siècle (Herder, Hamann, Humboldt) ainsi que du tournant ontologique de l’herméneutique contemporaine (Heidegger, Gadamer, Ricoeur). Plus précisément, cette thèse permet d’expliquer pourquoi le tournant ontologique de l’herméneutique ne nous conduit pas au-delà de la tradition expressiviste, mais demeure un tournant au sein même de l’expressivisme. Notre objectif est de montrer, en ce sens, que la « subtilité » spécifique des langages philosophiques modernes devrait être comprise chez Taylor à partir de son interprétation originale de la sécularisation de l’occident chrétien.

Charles Taylor et la thèse des « langages plus subtils »

La thèse des « langages plus subtils » (subtler languages) constitue l’une des pièces maîtresses de la philosophie herméneutique de Charles Taylor. Elle nous situe à l’intersection de ce qu’il caractérise après Isaiah Berlin comme le tournant « expressiviste » du XVIIIe siècle (Herder, Hamann, Humboldt) ainsi que du tournant ontologique de l’herméneutique contemporaine (Heidegger, Gadamer, Ricoeur). Plus précisément, cette thèse permet d’expliquer pourquoi le tournant ontologique de l’herméneutique ne nous conduit pas au-delà de la tradition expressiviste, mais demeure un tournant au sein même de l’expressivisme. Notre objectif est de montrer, en ce sens, que la « subtilité » spécifique des langages philosophiques modernes devrait être comprise chez Taylor à partir de son interprétation originale de la sécularisation de l’occident chrétien.

Audit report on Taylor County, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2016

Audit report on Taylor County, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2016

Audit report on Taylor County, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2008

Audit report on Taylor County, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2008

Preclinical Target Validation Using Patient-derived Cells.

The Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC) and its clinical, industry and disease-foundation partners are launching open-source preclinical translational medicine studies.

Morphology and reproduction of Mesophyllum erubescens (Foslie) Me. Lemoine (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) from Southern Brazil

The genus Mesophyllum Me. Lemoine includes around 147 species, of which only three have been referred to the Brazilian coast. Mesophyllum erubescens was originally described from Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, Brazil (type locality). Here we present the first detailed description of M. erubescens based on Brazilian material. Samplings were made through scuba diving at the Biological Marine Reserve of Arvoredo Island, Santa Catarina. The relations of M. erubescens with other similar species, especially from the American Atlantic studied by W.R. Taylor are discussed.

An assessment of population structure in eight breeds of cattle using a whole genome SNP panel

Background: Analyses of population structure and breed diversity have provided insight into the origin and evolution of cattle. Previously, these studies have used a low density of microsatellite markers, however, with the large number of single nucleotide polymorphism markers that are now available, it is possible to perform genome wide population genetic analyses in cattle. In this study, we used a high-density panel of SNP markers to examine population structure and diversity among eight cattle breeds sampled from Bos indicus and Bos taurus. Results: Two thousand six hundred and forty one single nucleotide polymorphisms ( SNPs) spanning all of the bovine autosomal genome were genotyped in Angus, Brahman, Charolais, Dutch Black and White Dairy, Holstein, Japanese Black, Limousin and Nelore cattle. Population structure was examined using the linkage model in the program STRUCTURE and Fst estimates were used to construct a neighbor-joining tree to represent the phylogenetic relationship among these breeds. Conclusion: The whole-genome SNP panel identified several levels of population substructure in the set of examined cattle breeds. The greatest level of genetic differentiation was detected between the Bos taurus and Bos indicus breeds. When the Bos indicus breeds were excluded from the analysis, genetic differences among beef versus dairy and European versus Asian breeds were detected among the Bos taurus breeds. Exploration of the number of SNP loci required to differentiate between breeds showed that for 100 SNP loci, individuals could only be correctly clustered into breeds 50% of the time, thus a large number of SNP markers are required to replace the 30 microsatellite markers that are currently commonly used in genetic diversity studies.

First Report of the Isolation and Molecular Characterization of Rickettsia amblyommii and Rickettsia felis in Central America

During 2010, 15 adult ticks, identified as Amblyomma cajennense, were collected from horses in Cahuita and Turrialba districts, whereas 7 fleas, identified as Ctenocephalides felis, were collected from a dog in San Jose city, Costa Rica. In the laboratory, three A. cajennense specimens, two from Cahuita and one from Turrialba, were individually processed for rickettsial isolation in cell culture, as was a pool of seven fleas. Rickettsiae were successfully isolated and established in Vero cell culture from the three ticks and from a pool of seven fleas in C6/36 cell culture. The three tick isolates were genotypically identified as Rickettsia amblyommii, and the flea isolate was identified as Rickettsia felis through DNA sequencing of portions of the rickettsial genes gltA, ompA, and ompB of each isolate. In addition, other seven ticks were shown to contain rickettsial DNA. Polymerase chain reaction products of at least two of these ticks were sequenced and also showed to correspond to R. amblyommii. Overall, 66.7% (10/15) of the A. cajennense adult ticks were found to be infected with rickettsiae. This is the first report of a successful isolation in cell culture of R. amblyommii and R. felis from Central America.

Genome-wide SNP genotyping highlights the role of natural selection in Plasmodium falciparum population divergence

Background: The malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum exhibits abundant genetic diversity, and this diversity is key to its success as a pathogen. Previous efforts to study genetic diversity in P. falciparum have begun to elucidate the demographic history of the species, as well as patterns of population structure and patterns of linkage disequilibrium within its genome. Such studies will be greatly enhanced by new genomic tools and recent large-scale efforts to map genomic variation. To that end, we have developed a high throughput single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping platform for P. falciparum. Results: Using an Affymetrix 3,000 SNP assay array, we found roughly half the assays (1,638) yielded high quality, 100% accurate genotyping calls for both major and minor SNP alleles. Genotype data from 76 global isolates confirm significant genetic differentiation among continental populations and varying levels of SNP diversity and linkage disequilibrium according to geographic location and local epidemiological factors. We further discovered that nonsynonymous and silent (synonymous or noncoding) SNPs differ with respect to within-population diversity, interpopulation differentiation, and the degree to which allele frequencies are correlated between populations. Conclusions: The distinct population profile of nonsynonymous variants indicates that natural selection has a significant influence on genomic diversity in P. falciparum, and that many of these changes may reflect functional variants deserving of follow-up study. Our analysis demonstrates the potential for new high-throughput genotyping technologies to enhance studies of population structure, natural selection, and ultimately enable genome-wide association studies in P. falciparum to find genes underlying key phenotypic traits.

Noise in resistively shunted Josephson junctions

We investigate the dynamics of a resistively shunted Josephson junction. We compute the Josephson frequency and the generalized impedances for a variety of the parameters, particularly with relevance to predicting the measurable effects of zero-temperature current noise in the resistor.

INFERENCE FOR EIGENVALUES AND EIGENVECTORS OF GAUSSIAN SYMMETRIC MATRICES

This article presents maximum likelihood estimators (MLEs) and log-likelihood ratio (LLR) tests for the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of Gaussian random symmetric matrices of arbitrary dimension, where the observations are independent repeated samples from one or two populations. These inference problems are relevant in the analysis of diffusion tensor imaging data and polarized cosmic background radiation data, where the observations are, respectively, 3 x 3 and 2 x 2 symmetric positive definite matrices. The parameter sets involved in the inference problems for eigenvalues and eigenvectors are subsets of Euclidean space that are either affine subspaces, embedded submanifolds that are invariant under orthogonal transformations or polyhedral convex cones. We show that for a class of sets that includes the ones considered in this paper, the MLEs of the mean parameter do not depend on the covariance parameters if and only if the covariance structure is orthogonally invariant. Closed-form expressions for the MLEs and the associated LLRs are derived for this covariance structure.

Shallow-water species of Beania Johnston, 1840 (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata) from the tropical and subtropical Western Atlantic

This paper describes four new species of the bryozoan genus Beania from the Brazilian coast. Two of them have been previously recorded in the western Atlantic as Beania hirtissima (Heller, 1867) and Beania mirabilis Johnston, 1840, respectively; they are redescribed here as Beania americana n. sp. and Beania mirabilissima n. sp. Two reticulate species, Beania correiae n. sp. and Beania metrii n. sp., are newly described. Descriptions of four other species of Beania from the region are also included: Beania australis Busk, 1852, Beania cupulariensis Osburn, 1914, Beania klugei Cook, 1968 and Beania maxilladentata Ramalho, Muricy & Taylor, 2010.