Produtividade de peixes em um riacho costeiro da bacia do Leste, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

As taxas de produção (P) e biomassa (B) de duas espécies de peixes de riacho foram estudadas em sete localidades da bacia de drenagem do rio Ubatiba, considerando-se dois ciclos anuais com índices de pluviosidade contrastantes. Com o objetivo de testar correlações potenciais entre P, B e o Índice de Heterogeneidade Ambiental (IHA) de cada localidade foram utilizadas correlações simples, que não revelaram diferenças significativas (p<0,01). O padrão espacial de P indicou que as taxas de produção de ambas as espécies foram marcadamente homogêneas nas localidades de estudo, mas foram reduzidas quando comparadas com as espécies de peixes de riacho da região Holártica. Os valores médios de P e B de Astyanax hastatus Myers, 1928 foram: Pchuvoso = 14,0 kg.ha-1.ano-1, Pseco = 24,4 kg.ha-1.ano-1 e Bchuvoso = 7,3 kg.ha-1, Bseco = 12,2 kg.ha-1, com valores significativamente superiores durante o ano seco (t (B)= 2,41; p = 0,03 e t (P)= 2,28; p = 0,04). Apesar de ter apresentado tendência semelhante à registrada para A. hastatus, os valores de P e B de Geophagus brasiliensis (Quoy & Gaimardi, 1824) não se mostraram significativamente diferentes (t (B) = 1,5; p = 0,16 e t (P) = 1,75; p = 0,11) entre os anos de estudo, sendo Pchuvoso = 25,2 kg.ha-1.ano-1, Pseco = 53,2 kg.ha-1.ano-1 e Bchuvoso = 16,6 kg.ha-1, Bseco = 29,7 kg.ha-1. As reduções de P durante o ano de maior pluviosidade foram de 57% e 47% para A. hastatus e G. brasiliensis, respectivamente. Os valores médios da relação P/B mostraram tendência a redução em relação ao aumento de tamanho dos indivíduos de ambas as espécies.

Reproductive behavior of Leptodactylus mystacinus (Anura, Leptodactylidae) with notes on courtship call of other Leptodactylus species

Here we present data on the reproductive behavior of Leptodactylus mystacinus (Burmeister, 1861), including details on courtship behavior. We also describe and compared the courtship calls of L. mystacinus, L. furnarius Sazima & Bokermann, 1978 and Leptodactylus sp. (L. aff. andreae). Field works were conducted in Uberlândia (central Brazil). During courtship, a female approaches a calling male and is led to a previously excavated chamber; a female can approach a silent male that beat his hands and/or feet on the ground as well. The courtship call of L. mystacinus consists of one single arch-shaped note (duration = 0.04 s) repeated 258 times per minute; the courtship calls of L. furnarius (0.06 s, 84 times per minute) and Leptodactylus sp. (0.15 s, 5 times per minute) also are arch-shaped. The courtship behavior of L. mystacinus is similar to that of other species of the L. fuscus (Schneider, 1799) group; unique to it is that males can beat his hands and/or feet on the ground while courting. The male behavior of conducting the female to a previously excavates chamber and the arch-shaped courtship call may represent other shared derived features of members of the L. fuscus group, including the former Adenomera species.

Dissertationes academicae Vpsaliae habitae svb praesidio Carol. Petr. Thvnberg ...

v. 1

Dissertationes academicae Vpsaliae habitae svb praesidio Carol. Petr. Thvnberg ...

v. 2

I want you! An experiment studying the selection effect when assigning distributive power.

We study whether selection affects motivation. In our experiment subjects first answer a personality questionnaire. They then play a 3-person game. One of the three players decides between an outside option assigning him a positive amount, but leaving the two others empty-handed and allowing one of the other two players to distribute a pie. Treatments differ in the procedure by which distributive power is assigned: to a randomly determined or to a knowingly selected partner. Before making her decision the selecting player could consult the personality questionnaire of the other two players. Results show that knowingly selected players keep less for themselves than randomly selected ones and reward the selecting player more generously.

Technological trampolines for new venture creation in Catalonia: the case of the University of Girona

Recent trends in technology transfer show an intensification of spin-off creation as a modality of university research commercialisation, complementary to the conventional ones, contract research and licensing. In this paper we analyse the evolution, objectives, resources and activities of a specialised unit –Technological Trampoline (TT) - in charge of new venture creation at the University of Girona (Catalonia-Spain). Based on two theoretical frameworks, Resource-based-view and Institutional Theory, we adopt a multi-dimensional approach to study the strategy of spinning-off new ventures at the University of Girona in terms of resources and activities, how this process is organised and if the outputs fit with this UdG’s objectives and the local environment. Our main contribution is an in-depth analysis of the spin-off creation unit with special emphasis on its variety of resources and activities. The results have a series of implications and recommendations at both university and TT level.

The Ideas Debate in International and European Studies: Towards a Cartography and Critical Assessment

The appeal to ideas as causal variables and/or constitutive features of political processes increasingly characterises political analysis. Yet, perhaps because of the pace of this ideational intrusion, too often ideas have simply been grafted onto pre-existing explanatory theories at precisely the point at which they seem to get into difficulties, with little or no consideration either of the status of such ideational variables or of the character or consistency of the resulting theoretical hybrid. This is particularly problematic for ideas are far from innocent variables – and can rarely, if ever, be incorporated seamlessly within existing explanatory and/or constitutive theories without ontological and epistemological consequence. We contend that this tendency along with the limitations of the prevailing Humean conception of causality, and associated epistemological polemic between causal and constitutive logics, continue to plague almost all of the literature that strives to accord an explanatory role to ideas. In trying to move beyond the current vogue for epistemological polemic, we argue that the incommensurability thesis between causal and constitutive logics is only credible in the context of a narrow, Humean, conception of causation. If we reject this in favour of a more inclusive (and ontologically realist) understanding then it is perfectly possible to chart the causal significance of constitutive processes and reconstrue the explanatory role of ideas as causally constitutive.

Traitement des problèmes de dos et place de travail

Das Ziel des vorliegenden Forschungsprojekts besteht darin, die Arbeitsfähigkeit von Arbeitnehmern zu verbessern, die wegen unspezifischer Nacken- und/oder Kreuzschmerzen bei der Arbeit fehlen. Zu diesem Zweck haben wir ein Interventionsmodell entwickelt, das die modernen Ansätze der Rehabilitation bei Rückenerkrankungen mit den Erkenntnissen und Vorgehensweisen der Arbeitswissenschaften erweitert [Autoren S. 939] Le but du présent projet de recherche est d'améliorer la capacité de travail d'employés en arrêt à la suite de lombalgies et/ou de cervicalgies non spécifiques. C'est dans cette perspective que nous avons développé un modèle d'intervention fondé sur les principes de la réhabilitation des affections rachidiennes et les mesures professionnelles en relation avec l'ergonomie à la place de travail [auteurs p. 939]