La producción familiar en el cinturón verde norte de la ciudad de Córdoba. Desafíos y controversias en la producción primaria de alimentos.

Este proyecto intenta caracterizar, procesos productivos y sociales en los que participan productores familiares del cinturón verde norte de la ciudad de Córdoba; con el fin de elaborar una base de datos, que refleje las principales características vinculadas a la producción primaria de alimentos a comercializar en la ciudad. Focalizaremos nuestra investigación en las relaciones existentes entre sus trayectorias laborales con: sus lógicas de producción, disponibilidad de mano de obra, incidencia de nuevas tecnologías, aplicación de buenas prácticas agrícolas y de manufacturas, vínculos con redes sociales y problemáticas de comercialización. Planteamos las siguientes hipótesis: 1) Los productores familiares, ante el modelo hegemónico de producción, implementan lógicas resistenciales, tendientes a evitar la descapitalización y el deterioro de su calidad de vida. 2) Los inmigrantes bolivianos aportan su mano de obra como trabajadores informales y logran cierta movilidad social ascendente en el sector hortícola. 3) La adquisición de tecnologías está condicionada por conocimientos tradicionales, lógicas de trabajo, disponibilidad de recursos y perspectivas comerciales. 4) La implementación de las Buenas Prácticas Agrícolas y Buenas Prácticas de Manufactura no garantiza la inclusión laboral ni el mejoramiento de las condiciones de vida. 5) El fortalecimiento de los vínculos en las redes sociales permiten que los productores al hacer uso de ellas, implementen estrategias para superan los problemas vinculados a la comercialización de alimentos. Nuestro objetivo principal es identificar, describir y analizar la situación socio productiva, vinculada a las transformaciones tecnológicas y socio económicas exigidas por el modelo agroalimentario global. Realizaremos la localización socio espacial de cada unidad de producción y caracterizaremos el tipo de actividad. Describiremos las estrategias productivas y de comercialización que surgen, ante problemáticas emergentes y en respuestas a las normas vigentes. Analizaremos la toma de decisiones, condicionada por las trayectorias laborales y sostenidas por las redes sociales. El abordaje será de tipo cualitativo. Analizaremos las normativas vigentes en relación a la implementación de las buenas prácticas agrícolas y de manufacturas. Pretendemos realizar un aporte, posicionando a los sistemas productivos que abastecen de alimento a la ciudad y que persisten en una franja intermedia entre el campo y la ciudad.

Population genetic structure of brown crab (Cancer pagurus) in Irish waters

The brown crab (Cancer pagurus) fishery in Ireland is one of the most important financially and socio-economically, with the species worth approximately €15m per year in the first half of the decade. Only mackerel (Scomber scombrus) and Dublin Bay prawn (Nephrops norvegicus) are of greater value. Despite this, very little research has been conducted to describe the stock structure of brown crab on a national scale. In this study a country-wide assessment of genetic population structure was carried out. Sampling was conducted from commercial fishing boats from 11/06 to 04/08 at seven sample sites representing the central Irish brown crab fisheries, with one sample site from the UK also included in the study. Six microsatellite markers, specifically developed for brown crab, were used to assess genetic diversity and estimate population differentiation parameters. Significant genetic structuring was found using F-statistics (Fst = 0.007) and exact tests, but not with Bayesian methods. Samples from the UK and Wexford were found to be genetically distinct from all other populations. Three northern populations from Malm Head and Stanton Bank were genetically similar with Fst estimates suggesting connectivity between them. Also, Stanton Bank, again on the basis of Fst estimates, appeared to be connected to populations down the west coast of Ireland, as far south as Kerry. Two Galway samples, one inside and one outside of Galway Bay, were genetically differentiated despite their close geographic proximity. It is hypothesised that a persistent northerly summer current could transport pelagic larvae from populations along the southwest and west coasts of Ireland towards Stanton Bank in the North, resulting in the apparent connectivity observed in this study.

Radon Distribution and Prevalence of Lung Cancer in Several Areas of West Georgia

ჩატარებულია რადონის განაწილების რაოდენობრივი შეფასება დასავლეთ საქართველოს ცალკეულ რაიონებში. მიღებული მონაცემები მოწმობს, რომ 100-ზე მეტი წყლის სინჯში აღინიშნება რადონის მაღალი შემცველობა. ამ უბნებთანაა დაკავშირებული ბინებში რადონის დაგროვების მაღალი მაჩვენებლები.ჩვენს მიერ ჩატარებული კვლევა კიდევ ერთხელ ადასტურებს კორელაციურ კავშირს რადონის კონცენტრაციასა და ფილტვის კიბოს გავრცელებას შორის.

C allele of the IL-1B-511 SNP is associated with higher risk for Gastric Cancer and its premalignant lesion : a prospective case-control study in Peru

Magdeburg, Univ., Medizin. Fakultät, Diss., 2008

Hypertension in Patients with Cancer

There is a known association between chemotherapy and radiotherapy for treatment of cancer patients and development or worsening of hypertension. The aim of this article is to review this association. A literature search was conducted for articles reporting this association on the databases PubMed, SciELO and LILACS between 1993 and 2013. There was a high coprevalence of hypertension and cancer, since both diseases share the same risk factors, such as sedentary lifestyle, obesity, smoking, unhealthy diet and alcohol abuse. The use of chemotherapy and adjuvant drugs effective in the treatment of cancer increased the survival rate of these patients and, consequently, increased the incidence of hypertension. We described the association between the use of angiogenesis inhibitors (bevacizumab, sorafenib and sunitinib), corticosteroids, erythropoietin and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs with the development of hypertension. We also described the relationship between hypertension and carotid baroreceptor injury secondary to cervical radiotherapy. Morbidity and mortality increased in patients with cancer and hypertension without proper antihypertensive treatment. We concluded that there is need for early diagnosis, effective monitoring and treatment strategies for hypertension in cancer patients in order to reduce cardiovascular morbidity and mortality.

search for a novel diagnostic marker or therapeutic target for gastrointestinal cancer

Gastrointestinal cancers, HCC, ectopeptidases, differential display, gasdermin-like

Function and regulation of death-associated protein kinase1 (DAPK) in colon cancer cells and macrophage-like cell line : identifcation of p38 as a novel DAPK interacting partner during TNFα-mediated apoptosis in colon cancer

DAPK, Apoptosis, p38, macrophages, survival