Analysis of the Gd 4d-XY Auger spectrum using synchrotron radiation

We report the 4d-XY (X, Y = 5p, 4f, and the conduction band) Auger spectra of clean Gd using a monochromatic photon source with energies above and below the 3d threshold. The spectra with higher hv show the existence of intense spectator-hole Auger transitions. Comparison of these spectra with those obtained with a primary electron source allows detailed interpretation of the various features and explains the unusual spin polarization of the electron-induced spectrum reported earlier.

Synchrotron Study of the Dynamical Effects in the LVV Auger Transitions in the First-Row Transition Elements

The intensity ratio between L2-M45M45 and L3-M45M45 spectral features for both Fe and Co indicates significant tranfer of intensity from L2- to L3-M45M45 region due to Coster-Kronig L2-M45M45 transition. The L2-L3M45 transition can be suppressed by turning the photon energy between the L2 and L3 thresholds; however, the L3-M45M45 spectral shapes for Fe and Co do not change very significantly even at these photom energies unlike the cases of Ni, Cu and Zn, thus establishing that the M45-hole decays predominantly before the L3-hole Auger decay in the early transition elements in contrast to the late ones.

Inhibition of ERK and proliferation in NK cell lines by soluble HLA-E released from Japanese encephalitis virus infected cells

Productive infection of human endothelial cells with Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV), a single stranded RNA virus induces shedding of sHLA-E. We show here that sHLA-E that is released upon infection with this flavivirus can inhibit IL-2 and PMA mediated ERK 1/2 phosphorylation in two NK cell lines, Nishi and NKL. Virus infected or IFN-gamma treated cell culture supernatants containing sHLA-E were found to partially inhibit IL-2 mediated induction of CD25 molecules on NKL cells. It was also found that sHLA-E could inhibit IL-2 induced H-3]-thymidine incorporation suggesting that, similar to cell surface expressed HLA-E, sHLA-E could also inhibit NK cell responses. Hence JEV-induced shedding of sHLA-E needs further investigation to better understand immune responses in JEV infections since it may have a role in viral evasion of NK cell responses. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Prudentia Iuris, 1981, n° 04 (número completo)

Contenido: Editorial – Jorge Joaquín Llambías : 18-VIII-1981 / Jorge A. Mazzinghi – El orden civil / Tomás D. Casares – La prudencia jurídica : sobre el conocimiento de lo justo concreto / Carlos Ignacio Massini –El derecho a la vida y sus impicancias respecto de la pena de muerte y el aborto a la luz del derecho natural / Silvio Pablo Pestalardo – Pluralismo y sociedad / Fulvio Ramos – Una definición romana del derecho : ars boni et aequi / Edmundo J. Carbone – Hacia la reforma de la ley de adopción / Jorge A. Mazzinghi – La prodigalidad en la Suma Teológica y en la reforma del Código Civil Argentino / Javier Reigada – Escolios – Documentos – Notas bibliográficas

Prudentia Iuris, 1989, n° 21-22 (número completo)

Contenido: Editorial – Algunas cuestiones sobre el derecho subjetivo / Héctor H. Hernández – Derecho Natural y Ley Natural / Daniel Alejandro Herrera – La historia del derecho romano en Digesto 1, 2, 2 / Alfredo Grieco y Bavio – Matrimonio y divorcio en la Roma primitiva / Rodolfo Jorge De Lorenzi – De la naturaleza del edicto del pretor / Edmundo J. Carbone – La seducción publicitaria subliminal, nuevo vicio del consentimiento contractual / Luis Carlos Consiglieri – Contratos de renta : la renta vitalicia frente a la jubilación privada / Juan Abel Díaz – Instituto de filosofía del derecho y derecho natural, Rosario (memoria de cinco años de actividad) – Ciencias políticas: Las disciplinas políticas / José María Medrano – Condiciones para la persistencia del sistema democrático / Francisco Arias Pelerano – Reflexiones sobre geopolítica y soberanía territorial / Jorge A. Fraga – El V Centenario del descubrimiento de América y los primeros nacionalistas / Elena Piñeiro de Salaverry – Documentos -- Recensiones

Prudentia Iuris, 1990, n° 24-25 (número completo)

Contenido: Contrato internacional y comercio exterior / Raúl Alberto Ramayo – Iusta causa usucapionis / Edmundo J. Carbone -- ¿Es responsable el Estado por la actuación notarial? / Mirta Noemí Agüero – Ciencias políticas: Raíz rousseauniana y raíz calvinista en la democracia contemporánea / Orlando Juan Gallo – “Individuo”, “Sociedad” y “Estado” en el Japón de la posguerra / José Llampart – Integración América Latina – Europa / Francisco Arias Pelerano – La cooperación técnica internacional : concepto, definición y alcances / Marcelo Pablo Camusso – El nacionalismo argentino : su respuesta al problema del acceso al poder (1925-1946) / Leonardo Hekimián – Los acuerdos de integración en un sistema de interdependencia compleja (un estudio de casos: Argentina-Brasil) / Omar Alejandro Avalte – Estática y dinámica del sistema político : instrumento para el análisis del proceso político argentino / Daniel Rodríguez Lamas – Documentos – Libros comentados

Prudentia Iuris, 1992, n° 30 (número completo)

Contenido: Las heterodoxias del recurso extraordinario : arbitrariedad y gravedad institucional / Narciso Juan Lugones – Los contratos operativos y los contratos de asociación en la actividad petrolera / José Luis Merello Lardies – Sobre la “naturalis ratio” / Luis Aníbal Maggio – Derecho patrimonial eclesiástico en la Argentina / Néstor Daniel Villa – Los derechos reclamados por los diputados americanos en las “cortes” de Bayona (1808) / Eduardo Martiré – La protección de los inválidos a principios del siglo XIX (aparición de un nuevo régimen municipal como consecuencia de las Invasiones Inglesas) / Guillermina Martínez Casado de Fuschini Mejía – Isabel la Católica : crisol de una cruzada de dos mundos / Osvaldo Onofre Álvarez – El receptor de penas de Cámara : origen y evolución / Armando Luis Noguer – Centralismo e integración en el siglo XVIII indiano / José María Mariluz Urquijo – El papa Paulo III y los indios en América : la bula Sublimis Deus / José María Díaz Couselo – Los títulos enunciados por Vitoria y la legislación de Indias / Carlos Guillermo Frontera – El edicto Carboniano / Edmundo J. Carbone – Ius, Logos y Theos : una introducción al derecho natural / Javier Bocci – Notas bibliográficas

Prudentia Iuris, 1994, n° 36 (número completo)

Contenido: La inserción de la universidad en el medio : país e Iglesia / Domingo Basso – Reflexiones en torno al ser y al hacer de las universidades católicas / Jorge Humberto Peláez – La Constitución y los tratados internacionales a partir de la reforma de 1994 / Eugenio Luis Palazzo – Los Iudicia Bonae Fidei y su importancia en materia contractual / Alberto Gustavo Di Pietro – En torno a Pro Caccina / Edmundo J. Carbone – Los iuris praecepta o la norma ética como imperativo jurídico / Ángel Hugo Guerriero – La objetividad en el saber político / Héctor Julio Martinotti – Presencia de la Iglesia en la universidad y en la cultura universitaria / Pío Laghi ; Eduardo Pironio ; Paul Poupard – III Encuentro Internacional de Derecho de América del Sur. “El derecho y la integración hacia el siglo XXI”. “Pasos previos para la integración política de América Latina” / Flavio Fernando Agatiello Piñero

Prudentia Iuris, 2000, n° 51 (número completo)

Contenido: Editorial – Romanística: Los aportes jurídicos de las “Noches Aticas” / Edmundo J. Carbone – Los riesgos de los viajeros en el Derecho Romano / Alfredo Gustavo Di Pietro – Derivación vulgar y bizantina del contrato estimatorio de Ulpiano / Alvaro DOrs – Derecho Internacional Privado: El contrato internacional de transporte de mercaderías a través de un sobrevuelo / Raúl Alberto Ramayo – La naturaleza de los tratados de extradición en los fallos de la Corte en los casos Priebke y Liendo Arriaga / Fernando Rolandelli – Las empresas de origen comunitario / María Luján Claro de Gandía – Derecho Ambiental Internacional / María Solange Jonas Aguilar – Régimen internacional de la propiedad inmaterial / Carlos J. Martínez Casado ; María Solange Jonas Aguilar – Derecho Internacional Público: El legado de Vietnam : la amenaza y el uso de la fuerza en la política exterior norteamericana / Hernando V. Cañardo – La personalidad jurídica de la soberana militar Orden de Malta / Juan Manuel Gramajo – Derecho Penal Internacional / Fernando Rolandelli – Documentos -- Recensiones

Using climate extension to assist coastal decision-makers with climate adaptation

Coastal managers need accessible, trusted, tailored resources to help them interpret climate information, identify vulnerabilities, and apply climate information to decisions about adaptation on regional and local levels. For decades, climate scientists have studied the impacts that short term natural climate variability and long term climate change will have on coastal systems. For example, recent estimates based on Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warming scenarios suggest that global sea levels may rise 0.5 to 1.4 meters above 1990 levels by 2100 (Rahmstorf 2007; Grinsted, Moore, and Jevrejeva 2009). Many low-lying coastal ecosystems and communities will experience more frequent salt water intrusion events, more frequent coastal flooding, and accelerated erosion rates before they experience significant inundation. These changes will affect the ways coastal managers make decisions, such as timing surface and groundwater withdrawals, replacing infrastructure, and planning for changing land use on local and regional levels. Despite the advantages, managers’ use of scientific information about climate variability and change remains limited in environmental decision-making (Dow and Carbone 2007). Traditional methods scientists use to disseminate climate information, like peer-reviewed journal articles and presentations at conferences, are inappropriate to fill decision-makers’ needs for applying accessible, relevant climate information to decision-making. General guides that help managers scope out vulnerabilities and risks are becoming more common; for example, Snover et al. (2007) outlines a basic process for local and state governments to assess climate change vulnerability and preparedness. However, there are few tools available to support more specific decision-making needs. A recent survey of coastal managers in California suggests that boundary institutions can help to fill the gaps between climate science and coastal decision-making community (Tribbia and Moser 2008). The National Sea Grant College Program, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) university-based program for supporting research and outreach on coastal resource use and conservation, is one such institution working to bridge these gaps through outreach. Over 80% of Sea Grant’s 32 programs are addressing climate issues, and over 60% of programs increased their climate outreach programming between 2006 and 2008 (National Sea Grant Office 2008). One way that Sea Grant is working to assist coastal decision-makers with using climate information is by developing effective methods for coastal climate extension. The purpose of this paper is to discuss climate extension methodologies on regional scales, using the Carolinas Coastal Climate Outreach Initiative (CCCOI) as an example of Sea Grant’s growing capacities for climate outreach and extension. (PDF contains 3 pages)

Consumo de alimentos ricos en azúcar-sal en niños de Las Arenas (Getxo, Bizkaia) por grupos de edad

[ES] El aumento del consumo de grasas y carbohidratos, así como dulces, refrescos, productos industriales y snacks, junto con la disminución de la ingesta de alimentos saludables, y el sedentarismo en los niños, infl uyen en su salud. Hay que prestar especial atención a alimentos que forman parte del estilo de vida actual: “snack”, dulces, bollería o picoteo entre comidas por sus importantes repercusiones.

Contribution of the temporoammonic pathway to hippocampal processing

The temporoammonic (TA) pathway is the direct, monosynaptic projection from layer III of entorhinal cortex to the distal dendritic region of area CA1 of the hippo­ campus. Although this pathway has been implicated in various functions, such as memory encoding and retrieval, spatial navigation, generation of oscillatory activity, and control of hippocampal excitability, the details of its physiology are not well understood. In this thesis, I examine the contribution of the TA pathway to hippocampal processing. I find that, as has been previously reported, the TA pathway includes both excitatory, glutamatergic components and inhibitory, GABAergic components. Several new discoveries are reported in this thesis. I show that the TA pathway is subject to forms of short-term activity-dependent regulation, including paired-pulse and frequency­ dependent plasticity, similar to other hippocampal pathways such as the Schaffer collateral (SC) input from CA3 to CA1. The TA pathway provides a strongly excitatory input to stratum radiatum giant cells of CA1. The excitatory component of the TA pathway undergoes a long-lasting decrease in synaptic strength following low-frequency stimulation in a manner partially dependent on the activation of NMDA receptors. High­ frequency activation of the TA pathway recruits a feedforward inhibition that can prevent CA1 pyramidal cells from spiking in response to SC input; this spike-blocking effect shows that the TA pathway can act to regulate information flow through the hippocampal trisynaptic pathway.

Constraints on the symmetry energy and neutron skins from pygmy resonances in Ni-68 and Sn-132

Correlations between the behavior of the nuclear symmetry energy, the neutron skins, and the percentage of energy-weighted sum rule (EWSR) exhausted by the pygmy dipole resonance (PDR) in Ni-68 and Sn-132 are investigated by using different random phase approximation (RPA) models for the dipole response, based on a representative set of Skyrme effective forces plus meson-exchange effective Lagrangians. A comparison with the experimental data has allowed us to constrain the value of the derivative of the symmetry energy at saturation. The neutron skin radius is deduced under this constraint.