Crime in College Park: understanding crime levels, perceptions, and environmental design in an off-campus student-occupied neighborhood

Gemstone Team Crime Prevention and Perception

Interacciones entre el ambiente lumínico y la producción de defensas contra hervíboros y patógenos en plantas

La radiación UV-B es un componente importante de la luz solar y tiene efetos netos sobre el desarrollo de las plantas. En condiciones naturales se observa frecuentemente que las plantas expuestas a la radiación UV-B son menos atacadas por insectos herbívoros. Estudios previos indicaron que este fenómeno se encontraba relacionado a cambios en la calidad de los tejidos vegetales producido por la radiación UV-B. Se ha sugerido que podría existir una convergencia entre las cascadas de señalización inducidas por el UV-B y por la herbivoría ya que algunos de los compuestos inducidos por el UV-B también son producidas en respuesta al ataque de insectos. En base a esto, en el presente trabajo de tesis se estudió el rol de la vía de señalización de jasmonatos y el papel del fotoreceptor de UV-B, UVR8, sobre el incremento de la resistencia a insectos y patógenos necrótrofos producidos porla exposición de las plantas a la radiación UV-B. A partir de experimentos realizados con las plantas modelo Nicotiana attenuata y Arabidopsis thaliana, se evaluó la producción de diversos componentes de la respuesta de defensa y la resistencia de insectos y patógenos mediante bioensayos. Como resultado, se encontró que parte del efecto de la radiación UV-B incrementando las defensas implica a la vía de los jasmonatos y que la radiación UV-B incrementa la sensibilidad de los tejidos a estas hormonas. En otros casos, el UV-B incrementa la resistencia a agresores bióticos por mecanismos independientes de los jasmonatos, pero que son dependientes del fotorreceptor UVR8. El trabajo presentado en esta tesis constituye la primera evidencia directa del rol de los jasmonatos en el incremento de las defensas producido por la radiación UV-B y es además el primer trabajo donde se evalúa el rol del fotorreceptor UVR8 sobre la producción de defensas

La lucha contra la fiebre aftosa en la Argentina (revisión histórica)

p.185-190

Arborizaçao dos cafezais para proteçao contra geadas na regiao sul do Brasil

p.147-148

La polémica entre bonaventura cavalieri y Paul Guldin o jesuatos contra jesuitas sobre los indivisibles

Se analiza la polémica entre Cavalieri y Guldin sobre el concepto de lo indivisible.

[Book review] Rights of the Accused, Crime Control and Protection of Victims

Review of: Rights of the Accused, Crime Control and Protection of Victims. Edited by Eliahu Harnon & Alex Stein. A special volume of the Israel Law Review, Vol. 31, Nos. 1-3, Winter-Summer 1997. Published by the Faculty of Law, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Fatal impact? The effects of emotional arousal and weapon presence on police officers' memories for a simulated crime

Purpose. (1) To investigate the effects of emotional arousal and weapon presence on the completeness and accuracy of police officers' memories; and (2) to better simulate the experience of witnessing a shooting and providing testimony. Methods. A firearms training simulator was used to present 70 experienced police officers with either a shooting or a domestic dispute scenario containing no weapons. Arousal was measured using both self-report and physiological indices. Recall for event details was tested after a 10-minute delay using a structured interview. Identification accuracy was assessed with a photographic line-up. Results. Self-report measures confirmed that the shooting induced greater arousal than did the other scenario. Overall, officers' memories for the event were less complete, but more accurate, when they had witnessed the shooting. The recall and line-up data did not support a weapon focus effect. Conclusions. Police officers' recall performance can be affected both qualitatively and quantitatively by witnessing an arousing event such as a shooting.

From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell: British women writers in detective and crime fiction

This work considers, seriously, the hugely popular and influential works of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L.Sayers, Margery Allingham, Ngaio Marsh, P.D. James and Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine. Providing studies of 42 key novels, it introduces these authors for students and the general reader within the contexts of their lives, and critical debates on gender, colonialism, psychoanalysis, the Gothic, and feminism. It includes interviews with P.D. James and Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine. [From the Publisher]

Heat Dissipation And Energetic Efficiency In Animal Anoxibiosis - Economy Contra Power

This survey on calorimetry and thermodynamics of anoxibiosis applies classical and irreversible thermodynamics to interpret experimental, direct calorimetric results in order to elucidate the sequential activation of various biochemical pathways. First, the concept of direct and indirect calorimetry is expanded to incorporate the thermochemistry of aerobic and anoxic metabolism in living cells and organisms. Calorimetric studies done under normoxia as well as under physiological and environmental anoxia are presented and assessed in terms of ATP turnover rate. Present evidence suggests that unknown sources of energy in freshwater and marine invertebrates under long-term anoxia may be important. During physiological hypoxia, thermodynamically grossly inefficient pathways sustain high metabolic rates for brief periods. On the contrary, under long-term environmental anoxia, low steady-state heat dissipation is linked to the more efficient succinate, propionate, and acetate pathways. In the second part of this paper these relationships are discussed in the context of linear, irreversible thermodynamics. The calorimetric and biochemical trends during aerobic-anoxic transitions are consistent with thermodynamic optimum functions of catabolic pathways. The theory predicts a decrease of rate with an increase of thermodynamic efficiency; therefore maximum rate and maximum efficiency are mutually exclusive. Cellular changes of pH and adenylate phosphorylation potential are recognized as regulatory mechanisms in the energetic switching to propionate production. While enzyme kinetics provides one key for understanding metabolic regulation, our insight remains incomplete without a complementary thermodynamic analysis of kinetic control in energetically coupled pathways.

1. Oxalidi latifoliae-Veronicetum persicae Br.-Bl. 1967 corr. Loidi, nombre correcto en contra del CNF

Loidi (Lazaroa 4:74. 1983) corrigió en contra del CNF el nombre de la asociación "Chenopodio-Oxalidetum violaceae Br-Rl. 1967", basándose en la determinacion errónea de la especie de Oxalis presente en la comunidad, ya que se trata de Oxalis latifolia Kunth y no de O. violacea L., según experiencia directa y referencias anteriores (cf. LAINZ, Collect. Bot. Barcelona 5 (3): 684, y DÍAZ GONZÁLEZ. Rev. Fac. Cienc. Oviedo, 15 (2): 482). Subsiguientemente, propuso el nombre Oxalidi latifoliae-Veronicetum persicae Br-Rl. 1967 corr. Loidi.