Novel polymorphic microsatellite loci for the protogynous hermaphrodite slinger sea bream (Chrysoblephus puniceus, Sparidae)

As a result of the global decline of fish stocks, an increasing number of fish species are becoming targets of heavy exploitation, often concomitantly with a lack of biological knowledge on their structure and demographics. Here we present 11 new polymorphic microsatellite loci, isolated from the slinger sea bream (Chrysoblephus puniceus, Sparidae), a relatively recent target of coastal fisheries in eastern South Africa. Levels of genetic diversity were assessed in 39 individuals collected from the KwaZulu-Natal coast (Park Rynie, South Africa). Observed and expected heterozygosities varied between 0.39 and 0.97 and between 0.53 and 0.96, respectively. One locus (SL35) showed significant heterozygote deficiency and linkage disequilibrium was detected between SL35 and SL1. Importantly, five of these microsatellites cross-amplify in Cheimerius nufar, a sympatric species also subjected to exploitation.

Phacoemulsification combined with posterior capsulorhexis and anterior vitrectomy in the management of malignant glaucoma in phakic eyes

Purpose: To describe sequential phacoemulsification-intraocular lens (IOL) implantation-posterior capsulorhexis-anterior vitrectomy in the management of phakic malignant glaucoma. Methods: Twenty consecutive patients (25 eyes) with phakic malignant glaucoma were enrolled at the Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University. All patients underwent phacoemulsification, IOL implantation and posterior capsulorhexis together with anterior vitrectomy via a clear corneal paracentesis. Visual acuity, intraocular pressure (IOP), anterior chamber depth (ACD), surgical complications and medications required after the surgery were recorded. Results: After surgery, the mean LogMAR visual acuity and ACD increased significantly (visual acuity from -1.56 ± 1.17 to -0.54 ± 0.81, p < 0.001; ACD from 0.367 ± 0.397 mm to 2.390 ± 0.575 mm, p < 0.001), and mean IOP decreased significantly (from 39.6 ± 10.6 mm Hg to 14.5 ± 4.1 mmHg, p < 0.001). No serious perioperative complications occurred, and only five eyes required topical glaucoma medications after surgery. Conclusion: Combined phacoemulsification-IOL implantation-posterior capsulorhexis-anterior vitrectomy surgery is a safe and effective method for treating patients with phakic malignant glaucoma. © 2012 The Authors. Acta Ophthalmologica © 2012 Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica Foundation.

Los Shuar y los animales

La primera edición se agotó muy pronto, tanto más que se habían impreso tan solo 500 ejemplares. El tiraje fue mantenido calculadamente bajo. En efecto, desde el comienzo, el fasciculo fue considerado un simple borrador, es decir un punto de partida para correcciones y añadiduras. Los mismos alumnos de Sevilla D.B. lo vieron a tomar en sus manos y se organizaron en grupos, para corregir y completar. Se les añadieron los del COlegio Agrícola de Bomboiza, del Centro Artesanal de Chiguaza y de la Escuela de Mutintsa

1ª Jornada sobre maltrato a las personas con discapacidad

Publicación que recoge las ponencias de la "1ª Jornada sobre maltrato a las personas con discapacidad", que tuvo lugar en Sevilla el 16-17 de octubre de 2014 y fue organizada por Down Andalucía, con el apoyo del Real Patronato sobre Discapacidad.

O Diccionario de Folqman e as origens da lexicografia monolingue do português: edição e estudo

Este trabalho tem como objeto de estudo o Diccionario Portuguez, e Latino, publicado em 1755 por Carlos Folqman. Verificando-se um grande vazio na lexicografia portuguesa do século XVIII, tentou-se indagar que motivos terão levado a que Folqman e o seu Diccionario sejam praticamente desconhecidos no panorama da lexicografia portuguesa. Desta forma, depois de feita a edição do Diccionario, e acrescentada uma breve notícia biobibliográfica do autor, este trabalho propõe-se elaborar uma análise da obra em questão, quer no que respeita à nomenclatura que apresenta, e que a aproxima de um dicionário escolar; quer no respeitante à técnica lexicográfica utilizada e ao tratamento metalinguístico do “corpus” dicionarizado.

Competitive destination analysis in Southern European countries

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the competitiveness of the European Union Member States of Southern Europe (France, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain) as tourist destinations for European Union Member States of Central and Northern Europe (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, The Netherlands, Ireland, Sweden and the UK). Design/methodology/approach – Application of the market share analysis tool, initially developed by Faulkner, using secondary data from Eurostat – statistical office of the European communities. Findings – The results obtained show that France, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain present distinct levels of competitiveness for the various generating countries, with changes having occurred in the period between 1999 and 2007. Originality/value – The paper offers refreshment of Faulkner's tool and an insight into tourist flows in Europe as a tool for tourism and hospitality managers.

Fuentes paremiológicas francesas y españolas en la primera mitad del sglo XIX

La literatura oral está despertando un interés cada vez mayor, lo que se refleja, por ejemplo, en el aumento de los coloquios sobre esta materia o en la creación de revistas dedicadas a estudiarla; actos muy loables, pues contribuyen a fomentar este tipo de investigación e ir cubriendo así las lagunas existentes en el estudio de las manifestaciones lingüísticas caracterizadas por su oralidad, como sucede con los refranes, los proverbios, las sentencias, las máximas.

Patrimonio conventual y periferia. La salvaguardia de los antiguos espacios conventuales del Algarve

Tese de doutoramento, Departamento de Urbanística y Ordenación del Territorio, Universidad de Sevilla, 2007

Da fixação oitocentista à redescoberta da voz original

Sempre que se observa o trabalho editorial feito por boa parte dos divulgadores do romanceiro oitocentista em Espanha e Portugal, desperta a nossa atenção o modo laborioso com que se aprimoravam as versões por eles publicadas. Em resultado de um conjunto de estudos que realizei sobre João Baptista da Silva Leitão de Almeida Garret (o primeiro compilador de romances na Península Ibérica) e, muito especialmente, graças às recentes e inovadoras investigações de Sandra Boto (a quem se deve o estudo e divulgação de um fundo romancístico inédito garrettiano, com as consequentes ilações no campo da «textologia») o conhecimento que temos dos métodos editoriais deste autor permite-nos apresentar dados muito rigorosos.

Visualising London

This research investigates how photographs can be analysed to extract meaning. Two methodologies, visual anthropology and social semiotics, are used to analyse a collection of images and accompanying texts generated by a group of first year tourism students in London. Photographs are categorised into subject areas including iconic buildings, street scenes, people and analysed according to how they relate to the photographers’ characteristics, such as age and nationality. A group of images of Big Ben are then analysed using a social semiotics approach, considering both compositional and contextual information to extract meanings. Results and techniques are then contrasted and compared, noting how the complexity of the image makers’ experience of the city they are documenting lead to their images having multi-layered meanings, and that combining analytic methods can fruitfully reveal a range of these meanings.

Atmospheres of law: senses, affects, lawscapes

In this article, I deal with airs and sounds and scents, while keeping an eye on the law. My field of enquiry is the interstitial area between sensory and affective occurrences, namely sensory experiences that are traditionally thought to be a causal result of external stimuli, and affective experiences that are mostly associated with emotional changes and generally allude to something internal. I am arguing that there is no constructive difference between internal and external origin of occurrences. In its stead, I suggest the concept of atmosphere, namely an attempt at understanding affective occurrences as excessive, collective, spatial and elemental. However, it quickly becomes apparent that an atmosphere is legally determined. The law controls affective occurrences by regulating property of sensory stimulation. At the same time, the law guides bodies into corridors of sensory compulsion – an aspect of which is consumerism in capitalist societies. The law achieves this by allowing certain sensory options to come forth while suppressing others, something which is particularly obvious in cases of intellectual property protection that capture the sensorial. I deal with the law in its material, spatial manifestation and in particular through what I have called the ‘lawscape’, namely the fusion of space and normativity. I employ a broadly Deleuzian methodology with insights from radical geography, affective studies, and urban and critical legal theory in order to develop and link the various parts of the text.

Language impairment in a case of a complex chromosomal rearrangement with a breakpoint downstream of FOXP2

BACKGROUND: We report on a young female, who presents with a severe speech and language disorder and a balanced de novo complex chromosomal rearrangement, likely to have resulted from a chromosome 7 pericentromeric inversion, followed by a chromosome 7 and 11 translocation. RESULTS: Using molecular cytogenetics, we mapped the four breakpoints to 7p21.1-15.3 (chromosome position: 20,954,043-21,001,537, hg19), 7q31 (chromosome position: 114,528,369-114,556,605, hg19), 7q21.3 (chromosome position: 93,884,065-93,933,453, hg19) and 11p12 (chromosome position: 38,601,145-38,621,572, hg19). These regions contain only non-coding transcripts (ENSG00000232790 on 7p21.1 and TCONS_00013886, TCONS_00013887, TCONS_00014353, TCONS_00013888 on 7q21) indicating that no coding sequences are directly disrupted. The breakpoint on 7q31 mapped 200 kb downstream of FOXP2, a well-known language gene. No splice site or non-synonymous coding variants were found in the FOXP2 coding sequence. We were unable to detect any changes in the expression level of FOXP2 in fibroblast cells derived from the proband, although this may be the result of the low expression level of FOXP2 in these cells. CONCLUSIONS: We conclude that the phenotype observed in this patient either arises from a subtle change in FOXP2 regulation due to the disruption of a downstream element controlling its expression, or from the direct disruption of non-coding RNAs.

Verificação da segurança à ação sísmica da estrutura de um colégio em Ponta Delgada utilizando o Eurocódigo 8 - parte 3

Dissertação para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia Civil na Área de Especialização em Estruturas

A importância da linha costeira na estruturação do Reino medieval português. Algumas reflexões

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