Organized crime as a serious form of violation of human rights: the Protocol to Prevent, Supress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children

Includes bibliography

An examination of the Chile-Mexico agreement: a viable form of integration?

Includes bibliography

In search of another form of development

Includes bibliography

The transnational corporations and Latin America's present form of economic growth

Includes bibliography

Clinical and molecular study of a new form of hereditary myotonia in Murrah water buffalo

Hereditary myotonia caused by mutations in CLCN1 has been previously described in humans, goats, dogs, mice and horses. The goal of this study was to characterize the clinical, morphological and genetic features of hereditary myotonia in Murrah buffalo. Clinical and laboratory evaluations were performed on affected and normal animals. CLCN1 cDNA and the relevant genomic region from normal and affected animals were sequenced. The affected animals exhibited muscle hypertrophy and stiffness. Myotonic discharges were observed during EMG, and dystrophic changes were not present in skeletal muscle biopsies; the last 43 nucleotides of exon-3 of the CLCN1 mRNA were deleted. Cloning of the genomic fragment revealed that the exclusion of this exonic sequence was caused by aberrant splicing, which was associated with the presence of a synonymous SNP in exon-3 (c.396C>T). The mutant allele triggered the efficient use of an ectopic 5' splice donor site located at nucleotides 90-91 of exon-3. The predicted impact of this aberrant splicing event is the alteration of the CLCN1 translational reading frame, which results in the incorporation of 24 unrelated amino acids followed by a premature stop codon. Copyright © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Ideas of four-fermion operators in electromagnetic form factor calculations

Four-fermion operators have been used in the past to link the quark-exchange processes in the interaction of hadrons with the effective meson-exchange amplitudes. In this paper, we apply the similar idea of a Fierz rearrangement to the self-energy and electromagnetic processes and focus on the electromagnetic form factors of the nucleon and the electron. We explain the motivation of using four-fermion operators and discuss the advantage of this method in computing electromagnetic processes. © 2013 American Physical Society.

Broiler breeder feeding programs and trace minerals on maternal antibody transfer and broiler humoral immune response

Breeder feed restriction may negatively affect broiler progeny immunity. Sources of trace minerals (TM) with higher bioavailability in breeder diets have been reported to enhance humoral and cellular immunity in broiler progeny. An experiment was conducted to examine the effects of breeder feeding programs and TM dietary sources on maternal antibody transfer and humoral immune response of progeny to a live vaccine against Newcastle disease virus (NDV). Cobb 500 breeders were fed according to 2 feed allocation programs, sigmoid late fast and sigmoid late slow, from 14 to 29 wk of age. From 56 to 62 wk of age, breeders were fed with either inorganic TM or an organic source (OTM) to replace 30% of Cu, Zn, and Mn. Progeny broilers were vaccinated intraocularly with La Sota NDV vaccine at 7 d of age. Blood samples were collected at hatching, 4, and 14 d postvaccination. Serum antibody levels against NDV were assessed by ELISA and cytokine expression by real time PCR. At hatching, late slow breeder progeny fed diets with 30% OTM had higher antibody titers as compared with progeny of breeders fed 100% inorganic TM. Similar results were observed 2 wk postvaccination. Breeder feeding programs and TM sources affected the expression level of IL-4 in NDV vaccinated broiler progeny. It was concluded that breeder feeding programs influenced humoral immune response to NDV vaccine in the broiler progeny, and 30% OTM may increase these responses. © 2013 Poultry Science Association, Inc.

A Combined Study of the Pion's Static Properties and form Factors

We study consistently the pion's static observables and the elastic and γ* γ → π0 transition form factors within a light-front model. Consistency requires that all calculations are performed within a given model with the same and single adjusted length or mass-scale parameter of the associated pion bound-state wave function. Our results agree well with all extent data including recent Belle data on the γ* γ → π0 form factor at large q2, yet the BaBar data on this transition form factor resists a sensible comparison. We relax the initial constraint on the bound-state wave function and show the BaBar data can partially be accommodated. This, however, comes at the cost of a hard elastic form factor not in agreement with experiment. Moreover, the pion charge radius is about 40 % smaller than its experimentally determined value. It is argued that a decreasing charge radius produces an ever harder form factor with a bound-state amplitude difficultly reconcilable with soft QCD. We also discuss why vector dominance type models for the photon-quark vertex, based on analyticity and crossing symmetry, are unlikely to reproduce the litigious transition form factor data. © 2013 Springer-Verlag Wien.

A controvérsia nestoriana e suas implicações político-administrativas nas cartas de Cirilo de Alexandria (séc. V d.c.)

Pós-graduação em História - FCHS

Heterogeneidade e interdisciplinaridade na escola especial: a música como forma de proporcionar equilíbrio e qualidade de vida

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Efeito de níveis e de fontes de microminerais na dieta de poedeiras comerciais de 40 a 60 semanas de idade

Pós-graduação em Zootecnia - FMVZ

Filtros ótimos: efeitos de janelas e de tipo de fase

O objetivo central deste trabalho é o estudo do desempenho do operador deconvolucional WHL na compressão do pulso-fonte sísmico, sob condições especiais de fase não-mínima e da densidade de eventos no traço, como casos advogados para dados reais e processamento em rotina. O método de ataque ao problema construído é centrado no conteúdo da informação da função autocorrelação submetida a diferentes condições: (a) de truncamento e tipo de janelas; (b) das características da fase do operador (se mínima ou não-mínima); (c) da medida de qualidade; (d) do nível de embranquecimento; (e) do ruído presente e da equalização; (f) do balanceamento do traço; (g) dos princípios físicos da propagação expressos e limitados pelo modelo convolutional. Os resultados obtidos são apenas na forma numérica, organizados na forma de álbuns com dificuldades crescentes, e demonstram como o uso de janelas na autocorrelação serve para diagnosticar e melhorar a performance dos operadores. Concluímos que muitas perguntas ainda surgem quando técnicas de deconvolução são aplicadas a seções sísmicas de bacias sedimentares, e que o modelo de Goupillaud é conveniente para simulações e análises devido a sua descrição matemática simples e completa.

Análise de parâmetros adimensionais num escoamento em meio poroso visando a deformação de elementos cerâmicos

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Obtenção e avaliação das potencialidades biológicas de complexos metálicos de 'ZN' e 'CO' contendo proteínas hidrolisadas do soro do leite

Pós-graduação em Química - IQ