Galeria dos brasileiros illustres (os contemporaneos) : retratos dos homens mais illustres do Brasil na politica, sciencias e letras, desde a guerra da independencia até os nossos dias : copiados do natural e lithographados por S.A. Sisson, acompanhados das suas respectivas biographias, publicada sob a protecção de sua Magestade o Imperador

Galeria dos brasileiros illustres traz retratos copiados do natural e litografados das principais figuras brasileiras da política, ciências e letras, com biografias redigidas por diversos escritos da época, por alguns dos próprios biografados ou por membros de suas famílias. Considerada a mais importante de Sisson, esta obra teve tiragem reduzida e muitos exemplares foram desmanchados por antiquários que emolduravam os retratos, vendendo-os por alto preço. Segundo Borba de Moraes, "é muito difícil encontrar-se hoje em dia um exemplar perfeito e em boas condições" e que "só muito raramente aparece um exemplar à venda."

Brasilien : land und leute

Traz tópicos históricos do Brasil desde o seu descombrimento, em 1500. Descreve a flora, a fauna e as riquezas brasileiras, em especial o ouro e o diamante,; os usos e costumes dos índios e faz relato histórico de algumas cidades, tais como: Salvador, Rio de Janeiro, Santos, Petrópolis e Porto Alegre. Contém ilustrações de cidades e paisagens do Brasil

The results of an exploratory fishery cruise for Loligo Opalescens in southern and central California, June 5-25, 1974

During June 1974 the California Department of Fish and Game, in cooperation with the Sea Grant program at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, conducted an exploratory fishing cruise that extended from La Jolla to Santa Cruz and included the Channel Islands, concentrating on inshore waters. The cruise was preliminary to the initiation of a major program of squid research and had six objectives: 1) To gather samples of market squid (Lo1igo opa1escens) for population, growth, aging and food chain studies. 2) To locate potential new fishing grounds. 3) To investigate methods for determining spawning intensity. 4) To gather data on oceanographic parameters of the spawning grounds. 5) To make incidental collections as requested by other investigators. 6) To familiarize Sea Grant personnel with the capabilities of the Department's largest research vessel, ALASKA, with respect to squid. Especially good weather and oceanographic conditions persisting throughout the cruise enabled us to make 66 night1ight stations, 17 midwater trawls and eight bottom trawls. Fishable concentrations of squid were discovered in the areas between Cape San Martin and Partington Point, between Pfeiffer Point and Point Sur, and in Carmel Bay, heretofore unfished. Squid spawning off Santa Cruz Island was observed utilizing an underwater observation chamber aboard the vessel. Mating and feeding behavior were observed in shipboard aquaria. PDF contains 28 pages)

Income Taxation and Growth in an OLG Economy: Does Aggregate Uncertainty Play any Role?

We analyze the effects of capital income taxation on long-run growth in a stochastic, two-period overlapping generations economy. Endogenous growth is driven by a positive externality of physical capital in the production sector that makes firms exhibit an aggregate technology in equilibrium. We distinguish between capital income and labor income, and between attitudes towards risk and intertemporal substitution of consumption. We show necessary and sufficient conditions such that i) increments in the capital income taxation lead to higher equilibrium growth rates, and ii) the effect of changes in the capital income tax rate on the equilibrium growth may be of opposite signs in stochastic and in deterministic economies. Such a sign reversal is shown to be more likely depending on i) how the intertemporal elasticity of substitution compares to one, and ii) the size of second- period labor supply. Numerical simulations show that for reasonable values of the intertemporal elasticity of substitution, a sign reversal shows up only for implausibly high values of the second- period’s labor supply. The conclusion is that deterministic OLG economies are a good approximation of the effect of taxes on the equilibrium growth rate as in Smith (1996).

Analysis of SUMOylated proteins using SUMO-traps

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Black Holes, Cosmological Solutions, Future Singularities, and Their Thermodynamical Properties in Modified Gravity Theorie

54 p.

Role of G protein coupled inwardly rectifier K+ channels (GIRK) on the neurobiology depression

353 págs.

Design, Construction and Testing of a Hydraulic Power Take-Off for Wave Energy Converters

This paper presents the construction, mathematical modeling and testing of a scaled universal hydraulic Power Take-Off (PTO) device for Wave Energy Converters (WECs). A specific prototype and test bench were designed and built to carry out the tests. The results obtained from these tests were used to adjust an in-house mathematical model. The PTO was initially designed to be coupled to a scaled wave energy capture device with a low speed and high torque oscillating motion and high power fluctuations. Any Energy Capture Device (ECD) that fulfils these requirements can be coupled to this PTO, provided that its scale is adequately defined depending on the rated power of the full scale prototype. The initial calibration included estimation of the pressure drops in the different components, the pressurization time of the oil inside the hydraulic cylinders and the volumetric efficiency of the complete circuit. Since the overall efficiency measured during the tests ranged from 0.69 to 0.8 and the dynamic performance of the PTO was satisfactory, the results are really promising and it is believed that this solution might prove effective in real devices.

A 30-Year History of Tide and Current Measurements in Elkhorn Slough, California

Elkhorn Slough was first exposed to direct tidal forcing from the waters of Monterey Bay with the construction of Moss Landing Harbor in 1946. Elkhorn Slough is located mid-way between Santa Cruz and Monterey close to the head of Monterey Submarine Canyon. It follows a 10 km circuitous path inland from its entrance at Moss Landing Harbor. Today, Elkhorn Slough is a habitat and sanctuary for a wide variety of marine mammals, fish, and seabirds. The Slough also serves as a sink and pathway for various nutrients and pollutants. These attributes are directly or indirectly affected by its circulation and physical properties. Currents, tides and physical properties of Elkhorn Slough have been observed on an irregular basis since 1970. Based on these observations, the physical characteristics of Elkhorn Slough are examined and summarized. Elkhorn Slough is an ebb-dominated estuary and, as a result, the rise and fall of the tides is asymmetric. The fact that lower low water always follows higher high water and the tidal asymmetry produces ebb currents that are stronger than flooding currents. The presence of extensive mud flats and Salicornia marsh contribute to tidal distortion. Tidal distortion also produces several shallow water constituents including the M3, M4, and M6 overtides and the 2MK3 and MK3 compound tides. Tidal elevations and currents are approximately in quadrature; thus, the tides in Elkhorn Slough have some of the characters of a standing wave system. The temperature and salinity of lower Elkhorn Slough waters reflect, to a large extent, the influence of Monterey Bay waters, whereas the temperature and salinity of the waters of the upper Slough (>5 km from the mouth) are more sensitive to local processes. During the summer, temperature and salinity are higher in the upper slough due to local heating and evaporation. Maximum tidal currents in Elkhorn Slough have increased from approximately 75 to 120 cm/s over the past 30 years. This increase in current speed is primarily due to the change in tidal prism which has increased from approximately 2.5 to 6.2 x 106 m3 between 1956 and 1993. The increase in tidal prism is the result of both 3 rapid man-made changes to the Slough, and the continuing process of tidal erosion. Because of the increase in the tidal prism, the currents in Elkhorn Slough exhibit positive feedback, a process with uncertain consequences. [PDF contains 55 pages]

El desarrollo rural en la vertiente atlántica del País Vasco: un balance

[EUS] Artikulo honetan euskal isurialde atlantiarreko bi munitzipioetan martxan jarritako garapen lokaleko proiektuak aztertzen dira. Esperientzia horiek beherapen industrialean dagoen eskualde batean landa garapenak izan dezakeen egokitasunari buruz pentsatzera bultzatzen dute.

Institucionalização do tema de gênero na Câmara dos(as) Deputados(as) : da Procuradoria Especial da Mulher à Secretaria da Mulher

Trata do processo de institucionalização do tema de gênero na Câmara dos(as) Deputados(as) com foco na criação de duas unidades administrativas: a Procuradoria Especial da Mulher, em 2009, e a Secretaria da Mulher, em 2013. Dez anos após a criação da Secretaria de Políticas para as Mulheres, no poder Executivo, em 2003, chega a vez do Parlamento integrar as políticas de gênero à sua estrutura formal. O novo modelo trouxe alterações regimentais importantes à Bancada Feminina da Câmara, que passou a atuar com prerrogativas de uma Liderança Partidária.

Macroeconomía intermedia : ejercicios de autoevaluación

Este recurso puede resultar de gran ayuda, en particular, a los estudiantes que cursan la asignatura de Macroeconomía Intermedia, correspondiente al 2º curso del actual Grado en Economía de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea. El contenido preciso de este recurso consta de una colección de ocho capítulos de preguntas de elección múltiple para las que el usuario ha de proponer la respuesta correcta y a quien la herramienta devuelve las preguntas corregidas, pudiendo así comprobar la validez de sus respuestas. Una característica destacable del recurso es que existen tres versiones del mismo, correspondientes a los tres idiomas (castellano, euskara e inglés) en los que se imparte la asignatura en la UPV/EHU.

Erdi mailako makroekonomia: Autoebaluazio-ariketak

Baliabide hau oso erabilgarria izan daiteke Erdi Mailako Makroekonomia irakasgaia ikasten dutenentzat. Irakasgai hau Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatean indarrean dagoen Ekonomian Graduko bigarren kurtsoan ematen da. Baliabide honen edukia aukera anitzeko galderen zortzi kapituluz osatutako bilduma batean datza. Erabiltzaileak erantzun zuzena proposatu behar du, eta tresnak galdetegia zuzenduta itzultzen dio, bere aukerak zuzenak diren konprobatu ahal izanez. Baliabide honen ezaugarri nabarmenetariko bat hurrengoa da: tresna irakasgaia UPV/EHU-n ematen den hiru hizkuntzetan (gaztelania, euskara eta ingelesa) dago eskuragarri.

Intermediate Macroeconomics : Self-evaluation exercises

This resource can be particularly helpful to students taking the Intermediate Macroeconomics course, which corresponds to the second year of the current Degree in Economics at the University of the Basque Country UPV/ EHU. The precise content of this resource is a collection of eight chapters of multiple-choice questions. For each question the user is asked to guess which the correct answer is. Finally, the tool will return all the correct answers for the whole test, thereby allowing the user to check the validity of his/her answers. A remarkable feature of the tool is that it has been edited in three versions, for the three languages (Spanish, Basque and English) in which the subject is taught at the UPV/EHU.