陇西栽培蒙古黄芪原植物形态多样性研究

运用比较形态学方法,对陇西栽培蒙古黄芪生长植株进行形态多样性研究.结果表明:该地栽培蒙古黄芪具有较为丰富的形态多样性,存在不同的种内类型.传粉实验初步说明蒙古黄芪为异花授粉植物,这是栽培蒙古黄芪多样性形成的重要原因.

青海湖盐碱湿地灰绿藜叶的形态解剖学研究

利用光学显微镜和透射电镜对生长于青海湖湖滨盐碱湿地的先锋植物灰绿藜(Chenopodium glaucum Linn. ) 及生长于甘肃兰州大学校园内中生环境对照灰绿藜叶片的显微、超微结构进行了比较观察研究。结果发现中生环境灰绿藜叶片较薄, 有明显的栅栏与海绵组织分化; 叶绿体呈椭圆形, 基粒片层较发达且普遍含有淀粉粒。与对照相比, 生长于高海拔湖滨盐碱湿地灰绿藜叶为等面叶, 叶片厚, 角质层厚, 栅栏组织发达, 气室明显, 具表皮毛; 线粒体较多, 但嵴不发达, 叶绿体呈扁船型沿着壁的边缘排列, 叶绿体的基粒片层不发达且普遍含有脂质球, 一些细胞中常出现大量的多层膜结构。研究结果表明2 种生态型灰绿藜的形态结构已发生了深刻的变异, 湖滨灰绿藜表现出适应区域的寒旱化的明显特征。

Simultaneous determination of monoamine and amino acid neurotransmitters in rat endbrain tissues by pre-column derivatization with high-performance liquid chromatographic fluorescence detection and mass spectrometric identification

A sensitive and efficient method for simultaneous determination of glutamic acid (Glu), gamma-amino-butyric acid (GABA), dopamine (DA), 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) and 5-hydroxyindole acetic acid (5-HIAA) in rat endbrains was developed by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with fluorescence detection and on-line mass spectrometric identification following derivatization with 1,2-benzo-3,4-dihydrocarbazole-9-ethyl chloroformate (BCEOC). Different parameters which influenced derivatization and separation were optimized. The complete separation of five neurotransmitter (NT) derivatives was performed on a reversed-phase Hypersil BDS-C-18 column with a gradient elution. The rapid structure identification of five neurotransmitter derivatives was carried out by on-line mass spectrometry with electrospray ionization (ESI) source in positive ion mode, and the BCEOC-labeled derivatives were characterized by easy-to-interpret mass spectra. Stability of derivatives, repeatability, precision and accuracy were evaluated and the results were excellent for efficient HPLC analysis. The quantitative linear range of five neurotransmitters were 2.441-2 x 10(4) nM, and limits of detection were in the range of 0.398-1.258 nM (S/N = 3:1). The changes of their concentrations in endbrains of three rat groups were also studied using this HPLC fluorescence detection method. The results indicated that exhausting exercise could obviously influence the concentrations of neurotransmitters in rat endbrains. The established method exhibited excellent validity, high sensitivity and convenience, and provided a new technique for simultaneous analysis of monoamine and amino acid neurotransmitters in rat brain. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

磁通门罗盘方位测角系统设计与实现

本文介绍了在水下机器人上广泛使用的磁通门罗盘方位测角技术，阐明了其基本原理、参数设计方法及主要技术指标。

Introdução e avaliação de clones de seringueira no Acre para estudos de combinações copa x painel.

Os seringais de cultivo no Estado do Acre, implantados desde o início da década de 70, foram quase todos abandonados e desativados por apresentarem um desenvolvimento lento e desuniforme devido, principalmente, à falta de um método efetivo de controle do "mal das 4 folhas", causado pelo fungo Microcyclus ulei. As condições climáticas do Estado do Acre são favoráveis a incidência de doenças da seringueira durante o ano todo. No período de estiagem, de junho a setembro, época de troca de folhas, ocorrem surtos epidemiológicos com severos ataques, causando sucessivas quedas de foliolos que resultam na seca dos ponteiros, debilitando a planta e tomando-a predisposta ao ataque de fungos secundários, que agravam ainda mais o problema. A enxertia de copa, utilizando clones de hevea pauciflora, vem sendo apontada como a possível solução, a curto e médio prazo, para a implantação de seringais de cultivo nas áreas amazônicas com problemas fitossanitários graves. Esta espécie possui tolerância ao fungo Microcyclus ulei, principal doença da seringueira na Amazônia, por apresentar algumas características que dificultam o ataque do fungo, destacando-se o fato de possuir elevado índice de área foliar, de caráter perenifólio. Os clones derivados desta espécie, quando enxertados sobre painéis que apresentem como características um alto rendimento e facilidade de escoamento do látex, originam plantas tricompostas que conseguem juntar, num mesmo indivíduo, características que normalmente são antagônicas, ou seja, alta produtividade e resistência ou tolerância às doenças. Este trabalho tem como objetivo principal selecionar plantas tricompostas tolerante às principais doenças e com potencial produtivo superior a 1500 kglha/ano. Para isso, foi implantada uma coleção de clones de copa e painel na Embrapa Acre, a qual está servindo de fonte de material botânico para a instalação de experimentos de avaliação de combinações copa x painel. Os clones introduzidos estão sendo avaliados, quanto a tolerância a doenças, crescimento, vigor e facilidade de pegamento da enxertia.

Low-level laser therapy and light-emitting diode effects in the secretion of neuropeptides SP and CGRP in rat skin

The phototherapy effects in the skin are related to biomodulation, usually to accelerate wound healing. However, there is no direct proof of the interrelation between the effects of low-level laser therapy (LLLT) and light-emitting diode (LED) in neuropeptide secretion, these substances being prematurely involved in the neurogenic inflammation phase of wound healing. This study therefore focused on investigating LLLT and LED in Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) and substance P (SP) secretion in healthy rat skin. Forty rats were randomly distributed into five groups with eight rats each: Control Group, Blue LED Group (470 nm, 350 mW power), Red LED Group (660 nm, 350 mW power), Red Laser Group (660 nm, 100 mW power), and Infrared Laser Group (808 nm, 100 mW power) (DMCA (R) Equipamentos Ltda., So Carlos, So Paulo, Brazil). the skin of the animals in the experimental groups was irradiated using the punctual contact technique, with a total energy of 40 J, single dose, standardized at one point in the dorsal region. After 14 min of irradiation, the skin samples were collected for CGRP and SP quantification using western blot analysis. SP was released in Infrared Laser Group (p = 0.01); there was no difference in the CGRP secretion among groups. Infrared (808 nm) LLLT enhances neuropeptide SP secretion in healthy rat skin.

Caratterizzazione proteomica di fluidi e tessuti in diverse condizioni fisio-patologiche

This thesis has been focused on the proteomic characterization of human saliva from donors of different ages, starting from birth up to adult age, and pediatric brain tumor tissues. The first study has been performed in order to compare the acid-insoluble fraction of saliva from preterm with at-term newborns and adults and establish if differences exist. In the second study medulloblastoma and pilocytic astrocytoma pediatric brain tumor extracts have been compared. In both studies 2- DE analysis was coupled with high resolution tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS). The proteomic characterization of the acid-insoluble fractions of saliva from preterm newborns allowed to integrate data previously obtained on the acid-soluble fraction by HPLC-electrospray ionization (ESI)-mass spectrometry (MS), and to evidence several differences between preterm newborns, at-term newborns and adults. Spots differentially expressed between the three groups, according to image analysis of the gels, were submitted to in-gel tryptic digestion and the peptide mixture analyzed by high performance HPLC-ESI-MS/MS for their characterization. By this strategy, we identified three over-expressed proteins in atterm newborns with respect to preterm newborns and adults (BPI fold-containing family A member 1, two proteoforms of annexin A1, and keratin type 1 cytoskeletal 13), and several over-expressed proteins in adults (fatty acid-binding protein, S100A6, S100A7, two proteoforms of S100A9, several proteoforms of prolactin-inducible protein, Ig kappa chain, two proteoforms of cystatin SN, one proteoform of cystatin S and several proteoforms of α-amylase 1). Moreover, for the first time, it was possible to assign by MS/MS four spots of human saliva 2-DE, already detected by other authors, to different proteoforms of S100A9. The strategy applied used a sequential staining protocol to the 2-DE gels, first with Pro-Q Diamond, that allows specific detection of phosphoproteins, and successively with total protein SYPRO Ruby stain. In the second study, proteomic analysis of two pediatric brain tumor tissues pointed out differences between medulloblastoma, the prevalent malignant tumor in childhood, and pilocytic astrocytoma, the most common, that only rarely shows a malignant progression. Due to the limited availability of bioptic tissue, the study was performed on pooled tumor tissues, and was focused on acid-insoluble fraction to integrate the characterization performed by a group of colleagues in Rome on the acid-soluble fraction by high performance HPLC-ESI-MS/MS. The results indicated that the two tumors exhibit different proteomic profiles and evidenced interesting differential expression of several proteins. Among them, peroxiredoxin- 1, peptidyl-prolyl cis–trans isomerase A, heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoproteins A2/B1, mitochondrial isoform of malate dehydrogenase, nucleoside diphosphate kinase A, glutathione S-transferase P and fructose bisphosphate aldolase A resulted significantly over-expressed in medulloblastoma while glial fibrillary acidic protein, serotransferrin, α crystallin B chain, ferritin light chain, annexin A5, fatty acid-binding protein (brain), sorcin and apolipoprotein A-I resulted significantly over-expressed in pilocytic astrocytoma. In conclusion, the work done allowed to evidence the usefulness of using an integrated bottom-up/top-down approach, based on 2-DE-MS analysis and high performance MS in order to obtain a complete characterization of the proteome under investigation, revealing and identifying, not only peptides and small proteins, but also proteins with higher MW, that often it is not possible to identify by using exclusively a top-down ESI-MS approach.

The Media in Wales: Voices of a Small Nation

Barlow, D.; O'Malley, T.; and Mitchell, P. (2005). The Media in Wales: Voices of a Small Nation. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. RAE2008

Annales del Reyno de Navarra

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[Resumen de Taller de Creatividad para la Diversificación. El Retiro. Antioquia].

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Cancer mortality in IBM endicott plant workers, 1969-2001: An update on a NY production plant

BACKGROUND: In response to concerns expressed by workers at a public meeting, we analyzed the mortality experience of workers who were employed at the IBM plant in Endicott, New York and died between 1969-2001. An epidemiologic feasibility assessment indicated potential worker exposure to several known and suspected carcinogens at this plant. METHODS: We used the mortality and work history files produced under a court order and used in a previous mortality analysis. Using publicly available data for the state of New York as a standard of comparison, we conducted proportional cancer mortality (PCMR) analysis. RESULTS: The results showed significantly increased mortality due to melanoma (PCMR = 367; 95% CI: 119, 856) and lymphoma (PCMR = 220; 95% CI: 101, 419) in males and modestly increased mortality due to kidney cancer (PCMR = 165; 95% CI: 45, 421) and brain cancer (PCMR = 190; 95% CI: 52, 485) in males and breast cancer (PCMR = 126; 95% CI: 34, 321) in females. CONCLUSION: These results are similar to results from a previous IBM mortality study and support the need for a full cohort mortality analysis such as the one being planned by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

History, revolution and the British popular novel: historical fiction in the romantic age

“History, Revolution and the British Popular Novel” takes as its focus the significant role which historical fiction played within the French Revolution debate and its aftermath. Examining the complex intersection of the genre with the political and historical dialogue generated by the French Revolution crisis, the thesis contends that contemporary fascination with the historical episode of the Revolution, and the fundamental importance of history to the disputes which raged about questions of tradition and change, and the meaning of the British national past, led to the emergence of increasingly complex forms of fictional historical narrative during the “war of ideas.” Considering the varying ways in which novelists such as Charlotte Smith, William Godwin, Mary Robinson, Helen Craik, Clara Reeve, John Moore, Edward Sayer, Mary Charlton, Ann Thomas, George Walker and Jane West engaged with the historical contexts of the Revolution debate, my discussion juxtaposes the manner in which English Jacobin novelists inserted the radical critique of the Jacobin novel into the wider arena of history with anti-Jacobin deployments of the historical to combat the revolutionary threat and internal moves for socio-political restructuring. I argue that the use of imaginative historical narrative to contribute to the ongoing dialogue surrounding the Revolution, and offer political and historical guidance to readers, represented a significant element within the literature of the Revolution crisis. The thesis also identifies the diverse body of historical fiction which materialised amidst the Revolution controversy as a key context within which to understand the emergence of Scott’s national historical novel in 1814, and the broader field of historical fiction in the era of Waterloo. Tracing the continued engagement with revolutionary and political concerns evident in the early Waverley novels, Frances Burney’s The Wanderer (1814), William Godwin’s Mandeville (1816), and Mary Shelley’s Valperga (1823), my discussion concludes by arguing that Godwin’s and Shelley’s extension of the mode of historical fiction initially envisioned by Godwin in the revolutionary decade, and their shared endeavour to retrieve the possibility enshrined within the republican past, appeared as a significant counter to the model of history and fiction developed by Walter Scott in the post-revolutionary epoch.