Pollen record and dating of a sediment profile from Lake Voulkaria, Greece

A palynological investigation of a Holocene profile from Lake Voulkaria, western Greece, was carried out as a contribution to the environmental history of the coastal area of northwestern Acarnania and the Classical city of Palairos. It shows that deciduous oaks dominated the natural vegetation of the area throughout the Holocene. Until ca. 7000 B.C. Pistacia occurred abundantly, while other evergreen woody taxa were rare. At ca. 6300 B.C. an expansion of Carpinus orientalis/Ostrya can be observed. Around ca. 5300 B.C. spreading of Erica indicates a change to a drier climate and/or first human impact. Since ca. 3500 B.C. an increase of evergreen shrubs now clearly indicates land-use. The foundation of the Classical city of Palairos led to a temporary expansion of Phillyrea maquis. Within this period, molluscs of brackish water indicate the use of the lake as a harbour after the construction of a connection to the sea. The deciduous Quercus woodland recovered when human impact decreased in the area, and lasted until modern times.

Verdadera relacion, y nueuo romance, en el que se da cuenta, como Christo Señor nuestro, vestido de Nazareno, se la aparecio a un pastorcillo, llamado Francisco Escobedo y le dixo que tomase una vela encendida, y la arrojase a el mar porque con ella diesse fin al mundo ... baxo Nuestra Señora de Monserrate, e intercediendo con su Santissimo Hijo alcanzo el perdon ... : sucedio este año de 1742, dia 11 del mes de Enero

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Balance de CO2 y secuestro de Carbono por medio del aumento de la producción de Biomasa en suelos ácidos enmendados

Las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero procedentes de la producción agraria en 2011 fueron estimadas en 5300 millones de toneladas de CO2 equivalente (CO2e) a nivel global. En nuestro estudio evaluamos las emisiones y secuestros producidos por la siembra directa (SD) frente al laboreo convencional (LC), junto a la aplicación o no de una enmienda cálcica en un suelo ácido degradado y bajo un clima mediterráneo.

Origins of the specificity of tissue-type plasminogen activator.

The role of subsite interactions in defining the stringent substrate specificity of tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA) has been examined by using an fd phage library that displayed random hexapeptide sequences and contained 2 x 10(8) independent recombinants. Forty-four individual hexapeptides were isolated and identified as improved substrates for t-PA. A peptide containing one of the selected amino acid sequences was cleaved by t-PA 5300 times more efficiently than a peptide that contained the primary sequence of the actual cleavage site in plasminogen. These results suggest that small peptides can mimic determinants that mediate specific proteolysis, emphasize the importance of subsite interactions in determining protease specificity, and have important implications for the evolution of protease cascades.