Evaluation of the attack rates and level of damages by the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), affecting corn-crops in the northeast of Argentina

The fall armyworm (FAW) is the most important threat to corn crops in Argentina, and there exists very little up-to-date information on its actual pest status because the available literature was published more than 20 years ago. Therefore, field surveys were carried out in the northeast of Argentina, in order to establish the attack rates and injury levels of the pest in relation to the crop phenology. The study was carried out at two localities: Colonia Benítez, an agricultural region, and Tapenagá, a cattle-raising area. At each site two 1-ha plots were sown either with a Bt-corn expressing Cry 1F protein or with an untransformed corn germplasm. Optimal and late sowing was assayed and FAW larval abundance, relative age composition, attack rates and level of damage to corn were recorded. At the moment of the field experiments, Bt-corn was not affected by FAW larvae. However, untransformed germplasms were severely affected by FAW larvae, with an average of attacked plants of 18% or more. In contrast to data obtained 30 years ago, higher values of FAW density were registered. Levels of damage to corn plants were higher after the V4 stage. It was found that the sowing date affected the infestation levels and early seeding avoided high armyworm densities that develop later in the season; in northern Argentina, this was only relevant in agricultural areas.

Women’s experiences with the use of medical abortion in a legally restricted context: the case of Argentina

This article presents the findings of a qualitative study exploring the experiences of women living in Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area, Argentina, with the use of misoprostol for inducing an abortion. We asked women about the range of decisions they had to make, their emotions, the physical experience, strategies they needed to use, including seeking health care advice and in dealing with a clandestine medical abortion, and their overall evaluation of the experience. An in-depth interview schedule was used. The women had either used misoprostol and sought counselling or care at a public hospital (n=24) or had used misoprostol based on the advice of a local hotline, information from the internet or from other women (n=21). Four stages in the women’s experiences were identified: how the decision to terminate the pregnancy was taken, how the medication was obtained, how the tablets were used, and reflections on the outcome whether or not they sought medical advice. Safety and privacy were key in deciding to use medical abortion. Access to the medication was the main obstacle, requiring a prescription or a friendly drugstore. Correct information about the number of pills to use and dosage intervals was the least easy to obtain and caused concerns. The possibility of choosing a time of privacy and having the company of a close one was highlighted as a unique advantage of medical abortion. Efforts to improve abortion law, policy and service provision in Argentina in order to ensure the best possible conditions for use of medical abortion by women should be redoubled.

Constituciones del Colegio y Seminario de Corpus Christi : fundado por la buena memoria del ... Señor Don Juan de Ribera, Patriarca de Antioquia, y Arzobispo de Valencia

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Sermon del Beato Juan de Ribera, patriarca de Antioquía y Arzobispo de Valencia que en la fiesta que celebró el Rev. Clero de S. Andrés Apostol en la Iglesia del Real Colegio de Corpus Christi el dia 30 de agosto del año 1797

Sign. : []4, A-G4

Sermon que en la festiua demonstracion de regocijo, que el Real Colegio de Corpus Christi ... hizo ... en el año 1698, en desagrauio del ... robo del ... Sacramento de la Eucaristia ...

Fecha de la aprobacion: 1699.

M.I.S. El Dr. Agustin Sales ... opositor à la Prebenda de Vicario de Coro, que esta vacante en este Real Colegio de Corpus Christi, suplicante, expone à la consideracion de V.S. los meritos siguientes por los quales confia ...

En la h. consta: "Al Real Colegio de Corpus Christi : representado en sus mui Ilustres Señores Retor, y Perpetuos. El Dotor Agustin Sales, Presbitero, Chronista de Valencia. Suplicante"

Constituciones de la Capilla del Colegio, y Seminario de Corpus Christi

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Oracion panegirica, que en la festiuidad del Smo. Sacramento, que celebró el convento de Corpus Christi de Religiosas Dominicas de la Villa de Carcagente dia 30 de mayo de 1728

Fecha de 1728 tomada de preliminares