Panama City Fisheries Resources Office: FY 2004 Annual Report

HIGHLIGHTS FOR FY 2004 1. Completed the second of a 3-year Gulf sturgeon population estimate on the Escambia River, Florida. 2. Completed the first of a 2-year Gulf sturgeon population estimate on the Apalachicola River, Florida. 3. Conducted Gulf sturgeon presence-absence surveys in three other Florida river systems. 4. Documented Gulf sturgeon marine habitat use in the near shore waters of the Gulf of Mexico. 5. Identified environmental threats to Gulf sturgeon spawning habitat in the Choctawhatchee River, Florida. 6. Initiated a study to document Gulf sturgeon spawning with the collection of fertilized eggs in the Yellow River, Florida. 7. Implemented Gulf Striped Bass Restoration Plan by coordinating the 21st Annual Morone Workshop, leading the technical committee, transporting broodfish, and coordinating the stocking on the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) river system. 8. Over 86,000 Phase II Gulf striped bass were marked with sequential coded wire tags and stocked in Lake Seminole and the Apalachicola River. Post-stocking evaluations were conducted at 31 sites. 9. Drafted updates to Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint Striped Bass Restoration and Evaluation Five-Year Plan with partners. 10. Fishery surveys were conducted on Tyndall Air Force Base and St. Marks and St. Vincent National Wildlife Refuges. 11. Habitat evaluations and population surveys were completed at 153 Okaloosa darter stream sites. 12. Aquatic insect biomonitoring and identification of over 39,000 individual aquatic macroinvertebrates was completed and provided to Eglin Air Force Base. 13. Ten years of fishery data from Okefenokee and Banks Lake National Wildlife Refuges was analyzed with recommendations incorporated into the refuge Comprehensive Conservation Plan. 14. A draft mussel sampling protocol was tested in wadeable streams in northwest Florida and southwest Georgia. 15. Implemented recovery plan and candidate conservation actions for 14 listed and candidate freshwater mussels in the Northeast Gulf Watersheds. 16. Worked with partners in developing the Spring Creek Watershed Partnership in the Flint River basin, Georgia. 17. Multiple stream restoration and watershed management projects were initiated or completed. A total of 6.8 stream miles were restored for stream fishes, along with 56.4 miles of coastline were enhanced for sea turtle lighting. A total of 135 acres of wetlands and 58 acres of understory habitat were restored. 18. Multiple outreach projects were completed to detail aquatic resources conservation needs and opportunities. Participated in National Fishing Week event, BASS ProShops event, several festivals, and school outreach.

Panama City Fisheries Resources Office: FY 2003 Annual Report

HIGHLIGHTS FOR FY 2003 1. Continued a 3-year threatened Gulf sturgeon population estimate in the Escambia River, Florida and conducted presence-absence surveys in 4 other Florida river systems and 1 bay. 2. Five juvenile Gulf sturgeon collected, near the mouth of the Choctawhatchee River, Florida, were equipped with sonic tags and monitored while over-wintering in Choctawhatchee Bay. 3. Continued to examine Gulf sturgeon marine habitat use. 4. Implemented Gulf Striped Bass Restoration Plan by coordinating the 20th Annual Morone Workshop, leading the technical committee, transporting broodfish, and coordinating the stocking on the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) river system. 5. Over 73,000 Phase II Gulf striped bass were marked with sequential coded wire tags and stocked in the Apalachicola River. Post-stocking evaluations were conducted at 31 sites. 6. Three stream fisheries assessment s were completed to evaluate the fish community at sites slated for habitat restoration by the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program (PFW). 7. PFW program identified restoration needs and opportunities for 10 areas. 8. Developed an Unpaved Road Evaluation Handbook. 9. Completed restoration of Chipola River Greenway, Seibenhener Streambank Restoration, Blackwater River State Forest, and Anderson Property. 10. Assessments for fluvial geomorphic conditions for design criteria were completed for 3 projects. 11. Geomorphology in Florida streams initiated development of Rosgen regional curves for Northwest Florida for use by the Florida Department of Transportation. 12. Developed a Memorandum of Understanding between partners for enhancing, protecting, and restoring stream, wetland, and upland habitat in northwest Florida 13. Completed aquatic fauna and fish surveys with new emphasis on integration of data from reach level into watershed and landscape scale and keeping database current. 14. Compliance based sampling of impaired waterbodies on Eglin Air Force Base in conjunction with Florida Department of Environmental Protection for Total Maximum Daily Load development support. 15. Surveyed 20 sites for the federally endangered Okaloosa darter, provided habitat descriptions, worked with partners to implement key recovery tasks and set priorities for restoration. 16. Worked with partners to develop a freshwater mussel survey protocol to provide standard operating procedures for establishing the presence/absence of federally listed mussel species within a Federal project area. 17. GIS database was created to identify all known freshwater mussel records from the northeast Gulf ecosystem. 18. Completed recovery plan for seven freshwater mussels and drafted candidate elevation package for seven additional mussels. Developed proposals to implement recovery plan. 19. Worked with Corps of Engineers and State partners to develop improved reservoir operating policies to benefit both riverine and reservoir fisheries for the ACF river system. 20. Multiple outreach projects were completed to detail aquatic resources conservation opportunities. 21. Multiple stream restoration and watershed management projects initiated or completed (see Appendix A).

La circulación de materias primas líticas en la transición Mesolítico / Neolítico antiguo en el País Vasco. Los abrigos de Mendandia, Kanpanoste y Aizpea

Homenaje a Ignacio Barandiarán Maestu / coord. por Javier Fernández Eraso, Juan Santos Yanguas

Datos preliminares sobre fuentes de aprovisionamiento de rocas silíceas en algunos yacimientos paleolíticos y postpaleolíticos del sector oriental de la cuenca vasco-cantábrica

[ES] Exponemos en este trabajo los primeros resultados referentes a las áreas de aprovisionamiento de materiales silíceos en el sector oriental de la Cuenca Vasco-Cantábrica durante el Pleistoceno superior y Holoceno. Se describen aquellos afloramientos cuyos sílex han sido identificados en varios yacimientos del periodo contemplado. Hemos constatado una transformación sustancial de las estrategias de aprovisionamiento, observable a fines del Paleolítico y especialmente significativa desde el Epipaleolítico. Asimismo, las pautas de ocupación del territorio reflejadas muestran indicios de un aprovechamiento rentable, estacional, de tierras en torno a los 600 m.s.n.m. durante el Pleistoceno superior, y con territorios de explotación probablemente de mayor extensión que los contemplados hasta el momento por la historiografía del Paleolítico cantábrico.

我国淡水红藻两新记录种

本文报道我国淡水红藻的两个新记录种,即弧形串珠藻Batrachospermum arcuatum Kylin emend.Vis et al.和细链珠藻Sirodotia tenuissima(Collins) Skuja ex Flint.标本均采自我国山西省。

Design of apochromatic telescope without anomalous dispersion glasses

A novel lens system with correction of secondary spectrum without using anomalous glasses is presented. The lens system comprises four separated lens components, with three of them being subapertures. Two examples of apochromatic telescope are presented, both with the use of typical normal glasses, namely crown K9 and flint F5 glasses, and low-cost slightly anomalous dispersion glasses. Secondary spectrum and other chromatic aberrations of the two design examples are corrected.

Enactive appropriation.

The appropriation of digital artefacts involves their use, which has changed, evolved or developed beyond their original design. Thus, to understand appropriation, we must understand use. We define use as the active, purposive exploitation of the affordances offered by the technology and from this perspective; appropriation emerges as a natural consequence of this enactive use. Enaction tells us that perception is an active process. It is something we do, and not something that happens to us. From this reading, use then becomes the active exploitation of the affordances offered us by the artefact, system or service. In turn, we define appropriation as the engagement with these actively disclosed affordances—disclosed as a consequence of, not just, seeing but of seeing as. We present a small case study that highlights instances of perception as an actively engaged skill. We conclude that appropriation is a simple consequence of enactive perception.

A transcriptase reversa como alvo terapêutico em doenças retrovirais

Projeto de Pós-Graduação/Dissertação apresentado à Universidade Fernando Pessoa como parte dos requisitos para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Ciências Farmacêuticas

Vírus e retrovírus

Projeto de Pós-Graduação/Dissertação apresentado à Universidade Fernando Pessoa como parte dos requisitos para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Ciências Farmacêuticas

El estrés térmico post - floración y sus efectos sobre el peso y la calidad de los granos en maíces de diferente destino de producción

En maíz, los golpes de calor (días con temperaturas menor a 35 grados C) ocurridos tempranamente durante el período post-floración pueden afectar negativamente el peso individual de los granos, a traves de limitaciones del crecimiento del cultivo. El conocimiento que existe respecto a las bases eco-fisiológicas de la respuesta de la calidad de los granos a la incidencia de este estres durante el llenado efectivo es prácticamente nulo. El objetivo de este trabajo fue analizar en condiciones a campo el impacto de los golpes de calor durante las etapas tempranas y tardías del llenado efectivo sobre el peso, la calidad general y específica de la industria de los granos en híbridos de maíz de diferente destino de producción (colorado duro o flint, pisingallo y semi-dentad). Los golpes de calor, especialmente aquellos ocurridos durante las etapas tempranas del llenado, redujeron el crecimiento de los cultivos por caídas de la eficiencia en el uso de la radiacion interceptada. Esto produjo un desbalance entre la disponibilidad de asimilados y el requerimiento de estos por parte de los granos que se tradujo en una interrupción prematura del llenado. Consecuentemente, se obtuvieron granos mas livianos con concentraciones mas bajas de aceite y mas altas de proteína. Estas respuestas fueron acompanadas de alteraciones en la composición específica de las proteínas de reserva, incrementándose la abundancia relativa de glutelinas, y ƒÀ- y ƒÁ- zeinas, en detrimento de aquella de ƒ¿-zeinas. Asimismo, los golpes de calor provocaron efectos negativos sobre los diversos parámetros de calidad industrial de los granos, asociados principalmente a disminuciones en la abundancia relativa de ƒ¿-zeínas. Para la mayoría de los rasgos mencionados, los híbridos semi-dentados tuvieron una respuesta mas pronunciada al estrés que los híbridos colorado duro y pisingallo, aparentando ser sensibles a temperaturas del aire incluso inferiores a 35 grados C.

Variabilidad y evolución del rendimiento en cultivares argentinos de maíz duro

p.125-132

Efecto modificador de genes supresores de la expresión fenotípica del floury-a en maíz

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El estrés térmico post - floración y sus efectos sobre el peso y la calidad de los granos en maíces de diferente destino de producción

En maíz, los golpes de calor (días con temperaturas menor a 35 grados C) ocurridos tempranamente durante el período post-floración pueden afectar negativamente el peso individual de los granos, a traves de limitaciones del crecimiento del cultivo. El conocimiento que existe respecto a las bases eco-fisiológicas de la respuesta de la calidad de los granos a la incidencia de este estres durante el llenado efectivo es prácticamente nulo. El objetivo de este trabajo fue analizar en condiciones a campo el impacto de los golpes de calor durante las etapas tempranas y tardías del llenado efectivo sobre el peso, la calidad general y específica de la industria de los granos en híbridos de maíz de diferente destino de producción (colorado duro o flint, pisingallo y semi-dentad). Los golpes de calor, especialmente aquellos ocurridos durante las etapas tempranas del llenado, redujeron el crecimiento de los cultivos por caídas de la eficiencia en el uso de la radiacion interceptada. Esto produjo un desbalance entre la disponibilidad de asimilados y el requerimiento de estos por parte de los granos que se tradujo en una interrupción prematura del llenado. Consecuentemente, se obtuvieron granos mas livianos con concentraciones mas bajas de aceite y mas altas de proteína. Estas respuestas fueron acompanadas de alteraciones en la composición específica de las proteínas de reserva, incrementándose la abundancia relativa de glutelinas, y ƒÀ- y ƒÁ- zeinas, en detrimento de aquella de ƒ¿-zeinas. Asimismo, los golpes de calor provocaron efectos negativos sobre los diversos parámetros de calidad industrial de los granos, asociados principalmente a disminuciones en la abundancia relativa de ƒ¿-zeínas. Para la mayoría de los rasgos mencionados, los híbridos semi-dentados tuvieron una respuesta mas pronunciada al estrés que los híbridos colorado duro y pisingallo, aparentando ser sensibles a temperaturas del aire incluso inferiores a 35 grados C.

The palaeoenvironment and stratigraphy of Late Cretaceous Chalks

Since the publication of Hancock's ‘the Petrology of the Chalk’ there have been numerous developments in our appreciation of the palaeoenvironment and stratigraphie correlation of the UK Chalk. This work presents a review of some of the key developments over the last 30 years. Our detailed understanding of Chalk lithostratigraphy and advances in our understanding of chalk sedimentation indicate that large-scale mass transport and re-sedimentation of chalks by low-angle suspension flows is required to explain the observed thickness variations. The provenance of clay minerals and the process of flint and granular phosphate formation are discussed. The growing importance of isotopic studies in high resolution stratigraphy and improving our understanding of the late Cretaceous oceans and climate are emphasized. Developments in lithostratigraphic studies and recent proposals for a new stratigraphie division of the Chalk in the UK are evaluated.