El instituto nacional de 2?? ense??anza de Cuevas del Almanzora : un nuevo centro educativo para una docencia renovada

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Participação na gestão : o discurso oficial brasileiro

As ainda muito raras e incipientes experiências brasileiras de democratização da gestão, bem como, quiçá, a nossa tendência para uma retórica progressista sem, entretanto, o compromisso de sua efetiva con cretização, são as motivações que determinaram o enfoque deste ensaio. A pesquisa (documental) real izada abrange as formas clássi cas do discurso oficial, isto é: a política, a jurídica e a econômicosocial. l Assim~ a amostra estudada compreende os seis textos constitucio nais pátrios, a Emenda N~ à Carta de 1967 (atualmente em vigor) e o Anteprojeto da Const"ituição proposto pela Comissão Provisória de Estudos Constitucionais (1986) - como peças representativas da retórica jurídl ca, num recorte que cobre toda a História de nosso País como estado poll ticamente independente -; os Programas e Manifestos dos partidos polítl cos regularmente inscritos (5) à época da pesquisa - como manifestações do discurso politico-partidário - e, finalmente, o Plano de Desenvolvi mento Econômico e Social do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (1984-1987) como documento representativo da palavra econômico-social oficial. Na fundamentação da investigação o texto situa nas teorias da igualdade das pessoas, no Contrato Social e nas diversas concepçoes do socialismo o referencial teórico dos dois modelos mais difundidos de democratização do trabalho (a autogestão iugoslava e a co-gestão da Rep~ blica Federal da Alemanha) à luz dos quais é anal isado o discurso brasi leiro. Em conclusão, o estudo sugere que a tese de um discurso ofi cial progressista e de uma retórica falaciosa quando cotejada com a prática de nossa vida organizacional - parece ser um traço cultural da história de nossa gente.

Compendium annalium ecclesiasticorum ... caesaris Baronii, Odovici Raynaldi Taruisini, et Jacobi de Laderchio Faventini ... /

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Inauguraci?n edificios Medicina

Estas im?genes corresponden a los eventos ocurridos el 21 de julio de 1955, d?a de la inauguraci?n de los edificios de Medicina y Medicina Social O.H.C, los primeros en ser construidos en la naciente Sede San Fernando. En este campus la Universidad centraliz? por primera vez sus actividades acad?micas y administrativas. La primera imagen corresponde al edificio de medicina social, construido con el apoyo econ?mico de la Fundaci?n Rockefeller. Su prop?sito era albergar los Departamentos de Medicina Preventiva y Salud P?blica. Las escaleras que aparecen en el costado izquierdo pertenecen al edificio de la Facultad de Medicina. Las im?genes dos y tres son del edificio de Medicina, dise?ado por el arquitecto Samuel Garc?a. El evento de inauguraci?n cont? con la presencia del Presidente de la Rep?blica (1953-1957), General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, el Gobernador del Valle (1953-1955), Diego Garc?s Giraldo y el Alcalde de Cali (1955-1956), Harold Bohmer. En la foto cuatro podemos apreciar al Presidente en compa??a del rector (1954-1966), Mario Carvajal Sinisterra, de Jorge Vergara Delgado, ex rector (1952-1954) y de Elva Leonor Ortiz, secretaria general de la Universidad (1954-1958). En la imagen cinco la secretaria general saluda a las primeras damas asistentes a la inauguraci?n: Nancy de Garc?s, esposa del Gobernador del Valle, Carola Correa de Rojas, esposa del presidente de la Rep?blica y Herminia Rengifo Garc?s, esposa del alcalde de Cali. En la imagen seis, Elva Leonor Ortiz, aparece con uno de los habitantes de la sala de morfolog?a durante el recorrido hecho por las instalaciones. La imagen siete ofrece un aspecto de las mesas de disecci?n del anfiteatro y la ocho de la cafeter?a de la Facultad.

Jueces de paz ?fallo en derecho o en equidad? estudio de caso en las comunas 17 y 21 de Cali (2012-2015)

En Colombia la figura de juez de paz se establece en la ?poca de la Colonia. Como primer antecedente se destaca ?la ley 10 de 1834 ley org?nica de tribunales y jueces, sancionado por el general Francisco de Paula Santander como presidente de la rep?blica? (Sep?lveda, 2006:14). Estos jueces eran elegidos por el consejo municipal en periodos de un a?o y se postulaban aquellos con mayor prestigio del momento, generalmente eran considerados jueces conciliadores. Su vigencia fue corta y reemplazada por los jueces parroquiales en 1839 quienes tambi?n desaparecieron en poco tiempo. Antes de la aprobaci?n de la constituci?n de 1991 se presentaron proyectos de MASC1 pero no llegaron a ser aprobados legislativamente. En esta constituyente se han incluido varias f?rmulas de mecanismos alternos, el reconocimiento de la justicia ind?gena y el pluralismo jur?dico. En la constituci?n pol?tica de Colombia de 1991 se han reconocido algunos mecanismos alternativos de resoluci?n de conflictos (Garc?a, 2002:167) El arbitraje, en el art?culo 116 inciso 4? de la constituci?n se establece la posibilidad de que las partes de un negocio jur?dico habiliten, de com?n acuerdo, a un ?rbitro, para resolver su conflicto.

Análisis de la economía colombiana actual y sus perspectivas a Diciembre de 1994 y Agosto de 1995

Con base en el foro económico realizado por Corfinsura a finales de 1994, donde se analizaron los temas macroeconómicos de interés real por intermedio de prestantes personalidades del entorno económico colombiano, me refiero a los doctores: Eduardo Lora, Director Ejecutivo de Fedesarrollo; Hernando José Gómez R., miembro de la Junta Directiva del Banco de la Repú- blica, César González M., Presidente de la Asociación Bancaria.

Adquisición de E-LE y fosilización de errores en la República Checa.

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Development of a Rep-inducible, BBTV-based expression system in banana

Banana bunchy top is regarded as the most important viral disease of banana, causing significant yield losses worldwide. The disease is caused by Banana bunchy top virus (BBTV), which is a circular ssDNA virus belonging to the genus Babuvirus in the family Nanoviridae. There are currently few effective control strategies for this and other ssDNA viruses. “In Plant Activation” (InPAct) is a novel technology being developed at QUT for ssDNA virus-activated suicide gene expression. The technology exploits the rolling circle replication mechanism of ssDNA viruses and is based on a unique “split” gene design such that suicide gene expression is only activated in the presence of the viral Rep. This PhD project aimed to develop a BBTV-based InPAct system as a suicide gene strategy to control BBTV. The BBTV-based InPAct vector design requires a BBTV intergenic region (IR) to be embedded within an intron in the gene expression cassette. To ensure that the BBTV IR would not interfere with intron splicing, a TEST vector was initially generated that contained the entire BBTV IR embedded within an intron in a β-glucuronidase (GUS) expression vector. Transient GUS assays in banana embryogenic cell suspensions indicated that cryptic intron splice sites were present within the IR. Transcript analysis revealed two cryptic intron splice sites in the Domain III sequence of the CR-M within the IR. Removal of the CR-M from the TEST vector resulted in an enhancement of GUS expression suggesting that the cryptic intron splice sites had been removed. An InPAct GUS vector was subsequently generated that contained the modified BBTV IR, with the CR-M (minus Domain III) repositioned within the InPAct cassette. Using transient histochemical and fluorometric GUS assays in banana embryogenic cells, the InPAct GUS vector was shown to be activated in the presence of the BBTV Rep. However, the presence of both BBTV Rep and Clink was shown to have a deleterious effect on GUS expression suggesting that these proteins were cytotoxic at the levels expressed. Analysis of replication of the InPAct vectors by Southern hybridisation revealed low levels of InPAct cassette-based episomal DNA released from the vector through the nicking/ligation activity of BBTV Rep. However, Rep-mediated episomal replicons, indicative of rolling circle replication of the released circularised cassettes, were not observed. The inability of the InPAct cassette to be replicated was further investigated. To examine whether the absence of Domain III of the CR-M was responsible, a suite of modified BBTV-based InPAct GUS vectors was constructed that contained the CR-M with the inclusion of Domain III, the CR-M with the inclusion of Domain III and additional upstream IR sequence, or no CR-M. Analysis of replication by Southern hybridisation revealed that neither the presence of Domain III, nor the entire CR-M, had an effect on replication levels. Since the InPAct cassette was significantly larger than the native BBTV genomic components (approximately 1 kb), the effect of InPAct cassette size on replication was also investigated. A suite of size variant BBTV-based vectors was constructed that increased the size of a replication competent cassette to 1.1 kbp through to 2.1 kbp.. Analysis of replication by Southern hybridisation revealed that an increase in vector size above approximately 1.5 - 1.7 kbp resulted in a decrease in replication. Following the demonstration of Rep-mediated release, circularisation and expression from the InPAct GUS vector, an InPAct vector was generated in which the uidA reporter gene was replaced with the ribonuclease-encoding suicide gene, barnase. Initially, a TEST vector was generated to assess the cytotoxicity of Barnase on banana cells. Although transient assays revealed a Barnase-induced cytotoxic effect in banana cells, the expression levels were sub-optimal. An InPAct BARNASE vector was generated and tested for BBTV Rep-activated Barnase expression using transient assays in banana embryogenic cells. High levels of background expression from the InPAct BARNASE vector made it difficult to accurately assess Rep-activated Barnase expression. Analysis of replication by Southern hybridisation revealed low levels of InPAct cassette-based episomal DNA released from the vector but no Rep-mediated episomal replicons indicative of rolling circle replication of the released circularised cassettes were again observed. Despite the inability of the InPAct vectors to replicate to enable high level gene expression, the InPAct BARNASE vector was assessed in planta for BBTV Rep-mediated activation of Barnase expression. Eleven lines of transgenic InPAct BARNASE banana plants were generated by Agrobacterium-mediated transformation and were challenged with viruliferous Pentalonia nigronervosa. At least one clonal plant in each line developed bunchy top symptoms and infection was confirmed by PCR. No localised lesions were observed on any plants, nor was there any localised GUS expression in the one InPAct GUS line challenged with viruliferous aphids. The results presented in this thesis are the first study towards the development of a BBTV-based InPAct system as a Rep-activatable suicide gene expression system to control BBTV. Although further optimisation of the vectors is necessary, the preliminary results suggest that this approach has the potential to be an effective control strategy for BBTV. The use of iterons within the InPAct vectors that are recognised by Reps from different ssDNA plant viruses may provide a broad-spectrum resistance strategy against multiple ssDNA plant viruses. Further, this technology holds great promise as a platform technology for the molecular farming of high-value proteins in vitro or in vivo through expression of the ssDNA virus Rep protein.

Recombinant protein production using a Tobacco yellow dwarf virus-based episomal expression vector : control of Rep activity

Over the past decade, plants have been used as expression hosts for the production of pharmaceutically important and commercially valuable proteins. Plants offer many advantages over other expression systems such as lower production costs, rapid scale up of production, similar post-translational modification as animals and the low likelihood of contamination with animal pathogens, microbial toxins or oncogenic sequences. However, improving recombinant protein yield remains one of the greatest challenges to molecular farming. In-Plant Activation (InPAct) is a newly developed technology that offers activatable and high-level expression of heterologous proteins in plants. InPAct vectors contain the geminivirus cis elements essential for rolling circle replication (RCR) and are arranged such that the gene of interest is only expressed in the presence of the cognate viral replication-associated protein (Rep). The expression of Rep in planta may be controlled by a tissue-specific, developmentally regulated or chemically inducible promoter such that heterologous protein accumulation can be spatially and temporally controlled. One of the challenges for the successful exploitation of InPAct technology is the control of Rep expression as even very low levels of this protein can reduce transformation efficiency, cause abnormal phenotypes and premature activation of the InPAct vector in regenerated plants. Tight regulation over transgene expression is also essential if expressing cytotoxic products. Unfortunately, many tissue-specific and inducible promoters are unsuitable for controlling expression of Rep due to low basal activity in the absence of inducer or in tissues other than the target tissue. This PhD aimed to control Rep activity through the production of single chain variable fragments (scFvs) specific to the motif III of Tobacco yellow dwarf virus (TbYDV) Rep. Due to the important role played by the conserved motif III in the RCR, it was postulated that such scFvs can be used to neutralise the activity of the low amount of Rep expressed from a “leaky” inducible promoter, thus preventing activation of the TbYDV-based InPAct vector until intentional induction. Such scFvs could also offer the potential to confer partial or complete resistance to TbYDV, and possibly heterologous viruses as motif III is conserved between geminiviruses. Studies were first undertaken to determine the levels of TbYDV Rep and TbYDV replication-associated protein A (RepA) required for optimal transgene expression from a TbYDV-based InPAct vector. Transient assays in a non-regenerable Nicotiana tabacum (NT-1) cell line were undertaken using a TbYDV-based InPAct vector containing the uidA reporter gene (encoding GUS) in combination with TbYDV Rep and RepA under the control of promoters with high (CaMV 35S) or low (Banana bunchy top virus DNA-R, BT1) activity. The replication enhancer protein of Tomato leaf curl begomovirus (ToLCV), REn, was also used in some co-bombardment experiments to examine whether RepA could be substituted by a replication enhancer from another geminivirus genus. GUS expression was observed both quantitatively and qualitatively by fluorometric and histochemical assays, respectively. GUS expression from the TbYDV-based InPAct vector was found to be greater when Rep was expected to be expressed at low levels (BT1 promoter) rather than high levels (35S promoter). GUS expression was further enhanced when Rep and RepA were co-bombarded with a low ratio of Rep to RepA. Substituting TbYDV RepA with ToLCV REn also enhanced GUS expression but more importantly highest GUS expression was observed when cells were co-transformed with expression vectors directing low levels of Rep and high levels of RepA irrespective of the level of REn. In this case, GUS expression was approximately 74-fold higher than that from a non-replicating vector. The use of different terminators, namely CaMV 35S and Nos terminators, in InPAct vectors was found to influence GUS expression. In the presence of Rep, GUS expression was greater using pInPActGUS-Nos rather than pInPActGUS-35S. The only instance of GUS expression being greater from vectors containing the 35S terminator was when comparing expression from cells transformed with Rep, RepA and REnexpressing vectors and either non-replicating vectors, p35SGS-Nos or p35SGS-35S. This difference was most likely caused by an interaction of viral replication proteins with each other and the terminators. These results indicated that (i) the level of replication associated proteins is critical to high transgene expression, (ii) the choice of terminator within the InPAct vector may affect expression levels and (iii) very low levels of Rep can activate InPAct vectors hence controlling its activity is critical. Prior to generating recombinant scFvs, a recombinant TbYDV Rep was produced in E. coli to act as a control to enable the screening for Rep-specific antibodies. A bacterial expression vector was constructed to express recombinant TbYDV Rep with an Nterminal His-tag (N-His-Rep). Despite investigating several purification techniques including Ni-NTA, anion exchange, hydrophobic interaction and size exclusion chromatography, N-His-Rep could only be partially purified using a Ni-NTA column under native conditions. Although it was not certain that this recombinant N-His-Rep had the same conformation as the native TbYDV Rep and was functional, results from an electromobility shift assay (EMSA) showed that N-His-Rep was able to interact with the TbYDV LIR and was, therefore, possibly functional. Two hybridoma cell lines from mice, immunised with a synthetic peptide containing the TbYDV Rep motif III amino acid sequence, were generated by GenScript (USA). Monoclonal antibodies secreted by the two hybridoma cell lines were first screened against denatured N-His-Rep in Western analysis. After demonstrating their ability to bind N-His-Rep, two scFvs (scFv1 and scFv2) were generated using a PCR-based approach. Whereas the variable heavy chain (VH) from both cell lines could be amplified, only the variable light chain (VL) from cell line 2 was amplified. As a result, scFv1 contained VH and VL from cell line 1, whereas scFv2 contained VH from cell line 2 and VL from cell line 1. Both scFvs were first expressed in E. coli in order to evaluate their affinity to the recombinant TbYDV N-His-Rep. The preliminary results demonstrated that both scFvs were able to bind to the denatured N-His-Rep. However, EMSAs revealed that only scFv2 was able to bind to native N-His-Rep and prevent it from interacting with the TbYDV LIR. Each scFv was cloned into plant expression vectors and co-bombarded into NT-1 cells with the TbYDV-based InPAct GUS expression vector and pBT1-Rep to examine whether the scFvs could prevent Rep from mediating RCR. Although it was expected that the addition of the scFvs would result in decreased GUS expression, GUS expression was found to slightly increase. This increase was even more pronounced when the scFvs were targeted to the cell nucleus by the inclusion of the Simian virus 40 large T antigen (SV40) nuclear localisation signal (NLS). It was postulated that the scFvs were binding to a proportion of Rep, leaving a small amount available to mediate RCR. The outcomes of this project provide evidence that very high levels of recombinant protein can theoretically be expressed using InPAct vectors with judicious selection and control of viral replication proteins. However, the question of whether the scFvs generated in this project have sufficient affinity for TbYDV Rep to prevent its activity in a stably transformed plant remains unknown. It may be that other scFvs with different combinations of VH and VL may have greater affinity for TbYDV Rep. Such scFvs, when expressed at high levels in planta, might also confer resistance to TbYDV and possibly heterologous geminiviruses.

A three-nucleotide mutation altering the Maize streak virus Rep pRBR-interaction motif reduces symptom severity in maize and partially reverts at high frequency without restoring pRBR-Rep binding

Geminivirus infectivity is thought to depend on interactions between the virus replication-associated proteins Rep or RepA and host retinoblastoma-related proteins (pRBR), which control cell-cycle progression. It was determined that the substitution of two amino acids in the Maize streak virus (MSV) RepA pRBR-interaction motif (LLCNE to LLCLK) abolished detectable RepA-pRBR interaction in yeast without abolishing infectivity in maize. Although the mutant virus was infectious in maize, it induced less severe symptoms than the wild-type virus. Sequence analysis of progeny viral DNA isolated from infected maize enabled detection of a high-frequency single-nucleotide reversion of C(601)A in the 3 nt mutated sequence of the Rep gene. Although it did not restore RepA-pRBR interaction in yeast, sequence-specific PCR showed that, in five out of eight plants, the C(601)A reversion appeared by day 10 post-inoculation. In all plants, the C(601)A revertant eventually completely replaced the original mutant population, indicating a high selection pressure for the single-nucleotide reversion. Apart from potentially revealing an alternative or possibly additional function for the stretch of DNA that encodes the apparently non-essential pRBR-interaction motif of MSV Rep, the consistent emergence and eventual dominance of the C(601)A revertant population might provide a useful tool for investigating aspects of MSV biology, such as replication, mutation and evolution rates, and complex population phenomena, such as competition between quasispecies and population turnover. © 2005 SGM.

A rep-based hairpin inhibits replication of diverse maize streak virus isolates in a transient assay

Centre for High-Performance Computing, Rosebank, Cape Town, South Africa Maize streak disease, caused by the A strain of the African endemic geminivirus, maize streak mastrevirus (MSV-A), threatens the food security and livelihoods of subsistence farmers throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Using a well-established transient expression assay, this study investigated the potential of a spliceable-intron hairpin RNA (hpRNA) approach to interfere with MSV replication. Two strategies were explored: (i) an inverted repeat of a 662 bp region of the MSV replication-associated protein gene (rep), which is essential for virus replication and is therefore a good target for post-transcriptional gene silencing; and (ii) an inverted repeat of the viral long intergenic region (LIR), considered for its potential to trigger transcriptional silencing of the viral promoter region. After co-bombardment of cultured maize cells with each construct and an infectious partial dimer of the cognate virus genome (MSV-Kom), followed by viral replicativeform-specific PCR, it was clear that, whilst the hairpin rep construct (pHPrepDI662) completely inhibited MSV replication, the LIR hairpin construct was ineffective in this regard. In addition, pHPrepDI662 inhibited or reduced replication of six MSV-A genotypes representing the entire breadth of known MSV-A diversity. Further investigation by real-time PCR revealed that the pHPrepDI662 inverted repeat was 22-fold more effective at reducing virus replication than a construct containing the sense copy, whilst the antisense copy had no effect on replication when compared with the wild type. This is the first indication that an hpRNA strategy targeting MSV rep has the potential to protect transgenic. © 2011 SGM.

Frankia的REP-PCR、RAPD-PCR鉴定及遗传多样性研究

本文采用溶菌酶法、CTAB法、微波法及CTAB+微波法等4种方法进行Frankia菌Cp11基因组DNA的提取。结果表明四种方式均可行，但以CTAB法及微波法最为有效。提取方法与REP-PCR带型间关系的研究表明，方法上的差异不会影响到REP-PCR带型的变化。对14株Frankia菌株作REP-PCR分析，并对之进行比较分类，证明REP-PCR方法不但能实现菌株间的差异鉴别，还能有效地进行Frankia菌的分类。这一结果与DNA同源相关性所得的分类结果具有良好的相关性。选用20个随机引物，对分自2个分类接种群的8株Frankia纯培养的总DNA进行随机扩增。其中引物OPW15和OPW16能扩增得到较为稳定的RAPD图谱。扩增产物分子量大都分布在0.5-4Kb之间。从稳定的RAPD扩增图谱看，Frankia菌间存在有丰富的遗传多样性；在选定适当引物情况下，能依据共同带型将Frankia菌化归为同一分类接种群。