511 resultados para Testa, Arrigo.
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We hypothesized that normal human mesothelial cells acquire resistance to asbestos-induced toxicity via induction of one or more epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) - linked survival pathways (phosphoinositol-3-kinase/AKT/ mammalian target of rapamycin and extracellular signal - regulated kinase [ERK] 1/2) during simian virus 40 (SV40) transformation and carcinogenesis. Both isolated HKNM-2 mesothelial cells and a telomerase-immortalized mesothelial line (LP9/TERT-1) were more sensitive to crocidolite asbestos toxicity than an SV40 Tag-immortalized mesothelial line (MET5A) and malignant mesothelioma cell lines (HMESO and PPM Mill). Whereas increases in phosphorylation of AKT (pAKT) were observed in MET5A cells in response to asbestos, LP9/TERT-1 cells exhibited dose-related decreases in pAKT levels. Pretreatment with an EGFR phosphorylation or mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase 1/2 inhibitor abrogated asbestos-induced phosphorylated ERK (pERK) 1/2 levels in both LP9/TERT-1 and MET5A cells as well as increases in pAKT levels in MET5A cells. Transient transfection of small interfering RNAs targeting ERK1, ERK2, or AKT revealed that ERK1/2 pathways were involved in cell death by asbestos in both cell lines. Asbestos-resistant HMESO or PPM Mill cells with high endogenous levels of ERKs or AKT did not show dose-responsive increases in pERK1/ERK1, pERK2/ERK2, or pAKT/AKT levels by asbestos. However, small hairpin ERK2 stable cell lines created from both malignant mesothelioma lines were more sensitive to asbestos toxicity than shERK1 and shControl lines, and exhibited unique, tumor-specific changes in endogenous cell death - related gene expression. Our results suggest that EGFR phosphorylation is causally linkedto pERK and pAKT activation by asbestos in normal and SV40 Tag - immortalized human mesothelial cells. They also indicate that ERK2 plays a role in modulating asbestos toxicity by regulating genes critical to cell injury and survival that are differentially expressed in human mesotheliomas.
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Changes in chemical composition, physical and sensory characteristics were followed in two pecan cultivars Wichita and Western Schley harvested from a commercial orchard at Gatton in Queensland seven times during 1996.Testa colour of both pecan cultivars darkened and opalescence decreased as the nuts matured. Bitterness of Western Schley pecans decreased with maturity. Colour of shuck, shell and kernel of both cultivars developed as the nuts matured. Wichita pecans were larger than Western Schley at all harvest times. Both nut-in-shell and kernel moisture decreased with maturity, whereas oil and sucrose contents increased. Both pecan cultivars had reached advanced maturation by the first harvest on March 18.
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The mechanisms and control of hardseededness in the 3 Australian cultivars of the genus Desmanthus were investigated in a series of experiments in which the effects of various seedsoftening treatments, particularly boiling water, were measured. Desmanthus seed is predominantly hard, only defective seeds being normally otherwise. As it has only very brief, early embryo dormancy, hardseededness is the only serious barrier to germination. Seed is most readily softened through rupture of the palisade at the lens (strophiole). The lens is of a typically mimosaceous type which is readily ruptured by immersion in boiling water or less readily by application of pressure to adjacent parts of the testa. Ruptures may consist only of separation of the palisade from underlying tissue, which alone does not confer permeability; mostly they also result in fractures to the palisade that then render seeds irreversibly permeable. The palisade becomes reflective as it separates, which allows the event to be witnessed at the moment of separation if suitable pressure is applied to the testa of an individual seed while it is viewed under magnification. Brief (4–10 seconds) immersion of highquality seed in boiling water consistently softened a high proportion of seeds without causing serious damage. Extending the duration of immersion led to a progressive increase in the proportion of seed deaths. Neither previous boiling water treatment nor scarification damage to the testa materially affected results of treatment, but immature and small seeds behaved differently, being more vulnerable to damage than mature seed, and less likely to undergo lens rupture. Adaptation of boiling water treatment to farm-scale seed handling was simple and reliable. Commercial treatment of seed by an alternative method suitable for greater bulks and consisting of passage through a rice-whitener was checked and found to be successful through a combination of gentle scarification and lens rupture, both attributable to the numerous minor impacts of the process. Percentage emergence of seedlings from soil in the greenhouse closely followed percentage laboratory germination, except when inferior seed grades were included in the comparison, when emergence was poor. Very little seed softened in soil. Already-permeable seed either germinated rapidly or died, while buried hard seed mostly remained hard and viable even more than a year after sowing.
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This study concerns the most common word pair in spoken Swedish, de e (it is, third person pronoun + copula-verb in present tense). The aim of the study is twofold, with an empirical aim and a theoretical aim. The empirical aim is to investigate if and how the string de e can be understood and described as a construction in its own right with characteristics that distinguishes it from other structures and resources in spoken Swedish. The theoretical aim is to test how two different linguistic theories and methods, interactional linguistics and construction grammar, can be combined and used to describe and explain patterns in languaging that traditional grammar does take into account. The empirical analysis is done within the interactional linguistic framework with sequence analyses of excerpts from authentic conversation data. The data consists of approximately ten hours of recorded conversation from Finland and Sweden. The sequence analysis suggests that the string de e really is used as a resource in its own right. In most cases, the string is also used in ways consistent with abstract grammatical patterns described by traditional grammar. Nevertheless, there are instances where de e is used in ways not described before: with numerals and infinitive phrases as complements, without any complements at all and together with certain complements (bra, de) in idiomatic ways. Furthermore, in the instances where de e is used according to known grammatical patterns the function of the particular string de e is clearly contextually specific and in various ways linked to the micro-context in which it is used. A new model is suggested for understanding and concluding the results from the sequence analyses. It consists of two different types of constructions grammatical and interactional. The grammatical constructions show how the string is used in eleven structurally different ways. The interactional constructions show seven different sequential positions and functions in which the string occurs. The two types of constructions are also linked to each other as potentials. This is a new way to describe how interactants use and responds to a concrete string like de e in conversation.
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Vegetation maps and bioclimatic zone classifications communicate the vegetation of an area and are used to explain how the environment regulates the occurrence of plants on large scales. Many practises and methods for dividing the world’s vegetation into smaller entities have been presented. Climatic parameters, floristic characteristics, or edaphic features have been relied upon as decisive factors, and plant species have been used as indicators for vegetation types or zones. Systems depicting vegetation patterns that mainly reflect climatic variation are termed ‘bioclimatic’ vegetation maps. Based on these it has been judged logical to deduce that plants moved between corresponding bioclimatic areas should thrive in the target location, whereas plants moved from a different zone should languish. This principle is routinely applied in forestry and horticulture but actual tests of the validity of bioclimatic maps in this sense seem scanty. In this study I tested the Finnish bioclimatic vegetation zone system (BZS). Relying on the plant collection of Helsinki University Botanic Garden’s Kumpula collection, which according to the BZS is situated at the northern limit of the hemiboreal zone, I aimed to test how the plants’ survival depends on their provenance. My expectation was that plants from the hemiboreal or southern boreal zones should do best in Kumpula, whereas plants from more southern and more northern zones should show progressively lower survival probabilities. I estimated probability of survival using collection database information of plant accessions of known wild origin grown in Kumpula since the mid 1990s, and logistic regression models. The total number of accessions I included in the analyses was 494. Because of problems with some accessions I chose to separately analyse a subset of the complete data, which included 379 accessions. I also analysed different growth forms separately in order to identify differences in probability of survival due to different life strategies. In most analyses accessions of temperate and hemiarctic origin showed lower survival probability than those originating from any of the boreal subzones, which among them exhibited rather evenly high probabilities. Exceptionally mild and wet winters during the study period may have killed off hemiarctic plants. Some winters may have been too harsh for temperate accessions. Trees behaved differently: they showed an almost steadily increasing survival probability from temperate to northern boreal origins. Various factors that could not be controlled for may have affected the results, some of which were difficult to interpret. This was the case in particular with herbs, for which the reliability of the analysis suffered because of difficulties in managing their curatorial data. In all, the results gave some support to the BZS, and especially its hierarchical zonation. However, I question the validity of the formulation of the hypothesis I tested since it may not be entirely justified by the BZS, which was designed for intercontinental comparison of vegetation zones, but not specifically for transcontinental provenance trials. I conclude that botanic gardens should pay due attention to information management and curational practices to ensure the widest possible applicability of their plant collections.
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Las etapas de este trabajo de investigación se llevaron a cabo en las instalaciones del invernadero y vivero de la Universidad Nacional Agraria, ubicada a la altura del kilómetro 12 carretera norte en la ciudad de Managua. Se realizó un ensayo de germinación con semillas falso roble Tabebuia rosea (Bertol.) DC., genízaro Phitecellobium saman (Jacq.) Benth. y guanacaste negro Enterolobium cyclocarpum (Jacq.) Griseb., para cuantificar el porcentaje, energía y valor de la germinación aplicando tratamientos pre germinativos. Posteriormente, en vivero, se establecieron dichas especies en un diseño de bloques completos al azar con tres bloques por especie, tres tratamientos por bloque y noventa repeticiones por tratamiento, realizando un ANDEVA y aplicando una prueba de separación de medias. Las variables evaluadas en el ANDEVA fueron altura total y diámetro basal. Separadamente se evaluó la mortalidad y sobrevivencia de las plantas en el vivero. El tratamiento pre germinativo que dio mejores resultados fue el rompimiento de la testa en el extremo donde se encuentra el micrópilo, con porcentajes de germinación superiores al 90%. No se encontraron diferencias significativas entre tratamientos, por lo cual no hubo efecto de los sustratos sobre los incrementos de las plantas de genízaro Phitecellobium saman (Jacq.) Benth. y se encontraron diferencias significativas entre tratamientos y variables para guanancaste negro Enterolobium cyclocarpum (Jacq.) Griseb. con los mayores incrementos en compostaje con 29,32 cm y los menores en tierra común 18,82 cm. El compostaje fue el sustrato donde ocurrió la mayor sobrevivencia de guanacaste negro Phitecellobium saman (Jacq.) Benth. con 85% y genízaro Phitecellobium saman (Jacq.) Benth. con 66%. Los valores de mortalidad fueron menores al 26% en todos los sustratos.
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El presente trabajo se realizó en Geneticos Nicaraguenses (REGEN) adscrito Nacional Agraria a finales de 1995 con el la Prueba de Envejecimiento Acelerado (PEA) el Programa a la Universidad propósito de utilizar de semillas como una herramienta más para evaluar vigor, atributo relacionado con la emergencia en campo y la almacenabilidad de las mismas. El estudio se realizó con seis variedades (dos mejoradas modernas y cuatro locales o tradicionales) sometidas a condiciones de envejecimiento acelerado a fin de diferenciar los genotipos en base a su comportamiento después de la prueba mencionada. Se evaluaron en laboratorio y en campo en un diseño completamente al azar, las variables siguientes: Germinación estándar. número de plantas emergidas. velocidad de emergencia, materia seca de plántulas y de raíces. Del análisis de los resultados se llego a las conclusiones siguientes: 1) De manera general. la PA permitió hacer una diferenciación entre los materiales estudiados: las variedades locales mostraron un comportamiento superior con relación a las mejoradas. 2) La variedad local "Chile" se vio menos afectada por la PEA considerándose como un material muy vigoroso y con alto potencial de almacenamiento. ) La reducción de la terminación inicial de las variedades locales después de la PEA fue hasta un 24%. en cambio para las mejoradas fue mayor de un 48%. 4)Las variables materia seca de plántula y de raíz no permitieron valorar objetivamente la calidad de las semillas debido a las variaciones observadas. 5) Al correlacionar los resultados de la Prueba de Germinación Estándar y de la PEA con la emergencia en campo, la primera mostró un mayor coeficiente de correlación (0.98 **)con relación a la segunda prueba (0.82*). 6) A fin de mejorar la metodología de la PEA se recomienda, para llegar a conclusiones más definitivas, uniformizar ciertos parámetros de las semillas de los materiales genéticos sujetos a estudio como son: Calidad fisiológica Inicial, contenido de humedad Inicial, condiciones previas de almacenamiento, color de testa, rugosidad etc.
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El presente ensayo se realizó en el centro experimental La Compañía, San Marcos Departamento de Carazo, Nicaragua en la época de primera (junio–agosto del 2004), con el fín de caracterizar y evaluar el comportamiento de 7 genotipos de frijol rojo, proporcionadas por el Programa Internacional de Viveros de Adaptación y Rendimiento, del Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT) , en coordinación con el Instituto Nicaragüense de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Fue establecido un diseño de bloques completamente al azar con tres repeticiones; el tamaño de la muestra fue de 10 plantas para caracteres cuantitativos y para los cualitativos se basó en el aspecto de predominancia de caracteres. Se realizó el análisis de varianza y la separación de medias por Tukey al 95% de confianza para las variables del rendimiento y sus componentes; así como la media, desviación estándar y coeficiente de variación para caracteres relacionados al desarrollo y crecimiento. Fueron evaluados 18 caracteres cuantitativos y 15 cu alitativos. De acuerdo con los resultados la semilla se clasificó como pequeña, con forma ovoidea, alargada ovoidea y arriñonada recta en el lado del hilo, esta última con mayor frecuencia; el grano presentó color, rojo claro con testa brillante y rojo marrón oscuro con testa intermedio, predominan do el color rojo claro con testa brillante. Los análisis estadísticos indican que solo dos genotipos difirieron estadísticamente en cuanto al rendimiento, obteniendo el mayor valor el SRC 1-12-1-43 con 2203.9 kg ha -1 , no mostrando diferencias estadísticas las demás variables relacionadas. Todos los genotipos mostraron hábito de crecimiento arbustivo indeterminado (IIb). Respecto a las variables fenológicas se observaron rangos de 36 a 38 dds para el número de días a floración, los días a madurez fisiológica oscilaron entre 62 y 68 dds y los días a cosecha entre 66 y 72 dds, ubicándose de esta manera como materiales precoces. Todos los materiales presentaron daños de las enfermedades mustia hilachosa ( Thanatephorus cucumeris Frank) y mancha angular ( Isariopsis griseola Sacc) con niveles de severidad intermedia con excepción de los genotipos SRC 1-12-1-43 y MPN 103-25, que mostraron susceptibilidad a la mustia hilachosa; sin embargo estos alcanzaron los mayores rendimientos.
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Abstract: The relationship between Barbarians and the Roman Empire has never been a neutral subject, and much less it could be today, when the debate on ‘Europe's Christian roots’ focuses on the meaning of its identity. This paper sets out the views prevailing in the historiography of recent decades but also it turns to the context of the events that afflicted the Roman Empire through the fifth century. There is in fact a different approch to the subject, between the catastrophic paradigm and the view of scholars who attempted to circumvent the role of the Barbarians, as if they were mere onlookers and not real actors of history. The great complexity of the period invites for deepening the analysis of regional peculiarities, studying those multiple and repeated collapses of the Empire, which during the fifth century still survived elsewhere, while people thought it was already fallen
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El presente trabajo se realizó con el fin de caracterizar y evaluar preliminarmente 27 variedades locales de frijol común (Phaseolus vulgarisL.) colectados a nivel nacional para determinar la variabilidad del material sometido a estudio. El ensayo se estableció en La Laguna, Teustepe, Boaco. Se utilizó un ensayo de una parcela por variedad sin repeticiones con 27 tratamientos. Se evaluaron 20 caracteres cualitativos y 18 cuantitativos. La muestra fue de 10 plantas dentro de la parcela útil. Se utilizó estadística descriptiva y análisis multivariado( clúster) para 18 caracteres cuantitativos y distribución de frecuencias para 20cualitativos. Los caracteres cualitativos color oscuro de cubierta de la testa de la semilla y brillo de la semilla presentaron la mayor variabilidad. En el caso de los demás caracteres cualitativos la mayoría de ellos se presentó dominado por un solo comportamiento. En el caso de los cuantitativos las variables que presentaron mayor variabilidad fueron número de plantas cosechadas, número total de vainas por planta, longitud del pedicelo y número de racimos por planta. El análisis multivariado dio como resultado cuatro conglomerados: el primero formado por la variedad 6150, el segundo constituido por la variedad 6147, el tercero con la variedad 6120, el cuarto grupo fue el más numeroso ya que contiene las 24 variedades restantes
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Analisa o sistema de avaliação de desempenho dos servidores da Câmara dos Deputados e do Senado Federal. Apresenta revisão bibliográfica, na qual é possível compreender a evolução das teorias administrativas, as diferentes visões do homem desde o início do século passado até os diais atuais e a evolução da gestão de pessoas e dos métodos de avaliação de desempenho utilizados pelas organizações. Estuda também a modernização do Estado e as mudanças na administração pública desde a administração patrimonial, passando pela administração burocrática até a administração gerencial. O estudo das leis e documentos que norteiam os sistemas de avaliação das duas Casas que formam o Congresso Nacional permite o entendimento de como funciona e como pode evoluir a gestão de pessoas no Poder Legislativo. Expõe que a avaliação de desempenho é um instrumento necessário e eficaz na gestão de pessoas e é dessa forma que deve ser visto por qualquer organização, inclusive pela administração pública.
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Baseia-se no estudo da Teoria das Elites para compreender a existência de grupos minoritários que centralizam o poder de decisão no Congresso Nacional. A partir da análise comparativa das publicações do DIAP, Os Cabeças do Congresso Nacional, de 1994 a 2009, identifica os principais fatores definidores da elite parlamentar. Busca conferir a importância dos espaços institucionais para a constituição desta elite. A partir do cruzamento dos dados do DIAP com os da Câmara dos Deputados referentes aos cargos formais de membros da Mesa Diretora, presidência de Comissões Permanentes, Especiais e de Inquérito, e Lideranças partidárias, do governo ou da minoria, conclui que os cargos formais são importantes para se exercer o poder político, mas isoladamente não são suficientes para compor a elite. Atrelado ao cargo é necessária a presença de faculdades especiais dos deputados, qualidades que viabilizem a prevalência de suas preferências no processo decisório do Poder Legislativo. À luz da teoria das elites, os dados também identificaram a existência de uma elite à testa dos "Cabeças", ou seja, uma espécie de oligarquia, como disse Michels (1982) dentro da própria elite, composta pelos parlamentares mais experientes, mais habilidosos e, quando analisados no âmbito dos dos cargos formais, é evidenciado a relevância dos cargos de Presidente da Casa, Primeiro-Secretário e Líderes partidários frente aos outros analisados.
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[ES]Este Trabajo Fin de Grado está enmarcado dentro de un proyecto del grupo de investigación CompMech. El proyecto consiste en el diseño y construcción de un mecanismo de cinemática paralela para ensayos dinámicos. Este trabajo fin de grado engloba las tareas necesarias para el estudio del espacio de trabajo del mecanismo y la determinación de las dimensiones más apropiadas desde consideraciones cinemáticas. Se partirá de tres posibles mecanismos, de los que más adelante se seleccionará uno con el que terminar el ciclo de diseño. Para ello el primer paso es el análisis cinemático de los mecanismos. Se resolverán los problemas de posición y de velocidades, que serán los necesarios para el posterior estudio del espacio de trabajo. La resolución de estos problemas se programará en un programa Matlab. Después se obtendrán los espacios de trabajo de cada uno de los mecanismos, así como las posiciones singulares dentro del mismo, y su variación ante variaciones en las dimensiones. Será también de interés determinar las regiones del espacio de trabajo en las que más fácil es efectuar el movimiento del mecanismo. Conocidos los espacios de trabajo de cada mecanismo y su variabilidad con cambios en las dimensiones, se elegirá el mecanismo más apropiado para continuar con el ciclo de diseño. Para la elección se tendrán también en cuenta consideraciones adicionales aportadas por otros miembros del grupo.