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Nabidae of the West Indies (Heteroptera)

Previous papers on the Nabidae of the West Indies contain many misidentifi cations, and reviews are absent. I give here a critical review of species known to occur in the West Indies. This review started as a paper on the Nabidae collected by the late R.H. Cobben in the Netherlands Antilles in 1956-1957. It was sent to the editors of the “Studies on the fauna of Curacao and other Caribbean islands”, but has not been published for many years. I completed it now with new references and new examined material, except for some specimens, mainly of lesser interest, examined by me in the 1990s during my visits to the two main museums of the USA, of which I did not make detailed notes. Two papers possibly containing additional information (Gowdey, 19261928; Miskimen & Bond, 1970) have not been examined by me. The following abbreviations are used for depositories of the material (curators are given in parentheses): AMNH, American Museum of Natural History, New York (the late P. Wygodzinsky; R.T. Schuh); AUWN, Laboratory of Entomology, Agricultural University at Wageningen (the late R.H. Cobben); BMNH, Natural History Museum, London (W.R. Dolling); JMC, collection of the late J. Maldonado Capriles, will be deposited at USNM; MNHH, National Museum of Natural History, Havana (P. Alayo D.); USNM, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. (Th.J. Henry); ZISP, Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg; ZMAN, Zoological Museum, Amsterdam; ZMHB, Zoologisches Museum, Museum fur Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universitat, Berlin (U. Gollner-Scheiding).
The Bureaucratic Politics of Urban Land Rights: (Non)Programmatic Distribution in São Paulo’s Land Regularization Policy

How do bureaucrats implement public policy when faced with political intermediation? This article examines this issue in the distribution of land rights to informal settlements in the municipality of São Paulo, Brazil. Land regularization is a policy established over three decades, where politicians’ requests for land titles to their constituencies play a relevant role. Based on interviews and documents, this study finds that bureaucrats adopt a twofold approach to regulate distribution: they document informal settlements, enacting eligibility criteria; then, they manage and prioritize beneficiaries, accommodating qualifying political demands. In this process, they enforce eligibility rules consistently across cases, constraining political intermediation to a rational scheme. Therefore, bureaucrats reconcile nonprogrammatic politics and policy rules by separating eligibility assessment from beneficiary selection. This paper bridges urban distributive politics and street-level bureaucracy literature by revealing that policy implementers may use technical expertise to curb political influence and negotiate conflicting interests and constraints.
New foraminiferal taxa and revised biostratigraphy of Jurassic marginal marine deposits on Anholt, Denmark

Abstract On the north-eastern margin of the Danish Basin (part of the Mesozoic North Sea Basin) the Upper Pliensbachian to Toarcian succession represents the early phase of delta outbuilding, involving marine shelf, distal prodelta and proximal prodelta environments. The marine shelf conditions are characterized by calcareous foraminiferal assemblages dominated by the suborder Lagenina. The prodelta environments are typified by low-diversity agglutinated assemblages concentrated in discrete stratigraphical horizons. In total seventeen foraminiferal species were recognized, the following five of which are described here for the first time: Haplophragmoides propygmaeus, Ammobaculites bivarians, Ammobaculites nanogyrus, Kutsevella spilota, and Bulbobaculites vermiculus. The taxonomic treatment has also lead to a revised biostratigraphic scheme subdividing the foraminiferal succession into six assemblages confined to discrete stratigraphical intervals.
Seasonal variations of seawater pCO2 and sea‐air CO2 fluxes in a fringing coral reef, northern South China Sea

Evidence based on four field surveys conducted between July 2009 and April 2011 indicates that both sea surface partial pressures of CO2 (pCO(2)) and sea-air CO2 fluxes at Luhuitou fringing reef in Sanya, Hainan Island, northern South China Sea (SCS) are subject to significant seasonal variations. The diurnal variation of seawater pCO(2) ranges from 264 to 579 mu atm in summer, which is much larger than that in autumn (152-335 mu atm), in winter (84-260 mu atm), and in spring (114-228 mu atm). The sea-air CO2 flux in summer (similar to 9.6 mmol CO2 m(-2) d(-1)) is also larger than that in other seasons (i.e.,similar to 3 mmol CO2 m(-2) d(-1) in spring, similar to 3.5 mmol CO2 m(-2) d(-1) in autumn, and similar to 2.7 mmol CO2 m(-2) d(-1) in winter). The atmospheric pCO(2) in this reef shows small diurnal and seasonal variations. The integration of the time-series pCO(2) data shows that the reef area is a weak source of atmospheric CO2 at similar to 0.54 mol CO2 m(-2) yr(-1). Further analyses indicate that the seasonal variations of the surface seawater pCO(2) in Luhuitou fringing reef are mainly affected by seasonally-dependent biological metabolic processes (organic processe and inorganic process), and that the organic process play a more important role than the inorganic process. Seasonal sea surface temperature (SST) variations and hydrodynamic processes may also have some influence on seawater pCO(2) variation.
Desenvolupament experimental de nous tractaments antifúngics per infeccions causades per llevats

Els estudis inclosos a la present tesi s’han centrat en el desenvolupament de noves terapies antifungiques per a infeccions causades per diverses especies de Candida i per Cladophialophora bantiana . Comprar el llibre en paper | Llegir a Google Books
Aspects of the Spectral Differences between Earthquakes and Underground Explosions

Summary Since its inception, the I.S. S. has provided raw data for body wave studies. This paper is about surface waves, and the absence of these data in the bulletins has highlighted for the author the time consuming difficulty of collecting the large amount of data which are now required for such studies, and the essential part which the I.S. S. has in the past played in providing data summaries. It is hoped that this study may persuade the successor to the ZSS to publish surface wave data, and the author makes some suggestions as to the kind of data which may encourage the extension of this work.
More harmful climate change impacts in polluted forests - A review

Forests are facing significant pressures from climate change and air pollution. Air pollution is the main driver of the ongoing climate change. Current knowledge suggests that climate change may become more harmful to pollution-affected forests, although the magnitude of these feedbacks is still to be determined. At present, the air pollutants of most concern to forests are tropospheric ozone a nd nitrogen deposition. Both ozone and nitrogen affect biodiversity and increase forest susceptibility to drought, pest attacks, windstorms and fire. The impacts on forest ecosystems, however, have traditionally treated air pollution and climate change separately, although they are, in fact, cause and effect. The cause and effect relationship between pollutant inputs and ecological factors or ecosystem attributes requires substantial multidisciplinary research effort. The integrative effects of air pollution and climatic changes, in particular those caused by elevated ozone, altered nutrients, temperature, water availability, and elevated CO2, will be key issues for future research. An important improvement in our understanding will be obtained by the combin ation of long-term multidisciplinary experiments with ecosystem-level monitoring, and integration of effects utilizing ecosystem modeling within a multiple-constraint framework. This paper reviews the current knowledge on the integrated climate change and air pollution impacts on global forests, and suggests mitigation strategies, adaptive forest management options, and how to close knowledge gaps for appropriate decisions in environmental policy.
Soil Enzyme Activities as Indicators of Soil Quality

With the increasing pressure to produce more food, fiber, and fuel to meet world demands on a limited land area, there is an unprecedented need to address global concerns about soil degradation. Understanding the underlying biological processes in tandem with identification of early warning indicators of ecosystem stress is needed to provide strategies and approaches for land resource managers and policymakers to promote long-term ecosystem sustainability. Biological and biochemically mediated processes in soils are fundamental to terrestrial ecosystem function. Ultimately, all members of the food web are dependent on the soil as a source of nutrients, and for degradation and cycling of complex organic compounds. Primary decomposers of organic matter provide energy that supports the activities of organisms from a number of trophic levels in soils. Historically, chemical and physical properties have been used as crude measures of soil productivity. Most notably, determination of soil organic matter has been related to general soil tilth. Soil organic matter changes very slowly, and therefore, many years may be required to measure changes resulting from perturbations. However, there is growing evidence that soil biological parameters may hold potential as early and sensitive indicators of soil ecological stress or restoration (Dick, 1992; Dick & Tabatabai, 1992). In Chapter 5 (this book) information is provided on soil quality in relation to soil microorganisms. In this chapter, soil enzyme activities will be discussed as a potential biochemical/biological indicator of soil quality.
Spatial Distributions of Atmospheric Radiative Fluxes and Heating Rates over China during Summer

Abstract The latitude-altitude distributions of radiative fluxes and heating rates are investigated by utilizing CloudSat satellite data over China during summer. The Tibetan Plateau causes the downward shortwave fluxes of the lower atmosphere over central China to be smaller than the fluxes over southern and northern China by generating more clouds. The existence of a larger quantity of clouds over central China reflects a greater amount of solar radiation back into space. The vertical gradients of upward shortwave radiative fluxes in the atmosphere below 8 km are greater than those above 8 km. The latitudinal-altitude distributions of downward longwave radiative fluxes show a slantwise decreasing trend from low latitudes to high latitudes that gradually weaken in the downward direction. The upward longwave radiative fluxes also weaken in the upward direction but with larger gradients. The maximum heating rates by solar radiation and cooling rates by longwave infrared radiation are located over 28–40°N at 7–8 km mean sea level (MSL), and they are larger than the rates in the northern and southern regions. The heating and cooling rates match well both vertically and geographically.
Linking Nitrogen Export to Landscape Heterogeneity: The Role of Infrastructure and Storm Flows in a Mediterranean Urban System

Urban ecosystems are often sources of nonpoint source (NPS) nitrogen (N) pollution to aquatic ecosystems. However, N export from urban watersheds is highly variable. Examples of densely urbanized watersheds are not well studied, and these may have comparatively low export rates. Commonly used metrics of landscape heterogeneity may obscure our ability to discern relationships among landscape characteristics that can explain these lower export rates. We expected that differences not often captured by these metrics in the relative cover of vegetation, structures, and impervious surfaces would better explain observed variation in N export. We examined these relationships during storms in residential watersheds. Contrary to expectations, land cover did not directly predict variation in N or water export. Instead, N export was strongly linked to drainage infrastructure density. Our research highlights the role of fine‐scaled landscape attributes, mainly infrastructure, in explaining patterns of N export from densely urbanized watersheds. Changes to hydrologic flow paths by infrastructure explained more variation in N export than land cover. Our findings support further development of landscape ecological models of urban N export that focus on hydrologic modification by infrastructure rather than traditional landscape measures such as land use, as indicators for evaluating patterns of NPS nitrogen pollution in densely urbanized watersheds.
Perspectives of Hospitalized Mental Health Care Users Concerning the Involvement of Family Members in Their Care: A Qualitative Study

The value of families and professionals in mental health care is well understood. Patient perspectives appear to have gotten less attention to date. This study investigated the perspectives of hospitalized mental health care users on the involvement of family members in their care using a qualitative phenomenological design. The participants with lived experience of family members being involved in their care were chosen using non-probability, purposive sampling. Individual interviews were carried out with the assistance of a voice recorder and observation notes. Because of data saturation, only fifteen people were interviewed. The interviews were transcribed verbatim and analyzed using Colaizzi’s method. It started with reading and reviewing the transcript to extract key statements about the phenomenon. The meaning was then determined by carefully studying the primary significant statements and phrases. The established meanings were then organized into themes and subthemes. The three themes that emerged from the data analysis are as follows: a wide variation in patients’ perspectives when family members remind them of their medicine, unpredictable visitation by family members, and a lack of support from family members. There were also the following five sub-themes: not visiting mental health care users in the hospital causes uncertainty about their future, mental health care users were concerned by fewer visits from relatives, friends were perceived as a contributory factor to no or limited visitation by family members, disappointment by a lack of financial support, and perceived lack of emotional support from family members. There is a need for family members to visit mental health care users to remove uncertainty about their future. Healthcare providers should listen to mental health care users to identify the challenges they are faced with, and hospital policies tailored to enhancing the involvement of family members should be formulated.
Lessons from a 2-Hub Life-Science Training Course: From Heidelberg to Bangalore and Beyond

Technologies are rapidly evolving in the life sciences and other STEM areas. Advanced hands-on practical courses are key for life-science researchers to stay ahead of the game. Although the Covid-19 pandemic propelled/accelerated the transformation in remote training opportunities, it is clear that training in molecular biology methodologies requires and greatly benefits from hands-on face-to-face courses. Here we present a novel 2-hub course format, with teaching of cutting-edge technologies simultaneously in Germany (EMBL Heidelberg) and India (BLiSC in Bangalore). The format combines active-based learning on a scientific case study with collaborative exercises and networking that foster scientific exchange. We describe the digital technologies utilised in course design and delivery, and the multi-layered planning phase. Analysis of the participant and trainer feedback questionnaires demonstrates the benefits and challenges of the 2-hub format and illustrates the success of the course. The concept allows us to broaden our reach, while reducing overall CO2 emission in comparison to a 1-hub course. We show that thanks to digital tools and collaboration of dedicated organisers, we can provide conceptual design and create sophisticated active-learner training opportunities with world-wide reach.
Identifying differentially expressed genes from microarray experiments via statistic synthesis

MOTIVATION A common objective of microarray experiments is the detection of differential gene expression between samples obtained under different conditions. The task of identifying differentially expressed genes consists of two aspects: ranking and selection. Numerous statistics have been proposed to rank genes in order of evidence for differential expression. However, no one statistic is universally optimal and there is seldom any basis or guidance that can direct toward a particular statistic of choice. RESULTS Our new approach, which addresses both ranking and selection of differentially expressed genes, integrates differing statistics via a distance synthesis scheme. Using a set of (Affymetrix) spike-in datasets, in which differentially expressed genes are known, we demonstrate that our method compares favorably with the best individual statistics, while achieving robustness properties lacked by the individual statistics. We further evaluate performance on one other microarray study.
Inhibition of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) proliferation through targeting G6PD

Background Mounting evidence has linked cancer metabolic reprogramming with altered redox homeostasis. The pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) is one of the key metabolism-related pathways that has been enhanced to promote cancer growth. The glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) of this pathway generates reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH), which is essential for controlling cellular redox homeostasis. Objective This research aimed to investigate the growth-promoting effects of G6PD in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Methods Clinical characteristics and G6PD expression levels in lung tissues of 64 patients diagnosed with lung cancer at the King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital (Bangkok, Thailand) during 2009-2014 were analyzed. G6PD activity in NSCLC cell lines, including NCI-H1975 and NCI-H292, was experimentally inhibited using DHEA and siG6PD to study cancer cell proliferation and migration. Results The positive expression of G6PD in NSCLC tissues was detected by immunohistochemical staining and was found to be associated with squamous cells. G6PD expression levels and activity also coincided with the proliferation rate of NSCLC cell lines. Suppression of G6PD-induced apoptosis in NSCLC cell lines by increasing Bax/Bcl-2 ratio expression. The addition of D-(-)-ribose, which is an end-product of the PPP, increased the survival of G6PD-deficient NSCLC cell lines. Conclusion Collectively, these findings demonstrated that G6PD might play an important role in the carcinogenesis of NSCLC. Inhibition of G6PD might provide a therapeutic strategy for the treatment of NSCLC.
Nematodos fitoparásitos asociados al cultivo de papaya (Carica papaya L.) en Colima, México* Phytoparasitic nematodes associated with the cultivation of papaya (Carica papaya L.) in Colima, Mexico

This study aimed to detect and identify phytoparasitic nematodes associated with the cultivation of papaya (Carica papaya L.) in the municipalities of Tecoman and Colima, Colima. We selected ten orchards, seven ranches in which samples were collected roots and rhizosphere soil, in each sample was quantified and identified populations of phytoparasitic nematodes. For specific identification of Meloidogyne, perineal cuts were analyzed and confirmed females by chain reaction (PCR). The genera of phytoparasitic nematodes were detected and identified: Aphelenchus, Ditylenchus, Helicotylenchus, Paratylenchus, Pratylenchus, Rotylenchulus, Rotylenchus, Trophurus, Tylenchorrhynchus, Tylenchus, and Meloidogyne, with the species M. incognita. The results allow the first report of M. incognita associated with papaya in Colima, Mexico.
PLANT PARASITIC NEMATODES ASSOCIATED WITH TREE TOMATO (Solanum betaceum Cav.) IN TLACOLULAN AND XALAPA, VERACRUZ, MEXICO

<p><strong>Background:</strong> Tree tomato (<em>Solanum betaceum</em> Cav.) is a plant introduced to Mexico since colonial times, currently it is found as a crop in backyard orchards in the central mountainous region of Veracruz. Due to its nutraceutical properties, its cultivation is gaining importance worldwide and spreading. However, since there are no established formal crops in Mexico, there are no studies on the pests that may affect the development of this plant. <strong>Objective: </strong>To identify the plant-parasitic nematodes associated with the rhizospheric soil and root, as well as the determine their abundance in tree tomato plants, located in the Tlacolulan and Xalapa municipalities, in Veracruz state. <strong>Methodology:</strong> The nematodes were extracted from the soil and roots, fixed, clarified, mounted for identification at the genus level, and quantified. <strong>Results:</strong> 704 specimens belonging to 14 genera were identified: <em>Criconema, Criconemoides, Filenchus, Fraglenchus, Gracilacus, Helicotylenchus, Malenchus, Meloidogyne, Ogma, Paratylenchus, Pratylenchus, Pratylenchoides, Sakia, </em>and<em> Thada</em>. The most abundant nematodes were <em>Helicotylenchus</em> and <em>Meloidogyne. </em> <strong>Implications:</strong> Since in five samples we found <em>Meloidogyne</em> individuals, a diagnosis must be made prior to the establishment of new crops to avoid the increase in populations that can affect the performance of the plants. <strong>Conclusion:</strong> <em>Criconema, Filenchus, Fraglenchus, Malenchus, Ogma, Pratylenchoides, Sakia, </em>and<em> Thada</em> are recorded for the first time associated with this plant. </p>
Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology

The information revolution has made for a radically more fluid knowledge environment, and the growth of venture capital has created inexorable pressure towards fast commercialisation of existing technologies Companies that don't use the technologies they develop are likely to lose them. Key features Over the past several years, Hank Chesbrough has done excellent research and writing on the commercialisation of technology and the changing role and context for R&D. This book represents a powerful synthesis of that work in the form of a new paradigm for managing corporate research and bringing new technologies to market Chesbrough impressively articulates his ideas and how they connect to each other, weaving several disparate areas of work R&D, corporate venturing, spinoffs, licensing and intellectual property into a single coherent framework.
International Conference on Information Systems ( ICIS ) 1-1-2009 Mobile Advertising : An Empirical Study of Advertising Response and Search Behavior

Although businesses are increasing their mobile advertising budgets, its strategic value and effectiveness have not been investigated in depth. Using data from an automobile advertisement campaign, we focus on investigating the efficacy of mobile advertising in terms of consumers’ response to sign up for a car test drive in relation to their search behavior. We propose and estimate an empirical model of advertising response and search behaviors based on a panel-level random-effects specification of simultaneous binary logit and Poisson count models. We find that users’ reactions to the advertiser’s target response are related to a) the depth and breadth of information search, b) contents viewed in each session, c) the number of return session visits and session durations. The sensitivities of advertising response to the numbers of informative and persuasive ad views, the numbers of images and characters viewed are higher during the campaign’s focal event of a car show.