Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Dispositivo de interacción y monitorización basado en unidad de medición inercial en entornos de realidad virtual para rehabilitación de la extremidad superior

Las tecnologias de realidad virtual siguen siendo de gran interes en el area de neurorehabilitacion especialmente aquellas que permiten un alto grado de inmersion de los usuarios. Sin embargo, los dispositivos comerciales no permiten a personas con dificultades motoras aprovechar el beneficio de estas tecnologias como herramientas de rehabilitacion. El objetivo del presente trabajo se ha centrado en utilizar un dispositivo que fuera lo suficientemente sencillo y de bajo coste para permitir una interaccion eficiente. Para el desarrollo se ha utilizado una Unidad de Medicion Inercial que permite a pacientes con dano severo en la extremidad superior interactuar con el entorno de rehabilitacion de realidad virtual. Como resultado del trabajo se ha realizado una prueba tecnica con usuarios sanos para comprobar la fiabilidad y funcionalidad del dispositivo.
Identifying a role for WASH in the endocytic pathway of Dictyostelium discoideum

Members of the WASP protein family are direct activators of the arp2/3 complex, thereby regulating the nucleation of branched actin assemblies within the cell. Each sub-class possesses a unique N-terminal domain architecture allowing a division of labour between its members, each coupling different signal transduction pathways to the nucleation of specific actin structures. WASH (WASP and SCAR homologue) is a newly identified member of the WASP protein family. Due to its disruption in \(Drosophila\) proving lethal (Linardopopoulou et al., 2007) little is know as to the functional role of WASH at the cellular level. Other than it is important in the development of multicellular organisms. Here we successfully disrupt WASH in the single celled amoebae \(Dictyostelium\) \(discoideum\) and discover a role for WASH in the endocytic pathway. WASH was shown to be essential for the trafficking of indigestible material through the endocytic pathway, with its disruption causing a complete bock in cellular defecation. This was shown to be due to a defect in lysosomal maturation into neutral post-lysosomes. Using fluorescently tagged fusion proteins we show that WASH recruitment coincides with removal of the Vacuolar H+ ATPase from lysosomal membranes, and suggests a possible role for WASH and actin in regulating the luminal pH of intracellular compartments.
Making Sense of Secondary Science: Research into children’s ideas

Part I: Children's ideas about life and living processes. Living things. Nutrition. Growth. Responding to the environment. Reproduction and inheritance. Microbes. Ecosystems. Part II: Children's ideas about materials and their properties. Materials. Solids, liquids and gases. Chemical change. Particles. Water. Air. Rocks. Part III: Children's ideas about physical processes.
Ecology: The Experimental Analysis of Distribution and Abundance

I. WHAT IS ECOLOGY? 1. Introduction to the Science of Ecology 2. Evolution and Ecology 3. Behavioral Ecology II. GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTIONS 4. Analyzing Geographic Distributions 5. Factors That Limit Distributions I: Biotic 6. Factors That Limit Distributions II: Abiotic 7. Distribution and Abundance III. THE PROBLEM OF ABUNDANCE: POPULATIONS 8. Population Parameters and Demographic Techniques 9. Population Growth 10. Species Interactions I: Competition 11. Species Interactions II: Predation 12. Species Interactions III: Herbivory and Mutualism 13. Species Interactions IV: Disease and Parasitism 14. Regulation of Population Size 15. Applied Problems I: Harvesting Populations 16. Applied Problems II: Pest Control 17. Applied Problems III: Conservation Biology IV. DISTRIBUTION AND ABUNDANCE AT THE COMMUNITY LEVEL 18. Community Structure 19. Community Dynamics I: Biodiversity 20. Community Dynamics II: Predation and Competition 21. Community Dynamics III: Nonequilibrium Communities 22. Ecosystem Metabolism I: Primary Production 23. Ecosystem Metabolism II: Secondary Production 24. Ecosystem Metabolism III: Nutrient Cycles 25. Ecosystem Dynamics under Changing Climates 26. Ecosystem Health: Human Impacts Appendix I - A Primer on Population Genetics Appendix II - Instantaneous and Finite Rates Appendix III - Species Diversity Measures of Heterogeneity Glossary Bibliography Credits Species Index Subject Index
Patogenicidad y virulencia de cepas de Pectobacterium carotovorum y Dickeya chrysanthemi en papa

Soft rot caused by pectobacterias is one of the most important diseases that affect potato crop causing significant loses that can reach 100%. During potato seasons from the end of 2002 until 2004, in Cuba, considerable soft rot of tubers occurred and it was obtained several isolates of Pectobacterium carotovorum and Dickeya chrysanthemi. The aim of this work was to study the pathogenicity and maceration ability of six P. carotovorum and two D. chrysanthemi isolates in Spunta and Chieftain potato cultivars. Tubers of both cultivars were weight and then inoculated, under laboratory conditions, with 200 µL of the bacterial suspension adjusted to a concentration of 108 ufc/mL. In evaluations at three, seven and ten days, tubers were washed to eliminate the decayed tissue and weighed again to determine the reduction of weight. Results were analyzed statistically. All the strains studied were pathogenic and they caused soft rot in the inoculated tubers but they differed in virulence. After 10 days the strains Q34 and Ms11 of D. chrysanthemi produced reductions of the inoculated tubers of 5.2 and 15.7% respectively. Strains of P. carotovorum caused higher lose with values between 48 and 64% for the same period of evaluation. This last species showed a higher variability in virulence
Presence of Antibodies Against Mycoplasma penetrans in Patients with Antiphospholipid Syndrome

Elizabeth Herrera-Saldivar1, Antonio Yanez2,6,7,8, David Banuelos3, Constantino Gil4,8 and Lilia Cedillo4,5,7 1Posgrado en Ciencias Ambientales, Instituto de Ciencias, Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla (B.U.A.P.) 2Facultad de Estomatologia, B.U. A.P. 3Centro Medico Nacional Gral. Manuel Avila Camacho, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social I.M.S.S. Hospital de Especialidades San Jose, Puebla 4Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias Microbiologicas del Instituto de Ciencias, B.U. A.P. 5Vicerrectoria de Extension y Difusion de la Cultura, B.U. A.P. 6Cuerpo Academico de Ciencias Basicas 7Profesor con Perfil Deseable PROMEP 8Programa Integral de Fortalecimiento Institucional PIFI Mexico
Oecophorine Genera of Australia I: The Wingia Group (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae)

The present volume presents a revision of the Wingia group of 91 genera, a group which appears to be almost entirely endemic to Australia. Detailed information is provided on the morphology, including the genitalia of both sexes, and up-to-date data on the distribution, biology and larval food plants of the species referred to each genus. A list of the species assigned to each genus is given, with full synonymy, references to the original descriptions, label data and repository of the primary type, lectotype designations, and abbreviated distribution data. Illustrations of the adults, wing venation, and male and female genitalia of the type species are included, as well as of the heads and eggs of representative genera. A key to genera is also provided.
Conformational Switch of the Strained Native Serpin Induced by Chemical Cleavage of the Reactive Center Loop

The native conformation of serpins (serine protease inhibitors) is strained. Upon cleavage of the reactive center loop of serpins by a protease, the amino terminal portion of the cleaved loop is inserted into the central , A sheet, as the fourth strand, with the concomitant release of the native strain. We questioned the role of protease in this conformational switch from the strained native form into a stable relaxed state. Chemical cleavage of the reactive center loop of , a prototype serpin, using hydroxylamine dramatically increased the stability of the serpin. A circular dichroism spectrum and peptide binding study suggests that the amino terminal portion of the reactive center loop is inserted into the A sheet in the chemically-cleaved , as in the enzymatically-cleaved molecule. These results indicate that the structural transformation of a serpin molecule does not require interaction with a protease. The results suggest that the serpin conformational switch that occurred during the complex formation with a target protease is induced by the cleavage of the reactive center loop per se.
Palaeobiogeography of Marine Fossil Invertebrates: Concepts and Methods

INTRODUCTION Processes of Speciation and Biogeography Biogeography: Neo-and Palaeobiography The Aims of Palaeobiography The Different Biogeographies GENERAL BIOGEOGRAPHICAL CONCEPTS The Main Distributional Patterns The Three Main Categories of Biogeographical Processes CLASSICAL THEORETICAL MODELS: DISPERSAL AND VARIANCE Barriers and Filters The Dispersal Model and the "Centre of Origin" Panbiogeography The Variance Model Centres of Origin in Palaeobiogeography BIOGEOGRAPHIC ANALYSES AND BIOGEOGRAPHICAL CLASSIFICATION Rationales Limits and Constraints of Paleobiogeography Definition of Biogeographic Units: Qualitative Criteria Quantitative Criteria (Phenetics) Are Biotic Provinces Objective? ANALYTICAL METHODS OF HISTORICAL PALAEOBIOGEOGRAPHY The Method of Cladistics Biogeography Brook's Parsimony Analysis (BPA) Parsimony Analysis of Endemicity (PAE) Retrovicariance Biogeography LARVAL BIOGEOGRAPHY Types of Larval Development Larval Development in Some Groups of Marine Invertebrates Rates of Dispersion Palaeocurrents Larval Development and Evolutionary Implications PALAEOBIODIVERSITY AND PALAEOBIOGEOGRAPHY Biodiversity in Palaeontology Communities and Guilds Biogeographical Patterns of Biodiversity Equilibrium Theory and Species-Area Relationships Are Extinctions Related to Sea-Level Falls? The Biogeography of Mass Extinctions Disturbance Events and Deviations from Specie-Area Predictions PALAEOGEOGRAPHY AND PALAEOGEOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTIONS Geological Assemblages Marine Corridors and Routes The Problem of the Terranes Longitudinal Patterns: Newton's Model of Pantropical Faunas Index
Effets physiologiques de l'atrazine à doses sublétales sur Lemna minor. V. Influence sur l'ultrastructure des chloroplastes

A sublethal concentration of 0.25 ppm of atrazine produced many ultrastructural changes on the chloroplasts of mesophyll cells of Lemna minor L. , cultivated aseptically in a mineral solution. The number of grana per chloroplast increased, whereas the intralamellar vesicles disappeared and outgrowths formed at the ends of chloroplasts. The grana of treated chloroplasts showed a reduction in the number of lamellae and formed a very dense network. The stroma of the same chloroplasts was reduced and accumulated osmiophilic globules.
Testing for Detection of Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris in Crucifer Seeds and Seed Disinfection

Total 29 commercial crucifer seed lots were tested for seed transmission of Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris by seed washing liquid plating assay. One imported cabbage seed lot was found to carry Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris. Several methods and chemicals for eradication of Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris in and on the cabbage seed were tested for effectiveness. Soaking cabbage seed in hydrogen peroxide solution for 30 minutes effectively eradicated Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris in a naturally infested seed lot. In a field survey, black rot turned out to be an important disease in cabbage in Korea.
Influencia de coberturas en suelo sobre la selección del hospedante por Bemisia tabaci , en condiciones de invernadero

Aunque varios tipos de coberturas en suelo (inertes o vivas) pueden reducir la afluencia de adultos de B. tabaci en plantas de tomate, se desconoce el mecanismo especifico de accion de cada una de ellas. Por tanto, se realizo un experimento en un invernadero en Turrialba, Costa Rica, para determinar su respuesta tanto a coberturas inertes (metal verde y plastico plateado y amarillo) como vivas: mani forrajero (Arachis pintoi, Fabaceae), cinquillo (Drymaria cordata, Caryophyllaceae) y culantro (Coriandrum sativum, Umbelliferae). Se les comparo con un testigo (suelo desnudo). Hubo 4 repeticiones de cada tratamiento. Cada cobertura se sembro en una maceta grande, rodeado de una plantula de tomate de 15 cm de altura. Las macetas se colocaron sobre el piso del invernadero, espaciadas 40 cm entre si. Cada experimento se repitio en 4 dias consecutivos, para lo cual los tratamientos se aleatorizaron todos los dias. Se utilizo un diseno de parcelas divididas, con las coberturas como la parcela principal y las fechas como las subparcelas. La vispera de cada repeticion se liberaron 1200 adultos de B. tabaci (biotipo A) en el area experimental y al dia siguiente se registraron sus datos tanto en la planta de tomate como en cada cobertura. Los numeros de adultos fueron mucho mayores (p<0,01) en las plantas de tomate del testigo que en las de todos los demas tratamientos. Asimismo, no difirieron entre los diferentes tipos de coberturas (p>0,05). Aunque todas interfieren con la habilidad de los adultos para localizar las plantas de tomate, el mecanismo especifico de accion difirio segun la naturaleza de cada una, excepto en las coberturas vivas, que parecen compartir el mismo mecanismo
Aspen Restoration Using Beaver on the Northern Yellowstone Winter Range under Reduced Ungulate Herbivory

Ungulate browsing and lack of overstory disturbance have historically prevented aspen regeneration on the Northern Yellowstone Winter Range (NYWR). Aspen clones regenerate if sprouts are produced that grow into recruitment stems (>2 m tall) and replace the mature overstory. Beaver reintroduced in 1991 to Eagle Creek on the NYWR facilitated aspen restoration by removing overstory trees and increasing sprouting. However, intense ungulate browsing, primarily from the Northern Yellowstone elk herd, was preventing aspen recruitment in Eagle Creek as of 2005. Since 2005, wolf predation has contributed to a 56% decrease in this elk herd. We investigated the effects of beaver reintroduction, ungulate herbivory, and predator‐mediated declines in elk numbers on aspen regeneration in Eagle Creek from 1997 to 2012. Aerial photos of Eagle Creek in 2005 and 2011 showed that the aspen overstory has not been replaced 21 years after beaver reintroduction (p > 0.05). Sprouting and recruitment were investigated using 4‐m radius circular plots (n = 31) established throughout Eagle Creek in 1997 and monitored annually until 2012. Beaver activity stimulated sprouting in 71% of these plots. In 2012, 77% of the plots had ≥1 recruitment stem and 75% of the paired plots associated with exclosures (n = 16) had aspen stems with an average height ≥2 m. Recent increases in aspen recruitment in Eagle Creek indicate that aspen communities are regenerating. This has likely resulted from decreased ungulate browsing pressure on aspen saplings from 2005 to 2012. These findings are consistent with the predictions of a density‐mediated trophic cascade following wolf reintroduction.
Sensory Coordination of Insect Flight

Abstract : This report contains the investigation results to the following questions: 1) Antennal positioning behavior in the moth, Daphnis neerii, 2) Location of odor sources in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, 3) Wing-haltere coordination in the soldier fly, Hermetia illucens, and 4) Landing behavior in the housefly, Musca domestica.
Tannin content of seed and agronomic characteristics in cultivars of common "popping" bean

La planta de fríjol reventón tiene un hábito de crecimiento trepador, periodo de ciclo de vida entre 8 y 10 meses. El contendido de proteínas de la leguminosa es 20% y el de carbohidratos es de 62%, estando estos últimos constituidos principalmente por almidón (60%). Es una buena fuente de calcio, hierro, zinc y tiamina, aporta vitamina B6, ácido pantoténico, biotina y otras vitaminas del complejo B; el ácido ascórbico está ausente en las leguminosas y el valor de la vitamina a es muy bajo (Kornegay et al., 1992). Contenido de taninos en el grano y características agronómicas en cultivares de fríjol común “tipo reventón”
Mapping and QTL analysis of the barley population Galleon × Haruna Nijo

A genetic linkage map consisting of 435 molecular markers has been constructed using a doubled-haploid mapping population derived from a cross between the Australian barley feed variety Galleon and Haruna Nijo, a Japanese barley cultivar of high malting quality. This map was used to locate the genes conferring CCN and SFNB resistance from Galleon and to locate malting and brewing quality genes from Haruna Nijo. Closely linked markers to the trait loci have been identified and are now being widely implemented in Australian breeding programs.
Incidence of Aspergillus Section Flavi and Concentration of Aflatoxin in Feed Concentrates for Cattle in Jos, Nigeria

Samples of two types of cattle feed concentrates compounded at the feed mill section of the National Veterinary Research Institute (NVRI), Vom, Nigeria were evaluated for incidence of toxigenic Aspergillus section Flavi. Aflatoxins in the feed were quantified by Thin-layer chromatography with fluorescent detection in order to determine the risk of aflatoxicosis to the cattle. Isolates of Aspergillus section Flavi were recovered from all analyzed feed samples at varying levels. A. flavus was predominant (>70%) in the feed samples and occurred as the only Aspergillus section Flavi member in the dairy feed type. The incidence of atoxigenic strains was significantly (P
Crossbreeding Effect on Egg Quality Traits of Local Chickens and Their F1 Crosses With Rhode Island Red and Fayoumi Chicken Breeds Under Farmers’ Management Conditions -

This study was conducted to evaluate the crossbreeding effect on egg quality traits of local Kei (a red plumaged chicken) and its F1 crosses with Fayoumi and Rhode Island Red (RIR) chicken breeds under farmers’ management conditions. The local Kei paternal line was mated with maternal line of Fayoumi and RIR to produce F1-crosses. At the same time, local Kei chickens were produced and used as a control group. Twenty-four households were involved in the study who received 10 chicks from each 3 genotypes (total of 720 chicks). Three hay-box brooders fitted with chick-runs were provided to each household in which the three genotypes were reared. Eggs were collected once daily while egg weight was determined on weekly basis. Egg quality traits were evaluated three months after sexual maturity. Egg production was (p
A Common Framework for the Regulation of Growth and Size: Stepping Away from the Trees to See the Forest

Life histories, the demographic patterns of the life cycle that make up growth, maturity, reproduction, and survival, are the basis of our understanding of how organisms cope with their environments and how populations and species evolve (Stearns 1992; Roff 1992). Much of life history theory does not distinguish among taxa; indeed, it is common to discuss life history traits as if it were irrelevant whether the organism is a plant, an insect, or a mammal. In fact, biologists expect common patterns in life histories that extend beyond specific study systems. Even though life history theory is largely species independent, the details of the developmental, genetic, physiological, and endocrine mechanisms underlying life histories, are often specific to a particular study system. The surge of interest in understanding the mechanistic detail underlying life histories is reflected in recent volumes by Gilbert and Epel (2009) and by Flatt and Heyland (2011), as well as this one. And there exists already a great deal of information on such mechanisms in a range of organisms. This wealth of mechanistic information does, however, have a significant drawback: it makes it difficult to identify common themes, and to make explicit evolutionary predictions that cut across taxa. In Stearns’s (2011: 370) words, “The result is a body of knowledge in which greater and greater detail threatens to obscure simplifying features needed to construct a general theory of the organism. ” Another complication is that the potential combinations of mechanism-components increases exponentially with each
ГИСТОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ ИЗМЕНЕНИЯ И СОДЕРЖАНИЕ БЕЛКОВЫХ КОМПОНЕНТОВ В МУСКУСНЫХ ПРЕПУЦИАЛЬНЫХ ЖЕЛЕЗАХ САМЦОВ ОНДАТРЫ НА ЭТАПАХ ПОСТНАТАЛЬНОГО ОНТОГЕНЕЗА

By the methods of classical histology and modern histochemistry in differential assessment of various albuminous components, we have revealed a number of new regularities of age dynamics and distribution of some albumen in cells and tissues of musky preputial glands of muskrat males inhabiting under conditions of Baikal region ecosystem
Numerical Investigation of Magnetically Driven Isentropic Compression of Solid Aluminum Cylinders with a Semi-Analytical Code

The state of matter at extremely high pressures and densities is of fundamental interest to many branches of research, including planetary science, material science, condensed matter physics, and plasma physics. Matter with pressures, or energy densities, above 1 megabar (100 gigapascal) are defined as High Energy Density (HED) plasmas. They are directly relevant to the interiors of planets such as Earth and Jupiter and to the dense fuels in Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) experiments. To create HEDP conditions in laboratories, a sample may be compressed by a smoothly varying pressure ramp with minimal temperature increase, following the isentropic thermodynamic process. Isentropic compression of aluminum targets has been done using magnetic pressure produced by megaampere, pulsed power currents having ~ 100 ns rise times. In this research project, magnetically driven, cylindrical isentropic compression has been numerically studied. In cylindrical geometry, material compression and pressure become higher than in planar geometry due to geometrical effects. Based on a semianalytical model for the Magnetized Liner Inertial Fusion (MagLIF) concept, a code called “SA” was written to design cylindrical compression experiments on the 1.0 MA Zebra pulsed power generator at the Nevada Terawatt Facility (NTF). To test the physics models in the code, temporal progresses of rod compression and pressure were calculated with SA and compared with 1-D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) codes. The MHD codes incorporated SESAME tables, for equation of state and resistivity, or the classical Spitzer model. A series of simulations were also run to find optimum rod diameters for 1.0 MA and 1.8 MA Zebra current pulses. For a 1.0 MA current peak and 95 ns rise time, a maximum compression of ~ 2.35 (~ 6.3 g/cm) and a pressure of ~ 900 GPa within a 100
Evolution through Genetic Exchange

Preface 1. History of Investigations 2. The Role of Species Concepts 3. Testing the Hypothesis 4. Barriers to Gene Flow 5. Hybrid Fitness 6. Gene Duplication 7. Origin of New Evolutionary Lineages 8. Implications For Endangered Taxa 9. Humans and Associated Lineages 10. Emergent Properties Glossary Reference Index
The sediment-water interface - habitat of the unusual bacterium Achromatium oxaliferum

Cell counts of the colorless sulfur bacterium Achromatium oxaliferum were made from surface layer samples of littoral sediment cores of Lake Stechlin. They were detected only in the upper 15 mm of the sediment, where the conditions were normally oxic. The cell numbers reached up to 10-4/cm-3 sediment and decreased with depth. Although the sediment surface from profundal region also remained oxic throughout the year, only low numbers were observed here. A striking feature were the size differences of the cells within one population ranging from 10 times 30 to 35 times 95 mu-m. Starvation lead to a disappearance of the accumulated calcite crystals within the cells, while the sulfur droplets remained.