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Trail-following pheromones in basal termites, with special reference to Mastotermes darwiniensis

2007

0098-0331 (Print) Journal Article; In the framework of an evolutionary study, trail pheromones have been studied in the most basal extant termite, Mastotermes darwiniensis (Mastotermitidae), and two other basal termites, the Termopsidae Porotermes adamsoni (Porotermitinae) and Stolotermes victoriensis (Stolotermitinae). Although workers of M. darwiniensis do not walk in single file while exploring a new environment under experimental conditions and are unable to follow artificial trails in 'open field' experiments, they do secrete a trail-following pheromone from their sternal glands. This unique behavior might reflect a primitive function of communication of the sternal gland. The major co…

Bernardo Adam Ferrero en el mundo de las bandas de música valencianas

2015

Este trabajo aborda la figura y obra del compositor valenciano Bernardo Adam Ferrero y sus aportaciones al mundo de las bandas de música. Al mismo tiempo se realiza un estudio de estas agrupaciones desde diversos ángulos: el histórico, el social y el artístico. La Tesis está articulada en cuatro grandes capítulos. El primero de ellos, Bernardo Adam Ferrero y su contexto, comienza con un repaso de los acontecimientos históricos, sociales y culturales que rodean los años de formación y creatividad de nuestro músico, pasando a continuación, a realizar un recorrido por la música del siglo XX. Seguidamente se presenta la biografía del compositor, y nos adentramos en su poética y estética, así co…

Derecho y conciencia en Antígona: Una respuesta atemporal a los conflictos de familia

2018

El presente artículo aborda la importancia de la familia en Antígona, de Sófocles. Ante el Decreto de Creonte, por el que se prohibía, bajo pena de muerte, enterrar y llorar a Polinices, su hermana ?Antígona ? no duda en afirmar que por encima de las leyes del Estado está la ley de los dioses y la ley que dicta su conciencia, la que le exige anteponer los lazos familiares al orden público. Un acto de desobediencia civil que le conducirá a muerte.

Behavioural and pharmacological characterization of a novel cannabimimetic adamantane-derived indole, APICA, in C57BL/6J mice

2015

The novel adamantane derivative APICA (N-(adamtan-1-yl)-1-pentyl-1H-indole-3-carboxamide) was recently identified as a cannabimimetic indole of abuse (1, 2). Despite its novel structure, APICA recalls cannabimimetic indoles, such as representative member JWH-018. The emerging abuse problem, together with the paucity of information about the bioactivity of APICA (3) emphasize the need for further evaluation of the in vivo pharmacology of this novel indole-derived compound. In the present study, the effects of APICA (0 - 1 - 3 mg/Kg, i.p.) were tested in C57BL/6J mice, in a battery of tests that are sensitive to the effects of psychoactive cannabinoids, including body temperature; locomotor a…

Ceļš: Latvijas Universitātes Teoloģijas fakultātes teoloģisks, reliģijpētniecisks un kultūrvēsturisks izdevums, Nr. 65

2015

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: ADAM SMITH’S THEORY OF SENTIMENTAL LAW AND ECONOMICS

2020

For Adam Smith, a crime is not the result of a rational calculation of loss and gain but the consequence of envy and a vain desire to parade wealth to attract the approbation of others, combined with a natural systematic bias in overestimating the probability of success. Similarly, Smith does not conceive of legal sanctions as a rational deterrent but as deriving from the feeling of resentment. While the prevailing approach of the eighteenth century is a rational explanation of crime and a utilitarian use of punishment, Adam Smith instead builds his theory of criminal behavior and legal prosecution consistently on the sentiments. A well-functioning legal system is thus an unintended consequ…

Ectodomain shedding of L1 adhesion molecule promotes cell migration by autocrine binding to integrins.

2001

The L1 adhesion molecule plays an important role in axon guidance and cell migration in the nervous system. L1 is also expressed by many human carcinomas. In addition to cell surface expression, the L1 ectodomain can be released by a metalloproteinase, but the biological function of this process is unknown. Here we demonstrate that membrane-proximal cleavage of L1 can be detected in tumors and in the developing mouse brain. The shedding of L1 involved a disintegrin and metalloproteinase (ADAM)10, as transfection with dominant-negative ADAM10 completely abolishes L1 release. L1-transfected CHO cells (L1-CHO) showed enhanced haptotactic migration on fibronectin and laminin, which was blocked …

Smithian Growth and Complexity

2016

In this paper we argue that Adam Smith’s theory of division and labor and economic growth, in particular through the developments of Alfred Marshall, Allyn Young and Nicholas Kaldor, has characteristics that allow to classify it in the realm of complexity economics. We support this claim by a historical reconstruction of the Smithian growth theory highlighting the characteristics that we show also characterize complex systems. We compare this perspective with the one developed by the traditional economic approach, rooted in general equilibrium, and describe a simple alternative model

Adam Smith on Monopoly Theory. Making good a lacuna

2014

This article analyses Adam Smith's views on monopoly by focusing on Book IV and V of The Wealth of Nations. It argues that the majority of scholars have assessed Smith's analysis of monopoly starting from premises different from those, actually though implicitly, used by Smith. We show that Smith makes use of the word 'monopoly' to refer to a heterogeneous collection of market outcomes, besides that of a single seller market, and that Smith's account of monopolists' behaviour is richer than that provided by later theorists. We also show that Smith was aware of the growth-retarding effect of monopoly and urged State regulation. © 2014 Scottish Economic Society.

The Classical Notion of Competition Revisited

2013

This article seeks to fill a lacuna within classical economics concerning the process of market price determination in situations of market disequilibrium. To this aim, first we distinguish the classical notion of free competition from the Walrasian notion of perfect competition and we argue that the latter is beset with some theoretical difficulties alien to the former. Second, we reconstruct in some detail Smith’s and Marx’s views concerning market price determination and show that Marx’s extensive use of metaphors and numerical examples foreshadows the modern taxonomy of buyers’ market, sellers’ market, and mixed strategy equilibrium in the capacity space of a standard Bertrand duopoly m…