Search results for " Mille"
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2500 Years of European Climate Variability and Human Susceptibility
2011
Climate variations influenced the agricultural productivity, health risk, and conflict level of preindustrial societies. Discrimination between environmental and anthropogenic impacts on past civilizations, however, remains difficult because of the paucity of high-resolution paleoclimatic evidence. We present tree ring-based reconstructions of central European summer precipitation and temperature variability over the past 2500 years. Recent warming is unprecedented, but modern hydroclimatic variations may have at times been exceeded in magnitude and duration. Wet and warm summers occurred during periods of Roman and medieval prosperity. Increased climate variability from similar to 250 to 6…
Land use change, soil erosion and alluvial dynamic in the lower Doubs Valley over the 1st millenium AD (Neublans, Jura, France)
2003
International audience; Geochemical and particle size analyses, surface scanning magnetic susceptibility, microscopic charcoal counting and pollen analysis, have been carried out on two cores from the lower Doubs valley in order to reconstruct the land use history. The interpretation of anthropogenic pollen indicators and micro-charcoal deposits is discussed in relation to the lithological variation of sedimentary accumulation and evolution of the settlement. The environmental changes which occurred during the 1st and the 6th century AD reflect the impact of human activities on the landscape in the immediate surroundings of the site. Multiproxy indicators indicate that soil erosion as a con…
Biogeochemical cycling and ecological thresholds in a High Arctic lake (Svalbard)
2019
Lakes are a dominant feature of the Arctic landscape and a focal point of regional and global biogeochemical cycling. We collected a sediment core from a High Arctic Lake in southwestern Svalbard for multiproxy paleolimnological analysis. The aim was to find linkages between the terrestrial and aquatic environments in the context of climate change to understand centennial-long Arctic biogeochemical cycling and environmental dynamics. Two significant thresholds in elemental cycling were found based on sediment physical and biogeochemical proxies that were associated with the end of the cold Little Ice Age and the recent warming. We found major shifts in diatom, chironomid and cladoceran comm…
The skeletal proteome of the coral Acropora millepora: the evolution of calcification by co-option and domain shuffling.
2013
14 pages; International audience; In corals, biocalcification is a major function that may be drastically affected by ocean acidification (OA). Scleractinian corals grow by building up aragonitic exoskeletons that provide support and protection for soft tissues. Although this process has been extensively studied, the molecular basis of biocalcification is poorly understood. Notably lacking is a comprehensive catalog of the skeleton-occluded proteins-the skeletal organic matrix proteins (SOMPs) that are thought to regulate the mineral deposition. Using a combination of proteomics and transcriptomics, we report the first survey of such proteins in the staghorn coral Acropora millepora. The or…
Polyphenols from Pennisetum glaucum grains induce MAP kinase phosphorylation and cell cycle arrest in human osteosarcoma cells
2019
Abstract Osteosarcoma is the most common bone tumor with a high prevalence among children and adolescents. Polyphenols are widely investigated for their chemopreventive and chemotherapeutic proprieties. In the present study, we explored the pro-apoptotic effects of pearl millet, Pennisetum glaucum, phenolic compounds (PGPC) on osteosarcoma U-2OS cells. Our results show that PGPC induced U-2OS cells death, in a dose dependent manner, with an IC50 of 80 μg/mL. Annexin-V and 7-AAD staining show that PGPC induced cell death mainly through caspase-dependent apoptosis as shown by a decrease in cell death when co-treated with pan-caspase inhibitor, N-benzyloxycarbonyl-Val-Ala-Asp-fluoromethylketon…
Endophytic Bacterial Community Structure and Function of Herbaceous Plants From Petroleum Hydrocarbon Contaminated and Non-contaminated Sites
2018
Bacterial endophytes (BEs) are non-pathogenic residents of healthy plant tissues that can confer benefits to plants. Many Bacterial endophytes have been shown to contribute to plant growth and health, alleviation of plant stress and to in-planta contaminant-degradation. This study examined the endophytic bacterial communities of plants growing abundantly in a heavily hydrocarbon contaminated site, and compared them to those found in the same species at a non-contaminated. We used culture- dependent and independent methods to characterize the community structure, hydrocarbon degrading capabilities, and plant growth promoting traits of cultivable endophytes isolated from Achillea millefolium,…
Mujer y representación política institucional en la Comunidad Valenciana. 1977-1995. Diputadas, ministras y cargos institucionales
2014
“Mujer y representación política institucional en la Comunidad Valenciana. 1977-1995. Diputadas, ministras y cargos institucionales” es la primera parte de un trabajo de documentación para un capítulo de “La democracia en la Comunidad Valenciana. Partidos, elites políticas, elecciones y programas políticos”. “Mujer, poder político y democracia paritaria”. Se recoge el papel de la mujer en la vida política de la Comunidad Valenciana en la democracia actual, desde 1977. Es documentación sin elaborar, pero que aporta datos de la presencia de la mujer en las instituciones, partidos y sindicatos. Cuando este completa será una parte de la investigación referida, y de la que ya hay dos publicacion…
Accuracy assessment and position correction for low-cost non-differential GPS as applied on an industrial peat bog
1999
A low-cost, non-differentially corrected hand-held GPS receiver was tested on an industrial peat production bog. A correction procedure (‘pseudo-differential correction’) was derived that corrected data points to the nearest position on a line defining the centre of each 15-m wide field. The result was a corrected log of track points for each field for all points lying along the field. It was found that the mean orthogonal distance from a field centreline was linearly correlated with mean uncorrected GPS data error (r 2 0.99) such that as GPS error increased so the accuracy obtained by correction decreased. For a signal with a mean uncorrected error of 30 m it was possible to reduce the err…
La statue de Millet sur l'oppidum, entre mythe et réalité
2020
La statue colossale de Vercingétorix, érigée sur la partie la plus haute de l’oppidum d’Alésia, est la plus célèbre et la plus importante des représentations du chef valeureux – mais vaincu – des armées gauloises. L’image de sa défaite pleine de panache dans les manuels scolaires aura marqué pendant plus d’un siècle nos esprits d’enfants.
L' Avventura dei Mille
2010
La situazione del 1860 era un intreccio che in tutto e per tutto assomigliava a un canestro di granchi. In questo clima Garibaldi, nato per l’azione, decise d’agire, stimolando le voglie di un’intera generazione che trovò nella spedizione il crogiolo della sua formazione e fu poi dimenticata. Giuseppe Nodari, soldato adolescente dell’ancien régime asburgico, che indossando la camicia rossa era diventato un borghese moderno italiano, ne è stato un esempio assai chiaro. I suoi disegni, ritrovati dopo anni di oblio e pubblicati integralmente per la prima volta in questo libro, sono d’un interesse clamoroso: raccontano in presa diretta, come in un film, la spedizione da Quarto a Palermo e costi…