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Detecting Protein Aggregation on Cells Surface: Concanavalin A Oligomers Formation

2009

A number of neurodegenerative diseases involve protein aggregation and amyloid formation. Recently evidence has emerged indicating small-transient prefibrillar oligomers as the primary pathogenic agents. Noteworthy, strict analogies exist between the behaviour of cells in culture treated with misfolded non-pathogenic proteins and in pathologic conditions, this instance together with the observation that the oligomers and fibrils are characterised by common structural features suggest that common mechanisms for cytotoxicity could exists and have to be perused in common interactions involved in aggregation.We here report an experimental study on ConcanavalinA (ConA) aggregation and its effect…

Effect of self-determined motivation in physical education on objectively measured habitual physical activity

2019

Grounded in the trans-contextual model, the purpose of the present study was to examine the role of self-determined motivation in Physical Education (PE) on self-determined motivation in Physical Activity (PA), PA intention, and accelerometer-measured habitual PA behavior among high-school aged adolescents. A sample of 394 Spanish high-school students (211 males and 183 females; aged 12-16 years) participated in the present study. The outcome measure of PA was established using accelerometry, whereas motivation toward PA and PE as well as PA intention were measured using validated questionnaires. Path analyses supported in part the central propositions of the trans-contextual model. Self-de…

ABDUCTIVE INFERENCES IN PRAGMATIC PROCESSES

2018

Abstract In pragmatic theories, the notion of inference plays a central role, together with the communicative act in which it is activated. Although some scholars, such as Levinson, Sperber and Wilson, propose detailed and accurate analyses of this notion, we will maintain that these analyses can be better systematized if seen through Peirce’s notion of abduction. We will try to maintain that the variety of inferential processes in play in a linguistic act is mostly of an abductive nature. Moreover, we will maintain that the typological tripartition of abductions discussed by Eco (1981) allows to account for a signi cant part of the mechanisms involved in the comprehension of an utterance, …

Feedback practices in language classes in Finnish general upper secondary schools

2020

As feedback and formative assessment have a substantial effect on learning, the aim with this paper is to report on a study of the perceptions of Finnish general upper secondary school students of feedback in Swedish and English classes, and to compare how the perceptions differ at language proficiency (CEFR) levels. The data were collected by using a survey and were analysed quantitatively. The results show that several differences occur in Swedish: students with higher proficiency levels find feedback more useful, feel that they receive feedback from teachers, and are more willing to correct their own mistakes. There were no differences in perceptions according to language proficiency lev…

Moduli spaces of rank two aCM bundles on the Segre product of three projective lines

2016

Let P^n be the projective space of dimension n on an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0 and F be the image of the Segre embedding of P^1xP^1xP^1 inside P^7. In the present paper we deal with the moduli spaces of locally free sheaves E on F of rank 2 with h^i(F,E(t))=0 for i=1,2 and each integer t.

Varieties of algebras with pseudoinvolution and polynomial growth

2017

Let A be an associative algebra with pseudoinvolution (Formula presented.) over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero and let (Formula presented.) be its sequence of (Formula presented.) -codimensions. We shall prove that such a sequence is polynomially bounded if and only if the variety generated by A does not contain five explicitly described algebras with pseudoinvolution. As a consequence, we shall classify the varieties of algebras with pseudoinvolution of almost polynomial growth, i.e. varieties of exponential growth such that any proper subvariety has polynomial growth and, along the way, we shall give also the classification of their subvarieties. Finally, we shall de…

Adaptive and Creative Problem-Projects in the Teaching of Science. Description of the Methodology and Appreciation of the Students Involved

2019

En este artículo se describe la metodología que se ha denominado Aprendizaje Basadoen Problemas-Proyectos Adaptativos y Creativos (ABPac), utilizando como ejemplo algunos de losproyectos realizados en el centro concertado Jesús-María de Burgos durante diez años, entre 2006y 2016, con alumnos de Secundaria Obligatoria y Bachillerato. Esta metodología sugiere una aten-ción a la diversidad del alumnado considerando sus necesidades e inquietudes. Además, se analizacuantitativamente el resultado de la encuesta de percepción realizada a 73 individuos involucradosen esta metodología cuando ya ha transcurrido un tiempo de madurez y se encuentran finalizandosus carreras o con estas ya finalizadas. L…

Metabolic Pathway Analysis 2019: Systems (biology+medicine) : 12th-16th August 2019, Riga, Latvia

2019

Influència del sexe i l'edat en el raonament moral prosocial dels estudiants de secundària

2008

Aquest treball presenta una aproximació a l'estudi del raonament moral prosocial i de les variables que infl ueixen en el seu desenvolupament. L'objectiu principal és determinar en quina mesura la variable sexe i la variable edat infl ueixen en el raonament moral prosocial dels adolescents. L'estudi es realitza amb una mostra d'estudiants de secundària (n=114), homes i dones. Els resultats indiquen que les dues variables analitzades (sexe i edat) tenen un efecte signifi catiu sobre el raonament moral prosocial. Les dones, davant una situació d'ajudar o no l'altre, justifi quen la decisió en raons més abstractes i internalitzades, enfront dels homes, que se centren en l'aprovació i acceptaci…

PLANT SUCCESSION ON SICILIAN TERRACES

2007

189 phytosociological relevés have been made in five areas of Sicily, three on volcanic substrates and two on limestones, to study plant community succession trends within abandoned terraced vineyards and cereal fields. Disturbance status and abandonment age was recorded for each sample plot. DCA of these relevés suggests that four are the most important factors driving succession, i.e. geological substrate, bioclimate, age of abandonment and disturbance. In most cases - if there are some dispersal centres near the old fields - undisturbed and less disturbed terraces evolve quite rapidly towards the local potential “climax” community. Different tren…