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Degradation of an alkaloid pheromone from the pale-brown chafer, Phyllopertha diversa (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), by an insect olfactory cytochrome P…
1999
AbstractThe pale-brown chafer, Phyllopertha diversa, utilizes an unusual alkaloid, 1,3-dimethyl-2,4-(1H,3H)-quinazolinedione, as its sex pheromone. This compound is rapidly degraded in vitro by the antennal protein extracts from this scarab beetle. Demethylation at the N-1 position and hydroxylation of the aromatic ring have been identified as the major catabolic pathways. The enzyme responsible for the pheromone degradation is membrane-bound, requires NAD(P)H for activity and is sensitive to cytochrome P450 inhibitors, such as proadifen and metyrapone. The ability to metabolize this unusual pheromone was not detected in 12 species tested, indicating that the P450 system, specific to male P…
Children in the visual coverage of the European refugee crisis: A case study of the World Press Photo 2016
2018
Shifts in the visual coverage of refugees arriving in Europe and prominent compassion fatigue emphasize the need to examine visual strategies utilized to report on the crisis. This study focuses on representations of refugee children using a case of the World Press Photo (WPP) 2016. The material was interpreted with a model for visual rhetorical interpretation of journalistic photographs. Findings indicate the main visual elements involved in representing refugee children: visual trope of the migrant father, relation between children and barriers, visual oxymoron (juxtaposition of contradictory elements) and atmosphere in photographs. Findings suggest that photographs address polemics speci…
Photoperiodic effects on diapause-associated gene expression trajectories in EuropeanLeptinotarsa decemlineatapopulations
2014
Behavioural and physiological changes during diapause, an important strategy of insects for surviving harsh seasonal conditions, have been intensively studied. The genetic and molecular mechanisms underpinning diapause development are less well known. We took a candidate gene approach to study prediapause gene expression patterns in the Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata), an invasive insect that has rapidly spread northwards to high seasonality environments. Newly eclosed beetles originating from southern (Italy) and northern (Russia) Europe were reared under short- [12 h light (L):12 h dark (D)] and long-day (18L:6D) photoperiods for 10 days. This time period includes the s…
Examining how global citizenship education is prefigured in the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence
2021
This study uses the Aristotelian notion of phronesis as a critical lens for examining how global citizenship education is prefigured in the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence. Based on a content analysis of key curriculum documentation, the findings outline the way in which techne and episteme with their associated ways of knowing and acting dominate the curriculum. Nevertheless, the hints of phronesis indicate the potential for developing a more critical form of global citizenship education that prefigures praxis that wisely pursues that which is good for humankind and individual flourishing. This article contributes to the notion of ‘planetary phronesis’ as a critical concept for the furt…
Initial validation of the Psychobiosocial States in Physical Education (PBS-SPE) scale
2018
The purpose of this cross-sectional investigation was to examine the item characteristics, factor structure, reliability, convergent validity, and nomological validity of the Psychobiosocial States in Physical Education (PBS-SPE) scale. In Study 1, a sample of 1,030 students (582 girls and 448 boys, 10 to 19-year-olds), drawn from middle or high schools, rated the intensity of the 20 items version of the PBS-SPE scale thinking about the feelings they had usually experienced in physical education classes. In Study 2, an additional sample of 1,025 students (578 girls, 447 boys, 10 to 19-year-olds), rated the 16 items of the final version of the scale. Two subsamples also completed an affectiv…
The clavecins a maillets of Marius and Veltman: new observations on some of the first pianos in France
2011
In 1716, Jean Marius submitted several projects for his clavecins à maillet to the Academy of Sciences in Paris. Short descriptions and plates of four of Marius’s actions were published in 1735 after his death. Even though Marius is well known as the first French piano-maker, a large part of his handwritten reports and descriptions on his clavecins à maillet remain unpublished. These descriptions give a number of details about the first piano actions devised in France some 15 years after Cristofori’s invention of his "arpicimbalo che fa il piano e il forte" in about 1700. These documents, which are published for the first time in this article, were not quoted in the 1735 printed version tha…
Deepening Inside the Pictorial Layers of Etruscan Sarcophagus of Hasti Afunei: An Innovative Micro-Sampling Technique for Raman/SERS Analyses
2019
The Hasti Afunei sarcophagus is a large Etruscan urn, made up of two chalky alabaster monoliths. Dated from the last quarter of the third century BC, it was found in 1826 in the small town of Chiusi (Tuscany- Il Colle place) by a landowner, Pietro Bonci Casuccini, who made it part of his private collection. The noble owner&rsquo
Artistic and religious Patronage of the Duke of Lerma in the Kingdom of València
2020
espanolEl presente estudio tiene como objetivo analizar e interpretar las labores de mecenazgo artistico y patronazgo religioso del duque de Lerma en el Reino de Valencia. Por una parte, se reflexiona sobre como sus relaciones con la ciudad de Valencia pudieron influir en sus intereses artisticos y sobre la manera en que “lo valencianoˮ estaba presente en sus colecciones personales. En este sentido, se estudian sus vinculos con los virreyes que le precedieron y sucedieron en el virreinato valenciano -como fueron el marques de Aitona, el conde de Benavente, el patriarca Ribera o el marques de Caracena- y la forma en la que favorecio la religiosidad popular valenciana de su tiempo. Por otra, …
Educación artística : revista de investigación
2019
Resumen: En este artículo se presenta una experiencia artística realizada en diez centros de enseñanza secundaria de L’Horta Nord y Camp de Morvedre (València) sobre los procesos de construcción identitaria mediante actitudes artísticas contemporáneas, en este caso, a través del videoarte. Utilizando la Investigación educativa basada en las artes (Arts Based Educational Research) se ha llevado a término la realización y posterior análisis interpretativo de todas las producciones videográficas fundamentadas en el autorretrato tradicional, por tanto, han conformado unos resultados muy interesantes que inducen a reflexionar sobre la utilización y desarrollo de estos nuevos géneros contemporáne…
Libertad religiosa y matrimonio
2019
Nuestra sociedad se caracteriza por ser globalizada, plural y diversa. Ello ha tenido su reflejo en los modelos de celebración del matrimonio que reconoce nuestro ordenamiento, siendo opcional para los contrayentes la elección de su modelo: matrimonio civil regulado por el Código civil, ya sea en forma civil o en las formas religiosas de las confesiones con acuerdo o con notorio arraigo, y el matrimonio canónico. Tomando como punto de partida el marco normativo, el trabajo explica los diversos modelos y la eficacia civil de los matrimonios religiosos. Seguidamente, analiza los desafíos que plantea a nuestra sociedad y derecho algunas cuestiones, como los matrimonios interculturales o interr…