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Size variation and cell proliferation in chemosensory brain areas of a lizard (Podarcis hispanica): effects of sex and season
2008
Many lizards rely on chemoreception for crucial aspects of their biology, including exploration, prey and predator detection, and intraspecific communication. Here we investigate sex and seasonal variation in size and proliferative activity in chemosensory areas of the lizard brain. We captured adult Iberian wall lizards (Podarcis hispanica) of either sex in the breeding (April) and non-breeding (November) season, injected them with 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine (BrdU) and killed them 3 weeks later. We removed the brains, measured the length of the olfactory bulbs, and counted BrdU-labelled cells in the main and accessory olfactory bulbs (MOB, AOB), lateral cortex (LC) and nucleus sphericus (NS).…
Preclinical and clinical evidence of activity of pazopanib in solitary fibrous tumour
2014
Abstract Background To explore the activity of pazopanib in solitary fibrous tumour (SFT). Patients and methods In a preclinical study, we compared the activity of pazopanib, sorafenib, sunitinib, regorafenib, axitinib and bevacizumab in a dedifferentiated-SFT (DSFT) xenotransplanted into Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID) mice. Antiangiogenics were administered at their reported optimal doses when mean tumour volume (TV) was 80 mm3. Drug activity was assessed as TV inhibition percentage (TVI%). From May 2012, six consecutive patients with advanced SFT received pazopanib, on a national name-based programme. In one case sunitinib was administered after pazopanib failure. Results In the …
Multi-technical approach for the characterization of polychrome decorative surfaces at Spanish Mission Churches in Nueva Vizcaya (Chihuahua, Mexico)
2020
An interdisciplinary and multi-institutional group of science and art conservation specialists has provided new insight into the painting materials used in the polychrome walls and wooden ceilings in four seventeenth century Spanish colonial churches of Nueva Vizcaya (Chihuahua, Mexico). A multi-analytical study of the decorative surfaces was performed in situ using spectroscopic approaches (XRF, FORS), False Colour Infrared Reflectography – IRFC, as well as micro sampling for ATR-FTIR, LM and GC/MS laboratory analyses. A survey of natural resources were also studied by ATR-FTIR and LM to elucidate the natural occurrence of a select number of materials found in the surrounding areas of the …
Unaccompanied minors in Sicily: promoting conceptualizations of child well-being through children’s own subjective realities
2020
Understanding unaccompanied minors’ (UAMs’) individual migration journeys and aspirations and hopes helps make sense of the meaning they ascribe to their personal and social reality in their quest for integration and mobility. Although the well-being of children is considered to be of the utmost importance in contemporary times, we still lack good evidence of what children themselves regard as key facets of this, from their own life experiences. Identifying different domains and dimensions of children’s well-being and touching upon its multifaceted nature, this study presents an alternative framework, showing how the quality of the reception path is fundamental to having successful results …
County-level socioeconomic and crime risk factors for substantiated child abuse and neglect.
2019
Rates of substantiated child abuse and neglect vary significantly across counties. Despite strong cross-sectional support for links between social-contextual characteristics and abuse and neglect, few longitudinal studies have tested relations between these risk factors and substantiated rates of abuse/neglect. The goal of this study was to identify county-level socioeconomic and crime factors associated with substantiated abuse/neglect rates over 13 years (2004-2016). Annual county-level data for Tennessee, obtained from the KIDS COUNT Data Center, included rates of substantiated child abuse and neglect, children's race and ethnicity, births to unmarried women, teen birth rate, children in…
Study of the flying geese theory from a political point of view : a Japanese propaganda argument in the post world war II era
2009
The Flying Geese Theory (gankoo keitai hattenron 雁行形態発展論), dating from 1932, is one of the rare cases of a scientific theory that was used as a part of Japanese wartime propaganda, and which also survived and succeeded in the postwar era. It was used to legitimize the 'New Order in East Asia (TōA shinchitsujo 東亜新秩序) in 1938, and the new formulation of the 'Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere‘ (Dai TōA kyōeiken大東亜共栄圏) in 1940. Later in the 1980s the Flying Geese Theory/Pattern became the most successful candidate for explaining the expansion of ‗Asian economical miracles‘ in the postwar era. This study focuses on this famous piece of economical and political rhetoric. The intention is to …
Genetic data of 10 X-STRs in a Spanish population sample
2007
In this work, we present population genetic data of 10 X-chromosome STRs (DXS8378, DXS9898, DXS8377, HPRTB, GATA172D05, DXS7423, DXS6809, DXS7132, DXS101 and DXS6789) obtained from sample of 145 unrelated female individuals belonging to Valencia (Spain), a region located in the east of the Iberian Peninsula. All the markers studied present high genetic diversities, similar to those previously reported in other European population samples. No deviations from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium were observed, with the exception of DXS101 locus. Allele frequencies and parameters of forensic interest for each X-STR were calculated. High mean exclusion chance and power of discrimination values were obtai…
Las dos Valencias cinematográficas del 36
2008
La revisión somera de las imágenes cinematográficas que tratan de Valencia y su región por los dos bandos revela la heterogeneidad de la propaganda de ambos y de algunos de los credos que habitaron entre los muros de la República. Sin embargo, la pregunta clave que el historiador precisa hacerse es: ¿qué documenta el cine cuando muchas de estas cosas ya las conocemos por otros medios? La ambigüedad se impone en este punto, puesto que habitualmente el cine todavía no ha ascendido a la condición de documento único y se mantiene, por el contrario, en el estatuto secundario de ilustración, como ya denunció Peter Burke (2005) para la imagen pictórica tiempo atrás. Por una parte, el cine fue un i…
Iconografía del miedo: el cine y el "terror rojo"
2012
El presente texto se ocupa de la puesta en discurso cinematográfico del miedo en la Guerra Civil y su rápida codificación en el dominio de la propaganda y de la representación inmediatamente posterior. Nos centraremos en ese relato del «terror rojo» que constituyó un verdadero género en la literatura, el arte, las memorias, pero no menos en los dominios jurídicos y penales que tuvieron por objeto la represión e, incluso, la venganza política. El cine posee una doble particularidad que lo hace terreno singular para la reflexión: por una parte, su plasticidad narrativa, en cuyo seno los instrumentos de ficción permiten reconstruir y hacer vivir sentimientos y emociones, en este caso la angust…
Cine y guerra civil española: del mito a la memoria [Introducción]
2006
Mito y memoria son dos términos que han hecho fortuna en los últimos tiempos para referirse a la guerra civil española. Ambos revelan el creciente interés, no sólo por asentar y comprender los hechos históricos, sino por indagar en los discursos humanos que al menos tres generaciones de españoles han generado respecto a la trágica contienda. El cine constituye un espacio idóneo para afrontar esta doble dimensión: si su condición de relato lo convierte en una poderosa máquina mitográfica, su primacía visual lo hace idóneo para cristalizar imágenes memorísticas duraderas. Este libo recorre setenta años de la producción de las imágenes y los relatos de la guerra tal y como los representó el ci…