Notes on Guatemalan Plusiotis (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae; Rutelinae)

Dos especies nuevas de escarabajos del genero Plusiotis se describen de un bosque nuboso, 1560-1900 m en el departamento de San Marcos, Guatemala. Tambien se describen las hembras de P. turhheimi Ohaus, P. auropunctata Ohaus y P. quiche Moron. Ademas, se registra pOI' primera vez a P. turhheimi para Guatemala.Two new species of Plusiotis are described from a cloud forest between 1560-1900 m in the Department of San Marcos, Guatemala. Females of P. turhheimi Ohaus, P. auropunctata Ohaus and P. quiche Moron are described. Plusiotis turhheimi is reported from Guatemala for the first time

Museum of dental injuries

Fil: Tello, Olga. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de OdontologíaFil: Villa, Raúl Eduardo. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de OdontologíaFil: Moron, Carina. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de OdontologíaFil: Moron, Viviana. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Odontologí

Effect of DNA repair deficiencies on the cytotoxicity of resveratrol

Numerous preclinical studies have shown that the naturally-occurring polyphenol resveratrol may produce health-beneficial effects in a variety of disorders, including cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer, and cardiovascular diseases. Resveratrol has entered clinical trials for the prevention and treatment of several of these disorders. This polyphenol is also available in the market as a dietary supplement. Experimental data have shown, however, that resveratrol induces DNA damage in a variety of cells. Here we review such evidence and evaluate the cytotoxicity of resveratrol (MTT assay) in cells deficient in several major DNA repair pathways (i.e., homologous recombination, non-homologous end joining, base excision repair, nucleotide excision repair, mismatch repair, and Fanconi anemia repair). Cells deficient in base excision repair (EM9), nucleotide excision repair (UV4 and UV5) and Fanconi Anemia (KO40) were slightly hypersensitive to resveratrol-induced cytotoxicity with respect to their parental cells (AA8). Our results suggest that these pathways may participate in the repair of the DNA damage induced by resveratrol and that deficiencies in these pathways may confer hypersensitivity to the genotoxic activity of this dietary constituen

Swearwords Used by Gangsters in the “Alpha Dog” Movie

Many people assume that swearwords is a rude word and should be avoided. Those words are used to insult, to curse, to offend or to mock at something when the speaker has strong emotion (Hughes, 1991,05). To swear at someone or something is to insult and deprecate the object of abuse, as well as to use other kinds of dysphemism (Allan & Burridge, 2006,76). Apparently some experts and scholars have been able to prove that swearwords also has a purpose and a meaning beside the one as commonly held. Therefore, the writer took the "Alpha Dog" movie as an example of the analyzed cases. Examples have been found by the writer including the categories of epithets derived from tabooed bodily organs, epithets derived from bodily effluvia, epithets derived from sexual behaviours, dysphemistic epithets that pick on real physical characteristics that are treated as though they are abnormalities, imprecations and epithets invoking mental subnormality or derangement. Finally, the writer also managed to find a purpose or a reason for the people to use swearwords in real life

Of Laggards and Morons: Definitional Fluidity, Borderlinity, and the Theory of Progressive Era Special Education

Indiana University\u27s Benjamin Kelsey Kearl uses a life history approach to study the history of special education through the laggard (Part 1) and the moron (Part 2)

Fermat-linked relations for the Boubaker polynomial sequences via Riordan matrices analysis

The Boubaker polynomials are investigated in this paper. Using Riordan matrices analysis, a sequence of relations outlining the relations with Chebyshev and Fermat polynomials have been obtained. The obtained expressions are a meaningful supply to recent applied physics studies using the Boubaker polynomials expansion scheme (BPES).Comment: 12 pages, LaTe

Buyer-supplier partnership in agile supply chains: A conceptual view

The purpose of this paper focuses on achieving agility within the supply chain and seeks to examine the impact of developing an integrated buyer-supplier partnership on achieving agility. It also aims to investigate the moderating role played by information sharing and technology in achieving such a goal. Supply chain management and agility have both been received great attention in recent years. In a highly dynamic and complex business market place the customer is demanding more choice and companies need to possess the means to rapidly adjust to market changes in order to satisfy its customers in an effective manner. Agility has been introduced to the supply chain context to enable companies to face the business environmental changes and deal with them effectively. The methodological approach used in this paper is an analysis and critique to the existing literature, as an initial step for developing the empirical study for the paper