Proteomic analysis of three Coffee Leaf Rust races with different pathogenic behavior

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Forensic anthropology at Medico Legal Centre of the Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto/USP - comparative study of cases from 1999-2009

Forensic Anthropology is an area of knowledge that applies the methods of physical anthropology andarcheology within a legal context. The Medico Legal Centre (CEMEL) of the Faculty of Medicine of RibeirãoPreto of University of São Paulo (FMRP-USP) has a Forensic Anthropology Laboratory (LAF), created in2005 in a partnership project with the University of Sheffield (UK) and financed by the British Foreign andCommonwealth Office Global Opportunities Fund. As part of this project, a protocol for skeletal analysiswas established, supported by an upgraded scientific infrastructure, for application in a socially important context in Brazil. Accumulated cases from 1999 to 2006 were analyzed initially, followed by casesfrom 2007 to 2009. These analyses indicated that many skeletons forwarded to CEMEL were incomplete,making the completion of a biological profile difficult. Despite of this, a statistically significant increasewas detected in the mean number of bones forwarded in the 2007-2009 group (112.83) in comparison tothe 1999-2006 group (79.57). Also, a statistically significant decline in the mean age from 38.34 years inthe 1999-2006 group to 35.65 years in the 2007-2009 group was detected, probably associated withviolent crime. Analysis indicated that in the 1999-2006 group, handedness could not be assigned in themajority of the cases (57.14%), while in the 2007-2009 group assignment was possible in the majority ofthe cases (85.72%), with 57.15% being right-handed and 28.57% left. The improvement in assignmentis explained by the increase in the mean number of bones forwarded per skeleton. For all other examinedanthropological parameters, no statistical difference was detected.  Male,  Caucasian and right- handedskeletons were predominant in both groups. The chance of identifying an individual through anthropological examination increased from 73.81% in 1999-2006 group to 90.47% in 2007-2009. These resultsindicate that improvement in the quality bone recovery from the scene and subsequent anthropologicalanalysis increases the likelihood of individual identification, fulfilling the scientific and social goals offorensic anthropological examination.A Antropologia Forense é uma área de conhecimento que aplica os métodos da antropologia física e daarqueologia em um contexto legal. O Centro de Medicina Legal (CEMEL) da Faculdade de Medicina deRibeirão Preto da Universidade de São Paulo (FMRP-USP) possui um Laboratório de AntropologiaForense (LAF), criado em 2005, em um projeto de parceria com a University of Sheffield (UK) e financiado pelo British Foreign and Commonwealth Office Global Opportunities Fund. Como parte desseprojeto, foi elaborado um protocolo para análise de ossadas com uma estrutura científica atualizadaaplicável ao contexto social brasileiro. Inicialmente foram analisados os casos acumulados de 1999 a2006, seguidos dos casos de 2007 a 2009. Este estudo revelou que a maioria das ossadas encaminhadas ao CEMEL estavam incompletas, o que dificulta a obtenção de um perfil bioantropológico.Apesar disso, um aumento estatisticamente significativo foi detectado no número médio de ossosencaminhados no grupo de 2007-2009 (112,83) em comparação com o grupo de 1999-2006 (79,57).Além disso, foi detectado um declínio estatisticamente significativo na média de idade de 38,34 anos nogrupo de 1999-2006 para 35,65 anos no grupo de 2007-2009, provavelmente associado a crimesviolentos. A análise indicou que na maioria dos casos (57,14%), no grupo de 1999-2006, a lateralidadenão poderia ser atribuída, enquanto que no grupo de 2007-2009 foi possível atribuir a lateralidade namaioria dos casos (85,72%), sendo que 57,15% eram destros e 28,57% canhotos. A melhora na atribui-ção pode ser explicada pelo aumento do número médio de ossos enviados por esqueleto. Para todosos outros parâmetros antropológicos analisados, não foram detectadas diferenças estatisticamentesignificativas. Esqueletos do sexo masculino, caucasianos e destros foram predominantes em ambosos grupos. A chance de identificar um indivíduo através do exame antropológico aumentou de 73,81%em 1999-2006 para 90,47% em 2007-2009. Estes resultados indicam uma melhoria na qualidade dacoleta dos ossos no local de seu encontro, e subseqüente, um aumento da probabilidade de identifica-ção do individuo através da análise antropológica, cumprindo o papel científico e social do exameantropológico forense

Search for direct production of charginos and neutralinos in events with three leptons and missing transverse momentum in √s = 7 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

A search for the direct production of charginos and neutralinos in final states with three electrons or muons and missing transverse momentum is presented. The analysis is based on 4.7 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data delivered by the Large Hadron Collider and recorded with the ATLAS detector. Observations are consistent with Standard Model expectations in three signal regions that are either depleted or enriched in Z-boson decays. Upper limits at 95% confidence level are set in R-parity conserving phenomenological minimal supersymmetric models and in simplified models, significantly extending previous results

Jet size dependence of single jet suppression in lead-lead collisions at sqrt(s(NN)) = 2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

Measurements of inclusive jet suppression in heavy ion collisions at the LHC provide direct sensitivity to the physics of jet quenching. In a sample of lead-lead collisions at sqrt(s) = 2.76 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of approximately 7 inverse microbarns, ATLAS has measured jets with a calorimeter over the pseudorapidity interval |eta| < 2.1 and over the transverse momentum range 38 < pT < 210 GeV. Jets were reconstructed using the anti-kt algorithm with values for the distance parameter that determines the nominal jet radius of R = 0.2, 0.3, 0.4 and 0.5. The centrality dependence of the jet yield is characterized by the jet "central-to-peripheral ratio," Rcp. Jet production is found to be suppressed by approximately a factor of two in the 10% most central collisions relative to peripheral collisions. Rcp varies smoothly with centrality as characterized by the number of participating nucleons. The observed suppression is only weakly dependent on jet radius and transverse momentum. These results provide the first direct measurement of inclusive jet suppression in heavy ion collisions and complement previous measurements of dijet transverse energy imbalance at the LHC.Comment: 15 pages plus author list (30 pages total), 8 figures, 2 tables, submitted to Physics Letters B. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/HION-2011-02