Primeiro registro de Platyembia tessellata Ross, 2003 (Embioptera: Anisembiidae) para o estado de Rondônia, Brasil

Embioptera is one of the less studied insect groups. About 400 species have been recorded worldwide, but in Brazil, where five families have been reported to occur, the group is still poorly known. The Amazon is particularly important, insofar as it harbors a great biodiversity, although many species from its entomofauna remain unreported. We report here, for the first time, the occurrence of Platyembia tessellata Ross, 2003 in Rondônia state, northern Brazil. Specimens were collected from a tree trunk near the Jaci Paraná river. An adult male was identified based on its terminalia morphology, following the species original description.Os embiópteros constituem um dos grupos de insetos menos estudados atualmente. São registradas mais de 390 espécies no mundo todo e são pouco conhecidos no Brasil, onde ocorrem quatro famílias. A Amazônia é especialmente importante pois abriga uma grande biodiversidade e muitas espécies da entomofauna carecem de registro. O objetivo deste estudo é registrar a primeira ocorrência de Platyembia tessellata Ross, 2003 para o Estado de Rondônia, Brasil. As coletas foram realizadas em tronco de árvore próxima ao Rio Jaci Paraná. A identificação com base na morfologia da genitália de um macho adulto foi realizada de acordo com a descrição original da espécie. Os resultados mostram uma população brasileira da espécie sendo aqui registrada apenas pela segunda vez após a descoberta de Ross em 2003

Biologia reprodutiva e variação geográfica de Zachaenus carvalhoi (Anura: Cycloramphidae), um anuro da Mata Atlântica

Information is presented on the reproductive biology, habitat, behavior, morphology, and variation in advertisement call in Zachaenus carvalhoi, a rare frog for which basic natural history data are lacking. The species inhabits forest leaf litter in the states of Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo in southeastern Brazil. Reproductive individuals were found from October to December; females are slightly larger than males. The International Union for Conservation of Nature currently lists Zachaenus carvalhoi as Data Deficient. We suggest transferring the species to the Near Threatened category based on the IUCN criteria A2 because of the decline of the size and quality of its severely fragmented habitatApresentamos aqui informações sobre biologia reprodutiva, habitat, comportamento, morfologia e variação no canto de anúncio de Zachaenus carvalhoi, um anuro raro para o qual dados básicos de história natural são escassos. A espécie habita o folhiço de florestas nos estados de Minas Gerais e Espírito Santo, sudeste do Brasil. Indivíduos em estado reprodutivo são encontrados de outubro a dezembro, e as fêmeas são pouco maiores que os machos. A União Internacional para a Conservação da Natureza atualmente inclui Zachaenus carvalhoi na categoria Dados Deficientes. Sugerimos transferir a espécie para a categoria Quase Ameaçada, baseados no Critério A2, que inclui diminuição contínua da extensão e qualidade do seu habitat, já severamente fragmentad

Genetic diversity and structure of two species of Enyalius (Squamata: Leiosauridae) from neotropical biodiversity hotspots

Diversidade e estrutura genética de duas espécies de Enyalius (Squamata: Leiosauridae) em hotspots neotropicais de biodiversidade. Os lagartos do gênero Enyalius são endêmicos da América do Sul, sendo predominantemente encontrados no Cerrado e em fragmentos da Floresta Atlântica. Este é um gênero pouco estudado, e não foram encontrados dados relacionados à diversidade e à estrutura genética das espécies do gênero. Neste trabalho, investigamos a diversidade genética de populações de E. bilineatus (N = 20) e E. perditus (N = 28), usando um fragmento de 234-pb do citocromo b, e comparamos as sequências geradas com outras publicadas. Dezenove haplótipos distintos foram encontrados (11 de E. perditus e oito de E. bilineatus), sendo oito deles novos registros. Os valores de diversidade haplotípica foram muito similares para as duas espécies (0.684 para E. perditus e 0.647 para E. bilineatus). A distância genética entre as duas espécies foi de 20.3%, e as distâncias intraespecíficas foram 2.0% para E. perditus e 5.6% para E. bilineatus. Nossos dados sugerem que as populações de E. bilineatus são altamente divergentes e que a espécie deve apresentar diversidade críptica. Este é o primeiro estudo medindo a diversidade genética de espécies do gênero Enyalius oriundas de regiões consideradas hotspots da biodiversidade neotropical e apresenta dados relevantes para um melhor entendimento das relações inter e intrapopulacionais, assim como a distribuição das linhagens genéticas desse gênero endêmico.Genetic diversity and structure of two species of Enyalius (Squamata: Leiosauridae) from neotropical biodiversity hotspots. Enyalius, a lizard genus endemic to South America, is mostly distributed in the remains of the Atlantic Forest and in the Cerrado. The genus has been the topic of a few studies but none has quantified the genetic diversity and structure within and among populations of Enyalius. The genetic diversity and structure of populations of E. bilineatus (N = 20) and E. perditus (N = 28) are examined using a 234-bp fragment of the cytochrome b gene and compared with the sequences reported in other published data. Nineteen distinct haplotypes (eleven for E. perditus and eight for E. bilineatus) were found, eight of which were recorded for the first time. The haplotype diversities are highly similar for both species (0.684 for E. perditus and 0.647 for E. bilineatus). The genetic distance between the two species is 20.3% and the distance within species is 2.0% and 5.6% for E. perditus and E. bilineatus, respectively. Our data suggest that populations of E. bilineatus are genetically divergent and may reveal cryptic diversity. This is the first study to quantify the genetic diversity of species of Enyalius from Neotropical biodiversity hotspots. These data facilitate a better understanding of both within and among population variation, and highlight the distribution of genetic lineages of an endemic and poorly studied genus

Penilaian Kinerja Keuangan Koperasi di Kabupaten Pelalawan

This paper describe development and financial performance of cooperative in District Pelalawan among 2007 - 2008. Studies on primary and secondary cooperative in 12 sub-districts. Method in this stady use performance measuring of productivity, efficiency, growth, liquidity, and solvability of cooperative. Productivity of cooperative in Pelalawan was highly but efficiency still low. Profit and income were highly, even liquidity of cooperative very high, and solvability was good

Juxtaposing BTE and ATE – on the role of the European insurance industry in funding civil litigation

One of the ways in which legal services are financed, and indeed shaped, is through private insurance arrangement. Two contrasting types of legal expenses insurance contracts (LEI) seem to dominate in Europe: before the event (BTE) and after the event (ATE) legal expenses insurance. Notwithstanding institutional differences between different legal systems, BTE and ATE insurance arrangements may be instrumental if government policy is geared towards strengthening a market-oriented system of financing access to justice for individuals and business. At the same time, emphasizing the role of a private industry as a keeper of the gates to justice raises issues of accountability and transparency, not readily reconcilable with demands of competition. Moreover, multiple actors (clients, lawyers, courts, insurers) are involved, causing behavioural dynamics which are not easily predicted or influenced. Against this background, this paper looks into BTE and ATE arrangements by analysing the particularities of BTE and ATE arrangements currently available in some European jurisdictions and by painting a picture of their respective markets and legal contexts. This allows for some reflection on the performance of BTE and ATE providers as both financiers and keepers. Two issues emerge from the analysis that are worthy of some further reflection. Firstly, there is the problematic long-term sustainability of some ATE products. Secondly, the challenges faced by policymakers that would like to nudge consumers into voluntarily taking out BTE LEI

Search for stop and higgsino production using diphoton Higgs boson decays

Results are presented of a search for a "natural" supersymmetry scenario with gauge mediated symmetry breaking. It is assumed that only the supersymmetric partners of the top-quark (stop) and the Higgs boson (higgsino) are accessible. Events are examined in which there are two photons forming a Higgs boson candidate, and at least two b-quark jets. In 19.7 inverse femtobarns of proton-proton collision data at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV, recorded in the CMS experiment, no evidence of a signal is found and lower limits at the 95% confidence level are set, excluding the stop mass below 360 to 410 GeV, depending on the higgsino mass

Severe early onset preeclampsia: short and long term clinical, psychosocial and biochemical aspects

Preeclampsia is a pregnancy specific disorder commonly defined as de novo hypertension and proteinuria after 20 weeks gestational age. It occurs in approximately 3-5% of pregnancies and it is still a major cause of both foetal and maternal morbidity and mortality worldwide1. As extensive research has not yet elucidated the aetiology of preeclampsia, there are no rational preventive or therapeutic interventions available. The only rational treatment is delivery, which benefits the mother but is not in the interest of the foetus, if remote from term. Early onset preeclampsia (<32 weeks’ gestational age) occurs in less than 1% of pregnancies. It is, however often associated with maternal morbidity as the risk of progression to severe maternal disease is inversely related with gestational age at onset2. Resulting prematurity is therefore the main cause of neonatal mortality and morbidity in patients with severe preeclampsia3. Although the discussion is ongoing, perinatal survival is suggested to be increased in patients with preterm preeclampsia by expectant, non-interventional management. This temporising treatment option to lengthen pregnancy includes the use of antihypertensive medication to control hypertension, magnesium sulphate to prevent eclampsia and corticosteroids to enhance foetal lung maturity4. With optimal maternal haemodynamic status and reassuring foetal condition this results on average in an extension of 2 weeks. Prolongation of these pregnancies is a great challenge for clinicians to balance between potential maternal risks on one the eve hand and possible foetal benefits on the other. Clinical controversies regarding prolongation of preterm preeclamptic pregnancies still exist – also taking into account that preeclampsia is the leading cause of maternal mortality in the Netherlands5 - a debate which is even more pronounced in very preterm pregnancies with questionable foetal viability6-9. Do maternal risks of prolongation of these very early pregnancies outweigh the chances of neonatal survival? Counselling of women with very early onset preeclampsia not only comprises of knowledge of the outcome of those particular pregnancies, but also knowledge of outcomes of future pregnancies of these women is of major clinical importance. This thesis opens with a review of the literature on identifiable risk factors of preeclampsia

Search for anomalous production of events with three or more leptons in pp collisions at √s = 8TeV

Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published articles title, journal citation, and DOI.A search for physics beyond the standard model in events with at least three leptons is presented. The data sample, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.5fb-1 of proton-proton collisions with center-of-mass energy s=8TeV, was collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC during 2012. The data are divided into exclusive categories based on the number of leptons and their flavor, the presence or absence of an opposite-sign, same-flavor lepton pair (OSSF), the invariant mass of the OSSF pair, the presence or absence of a tagged bottom-quark jet, the number of identified hadronically decaying τ leptons, and the magnitude of the missing transverse energy and of the scalar sum of jet transverse momenta. The numbers of observed events are found to be consistent with the expected numbers from standard model processes, and limits are placed on new-physics scenarios that yield multilepton final states. In particular, scenarios that predict Higgs boson production in the context of supersymmetric decay chains are examined. We also place a 95% confidence level upper limit of 1.3% on the branching fraction for the decay of a top quark to a charm quark and a Higgs boson (t→cH), which translates to a bound on the left- and right-handed top-charm flavor-violating Higgs Yukawa couplings, λtcH and λctH, respectively, of |λtcH|2+|λctH|2<0.21