Distributional impact analysis of past climate variability in rural Indonesia

In rural Indonesia, around 60 percent of workers engage in agriculture and face regular climatic shocks that may threaten their crop production, household income, and human capital investments. Little is known about households’ ability to maintain consumption in response to these shocks. This paper uses both longitudinal and repeated cross-sectional data to examine the extent to which farm profits and household consumption are reduced by delayed monsoon onset, an important determinant of rice production in Indonesia. It also investigates whether poor households are more vulnerable to delayed onset. Overall, delayed onset has minor effects on rural households’ profit and consumption. For poor households, defined as those with average per capita consumption in the lowest quintile, delayed onset the previous year is associated with a 13 percent decline in per capita consumption. Most of this decline is due to an increase in household size, however, and delayed onset two years ago is positively correlated with consumption. The findings suggest that poor households experience greater volatility but no lasting reduction in consumption following delayed monsoon onset.Rural Poverty Reduction,Small Area Estimation Poverty Mapping,Consumption,Regional Economic Development

Uma comparação das interações sensoriais entre Espanha e Portugal. Os resultados de um workshop de design sinestésico

ABSTRACT : Synaesthesia is the result of automatic processes of human perception that combine sensations of different sensory modalities. Throughout this paper, we are going to present the results of a Synaesthetic Design Workshop, made with design students of IADE, Universidade Europeia (Lisbon, Portugal) and University of Extremadura (Mérida, Spain) with the purpose of identifying different types of crosssensory interactions between participants living in the two countries, that might be influenced by cultural and personal information. On this purpose the choise of Spain as country to have a comparison was driven by the fact that 13,95% of the Spanish population experiences some kind of synaesthesia (Melero, Peña-Melián, & Ríos-Lago, 2015) while in the rest of the world the percentage is around the 4,16% (Simner & Carmichael, 2015). Results suggest probable interactions between modalities with no obvious differences between genders from both the universities.A sinestesia é o resultado de processos automáticos da perceção humana que combinam sensações de diferentes modalidades sensoriais. Ao longo deste artigo, apresentaremos os resultados de um Workshop de Design Sinestésico, realizado com estudantes de design do IADE, Universidade Europeia (Lisboa, Portugal) e da Universidade de Extremadura (Mérida, Espanha), com o objetivo de identificar diferentes tipos de interações sensoriais que podem ser influenciadas para aspetos culturais e pessoais, entre participantes residentes nos dois países. Nesse sentido, a escolha da Espanha como país para fazer uma comparação foi motivada pelo fato que 13,95% da população espanhola experimenta algum tipo de sinestesia (Melero, Peña-Melián e Ríos-Lago, 2015) enquanto no resto do mundo, a percentagem é de cerca de 4,16% (Simner & Carmichael, 2015). Os resultados sugerem interações prováveis entre modalidades, sem diferenças óbvias entre os sexos dos participantes das duas universidades.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Targeted mutagenesis of FaTM6 in the Octoploid Strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa) using the CRISPR/Cas9 System

The B-class of MADS-box transcription factors has been studied in many plant species, but remain functionally uncharacterized in the Rosaceae family. APETALA3 (AP3), a member of this class, controls the identity of petals and stamens in Arabidopsis thaliana. In this work, we identified two members of the AP3 lineage in the cultivated strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa): FaAP3 and FaTM6. Interestingly, FaTM6, and not FaAP3, shows an expression pattern equivalent to that of AP3 in Arabidopsis. Genome editing using Cluster Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)/Cas9 system is becoming a robust tool for targeted and stable mutagenesis of DNA. However, whether it can be efficiently used in an octoploid species such as F. × ananassa is not known. In our study, we report the application of the CRISPR/Cas9 in F. × ananassa to characterize the function of FaTM6 in flower development. An exhaustive analysis by high-throughput sequencing of the FaTM6 locus spanning the target sites showed a high efficiency genome editing already in the T0 generation. The phenotypic characterization of the mutant lines indicates that FaTM6 plays a key role in petal and especially in anther development in strawberry. Our results validate the CRISPR/Cas9 strategy for gene functional analysis in an octoploid species such as F. × ananassa, and offer new opportunities for engineering strawberry to improve traits of interest in breeding programs.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

A Model-Driven Approach for Mobile Business Intelligence

The concept of Mobile Business Intelligence is nowadays gaining prominence in business markets. With the emergence and evolution of mobile technologies such as smartphones and tablets, the users gain the opportunity to analyze the corporate information, anywhere and anytime, based on charts, tables and dashboards. However, there is also the question of how to provide the freedom to the user to build its own analytical components. This work will address the problem of developing a hybrid mobile solution towards the Business Intelligence domain, offering monitoring services and simultaneously addressing the problem of user empowerment, with easy configuration and semi-automatic generation of analytical widgets. To provide such capacity to the user, the proposed solution is based on the design of a Domain Specific Modeling Language, aligned with the Model-Driven Development approach and inspired by the Product Lines principles. The last part of this work is dedicated to evaluate the language usability based on an empirical test, executed by a set of subjects with different backgrounds of specialization. In this sense, we define two groups: end users and domain experts. The goal is to determine the extent to which the prototype can be used to empower the end users. As support for the analysis we have extracted a set of measures, alongside with the final appreciation from the domain experts group, composed by people currently working on Business Intelligence

Interacciones en diáspora : matrices mediáticas y no mediáticas en las redes de familiaridad

Este artigo apresenta algumas discussões e considerações, no campo da comunicação, resultantes de uma investigação realizada com imigrantes uruguaios que se estabeleceram no sul do Brasil. Isso, a partir das histórias de vida de interações de midiáticas e não midiáticas. Nesse cenário, o texto tem foco sobre uma das questões que são importantes para compreender os processos de migração, entendidos como redes familiaridade, isso é, as dinâmicas feitas pelos sujeitos para tornar um lugar estranho familiar - considerando as dotações de produtos e processos midiáticos e não midiáticos. Dessa forma, a intenção do trabalho é refletir sobre as estratégias dos migrantes para viver, entendida como "situação familiar", que significa trabalhar (varredura) para entender configurações cotidianas e relações espaciais - estar em um lugar específico - e simbólica - produto das ações de um indivíduo. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACTThis paper introduces some discussions and careful considerations resulting from a research undertaken with Uruguayan migrants settled on the South of Brazil. Placed within the communication field, the research methodical process was orientated by the migrants’ life histories of media and non-media interactions. Therefore, the paper focuses on what it can be considered one of the main subjects to understand the migration process: the familiarity network; i.e., the dynamic undertaken by individuals in order to turn the foreign place into a familiar one – considering the appropriations of media and non-media products and processes. Thus, I intend to think about migrants’ strategies to experience what I understand as a “state of family”. That means to work (to analyze) in order to understand the constant every-day configurations of spatial (to be in someplace) and symbolic relations – as a results of ones’ actions. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ RESUMENLas discusiones y reflexiones presentadas en este artículo derivan de los resultados de una investigación, dentro del campo de la comunicación, con migrantes uruguayos en el sur de Brasil. Eso a partir de las historias de vida de interacciones mediáticas y no mediáticas. En ese escenario focalizo el texto sobre uno de los temas que me parece importante para entender los procesos de la migración, lo que entiendo como redes de familiaridad, i.e., la dinámica realizada por los sujetos para tornar el lugar extraño en familiar – considerando las apropiaciones de productos y procesos mediáticos y no mediáticos. De esa forma pretendo reflexionar sobre las estrategias de los migrantes para vivir lo que entiendo como un “estado de familia”, eso significa trabajar (analizar), para entender, las constantes configuraciones cotidianas del día a día de las relaciones espaciales – estar en un determinado lugar – y simbólicas – producto de las acciones de un individuo

Estimación de correlaciones genéticas, fenotípicas y ambientales en 81 genotipos de tomate de árbol Cyphomandra betacea cav. Sendt.

El objetivo de este trabajo fue evaluar diferentes componentes de calidad de fruto, estimar las correlaciones fenotípicas, genéticas y ambientales del tomate de árbol (C., betacea) considerando 14 variables relacionados con el tamaño y calidad del fruto, igualmente, establecer los efectos directos e indirectos de las variables componentes de calidad de fruto sobre el peso del fruto. Se utilizaron los datos de 81 híbridos con dos repeticiones, en condiciones del Municipio de Pasto, Colombia. Los resultados obtenidos, indicaron que las correlaciones genotípicas fueron superiores a las fenotípicas y ambientales. El peso de fruto (PF), presento las mayores correlaciones genéticas (rG > 0,60) con peso de pulpa mas semilla (rG = 0,90), y el diámetro ecuatorial (rG = 0,84). El análisis de sendero con base en correlaciones genotípicas, mostró que el espesor interno fue la variable que tuvo el mayor efecto directo sobre PF (1,63), esto demuestra que una selección por peso de fruto da como resultado un aumento en el espesor interno. Teniendo en cuenta las correlaciones fenotípicas, este análisis permitió establecer que los efectos directos de diámetro ecuatorial y diámetro polar (0,30 y 0,26) son los que mas aportan al PF

A Numerical Study of Methods for Moist Atmospheric Flows: Compressible Equations

We investigate two common numerical techniques for integrating reversible moist processes in atmospheric flows in the context of solving the fully compressible Euler equations. The first is a one-step, coupled technique based on using appropriate invariant variables such that terms resulting from phase change are eliminated in the governing equations. In the second approach, which is a two-step scheme, separate transport equations for liquid water and vapor water are used, and no conversion between water vapor and liquid water is allowed in the first step, while in the second step a saturation adjustment procedure is performed that correctly allocates the water into its two phases based on the Clausius-Clapeyron formula. The numerical techniques we describe are first validated by comparing to a well-established benchmark problem. Particular attention is then paid to the effect of changing the time scale at which the moist variables are adjusted to the saturation requirements in two different variations of the two-step scheme. This study is motivated by the fact that when acoustic modes are integrated separately in time (neglecting phase change related phenomena), or when sound-proof equations are integrated, the time scale for imposing saturation adjustment is typically much larger than the numerical one related to the acoustics