New Mexico Water Stake in the Colorado River

Presenter: Estevan R. Lopez, Interstate Stream Commission, New Mexico. 2 pages

Context-Aware Mobile Applications: Taxonomy of factors for building approaches

Fusion of sensing mechanisms inside mobile devices (e.g.: GPS, accelerometers) have driven the growth of context-aware mobile applications. Currently, there are building approaches for this kind of applications, but these do not have the flexibility, for example, to derive applications combining different location sensing mechanisms. In this paper, we present a first proposal of a taxonomy of factors that could be considered by context-aware mobile application building approaches, in order to provide variability in the kinds of derived applications. The aim is to generate a discussion that can contribute to the unification of aspects that should be addressed by these building approaches. To complement the taxonomy, we present the analysis of an interview that was conducted with regard to developers who use (or could use) these building approaches. We hope this will enrich the discussion in relation to this kind of approaches.Publicado en: 2018 IEEE XXV International Conference on Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computing (INTERCON) : Lima, Peru, 08-10 August 2018Laboratorio de Investigación y Formación en Informática Avanzada (LIFIA)Facultad de Informátic

Context-Aware Mobile Applications: Taxonomy of factors for building approaches

Fusion of sensing mechanisms inside mobile devices (e.g.: GPS, accelerometers) have driven the growth of context-aware mobile applications. Currently, there are building approaches for this kind of applications, but these do not have the flexibility, for example, to derive applications combining different location sensing mechanisms. In this paper, we present a first proposal of a taxonomy of factors that could be considered by context-aware mobile application building approaches, in order to provide variability in the kinds of derived applications. The aim is to generate a discussion that can contribute to the unification of aspects that should be addressed by these building approaches. To complement the taxonomy, we present the analysis of an interview that was conducted with regard to developers who use (or could use) these building approaches. We hope this will enrich the discussion in relation to this kind of approaches.Publicado en: 2018 IEEE XXV International Conference on Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computing (INTERCON) : Lima, Peru, 08-10 August 2018Laboratorio de Investigación y Formación en Informática Avanzada (LIFIA)Facultad de Informátic

Identificação de alcalóides e acetogeninas diretamente em tecidos de folhas e sementes de Annona rugulosa (Annonaceae) por DESE-MSI

Orientadora : Profª. Drª. Francinete Ramos CamposDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do Paraná, Setor de Ciências da Saúde, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Farmacêuticas. Defesa: Curitiba, 26/02/2016Inclui referências : f. [70-77]Área de concentração: Insumos, medicamentos e correlatosResumo: A ionização de dessorção por eletrospray (DESI) acoplada a espectrometria de massas (MS) é uma técnica capaz de analisar amostras sólidas e em condições ambientes com sensibilidade e especificidade. Devido a facilidade de manuseio e a obtenção de resultados em tempo real, a DESI-MS vem sendo utilizada em diversos tipos de aplicações, como por exemplo, análises forenses, produtos naturais, biomédicas, entre outras. A capacidade de realizar mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) é muito explorada na análise de biomoléculas diretamente em tecidos animais e vegetais. Esta técnica foi utilizada para obtenção de MSI de alcaloides e acetogeninas por DESI direta em tecidos de folhas e da DESI indireta (imprint) da semente de Annona rugulosa. Estes metabólitos foram previamente identificados nos extratos em metanol, através da infusão direta por ESI(+)-HRMS, utilizando-se o erro do defeito de massas e a fragmentação em cela de colisão do tipo HCD. Para a obtenção dos dados por DESI-MSI, foram utilizados os seguintes parâmetros: voltagem do capilar +5 kV; metanol como solvente do spray; fluxo de 3 ?L.min-1. Foram identificados nos extratos das folhas e sementes, onze alcaloides e oito acetogeninas. Dentre os alcaloides identificados, sete são aporfínicos (anonaina, nornantenina, N-nornuciferina, xilopina, litseferina, asimilobina e norisocoridina/isoboldina), dois oxoaporfínicos (lanuginosina e liriodenina) e dois benziltetrahidroisoquinolínicos (magnococlina/N-metilcoclaurina e reticulina), e dentre as acetogeninas, sete com grupo hidroxila no C-4, confirmados através da perda neutra do anel ?-lactona (112 Da). Estes mesmos metabólitos foram identificados por DESI-MSI. Esta técnica se mostrou eficaz para a análise rápida de alcaloides e acetogeninas em tecidos vegetais de A. rugulosa, com mínimo ou nenhum preparo de amostra. Palavras chave: Alcaloides; Acetogeninas; DESI imaging; Annona rugulosa; mass spectrometry imagingAbstract: The desorption electrospray ionization (DESI) coupled with mass spectrometry (MS) is a technique able to analyze solid samples at ambient conditions, with sensitivity and specificity. Due to ease of handling and the obtaining of real time results, the DESI-MS has been used in various applications, like forensics, natural products, biomedical analyzes, and others. The ability to obtain molecular imaging is much exploited in biomolecules analyzes in animal and vegetal tissues. This technique was used to obtain the mass spectrometry images (MSI) of eleven alkaloids and eight acetogenins by DESI direct in the leaf tissue and by DESI indirect (imprint) of the seed of Annona rugulosa. These metabolites was previously identified by direct infusion ESI(+)-HRMS, the metabolites were identified through their mass defect error and mass spectrometry tandem in a HCD collision cell. To obtain the molecular images by DESI-MSI, the following parameters were optimized: capillary voltage +5 kV; methanol as solvent spray, flow of 3 ?L.min-1. Among the alkaloids identified, seven are aporphine (anonaine, nornantenine, N-nornuciferine, xylopine, litseferine, asimilobine and norisocorydine/isoboldine), two oxoaporphine (lanuginosine and liriodenine) and two benzyltetrahydroisoquinoline (magnococline/N-methylcoclaurine and reticuline), and among the acetogenins, seven have a hydroxyl group at the C-4, which are confirmed through the neutral loss of the ?-lactone ring (112 Da). These same metabolites were also identified by DESI-MSI. These technique proved be effective to determine alkaloids and acetogenins in vegetal tissues of A. rugulosa, with minimum or non-sample preparation. Keywords: Alkaloids; Acetogenins; DESI imaging; Annona rugulosa; mass spectrometry imagin

Oral Tradition and Legal Authority in the Trans-Mountain Acequia Systems of the Mora Valley, New Mexico

[EN] During the 18th century conflicts between the Comanches of the southern Plains and the Spanish Mexicans and their Pueblo allies in New Mexico, the valley of Mora was a natural corridor to the settlements of the Río Grande valley for trade and warfare. The walls of Picurís Pueblo on the other side of Jicarilla mountain sheltered native Tiwas as well as their neighbors. When peace came, mestizo settlers headed east to Mora to begin farming and ranching. The land was fertile, but water was scarce, since it naturally flowed west to the Río Grande. As early as 1817, settler José Antonio Olguín approached the elders of Picurís where he had lived for years, for permission to divert some water from one of the Tres Ritos del Río Pueblo over the mountain to the other side. Since then the controversies and competition for water have grown over the years. With adjudication of water rights of Mora approaching, what is the valueof oral history in legal proceedings? How would it be possible to consult living voices to create a legally recognizable source of information? Several examples of this oral and documentary process illustrate the case of the trans-mountain "waterfall acequias" of Mora, including an inconclusive 1882 legal case filed by Picurís Pueblo, declarations of pueblo leaders, local interviews, and a 2008 children's book, Juan the Bear and the Water of Life by the authors of this article. Although there is little possibility for any of these testimonies to complement future legal proceedings, it is important to understand cultural processes of historical validation where the documentary record is so sparse.Lamadrid, ER.; Arellano, JE. (2015). Oral Tradition and Legal Authority in the Trans-Mountain Acequia Systems of the Mora Valley, New Mexico. En Irrigation, Society and Landscape. Tribute to Tom F. Glick. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 650-660. https://doi.org/10.4995/ISL2014.2014.182OCS65066

Context-Aware Mobile Applications: Taxonomy of factors for building approaches

Fusion of sensing mechanisms inside mobile devices (e.g.: GPS, accelerometers) have driven the growth of context-aware mobile applications. Currently, there are building approaches for this kind of applications, but these do not have the flexibility, for example, to derive applications combining different location sensing mechanisms. In this paper, we present a first proposal of a taxonomy of factors that could be considered by context-aware mobile application building approaches, in order to provide variability in the kinds of derived applications. The aim is to generate a discussion that can contribute to the unification of aspects that should be addressed by these building approaches. To complement the taxonomy, we present the analysis of an interview that was conducted with regard to developers who use (or could use) these building approaches. We hope this will enrich the discussion in relation to this kind of approaches

Context-Aware Mobile Applications: Taxonomy of factors for building approaches

Fusion of sensing mechanisms inside mobile devices (e.g.: GPS, accelerometers) have driven the growth of context-aware mobile applications. Currently, there are building approaches for this kind of applications, but these do not have the flexibility, for example, to derive applications combining different location sensing mechanisms. In this paper, we present a first proposal of a taxonomy of factors that could be considered by context-aware mobile application building approaches, in order to provide variability in the kinds of derived applications. The aim is to generate a discussion that can contribute to the unification of aspects that should be addressed by these building approaches. To complement the taxonomy, we present the analysis of an interview that was conducted with regard to developers who use (or could use) these building approaches. We hope this will enrich the discussion in relation to this kind of approaches.Publicado en: 2018 IEEE XXV International Conference on Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computing (INTERCON) : Lima, Peru, 08-10 August 2018Laboratorio de Investigación y Formación en Informática Avanzada (LIFIA)Facultad de Informátic

Las Mercedes y las Acequias

[EN] To better understand the acequias in “Embudo de Picuris,” they have to be analyized from the perspective of the land grants given to the settlers by the Crown of Spain. Many scholars have studied the acequias simply as canals that transport water, without realizing they are an integral part of the landscape, starting with the sierra and ending at the river. They are part of the watershed, that if the landscape is damaged, this will affect how the lower acequias flow. When one looks at the landscape one sees that the acequia is like a belt that separates the commons from the irrigated land. The common lands in the land grants, known in New Mexico as ejidos are made up of sierras, mountains, commons and lots where people build their houses, plazas, and also the utility rooms, pig pens, chicken coops and wood pile. Then runs the acequia that irrigates the most productive pieces of land that are known as altitos where the orchard trees are planted, the jolla where the corn fields and chile are planted, the vegas that can also be used to grow food but they are used more for the domestic animals, and the cienagas or marshlands (including the prados and potreros). Then close to the river are the bosques where one finds the estuaries and quicksand.[ES] Para comprender mejor las acequias del Embudo de Picurís se tienen que analizar como componente vital de las mercedes de tierras otorgadas a los pobladores por la Corona española. Muchos investigadores han estudiado las acequias únicamente como el canal que lleva agua, sin ver que las acequias son una parte íntegra de todo el paisaje, empezando en la sierra y terminando en el río. Son parte de la cuenca, que si se le hace daño a esta parte del paisaje, afecta a las acequias que corren más abajo. Cuando se examina el paisaje de la merced se ve que la acequia es como una faja que divide las tierras comunales de las tierras privadas y de regadío. Las tierras comunes de las mercedes, conocidas en Nuevo México como los ejidos son compuestas de las sierras, montes, dehesas o llanos y los solares donde la gente levanta sus casas donde van también las dispensas, trochiles, gallineros y la leña. Luego corre la acequia que riega las tierras más productivos que son los altitos donde se establecen los huertos de árboles frutales, las jollas donde se siembran las milpas y las huertas, las vegas donde también se puede sembrar pero se usan más para los animales de casa y las ciénagas (aquí también van los prados y los potreros). Luego cerca al río están los bosques donde existen los esteros y resumiderosArellano, JE.; Rivera, JA.; Lamadrid, ER. (2015). Las Mercedes y las Acequias. En Irrigation, Society and Landscape. Tribute to Tom F. Glick. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 833-844. https://doi.org/10.4995/ISL2014.2014.196OCS83384

Irrigation and Society in the Upper Río Grande Basin, U.S.A.: A Heritage of Mutualism

[EN] The acequias of the upper Río Grande are more than just irrigation canals. They also allocate and manage water for the community of landowners in the system. After four centuries of use, the acequias persist into modern times with their founding principles intact: self-government, local autonomy, internal rules for operating procedures, and a strong sense of mutualismo or communal responsibility. They have endured since Spanish colonial settlement, and have maintained continuity of a water culture surviving political-administrative changes under three sovereigns, Spain (1598-1821), Mexico (1821-1848), and the United States (1848- Present). Despite stressors of climate variability, demographic changes, urbanization, and economic modernity, the acequia parciantes hold onto, maintain, and defend their shares of water in the acequia madre. Most of these irrigation works still function as before, zanjas carved out of the land to shape the edges of the semi-arid terrain and extend the riparian zones for multiple uses. Will they survive the pressures to move water to higher economic values such as municipal growth in the urban centers, water shortages among competing users, and the effects of drought evidenced in recent years? Similar to the irrigation communities of medieval Valencia that were modeled after the craft guilds of that era, the acequias of the upper Río Grande have ties to other solidarities, namely, the cofradías and mutualista societies characterized by common attributes: the adoption of written rules and regulations, the election of officers for executive functions, and operating procedures that are self-determined. Mutualism in the acequia culture, coupled with recovery of the Spanish language, could be the key to adaptation when new challenges emerge in future scenarios of unexpected change[ES] Regadío y sociedad en la cuenca del Alto Río Grande, E.U.A.: La herencia mutualista. Las acequias del alto Río Grande son mucho más que canales de riego. También proporcionan y manejan el agua para la comunidad de terratenientes del sistema. Después de cuatro siglos de uso, las acequias persisten hasta los tiempos modernos con sus principios originales intactos: auto-gobierno, autonomía local, reglas internas para los procedimientos de operación y un fuerte sentido de mutualismo o responsabilidad comunal. Han durado desde la colonización española, sosteniendo una cultura de agua que ha aguantado tres gobiernos, España (1598- 1821), México (1821-1848) y los Estados Unidos (1848 hasta el presente). A pesar de los desafíos de variabilidad del clima, cambios demográficos, urbanización y modernización económica, los parciantes de la acequia conservan, mantienen y defienden sus derechos de agua de la acequia madre. La mayoría de estos sistemas de riego todavía funcionan como siempre, con zanjas excavadas que marcan los límites del terreno semi-árido y extienden las zonas ribereñas para usos múltiples. ¿Sobrevivirán las presiones para asignar el agua para usos de más valor económico como el crecimiento de los centros urbanos, la escasez de agua entre usuarios y los efectos de la creciente sequía de los últimos años? Parecidos a las comunidades de riego de Valencia medieval que se organizaban como los gremios de la época, las acequias del alto Río Grande se vinculan a otras asociaciones como las cofradías y sociedades mutualistas caracterizadas por estos atributos en común: la adopción de reglas y normas escritas, la elección de oficiales para funciones executivas y procedimientos de operación autodeterminados. El mutualismo en la cultura de las acequias, vinculado con la recuperación del idioma castellano, pueden ser la clave de adaptación cuando emergen nuevos desafíos en los futuros escenarios de cambios inesperados.Rivera, JA.; Arellano, JE.; Lamadrid, ER.; Martínez Saldaña, T. (2015). Irrigation and Society in the Upper Río Grande Basin, U.S.A.: A Heritage of Mutualism. En Irrigation, Society and Landscape. Tribute to Tom F. Glick. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 443-457. https://doi.org/10.4995/ISL2014.2014.76OCS44345

MCP1 SNPs and Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Cohorts from West Africa, the USA and Argentina: Lack of Association or Epistasis with IL12B Polymorphisms

The monocyte chemotactic protein-1 (MCP-1) is a chemokine that plays an important role in the recruitment of monocytes to M. tuberculosis infection sites, and previous studies have reported that genetic variants in MCP1 are associated with differential susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB). We examined eight MCP1 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in a multi-ethnic, case-control design that included: 321 cases and 346 controls from Guinea-Bissau, 258 cases and 271 controls from The Gambia, 295 cases and 179 controls from the U.S. (African-Americans), and an additional set of 237 cases and 144 controls of European ancestry from the U.S. and Argentina. Two locus interactions were also examined for polymorphisms in MCP1 and interleukin 12B (IL12B), another gene implicated in PTB risk. Examination of previously associated MCP1 SNPs rs1024611 (−2581A/G), rs2857656 (−362G/C) and rs4586 (+900C/T) did not show evidence for association. One interaction between rs2857656 and IL12B SNP rs2288831 was observed among Africans but the effect was in the opposite direction in Guineans (OR = 1.90, p = 0.001) and Gambians (OR = 0.64, p = 0.024). Our data indicate that the effect of genetic variation within MCP1 is not clear cut and additional studies will be needed to elucidate its role in TB susceptibility