Integrating Community Services and Research: A Livelihood Needs Assessment at the Countryside of the Philippines

This study assessed the integration of community services and research through the livelihood needs assessment of a countryside in the Philippines particularly Sitio Malanas, Lettac Sur, Santol, La Union as basis of the actions in addressing the needs.  Specifically, the livelihood situation and needs were determined and proposed actions for the improvement of the livelihood situation of the community.  Thirty five members of the community participated in the research.  A focused group discussion was utilized in gathering the data.  The residents of the community were found to be engaged in farming, sold agricultural products, and had only three variety stores getting its supplies from other places. They encountered livelihood problems mostly related to marketing and transportation.  They wanted additional livelihood program, to improve sales, and be provided with seminar-workshops on business-related activities.  The findings show that there is a need for a program to improve their livelihood needs.  It is recommended that actions have to be taken for the improvement of the livelihood situation of the community in cooperation with the local government unit and the school extending relevant community services based on research. Keywords: Integrating community services and research, livelihood situation, livelihood needs, proposed action

La Familia: An Inside Look at a Co-op School Community

The focus of this Capstone Project is to showcase the co-op school values of Hillmont Elementary as a way of highlighting the importance of parent involvement in schools. An argument is made that educators feel overwhelmed and lack support from parents when it comes to promoting the importance of their children’s education. It is argued that the participation of parents as part of the school community creates a positive example for their children in how their place of learning is viewed. An evidence-based argument is offered that students gain a sense of community and responsibility through seeing their parents take initiative in volunteering for their schools. The three primary stakeholder perspectives chosen were students, parents, and educators because this is what makes up most school communities. Considerations of the issue should include the viewpoints of educators who spend the most time at school. Three themes/action options emerged from an analysis of the data and were explored as ways to address the issue presented. Promoting co-op school values is argued to be the most effective way to achieve the goals of schools that are looking for innovative ways to convince parents to involve themselves in their children’s school community

POTENTIAL GAINS FROM COOPERATION FOR VESSELS AND COUNTRIES

In this paper, we consider a model in which fishing boats or firms share the stock of fish in a fishing ground. The catches made by each firm reduce the stock available for the rest of the firms, which directly affects their profits. We aim to quantify in a static framework the gain in welfare obtained by the firms if they decide to cooperate in order to attain an individually rational efficient outcome. One of the main results is that, both the incentives for the firms to cooperate and the minimum level of catches which permits any gain in welfare decrease as real wage increases. On the other hand, the greater the asymmetry among boats of firms, the more difficult it will be to reach any cooperative agreement.Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,

Social and solidary economy and public agenda: Scope, actors and objectives in Argentina's provincial experiences at the beginning of the 21st century

En esta investigación se busca examinar la dinámica legislativa provincial de la ESS, con el objetivo de identificar y analizar los principales alcances, actores y objetivos que se enmarcan en legislaciones provinciales de Río Negro, Mendoza, Entre Ríos y Santa Fe referidas a la intervención sobre el campo de la ESS. A través de una metodología cualitativa, sustentada en fuentes de información secundaria (informes sectoriales, normativas, bibliografía académica y periodística), se contextualizan las normativas seleccionadas en el marco de iniciativas emprendidas desde los poderes ejecutivos de las respectivas provincias (por caso, adhesión a programas nacionales) de modo de lograr una descripción ajustada al escenario institucional registrado hasta mediados de 2016. Las regulaciones públicas indagadas surgieron y se sancionaron en contextos políticos y económicos que posibilitaban el inicio y consolidación de experiencias de ESS a través de su promoción y financiamiento. En el contexto de cambio de Gobierno Nacional, la ESS pareciera volver a estar orientada a la promoción del auto-empleo, tanto por las perspectivas que irían adquiriendo las políticas sociales como por la retracción de los propios mercados locales donde la ESS podría comercializar su producción y hacerse de financiamiento genuino. La transformación de los objetivos, producto de las definiciones políticas, en hechos concretos y tangibles suele resultar sinuosa, errática y contradictoria.This research examines the provincial legislative dynamics of the ESS, with the objective of identifying and analyzing the main scope, actors and objectives that are framed in provincial legislations of Río Negro, Mendoza, Entre Ríos and Santa Fe, referring to the intervention on The ESS field. Through a qualitative methodology, based on sources of secondary information (sector reports, regulations, academic and journalistic bibliography), the selected policies are contextualized in the framework of initiatives undertaken by the executive powers of the respective provinces (in this case, adherence to National programs) in order to achieve a description adjusted to the institutional scenario registered until mid-2016. The public regulations investigated arose and were sanctioned in political and economic contexts that enabled the initiation and consolidation of ESS experiences through their promotion and financing. In the context of the change of National Government, the ESS seems to be again oriented towards the promotion of self-employment, both by the prospects that would be acquiring social policies and by the retraction of the local markets where ESS could market its production and become genuine financing. The transformation of objectives, the product of political definitions, into concrete and tangible facts tends to be sinuous, erratic and contradictory.Fil: Blasco, Laura Rosario. Universidad de Buenos Aires; ArgentinaFil: Garcia, Ariel Oscar. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Centro de Estudios Urbanos y Regionales; Argentin

Clinal variation in PHY (PAS domain) and CRY (CCT domain)-Signs of local adaptation to light quality in Norway spruce

Detection of the genomic basis of local adaptation to environmental conditions is challenging in forest trees. Phytochromes (PHY) and cryptochromes (CRY) perceive the red (R)/far-red (FR) and blue light respectively, thus playing a fundamental role in regulating plant growth and development. PHYO and PHYP from conifers are the equivalents of PHYA/PHYC and PHYB in angiosperms, respectively. Norway spruce shows an adaptive latitudinal cline for shade (low R:FR or FR-enriched light) tolerance and requirement of FR light for its growth. We analyzed the exome capture data that included a uniquely large data set of 1654 Norway spruce trees sampled across many latitudes in Sweden to capture the natural clines for photoperiod and FR light exposure during the growth season. Statistically significant clinal variation was detected in allele and genotype frequencies of missense mutations in coding regions belonging to well-defined functional domains of PHYO (PAS-B), PHYP2 (PAS fold-2), CRY1 (CCT1) and CRY2 (CCT2) that strongly correlates with the latitudinal gradient in response to variable light quality in Norway spruce. The missense SNP in PHYO resulting in Asn835Ser, displayed the steepest cline among all other polymorphisms. We propose that these variations in the photoreceptors represent signs of local adaptation to light quality

Sciences and audiences along the lastcentury: the impact of Astronomy Education

Just as in the past, the development of the natural sciences and in particular of astronomy has changed the history of humanity. If we think about the role of our discipline into the future, it shows its enormous power in the field of education, owing to the possibility of awakening interest in science in very varied audiences. Within the framework of the enormous progress made in the technologies related to astronomy, many of them of daily use, the role of the astronomer in the era of Communications acquires fundamental importance. In this presentation, we will try to make a journey through the different ways of presenting astronomical topics for different audiences over the last 100 years. In turn, we will show some specific achievements, associated with education programmes of the discipline. We discuss the impact produced by proposals that are both rigorous in terms of content, and also appeal to the development of the human being in an integral manner, within the framework of citizen science activities. For this research, we have taken into account the uninterrupted development of the NASE programme, which has performed 112 courses in 24 countries throughout the world and in different languages. NASE has involved 4966 secondary teachers in the last eight years.Fil: Barros, Rosario Magdalena. Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya; EspañaFil: Garcia, Beatriz Elena. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa pque. Centenario. Instituto de Tecnología en Detección y Astropartículas. Itedam - subsede del Instituto de tec. En Detección y Astropartículas Mendoza | Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica. Instituto de Tecnología en Detección y Astropartículas. Itedam - subsede del instituto de tec. En Detección y Astropartículas Mendoza | Universidad Nacional de san Martín. Instituto de Tecnología en Detección y Astropartículas. Itedam - subsede del instituto de tec. En Detección y Astropartículas Mendoza; ArgentinaInternational Astronomical Union SymposiumVienaAustriaInternational Astronomical Unio

Analysis of the ASR and LP3 homologous gene families reveal positive selection acting on LP3-3 gene

Drought has long been established as a major environmental stress for plants which have in turn developed several coping strategies, ranging from physiological to molecular mechanisms. LP3 that was first discovered in loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) is a homolog of the Abscisic Acid, Stress and Ripening (ASR) gene belonging to the ABA/WDS gene family that was first detected in tomato. LP3 has been shown to be present in four different paralogs in loblolly pine called LP3-0, LP3-1, LP3-2 and LP3-3. LP3 in loblolly pine has not been as extensively studied as the ASR in tomato. Similar to ASR, the different LP3 paralogs have been shown to be upregulated in response to water deficit stress and to act as transcription factors for genes likely involved in hexose transport. In the current study, we have investigated the evolutionary history of LP3 gene family, with the aim of relating it to that of ASR from a phylogenetic perspective and comparing the differences in selective pressure and codon usage. Phylogenetic trees revealed that LP3 is less divergent across species than ASR even when the trees were solely based on the different sub-sections of the gene. Phylogenetic, GC content, codon usage and selective pressure analyses suggest that LP3-3 is undergoing positive selection

Hydrogen sulphide as a guard cell network regulator

Hydrogen sulphide (H2S) is an endogenously produced gasotransmitter that has rapidly emerged as an active signalling component of several plant processes, stomatal movement regulation among them. The guard cells (GCs), pairs of cells that neighbour the stomatal pores, transduce endogenous and environmental signals, through signalling network, to control stomatal pore size. In this complex network, which has become a model system for plant signalling, few highly connected components form a core that links most of the pathways. The evidence summarized in this insight, on the interplay between H2S and different key components of the GC networks, points towards H2S as a regulator of the GC core signalling pathway.Fil: Pantaleno, Rosario. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mar del Plata. Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas; ArgentinaFil: Scuffi, Denise. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mar del Plata. Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas; ArgentinaFil: Garcia-Mata, Carlos. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mar del Plata. Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas; Argentin

“Einstein Worked his Socks off”. Conceptions of Intelligence in University Teaching Staff

There is vast amount of research that links implicit theories of intelligence with several learning-relevant variables in both learners and teachers alike. However, there is a gap in the literature, as there is almost no research done with university teachers.   Furthermore, most scientific research polarizes incremental and fixed views of intelligence in spite of data that show there is heterogeneity in participants’ views.  This study explores the implicit theories of intelligence of university teachers (N = 20), employing a category system for the analysis of semi-structured interviews designed to capture heterogeneity. Participants were asked to express their opinion about several small vignettes regarding intelligence. The number of participants’ explanations related to intelligence and the complexity in their argumentation was considered.  Results show differences in both measures among different fields of knowledge and gender, but not in relation to years of teaching experience. Future implications for research, intervention, and implicit theories measurement are discussed

Rolling front landscape breeding

Forest tree breeding must undergo significant revisions to adapt to the evolving challenges posed by climate change. Addressing the shifts in environmental conditions requires a comprehensive multidisciplinary approach that includes theoretical work and practical application. Specifically, there is a need to focus on developing new breeding strategies that are theoretically sound and practically feasible, considering the economic constraints of actual tree breeding programs. We present a novel concept utilizing genetic evaluation of multiple traits in forest stands of successive ages across wide ecological ranges. Incorporating genomics allows for detailed genetic evaluation, making use of high-density SNP markers and sophisticated algorithms like GBLUP for genetic parameter estimates. High-throughput phenotyping is conducted using drone-borne lidar technology to capture tree height and survival data across various forest stands. Assisted migration is considered to strategically position genotypes across predicted environmental climatic gradients, thereby accommodating the dynamic nature of ecological shifts. Mathematical optimization acts as an essential component for logistics, guiding the spatial allocation and timely substitution of genotypes to ensure a continually adaptive breeding program. The concept replaces distinct breeding cycles with continuous evaluation and selection, enhancing the rate of genetic response over time