A few important chinch bug remedies

wet backward spring and well distributed summer rains have saved Iowa from extensive chinch-bug losses this year. The bugs have been reported, however, in injurious numbers over limited areas, in various parts of the state. There probably is no year when there are not bugs enough in many localities to do much harm, if the climatic conditions are favorable, and, as we have noway of knowing when a chinch-bug year is coming until it is upon us, it is exceedingly important that some systematic method of combating this evil be fixed upon by the farming communities

Del padecimiento a la com-pasión: experiencia intersensible desde la tactilidad

Del sufrimiento a la pasión común: la experiencia intersensible del tacto es una investigación que explora la experiencia de mi acompañamiento intersensible durante la enfermedad terminal de mi padre. Si bien es cierto que fue un proceso doloroso, el proceso permitió el descubrimiento de tácticas de solidaridad, pero también se usó como punto de partida, apelando a la creación y participación en acciones performáticas.From suffering to common passion: the intersensible experience of touch is a research that explores the experience of my intersensitive accompaniment during my father's terminal illness. While it is true that it was a painful process, the process allowed the discovery of solidarity tactics, but it was also used as a starting point, appealing to the creation and participation in performance actions

Bonifacio – Caserne Montlaur

Les fouilles de la Caserne Montlaur font suite à une prescription de diagnostic du Service régional de l’archéologie, en raison des travaux de rénovation importants prévus sur le site. Les résultats positifs de ce diagnostic, réalisé par P. Ferreira (Ferreira et al. 2014), ont permis de mettre au jour quelques inhumations datées du xviiie s., des tranchées de plantations non datées précisément mais attribuées aux périodes médiévales à postmédiévales, ainsi que des niveaux du Néolithique récen..

A defect in myoblast fusion underlies Carey-Fineman-Ziter syndrome

Multinucleate cellular syncytial formation is a hallmark of skeletal muscle differentiation. Myomaker, encoded by Mymk (Tmem8c), is a well-conserved plasma membrane protein required for myoblast fusion to form multinucleated myotubes in mouse, chick, and zebrafish. Here, we report that autosomal recessive mutations in MYMK (OMIM 615345) cause Carey-Fineman-Ziter syndrome in humans (CFZS; OMIM 254940) by reducing but not eliminating MYMK function. We characterize MYMK-CFZS as a congenital myopathy with marked facial weakness and additional clinical and pathologic features that distinguish it from other congenital neuromuscular syndromes. We show that a heterologous cell fusion assay in vitro and allelic complementation experiments in mymk knockdown and mymk insT/insT zebrafish in vivo can differentiate between MYMK wild type, hypomorphic and null alleles. Collectively, these data establish that MYMK activity is necessary for normal muscle development and maintenance in humans, and expand the spectrum of congenital myopathies to include cell-cell fusion deficits

Performance of scintillation materials at cryogenic temperatures

An increasing number of applications of scintillators at low temperatures, particularly in cryogenic experiments searching for rare events, has motivated the investigation of scintillation properties of materials over a wide temperature range. This paper provides an overview of the latest results on the study of luminescence, absorption and scintillation properties of materials selected for rare event searches so far. These include CaWO4, ZnWO4, CdWO4, MgWO4, CaMoO4, CdMoO4, Bi4Ge3O12, CaF2, MgF2, ZnSe and AL2O3-Ti. We discuss the progress achieved in research and development of these scintillators, both in material preparation and in the understanding of scintillation mechanisms, as well as the underlying physics. To understand the origin of the performance limitation of self-activated scintillators we employed a semi-empirical model of conversion of high energy radiation into light and made appropriate provision for effects of temperature and energy transfer. We conclude that the low-temperature value of the light yield of some modern scintillators, namely CaWO4, CdWO4 and Bi4Ge3O12, is close to the theoretical limit. Finally, we discuss the advantages and limitations of different materials with emphasis on their application as cryogenic phonon-scintillation detectors (CPSD) in rare event search experiments

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