Biodiversity study of Southern Biscayne Bay and Card Sound 1968-1973

A multi-disciplinary investigation was conducted in southern Biscayne Bay and Card Sound from 1968 to 1973. The purpose of the investigation was to conduct an integrated study of the ecology of southern Biscayne Bay with special emphasis on the effects of the heated effluent from the Turkey Point fossil fuel power plant, and to predict the impact of additional effluent from the planned conversion of the plant to nuclear fuel. The results of this investigation have been discussed in numerous publications. This report contains the unpublished biology data that resulted from the investigation. (PDF contains 44 pages

Self-sustained spatiotemporal oscillations induced by membrane-bulk coupling

We propose a novel mechanism leading to spatiotemporal oscillations in extended systems that does not rely on local bulk instabilities. Instead, oscillations arise from the interaction of two subsystems of different spatial dimensionality. Specifically, we show that coupling a passive diffusive bulk of dimension d with an excitable membrane of dimension d-1 produces a self-sustained oscillatory behavior. An analytical explanation of the phenomenon is provided for d=1. Moreover, in-phase and anti-phase synchronization of oscillations are found numerically in one and two dimensions. This novel dynamic instability could be used by biological systems such as cells, where the dynamics on the cellular membrane is necessarily different from that of the cytoplasmic bulk.Comment: Accepted for publication in Physical Review Letter

On SIR epidemic models with generally distributed infectious periods: number of secondary cases and probability of infection

Recently, Clancy [SIR epidemic models with general infectious period distribution, Statist. Prob. Lett. 85 (2014) 1–5] has shown how SIR epidemics in which individuals’ infection periods are not necessarily exponentially distributed may be modeled in terms of a piecewise-deterministic Markov process (PDMP). In this paper, we present a more detailed description of the underlying PDMP, from which we analyze the population transmission number and the infection probability of a certain susceptible individual

Osteosarcoma extraóseo Presentación de 1 caso y revisión de la literatura

Se presenta un caso de los no frecuentes osteosarcomas extraóseos, con localización en el muslo y que cursó con varias recidivas hasta su fallecimiento por metástasis pulmonares. En la revisión de la bibliografía se puede comprobar que este tipo de tumores tienen una malignidad mayor de la habitualmente reconocida, estando en algunos casos en relación con el empleo de radiaciones ionizantes, con miositis osificantes, con extravasación de líquidos de contraste y con inyecciones intramusculares. Su único tratamiento es la exéresis ablativa, aunque tienen una alta tasa de recidivas.A case of extraosseous osteogenic sarcoma siting in the thigh with a warming follow-up because he was complicated with several recurrences within two years until his exitus is reported. In the revision of the literature is common to see that this tumour has a worse malignant behaviour, and has also a clear relationship in some cases with the use of radiations, with myositis ossificans following intramuscular inyection or by extravessels liquid inyection. The treatment must be a complete ablative surgery although the number of recurrences is ussually high