Physical Properties and Chemical Characterization of Macro- and Micro-Nutriments of Elite Blue Maize Hybrids (Zea mays L.)

Five elite blue maize hybrids and two blue maize landraces were evaluated for various quality characteristics. Hybrids showed physical characteristics demanded by dry-millers and tortilla processors: above 290 g in one hundred-kernel weight test, higher test weight (76.1–78.5 kg hl−1) and lower flotation index (22–61%). Hybrid maize 613 × 27 (9.9%) and 611 × 8 (9.5%) contained the highest protein. Potassium, magnesium, manganese and zinc contents of hybrid maize were higher than landraces by 15, 30, 55 and 41%, respectively. Nutrimental profile showed linoleic acid contents above 50% in 503 × 67, 613 × 27 and 611 × 8 hybrid samples. Lysine levels of landraces and hybrids 503 × 67 (33.9 g kg−1 protein) and 631 × 27 (31.7 g kg−1 protein) were higher than reported for regular white corn (27 g kg−1 protein), as well as the highest tryptophan levels for Chalqueno (6.0 g kg−1 protein) and hybrid 503 × 67 (6.9 g kg−1 protein). Highest protein quality based on its digestibility was found in hybrid 503 × 67. Results indicated that elite blue maize hybrids could be an important source of nutrimental compounds with potential for functional food industries

Contra los que atacan las imágenes sagradas. Discurso apologético

Polémicos son también sus discursos apologéticos «sobre las imágenes sagradas», en los que el Damasceno defiende la ortodoxia de la veneración de las imágenes en contra del criterio del emperador León III y de quienes entendían que la veneración de la imagen era, en realidad, una adoración idólatra que debía ser erradicada. El estilo sencillo que Juan de Damasco empleó en estos textos facilitó su difusión entre la población cristiana e incitó a la misma a tomar postura ante la nueva polémica promovida por el poder imperial

Documents, letters and canons in Eusebius of Caesarea's ecclesiastical history

This article studies the role played by epistles in the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius of Caesarea. It is important to note that this history avoids attributing discourses to the persons it features and instead relies on citing documents of various types, epistles among them. Having noted that the epistle is a special type of sermo, I discount the theory that the reason for the inclusion of the letters in the Ecclesiastical History was the desire to introduce stylistic variation. I emphasize that certain terms that recur in the introductions to the letters throw light on the question; an analysis of these words shows that Eusebius was very conscious of the importance that the copies of the texts that he cites as documents (letters, among others) be faithful to the literality of the originals. I propose as a hypothesis that this emphasis on the fidelity and literality of the documents is related to the scripture-related category of canonicity first attested in Eusebius's wor

Hacia una nueva edición crítica del manual mitológico de Cornuto

Los manuales de Crítica Textual como el de West recuerdan que la primera pregunta que se debe plantear un futuro editor es si realmente es necesaria la edición que piensa preparar 1 . En el caso de la Ἐπιδρομὴ τῶν κατὰ τὴν Ἑλληνικὴν θεολογίαν παραδεδομένων, el Compendio de las tradiciones teológicas de los griegos de Aneo Cornuto, autor romano del siglo I d. C. 2 , la respuesta parece fácil: se necesita desde hace tiempo una edición que sustituya a la publicada en 1881 por Lang, la única edición realmente crítica del opúscul

¿Lapsus bizantinos elocuentes? La tradición textual de Cornuto y el copista del códice K

This article analyses several lapsus calami attested in Cornutus's textual transmission. On the basis of the manuscripts themselves, these scribal mistakes cast light on the internal history of scribes and their world. The case of the Byzantine scholar who copied manuscript, from which a fourth part of the Cornutean manuscripts derives, is analysed in detail.Este estudio analiza varios lapsus calami atestiguados en la transmisión textual de Cornuto. Su interés consiste en que arrojan luz, a partir de los propios manuscritos, sobre la intrahistoria de la labor de copia y el mundo de los copistas. Se estudia en concreto el caso del copista bizantino del códice del que deriva una cuarta parte de los manuscritos de Cornuto transmitidos

El legado del mito de Pigmalión en Bécquer

Este trabajo trata sobre la presencia del mito de Pigmalión en El Beso (1863) de Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer. Para ello, se analizará junto a esta leyenda dos textos del autor: La mujer de piedra (1868) y la rima LXXVI. El principal objetivo de este análisis comparativo reside en resaltar la reelaboración que Bécquer plantea sobre el mito de Pigmalión, recogido en Las Metamorfosis de Ovidio. Del mismo modo, se pondrá en relación El Beso con La Venus de Ille, de Prosper Mérimée, por la proximidad espacio-temporal de ambos relatos y la renovación que proponen del mito. Aunque el mito de Pigmalión se puede rastrear a lo largo de la literatura sobre varias claves diferentes, este trabajo se centrará en el amor que surge ante la perfección de la estatua y las revisiones que hace el poeta sevillano sobre este motivo literario.This essay discusses the presence of the myth of Pygmalion in Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer’s El Beso (1863). To deal with this subject, two texts from this author, La mujer de piedra (1868) and rima LXXVI, will be analysed together with the legend El Beso. The main purpose of this comparison is to highlight Bécquer’s recreation of the myth of Pygmalion, found in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. In addition, we will contrast El Beso with Mérimée’s The Venus of Ille due to their time-space proximity and their common approach regarding the myth. Despite the fact that the myth of Pygmalion has been conceived as a model throughout the history of literature in several aspects, this piece of work will be focused on the love that arises from the perfection of the statue and the recreation of this literary motif by the Sevillian poet

The potential to control Haemonchus contortus in indigenous South African goats with copper oxide wire particles

The high prevalence of resistance of Haemonchus contortus to all major anthelmintic groups has prompted investigations into alternative control methods in South Africa, including the use of copper oxide wire particle (COWP) boluses. To assess the efficacy of COWP against H. contortus in indigenous South African goats, 18 male faecal egg-count-negative goats were each given ca.1200 infective larvae of H. contortus three times per week during weeks 1 and 2 of the experiment. These animals made up an “established” infection group (ESTGRP). At the start of week 7, six goats were each given a 2-g COWP bolus orally; six goats received a 4-g COWP bolus each and six animals were not treated. A further 20 goats constituted a “developing” infection group (DEVGRP). At the beginning of week 1, seven of the DEVGRP goats were given a 2-g COWP bolus each; seven goats were treated with a 4-g COWP bolus each and no bolus was given to a further six animals. During weeks 1–6, each of these DEVGRP goats was given ca. 400 H. contortus larvae three times per week. All 38 goats were euthanized for worm recovery from the abomasa and small intestines in week 11. In the ESTGRP, the 2-g and 4-g COWP boluses reduced the worm burdens by 95% and 93%, respectively compared to controls (mean burden ± standard deviation, SD: 23 ± 33, 30 ± 56 and 442 ± 518 worms, P = 0.02). However, in the DEVGRP goats, both the 2-g and 4-g COWP treatments were ineffective in reducing the worm burdens relative to the controls (mean burdens ± SD: 1102 ± 841, 649 ± 855, 1051 ± 661 worms, P = 0.16). Mean liver copper levels did not differ between the ESTGRP goats treated with 2-g COWP, 4-g COWP or no COWP (mean ± standard error of the mean, SEM, in ppm: 93.7 ± 8.3; 101.5 ± 8.3; 71.8 ± 8.3, P = 0.07) nor did they differ between the DEVGRP goats (mean ± SEM, in ppm: 74.1 ± 9.1; 75.4 ± 9.1; 74.9 ± 10.0, P > 0.99). The copper values were considered adequate, but not high, for goats. The COWP boluses have the potential to be used in the place of conventional anthelmintics for the control of established H. contortus infections in indigenous South African goats, but their use as part of an integrated approach to control H. contortus in the field must be fully investigated

Towards a population of HMXB/NS microquasars as counterparts of low-latitude unidentified EGRET sources

The discovery of the microquasar LS 5039 well within the 95% conficence contour of the Unidentified EGRET Source (UES) 3EG J1824-1514 was a major step towards the possible association between microquasars (MQs) and UESs. The recent discovery of precessing relativistic radio jets in LS I +61 303, a source associated for long time with 2CG 135+01 and with the UES 3EG J0241+6103, has given further support to this idea. Finally, the very recently proposed association between the microquasar candidate AX J1639.0-4642 and the UES 3EG J1639-4702 points towards a population of High Mass X-ray Binary (HMXB)/Neutron Star (NS) microquasars as counterparts of low-latitude unidentified EGRET sources.Comment: 12 pages, 7 figures. Proceedings of the Conference "The Multiwavelength Approach to Unidentified Gamma-ray Sources", to appear in the journal Astrophysics and Space Scienc

Inflation from Susy quantum cosmology

We propose a realization of inverted hybrid inflation scenario in the context of n=2 supersymmetric quantum cosmology. The spectrum of density fluctuations is calculated in the de Sitter regimen as a function of the gravitino and the Planck mass, and explicit forms for the wave function of the universe are found in the WKB regimen for a FRW closed and flat universes.Comment: 9 pages, one figure, to appear in Phys. Rev.