Finding the Meaning in Ceramic Patterns from a Chaco Canyon Burial

The focus of this research considers the culture of the Ancestral Puebloans from the American Southwest region. This project reflects and examines the cultural arts and practices in relation to funerary aspects of the ancient Puebloan society that flourished in Chaco Canyon, located in present-day New Mexico. While investigations of historians and archaeologists have concentrated on findings within the Great House of Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon, research focused on the structures and objects within rooms. The base of this research examines a collective set of vessels from burial room 33, excavated from the original exhibition of George H. Pepper, and observes the patterns to identify how they relate with an elite society in mortuary aspects. Emphasis is given to the painted markings on the forms to interpret the association of these ceramic vessels with the funerary practice of elites in Ancestral Puebloan culture. To further consider the customs and cultural influences of Ancestral Puebloan people, this study examines images of Ancestral Puebloan ceramics with contemporary Puebloan culture to interpret a more in-depth understanding of the underlying dynamics of the culture

Movement Patterns of the Native, Procamabrus Clarkii, (Crustacea: Decapoda) in West-Central Texas

This study was undertaken to determine movement patterns and burrow occupancy of the red swamp crayfish, Procambarus clarkii, at Anson Springs in Tom Green County, Texas. This study represents the first use of radio telemetry within P. clarkii’s native range. Eight specimens (three males and five females) were fitted with radio transmitters and their locations were tracked in-stream six times a day, from August 10–24, 2017. Results suggest that reproductive males undertake fewer movements than females during the day and the night. Also the majority of movements for both males and females occur after 1800. Burrow occupancy suggests that males are more often found in bank burrows while both males and females are less often observed under boulders

The microdata analysis system at the U.S. Census Bureau

The U.S. Census Bureau has the responsibility to release high quality data products while maintaining the confidentiality promised to all respondents under Title 13 of the U.S. Code. This paper describes a Microdata Analysis System (MAS) that is currently under development, which will allow users to receive certain statistical analyses of Census Bureau data, such as crosstabulations and regressions, without ever having access to the data themselves. Such analyses must satisfy several statistical confidentiality rules; those that fail these rules will not be output to the user. In addition, the Drop q Rule, which requires removing a relatively small number of units before performing an analysis, is applied to all datasets. We describe the confidentiality rules and briefly outline an evaluation of the effectiveness of the Drop q Rule. We conclude with a description of other approaches to creating a system of this sort, and some directions for future research

Analysis of UV technologies for disinfection of public areas: A systematic literature review

ABSTRACT At present we live a health problem because of the Covid-19, therefore the study carried out is a systematic review of the different technological UV alternatives that have been developed to reduce the spread of Covid-19 and other pathogens harmful to health, since it has been proven that the UV-C range which is considered to have a very powerful radiation. In the present investigation 34 scientific articles were synthesized, taken from databases such as: Scopus/Elsevier, ScienceDirect, IEEE Xplore, Researchgate. Of these, 39% are oriented towards the health area and 21 % are used in the disinfection of public areas. In conclusion, the rates of use of this germicide and how to sterilize by means of ultraviolet radiation were announced

Signal Perceptron: On the Identifiability of Boolean Function Spaces and Beyond

In a seminal book, Minsky and Papert define the perceptron as a limited implementation of what they called “parallel machines.” They showed that some binary Boolean functions including XOR are not definable in a single layer perceptron due to its limited capacity to learn only linearly separable functions. In this work, we propose a new more powerful implementation of such parallel machines. This new mathematical tool is defined using analytic sinusoids—instead of linear combinations—to form an analytic signal representation of the function that we want to learn. We show that this re-formulated parallel mechanism can learn, with a single layer, any non-linear k-ary Boolean function. Finally, to provide an example of its practical applications, we show that it outperforms the single hidden layer multilayer perceptron in both Boolean function learning and image classification tasks, while also being faster and requiring fewer parameters

The genomic diversification of grapevine clones.

BACKGROUND:Vegetatively propagated clones accumulate somatic mutations. The purpose of this study was to better appreciate clone diversity and involved defining the nature of somatic mutations throughout the genome. Fifteen Zinfandel winegrape clone genomes were sequenced and compared to one another using a highly contiguous genome reference produced from one of the clones, Zinfandel 03. RESULTS:Though most heterozygous variants were shared, somatic mutations accumulated in individual and subsets of clones. Overall, heterozygous mutations were most frequent in intergenic space and more frequent in introns than exons. A significantly larger percentage of CpG, CHG, and CHH sites in repetitive intergenic space experienced transition mutations than in genic and non-repetitive intergenic spaces, likely because of higher levels of methylation in the region and because methylated cytosines often spontaneously deaminate. Of the minority of mutations that occurred in exons, larger proportions of these were putatively deleterious when they occurred in relatively few clones. CONCLUSIONS:These data support three major conclusions. First, repetitive intergenic space is a major driver of clone genome diversification. Second, clones accumulate putatively deleterious mutations. Third, the data suggest selection against deleterious variants in coding regions or some mechanism by which mutations are less frequent in coding than noncoding regions of the genome

Assignment of the Human and Mouse Prion Protein Genes to Homologous Chromosomes

Purified preparations of scrapie prions contain one major macromolecule, designated prion protein (PrP). Genes encoding PrP are found in normal animals and humans but not within the infectious particles. The PrP gene was assigned to human chromosome 20 and the corresponding mouse chromosome 2 using somatic cell hybrids. In situ hybridization studies mapped the human PrP gene to band 20p12→pter. Our results should lead to studies of genetic loci syntenic with the PrP gene, which may play a role in the pathogenesis of prion diseases or other degenerative neurologic disorders

Comparison of triploid and diploid rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) fine-scale movement, migration and catchability in lowland lakes of western Washington

Fisheries managers stock triploid (i.e., infertile, artifcially produced) rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss in North American lakes to support sport fsheries while minimizing the risk of genetic introgression between hatchery and wild trout. In Washington State, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) allocates approximately US $3 million annually to stock hatchery-origin rainbow trout in>600 lakes, yet only about 10% of them are triploids. Many lakes in Washington State drain into waters that support wild anadromous steelhead O. mykiss that are listed as threatened under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. As a result, there is a strong interest in understanding the costs and benefts associated with stocking sterile, triploid rainbow trout as an alternative to traditional diploids. The objectives of this study were to compare triploid and diploid rainbow trout in terms of: (1) contribution to the sport fshery catch, (2) fne-scale movements within the study lakes, (3) rate of emigration from the lake, and (4) natural mortality. Our results demonstrated that triploid and diploid trout had similar day-night distribution patterns, but triploid trout exhibited a lower emigration rate from the lake and lower catch rates in some lakes. Overall, triploid rainbow trout represent a viable alternative to stocking of diploids, especially in lakes draining to rivers, because they are sterile, have comparable home ranges, and less often migrat

The lncRNA APOLO and the transcription factor WRKY42 target common cell wall EXTENSIN encoding genes to trigger root hair cell elongation

Plant long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are key chromatin dynamics regulators, directing the transcriptional programs driving a wide variety of developmental outputs. Recently, we uncovered how the lncRNA AUXIN REGULATED PROMOTER LOOP (APOLO) directly recognizes the locus encoding the root hair (RH) master regulator ROOT HAIR DEFECTIVE 6 (RHD6) modulating its transcriptional activation and leading to low temperature-induced RH elongation. We further demonstrated that APOLO interacts with the transcription factor WRKY42 in a novel ribonucleoprotein complex shaping RHD6 epigenetic environment and integrating signals governing RH growth and development. In this work, we expand this model showing that APOLO is able to bind and positively control the expression of several cell wall EXTENSIN (EXT) encoding genes, including EXT3, a key regulator for RH growth. Interestingly, EXT3 emerged as a novel common target of APOLO and WRKY42. Furthermore, we showed that the ROS homeostasis-related gene NADPH OXIDASE C (NOXC) is deregulated upon APOLO overexpression, likely through the RHD6-RSL4 pathway, and that NOXC is required for low temperature-dependent enhancement of RH growth. Collectively, our results uncover an intricate regulatory network involving the APOLO/WRKY42 hub in the control of master and effector genes during RH development.Fil: Martinez Pacheco, Javier. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Parque Centenario. Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de Buenos Aires. Fundación Instituto Leloir. Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de Buenos Aires; ArgentinaFil: Mansilla, Natanael. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Santa Fe. Instituto de Agrobiotecnología del Litoral. Universidad Nacional del Litoral. Instituto de Agrobiotecnología del Litoral; ArgentinaFil: Moison, Michael. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Santa Fe. Instituto de Agrobiotecnología del Litoral. Universidad Nacional del Litoral. Instituto de Agrobiotecnología del Litoral; ArgentinaFil: Lucero, Leandro Exequiel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Santa Fe. Instituto de Agrobiotecnología del Litoral. Universidad Nacional del Litoral. Instituto de Agrobiotecnología del Litoral; ArgentinaFil: Berdion Gabarain, Victoria. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Parque Centenario. Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de Buenos Aires. Fundación Instituto Leloir. Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de Buenos Aires; ArgentinaFil: Ariel, Federico Damian. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Santa Fe. Instituto de Agrobiotecnología del Litoral. Universidad Nacional del Litoral. Instituto de Agrobiotecnología del Litoral; ArgentinaFil: Estevez, Jose Manuel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Parque Centenario. Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de Buenos Aires. Fundación Instituto Leloir. Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de Buenos Aires; Argentina. Universidad Andrés Bello; Chile. Millennium Institute for Integrative Biology; Chil

Modifiable Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors among Indigenous Populations

Objective:. To identify modifiable cardio-metabolic and lifestyle risk factors among indigenous populations from Australia (Aboriginal Australians/Torres Strait Islanders), New Zealand (Māori), and the United States (American Indians and Alaska Natives) that contribute to cardiovascular disease (CVD). Methods:. National health surveys were identified where available. Electronic databases identified sources for filling missing data. The most relevant data were identified, organized, and synthesized. Results:. Compared to their non-indigenous counterparts, indigenous populations exhibit lower life expectancies and a greater prevalence of CVD. All indigenous populations have higher rates of obesity and diabetes, hypertension is greater for Māori and Aboriginal Australians, and high cholesterol is greater only among American Indians/Alaska Natives. In turn, all indigenous groups exhibit higher rates of smoking and dangerous alcohol behaviour as well as consuming less fruits and vegetables. Aboriginal Australians and American Indians/Alaska Natives also exhibit greater rates of sedentary behaviour. Conclusion:. Indigenous groups from Australia, New Zealand, and the United States have a lower life expectancy then their respective non-indigenous counterparts. A higher prevalence of CVD is a major driving force behind this discrepancy. A cluster of modifiable cardio-metabolic risk factors precede CVD, which, in turn, is linked to modifiable lifestyle risk factors