Latins Anonymous at the University of California Chicano Literary Awards Ceremony / May 1989

Latins Anonymous at the University of California Chicano Literary Awards Ceremony / May 198

Out of the Fringe: Desire and Homosexuality in the '90s Latino Theatre

Out of the Fringe: Desire and Homosexuality in the '90s Latino Theatr

El matrimonio en los florilegios latinos del siglo XVI

Florilegia, collections of excerpts from literary works, occasionally intended for teaching during Middle Ages and Renaissance, are an invaluable tool as the reflection of a period. In this article we will analyse a sellection of excerpta related to marriage, taken from some of the most relevant Latin florilegia of the sixteenth century (Mayer 1534, Estienne 1534, Mirandola 1538 and Schönborn 1565). From the selection and manipulation operated by the compilers, we will extract their ideas about the situation of marriage in this period, with special attention to the role of women. At the same time, we will analyse how these authors treated the classical texts in order to adapt them to their interests and turn them into a moral pedagogical product.En este artículo nos serviremos de una serie excerpta relacionados con el matrimonio, tomados de algunos de los florilegios latinos más relevantes del siglo XVI (Mayer 1534, Estienne 1534, Mirándola 1538 y Schönborn 1565) para extraer, a partir de la selección y manipulación operada por los compiladores, sus ideas sobre la situación del matrimonio en este periodo, con especial atención al papel de la mujer. A la vez, analizaremos cómo estos autores trataban los textos clásicos con el fin de adaptarlos a sus intereses y convertirlos en un producto pedagógico de carácter moral

Marriage in 16th century Latin Florilegia.

En este artículo nos serviremos de una serie excerpta relacionados con el matrimonio, tomados de algunos de los florilegios latinos más relevantes del siglo XVI (Mayer 1534, Estienne 1534, Mirándola 1538 y Schönborn 1565) para extraer, a partir de la selección y manipulación operada por los compiladores, sus ideas sobre la situación del matrimonio en este periodo, con especial atención al papel de la mujer. A la vez, analizaremos cómo estos autores trataban los textos clásicos con el fin de adaptarlos a sus intereses y convertirlos en un producto pedagógico de carácter moral.Florilegia, collections of excerpts from literary works, occasionally intended for teaching during Middle Ages and Renaissance, are an invaluable tool as the reflection of a period. In this article we will analyse a sellection of excerpta related to marriage, taken from some of the most relevant Latin florilegia of the sixteenth century (Mayer 1534, Estienne 1534, Mirandola 1538 and Schönborn 1565). From the selection and manipulation operated by the compilers, we will extract their ideas about the situation of marriage in this period, with special attention to the role of women. At the same time, we will analyse how these authors treated the classical texts in order to adapt them to their interests and turn them into a moral pedagogical product

Uso de plantas comestibles silvestres como ingredientes funcionales en la dieta moderna

Se han evaluado trece especies de plantas silvestres comestibles pertenecientes a once familias botánicas consumidas en la dieta mediterránea tradicional. Sanguisorba minor, Quercus ballota y Sedum sediforme mostraron la mayor actividad antioxidante total hidrofílica (H‐AAT), así como el mayor contenido en fenoles totales. El análisis sensorial indicó que los frutos de Q. ballota podrían considerarse muy dulces y que las plantas de Crithmum maritimum y Oxalis pes‐caprae son muy ácidas. Además, los catadores destacaron el sabor salado de C. maritimum, Mesembryanthemum nodiflorum y Mesembryanthemum cristalinum, el sabor picante de A. ampeloprasum, y el aroma de F. vulgare. Nuestros resultados indican que debido a sus propiedades funcionales y sensoriales, podrían utilizarse como nuevos ingredientes para aumentar la variedad en la dieta moderna y en la alta cocina creativa

Secondary metabolites from two species of Tolpis and their biological activities

Phytochemical research of two Tolpis species, T. proustii and T. lagopoda, led to the isolation of three new compounds: 30-chloro-3β-acetoxy-22α-hydroxyl-20(21)- taraxastene (1), 3β,22α-diacetoxy-30-ethoxy-20(21)-taraxastene (2) and 3β,28-dihydroxy11α-hydroperoxy-12-ursene (3). The structures of the new compounds were elucidated by means of extensive IR, NMR, and MS data and by comparison of data reported in the literature. The in vitro antioxidant activities of the extracts were assessed by the DPPH and ABTS scavenging methods. The cytotoxicity of several known compounds and its derivatives was also assessed against human myeloid leukemia K-562 and K-562/ADR cell lines.This work was supported by a Grant from the Ministry of Science of Spain and Innovation and from the European Regional Development Fund (SAF2010-21380) to F.E, Instituto Canario de Investigación del Cáncer to F.L. and Agencia Canaria de Investigación, Innovación y Sociedad de la Información (FEDER) (C200801000174) to J.T. F.L. was supported by JAE-doctoral Program from the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación.Peer reviewe

New synthetic inhibitors of fatty acid synthase with anticancer activity

Fatty acid synthase (FASN) is a lipogenic enzyme that is highly expressed in different human cancers. Here we report the development of a new series of polyphenolic compounds 5-­30 that have been evaluated for their cytotoxic capacity in SK-­Br3 cells, a human breast cancer cell line with high FASN expression. The compounds with an IC50 < 50 M have been tested for their ability to inhibit FASN activity. Among them, derivative 30 blocks the 90% of FASN activity at low concentration (4 M), is highly cytotoxic in a broad panel of tumor cells, induces apoptosis, and blocks the activation of HER2, AKT and ERK pathways. Remarkably, 30 does not activate carnitine palmitoyltransferase-­1 (CPT-­1) nor induces in mice weight loss, which are the main drawbacks of other previously described FASN inhibitors. Thus, FASN inhibitor 30 may aid the validation of this enzyme as a therapeutic target for the treatment of cancer

Search for same-sign top-quark pair production at √s=7 TeV and limits on flavour changing neutral currents in the top sector.

An inclusive search for same-sign top-quark pair production in pp collisions at √s = 7TeV is performed using a data sample recorded with the CMS detector in 2010, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35 pb-1. This analysis is motivated by recent studies of pp ̅ →tt ̅ reporting mass-dependent forward-backward asymmetries larger than expected from the standard model. These asymmetries could be due to Flavor Changing Neutral Currents (FCNC) in the top sector induced by t-channel exchange of a massive neutral vector boson (Z’). Models with such a Z' also predict enhancement of same-sign top-pair production in pp or pp ̅ collisions. Limits are set as a function of the Z’ mass and its couplings to u and t quarks. These limits disfavour the FCNC interpretation of the Tevatron results.We thank Johan Alwall, Ed Berger, Qing-Hong Cao, Chuan-Ren Chen, Chong-Sheng Li and Hao Zhang for discussions and help in implementing the Z0 model in Mad- Graph/MadEvent. We wish to congratulate our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC machine. We thank the technical and administrative sta_ at CERN and other CMS institutes, and acknowledge support from: FMSR (Austria); FNRS and FWO (Belgium); CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, and FAPESP (Brazil); MES (Bulgaria); CERN; CAS, MoST, and NSFC (China); COLCIENCIAS (Colombia); MSES (Croatia); RPF (Cyprus); Academy of Sciences and NICPB (Estonia); Academy of Finland, ME, and HIP (Finland); CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG, and HGF (Germany); GSRT (Greece); OTKA and NKTH (Hungary); DAE and DST (India); IPM (Iran); SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); NRF and WCU (Korea); LAS (Lithuania); CINVESTAV, CONACYT, SEP, and UASLP-FAI (Mexico); PAEC (Pakistan); SCSR (Poland); FCT (Portugal); JINR (Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan); MST and MAE (Russia); MSTD (Serbia); MICINN and CPAN (Spain); Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland); NSC (Taipei); TUBITAK and TAEK (Turkey); STFC (United Kingdom); DOE and NSF (USA)

Study of exclusive two-photon production of W+W− in pp collisions at s√=7 TeV and constraints on anomalous quartic gauge couplings

A search for exclusive or quasi-exclusive W+W− production by photon-photon interactions, pp → p(*)W+W−p(*), at s√=7 TeV is reported using data collected by the CMS detector with an integrated luminosity of 5.05 fb−1. Events are selected by requiring a μ ±e∓ vertex with no additional associated charged tracks and dilepton transverse momentum p T(μ ±e∓) > 30 GeV. Two events passing all selection requirements are observed in the data, compared to a standard model expectation of 2.2 ± 0.4 signal events with 0.84 ± 0.15 background. The tail of the dilepton p T distribution is studied for deviations from the standard model. No events are observed with p T  > 100 GeV. Model-independent upper limits are computed and compared to predictions involving anomalous quartic gauge couplings. The limits on the parameters aW0,C/Λ2 with a dipole form factor and an energy cutoff Λcutoff = 500 GeV are of the order of 10−4.We congratulate our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN and at other CMS institutes for their contributions to the success of the CMS effort. In addition, we gratefully acknowledge the computing centres and personnel of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid for delivering so effectively the computing infrastructure essential to our analyses. Finally, we acknowledge the enduring support for the construction and operation of the LHC and the CMS detector provided by the following funding agencies: the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research and the Austrian Science Fund; the Belgian Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, and Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek; the Brazilian Funding Agencies (CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, and FAPESP); the Bulgarian Ministry of Education, Youth and Science; CERN; the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ministry of Science and Technology, and National Natural Science Foundation of China; the Colombian Funding Agency (COLCIENCIAS); the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sport; the Research Promotion Foundation, Cyprus; the Ministry of Education and Research, Recurrent financing contract SF0690030s09 and European Regional Development Fund, Estonia; the Academy of Finland, Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture, and Helsinki Institute of Physics; the Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules / CNRS, and Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives / CEA, France; the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren, Germany; the General Secretariat for Research and Technology, Greece; the National Scientific Research Foundation, and National Office for Research and Technology, Hungary; the Department of Atomic Energy and the Department of Science and Technology, India; the Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, Iran; the Science Foundation, Ireland; the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy; the Korean Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and the World Class University program of NRF, Republic of Korea; the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences; the Mexican Funding Agencies (CINVESTAV, CONACYT, SEP, and UASLP-FAI); the Ministry of Science and Innovation, New Zealand; the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission; the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the National Science Centre, Poland; the Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia, Portugal; JINR (Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan); the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the Federal Agency of Atomic Energy of the Russian Federation, Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research; the Ministry of Science and Technological Development of Serbia; the Secretaría de Estado de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación and Programa Consolider-Ingenio 2010, Spain; the Swiss Funding Agencies (ETH Board, ETH Zurich, PSI, SNF, UniZH, Canton Zurich, and SER); the National Science Council, Taipei; the Thailand Center of Excellence in Physics, the Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology of Thailand and the National Science and Technology Development Agency of Thailand; the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey, and Turkish Atomic Energy Authority; the Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK; the US Department of Energy, and the US National Science Foundation. Individuals have received support from the Marie-Curie programme and the European Research Council and EPLANET (European Union); the Leventis Foundation; the A. P. Sloan Foundation; the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office; the Fonds pour la Formation à la Recherche dans l’Industrie et dans l’Agriculture (FRIA-Belgium); the Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT-Belgium); the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of Czech Republic; the Council of Science and Industrial Research, India; the Compagnia di San Paolo (Torino); the HOMING PLUS programme of Foundation for Polish Science, cofinanced by EU, Regional Development Fund; and the Thalis and Aristeia programmes cofinanced by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF

Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a top-quark pair in pp collisions at the LHC

A search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a top-quark pair is presented using data samples corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb?1 (5.1 fb?1 ) collected in pp collisions at the center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV (8 TeV). Events are considered where the top-quark pair decays to either one lepton+jets (tt ? `?qq 0bb) or dileptons (tt ? ` +?`??bb), ` being an electron or a muon. The search is optimized for the decay mode H ? bb. The largest background to the ttH signal is top-quark pair production with additional jets. Artificial neural networks are used to discriminate between signal and background events. Combining the results from the 7 TeV and 8 TeV samples, the observed (expected) limit on the cross section for Higgs boson production in association with top-quark pairs for a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV is 5.8 (5.2) times the standard model expectation