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Forest Fires and the Law:A Guide for National Drafters based on the Fire Management Voluntary Guidelines
Secretory Phospholipases A2 in Plants
Secreted phospholipases (sPLA2s) in plants are a growing group of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of sn-2 glycerophospholipids to lysophospholipids and free fatty acids. Until today, around only 20 sPLA2s were reported from plants. This review discusses the newly acquired information on plant sPLA2s including molecular, biochemical, catalytic, and functional aspects. The comparative analysis also includes phylogenetic, evolutionary, and tridimensional structure. The observations with emphasis in Glycine max sPLA2 are compared with the available data reported for all plants sPLA2s and with those described for animals (mainly from pancreatic juice and venoms sources).Fil: Mariani, Maria Elisa. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas. Centro CientĂfico TecnolĂłgico Conicet - CĂłrdoba. Instituto de Investigaciones BiolĂłgicas y TecnolĂłgicas. Universidad Nacional de CĂłrdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, FĂsicas y Naturales. Instituto de Investigaciones BiolĂłgicas y TecnolĂłgicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de CĂłrdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, FĂsicas y Naturales. Departamento de QuĂmica. CĂĄtedra de QuĂmica BiolĂłgica; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de CĂłrdoba. Facultad de Cs.agropecuarias. Departamento de FundamentaciĂłn BiolĂłgica. CĂĄtedra de QuĂmica Organica; ArgentinaFil: Fidelio, Gerardo Daniel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas. Centro CientĂfico TecnolĂłgico Conicet - CĂłrdoba. Centro de Investigaciones en QuĂmica BiolĂłgica de CĂłrdoba. Universidad Nacional de CĂłrdoba. Facultad de Ciencias QuĂmicas. Centro de Investigaciones en QuĂmica BiolĂłgica de CĂłrdoba; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de CĂłrdoba. Facultad de Ciencias QuĂmicas. Departamento de QuĂmica BiolĂłgica; Argentin
Improved /hadron separation for the detection of faint gamma-ray sources using boosted decision trees
Imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes record an enormous number of
cosmic-ray background events. Suppressing these background events while
retaining -rays is key to achieving good sensitivity to faint
-ray sources. The differentiation between signal and background events
can be accomplished using machine learning algorithms, which are already used
in various fields of physics. Multivariate analyses combine several variables
into a single variable that indicates the degree to which an event is
-ray-like or cosmic-ray-like. In this paper we will focus on the use of
boosted decision trees for /hadron separation. We apply the method to
data from the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System
(VERITAS), and demonstrate an improved sensitivity compared to the VERITAS
standard analysis.Comment: accepted for publication in Astroparticle Physic
On a notion of speciality of linear systems in P^n
Given a linear system in P^n with assigned multiple general points we compute
the cohomology groups of its strict transforms via the blow-up of its linear
base locus. This leads us to give a new definition of expected dimension of a
linear system, which takes into account the contribution of the linear base
locus, and thus to introduce the notion of linear speciality. We investigate
such a notion giving sufficient conditions for a linear system to be linearly
non-special for arbitrary number of points, and necessary conditions for small
numbers of points.Comment: 26 pages. Minor changes, Definition 3.2 slightly extended. Accepted
for publication in Transactions of AM
Vibrational signatures of gaseous Meisenheimer complexes bonded at carbon and nitrogen
Anionic adducts of 1,3,5-trinitrobenzene (TNB) with deprotonated pyrrolidine (Pyr), imidazole (Im), acetone (Ac) and acetylacetone (Acac) have been delivered into the gas phase by electrospray ionization.The so-formed ions, TNB-Nuâ(Nu = Pyr, Im, Ac, Acac), have been interrogated by IRMPD spectroscopy inthe fingerprint range. DFT calculations at B3LYP/6-311++G(d,p) level have been performed for a survey of candidate structures. All adducts conform to anionic sigma-complexes (Meisenheimer complexes). The symmetric stretching modes of the nitro groups yield a dominant vibrational signature at 1200â1250 cmâ1,the red-shift with respect to the degenerate frequency of 1367 cmâ1 in neutral TNB reflecting the extent of negative charge delocalization. The enol complexes TNB-Acâ and TNB-Acacâ are largely representedby C-bonded species
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