Activist Turns Professional: Living the Tensions.

When practitioners are personally active in struggles or campaigns, tensions arise out of the intersection between radical politics and particular professional practices in the field of Community Education. I will use personal reflections of involvement in political activism and campaigns while completing the Community Education degree in University of Edinburgh to explore what these tensions are and what could be the constructive ways to navigate them.For the purpose of this article, I will use two ideal roles: ‘the activist’ and ‘the professional’. My aim is not to define and compare these roles exhaustively but rather to use them as a tool to explain and clarify my position. The notion of ‘the activist’ serves the purpose of conceptualising most of my personal identity and behaviour in the last few years. From a cultural context of grassroots environmental and anti-capitalist (direct) action, I have been involved in student campaigning for environmental and social justice, engaging in actions that range from petitions, media stunts and educational activities to industrial action and occupations

Aportació al planejament urbanístic de la garriga en relació amb el desdoblament de la línia ferroviària R3

Treballs Finals de Grau en Geografia, Facultat de Geografia i Història, Universitat de Barcelona, Curs: 2017-2018, Tutor: Joan Tort i DonadaLa temàtica general del treball és l’afectació del desdoblament de les vies de tren en un municipi, on aquestes vies passen pel centre de la població i originen un remarcable efecte barrera. El cas empíric que s’ha escollit és el municipi de la Garriga i la seva adaptació al problema del creuament diari de les vies, tant amb vehicles com a peu. L’objecte d’estudi no és la reestructuració urbanística en si, sinó aportar una solució urbanística al projecte d’eliminació dels passos a nivell. Una solució que doni resposta a la mobilitat de la Garriga i no sigui traumàtica per a l’estructura urbanística actual del municipi

Acoustic measurements

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Design strategies for positively charged endolysins: Insights into Artilysin development

Endolysins are bacteriophage-encoded enzymes that can specifically degrade the peptidoglycan layer of bacterial cell wall, making them an attractive tool for the development of novel antibacterial agents. The use of genetic engineering techniques for the production and modification of endolysins offers the opportunity to customize their properties and activity against specific bacterial targets, paving the way for the development of personalized therapies for bacterial infections. Gram-negative bacteria possess an outer membrane that can hinder the action of recombinantly produced endolysins. However, certain endolysins are capable of crossing the outer membrane by virtue of segments that share properties resembling those of cationic peptides. These regions increase the affinity of the endolysin towards the bacterial surface and assist in the permeabilization of the membrane. In order to improve the bactericidal effectiveness of endolysins, approaches have been implemented to increase their net charge, including the development of Artilysins containing positively charged amino acids at one end. At present, there are no specific guidelines outlining the steps for implementing these modifications. There is an ongoing debate surrounding the optimal location of positive charge, the need for a linker region, and the specific amino acid composition of peptides for modifying endolysins. The aim of this study is to provide clarity on these topics by analyzing and comparing the most effective modifications found in previous literature.The authors are indebted to Agencia Española de Investigación for the granted project (PID2019-107298RB-C21/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 to EGF and AA and PID2019-107298RB-C22/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 to NFM), to Marató de TV3 foundation (grant 201812-30-31-32-33) and to AGAUR for project 2021 SGR 01552. The authors are also indebted to the CERCA Program (Generalitat de Catalunya) and European Social Fund for supporting our research. JVCT is supported with a Margarita Salas grant for the training of young doctoral graduates (722713).info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Design strategies for positively charged endolysins : Insights into Artilysin development

Altres ajuts: acords transformatius de la UABEndolysins are bacteriophage-encoded enzymes that can specifically degrade the peptidoglycan layer of bacterial cell wall, making them an attractive tool for the development of novel antibacterial agents. The use of genetic engineering techniques for the production and modification of endolysins offers the opportunity to customize their properties and activity against specific bacterial targets, paving the way for the development of personalized therapies for bacterial infections. Gram-negative bacteria possess an outer membrane that can hinder the action of recombinantly produced endolysins. However, certain endolysins are capable of crossing the outer membrane by virtue of segments that share properties resembling those of cationic peptides. These regions increase the affinity of the endolysin towards the bacterial surface and assist in the permeabilization of the membrane. In order to improve the bactericidal effectiveness of endolysins, approaches have been implemented to increase their net charge, including the development of Artilysins containing positively charged amino acids at one end. At present, there are no specific guidelines outlining the steps for implementing these modifications. There is an ongoing debate surrounding the optimal location of positive charge, the need for a linker region, and the specific amino acid composition of peptides for modifying endolysins. The aim of this study is to provide clarity on these topics by analyzing and comparing the most effective modifications found in previous literature

Wireless Biodevices and Systems - eHealth Platform Based on Arduino

Documentació associada a 3 sessions docents on es desenvolopa una plataforma eHealth basada en Arduino

Male and female inheritance patterns in tetraploid ‘Moncada’ mandarin

Triploid-breeding programs in citrus are key tool to develop seedless cultivars. Obtaining triploid citrus hybrids may be achieved through different strategies, such as the exploitation of female unreduced gamete in crosses between diploid parents and diploid by tetraploid sexual hybridizations, in which tetraploid genotypes can be used as male or female parents. Genetic configuration of triploid populations from interploid crosses greatly depends on the chromosomic segregation mode of the tetraploid parent used. Here, we have analyzed the inheritance of the tetraploid ‘Moncada’ mandarin and compared the genetic structures of the resulting gametes when used as male and as female parent. The preferential chromosome pairing rate is calculated from the parental heterozygosity restitution (PHR) of codominant molecular markers, indicating the proportion between disomic and tetrasomic segregation. Tetraploid ‘Moncada’ both as female and male parent largely exhibited tetrasomic segregation. However, as female parent, one linkage group (LG8) showed intermediate segregation with tendency towards tetrasomic inheritance, while another linkage group (LG4) evidenced a clear intermediate segregation. On the other hand, when used as male parent two linkage groups (LG5 and LG6) showed values that fit an intermediate inheritance model with tetrasomic tendency. Significant doubled reduction (DR) rates were observed in five linkage groups as female parent, and in six linkage groups as male parent. The new knowledge generated here will serve to define crossing strategies in citrus improvement programs to efficiently obtain new varieties of interest in the global fresh consumption market.EEA ConcordiaFil: Garavello, Miguel Fernando. Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias. Centro de Citricultura y Producción Vegetal; España. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Concordia; ArgentinaFil: Cuenca, José. Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias. Centro de Citricultura y Producción Vegetal; España.Fil: Garcia-Lor, Andrés. Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias. Centro de Citricultura y Producción Vegetal; España.Fil: Ortega, Neus. Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias. Centro de Citricultura y Producción Vegetal; España.Fil: Navarro, Luis. Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias. Centro de Citricultura y Producción Vegetal; España.Fil: Ollitrault, Patrick. Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD). Amélioration Génétique et Adaptation des Plantes (UMR Agap). Unité Mixte de Recherche; FranciaFil: Aleza, Pablo. Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias. Centro de Citricultura y Producción Vegetal; España