Investigaciones bioarqueológicas en la laguna Chadilauquen, Embajador Martini, departamento Realicó, provincia de La Pampa. Segunda etapa

In this paper we present the results of the analysis of archaeological evidence recovered since 1989 during different archaeological and bioarchaeological fieldworks at Chadilauquen lagoon, located about five km SE from the town of Embajador Martini (Realicó district, La Pampa Province, Argentina). The aim of this second stage was to contribute with new information obtained from new naturally exposed archaeological evidence and to compare and evaluate it with the information obtained in previous fieldworks. Post deposit factors were analyzed to provide a more accurate characterization on the formation processes that took place and determined the distribution of findings as well as the sedimentary removal phenomenon observed at the NE margin of the lagoon. The new findings were found in a similar topologic position than those recovered between 1989 and 1994. On April 2003, due to a formal invitation from the County authorities, the works at the lagoon were renewed. In the year 2005 adequate climatic conditions as well as the decrease of water level made possible to continue systematic research at the place. In 2009, bone and dental samples were obtained for AMS dating and sent to the University of Arizona. Several chemical analyses were performed at the University of Arizona as well as at the University of South Florida. Results suggest the existence of different episodes of human occupation potentially verifiable at least from two stratigraphic levels. Possible chronologic differences throughout the Holocene and the existence of chronologic as well as cultural variation in a general isotopic C3 pattern are discussed.Se presentan los resultados obtenidos a partir del análisis de evidencia arqueológica recuperada desde 1989 durante trabajos arqueológicos y bioarqueológicos en la laguna Chadilauquen, a 5 km al SE de Embajador Martini, depto. de Realicó, prov. de La Pampa. El objetivo de esta segunda etapa fue aportar información relacionada con nuevos materiales expuestos por la acción de agentes erosivos y evaluarlos conjuntamente con aquellos obtenidos en campañas anteriores. Los nuevos hallazgos fueron encontrados en posición topológica similar a los recuperados entre 1989 y 1994. Se analizaron factores post-depósito para proporcionar una caracterización más ajustada sobre los procesos de formación del lugar y del fenómeno de remoción sedimentaria observado sobre la margen NE de la laguna. En abril de 2003, mediando invitación expresa del Municipio, se renovaron los trabajos en la laguna. Recién en el año 2005 se dieron las condiciones climáticas adecuadas que, junto con el necesario descenso de las aguas, posibilitaron la continuación de los trabajos sistemáticos. En el año 2009, se obtuvieron muestras de materiales óseos y dentales a fin de realizar sobre ellos tanto dataciones por AMS (Universidad de Arizona) como análisis químicos (Universidad de Arizona y Universidad de South Florida). Los resultados sugieren la existencia de al menos dos eventos de ocupación potencialmente verificables en diferentes niveles estratigráficos. Se discuten posibles diferencias cronológicas a lo largo del Holoceno y la existencia de variaciones temporales y culturales dentro de un patrón isotópico general de tipo C3

The application of ecologically intensive principles to the systemic redesign of livestock farms on native grasslands: A case of co-innovation in Rocha, Uruguay

CONTEXT: Family-run cow-calf farms based on native grasslands exhibit low economic and social sustainability, as reflected in low family incomes and high workloads. Experimental results have shown that pasture–herd interaction management could improve native grasslands and animal productivity OBJECTIVE: This paper analyzes the extent to which the sustainability of family-run livestock farms based on native grasslands could be enhanced by a systemic redesign informed by ecological intensification practices. The research questions address the initial state of farm sustainability, key bottlenecks to improving farm sustainability, and changes in sustainability criteria achieved over three years of farm redesign. METHODS: The study was executed as part of a multi-level co-innovation project in Uruguay in which a team of scientist-practitioners and seven farm families participated in farm characterization, diagnosis, and redesign. The farm characterization took the form of indicators to describe the farms’ management and bio-physical subsystems. Redesign plans were negotiated between the research team and the farmers. Frequent monitoring and evaluation cycles enabled finetuning across the years of implementation. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Improvements were observed in the economic indicators gross margin (+55%), return to labor (+71%), and family income (+53%) and in the social indicator workload ( 22%), and the environmental indicators bird diversity and ecosystem integrity index were maintained or increased slightly. These changes were explained by the uptake of coherent sets of ecological intensification practices causing changes in forage height (+30%), forage allowance (+69%), pregnancy (+22), weight of weaning calf per mating cow (+32%), and presence of tussocks (+65%). Ecological intensification principles resulted in synergistic positive effects between productivity–biodiversity tradeoffs and the scope for enhanced farm resilience and stability. SIGNIFICANCE: Cow-calf family-run farms can be transformed to produce positive environmental and social effects and viable economic results. The implementation of projects in a co-innovation context may be taken as a guide to scaling up and scaling out the ecological intensification of livestock production on native grasslands, contributing to an extension system at the national level with the aim of improving cow-calf systems sustainability.Estación Experimental Agropecuaria BarilocheFil: Ruggia, Andrea. Instituto Nacional de Investigacion Agropecuaria (INIA). Programa Nacional de Investigacion en Produccion Familiar. Estacion Experimental INIA Las Brujas; UruguayFil: Dogliotti, Santiago. Universidad de la República. Facultad de Agronomía. Departamento de Produccion Vegetal; UruguayFil: Aguerre, Maria Veronica. Instituto Nacional de Investigacion Agropecuaria (INIA). Programa Nacional de Investigacion en Produccion Familiar. Estacion Experimental INIA Las Brujas; UruguayFil: Albicette, Maria Marta. Instituto Nacional de Investigacion Agropecuaria (INIA). Programa Nacional de Investigacion en Produccion Familiar. Estacion Experimental INIA Las Brujas; UruguayFil: Blumetto, Oscar. Instituto Nacional de Investigacion Agropecuaria (INIA). Programa Nacional de Investigacion en Produccion Familiar. Estacion Experimental INIA Las Brujas; UruguayFil: Cardozo, Geronimo. Instituto Nacional de Investigacion Agropecuaria (INIA). Programa Nacional de Investigacion en Pasturas y Forrajes. Estacion Experimental INIA Treinta y Tres; UruguayFil: Leoni, Carolina. Instituto Nacional de Investigacion Agropecuaria (INIA). Programa Nacional de Investigacion en Produccion Familiar. Estacion Experimental INIA Las Brujas; UruguayFil: Quintans, Graciela. Instituto Nacional de Investigacion Agropecuaria (INIA). Programa Nacional de Investigacion en Carne y Lana. Estacion Experimental INIA Treinta y Tres; UruguayFil: Scarlato, Santiago. nstituto Nacional de Investigacion Agropecuaria (INIA). Programa Nacional de Investigacion en Produccion Familiar. Estacion Experimental INIA Las Brujas; UruguayFil: Tittonell, Pablo Adrian. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Bariloche; ArgentinaFil: Tittonell, Pablo Adrian. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas. Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias Bariloche; ArgentinaFil: Rossing, Walter A.H. Wageningen University and Research. Farming Systems Ecology, Plant Sciences Group; Holand

Ready for O4 II: GRANDMA Observations of Swift GRBs during eight-weeks of Spring 2022

We present a campaign designed to train the GRANDMA network and its infrastructure to follow up on transient alerts and detect their early afterglows. In preparation for O4 II campaign, we focused on GRB alerts as they are expected to be an electromagnetic counterpart of gravitational-wave events. Our goal was to improve our response to the alerts and start prompt observations as soon as possible to better prepare the GRANDMA network for the fourth observational run of LIGO-Virgo-Kagra (which started at the end of May 2023), and future missions such as SM. To receive, manage and send out observational plans to our partner telescopes we set up dedicated infrastructure and a rota of follow-up adcates were organized to guarantee round-the-clock assistance to our telescope teams. To ensure a great number of observations, we focused on Swift GRBs whose localization errors were generally smaller than the GRANDMA telescopes' field of view. This allowed us to bypass the transient identification process and focus on the reaction time and efficiency of the network. During 'Ready for O4 II', 11 Swift/INTEGRAL GRB triggers were selected, nine fields had been observed, and three afterglows were detected (GRB 220403B, GRB 220427A, GRB 220514A), with 17 GRANDMA telescopes and 17 amateur astronomers from the citizen science project Kilonova-Catcher. Here we highlight the GRB 220427A analysis where our long-term follow-up of the host galaxy allowed us to obtain a photometric redshift of $z=0.82\pm0.09$, its lightcurve elution, fit the decay slope of the afterglows, and study the properties of the host galaxy

Revista de Ciencias Sociales (Vol. 22 no. 25 jul 2009)

Juventud como objeto, jóvenes como sujetos. Presentación/ Verónica Filardo Notas sobre a invençâo social de um singular sujeito de dereitos. Juventude, juventudes/ Regina Novaes La construcción social de las juventudes/ Carlos Basilio Muñoz De los herederos a los desheredados. Juventud, capital escolar y trayectorias de vida/ Oscar Dávila León, Felipe Ghiardo Soto Las marcas de clase de la inseguridad ciudadana. Juventud y pobreza/ Gabriel Chouhy, Sebastián Aguiar, Laura Noboa Adiós juventud: tendencias en las transiciones a la vida adulta en Uruguay/ Santiago Cardozo, Alejandra Iervolino Reflexiones sobre equidad entre clases de edad/ Verónica Filardo De jóvenes ni, ni que habitan Casavalle. Representaciones sociales desde espacios de exclusión/ Fabiana Espíndola Fragmentación socioeconómica y segregación urbana en Montevideo/ Danilo Veiga, Ana Laura Rivoir Diagnóstico y repertorio de políticas para el rediseño institucional de la enseñanza media en Uruguay/ Nicolás Bentancur, Tabaré Fernández Reseñas de libros El Uruguay del siglo XX. La sociedad/ Sylvia González La movilidad social en el Uruguay contemporáneo/ Enrique Mazzei La implementación de normas de calidad en la industria uruguaya. Entre la innovación y el ritualismo/ Graciela Lescano Las bases invisibles del bienestar social. El trabajo no remunerado en Uruguay/ Alejandra Iervolino Las batallas por la subjetividad: luchas sociales y construcción de derechos en Uruguay/ Pedro Robert

An application of the optical microscopy to the determination of the curvature elastic modulus of biological and model membranes

A new method is proposed to measure the curvature elastic modulus k c of a membrane, by observing the thermal induced fluctuations of the shape of a spherical vesicle. Observations of the liposomes were carried out under a microscospe working in the regime of Nomarski differential interference contrast. We show that the value of kc thus measured is the curvature elastic modulus of free flip-flop.On présente une nouvelle méthode permettant de mesurer le module d'élasticité de courbure de la membrane à partir des fluctuations thermiques de la forme d'une vésicule sphérique. Des liposomes ont été observés sous microscope travaillant au régime de contraste de l'interférence différentielle de Nomarski. Nous montrons que la valeur ainsi mesurée de kc est celle du flip-flop libre

A zero-energy refurbishment solution for residential apartment buildings by applying an integrated, prefabricated façade module

The ambition to renovate the postwar building stock to an energy-neutral quality is getting a lot of attention in social housing association and other institutional owners, financial institutions and users. An effective renovation plan has to be long-term, target the deep transformation of the existing building stock, and to significantly improve its actual energy performance towards nearly zero energy levels. Even though the need for refurbishment is urgent, the rate of renovation and the resulting energy savings are relatively low. To address these issues, the paper presents a prefabricated and integrated façade module that gives the possibility to improve the current energy performance up to zero energy, while ensuring minimum disturbance for the occupants, during and after the renovation. Given that the design and installation take this constrain into consideration, it is possible to reach zero energy by adding more efficient installations and energy generation, as well as taking possible behavioral changes into account. Moreover, the paper evaluates such a zero-energy refurbishment in terms of financial feasibility. The proposed approach results in a feasible solution, which achieves high energy savings and addresses the complex issue of integrated refurbishment