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Foucauldian Biopolitics and Nation Making in General Juan Velasco’s Peru, 1968-1975
This brief academic article examines the military government of General Juan Velasco Alvarado in Peru from 1968 through 1975 via the lens of Michel Foucauld’s foundational concepts of biopolitics and biopower. It analyzes a variety of primary and secondary sources, including legal documents from Velasco’s government, state propaganda posters, economic appendixes, historiographical analyses from the time, and other important documents. By examining this varied set of documents, we are able to get a better understanding of how biopower was utilized by Velasco’s government, as best seen through the discourse they maintained, to legitimize their undemocratic hold on power. This comprehensive research study also allows us to apply basic concepts of state power, authority, discourse, and biopolitics to other pivotal moments in twentieth-century Latin America
The role of cGMP on adenosine A1 receptor-mediated inhibition of synaptic transmission at the hippocampus
Copyright © 2016 Pinto, Serpa, Sebastião and Cascalheira. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.Both adenosine A1 receptor and cGMP inhibit synaptic transmission at the hippocampus and recently it was found that A1 receptor increased cGMP levels in hippocampus, but the role of cGMP on A1 receptor-mediated inhibition of synaptic transmission remains to be established. In the present work we investigated if blocking the NOS/sGC/cGMP/PKG pathway using nitric oxide synthase (NOS), protein kinase G (PKG), and soluble guanylyl cyclase (sGC) inhibitors modify the A1 receptor effect on synaptic transmission. Neurotransmission was evaluated by measuring the slope of field excitatory postsynaptic potentials (fEPSPs) evoked by electrical stimulation at hippocampal slices. N6-cyclopentyladenosine (CPA, 15 nM), a selective A1 receptor agonist, reversibly decreased the fEPSPs by 54 ± 5%. Incubation of the slices with an inhibitor of NOS (L-NAME, 200 μM) decreased the CPA effect on fEPSPs by 57 ± 9% in female rats. In males, ODQ (10 μM), an sGC inhibitor, decreased the CPA inhibitory effect on fEPSPs by 23 ± 6%, but only when adenosine deaminase (ADA,1 U/ml) was present; similar results were found in females, where ODQ decreased CPA-induced inhibition of fEPSP slope by 23 ± 7%. In male rats, the presence of the PKG inhibitor (KT5823, 1 nM) decreased the CPA effect by 45.0 ± 9%; similar results were obtained in females, where KT5823 caused a 32 ± 9% decrease on the CPA effect. In conclusion, the results suggest that the inhibitory action of adenosine A1 receptors on synaptic transmission at hippocampus is, in part, mediated by the NOS/sGC/cGMP/PKG pathway.AS received a scholarship from FCT (SFRH/BD/65112/2009).info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
A Modified Direct Power Control Strategy Allowing the Connection of Three-Phase Inverters to the Grid Through LCL Filters
Abstract — This paper proposes a novel approach to adapt the conventional Direct Power Control (DPC) for high power applications with a third order LCL filter. The strong resonance present in the LCL filter is damped with additional effort in the system control. The application of DPC to the control of threephase Voltage Source Inverter (VSI) connected to the grid through a LCL filter has not yet been considered. An active damping strategy for the LCL filter together with harmonic rejection control is proposed over the conventional DPC. The steady state as well as the dynamic performance of the proposed system is presented by means of the simulation results and compared with the conventional approach
Relative age effect on national selection process in triathlon
El objetivo de este estudio fue analizar el efecto de la edad relativa (RAE)
en el proceso de selección nacional de triatletas (n = 1321) durante las
temporadas 2013-2015. La muestra fue divida por categorÃas y sexo. Cada una
fue subdividida en 4 cuartiles según la fecha de nacimiento. Las diferencias
fueron analizadas mediante la prueba no paramétrica Krustal-Wallis. Para la
comparación múltiple se utilizó U de Mann Whitney. Los resultados mostraron
que el rendimiento en las pruebas analizadas presentaba una mejor tendencia
en aquellos deportistas nacidos en el primer cuartil del año para el sexo masculino. En esta lÃnea, los atletas nacidos en la última parte mostraron un peor
rendimiento general. Estos resultados fueron menos consistentes para el sexo
femenino. Este trabajo ha puesto de manifiesto la influencia del RAE en
los procesos de identificación de talentos y la estructura competitiva, sugiriendo su consideración en los procesos de selecciónThe aim of this study was to analyze the influence of relative age effect on
the selection process in triathlon (n = 1321). The sample was divided by category
and gender. Each category was allocated into four quartiles - based on date of
birth according to the selection year. The Krustal-Wallis and Mann-Whitney test
were used to analyze the intra-categorical and intra-gender differences. The
results showed a better performance trend in those athletes that were born in the
first quartile. In contrast, athletes that were born in the latter part of the year
showed poorer overall performance and a lower score in the point scale.
However, these results were less consistent for females. This work has shown a
significant loss of potential triathlon talent due to the influence of RAE in
the selection process and competitive structureEste trabajo ha sido financiado por la SecretarÃa de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación del Ministerio de EconomÃa [DEP2012-32124
Tuberculosis Disparity between US-born Blacks and Whites, Houston, Texas, USA1
An unusually high proportion of cases in Houston are caused by active transmission of endemic strains among US-born non-Hispanic blacks
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Sentinel Case of Candida auris in the Western United States Following Prolonged Occult Colonization in a Returned Traveler from India.
Candida auris is an emerging multidrug-resistant yeast with high mortality. We report the sentinel C. auris case on the United States West Coast in a patient who relocated from India. We identified close phylogenetic relatedness to the South Asia clade and ERG11 Y132F and FKS1 S639Y mutations potentially explaining antifungal resistance
Les technologies d'assistance pour la qualité de vie et l'autonomie des déficients visuels (TAVIS)
International audienceLe nombre de personnes déficientes visuelles est évalué à 285 millions dans le monde. L'analyse des limitations d'activité et restrictions de participation de ces personnes montre que les nouvelles technologies interactives peuvent apporter des réponses pertinentes pour améliorer leur autonomie. Depuis une décennie, nous avons lancé un ensemble de recherches fondamentales et appliquées permettant de concevoir des dispositifs d'assistance pour les déficients visuels. Les différents domaines concernés sont l'orientation et la mobilité, l'accessibilité des documents (cartes géographiques), l'accessibilité des dispositifs mobiles (smartphones ou tablettes) ou la simulation de la vision prothétique (implant rétinien ou cortical). Afin de travailler de façon pérenne sur la conception de nouvelles technologies d'assistance avec les déficients visuels mais aussi les formateurs et enseignants spécialisés, nous avons créé un laboratoire de recherche commun avec un Centre d'Education Spécialisé pour Déficients Visuel
Key factors controlling the post-fire hydrological and erosive response at micro-plot scale in a recently burned Mediterranean forest
The impacts of wildfires on the hydrological and erosive response of forest ecosystems have been extensively
studied worldwide. Nevertheless, few studies have measured post-fire runoff and erosion over large time scales
in Mediterranean-climate type environments and even fewer studies considered the effects of pre-fire land
management practices on post-fire hydrological and erosive processes. In a previous study in the Colmeal
study area, Vieira et al. (2016) revealed that post-fire runoff and erosion may not follow the classic window of
disturbance model, since the peak of post-fire response occurred in the second and third years after fire. This previous study also showed that pre-fire land management can substantially influence the post-fire response, since
annual runoff and erosion were lower in pre-fire unplowed than plowed sites. In this follow-up work, a multiple
regression model (MRM) analysis was performed to understand how several key factors influence the hydrological and erosive response of a burned Mediterranean forest, taking into account the wildfire; pre-fire land
management practices (unplowed, downslope plowed, and contour plowed) and soil moisture conditions.
Based on the results of the present study, post-fire runoff was largely explained by rainfall amounts and soil water
repellency (SWR)-related variables, whereas erosion processes were better explained by rainfall intensity and
ground cover variables. Fewer factors were found to control the hydrological response of plowed sites when compared to the unplowed site. Aside from rainfall intensity, which was the major factor controlling sediment losses,
bare soil cover also seems to have been important for erosion processes at the unplowed site, whereas at the
plowed sites stone cover was the second most relevant factor. Rainfall-related variables (rainfall and maximum
30-min rainfall intensity) were more important for explaining runoff and erosion under dry conditions than
under wet conditions. The results of the MRM analysis are an important contribution to understand the dynamics
of burned forest areas and should be considered when adapting hydrological and erosion models to post-fire
environments.publishe
Photophysics of 3-hydroxyflavone in supercritical CO2: a probe to study the microenvironment of SCF
The excitation of 3-hydroxyflavone (3HF) to its second excited singlet state (S2) gives rise to dual fluorescence in supercritical carbon dioxide. The ultraviolet fluorescence originated from the S2 state of 3HF is well separated from the green emission emanating from the tautomeric form, produced via the excited state intramolecular proton transfer. The relative intensity of the S2 to the tautomer fluorescence (S2/T) has been studied as a function of pressure and temperature. It is shown that this ratio reflects the microheterogeneity of the supercritical CO2, and confirms the value of fluorometric probes in disclosing the microscopic properties of supercritical fluids.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6TFN-4BVP7G9-3/1/02dd61c567fe3e9c8d6ac86a01f79ce
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