Immunity-related GTPases (IRGs) in the house mouse and the parasite Toxoplasma gondii in South America

"The Immunity-related GTPases (IRGs) are IFNγ-inducible genes essential for resistance against intracellular pathogens in the house mouse. In some wild-derived house mice, such as the Eurasian mice CIM strain, polymorphic IRG genes have been linked to the control of virulent strains of the intracellular parasite Toxoplasma gondii. The house mouse (Mus musculus domesticus) arrived in the Americas on the first European vessels in the 16th century, but they had never encountered infections with the highly virulent T. gondii strains present in South America.(...)"Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkia

Puente Bulnes as a memorial place : types of appropriation and generation of memorial

En este artículo analizamos los procesos de apropiación característicos de un lugar de me-moria en Chile llamado Puente Bulnes. Este análisis se hace en función de una investigación etnográfica, en la cual realizamos observaciones participantes y entrevistas etnográficas en distintos días y momentos del día en el memorial. Consideramos como aspecto central la apropiación, siendo ésta necesaria para establecer el vínculo con el lugar de memoria y su consecuente mantención, apropiación que es específica a los sujetos que la protagonizan, a los significados que la sustentan, y a los usos que la despliegan.In this article we analyze the characteristic appropriation process of a memorial place in Chile called Puente Bulnes. This analysis is made in function of an ethnographic investiga-tion, in which participants observation and ethnographic interviews were made by us at different moments of different days in the memorial place. We consider appropriation as a central aspect, being it needed to establish the link with the memorial place and it subse-quence maintenance, appropriation which is specific to subjects that are responsible for it, of meanings that support it, and the uses that display it

Aproximación de raíces complejas con el método de Newton

El método de Newton es uno de los métodos más importantes en la literatura cuando se trata de encontrar una buena aproximación para la solución de ecuaciones no lineales. No parece muy extraño, que podamos pensar en trabajar con este méetodo para aproximar raíces complejas, pero ¿Cómo hacerlo?. En esta ponencia se expondrán las bases para el estudio de este método\ampliado", su interpretación geométrica, la convergencia a la que nos enfrentamos y la obtención de su algoritmo para ser aplicado en lenguaje C. Empezaremos pensando en una fórmula para determinar aproximaciones de raíces de funciones de variable compleja, dicha formula es muy parecida a la de Newton para números reales

Shattering Stained Glass: Empowering Christian Women to Lead Equitably in the Church and Society

In today\u27s American Christian culture, it has been my observation that women are still feeling the repercussions of Christian traditions and theologies that have an elongated history of neglecting their authority and leadership. After having a decade and a half of experience working within different Christian communities, there has been an overwhelming amount of evidence to support that there is a strong disconnect between the theology of women’s leadership and the physical, practical, and systematic action of engaging them as leaders. Among these narratives is my own. After having served in a leadership role within an evangelical mega church for over a decade, I have experienced the systematic realities and hurdles many women face in a white, male, dominated community. Within my research, I have concluded that while a church may preach from the pulpit the authority and theological justification of women in leadership, there can easily remain systems and methods that keep them from actually embodying those positions. As a result, these women, who feel called to leadership have been overlooked, underequipped, and have failed to have access to fundamental resources to equip them in their calling as leaders. This thesis project will seek to examine the ways in which the church can and should be an advocate for female leadership and contribute to the reconciling of a patriarchal dominated culture. We accomplish this by first specifically naming how Christian communities have failed in aiding female leaders in their identity, calling, and gifting. It is this thesis writer’s conviction that if we are to “fix” an issue, we must be willing to “face” the issue. Therefore, this thesis will spend a considerable amount of time diagnosing the obstacles of female leadership from women’s point of view. In summary what our findings will conclude is that there is a large population of female leaders who face systematic inequality. Consequently, this has resulted in many women questioning their imago dei, their purpose, and their ability to engage in the leadership to which they are called. As a result, it has led women to not only give up on their pursuits of leadership, but it has also caused psychological and emotional harm. Consequently, women have not only reported leaving the church, but they have unfortunately learned to normalize their pain and suffering. Therefore, this thesis will also name how a continual negation of engaging their needs only perpetuates a culture that marginalizes them. Thanks to the contribution of many marginalized theologies, such as feminist, black, and mujerista, we now have a theological framework that suggest that the church can no longer stand idly by as the people within their communities feel oppressed, marginalized, and neglected. Therefore, the next portion of this thesis will be centered around articulating a theological disposition that justifies the inclusivity of women and the equitable empowerment to see women participate as part of the Body of Christ. We will do this by specifically looking at Ubuntu theology and Incarnational Theology, which articulates the Churches theological necessity to participate in the reconciliatory actions of Christ. Thereby, negating any culturally justified actions that ignore the systematic negation of female leadership. As a result, the purpose of our question is to reconcile the disconnect between a Christian communities which claims female leadership but practically fails in embodying this equality in the day-to-day practice of their communities. By addressing this severed connection between theory and practice, we are left with a clearer understanding of the elements needed to empower the women within the Church to be the leaders they believe God has divinely called, identified, and enabled them to be. The goal of this thesis is to leave us with a framework to help Christian communities reconcile the female/male leadership disparities within our churches and society. To that end, this thesis will seek to answer, “Will a praxis of engaging women’s identity, gifting, and calling aid women in their leadership and will it contribute to reconciling the female/male disparities within our Christian communities so that women are empowered and released to fully lead in Church and society?” By establishing a theology of reconciliation that calls us into a narrative of aiding and equipping female leadership, I will conclude this thesis by offering a theological and systematic praxis and by examining if this praxis ultimately contributes to the church becoming an advocate for female leadership and contribute to the reconciliation of a patriarchally dominated culture

Marine science theses database

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Application of ISO 9000 in a university library a case study: advantages and disadvantages [poster]

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Veamy: an extensible object-oriented C++ library for the virtual element method

This paper summarizes the development of Veamy, an object-oriented C++ library for the virtual element method (VEM) on general polygonal meshes, whose modular design is focused on its extensibility. The linear elastostatic and Poisson problems in two dimensions have been chosen as the starting stage for the development of this library. The theory of the VEM, upon which Veamy is built, is presented using a notation and a terminology that resemble the language of the finite element method (FEM) in engineering analysis. Several examples are provided to demonstrate the usage of Veamy, and in particular, one of them features the interaction between Veamy and the polygonal mesh generator PolyMesher. A computational performance comparison between VEM and FEM is also conducted. Veamy is free and open source software

Informe Final De Pasantía BTG Pactual

Informe de la pasantía realizada en la empresa BTG Pactual para el área de tecnología.Report of the internship carried out in the BTG Pactual company for the technology area

Understanding consumer preferences within the food system: A research study in the city of Cali, Colombia

Following the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) definition of a food system, this encompasses all the stages of keeping the human population fed. At a global level, the food system is responsible for around 19-29% of the world’s GHG emissions, and is the major cause of deforestation. It also accounts for 20% of energy consumption and it is the biggest consumer of freshwater, using 70% of available resources. This complex system covers multiple stakeholders, both from the supply and demand side. This study focuses on the demand side and the aim is to understand the consumer preferences when choosing food with varying environmental, social and health attributes by using Discrete Choice Experiments (DCE). Consumers value environmental, health and social attributes related with food differently. Agrochemicals (with an impact on both the health of the environment and the human population) along with environmental factors such as deforestation level are the most important attributes when choosing food products. Human health factors are also part of the preferences of consumers but in a less importance. (Non) Social demographic factors do have an effect on the consumers ‘interests and therefore in their MWTP for a more sustainable diet