New records of interesting xenophytes in the Iberian Peninsula

New records of interesting xenophytes in the Iberian Peninsula. Botanical inventories in various parts of Spain mainly between 2005 and 2007 yielded numerous chorological novelties.Cyperus prolifer is probably reported for the first time in Europe. Chenopodium simplex, Dactyloctenium aegyptium, Digitaria violascens, Eragrostis frankii, Ipomoea x leucantha, Ludwigia peploides subsp. montevidensis, Malvastrum coromandelianum, Melinis repens subsp. repens, Oenothera indecora subsp. indecora, Panicum philadelphicum subsp. gattingeri and Solanum americanum are probably recorded for the first time from Spain. Crassula campestris is first cited from Portugal. New provincial records include: Abutilon grandifolium (Barcelona), Amaranthus palmeri (Lérida), Amelichloa caudata (Valencia), Anoda cristata (Huelva), Arctotheca calendula (Gerona), Asparagus setaceus (Huelva), Bidens subalternans (Huelva), Cardiospermum halicacabum (Alicante), Cenchrus incertus (Cádiz), Cestrum parqui (Barcelona), Cyperus esculentus (Huelva), Datura ferox (Huelva), Elymus elongatus subsp. ponticus (Lérida, Sevilla), Eragrostis mexicana subsp.virescens (Huelva), Eragrostis pectinacea (Huelva), Galinsoga quadriradiata (Huelva), Hydrocotyle bonariensis (Huelva), Leptochloa uninervia (Granada, Huesca), Oenothera oehlkersi (Gerona), Rumex cristatus (Gerona), Senna obtusifolia (Huelva), Setaria faberi (Huelva), S. parviflora (Huelva), Solanum elaegnifolium (Alicante), S. linnaeanum (Granada), S. physalifolium (Huelva) and Verbena litoralis var. brevibracteata (Huelva). Previous Andalusian records of Galenia secunda turned out to be in error for G. pubescens. A large majority of the cited taxa is of American origin.Nuevas citas de xenófitos interesantes en la Península Ibérica. Diferentes campañas de herborizaciones en España entre los años 2005 -2007, han propiciado el descubrimiento de diferentes novedades corológicas para su flora. Se cita como novedad para Europa Cyperus prolifer. Son probablemente nuevas citas para España Chenopodium simplex, Dactyloctenium aegyptium, Digitaria violascens, Eragrostis frankii, Ipomoea x leucantha, Ludwigia peploides subsp. montevidensis, Malvastrum coromandelianum, Melinis repens subsp. repens, Oenothera indecora subsp. indecora, Panicum philadelphicum subsp. gattingeri y Solanum americanum. Se cita como novedad por el Portugal Crassula campestris. Se incluyen como novedades provinciales: Abutilon grandifolium (Barcelona), Amaranthus palmeri (Lérida), Amelichloa caudata (Valencia), Anoda cristata (Huelva), Arctotheca calendula (Gerona), Asparagus setaceus (Huelva), Bidens subalternans (Huelva), Cardiospermum halicacabum (Alicante), Cenchrus incertus (Cádiz), Cestrum parqui (Barcelona),Cyperus esculentus (Huelva), Datura ferox (Huelva), Elymus elongatus subsp. ponticus (Lérida, Sevilla), Eragrostis mexicana subsp. virescens (Huelva), Eragrostis pectinacea (Huelva), Galinsoga quadriradiata (Huelva), Hydrocotyle bonariensis (Huelva), Leptochloa uninervia (Granada, Huesca), Oenothera oehlkersi (Gerona), Rumex cristatus (Gerona), Senna obtusifolia (Huelva), Setaria faberi (Huelva), S. parviflora (Huelva), Solanum elaegnifolium (Alicante), S. linnaeanum (Granada), S.physalifolium (Huelva) y Verbena litoralis var. brevibracteata (Huelva). Se actualiza la nomenclatura en Andalucía de las citas previas del taxón Galenia secunda, que se cambia por Galenia pubescens, su nombre correcto. Una gran mayoría de los taxones citados son de origen americano

Population synthesis of isolated Neutron Stars with magneto--rotational evolution

We revisit the population synthesis of isolated radio-pulsars incorporating recent advances on the evolution of the magnetic field and the angle between the magnetic and rotational axes from new simulations of the magneto-thermal evolution and magnetosphere models, respectively. An interesting novelty in our approach is that we do not assume the existence of a death line. We discuss regions in parameter space that are more consistent with the observational data. In particular, we find that any broad distribution of birth spin periods with $P_0\lesssim 0.5$ s can fit the data, and that if the alignment angle is allowed to vary consistently with the torque model, realistic magnetospheric models are favoured compared to models with classical magneto-dipolar radiation losses. Assuming that the initial magnetic field is given by a lognormal distribution, our optimal model has mean strength $\langle\log B_0{\rm [G]}\rangle \approx 13.0-13.2$ with width $\sigma (\log B_0) = 0.6-0.7$. However, there are strong correlations between parameters. This degeneracy in the parameter space can be broken by an independent estimate of the pulsar birth rate or by future studies correlating this information with the population in other observational bands (X-rays and $\gamma$-rays).Comment: 10 pages, 9 figures, submitted and accepted to MNRAS, comments welcom

Bio-compounds production from agri-food wastes under a biorefinery approach: Exploring environmental and social sustainability

This is the accepted manuscript of the following book chapter: González-García, S., Gullón, P., & Gullón, B. (2019). Bio-compounds Production from Agri-food Wastes Under a Biorefinery Approach: Exploring Environmental and Social Sustainability. In S.S. Muthu (ed.), Environmental Footprints And Eco-Design Of Products And Processes (pp. 25-53). Singapore: Springer Nature. doi: 10.1007/978-981-13-2408-6_2The society and industrial sectors are facing important challenges regarding the production of bioproducts influenced by social responsibility and environmental consequences. Biorefinery development reports two important goals in the transition towards a bio-based economy: i) the displacement of fossil-based products by biomass-based ones and ii) the setting up of a strong bio-based industry. In this sense, research is being addressed into bio-based products opportunities from biomass residues with the aim of obtaining promising building blocks and high-added value products. Environmental and economic analysis of some bioproducts can be found in the literature. However, social dimension of sustainability is regularly forgotten although many attempts have been performed to standardize and provide the procedures to assess the social dimension. This chapter presents the production of potential bioproducts from agri-food industrial sector and assesses their sustainability from environmental and social perspectives with the aim of identifying potential hotspots. Since the methodology to assess environmental consequences is well-known and standardised, special attention is paid on the selection of the social indicators considered for analysis. To do so, social impact assessment is conducted through involved stakeholders, surveys and field experiments. Thus, the methodology to assess the social dimension has been formulated in detail considering very different social well-being based indicatorsThis research has been financially supported by Xunta de Galicia (project ref. ED431F 2016/001), the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (CTQ2016-81848-REDT) and the STAR-ProBio project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Program (Grant agreement No. 727740). S.G-G., P.G. & B.G. would like to express their gratitude to the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness for financial support (Grant references RYC-2014-14984, IJCI-2015-25304 and IJCI-2015-25305, respectively). The authors S.G-G. & B.G. belong to the Galician Competitive Research Group GRC 2013-032, programme co-funded by FEDER as well as to CRETUS (AGRUP2015/02)S

Novedades corológicas para la provincia de Huelva

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Spartina versicolor (Poaceae), novedad agrostológica para Andalucía

New agrostology floristic record for Andalusia (Spain).Palabras clave. Novedad agrostol6gica, Litoral, Huelva, Andalucía, España.Key words. Agrostology, Litoral, Huelva, Andalusia, Spain

Pectic Oligosaccharides and Other Emerging Prebiotics

A prebiotic is a selectively fermented ingredient that results in specific changes in the composition and/or activity of the gastrointestinal microbiota, thus conferring benefit(s) upon host health. The most widely accepted prebiotics are lactulose, inulin, fructooligosaccharides (FOS), galactooligosaccharides (GOS), and the human milk oligosaccharides (HMO). However, there is a growing list of potential prebiotics although the evidence for these, especially in humans, is not as well established as for FOS and GOS. Some of them are already commercialized but others such as polydextrose (PDX), pectic oligosaccharides (POS), bacterial exopolysaccharides (EPS), polysaccharides derived from algae and sugar alcohols are still in the early stages of development. This chapter summarizes the scientific literature regarding the manufacture and the evaluation of the properties of this group “emerging prebiotics”

Normothermic perfusion ofan isolated liver: control software implementation

The current concern about the shortage of available liver donors for transplantation poses different possibilities that help overcoming this problem. New techniques for organ preservation, organ recovery methods of those organs classified as non viable in the first place, or the still under development method of decellularization followed by the recellularization of organs, stand as the most promising solutions nowadays. Along with the primary objective, these approaches also have in common a perfusion step of the organ. This study proposes a newly developed normothermic perfusion machine with a PC control. It provides a user-friendly platform for liver perfusion with the implementation of a software control that accomplishes an autonomous and homogeneous system able to adapt and adjust to the characteristics of the organ. The circuit is constituted by a whole set of devices that are electronically interconnected in order to work one depending on each other, resembling the physiology that interacts with the liver in a real body. These allow an instant measurement of meaningful values and blood parameters of the current state of the system. Results show a stable and constant-parameter control able to work independently of human surveillance during 24 hours while maintaining organ function and viability. It becomes an easier and more accurate system that will improve and make more reliable perfusion experiments in these lines of research that work against the actual lack of liver donors. It offers not only an improved method over the actual ones, but also presents a design able to implement future clinical evaluations into the software environment.Ingeniería Biomédic

An Investigation of Dispensational Premillennialism: an Analysis and Evaluation of the Eschatology of John F. Walvoord

This study presents a historical and theological inquiry of one of the most influential eschatological views in America\u27s evangelical and premillennial fundamentalist circles: dispensational premillennialism. My objective is threefold: (1) to survey the main factors that contributed to the rise of dispensational premillennialism, (2) to evaluate its claims to the historical and theological roots, and (3) to portray and to assess the eschatology ofthis system as it has been enunciated by John F. Walvoord. To achieve these purposes, after a brief introductory chapter, we begin in chapter 2 by showing the development of premillennialismsince the days of the early church until thenineteenth century. Chapter 3 examines the role and impact offuturism upon premillennialism. The chapter also discusses the claims of Dispensationalism concerning its continuity with the premillennialism of the early church. The historical rise of dispensational premillennialism is traced to John Nelson Darby. The last part of the chapter surveys the theological roots of this system. It shows that some features of the chiliasm of theearly church that seem to come from Jewish apocalypticism appear in dispensational premillennialism. Special attention is given to Lacunza\u27s millenarian ideas that show a close parallel with most of the tenets of modern Dispensationalism. Chapter 4 describes the premillennial eschatology of John F. Walvoord who is a widely known contemporary representative of classic Dispensationalism. Chapter 5 utilizes the findings of chapters 3 and 4 and provides a critical evaluation of the historical and theological backgrounds of dispensational premillennialism within the history of Christian doctrinal development from the Scriptures. Walvoord\u27s hermeneutics, ecclesiology, pretribulational eschatology, and the nature of the millennial kingdom are evaluated on their own merits. The final chapter presents the summary and conclusions of this study