Ampelographic characteristics of the grape variety Malbec, cultivated in Mendoza (Argentina) : according to the O.I.V. method

De acuerdo con el programa Caracterización ampelográfica, fenológica y bioclimática de cepajes se ha actualizado la descripción de la variedad Malbec según normas homologadas internacionalmente. El método utilizado se ha basado en los Códigos de Caracteres Ampelográficos de la O.I.V., que abarcan: detallada observación de los órganos de la planta • sinónimos • origen, antecedentes y situación actual, • características ampelográficas y diferenciales • comportamiento agronómico y fenológico, • aptitud Los resultados conforman una ficha actualizada del cepaje, complementada con tomas fotográficas de brote, hoja, racimo, flor, baya y semilla.The grape variety Malbec description is part of the Ampelographic, phenologic and bioclimate characterization program. This work is an up-date of the descriptions existing actually according to present rules and internationally homologated standards. The description is based on methodology supply by O.I.V. on t detailed observation of the differents plant organs, synonymous, origin, antecedents, actual situation, ampelo-graphic and differential characteristics, agronomic and phenologic behavior, and aptitude. List of characters of grape varieties up to-date and completed with photograps of the shoot, leaf, bunch, flower, grain and seed.Fil: Rodríguez, José G. . Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias AgrariasFil: Matus, Mirta Susana. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias AgrariasFil: Catania, Carlos D.. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias. Departamento de Producción AgropecuariaFil: Avagnina de Del Monte, Silvia . Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Agraria

Low protein diets in patients with chronic kidney disease: a bridge between mainstream and complementary-alternative medicines?

Dietary therapy represents an important tool in the management of chronic kidney disease (CKD), mainly through a balanced reduction of protein intake aimed at giving the remnant nephrons in damaged kidneys a "functional rest". While dialysis, transplantation, and pharmacological therapies are usually seen as "high tech" medicine, non pharmacological interventions, including diets, are frequently considered lifestyle-complementary treatments. Diet is one of the oldest CKD treatments, and it is usually considered a part of "mainstream" management. In this narrative review we discuss how the lessons of complementary alternative medicines (CAMs) can be useful for the implementation and study of low-protein diets in CKD. While high tech medicine is mainly prescriptive, prescribing a "good" life-style change is usually not enough and comprehensive counselling is required; the empathic educational approach, on which CAMs are mainly, though not exclusively based, may support a successful personalized nutritional intervention.There is no gold-standard, low-protein diet for all CKD patients: from among a relatively vast choice, the best compliance is probably obtained by personalization. This approach interferes with the traditional RCT-based analyses which are grounded upon an assumption of equal preference of treatments (ideally blinded). Whole system approaches and narrative medicine, that are widely used in the study of CAMs, may offer ways to integrate EBM and personalised medicine in the search for innovative solutions respecting individualization, but gaining sound data, such as with partially-randomised patient preference trials

The Viper Algorithm: A New Approach for Detection Using 2D-Adaptive Sampling

This paper describes a new technique of irregular and adaptive sampling developed to process still images con- taining objects of interest over a non interesting back- ground. The method allows the identication of inter- esting elements and is able to choose the sampling in- terval more adequate to obtain a correct description of them. The not interesting background is roughly sam- pled and this particular aspect of the method is an im- portant advantage. Objects are rst detected by a pre- liminary sampling phase and then a resampling process begins, until a convergence test in the Fourier domain is satised and stops the process. Examples of applica- tions are give

Irregular and Adaptive Sampling for Automatic Geophysics Measurement Systems

In this paper a sampling method, based on an irregular and adaptive strategy, is described. It can be used as automatic guide for rovers designed to explore terrestrial and planetary environments. Starting from the hypothesis that a explorative vehicle is equipped with a payload able to acquire measurements of interesting quantities, the method is able to detect objects of interest from measured points and to realize an adaptive sampling, while badly describing the not interesting background