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A redescription of Ypsylonellus similis (Thorne, 1925) Andrassy, 1984, with descriptions of some related species (Nematoda : Cephalobidae)
#Ypsylonellus similis est redécrit à partir des femelles types, de femelles provenant d'Espagne, des spécimens originaux de #Stegelletina lineata et des spécimens types de #S. mucronata, ces deux dernières espèces étant synonymisées à #Y. similis. D'autres spécimens provenant de sites variés sont également décrits ; ils sont considérés comme appartenant à, ou très proches de, #Y. devimucronatus, Y. insubricus, Cervidellus serratus et #C. neftasiensis. Il est démontré que la présence ou l'absence de stries longitudinales ne peut être utilisée pour caractériser le genre #Stegelletina. La structure des axiles céphaliques pourrait fournir une meilleure base pour la classification des espèces appartenant aux genres #Stegelletina, Ypsylonellus et #Cervidellus$ mais un plus grand nombre d'espèces doit être étudié avant de pouvoir proposer des changements taxinomiques. (Résumé d'auteur
Effects of pitch and musical sounds on body-representations when moving with sound
The effects of music on bodily movement and feelings, such as when people are dancing or engaged in physical activity, are well-documented—people may move in response to the sound cues, feel powerful, less tired. How sounds and bodily movements relate to create such effects? Here we deconstruct the problem and investigate how different auditory features affect people’s body-representation and feelings even when paired with the same movement. In three experiments, participants executed a simple arm raise synchronised with changing pitch in simple tones (Experiment 1), rich musical sounds (Experiment 2) and within different frequency ranges (Experiment 3), while we recorded indirect and direct measures on their movement, body-representations and feelings. Changes in pitch influenced people’s general emotional state as well as the various bodily dimensions investigated—movement, proprioceptive awareness and feelings about one’s body and movement. Adding harmonic content amplified the differences between ascending and descending sounds, while shifting the absolute frequency range had a general effect on movement amplitude, bodily feelings and emotional state. These results provide new insights in the role of auditory and musical features in dance and exercise, and have implications for the design of sound-based applications supporting movement expression, physical activity, or rehabilitation
Role of defects in the electronic properties of amorphous/crystalline Si interface
The mechanism determining the band alignment of the amorphous/crystalline
Si heterostructures is addressed with direct atomistic simulations of the
interface performed using a hierarchical combination of various computational
schemes ranging from classical model-potential molecular dynamics to ab-initio
methods. We found that in coordination defect-free samples the band alignment
is almost vanishing and independent on interface details. In defect-rich
samples, instead, the band alignment is sizeably different with respect to the
defect-free case, but, remarkably, almost independent on the concentration of
defects. We rationalize these findings within the theory of semiconductor
interfaces.Comment: 4 pages in two-column format, 2 postscript figures include
Input-Output Relations in Optical Cavities: a Simple Point of View
In this work we present a very simple approach to input-output relations in
optical cavities, limiting ourselves to one- and two-photon states of the
field.
After field quantization, we derive the non-unitary transformation between
{\em Inside} and {\em Outside} annihilation and creation operators. Then we
express the most general two-photon state generated by {\em Inside} creation
operators, through base states generated by {\em Outside} creation operators.
After renormalization of coefficients of inside two-photon state, we calculate
the outside photon-number probability distribution in a general case. Finally
we treat with some detail the single mode and symmetrical cavity case.Comment: 34 pages, 5 figures jpg, LaTe
The Effect of Steroid Treatment on Lipocortin Immunoreactivity of Rat Brain
Lipocortin-1, lipocortin-2 and lipocortin-5 were
immunohistochemically assessed in rats. Apart from animals receiving
no treatment, other animals received pretreatment with
methylprednisolone, or the 21-aminosteroid U-74389F. Whereas
Hpocortin immunoreactivity was absent in the greater part of the
brain in animals not pretreated with steroid (except in sporadic
microglial cells and choroid plexus), there was obvious
immunostaining of parenchymatous elements in steroid pretreated
animals. In the steroid pretreated animals lipocortin
immunoreactivity of the brain tissue may indicate local formation of
lipocortin under the influence of steroids that had entered the
tissue. The cellular elements which showed immunostaining included
meningeal cells, neurones, ependyma, oligodendroglia and capillary
endotheHum
Tenacibaculum adriaticum sp. nov., from bryozoans in the Adriatic Sea
A rod-shaped, translucent yellow-pigmented, Gram-negative bacterium, strain B390(T), was isolated from the bryozoan Schizobrachiella sanguinea collected in the Adriatic Sea, near Rovinj, Croatia. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis indicated affiliation to the genus Tenacibaculum, with sequence similarity levels of 94.8-97.3 % to type strains of species with validly published names. It grew at 5-34 degrees C, with optimal growth at 18-26 degrees C, and only in the presence of NaCl or sea salts. In contrast to other type strains of the genus, strain B390(T) was able to hydrolyse aesculin. The predominant menaquinone was MK-6 and major fatty acids were iso-C-15:0, iso-C-15:0 3-OH and iSO-C-15:1. The DNA G + C content was 31.6 mol%. DNA-DNA hybridization and comparative physiological tests were performed with type strains Tenacibaculum aestuarii JCM 13491(T) and Tenacibaculum lutimaris DSM 16505 T, since they exhibit 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities above 97%. These data, as well as phylogenetic analyses, suggest that strain B390(T) (=DSM 18961(T) =JCM 14633(T)) should be classified as the type strain of a novel species within the genus Tenacibaculum, for which the name Tenacibaculum adriaticum sp. nov. is proposed
An evaluation framework for data competitions in TEL
This paper presents a study describing the development of an Evaluation Framework (EF) for data competitions in TEL. The study applies the Group Concept Method (GCM) to empirically depict criteria and their indicators for evaluating software applications in TEL. A statistical analysis including multidimensional scaling and hierarchical clustering on the GCM data identified the following six evaluation criteria: 1.Educational Innovation, 2.Usability, 3.Data, 4.Performance, 5.Privacy, and 6.Audience. Each of them was operationalized through a set of indicators. The resulting Evaluation Framework (EF) incorporating these criteria was applied to the first data competition of the LinkedUp project. The EF was consequently improved using the results from reviewers' interviews, which were analysed qualitatively and quantitatively. The outcome of these efforts is a comprehensive EF that can be used for TEL data competitions and for the evaluation of TEL tools in general. The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11200-8_6.EC/FP7/LinkedUpEC/FP7/DURAAR
Grassroots Agency: Participation and Conflict in Buenos Aires Shantytowns seen through the Pilot Plan for Villa 7 (1971–1975)
open access articleIn 1971, after more than a decade of national and municipal policies aimed at the top-down removal of shantytowns, the Buenos Aires City Council approved the Plan Piloto para la Relocalización de Villa 7 (Pilot Plan for the Relocation of Shantytown 7; 1971–1975, referred to as the Pilot Plan hereinafter). This particular plan, which resulted in the construction of the housing complex, Barrio Justo Suárez, endures in the collective memory of Argentines as a landmark project regarding grassroots participation in state housing initiatives addressed at shantytowns. Emerging from a context of a housing shortage for the growing urban poor and intense popular mobilizations during the transition to democracy, the authors of the Pilot Plan sought to empower shantytown residents in novel ways by: 1) maintaining the shantytown’s location as opposed to eradication schemes that relocated the residents elsewhere, 2) formally employing some of the residents for the stage of construction, as opposed to “self-help” housing projects in which the residents contributed with unpaid labor, and 3) including them in the urban and architectural design of the of the new housing.
This paper will examine the context in which the Pilot Plan was conceived of as a way of re-assessing the roles of the state, the user, and housing-related professionals, often seen as antagonistic. The paper argues that residents’ fair participation and state intervention in housing schemes are not necessarily incompatible, and can function in specific social and political contexts through multiactor proposals backed by a political will that prioritizes grassroots agency
Actinopolyspora algeriensis sp. nov., a novel halophilic actinomycete isolated from a Saharan soil
A halophilic actinomycete strain designated H19T, was isolated from a Saharan soil in the Bamendil region (Ouargla province, South Algeria) and was characterized taxonomically by using a polyphasic approach. The morphological and chemotaxonomic characteristics of the
strain were consistent with those of members of the genus
Actinopolyspora, and 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis confirmed that strain H19T was a novel species of the genus
Actinopolyspora. DNA–DNA hybridization value between strain H19T and the nearest Actinopolyspora species, A. halophila, was clearly below the 70 % threshold. The genotypic and phenotypic data showed that the organism represents a novel species of the genus Actinopolyspora for which the name Actinopolyspora algeriensis sp. nov. is proposed, with the type strain H19T (= DSM 45476T = CCUG 62415T)
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