Responses of four Amazon fishes (pirarucu, tambaqui, matrinxã and tamoatá) to capture, handling and crowling stress were used to validade the efficcacy of a portable meter in measuring blood glucose. Findings indicate a potential role for portable glucose instrument in…

Many land-cover change detection techniques have been developed; however, different conclusions about the value or appropriateness of each exist. This difference of opinion is often influenced by the landscape complexity of study areas and data used for analysis. Which method…

La presente investigación se ha centrado en el estudio de la revista de estudios deportivos Citius, Altius, Fortius (1959-1976), una de las de mayor alcance y relevancia de la historia reciente de la cultura física y deportiva. Su importancia se…

Aims: Control of microbial pathogens by using antagonistic microorganisms is a promising
alternative to chemical fungicides. The objective of the present study was to isolate and
characterize soil actinomycetes and to their inhibitory activity against some fungal plant
pathogens.
Place…

In 1986 Thereza Imanishi-Kari, then an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was at the peak of her career. She had just coauthored a paper in the prestigious journal Cell with David Baltimore, a Nobel laureate. Their research…

Los objetivos planteados en esta tesis son conocer los hábitos de publicación de los investigadores adscritos a un conjunto de áreas/departamentos de la UC3M, durante el período 1997-2003, en las bases de datos del Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), identificando…

In Theory of the Novel, Georg Lukács suggests that one of the defining traits of characters in novels is that they are always on a quest. We generally study the "novelistic quest" from that point of view, referring to a…

/Justice Weekly/ was a tabloid newspaper published in Toronto, Canada, from 1946 to 1972. Like other postwar English-language tabloids, it contained police and court news, horse racing information, and an oppositional orientation to the mainstream press. However, under publisher-editor Philip…

primary and metastatic brain tumors evolve and progress. While brain tumor cells express tissue factor (TF) and other effectors of the coagulation system (coagulome), their propensity to induce local and peripheral thrombosis is highly diverse, most dramatic in the case…

Background:Transitions in clinical care are often associated with changes in services and with care goals (Davidson, Dracup, Phillips, Padilla and Daly, 2007; Naylor, 2000). Although the transition from curative care to palliative care is recognized as a critical moment in…