Solaris - Science topic

This paper presents a method for obtaining photovoltaic thin films and simulation results of complex power systems. Photovoltaic thin films were obtained using the magnetron sputtering method. Simulations of complex power systems consisting of thin photovoltaic modules, energy storage and a heat pump have been performed. The capabilities of one of...

The aim of the article is the material and economic assessment of the life cycle of city buses with com-bustion engines. As part of the analysis, the analyzed parameters were optimized using neural networks with the use of a regression model. As part of the life cycle assessment criteria, three types of Solaris Urbino buses were analyzed. As a resu...

Virtualisasi secara harfiah merupakan usaha untuk mempresentasikan atau menghasilkan suatu bentuk virtual dari suatu yang bersifat fisik. Teknologi virtualisasi adalah teknik dan konsep yang memungkinkan perangkat lunak berjalan di lingkungan yang terpisah dari sistem operasi komputer. Pada rumah sakit Mitra Siaga kabupaten tegal, awalnya kesulitan...

The third instar and pupa of both sexes of Gymnetis pudibunda Burmeister (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Gymnetini) are described and illustrated based on reared specimens from adults collected in forests within Parque Nacional Chaco, Capital Solari, Chaco, Argentina. Notes on the natural history of the species are included, and a key is pro...

Si evidenzia la costante presenza nelle creme solari di ingredienti, come alcuni conservanti, antiossidanti e sostanze profumanti, che hanno effetti negativi per l’ambiente e la salute e che potrebbero essere facilmente sostituiti con alternative ecologiche. Molti prodotti contengono allergeni e sostanze nocive per la pelle, altri sostanze che poss...

Microalgae including diatoms are of interest for environmentally friendly manufacturing such as production of biofuels, chemicals, and materials. The highly oil-accumulating marine diatom Fistulifera solaris has been studied as a promising host organism to be employed for these applications. Recently reported large-scale genetic engineering based o...

O cultivo da alface tem sido prejudicado por problemas fitossanitários, em especialmente o gênero Meloidogynes sp.. Na tentativa de minimizar prejuízos, busca-se práticas de cultivo que sejam eficientes, de baixo custo, e com reduzido impacto ambiental, tais como a utilização de controle biológico. Objetivou-se avaliar o potencial nematicida de age...

Prior to transitioning to a coral diet, juvenile Acanthaster cf. solaris, the Crown-of-Thorns Seastar (COTS), feed on crustose coralline algae. Although a detailed understanding of juvenile ecology is crucial to predict and prevent outbreaks, the exact timing of the transition is unresolved. Two experiments were conducted to measure time and size o...

Outbreaks of the corallivorous Crown-of-Thorns Seastar (CoTS) Acanthaster cf. solaris contribute significantly to coral reef loss. Control of outbreaks is hampered because standard monitoring techniques do not detect outbreaks at early (low density) stages, thus preventing early intervention. We previously demonstrated that eDNA monitoring can dete...

El establecimiento de la humanidad en el cosmos ha llevado a especular sobre el contacto con otras formas de vida compleja, pero apenas se ha reflexionado sobre los espacios que acogerán la interacción. La novela Solaris, escrita por Stanisław Lem, nos muestra un caso de estudio relevante acerca de cómo el espacio puede condicionar la forma de rela...

Proton nuclear magnetic resonance (1H NMR) metabolomics was employed to investigate the impact of water deficit, defoliation, and crop thinning on the chemical composition of must and wines from the cool-climate white grape variety Solaris. The obtained results show that viticultural practices (defoliation and crop thinning) affected the amino acid...

The article is devoted to the semantics of the portal image as an important component of fantasy and horror literature. The text focuses on the features of the representation of this artistic constant at the chronotype level, its changes resulting from the literary tradition and the author's individual intentions.The functions of the portal image i...

Sappiamo tutti che la vitamina D è un nutriente essenziale per il nostro organismo, perché ci può proteggere da molteplici malattie. Sappiamo anche che la vitamina D si produce nel nostro organismo attraverso l'esposizione al sole, però è altrettanto noto che oggi i raggi solari sono particolarmente pericolosi per il rischio di melanoma cutaneo, un...

La colonia romana di Augusta Taurinorum è all'origine di Torino. Dopo qualche parola per illustrare la fondazione, ed aver fornito riferimenti bibliografici relativi, si discutono la proposte, quella da me fatta nel 2012 e altre seguenti, che indicano o pretendono datazioni archeoastronomiche. Si presterà particolare attenzione agli scritti dello s...

ACTIS (Arc Compressor Test In a Synchrotron) is an experiment aimed to demonstrate the reliability of arc com-pressors as lattices capable to increase peak current and brightness of an electron beam as it is bent at large angles. This kind of devices has been proposed at theoretical level in several works over the past decades and could be the key...

Estamos há 388 anos distantes da condenação de Galileo Galilei pela Inquisição romana devido, principalmente, à publicação de sua obra Dialoghi sopra i due massimi sistemi del Mondo (Diálogos sobre os dois Máximos Sistemas de Mundo – figura 1). A obra é uma demolição dos argumentos aristotélicos da centralidade e imobilidade da Terra, numa...

This research was conducted to determine the quality of service in increasing guest satisfaction at Hotel Solaris Kuta, service quality has five dimensions which include direct evidence (tangible), reliability (reliability), responsiveness (responsiveness), assurance (assurance), and empathy (empathy). The author uses research methods with data col...

The taxonomical status of the species in the genus Stellaria Møller, 1832 is reviewed. Prior to this work, the genus included several recent and fossil species, showing considerable morphological variation. This genus is reviewed and Trochus solaris Linné, 1764 and Stellaria solaris paucispinosa Kosuge & Nomoto, 1972 are retained in it. The latter...

Management of coral predators, corallivores, is recommended to improve coral cover on tropical coral reefs under projected increasing levels of accumulated thermal stress, but whether corallivore management can improve coral cover, which is necessary for large-scale operationalisation, remains equivocal. Here, using a multispecies ecosystem model,...

The article studies the phenomenon of the metaverses, that is, projects developed by technology companies, where physical, virtual and augmented (extended) realities are brough together in digital space. Apologists for the metaverses argue that soon the Internet will cease to exist in the usual sense, and its place will be taken by the metaverses a...

Recurring outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS) severely damage healthy corals, especially in the Western Pacific Ocean. To obtain a better understanding of population genetics of COTS and historical colonization across the Pacific Ocean, complete mitochondrial genomes were sequenced from 243 individuals collected in 11 reef regions. Our res...

En esta plática se habla de la extensión de sistemas de funciones iteradas a espacios métricos hiperbólico valuados, así como su aplicación sobre una versión del juego del caos con probabilidades sobre el plano hiperbólico.

Presentación de Carola Solari, periodista: Conocí a Fabián porque tuve que entrevistarlo. En septiembre de 2020 publiqué un artículo sobre los hermanos Jaksic, Fabián e Iván, pues ambos habían obtenido el Premio Nacional: Fabián el de Ciencias Naturales, en 2018, e Iván el de Historia, en agosto de ese año. La crónica que escribí se titulaba “Dos m...

Now that we know that Earth-like planets are ubiquitous in the universe, as well as that most of them are much older than the Earth, it is justified to ask to what extent evolutionary outcomes on other such planets are similar, or indeed commensurable, to the outcomes we perceive around us. In order to assess the degree of specialty or mediocrity o...

Viniculture in colder countries requires the use of rootstocks adapted to the climatic and soil conditions, which influence the essential characteristics of the vine yield in terms of the physiological and morphological features. The current study was carried out in 2015–2018 in southern Poland to examine the impact of the ‘5BB’, ‘125AA’, ‘101-14M’...

Viticultural practices and irrigation have a major impact on fruit development and yield, and ultimately on must quality. The effects of water deficit (WD), defoliation (Def), and crop-thinning (CT) on Solaris plants and fruit development, as well as on the chemical composition of grape juice were investigated. WD was induced at three periods durin...

Background: The Thermo Scientific™ SureTect™ Listeria species PCR Assay utilizes Solaris reagents for performing PCR for the rapid and specific detection of Listeria species in a broad range of foods and selected environmental surfaces. Objective: To demonstrate reproducibility of the Thermo Scientific SureTect Listeria species PCR Assay in a co...

Population irruptions of Pacific crown-of-thorns starfish ( Acanthaster cf. solaris ) have caused substantial damage to coral reefs, but it is largely unknown how this asteroid will fare in a warmer ocean. We exposed these starfish to one of four thermal treatments, with final temperatures of 26 °C (control, annual average), 28 °C (summer average),...

Two‐part, commercial silicone elastomers are used in a variety of fundamental soft materials research and industrial applications due to their wide availability, ease of use, low cost, and mechanical tunability. This work seeks to create a library of moduli for three common elastomer systems with varied mixing ratios: Sylgard 184, Solaris, and Ecof...

La nanotecnologia sta già rendendo disponibili nuovi materiali che potrebbero rivoluzionare molti settori della produzione. Per esempio, i nanotubi e le nano particelle, che sono tubi e particelle di pochi atomi di diametro, e gli aerogel, materiali composti da materiali molto leggeri e forti con notevoli proprietà isolanti, potrebbero aprire la st...

Il presente documento riporta la comparazione degli ultimi quattro anni solari e non dell’ultimo quinquennio in quanto, nel corso dell’anno 2012, è stato modificato il supporto informatico per l’archiviazione degli eventi infortunistici. Conseguentemente è stato possibile archiviare nel nuovo supporto solamente gli infortuni occorsi negli anni 2011...

In the fight against these negative factors, breeding and selection of new cultivars showing an increased fungus resistance (PIWI (Pilzwiderstandsfähig) - Fungus Resistant Grape Varieties, interspecific cultivars) play an important role. Nowadays, the interest in grapevine cultivation in Poland is increasing, and new vineyards have been established...

Outbreaks of the corallivorous starfish Acanthaster cf. solaris (COTS) are not fully understood, especially in the shallowest areas behind the reef crests where limited COTS impacts are often reported. Here, we investigated the trajectory of COTS abundances and compared post-outbreak habitat impacts in reef flats vs. upper fore reefs at 13 sites in...

Background: The Thermo Scientific™ SureTect™ Listeria monocytogenes PCR Assay utilizes Solaris reagents for performing PCR for the rapid and specific detection of Listeria monocytogenes in a broad range of foods and selected environmental surfaces. Objectives: To demonstrate reproducibility of the SureTect Listeria monocytogenes PCR Assay in a c...

Fruit vinegars are widely used as a spice and food preservative. They are considered as functional food, containing many bioactive compounds with pro-health benefits. Grape vinegars can be also a source of mineral compounds. Their quantity and diversity can be determined by environmental factors and growing conditions, such as temperature, mineral...

The article evaluates the data on the effect of foliar feeding and soaking of eggplant seeds with various dosages of Nanosilicon when grown in ground greenhouses of the Rostov region. The data show the effectiveness of the preparation Nanosilicon at a dose of 0.35 g / kg for soaking seeds in increasing the height of plants and the average weight of...

This paper presents the possibility of the energetic utilization of biowaste in the form of lignified one-year shoots from the cultivation of grapevines of the Seyval Blanc (WSBL), Solaris (WSOL), Regent (WREG) and Rondo (WRON) varieties, grown in temperate climate zones. A technical analysis, an elemental analysis and the determination of the high...

Il cambiamento climatico, probabilmente il più importante dei problemi che l’umanità si trova ad affrontare, è causato dalle concentrazioni atmosferiche eccessive di “gas serra” (come anidride carbonica, metano e protossido di azoto per citare i più importanti). Questi gas hanno la poco gradita proprietà di lasciar passare le radiazioni solari in e...

Synthèse de connaissances sur les proliférations (outbreaks) de l'étoile de mer corallivore Acanthaster cf. solaris en Nouvelle-Calédonie. Document de synthèse à l'intention des gestionnaires, décideurs et du grand public.

The estimation of larval dispersal on an ecological timescale is significant for conservation of marine species. In 2018, a semi-population outbreak of crown-of-thorns sea star, Acanthaster cf. solaris, was observed on a relatively isolated oceanic island, Ogasawara. The aim of this study was to assess whether this population outbreak was caused by...

ABSTRACT Six new species of Paracymus included in a new subgenus Escotadus subgen. nov., are described: Paracymus (Escotadus) burronegrus sp. nov., P. (E.) benettii sp. nov., P. (E.) pemonus sp. nov., P. (E.) samariapus sp. nov., P. (E.) yanomami sp. nov., and P. (E.) zulianus sp. nov. The new subgenus Escotadus subgen. nov., is created based on a...

We present novel spectropolarimetric observations of the hydrogen H$\alpha$ line taken with the Z\"urich Imaging Polarimeter (ZIMPOL) at the Gregory Coud\'e Telescope of the Istituto Ricerche Solari Locarno (IRSOL). The linear polarization is clearly dominated by the scattering of anisotropic radiation and the Hanle effect, while the circular polar...

Now that we know that Earth-like planets are ubiquitous in the universe, as well as that most of them are much older than the Earth, it is justified to ask to what extent evolutionary outcomes on other such planets are similar, or indeed commensurable, to the outcomes we perceive around us. In order to assess the degree of specialty or mediocrity o...

The biosorption of pollutants using microbial organisms has received growing interest in last decades. Diatoms, the most dominant group of phytoplankton in oceans, are i) pollution tolerant species, ii) excellent biological indicators of water quality and iii) efficient models in assimilation and detoxification of toxic metal ions. Published resear...

By addressing the practice of contemporary scientific fieldwork through rereading Stanislaw Lem's Solaris, this essay investigates the ethical agency of skinship. It explores haptic experiences accompanying oceanographic research as a mode of cognition that addresses faults of distant observation mediated by vision machines (remotely operated deep-...

Within science fiction the topic of 'first contact' is a popular theme. How will an encounter with aliens unfold? Will we succeed in communicating with them? Although such questions are present in the background of many science fiction novels, they are not always explicitly dealt with and even if so, often in a poor way. In this article, I will int...

Il laboratorio "Eccimeri" del Centro di Ricerche ENEA di Frascati ha sviluppato sin dal 1980 competenze nella realizzazione, sviluppo e caratterizzazione di sorgenti di radiazione ultravioletta (UV) e nell'estremo ultravioletto, sia coerenti (Laser) sia non coerenti. In quest'ambito, di recente è stato progettato e realiz-zato un apparato di irragg...

The article presents the situation regarding the hydrogenisation of motor transport in Northwestern Europe, a region leading in this regard in Europe. The following countries were included in the analysis of national plans in this area, taking into account both technical issues – among others - concerning HRS and FCEV, their number, as well as econ...

In the essay Science fiction: a hopeless case - with exceptions, Stanisław Lem spoke negatively about science fiction (but also about its authors and fans), proving its secondary nature and entanglement in market laws, pointing out the lack of reliable criticism from outside the fandom and flattering the tastes of recipients who only seek entertain...

One of the core themes of Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel Solaris is the encounter with radical otherness. The ocean planet being studied by scientists from earth is usually interpreted as a representation of radical otherness, which eludes human efforts of understanding. In this paper we argue that in Solaris Lem attempts to show not merely that the oc...

Research question: The objective of this paper is to examine the level of the development of spa tourism with a special review of the wellness tourist offer of the Republic of Serbia, and also which factors of this tourist offer we should pay special attention to and improve, to achieve the highest level of tourist loyalty. Motivation: The tourism...

Δημοσίευση στις 18.11.2021 στο 'Μονόκλ'. Πρόκειται για μία ελεύθερη μεταφορά στα ελληνικά τού άρθρου: “The Trap of Representation, or A Short Treatise on the Imprisonment of Humans: Stanisław Lem’s and Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris,” Contemporary Lynx, Issue 2 (16), November 2021. Available at: https://katoptron.blog/2021/11/18/%CE%B7-%CF%80%CE%B1%CE%...

Microalgae including diatoms are of interest for environmentally-friendly manufacturing such as biofuel production. However, only a very few of their genomes have been elucidated owing to their diversified and complex evolutionary history. The genome of the marine oleaginous diatom Fistulifera solaris , an allopolyploid diatom possessing two subgen...

Tədqiqatın məqsədi qalxanabənzər vəzin autoimmun xəstəliyinin (autoimmun tireoiditin) diffuz forması olan xəstələrdə lazer fotodinamik terapiya zamanı qalxanabənzər vəzin morfoloji dəyişikliklərinin xarakterini və dinamikasını öyrənmək olmuşdur. Material və metodlar. İncə iynə ilə aspirasion biopsiyanın məlumatları və punktatın sitoloji müayinəsi ə...

Introduction: De novo C3 glomerulonephritis (C3GN) after transplant is uncommon. Although eculizumab has been used successfully in several cases, the response is heterogeneous, and treatment strategies remain undefined. The use of repository corticotropin in C3GN has not been described in the literature. Case report: A 48-year-old African Americ...

Microalgae are promising producers of biofuel due to higher accumulation of triacylglycerol (TAG). However, further improvement of the lipid metabolism is critical for feasible application of microalgae in industrial production of biofuel. Suppression of lipid degradation pathways is a promising way to remarkably increase the lipid production in mo...

Although cinematic space design includes basic design principles, it also requires a cinematic perspective. This perspective is formed at the intersection of optics, photography, architecture painting, and even mathematics. The cinematographer is responsible for developing this point of view. How competently s/he can use this perspective is of cour...

We provide the first checklist of the 79 weevil species of Iraklia. The Curculionoidea (1 Anthribidae, 9 Apionidae, 2 Brachyceridae, 62 Curculionidae, 2 Dryophthoridae, 1 Erirhinidae, 2 Nanophyidae) have been collected in a span of eleven years. The remarkable records of Absoloniella nitidipennis (Osella, 1989), Chiloneus cycladum Borovec & Colonne...

Sistem operasi atau operating system (OS) adalah sebuah penghubung antara user (pengguna komputer) dengan hardware (perangkat keras) komputer. Sebelum ada OS, orang menggunakan sinyal analog dan sinyal digital. Sebagai contoh, komputer yang digunakan untuk mengontrol oven microweve memiliki tugas amat sederhana dengan alat input dan alat output sed...

The construction industry is the pillar industry of China’s national economy. According to the statistics of the National Bureau of Statistics, the GDP in 2016 was 744.127 billion yuan, while the total construction output value was 193.567 billion yuan, accounting for 6.5 percent of China’s GDP. The construction industry has played a pivotal role i...

El artículo aborda el audiovisual comunitario como experiencia crítica de la modernidad, para lo cual los autores proponen una perspectiva histórico-crítica que aborda la transición del cine comunitario al audiovisual al margen en la ciudad de Medellín, y utilizan el estudio de caso, a partir de tres cortos audiovisuales proyectados en el contexto...

Srijal, Akanksha Singh,Deepti Shikha Ojha,Surbhi Tripathi Ms. Shweta Mayor Sabharwal Solari – Finding Optimised Location Using Unsupervised Learning The present study aims to provide an optimal solution for ensuring an organized distribution of limited resources like, fuel, food and other necessities on time during natural calamities example flood...

L’esperienza acquisita sulla caratterizzazione ottica dei concentratori solari ha dimostrato che l’uso di un irraggiamento di tipo Lambertiano è molto efficace per risalire alle loro proprietà di collezione ottica. L’idea di applicare questo irraggiamento, con divergenza angolare di 90° e luce non polarizzata, ad entrambi i terminali ottici di ques...

The most popular science fiction novel written by the Polish author Stanisław Lem, Solaris, was published in 1961. Although it was translated into English as early as 1970, the book was unknown to the Sinophone readers until 2003, when the first translation from English into Chinese was published, most probably following the popularity of the resou...

Zawiera: Nad pierwszym tomem „Pism” Kazimierza Wyki; „Lagry i łagry” (Tadeusz Borowski, Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, Aleksander Sołżenicyn); Kiedy dwóch mówi to samo.... (Jan Kott i Kazimierz Wyka); Socrealizm jako sposób myślenia o literaturze; Władysława Terleckiego trylogia o powstaniu styczniowym („Spisek”,„Dwie głowy ptaka”, „Powrót z Carskiego...

Nowadays, products of natural origin with health-promoting properties are increasingly more common. Research shows that fruit vinegars can be a source of compounds with antioxidant activity. Research on the total antioxidant capacity, total phenolic content, and antimicrobial properties against Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, and Candida a...

En este trabajo nos centramos en una serie de intervenciones sobre la enseñanza de la lengua que se publican en la Revista de derecho, historia y letras entre 1904 y 1905, es decir, en paralelo y contemporáneamente con el debate sobre la reforma de los planes de estudio que, en 1905, propondría el flamante ministro de instrucción, Joaquín V. Gonzál...

Coral reefs are increasingly affected by a combination of acute and chronic disturbances from climate change and local stressors. The coral reefs of the Republic of Kiribati's Gil-bert Islands are exposed to frequent heat stress caused by central-Pacific type El Niño events, and may provide a glimpse into the future of coral reefs in other parts of...

A major part of the visible alterations associated with skin ageing reflects functional modifications in the behavior of various time components within the skin. The reduction in the water-holding capacity and in surface lipids of stratum corneum and its subsequent dryness also influence the generai aspect of the ski n. Superimposed on the innate a...

Pacific crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster cf. solaris) are known to be widely distributed, and previous studies (showing limited genetic structure) suggest that there are high levels of connectivity at regional scales. It is possible, however, that methods used in previous studies (e.g., microsatellites) did not effectively resolve genetic diff...

Resumo Este ensaio se ocupa da produção do artista múltiplo Oscar Agustín Alejandro Shultz Solari (1897-1963) - mais conhecido como Xul Solar - entendendo sua preocupação em construir uma identidade latino-americana, na primeira metade do século XX, conjugada à opção por um fazer que mescla a linguagem verbal e a pictórica a partir de correspondênc...

A major part of the visible alterations associated with skin ageing reflects functional modifications in the behavior of various time components within the skin. The reduction in the water-holding capacity and in surface lipids of stratum corneum and its subsequent dryness also influence the generai aspect of the ski n. Superimposed on the innate a...

Este artigo busca relacionar a obra Solaris (1972) com a teoria do Imaginário postulada por Durand (1982; 1985; 1993; 1996; 2002; 2014), para então apresentar reflexões sobre como, através de um reservatório geral de Imagens com-partilhadas, relacionamo-nos com o que consideramos diferente, intangível, ficção, realidade e como a Arte, auxilia-nos n...

Este artigo busca relacionar a obra Solaris (1972) com a teoria do Imaginário postulada por Durand (1982; 1985; 1993; 1996; 2002; 2014), para então apresentar reflexões sobre como, através de um reservatório geral de Imagens com-partilhadas, relacionamo-nos com o que consideramos diferente, intangível, ficção, realidade e como a Arte, auxilia-nos n...

The main objectives of breeding programs of wine grapes are the reduction of the amount of phytosanitary treatments needed to ensure yield and quality at harvest, and the adaptation of the plants to the changing climate conditions. However, breeding to adapt traditional varieties to climate changes, or to introgress pathogen resistance, would requi...

One of the most economically important grapevine diseases is Downy mildew (DM) caused by the oomycete Plasmopara viticola. A strategy to reduce the use of fungicides to compensate for the high susceptibility of V. vinifera is the selection of grapevine varieties showing pathogen-specific resistance. We applied a metabolomics approach to evaluate th...

The main objectives of breeding programs of wine grapes are the reduction of the amount of phytosanitary treatments needed to ensure yield and quality at harvest, and the adaptation of the plants to the changing climate conditions. However, breeding to adapt traditional varieties to climate changes or to introgress pathogen resistance, would requir...

L'oggetto che si presenta in questo contributo costituisce un'integrazione al corpus relativamente poco cospicuo di orologi solari miniaturistici greco-romani. Si tratta di una meridiana conica in avorio di elefante, rinvenuta in giacitura secondaria all'interno di un contesto residenziale di età augustea nella Piazza del Duomo di Pisa. Al di là de...

Corso di formazione (3h): Elementi di chimica dei prodotti cosmetici e tossicologia. Programma: 1) normativa; 2) Richiami di cosmetologia e chimica cosmetologica; 3) Elementi di tossicologia dei prodotti cosmetici; 4) Abbronzatura e prodotti solari [ENG: Training course (3h): Elements of chemistry of cosmetic products and toxicology. Program: 1) le...

O objetivo do presente trabalho foi avaliar cultivares de alface em diferentes tipos de coberturas no solo em dois cultivos. O trabalho foi desenvolvido na escola Estadual Coronel Jose Alves Ribeiro (CEJAR), localizada no município de Aquidauana/MS. O delineamento experimental foi em blocos casualizados em esquema fatorial 3 x 2, sendo três tipos d...

In this paper the elastic support of building structures is discussed as one of the advanced technical solutions for protecting buildings against vibrations and structure-borne noise. Two of several possible variants of solutions are described on the example of special-purpose facility built in Cracow, Poland. The specificity of the building of the...

This study examined the use of an innovative tobacco variety, Nicotiana tabacum L., cv. Solaris, as forage. The whole plant biomass was ensiled, and the composition of SiloSolaris from bunker-silo and mini-silos was investigated. The effects of dietary inclusion of SiloSolaris on the growth, welfare, and nutritional profile of sixteen Holstein heif...

En el marco de la sociedad de la información, uno de los desafíos principales a los que se enfrenta la educación escolar es el de formar aprendices competentes que sean capaces de aprender en una multiplicidad de situaciones a lo largo de sus vidas. Desde nuestra perspectiva, desarrollar estas competencias implica que los alumnos construyan una ide...

Population outbreaks of the corallivorous crown-of-thorns seastar (CoTS; Acanthaster spp.) are significant threats to the Indo-Pacific reefs. Although recent research demonstrated that environmental DNA (eDNA) techniques could improve CoTS monitoring, the interpretation of surveillance results has been limited by uncertainties about eDNA dynamics....

Early Life, Humans and the Biosphere-The face of the Earth, its image in the cosmos observed from the outside, from the distance of the infinite celestial spaces, seems to us as unique, specific, different from the images of all other celestial bodies.-The biosphere is as much (if not more) a product of the sun as it is a manifestation of terrestri...

By two research groups, INTERART (Interaction between Art, Science and Education: Dialogues in Visual Arts) and PEFAHC (Research in Physics Teaching, Astronomy and History of Science), started five years ago, motivated by the celebration of the 400 years of the invention of the telescope, a dialogue that became permanent at undergraduate and po...

A alface (Lactuca sativa L.) é a hortaliça mais consumida no Brasil, sendo comercializada in natura, o que faz necessário que seja de boa qualidade. Uma alternativa para a redução dos fertilizantes químicos é a utilização de microrganismos promotores de crescimento. Objetivou-se avaliar a eficiência da utilização de microrganismos como promotores d...

Prostaglandins (PGs) are the physiologically active compounds synthesized from C20 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) by cyclooxygenase (COX) and a series of PG synthases, and are utilized as pharmaceuticals. Currently, commercialized PGs are mainly produced by chemical synthesis under harsh conditions. By contrast, bioproduction of PGs can be an...

A presumably endemic species of Saussurea (Asteraceae) from the Se La in NW Arunachal Pradesh (India) is described as new to science, based on a herbarium specimen from 1938, and recent colour photographs. The morphology, ecology and conservation status of the new taxon are discussed, and the differences to the only similar species, S. stella, are...

Zusammenfassung Die Urticaria solaris ist eine seltene, IgE-mediierte Photodermatose. Wenngleich die Erkrankung oft nur saisonal auftritt, geht sie mit einem erheblichen Einfluss auf die Lebensqualität der Betroffenen einher. Die Therapie der Wahl sind H 1 -Antihistaminika und Photohardening, bei mangelndem Ansprechen sollte eine Therapie mit Omali...

Outbreaks of crown-of-thorns seastars (CoTS) are one of the leading causes of coral decline on Indo-Pacific coral reefs. Predator removal has been proposed to be a possible mechanism contributing to CoTS outbreaks in this region. Although some data exist on predation of adults, little work has been conducted on predators of juvenile CoTS. The aim o...

In the last decades, managers and local communities have been turning to active restoration as a mechanism to recover damaged reefs affected at an unprecedented rate because of climate change, anthropogenic activities, and natural events, such as outbreaks of the crown-of-thorns (CoT) starfish Acanthaster spp. A coral restoration experiment was con...

The estimation of larval dispersal of marine species occurring on an ecological timescale is significant for conservation. In 2018, a semi-population outbreak of Acanthaster cf. solaris was observed on a relatively isolated oceanic island, Ogasawara. The aim of this study was to assess whether this population outbreak was caused by large-scale larv...