Mercedes Díaz Roig (1929-1988)

(Almir\363n Roig, N\372ria \(2007\)....)

Micromorphology of Cryptococcus neoformans ' MERCEDES

Fine details of the internal and external morphology of Cryptococcus neoformans as seen in ultrathin sections are described and illustrated with electron micrographs. The capsule characteristic of this species contained microfibrils (30 to 40 A in diameter) that appeared to radiate from the cell wall and to coil and intertwine in various directions. These thin, uniformly structured, electron-de...

DAVOR MILlClC and MERCEDES WRISCHER

G o l d i n (1963) found in Kazakhstan an interesting strain of tobacco mosaic virus (TMV). B r e a k (1978) established that this Kazakhstan strain (Ka strain) of TMV was defective and that it infected tobacco plants very slowly or the systemic infection was lacking. Its thermal inactivation point lay between 75 and 80° C. In fresh infective sap virus particles of normal length were found very...

Frank Ruddle (1929-2013).

Frank Ruddle, a pioneer in science and versatile in human gene mapping, transgenic technology, and several other fields in biology, has left a significant legacy. Frank was born August 19, 1929, in West New York, New Jersey, to parents who emigrated from the United Kingdom. He dropped out of high school to join the Air Force, where he served with distinction from 1946 to 1949. Like many other v...

Mercedes, a Term-in-Context Highlighter

It happens very often that researchers in Terminology need to know about the terms included in a given LSP corpus. One possibility is to run a term extractor but in this case such a tool provides just term candidates, but not valid terms. Therefore, it is mandatory a term validation process that is not always easy and affordable. A different option is to take profit of the public lexical resour...