This study was carried out between January and April 2008 with 14 caregivers of children younger than 5 years residing in Tizimín city, Mexico. It aimed to understand the social representations of eating and the Programa Oportunidades [Opportunity Program] held by caregivers taking into account their social and cultural context. This qualitative investigation with an ethnographic approach was b...

Records on 47,360 Yorkshire, 28,762 Landrace, 14,020 Duroc, and 9,983 Hampshire pigs for backfat depth and days to 100 kg made between 1989 and 1992 in herds on the Ontario Swine Improvement Program (OSIP) were used to estimate additive genetic (animal), common environmental (litter), and residual variances and covariances of the two traits. Analysis was by the DFREML program of K. Meyer using ...

The District also could adopt the idea of police mini-stations and youth safe havens, which share the same space and have worked well in places as diverse as Columbia, S.C., New Hampshire and San Juan, Puerto Rico. Police in these ministations become an integral part of the inner-city community and function as mentors for young people as well as law officers. The safe havens, run by civilian no...

W. Wang, J. Xiao, S. V. Ollinger, A. R. Desai, J. Chen, and A. Noormets Earth Systems Research Center, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43006, USA Depart...

This paper summarizes highlights of the OG1 session of the 30th International Cosmic Ray Conference, held in Merida (Yucatan, Mexico). The subsessions (OG1.1, OG1.2, OG1.3, OG1.4 and OG1.5) summarized here were mainly devoted to direct measurements, acceleration and propagation of cosmic rays.

When thinking about the course “birational geometry for number theorists” I so näıvely agreed to give at the Göttingen summer school, I could not avoid imagining the spirit of the late Serge Lang, not so quietly beseeching one to do things right, keeping the theorems functorial with respect to ideas, and definitions natural. But most important is the fundamental tenet of Diophantine geometry, f...

reflect the dewatering of structurally lower levels after nappe emMuscovite and biotite dehydration-melting reactions near the peak placement. If so, then nappe emplacement occurred at T~475°C. of metamorphism played a significant role in the reaction and fluid history of the Rangeley Formation in southwestern New Hampshire, USA. Evidence for in situ melting includes: (1) the consistency among ...

1 Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, 2 HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama, United States of America, 3 Department of Biology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, 4 Center for Integrative Genomics, School of Biology, Georgia In...