The objective of this work was to evaluate the genetic diversity of Brazilian Pantaneiro horse by microsatellite markers, investigate the effect of genetic bottlenecks and estimate genetic differentiation among four horse breeds. Genetic variation was estimated through allele frequencies and mean breed heterozygosity. Nei ́s genetic distances among the breeds Pantaneiro, Thoroughbred, Arabian, S...

The Andalusian jurist Ab? Bakr al-?ur??sh? (d. 1126) was once asked whether or not it was permissible to eat cheese imported into Alexandria from the Christian territories along the northern coastline of the Mediterranean. The question clearly intrigued al-?ur??sh?, since he went to considerable lengths to research the subject before issuing his final response. Naturally, he checked the princip...

OBJECTIVES To determine the factors associated with participation in a prenatal education program among primiparous mothers. METHODS A multicenter observational study was carried out in four Andalusian hospitals (Spain) in primiparous women in 2010. Sociodemographic characteristics, obstetric history, and previous diseases were collected through an interview and from the clinical charts. Crud...

A 3-year-old Andalusian stallion was referred to the Veterinary Teaching Hospital of the University of Cordoba due to acute onset of colic pain. At admission, the horse presented a pronounced distension of the inguinal and scrotal region which was cold and painful on palpation. On rectal palpation no small intestine gas distention was noticed, and the left large colon was detected protruding in...

To assist in selection schemes we carried out the first genetic characterization of the Spanish Trotter horse (Trotador Español). We used 16 microsatellite markers to genotype 40 unrelated Spanish trotters, 25 native Balearic horses (11 Menorquina and 14 Mallorquina horses) and 32 Andalusian horses. The observed heterozygosity for the Spanish Trotters was 0.647 ± 0.037 and the expected heterozy...

Low back pain affects a large proportion of the adult population at some point in their lives and has a major economic and social impact. To soften this impact, one possible solution is to make use of recommender systems, which have already been introduced in several health fields. In this paper, we present TPLUFIB-WEB, a novel fuzzy linguistic Web system that uses a recommender system to provi...

This book concerns the review of both the history of speleology in southern Spain and the invertebrate fauna of Jaen province within two parts: (1) ‘Historia de la Espeleología en Andalucía’; and (2) ‘Medio subterráneo y organismos hipogeos’. First contributions were carried out very early in the 20th century by Abbé Henri Breuil, Pierre-Jules Rambur, Lucas von Heyden, and Georg Dieck. However,...

Microcephaly, Intellectual Impairment, Bilateral Vesicoureteral Reflux, Distichiasis, and Glomuvenous Malformations AssociatedWith a 16q24.3 Contiguous Gene Deletion and a Glomulin Mutation Matthew G. Butler,* Susan L. Dagenais, Jose L. Garcia-Perez, Pascal Brouillard, Miikka Vikkula, Peter Strouse, Jeffrey W. Innis, and Thomas W. Glover Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan Medi...

In recent years, bibliometric studies on mathematics education have allowed us to learn more about the scientific production in this field. To continue line of study, research we focused doctoral theses published and, particular, role women production, direction and evaluation field, focusing Andalusian universities. For purpose, a study has been carried out using Teseo database. The results sh...