2 Revisiting the Reticulum: Feedforward and Feedback 3 Contributions to Motor Program Parameters in the Crab 4 Cardiac Ganglion Microcircuit 5 6 7 Keyla García-Crescioni and Mark W. Miller 8 9 10 11 Institute of Neurobiology and Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology 12 University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus 13 201 Blvd del Valle, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901 14 15 16 17 Address for cor...

In this study, we present evidence for early Holocene climatic conditions providing circumstances favourable to major lateral collapse at Mount Etna, Sicily. The volcano's most notable topographic feature is the Valle del Bove, a 5 x 8 km cliff-bounded amphitheatre excavated from the eastern flank of the volcano. Its origin due to prehistoric lateral collapse is corroborated by stürtzstrom depo...

BACKGROUND Traditional alcoholic beverages (TABs) have only received marginal attention from researchers and ethnobotanists so far, especially in Italy. This work is focused on plant-based TABs in the Alta Valle del Reno, a mountainous area on the border between Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna regions. The aims of our study were to document local knowledge about TABs and to analyze and discuss the d...

This paper considers the contributions of one outstanding as well as controversial researcher, teacher and inventor from Spain during the Francos ́s dictatorship. The paper presents an overview of the most important contributions made by Prof. Angel Gonzalez del Valle related with the electric networks/circuits theory and its application to analog computing/simulation, which was achieved from fo...

The genus Heterophrynus is for the first time recorded from Transandean areas. Heterophrynus boterorum sp. nov. and Heterophrynus silviae sp. nov. are described respectively from Tolima and Valle del Cauca departments, Colombia, based on material from the 2006 Arachnological Expedition of Museu Nacional to Colombia. Heterophrynus nicefori Amado & Morales, 1986, from Meta department is newly con...

Collaborative network theory can be useful in refining current understanding of criminal networks and aid in understanding their evolution. Drug trafficking organizations that operate in the region directly north of Colombia’s Valle del Cauca department and the “collection agencies” that operate in the Colombian city of Cali have abandoned hierarchical organizational structures and have become ...

Two new species of the genus Piaroa Villarreal, Tourinho & Giupponi, 2008, P. escalerete sp. nov. and P. bacata sp. nov. are described from Valle del Cauca, and Cundinamarca departments, Colombia, respectively. The female flagellum is fully illustrated for a Piaroa species for the first time; the generic diagnosis is also emended and the relationships of the new species with those previously de...

1 Laboratorio de Micologı́a y Fitopatologı́a, Departamento de Ciencias biológicas, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, 2 Centro de Bioinformática-Instituto de Biotecnologı́a (IBUN), Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia, 3 Grupo de Investigación en Bioinformática, Escuela de Ingenierı́a de Sistemas y Computación, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia, 4 GEBIXCentro Colombiano d...

Outbreak of Carbapenem-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa Producing VIM-8, a Novel Metallo-Lactamase, in a Tertiary Care Center in Cali, Colombia M. P. Crespo,* N. Woodford, A. Sinclair, M. E. Kaufmann, J Turton, J. Glover, J. D. Velez, C. R. Castañeda, M. Recalde, and D. M. Livermore Group of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Universidad Santiago de Cali, and Infectology Division and...

The phase diagram of the spin-3/2 Blume-Capel model in two dimensions is explored by conventional finite-size scaling, conformal invariance and Monte Carlo simulations. The model in its τ -continuum Hamiltonian version is also considered and compared with others spin3/2 quantum chains. Our results indicate that differently from the standard spin-1 Blume-Capel model there is no multicritical poi...