Neste artigo, analisamos sentidos da palavra senhor circulantes em cartas de alforria no Brasil durante o período 1841 a 1888 e textos imprensa baiana 1870 1888. Procura-se responder à questão Como se caracteriza semanticamente senhorio âmbito família patriarcal brasileira? Para tanto, mobilizando pressupostos Semântica do Acontecimento, aliados alguns princípios História/Historiografia, analis...

Harmful or nuisance algal blooms can cause economic damage to fisheries and tourism. Additionally, toxins produced by harmful algae and ingested via contaminated shellfish can be potentially fatal to humans. The seas around the Orkney Islands, UK currently hold a number of toxic algal species which cause shellfishery closures in most years. Extensive and costly monitoring programs are carried o...

Chloroplasts originate through the endosymbiotic integration of a host and a photosynthetic symbiont, with processes established within the host for the biogenesis and maintenance of the nascent chloroplast. It is thought that several photosynthetic eukaryotes have replaced their original chloroplasts with others derived from different source organisms in a process termed "serial endosymbiosis ...

These two admirable summaries of the past year's work do much to lighten the labours of the practitioner. They traverse the same ground for the most part, and may be compared side by side. The Year-Book is, as heretofore, occasionally disfigured by the personal opinion of the reporter on the paper which he abstracts; this opinion is always uncalled for, and often impudent. There is nothing of t...

Ten species of the genus Aulacophora Chevrolat, 1836 are reported for Taiwan. Specimens of A. opacipennis Chûjô, 1962 collected from Southeast Asia were misidentified by Kimoto (1989) and should be identified as A. apicipes Jacoby, 1896. Color photos of habitus and drawings of male and female genitalia from eleven species (including A. apicipes) are presented. The following synonymies are propo...

The first description of polymyalgia rheumatica is attributed to Dr William Bruce working in Strathpeffer Spa, Scotland, in 1888. His career, the history of the spa, and the original article are briefly described.