Guaitacargols és un projecte adreçat a centres d’educació secundària que proposa fer estudi de la biodiversitat cargols terrestres en espais propers als centres. La iniciativa impulsada pel Museu Ciències Naturals Barcelona (MCNB), afavoreix el treball xarxa amb personal docent participant i compta l’acompanyament expert l’Associació Catalana Malacologia (ACM). El apropa l’alumnat metodologia c...

Scottish Vision Group Meeting, Isle of Arran, Scotland, 10–12 March 2017 Keynote 1: fMRI Recording From the Human LGN – Four Unexpected Findings Kathy T. Mullen, Dorita F. Chang and Robert F. Hess McGill University, Montreal, Canada Functional magnetic resonance imaging allows direct recording from the functioning human LGN, whereas previously our understanding of this primary thalamic nucleus ...

UNLABELLED Potatoes accumulate toxic steroidal compounds that could be harmful for humans if consumed in high quantities and must be controlled. In this study, we were interested in assessing the levels and variation of glycoalkaloid content in 60 varieties of potato planted in 2 trial sites over 2 y. Total glycoalkaloid levels ranged from 4 to 957 mg/kg of dry weight in the flesh and from 150 ...

Aims To promote the Royal College's core principles of sustainable psychiatry, Junior Doctors at Ayrshire Central Hospital formed Sustainability and Well-being Committee. The principle aim through 2022, following COVID-19 pandemic, was to maximise junior well-being - knowing a workforce is one that feels supported fulfilled by work working conditions. Methods Through meetings with doctors, qual...

Trobar la forma d’expressar quelcom per al qual no hi ha paraules fou un dels reptes que assumí Levi quan volgué explicar cruel deshumanització va sofrir com a presoner Lager. Nogensmenys, trobar solució mitjançant el concepte d’animal. En aquest sentit, seu testimoni és ple de metàfores faunístiques representen patiment seua reducció cap fons i crueltat ser tractat una bèstia podien assassinar...

Diagenesis in the Permo-Triassic New Red Sandstone, Isle of Arran is characterized by early cementation hematite, clay, and calcite minerals, followed burial compaction, quartz, feldspar, pyrite cementation. Cataclasis post-dated quartz feldspar reduced grain pore aperture size deformed samples. Samples with cataclastic bands typically have 18% porosity 8.81 mD permeability on average. Whereas,...