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An updated inventory of the Bromeliaceae for Costa Rica is presented including citations of representative specimens for each species. The family comprises 18 genera and 198 species in Costa Rica, 32 species being endemic to the country. Additional 36 species are endemic to Costa Rica and Panama. Only 4 of the 8 bromeliad subfamilies occur in Costa Rica, with a strong predominance of Tillandsioideae (7 genera/150 spp.; 75.7% of all bromeliad species in Costa Rica). 124 species (62.6%) grow exclusively epiphytic, additional 59 spp. (29.8%) are facultative epiphytes. The most diverse genus is Werauhia, with 59 species (29.8% of the Costa Rican bromeliad flora), followed by Tillandsia with 40 species (20.2%) and Guzmania with 28 spp. (8.6%).
We report new localities for the lizard Anolis salvini Boulenger, 1885, along the Pacific slopes of the Cordillera Central in Chiriquí province and the Comarca Ngöbe-Buglé of western Panama. These records extend the known geographic distribution of this species about 70 km eastwards. They also extend the known vertical distribution approximately 70 m uphill. Additionally, we provide the first record for the Caribbean slopes, an updated distribution map, photos of specimens from different localities, an analysis of a distress call, and comments on the morphology of this species.
Some anaerobic archaea and bacteria live on substrates that do not allow the synthesis of one mol of ATP per mol of substrate via substrate level phosphorylation (SLP). Energy conservation in these cases is only possible by a chemiosmotic mechanism that involves the generation of an electrochemical ion gradient across the cytoplasmic membrane that then drives ATP synthesis via an ATP synthase. The minimal amount of energy required for ATP synthesis is thus dependent on the magnitude of the electrochemical ion gradient, the phosphorylation potential in the cell and the ion/ATP ratio of the ATP synthase. It was always thought that the minimum biological energy quantum is defined as the amount of energy required to translocate one ion across the cytoplasmic membrane. We will discuss the thermodynamics of the reactions involved in chemiosmosis and describe the limitations for ion transport and ATP synthesis that led to the proposal that at least −20 kJ/mol are required for ATP synthesis. We will challenge this hypothesis by arguing that the enzyme energizing the membrane may translocate net less than one ion: By using a primary pump connected to an antiporter module a stoichiometry below one can be obtained, implying that the minimum biological energy quantum that sustains life is even lower than assumed to date.
Binary nucleation of sulphuric acid-water particles is expected to be an important process in the free troposphere at low temperatures. SAWNUC (Sulphuric Acid Water Nucleation) is a model of binary nucleation that is based on laboratory measurements of the binding energies of sulphuric acid and water in charged and neutral clusters. Predictions of SAWNUC are compared for the first time comprehensively with experimental binary nucleation data from the CLOUD chamber at European Organization for Nuclear Research. The experimental measurements span a temperature range of 208–292 K, sulphuric acid concentrations from 1·106 to 1·109 cm−3, and distinguish between ion-induced and neutral nucleation. Good agreement, within a factor of 5, is found between the experimental and modeled formation rates for ion-induced nucleation at 278 K and below and for neutral nucleation at 208 and 223 K. Differences at warm temperatures are attributed to ammonia contamination which was indicated by the presence of ammonia-sulphuric acid clusters, detected by an Atmospheric Pressure Interface Time of Flight (APi-TOF) mass spectrometer. APi-TOF measurements of the sulphuric acid ion cluster distributions (math formula with i = 0, 1, ..., 10) show qualitative agreement with the SAWNUC ion cluster distributions. Remaining differences between the measured and modeled distributions are most likely due to fragmentation in the APi-TOF. The CLOUD results are in good agreement with previously measured cluster binding energies and show the SAWNUC model to be a good representation of ion-induced and neutral binary nucleation of sulphuric acid-water clusters in the middle and upper troposphere.
In its weak field limit, Scalar-tensor-vector gravity theory introduces a Yukawa-correction to the gravitational potential. Such a correction depends on the two parameters, α which accounts for the modification of the gravitational constant, and μ∗−1 wwhich represents the scale length on which the scalar field propagates. These parameters were found to be universal when the modified gravitational potential was used to fit the galaxy rotation curves and the mass profiles of galaxy clusters, both without Dark Matter. We test the universality of these parameters using the temperature anisotropies due to the thermal Sunyaev–Zeldovich effect. In our model the intra-cluster gas is in hydrostatic equilibrium within the modified gravitational potential well and it is described by a polytropic equation of state. We predict the thermal Sunyaev–Zeldovich temperature anisotropies produced by Coma cluster, and we compare them with those obtained using the Planck 2013 Nominal maps. In our analysis, we find α and the scale length, respectively, to be consistent and to depart from their universal values. Our analysis points out that the assumption of the universality of the Yukawa-correction to the gravitational potential is ruled out at more than 3.5σ at galaxy clusters scale, while demonstrating that such a theory of gravity is capable to fit the cluster profile if the scale dependence of the gravitational potential is restored.
Entre as diversas perspectivas de pesquisa em educação, a Hermenêutica Objetiva se destaca hoje, na Alemanha, como uma das mais difundidas e reconhecidas abordagens da pesquisa sociológica qualitativa. O estágio de pós-doutorado realizado na Faculdade de Ciências da Educação - Instituto de Formação de Professores de Nível Secundário - da Universidade Johann Wolfgang Goethe em Frankfurt am Main foi uma das ações decorrentes do intercâmbio acadêmico firmado entre dois grupos de pesquisa, o "Teoria Crítica e Educação" (UFSCar - Brasil) e o "Reconstrução Pedagógica do Ensinar" (Universidade de Frankfurt - Alemanha). A partir dos conceitos que fundamentam o processo pedagógico (educação, instrução e formação), e da formulação de uma teoria pedagógica com base empírica, operada com o referencial teórico epistemológico da Hermenêutica Objetiva, o artigo aborda a situação atual da formação política nas escolas públicas alemãs. Como resultados, três aspectos gerais se destacam: 1) As análises sobre a metodologia da Hermenêutica Objetiva apontam a pertinência desse tipo de investigação na Educação, se o propósito for evidenciar os aspectos imanentes do processo pedagógico; 2) As reformas recentes na política educacional alemã indicam o processo de instrumentalização do ensino e o empobrecimento da formação em termos sociopolíticos; 3) A reconstrução empírica das aulas de política no ensino público alemão evidencia a superficialidade do conhecimento, o autoritarismo pedagógico, as práticas pedagógicas pseudo-democráticas; além da instrumentalização e judicialização da política, como temática de ensino.
The focus of this contribution is on the mode of capitalism within the industrialized sectors of "emerging markets". Particularly in the context of the rise of the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) this question has gained considerable importance, also for the development of the world economy as a whole. The core question is whether the type of capitalism within these economies is similar to the capitalist variety of the triad, or diverges in more or less permanent ways. The article gives a preliminary answer to this question, by developing a rough sketch of a "BRIC" model of capitalism and illustrating this model with the case of Brazil. In terms of theory, the article extends the Comparative Capitalism (CC) perspective to the BRICs. On the one side, the focus is on the classical questions of CC, i.e. the determinants of economic development and the differences to other types of capitalism, on the other side the relationship between these varieties and social inequality. It argues that the "state-permeated market economies" of the BRICs rely on clans as a mode of social coordination. As demonstrated by the case of Brazil, this type of capitalism can be quite successful, but is based on a highly unequal distribution of economic and political resources.
The contributions of Korean and Taiwanese authors to the many and varied formulations of interwar pan-Asianism have so far remained a relatively unexplored subject of scholarly research, despite an unbroken interest in the trajectory of state-based Japanese pan-Asianism. Focusing on Korean students and independence activists, this article discusses alternative configurations of regional unity and solidarity that emanated from the interactions among Korean, Taiwanese, and other Asian actors who resided in Tokyo during the 1910s and 1920s. When the ethnic-nationalist interpretations of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination failed to materialize, a portion of anti-colonial activists in Asia began to emphasize the need for solidarity by drawing on what they perceived as traditional and shared “Asian” values. While challenging the Western-dominated international order of nation-states that perpetuated imperialism, such notions of Asian solidarity at the same time served as an ideology of liberation from Japanese imperialism. Examining journals published by Korean students and activists, including The Asia Kunglun, this article adds another layer to the history of pan-Asianism from below, a perspective that has often been neglected within the larger context of scholarship on pan-Asianism and Japanese imperialism in Asia.
Orientation-selective DEER (Double Electron-Electron Resonance) measurements were conducted on a series of rigid and flexible molecules containing Cu(II) ions. A system with two rigidly held Cu(II) ions was afforded by the protein homo-dimer of copper amine oxidase from Arthrobacter globiformis. This system provided experimental DEER data between two Cu(II) ions with a well-defined distance and relative orientation to assess the accuracy of the methodology. Evaluation of orientation-selective DEER (os DEER) on systems with limited flexibility was probed using a series of porphyrin-based Cu(II)–nitroxide and Cu(II)–Cu(II) model systems of well-defined lengths synthesized for this project. Density functional theory was employed to generate molecular models of the conformers for each porphyrin-based Cu(II) dimer studied. Excellent agreement was found between DEER traces simulated using these computed conformers and the experimental data. The performance of different parameterised structural models in simulating the experimental DEER data was also investigated. The results of this analysis demonstrate the degree to which the DEER data define the relative orientation of the two Cu(II) ions and highlight the need to choose a parameterised model that captures the essential features of the flexibility (rotational freedom) of the system being studied.
Background: There is general consensus that the organizational and administrative aspects of academic study programs exert an important influence on teaching and learning. Despite this, no comprehensive framework currently exists to describe the conditions that affect the quality of teaching and learning in medical education. The aim of this paper is to systematically and comprehensively identify these factors to offer academic administrators and decision makers interested in improving teaching a theory-based and, to an extent, empirically founded framework on the basis of which improvements in teaching quality can be identified and implemented.
Method: Primarily, the issue was addressed by combining a theory-driven deductive approach with an experience based, “best evidence” one during the course of two workshops held by the GMA Committee on Personnel and Organizational Development in Academic Teaching (POiL) in Munich (2013) and Frankfurt (2014). Two models describing the conditions relevant to teaching and learning (Euler/Hahn and Rindermann) were critically appraised and synthesized into a new third model. Practical examples of teaching strategies that promote or hinder learning were compiled and added to the categories of this model and, to the extent possible, supported with empirical evidence.
Based on this, a checklist with recommendations for optimizing general academic conditions was formulated.
Results: The Frankfurt Model of conditions to ensure Quality in Teaching and Learning covers six categories: organizational structure/medical school culture, regulatory frameworks, curricular requirements, time constraints, material and personnel resources, and qualification of teaching staff. These categories have been supplemented by the interests, motives and abilities of the actual teachers and students in this particular setting. The categories of this model provide the structure for a checklist in which recommendations for optimizing teaching are given.
Conclusions: The checklist derived from the Frankfurt Model for ensuring quality in teaching and learning can be used for quality assurance and to improve the conditions under which teaching and learning take place in medical schools.
Following up on earlier investigations, the present paper analyzes construct validity of the impostor phenomenon. It examines the question whether the impostor phenomenon is a homogeneous construct or whether different types of persons with impostor self-concept can be distinguished on the basis of related characteristics. The study was conducted with professionals in leadership positions exhibiting a pronounced impostor self-concept (n = 183). Cluster-analytic procedures indicated the existence of two different types: one group which, in line with the literature (e.g., Clance, 1985), possessed traits classified as fairly unfavorable (“true impostors”) and another group which can be described as largely unencumbered (“strategic impostors”). The present study suggests two types of impostorism: “True” impostors characterized by the negative self-views associated with the construct definition, and more “strategic” impostors who seem to be less encumbered by self-doubt. It is assumed that “strategic impostors” are characterized by a form of deliberate self-presentation. Therefore, the impostor self-concept cannot principally be viewed as a dysfunctional personality style. This distinction should be more carefully considered in further research and in therapeutic interventions.
Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) frequently co-occur. The presence of a genetic link between ASD and ADHD symptoms is supported by twin studies, but the genetic overlap between clinically ascertained ASD and ADHD remains largely unclear. We therefore investigated how ASD and ADHD co-aggregate in individuals and in families to test for the presence of a shared genetic liability and examined potential differences between low- and high-functioning ASD in the link with ADHD. We studied 1 899 654 individuals born in Sweden between 1987 and 2006. Logistic regression was used to estimate the association between clinically ascertained ASD and ADHD in individuals and in families. Stratified estimates were obtained for ASD with (low-functioning) and without (high-functioning) intellectual disability. Individuals with ASD were at higher risk of having ADHD compared with individuals who did not have ASD (odds ratio (OR)=22.33, 95% confidence interval (CI): 21.77–22.92). The association was stronger for high-functioning than for low-functioning ASD. Relatives of individuals with ASD were at higher risk of ADHD compared with relatives of individuals without ASD. The association was stronger in monozygotic twins (OR=17.77, 95% CI: 9.80–32.22) than in dizygotic twins (OR=4.33, 95% CI: 3.21–5.85) and full siblings (OR=4.59, 95% CI: 4.39–4.80). Individuals with ASD and their relatives are at increased risk of ADHD. The pattern of association across different types of relatives supports the existence of genetic overlap between clinically ascertained ASD and ADHD, suggesting that genomic studies might have underestimated this overlap.
Erich Oberdorfer (1905-2002)
(2003)
Am 23. September 2002 verstarb nach einem erfüllten Leben Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Erich Oberdorfer im Alter von 97 Jahren. Es war ihm vergönnt, im Kreise seiner Familie ruhig einzuschlafen in seinem Haus in Freiburg-St. Georgen. Er konnte noch bis kurz vor seinem Tode geistig rege die Geschicke der Pflanzensoziologie und der Taxonomie der Pflanzen verfolgen. Mit ihm verließ uns einer der letzten Universal-Pflanzensoziologen, der meisterhaft pflanzensoziologisch-pflanzengeographische und floristisch-taxonomische Erkenntnisse zu verbinden wusste.
Bücherschau
(2002)
Der Harz ist eine alte, eigenartige Kulturlandschaft mit einer sehr vielseitigen Naturausstattung und einer wechselvollen Kulturgeschichte über gut 1000 Jahre. In mehreren Kapiteln werden zunächst die natürlichen Grundlagen (Erdgeschichte, Relief, Gesteine, Böden, Klima, Flora, Landschaftsgliederung) dargestellt. Die Kulturgeschichte insbesondere des Oberharzes ist von Entwicklungen, Rückschlägen und Niedergang des Bergbaus geprägt. Sie hat sich stark auf die Vegetation und das Landschaftsbild ausgewirkt. Eigentliche Haupterwerbs-Landwirtschaft war dagegen dort nie von Bedeutung. Selbst heute, wo Bergbau und Industrie erloschen oder rückläufig sind, gibt es viele Relikte und Nachwirkungen in der Landschaft, die auch die aktuelle Vegetation mit bestimmen. Im Harz bemüht man sich, einen sinnvollen Kompromiß zwischen Naturschutz und Tourismus zu finden. Abschließend wird versucht, eine erste Übersicht der Pflanzengesellschaften des Harzes zu geben.
In einer Ganztagesexkursion wird das floristisch wie faunistisch für Norddeutschland herausragende Bodetal am Nordrand des Harzes besucht. Das Naturschutzgebiet besitzt eine eindrucksvolle Geomorphologie mit einem tief eingeschnittenen Kerbtal und beherbergt eine Vielzahl von Vegetationstypen mit unterschiedlichen Wärme- und Feuchteansprüchen. Kennzeichnend ist das Mosaik an sauren Gesteinen, auf denen Schlucht- und Blockhaldewälder, bachbegleitende Staudengesellschaften und bodensaure Felsrasen und Gebüsche angetroffen werden.
Die Brockenexkursion umfasst die Bergfichtenwälder, Moore und Bergheiden von 850 m ü. NN bis zur Brockenkuppe 1142 m ü. NN. Das Gebiet ist, ausgehend von den Fichtenwäldern und Mooren, relativ artenarm, aber strukturreich. Der Weg zum Brocken führt zunächst zwar durch ausgedehnte Fichtenforsten, dann auch durch die Bergfichtenwälder (Calam agrostio villosae-Piceetum, Sphagno girgensohnii-Piceetum, Betulo carpaticae Piceetum) auf dem Königsberg und am Brocken. Ausgedehnte Moore finden wir zwischen Torfhaus und dem Brocken sowie an den Brockenhängen, mit folgenden Gesellschaften: Eriophoro-Trichophoretum cespitosi, Sphagnetum magellanici, Eriophorum angustifolium-Sphagnum-Gesellschaft, Caricetum nigrae u.a. Von besonderem Interesse, wenn auch nur kleinflächig vorhanden, sind die subalpinen Bergheiden mit der Anemone micrantha-Calluna vulgaris-Gesellschaft auf der Brockenkuppe, die trotz der hohen Besucherzahlen nicht gefährdet ist. Die Kenntnis der Pflanzenarten der Alpen sowie der bedeutendsten Gebirge der übrigen Kontinente kann im 112 Jahre alten Brockengarten vervollständigt werden.
Die Exkursion vermittelt Eindrücke von montanen Grasland-Gesellschaften des Ober- und Unterharzes als Resten einer historischen Kulturlandschaft mit vorwiegend extensiven bis halbintensiven Nutzungseinflüssen. Im Bereich Rotes Bruch - Großer Rappenberg bei Benneckenstein wachsen relativ artenarme Kleinseggensümpfe (Caricion fuscae) und verschiedene Ausprägungen von Sumpfdotterblumen-Wiesen (Calthion palustris). Auf dem Großen Rappenberg gibt es Borstgrasrasen (Violion caninae) und unterschiedlich intensiv bewirtschaftete Goldhafer-Bergwiesen (Polygono-Trisetion). Auf der Jordanshöhe bei St. Andreasberg wachsen verschiedene Ausprägungen der Goldhafer-Bergwiesen mit Übergängen zu Borstgrasrasen. In einem Versuch werden seit 1988 verschiedene Mahdvarianten zur Regeneration und Erhaltung von Bergwiesen auf Dauerflächen verfolgt.
DieNaturschutzgebiete Hainholz und Staufenberg am südwestlichen Harzrand wurden mit den Methoden der Naturwaldforschung untersucht. Beim Hainholz handelt es sich um eines der letzten naturnahen Buchenwaldgebiete in der Gipskarstlandschaft des Zechsteins. Vorherrschend sind trockenheitsertragende bis mäßig frische Kalkbuchenwälder (Carici-Fagetum, Hordelymo-Fagetum ). Der kegelförmige Staufenberg wird durch basenarme Grauwacken- und basenreiche Diabasstandorte geprägt, auf denen von der submontanen bis zur montanen Stufe oligo- bis mesotrophe Buchenwälder (Luzulo-Fagetum, Galio odorati-Fagetum) in allen Expositionen auftreten. Während der Staufenberg seit Ausweisung als Naturwald sich mehr als drei Jahrzehnte weitgehend ungestört entwickeln konnte, wurden im Hainholz 1997 durch einen Sommergewittersturm Buchenbestände z.T. großflächig geworfen. Die Ergebnisse der floristischen und vegetationskundlichen Untersuchungen konzentrieren sich auf drei Aussagen im Zusammenhang mit dem Mosaik-Zyklus-Konzept zur Dynamik von Buchenwäldern: 1. Mit der Einstellung der forstlichen Nutzung gehen die Artenzahlen in Buchenwäldern der Optimalphase zurück. Erst bei großflächigen Störungen wie z.B. Windwurf mit freigelegtem Mineralboden steigen die Artenzahlen wieder an. 2. Fehlende Nutzung begünstigt in der Optimalphase die Buche. Ohne großflächige Störung erfolgt auch die Verjüngung überwiegend durch die schattentolerante Buche. Erst bei großflächiger Störung treten typische Pioniersträucher auf, aber auch dann dominieren auf den basenreichen Böden des Hainholzes die schattentoleranten Baumarten, die bereits vor dem Windwurf in der Verjüngungsschicht des geschlossenen Altbestandes reichlich vorhanden waren. Ein Baumartenwechsel findet nicht statt. 3. Nichtwaldarten verschwinden nach Einstellung der forstlichen Nutzung in Buchenwäldern der Optimalphase. Sie treten nach großflächigen Windwürfen erneut auf, allerdings standörtlich stark unterschiedlich in Raum und Zeit. Insgesamt lassen die Ergebnisse aus dem Hainholz den Schluss zu, dass ohne forstliche Eingriffe auch bei katastrophalen, großflächigen Störungen die Regenerationsprozesse in mitteleuropäischen Buchenwäldern rascher verlaufen als bisher vielfach angenommen wird. Da dies gleichzeitig mit einem Anstieg der Artendiversität verbunden ist, der ohne großflächige Störung ausbleibt, sollte man solchen Katastrophen aus der Sicht des Naturschutzes eher positiv und gelassen gegenüberstehen.