Moritz Kaposi (1837-1902)

Fil: Comerio, Carlos. Hospital Luis Lagomaggiore (Mendoza, Argentina). Servicio de DermatologíaFil: Parra, Viviana Gladys. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas. Cátedra de Dermatologí

La historia de la sífilis o ¿la sífilis en la historia?

Fil: Comerio, Carlos

Integrated disaster recovery: Linking health care and disaster case management

In long-term recovery from natural disasters, the federal government helps to rebuild infrastructure, but individuals face a chaotic and uncoordinated assembly of state and local programs, insurance coverage, and assistance from nongovernmental organizations. The Federal Emergency Management Agency and other organizations have utilized case management, which matches individual needs for housing, health care, employment, and education, etc. with appropriate resources, to coordinate disaster recovery. However, these efforts have had uneven results. Case management limitations include: inability to identify and locate all those in need, implementation barriers, inability to scale services for large urban disasters, and poor sustainability. Linking disaster recovery case management with health care organizations, especially those with pre-existing health care case management programs, is a practical, scalable and sustainable approach to integrating the many aspects of disaster recovery and is a way for building community resilience before and after disasters

Ofiuroideos del Cretácico Inferior de Patagonia: primer registro fósil articulado para el Mesozoico de América del Sur

The first articulated remains of ophiuroids for the Mesozoic of South America are described from the Lower Cretaceous of Neuquén Basin, Argentina. The taxonomic analysis allows the assignment of the material described herein to the extinct genus Ophiopetra. The specimens belong to a new species, but considering the poor preservation, a new name is not introduced, as it would be based on an incomplete diagnosis. Certain characteristics (e.g., the diameter of the disc, the width/height ratio of the vertebrae) suggest that these ophiuroids are paedomorphic specimens. In light of the latest classification of the Ophiuroidea, and new insights on the spine articulation microstructure of Ophiopetra lithographica presented herein, a transfer of Ophiopetra to the family Ophionereididae within the order Amphilepidida is proposed. This material expands the palaeogeographic record of this genus, since it represents the first remains of Ophiopetra described in the Southern Hemisphere. It is also the first Cretaceous record of the genus worldwide.Fil: Fernández, Diana Elizabeth. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Estudios Andinos "Don Pablo Groeber". Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Estudios Andinos "Don Pablo Groeber"; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Ciencias Geológicas; ArgentinaFil: Giachetti, Luciana María. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Ciencias Geológicas; ArgentinaFil: Stöhr, Sabine. Swedish Museum of Natural History; SueciaFil: Thuy, Ben. Natural History Museum Luxembourg; LuxemburgoFil: Perez, Damián. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Parque Centenario. Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”; ArgentinaFil: Comerio, Marcos. Provincia de Buenos Aires. Gobernación. Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas. Centro de Tecnología de Recursos Minerales y Cerámica. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Centro de Tecnología de Recursos Minerales y Cerámica; ArgentinaFil: Pazos, Pablo Jose. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Estudios Andinos "Don Pablo Groeber". Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Estudios Andinos "Don Pablo Groeber"; Argentin

Endometriosis vulvar : presentación de un caso clínico

Fil: Comerio, Carlos. Hospital Luis Lagomaggiore (Mendoza, Argentina). Servicio de DermatologíaFil: Sánchez, Cecilia. Hospital Luis Lagomaggiore (Mendoza, Argentina). Servicio de GinecologíaFil: Parra, Viviana Gladys. Hospital Luis Lagomaggiore (Mendoza, Argentina). Servicio de DermatologíaFil: Innocenti, Carolina. Hospital Luis Lagomaggiore (Mendoza, Argentina). Servicio de Dermatologí

Oxfordian microbial laminites from La Manga Formation, Neuquén Basin, Argentina: Remarkable nanobacteria preservation

Exceptionally preserved stromatolites have been found in the shallow marine carbonate facies of the Callovian-Oxfordian La Manga Formation, in the Neuquén Basin (Argentina). The stromatolites exhibit planar and crinkle lamination, often disrupted by sheet-cracks, mudcracks, and fenestral structures, which indicate periodic subaerial exposure. These and other evidences suggest that these stromatolites grew in low energy upper intertidal to lower supratidal environments. They consist of fine micrite/microsparite crystal fabrics (with a remarkable lack of allochems) that define submillimiter alternations of dense laminae. Extensive SEM examinations of polished samples of the stromatolites reveal exceptional preservation of rod-shaped bacteria, coccoid like microorganisms, and abundant aggregates of framboidal pyrite. The rod-like bacteria consists of a network of irregular distributed filaments, which range from 150 nm to an uncommon 640 nm in length; diameters range from 54 nm to 90 nm. Subspherical bodies range in size between 70 and 89 nm. The presence of abundant framboidal pyrites is interpreted as the result of the metabolic activity of sulfate–reducing bacteria and decay of organic matter.Se describen estromatolitos excepcionalmente preservados en facies carbonáticas marinas someras en la Formación La Manga, de edad Calloviense-Oxfordiense, en la Cuenca de Neuquén (Argentina). Los estromatolitos muestran una laminación tanto planar como ondulada, frecuentemente alterada por estructuras de tipo fenestral, y sheet y mud-crack, que indican etapas de exposición subaérea. Estas y otras características sugieren que estos estromatolitos crecieron en ambientes de baja energía, intermareales altos y supramareales. Están constituidos por una fábrica de micrita-microesparita (con una destacada ausencia de aloquímicos) que constituyen alternancias submilimétricas de laminación densa. Estudios detallados con SEM sobre muestras pulidas revelan una preservación excepcional con morfología alargada, microorganismos tipo cocoide, y abundantes agregados de pirita framboidal. Las bacterias con morfologías alargadas están constituyendo una red irregularmente distribuida de filamentos que oscilan en tamaño desde 150 nm hasta, excepcionalmente, 640 nm en longitud; el diámetro oscila entre 50 nm y 90 nm. Las morfologías subesféricas oscilan entre 70 nm y 89 nm. La presencia de abundantes piritas framboidales es interpretada como resultado de una actividad metabólica de bacterias sulfato-reductoras y la descomposición de materia orgánica

PEER Testbed Study on a Laboratory Building: Exercising Seismic Performance Assessment

From 2002 to 2004 (years five and six of a ten-year funding cycle), the PEER Center organized the majority of its research around six testbeds. Two buildings and two bridges, a campus, and a transportation network were selected as case studies to “exercise” the PEER performance-based earthquake engineering methodology. All projects involved interdisciplinary teams of researchers, each producing data to be used by other colleagues in their research. The testbeds demonstrated that it is possible to create the data necessary to populate the PEER performancebased framing equation, linking the hazard analysis, the structural analysis, the development of damage measures, loss analysis, and decision variables. This report describes one of the building testbeds—the UC Science Building. The project was chosen to focus attention on the consequences of losses of laboratory contents, particularly downtime. The UC Science testbed evaluated the earthquake hazard and the structural performance of a well-designed recently built reinforced concrete laboratory building using the OpenSees platform. Researchers conducted shake table tests on samples of critical laboratory contents in order to develop fragility curves used to analyze the probability of losses based on equipment failure. The UC Science testbed undertook an extreme case in performance assessment—linking performance of contents to operational failure. The research shows the interdependence of building structure, systems, and contents in performance assessment, and highlights where further research is needed. The Executive Summary provides a short description of the overall testbed research program, while the main body of the report includes summary chapters from individual researchers. More extensive research reports are cited in the reference section of each chapter

Avaliação do Impacto de Sujidade de Módulos Fotovoltaicos na Geração de Energia Elétrica

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Clay minerals of the Agua de la Mula Member - Agrio Formation- in a sequence stratigraphic model, in the Neuquén Embayment

Se realizó un estudio mineralógico, sedimentológico y estratigráfico del Miembro Agua de la Mula (Hauteriviano Tardío–Barremiano Temprano) de la Formación Agrio, en el ámbito paleo-geográfico del Engolfamiento Neuquino, provincia de Neuquén, Argentina. La información obtenida a lo largo de dos transectas orientadas en dirección Norte-Sur (localidades de estudio de Bajada del Agrio, Agua de la Mula, Cerro Rayoso y Mina San Eduardo) y Noroeste-Sudeste (localidades de estudio Loma La Torre y Caepe Malal) permitió reconocer importantes variaciones en el registro depositacional y post-depositación de dicha unidad. De las asociaciones de minerales de las arcillas (filosilicatos), se reconoció un neto predominio de illitas de politipo 2M1 y minerales interestratificados illita-esmectita (I/S) con ordenamiento ISII o R = 3 (menos de 15% de capas expansivas) de origen detrítico. Se documenta, también, en proporciones subordinadas clorita y caolinita tanto de origen diagenético como detrítico. De haber existido cambios paleoclimáticos contrastantes en las áreas fuente de sedimento, el tiempo de residencia no habría sido suficiente como para ser registrado ya que no se documentan variaciones en las asociaciones de filosilicatos de importancia que permitan realizar tales inferencias. Por su parte, la presencia de niveles con caolinita autigénica, ligados a superficies con significación estratigráfica indican que alteraciones eogéneticas, vinculadas con descensos relativos del nivel del mar y la incursión de aguas meteóricas que promovieron la caolinitización in-situ de los feldespatos. Tal interpretación se refuerza debido la presencia de bancos dolomitizados por encima de los niveles caolinitizados, sostenido a través de resultados de isótopos estables en dolomita (δ13C VPDB y δ18O VPDB) los que indican mezclas de aguas meteóricas y marinas al momento de la precipitación. Se reconocieron 32 litofacies sedimentarias que junto al análisis microfacial permitieron identificar seis asociaciones de facies con jerarquía de subambientes correspondientes a: rampa externa (distal y proximal), rampa media (distal y proximal) y rampa interna (distal y proximal). Se identificaron cuatro secuencias transgresivas-regresivas, que con, respecto al tiempo total de acumulación a partir de información de dataciones absolutas pre-existentes, se interpretan como relacionadas a secuencias depositacionales con jerarquía de cuarto orden, lo cual es marcadamente contrastante con interpretaciones previas.The Agua de la Mula Member (Late Hauterivian–Lower Barremian) of the Agrio Formation has been studied through mineralogical, sedimentologic and stratigraphic analyses in the Neuquén Embayment, Neuquén province, Argentina. The information was obtained from two transect oriented N-S (Bajada del Agrio, Agua de la Mula, Cerro Rayoso and Mina San Eduardo localities) and NW-SE (Loma La Torre y Caepe Malal localities) which permit recognition of significat depositional and post-depositional changes. Clay mineral association indicate that illite-2M1 polytype and interstratified illite-smectite (I/S) with ISII order o R = 3 (less than 15% of expanded components) are the predominating mineral phases, inherited from parental rocks. Also, Fe-chlorite and kaolinite are present but in a subordinate form and they are diagenetic and detrital in origin. Whether contrasting paleoclimatic changes occured in the hinterland, the residence time was insufficient to be documented in the clay mineral associations. Moreover, the presence of beds with authigenic kaolinite and linked to surfaces of stratigraphic importance indicate that eogenetic alterations related to relative sea-level fall promoted the incursions of meteoric water and the kaolinitization in-situ of feldspars. This interpretation is sustained by the presence of dolomitic beds where stable isotope data (δ^13C VPDB y δ^18O VPDB in dolomite) point to a mixture between normal marine and fresh meteoric water at time of deposition. The distinction and definition of 32 lithofacies together with the microfacies analyses permitted to recognize six facies associations corresponding to six types of depositional settings: outer ramp (distal and proximal), middle ramp (distal and proximal) and inner ramp (distal and proximal). Also, four fourth-order depositional sequences have been identified according to previous radioisotopic age determinations and constrated with previous stratigraphic models for the studied unit.Fil: Comerio, Marcos Alejandro. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina