The natural resources of Morro Bay

The primary purpose of this report, then, is to document the natural resources of Morro Bay and their values; point out significant problems regarding their use and to make recommendations for preservation of these resources to planners, administrators and interested citizens. A secondary purpose of this report is to pull together into one source, all data and references on the biological resources of Morro Bay. Up to now these data have been widely distributed amongst letters, reports, papers, etc., to which few have access. At the request of Senate Resolution No. 176, 1966 First Extraordinary Session, the Department completed in December, 1966 a report entitled, "Report of the Natural Resources of Morro Bay and Proposal for Comprehensive Area Plan." Based largely upon the recommendations of that report, the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors appointed a task force to prepare a comprehensive area plan for the Morro Bay area and its watershed. Hence, the information herein is presented in order that the natural resources of Morro Bay will be given adequate consideration, based on the best data available, in the proposed comprehensive area plan and in other plans such as one being prepared by the Coastal Zone Conservation Commission. (148ppp.

Measurement and comparison of individual external doses of high-school students living in Japan, France, Poland and Belarus -- the "D-shuttle" project --

Twelve high schools in Japan (of which six are in Fukushima Prefecture), four in France, eight in Poland and two in Belarus cooperated in the measurement and comparison of individual external doses in 2014. In total 216 high-school students and teachers participated in the study. Each participant wore an electronic personal dosimeter "D-shuttle" for two weeks, and kept a journal of his/her whereabouts and activities. The distributions of annual external doses estimated for each region overlap with each other, demonstrating that the personal external individual doses in locations where residence is currently allowed in Fukushima Prefecture and in Belarus are well within the range of estimated annual doses due to the background radiation level of other regions/countries

Exposição às mudanças climáticas do Parque Nacional do Iguaçú, Estado do Paraná

As mudanças climáticas atuais representam uma ameaça ubíqua à biodiversidade, com potenciais impactos mesmo em áreas bem preservadas como as unidades de conservação. Aqui quantificamos a exposição do Parque Nacional do Iguaçuàs mudanças climáticas segundo as projeções do modelo HADGEM2-ES para 2070, fornecendo previsões para 19 variáveis bioclimáticas. Os resultados apontam para  uma alta exposição do parque, com um grande aumento na temperatura média  anual variando de 3 a 4,3 o C e um aumento moderado na precipitação anual total  variando entre 133 a 183 mm

Extracellualr high-mobility group 1 protein is essential for murine erythroleukemia cell differentiation

A high-mobility group 1 (HMG1) protein type isolated from murine erythroleukaemia (MEL) cells promotes acceleration of the differentiation process when added to a MEL cell culture together with the inducer hexamethylene bisacetamide. We now provide direct evidence that the presence of HMG1 protein in the extracellular medium is essential for terminal erythroid differentiation. An extracellular function for HMG1 protein in MEL cell is further supported by a demonstration that this protein is released from MEL cells exposed to the chemical inducer and that the addition of an anti-(HMG1 protein) monoclonal antibody to the cell culture inhibits the differentiation process almost completely. The release of HMG1 protein from MEL cells is modulated by compounds affecting cell calcium homoeostasis, such as a calcium ionophore or verapamil. In fact, in the presence of the ionophore an increased rate of differentiation is accompanied by an enhanced extracellular release of HMG1 protein, whereas in the presence of verapamil both phenomena are significantly decreased