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The cities of arid North Patagonia are located mainly on valleys framed by slopes. In recent decades they have had exponential demographic growth. The unplanned expansion of the urban area occurs over sensitive and poten...

Among the South American Arid Diagonal (SAAD), the Argentine Arid Diagonal (AAD) constitutes an area with low precipitations (less than 500 mm) and extends from the north of the country (on the border with Bolivia), to P...

Using the example of our own work about astronomies in the Argentinian Chaco, we show the fruitfulness of a regional approach to ethnoastronomical studies. Our interest is to highlight the relevance of thinking the astro...

Beyond the unique sound of howler monkey vocalizations, their vigorous loud calling displays are perplexing given the otherwise sedentary lifestyle of these primates. Here we provide potential explanations for this energ...

Hunting and gathering remained the main mode of subsistence of humanity for hundreds of thousands of years, beginning some 1.8 million years ago, and until the Neolithic Revolution (some 10,000 years ago), when agricultu...

Intracellular levels of cyclic nucleotide second messengers are regulated predominantly by a large superfamily of phosphodiesterases (PDEs). Most of the different PDE variants play specific physiological functions; in fa...

Population coding is the quantitative study of which algorithms or representations are used by the brain to combine together and evaluate the messages carried by different neurons. Here, we review an information-theory b...

Layer-by-layer (LbL) self-assembly microencapsulation is a promising method to protect and deliver probiotics, although its implementation has mostly been confined to the lab scale. This study develops a scalable method ...

Refractories are defined as "non-metallic materials having those chemical and physical properties that make them applicable: for structures, or as components of systems, that are exposed to environments above 1,000 °F (...

Capybaras (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) have been used in Argentina since pre-Columbian times as a source of hide, meat, and fat. Hide is the most valuable capybara by-product and, at present, represents the major hunting ...

Purple carrots (Daucus carota ssp. sativus var. atrorubens Alef.) accumulate anthocyanins in their roots, petioles and other plant parts. These flavonoid pigments represent an excellent dietary source of antioxidant and ...

This work presents the initial steps for the development of a serious game aimed at training users of upper limb prosthesis. In this initial phase, a virtual environment consisting of a soccer stadium was developed using...

Heteroduplex-based genotyping methods have proven to be technologically effective and economically effi cient for low- to medium-range throughput single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) determination. In this chapter we des...

Land-derived dissolved and particulate matter (allochthonous matter) affect pelagic ecosystems by changing factors which include light penetration, nutrient availability, substrate concentration, and in general, biogeoch...

Cloud computing is a business paradigm, where cloud providers offer resources (e.g., storage, computing, network) and cloud consumers use them after accepting a specific service level agreement. Cloud requirements can ra...

The Península Valdés region is situated in an intraplate position of the South American Plate, in the Patagonian foreland close to the Argentine Continental shelf. This region has a complex geotectonic evolution that s...

Constructed wetlands are systems based on nature, in which macrophytes are themain biological community. According to the diversity of wastewaters that thesesystems can treat, its use has expanded all over the world. Tre...

An expanding world population and a planet limited in natural resources are two of the main reasons that have propelled the development of scientific and technological solutions that enable the efficient, sustainable, an...

Brood reduction is a within-brood partial mortality due to sibling rivalry and has been observed in a large number of bird species from diverse taxa. Here, I summarize several hypotheses accounting for the adaptive value...

During the last years, microorganisms (yeasts, fungi, microalgae and bacteria) have been receiving increasing attention as alternative lipid sources (also called single cells oils). Some lipid-accumulating bacteria, in p...

The Antarctic rocky coasts are mainly colonized by extensive seaweed communities, which play key roles as food resource, habitat, and refuge for many benthic and pelagic organisms. Due to climate warming, Antarctic marin...

Progesterone (4-pregnene-3,20-dione, P4) is an ▶ovarian steroid hormone that plays a key role in the regulation of cell proliferation and differentiation in the female reproductive tract. Interestingly, progesterone al...

This chapter takes up the debate that is going on in contemporary legal and political philosophy under the rubric of dialogic constitutionalism, dialogic justice or dialogic judicial review. These issues are studied with...

Latin American cities are exposed to threats triggered by climate change that generate environmental impacts. In addition, there is evidence of an accelerated process of urbanization which consequences are intensified by...