The search for life outside the Earth has been one of the biggest quests of mankind. We have reached a level in technology that allows the first steps towards a scientific investigation. The aim of this workshop was to take an interdisciplinary look at the signatures that would be indicative for past or present life on another planet, to compare them to biosignatures on Earth, and to discuss state-of-the-art in-situ instruments that are envisioned to search for these signatures in the exploration of the solar system as well as concepts for the search for habitable planets around other stars.

This book reports on the development and assessment of a novel framework for studying neural interactions (the connectome) and their dynamics (the chronnectome). Using EEG recordings taken during an auditory oddball task performed by 48 patients with schizophrenia and 87 healthy controls, and applying local and network measures, changes in brain activation from pre-stimulus to cognitive response were assessed, and significant differences were observed between the patients and controls. This book investigates the source of the network abnormalities and presents new evidence for the disconnection hypothesis and the aberrant salience hypothesis with regard to schizophrenia. Moreover, it puts forward a novel approach to combining local regularity measures and graph measures in order to characterize schizophrenia brain dynamics, and presents interesting findings on the regularity of brain patterns in healthy control subjects versus patients with schizophrenia. Besides providing new evidence for the disconnection hypothesis, it offers a source of inspiration for future research directions in the field.

Biological membranes have long been identified as key elements in a wide variety of cellular processes including cell defense communication, photosynthesis, signal transduction, and motility; thus they emerge as primary targets in both basic and applied research. This book brings together in a single volume the most recent views of experts in the area of proteina "lipid interactions, providing an overview of the advances that have been achieved in the field in recent years, from very basic aspects to specialized technological applications. Topics include the application of X-ray and neutron diffraction, infrared and fluorescence spectroscopy, and high-resolution NMR to the understanding of the specific interactions between lipids and proteins within biological membranes, their structural relationships, and the implications for the biological functions that they mediate. Also covered in this volume are the insertion of proteins and peptides into the membrane and the concomitant formation of definite lipid domains within the membrane.

This book reports on the development and assessment of a novel framework for studying neural interactions (the connectome) and their dynamics (the chronnectome). Using EEG recordings taken during an auditory oddball task performed by 48 patients with schizophrenia and 87 healthy controls, and applying local and network measures, changes in brain activation from pre-stimulus to cognitive response were assessed, and significant differences were observed between the patients and controls. This book investigates the source of the network abnormalities and presents new evidence for the disconnection hypothesis and the aberrant salience hypothesis with regard to schizophrenia. Moreover, it puts forward a novel approach to combining local regularity measures and graph measures in order to characterize schizophrenia brain dynamics, and presents interesting findings on the regularity of brain patterns in healthy control subjects versus patients with schizophrenia. Besides providing new evidence for the disconnection hypothesis, it offers a source of inspiration for future research directions in the field.

Biological membranes have long been identified as key elements in a wide variety of cellular processes including cell defense communication, photosynthesis, signal transduction, and motility; thus they emerge as primary targets in both basic and applied research. This book brings together in a single volume the most recent views of experts in the area of protein-lipid interactions, providing an overview of the advances that have been achieved in the field in recent years, from very basic aspects to specialized technological applications. Topics include the application of X-ray and neutron diffraction, infrared and fluorescence spectroscopy, and high-resolution NMR to the understanding of the specific interactions between lipids and proteins within biological membranes, their structural relationships, and the implications for the biological functions that they mediate. Also covered in this volume are the insertion of proteins and peptides into the membrane and the concomitant formation of definite lipid domains within the membrane.

Javier Gomez, a highly talented figure painter of long experience and excellent reputation, shares the secrets of his success in this accessible 'how-to' guide to painting miniatures. He takes the reader step-by-step through the whole process, from choice of materials (unlike other available guides it is not linked to any specific figure manufacturer) and preparation of the miniatures to basing and even advice on photographing the finished item. Techniques such as dry-brushing, ink-washing, shading and highlighting are all explained clearly with the help of step-by-step photographs and colour charts. Specific case studies tackle a variety of useful subjects across all periods, such as mixing realistic flesh tones for different races; painting horses; guns and limbers; Medieval heraldry; Napoleonic uniforms; WW2 and modern camouflage patterns. Javier also clearly explains how these techniques and processes can be applied to all the major wargaming scales, from 40mm down to 6mm. Whatever historical period (or Sci-fi/Fantasy) and whatever scale the reader is interested in, this book is an invaluable source of practical advice and inspiration.

Revisitar el costumbrismo. Cosmopolitismo, pedagogias y modernizacion en Iberoamerica es una recopilacion de articulos cuyo foco de estudio es el costumbrismo del siglo XIX como discurso que vehiculo y respondio a los procesos de modernizacion en Latinoamerica. Los trabajos que aqui se incluyen se acercan al costumbrismo discutiendo problematicas esteticas, culturales y politicas de distintas tradiciones latinoamericanas - Argentina, Brasil, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Peru y Venezuela -, entrando en dialogo tambien con Espana. Nuestro objetivo con este proyecto es volver al costumbrismo latinoamericano para restituirle todo su grosor historico y estetico, alineandolo con otros debates sobre el siglo XIX que han abordado este periodo desde los estudios culturales y la critica literaria.

Este libro reune un conjunto de analisis criticos sobre novelas latinoamericanas pertenecientes a diferentes autores, publicadas en la primera y segunda decadas del siglo XXI. El objetivo del estudio consiste en mostrar, entre distintos tipos, la existencia de lazos tematicos, disimilitudes morfologicas y diferencias en cuanto a la naturaleza estructural y formas discursivas. Si bien los estudiosos de la nueva narrativa latinoamericana han investigado sobre el genero novela y las variadas clases con sus marcados rasgos distintivos, pero, tambien con sus fronteras difusas, esta recopilacion de ensayos viene a dar cuenta del fenomeno de la hibridez textual y del dialogo tematico que contribuyen a desdibujar los limites, en principios rigidos, segun los cuales, los textos han sido clasificados. El analisis de los textos se hace desde un locus que privilegia lo espacial y emplaza a personajes que deambulan por escenarios cuyos toponimos remiten a Paris, Caracas, Cartagena de Indias, Mexico y Bogota.

A la luz de los mas recientes estudios jacobeos, escritos de peregrinacion y la literatura ficcional o testimonial, en el volumen se contrastan relatos de viajeros a Compostela procedentes de los confines de Europa con la iconografia jacobea, incidiendo tambien en espacios hasta ahora poco estudiados. Se va asi completando el mapa de la cultura jacobea en toda Europa desde la Edad Media hasta nuestros dias. Desde siempre las senas de identidad del Camino de Santiago quedaron reflejadas en la literatura, el arte y hoy en los espacios virtuales, como espacio de la memoria individual y colectiva, de la imaginacion y de la identidad. La perspectiva interdisciplinar del libro abre nuevas calas en la enorme proyeccion historica, artistica y literaria del culto jacobeo no solo en Europa, sino incluso en Argentina, haciendo especial hincapie en los aspectos mas especificos del imaginario propio de cada region. Pilger- und Reiseberichte, fiktionale und autofiktionale Texte sind ebenso Gegenstand der Studien wie die ikonographischen Modelle und Traditionen, die in ihrer raumlichen Ausdifferenzierung im Laufe der Jahrhunderte entstanden und fur die Konstitution eines spezifischen Imaginariums massgeblich geworden sind. Literatur, Kunst und Medien reflektieren den Jakobsweg als einen Raum der Erinnerung, der Identitat, der Sprachen und der Imagination. Die transdisziplinare Perspektive des Bandes schlagt neue Seiten in der Erforschung des Jakobsweges auf, indem dessen anthropologische Projektion bis in unsere Tage hinein ins Auge gefasst wird und dabei bisher kaum berucksichtigte Aspekte und Raume des literarischen, kunsthistorischen und ethnographischen Imaginariums nicht nur in Europa, sondern zum Beispiel auch in Argentinien untersucht werden.

Doce estudios y cinco cuadernos de imagenes analizan en perspectiva interdisciplinar formas literarias, artisticas y populares de la recepcion de los mitos jacobeos en Iberoamerica, tanto en las ciudades como en el ambito rural. Suponen una original contribucion a la antropologia cultural de los mitos en torno a Santiago Apostol en la que convergen miradas desde la etnografia, la historia del arte, la literatura, el urbanismo y practicas devocionales. Fiestas, costumbres populares, leyendas, mitos que dejaron huellas en novelas, cuentos, leyendas y poemas contemporaneos, iconografia popular y sacra, tradiciones orales y monumentos arquitectonicos: tales manifestaciones jacobeas en America Latina representan formas de apropiacion cultural de los mitos jacobeos y auspician vias de su retorno a Europa ya con un lenguaje simbolico propio. La mayoria de las contribuciones se presentaron en el Simposio Internacional Entre Europa e America. A proxeccion xacobea - Jakobsmythen in zwei Welten celebrado en el Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut Berlin, el 7 y 8 de septiembre de 2009.

I was Diagnosis Retarded, chronicles the true story of a Mexican immigrant who defied the cultural bias of the Los Angeles Unified School District; an educational institution that branded him mentally retarded but somehow overcame becoming a statistical casualty. It outlines, the mitigating factors that altered his doom reality; to help his escape the mean streets of East L. A. and become a leading cultural warrior (treasure) in his community.