The decision by Conjuntura Austral to dedicate a special issue to the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) is to be commended.The uniqueness of the organization justifies a timely review of a small sample of its activities to date.Created in 1996, the CPLP adopted three main vectors of activ
Musicians use different kinds of imagery.This review focuses on kinesthetic imagery, which has been shown to be an effective complement to actively playing an instrument.However, experience in actual movement performance seems to be a requirement for a recruitment of those brain areas representing movement ideation during imagery.An internal model
Multiple factors over the lifetime of an individual, including diet, geography, and 1976 corvette seat covers physiologic state, will influence the microbial communities within the primate gut.To determine the source of variation in the composition of the microbiota within and among species, we investigated the distal gut microbial communities harb
The outflow of freshwater from underwater channels in the Kongsbreen tidal glacier in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard, 79oN, was measured as 138.8 m3 s-1 at the peak of the melting season.Experiments on local marine plankton isidor oreiller mortality show that when exposed to salinities below 9 PSU, all copepods die within 15 minutes.We estimate that during
Autophagy has been linked to longevity in many species, but the underlying mechanisms are unclear.Using a GFP-tagged and a new tandem-tagged Atg8/LGG-1 reporter, we quantified autophagic vesicles and performed autophagic flux assays in multiple tissues of wild-type Caenorhabditis elegans and long-lived daf-2/insulin/IGF-1 and glp-1/Notch mutants th