Mexican cinema today has a growing number of films every year, but the situation faced by young filmmakers in distributing what they produce remains problematic. Fiscal stimulus to invest in new productions, and the visibility that many filmmakers gain in film festivals, have been of little use. Wit...

The green micro-alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is commonly used as a model for the study of the metallic stress in photosynthetic organisms. Tolerance mechanisms against stress induced by cadmium are not well understood. In order to determine these mechanisms, subcellular location and in situ specia...

in 2005, American biologist, geograph and historian, Jared DIAMOND published Collapse. How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive. The author reiterates the idea that all civilisations are fatal and cause their own regression or collapse. For DIAMOND (2005), the strength of thermo-industrial civilisati...

These storms, Mexican cinema is seeing an increase in its production of films from year to year. Yet young filmmakers face great difficulties in distributing their works. Fiscal measures promoting investment in new productions and the visibility of many filmmakers in festivals could not remedy this....

Self-translation is by no means a marginal aspect of Nabokov’s or Beckett’s works: it is an essential part of it, particularly in the light of the freedoms enjoyed by an author who translates himself. It will therefore not be surprising to see Nabokov and Beckett continuing the work of writing throu...

Cut-plant proteins (UCPs) are located in the mitochondries internal membrane. The first discovery, UCP1, is known for its potential to decouple the synthesis of 5’ triphosphate adenosine (ATP) from oxidation of energy substrates, leading to acceleration of metabolism and heat generation. Decoupling...

The collapse of the three main Icelandic banks in autumn 2008 was seen as the result of phenomena as diverse as excessive balance sheet growth, adventitious deregulation, poor supervision, poor governance of banks, weak ethical culture, macroeconomic imbalances or a lack of international cooperation...

Spatial memory formation is a complex process that transforms newly-acquired information into long-lasting and solid memories. Molecularly, these phenomena rely on the expression of two opposite forms of synaptic plasticity; long-term potentiation (LTP) and long-term depression (LTD). LTP/LTD induct...

The first chapter questions the conventional intuition that a high concentration of income at the top of the distribution should promote the emergence of rational asset bubbles. I use an OLG model with financial fictions and heterogeneous agents that differ in terms of savings rate, portfolio choice...