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Knowledge of the handling death in the life of a colonial city realizes the social and biological processes of its inhabitants. In the city of Mendoza, founded in 1561, an installation process of temples that got to add a total of eight major in the village over 300 years was recorded. The buildings grew under the colonial consolidation, reaching become iconic for its architectural styles and investment in building materials. Indeed, the buildings were growing and excelling in the urban landscape. We understand that this gave a sense of the city and the citizens from the ritual was practiced there, including one very important: the funeral. We present the results of the excavations in temples built by Jesuits, Dominicans, Mercedarios, Franciscans and Augustinians in the city of Mendoza. Attention in the history of religious facilities is placed and people buried in them between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, as analyzed by sex and age categories characterized.

The development of a simple HPLC-UV method towards the evaluation of Spanish paprika’s phenolic profile and their discrimination based on the former is reported herein. The approach is based on C18 reversed-phase chromatography to generate characteristic fingerprints, in combination with linear discriminant analysis (LDA) to achieve their classification. To this aim, chromatographic conditions were optimized so as to achieve the separation of major phenolic compounds already identified in paprika. Paprika samples were subjected to a sample extraction stage by sonication and centrifugation; extracting procedure and conditions were optimized to maximize the generation of enough discriminant fingerprints. Finally, chromatograms were baseline corrected, compressed employing fast Fourier transform (FFT), and then analyzed by means of principal component analysis (PCA) and LDA to carry out the classification of paprika samples. Under the developed procedure, a total of 96 paprika samples were analyzed, achieving a classification rate of 100% for the test subset (n = 25).

Abstract Seasonal windows of opportunity are intervals within a year that provide improved prospects for growth, survival, or reproduction. However, few studies have sufficient temporal resolution to examine how multiple factors combine to constrain the seasonal timing and extent of developmental opportunities. Here, we document seasonal changes in milkweed (Asclepias fascicularis)–monarch (Danaus plexippus) interactions with high resolution throughout the last three breeding seasons prior to a precipitous single‐year decline in the western monarch population. Our results show early‐ and late‐season windows of opportunity for monarch recruitment that were constrained by different combinations of factors. Early‐season windows of opportunity were characterized by high egg densities and low survival on a select subset of host plants, consistent with the hypothesis that early‐spring migrant female monarchs select earlier‐emerging plants to balance a seasonal trade‐off between increasing host plant quantity and decreasing host plant quality. Late‐season windows of opportunity were coincident with the initiation of host plant senescence, and caterpillar success was negatively correlated with heatwave exposure, consistent with the hypothesis that late‐season windows were constrained by plant defense traits and thermal stress. Throughout this study, climatic and microclimatic variations played a foundational role in the timing and success of monarch developmental windows by affecting bottom‐up, top‐down, and abiotic limitations. More exposed microclimates were associated with higher developmental success during cooler conditions, and more shaded microclimates were associated with higher developmental success during warmer conditions, suggesting that habitat heterogeneity could buffer the effects of climatic variation. Together, these findings show an important dimension of seasonal change in milkweed–monarch interactions and illustrate how different biotic and abiotic factors can limit the developmental success of monarchs across the breeding season. These results also suggest the potential for seasonal sequences of favorable or unfavorable conditions across the breeding range to strongly affect monarch population dynamics.

Introduction: diabetes mellitus is a chronic condition identified at any age, predominantly in adulthood. It sometimes favors the development of metabolic disorders and vascular conditions. Objective: to describe the risk factors associated with peripheral vascular disease in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Method: an observational, descriptive and retrospective study was conducted with 62 diabetic patients residing in the Popular Council 8, those who attended Angiology consultation of the Polyclinic No.2 of Manzanillo, in the period from November 2017 to 2018. The main variables were: age, sex, time of evolution of the disease and risk factors. Results: there was a predominance of female sex (73.2%) and patients with vascular diseases (66.1%). Adults over 60 years of age (43.9%) were the most representative group. A prevalence of arterial hypertension (67.7 %), obesity (46.7 %) and smoking (33.8 %) was observed. It was found that 47.8 % of diabetic patients had more than three associated risk factors. Conclusions: diabetic patients frequently present peripheral vascular diseases, especially in women over 60 years of age with risk factors (hypertension, obesity and smoking), which indicates the importance of early diagnosis for timely treatment.