Holocene carbon dynamics at the forest-steppe ecotone of southern Siberia.

The forest-steppe ecotone in southern Siberia is highly sensitive to climate change; global warming is expected to push the ecotone northwards, at the same time resulting in degradation of the underlying permafrost. To gain a deeper understanding of long-term forest-steppe carbon dynamics, we use a highly resolved, multiproxy, palaeolimnological approach, based on sediment records from Lake Baikal. We reconstruct proxies that are relevant to understanding carbon dynamics including carbon mass accumulation rates (CMAR; g C m  yr ) and isotope composition of organic matter (δ C ).

A seasonal cycle of terrestrial inputs in Lake Van, Turkey.

Lake Van in Turkey is the world's largest soda lake (607 km(3)). The lake's catchment area is estimated to be ∼12,500 km(2), and the terrestrial input is carried through eolian, riverine, snowmelt and anthropogenic paths. Extent and seasonality of the terrestrial inputs to the lake have not been studied, but it is essential to evaluate its environmental status and to assess the use of environmental proxies to estimate the lake's response to climate changes.

[Problems and resources among hospital physicians, residents, and nurses in their hospital work].

Research about fieldwork with 133 health professionals from different hospitals in Buenos Aires city about both functional and disfunctional discomfort perceived and expressed by them. Risk factors/items described are: work in isolation, naturalizing of discomfort, overload, overadaptation, inappropriate relieving methods: tobacco, alcohol, too much or insufficient food, anxiety, self - carelessness, both physical or emotional, unawareness of their rights as workers. Work in hospitals also provides satisfaction.

[Psychophysiologic research on mental imagery].

This paper studies the different types of imagery likely to occur during the sleep/wake cycle in experiment subjects under part sensory deprivation conditions, where they are administered a sound-stimulus- namely an electronically recorded heart-beat which acts as propioceptive inductor. Meanwhile, a polysmonographic register in recorded so that a correlation between the time the imagery appears, and the states of consciousness likely to arouse the images is duly established. The study allows a fresh re-elaboration to be raised as regards imagery matureness and formation in the mind, a semiologic re-statement of imagery types, and a better understanding how the self works during sleep stage, dream state, and hypnagogic-hypnopompic phases as well.