An updated biography of the mining engineer Manuel Fernández de Castro y Suero (1825-1895), who was head Commission for Geological Map Spain between 1873 and 1895, is presented. Through different documentary we have approached to both his family ancestry in Greater Antilles, three stages professional career. The first one, completion engineering studies 1845 departure Cuba 1859; second, as Cuba...

Crude protein fractions from Mirabilis jalapa of northern Iran containing Antiviral Protein (MAP) reduced the systemic accumulation a plant RNA virus in Nicotiana benthamiana. A MAP gene was amplified by RT-PCR total RNAs isolated these Iranian M. plants (MAP-Tehran) without 5´-end signal peptide sequence, to set up an experimental system that would transiently express cell cytosol agroinfiltra...

Geologic maps are complex scientific documents that provide considerably more than cartographic representations of geologic information. Modeling these documents in sufficient detail that they can be recorded and manipulated in computer database form, not simply as raster graphics, is essential to continued progress in geologic science. This paper discusses the principal challenges in geologic ...