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Early infancy has been neglect not having the best opportunities to promote social motor and cognitive development. The maturational concept considering young infants as passive beings provide a misguided view of the developmental process. The human infant is an active being from the very beginning of life. In the social and physical world, they can, by observing and imitating, perform complex actions involving different motor behaviours. In the present review we argue that imitation and manipulative actions are integrated in Expressive Action System (Reed, 1996) where baby-caregiver social interaction is the link between the use and exploration of objects in the world. We present evidence that neonatal imitation and manipulation activities are connected and thus, we propose stimulation practices based in seminal experimental designs where infants should be positioned in favourable postures to observe others acting in the world. This will have an impact on the way that early infants understand the social world and the chain of actions possible in this environment.

Thin liquid films are important in many scientific fields. In particular, films with both the surface layers exposed to a different fluid phase, known as freestanding films, are relevant in the ambit of foams and emulsions. Hence, there is a great interest in developing novel techniques allowing to form large and stable freestanding liquid films and to follow their dynamics.

We develop a novel opto-mechanical tool allowing to perform and study the preparation and the capillary leveling flow of axisymmetric bare freestanding liquid films. The tool is composed by a customized motorized iris diaphragm and by an innovative joint imaging setup combining digital holography and white light color interferometry that enables real-time measurement of film thickness over a large field of view. The dynamics of films made of a model Newtonian fluid, i.e., high-viscosity silicone oil, is studied. Direct numerical simulations and a hydrodynamic model based on the lubrication theory are used to support the experimental results.

Iris opening induces the formation of large circular freestanding films with a stepped profile. Once iris opening is stopped, the films undergo a capillary leveling flow tending to flatten their profile. The leveling flow follows the theoretical scaling given by Ilton et al. [1]. We prove through numerical simulations that an equi-biaxial extensional flow occurs at the film center. Furthermore, we observe the formation and dynamics of dimples in bare freestanding films for the first time.

Iris opening induces the formation of large circular freestanding films with a stepped profile. Once iris opening is stopped, the films undergo a capillary leveling flow tending to flatten their profile. The leveling flow follows the theoretical scaling given by Ilton et al. [1]. We prove through numerical simulations that an equi-biaxial extensional flow occurs at the film center. Furthermore, we observe the formation and dynamics of dimples in bare freestanding films for the first time.We conducted a field experiment in soybean with different levels of K application to elucidate the comparative dynamics of 137Cs and K. The inventory of K in the shoots increased substantially from the fifth trifoliate stage to the full seed stage, and as the absorption of K increased, so too did the absorption of 137Cs. Overall, the effect of K application was much greater in terms of 137Cs dynamics than K dynamics or biomass production. K application reduced not only the accumulation of 137Cs in the shoots, but also the distribution of 137Cs to the grains. However, the decrease of 137Cs distribution to the grain had a much smaller effect on 137Cs accumulation in the grains than 137Cs absorption. A positive correlation was also observed between the exchangeable 137Cs/K ratio in the soil and the 137Cs/K ratio in the shoots for each growth stage, and the 137Cs/K ratios in the shoots at the full seed and full maturity stage were much higher than those at the fifth trifoliate and full bloom stage under the same exchangeable 137Cs/K ratio in the soil. These findings suggest a decrease in the discrimination of 137Cs from K during absorption after the full bloom stage. As a result of this and the increase in soil-exchangeable 137Cs/K with growth, radiocesium was more transferable to the shoots after the full bloom stage. Overall, these results suggest that lowering the soil-exchangeable radiocesium/potassium ratio after the full bloom stage by increasing K availability could efficiently reduce the transfer of radiocesium to the grains.The sediments deposited in Lake Kevojärvi (69°45N, 27°00'E) in northernmost Finland were investigated for radioactivity. Freeze cores recovered from the 35-m deep basin has preserved a distinct succession of annual laminations deposited between 1909 and 2015. selleck inhibitor The basic varve structure is composed of a detrital snowmelt layer and an organic-rich post-snowmelt layer lying on top of the snowmelt layer. The past nuclear events have been preserved in the lake sediment. In order to study these, sediment freeze with annual sediment laminations were recovered from the lake bottom and measured for gamma emitting radionuclides. A total of 53 sediment subsamples, each incorporating sediment from one to two varves i.e. sediment deposited during one to two years, were taken for gamma spectroscopy measurements using low-background HPGe detector system. The measurements showed large variations in 137Cs and 241Am concentrations between different laminae marking different nuclear events in history. This highly resolved profillong-time periods of low (~1930-1950 and ~1990-2000) and high concentrations (~1950-1980) were observed. The reason for large variation was the amount of sediment input. The Constant rate of supply (CRS) model results showed good agreement with the varve counting. The model results showed that the 210Pb deposition has been constant over the last 80 years and no effect of climate change to the 210Pb deposition was observed.Caviomorpha are an exceptional group among rodents due to their extended gestational period and the delivery of precocial offspring. Among them, Lagostomus maximus is characterized by its polyovulation, polyembryony, and the highest embryonic death known in mammals. Its chorioallantoic placenta is hemomonochorial, an ancestral character among rodents. It resembles more the human placenta than the murine models. As in all caviomophs, the chorioallantoic placenta is divided in a main placenta and a subplacenta. The former is organized in labyrinth lobes surrounded by trophospongium, as in most caviomorphs. The giant cells (more numerous than in other caviomorphs) near the decidua could be related to invasiveness. During placentation of L. maximus, uterine natural killer cells are found. These cells have been related to invasiveness and remodeling of blood vessels in Mus musculus and Homo sapiens, although in other caviomorphs are not frequently found. In L. maximus, the placenta develops in all conceptuses (5-6 per uterine horn).