April 2009

Volume 34 issue 04

/Editorial/

Jaime Requena, Orlando Albornoz and Roberto Briceño León

THE ALTERNATIVE AS SUPPORT TO THE SOCIAL SCIENCES IN VENEZUELA

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 /Articles/

Alexandre Gabriel Christo, Rejan R. Guedes-Bruni, Felipe De Araújo P. Sobrinho, Ary Gomes Da Silva and Ariane Luna Peixoto

STRUCTURE OF THE SHRUB-ARBOREAL COMPONENT OF AN ATLANTIC FOREST FRAGMENT ON A HILLOCK IN THE CENTRAL LOWLAND OF RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL (in English)

232

Mauricio Bermúdez-Cella, Arturo López, Miguel Balcázar-García, Graciela Zarazúa-Ortega and Rommel Bona

CHARACTERIZATION OF ZIRCON AND APATITE CRYSTALS FROM FISH CANYON TUFF INTERNACIONAL STANDARD FOR USE IN A THERMOCRONOLOGY LABORATORY (in Spanish)

240
/Reports/

Manuel Huerta Lara, Elizabeth Cárdenas Soriano, Reyna Isabel Rojas Martínez, Jesús Francisco López Olguín, Delfino Reyes López, Juliana Bautista Calles and Omar Romero Arenas

VASCULAR BUNDLE OCCLUSION AS A MEASURE OF SUGARCANE RESISTANCE TO Xanthomonas albilineans (in Spanish)

247

Abraham Méndez-Albores, Fernando Martínez-Bustos, José Juan Véles-Medina, Carolina Moreno-Ramos, Juan Carlos Del Río-García and Ernesto Moreno-Martínez

EFFECT OF CITRIC ACID ADDITION ON AFLATOXIN DEGRADATION AND ON FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES OF EXTRUDED SORGHUM PRODUCTS (in Spanish)

252

Cassius S. Palhano-Silva, Adauto J. G. Araújo, Ana E. P. Lourenço, Otílio M. P. Bastos, Ricardo V. Santos and Carlos E. A. Coimbra, Jr.

INTESTINAL PARASITIC INFECTION IN THE SURUÍ INDIANS, BRAZILIAN AMAZON (in English)

259

Francisco Bittara, Dorian Rodríguez, María Sanabria, Jesús Monroy and José L. Rodríguez

FUNGICIDES AND PLANT PRODUCTS EVALUATION FOR CONTROL OF POWDERY SCAB OF POTATO (in Spanish)

265

Jacqueline A. Hernández A., Silvana Pietrosemoli C., Alfredo Faría R., Ricardo Palma and Robert Canelón

EFFECTS OF FEEDING FREQUENCY ON GROWTH AND REPRODUCTION OF EARTHWORMS (Eisenia spp.) (in Spanish)

270

Ramón Pacheco-Aguilar, Pedro Leyva-Soto, Gisela Carvallo-Ruiz, Luis F. García-Carreño and Enrique Márquez-Ríos

EFFECT OF CHITOSAN CONCENTRATION AND pH ON THE REMOVAL OF SOLIDS FROM STICKWATER PRODUCED IN THE SARDINE INDUSTRY (in Spanish)

274

Emperatriz Pacheco de Delahaye (†) and Nora Techeira

CHEMICAL AND FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES OF NATIVE AND MODIFIED YAM (Dioscorea alata) STARCH

280

María Claudia Castañeda-Saucedo, Cándido López-Castañeda, María Teresa B. Colinas-De León, Juan C. Molina Moreno and Adrián Hernández-Livera

YIELD AND SEED QUALITY OF BARLEY AND WHEAT IN GLASSHOUSE AND FIELD CONDITIONS (in Spanish)

286

Alejandra Ramírez and Emperatriz Pacheco de Delahaye (†)

FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES OF STARCHES WITH HIGH DIETETIC FIBER CONTENT OBTAINED FROM PINEAPPLE, GUAVA AND SOURSOP (in Spanish)

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