March 2010

Volume 35 Issue 03

/Letters to the Editor/ 157
/Editorial/

Jon Paul Rodríguez, José Rafael Ferrer-Paris, Jesús Mavárez, Kathryn M. Rodríguez-Clark and Ada Y. Sánchez-Mercado

MORE AND BETTER SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION FOR 2010: INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF BIODIVERSITY

161
/Articles/

Agustín Herrera-May, Luz Antonio Aguilera-Cortés, Elías Manjarrez and Max González-Palacios

NANOELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS: ORIGIN, APPLICATIONS AND CHALLENGES (in Spanish)

163

Fabricio J. Mazocco, Cidoval Morais de Sousa and Maria Cristina Comunian Ferraz

THE MEDIA COVERAGE OF TECHNO-SCIENCE: A READING FROM THE STS POINT OF VIEW (in Portuguese)

171

Cristiane Suely Melo de Carvalho, Ceci Sales-Campos and Meire Cristina Nogueira de Andrade

MUSHROOMS OF THE Pleurotus GENUS: A REVIEW OF CULTIVATION TECHNIQUES (in Spanish)

177

Sergio Salgado-García, David J. Palma-López, Joel Zavala-Cruz, Luz del C. Lagunes-Espinoza, Carlos F. Ortiz-García, Mepivoseth Castelán-Estrada, Armando Guerrero-Peña, Emilio M. Aranda-Ibáñez, Elvia Moreno-Cáliz and Joaquín A. Rincón-Ramírez

PARCELING OF SUGAR CANE FIELDS: AN ALTERNATIVE TO INITIATE PRECISION AGRICULTURE OF SUGAR PRODUCTION IN MEXICO (in Spanish)

183

Francisco Velasco, Luis González-Abril, Juan Antonio Ortega and Juan Antonio Álvarez

A STUDY OF THEMATIC AREAS IN ECONOMY BY A MEASURE OF SIMILARITIES BASED ON A KERNEL (in Spanish)

191
/Reports/

Ceci Sales-Campos, Marli Teixeira de Almeida Minhoni and Meire Cristina Nogueira de Andrade

PRODUCTIVITY OF Pleurotus ostreatus IN AMAZONIAN RESIDUES (in Portuguese)

198

Miguel A. Chiurillo, Yeinmy Morán, Miryan Cañas and Gabriela Valero

DISTRIBUTION OF TP53 CODON 72 POLYMORPHISM IN VENEZUELA: ETHNIC AND GEOGRAPHIC IMPLICATIONS (in Spanish)

202

Zoraida Calle, Manuel R. Guariguata, Eudaly Giraldo and Julián Chará

THE PRODUCTION OF PASSION FRUIT (Passiflora edulis) IN COLOMBIA: PERSPECTIVES FOR HABITAT CONSERVATION THROUGH POLLINATION SERVICES (in Spanish)

207

Silvia Sánchez Rojo and Humberto Antonio López Delgado

HYDROGEN PEROXIDE AS AN in vitro TUBERIZATION INDUCER IN POTATO PLANTS (in Spanish)

213

Analí Machado, Giuseppe Sepede, Neyma García, Gilberto Colina, Cézar García, Jorge Alaña and Victor Granadillo

INFLUENCE OF A THERMOELECTRIC FACILITY ON V AND Ni CONCENTRATION IN SEDIMENTS IN THE CITY OF MARACAIBO, VENEZUELA (in Spanish)

217
/Essays/

Juan Pablo Martínez-Dávila and Lissette Bustillo-García

SOCIAL AUTOPOIESIS OF SUSTAINABLE RURAL DEVELOPMENT (in Spanish)

223
/Forthcoming Events/ 230