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Conocer al autor de una obra nos permite entenderla mejor, por esto nos hemos acercado a Andrés García de Céspedes no sólo a través de los autores que lo han estudiado, sino también de las fuentes directas. Él trabajó en el campo de las ciencias siendo matemático, cosmógrafo y astrónomo; también fue inventor y artífice de instrumentos astronómicos y matemáticos. Además, fue Piloto Mayor de la Casa de la Contratación de Sevilla, Cosmógrafo Mayor del Consejo de Indias, clérigo y supuestamente capitán. A través de los siglos su controvertida personalidad y calidad de sus obras han contrapuesto las opiniones de expertos. Su tenacidad y metodología, que lo llevaron algunas veces a apropiarse de ideas de otros cosmógrafos e inclusive a adjudicarse obras que no eran suyas, le permitieron lograr un reconocimiento en la historia de la navegación. Abstract Knowing the author of a work allows us to understand it better. This is why we have approached Andrés García de Céspedes, not only through the authors who have studied him, but also from the primary sources. He worked intensely in the field of sciences being a mathematician, cosmographer and astronomer. He was also the inventor and architect of astronomical and mathematical instruments. In addition, he was a Major Pilot of the House of Trade of Seville, Major Cosmographer of the Council of Indies, cleric and captain. Over the centuries his controversial personality and the quality of his works have contrasted the opinions of several experts. His tenacity and methodology, which sometimes led him to appropriate the ideas of other cosmographers and even by awarding works that were not his own, allowed him to achieve recognition in the history of navigation.

Al acercarnos al manuscrito del Regimiento de tomar la altura del polo en la mar y cosas tocantes a la navegación observamos dos tipos de caligrafía, lo cual representaba un posible problema de autoría. Además, en la obra se encuentran detalles que nos hicieron pensar que era un texto interpo-lado y en cuatro folios hay una rúbrica que inicialmente la atribuimos al autor; otro aspecto que nos llamaba la atención era la alteración de la fecha que aparece en la portada. Decidimos analizar el manuscrito con la finalidad de formular una explicación a estos hallazgos, te-niendo como objetivo principal comprobar la autoría de la obra; para ello primero necesitábamos iden-tificar la escritura de A. García de Céspedes y los capítulos escritos por él, por tanto era determinante distinguir sus rasgos caligráficos. Para los objetivos propuestos, procedimos con la única alternativa metodológica para este caso: comparar otros manuscritos del autor y de algunos cosmógrafos y pilotos mayores anteriores y contemporáneos a él. A través del estudio se ha podido individuar el texto que él escribió, confirmar que el regimiento es un libro escrito a dos manos con capítulos interpolados por el mismo autor y que el contenido de varios de ellos refleja la influencia de otros expertos. También hemos descubierto que el texto base se redactó cuatro años antes de la fecha que aparece en la portada y hemos podido comprobar que la rúbrica no es suya. Además de las conclusiones antes señaladas, el estudio nos ha ofrecido un resultado inesperado: un manuscrito que está registrado con el nombre de García de Céspedes no fue escrito por él, éste sería el tercero, ya que otros investigadores indicaron dos obras hace algunos años.

There is an extensive history of mole cricket integrated pest management (IPM) research in Florida, USA (Kerr et al. 2014; Mhina et al. 2016), much of which has incorporated acoustic trapping as a monitoring tool. The acoustic trap design described in this report provides a method for surveying 2 Neoscapteriscus mole cricket species relatively autonomously at low cost, which can facilitate future efforts to study the biology, ecology, and distribution of invasive mole crickets (e.g., Walker 1988). In a broader context, however, there remains considerable need to reduce the costs and simplify the technology of these and other traps based on inexpensive microcontroller platforms, not only for Neoscapteriscus species, but also for other pests that mate based on either acoustic or vibrational communication (Mankin 2012). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Uno de los hermafroditas más afamados del siglo XVI español fue Céspedes, un cirujano que trató de persuadir a la Inquisición de que la doble mutación corporal que sufrió era un proceso natural. Céspedes afirmó que la transformación de Elena comenzó cuando dio a luz y fue completada mediante cirugía, pero Eleno volvió a su forma femenina de nuevo en la cárcel, porque un cáncer le forzó a cortarse el pene. En este trabajo estudio el testimonio de Céspedes conocido por la historiografía como el ‘discurso de su vida’, analizo los argumentos que utilizó para convencer al tribunal de sus transmutaciones consecutivas de acuerdo a su biblioteca e identifico los tres textos médicos en romance en los que se basó.

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Two full-season microplot experiments were conducted to evaluate the damage potential of a plant-parasitic nematode community on St. Augustine and centipede turfgrasses grown in three soil types and to assess the influence of soil type on reproduction of the nematode populations comprising the community. Genera of nematodes associated with both turfgrasses included Criconemella, Helicotylenchus, Meloidogyne, Pratylenchus, Tylenchorynchus, and Tylenchus spp. In 2012, nematodes did not cause significant damage to either turfgrass, but soil type affected plant growth parameters. In 2013, there was significant nematode-related injury to both turfgrasses, but there were no significant effects of soil type on plant growth parameters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author proposes to emphasize especially the Andalusian context in which the Inca Garcilaso writes his work, in particular by the miscegenation of its monuments (Cordoba, Granada, Seville), and the Romanism in the circle of the Inca's friends in Cordoba, led by historian antiquarian Ambrosio Morales. The author recurs to the collective correspondence addressed to Fernández Franco, symbolizing the Classicist spirit who prefers a Roman antiquity to the other Islamic, resource that the Inca used to dignify the Incan antiquities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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When the Japanese invaded Joseon (an ancient Korean dynasty from 1392 to 1897) at the end of the sixteenth century, a Spanish Jesuit priest, Gregorio de Céspedes, S.J. (1551-1611), stayed in the Japanese fortress in Ungcheon with Japanese soldiers. While Céspedes is celebrated as the first European who allegedly came with an evangelical vision of proselytizing the native Koreans, previous scholarship has inadequately acknowledged Céspedes' role without consideration of his concrete actions in the Japanese fortress and of the broader context of sixteenth-century Spanish colonial expansion. An examination of the Jesuit mission to sixteenth-century Japan, the role of the Spanish chaplains and their activities in foreign expeditions, and Céspedes' activities in Joseon indicate that Céspedes was not a missionary sent to Korea, but rather an active chaplain (for the Japanese soldiers) who played a role in the larger development of church and state collaboration under Spanish colonialism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]