Contribuição da física do solo aos estudos sobre manejo e conservação do solo.

Identificação morfológica e classificação do solo do local do experimento; Caracterização física e hídrica do solo; Determinação da percentagem de agregados por via úmida (método opcional); Descrição de perfil de solo (modelo); Ficha de análises físicas e químicas do perfil (modelo); Modelos de legenda e de tabelas para apresentação de resultados de caracterização física do solo.bitstream/item/36146/1/Contribuicao-da-Fisica.pd

A classification of special 2-fold coverings

Starting with an O(2)-principal fibration over a closed oriented surface F_g, g>=1, a 2-fold covering of the total space is said to be special when the monodromy sends the fiber SO(2) = S^1 to the nontrivial element of Z_2. Adapting D Jonhson's method [Spin structures and quadratic forms on surfaces, J London Math Soc, 22 (1980) 365-373] we define an action of Sp(Z_2,2g), the group of symplectic isomorphisms of (H_1(F_g;Z_2),.), on the set of special 2-fold coverings which has two orbits, one with 2^{g-1}(2^g+1) elements and one with 2^{g-1}(2^g-1) elements. These two orbits are obtained by considering Arf-invariants and some congruence of the derived matrices coming from Fox Calculus. Sp(Z_2,2g) is described as the union of conjugacy classes of two subgroups, each of them fixing a special 2-fold covering. Generators of these two subgroups are made explicit.Comment: This is the version published by Geometry & Topology Monographs on 29 April 200

Stochastic quantization of a self-interacting nonminimal scalar field in semiclassical gravity

We employ stochastic quantization for a self-interacting nonminimal massive scalar field in curved spacetime. The covariant background field method and local momentum space representation are used to obtain the Euclidean correlation function and evaluate multi-loop quantum corrections through simultaneous expansions in the curvature tensor and its covariant derivatives and in the noise fields. The stochastic correlation function reproduces the well-known result by Bunch and Parker and is used to construct the effective potential in curved spacetime in an arbitrary dimension $D$ up to the first order in curvature. Furthermore, we present a sample of numerical simulations for $D=3$ in the first order in curvature.Comment: Corrected formulations, some two-loop results added. Fits the version accepted in Physics Letters

Determinação da umidade a 1/10 de atmosfera na terra fina pela "mesa de tensão".

É apresentado um método opcional para a determinação da umidade a 1/10 de atmosfera ou para valores mais baixos de tensão, em amostras de solo (terra fina), utilizando-se a "mesa de tensão" desenvolvida por Oliveira.bitstream/item/36224/1/Determinacao.pd