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Cooperativas e desenvolvimento de comunidades: promessas e decepções.
O artigo apresenta os resultados de uma pesquisa que analisou a aplicação dos princÃpios cooperativos pelas organizações cooperativas e seus efeitos no desenvolvimento da comunidade onde estão inseridas, em estudo de caso realizado no municÃpio de Três Pontas, Minas Gerais. Após análise dos dados quantitativos e qualitativos, verificou-se que o cooperativismo trespontano apresenta inúmeras potencialidades que poderiam impulsionar um melhor desenvolvimento municipal, tanto pela atividade econômica exercida pelas cooperativas, como pelos projetos sociais que elas desenvolvem na vida associativa local. No entanto, não se aprecia sua articulação entre si e com as polÃticas públicas, de forma a conseguir um vigoroso desenvolvimento local
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EARLINET observations of the 14-22-May long-range dust transport event during SAMUM 2006: Validation of results from dust transport modelling
We observed a long-range transport event of mineral dust from North Africa to South Europe during the Saharan Mineral
Dust Experiment (SAMUM) 2006. Geometrical and optical properties of that dust plume were determined with Sun
photometer of the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) and Raman lidar near the North African source region, and
with Sun photometers of AERONET and lidars of the European Aerosol Research Lidar Network (EARLINET) in the
far field in Europe. Extinction-to-backscatter ratios of the dust plume over Morocco and Southern Europe do not differ.
Ångstr¨om exponents increase with distance from Morocco. We simulated the transport, and geometrical and optical
properties of the dust plume with a dust transport model. The model results and the experimental data show similar
times regarding the appearance of the dust plume over each EARLINET site. Dust optical depth from the model agrees
in most cases to particle optical depth measured with the Sun photometers. The vertical distribution of the mineral dust
could be satisfactorily reproduced, if we use as benchmark the extinction profiles measured with lidar. In some cases
we find differences. We assume that insufficient vertical resolution of the dust plume in the model calculations is one
reason for these deviations
EARLINET observations of Saharan dust intrusions over the northern Mediterranean region (2014--2017): properties and impact on radiative forcing
Remote sensing measurements of aerosols using depolarization Raman lidar systems from four EARLINET (European Aerosol Research Lidar Network) stations are used for a comprehensive analysis of Saharan dust events over the Mediterranean basin in the period 2014–2017. In this period, 51 dust events regarding the geometrical, optical and microphysical properties of dust were selected, classified and assessed according to their radiative forcing effect on the atmosphere. From west to east, the stations of Granada, Potenza, Athens and Limassol were selected as representative Mediterranean cities regularly affected by Saharan dust intrusions. Emphasis was given on lidar measurements in the visible (532 nm) and specifically on the consistency of the particle linear depolarization ratio (δp532), the extinction-to-backscatter lidar ratio (LR532) and the aerosol optical thickness (AOT532) within the observed dust layers. We found mean δp532 values of 0.24±0.05, 0.26±0.06, 0.28±0.05 and 0.28±0.04, mean LR532 values of 52±8, 51±9, 52±9 and 49±6 sr and mean AOT532 values of 0.40±0.31, 0.11±0.07, 0.12±0.10 and 0.32±0.17, for Granada, Potenza, Athens and Limassol, respectively. The mean layer thickness values were found to range from ∼ 1700 to ∼ 3400 m a.s.l. Additionally, based also on a previous aerosol type classification scheme provided by airborne High Spectral Resolution Lidar (HSRL) observations and on air mass backward trajectory analysis, a clustering analysis was performed in order to identify the mixing state of the dusty layers over the studied area. Furthermore, a synergy of lidar measurements and modeling was used to analyze the solar and thermal radiative forcing of airborne dust in detail. In total, a cooling behavior in the solar range and a significantly lower heating behavior in the thermal range was estimated. Depending on the dust optical and geometrical properties, the load intensity and the solar zenith angle (SZA), the estimated solar radiative forcing values range from −59 to −22 W m−2 at the surface and from −24 to −1 W m−2 at the top of the atmosphere (TOA). Similarly, in the thermal spectral range these values range from +2 to +4 W m−2 for the surface and from +1 to +3 W m−2 for the TOA. Finally, the radiative forcing seems to be inversely proportional to the dust mixing ratio, since higher absolute values are estimated for less mixed dust layers
Atomistic simulations of dislocation mobility in Al, Ni and Al/Mg alloys
Dislocation velocities and mobilities are studied by Molecular Dynamics
simulations for edge and screw dislocations in pure aluminum and nickel, and
edge dislocations in Al-2.5%Mg and Al-5.0%Mg random substitutional alloys using
EAM potentials. In the pure materials, the velocities of all dislocations are
close to linear with the ratio of (applied stress)/(temperature) at low
velocities, consistent with phonon drag models and quantitative agreement with
experiment is obtained for the mobility in Al. At higher velocities, different
behavior is observed. The edge dislocation velocity remains dependent solely on
(applied stress)/(temperature) up to approximately 1.0 MPa/K, and approaches a
plateau velocity that is lower than the smallest "forbidden" speed predicted by
continuum models. In contrast, above a velocity around half of the smallest
continuum wave speed, the screw dislocation damping has a contribution
dependent solely on stress with a functional form close to that predicted by a
radiation damping model of Eshelby. At the highest applied stresses, there are
several regimes of nearly constant (transonic or supersonic) velocity separated
by velocity gaps in the vicinity of forbidden velocities; various modes of
dislocation disintegration and destabilization were also encountered in this
regime. In the alloy systems, there is a temperature- and
concentration-dependent pinning regime where the velocity drops sharply below
the pure metal velocity. Above the pinning regime but at moderate stresses, the
velocity is again linear in (applied stress)/(temperature) but with a lower
mobility than in the pure metal.Comment: PDF, 30 pages including figures, submitted to Modelling Simul. Mater.
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Familial aggregation of MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery scores in a large sample of outpatients with schizophrenia and their unaffected relatives
Background The increased use of the MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery (MCCB) to investigate cognitive dysfunctions in schizophrenia fostered interest in its sensitivity in the context of family studies. As various measures of the same cognitive domains may have different power to distinguish between unaffected relatives of patients and controls, the relative sensitivity of MCCB tests for relative-control differences has to be established. We compared MCCB scores of 852 outpatients with schizophrenia (SCZ) with those of 342 unaffected relatives (REL) and a normative Italian sample of 774 healthy subjects (HCS). We examined familial aggregation of cognitive impairment by investigating within-family prediction of MCCB scores based on probands' scores.Methods Multivariate analysis of variance was used to analyze group differences in adjusted MCCB scores. Weighted least-squares analysis was used to investigate whether probands' MCCB scores predicted REL neurocognitive performance.Results SCZ were significantly impaired on all MCCB domains. REL had intermediate scores between SCZ and HCS, showing a similar pattern of impairment, except for social cognition. Proband's scores significantly predicted REL MCCB scores on all domains except for visual learning.Conclusions In a large sample of stable patients with schizophrenia, living in the community, and in their unaffected relatives, MCCB demonstrated sensitivity to cognitive deficits in both groups. Our findings of significant within-family prediction of MCCB scores might reflect disease-related genetic or environmental factors
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Modeling the Gas Thermodynamics in BOSS CMASS galaxies from Kinematic and Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Measurements
The thermal and kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effects (tSZ, kSZ) probe the
thermodynamic properties of the circumgalactic and intracluster medium (CGM and
ICM) of galaxies, groups, and clusters, since they are proportional,
respectively, to the integrated electron pressure and momentum along the
line-of-sight. We present constraints on the gas thermodynamics of CMASS
galaxies in the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) using new
measurements of the kSZ and tSZ signals obtained in a companion paper.
Combining kSZ and tSZ measurements, we measure within our model the amplitude
of energy injection , where is the stellar
mass, to be , and the amplitude of the
non-thermal pressure profile to be (2),
indicating that less than 20% of the total pressure within the virial radius is
due to a non-thermal component. We estimate the effects of including baryons in
the modeling of weak-lensing galaxy cross-correlation measurements using the
best fit density profile from the kSZ measurement. Our estimate reduces the
difference between the original theoretical model and the weak-lensing galaxy
cross-correlation measurements in arXiv:1611.08606 by half, but does not fully
reconcile it. Comparing the kSZ and tSZ measurements to cosmological
simulations, we find that they under predict the CGM pressure and to a lesser
extent the CGM density at larger radii. This suggests that the energy injected
via feedback models in the simulations that we compared against does not
sufficiently heat the gas at these radii. We do not find significant
disagreement at smaller radii. These measurements provide novel tests of
current and future simulations. This work demonstrates the power of joint, high
signal-to-noise kSZ and tSZ observations, upon which future cross-correlation
studies will improve.Comment: Accepted for publication in Physical Review D. Editors' Suggestion.
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