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    Touros melhoradores ou inseminação artificial: um exercício de avaliação econômica.

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    A pecuária de corte é uma atividade complexa, que envolve um grande número de variáveis. Dentre as decissões a tomar, destacam-se aquelas ligadas à área de reprodução, começando com a escolha entre monta natural e inseminação artificial. Por seu turno, diversas opções estão disponíveis em cada um desses processos. Quanto à monta natural, é preciso definir a qualidade e, consequentemente, o preço a pagar pelos touros. Na opção por inseminação, há alternativas quanto ao valor genético e preço do sêmen, além da possibilidade de realizar a sincronização de cio das fêmeas. Este trabalho discute os aspectos econômicos da decisão relacionada com o uso de monta natural ou inseminação artificial, bem como analisa o impacto no sistema de produção de variáveis, como preço de touro e de sêmen a taxa de prenhez. Qualquer que seja a escolha, ressalta-se a necessidade de ser feita em absoluta sintonia com os objetivos do sistema de produção.bitstream/item/131362/1/touros-melhoradores-ou-inseminacao-artificial.pd

    Effects of gluon number fluctuations on photon - photon collisions at high energies

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    We investigate the effects of gluon number fluctuations on the total γγ\gamma\gamma, γγ\gamma^*\gamma^* cross sections and the photon structure function F2γ(x,Q2)F_2^\gamma(x,Q^2). Considering a model which relates the dipole-dipole and dipole-hadron scattering amplitudes, we estimate these observables by using event-by-event and physical amplitudes. We demonstrate that both analyses are able to describe the LEP data, but predict different behaviours for the observables at high energies, with the gluon fluctuations effects decreasing the cross sections. We conclude that the study of γγ\gamma \gamma interactions can be useful to constrain the QCD dynamics.Comment: 9 pages, 6 figures. Improved version with two new figures. Version to be published in Physical Review

    Dynamics of driven interfaces near isotropic percolation transition

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    We consider the dynamics and kinetic roughening of interfaces embedded in uniformly random media near percolation treshold. In particular, we study simple discrete ``forest fire'' lattice models through Monte Carlo simulations in two and three spatial dimensions. An interface generated in the models is found to display complex behavior. Away from the percolation transition, the interface is self-affine with asymptotic dynamics consistent with the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality class. However, in the vicinity of the percolation transition, there is a different behavior at earlier times. By scaling arguments we show that the global scaling exponents associated with the kinetic roughening of the interface can be obtained from the properties of the underlying percolation cluster. Our numerical results are in good agreement with theory. However, we demonstrate that at the depinning transition, the interface as defined in the models is no longer self-affine. Finally, we compare these results to those obtained from a more realistic reaction-diffusion model of slow combustion.Comment: 7 pages, 9 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. E (1998
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