Plantas uliginosas e aquaticas do Pantanal arenoso.

Com o objetivo de apoiar projetos de pesquisa sobre plantas forrageiras e componentes bioticos de habitats (jacare, peixes), iniciou-se em 1984 o levantamento de plantas aquaticas e uliginosas de lugares umidos no leque aluvial arenoso do rio Taquari, que abrange Nhecolandia e Paiaguas no Pantanal. A Nhecolandia caracteriza-se pelas lagoas (= "baias"), e Paiaguas, pelas vazantes, ou drenagem abertas. Ambas as sub-regioes tem campos estacionalmente palustres com plantas uliginosas e aquaticas. Algumas comunidades como "pirizal", "caetezal", "taboal", "camalotal", etc, tem nomes populares em funcao das plantas dominantes. No total foram listadas 157 especies, de 108 generos e 54 familias. As familias mais numerosas sao gramineae (37 especies) e Cyperaceae (19), seguidas de Leguminosae (10), Scrophulariceae (7), Eriocaulaceae (6), Alismataceae (5), Lentibulariaceae (5), Onagraceae (5) e Polygalaceae (5).bitstream/item/41130/1/PA06.pd

Evolution of Quantum Criticality in CeNi_{9-x}Cu_xGe_4

Crystal structure, specific heat, thermal expansion, magnetic susceptibility and electrical resistivity studies of the heavy fermion system CeNi_{9-x}Cu_xGe_4 (0 <= x <= 1) reveal a continuous tuning of the ground state by Ni/Cu substitution from an effectively fourfold degenerate non-magnetic Kondo ground state of CeNi_9Ge_4 (with pronounced non-Fermi-liquid features) towards a magnetically ordered, effectively twofold degenerate ground state in CeNi_8CuGe_4 with T_N = 175 +- 5 mK. Quantum critical behavior, C/T ~ \chi ~ -ln(T), is observed for x about 0.4. Hitherto, CeNi_{9-x}Cu_xGe_4 represents the first system where a substitution-driven quantum phase transition is connected not only with changes of the relative strength of Kondo effect and RKKY interaction, but also with a reduction of the effective crystal field ground state degeneracy.Comment: 15 pages, 9 figure

Grazing Behavior and Activity Patterns by Free-Grazing Cattle in the Pantanal Region

A study of habitat selection and habitat use by free-grazing cattle was conducted in the Pantanal, from October 1997 to September 1999. Observation periods lasted 13 hours per day during three days in each month. The location and activity duration of each group of animals was recorded by continuous sampling. Rumination, walking and resting times were affected (P \u3c 0,05) by interaction between month and year and grazing time differed (P \u3c 0,05) only between months. On average, cows spent 54.9, 29.6, 10.6 and 4.9% of their diurnal hours grazing, ruminating, walking and resting, respectively. The grazing time spent in each landscape unit was influenced (P \u3c 0,05) by interaction between month and year. The cows exploited more intensively the temporary ponds in 97/98 (26 min ha-1) and the edge of ponds in 98/99 (23.2 min ha-1). Therefore, the adequate grazing management practice may not follow fixed rules for the Pantanal

Manufacture of micro-electro-mechanical-system using sacrificial layer made of silicon, useful for micro-electro-mechanical-system device architecture, e.g. radio-frequency capacitive switch and current switch

NOVELTY - A micro-electro-mechanical-system (MEMS) is manufactured by the use of a sacrificial layer that is made of silicon. USE - The invention is used in surface micromachining for the manufacture of a MEMS containing a suspended metal layer or MEMS device architecture. MEMS device is a suspended gate metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (SG-MOSFET). It is used as radio-frequency capacitive switch, current switch, radio-frequency tuneable capacitor, magnetic field sensor, accelerometer, and pressure sensor. (all claimed

Phase fluctuations and the pseudogap in YBa2Cu3Ox

The thermodynamics of the superconducting transition is studied as a function of doping using high-resolution expansivity data of YBa2Cu3Ox single crystals and Monte-Carlo simulations of the anisotropic 3D-XY model. We directly show that Tc of underdoped YBa2Cu3Ox is strongly suppressed from its mean-field value (Tc-MF) by phase fluctuations of the superconducting order parameter. For overdoped YBa2Cu3Ox fluctuation effects are greatly reduced and Tc ~ Tc-MF . We find that Tc-MF exhibits a similar doping dependence as the pseudogap energy, naturally suggesting that the pseudogap arises from phase-incoherent Cooper pairing.Comment: 9 pages, 3 Figure

MRD response in relapsed/refractory FL after obinutuzumab plus bendamustine or bendamustine alone in the GADOLIN trial

We report assessment of minimal residual disease (MRD) status and its association with outcome in rituximab-refractory follicular lymphoma (FL) in the randomized GADOLIN trial (NCT01059630). Patients received obinutuzumab (G) plus bendamustine (Benda) induction followed by G maintenance, or Benda induction alone. Patients with a clonal marker (t[14;18] translocation and/or immunoglobulin heavy or light chain rearrangement) detected at study screening were assessed for MRD at mid-induction (MI), end of induction (EOI), and every 6-24 months post-EOI/discontinuation by real-time quantitative PCR. At MI, 41/52 (79%) patients receiving G-Benda were MRD-negative vs. 17/36 (47%) patients receiving Benda alone (p = 0.0029). At EOI, 54/63 (86%) patients receiving G-Benda were MRD-negative vs. 30/55 (55%) receiving Benda alone (p = 0.0002). MRD-negative patients at EOI had improved progression-free survival (HR, 0.33, 95% CI, 0.19-0.56, p \u3c 0.0001) and overall survival (HR, 0.39, 95% CI, 0.19-0.78, p = 0.008) vs. MRD-positive patients, and maintained their MRD-negative status for longer if they received G maintenance than if they did not. These results suggest that the addition of G to Benda-based treatment during induction can significantly contribute to the speed and depth of response, and G maintenance in MRD-negative patients potentially delays lymphoma regrowth

Mid-infrared observations of the transitional disks around DH Tau, DM Tau, and GM Aur

Aims: We present mid-infrared observations and photometry of the transitional disks around the young stellar objects DH Tau, DM Tau, and GM Aur, obtained with VISIR/VLT in N band. Our aim is to resolve the inner region and the large-scale structures of these transitional disks, carrying potential signatures of intermediate or later stages of disk evolution and ongoing planet formation. Methods: We use the simultaneously observed standard-stars as PSF reference to constrain the radial flux profiles of our target objects. Subtracting the obtained standard-star profile from the corresponding science object profile yields the flux residuals produced by the star-disk system. A detection threshold takes into account the background standard deviation and also the seeing variations during the observations to evaluate the significance of these flux residuals. On the basis of a simple model for the dust re-emission, we derive constraints on the inner radius of the dust disk. Results: We spatially resolve the transitional disk around GM Aur and determine an inner-disk hole radius of 20.5(+1.0,-0.5) AU. The circumstellar disks around DH Tau and DM Tau are not spatially resolved but we are able to constrain the inner-disk hole radius to <15.5(+9.0,-2.0) AU and <15.5(+0.5,-0.5) AU, respectively. The performed photometry yields fluxes of 178+-31 mJy for DH Tau, 56+-6 mJy for DM Tau, and 229+-14 mJy for GM Aur.Comment: Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics. (6 pages, including 7 figures and 5 tables