Identifying most important skills for PhD students in Food Science and Technology: a comparison between industry and academic stakeholders

Nowadays, there is an increasing need of new skills for PhD students to face the future labour market prospects. PhD graduates must have qualities attractive not only in academia but also outside, in both manufacture and service-oriented enterprises, in small innovative companies, and in the civil services and public administration, among others. To know what the needs of these future employees are, is of great importance to be able to improve their personal and academic formation. The aim of this work was, in the framework of the EC-funded ISEKI Food 4 network, to evaluate the most desirable specific and soft skills that PhD students should acquire by the end of their doctoral studies. To this aim, several surveys were conducted and sent to the different stakeholders (academia and food industry partners) in order to collect the information needed. Results showed that competences related to research skills and techniques, research management, personal effectiveness and communication skills were considered to be the most valuable skills to be acquired by our PhD students to meet the future needs of the labour market. The importance of these skills was appreciated differently, depending on the stakeholder. To sum up, some recommendations to integrate such valuable skills into the curricula of the PhD student are given

Análise dos canais de distribuição e dos custos de transação da cadeia produtiva da mandioca no município de Jussara-GO.

O objetivo geral deste estudo foi analisar os canais de distribuição e os custos de transação da mandioca Município de Jussara-GO. De antemão, sabe-se que o cultivo da mandioca possui grande importância para agricultura familiar, principalmente na área geográfica estudada. Os dados primários coletados em 22 glebas mostraram que maior parte da renda da propriedade advém do cultivo e da distribuição com as indústrias ?farinheiras? da região. Destarte, foi de suma importância elucidar os mecanismos, tanto de distribuição, quanto os custos de transação envolvidos no processo de comercialização entre produtores e as indústrias processadoras. Os atributos de frequência, incerteza e especificidade de ativos estão fortemente presentes e implicam em gargalos no processo de produção, pois 90% das transações são realizadas a mercado, sem nenhum tipo de acerto formal entre as partes envolvidas. Diante disto, a construção de reputação junto aos compradores e/ou fornecedores torna-se fundamental como instrumento de redução de custos de transação

Fluorine in AGB Carbon Stars Revisited

A reanalysis of the fluorine abundance in three Galactic AGB carbon stars (TX Psc, AQ Sgr and R Scl) has been performed from the molecular HF (1-0) R9 line at 2.3358 $\mu$m. High-resolution (R$\sim 50000$) and high signal to noise spectra obtained with the CRIRES spectrograph and the VLT telescope or from the NOAO archive (for TX Psc) have been used. Our abundance analysis uses the latest generation of MARCS model atmospheres for cool carbon rich stars. Using spectral synthesis in LTE we derive for these stars fluorine abundances that are systematically lower by $\sim 0.8$ dex in average with respect to the sole previous estimates by Jorissen, Smith & Lambert (1992). The possible reasons of this discrepancy are explored. We conclude that the difference may rely on the blending with C-bearing molecules (CN and C$_2$) that were not properly taken into account in the former study. The new F abundances are in better agreement with the prediction of full network stellar models of low mass AGB stars. These models also reproduce the $s$-process elements distribution in the sampled stars. This result, if confirmed in a larger sample of AGB stars, might alleviate the current difficulty to explain the largest [F/O] ratios found by Jorissen et al. In particular, it may not be necessary to search for alternative nuclear chains affecting the production of F in AGB stars.Comment: 25 pages, 3 figures. to be appear in The Astrophysical Journal (Jan 2009 issue

Geometrically induced singular behavior of entanglement

We show that the geometry of the set of quantum states plays a crucial role in the behavior of entanglement in different physical systems. More specifically it is shown that singular points at the border of the set of unentangled states appear as singularities in the dynamics of entanglement of smoothly varying quantum states. We illustrate this result by implementing a photonic parametric down conversion experiment. Moreover, this effect is connected to recently discovered singularities in condensed matter models.Comment: v2: 4 pags, 4 figs. A discussion before the proof of Proposition 1 and tomographic results were included, Propostion 2 was removed and the references were fixe

Development and validation of a method for the analysis of Ochratoxin A in roasted coffee by liquid chromatography/electrospray-mass spectrometry in Tandem (LC/ESI-MS/MS).

A method using LC/ESI-MS/MS for the quantitative analysis of Ochratoxin A in roasted coffee was described. Linearity was demonstrated (r = 0.9175). The limits of detection and quantification were 1.0 and 3.0 ng g-1, respectively. Trueness, repeatability and intermediate precision values were 89.0-108.8%; 2.4-13.7%; 12.5-17.8%, respectively. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report in which Ochratoxin A in roasted coffee is analysed by LC/ESI-MS/MS, contributing to the field of mycotoxin analysis, and it will be used for future production of Certified Reference Material

Competição de cultivares de soja com plantas daninhas em Urutaí, GO.

Objetivou-se nesta pesquisa avaliar o potencial competitivo de cultivares de soja com plantas daninhas em duas épocas de semeadura nas condições edafoclimáticas de Urutaí, GO. O experimento foi conduzido em blocos ao acaso, com quatro repetições em parcelas subsubdivididas. Testou-se nas parcelas duas épocas de semeadura (novembro e dezembro), nas subparcelas as cultivares de soja (BRSGO Raíssa, BRSGO Amaralina, Emgopa 302 RR, BRSGO Indiara, BRS 7560, BRSGO Caiapônia, Pioneer P98Y11 e Pioneer P98C81) e nas subsubparcelas a convivência ou não de plantas daninhas com as cultivares. Quanto às plantas daninhas verificou-se maior ocorrência destas na soja semeada tardiamente. Houve efeito da convivência de plantas daninhas no rendimento de grãos e também interação significativa entre cultivares de soja e época de semeadura, mostrando que a interferência de plantas daninhas com a soja reduziu o rendimento de grãos, principalmente quando a semeadura das cultivares foi realizada em dezembro

A influência da colmatação de frinchas em portas de salas de aulas

Neste trabalho caracterizou-se o isolamento sonoro de paredes divisórias de salas de aula com portas para corredores de grande afluência, avaliando o efeito que a colmatação de frinchas existentes nas portas acarretava para o isolamento. Foi avaliado o tempo de reverberação, índice de isolamento sonoro a ruídos de condução aérea e o ruído de fundo, numa primeira fase na situação inicial (sem qualquer acréscimo de isolamento sonoro nas portas) e numa segunda fase com a colmatação das frinchas existentes nas portas com diferentes materiais. O objectivo foi avaliar qual dos materiais apresentava melhor índice de isolamento sonoro a ruídos de condução aérea e maior diminuição dos níveis de pressão sonora no interior da sala.This work characterizes the sound insulation of classrooms' partition walls with doors to large corridors, evaluating the effect of filling the frame slits, on sound insulation. Objective acoustic parameters were evaluated before and after filling the existing gaps in the classroom doors with different materials/systems. Reverberation time, airborne sound insulation and background noise levels were measured. The goal was to quantify and assess which material or system had better results in sound insulation and resulted in greater reduction in sound levels inside the classroom