Leaf pigments in cauliflower cultivated with different water conditions and silicon applications

Environmental factors and crop management can influence the characteristics of plant morphology and physiology, altering photosynthetic efficiency and mass accumulation. The study aimed to analyze the contents of leaf pigments in cauliflower cultivated under different conditions of water availability and silicon (Si) applications. The experiment was carried out in a protected environment in the city of Maringá-PR. A randomized block design, in a 3x4 factorial scheme, with three replacement conditions [40, 70 and 100% of crop evapotranspiration (ETc)] and four Si doses (0, 50, 100 and 150 kg ha-1), with four repetitions. The cauliflower cultivation, cultivar Sharon, was carried out in dystroferric RED NITOSOL. Daily evapotranspiration was determined with a constant level water table lysimeter and water replacement was performed with drip irrigation. Si was applied in split doses in three applications (initial, intermediate and final phases). At flowering, leaf tissue from the upper third of the plant was collected, with pigment extraction performed with pure acetone and determination in a spectrophotometer. At harvest, the leaf area of ​​the plants was determined. Data were subjected to analysis of variance and regression analysis. Cauliflower crop under water-deficient reduces leaf area development and alters chloroplast pigments dynamics. Silicon use in the soil increases leaf development, chlorophyll a and b contents, and reduces carotenoids concentration. Under water stress conditions, silicon addition to the soil improves cauliflower performance

Avaliação de técnicas para recuperação de imagens baseada nos aspectos cromático e estrutural por curvas “recall x precision”

Este trabalho descreve a avaliação, através de curvas “recall x precision”, de um conjunto de técnicas para recuperação de imagens baseadas nos conteúdos cromático e estrutural das mesmas. Durante a aplicação destas técnicas foram utilizadas diferentes combinações de valores que permitiram ajustar importantes fatores, tais como o peso empregado para os aspectos cromático e estrutural no processo de recuperação e a precisão da divisão das imagens para preservação de informações espaciais no processo de recuperação. As diferentes combinações supracitadas foram aplicadas á um conjunto de imagens de conteúdo semântico heterogêneo, previamente selecionadas, através de um sistema de recuperação de imagens implementado ao longo desta pesquisa. Os resultados experimentais obtidos estão descritos por meio de curvas “recall x precision”.This work describes a set of image retrieval techniques by color and structural similarity. These techniques are evaluated through recall x precision curves. During the experiments done, some values were adjusted, allowing the color weight variation, the structural weight variation and the spatial relationships preservation of the image contents. The set of techniques for image retrieval described here led to development of a computational environment for image retrieval by color and structural similarity. Furthermore, recall x precision curved lines was applied in order to verify the effectiveness of the computational system in several configuration modes of image retrievalIII Workshop de Computación Gráfica, Imágenes y Visualización (WCGIV)Red de Universidades con Carreras en Informática (RedUNCI

Avaliação de técnicas para recuperação de imagens baseada nos aspectos cromático e estrutural por curvas “recall x precision”

Este trabalho descreve a avaliação, através de curvas “recall x precision”, de um conjunto de técnicas para recuperação de imagens baseadas nos conteúdos cromático e estrutural das mesmas. Durante a aplicação destas técnicas foram utilizadas diferentes combinações de valores que permitiram ajustar importantes fatores, tais como o peso empregado para os aspectos cromático e estrutural no processo de recuperação e a precisão da divisão das imagens para preservação de informações espaciais no processo de recuperação. As diferentes combinações supracitadas foram aplicadas á um conjunto de imagens de conteúdo semântico heterogêneo, previamente selecionadas, através de um sistema de recuperação de imagens implementado ao longo desta pesquisa. Os resultados experimentais obtidos estão descritos por meio de curvas “recall x precision”.This work describes a set of image retrieval techniques by color and structural similarity. These techniques are evaluated through recall x precision curves. During the experiments done, some values were adjusted, allowing the color weight variation, the structural weight variation and the spatial relationships preservation of the image contents. The set of techniques for image retrieval described here led to development of a computational environment for image retrieval by color and structural similarity. Furthermore, recall x precision curved lines was applied in order to verify the effectiveness of the computational system in several configuration modes of image retrievalIII Workshop de Computación Gráfica, Imágenes y Visualización (WCGIV)Red de Universidades con Carreras en Informática (RedUNCI

Combinação e Aplicação de Técnicas para o Desenvolvimento de Software Orientado a Aspectos

Este trabalho descreve os resultados obtidos com a combinação de duas técnicas para o desenvolvimento de software orientado a aspectos. Um método para o desenvolvimento baseado em componentes e aspectos foi aplicado sobre o documento de requisitos de um sistema, gerando artefatos para a produção de um software. Uma técnica de modelagem própria para aspectos foi combinada ao método em uma de suas fases, produzindo novos artefatos. A combinação destas técnicas permite que aspectos sejam detectados e modelados durante o processo de desenvolvimento de forma modular, permitindo o reuso e tratando tanto os componentes-base quanto os aspectos como “cidadãos de primeira classe”.This work describes obtained results with the combination of two techniques for aspect oriented software development. A method to aspects and components development was applied into requisite’s document of system, producing documents for a software development. A modeling technique for aspects was combined with method in one of his phases, producing new documents. Both this techniques combination, allows this aspects is detected and modelled during the development process in the modular form, allowing the reuse and considering both components and aspects as “first-class citizens”.IV Workshop de Ingeniería de Software y Base de DatosRed de Universidades con Carreras en Informática (RedUNCI

Combinação e Aplicação de Técnicas para o Desenvolvimento de Software Orientado a Aspectos

Este trabalho descreve os resultados obtidos com a combinação de duas técnicas para o desenvolvimento de software orientado a aspectos. Um método para o desenvolvimento baseado em componentes e aspectos foi aplicado sobre o documento de requisitos de um sistema, gerando artefatos para a produção de um software. Uma técnica de modelagem própria para aspectos foi combinada ao método em uma de suas fases, produzindo novos artefatos. A combinação destas técnicas permite que aspectos sejam detectados e modelados durante o processo de desenvolvimento de forma modular, permitindo o reuso e tratando tanto os componentes-base quanto os aspectos como “cidadãos de primeira classe”.This work describes obtained results with the combination of two techniques for aspect oriented software development. A method to aspects and components development was applied into requisite’s document of system, producing documents for a software development. A modeling technique for aspects was combined with method in one of his phases, producing new documents. Both this techniques combination, allows this aspects is detected and modelled during the development process in the modular form, allowing the reuse and considering both components and aspects as “first-class citizens”.IV Workshop de Ingeniería de Software y Base de DatosRed de Universidades con Carreras en Informática (RedUNCI

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Analysis of gender equality competence present in cultural positions

Articulating the gender dimension in organizations is not easy because their members have to be trained to adopt positions that facilitate the implementation of solutions that help to combat inequalities. The aim of this article was to identify the gender equality competence present in the three types of cultural positions Castells proposed in members of a City Council in Sevilla-Spain, who wanted to implement gender mainstreaming. The participants were 27 people (16 women and 11 men). The method used was discourse analysis. The obtained results show that, while all competences were present in the project position, in the resistance position, there was none. In the legitimizers, we observed inconsistency in the discourse presented. This arouses considerations on the importance of knowing the gender equality competences in order to implement gender mainstreaming in organization

Molecular Phylogeny of the Astrophorida (Porifera, Demospongiaep) Reveals an Unexpected High Level of Spicule Homoplasy

Background: The Astrophorida (Porifera, Demospongiae(rho)) is geographically and bathymetrically widely distributed. Systema Porifera currently includes five families in this order: Ancorinidae, Calthropellidae, Geodiidae, Pachastrellidae and Thrombidae. To date, molecular phylogenetic studies including Astrophorida species are scarce and offer limited sampling. Phylogenetic relationships within this order are therefore for the most part unknown and hypotheses based on morphology largely untested. Astrophorida taxa have very diverse spicule sets that make them a model of choice to investigate spicule evolution. Methodology/Principal Findings: With a sampling of 153 specimens (9 families, 29 genera, 89 species) covering the deep- and shallow-waters worldwide, this work presents the first comprehensive molecular phylogeny of the Astrophorida, using a cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) gene partial sequence and the 59 end terminal part of the 28S rDNA gene (C1-D2 domains). The resulting tree suggested that i) the Astrophorida included some lithistid families and some Alectonidae species, ii) the sub-orders Euastrophorida and Streptosclerophorida were both polyphyletic, iii) the Geodiidae, the Ancorinidae and the Pachastrellidae were not monophyletic, iv) the Calthropellidae was part of the Geodiidae clade (Calthropella at least), and finally that v) many genera were polyphyletic (Ecionemia, Erylus, Poecillastra, Penares, Rhabdastrella, Stelletta and Vulcanella). Conclusion: The Astrophorida is a larger order than previously considered, comprising ca. 820 species. Based on these results, we propose new classifications for the Astrophorida using both the classical rank-based nomenclature (i.e., Linnaean classification) and the phylogenetic nomenclature following the PhyloCode, independent of taxonomic rank. A key to the Astrophorida families, sub-families and genera incertae sedis is also included. Incongruences between our molecular tree and the current classification can be explained by the banality of convergent evolution and secondary loss in spicule evolution. These processes have taken place many times, in all the major clades, for megascleres and microscleres

Multiplicity dependence of jet-like two-particle correlations in p-Pb collisions at sNN\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 5.02 TeV

Two-particle angular correlations between unidentified charged trigger and associated particles are measured by the ALICE detector in p-Pb collisions at a nucleon-nucleon centre-of-mass energy of 5.02 TeV. The transverse-momentum range 0.7 $< p_{\rm{T}, assoc} < p_{\rm{T}, trig} <$ 5.0 GeV/$c$ is examined, to include correlations induced by jets originating from low momen\-tum-transfer scatterings (minijets). The correlations expressed as associated yield per trigger particle are obtained in the pseudorapidity range $|\eta|<0.9$. The near-side long-range pseudorapidity correlations observed in high-multiplicity p-Pb collisions are subtracted from both near-side short-range and away-side correlations in order to remove the non-jet-like components. The yields in the jet-like peaks are found to be invariant with event multiplicity with the exception of events with low multiplicity. This invariance is consistent with the particles being produced via the incoherent fragmentation of multiple parton--parton scatterings, while the yield related to the previously observed ridge structures is not jet-related. The number of uncorrelated sources of particle production is found to increase linearly with multiplicity, suggesting no saturation of the number of multi-parton interactions even in the highest multiplicity p-Pb collisions. Further, the number scales in the intermediate multiplicity region with the number of binary nucleon-nucleon collisions estimated with a Glauber Monte-Carlo simulation.Comment: 23 pages, 6 captioned figures, 1 table, authors from page 17, published version, figures at http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/ArtSubmission/node/161