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    Produção de bovinos de corte em manejo intensivo de pastagem.

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    Estacionalidade de produção; Desempenho animal a pasto; Manejo do sistema; Resultados de produção e viabilidade economica.Resumo expandido

    Assessment of greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions from the tallow biodiesel production chain including land use change (LUC).

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    Economic uncertainties and environmental constraints regarding fossil fuels have encouraged initiatives for renewable energy sources and assessment of their life cycle impacts. Brazil ranks second worldwide in biodiesel production, despite the relatively recent organization of its national chain, marked by the creation of the National Program for Biodiesel Production and Use (PNPB). The Central-West region is responsible for the largest share of biodiesel production (44.4%) and the largest cattle slaughter (37.5%). In this scenario, beef tallow has great potential for expansion of biodiesel production, since it is a byproduct of the chain that, when not properly disposed, presents a considerable environmental burden. This work presents a method for assessing environmental performance that integrates life cycle assessment (LCA) with land use change (LUC) for analysis of the tallow biodiesel production chain. The results are given in terms of increment in annual greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions per hectare related to local tallow biodiesel. The system's boundary covers a representative major cattle farming area in Central-West Brazil. For the LCA segment of the method, five inventory allocations were considered: (i) without allocation, (ii) mass, (iii) market value, (iv) energy and (v) an ?average allocation?, calculated as the mean of mass, market value and energy. The last one is a novel approach proposed in this work, aggregating all the others, which separately result in under or over estimation of impacts. Using the ?average allocation?, the increment in annual GHG emission per hectare from tallow biodiesel production, is 43.2 kg CO2eq ha-1 y-1. This value is 17% less than the emission increment due to soybean biodiesel (50.2 kg CO2eq ha-1 y-1). LUC is responsible for 96% of the emission assessed, which demonstrates the importance of including LUC assessment in life cycle assessment of tallow biodiesel. According to the sensitivity analyses performed, changes from crop to pasture have superior environmental performance among the investigated options. Land use management is essential to preserve the remaining natural areas, making tallow biodiesel more sustainabl

    Crescimento vegetativo de feijoeiro comum influenciado por diferentes épocas de plantio de adubos verdes.

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    O presente trabalho teve como objetivo avaliar a produção de massa fresca, massa seca, área foliar e índice de área foliar na cultura do feijoeiro comum em função das diferentes épocas de semeadura de adubos verdes.CONAFE

    Descriptive analysis, overall acceptance and CATA (Check All That Apply) of Iamb meat from different genetic groups.

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    Lamb meat consumption has been increasing in Brazil and consumers have been expecting a high quality product. In the meat production system, the genotype is an important factor that affects the quantity of muscle and fat distribution throughout the carcass and consequently the meat quality.9-12th April 2018

    Alimentação de bezerros com extrato hidrossolúvel de soja. II. Produção de anticorpos e distúrbios intestinais.

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    O Objetivo do trabalho foi avaliar a substituição total do sucedâneo lácteo à base de proteína de leite (SL) por extrato hidrossolúvel de soja (EHS) na alimentação de bezerros Holandeses machos, com idade média inicial de cinco dias. Os bezerros alimentados com EHS apresentaram diminuição visível das gorduras presentes no tecido subcutâneo, omento, epíplon e da gordura perirenal. No abomaso, a principal alteração verificada foi a falta de formação do coágulo do EHS ingerido

    Evaluation of standard reagents for radial-immunodiffusion assays : In vitro control of rabies vaccines

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    The RID assay is one of the in vitro methods used for in-process control in the production of rabies vaccines for veterinary use. It has been shown to be very useful for determining antigen concentration in the final bulk product. The work presented in this paper, including the production and standardization of candidate standard reagents for use in the Radial Immunodiffusion Assay (RID) was carried out at the Pan American Institute for Food Protection and Zoonoses (INPPAZ/PAHO/WHO). The study was completed with the cooperation of the Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, National University of La Plata (NULP), Argentina, where the validation of the proposed standards and the quality control of samples from 28 different batches of rabies vaccines produced with Pasteur strain rabies virus (PV) in BHK cells were performed. The activity of the vaccines was determined by in vivo (NIH) and in vitro (RID)assays. The results of the candidate reagents for the reagent standardization tests showed stability, sensitivity and reproducibility. The Relative Potency the 1.2 between the problem vaccines and the reference vaccine was estimated by variance and regression analysis. The results of our validation study show that the INPPAZ (PAHO/WHO) is capable of producing and distributing the above-mentioned standard reagents, as well as of providing support for the incorporation of the RID technique (sensitive, rapid and inexpensive) to the laboratories that manufacture rabies vaccines in Latin America and the Caribbean.Facultad de Ciencias Veterinaria
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