Ictiofauna Da Cachoeira De São Roberto E Peixes Do Baixo Rio Preto, Bacia Do Alto Rio Paraná, Brasil

Rheophilic environments typically houses fish species with specific ecological requirements. Thus, the suppression of these environments can lead to damaging impacts to local and regional fauna. In this work the ichthyofauna of the “Cachoeira de São Roberto” was inventoried, with a historical review of fish collected in the lower Preto River basin. The sampling sites included two reaches (named R1 and R2): R1 in the “Cachoeira de São Roberto” and R2 refers to two km upstream. The fishes were sampled bimonthly during one year (April 2013 to February 2014) using small and dip nets. Voucher specimens were catalogued in the Fish Collection of “Departamento de Zoologia e Botânica do Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas, Universidade Estadual Paulista ‘Júlio de Mesquita Filho’, câmpus de São José do Rio Preto, SPˮ (DZSJRP). Historical records from lower Preto River basin were composed by fish species sampled downstream of spillway of the dam in the municipality of São José do Rio Preto, SP, using the database of fish collection of DZSJRP. The ichthyofauna of the sampled reaches was composed by 53 species, distributed in 16 families and seven orders. The greatest richness was found in the upstream site (R2) with the presence of Aphyocheirodon hemigrammus and Myleus tiete, two Brazilian threatened fish species. Chao index suggested the occurrence of 64 species for the inventoried reaches. Considering all portion of lower Preto River basin, including historical records, 69 species were found, four of these species have not described yet. The present study highlights the importance of inventories in rheophilic environments, which usually includes sensitive, threatened, and species with restricted distribution. Besides that, inventories can provide technical data to support decisions about potential environmental impacts helping with the management and conservation of fish fauna. © 2017, Universidade Estadual de Campinas UNICAMP. All rights reserved.17

Production and characterization of β-glucosidase from Gongronella butleri by solid-state fermentation

Among the enzymes of the cellulolytic complex, β-glucosidases are noteworthy due to the possibility of their application in different industrial processes, such as production of biofuels, winemaking, and development of functional foods. This study aimed to evaluate the production and characterization of β-glucosidase from the filamentous fungus Gongronella butleri, recently isolated from Cerrado soil and cultivated in agro-industrial residue substrates. The highest production of β-glucosidase, about 215.4 U/g of dry substrate (or 21.5 U/mL), was obtained by cultivation of the microorganism on wheat bran with 55% of the initial moisture, for 96 h at 30°C. This β-glucosidase showed higher catalytic activity at pH 4.5, and a temperature of 65°C. The original enzymatic activity was recovered in a pH range of 3.0-7.5 after 24 h of incubation. The enzyme retained 80% of its catalytic activity when incubated for 1 h at 50°C. The enzyme was strongly inhibited by glucose, an effect that was completely reversed by increasing substrate concentration in the reaction mixture, which is typical for competitive inhibition. High catalytic activity was observed in solutions containing up to 20% ethanol, allowing the application of this enzyme in processes with high alcohol concentrations (for example beverages and biofuels). The significant production of β-glucosidase by the selected strain, along with these enzyme characteristics, highlights the biotechnological potential of the fungus G. butleri.Key words: Microbial enzyme, biofuels, agro-industrial residues, cellulases, hemicellulases

Pressure sensor placement for leak localization using simulated annealing with hyperparameter optimization

© 2021 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting /republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other worksThis paper presents a machine learning method for optimal pressure sensor placement in water distribution networks. The proposed approach considers annealing meta-heuristics, and it is focused on the optimal placement of the sensors to perform leak localization. Unlike other works, this method considers a limited number of sensors to be placed and some restrictions on critical nodes that can be excluded or preselected. The approach is based on minimizing a cost function; this cost function is assigned as the leak location error, which varies depending on the subset of nodes where the sensors are assigned and the configuration of the leak location method. A leak localization technique based on k-NN classifiers was used, and during the minimization of the cost function, classifier hyperparameters were simultaneously optimized. The proposed method was tested on the Hanoi water distribution network programmed in MATLAB.Postprint (author's final draft

Detection Of An Untyped Strain Of Bovine Respiratory Syncytial Virus In A Dairy Herd

Bovine respiratory syncytial virus (BRSV) causes important lower respiratory tract illness in calves. According to F and G proteins genetic sequences, three BRSV subgroups have been reported and characterized in several countries, showing differences in its distribution. In Brazil, the virus is widely disseminated throughout the herds and the few characterized isolates revealed the solely occurrence of the subgroup B. This study describes the detection and characterization of an untyped BRSV strain from a twenty-days-old calf from a herd without clinical respiratory disease. Nasal swabs were analyzed by RT-nested PCR for the F and G proteins genes. One sample has amplified the F protein gene. Sequencing and subsequent phylogenetic reconstruction were accomplished, revealing that the strain could not be grouped with any other BRSV subgroups reported. This result may suggest that the BRSV is in constantly evolution, even in Brazil, where the vaccination is not a common practice. More detailed studies about BRSV characterization are necessary to know the virus subgroups distribution among the Brazilian herds to recommend appropriated immunoprophylaxis.35525392550Affonso, I.B., Gatti, S.P., Alexandrino, B., Oliveira, M.C., Medeiros, A.S.R., Buzinaro, M.G., Samara, S.I., Detection of antibodies against bovine respiratory syncytial virus (BRSV) in dairy cattle with different prevalences of bovine herpesvirus type 1 (BHV-1) in São Paulo State, Brazil (2011) Semina: Ciências Agrárias, 32 (1), pp. 295-300. , LondrinaAlmeida, R.S., Domingues, H.G., Spilki, F.R., Larsen, L.E., Hagglund, S., Belák, S., Arns, C.W., Circulation of bovine respiratory syncytial virus in Brazil (2006) Veterinary Record, 158 (18), pp. 632-634. , LondonAlmeida, R.S., Spilki, F.R., Roehe, P.M., Arns, C.W., Detection of Brazilian bovine respiratory syncytial virus strain by a reverse transcriptase-nestedpolymerase chain reaction in experimentally infected calves (2005) Veterinary Microbiology, 105 (2), pp. 131-135. , AmsterdamArns, C.W., Campalans, J., Costa, S.C.B., Domingues, H.G., D'Arce, R.C.F., Almeida, R.S., Characterization of bovine respiratory syncytial virus isolated in Brazil (2003) Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, 36 (2), pp. 213-218. , Ribeirão PretoBaker, J.C., Frey, M., Bovine respiratory syncytial virus (1985) Veterinary Clinics of North America: Food Animal Practice, 1 (2), pp. 259-272. , PhiladelphiaBidokhti, M.R.M., Travén, M., Ohlson, A., Zarnegar, B., Baule, C., Belák, S., Alenius, S., Liu, L., Phylogenetic analysis of bovine respiratory syncytial viruses from recent outbreaks in feedlot and dairy cattle herds (2012) Archives of Virology, 157 (4), pp. 601-607. , New YorkBunt, A.A., Milne, R.G., Sayaya, T., Verbeek, M., Vetten, H.J., Walsh, J.A., Paramyxoviridae (2005) Virus Taxonomy, Eigth Report of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses, pp. 655-671. , In: FAUQUET, C. M.MAYO, M. A.MANILOFF, J.DESSELBERGER, U.BALL, L. A. (Ed.). London: Elsevier: Academic PressCampalans, J., Arns, C.W., Serological evidence of bovine respiratory syncytial virus in Brazil (1997) Virus Reviews and Research, 2 (1-2), pp. 50-56. , Belo HorizonteDomingues, H.G., Spilki, F.R., Arns, C.W., Detecção molecular e análise filogenética de vírus respiratório sincicial bovino (BRSV) em swabs e tecido pulmonar de bovinos adultos (2011) Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira, 31 (11), pp. 961-966. , Rio de JaneiroFurze, J.M., Roberts, S.R., Wertz, G.W., Taylor, G., Antigenically distinct G glycoproteins of BRSV strains share a high degree of genetic homogeneity (1997) Virology, 231 (1), pp. 48-58. , New YorkFurze, J., Wertz, G., Lerch, R., Taylor, G., Antigenic heterogeneity of the attachment protein of bovine respiratory syncytial virus (1994) Journal of General Virology, 75 (2), pp. 363-370. , LondonGonçalves, I.P.D., Simanke, A.T., Jost, H.C., Hötzel, I., Dal Soglio, A., Moojen, V., Detection of bovine respiratory syncytial virus in calves of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (1993) Ciência Rural, 23 (3), pp. 389-390. , Santa MariaHall, T.A., BioEdit: A user-friendly biological sequence alignment editor and analysis program for Windows 95/98/NT (1999) Nucleic Acids Symposium Series, 41, pp. 95-98. , OxfordLarsen, L.E., Bovine respiratory syncytial virus (BRSV): A review (2000) Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica, 41 (1), pp. 1-24. , CopenhagenLarsen, L.E., Tjornehoj, K., Viuff, B., Extensive sequence divergence among bovine respiratory syncytial viruses isolated during recurrent outbreaks in closed herds (2000) Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 38 (11), pp. 4222-4227. , WashingtonNettleton, P.F., Gilray, J.A., Caldow, G., Gidlow, J.R., Durkovic, B., Vilcek, S., Recent isolates of Bovine respiratory syncytial virus from Britain are more closely related to isolates from USA than to earlier British and current mainland European isolates (2003) Journal of Veterinary Medicine Series B-Infectious Diseases and Veterinary Public Health, 50 (4), pp. 196-199. , BerlinProzzi, D., Walravens, K., Langedijk, J.P., Daus, F., Kramps, J.A., Letesson, J.J., Antigenic and molecular analyses of the variability of bovine respiratory syncytial virus G glycoprotein (1997) Journal of General Virology, 78 (2), pp. 359-366. , LondonSchrijver, R.S., Daus, F., Kramps, J.A., Langedijk, J.P.M., Buijs, R., Middel, W.G.J., Taylor, G., Van Oirschot, J.T., Subgrouping of bovine respiratory syncytial virus strains detected in lung tissue (1996) Veterinary Microbiology, 53 (3-4), pp. 253-260. , AmsterdamSchrijver, R.S., Langedijk, J.P.M., Poel, V.D.M.W.H., Middel, W.G.J., Kramps, J.A., Van Oirschot, J.T., Antibody responses against the G and F proteins of bovine respiratory syncytial virus after experimental and natural infections (1996) Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology, 3 (5), pp. 500-506. , WashingtonSchrijver, R.S., Langedijk, J.P.M., Middel, W.G.J., Kramps, J.A., Rijsewijk, F.A.M., Van Oirschot, J.T., A bovine respiratory syncytial virus strain with mutations in subgroup-specific antigenic domains of the G protein induces partial heterologous protection in cattle (1998) Veterinary Microbiology, 63 (2-4), pp. 159-175. , AmsterdamSpilki, F.R., Almeida, R.S., Domingues, H.G., D'Arce, R.C.F., Ferreira, H.L., Campalans, J., Costa, S.C.B., Arns, C.W., Phylogenetic relationships of Brazilian bovine respiratory syncyctial virus isolates and molecular homology modeling of attachment glycoprotein (2006) Virus Research, 116 (1-2), pp. 161-168. , AmsterdamSpilki, F.R., Arns, C.W., Vírus respiratório sincicial bovino (2008) Acta Scientiae Veterinariae, 36 (3), pp. 197-214. , Porto AlegreStine, L.C., Hoppe, D.K., Clayton, L.K., Sequence conservation in attachment glycoproteins and antigenic diversity among bovine respiratory syncytial virus isolates (1997) Veterinary Microbiology, 54 (3-4), pp. 201-221. , AmsterdamTamura, K., Dudley, J., Nei, M., Kumar, S., MEGA 4: Molecular evolutionary genetics analysis (MEGA) software version 4.0 (2007) Molecular Biology and Evolution, 24 (8), pp. 1596-1599. , ChicagoTaylor, G., Stott, E.J., Furze, J., Ford, J., Sopp, P., Protective epitopes on the fusion protein of respiratory syncytial virus recognized by murine and bovine monoclonal antibodies (1992) Journal of General Virology, 73 (9), pp. 2217-2223. , LondonTaylor, G., Thomas, L.H., Furze, J.M., Cook, R.S., Wyld, S.G., Lerch, R., Hardy, R., Wertz, G.W., Recombinant vaccinia viruses expressing the F, G or N, but not the M2, protein of bovine respiratory syncytial virus (BRSV) induce resistance to BRSV challenge in the calf and protect against the development of pneumonic lesions (1997) Journal of General Virology, 78 (12), pp. 3195-3206. , LondonThomas, L.H., Cook, R.S., Wyld, S.G., Furze, J.M., Taylor, G., Passive protection of gnotobiotic calves using monoclonal antibodies directed at different epitopes on the fusion protein of bovine respiratory syncytial virus (1998) Journal of Infectious Diseases, 177 (4), pp. 874-880. 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ANATOMIA DO FÍGADO E VIAS BILÍFERAS DO MUÇUÃ (Kinosternon scorpioides)

Twenty livers of adult muçua were analyzed. The samples were obtained through an authorization of IBAMA (license nº 006/02, process nº 0220120011113/2002/81). The animals were anesthetized with xilazine (1mg/Kg/IM) and ketamine (20mg/Kg/IM). After muscular relaxation, they were sacrificed by means of an injection of sodium thiopental at 2.5% in the lethal doses of 60mg/Kg/IV). The coelomatic cavity was opened and the liver dissected with the aid of a magnifying glass. In all the animals the liver was quite voluminous, brown, rectangular in shape, extending through the whole medium portion of the coelomatic cavity, covering the pancreas, duodenum and stomach. External fissures divided the liver in 5 lobes: right lateral and median; square; left lateral and caudate with a papillae process. The liver is maintained in its anatomical position by the pressing of the coelomatic viscera as well as by the following ligaments: hepatogastric (connecting to the stomach); hepatoduodenopancreatic (connecting to the duodenum and pancreas); hepatopulmonar (connecting to the lung); hepatocoelomatic (connecting to the ventral portion of the coelomatic cavity) and hepatopericardic (connecting to the pericardial bursa). In regard to the bile ducts, it is observed that branches originated from the hepatic lobes pull together forming the main right and left ducts, which, together with the cystic duct derived from the gall bladder vesicle, originate the bile duct. According to these observations we concluded that the liver of the muçua is similar to the domestic mammals regarding the shape, number, characterization and bile draining of the hepatic lobe and differs from the ones of the related species such as salamander, snakes and other reptiles.Foram pesquisados 20 fígados de muçuãs (Kinosternon scorpiodes) adultos obtidos mediante autorização do IBAMA (licença nº006/02 e processo nº 022012001113/2002-81). Os animais foram anestesiados com cloridrato de xilazina (1 mg/Kg/IM) e cloridrato de quetamina (20 mg/Kg/IM) e após relaxamento muscular, foram sacrificados através da aplicação de tiopental sódico a 2,5%, na dose letal de 60 mg/Kg/EV. Em seguida prosseguiu-se com a abertura da cavidade pleuroperitoneal e a dissecação do órgão, auxiliada por lupa. Em 100% dos animais estudados aquele órgão apresentase como um fígado bastante volumoso, de formato retangular, coloração marrom, se estendendo por toda a porção média da cavidade pleuroperitoneal, envolvendo o pâncreas, duodeno e o estômago. Apresenta-se dividido, por fissuras externas, em cinco lobos: lateral e medial direitos, quadrado, lateral esquerdo, e caudato, este com o processo papilar. O fígado encontra-se mantido na posição anatômica pela pressão das vísceras pleuroperitoneais e pelos ligamentos, quais sejam, hepatogástrico (ligandoo ao estômago), hepatoduodenopancreático (ligando-o ao duodeno e pâncreas), hepatopulmonar (ligando-o ao pulmão), hepatopleuroperitoneal (ligando-o à porção ventral da cavidade pleuroperitoneal) e hepatopericárdico (ligando-o ao saco pericárdico). Quanto às vias bilíferas, observa-se que são formadas por ramos oriundos dos lobos hepáticos, que se juntam formando os ductos principais direito e esquerdo, os quais, juntamente com o ducto cístico, oriundo da vesícula biliar, formam o ducto colédoco. De acordo com as observações realizadas sobre a morfologia externa, conclui-se que o fígado do muçuã assemelha-se ao dos principais mamíferos domésticos, no que se refere à forma, número, caracterização e drenagem biliar dos lobos hepáticos, diferindo, entretanto, do das espécies mais próximas, como as salamandras, cobras e outros répteis

Comparative Evaluation Of Conventional Rt-pcr And Real-time Rt-pcr (rrt-pcr) For Detection Of Avian Metapneumovirus Subtype A [comparação Entre As Técnicas De Rt-pcr Convencional E Rt-pcr Em Tempo Real Para A Detecção Do Metapneumovírus Aviários Subtipo A]

Avian metapneumovirus (AMPV) belongs to Metapneumovirus genus of Paramyxoviridae family. Virus isolation, serology, and detection of genomic RNA are used as diagnostic methods for AMPV. The aim of the present study was to compare the detection of six subgroup A AMPV isolates (AMPV/A) viral RNA by using different conventional and real time RT-PCR methods. Two new RT-PCR tests and two real time RT-PCR tests, both detecting fusion (F) gene and nucleocapsid (N) gene were compared with an established test for the attachment (G) gene. All the RT-PCR tested assays were able to detect the AMPV/A. The lower detection limits were observed using the N-, F- based RRT-PCR and F-based conventional RT-PCR (10 0.3 to 10 1 TCID 50 mL -1). The present study suggests that the conventional F-based RT-PCR presented similar detection limit when compared to N- and F-based RRT-PCR and they can be successfully used for AMPV/A detection.39514451451Arns, C.W., Hafez, M.H., (1992) Swollen Head Syndrome in Poultry Flocks in Brazil, pp. 81-84. , In: WESTERN POULTRY DISEASE CONFERENCE, 41., 1992, Sacramento, USA. Proceedings... 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Consistency analysis of a nonbirefringent Lorentz-violating planar model

In this work analyze the physical consistency of a nonbirefringent Lorentz-violating planar model via the analysis of the pole structure of its Feynman propagators. The nonbirefringent planar model, obtained from the dimensional reduction of the CPT-even gauge sector of the standard model extension, is composed of a gauge and a scalar fields, being affected by Lorentz-violating (LIV) coefficients encoded in the symmetric tensor $\kappa_{\mu\nu}$. The propagator of the gauge field is explicitly evaluated and expressed in terms of linear independent symmetric tensors, presenting only one physical mode. The same holds for the scalar propagator. A consistency analysis is performed based on the poles of the propagators. The isotropic parity-even sector is stable, causal and unitary mode for $0\leq\kappa_{00}<1$. On the other hand, the anisotropic sector is stable and unitary but in general noncausal. Finally, it is shown that this planar model interacting with a $\lambda|\varphi|^{4}-$Higgs field supports compactlike vortex configurations.Comment: 11 pages, revtex style, final revised versio

A Bibliografia do xisto

Descreve as características e as condições de pesquisa bibliográfica em xistos oleígenos que a Bibliografia do Xisto apresenta: cobertura exaustivada literatura internacional (12.717 referências) com indicação da(s) área(s) de conhecimento coberta(s)pelo trabalho (Aplicação, Biologia, Documentação,Economia, Geologia, História, Legislação e RegrasNormativas, Mineração e Prospecção, Mineralogia ePetrografia, Notícias, Origem, Paleontologia,Política e Programas, Propriedades Fundamentais,Química, Saúde e Tecnologia). A Bibliografia utiliza o sistema automático de indexação KWOC e é composta das seguintes partes: 1) índice Cronológico de Referências: relaciona as referências pelo ano de publicação e, dentro de cada ano, por ordem do número de registro do documento na Bibliografia do Xisto; 2) Índice de Autores:relaciona os autores em ordem alfabética, listando cronologicamente os vários trabalhos de cada um;3) índice de Termos: palavras-chave dos títulos dos documentos e áreas de conhecimento; 4) Lista da Produção Literária (total) dos Autores; 5) Lista de Ocorrência dos Termos; 6) Lista e Gráfico da Freqüência Anual dos Trabalhos; 7) Lista de Publicações Periódicas: arrola alfabeticamente as abreviaturas normalizadas dos 2.3OO títulos constantes da Bibliografia. Toda a Bibliografia do Xisto está normalizada em inglês e se encontra gravada em microfichas. Bibliografias setoriais sobre cada uma das 17 áreas de conhecimento (emais Patentes e Teses) foram produzidas a partir da grande Bibliografia, utilizando o mesmo sistema de indexação. Por solicitação dos usuários,bibliografias restritas a termos específicos ou a expressões booleanas, com entradas do Índice de Termos, podem ser produzidas, por computador, a partir da grande Bibliografia. Abstract Describes the characteristics and facilities of bibliographical research on oil shales provided by the Oil Shale Bibliography: world-wide coverage of the literature (12.717 references) classified according to 17 areas of knowledge-. Application,Biology, Chemistry, Documentation, Economy,Fundamental Properties, Geology, Health, History,Legislation and Normative Rules, Mineralogy and Petrography, Mining and Prospection, News, Origin, Paleontology, Politics and Programs, and Technology. The Bibliography uses the KWOC automatic indexing system and consists of a Chronological Index, an Author Index, a Subject Index, a List of the Authors' (total) Literary Production, a List of Occurrence of Words, a Listand Graph of the Annual Frequency of Papers and aList of Serials. The whole Oil Shale Bibliography is translated into English and is recorded in microfiches. Sectorial bibliographies on each of the 17 areas of knowledge (plus Patents and Theses)were computer produced from the Bibliography,using the same indexing system. Bibliographies restricted to specific words (keywords) or boolean expressions, may also be computer produced from the Bibliography