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Calagem e gessagem para o tomateiro e o meloeiro irrigados no Semi-Árido nordestino.
Instalou-se um experimento no Submédio São Francisco com o objetivo de avaliar o efeito da calagem e gessagem na produtividade e qualidade do tomate e melão. O delineamento foi em blocos ao acaso, com quatro repetições e sete tratamentos: 1) testemunha; 2) 0,5 vezes a necessidade de calagem (N.C.) na forma de calcário (0,5 x N.C. -Ca); 3) 1 x N.C. - Ca; 4) 2 x N.C. -Ca; 5) 0,5 x N.C., na forma de 2/3 de calcário e 1/3 de gesso (0,5 x N.C. - CaGe); 6) 1 x N.C -CaGe ; 7) 2 x N.C. -CaGe. Não se verificou efeitos significativos sobre a produtividade do tomate e a qualidade do melão. Com aplicação de 2 t/ha de calcário (1 x N.C -Ca) obteve-se uma produtividade de melão de 22,52 t/ha, significativamente superior à da testemunha, 16,77 t/ha, e reduziu-se a podridão apical do tomate em 80,4% em relação à da testemunha.Suplemento 2
Robustness of bipartite Gaussian entangled beams propagating in lossy channels
Subtle quantum properties offer exciting new prospects in optical
communications. Quantum entanglement enables the secure exchange of
cryptographic keys and the distribution of quantum information by
teleportation. Entangled bright beams of light attract increasing interest for
such tasks, since they enable the employment of well-established classical
communications techniques. However, quantum resources are fragile and undergo
decoherence by interaction with the environment. The unavoidable losses in the
communication channel can lead to a complete destruction of useful quantum
properties -- the so-called "entanglement sudden death". We investigate the
precise conditions under which this phenomenon takes place for the simplest
case of two light beams and demonstrate how to produce states which are robust
against losses. Our study sheds new light on the intriguing properties of
quantum entanglement and how they may be tamed for future applications.Comment: To be published - Nature Photonic
A constructivist model of bank branch front-office employee evaluation: an FCM-SD-based approach
The banking sector is one of the primary drivers of economic development. This sector has been affected by various crises throughout its history – most recently, the 2008 financial and economic crisis. In response, banking institutions have had to make diverse changes to their procedures and deal with new concerns related to changes within markets. One of the main recent developments in this sector is the new commercial function assigned to bank branch front-office employees, who have become responsible for selling financial products and services, as well as recruiting and retaining clients. As a result, the sector needs new employee performance evaluation methods in line with banks and staff members’ requirements. This study combined fuzzy cognitive mapping techniques and the system dynamics (SD) approach to develop a well-informed performance analysis system for assessing bank branch front-office employees. The proposed system was validated by the Business Process Management Competence Center director at Millennium BCP – a Portuguese private banking corporation. The main difference between the model constructed in the present research and current evaluation practices is that the criteria were collected directly from multiple specialists working at different commercial banks, who deal daily with this decision problem. The model’s theoretical and practical implications are also discussed.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians with real eigenvalues coupled to electric fields: from the time-independent to the time dependent quantum mechanical formulation
We provide a reviewlike introduction into the quantum mechanical formalism
related to non-Hermitian Hamiltonian systems with real eigenvalues. Starting
with the time-independent framework we explain how to determine an appropriate
domain of a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian and pay particular attention to the role
played by PT-symmetry and pseudo-Hermiticity. We discuss the time-evolution of
such systems having in particular the question in mind of how to couple
consistently an electric field to pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonians. We illustrate
the general formalism with three explicit examples: i) the generalized Swanson
Hamiltonians, which constitute non-Hermitian extensions of anharmonic
oscillators, ii) the spiked harmonic oscillator, which exhibits explicit
supersymmetry and iii) the -x^4-potential, which serves as a toy model for the
quantum field theoretical phi^4-theory.Comment: 14 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Laser Physics, minor typos
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Disentanglement in Bipartite Continuous-Variable Systems
Entanglement in bipartite continuous-variable systems is investigated in the
presence of partial losses, such as those introduced by a realistic quantum
communication channel, e.g. by propagation in an optical fiber. We find that
entanglement can vanish completely for partial losses, in a situa- tion
reminiscent of so-called entanglement sudden death. Even states with extreme
squeezing may become separable after propagation in lossy channels. Having in
mind the potential applications of such entangled light beams to optical
communications, we investigate the conditions under which entanglement can
survive for all partial losses. Different loss scenarios are examined and we
derive criteria to test the robustness of entangled states. These criteria are
necessary and sufficient for Gaussian states. Our study provides a framework to
investigate the robustness of continuous-variable entanglement in more complex
multipartite systems.Comment: Phys. Rev. A (in press
Time evolution of non-Hermitian Hamiltonian systems
We provide time-evolution operators, gauge transformations and a perturbative
treatment for non-Hermitian Hamiltonian systems, which are explicitly
time-dependent. We determine various new equivalence pairs for Hermitian and
non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, which are therefore pseudo-Hermitian and in
addition in some cases also invariant under PT-symmetry. In particular, for the
harmonic oscillator perturbed by a cubic non-Hermitian term, we evaluate
explicitly various transition amplitudes, for the situation when these systems
are exposed to a monochromatic linearly polarized electric field.Comment: 25 pages Latex, 1 eps figure, references adde
Formação de base de dados para identificação do potencial de fixação biológica de nitrogênio em leguminosas nativas da Mata atlântica no Estado do Rio de Janeiro.
Publicado também no VII Congresso brasileiro de Sistemas Agroflorestais, 201
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