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Imagery and long-slit spectroscopy of the Polar-Ring Galaxy AM2020-504
Interactions between galaxies are very common. There are special kinds of
interactions that produce systems called Polar Ring Galaxies (PRGs), composed
by a lenticular, elliptical, or spiral host galaxy, surrounded by a ring of
stars and gas, orbiting in an approximately polar plane. The present work aims
to study AM2020-504, a PRG with an elliptical host galaxy, and a narrow and
well defined ring, probably formed by accretion of material from a donor
galaxy, collected by the host galaxy. Our observational study was based on BVRI
broad band imagery as well as longslit spectroscopy in the wavelenght range
4100--8600\AA, performed at the 1.6m telescope at the Observat\'orio do Pico
dos Dias (OPD), Brazil. We estimated a redshift of z= 0.01683, corresponding a
heliocentric radial velocity of 5045 +/-23 km/s. The (B-R) color map shows that
the ring is bluer than the host galaxy, indicating that the ring is a younger
structure. Standard diagnostic diagrams were used to classify the main ionizing
source of selected emission-line regions (nucleus, host galaxy and ring). It
turns out that the ring regions are mainly ionized by massive stars while the
nucleus presents AGN characteristics. Using two empirical methods, we found
oxygen abundances for the HII regions located in the ring in the range
12+log(O/H)=8.3-8.8 dex, the presence of an oxygen gradient across the ring,
and that AM2020-504 follows the metallicity-luminosity relation of spiral
galaxies. These results support the accretion scenario for this object and
rules out cold accretion as source for the HI gas in the polar ring
Alterações na fertilidade dos solos em áreas de produção familiar de mandioca no Território do Alto Sertão de Alagoas.
O Território do Alto Sertão de Alagoas, também conhecido como Xingó, é formado por oito municípios (Água Branca, Canapi, Delmiro Gouveia, Inhapi, Mata Grande, Olho D?Água do Casado, Pariconha e Piranhas). Esse território possui uma população estimada de 167.660 habitantes (IBGE, 2007), faz divisa com os estados de Sergipe, Bahia e Pernambuco, perfazendo uma área de 3.905,4 km2.bitstream/item/122986/1/Alteracoes-na-fertilidade-COT-89-On-line.pd
Recording from two neurons: second order stimulus reconstruction from spike trains and population coding
We study the reconstruction of visual stimuli from spike trains, recording
simultaneously from the two H1 neurons located in the lobula plate of the fly
Chrysomya megacephala. The fly views two types of stimuli, corresponding to
rotational and translational displacements. If the reconstructed stimulus is to
be represented by a Volterra series and correlations between spikes are to be
taken into account, first order expansions are insufficient and we have to go
to second order, at least. In this case higher order correlation functions have
to be manipulated, whose size may become prohibitively large. We therefore
develop a Gaussian-like representation for fourth order correlation functions,
which works exceedingly well in the case of the fly. The reconstructions using
this Gaussian-like representation are very similar to the reconstructions using
the experimental correlation functions. The overall contribution to rotational
stimulus reconstruction of the second order kernels - measured by a chi-squared
averaged over the whole experiment - is only about 8% of the first order
contribution. Yet if we introduce an instant-dependent chi-square to measure
the contribution of second order kernels at special events, we observe an up to
100% improvement. As may be expected, for translational stimuli the
reconstructions are rather poor. The Gaussian-like representation could be a
valuable aid in population coding with large number of neurons
Social wasps are effective biocontrol agents of key lepidopteran crop pests
Biocontrol agents can help reduce pest populations as part of an integrated pest management scheme, with minimal environmental consequences. However, biocontrol agents are often non-native species and require significant infrastructure; overuse of single agents results in pest resistance. Native biocontrol agents are urgently required for more sustainable multi-faceted approaches to pest management. Social wasps are natural predators of lepidopteran pests, yet their viability as native biocontrol agents is largely unknown. Here, we provide evidence that the social paper wasp Polistes satan is a successful predator on the larvae of two economically important and resilient crop pests, the sugarcane borer Diatraea saccharalis (on sugarcane Saccharum spp.) and the fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda (on maize Zea mays); P. satan wasps significantly reduce crop pest damage. These results provide the much-needed baseline experimental evidence that social wasps have untapped potential as native biocontrol agents for sustainable crop production and food security
Levantamento da diversidade de vírus em batata-doce do banco ativo de germoplasma da Embrapa Hortaliças.
O presente trabalho teve o objetivo de ralizar um levantamento de vírus no Banco Ativo de Germoplasma de batata-doce da Embrapa Hortaliças
Levantamento da diversidade de vírus em batata-doce no campo experimental da Embrapa Hortaliças
O presente trabalho teve o objetivo de realizar um levantamento de vírus no Campo Experimental de Batata-doce para a análise que consistiu inicialmente na enxertia na planta indicadora Ipomoea stosa e posterior detecção viral pela técnica NCM-Elisa para dez virus que infectam a batata-doce: Sweet potato feathery mottle virus (SPMMV), Sweet potato virus G (SPVG), Sweet potato C-6.Resumo expandido
Aplicação de dejetos suínos na produção de Tifton 85 em assentamento rural, São Gabriel do Oeste, MS.
Este trabalho teve por objetivo avaliar o crescimento do Tifton 85, com diferentes doses de dejetos suínos, em uma pequena propriedade rural no Assentamento Campanário, no município de São Gabriel do Oeste, MS. Os trabalhos de pesquisa desenvolvidos na área de manejo de dejetos da suinocultura indicam que nenhum tratamento em uso no Brasil permite que o resíduo final seja lançado diretamente nos cursos d?água.bitstream/item/79856/1/COT84.pd
Sistema de cultivo em aléias nos tabuleiros costeiros de Sergipe: resultados de pesquisa.
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