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    Carrapato dos bovinos: conheça bem para controlar melhor.

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    A vida do carrapato; A fase de vida livre; A fase parasitária; A relação dos carrapatos com o tempo; O sistema estratégico de controle; A pulverização ou tratamento; Os carrapaticidas; Carrapaticidas de contato; Forforados; Diamidínicos; Piretróides; Fipronil; Thiazolina; Carrapaticidas sistêmicos; Derivados das avermectinas; Fluazuron (inibidor do crescimento); Resistência de carrapatos a carrapaticidas; Rodízio de carrapaticida; O teste de resistência e a escolha do carrapaticida; As vacinas contra os carrapatos; O controle integrado dos carrapatos.bitstream/item/103268/1/CT-46-Carrapato-dos-Bovinos.pd

    Western agriculture and the trade balance

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    Agriculture - West ; Federal Reserve District, 12th ; International trade

    Introduction: The history and scope of the sociology of higher education

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    Feature Learning for Multispectral Satellite Imagery Classification Using Neural Architecture Search

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    Automated classification of remote sensing data is an integral tool for earth scientists, and deep learning has proven very successful at solving such problems. However, building deep learning models to process the data requires expert knowledge of machine learning. We introduce DELTA, a software toolkit to bridge this technical gap and make deep learning easily accessible to earth scientists. Visual feature engineering is a critical part of the machine learning lifecycle, and hence is a key area that will be automated by DELTA. Hand-engineered features can perform well, but require a cross functional team with expertise in both machine learning and the specific problem domain, which is costly in both researcher time and labor. The problem is more acute with multispectral satellite imagery, which requires considerable computational resources to process. In order to automate the feature learning process, a neural architecture search samples the space of asymmetric and symmetric autoencoders using evolutionary algorithms. Since denoising autoencoders have been shown to perform well for feature learning, the autoencoders are trained on various levels of noise and the features generated by the best performing autoencoders evaluated according to their performance on image classification tasks. The resulting features are demonstrated to be effective for Landsat-8 flood mapping, as well as benchmark datasets CIFAR10 and SVHN

    Design and Control of a Flight-Style AUV with Hovering Capability

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    The small flight-style Delphin AUV is designed to evaluate the performance of a long range survey AUV with the additional capability to hover and manoeuvre at slow speed. Delphin’s hull form is based on a scaled version of Autosub6000, and in addition to the main thruster and control surfaces at the rear of the vehicle, Delphin is equipped with four rim driven tunnel thrusters. In order to reduce the development cycle time, Delphin was designed to use commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) sensors and thrusters interfaced to a standard PC motherboard running the control software within the MS Windows environment. To further simplify the development, the autonomy system uses the State-Flow Toolbox within the Matlab/Simulink environment. While the autonomy software is running, image processing routines are used for obstacle avoidance and target tracking, within the commercial Scorpion Vision software. This runs as a parallel thread and passes results to Matlab via the TCP/IP communication protocol. The COTS based development approach has proved effective. However, a powerful PC is required to effectively run Matlab and Simulink, and, due to the nature of the Windows environment, it is impossible to run the control in hard real-time. The autonomy system will be recoded to run under the Matlab Windows Real-Time Windows Target in the near future. Experimental results are used to demonstrating the performance and current capabilities of the vehicle are presented

    Tautomeric Equilibria Studies by Mass Spectrometry

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    Tautomerism in organic chemistry has been extensively studied in condensed phase by spectrometric methods, mainly by IR and NMR techniques. Mass spectrometry studies start 40 years ago but just recently it has been recognized the importance of the mass spectral data for the study of tautomerism in the gas phase.
Mass spectrometry can provide valuable information in regard to tautomeric equilibria when studying mass spectra among the members of different families of organic compounds.
The relevance of the mass spectral data resides on several facts but there are two that are of key importance:
1-	Mass spectral fragmentation assignments should be tautomer specific since the corresponding abundances ratios are supposed to be correlated to the keto/enol contents.
2-	Ionization in the ion source is supposed to have no effect on the position of the equilibrium so that the results reflect the tautomers content in the gas phase previous to ionization.
Some of the carbonylic compounds do not exhibit noticeable tautomerism so the fragment abundances assigned to the enol form is very low or not measurable. Since enolization is more noticeable in the case of thio-derivatives (which correlates adequately with the oxygenated analogues), the study of their mass spectra is an interesting choice to reach some degree of generalization. 
In addition, experimental findings are supported by semiempirical theoretical calculations, which probed to be adequate not only for supporting tendency correlations among the members of a compound family but also to calculate heats of tautomerization in gas phase.
Reports using mass spectrometry for tautomerism are becoming less common. One of the reasons is that now it would appear that the interpretation of MS results is not as straightforward as it was once believed, even though in a recent review it was written that: “Mass spectrometry is the most informative and practical method for studying and identifying tautomers in the gas phase” [1]. 
In fact, mass spectrometry seems to be very informative for studying and identifying tautomers, because in this case external factors like solvents, intermolecular interactions, etc., can be excluded by transferring the tautomeric system into gas phase, where the process becomes truly unimolecular [1].
This review covers the study of Tautomerism by Mass Spectrometry in the last four decades. 
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    School Sense of Community, Teacher Support, and Students\u2019 School Safety Perceptions

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    This study examined the association between two characteristics of school climate (sense of community and teacher support, measured both at the individual and at the school level) and students\u2019 feelings of being unsafe at school. The study involved a sample of 49,638 students aged 10\u201318 years who participated in the 2010\u20132012 California Healthy Kids Survey. Using hierarchical linear modeling (HLM), our findings revealed that, at the individual level, students perceiving higher levels of sense of community and teacher support at school were less likely to feel unsafe within the school environment. At the school level, sense of community was negatively associated with unsafe feelings, whereas there was no association between school-level teacher support and feelings of being unsafe at school

    Survival and development of Amblypelta nitida Stål, A. l. lutescens Distant (Hemiptera: Coreidae) and the egg parasitoid, Anastatus sp. (Hymenoptera: Eupelmidae) at constant rearing temperatures

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    The effects of constant rearing temperatures on the development and survival of Amblypelta nitida, Amblypelta lutescens lutescens (Hemiptera: Coreidae) and their egg parasitoid, Anastatus sp. (Hymenoptera: Eupelmidae), were studied in the laboratory. Amblypelta nitida and A. l. lutescens survival and development were studied at 10,15, 20, 25,30 and 35 degrees C. The development rate of both species increased linearly with increasing temperature but insects only developed to adults at 20, 25 and 30 degrees C; at these temperatures, mean development times for A. nitida were 87, 64 and 29 days and forA. l. lutescens they were 93, 65 and 31 days respectively. No eggs of either species hatched at 10 degrees C and only A l. lutescens eggs hatched at 35 degrees C At all temperatures at which insects developed beyond the first instar, mortality rates were highest in the second instar for both species. Lower developmental threshold temperatures to complete development were 15.9 degrees C and 17.1 degrees C for A. nitida and A. l. lutescens respectively; A. nitida required 421 degree-days and A.l. lutescens required 404 degree-days to complete development. Anastatus sp. completed development at all six study temperatures and development times decreased from 54 days at 17.5 degrees C to 16 days at 30 degrees C; similarly Anastatus sp, survival increased with increasing temperature. The lower developmental threshold temperature and degree-days required for Anastatus sp. to complete development were 15.0 degrees C and 234 degree-days respectively. Results are discussed with respect to the different geographical distributions of A. nitida and A. l. lutescens and likely interactions with Anastatus sp. (C) 2016 Korean Society of Applied Entomology, Taiwan Entomological Society and Malaysian Plant Protection Society. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
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