Diferentes intervalos de arraçoamento de matrizes avícolas tipo corte na fase de recria e seus efeitos na fase produtiva Different intervals of feeding in broiler breeders in growing period and its effects in the production phase

Matrizes avícolas, tipo corte (linhagem Ross), foram submetidas a três intervalos de arraçoamento: T1=48/48h, T2=programa 5/2 e T3=48/57/63h. O período de recria foi da 5&ordf; até a 20&ordf; semana. As variáveis estudadas neste ensaio foram: uniformidade de peso corporal, viabilidade criatória, ganho de peso e conversão alimentar. Na fase de produção (29&ordf; a 44&ordf; semana de idade), avaliou-se o efeito residual das aves submetidas aos tratamentos da fase de recria sobre os parâmetros produtivos. As variáveis estudadas foram: produção de ovos, peso médio de ovos, ovos incubáveis e conversão alimentar por dúzia de ovos. Os dados foram submetidos à análise de variância e as diferenças comparadas pelo teste de Tukey. Durante o período de recria, o aumento do intervalo de arraçoamento (T3) apresentou melhor uniformidade de peso corporal, bem como melhor conversão alimentar (P<0,05). O consumo de ração foi preestabelecido, não sendo, portanto, analisado estatisticamente. A viabilidade criatória não diferiu significativamente (P>0,05) nos períodos estudados. Os parâmetros ganho de peso e a conversão alimentar apresentaram piores resultados para as aves que receberam o menor intervalo de arraçoamento (P<0,05). Na fase de produção, os tratamentos não proporcionaram diferenças (P>0,05) quanto aos parâmetros estudados, pois os dados de produção mostraram-se homogêneos para os diferentes tratamentos.<br>Broiler breeders (Ross Line) were submitted to three different systems of feeding intervals namely: T1= 48/48h, T2 = scheme 5/2 and T3 = 48/57/63h. The study 1 was during the growing period from the fifth to the twentieth week. The variables studied in this assay were: body weight, uniformity, viability, weight gain and feed conversion. In the study 2, which as developed from the 29th to 44th week of age, the residual effect of the assay 1 was evaluated in regard to the productivity parameters. The variables mensured were egg production, egg weight, hatchability percentage and feed conversion per eggdozen. Data collected were subjected to analyses of variance and the differences were compared by the Tukey test. In the study 1 the increasing feed intervals resulted in better body weight uniformity as well as better feeding conversion (P<0.05). The feed consumption was pre-established and it was not statistically analyzed. The production viability did not show significant differences (P>0.05). The results were lower in the parameters of weight of gain and feed conversion for the birds that had received the smaller feed interval (P<0.05). In the second study (production period), the treatments did not show differences relating to the parameters studied (P>0.05), the production data shoved hight similarity in the different treatments

An interactive fluid model of jellyfish for animation

We present an automatic animation system for jellyfish that is based on a physical simulation. We model the thrust of an adult jellyfish, and the organism's morphology in its most active mode of locomotion. We reduce our model by considering only species that are axially symmetric so that we can approximate the full 3D geometry of a jellyfish with a 2D simulation. We simulate the organism's elastic volume with a spring-mass system, and the surrounding sea water using the semi-Lagrangian method. We couple the two representations with the immersed boundary method. We propose a simple open-loop controller to contract the swimming muscles of the jellyfish. A 3D rendering model is extrapolated from our 2D simulation. We add variation to the extrapolated 3D geometry, which is inspired by empirical observations of real jellyfish. The resulting animation system is efficient with an acceptable compromise in physical accuracy