Listening to Other Voices: Moving Beyond Traditional Mission Histories- A Case Study from El Salvador

For the most part, mission history has focused on the work and effort of missionaries and not as much on the missionized, those people and communities they assisted. this is a flaw in the field which needs to be corrected, but how do we accomplish this? This article proposes a two-step process. First, by closely reading the traditional histories and the primary documents, we can emphasize and highlight the roles and voices of the missionized. Second, by using oral history interviews we can capture essential thoughts and attitudes of missionized people and communities about their mission experience. This dual approach helps balance out the perspectives to give a deeper, more complex reading of mission history. A case study approach is used in this article, focused on the mission of the Colegio Bautista (a mission of the American Baptists) in Santa Ana, El Salvador

Avaliação de consociação de gramÍneas e leguminosas sob pastejo.

O experimento foi realizado em solo de cerrado de baixa fertilidade, classificando como Latossolo Vermelho Amarelo, Alico, na unidade Canchim, visando a compatibilidade e a produtividade de 5 gramineas

Sensitivity monitoring of Phakopsora pachyrhizi populations to triazoles in Brazil.

Asian soybean rust (ASR) reported in 2001 in South America spread to Brazilian producing areas and is considered one of the main diseases of the crop. Fungicides used for the control belong to QoI (strobilurins) and SBI (azole) compounds. A weaker efficacy of straight azole was observed at some regions in the end of the crop season 2006/2007. To determine whether the problem observed was due to the resistance, a sensitivity monitoring test was carried out in 2008/2009 to detect possible changes in the EC50 values of the fungus population. The test was done according to FRAC methodology. Leaves samples infected with Phakopsora pachyrhizi were sent from nine Brazilian states, in a total of 36 populations, and the spores collected were inoculated in detached leaves treated with fungicides. The triazoles tested were cyproconazole, metconazole, tebuconazole, and prothioconazole (0; 0.125; 0.25; 0.5; 1.0; 2.0; 4.0; 8.0; 16.0; 32.0 ppm). Disease severity was evaluated 15 days after inoculation. The EC50 values were estimated by Proc Probit, SAS®. Differences in EC50 values among the populations were statistically significant (P < 0.01). The EC50 for cyproconazole and metconazole ranged from 0.06 to 1.37 ppm and from 0.02 to 3.89 ppm, respectively. For tebuconazole, EC50 ranged from 0.02 to 1.28 ppm. For prothioconazole, there wasn’t a distribution of EC50 values because, with 0.25 ppm, the populations tested didn’t develop symptoms of ASR. The results showed an oscillation of EC50 values in the P. pachyrhizi population from different locations during the crop season

Desenvolvimento de animais Canchim e Nelore em regime de pasto.

O presente trabalho tem por objetivo avaliar o desenvolvimento de animais da raça Canchim e Nelore em regime de pasto. Foram utilizados 128 animais, 64 por ano, divididos em 4 grupos, por raça e sexo, e distribuidos igualmente em piquetes de capim-andropogon e piquetes de capin-andropogon consorciado com calopogonio, em dois anos de experimento

Spatial variability of hydraulic conductivity and solute transport parameters and their spatial correlations to soil properties

[EN] Spatial variation of the correlation among variables related to water flow and solute transport are important in the characterization of the spatial variability when performing uncertainty analysis and making uncertainty qualified solute transport predictions. However, the spatial variation of the correlation between solute transport parameters and soil properties are rarely studied. In this study, the spatial correlation among laboratory-measured transport parameters dispersivity and coefficient of distribution of a reactive and a nonreactive solute and soil properties were studied at the scale of a few meters using a dense sampling design. In an area of 84 m(2) and a depth of 2 m, 55 undisturbed soil samples were taken to determine the soil properties. Column experiments were performed, and the transport parameters were obtained by fitting the experimental data to the analytical solution of the advection-dispersion equation using the computer program CFITM. Stepwise multiple linear regression (MLR) was performed in order to identify the statistically significant variables. The spatial correlation of the variables and between variables were determined using the Stanford Geostatistical Modeling Software. Soil properties presented a moderate coefficient of variation, while hydraulic conductivity and transport parameters were widely dispersed. The difference between its minimum and maximum value was quite large for most of the studied variables evidencing their high variability. Both dispersivity and retardation factor were higher than the expected and this result can be related to the preferential pathways and to the non-connected micropores. None of the physical soil property was strongly correlated to the transport parameters. Coefficient of distribution was strongly correlated to the cation exchange capacity and significantly correlated to mesoporosity and microporosity. Hydraulic conductivity presented significant positive correlation to the effective porosity and macroporosity. Stepwise multiple linear regression analysis indicated that further studies should be performed aiming to include other variables relevant for lateritic soils such as pH, electrical conductivity, the content of Al and Fe, CaCO3 and soil structure and microstructure. The study of the spatial correlation among transport parameters and soil properties showed that the codispersion among the variables is not constant in space and can be important in dictate the behavior of the combined variables. Our results also showed that some variables that were identified as explanatory in the MLR were not significant in the spatial analysis of the correlation, showing the importance of this kind of analyses for a better decision about the most relevant variables and their relations. The present study was a first attempt to evaluate the spatial variation in the correlation coefficient of transport parameters of a reactive and a nonreactive solute, indicating the more relevant variables and the ones that should be included in future studies.The authors thank the financial support by the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) (Project 401441/2014-8). The doctoral fellowship awarded to the first author by the Coordination of Improvement of Higher Level Personnel (CAPES) is gratefully acknowledged. The first author also thanks to the international mobility grant awarded by CNPq, through the Science Without Borders program (grant number: 200597/2015-9), and the international mobility grant awarded by Santander Mobility in cooperation with the University of Sao Paulo.Almeida De-Godoy, V.; Zuquette, LV.; Gómez-Hernández, JJ. (2019). Spatial variability of hydraulic conductivity and solute transport parameters and their spatial correlations to soil properties. Geoderma. 339:59-69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2018.12.015S596933