Performance of Nellore steers in Panicum maximum pastures.

O objetivo do trabalho foi avaliar o ganho de peso médio diário (GMD) de novilhos Nelore, a taxa de lotação(TL) e o ganho de peso por área (GA) em pastagens de três cultivares de Panicum maximum. O experimento foi conduzido em Planaltina, Distrito Federal, Brasil, durante 248 dias, divididos em período chuvoso (140 dias) e período seco (108 dias). Os tratamentos experimentais foram as cultivares Zuri, Tamani e Massai manejadas em lotação rotacionada em ciclos de pastejo de 28 dias (21 dias de descanso e 7 dias de pastejo) na estação chuvosa e 56 dias (42 dias de descanso e 14 dias de pastejo) na estação seca. Os ajustes na taxa de lotação foram conduzidos considerando a mesma oferta de forragem entre tratamentos. O GMD (novilhos desmamados de 216 kg de peso vivo) foi de 0,352, 0,391 e 0,254kg/cabeça para as cultivares Zuri, Tamani e Massai, respectivamente. O GMD diminuiu no período seco, mas permaneceu maior para Zuri e Tamani. O maior desempenho individual foi associado a valores mais elevados de proteína bruta e digestibilidade da forragem, especialmente para a cultivar Tamani. A TL foi mais elevada para Massai e Zuri em ambas as estações do ano, enquanto o GA foi semelhante entre os trata-mentos. Embora a cultivar Tamani tenha proporcionado lotação mais baixa, o GA foi parcialmente compensado por valores ele-vados de GMD. A cultivar Zuri conseguiu aliar maior desempenho individual com alta lotação

The use of a standard time-sharing operating system to control a complex of real-time processes

When faced with the problem of providing software control for a complex of real-time processes it is fairly common to construct a purpose-built operating system. This paper presents our experience of taking the opposite approach and using a standard manufacturer- supplied operating system as the basis of the software system. (6 refs)

Registro de 25 acessos selecionados de Panicum maximum.

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Evaluation of Guineagrass (\u3ci\u3ePanicum maximum\u3c/i\u3e Jacq) Hybrids in Brazil

Guineagrass (Panicum maximum Jacq.) is responsible for a high percentage of cattle finishing and milk production in Brazil, but presents problems of pasture degradability due to high soil fertility requirements and uneven production distribution. In order to search for new varieties to reduce these problems, over four hundred apomictic accessions of guineagrass and several sexual plants were introduced to Brazil in 1982. Agronomic evaluation took place at the National Beef Cattle Research Center of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa Beef Cattle), in Campo Grande, MS, Brazil. Breeding of the apomictic species began in 1990 using sexual x apomictic crosses. Three sexual plants and five apomictic accessions were used in the crosses. Seventy-nine hybrids were evaluated in small plots, for forage yield, regrowth after cuts, flowering and vigor during three years. The best families were identified for each characteristic evaluated. Multivariate analysis using principal components grouped the hybrids into six clusters according to their production. Due to superior performance, hybrids in groups 6 and 2 (22 hybrids) were indicated for future regional trials in small plot evaluations and grazing studies, aiming at releasing new cultivars for pasture diversification in Brazil

Оценка степени ухудшения отношения сигнал/шум монокристаллическими экранами

A new approach to gas leakage detection in high pressure distribution networks is proposed, where the pipeline is modelled as a Linear Parameter Varying (LPV) System driven by the source node mass flow with the pressure as the scheduling parameter, and the system output as the mass flow at the offtake. Using a recently proposed successive approximations LPV system subspace identification algorithm, the pipeline is thus identified from operational data. The leak is detected using a Kalman filter where the fault is treated as an augmented state. The effectiveness of this method is illustrated with an example with a mixture of real and simulated data

Quantum Interference of Coulomb Interaction and Disorder: Phase Shift of Friedel Oscillations and an Instability of the Fermi Sea

We investigate the influence of interference between Coulomb interaction and impurity scattering on the static electronic response $\chi (0,q)$ in disordered metals to leading order in the effective Coulomb interaction. When the transport relaxation time $\tau _{tr}$ is much shorter than the quasiparticle life time, we find a \mbox{sgn}(2p_F-q)/\sqrt{|2p_F-q|} divergence of the polarization function at the Fermi surface ($q=2p_F$). It causes a phase shift of the Friedel oscillations as well as an enhancement of their amplitude. Our results are consistent with experiments and may be relevant for understanding the stability of the amorphous state of certain alloys against crystallization.Comment: 11 pages, 4 PostScript figures appended as a self-extracting tar archive; includes output instruction

Genotypic stabilization of agronomic traits in Panicum maximum (Jacq.) hybrids.

The objective of this study was to evaluate the genotypic stability of agronomic traits in hybrids of Panicum maximum. Hybrids originating from the crosses between two sexual parents and cultivars Mombasa and Tanzania were evaluated in an incomplete-block design. Evaluated traits were total dry matter, leaf dry matter, stem dry matter, percentage of leaves, and leaf:stem ratio. These traits were evaluated in six harvests. Overall, higher repeatability was observed for the traits total dry matter and leaf dry matter, especially when harvests 4, 5, and 6, occurring in spring and summer, were evaluated. The leaf dry matter was the trait that provided the greatest repeatability and determination. The repeatability of stem dry matter, percentage of leaves, and leaf:stem ratio had a low magnitude, even when the coefficient was estimated based on the harvests of better stabilization for the other variables. The hybrids achieved genotypic stabilization in the harvests made in the second rainy season. Harvests made in the rainy season provide greater repeatability and determination, and the inclusion of the dry-season harvest is detrimental to the process of selection of low-repeatability traits such as percentage of leaves