Concentrações séricas de proteínas totais em ovinos alimentados com dietas contendo urucum em níveis crescentes de inclusão.

O presente estudo foi conduzido com o objetivo de se determinar as concentrações séricas de proteínas totais em ovinos alimentados com dietas contendo urucum integral em níveis crescentes de inclusão (0,0%; 9,72%; 22,07% e 34,32%) em função dos tempos de coleta pós-prandial. Foram utilizados dezesseis ovinos, machos, castrados alojados em gaiolas metabólicas recebendo dietas compostas de feno de pasto nativo, milho, farelo de soja e urucum integral. A coleta de sangue foi feita por pução na veia jugular em quatro tempos pré-estabelecidos (zero, duas, cinco e oito horas pós-prandial). Utilizou-se delineamento inteiramente casualizado em esquema de parcelas subdivididas, tendo nas parcelas os níveis de inclusão de urucum integral e nas sub-parcelas os tempos de coleta com quatro repetições. As médias obtidas foram comparadas pelo teste SNK (P<0,05). Não houve interação significativa entre os níveis de inclusão de urucum integral e os tempos de coleta de sangue. A inclusão de urucum integral as dietas apresenta restrições quanto sua utilização para ovinos. Abstract: This study was conducted in order to determine serum concentrations of total protein in sheep fed diets containing annatto integral in increasing levels of inclusion (0.0%, 9.72%, 22.07% and 34 32%) as a function of collection time post-prandial. We used sixteen sheep, castrated male housed in metabolic cages and fed diets composed of native grass hay, corn, soybean meal and whole annatto. Blood collection was done by netting in the jugular vein in four pre-set times (zero, two, five and eight hours postprandial). We used a randomized design in split plots, and plots the levels of annatto full inclusion in the sub-plots and the collection times with four replications. The averages were compared by SNK test (P <0.05). No significant interaction between the inclusions of annatto and full time for blood collection. The inclusion of full annatto diets has restrictions on its use for sheep

J-PLUS: The Javalambre Photometric Local Universe Survey

The Javalambre Photometric Local Universe Survey (J-PLUS) is an ongoing 12-band photometric optical survey, observing thousands of square degrees of the Northern Hemisphere from the dedicated JAST/T80 telescope at the Observatorio Astrofisico de Javalambre (OAJ). The T80Cam is a camera with a field of view of 2 deg(2) mounted on a telescope with a diameter of 83 cm, and is equipped with a unique system of filters spanning the entire optical range (3500-10 000 angstrom). This filter system is a combination of broad-, medium-, and narrow-band filters, optimally designed to extract the rest-frame spectral features (the 3700-4000 angstrom Balmer break region, H delta, Ca H+K, the G band, and the Mg b and Ca triplets) that are key to characterizing stellar types and delivering a low-resolution photospectrum for each pixel of the observed sky. With a typical depth of AB similar to 21.25 mag per band, this filter set thus allows for an unbiased and accurate characterization of the stellar population in our Galaxy, it provides an unprecedented 2D photospectral information for all resolved galaxies in the local Universe, as well as accurate photo-z estimates (at the delta z/(1 + z) similar to 0.005-0.03 precision level) for moderately bright (up to r similar to 20 mag) extragalactic sources. While some narrow-band filters are designed for the study of particular emission features ([O II]/lambda 3727, H alpha/lambda 6563) up to z < 0.017, they also provide well-defined windows for the analysis of other emission lines at higher redshifts. As a result, J-PLUS has the potential to contribute to a wide range of fields in Astrophysics, both in the nearby Universe (Milky Way structure, globular clusters, 2D IFU-like studies, stellar populations of nearby and moderate-redshift galaxies, clusters of galaxies) and at high redshifts (emission-line galaxies at z approximate to 0.77, 2.2, and 4.4, quasi-stellar objects, etc.). With this paper, we release the first similar to 1000 deg(2) of J-PLUS data, containing about 4.3 million stars and 3.0 million galaxies at r < 21 mag. With a goal of 8500 deg(2) for the total J-PLUS footprint, these numbers are expected to rise to about 35 million stars and 24 million galaxies by the end of the survey