R-symmetric Gauge Mediation and the MRSSM

This is an invited summary of a seminar talk given at various institutions in the United States and Canada. After a brief introduction, a review of the minimal R-symmetric supersymmetric standard model is given, and the benefits to the flavor sector are discussed. R-symmetric gauge mediation is an attempt to realize this model using metastable supersymmetry breaking techniques. Sample low energy spectra are presented and tuning is discussed. Various other phenomenological results are summarized.Comment: 14 pages, invited Brief Review, submitted to Modern Physics Letters A; v2: replaced Figure 1, updated acknowledgments, fixed typo

HIS for quality evaluation of vitamin C content in acerola fruit.

The aim of this work is to evaluate, by HIS, vitamin C distribution in acerola fruit as discriminant quality parameter so to deliver the product to the industry according to the fruit quality

Avaliação de pastagens nativas de várzeas do Médio Amazonas.

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Determination of sensory descriptors in tropical red wine using visible/near infrared (Vis/NIR) spectroscopy.

This study aimed to develop and validate models to determine wine sensory profile using visible/near infrared (Vis/NIR) spectroscopy

Antioxidant films from mango kernel components.

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Selection of NIR wavelengths from hyperspectral imaging data for the quality evaluation of acerola fruit.

The aim of this work is to evaluate Acerola post-harvest quality using NIR hyperspectral imaging

Ecofisiologia e eficiência de uso da água em bananeira

A bananeira é cultivada em diferentes áreas semiáridas do mundo com uso da irrigação. Nesses ambientes o manejo da irrigação deve, priorizar a precisão, o que demanda conhecer a produção e a eficiência de uso da agua em condições específicas. A eficiência de uso de água (EUA) pode ser expressa: para a folha, razão entre carbono fixado e água transpirada; para a planta, razão entre massa seca produzida e lâmina de água transpirada; econômica, razão entre produção de massa fresca e água transpirada. A otimização da EUA requer atuação no manejo da cultura, no uso racional da água e de genótipos mais eficientes no uso da água e irrigação com déficit. O conhecimento das zonas com maiores densidades de comprimento radicular e extração de água em sistemas de irrigação com maior eficiência de aplicação, gotejamento e microaspersão, indica o local para monitorar água do solo, aplicar fertilizantes e incrementar a produtividade. A deposição da palhada sobre o solo, diminui a evaporação, minimiza a compactação, melhora os atributos físicos, químicos e biológicos do solo e a EUA. O cultivo tem alta demanda e impacta os recursos hídricos em áreas semiáridas. O uso de cultivares mais tolerantes a déficit hídrico do solo, é mais aceitável do ponto de vista ambiental e parece ser factível para híbridos (AAAB), que podem ser submetidos a estratégias de irrigação com déficit controlado e lateralmente alternada, com aumento da EUA. O aumento da temperatura foliar reduz a EUA, mesmo com lâminas de irrigação adequadas. Em cultivos de bananeira em regiões semiáridas, onde as temperaturas elevadas limitam a produção, todas as práticas de planejamento, manejo de irrigação e do cultivo devem ser orientadas para otimizar o fluxo difusivo, a ciclagem de nutrientes no solo, favorecer a refrigeração da planta e aumentar a eficiência de uso da água

Rapid and environmentally friendly wine analysis using Vis/NIR Spectroscopy and Support Vector Machine regression.

The aim of this study was to calibrate and validate models that can be used to determine quality parameters in red wine using Vis/NIR spectroscopy and the Least Squares Support Vector Machine (LS-SVM) regression

Genetic pattern and demographic history of Salminus brasiliensis: population expansion in the Pantanal Region during the Pleistocene

Pleistocene climate changes were major historical events that impacted South American biodiversity. Although the effects of such changes are well-documented for several biomes, it is poorly known how these climate shifts affected the biodiversity of the Pantanal floodplain. Fish are one of the most diverse groups in the Pantanal floodplains and can be taken as a suitable biological model for reconstructing paleoenvironmental scenarios. To identify the effects of Pleistocene climate changes on Pantanal?s ichthyofauna, we used genetic data from multiple populations of a top-predator longdistance migratory fish, Salminus brasiliensis. We specifically investigated whether Pleistocene climate changes affected the demography of this species. If this was the case, we expected to find changes in population size over time. Thus, we assessed the genetic diversity of S. brasiliensis to trace the demographic history of nine populations from the Upper Paraguay basin, which includes the Pantanal floodplain, that form a single genetic group, employing approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) to test five scenarios: constant population, old expansion, old decline, old bottleneck following by recent expansion, and old expansion following by recent decline. Based on two mitochondrial DNA markers, our inferences from ABC analysis, the results of Bayesian skyline plot, the implications of star-like networks, and the patterns of genetic diversity (high haplotype diversity and low-to-moderate nucleotide diversity) indicated a sudden population expansion. ABC allowed us to make strong quantitative inferences about the demographic history of S. brasiliensis. We estimated a small ancestral population size that underwent a drastic fivefold expansion, probably associated with the colonization of newly formed habitats. The estimated time of this expansion was consistent with a humid and warm phase as inferred by speleothem growth phases and travertine records during Pleistocene interglacial periods. The strong concordance between our genetic inferences and this historical data could represent the first genetic record of a humid and warm phase in the Pantanal in the period since the Last Interglacial to 40 ka