Toward predicting Dinophysis blooms off NW Iberia: a decade of events

Dinophysis acuminata and Dinophysis acuta are recurrent species off NW Iberia but their outbreaks occur under different conditions. A decade (2004-2013) of weekly data for each species at two sentinel stations located at the entrance of Rias de Aveiro-AV (NW Portugal, 40 degrees 38.6' N) and Pontevedra-PO (Galicia, Spain, 42 degrees 21.5' N), were used to investigate the regional synchronism and mesoscale differences related to species detection, bloom (>200 cells L-1) initiation and development. Results highlight the high interannual variability of bloom events and summarize the associated meteorological/oceanographic conditions. D. acuta blooms were observed in 2004-2008 and 2013, and the species highest maxima at AV occurred after the highest maxima of its prey Mesodinium, with a time-lag of 2-3 weeks. D. acuminate blooms were observed every year at both stations. The cell concentration time series shows that the blooms generally present a sequence starting in March with D. acuminata in PO and three weeks later in AV, followed by D. acuta that starts at AV and three months later in PO. Exceptionally, D. acuminate blooms occurred earlier at AV than PO, namely in high spring upwelling (2007) or river runoff (2010) years. A four-year gap (2009-2012) of D. acuta blooms occurred after an anomalous 2008 autumn with intense upwelling which is interpreted as the result of an equatorward displacement of the population core. Numerical model solutions are used to analyze monthly alongshore current anomalies and test transport hypotheses for selected events. The results show a strong interannual variability in the poleward/equatorward currents associated with changes in upwelling forcing winds, the advection of D. acute blooms from AV to PO and the possibility that D. acuminata blooms at AV might result from inocula advected southward from PO. However, the sensitivity of the results to vertical position of the lagrangian tracers call for more studies on species distribution at the various bloom stages. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved

Limiting performance analysis of a vehicle restraint system

Trabalho apresentado em ICEDyn 2013, International Conference on Structural Engineering Dynamics, 17-19 June 2013, Sesimbra, PortugalN/

Optimal design of thin-walled laminated beams with geometrically nonlinear behaviour

Com o apoio RAADRI.The purpose of this paper is to present a finite element model for optimal design of composite laminated thin-walled beam structures, with geometrically nonlinear behaviour, including post-critical behaviour and accounting warping deformation. A general continuum formulation is presented for the structural nonlinear analysis, based on the virtual work principle, and using the Updated Lagrangean procedure to describe the deformation of the structure. In order of defining the post-critical behaviour, a generalized displacement control method has been implemented. The thin-walled beam cross-section is considered as made from an assembly of flat layered laminated composite panels. The cross-section bending-torsion properties are integrals based on the cross-section geometry, on the warping function and on the individual stiffness of the laminates that constitute the cross-section. In order to determine its bending-torsion properties, the cross-section geometry is discretized by quadratic isoparametric finite elements. Along its axial direction, the beam is modelled throughout two-node Hermitean finite elements with seven degrees-of-freedom a node. Design sensitivities are imbedded into the finite element modelling and assembled in order to perform the design sensitivity analysis of various structural performance measures by using the adjoint method. As design variables one considers laminate thickness, lamina orientations and the global cross-section geometry. This geometry is defined by the position of master nodes related to the cross-section finite element mesh. Design optimization is performed throughout nonlinear programming techniques

Limiting performance analisys of a head protection helmet using multicriteria control optimization

In this paper the limiting performance analysis of a head protection helmet is performed. A discrete model of the human head is used. A multicriteria optimum control problem is formulated in order to minimize the risk of injuries in case of impact. Several injury criteria are minimized and are required to remain below a safety threshold value. The optimal control force acting on the head is found. The optimal control force is determined by nonlinear programming. The equations of motion are integrated at-once, as it is typical for static response, instead of the traditional step-by-step integration.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Flutuação populacional de nematoides em hortaliças sob sistema de plantio direto.

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Evaluation of chitosan for in vitro control of Colletotrichum tamarilloi and anthracnose on scarlet eggplant fruit.

This study aimed to evaluate the effect of chitosan-based coating on in vitro inhibition of Colletotrichum tamarilloi and anthracnose control of scarlet eggplant fruits.elocation e2621

Crustal growth and deformational processes in the northern

The aim of this article is to present a compilation of available information on the Évora Massif based on structural mapping, whole-rock geochemistry, recognition of metamorphic mineral assemblages, and geothermobarometry. In our view, transcurrent movements responsible for strong orogen-parallel stretching were dominant and had a major role in the geodynamic evolution of this part of Ossa-Morena zone (southwest Iberian Massif). Cadomian and Variscan orogenic events separated by a period of intense rifting were the cause for the composite distribution of zones with contrasting metamorphic paths, the structural complexity, the variety of lithological associations, and the sequence of deformation events and magmatism. The proposed geodynamic reconstruction for this segment of the northern Gondwana continental margin includes three main stages in chronological order: (1) Neoproterozoic accretion and continental magmatic arc developing, dismantling, and reworking, followed by late-“orogenic” magmatism; (2) Lower Paleozoic crustal thinning, block tilting, and mantle upwelling, induced by generalized rifting, leading to the formation of marine basins with carbonate platform sediments and thick accumulations of volcaniclastic and terrigenous sediments, contemporaneous with normal and enriched mid-oceanic ridge basalt–type magmatism; and (3) Upper Paleozoic transpressional orogenesis resulting from obliquity of convergence and the geometry of the involved blocks. The third stage includes the tectonic inversion of Lower Paleozoic basins, crustal thickening, the exhumation of high- to medium-pressure rocks and partial exhumation of high-grade metamorphic lithologies (controlled by local transtension and major detachments), the formation of synorogenic basins fi lled with volcanicsedimentary sequences, and fi nally, the emplacement of late Variscan granodiorites and granites