Creep of current-driven domain-wall lines: intrinsic versus extrinsic pinning

We present a model for current-driven motion of a magnetic domain-wall line, in which the dynamics of the domain wall is equivalent to that of an overdamped vortex line in an anisotropic pinning potential. This potential has both extrinsic contributions due to, e.g., sample inhomogeneities, and an intrinsic contribution due to magnetic anisotropy. We obtain results for the domain-wall velocity as a function of current for various regimes of pinning. In particular, we find that the exponent characterizing the creep regime depends strongly on the presence of a dissipative spin transfer torque. We discuss our results in the light of recent experiments on current-driven domain-wall creep in ferromagnetic semiconductors, and suggest further experiments to corroborate our model.Comment: For figure in GIF format, see http://www.phys.uu.nl/~duine/mapping.gif v2: (hopefully) visible EPS figure added. v2: expanded new versio

Precisão experimental na predição de valores genéticos de progênies de arroz.

O objetivo deste trabalho foi comparar a eficiência do método de Papadakis, na correção da variação ambiental, com os delineamentos em blocos ao acaso e látice

Potencial genético de progênies de arroz irrigado avaliado por meio do método de Papadakis.

Este trabalho foi realizado no ano agrícola de 2012/2013, com o objetivo de comparar a eficiência do método de Papadakis na correção da variação ambiental em relação ao delineamento látice.Apresentação oral - Pós-graduação

What is gender awareness in health? A scoping review of the concept, its operationalization, and its relation to health outcomes

Gender awareness emerged in the 1990s and aimed to provide awareness and sympathy toward the needs of women, measuring health-care providers’ attitudes toward them and understand if providers possessed the knowledge for appropriate care. According to Miller et al.’s seminal model, gender awareness incorporates three sub-dimensions: gender sensitivity, gender ideology, and knowledge. Gender awareness has the potential to minimize gender bias in health care, improving the ecological validity of research. This scoping review provides an analysis of how gender awareness has been conceptualized, operationalized, and investigated in its relationship with health-related outcomes. A search was conducted on PubMed, PsycINFO, and ERIC. The relevance of 2.589 articles was assessed and 14 empirical studies were selected and included. Difficulties conceptualizing gender awareness were found and gender awareness and gender sensitivity were often presented as interchangeable. Most papers aimed to measure and compare levels of gender awareness among health professionals and the relationship between gender awareness and relevant health-related outcomes was not studied. Drawing upon a critical analysis of our findings, a proposal for a revised gender awareness conceptualization and operationalization is put forth as to inform novel research on its association with gender bias in health and health care.info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersio

Capacidade de combinação de cultivares de arroz vermelho.

As cultivares de arroz vermelho disponíveis, em geral, possuem arquitetura de planta tradicional e alta suscetibilidade ao acamamento, com baixo potencial de produção. Porém, existem algumas cultivares com arquitetura de planta moderna, baixo índice de acamamento e elevado potencial produtivo, que podem ser importantes para programas de melhoramento visando o desenvolvimento de cultivares superiores de arroz vermelho (Pereira et al., 2006)

Vortex-lattice pinning in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates

We investigate the vortex-lattice structure for single- and two-component Bose-Einstein condensates in the presence of an optical lattice, which acts as a pinning potential for the vortices. The problem is considered in the mean-field quantum-Hall regime, which is reached when the rotation frequency $\Omega$ of the condensate in a radially symmetric trap approaches the (radial) trapping frequency $\omega$ and the interactions between the atoms are weak. We determine the vortex-lattice phase diagram as a function of optical-lattice strength and geometry. In the limit of strong pinning the vortices are always pinned at the maxima of the optical-lattice potential, similar to the slow-rotation case. At intermediate pinning strength, however, due to the competition between interactions and pinning energy, a structure arises for the two-component case where the vortices are pinned on lines of minimal potential

Fases fenológicas do feijão-caupi e tolerância ao fomesafen.

O objetivo deste trabalho foi o de avaliar a tolerância do feijão-caupi, variedade BRS Guariba, ao herbicida fomesafen, conduzido em casa de vegetação na Embrapa Amazônia Ocidental