Methods of application and dosages of insecticides for Aphis gossypii (Glover) (Hemiptera: Aphididae) in the yellow melon

[PT] - Para aperfeiçoar o manejo fitossanitário de pragas na cultura do melão (Cucumis melo L.), objetivou-se avaliar os efeitos de formas de aplicação e doses de inseticidas sobre a eficiência de controle químico do pulgão A. gossypii. O experimento foi realizado em 2010, na cidade de Fortaleza, Ceará, com melão amarelo cultivado em condições de campo. O delineamento experimental foi em blocos ao acaso, arranjo fatorial 2 x 4, com quatro repetições e parcelas de seis plantas. Os tratamentos foram duas formas de aplicação (pulverização costal manual e insetigação por gotejamento) e quatro doses de inseticida (0; 50; 100; 200% da dose recomendada pelo fabricante). Os inseticidas acefato e tiametoxam, testados separadamente, foram aplicados em manejo de rotação de grupos químicos. A eficiência de controle foi avaliada sete dias após o uso de cada inseticida. O acefato não apresentou diferença significativa entre as formas de aplicação, atingindo eficiências de controle de 88,95 e 84,09% com 100 e 200% da dose recomendada, respectivamente. O tiametoxam não diferiu significativamente quanto às formas de aplicação e doses testadas, apresentando eficiência de 100% em todos os tratamentos. Atualmente, no Brasil, a utilização de acefato no melão está limitada à aplicação mecanizada devido ao risco de contaminação. Diante dessa limitação, o controle do pulgão em meloeiro amarelo pode ser realizado via insetigação por gotejo ou pulverização costal manual, devendo-se empregar, preferencialmente, 100% da dose recomendada de tiametoxam.[EN] In order to perfect the phytosanitary management of pests in the melon crop (Cucumis melo L.), the aim here was to evaluate the effects of different methods of application and dosages of insecticides on the effectiveness of chemical control of the aphid A. gossypii. The experiment was carried out in 2010, in Fortaleza, in the state of Ceara, Brazil, with yellow melon grown under field conditions. The experimental design was of randomised blocks in a 2 x 4 factorial arrangement, with four replications and lots of six plants. Treatments consisted of two methods of application (manual backpack spray and drip insectigation) and four dosages of insecticide (0, 50, 100 and 200% of the dosage recommended by the manufacturer). The insecticides acephate and thiamethoxam, tested separately, were applied in a rotating management of chemical groups. Efficiency of the control was evaluated seven days after the use of each insecticide. The acephate showed no significant difference between the forms of application, reaching control efficiencies of 88.95 and 84.09% with 100 and 200% of the recommended dose respectively. The thiamethoxam did not differ significantly for the application methods and dosages under test, giving 100% efficiency in all treatments. Currently in Brazil the use of acephate in the melon is limited to mechanised application due to the risk of contamination. Because of this limitation, the control of aphids in yellow melon can be carried out via drip insectigation or backsack spray, with preferably 100% of the recommended dose of thiamethoxam.Do Bomfim, G.; Moreira De Azevedo, B.; Viana, TVA.; Manzano Juarez, J.; Vasconcelos, DV. (2015). Formas de aplicação e doses de inseticidas sobre Aphis gossypii (Glover) (Hemiptera: Aphididae) em melão amarelo. Revista Ciencia Agronomica. 46(3):488-496. doi:10.5935/1806-6690.20150030S48849646

Design and installation alternatives of Venturi injectors in drip irrigation

[ES] En la Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, España (39°29¿ N; 0°23¿ W; 20 m), ha sido estudiado el funcionamiento de cuatro prototipos de inyector Venturi y tres formas de instalación distintas. El funcionamiento se ha analizado bajo diversos parámetros, como pérdidas de carga, relación de caudales y rendimiento. Las formas de instalación analizadas han sido: sin inyección y con inyección y presiones negativas o positivas en la garganta. Las presiones se establecieron entre 10 y 40 m.c.a. A partir de los datos experimentales han sido procesados utilizando técnicas de regresión múltiple y análisis de la varianza. Con ellas, fue posible, a través de la integración de geometrías en función de los diámetros, caudales y presiones, obtener expresiones para prever la pérdida de carga o el caudal inyectado. Se pone de manifiesto que la relación de caudales y el rendimiento son mayores cuanto mayor es el diámetro de la aspiración y empeoran al reducirse el diámetro de la garganta, siendo estas las dimensiones que más condicionan la inyección. También, puede afirmarse que la pérdida de carga, para un mismo caudal inyectado, es inferior si la operación se realiza con presiones positivas que con presiones negativas. La relación de caudales o el rendimiento también proporcionan valores más elevados bajo esta forma de instalación propuesta.[EN] The performance and installation alternatives of four Venturi injector prototypes were studied at Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain (39°29¿ N; 0°23¿ W; 20 m). This device performance was studied under several parameters such as head loss, relation of flows and injection efficiency. The installation configurations analyzed were: without the injection of nutrients solution and with the injection either having negative or positive pressure at the Venturi throat. The inlet pressures were established between 10 and 40 m.w.c. The experimental data has been processed using multiple stepwise regression techniques and analysis of variance (ANOVA). Moreover, geometry integration versus diameters, flows and pressures is used to obtain some equations for predicting the head loss and injected flow. The results of the present study showed that the relation between flows and injection efficiency were better when the diameter of inlet nutrient line increases and become worse when decreases the diameter of the Venturi throat. Accordingly, these dimensions become very important in the design prototype and installation configuration. Furthermore, after the analysis of laboratory experiments it can be concluded that head losses, at the same injected flow, were lower if the injection was carried out with positive pressures at the throat than in the case of negative pressures. Also in this case, the relationship between flow rates and injection efficiency leaded to a good performance of the proposed installation.Manzano Juarez, J.; Palau, C.; Moreira De Azevedo, B.; Do Bomfim, G.; Vasconcelos, DV. (2015). Diseño y alternativas en la instalación de inyectores Venturi en riego localizado. Revista Ciencia Agronomica. 46(2):287-298. doi:10.5935/1806-6690.20150008S28729846

Consistency analysis of a nonbirefringent Lorentz-violating planar model

In this work analyze the physical consistency of a nonbirefringent Lorentz-violating planar model via the analysis of the pole structure of its Feynman propagators. The nonbirefringent planar model, obtained from the dimensional reduction of the CPT-even gauge sector of the standard model extension, is composed of a gauge and a scalar fields, being affected by Lorentz-violating (LIV) coefficients encoded in the symmetric tensor $\kappa_{\mu\nu}$. The propagator of the gauge field is explicitly evaluated and expressed in terms of linear independent symmetric tensors, presenting only one physical mode. The same holds for the scalar propagator. A consistency analysis is performed based on the poles of the propagators. The isotropic parity-even sector is stable, causal and unitary mode for $0\leq\kappa_{00}<1$. On the other hand, the anisotropic sector is stable and unitary but in general noncausal. Finally, it is shown that this planar model interacting with a $\lambda|\varphi|^{4}-$Higgs field supports compactlike vortex configurations.Comment: 11 pages, revtex style, final revised versio

Anisotropic flow of charged hadrons, pions and (anti-)protons measured at high transverse momentum in Pb-Pb collisions at sNN=2.76\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=2.76 TeV

The elliptic, $v_2$, triangular, $v_3$, and quadrangular, $v_4$, azimuthal anisotropic flow coefficients are measured for unidentified charged particles, pions and (anti-)protons in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 2.76$ TeV with the ALICE detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Results obtained with the event plane and four-particle cumulant methods are reported for the pseudo-rapidity range $|\eta|<0.8$ at different collision centralities and as a function of transverse momentum, $p_{\rm T}$, out to $p_{\rm T}=20$ GeV/$c$. The observed non-zero elliptic and triangular flow depends only weakly on transverse momentum for $p_{\rm T}>8$ GeV/$c$. The small $p_{\rm T}$ dependence of the difference between elliptic flow results obtained from the event plane and four-particle cumulant methods suggests a common origin of flow fluctuations up to $p_{\rm T}=8$ GeV/$c$. The magnitude of the (anti-)proton elliptic and triangular flow is larger than that of pions out to at least $p_{\rm T}=8$ GeV/$c$ indicating that the particle type dependence persists out to high $p_{\rm T}$.Comment: 16 pages, 5 captioned figures, authors from page 11, published version, figures at http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/ArtSubmission/node/186

Centrality dependence of charged particle production at large transverse momentum in Pb-Pb collisions at sNN=2.76\sqrt{s_{\rm{NN}}} = 2.76 TeV

The inclusive transverse momentum ($p_{\rm T}$) distributions of primary charged particles are measured in the pseudo-rapidity range $|\eta|<0.8$ as a function of event centrality in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm{NN}}}=2.76$ TeV with ALICE at the LHC. The data are presented in the $p_{\rm T}$ range $0.15<p_{\rm T}<50$ GeV/$c$ for nine centrality intervals from 70-80% to 0-5%. The Pb-Pb spectra are presented in terms of the nuclear modification factor $R_{\rm{AA}}$ using a pp reference spectrum measured at the same collision energy. We observe that the suppression of high-$p_{\rm T}$ particles strongly depends on event centrality. In central collisions (0-5%) the yield is most suppressed with $R_{\rm{AA}}\approx0.13$ at $p_{\rm T}=6$-7 GeV/$c$. Above $p_{\rm T}=7$ GeV/$c$, there is a significant rise in the nuclear modification factor, which reaches $R_{\rm{AA}} \approx0.4$ for $p_{\rm T}>30$ GeV/$c$. In peripheral collisions (70-80%), the suppression is weaker with $R_{\rm{AA}} \approx 0.7$ almost independently of $p_{\rm T}$. The measured nuclear modification factors are compared to other measurements and model calculations.Comment: 17 pages, 4 captioned figures, 2 tables, authors from page 12, published version, figures at http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/ArtSubmission/node/284

Suppression of charged particle production at large transverse momentum in central Pb-Pb collisions at sNN=2.76\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 2.76 TeV

Inclusive transverse momentum spectra of primary charged particles in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{\rm NN}}}$ = 2.76 TeV have been measured by the ALICE Collaboration at the LHC. The data are presented for central and peripheral collisions, corresponding to 0-5% and 70-80% of the hadronic Pb-Pb cross section. The measured charged particle spectra in $|\eta|<0.8$ and $0.3 < p_T < 20$ GeV/$c$ are compared to the expectation in pp collisions at the same $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$, scaled by the number of underlying nucleon-nucleon collisions. The comparison is expressed in terms of the nuclear modification factor $R_{\rm AA}$. The result indicates only weak medium effects ($R_{\rm AA} \approx$ 0.7) in peripheral collisions. In central collisions, $R_{\rm AA}$ reaches a minimum of about 0.14 at $p_{\rm T}=6$-7GeV/$c$ and increases significantly at larger $p_{\rm T}$. The measured suppression of high-$p_{\rm T}$ particles is stronger than that observed at lower collision energies, indicating that a very dense medium is formed in central Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC.Comment: 15 pages, 5 captioned figures, 3 tables, authors from page 10, published version, figures at http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/ArtSubmission/node/98

Measurement of charm production at central rapidity in proton-proton collisions at s=2.76\sqrt{s} = 2.76 TeV

The $p_{\rm T}$-differential production cross sections of the prompt (B feed-down subtracted) charmed mesons D$^0$, D$^+$, and D$^{*+}$ in the rapidity range $|y|<0.5$, and for transverse momentum $1< p_{\rm T} <12$ GeV/$c$, were measured in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 2.76$ TeV with the ALICE detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The analysis exploited the hadronic decays D$^0 \rightarrow$K$\pi$, D$^+ \rightarrow$K$\pi\pi$, D$^{*+} \rightarrow$D$^0\pi$, and their charge conjugates, and was performed on a $L_{\rm int} = 1.1$ nb$^{-1}$ event sample collected in 2011 with a minimum-bias trigger. The total charm production cross section at $\sqrt{s} = 2.76$ TeV and at 7 TeV was evaluated by extrapolating to the full phase space the $p_{\rm T}$-differential production cross sections at $\sqrt{s} = 2.76$ TeV and our previous measurements at $\sqrt{s} = 7$ TeV. The results were compared to existing measurements and to perturbative-QCD calculations. The fraction of cdbar D mesons produced in a vector state was also determined.Comment: 20 pages, 5 captioned figures, 4 tables, authors from page 15, published version, figures at http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/ArtSubmission/node/307

Particle-yield modification in jet-like azimuthal di-hadron correlations in Pb-Pb collisions at sNN\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 2.76 TeV

The yield of charged particles associated with high-$p_{\rm T}$ trigger particles ($8 < p_{\rm T} < 15$ GeV/$c$) is measured with the ALICE detector in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 2.76 TeV relative to proton-proton collisions at the same energy. The conditional per-trigger yields are extracted from the narrow jet-like correlation peaks in azimuthal di-hadron correlations. In the 5% most central collisions, we observe that the yield of associated charged particles with transverse momenta $p_{\rm T}> 3$ GeV/$c$ on the away-side drops to about 60% of that observed in pp collisions, while on the near-side a moderate enhancement of 20-30% is found.Comment: 15 pages, 2 captioned figures, 1 table, authors from page 10, published version, figures at http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/ArtSubmission/node/350