Newcomb-Benford Law as a generic flag for changes in the derivation of long-term solar terrestrial physics timeseries

The Newcomb-Benford Law (NBL) prescribes the probability distribution of the first digit of variables which explore a broad range under conditions including aggregation. Long-term space weather relevant observations and indices necessarily incorporate changes in the contributing number and types of observing instrumentation over time and we find that this can be detected solely by comparison with the NBL. It detects when upstream solar wind magnetic field OMNI High Resolution (HRO) Interplanetary Magnetic Field incorporated new data from the WIND and Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft after 1995. NBL comparison can detect underlying changes in the geomagnetic Auroral Electrojet (AE) index (activity dependent background subtraction) and the SuperMAG Electrojet (SME) index (different station types) that select individual stations showing the largest deflection, but not where station data are averaged, as in the SuperMAG Ring Current (SMR) index. As composite indices become more widespread across the geosciences, the NBL may provide a generic, data processing independent flag indicating changes in the constituent raw data, calibration or sampling method

Educomunicação e suas áreas de intervenção: Novos paradigmas para o diálogo intercultural

oai:omp.abpeducom.org.br:publicationFormat/1O material aqui divulgado representa, em essência, a contribuição do VII Encontro Brasileiro de Educomunicação ao V Global MIL Week, da UNESCO, ocorrido na ECA/USP, entre 3 e 5 de novembro de 2016. Estamos diante de um conjunto de 104 papers executivos, com uma média de entre 7 e 10 páginas, cada um. Com este rico e abundante material, chegamos ao sétimo e-book publicado pela ABPEducom, em seus seis primeiros anos de existência. A especificidade desta obra é a de trazer as “Áreas de Intervenção” do campo da Educomunicação, colocando-as a serviço de uma meta essencial ao agir educomunicativo: o diálogo intercultural, trabalhado na linha do tema geral do evento internacional: Media and Information Literacy: New Paradigms for Intercultural Dialogue

TENSILE AND CREEP BEHAVIOR OF GEOSYNTHETICS USING CONFINED-ACCELERATED TESTS

A major aspect in geosynthetics creep analysis is the load level applied to the specimen, usually referred as a percentage of the geosynthetic ultimate tensile strength (UTS). Since both tensile and creep standard tests are performed with in-isolation specimens, they may not reproduce the possibly significant effect of soil-geosynthetic interaction. A new creep testing machine was recently developed and successfully addressed this concern. However, further developments allowed tensile tests to be performed in the same conditions used in nonconventional creep ones. This paper presents the results of nonconventional tensile tests performed with a woven biaxial polyester geogrid. They were used to define its UTS in the same conditions employed in creep tests performed with the new equipment. Despite changes in tensile curves shapes were found, the UTS from confined, accelerated and confined-accelerated tensile tests were quite similar to those obtained with standard tensile test procedure

Uso de manipueira no desenvolvimento vegetativo do milho em ambiente protegido Use of cassava industry wastewater in the vegetative development of corn in a protected environment

Avaliaram-se efeitos da água residuária de fecularia tratada por sistema de lagoas, na cultura do milho. A irrigação com água residuária propiciou aumento de todos os parâmetros químicos do solo, proporcional aos respectivos tratamentos como segue: L1E (efluente da lagoa de decantação), L1ED (efluente da lagoa de decantação diluído em 50%), L2E (efluente da primeira lagoa anaeróbia), L2ED (efluente da primeira lagoa anaeróbia diluído em 50%), L3E (efluente da segunda lagoa anaeróbia), L3ED (efluente da segunda lagoa anaeróbia diluído em 50%) e T (testemunha sem adubação, irrigação com água) exceto para o tratamento TA (testemunha com adubação 85 kg ha-1 K2O; 60 kg ha-1 N; 100 kg ha-1 P2O5 e irrigação com água) que também mostrou altos teores dos elementos avaliados; maiores alturas de planta foram obtidas nos tratamentos L1E, TA, T, os quais diferiram entre si, seguidos de L1ED, L2ED e L3ED, semelhantes estatisticamente, e de L2E e L3E também foram iguais entre si, a 5% de probabilidade; o número de folhas não diferiu significativamente entre tratamentos mas apenas teores de fósforo e zinco mostraram diferenças significativas entre tratamentos nas análises químicas do tecido foliar e das raízes.<br>This study evaluated the effects of the wastewater of cassava industry, treated by pond system, on the corn crop. The irrigation with wastewater resulted in an increase in chemical parameters of the soil, proportional to the respective treatments in the following order: L1E (effluent of the decantation pond), L1ED (effluent of the pond of decantation with 50% dilution), L2E (effluent of the first anaerobic pond), L2ED (effluent of the first anaerobic pond with 50% dilution), L3E (effluent of the second anaerobic pond), L3ED (effluent of the second anaerobic pond with 50% dilution) and T (control without fertilization and irrigation with water) except for the treatment TA (control with fertilization: 85 kg ha-1 K2O; 60 kg ha-1 N; 100 kg ha-1 P2O5 and irrigation with water:); the height of plant for the treatments varied in the following order: L1E, TA, T which differed significantly followed by L1ED, L2ED and L3ED statistically similar; and L2E and L3E which also showed similar results without significant differences at 5% probability level. The number of leaves did not present significant differences among the evaluated treatments, only the concentrations of phosphorus and zinc in the leaves and roots presented significant differences