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Influência do tamanho da semente na qualidade fisiológica e na produtividade da cultura da soja.
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Eficiência de bio e imunoensaio para detecção de semente de soja geneticamente modificada tolerante ao glifosato em lotes de sementes de soja não transgênica.
A produção de semente de soja livre de sementes de outras cultivares ou outras sementes, dentro dos limites estabelecidos pela legislação, é facilitada pelo fato da soja ser espécie autógama. No caso específico das cultivares geneticamente modificadas (GM), a baixa taxa de fecundação cruzada que ainda pode existir é um dos pontos críticos de contaminação genética dos campos de sementes convencionais por transgênicos. O objetivo deste trabalho foi verificar a eficiência de dois métodos de detecção de misturas de semente GM em amostras de soja convencional, para avaliar lotes de sementes quanto aos limites exigidos pela legislação. Foram utilizadas amostras de semente da cultivar BRSMG 810C (convencional) e da cultivar BRSMG 850GRR. Foram avaliados dois tamanhos de amostras (200 e 400 sementes), com quatro níveis de contaminação (semente GM adicionada às amostras convencionais, para se obter 0%, 0,5%, 1% e 1,5%), e dois métodos de detecção: imunoensaio de fluxo lateral e bioensaio (pré-embebição em solução de herbicida a 0,6% do equivalente ácido, na proporção de 2,5 vezes o peso do substrato, por 16 horas no escuro a 25oC). O método de bioensaio é eficiente na detecção da presença de GM em amostras de semente convencional de soja, desde que as mesmas apresentem alta qualidade fisiológica. Existe correlação significativa entre os valores obtidos pelo método de detecção por bioensaio e os níveis de contaminação estabelecidos (r= 0,82; p< ou = 0,0001). O tamanho da amostra não influenciou a eficiência dos dois métodos na detecção da presença de sementes adventícias (GM)
Aplicação de testes de vigor para detecção de níveis precoces de deterioração em banco de sementes.
The Infertility-Related Stress Scale: Validation of a Brazilian–Portuguese Version and Measurement Invariance Across Brazil and Italy
Infertility constitutes an essential source of stress in the individual and couple's life. The Infertility-Related Stress Scale (IRSS) is of clinical interest for exploring infertility-related stress affecting the intrapersonal and interpersonal domains of infertile individuals' lives. In the present study, the IRSS was translated into Brazilian-Portuguese, and its factor structure, reliability, and relations to sociodemographic and infertility-related characteristics and depression were examined. A sample of 553 Brazilian infertile individuals (54.2% female, mean aged 36 ± 6 years) completed the Brazilian-Portuguese IRSS (IRSS-BP), and a subsample of 222 participants also completed the BDI-II. A sample of 526 Italian infertile individuals (54.2% female, mean aged 38 ± 6 years) was used to test for the IRSS measurement invariance across Brazil and Italy. Results of exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM) indicated that a bifactor solution best represented the structure underlying the IRSS-BP. Both the general and the two specific intrapersonal and interpersonal IRSS-BP factors showed satisfactory levels of composite reliability. The bifactor ESEM solution replicated well across countries. As evidence of relations to other variables, female gender, a longer duration of infertility, and higher depression were associated with higher scores in global and domain-specific infertility-related stress. The findings offer initial evidence of validity and reliability of the IRSS-BP, which could be used by fertility clinic staff to rapidly identify patients who need support to deal with the stressful impact of infertility in the intrapersonal and interpersonal life domains, as recommended by international guidelines for routine psychosocial care in infertility settings
Effects of a Postural Exercise Program on Vertical Jump Height in Young Female Volleyball Players with Knee Valgus
Background: Although a knee valgus position is related to the increase in injury risk in volleyball players, there is a lack of studies on the relationship between knee valgus and vertical jump (VJ) performance. Hence, the aim of this study was to investigate the effects of a postural exercise program on VJ height in young female volleyball players with knee valgus. Methods: This pilot study included 19 young female volleyball players divided into the following groups: the Valgus Experimental Group (VEG); the Valgus Control Group (VCG); and the Neutral Control Group (NCG). All three groups carried out the same volleyball training program. In addition, only the VEG underwent a 3-month postural exercise program of 30–45 min/session, twice/week. VJ performance was measured through the Sargent test before (T0), at 6 weeks (T1), and at 12 weeks (T2). Results: A significant effect from T0 to T1 (p = 0.0017) and from T0 to T2 (p = 0.0001) was found in the VEG. No significant differences were found over time in the VCG and in the NCG. Conclusion: An integrated postural exercise program might lead to a more balanced muscle efficiency inducing athletes to obtain a higher VJ performance
Validation of tuna Potential Fishing Zone advisories of Lakshadweep with a note on tuna habitat preferences and biology
Validation of tuna Potential Fishing Zone advisories of Lakshadweep with a note on tuna habitat preferences and biolog
Viabilidade de sementes de milho (Zea spp.), sorgo (Sorghum spp.), feijão (Phaseolus spp.) e cevada (Hordeum vulgare L.) armazenadas na coleçao de base da Embrapa.
Reação de genótipos de abacaxizeiro ao nematoide Pratylenchus Brachyurus.
Os fitonematoides são considerados um dos principais fatores limitantes ao cultivo do abacaxizeiro. Estes patógenos causam danos consideráveis às raízes das plantas, diminuindo a eficiência das adubações pela redução da absorção de nutrientes. As plantas apresentam sistema radicular reduzido, folhas cloróticas, estreitas e de tamanho reduzido. Consequentemente, a produção é retardada e com frutos de baixo peso e valor comercial reduzido (Arieira et al., 2008)
Automatic alignment of surgical videos using kinematic data
Over the past one hundred years, the classic teaching methodology of "see
one, do one, teach one" has governed the surgical education systems worldwide.
With the advent of Operation Room 2.0, recording video, kinematic and many
other types of data during the surgery became an easy task, thus allowing
artificial intelligence systems to be deployed and used in surgical and medical
practice. Recently, surgical videos has been shown to provide a structure for
peer coaching enabling novice trainees to learn from experienced surgeons by
replaying those videos. However, the high inter-operator variability in
surgical gesture duration and execution renders learning from comparing novice
to expert surgical videos a very difficult task. In this paper, we propose a
novel technique to align multiple videos based on the alignment of their
corresponding kinematic multivariate time series data. By leveraging the
Dynamic Time Warping measure, our algorithm synchronizes a set of videos in
order to show the same gesture being performed at different speed. We believe
that the proposed approach is a valuable addition to the existing learning
tools for surgery.Comment: Accepted at AIME 201
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