k-deformed Poincare algebras and quantum Clifford-Hopf algebras

The Minkowski spacetime quantum Clifford algebra structure associated with the conformal group and the Clifford-Hopf alternative k-deformed quantum Poincare algebra is investigated in the Atiyah-Bott-Shapiro mod 8 theorem context. The resulting algebra is equivalent to the deformed anti-de Sitter algebra U_q(so(3,2)), when the associated Clifford-Hopf algebra is taken into account, together with the associated quantum Clifford algebra and a (not braided) deformation of the periodicity Atiyah-Bott-Shapiro theorem.Comment: 10 pages, RevTeX, one Section and references added, improved content

Shelf-Ocean material exchange influencing the Atlantic chemical composition off NW Iberian margin since the last glaciation

Rivers are the main conduit of sediment to the shelf. The basin geology, the drainage area and the discharge rate are the major factors that determine their sediment load (Milliman and Syvistski, 1992). Besides suspended particles, dissolved components may also give some information on the eroded crust. Sr isotopes in carbonate shells of biological organisms have been used to study, in the geological record, the influence exerted by the chemical weathering of the continental crust on the seawater composition (Macdougall, 1991). In this work, Sr isotope ratios obtained in tests of foraminifera representing the last 40 ka are presented and discussed in the scope of the palaeogeographical evolution of NW Iberia. This work aims to present and discuss the results of Sr isotope analyses (performed, by TIMS, in the Isotope Geology Laboratory of the University of Aveiro) of tests of two species of foraminifera, from nine samples taken along the OMEX core KC 024-19 (181 cm; 42°08’98’’N, 10°29´96’’W, and 2765m), collected in the Galicia Bank area, off Galicia. Taking into account that Sr contained in the carbonate tests is usually considered as preserving the signature of the contemporaneous seawater, one planktonic species (Globigerina bulloides) and one benthic species (Cibicides wuellerstorfi) were selected in order to try to detect Sr isotope variations both through time and between two different levels of the water column. The core age model, which records the last 40 ka, is based on a combination of oxygen isotope stratigraphy, eight AMS 14C datings and the synchronisation of the last four Heinrich Events in the Iberian Margin sedimentary records. As a whole, the obtained 87Sr/86Sr ratios vary between 0.709209 and 0.709108, with a mean 2σ error of 0.000025. These values lie within the range of modern marine Sr isotope ratios (0.70910-0.70922), as previously defined using analyses of both seawater and marine carbonates (see compilation by Faure and Mensing, 2005). Despite their small variation, the 87Sr/86Sr ratios obtained in G. bulloides seem to indicate that Sr dissolved in seawater at the KC 024-19 core site became slightly less radiogenic after the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). This decrease is concomitant with diminishing amounts of the detrital components in the sediments (Fig. 1). Therefore, both the composition of dissolved Sr, as revealed by results on tests of planktonic foraminifera, and the proportions of suspended terrigenous particulate material arriving at the KC 024-19 site point to a decreasing importance of the contribution of the erosion of the Iberian Variscan crust since the Last Glacial Maximum and in the Holocene. The 87Sr/86Sr ratios measured in tests of benthic foraminifera (C. wuellerstorfi) are more erratic and no correlation can be established with palaeogeographical/palaeoclimatic constraints. The difference between the behaviour of Sr compositions in G. bulloides and C. wuellerstorfi may indicate that whilst the planktonic foraminifera should reproduce very closely the seawater composition, the benthic organisms should, in addition to the major role of seawater, also be affected by some sort of interaction with the sediments. As such, planktonic foraminifera are probably more reliable indicators of seawater composition in studies involving very small periods and corresponding very slight variations of the 87Sr/86Sr ratios. Taking into account that G. bulloides is a common planktonic species (living mostly in the first 50m of the water column), whose tests seem to be in equilibrium with sea water composition, variations in its 87Sr/86Sr ratios can be related with changes in the chemical composition of the water of the Atlantic Ocean off NW Iberian Margin. The highest 87Sr/86Sr values are contemporaneous with a period of low sea level (about -140 m; Dias et al., 2000) during the LGM. According to Dias et al. (2000) at 18 ka BP the shoreline was close to the shelf break. The summital parts of the Gerês and Estrela mountains were covered by local glaciers and close to the coast freezing occurred frequently. The river catchments, which extended far to the shelf, received more rainfall due to a longer, compared to present day conditions, wet season, which promoted both physical and chemical weathering. Higher pluviosity combined with the effect of spring ice melting maintained high river discharge and consequently caused very important sediment supply to the coastal zone. The extremely narrow shelf was a very energetic environment due to sea bottom inclination and very limited long wave refraction. Therefore, at that time, a long wet season and very competent rivers should have caused important erosion of the Variscan basement in NW Iberia. Additionally, then, the shoreline was much closer to the KC 024-19 site. The combination of all these factors favoured an important deposition of terrigenous sediments and the local slight enrichment in radiogenic Sr of the seawater. With sea level rise, after the deglaciation and during the Holocene, the river estuaries became progressively far away from the shelf break. Their competence of transport also became progressively reduced and the offshore transport of detrital sediments became progressively lower. Conversely the biogenic carbonate proportion in the sediments increased, due to lower dilution by the terrigenous particles. Simultaneously, the values of 87Sr/86Sr in the seawater at the KC 024-19 site became lower, as a consequence of a complete homogenization with the ocean global composition, which was now more effective with the increasing distance towards shoreline

Efeito de extratos florais de Grande Naine sobre a germinação in vitro de grãos de pólen.

Estudos mostram que na polinização de cultivares do subgrupo Cavendish, os grãos de pólen germinam na superfície do estigma, mas o tubo polínico não penetra. É observado que na região distal do ovário ocorre uma oxidação do tecido, que pode estar relacionada à produção de alguma substância que poderia impedir a emissão de algum sinal que direcionaria o tubo polínico até o óvulo

Divergência genética entre genótipos de sorgo sacarino usando técnicas multivariadas.

Objetivou-se avaliar a divergência genética entre genótipos de sorgo sacarino por meio de técnicas multivariadas. Foram avaliados 45 genótipos de sorgo sacarino em Lavras-MG. O delineamento experimental foi o alfa-látice 9x5, com três repetições. As parcelas consistiram de duas linhas de 5 metros espaçadas 0,60 metros. Foram mensurados os seguintes caracteres: número de dias para o florescimento, altura de planta (m), massa de panícula (g), produção de massa verde (t/ha), teor de sólidos solúveis totais (%caldo), toneladas de brix por hectare e produção de etanol (L/ha). Procederam-se as análises de variância associado ao teste F a 5% de probabilidade. A diversidade genética foi avaliada com base na distância de Mahalanobis com posterior agrupamento dos genótipos pelo método de Tocher, bem como pelo método das variáveis canônicas (CRUZ; CARNEIRO, 2006). Houve divergência genética entre os genótipos de sorgo sacarino quanto aos caracteres estudados. As técnicas multivariadas utilizadas possibilitaram a formação de três grupos bem definidos e concordantes, com destaque para a linhagem CMSXS643R por apresentar desempenho agronômico e industrial favoráveis

Dark spinor models in gravitation and cosmology

We introduce and carefully define an entire class of field theories based on non-standard spinors. Their dominant interaction is via the gravitational field which makes them naturally dark; we refer to them as Dark Spinors. We provide a critical analysis of previous proposals for dark spinors noting that they violate Lorentz invariance. As a working assumption we restrict our analysis to non-standard spinors which preserve Lorentz invariance, whilst being non-local and explicitly construct such a theory. We construct the complete energy-momentum tensor and derive its components explicitly by assuming a specific projection operator. It is natural to next consider dark spinors in a cosmological setting. We find various interesting solutions where the spinor field leads to slow roll and fast roll de Sitter solutions. We also analyse models where the spinor is coupled conformally to gravity, and consider the perturbations and stability of the spinor.Comment: 43 pages. Several new sections and details added. JHEP in prin

Interação biofísica e do uso da terra na dinâmica da paisagem do município de Capitão Poço-PA, em sistema de informação geográfica.

bitstream/item/61761/1/Oriental-Doc10.pdfAnexo 3 mapas: Carta de aptidão agrícola do Município de Capitão Poço -PA; Carta de solos do Município de Capitão Poço -PA; Carta de uso da terra do Município de Capitão Poço -PA

Internal kinematics of spiral galaxies in distant clusters III. Velocity fields from FORS2/MXU spectroscopy

(Abridged) We study the impact of cluster environment on the evolution of spiral galaxies by examining their structure and kinematics. Rather than two-dimensional rotation curves, we observe complete velocity fields by placing three adjacent and parallel FORS2 MXU slits on each object, yielding several emission and absorption lines. The gas velocity fields are reconstructed and decomposed into circular rotation and irregular motions using kinemetry. To quantify irregularities in the gas kinematics, we define three parameters: sigma_{PA} (standard deviation of the kinematic position angle), Delta phi (the average misalignment between kinematic and photometric position angles) and k_{3,5} (squared sum of the higher order Fourier terms). Using local, undistorted galaxies from SINGS, these can be used to establish the regularity of the gas velocity fields. Here we present the analysis of 22 distant galaxies in the MS0451.6-0305 field with 11 members at z=0.54. In this sample we find both field (4 out of 8) and cluster (3 out of 4) galaxies with velocity fields that are both irregular and asymmetric. We show that these fractions are underestimates of the actual number of galaxies with irregular velocity fields. The values of the (ir)regularity parameters for cluster galaxies are not very different from those of the field galaxies, implying that there are isolated field galaxies that are as distorted as the cluster members. None of the deviations in our small sample correlate with photometric/structural properties like luminosity or disk scale length in a significant way. Our 3D-spectroscopic method successfully maps the velocity field of distant galaxies, enabling the importance and efficiency of cluster specific interactions to be assessed quantitatively.Comment: accepted for publication in A&A, high resolution version available at http://www.astro.rug.nl/~kutdemir/papers

Interação de fatores biofísicos e do uso da terra da dinâmica da paisagem do município de Ourém, Pará, em sistema de informação geográfica.

bitstream/item/61286/1/CPATU-Doc133.pdfAnexo 3 mapas: Carta de aptidão agrícola do Município de Ourém ? Pará; Carta de solos do Município de Ourém ? Pará; Carta de uso da terra do Município de Ourém - Pará

Estimativa da Eto pelo modelo Penman-Monteith FAO com dados mínimos integrada a um Sistema de Informação Geográfica.

O objetivo do presente trabalho foi avaliar a metodologia de estimativa da EtoPM utilizando dados mínimos integrados a um Sistema de Informação Geográfica, na bacia do Jaguaribe, Ceará. Foi utilizado o sistema integrado de modelagem regional PRECIS (Providing Regional Climates for Impacts Studies), versão 1.2, utilizando as condições de contorno do Modelo Climático Global, HadAM3P, acoplado ao Modelo Climático Regional (HadRM3P), através da técnica dinâmica de redução de escala (downscaling). Dados mensais de temperaturas máxima e mínima e precipitação foram gerados para o período de 1961-1990, os quais foram analisados quanto a sua variabilidade espacial (latitude/longitude), utilizando-se geoestatística (krigagem). Para validação, foi aplicada regressão linear entre EtoPM estimada com dados mínimos e estimada com dados medidos através de uma estação meteorológica de referência. A média da EtoPM anual estimada com dados mínimos situou-se em 1.719 mm. A metodologia funcionou satisfatoriamente na região estudada, considerando-se os resultados da regressão (coeficiente angular de 0,95, coeficiente de determinação de 0,902, resíduos menores que 0,45 mm dia-1 e Raiz do Quadrado Médio do Erro (RQME) igual a 0,067 mm dia-1)