Avaliação de atrativos para monitoramento de drosophila suzukii em pomar comercial de framboesa.

Drosophila suzukii (Diptera: Drosophilidae), conhecida como drosófila da asa manchada (SWD) ou suzuki, é uma praga quarentenária nativa da Ásia em expansão mundial na atualidade. Em 2008, SWD foi coletada nos EUA (Califórnia) e, desde então, registrada em outros estados americanos (WALSH et al. 2011) e também na Europa (CINI et al. 2012). No Brasil, a praga foi detectada no ano de 2014 ocasionando danos na ordem de 30% em cultivos de morango no Estado do Rio Grande do Sul (SANTOS, 2014a). Os danos são causados pela alimentação das larvas em frutos ainda fixos às plantas, e pela introdução de patógenos no local da oviposição. O fruto atacado entra em colapso exibindo intensa perda de líquidos. Entre os hospedeiros da SWD estão as fruteiras que produzem frutos de epiderme fina como, por exemplo, os pequenos frutos: morango, framboesa, amora-preta e o mirtilo. Em se tratando de uma espécie recentemente introduzida no Brasil, poucas são as informações sobre a eficiência de atrativos para monitoramento das populações. O vinagre de maçã tem sido usado em vários estudos científicos, sendo até sugerido como atrativo para o monitoramento da espécie no Brasil (SANTOS, 2014b). Apesar disto, a atratividade é apontada como de curta duração e de baixa seletividade. Assim, Santos (2016) recomenda, em substituição ao vinagre de maçã, o uso de um atrativo à base de fermento biológico, açúcar e água, o qual tem se mostrado promissor e seletivo para monitoramento de SWD. Nos 24 EUA, após extensa avaliação laboratorial e de campo, foram isolados componentes químicos essenciais da atratividade de D. Suzukii, os quais estão sendo produzidos e comercializados em forma de dispenser, com os nomes comerciais de Pherocon® SWD e Scentry® SWD. Como inexistem informações sobre a eficiência e a seletividade de tais produtos para o monitoramento da suzuki no Brasil, foi planejado o presente estudo, cujo objetivo foi o de avaliar a captura e a seletividade de atrativos e de misturas no monitoramento de D. suzukii em pomar de framboesa no município de Vacaria, RS.Resumo 158

Impact of Sequencing Targeted Therapies With High-dose Interleukin-2 Immunotherapy: An Analysis of Outcome and Survival of Patients With Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma From an On-going Observational IL-2 Clinical Trial: PROCLAIM

BACKGROUND: This analysis describes the outcome for patients who received targeted therapy (TT) prior to or following high-dose interleukin-2 (HD IL-2). PATIENTS AND METHODS: Patients with renal cell carcinoma (n = 352) receiving HD IL-2 were enrolled in Proleukin RESULTS: Overall, there were 4% complete response (CR), 13% partial response (PR), 39% stable disease (SD), and 43% progressive disease (PD) with HD IL-2. The median overall survival (mOS) was not reached in patients with CR, PR, or SD, and was 15.5 months in patients with PD (median follow-up, 21 months). Sixty-one patients had prior TT before HD IL-2 with an overall response rate (ORR) to HD IL-2 of 19% (1 CR, 9 PR) and an mOS of 22.1 months. One hundred forty-nine patients received TT only after HD IL-2 with an mOS of 35.5 months. One hundred forty-two patients had no TT before or after HD IL-2, and mOS was not reached. The mOS was 8.5 months in PD patients who received HD IL-2 without follow-on TT and 29.7 months in PD patients who received follow-on TT after HD IL-2. CONCLUSIONS: HD IL-2 as sole front-line therapy, in the absence of added TT, shows extended clinical benefit (CR, PR, and SD). Patients with PD after HD IL-2 appear to benefit from follow-on TT. Patients who progressed on TT and received follow-on HD IL-2 experienced major clinical benefit. HD IL-2 therapy should be considered in eligible patients

Official Discrepancies: Kosovo Independence and Western European Rhetoric

This article examines approaches and official discrepancies characterising Western European rhetoric with regard to the Kosovo status question. Since the early 1980s, Kosovo has been increasingly present in European debates, culminating with the 1999 international intervention in the region and subsequent talks about its final status. Although the Kosovo Albanians proclaimed independence in February 2008 and the majority of EU Member States decided to recognise Kosovo as an independent state, Western European rhetoric has been rather divided. This article shows that in addition to five EU members who have decided not to recognise Kosovo from the very beginning, and thus are powerful enough to affect its further progress, both locally and internationally, some of the recognisers, although having abandoned the policy of ‘standards before status’, have also struggled to develop full support for the province – a discrepancy that surely questions the overall Western support for Kosovo’s independence

European Union Approaches to Human Rights Violations in Kosovo before and after Independence

This article examines European Union (EU) approaches to the question of human rights violations in Kosovo before and after its proclamation of independence, in February 2008. While the 1999 NATO-led humanitarian intervention in the region was often justified as necessary due to the continuous abuses of human rights, perpetrated by the Serbian forces against the ethic Kosovo Albanians, the post-interventionist period has witnessed a dramatic reversal of roles, with the rights of the remaining Serbian minority being regularly abused by the dominant Albanian population. However, in contrast to the former scenario, the Brussels administration has remained quite salient about the post-independence context – a grey zone of unviable political and social components, capable of generating new confrontations and human rights abuses within the borders of Kosovo. Aware of this dynamic and the existing EU official rhetoric, it is possible to conclude that the embedded human rights concerns in Kosovo are not likely to disappear, but even more importantly, their relevance has been significantly eroded

Diamond's depth distribution systematics

The thermobarometric analysis of inclusions in lithospheric diamonds has shown that these diamonds may originate from a wide range of depths, with a global mode at ~175 \ub1 15 km. Studies based on diamond depth distribution at global scale, however, cannot clarify if this mode reflects a real concentration of diamonds, preferential sampling of materials from this level by ascending kimberlites, or simply a statistical distribution within the hard limits imposed by diamond stability, lithosphere thickness and mantle adiabat under typical cratonic thermal regimes. We addressed this problem by comparing depth distributions for peridotitic diamonds from the three localities that have been the most prolific for diamond geobarometry (Cullinan, Kimberley and Voorspoed, South Africa) with those of mantle xenocrysts from the same kimberlite sources. The revised P\u2013T estimates indicate that the diamonds were formed at T higher, equal or lower than the ambient geotherm recorded by the xenocrysts. These conditions may represent old mantle thermal regimes or local thermal perturbations related to infiltration of parental fluids or melts. Nonetheless, the studied diamonds show similar depth distributions for the different localities, with a distinct mode at \u2053180 \ub1 10 km. The similarity of these distributions with that calculated for peridotitic diamonds worldwide, as well as the lack of systematic correlation with kimberlite sampling efficiency as recorded by mantle xenocrysts, suggests that this mode has genetic significance. Based on observed depth distributions and thermodynamic modeling of COH fluids, diamond-forming processes are predicted to become less efficient with decreasing depth from at least \u2053165 km. In addition, diamond endowment near the base of the lithosphere may be negatively affected by infiltration of carbon-undersaturated melts or fluids after diamond formation. Considering the poor correlation between diamond and xenocryst depth distributions in single kimberlites or kimberlite clusters, even limited xenocryst records from diamond favorable depths (especially from the 160\u2013190 km interval) may correspond to significant diamond potential