Dark Sector from Interacting Canonical and Non-Canonical Scalar Fields

In this work it is investigated general models with interactions between two canonical scalar fields and between one non-canonical (tachyon-type) and one canonical scalar field. The potentials and couplings to the gravity are selected through the Noether symmetry approach. These general models are employed to describe interactions between dark energy and dark matter, with the fields being constrained by the astronomical data. The cosmological solutions of some cases are compared with the observed evolution of the late Universe.Comment: 20 pages, 13 figures, correction of misprints in eqs. (4), (5), (43), (44

Yield, nutritional status and soil chemical properties as response to cattle manure, reactive natural rock phosphate and biotite schist in Massai grass.

In animal production, grasses planted in the pasture lands have especial value to improve aggregate value of products. This paper evaluates the effects of applying cattle manure, reactive natural phosphate and biotite schist on soil fertility, yield and nutritional content of Megathyrsus spp. cv. Massai. The experiment was conducted under field conditions, in a dystroferric Red Latosol (Oxisol). The experimental design was randomized blocks with the treatments confounding, with one replicate. The treatments consisted of three rates of natural reactive rock phosphate from Algeria - Djebel-Onk (0, 100 and 200 kg ha-1 of P2O5), three biotite schist rates (0, 150 and 300 kg ha-1 of K2O) and three cattle manure rates (0, 20 and 40 Mg ha-1). The application of reactive natural rock phosphate increased dry matter yield (DMY), however, this effect was not observed for cattle manure and biotite schist. The foliar contents of N, K and Mg (cattle manure), P and B (natural rock phosphate) and K (biotite schist) were significantly influenced by the treatments. The same effect was found forP levels in soil, dry matter of the aerial part, Mg and B content in the dry matter

Production, nutritional status and chemical properties of soils with addition of cattle manure, reactive natural phosphate and biotite schist in Massai cultivar.

The objective of this work was to evaluate the effects of cattle manure, reactive natural phosphate and biotite schist on the soil fertility, yield and nutritional status of Megathyrsus spp. cv. Massai. The experiment was conducted under field conditions, in a dystrophic Red Yellow Latosol (Oxisol). It was used a randomized block experimental design with the following treatments: three natural reactive rock phosphate from Algeria (Djebel-Onk) doses (0, 100 and 200 kg ha-1 of P2O5), three biotite schist doses (0, 150 and 300 kg ha-1 of K2O) and three cattle manure doses (0, 20 and 40 t ha-1). The application of natural phosphate increased dry matter yield, however, application of cattle manure and biotite schist did not influence this variable. Foliar levels of nitrogen, potassium and magnesium (cattle manure), phosphorous and boron (natural rock phosphate) and potassium (biotite schist) were influenced by the applied fertilizer doses. Only the levels of phosphorous in the soil and in the plant and levels of magnesium and boron in the plant show interaction with dry matter yield of Massai cultivar

Ocorrência da mancha-bacteriana do feijão-caupi em Roraima e reação de cultivares.

Resumo: A mancha-bacteriana, causada por Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. vignicola, é uma doença que apresenta potencial de dano à cultura do feijão-caupi. Esse trabalho teve como objetivos registrar a ocorrência do patógeno em Roraima e prover informações sobre a reação de cultivares de feijão-caupi à doença. As cultivares utilizadas foram BRS-Amapá, BR02-Bragança, BRS Guariba, BR17-Gurguéia, BRS Mazagão, BRS Milênio, BRS Patativa, Pitiúba, BR03-Tracuateua e Vita-7. Em casa-de-vegetação, o delineamento experimental utilizado foi inteiramente casualizado, com quatro repetições, cada repetição foi representada por duas plantas/vaso. Os parâmetros de avaliação foram período de incubação e severidade da doença aos 25 dias após a inoculação. O experimento de campo foi conduzido em delineamento de blocos ao acaso com 4 blocos, sendo cada um constituído por 10 parcelas, sendo cada parcela semeada com uma cultivar. As inoculações foram realizadas aos 35 dias após a semeadura, em estádio de início da emissão do botão floral. Os parâmetros avaliados foram período de incubação, severidade da doença aos 12, 18, 22, 27 e 29 dias após a inoculação. A transmissibilidade da bactéria por meio de sementes foi verificada a partir da deposição em placas de Petri contendo o meio 523 de alíquotas de 100 µl de suspensões obtidas de diluições seriadas em fator 1:10 de 150 g de sementes de cada lote. Verificou-se que as cultivares BRS Mazagão, BR 17- Gurguéia e Vita-7 apresentaram reação de resistência à mancha-bacteriana. Não foi verificada a ocorrência da transmissibilidade da bactéria nas condições experimentais. Abstract: Bacterial blight, caused by Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. vignicola, is a disease that has the potential to cause damage to cowpea crops. The aims of this work were to report the occurrence of such a pathogen in Roraima State, Brazil, and provide information about the reaction of cowpea cultivars to that disease. The used cultivars were BRS-Amapá, BR02-Bragança, BRS Guariba, BR17-Gurguéia, BRS Mazagão, BRS Milênio, BRS Patativa, Pitiúba, BR03-Tracuateua and Vita-7. The study was carried out in a greenhouse in a completely randomized experimental design, with four replicates, each one represented by two plants per pot. Incubation period and disease severity were evaluated at 25 days post-inoculation. The field experiment was carried out in an experimental design of randomized blocks with four blocks, each one represented by 10 plots, and each plot was sown with one cultivar. Inoculations were performed at 35 days after sowing, at the beginning of flower bud emission. Evaluation parameters consisted of incubation period, disease severity at 12, 18, 22, 27 and 29 days post-inoculation and bacterial transmissibility through seeds. The cultivars BRS Mazagão, BR 17- Gurguéia and Vita-7 presented resistance reaction to bacterial blight. No bacterial transmissibility was detected under these experimental conditions

Constraining non-minimally coupled tachyon fields by Noether symmetry

A model for a spatially flat homogeneous and isotropic Universe whose gravitational sources are a pressureless matter field and a tachyon field non-minimally coupled to the gravitational field is analyzed. Noether symmetry is used to find the expressions for the potential density and for the coupling function, and it is shown that both must be exponential functions of the tachyon field. Two cosmological solutions are investigated: (i) for the early Universe whose only source of the gravitational field is a non-minimally coupled tachyon field which behaves as an inflaton and leads to an exponential accelerated expansion and (ii) for the late Universe whose gravitational sources are a pressureless matter field and a non-minimally coupled tachyon field which plays the role of dark energy and is the responsible of the decelerated-accelerated transition period.Comment: 11 pages, 5 figures. Version accepted for publication in Classical and Quantum Gravit

Uso de barreira física no monitoramento e controle de cochonilhas farinhentas (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) em videira.

O Vale do São Francisco se destaca como importante região produtora e exportadora de uvas de mesa. Uma das barreiras impostas pelos importadores é a presença de pragas, sendo as cochonilhas, uma das que inviabiliza a comercialização. Com o objetivo de monitorar, controlar e evitar a migração das cochonilhas (associadas ou não a formigas doceiras) para a parte aérea das plantas, foram testados o uso e a eficiência de barreira física (cola entomológica). Foram utilizadas duas formulações da cola, aplicadas em torno dos troncos e suporte de sustentação dos parreirais. Testaram-se cinco tratamentos: uma barreira no meio do tronco com cola transparente; uma barreira no meio do tronco com cola azul; duas barreiras também no tronco com cola transparente; duas barreiras com cola azul e sem aplicação de barreira física. Foram capturadas cochonilhas e formigas nos dois tipos de cola. A de coloração azul capturou um maior número de indivíduos. Não houve diferença quando se utilizou uma ou duas barreiras. Na primeira avaliação, foram capturados 120 indivíduos. Na segunda avaliação, praticamente não houve captura. Isso indica que a barreira física elaborada com cola entomológica pode ser considerada um eficiente método para monitoramento e controle de cochonilhas nos parreirais

Influências da temperatura e umidade relativa do ar em casa de vegetação e no enraizamento de miniestacas de três clones de Eucalyptus spp para o sul do Brasil.

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Timescale for equilibration of N/Z gradients in dinuclear systems

Equilibration of N/Z in binary breakup of an excited and transiently deformed projectile-like fragment (PLF*), produced in peripheral collisions of 64Zn + 27Al, 64Zn, 209Bi at E/A = 45 MeV, is examined. The composition of emitted light fragments (3<=Z<=6) changes with the decay angle of the PLF*. The most neutron-rich fragments observed are associated with a small rotation angle. A clear target dependence is observed with the largest initial N/Z correlated with the heavy, neutron-rich target. Using the rotation angle as a clock, we deduce that N/Z equilibration persists for times as long as 3-4 zs (1zs = 1 x 10^-21 s = 300 fm/c). The rate of N/Z equilibration is found to depend on the initial neutron gradient within the PLF*.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure

AMBER/VLTI observations of the B[e] star MWC 300

Aims. We study the enigmatic B[e] star MWC 300 to investigate its disk and binary with milli-arcsecond-scale angular resolution. Methods. We observed MWC 300 with the VLTI/AMBER instrument in the H and K bands and compared these observations with temperature-gradient models to derive model parameters. Results. The measured low visibility values, wavelength dependence of the visibilities, and wavelength dependence of the closure phase directly suggest that MWC 300 consists of a resolved disk and a close binary. We present a model consisting of a binary and a temperature-gradient disk that is able to reproduce the visibilities, closure phases, and spectral energy distribution. This model allows us to constrain the projected binary separation (~4.4 mas or ~7.9 AU), the flux ratio of the binary components (~2.2), the disk temperature power-law index, and other parameters.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure, accepted by A&