Aspectos gerais da fotossensibilizacao hepatogena em bovinos.

A sensibilização da pele a luz devido, geralmente, a ação de certas doenças, plantas ou outras substancias, e denominada fotossensibilizacao (Stedman's Medical 1972). O primeiro registro sobre a ocorrência de fotossensibilizacao hepatogena em bovinos mantidos em pastagens de Brachiaria decumbens, na América do Sul, foi feito na Venezuela (Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical 1975), onde a doença ocasionou a morte de doze garrotes nos primeiros dias de pastejo. No Brasil, Hutton (s.d.lL) fez observações sobre casos desta doença no gado Nelore, em pastagens de B. decumbens, em Rio Verde de Goiás. O surto acometeu, principalmente, bezerros antes e depois da desmama. Alem desta primeira constatação, vários outros autores descreveram esta doença em bovinos em pastagem de B. decumbens.bitstream/item/138531/1/COT-19.pdfCNPG

Sporopollenin, a natural copolymer, is robust under high hydrostatic pressure

Lycopodium sporopollenin, a natural copolymer, shows exceptional stability under high hydrostatic pressures (10 GPa) as determined by in situ high pressure synchrotron source FTIR spectroscopy. This stability is evaluated in terms of the component compounds of the sporopollenin: p-coumaric acid, phloretic acid, ferulic acid, and palmitic and sebacic acids, which represent the additional n-acid and ndiacid components. This high stability is attributed to interactions between these components, rather than the exceptional stability of any one molecular component. We propose a biomimetic solution for the creation of polymer materials that can withstand high pressures for a multitude of uses in aeronautics, vascular autografts, ballistics and light-weight protective materials

On large-scale diagonalization techniques for the Anderson model of localization

We propose efficient preconditioning algorithms for an eigenvalue problem arising in quantum physics, namely the computation of a few interior eigenvalues and their associated eigenvectors for large-scale sparse real and symmetric indefinite matrices of the Anderson model of localization. We compare the Lanczos algorithm in the 1987 implementation by Cullum and Willoughby with the shift-and-invert techniques in the implicitly restarted Lanczos method and in the Jacobi–Davidson method. Our preconditioning approaches for the shift-and-invert symmetric indefinite linear system are based on maximum weighted matchings and algebraic multilevel incomplete LDLT factorizations. These techniques can be seen as a complement to the alternative idea of using more complete pivoting techniques for the highly ill-conditioned symmetric indefinite Anderson matrices. We demonstrate the effectiveness and the numerical accuracy of these algorithms. Our numerical examples reveal that recent algebraic multilevel preconditioning solvers can accelerate the computation of a large-scale eigenvalue problem corresponding to the Anderson model of localization by several orders of magnitude

Manejo sanitário em bezerros de corte (do nascimento ao desmame).

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Mathematical and physical approaches to infer absolute zenith wet delays from double differential interferometric observations using ERA5 atmospheric reanalysis

Atmospheric water vapor (WV) is one of the driving constituents of the atmosphere. The modelling and forecasting of WV and derived quantities like precipitable water is reliable on regional scales but challenging on small scales because of its high spatial and temporal variation. Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) can be exploited to retrieve integrated atmospheric water vapor (IWV) from path delay observations along the radar line of sight. InSAR-derived IWV maps feature a very high spatial resolution but the double-differential interferometric observations only provide changes of IWV between acquisition times and with respect to a certain spatial reference. In this study we present a method to derive the absolute IWV by combining ERA5 numerical weather model data with differential path delay observations from InSAR time series. We propose different functional approaches to merge the regional trend of WV from ERA5 with the high resolution IWV signal from InSAR. We apply this to a Sentinel-1 Persistent Scatterer InSAR time series in the Upper Rhine Graben and validate against IWV observations at GNSS stations of the Upper Rhine Graben Network

Small crater populations on Vesta

The NASA Dawn mission has extensively examined the surface of asteroid Vesta, the second most massive body in the main belt. The high quality of the gathered data provides us with an unique opportunity to determine the surface and internal properties of one of the most important and intriguing main belt asteroids (MBAs). In this paper, we focus on the size frequency distributions (SFDs) of sub-kilometer impact craters observed at high spatial resolution on several selected young terrains on Vesta. These small crater populations offer an excellent opportunity to determine the nature of their asteroidal precursors (namely MBAs) at sizes that are not directly observable from ground-based telescopes (i.e., below ~100 m diameter). Moreover, unlike many other MBA surfaces observed by spacecraft thus far, the young terrains examined had crater spatial densities that were far from empirical saturation. Overall, we find that the cumulative power-law index (slope) of small crater SFDs on Vesta is fairly consistent with predictions derived from current collisional and dynamical models down to a projectile size of ~10 m diameter (Bottke et al., 2005a,b). The shape of the impactor SFD for small projectile sizes does not appear to have changed over the last several billions of years, and an argument can be made that the absolute number of small MBAs has remained roughly constant (within a factor of 2) over the same time period. The apparent steady state nature of the main belt population potentially provides us with a set of intriguing constraints that can be used to glean insights into the physical evolution of individual MBAs as well as the main belt as an ensemble.Comment: Accepted by PSS, to appear on Vesta cratering special issu

The self-organized critical forest-fire model on large scales

We discuss the scaling behavior of the self-organized critical forest-fire model on large length scales. As indicated in earlier publications, the forest-fire model does not show conventional critical scaling, but has two qualitatively different types of fires that superimpose to give the effective exponents typically measured in simulations. We show that this explains not only why the exponent characterizing the fire-size distribution changes with increasing correlation length, but allows also to predict its asymptotic value. We support our arguments by computer simulations of a coarse-grained model, by scaling arguments and by analyzing states that are created artificially by superimposing the two types of fires.Comment: 26 pages, 7 figure

Tasas de dispersión y supervivencia de adultos y juveniles del rabijunco colirrojo (Phaethon rubricauda) expuestas a contaminantes potenciales

Annual survival and dispersal rates of adult and juvenile red–tailed tropicbirds were examined in connection with exposure to heavy metals. From 1990–2000 the incineration of a U.S. stockpile of chemical weapons stored at Johnston Atoll exposed nesting tropicbirds to increased levels of human disturbance, smoke stack emissions and potential leaks. Using a multi–state mark–recapture modeling approach, birds nesting in this site (downwind of the plant) were compared to those nesting in a reference site (upwind of the plant) with less human disturbance, no exposure to smoke stack emissions or other potential incineration emissions. We did not find any difference in survival of adults or juveniles when comparing the two sites. Adult breeding dispersal rates did not differ between the sites but we did find differences in the age–specific natal dispersal rates. Birds fledged from downwind areas were less likely to return to their natal area to nest and more likely to immigrate to the upwind area than vice–versa. This asymmetry in emigration rates is believed to be due to differing vegetation densities and has implications for vegetation management in relation to tropicbird nest success and population size.Se examinaron las tasas de dispersión y de supervivencia anual de adultos y jóvenes de los rabijuncos colirrojos en relación a la exposición a metales pesados. Entre los años 1990 y 2000, la incineración de un arsenal de armas químicas del ejército de Estados Unidos almacenadas en Johnston Atoll expuso a las aves del trópico que anidaban en la zona a niveles más elevados de perturbaciones antrópicas/contaminación humana, emisiones procedentes de chimeneas y fugas potenciales. Se comparó las aves nidificantes en este lugar (a favor del viento de la planta) mediante modelos de captura–recaptura de multiestados, con las que anidaban en un emplazamiento de referencia (en cuyo caso la planta quedaba situada en contra del viento), caracterizado por menos perturbaciones antrópicas y ninguna exposición a emisiones procedentes de chimeneas ni a ningún otro tipo de emisiones potenciales de incineración. Al comparar ambos emplazamientos, no se halló ninguna diferencia en cuanto a la supervivencia de las aves adultas o jóvenes. Las tasas de dispersión reproductiva de los adultos no difirieron entre los emplazamientos; en cambio, sí que se observaron diferencias en las tasas de dispersión natal por edades. Las aves jóvenes que abandonaron las áreas situadas a favor del viento era menos probable que regresaran a su área natal para anidar y más probable que inmigraran al área situada en contra del viento. Se considera que esta asimetría en las tasas de emigración obedece a las diferentes densidades de vegetación, repercutiendo en la gestión de la vegetación con respecto al éxito de los nidos de las aves del trópico y el tamaño poblacional

Tuning the superconducting and magnetic properties in Fe_ySe_0.25Te_0.75 by varying the Fe-content

The superconducting and magnetic properties of Fe$_{y}$Se$_{0.25}$Te$_{0.75}$ single crystals ($0.9\leq y \leq1.1$) were studied by means of x-ray diffraction, SQUID magnetometry, muon spin rotation, and elastic neutron diffraction. The samples with $y<1$ exhibit coexistence of bulk superconductivity and incommensurate magnetism. The magnetic order remains incommensurate for $y\geq 1$, but with increasing Fe content superconductivity is suppressed and the magnetic correlation length increases. The results show that the superconducting and the magnetic properties of the Fe$_{y}$Se$_{1-x}$Te$_{x}$ can be tuned not only by varying the Se/Te ratio but also by changing the Fe content