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Anti-band 3 and anti-spectrin antibodies are increased in Plasmodium vivax infection and are associated with anemia.
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Variations in Amazonian forest canopy structure and light environments across environmental and disturbance gradients.
A critical problem in tropical forest ecology is understanding how vegetation structure and function vary over environmental gradients. The degree to which forest structure changes across the Amazon basin and the role of environmental variability in shaping forest structure and dynamics are poorly characterised, despite the importance of these forests for regional and global climate. To address these challenges, we connected 10 years of investigations to amass a large database of ground-based profiling canopy lidar (PCL) data from 297 Amazon forest plots across large-scale environmental and disturbance gradients. Mean annual precipitation varied from 1,963 to 3,159 mm, number of dry season months from 0 to 5, and plot soil types covered about half of the variation in phosphorus, exchangeable cation, and soil physical property values observed in Amazonia. We quantified detailed metrics of vertical and horizontal structure and canopy light environments. Forest structure varied considerably across plots; maximum canopy height ranged from 6.1 to 35.7 m, gap fraction from 0.00 to 0.36, LAI from 0.5 to 7.3, rugosity from 1.5 to 7.5 m, and the relative height of 50% light transmission from 0.3 to 0.8. Disturbed sites exhibited almost twice the level of variation (SD) to non-disturbed sites for many metrics. Vertical leaf area density (LAD) profiles also showed high between plot variability, especially at low and high relative canopy heights. Plots with similar LAD profiles sometimes exhibited different distributions of ?canopy photic environment layers??where canopy leaf area is separated into photic environment layers by depth from canopy surface. This demonstrates that LAD profiles alone are insufficient for characterising canopy environments, essential to light-driven regeneration and carbon cycle processes. In addition, we evaluated relationships between lidar metrics and environmental variables extracted from geospatial layers. Our dataset allows a unique and detailed multi-site analysis of canopy structure and environments across the Amazon, including regions with little or no lidar sampling. Examining how structural attributes alter across environmental gradients is critical to understanding how current and future climate influences Amazonian forest structure, function, and dynamics.Paper 499657
BRS PĂ©rola: cultivar de soja indicada para o MaranhĂŁo, PiauĂ e Tocantins.
Cultivares de soja com elevado potencial produtivo sĂŁo requeridas todos os anos pelos agricultores. A Embrapa Soja vem desenvolvendo cultivares de soja produtivas e adaptadas Ă s diferentes regiĂ”es edafoclimĂĄticas do Brasil. O objetivo deste trabalho Ă© apresentar a cultivar BRS PĂ©rola, desenvolvida pela Embrapa Soja em convĂȘnio com a Fapcen, indicada para o cultivo nos estados do MaranhĂŁo, norte do Tocantins e sudoeste do PiauĂ. A BRS PĂ©rola Ă© uma cultivar de soja convencional, do grupo de maturidade relativo 8.8, tipo de crescimento determinado, flor branca, pubescĂȘncia marrom mĂ©dio e cor de hilo marrom. Nas safras 2007/08, 2008/09, 2009/10 e 2010/11 ela foi avaliada em experimentos de Valor de Cultivo e Uso em diferentes locais no MA, PI, TO, decidindo-se entĂŁo pelo seu lançamento. A cultivar apresenta elevado potencial produtivo, ficando acima das trĂȘs cultivares testemunhas utilizadas nos experimentos (BRS TracajĂĄ, M-Soy 8866 e P98C81), com rendimento mĂ©dio de 3.652 kg/ha, ao passo que a mĂ©dia das testemunhas foi de 3.436 kg/ha, indicando ainda resistĂȘncia Ă s principais doenças da soja e estabilidade na altura de plantas, proporcionando a sua semeadura em ĂĄreas de baixas altitudes. A BRS PĂ©rola Ă© uma excelente opção de cultivar de soja convencional para o mercado
A social and ecological assessment of tropical land uses at multiple scales: the Sustainable amazon network
Science has a critical role to play in guiding more sustainable development trajectories. Here, we present the Sustainable Amazon Network (Rede AmazĂŽnia SustentĂĄvel, RAS): a multidisciplinary research initiative involving more than 30 partner organizations working to assess both social and ecological dimensions of land-use sustainability in eastern Brazilian Amazonia. The research approach adopted by RAS offers three advantages for addressing land-use sustainability problems: (i) the collection of synchronized and co-located ecological and socioeconomic data across broad gradients of past and present human use; (ii) a nested sampling design to aid comparison of ecological and socioeconomic conditions associated with different land uses across local, landscape and regional scales; and (iii) a strong engagement with a wide variety of actors and non-research institutions. Here, we elaborate on these key features, and identify the ways in which RAS can help in highlighting those problems in most urgent need of attention, and in guiding improvements in land-use sustainability in Amazonia and elsewhere in the tropics. We also discuss some of the practical lessons, limitations and realities faced during the development of the RAS initiative so far
Cultivar de soja BRS 8381: indicação para os estados de Goiås, Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais e Distrito Federal.
Trabalho publicado também nos Resumos do CONGRESSO BRASILEIRO DE SOJA, 6., 2012, Cuiabå
Vacuum Instabilities with a Wrong-Sign Higgs-Gluon-Gluon Amplitude
The recently discovered 125 GeV boson appears very similar to a Standard
Model Higgs, but with data favoring an enhanced h to gamma gamma rate. A number
of groups have found that fits would allow (or, less so after the latest
updates, prefer) that the h-t-tbar coupling have the opposite sign. This can be
given meaning in the context of an electroweak chiral Lagrangian, but it might
also be interpreted to mean that a new colored and charged particle runs in
loops and produces the opposite-sign hGG amplitude to that generated by
integrating out the top, as well as a contribution reinforcing the W-loop
contribution to hFF. In order to not suppress the rate of h to WW and h to ZZ,
which appear to be approximately Standard Model-like, one would need the loop
to "overshoot," not only canceling the top contribution but producing an
opposite-sign hGG vertex of about the same magnitude as that in the SM. We
argue that most such explanations have severe problems with fine-tuning and,
more importantly, vacuum stability. In particular, the case of stop loops
producing an opposite-sign hGG vertex of the same size as the Standard Model
one is ruled out by a combination of vacuum decay bounds and LEP constraints.
We also show that scenarios with a sign flip from loops of color octet charged
scalars or new fermionic states are highly constrained.Comment: 20 pages, 8 figures; v2: references adde
Probing background ionization: Positive streamers with varying pulse repetition rate and with a radioactive admixture
Positive streamers need a source of free electrons ahead of them to
propagate. A streamer can supply these electrons by itself through
photo-ionization, or the electrons can be present due to external background
ionization. Here we investigate the effects of background ionization on
streamer propagation and morphology by changing the gas composition and the
repetition rate of the voltage pulses, and by adding a small amount of
radioactive Krypton 85.
We find that the general morphology of a positive streamer discharge in high
purity nitrogen depends on background ionization: at lower background
ionization levels the streamers branch more and have a more feather-like
appearance. This is observed both when varying the repetition rate and when
adding Krypton 85, though side branches are longer with the radioactive
admixture. But velocities and minimal diameters of streamers are virtually
independent of the background ionization level. In air, the inception cloud
breaks up into streamers at a smaller radius when the repetition rate and
therefore the background ionization level is higher. When measuring the effects
of the pulse repetition rate and of the radioactive admixture on the discharge
morphology, we found that our estimates of background ionization levels are
consistent with these observations; this gives confidence in the estimates.
Streamer channels generally do not follow the paths of previous discharge
channels for repetition rates of up to 10 Hz. We estimate the effect of
recombination and diffusion of ions and free electrons from the previous
discharge and conclude that the old trail has largely disappeared at the moment
of the next voltage pulse; therefore the next streamers indeed cannot follow
the old trail.Comment: 30 pages, 13 figure
Complete blood count parameters as biomarkers of retinopathy of prematurity: a Portuguese multicenter study
Purpose: To evaluate complete blood count (CBC) parameters in the first week of life as predictive biomarkers for the development of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP).
Methods: Multicenter, prospective, observational study of a cohort of preterm infants born with gestational age (GA) < 32 weeks or birth weight < 1500 g in eight Portuguese neonatal intensive care units. All demographic, clinical, and laboratory data from the first week of life were collected. Univariate logistic regression was used to assess risk factors for ROP and then multivariate regression was performed.
Results: A total of 455 infants were included in the study. The median GA was 29.6 weeks, and the median birth weight was 1295 g. One hundred and seventy-two infants (37.8%) developed ROP. Median values of erythrocytes (p < 0.001), hemoglobin (p < 0.001), hematocrit (p < 0.001), mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (p < 0.001), lymphocytes (p = 0.035), and platelets (p = 0.003) of the group of infants diagnosed with ROP any stage were lower than those without ROP. Mean corpuscular volume (MCV) (p = 0.044), red blood cell distribution width (RDW) (p < 0.001), erythroblasts (p < 0.001), neutrophils (p = 0.030), neutrophils-lymphocytes ratio (p = 0.028), and basophils (p = 0.003) were higher in the ROP group. Higher values of MCV, erythroblasts, and basophils remained significantly associated with ROP after multivariate regression.
Conclusion: In our cohort, the increase in erythroblasts, MCV, and basophils in the first week of life was significantly and independently associated with the development of ROP. These CBC parameters may be early predictive biomarkers for ROP.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
BRS 361: nova cultivar de soja convencional.
Trabalho publicado também nos Resumos do CONGRESSO BRASILEIRO DE SOJA, 6., 2012, Cuiabå
CHEMICAL CHANGES IN BEAN GRAINS DURING STORAGE IN CONTROLLED CONDITIONS
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