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    ENIGMA and global neuroscience: A decade of large-scale studies of the brain in health and disease across more than 40 countries

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    This review summarizes the last decade of work by the ENIGMA (Enhancing NeuroImaging Genetics through Meta Analysis) Consortium, a global alliance of over 1400 scientists across 43 countries, studying the human brain in health and disease. Building on large-scale genetic studies that discovered the first robustly replicated genetic loci associated with brain metrics, ENIGMA has diversified into over 50 working groups (WGs), pooling worldwide data and expertise to answer fundamental questions in neuroscience, psychiatry, neurology, and genetics. Most ENIGMA WGs focus on specific psychiatric and neurological conditions, other WGs study normal variation due to sex and gender differences, or development and aging; still other WGs develop methodological pipelines and tools to facilitate harmonized analyses of "big data" (i.e., genetic and epigenetic data, multimodal MRI, and electroencephalography data). These international efforts have yielded the largest neuroimaging studies to date in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, substance use disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, autism spectrum disorders, epilepsy, and 22q11.2 deletion syndrome. More recent ENIGMA WGs have formed to study anxiety disorders, suicidal thoughts and behavior, sleep and insomnia, eating disorders, irritability, brain injury, antisocial personality and conduct disorder, and dissociative identity disorder. Here, we summarize the first decade of ENIGMA's activities and ongoing projects, and describe the successes and challenges encountered along the way. We highlight the advantages of collaborative large-scale coordinated data analyses for testing reproducibility and robustness of findings, offering the opportunity to identify brain systems involved in clinical syndromes across diverse samples and associated genetic, environmental, demographic, cognitive, and psychosocial factors

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    Desenvolvimento inicial e estado nutricional do maracujazeiro em resposta à aplicação de lodo têxtil Development and nutritional status of passion fruit cuttings in response to application of textile sludge

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    O processo de tratamento de efluentes líquidos da indústria têxtil gera, como resíduo, um lodo de características orgânicas com concentração significativa de sódio e potássio. Objetivou-se quantificar os efeitos da aplicação do lodo ao solo, sobre o desenvolvimento inicial do maracujazeiro, e avaliou-se o crescimento e o estado nutricional das plantas. O delineamento experimental foi em blocos ao acaso, com quatro repetições de cinco tratamentos, que consistiram na aplicação de lodo têxtil, nas doses de 10, 15, 20 e 30 g vaso-1 (base seca), correspondentes a 10, 15, 20 e 30 t ha-1, respectivamente, além da testemunha sem aplicação do resíduo. As mudas receberam adubação básica com N, P, K, Zn e B, nas doses de 300, 450, 150, 5, e 0,5 mg dm-3, respectivamente. A unidade experimental foi constituída por vasos com 2 dm³ de amostra de um Latossolo Vermelho distrófico (V = 29%). Após 100 dias da semeadura, o lodo têxtil corrigiu a acidez do solo. Entretanto, em doses superiores a 10 t ha-1, promoveu a morte das plantas. O lodo têxtil aumentou os teores de N, K, S, B, Mn e Zn, diminuiu os de Ca e Mg e não alterou os de Cu e Fe da parte aérea das mudas.<br>In the treatment of liquid effluents of the textile industry the textile sludge results as residue. This work aimed at evaluating the effect of sludge application to the substrate of production of passion fruit cuttings in the development, and nutritional status of plants. Experimental design used was randomized blocks with five treatments and four replications. The textile sludge was applied in the doses of 10, 15, 20 and 30 g per pot (dry base), corresponding 10, 15, 20 and 30 t ha-1, respectively, and a control without application. Plants were fertilized with N, P, K, Zn and B at 300, 450, 150, 5, and 0.5 mg dm-3, respectively. The experimental unit was represented by pots with 2 dm³ of a Red Latosol (Oxisol) (V = 29%). After 100 days the textile sludge corrected soil acidity. However, in doses superior to 10 t ha-1 it caused plants death. The textile sludge increased the content of N, K, S, B, Mn and Zn, reduced Ca and Mg content, and it didn't alter Cu and Fe content of passion cuttings dry matter
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