Comportamento de gramíneas perenes recentemente introduzidas no Brasil Central

Dry matter production of fourteen recently introduced perennial grasses was compared with that of pangolagrass (Digitaria decumbens) and of "Taiwan A-24" (Digitaria pentzii) in cutting trials at the Matão Training Center of the IRI Research Institute in the State of São Paulo. Each grass was evaluated at two soil fertility levels on a red latosol. Brachiaria decumbens (IRI 562) was the outstanding grass with respect to dry matter yield over a two year period. Its yield was significantly higher than that of any of the other grasses, at both high and low fertilizer levels. Another Brachiaria species, IRI 409, and various other Digitaria species were superior to pangolagrass and to "Taiwan A-24". Additional research on animal acceptability, nutritive value, and performance under grazing is necessary for a better evaluation of this new germsplasm as promising contributions to pasture improvement in South-Central Brazil.O propósito do estudo foi avaliar gramíneas recentemente introduzidas, em comparação com o capim pangola (Digitaria decumbens) e o pangola "Taiwan A-24" (Digitaria pentzii). Foram comparadas quatorze gramíneas perenes, em um ensaio de corte, no Centro de Treinamento de Matão, do Instituto de Pesquisas IRI, no Estado de São Paulo. Cada gramínea foi avaliada em dois níveis diferentes de fertilidade de solo, em um latossolo vermelho. Brachiaria decumbens (IRI 562) foi excelente com respeito ao rendimento de matéria sêca durante um período de dois anos. Seu rendimento foi significativamente mais alto do que o de qualquer das outras gramíneas, tanto em alta fertilidade como em baixa. Uma outra Brachiaria sp., IRI 409, e várias outras Digitaria foram também superiores ao capim pangola e ao pangola "Taiwan A-24". É necessário que sejam realizados outros estudos sôbre a aceitação pelos animais, valor nutritivo e comportamento sob pastoreio, para melhor avaliação desses novos germoplasmas como contribuições promissoras para o melhoramento de pastagens no Brasil Central

The philosophy Is in the telling : how narrativity embodies cogitation in Javier Marías's 'The infatuations"

The celebrated Spanish novelist Javier Marias is often called a philosophical fiction writer, whereas he himself claims that novelsalso his novelsare sui generis, quite unlike philosophy. To him, narrative fiction offers a unique kind of literary thinking not subject to reason yet leading to the recognition of truths, however contradictory these recognized truths. Thus, Marias actually frames the novel less as narrative than as fictionas a world of fiction that paradoxically reveals truth. As I analyze his novel The Infatuations, I agree that Marias illustrates a unique aspect of novelistic literary thinking, but I suggest that this uniqueness is more about the narrative process of swinging between knowledge and ignorance than about finding truth and recognition in fiction. Though said to be devoid of plot, the novel orchestrates the reader's ignorance and doubt so as to produce strong narrativity for the page-turning mind (Sternberg in Poet Today 13(3):463-541, 1992; Narrative 9(2):115-122, 2001; Poet Today 31(3):507-659, 2010) and this ignorance-based narrativity makes the reader feelthat is, embodiesthe philosophical ideas praised in Marias's oeuvre: ignorance, doubt, hypothesis, truth, fact, knowledge, bias, untrustworthiness, and evil. The Infatuations does have a thin plot but it uses narrative gapping techniques, digression eminently included, to give philosophy a feel and to become a kind of philosophical crime fiction. Marias is therefore more philosophical than he might be willing to concede, though by way of (fictional) narrative. The essay intends to draw Marias experts to the relevance of Sternberg's narratological framework and to show how Marias's oeuvre throws light on narrativity