Characteristics of cured lard of Cinta Senese pig fed acorn and chestnut

Cured lard is a typical Tuscan dry-cured product, generally obtained from pigs of improved breeds intensively reared. The employment of extensive system in pig rearing could represent a concrete possibility to increase the added value of lard, as well as of the other cured products. Moreover, the general belief of a greater quality of products derived from unimproved pigs, particularly when reared outdoors, has been experimentally supported particularly in Iberian (Carrapiso et al., 2003; Cava et al., 2000) and Corsican pig (Coutron-Gambotti et al., 1998)

Avaliação de atributos físico-químicos e sensoriais de sucos de uva elaborados com nove cultivares de uva.

XV Congresso Latino-Americano de Viticultura e Enologia E XIII Congresso Brasileiro de Viticultura e Enologia. Bento Gonçalves-RS, 3 a 7 de Novembro de 2015

Cultivo protegido das uvas de mesa sem sementes "BRS Vitória" e "BRS Isis" na região da Serra Gaúcha.

A fruticultura brasileira é responsável por 16% dos empregos gerados pelo agronegócio nacional, sendo que, em média, são geradas duas novas vagas a cada hectare cultivado com frutas (ANUÁRIO..., 2018). Quando se considera o volume total produzido, independente da finalidade, a uva está incluída entre os seis produtos responsáveis por cerca de 70% do valor bruto da produção brasileira de frutas (ANUÁRIO..., 2018). No Brasil, a viticultura é praticada em uma grande extensão norte-sul, de cerca de 78.000 ha, incluindo regiões de clima temperado, subtropical e tropical. São exploradas cultivares que pertencem à espécie Vitis vinifera, híbridos de V. labrusca, além de híbridos complexos. Metade do volume total de uvas produzido no país é destinada para o consumo in natura, sendo originada principalmente em regiões de clima subtropical e tropical, nos estados de Pernambuco, da Bahia, de São Paulo, Paraná e de Minas Gerais, enquanto o segmento de uvas para processamento está concentrado na região Sul do país (MAIA et al., 2018).bitstream/item/202699/1/Circ-Tec143.pd

A novel free-electron laser single-pulse Wollaston polarimeter for magneto-dynamical studies

Here, we report on the conceptual design, the hardware realization, and the first experimental results of a novel and compact x-ray polarimeter capable of a single-pulse linear polarization angle detection in the extreme ultraviolet photon energy range. The polarimeter is tested by performing time resolved pump-probe experiments on a Ni80Fe20 Permalloy film at the M-2,M-3 Ni edge at an externally seeded free-electron laser source. Comparison with similar experiments reported in the literature shows the advantages of our approach also in view of future experiments

Graphene Nanoreactors: Photoreduction of Prussian Blue in Aqueous Solution

Prussian dyes are characterized by interesting photomagnetic properties due to the photoinduced electron transfer involved in the Fe oxidation and spin state changes. Ferromagnetic Prussian blue (PB) in contact with titanium dioxide (TiO2) can be reduced to paramagnetic Prussian white (PW) upon UV band gap excitation of TiO2. This process is promoted by the presence of a hole scavenger, such as water, fundamental to ensure the overall charge balance and the continuity of the process. In order to clarify the photoinduced reduction mechanism and the role of water, an innovative system of graphene nanobubbles (GNBs) filled with a PB aqueous solution was developed, enabling the application of electron spectroscopies to the liquid phase, up to now limited by the vacuum required to overcome the short electron inelastic mean free path in dense medium. In this work GNBs formed on the photocatalytic substrate are able to act as "nanoreactors", and they can control and take part in the reaction. The evolution of Fe L2,3 edge X-ray absorption spectra measured in total electron yield through the graphene membrane revealed the electron reduction from PB (FeIII-CN-FeII) to PW (FeII-CN-FeII) upon UV irradiation, shedding light on the photoinduced electron transfer mechanism in liquid phase. The results, confirmed also by Raman spectroscopy, unequivocally demonstrate that the reaction occurs preferentially in aqueous solution, where water acts as hole scavenger. © 2017 American Chemical Society

Condensed Matter Theory of Dipolar Quantum Gases

Recent experimental breakthroughs in trapping, cooling and controlling ultracold gases of polar molecules, magnetic and Rydberg atoms have paved the way toward the investigation of highly tunable quantum systems, where anisotropic, long-range dipolar interactions play a prominent role at the many-body level. In this article we review recent theoretical studies concerning the physics of such systems. Starting from a general discussion on interaction design techniques and microscopic Hamiltonians, we provide a summary of recent work focused on many-body properties of dipolar systems, including: weakly interacting Bose gases, weakly interacting Fermi gases, multilayer systems, strongly interacting dipolar gases and dipolar gases in 1D and quasi-1D geometries. Within each of these topics, purely dipolar effects and connections with experimental realizations are emphasized.Comment: Review article; submitted 09/06/2011. 158 pages, 52 figures. This document is the unedited author's version of a Submitted Work that was subsequently accepted for publication in Chemical Reviews, copyright American Chemical Society after peer review. To access the final edited and published work, a link will be provided soo

Fatal cytokine release syndrome by an aberrant FLIP/STAT3 axis

Inflammatory responses rapidly detect pathogen invasion and mount a regulated reaction. However, dysregulated anti-pathogen immune responses can provoke life-threatening inflammatory pathologies collectively known as cytokine release syndrome (CRS), exemplified by key clinical phenotypes unearthed during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The underlying pathophysiology of CRS remains elusive. We found that FLIP, a protein that controls caspase-8 death pathways, was highly expressed in myeloid cells of COVID-19 lungs. FLIP controlled CRS by fueling a STAT3-dependent inflammatory program. Indeed, constitutive expression of a viral FLIP homolog in myeloid cells triggered a STAT3-linked, progressive, and fatal inflammatory syndrome in mice, characterized by elevated cytokine output, lymphopenia, lung injury, and multiple organ dysfunctions that mimicked human CRS. As STAT3-targeting approaches relieved inflammation, immune disorders, and organ failures in these mice, targeted intervention towards this pathway could suppress the lethal CRS inflammatory state

High-spin structure of 37Cl, intruder excitations, and the sd-fp shell gap

The structure of the N=20 nucleus Cl37 has been investigated in the Mg24(O16,3p) reaction with a 70 MeV O16 beam. A complex level scheme extended up to an excitation energy of 17 MeV and spins (29/2+) and (27/2−) on positive and negative parity, respectively, has been established. Lifetimes for the new states have been investigated by the Doppler shift attenuation method. Large-scale shell-model calculations have been performed in a valence space involving orbitals in the sd and fp shells using the sdfp and SDPF-M effective interactions. The comparison with the experimental data indicates the need for slight changes of the sd−fp energy gaps produced by these interactions.European Community FP6—Integrated Infrastructure Initiative—Romanian National Authority for Scientific ResearchINFNCNP