Efeito de diferentes coberturas na produção do tomateiro na época das águas no Acre.

A produção de tomate (Lycopersicum esculentum) tem grande importância econômica para o Estado do Acre, onde o produto consumido é importado em quase sua totalidade. A época de maior déficit do produto ofertado no mercado de Rio Branco, abrange os meses de fevereiro a abril, com 24,83°, 81,09% e 97,30%, respectivamente (CEPA, 1980), alcançando preços elevadíssimos e proibitivos à maioria da população acreana. A expansão da cultura, principalmente no período chuvoso (outubro a abril), limita-se a dois problemas básicos: ocorrência da murcha bacteriana e condições climáticas adversas. Nesta época a temperatura e umidade relativa elevam-se a ponto de criar um ambiente propício ao ataque de doenças e pragas, impossibilitando o desenvolvimento normal da cultura. O uso da enxertia do tomate na jurubeba (Solanun toxicarum) e o cultivo sob cobertura, são técnicas de produção eficientes e econômicas para as regioés, onde a murcha bacteriana e o excesso de chuva são fatores limitantes para a cultura. Entretanto, torna-se necessário gerar tecnologia que garanta aos olericultores acreanos condições de produção de tomate na época das águas, minimizando assim as importações.bitstream/item/117362/1/1100.pd

Campo de observação da cultura da cebola (Allium cepa L.) no Acre.

O cultivo da cebola representa uma necessidade para o Acre, uma vez que o Estado se abastece com o produto importado, sendo ofertado a preço elevados ao consumidor. Além da importação, as quantidades recebidas são inferiores à demanda, havendo sempre um déficit no mercado. Em busca de uma solução, a Embrapa, através da UEPAE/Rio Branco, desenvolve trabalhos de introdução de cultivares da cebola, melhoradas pelo Instituto de Pesquisas Agronômicas de Pernambuco (IPA). Ele tem o objetivo principal de verificar a viabilidade técnica de produzir cebola no Acre. Entre as cultivares testadas (IPA-1, IPA-2, IPA-3, IPA-4 e IPA-5), observaram-se diferenças de produção nas distintas épocas de plantio.bitstream/item/165669/1/1059.pd

Genesis and classification of Nitisols from volcano-sedimentary lithology in northeastern Brazil.

On the southern coast of Pernambuco State (PE), Brazil, lithotypes of the Cabo Basin (volcanic and sedimentary rocks), in association with the relief, allow the determination of the dynamics of the formation of Nitossolos Háplicos (Nitisols), including those with high levels of exchangeable aluminum. The objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of lithological diversity (basalt and sedimentary siliciclastic rocks) on the morphological, physical, chemical, and mineralogical properties of Nitossolos Háplicos along a slope (P1-summit, P2-backslope, P3-footslope) on the southern coast of PE, in order to consider its genesis and the relation of soil properties to adjacent environments and to evaluate its framing within the Brazilian Soil Classification System (SiBCS). The interaction of lithology/soil permeability and climate indicate significant differences in the mineralogical composition and dynamics of soil chemical elements. The profiles P1 and P2 are subject to monosialitization, ferralitization, and alitization processes. All profiles showed high Fe contents (ferric soils) and clay fractions, consisting primarily of kaolinite, goethite, hematite, and gibbsite, as well as quartz and feldspar in the sand and silt fractions. However, smectite minerals (P3) are probably inherited from the sedimentary source material. In the conglomerate samples, under P3, biotite, muscovite, and plagioclase were identified. Allytic characteristics (P3) are probably associated with the weathering of aluminous smectite minerals. These properties distinguish these soils from adjacent Nitossolos and other Nitossolos in Brazil. For the classification of soils according to SiBCS, considering the high levels of Fe and Al, Nitossolo Háplico distroférrico (P1 and P2) and Nitossolo Háplico alitiférrico (P3) are suggested, and according to the World Reference Base of Soils (WRB), the soils are classified as Ferritic Nitisols

Avaliação genética de características de carcaça utilizando a técnica do ultrassom em bovinos de corte.

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Elaboração participativa de indicadores sócio-culturais em fazendas no Pantanal.

Para construir uma ferramenta para avaliação da sustentabilidade das fazendaspantaneiras, há a necessidade de definir indicadores sócio-culturais apropriados à realidade local. Este trabalho teve como objetivo definir indicadores sociais mínimos para fazendas no Pantanal à partir de levantamentos da literatura, conhecimentos de especialistas locais e questionamentos à moradores e trabalhadores locais. Foram entrevistados 12 peões de seis fazendas do Pantanal a partir da seguinte questão: ?o que significa uma fazenda boa no Pantanal para você??

Scheming in Dimensional Regularization

We consider the most general loop integral that appears in non-relativistic effective field theories with no light particles. The divergences of this integral are in correspondence with simple poles in the space of complex space-time dimensions. Integrals related to the original integral by subtraction of one or more poles in dimensions other than D=4 lead to nonminimal subtraction schemes. Subtraction of all poles in correspondence with ultraviolet divergences of the loop integral leads naturally to a regularization scheme which is precisely equivalent to cutoff regularization. We therefore recover cutoff regularization from dimensional regularization with a nonminimal subtraction scheme. We then discuss the power-counting for non-relativistic effective field theories which arises in these alternative schemes.Comment: 12 pages, additional text in opening section, version to be published in J. Phys.

A ZZ Ceti white dwarf in SDSS J133941.11+484727.5

We present time-resolved spectroscopy and photometry of the cataclysmic variable (CV) SDSSJ133941.11+484727.5 (SDSS1339) which has been discovered in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 4. The orbital period determined from radial velocity studies is 82.524(24)min, close to the observed period minimum. The optical spectrum of SDSS1339 is dominated to 90% by emission from the white dwarf. The spectrum can be successfully reproduced by a three-component model (white dwarf, disc, secondary) with Twd=12500K for a fixed log g=8.0, d=170pc, and a spectral type of the secondary later than M8. The mass transfer rate corresponding to the optical luminosity of the accretion disc is very low,~1.7x10^-13Msun/yr. Optical photometry reveals a coherent variability at 641s with an amplitude of 0.025mag, which we interpret as non-radial pulsations of the white dwarf. In addition, a long-period photometric variation with a period of either 320min or 344min and an amplitude of 0.025mag is detected, which bears no apparent relation with the orbital period of the system. Similar long-period photometric signals have been found in the CVs SDSSJ123813.73-033933.0, SDSSJ204817.85-061044.8, GW Lib and FS Aur, but so far no working model for this behaviour is available.Comment: MNRAS, in press, 8 pages, 10 figures, some figures downgraded to meet the file size constraint of arxiv.or

Isoprene and monoterpene fluxes from central amazonian rainforest inferred from tower-based and airborne measurements, and implications on the atmospheric chemistry and the local carbon budget

We estimated the isoprene and monoterpene source strengths of a pristine tropical forest north of Manaus in the central Amazon Basin using three different micrometeorological flux measurement approaches. During the early dry season campaign of the Cooperative LBA Airborne Regional Experiment (LBA-CLAIRE-2001), a tower-based surface layer gradient (SLG) technique was applied simultaneously with a relaxed eddy accumulation (REA) system. Airborne measurements of vertical profiles within and above the convective boundary layer (CBL) were used to estimate fluxes on a landscape scale by application of the mixed layer gradient (MLG) technique. The mean daytime fluxes of organic carbon measured by REA were 2.1 mg C m^−2 h^−1 for isoprene, 0.20 mg C m^−2 h^−1 for α-pinene, and 0.39 mg C m^−2 h^−1 for the sum of monoterpenes. These values are in reasonable agreement with fluxes determined with the SLG approach, which exhibited a higher scatter, as expected for the complex terrain investigated. The observed VOC fluxes are in good agreement with simulations using a single-column chemistry and climate model (SCM).\ud \ud In contrast, the model-derived mixing ratios of VOCs were by far higher than observed, indicating that chemical processes may not be adequately represented in the model. The observed vertical gradients of isoprene and its primary degradation products methyl vinyl ketone (MVK) and methacrolein (MACR) suggest that the oxidation capacity in the tropical CBL is much higher than previously assumed. A simple chemical kinetics model was used to infer OH radical concentrations from the vertical gradients of (MVK+MACR)/isoprene. The estimated range of OH concentrations during the daytime was 3–8×10^6 molecules cm^−3, i.e., an order of magnitude higher than is estimated for the tropical CBL by current state-of-the-art atmospheric chemistry and transport models. The remarkably high OH concentrations were also supported by results of a simple budget analysis, based on the flux-to-lifetime relationship of isoprene within the CBL. Furthermore, VOC fluxes determined with the airborne MLG approach were only in reasonable agreement with those of the tower-based REA and SLG approaches after correction for chemical decay by OH radicals, applying a best estimate OH concentration of 5.5×10^6 molecules cm^−3. The SCM model calculations support relatively high OH concentration estimates after specifically being constrained by the mixing ratios of chemical constituents observed during the campaign.\ud \ud The relevance of the VOC fluxes for the local carbon budget of the tropical rainforest site during the measurements campaign was assessed by comparison with the concurrent CO2 fluxes, estimated by three different methods (eddy correlation, Lagrangian dispersion, and mass budget approach). Depending on the CO2 flux estimate, 1–6% or more of the carbon gained by net ecosystem productivity appeared to be re-emitted through VOC emissions

Equilibrium random-field Ising critical scattering in the antiferromagnet Fe(0.93)Zn(0.07)F2

It has long been believed that equilibrium random-field Ising model (RFIM) critical scattering studies are not feasible in dilute antiferromagnets close to and below Tc(H) because of severe non-equilibrium effects. The high magnetic concentration Ising antiferromagnet Fe(0.93)Zn(0.07)F2, however, does provide equilibrium behavior. We have employed scaling techniques to extract the universal equilibrium scattering line shape, critical exponents nu = 0.87 +- 0.07 and eta = 0.20 +- 0.05, and amplitude ratios of this RFIM system.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure, minor revision