Resistência à fadiga de infraestruturas de zircônia: influência da estratégia de cimentação

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Avaliação in vitro do tempo de fotopolimerização com led de alta potência de bráquetes ortodônticos e remoção de adesivo remanescente sob luz ultravioleta

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Geologia do depósito de ouro de C1-Santaluz no greenstone belt do rio Itapicuru, Brasil

Pós-graduação em Geociências e Meio Ambiente - IGCE

Caracterização morfológica e cristalográfica da zircônia após desgaste com pedra diamantada e elaboração de um protocolo para tratamento térmico regenerativo

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Citotoxicidade do ácido peracético: avaliação metabólica, estrutural e de morte em fibroblastos L929

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Efeitos de lasers de alta potência na superfície de cerâmicas vítreas de dissilicato de lítio e sua resistência de união à dentina humana

Pós-graduação em Odontologia Restauradora - ICT

Sharpening of periodontal instruments with different sharpening stones and its influence upon root debridement--scanning electronic microscopy assessment

The objective of this study was to evaluate, through scanning electronic microscopy, the effect of sharpening with different sharpening stones on the cutting angle of periodontal curettes (Gracey 5-6), and the influence on root surfaces after debridement and planing. The experimental model consisted of two different phases. In the first, the cutting angles of fifteen stainless steel Gracey 5-6 curettes were analyzed under a scanning electronic microscope after being sharpened with different types of stones. In the second phase, the root surfaces of 25 newly extracted teeth were evaluated with a scanning electronic microscope after being debrided with curettes sharpened with different stones. Analysis of the results showed that the synthetic stones (aluminum oxide and carborundum) are more abrasive and produce more irregular cutting angles, whereas Arkansas stones are less abrasive and produce smoother and more defined cutting angles. There was no significant statistical differences among the five groups tested with regard to the degree of irregularity of the root surfaces after instrumentation.

Graphene sheet versus two-dimensional electron gas: A relativistic Fano spin filter via STM and AFM tips

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

A combined experimental and theoretical study on the formation of ag filaments on beta-Ag2MoO4 induced by electron irradiation

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Estudo fitossanitário, multiplicação e taxonomia de nematoides encontrados em sementes de gramíneas forrageiras no Brasil

Pathogens in seeds imply quarantine constraints for exportation. This research aimed to quantify nematodes and fungus populations in seed samples of forage grasses from the main Brazilian producing states, and to multiply the nematodes in vitro, as well to study the taxonomy of the nematodes detected. Seed samples of 237 lots of different forage grasses from São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso, Bahia, and Goias States were collected and shipped for analyses in the Nematology and Plant Pathology Laboratories at FCAV[long dash]UNESP [long dash] Jaboticabal( SP) by Comercio e Industria Matsuda Imp., Exp. Ltd. Nematodes were extracted from 10 g of seeds. To detect the fungus, the Blotter-test was applied. The identifications were done by using a photonic microscope and a stereomicroscope. For the study of in vitro multiplication of the nematodes, the following parthenogenetic species were selected: Aphelenchoides sexlineatus, Aphelenchus sp. and Ditylenchus montanus. Cultures of the fungi Fusarium sp. and Didymella brioniae were used as substrate to multiply the nematodes in Petri dishes. Each plate was inoculated with 10 mature females, then incubated in B.O.D. at 25 [plus or minus]1 [degree]C, in the dark. Thirty days after inoculation, the nematodes were extracted. The populations obtained in the suspensions were estimated in the microscope using Peters counting chamber, and the reproduction factor estimated. For the taxonomic study of the nematodes, morphological characters of specimens were recorded under the light and scanning electron microscopes. The results indicated a large distribution of nematodes and fungus in seeds of forage grasses in Brazil. The nematodes identified in the present study were: Aphelenchoides besseyi, A. bicaudatus, A. fragariae, A. sexlineatus, Ditylenchus myceliophagus, D. dipsaci, D. montanus, and Aphelenchus sp. In addition, species of the fungi Fusarium, Helminthosporium and Phoma were recovered.

Mechanism of infection and colonization of Rhipicephalus sanguineus eggs by Mertarhizium anisopliae as revealed by scanning eletron microscopy and histopathology

O presente trabalho teve como objetivo verificar a forma de penetração do fungo Metarhizium anisopliae em ovos do carrapato Rhipicephalus sanguineus, assim como as lesões infringidas no interior do ovo. A aderência e penetração do fungo foram estudadas por meio da microscopia eletrônica de varredura e a ação do fungo nos tecidos internos avaliada em secções histológicas convencionais. Para observação destes eventos, realizaram-se infecções experimentais em 11 grupos de ovos do R. sanguineus contendo 25 mg cada. Os ovos foram banhados durante 3 minutos, sob agitação manual, em suspensão com concentração de 10(8) conídios/mL. Nos grupos controle o banho foi realizado apenas no veículo da suspensão. Os ovos foram processados para análise histopatológica e microscopia eletrônica de varredura nos seguintes tempos após a infecção: 1 e 18h, e um, dois, três, quatro, cinco, seis, sete, nove e onze dias. Observou-se grande germinação de conídios em 67% dos ovos 18h após a inoculação e o fungo penetrou em 92,6% dos ovos 5 dias após a infecção. A extrusão do patógeno ocorreu em 87% dos ovos 7 dias após a infecção, chegando a 100% no 9º dia. Nas análises histopatológicas não foram observadas lesões dignas de nota, porem deve-se ressaltar que houve significativa redução (53,9%) na eclosão a partir dos ovos infectados.

Effects of Etching on Zircon Grains and Its Implications for the Fission Track Method

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Micro-Raman spectroscopy and SEM/EDX applied to improve the zircon fission track method used for dating geological formations

The zircon mineral is widely studied in geochronology. In the case of the fission track method (FTM), the age is determined by the density of fission tracks at the zircon surface, which can be observed with an optical microscope after an appropriate chemical treatment (etching). The etching must be isotropic at the zircon grain surface to be used in the FTM, which leads those zircon grains whose etching is anisotropic to be discarded. The only reason for this discarding is the nonuniform morphology of the surface grain seen by optical microscopy, that is, no further physicochemical analysis is performed. In this work, combining micro-Raman and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to study the etching anisotropy, it was shown that zircon grains that present at least one area at the surface where the density of fission track is uniform can be used in the FTM. The micro-Raman showed characteristic spectra of the standard zircon sample either from the areas where there are tracks or from where there are not. The only difference found was in the Raman bandwidths, which were broader for the areas with higher density of fission tracks. This suggests simply a decrease in the relative percentage of the crystalline/amorphous phases at these areas. The SEM/energy dispersive spectrometry (EDX) showed that there were no significant differences in the principal chemical composition at the areas with and without fission tracks. Copyright (c) 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Fibroblast functionality on novel Ti-30Ta nanotube array

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Surface Corrosion of Ti-16Si-4B Powder Alloy Implanted With Nitrogen by Plasma-Based Technique

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