Diversity of vascular plants growing on walls of a Brazilian city

City walls are very specialized environments, conditioned by human activities. There is little information about plants that invade human-made habitats, and no study done in Brazil with plants growing up on walls. The aim of the present study was to survey the wall vascular flora of a Brazilian city, comparing the diversity found in its downtown and neighborhoods. Fieldwork was done in Jundiaí, São Paulo State, where data was collected in downtown and in five neighborhoods. In each place, three transects of 1 km were established and every plant individual was registered. Twenty-eight species were identified, all of them on the downtown transect and most also on the neighborhood transects. Five species were the most frequent, although none were dominant. The diversity indicies of the six transects were not significantly different, with an overall diversity of H′ = 2.93. © Springer Science + Business Media, Inc. 2006.

Tratamento de toletes de cana-de-açúcar para o controle da podridão-abacaxi em pulverização conjugada ao plantio mecanizado

No plantio mecanizado da cana-de-açúcar, há dificuldades em se proteger a cultura contra pragas e doenças do solo, requerendo uma tecnologia de aplicação de produtos fitossanitários que respeite o ambiente e os custos de produção. O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar um sistema de pulverização para controle de doenças e pragas do solo, conjugado ao equipamento de plantio mecanizado de toletes de cana-de-açúcar, tomando como alvo-indicador a podridão-abacaxi. Delineou-se o experimento em blocos ao acaso, em área de plantio comercial da variedade SP-891115. A pulverização deu-se na região da calha do equipamento de plantio, por onde os toletes deslizam até o solo. Avaliaram-se o número de perfilhos brotados e a produção da cultura. Os resultados foram comparados pelo número e percentagem de perfilhos e pelo acréscimo na produção em relação à testemunha não-tratada. Com base nos resultados observados, concluiu-se que o sistema de pulverização de produtos fitossanitários conjugado ao plantio mecanizado proporcionou a recuperação da produtividade na cultura da cana-de-açúcar de até 15%, na maior dose utilizada para o controle da podridão-abacaxi, demonstrando ser promissor para o tratamento de toletes e visando à proteção contra doenças e pragas de solo.

STICHOSIPHON-MANGLE SP-NOVA, A NEW CYANOPHYTE FROM MANGROVE ENVIRONMENTS

A new species of epiphytic Cyanophyceae, Stichosiphon mangle, is proposed. It differs from S. sansibaricus in the planes of cell division during exocyte formation and the habitat. Stichosiphon mangle was found on Inhaca Island, Mozambique (26-degrees-03'S, 32-degrees-57'E), growing up on Gelidium sp. and Murrayella sp. and on Cardoso Island, Brazil (25-degrees-10'S, 48-degrees-W, on Bostrychia spp.

Antropometria das extremidades dos membros inferiores de obesos: parâmetros para o desing ergonômico de calçados

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Previsão dos custos de produção por intermédio de séries temporais

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Criptografia e curvas elípticas

Pós-graduação em Matemática Universitária - IGCE

Aspectos psicológicos do adolescer com HIV/Aids: estudo de caso

Pós-graduação em Psicologia - FCLAS

Necessidade de vigilância epidemiológica para Leishmania infantum (syn. Leishmania chagasi) e Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis em flebotomíneos e gatos errantes no Bosque Municipal de Marília-SP

Pós-graduação em Medicina Veterinária - FMVZ

Tempo de decomposição de palha e contribuição na nutrição da cana-de- açúcar em função da aplicação de vinhaça e gesso

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

A avaliação formativa como aporte ao ensino da competência informacionali

The worry to assess the information Literacy is growing up on literature, which points out the need to verify the effectiveness of information literacy programs. In Brazil, the movement to de actions to assess is turn to the diagnostic line. There are few specific initiatives to assess the development of the programs, called formative assessment. Researchers of the area of education defend assess like a social practical that requires rigor and methods and confirmed that this can‟t be considered just like a measure. Before these aspects, approach to methods and tools for formative assessment of information literacy, the way in the instruments don‟t to be seeing like principal pieces in assess, but like auxiliary tools for the measurement of results and principal as school guiding that are useful for learning.

Utilização da cinza de folha de cana-de-açúcar como material pozolânico em matrizes cimentantes

Pós-graduação em Engenharia Civil - FEIS

Effect of liming on the mineral nutrition and yield of growing guava trees in a typic hapludox soil

High soil acidity influences the availability of mineral nutrients and increases that of toxic aluminium (Al), which has a jeopardizing effect on plant growth. The objective of this research was to evaluate the effects of soil liming on the development of guava (Psidium guajava L.) plants, on soil chemical characteristics, and on fruit yield. The experiment was carried out at the Bebedouro Citrus Experimental Station, state of São Paulo, Brazil, in a Typic Hapludox soil, from August 1999 to March 2003. The treatments consisted of limestone dose: D0 = zero; D1 = half dose; D2 = total dose; D3 = 1.5 times the dose, and D4 = 2 times the dose to raise the V value to 70%. The doses corresponded to zero, 1.85, 3.71, 5.56, and 7.41tha(-1) applied to the upper soil layer (0-30cm deep) before planting. The results showed that liming caused an improvement in the evaluated soil chemical characteristics up to a depth of 60cm in soil samples both in the line and between lines. The highest fruit yields were obtained when the base saturation reached a value of 55% in the line and 62% between the lines. Foliar levels of calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg) were 8.8 and 2.5gkg-1, respectively. The highest limestone dose maintained the soil base saturation (at the layer of 0-20cm) in the line close to 55% during at least 40 months after the incorporation of limestone.

Productive consequences of fasting neonatal chicks of different genetic constitutions for growing

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

Growth of Dendrobium nobile Lindl. as related with nutrient concentration in the growing media

Dendrobium nobile orchids were grown for three years in different substrates (tree fern fiber, blocks of pressed coconut bark, bark of Eucalyptus grandis, mixtures with coconut bark blocks and eucalyptus bark and mixtures with the latter materials and charcoal. Plant growth increased with higher concentrations of S (up to 1.6 g/kg), Cu (up to 46 mg/kg) and Zn (up to 147 mg/kg), and decreased with higher concentrations of Ca (up to 13.2 g/kg), Mg (up to 6.6 g/kg) and B (up to 19 mg/kg). High Mo (up to 5.3 mg/kg) caused a more intense loss of leaves after planting. Relations between nutrient concentrations also affected plant growth. With exception of eucalyptus bark, all growing media under study were suitable for plant growth.

Passion fruit seed meal at growing and finishing pig (30-90 kg) feeding

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