水库建设选址方案的决策分析

水库建设方案的评价,涉及投入和效益两方面。投入包括资金和工期等,称为“输入”:效益包括工农业用水增加、防洪能力强增等。称为“输出”。分析这种多输入,多输出的系统,应用数据包络分析方法是非常有效的。

Avaliação de eficiência por Análise de Envoltória de Dados: conceitos, aplicações à agricultura e integração com Sistemas de Informação Geográfica.

O trabalho faz uma breve descrição sobre os modelos DEA clássicos, bem como uma revisão do estado da arte de sua aplicação à agricultura. Além disso, é apresentada uma curta discussão sobre a possibilidade de integração dos resultados de DEA aos Sistemas de Informação Geográfica, como forma de apoio ao entendimento do problema.

Recursos fitogeneticos de milho, sorgo e milheto.

Colecao ativa de germoplasma - antecedentes e atualidade; Atividades de recursos fitogeneticos; Colecao nucleo de milho.

Maturação fisiológica de milho doce e sua relação com a qualidade das sementes.

O conhecimento do ponto de maturidade fisiológica é de fundamental importância para orientação dos produtores na obtenção de sementes de alta qualidade. Esta é uma informação essencial para nortear o planejamento das operações de colheita, secagem e processamento das sementes. É sabido que a maturidade fisiológica da semente é específica da cultivar e pode ser determinada por diversos parâmetros, tais como: número de dias da emergência até as espigas tornarem-se amarronzadas; soma térmica; matéria seca; teor de água dos grãos; formação da camada negra; desaparecimento da linha de leite nas sementes. Para os milhos normais, esta característica é bem conhecida. Já para o milho doce as informações são escassas e, de uma maneira geral, não têm atendido aos anseios dos produtores. O programa de melhoramento genético do milho da Embrapa Milho e Sorgo mantém ações para a obtenção de cultivares de milho superiores com ampla adaptação e melhoria na qualidade dos grãos. As sementes de milho doce apresentam maiores problemas relacionados à qualidade quando comparadas com as dos milhos normais. Isto é refletido, na média, para o nível de germinação das sementes, que fica em torno de 20% abaixo da germinação das sementes do milho comum. O que se propôs com este trabalho foi estudar a maturação fisiológica de sementes de cultivares de milho doce desenvolvidos pela Embrapa Milho e Sorgo e estabelecer parâmetros que possam auxiliar sua colheita, secagem e processamento, com o objetivo de se obter sementes de alta qualidade.

Coleção núcleo de milheto da Embrapa Milho e Sorgo.

O presente trabalho teve por objetivo organizar a Coleção Núcleo de Milheto da Embrapa Milho e Sorgo.

Programa bancos comunitários de sementes de adubos verdes em Minas Gerais.

2008

Acreditação de ensaios do Laboratório de Análise de Sementes da Embrapa Milho e Sorgo pela ISO/IEC 17025:2005 e obtenção do Renasem.

2009

Coleção de base e coleção ativa: o banco de germoplasma de sorgo.

2010

Efeitos das políticas públicas sobre a produção de borracha natural em São Paulo e Mato Grosso.

2005

Branqueamento Dentário

Projeto de Pós-Graduação/Dissertação apresentado à Universidade Fernando Pessoa como parte dos requisitos para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Medicina Dentária

Ocean-atmosphere trace gas exchange

The oceans contribute significantly to the global emissions of a number of atmospherically important volatile gases, notably those containing sulfur, nitrogen and halogens. Such gases play critical roles not only in global biogeochemical cycling but also in a wide range of atmospheric processes including marine aerosol formation and modification, tropospheric ozone formation and destruction, photooxidant cycling and stratospheric ozone loss. A number of marine emissions are greenhouse gases, others influence the Earth's radiative budget indirectly through aerosol formation and/or by modifying oxidant levels and thus changing the atmospheric lifetime of gases such as methane. In this article we review current literature concerning the physical, chemical and biological controls on the sea-air emissions of a wide range of gases including dimethyl sulphide (DMS), halocarbons, nitrogen-containing gases including ammonia (NH3), amines (including dimethylamine, DMA, and diethylamine, DEA), alkyl nitrates (RONO2) and nitrous oxide (N2O), non-methane hydrocarbons (NMHC) including isoprene and oxygenated (O)VOCs, methane (CH4) and carbon monoxide (CO). Where possible we review the current global emission budgets of these gases as well as known mechanisms for their formation and loss in the surface ocean.

Low-energy electron attachment to chloroform (CHCl3) molecules: A joint experimental and theoretical study

Results from a joint experimental and theoretical study of electron attachment to chloroform (CHCl3) molecules in the gas phase are reported. In an electron swarm study involving a pulsed Townsend technique with equal gas and electron temperatures, accurate attachment rate coefficients were determined over the temperature range 295-373 K; they show an Arrhenius-type rise with increasing temperature, corresponding to an activation energy of 0.11 (1) eV. In a high resolution electron beam experiment involving two versions of the laser photoelectron attachment method, the relative cross section for Cl- formation from CHCl3 over the energy range 0.001-1.25 eV at the gas temperature T-G = 300 K was measured. It exhibits clear downward cusp structure at the threshold for excitation of one quantum of the vibrational symmetric deformation mode nu(3), indicating that this mode is active in the primary attachment process. With reference to our thermal attachment rate coefficient k(T = 300 K) = 3.9(2) x 10(-9) cm(3) s(-1), a new highly resolved absolute attachment cross section for T-G = 300 K was determined. This cross section is extended to higher energies by measurements, carried out with a pulsed electron beam apparatus which also provided new data for the distinctly weaker fragment anions HCl2- and CCl2-. The resulting total absolute cross section for anion formation is used to calculate the dependence of the attachment rate coefficient k(T-e;T-G) on electron temperature T-e over the range 50-15000 K at the fixed gas temperature T-G = 300 K. In addition, we report the dependence of the relative cross section for Cl- formation on gas temperature T-G = 310-435 K). For comparison with the experimental data, R-matrix calculations have been carried out for the dominant anion channel Cl-. The results recover the main experimental observations and predict the dependence of the DEA cross section on the initial vibrational level nu(3) and on the vibrational temperature. Our results are compared with those of previous electron beam and electron swarm experiments.

Irish Credit Unions: Investigating performance determinants and the opportunity cost of regulatory compliance

The study investigates how producer-specific environmental factors influence the performance of Irish credit unions. The empirical analysis uses a two-stage approach. The first stage measures efficiency by a data envelopment analysis (DEA) estimator, which explicitly incorporates the production of undesirable outputs such as bad loans in the modelling, and the second stage uses truncated regression to infer how various factors influence the (bias-corrected) estimated efficiency. A key finding of the analysis is that 68% of Irish credit unions do not incur an extra opportunity cost in meeting regulatory guidance on bad debt.

Low-Energy Electron Attachment to the Dichlorodifluoromethane (CCl2F2) Molecule

Results from a joint experimental study of electron attachment to dichlorodifluoromethane (CCl2F2) molecules in the gas phase are reported. In a high resolution electron beam experiment involving two versions of the laser photoelectron attachment method, the relative cross section for formation of the dominant anion Cl- wits measured over the energy range 0.001-1.8 eV at the gas temperature T-G = 300 K. It exhibits cusp structure at thresholds for vibrational excitation of the v(3)(a(1)) mode due to interaction with the attachment channels. With reference to the thermal attachment rate coefficient k(T-e;T-G = 300 K) = 2.2(8) x 10(-9) cm(-3) s(-1) (fitted average from several data), a new highly resolved absolute attachment cross section for TG = 300 K was determined. Partial cross sections for formation of the anions Cl-, Cl-2(-), F-, ClF-, and CCl2F- were measured over the range 0-12 eV, using three different electron beam experiments of medium energy resolution. The dependence of the attachment rate coefficient k(T-e;T-G = 300 K) on electron temperature T-e wits calculated over the range 50-15 000 K, based on a newly constructed total cross section for anion formation at T-G = 300 K. R-matrix Calculations for Cl- production have been carried out for comparison with the experimental data. The R-matrix results are in line with the main experimental observations and predict the dependence of the DEA cross section on the initial vibrational level v(3) and on the vibrational temperature. Furthermore, the cross section for I Vibrational excitation of the v(3) mode hits been computed.

Chemical control through dissociative electron attachment - A study on pentafluorotoluene, pentafluoroaniline and pentafluorophenol

In a combined experimental and theoretical study on dissociative electron attachment (DEA) to pentafluorotoluene, pentafluoroaniline and pentafluorophenol in the energy range 0-3 eV we reveal the role of rearrangement and hydrogen bonded intermediates in the DEA process and show that HF formation can be used to enable otherwise inaccessible, efficient low energy DEA processes.