Propriedades de tranporte, caos e dissipação num sistema dinâmico não linear

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Export commodity price projections: a study of autoregressive-moving average projections methods: preliminary version

Includes bibliography

Estudo do papel de eIF5A na síntese proteica

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

Utilização de técnicas multivariadas na avaliação da divergência genética de populações de girassol (Helianthus annuus L.)

Pós-graduação em Agronomia (Energia na Agricultura) - FCA

Comunidade de insetos bentônicos em igarapés do nordeste paraense - Amazônia Oriental

O objetivo deste trabalho foi o de conhecer a comunidade de insetos bentônicos em 17 igarapés do Nordeste Paraense, Amazônia Oriental, sob diferentes usos do solo e investigar as variações na abundância, riqueza e diversidade da comunidade de insetos aquáticos com a cobertura vegetal do seu entorno imediato (zona ripária) e de paisagem (vertentes das microbacias onde se insere o igarapé amostrado). Os macroinvertebrados bentônicos foram coletados entre julho e outubro de 2010, época de menor precipitação. Em cada ponto foram feitas 10 amostragens com Surber para análise quantitativa e três com rede de mão de caráter apenas qualitativo. Para avaliar diferenças entre a riqueza, índice EPT, abundância e a diversidade, foram utilizadas análises de variância e de agrupamento para sumarizar os dados bióticos. Para avaliar as diferenças quanto às escalas de estudo foi empregada a análise ANOSIM seguida da rotina SIMPER. As características ambientais foram avaliadas buscando-se correlacioná-las à composição taxonômica e à distribuição dos táxons através da Análise de Correspondência Canônica (ACC). Um total de 46.371 indivíduos foi coletado, sendo 11.384 com o Surber, distribuídos em 61 táxons com predomínio de insetos aquáticos. As maiores abundâncias observadas foram de Chironomidae, Ephemeroptera, Trichoptera e Coleoptera. Abundância, riqueza e EPT foram maiores nos trechos de igarapés com vegetação ripária de floresta antropizada de igapó e microbacias com predomínio de Floresta. As variáveis ambientais de maior influência sobre a comunidade foram porcentagem de ambiente florestal na zona ripária, temperatura média da água, turbidez, porcentagem de liteira grossa e fina, pH, vazão do canal e coeficiente de variação da largura do canal. Os resultados mostraram diferenças quanto à composição da comunidade em relação aos diferentes usos do solo. Através dos descritores ecológicos, foi detectado que as microbacias com maior percentagem de área de floresta antropizada e sucessional e maior percentagem de vegetação ripária de entorno (30m) apresentaram melhores condições ambientais que aqueles onde predominam as pastagens.

Genome-wide association study for feedlot average daily gain in Nellore cattle (Bos indicus)

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

Inbreeding, Average Relatedness Coefficient and Effective Population Size In Jaffarabadi Buffaloes Raised In Brazil

The major aim of this study was to evaluate the inbreeding (F), average relatedness coefficient (AR) and effective population size (Ne) in the Jaffarabadi buffalo breed from Brazil. Pedigree information of 1,272 animals born from 1966 was used. The effective population size was calculated in two ways: first, computed via individual increase in inbreeding and second estimated by individual increase in coancestry. The known generation numbers were 1.24, 1.76 and 2.64 for complete, equivalent and maximum generation, respectively. The effective size computed via individual increase in coancestry was small with a value of 10.82 +/- 1.29. The effective size computed by individual increase in inbreeding (10.40 +/- 3.69) was very similar but a little smaller than the previous reported value. The average values of F and AR for the population reference (1,059) were 4.22 and 12.5 percent. The mean of F for inbred animals (319) was 14.0%. The F and AR means were 5.7 and 13.3% for animals with at least 1.5 known equivalent generation and 9.3 and 15.97% for individuals having at least 2.5 equivalent generations known. It was found 78 matings between half sibs (6.14%) and 67 matings (5.27%) between parent-offspring. The estimated inbreeding increase per generation by considering maximum generation, complete generation and equivalent generation were 1.21%, 5.18% and 3.57%, respectively. Considering the uncompleted pedigree, the estimated inbreeding for the reference population could be underestimated.

Estimating the average length of hospitalization due to pneumonia: a fuzzy approach

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

Correlates of above-average cognitive performance among older adults: the SABE study

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

Lifespan and reproductive dynamics of the commercially important sea bob shrimp Xiphopenaeus kroyeri (Penaeoidea): synthesis of a 5-year study

Population parameters of the shrimp Xiphopenaeus kroyeri (Heller, 1862) (sex ratio, length-frequency distributions (carapace length, CL), growth, lifespan, size of sexual maturity, spawning and recruitment) were analyzed in a long-term study from January 1998 through June 2003. The data on these parameters were collected and analyzed to test the hypothesis that the main period of juvenile recruitment in the bay coincides with the period of fishery closures currently designated by the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources. Monthly collections were conducted along the southeastern Brazilian coast, using a shrimp fishing boat with “double-rig” nets sampling at stations up to 40 m depth. Sex ratios were female-biased only in zones with high reproductive activity such as in stations deeper than 15 m (χ2 test, p<0.05). The mean size of males and females was 15.3 ± 3.1 mm CL and 16.2 ± 4.7 mm CL, respectively, with size at sexual maturity estimates (CL50) of 14.8 mm for males and 15.5 mm for females. Mean growth curves provided estimates of CL∞ = 29.31 mm, k = 0.009/day, t0=−0.25 and CL∞ = 35.33 mm, k = 0.006/day, t0=−0.23 for males and females, respectively, and average lifespans of 1.35 for males and 2.12 years for females. Recruitment and abundances of reproductive females were highly correlated with the environmental factors such as higher water temperature and finer-grained bottom sediment (canonical correlation, r=0.63, p<0.001). The reproductive peaks in February-April 1998, March-May 1999 and February-May 2002 were followed by recruitment peaks in May-July 1998, July-September 1999 and April-June 2002, respectively. Thus, the proposed period of fisheries closure (March to May) does not coincide with the main recruitment periods observed for X. kroyeri.

Prediction of genomic-enabled breeding values and genome-wide association study for feedlot average daily weight gain in Nelore cattle

Pós-graduação em Genética e Melhoramento Animal - FCAV

Lifespan and reproductive dynamics of the commercially important sea bob shrimp xiphopenaeus kroyeri (penaeoidea): synthesis of a 5-year study

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

Wide localized solutions of the parity-time-symmetric nonautonomous nonlinear Schrodinger equation

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Evaluation of canonical siRNA and dicer substrate RNA for inhibition of hepatitis C virus genome replication: a comparative study

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