Desenvolvimento da cochonilha-branca planococcus citri (risso, 1813) (hemiptera: pseudococcidae) em frutíferas

The citrus mealybug, Planococcus citri is an important pest attacking several crops. Biotic and abiotic factors, as well as the substrate they feed on influence its population. The present study was aimed to study the effect of some feeding substrates on mealybug development in laboratory conditions. Leaf disks of guava, fig and cherimoya were placed individually on an agar film inside a Petri dish. One egg of the insect was confined inside each container, replicated 60 times for each treatment. Containers were kept in a climatized chamber at 25[degree] C, 70 [plus or minus] 10% RH and 12 hours photophase. Insects reared on guava leaves showed a longer nymphal development, while the female longevity was longer on fig leaves. However, no statistical differences were found in the survival index, which showed values higher than 83%, suggesting that all substrates studied here were adequate for the development of P. citri.

Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752-1833) e suas obras em Teoria dos Números

The present thesis is an analysis of Adrien-Marie Legendre s works on Number Theory, with a certain emphasis on his 1830 edition of Theory of Numbers. The role played by these works in their historical context and their influence on the development of Number Theory was investigated. A biographic study of Legendre (1752-1833) was undertaken, in which both his personal relations and his scientific productions were related to certain historical elements of the development of both his homeland, France, and the sciences in general, during the 18th and 19th centuries This study revealed notable characteristics of his personality, as well as his attitudes toward his mathematical contemporaries, especially with regard to his seemingly incessant quarrels with Gauss about the priority of various of their scientific discoveries. This is followed by a systematic study of Lagrange s work on Number Theory, including a comparative reading of certain topics, especially that of his renowned law of quadratic reciprocity, with texts of some of his contemporaries. In this way, the dynamics of the evolution of his thought in relation to his semantics, the organization of his demonstrations and his number theoretical discoveries was delimited. Finally, the impact of Legendre s work on Number Theory on the French mathematical community of the time was investigated. This investigation revealed that he not only made substantial contributions to this branch of Mathematics, but also inspired other mathematicians to advance this science even further. This indeed is a fitting legacy for his Theory of Numbers, the first modern text on Higher Arithmetic, on which he labored half his life, producing various editions. Nevertheless, Legendre also received many posthumous honors, including having his name perpetuated on the Trocadéro face of the Eiffel Tower, which contains a list of 72 eminent scientists, and having a street and an alley in Paris named after him

Léxico e gramática no Diccionario da Lingua Portugueza (1813) de António de Morais Silva

António de Morais Silva publicou em 1789 a 1ª edição de seu Diccionario da Lingua Portugueza e em 1813, a sua 2ª edição, ambas em Lisboa. Partindo da relação entre gramática e dicionário, obras que se completam no ensino e aprendizagem de uma língua, estudamos neste trabalho a projeção gramatical do autor na elaboração dos verbetes da 2ª edição do Diccionario, numa tentativa de demonstrar que Morais, influenciado pelas idéias reformistas do Século das Luzes em Portugal, inovou em termos lexicográficos e gramaticais, registrando essas inovações e também algumas críticas às gramáticas de seu tempo, no interior dos verbetes de sua obra lexicográfica.

El ilustrado canario José Viera y Clavijo (1731-1813) y su afición por las ciencias

[ES] La conferencia estará centrada en la trayectoria intelectual del ilustrado y polifacético canario José de Viera y Clavijo, con el fin de conocer a fondo su vertiente científica. En ella se dará una visión general del personaje, mencionando todos los campos que abordó a lo largo de su vida. Se analizarán someramente los distintos aspectos científico-naturalistas tratados por él, tanto en sus estudios como en su producción: astronómicos, físicos, químicos, geológicos, botánicos, zoológicos, agrícolas, geográficos y ecológicos.