Validação de metodologia analítica por CLAE-DAD para determinação de compostos fenólicos e atividade biológica em coprodutos agroindustriais

The southern region of Brazil, especially the states of Parana and Santa Catarina stand out for growing grapes and apples for fresh consumption and in order to add value to these products, process the material for the production of wine, juices and jellies . As a result large quantities of by-products, such as peels, seeds and pulp are produced becoming environmental problems. Studies reuse of these by-products have attracted interest because they have shown a high biological potential, due to the presence of high levels of phenolic compounds, which are associated with a lower incidence of disease caused by oxidative stress, due to its antioxidant, antiinflammatory and antibacterial properties. Currently, few studies are presented on the phenolic composition and biological potential of waste grape variety Bordô (Vitis labrusca) and apple (Malus domestica) Gala variety, cultivated in southern Brazil. Within this context, the objectives of this study were: compare the efficiency of solidliquid and liquid-liquid extraction, perform the optimization and validation of analytical methodology by HPLC-DAD for the separation, identification and quantification of multiclass phenolic compounds, evaluate the activity antioxidant by sequestering methods of free radical 2,2-diphenyl-1 picrilhidrazina (DPPH) and 2,2-azino-bis (3- ethyl-benzthiazoline-6-sulphonic acid) (ABTS) solution, reduction of Fe3+ in Fe2+ method (FRAP), ORAC, RP-HPLC-ABTS online, Rancimat and determination of total phenolics three agro-industrial byproducts, pomace and stems grape Bordô produced in Paraná Southwest region and Gala apple pomace coming from the Santa Catarina West. Optimization and validation of chromatographic method showed satisfactory quality parameters for the compounds of interest and the solidliquid extraction was more efficient in extracting phenolic evaluated. The three byproducts evaluated showed significant levels of phenolic compounds when analyzed by HPLC, especially flavonoids, catechin and epicatechin besides that showed significant antioxidant capacity. The grape stems extract had the highest sequestration capacity of DPPH and ABTS radical and reduced iron, and high content of phenolic compounds. The apple pomace extract showed the best response to the Rancimat method, which indicates a high potential to protect the oil from lipid oxidation, was no significant difference when compared to synthetic antioxidant TBHQ. The results of this study showed that the agro-industrial coproducts analyzed are rich in phenolic compounds of high antioxidant capacity and therefore must be better explored by the food and pharmaceutical industries.

L'aggressività nelle prime relazioni sentimentali

Un fenomeno poco indagato in Italia, ma che ha catturato l’attenzione e anche la preoccupazione delle ricerche in diverse parti del mondo, sono i comportamenti aggressivi che possono avvenire nelle prime relazioni sentimentali, tra adolescenti. La ricerca si è concentrata principalmente sulla violenza nelle coppie adulte, sulla violenza domestica, trascurando quelle condotte aggressive che avvengono nelle prime relazioni intime, in quanto ritenute poco stabili e fugaci. Diverse ricerche dimostrano che non è così e che anzi, spesso gli adolescenti “investono” molto in queste prime esperienze. Tra i principali motivi che spingono gli studiosi ad indagare questo fenomeno, vi è la considerazione della gravità delle stime di prevalenza, le conseguenze per il benessere psico-fisico, ed il valore predittivo che tali comportamenti potrebbero assumere rispetto al fenomeno della violenza nelle coppie adulte.

Preferência alimentar e identificação das principais fontes de repasto sanguíneo de fêmeas Lutzomyia (Diptera: Psychodidae) em áreas endêmicas para leishmaniose visceral na grande Natal

Leishmaniasis are endemic diseases wild spread in the New and Old World, caused by the flagelated protozoan Leishmania. In the New World, the distribution of different forms of leishmaniasis is mostly in tropical regions. In the State of Rio Grande do Norte, Northeast Brazil, 85% of the captured sand flies fauna is Lutzomyia longipalpis. The distribution of the sand fly vector in the state overlaps with the disease distribution, where the presence of sand flies is associated with presence of animals shelters. The aim of this study was to analyse the blood meal preference of sand flies vector from the genus Lutzomyia spp. in laboratory conditions, to verify the vector life cicle at different temperatures sets and to identify the main blood meal source in endemic areas for visceral leishmaniasis (VL) at peri-urban regions of Natal. Sand flies samples were collected from the municipalities of São Gonçalo do Amarante and Nísia Floresta where female sand flies were grouped for the colony maintenance in the laboratory and for the analysis of the preferred source of sand fly blood meal in natural environment. The prevalence of blood meal preference and oviposition for the females sand flies was 97% for Cavia porcellus with oviposition of 19 eggs/female; 97% for Eqqus caballus with 19 eggs/female; 98% for human blood with 14 eggs/female; 71.3% for Didelphis albiventris with 8.4 eggs/female; 73% for Gallus gallus with 14 eggs/female; 86% for Canis familiaris with 10.3 eggs/female; 81.4% for Galea spixii with 26 eggs/female; 36% for Callithrix jachus with 15 eggs/female; 42.8% for Monodelphis domestica with 0% of oviposition. Female sand flies did not take a blood meal from Felis catus. Sand flies life cycle ranged from 32-40 days, with 21-50 oviposition rates approximately. This study also showed that at 32°C the life cycle had 31 days, at 28° C it had 50 days and at 22°C it increased to 79 days. Adjusting the temperature to 35°C the eggs did not hatch, thus blocking the life cycle. A total of 1540 sand flies were captured, among them, 1.310 were male and 230 were female. Whereas 86% of the sand flies captured were Lu. longipalpis as compared to 10.5% for Lu. evandroi and, 3.2% for L. lenti and 0.3% for Lu whitmani. The ratio between female and male sandfly was approximately 6 males to 1 female. In Nísia Floresta, 50.7% of the collected females took their blood meal from armadillo, 12.8% from human. Among the female sand flies captured in São Gonçalo do Amarante, 80 of them were tested for the Leishmania KDNA infectivity where 5% of them were infected with Leishmania chagasi. Female Lutzomyia spp. showed to have an opportunistic blood meal characteristic. The behavioral parameters seem to have a higher influence in the oviposition when compared to the level of total proteins detected in the host s bloodstream. A higher Lu. longipalpis life cycle viability was observed at 28°C. The increase of temperature dropped the life cycle time, which means that the life cycle is modified by temperature range, source of blood meal and humidity. Lu longipalpis was the most specie found in the inner and peridomiciliar environment. In Nísia Floresta, armadillos were the main source of blood meal for Lutzomyia spp. At São Gonçalo do Amarante, humans were the main source of blood meal due to CDC nets placed inside their houses

La normativa sammarinese in materia di prevenzione e repressione della violenza di genere

Con legge 20 giugno 2008, n. 97 «Prevenzione e repressione della violenza contro le donne e di genere» la Repubblica di San Marino si è dotata di un impianto normativo teso al contenimento del fenomeno della violenza domestica, sessuale e di genere, il cui tratto saliente è dato dal coinvolgimento della compagine sociale nel contrasto delle condotte delittuose (Santolini & Venturini, 2013/2014. La progressiva sensibilizzazione della collettività (Authority Pari Opportunità, 2010)rispetto a fenomeni tollerati in ragione di stereotipi culturali radicati nel contesto sociale tende a favorire l’emersione di episodi altrimenti destinati a rimanere ignoti agli organi giudiziari. Essa appare, pertanto, espressiva della «(…) acquisita consapevolezza del legislatore del fallimento, in materia di violenza di genere, delle modalità tradizionali di formazione e trasmissione della notitia criminis», conseguenti alle «difficoltà oggettive della vittima (…) di reagire alla violenza subita con i tradizionali strumenti della querela o della denuncia» (Santolini&Venturini, 2013/2014, 27), posta l’esistenza di fattori di vulnerabilità specifica del soggetto passivo (ragioni di carattere culturale, sociale o religioso, dipendenza economica e/o psicologica) che lo relegano in posizione subalterna rispetto al perpetrator.

Il fuoco:tra mito e religiosità

Nel mito, quindi, bene e male si stringono nel fuoco, in un abbraccio fatale. Nonostante esso abbia per sempre cambiato in meglio le sorti dell’umanità, racchiude in se il mistero: fonte di calore e di luce, elemento dalla materialità domestica, resta però inafferrabile agli uomini, a volte irrefrenabile, spesso temibile e altrettanto seducente. È da ricercare perciò in questa sua dualità il fascino che il fuoco provoca negli uomini: esso divora, con la sua fiamma distruttiva, tutto quello che incontra nel suo passaggio, lasciando dietro di sé terreni ristorati, nutriti dalla decomposizione dei vegetali. Con la sua luce e calore permettel’esistenza, ma nel contempo ha la possibilità di distruggerla per sempre. Proprietà che hanno fatto del fuoco un potente simbolo rappresentativo sia della vita che della morte, introducendolo di conseguenza nel “mondo del soprannaturale”, come facoltà e prerogativa degli Dei entrando così a far parte dei miti, delle credenze e delle tradizioni di molti popoli.

Arquitectura e comensalidade

Dissertação para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Arquitectura, apresentada na Universidade de Lisboa - Faculdade de Arquitetura.

Sistema de agrupación de vivienda fragmentada - ciudad Bachue, Bogotá

Bogotá (Colombia): Universidad de La Salle. Facultad de Ciencias del Hábitat. Programa de Arquitectura

Arquitectura para comunidades sostenibles. La vivienda como escenario de articulación entre lo productivo y lo comunitario

Bogotá (Colombia): Universidad de La Salle. Facultad de Ciencias del Hábitat. Programa de Arquitectura

Ruta del nopal. Vivienda rural sostenible, municipio de los Santos

Bogotá (Colombia): Universidad de La Salle. Facultad de Ciencias del Hábitat. Programa de Arquitectura

Advances on apple production under semiarid climate: N fertigation

The fertilizing management for apple tree is essential, especially for nitrogen, one of the most important nutrients affecting fruit yield. Thus, an experiment was conducted in 2012 and 2013 to evaluate the fruit production, yield and leaf chlorophyll of ?Princesa? and ?Eva? apples as a function of nitrogen fertigation under Brazilian semiarid conditions. The experimental design consisted of randomised blocks, with treatments distributed in a factorial arrangement 2 x 4, corresponding to apple cultivars (Eva and Princesa); and nitrogen doses (160, 120, 80 and 40 kg of N ha-1), with four replications and three plants. Calcium nitrate was used as nitrogen source (15.5% of N) with applications twice a week during 40 days, reaching 12 fertilizing performances through irrigation water. The following variables were evaluated: i) fruit production per plant (kg plant-1); ii) fruit yield (t ha-1); iii) number of fruits per plant; iv) leaf chlorophyll meter readings (index); and v) leaf nitrogen concentration (g kg-1). Princesa apple cultivar if compared to ?Eva? presents a better fruit production performance under Brazilian semiarid. Furthermore, nitrogen doses fertilized through irrigation water have no effect on fruit production of Eva and Princesa apple cultivars during the first production cycle.

Caracterização fenológica e frutificação efetiva de macieiras Daiane sob condições Semiáridas no Nordeste do Brasil.

Conhecer os estádios fenológicos de uma cultura permite modificar práticas de manejo e programá-las com o objetivo de melhorar a produção, principalmente quando o cultivo é realizado em regiões diferentes das tradicionalmente produtoras. Assim o presente trabalho teve o objetivo de caracterizar os estágios fenológicos da cultivar de macieira Daiane e verificar a frutificação efetiva em condições semiáridas, em Petrolina, PE, no ano de 2009. Para efetuar as avaliações foram marcados quatro ramos de cinco plantas ao acaso, nas quais foram acompanhados os estádios fenológicos e determinado o índice de pegamento. O ciclo fenológico da macieira (Malus domestica) Daiane em condição semiárida tropical é de 138 dias com índice de pegamento de 6,67%. É possível produzir macieira Daiane em condição semiárida tropical.

Un comentario en calidad de hijo, novio y esposo. A propósito del libro Hijas, novias y esposas. Familia, matrimonio y violencia doméstica en el Valle Central de Costa Rica (1750-1850)

Introducción En primer término quiero aclarar que aunque la temática del libro Hijas, novias y esposas… no está directamente relacionada con mi praxis investigativa como profesional, esta obra tiene una serie de características especiales  que posibilitan su lectura y comentarios por parte de especialistas en esta área de estudios y por cualquiera de nosotros como lectores y lectoras de historia de Costa Rica e inclusive como seguidores de la realidad nacional.

Verificacao da atividade inseticida de alguns vegetais brasileiros.

Neste trabalho foram estudadas 30 espécies vegetais, quanto a atividade inseticida. Dessas espécies foram preparados 240 extratos a partir das diferentes partes dos vegetais, utilizando hexano, etanol, acetona e solução hidroalcoolica como líquidos extratores. Os testes foram efetuados contra os insetos: Mosca domestica, Ceratilis capitata, Zambrotes subfasciatus, Spodoptera frugiperda e Anthonomus grandis. Dos vegetais testados, apenas os extratos das sementes de Annona cacan, A. crassiflora, A. squamosa e raízes de Potomorphe umbellata apresentaram alguma atividade.

Chill requirement and budburst uniformity on cultivar maxigala grafted on different rootstocks.

2016

Development and productivity of apple tree cv. MaxiGala on different planting depth.

2016