Multiplicação rápida, método simples e de baixo custo na produção de material propagativo de mandioca.

A baixa taxa de multiplicação de mandioca é um dos obstáculos à sua propagação em larga escala. De cada planta de mandioca obtém-se de 5 a 10 manivas de 20 cm de comprimento, num período médio de 12 meses, o que equivale a dizer que a taxa de propagação de mandioca varia de 1:5 a 1:10. Embora produza sementes, comercialmente a mandioca é propagada vegetativamente por meio de pedaços de caule. A propagação vegetativa tem a desvantagem de permitir a transmissão de pragas e patógenos entre as gerações sucessivas de cultivo, caso não sejam tomados cuidados com relação à qualidade do material de propagação. Essa duas características, a baixa taxa de multiplicação e a degenerescência causada pelo acúmulo de pragas, contribuem para escassez de manivas de boa qualidade à disposição de agricultores. Um método simples e barato para aumento da taxa de multiplicação, da mandioca é a multiplicação rápida a qual consiste em cortar hastes da planta de mandioca em pedaços com duas ou três gemas, e plantá-los em canteiro cobertos com plásticos transparente, para reter o calor do sol. Esses canteiros são regados frequentemente, e assim, a umidade e a temperatura elevadas induzem as manivas a brotar. Ao atingir o tamanho de 10 a 15 cm, os brotos são cortados e posto em água, para enraizar. Por sua vez, as manivas de duas ou três gemas voltam a brotar, e nisso consiste a capacidade que essa técnica tem de aumentar a taxa de multiplicação da mandioca. As taxas de multiplicação obtidas nesse trabalho variaram entre 1:140 a 1:170, isto é, um aumento de 14 a 17 vezes em relação a taxa de multiplicação convencional da mandioca (1:10). Embora esses índices estejam abaixo do potencial máximo de multiplicação apresentado na literatura ( aumento de 60 vezes), demonstram o potencial da técnica da multiplicação rápida no aumento da taxa de multiplicação da mandioca, em razão da sua simplicidade e baixo custo.

Quantificação dos horizontes húmicos e dinâmica da decomposição de material foliar em solos florestais.

Estudos sobre o balanço entre o carbono estocado na biomassa e o perdido por meio da ecomposição, visando a quantificacão do acúmulo líquido de carbono de um sistema florestal.

Educação ambiental tendo o solo como material didático: pintura com tinta de solo e colagem de solo sobre superfícies.

2010

Importância da origem do material de propagação na qualidade da muda de videira.

2004

Obtenção de material propagativo livre de vírus e diagnóstico de vírus em macieiras e pereiras.

Principais vírus da macieira e da pereira. Danos causados por vírus. Limpeza clonal: produção de macieiras e pereiras livres de vírus. Análises e testes de avaliação de sanidade.

Using an Outdoor Learning Space to Teach Sustainability and Material Processes in HE product Design.

The world is facing environmental changes that are increasingly affecting how we think about manufacturing, the consumption of products and use of resources. Within the HE product design community, thinking and designing sustainability’ has evolved to become a natural part of the curriculum. Paradoxical as the rise in awareness of sustainability increases there is growing concern within HE product design of the loss of workshop facilities and as a consequence a demise in teaching traditional object-making skills and material experimentation. We suggest the loss of workshops and tangible ‘learning by making skills’ also creates a lost opportunity for a rich learning resource to address sustainable thinking, design and manufacture ‘praxis’ within HE design education. Furthermore, as learning spaces are frequently discussed in design research, there seems to be little focus on how the use of an outdoor environment might influence learning outcomes particularly with regard to material teaching and sustainability. This 'case study' of two jewellery workshops, used outdoor learning spaces to explore both its impact on learning outcomes and to introduce some key principles of sustainable working methodologies and practices. Academics and students mainly from Norway and Scotland collaborated on this international research project. Participants made models from disposable packaging materials, which were cast in tin, in the sand on a local beach, using found timber to create a heat source for melting the metal. This approach of using traditional making skills, materials and nature was found to be a relevant contribution to a sustainable discourse.

260 Copas precolombinas de la cultura Nariño material arqueológico.

3 hojas : ilustraciones, fotografías a color.

C 192 INST-D 2013. 373 Procesos de hilados manuales y con rueca, de la lana y el algodón y organización del material en madejas.

26 fotografías a color.

Supplementary Material: PREMATURE EXPRESSION OF AN AGE-ASSOCIATED MUSCLE SENESCENCE PATHWAY IN HIV INFECTION

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Interstitial insertion of varying amounts of ABL-containing genetic material into chromosome 22 in Ph-negative CML.

We studied the cells from three selected patients with Ph-chromosome-negative chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) by Southern blotting, polymerase chain reaction, and in situ hybridization of informative probes to metaphase chromosomes. All three patients had rearrangement of M-BCR sequences in the BCR gene and expression of one or other of the mRNA species characteristic of Ph-positive CML. Leukemic metaphases studied after trypsin-Giemsa banding were indistinguishable from normal. The ABL probe localized both to chromosome 9 and 22 in each case. A probe containing 3' M-BCR sequences localized only to chromosome 22, and not to chromosome 9 as would be expected in Ph-positive CML. Two new probes that recognize different polymorphic regions distal to the ABL gene on chromosome 9 in normal subjects localized exclusively to chromosome 9 in two patients and to both chromosomes 9 and 22 in one patient. These results show that Ph-negative CML with BCR rearrangement is associated with insertion of a variable quantity of chromosome 9 derived material into chromosome 22q11; there is no evidence for reciprocal translocation of material from chromosome 22 to chromosome 9.

Jamming for a 2D granular material

This paper focuses on the nature of jamming, as seen in two-dimensional frictional granular systems consisting of photoelastic particles. The photoelastic technique is unique at this time, in its capability to provide detailed particle-scale information on forces and kinematic quantities such as particle displacements and rotations. These experiments first explore isotropic stress states near point J through measurements of the mean contact number per particle, Z, and the pressure, P as functions of the packing fraction, . In this case, the experiments show some but not all aspects of jamming, as expected on the basis of simulations and models that typically assume conservative, hence frictionless, forces between particles. Specifically, there is a rapid growth in Z, at a reasonable which we identify with as c. It is possible to fit Z and P, to power law expressions in - c above c, and to obtain exponents that are in agreement with simulations and models. However, the experiments differ from theory on several points, as typified by the rounding that is observed in Z and P near c. The application of shear to these same 2D granular systems leads to phenomena that are qualitatively different from the standard picture of jamming. In particular, there is a range of packing fractions below c, where the application of shear strain at constant leads to jammed stress-anisotropic states, i.e. they have a non-zero shear stress, τ. The application of shear strain to an initially isotropically compressed (hence jammed) state, does not lead to an unjammed state per se. Rather, shear strain at constant first leads to an increase of both τ and P. Additional strain leads to a succession of jammed states interspersed with relatively localized failures of the force network leading to other stress-anisotropic states that are jammed at typically somewhat lower stress. The locus of jammed states requires a state space that involves not only and τ, but also P. P, τ, and Z are all hysteretic functions of shear strain for fixed . However, we find that both P and τ are roughly linear functions of Z for strains large enough to jam the system. This implies that these shear-jammed states satisfy a Coulomb like-relation, τ = μP. © 2010 The Royal Society of Chemistry.