Estudos preliminares da biologia floral de Chrysophyllum Auratum Miq.(sapotaceae) em Piracicaba, estado de São Paulo

Com a finalidade de contribuir para o conhecimento da biologia floral de Chrysophyllum auratum Miq. (SAPOTACEAE), foram estudados dois indivíduos cultivados no Setor de Horticultura da Escola Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz", Piracicaba - SP. Observou-se a fenologia floral e propôs-se identificar o sistema de reprodução. As flores apresentaram ânteses vespertina e noturna, havendo protandria. Um dos indivíduos estudados mostrou-se precoce em relação ao outro, na maioria dos eventos fenológicos. A síndrome de polinização observada foi de miofilia, ainda que não se tenha detectada a ação efetiva de agentes bióticos. Embora existam indicações da ocorrência de alogamia, os testes efetuados não permitiram conclusões definitivas.

Anatomia foliar e do pedúnculo floral de plantas de morangueiro (Fragaria x ananassa) "Sequoia" tratadas com fitoreguladores

O presente estudo teve por objetivo descrever a anatomia foliar e do pedúnculo floral do morangueiro "Sequóia" a fim de verificar os efeitos dos reguladores vegetais, ácido giberélico (GA3) e ácido naftalenoacético (NAA), e dos bioestimulantes Ergostim e Atonik, sobre as características anatômicas das plantas tratadas. A dose total empregada dos quatro produtos foi de 30 ppm, parcelada em três pulverizações, iniciadas após o início do florescimento. Foram analisadas amostras de folhas (limbo e pecíolo) e o pedúnculo floral de 3 repetições. As análises histológicas foram feitas mediante o preparo e observação de lâminas de material fresco ou fixado. A análise da folha adulta revela a presença de hidatódios nas extremidades denteadas do limbo. A lâmina foliar é anfiestomática, com estômatos do tipo anomocítico. Ocorrem dois tipos de tricomas: tectores e glandulares. Na epiderme abaxial podem estar presentes estruturas semelhantes à lenti-celas. O mesofilo é dorsiventral. O padrão de venação é do tipo nervatio camptodroma arqueada típica. O pecíolo apresenta estômatos e tricomas cujas características se assemelham ao do limbo; abaixo da epiderme há um colênquima do tipo anelar; no parênquima fundamental há idioblastos contendo drusas e outros que contém compostos fenólicos; o cilindro vascular é descontínuo formando um arco, constituído de feixes do tipo colateral aberto envolvido por uma bainha parenquimática amilífera. Os elementos traqueais do xilema são espiralados. O pedúnculo floral apresenta epiderme com tricomas, colênquima do tipo anelar, um anel contínuo de fibras perivasculares e cilindro vascular descontínuo interrompido por raios medulares estreitos. Os produtos testados não alteraram a estrutura anatômica dos morangueiros "Sequóia", na dose empregada.

Estrutura floral das angiospermas usadas por Heliconius erato phyllis (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) no Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

A field survey of flowering plants used as food resource by the adults of Heliconius erato phyllis (Fabricius, 1775) was carried out in four sites located in Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. Samples were taken in preserved areas of the Atlantic Rain and Myrtaceae forests, an Eucalyptus plantation, and an urban park. Adult feeding frequencies on flowers were registered monthly from December 1996 to May 1997, on plants located on previously marked 200 m long transects. Flowers on which H. erato phyllis fed in the field were collected, drawn and morphometrically characterized. Feeding was registered on flowers of twenty-three species, of which seventeen are new records for H. erato in Brazil . The use of a given plant varied among localities, as a function of its corresponding abundance. The most visited flowers were those of Lantana camara L. and Stachytarpheta cayennensis (Rich.) Vahl, followed by Dahliapinnata Voss in the urban site. The data suggest the existence of size and shape convergence between the proboscis and the small, tubular flowers upon which H. eratophyllis feeds. They also indicate that H. eratophyllis adults have an opportunistic nectar feeding / pollen gathering habit, using several of those flowers available in a given time and locality that fit such a morphometrical pattern. Since plant species of both primitive and derived families are used, there is no indication that phylogenetic constraints play a major role in this association, nor that color of flowers, growth pattern or size of the plants are relevant in determining their use by H. erato phyllis.

A floral and faunal inventory of the Réserve spéciale d'Anjanaharibe-Sud, Madagascar : with reference to elevational variation / Steven M. Goodman, editor.

n.s. no.90(1998)

A floral and faunal inventory of the Parc national de Marojejy, Madagascar : with reference to elevational variation / Steven M. Goodman, editor.

n.s. no.97(2000)

A floral and faunal inventory of the Réserve Naturelle Intégrale d'Andohahela, Madagascar : with reference to elevational variation / Steven M. Goodman, editor.

n.s. no.94(1999)

A Floral and faunal inventory of the eastern slopes of the Réserve naturelle intégrale d'Andringitra, Madagascar : with reference to elevational variation / Steven M. Goodman, editor.

n.s. no.85(1996)

The Japanese New Year's festival, games and pastimes / by Helen C. Gunsaulus, Assistant Curator of Japanes Ethnology.

no.11(1923)

Sequencing games without initial order

In this note we study uncertainty sequencing situations, i.e., 1-machine sequencing situations in which no initial order is specified. We associate cooperative games with these sequencing situations, study their core, and provide links with the classic sequencing games introduced by Curiel et al. (1989). Moreover, we propose and characterize two simple cost allocation rules for uncertainty sequencing situations with equal processing times.

Distribution center consolidation games

We study the location-inventory model as introduced by Teo et al. (2001) to analyze the impact of consolidation of distribution centers on facility and inventory costs. We extend their result on profitability of consolidation. We associate a cooperative game with each location-inventory situation and prove that this game has a non-empty core for identical and independent demand processes. This illustrates that consolidation does not only lower joint costs (which was shown by Teo et al. (2001)), but it allows for a stable division of the minimal costs as well.

On games corresponding to sequencing situations with precedence relations

In this paper we study a class of cooperative sequencing games that arise from one-machine sequencing situations in which chain precedence relations are imposed on the jobs. It is shown that these sequencing games are convex.

Implementation of the Walrasian correspondence by market games

In this paper we present a set of axioms guaranteeing that, in exchange economies with or without indivisible goods, the set of Nash, Strong and active Walrasian Equilibria all coincide in the framework of market games.

Fair procedures. Evidence from games involving lotteries

Procedural fairness plays a prominent role in the social discourse concerning the marketplace in particular, and social institutions in general. Random procedures are a simple case, and they have found application in several important social allocation decisions. We investigate random procedures in the laboratory. We find that an unbiased random procedure is an acceptable substitute for an unbiased allocation: similar patterns of acceptance and rejection result when either is inserted as a feasible proposal in a sequential battle-of-the-sexes. We also find that unbiasedness, known to be a crucial characteristic of allocation fairness, is important to procedural fairness: in the context of a random offer game, a biased outcome is more readily accepted when chosen by an unbiased random draw than by one that is biased. Procedural fairness is conceptually different than allocation fairness or attribution-based behavior, and none of the current models of fairness and reciprocity captures our results. Post hoc extension of one of these models (ERC) suggests that a deeper understanding of procedural fairness requires further investigation of competing fairness norms.

Repeated games played in a network

Delayed perfect monitoring in an infinitely repeated discounted game is modelled by letting the players form a connected and undirected network. Players observe their immediate neighbors' behavior only, but communicate over time the repeated game's history truthfully throughout the network. The Folk Theorem extends to this setup, although for a range of discount factors strictly below 1, the set of sequential equilibria and the corresponding payoff set may be reduced. A general class of games is analyzed without imposing restrictions on the dimensionality of the payoff space. This and the bilateral communication structure allow for limited results under strategic communication only. As a by-product this model produces a network result; namely, the level of cooperation in this setup depends on the network's diameter, and not on its clustering coefficient as in other models.