Macromineral requirements for the maintenance and growth of Boer crossbred kids

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Ganho compensatório em cordeiras na fase de recria: desempenho e medidas biométricas

Objetivou-se estudar o ganho compensatório de cordeiras submetidas a restrição alimentar e, posteriormente, a realimentação à vontade. Foram adotados dois períodos de 60 dias, de modo que, no primeiro, 18 cordeiras 7/8 Ile de France 1/8 Ideal foram distribuídas em três tratamentos, em delineamento inteiramente casualisado: sem restrição = alimentação à vontade por todo o experimento; restrição 30% = restrição alimentar de 30% em relação ao consumo do grupo sem restrição; e restrição 60% = restrição alimentar de 60% em relação ao consumo do grupo sem restrição. No segundo período, todas as cordeiras receberam alimentação à vontade. Ao final do primeiro período, as cordeiras alimentadas à vontade e aquelas sob restrição alimentar de 30%, tiveram ganho de peso corporal de 18 e 0,8%, respectivamente, enquanto aquelas sob restrição alimentar de 60% perderam 15% de peso corporal. No segundo período, todas as cordeiras ganharam peso, observando-se maior ganho naquelas sob restrição 30% (196,24 g/dia) em relação às sem restrição (116,20 g/dia). O ganho de peso desses dois grupos, no entanto, não diferiu do grupo restrição 60% (178,03 g/dia). A conversão alimentar das cordeiras alimentadas à vontade foi 10,09 e a daquelas com restrição alimentar de 30% foi de 5,97. As medidas biométricas foram semelhantes no início do experimento, mas, ao final da restrição alimentar, houve diminuição de 16% na largura do ombro, de 21% na largura da garupa, de 6,9% no perímetro torácico e de 39% na condição corporal das cordeiras do grupo restrição 60% em relação às medidas iniciais. A restrição alimentar de 60% resultou em menor consumo de MS e em peso corporal final mais baixo, ocasionando prejuízos na maioria das medidas corporais. A restrição alimentar de 30%, no entanto, pode ser indicada como alternativa de manejo alimentar para melhorar a conversão alimentar e reduzir o consumo total de alimento.

Desempenho e digestibilidade dos nutrientes em cordeiros alimentados com dietas contendo silagem de resíduos de peixe

Foram utilizados 36 cordeiros 7/8 Ile de France 1/8 Ideal (18 machos e 18 fêmeas) com peso corporal inicial de 17,90 ± 1,27 kg alimentados com as dietas: controle; SRPAD - com 8% de silagem de resíduo do processamento de tilápia (Oreochromis niloticus); e SRPAM - com 8% de silagem de resíduo do processamento de peixe-sapo (Lophius gastrophisus). As silagens de resíduos de peixes substituíram parcialmente o farelo de soja e, como volumoso, utilizou-se silagem de milho (40%). Os cordeiros foram mantidos em baias individuais, com controle do alimento fornecido e das sobras e pesagem a cada 14 dias até atingirem 32 kg, quando foram realizadas as medidas biométricas. Paralelamente, foram realizados ensaios de digestibilidade e de metabolismo utilizando-se 12 cordeiras 7/8 Ile de France 1/8 Ideal para determinação dos coeficientes de digestibilidade da MS, MO, PB, EE, FDN e CT e do balanço de nitrogênio das dietas experimentais. O consumo de MS e o ganho médio diário não foram influenciados pelas dietas e pelo sexo e apresentaram médias de 891,83 e 240,26 g/dia, respectivamente. Entretanto, a conversão alimentar dos cordeiros alimentados com as dietas com SRPAM foi pior (4,04) em relação à daqueles alimentados com as dietas controle (3,81) e com SRPAD (3,47). Os cordeiros apresentaram maior comprimento corporal (60,09 cm) e altura do anterior (56,11 cm) em comparação às cordeiras (58,03 e 54,75 cm, respectivamente). Cordeiros alimentados com dietas contendo SRPAD tiveram maior ingestão de EE e melhor coeficiente de digestibilidade do EE (90,39%), enquanto aqueles alimentados com a dieta controle apresentaram o menor coeficiente de digestibilidade da FDN (59,20%). A substituição parcial do farelo de soja por silagem de resíduos de peixes mostrou-se como boa alternativa protéica na alimentação de cordeiros.

Disponibilidade e absorção de aminoácidos em bovinos alimentados com diferentes fontes de compostos nitrogenados

Objetivou-se estudar o fluxo e a absorção de aminoácidos em bovinos alimentados com dietas isoprotéicas formuladas com diferentes fontes nitrogenadas. As dietas foram fornecidas a bezerros holandeses canulados no abomaso, com 8 meses de idade e peso médio de 187 kg, em um total de 21 animais escolhidos aleatoriamente para formar o grupo que constituiu as repetições experimentais (sete por tratamento). As dietas experimentais foram constituídas de 40% de volumoso e 60% de concentrado. Como volumoso, utilizou-se feno de capim-de-rhodes e, no concentrado, utilizaram-se milho, farelo de algodão, levedura, uréia, melaço e minerais. As dietas diferiram apenas quanto à fonte nitrogenada (farelo de algodão, levedura ou uréia). As quantidades (g/dia) de aminoácidos no abomaso e a composição em aminoácidos da proteína presente no abomaso e nas fezes foram influenciadas pela fonte protéica da dieta. As fontes nitrogenadas não afetaram significativamente a digestão de aminoácidos no intestino. A disponibilidade de aminoácidos no abomaso e a absorção no intestino apresentaram valores inferiores aos descritos na literatura, provavelmente porque, neste trabalho, os animais foram submetidos à restrição de ingestão. As fontes nitrogenadas testadas influenciaram a composição e a disponibilidade de aminoácidos em bovinos.

Nucleation kinetics of crystalline phases from a kaolinitic body used in the processing of red ceramics

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The open capacitated arc routing problem

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Desfechos clínicos e mortalidade de sujeitos submetidos à cirurgia bariátrica no Rio Grande do Norte

Introduction: Actually the obesity is a public health problem throughout the world. Bariatric surgery has been an efficient method of weight reduction body in severe obesity, reducing its associated effects and presenting low levels of immediate and late postoperative complications. In Brazil, bariatric surgery asa recent therapeutic that has been growing recently. Being Brazil a country with continental dimensions and with a huge diversity socioeconomic and cultural, it is essential to understand the reality of patients undergoing bariatric surgery in less economically privileged regions of Brazil. Objectives: To evaluate the epidemiological, clinical outcomes and mortality of patients undergoing videolaparoscopic bariatric surgery through the public health system in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Norte- Brazil. Methods: Observational descriptive study of a prospective, carried out from February 2009 to February 2011, the Clinic Obesity and Bariatric Surgery at Universitary Hospital Onofre Lopes - Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (HUOL-UFRN). Anthropometric measures, comorbidity and deaths register were made in the postoperative period. Results: Seventy patients (54 women) with low income aged 22 to 63 years completed the study. We recorded the death of three patients during the study period. The results show significant decrease anthropometric parameters, especially in relation to body weight, waist circumference and hipin both sexes. Only Waist / Hip ratio showed no difference after intervention in male patients It had a resolution of comorbidities. No significant differences in reports of daily sleepiness and the snoring male patients. Conclusion: Our findings attest laparoscopic bariatric surgery as an effective method reducing weight and comorbidities in morbidly obese patients

Corpo e fronteira: o diário de Samuel Fritz e a conquista do espaço amazônico

Considering that the Jesuitical tradition which Father Samuel Fritz belonged, has a clear political and institutional dimension that reveals itself in the missionary initiative placed since the Trento Council, his journal is a experience story as missionary at Maynás region during the period from 1686 until 1725. In his narrative, a series of data related to the conquer of Amazonia, conflicts among the Iberic Kingdoms and french, dutches and british, transformation of culture and space close the period of the Madrid Deal. I´ll explore the men and space relationship, in this case, the missionary in his special practice, therefore an effective and geometrical politic for border control was only applied at 1750 with reformist governments and that Amazônia was, until now, an object of autonomous initiatives, not being until now a priority focused state politics action like the ones in the central regions (silver mines) and that the missionary action of Samuel Fritz represented ant that moment represented the most important border advance to the Spanish Kingdom, coinciding with the end of the borders previously set in Madrid and Santo Idelfonso, I´ll put the question of how and with which politics the experience of Fritz in Maynás could represent an advance about Amazônia space. Then I´ll approach the problem about three aspects that are chapters: The first one was focused to the Iberic Kingdoms atlantic politics and the internal geopolitical relationships they created as the centre and the border emerging a new order; in the second chapter I studied the special transformation cause by the encounter and conflicts between the Indian and European order generating a new organization; in the third chapter I´ll examined the political border of the state and the emergency of the missionary body as an institution, with the tradition and missionary action as support, or not, to the exploration of the east border of Spanish America influencing the delimitation process of the border between Portugal and Spain

Third-body perturbation in the case of elliptic orbits for the disturbing body

This work presents a semi-analytical and numerical study of the perturbation caused in a spacecraft by a third-body using a double averaged analytical model with the disturbing function expanded in Legendre polynomials up to the second order. The important reason for this procedure is to eliminate terms due to the short periodic motion of the spacecraft and to show smooth curves for the evolution of the mean orbital elements for a long-time period. The aim of this study is to calculate the effect of lunar perturbations on the orbits of spacecrafts that are traveling around the Earth. An analysis of the stability of near-circular orbits is made, and a study to know under which conditions this orbit remains near circular completes this analysis. A study of the equatorial orbits is also performed. Copyright (C) 2008 R. C. Domingos et al.

Analysis of the Coupled Stretching-Bending Problem of Stiffened Plates by a BEM Formulation Based on Reissner's Hypothesis

In this work, the plate bending formulation of the boundary element method - BEM, based on the Reissner's hypothesis, is extended to the analysis of plates reinforced by beams taking into account the membrane effects. The formulation is derived by assuming a zoned body where each sub-region defines a beam or a slab and all of them are represented by a chosen reference surface. Equilibrium and compatibility conditions are automatically imposed by the integral equations, which treat this composed structure as a single body. In order to reduce the number of degrees of freedom, the problem values defined on the interfaces are written in terms of their values on the beam axis. Initially are derived separated equations for the bending and stretching problems, but in the final system of equations the two problems are coupled and can not be treated separately. Finally are presented some numerical examples whose analytical results are known to show the accuracy of the proposed model.

Adolescentes preocupadas em conquistar um corpo magro: Um estudo sobre discursos produzidos em diários eletrônicos

The concern about a good physical condition is heavily present nowadays, in documentary films about health and in the media, and it is also expressed through the outstanding growth of physical academies, beauty institutes and aesthetic medicine and all kind of aesthetic surgeries. In the western world the body wave is a significant trend, characterized by the great investments in body image. However, what is overlooked is the fact that in parallel trend grows the number of teenagers, especially females, with all kind of problems related to their body image. As adolescence is a moment of transformations, teenagers tend to be more aware of their body image and often neglect food ingestion and try to build their bodies following the images they have from top models and movie stars. The low self-esteem accompanying this sort of experience is an additional problem. Therefore the research aim to analyze discourses regarding the body image produced in world wide web diaries (blogs). The blogs selection was made through the site www.blogs.com.br, which is considered the widest guide of electronic diaries in Brazil. We looked after blogs including the keyword body and from adolescents aged 10 to 19, who showed concern about a slim body. Three blogs were chosen, considering the example criteria. Discourse analysis shows that these teenagers feel unsatisfied with their bodies, searching by all means the thinness presented as a aesthetic paradigm in western societies which often implies neglecting their own health, using appetite inhibitor drugs, restricting or totally abstaining food ingestion for long periods of time, or provoking themselves vomits after ingesting food. These behaviors, together with intense fear of gaining weight, can be characterized as alimentary disorders, related to the body image. As they usually hide this sort of behaviors from family and friends who do not share this concern, the blogs seem to be an easy tool for adolescents to find peers with whom to share common values and ideas and reaffirm their identities and virtual sense of community

Differential geometry of intersection curves in R(4) of three implicit surfaces

We present algorithms for computing the differential geometry properties of intersection Curves of three implicit surfaces in R(4), using the implicit function theorem and generalizing the method of X. Ye and T. Maekawa for 4-dimension. We derive t, n, b(1), b(2) vectors and curvatures (k(1), k(2), k(3)) for transversal intersections of the intersection problem. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Treatment of segmental tibial defects using acute bone shortening followed by gradual lengthening with circular external fixator

The aim of this study was to clinically and radiographically evaluate acute bone shortening followed by gradual lengthening in the treatment of large segmental tibia defects induced in seven clinically normal dogs. A circular external fixator was assembled with one proximal 5/8-circle ring, one middle ring and one distal ring connected with three rods. Thirty per cent of the tibia and fibula were removed in the middle and distal parts of the diaphyses, between the middle and distal rings. Acute bone shortening with compression of proximal and distal segments was performed. A subperiosteal osteotomy was performed between the half-ring and middle ring. Bone distraction started 7 days after surgery; after lengthening, the apparatus was left in place for 14 weeks for consolidation of regenerated bone. The frame was removed at the end of this period, and the dogs observed for four more weeks. Functional results were considered excellent in two, good in three and fair in the other two dogs. Bone regeneration within the distraction gap was obtained 14 weeks after neutral fixation period. We concluded that acute bone shortening followed by gradual lengthening by Ilizarov method can be used to treat extensive tibial defects in dogs, although it presents limb temporary abnormal limb shape and unequal length as early disadvantages.

Multicast packing problem: abordagem multiobjetivo

This work presents a algorithmic study of Multicast Packing Problem considering a multiobjective approach. The first step realized was an extensive review about the problem. This review serverd as a reference point for the definition of the multiobjective mathematical model. Then, the instances used in the experimentation process were defined, this instances were created based on the main caracteristics from literature. Since both mathematical model and the instances were definined, then several algoritms were created. The algorithms were based on the classical approaches to multiobjective optimization: NSGA2 (3 versions), SPEA2 (3 versions). In addition, the GRASP procedures were adapted to work with multiples objectives, two vesions were created. These algorithms were composed by three recombination operators(C1, C2 e C3), two operator for build solution, a mutation operator and a local search procedure. Finally, a long experimentation process was performed. This process has three stages: the first consisted of adjusting the parameters; the second was perfomed to indentify the best version for each algorithm. After, the best versions for each algorithm were compared in order to identify the best algorithm among all. The algorithms were evaluated based on quality indicators and Hypervolume Multiplicative Epsilon

Food intake in women two years or more after bariatric surgery meets adequate intake requirements

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