Potential Landscape and Flux Framework of Nonequilibrium Networks: Robustness, Dissipation, and Coherence of Biochemical Oscillations

We established a theoretical framework for studying nonequilibrium networks with two distinct natures essential for characterizing the global probabilistic dynamics: the underlying potential landscape and the corresponding curl flux. We applied the idea to a biochemical oscillation network and found that the underlying potential landscape for the oscillation limit cycle has a distinct closed ring valley (Mexican hat-like) shape when the fluctuations are small. This global landscape structure leads to attractions of the system to the ring valley.

Sedimentary-volcanic tufts formed during the early Middle Triassic volcanic event in Guizhou Province and their stratigraphic significance

The sedimentary-volcanic tuff （locally called ＂green-bean rock＂） formed during the early Middle Triassic volcanic event in Guizhou Province is characterized as being thin, stable, widespread, short in forming time and predominantly green in color. The green-bean rock is a perfect indicator for stratigraphic division. Its petrographic and geochemical features are unique, and it is composed mainly of glassy fragments and subordinately of crystal fragments and volcanic ash balls. Analysis of the major and trace elements and rare-earth elements （ REE）, as well as the related diagrams, permits us to believe that the green-bean rock is acidic volcanic material of the calc-alkaline series formed in the Indosinian orogenic belt on the Sino-Vietnam border, which was atmospherically transported to the tectonically stable areas and then deposited as sedimentary-volcanic rocks there. According to the age of green-bean rock, it is deduced that the boundary age of the Middle-Lower Triassic overlain by the sedimentary-volcanic tuff is about 247 Ma.

不同行业的企业形象要素体系的共性与个性

In the early part of this century, with the change from the seller's market to the buyer market, the competition between companies changed from product competition, selling competition to corporate image competition, and companies began to consciously build corporate reputation through fast developed mass media. As a result, a series of methods to build corporate image were created, such as advertising, public relations and corporate identify system(CIS), which ,in turn, promoted the development of the research of corporate image. The factors of corporate image have been the central issue of the corporate image research, for the probe of this issue is of great significance to both the development of corporate image theory and the practice of corporate image building. As far as the literature we have gathered is concerned, the exiting research on this topic either remains at the level of qualitative investigating and induction, or is limited in some particular industry. Therefore. There bean no commonly accepted corporate image theory so far. In the recent years, with the introduction of competition mechanism and the establishment of the company. As subject position in the market, the building of corporate image gas been developed quickly in our country, and the development of practice imperatively requires the guide of scientific theory. On the basis of the analysis and summarization of the research of the predecessors, the present dissertation attempts to do some investigation and research work on the common and individual characteristics of corporate image factors of the companies in different industries in our country. The method of questionnaire survey is used in the present research. The subject sample is gathered on the basis of convenience and feasibility, and at the mean time, some consideration is also given to straticulate randomization principles. The subjects are asked to select one of their most familiar companies, and determine the important of even item in the questionnaire to the selected company(i.e. the importance assessment), and then, determine the grades the selected company gains on every item(i.e. the image assessment). The discriminant analysis of corporate image of different industries. The selected sample is grouped and coded according to the standard of industry classification. The discriminant analysis is done with the selected companies as the sample and the grades of image assessment as the variables. The result indicates that industry variable is an important standard of the classification of corporate image, and the companies in the same industry are more similar in corporate image. The analysis of the common and individual characteristics of corporate image of different industries. Firstly, in every industry, the items are sieved according to the grades of importance assessment, and exploratory factor analysis is done with grades of image assessment on the selected items as the variables. Secondly, the factors drawn from every industry in arranged in order according to their importance. The result indicates that the corporate image of different industries shares some common characteristics, for there exist common factors among different industries. In the mean while, the corporate image of different industries has its individual characteristics, that is, there is some difference in the domain of the factors, and in the order of the factors(including the difference of the principle factor).

Controle de Meloidogyne javanica em tomate-salada e feijao-de-vagem com o cultivo previo de Crotalaria spectabilis.

O feijão-de-vagem é uma hortaliça severamente atacada por Meloidogyne javanica quando cultivada após o tomate-salada. Para avaliar a viabilidade de cultivo do feijão-de-vagem após o tomate-salada, cultivou-se a Crotalaria spectabilis, em faixas, por período de quatro meses, previamente ao cultivo do tomateiro. Faixas cultivadas com quiabeiro, antes do cultivo com tomate-salada, foram mantidas para comparação. Nas faixas cultivadas anteriormente com C. spectabilis, com os índices de multiplicação (IM) variando de 11 a 76 por parcela e os números de ovos do nematóide de 1.500 a 6.000 por planta, as produtividades foram de 2 a 26% maiores em cultivares de tomateiro e de 6 a 31,5% maiores em cultivares de feijão-de-vagem, em comparação com as produtividades obtidas nas faixas de quiabeiro, onde foram obtidos IM de 17 a 165 e números de ovos do nematóide que variaram de 7.200 a 19.000 por planta em cultivares de tomateiro e de feijão-de-vagem. O cultivo prévio da C. spectabilis por quatro meses é uma tecnologia viável para o controle de M. javanica, viabilizando a seqüência de cultivos com tomate-salada e feijão-de-vagem.

Consórcio de milho e feijão sob condicoes irrigadas e de sequeiro.

1993

Efeito do sombreamento artificial sobre a produção e algumas características do feijoeiro comum (Phaseolus vulgaris L.).

1991

Classificacao taxonomica, baseada na caracterizacao molecular, das estirpes de rizobio recomendadas para a culturas da soja e do feijoeiro.

As culturas da soja [Glycine max (L.) Merril] e do feijoeiro (Phaseolus vulgaris) sao de grande importancia economica e social para o Brasil e ambas podem ser capazes de suprir suas necessidades do nutriente nitrogenio pela simbiose com bacterias da familia Rhizobiaceae. Para garantir a maximizacao do processo biologico, porem, deve-se proceder a inoculacao das sementes com estirpes de rizobio eficientes e competitivas, recomendadas pela pesquisa. No Brasil, sao comercializadas, anualmente, cerca de 13 milhoes de doses de inoculantes, sendo 99% destinadas a cultura da soja. Neste trabalho, determinou-se a posicao taxonomica das estirpes de rizobio recomendadas comercialmente para as duas culturas por duas tecnicas, o RFLP-PCR da regiao correspondente ao 16S rRNA (regiao conservada entre bacterias mas suficientemente variavel e carregando informacoes que permitem a determinacao das relacoes filogeneticas entre bacterias) e o sequenciamento parcial dos genes desta regiao. O sequenciamento parcial permitiu definir que duas das estirpes recomendadas para a cultura da soja, SEMIA 587 e SEMIA 5019, pertencem a especie Bradyrhizobium elkanii e as duas outras, SEMIA 5079 e SEMIA 5080, a especie B. japonicum. As duas estirpes recomendadas para a cultura do feijoeiro, SEMIA 4077 e SEMIA 4080, pertencem a especie Rhizobium tropici. As sequencias obtidas para essas estirpes foram depositadas no banco mundial de genes.

Manual de identificação de doenças de soja.

Doenças causadas por fungos: Antracnose (Colletotrichum truncatum), Cancro da haste (Diaporthe phaseolorum var. meridionalis e D. phaseolorum var. caulivora), Crestamento foliar de cercóspora e mancha púrpura (Cercospora kikuchii), Ferrugem (Phakopsora pachyrhizi e P. meibomiae), Mancha alvo e podridão radicular de corinéspora (Corynespora cassiicola), Mancha foliar de ascoquita (Ascochyta sojae), Mancha foliar de mirotécio (Myrothecium roridum), Mancha olho-de-rã (Cercospora sojina), Mancha parda (Septoria glycines), Mela ou requeima (Rhizoctonia solani AG1), Míldio (Peronospora manshurica), Tombamento e morte em reboleira de rizoctonia (Rhizoctonia solani), Tombamento e murcha de esclerócio (Sclerotium rolfsii), Oídio (Erysiphe diffusa), Podridão branca da haste (Sclerotinia sclerotiorum), Podridão de carvão da raiz (Macrophomina phaseolina), Podridão parda da haste (Cadophora gregata), Podridão radicular de roselínia (Rosellinia necatrix), Seca da haste e da vagem (Phomopsis spp.), Podridão radicular de fitóftora (Phytophthora sojae), Podridão vermelha da raiz (Fusarium spp.). Doenças causadas por bactérias: Crestamento bacteriano (Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. glycinea), Fogo Selvagem (Pseudomonas syringae pv. tabaci), Pústula bacteriana (Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. glycines). Doenças causadas por vírus: Mosaico cálico (Alfalfa Mosaic Virus - AMV), Mosqueado do feijão (Bean Pod Mottle Virus - BPMV), Mosaico comum da soja (Soybean Mosaic Virus - SMV), Necrose da haste (Cowpea Mild Mottle Virus - CPMMV), Queima do broto (Tobacco Streak Virus - TSV). Doenças causadas por nematóides: Nematóide de cisto (Heterodera glycines), Nematóides de galhas (Meloidogyne incognita e M. javanica), Nematóide das lesões (Pratylenchus spp.), Nematóide reniforme (Rotylenchulus reniformis). Estádios de desenvolvimento da soja.

Avaliação de surtos de mosca-branca em áreas do sistema produtivo de melão, soja e feijão.

2000

Producao de sementes de feijao para pequenos produtores.

2001

Manejo da adubacao fosfatada corretiva para as culturas do milho e do feijoeiro irrigado em rotacao.

2001

Avaliacoes da infeccao de explantes de feijoeiro por Agrobacterium tumefaciens por meio de microscopia.

Phaseolus vulgaris L. e considerada recalcitrante a transformacao por Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Contudo, alteracoes no meio de co-cultivo, utilizacao de linhagens hipervirulentas de Agrobacterium e de vetores binarios contendo genes vir demostraram que o feijoeiro e susceptivel a essa bacteria. O objetivo do presente trabalho foi estudar o efeito da sonificacao nos tecidos vegetais de feijoeiro, bem como a penetracao da Agrobacterium nas camadas subepidermicas do tecido vegetal, usando a metodologia SAAT ("Sonification-Assisted Agrobacterium-mediated Transformation"). A variedade de feijoeiro utilizada foi a Olathe Pinto, a linhagem de A. tumefaciens foi LBA4404:pTOK.Os embrioes de feijao foram pre-tratados po 14 dias em meio de multibrotacao e, entao submetidos a sonificacao (de 0 ou 60 segundos) na presenca de Agrobacterium. Apos a inoculacao foram co-cultivados por 24 horas em meio liquido seguido de 48 horas em meio solido, ambos, contendo 20 m. L -1 de acetoceringona. Os explantes inoculados foram fixadas em solucao de Karnovsk para avaliacoes em microscopia optica e eletronica de varredura. As analises da microspia demostraram a presenca de rupturas na epiderme, quebras da parede celular e invasao da Agrobacterium nos tecidos subepidermicos. Os reultados demostraram que o metodo SAAT e uma tecnica viavel para a inoculcao de Agrobacterium em explantes de P. vulgaris.

Consórcio milho-feijão.

Avaliacao da produtividade dos sistemas consorciados; Vantagens do consorcio milho-feijao; Produtividade do milho e feijao consorciados; Epocas de plantio e sistemas de consorcio; Cultivares de milho e feijao para o consorcio; Preparo do solo; Arranjos de plantas, densidades de plantio e espacamento; Adubacao no consorcio milho-feijao; Controle de plantas daninhas; Pragas e doencas no consorcio milho-feijao.

Competição de linhagens de feijão de corda (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp) tipo ramador nos tabuleiros costeiros de Sergipe.

1996

A history of the Irish Red Cross Society, 1939-1971

This research is concerned with assessing from a national perspective the role, work and historical impact of the Irish Red Cross Society (IRCS) between 1939 and 1971. During this period the IRCS discharged three primary functions: it provided first aid services both in war-time and peace-time; it pioneered public health and social care services; and acted as the State’s main agency for international humanitarian relief measures. Although primarily a national organisational history of the Society, it is not a history in isolation. A broader perspective demonstrates that the work undertaken by the IRCS has relevance to the medical, social, religious, cultural, political and diplomatic history of twentieth century Ireland. This study assesses the impact of a number of significant public health and social care initiatives which the IRCS implemented and developed since its inception and how most of these were subsequently developed independently by the State. During the early 1940s, the Society’s formation of a national blood transfusion service ultimately laid the foundations for the establishment of a national blood transfusion service. The Society’s steering of a national anti-tuberculosis campaign in the 1940s brought the issue of the eradication of TB to the fore and helped to change public attitudes towards the disease. The concept of caring for the needs of the elderly in Ireland was largely unknown until the IRCS began addressing the issue in the 1950s and, for more than two decades, was effectively the only organisation in the State that campaigned and introduced innovative services for the aged. The IRCS made a significant impact in terms of its commitment to the needs of refugees and the provision of international humanitarian relief from Ireland. The Society’s donation in 1945 of a fully equipped hospital to the population of Saint-Lo in France, its war-time overseas relief efforts and its post-war work for child refugees earned Ireland significant international recognition and prestige and, more importantly, justified Ireland’s war-time policy of neutrality. With Ireland’s admission to the UN, the government became more dependent on the IRCS to consolidate that position.