Modelagem estatística e atribuições dos eventos de precipitação extrema na Amazônia brasileira

Intense precipitation events (IPE) have been causing great social and economic losses in the affected regions. In the Amazon, these events can have serious impacts, primarily for populations living on the margins of its countless rivers, because when water levels are elevated, floods and/or inundations are generally observed. Thus, the main objective of this research is to study IPE, through Extreme Value Theory (EVT), to estimate return periods of these events and identify regions of the Brazilian Amazon where IPE have the largest values. The study was performed using daily rainfall data of the hydrometeorological network managed by the National Water Agency (Agência Nacional de Água) and the Meteorological Data Bank for Education and Research (Banco de Dados Meteorológicos para Ensino e Pesquisa) of the National Institute of Meteorology (Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia), covering the period 1983-2012. First, homogeneous rainfall regions were determined through cluster analysis, using the hierarchical agglomerative Ward method. Then synthetic series to represent the homogeneous regions were created. Next EVT, was applied in these series, through Generalized Extreme Value (GEV) and the Generalized Pareto Distribution (GPD). The goodness of fit of these distributions were evaluated by the application of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, which compares the cumulated empirical distributions with the theoretical ones. Finally, the composition technique was used to characterize the prevailing atmospheric patterns for the occurrence of IPE. The results suggest that the Brazilian Amazon has six pluvial homogeneous regions. It is expected more severe IPE to occur in the south and in the Amazon coast. More intense rainfall events are expected during the rainy or transitions seasons of each sub-region, with total daily precipitation of 146.1, 143.1 and 109.4 mm (GEV) and 201.6, 209.5 and 152.4 mm (GPD), at least once year, in the south, in the coast and in the northwest of the Brazilian Amazon, respectively. For the south Amazonia, the composition analysis revealed that IPE are associated with the configuration and formation of the South Atlantic Convergence Zone. Along the coast, intense precipitation events are associated with mesoscale systems, such Squall Lines. In Northwest Amazonia IPE are apparently associated with the Intertropical Convergence Zone and/or local convection.

Adição de policloreto de alumínio e remoção de peixes bentívoros como técnicas de restauração de lagos rasos do semiárido brasileiro

Eutrophication is the most common cause of water quality degradation in the world. This process occurs by excessive nutrients inputs, nitrogen and phosphorus, to the aquatic systems resulting in algal and cyanobacterial blooms. In shallow lakes these effects are pronounced due to the higher interaction of the lake with watershed, air and sediment. There are innumerous restoration techniques of eutrophied lakes with a range of successful results but there is only one case of successful lake restoration in Brazil: Paranoá Lake in Brasília city. The Brazilian semiarid region has many artificial lakes, named açudes, which are mostly eutrophic and shallow lakes. The eutrophication in these lakes is reported and the phytoplankton community is dominated by potentially toxic cyanobacteria species, mainly Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii. The aim of this thesis is to test techniques for water quality management which can be easily applied in Brazilian semiarid lakes. Results from a laboratory experiment suggest that the addition of a phosphorus sorbent clay associated with an aluminium based coagulant is an effective technique in removing soluble reactive phosphorus and reducing C. raciborskii growth rate – cyanobacteria potentially toxic dominant in reservoirs of Brazilian semiarid – but this effect is dependent on the biomass in the application moment. Results from a field experiment in mesocosm in a eutrophied lake showed that the addition of aluminium based coagulant and removal of benthivorous fish is more efficient in removing total phosphorus and chlorophyll-a from water column than the isolated application of one of the techniques. Lastly, laboratory tests showed that aluminium based coagulant exhibited good performance in removing turbidity and total phosphorus from water of six reservoirs but the efficiency was reduced by algal biomass and pH. The results of this study showed that the improvement in water quality of eutrophied reservoirs in semiarid region is possible through internal loading control by phosphorus precipitation and inactivation in sediments or inhibition of phosphorus release by benthivorous fishes, and also that these results show are additives in water quality improvement.

Adição de policloreto de alumínio e remoção de peixes bentívoros como técnicas de restauração de lagos rasos do semiárido brasileiro

Eutrophication is the most common cause of water quality degradation in the world. This process occurs by excessive nutrients inputs, nitrogen and phosphorus, to the aquatic systems resulting in algal and cyanobacterial blooms. In shallow lakes these effects are pronounced due to the higher interaction of the lake with watershed, air and sediment. There are innumerous restoration techniques of eutrophied lakes with a range of successful results but there is only one case of successful lake restoration in Brazil: Paranoá Lake in Brasília city. The Brazilian semiarid region has many artificial lakes, named açudes, which are mostly eutrophic and shallow lakes. The eutrophication in these lakes is reported and the phytoplankton community is dominated by potentially toxic cyanobacteria species, mainly Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii. The aim of this thesis is to test techniques for water quality management which can be easily applied in Brazilian semiarid lakes. Results from a laboratory experiment suggest that the addition of a phosphorus sorbent clay associated with an aluminium based coagulant is an effective technique in removing soluble reactive phosphorus and reducing C. raciborskii growth rate – cyanobacteria potentially toxic dominant in reservoirs of Brazilian semiarid – but this effect is dependent on the biomass in the application moment. Results from a field experiment in mesocosm in a eutrophied lake showed that the addition of aluminium based coagulant and removal of benthivorous fish is more efficient in removing total phosphorus and chlorophyll-a from water column than the isolated application of one of the techniques. Lastly, laboratory tests showed that aluminium based coagulant exhibited good performance in removing turbidity and total phosphorus from water of six reservoirs but the efficiency was reduced by algal biomass and pH. The results of this study showed that the improvement in water quality of eutrophied reservoirs in semiarid region is possible through internal loading control by phosphorus precipitation and inactivation in sediments or inhibition of phosphorus release by benthivorous fishes, and also that these results show are additives in water quality improvement.

Foraminíferos como ferramenta de estudo na geologia ambiental do estuário do Rio Potengi e da plataforma interna, RN, Brasil

The Potengi River estuary has been affected by various anthropogenic factors over the years, as periodic dredging, industrial and domestic waste, traffic and other factors, causing various environmental disasters, including the notorious ecological accident in July 2007, which covered the municipalities of São Gonçalo do Amarante, Macaíba and Natal. Foraminifera serve as viable study tools in these environments; they are able to identify ecologically stressed environments, pointing out hydrographic changes and depositional environments in estuaries. The necessity to check the differences in environmental gradients in places anthropically impacted in Potengi River and adjacent inner shelf through species of foraminifera, and, the responses of these organisms to physical, chemical and geological factors is to provide baseline in the diagnosis of environments. The results show the dominance of opportunistic Ammonia tepida, Bolivina striatula, Quinqueloculina patagonica and Q. miletti especially in regions close to shrimp farms and Baldo Channel sewage in fine grain environments; and Q. lamarckiana indicates penetration of the saline waters in Potengi River. The occurrence of low-salinity tolerant foraminiferal species typical of mangrove environments as Trochammina inflata and T. squamata in Potengi River Channel suggest they probably could have been transported from mangrove area near the Potengi river mouth to the inner shelf regions. These findings suggest Potengi River is able to export mixohaline and mangrove organisms to inner shelf. Two distinct environments were observed, the outermost area is more influenced by marine influence and the innermost area is less influenced. Calcareous and agglutinated species dominate Potengi River, while mouth and inner shelf areas are dominated by calcareous, agglutinated and porcelaneous species, which are typical of highly saline and hydrodynamic environments and the contributive factors that controls foraminiferal distribution were balance of marine and freshwater currents, grain size, availability of CaCO3 and organic matter.

Foraminíferos como ferramenta de estudo na geologia ambiental do estuário do Rio Potengi e da plataforma interna, RN, Brasil

The Potengi River estuary has been affected by various anthropogenic factors over the years, as periodic dredging, industrial and domestic waste, traffic and other factors, causing various environmental disasters, including the notorious ecological accident in July 2007, which covered the municipalities of São Gonçalo do Amarante, Macaíba and Natal. Foraminifera serve as viable study tools in these environments; they are able to identify ecologically stressed environments, pointing out hydrographic changes and depositional environments in estuaries. The necessity to check the differences in environmental gradients in places anthropically impacted in Potengi River and adjacent inner shelf through species of foraminifera, and, the responses of these organisms to physical, chemical and geological factors is to provide baseline in the diagnosis of environments. The results show the dominance of opportunistic Ammonia tepida, Bolivina striatula, Quinqueloculina patagonica and Q. miletti especially in regions close to shrimp farms and Baldo Channel sewage in fine grain environments; and Q. lamarckiana indicates penetration of the saline waters in Potengi River. The occurrence of low-salinity tolerant foraminiferal species typical of mangrove environments as Trochammina inflata and T. squamata in Potengi River Channel suggest they probably could have been transported from mangrove area near the Potengi river mouth to the inner shelf regions. These findings suggest Potengi River is able to export mixohaline and mangrove organisms to inner shelf. Two distinct environments were observed, the outermost area is more influenced by marine influence and the innermost area is less influenced. Calcareous and agglutinated species dominate Potengi River, while mouth and inner shelf areas are dominated by calcareous, agglutinated and porcelaneous species, which are typical of highly saline and hydrodynamic environments and the contributive factors that controls foraminiferal distribution were balance of marine and freshwater currents, grain size, availability of CaCO3 and organic matter.

Dosimetria interna da inalazione in Medicina Nucleare

Scopo di questo lavoro è l’individuazione di una metodica che permetta la valutazione dosimetrica interna dei lavoratori in Medicina Nucleare, dell’I.R.S.T. I radionuclidi impiegati hanno elevata volatilità e tempi di dimezzamento molto brevi quindi, diventa di fondamentale importanza la misura della concentrazione in aria. come radioisotopo d'interesse è stato considerato il F-18. Per la misura della contaminazione in aria è stato utilizzato un sistema progettato dall’azienda MecMurphil (MP-AIR). L’aria attraversa un beaker Marinelli, posto in un pozzetto schermato in piombo (5/6 cm di spessore più rivestimento in rame di 3 mm) nel quale è inserito un rivelatore a scintillazione NaI(Tl) a basso fondo in modalità di campionamento continuo. Attraverso il software MAIR-C, collegato al rivelatore, è stato possibile calibrarlo in energia, FWHM e efficienza. I locali analizzati, poiché quotidianamente frequentati dal personale, sono: Laboratorio caldo, Corridoio, Attesa calda, Camere degenza, e Radiofarmacia. Mediante l’uso di fogli di calcolo, è stata determinata la concentrazione media presente nei diversi locali. I risultati ottenuti hanno mostrato che la concentrazione massima di F-18 è nella radiofarmacia.Le persone con accesso ai locali “caldi” sono state classificate, sulla base delle attività da loro svolte in: medici, TSRM, infermieri e radiofarmacisti. Per ognuna di queste figure è stato stimato il tempo di permanenza all’interno dei locali.Si è proceduto, poi, alla validazione del metodo utilizzato per il calcolo della dose interna per inalazione, applicando quanto riportato nella pubblicazione I.C.R.P. 66, che ha come scopo principale quello di determinare i limiti annuali d’introduzione dei radionuclidi per i lavoratori.Le metodiche, applicate al solo radioisotopo F-18, permettono di ricavare una prima stima della dose inalata dagli operatori, aprendo un’ ampia gamma di possibili sviluppi futuri.

Avaliação das condições de precipitação do azul da Prússia sobre pó de grafite visando o desenvolvimento de eletrodos de pasta de carbono para a quantificação de nitrito

An amperometric FIA method for nitrite quantification based on nitrite electroreduction and employing a carbon paste electrode (CPE) chemically modified with iron hexacyanoferrate (HCF) as an amperometric detector was developed. The influence of experimental conditions on the preparation of the electrode materials was evaluated and the materials obtained in each study were used for the development of modified electrodes. The electrochemical sensors were prepared by a fast, simple, and inexpensive procedure, and the long-term performance of the electrodes were quite satisfactory as the stability was maintained over one year. HCF was an effective redox mediator for nitrite electroreduction in acidic media, allowing nitrite detection at +0.2 V vs. Ag/AgClsat, which is a potential free of possible interfering species that are normally present in food and water samples. The electrochemical cell used in the FIA system was similar to a batch injection analysis cell, enabling recirculation of the carrier solution. This is an attractive feature because it allows the use of a high flow rate (6 mL min-1) leading to high sensitivity and analysis speed, while keeping reagent consumption low. The proposed method had a detection limit of 9 μmol L-1 and was successfully employed for nitrite quantification in spiked water and sausage samples. The obtained results were in good agreement with those provided by the spectrophotometric official method. At a 95 % confidence level it was not observed statistical differences neither in nitrite content nor in the precision provided by both methods. The experimental conditions for the synthesis of HCF were optimized and the best electrode material was prepared by mixing FeCl3, K4[Fe(CN)6] and carbon powder subjected to an acid and thermal treatment (400 ºC), followed by ultrasonic agitation at 4 °C. This material was used to construct an electrode with improved analytical performance to reduce nitrite, which presented greater stability compared to HCF film electrodeposited on the EPC, showing that the preparation procedure of the electrode material is an effective strategy for the development of HCF modified electrodes.

Comportamento mecânico e biológico de implante dentário com interface cônica interna

The general aim of this study was to evaluate the conical interface of pilar/implant. The specific aims were to evaluate the influence of hexagonal internal index in the microleakage and mechanical strength of Morse taper implants; the effect of axial loading on the deformation in cervical region of Morse taper implants of different diameters through strain gauge; the effect of axial loading in cervical deformation and sliding of abutment into the implant by tridimensional measurements; the integrity of conical interface before and after dynamic loading by microscopy and microleakage; and the stress distribution in tridimensional finite element models of Morse taper implants assembled with 2 pieces abutment. According to the obtained results, could be concluded that the diameter had influence in the cervical deformation of Morse taper implants; the presence of internal hexagonal index in the end of internal cone of implant didn´t influenced the bacterial microleakage under static loading neither reduced the mechanical strength of implants; one million cycles of vertical and off-center load had no negative influence in Morse taper implant integrity.

El conflicto con Siemens desde una perspectiva interna

El objetivo del trabajo es analizar, desde una perspectiva teórica, el conflicto suscitado entre el gobierno argentino y la empresa alemana Siemens que se convirtió en motivo de preocupación para los gobiernos que sucedieron a Menem. El conflicto tiene sus orígenes en 1998, cuando la empresa resultó ganadora de un proceso licitatorio, que desde el inicio fue sospechado de corrupción. Se agravó con la sanción de la Ley de Emergencia Económica, en cuyo marco se inició un proceso de renegociación de los términos del contrato original (por no ajustarse este a la realidad económica del país), y alcanzó su máximo nivel en la decisión final del ex presidente Fernando de la Rua de rescindirlo. La envergadura de las negociaciones se hizo evidente desde el momento que el gobierno alemán respaldó explícitamente la posición de la empresa, de manera que un conflicto inicialmente comercial amenazó derivar en uno diplomático. El marco teórico que emplearé para abordar los hechos será el Modelo de Política Burocrática utilizado por Graham Allison en su obra "La esencia de la decisión". Dicho enfoque sostiene que las decisiones de los gobiernos, no son elecciones de actores racionales unitarios, ni procesos determinados por las capacidades organizacionales, sino resultados de los distintos juegos de acuerdos establecidos por los participantes que operan desde el gobierno nacional

Lógica interna y Educación Física. Presentación de un proyecto de investigación

En esta ponencia realizaremos sucintamente la presentación de un proyecto de investigación que ha sido recientemente acreditado en la UNLP (Saraví, 2015). Dicha pesquisa está centrada en el estudio de la lógica interna (Parlebas, 1981, 2001), desde el marco teórico de la Praxiología Motriz. Al respecto, y desde esta perspectiva de análisis, nos interesa indagar en cómo los profesores de Educación Física de la ciudad de La Plata y Ensenada llevan adelante la enseñanza de diferentes prácticas corporales en instituciones educativas, clubes y/o espacios no formalizados. Asimismo buscamos conocer las características y rasgos de algunas de esas prácticas corporales -es decir, su lógica interna-, buscando las articulaciones con la Educación Física y tratando de indagar respecto a sí los profesores de esta disciplina conocen o no el concepto, y como lo utilizan. En este proyecto nos interesa particularmente explicar cómo opera el conocimiento de la lógica interna de esas prácticas en lo que concierne a su enseñanza y-o su gestión por parte de los docentes del área

El conflicto con Siemens desde una perspectiva interna

El objetivo del trabajo es analizar, desde una perspectiva teórica, el conflicto suscitado entre el gobierno argentino y la empresa alemana Siemens que se convirtió en motivo de preocupación para los gobiernos que sucedieron a Menem. El conflicto tiene sus orígenes en 1998, cuando la empresa resultó ganadora de un proceso licitatorio, que desde el inicio fue sospechado de corrupción. Se agravó con la sanción de la Ley de Emergencia Económica, en cuyo marco se inició un proceso de renegociación de los términos del contrato original (por no ajustarse este a la realidad económica del país), y alcanzó su máximo nivel en la decisión final del ex presidente Fernando de la Rua de rescindirlo. La envergadura de las negociaciones se hizo evidente desde el momento que el gobierno alemán respaldó explícitamente la posición de la empresa, de manera que un conflicto inicialmente comercial amenazó derivar en uno diplomático. El marco teórico que emplearé para abordar los hechos será el Modelo de Política Burocrática utilizado por Graham Allison en su obra "La esencia de la decisión". Dicho enfoque sostiene que las decisiones de los gobiernos, no son elecciones de actores racionales unitarios, ni procesos determinados por las capacidades organizacionales, sino resultados de los distintos juegos de acuerdos establecidos por los participantes que operan desde el gobierno nacional

Lógica interna y Educación Física. Presentación de un proyecto de investigación

En esta ponencia realizaremos sucintamente la presentación de un proyecto de investigación que ha sido recientemente acreditado en la UNLP (Saraví, 2015). Dicha pesquisa está centrada en el estudio de la lógica interna (Parlebas, 1981, 2001), desde el marco teórico de la Praxiología Motriz. Al respecto, y desde esta perspectiva de análisis, nos interesa indagar en cómo los profesores de Educación Física de la ciudad de La Plata y Ensenada llevan adelante la enseñanza de diferentes prácticas corporales en instituciones educativas, clubes y/o espacios no formalizados. Asimismo buscamos conocer las características y rasgos de algunas de esas prácticas corporales -es decir, su lógica interna-, buscando las articulaciones con la Educación Física y tratando de indagar respecto a sí los profesores de esta disciplina conocen o no el concepto, y como lo utilizan. En este proyecto nos interesa particularmente explicar cómo opera el conocimiento de la lógica interna de esas prácticas en lo que concierne a su enseñanza y-o su gestión por parte de los docentes del área