Desempenho das crias de ovelhas suplementadas com diferentes quantidades de concentrado em sistema de caatinga raleada e enriquecida.

Resumo: Avaliou-se no presente estudo, o desempenho das crias de ovelhas Somalis brasileira em pasto de caatinga raleada e enriquecida recebendo diferentes quantidades de concentrado. Para isso, o desenvolvimento ponderal das crias foi medido por pesagens quinzenais. As crias de ovelhas não suplementadas apresentaram menor peso ao nascer e à desmama comparado aos demais (P<0,05). Com a suplementação concentrada no pré e pós parto de ovelhas na caatinga, ocorre o aumento da viabilidade das crias. [Performance of lambs of ewes supplemented with different amounts of concentrate in thinned and enriched caatinga rangelands system]. Abstract: Were evaluated in this study, the performance of lambs of ewes Somalis brasileira breed in thinned and enriched caatinga rangelands with different amounts of concentrate offered. For this, the weight development of lambs was measured by biweekly weights. Lambs of non supplemented ewes showed lower weights at birth and weaning compared to other treatments (P<0.05). With supplementation of concentrates at pre and post lambing of ewes in caatinga rangelands, increases the lambs viability.

Tetrastichus giffardianus on pupae of Anastrepha in Brazil.

2016

Universidades no sistema de inovação brasileiro: a experiência da Unicamp na promoção de uma cultura da propriedade intelectual, empreendedorismo e inovação.

O objetivo deste trabalho é apresentar iniciativas empreendidas pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) para criar um ambiente institucional favorável à proteção da propriedade intelectual (PI) e à promoção da inovação e do empreendedorismo.

Mapeando e valorizando o conhecimento ecológico tradicional na gestão de áreas marinhas protegidas

Dissertação de Mestrado em Ecologia Humana e Problemas Sociais Contemporâneos

Ensaio sobre a Cronística e a Guerra em Portugal no final da Idade Média

Neste artigo, faremos uma breve exposição da pesquisa que estamos desenvolvendo. Esta tem como tema central a representação da guerra e da violência na cronística portuguesa do século XV até a primeira metade do XVI. Especificamente, propomos uma análise da construção de um perfil de cavaleiro e ação exemplar nas guerras, considerando as virtudes e valores indicados como ideais pelos cronistas e, também, o comportamento condenável, o “contra-modelo” de cavalaria. Como é uma pesquisa ainda em desenvolvimento, faremos uma rápida exposição das fontes analisadas, bem como de parte da bibliografia sobre a guerra, a violência e o gênero cronístico ao final da Idade Média. A partir desta exposição, levantamos questões pertinentes que direcionam nosso esforço de pesquisa, abrindo a possibilidade de uma nova abordagem sobre a relação entre a guerra, a violência, a cavalaria e as construções e representações dos cronistas portugueses.

Ageing on commercial automotive catalysts, a structure reactivity study

Increasingly stringed regulations for diesel engine emissions have a significant impact on the required efficiency of DOC. Lowered DOC oxidation efficiency due to thermal aging effects influences the efficiency of the exhaust aftertreatment systems downstream of the DOC. In this work carried out in the Jean Le Rond d’Alembert Institute the effect of hydrothermal aging on the reactivity and structure of a commercial DOC was investigated. The characterization of the catalytic performance was carried out on a synthetic gas bench using carrots catalyst under conditions close to the realistic conditions i.e. using a synthetic gas mixture, representative of the exhaust gases from diesel engines. Different structural characterization techniques were performed: textural and morphological proprieties were analyzed by BET and TEM, the characterization of the presented crystallographic phases was performed by DRX and the determination of the number of reducible species was possible by TPR. TEM results shown, an increase of the metal particle size with the aging caused by the agglomeration of metal particles, revealing the presence of metal sintering. DRX results also suggest the presence of support sintering. Furthermore, DRX and BET results unexpectedly reveal that the most drastic aging conditions used actually activated the catalyst surface. As expected, the aging affected negatively the catalyst performance on the oxidation of methane and CO, however an improvement of the NO oxidation performance with the aging was observed. Nevertheless, for the aging conditions used, catalytic activity results show that the influence of aging in DOC performance was not significant, and therefore, more drastic aging conditions must be used.

Fucoidan-based particles for diabetes mellitus treatment

Marine organisms are rich in a variety of materials with potential use in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine. One important example is fucoidan, a sulfated polysaccharide extracted from the cell wall of brown seaweeds.  Fucoidan is composed by L-fucose, sulfate groups and glucuronic acid. It has important bioactive properties such as anti-oxidative, anticoagulant, anticancer and reducing the blood glucose (1). In this work, the biomedical potential of fucoidan-based materials as drug delivery system was assessed by processing modified fucoidan (MFu) into particles by photocrosslinking using superamphiphobic surfaces and visible light. Fucoidan was modified by methacrylation reaction using different concentrations of methacrylate anhydride, namely 8% v/v (MFu1) and 12% v/v (MFu2). Further, MFu particles with and without insulin (5% w/v) were produced by pipetting a solution of 5% MFu with triethanolamine and eosin-y onto a superamphiphobic surface and then photocrosslinking using visible light (2). The developed particles were characterized to assess their chemistry, morphology, swelling behavior, drug release, insulin content and encapsulation efficiency. Moreover, the viability assays of fibroblast L929 cells in contact with MFu particles showed good adhesion and proliferation up to 14 days. Furthermore, the therapeutic potential of these particles using human beta cells is currently under investigation. Results obtained so far suggest that modified fucoidan particles could be a good candidate for diabetes mellitus therapeutic approaches.  

Polyethylene glycol 8000+ citrate salts aqueous two-phase systems: Relative hydrophobicity of the equilibrium phases

The Gibbs free energy of transfer of a methylene group, G*(CH2), is reported as a measure of the relative hydrophobicity of the equilibrium phases. Furthermore, G*(CH2) is a characteristic parameter of each tie-line, and for that reason can be used for comparing different tie-lines of a given aqueous two-phase system (ATPS) or even to establish comparisons among different ATPSs. In this work, the partition coefficients of a series of four dinitrophenylated-amino acids were experimentally determined, at 23 °C, in five different tie-lines of PEG8000(sodium or potassium) citrate ATPSs. G*(CH2) values were calculated from the partition coefficients and used to evaluate the relative hydrophobicity of the equilibrium phases. PEG8000potassium citrate ATPSs presented larger relative hydrophobicity than PEG8000sodium citrate ATPSs. Furthermore, the results obtained indicated that the PEG-rich phase (top phase) has higher affinity to participate in hydrophobic hydration interactions than the salt-rich phase (bottom phase).