Expression studies in the embryo and in the micropylar endosperm of germinating coffee (Coffea arabica cv. Rubi) seeds

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Gestão ambiental: um novo desafio para os profissionais de recursos humanos?

Current research analyzes the importance of human resources managers in organizational sustainability through the ack-nowledgement of the external variables and innovatory practices, such as environment management. In fact, the latter is a challenge for organizations and consequently for the human resources’ area. Investigation comprised a revision of the literature: theoretical and empirical articles that deal with the role of human resources’ mana-gement and on the environmental issue which is daily in the news. The essay is divided into three parts: the first section emphasizes the role of human resources’ managers; empirical evidences of the activities of HR managers in international contexts are dealt with in the second part; the third section deals with the environmental ma-nagement issue as a new challenge for HR managers. HR managers should acknowledge and incorporate in human resources practice the environmental dimension from the stages of recruitment, selec-tion and training. If people with attitudes and competences in the environment are rewarded, they will contribute towards an effective environmental management and, consequently, improvements in organizational results will materialize.

Avaliação enzimática na pós-colheita do maná cubiu tratados com radiação gama

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of gamma radiation on fruit quality and conservation of mana cubiu through its enzymatic characteristics, with 20 days of storage and 5 taken every 4 days. The fruits selected were subjected to different doses of gamma radiation Co60 (0.0; 0.2; 0.4; 0.6 and 0.8 kGy) packaged in trays of expanded polyethylene then covered with stretchable PVC film associated with refrigerated stored at 10 ± 3°C e 85 ± 5% de UR and evaluated in six periods (0, 4, 8, 12, 16 e 20 days). The variables evaluated were: enzymatic activity of pectin (PME), polygalacturonase (PG), polyphenoloxidase (PPO) and peroxidase (POD). For PG there was no interaction between dose and storage on the day 16 the highest value to 640.10 UE min-1 g-1 and 0.8 kGy dose showed the lowest with 376.37 10 UE min-1 g-1. PME now get in 16 days and 0.8 kGy dose the highest values of the experiment, to 290.74 UE min-1 g-1. In POF, the day 16 presented the value of 0.26 min-1 g-1 of dry mass-1. In 20 days the fruits of all treatments provided the highest values of POD during the experiment. The results showed that different doses of gamma radiation does not interfere with the activity of the enzymes determined in this experiment.

THE HOUSE OF JOANA DARK: DRAMA AND PRODUCTION

While discussing images of Our Lady and of the mothers and women of the Garden of Flowers (or "Devils' Hole"), a peripheral district of a city in the interior of Sao Paulo state, this paper intends to explore the specificity of dramatic aesthetics. Rather than depend upon the aesthetics of social drama, as discussed in the works of Victor Turner, the present paper deals with a concept of montage that is inspired by the cinema of Sergei Eisenstein in order to illuminate a selection of field notes... and, along with Eisenstein, Julia Kristeva, Walter Benjamin, Michael Taussig and Antonin Artaud. Wit regards to those readers interested in hearing what these women may have to say, caution is suggested, for the words of these women may ring in our ears as the sounds of musket shots

Boundedness of solutions of retarded functional differential equations with variable impulses via generalized ordinary differential equations

In this paper, we give sufficient conditions for the uniform boundedness and uniform ultimate boundedness of solutions of a class of retarded functional differential equations with impulse effects acting on variable times. We employ the theory of generalized ordinary differential equations to obtain our results. As an example, we investigate the boundedness of the solution of a circulating fuel nuclear reactor model.

Eine groizame gešichṭe : welche zich in Kališ am 23. juni 1878 tzugeṭragen haṭ

heroisgegeben fom Badḥan in Kališ

Burbujas racionales en el mercado de valores argentino

Desde el surgimiento de los mercados de valores, han existido periodos con importante aumento en los precios de sus activos, que luego se han atribuido a la presencia de burbujas especulativas. Entre los más conocidos se encuentran la manía de los tulipanes en Holanda a principios del siglo XVII, donde un bulbo de tulipán llegó a valer 24 toneladas de trigo, la ola especulativa en Wall Street que terminó en el “crash" de 1929, la burbuja tecnológica en el Nasdaq que estalló a principios de siglo. Estos acontecimientos motivan a deliberar sobre la racionalidad de los precios de los títulos que se negocian en los mercados. Bajo la hipótesis de mercados eficientes, los precios de las acciones varían solamente si los inversores reaccionan a la nueva información relacionada con los fundamentos. Esto significa que los precios siguen una martingala y que cualquier desvió sistemático en relación al valor fundamental debe ser considerado una burbuja. Si existe una burbuja especulativa, el precio de mercado tendrá dos componentes: el precio racional o valor fundamental y la burbuja especulativa. Las razones por las cuales se paga un precio mayor al racional van desde la creencia que existirá un “tonto más grande" que comprará ese activo en el futuro, excesos de confianza o simplemente por un comportamiento de manada de los agentes involucrados. Las burbujas en los precios de los activos pueden ser relevantes en economías emergentes porque pueden acarrear efectos colaterales (como apreciación de su moneda) y potencial reversibilidad. Una burbuja puntual en los precios de las acciones puede terminar acarreando excesiva inversión en capital y euforia seguida de “crash" y recesión. Muchos de los comienzos de crisis económicas o financieras estuvieron históricamente asociados a la formación de burbujas en los precios de los activos, como bien enseña la reciente burbuja en las propiedades inmobiliarias de Estados Unidos. El objetivo de este trabajo consiste en recopilar los diferentes modelos y pruebas utilizadas en la literatura para la detección de burbujas especulativas en los precios de mercado, para luego, siguiendo la metodología propuesta por Diba y Grossman (1988), realizar contrastes de raíces unitarias y cointegración para encontrar dichas burbujas en el Merval. Se destacan en este trabajo dos aportes de interés. En primer lugar, se trata del primer estudio empírico para el mercado bursátil argentino sobre la existencia de burbujas especulativas utilizando las variables de precios y dividendos con la metodología anteriormente descrita. En segundo lugar, el periodo muestral considerado es uno de los más interesantes a la hora de abordar un estudio sobre burbujas especulativas al estar este caracterizado por un importante crecimiento.

Negative effects of ocean acidification on two crustose coralline species using genetically homogeneous samples

We evaluated acidification effects on two crustose coralline algal species common to Pacific coral reefs, Lithophyllum kotschyanum and Hydrolithon samoense. We used genetically homogeneous samples of both species to eliminate misidentification of species. The growth rates and percent calcification of the walls of the epithallial cells (thallus surface cells) of both species decreased with increasing pCO2. However, elevated pCO2 more strongly inhibited the growth of L. kotschyanum versus H. samoense. The trend of decreasing percent calcification of the cell wall did not differ between these species, although intercellular calcification of the epithallial cells in L. kotschyanum was apparently reduced at elevated pCO2, a result that might indicate that there are differences in the solubility or density of the calcite skeletons of these two species. These results can provide knowledge fundamental to future studies of the physiological and genetic mechanisms that underlie the response of crustose coralline algae to environmental stresses.

[Tercer siglo de la canonizacion de S. Vicente Ferrer] [Material gráfico]

Inscripción: "Siglo tercero de la canonización del apóstol de Europa"

Vosporskoe t︠s︡arstvo s ego paleograficheskimi i nadgrobnymi pami︠a︡tnikami, raspisnymi vazami, planami, kartami i vidami /

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