Rose de mai : légendes parisiennes / par Louis Lazare ; par P. Creton

Comprend : Geoffroy l'Asnier ; Entre deux canons

Observation of a continuous interior crisis in the Hindmarsh-Rose neuron model.

Interior crises are understood as discontinuous changes of the size of a chaotic attractor that occur when an unstable periodic orbit collides with the chaotic attractor. We present here numerical evidence and theoretical reasoning which prove the existence of a chaos-chaos transition in which the change of the attractor size is sudden but continuous. This occurs in the Hindmarsh¿Rose model of a neuron, at the transition point between the bursting and spiking dynamics, which are two different dynamic behaviors that this system is able to present. Moreover, besides the change in attractor size, other significant properties of the system undergoing the transitions do change in a relevant qualitative way. The mechanism for such transition is understood in terms of a simple one-dimensional map whose dynamics undergoes a crossover between two different universal behaviors

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Nitrogênio e potássio no crescimento de mudas de pitaia [Hylocereus undatus (Haw.) Britton & Rose]

A pitaia ainda é uma cultura carente de estudos e informações que subsidiem a definição/adaptação de sistemas de produção mais adequados às condições edafoclimáticas brasileiras, embora nos últimos anos tenha havido aumento de sua expansão agrícola, tanto no Brasil quanto em outros países. Assim, o objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar o efeito da adubação mineral sobre o crescimento de mudas de pitaia e, dessa maneira, obter informações direcionadas para a definição de manejos de fertilização adequados à exploração agrícola da cultura. Para isto, foram testadas cinco doses de nitrogênio (N) (0; 150; 300; 450 e 600 mg dm-3) e potássio (K) (0; 75; 150; 225 e 300 mg dm-3), sendo os níveis de cada nutriente arranjados em esquema fatorial 5x5, com quatro blocos. Para a interação significativa a (p<0,05), procedeu-se ao ajuste em superfícies de resposta do tipo Y = β0 + β1(A) + β2(A)² + β3(B) + β4(B)² + β5(A).(B) + e. As estimativas das correlações fenotípicas foram obtidas considerando apenas o intervalo das doses de N e K, que promoveram as melhores respostas do acesso de pitaia para os caracteres estudados. Ao término do presente estudo, foi constatado que a aplicação de doses crescentes de N e K, e a interação NxP afetam os teores de ambos os nutrientes no solo, o sistema radicular e a parte aérea, influenciando, desse modo, sobre o crescimento inicial das plantas de pitaia. Os rendimentos mais satisfatórios ocorrem quando há 0,7 mmol dm-3 de K no solo, e 20 - 25 g kg-1 de N com 30 - 40 g kg-1 de K na parte aérea. Esses valores foram obtidos para a aplicação de 300 - 450 mg dm-3 de N com 150 - 225 mg dm-3 de K. O somatório do comprimento dos cladódios (SCC) e a massa seca do sistema radicular (MSSR) são as variáveis explicativas que apresentam maiores efeitos diretos sobre a massa seca dos cladódios (MSC).

The Rose Bengal test in human brucellosis: a neglected test for the diagnosis of a neglected disease

Brucellosis is a highly contagious zoonosis affecting livestock and human beings. The human disease lacks pathognomonic symptoms and laboratory tests are essential for its diagnosis. However, most tests are difficult to implement in the areas and countries were brucellosis is endemic. Here, we compared the simple and cheap Rose Bengal Test (RBT) with serum agglutination, Coombs, competitive ELISA, Brucellacapt, lateral flow immunochromatography for IgM and IgG detection and immunoprecipitation with Brucella proteins. We tested 208 sera from patients with brucellosis proved by bacteriological isolation, 20 contacts with no brucellosis, and 1559 sera of persons with no recent contact or brucellosis symptoms. RBT was highly sensitive in acute and long evolution brucellosis cases and this related to its ability to detect IgM, IgG and IgA, to the absence of prozones, and to the agglutinating activity of blocking IgA at the pH of the test. RBT was also highly specific in the sera of persons with no contact with Brucella. No test in this study outperformed RBT, and none was fully satisfactory in distinguishing contacts from infected patients. When modified to test serum dilutions, a diagnostic titer >4 in RBT resulted in 87.4% sensitivity (infected patients) and 100% specificity (contacts). We discuss the limitations of serological tests in the diagnosis of human brucellosis, particularly in the more chronic forms, and conclude that simplicity and affordability of RBT make it close to the ideal test for small and understaffed hospitals and laboratories.