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The need for a more reliable method to select beef heifers to retain as replacement dams has become a concern in the beef industry. Two polymorphisms described in leptin (LEP), p.Arg25Cys, and pro-melanin concentrating hormone (PMCH), g.-134A>T, have already been shown to improve carcass quality in beef cattle. This study was designed to evaluate any additional advantages of these polymorphisms in terms of heifer conception and calving success and lactational milk yield measured indirectly by their calves’ early ADG while they were primarily on lactation. A dominant effect of the dam’s PMCH T allele was observed on improved calf early ADGs in Simmental heifer dams, although not in Angus heifer dams. This effect could be useful in cow-calf operations where calves were suckling their dams for a longer period before sending the cow-calf pairs out to summer pasture. The dam LEP genotype did not show an effect on their calves’ ADG. This was assumed to be due to low body fat reserves of the heifer dams at the age of two years, allowing for only low levels of leptin. Even though heifer conception was not affected by their LEP and PMCH genotypes, it would be worth evaluating their rebreeding success in the presence of these SNPs in the future. The Integral Membrane Protein 2A (ITM2A) was hypothesized as a candidate gene for frame size in cattle. DNA fragments from 20 cattle, matching the predicted exons of the cattle ITM2A gene, were sequenced to determine whether genetic variation existed. However, the sequence obtained based on the predicted cattle ITM2A sequences appeared to be a pseudogene, rather than the actual cattle ITM2A gene, because exons 1, 2, 3 and 5 contained stop codons. Since frame size has been reported to be associated with the reproductive performance of beef dams and their calves’ growth characteristics, it would be useful to characterize this gene once an improved cattle genome assembly is available.

Orientador: Bento Carlos Dias da Silva / Banca: Clotilde de Almeida Azevedo Murakawa / Banca: Patrícia Tosqui Lucks / Resumo: A cidade de Ibitinga destaca-se nacionalmente no ramo dos bordados, com sua economia voltada quase que exclusivamente à produção dessas peças. Tendo esse contexto como pano de fundo, esta dissertação discute todo o processo linguístico e linguístico-computacional de construção de ontoléxicos - constructos formais cuja natureza léxico-conceitual possibilita o desenvolvimento de investigações teóricas (estudos lexicogramaticais) e aplicadas (construção de recursos lexicográficos e para o processamento computacional de informação textual disponível na Web). Em particular, constrói um ontoléxico exploratório que entrelaça conceitos e itens lexicais do domínio léxico-conceitual da Indústria do Bordado de Ibitinga. O embasamento teórico-metodológico assenta-se nos estudos de semântica lexical (wordnets) e de frames (framenets), pura e computacional, de processamento automático de língua natural e de ontologias. / Abstract: Ibitinga, which is a Brazilian town nationally known for its outstanding position in the embroidery business, has its economy almost totally based on the production of a broad selection of embroideries. With this embroidery industry in the backdrop, this master thesis describes the whole linguistic and computational-linguistic process of construction of ontolexicons - formal constructs whose lexical-conceptual nature allows for both theoretical (lexical-grammar construction) and applied (lexicographical and ontolexical resource construction) research. In particular, the study focuses on the design and implementation of a toy ontolexicon for the Ibitinga Embroydery Industry lexical-conceptual domain. Its theoretical foundations have drawn heavily on lexical semantics (wordnets), frame semantics (framenets), natural language processing, and ontologies. / Mestre

This paper examines the creative process behind the “2001 Nights”narrative film project. The filmmaker (Author) chose the ancient book TheThousand and One Nights, as a foundation and structure to tell a number ofcontemporary stories. Through these stories the author is hoping to explorea number of themes.The film mixes elements of magical realism with dramatic fiction toexplore the concepts of alienation, displacement and diaspora, trying tounderstand the concept of the “other”. Under the politicized, stressfulclimate of current world events, the film also examines identity. This piece ispersonal, in that the author is trying to take his own search for identity to amore global level.