Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T12:29:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Carlos Jorge.pdf: 954626 bytes, checksum: 90beafa979d23b29e8c821c5be2ced78 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004-03-01 / This research analyses the TV CÂMARA, a legislative channel of Bauru, a city located in São Paulo, Brazil. Its purpouse is based on a search for the channel s uses, analisyng the programations contents, the process of production and transmition, the social contributions on the contruction of citizen s conscience and finally, its acception by the viewer. The medotological procedures included the participant observation, consisted in follow day by day the TV s activities from March 2002 from February 2003, and July 2003. The documental research had given several informations about the strategies and interviews, which permited the knowledge about comunity participation in the propgrams and the perception about the role of the channel in the city. The fact is that TV CÂMARA has been increasing the options in the local TV broadcasting. The city viewers can see themselves watching the legislative programation. Nevertheless the channel needs to set its existence in the communication field. The society participation can be increased with new programs and more directly, through the guidelines organization. The most important thing is: the legislative channel is a public instrument that must be used by the local population. / Esta pesquisa analisa a TV CÂMARA canal legislativo municipal da cidade de Bauru, SP. Os objetivos foram levantar as formas de uso do canal, analisar o conteúdo da programação produzida e veiculada para a realidade bauruense, suas contribuições sociais na construção da consciência cidadã e a aceitação do canal junto ao telespectador. Os procedimentos metodológicos incluíram a observação participante, que consistiu no acompanhamento interno das atividades do canal de março de 2002 a fevereiro de 2003 e em julho de 2003. A pesquisa documental que ofereceu dados sobre estratégias da programação e entrevistas, as quais permitiram colher informações sobre participação da comunidade nos programas e sua percepção sobre o papel do canal televisivo no município. Conclui-se que o canal abriu um considerável leque de opções na televisão local. A cidade se enxerga quando assiste o canal legislativo. Ainda assim a TV Câmara precisa se solidificar no meio em que atua. A participação da sociedade pode ser ampliada com mais programas e ainda de forma mais direta, inclusive na elaboração de pautas. O mais importante: o canal é um instrumento público.

Tropical habitats face a diverse range of anthropogenic threats. Two common and important threats to tropical biodiversity are invasive species and roads. Invasive plants are proposed to be a major threat to biodiversity worldwide, yet not much is known about their impacts on higher trophic levels, such as insects. Roads and other linear intrusions, such as power lines and railway tracks, are another common aspect of human disturbance in natural landscapes, including tropical forests, and are often linked to the spread of invasive plants. I studied impacts of these two important proximate drivers of habitat disturbance, namely invasive plant species and roads, on habitat use by butterflies in a tropical moist deciduous forest in Western Ghats of India. Invasive plants and roads are expected to modify micro-habitat structure, resources and other aspects of ecology of butterflies and thereby influence how they use space (i.e., micro-habitats within the larger habitat). Because systematic ecological information on tropical butterflies is comparatively limited, I adopted a multi-species approach. I examined space use responses of butterflies to a gradient of lantana cover in the forest and to a road passing through forest. The abundance of different species of butterflies in different micro-habitats was taken as a measure of habitat use. Data was collected over two seasons and at two spatial scales. The two habitat disturbances were found to influence local habitat use by butterflies. But interestingly, species appeared to respond differently, with some showing positive, others negative and some no clear association with road verge or lantana gradient. I then examined whether this variation in response could be understood in terms of species-specific functional traits. Correlating the responses of species to a habitat disturbance with functional traits may provide a way of arriving at general patterns and increase the ability of studies to predict responses. Species with similar trait values are expected to respond similarly to a habitat change driver. I measured morphological traits in 254 butterfly species from India and classified them according to their habitat preferences (based on expert opinion). I first examined relationships between morphological traits, habitat preferences and evolutionary relatedness. I then examined patterns of correlation between these traits and responses to the two habitat disturbances and found that certain traits can help predict responses. Overall, my study suggests that butterfly space use is influenced by roads and lantana, but the response varies across species. These changes in habitat use might have important population or community-level consequences, such as population declines and shifts in community structure and composition; these need to be further examined.

Submitted by (lucia.rodrigues@ufrpe.br) on 2016-06-15T13:07:44Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Jordana Goncalves Leao.pdf: 4953511 bytes, checksum: 87707d06a20f1bbaa5356c3a4c02348c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-15T13:07:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jordana Goncalves Leao.pdf: 4953511 bytes, checksum: 87707d06a20f1bbaa5356c3a4c02348c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-02-26 / Starting with a set of personal letters written daily by the priest, born in Ceará, Helder Pessoa Camara which were sent to the female writer Virgínia Côrtes de Lacerda, from Minas Gerais, between the years 1944 to 1952 and under the perspective of the self writing – one of the many possibilities of Cultural History – we elaborate this paperwork. It´s focus consists to think how Helder Camara – a historical subject in terms of religious and political influence since the 1930s – uses the letters as a space of his production about himself and about others, as a place of subject production. Therefore, we will work with personal correspondences – reasoned from the text, from the material support and from the annexes like the Meditations of priest José, the photos and the maps; notes from the margins of the books; personal manuscripts and a series of interviews, made with friends and colleagues of the priest Helder Camara in the 1940s and 1950s. Thus becomes possible to think how the epistles, written in series, enable us to view the construction of his personal relations and the course whereby his ideas ripen and open new paths of reflection, a period in which the facets of personality that would be known Helder were being properly polished and mature. / Partindo de um conjunto de cartas pessoais escritas diariamente pelo padre cearense Helder Pessoa Camara para a literária mineira Virgínia Côrtes de Lacerda entre os anos de 1944 a 1952 e sob as perspectivas da Escrita de si – uma das inúmeras possibilidades da História Cultural – elaboramos este trabalho. Seu cerne consiste em pensar de que forma Helder Camara – um sujeito histórico do ponto de vista religioso e político desde os anos 1930 – faz uso das missivas como um espaço de produção de si e do outro, como um lugar de produção do sujeito. Assim, trabalharemos com correspondências pessoais – pensadas a partir do texto, do suporte material e dos anexos como as Meditações do padre José, as fotografias e mapas; anotações as margens dos livros; manuscritos pessoais e uma série de entrevistas, realizadas com amigos e colaboradores do padre Helder Camara nas décadas de 1940 e 1950. Assim torna-se possível pensar de que forma as epístolas,escritas em série, nos possibilitam visualizar a construção de suas relações pessoais e o percurso através dos quais suas ideias amadurecem e abrem novos caminhos de reflexão, em um período em que as facetas da personalidade com que Helder ficaria conhecido estavam sendo devidamente buriladas e amadurecidas.

Thesis (MSc)--Stellenbosch University, 2012. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Non-native species are recognized as a major component of global environmental change. Their ecological impacts are numerous and include the alteration of whole ecosystem processes as well as the loss of native biodiversity. As such, understanding the processes that drive the invasion of non-native species is essential for the control and management thereof. Numerous research approaches have been used to provide insight on the history and ecology of non-native species invasions. However, recent approaches employing molecular techniques have greatly helped in solving taxonomic issues associated with some of these species; identifying sources of invasions; and shedding light on colonization dynamics. Lantana camara, a globally invasive and highly variable species complex, is one of the most notorious plant invaders in South Africa. The species has been associated with negative impacts in agricultural areas, decreased invertebrate diversity, livestock mortality, and where it occurs along riparian areas- decreased water quality and obstruction to accessing water sources. This project aimed to review L. camara invasions in South Africa and to unravel patterns of spread in L. camara along the Sabie-Sand catchment in South Africa’s flagship protected area, the Kruger National Park, using a molecular approach. The findings of the first part of the study highlight that L. camara has successfully spread across South Africa with only four known introduction events, and this can be attributed to the species’ broad ecological tolerance, its use in the horticultural industry, and a variety of dispersal vectors (birds, humans and rivers). Furthermore, although sale of the species is prohibited in the country, it will continue to spread naturally and also has the potential to expand its distribution under changing climate scenarios. The second part of the study highlights that spread along the Sabie-Sand catchment is primarily river-driven and that the Sand tributary is the invasion source in the system. Because the Sand tributary originates outside the Kruger National Park, and only a small portion is under park management, the implications for spread are important. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Nie-inheemse spesies word erken as 'n belangrike komponent van die globale omgewing verandering. Hulle ekologiese impak is talle en sluit in die verandering van ekosisteem prosesse asook die verlies van inheemse biodiversiteit. As sodanig, die begrip van die prosesse wat lei tot die inval van 'n nie-inheemse spesies is noodsaaklik vir die beheer en bestuur daarvan. Talle navorsingsbenaderings is gebruik om insig te gee oor die geskiedenis en ekologie van nie-inheemse spesies invalle. Onlangse benaderings soos die gebruik van molekulêre tegnieke, help in die oplossing van taksonomiese kwessies wat verband hou met 'n paar van hierdie spesies,in die identifisering van bronne van invalle, en om lig te werp op die kolonisasie dinamika. Lantana camara, 'n wêreldwye indringende en spesie kompleks, is een van die mees berugte plantindringer in Suid-Afrika. Die spesie is geassosieer met negatiewe gevolge in landbou gebiede, afgeneem ongewerwelde diversiteit, vee mortaliteit, en waar dit voorkom saam oewer gebiede - afgeneem kwaliteit van die water en obstruksie tot waterbronne. Hierdie projek is daarop gemik om om L. camara invalle in Suid-Afrika te hersien en patrone van verspreiding te ontrafel in L. camara langs die Sabie-Sand-opvanggebied in Suid-Afrika se vlagskip beskermde gebied, die Kruger Nasionale Park, met behulp van 'n molekulêre benadering. Die bevindinge van die eerste deel van die studie wys dat L. camara het suksesvol versprei oor die hele Suid-Afrika met slegs vier bekende inleiding gebeure, en dit kan toegeskryf word aan die spesie se breë ekologiese verdraagsaamheid, die gebruik daarvan in die hortologie bedryf, en 'n verskeidenheid van die verspreiding vektore (voëls, mens en riviere). Verder, hoewel die verkoop van die spesie in die land verbied word, sal dit natuurlik voortgaan om te versprei en het ook die potensiaal om uit te brui onder veranderende klimaat scenario's. Die tweede deel van die studie wys dat versprei langs die Sabie-Sandopvanggebied hoofsaaklik rivier-gedrewe is en dat die Sand sytak die inval bron is. Omdat die Sand sytak buite die Kruger Nasionale Park ontstaan, en slegs 'n klein gedeelte onder park bestuur is, is die implikasies vir verspreiding belangrik. / Financial support from the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology and the Working for Water (WfW) Programme through their collaborative project on “Research for Integrated Management of Invasive Alien Species” and Stellenbosch University’s Subcommittee B Young Researcher's Fund

[pt] A presente dissertação trata do projeto, construção e ensaio preliminar de um novo modelo do compressor Kopelrot. É uma máquina de deslocamento positivo baseada em seis patentes depositadas desde 1998. Esta tecnologia está em desenvolvimento há aproximadamente 8 anos, tendo gerado artigos e dissertações, assim como a construção de dois protótipos. É apresentada, inicialmente, uma revisão dos trabalhos publicados sobre a tecnologia Kopelrot. Foram construídos junto ao novo modelo de compressor Kopelrot um novo sistema de acionamento e uma base para a fixação de ambos a um motor elétrico. Durante a elaboração dos desenhos foram realizadas simulações preliminares da geometria para definir a fabricação de algumas peças importantes. A base permite regular a excentricidade entre os eixos de centro do compressor e do sistema de acionamento e, dessa forma, variar a vazão volumétrica do compressor. Simulou-se a variação de volume no interior da câmara com o conjunto compressor Kopelrot/Sistema de acionamento, ajustado para 5 excentricidades diferentes, a fim de mapear o comportamento do Kopelrot quando sua capacidade é variada, deslocando-se os eixos de centro do compressor e do sistema de acionamento. Para as excentricidades escolhidas, foram calculadas, a partir de modelo termodinâmico simplificado, as variações de pressão, temperatura e massa no interior da câmara do compressor. Valores globais de potência consumida e eficiência volumétrica também foram calculados. Durante o funcionamento do protótipo identificaram-se alguns problemas tipicamente encontrados em tecnologias inovadoras. Devido a esses problemas, não foi possível a realização dos testes do compressor operando em condições normais de pressão. / [en] The present dissertation addresses the design, construction, simulation and preliminary tests of an innovative positive displacement rotary compressor. A review is presented on the previous works, papers and dissertations, based on this new this new Kopelrot technology. A new prototype, employing a new driving system, was manufactured. The main feature of the machine is that, by adjusting the eccentricity between compressor cylinder and driving mechanisms axis, a variable capacity device is obtained. Design, manufacturing and assembly of components and subsystems of the compressor are presented in detail. Design data of the compressor allowed for a simple thermodynamic simulation model to be developed. Main conclusions of the simulation are that a full positive displacement compression cycle can be attained with the Kopelrot technology and that use of discharge and suction valves is required in order to have the compressor operating under different conditions.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T14:16:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Veranice Canato.pdf: 2119970 bytes, checksum: 0b3e2b259a68a1ec4980cdecd8d345a1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-10-02 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / In the year of 1604, with the objective to produce a theory, that would explain the refraction of light of celestial bodies and solve the existing problems in the observation of solar eclipses through camera obscura, Johannes Kepler published Ad VItellionem Paralipomena, quibus Astronomiae pars Optica Traditvr. Paralipomena has been raising the attention of history of science researchers since the first decades of the twentieth-century, and its classification, as either a continuity or a break with the treatises of optics developed during the Middle Ages, has become a controversial theme. Different aspects in this debate lead to a comprehension of Kepler's work as an appreciation of several studies of optics, astronomy and natural magic available at the end of sixteenth- century. Several studies available in Kepler s times, which probably contributed for his solution of the problems with the camera obscura, are presented in this dissertation in an attempt to show that Kepler s elaboration of his camera obscura theory, presented in chapter second of Paralipomena, is a consequence of this appreciation / Com o objetivo de apresentar teorias capazes de explicar a refração da luz nos corpos celestes e de solucionar problemas nas observações de eclipses solares com câmaras escuras. Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) publicou, em 1604, o seu Ad VItellionem Paralipomena ,quibus Astronomiae pars Optica Traditvr. Esse livro vem despertando a atenção de pesquisadores em história da ciência desde as primeiras décadas do século XX e se constituiu como objeto de um polêmico debate em torno de sua classificação como uma continuidade ou uma ruptura com os tratados ópticos desenvolvidos no medievo. Os diferentes aspectos destacados nesse debate possibilitam uma compreensão do trabalho de Kepler como uma apreensão dos diversos estudos de óptica, de astronomia e de magia natural que circulavam no final do século XVI. Nesta dissertação, procuramos mostrar que a elaboração de sua teoria para a câmara escura, apresentada no segundo capítulo do Paralipomena, é uma conseqüência dessa apreensão. Para tal, procuramos analisar vários trabalhos que circulavam à época de Kepler e que possivelmente contribuíram para a sua solução dos problemas da câmara escura

L'objectif de ce travail était d'étudier les interactions entre une plante « phytoremédiatrice », Lantana camara (Verbenaceae), le ver de terre, Pontoscolex corethrurus (Glossoscolecidae) et les microorganismes telluriques d'un sol pollué au plomb. Dans un premier temps, il apparaît que dans les sols contaminés, la présence de ver conduit à un accroissement de la biomasse des parties aériennes et racinaires des plantes ainsi qu'à une augmentation de l'absorption de plomb. La caractérisation physico-chimique des agrégats racinaires a montré que l'activité des vers augmente le taux de matière organique, la capacité d'échange cationique ainsi que l'azote total, le potassium total et disponible. De plus, la présence des vers augmente certaines activités enzymatiques de la rhizosphère. La croissance accrue de L. camara pourrait résulter de ces différentes actions. L'action des vers de terre sur les plantes se ferait via les communautés microbiennes telluriques. Ainsi, la biomasse des microorganismes, bactéries et champignons, des agrégats racinaires augmente en présence de vers. La PCR-DGGE n'a pas permis de mettre en évidence de modifications de la structure taxonomique des communautés bactériennes sous l'influence du Pb et/ou du vers, par contre l'analyse des profils physiologiques par plaques Biolog montre clairement une diversification fonctionnelle bactérienne. Les communautés fongiques voient, elles, leur diversité taxonomique, augmenter sous l'action des vers. La restructuration des populations microbiennes, en présence de vers, des agrégats racinaires élaborés par les plantes en milieu pollué au plomb est l'élément déterminant pour la compréhension de l'impact de P. corethrurus sur la croissance et la phytoremédiation de L. camara. L'association de ces deux organismes aurait donc un potentiel considérable pour le traitement de sites industriels pollués au plomb

Vegetative annuals are currently popular in the ornamental horticulture industry. Many crops are newly domesticated species and little is known about how they perform during shipping or in the retail environment. Nine species and 21 cultivars were grown and underwent simulated shipping after harvest or nitrogen toning two weeks before harvest. Shipping was not found to affect the number of flowers on all but two cultivars post ship. Nitrogen toning affected vegetative growth of most Bracteantha bracteata (bracteantha) cultivars at harvest. All species had an effect due to toning postharvest. Bractenatha and Diascia ×hybrida (diascia) were chosen for further study due to their performance during these experiments. The effect of thidiazuron (TDZ) as a foliar spray and nitrogen toning on leaf yellowing and plant growth of bracteantha were evaluated. The two treatments were then combined to see how the two treatments worked together. It was found TDZ decreased leaf yellowing but its effects can be negated if the plants were not toned. Nitrogen toning reduced vegetative growth of the bracteantha without affecting the number of flowers on the plants. Diascia was found to have flower abscission in response to shipping. Further trials were conducted using 1- methylcyclopropene (1-MCP) an ethylene inhibitor. The effects of shipping duration and temperature were investigated. 1-MCP was found to hold flowers on treated plants longer postharvest than those not treated. Plants shipped for one day had no differences from the control but shipping for two days had a negative effect on plant quality. Postharvest shelf life was decreased when diascia was shipped at 24 °C when compared to cooler shipping temperatures. These results indicate shipping for no longer than one day and at less than 24 °C is recommended for diascia.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2007. / Title from first page of PDF file. Includes bibliographical references (p. 296-320).

Lantana camara (lantana), a thicket-forming shrub, a number of different varieties of which were introduced into South Africa as ornamental plants but which has become a serious invasive weed. Conventional control measures for lantana are expensive and ineffective and it has therefore been targeted for biological control since 1961. To date, eleven biological control agent species have become established on lantana in South Africa. However, most agents persist at low densities and only occasionally impact plant populations. Three species regularly cause significant damage, but only reach sufficiently high numbers by midsummer after populations crash during the winter. Overall, the impact of the biological control programme on the weed is negligible and this has been ascribed to the poor selection of agents for release, the accumulation of native parasitoids, differences in insect preference for different varieties of the weed and variable climatic conditions over the weed’s range. This study suggests that the importance of varietal preferences has been over-estimated. A predictive bioclimatic modelling technique showed that most of the agents established in South Africa have a wide climatic tolerance and that the redistribution and importation of new climatypes of these agents will not improve the level of control. Additional agents are required to improve the biocontrol in the temperate conditions, and also to increase damage in the sub-tropical areas where most of the agents are established and where the weed retains its leaves year round. New candidate agents that possess biological attributes that favour a high intrinsic rate of increase, a high impact per individual and that improve the synchrony between the weed and the agent in climatic conditions that promote the seasonal leaflessness of plants should receive prior consideration. A survey in Jamaica indicated that additional biological control agents are available in the region of origin but that care should be taken to prioritise the most effective agents. The various selection systems currently available in weed biocontrol produce contradictory results in the priority assigned to candidate agents and a new selection system is proposed. The biology and host range of two new candidate natural enemies, the leaf-galling weevil, Coelocephalapion camarae and the leaf-sucking mirid, Falconia intermedia were investigated for the biocontrol of lantana. The studies indicated that these have considerable biocontrol potential, in that the weevil has a wide climatic tolerance and has the potential to survive the host leaflessness typical of temperate conditions, while the mirid has a high intrinsic rate of increase, and the potential for several generations a year. Both agents caused a high level of damage to the leaves, with the weevil galling the vascular tissue in the leaf-petiole and the mirid causing chlorotic speckling of the leaves. During laboratory trials both agents accepted indigenous species in the genus Lippia. However, under multiple choice conditions these agents showed a significant and strong oviposition preference for lantana. A risk assessment and post release field trials indicated that F. intermedia is likely to attack some Lippia species in the presence of lantana, but the levels of damage are predicted to be relatively low. A possible low incidence of damage to indigenous species was considered a justifiable ‘trade-off’ for the potentially marked impact on L. camara. Preference and performance studies on the two candidate agents suggested that most of the South African lantana varieties are suitable host plants. The mirid preferred certain varieties in multiple choice experiments, but this is unlikely to affect its impact under field conditions. Permission for release was accordingly sought for both species. Finally, the challenges facing the biological control programme and the potential for improving the control of L. camara in South Africa are considered.