xiii, 89 p. : ill. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. / Participation in athletics includes an inherent risk of becoming injured that is related to the nature of the games and activities of the players. Current literature reports that approximately seven million high school students participate in sports yearly in the United States and, during the 2005-2006 sport seasons, 1.4 million injuries were reported. Considering this high number of injuries, there is little doubt that definitive research into the determination of factors that might help predict the degree of injury risk associated with sport participation is warranted. Despite common association of variables such as joint laxity, range of motion, strength and balance with injury, these traditional measures have not proven to be reliable predictors of vulnerability. Consequently, attempts have been made to identify practical methods that may better permit identification of individuals who show a high likelihood of injury during athletic competition. This study examined one such system, the Functional Movement Screen (FMS), which utilizes measures of mobility and stability to permit its developers to assert that it can be used to practically and accurately identify vulnerable athletes. Critical data on inter-rater and intra-rater performance were first obtained on a team of athletic trainers to ensure that they could reliably execute the testing methods. Following confirmation of this fact, 112 high school basketball athletes were screened with the FMS and their injuries (non-contact neuromusculoskeletal tissue damage in school-sanctioned basketball) were tracked throughout an entire season. Data analysis to determine if a commonly-used FMS cutoff score of less than 14 out of 21 could identify vulnerable athletes revealed that this value was not significantly related to the likelihood of sustaining an injury. Furthermore, logistic regression revealed that none of the individual predictors (gender, FMS movements, and movement asymmetries) were significant predictors of injury susceptibility. The results indicate that, despite the fact that multiple evaluators and trials can be practically used to evaluate FMS scores in a large group of high school basketball athletes, the test does not appear to be a valid tool in assessing injury risk in this population during an entire season. / Committee in charge: Gary Klug, Chairperson, Human Physiology; Paul van Donkelaar, Member, Human Physiology; Andrew Lovering, Member, Human Physiology; Roland Good, Outside Member, Special Education and Clinical Sciences

xiii, 89 p. : ill. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. / Participation in athletics includes an inherent risk of becoming injured that is related to the nature of the games and activities of the players. Current literature reports that approximately seven million high school students participate in sports yearly in the United States and, during the 2005-2006 sport seasons, 1.4 million injuries were reported. Considering this high number of injuries, there is little doubt that definitive research into the determination of factors that might help predict the degree of injury risk associated with sport participation is warranted. Despite common association of variables such as joint laxity, range of motion, strength and balance with injury, these traditional measures have not proven to be reliable predictors of vulnerability. Consequently, attempts have been made to identify practical methods that may better permit identification of individuals who show a high likelihood of injury during athletic competition. This study examined one such system, the Functional Movement Screen (FMS), which utilizes measures of mobility and stability to permit its developers to assert that it can be used to practically and accurately identify vulnerable athletes. Critical data on inter-rater and intra-rater performance were first obtained on a team of athletic trainers to ensure that they could reliably execute the testing methods. Following confirmation of this fact, 112 high school basketball athletes were screened with the FMS and their injuries (non-contact neuromusculoskeletal tissue damage in school-sanctioned basketball) were tracked throughout an entire season. Data analysis to determine if a commonly-used FMS cutoff score of less than 14 out of 21 could identify vulnerable athletes revealed that this value was not significantly related to the likelihood of sustaining an injury. Furthermore, logistic regression revealed that none of the individual predictors (gender, FMS movements, and movement asymmetries) were significant predictors of injury susceptibility. The results indicate that, despite the fact that multiple evaluators and trials can be practically used to evaluate FMS scores in a large group of high school basketball athletes, the test does not appear to be a valid tool in assessing injury risk in this population during an entire season. / Committee in charge: Gary Klug, Chairperson, Human Physiology; Paul van Donkelaar, Member, Human Physiology; Andrew Lovering, Member, Human Physiology; Roland Good, Outside Member, Special Education and Clinical Sciences

Orientador: Prof. Dr. Hugo Barbosa Suffredini / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do ABC. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência e Tecnologia/Química, 2016. / O objetivo deste trabalho foi o de apresentar um novo material com característica condutora, obtido a partir da eletrooxidação do fármaco cloridrato de amiodarona. Foram utilizados o eletrodo de carbono impresso, eletrodo de platina, carbono vítreo e diamante dopado com boro (DDB) e a técnica de voltametria cíclica para a deposição do material. O material depositado foi caracterizado aplicando-se a técnica de Microscopia Eletrônica de Varredura (MEV) que possibilitou a visualização do material depositado nos diferentes materiais dos eletrodos. Com o uso da Espectroscopia de Energia Dispersiva (EDS), obteve-se uma análise química qualitativa do filme aderido ao eletrodo de carbono impresso, que indicou a presença de átomos de iodo, elemento presente na molécula de cloridrato de amiodarona, confirmando a deposição do fármaco estudado. A análise por UV-vis também confirmou a adesão do material, quando dissolvido em N-metil-2-Pirrolidona. Análises de ângulo de contato indicaram o caráter mais hidrofílico do material, quando comparado com o substrato não modificado. Finalmente, pôde-se concluir que ocorreu a formação de um filme condutor oriundo da molécula de cloridrato de amiodarona. / The aim of this work was to synthesize a new conductive material from the drug amiodarone hydrochloride. Several carbonaceous materials were used as substrate, as glassy carbon, boron-doped diamond and screen-printed carbon electrode. Platinum electrodes were also used with the same purpose. All synthesized materials were characterized by Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), which enabled the visualization of the modifications for all studied materials. Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS) were used to promote the qualitative analysis of the samples, indicating the presence of iodine atoms, an element present in the original amiodarone molecule. UV-vis spectroscopy also confirmed the adhesion of the material. Contact angle analysis indicates that the modification has the surface more hydrophobic than the pristine material. Finally, it was possible to conclude that a conductor film from amiodarone hydrochloride was adequately synthesized in all studied substrates.

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INTRODUCTION: While mobile device use by physicians increases, there is an increased risk that errors committed while using mobile devices can lead to harm. This mixed-method study evaluates the effects of screen size on clinical users’ perceptions of medical application usability and safety when interfacing to critical patient information. In this research, two mobile devices are examined: iPhone® and the iPad®. METHOD: Eleven physicians and one nurse practitioner participated in a chart-review simulation using an app that was an end-point to an electronic health record. Screen-recording, video-recording and a think-aloud protocol were used to gather data during the simulation. Additionally, participants completed Likert-based questionnaires and engaged in semi-structured interviews. RESULTS: A total of 105 usability, usefulness and safety problems were recorded and analysed. A strong preference was found for the larger screen when reviewing patient data due to the large quantity of data and the increased display size. The smaller device was preferred due to the devices portability when participants needed to remain informed when they were away from the point of care. CONCLUSION: There is an association between screen size and the perceived safety of the handheld device. The iPad was perceived to be safer to use in clinical practice. Participants preferred the iPad® because of the larger size, not because they thought it was safer or easier to use. The iPhone® was preferred for its portability and its usefulness was perceived to increase with greater distance from the point of care. / Graduate

Fysiklärare möter ofta den svåra uppgiften att representera abstrakta, väldefinierade egenskaper hos den fysiska världen (så som krafter eller energier) för studenter som går bortom ekvationer, grafer eller diagram. I denna studie tittar jag två fall av universitetsstudenter som löser en fysikalisk uppgift, användandes det digitala programmet Algodoo på en stor pekskärm för att undersöka hur studenter naturligt använder sig av sådan teknologi för att återskapa dessa representationer själva. Jag finner att när studenter skapar scener i Algodoo prioriterar de att behålla en viss mått av likhet från den fysiska världen, vilket går bortom den formella behandlingen av uppgifter som studenter kan ha fått lära sig i fysikundervisningen. Vidare, när studenterna använder sig av fysikaliska ekvationer vid lösandet av problemet, verkar de använda Algodoo som ett facit för att se huruvida deras numeriska lösning, uträknad på en klassisk whiteboard, stämmer. På detta sätt - vilket har föreslagits i tidigare forskning - ser jag hur Algodoo, och liknande digitala lärmiljöer, fungerar som en bro mellan studenternas konceptuella förståelse av den fysiska världen, och den mer formella, matematikbaserade beskrivningen vilket används inomfysiken. / Physics teachers are often faced with the difficult task of representing abstract, formally-defined properties of the physical world (such as forces or energy) for students in a way which goes beyond equations, graphs, and diagrams. In this study, I investigate two cases of university students solving a physics problem while using the digital software, Algodoo, on a large touch screen to examine how students might naturally leverage such technology to create such representations of their own. I find that as student draw scenes in Algodoo, they tend to prioritze a degree of resemblance to the physical world which goes beyond the formal treatment of problems they might have been taught in physics classes. Additionally, as the students recruit physics equation into their solution of the problem, they appear to use Algodoo as a conceptual check for the numerical answer they calculate on the normal whiteboard. In this way - and as has been hypothesized in previous research - I see the potential for Algodoo and similar digital learning environments to act as a bridge between students’ conceptual intuitions of the physical world and the more formal, mathematically-based descriptions used in physics.

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Os transtornos de ansiedade representam uma das formas mais comuns de psicopatologia em crianças e adolescentes e estão associados com prejuízos no funcionamento acadêmico, social e familiar. Porém, permanecem frequentemente subdiagnosticados e subtratados. O bullying escolar é muito comum e está associado com um amplo espectro de problemas psiquiátricos, incluindo sintomas de ansiedade. O principal objetivo desta tese foi examinar a prevalência de bullying em uma grande amostra comunitária de crianças e adolescentes brasileiros e investigar a associação entre bullying e sintomatologia ansiosa de acordo com o DSM-IV. Esse estudo transversal consistiu no preenchimento de um questionário sobre bullying e de sua frequência e de um instrumento auto-aplicativo de triagem para transtornos de ansiedade que é a Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED) por 2.353 estudantes entre 9 e 18 anos provenientes de seis escolas pertencentes à área de captação da Unidade Básica de Saúde do Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre. Um total de 22,9% da amostra relatou envolvimento com bullying frequente, como agressor (7,6%), como vítima (5,7%) ou como agressor-vítima (9,6%). Em geral, meninos foram mais envolvidos como agressores e como agressores-vítimas e meninas como vítimas. Nossos achados demonstraram que estudantes envolvidos com bullying, como vítimas ou agressores-vítimas, apresentavam maiores escores na SCARED total e em suas subescalas do que agressores ou do que os estudantes sem envolvimento com bullying. A prevalência do bullying encontrada no nosso estudo está na média quando comparada com estudos prévios na literatura. Vítimas e agressores-vítimas, mas não agressores, são grupos associados com uma sintomatologia ansiosa mais alta. Embora no Brasil as taxas para as prevalências dos transtornos de ansiedade na infância e adolescência sejam substanciais, há uma carência de instrumentos para avaliar os sintomas de ansiedade e constructos relacionados à ansiedade em crianças e adolescentes. Adicionalmente, essa tese avaliou as propriedades psicométricas de duas escalas que são utilizadas na avaliação da ansiedade em crianças e adolescentes. A SCARED é um instrumento auto-aplicativo que foi originalmente desenvolvido como uma ferramenta de triagem para avaliar os transtornos de ansiedade na infância e adolescência de acordo com o DSM-IV. Os resultados encontrados em nosso estudo evidenciam que a SCARED apresenta propriedades psicométricas apropriadas e é um instrumento válido e confiável para avaliar sintomas de ansiedade em jovens no Brasil. O Childhood Anxiety Sensitivity Index (CASI) é o principal instrumento utilizado para avaliar sensibilidade à ansiedade em crianças e adolescentes. A sensibilidade à ansiedade é um constructo temperamental que pode ser conceitualizado como o medo de que sintomas de ansiedade possam ter graves consequências físicas, psicológicas ou sociais para o indivíduo. A sensibilidade à ansiedade está associada com outras medidas de ansiedade, principalmente àquelas que avaliam sintomas relacionados ao transtorno do pânico, e pode ser considerada um fator de risco para o desenvolvimento de sintomas de ansiedade e de transtornos de ansiedade em jovens. Nossos achados demonstraram uma confiabilidade apropriada e evidência de validade convergente entre a CASI e a SCARED em uma subamostra do nosso estudo, sugerindo que a CASI possa ser uma ferramenta útil na avaliação da sensibilidade à ansiedade nessa população. Tendo em vista os limitados recursos em relação à saúde mental e a pouca atenção clínica aos transtornos de ansiedade, acredita-se que tais instrumentos possam 11 se tornar ferramentas úteis na triagem de crianças e adolescentes com sintomas de ansiedade e que poderão necessitar de avaliações adicionais e de tratamento. / Anxiety disorders are one of the most common forms of psychopathology among children and adolescents and are associated with impairments in academic, social, and family functioning. Although very prevalent, the anxiety disorders are often undetected or untreated. School bullying is common and is associated with a broad spectrum of psychiatric problems, including anxiety symptomatology. The main objective of this study was to examine the prevalence of bullying behaviors in a large communitarian sample of Brazilian children and adolescents and to investigate the association between bullying behaviors and DSM-IV anxiety symptomatology. This cross-sectional study involved completion of a self-report questionnaire about bullying behaviors and their frequency and the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED) that is also a self-report screening tool for childhood anxiety disorders by 2353 students aged 9-18 years from 6 schools located in the catchment area of the Primary Care Unit from the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre. A total of 22.9% of the sample reported frequent involvement in bullying, as a bully (7.4%), as a victim (5.7%), or as a bully-victim (9.5%). In general, boys were more likely to be involved as bully and as bully-victim, and girls were more likely to be involved as victims. Our findings showed that students involved in bullying behaviors, as victims or bully-victims, were more likely to have higher total scores in SCARED scale, as well as in its subscales than bullies and than uninvolved students. The prevalence of bullying behaviors found in our sample is about average when compared with previous studies described in the literature. Victims and bully-victims, but no bullies, are groups associated with higher anxiety symptomatology. Although prevalence rates of anxiety disorders in Brazilian youth are significant, there is a lack of validated instruments to assess anxiety symptoms and related constructs in children and adolescents. In addition, this study verified the psychometrics properties of two scales that are frequently used in the assessment of anxiety in children and adolescents. The SCARED is a self-report instrument that was originally developed as a screening tool for DSM-IV childhood anxiety disorders. Our study suggested that the SCARED has appropriate psychometric properties and is a useful and reliable instrument to assess anxiety symptoms in Brazilian youth. The Childhood Anxiety Sensitivity Index (CASI) is the principal instrument used to assess anxiety sensitivity in children and adolescents. Anxiety Sensitivity refers to the tendency to fear anxiety-related sensations and is thought to arise from beliefs about their harmful physical, cognitive, or social consequences. Anxiety sensitivity is associated with other anxiety measurements, mainly those evaluating panic symptoms. It is also considered a risk factor for the development of anxious symptomatology and anxiety disorders in youth. Our findings demonstrated an appropriate reliability and evidence of convergent validity in the CASI with the SCARED in a subsample of our study, suggesting that the CASI could be a suitable tool for evaluating anxiety sensitivity in this population. Given the limited mental health resources and the paucity of clinical attention to childhood anxiety disorders in Brazil, these instruments may be a valuable tool for screening Brazilian children and adolescents with anxiety symptoms who may need further assessment and treatment.

Os transtornos de ansiedade representam uma das formas mais comuns de psicopatologia em crianças e adolescentes e estão associados com prejuízos no funcionamento acadêmico, social e familiar. Porém, permanecem frequentemente subdiagnosticados e subtratados. O bullying escolar é muito comum e está associado com um amplo espectro de problemas psiquiátricos, incluindo sintomas de ansiedade. O principal objetivo desta tese foi examinar a prevalência de bullying em uma grande amostra comunitária de crianças e adolescentes brasileiros e investigar a associação entre bullying e sintomatologia ansiosa de acordo com o DSM-IV. Esse estudo transversal consistiu no preenchimento de um questionário sobre bullying e de sua frequência e de um instrumento auto-aplicativo de triagem para transtornos de ansiedade que é a Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED) por 2.353 estudantes entre 9 e 18 anos provenientes de seis escolas pertencentes à área de captação da Unidade Básica de Saúde do Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre. Um total de 22,9% da amostra relatou envolvimento com bullying frequente, como agressor (7,6%), como vítima (5,7%) ou como agressor-vítima (9,6%). Em geral, meninos foram mais envolvidos como agressores e como agressores-vítimas e meninas como vítimas. Nossos achados demonstraram que estudantes envolvidos com bullying, como vítimas ou agressores-vítimas, apresentavam maiores escores na SCARED total e em suas subescalas do que agressores ou do que os estudantes sem envolvimento com bullying. A prevalência do bullying encontrada no nosso estudo está na média quando comparada com estudos prévios na literatura. Vítimas e agressores-vítimas, mas não agressores, são grupos associados com uma sintomatologia ansiosa mais alta. Embora no Brasil as taxas para as prevalências dos transtornos de ansiedade na infância e adolescência sejam substanciais, há uma carência de instrumentos para avaliar os sintomas de ansiedade e constructos relacionados à ansiedade em crianças e adolescentes. Adicionalmente, essa tese avaliou as propriedades psicométricas de duas escalas que são utilizadas na avaliação da ansiedade em crianças e adolescentes. A SCARED é um instrumento auto-aplicativo que foi originalmente desenvolvido como uma ferramenta de triagem para avaliar os transtornos de ansiedade na infância e adolescência de acordo com o DSM-IV. Os resultados encontrados em nosso estudo evidenciam que a SCARED apresenta propriedades psicométricas apropriadas e é um instrumento válido e confiável para avaliar sintomas de ansiedade em jovens no Brasil. O Childhood Anxiety Sensitivity Index (CASI) é o principal instrumento utilizado para avaliar sensibilidade à ansiedade em crianças e adolescentes. A sensibilidade à ansiedade é um constructo temperamental que pode ser conceitualizado como o medo de que sintomas de ansiedade possam ter graves consequências físicas, psicológicas ou sociais para o indivíduo. A sensibilidade à ansiedade está associada com outras medidas de ansiedade, principalmente àquelas que avaliam sintomas relacionados ao transtorno do pânico, e pode ser considerada um fator de risco para o desenvolvimento de sintomas de ansiedade e de transtornos de ansiedade em jovens. Nossos achados demonstraram uma confiabilidade apropriada e evidência de validade convergente entre a CASI e a SCARED em uma subamostra do nosso estudo, sugerindo que a CASI possa ser uma ferramenta útil na avaliação da sensibilidade à ansiedade nessa população. Tendo em vista os limitados recursos em relação à saúde mental e a pouca atenção clínica aos transtornos de ansiedade, acredita-se que tais instrumentos possam 11 se tornar ferramentas úteis na triagem de crianças e adolescentes com sintomas de ansiedade e que poderão necessitar de avaliações adicionais e de tratamento. / Anxiety disorders are one of the most common forms of psychopathology among children and adolescents and are associated with impairments in academic, social, and family functioning. Although very prevalent, the anxiety disorders are often undetected or untreated. School bullying is common and is associated with a broad spectrum of psychiatric problems, including anxiety symptomatology. The main objective of this study was to examine the prevalence of bullying behaviors in a large communitarian sample of Brazilian children and adolescents and to investigate the association between bullying behaviors and DSM-IV anxiety symptomatology. This cross-sectional study involved completion of a self-report questionnaire about bullying behaviors and their frequency and the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED) that is also a self-report screening tool for childhood anxiety disorders by 2353 students aged 9-18 years from 6 schools located in the catchment area of the Primary Care Unit from the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre. A total of 22.9% of the sample reported frequent involvement in bullying, as a bully (7.4%), as a victim (5.7%), or as a bully-victim (9.5%). In general, boys were more likely to be involved as bully and as bully-victim, and girls were more likely to be involved as victims. Our findings showed that students involved in bullying behaviors, as victims or bully-victims, were more likely to have higher total scores in SCARED scale, as well as in its subscales than bullies and than uninvolved students. The prevalence of bullying behaviors found in our sample is about average when compared with previous studies described in the literature. Victims and bully-victims, but no bullies, are groups associated with higher anxiety symptomatology. Although prevalence rates of anxiety disorders in Brazilian youth are significant, there is a lack of validated instruments to assess anxiety symptoms and related constructs in children and adolescents. In addition, this study verified the psychometrics properties of two scales that are frequently used in the assessment of anxiety in children and adolescents. The SCARED is a self-report instrument that was originally developed as a screening tool for DSM-IV childhood anxiety disorders. Our study suggested that the SCARED has appropriate psychometric properties and is a useful and reliable instrument to assess anxiety symptoms in Brazilian youth. The Childhood Anxiety Sensitivity Index (CASI) is the principal instrument used to assess anxiety sensitivity in children and adolescents. Anxiety Sensitivity refers to the tendency to fear anxiety-related sensations and is thought to arise from beliefs about their harmful physical, cognitive, or social consequences. Anxiety sensitivity is associated with other anxiety measurements, mainly those evaluating panic symptoms. It is also considered a risk factor for the development of anxious symptomatology and anxiety disorders in youth. Our findings demonstrated an appropriate reliability and evidence of convergent validity in the CASI with the SCARED in a subsample of our study, suggesting that the CASI could be a suitable tool for evaluating anxiety sensitivity in this population. Given the limited mental health resources and the paucity of clinical attention to childhood anxiety disorders in Brazil, these instruments may be a valuable tool for screening Brazilian children and adolescents with anxiety symptoms who may need further assessment and treatment.

Submitted by (lucia.rodrigues@ufrpe.br) on 2016-09-21T11:55:50Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Daniella de Moura Amorim.pdf: 1045102 bytes, checksum: 7a8dca249bc4ba201646141ef57ded77 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-21T11:55:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Daniella de Moura Amorim.pdf: 1045102 bytes, checksum: 7a8dca249bc4ba201646141ef57ded77 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-07-31 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The response of a rose crop ( rosa sp L.) to increasing irrigation depths grown under protected environment through a plastic cover and a thermoreflective screen made up of aluminized cloth. The experiment was developed in the Flamingo Farm , situated in the county of Garanhuns – Pernambuco, with an average altitude of 896 m, in the coordinates 08º53’25”S of latitude and 36º29’34”W of longitude, and began on 12/06/2006 and ended on 03/08/2007. The experimental design adopted was a completely randomized blocks with three replicates and five treatments. The First Fouu Treatments( 25%; 50%; 75%; 100% of crop evapotranspiration (Etc) managed with an irrigation interval of two days) , with univariate analysis , simple regression and response surface. In the fifth treatment ( managed through tensiometers and 100% of Etc) a residue analysis in relation tothe fourth treatment( 100% Etc) was done. The yield characteristics and crop quality were evaluated for the first four treatments, and the percent residue analysis for the two last ones. Along the time, the irrigation depths studied influenced the stem diameter , the yield per square meter , the bud diameter and the relative growth rate. The bud length, fresh weight and dry weight were influenced at distinct time periods by the irrigation depths applied. The maximum sellingprice of the product was obtained with the application of an irrigation depth corresponding to 77% of Etc. The increasing levels of irrigation depths linearly reduced the number of blind and dead stems. At post-harvest, the variable shelf life showed a decreasing trend with increasing irrigation depths. The treatments influenced in a quadratic manner the accumulated yield given as stems per square meter, of the A80 grade , with maximum levels at about 68% of ETc. The residue analysis indicated that the treatment 100% of ETc was more efficient than the treatment 100% of ETc managed by tensiometers, in the evaluation of the response variables: stem diameter, bud length, bud diameter, fresh and dry mass, yield of stems per square meter, selling value and cummulative yield of the A80 grade. For the variables stem plus bud length and relative growth rate, the treatment 100% ETc managed through tensiometers was indicated as the most efficient. However , for the variables shelf life and blind and dead stems there was none more efficient treatment than the other ones. / Avaliou-se a resposta da cultura da roseira (Rosa sp L.) sob influência de lâminas crescente de irrigação em condições de ambiente protegido coberto de plástico e malha termorefletora de tecido aluminizado. O experimento foi desenvolvido na Fazenda Flamengo, situada no município de Garanhuns-PE, com altitude média de 896 m nas coordenadas 08º53’25”S de latitude e 36º29’34”W de longitude, e teve início no dia 6/12/2006 e término no dia 8/03/2007. O delineamento experimental adotado foi de blocos inteiramente casualizados com 4 repetições e 5 tratamentos, os quatro primeiros tratamentos (25%; 50%; 75%; 100% da evapotranspiração da cultura (ETc), manejado com turno de rega de dois dias), com análise multivariada, univariada, regressão simples e superfície de resposta. O quinto tratamento (manejado por tensiômetros e 100% ETc) foi feito análise de resíduo em relação ao quarto tratamento (100% da ETc). Foram avaliadas as características de produtividade e qualidade da cultura para os quatros primeiros tratamentos, e análise de resíduos percentuais para os dois últimos. Ao longo do tempo, as lâminas estudadas influenciaram o diâmetro da haste, a produção da haste por m2, diâmetro do botão e a taxa de crescimento relativo. O comprimento do botão, a massafresca e a massa seca foram influenciados em épocas distintas pelas lâminas de irrigação aplicadas. O valor de venda da produção máxima foi obtido com a aplicação de uma lâmina estimada em 77% da ETc. Os níveis crescentes de lâminas de irrigação reduziram linearmente os brotos mortos e cegos. Na pós-colheita, a variável tempo de vida apresentou tendência decrescente com a elevação das lâminas de irrigação. Os tratamentos influenciaram de forma quadrática a produção acumulada de hastes por m2, classificada como A80, com nível máximo em torno de 68% da ETc. A análise de resíduo indicou que o tratamento 100% da ETc foi mais eficiente que o tratamento 100% da ETc manejado por tensiômetro, na avaliação das variáveis respostas: diâmetro de haste, comprimento de botão, diâmetro de botão, massa fresca e seca, produtividade de hastes por m2, valor de venda e a produção acumulada A80. Para as variáveis, comprimento da haste mais botão e taxa de crescimento relativo o tratamento 100% da ETc manejado por tensiômetro foi indicado como mais eficiente. No entanto, para as variáveis, tempo de vida e brotos mortos e cegos não houve tratamento mais eficiente.