The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of body condition (BC) on the reproductive efficiency and follicular dynamics of mares during the breeding season. We evaluated 134 mares (92 broodmares and 42 lactating) that were submitted to artificial insemination in November and December, and then put under natural controlled breeding, in alternating days, from January to March. They were kept under daily heat detection in group at field, so that at the moment it was detected, daily follicular control was initiated by rectal palpation until the detection of ovulation. The BC was evaluated in the months of August, November, January and March. Anestro rate was 26.11% and pregnancy rate was 56.7%; however, when considering only the cyclic mares, it was 77%. The number of cycles/conception was 2.3 and of mounts/cycle 2.1. The BC evolution affected (P< 0.05) the number of cyclic mares and the pregnancy rate. The month of breeding season and the BC influenced all follicular characteristics and pregnancy rate (P<0.05). We could conclude that the body condition affects the mare’s cyclical activity, follicular dynamics and fertility\u
Estudo qualitativo cujo objetivo foi compreender como ocorre a acessibilidade das crianças com deficiência à atenção primária em saúde a partir da visão dos profissionais da Estratégia de Saúde da Família. Participaram 13 profissionais que trabalham na Estratégia Saúde da Família na cidade de Mossoró, RN, Brasil. A coleta de dados ocorreu no período de março a junho de 2011, por meio de entrevista semiestruturada. Os depoimentos foram trabalhados de acordo com a Análise de Conteúdo, na modalidade de Análise Temática. Os resultados revelaram que o acesso das crianças com deficiência (CcD) aos serviços de saúde da atenção primária ocorre com dificuldades devido a barreiras atitudinais e estruturais. Observou-se, contudo, algumas iniciativas que facilitaram a acessibilidade, como visitas domiciliares e priorização do atendimento. Assim, pode-se compreender que os fatores dificultadores do acesso das CcD aos serviços afeta negativamente a qualidade da assistência e prejudica o desenvolvimento das potencialidades dessas crianças
In some business environments, processes of different organizations are very similar to each other. This produces families of processes with common characteristics but also portions that vary according to the specific organization. Two emerging approaches can be adopted and combined to easily model, implement and update families of business processes: Software Product Line (SPL) and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). Our work suggests a framework to transfer the main peculiarities of the SPL to the SOA system development, in order to realize a SOA system line. Starting from the SPL concept, we introduce process lines, i.e., families of process models suitable for different customers or market segments. Moreover, we present an approach for the automatic generation of a SOA system starting from a process model. The combination of these approaches, can be used to easily develop a family of SOA systems each one appropriate for different context characteristics. In this work, an application of the proposed approach in a real project is also proposed.
The implementation of a Design Pattern (DP) may be affected by some problems due to typical deficiencies of Object Oriented languages that may worsen the modularity of a software system, and thus its comprehensibility, maintainability, and testability. Aspect Oriented Programming allows to implement DPs by its powerful quantification constructs that can handle better modularity and composition, helping to overcome some of the OO design trade-offs in current DP implementations. In Model Driven Development system models, defined by a Design Specification Language (DSL), are transformed between different levels of abstraction to get system implementation. In this paper we propose an Aspect Oriented DSL-based framework to specify and to apply, declaratively, Design Patterns to the system classes. The main aim driving the definition of the proposed framework is to improve the modularity, the internal code quality, and the flexibility, by allowing software designers to specify DP models with an extensive modifiability thus reducing the impact of changes related to DP adoption.
The Tocantinzinho ore deposit is located along a NW-SE-trending lineament, southwestern of Itaituba (Pará, Brazil), and is the largest known gold deposit of the Tapajós Province. The host Tocantinzinho granite is essentially isotropic and dominated by syenogranites and monzogranites that have been weakly to moderately altered by hydrothermal fluids. Microclinization (earliest), chloritization, sericitization, silicification and carbonatization (latest) are the main types of alteration. Most mineralization was contemporaneous with the sericitization/silicification and is represented by sulfide- and gold-bearing veinlets which locally occur as stockwork. Pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite and galena are the most common sulfides. Among the ore metals, Cu, Pb and Zn present the highest contents, but Mo, As and Bi locally show anomalous concentrations. The relationship of Au with Cu, Pb or Zn is at random and the Au/Ag ratios range from 0.05 to 0.5. The higher the sulfide contents, the higher the Au concentrations, though it occurs mainly included in pyrite. Zircon monocrystals from the Tocantinzinho granite yielded an average Pb-Pb age of 1982 8 Ma and may represent an earlier event of the Creporizo magmatic arc. ?13CPDB values for calcite from the carbonatization stage fall dominantly between -3.45 and -2.29, being compatible with a deep crustal source that may include carbonatite reservoirs. In turn, ?18OSMOW values vary from +5.97 to +14.10, being indicative of magmatic derivation, although the less positive values suggest contribution from surficial waters. Unpublished fluid inclusion study reveals the presence of aquo-carbonic fluids, whose CO2 could have been dissolved in the granitic magma rather than being related to the shear zone. The available data allow the Tocantinzinho deposit to be classified as a granite-hosted, intrusion-related gold deposit
This paper presents geological, petrographic and min- eralogical data about the granite that hosts the Tocantinzinho gold deposit and aimed at contributing to the understanding of the hydro- thermal processes related to the ore genesis. The host granite is a late to post-tectonic biotite monzogranite that fits in the oxidized sub-type of the ilmenite series. It was emplaced at depths of 6-9 km and reveals no deformation other than fracturing and brecciation. This intrusion has undergone mild to moderate hydrothermal alteration that generated two main rock varieties (salami and smoky), with no significant miner- alogical or chemical differences, though quite distinct macroscopically. Several types of hydrothermal alteration have been recognized in the granitic rocks, greatly represented by filling veins and/or replacement of primary minerals. The hydrothermal history started with microcliniza- tion, during which the granitic protolith was in part transformed into the salami variety. This process was followed by chloritization when the temperature dropped to ~330oC producing chamosite with X Fe in the 0.55–0.70 range. Then it evolved to sericitization, at the same time that ore-bearing fluids precipitated pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, ga- lena and gold. As alteration advanced, solutions saturated in silica and formed quartz veinlets. At the latest stage (carbonatization), aqueous and aqueous-carbonic fluids might have mixed, allowing Ca 2+ e CO 2 to react to form calcite. Most sulfides are present in veinlets that cross- cut the granite, some arranged as stockwork. Gold is normally very fine-grained and occurs mainly as submicroscopic inclusions or along microfractures in pyrite and quartz. The Tocantinzinho deposit is very similar to the Batalha, Palito and Sao Jorge deposits, and to those of the Cuiu-Cuiu goldfield. Topologically, it has been classed as an intru- sion-related gold deposit.