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JOVENTINO, Francisca Pinheiro; OLIVEIRA FILHO, Eurico Cabral de. A new species of Cryptonemia from Brazil. Arquivos de Ciências do Mar. Fortaleza, v. 17, n.1, p. 49-51, jun. 1977.

FAUSTO FILHO, Jose. Sobre a ocorrência de Palinustus truncatus ( H.Milne-Edwards, 1880), no litoral brasileiro e de Palinustus echinatus Smith 1869, no litoral do Estado do Ceará, Brasil (Crustacea, Decapoda, Palinuridade). Arquivos de Ciências do Mar. Fortaleza, v. 17, n.1, p. 75-76, jun. 1977.

Catch-effort data from main small-scale fisheries in Baia de Todos os Santos and Baixo Sul, in the State of Bahia, NE- Brazil, were collected by sampling the catches (kg) at random from April- 2005 to September - 2006. The uncertainty of the estimatives of the cpues was assessed by the resampling method. The results indicated that a different number of samples per month was for each fishing gear, when considering a stabilization of the relative maximum error around 25%. For the gears responsible for more frequent catches, it is suggested that 120 to 140 samples/month are sufficient for this level of precision. Most of the fisheries presented positive asymmetrical total catch distributions per landing, while, the fishing effort (hours of fishing) data were close to a normal distribution in most fisheries. The monthly estimates basede in the samples of the daily catches (kg/day) presented, for most fisheries absence of marked seasonality patterns. Perhaps this is due to fact that in tropical multispecific multigear small-scale fisheries along the year one species compensates another in weigth, stabilizing the total catche figures. However, there were some cases indicating seasonality of the total catch. Confidence intervals at 95% intervals for the cpue calculated by bootstrap, showed variations up to 90% in the the total catch estimated by the bottom trawl and fish traps. Finally, the application of several ANCOVAs considering the total catch (kg) as the response variate, the different unities of fishing effort for each gear as the covariate, and the factors (i) season of the year and (ii) the human fishing community, was carried out in order to understand the fishing proccess. The ANCOVAs for each fishing gear showed that, although minimum models have been reached with significant effect of the fishing effort and the season and/or human fishing community, most of the fisheries presented heterogeneity of slopes of the regression lines within the treatments, preventing the full application of the model.

ALVES, Maria Ivone Mota.; RODRIGUES, Maria Margarida. Aspectos da reprodução do camarão sete-barbas, Xyphopenaeus kroyeri (Heller) (Decapoda, Macrura), na costa do Estado do Ceará. Arquivos de Ciências do Mar. Fortaleza, v. 17, n.1, p. 29-35, jun. 1977.

ROCHA, Carlos Artur Sobreira. Considerações sobre a amostragem do pargo, Lutjanus purpureus Poey, do Norte e Nordeste do Brasil. Arquivos de Ciências do Mar. Fortaleza, v. 17, n.1, p. 63-67, jun. 1977.

VASCONCELOS, Régis Fernandes. Variabilidade da região ITS do Cluster Ribossõnico Nuclear em populações de ostras de três estuários da costa cearense. 2009. 58 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Ciências Marinhas Tropicais) - Instituto de Ciências do Mar, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, 2009.

JOVENTINO, Francisca Pinheiro. Morfologia, taxonomia e distribuição de Cryptonemia J. Agardh, no Brasil (Rhodophyta, Cryptonemiaceae). Arquivos de Ciências do Mar/ Fortaleza, v. 17, n.1, p. 1-19, jun. 1977.

Given the current global crisis in the fishing sector new approaches and strategies for fisheries management have arised, such as ecosystem management, co-management and marine protected areas. Artisanal fisheries, mostly in the Northeast Brazil, have an undeniable importance for fish production and rent. Within this framework of new management possibilities, this study aimed primarily to evaluate the fishing systems carried out in Aracati and Icapuí counties, Ceará State, by defining those at the highest efficiency in catching their foremost fishing resources from the economic and environmental viewpoints. The secondary objective of greater importance was the development of a management proposal for the regional fisheries, based on the above-mentioned recent concepts. To this end, in the period from 2005 through 2009, 312 fish landings by the sail and motorized fleets were statistically controlled, 25 open interviews were made and 238 questionnaires applied. The results showed that: sailboat fisheries display a better economic and environmental performance than the motorboat fisheries; the fishing performed by sail boats correspond to the artisanal fisheries characteristics, as concerns income distribution, generating many jobs, food safety and multiple uses of the ecosystem. This way resources can be exploited but not burdened by an excessive fishing effort; the future of motorized fishing is threatened by the high fixed and variable operational costs and by the current low productivity in the continental shelf of Aracati and Icapuí counties

Liver transplantation is the gold standard treatment for patients with cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. The Brazilian Registry of Transplantation revealed that liver transplantation was the second solid organ most transplanted in 2010. With the purpose to eliminate foci of infection and reduce the risk of infection on the postransplant stage, these patients should undergo dental treatment to the removal of dental foci, with special care regarding the hemostasis impairment, mainly related to a reduced hepatic synthesis of procoagulants factors and thrombocytopenia. The aim of this prospective study was to evaluate the incidence of postoperative bleeding after dental extraction in candidates for liver transplantation. In this study, 23 patients were included with a mean age of 43.17 ± 14.62 years, with a higher prevalence of whites (82.6%) and men (60.9%). In 23 patients, 84 simple extractions were performed in 35 dental surgical procedures. Patients were divided in two groups to compare two local hemostatic measures after tooth extraction: in group 1, local pressure after sutures was applied with gauze soaked with tranexamic acid, and in group 2, the same procedure without the tranexamic acid was performed. In all subjects, absorbable hemostatic sponges and cross sutures were used as a standard hemostatic measure. The main preoperative blood tests found were: mean hematocrit of 34.54% (SD ± 5.84%, range 21.7% – 44.4%), platelets ranged from 31,000/mm3 to 160,000/mm3, mean international normalized ratio (INR) was 1.50 (SD ± 0.39; range 0.98 - 2.59). Postoperative bleeding occurred in only one procedure (2.9%) and local pressure with gauze was effective to achieve hemostasis. Thus, this paper demonstrates the possibility of performing tooth extractions in patients with liver cirrhosis, with INR ≤ 2.50 and platelets ≥ 30,000/mm3, without the need of blood transfusion, and in case of bleeding events, the use of local hemostatic measures can be satisfactory.

This work is a preliminary evaluation for determination of background or base line in heavy metals and hydro-carbons in ground of the Fazenda Belém Oil Field Belém in the city of Aracati, State of the Ceará, for comparisons with samples proceeding from areas where oil spills have occurred. The study has involved collecting of ground samples in the area, in previously selected places, taking in consideration the geology, the type of ground, oil characteristics as density, temperature, viscosity and Basic Sediment and Water (BSW). The values of concentration for some metals in the ground, the permeability, texture, density,porosity, depth of infiltration of the oil in the ground through the simulation of oil spill had been determined in lease, besides evaluating metal texts and Hidrocarbonetos Policíclicos Aromáticos (HPA) before and after the simulation of the spill. The method to simulate the spill consisted of placing, in the sampling points, a stainless steel scaffolding with dimension of 1mX1mX0,20m, leaked, after that it was spilled oil,formed emulsion of oil percentage and another one of water, removed from the closest well next to the studied place. One waited five days so that the infiltration of the oil occurred. After the determined stated period, a cut was done in the ground,inside of the area with oil with the objective of verifying the depth of infiltration and the thickness of the layer. This depth was measured with a milimetric measuring tape. After that all the oil layer was removed, the ground was perforateed with handy tract until the depth of 1 meter and samples were collected for analysis in laboratory.The research done in the field is more representative, it allows to verify in situ what can occur in the ground in case of accident with oil spill, besides making possible the determination of the permeability and the thickness of the infiltrated oil layer, without modifying the natural characteristics of the ground. The results of the analyzes of the ground samples collected before and after the simulation of the oil spill in the three selected places have not presented contamination for Hidrocarbonetos Policíclicos Aromáticos (HPA). All the concentrations of HPAs have presented values below of the limit of detection of the used method in the analysis. The concentrations of metals have not presented significant variation in the ground samples collected before and after the simulation of the spill, being inferior to the values of reference of quality for ground of national works of the Companhia de Tecnologia Sanitária e Ambiental of São Paulo State and Fadigues and International Guidelines (Canada), List Dutch and generic values of selection for ground of the Environment Protection Agency of the United States (EPA). This work will provide support in the decontamination and cleanness of the areas in case of accidents within oil spill occurrence. The previous knowledge of the possible depth of infiltration of the oil in the ground at the temperature up to 50°C, in accordance with the permeability and porosity in the place, will make it possible a better cleanness and recoverying of the area and it will facilitate the calculation of the volume of spilled oil.

The Metropolitan Area of Fortaleza has great potential natural and economic for the development of mining of aggregates. Diversity of lithology ensures good supply of material for immediate use in civil construction and economic growth associated pent-up demand by building housing and also the deficiencies, of urban structure form the scenery favorable to expansion of this activity in the region. It is a activity of environmental impacts in the physical and social, both positive and adverse. Is responsible for the generation of jobs and revenue publics, an activity very important the growth of other branches of economy and urban development and at the same time causes serious changes on landscapes and environment. In The Metropolitan Area of Fortaleza, many companies do not observe care in their activities to mitigate the consequences it can have on their surroundings. Another important is the conflicts of soil use. The mining dispute with other forms of occupation and activities such as industry, agriculture and the urban growth, territorial space in the region. Added to this, limitations natural and physical environment of regions and metropolitan areas of environmental interest in the form of Units Conservation e Areas of Permanent Preservation, where mining should be prohibited or limitations performed with more stringent. The Metropolitan Area of Fortaleza has a good set of areas of environmental interest established legally, but lacks territorial planning that takes into account the importance of mining in the growth of regions reduce or avoid conflicts of use and occupancy of the soil, ensuring the supply of aggregates the local economy, input to its growth.

We evaluated the environmental impacts caused by the fires in soils of the District of Miranda in the Municipal district of Parambu, Ceará State through the analysis of the environmental physical-chemical parameters of the soils, the texture analysis, and the use of plots having collectors to store the soil transported by the rains and the determination of the soil erodibility factor (K). The soil samples were collected in the cultivation and native forest areas at depths of 0 - 20 cm and 20 - 40 cm, in the dry season. We compared the results of the analyses to the limits determined by EMBRAPA (1979). The pH parameter presents values among low acidity and average alkalinity and the organic matter content, with values between 0.6 and 1.3%, varied from low to average. The macronutrients (Nitrogen, Potassium, Calcium, Magnesium, Phosphorus and Sulfur), in spite of presenting values that differ from the sequence of EMBRAPA (1979), are present in the two areas. The exchangeable Aluminum presented a uniform concentration (0.00 cmolc/Kg), favoring the soil of the areas once its high content in the soil is highly harmful to most plants. The Cation Exchange Capacity – CEC, presented a larger concentration in the cultivation area (varying from 8 to 10 cmolc/Kg), showing that in that area, in which there were fires, because of its location there is the retention and fixation of a larger amount of exchangeable metallic cations in the soil, while in the native forest area the CEC value was low (varying from 3 to 4 cmolc/Kg). The degrees of base saturation, ranging from 89 to 100%, indicated a low leaching capacity. The Acidity potential, with values between 0.00 and 0.49 cmolc/Kg, indicates a low capacity of acidity in the soil. The values of the exchangeable sodium contents ranged from 0.06 to 0.41 cmolc/Kg, being classified as high. The electrical conductivity with values smaller than 4 dS/m, the exchangeable sodium percentage, with a value smaller than 15 and the pH value smaller than 15 classify the soil of the area in relation to those parameters as normal. The soil texture classification as sandy loam prevailed in the two areas and depths. The soils were classified according to EMBRAPA-CNPS (1999) in the Planossolo Hidromórfico ORDER, in the area of native forest ‘red’ and area of cultivation ‘red-yellow’ SUBORDER and Eutrófico BIG GROUP. The measures of soil loss were from 2 to 3 cm. The approximate K parameter value varied from 0.31 to 0.37 at the depth of 20 cm, what indicates high erodibility in the soil. The evaluation of the environmental impacts concerning the fires, through the macronutrients indexes, carried out in the cultivation and native forest areas, showed that that technique did not affect the results even when it was not properly conducted. The soil of the cultivation area, with annual fires, presented values of erosion responsible for the decrease of the agricultural lands.

This study aimed to compare the anticaries and antimicrobial efficacy of four different substances: 20% carvacrol (CAR), 10% carvacrol in association with 10% thymol (CAR+THY), 20% chlorhexidine (CHX) and 5% sodium fluoride (NaF), in high-risk, caries-free children. One hundred and twenty children, between 36 and 71-months age, were selected from public preschools from a neighborhood in Fortaleza (Ceará). Children were classified as a high caries-risk group according to the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry Guidelines. These children were randomly allocated into four different treatment groups. Antimicrobial agents were made as varnishes and applied every 3 months, during one year. Patients were monitored every 3 months for new caries lesions. Saliva was collected before treatment initiation (B) and after 7 (D7), 30 (D30), 90 (D90), 180 (D180) and 360 (D360) days post-treatment for MS detection. For microbiological analysis, samples were cultivated on MSB agar media and incubated at 37o C under microaerofilic conditions, during 48 hours. Bacterial colonies were confirmed as being MS through biochemical tests. MS counts were expressed in colony forming units (CFU/mL). Data was considered significant when p<0.02. When comparing MS levels between B and D7, no difference was observed between groups (p=0,032). Comparisons of the percentage MS reduction between groups (D30-D90) demonstrated a significant difference (p=0,002), with a difference between CAR versus CAR+THY (p=0.003), CAR+THY versus CHX (p=0.004), and CHX versus NaF (p=0.014). CAR+THY presented the smallest percentage reduction, while CHX presented the greatest. We observed an increase in MS in the groups treated with CHX and NaF at D360. With the exception of the NaF group, comparisons between dmfs within each group, demonstrated a significant difference between the initial dmfs and the dmfs measured 9 months after treatment initiation. A significant positive correlation between the total dental surfaces and the patient’s age was observed in all groups. No significant difference was found between caries density of the different age groups within and between groups. The dmfs scores did not differ between groups (p=0,746). In conclusion, all treatments produced significant MS reduction with great variations within and between groups, associated with low caries experience.

The river basin Jaibaras located in north-central portion of the state of Ceara, bathing nine municipalities, is an important subbacia the river basin Acaraú. For the analysis of natural resources was considered a watershed as the basic unit for the development of the study, basing himself on the basis of theoretical and methodological in general systems theory and analysis Geosystems were evaluated in their processes of evolution, given the vulnerability erosion. By using remote sensing and GIS has been taken into consideration the territorial dynamics, based on the processes of morphogenesis and pedogenesis. With the analysis of landscape were established five categories of morphodynamic means, and considering the vegetation as a stabilizing factor of the landscape, making possible to determine the degree of vulnerability of each subsystem. The river basin has a diverse landscape Jaiba that directly reflect the conditions governing their use and occupation, these differences were compartmentalized into four environmental systems, Deposits Quarternários Depression Sertaneja, Solid Waste and Plateau sedimentary Ibiapaba, and these systems were subdivided into ten subsystems, each with its natural characteristics that have some degree of homogeneity of countenance, and observing the conditions of use and occupation, setting the main environmental impacts in the basin.

This paper presents the technological and mineralogical characteristics of a diabase, which outcrop in the form of dike is located in the district Canafístula in Apuiarés - CE. In order to assess their qualities for application as ornamental, were carried out technological tests of fitness levels and physical-mechanical, based on standards from ABNT, as well as radiometric measurements of the amount of uranium, thorium and radioactive potassium in the rock, beyond radon exhalation rate. The radiometric measurements were performed using the methods of gamma spectrometry and detection of active exhalation of radon gas to monitor the amount of 222Rn. Added to the main objectives of this study were also made petrographic directed to the recognition of the mineralogical composition and textural features among other features. The petrographic analysis allowed to classify the rock as olivine diabase, porphyritic texture, composed of mineralogically titanaugita olivine + plagioclase + + + apatite ± opaque ± iddingsita clorofeíta ± biotite. This has lithotype ranging gray to black, with isotropic structure. The degree of microcracking of the rock is located around 3.53 / mm ², where 97.9% of the cracks are of the type intragrão and 2.1% are of the intergrain. The physical indices showed higher than average for siliciclastic rocks in Brazil, namely, apparent specific gravity, porosity and water absorption with respectively 3113 kg / m³, 0.17% and 0.06%. The values of uniaxial compressive strength also exceed the average for Brazilian siliciclastic rocks and also within the limits of ASTM, with an excellent compressive strength of 192 MPa. Regarding the 3-point bending test, the rock exhibited value of 20.4 MPa, well above the average for Brazilian siliciclastic rocks and ASTM. The behavior of the samples when subjected to wear AMSLER, gave a performance with 0.66 mm wear for a journey of 1000m below the average for Brazilian siliciclastic rocks. The analysis by gamma spectrometry provided values for 238U and 40K, of 0.54 ppm and 2.88%, and when transformed into Bq.kg-1, corresponded to 6.8 and 48.3, respectively. The final activity of radon emanation (CRN) and radon exhalation rate (E) registered a content of <0.016 Bq.kg-1 (<0.432 pCi.kg-1) and <0.002 Bq.m-2h-1 (<0.054 pCi.m-2.h-1).Within this context, the olivine diabase porphyry shown to have diverse applications such as ornamental material for optimal mechanical characteristics and low concentrations of radioactive elements as well as low emanation and exhalation of 222Rn, that due to its material characteristics of basic composition, good mechanical strength, low porosity and low amount of microcracking

This research was carried out in a 130 km2 area, in the Juá village, south of the Irauçuba town. The Northeast of Brazil, specially the countryside, is marked by arid climate and irregular distribution of rain. The captation of groundwater is normally the only solution to provide water during dry weather. To minimize the natural errors that occur during the location of a well we made detailed analysis of the reptile structures that affect the Precambrian terrains. Lithologically it is constituted by igneous and metamorphic rocks belonging to the Migmatitic and Pelitic-Carbonatic Units. These rocks were reworked during the Brasilian Event, which registered both ductile and ruptile structures. In these terrains the “hydrological domain of the crystalline” is represented, in which the groundwater is controlled by ruptile structures that may be interconnected to the point of acquiring enough secondary porosity to facilitate the percolation and the storing of fluids. The structural characterization of these ruptile features was made in a detailed scale by means of the “linear-meter” technique. The remote sensing images study consisted on the application of digital processing techniques, as well as terrestrial geophysics by means of electromagnetic profiles. The structural trends obtained by satellite images are compatible with the results taken from fracturing data. The main fracture sets are N-S and E-W and secondarily, NE-SW and NW-SE. Geophysical studies revealed conductive zones related to the presence of subsurface fractures. Data integration led to two potentially important areas for hydrogeological exploration, which correspond to the C-01 (north of Juá) and C-04 (Juá) concentrations.

It is increasing in the entire globe, the preoccupation with the environment, where we emphasize in this work the preoccupation with the vulnerability and risk to pollution of Medium Aquifer System in the region between Crato and Missão Velha towns, Cariri Valley, Araripe Basin, Ceará. The studied area is located at the south portion of Ceará State, in the basis of Araripe Plateau, which influences very much its weather. The access, from Fortaleza, can be done by terrestrial through the BR-116 or CE-060 highway, known as cotton road, and by aerial way. The objective of the work is to evaluate the vulnerability and risk to pollution of Medium Aquifer System. The methodology adopted is basic, divided in six stages: literature revision, elaboration of a well archive of the area, confection of preliminary maps, field stages, treatment and integration of data. The water supply on the area is in almost entirely done by groundwater. In the southern region of Ceará is situated one of the best Aquifer Systems that is the Medium Aquifer System, target of the research. The formation of Araripe Basin began at the Paleozoic going until the Mesozoic, where it has from the bottom to the top the following geologic formations: Mauriti, Brejo Santo, Missão Velha, Abaiara, Rio da Batateira, Santana, Arajara and Exu. Starting by the characterization of the geologic formations, the inaccurate description of most part of the geologic sections of the drilled wells and the shallow depth reached by the wells, it was adopted the following hydrogeologic division in Araripe Sedimentary Basin: Superior Aquifer System (Exu and Arajara Formations); Santana Aquiclude; Medium Aquifer System (Rio da Batateira, Abaiara and Missão Velha Formations); Brejo Santo Aquiclude; and Inferior Aquifer System (Mauriti Formation and bottom part of Brejo Santo Formation).The methodology adopted to the elaboration of the vulnerability and natural risk map of the Medium Aquifer System was the GOD, where is used three basic parameters: “G” aquifer condition (free, semi-confined, confined or there is no aquifer); “O” global characterization of the aquifer in relation to consolidation degree and lithologic nature (of the unsaturated zone); and “D” depth until the freatic level or confined aquifer top (unsaturated zone). The indices of the vulnerability of Medium Aquifer System had varied of Negligível the Extremity of vulnerability, being in the generality of Negligível and Baixa, explained for the occurrence of argillaceous layers giving a bigger natural protection to the system. The elaboration of the map of natural vulnerability the contamination facilitated the identification of the areas more or less susceptíveis to the contamination. The polluting load risk was taken in consideration to the number of some potential activities of pollution, not taking in consideration the amount of polluting loads, being possible to make a comparative degree of risk between the cities. The area of the city of Juazeiro do Norte is the one that presents a bigger risk of contamination for presenting zones of High vulnerability and raised loads of pollutants, followed of Barbalha, Crato and Missão Velha.

MENEZES, Mariana Ferreira de; XIMENES, Maria Odete Carneiro. Caracterização biométrica e merística do pirá, Alacanthus plumieri (Bloch), em frente ao Estado do Ceará. Arquivos de Ciências do Mar. Fortaleza, v. 17, n.1, p. 69-74, jun. 1977.

This work proposes a study of a new static converter topology with two stages, where the first is an AC-DC converter with PFC and the second is a DC-DC converter isolated in high-frequency. In addition, the static converter has a secondary power flow to achieve a better efficiency from the system. The two converter’s stages are modeled as differential equations, and through those models nonlinear control techniques are developed for close loop operation. The power-factor correction in the first stage is performed by the PBC (passivity-based control) control technique, while the output voltage from the first stage is performed by the I&I (immersion and invariance) control. As the second stage is a DC-DC converter, it only needs to control the output voltage, which is achieved through the backstepping control.

VIEIRA, Regine Helena Silva dos Fernandes; TELLES, Francisco José Siqueira. Estudo da flora bacteriana dos camarões Xyphopenaeus kroyeri (Heller) e Penaeus schmitti Burkenroad, em Fortaleza, Ceará. Arquivos de Ciências do Mar. Fortaleza, v. 17, n.1, p. 41-43, jun. 1977.