The pepper cultivates in pots have stood out in the ornamental market for its aesthetic features that include, among other attributes, the fruits and leaves color and harmony with the pots. The ornamental pepper breeding has been carried out over the long-term, involving multiple cycles of selfing. Biotechnological techniques, such as the culture of anther and immature zygotic embryos, can assist breeding progr...
The desertification phenomenon is the process of environmental degradation of arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid lands, caused by natural factors and anthropic actions. In the Seridó Desertification Nucleus, specifically in the State of Paraíba, the delimited area with high level of degradation covers the municipalities of Santa Luzia and Várzea, and the desertification in this nucleus is particularly related to...
Quixabeira [Sideroxylon obtusifolium (Roem. & Schult.) T.D. Penn.] is a native species of the Caatinga biome whose population has been reduced by several factors, including anthropic interference. The monitoring of the characteristics of the environment where the species is and the registry of the data obtained in the laboratory are alternatives that can contribute to the individualized decision making. For thi...
The tomato is one of the most cultivated and consumed vegetables in the world, however it is considered a high risk crop when we consider the large number of phytosanitary problems in which it is affected. Being the whitefly Bemisia tabaci biotype B, one of these main problems, given the damages and the cost of control that is inserted in its production. The use of resistant cultivars associated to biological c...
The term “analogous gravity” refers to a research programme whose purpose is to investigate analogues of gravitational fields, from the perspective of general relativity, in physical systems of other areas, aiming to obtain a better understanding of both systems involved. Analogies have proved important in physics and mathematics, for an analogy taken meticulously to a specific problem may be able to suggest un...
According to the report of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), there is an alarming food waste in the world, causing significant damage to society, and leading to economic losses and damage to the environment. However, these losses may be reduced by combining concepts of sustainability and gastronomy. Based on this premise, this study aimed to investigate the technical, microbiolo...
The environmental issue has been the focus of several works in recent years, studies of nature are of extreme importance to find ways to inhabit the planet impacting as little as possible. Therefore, the present study aimed to study the environmental perception of residents of the Environmental Protection Area of the Ounces in the city of São João do Tigre, in Paraíba, through researches with semi-structured qu...
The umbuzeiro (Spondias tuberosa Arruda) belonging to the family Anacardiaceae, is one of the most important and native species of great importance in the semiarid region of Northeast Brazil, due to its versatility. Many traditional knowledge about the uses of plants in the semiarid are being lost or forgotten. The present study registered the traditional knowledge and uses of this species, by residents of five...
In our research, we will try to thematize, analyze and re-think from the thinking of the young Heidegger a specific mobility of thought that moves within the scope of the selfunderstanding circularity of being-there, and which, for this reason, moves within the historicity of factual life. We will present this mobility of thought in the concept of ontotheological economy: a dynamic of thought which, as we shall...
The dissertation that follows consists in a study on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), German philosopher of the twentieth century. We investigate aspects of what Heidegger christened Dasein’s existential analytic. We emphasized such concepts as existence and world, as worked out in his main treatise Being and Time (1927). In order to access these bases, we aimed to develop an interpretation on Da...