RESUMOO azevém é uma planta daninha de ciclo anual, encontrada em praticamente todas as lavouras de inverno, em pomares e vinhedos da região Sul do Brasil. A espécie é normalmente controlada pelo herbicida glyphosate, no entanto, o uso continuado desse produto selecionou biótipos resistentes. Diferenças na suscetibilidade do azevém a herbicidas têm sido atribuídas a características morfológicas, anatômicas e genéticas das plantas. Os objetivos deste trabalho foram realizar a caracterização morfoanatômica, adequar metodologia para a análise citológica de cromossomos e indicar corantes para testes de viabilidade polínica de biótipos de azevém suscetível e resistentes ao herbicida glyphosate. As sementes dos biótipos de azevém suspeitos de resistência provieram do município de São Valentin, RS (SVA 1 e SVA 4), e Passo Fundo, RS (PFU 5), e as do biótipo conhecidamente suscetível (SVA 2), de São Valentin. Os biótipos de azevém estudados que apresentam resistência ao herbicida glyphosate não podem ser diferenciados do biótipo suscetível através de aspectos morfológicos, não existindo diferenças anatômicas de folha e raiz que evidenciem possibilidade da absorção diferencial do herbicida glyphosate entre os biótipos de azevém. A metodologia para a análise citológica dos biótipos de azevém merece adequações para melhor nitidez dos cromossomos, podendo-se aumentar o tempo de hidrólise e de exposição ao agente antimitótico utilizado neste trabalho, bem como testar outros agentes. Todos os corantes apresentaram bom desempenho na determinação da viabilidade polínica frente aos biótipos avaliados, exceto o azul de tripan, que subestimou os resultados.

ABSTRACT Ryegrass is an annual weed found in all winter crops, orchards and vineyards of southern Brazil. The species is typically controlled by glyphosate. However, continued use of this product has selected resistant biotypes. Differences in herbicide susceptibility of ryegrass have been attributed to differences in morphology, anatomy and genetics of the plants. The objectives of this study was to conduct a morphological and anatomic characterization, adapt the methodology for cytological analysis of chromosomes and select dyes for pollen viability tests with glyphosatesusceptible and resistant ryegrass biotypes. The seeds of ryegrass biotypes with suspected resistance came from the town of São Valentim, RS (SVA 1 and SVA 4) and Passo Fundo, RS (PFU 5) and seeds of the susceptible biotype (SVA 2) were from São Valentim. The ryegrass biotypes with resistance to glyphosate cannot be distinguished from the susceptible biotype by morphological aspects and there are no anatomical differences in leaf and root that allow differential absorption of glyphosate among ryegrass biotypes. The methodology for the cytological analysis of ryegrass biotypes should be adapted for better clarity of chromosomes, allowing an increase in hydrolysis time and exposure to the antimitotic agent used in this study; moreover, other dyes can be tested. All dyes showed good performance in determining pollen viability against the assessed biotypes except for trypan blue, which had poorer results.

This paper presents a statistical modeling of rain attenuation in terrestrial links located in a tropical region using different types of distribution. Each distribution is tested against long-term statistics of data collected during up to two years of experimental measurements in links operating at 15 GHz. Statistics obtained from each distribution are tested against the corresponding ones derived from the experimental data using a test variable described in the ITU recommendation P.311-13 and an alternative test variable.

PURPOSE: The learning curve is a period in which the surgical procedure is performed with difficulty and slowness, leading to a higher risk of complications and reduced effectiveness due the surgeon's inexperience. We sought to analyze the residents' learning curve for open radical prostatectomy (RP) in a training program. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We conducted a prospective study from June 2006 to January 2008 in the academic environment of the University of São Paulo. Five residents operated on 184 patients during a four-month rotation in the urologic oncology division, mentored by the same physician assistants. We performed sequential analyses according to the number of surgeries, as follows: = 10, 11 to 19, 20 to 28, and = 29. RESULTS: The residents performed an average of 37 RP each. The average psa was 9.3 ng/mL and clinical stage T1c in 71% of the patients. The pathological stage was pT2 (73%), pT3 (23%), pT4 (4%), and 46% of the patients had a Gleason score 7 or higher. In all surgeries, the average operative time and estimated blood loss was 140 minutes and 488 mL. Overall, 7.2% of patients required blood transfusion, and 23% had positive surgical margins. CONCLUSION: During the initial RP learning curve, we found a significant reduction in the operative time; blood transfusion during the procedures and positive surgical margin rate were stable in our series.