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    Afforestation of savannas: an impending ecological disaster.

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    New order parameters in the Potts model on a Cayley tree

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    For the q−q-state Potts model new order parameters projecting on a group of spins instead of a single spin are introduced. On a Cayley tree this allows the physical interpretation of the Potts model at noninteger values q of the number of states. The model can be solved recursively. This recursion exhibits chaotic behaviour changing qualitatively at critical values of q0q_0 . Using an additional order parameter belonging to a group of zero extrapolated size the additional ordering is related to a percolation problem. This percolation distinguishes different phases and explains the critical indices of percolation class occuring at the Peierls temperature.Comment: 16 pages TeX, 5 figures PostScrip

    Use of thermogravimetry analysis to quantify total volatile fraction in pine resin.

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    Pinus species exhibit fast growth and are good producers of wood, cellulose and resin. Brazil is the second largest producer of resin. The People?s Republic of China is the main producer with approximately 90% world?s resin production. Turpentine, volatile fraction, and rosin, solid fraction, are two major fractions or resin. The distillation process continues up to 170° C can be extracted about 95% of the total gum turpentine resin, preserving its constituents. There is little research using thermal analysis to study pine resin properties. This work involved evaporating volatile fraction of resins in an oven at 170 ÂșC consisted of 20 different samples from Pinus caribaea var. hondurensis and was compared with results obtained in thermal analysis to quantify the same fraction for each one. The volatile fraction in the oven (170 ÂșC) was from 14.69% to 24.05%. This fraction obtained through thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) was from 13.37% to 23.64%. The results demonstrate that the TGA technique is capable of accurately determining the volatile and non-volatile fractions of the resin and this technical proved to be suitable for further analyses.CBRATEC

    Cry2A toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis expressed in insect cells are toxic to two lepidopteran insects.

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    Second Order Dissipative Fluid Dynamics for Ultra-Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

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    The M\"uller-Israel-Stewart second order theory of relativistic imperfect fluids based on Grad's moment method is used to study the expansion of hot matter produced in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions. The temperature evolution is investigated in the framework of the Bjorken boost-invariant scaling limit. The results of these second-order theories are compared to those of first-order theories due to Eckart and to Landau and Lifshitz and those of zeroth order (perfect fluid) due to Euler.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, size of y-axis tick marks for Figs. 3 and 4 fixe

    Recoherence in the entanglement dynamics and classical orbits in the N-atom Jaynes-Cummings model

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    The rise in linear entropy of a subsystem in the N-atom Jaynes-Cummings model is shown to be strongly influenced by the shape of the classical orbits of the underlying classical phase space: we find a one-to-one correspondence between maxima (minima) of the linear entropy and maxima (minima) of the expectation value of atomic excitation J_z. Since the expectation value of this operator can be viewed as related to the orbit radius in the classical phase space projection associated to the atomic degree of freedom, the proximity of the quantum wave packet to this atomic phase space borderline produces a maximum rate of entanglement. The consequence of this fact for initial conditions centered at periodic orbits in regular regions is a clear periodic recoherence. For chaotic situations the same phenomenon (proximity of the atomic phase space borderline) is in general responsible for oscillations in the entanglement properties.Comment: 15 pages (text), 6 figures; to be published in Physical Review

    Stochastic Quantization of Scalar Fields in de Sitter Spacetime

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    We consider the stochastic quantization method for scalar fields defined in a curved manifold. The two-point function associated to a massive self-interacting scalar field is evaluated, up to the first order level in the coupling constant λ\lambda, for the case of de Sitter Euclidean metric. Its value for the asymptotic limit of the Markov parameter τ→∞\tau\to\infty is exhibited. We discuss in detail the covariant stochastic regularization to render the one-loop two-point function finite in the de Sitter Euclidean metric
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