Stories of young dropouts: a social survey of success and failure

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Attractive Casimir effect in an infrared modified gluon bag model

In this work, we are motivated by previous attempts to derive the vacuum contribution to the bag energy in terms of familiar Casimir energy calculations for spherical geometries. A simple infrared modified model is introduced which allows studying the effects of the analytic structure as well as the geometry in a clear manner. In this context, we show that if a class of infrared vanishing effective gluon propagators is considered, then the renormalized vacuum energy for a spherical bag is attractive, as required by the bag model to adjust hadron spectroscopy.Comment: 7 pages. 1 figure. Accepted for publication in Physical Review D. Revised version with improved analysis and presentation, references adde

Touros melhoradores ou inseminação artificial: um exercício de avaliação econômica.

A pecuária de corte é uma atividade complexa, que envolve um grande número de variáveis. Dentre as decissões a tomar, destacam-se aquelas ligadas à área de reprodução, começando com a escolha entre monta natural e inseminação artificial. Por seu turno, diversas opções estão disponíveis em cada um desses processos. Quanto à monta natural, é preciso definir a qualidade e, consequentemente, o preço a pagar pelos touros. Na opção por inseminação, há alternativas quanto ao valor genético e preço do sêmen, além da possibilidade de realizar a sincronização de cio das fêmeas. Este trabalho discute os aspectos econômicos da decisão relacionada com o uso de monta natural ou inseminação artificial, bem como analisa o impacto no sistema de produção de variáveis, como preço de touro e de sêmen a taxa de prenhez. Qualquer que seja a escolha, ressalta-se a necessidade de ser feita em absoluta sintonia com os objetivos do sistema de produção.bitstream/item/131362/1/touros-melhoradores-ou-inseminacao-artificial.pd

On fermionic tilde conjugation rules and thermal bosonization. Hot and cold thermofields

A generalization of Ojima tilde conjugation rules is suggested, which reveals the coherent state properties of thermal vacuum state and is useful for the thermofield bosonization. The notion of hot and cold thermofields is introduced to distinguish different thermofield representations giving the correct normal form of thermofield solution for finite temperature Thirring model with correct renormalization and anticommutation properties.Comment: 13 page

Exposure of thermoelectric power-plant workers to volatile organic compounds from fuel oil: Genotoxic and cytotoxic effects in buccal epithelial cells

Copyright © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Thermoelectric power-plant workers are constantly exposed to high levels of potentially genotoxic gaseous substances, such as volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from the combustion of fuel oil or the processing of naphtha. The aim of the present study was to estimate the association between such occupational exposure and the frequency of micronucleated cells and cells with other nuclear anomalies. Buccal epithelial cells were collected from a total of 44 power-plant workers (exposed group) and 47 administrative workers (non-exposed group), and examined for the frequency of micronucleated cells (MNC) and of cells with other nuclear anomalies (ONA: pyknosis, karyolysis, and karyorrhexis) by means of the micronucleus assay. The frequencies of MNC and ONA per 1000 cells in the exposed group (1.8‰ and 82.4‰, respectively) were significantly higher than in the non-exposed group (0.2‰ and 58.3‰, respectively). The exposed group had a twelve-fold increase in risk for formation of MNC compared with non-exposed individuals (RR = 12.1; 95% CI, 5.0–29.2; P < 0.001). The confounding factors analyzed (age, smoking status, alcohol consumption, and mouthwash use) did not show any significant association with the frequency of MNC or ONA. The findings of this study show that workers from power plants exposed to VOCs have a significantly elevated risk for DNA damage. Therefore, bio-monitoring of DNA damage is recommended for this group of workers

NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF THE IMPACT OF WATER-AIR FRONTS ON RADIONUCLIDE PLUMES IN HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA

The goal of this paper is to investigate the interaction of water-air fronts with radionuclide plumes in unsaturated heterogeneous porous media. This problem is modeled by a system of equations that describes both water-air flow and radionuclide transport. The water-air flow problem is solved numerically by a mixed finite element combined with a non-oscillatory central difference scheme. For the radionuclide transport equation we use the Modified Method of Characteristics (MMOC).We present results of numerical simulations for heterogeneous permeability fields taking into account sorption effects