An alternative theoretical approach to describe planetary systems through a Schrodinger-type diffusion equation

In the present work we show that planetary mean distances can be calculated with the help of a Schrodinger-type diffusion equation. The obtained results are shown to agree with the observed orbits of all the planets and of the asteroid belt in the solar system, with only three empty states. Furthermore, the equation solutions predict a fundamental orbit at 0.05 AU from solar-type stars, a result confirmed by recent discoveries. In contrast to other similar approaches previously presented in the literature, we take into account the flatness of the solar system, by considering the flat solutions of the Schrodinger-type equation. The model has just one input parameter, given by the mean distance of Mercury.Comment: 6 pages. Version accepted for publication in Chaos, Solitons & Fractal

Decifrando o genoma em grande escala.

A determinação das funções gêni~~stem de~andado um grande avanço das ciências genômicas, cujas tecnologias concentram-se, principalmente, na geração e no estudo de uma grande quantidade de dados. O ponto de apoio para o entendimento da função gênica e da estrutura do genoína tem sido o sequenciamento de genomas completos e do genoma expresso em grande escala. Mapas físicos e genéticos têm sido integrados com informações genôrnicas e de expressão, resultando em bancos de dados públicos altamente informativos para diferentes espécies animais evegetais. Tais informações auxiliam em vários aspectos a análise·de expressão gênica, a determinação dos efeitos de processamento de éxons.e do número de cópias gênicas e cromossômicas, culminando na determinação das funções biológicas e do mecanismo de ação de vários genes. São descritos o surgimento de novas tecnologias e a evolução de algumas inovações já existentes, voltadas para a identificação de funções gênicas

Observational constraints on late-time Lambda(t) cosmology

The cosmological constant, i.e., the energy density stored in the true vacuum state of all existing fields in the Universe, is the simplest and the most natural possibility to describe the current cosmic acceleration. However, despite its observational successes, such a possibility exacerbates the well known cosmological constant problem, requiring a natural explanation for its small, but nonzero, value. In this paper we study cosmological consequences of a scenario driven by a varying cosmological term, in which the vacuum energy density decays linearly with the Hubble parameter. We test the viability of this scenario and study a possible way to distinguish it from the current standard cosmological model by using recent observations of type Ia supernova (Supernova Legacy Survey Collaboration), measurements of the baryonic acoustic oscillation from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the position of the first peak of the cosmic microwave background angular spectrum from the three-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe.Comment: Some important revisions. To appear in Physical Review

An interacting model for the cosmological dark sector

We discuss a new interacting model for the cosmological dark sector in which the attenuated dilution of cold dark matter scales as $a^{-3}f(a)$, where f(a) is an arbitrary function of the cosmic scale factor $a$. From thermodynamic arguments, we show that f(a) is proportional to entropy source of the particle creation process. In order to investigate the cosmological consequences of this kind of interacting models, we expand f(a) in a power series and viable cosmological solutions are obtained. Finally, we use current observational data to place constraints on the interacting function f(a).Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, Phys. Rev. D (in press

Epidemiology of respiratory viruses in a pediatric department with real-time PCR

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Doença de arranhadela do gato em adolescente - uma apresentação atípica

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