Water dimer diffusion on Pd{111} assisted by an H-bond donor-acceptor tunneling exchange

Based on the results of density functional theory calculations, a novel mechanism for the diffusion of water dimers on metal surfaces is proposed, which relies on the ability of H bonds to rearrange through quantum tunneling. The mechanism involves quasifree rotation of the dimer and exchange of H-bond donor and acceptor molecules. At appropriate temperatures, water dimers diffuse more rapidly than water monomers, thus providing a physical explanation for the experimentally measured high diffusivity of water dimers on Pd{111} [Mitsui et al., Science 297, 1850 (2002)]

Núcleo de apoio aos povos da terra

VII Seminário de Extensão Universitária da UNILA (SEUNI); VIII Encontro de Iniciação Científica e IV Encontro de Iniciação em Desenvolvimento Tecnológico e Inovação (EICTI 2019) e Seminário de Atividades Formativas da UNILA (SAFOR)O presente artigo relata as atividades realizadas pelo projeto Núcleo de Apoio aos Povos da Terra (NAP Terra), como a Feira Agroecológica na Universidade Federal da Integração Latina Americana (UNILA), no município de Foz do Iguaçu - PR. O objetivo é perpetuar ações que aliam a comunidade universitária a coletividades de espaços agrários e pessoas que mantêm contato com a prática agroecológica dos arredores da universidade. A metodologia do trabalho parte do critério/objetivo integrar a comunidade universitária junto à questões ambientais e agrárias da região de Foz do Iguaçu, incluindo sujeitos como produtores de alimentos agroecológicos, comunidades indígenas, estudantes, artesãos e mais. Conclui-se que o projeto dialoga com conceitos ligados à agroecologia e à diversidade que se manifesta nas ações por ele desenvolvidasAgradeço a Universidade Federal da Integração Latino Americana e às pessoas que ajudaram na sua criação e ajudam na manutenção da mesma, que seguem resistindo em favor desse projeto de universidade no governo atual. Agradeço a oportunidade de realizar atividades como esta, e estudar assuntos que conectam o cuidado com a terra como o curso de desenvolvimento rural e segurança alimentar. Especialmente ao orientador Julio Moreira. Manifesto aqui minha gratidão por compartilhar sua sabedoria, seu tempo e sua experiênci

Basic physical parameters of a selected sample of evolved stars

We present the detailed spectroscopic analysis of 72 evolved stars, including the [Fe/H] determination for the whole sample. These metallicities, together with the Teff values and the absolute V magnitude derived from Hipparcos parallaxes, are used to estimate basic stellar parameters (ages, masses, radii, (B-V)o and log g using theoretical isochrones and a Bayesian estimation method. The (B-V)o values so estimated turn out to be in excellent agreement with the observed (B-V), confirming the reliability of the (Teff,(B-V)o) relation used in the isochrones. The estimated diameters have been compared with limb darkening-corrected ones measured with independent methods, finding an agreement better than 0.3 mas within the 1-10 mas interval. We derive the age-metallicity relation for the solar neighborhood; for the first time such a relation has been derived from observations of field giants rather than from open clusters and field dwarfs and subdwarfs. The age-metallicity relation is characterized by close-to-solar metallicities for stars younger than ~4 Gyr, and by a large [Fe/H] spread with a trend towards lower metallicities for higher ages. We find that the [Fe/H] dispersion of young stars (less than 1 Gyr) is comparable to the observational errors, indicating that stars in the solar neighbourhood are formed from interstellar matter of quite homogeneous chemical composition. The three giants of our sample which have been proposed to host planets are not metal rich, what is at odds with those for main sequence stars. However, two of these stars have masses much larger than a solar mass so we may be sampling a different stellar population from most radial velocity searches for extrasolar planets. We also confirm that the radial velocity variability tends to increase along the RGB.Comment: 17 pgs, 19 fig

Current research into brain barriers and the delivery of therapeutics for neurological diseases: a report on CNS barrier congress London, UK, 2017.

This is a report on the CNS barrier congress held in London, UK, March 22-23rd 2017 and sponsored by Kisaco Research Ltd. The two 1-day sessions were chaired by John Greenwood and Margareta Hammarlund-Udenaes, respectively, and each session ended with a discussion led by the chair. Speakers consisted of invited academic researchers studying the brain barriers in relation to neurological diseases and industry researchers studying new methods to deliver therapeutics to treat neurological diseases. We include here brief reports from the speakers

TWEETHER project for W-band wireless networks

The European Horizon 2020 project TWEETHER aims to make a breakthrough in wireless networks to overcome the congestion of the actual mobile networks and foster the new 5G networks. A European Consortium including four universities and five companies from four European countries is devoting a relevant effort to realize novel terminals and transmission hubs to operate in the W-band (93 – 95 GHz). This paper will describe the advancement of the project

Influence of Hybridization on the Properties of the Spinless Falicov-Kimball Model

Without a hybridization between the localized f- and the conduction (c-) electron states the spinless Falicov-Kimball model (FKM) is exactly solvable in the limit of high spatial dimension, as first shown by Brandt and Mielsch. Here I show that at least for sufficiently small c-f-interaction this exact inhomogeneous ground state is also obtained in Hartree-Fock approximation. With hybridization the model is no longer exactly solvable, but the approximation yields that the inhomogeneous charge-density wave (CDW) ground state remains stable also for finite hybridization V smaller than a critical hybridization V_c, above which no inhomogeneous CDW solution but only a homogeneous solution is obtained. The spinless FKM does not allow for a ''ferroelectric'' ground state with a spontaneous polarization, i.e. there is no nonvanishing $$-expectation value in the limit of vanishing hybridization.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figure

Acompanhamento das tecnologias apícolas adotadas em assentamentos rurais de Corumbá, MS.

A Embrapa Pantanal executa desde março de 2009 um projeto de pesquisa participativa em dois Assentamentos Rurais de Corumbá/MS em parceria com a AAPAN, AGRAER, Fundação Terra do Pantanal e com alguns assentados, com o objetivo de avaliar as tecnologias apícolas adotadas, propor ajustes e inclusões ao sistema produtivo. Diversas revisões foram realizadas nas colônias de abelhas africanizadas (Apis mellifera) em três apiários, sendo constatadas a despadronização e inadequações na qualidade e no acabamento da madeira utilizada na confecção das colmeias, na localização, na mobilidade e na infra-estrutura nos apiários. Uma assentada com a assistência técnica da Embrapa Pantanal substituiu as suas colmeias rústicas pelo modelo padrão e em todos os apiários foram adotados alguns ajustes nas demais restrições identificadas. No entanto, a adoção de outras tecnologias é limitada devido ao restrito acesso dos assentados a financiamentos, insumos e materiais apícolas de qualidade na região.Disponível também em: Cadernos de Agroecologia, V. 5, n.1, 2010

Explaining the Higgs Decays at the LHC with an Extended Electroweak Model

We show that the recent discovery of a new boson at the LHC, which we assume to be a Higgs boson, and the observed enhancement in its diphoton decays compared to the SM prediction, can be explained by a new doublet of charged vector bosons from an extended electroweak gauge sector model with SU(3)_C\otimesSU(3)_L\otimesU(1)_X symmetry. Our results show a good agreement between our theoretical expected sensitivity to a 126--125 GeV Higgs boson and the experimental significance observed in the diphoton channel at the 8 TeV LHC. Effects of an invisible decay channel for the Higgs boson are also taken into account, in order to anticipate a possible confirmation of deficits in the branching ratios into $ZZ^*$, $WW^*$, bottom quarks, and tau leptons.Comment: 16 pages, 5 figure

Charge-transfer metal-insulator transitions in the spin-one-half Falicov-Kimball model

The spin-one-half Falicov-Kimball model is solved exactly on an infinite-coordination-number Bethe lattice in the thermodynamic limit. This model is a paradigm for a charge-transfer metal-insulator transition where the occupancy of localized and delocalized electronic orbitals rapidly changes at the metal-insulator transition (rather than the character of the electronic states changing from insulating to metallic as in a Mott-Hubbard transition). The exact solution displays both continuous and discontinuous (first-order) transitions.Comment: 22 pages including 4 figures(eps), RevTe