Geometric Phase for Fermionic Quasiparticles Scattering by Disgyration in Superfluids

We consider a Volovik's analog model for description of a topological defects in a superfluid and we investigate the scattering of quasiparticles in this background. The analog of the gravitational Aharonov-Bohm in this system is found. An analysis of this problem employing loop variables is considered and corroborates for the existence of the Aharonov-Bohm effect in this system. The results presented here may be used to study the Aharonov-Bohm effect in superconductors.Comment: 7 pages, to appear in Europhys. Let

Teleparallel Spin Connection

A new expression for the spin connection of teleparallel gravity is proposed, given by minus the contorsion tensor plus a zero connection. The corresponding minimal coupling is covariant under local Lorentz transformation, and equivalent to the minimal coupling prescription of general relativity. With this coupling prescription, therefore, teleparallel gravity turns out to be fully equivalent to general relativity, even in the presence of spinor fields.Comment: 2 pages, RevTeX, to appear in Phys. Rev D (Brief Report

Renormalization of the N=1 Abelian Super-Chern-Simons Theory Coupled to Parity-Preserving Matter

We analyse the renormalizability of an Abelian N=1 super-Chern-Simons model coupled to parity-preserving matter on the light of the regularization independent algebraic method. The model shows to be stable under radiative corrections and to be gauge anomaly free.Comment: Latex, 7 pages, no figure

Gravitation and Duality Symmetry

By generalizing the Hodge dual operator to the case of soldered bundles, and working in the context of the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity, an analysis of the duality symmetry in gravitation is performed. Although the basic conclusion is that, at least in the general case, gravitation is not dual symmetric, there is a particular theory in which this symmetry shows up. It is a self dual (or anti-self dual) teleparallel gravity in which, due to the fact that it does not contribute to the interaction of fermions with gravitation, the purely tensor part of torsion is assumed to vanish. The ensuing fermionic gravitational interaction is found to be chiral. Since duality is intimately related to renormalizability, this theory may eventually be more amenable to renormalization than teleparallel gravity or general relativity.Comment: 7 pages, no figures. Version 2: minor presentation changes, references added. Accepted for publication in Int. J. Mod. Phys.

Cana-do-brejo.

Cana-do-brejo (Costus spicatus Jacq.), também conhecida como cana-de-macaco, cana-do-mansa, caatinga, cana-branca, cana-do-mato, é nativa em quase todo o Brasil, principalmente em áreas de Mata Atlântica e Amazônica, onde é tradicionalmente utilizada como medicinal e ornamental, devido a sua ação diurética e beleza.bitstream/item/51600/1/f-01.pd

Trajectories in a space with a spherically symmetric dislocation

We consider a new type of defect in the scope of linear elasticity theory, using geometrical methods. This defect is produced by a spherically symmetric dislocation, or ball dislocation. We derive the induced metric as well as the affine connections and curvature tensors. Since the induced metric is discontinuous, one can expect ambiguity coming from these quantities, due to products between delta functions or its derivatives, plaguing a description of ball dislocations based on the Geometric Theory of Defects. However, exactly as in the previous case of cylindric defect, one can obtain some well-defined physical predictions of the induced geometry. In particular, we explore some properties of test particle trajectories around the defect and show that these trajectories are curved but can not be circular orbits.Comment: 11 pages, 3 figure

Brachiaria brizantha cv. Piatã: gramínea recomendada para solos bem-drenados do Acre.

O capim-piatã (Brachiaria brizantha cv. BRS Piatã) é uma nova cultivar de braquiária, lançada pela Embrapa em 2007, como mais uma alternativa para a diversificação das pastagens no Brasil. Trata-se de uma cultivar selecionada após 16 anos de avaliações pela Embrapa e parceiros, em estudos realizados em diversas regiões do País. No Acre, essa cultivar foi avaliada em canteiros entre 1997 e 1999, visando comparar o seu desempenho ao de outros 16 genótipos de Brachiaria brizantha. Posteriormente, entre 2007 e 2010, o capim-piatã foi avaliado em duas unidades de observação estabelecidas em propriedades particulares quanto à susceptibilidade a pragas e doenças, especialmente a síndrome da morte do capim-brizantão. Esta publicação apresenta as principais características do capim-piatã, descreve o seu desempenho e adaptação às condições edafoclimáticas e aos sistemas produtivos do Acre e traz as principais recomendações disponibilizadas pela pesquisa para o plantio e manejo dessa cultivar.bitstream/item/35158/1/CIT-54.pd