High Field de Haas - van Alphen Studies of the Fermi Surfaces of LaMIn5_{5} (M = Co, Rh, Ir)

We report measurements of the de Haas - van Alphen effect on a series of compounds, LaMIn$_{5}$ (M = Co, Rh, Ir). The results show that each of the Co and Ir Fermi surfaces (FSs) exhibit some portions that are two dimensional and some portions that are three dimensional. The most two dimensional character is exhibited in LaCoIn$_{5}$, less two dimensional behavior is seen in LaIrIn$_{5}$, no part of Fermi surface of LaRhIn$_{5}$ is found to have a two dimensional character. Thus the two dimensionality of portions of the FSs is largely determined by the d character of the energy bands while all of the effective masses remain $\leq$ 1.2. This fact has implications for the causes of the heavy fermion nature of superconductivity and magnetism in the Ce-based compounds having the similar composition and structure. All of the measurements were performed at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory using either cantilever magnetometry or field modulation methods.Comment: 10 pages, 4 figure

Duality invariance and cosmological dynamics

A duality transformation that interrelates expanding and contracting cosmological models is shown to single out a duality invariant, interacting two-component description of any irrotational, geodesic and shearfree cosmic medium with vanishing three curvature scalar. We apply this feature to a system of matter and radiation, to a mixture of dark matter and dark energy, to minimal and conformal scalar fields, and to an enlarged Chaplygin gas model of the cosmic substratum. We extend the concept of duality transformations to cosmological perturbations and demonstrate the invariance of adiabatic pressure perturbations under these transformations.Comment: 14 pages, Discussion enlarged, accepted for publication in IJMP

Gemini NIFS survey of feeding and feedback processes in nearby Active Galaxies: I - Stellar kinematics

We use the Gemini Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (NIFS) to map the stellar kinematics of the inner few hundred parsecs of a sample of 16 nearby Seyfert galaxies, at a spatial resolution of tens of parsecs and spectral resolution of 40 km/s. We find that the line-of-sight (LOS) velocity fields for most galaxies are well reproduced by rotating disk models. The kinematic position angle (PA) derived for the LOS velocity field is consistent with the large scale photometric PA. The residual velocities are correlated with the hard X-ray luminosity, suggesting that more luminous AGN have a larger impact in the surrounding stellar dynamics. The central velocity dispersion values are usually higher than the rotation velocity amplitude, what we attribute to the strong contribution of bulge kinematics in these inner regions. For 50% of the galaxies, we find an inverse correlation between the velocities and the $h_3$ Gauss-Hermitte moment, implying red wings in the blueshifted side and blue wings in the redshifted side of the velocity field, attributed to the movement of the bulge stars lagging the rotation. Two of the 16 galaxies (NGC 5899 and Mrk 1066) show an S-shape zero velocity line, attributed to the gravitational potential of a nuclear bar. Velocity dispersion maps show rings of low-$\sigma$ values (50-80 km/s) for 4 objects and "patches" of low-sigma for 6 galaxies at 150-250 pc from the nucleus, attributed to young/ intermediate age stellar populations.Comment: To be published in MNRA

Anticorpos neutralizantes contra rubéola num grupo de gestantes de São Paulo

Levels of neutralizing antibodies against rubella were determined on 778 pregnant women attending the Outpatient Department of the "Casa Maternal Leonor Mendes de Barros". Of the 778 women, 600 had titers of 4 and over (dilution 1:4). The total group presented an average age of 25.6 years. For the 15 to 19 years group, 79.43% of the patients had titers of 4 and over; in the remaining groups the corresponding percentages were: 20 to 24 years, 75.69%; 25 to 29 years, 77.38%; 30 to 34 years, 82,50%; 35 to 39 years, 74.58% and 40 to 44 years, 50.00%. Comparison of these results shows that percentages of positivity at ages between 15 and 39 years are very similar but those of group 40 to 44 years are markedly lower. The difference is statistically significant at the level of 0.01. Regarding the color, 79.14% of the 350 white females, 75.56% of the 90 negro females, 75.71% of the 317 halfbreeds and 71.43% of the 21 yellow females (Japanese) showed antibodies at the above mentioned level. For epidemiologic surveys, on large scale, the neutralization test presents certain practical disadvantages, which renders ample study of correlation of the results of this test with those of other tests (among which haemagglutination inhibition test stands out) necessary.Determinou-se os níveis de anticorpos neutralizantes contra rubéola em 778 soros de igual número de pacientes que freqüentam o ambulatório da Casa Maternal Leonor Mendes de Barros. Destas 778 mulheres, 600 (77,12%) apresentavam níveis de anticorpos iguais ou superiores a 4 (diluição 1:4). Em relação à idade, o grupo examinado, com uma idade média de 25,6 anos, permite verificar que no grupo etário de 15 a 19 anos a freqüência de pacientes com anticorpos na diluição 1:4 ou maior é de 79,43%; no grupo de 20 a 24 anos, 75,69%; no de 25 a 29, 77,38%; de 30 a 34, 82,50%; de 35 a 39, 75,68% e de 40 a 44, 50.00%. A comparação dos resultados obtidos em cada grupo etário da amostra examinada, mostra que os percentuais de positividade das idades compreendidas entre 15 e 39 anos são muito próximas, sendo que o grupo de 40 a 44 anos apresenta um percentual notadamente menor de pacientes com anticorpos. Esta discordância demonstrou-se estatisticamente significativa ao nível de 0,01. No que se refere à cor, das 350 gestantes de cor branca, 79,14% apresentaram anticorpos nos níveis mencionados anteriormente; das 90 pacientes de cor preta, 75,56%; das 317 mulheres grávidas de cor parda, 75,71% e das 21 gestantes de cor amarela, 71,43% possuiam níveis de anticorpos. Para inquéritos sôro-epidemiológicos de larga escala, a prova de neutralização apresenta inconvenientes de ordem prática pelo que se faz necessário estudar mais amplamente a correlação dos resultados desta técnica com aqueles fornecidos por outros, entre as quais se destaca, sem dúvida, a reação de inibição da hemaglutinação

Temperature dependence of the coherence in polariton condensates

We present a time-resolved experimental study of the temperature effect on the coherence of traveling polariton condensates. The simultaneous detection of their emission both in real and reciprocal space allows us to fully monitor the condensates' dynamics. We obtain fringes in reciprocal space as a result of the interference between polariton wave packets (WPs) traveling with the same speed. The periodicity of these fringes is inversely proportional to the spatial distance between the interfering WPs. In a similar fashion, we obtain interference fringes in real space when WPs traveling in opposite directions meet. The visibility of both real- and reciprocal-space interference fringes rapidly decreases with increasing temperature and vanishes. A theoretical description of the phase transition, considering the coexistence of condensed and noncondensed particles, for an out-of-equilibrium condensate such as ours is still missing, yet a comparison with theories developed for atomic condensates allows us to infer a critical temperature for the BEC-like transition when the visibility goes to zeroE.R. acknowledges financial support from a Spanish FPI scholarship No. BES-2015-074708. This work was partially supported by the Spanish MINECO grants No. MAT2014-53119-C2-1-R and No. MAT2017-83722-R. P.G.S. acknowledges support from ITMO Fellowship Program and megaGrant No. 14.Y26.31.0015 of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federatio

Brain Age from the Electroencephalogram of Sleep

The human electroencephalogram (EEG) of sleep undergoes profound changes with age. These changes can be conceptualized as "brain age", which can be compared to an age norm to reflect the deviation from normal aging process. Here, we develop an interpretable machine learning model to predict brain age based on two large sleep EEG datasets: the Massachusetts General Hospital sleep lab dataset (MGH, N = 2,621) covering age 18 to 80; and the Sleep Hearth Health Study (SHHS, N = 3,520) covering age 40 to 80. The model obtains a mean absolute deviation of 8.1 years between brain age and chronological age in the healthy participants in the MGH dataset. As validation, we analyze a subset of SHHS containing longitudinal EEGs 5 years apart, which shows a 5.5 years difference in brain age. Participants with neurological and psychiatric diseases, as well as diabetes and hypertension medications show an older brain age compared to chronological age. The findings raise the prospect of using sleep EEG as a biomarker for healthy brain aging