13th International Chemical and Biological Engineering Conference (CHEMPOR 2018): book of short abstracts

University of Aveiro and Ordem dos Engenheiros proudly welcome all participants to the 13th International Chemical and Biological Engineering Conference - CHEMPOR 2018. Welcome to Aveiro! During three days, from October 2nd to 4th, more than 370 participants from Industry and Academia gathered at Centro Cultural e de Congressos de Aveiro to discuss recent developments and future directions in different areas of chemical engineering, materials science and engineering, biotechnology and biological engineering. CHEMPOR 2018 aims to be a forum for the debate of societal challenges related to energy, the environment, and the efficient use of natural resources and materials, all of which require innovative solutions complying with sustainability criteria. In 2017 Portuguese exports increased circa 11 % reaching the highest value of the Gross Domestic Product (in a time horizon of 23 years). Portugal’s Ministry of Economy estimates that capital-intensive industries (such as chemicals and polymers producers) and manufacturing industries (including food, textile, paper, cork, wood panels and metal producers) account for over 50 % of the overall value of the exportations. In this context, CHEMPOR 2018 emerges as a privileged forum to discuss technological and scientific issues that will promote economic growth through innovation. The Organizing Committee accepted more than 345 communications, of which 83 oral presentations, after peer reviewing. Internationally recognized scientists were invited to deliver 6 Plenary Lectures and 6 Keynote Speeches. On the opening day of CHEMPOR 2018, the Portuguese Minister of Economy, Professor Manuel Caldeira Cabral, made a communication in the presence of dozens of industrial sponsors. Just before the closing session, the Professor Almiro Castro Award (sponsored by PARALAB) was granted , for the second time, and prizes were awarded to the best Oral and Poster Communications presented during the Conference. The Organizing Committee of CHEMPOR 2018 acknowledges all authors for their contributions, all colleagues involved in the organization of the program, and the generosity of all sponsors. We wish you a memorable Conference both scientifically and socially.publishe

Search for dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks in √s = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

A search for weakly interacting massive particle dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks is presented. Final states containing third-generation quarks and miss- ing transverse momentum are considered. The analysis uses 36.1 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at √s = 13 TeV in 2015 and 2016. No significant excess of events above the estimated backgrounds is observed. The results are in- terpreted in the framework of simplified models of spin-0 dark-matter mediators. For colour- neutral spin-0 mediators produced in association with top quarks and decaying into a pair of dark-matter particles, mediator masses below 50 GeV are excluded assuming a dark-matter candidate mass of 1 GeV and unitary couplings. For scalar and pseudoscalar mediators produced in association with bottom quarks, the search sets limits on the production cross- section of 300 times the predicted rate for mediators with masses between 10 and 50 GeV and assuming a dark-matter mass of 1 GeV and unitary coupling. Constraints on colour- charged scalar simplified models are also presented. Assuming a dark-matter particle mass of 35 GeV, mediator particles with mass below 1.1 TeV are excluded for couplings yielding a dark-matter relic density consistent with measurements

ATLANTIC-PRIMATES: a dataset of communities and occurrences of primates in the Atlantic Forests of South America

Primates play an important role in ecosystem functioning and offer critical insights into human evolution, biology, behavior, and emerging infectious diseases. There are 26 primate species in the Atlantic Forests of South America, 19 of them endemic. We compiled a dataset of 5,472 georeferenced locations of 26 native and 1 introduced primate species, as hybrids in the genera Callithrix and Alouatta. The dataset includes 700 primate communities, 8,121 single species occurrences and 714 estimates of primate population sizes, covering most natural forest types of the tropical and subtropical Atlantic Forest of Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina and some other biomes. On average, primate communities of the Atlantic Forest harbor 2 ± 1 species (range = 1–6). However, about 40% of primate communities contain only one species. Alouatta guariba (N = 2,188 records) and Sapajus nigritus (N = 1,127) were the species with the most records. Callicebus barbarabrownae (N = 35), Leontopithecus caissara (N = 38), and Sapajus libidinosus (N = 41) were the species with the least records. Recorded primate densities varied from 0.004 individuals/km 2 (Alouatta guariba at Fragmento do Bugre, Paraná, Brazil) to 400 individuals/km 2 (Alouatta caraya in Santiago, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil). Our dataset reflects disparity between the numerous primate census conducted in the Atlantic Forest, in contrast to the scarcity of estimates of population sizes and densities. With these data, researchers can develop different macroecological and regional level studies, focusing on communities, populations, species co-occurrence and distribution patterns. Moreover, the data can also be used to assess the consequences of fragmentation, defaunation, and disease outbreaks on different ecological processes, such as trophic cascades, species invasion or extinction, and community dynamics. There are no copyright restrictions. Please cite this Data Paper when the data are used in publications. We also request that researchers and teachers inform us of how they are using the data. © 2018 by the The Authors. Ecology © 2018 The Ecological Society of Americ