Magnetism and Electronic Correlations in Quasi-One-Dimensional Compounds

In this contribution on the celebration of the 80th birthday anniversary of Prof. Ricardo Ferreira, we present a brief survey on the magnetism of quasi-one-dimensional compounds. This has been a research area of intense activity particularly since the first experimental announcements of magnetism in organic and organometallic polymers in the mid 80s. We review experimental and theoretical achievements on the field, featuring chain systems of correlated electrons in a special AB2 unit cell structure present in inorganic and organic compounds

Canonical transformation for stiff matter models in quantum cosmology

In the present work we consider Friedmann-Robertson-Walker models in the presence of a stiff matter perfect fluid and a cosmological constant. We write the superhamiltonian of these models using the Schutz's variational formalism. We notice that the resulting superhamiltonians have terms that will lead to factor ordering ambiguities when they are written as operators. In order to remove these ambiguities, we introduce appropriate coordinate transformations and prove that these transformations are canonical using the symplectic method.Comment: Revtex4 Class, 3 pages, No Figure

Spatio-temporal variations in the urban rhythm: the travelling waves of crime

This is the final version. Available from EDP Sciences via the DOI in this record.In the last decades, the notion that cities are in a state of equilibrium with a centralised organisation has given place to the viewpoint of cities in disequilibrium and organised from bottom to up. In this perspective, cities are evolving systems that exhibit emergent phenomena built from local decisions. While urban evolution promotes the emergence of positive social phenomena such as the formation of innovation hubs and the increase in cultural diversity, it also yields negative phenomena such as increases in criminal activity. Yet, we are still far from understanding the driving mechanisms of these phenomena. In particular, approaches to analyse urban phenomena are limited in scope by neglecting both temporal non-stationarity and spatial heterogeneity. In the case of criminal activity, we know for more than one century that crime peaks during specific times of the year, but the literature still fails to characterise the mobility of crime. Here we develop an approach to describe the spatial, temporal, and periodic variations in urban quantities. With crime data from 12 cities, we characterise how the periodicity of crime varies spatially across the city over time. We confirm one-year criminal cycles and show that this periodicity occurs unevenly across the city. These ‘waves of crime’ keep travelling across the city: while cities have a stable number of regions with a circannual period, the regions exhibit non-stationary series. Our findings support the concept of cities in a constant change, influencing urban phenomena—in agreement with the notion of cities not in equilibrium.Leibniz AssociationArmy Research OfficeScience Without Borders program (CAPES, Brazil

Impacto potencial das mudanças climáticas sobre as doenças do mamoeiro no Brasil.

Doenças causadas por fungos e oomicetos; Doenças causadas por vírus

Implementação de um sistema de informação geográfica para a gestão da empresa florestal.

Este trabalho mostra a integração do modelo administrativo de uma empresa florestal através da implementação de um sistema de informação geográfica. Como base do trabalho, foi utilizado o sistema SPRING (Sistema para Processamento de Informações Georreferenciadas) desenvolvido pelo INPE (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais). Também foram utilizados os sistemas SISPINUS (Simulador de Crescimento e Produção de Pinus elliottii e Pinus taeda) e PLANIN (Planejamento Florestal Integrado), ambos desenvolvidos pela EMBRAPA (Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária) e UFPR (Universidade Federal do Paraná). O Uso do SPRING integrado a simuladores da produção tornou viável a elaboração de um sistema que possibilita a espacialização da prognose de crescimento e produção por sortimento de madeira bem como da programação de cortes e parâmetros econômicos, até resultados mais avançados de análise espacial. O sistema de informação geográfica implementado apresentou bons resultados e demonstrou grandes possibilidades proporcionando a rápida visualização espacial de informações obtidas como também a integração e produção de novas informações que podem auxiliar os processos de decisão e planejamento das empresas, sobretudo no planejamento e manejo florestal de espécies de rápido crescimento

A canonical transformation and the tunneling probability for the birth of an asymptotically DeSitter universe with dust

In the present work, we study the quantum cosmology description of closed Friedmann-Robertson-Walker models in the presence of a positive cosmological constant and a generic perfect fluid. We work in the Schutz's variational formalism. If one uses the scale factor and its canonically conjugated momentum as the phase space variables that describe the geometrical sector of these models, one obtains Wheeler-DeWitt equations with operator ordering ambiguities. In order to avoid those ambiguities and simplify the quantum treatment of the models, we introduce new phase space variables. We explicitly demonstrate that the transformation leading from the old set of variables to the new one is canonical. In order to show that the above canonical transformations simplify the quantum treatment of those models, we consider a particular model where the perfect fluid is dust. We solve the Wheeler-DeWitt equation numerically using the Crank-Nicholson scheme and determine the time evolution of the initial wave function. Finally, we compare the results for the present model with the ones for another model where the only difference is the presence of a radiative perfect fluid, instead of dust.Comment: Revtex4, 18 pages, 2 EPS figure