Human case of West Nile neuroinvasive disease in Portugal, summer 2015

A case of West Nile virus (WNV) infection was reported in the Algarve region, Portugal, in the first week of September 2015. WNV is known to circulate in Portugal, with occasional reports in horses and birds (2004 to 2011) and very sporadically human cases (in 2004 and in 2010). Here we present the clinical and laboratory aspects related to the first human case of West Nile neuroinvasive disease reported in Portugal

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus spreading through medical devices used in nursing care: what can we learn from Portugal?

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Desempenho da bananeira consorciada com leguminosas herbáceas perenes em um agroecossistema sob manejo ecológico em Mato Grosso do Sul.

bitstream/item/68901/1/042-sousa-desempenho.pdfPublicado também no Cadernos de Agroecologia, v. 7, n.2, 2012

Integration of bow-tie plasmonic nano-antennas on tapered fibers

FUNDAÇÃO DE AMPARO À PESQUISA DO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO - FAPESPIn this article, a new and flexible approach to control the electric field enhancement of bow-tie nano-antennas by integrating them on the lateral of a tapered optical fiber is proposed. The device is driven by a Q-switched laser and the performance of a fabricated nano-antenna in a quartz slide is tested by a Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) experiment. A refractive index sensing experiment is also performed and a sensitivity of (240 +/- 30) nm/RIU is found in the 1.33-1.35 index range.25889868996FUNDAÇÃO DE AMPARO À PESQUISA DO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO - FAPESPFUNDAÇÃO DE AMPARO À PESQUISA DO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO - FAPESP2014/50632-6The Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development (AOARD US Air Force FA2386-15-1-4084); Australian Research Council (ARC LP160100253); and Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) (#2014/50632-6)

Decomposição de adubos verdes perenes consorciados com a bananeira em um sistema sob transição agroecológica em Mato Grosso do Sul.

bitstream/item/68857/1/040-osorio-decomposicao.pdfPublicado também no Cadernos de Agroecologia, v. 7, n.2, 2012

Solo cultivado com adubos verdes perenes consorciados com a bananeira, em um agroecossistema sob manejo ecológico em Mato Grosso do Sul: efeito sobre atributos químicos.

bitstream/item/69056/1/094-carneiro-solo.pdfPublicado também no Cadernos de Agroecologia, v. 7, n.2, 2012

Chaos in Anisotropic Pre-Inflationary Universes

We study the dynamics of anisotropic Bianchi type-IX models with matter and cosmological constant. The models can be thought as describing the role of anisotropy in the early stages of inflation. The concurrence of the cosmological constant and anisotropy are sufficient to produce a chaotic dynamics in the gravitational degrees of freedom, connected to the presence of a critical point of saddle-center type in the phase space of the system. The invariant character of chaos is guaranteed by the topology of the cylinders emanating from unstable periodic orbits in the neighborhood of the saddle-center. We discuss a possible mechanism for amplification of specific wavelengths of inhomogeneous fluctuations in the models. A geometrical interpretation is given for Wald's inequality in terms of invariant tori and their destruction by increasing values of the cosmological constant.Comment: 14 pages, figures available under request. submitted to Physical Review