The Cluster Abundance in Flat and Open Cosmologies

We use the galaxy cluster X-ray temperature distribution function to constrain the amplitude of the power spectrum of density inhomogeneities on the scale corresponding to clusters. We carry out the analysis for critical density universes, for low density universes with a cosmological constant included to restore spatial flatness and for genuinely open universes. That clusters with the same present temperature but different formation times have different virial masses is included. We model cluster mergers using two completely different approaches, and show that the final results from each are extremely similar. We give careful consideration to the uncertainties involved, carrying out a Monte Carlo analysis to determine the cumulative errors. For critical density our result agrees with previous papers, but we believe the result carries a larger uncertainty. For low density universes, either flat or open, the required amplitude of the power spectrum increases as the density is decreased. If all the dark matter is taken to be cold, then the cluster abundance constraint remains compatible with both galaxy correlation data and the {\it COBE} measurement of microwave background anisotropies for any reasonable density.Comment: Uuencoded package containing LaTeX file (uses mn.sty) plus 7 postscript figures incorporated using epsf. Total length 10 pages. Final version, to appear MNRAS. COBE comparison changed to 4yr data. No change to results or conclusion

Mapping road network communities for guiding disease surveillance and control strategies

Human mobility is increasing in its volume, speed and reach, leading to the movement and introduction of pathogens through infected travelers. An understanding of how areas are connected, the strength of these connections and how this translates into disease spread is valuable for planning surveillance and designing control and elimination strategies. While analyses have been undertaken to identify and map connectivity in global air, shipping and migration networks, such analyses have yet to be undertaken on the road networks that carry the vast majority of travellers in low and middle income settings. Here we present methods for identifying road connectivity communities, as well as mapping bridge areas between communities and key linkage routes. We apply these to Africa, and show how many highly-connected communities straddle national borders and when integrating malaria prevalence and population data as an example, the communities change, highlighting regions most strongly connected to areas of high burden. The approaches and results presented provide a flexible tool for supporting the design of disease surveillance and control strategies through mapping areas of high connectivity that form coherent units of intervention and key link routes between communities for targeting surveillance.Comment: 11 pages, 5 figures, research pape

Early Enrichment of the Intergalactic Medium and its Feedback on Galaxy Formation

Supernova-driven outflows from early galaxies may have had a large impact on the kinetic and chemical structure of the intergalactic medium (IGM). We use three-dimensional Monte Carlo cosmological realizations of a simple linear peaks model to track the time evolution of such metal-enriched outflows and their feedback on galaxy formation. We find that at most 30% of the IGM by volume is enriched to values above 10^-3 solar in models that only include objects that cool by atomic transitions. The majority of enrichment occurs relatively early (5 < z < 12) and resulting in a mass-averaged cosmological metallicity between 10^-3 and 10^-1.5 solar. The inclusion of Population III objects that cool through H2 line emission has only a minor impact on these results: increasing the mean metallicity and filling factor by at most a factor of 1.4, and moving the dawn of the enrichment epoch to a redshift of approximately 14 at the earliest. Thus enrichment by outflowing galaxies is likely to have been incomplete and inhomogeneous, biased to the areas near the starbursting galaxies themselves. Models with a 10% star formation efficiency can satisfactorily reproduce the nearly constant (2 < z < 5, Z approximately 3.5 x 10^-4 solar) metallicity of the low column density Ly-alpha forest derived by Songaila (2001), an effect of the decreasing efficiency of metal loss from larger galaxies. Finally, we show that IGM enrichment is intimately tied to the ram-pressure stripping of baryons from neighboring perturbations. This results in the suppression of at least 20% of the dwarf galaxies in the mass range 10^8.5 to 10^9.5 solar, in all models with filling factors greater than 2%, and an overall suppression of approximately 50% of dwarf galaxies in the most observationally-favored model.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures, accepted to Ap

Cosmological Implications of the Fundamental Relations of X-ray Clusters

Based on the two-parameter family nature of X-ray clusters of galaxies obtained in a separate paper, we discuss the formation history of clusters and cosmological parameters of the universe. Utilizing the spherical collapse model of cluster formation, and assuming that the cluster X-ray core radius is proportional to the virial radius at the time of the cluster collapse, the observed relations among the density, radius, and temperature of clusters imply that cluster formation occurs in a wide range of redshift. The observed relations favor the low-density universe. Moreover, we find that the model of $n\sim -1$ is preferable.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures. To be published in ApJ Letter

INFLUÊNCIA DO CONSUMO DE FARINHA DE YACON NA GLICEMIA, PERFIL LIPÍDICO, COMPOSIÇÃO CORPORAL E CONSUMO ALIMENTAR COM MULHERES COM DIABETES TIPO 2 E COM EXCESSO DE PESO

O yacon é uma raiz tuberosa ainda pouco consumida no Brasil, sendo ultimamente muito estudada na saúde humana devido à presença dos fruto-oligossacarídeos (FOS). No presente estudo foi produzida a farinha de yacon e avaliou-se a influência de sua ingestão por mulheres portadoras de diabetes tipo 2 durante 60 dias (T0: início; T30: após 30 dias; T60: após 60 dias). As participantes foram divididas em grupo controle (GC: n = 29) e grupo yacon (GY: n = 23), que consumiu 11 g de FOS presentes na farinha de yacon. Foram avaliados os parâmetros de glicose em jejum, perfil lipídico, composição corporal e consumo alimentar, adotando um nível de 5% de significância nos testes estatísticos. A farinha de yacon apresentou 6,50% de rendimento, 1,15% de umidade, 4,52% de proteína total, 0,33% de gordura, 2,94% de cinzas, 10,23% de fibra bruta, 91,0% de carboidratos totais e 35,06% de FOS. No GY foi encontrado aumento significativo do HDL entre os três tempos do estudo (p < 0,0001) e também de colesterol total de T0 para T60 (p = 0,03) e redução significativa do percentual de gordura corporal de T0 para T60 (p = 0,03). No GC, um aumento significativo foi encontrado no HDL de T0 e T30 para T60 (p < 0,0001) e de triacilgliceróis de T0 para T30 (p = 0,01). Em relação ao consumo alimentar, houve diferença significativa entre os grupos em relação às fibras em T30 e T60 (p = 0,01/p = 0,009). O GY apresentou uma redução significativa de calorias (p = 0,02) e ácidos graxos saturados (p = 0,02) de T0 para T60, enquanto o GC apresentou redução significativa da ingestão de carboidratos de T0 para T30 (p = 0,03). A diminuição do percentual de gordura corporal e da ingestão energética do GY sugere um possível efeito benéfico dos FOS

Manejo de Diabrotica speciosa na cultura do milho.

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