The Fermi level effect in III-V intermixing: The final nail in the coffin?

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On possible violation of the CHSH Bell inequality in a classical context

It has been shown that there is a small possibility to experimentally violate the CHSH Bell inequality in a 'classical' context. The probability of such a violation has been estimated in the framework of a classical probabilistic model in the language of a random-walk representation.Comment: 9 pages, 1 figur

Cosmological scenarios from multiquintessence

In this work we derive and analyse cosmological scenarios coming from multi-component scalar field models. We consider a direct sum of a sine-Gordon with a Z2 model, and also a combination of those with a BNRT model. Moreover, we work with a modified version of the BNRT model, which breaks the Z2 x Z2 symmetry of the original BNRT potential, coupled with the sine-Gordon and with the standard Z2 models. We show that our approach can be straightforwardly elevated to $N$ fields. All the computations are made analytically and some parameters restriction is put forward in order to get in touch with complete and realistic cosmological scenarios

Avaliação agronômica da aplicação do resíduo da indústria processadora de goiabas em pomar comercial de goiabeiras.

Dada a escassez de informações na literatura e a importância do manejo adequado de resíduos orgânicos na agricultura, objetivou-se avaliar os efeitos da aplicação do resíduo da indústria processadora de goiabas em um Argissolo Vermelho-Amarelo, determinando-se as alterações provocadas na química do solo, no estado nutricional de goiabeiras e na produção de frutos. As doses de resíduo aplicadas no pomar foram estabelecidas em função dos teores de N no resíduo. O delineamento empregado foi o de blocos casualizados, com cinco tratamentos e quatro repetições, sendo as doses do resíduo (moído) de 0, 9, 18, 27 e 36 t ha-1 (peso do material seco). Foram feitas três aplicações do resíduo: em 2006, 2007 e 2008. O resíduo da indústria processadora de goiabas promoveu aumento nos teores de P no solo; as goiabeiras apresentaram aumento dos teores de N, Ca, Mg e Mn; a produção de frutos foi alterada positiva e significativamente no terceiro ano do experimento. Agronomic evaluation of application of residue of the guava industry in a guava orchard. Given the scarcity of information in the literature and the importance of a proper management of organic waste in agriculture, this paper evaluated the effects of applying residues of the guava processing industry to an Ultisol, by evaluating changes in soil chemical properties, in the nutritional status of guava plants and fruit production. The residue rates applied in the orchard were established according to the residue N content and evaluated in a randomized block design with four replications, and the rates of the (ground) residue were: zero, 9, 18, 27 and 36 t ha-1 (dry weight). Three residue applications were made: in 2006, 2007 and 2008. The residue of the guava processing industry increased soil P concentration, and the guava plants showed increased leaf levels of N, Ca, Mg and Mn, and fruit production was positively and significantly affected in the third year of the experiment

Experimental analysis of lateral impact on planar brittle material

The fragmentation of alumina and glass plates due to lateral impact is studied. A few hundred plates have been fragmented at different impact velocities and the produced fragments are analyzed. The method employed in this work allows one to investigate some geometrical properties of the fragments, besides the traditional size distribution usually studied in former experiments. We found that, although both materials exhibit qualitative similar fragment size distribution function, their geometrical properties appear to be quite different. A schematic model for two-dimensional fragmentation is also presented and its predictions are compared to our experimental results. The comparison suggests that the analysis of the fragments' geometrical properties constitutes a more stringent test of the theoretical models' assumptions than the size distribution

Efeitos do subproduto da indústria processadora de goiabas na presença e ausência da adubação mineral.

O adequado manejo de resíduos orgânicos na agricultura carece de estudos e respaldo técnico. Assim, objetivou-se avaliar o feito da aplicação de doses do subproduto da indústria processadora de goiabas, na presença e ausência de adubação mineral, sobre na análise de rotina de um Argissolo Vermelho-Amarelo, em condições de laboratório. O delineamento experimental utilizado foi em esquema fatorial empregando cinco doses de resíduo, na presença e ausência de adubação mineral, inteiramente casualizado, com quatro repetições. Nas condições experimentais os atributos pH, M.O., K, Mg, SB, T e V foram afetados pelas doses do resíduo da indústria processadora de goiabas e processadora de goiabas e, pela presença ou ausência da fertilização mineral. Na presença da adubação mineral, as variáveis M.O., K, H+Al e T tiveram maior incremento em relação à ausência do adubo, em função do resíduo aplicado. Os resultados apresentados demonstram o potencial de utilização do resíduo da indústria processadora de goiabas na ciclagem e fornecimento de nutrientes

Temperature oscillations of magnetization observed in nanofluid ferromagnetic graphite

We report on unusual magnetic properties observed in the nanofluid room-temperature ferromagnetic graphite (with an average particle size of l=10nm). More precisely, the measured magnetization exhibits a low-temperature anomaly (attributed to manifestation of finite size effects below the quantum temperature) as well as pronounced temperature oscillations above T=50K (attributed to manifestation of the hard-sphere type pair correlations between ferromagnetic particles in the nanofluid)

Trânsito de máquinas e resistência do solo à penetração em pomar de goiabeiras.

The study was conducted in irrigated commercial orchards of ?Paluma? and ?Pedro Sato? guavas, which were mapped with a Garmin GPS unit (Cx60). Sixty five sampling points were marked on a 21 x 21 m sampling grid. Gravimetric humidity and soil penetration resistance (SPR) were evaluated with the help of an automated penetrometer rod with a type 3 cone at a 45º angle (maximum SPR 15,100 kPa). Data with non-normal distribution were analyzed by geostatistics and interpolation by ordinary kriging. SPR values were higher where machine traffic occurs than on the lines where the crop is planted. There was spatial variability of the SPR among the layers evaluated, with the layer between 0.10-0.20 m, on the line of the machine traffic, presenting a higher SPR (>4000 kPa)