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Recurrence spectrum in smooth dynamical systems
We prove that for conformal expanding maps the return time does have constant
multifractal spectrum. This is the counterpart of the result by Feng and Wu in
the symbolic setting
The Impact of COVID-19 on Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior in Children: A Pilot Study
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Exponential dichotomies of evolution operators in Banach spaces
This paper considers three dichotomy concepts (exponential dichotomy, uniform
exponential dichotomy and strong exponential dichotomy) in the general context
of non-invertible evolution operators in Banach spaces. Connections between
these concepts are illustrated. Using the notion of Green function, we give
necessary conditions and sufficient ones for strong exponential dichotomy. Some
illustrative examples are presented to prove that the converse of some
implication type theorems are not valid
Physical Activity Mediates the Relationship Between Sleep and Vascular Health in Older Adults
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Growth performance, biochemical composition and sedimentation velocity of Tetraselmis sp. CTP4 under different salinities using low-cost lab- and pilot-scale systems
Biomass harvesting is one of the most expensive steps of the whole microalgal production pipeline. Therefore, the present work aimed to understand the effect of salinity on the growth performance, biochemical composition and sedimentation velocity of Tetraselmis sp. CTP4, in order to establish an effective low-cost pilot-scale harvesting system for this strain. At lab scale, similar growth performance was obtained in cultures grown at salinities of 5, 10 and 20 g L-1 NaCl. In addition, identical settling velocities (2.4-3.6 cm h-1) were observed on all salinities under study, regardless of the growth stage. However, higher salinities (20 g L-1) promoted a significant increase in lipid contents in this strain compared to when this microalga was cultivated at 5 or 10 g L-1 NaCl. At pilot-scale, cultures were cultivated semi-continuously in 2.5-m3 tubular photobioreactors, fed every four days, and stored in a 1-m3 harvesting tank. Upon a 24-hour settling step, natural sedimentation of the microalgal cells resulted in the removal of 93% of the culture medium in the form of a clear liquid containing only vestigial amounts of biomass (0.07 ± 0.02 g L-1 dry weight; DW). The remaining culture was recovered as a highly concentrated culture (19.53 ± 4.83 g L-1 DW) and wet microalgal paste (272.7 ± 18.5 g L-1 DW). Overall, this method provided an effective recovery of 97% of the total biomass, decreasing significantly the harvesting costs.Agência financiadora
Portuguese national budget P2020
Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) CMAR/Multi/04326/2013
ALGARED+ 1398 EP - INTERREG V-A Espana Portugal project
ALGACO2 project 023310
COST Action 1408 - European Network for Bio-products
FCT SFRH/BD/105541/2014info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Glycan microarray analysis of the carbohydrate-recognition specificity of native and recombinant forms of the lectin ArtinM
This article contains data related to the researc.h article entitled Yeast-derived ArtinM shares structure, carbohydrate recognition, and biological effects with native ArtinM by Cecílio et al. (2015) [1]. ArtinM, a D-mannose-binding lectin isolated from the seeds of Artocarpus heterophyllus, exerts immunomodulatory and regenerative activities through its Carbohydrate Recognition Domain (CRD) (Souza et al., 2013; Mariano et al., 2014 [2], [3]). The limited availability of the native lectin (n-ArtinM) led us to characterize a recombinant form of the protein, obtained by expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (y-ArtinM). We compared the carbohydrate-binding specificities of y-ArtinM and n-ArtinM by analyzing the binding of biotinylated preparations of the two lectin forms using a neoglycolipid (NGL)-based glycan microarray. Data showed that y-ArtinM mirrored the specificity exhibited by n-ArtinM
ActiGraph-Measured Breaks in Sedentary Behavior; Are They Real Transitions From Sitting to Standing?
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Generalised dimensions of measures on almost self-affine sets
We establish a generic formula for the generalised q-dimensions of measures
supported by almost self-affine sets, for all q>1. These q-dimensions may
exhibit phase transitions as q varies. We first consider general measures and
then specialise to Bernoulli and Gibbs measures. Our method involves estimating
expectations of moment expressions in terms of `multienergy' integrals which we
then bound using induction on families of trees
Phase transitions for suspension flows
This paper is devoted to study thermodynamic formalism for suspension flows
defined over countable alphabets. We are mostly interested in the regularity
properties of the pressure function. We establish conditions for the pressure
function to be real analytic or to exhibit a phase transition. We also
construct an example of a potential for which the pressure has countably many
phase transitions.Comment: Example 5.2 expanded. Typos corrected. Section 6.1 superced the note
"Thermodynamic formalism for the positive geodesic flow on the modular
surface" arXiv:1009.462
Geometric Quantization of Topological Gauge Theories
We study the symplectic quantization of Abelian gauge theories in
space-time dimensions with the introduction of a topological Chern-Simons term.Comment: 13 pages, plain TEX, IF/UFRJ/9
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