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    Testing strong gravity with gravitational waves and Love numbers

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    The LIGO observation of GW150914 has inaugurated the gravitational-wave astronomy era and the possibility of testing gravity in extreme regimes. While distorted black holes are the most convincing sources of gravitational waves, similar signals might be produced also by other compact objects. In particular, we discuss what the gravitational-wave ringdown could tell us about the nature of the emitting object, and how measurements of the tidal Love numbers could help us in understanding the internal structure of compact dark objects

    First-passage times in multi-scale random walks: the impact of movement scales on search efficiency

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    An efficient searcher needs to balance properly the tradeoff between the exploration of new spatial areas and the exploitation of nearby resources, an idea which is at the core of scale-free L\'evy search strategies. Here we study multi-scale random walks as an approximation to the scale- free case and derive the exact expressions for their mean-first passage times in a one-dimensional finite domain. This allows us to provide a complete analytical description of the dynamics driving the asymmetric regime, in which both nearby and faraway targets are available to the searcher. For this regime, we prove that the combination of only two movement scales can be enough to outperform both balistic and L\'evy strategies. This two-scale strategy involves an optimal discrimination between the nearby and faraway targets, which is only possible by adjusting the range of values of the two movement scales to the typical distances between encounters. So, this optimization necessarily requires some prior information (albeit crude) about targets distances or distributions. Furthermore, we found that the incorporation of additional (three, four, ...) movement scales and its adjustment to target distances does not improve further the search efficiency. This allows us to claim that optimal random search strategies in the asymmetric regime actually arise through the informed combination of only two walk scales (related to the exploitative and the explorative scale, respectively), expanding on the well-known result that optimal strategies in strictly uninformed scenarios are achieved through L\'evy paths (or, equivalently, through a hierarchical combination of multiple scales)

    Magnetism and Electronic Correlations in Quasi-One-Dimensional Compounds

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    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

    Quantum oscillator and Kepler-Coulomb problems in curved spaces: deformed shape invariance, point canonical transformations, and rational extensions

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    The quantum oscillator and Kepler-Coulomb problems in dd-dimensional spaces with constant curvature are analyzed from several viewpoints. In a deformed supersymmetric framework, the corresponding nonlinear potentials are shown to exhibit a deformed shape invariance property. By using the point canonical transformation method, the two deformed Schr\"odinger equations are mapped onto conventional ones corresponding to some shape-invariant potentials, whose rational extensions are well known. The inverse point canonical transformations then provide some rational extensions of the oscillator and Kepler-Coulomb potentials in curved space. The oscillator on the sphere and the Kepler-Coulomb potential in a hyperbolic space are studied in detail and their extensions are proved to be consistent with already known ones in Euclidean space. The partnership between nonextended and extended potentials is interpreted in a deformed supersymmetric framework. Those extended potentials that are isospectral to some nonextended ones are shown to display deformed shape invariance, which in the Kepler-Coulomb case is enlarged by also translating the degree of the polynomial arising in the rational part denominator.Comment: 32 pages, no figure; published versio

    Alterations in heterosis of maize populations derived from single-cross hybrids after reciprocal recurrent selection.

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    One hundred and sixty-nine interpopulational half sib progenies were obtained from maize populations derived from the commercial single-cross hybrids AG9012 (1) and C333 (2) to investigate the efficiency of reciprocal recurrent selection (RRS). Fifteen progenies with highest hulled ear yield were obtained. Two recombination trials were sown with remnant S1 seeds, and the improved CI1 and CI2 populations were simultaneously obtained with their hybrid combination. Yield trials were set up in three sites to assess the efficiency of the RRS. The F1 from single-cross hybrid AG9012 and C333, the double-cross (F1(1)x F1(2) hybrids, the C0 1 and C02 populations, the interpopulational hybrid (C01 x C02), the CI1 and CI2 improved populations, and their hybrid (CI1 x CI2) were compared. A 5.7% progress was obtained in one cycle of RRS for ear yield, mainly attributed to increased heterosis. The yield of the improved hybrid was superior to the F1 from single-cross hybrids AG9012 and C333, demonstrating the potential of the referred hybrid combination. Para verificar a eficiência da seleção recorrente recíproca (SRR) em populações originárias dos híbridos simples comerciais AG9012 (1) e C333 (2) foram obtidas, inicialmente, 169 progênies de meios-irmãos interpopulacionais. As 15 melhores progênies em produção de espigas despalhadas foram identificadas. Utilizando-se sementes S1 remanescentes, semearam-se dois campos de recombinação, sendo simultaneamente obtidas as populações melhoradas C1 1 e C1 2 e a combinação híbrida entre elas. Os experimentos para avaliar a eficiência da SRR foram instalados em três locais. Foram comparados o F1 dos híbridos simples AG9012 e C333, o híbrido duplo F1(1) x F1 (2), entre eles as populações CD1 e CD2, o híbrido interpopulacinal (CD1 e CD2), as populações melhoradas C1 1 e C1 2 e a sua combinação híbrida (C1 1 e C 1 2). O progresso com um ciclo de SRR foi de 5,7% para a produção de espigas e deveu-se , principalmente, ao incremento na heterose. O desempenho do híbrido melhorado superou a geração F1 dos híbridos simples AG9012 e C333, evidenciando o potencial da referida combinação híbrida

    Enraizamento ex vitro e aclimatização de plantas micropropagadas de Tectona grandis.

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    O enraizamento de espécies arbóreas é bastante complexo devido à maturidade dos tecidos. O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar o efeito de AIB no enraizamento ex vitro de brotos micropropagados a partir de plantas jovens de Tectona grandis L. em dois substratos, bem como da porção do broto para enraizamento. Foram utilizados brotos multiplicados in vitro inteiros, ou excisados ao meio (porção apical e basal), submetidos a imersão por 10 segundos em soluções contendo diferentes concentrações de AIB (0, 100, 1000, 2000, 4000 mg.L-1) e plantados em bandejas plásticas contendo vermiculita ou Plantmax® como substratos. O enraizamento ex vitro ocorreu em todos os tratamentos, inclusive na ausência de AIB. O maior número de raízes e o maior crescimento relativo do caule foram observados para os tratamentos com o uso de AIB, em ambos os substratos. O enraizamento ocorreu em 100% dos explantes de origem apical e basal, em ambos os substratos. O enraizamento ex vitro de brotos micropropagados de T. grandis é viável a partir de plantas jovens, e a taxa de multiplicação é duplicada com o seccionamento dos brotos em porções apical e basal

    Efeito de diferentes citocininas e sistema de cultura dupla-face na micropropagação de Teca (Tectonia grandis L.) estabelecida na Amazônia Sul-Ocidental.

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    A cultura de tecidos representa uma das formas mais viáveis de multiplicação de matrizes selecionadas. O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar as respostas fisiológicas de diferentes tipos de citocininas e composições de meio de cultura na multiplicação in vitro de microbrotos, bem como a eficiência do sistema dupla-fase de cultivo na micropropagação de Tectona grandis L.f. estabelecidos na Amazônia Sul-Ocidental. Segmentos nodais de plântulas germinadas in vitro foram utilizados como fontes de explantes. Foram avaliados, no sistema de cultivo semissólido, o efeito dos meios de cultura MS e WPM, e diferentes concentrações de BAP, CIN e TDZ (2,2; 4,4; 8,8; 17,7 ?M). Para o sistema duplafase, os segmentos nodais foram cultivados por 30 dias em meio de cultura semissólido MS, com 30 g.L-1 de sacarose, 6 g.L-1 de ágar-ágar e suplementados com 2,2; 4,4; 8,8 ?M de BAP e 0,53 ?M de ANA. Após 30 dias em cultivo sólido, os mesmos tratamentos receberam a adição de 10 mL de meio de cultura líquido MS. Em sistema de cultura em meio semissólido, o meio de cultura WPM é mais eficiente na multiplicação in vitro de brotos de T. grandis L. O uso de BAP ou TDZ é mais eficientena multiplicação in vitro do que as citocininas CIN. O uso do sistema de cultivo dupla-fase apresenta eficiência semelhante ao sistema convencional (meio semissólido)
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