Art and Science: Articulating a Contemporary Dialogue Using the Perspective of the Renaissance (Relation Galileo-Cigoli Rediscovered)

By Marcos Cesar Danhoni Neves, Josie Agatha Parrilha da Silva

By two research groups, INTERART (Interaction between Art, Science and Education: Dialogues
in Visual Arts) and PEFAHC (Research in Physics Teaching, Astronomy and History of Science),
started five years ago, motivated by the […]

G. Barbero, L. R. Evangelista, P. Rosseto R. S. Zola e I. Lelidis

PHYSICAL REVIEW E – Volume: 92; Number article: 030501; DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.92.030501; 2015

The twist-bend nematic phase, NTB , may be viewed as a heliconical molecular arrangement in which the director n precesses uniformly about an extra director field, t. It corresponds to a nematic ground […]

Haroldo V. Ribeiro, Satyam Mukherjee e Xiao Han T. Zeng

PLoS ONE (Accepted, 2016)

The idea that the success rate of a team increases when playing home is broadly accepted and documented for a wide variety of sports. Investigations on the so-called “home advantage phenomenon” date back to the 70′s and every since has attracted the attention […]

L. G. A. Alves, D. B. Scariot, R. R. Guimarães, C. V. Nakamura, R. S. Mendes e H. V. Ribeiro

PLoS ONE (Accepted, 2016)

We report on a diffusive analysis of the motion of flagellate protozoa species. These parasites are the etiological agents of neglected tropical diseases: leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania amazonensis and Leishmania braziliensis, African sleeping […]

A. C. Braga, L. G. A. Alves, L. S. Costa, A. A. Ribeiro, M. M. A. de Jesus, A. A. Tateishi e H. V. Ribeiro

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications – Volume: 444; Pages: 1003–1011; DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2015.10.102; 2016

We report on a large-scale characterization of river discharges by employing the network framework of the horizontal […]

Prof. Luiz Roberto Evangelista awarded the prize San Giorgio per Distinzione Accademica, Centro Studi Molisano, Campobasso (Italy). Prof. Evangelista is a physicist and a distinguished academic of international reputation. He was born in Maringa, Parana, Brazil, on March 2, 1958. His great-grandparents were from Molise and arrived in Brazil in the late nineteenth century (1897).

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Quentin S. Hanley, Dan Lewis e Haroldo V. Ribeiro

PLOS ONE – Volume: 11; Issue: 2; Number article: e0149546; DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0149546; 2016

Urban population scaling of resource use, creativity metrics, and human behaviors has been widely studied. These studies have not looked in detail at the full range of human environments which represent a continuum from the most […]