Prof. Nelson Astrath received the IPPA Junior Prize for outstanding experimental and theoretical contributions to the development of different photothermal methods, the mode mismatched thermal mirror technique in particular, which has substantially enhanced material research in general, and the study of photochemical and photophysics processes in liquids in particular. For his contribution to the experimental […]

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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