PIPA - Piloto 2007-2011: uma estratégia de educação alimentar

O desenvolvimento de projectos de educação alimentar em meio escolar são uma oportunidade excepcional para modificação de comportamentos e educação das crianças, tornando-as consumidores informados, com conhecimentos e capacidades para fazer as suas próprias escolhas. Neste sentido foi desenvolvido um projecto inovador, o projecto comunitário PIPA Piloto 2007-2011 em parceria com a ESTeSL, a Câmara Municipal de Loures e Agrupamento de Escolas da Bobadela. Objectivo do estudo - Desenvolver um plano estratégico de promoção da saúde na área alimentar às crianças do 1ºCiclo do Ensino Básico do Agrupamento de Escolas da Bobadela, desde o 1ºAno até ao 4ºAno de escolaridade.

Three-Dimensional patchy lattice model for empty fluids

The phase diagram of a simple model with two patches of type A and ten patches of type B (2A10B) on the face centred cubic lattice has been calculated by simulations and theory. Assuming that there is no interaction between the B patches the behavior of the system can be described in terms of the ratio of the AB and AA interactions, r. Our results show that, similarly to what happens for related off-lattice and two-dimensional lattice models, the liquid-vapor phase equilibria exhibit reentrant behavior for some values of the interaction parameters. However, for the model studied here the liquid-vapor phase equilibria occur for values of r lower than 1/3, a threshold value which was previously thought to be universal for 2AnB models. In addition, the theory predicts that below r = 1/3 (and above a new condensation threshold which is < 1/3) the reentrant liquid-vapor equilibria are so extreme that it exhibits a closed loop with a lower critical point, a very unusual behavior in single-component systems. An order-disorder transition is also observed at higher densities than the liquid-vapor equilibria, which shows that the liquid-vapor reentrancy occurs in an equilibrium region of the phase diagram. These findings may have implications in the understanding of the condensation of dipolar hard spheres given the analogy between that system and the 2AnB models considered here.

Reply to "Comment on 'Effect of polydispersity on the ordering transition of adsorbed self- assembled rigid rods'"

We comment on the nature of the ordering transition of a model of equilibrium polydisperse rigid rods on the square lattice, which is reported by Lopez et al. to exhibit random percolation criticality in the canonical ensemble, in sharp contrast to (i) our results of Ising criticality for the same model in the grand canonical ensemble [Phys. Rev. E 82, 061117 (2010)] and (ii) the absence of exponent(s) renormalization for constrained systems with logarithmic specific-heat anomalies predicted on very general grounds by Fisher [Phys. Rev. 176, 257 (1968)].