Orerémbiú : a relação das práticas alimentares e seus significados com a identidade étnica e a cosmologia Mbyá-Guarani

A alimentação não é uma simples ingestão de calorias, necessárias à sobrevivência. Ela também envolve uma vasta gama de aspectos simbólicos, que expressam relações e pertencimentos grupais. Os Mbyá-Guarani atribuem sentidos aos seus alimentos (desde a sua produção, armazenamento, processamento, preparação e consumo) que mantêm estreita relação com seus atributos étnicos e cosmológicos. Desta maneira, a presente dissertação tem como objetivo uma análise antropológica das práticas alimentares que ocorrem neste grupo indígena. Mais precisamente, busca-se verificar de que maneira as práticas alimentares estão relacionadas com suas concepções cosmológicas e de que forma são utilizadas como sinais diacríticos delimitadores de suas especificidades étnicas.

Dinâmica Estocástica e Cosmologia: alguns resultados analíticos

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Testes cinemáticos em cosmologia com decaimento do vácuo

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Efeitos não-gaussianos em astrofísica e cosmologia

The recent astronomical observations indicate that the universe has null spatial curvature, is accelerating and its matter-energy content is composed by circa 30% of matter (baryons + dark matter) and 70% of dark energy, a relativistic component with negative pressure. However, in order to built more realistic models it is necessary to consider the evolution of small density perturbations for explaining the richness of observed structures in the scale of galaxies and clusters of galaxies. The structure formation process was pioneering described by Press and Schechter (PS) in 1974, by means of the galaxy cluster mass function. The PS formalism establishes a Gaussian distribution for the primordial density perturbation field. Besides a serious normalization problem, such an approach does not explain the recent cluster X-ray data, and it is also in disagreement with the most up-to-date computational simulations. In this thesis, we discuss several applications of the nonextensive q-statistics (non-Gaussian), proposed in 1988 by C. Tsallis, with special emphasis in the cosmological process of the large structure formation. Initially, we investigate the statistics of the primordial fluctuation field of the density contrast, since the most recent data from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) indicates a deviation from gaussianity. We assume that such deviations may be described by the nonextensive statistics, because it reduces to the Gaussian distribution in the limit of the free parameter q = 1, thereby allowing a direct comparison with the standard theory. We study its application for a galaxy cluster catalog based on the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (hereafter HIFLUGCS). We conclude that the standard Gaussian model applied to HIFLUGCS does not agree with the most recent data independently obtained by WMAP. Using the nonextensive statistics, we obtain values much more aligned with WMAP results. We also demonstrate that the Burr distribution corrects the normalization problem. The cluster mass function formalism was also investigated in the presence of the dark energy. In this case, constraints over several cosmic parameters was also obtained. The nonextensive statistics was implemented yet in 2 distinct problems: (i) the plasma probe and (ii) in the Bremsstrahlung radiation description (the primary radiation from X-ray clusters); a problem of considerable interest in astrophysics. In another line of development, by using supernova data and the gas mass fraction from galaxy clusters, we discuss a redshift variation of the equation of state parameter, by considering two distinct expansions. An interesting aspect of this work is that the results do not need a prior in the mass parameter, as usually occurs in analyzes involving only supernovae data.Finally, we obtain a new estimate of the Hubble parameter, through a joint analysis involving the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect (SZE), the X-ray data from galaxy clusters and the baryon acoustic oscillations. We show that the degeneracy of the observational data with respect to the mass parameter is broken when the signature of the baryon acoustic oscillations as given by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) catalog is considered. Our analysis, based on the SZE/X-ray data for a sample of 25 galaxy clusters with triaxial morphology, yields a Hubble parameter in good agreement with the independent studies, provided by the Hubble Space Telescope project and the recent estimates of the WMAP

The Tomato (Solanum Lycopersicum cv. Micro-Tom) Natural Genetic Variation Rg1 and the DELLA Mutant Procera Control the Competence Necessary to Form Adventitious Roots and Shoots

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Della Volpe crítico de Lukács

São apresentadas algumas críticas de Della Volpe à estética lukacsiana. Segundo o filósofo italiano, uma filosofia da arte materialista não poderia estar fundamentada no conceito de intuição. As categorias básicas seriam a de plenitude cognoscitiva e de linguagens específicas. Assim, propõe-se que o sistema dellavolpiano seja levado em consideração, como verdadeiro ponto de partida para as reflexões sobre arte, sobre as relações entre a obra e a sociedade e sobre o grau de saber que o universo artístico produz.