Simulação de fluxo de fluidos em meios porosos desordenados uma análise de efeito de escala na estimativa da permeabilidade e do coeficiente de arrasto

The present study provides a methodology that gives a predictive character the computer simulations based on detailed models of the geometry of a porous medium. We using the software FLUENT to investigate the flow of a viscous Newtonian fluid through a random fractal medium which simplifies a two-dimensional disordered porous medium representing a petroleum reservoir. This fractal model is formed by obstacles of various sizes, whose size distribution function follows a power law where exponent is defined as the fractal dimension of fractionation Dff of the model characterizing the process of fragmentation these obstacles. They are randomly disposed in a rectangular channel. The modeling process incorporates modern concepts, scaling laws, to analyze the influence of heterogeneity found in the fields of the porosity and of the permeability in such a way as to characterize the medium in terms of their fractal properties. This procedure allows numerically analyze the measurements of permeability k and the drag coefficient Cd proposed relationships, like power law, for these properties on various modeling schemes. The purpose of this research is to study the variability provided by these heterogeneities where the velocity field and other details of viscous fluid dynamics are obtained by solving numerically the continuity and Navier-Stokes equations at pore level and observe how the fractal dimension of fractionation of the model can affect their hydrodynamic properties. This study were considered two classes of models, models with constant porosity, MPC, and models with varying porosity, MPV. The results have allowed us to find numerical relationship between the permeability, drag coefficient and the fractal dimension of fractionation of the medium. Based on these numerical results we have proposed scaling relations and algebraic expressions involving the relevant parameters of the phenomenon. In this study analytical equations were determined for Dff depending on the geometrical parameters of the models. We also found a relation between the permeability and the drag coefficient which is inversely proportional to one another. As for the difference in behavior it is most striking in the classes of models MPV. That is, the fact that the porosity vary in these models is an additional factor that plays a significant role in flow analysis. Finally, the results proved satisfactory and consistent, which demonstrates the effectiveness of the referred methodology for all applications analyzed in this study.

O marketing das notícias : consumo de informações online, persuasão e confiança

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Psicologia, Departamento de Psicologia Social e do Trabalho, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia Social, do Trabalho e das Organizações, 2016.

Una propuesta para medir la calidad de la docencia virtual

Medir la calidad de la docencia virtual es clave porque afecta directamente a la calidad del proceso educativo y porque es imprescindible para el reconocimiento, apoyo y valoración del trabajo del profesor. En los entornos virtuales, además, orienta al profesor sobre la eficacia de su actividad y a los responsables académicos sobre el sistema de valoración de la dedicación docente. Este artículo presenta una propuesta para medir y analizar la calidad de la docencia virtual. Está formada por un modelo de calidad bidimensional implementado en una herramienta web. El modelo unifica y organiza los criterios de calidad sobre la docencia virtual, dispersos en modelos de calidad educativa virtual, en una estructura bidimensional que permite una interpretación pluriaspectual de las medidas de calidad. La herramienta facilita su aplicación proporcionando un mecanismo semiautomático para medir la calidad, representar los resultados para su análisis y administrar múltiples usuarios y evaluaciones. Constituye una aproximación nueva que integra soluciones parciales ya probadas para mejorar, reconocer y valorar la eficacia de la docencia virtual. Nota: el artículo se acompaña del modelo-herramienta de evaluación de la calidad de la docencia virtual

Regulação de proteínas da via glicolítica em raízes de Elaeis guineensis Jacq. acometidas pelo amarelecimento datal.

O aparecimento do Amarelecimento Fatal (AF) tem sido um empecilho para o crescimento da cultura do dendezeiro. Neste sentido, várias pesquisas foram realizadas visando identificar as causas do AF. No entanto outras estratégias precisam ser aplicadas. Técnicas em proteômica vêem se modernizando para obter o perfil protéico qualitativo e quantitativo com maior velocidade e precisão. Sabendo que a regulação de componentes do metabolismo primário está envolvida direta ou indiretamente na defesa, o objetivo deste trabalho foi utilizar a cromatografia líquida bidimensional e espectrometria de massas (2D-UPLC/MSE) com o auxílio de ferramentas de bioinformática na identificação de alterações de proteínas envolvidas no metabolismo energético em raízes de plantas com AF. Os resultados revelaram a expressão diferencial de proteínas envolvidas na glicólise, onde a maior frequência de regulação positiva dessas em plantas assintomáticas pode estar relacionada ao retardo no desenvolvimento desta doença.

Expressão diferencial de proteínas em raízes de palma de óleo sob amarelecimento fatal.

Apesar da alta incidência de mortes de palma de óleo (Elaeis guineensis var. tenera acarretadas pelo Amarelecimento Fatal (AF), a causa inicial desta anomalia segue desconhecida ou controversa. Técnicas em proteômica vêem sofrendo adaptações para obter o perfil protéico qualitativo e quantitativo com maior velocidade e precisão, podendo contribuir para a obtenção de resultados mais convincentes na elucidação das possíveis causas desta doença. O objetivo deste trabalho foi identificar alterações no proteoma de palma de óleo afetada pelo AF por meio da cromatografia líquida bidimensional, acoplada a espectrometria de massas. O proteoma diferencial foi obtido a partir da comparação entre plantas com sintomas de AF com plantas assintomáticas. O presente trabalho revelou o acúmulo diferencial de proteínas em plantas com AF comparando com assintomática. Foi identificado um total de 417, Dessas, 127 e 162 proteínas tiveram regulação positiva e negativa, respectivamente, sendo que 29 foram exclusivas de plantas com sintomas e 77 de assintomáticas. Esta primeira análise proteômica em plantas acometidas pelo AF revelou proteínas diferencialmente abundantes comparando plantas nestas condições com plantas assintomáticas. Os resultados obtidos mostraram que as técnicas em proteômica utilizadas aqui devem contribuir para resultados mais convincentes na elucidação das possíveis causas desta doença em pesquisas futuras.

A double chance to investigate populist influence: The Five Star Movement.

In the last decade, new kinds of European populist parties and movements characterized by a left wing, right wing or “eclectic” attitude have succeeded in entering in governments where they could exert a direct populist influence on their coalition partners or, conversely, become victims themselves of the influence of the institutional background. Such a scenario brought this research to formulate two questions: (i) “To what extent did populist parties succeed in influencing their government coalition partners, leading them to adopt populist rhetoric and change their policy positions?” and (ii) “Have populist parties been able to retain their populist “outside mainstream politics” identity, or have they been assimilated to mainstream parties?”. As a case study this project chose the Italian Five Star Movement. Since 2018 this eclectic populist actor has experienced three different governments first with the radical right wing populist League (2018-2019) and then with the mainstream center left Democratic Party (2019-2021). In addition to this, currently the Five Star Movement is a coalition partner of the ongoing Draghi’s government. Theoretically based on the ideological definition of populism (Mudde, 2004), on a new “revised” model of the inclusionary - exclusionary framework to classify populist parties and on a novel definition of “populist influence”,this research made use of both quantitative (bidimensional and text analysis) and qualitative methods (semi-structured interviews) and mainly focuses on the years 2017- 2020.The importance of this study is threefold. First it contributes to the study of populist influence in government in relation to the ideological attachment of the political actors involved. Second, it contributes to understand if populists in power necessarily need to tone down their anti-system character in order to survive. Third, this study introduces conceptual and methodological novelties within the study of populism and populist influence in government.

Functional engineering of hybrid heterostructures for application in electronic, optical and optoelectronic nanostructured devices

Interfacing materials with different intrinsic chemical-physical characteristics allows for the generation of a new system with multifunctional features. Here, this original concept is implemented for tailoring the functional properties of bi-dimensional black phosphorus (2D bP or phosphorene) and organic light-emitting transistors (OLETs). Phosphorene is highly reactive under atmospheric conditions and its small-area/lab-scale deposition techniques have hampered the introduction of this material in real-world applications so far. The protection of 2D bP against the oxygen by means of functionalization with alkane molecules and pyrene derivatives, showed long-term stability with respect to the bare 2D bP by avoiding remarkable oxidation up to 6 months, paving the way towards ultra-sensitive oxygen chemo-sensors. A new approach of deposition-precipitation heterogeneous reaction was developed to decorate 2D bP with Au nanoparticles (NP)s, obtaining a “stabilizer-free” that may broaden the possible applications of the 2D bP/Au NPs interface in catalysis and biodiagnostics. Finally, 2D bP was deposited by electrospray technique, obtaining oxidized-phosphorous flakes as wide as hundreds of µm2 and providing for the first time a phosphorous-based bidimensional system responsive to electromechanical stimuli. The second part of the thesis focuses on the study of organic heterostructures in ambipolar OLET devices, intriguing optoelectronic devices that couple the micro-scaled light-emission with electrical switching. Initially, an ambipolar single-layer OLET based on a multifunctional organic semiconductor, is presented. The bias-depending light-emission shifted within the transistor channel, as expected in well-balanced ambipolar OLETs. However, the emitted optical power of the single layer-based device was unsatisfactory. To improve optoelectronic performance of the device, a multilayer organic architecture based on hole-transporting semiconductor, emissive donor-acceptor blend and electron-transporting semiconductor was optimized. We showed that the introduction of a suitable electron-injecting layer at the interface between the electron-transporting and light-emission layers may enable a ≈ 2× improvement of efficiency at reduced applied bias.

L'elastometria Shear-wave epato-splenica nella diagnosi e stadiazione delle malattie mieloproliferative Ph-negative e della mielofibrosi

Introduzione: La stiffness epato-splenica, misurata attraverso la transient elastography (TE), è stata associata con la fibrosi midollare nei pazienti con malattia mieloproliferativa (MPNs). La rigidità dei tessuti può essere valutata con la shear-wave elastography (SWE), con due tecniche: point (pSWE) e bidimensionale (2DSWE). Obiettivi dello studio sono: 1) identificare le differenze di TE fra i pazienti con MPNs, i cirrotici e volontari sani (HV); 2) valutare specifiche caratteristiche di TE in pazienti con MF, PV ed ET; 3) stabilire una correlazione con il grado di fibrosi midollare. Metodi: in questo studio monocentrico, MPN, cirrotici ed HV hanno eseguito elastometria epato-splenica con pSWE e 2DSWE. Risultati: 236 pazienti sono stati inclusi in questo studio: 64 con MF (27.1%), 33 con PV (14%), 46 con ET (19.4%), 75 HV (32%) e 18 (8%) cirrotici. Al confronto con gli HV, i pazienti con MF hanno maggiore stiffness splenica (pSWE 40.9 vs 26.3 kPa, p<0.001; 2DSWE 34.9 vs 20.1 kPa, p<0.001) ed epatica (pSWE 7.72 vs 5.52 kPa, p<0.001; 2DSWE 6.96 vs 5.01 kPa, p<0.001). Al confronto con i pazienti con PV ed ET, quelli con MF hanno maggiori valori di stiffness epatici (p<0.001) e splenici (p<0.001). In fibrosi di basso (0-1) (n=81 , 60.4%) vs alto grado (2-3) (n=42, 39.6%), sono evidenti valori di stiffness maggiori nei pazienti con fibrosi di alto grado sia per il fegato (pSWE 5.2 vs 6.65 kPa; 2DSWE 5.1 vs 6.05 kPa) che nella milza (pSWE 27.2 vs 37.9 kPa, 2DSWE 21.7 vs 30.75 kPa – p<0.001) Conclusioni: La TE distingue i pazienti con MF sia dai sani che dalle altre MPNs. Valori di TE sono significativamente associati con caratteristiche rilevanti che includono la fibrosi midollare in tutte le MPNs. I valori di stiffness epatici e splenici sono pertanto rilevanti nella diagnosi e management delle MPNs.