Consideraciones sobre cuerpos ordenados y cuerpos reales maximales

El presente trabajo se puede considerar como prolongación del trabajo (I) del autor, se amplía un resultado de este último que era válido sólo en el caso metrizable, y aquí se estudia el caso general; se hace un estudio de los cuerpos reales maximales y completos, y, finalmente se da un apéndice sobre cuerpos reales contenidos en un cuerpo algebraicamente cerrado y de característica 0

A comparative long-memory Analysis between Spanish, Mexican and U.S. interest rates

Evidence exists that many natural facts are described better as a fractal. Although fractals are very useful for describing nature, it is also appropiate to review the concept of random fractal in finance. Due to the extraordinary importance of Brownian motion in physics, chemistry or biology, we will consider the generalization that supposes fractional Brownian motion introduced by Mandelbrot.The main goal of this work is to analyse the existence of long range dependence in instantaneous forward rates of different financial markets. Concretelly, we perform an empirical analysis on the Spanish, Mexican and U.S. interbanking interest rate. We work with three time series of daily data corresponding to 1 day operations from 28th March 1996 to 21st May 2002. From among all the existing tests on this matter we apply the methodology proposed in Taqqu, Teverovsky and Willinger (1995).

Controvérsias sobre educação matemática no Brasil: Malba Tahan versus Jacomo Stávale

Este texto tem por objetivo analisar historicamente debate entre dois professores brasileiros de matemática no início dos anos de 1930. Nessa época, foi criada a primeira lei nacional de ensino - Reforma Francisco Campos - com um currículo nacional que caracterizava, pela primeira vez no país, a disciplina denominada "Matemática", resultado da integração dos ramos independentes aritmética, álgebra e geometria. Os protagonistas da discussão foram os professores Júlio César de Mello e Souza (1895-1974) e Jacomo Stávale (1881-1956). Com a análise da controvérsia, busca-se compreender como o cotidiano escolar brasileiro apropriou-se da primeira proposta de internacionalização do ensino de Matemática, surgida há mais de vinte anos antes da polêmica.

O Impa e a comunidade de matemáticos no Brasil

Apresenta-se o papel desempenhado pelo Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, criado em 1952 pelo Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, na formação de pesquisadores matemáticos no país. Mostra-se como este instituto, bem como a matemática ali produzida, serviram para a formação do campo científico de matemáticos no Brasil. Os principais resultados apontam para: a consolidação de linhas de pesquisa em Sistemas Dinâmicos, Álgebra, Análise Matemática, Geometria Diferencial e Estatística Matemática; a preocupação de formar pesquisadores para atender as demandas de quadros docentes das universidades brasileiras, produzir matemática e recrutar alunos "talentosos" visando garantir a formação de pesquisadores e a produção de matemática de qualidade. A rede de influências estabelecida pelos pesquisadores do instituto extrapolou seus limites, uma vez que os líderes ocupavam posições importantes nos órgãos de fomento e em outras instituições e sociedades intelectuais. O discurso dos pesquisadores revela a hierarquia acadêmica e o corporativismo reinante na instituição assim como seu prestígio na comunidade científica.

"Liber embadorum a. Savasorda in ebraico compositus et a Platone Titurtino in latinum sermonem translatus.

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On the relationship between connections and the asymptotic properties of predictive distributions

In a recent paper, Komaki studied the second-order asymptotic properties of predictive distributions, using the Kullback-Leibler divergence as a loss function. He showed that estimative distributions with asymptotically efficient estimators can be improved by predictive distributions that do not belong to the model. The model is assumed to be a multidimensional curved exponential family. In this paper we generalize the result assuming as a loss function any f divergence. A relationship arises between alpha connections and optimal predictive distributions. In particular, using an alpha divergence to measure the goodness of a predictive distribution, the optimal shift of the estimate distribution is related to alpha-covariant derivatives. The expression that we obtain for the asymptotic risk is also useful to study the higher-order asymptotic properties of an estimator, in the mentioned class of loss functions.

Modelo de distribuição de água e de potencial matricial no solo sob gotejamento com extração de água por raízes

A maior dificuldade em descrever e estimar a distribuição de água no bulbo molhado sob gotejamento reside na extração de água pelo sistema radicular, que é mais complexa devido à geometria de fluxo tridimensional. Os modelos existentes são, na maioria, unidimensionais ou multidimensionais de acessibilidade limitada. Este trabalho propõe um modelo semi-analítico para distribuição bidimensional de umidade ou de potencial no bulbo molhado, através da superposição da solução analítica de Warrick, para ponto-fonte em condições de regime não-permanente, com um modelo paramétrico de extração de água pelas raízes, considerando o balanço de água num volume unitário do solo. O modelo foi ajustado com sucesso a dados experimentais para a cultura do milho num solo franco-siltoso. Simulações de distribuição de água no bulbo molhado mostraram que o modelo permite estimar ou descrever a dinâmica de água do solo no bulbo molhado em qualquer tempo ao longo do ciclo de irrigação, o que pode contribuir significativamente na avaliação do manejo da irrigação, no estudo de posicionamento de sensores de umidade ou de potencial matricial, e em estudos relacionados à atividade das raízes no bulbo molhado.

Nonlinear analysis of human physical activity patterns in health and disease.

The reliable and objective assessment of chronic disease state has been and still is a very significant challenge in clinical medicine. An essential feature of human behavior related to the health status, the functional capacity, and the quality of life is the physical activity during daily life. A common way to assess physical activity is to measure the quantity of body movement. Since human activity is controlled by various factors both extrinsic and intrinsic to the body, quantitative parameters only provide a partial assessment and do not allow for a clear distinction between normal and abnormal activity. In this paper, we propose a methodology for the analysis of human activity pattern based on the definition of different physical activity time series with the appropriate analysis methods. The temporal pattern of postures, movements, and transitions between postures was quantified using fractal analysis and symbolic dynamics statistics. The derived nonlinear metrics were able to discriminate patterns of daily activity generated from healthy and chronic pain states.

Aggregation of liposomes induced by calcium: A structural and kinetic study

In this work, the calcium-induced aggregation of phosphatidylserine liposomes is probed by means of the analysis of the kinetics of such process as well as the aggregate morphology. This novel characterization of liposome aggregation involves the use of static and dynamic light-scattering techniques to obtain kinetic exponents and fractal dimensions. For salt concentrations larger than 5 mM, a diffusion-limited aggregation regime is observed and the Brownian kernel properly describes the time evolution of the diffusion coefficient. For slow kinetics, a slightly modified multiple contact kernel is required. In any case, a time evolution model based on the numerical resolution of Smoluchowski's equation is proposed in order to establish a theoretical description for the aggregating system. Such a model provides an alternative procedure to determine the dimerization constant, which might supply valuable information about interaction mechanisms between phospholipid vesicles.

Multifractal portrayal of the distribution of the Swiss population

The present research studies the spatial patterns of the distribution of the Swiss population (DSP). This description is carried out using a wide variety of global spatial structural analysis tools such as topological, statistical and fractal measures, which enable the estimation of the spatial degree of clustering of a point pattern. A particular attention is given to the analysis of the multifractality to characterize the spatial structure of the DSP at different scales. This will be achieved by measuring the generalized q-dimensions and the singularity spectrum. This research is based on high quality data of the Swiss Population Census of the Year 2000 at a hectometric resolution (grid 100 x 100 m) issued by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO).

Sistemes lineals: una aproximació a algun dels seus conceptes i problemes rellevants

L'objectiu que m'he proposat al preparar aquesta exposicióha estat el de mostrar. per una banda, com alguns delsproblemes bàsics de la teoria de Sistemes Dinàmics Linealstenen una resposta senzilla en termes de l' Álgebra lineal i,d'altra, com alguns problemes importants d'aquesta teorias'entronquen amb conceptes i tècniques bàsiques de la geometriai la topologia

On the Selection of Non-Invasive Methods Based on Speech Analysis Oriented to Automatic Alzheimer Disease Diagnosis

The work presented here is part of a larger study to identify novel technologies and biomarkers for early Alzheimer disease (AD) detection and it focuses on evaluating the suitability of a new approach for early AD diagnosis by non-invasive methods. The purpose is to examine in a pilot study the potential of applying intelligent algorithms to speech features obtained from suspected patients in order to contribute to the improvement of diagnosis of AD and its degree of severity. In this sense, Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) have been used for the automatic classification of the two classes (AD and control subjects). Two human issues have been analyzed for feature selection: Spontaneous Speech and Emotional Response. Not only linear features but also non-linear ones, such as Fractal Dimension, have been explored. The approach is non invasive, low cost and without any side effects. Obtained experimental results were very satisfactory and promising for early diagnosis and classification of AD patients.

Emergence of Swiss metropole and scaling properties of urban clusters

Defining the limits of an urban agglomeration is essential both for fundamental and applied studies in quantitative and theoretical geography. A simple and consistent way for defining such urban clusters is important for performing different statistical analysis and comparisons. Traditionally, agglomerations are defined using a rather qualitative approach based on various statistical measures. This definition varies generally from one country to another, and the data taken into account are different. In this paper, we explore the use of the City Clustering Algorithm (CCA) for the agglomeration definition in Switzerland. This algorithm provides a systemic and easy way to define an urban area based only on population data. The CCA allows the specification of the spatial resolution for defining the urban clusters. The results from different resolutions are compared and analysed, and the effect of filtering the data investigated. Different scales and parameters allow highlighting different phenomena. The study of Zipf's law using the visual rank-size rule shows that it is valid only for some specific urban clusters, inside a narrow range of the spatial resolution of the CCA. The scale where emergence of one main cluster occurs can also be found in the analysis using Zipf's law. The study of the urban clusters at different scales using the lacunarity measure - a complementary measure to the fractal dimension - allows to highlight the change of scale at a given range.

Periodic orbits of integrable birational maps on the plane: blending dynamics and algebraic geometry, the Lyness' case

Contingut del Pòster presentat al congrés New Trends in Dynamical Systems