At the opening of first volume his Deconstruction Christianity, Nancy argues that “The much discussed ‘return religious,’ which denotes a real phenomenon, deserves no more attention than any other ‘return’” (1). This statement may seem paradoxical in light Nancy’s extensive study logic return – including, divine texts such as “Of Divine Places,” Noli me tangere, Dis-Enclosure and Adoration. doe...

We iteratively apply a recently formulated adiabatic theorem for the strong-coupling limit in finite-dimensional quantum systems. This allows us to improve approximations perturbed dynamics, beyond standard approximation based on Zeno dynamics and elimination. The effective generators describing approximate evolutions are endowed with same block structure as unperturbed part of generator, exhib...

We investigate whether the eternal chaotic inflation can be achieved when the weak gravity conjecture is taken into account. We show that even the assisted chaotic inflation with potential λφ or mφ can not be eternal. The effective field theory description for the inflaton field breaks down before inflation reaches the eternal regime. We also find that the total number of e-folds is still bound...

Writing about Prof. Adib Jatene is to propose the challenge of looking at a human being of unusual facets. Although I do not have the pretension to cover in this article the entire unique figure he was, I will take on this challenge as a tribute to the welcome opportunity I have had to live with him at the Heart Institute of the Clinics Hospital of the Faculty of Medicine of USP, for more than ...

Humans have had cancer throughout documented history; hence it is no surprise that people have written about this deadly disease through ancient history. The Edwin Smith Papyrus, the oldest description of cancer, was discovered around 3000-2500 BC in Egypt describing 8 breast tumors that were eradicated by cauterization with a fire drill. As expected back then, the statement of the Egyptian wri...

An improved volume-weighted probability measure for eternal inflation is proposed. For the models studied in this paper it leads to simple and intuitively expected gaugeinvariant results.

We consider the problem of securing a graph against a sequence of vertex attacks by placing guards on its vertices. The guards are “mobile” in that, after any attack, each guard can move to any neighbor of its current location, but one guard must move to the attacked vertex. We determine sharp upper bounds, in terms of the order of the graph, on the minimum number of guards necessary for connec...

18 As the popular saying goes, the only certain things in life are death and taxes. Given its inevitability, it is no surprise that death—and the ageing process that precedes it—has fascinated humans for centuries. However, it is only with the development of modern science that we are now beginning to understand why our bodies grow older and more frail until we eventually die. As theories have ...