It is no longer considered surprising that black holes have temperatures and entropies. What remains surprising, though, is the universality of these thermodynamic properties: their exceptionally simple and general form, and the fact that they can be derived from many very different descriptions of the underlying microscopic degrees of freedom. I review the proposal that this universality arise...

A systematic study of the microscopic and thermodynamical properties of pure neutron matter at finite temperature within the self-consistent Green’s-function approach is performed. The model dependence of these results is analyzed by both comparing the results obtained with two different microscopic interactions, the CD Bonn and the Argonne V18 potentials, and by analyzing the results obtained ...

We consider the microscopic equations for learning problems in neural networks. The aligning fields of an example are obtained from the cavity fields, which are the fields if that example were absent in the learning process. In a rough energy landscape, we assume that the density of the local minima obey an exponential distribution, yielding macroscopic properties agreeing with the first step r...

The ab-initio analysis of a continuous system starts with the microscopic theory of the material, usually expressed in terms of partial differential equations, while a system analysis starts with its global properties and interconnections. These two ends must meet for an accurate and effective model of continuous systems. The macroscopic interaction between components is consistently defined by...

This paper aims to present and describe a methodology for Information Strategic Planning (ISP) project aligned to the Business Plan starting, from a case study in Senac-PR as well as its challenges and difficulties. The results and contributions show the feasibility of this ISP Project and the detailing of the methodology execution. The conclusion reiterates the importance of the ISP methodolog...

A rare case of microscopically sized thymoma is described in a 56 year old man suffering from myasthenia gravis. Histological examination of the surgically removed thymus showed the presence of several epithelial thymoma-like islands. As controls, 100 thymuses obtained from consecutive necropsies were sampled: 4% of these cases showed epithelial islands. This case is further proof that "microsc...

We present a multiscale method for the simulation of large viscoelastic deformations and show its applicability to biological tissue such as plant tissue. At the microscopic level we use a particle method to model the geometrical structure and basic properties of individual cells. The cell fluid, modeled as a viscoelastic fluid by means of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is enclosed in an...

We apply our recently developed information-theoretic measures for the characterisation and comparison of protein-protein interaction networks. These measures are used to quantify topological network features via macroscopic statistical properties. Network differences are assessed based on these macroscopic properties as opposed to microscopic overlap, homology information or motif occurrences....