Valmir C. Barbosa, Raul Donangelo, 3 and Sergio R. Souza 4 Programa de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computação, COPPE, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postal 68511, 21941-972 Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brazil Instituto de F́ısica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postal 68528, 21941-972 Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brazil Instituto de F́ısica, Facultad de Ingenieŕıa, Universidad de la Repúbl...

A. R. Samana, C. A. Barbero, S. B. Duarte, A. J. Dimarco and F. Krmpotić Department of Physics Texas A&M University-Commerce, P.O.Box 3011 , Commerce, Texas, USA Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas F́ısicas, Rua Dr. Xavier Sigaud 150, CEP 22290-180, Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil Instituto de F́ısica La Plata, CONICET, 1900 La Plata, Argentina Departamento de F́ısica, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universid...

This Chapter focuses on Intermodal Freight Transportation, broadly defined as the transportation of a load from its origin to its destination by a sequence of at least two transportation modes, the transfer from one mode to the next being performed at an intermodal terminal. Container-based transportation services are an important part of intermodal transportation and the backbone of internatio...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To develop a short form of an interview schedule used successfully in previous national surveys of care for the dying, and to investigate the effect of administering it by post on response rate, response bias and on the nature of responses to questions. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial. SETTING An inner London health authority. PARTICIPANTS Informants (person registerin...

In 2001, the nation experienced its first bioterrorism attack, in the form of anthrax sent through the U.S. Postal Service, and public health professionals were challenged to communicate with a critical audience, U.S. postal workers. Postal workers, the first cohort to receive public health messages during a bioterrorist crisis, offer a crucial viewpoint that can be used in the development of b...

Gláucia Murta, ∗ Marcelo Terra Cunha, † and Adán Cabello 4, ‡ Departamento de F́ısica, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Caixa Postal 702, 30123-970, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil Departamento de Matemática, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Caixa Postal 702, 30123-970, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil Departamento de F́ısica Aplicada II, Universidad de Sevilla, E-41012 Sevilla, Spain Universidade...

T. Mariz, J. R. Nascimento, E. Passos and R. F. Ribeiro∗ Departamento de F́ısica, Universidade Federal da Paráıba, Caixa Postal 5008, 58051-970 João Pessoa, Paráıba, Brazil (Dated: March 25, 2004) Abstract The Chern-Simons-like gravitational action is evaluated explicitly in four dimensional space-time by radiative corrections at one-loop level. The calculation is performed in fermionic sector w...

S. Gonçalves,1,2,* C. Fusco,3,1,† A. R. Bishop,4,‡ and V. M. Kenkre1,§ 1Consortium of the Americas for Interdisciplinary Science and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA 2Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Caixa Postal 15051, 90501-970 Porto Alegre RS, Brazil 3Solid State Theory, Institute for Molecules an...

English Character Recognition techniques have been studied extensively in the last two decades and it gain unbelievable high progress and success ratio. But for regional languages these are still emerging and their success ratio is very poor. In Gujarat, there are thousands of people who can speak, write and understand only Gujarati language. Rapid growing computation may increase Indian CR met...

P. E. S. Tavares, ∗ A. R. Fritsch, G. D. Telles, F. Impens, R. Kaiser, and V. S. Bagnato Instituto de F́ısica de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 369, 13560-970, São Carlos, SP, Brazil Instituto de F́ısica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postal 68528, 21941-972, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, Institut Non-Linéaire de Nice, CNRS UMR 7...