When Alexander Dent arrived in Brazil in 1998, he was unaware of the existence of the rural genres that are the focus of this book. He had listened to bossa nova, MPB, Tropicália, death metal, forró, and techno, among other…

Saltwater Chronicles investigates the notion of “islandness” in contemporary Newfoundland readership through two in-depth case studies of book clubs as representational spaces in the elaboration of local knowledge and identities. We demonstrate how select Newfoundland readers perform acts of regeneration…

Eighty years after the discovery of penicillin, the interest of this ß-lactam antibiotic at industrial level is still remarkable. Despite the good background knowledge, little is known on how Penicillin chrysogenum became a good penicillin overproducer, and much of the…

Background: Recently, proteins and peptides have become an added value to foodstuffs due to new knowledge
about its structural analyses as related to antioxidant and anticancer activity. Our goal was to evaluate if protein
fractions from cacao seeds show antitumor…

Resource management and performance models constitute important aspects for parallel applications' performance analysis and tuning. Defining performance models associated with the application structure has been proven useful for implementing dynamic tuning tools. However, for extending this strategy to complex pplications…

Understanding how materials deform and break is a subject of critical importance in industry. At the same time, it requires from the knowledge of the basic processes governing the phenomenon and hence, fundamental physics research is a must. The presence…

From the earliest hardware and software days to the internet era, complexity of computer systems has been something computer scientists, engineers, and programmers have had to deal with. Important fields of research and technology have originated, developed, or matured as…

Total internal reflection microscopy (TIRM) measures the position of a Brownian particle above an interface by using its scattering of an evanescent wave. From the knowledge of the trajectory it is possible to reconstruct the interaction potential between the Brownian…

"En los sistemas de distribución de energía el eléctrica típicos es común encontrar cargas de tipo monofásico. Sin embargo estos sistemas son generalmente desbalanceados, debido a que la cargas son desigualmente distribuidas entre las fases, y distorsionados por la gran…

Interstellar dust was first identified through the extinction that it causes of optical starlight. Initially, observational and theoretical studies of extinction were made to identify simple ways of removing the effect of extinction. Over the last few decades it has…