Rafael Rubio Luz rabiosa

QnAs with Angel Rubio.

Just as physics requires a different set of tools to explore phenomena at the quantum scale, chemistry requires a quantum paradigm. At the macroscale, the interaction of light with chemical entities can be observed in processes such as photosynthesis. But the actual interaction between photons and other matter occurs in the realm of quantum chemistry. National Academy of Sciences member and phy...

Raul Cabrera - Rubio

bution of host genetic factors (the FUT2 genotype in particular) on differences in the gut microbiota between patients with Crohn disease and healthy individuals. Thus, an intimate relation between host genetics and bioactive components is expected and should be linked to both infant microbiota colonization and immune system development. The process of microbial colonization of the infant’s gut...

Volker Kaibel and Rafael Mechtel

We introduce revlex-initial 0/1-polytopes as the convex hulls of reverse-lexicographically initial subsets of 0/1-vectors. These polytopes are special knapsack-polytopes. It turns out that they have remarkable extremal properties. In particular, we use these polytopes in order to prove that the minimum numbers gnfac(d, n) of facets and the minimum average degree gavdeg(d, n) of the graph of a d...

Rafael Lorente de No, 1946

Obituary: Rafael Pont-Lezica (1940–2011)

Rafael Pont-Lezica, Plant Physiology, Biochemistry, and Biotechnology Emeritus Professor at the Université de Toulouse, passed away on September 26, 2011 after losing his fight with cancer. He had studied agronomy at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, in Argentina, and in 1978 earned a Ph. D. at the Université de Gembloux, Belgium. Rafael began his scientific career as a Research Assistant in Pl...