Based on a bibliographic review, the article identifies and offers a critical analysis of scientific production by the public health field in Brazil on genetically modified organisms and food (in)security. Of the 716 articles found on the portals of the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) and the Coordinating Agency for the Development of Higher Education (Capes), only 8 address the f...

The Abelian and Tauberian-type theorems were introduced by Stanković [7] and Pilipović et al. [5]. In the first part of this paper, we give the definition of the quasiasymptotic expansion at 0+ and the quasiasymptotic behaviour of distributions at infinity from S′+ introduced in [1]. In this paper, we give the definition of space L′(r), classical Stieltjes transformation, modified Stieltjes tra...

Freshly harvested high-moisture corn with 29.4% moisture and corn remoistened to 19.6% moisture were inoculated with Aspergillus flavus Link ex Fr. and stored for 4 weeks at about 27 C in air (0.03% CO2, 21% O2, and 78% N2) and three modified atmospheres: (i) 99.7% N2 and 0.3% O2; (ii) 61.7% CO2, 8.7% O2, and 29.6% N2; and (iii) 13.5% CO2, 0.5% O2, and 84.8% N2. Kernel infections by A. flavus, ...

This paper concerns equilibrium problems in real metric linear spaces. Considering a modified notion of  upper sign property for bifunctions, we obtain the relationship between the solution sets of the local Minty equilibrium problem and the equilibrium problem, where the technical conditions on $f$ used in the literature are relaxed. The KKM technique is used to generalize and unify some exist...

In the absence of Gribov complications, the modified gauge fixing in gauge theory ∫ DAμ{exp[−SYM (Aμ)− ∫ f(Aμ)dx]/ ∫ Dg exp[− ∫ f(Aμ)dx]} for example, f(Aμ) = (1/2)(Aμ) 2, is identical to the conventional Faddeev-Popov formula ∫ DAμ{δ(D δf(Aν ) δAμ )/ ∫ Dgδ(Dμ δf(A g ν ) δA g μ )} exp[−SYM (Aμ)] if one takes into account the variation of the gauge field along the entire gauge orbit. Despite of ...

We verify the conjecture formulated in [31] for suspension singularities of type g(x, y, z) = f(x, y) + z, where f is an irreducible plane curve singularity. More precisely, we prove that the modified Seiberg-Witten invariant of the linkM of g, associated with the canonical spin structure, equals −σ(F )/8, where σ(F ) is the signature of the Milnor fiber of g. In order to do this, we prove gene...

For every k ≥ 1 and two finite fields F and F , we design a polynomial-time algorithm that given a matroid M of branch-width at most k represented over F decides whether M is representable over F ′ and if so, it computes a representation of M over F . The algorithm also counts the number of non-isomorphic representations of M over F . Moreover, it can be modified to list all such non-isomorphic...

Public opposition to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) remains strong. By contrast, studies demonstrate again and again that GM crops make a valuable contribution to the development of a sustainable type of agriculture. The discrepancy between public opinion and the scientific evidence requires an explanation. We argue that intuitive expectations about the world render the human mind vulner...