* PhD. Professor, Department of Pediatrics, School o Medicine, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, SP, Brazil. To a certain extent, we may say that the history of humankind has been characterized by struggles against hunger. However, there have been reports and depictions of obese persons since ancient times. In some societies, and even in western societies, in some periods, ...

Spotify is a music streaming service whose ambition is to offer everyone easy access to all of the world’s music. Maintaining metadata quality is a a nontrivial challenge considering that the catalogue size rules out the possibility for manual curation and that the number of content providers and different delivery formats is large. An interesting problem that involves metadata is to have a one...

Art is one of life's great joys, whether it is beautiful, ugly, sublime or shocking. Aesthetic responses to visual art involve sensory, cognitive and visceral processes. Neuroimaging studies have yielded a wealth of information regarding aesthetic appreciation and beauty using visual art as stimuli, but few have considered the effect of expertise on visual and visceral responses. To study the t...