Although Brazil has a tradition of conducting nationwide epidemiological surveys such as the oral health surveys in 1986, 1996, and 2003, it was only in 2006 that the country created a specific policy for including oral health surveillance as a crucial component of both the National Oral Health Policy (PNSB) and the Ministry of Health’s overall health surveillance policy. In this context, it is...

Effective energy management for large campus facilities is becoming increasingly complex as modern heating and cooling systems comprise of several hundred subsystems interconnected to each other. Building energy simulators like EnergyPlus are exceedingly good at modeling a single building equipped with a standalone HVAC equipment. However, the ability to simulate a large campus and to control t...

The observation of single sheets of graphite (graphene) presents new possibilities for carbon-based nanoelectronics. We report defect tolerant configurations for a nearly reflectionless 120 degrees turn and nearly reflectionless symmetric and asymmetric splitters, which can be cut from graphene. Connections between zigzag strips of different widths can be made with either low or high reflectanc...

The intellegibility and naturalness of synthetic speech strongly depends on its prosodic quality. Departing from works by Mixdorff on a linguistically motivated model of German intonation based on the Fujisaki model, the current paper presents statistical results concerning the relationship between linguistic and phonetic information underlying an utterance and its prosodic features. Statistica...

The SEWASIE (SEmantic Webs and AgentS in Integrated Economies) project (IST-2001-34825) is an European research project that aims at designing and implementing an advanced search engine enabling intelligent access to heterogeneous data sources on the web. In this paper we focus on the Ontology Builder component of the SEWASIE system, that is a framework for information extraction and integratio...

1 Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, ITC-irst, 38050 Povo, Trento, Italy, email: [email protected] Abstract. Basic issues to be addressed in a new project aimed at developing a web-based advisor for integrated plant protection which uses Case-Based Reasoning techniques are described and discussed. The integrated protection problem and the decision making process underlying the ...

Building production process have a complex nature due to the characteristics of project type productions, i.e., number of participants, organizational patterns, multi-phased production etc. One of the basic project-based problems that architects encounter through the design process is to keep the construction cost under the limit given by the client of the project and to enlighten the client ab...

A low-cost building communications network is needed that would allow individual window and lighting loads to be controlled from an existing enterprise LAN network. This building communications network concept, which we term IBECSTM (Integrated Building Environmental Communications System), would enable both occupant-based and building-wide control of individual window, lighting, and sensor dev...

A universal feature of mitosis is that all chromosomes become aligned at the spindle equator--the halfway point between the two spindle poles--prior to anaphase onset. This migratory event is called congression, and is powered by centromere-bound protein machines called kinetochores. This Commentary aims to document recent advances concerning the two kinetochore-based force-generating mechanism...