This paper is a commentary on Pollet et al. (2013), where both the incidence of left-handedness and its effect on outcomes were analyzed. One of the drawbacks is that these analyses were largely cross-sectional with only a small number of fights for any given fighter. Here, we explore the effects of left-handedness on fight outcomes in a small sample of elite UFC fighters with multiple fights f...

Many media processors 28, 7, 14, 8, 18, 27], used for computing intensive embedded applications, are VLIW architectures that rely on the compiler to exploit Instruction Level Parallelism. Loop unrolling is generally used to expose instruction parallelism but computing the unrolling factor is very diicult as instruction cache misses and spill code can cancel the expected beneet of the transforma...

Mesquita, J.O.1#, Machado, A.R.1# Del Sarto, R.P.1, Martins, A.M.A2* 1UDF – Centro Universitário do Distrito Federal, Brazil 2Liver Transplantation Center, HUWC / Federal University of Ceara UFC, Brazil / Brazilian Center for Protein Research, Department of Cell Biology, University of Brasilia, UNB – DF, Brazil #these authors contributed equally to this work. *Corresponding author: Dr. Aline M ...

In this thesis, noncoherent cooperative amplify-and-forward (AF) half-duplex relay systems and wireless communication systems equipped with a single transmitter antenna and multiple receiver antennas (SIMO) are considered, in which perfect channel information is unavailable at the destination end. For the AF half-duplex relay systems, the use of the least square error (LSE) receiver is proposed...

The use of Fuel Cell and Supercaps as energy elements in transport application is now a reality. Having two power sources on board allows a certain energy management strategy. Defining this strategy some iteration must be made with an accurate model to extract the optimal solution. In order to reduce computation time consumption, a simplified physical fuel cell model is proposed. This model is ...

BACKGROUND Ectopic adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) syndrome (EAS) is caused by tumours releasing ACTH. Ectopic ACTH-producing tumour regression is rarely induced using steroidogenesis inhibitors. We presented a case of EAS in which ACTH production by a lung tumour was reduced by metyrapone (MTP) and also reviewed previous cases of ectopic ACTH production suppressed via steroidogenesis inhibi...

retention time. At the evaluated concentration of 5000 ␮g/L, prednisolone produced a signal equivalent to 20 ␮g/L cortisol, representing a 0.4% interference. Fenofi-brate generated parent ions at m/z 361 and 363 in an abundance ratio of 3:1, a distinctive pattern related to the presence of chlorine in the chemical composition. In MS/MS mode, fenofibrate produced a m/z 3633121 transition that in...

O currículo do curso de Design-Moda da Universidade Federal Ceará (UFC) é objeto constantes reflexões, tanto por parte seu Colegiado, quanto Núcleo Docente Estruturante (NDE), que considera o aluno, professor, a instituição, mercado, cenário sociopolítico e as instâncias reguladoras país. Se pensar em suas múltiplas dimensões já um desafio natureza, ampliam-se dificuldades quando essa reflexão ...

Vasconcelos C T M, Vasconcelos Neto J A, Bezerra L R P S, Karbage S A L, Frota I P R, Bezerra K C, Bizarria L B, Macedo S R, Augusto K L, Rocha A B O, Oriá M O B, Santos Z M S A 1. Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), Fortaleza, Brazil, 2. Hospital Geral de Fortaleza (HGF), Fortaleza, Brazil, 3. Universidade de Fortaleza (UNIFOR), Fortaleza, Brazil, 4. Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Brazil, 5...