BACKGROUND A simulation model that relies on satellite observations of vegetation cover from the Landsat 7 sensor and from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) was used to estimate net primary productivity (NPP) of forest stands at the Bartlett Experiment Forest (BEF) in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. RESULTS Net primary production (NPP) predicted from the NASA-CAS...

Resident, Department of Neurosurgery, Santa Casa de Belo Horizonte, Belo Horizonte MG, Brazil; Assistant, Department of Neurosurgery, Santa Casa de Belo Horizonte and Faculdade de Ciências Médicas de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte MG, Brazil; Assistant, Department of Neurology, Santa Casa de Belo Horizonte, Belo Horizonte MG, Brazil; Assistent I, Department of Psycology, Universidade Federal de M...

For speech segregation, a recurrent blind separation model (BSS) is tested together with a Computational Auditory Scene Analysis (CASA) model, which is based on the localisation cue and the evaluation of the Time Delay Of Arrival (TDOA). The test database is composed of 332 binary mixture sentences recorded in stereo with a static set-up. These are truncated at 1 second for the simulations. For...

The term auditory scene analysis (ASA) refers to the ability of human listeners to form perceptual representations of the constituent sources in an acoustic mixture, as in the well-known ‘cocktail party’ effect. Accordingly, computational auditory scene analysis (CASA) is the field of study which attempts to replicate ASA in machines. Some CASA systems are closely modelled on the known stages o...

* Trabalho realizado no Centro de Tomografia Computadorizada, na Santa Casa e no Hospital Fornecedores de Cana de Piracicaba, SP. 1. Médico Radiologista do Centro de Tomografia Computadorizada, da Santa Casa e do Hospital Fornecedores de Cana de Piracicaba, Doutor em Radiologia Odontológica pela Faculdade de Odontologia de Piracicaba – Universidade Estadual de Campinas (FOP-Unicamp). 2. Profess...

1MD, PhD in Endocrinology, Full professor at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)/Hospital das Clínicas de Porto Alegre and Santa Casa de Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil 2MSc, Graduate student in Health Sciences at Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre (UFCSPA), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil 3MSc, Graduate student in Gynecology and Obstetrics (PPGGO UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS...

* Expert in ENT and Legal Medicine. Assistant Teacher of Cervical-Facial Surgery at Santa Casa da Bahia, Hospital Santa Izabel; and Teacher of Cervical-Facial Anatomy at UNIMEBA. ** PhD in ENT by USP – Head of the ENT Discipline and Cervical-Facial Surgery at Santa Casa da Bahia, Hospital Santa Izabel. *** Master Degree in Pathology by Fio Cruz/ UFBA Assistant Professor of ENT and Cervical-Faci...

Júlio Leonardo Barbosa Pereira, Lucas Alverne Freitas de Albuquerque, Mauro Cruz Machado Borgo, Gerival Vieira Junior, Paulo Pereira Christo, Gervásio Teles C. de Carvalho I Neurosurgery, Santa Casa de Belo Horizonte, Belo Horizonte/MG, Brazil. II Research Program of the Santa Casa, Belo Horizonte/MG, Brazil. III Neurosurgery, Santa Casa de Belo Horizonte and Faculdade de Ciências Medicas de Mi...

In Software Product Line Engineering (SPLE) families of systems are designed, rather than developing the individual systems independently. Combinatorial Interaction Testing has proven to be effective for testing in the context of SPLE, where a representative subset of products is chosen for testing in place of the complete family. Such a subset of products can be determined by computing a so ca...

In today’s world of highly dynamic computing environments, autonomic applications are the need of the hour. By an autonomic application, we mean an application that is able to adapt to changes in its execution environment dynamically and transparently. CASA (Contract-based Adaptive Software Architecture) provides a framework for enabling the development and operation of autonomic applications. ...