Uma cumarina inédita, mammea E/BB ciclo D (1), juntamente com cinco compostos conhecidos, mammea E/BA ciclo D (2), suragina C (3), terapina B (4), 1,7-dihidroxixantona (5) e 1-hidróxi-5-metoxyxantona (6), foram isolados de sementes de Mammea siamensis. Suas estruturas foram caracterizadas usando dados de RMN 1D e 2D. Suragina C e terapina B mostraram atividade citotóxica contra adenocarcinoma d...

This study tests accounts of co-reference errors whereby children allow ‘‘Mama Bear’’ and ‘‘her’’ to co-refer in sentences like ‘‘Mama Bear is washing her’’ (Chien and Wexler 1990). 63 children aged 4;6, 5;6 and 6;6 participated in a truth-value judgment task augmented with a sentence production component. There were three major finding: 1) contrary to predictions of most generativist accounts,...

This paper discusses a framework (called Radio-Mama) using FRID technology for real-time management of mobile assets. We decompose an asset management system into atomic or composite business processes (BPs). Triggered by RFID events, the business events are invoked automatically. Data gathering from RFID receivers are used to fill in required parameters specified in the descriptions of the BPs...

The present study investigates the clinical applicability of a new device, which objectively measured nasal resonating vibration via piezoelectric vibratory sensor in 10 normal volunteers, 10 patients with definite hypernasality, and 10 nasal polyposis patients. For the assessment of the hypernasality, the ratio of /ng/ to /a/ as well as the ratio of /mama/ to /papa/ passages were used. For the...

Maintenance of Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) systems became an important area since applications of CBR technologies were established in different real-world domains. Maintenance issues cover all aspects that help to keep a running CBR system in a usable state of high quality. Concepts and techniques that were developed for maintenance of CBR systems range from methodologies and frameworks that pa...

This review aimed to investigate risk and protective factors for breast cancer and to analyze whether scientific evidence from the World Cancer Research Fund and American Institute for Cancer Research, published in 2007, was confirmed by new research. In May 2010 we reviewed cohort and case-control analytical studies from 2007 to 2010 in the PubMed, LILACS, and SciELO databases. We selected 27 ...

GODBOLE, RAHUL PUSHPAK. Design of a Flexible DSP Based Controller Hardware System for Power Electronics Applications. (Under the direction of Prof. Subhashish Bhattacharya). This thesis proposes the concept of a universal controller hardware system for power electronics applications. With the presence of generic interfaces and communication schemes, this system can be used in various other cont...

Attitude diffusion is when “attitudes” (general, relatively enduring evaluative responses to a topic) spread through a population. Attitudes play an incredibly important role in human decision making and are a critical part of social psychology. However, existing models of diffusion do not account for key differentiating aspects of attitudes. We develop the “Multi-Agent, Multi-Attitude” (MAMA) ...

Resumo Estudo qualitativo, realizado com dez familiares de pacientes com câncer em duas clínicas, de Feira de Santana-BA, com objetivo de analisar o pensar, sentir e agir da família em relação a doença. Os dados foram coletados através da entrevista semi-estruturada e analisados pela hermenêutica dialética. Os resultados mostraram que a maioria dos entrevistados associou o câncer à morte e a pr...