in the present work, the regioselectivity for a series of diels–alder reactions (4 reactions) has beenstudied using hardness, electrophilicity and polarizability of products.furthermore,thermodynamicand kinetic calculations have been done. in all results predicted pararegioisomer is more favorableregioisomerinthese investigated reactions.all calculations have been done at the dft-b3lyp/6-31g(d)...

The Malmquist index (MI) has demonstrated its usefulness in comparing the performances of Decision Making Units (DMUs) performances. global MI (GMI) been suggested as a means to overcome three drawbacks MI: non-circularity, disparate measurements, and infeasibility. Recently, it appeared that can also be used compare groups DMUs. While this new function increased usefulness, presents same MI. I...

The benefit of using indexes for processing coqjunctive queries in a database system is well known. The use of indexes in distributed database systems is equally justified. In a distributed database environment a relation may be horizontally partitioned across the nodes of the system and indexes may be created for the fragment of the relation that resides at each node. However, as an alternativ...

This paper focused on the comfort afforded by 3 models of hearing protection devices. Devices were selected and, after being tested in a real occupational context, evaluated using a questionnaire regarding different comfort indexes. In this way, it was possible to compare the “performance” of the hearing protectors regarding the comfort indexes, and to determine which one, globally, has afforde...

OBJECTIVES In this work we studied the temporal evolution of changes in the electrocardiogram (ECG) as a consequence of the induced ischemia during prolonged coronary angioplasty, comparing the time course of indexes reflecting depolarization and those reflecting repolarization. METHODS We considered both local (measured at specific points of the ECG) and global (obtained from the Karhunen-Lo...

Following the globalization of the economy, interests in examining the financial linkages of economies have been increased, especially in the wake of the global financial crisis. In light of the benefits of international portfolio diversification, it is not surprising that there has been a strong interest among researchers to capture presence and extent of global stock market GSM integration. T...