We report tests of CPLP, a piecewise-linear simplex implementation based on the XMP subroutine library. Using test problems of various shapes and origins, we judge CPLP against a comparable linear bounded-variable simplex code that is applied to equivalent linear programs. Our evidence indicates that CPLP is typically 2 to 3 times faster in solving the test problems that are most signiicantly p...

Objective: To evaluate the safety and feasibility of the use of indwelling pleural catheters (IPCs) in patients with malignant pleural effusion (MPE). Methods: We prospectively collected data from patients with MPE undergoing IPC placement between January of 2014 and July of 2015. All patients submitted to IPC placement had a life expectancy > 30 days, in accordance with the MPE treatment gui...

The American Society of Training and Development's (ASTD) Certified Professional in Learning and Performance (CPLP) program is purported to be based on the ASTD's competency model, a model which outlines foundational competencies, roles, and areas of expertise in the field of training and performance improvement. This study seeks to uncover the relationship between the competency model and the ...

This paper considers the Pure Integer Capacitated Plant Location Problem (PI-CPLP). It is an NP-hard integer programming problem closely related to the Mixed Integer Capacitated Plant Location Problem (MI-CPLP). The di erence between the two lays in the integrality constraints on the assignment variables. As opposed to MI-CPLP, in PI-CPLP, for a given set of open plants, the assignment subprobl...

Angola, depois do encerramento da Guerra Civil em 2002, ascende como um importante polo de poder no Continente Africano. Nesse contexto, o Atlântico Sul apresenta-se ambiente interação regional e global. Da mesma forma, a Comunidade dos Países Língua Portuguesa (CPLP) é fórum cooperação que tem mar seus fatores aglutinação. Apesar disso, Angola não atua com protagonismo na Comunidade. A questão...

The article aims at searching for the correlation between Luso-African identity, understood as a form of cultural identity based on concept Lusophony, and Community Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP), an international organisation that brings together countries whose official language is Portuguese. CPLP considered institutional emanation idea Lusophony. However, almost 25 years since its cre...

This paper outlines the design principles and choices, as well as the ongoing development process of the Common Orthographic Vocabulary of the Portuguese Language (VOC), a large scale electronic lexical database which was adopted by the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries’ (CPLP) Instituto Internacional da Língua Portuguesa to implement a spelling reform that is currently taking place. G...

Objective: to evaluate the rate of healing in diabetic foot ulcers treated with a biomembrane latex proteins from Calotropis procera (BioMem CpLP) when compared powdered hydrocolloid. Method: randomized controlled clinical trial, registered by Brazilian Clinical Trial Registry (REBEC), according protocol RBR-98f3j9, carried out eight people foot, clinic, March July 2019. In experimental group (...

Os variados processos de internacionalização das línguas são realidades cada vez mais presentes no mundo globalizado. No caso do brasil, remontam já há décadas iniciativas como a dos leitorados, centros culturais brasileiros e núcleos estudos brasileiros; qual, seu modo, coopera para promover essa nossa língua. Porém, também CPLP, Comunidade Países Língua Portuguesa, delibera sobre questões rel...