Prediction of the solar radiation using RBF neural networks and ground-to-sky images

In this study, Artificial Neural Networks are applied to multistep long term solar radiation prediction. The networks are trained as one-step-ahead predictors and iterated over time to obtain multi-step longer term predictions. Auto-regressive and Auto-regressive with exogenous inputs solar radiationmodels are compared, considering cloudiness indices as inputs in the latter case. These indices are obtained through pixel classification of ground-to-sky images. The input-output structure of the neural network models is selected using evolutionary computation methods.

Automatic processing of bidimensional images of ''omic'' expression blobs

In this work, a comprehensive review on automatic analysis of Proteomics and Genomics images is presented. Special emphasis is given to a particularly complex image produced by a technique called Two-Dimensional Gel Electrophoresis (2-DE), with thousands of spots (or blobs). Automatic methods for the detection, segmentation and matching of blob like features are discussed and proposed. In particular, a very robust procedure was achieved for processing 2-DE images, consisting mainly of two steps: a) A very trustworthy new approach for the automatic detection and segmentation of spots, based on the Watershed Transform, without any foreknowledge of spot shape or size, and without user intervention; b) A new method for spot matching, based on image registration, that performs well for either global or local distortions. The results of the proposed methods are compared to state-of-the-art academic and commercial products.

Da fixação oitocentista à redescoberta da voz original

Sempre que se observa o trabalho editorial feito por boa parte dos divulgadores do romanceiro oitocentista em Espanha e Portugal, desperta a nossa atenção o modo laborioso com que se aprimoravam as versões por eles publicadas. Em resultado de um conjunto de estudos que realizei sobre João Baptista da Silva Leitão de Almeida Garret (o primeiro compilador de romances na Península Ibérica) e, muito especialmente, graças às recentes e inovadoras investigações de Sandra Boto (a quem se deve o estudo e divulgação de um fundo romancístico inédito garrettiano, com as consequentes ilações no campo da «textologia») o conhecimento que temos dos métodos editoriais deste autor permite-nos apresentar dados muito rigorosos.