Contagem de pontos em projecção triangular A rede de contagem TRIREDE

The TRIREDE triangular counting net is presented, as well as the algorithm for its calculation and the TRIREDE program, used to project points in a triangular net and the calculation of a density grid.

2,4,6- Ttrichloroanisol:a consumer panel evaluation

“Cork taint” is a major problem in wine industry and is caused by contamination of wines. This contamination is usually attributed to wine cork stoppers and 2,4,6-trichloroanisole (2,4,6-TCA) is one of the compounds mostly associated to this off-flavour. In this work, a consumer panel performed “forced choice” triangular tests in order to measure Odour Detection Thresholds (ODT) and Taste Detection Thresholds (TDT) of 2,4,6-TCA in water, hydro-alcoholic solutions (11.5% and 18% ethanol) and white and red wines. A paired preference test was also performed by the panel in order to measure Odour Rejection Threshold (ORT) in white and red wine spiked with 2,4,6-TCA. Results obtained show that the ODT and the TDT for 2,4,6-TCA in water were 0.2 and 0.3 ng/L, respectively. In hydro-alcoholic solutions with 11.5% and 18% ethanol the ODT were 4 and 10 ng/L respectively. In red wine the ODT and the TDT were 0.9 and 1.7 ng/L and in white wine were 1.5 and 1.0 ng/L respectively. ORT for white was 10.4 ng/L and for red wines 16.0 ng/L. These results suggest that although this group of consumers detected very low concentrations of 2,4,6-TCA in wines, they did not reject the wine at these low concentration values.

Contributo dos ambientes de geometria dinâmica para o processo de ensino e aprendizagem da Matemática

Dissertação apresentada na Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Ensino da Matemática

Estudo clínico da oncocercose na Guiné-Bissau

Em África e no Sul da Arábia, a oncocercose está essencialmente associada ao complexo Simulium damnosum (Ovazza, 1967). A propagação da doença resulta essencialmente do tipo de actividade humana, e das alterações do ambiente, especìalmente a desflorestação maciça, transformando o habitat florestal em habitat de savana (Hocking, 1953, Dadzie, 1980, Amazigo, 1991, Amazigo, 2002 a, WHO, 1995 b). 2- Morfologia 2.1 - O ovo O ovo, têm uma forma triangular, com os vértices arredondados, medindo de 0,1 a 0,5 mm de comprimento. A casca é lisa, não apresentando qualquer adaptação especial e o revestimento é viscoso. São de cor branca aquando da oviposição, escurecendo com a embriogénese, aparecendo então com cores rosadas, amareladas e acinzentadas. 2.2 - A larva A larva dos simulídeos, apresenta um formato mais ou menos cilíndrico, com duas dilatações, uma no tórax, ligeira e outra mais acentuada na parte terminal do abdómen. Pode atingir o comprimento de um centímetro, e uma coloração muito variada, dependendo do tipo de alimentos ingeridos, e apresentar-se de coloração totalmente escura, a esbranquiçada. O corpo da larva é formado por três partes distintas – a cabeça, o tórax e o abdómen. A cabeça: A cabeça de uma larva de simulídeo, à observação dorsal, apresenta-se pigmentada, podendo com essa pigmentação expressar-se de duas formas, ou com manchas escuras em fundo claro (modelo positivo), ou manchas claras em fundo escuro (modelo negativo), e um par de finas antenas. Á observação ventral destacam-se dois caracteres de grande valor sistemático – a fenda pósgenal e o hipostoma.

Ditopic molecular architectures for the recognition of anionic species

Dissertation presented to obtain the Ph.D degree in Chemistry

Factorization of elliptic boundary value problems by invariant embedding and application to overdetermined problems

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Doutor em Matemática

Decisão política e os media: a presença Norte-Americana no Afeganistão

Dissertação apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Ciência Política e Relações Internacionais

Desenvolvimento de interface pessoamáquina para geração de sensações tácteis

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Biomédica

The Future of services: Uncovering latent needs through trend analysis

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

Trabalho colaborativo e matemática: um estudo de caso sobre o instrumento de avaliação de capacidades e competências do projeto interacção e conhecimento

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Doutor em Ciências da Educação

Evaluation of motor neuron excitability by CMAP scanning with modulated current

It is important to have better evaluation and understanding of the motor neuron physiology, with the goal to early and objectively diagnose and treat patients with neurodegenerative pathologies. The Compound Muscle Action Potential (CMAP) scan is a non-invasive diagnosis technique for neurodegenerative pathologies, such as ALS, and enables a quick analysis of the muscle action potentials in response to motor nerve stimulation. This work aims to study the influence of different pulse modulated waveforms in peripheral nerve excitability by CMAP scan technique on healthy subjects. A total of 13 healthy subjects were submitted to the same test. The stimuli were applied in the medium nerve on the right wrist and electromyography signal collected on the Abductor Pollicis Brevis (APB) muscle surface on the right thumb. Stimulation was performed with an increasing intensities range from 4 to 30 mA, with varying steps, 3 stimuli per step. The procedure was repeated 4 times per subject, each repetition using a different single pulse stimulation waveform: monophasic square, monophasic triangular, monophasic quadratic and biphasic square. Results were retrieved from the averaging of the stimuli on each current intensity step. The square pulse needs less current intensity to generate the same response amplitude regarding the other waves and presents a more steep curve slope and this effect is gradually decreasing for the triangular and quadratic pulse,respectively, being the difference even more evident regarding the biphasic pulse. The control of the waveform stimulation pulse allows varying the stimulusresponse curve slope.

EFFECT – Efficient finite element code

The theme of this dissertation is the finite element method applied to mechanical structures. A new finite element program is developed that, besides executing different types of structural analysis, also allows the calculation of the derivatives of structural performances using the continuum method of design sensitivities analysis, with the purpose of allowing, in combination with the mathematical programming algorithms found in the commercial software MATLAB, to solve structural optimization problems. The program is called EFFECT – Efficient Finite Element Code. The object-oriented programming paradigm and specifically the C ++ programming language are used for program development. The main objective of this dissertation is to design EFFECT so that it can constitute, in this stage of development, the foundation for a program with analysis capacities similar to other open source finite element programs. In this first stage, 6 elements are implemented for linear analysis: 2-dimensional truss (Truss2D), 3-dimensional truss (Truss3D), 2-dimensional beam (Beam2D), 3-dimensional beam (Beam3D), triangular shell element (Shell3Node) and quadrilateral shell element (Shell4Node). The shell elements combine two distinct elements, one for simulating the membrane behavior and the other to simulate the plate bending behavior. The non-linear analysis capability is also developed, combining the corotational formulation with the Newton-Raphson iterative method, but at this stage is only avaiable to solve problems modeled with Beam2D elements subject to large displacements and rotations, called nonlinear geometric problems. The design sensitivity analysis capability is implemented in two elements, Truss2D and Beam2D, where are included the procedures and the analytic expressions for calculating derivatives of displacements, stress and volume performances with respect to 5 different design variables types. Finally, a set of test examples were created to validate the accuracy and consistency of the result obtained from EFFECT, by comparing them with results published in the literature or obtained with the ANSYS commercial finite element code.