Eletrodo modificado em filme de paládio para a determinação voltamétrica de fosfito

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Identification of Mycobacteria by Thin Layer Chromatographic Analysis of Mycolic Acids and Conventional Biochemical Method: Four Years of Experience

Mycolic acids analysis by thin-layer chromatography (TLC) has been employed by several laboratories worldwide as a method for fast identification of mycobacteria. This method was introduced in Brazil by our laboratory in 1992 as a routine identification technique. Up to the present, 861 strains isolated were identified by mycolic acids TLC and by standard biochemical tests; 61% out of these strains came as clinical samples, 4% isolated from frogs and 35% as environmental samples. Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains identified by classical methods were confirmed by their mycolic acids contents (I, III and IV). The method allowed earlier differentiation of M. avium complex - MAC (mycolic acids I, IV and VI) from M. simiae (acids I, II and IV), both with similar biochemical properties. The method also permitted to distinguish M. fortuitum (acids I and V) from M. chelonae (acids I and II) , and to detect mixed mycobacterial infections cases as M. tuberculosis with MAC and M. fortuitum with MAC. Concluding, four years experience shows that mycolic acids TLC is an easy, reliable, fast and inexpensive method, an important tool to put together conventional mycobacteria identification methods.

Experimental damage detection using system norms

Nowadays there is great interest in structural damage detection in systems using nondestructive tests. Once the failure is detected, as for instance a crack, it is possible to take providences. There are several different approaches that can be used to obtain information about the existence, location and extension of the fault in the system by non-destructive tests. Among these methodologies, one can mention different optimization techniques, as for instance classical methods, genetic algorithms, neural networks, etc. Most of these techniques, which are based on element-byelement adjustments of a finite element (FE) model, take advantage of the dynamic behavior of the model. However, in practical situations, usually, is almost impossible to obtain an accuracy model. In this paper, it is proposed an experimental technique for damage location. This technique is based on H: norm to obtain the damage location. The dynamic properties of the structure were identified using experimental data by eigensystem realization algorithm (ERA). The experimental test was carried out in a beam structure through varying the mass of an element. For the output signal was used a piezoelectric sensor. The signal of input of sine form was generated through SignalCalc® software.

Selecting candidate labels for hierarchical document clusters using association rules

One way to organize knowledge and make its search and retrieval easier is to create a structural representation divided by hierarchically related topics. Once this structure is built, it is necessary to find labels for each of the obtained clusters. In many cases the labels have to be built using only the terms in the documents of the collection. This paper presents the SeCLAR (Selecting Candidate Labels using Association Rules) method, which explores the use of association rules for the selection of good candidates for labels of hierarchical document clusters. The candidates are processed by a classical method to generate the labels. The idea of the proposed method is to process each parent-child relationship of the nodes as an antecedent-consequent relationship of association rules. The experimental results show that the proposed method can improve the precision and recall of labels obtained by classical methods. © 2010 Springer-Verlag.

Improving hierarchical document cluster labels through candidate term selection

One way to organize knowledge and make its search and retrieval easier is to create a structural representation divided by hierarchically related topics. Once this structure is built, it is necessary to find labels for each of the obtained clusters. In many cases the labels must be built using all the terms in the documents of the collection. This paper presents the SeCLAR method, which explores the use of association rules in the selection of good candidates for labels of hierarchical document clusters. The purpose of this method is to select a subset of terms by exploring the relationship among the terms of each document. Thus, these candidates can be processed by a classical method to generate the labels. An experimental study demonstrates the potential of the proposed approach to improve the precision and recall of labels obtained by classical methods only considering the terms which are potentially more discriminative. © 2012 - IOS Press and the authors. All rights reserved.

The use of Gramian matrices for aeroelastic stability analysis

Most of the established procedures for analysis of aeroelastic flutter in the development of aircraft are based on frequency domain methods. Proposing new methodologies in this field is always a challenge, because the new methods need to be validated by many experimental procedures. With the interest for new flight control systems and nonlinear behavior of aeroelastic structures, other strategies may be necessary to complete the analysis of such systems. If the aeroelastic model can be written in time domain, using state-space formulation, for instance, then many of the tools used in stability analysis of dynamic systems may be used to help providing an insight into the aeroelastic phenomenon. In this respect, this paper presents a discussion on the use of Gramian matrices to determine conditions of aeroelastic flutter. The main goal of this work is to introduce how observability gramian matrix can be used to identify the system instability. To explain the approach, the theory is outlined and simulations are carried out on two benchmark problems. Results are compared with classical methods to validate the approach and a reduction of computational time is obtained for the second example. © 2013 Douglas Domingues Bueno et al.

Análise teórica de uma nova técnica de processamento de sinais interferométricos baseada na modulação triangular da fase óptica

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Estudo das propriedades dielétricas e de bloqueio das monocamadas automontadas

Pós-graduação em Biotecnologia - IQ

Comparação da biossorção de metais terras-raras pela biomassa melanizada do fungo Aspergillus nidulans nas formas livre e imobilizada

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Polimorfismo nos genes Metilenotetrahidrofolato redutase e cistationina-beta-sintase e a sua relação com eventos vaso-oclusivos na doença falciforme

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Complexos de zinco(II), de európio(III) e heterobimetálico com os ácidos tiofeno 2 e 3-carboxílico. Síntese, caracterização e propriedades luminescentes

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Novas técnicas de detecção de fase óptica em interferômetros homódinos aplicadas à caracterização de atuadores piezoelétricos flextensionais

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Validação e cálculo da incerteza de métodos clássicos: titulométricos e espectrofotométricos utilizados na determinação de ácido ascórbico

Pós-graduação em Alimentos e Nutrição - FCFAR

Otimização multiobjetivo no planejamento agregado da produção e na cogeração de energia elétrica de usina do setor sucroenergético

Pós-graduação em Engenharia Mecânica - FEG

Xilanases, ß-xilosidases de Penicillium janczewskii: purificação, caracterização e aplicação no branqueamento da polpa celulósica e para ração animal

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