1000 resultados para Experimental myelopathy


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Trabalho Final de Mestrado para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia Química e Biológica

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A instalação de sistemas de videovigilância, no interior ou exterior, em locais como aeroportos, centros comerciais, escritórios, edifícios estatais, bases militares ou casas privadas tem o intuito de auxiliar na tarefa de monitorização do local contra eventuais intrusos. Com estes sistemas é possível realizar a detecção e o seguimento das pessoas que se encontram no ambiente local, tornando a monitorização mais eficiente. Neste contexto, as imagens típicas (imagem natural e imagem infravermelha) são utilizadas para extrair informação dos objectos detectados e que irão ser seguidos. Contudo, as imagens convencionais são afectadas por condições ambientais adversas como o nível de luminosidade existente no local (luzes muito fortes ou escuridão total), a presença de chuva, de nevoeiro ou de fumo que dificultam a tarefa de monitorização das pessoas. Deste modo, tornou‐se necessário realizar estudos e apresentar soluções que aumentem a eficácia dos sistemas de videovigilância quando sujeitos a condições ambientais adversas, ou seja, em ambientes não controlados, sendo uma das soluções a utilização de imagens termográficas nos sistemas de videovigilância. Neste documento são apresentadas algumas das características das câmaras e imagens termográficas, assim como uma caracterização de cenários de vigilância. Em seguida, são apresentados resultados provenientes de um algoritmo que permite realizar a segmentação de pessoas utilizando imagens termográficas. O maior foco desta dissertação foi na análise dos modelos de descrição (Histograma de Cor, HOG, SIFT, SURF) para determinar o desempenho dos modelos em três casos: distinguir entre uma pessoa e um carro; distinguir entre duas pessoas distintas e determinar que é a mesma pessoa ao longo de uma sequência. De uma forma sucinta pretendeu‐se, com este estudo, contribuir para uma melhoria dos algoritmos de detecção e seguimento de objectos em sequências de vídeo de imagens termográficas. No final, através de uma análise dos resultados provenientes dos modelos de descrição, serão retiradas conclusões que servirão de indicação sobre qual o modelo que melhor permite discriminar entre objectos nas imagens termográficas.

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The most general Two Higgs Doublet Model potential without explicit CP violation depends on 10 real independent parameters. Excluding spontaneous CP violation results in two 7 parameter models. Although both models give rise to 5 scalar particles and 2 mixing angles, the resulting phenomenology of the scalar sectors is different. If flavour changing neutral currents at tree level are to be avoided, one has, in both cases, four alternative ways of introducing the fermion couplings. In one of these models the mixing angle of the CP even sector can be chosen in such a way that the fermion couplings to the lightest scalar Higgs boson vanishes. At the same time it is possible to suppress the fermion couplings to the charged and pseudo-scalar Higgs bosons by appropriately choosing the mixing angle of the CP odd sector. We investigate the phenomenology of both models in the fermiophobic limit and present the different branching ratios for the decays of the scalar particles. We use the present experimental results from the LEP collider to constrain the models.

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O presente trabalho apresenta um estudo laboratorial que teve como finalidade o reconhecimento de perda de propriedades da madeira de edifícios antigos quando degradada por carunchos. Foi estudada madeira antiga de pinho e de choupo, com idades compreendidas entre 100 e 200 anos. Como abordagem inicial são apresentadas as características da madeira e dos edifícios pombalinos e gaioleiros onde esta era bastante usada, não só como elemento deacabamento, mas principalmente como elemento estrutural. São apresentados os vários fatores que levam à degradação da madeira assim como alguns métodos de avaliação e diagnóstico dos estados de conservação dos elementos de madeira que se encontram nos edifícios. É também desenvolvido um estudo sobre o caruncho grande e caruncho pequeno, seu ciclo de vida e forma como degrada a madeira, servindo de base ao estudo laboratorial. No desenvolvimento foi avaliado o estado de degradação de provetes de madeira antiga com 30 x 30 x 90 mm e de seguida correlacionado com a sua resistência à compressão, o seu módulo de elasticidade e a extensão em fase plástica. Desta forma pretende-se estudar o modo como os diferentes estados de degradação por caruncho influenciam as caraterísticas mecânicas das peças de madeira.

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The main goal of this paper is to analyze the behavior of nonmono- tone hybrid tabu search approaches when solving systems of nonlinear inequalities and equalities through the global optimization of an appro- priate merit function. The algorithm combines global and local searches and uses a nonmonotone reduction of the merit function to choose the local search. Relaxing the condition aims to call the local search more often and reduces the overall computational e ort. Two variants of a perturbed pattern search method are implemented as local search. An experimental study involving a variety of problems available in the lit- erature is presented.

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Dissertação apresentada à Escola Superior de Comunicação Social como parte dos requisitos para obtenção de grau de mestre em Audiovisual e Multimédia.

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Este estudo procura compreender a relação entre trabalho experimental de investigação e O desenvolvimento de competências científicas nos alunos. Foram os seguintes objectivos que nortearam este trabalho de investigação: analisar/compreender as vantagens e dificuldades apresentadas pelos alunos ao realizarem trabalho experimental de investigação em laboratório. Compreender se o trabalho experimental de investigação em laboratório leva ao desenvolvimento de competências científicas. Propor novas abordagens na utilizaçáo do trabalho experimental no ensino da Biologia. Desenvolve-se na primeira parte deste estudo uma reflexão sobre o papel do trabalho experimental de investigação no ensino/aprendizagem da Ciência. Na segunda parte explicitamos o caminho heurístico por nós percorrido. Optamos por uma metodologia interpretativa/compreesiva recorrendo a uma abordagem multimetodológica.

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Dissertação de mestrado em Ciências da Educação: área de Educação e Desenvolvimento

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Dissertação de mestrado em Ciências da Educação: área de Educação e Desenvolvimento

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The main objective of this work was to investigate the application of experimental design techniques for the identification of Michaelis-Menten kinetic parameters. More specifically, this study attempts to elucidate the relative advantages/disadvantages of employing complex experimental design techniques in relation to equidistant sampling when applied to different reactor operation modes. All studies were supported by simulation data of a generic enzymatic process that obeys to the Michaelis-Menten kinetic equation. Different aspects were investigated, such as the influence of the reactor operation mode (batch, fed-batch with pulse wise feeding and fed-batch with continuous feeding) and the experimental design optimality criteria on the effectiveness of kinetic parameters identification. The following experimental design optimality criteria were investigated: 1) minimization of the sum of the diagonal of the Fisher information matrix (FIM) inverse (A-criterion), 2) maximization of the determinant of the FIM (D-criterion), 3) maximization of the smallest eigenvalue of the FIM (E-criterion) and 4) minimization of the quotient between the largest and the smallest eigenvalue (modified E-criterion). The comparison and assessment of the different methodologies was made on the basis of the Cramér-Rao lower bounds (CRLB) error in respect to the parameters vmax and Km of the Michaelis-Menten kinetic equation. In what concerns the reactor operation mode, it was concluded that fed-batch (pulses) is better than batch operation for parameter identification. When the former operation mode is adopted, the vmax CRLB error is lowered by 18.6 % while the Km CRLB error is lowered by 26.4 % when compared to the batch operation mode. Regarding the optimality criteria, the best method was the A-criterion, with an average vmax CRLB of 6.34 % and 5.27 %, for batch and fed-batch (pulses), respectively, while presenting a Km’s CRLB of 25.1 % and 18.1 %, for batch and fed-batch (pulses), respectively. As a general conclusion of the present study, it can be stated that experimental design is justified if the starting parameters CRLB errors are inferior to 19.5 % (vmax) and 45% (Km), for batch processes, and inferior to 42 % and to 50% for fed-batch (pulses) process. Otherwise equidistant sampling is a more rational decision. This conclusion clearly supports that, for fed-batch operation, the use of experimental design is likely to largely improve the identification of Michaelis-Menten kinetic parameters.

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This work presents the results of the experimental study of proton induced nuclear reactions in lithium, namely the 7Li(p,α) 4He, 6Li(p,α) 3He and 7Li(p,p)7Li reactions. The amount of 7Li and 6Li identified as primordial and observed in very old stars of the Milky Way galactic halo strongly deviates from the predictions of primordial nucleosynthesis and stellar evolution models which depend, among other factors, on the cross sections of reactions like 7Li(p,α) 4He and 6Li(p,α) 3He. These discrepancies have triggered a large amount of research in the fields of stellar evolution, cosmology, pre-galactic evolution and low energy nuclear reactions. Focusing on nuclear reactions, this work has measured the 7Li(p,α) 4He and 6Li(p,α) 3He reactions cross sections (expressed in terms of the astrophysical S -factor) with higher accuracy, and the electron screening effects in these reactions for different environments (insulators and metallic targets). The 7Li(p,α) 4He angular distributions were also measured. These measurementstook place in two laboratory facilities, in the framework of the LUNA (Laboratory for Undergroud Nuclear Astrophysics) international collaboration, namely the Laboratorio ´ de Feixe de Ioes ˜ in ITN (Instituto Tecnologico ´ e Nuclear) Sacavem, ´ Portugal, and the Dynamitron-TandemLaboratorium in Ruhr-Universitat¨ Bochum, Germany. The ITN target chamber was modified to measure these nuclear reactions, with the design and construction of new components, the addition of one turbomolecular pump and a cold finger. The 7Li(p,α) 4He and 6Li(p,α) 3He reactions were measured concurrently with seven and four targets, respectively. These targets were produced in order to obtain adequate and stable lithium depth profiles. In metallic environments, the measured electron screening potential energies are much higher than the predictions of atomic-physics models. The Debye screening model applied to the metallic conduction electrons is able to explain these high values. It is a simple model, but also very robust. Concerning primordial nucleosynthesis and stellar evolution models, these results are very important as they show that laboratory measurements are well controlled, and the model inputs from these cross sections are therefore correct. In this work the 7Li(p,p)7Li differential cross section was also measured, which is useful to describe the 7Li(p,α) 4He entrance channel.

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WiDom is a wireless prioritized medium access control protocol which offers a very large number of priority levels. Hence, it brings the potential to employ non-preemptive static-priority scheduling and schedulability analysis for a wireless channel assuming that the overhead of WiDom is modeled properly. One schedulability analysis for WiDom has already been proposed but recent research has created a new version of WiDom (we call it: Slotted WiDom) with lower overhead and for this version of WiDom no schedulability analysis exists. In this paper we propose a new schedulability analysis for slotted WiDom and extend it to work also for message streams with release jitter. We have performed experiments with an implementation of slotted WiDom on a real-world platform (MicaZ). We find that for each message stream, the maximum observed response time never exceeds the calculated response time and hence this corroborates our belief that our new scheduling theory is applicable in practice.

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The IEEE 802.15.4 is the most widespread used protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and it is being used as a baseline for several higher layer protocols such as ZigBee, 6LoWPAN or WirelessHART. Its MAC (Medium Access Control) supports both contention-free (CFP, based on the reservation of guaranteed time-slots GTS) and contention based (CAP, ruled by CSMA/CA) access, when operating in beacon-enabled mode. Thus, it enables the differentiation between real-time and best-effort traffic. However, some WSN applications and higher layer protocols may strongly benefit from the possibility of supporting more traffic classes. This happens, for instance, for dense WSNs used in time-sensitive industrial applications. In this context, we propose to differentiate traffic classes within the CAP, enabling lower transmission delays and higher success probability to timecritical messages, such as for event detection, GTS reservation and network management. Building upon a previously proposed methodology (TRADIF), in this paper we outline its implementation and experimental validation over a real-time operating system. Importantly, TRADIF is fully backward compatible with the IEEE 802.15.4 standard, enabling to create different traffic classes just by tuning some MAC parameters.

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The IEEE 802.15.4/Zigbee protocols are a promising technology for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). This paper shares our experience on the implementation and use of these protocols and related technologies in WSNs. We present problems and challenges we have been facing in implementing an IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee stack for TinyOS in a two-folded perspective: IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee protocol standards limitations (ambiguities and open issues) and technological limitations (hardware and software). Concerning the former, we address challenges for building scalable and synchronized multi-cluster ZigBee networks, providing a trade-off between timeliness and energy-efficiency. On the latter issue, we highlight implementation problems in terms of hardware, timer handling and operating system limitations. We also report on our experience from experimental test-beds, namely on physical layer aspects such as coexistence problems between IEEE 802.15.4 and 802.11 radio channels.

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Dissertação para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia Civil – Reabilitação de Edifícios