Development Of Climate Change Information Database And Its Use In Civic Consciousness Enlightenment

GCM outputs such as CMIP3 are available via network access to PCMDI web site. Meteorological researchers are familiar with the usage of the GCM data, but the most of researchers other than meteorology such as agriculture, civil engineering, etc., and general people are not familiar with the GCM. There are some difficulties to use GCM; 1) to download the enormous quantity of data, 2) to understand the GCM methodology, parameters and grids. In order to provide a quick access way to GCM, Climate Change Information Database has been developed. The purpose of the database is to bridge the users and meteorological specialists and to facilitate the understanding the climate changes. The resolution of the data is unified, and climate change amount or factors for each meteorological element are provided from the database. All data in the database are interpolated on the same 80km mesh. Available data are the present-future projections of 27 GCMs, 16 meteorological elements (precipitation, temperature, etc.), 3 emission scenarios (A1B, A2, B1). We showed the summary of this database to residents in Toyama prefecture and measured the effect of showing and grasped the image for the climate change by using the Internet questionary survey. The persons who feel a climate change at the present tend to feel the additional changes in the future. It is important to show the monitoring results of climate change for a citizen and promote the understanding for the climate change that had already occurred. It has been shown that general images for the climate change promote to understand the need of the mitigation, and that it is important to explain about the climate change that might occur in the future even if it did not occur at the present in order to have people recognize widely the need of the adaptation.

Fonologia lexical e controvérsia neogramática : análise das regras de monotongação de /ow/ e vocalização de /l/ no PB

Nesta dissertação, assumimos os pressupostos formais do modelo não-linear da Fonologia Lexical (FL). Adotamos, como hipótese de trabalho - nos termos de Labov (1981), Labov (1994) e Kiparsky (1988)- a resolução da controvérsia neogramática a partir deste modelo. Para tanto, apresentamos a análise de dois fenômenos do Português Brasileiro (PB), com base em dados empíricos extraídos da cidade de Porto Alegre, os quais confrontamos com as predições que emanam do modelo teórico. Num primeiro momento, discutimos o status lexical e pós-lexical das regras de vocalização de /l/ e monotongação de /ow/. Num segundo momento, apresentamos a caracterização desses dois tipos de mudança. Essas discussões fundamentam-se em resultados estatísticos, obtidos a partir da utilização do pacote VARBRUL. Partindo dessas discussões, propomos o ordenamento dessas regras nos componentes do modelo da Fonologia Lexical (FL), rastreando esses processos nos módulos do léxico e do pós-léxico. A escolha destes dois fenômenos não é aleatória: da análise destas regras nos termos da FL emergem questões não devidamente tratadas no PB, como a opacidade e a presença de regras variáveis no léxico. Também destacamos a controvérsia sobre a representação dos segmentos envolvidos nestes processos: dedicamos um capítulo para a discussão sobre a representação da lateral e do processo de vocalização; e outro para a discussão sobre a representação subjacente do ditongo /ow/. Conforme a análise dos resultados, concluímos que a regra de monotongação de /ow/ comporta-se como regra lexical e implementa um tipo de mudança que se difunde lexicalmente. Já a regra de vocalização de /l/ caracteriza-se como regra pós-lexical e encaixa-se no molde de mudança neogramática.

Como o database marketing pode ser usado para posicionar estrategicamente a empresa no mercado

Utilização do Database Marketing, o marketing com banco de dados, e sua obtenção através do Sistema de Informação de Marketing SIM, visando a buscar a otimização do relacionamento com os clientes, criando um vínculo de fidelidade, atendendo suas necessidades e conhecendo-os profundamente nos seus desejos. Esta relação tenderá a manter os clientes atuais, reconquistar os perdidos e buscar novos clientes de forma mais eficaz. São utilizados os princípios e elementos de marketing no planejamento e operacionalização de uma empresa, assim como o conceito de vantagem competitiva, visando não somente uma maior participação no mercado, mas principalmente como posicioná-la estrategicamente

A função do verbo no texto proverbial: o verbo como instanciador lexical, modal, temporal e aspectual

Universidade da Madeira - Centro de Ciência e Tecnologia da Madeira - Fundo Social Europeu e Propragama Operacional Plurifundos da Região Autónoma da Madeira

Satellyptus: analysis and database of microsatellites from ESTs of Eucalyptus

The main goal of our research was to search for SSRs in the Eucalyptus EST FORESTs database (using a software for mining SSR-motifs). With this objective, we created a database for cataloging Eucalyptus EST-derived SSRs, and developed a bioinformatics tool, named Satellyptus, for finding and analyzing microsatellites in the Eucalyptus EST database. The search for microsatellites in the FORESTs database containing 71,115 Eucalyptus EST sequences (52.09 Mb) revealed 20,530 SSRs in 15,621 ESTs. The SSR abundance detected on the Eucalyptus ESTs database (29% or one microsatellite every four sequences) is considered very high for plants. Amongst the categories of SSR motifs, the dimeric (37%) and trimeric ones (33%) predominated. The AG/CT motif was the most frequent (35.15%) followed by the trimeric CCG/CGG (12.81%). From a random sample of 1,217 sequences, 343 microsatellites in 265 SSR-containing sequences were identified. Approximately 48% of these ESTs containing microsatellites were homologous to proteins with known biological function. Most of the microsatellites detected in Eucalyptus ESTs were positioned at either the 5 or 3 end. Our next priority involves the design of flanking primers for codominant SSR loci, which could lead to the development of a set of microsatellite-based markers suitable for marker-assisted Eucalyptus breeding programs.

HTRIdb: an open-access database for experimentally verified human transcriptional regulation interactions

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Updated Brazilian database on food carotenoids: Factors affecting carotenoid composition

This article updates the Brazilian database on food carotenoids. Emphasis is on carotenoids that have been demonstrated important to human health: alpha-carotene, beta-carotene, beta-cryptoxanthin, lycopene, lutein and zeaxanthin. The sampling and sample preparation strategies and the analytical methodology are presented. Possible sources of analytical errors, as well as the measures taken to avoid them, are discussed. Compositional variation due to such factors as variety/cultivar, stage of maturity, part of the plant utilized, climate or season and production technique are demonstrated. The effects of post-harvest handling, preparation, processing and storage of food on the carotenoid composition are also discussed. The importance of biodiversity is manifested by the variety of carotenoid sources and the higher levels of carotenoids in native, uncultivated or semi-cultivated fruits and vegetables in comparison to commercially produced crops. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

As abordagens teóricas e os formalismos para o tratamento computacional do significado lexical

No âmbito do Processamento Automático de Línguas Naturais (PLN), o desenvolvimento de recursos léxico-semânticos é premente. Ao conceber os sistemas de PLN como um exercício de engenharia da linguagem humana, acredita-se que o desenvolvimento de tais recursos pode ser beneficiado pelos modelos de representação do conhecimento, desenvolvidos pela Engenharia do Conhecimento. Esses modelos, em particular, fornecem simultaneamente o arcabouço teórico-metodológico e a metalinguagem formal para o tratamento computacional do significado das unidades lexicais. Neste artigo, após a apresentação da concepção linguístico-computacional de léxico, elucidam-se os principais paradigmas de representação do conhecimento, enfatizando a abordagem do significado e a metalinguagem formal vinculadas a cada um deles.

Wordnet.Br: An Exercise of Human Language Technology Research

This paper reports the ongoing project (since 2002) of developing a wordnet for Brazilian Portuguese (Wordnet.Br) from scratch. In particular, it describes the process of constructing the Wordnet.Br core database, which has 44,000 words organized in 18,500 synsets Accordingly, it briefly sketches the project overall methodology, its lexical resourses, the synset compilation process, and the Wordnet.Br editor, a GUI (graphical user interface) which aids the linguist in the compilation and maintenance of the Wordnet.Br. It concludes with the planned further work.

DBMODELING - A database applied to the study of protein targets from genome projects

Genome sequencing efforts are providing us with complete genetic blueprints for hundreds of organisms. We are now faced with assigning, understanding, and modifying the functions of proteins encoded by these genomes. DBMODELING is a relational database of annotated comparative protein structure models and their metabolic pathway characterization, when identified. This procedure was applied to complete genomes such as Mycobacteritum tuberculosis and Xylella fastidiosa. The main interest in the study of metabolic pathways is that some of these pathways are not present in humans, which makes them selective targets for drug design, decreasing the impact of drugs in humans. In the database, there are currently 1116 proteins from two genomes. It can be accessed by any researcher at http://www.biocristalografia.df.ibilce.unesp.br/tools/. This project confirms that homology modeling is a useful tool in structural bioinformatics and that it can be very valuable in annotating genome sequence information, contributing to structural and functional genomics, and analyzing protein-ligand docking.