Detecção, classificação e localização de faltas de curto-circuito em sistemas de distribuição de energia elétrica usando sistemas inteligentes

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

Strategies to improve the efficiency of genomic selection in animal breeding programs

Pós-graduação em Zootecnia - FCAV

A construção do espaço da escrita na ficção contemporânea

Pós-graduação em Estudos Literários - FCLAR

O lazer e as relações socioambientais em Belém - Pará

Esta tese desenvolveu uma análise sobre a dinâmica do campo relacional do lazer em Áreas Verdes Públicas Urbanas. O objetivo principal foi analisar as vivências de lazer e sua intermediação nas relações socioambientais em Belém, a partir de uma trajetória balizada nas relações entre os agentes do campo do lazer; na configuração desse campo relacional, por meio das vivências em três dessas áreas, quais sejam, o Bosque Rodrigues Alves Jardim Zoobotânico da Amazônia, a Praça Batista Campos e o Parque Estadual do Utinga, e nos programas, projetos e ações de lazer e meio ambiente existentes nas mesmas. Como opção teórico-metodológica, foram seguidas as orientações propostas por Pierre Bourdieu, explorando seu referencial teórico-metodológico nas investigações e os conceitos de campo e de habitus, mas também se alicerça em teorias que tratam do lazer, da urbanização de Belém, de natureza e de Áreas Verdes Públicas Urbanas. De cunho qualitativo, esta pesquisa foi realizada com base em estudos exploratórios, por meio da combinação entre levantamento bibliográfico, análise documental e pesquisa de campo, com observação simples e entrevistas não diretivas. Foi possível observar que há o reconhecimento da existência do lazer institucionalizado, já que na sociedade moderna o espaço e o tempo nas grandes metrópoles passa a adquirir esse caráter, mas também fica evidente que o cidadão vivencia o lazer como prática livre, como necessidade humana, muitas vezes se utilizando deste como intermediador de suas relações com a natureza. Neste sentido, percebeu-se que existem diversas formas de relações nessas áreas e um lazer de qualidade poderia melhorar tais relações. Entretanto, no campo relacional do lazer em Áreas Verdes Públicas Urbanas, algumas instituições representantes do poder público que deveriam estar presentes nessas áreas e atuar de forma direta no referido campo, mostram-se ausentes.

Desenvolvimento de tecnologia educacional para o uso racional de energia

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Alfabetização científica nos anos iniciais: necessidades formativas e aprendizagens profissionais da docência no contexto dos sistemas de avaliação em larga escala

Pós-graduação em Educação para a Ciência - FC

O cinema de Manoel de Oliveira: um caso singular

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

A multiple intelligences theory-based 3D virtual lab environment for digital systems teaching.

This paper describes a 3D virtual lab environment that was developed using OpenSim software integrated into Moodle. Virtuald software tool was used to provide pedagogical support to the lab by enabling to create online texts and delivering them to the students. The courses taught in this virtual lab are methodologically in conformity to theory of multiple intelligences. Some results are presented.

Nonperturbative aspects of the two-dimensional massive gauged Thirring model

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Transmission Expansion Planning Via a Constructive Heuristic Algorithm in Restructured Electricity Industry

The transmission expansion planning problem in modern power systems is a large-scale, mixed-integer, nonlinear and non-convex problem. this paper presents a new mathematical model and a constructive heuristic algorithm (CHA) for solving transmission expansion planning problem under new environment of electricity restructuring. CHA finds an acceptable solution in an iterative process, where in each step a circuit is chosen using a sensitivity index and added to the system. The proposed model consider multiple generation scenarios therefore the methodology finds high quality solution in which it allows the power system operate adequacy in an environment with multiple generators scenarios. Case studies and simulation results using test systems show possibility of using Constructive heuristic algorithm in an open access system.

Influência da luz LED na cultura celular de Mieloma múltiplo murino–NS1 in vitro

A monoclonal antibody (mAb) is an important tool in medical biotechnology and the production of biopharmaceuticals, especially for disease diagnosis and treatment of infections, because the antibodies have a significant advantage over chemical agents used in conventional therapies . The last thirty years the technology of production of monoclonal antibodies developed mainly the technique of obtaining in vitro, but also of their production is laborious, the cost is high. A major element of the high cost of production is the fact that the long-term culture consumes a large amount of imported inputs with high added value. A major contribution of this work is to promote cell growth more quickly and efficiently. Currently, a great race to discover new technologies and techniques to synthesize new antibodies and significantly increase the production of murine mAbs. New technologies such as laser and LED are innovations and widespread in modern life, so much so that its use has proliferated worldwide, primarily in the medical field. Recent studies show a series of results from the influence of the LED light in biological tissues such as: increasing the rate of cell proliferation, increased production rate of fibroblasts, increasing the rate of synthesis of RNA and DNA synthesis of ATP, etc. To assess the contribution of the LED in the culture of Myeloma NS1murino compared to the standard procedure. - NS1 cells were provided and followed the criteria of culture medium of the Laboratory of Cellular Engineering Center of Botucatu (POPs). The same amount of cells was grown in bottles of 25 cm2 polystyrene Tissue Culture Treated, specifically marked and kept in special medium RPMI 1640 Gibco BRL  supplemented with fetal bovine serum 10%, essential amino acids and non-essential, glucose, insulin and antibiotics. It was used in LEDs Cromatek wavelength of 630nm, 475nm and 530nm. The groups were... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

Memória e Memórias: entre o eu da ficção e a ficcionalização do eu

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Aplicação da moderna teoria do Portfólio em ativos não financeiros

The Markowitz's objective functions, Value-at-Risk and Conditional Value-at-Risk, are largely used tools in the financial Market for portfolio optimization. This paper tries to analyze these functions having as a target to adapt them for application in non-financial assets portfolios. The paper uses as an example the Electricity Market to analyze and optimize a fictitious investment portfolio of a possible electric power utility. Showing that, besides being possible, which considerations must be taken and which analysis must be made to apply the Modern Portfolio Theory in the non-financial universe

Evidence for dark matter in the inner Milky Way

The ubiquitous presence of dark matter in the Universe is today a central tenet in modern cosmology and astrophysics(1). Throughout the Universe, the evidence for dark matter is compelling in dwarfs, spiral galaxies, galaxy clusters as well as at cosmological scales. However, it has been historically difficult to pin down the dark matter contribution to the total mass density in the Milky Way, particularly in the innermost regions of the Galaxy and in the solar neighbourhood(2). Here we present an up-to-date compilation of Milky Way rotation curve measurements(3-13), and compare it with state-of-the-art baryonic mass distribution models(14-26). We show that current data strongly disfavour baryons as the sole contribution to the Galactic mass budget, even inside the solar circle. Our findings demonstrate the existence of dark matter in the inner Galaxy without making any assumptions about its distribution. We anticipate that this result will compel new model-independent constraints on the dark matter local density and profile, thus reducing uncertainties on direct and indirect dark matter searches, and will help reveal the structure and evolution of the Galaxy.

Marker-trait association and epistasis for brown rust resistance in sugarcane

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