955 resultados para MAC UCI NEO
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Mestrado em Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores
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The oxovanadium(IV) complexes [VO(acac)(2)(Hpz)].HC(pz)(3) 1.HC(pz)(3) (acac= acetylacetonate, Hpz = pyrazole, pz = pyrazoly1) and [VOCl2{HOCH2C(pz)(3)}] 2 were obtained from reaction of [VO(acac)(2)] with hydrotris(1-pyrazolyl)methane or of VCl(3)with 2,2,2-tris(1-pyrazolyl)ethanol. The compounds were characterized by elemental analysis, IR, Far-IR and EPR spectroscopies, FAB or ESI mass-spectrometry and, for 1, by single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. 1 and 2 exhibit catalytic activity for the oxidation of cyclohexane to the cyclohexanol and cyclohexanone mixture in homogeneous system (TONS up to 1100) under mild conditions (NCMe, 24h, room temperature) using benzoyl peroxide (BPO), tert-butyl hydroperoxide (TBHP), m-chloroperoxybenzoic acid (mCPBA), hydrogen peroxide or the urea-hydrogen peroxide adduct (UHP) as oxidants. 1 and 2 were also immobilized on a polydimethylsiloxane membrane (1-PDMS or 2-PDMS) and the systems acted as supported catalysts for the cyclohexane oxidation using the above oxidants (TONs up to 620). The best results were obtained with mCPBA or BP0 as oxidant. The effects of various parameters, such as the amount of catalyst, nitric acid, reaction time, type of oxidant and oxidant-to-catalyst molar ratio, were investigated, for both homogeneous and supported systems. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Mestrado em Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores
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Doenças crónicas (DC) são doenças que têm de ser geridas em vez de curadas. Giovannini, Bitti, Sarchielli e Speltini (1986) caracterizam as doenças crónicas como: a) doenças de longa duração, b) que tendem a prolongar-se por toda a vida do doente, c) que provocam invalidez em graus variáveis, d) são devidas a causas não reversíveis, e) que exigem formas particulares de reeducação, f) que obrigam o doente a seguir determinadas prescrições terapêuticas, g) que normalmente exigem a aprendizagem de um novo estilo de vida, h) que necessitam de controlo periódico, de observação e de tratamento regulares. As DC não se definem pela sua aparente ou real gravidade. As pessoas que têm DC podem fazer a vida do dia-a-dia como qualquer outro cidadão, e grande parte deles acaba por falecer de velhice ou de outras doenças, que não a DC que os acompanhou grande parte da vida. Para estas pessoas viverem uma boa vida o processo de ajustamento é decisivo. O ajustamento à DC torna-se então um objectivo fundamental para as pessoas e para a sociedade. O ajustamento pode definir-se como uma resposta a uma alteração do meio ambiente, que leva um organismo a adaptar-se a essa alteração. Esta definição, explicam as autoras, implica que ele ocorre ao longo do tempo e, também, que é um resultado desejável. Para Stanton, Revenson, e Tennen, (2007), o ajustamento engloba inúmeros componentes que cruzam domínios interpessoais, cognitivos, emocionais, físicos e comportamentais. Estes autores referem que da revisão da literatura se pode concluir que, grosso modo a DC requer, ajustamento em múltiplos domínios, que o ajustamento se desenrola ao longo do tempo, e que existe uma heterogeneidade acentuada no modo como os indivíduos se ajustam à DC. O ajustamento é um conceito do senso comum que tanto é verbo como substantivo.
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Background - The rate and fitness effects of mutations are key in understanding the evolution of every species. Traditionally, these parameters are estimated in mutation accumulation experiments where replicate lines are propagated in conditions that allow mutations to randomly accumulate without the purging effect of natural selection. These experiments have been performed with many model organisms but we still lack empirical estimates of the rate and effects of mutation in the protists. Results - We performed a mutation accumulation (MA) experiment in Tetrahymena thermophila, a species that can reproduce sexually and asexually in nature, and measured both the mean decline and variance increase in fitness of 20 lines. The results obtained with T. thermophila were compared with T. pyriformis that is an obligate asexual species. We show that MA lines of T. thermophila go to extinction at a rate of 1.25 clonal extinctions per bottleneck. In contrast, populations of T. pyriformis show a much higher resistance to extinction. Variation in gene copy number is likely to be a key factor in explaining these results, and indeed we show that T. pyriformis has a higher mean copy number per cell than T. thermophila. From fitness measurements during the MA experiment, we infer a rate of mutation to copy number variation of 0.0333 per haploid MAC genome of T. thermophila and a mean effect against copy number variation of 0.16. A strong effect of population size in the rate of fitness decline was also found, consistent with the increased power of natural selection. Conclusions - The rate of clonal extinction measured for T. thermophila is characteristic of a mutational degradation and suggests that this species must undergo sexual reproduction to avoid the deleterious effects detected in the laboratory experiments. We also suggest that an increase in chromosomal copy number associated with the phenotypic assortment of amitotic divisions can provide an alternative mechanism to escape the deleterious effect of random chromosomal copy number variation in species like T. pyriformis that lack the resetting mechanism of sexual reproduction. Our results are relevant to the understanding of cell line longevity and senescence in ciliates.
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Dissertação apresentada à Escola Superior de Comunicação Social como parte dos requisitos para obtenção de grau de mestre em Jornalismo.
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Tese de Doutoramento em Ciências do Mar, especialidade em Ecologia Marinha.
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As unidades de cuidados intensivos (UCI), são das áreas hospitalares que mais dinheiro consomem nas instituições públicas. As funções dos profissionais de saúde são imprescindíveis, mas também a logística e gestão são de vital importância e como tal, têm de ser avaliadas. Por isso, todos os indicadores – clínicos, económico-financeiros, recursos humanos, produtividade, qualidade - são importantes para que a gestão possa, dinâmica e oportunamente, ter informação útil para a tomada de decisões. Assim, a garantia de uma gestão eficiente dos recursos é cada vez mais importante de forma a satisfazer não só os pacientes como toda a estrutura hospitalar. Nos tempos que correm, e com a situação socioeconómica de crise que se vive, é de extrema importância saber com o maior nível de detalhe possível, com que recursos se pode contar. É importante quantificar de forma eficaz e eficiente como são utilizados os recursos, para satisfazer com o maior nível de qualidade possível um paciente que entre numa UCI. Para tal, a utilização de sistemas de informação (SI) e das ferramentas indicadas na gestão de uma unidade hospitalar, são de grande importância. Nesta tese, é proposta uma ferramenta, que seja simples e de fácil utilização, desenvolvida com recurso a tecnologia ROLAP para a extracção e análise de indicadores numa UCI, e que possa ser facilmente integrada num software de gestão do dia-a-dia.
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A arte na actualidade, nomeadamente a literatura, caracteriza-se pela recorrência a temas de feição neobarroca e pós-moderna, como a vulnerabilidade humana1, o sentimento de culpa, a invasão da interioridade, a perda da identidade, com recurso a formas que têm a ver com a fragmentação discursiva. Na narrativa de João de Melo, O meu mundo não é deste reino, o processo de desconstrução identitária, seja através do deslocamento do sujeito a partir de um centro para a periferia, seja através da construção de identidades parcelares, imperfeitas, monstruosas, fragmentadas, é usado com o intuito último de reafirmar o Homem e a condição humana.
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Low-rate low-power consumption and low-cost communication are the key points that lead to the specification of the IEEE 802.15.4 standard. This paper overviews the technical features of the physical layer and the medium access control sublayer mechanisms of the IEEE 802.15.4 protocol that are most relevant for wireless sensor network applications. We also discuss the ability of IEEE 802.15.4 to fulfil the requirements of wireless sensor network applications.
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Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been attracting increasing interests in the development of a new generation of embedded systems with great potential for many applications such as surveillance, environment monitoring, emergency medical response and home automation. However, the communication paradigms in Wireless Sensor Networks differ from the ones attributed to traditional wireless networks, triggering the need for new communication protocols and mechanisms. In this Technical Report, we present a survey on communication protocols for WSNs with a particular emphasis on the lower protocol layers. We give a particular focus to the MAC (Medium Access Control) sub-layer, since it has a prominent influence on some relevant requirements that must be satisfied by WSN protocols, such as energy consumption, time performance and scalability. We overview some relevant MAC protocol solutions and discuss how they tackle the trade-off between the referred requirements.
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Consider the problem of scheduling sporadic messages with deadlines on a wireless channel. We propose a collision-free medium access control (MAC) protocol which implements static-priority scheduling and present a schedulability analysis technique for the protocol. The MAC protocol allows multiple masters and is fully distributed; it is an adaptation to a wireless channel of the dominance protocol used in the CAN bus. But unlike that protocol, our protocol does not require a node having the ability to receive an incoming bit from the channel while transmitting to the channel.
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Mestrado em Gestão e Avaliação de Tecnologias da Saúde
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Although power-line communication (PLC) is not a new technology, its use to support communication with timing requirements is still the focus of ongoing research. Recently, a new infrastructure was presented, intended for communication using power lines from a central location to geographically dispersed nodes using inexpensive devices. This new infrastructure uses a two-level hierarchical power-line system, together with an IP-based network. Within this infrastructure, in order to provide end-toend communication through the two levels of the powerline system, it is necessary to fully understand the behaviour of the underlying network layers. The masterslave behaviour of the PLC MAC, together with the inherent dynamic topology of power-line networks are important issues that must be fully characterised. Therefore, in this paper we present a simulation model which is being used to study and characterise the behaviour of power-line communication.
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In this paper we describe a real-time industrial communication network able to support both controlrelated and multimedia traffic. The industrial communication network is based on the PROFIBUS standard, with multimedia capabilities being provided by an adequate integration of TCP/IP protocols into the PROFIBUS stack. From the operational point of view the integration of TCP/IP into PROFIBUS is by itself a challenge, since the master-slave nature of the PROFIBUS MAC makes complex the implementation of the symmetry inherent to IP communications. From the timeliness point of view the challenge is two folded. On one hand the multimedia traffic should not interfere with the timing requirements of the "native" control-related PROFIBUS traffic (typically hard real-time). On the other hand multimedia traffic requires certain levels of quality-of-service to be attained. In this paper we provide a methodology that enables fulfilling the timing requirements for both types of traffic in these real-time industrial LAN. Moreover, we describe suitable algorithms for the scheduling support of concurrent multimedia streams.