822 resultados para discriminant analysis and cluster analysis
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Inorganica Chimica Acta 356 (2003) 215-221
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CuF2 is known to be an antiferromagnetic compound with a weak ferromagnetism due to the anisotropy of its monoclinic unit cell (Dzialoshinsky-Moriya mechanism). We investigate the magnetic ordering of this compound by means of ab initio periodic unrestricted Hartree-Fock calculations and by cluster calculations which employ state-of-the-art configuration interaction expansions and modern density functional theory techniques. The combined use of periodic and cluster models permits us to firmly establish that the antiferromagnetic order arises from the coupling of one-dimensional subunits which themselves exhibit a very small ferromagnetic coupling between Cu neighbor cations. This magnetic order could be anticipated from the close correspondence between CuF2 and rutile crystal structures.
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The transition from van der Waals to covalent bonding, which is expected to occur in divalent-metal clusters with increasing cluster size, is discussed. We propose a model which takes into account, within the same electronic theory, the three main competing contributions, namely the kinetic energy of the electrons, the Coulomb interactions between electrons, and the s \gdw p intraatomic transitions responsible for van der Waals like bonding. The model is solved by taking into account electron correlations using a generalized Gutzwiller approximation (slave boson method). The occurrence of electron localization is studied as a function of the interaction parameters and cluster size.
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With the fast development of wireless communications, ZigBee and semiconductor devices, home automation networks have recently become very popular. Since typical consumer products deployed in home automation networks are often powered by tiny and limited batteries, one of the most challenging research issues is concerning energy reduction and the balancing of energy consumption across the network in order to prolong the home network lifetime for consumer devices. The introduction of clustering and sink mobility techniques into home automation networks have been shown to be an efficient way to improve the network performance and have received significant research attention. Taking inspiration from nature, this paper proposes an Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) based clustering algorithm specifically with mobile sink support for home automation networks. In this work, the network is divided into several clusters and cluster heads are selected within each cluster. Then, a mobile sink communicates with each cluster head to collect data directly through short range communications. The ACO algorithm has been utilized in this work in order to find the optimal mobility trajectory for the mobile sink. Extensive simulation results from this research show that the proposed algorithm significantly improves home network performance when using mobile sinks in terms of energy consumption and network lifetime as compared to other routing algorithms currently deployed for home automation networks.
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O modelo de desenvolvimento sustentável trata de questões como a iniqüidade social, as limitações ambientais e a necessidade de compatibilizar o presente com as expectativas das gerações futuras. O consumo contemporâneo, hedonista e individualista, de troca de informações, de diferenciação social e de vocação consumista, parece dificultar que essas questões sejam ponderadas e se priorize a sustentabilidade ambiental. Como uma direção de comportamento em que o consumidor está orientado pelo senso de integração coletiva, de responsabilidade com os outros e o ambiente, o consumo ético estabelece uma ponte entre consumo contemporâneo e sustentabilidade. Como objetivo deste estudo, de caráter exploratório, busca-se conhecer tendências de comportamento para o consumo ético, um tema ainda incipiente no campo das ciências sociais. No levantamento bibliográfico, procurou-se integrar conteúdos que delimitassem a interdisciplinaridade entre consumo, desenvolvimento sustentável e ética, gerando as variáveis de estudo. Foram pesquisados estudantes como “líderes do amanhã” por sua influência nas organizações. A amostragem foi não probabilística por julgamento. O instrumento de pesquisa, baseado em escala de Likert de sete pontos, foi aplicado para alunos de graduação e pós-graduação em Administração. Foram utilizadas as análises multivariada fatorial e de agrupamento. Como resultado, obteve-se uma taxonomia da amostra pesquisada, como: “consciente cético”, “seguidor independente”, “teórico não praticante” e “individualista dissonante”. Este estudo reforça o achado prévio do levantamento bibliográfico de que há um paradoxo no individualismo contemporâneo, sendo concomitantemente consumista e ecológico. Também sugere a hipótese de que o sexo, trabalhar ou não e a escolaridade materna influenciam a aprendizagem do consumidor para questões ambientais, a decisão de participar em um pacto global sobre o consumo e a responsabilidade com as gerações futuras. Concluiu-se que a ética do discurso pode ser uma referência para a compreensão da troca de informações para o desenvolvimento sustentável e que o consumidor pesquisado não conforma um consumo ético, estabelecendo estágios de comportamento que não associam teoria e prática para a sustentabilidade ambiental
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Este artigo analisa a prevalência da utilização de medicamentos segundo variáveis demográficas, socioeconômicas e de comportamentos relacionados à saúde, identificando fatores associados ao uso por meio de estudo transversal de base populacional, com 941 pessoas de 18 anos ou mais residentes em Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil. A amostragem foi realizada em múltiplos estágios, estratificada e por conglomerados. Utilizou-se o teste qui-quadrado, foram estimadas as razões de prevalência ajustadas por sexo e idade e os respectivos IC95%. Desenvolveu-se modelo de regressão múltipla de Poisson ficando associados ao uso: sexo feminino, idade de 40 anos e mais, morbidade referida nos últimos 15 dias e número de doenças crônicas. Os medicamentos mais consumidos foram para os sistemas cardiovascular e nervoso, e os fitoterápicos. A prevalência de uso de medicamentos em Campinas encontrou-se inferior à maioria dos estudos. Por meio de inquéritos de saúde locais espera-se conhecer o perfil de uso dos medicamentos pela população e garantir intervenções mais direcionadas para a Política de Assistência Farmacêutica.
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The frequency of adenine mononucleotides (A), dinucleotides (AA) and clusters, and the positions of clusters, were studied in 502 molecules of the 5S rRNA.All frequencies were reduced in the evolutive lines of vertebrates, plants and fungi, in parallel with increasing organismic complexity. No change was observed in invertebrates. All frequencies were increased in mitochondria, plastids and mycoplasmas. The presumed relatives to the ancestors of the organelles, Rhodobacteria alfa and Cyanobacteria, showed intermediate values, relative to the eubacterial averages. Firmibacterid showed very high number of cluster sites.Clusters were more frequent in single-stranded regions in all organisms. The routes of organelles and mycoplasmas accummulated clusters at faster rates in double-stranded regions. Rates of change were higher for AA and clusters than for A in plants, vertebrates and organeltes, higher for cluster sites and A in mycoplasmas, and higher for AA and A in fungi. These data indicated that selection pressures acted more strongly on adenine clustering than on adenine frequency.It is proposed that AA and clusters, as sites of lower informational content. have the property of tolerating positional variation in the sites of other molecules (or other regions of the same molecule) that interact with the adenines. This reasoning was consistent with the degrees of genic polymorphism. low in plants and vertebrates and high in invertebrates. In the eubacteria endosymbiontic or parasitic to eukaryotes, the more tolerant RNA would be better adapted to interactions with the homologous nucleus-derived ribosomal proteins: the intermediate values observed in their precursors were interpreted as preadaptive.Among other groups, only the Deinococcus-Thermus eubacteria showed excessive AA and cluster contents, possibly related to their peculiar tolerance to mutagens, and the Ciliates showed excessive AA contents, indicative of retention of primitive characters.
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This paper is concerned with ℋ 2 and ℋ ∞ filter design for discrete-time Markov jump systems. The usual assumption of mode-dependent design, where the current Markov mode is available to the filter at every instant of time is substituted by the case where that availability is subject to another Markov chain. In other words, the mode is transmitted to the filter through a network with given transmission failure probabilities. The problem is solved by modeling a system with N modes as another with 2N modes and cluster availability. We also treat the case where the transition probabilities are not exactly known and demonstrate our conditions for calculating an ℋ ∞ norm bound are less conservative than the available results in the current literature. Numerical examples show the applicability of the proposed results. ©2010 IEEE.
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This paper addresses the H ∞ state-feedback control design problem of discretetime Markov jump linear systems. First, under the assumption that the Markov parameter is measured, the main contribution is on the LMI characterization of all linear feedback controllers such that the closed loop output remains bounded by a given norm level. This results allows the robust controller design to deal with convex bounded parameter uncertainty, probability uncertainty and cluster availability of the Markov mode. For partly unknown transition probabilities, the proposed design problem is proved to be less conservative than one available in the current literature. An example is solved for illustration and comparisons. © 2011 IFAC.
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Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
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Um total de 110 amostras de Salmonella Panama, incluindo 84 amostras ambientais, 16 amostras humanas, 5 amostras de alimentos e 5 amostras de animal silvestre provenientes de municípios no Estado do Pará, Brasil, foi submetido ao teste de sensibilidade a agentes antimicrobianos e à tipagem genotípica por PFGE. Todas as amostras analisadas apresentaram multirresistência a, pelo menos, 5 antibióticos. O modelo de resistência mais freqüente abrangeu 85 (77,3%) das amostras de S. Panama e foi representado pelos antibióticos cefalotina, cefazolina, cefuroxima, cefoxitina, gentamicina e tobramicina. A tipagem PFGE de 89 isolados de S. Panama resultou em 54 perfis genotípicos diferentes, dentre os quais foi observada a ocorrência de 16 clones. O dendograma revelou a existência de 2 grupos PFGE, designados grupo A e grupo B, definidos com uma similaridade genética de 83,34% e 83,87%, respectivamente. O maior clone e mais prevalente com 8 isolados de S. Panama foi oriundo de ambientes aquáticos dos municípios de Belém e Barcarena. Um segundo clone com 5 isolados foi proveniente de diferentes igarapés da Floresta Nacional de Caxiuanã. Ambos os clones demonstraram persistir no ambiente aquático por pelo menos 2 anos. Os 5 clones de Salmonella Panama encontrados em ambientes aquáticos da Floresta Nacional de Caxiuanã, que se caracteriza por apresentar ação antrópica mínina, não foram detectados em municípios mais impactados pela ação do homem como Belém e Barcarena, sugerindo adaptação dos mesmos em relação não só aos respectivos ambientes mas, principalmente, à reservatórios diferentes.
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)
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Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
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In this paper, we propose a Layered Clustering Hierarchy (LCH) communication protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). The design of LCH has two goals: scalability and energy-efficiency. In LCH, the sensor nodes are organized as a layered clustering structure. Each layer runs a distributed clustering protocol. By randomizing the rotation of cluster heads in each layer, the energy load is distributed evenly across sensors in the network. Our simulations show that LCH is effective in densely deployed sensor networks. On average, 70% of live sensor nodes are involved directly in the clustering communication hierarchy. Moreover, the simulations also show that the energy load and dead nodes are distributed evenly over the network. As studies prove that the performance of LCH depends mainly on the distributed clustering protocol, the location of cluster heads and cluster size are two critical factors in the design of LCH.
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Competitive learning is an important machine learning approach which is widely employed in artificial neural networks. In this paper, we present a rigorous definition of a new type of competitive learning scheme realized on large-scale networks. The model consists of several particles walking within the network and competing with each other to occupy as many nodes as possible, while attempting to reject intruder particles. The particle's walking rule is composed of a stochastic combination of random and preferential movements. The model has been applied to solve community detection and data clustering problems. Computer simulations reveal that the proposed technique presents high precision of community and cluster detections, as well as low computational complexity. Moreover, we have developed an efficient method for estimating the most likely number of clusters by using an evaluator index that monitors the information generated by the competition process itself. We hope this paper will provide an alternative way to the study of competitive learning.