A Parallel Processing Model of Musical Structures

Euterpe is a real-time computer system for the modeling of musical structures. It provides a formalism wherein familiar concepts of musical analysis may be readily expressed. This is verified by its application to the analysis of a wide variety of conventional forms of music: Gregorian chant, Mediaeval polyphony, Back counterpoint, and sonata form. It may be of further assistance in the real-time experiments in various techniques of thematic development. Finally, the system is endowed with sound-synthesis apparatus with which the user may prepare tapes for musical performances.

Utilização da contagem de tosse e espirro como indicadores da ocorrência e severidade de pneumonias e rinite atrófica, respectivamente.

1999

Informações meteorológicas de Passo Fundo, RS: abril de 2008.

2008

Potencial das terras do Projeto Jequitaí (MG) para o cultivo de cana-de-açúcar sob três sistemas de irrigação.

Os zoneamentos agroecológicos são modelos de pacotes tecnológicos que contêm recomendações para o uso sustentável dos recursos naturais e têm sua aplicação mais oportuna na agricultura irrigada, onde é maior a intensidade de uso destes recursos, principalmente o solo. A metodologia do Sistema Brasileiro de Classificação de Terras para Irrigação (SiBCTI) teve por finalidade o desenvolvimento de uma sistemática adaptada à realidade brasileira, constituindo um sistema de suporte à decisão para subsidiar zoneamentos agroecológicos voltados a esta temática. O objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar o potencial de terras para irrigação na área do Projeto Jequitaí (MG) por meio do SiBCTI. A utilização do SiBCTI na área deste projeto indicou, no sistema de irrigação localizado, um total de 8.584 ha de terras classificadas na classe a1. No sistema de irrigação por aspersão, as terras enquadradas na classe a1 alcançaram apenas 2.635 ha; e para o sistema de irrigação superfície não houve indicação de terras enquadradas nesta classe. O resultado geral da utilização do SiBCTI para o Projeto Jequitaí mostrou haver, tanto para o sistema por aspersão quanto para localizada, um total de 39.839 ha de terras consideradas irrigáveis. Os principais fatores limitantes para os sistemas localizado e aspersão foram o pH em água e a capacidade de água disponível. Considerando o sistema por superfície, os principais fatores limitantes foram a capacidade de água disponível e a velocidade de infiltração.

Sleep-disordered breathing and orthodontic variables in children-Pilot study

Introduction: Sleep Disordered Breathing (SDB) is a highly prevalent condition associated with orofacial and dentofacial characteristics.Objective: the aim of this study was to verify the association of dental malocclusion, molar relationship, crossbite, open bite, overjet, overbite, and crowding with SDB in children aged 7-9 years.Materials and methods: Participating schools were selected randomly from within the public elementary school system. in the first phase of the study, the parents of 1216 children aged between 7 and 9 years old completed the Sleep Disturbance Scale for Children (SDSC) questionnaire and the children had to participate in a dental examination. the evaluation of occlusion was divided into sagittal analysis, vertical analysis, and transverse analysis. in the second phase, 60 children were selected randomly to be undergone polysomnography (PSG) at a sleep clinic.Results: Among the children included, 242 (19.9%) children had normal occlusion. of the 60 children, 50 underwent PSG and 40(80%) had SDB. the crossbite and open bite showed association with SDB, p = 0.04 in both.Conclusion: Crossbite and open bite malocclusions were associated with SDB, and may be predictive of SDB in children. Studies with larger numbers of participants are needed to investigate the association of other malocclusions with SDB, and randomized clinical trials are also needed to see whether orthodontic and/or functional jaw orthopedic treatment is an option for treating children with malocclusion and SDB. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

The management of health library outreach services: evaluation and reflection on lessons learned on the VIVOS project

Yeoman, A. J., Cooper, J. M., Urquhart, C. J. & Tyler, A. (2003). The management of health library outreach services: evaluation and reflection on lessons learned on the VIVOS project. Journal of the Medical Library Association, 91(4), 426-433. Sponsorship: Resource

Psychoanalysis and Performance

Kear, Adrian, Campbell, Patrick, Psychoanalysis and Performance (London: Routledge, 2001), pp.xiv+242 RAE2008

Towards national identities: Welsh theatres

Williams, Ioan. 'Towards national identities: Welsh theatres', In: The Cambridge History of British Theatre, (Eds) Kershaw, Baz., Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp.242-272 RAE2008

Welsh Missionary Journalism in India, 1880-1947

Jones, Aled, 'Welsh Missionary Journalism in India, 1880-1947', In: 'Imperial Co-Histories: National Identities and the British and Colonial Press', (Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press), pp.242-272, 2003 RAE2008

Kazimierz Denek, Wycieczki we współczesnej szkole, Wyd. „Eruditus", Poznań 1997, ss. 272.

Recenzje i sprawozdania z książek

Roman Schulz. Studia z innowatyki pedagogicznej, Wyd. Uniwersytetu M. Kopernika w Toruniu, Toruń 1996.

Recenzje i sprawozdania z książek

Tapices costumbristas y cuadros paisajistas de aplicación y bordados en tela.

8 hojas : ilustraciones, fotografías a color

A Neural Model of 3D Shape-From-Texture: Multiple-Scale Filtering, Boundary Grouping, and Surface Filling-In

A neural model is presented of how cortical areas V1, V2, and V4 interact to convert a textured 2D image into a representation of curved 3D shape. Two basic problems are solved to achieve this: (1) Patterns of spatially discrete 2D texture elements are transformed into a spatially smooth surface representation of 3D shape. (2) Changes in the statistical properties of texture elements across space induce the perceived 3D shape of this surface representation. This is achieved in the model through multiple-scale filtering of a 2D image, followed by a cooperative-competitive grouping network that coherently binds texture elements into boundary webs at the appropriate depths using a scale-to-depth map and a subsequent depth competition stage. These boundary webs then gate filling-in of surface lightness signals in order to form a smooth 3D surface percept. The model quantitatively simulates challenging psychophysical data about perception of prolate ellipsoids (Todd and Akerstrom, 1987, J. Exp. Psych., 13, 242). In particular, the model represents a high degree of 3D curvature for a certain class of images, all of whose texture elements have the same degree of optical compression, in accordance with percepts of human observers. Simulations of 3D percepts of an elliptical cylinder, a slanted plane, and a photo of a golf ball are also presented.