Modelo arquitetural de comunicação para monitoramento de pacientes baseado em middleware, computação móvel e ubíqua

Hospital Automation is an area that is constantly growing. The emergency of new technologies and hardware is transforming the processes more efficient. Nevertheless, some of the hospital processes are still being performed manually, such as monitoring of patients that is considered critical because it involves human lives. One of the factors that should be taken into account during a monitoring is the agility to detect any abnormality in vital signs of patients, as well as warning of this anomaly to the medical team involved. So, this master's thesis aims to develop an architecture to automate this process of monitoring and reporting of possible alert to a professional, so that emergency care can be done effectively. The computing mobile was used to improve the communication by distributing messages between a central located into the hospital and the mobile carried by the duty

Morfologia matemática aplicada à detecção de sombras e nuvens em imagens de alta resolução

The spatial resolution improvement of orbital sensors has broadened considerably the applicability of their images in solving urban areas problems. But as the spatial resolution improves, the shadows become even a more serious problem especially when detailed information (under the shadows) is required. Besides those shadows caused by buildings and houses, clouds projected shadows are likely to occur. In this case there is information occlusion by the cloud in association with low illumination and contrast areas caused by the cloud shadow on the ground. Thus, it's important to use efficient methods to detect shadows and clouds areas in digital images taking in count that these areas care for especial processing. This paper proposes the application of Mathematical Morphology (MM) in shadow and clouds detection. Two parts of a panchromatic QuickBird image of Cuiab-MT urban area were used. The proposed method takes advantage of the fact that shadows (low intensity - dark areas) and clouds (high intensity - bright areas) represent the bottom and top, respectively, of the image as it is thought to be a topographic surface. This characteristic allowed MM area opening and closing operations to be applied to reduce or eliminate the bottom and top of the topographic surface.

Formação estelar desencadeada pela colisão entre nuvens moleculares magnetizadas

We use a finite diference eulerian numerical code, called ZEUS 3D, to do simulations involving the collision between two magnetized molecular clouds, aiming to evaluate the rate of star formation triggered by the collision and to analyse how that rate varies depending on the relative orientations between the cloud magnetic fields before the shock. The ZEUS 3D code is not an easy code to handle. We had to create two subroutines, one to study the cloud-cloud collision and the other for the data output. ZEUS is a modular code. Its hierarchical way of working is explained as well as the way our subroutines work. We adopt two sets of different initial values for density, temperature and magnetic field of the clouds and of the external medium in order to study the collision between two molecular clouds. For each set, we analyse in detail six cases with different directions and orientations of the cloud magnetic field relative to direction of motion of the clouds. The analysis of these twelve cases allowed us to conform analytical-theoretical proposals found in the literature, and to obtain several original results. Previous works indicate that, if the cloud magnetic fields before the collision are orthogonal to the direction of motion, then a strong inhibition of star formation will occur during a cloud-cloud shock, whereas if those magnetic fields are parallel to the direction of motion, star formation will be stimulated. Our treatment of the problem confirmed numerically those results, and further allowed us to quantify the relative star forming efficiencies in each case. Moreover, we propose and analyse an intermediate case where the field of one of the clouds is orthogonal to the motion and the field of the other one is parallel to the motion. We conclude that, in this case, the rate at which the star formation occurs has a value also intermediate between the two extreme cases we mentioned above. Besides that we study the case in which the fields are orthogonal to the direction of the motion but, instead of being parallel to each other, they are anti-parallel, and we obtained for this case the corresponding variation of the star formation rate due to this alteration of the field configuration. This last case has not been studied in the literature before. Our study allows us to obtain, from the simulations, the rate of star formation in each case, as well as the temporal dependence of that rate as each collision evolves, what we do in detail for one of the cases in particular. The values we obtain for the rate of star formation are in accordance with those expected from the presently existing observational data

Formação estelar desencadeada pela colisão entre nuvens moleculares magnetizadas

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico

Uma plataforma de integração de middleware para computação ubíqua

One of the current challenges of Ubiquitous Computing is the development of complex applications, those are more than simple alarms triggered by sensors or simple systems to configure the environment according to user preferences. Those applications are hard to develop since they are composed by services provided by different middleware and it is needed to know the peculiarities of each of them, mainly the communication and context models. This thesis presents OpenCOPI, a platform which integrates various services providers, including context provision middleware. It provides an unified ontology-based context model, as well as an environment that enable easy development of ubiquitous applications via the definition of semantic workflows that contains the abstract description of the application. Those semantic workflows are converted into concrete workflows, called execution plans. An execution plan consists of a workflow instance containing activities that are automated by a set of Web services. OpenCOPI supports the automatic Web service selection and composition, enabling the use of services provided by distinct middleware in an independent and transparent way. Moreover, this platform also supports execution adaptation in case of service failures, user mobility and degradation of services quality. The validation of OpenCOPI is performed through the development of case studies, specifically applications of the oil industry. In addition, this work evaluates the overhead introduced by OpenCOPI and compares it with the provided benefits, and the efficiency of OpenCOPI s selection and adaptation mechanism

Mestre em Sistemas e Computação

In this work will applied the technique of Differential Cryptanalysis, introduced in 1990 by Biham and Shamir, on Papílio s cryptosystem, developed by Karla Ramos, to test and most importantly, to prove its relevance to other block ciphers such as DES, Blowfish and FEAL-N (X). This technique is based on the analysis of differences between plaintext and theirs respective ciphertext, in search of patterns that will assist in the discovery of the subkeys and consequently in the discovery of master key. These differences are obtained by XOR operations. Through this analysis, in addition to obtaining patterns of Pap´ılio, it search to obtain also the main characteristics and behavior of Papilio throughout theirs 16 rounds, identifying and replacing when necessary factors that can be improved in accordance with pre-established definitions of the same, thus providing greater security in the use of his algoritm

Estudo de raios cósmicos utilizando uma câmara de nuvens de baixo custo

A partir de imagens de raios cósmicos obtidas com uma câmara de nuvens de baixo custo, são apresentados, discutidos e classificados os principais fenômenos observados em tal experimento.

Treinamento de uma rede neural de base radial usando computação evolutiva: implementação e aplicações

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Modos deslizantes discretos em sistemas incertos com atraso na computação do sinal de controle

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Ensaios sobre computação e informação quânticas: fundamentação e simulações sobre o efeito da entropia

Pós-graduação em Ciência da Computação - IBILCE

Influência do processamento de próteses totais superiores em função da profundidade do palato: análise da movimentação dos dentes artificiais por computação gráfica

Pós-graduação em Odontologia - FOA

Análise da variação da posição relativa dos dentes artificiais no arco dental em função do processamento de próteses totais mandibulares mensurada por computação gráfica

Pós-graduação em Odontologia - FOA

Análise por computação gráfica da variação da posição relativa dos dentes artificiais antes e após o processamento de próteses totais superiores

Pós-graduação em Odontologia - FOA

Aplicação de computação evolucionária na mineração de dados físico-químicos da água e do solo

Pós-graduação em Agronomia (Energia na Agricultura) - FCA

Nova metodologia para análise e síntese de sistemas de aterramento complexos utilizando o método lN-FDTD, computação paralela automática e redes neurais artificiais

Neste trabalho, o método FDTD em coordenadas gerais (LN-FDTD) foi implementado para a análise de estruturas de aterramento com geometrias coincidentes ou não com o sistema de coordenadas cartesiano. O método soluciona as equações de Maxwell no domínio do tempo, permitindo a obtenção de dados a respeito da resposta transitória e de regime estacionário de estruturas diversas de aterramento. Uma nova formulação para a técnica de truncagem UPML em coordenadas gerais, para meios condutivos, foi desenvolvida e implementada para viabilizar a análise dos problemas (LN-UPML). Uma nova metodologia baseada em duas redes neurais artificiais é apresentada para a deteccão de defeitos em malhas de terra. O software FDTD em coordenadas gerais foi testado e validado para vários casos. Uma interface gráfica para usuários, chamada LANE SAGS, foi desenvolvida para simplificar o uso e automatizar o processamento dos dados.