Aircraft interior failure pattern recognition utilizing text mining and neural networks

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

The accumulation process and agrofood networks in Latin America

Includes bibliography

Multilayer perceptron neural networks training through charged system search and its Application for non-technical losses detection

The non-technical loss is not a problem with trivial solution or regional character and its minimization represents the guarantee of investments in product quality and maintenance of power systems, introduced by a competitive environment after the period of privatization in the national scene. In this paper, we show how to improve the training phase of a neural network-based classifier using a recently proposed meta-heuristic technique called Charged System Search, which is based on the interactions between electrically charged particles. The experiments were carried out in the context of non-technical loss in power distribution systems in a dataset obtained from a Brazilian electrical power company, and have demonstrated the robustness of the proposed technique against with several others nature-inspired optimization techniques for training neural networks. Thus, it is possible to improve some applications on Smart Grids. © 2013 IEEE.

A inter-relação entre competência em informação e a construção de conhecimento corporativo em ambiência de redes organizacionais: um estudo no SEBRAE-SP - Escritório Regional de Bauru

Pós-graduação em Ciência da Informação - FFC

Latin America and the Caribbean in the World Economy 2013: A sluggish postcrisis, mega trade negotiations and value chains: scope for regional action

Incluye bibliografía.

O espaço fórum como apoio na formação da rede intersetorial regional em saúde mental: desafios e potencialidades

Pós-graduação em Psicologia - FCLAS

Report of the regional workshop on microdata documentation and dissemination (IHSN Toolkit)

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean, in collaboration with the World Bank, conducted a week-long Regional Workshop on Microdata Documentation and Dissemination. The workshop, which was funded by the Partnership in Statistics for Development in the Twenty-First Century (PARIS21) and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), was held at the Hilton Hotel and Conference Centre in Port of Spain, Trinidad, from 26 to 30 April 2010. The main objective of the workshop was to provide training to member States on the Microdata Management Toolkit. This toolkit was developed by International Household Surveys Networks (IHSN) to assist in the documentation, dissemination and preservation of household survey, census and microdata in accordance with international standards and best practices. The training was organized in response to numerous requests by directors of statistics in the region for the development of capacity in that area. It was specifically timed to meet the training needs of those offices ahead of the 2010 round of Population and Housing Censuses.

Redes de distribuição de energia e desenvolvimento regional na Amazônia Oriental

Há no senso comum a visão que disponibilidade de energia está associada à crescimento econômico, ou mesmo, com desenvolvimento local/regional. A questão a ser abordada neste artigo é a relação entre a expansão das redes de distribuição de energia elétrica e das demais redes logísticas com o desenvolvimento regional. Particularmente, relacionamos mudanças no tamanho das cidades e a evolução da estrutura de consumo de energia, tomadas como os principais indicadores dessa relação, de modo a entrever algumas tendências de reestruturação sócio-espacial no Sudeste do Pará. O resultado, porém, foi que, não obstante a expansão da rede de distribuição de energia elétrica, o problema da desigualdade permanece. Concluímos ainda que o desenvolvimento regional depende do grau de cobertura do território pelas redes logísticas, sem garantia, contudo, de que a emergência destas redes sejam acompanhadas por efeitos de descentralização e (re)estruturação das atividades econômica no Sudeste do Pará, em específico, e na Amazônia oriental, em geral.

Tráfico de drogas ilícitas nos Andes: a dimensão regional da cooperação e da segurança

Pós-graduação em Relações Internacionais (UNESP - UNICAMP - PUC-SP) - FFC

Social Networks, Segregation and Poverty in Sao Paulo

The associations between segregation and urban poverty have been intensely scrutinized by the sociology and urban studies literatures. More recently, several studies have emphasized the importance of social networks for living conditions. Yet relatively few studies have tested the precise effects of social networks, and fewer still have focused on the joint effects of residential segregation and social networks on living conditions. This article explores the associations between networks, segregation and some of the most important dimensions of access to goods and services obtained in markets: escaping from social precariousness and obtaining monetary income. It is based on a study of the personal networks of 209 individuals living in situations of poverty in seven locales in the metropolitan area of Sao Paulo. Using network analysis and multivariate techniques, I show that relational settings strongly influence the access individuals have to markets, leading some individuals into worse living conditions and poverty. At the same time, although segregation plays an important role in poverty, its effects tend to be mediated by the networks in which individuals are embedded. Networks in this sense may enhance or mitigate the effects of isolation produced by space.

Functional connectivity in BOLD and CBF data: similarity and reliability of resting brain networks

Resting-state functional connectivity (FC) fMRI (rs-fcMRI) offers an appealing approach to mapping the brain's intrinsic functional organization. Blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) and arterial spin labeling (ASL) are the two main rs-fcMRI approaches to assess alterations in brain networks associated with individual differences, behavior and psychopathology. While the BOLD signal is stronger with a higher temporal resolution, ASL provides quantitative, direct measures of the physiology and metabolism of specific networks. This study systematically investigated the similarity and reliability of resting brain networks (RBNs) in BOLD and ASL. A 2×2×2 factorial design was employed where each subject underwent repeated BOLD and ASL rs-fcMRI scans on two occasions on two MRI scanners respectively. Both independent and joint FC analyses revealed common RBNs in ASL and BOLD rs-fcMRI with a moderate to high level of spatial overlap, verified by Dice Similarity Coefficients. Test-retest analyses indicated more reliable spatial network patterns in BOLD (average modal Intraclass Correlation Coefficients: 0.905±0.033 between-sessions; 0.885±0.052 between-scanners) than ASL (0.545±0.048; 0.575±0.059). Nevertheless, ASL provided highly reproducible (0.955±0.021; 0.970±0.011) network-specific CBF measurements. Moreover, we observed positive correlations between regional CBF and FC in core areas of all RBNs indicating a relationship between network connectivity and its baseline metabolism. Taken together, the combination of ASL and BOLD rs-fcMRI provides a powerful tool for characterizing the spatiotemporal and quantitative properties of RBNs. These findings pave the way for future BOLD and ASL rs-fcMRI studies in clinical populations that are carried out across time and scanners.

Redes energéticas en la Argentina : Planificación territorial en un nuevo contexto regional

El presente trabajo presenta los principales ejes en torno a los cuales se han estructurado las propuestas de intervención en materia de infraestructura energética planteadas desde el Estado Nacional, a través de programas e iniciativas sectoriales y territoriales. Se ilustran los problemas y desafíos, así como el conjunto de estrategias explicitadas desde la administración pública, mostrando las articulaciones entre situaciones de déficit energético y proyectos que modelarían un futuro distinto, en un territorio nacional caracterizado por fuertes asimetrías regionales