Digital simulation in a thin layer spectroelectrochemical cell with minigrid platinum electrode by microregion approximation explicit finite difference method

The microregion approximation explicit finite difference method is used to simulate cyclic voltammetry of an electrochemical reversible system in a three-dimensional thin layer cell with minigrid platinum electrode. The simulated CV curve and potential scan-absorbance curve were in very good accordance with the experimental results, which differed from those at a plate electrode. The influences of sweep rate, thickness of the thin layer, and mesh size on the peak current and peak separation were also studied by numerical analysis, which give some instruction for choosing experimental conditions or designing a thin layer cell. The critical ratio (1.33) of the diffusion path inside the mesh hole and across the thin layer was also obtained. If the ratio is greater than 1.33 by means of reducing the thickness of a thin layer, the electrochemical property will be far away from the thin layer property.

Application of digital image analysis to the study of banded spherulite during growing and melting process

A digital image analysis(DIA) technique can be applied directly to the image obtained by polarizing microscope. The time-resolved DIA apparatus including image collecting, showing and data analysis has been home-made. As an example, it has been used to study the banded spherulite in the blends of poly(epsilon-caprolactone) (PCL) and poly(styrene-ran-acrylonitrile) (SAN).

Mapeamento de uso das terras utilizando processamento digital de imagem de sensoriamento remoto.

O uso dos métodos tradicionais de levantamento do uso das terras, em razão do custo elevado dos instrumentos e a dificuldade de disponibilizar as informações de maneira rápida aos tomadores de decisão, torna proibitivo seu emprego de forma sistemática e repetitiva sobre grandes extensões de território. Desta forma, existe a necessidade de se utilizar métodos que possibilitem o levantamento do uso das terras de maneira eficiente, rápida e que tenham relativamente baixo custo. Neste contexto, a forma mais eficiente e rápida para caracterizar o uso atual das terras é por meio dos recursos instrumentais oferecidos pelo sensoriamento remoto (SR), com auxílio dos Sistemas de Informações Geográficas (SIGs) e dos Sistema de Posicionamento Global (GPSs). O processo de levantamento e caracterização do uso das terras, nesse caso, pode ser grandemente facilitado pela utilização de imagens de satélites e outros recursos de sensoriamento remoto, que podem gerar dados passíveis de serem geocodificados, ou seja, integrados, relacionados e espacializados nos SIGs. Esses, em conjunto com os GPSs, são considerados, atualmente, como a maneira mais eficiente de levantamento e identificação do uso das terras. Desta forma, o trabalho teve como objetivo o mapeamento de uso das terras utilizando o processamento digital de imagem de sensoriamento remoto, utilizando-se a interpretação visual, a classificação digital supervisionada, e a classificação híbrida (classificação digital + interpretação visual), utilizando-se imagem TM do satélite LANDSAT 7.

Detecting Digital Forgeries Using Bispectral Analysis

With the rapid increase in low-cost and sophisticated digital technology the need for techniques to authenticate digital material will become more urgent. In this paper we address the problem of authenticating digital signals assuming no explicit prior knowledge of the original. The basic approach that we take is to assume that in the frequency domain a "natural" signal has weak higher-order statistical correlations. We then show that "un-natural" correlations are introduced if this signal is passed through a non-linearity (which would almost surely occur in the creation of a forgery). Techniques from polyspectral analysis are then used to detect the presence of these correlations. We review the basics of polyspectral analysis, show how and why these tools can be used in detecting forgeries and show their effectiveness in analyzing human speech.

Relevo digital dos municípios brasileiros.

2008

Computing 3-D Motion in Custom Analog and Digital VLSI

This thesis examines a complete design framework for a real-time, autonomous system with specialized VLSI hardware for computing 3-D camera motion. In the proposed architecture, the first step is to determine point correspondences between two images. Two processors, a CCD array edge detector and a mixed analog/digital binary block correlator, are proposed for this task. The report is divided into three parts. Part I covers the algorithmic analysis; part II describes the design and test of a 32$\time $32 CCD edge detector fabricated through MOSIS; and part III compares the design of the mixed analog/digital correlator to a fully digital implementation.

Mapeamento digital de classes e atributos de solos: métodos, paradigmas e novas técnicas.

Panorama geral sobre os métodos de mapeamento de solos e/ou de suas propriedades, assim como sobre as principais técnicas quantitativas usadas.

Extração de variáveis topográficas do modelo digital de elevaçao SRTM para o estado do Rio de Janeiro

2005

Modelagem e mapeamento digital de estoque de carbono orgânico na camada superficial dos solos (0-10 cm) do Estado do Rio de Janeiro.

2007

Manejo de precisão em florestas tropicais: modelo digital de exploração florestal.

Esta publicação procura fornecer aos profissionais da engenharia florestal, as principais etapas de campo e escritório para construção do modelo digital de exploração e manejo florestal. As etapas foram selecionadas e descritas de modo que um profissional da área com conhecimento básico de sistema de informação geográfica (GIS) possa planejar os trabalhos de campo e obter um mapa de exploração florestal com a apropriação das coordenadas verdadeiras de todas as árvores, detalhes da hidrografia, relevo e curvas de nível e, ainda, executar a exploração florestal com receptores GPS e navegadores veiculares.

Rethinking the digital divide: from philanthropy to isonomia..

The digital divide has been, at least until very recently, a major theme in policy as well as interdisciplinary academic circles across the world, as well as at a collective global level, as attested by the World Summit on the Information Society. Numerous research papers and volumes have attempted to conceptualise the digital divide and to offer reasoned prescriptive and normative responses. What has been lacking in many of these studies, it is submitted, is a rigorous negotiation of moral and political philosophy, the result being a failure to situate the digital divide - or rather, more widely, information imbalances - in a holistic understanding of social structures of power and wealth. In practice, prescriptive offerings have been little more than philanthropic in tendency, whether private or corporate philanthropy. Instead, a theory of distributive justice is required, one that recovers the tradition of emancipatory, democratic struggle. This much has been said before. What is new here, however, is that the paper suggests a specific formula, the Rawls-Tawney theorem, as a solution at the level of analytical moral-political philosophy. Building on the work of John Rawls and R. H. Tawney, this avoids both the Charybdis of Marxism and the Scylla of liberalism. It delineates some of the details of the meaning of social justice in the information age. Promulgating a conception of isonomia, which while egalitarian eschews arithmetic equality (the equality of misery), the paper hopes to contribute to the emerging ideal of communicative justice in the media-saturated, post-industrial epoch.

The Rawls-Tawney theorem and the digital divide in postindustrial society.

The digital divide continues to challenge political and academic circles worldwide. A range of policy solutions is briefly evaluated, from laissez-faire on the right to “arithmetic” egalitarianism on the left. The article recasts the digital divide as a problem for the social distribution of presumptively important information (e.g., electoral data, news, science) within postindustrial society. Endorsing in general terms the left-liberal approach of differential or “geometric” egalitarianism, it seeks to invest this with greater precision, and therefore utility, by means of a possibly original synthesis of the ideas of John Rawls and R. H. Tawney. It is argued that, once certain categories of information are accorded the status of “primary goods,” their distribution must then comply with principles of justice as articulated by those major 20th century exponents of ethical social democracy. The resultant Rawls-Tawney theorem, if valid, might augment the portfolio of options for interventionist information policy in the 21st century