Sistema inteligente para o processamento de imagens digitais intrabucais oclusais

Several are the areas in which digital images are used in solving day-to-day problems. In medicine the use of computer systems have improved the diagnosis and medical interpretations. In dentistry it’s not different, increasingly procedures assisted by computers have support dentists in their tasks. Set in this context, an area of dentistry known as public oral health is responsible for diagnosis and oral health treatment of a population. To this end, oral visual inspections are held in order to obtain oral health status information of a given population. From this collection of information, also known as epidemiological survey, the dentist can plan and evaluate taken actions for the different problems identified. This procedure has limiting factors, such as a limited number of qualified professionals to perform these tasks, different diagnoses interpretations among other factors. Given this context came the ideia of using intelligent systems techniques in supporting carrying out these tasks. Thus, it was proposed in this paper the development of an intelligent system able to segment, count and classify teeth from occlusal intraoral digital photographic images. The proposed system makes combined use of machine learning techniques and digital image processing. We first carried out a color-based segmentation on regions of interest, teeth and non teeth, in the images through the use of Support Vector Machine. After identifying these regions were used techniques based on morphological operators such as erosion and transformed watershed for counting and detecting the boundaries of the teeth, respectively. With the border detection of teeth was possible to calculate the Fourier descriptors for their shape and the position descriptors. Then the teeth were classified according to their types through the use of the SVM from the method one-against-all used in multiclass problem. The multiclass classification problem has been approached in two different ways. In the first approach we have considered three class types: molar, premolar and non teeth, while the second approach were considered five class types: molar, premolar, canine, incisor and non teeth. The system presented a satisfactory performance in the segmenting, counting and classification of teeth present in the images.

Sistema inteligente para o processamento de imagens digitais intrabucais oclusais

Several are the areas in which digital images are used in solving day-to-day problems. In medicine the use of computer systems have improved the diagnosis and medical interpretations. In dentistry it’s not different, increasingly procedures assisted by computers have support dentists in their tasks. Set in this context, an area of dentistry known as public oral health is responsible for diagnosis and oral health treatment of a population. To this end, oral visual inspections are held in order to obtain oral health status information of a given population. From this collection of information, also known as epidemiological survey, the dentist can plan and evaluate taken actions for the different problems identified. This procedure has limiting factors, such as a limited number of qualified professionals to perform these tasks, different diagnoses interpretations among other factors. Given this context came the ideia of using intelligent systems techniques in supporting carrying out these tasks. Thus, it was proposed in this paper the development of an intelligent system able to segment, count and classify teeth from occlusal intraoral digital photographic images. The proposed system makes combined use of machine learning techniques and digital image processing. We first carried out a color-based segmentation on regions of interest, teeth and non teeth, in the images through the use of Support Vector Machine. After identifying these regions were used techniques based on morphological operators such as erosion and transformed watershed for counting and detecting the boundaries of the teeth, respectively. With the border detection of teeth was possible to calculate the Fourier descriptors for their shape and the position descriptors. Then the teeth were classified according to their types through the use of the SVM from the method one-against-all used in multiclass problem. The multiclass classification problem has been approached in two different ways. In the first approach we have considered three class types: molar, premolar and non teeth, while the second approach were considered five class types: molar, premolar, canine, incisor and non teeth. The system presented a satisfactory performance in the segmenting, counting and classification of teeth present in the images.

"Ombro a ombro com os mais fracos": a inserção de João Café Filho nos espaços do trabalhador na cidade do Natal 1922 - 1937

The purpose of this thesis is to analyze how João Café Filho constituted a discourse of advocate of the labor movement and workers in different sociability spaces. It is intended to understand, on one hand, how political relations were established between different categories of workers and the ‘middle classes’ and, on the other hand, how places were instituted to house the meeting of these relations. It a ims to understand the insertion of Café Filho in union activities in the urban world. It demonstrates specificities of the political culture in Natal emphasizing the dispute between a city politically ruled by a still reigning rural paternalistic mentality and the rise of a new way to experience the urban conflicts which appeared. Temporally, the work is delimited between 1922 (proclaimed by Café Filho himself as the initial period of his political action) and 1937 (when he broke up with Vargas and went into exile in Argentina). The research was constituted by three main document types: several published newspapers between the decades of 1920 and 1930 in the cities of Natal, Recife, São Paulo, Porto Alegre and Rio de Janeiro; the autobiographical memoirs written by Café Filho himself and memoirs of other people who lived in his time. The main pillars that have supported the work were: the concepts of society and individuals (ELIAS, 1994; 1995), political cultures (BERSTEIN, 1998) and theater of the memory (GOMES, 2004); the sociability spaces category (CERTEAU, 1994; MALATIAN, 2001; RIOX, 1996); the biography notion (DOSSE, 2009; LORIGA, 2011). We demonstrated that Café Filho acted in some sociability spaces as: the Jornal do Norte, the Federação Regional do Trabalho and the Partido Democrático Nacional. In such spaces, Café Filho, gradually, become an important leader of workers and, at the same time, linked to national entities led to the opposition that fight against the power established in the Brazilian First Republic. In Café Filho’s interpretation, workers were individuals who needed to fight against the political structures prevailing at that time because the poor living conditions and the low representativeness of this group were caused by the way the political system in the First Republic was structured. After the 1930 Movement, the 3 de Outubro Club, the Jornal and the Labor Federation of Natal were constituted in spaces where the cafeista critical discourse about the government was changed: workers should follow the official syndicalism and defend the 1930 Movement which put Vargas in the presidency of the Republic.

Múltiplos fluxos ópticos e o processamento atentivo da informação visual

The environment in which we live in, we constantly deal with a huge amount of dynamic information, thus, attention is an indispensable cognitive resource that allows an effective selection of stimuli for our survival. From this, investigating how we process our encouragement in movements and how the attention spreads into a space to serve more than one stimuli simultanously is something very important. The behavioural urgence hipothesis suggests that the encouragement in a movement of approaching shows a certain priority in the process related to objects which are in a movement away, but there are researches that point out that it might not happen in an attentive phase, but instead as a priorization of motor response. There are also many controversies found in researches about attentive focalization, in which some studies suggest that the focus of attention would work in a similar manner to a zoom lens, while some searches indicate that the focus of attention could be shared to answer some stimuli in non contiguous regions. This study tried to investigate through two experiments the effect of attentive priorization by encouragement in movements and how the attention is spread with distractors stimuli. The first experiment investigated if the amount of moving flows really influenced in the process of information. The results indicate an effect of priorization of the flows guided in relation to aleatory ones and also from the unique flow due to dual flow. The second experiment investigated how the distribution of attention is in a space with the use of flows as an exogenous cue. The results indicate that the focus of attention works as the one suggested in the zoom lens model.

Utilização de pulsos de radiofrequência fortemente modulados no processamento de informação quântica via ressonância magnética nuclear

Nesta dissertação apresentamos um trabalho de desenvolvimento e utilização de pulsos de radiofreqüência modulados simultaneamente em freqüência, amplitude e fase (pulsos fortemente modulados, SMP, do inglês Strongly Modulated Pulses) para criar estados iniciais e executar operações unitárias que servem como blocos básicos para processamento da informação quântica utilizando Ressonância Magnética Nuclear (RMN). As implementações experimentais foram realizas em um sistema de 3 q-bits constituído por spins nucleares de Césio 133 (spin nuclear 7/2) em uma amostra de cristal líquido em fase nemática. Os pulsos SMP´s foram construídos teoricamente utilizando um programa especialmente desenvolvido para esse fim, sendo o mesmo baseado no processo de otimização numérica Simplex Nelder-Mead. Através deste programa, os pulsos SMP foram otimizados de modo a executarem as operações lógicas desejadas com durações consideravelmente menores que aquelas realizadas usando o procedimento usual de RMN, ou seja, seqüências de pulsos e evoluções livres. Isso tem a vantagem de reduzir os efeitos de descoerência decorrentes da relaxação do sistema. Os conceitos teóricos envolvidos na criação dos SMPs são apresentados e as principais dificuldades (experimentais e teóricas) que podem surgir devido ao uso desses procedimentos são discutidas. Como exemplos de aplicação, foram produzidos os estados pseudo-puros usados como estados iniciais de operações lógicas em RMN, bem como operações lógicas que foram posteriormente aplicadas aos mesmos. Utilizando os SMP\'s também foi possível realizar experimentalmente os algoritmos quânticos de Grover e Deutsch-Jozsa para 3 q-bits. A fidelidade das implementações experimentais foi determinadas utilizando as matrizes densidade experimentais obtidas utilizando um método de tomografia da matriz densidade previamente desenvolvido.

Processamento da informação e dislexia : estudo das diferenças do tempo de reacção, atenção e memória entre sujeitos disléxicos e não disléxicos

As teorias do processamento da informação (PI) procuram respostas sobre o modo como o ser humano, processa a informação mentalmente (Cid, 2005). A grande preocupação centra-se na compreensão dos “fenómenos que se passam no interior da caixa negar” (Alves, 1995, pp.32 cit. Cid, 2005). Algures por todo o mundo cerca de 6 a 15%, da população (Nathan, 1979) tem dislexia. Apresentando dificuldades em aprender com problemas gerais de processamento da informação (Fonseca 1999). Nestes casos os fenómenos da “caixa negra” têm uma particular movimentação, e estas diferenças estão patentes 24horas por dia, 7 dias da semana, sendo uma dificuldade de aprendizagem para toda a vida (Frank & Livingston, 2004). Neste estudo verificamos as diferenças do processamento da informação através do tempo de reacção, atenção e memória entre sujeitos disléxicos (D) e não-disléxicos (ND). A amostra geral é constituída por 22 sujeitos de ambos os sexos, distinguida em dois grupos, o grupo de 10 D e 12 ND com idades compreendidas entre os 18 e 46 anos de idade (média ± desvio padrão de 25,40 ± 2,71). Os instrumentos de trabalho utilizados para tal propósito, foram os seguintes: o teste de barragem de Toulouse-Piéron (atenção Concentrada); O teste de memória visual Menvis-A (MV2); diversas provas de tempo de reacção (simples e de escolha) e o teste do quadro de Schultz (atenção distribuída). Os principais resultados obtidos indicam que o grupo de D são mais lentos no processamento da informação que o grupo de ND. Os resultados apontam que a atenção concentrada é semelhante entre os grupos, mas quanto à atenção distribuição o grupo de ND tem muito melhor performance que o grupo de D. Relativamente ao armazenam a informação visual a curto prazo o desempenho é semelhante para ambos os grupos. No entanto os ND reagem mais rápido aos estímulos que aparecem que os D, o que se reflecte na tomada de decisão, quando aumentam os estímulos que lhe são apresentados os D demoram mais tempo na tomada de decisão que os ND.

El Otro y el yo, las porras vs. el café: soluciones de traducción para los elementos culturales en las versiones castellanas de "Las baladas del ajo", de Mo Yan

El objetivo de este trabajo es mostrar los fenómenos en las traducciones de Las baladas del ajo, de texto original chino traducido primero al inglés, y del inglés al español. Asimismo, tenemos dos objetivos específicos, por un lado estudiamos las fórmulas de traducción de los elementos culturales –muy frecuentes– detectados en Las baladas del ajo y por el otro, observamos la traducción indirecta del inglés al español a través de una comparación entre el texto original en chino, la versión en inglés y la española. Las conclusiones de este trabajo nos permiten estudiar tanto las soluciones adoptadas para los elementos culturales, así como hacer una evaluación general de la traducción de segunda mano.

Approach to chaos in ultracold atomic and molecular physics: Statistics of near-threshold bound states for Li+CaH and Li+CaF

We calculate near-threshold bound states and Feshbach resonance positions for atom–rigid-rotor models of the highly anisotropic systems Li+CaH and Li+CaF. We perform statistical analysis on the resonance positions to compare with the predictions of random matrix theory. For Li+CaH with total angular momentum J=0 we find fully chaotic behavior in both the nearest-neighbor spacing distribution and the level number variance. However, for J>0 we find different behavior due to the presence of a nearly conserved quantum number. Li+CaF (J=0) also shows apparently reduced levels of chaotic behavior despite its stronger effective coupling. This may indicate the development of another good quantum number relating to a bending motion of the complex. However, continuously varying the rotational constant over a wide range shows unexpected structure in the degree of chaotic behavior, including a dramatic reduction around the rotational constant of CaF. This demonstrates the complexity of the relationship between coupling and chaotic behavior.

Diseño y estudio de cápsulas de café biodegradables

[ES]Este trabajo consiste en el análisis de cápsulas de café monodosis y de materiales plásticos biodegradables, para hacer una propuesta de diseño que permita una gestión sostenible de este producto. Se plantea el diseño de este producto mediante el uso de materiales biodegradables para uso alimenticio. Se propone una solución viable para su fabricación en series cortas y medias mediante un proceso de termoconformado. Se propone también un prediseño del packaging de este producto, y de un uso alternativo para el reciclado de los residuos generados.

Aménagement agroécologique intégrant les pollinisateurs : une contribution à la production agricole du café en Mésoamérique

Les services écologiques sont essentiels au maintien de la vie humaine sur terre, puisqu’entre autres, ils participent à la production d’oxygène, de nourriture et de matériaux divers, régulent les cycles de l’eau et des nutriments et contribuent au bien-être humain ; ces services nous sont fournis depuis toujours, gratuitement et continuellement. Toutefois, les activités humaines compromettent de plus en plus ces services écologiques en déréglant les processus écologiques qui en sont à l’origine. Dans les paysages agricoles, les perturbations anthropiques sont connues pour affecter grandement la biodiversité et les services écologiques. L’intensification agricole ainsi que la perte et la fragmentation des habitats naturels menacent notamment les services de pollinisation, lesquels permettent la production de fruits et de graines, pour la reproduction des plantes et la consommation humaine. Cet essai évalue la perspective du service de pollinisation dans le cas précis du café en Mésoamérique. Le premier objectif de cet essai est de déterminer les enjeux écologiques, économiques et sociaux auxquels sont liés les pollinisateurs et la production durable et rentable de café. Le deuxième objectif de cet essai est d’identifier les mécanismes expliquant comment certains facteurs clés de la biodiversité et de l’aménagement peuvent augmenter les rendements du café à travers sa pollinisation par les abeilles. Le troisième objectif de cet essai est de proposer des mesures d’aménagement qui permettent d’intégrer davantage les pollinisateurs aux exploitations de café. Le quatrième et dernier objectif consiste à développer et prioriser des stratégies locales et régionales, qui puissent concilier l’application de ces mesures d’aménagement avec les réalités économiques et sociales. La revue de la littérature a permis de constater qu’en Mésoamérique, ce sont à la fois les populations d’abeilles sauvages et domestiques qui assurent la pollinisation du café. Ces insectes sont sensibles à la perturbation de leurs habitats, bien que certains soient plus tolérants que d’autres. De fait, l’aménagement local et l’aménagement régional peuvent soit bénéficier, soit nuire à la biodiversité d’abeilles et au service de pollinisation du café. Au niveau local, les systèmes agroforestiers de café, malgré de plus faibles rendements en comparaison à des monocultures intensives, sont plus résilients et maintiennent un service de pollinisation de qualité. Ils doivent donc être encouragés pour ne pas accentuer la dépendance des exploitations agricoles à des intrants externes (engrais, pesticides, herbicides, main d’œuvre supplémentaire ou mécanisation de l’agriculture) qui deviennent nécessaires pour compenser la perte des services écologiques et maintenir de hauts rendements. Au niveau régional, la forêt est essentielle au maintien de communautés de pollinisateurs abondants et riches en espèces. À l’échelle du paysage, des efforts doivent donc être investis pour préserver des habitats naturels de qualité et limiter l’isolement des exploitations de café. Cela est particulièrement vrai dans les paysages tropicaux où, contrairement aux paysages tempérés, il reste une proportion importante d’habitats naturels encore préservés. Ces habitats naturels et les terres destinées à d’autres usages (agriculture, élevage, etc.) forment une mosaïque complexe, si bien que l’aménagement du territoire soulève des enjeux majeurs aux niveaux politiques et institutionnels. Des efforts diversifiés sont donc nécessaires pour développer des solutions efficaces qui bénéficient durablement aux petits producteurs de café. Pour cela, il est essentiel que tous les membres de la chaîne de valeur du café soient des parties prenantes actives dans ces efforts. De l’échelle locale à l’échelle régionale, les producteurs, les coopératives, les gouvernements et les consommateurs ont tous une influence sur l’aménagement des paysages agricoles de café et sur les modes de vie ruraux. Bien que le rôle des insectes pollinisateurs dans l’augmentation des rendements soit reconnu, leur conservation requiert de meilleurs prix pour le café quand il est cultivé de façon respectueuse de la biodiversité, ainsi que des subventions directes pour préserver les forêts aux abords des exploitations et empêcher leur conversion en terres agricoles. À condition d’être ciblée et concertée, l’application de ces stratégies d’aménagement devrait permettre de maintenir le service de pollinisation du café en Mésoamérique.

Projeto café do trabalhador como promotor de segurança alimentar e nutricional: avaliação da eficácia da unidade Natal-RN

The evaluation of public policies that promote Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) it s a multidisciplinary activity extremely relevant to the effectiveness of actions to legitimize the Human Right to Adequate Food (HRAF). This study aimed at assessing the effectiveness of the unit project Natal-RN Café do Trabalhador in promoting SAN to its users. The theoretical framework is based on the public and political and on the dimensions of the concept of FSN (quantity and quality-regularity). Through a qualitative approach, methodologically this was the work of an evaluation of efficiency of the unit Natal-RN of Café do Trabalhador project in light of the assumptions of the concept of SAN. Data collection was conducted through retrospective archival research in official documents of the project, semi-structured interviews with managers involved in its implementation (representative of the Secretary of State for Employment, Housing and Care of RN SETHAS and third party), socioeconomic questionnaire applied to the users of the unit, check the amount, regularity and quality of meals offered for 15 days (menu routine) using the descriptive form menu and form filling type checklist for verification of compliance with good practices . Methods of analysis, we used content analysis, descriptive statistics and compared to previously established parameters for the project. As categories of analysis were defined organizational arrangement, access, user, food quantity-regularity and food quality. The results show that, it was found in the category arrangement that will implement the project dismissed technical criteria for choosing the districts and the quantitative distribution of meals for each location. It was found that the valuation of the shares of the company outsources technical SETHA has not been performed. We observed in the access category, the unit has a strategic location, but lack of space in the refectory. The main obstacle to economic access for users is the lack of a register for the beneficiaries. In the category of users, it was identified that the clientele of the project it is predominantly men, with more than 51 years, low education, earning wages less 1 obtained through informal employment, which they move up through the unit transport collective, go to all days of operation due primarily to price. About the meals category quantity-regularity of food showed that the menu serves 95% of the desired needs, and that holidays and weekends are periods of disrupting the regularity of supply of meals. Regarding the category of food quality, it was found that the nutritional aspect on the menu are food sources rich in sodium, nitrates and low in fiber. In the aspect of hygiene and sanitation are the main limitations related to waste management, lack of exposure controls of food prepared and inadequacies of the physical structure. The results showed that in general and the institutional arrangement of the organs attached to the project should establish a systematic evaluation project is to establish as a promoter of and FSN overcome these obstacles

Avaliação do impacto das condições de operação na qualidade do sinal : processamento de dados de reflexão sísmica de multicanal

Através do processamento de dados sísmicos convertem-se registos de campo em secções sísmicas com significado geológico, que revelam informações e ajudam a delinear as camadas geológicas do subsolo e identificar estruturas soterradas. Portanto, a interpretação dos dados sísmicos só é boa se o processamento também o for. Este trabalho é resultado de um estágio curricular na empresa de prospecção geofísica GeoSurveys, que consistiu principalmente em processar 18 linhas de dados de sísmica de reflexão multicanal de alta resolução adquiridas na ilha de Pulau Tekong em Singapura, que têm como finalidade investigação do solo da baia desta mesma ilha. Estes dados foram cedidos à GeoSurveys para fins académicos, caso em que se inclui esta dissertação. Para atingir os objectivos propostos que consistiam em avaliar o impacto das condições de operação na qualidade do sinal sísmico e interpretação das linhas, fez-se o processamento das linhas utilizando um fluxo processamento padrão utilizado na empresa, com recurso ao software Radex Pro. Este fluxo de processamento tem como mais-valia o método de correcções estáticas, o UHRS trim statics, além das técnicas habituais utilizadas para melhorar a resolução das secções sísmicas como é o caso da desconvolução, a atenuação de ruído através do stacking, correcções de NMO, e migração, entre outras técnicas. A interpretação das linhas sísmicas processadas foi feita no software Kingdom Suite (IHS), através da distinção da configuração interna dos reflectores em cada secção sísmica, estabelecendo deste modo as principais unidades sismo-estratigráficas e identificando as zonas de interface que delimitam os horizontes principais. Foi feito ainda um estudo geológico sumário da área de pesquisa e da evolução geodinâmica da região.

Eficiência e razão de hedge: uma análise dos mercados futuro brasileiros de boi, café, etanol, milho e soja

This research aims to investigate the Hedge Efficiency and Optimal Hedge Ratio for the future market of cattle, coffee, ethanol, corn and soybean. This paper uses the Optimal Hedge Ratio and Hedge Effectiveness through multivariate GARCH models with error correction, attempting to the possible phenomenon of Optimal Hedge Ratio differential during the crop and intercrop period. The Optimal Hedge Ratio must be bigger in the intercrop period due to the uncertainty related to a possible supply shock (LAZZARINI, 2010). Among the future contracts studied in this research, the coffee, ethanol and soybean contracts were not object of this phenomenon investigation, yet. Furthermore, the corn and ethanol contracts were not object of researches which deal with Dynamic Hedging Strategy. This paper distinguishes itself for including the GARCH model with error correction, which it was never considered when the possible Optimal Hedge Ratio differential during the crop and intercrop period were investigated. The commodities quotation were used as future price in the market future of BM&FBOVESPA and as spot market, the CEPEA index, in the period from May 2010 to June 2013 to cattle, coffee, ethanol and corn, and to August 2012 to soybean, with daily frequency. Similar results were achieved for all the commodities. There is a long term relationship among the spot market and future market, bicausality and the spot market and future market of cattle, coffee, ethanol and corn, and unicausality of the future price of soybean on spot price. The Optimal Hedge Ratio was estimated from three different strategies: linear regression by MQO, BEKK-GARCH diagonal model, and BEKK-GARCH diagonal with intercrop dummy. The MQO regression model, pointed out the Hedge inefficiency, taking into consideration that the Optimal Hedge presented was too low. The second model represents the strategy of dynamic hedge, which collected time variations in the Optimal Hedge. The last Hedge strategy did not detect Optimal Hedge Ratio differential between the crop and intercrop period, therefore, unlikely what they expected, the investor do not need increase his/her investment in the future market during the intercrop