Effect of antioxidant agents on bond strength of composite to bleached enamel with 38% hydrogen peroxide

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Anti-proliferative and cytotoxic activity of pentadactylin isolated from Leptodactylus labyrinthicus on melanoma cells

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Piperamides and their derivatives as potential anti-trypanosomal agents

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Bioprospection of yeasts as biocontrol agents against phytopathogenic molds

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Resistance inducing agents on the biology and probing behaviour of the greenbug in wheat

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Reducing the gap between mobile and intelligent software agents

This paper presents an approach to integrate an artificial intelligence (AI) technique, concretely rule-based processing, into mobile agents. In particular, it focuses on the aspects of designing and implementing an appropriate inference engine of small size to reduce migration costs. The main goal is combine two lines of agent research, First, the engineering oriented approach on mobile agent architectures, and, second, the AI related approach on inference engines driven by rules expressed in a restricted subset of first-order predicate logic (FOPL). In addition to size reduction, the main functions of this type of engine were isolated, generalized and implemented as dynamic components, making possible not only their migration with the agent, but also their dynamic migration and loading on demand. A set of classes for representing and exchanging knowledge between rule-based systems was also proposed.

DETECTION OF INFECTIOUS-DISEASE AGENTS IN TISSUE BY IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY

1. Immunocytochemical procedures have played an increasingly larger role in the identification of infectious disease agents in tissue sections owing to the increased availability and specificity of antibody reagents, the great sensitivity of the methods, and the relative facility with which the studies are performed.2. Immunocytochemical methods can be applied to routine formalin-fixed tissue for the detection of infectious agents such as viruses, bacteria, fungi, and protozoa among other microorganisms for diagnostic and research purposes.