Osteometria radiográfica de fetos: contributo para a estimativa da idade à data da morte

A estimativa da idade gestacional em restos cadavéricos de fetos é importante em contextos forenses. Para esse efeito, os especialistas forenses recorrem à avaliação do padrão de calcificação dentária e/ou ao estudo do esqueleto. Neste último, o comprimento das diáfises de ossos longos é um dos métodos mais utilizados, sendo utilizadas tabelas e equações de regressão de obras pouco actuais ou baseadas em dados ecográficos, cujas medições diferem das efectuadas directamente no osso. Este trabalho tem como objectivo principal a construção de tabelas e equações de regressão para a população Portuguesa, com base na medição das diáfises de fémur, tíbia e úmero, utilizando radiografias post-mortem, que não diferem muito das medições em osso. Pretende-se também determinar qual dos três ossos é mais credível e se existem diferenças significativas entre fetos de género feminino e de género masculino.

Cluster Analysis of Business Data

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Superefficiency and Multiplier Adjustment in Data Envelopment Analysis

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Multiplier adjustment in data envelopment analysis

V Congreso de Eficiencia y Productividad EFIUCO, Córdoba, 19-20 Mayo 2011.

Mudanças climáticas nas regiões insulares

Tese de Doutoramento, Física, 27 de Novembro de 2013, Universidade dos Açores.

Side information creation for efficient Wyner-Ziv video coding: Classifying and reviewing

Video coding technologies have played a major role in the explosion of large market digital video applications and services. In this context, the very popular MPEG-x and H-26x video coding standards adopted a predictive coding paradigm, where complex encoders exploit the data redundancy and irrelevancy to 'control' much simpler decoders. This codec paradigm fits well applications and services such as digital television and video storage where the decoder complexity is critical, but does not match well the requirements of emerging applications such as visual sensor networks where the encoder complexity is more critical. The Slepian Wolf and Wyner-Ziv theorems brought the possibility to develop the so-called Wyner-Ziv video codecs, following a different coding paradigm where it is the task of the decoder, and not anymore of the encoder, to (fully or partly) exploit the video redundancy. Theoretically, Wyner-Ziv video coding does not incur in any compression performance penalty regarding the more traditional predictive coding paradigm (at least for certain conditions). In the context of Wyner-Ziv video codecs, the so-called side information, which is a decoder estimate of the original frame to code, plays a critical role in the overall compression performance. For this reason, much research effort has been invested in the past decade to develop increasingly more efficient side information creation methods. This paper has the main objective to review and evaluate the available side information methods after proposing a classification taxonomy to guide this review, allowing to achieve more solid conclusions and better identify the next relevant research challenges. After classifying the side information creation methods into four classes, notably guess, try, hint and learn, the review of the most important techniques in each class and the evaluation of some of them leads to the important conclusion that the side information creation methods provide better rate-distortion (RD) performance depending on the amount of temporal correlation in each video sequence. It became also clear that the best available Wyner-Ziv video coding solutions are almost systematically based on the learn approach. The best solutions are already able to systematically outperform the H.264/AVC Intra, and also the H.264/AVC zero-motion standard solutions for specific types of content. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Estratégias de oferta em leilões simétricos no âmbito dos mercados liberalizados de electricidade

Mestrado em Engenharia Electrotécnica – Sistemas Eléctricos de Energia

Modelling the distribution of cetaceans using opportunistic presence-only data in S. Miguel Island (Azores)

25th Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society, Cadiz, Spain 21-23 March 2011.

Analysis of residence patterns of Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) in Azores Islands using opportunistic data

27th Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society. Setúbal, Portugal, 8-10 April 2013.

Data analysis model selection for estimating local population size of the Risso’s dolphin (Grampus griseus) in the Azores

27th Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society. Setúbal, Portugal, 8-10 April 2013.

Caffeine effect on mortality and oviposition in successive generations of Aedes aegypti

OBJECTIVE: Previous experiments showed that caffeine blocks the development of Aedes aegypti (Diptera, Culicidae) in the larval stage, consequently inhibiting the production of adults. This study aimed at obtaining data suggestive of caffeine resistance by these mosquitoes. METHODS: Experiments were carried out in successive generations to assess adult production from eggs laid in previous generation and oviposition rate in every generation using 200 and 500 µg/mL caffeine. Tap water was used as control. Experiments were conducted in the city of São José do Rio Preto, Southeastern Brazil between 2002 and 2005. Statistical tests consisted of exploratory data analysis and smoothing algorithms. RESULTS: Increasing reduction in productivity of adults occurred among generations at both caffeine concentrations but the differences were only significant at 200µg/mL caffeine. As for the oviposition rate, there was a decrease in the mean number of eggs per female over generations at both caffeine concentrations. CONCLUSIONS: There was no evidence of caffeine resistance over generations. The study results corroborate caffeine as an alternative as an important Ae. Aegypti control agent to avoid resistance.

Aplicação web para tratamento estatístico de dados de teste

Mestrado em Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores