Influência do armazenamento de ramas para plantio em algumas características agronômicas da mandioca

Nas condições do Estado de São Paulo é freqüente o armazenamento de ramas de mandioca (Manihot esculenta Crantz) para aguardar a melhor oportunidade de efetuar o plantio. Utilizam-se os sistemas de empilhamento horizontal e vertical, sendo mais comum o primeiro. Raramente, empregam-se ramas recém-colhidas para plantio. 0 presente trabalho teve por objetivo estudar o efeito do material de plantio em alguns parâmetros fitotécnicos da cultura, em função dos diferentes estádios fisiológicos causados pelo armazenamento ou não das ramas. Num esquema fatorial de 2 x 3, em blocos ao acaso com quatro repetições, utilizaram-se dois cultivares - IAC 12-829 e SRT 1287-Fibra, de alta e baixa capacidade de ramificação respectivamente - e três tipos de manivas, originárias de ramas recém-colhidas e de ramas conservadas por 105 dias nos sistemas de empilhamento horizontal e vertical. O experimento foi desenvolvido no ano agrícola 1991/92, na Estação Experimental do Vale do Paranapanema (IAC), Assis (SP), em latossolo vermelho-escuro, álico, textura média. Os resultados mais relevantes mostraram que: (a) O armazenamento de ramas em pilhas horizontais provocou aumento no número de hastes primárias dos dois cultivares e aumentou o peso da parte aérea do SRT 1287-Fibra; (b) O SRT 1287-Fibra foi mais influenciado pelo armazenamento da rama na posição horizontal que o IAC 12-829; (c) Este, em média, foi superior na produção de raízes, não diferindo, entretanto, do primeiro quando as manivas provinham de ramas armazenadas na posição horizontal; (d) As ramas procedentes do armazenamento na posição vertical comportaram-se similarmente às não armazenadas.

A method for improving the code rate and error correction capability of a cyclic code

Currently, there has been an increasing demand for operational and trustworthy digital data transmission and storage systems. This demand has been augmented by the appearance of large-scale, high-speed data networks for the exchange, processing and storage of digital information in the different spheres. In this paper, we explore a way to achieve this goal. For given positive integers n,r, we establish that corresponding to a binary cyclic code C0[n,n-r], there is a binary cyclic code C[(n+1)3k-1,(n+1)3k-1-3kr], where k is a nonnegative integer, which plays a role in enhancing code rate and error correction capability. In the given scheme, the new code C is in fact responsible to carry data transmitted by C0. Consequently, a codeword of the code C0 can be encoded by the generator matrix of C and therefore this arrangement for transferring data offers a safe and swift mode. © 2013 SBMAC - Sociedade Brasileira de Matemática Aplicada e Computacional.

Otimização de imagem de torax para radiografia computadorizada

Pós-graduação em Biologia Geral e Aplicada - IBB

Coletor solar alternativo de concreto para aquecimento de água em aplicações agrícolas e agroindustriais

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Avaliação da fragmentação do DNA espermático de sêmen refrigerado de garanhões

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

Preparação e caracterização óptica de filmes de ORMOSIL obtidos via processo sol-gel dopados com azocorantes

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Characterization of geothermal reservoirs’ parameters by inverse problem resolution and geostatistical simulations

BTES (borehole thermal energy storage)systems exchange thermal energy by conduction with the surrounding ground through borehole materials. The spatial variability of the geological properties and the space-time variability of hydrogeological conditions affect the real power rate of heat exchangers and, consequently, the amount of energy extracted from / injected into the ground. For this reason, it is not an easy task to identify the underground thermal properties to use when designing. At the current state of technology, Thermal Response Test (TRT) is the in situ test for the characterization of ground thermal properties with the higher degree of accuracy, but it doesn’t fully solve the problem of characterizing the thermal properties of a shallow geothermal reservoir, simply because it characterizes only the neighborhood of the heat exchanger at hand and only for the test duration. Different analytical and numerical models exist for the characterization of shallow geothermal reservoir, but they are still inadequate and not exhaustive: more sophisticated models must be taken into account and a geostatistical approach is needed to tackle natural variability and estimates uncertainty. The approach adopted for reservoir characterization is the “inverse problem”, typical of oil&gas field analysis. Similarly, we create different realizations of thermal properties by direct sequential simulation and we find the best one fitting real production data (fluid temperature along time). The software used to develop heat production simulation is FEFLOW 5.4 (Finite Element subsurface FLOW system). A geostatistical reservoir model has been set up based on literature thermal properties data and spatial variability hypotheses, and a real TRT has been tested. Then we analyzed and used as well two other codes (SA-Geotherm and FV-Geotherm) which are two implementation of the same numerical model of FEFLOW (Al-Khoury model).

Sviluppo di una metodologia per la modellazione geologica-geomeccanica ed il monitoraggio di reservoir adibiti a siti di stoccaggio di gas naturale

La valutazione dei rischi associati all’operatività dei sistemi di stoccaggio, quali la sismicità indotta e la subsidenza, è requisito basilare per una loro corretta gestione e progettazione, e passa attraverso la definizione dell’influenza sullo stato tensionale delle variazioni di pressione di poro nel sottosuolo. Principale scopo di questo progetto è lo sviluppo di una metodologia in grado di quantificare le deformazioni dei reservoir in funzione della pressione di poro, di tarare i modelli utilizzati con casi studio che presentino dati di monitoraggio reali, tali da consentire un confronto con le previsioni di modello. In questa tesi, la teoria delle inomogeneità è stata utilizzata, tramite un approccio semianalitico, per definire le variazioni dei campi elastici derivanti dalle operazioni di prelievo e immissione di fluidi in serbatoi geologici. Estensione, forma e magnitudo delle variazioni di stress indotte sono state valutate tramite il concetto di variazione dello sforzo critico secondo il criterio di rottura di Coulomb, tramite un’analisi numerica agli elementi finiti. La metodologia sviluppata è stata applicata e tarata su due reservoir sfruttati e riconvertiti a sistemi di stoccaggio che presentano dataset, geologia, petrofisica, e condizioni operative differenti. Sono state calcolate le variazioni dei campi elastici e la subsidenza; è stata mappata la variazione di sforzo critico di Coulomb per entrambi i casi. I risultati ottenuti mostrano buon accordo con le osservazioni dei monitoraggi, suggerendo la bontà della metodologia e indicando la scarsa probabilità di sismicità indotta. Questo progetto ha consentito la creazione di una piattaforma metodologica di rapido ed efficace utilizzo, per stimare l’influenza dei sistemi di stoccaggio di gas sullo stato tensionale della crosta terrestre; in fase di stoccaggio, permette di monitorare le deformazioni e gli sforzi indotti; in fase di progettazione, consente di valutare le strategie operative per monitorare e mitigare i rischi geologici associati a questi sistemi.

Advanced data deduplication techniques and their application

Data deduplication describes a class of approaches that reduce the storage capacity needed to store data or the amount of data that has to be transferred over a network. These approaches detect coarse-grained redundancies within a data set, e.g. a file system, and remove them.rnrnOne of the most important applications of data deduplication are backup storage systems where these approaches are able to reduce the storage requirements to a small fraction of the logical backup data size.rnThis thesis introduces multiple new extensions of so-called fingerprinting-based data deduplication. It starts with the presentation of a novel system design, which allows using a cluster of servers to perform exact data deduplication with small chunks in a scalable way.rnrnAfterwards, a combination of compression approaches for an important, but often over- looked, data structure in data deduplication systems, so called block and file recipes, is introduced. Using these compression approaches that exploit unique properties of data deduplication systems, the size of these recipes can be reduced by more than 92% in all investigated data sets. As file recipes can occupy a significant fraction of the overall storage capacity of data deduplication systems, the compression enables significant savings.rnrnA technique to increase the write throughput of data deduplication systems, based on the aforementioned block and file recipes, is introduced next. The novel Block Locality Caching (BLC) uses properties of block and file recipes to overcome the chunk lookup disk bottleneck of data deduplication systems. This chunk lookup disk bottleneck either limits the scalability or the throughput of data deduplication systems. The presented BLC overcomes the disk bottleneck more efficiently than existing approaches. Furthermore, it is shown that it is less prone to aging effects.rnrnFinally, it is investigated if large HPC storage systems inhibit redundancies that can be found by fingerprinting-based data deduplication. Over 3 PB of HPC storage data from different data sets have been analyzed. In most data sets, between 20 and 30% of the data can be classified as redundant. According to these results, future work in HPC storage systems should further investigate how data deduplication can be integrated into future HPC storage systems.rnrnThis thesis presents important novel work in different area of data deduplication re- search.

Energy and conductance state modeling of power electronic converters for DC microgrids

This document will demonstrate the methodology used to create an energy and conductance based model for power electronic converters. The work is intended to be a replacement for voltage and current based models which have limited applicability to the network nodal equations. Using conductance-based modeling allows direct application of load differential equations to the bus admittance matrix (Y-bus) with a unified approach. When applied directly to the Y-bus, the system becomes much easier to simulate since the state variables do not need to be transformed. The proposed transformation applies to loads, sources, and energy storage systems and is useful for DC microgrids. Transformed state models of a complete microgrid are compared to experimental results and show the models accurately reflect the system dynamic behavior.

Konzeptionierung und Durchsatzanalyse eines ULD-Shuttlelagers

Die Ein- und Auslagerung von Flugfrachtcontainern wird bisher üblicherweise mit Hilfe von entsprechend dimensionierten Regalbediengeräten vorgenommen. Shuttle-Systeme besitzen auch in diesem Bereich Vorteile, wie z. B. eine höhere Energieeffizienz und eine hohe Redundanz. Es wird ein Konzept zur Gestaltung eines solchen Systems vorgestellt. Ebenso wird die Leistungsfähigkeit entsprechender Lager über eine Materialflusssimulation bestimmt.

Raw as Archival Still Image Format: A Consideration

Source materials like fine art, over-sized, fragile maps, and delicate artifacts have traditionally been digitally converted through the use of controlled lighting and high resolution scanners and camera backs. In addition the capture of items such as general and special collections bound monographs has recently grown both through consortial efforts like the Internet Archive's Open Content Alliance and locally at the individual institution level. These projects, in turn, have introduced increasingly higher resolution consumer-grade digital single lens reflex cameras or "DSLRs" as a significant part of the general cultural heritage digital conversion workflow. Central to the authors' discussion is the fact that both camera backs and DSLRs commonly share the ability to capture native raw file formats. Because these formats include such advantages as access to an image's raw mosaic sensor data within their architecture, many institutions choose raw for initial capture due to its high bit-level and unprocessed nature. However to date these same raw formats, so important to many at the point of capture, have yet to be considered "archival" within most published still imaging standards, if they are considered at all. Throughout many workflows raw files are deleted and thrown away after more traditionally "archival" uncompressed TIFF or JPEG 2000 files have been derived downstream from their raw source formats [1][2]. As a result, the authors examine the nature of raw anew and consider the basic questions, Should raw files be retained? What might their role be? Might they in fact form a new archival format space? Included in the discussion is a survey of assorted raw file types and their attributes. Also addressed are various sustainability issues as they pertain to archival formats with a special emphasis on both raw's positive and negative characteristics as they apply to archival practices. Current common archival workflows versus possible raw-based ones are investigated as well. These comparisons are noted in the context of each approach's differing levels of usable captured image data, various preservation virtues, and the divergent ideas of strictly fixed renditions versus the potential for improved renditions over time. Special attention is given to the DNG raw format through a detailed inspection of a number of its various structural components and the roles that they play in the format's latest specification. Finally an evaluation is drawn of both proprietary raw formats in general and DNG in particular as possible alternative archival formats for still imaging.

Estudio de un sistema de almacenamiento de energía eólica por medio de baterias

El objetivo de este trabajo consiste en evaluar los beneficios de la utilización de sistemas de almacenamiento de energía para incrementar el valor de un parque eólico. Debido a la naturaleza aleatoria inherente a la producción eléctrica de origen eólico, su integración en red plantea importantes problemas que suponen un reto tecnológico cada vez mayor a medida que la penetración de la energía eólica en el mix de generación aumenta. A su vez, las aplicaciones de los sistemas de almacenamiento de energía representan la oportunidad de mitigar los efectos indeseables de la producción eléctrica eólica. Los conocimientos adquiridos a lo largo de este proyecto se aplicarán para determinar qué sistema de almacenamiento de energía es óptimo para implantar en el parque eólico objeto del estudio, así como para cuantificar los beneficios derivados de la hibridación. ABSTRACT The aim of this work consist of assess the benefits of the use of energy storage systems for wind farm value enhacement. Due to the random nature inherent to wind electric generation, its grid integration carry important issues that represent a technology challenge that increases as wind generation penetration within energy mix increases as well. At the same time, energy storage systems applications represent an opportunity to mitigate the undesirable effects of wind generation. The knowledge gained throughout this project will be applied to determine which energy storage system is ideally suited for implementation within the wind farm under study, as well as quantify the benefits of hybridization.

Enhanced Failure Detection Mechanism in MapReduce

The popularity of MapReduce programming model has increased interest in the research community for its improvement. Among the other directions, the point of fault tolerance, concretely the failure detection issue seems to be a crucial one, but that until now has not reached its satisfying level. Motivated by this, I decided to devote my main research during this period into having a prototype system architecture of MapReduce framework with a new failure detection service, containing both analytical (theoretical) and implementation part. I am confident that this work should lead the way for further contributions in detecting failures to any NoSQL App frameworks, and cloud storage systems in general.

Flexible low-cost system to test batteries and ultracapacitors for electric and hybrid vehicles in real working conditions

Batteries and ultracapacitors for hybrid and electric vehicles must satisfy very demanding working conditions that are not usual in other applications. In this sense, specific tests must be performed in order to draw accurate conclusions about their behaviour. To do so, new advanced test benches are needed. These platforms must allow the study of a wide variety of energy storage systems under conditions similar to the real ones. In this paper, a flexible, low-cost and highly customizable system is presented. This system allows batteries and ultracapacitors to be tested in many and varied ways, effectively emulating the working conditions that they face in an electric vehicle. The platform was specifically designed to study energy storage systems for electric and hybrid vehicles, meaning that it is suitable to test different systems in many different working conditions, including real driving cycles. This flexibility is achieved keeping the cost of the platform low, which makes the proposed test bench a feasible alternative for the industry. As an example of the functionality of the platform, a test consisting of a 17-minute ARTEMIS urban cycle with a NiMH battery pack is presented.