Dinâmicas de cooperação para o desenvolvimento regional

O Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco (IPCB), em parceria com a Associação Empresarial da Beira Baixa (AEBB), elaborou o estudo "Dinâmicas de Cooperação para o Desenvolvimento Regional". Caraterizar o tecido empresarial e institucional da região e, simultaneamente, dispor de um instrumento capaz de identificar e classificar empresas e instituições quanto a áreas relevantes ao desenvolvimento das mesmas, a necessidades de formação e nível do recrutamento de recém-diplomados, e ao nível de cooperação com o IPCB, constituíram os objetivos principais do estudo.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Metazoários Parasitos De Lambari Astyanax Altiparanae, Coletados Do Rio Do Peixe, São Paulo, Sudeste Do Brasil

In March 2010, 44 specimens of Astyanax altiparanae Garutti & Britski, 2000, commonly known as “lambari do rabo amarelo”, collected from the Peixe river in the state of São Paulo, Brazil were analyzed. Out of these 44 fishes, 38 had at least one species of metazoan parasite. Fifteen metazoan parasites species were collected and identified: Urocleidoides trinidadensis, Diaphorocleidus kabatai, Diaphorocleidus orthodusus, Diaphorocleidus sp., Urocleidoides sp., Trinibaculum altiparanae, Gyrodactylus sp., Jainus hexops, Contracaecum sp., Procamallanus (Spirocamallanus) inopinatus, Vaigamus sp., Amplexibranchius bryconis, Ergasilus sp., Zonocotyloides haroltravassossi and Henneguya sp. Six species of parasites presented a prevalence of over 10%. Weight and length of fishes didn’t influence the parasitism. All parasites presented an aggregated distribution. The parasite community of Astyanax altiparanae from the Peixe river was characterized as having high richness and low uniformity. © 2016, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. All rights reserved.46587688

Solution Of The Urban Traffic Problem With Fixed Demand Using Inexact Restoration

Congested traffic has become a part of the day-to-day for the residents of big metropolitan centers. From an economic viewpoint, this problem has been causing huge financial damage and strategic measures must be taken to tackle it. An alternative means of solving the problem is the inclusion of toll charges on routes with a view to decongesting the road network. The mathematical formulation of this alternative involves the solving of an optimization problem with equilibrium constraints (MPEC). This work proposes an algorithm for the solution of this problem based on the strategy of inexact restoration.837-4019071918Andreani, R., Castro, S.L.C., Chela, J.L., Friedlander, A., Santos, S.A., Aninexact-restoration method for nonlinear bilevel programming problems (2009) Comput. Optim. Appl., 43, pp. 307-328Andreani, R., Martinez, J.M., Svaiter, B.F., On the Regularization of mixed complementarity problems (2000) Numerical Functional Analysis and Optimization, 21, pp. 589-600Andreani, R., Martinez, J.M., On the reformulation od Nonlinear Complementarity Problems using the Fischer-Burmeister function (1999) Applied Mathematics Letters, 12, pp. 7-12Andreani, R., Friedlander, A., Bound Constrained Smooth Optimization for Solving Variational Inequalities and Related Problems (2002) Annals of Operations Research, 116, pp. 179-198Arnott, R., Small, K., (1994) The economics of traffic congestion, , Boston College Working Papers in Economics 256, Boston College, Department of EconomicsBazarra, M.S., Sherali, H.D., Shetty, C.M., (1993) Nonlinear Programming: Theory and Algoritms, , Second Edition, John Wiley & Sons, New YorkBonnans, J.F., Shapiro, A., (2000) Perturbation Analysis of Optimization Problems, , Springer Series in Operations Research, SpringerBrotcorne, L., Labbé, M., Marcotte, P., Savard, G., A Bilevel Model for Toll Optimization on a Multicommodity Transportation Network (2001) Transportation Science, 35 (4), pp. 345-358Calamai, P.H., Vicente, L.N., Generating quadratic bilevel programming test problems (1994) ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, 20, pp. 103-119Chela, J.L., (2006) Resolução do problem a de programao matemática com restrições de equilíbrio usando restauração inexata, , PhD thesis, University of CampinasFerrari, P., Road network toll pricing and social welfare (2002) Trans. Res. B, 36, pp. 471-483Harker, P.T., Pang, J.S., Existence of optimal solutions to mathematical programs with equilibrium constraints (1988) Operations Research Letters, 7 (2), pp. 61-64Hearn, D.W., (1980) Bounding Flows in Traffic Assignment Models, , Research report N.80-4, Dept. of Industrial and Systems Enginnering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611Hearn, D.W., Ramana, M.V., Solving congestion toll princing models (1998) Equilibrium and Advanced Transportation Modelling, pp. 109-124. , P. Marcotte, S. Nguyen (eds), Kluwer Academic Publisher, Boston, The NetherlandsHearn, D.W., Yildirim, M.B., A toll pricing framework for traffic assignment problems with elastic demands (2001) Current Trends in Transportation and Network Analysis: Miscellanea in Honor of Michael Florian, , M. Gendreau, P. Marcotte(eds), Kluwer Academic Publisher, Dordrecht, The NetherlandsHearn, D.W., Lawphongpanich, S., An MPEC approach to second-best toll pricing (2004) Mathematical Programming Series B, 101, pp. 33-55Hearn, D.W., Bergendorff, P., Ramana, M.V., Congestion Toll Pricing of Traffic Networks, Network Optimization (1997) Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, 450, pp. 51-71. , P. M. Pardalos, D.W. Hearn and W.W. Hager (Eds.), Springer-VerlagJohansson-Stenman, O., Sterner, T., What is the scope for environmental road pricing? (1998) Road pricing Traffic Congestion and Environment, , K.J. Button, E.T. Verhoef (eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, London, EnglandLabbé, M., Marcotte, P., Savard, G., A bilevel model of taxation and its application to optimal highway pricing (1998) Manage. Sci, 44 (12), pp. 1608-1622Migdalas, A., Bilevel Programming in traffic planning: models, methods and challenge (1994) Journal of Global Optimization, 4, pp. 340-357Patriksson, M., Rockafellar, R.T., A Mathematical model and descent algorithm for bilevel traffic management (2002) Trans. Sci, 36, pp. 271-291Solodov, M.V., Svaiter, B.F., A New Projection Method for Variational Inequality Problems (1999) SIAM Journal Control Optimization, 37, pp. 765-77

Microcystin-lr detected in a low molecular weight fraction from a crude extract of Zoanthus sociatus

Cnidarian constitutes a great source of bioactive compounds. However, research involving peptides from organisms belonging to the order Zoanthidea has received very little attention, contrasting to the numerous studies of the order Actiniaria, from which hundreds of toxic peptides and proteins have been reported. In this work, we performed a mass spectrometry analysis of a low molecular weight (LMW) fraction previously reported as lethal to mice. The low molecular weight (LMW) fraction was obtained by gel filtration of a Zoanthus sociatus (order Zoanthidea) crude extract with a Sephadex G-50, and then analyzed by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight/time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF/TOF) mass spectrometry (MS) in positive ion reflector mode from m/z 700 to m/z 4000. Afterwards, some of the most intense and representative MS ions were fragmented by MS/MS with no significant results obtained by Protein Pilot protein identification software and the Mascot algorithm search. However, microcystin masses were detected by mass-matching against libraries of non-ribosomal peptide database (NORINE). Subsequent reversed-phase C18 HPLC (in isocratic elution mode) and mass spectrometry analyses corroborated the presence of the cyanotoxin Microcystin-LR (MC-LR). To the best of our knowledge, this finding constitutes the first report of MC-LR in Z. sociatus, and one of the few evidences of such cyanotoxin in cnidarians. © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.Dany Dom?nguez P?rez was supported by a Ph.D. grant (SFRH/BD/80592/2011) from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT?Funda??o para a Ci?ncia e a Tecnologia, Portugal). Armando A Rodr?guez was supported by an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship (3.2-KUB/1153731 STP). We are grateful to Carlos Manlio Diaz-Garc?a (from Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA) for his useful comments and to Carlos Varela (Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University (FIU), FL, USA) for providing Z. sociatus specimens. This study was funded in part by the Strategic Funding UID/Multi/04423/2013 through national funds provided by FCT and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) in the framework of the program PT2020, by the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) through the Competitiveness and Internationalization Operational Program?COMPETE 2020 and by National Funds through the FCT under the project PTDC/AAG-GLO/6887/2014 (POCI-01-0124-FEDER-016845), and by the Structured Programs of R&D&I INNOVMAR?Innovation and Sustainability in the Management and Exploitation of Marine Resources (NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000035, Research Line NOVELMAR) and MarInfo?Integrated Platform for Marine Data Acquisition and Analysis (NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000031), and funded by the Northern Regional Operational Program (NORTE2020) through the ERDF

Dependence of polytetrafluoroethylene reflectance on thickness at visible and ultraviolet wavelengths in air

[EN] Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) is an excellent diffuse reflector widely used in light collection systems for particle physics experiments. However, the reflectance of PTFE is a function of its thickness. In this work, we investigate this dependence in air for light of wavelengths 260 nm and 450 nm using two complementary methods. We find that PTFE reflectance for thicknesses from 5 mm to 10 mm ranges from 92.5% to 94.5% at 450 nm, and from 90.0% to 92.0% at 260 nm We also see that the reflectance of PIFE of a given thickness can vary by as much as 2.7% within the same piece of material. Finally, we show that placing a specular reflector behind the PTFE can recover the loss of reflectance in the visible without introducing a specular component in the reflectance.The NEXT Collaboration acknowledges support from the following agencies and institutions: the European Research Council (ERC) under the Advanced Grant 339787-NEXT; the European Union's Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020 (2014-2020) under the Grant Agreements No. 674896, 690575 and 740055; the Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad and the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades of Spain under grants FIS2014-53371-C04, RTI2018-095979, the Severo Ochoa Program grants SEV-2014-0398 and CEX2018-000867-S, and the Maria de Maeztu Program MDM-2016-0692; the Generalitat Valenciana under grants PROMETEO/2016/120 and SEJI/2017/011; the Portuguese FCT under project PTDC/FIS-NUC/2525/2014 and under projects UID/04559/2020 to fund the activities of LIBPhys-UC; the U.S. Department of Energy under contracts No. DE-AC02-06CH11357 (Argonne National Laboratory), DE-AC0207CH11359 (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), DE-FG02-13ER42020 (Texas A&M) and DE-SC0019223/DE-SC0019054 (University of Texas at Arlington); and the University of Texas at Arlington (USA). DGD acknowledges Ramon y Cajal program (Spain) under contract number RYC2015-18820. JM-A acknowledges support from Fundacion Bancaria "la Caixa" (ID 100010434), grant code LCF/BQ/PI19/11690012. Finally, we thank Brendon Bullard, Paolo Giromini and Neeraj Tata for helpful discussions and assistance with preliminary measurements.Ghosh, S.; Haefner, J.; Martín-Albo, J.; Guenette, R.; Li, X.; Loya Villalpando, A.; Burch, C.... (2020). Dependence of polytetrafluoroethylene reflectance on thickness at visible and ultraviolet wavelengths in air. Journal of Instrumentation. 15(11):1-17. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/15/11/P11031S1171511Auger, M., Auty, D. J., Barbeau, P. S., Bartoszek, L., Baussan, E., Beauchamp, E., … Cleveland, B. (2012). The EXO-200 detector, part I: detector design and construction. Journal of Instrumentation, 7(05), P05010-P05010. doi:10.1088/1748-0221/7/05/p05010Martín-Albo, J., Muñoz Vidal, J., Ferrario, P., Nebot-Guinot, M., Gómez-Cadenas, J. J., … Cárcel, S. (2016). Sensitivity of NEXT-100 to neutrinoless double beta decay. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016(5). doi:10.1007/jhep05(2016)159Rogers, L., Clark, R. A., Jones, B. J. P., McDonald, A. D., Nygren, D. R., Psihas, F., … Azevedo, C. D. . (2018). High voltage insulation and gas absorption of polymers in high pressure argon and xenon gases. Journal of Instrumentation, 13(10), P10002-P10002. doi:10.1088/1748-0221/13/10/p10002Silva, C., Pinto da Cunha, J., Pereira, A., Chepel, V., Lopes, M. I., Solovov, V., & Neves, F. (2010). Reflectance of polytetrafluoroethylene for xenon scintillation light. Journal of Applied Physics, 107(6), 064902. doi:10.1063/1.3318681Haefner, J., Neff, A., Arthurs, M., Batista, E., Morton, D., Okunawo, M., … Lorenzon, W. (2017). Reflectance dependence of polytetrafluoroethylene on thickness for xenon scintillation light. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 856, 86-91. doi:10.1016/j.nima.2017.01.057Kravitz, S., Smith, R. J., Hagaman, L., Bernard, E. P., McKinsey, D. N., Rudd, L., … Sakai, M. (2020). Measurements of angle-resolved reflectivity of PTFE in liquid xenon with IBEX. The European Physical Journal C, 80(3). doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-7800-6Geis, C., Grignon, C., Oberlack, U., García, D. R., & Weitzel, Q. (2017). Optical response of highly reflective film used in the water Cherenkov muon veto of the XENON1T dark matter experiment. Journal of Instrumentation, 12(06), P06017-P06017. doi:10.1088/1748-0221/12/06/p06017Allison, J., Amako, K., Apostolakis, J., Arce, P., Asai, M., Aso, T., … Barrand, G. (2016). Recent developments in Geant4. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 835, 186-225. doi:10.1016/j.nima.2016.06.12