Efficient Computation of Multiple Density-Based Clustering Hierarchies

HDBSCAN*, a state-of-the-art density-based hierarchical clustering method, produces a hierarchical organization of clusters in a dataset w.r.t. a parameter mpts. While the performance of HDBSCAN* is robust w.r.t. mpts in the sense that a small change in mpts typically leads to only a small or no change in the clustering structure, choosing a "good" mpts value can be challenging: depending on the data distribution, a high or low value for mpts may be more appropriate, and certain data clusters may reveal themselves at different values of mpts. To explore results for a range of mpts values, however, one has to run HDBSCAN* for each value in the range independently, which is computationally inefficient. In this paper, we propose an efficient approach to compute all HDBSCAN* hierarchies for a range of mpts values by replacing the graph used by HDBSCAN* with a much smaller graph that is guaranteed to contain the required information. An extensive experimental evaluation shows that with our approach one can obtain over one hundred hierarchies for the computational cost equivalent to running HDBSCAN* about 2 times.Comment: A short version of this paper appears at IEEE ICDM 2017. Corrected typos. Revised abstrac

Plant crude extracts inhibit oviposition of bovine tick Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus.

Parasitism by the bovine tick Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus is one of the main barriers for the development of livestock.04 a 07 dez. EBEQ. Pôster

Porta-enxertos para a produção de mudas de cajueiro.

O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar clones de cajueiro como porta-enxertos para quatro genótipos-copa. Foram avaliados como porta-enxertos os clones CCP 06, CCP 09, CCP 76, CCP 1001, Embrapa 50, Embrapa 51, BRS 189, BRS 226, BRS 253, BRS 265, BRS 274 e BRS 275 e, como copas, os clones CCP 76, BRS 189, BRS 226 e BRS 274. Aos 60 dias após a semeadura, os porta-enxertos foram avaliados quanto às características biométricas e quanto às taxas de germinação e de aptidão à enxertia. Aos 80 dias após a enxertia, foram avaliadas as taxas de sucesso da enxertia, a aptidão para o plantio e as características biométricas das mudas. Houve correlação negativa entre massa de semente e taxas de germinação e de aptidão à enxertia. BRS 226, BRS 253 e BRS 274 apresentaram taxas insatisfatórias de germinação e de aptidão à enxertia. As maiores taxas de plantas aptas ao plantio, para a copa CCP 76, ocorreram nos porta-enxertos CCP 06, CCP 76 e CCP 1001; para BRS 189, destacou-se o CCP 06; para BRS 226, destacaram-se CCP 06, Embrapa 50, Embrapa 51, BRS 189 e BRS 265; e, para BRS 274, os porta-enxertos CCP 06, CCP 76, CCP 1001, Embrapa 50, Embrapa 51 e BRS 189

Local Isometric immersions of pseudo-spherical surfaces and evolution equations

The class of differential equations describing pseudo-spherical surfaces, first introduced by Chern and Tenenblat [3], is characterized by the property that to each solution of a differential equation, within the class, there corresponds a 2-dimensional Riemannian metric of curvature equal to $-1$. The class of differential equations describing pseudo-spherical surfaces carries close ties to the property of complete integrability, as manifested by the existence of infinite hierarchies of conservation laws and associated linear problems. As such, it contains many important known examples of integrable equations, like the sine-Gordon, Liouville and KdV equations. It also gives rise to many new families of integrable equations. The question we address in this paper concerns the local isometric immersion of pseudo-spherical surfaces in ${\bf E}^{3}$ from the perspective of the differential equations that give rise to the metrics. Indeed, a classical theorem in the differential geometry of surfaces states that any pseudo-spherical surface can be locally isometrically immersed in ${\bf E}^{3}$. In the case of the sine-Gordon equation, one can derive an expression for the second fundamental form of the immersion that depends only on a jet of finite order of the solution of the pde. A natural question is to know if this remarkable property extends to equations other than the sine-Gordon equation within the class of differential equations describing pseudo-spherical surfaces. In an earlier paper [11], we have shown that this property fails to hold for all other second order equations, except for those belonging to a very special class of evolution equations. In the present paper, we consider a class of evolution equations for $u(x,t)$ of order $k\geq 3$ describing pseudo-spherical surfaces. We show that whenever an isometric immersion in ${\bf E}^3$ exists, depending on a jet of finite order of $u$, then the coefficients of the second fundamental forms are functions of the independent variables $x$ and $t$ only.Comment: Fields Institute Communications, 2015, Hamiltonian PDEs and Applications, pp.N

Extratos vegetais concentrados de média polaridade com ação larvicida frente ao carrapato bovino Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus.

Editores técnicos: Alexandre Berndt, Ana Rita Araujo Nogueira, Bianca Baccili Zanotto Vigna, Juliana Gonçalves Costa, Lea Chapaval, Manuel Antonio Chagas Jacinto, Patricia Menezes Santos