A Fuzzy Algorithm for understanding the customer's desire. An application designed for textile industry.

The paper aims at showing how a textile industry can select from a mix of products, the best products to be produced by using the customer’s point of view.The Fuzzy Algorithm for fashion industry is a tool developed to optimise the production and reduce losses and storage costs in the textile industry environment.As the textile industry has an expressive position as an employment intensive industry around the world, its health can be perceived by the ability of their managers in restricting the production to low costs limits, thus acquiring better sales and value to the products.The supply chain management must apply innovations and tools that can deal with these paradigms with dexterity. In a global source operation, the information that one product will be very well accepted by a group of customers with a given price is very welcome.In a sustainability scenario, the algorithm can promote savings in many factors such as: labour, electric energy, water and many other resources spent by the textile industries that have significant impact in economy and environment.Finally, this paper shows a different view to understand the customer's desire through linguistic variable processed in a Fuzzy Logic algorithm. The tool yields an index to the product and find out in a mix of products, which of them will be better accepted by the final customer.Keywords: Fuzzy Logic, Textile Industry, Production Optimization

Sobre o método da Arqueologia e o Método da História.

Sobre o método da Arqueologia e o Método da História

Learning the undecidable from networked systems

This article presents a theoretical investigation of computation beyond the Turing barrier from emergent behavior in distributed (or parallel) systems. In particular, we present an algorithmic network that is an abstract mathematical model of a networked population of randomly generated computable systems with a fixed communication protocol. Then, in order to solve an undecidable, we study how nodes (i.e., Turing machines or computable systems) can harness the power of the metabiological selection and the power of information sharing (i.e., communication) through the network. Formally, we show that there is a pervasive network topological condition, in particular, the small-diameter phenomenon, that ensures that every node becomes capable of solving the halting problem for every program with a length upper bounded by a logarithmic order of the population size. In addition, we show that this result implies the existence of a central node capable of solving the halting problem in the minimum number of communication rounds. We also discuss the implications of such emergent phenomena on synergistic versus evolutionary paradigms in complex systems by showing that such algorithmic network can produce an arbitrarily large value of expected local algorithmic synergy

Biocompatibilidade do cimento de fosfato de cálcio implantado no rádio de coelhos Biocompatibility of calcium phosphate cement implanted in radius of rabbits

OBJETIVO: Avaliar a biocompatibilidade do cimento de fosfato de cálcio, para verificar sua eficácia como possível substituto ósseo. MÉTODOS: No presente trabalho, foi utilizado cimento de fosfato de cálcio em rádio de 8 coelhos, separados em dois grupos (GI e GII), referentes aos tempos de observação de 12 e 26 semanas pós-operatórias, a fim de se observar as reações entre este biomaterial e o tecido ósseo do animal. Foram feitas análises radiográficas e de densitometria óptica, além de microscopia óptica e eletrônica de varredura. RESULTADOS: Observou-se, ao final do experimento, que o cimento à base de fosfato de cálcio foi parcialmente reabsorvido durante o tempo de observação de 26 semanas, apresentando biocompatibilidade, com ausência de reações indesejáveis que pudessem ser atribuídas aos implantes. CONCLUSÕES: O cimento à base de fosfato de cálcio foi biocompatível e parcialmente reabsorvido no período de 26 semanas de observação. Tempos maiores de observação são necessários para a avaliação da reabsorção.<br>PURPOSE: The objective of this paper was to evaluate the biocompatibility of calcium phosphate cement in radius of rabbits. METHODS: For this experiment, calcium phosphate were implanted in the radius of 16 rabbits, divided in two groups (GI and GII), according to postoperative follow-up of 12 and 26 weeks, respectively. Reactions of these biomaterials on animal bone tissue were observed. X-ray, optical densitometry, optical microscopy and scanning electron microscopy analyses were performed. RESULTS: It was observed that calcium phosphate cement were partially resorbed during the 26-week follow-up, showing biocompatibility, with absence of inflammatory or other undesirable reactions due to the implants. CONCLUSIONS: Calcium phosphate-based cements did not cause inflammatory reactions when in contact with the osseous tissue, and were therefore biocompatible. Follow-up periods longer than 26 weeks are necessary to better evaluate the behavior of calcium phosphate-based cement

Male Gender and Arterial Hypertension are Plaque Predictors at Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography

Background: Systemic Arterial Hypertension (SAH) is one of the main risk factors for Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), in addition to male gender. Differences in coronary artery lesions between hypertensive and normotensive individuals of both genders at the Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography (CCTA) have not been clearly determined. Objective: To Investigate the calcium score (CS), CAD extent and characteristics of coronary plaques at CCTA in men and women with and without SAH. Methods: Prospective cross-sectional study of 509 patients undergoing CCTA for CAD diagnosis and risk stratification, from November 2011 to December 2012, at Instituto de Cardiologia Dante Pazzanese. Individuals were stratified according to gender and subdivided according to the presence (HT +) or absence (HT-) of SAH. Results: HT+ women were older (62.3 ± 10.2 vs 57.8 ± 12.8, p = 0.01). As for the assessment of CAD extent, the HT+ individuals of both genders had significant CAD, although multivessel disease is more frequent in HT + men. The regression analysis for significant CAD showed that age and male gender were the determinant factors of multivessel disease and CS ≥ 100. Plaque type analysis showed that SAH was a predictive risk factor for partially calcified plaques (OR = 3.9). Conclusion: Hypertensive men had multivessel disease more often than women. Male gender was a determinant factor of significant CAD, multivessel disease, CS ≥ 100 and calcified and partially calcified plaques, whereas SAH was predictive of partially calcified plaques