GMP- RAM V1.1: Uma proposta de software como sistema de suporte à decisão para avaliação de risco de plantas geneticamente modificadas.

Um passo essencial no desenvolvimento de produtos baseados em plantas geneticamente modificadas (PGM) é a avaliação da sua segurança, incluindo a avaliação do seu impacto potencial, e das práticas relacionadas ao seu cultivo, no meio ambiente, na saúde humana e animal, de modo comparativo com variedades convencionais, sem a modificação genética. Apesar da importância da avaliação de risco, o GMP-RAM é a primeira ferramenta eletrônica de suporte à decisão para a avaliação do risco relacionado ao uso dos transgênicos. Comparado com a siatuação atual de análise dos transgênicos, o uso deste software pode resultar num processo menos subjetivo e mais transparente para a avaliação de risco como apoio a tomada de decisão

Environment classification in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system

The adaptive immune system in vertebrates is a complex, distributed, adaptive system capable of effecting collective mul-ticellular responses. Our study introduces many of the desirable properties of this biological system to decentralized multiagent systems. We adopt the crossregulation model of the adaptive immune system involving interactions between effector and regulatory cells. Effector cells can mount beneficial immune responses to microbial antigens as well as pathologic autoimmune responses to self-antigens. Deleterious autoimmunity is prevented by regulatory cells that suppress the effectors to tolerate the self-antigens. We redeploy the crossregulation model within a multiagent system by letting each agent run an ODE-based instance of the model. Results of extensive simulation-based experiments demonstrate that a distributed multiagent system can mount different responses to distinct objects in their environment. These responses are solely a result of the dynamics between virtual cells in each agent and interactions between neighboring agents. The collective dynamics gives rise to a meaningful "self"- "nonself" classification of the environment by individual agent, even if these categories were not prescribed a priori in the agents.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Método GMP-RAM para avaliação dos riscos ambientais de plantas geneticamente modificadas (PMG): estudo de caso do mamão geneticamente modificado para resistência ao vírus da mancha anelar.

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Cosmological Equation of State and Interacting Energies

In this paper we study a model of cosmic evolution, assuming that the different components of the universe could interact between them any time. An effective equation of state (EOS) for the universe has been used as well. A particular function for w, which gives a good agreement between our results and the experimental data, has been studied. Finally, the model obtained has been applied to different important cases

Piletas: água para o gado e para a fauna no Pantanal da Nhecolândia.

Considerando que a maioria das fontes de água livre (baías e salinas) tende a desaparecer durante secas mais severas e que a fauna silvestre é abundante na região, o objetivo deste trabalho foi investigar se espécies da fauna silvestre utilizam bebedouros construídos para o gado na Nhecolândia, o que caracterizaria uma contribuição indireta da bovinocultura para a conservação da fauna silvestre nesta região do Pantanal.Comunicado Técnico Formato Eletrônico

Microstructure and pinning properties of hexagonal-disc shaped single crystalline MgB2

We synthesized hexagonal-disc-shaped MgB2 single crystals under high-pressure conditions and analyzed the microstructure and pinning properties. The lattice constants and the Laue pattern of the crystals from X-ray micro-diffraction showed the crystal symmetry of MgB2. A thorough crystallographic mapping within a single crystal showed that the edge and c-axis of hexagonal-disc shape exactly matched the (10-10) and the (0001) directions of the MgB2 phase. Thus, these well-shaped single crystals may be the best candidates for studying the direction dependences of the physical properties. The magnetization curve and the magnetic hysteresis for these single crystals showed the existence of a wide reversible region and weak pinning properties, which supported our single crystals being very clean.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures. submitted to Phys. Rev.