Changing Patterns in the Social Organization of the Coffee Export Sector in Sao Paulo, 1889-1930

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Novel computational protocol to support transfemoral prosthetic alignment procedure using machine learning techniques

The prosthetic alignment procedure considers biomechanical, anatomical and comfort characteristics of the amputee to achieve an acceptable gait. Prosthetic malalignment induces long-term disease. The assessment of alignment is highly variable and subjective to the experience of the prosthetist, so the use of machine learning could assist the prosthetist during the judgment of optimal alignment.Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version

Type IIB orientifolds on Gepner points

We study various aspects of orientifold projections of Type IIB closed string theory on Gepner points in different dimensions. The open string sector is introduced, in the usual constructive way, in order to cancel RR charges carried by orientifold planes. Moddings by cyclic permutations of the internal N=2 superconformal blocks as well as by discrete phase symmetries are implemented. Reduction in the number of generations, breaking or enhancements of gauge symmetries and topology changes are shown to be induced by such moddings. Antibranes sector is also considered; in particular we show how non supersymmetric models with antibranes and free of closed and open tachyons do appear in this context. A systematic study of consistent models in D=8 dimensions and some illustrative examples in D=6 and D=4 dimensions are presented.Comment: 67 pages, no figures References added, typos correcte

Nurses' perceptions of aids and obstacles to the provision of optimal end of life care in ICU

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Changing Cuba/Changing World

This volume includes papers originally discussed at the symposium, ¿A Changing Cuba in a Changing World¿ (The Graduate Center, City University of New York, March, 2008). A few chapters are in Spanish