Adapting V-ISA Technology: Driver Behaviour along Interchange Ramp and Merging/Diverging Terminals

An original in-vehicle Intelligent Speed Adaptation System for Visibility (V-ISA) was designed to promote compliance with real-time speed management. The functionality of V-ISA is based on the prevailing sight conditions along the road, and operates in two variants: (i) providing visual information, and (ii) vehicle speed intervention. A road scenario with the driver performing merging and diverging manoeuvres in a motorway section was designed. A within-subject experiment involved 32 participants and a vehicle equipped with the two variants and the system off (baseline condition) under two traffic flow conditions. V-ISA had a significant positive effect on the drivers' longitudinal performance along ramps. This change in behaviour along ramps had no effect on merging and diverging manoeuvres. V-ISA had a positive impact on driver speed behaviour in such complex road environment and assisted drivers to modulate the operating speed towards the safe dynamic limits

Simulating chemistry using quantum computers

The difficulty of simulating quantum systems, well-known to quantum chemists, prompted the idea of quantum computation. One can avoid the steep scaling associated with the exact simulation of increasingly large quantum systems on conventional computers, by mapping the quantum system to another, more controllable one. In this review, we discuss to what extent the ideas in quantum computation, now a well-established field, have been applied to chemical problems. We describe algorithms that achieve significant advantages for the electronic-structure problem, the simulation of chemical dynamics, protein folding, and other tasks. Although theory is still ahead of experiment, we outline recent advances that have led to the first chemical calculations on small quantum information processors.Comment: 27 pages. Submitted to Ann. Rev. Phys. Che

The relative abundance of wheat Rubisco activase isoforms is post‑transcriptionally regulated

Diurnal rhythms and light availability affect transcription–translation feedback loops that regulate the synthesis of photosynthetic proteins. The CO2-fixing enzyme Rubisco is the most abundant protein in the leaves of major crop species and its activity depends on interaction with the molecular chaperone Rubisco activase (Rca). In Triticum aestivum L. (wheat), three Rca isoforms are present that differ in their regulatory properties. Here, we tested the hypothesis that the relative abundance of the redox-sensitive and redox-insensitive Rca isoforms could be differentially regulated throughout light–dark diel cycle in wheat. While TaRca1-β expression was consistently negligible throughout the day, transcript levels of both TaRca2-β and TaRca2-α were higher and increased at the start of the day, with peak levels occurring at the middle of the photoperiod. Abundance of TaRca-β protein was maximal 1.5 h after the peak in TaRca2-β expression, but the abundance of TaRca-α remained constant during the entire photoperiod. The redox-sensitive TaRca-α isoform was less abundant, representing 85% of the redox-insensitive TaRca-β at the transcript level and 12.5% at the protein level. Expression of Rubisco large and small subunit genes did not show a consistent pattern throughout the diel cycle, but the abundance of Rubisco decreased by up to 20% during the dark period in fully expanded wheat leaves. These results, combined with a lack of correlation between transcript and protein abundance for both Rca isoforms and Rubisco throughout the entire diel cycle, suggest that the abundance of these photosynthetic enzymes is post-transcriptionally regulated

Efeito de diferentes sistemas de aquecimento no desempenho de leitoes.

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Efeito de diferentes taxas de ventilação no desempenho de leitões na maternidade.

Determinar a influencia de diferentes taxas de renovação do ar no desempenho de leitões e no acondicionamento ambiental da maternidade.1987Resumo

Efeito de diferentes taxas de renovação do ar no desempenho de leitões e no acondicionamento ambiental da maternidade.

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Impacto ambiental da concentração de suínos na microbacia hidrográfica do Rio Fragosos.

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