Arquitectura e jogo digital. Intersecção e especificidade

Esta investigação propõe uma análise do paralelismo e intercepção dos conceitos e práticas de modelação de espaço, forma e experiência em ambientes físicos e em ambientes virtuais interactivos. A fusão progressiva de material e imaterial precipita a diluição dos limites das disciplinas que conformam os dois universos. Arquitectura e design de jogo digital, considerados convencionalmente exclusivos de realidades distintas, são alvos de necessária reformulação.Na esfera física a imposição da tecnologia e o potencial do virtual sugerem uma nova abordagem à definição de arquitectura e à metodologia tradicional da prática arquitectónica. De que forma é possível explorar a influência das experiências virtuais, e o conhecimento e hardware que as desenvolvem, nos espaços físicos? Como programo a integração e resposta às novas condicionantes tecnológicas e exigências das dinâmicas sociais cada vez mais divididas entre realidades? Na esfera virtual a popularização do espaço imaterial protagonizada pelos jogos digitais, o progressivo desenvolvimento de experiências imersivas e o aumento de oferta dos novos interfaces, exponenciam o interesse na relação homem/máquina/virtual. Poderá o contributo do pensar arquitectónico na conformação de espaço e função no virtual estreitar esta relação e aprofundar o grau de imersão? É este o momento de voltar a falar de espaço virtual e da relevância da extensão da arquitectura para este campo?This research proposes an analysis of the parallelism and intersection of space, form and experience modeling practices across physical and virtual, immersive and interactive, environments. The progressive fusion of material and immaterial precipitates the dilution of the boundaries in the definition of architecture and game design. Disciplines conventionally considered exclusive of distinct dominions of the real are focus of a necessary reform. In the physical realm there must be a rethinking of the traditional methodology of architectural practice, the manufacturing processes, and programmatic responses. How can I enhance the influence of virtual experiences, know-how and hardware behind their development, in more fluid and flexible physical spaces, able to assume a more reactionary position in contact with the user? How do I plan integration and response to the new technological constraints and requirements of the social dynamics increasingly divided between realities? In the virtual realm the popularization of immaterial space featured by the universe of digital games, the progressive development of immersive experiences and the increased supply of new interfaces, trigger the renewed interest in the connections man/machine/avatar. Can the contribution of architectural thinking in virtual space conformation and function strengthen this relationship and deepen the degree of immersion

Achieving eventual leader election in WS-discovery

Fifth Latin-American Symposium on Dependable Computing (LADC)The Devices Profile for Web Services (DPWS) provides the foundation for seamless deployment, autonomous configuration, and joint operation for various computing devices in environments ranging from simple personal multimedia setups and home automation to complex industrial equipment and large data centers. In particular, WS-Discovery provides dynamic rendezvous for clients and services embodied in such devices. Unfortunately, failure detection implicit in this standard is very limited, both by embodying static timing assumptions and by omitting liveness monitoring, leading to undesirable situations in demanding application scenarios. In this paper we identify these undesirable outcomes and propose an extension of WS-Discovery that allows failure detection to achieve eventual leader election, thus preventing them

5G Technology Analysis in Relation to Electromagnetic Waves

Electromagnetic waves are present in most of the main equipment used by humans. The advancement of 5G mobile network technology has been gaining ground in the telecommunications market and with it both positive and potentially negative consequences as it is used. Fundamental research has been conducted to gain knowledge and familiarity with 5G technology, how it works and its millimeter waves, which is a new range of the electromagnetic spectrum, which works with this new very high frequency and the first time used in technology. mobile network, as well as exploratory research through techniques such as bibliographic surveys in search of data such as frequency, related to 5G and the equipment transmitting electromagnetic waves, and conducting a comparative study to determine through the data collected from both , pointing out studies that present the evils that may cause the human being due to the use of high frequency. According to the results obtained on the 5G, the use of mobile network frequency presents no risks compared to other equipment that humans have been using. Therefore, despite the research results, it is still too early to point out possible damage over the years with the use of this technology, not ruling out possible consequences

Volatile fingerprinting differentiates diverse-aged craft beers

Supplementary data to this article can be found online at https:// doi.org/10.1016/j.lwt.2019.03.044.Beer ageing on wood is a complex and difficult to control process involving several reactions and compounds. Difficulties in understanding the underlying phenomena often lead to empirical and unpredictable processes and heterogeneous products. This work resorts to volatile fingerprinting along with multivariate analysis as tools to differentiate and highlight differences in beers derived from diverse production processes. Volatile composition of beers originating from barrel ageing processes and unaged beer were analyzed by GC-MS. The collected data was processed by principal component analysis, which allowed the evaluation of relations between samples and volatile compounds. Beers were distinguished by clusters comprising different groups of volatiles. Beer with the longest period in barrel was in the cluster with the most volatiles. Beer produced by resident barrel microbiota fermentation was characterized by presence of Brettanomyces sp. metabolites. Beer aged in barrel by a shorter time period showed characteristic content of ethyl esters and oak extractives. Beer produced in inox vat and beer fermented in barrel with pitching of S. cerevisiae appeared in the same cluster, relating with fermentative esters. Volatile fingerprinting was a viable approach to characterize and distinguish the analyzed beers, providing relevant information regarding the impact of production methodologies in volatile composition.This work had funding support of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) under the scope of the strategic funding of UID/BIO/04469/2019 unit and COMPETE 2020 (POCI-01-0145 FEDER-006684) and BioTecNorte operation (NORTE-01-0145-FEDER000004) funded by the European Regional Development Fund under the scope of Norte2020 – Programa Operacional Regional do Norte. Fermentum –EngenhariadasFermentações Lda.also participated incofunding and supplying materials for this work. Authors would like to thank Mr. Paulo Coutinho and Quinta do Portal for supplying the oak barrels used in this work.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research

Biodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear un derstanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental change across time and space.3,4 While the increasing availability of global databases on ecological communities has advanced our knowledge of biodiversity sensitivity to environmental changes,5–7 vast areas of the tropics remain understudied.8–11 In the American tropics, Amazonia stands out as the world’s most diverse rainforest and the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity,12 but it remains among the least known forests in America and is often underrepre sented in biodiversity databases.13–15 To worsen this situation, human-induced modifications16,17 may elim inate pieces of the Amazon’s biodiversity puzzle before we can use them to understand how ecological com munities are responding. To increase generalization and applicability of biodiversity knowledge,18,19 it is thus crucial to reduce biases in ecological research, particularly in regions projected to face the most pronounced environmental changes. We integrate ecological community metadata of 7,694 sampling sites for multiple or ganism groups in a machine learning model framework to map the research probability across the Brazilian Amazonia, while identifying the region’s vulnerability to environmental change. 15%–18% of the most ne glected areas in ecological research are expected to experience severe climate or land use changes by 2050. This means that unless we take immediate action, we will not be able to establish their current status, much less monitor how it is changing and what is being lostinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio