Análise do testemunho ocular utilizando sinais de eletroencefalograma

The application of Brain Computer Interfaces techniques to vital crime witnesses could and probably will be a key feature in the justice system. Features from the electroencephalogram signals were extracted with information detailing their domain (time or frequency), and their spacial scalp and time placement. For both domains, two different classification pipelines were applied in order to select the most relevant features: one to rank and select the top features and another to recursively eliminate the least relevant feature. The Support Vector Machine (linear and non-linear) is the classification model included in the pipeline. Further observations on the selected features by the applied techniques were performed and discussed in relation to the available knowledge about face recognition. The present work provides an experimental study on the electroencephalogram signals acquired from an experiment in which an array of subjects were asked to identify both culprit and distractor being the culprit related to a previously shown crime scene video.A aplicação de técnicas de Interfaces Cérebro-Computador a testemunhas vitais de um crime pode e provavelmente será uma funcionalidade chave no sistema de justiça. Características de sinais provenientes de eletroencefalograma foram extraídas com informações sobre o seu domínio (tempo ou frequência), e a sua localização espacial e temporal. Para ambos os domínios, dois modelos de classificação diferentes foram aplicados com vista a selecionar as características mais relevantes: um para classificar, ordenar e selecionar as características mais importantes e outro para eliminar recursivamente a característica menos relevante. O modelo utilizado para classificação foi o Support Vector Machine (linear e não linear). Outras observações sobre as características selecionadas pelas técnicas aplicadas foram realizadas e discutidas tendo em conta o conhecimento disponível sobre reconhecimento facial. O presente trabalho fornece um estudo experimental sobre os sinais de eletroencefalograma adquiridos numa experiência na qual foi pedido a um grupo de indivíduos para identificar tanto culpado como distrator, sendo que o culpado estava relacionado a um vídeo de cenário de crime mostrado anteriormente.Mestrado em Engenharia de Computadores e Telemátic

Coalizão talonavicular parcial: Partial talonavicular coalition

Introdução: Coalizão tarsal se refere à fusão congênita entre dois ou mais ossos do mediopé ou retropé, podendo ser de ordem óssea, cartilaginosa ou fibrosa. O subtipo talonavicular é menos prevalente, já que a coalizão talocalcânea e calcâneonavicular são responsáveis por mais de 90% de todos os casos de coalização tarsal. Apresentação do Caso: LVP, feminino, 24 anos, com queixa de dor crônica em pé direito e dificuldade de deambulação há 10 anos. Clinicamente, observou-se dor à mobilização passiva e diminuição da amplitude de movimento, sendo realizada tomografia computadorizada (TC) de pé direito, que evidenciou coalizão talonavicular parcial. Discussão: A apresentação clínica é frequentemente assintomática, favorecendo maior progressão de doença e evolução para complicações que acarretam maior morbidade, como a osteoartrite de mediopé. O tratamento conservador deve ser indicado inicialmente e, em casos de refratariedade à abordagem clínica, recomenda-se a ressecção cirúrgica da coalizão com interposição de enxerto tecidual. Conclusão: A coalizão talonavicular é um subtipo raro e infrequente dentre as coalizões tarsais, sendo uma causa subdiagnosticada de dor crônica no tornozelo e pé, associando-se, portanto, com maior morbidade em virtude do diagnóstico tardio.&nbsp

Enfisema bolhoso idiopático gigante em paciente jovem: Giant idiopathic bullous Emphysema in a young patient

Introdução: O enfisema bolhoso é uma condição crônica e progressiva que ocorre em consequência da degeneração do espaço aéreo pulmonar e formação de uma ou múltiplas bolhas. Apresentação do caso:  Homem, 45 anos, caucasiano com ascendência europeia, apresentou-se ao setor de urgência e emergência de um serviço particular da cidade de Brasília, com queixa de dispnéia há aproximadamente 18 meses. Inicialmente associada a atividades físicas intensas, que evoluiu progressivamente no decorrer dos meses. Discussão: Inicialmente, o caso em análise demonstrou características evidentes de enfisema bolhoso gigante (GBE) os quais podem ser percebidos pelos seguintes pontos. A princípio, evidencia-se que o local de trabalho do paciente foi fator fundamental para a evolução do quadro, visto que permanecia por 8 horas diária em uma carvoaria desde a infância. Logo, em decorrência houve o desencadeamento de dispneia aos pequenos esforços, insônia, perda de peso, sensação de aperto no peito e febre. Conclusão: é evidente que o conhecimento científico adequado por parte do médico possibilita a orientação adequada a seu paciente e a elaboração de um plano eficaz, de modo a proporcionar um diagnóstico precoce e a tomada de decisões em tempo hábil. Com isso é possível melhorar o prognóstico do paciente, evitar maiores danos e futuras complicações

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

Differential cross section measurements for the production of a W boson in association with jets in proton–proton collisions at √s = 7 TeV

Measurements are reported of differential cross sections for the production of a W boson, which decays into a muon and a neutrino, in association with jets, as a function of several variables, including the transverse momenta (pT) and pseudorapidities of the four leading jets, the scalar sum of jet transverse momenta (HT), and the difference in azimuthal angle between the directions of each jet and the muon. The data sample of pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV was collected with the CMS detector at the LHC and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb[superscript −1]. The measured cross sections are compared to predictions from Monte Carlo generators, MadGraph + pythia and sherpa, and to next-to-leading-order calculations from BlackHat + sherpa. The differential cross sections are found to be in agreement with the predictions, apart from the pT distributions of the leading jets at high pT values, the distributions of the HT at high-HT and low jet multiplicity, and the distribution of the difference in azimuthal angle between the leading jet and the muon at low values.United States. Dept. of EnergyNational Science Foundation (U.S.)Alfred P. Sloan Foundatio

Juxtaposing BTE and ATE – on the role of the European insurance industry in funding civil litigation

One of the ways in which legal services are financed, and indeed shaped, is through private insurance arrangement. Two contrasting types of legal expenses insurance contracts (LEI) seem to dominate in Europe: before the event (BTE) and after the event (ATE) legal expenses insurance. Notwithstanding institutional differences between different legal systems, BTE and ATE insurance arrangements may be instrumental if government policy is geared towards strengthening a market-oriented system of financing access to justice for individuals and business. At the same time, emphasizing the role of a private industry as a keeper of the gates to justice raises issues of accountability and transparency, not readily reconcilable with demands of competition. Moreover, multiple actors (clients, lawyers, courts, insurers) are involved, causing behavioural dynamics which are not easily predicted or influenced. Against this background, this paper looks into BTE and ATE arrangements by analysing the particularities of BTE and ATE arrangements currently available in some European jurisdictions and by painting a picture of their respective markets and legal contexts. This allows for some reflection on the performance of BTE and ATE providers as both financiers and keepers. Two issues emerge from the analysis that are worthy of some further reflection. Firstly, there is the problematic long-term sustainability of some ATE products. Secondly, the challenges faced by policymakers that would like to nudge consumers into voluntarily taking out BTE LEI

Penilaian Kinerja Keuangan Koperasi di Kabupaten Pelalawan

This paper describe development and financial performance of cooperative in District Pelalawan among 2007 - 2008. Studies on primary and secondary cooperative in 12 sub-districts. Method in this stady use performance measuring of productivity, efficiency, growth, liquidity, and solvability of cooperative. Productivity of cooperative in Pelalawan was highly but efficiency still low. Profit and income were highly, even liquidity of cooperative very high, and solvability was good

Search for stop and higgsino production using diphoton Higgs boson decays

Results are presented of a search for a "natural" supersymmetry scenario with gauge mediated symmetry breaking. It is assumed that only the supersymmetric partners of the top-quark (stop) and the Higgs boson (higgsino) are accessible. Events are examined in which there are two photons forming a Higgs boson candidate, and at least two b-quark jets. In 19.7 inverse femtobarns of proton-proton collision data at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV, recorded in the CMS experiment, no evidence of a signal is found and lower limits at the 95% confidence level are set, excluding the stop mass below 360 to 410 GeV, depending on the higgsino mass

Optimasi Portofolio Resiko Menggunakan Model Markowitz MVO Dikaitkan dengan Keterbatasan Manusia dalam Memprediksi Masa Depan dalam Perspektif Al-Qur`an

Risk portfolio on modern finance has become increasingly technical, requiring the use of sophisticated mathematical tools in both research and practice. Since companies cannot insure themselves completely against risk, as human incompetence in predicting the future precisely that written in Al-Quran surah Luqman verse 34, they have to manage it to yield an optimal portfolio. The objective here is to minimize the variance among all portfolios, or alternatively, to maximize expected return among all portfolios that has at least a certain expected return. Furthermore, this study focuses on optimizing risk portfolio so called Markowitz MVO (Mean-Variance Optimization). Some theoretical frameworks for analysis are arithmetic mean, geometric mean, variance, covariance, linear programming, and quadratic programming. Moreover, finding a minimum variance portfolio produces a convex quadratic programming, that is minimizing the objective function ðð¥with constraintsð ð 𥠥 ðandð´ð¥ = ð. The outcome of this research is the solution of optimal risk portofolio in some investments that could be finished smoothly using MATLAB R2007b software together with its graphic analysis