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This book is divided into three thematic areas. The first covers a revision of the taxonomy of algae, based on the algae portal, as well as the general aspects of biology and the methodologies used in this branch of marine biology. The second subject area focuses on the use of algae in environmental assessment, with an intensive implementation in Western economies and some emerging economies. The third topic is the potential use of algae in various industries including food, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, agricultural fertilizers, and the emerging biofuels industries.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2013, held in Angra do Heroísmo, Azores, Portugal, in September 2013. The 45 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 157 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: ambient intelligence and affective environments; artificial intelligence in transportation systems; artificial life and evolutionary algorithms; computational methods in bioinformatics and systems biology; general artificial intelligence; intelligent robotics; knowledge discovery and business intelligence; multi-agent systems: theory and applications; social simulation and modeling; and text mining and applications.
Results from ecological studies of the Mondego river basin carried out during the last 15 years are gathered in this book. Following a comprehensive introduction on fundamental physicochemical aspects of the system, the communities structure and diversity, nutrient cycle and plant dynamics, both in freshwater and in the estuary, are addressed. Moreover, existing environmental monitoring, assesment, and management (e.g. ecological indicators and models ) are also approached. This book represents therefore an essencial source of information, indispensable for researchers, environmental managers, and decision makers that will have to deal with such a complex system.
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Transformar a própria vida e a carreira; reciclar conceitos; aprender, crescer vencer... Estes são alguns dos tópicos que marcam a trajetória de João Uchôa Cavalcanti Netto. Empresário, advogado, juiz de direito, educador, cineasta, escritor e artista plástico. Através da constante busca pelo novo, João Uchôa conseguiu encontrar motivação para reinventar a vida, as atividades que desenvolveu e os negócios que criou. Ao conhecer a história dele, você irá se encantar, questionar, reverenciar, e se surpreender com as decisões e passagens que marcaram a vida de um dos principais empresários e educadores do país. Dr. João Uchôa sempre soube perceber e acreditar na capacitação do próximo para colocar em prática sua ideias, por vezes complexas e brilhantes, por vezes simples e não menos brilhantes. Planos e atitudes que transformaram a iniciativa de criar um curso para recém-formados em Direito na pequena sala da própria casa, na maior Universidade do Brasil, a Estácio de Sá.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, IDEAL 2012, held in Natal, Brazil, in August 2012. The 100 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 200 submissions for inclusion in the book and present the latest theoretical advances and real-world applications in computational intelligence.
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This book, originally published in 1987, is a socio-cultural analysis of a tropical belle epoque: Rio de Janeiro between 1898 and 1914. It relates how the city's elite evolved from the semi-rural, slave-owning patriarchy of the coffee-port seat of a monarchy into an urbane, professional, rentier upper crust dominating the centre of a 'modernising' oligarchical republic. It explores such varied topics as architecture, literature, prostitution, urban reform, the family, secondary schools, and the salon. It evokes a milieu increasingly marked by Europe, demonstrating how French and English culture permeated the lives of elite members who adapted it to their needs and perspectives as a dominant stratum of relatively recent and varied origin. This exploration of cultural 'dependency' in a unique, cosmopolitan, fin-de-siecle urban culture will also interest those concerned with the broader questions of culture and colonialism during the high tide of European imperialism.