Background: In silico molecular docking is an essential step in modern drug discovery when driven by a well defined macromolecular target. Hence, the process is called structure-based or rational drug design (RDD). In ...

Background: Protein/receptor explicit flexibility has recently become an important feature of molecular docking simulations. Taking the flexibility into account brings the docking simulation closer to the receptors’ real ...

Microalgae are unicellular organisms that have different shapes, sizes and structures. Classifying these microalgae manually can be an expensive task, because thousands of microalgae can be found in even a small sample of ...

The ability to detect changes is an essential competence that robots should possess for increased autonomy. In several applications, such as surveillance, a robot needs to detect relevant changes in the environment by ...

This work deals with the implementation of a position and orientation automatic control of an underwater vehicle to perform inspection tasks of submerged structures without using the knowledge of a previous dynamic model ...

This paper presents a two-stage motion compensation coding scheme for image sequences in hemodynamics. The first stage of the proposed method implements motion compensation, and the second stage corrects local pixel intensity ...

In this paper, an approach on immersive multiprojection visualization of manufacturing processes is proposed. It admits scenarios with dynamic components and allows virtual reality collaborative visualization among ...

This work describes an approach for object-oriented video segmentation based on motion coherence. Using a tracking process based on adaptively sampled points (namely, particles), 2-D motion patterns are identified with an ...

Mostra-se neste trabalho que a linguagem e a correspondente semântica associada às interpretações obtidas na estrutura ordenada da Máquina Geométrica Intervalar, fundamentada nos espaços coerentes, são ferramentas importantes ...

This paper introduces the stochastic version of the Geometric Machine Model for the modelling of sequential, alternative, parallel (synchronous) and nondeterministic computations with stochastic numbers stored in a (possibly ...

This paper presents a methodology to solve load flow problems in which the load data are uncertain due to measurement errors. In order to deal with those uncertainties we apply techniques of Interval Mathematics. The ...

Este trabalho apresenta uma aplicação da Matemática Intervalar à análise de circuitos elétricos, onde consideram-se as incertezas nos dados de entrada devido às tolerâncias existentes nos resistores. Sendo ...

Este trabalho apresenta um estudo sobre modelos ocultos de Markov onde as probabilidades consideradas são representadas por intervalos. Utilizando-se técnicas da Matemática Intervalar, foram ...

In health care settings, interactions between providers are uncommon. This study shows that electronic medical records currently available do not favor interactive work and thus a model of design rationale applied to health ...

Background: Data preprocessing is a major step in data mining. In data preprocessing, several known techniques can be applied, or new ones developed, to improve data quality such that the mining results become more accurate ...

Os avanços tecnológicos em circuitos integrados tem como foco principal a redução da dimensão dos transistores. No entanto, esta redução traz consequências indesejáveis, como o possível aumento no número de falhas. Neste ...

Nowadays, the ocean plays a fundamental role in the global economy, mainly due to oil extraction industry. It makes the environment be populated with human-made structures that needs to be inspected and maintained. In this ...

Interest in change detection techniques has considerably increased during recent years in the field of autonomous robotics. This is partly because changes in a robot’s working environment are useful for several robotic ...

O objetivo desse artigo é revisar os conceitos Exploration e Exploitation publicados por March (1991), através da identificação dos atributos relacionados com esses conceitos, identificar as possíveis vantagens competitivas ...

The use of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) for underwater tasks is a promising robotic field. These robots can carry visual inspection cameras. Besides serving the activities of inspection and mapping, the captured ...