Resumo A pesquisa teve como objetivo determinar o grau de aderência dos produtores familiares do Assentamento Chapadinha às leis e normas da produção orgânica vigentes no Brasil. Foram realizadas entrevistas abertas semiestruturadas para avaliação da percepção e conhecimento dos produtores…

Growth, carcass and tenderness data from 415 Polled Nellore animals were analyzed in order to estimate the genetic correlations between tenderness (WBSF) and growth (ILW, FLW and ADG) and carcass (BF, RF and LMA) traits. The covariance components and genetic…

Genetically modified crops with insect resistance genes from Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner (Bt-plants) are increasingly being cultivated worldwide. Therefore, it is critical to improve our knowledge of their direct or indirect impact not only on target pests but also on non-target…

O Brasil é o maior produtor mundial de café e o segundo maior mercado consumidor, portanto, a cultura do cafeeiro tem grande importância cultural e socioeconômica para o país. Entre os limitantes na produtividade estão, principalmente, as doenças, as pragas,…

In this paper we look at some of the ingredients and processes involved in the understanding of mathematics. We analyze elements of mathematical knowledge, organize them in a coherent way and take note of certain classes of items that share…

This paper descries D-SCRIPT, a language for representing knowledge in artificial intelligence programs. D-SCRIPT contains a powerful formalism for descriptions, which permits the representation of statements that are problematical for other systems. Particular attention is paid to problems of opaque…

I shall describe a model of the evolution of the rule-structured knowledge that serves as a cornerstone of our development of computer-based coaches. The key idea is a graph structure whose nodes represent rules, and whose links represent various evolutionary…

Traditional scheduling algorithms (using the techniques of PERT charts, decision analysis or operations research) require well-defined quantitative, complete sets of constraints. They are insufficient for scheduling situations where the problem description is ill-defined, involving incomplete, possibly inconsistent and generally qualitative…

Since Robotics is the field concerned with the connection of perception to action, Artificial Intelligence must have a central role in Robotics if the connection is to be intelligent. Artificial Intelligence addresses the crucial questions of: what knowledge is required…

This paper illustrated an approach toward understanding natural language through the techniques of artificial intelligence. It explores the structure of English word-endings both morpho-graphemically and semantically. It illustrated the use of procedures and semantic representations in relating the broad range…