For the first time for Mexican mycobiota the genus Cerinomyces Mar. is reported with the species C lagerheimii (Pat.) McNabb. This species only have been found in Ecuador (type locality), Brasil, United States and Venezuela. A review of different specimens…

Background. The extraction of salt from seawater by means of coastal solar salterns is a very well-described process. Moreover, the characterization of these environments from ecological, biochemical and microbiological perspectives has become a key focus for many research groups all…

The aim of this paper is to present procedures and tools used for quality control and statistical analysis of high-density microarray (Affymetrix GeneChip®) to search for genes that may be differentially expressed and that may provide clues to unravel parasite…

O objetivo deste artigo é apresentar e discutir uma proposta de modelo conceitual para a criação de Colaboratórios para as redes de pesquisa da Embrapa. Os Colaboratórios são espaços virtuais de aprendizagem que, estruturados sob uma lógica sócio-interacionista e com…

Focusing on the Ontology Change problem, we consider an environment where Description Logics (DLs) are the logical formalization to express knowledge bases, and the integration of distributed ontologies is developed under new extensions and modifications of the Belief Revision theories…

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The reality of global climate changes creates the necessity of predicting how will be the climatic scenario in our planet and how it will affect the economic activities in the future. For some climatic variables the global climate models projections…

Embrapa is the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation. It coordinates the national agricultural research system in Brazil and has for mission to provide solutions for the sustainable development of Brazilian agribusiness through knowledge and technology transfer. As such, it is involved…

Automatic knowledge discovery from texts (KDT) is proving to be a promising method for businesses today to deal
with the overload of textual information. In this paper, we first explore the possibilities for KDT to enhance communication in
virtual communities,…

The knowledge that consumers have of products and services as well as other factors serves as an indicator as to which product or store to “pick”. The products and store location add to the ease with which consumers are able…