Racial and ethnic categories have appeared in recent scientific work in novel ways and in relation to a variety of disciplines: medicine, forensics, population genetics and also developments in popular genealogy. Once again, biology is foregrounded in the discussion of…

Resumo: A expressiva troca de germoplasma com outros países, por meio da importação e exportação de produtos agrícolas representa um aumento no risco de introdução desta praga no Brasil, por isso a importância do levantamento de informações acerca das características…

Asian rust of soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merril] is one of the most important fungal diseases of this crop worldwide. The recent introduction of Phakopsora pachyrhizi Syd. & P. Syd in the Americas represents a major threat to soybean production…

L’uptake est la réponse immédiate de l’apprenant suite à la rétroaction de
l’enseignant (Lyster & Ranta, 1997). Cette étude investigue la relation entre l’uptake
et l’apprentissage des déterminants possessifs et des questions d’anglais L2. Elle
examine aussi l’effet des reformulations…

The development of systems with the ability to reason about change notion and actions has been of great importance for the artificial intelligence community. The definition and implementation of systems capable of managing defeasible, incomplete, unreliable, or uncertain information has…

El Folklore es un movimiento erudito europeo que surge en el último tercio del siglo XIX con el objetivo de estudiar desde un punto de vista científico los conocimientos y manifestaciones más genuinas del pueblo. Coincide con los comienzos de…

La maladie d’Alzheimer (MA) est de loin le type de démence le plus répandu chez les personnes âgées. Il est maintenant possible de proposer un certain nombre d’interventions ou de stratégies préventives aux personnes portant un diagnostic de MA ou…

Les recettes de cuisine sont partout de nos jours, dans les livres, à la télévision, sur l’Internet, ainsi que dans les restaurants et les entreprises alimentaires industrielles. Cette grande présence médiatique et économique soulève la question de savoir s’il est…

Can dialogue reveal hidden truths? This is what prompted Bronwen Rees and
Andrew Armitage to experiment with the dialogical process to explore how
realities and knowledge about our organisations are created.

In this paper, we present a novel model of an artificial immune system (AIS), based on the process that suffers the T-Cell. The proposed model is used for solving constrained (numerical) optimization problems. The model operates on three populations: Virgins,…