O conceito de sustentabilidade tem levado a pesquisa agropecuária uma crescente busca modelos alternativos e sustentáveis para agricultura, sendo as formas uso manejo do solo o ponto partida determinante compreensão da dinâmica ambiente edáfico serviços ambientais dos agroecossistemas. Sendo assim, este trabalho teve como objetivo avaliar qualidade ecossitêmicos em diferentes sistemas ocupação ...

This paper is concerned with the indexing and retrieval of images based on features extracted directly from the JPEG discrete cosine transform (DCT) domain. We examine possible ways of manipulatingDCT coe$cients by standard image analysis approaches to describe image shape, texture, and color. Through the Mandala transformation, our approach groups a subset of DCT coe$cients to form ten blocks....

The construction and destruction of the sand mandala (A) in Tibetan Buddhism symbolizes both the beauty of form and the fleeting nature of its existence. D’Arcy Thompson, in the second edition of his seminal 1917 book “On Growth and Form”, used the analogy of a milk splash (B) to illustrate such contrasting perfection and impermanence in biology. According to Thompson, morphology and morphogene...