1Diplomate of the Brazilian College of Veterinary Radiology, Institute of Radiology, University of São Paulo, SP, Brazil 2Private Practice Endocrinology, São Paulo, SP, Brazil 3Department of Pathology of Veterinary Medicine School, University of São Paulo, SP, Brazil 4Private Practice Ultrasonography, São Paulo, SP, Brazil 5Diplomate of the Brazilian College of Radiology, Institute of Radiology...

Heavy metals are of wide concern due to their high toxicity, bioaccumulation and non-degradability. In this study, eight heavy (Cr, Mn, Ni, Cu, Zn, As, Cd, Pb) in the surface sediments Ningyuan River were studied investigate distribution pattern, pollution status potential sources, it was concluded that concentration is highly consistent with population pattern space there a certain degree risk...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to compare the cephalometric pattern of children with and without adenoid obstruction. METHODS The sample comprised 100 children aged between four and 14 years old, both males and females, subjected to cephalometric examination for sagittal and vertical skeletal analysis. The sample also underwent nasofiberendoscopic examination intended to objectively asse...

Design validation by simulation-based techniques is the most common approach to verification due to the computational complexity of more formal techniques. Validation entails the generation of a test pattern sequence which is applied to the design during simulation to trigger erroneous behavior. Since simulation can only be performed with a small subset of the entire space of test sequences, so...

Correlations may affect propagation processes on complex networks. To analyze their effect, it is useful to build ensembles of networks constrained to have a given value of a structural measure, such as the degree-degree correlation r, being random in other aspects and preserving the degree sequence. This can be done through Monte Carlo optimization procedures. Meanwhile, when tuning r, other n...

In this paper we propose a learning method of fuzzy if-then rules for pattern classification problems. We assume that each training pattern has a weight that describes its importance. The antecedent part of fuzzy if-then rules are specified by partitioning each attributes into fuzzy sets while the consequent class and the degree of certainty of the fuzzy if-then rules are determined from the co...