Abstract Meeting Brazil’s ambitious national commitments on both climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation depends securing its reserves of forest carbon biodiversity. ‘Forest Code’ is a key tool to reconcile environmental preservation agricultural production; it limits deforestation requires restoration in illegally deforested areas. However, not all provisions the law’s 2012 rev...

As determined by the applications’ requirements, nonstandard DBMS are usually conceived for client/server architectures [5, 12]. While the server is responsible for general data-management tasks and for precomputing data, application-oriented processing is done in the mainmemory buffer at the client. Since the expressive power of the query language should be available not only for loading/unloa...

The concept of learning at any time and any place is unable to get fully implemented yet. The reason is that the currently available e-learning system requires a personal computer to access it. Moreover, users need to find convenient place to access the e-learning. In order to implement the concept, an applications of electronic distance learning that run on mobile device, such as cell phone, p...

1 Abstract In this paper it is shown how to adapt an existing package (VODE) for solving systems of ordinary diierential equations on serial computers to distributed memory parallel computers. The approach taken is based on waveform relaxation in which the problem is decomposed into a sequence of subproblems and which are then solved independently using VODE on each processor. Communication bet...

Design patterns, acting actually as recurring solutions to common problems, offer significant benefits such as avoiding unnecessary complexity, and promoting code reuse, maintainability and extensibility. This paper describes how four not technology-specific or language-specific design patterns (Front Controller, Model View Controller, Transfer Object and Service to Worker) can be implemented t...

OBJECTIVES To calculate the costs associated with implementing and operating an inpatient bar-code medication administration (BCMA) system in the community hospital setting and to estimate the cost per harmful error prevented. STUDY DESIGN This is a retrospective, observational study. Costs were calculated from the hospital perspective and a cost-consequence analysis was performed to estimate...

BACKGROUND The high risk and low volume of medical emergencies, combined with long periods between training sessions, on 2 progressive care units at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, established the importance of transforming how nursing staff are trained to respond to medical emergencies. OBJECTIVES To increase confidence levels and improve nursing performance during medical emergencies via...

In this paper, we present a method for high-level control of robots whose low-level software is based on dynamically reconfigurable, reusable real-time software modules. Our approach is to use an embedded interpreter for a general-purpose programming language to direct the operation of the low-level modules toward meeting the task-level goals of the robot. To this end, we present RSK, a virtual...