The Covurlui Plateau, a subunit of the Moldavian Plateau located in eastern Romania, possesses high natural agricultural potential, significantly impacted by soil erosion, particularly gully erosion. only inventory that comprises approximately 9000 gullies extracted from topographical maps was conducted during 90s. Nowadays, with advent advanced techniques and geodata, such as GIS software, aer...

In open-system verification, a fundamental area of research is the study of modal logics for strategic reasoning in the setting of multi-agent games [3, 5]. An important contribution in this field has been the development of Alternating-Time Temporal Logic (ATL∗, for short), introduced by Alur, Henzinger, and Kupferman [1]. Formally, it is obtained as a generalization of the logic CTL∗ [4], whe...

A key player in this fascinating story is Weston A. Price, who discovered that the diets of healthy traditional peoples contained at least ten times as much vitamin A as the American diet of his day. His work revealed that vitamin A is one of several fat-soluble activators present only in animal fats and necessary for the assimilation of minerals in the diet. He noted that the foods held sacred...

We describe Asaga, an asynchronous parallel version of the incremental gradient algorithm Saga that enjoys fast linear convergence rates. Through a novel perspective, we revisit and clarify a subtle but important technical issue present in a large fraction of the recent convergence rate proofs for asynchronous parallel optimization algorithms, and propose a simplification of the recently introd...

Os estudos morfométricos auxiliam no planejamento e gerenciamento de microbacias hidrográficas, determinando os parâmetros fisiográficos, relevo drenagem para avaliar o comportamento hidrológico da bacia. O presente estudo teve por objetivo caracterizar a morfometria microbacia hidrográfica do Açude Grande Caraúbas/RN. Foram utilizados delimitação automática bacia Modelo Digital Elevação (MDE),...

The development of a vaccine that can prevent infection by the Human immunodeficiency virus or prevent the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome has remained elusive despite 20 years of scientific effort. This "Commentary" analyzes the reasons that the development of a vaccine has been so difficult, and proposes a plan to work towards an immunological approach to investigate the best vaccine candi...