O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar e descrever como as relações de tempo se configuram na Língua Brasileira Sinais (libras). fenômeno constitui pela relação entre dois Estados Coisas (doravante EsCo), um temporal outro principal. A investigação realizada à luz uma abordagem tipológico-funcional (CROFT, 2001; CRISTOFARO, 2003). Tomamos base dados extraídos do Corpus libras da UFSC, anotados po...

It is intuitively felt that visual cues should enhance online communication, and this experimental study aims to test this prediction by exploring the value provided by a webcam in an online L2 pedagogical teacher-to learner interaction. A total of 40 French undergraduate students with a B2 level in English were asked to describe in English four previously unseen photographs to a native English...

Performances of building energy innovations are most of the time dependent on the external climate conditions. This means a high performance of a specific innovation in a certain part of Europe, does not imply the same performances in other regions. The mapping of simulated building performances at the EU scale could prevent the waste of potential good ideas by identifying the best region for a...

Tile logic is a framework to reason about the dynamic evolution of concurrent systems in a modular way, and it extends rewriting logic (in the unconditional case) by rewriting synchronization and side eeects. The subject of this dissertation concerns some interesting tile models of computation such that the mathematical structures representing conngurations (i.e., system states) and eeects (i.e...

Gamma irradiation device using Cs-137 have been widely utilized to the irradiation of cell, blood, and animal, and the dose measurement and education. The Gammacell 3000 Elan (Nordion International, Kanata, Ontario, Canada) irradiator was installed in 2003 with Cs-137 and dose rate of 3.2 Gy/min. And the BioBeam 8000 (Gamma-Service Medical GmbH, Leipzig, Germany) irradiator was installed in 200...

To the Editor: Ziconotide (Prialt, Elan Pharmaceuticals Inc., San Diego, CA) is a calcium channel blocker approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for treatment of chronic pain by the intrathecal (IT) route. Although ziconotide has been used for a considerable time in clinical practice, there are only a few reports on its effectiveness and associated side effects. Three published doubl...

La multimodalité représente un véritable défi pour le traitement du langage, particulièrement quand on s’intéresse à la question de la segmentation du discours dialogique généré simultanément à travers les canaux vocaux et gestuels. Cette étude porte sur les gestes de pointages manuels employés par un locuteur entendant lors d’une tâche d’explication d’un itinéraire. Les auteurs examinent succe...

Recently published gorilla genome has offered an opportunity to study human evolution through variety of approaches. Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) insert non randomly in genome through mechanisms such as retrotransposition and may cause gene inactivation, transduction, regulation of gene expression and genome expansion. Here we report that majority of gorilla genome is occupied with MGEs (> 36...

Partial evaluation (PE) is a powerful and general program optimization technique with many successful applications. However, it has never been investigated in the context of expressive rule-based languages like Maude, CafeOBJ, OBJ, ASF+SDF, and ELAN, which support: 1) rich type structures with sorts, subsorts and overloading; 2) equational rewriting modulo axioms such as commutativity, associat...