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Novelty detection in UAV images to identify emerging threats in eucalyptus crops
(2022-05-01)
Supervised learning-based methods can identify crop threats in the visual data collected by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). However, as these methods induce classification models from a finite set of a priori known ...
Emerging Threats, Risk and Attacks in Distributed Systems: Cloud Computing
(2012-08-28)
Nowadays Cloud Computing provides anew paradigm to organizations, offering advantages, not only for its speed but also for the opportunity of save costs when implementing new applications, by just paying for the resources ...
Threat of Dengue to Blood Safety in Dengue-Endemic Countries
(CENTERS DISEASE CONTROL, 2009)
Dengue, the most common arbovirus infection globally, is transmitted by mosquito vectors. Healthcare-related transmission, including transmission by blood products, has been documented, although the frequency of these ...
What ethologically based models have taught us about the neural systems underlying fear and anxiety
(Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica, 2012)
Classical Pavlovian fear conditioning to painful stimuli has provided the generally accepted view of a core system centered in the central amygdala to organize fear responses. Ethologically based models using other sources ...
Vulnerability of a killer whale social network to disease outbreaks
(Amer Physical SocCollege PkEUA, 2007)
Epidemiological intelligence as a model of organization in health
(ABRASCORIO DE JANEIRO, 2012)
The concept of epidemiological intelligence, as a construction of information societies, goes beyond monitoring a list of diseases and the ability to elicit rapid responses. The concept should consider the complexity of ...
The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans as an integrated toxicological tool to assess water quality and pollution
(Elsevier Science, 2016-11)
Determination of water quality status in rivers is critical to establish a sustainable water management policy. For this reason, over the last decades it has been recommended to perform integrated water assessments that ...
From widespread to microendemic: Molecular and acoustic analyses show that Ischnocnema guentheri (Amphibia: Brachycephalidae) is endemic to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
(2013-04-23)
Many species of tropical amphibians are restricted to very small ranges, and this microendemism coupled with ongoing habitat loss and susceptibility to emerging pathogens imperils the long-term persistence of these species. ...
Emerging Threats and Opportunities for Large-Scale Ecological Restoration in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil
(WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2011)
Over the past 150 years, Brazil has played a pioneering role in developing environmental policies and pursuing forest conservation and ecological restoration of degraded ecosystems. In particular, the Brazilian Forest Act, ...