The occurrence of blackouts in recent years and their impact on society call into question the traditional planning and reliability analysis, which focuses on events of significant chances, without explicitly considering ...

This presentation seeks to define the term "social media"; review research findings on social media in education; and suggest ways in which social media can be used in education

Hypothesis verification requires a prior approach of factors such as the sample size and its reliability of statistical tests to address experimental studies, since the presence of an effect derived from a treatment can ...

This work addresses the multi-scale modeling of fluid flow in highly complex media based on the concept of Representative Volume Element (RVE). The Method of Multi-scale Virtual Power developed by the authors is employed ...

The Brazilian relief, predominantly composed by small mountains and plateaus, contributed to formation of rivers with high amount of falls. With exception to North-eastern Brazil, the climate of this country are rainy, ...