The main objective of this study is to review and summarize recent findings on
electroencephalographic patterns in individuals with chronic pain. We also discuss recent advances …

The viability of algae-based biodiesel industry depends on the selection of adequate strains
in regard to profitable yields and oil quality. This work aimed to bioprospecting and …

… Nascimento was partially supported by CNPq (process number 300208/97-9) and by the
Pronex/FINEP funded project “SAI: Advanced Information Systems” (process number 76.97.…

This paper presents \bic (Border/Interior pixel Classification), a compact and efficient CBIR
approach suitable for broad image domains. It has three main components: (1) a simple and …

R-trees are the" de facto" reference structures for indexing spatial data, namely the minumum
bounding rectangles (MBRs) of spatial objects. However, R-trees, as currently known, do …

Monitoring predefined patterns in streaming time series is useful to applications such as
trend-related analysis, sensor networks and video surveillance. Most current studies on such …

The ventricular-subventricular zone (V-SVZ), on the walls of the lateral ventricles, harbors
the largest neurogenic niche in the adult mouse brain. Previous work has shown that neural …

In this paper we investigate the co-authorship graph obtained from all papers published at
SIGMOD between 1975 and 2002. We find some interesting facts, for instance, the identity of …

… less than 20/ 100) were: the length of the laceration, the elapsed time between the injury and
the surgery and the presence or absence of vitreous loss, cataract (lens damage), hyphema…

In a moving objects database (MOD) the dataset and the workload change frequently. As the
locations of objects change in space and time, the data distribution also changes and the …