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Correction to: A review of assistive spatial orientation and navigation technologies for the visually impaired
No full textThe fourth author name was missed in the original publication. The correct list of authors should read as “Hugo Fernandes, Paulo Costa, Vitor Filipe, Hugo Paredes, João Barroso”. It has been corrected in this erratum. The original article has been updated.The work presented in this paper has been supported by the Project CE4blind-Context extraction for the blind using computer vision, with Project reference UTAP-EXPL/EEI-SII/0043/2014, by the award ‘‘Inclusion and Digital Literacy Prize 2015’’ promoted by the Portuguese ICT and Society Network, and research Grant with reference SFRH/BD/89759/2012. All funding has been granted by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT)
FIGURE 5 in Diversity and distribution of Lentibulariaceae in Bahia state, Brazil: implications for phytogeography and conservation
No full textFIGURE 5. Distribution of Lentibulariaceae species in Protected Areas at northern and southern coast of Bahia. APA = Environmental Protection Area, ARIE = Area of Relevant Ecological Interest, MONA = Natural Monument, PARNA = National Park, PE = State Park, PM = City Park, PNM = Municipal Natural Park, REBIO = Biological Reserve, RESEX = Extractive Reserve, REVIS = Wildlife Refuge, RPPN = Private Reserve of Natural Heritage.Published as part of Guedes, Felipe Martins, Miranda, Vitor Fernandes Oliveira & Alves, Marccus, 2022, Diversity and distribution of Lentibulariaceae in Bahia state, Brazil: implications for phytogeography and conservation, pp. 213-255 in Phytotaxa 556 (3) on page 219, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.556.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/697283
Corn futures deliveries: Why? When? So what?
No full textSubmission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-04-06 without embargo termsThe student, Vitor Machado de Oliveira Fernandes, accepted the attached license on 2021-11-19 at 12:37.The student, Vitor Machado de Oliveira Fernandes, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2021-11-19 at 13:01.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2021-11-24 at 13:08.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #17232 on 2022-04-06 at 17:09:49Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T21:34:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Previous issue date: 2021-11-24For grain and oilseed futures, deliveries facilitate convergence by allowing for arbitrage between the physical commodity and the “paper” (i.e., futures) markets. A sizeable literature has looked at deliveries to answer questions about price convergence and about the value of options embedded in commodity futures contract. The present paper focuses instead on explaining what drives deliveries and their timing, and it investigates possible feedback on futures prices when deliveries happen.
We first explain the delivery process in detail, including the key role of Shipping Certificates. We then introduce the concept of Delivery Value Equivalent (DVE) as a framework for the decision-making process of whether a trader should “go for delivery” or not. Utilizing Chicago Board of Trade #2 Yellow Corn futures prices, New Orleans CIF basis quotes, and Delivery Zone 3 barge rates for all 576 delivery days over a 10-year period spanning January 2011 to April 2021, we use the DVE framework to elucidate why and when corn futures deliveries take place and their magnitudes, and to ask whether the publication by the exchange of information regarding intentions to deliver affects calendar spread prices.
We show theoretically and empirically that the difference between the New Orleans basis and the DVE is a significant factor in explaining the occurrence and the number of deliveries. We document that physical market conditions and inventory levels (proxied by whether the market is in carry or not at the start of the delivery period) are essential to explaining whether deliveries (and thus convergence) begin early or late in the delivery period. Last, we do not find evidence that the release of information regarding new Shipping Certificates (which takes place between the close of the previous-day trading session and the opening of the next-day overnight trading session) impacts the nearby calendar-spread close-to-open return
Entrevista com Paulo Mendes da Rocha
No full textEntrevista realizada em 2 de julho de 2012 no escritório do arquiteto. Entrevistadores: Francisco Barata Fernandes é arquiteto e professor doutores da Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto; Vitor Manuel Oliveira da Silva é artista plástico e professor doutor da Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto; Givaldo Luiz Medeiros, Joubert José Lancha, Paulo Cesar Castral e Simone Helena Tanoue Vizioli são arquitetos e professores doutores do Instituto de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de São Paulo.Entrevista realizada el 2 de julio de 2012 en el despacho del arquitecto. Entrevistadores: Francisco Barata Fernandes es arquitecto y profesor de doctorado en la Facultad de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Oporto; Vitor Manuel Oliveira da Silva es artista plástico y profesor de la Facultad de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Oporto; Givaldo Luiz Medeiros, Joubert José Lancha, Paulo Cesar Castral y Simone Helena Tanoue Vizioli son arquitectos y profesores de doctorado en el Instituto de Arquitectura y Urbanismo de la Universidad de São Paulo.Interview conducted on July 2, 2012 at the architect\u27s office. Interviewers: Francisco Barata Fernandes is an architect and PhD professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto; Vitor Manuel Oliveira da Silva is a plastic artist and professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto; Givaldo Luiz Medeiros, Joubert José Lancha, Paulo Cesar Castral and Simone Helena Tanoue Vizioli are architects and PhD professors at the Institute of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo.Entretien réalisé le 2 juillet 2012 au bureau de l\u27architecte. Intervieweurs : Francisco Barata Fernandes est architecte et professeur de doctorat à la Faculté d\u27architecture de l\u27Université de Porto ; Vitor Manuel Oliveira da Silva est artiste plasticien et professeur à la Faculté d\u27Architecture de l\u27Université de Porto ; Givaldo Luiz Medeiros, Joubert José Lancha, Paulo Cesar Castral et Simone Helena Tanoue Vizioli sont architectes et professeurs de doctorat à l\u27Institut d\u27architecture et d\u27urbanisme de l\u27Université de São Paulo
Smart Cities Initiative: how to foster a quick transition towards local sustainable energy systems
No full textThe European Commission has recently launched the Smart Cities Initiative to demonstrate and disseminate how to foster a quick transition towards local sustainable energy systems. Within this initiative, the three main challenges faced by pioneering cities, are to reduce or modify the demand for energy services, to improve the uptake of energy efficient technologies and to improve the uptake of renewables in the urban environment. We find that enough resources will need to be provided to a significant number of pioneering cities, and propose that the initiative would allocate these resources through project competition, rewarding innovation, ambition and performance, which have been ingredients of success at Member State level.Smart Cities; sustainable local energy systems; city authority incentives; EU energy policy
Evolving fuzzy neural networks with improved interpretability and integrating user feedback
No full textAuthor Paulo Vitor de Campos SouzaDissertation Johannes Kepler Universität Linz 202
Utricularia L. 1753
No full text2. Utricularia L., Species Plantarum 1: 18 (1753). Terrestrial, helophyte, epiphyte, rheophyte, lithophyte or hydrophyte herbs. Aerial or submerged leaves, laminar, cylindrical or dichotomous and capillary. Utricles (traps) on stolons and leaves. Glabrous scape, few hydrophyte species bear a whorl of floats at the base of the scape. Basifixed or peltate scales, bracts and bracteoles (if present), free or basally connate. Ascending or deflexed pedicels in fruits. Calyx with 2 usually heteromorphic sepals, with entire, denticulate or deeply fimbriate margins, inconspicuous or conspicuous nerves, prominent or not. Corolla with gibbous or non-gibbous palate, spur parallel or perpendicular to the lower lip. Longitudinal, circumscissile, bivalvate or apparently indehiscent capsule.Published as part of Guedes, Felipe Martins, Miranda, Vitor Fernandes Oliveira & Alves, Marccus, 2022, Diversity and distribution of Lentibulariaceae in Bahia state, Brazil: implications for phytogeography and conservation, pp. 213-255 in Phytotaxa 556 (3) on page 229, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.556.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/697283
Bob on the tracks: analyzing Vitor Ramil's transcreations of Bob Dylan's lyrics
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Inglês: Estudos Linguísticos e Literários, Florianópolis, 2025.Esta dissertação trata das versões para o português que o compositor brasileiro Vitor Ramil fez de quatro canções do compositor estadunidense Bob Dylan: "Joey", "Gotta Serve Somebody", "You're a Big Girl Now" e "Sara", transformando-as em "Joquim", "Um dia você vai servir a alguém", "Só você manda em você" e "Ana". A prática de tradução de canção impõe diversas restrições e limitadores que o tradutor precisa contornar para obter um resultado satisfatório. Mesmo tendo isso em mente durante o cotejo das letras das canções, nota-se que as versões brasileiras não foram feitas com a constante preocupação com uma fidelidade no nível das palavras ou das expressões do texto original. A hipótese desse trabalho é de que essas canções tampouco poderiam ser consideradas textos novos, sem fortes conexões com os textos de origem. Munido dos conceitos de transcriação (conforme entendido por Haroldo de Campos), refração (conforme teorizado por André Lefevere) e de tradução de canção (conforme conceitualizado por Peter Low), e tendo em mente o contexto de vida e obra dos artistas, este trabalho investiga de que formas essas traduções se distanciam dos originais, mas, principalmente, de que formas elas se aproximam. Nota-se aqui não apenas a presença do fenômeno de refração, como também a prática da transcriação.Abstract: This thesis examines the Portuguese versions created by Brazilian composer Vitor Ramil of four songs by the North-American songwriter Bob Dylan: "Joey," 'Gotta Serve Somebody," "You're a Big Girl Now," and 'Sara". Vitor Ramil respectively transformed them into "Joquim," "Um dia você vai servir a alguém," "Só você manda em você," and "Ana." The practice of song translation imposes various constraints that the translator must navigate in order to achieve a satisfactory result. Even keeping this in mind while collating the song lyrics, it becomes clear that the Brazilian versions were not produced with a consistent concern for fidelity at the level of individual words or expressions from the source text. My hypothesis is that these songs could not be considered entirely new texts either, devoid of strong connections to their source texts. Imbued with the concepts of transcreation (after Haroldo de Campos), refraction (after André Lefevere) and song translation (after Peter Low) and considering the context of life and work of the artists involved, this thesis investigates the ways in which these translations diverge from the originals - but, more importantly, the ways in which they converge. What emerges here is not only the presence of the phenomenon of refraction but also the practice of transcreation
Resenha do Livro: PARO, Vitor Henrique. Diretor escolar: educador ou gerente?
No full textNeste livro, Vitor Paro questiona as políticas educacionais fundamentadas na gestão empresarial capitalista, cuja finalidade é radicalmente distinta da educação. Na produção capitalista, a eficiência na administração tem como propósito a lucratividade da empresa, sendo o principal interesse do trabalhador receber seu salário. Na educação, a administração é mediadora da atividade educativa e o educador não pode ensinar apenas orientado pelo seu salário, sendo necessário considerar o caráter político da relação entre sujeitos para produção do ser humano-histórico. Partindo desse pressuposto, o autor analisa o papel do diretor e do significado da direção escolar, apontando alternativas de administração da escola básica, transcendendo a forma usual de concentrá-la nas mãos de apenas um indivíduo.Palavras-chave: Diretor escolar. Políticas educacionais. Vitor Paro. Escola Básica. Abstract: In this book, Vitor Paro questions the educational policies based on capitalist business management whose end is radically distinct from that of education. In capitalist production, efficiency in management aims at corporate profitability, and workers’ main interest is to get monthly paid. In education, management mediates the educational activity, and educators cannot teach exclusively oriented by their wages. It is therefore necessary to take into account the political dimension of the relation among the players in order to produce the historical human being. Based on this assumption, the author analyses the role of the school principal and the significance of school management, as well as he offers transcending alternatives to the basic school management centralized in the hands of a single individual. Keywords: School management. School principal. Vitor Paro. Educacional policies
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No full textA produção musical em estúdio surgiu não há muito tempo e tem vindo a evoluir
paralelamente com a evolução tecnológica. No início da indústria fonográfica, o processo
consistia no registo de uma performance. Desta forma, o resultado final dependia quase
exclusivamente dessa performance dos músicos. Atualmente, o processo de gravação vai
muito para além do registo áudio, sendo cada vez mais dependente de operações realizadas
após esse registo. Na produção em estúdio, embora ela esteja dividida em diversas etapas bem
definidas - pré-produção, gravação, edição, mistura e masterização – há uma flexibilidade
muito grande entre cada uma das etapas, sendo possível adiar decisões de uma fase para a
outra ou mesmo voltar atrás no processo, se necessário.
Quando um disco é colocado no mercado, um longo caminho foi percorrido até chegar
ao consumidor. Estamos convencidos de que, para a generalidade das pessoas, uma música
resulta de um momento de inspiração do seu compositor e de que a produção é um ato
meramente técnico. Na verdade, um dos aspetos mais sedutores que a produção áudio atual
suscita é, para além da técnica, o seu papel na componente criativa e artística
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