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Pesquisa Operacional para Cursos de Engenharia destina-se ao leitor que tem como principal objetivo a otimização de recursos em diversos segmentos industriais e comerciais e que, portanto, sentem a necessidade de tratamento e análise de dados com vistas à geração de informações e ao aprimoramento...

Este é um livro que tem dois objetivos centrais: apresentar as principais técnicas estatísticas e econométricas que podem ser adotadas quando do tratamento de bancos de dados provenientes de diversos campos do conhecimento, para fins de tomada de decisão, e propiciar ao leitor uma oportunidade...

Un giorno, uno scrittore famoso scopre che la moglie, corrispondente di guerra, lo ha abbandonato senza lasciare traccia e senza alcuna spiegazione plausibile. Nonostante il successo e un nuovo amore, il pensiero dell’assenza della donna continua a tormentarlo e gli invade la mente fino a gettarlo...

Brazilian Choro: A Method for Mandolin focuses on teaching "bandolim" technique for playing Choro. The combination of method book and audio offers a great opportunity to add performance practice to the black-and-white notes on the page. The book, presented in both English and Portuguese,...

The author got putting together in this work an original and well selected context that help us understanding who they are and how modern brazilian people live. In a light language this book make us getting into the culture and tradition on day by day of brazilian people on deep way to understand...

First Lessons Djembe provides a fun and easy way to learn to play the Djembe. It was conceived for the beginning Djembe player, yet contains information and reference material that is valuable for players at all levels. Playing the Djembe is a lifelong journey of self-expression, as well as...

In this collection, masterful Brazilian guitarist Paolo Bellinati has meticulously transcribed his solo guitar arrangements of ten melodies by his beloved countryman and pioneering bossa nova composer, Antonio Carlos Jobim. Bellinati particularly labored over his arrangements of Jobim's instrumental...

When Bashar al-Asad smoothly assumed power in July 2000, just seven days after the death of his father, observers were divided on what this would mean for the country’s foreign and domestic politics. On the one hand, it seemed everything would stay the same: an Asad on top of a political system...

Context-aware systems aim to deliver a rich user experience by taking into account the current user context (location, time, activity, etc.), possibly captured without his intervention. For example, cell phones are now able to continuously update a user’s location while, at the same time, users...

Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques and the finite element method (FEM) are both powerful computing tools, which are extensively used for modeling and optimizing manufacturing processes. The combination of these tools has resulted in a new flexible and robust approach as several recent studies...

What is mechanical engineering? What a mechanical engineering does? How did the mechanical engineering change through ages? What is the future of mechanical engineering? This book answers these questions in a lucid manner. It also provides a brief chronological history of landmark events and answers...

This book is dedicated to composite materials, presenting different synthesis processes, composite properties and their machining behaviour. The book describes also the problems on manufacturing of metal matrix composite components. Among others, it provides procedures for manufacturing of metal matrix composites and case studies.

This book presents computational and statistical methods used by intelligent systems within the concept of Industry 4.0. The methods include among others evolution-based and swarm intelligence-based methods. Each method is explained in its fundamental aspects, while some notable bibliography is provided...

The concept of fractals is often considered to describe surface roughness. Fractals retain all the structural information and are characterized by a single descriptor, the fractal dimension, D. Fractal dimension is an intrinsic property of the surface and independent of the filter processing of measuring...