Três cães machos adultos da raça Pit Bull foram utilizados com o intuito de avaliar o efeito da suplementação de triptofano na atividade elétrica cerebral e taxa glicêmica. Os tratamentos foram: A) Dieta base + veículo com placebo (controle); B) Dieta base + veículo com 1,11g de triptofano. Inicialmente os animais passaram por doze dias de fornecimento do tratamento A, destes, cinco dias foram destinados a colheita dos dados. Após três dias de descanso teve início o período de 12 dias de fornecimento do tratamento B, com o aumento de um dia de colheita. Para a colheita de EEG foi utilizado o registro bipolar, sendo o sinal colhido numa freqüência de amostragem de 120 Hz por um período de 20 minutos por dia de colheita. Utilizou-se um glicosímetro portátil para mensurar a glicemia nos tempos 0, 15, 30, 45 minutos, relacionados com o período destinado ao manejo de colheita de EEG. A suplementação de triptofano diminuiu a energia das bandas de freqüências beta, teta, alfa e delta, permitindo sugerir uma modificação na atividade elétrica cerebral. Não houve efeito significativo do fornecimento de triptofano suplementar sobre a glicemia dos cães utilizados neste experimento. / Three adults male Pit Bulls dogs were housed with the intention of evaluating the effects of tryptophan supplementation on brain electrical activity and glicemic curve. The treatments were: A) Basic Diet + Placebo (control); B) Basic Diet + 1,11 g of tryptophan. First the animals were kept for 12 days using the A treatment, with five days of data collecting. After three days off they were kept for 12 days using the B treatment, but with an addition of one day of data collecting. The EEG collecting was made using a bipolar register, and the signal was collected on a 120 Hz sampling frequency for 20 minutes per collecting day. The blood glucose was measured using a portable blood glucose meter on 0, 15, 30 and 45 minutes, related to the EEG collecting period. The Tryptophan supplementation decreased the energy signals of the beta, theta, alpha and delta frequencies, which suggests some modification on the brain electrical activity. There was no effect of the tryptophan supplementation on the glicemic curve.

Três cães machos adultos da raça Pit Bull foram utilizados com o intuito de avaliar o efeito da suplementação de triptofano na atividade elétrica cerebral e taxa glicêmica. Os tratamentos foram: A) Dieta base + veículo com placebo (controle); B) Dieta base + veículo com 1,11g de triptofano. Inicialmente os animais passaram por doze dias de fornecimento do tratamento A, destes, cinco dias foram destinados a colheita dos dados. Após três dias de descanso teve início o período de 12 dias de fornecimento do tratamento B, com o aumento de um dia de colheita. Para a colheita de EEG foi utilizado o registro bipolar, sendo o sinal colhido numa freqüência de amostragem de 120 Hz por um período de 20 minutos por dia de colheita. Utilizou-se um glicosímetro portátil para mensurar a glicemia nos tempos 0, 15, 30, 45 minutos, relacionados com o período destinado ao manejo de colheita de EEG. A suplementação de triptofano diminuiu a energia das bandas de freqüências beta, teta, alfa e delta, permitindo sugerir uma modificação na atividade elétrica cerebral. Não houve efeito significativo do fornecimento de triptofano suplementar sobre a glicemia dos cães utilizados neste experimento. / Three adults male Pit Bulls dogs were housed with the intention of evaluating the effects of tryptophan supplementation on brain electrical activity and glicemic curve. The treatments were: A) Basic Diet + Placebo (control); B) Basic Diet + 1,11 g of tryptophan. First the animals were kept for 12 days using the A treatment, with five days of data collecting. After three days off they were kept for 12 days using the B treatment, but with an addition of one day of data collecting. The EEG collecting was made using a bipolar register, and the signal was collected on a 120 Hz sampling frequency for 20 minutes per collecting day. The blood glucose was measured using a portable blood glucose meter on 0, 15, 30 and 45 minutes, related to the EEG collecting period. The Tryptophan supplementation decreased the energy signals of the beta, theta, alpha and delta frequencies, which suggests some modification on the brain electrical activity. There was no effect of the tryptophan supplementation on the glicemic curve.

This thesis introduces a music visualization system for stereophonic source separated music. Music visualization systems are a popular way to represent information from audio signals through computer graphics. Visualization can help people better understand music and its complex and interacting elements. This music visualization system extracts pitch, panning, and loudness features from source separated audio files to create the visual. Most state-of-the art visualization systems develop their visual representation of the music from either the fully mixed final song recording, where all of the instruments and vocals are combined into one file, or from the digital audio workstation (DAW) data containing multiple independent recordings of individual audio sources. Original source recordings are not always readily available to the public so music source separation (MSS) can be used to obtain estimated versions of the audio source files. This thesis surveys different approaches to MSS and music visualization as well as introduces a new music visualization system specifically for source separated music.