O condor-dos-andes (Vultur gryphus) é uma ave carniceira da família dos abutres do novo mundo (Cathartidae) que habita ao longo da cordilheira dos Andes, cuja população tem diminuído no último século até ser considerada como espécie ameaçada. No Equador tem sido registrado aproximadamente 100 indivíduos em liberdade. Para evitar a extinção da espécie no país tem sido iniciado um programa de conservação envolvendo várias áreas das Ciências Biológicas, entre essas a genética de populações. Para descrever a situação genética do condor no Equador, amostras de sangue e penas de condores em cativeiro e silvestres, mais várias amostras de penas de muda de distintos locais onde habitam, foram coletadas e analisadas através de sete microssatélites heteroespecíficos amplificados no genoma do condor por PCR. Os resultados indicam que o grupo de 72 amostras, apresenta uma diversidade genética moderada a baixa nos loci estudados, apesar das grandes áreas onde está distribuído, porém as análises de variância molecular AMOVA e Hardy-Weinberg considerando como hipótese alternativa a deficiência de heterozigotos, indicam que não constituem uma população endogâmica. Estudos de estruturação populacional sugerem a falta de subpopulações inclusive entre amostras de lugares distantes. Sugere-se que se existir estruturação populacional esta deve ser do tipo isolamento por distância, para poder comprovar esta hipótese se propõe estender a pesquisa no futuro incluindo amostragem de locais muito distantes através da América Andina e diferentes marcadores. O grupo de marcadores foi também altamente útil para identificação genética de indivíduos através das penas anônimas coletadas no habitat, porém não resulta muito forte como prova de paternidade, precisando de marcadores mais polimórficos e melhor distribuídos pelo genoma. / The Andean Condor (Vultur gryphus) is a scavenger bird of the New World vultures (Cathartidae) that lives along the Andes Mountains. Its population has declined in the last century until being considered an endangered species. In Ecuador, approximately 100 birds have been registered in freedom. To avoid extinction in this country has been initiated a conservation program involving several areas of biological sciences, one of these, population genetics. In order to describe the genetic situation of the condor in Ecuador, blood and feather samples from captive and wild condors, plus several samples of molted feathers from different locations were collected and analyzed through seven heteroespecific microsatellite amplified in the condor genome by PCR. The results show that the group of 72 samples had a moderate to low genetic diversity in the amplified loci, despite the large areas where it is distributed. The analysis of molecular variance (AMOVA) and Hardy-Weinberg with heterozygote deficiency as alternative hypothesis denotes that sampled condors do not constitute an inbred population. Structuring analyzes suggest there is not subpopulations even among samples from distant places. If exist some kind of pop0ulation structure in the species, it could be like isolation by distance structured, but in order to prove this hypothesis, it is recommended to extend the research including samples from distant locations through Andean America and more powerful genetic markers. Those markers was also highly useful for the genetic identification of not assigned feathers collected in the habitat, but as paternity test require more polymorphic markers and better distributed throughout the genome.

During 1975-1989 a transnational state-terror operation was carried out by several South American states called Operation Condor. Declassified documents show that the U.S. government assisted the operation with communication and intelligence techniques. This case-study is with a theory consuming method aiming to analyze the internal decision process within the U.S. government to assist Condor. The analysis is based on two theoretical frameworks by Allison Graham, the “Rational Actor” and “Governmental Politics”. By studying the cold war doctrine, the objectives of the U.S. and the political actors behind the assessment the aim is to understand the structures that shaped the final decision. The conclusion shows that the Cold War, political crises and power relations between politicians played a major role in the internal decision process.

<p>The aim of this thesis is to develop a flexible distributed platform designed toexecute a disease outbreaks simulator in a fast way over many types of platformsand operating systems. The architecture is realized using the Elastic ComputeCloud (EC2) supplied by Amazon and Condor as middleware among the varioustypes of OS. The second part of the report describes the realization of a webapplication that allows users to manage easily the various part of the architecture,to launch the simulations and to view some statistics of the relative results.</p>

Studies in numerous animal taxa demonstrate that early rearing experience has a profound influence on the development of later adaptive behavior. This has implications for endangered species management, particularly when animals are reared in captivity for reintroduction or in cases in which species managers play an active role in managing animals at the individual or population levels. The California condor (Gymnogyps californianus) is a critically endangered New World vulture that was subject to a period of extinction in the wild followed by ongoing reintroduction in portions of its native range. Though the reintroduced population in southern California is largely adapting well, several obstacles to viability remain that are primarily anthropogenic in nature. The purpose of this study was to quantitatively assess nesting behavior of free-flying California condors in the southern California population to determine whether differences in parental care and nestling behavior are attributable to parental rearing conditions and experience. Hierarchical generalized linear modeling was used to analyze parent and chick activity budget data. Differences among condors were not detected in attendance patterns across either the egg or chick phases of nesting. Variation was not detected among chicks in proportion of time spent active and inactive during the early nestling phase. Variations among older nestlings in the proportion of time spent inactive were observed, with associations detected between inactivity, pair, visibility and season. The proportion of time that parents interacted with nestlings varied from nest to nest, with associations detected between interaction, visibility and season. Finally, potential pair-level variation in the propensity to bring microtrash to the nest was observed. It is concluded that while visibility is often overlooked in behavioral analyses, it is methodologically important to account for this variable in analyses of condor nestling behavior. Further, while some pair-level variation in allocation of care to nestlings is apparent, this appears to be a function of factors not related to individual developmental differences.

Los trabajos que requieren capacidad de cómputo intensiva necesitan de un administrador de carga de trabajo especializado, que brinde mecanismos de cola, políticas de planificación, esquema de prioridades, monitoreo y administración de recursos. Cuando los usuarios emiten sus trabajos, el administrador deberá decidir cuándo y dónde ejecutarlos, teniendo en cuenta sus requerimientos, realizar un monitoreo del progreso e informar al usuario cuando haya finalizado su ejecución. Al integrar capacidad de proceso, almacenamiento y acceso a recursos remotos, se podrán ejecutar aplicaciones que no pueden procesarse en una computadora única y así satisfacer demandas de cómputo complejas. En este trabajo se discute el uso de Condor como gestor de recursos disponibles en un entorno de Computación de Alta Disponibilidad ya que es un sistema que ofrece funcionalidades de HTC donde los usuarios no tienen que preocuparse, por ejemplo, dónde enviar sus trabajos para ejecución, ni de tener que enviar manualmente un gran número de ellos cuando así lo requieran.

Tese (doutorado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Ciências Humanas, Departamento de História, Programa de Pós-Graduação em História, 2016. / Submitted by Fernanda Percia França (fernandafranca@bce.unb.br) on 2016-07-18T14:23:08Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_SabrinaSteinke.pdf: 30632480 bytes, checksum: 4a8a95f54c99b07a69effa65d96c37b1 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Raquel Viana(raquelviana@bce.unb.br) on 2016-08-23T19:42:26Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_SabrinaSteinke.pdf: 30632480 bytes, checksum: 4a8a95f54c99b07a69effa65d96c37b1 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-23T19:42:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_SabrinaSteinke.pdf: 30632480 bytes, checksum: 4a8a95f54c99b07a69effa65d96c37b1 (MD5) / A presente Tese tem como tema a repressão política na fronteira localizada entre as cidades de Uruguaiana (Brasil) e Paso de los Libres (Argentina) no final dos anos 1970, em especial, as conexões repressivas estabelecidas entre as ditaduras do Brasil e Argentina na referida região. Tem-se uma análise dos casos de sequestro/desaparecimento ocorridos na fronteira Uruguaiana-Paso de los Libres-Corrientes, esta última, na Argentina. A hipótese aqui empreendida é deque a cooperação repressiva na fronteira Uruguaiana-Paso de los Libres no final dos anos 1970, fazia parte do aparato da Operação Condor, e que as atividades operacionais ligadas ao contrato repressivo do Condor ocorreram em Uruguaiana e Paso de los Libres. A História do Tempo Presente é a fundamentação argumentativa da Tese e sua chave analítica é a Doutrina de Segurança Nacional, que propiciou a instalação do terrorismo de Estado implementado pelas ditaduras do Brasil e da Argentina e que repercutiram nos demais países do Cone Sul. Para tanto, a pesquisa está estruturada em três eixos, a saber: o primeiro contempla uma discussão acerca dos golpes no Cone Sul e de como se deu a articulação repressiva internacional da Operação Condor; o segundo aborda a composição da fronteira Uruguaiana-Paso de los Libres acerca de sua história e as atividades formais de conexões binacionais que ocorriam na aduana entre esses dois países; e, o terceiro, compreende as atividades clandestinas ocorridas nesta fronteira, quem circulava e como se estruturou a repressão na aduana nela existente. A Tese conta com seis capítulos, que compreendem desde a implantação das ditaduras de segurança nacional no Brasil e na Argentina, as colaborações entre estas, a fronteira objeto de estudo e os casos de sequestro/desaparecimento analisados, quais sejam: Lorenzo Ismael Viñas, Jorge Oscar Adur, Margarita Mengol Villas de Moroz e Cristina Gloria Fiori. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT / This thesis has as subject the political repression on the frontier between Uruguaiana and Paso de los Libres, in the end of the 1970’s, specially the repressive connections among the dictatorships of Brazil and Argentina on this borderland. We analyzed cases of kidnapping/disappearance that occurred on this border between Uruguaiana – Rio Grande do Sul – Brazil and Paso de los Libres – Corrientes – Argentina. Our hypothesis is that repressive cooperation on the frontier was part of the Condor Operation, and we believe that operational activities linked to the repressive contract of the Condor occurred in both Uruguaiana and Paso de los Libres. The History of Present Time is the argumentative foundation of the thesis, and the analytical key is the National Security Doctrine, which provided the establishment of the State Terrorism implemented by the dictatorships of Brazil and Argentina with large repercussion on Southern Cone. To comply with that goal, we structured the thesis in three parts: the first discusses about those political overthrows on the Southern Cone and how the international repressive articulation of the Condor Operation happened; the second examine the history and the formal activities of bi-national connections that took place on the custom between those countries; the third is about the surreptitious activities that occurred on this border, who circulated and how the repression on that custom was structured. This thesis has six chapters that embrace the implementation of the National Security Dictatorships in Brazil and Argentina, the collaboration among them, the frontier as matter of study and the cases of kidnapping/disappearance of Lorenzo Ismael Viñas, Jorge Oscar Adur, Margarita Mengol Villas de Moroz and Cristina Gloria Fiori.

Orientador: Lenita Waldige Mendes Nogueira / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-10T02:18:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Virmond_MarcosdaCunhaLopes_D.pdf: 49401261 bytes, checksum: ca1d47fed823a3509e5efb26fb3174f6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: Condor, estreada em 1891 no Teatro alla Scala de Milão, foi a última ópera escrita por Antônio Carlos Gomes. O estudo dos documentos textuais indica que o processo composicional envolveu a elaboração de um rascunho para canto e piano, a orquestração, uma extensa revisão final e a inclusão de um balé um ano após a estréia. A análise do rascunho, documento inicial da criação, revela alternativas composicionais que foram descartadas pelo autor se comparadas com o resultado definitivo tomado da edição para canto e piano de 1891. Usando-se esses documentos textuais, acrescidos do manuscrito autógrafo e da cópia profissional, foi possível reconstituir várias dessas alternativas ao longo do primeiro ato, analisa-las e discutir as possíveis razões para a conduta do compositor. Analisou-se também os aspectos de exotismo e orientalismo inerentes ao libreto abordados musicalmente por Gomes. Como resultado, verifica-se que Gomes construiu Condor ao longo de quatro fases: elaboração do rascunho, orquestração, uma revisão e introdução do Balé. As modificações promovidas indicam necessidade de condensação do discurso musical, reorganização do discurso harmônico e otimização do discurso dramático em paralelo ao discurso musical. A abordagem musical do orientalismo em Condor é refinada e sutil, quase imperceptível, mas com suficiente densidade para criar uma cor local efetiva. Revela-se, assim um compositor cioso da qualidade de seu produto final e com expressiva competência técnica enquanto operista, atento ao ambiente cultural de sua época, criativo, inovador e com importante contribuição para a evolução do melodrama italiano em seu período de transição até o surgimento da giovane scuola / Abstract: Condor, premiered in 1891 at Teatro alla Scala in Milan, was the last opera by Antonio Carlos Gomes. The study of the textual documents reveal that the compositional process included the elaboration of a piano vocal sketch, the orchestration, an extensive revision and a later inclusion of a ballet one year after the premiere. Analysis of the sketch, the initial document for the creation, reveal compositional alternatives that were discharged by Gomes when compared to the printed piano vocal score issued in 1891. With these textual documents and the autograph manuscript and the hard copies, it was possible to reconstruct many of these alternatives along the firs act, to analyze them and to propose possible reasons for such compositional options. It was also analyzed the exotic and oriental aspects due to the libretto and its musical treatment by Gomes. As a result, it is seen that Gomes has elaborated Condor in four phases: a piano vocal sketch, the orchestration, a revisions and addition of a ballet. The modifications introduced are related to the need of condensation of the musical discourse, reorganization of the harmonic discourse and optimization of the dramatic discourse in parallel to the musical discourse. The musical approach to orientalism in Condor is subtle and careful, without obvieties, but with enough density to create an effective ambience. It is found in Gomes a composer concerned with the quality of his final product and with expressive technical skills as an opera composer, attentive to the cultural / Doutorado / Doutor em Música

The aim of this thesis is to develop a flexible distributed platform designed toexecute a disease outbreaks simulator in a fast way over many types of platformsand operating systems. The architecture is realized using the Elastic ComputeCloud (EC2) supplied by Amazon and Condor as middleware among the varioustypes of OS. The second part of the report describes the realization of a webapplication that allows users to manage easily the various part of the architecture,to launch the simulations and to view some statistics of the relative results.

In this degree project in aerospace engineering, a preliminary design of a UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) was performed. The UAV was intended to be used as a complement to the Swedish maritime administration’s helicopters, which cannot operate under limited visibility conditions. Its main mission would consist of surveillance. The UAV was therefore designed for some series criteria that were based on the customers’ requirements. The primary literature that was used was John D. Andersons Aircraft performance and design. Otherwise, historical statistical data from other aircraft was used and numerous assumptions were made. The result was a relatively small UAV named The Condor, weighing 25.6 kg with a wingspan of 2.5 m and operational in an altitude of 3500 m with a cruise speed of 81 knots. The UAV’s range is 70 nautical miles and is also able to operate in up to six hours. It should be able to manage a 300 m long runway. The chosen wing profile was the NACA 1412 with a maximal thickness and camber of 12 % and 1 % of the chord length, respectively. As for the stabilizer, the symmetric wing profile NACA 0012 was chosen. A so called constraint analysis was performed in order to determine the engine choice and thewing loading. The chosen engine was a 3.1 horsepower piston engine provided by Ricardo. The dimensions of the fuselage were designed only to fit the payload and no detailed analysis was done. It became 2.3 m long and with a maximal diameter of 0.3 m. / I det här kandidatexamensarbetet i flygteknik gjordes en preliminär design av en drönare. Drönaren skulle användas som komplettering till sjöfartsverkets helikoptrar, som inte kan användas vid mycket begränsad sikt. Dess huvudsakliga uppdrag skulle bestå av övervakning. Drönarens utformades därför efter en rad kriterier som baserades på uppdragsgivarens krav. Den huvudsakliga litteraturen som användes var John D. Andersons Aircraft performanceand design. I övrigt användes historisk statistisk data från andra flygplan och ett flertal antaganden gjordes. Resultatet blev en relativt liten drönare som döptes till The Condor och fick en vikt på 25.6 kg, med ett vingspann på 2.5 m och som opererar på 3500 m flyghöjd med en marschfart på 81 knop. Drönarens räckvidd är 70 nautiska mil och den kan därutöver operera i upp till sex timmar. Den bör klara av en landningsbana på 300 m. Som vingprofil valdes NACA 1412 med en maximal tjocklek och camber på 12 % respektive 1 % av kordalängden. För stabilisatorn valdes den symmetriska profilen NACA 0012. En så kallad ”constraint analysis” genomfördes för fastställande av motorval och vingbelastning. Motorn som valdes blev en 3.1 hästkrafters pistongmotor från Ricardo. Flygplanskroppens dimensioner utformades endast för att få plats med nyttolasten och ingen noggrannare analys genomfördes. Den blev 2.3 m lång med en maximal diameter på0.3 m.

To understand the function of macromolecules like proteins it helps to know the structure of the molecule. Coherent diffraction imaging is an emerging method that might be used to figure out the structures of macromolecules. In this method diffraction patterns of the macromolecule are recorded by shining light on the molecule from many unknown orientations and detecting the pattern of the diffracted photons. By assembling the diffraction patterns in a specific way and finding the phase of the photons that gave rise to the diffraction patterns, it is theoretically possible to obtain the electronstructure of the molecule and thus the molecular structure. The assembling of several thousand diffraction patterns representing unknown orientations of the molecule is hard to do by hand, but there are several methods that can be used. The EMC (Expand-Maximize-Compress) algorithm is one of those methods. It is an iterative algorithm that tries to create a model describing the Fourier Transform of the electron density of the molecule by maximizing each diffraction patterns fit to the model. This work examines how sensitive the EMC algorithm is to datasets with few diffraction patterns or a low intensity of the light being diffracted by the molecule, for the proteins phytochrome and lysozyme. The result of the work could be used to make sure enough data in collected in real experiments. Diffraction patterns simulated with the program Condor is used in this work, instead of diffraction patterns from real experiments.EMC finds the correct model when the data set contains about 1/3 fewer photons for the smaller more symmetrical molecule lysozyme than it does for phytochrome. This might be because the shapes in lysozymes diffraction patterns are larger than in phyochrome’s patterns. For phytochrome the EMC algorithm assembled the diffraction patterns correctly, with fewest photons for the light intensity 0.764 J/μm2 and 1250 diffraction patterns. For lysozyme it was with an intensity 1.910 J/μm2 and 1425 diffraction patterns. More investigation of the data is needed to understand what factors that affect the EMC algorithms ability to assemble the diffraction patterns correctly. / För att förstå makromolekylers kemiska eller biologiska funktion so underlättar det om man känner till molekylens kemiska struktur. Med den nya tekniken “coherent diffraction imaging” ska det vara möjligt att lista ut makromolekylers struktur. I denna teknik detekterar man diffraktionsmönster av molekylen genom att belysa molekylen med ljus från många olika okända vinklar and registrera mönstret som skapas av det diffrakterade ljuset. Genom att sätta ihop alla dessa diffraktionsmönster på rätt sätt och sen återskapa fasen för ljuset i diffraktionsmönstret så kan man generera molekylens elektronstruktur och från elektronstrukturen kan man få tag i molekylens struktur. Att sätta ihop tio tusentals diffraktionsmönster med okända vinklar på rätt sätt är väldigt svårt att göra, men det finns flera olika metoder som kan användas. EMC (Expand-Maximize-Compress) är en sådan metod. EMC är en iterativ algoritm som skapar en modell av (Fourier transformen av) molekylens elektronstruktur genom att maximera hur bra diffraktionsmönstren passar med modellen. Detta arbete utreder hur bra EMC algoritmen är på att hitta rätt (Fourier transform av) elektronstruktur när väldigt få diffraktionsmönster används eller när intensiteten på ljuset som sprids av molekylen är lågt. Programmet Condor används för att generera teoretiska diffraktionsmönster för de 2 molekylerna lysozym och fytokrom. EMC används sedan med olika uppsättningar av intensitet och antal diffraktionsmönster för att skapa en modell av elektronstrukturen. EMC behövde ca 1/3 färre antal fotoner i sin modell för att hittar den rätta modellen av elektronstrukturen för den lilla symmetriskt formade molekylen lysozym än för fytokrom. Att det är lättare för EMC algoritmen att hitta den korrekta modellen för lysozym än fytokrom kan bero på att lysozyms diffraktionsmönster har större former/features eller på lysozyms storlek och form. EMC körningen som behövde minst antal fotoner för att hitta den korrekta elektronstrukturen för fytokrom hade intensiteten 0,764 J/μm2 på det inkommande ljuset och behövde 1250 diffraktionsmönster. För lysozym behövdes det 1,910 J/μm2 och 1425 diffraktionsmönster för att EMC algoritmen skulle hitta rätt modell av elektronstrukturen.