We investigate various relationships between categories of functors. The major examples are given by extending some duality to a larger structure, such as an adjunction or a recollement of abelian categories. We prove a theorem which provides a method of constructing recollements which uses 0-th derived functors. We will show that the hypotheses of this theorem are very commonly satisfied by giving many examples. In our most important example we show that the well-known Auslander-Gruson-Jensen equivalence extends to a recollement. We show that two recollements, both arising from different characterisations of purity, are strongly related to each other via a commutative diagram. This provides a structural explanation for the equivalence between two functorial characterisations of purity for modules. We show that the Auslander-Reiten formulas are a consequence of this commutative diagram. We define and characterise the contravariant functors which arise from a pp-pair. When working over an artin algebra, this provides a contravariant analogue of the well-known relationship between pp-pairs and covariant functors. We show that some of these results can be generalised to studying contravariant functors on locally finitely presented categories whose category of finitely presented objects is a dualising variety.

Cette thèse aborde l'étude de la fonction cérébrale en Imagerie par Résonance Magnétique (IRM) à l'aide de deux séquences : l'IRM fonctionnelle (IRMf) BOLD et l'imagerie de perfusion par marquage de spins (ASL). Dans ce contexte, les analyses de groupe jouent un rôle important dans l'identification des dysfonctionnements globaux associés à une pathologie. D'autre part, les études individuelles, qui fournissent des conclusions au niveau d'un sujet unique, présentent un intérêt croissant. Dans ce travail, nous abordons à la fois les études de groupe et les analyses individuelles. Dans un premier temps, nous réalisons une analyse de groupe en IRMf BOLD en vue d'étudier la dysphasie chez l'enfant, une pathologie peu explorée en neuroimagerie. Nous mettons ainsi en évidence un fonctionnement et une latéralisation atypiques des aires langagières. Ensuite, nous nous concentrons sur les analyses individuelles. Nous proposons l'utilisation d'estimateurs robustes pour calculer les cartographies de débit sanguin cérébral en ASL. Ensuite, nous étudions la validité des hypothèses qui sous-tendent les analyses statistiques standard dans le contexte de l'ASL. Finalement, nous proposons une nouvelle méthode localement multivariée basée sur une approche a contrario. La validation de cette nouvelle approche est réalisée dans deux contextes applicatifs : la détection d'anomalies de perfusion en ASL et la détection de zones d'activation en IRMf BOLD. / This thesis deals with the analysis of brain function in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) using two sequences: BOLD functional MRI (fMRI) and Arterial Spin Labelling (ASL). In this context, group statistical analyses are of great importance in order to understand the general mechanisms underlying a pathology, but there is also an increasing interest towards patient-specific analyses that draw conclusions at the patient level. Both group and patient-specific analyses are studied in this thesis. We first introduce a group analysis in BOLD fMRI for the study of specific language impairment, a pathology that was very little investigated in neuroimaging. We outline atypical patterns of functional activity and lateralisation in language regions. Then, we move forward to patient-specific analysis. We propose the use of robust estimators to compute cerebral blood flow maps in ASL. Then, we analyse the validity of the assumptions underlying standard statistical analyses in the context of ASL. Finally, we propose a new locally multivariate statistical method based on an a contrario approach and apply it to the detection of atypical patterns of perfusion in ASL and to activation detection in BOLD functional MRI.

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[pt] O objetivo desta pesquisa é estudar as propriedades geométricas e topológicas de curvas genéricas imersas no plano. Neste caso ser genérica significa que a curva só pode ter pontos duplos sem tangentes comuns nas duas passagens. Pode-se nomear as n singularidades da curva usando símbolos como a1, ... , an. Percorrendo a curva, produz-se uma palavra cíclica de tamanho 2n. Entretanto, nem toda palavra está relacionada a uma curva plana, há requisitos sobre a sua combinatória, o primeiro dos quais foi descoberto por Gauss. Avanços foram realizados no estudo de curvas localmente convexas no plano, na esfera e no plano projetivo. / [en] The aim of this work is to study the topological and geometric properties of closed generic immersed curves in the plane. In this case, generic means that the curve can only have double points without a common tangent. One can label the singularities using n symbols, such as a1, ... , an. Going around the curve, a cyclic word of length 2n is produced. However, not every word is related to a planar curve, there are requirements on its combinatorics, the first of which was found by Gauss. Advances were made in the study of locally convex curves on the plane, the sphere and the projective plane.

In this work we study, in details, the Cauchy problem of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation, with initial datas in periodic Sobolev spaces. Specifically, we prove that this problem is locally well posed for datas in Hsper, with s ≥ 0. Particularly, for initial datas in L2 the problem is globally well posed, due to the conservation law of the equation in this space. Moreover, we prove the this result is the best one, seeing we expose examples that show that the equation flow is not locally uniformly continuous for initial datas with regularity less than L2. / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Neste trabalho, fazemos um estudo detalhado do problema de Cauchy para a equação não-linear cúbica de Schrödinger, com dados iniciais em espaços de Sobolev no toro. Especificamente, provaremos que este modelo é localmente bem posto para dados em Hsper, com s ≥ 0. Em particular, para dados iniciais em L2 o modelo é globalmente bem posto, devido à lei de conservação da equação neste espaço. Além disso, provaremos que os resultados obtidos são os melhores possíveis, visto que exibiremos exemplos que mostram que o fluxo da equação não é localmente uniformemente contínuo para dados iniciais com regularidade menor que L2.

Recent improvements in deep learning architectures, combined with the strength of modern computing hardware such as graphics processing units, has lead to significant results in the field of image analysis. In this thesis work, locally connected architectures are employed to reduce noise in flash X-ray diffraction images. The layers in these architectures use convolutional kernels, but without shared weights. This combines the benefits of lower model memory footprint in convolutional networks with the higher model capacity of fully connected networks. Since the camera used to capture the diffraction images has pixelwise unique characteristics, and thus lacks equivariance, this compromise can be beneficial. The background images of this thesis work were generated with an active laser but without injected samples. Artificial diffraction patterns were then added to these background images allowing for training U-Net architectures to separate them. Architecture A achieved a performance of 0.187 on the test set, roughly translating to 35 fewer photon errors than a model similar to state of the art. After smoothing the photon errors this performance increased to 0.285, since the U-Net architectures managed to remove flares where state of the art could not. This could be taken as a proof of concept that locally connected networks are able to separate diffraction from background in flash X-Ray imaging.

Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2016-03-23T11:16:42Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1343904 bytes, checksum: dfca90c2164204a1513fc4a55eca4527 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-23T11:16:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1343904 bytes, checksum: dfca90c2164204a1513fc4a55eca4527 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-05-26 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Our purpose is to study the geometry of Riemannian immersions in certain semi- Riemannian manifolds. Initially, considering linearWeingarten hypersurfaces immersed in locally symmetric manifolds and, imposing suitable constraints on the scalar curvature, we guarantee that such a hypersurface is either totally umbilical or isometric to a isoparametric hypersurface with two distinct principal curvatures, one of them being simple. In higher codimension, we use a Simons type formula to obtain new characterizations of hyperbolic cylinders through the study of submanifolds having parallel normalized mean curvature vector field in a semi-Riemannian space form. Finally, we investigate the rigidity of complete spacelike hypersurfaces immersed in the steady state space via applications of some maximum principles. / Nos propomos estudar a geometria de imersões Riemannianas em certas variedades semi-Riemannianas. Inicialmente, consideramos hipersuperfícies Weingarten lineares imersas em variedades localmente simétricas e, impondo restrições apropriadas à curvatura escalar, garantimos que uma tal hipersuperfície é totalmente umbílica ou isométrica a uma hipersuperfície isoparamétrica com duas curvaturas principais distintas, sendo uma destas simples. Em codimensão alta, usamos uma fórmula do tipo Simons para obter novas caracterizações de cilindros hiperbólicos a partir do estudo de subvariedades com vetor curvatura média normalizado paralelo em uma forma espacial semi-Riemanniana. Finalmente, investigamos a rigidez de hipersuperfícies tipo-espaço completas imersas no steady state space via aplicações de alguns princípios do máximo.

Neste trabalho estudamos a dinâmica assintótica de problemas parabólicos sob vista de diferentes teorias, particularmente interessados na estabilidade das propriedades dinâmicas dos sistemas. Estudamos a equi-atração no caso não autônomo pelos semifluxos skew-product, que transformam o sistema dinâmico não autônomo em um autônomo num espaço de fase conveniente. Para modelos multívocos, em que o semifluxo é uma função cujos valores são conjuntos, desenvolvemos a decomposição de Morse e mostramos sua equivalência com a existência de um funcional de Lyapunov, que é um resultado muito importante na teoria de semigrupos. Também estudamos a continuidade da dinâmica assintótica de um problema parabólico em um domínio ilimitado quando o aproximamos por domínios limitados específicos. / In this work we study assimptotic properties of parabolic problems under some different view of points, particularlly interested in the stability properties of the systems. We study equi-attraction in the non autonomous case using skew-product semiflows, which transform the non autonomous dynamical system into a autonomous one in a convenient phase space. For multivalued semiflows, in which the semiflow is a set valued function, we develop the Morse decomposition and show its equivalence with admiting a Lyapunov funcional, wich is a important result on the semigroup theory. We also study the continuity of the asymptotic dynamic for a parabolic problem in an unbouded domain when we approach it by bounded ones.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-07-29T16:02:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Marcio Lima.pdf: 1529346 bytes, checksum: c6a80a13d55b40203c44877c4cdeb1f4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-06-27 / A be an elementary abelian group of order q2, where q a prime number. In this paper we will study the influence of centering on the structure of automorphism groups profinitos in this sense if A acting as a coprime group of automorphisms on a group profinito G and CG(a) is periodic for each a 2 A#, then we will show that G is locally finite. It will be demonstrated also the case where A acts as a group of automorphisms of a group pro-p of G / Sejam A um grupo abeliano elementar de ordem q2, onde q um número primo. Neste trabalho estudamos a influência dos centralizadores de automorfismos na estrutura dos grupos profinitos, neste sentido se A age como um grupo de automorfismos coprimos sobre um grupo profinito G e que CG(a) é periódico para cada a 2 A#, então mostraremos que G é localmente finito. Será demonstrado também o caso onde A age como um grupo de automorfismos sobre um grupo pro-p de G.