Service Recovery Model Based on the Fulfillment of the Value Promise

Brazilian law considers areas around watercourses as Áreas de Preservação Permanente (APP) (Permanent Preservation Areas), which should be restored in case of degradation. This study aimed to present a plant recovery model based on Replacement Cost Method for an 11.7 hectares PPA, near the Water Treatment Station (WTS) of Tangará da Serra - MT. The research presents an applied nature, quantitative approach and structured script as a collection instrument, analyzed through the Replacement Cost Method (RCM), in order to estimate the recovery costs. The environmental diagnosis of the area showed the need for densified planting, at an estimated cost of R$ 24,492.00, with the greatest cost impact concentrated in implementation phase.

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Representation, abstraction, and simple-minded sophisticates

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x19002942 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 43 ◽

Author(s):

Peter Dayan

Keyword(s):

Decision Theory ◽

Predictive Coding ◽

Bayesian Decision Theory ◽

Bayesian Decision ◽

Model Based ◽

Model Free

Abstract Bayesian decision theory provides a simple formal elucidation of some of the ways that representation and representational abstraction are involved with, and exploit, both prediction and its rather distant cousin, predictive coding. Both model-free and model-based methods are involved.

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Quantitative Model-Based Image Analysis of NuMa Distribution Links Nuclear Organization with Cell Phenotype

Microscopy and Microanalysis ◽

10.1017/s1431927600028968 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 7 (S2) ◽

pp. 578-579

Author(s):

David W. Knowles ◽

Sophie A. Lelièvre ◽

Carlos Ortiz de Solόrzano ◽

Stephen J. Lockett ◽

Mina J. Bissell ◽

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Keyword(s):

Image Analysis ◽

Mammary Epithelial Cells ◽

Nuclear Organization ◽

Critical Role ◽

Quantitative Model ◽

Mammary Epithelial ◽

Cell Phenotype ◽

Proliferating Cells ◽

Mitotic Apparatus ◽

Model Based

The extracellular matrix (ECM) plays a critical role in directing cell behaviour and morphogenesis by regulating gene expression and nuclear organization. Using non-malignant (S1) human mammary epithelial cells (HMECs), it was previously shown that ECM-induced morphogenesis is accompanied by the redistribution of nuclear mitotic apparatus (NuMA) protein from a diffuse pattern in proliferating cells, to a multi-focal pattern as HMECs growth arrested and completed morphogenesis . A process taking 10 to 14 days.To further investigate the link between NuMA distribution and the growth stage of HMECs, we have investigated the distribution of NuMA in non-malignant S1 cells and their malignant, T4, counter-part using a novel model-based image analysis technique. This technique, based on a multi-scale Gaussian blur analysis (Figure 1), quantifies the size of punctate features in an image. Cells were cultured in the presence and absence of a reconstituted basement membrane (rBM) and imaged in 3D using confocal microscopy, for fluorescently labeled monoclonal antibodies to NuMA (fαNuMA) and fluorescently labeled total DNA.

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