De Carvalho: 95 books

Language carries more than meanings; language conveys a means of conceiving the world. In this sense, national legal systems expressed through national languages organize the Law based on their own understanding of reality. International Law becomes, in this context, the meeting point where different...

This book provides an excellent reference to the MIMO radio channel In this book, the authors introduce the concept of the Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) radio channel, which is an intelligent communication method based upon using multiple antennas. Moreover, the authors provide a summary...

Is Brazil prepared to host big sporting events like the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics? What are the advantages and disadvantages for the country? Could the public money be invested inappropriately, or these events are a good opportunity to mobilize some unattended sectors of society? In this...

The 2008 international crisis has revived the interest in Keynes’s theories and, in particular, on Minsky’s models of financial fragility. The core proposition of these theories is that money plays an essential role in modern economies, which is usually neglected in other approaches. This is Keynes’s...

Presents a detailed study of the major design components that constitute a top-down decision-tree induction algorithm, including aspects such as split criteria, stopping criteria, pruning and the approaches for dealing with missing values. Whereas the strategy still employed nowadays is to use a 'generic'...

Based on a clear and comprehensive literature review, this book contains an analysis of five knowledge locations in Europe and one in South Korea. The case studies in the book cover several European countries (Ireland, Finland, Germany, Spain, The Netherlands). The cases are well grounded in the different contexts that these national settings provide, which allows comparisons between them.

This book provides a postgraduate audience the keys they need to understand and further develop a set of tools for the efficient computation of lower bounds and valid inequalities in integer programs and combinatorial optimization problems. After discussing the classical approaches described in the...

This book describes a model-based development approach for globally-asynchronous locally-synchronous distributed embedded controllers.  This approach uses Petri nets as modeling formalism to create platform and network independent models supporting the use of design automation tools.  To support...

Patrícia desincarnated at nineteen years old. During her brief stay with us on earth she was a Spiritist by conviction and an active seeker of eternal truths. Her desincarnation was like going to sleep and waking up in the spiritual plane among friends. She was fascinated by what she saw, by the...

Kim, o "menino das adivinhações", possui intensa vidência desde pequeno e vê a cena da sua própria morte.

Romance que retrata o período da escravidão no Brasil e apresenta o iluminado escravo Bernardino e seus esclarecimentos.

Patrícia nos apresenta um lugar especial: A Casa do Escritor. Ali estudam os espíritos que são preparados para serem médiuns ou escritores. Mostra-nos a influência dos espíritos sobre os escritores e toda a dedicação e o preparo necessário para que os textos ditados sejam mensagens que elevam a alma.

Economic and social difficulties at the beginning of the 20th century caused many Japanese to emigrate to Brazil. The situation was reversed in the 1980s as a result of economic downturn in Brazil and labour shortages in Japan. This book examines the construction and reconstruction of the ethnic identities...

This book presents a novel decision-making support system based on paraconsistent annotated evidential logic, which directly handles imprecise, incomplete and contradictory data. The authors offer insights into areas such as engineering and biomedicine, as well as related fields. Decision analysis...