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Human body inspires
artificial immune systems
On the threshold - PhD student Patrícia Am�ncio Vargas holds a robot used in research on artificial immune systems, developed at the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering (FEEC). Coordinated by professor Fernando Jos� von Zuben, the studies are inserted at the frontier of knowledge by projecting the main skills and characteristics of the
immune system
of the human body in the development of new computational tools capable of solving complex operational problems.
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 On stage, before the diploma
The Department of Performing Arts anticipated practical experimentation for students, who will work in the first years of the course. A group of 23 students is staging a show inspired by the book Galvez, the Emperor of Acre, by M�rcio Souza.
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 Root
Professor Jos� Roberto Zan, from the Institute of Arts, assesses the impacts of the rural exodus, the cultural industry and globalization on the manifestations of Brazilian popular culture, especially country music.
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 Environment
The interdisciplinary project �Environmental Quality and Regional Development in the Piracicaba and Capivari River Basins�, developed between 1994 and 1998, has already yielded 10 doctoral theses, 15 master's theses and 12 thematic notebooks. |
 Media
Doctoral thesis defended by journalist Fl�via Milena Biroli Tokarski shows how the changes that occurred in the press in the 1950s still persist in the journalism practiced in the newsrooms of major newspapers. |
A calculation up to 20 times faster
Researchers from Unicamp and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) develop a calculation methodology to determine the entropy and free energy of free systems that is 10 to 20 times faster than conventional ones. |
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