As restrições financeiras têm sido um tópico de pesquisa constante na literatura. Para micro e pequenas empresas o seu impacto é particularmente importante, considerando a sua dependência de crédito para sobreviver. Estas empresas são responsáveis por grande parte do dinamismo d…
Soil structure influences many chemical, biological and physical processes and it is well established that organic carbon acts as a soil binding agent. However, the precise location of organic matter and carbon in relation to structural features within intact samples is unknown.…
Logic Programming has began in the early 1970's as a direct outgrowth of earlier work in automatic theorem proving and artificial intelligence. The ideal of logic programming is purely declarative programming. This means that it brings to the programmer the benefit of only havin…
U.S. spends approximately 20 billion/year on asphalt pavements with disproportionately high maintenance costs of 9.3 billion/year. Better performance of asphalt pavements is crucial to reducing these maintenance costs. During the past two decades significant advances have been m…
Soils are spatially heterogeneous environments, and the distribution of microorganisms and carbon is organized at the scale of millimeters in soil aggregates. The physio-chemical environment within macroaggregates and microaggregates differ, which may lead to the selection of mi…
Humankind has entered another lithic epoch. Concrete is the modern stone. Since taking its contemporary form nearly two centuries ago, over five hundred billion tons of the gray matter have been deposited on the earth’s crust. If this amount of concrete was used to build a sidew…