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A Brazilian biodiesel plant uses the transesterification of soybean oils with the methanol and sodium methoxide catalyst excess to convert these oils into alkyl esters and glycerin. Hydrochloric acid solution is injected in the piping to neutralize free NaOH and reduce saponification of oils. After the hydrochloric acid solution, several failures of pipelines of AISI 316L and 904L steels were registered...
This paper presents a novel rank aggregation approach based on contextual information aiming to improve the effectiveness of Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) tasks. In our approach, information encoded in both distances among images and ranked lists computed by CBIR systems are used for analyzing contextual information and then re-rank collection images. We conducted several experiments involving...
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