AT THE EARLY BRAZILIAN REPUBLIC, BULHOES CARVALHO LEGALIZES THE STATISTICAL ACTIVITY AND PUT IT INTO THE STATE’S ORDER

At the Early Brazilian Republic, Bulhoes Carvalho legalizes the statistical activity and put it into the State’s order

Recreated in the early days of the Brazilian Republic (jan./1890) as a central agency, the General Directory of Statistics (DGE) Crochet faced difficulties in consolidating the Brazilian statistical activity.A new time only was achieved when José Luiz Sayão de Bulhões Carvalho (1866-1940), a medical doctor specialist in public health dedicated t

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Active inference and the two-step task

Abstract Sequential decision problems distill important challenges frequently faced by humans.Through repeated interactions with an uncertain world, unknown statistics need to be learned while balancing exploration and exploitation.Reinforcement learning is a prominent method for modeling such behaviour, with a prevalent application being the two-s

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The effect of the dietary inclusion of pea seeds of colored-flowered and white-flowered varieties on gastrointestinal function in turkeys

This study investigated the effects of dietary replacement of soybean meal (SBM) with graded levels of pea seeds (PS) on the gastrointestinal function of turkeys.Seeds of 2 pea varieties, a colored-flowered variety and a white-flowered variety (CFP and WFP, respectively) were fed to 56-d-old birds for 8 wk.A total of 539 female Hybrid turkeys were

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