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Currently there is a growing interest and worry regarding physical and morphological aspects of mankind. The somatotype technique is the most complete methodology to assess the physical characterization of both body morphology and composition. This technique also allows determining the body morphology and composition associated with a specific health condition, sports or aesthetic issues. Not only does it allow for the individuals to know him/herself, but aids to improve his/her physical condition, especially when it is associated to specific sportive activity and/or performance. BodyShifter was designed to perform the determination of an individual's somatotype for physicians, nutritionist and sports technicians to determine the individuals' physical characterization so that they may perform counselling on how to improve body shape and composition. Bodyshifter will also include a module to propose a strategy to enable individuals to change from one somatotype category to another within certain boundaries, for a given performance improvement, better quality of life or recover from a health disorder. The proposed strategy will be obtained using a metaheuristic algorithm to minimize the distance between the current and the desired individuals' somatotype.

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In order to support the intensive development of agricultural crops and, in particular the floricultural inside a greenhouse, with the perspective of a quick distribution in the market, increasing the economic benefits and supported on efficient and intelligent management systems energy, it is mandatory to conceive a model based on Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) This implies, accordingly, increases in renewable primary energy sources utilization coupled with sensing technologies, include developments on Internet of Things (IoT) and Cloud Computing (CC), supported with Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) that will lead to new architectural approach applied to a proposed energy system, based on a sustainable and more engineering autonomous process. This work comes up with a new energy model that retrofits the system of a greenhouse supported with multiple sensors in one grid, to expand into CPS concept to manage sensors and controllers that will improve a profitable energy system.

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