<s>
VISQ	B-Application
(	O
Portuguese	O
acronym	O
for	O
"	O
Variables	B-Application
that	I-Application
Interact	I-Application
Semi-Quantitatively	I-Application
"	O
)	O
is	O
a	O
scientific-educational	O
software	O
developed	O
using	O
Carnegie-Mellon	O
'	O
s	O
cT	O
,	O
in	O
the	O
year	O
of	O
1993	O
by	O
M	O
.	O
Thielo	O
(	O
as	O
a	O
physics	O
undergrad	O
at	O
the	O
time	O
)	O
,	O
based	O
on	O
Jon	O
Ogborn	O
ideas	O
for	O
semi-quantitative	O
modeling	O
of	O
dynamical	O
systems	O
,	O
for	O
both	O
MS-DOS	B-Application
and	O
Macintosh	B-Device
systems	O
(	O
in	O
2012	O
the	O
author	O
published	O
a	O
new	O
,	O
Windows	O
compatible	O
version	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Awarded	O
by	O
the	O
Universidade	O
Federal	O
do	O
Rio	O
Grande	O
do	O
Sul	O
(	O
UFRGS	O
)	O
in	O
1994	O
,	O
the	O
system	O
is	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
theory	O
of	O
continuous	O
neural	B-Architecture
networks	I-Architecture
,	O
and	O
have	O
been	O
used	O
in	O
many	O
research	O
projects	O
since	O
then	O
,	O
mainly	O
in	O
Master	O
and	O
Doctoral	O
Dissertations	O
in	O
the	O
area	O
of	O
environmental	O
education	O
.	O
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