Der hinterhof: proposta "Kunstlerhaus" para quarteirão no Bairro de AuBere Neustadt em Dresden

INTRODUÇÂO: A presente dissertação decorre do trabalho elaborado no âmbito da disciplina de Projecto Avançado III desenvolvido durante o programa Erasmus na Technische Universitãt Dlesden, Alemanha em pareceria com a L’Université de Strasburg, França. O enunciado do exercício dado, intitulado Künstlerhaus\ tinha como premissa a elaboração de um projecto num proeminente quarteirão de esquina no bairro de AuBete Neustadt em Dresden. Pretendia-se a elaboração de uma estratégia que definisse o limite sudoeste do bairro através de um programa cultural, uma Kunstlemaus, residência de artistas, restaurante, zona de exposição, workshops e um auditório - relacionando o programa com a atmosfera artística e alternativa do bairro. A necessidade e entender as forças de estruturação desse bairro, com particularidades extremamente específicas do ponto de vista da interligação de espaços, leva ao estudo e análise de casos que, pela sua semelhança, possam ajudar a esclarecer e informar futuras decisões projectuais. Esta investigação, pelo interesse que foi acumulando, deixa de ser um simples suporte para o caso prático de Neustadt, mas antes uma base de interpretação desta realidade específica, útil e válida para qualquer caso prático em contexto similar. Contrariamente à estruturação inicial, esta investigação adquire maior relevância, no que diz respeito ao seu contributo, e apresenta-se como peça central deste trabalho. Assim, efectua-se uma divisão em dois capítulos: o primeiro denominado "Der Hinterhof- Investigação aplicável”; e o segundo "Caso prático: Aplicação em projecto". Este caso prático não tem a pretensão de ser paradigmático, mas antes uma possibilidade de utilização, ou forma de aplicação dos conceitos apreendidos na primeira instância - esclarecendo, por conseguinte, o sentido desta dissertação. Relativamente á escolha dos elementos a investigar, e de forma mais concreta, esta passou por identificar situações e operações que tivessem como base bairros com princípios urbanos similares dos de Neustadt, bem como características históricas e sociais também semelhantes. Nesse sentido, é analisado o caso da lnternationale Beuausstellung Berlin (IBA) de 1987, pelo tipo de abordagem, em rotura com a tida até então, no que diz respeito à recuperação de centros históricos; é ainda investigada a situação de Kreuzberg, Berlim, pelas suas semelhanças, ao nível do modelo, com AuBere Neustadt; e por fim, é analisado um caso prático - integrado nestes dois contextos (IBA e Kreuzberg)- realizado pelo Arquitecto Siza Vieira, com a intenção de entender a metodologia utilizada na aplicação dos principies pré-estabelecidos. "A cidade, tal como a realidade histórica, nunca é independente das etapas por que passou na sua evolução: é uma actualização dessas etapas e a sua projecção em direcção ao futuro" Berlim e Dresden, cidades do século XIX e XX, tiveram a sua (re)definição urbana na Revolução Industrial e Idade Contemporânea - ambas estas épocas cruciais para o desenvolvimento e reconstrução destas cidades, assim como para a formação de singularidades, nomeadamente a utilização especifica do espaço vazio do quarteirão na estrutura urbana destas cidades. Dresden procura, nos tempos actuais, reencontrar a sua identidade perdida após ter sido palco do maior massacre na II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945) e cobaia do regime da Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR). No entanto, uma pequena parcela da cidade manteve-se intacta desde a sua elementar constituição no século XVIII: Aubere Neustadt. Um bairro operário que, com o desenvolvimento histórico, social e político, viu os espaços vazios dos seus quarteirões, associados à rigidez do traçado urbano, serem transformados em concepções personalizadas pelos sobreviventes da guerra e por comunidades alternativas ligadas sobretudo ao mundo das artes. Esse fenómeno iniciou-se na Revolução Industrial com a ocupação fabril dos espaços ainda não construídos da cidade, nomeadamente dentro dos quarteirões, assistindo-se à sobreposição dos interesses económicos sobre o desenho urbano existente. Devido à ausência de um projecto base, essas estruturas foram sendo ocupadas e modificadas por comunidades distintas, compondo o espaço actual numa gramática complexa. Falar de identidade, é falar de apropriar um todo, e compreendê-lo como um acto de unificação. A conjuntura social alemã é a génese de vários factores históricos, alguns dos quais considerados dramáticos. Nos territórios de Dresden e Berlim, inscrevem-se algumas das cicatrizes mais profundas do século XX. Nesse sentido, não são cidades como acto violento contra a natureza, mas antes demonstrações da natureza violenta do homem. Sendo a cidade o reflexo mais imediato das relações humanas e organização em sociedade, as cicatrizes patentes dessa violência criaram um impacto nas estruturas urbanas, socais, históricas e políticas. Morfologicamente, o quarteirão é um elemento urbano que mistura, agrupa e, ao mesmo tempo, divide os espaços públicos dos privados - muitas vezes detentor de ambiguidades na separação destas duas atmosferas. Importa entender o motivo social que leva a que existam espaços semi-públicos e semi-privados. O Hinterhof (espaço urbano vazio do quarteirão) prima, normalmente, por um carácter mais privativo por se encontrar distante da rua. No entanto os seus acessos, nos casos particulares de Dresden e Berlim, são maioritariamente de livre passagem, dando lugar a pátios, jardins, espaços para congregar as pessoas (esplanadas de bares, parques de estacionamento, workshops, parques de crianças, lugar para estender a roupa, festas de bairro, convívio particular, ateliers, horta comunitária, organização de picnics ao fim de semana ...) Os seus papeis não se conseguem definir, tal a sua pluralidade. O pensamento de "partiha" alemão, ainda hoje presente, possibilitou a criação desses espaços plurais semi-privados e semi-públicos. Devido ao facto de terem sido, outrora, o espaço comum de habitação de inúmeros trabalhadores fabris, com um sentido comunitário fixado no pós-guerra, também reflexo das dificuldades e sentido de entre-ajuda social com a imposição do regime da DDR.

L’ingénieur et le patrimoine. Savoirs techniques, amenagement du teritoire et mutation du paysage

Le présent volume est l’aboutissement éditorial d’un travail sur les patrimoines de l’ingénierie qui s’était initialement concrétisé par la journée d’études internationale du 6 juillet 2012, à l’Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. Cette journée a été organisée dans le cadre des activités des jeunes chercheurs et doctorants du master Erasmus Mundus TPTI, c’est-à-dire « Techniques, patrimoine, territoires de l’industrie », qui réunit un consortium universitaire international autour de ces questions, en offrant d’intéressantes opportunités d’échanges aux jeunes chercheurs. Les grands ouvrages de génie civil ont eu d’importantes conséquences paysagères et sociales. La mutation du paysage est aussi en lien direct avec la mise en place des grands systèmes techniques et avec l’aménagement des territoires de l’industrie. Ce patrimoine technique suscite un intérêt croissant. Le présent volume interroge les questions de sa protection, sa préservation et de sa valorisation.

Analysis of Needs and Resources

The initial aim of the CareMan project was to develop a joint degree programme that combined and utilised the strengths of the five collaborating universities that were already involved in delivering social and health care management education. Because the project was to be implemented in collaboration between education- al institutions, the collaboration had to be based on a detailed understanding of the national and institutional specifics of each of the individual academic enti- ties. During this process it was recognised that, due to a number of regulation issues, achieving the original aim would not be possible; ultimately, following a series of analytical works, which are presented below, it was decided that a set of three master’s level modules should be developed. One of the reasons was that the Finnish law on master’s degrees at universities of applied sciences (UAS) stated that the requirement for entry to a UAS master’s programme was a bachelor degree from a UAS or equivalent, plus a minimum of three years of work experience in an appropriate field. The three years’ work experience is also required from international students. In practice this meant that the participating Finnish UASs, Lahti and HAMK, could not award a diploma for foreign students without this work experience. The other European universities do not have the work experience requirement, although some take it as a bonus for admission (FHS UK). There were also other differences in law (e.g., requirements for mini - mum standards in Social Work education at FHS UK) that could not have been overcome during the period of project realisation. Consequently, the outcome was the development of only three common educational modules, each for 10 ECTS, which were developed, delivered and assessed during the lifetime of the project. The intention was that these would be integrated into the current masters’ level provision in each of the universities

The Proces of Curriculum and Module Design

The outcome of the inductive decision -making process of the leading project management group (PMG) was the proposal to develop three modules, Human Resource Management and Knowledge Management, Quality Management and Intercultural management, each for 10 ECTS credits. As a result of the theoretical and organisational framework and analytical phase of the project, four strategies informed the development and implemen- tation of the modules: 1. Collaboration as a principle stemming from EU collaborative policy and receiving it’s expression on all implementation levels (designing the modules, modes of learning, delivering the modules, evaluation process). 2. Building on the Bologna process masters level framework to assure ap- propriate academic level of outputs. 3. Development of value -based leadership of students through transforma- tional learning in a cross -cultural setting and continual reflection of theory in practice. 4. Continual evaluation and feedback among teachers and students as a strategy to achieve a high quality programme. In the first phase of designing the modules the collaborative strategy in particular was applied, as each module was led by one university, but members from all other universities participated in the discussions and development of the mod- ules. The Bologna process masters level framework and related standards and guidelines informed the form and method of designing the modules.

Summary and Conclusion

This monograph outlines the process and results of development of a common educational programme at masters level in health and social care management, which was supported by the Erasmus Life Long Education project CareMan (Cul- ture and Care Management). The CareMan project brought together university partners actively involved in educating social and health care professionals in leadership and management at master’s level in Europe. The five partners of the consortium were Lahti University of Applied Sciences – Lahti UAS (administra- tive and academic coordinator, Finland), Charles University – CU (the Czech Republic), Edinburgh Napier University – ENU (Scotland), Hammeline University of Applied Sciences – HAMK (Finland), and University of Évora – UoE (Portugal). The objectives of the project were to achieve lower -level educational goals that included the development through education cultural and value -driven leadership, quality of care and quality management to effectively manage an integrated health and social care service. Through mapping the situation in the field and comparing curricula of all participating universities the overall aim was to develop a joint masters programme in social and healthcare management. After the detailed understanding of national and institutional specifics of each of the individual academic entities it was recognised that, due to a number of regulation issues, the original aim was not achievable. Following subsequent analytical work, it was decided to develop a set of three master’s level modules. At the end of the project it was intended that all created modules would be available virtually to the participating programmes and would contribute some added value to existing curricula. In the future these ready -to -use modules are intended to be taught in cooperation with the participating universities or as a separate module in each university. The chosen theoretical framework of the project that underpinned the devel- opment, management and evaluation of the inter -cultural educational provision relied on the combination of two learning theories – ‘cooperative collaborative and social learning’ and ’transformational’ (Mezirow, 2009). This theoretical framework helped to align with European collaborative policy and its application on all levels of implementation of the project.

Quality Management

The purpose of this chapter is to enable registered health and social care prac - titioners to assume a clinical and/or a professional leadership role in quality management in the health and social care sectors. The contents in this chap - ter will strengthen the management competences of practitioners working in these sectors, including critical thinking, critical reflection, problem solving and decision -making, thus improving the quality in health and social care services.

Satisfação laboral dos docentes no ensino superior: um estudo comparativo Portugal- Espanha

Nas instituições do ensino superior, a satisfação dos docentes surge como uma componente essencial para garantir o bom funcionamento da mesma. Um nível adequado da satisfação laboral dos docentes permite aumentar o seu desempenho e acima de tudo, permite atingir níveis superiores de qualidade dos serviços que se oferece aos alunos. Este trabalho baseia-se na investigação de uma dissertação da área de Gestão de Recursos Humanos, cujo objetivo é analisar e comparar o nível de satisfação laboral dos docentes de ensino superior, conhecer o nível de qualidade percecionado pelos docentes, dos serviços oferecidos ao aluno, assim como, identificar as motivações que determinaram estes professores a elegerem a carreira docente. Para alcançar os objetivos propostos adotou-se o método quantitativo e a recolha de dados realiza-se através de um questionário elaborado com base na revisão de literatura. A população alvo abrange 180 professores da Escola de Ciências Socias da Universidade de Évora (Portugal), e 74 da Facultad de Empresa, Finanzas y Turismo da Universidade de Extremadura (Espanha). O resultado deste trabalho será o fruto da pesquisa da dissertação que está em curso, uma consequência derivada da colaboração do programa Erasmus entre a Universidade de Évora e Universidade de Extremadura.

SEAMS SCHOOL FINAL REPORT

In this school, we introduced the basis of the mathematical analysis to study differential equations (ordinary and partial). One aim to prepare students and staff members for more concrete problems arising in mathematical modeling in engineering and biological processes. Theoretical and numerical lectures were given, with a presentation of free scientific computing software using Python. A website and a drive were created to facilitate exchanges between students, lecturers and organizers: The school was sponsored by CIMPA (Centre International de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées) IMU (International Mathematical Union) ISP (International Science Programme) NUOL (National University of Laos) Erasmus Mundus ERDF – Picardie Region Beerlao ETL3G

Comparison of Photovoltaic panel’s standard and simplified models

Shockley diode equation is basic for single diode model equation, which is overly used for characterizing the photovoltaic cell output and behavior. In the standard equation, it includes series resistance (Rs) and shunt resistance (Rsh) with different types of parameters. Maximum simulation and modeling work done previously, related to single diode photovoltaic cell used this equation. However, there is another form of the standard equation which has not included Series Resistance (Rs) and Shunt Resistance (Rsh) yet, as the Shunt Resistance is much bigger than the load resistance and the load resistance is much bigger than the Series Resistance. For this phenomena, very small power loss occurs within a photovoltaic cell. This research focuses on the comparison of two forms of basic Shockley diode equation. This analysis describes a deep understanding of the photovoltaic cell, as well as gives understanding about Series Resistance (Rs) and Shunt Resistance (Rsh) behavior in the Photovoltaic cell. For making estimation of a real time photovoltaic system, faster calculation is needed. The equation without Series Resistance and Shunt Resistance is appropriate for the real time environment. Error function for both Series resistance (Rs) and Shunt resistances (Rsh) have been analyzed which shows that the total system is not affected by this two parameters' behavior.

Different Parameters Variation Analysis of a PV Cell

The paper states an introduction, description and implementation of a PV cell under the variation of parameters. Analysis and observation of a different parameters variation of a PV cell are discussed here. To obtain the model for the purpose of analyzing an equivalent circuit with the consisting parameters a photo current source, a series resistor, a shunt resistor and a diode is used. The fundamental equation of PV cell is used to study the model and to analyze and best fit observation data. The model can be used in measuring and understanding the behaviour of photovoltaic cells for certain changes in PV cell parameters. A numerical method is used to analyze the parameters sensitivity of the model to achieve the expected result and to understand the deviation of changes in different parameters situation at various conditions respectively. The ideal parameters are used to study the models behaviour. It is also compared the behaviour of current-voltage and power-voltage by comparing with produced maximum power point though it is a challenge to optimize the output with real time simulation. The whole working process is also discussed and an experimental work is also done to get the closure and insight about the produced model and to decide upon the validity of the discussed model.

Representing image captions as concept graphs using semantic information

Conceptual interpretation of languages has gathered peak interest in the world of artificial intelligence. The challenge in modeling various complications involved in a language is the main motivation behind our work. Our main focus in this work is to develop conceptual graphical representation for image captions. We have used discourse representation structure to gain semantic information which is further modeled into a graphical structure. The effectiveness of the model is evaluated by a caption based image retrieval system. The image retrieval is performed by computing subgraph based similarity measures. Best retrievals were given an average rating of . ± . out of 4 by a group of 25 human judges. The experiments were performed on a subset of the SBU Captioned Photo Dataset. This purpose of this work is to establish the cognitive sensibility of the approach to caption representations

Improving understandability in consumer health information search: Uevora @ 2016 fire chis

This paper presents our work at 2016 FIRE CHIS. Given a CHIS query and a document associated with that query, the task is to classify the sentences in the document as relevant to the query or not; and further classify the relevant sentences to be supporting, neutral or opposing to the claim made in the query. In this paper, we present two different approaches to do the classification. With the first approach, we implement two models to satisfy the task. We first implement an information retrieval model to retrieve the sentences that are relevant to the query; and then we use supervised learning method to train a classification model to classify the relevant sentences into support, oppose or neutral. With the second approach, we only use machine learning techniques to learn a model and classify the sentences into four classes (relevant & support, relevant & neutral, relevant & oppose, irrelevant & neutral). Our submission for CHIS uses the first approach.

Author Profiling using SVMs and Word Embedding Averages — Notebook for PAN at CLEF 2016

In this paper, we describe one of the approaches of the participation of Universidade de Évora. Our approach is similar to usual methods where text is preprocessed, features are extracted, and then used in SVMs with cross validation. The main difference is that features used come from averages of word embeddings, specifically word2vec vectors. Using PAN 2016 dataset, we were able to achieve 44.8% and 68.2% for English age and gender classification respectively. We were also able to achieve 51.3% and 67.1% accuracy for Spanish age and gender classification. Finally, we report 71.9% accuracy for Dutch age classification.