Fuzzy angel: uma arquitetura distribu��da de telemedicina para monitoramento de pacientes com esclerose lateral amiotr��fica

The Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive muscle weakness that leads the patient to death, usually due to respiratory complications. Thus, as the disease progresses the patient will require noninvasive ventilation (NIV) and constant monitoring. This paper presents a distributed architecture for homecare monitoring of nocturnal NIV in patients with ALS. The implementation of this architecture used single board computers and mobile devices placed in patient���s homes, to display alert messages for caregivers and a web server for remote monitoring by the healthcare staff. The architecture used a software based on fuzzy logic and computer vision to capture data from a mechanical ventilator screen and generate alert messages with instructions for caregivers. The monitoring was performed on 29 patients for 7 con-tinuous hours daily during 5 days generating a total of 126000 samples for each variable monitored at a sampling rate of one sample per second. The system was evaluated regarding the rate of hits for character recognition and its correction through an algorithm for the detection and correction of errors. Furthermore, a healthcare team evaluated regarding the time intervals at which the alert messages were generated and the correctness of such messages. Thus, the system showed an average hit rate of 98.72%, and in the worst case 98.39%. As for the message to be generated, the system also agreed 100% to the overall assessment, and there was disagreement in only 2 cases with one of the physician evaluators.

Integra����o e interdisciplinaridade no processo ensino/aprendizagem de projeto: o curso de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade Potiguar de Mossor��-RN

Training in Architecture and Urbanism with its general characteristic involves, in its nature, knowledge of various areas (technology, theory, history, representation, and design), being the space of design conception that place where the synthesis of this knowledge is reflected more clearly. We believe that the integrated work in the architectural curriculum can provide an overview of the project, thus contributing to better training of the architect. This research aims to reflect on the role of integration and interdisciplinary in teaching architectural design. This theme has been work recurrently by critics in the teaching area of project and events of the area as the seminars of the Projetar, highlighted by several authors to search integration as an essential pedagogical approach to design education. The work aims to contribute to reflection and awareness of those involved on the importance of integration in the architectural course of project processes. For this, we analyzed the potential and limits of this process in Architecture and Urbanism Course (CAU) at the Universidade Potiguar (UNP) Mossor��, which has the integration and interdisciplinary recorded since the Pedagogical Project of the Course. This analysis will be performed by observing the development of ���interdisciplinary work��� in the fifth term during the first half of 2014.1. This research concerns an exploratory qualitative study that aims to investigate specific issues on the teaching/learning architecture project and the integration in architecture courses, following a non-participant observation in architectural design classes in the fifth term of CAU/UnP/ Mossor��, and analysis of final products, which would be the work of the last unit of the semester, called ���Interdisciplinary work���. Questionnaires for the teachers who participated in the process has been apply via email and analyzed. Reflection supports several other already carried out to identify the difficulties inherent in applying these principles satisfactorily. Noting, however, that interdisciplinarity, in fact, it goes beyond integration and is even more difficult to achieve. In addition to an educational project that incorporates these principles, such as the course of Architecture and Urbanism of the UNP-Mossor��, full adhesion it is necessary by the faculty and students of this teaching philosophy.

Integra����o e interdisciplinaridade no processo ensino/aprendizagem de projeto: o curso de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade Potiguar de Mossor��-RN

Training in Architecture and Urbanism with its general characteristic involves, in its nature, knowledge of various areas (technology, theory, history, representation, and design), being the space of design conception that place where the synthesis of this knowledge is reflected more clearly. We believe that the integrated work in the architectural curriculum can provide an overview of the project, thus contributing to better training of the architect. This research aims to reflect on the role of integration and interdisciplinary in teaching architectural design. This theme has been work recurrently by critics in the teaching area of project and events of the area as the seminars of the Projetar, highlighted by several authors to search integration as an essential pedagogical approach to design education. The work aims to contribute to reflection and awareness of those involved on the importance of integration in the architectural course of project processes. For this, we analyzed the potential and limits of this process in Architecture and Urbanism Course (CAU) at the Universidade Potiguar (UNP) Mossor��, which has the integration and interdisciplinary recorded since the Pedagogical Project of the Course. This analysis will be performed by observing the development of ���interdisciplinary work��� in the fifth term during the first half of 2014.1. This research concerns an exploratory qualitative study that aims to investigate specific issues on the teaching/learning architecture project and the integration in architecture courses, following a non-participant observation in architectural design classes in the fifth term of CAU/UnP/ Mossor��, and analysis of final products, which would be the work of the last unit of the semester, called ���Interdisciplinary work���. Questionnaires for the teachers who participated in the process has been apply via email and analyzed. Reflection supports several other already carried out to identify the difficulties inherent in applying these principles satisfactorily. Noting, however, that interdisciplinarity, in fact, it goes beyond integration and is even more difficult to achieve. In addition to an educational project that incorporates these principles, such as the course of Architecture and Urbanism of the UNP-Mossor��, full adhesion it is necessary by the faculty and students of this teaching philosophy.

Teleconsultoria Off-line: uma arquitetura distribu��da e compartilhada para sistemas heterog��neos

The Telehealth Brazil Networks Program, created in 2007 with the aim of strengthening primary care and the unified health system (SUS - Sistema ��nico de Sa��de), uses information and communication technologies for distance learning activities related to health. The use of technology enables the interaction between health professionals and / or their patients, furthering the ability of Family Health Teams (FHT). The program is grounded in law, which determines a number of technologies, protocols and processes which guide the work of Telehealth nucleus in the provision of services to the population. Among these services is teleconsulting, which is registered consultation and held between workers, professionals and managers of healthcare through bidirectional telecommunication instruments, in order to answer questions about clinical procedures, health actions and questions on the dossier of work. With the expansion of the program in 2011, was possible to detect problems and challenges that cover virtually all nucleus at different scales for each region. Among these problems can list the heterogeneity of platforms, especially teleconsulting, and low internet coverage in the municipalities, mainly in the interior cities of Brazil. From this perspective, the aim of this paper is to propose a distributed architecture, using mobile computing to enable the sending of teleconsultation. This architecture works offline, so that when internet connection data will be synchronized with the server. This data will travel on compressed to reduce the need for high transmission rates. Any Telehealth Nucleus can use this architecture, through an external service, which will be coupled through a communication interface.

Arquitetura em cidades ���sempre novas���: modernismo, projeto e patrim��nio

Arquitetura em cidades ���sempre novas���: modernismo, projeto e patrim��nio. Com essa chamada, a 4�� edi����o do encontro DOCOMOMO Norte-Nordeste, realizado na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, em Natal, no per��odo de 29 de maio a 02 de junho de 2012, reuniu um conjunto de trabalhos, mesas e confer��ncias para pensar o processo de renova����o arquitet��nica e urbana de nossas cidades partindo da quest��o central de que o gosto pelo novo, pela novidade, torna rapidamente obsoleto aquilo que, quando surgiu, tamb��m era novo, moderno. O encontro contemplou uma diversidade de enfoques distribu��da em tr��s eixos tem��ticos:1) A arquitetura moderna como projeto; 2) experi��ncias de conserva����o e transforma����o; e 3)narrativas historiogr��ficas, na observa����o da especificidade da arquitetura, do urbanismo e do paisagismo no Brasil. Este livro, se organiza segundo cinco abordagens que est��o subjacentes aos tr��s eixos tem��ticos acima mencionados: a) trajet��rias profissionais; b) a presen��a modernista em cidades brasileiras; c) a documenta����o, conserva����o, projeto e restauro; d) reflex��es sobre a produ����o modernista e, finalmente, e) a tecnologia e desempenho. Para cada abordagem, foram selecionados alguns trabalhos representativos apresentados na ocasi��o. Espera-se contribuir, com esse livro, para o debate sobre a aparente ��� ou, para muitos, real ��� contradi����o entre a necessidade de renova����o constante de nosso ambiente constru��do ��� afinal, a arquitetura e a cidade s��o por natureza din��micas ��� e a necessidade de preserva����o, particularmente do legado modernista inscrito em nossa paisagem urbana, amea��ado de extin����o pelo descaso, pelo abandono ou pela transforma����o descabida.

Arquitetura em cidades ���sempre novas���: modernismo, projeto e patrim��nio

Arquitetura em cidades ���sempre novas���: modernismo, projeto e patrim��nio. Com essa chamada, a 4�� edi����o do encontro DOCOMOMO Norte-Nordeste, realizado na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, em Natal, no per��odo de 29 de maio a 02 de junho de 2012, reuniu um conjunto de trabalhos, mesas e confer��ncias para pensar o processo de renova����o arquitet��nica e urbana de nossas cidades partindo da quest��o central de que o gosto pelo novo, pela novidade, torna rapidamente obsoleto aquilo que, quando surgiu, tamb��m era novo, moderno. O encontro contemplou uma diversidade de enfoques distribu��da em tr��s eixos tem��ticos:1) A arquitetura moderna como projeto; 2) experi��ncias de conserva����o e transforma����o; e 3)narrativas historiogr��ficas, na observa����o da especificidade da arquitetura, do urbanismo e do paisagismo no Brasil. Este livro, se organiza segundo cinco abordagens que est��o subjacentes aos tr��s eixos tem��ticos acima mencionados: a) trajet��rias profissionais; b) a presen��a modernista em cidades brasileiras; c) a documenta����o, conserva����o, projeto e restauro; d) reflex��es sobre a produ����o modernista e, finalmente, e) a tecnologia e desempenho. Para cada abordagem, foram selecionados alguns trabalhos representativos apresentados na ocasi��o. Espera-se contribuir, com esse livro, para o debate sobre a aparente ��� ou, para muitos, real ��� contradi����o entre a necessidade de renova����o constante de nosso ambiente constru��do ��� afinal, a arquitetura e a cidade s��o por natureza din��micas ��� e a necessidade de preserva����o, particularmente do legado modernista inscrito em nossa paisagem urbana, amea��ado de extin����o pelo descaso, pelo abandono ou pela transforma����o descabida.

Uma arquitetura distribu��da de hardware e software para controle de um rob�� m��vel aut��nomo

BRITTO, Ricardo S.; MEDEIROS, Adelardo A. D.; ALSINA, Pablo J. Uma arquitetura distribu��da de hardware e software para controle de um rob�� m��vel aut��nomo. In: SIMP��SIO BRASILEIRO DE AUTOMA����O INTELIGENTE,8., 2007, Florian��polis. Anais... Florian��polis: SBAI, 2007.

Arquitetura empresarial: um estudo de caso sobre a integra����o entre a plataforma moodle e o sigaa na UFRN

Atualmente, um dos aspectos da gest��o da informa����o que se encontra em evid��ncia �� o da arquitetura empresarial, entendida como o conjunto de pol��ticas e escolhas t��cnicas de padroniza����o e integra����o para viabilizar as estrat��gias de neg��cios da organiza����o. Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo analisar a integra����o de dois sistemas de gest��o na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) a partir das lentes da arquitetura empresarial. A influ��ncia dessa abordagem induz a organiza����o a desenvolver um alicerce de execu����o com o interesse de suportar com maior efici��ncia sua estrat��gia e obter agilidade em seus processos de neg��cio. A an��lise da integra����o desses dois sistemas, atrav��s de entrevistas semiestruturadas, no ��mbito da UFRN possibilitou a percep����o da necessidade de uma estrutura����o dos processos de TI a partir de uma arquitetura que favore��a um melhor alinhamento das capacidades de TI aos objetivos da organiza����o. A aus��ncia de um modelo operacional pode comprometer a efici��ncia do Sistema Integrado de Gest��o das Atividades Acad��micas (SIGAA) da UFRN na realiza����o do seu objetivo como plataforma ��nica de gest��o das informa����es da universidade

A cidade e o idoso

This thesis concerns the study of the city and impacts that will be caused in its structure due to the aging process of the human society, mainly in Brazil. The most important focus will be those related to problems of accessibility, leisure, housing, health and labor, issues that most affect people over 60 years of age. Beyond the analysis of inherent problems to the subject, proposals will be made for urban intervention that the cities become more suitable for the living of the elderly. To support this study, a review of different theories about the city was carried out, then a panel about the presence of the elderly in society, including Brazil, and in the cities, aiming at a vision, as broad as possible, on how the elderly were treated throughout history. In order to establish paradigms and parameters in the approach to the subject, a series of systematic observations on the urban space in different cities proceeded, in Brazil and abroad, with works aiming the inclusion of the elderly in urban areas, such as Amsterdam, Barcelona, Brasilia, Luanda and Rio de Janeiro, a city considered by the UN as physical and territorial urban laboratory suitable for the elderly. From there we tried to obtain, in addition to literature and observation of other countries experiences, the conduct of field research and official standards analysis, the theoretical basis for establishing guidelines on how to plan and design a more appropriate urban space for the elderly

Modos projetuais de simula����o: uso de ferramentas de simula����o t��rmica no processo projetual de arquitetura

This thesis aims to describe and demonstrate the developed concept to facilitate the use of thermal simulation tools during the building design process. Despite the impact of architectural elements on the performance of buildings, some influential decisions are frequently based solely on qualitative information. Even though such design support is adequate for most decisions, the designer will eventually have doubts concerning the performance of some design decisions. These situations will require some kind of additional knowledge to be properly approached. The concept of designerly ways of simulating focuses on the formulation and solution of design dilemmas, which are doubts about the design that cannot be fully understood nor solved without using quantitative information. The concept intends to combine the power of analysis from computer simulation tools with the capacity of synthesis from architects. Three types of simulation tools are considered: solar analysis, thermal/energy simulation and CFD. Design dilemmas are formulated and framed according to the architect s reflection process about performance aspects. Throughout the thesis, the problem is investigated in three fields: professional, technical and theoretical fields. This approach on distinct parts of the problem aimed to i) characterize different professional categories with regards to their design practice and use of tools, ii) investigate preceding researchers on the use of simulation tools and iii) draw analogies between the proposed concept, and some concepts developed or described in previous works about design theory. The proposed concept was tested in eight design dilemmas extracted from three case studies in the Netherlands. The three investigated processes are houses designed by Dutch architectural firms. Relevant information and criteria from each case study were obtained through interviews and conversations with the involved architects. The practical application, despite its success in the research context, allowed the identification of some applicability limitations of the concept, concerning the architects need to have technical knowledge and the actual evolution stage of simulation tools

Henri Lefebvre: possibilidades te��rico-metodol��gicas para Arquitetura e urbanismo

This paper presents the theoretical-methodological possibilities of the French philosopher and sociologist Henri Lefebvre, for the discipline of architecture and urbanism in an effort to overcome the fragmentation imposed by the institutionalization of science in general. From Du rural �� l'urbain (Lefebvre, 1970) compilation, it brings the author's other works from the period between 1968 and 1974, indicating the conduits for reflection and their interrelationships with methods, types of analyses and other procedures to treat the space-time urban. The methodology involves a research on the author s 'today and yesterday' in the scientific field, a research and analysis of his procedures in highlight of philosophical, social, economic and political aspects, the historical context of his references and provides significant and possible elements for the study, research and extension in the area in question

���"O que �� que h��? O que �� que est�� se passando" nessas cabe��as? : um estudo sobre a concep����o de projetos recentes da arquitetura residencial unifamiliar em Natal

���L ��tude se fonde sur la recherche du processus inh��rent �� la conception du projet par le biais de l approche architecturologique propos��e par Philippe Boudon et al (2000) ; un mod��le th��orique qui sert de fondement �� la construction d une connaissance de l architecture au moyen d une ��tude de la nature des op��rations mentales de chaque architecte lorsqu il organise son travail de conception. La mod��lisation de l architecturologie concentre son ��tude sur le travail qui a lieu avant m��me la confection mat��rielle du projet (repr��sentation graphique finale). De cette fa��on, douze projets furent analys��s d architecture r��sidencielle unifamiliale; con��us r��cemment par six architectes �� potiguares �� pour Natal et sa r��gion p��riph��rique. Les r��sultats mettent en ��vidence un ensemble de mod��les substrats (comme point de d��part) et t��l��ologiques (comme point d arriv��e) adopt��s par les auteurs au cours de la conception de leurs projets. Ces mod��les, de fa��on g��n��rale, sont li��s aux pertinences socio-culturelles (conventions, formes traditionnelles ou coutumes) du contexte pour lesquels ils sont con��us (lotissements priv��s de co-propri��t�� des classes moyennes et moyennes-sup��rieures) et en m��me temps, ils sont le fruit de croyances, d id��ologies et d exp��riences ant��rieures propres �� l espace de la conception de chaque architecte

O projeto de arquitetura de espa��os tempor��rios com o uso de sistema construtivo remont��vel: um estudo explorat��rio

The purpose of this research is to study the portable or reassemblable architectures, which, different from conventional architecture (whose designs are of permanent buildings), corresponds to the designing of spaces with temporary purposes. The focus of the study is the architectural design of spaces that are produced from building systems that can to be moved to different places (process of assembly / disassembly / reassembly) in order to identify the types of spaces generated and the processes used in their design / projecting. The aim is to investigate relationships between the initial project conceived based on a Reassemblable Construction System (RCS) and its application in the architectural design of professionals and students in order to contribute to the understanding of the specificities of this type of design activity. To this end it was developed the exploratory research based on multimedia methods, which includes: documentary analysis, technical visits, interviews, surveys, academic exercise and documentation by images. Although the study is not conclusive, the results indicate significant differences between the point of view of the RCS��s designers and its users (architects and architecture students) since the users demonstrated to have some difficulty to access the features provided for the first group, in particular the students. It is also demonstrated that the use of RCSs seems to change the appreciation / hierarchization of the conditions of project design, since, unlike what happens in traditional architectural design, the designers who use them seem to be more concerned with constructive issues, especially the structural elements (support and covering), instead of functionality, aesthetics and even physical characteristics of the site

Turismo cultural na ZEPH-Ribeira: possibilidades e limita����es

Considering that urban interventions, planned and executed recently at Natal, RN, should put Ribeira - one of the town centers - in the new limits of the expanded center of the city, this work examines the use of this new accessibility for the benefit of the development of an infrastructure to support a type of tourism currently seen as an alternative to diversification into areas dominated by entertainment tourism (the case of Natal). A local with city's traditional cultural facilities and holder of a set built that is a synthesis of the images of the neighborhood, it fears that this increase in the potential for movement and flows of use stimulate speculation and deployment of a bulk type of activity incompatible with the preservation the architectural heritage. Important economy for the city, tourism has been showing a factor propellant processing urban related changes in accessibility. It is argued that cultural tourism, often used in plans and projects of revitalization across the country, may be factor for sustainable development and conserve the assets, and contributes to the process of revitalization of the historic cultural center as Ribeira. Intended to illustrate the need to consider other information that might help in the revitalization of the neighborhood, this research presents the offer cultural tourism of Ribeira and identifies and maps certain physical attributes that, combined with functional attributes, can stimulate or inhibit the diversity and vitality in the region

Perman��ncias e perspectivas no ensino de projeto de arquitetura no Brasil: uma an��lise a partir da produ����o cient��fica dos Semin��rios UFRGS (1985) e Projetar (2003-2011)

O objeto de estudo desta tese �� o ensino de projeto de arquitetura no contexto acad��mico brasileiro. O trabalho procura analisar esse objeto nos aspectos relativos ao ensinar a fazer e ao aprender a fazer , por meio de uma perspectiva epistemol��gica e cognitiva, a partir da produ����o cient��fica dos Semin��rios UFRGS (1985) e Projetar (2003-2011) sob o olhar de tr��s estados constitutivos: conserva����o, perman��ncia e transforma����o. A metodologia de investiga����o �� qualitativa e seus pressupostos s��o investigad os por meio do m��todo hipot��tico-dedutivo em busca de um conhecimento aproximativo. Dentro do universo pesquisado, as hip��teses conduzem: primeiro, �� investiga����o e caracteriza����o de estruturas que se conservam; segundo, �� investiga����o e levantamento de valores e conceitos que permanecem adequados por sua capacidade de adapta����o ��s mudan��as e paradigmas; e, terceiro, por procurarem destacar pr��ticas pedag��gicas que indicam novos caminhos na maneira de agir e de se pensar o ensino de projeto de arquitetura. A pesquisa demonstrou que, embora em menores propor����es, ainda se conservam a����es e posturas pedag��gicas que: valorizam os ideais funcionalistas e racionalistas da arquitetura; adotam posturas deterministas, caminhos prescritivos ou intuitivos no ensino da concep����o arquitetural; n��o apresentam clareza metodol��gica na abordagem da problem��tica arquitet��nica; os contextos urbanos s��o pouco explorados na experimenta����o; utilizam um sistema de concep����o baseado em princ��pios est��ticos can��nicos e universais, sem problematizar as causas da transforma����o da arquitetura contempor��nea e qual o seu papel numa sociedade complexa e diversificada. Com rela����o ��s novas perspectivas encontradas, a an��lise da produ����o cient��fica demonstrou que a pr��tica pedag��gica do ensino de projeto de arquitetura no Brasil passa por transforma����es cr��ticas valiosas. Essa constata����o foi percebida, por meio, tamb��m, de reflex��es e de pr��ticas pedag��gicas que valorizam a integra����o de conte��dos; que possuem um discurso cr��tico e conciliador com rela����o �� necessidade de renova����o de pr��ticas, paradigmas, meios e conte��dos; que est��o abertas ��s posturas cooperativas e ��s estrat��gias para a constitui����o de um corpo te��rico-pr��tico para o ensino do projeto que n��o se limite ao campo da arquitetura; que reconhecem a import��ncia das novas tecnologias computacionais na concep����o projetual e no ensino do projeto, assim como, as tecnologias e estrat��gias que atualizam as solu����es projetuais no uso adequado dos recursos ambientais; que consideram o espa��o acad��mico como um lugar prop��cio para as experi��ncias projetuais e pedag��gicas; que manifestam um esfor��o em considerar a participa����o do usu��rio, assim como em realizar um processo de apreens��o de contextos complexos como objeto de estudo, adotando uma postura de valoriza����o do processo projetual. O trabalho conclui que a educa����o do arquiteto deve estar atenta aos aspectos relativos �� inclus��o da realidade sociocultural e ambiental como refer��ncia para o fazer arquitetural em detrimento da primazia dada �� racionalidade t��cnica, uma vez que essa realidade permite a media����o, entre o ser e o mundo , como uma estrat��gia que supera qualquer antecipa����o program��tica e viabiliza a transforma����o e a constru����o do pr��prio ser e do mundo . Assim, se o aprender fazendo �� necess��rio para a forma����o do arquiteto, que esse fazer seja refletido e retroalimente a pr��tica