Title Model for Computer Networks Optimization

The TCP/IP architecture was consolidated as a standard to the distributed systems. However, there are several researches and discussions about alternatives to the evolution of this architecture and, in this study area, this work presents the Title Model to contribute with the application needs support by the cross layer ontology use and the horizontal addressing, in a next generation Internet. For a practical viewpoint, is showed the network cost reduction for the distributed programming example, in networks with layer 2 connectivity. To prove the title model enhancement, it is presented the network analysis performed for the message passing interface, sending a vector of integers and returning its sum. By this analysis, it is confirmed that the current proposal allows, in this environment, a reduction of 15,23% over the total network traffic, in bytes.

One size doesn't fit all: Research methodologies in a language variation study of Sudanese teens

The research reported here draws on a study of five teenagers from a Dinka-speaking community of Sudanese settling in Australia. A range of factors including language proficiency, social network structure and language attitudes are examined as possible causes for the variability of language use. The results and discussion illustrate how the use of a triangular research approach captured the complexity of the participants' language situation and was critical to developing a full understanding of the interplay of factors influencing the teens' language maintenance and shift in a way that no single method could. Further, it shows that employment of different methodologies allowed for flexibility in data collection to ensure the fullest response from participants. Overall, this research suggests that for studies of non-standard communities, variability in research methods may prove more of a strength that the use of standardised instruments and approaches.

Waves of Change Within Civil Society in Latin America: Mexico City and Sao Paulo

For the past half a century, Latin American scholars have been pointing toward the emergence of new social actors as agents of social and political democratization. The first wave of actors was characterized by the emergence of novel agents-mainly, new popular movements-of social transformation. At first, the second wave, epitomized by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), was celebrated as the upsurge of a new civil society, but later on, it was the target of harsh criticism. The literature often portrays this development in Latin American civil society as a displacement trend of actors of the first wave by the second wave-""NGOization""-""and even denounces new civil society as rootless, depoliticized, and functional to retrenchment. Thus, supposedly, NGOization encumbers social change. The authors argue that NGOization diagnosis is a flawed depiction of change within civil society. Rather than NGOization related to the depoliticization and neoliberalization of civil society, in Mexico City and Sao Paulo, there has been modernization of organizational ecologies, changes in the functional status of civil society, and interestingly, specialization aimed at shaping public agenda. The authors argue that such specialization, instead of encumbering social change, brings about different repertoires of strategies and skills purposively developed for influencing policy and politics. Their argument relies on comparative systematic evidence. Through network analysis, they examine the organizational ecology of civil society in Mexico City and Sao Paulo.

Estimativa do recurso associado a um parque eólico e solução ótima de integração do parque numa rede elétrica do sudeste brasileiro

Um dos objetivos da presente dissertação consiste em estimar o recurso eólico num determinado local com base em dados de velocidade e direção de vento de outro local. Para esta estimativa, é utilizado um método que faz a extrapolação dos dados de vento do local onde as medições de velocidade e direção de vento foram realizadas para o local onde se quer estimar o recurso eólico, permitindo assim fazer uma avaliação da potência disponível que se pode obter para uma dada configuração de turbinas eólicas e tendo em consideração fatores topográficos tais como a rugosidade, orografia da superfície e também obstáculos em redor. Este método foi aplicado usando a ferramenta computacional, Wind Atlas Analysis and Aplication Program (WAsP), de modo a avaliar a potência média de um parque eólico na região de Osório, Brasil. O outro objetivo desta dissertação consiste no estudo e definição da melhor ligação do referido parque eólico à rede elétrica local. Para o efeito e após modelização da rede elétrica foram identificados os reforços de rede necessários na zona que irá receber a nova potência do parque eólico. No estudo em causa foram avaliadas quatro alternativas de ligação do parque eólico à rede. A escolha da melhor alternativa de ligação foi efetuada tendo por base uma análise de relação entre benefício de perdas da rede e custos de reforço da rede local.

Epidemiological methods for research with drug misusers: review of methods for studying prevalence and morbidity

Epidemiological studies of drug misusers have until recently relied on two main forms of sampling: probability and convenience. The former has been used when the aim was simply to estimate the prevalence of the condition and the latter when in depth studies of the characteristics, profiles and behaviour of drug users were required, but each method has its limitations. Probability samples become impracticable when the prevalence of the condition is very low, less than 0.5% for example, or when the condition being studied is a clandestine activity such as illicit drug use. When stratified random samples are used, it may be difficult to obtain a truly representative sample, depending on the quality of the information used to develop the stratification strategy. The main limitation of studies using convenience samples is that the results cannot be generalised to the whole population of drug users due to selection bias and a lack of information concerning the sampling frame. New methods have been developed which aim to overcome some of these difficulties, for example, social network analysis, snowball sampling, capture-recapture techniques, privileged access interviewer method and contact tracing. All these methods have been applied to the study of drug misuse. The various methods are described and examples of their use given, drawn from both the Brazilian and international drug misuse literature.

Análise de risco em organizações: caso de estudo

Dissertação Final de Mestrado para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia Mecânica no perfil de Manutenção e Produção

Avaliação da intervenção socioeducativa sobre a violência na escola

A investigação desenvolvida no âmbito do projeto Estratégias de Intervenção socioeducativa em contextos sociais complexos enquadra-se na avaliação das políticas sociais e educativas, em particular no que diz respeito à segurança escolar em contextos marcados pela diversidade e complexidade social e cultural. O processo de avaliação centrou-se na análise das estratégias de intervenção socioeducativa relativas ao problema da violência na escola, desenvolvidas em três escolas de um concelho da Área Metropolitana de Lisboa. Partindo do pressuposto que a violência na escola é um fenómeno multideterminado e multifacetado, a pesquisa centrou-se numa abordagem que enquadra as esferas de intervenção/ação das instituições formais e dos agentes sociais enquanto mecanismos que estruturam e regulam as concepções e práticas de violência na escola. A recolha e sistematização de informação centrou-se, por um lado, nas estratégias de intervenção que têm vindo a ser desenvolvidas localmente pelas escolas, e, por outro, nas perspetivas dos diferentes intervenientes, considerando-se os alunos, osprofessores, as direções escolares e representantes das entidades e instituições locais. Metodologicamente, privilegiou-se o cruzamento de métodos de carácter extensivo e intensivo, combinando técnicas como a Observação Direta, a realização de Entrevistas, de Grupos Focais, de Questionários, e ainda, a Análise de Redes e a Análise Documental. Numa fase posterior, os diversos intervenientes participaram na discussão e análise dos resultados previamente recolhidos, e na validação conjunta de uma metodologia de intervenção que define um conjunto de estratégias gerais de combate às situações de violência na escola e nos territórios educativos. Esta metodologia é o principal produto do projeto e resulta de um processo de avaliação dinâmico e participado. A contribuição que se apresenta no VI Encontro do CIED ocupa-se dos procedimentos de avaliação desenvolvidos no âmbito deste projeto.

Detecção de sectores cruzados e optimização de cobertura em redes LTE

Trabalho Final de Mestrado para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia de Electrónica e Telecomunicações

Dinâmicas das relações da rede formal de saúde da criança maltratada na cidade do Barreiro

Mestrado em Intervenção Sócio-Organizacional na Saúde - Ramo de especialização: Qualidade e Tecnologias da Saúde

Towards a GIS-T database design and implementation for public transit planning: the case study of Dar-Es-salaam metropolitan city, Tanzania.

Dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies

C&SIG na delimitação da estrutura ecológica municipal: aplicação ao município de Cascais

Trabalho de projecto apresentada como requisito parcial para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Ciência e Sistemas de Informação Geográfica.

A Quantitative Model for Decomposing & Assessing the Value for the Customer

The research presented in this paper proposes a novel quantitative model for decomposing and assessing the Value for the Customer. The proposed approach builds on the different dimensions of the Value Network analysis proposed by Verna Allee having as background the concept of Value for the Customer proposed by Woodall. In this context, the Value for the Customer is modelled as a relationship established between the exchanged deliverables and a combination of tangible and intangible assets projected into their endogenous or exogenous dimensions. The Value Network Analysis of the deliverables exchange enables an in-depth understanding of this frontier and the implicit modelling of co-creation scenarios. The proposed Conceptual Model for Decomposing Value for the Customer combines several concepts: from the marketing area we have the concept of Value for the Customer; from the area of intellectual capital the concept of Value Network Analysis; from the collaborative networks area we have the perspective of the enterprise life cycle and the endogenous and exogenous perspectives; at last, the proposed model is supported by a mathematical formal description that stems from the area of Multi-Criteria Decision Making. The whole concept is illustrated in the context of a case study of an enterprise in the footwear industry (Pontechem). The merits of this approach seem evident from the contact with Pontechem as it provides a structured approach for the enterprises to assess the adequacy of their value proposition to the client/customer needs and how these relate to their endogenous and/or exogenous tangible or intangible assets. The proposed model, as a tool, may therefore be a useful instrument in supporting the commercialisation of new products and/or services.

HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 1 (HTLV-1) AND HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 2 (HTLV-2): GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH TRENDS AND COLLABORATION NETWORKS (1989-2012)

Publications are often used as a measure of research work success. Human T-lymphotropic virus (HTLV) type 1 and 2 are human retroviruses, which were discovered in the early 1980s, and it is estimated that 15-20 million people are infected worldwide. This article describes a bibliometric review and a coauthorship network analysis of literature on HTLV indexed in PubMed in a 24-year period. A total of 7,564 documents were retrieved, showing a decrease in the number of documents from 1996 to 2007. HTLV manuscripts were published in 1,074 journals. Japan and USA were the countries with the highest contribution in this field (61%) followed by France (8%). Production ranking changed when the number of publications was normalized by population (Dominican Republic and Japan), by gross domestic product (Guinea-Bissau and Gambia), and by gross national income per capita (Brazil and Japan). The present study has shed light on some of the defining features of scientific collaboration performed by HTLV research community, such as the existence of core researchers responsible for articulating the development of research in the area, facilitating wider collaborative relationships and the integration of new authors in the research groups.

Potencial Utilização de um Enterprise Resource Planning System para Suportar Práticas de Gestão de Conhecimento nas Organizações. Uma Aplicação com Dynamics Nav da Microsoft

Dissertação apresentada como requisito parcial para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Estatística e Gestão de Informação

Corporate networks in Poland: Interlocking directorates and business systems

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics