Atuação do enfermeiro no acompanhamento do crescimento e desenvolvimento da criança

The nurses assistance in monitoring the growth and development of children has been characterized mostly a service based on the biological dimension of illness, when in reality, the actions should be combined in the reorientation of care model of the Family Health Strategy. Thus, the research aimed to examine the role of nurses in the growth and development of children. This is an exploratory and descriptive, qualitative approach. The project was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte under Opinion No. 191/2012. Data collection was developed in the Health Units from the city of Natal, RN, Brazil. Survey participants were nurses who worked in the Family Health Strategy for at least two years and who performed the monitoring of child growth and development in the health unit selected. Data were collected through an in-depth interview, and seized material from speeches was treated as categorical thematic analysis proposed by Bardin. This process revealed three themes, which were analyzed in the light of Relief Models and Process Work in Health and Nursing and discussed based on the findings literary. The results elucidated that nurses consider their performance satisfactory as it has favored the accession of mothers of children under one year nursing visits, contributing to the reduction of morbidity and mortality due to prevalent diseases, as well as the establishment of a connection between the professionals and mothers. It was shown that despite having a promotion and prevention with the use of lightweight technologies, the nurses also emphasized the care of mothers in complaints and signs and symptoms of children, followed by referrals to professionals in the unit or to other sectors. Furthermore, we found that the process of working nurses face challenges regarding the organizational structure of services and social situation of the family. Given these statements, it is observed that despite the strong interference from hegemonic health model in the performance of nurses, it is found that these professionals have been investing in promotion and prevention to injuries to children in care, with a focus on family context. Thus, nurses are embarking on making the reorientation of health care through the use of relational technologies, which has contributed to solving the integral care to the pediatric population

Uma arquitetura de software baseada em componentes visualização de informações industriais

Due to the current need of the industry to integrate data of the beginning of production originating from of several sources and of transforming them in useful information for sockets of decisions, a search exists every time larger for systems of visualization of information that come to collaborate with that functionality. On the other hand, a common practice nowadays, due to the high competitiveness of the market, it is the development of industrial systems that possess characteristics of modularity, distribution, flexibility, scalability, adaptation, interoperability, reusability and access through web. Those characteristics provide an extra agility and a larger easiness in adapting to the frequent changes of demand of the market. Based on the arguments exposed above, this work consists of specifying a component-based architecture, with the respective development of a system based on that architecture, for the visualization of industrial data. The system was conceived to be capable to supply on-line information and, optionally, historical information of variables originating from of the beginning of production. In this work it is shown that the component-based architecture developed possesses the necessary requirements for the obtaining of a system robust, reliable and of easy maintenance, being, like this, in agreement with the industrial needs. The use of that architecture allows although components can be added, removed or updated in time of execution, through a manager of components through web, still activating more the adaptation process and updating of the system

SOA-DB: uma arquitetura embarcada orientada a serviço para acesso a dispositivos biomédicos

The great diversity in the architecture of biomedical devices, coupled with their different communication protocols, has hindered the implementation of systems that need to make access to these devices. Given these differences, the need arises to provide access to such a transparent manner. In this sense, this paper proposes an embedded architecture, service-oriented, for access to biomedical devices, as a way to abstract the mechanism for writing and reading data on these devices, thereby contributing to the increase in quality and productivity of biomedical systems so as to enable that, the focus of the development team of biomedical software, is almost exclusively directed to its functional requirements

PEWS-RT, um sistema de tempo de execução para a linguagem PEWS

Web services are loosely coupled applications that use XML documents as a way of integrating distinct systems on the internet. Such documents are used by in standards such as SOAP, WSDL and UDDI which establish, respectively, integrated patterns for the representation of messages, description, and publication of services, thus facilitating the interoperability between heterogeneous systems. Often one single service does not meet the users needs, therefore new systems can be designed from the composition of two or more services. This which is the design goal behind the of the Service Oriented Architecture. Parallel to this scenario, we have the PEWS (Predicate Path-Expressions for Web Services) language, which speci es behavioural speci cations of composite web service interfaces.. The development of the PEWS language is divided into two parts: front-end and back-end. From a PEWS program, the front-end performs the lexical analysis, syntactic and semantic compositions and nally generate XML code. The function of the back-end is to execute the composition PEWS. This master's dissertation work aims to: (i) reformulate the proposed architecture for the runtime system of the language, (ii) Implement the back-end for PEWS by using .NET Framework tools to execute PEWS programs using the Windows Work ow Foundation

Índices de confiabilidade devido a vegetação e planejamento de podas de árvores em redes de distribuição

Pós-graduação em Engenharia Elétrica - FEIS

Diseño de una infraestructura TIC basada en virtualización

[ES] Las necesidades básicas de las empresas suelen ser las mismas, ya sea una empresa grande que pequeña, la infraestructura sobre la que montan sus procesos de negocio y las aplicaciones para gestionarlos suelen ser casi iguales. Si dividimos la infraestructura TIC de una empresa en hardware, sistema y aplicaciones, podemos ver que en la mayoría de ellas el sistema es casi idéntico. Además, gracias a la virtualización, que ha entrado de manera arrolladora en el mundo de la informática, podemos independizar totalmente el software del hardware, de forma que obtenemos una flexibilidad enorme a la hora de planificar despliegues de infraestructura. Sobre estas dos ideas, uniformidad de sistema e independencia de hardware, son sobre las que se va a desarrollar el siguiente TFG. Para el desarrollo de la primera de ellas se realizará el estudio de la infraestructura básica ( sistema) que cualquier empresa suele tener. Se intentará dar una solución que sea válida para una gran cantidad de empresas de nuestro entorno y se realizará el diseño del mismo. Con la segunda idea desarrollaremos un sistema basado en servicios, que sea lo suficientemente completa para poder dar respuesta a las necesidades vistas pero, a su vez, suficientemente flexible para que el crecimiento en capacidades o servicios se pueda realizar de forma sencilla sin que la estructura del sistema, o sus módulos deban modificarse para realizarlos. Por tanto, vamos a realizar un diseño integral y completa, de forma que será tanto de hardware como de software, haciendo énfasis en la integración de los sistemas y la interrelación entre los distintos elementos de ellos. Se dará, a su vez, la valoración económica del mismo. Por último, y como ejemplo de la flexibilidad del diseño elegido veremos dos modificaciones sobre el diseño original. El primero de ellos será una ampliación para dar mayor seguridad en cuanto a redundancia de almacenamiento y, ya en un paso definitivo, montar un CPD remoto. El segundo de ellos será un diseño de bajo coste, en el que, mantenimiento los mismos servicios, bajaremos el coste del diseño con productos con algo menos de prestaciones, pero manteniendo la solución en conjunto unos altos niveles de calidad y servicio.

Aplicación Web para Ayuntamiento de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria : [Parte B]

[ES] Este Trabajo de Fin de Grado es un servicio basado en tecnologías web. El objetivo principal es ofrecer un servicio de creación y gestión de actas para el Ayuntamiento de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Para ello, consta de dos módulos principales, uno para “crear actas” y otro para “editar actas”. También se ha desarrollado otro módulo llamado plantillas donde se genera un PDF a partir de una plantilla preestablecida. Esta aplicación ha sido dividida en diferentes partes. La primera parte consistió en generar todas las configuraciones de base de datos necesarias para el funcionamiento de la aplicación. Después generamos todos los ficheros HTML y las interconexiones entre ellos. Finalmente, dotamos  a esos HTML estáticos de un estilo mucho más claro y organizado, dando a la aplicación una apariencia mucho más bonita. Una vez finalizada la parte frontal de la aplicación, empezamos a implementar la lógica detrás de la aplicación. Los módulos de “crear” y “editar” se hicieron utilizando formularios HTML y combinando la información obtenida de esos formularios con unas plantillas HTML generadas por nosotros. Toda esa información obtenida de los formularios se guarda en unos ficheros .txt para poder ser utilizados por el módulo editar. El módulo de plantillas nos muestra un editor HTML rellenado con una plantilla que ha sido previamente seleccionada por el usuario. Los ficheros pdf de este módulo no pueden editados con posterioridad  por lo que no se generan ficheros .txt. Por último, hay dos módulos que nos permiten ver todas las actas generadas por la aplicación. El primero de los dos módulos es el módulo de búsqueda, que nos permite buscar una palabra clave dentro de todos los ficheros pdf. El otro módulo nos muestra todas las actas que han sido marcadas como “cerradas”. Esta aplicación ha sido diseñada de forma modular, de manera que podemos añadir o quitar módulos de manera sencilla.

Knowledge Flows and Networks: the Interplay between Local and Global Linkages within Bangalore IT Cluster

This doctoral work gains deeper insight into the dynamics of knowledge flows within and across clusters, unfolding their features, directions and strategic implications. Alliances, networks and personnel mobility are acknowledged as the three main channels of inter-firm knowledge flows, thus offering three heterogeneous measures to analyze the phenomenon. The interplay between the three channels and the richness of available research methods, has allowed for the elaboration of three different papers and perspectives. The common empirical setting is the IT cluster in Bangalore, for its distinguished features as a high-tech cluster and for its steady yearly two-digit growth around the service-based business model. The first paper deploys both a firm-level and a tie-level analysis, exploring the cases of 4 domestic companies and of 2 MNCs active the cluster, according to a cluster-based perspective. The distinction between business-domain knowledge and technical knowledge emerges from the qualitative evidence, further confirmed by quantitative analyses at tie-level. At firm-level, the specialization degree seems to be influencing the kind of knowledge shared, while at tie-level both the frequency of interaction and the governance mode prove to determine differences in the distribution of knowledge flows. The second paper zooms out and considers the inter-firm networks; particularly focusing on the role of cluster boundary, internal and external networks are analyzed, in their size, long-term orientation and exploration degree. The research method is purely qualitative and allows for the observation of the evolving strategic role of internal network: from exploitation-based to exploration-based. Moreover, a causal pattern is emphasized, linking the evolution and features of the external network to the evolution and features of internal network. The final paper addresses the softer and more micro-level side of knowledge flows: personnel mobility. A social capital perspective is here developed, which considers both employees’ acquisition and employees’ loss as building inter-firm ties, thus enhancing company’s overall social capital. Negative binomial regression analyses at dyad-level test the significant impact of cluster affiliation (cluster firms vs non-cluster firms), industry affiliation (IT firms vs non-IT fims) and foreign affiliation (MNCs vs domestic firms) in shaping the uneven distribution of personnel mobility, and thus of knowledge flows, among companies.

Supramolekulare Affinitätsmaterialien basierend auf (–)-Isosteviol

Der Einsatz von optisch aktiven Elementen im Rückgrat von Wirtstrukturen ermöglicht die enantiofaciale Differenzierung von Gastmolekülen. In Vorarbeiten wurde die Synthese eines Triphenylenketals basierend auf dem optisch reinen Naturstoff (–)-Isosteviol entwickelt. Aufbauend darauf wurde im Zuge dieser Dissertation ein para-Toluolsulfonamid-funktionalisierter Rezeptor synthetisiert, welcher exzellentes Verhalten als Affinitätsmaterial in den im Arbeitskreis eingesetzten Quarzmikrowaagen-basierten Sensoren (QMB) aufweist. Im Zuge der Konstruktion einer (–)-Isosteviol-basierten Architektur mit verkleinerter Kavität wurde der Fünfring des (–)-Isosteviols („D-Ring“) in einem mehrstufigen Prozess zu einem sechsgliedrigen Ring erweitert. Eine Ketalisierung über die Ketofunktion am entsprechenden Ring dieser Verbindung lieferte den Grundbaustein für die Konstruktion von Triphenylenketalen. Weiterhin wurde die Synthese von Rezeptorstrukturen mit Triptycen-Gerüst in Verbindung mit (–)-Isosteviol beschrieben. Die Kombination verschiedener Ester des (–)-Isosteviol-Diketons mit Hexaammoniumtriptycen-Hexachlorid führte zum Aufbau der Rezeptorarchitekturen in Ausbeuten von bis zu 95%, die entsprechenden Produkte fielen als all-syn- und anti,anti,syn-Isomere an. Beide Isomere zeigten teils exzellentes Verhalten als Affinitätsmaterialen. Insbesondere in der Detektion kleinster Mengen an Benzol zeigte sich eins dieser Substrate als fähiger als sämtliche vorher bekannten und getesteten Substanzen. In einem letzten, abschließenden Schritt wurde über eine Olefin-Metathese eine Käfigstruktur für den Einsatz in der Sensorik dargestellt.

Integration of a simulation platform for electrical mobility within the arrowhead interoperability framework

This dissertation document deals with the development of a project, over a span of more than two years, carried out within the scope of the Arrowhead Framework and which bears my personal contribution in several sections. The final part of the project took place during a visiting period at the university of Luleå. The Arrowhead Project is an European project, belonging to the ARTEMIS association, which aims to foster new technologies and unify the access to them into an unique framework. Such technologies include the Internet of Things phe- nomenon, Smart Houses, Electrical Mobility and renewable energy production. An application is considered compliant with such framework when it respects the Service Oriented Architecture paradigm and it is able to interact with a set of defined components called Arrowhead Core Services. My personal contribution to this project is given by the development of several user-friendly API, published in the project's main repository, and the integration of a legacy system within the Arrowhead Framework. The implementation of this legacy system was initiated by me in 2012 and, after many improvements carried out by several developers in UniBO, it has been again significantly modified this year in order to achieve compatibility. The system consists of a simulation of an urban scenario where a certain amount of electrical vehicles are traveling along their specified routes. The vehicles are con-suming their battery and, thus, need to recharge at the charging stations. The electrical vehicles need to use a reservation mechanism to be able to recharge and avoid waiting lines, due to the long recharge process. The integration with the above mentioned framework consists in the publication of the services that the system provides to the end users through the instantiation of several Arrowhead Service Producers, together with a demo Arrowhead- compliant client application able to consume such services.

Applicazione Jolie - Servizio Prenotazioni

Introduzione sulla service-oriented architecture, i microservices, il linguaggio Jolie e descrizione della progettazione ed implementazione di un'applicazione Jolie service-oriented per la prenotazione di spazi (Booking Service).

Ontology driven integration platform for clinical and translational research

Semantic Web technologies offer a promising framework for integration of disparate biomedical data. In this paper we present the semantic information integration platform under development at the Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences (CCTS) at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHSC-H) as part of our Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) program. We utilize the Semantic Web technologies not only for integrating, repurposing and classification of multi-source clinical data, but also to construct a distributed environment for information sharing, and collaboration online. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is used to modularize and distribute reusable services in a dynamic and distributed environment. Components of the semantic solution and its overall architecture are described.

Design of SOA services: experiences from industry

Because of the unknown usage scenarios, designing the elementary services of a service-oriented architecture (SOA), which form the basis for later composition, is rather difficult. Various design guide lines have been proposed by academia, tool vendors and consulting companies, but they differ in the rigor of validation and are often biased toward some technology. For that reason a multiple-case study was conducted in five large organizations that successfully introduced SOA in their daily business. The observed approaches are contrasted with the findings from a literature review to derive some recommendations for SOA service design.

Arquitectura cognitiva basada en el gradiente sensorial y su aplicación a la robótica móvil

El objetivo de esta tesis es el desarrollo de un sistema completo de navegación, aprendizaje y planificación para un robot móvil. Dentro de los innumerables problemas que este gran objetivo plantea, hemos dedicado especial atención al problema del conocimiento autónomo del mundo. Nuestra mayor preocupación ha sido la de establecer mecanismos que permitan, a partir de información sensorial cruda, el desarrollo incremental de un modelo topológico del entorno en el que se mueve el robot. Estos mecanismos se apoyan invariablemente en un nuevo concepto propuesto en esta tesis: el gradiente sensorial. El gradiente sensorial es un dispositivo matemático que funciona como un detector de sucesos interesantes para el sistema. Una vez detectado uno de estos sucesos, el robot puede identificar su situación en un mapa topológico y actuar en consecuencia. Hemos denominado a estas situaciones especiales lugares sensorialmente relevantes, ya que (a) captan la atención del sistema y (b) pueden ser identificadas utilizando la información sensorial. Para explotar convenientemente los modelos construidos, hemos desarrollado un algoritmo capaz de elaborar planes internalizados, estableciendo una red de sugerencias en los lugares sensorialmente relevantes, de modo que el robot encuentra en estos puntos una dirección recomendada de navegación. Finalmente, hemos implementado un sistema de navegación robusto con habilidades para interpretar y adecuar los planes internalizados a las circunstancias concretas del momento. Nuestro sistema de navegación está basado en la teoría de campos de potencial artificial, a la que hemos incorporado la posibilidad de añadir cargas ficticias como ayuda a la evitación de mínimos locales. Como aportación adicional de esta tesis al campo genérico de la ciencia cognitiva, todos estos elementos se integran en una arquitectura centrada en la memoria, lo que pretende resaltar la importancia de ésta en los procesos cognitivos de los seres vivos y aporta un giro conceptual al punto de vista tradicional, centrado en los procesos. The general objective of this thesis is the development of a global navigation system endowed with planning and learning features for a mobile robot. Within this general objective we have devoted a special effort to the autonomous learning problem. Our main concern has been to establish the necessary mechanisms for the incremental development of a topological model of the robot’s environment using the sensory information. These mechanisms are based on a new concept proposed in the thesis: the sensory gradient. The sensory gradient is a mathematical device which works like a detector of “interesting” environment’s events. Once a particular event has been detected the robot can identify its situation in the topological map and to react accordingly. We have called these special situations relevant sensory places because (a) they capture the system’s attention and (b) they can be identified using the sensory information. To conveniently exploit the built-in models we have developed an algorithm able to make internalized plans, establishing a suggestion network in the sensory relevant places in such way that the robot can find at those places a recommended navigation direction. It has been also developed a robust navigation system able to navigate by means of interpreting and adapting the internalized plans to the concrete circumstances at each instant, i.e. a reactive navigation system. This reactive system is based on the artificial potential field approach with the additional feature introduced in the thesis of what we call fictitious charges as an aid to avoid local minima. As a general contribution of the thesis to the cognitive science field all the above described elements are integrated in a memory-based architecture, emphasizing the important role played by the memory in the cognitive processes of living beings and giving a conceptual turn in the usual process-based approach.