Experiência e formação em Walter Benjamin

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Promotion et protection sociale de l’enfance et de l’adolescence en Haïti

Comment l'État haïtien organise-t-il aujourd'hui la protection et la promotion sociale des enfants et des adolescents? L’objectif central de ce rapport est de répondre à cette question, dans l'espoir que les éléments apportés puissent éclairer sur une autre interrogation: comment la caractérisation des politiques publiques de protection et de promotion sociale ciblées sur les enfants et les adolescents permet-elle de compléter le profil du système haïtien de protection sociale?

Perfil das a tividades cotidianas e desfecho materno-perinatal de gestantes nulíparas

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Estudo Doppler-ecocardiográfico em atletas de diferentes modalidades esportivas

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

A presença da ciência, da técnica, da tecnologia e da produção no curso superior de Tecnologia em Fabricação Mecânica

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Modelo teórico de sensores ópticos baseados em fibras com grade de Bragg

Ao se aplicar uma tração exterior a uma fibra óptica, seu índice de refração pode modificar devido ao efeito foto-elástico. Quando a fibra contém uma grade de Bragg inscrita em seu núcleo, além do índice de refração seu período espacial também modifica, permitindo sua aplicação como sensores ópticos de temperatura e/ou deformação de alta sensitvidade. Do ponto de vista teórico, até o presente a operação de sensores baseados em fibras ópticas com grade de Brag (FGB) é explicada pelo efeito foto-elástico, através de componentes adequadas do tensor foto-elástico de fibras de sílica dopadas com germânio (germano-silicatadas). Em praticamente toda a literatura previamente estudada, apenas este tipo de fibra óptica tem suas propriedades optomecânicas bem definidas, o que pode representar uma restrição. Nesta dissertação apresentamos uma formulação teórica alternativa para o estudo das propriedades de um sensor de deformação longitudinal baseado em fibra óptica com grade de Bragg (FGB) que não depende do conhecimento prévio das componentes do tensor foto-elástico, e que leva a resultados que dependem apenas da razão de Poisson da fibra, uma característica mecânica facilmente mensurável, e de seu índice de refração efetivo. Os resultados obtidos com este modelo apresentam ótima concordância com aqueles obtidos pelo modelo conhecido da literatura, além de permitir estimar o comportamento de outros parâmetros relacionados ao espectro de refletividade da FGB.

Revendo o gênero: a representação da mulher no Bildungsroman feminino contemporâneo

Pós-graduação em Letras - IBILCE

A educação matemática no Brasil da perspectiva do discurso de pesquisadores

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Política, resistência e vida na função-educador: contribuições de Foucault

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Drogas, sujeito e proibicionismo: uma discussão sobre os modelos de atenção aos usuários de drogas

Pós-graduação em Psicologia - FCLAS

The future of medical diagnostics: review paper

While histopathology of excised tissue remains the gold standard for diagnosis, several new, non-invasive diagnostic techniques are being developed. They rely on physical and biochemical changes that precede and mirror malignant change within tissue. The basic principle involves simple optical techniques of tissue interrogation. Their accuracy, expressed as sensitivity and specificity, are reported in a number of studies suggests that they have a potential for cost effective, real-time, in situ diagnosis.

Determination of degree of ionization of poly(allylamine hydrochloride) (PAH) and poly[1-[4-(3-carboxy‑4 hydroxyphenylazo)benzene sulfonamido]-1,2-ethanediyl, sodium salt] (PAZO) in layer-by-layer films using vacuum photoabsorption spectroscopy

Electrostatic and hydrophobic interactions govern most of the properties of supramolecular systems, which is the reason determining the degree of ionization of macromolecules has become crucial for many applications. In this paper, we show that highresolution ultraviolet spectroscopy (VUV) can be used to determine the degree of ionization and its effect on the electronic excitation energies of layer-by-layer (LbL) films of poly(allylamine hydrochloride) (PAH) and poly[1-[4-(3-carboxy-4 hydroxyphenylazo)- benzene sulfonamido]-1,2-ethanediyl, sodium salt] (PAZO). A full assignment of the VUV peaks of these polyelectrolytes in solution and in cast or LbL films could be made, with their pH dependence allowing us to determine the p'K IND. a' using the Henderson-Hasselbach equation. The p'K IND. a' for PAZO increased from ca. 6 in solution to ca. 7.3 in LbL films owing to the charge transfer from PAH. Significantly, even using solutions at a fixed pH for PAH, the amount adsorbed on the LbL films still varied with the pH of the PAZO solutions due to these molecular-level interactions. Therefore, the procedure based on a comparison of VUV spectra from solutions and films obtained under distinct conditions is useful to determine the degree of dissociation of macromolecules, in addition to permitting interrogation of interface effects in multilayer films.

Smart structures: sperimentazione mediante attuatori e sensori innovativi

L’idea di base della seguente tesi, finora mai applicata o descritta in letteratura scientifica in base alle ricerche effettuate, è stata quella di creare un sistema di monitoraggio strutturale intelligente (Structural Health Monitoring, SHM) mediante dei sensori di deformazione a reticolo di Bragg (Fiber Bragg Grating, FBG), incollati su fili a memoria di forma inseriti a loro volta, bloccati con opportuni ancoraggi esterni, in sei travi di betoncino cementizio armato. L’obbiettivo della sperimentazione è stato quindi quello di creare delle travi intelligenti che, in condizioni di carico eccezionali e critiche (monitorate dal sensore a fibra ottica), sapessero “autoripararsi” mediante gli attuatori a memoria di forma con un processo di riscaldamento appositamente progettato.

Studio e sviluppo di sistemi RFID in banda UHF

The recent widespread diffusion of radio-frequency identification (RFID) applications operating in the UHF band has been supported by both the request for greater interrogation ranges and greater and faster data exchange. UHF-RFID systems, exploiting a physical interaction based on Electromagnetic propagation, introduce many problems that have not been fully explored for the previous generations of RFID systems (e.g. HF). Therefore, the availability of reliable tools for modeling and evaluating the radio-communication between Reader and Tag within an RFID radio-link are needed. The first part of the thesis discuss the impact of real environment on system performance. In particular an analytical closed form formulation for the back-scattered field from the Tag antenna and the formulation for the lower bound of the BER achievable at the Reader side will be presented, considering different possible electromagnetic impairments. By means of the previous formulations, of the analysis of the RFID link operating in near filed conditions and of some electromagnetic/system-level co-simulations, an in-depth study of the dimensioning parameters and the actual performance of the systems will be discussed and analyzed, showing some relevant properties and trade-offs in transponder and reader design. Moreover a new low cost approach to extend the read range of the RFID UHF passive systems will be discussed. Within the scope to check the reliability of the analysis approaches and of innovative proposals, some reference transponder antennas have been designed and extensive measurement campaign has been carried out with satisfactory results. Finally, some commercial ad-hoc transponder for industrial application have been designed within the cooperation with Datalogic s.p.a., some guidelines and results will be briefly presented.

Optical interface based on a nanofiber atom-trap

In this thesis, I present the realization of a fiber-optical interface using optically trapped cesium atoms, which is an efficient tool for coupling light and atoms. The basic principle of the presented scheme relies on the trapping of neutral cesium atoms in a two-color evanescent field surrounding a nanofiber. The strong confinement of the fiber guided light, which also protrudes outside the nanofiber, provides strong confinement of the atoms as well as efficient coupling to near-resonant light propagating through the fiber. In chapter 1, the necessary physical and mathematical background describing the propagation of light in an optical fiber is presented. The exact solution of Maxwell’s equations allows us to model fiber-guided light fields which give rise to the trapping potentials and the atom-light coupling in the close vicinity of a nanofiber. Chapter 2 gives the theoretical background of light-atom interaction. A quantum mechanical model of the light-induced shifts of the relevant atomic levels is reviewed, which allows us to quantify the perturbation of the atomic states due to the presence of the trapping light-fields. The experimental realization of the fiber-based atom trap is the focus of chapter 3. Here, I analyze the properties of the fiber-based trap in terms of the confinement of the atoms and the impact of several heating mechanisms. Furthermore, I demonstrate the transportation of the trapped atoms, as a first step towards a deterministic delivery of individual atoms. In chapter 4, I present the successful interfacing of the trapped atomic ensemble and fiber-guided light. Three different approaches are discussed, i.e., those involving the measurement of either near-resonant scattering in absorption or the emission into the guided mode of the nanofiber. In the analysis of the spectroscopic properties of the trapped ensemble we find good agreement with the prediction of theoretical model discussed in chapter 2. In addition, I introduce a non-destructive scheme for the interrogation of the atoms states, which is sensitive to phase shifts of far-detuned fiber-guided light interacting with the trapped atoms. The inherent birefringence in our system, induced by the atoms, changes the state of polarization of the probe light and can be thus detected via a Stokes vector measurement.