Educação matemática, cultura amazônica e prática pedagógica: a margem de um rio

Esta pesquisa intitulada Educação Matemática, Cultura Amazônica e Prática Pedagógica; à Margem de um Rio, tem como objetivo analisar a prática pedagógica de uma professora que aborda diversos conteúdos matemáticos, a partir da Cultura Amazônica em uma escola pertencente a uma das ilhas de Belém do Pará. A parte empírica deste trabalho aconteceu no período de 6 meses na Escola do Combu, localizada na Ilha do Combu-PA durante o acompanhamento das turmas de Educação Infantil e do Ciclo Básico. Esta pesquisa justifica-se pela busca da compreensão da necessidade de aproximação entre as operações matemáticas e o cotidiano imaginário dos alunos ribeirinhos, a partir da construção de suas casas, cascos (embarcação feita artesanalmente em troco de árvore), canoas, matapis (armadilhas para pegar camarão, feita com fibra da mata), tupés (tapetes para secagem do cacau feito de fibra da mata), redes, brinquedos, cestos. As concepções metodológicas estão pautadas nos princípios da pesquisa qualitativa, baseada na abordagem etnográfica, a fim de sistematizar conhecimentos sobre necessidades e dificuldades da interação entre a Matemática escolar e a cultura local. A prática pedagógica da professora em questão demonstra preocupações em aproximar o ensino de Matemática à diversidade cultural, peculiar ao local, a partir de aulas construídas na parceria dos saberes tradicionais como a tessitura de tupés, para exploração de elementos geométricos, uso de matapis como material didático para a construção de sistema métrico decimal entre outros. É possível indicar que as vivências utilizadas e resignificadas, através de registros e análises sob o olhar da Educação Matemática contribuem para o reconhecimento da influência da Cultura Amazônica, no processo ensino-aprendizagem da Matemática escolar.

Estudo sobre as unidades de medidas das grandezas físicas básicas: comprimento, massa e tempo

Measurement units are used almost automatically nowadays, but few people know the origin of the units of length (meter), mass (kilogram) and time (second). And do not care to know what were anciently units of which our ancestors used, the difficulties that existed to make a set of measures. The aim of this work is to make a historical approach, through various units of measure. They are old, unusual to others that have been forgotten since the standardization of meters, and is also discussed about the metric system Englih (Once and foot), AV system (eg pound grain) that are still used in some countries like United States and England, the Troy system consisting of units of measure for precious stones and metals (eg gold and diamond) are also cited some physical concepts as reference: inertial, non-inertial; mass: gravity, relativistic, inertial

Reports of committees and discussions thereon.

v. 1. [Prelimnary reports] Weights and measures. Inter-continental railway. Reciprocity treaties. Communications on the Atlantic, the Pacific, the gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean sea. Customs regulations. Port dues. Sanitary regulations.--v. 2. Patents and trade-marks. Extradition of criminals. International American monetary union. International American bank. International law. Arbitration. Miscellaneous business of the conference.--v. 3. Excursion appendix. Narrative of the tour of the delegates through the United States; together with descriptions of places visited, and reports of addresses delivered.--v. 4. Historical appendix. The congress of 1826, at Panama, and subsequent movements toward a conference of American nations.

Table of conversion factors and physical constants.

Tables.

Metrication in building design, production, and construction : a compendium of 10 papers /

Includes index.

Réunions générales de 1872.

Mode of access: Internet.

Report of the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures.

Mode of access: Internet.

Memoria sobre a reforma dos pezos e medidas em Portugal : segundo o systema metrico-decimal /

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Federal procurement metrication, appropriateness and methods : (final report) /

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Lessons from European schools and the American centennial.

"The metric system," p. [21]-58.

Metrication and dimensional coordination : a selected bibliography /

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A Video Quality Assessment Metric Based on Human Visual System

It is important for practical application to design an effective and efficient metric for video quality. The most reliable way is by subjective evaluation. Thus, to design an objective metric by simulating human visual system (HVS) is quite reasonable and available. In this paper, the video quality assessment metric based on visual perception is proposed. Three-dimensional wavelet is utilized to decompose video and then extract features to mimic the multichannel structure of HVS. Spatio-temporal contrast sensitivity function (S-T CSF) is employed to weight coefficient obtained by three-dimensional wavelet to simulate nonlinearity feature of the human eyes. Perceptual threshold is exploited to obtain visual sensitive coefficients after S-T CSF filtered. Visual sensitive coefficients are normalized representation and then visual sensitive errors are calculated between reference and distorted video. Finally, temporal perceptual mechanism is applied to count values of video quality for reducing computational cost. Experimental results prove the proposed method outperforms the most existing methods and is comparable to LHS and PVQM.

Enterprise information security policy assessment : an extended framework for metrics development utilising the goal-question-metric approach

Effective enterprise information security policy management requires review and assessment activities to ensure information security policies are aligned with business goals and objectives. As security policy management involves the elements of policy development process and the security policy as output, the context for security policy assessment requires goal-based metrics for these two elements. However, the current security management assessment methods only provide checklist types of assessment that are predefined by industry best practices and do not allow for developing specific goal-based metrics. Utilizing theories drawn from literature, this paper proposes the Enterprise Information Security Policy Assessment approach that expands on the Goal-Question-Metric (GQM) approach. The proposed assessment approach is then applied in a case scenario example to illustrate a practical application. It is shown that the proposed framework addresses the requirement for developing assessment metrics and allows for the concurrent undertaking of process-based and product-based assessment. Recommendations for further research activities include the conduct of empirical research to validate the propositions and the practical application of the proposed assessment approach in case studies to provide opportunities to introduce further enhancements to the approach.

Conflict-Tolerant Real-Time Specifications in Metric Temporal Logic

A framework based on the notion of "conflict-tolerance" was proposed in as a compositional methodology for developing and reasoning about systems that comprise multiple independent controllers. A central notion in this framework is that of a "conflict-tolerant" specification for a controller. In this work we propose a way of defining conflict-tolerant real-time specifications in Metric Interval Temporal Logic (MITL). We call our logic CT-MITL for Conflict-Tolerant MITL. We then give a clock optimal "delay-then-extend" construction for building a timed transition system for monitoring past-MITL formulas. We show how this monitoring transition system can be used to solve the associated verification and synthesis problems for CT-MITL.

Auto-calibration of a camera system using Image Alignment

Calibration of a camera system is a necessary step in any stereo metric process. It correlates all cameras to a common coordinate system by measuring the intrinsic and extrinsic parameters of each camera. Currently, manual calibration of a camera system is the only way to achieve calibration in civil engineering operations that require stereo metric processes (photogrammetry, videogrammetry, vision based asset tracking, etc). This type of calibration however is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Furthermore, in civil engineering operations, camera systems are exposed to open, busy sites. In these conditions, the position of presumably stationary cameras can easily be changed due to external factors such as wind, vibrations or due to an unintentional push/touch from personnel on site. In such cases manual calibration must be repeated. In order to address this issue, several self-calibration algorithms have been proposed. These algorithms use Projective Geometry, Absolute Conic and Kruppa Equations and variations of these to produce processes that achieve calibration. However, most of these methods do not consider all constraints of a camera system such as camera intrinsic constraints, scene constraints, camera motion or varying camera intrinsic properties. This paper presents a novel method that takes all constraints into consideration to auto-calibrate cameras using an image alignment algorithm originally meant for vision based tracking. In this method, image frames are taken from cameras. These frames are used to calculate the fundamental matrix that gives epipolar constraints. Intrinsic and extrinsic properties of cameras are acquired from this calculation. Test results are presented in this paper with recommendations for further improvement.