Deterioração das pedras da arquitetura mortuária do cemitério Nossa Senhora da Soledade

A cidade de Belém do Pará contém um espaço que abriga inúmeros monumentos pétreos históricos, os quais configuram e marcam a identidade da sociedade belenense do século XIX. Esse espaço é o Cemitério da Soledade, que se configura como um museu a céu aberto. Além do intemperismo, que faz com que as pedras estejam constantemente sendo alteradas, o Soledade sofre com saques e vandalismos ao longo de seus mais de 150 anos de existência e a presença de patologias nos revestimentos pétreos de túmulos e mausoléus do primeiro cemitério público de Belém, fere a qualidade e a integridade do material, interferindo de forma negativa na leitura da imagem do espaço, o qual é tombado como Patrimônio Nacional Paisagístico desde1964, pelo IPHAN. A partir disso, e considerando a importância da conservação e restauração de edifícios e monumentos antigos para a preservação da memória de um povo, a pesquisa buscou avaliar as deteriorações de origem intempérica e antrópica nas diferentes pedras utilizadas nos túmulos e mausoléus do Cemitério Nossa Senhora da Soledade, por meio do conhecimento das características das rochas usadas, do seu estado de alteração e das causas e mecanismos de deterioração visando gerar subsídios para a sua conservação e restauração. O diagnóstico do estado de conservação, por meio de mapeamento de danos confirmou o nível avançado das manifestações patológicas nas superfícies das pedras, que internamente também apresentam falta de coesão e descontinuidades, conforme resultados do ultrassom. A partir das análises e investigações tecnológicas foi possível caracterizar o granito, o lioz e o mármore e determinar agentes e mecanismos de deterioração como a ação química, as altas temperaturas e a ação microbiológica. Para contribuir com ações de conservação futuras, foram realizados testes de procedimentos restaurativos, com polimento e aplicação de emplastro de bentonita, que se mostraram eficientes na limpeza dos monumentos. Com os dados obtidos com esse estudo, busca-se a oposição ao caráter atual de abandono do Cemitério da Soledade, promovendo a importância de mantê-lo conservado para as gerações futuras.

Utilização de 5S, Kanban e Layout para a melhoria do controle de estoque em um varejo de materiais para construção

Many small businesses suffer from a lack of control of goods stored. This lack of control affects other areas of the company as purchase, that can’t buy material in an advanced and accurated way. It also affects services provided by the company, especially when it is a store because for sell something it is necessary to have the material in the right time. Futhermore, the business isn’t able to identify obsolete items in stock, theft and vandalism, loss or damage to materials. All of these disorders can be converted into financial losses that make much difference to a small business that needs to remain competitive in the market facing the giants while generating a profit that allows it to invest in their growth. Therefore, any unnecessary expense is exceedingly harmful and any savings already differentiates it from other companies of similar size. This study deals with the application of production engineering tools as 5S, kanban and layout in a building materials retail to tackle problems that prevent this company to have a stock organized and accurated. Finally, we recorded gains that the company reached with the implementation of part of the solution proposed

Uso e conservação de plantas medicinais nativas por comunidades quilombolas no município de Alcântara, Maranhão

Pós-graduação em Agronomia (Horticultura) - FCA

Rivalidade entre Torcidas de Time de Futebol: violência nos Estádios

This research reveals an understanding that football fans have about the rivalry between fans. The fans believe that their rivalry on the one hand encourages teams, but when it passes the limit becomes violence and vandalism. The fans who attend the stadium are no longer made by families and are increasingly being criminals and delinquents who ruin the spectacle of football

Violência na escola pública?: o estudo de uma realidade no município de Franca-SP

Pós-graduação em Serviço Social - FCHS

Parameter estimation for transformer modeling

Large Power transformers, an aging and vulnerable part of our energy infrastructure, are at choke points in the grid and are key to reliability and security. Damage or destruction due to vandalism, misoperation, or other unexpected events is of great concern, given replacement costs upward of $2M and lead time of 12 months. Transient overvoltages can cause great damage and there is much interest in improving computer simulation models to correctly predict and avoid the consequences. EMTP (the Electromagnetic Transients Program) has been developed for computer simulation of power system transients. Component models for most equipment have been developed and benchmarked. Power transformers would appear to be simple. However, due to their nonlinear and frequency-dependent behaviors, they can be one of the most complex system components to model. It is imperative that the applied models be appropriate for the range of frequencies and excitation levels that the system experiences. Thus, transformer modeling is not a mature field and newer improved models must be made available. In this work, improved topologically-correct duality-based models are developed for three-phase autotransformers having five-legged, three-legged, and shell-form cores. The main problem in the implementation of detailed models is the lack of complete and reliable data, as no international standard suggests how to measure and calculate parameters. Therefore, parameter estimation methods are developed here to determine the parameters of a given model in cases where available information is incomplete. The transformer nameplate data is required and relative physical dimensions of the core are estimated. The models include a separate representation of each segment of the core, including hysteresis of the core, λ-i saturation characteristic, capacitive effects, and frequency dependency of winding resistance and core loss. Steady-state excitation, and de-energization and re-energization transients are simulated and compared with an earlier-developed BCTRAN-based model. Black start energization cases are also simulated as a means of model evaluation and compared with actual event records. The simulated results using the model developed here are reasonable and more correct than those of the BCTRAN-based model. Simulation accuracy is dependent on the accuracy of the equipment model and its parameters. This work is significant in that it advances existing parameter estimation methods in cases where the available data and measurements are incomplete. The accuracy of EMTP simulation for power systems including three-phase autotransformers is thus enhanced. Theoretical results obtained from this work provide a sound foundation for development of transformer parameter estimation methods using engineering optimization. In addition, it should be possible to refine which information and measurement data are necessary for complete duality-based transformer models. To further refine and develop the models and transformer parameter estimation methods developed here, iterative full-scale laboratory tests using high-voltage and high-power three-phase transformer would be helpful.

Identification of superior energy-absorbing materials for school bus interiors: Volume I - summary report. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Identification of superior energy-absorbing materials for school bus interiors: Volume II - technical report. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Identification of superior energy-absorbing materials for school bus interiors: Volume III - appendices report. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Break-ins at the Electric Boat Shipyard, Groton, Conn. : report of the Investigations Subcommittee of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session.

"December 1982."

Workshop on Methodology for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Transit Crime Reduction Measures in Automated Guideway Transit Systems. Proceedings. Final report.

Urban Mass Transportation Administration, Washington, D.C.

Toward safer schools in Illinois.

Includes bibliographical references.

Depreciative behavior in forest campgrounds : an exploratory study /

Bibliography: p. 12.

Escalation and deceleration of offending behaviours from adolescence to early adulthood

Relatively little longitudinal research is available in Australia to describe I the age/crime relationship in much detail, particularly patterns of offending occurring during the transition from adolescence to early adulthood. This paper addresses this issue using self-reported criminal involvement from a school-based sample, a group of socially disadvantaged individuals, and a group of officially identified offenders. The findings support the widespread research that rates of offending peak during adolescence, at which time offending is widespread, and that the criminal career is of relatively short duration. However, the results also demonstrate that the age/crime curve is not a unitary phenomenon. The type of offending behaviour being considered, the gender of the population, and the perpetrator's exposure to the criminal justice system contribute to the variability in the curve. In this study, the prevalence and mean level of overall offending for the total sample was higher during early adulthood than adolescence for vehicle offences and drug-use, rates of theft were similar in both periods, and vandalism and serious offending were lower. In addition, socially disadvantaged young people reported involvement in crime that peaked and desisted earlier in the life course compared to the school-based sample, and gender differences within these groups were also found. For the school-based sample, offending for females began and desisted earlier than for males, but within the at-risk group, the opposite was true. Implications for crime-prevention programming are discussed.

The appraisal and management of multi-storey dwelling blocks using large concrete panel systems

This exploratory study is concerned with the integrated appraisal of multi-storey dwelling blocks which incorporate large concrete panel systems (LPS). The first step was to look at U.K. multi-storey dwelling stock in general, and under the management of Birmingham City Council in particular. The information has been taken from the databases of three departments in the City of Birmingham, and rearranged in a new database using a suite of PC software called `PROXIMA' for clarity and analysis. One hundred of their stock were built large concrete panel system. Thirteen LPS blocks were chosen for the purpose of this study as case-studies depending mainly on the height and age factors of the block. A new integrated appraisal technique has been created for the LPS dwelling blocks, which takes into account the most physical and social factors affecting the condition and acceptability of these blocks. This appraisal technique is built up in a hierarchical form moving from the general approach to particular elements (a tree model). It comprises two main approaches; physical and social. In the physical approach, the building is viewed as a series of manageable elements and sub-elements to cover every single physical or environmental factor of the block, in which the condition of the block is analysed. A quality score system has been developed which depends mainly on the qualitative and quantitative conditions of each category in the appraisal tree model, and leads to physical ranking order of the study blocks. In the social appraisal approach, the residents' satisfaction and attitude toward their multi-storey dwelling block was analysed in relation to: a. biographical and housing related characteristics; and b. social, physical and environmental factors associated with this sort of dwelling, block and estate in general.The random sample consisted of 268 residents living in the 13 case study blocks. Data collected was analysed using frequency counts, percentages, means, standard deviations, Kendall's tue, r-correlation coefficients, t-test, analysis of variance (ANOVA) and multiple regression analysis. The analysis showed a marginally positive satisfaction and attitude towards living in the block. The five most significant factors associated with the residents' satisfaction and attitude in descending order were: the estate, in general; the service categories in the block, including heating system and lift services; vandalism; the neighbours; and the security system of the block. An important attribute of this method, is that it is relatively inexpensive to implement, especially when compared to alternatives adopted by some local authorities and the BRE. It is designed to save time, money and effort, to aid decision making, and to provide ranked priority to the multi-storey dwelling stock, in addition to many other advantages. A series of solution options to the problems of the block was sought for selection and testing before implementation. The traditional solutions have usually resulted in either demolition or costly physical maintenance and social improvement of the blocks. However, a new solution has now emerged, which is particularly suited to structurally sound units. The solution of `re-cycling' might incorporate the reuse of an entire block or part of it, by removing panels, slabs and so forth from the upper floors in order to reconstruct them as low-rise accommodations.