Métodos de identificação e redução de modelos para atenuação de vibrações em estruturas inteligentes

Pós-graduação em Engenharia Mecânica - FEIS

Ocorrência de alteradores endócrinos e fármacos nas águas de abastecimento público e ETE, em duas cidades da área de abrangência da UGRHI-21 e 22

Pós-graduação em Química - IQ

Clima e produção do espaço urbano: contribuição ao estudo da Geografia do Clima no contexto das cidades de São Carlos e Marília

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Aplicação da análise de séries temporais para detecção e prognóstico de danos em estruturas inteligentes

Pós-graduação em Engenharia Mecânica - FEIS

A produção imobiliária e a reestruturação das cidades médias: Londrina e Maringá/PR

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Cenários prospectivos e desenvolvimento de cidades a partir da visão de atores sociais: um estudo sobre o município de Marília/SP

Pós-graduação em Ciências Sociais - FFC

A dimensão urbana dos conflitos contemporâneos e as cidades frágeis: novas perspectivas e práticas

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Produção das desigualdades socioespaciais em cidades médias Amazônicas: análise de Santarém e Marabá, Pará

Pós-graduação em Geografia - FCT

Um modelo cognitivo baseado na atenção para consciência em robôs inteligentes

Understanding consciousness is one of the most fascinating challenges of our time. From ancient civilizations to modern philosophers, questions have been asked on how one is conscious of his/her own existence and about the world that surrounds him/her. Although there is no precise definition for consciousness, there is an agreement that it is strongly related to human cognitive processes such as: thinking, reasoning, emotions, wishes. One of the key processes to the arising of the consciousness is the attention, a process capable of promoting a selection of a few stimuli from a huge amount of information that reaches us constantly. Machine consciousness is the field of the artificial intelligence that investigate the possibility of the production of conscious processes in artificial devices. This work presents a review about the theme of consciousness - in both natural and artificial aspects -, discussing this theme from the philosophical and computational perspectives, and investigates the feasibility of the adoption of an attentional schema as the base to the cognitive processing. A formal computational model is proposed for conscious agents that integrates: short and long term memories, reasoning, planning, emotion, decision making, learning, motivation and volition. Computer experiments in a mobile robotics domain under USARSim simulation environment, proposed by RoboCup, suggest that the agent can be able to use these elements to acquire experiences based on environment stimuli. The adoption of the cognitive architecture over the attentional model has potential to allow the emergence of behaviours usually associated to the consciousness in the simulated mobile robots. Further implementation under this model could potentially allow the agent to express sentience, selfawareness, self-consciousness, autonoetic consciousness, mineness and perspectivalness. By performing computation over an attentional space, the model also allows the ...

Deslocamentos pendulares, consumo e shopping centers em cidades médias paulistas

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

A contribuição do projeto de identidade corporativa na redução da poluição visual nas cidades

One of the actual biggest problems in big towns is the visual pollution. The advertising has become a necessity for any type of business, resulting in the use of as urban spaces as possible like fronts structures, lights, with too many colors and details to keep the attention of sight, thus becoming an important problem for the social and cultural coexistence. The work of graphic designer can reduce this problem through the concepts of visual identity applied on the enterprise building front, giving harmony in the colors and spaces where they can apply the advertising without to attack the urban beauty and esthetics.

Conforto térmico em espaços públicos de passagem: estudos em cidades do Estado de São Paulo

This paper presents the results of a study on the thermal comfort in open urban spaces, undertaken in pedestrian streets located in the three towns, Campinas, Baurú, and Presidente Prudente, in the state of Sao Paulo. The study was developed as part of a more extensive project on thermal comfort in different kinds of open public spaces in Brazil. The methodology involved monitoring the microclimatic variables (air and globe temperature, humidity, air velocity and global solar radiation), and structured interviews, in order to assess the actual thermal comfort through the Actual Sensation Vote (ASV) and the personal users’ variables. The Physiological Equivalent Temperature (PET) was also calculated. The results show different limits for neutral temperature in each city: 20-29ºC for Campinas, 21-30 ºC for Bauru and 14-24 ºC for Presidente Prudente). However, 59.5% of the total sample (308 out of 519 individuals) indicated comfort limits ranging from 18 to 26 ºC, which is consistent with the limits proposed by Monteiro and Alucci for the city of Sao Paulo. These results can contribute to evaluate the thermal quality of other public spaces in the same towns.

A dinâmica urbana de cidades médias do interior paulista sob o Estatuto da Cidade

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

Princípios da cultura de paz e estratégias de sensibilização em relações públicas no Programa Cidades Sustentáveis

The proposal of this article is discuss about the concept of social responsibility in the context of the activity of Public Relations in order to verify how this concept is related to the notion of Peace Culture. It is a complex concept supported by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) which, among other objectives, seeks to interpret and also paid up organizational objectives to local and global demands by articulating social actions that lead to a sustainable development and management of cities. For this, we will defend the use of audiovisual resource for awareness of stakeholders as a strategic tool in Public Relations for the efficacy of topics related to "Sustainable Cities Program”, about which we will briefly discuss. The Program is a nonpartisan initiative that focuses on the sustainable management of cities so it functions as a tool that assists municipal managers in making strategic decisions.