Educação, ética e experiência na contemporaneidade

The objetive of this paper is discuss, briefly, how are configured the dimensions of experience and ethics in society called "liquid" - from the discussions conducted by Zygmunt Bauman. It is observed that there is a difficulty of construction and maintenance of human relations which also leads to impoverishment of experience. This condition is related to the conexion of the bonds with the logic of consumption, which favors the ephemerality, disposability and transforming the other into an object of satisfaction. As a result, a new ethic becomes necessary, being guided in the rediscovery of public spaces as places of exchange (for exemple, the school institution), the experience with the other recognized as an autonomous subject and the reconfiguration of social ties from a policy of friendship.

Otimização da operação de sistemas de distribuição radiais usando um algoritmo genético especializado

Pós-graduação em Engenharia Elétrica - FEIS

Imagem organizacional e contação de histórias: um estudo sobre o uso do storytelling como recurso estratégico de comunicação

With the actual context of globalization and with advance of information and communication technologies, especially on the internet, the ways in which individuals relate and communicate have changed. Then, it comes a new dynamic of creation, production and distribution of messages, accompanied to a reality of information overloaded as a result of the diversity of emission sources which makes it difficult to attract the attention of individuals. Thus, the communication process in organizations has to go through a reconfiguration in order to adapt to these changes, seeking a strong position and new strategies to reach your audience. In this sense, many organizations are using storytelling to transmit their messages. Then, the objective is to understand how this narrative format can be a strategic resource of communication and also understand how the stories of common people help to produce identification, relationship and to strengthen the organizational image. Therefore, it analyzes, through the content analysis method and categorization technique, three videos that are constituted as storytelling, especially those based on people experience. It is expected that this research may contribute to the theoretical and methodological study of the adoption of new communication strategies, such as this narrative format

Switch allocation problems in power distribution systems

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Analysis of the radial operation of distribution systems considering operation with minimal losses

Electric power distribution systems, and particularly those with overhead circuits, operate radially but as the topology of the systems is meshed, therefore a set of circuits needs to be disconnected. In this context the problem of optimal reconfiguration of a distribution system is formulated with the goal of finding a radial topology for the operation of the system. This paper utilizes experimental tests and preliminary theoretical analysis to show that radial topology is one of the worst topologies to use if the goal is to minimize power losses in a power distribution system. For this reason, it is important to initiate a theoretical and practical discussion on whether it is worthwhile to operate a distribution system in a radial form. This topic is becoming increasingly important within the modern operation of electrical systems, which requires them to operate as efficiently as possible, utilizing all available resources to improve and optimize the operation of electric power systems. Experimental tests demonstrate the importance of this issue. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

O Primo Basílio e a relação espaço e tempo no audiovisual

Pós-graduação em Letras - FCLAS

Moda e Design Ergonômico: influência de variáveis biopsicossociais do climatério e da menopausa na percepção da usabilidade do vestuário feminino

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

Propriedade intelectual e as indústrias criativas: cultura digital, regulamentação e as licenças públicas

When we think of a transposition from a traditional culture industry to the new coherence of the creative industries, a number of new parallel discussions arises, encircled by the reconfiguration of the value chain of such industries and, not only, but also due to a change on creation coherence of a product whose most valuable input is creativity. Therefore, as a mechanism through which such creativity is valued, the intellectual property becomes one of the key elements of this debate, mainly in a world where the coherence of distribution transcends the physical copies towards the digitization of content. From this initial debate, the present article seeks to weave the main relations between the theme of creative industries and the intellectual property, describing the adversities of a deficient regulation and its consequences on the creative industries production, indicating the existing alternatives and questioning the balance between two forces: the collective and the individual rights.

Reconfiguração de sistemas de distribuição de energia elétrica utilizando uma metodologia multipartida

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Habitação social em centros urbanos consolidados: análise dialógica desde o percurso do projeto ao uso social: São Paulo (Brasil) e Roma (Itália)

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

Pequena produção de cachaça no interior paulista: a informalidade em questão

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Dynamic Traffic Grooming Algorithms for Reconfigurable SONET Over WDM Networks

The emergence of wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) technology provides the capability for increasing the bandwidth of synchronous optical network (SONET) rings by grooming low-speed traffic streams onto different high-speed wavelength channels. Since the cost of SONET add–drop multiplexers (SADM) at each node dominates the total cost of these networks, how to assign the wavelength, groom the traffic, and bypass the traffic through the intermediate nodes has received a lot of attention from researchers recently. Moreover, the traffic pattern of the optical network changes from time to time. How to develop dynamic reconfiguration algorithms for traffic grooming is an important issue. In this paper, two cases (best fit and full fit) for handling reconfigurable SONET over WDM networks are proposed. For each approach, an integer linear programming model and heuristic algorithms (TS-1 and TS-2, based on the tabu search method) are given. The results demonstrate that the TS-1 algorithm can yield better solutions but has a greater running time than the greedy algorithm for the best fit case. For the full fit case, the tabu search heuristic yields competitive results compared with an earlier simulated annealing based method and it is more stable for the dynamic case.

Pequena produção de cachaça no interior paulista: a informalidade em questão

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Analyzing the Complexity and Reliability of Switch-Frequency-Reconfigurable Antennas Using Graph Models

This paper addresses the functional reliability and the complexity of reconfigurable antennas using graph models. The correlation between complexity and reliability for any given reconfigurable antenna is defined. Two methods are proposed to reduce failures and improve the reliability of reconfigurable antennas. The failures are caused by the reconfiguration technique or by the surrounding environment. These failure reduction methods proposed are tested and examples are given which verify these methods.

Efficient Forest Data Structure for Evolutionary Algorithms Applied to Network Design

The design of a network is a solution to several engineering and science problems. Several network design problems are known to be NP-hard, and population-based metaheuristics like evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have been largely investigated for such problems. Such optimization methods simultaneously generate a large number of potential solutions to investigate the search space in breadth and, consequently, to avoid local optima. Obtaining a potential solution usually involves the construction and maintenance of several spanning trees, or more generally, spanning forests. To efficiently explore the search space, special data structures have been developed to provide operations that manipulate a set of spanning trees (population). For a tree with n nodes, the most efficient data structures available in the literature require time O(n) to generate a new spanning tree that modifies an existing one and to store the new solution. We propose a new data structure, called node-depth-degree representation (NDDR), and we demonstrate that using this encoding, generating a new spanning forest requires average time O(root n). Experiments with an EA based on NDDR applied to large-scale instances of the degree-constrained minimum spanning tree problem have shown that the implementation adds small constants and lower order terms to the theoretical bound.