A Engenharia Militar na prevenção: Proposta de um sistema de vigilância expedito – Torre de vigilância modular e portátil

A presente dissertação teve como objetivo o desenvolvimento de uma torre de vigilância como sistema expedito de observação e apoio no cumprimento de missões do Exército Português. O estudo desta teve obrigatoriamente em conta a obtenção de uma estrutura final o mais otimizada possível, cuja etapa inicial passou necessariamente pelo levantamento e conhecimento das estruturas semelhantes já existente. A solução encontrada traduziu-se numa estrutura modular e portátil constituída por uma cabine hexagonal capaz de se colocar em funcionamento a alturas entre os 2 e os 12 metros. Para a sua modelação efetuou-se o estudo de todos os critérios de dimensionamento tendo em atenção não só o Estado Limite Último como o Estado Limite de Serviço por forma a garantir o conforto de utilização além da essencial segurança estrutural. Após conclusão dessa etapa e identificação dos esforços condicionantes, foram efetuadas todas as verificações de segurança que levaram necessariamente à alteração de alguns elementos inicialmente definidos. Devido ao facto da estrutura poder ser utilizada com diversas alturas, foi necessário garantir que todos os elementos constituintes na mesma se encontrem em segurança em qualquer das possibilidades, contribuindo assim, para a elaboração do processo de montagem e desmontagem da estrutura.

Domain Globalization: Using Languages to Support Technical and Social Coordination

When a project is realized in a globalized environment, multiple stakeholders from different organizations work on the same system. Depending on the stakeholders and their organizations, various (possibly overlapping) concerns are raised in the development of the system. In this context a Domain Specific Language (DSL) supports the work of a group of stakeholders who are responsible for addressing a specific set of concerns. This chapter identifies the open challenges arising from the coordination of globalized domain-specific languages. We identify two types of coordination: technical coordination and social coordination. After presenting an overview of the current state of the art, we discuss first the open challenges arising from the composition of multiple DSLs, and then the open challenges associated to the collaboration in a globalized environment.

Optimization of the Modular Educational Program Structure

Optimized structure of the educational program consisting of a set of the interconnected educational objects is offered by means of problem solution of optimum partition of the acyclic weighed graph. The condition of acyclicity preservation for subgraphs is formulated and the quantitative assessment of decision options is executed. The original algorithm of search of quasioptimum partition using the genetic algorithm scheme with coding chromosomes by permutation is offered. Object-oriented realization of algorithm in language C++ is described and results of numerical experiments are presented.

Inverse and symmetrical voice: On languages with two transitive constructions

In voice and alignment typology, a categorical distinction is generally made between inverse systems on the one hand and symmetrical voice systems on the other. A major reason for distinguishing between these two types is the assumption that inverse systems are governed by a hierarchy involving grammatical, semantic, and ontological criteria, while symmetrical voice systems are based on discourse-pragmatic factors. However, the two types also have several important properties in common, in particular the fact that they have more than one nonderived transitive construction. Based on data from three native languages of South America, we show that the line between the two types is not always easy to draw, and that features of the inverse type can coexist with those of the symmetrical-voice type in the same language.

Romance Languages

Photo toward southwest. Taken from rear of Romance Languages Building. South Quad and Michigan Union to rear. William L. Jenney, architect. Originally University Museum, built 1880-1881. Roof replaced 1894. Museum moved in 1928. Housed Department of Romance Languages after 1928. Building razed in 1958. On verso: University of Michigan. News Service. 3564 Administration Building. Ann Arbor, Michigan