Place in Time: The Role of Architecture in Establishing an Emotional Connection between Man and Time

This thesis explores the role of architecture as a means of reconnecting humans to the passage of time. A neglect of the temporal in our built environment obscures understanding of the human condition in all of its sensory aspects. The exploration and design of a series of ritual engagements, both culturally, and architecturally, begin to offer a venue through which designers can engage human senses. Rituals act as a means of demarcating the passage of time. It is through the engagement with these moments that people can begin to gain a richer understanding of the ephemeral nature of their own existence. The Pritzker Architecture Prize serves as the selected ritual of exploration because of its celebration of humanity and the art of architecture. However, the notion of ritual is explored down to the level of detail of engagement with handrails and door handles.

Aproveitamento da fibra do epicarpo do coco baba��u em comp��sito com matriz ep��xi: estudo do efeito do tratamento da fibra

Nowadays the environmental issues are increasingly highlighted since the future of humanity is dependent on the actions taken by man. Major efforts are being expended in pursuit of knowledge and alternatives to promote sustainable development without compromising the environment. In recent years there has been a marked growth in the development of reinforced composite fiber plants, as an alternative for economic and ecological effects, especially in the substitution of synthetic materials such as reinforcement material in composites. In this current study the chemical- physical or (thermophysics )characteristics of the babassu coconut fiber, derived from the epicarp of the fruit (Orbignyda Phalerata), which the main constituents of the fiber: Klason lignin, insoluble, cellulose, holocellulose, hemicellulose and the content of ash and moisture will be determined. A study was conducted about the superficial modification of the fibers of the epicarp babassu coconut under the influence of chemical treatment by alkalinization, in an aqueous solution of NaOH to 2.5% (m/v) and to 5.0% to improve the compatibility matrix / reinforcement composite with epoxy matrix. The results of the changes occurred in staple fibers through the use of the techniques of thermogravimetric analyses (TG) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The results found on thermal analysis on samples of fiber without chemical treatment (alkalinities), and on fiber samples treated by alkalinization show that the proposed chemical treatment increases the thermal stability of the fibers and provides a growth of the surface of area fibers, parameters that enhance adhesion fiber / composite. The findings were evaluated and compared with published results from other vegetable fibers, showing that the use of babassu coconut fibers has technical and economic potential for its use as reinforcement in composites

Forensic Injustice: Human Rights, Archival Science and Racialized Feminicide in Guatemala

The call to access and preserve the state records that document crimes committed by the state during Guatemala���s civil war has become an archival imperative entangled with neoliberal human rights discourses of ���truth, justice, and memory.��� 200,000 people were killed and disappeared in Guatemala���s civil war including acts of genocide in which 85% of massacres involved sexual violence committed against Mayan women. This dissertation argues that in an attempt to tell the official story of the civil war, American Human Rights organizations and academic institutions have constructed a normative identity whose humanity is attached to a scientific and evidentiary value as well as an archival status representing the materiality and institutionality of the record. Consequently, Human Rights discourses grounded in Western knowledges, in particular archival science and law, which prioritize the appearance of truth erase the material and epistemological experience of indigenous women during wartimes. As a result, the subjectivity that has surfaced on the record as most legible has mostly pertained to non-indigenous, middle class, urban, leftist men who were victims of enforced disappearance not genocide. This dissertation investigates this conflicting narrative that remembers a non-indigenous revolutionary masculine hero and grants him justice in human rights courtrooms simply because of a document attesting to his death. A main research question addressed in this project is why the promise of "truth and justice" under the name of human rights becomes a contentious site for gendered indigenous bodies? I conduct a discursive and rhetorical analysis of documentary film, declassified Guatemalan police and military records such as Operation Sofia, a military log known for ���documenting the genocide��� during rural counterinsurgencies executed by the military. I interrogate the ways in which racialized feminicides or the hyper-sexualized racial violence that has historically dehumanized indigenous women falls outside of discourses of vision constructed by Western positivist knowledges to reinscribe the ideal human right subject. I argue for alternative epistemological frames that recognize genocide as sexualized and gendered structures that have simultaneously produced racialized feminicides in order to disrupt the colonial structures of capitalism, patriarchy and heterosexuality. Ironically, these structures of power remain untouched by the dominant human rights discourse and its academic, NGO, and state collaborators that seek "truth and justice" in post-conflict Guatemala.

Spotter: towards a unified search interface in IDEs

Program comprehension requires developers to reason about many kinds of highly interconnected software entities. Dealing with this reality prompts developers to continuously intertwine searching and navigation. Nevertheless, most integrated development environments (IDEs) address searching by means of many disconnected search tools, making it difficult for developers to reuse search results produced by one search tool as input for another search tool. This forces developers to spend considerable time manually linking disconnected search results. To address this issue we propose Spotter, a model for expressing and combining search tools in a unified way. The current implementation shows that Spotter can unify a wide range of search tools. More information about Spotter can be found at scg.unibe.ch/research/moldablespotter

Community School of S��o Miguel de Machede: A decade of Learning

the Community School of S��o Miguel de Machede exists since 1998. A model of Community Education has been developed in this decade of existence, which not being confined to the frequent profiles of the most common approaches in Adult Education, has been the result of a process of symbiosis between a practice that normally precedes the conceptualization and a thought which has always expressed the concern of interpreting and enrich that practice. Setting on a model of learning based on the PAD��CA ��� Program of Helping the Development of the Capacity to Learn, proposed by Berbaum (1988), the Community School of S��o Miguel de Machede has been developing several activities centred on a fundamental concern: to create easy and qualified accesses, in this community (council of Evora), so that the respective members can learn to exercise their principal rights of citizenship, in the territory where they live and in a circumstance of equality of opportunities in relation to the remaining fellow countrymen. Being a project with a decade of life, it is now possible to speak of a history full of stories and learning experiences, which occurred as a result of a rich interaction between the initial thoughts and impulses of the theoretical approaches and a reality full of unexpectedness, mutability and humanity resulting from the complexity that a living community presents, with a history and a present, but not always with clear and positive idea about the respective future.

Natureza morta...edif��cio com vida: uma arquitetura sustent��vel para o Servi��o de Verifica����o de ��bitos

Sustainability in buildings, while reducing the impact on the environment, contributes to the promotion of social welfare, to increase the health and productivity of occupants. The search for a way of build that meets the aspirations and development of humanity without, however, represent degradation of the environment, has become the great challenge of contemporary architecture. It is considered that the incorporation of principles that provide a sustainable building with careful choices of design solutions contribute to a better economic and thermal performance of the building, as well as functional and psychological comfort to its users. Based on this general understanding, this paper presents an architecture project aimed to health care whose the solutions adopted follow carefully the relevant legislation and sets his sights on the theme of sustainability. The methodology began with studies on the themes of verification service of deaths, sustainability and those application in construction developed through research in academic studies and analysis of architectural projects, using them like reference for the solutions adopted. Within the project analysis was performed a visit to the verification service of deaths in the city of Palmas in Tocantins, subsidizing information that, plus the relevant legislation, led to functional programming and pre-dimensional of the building to be designed. The result of this programming environments were individual records with information from environmental restrictions, space required for the development of activities, desirable flow and sustainability strategies, that can be considered as the first product of relevance of the professional master's degree. Finally we have outlined the basic design architecture of a Verification Service of Death SVO/RN (in portuguese), whose process of projecting defined as a guiding line of work four points: the use of bioclimatic architecture as the main feature projectual, the use of resources would provide minimal harm to the environment, the use of modulation and structure to the building as a form of rationalization and finally the search for solutions that ensure environmental and psychological comfort to users. Importantly to highlight that, besides owning a rare theme in literature that refers to architectural projects, the whole project was drawn up with foundations in projective criteria that contribute to environmental sustainability, with emphasis on thermal performance, energy efficiency and reuse of rainwater

Ontologia do espa��o : critica da critica da entifica����o social do ser enquanto pressuposto a uma teoria espacial interpenetrada a ���ontologia do ser social���, de Gyorgy Lukacs

Tese (doutorado)���Universidade de Bras��lia, Instituto de Ci��ncias Humanas, Departamento de Geografia, Programa de P��s Gradua����o em Geografia, 2015.

Pensamento de Remo Bodei sobre a filosofia do s��culo XX : da estagna����o ao retorno da responsabilidade

Disserta����o (mestrado)���Universidade de Bras��lia,Instituto de Ci��ncias Humanas, Programa de P��s-Gradua����o em Filosofia, 2014.

A question of a voice: with what voice will I cry my sad fado?

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Relat��rio de Est��gio de Enfermagem Comunit��ria

O envelhecimento da popula����o �� um dos maiores triunfos da humanidade e tamb��m um dos nossos grandes desafios. O envelhecimento �� um processo inevit��vel e irrevers��vel, come��a na conce����o e continua at�� ao final da vida. Tal como a sa��de a velhice vai-se construindo ao longo da vida atrav��s de estilos de vida saud��veis e de um envelhecimento ativo. Assim a educa����o para a sa��de adota um papel fundamental permitindo ao enfermeiro orientar e capacitar o idoso, a fam��lia e comunidade da sua compet��ncia em gerir a sua pr��pria independ��ncia e a sua qualidade de vida. Com base nestes princ��pios efetu��mos o nosso est��gio de interven����o na freguesia da Tramaga no per��odo de 16 de Setembro de 2013 a 31 de Janeiro de 2014. Este relat��rio pretende descrever, analisar e avaliar as atividades planeadas e desenvolvidas durante o est��gio. O Diagn��stico de Sa��de da popula����o com 65 ou mais anos de idade, levado a cabo na freguesia da Tramaga, permitiu a identifica����o de problemas e necessidades desta popula����o, direcionando as nossas interven����es para minimiza����o dos mesmos e capacita����o de grupos e comunidade na sua resolu����o. Para a elabora����o deste trabalho recorreu-se �� metodologia de planeamento em sa��de e sess��es de educa����o para a sa��de (baseadas na Teoria da Organiza����o Comunit��ria). Este Est��gio de Interven����o permitiu-nos adquirir as compet��ncias espec��ficas do Enfermeiro Especialista em Enfermagem Comunit��ria e de Sa��de P��blica definidas pela Ordem dos Enfermeiros

Modelo para regular la identidad y el comportamiento de los usos del suelo en el ��rea de primer orden del centro hist��rico de Cuenca

Hist��ricamente la ciudad de Cuenca es, ha sido y muy probablemente ser�� un importante centro de desarrollo tanto para la provincia del Azuay, como para el pa��s; dicho desarrollo tuvo su inicio en lo que hoy se conoce como Centro Hist��rico de la ciudad. No se puede dejar de lado el hecho de que este sector tiene el reconocimiento de Patrimonio Cultural de la Humanidad otorgado por la UNESCO en diciembre de 1999. El presente trabajo de titulaci��n se ha centrado en el ��rea de Primer Orden del Centro Hist��rico de Cuenca, con el objetivo principal de proponer un modelo de usos de suelo que ayude a regular tanto la intensidad como el comportamiento de las actividades humanas presentes en el ��rea de estudio; as�� como la preservaci��n del patrimonio edificado. El camino para alcanzar dicho objetivo se dividi�� en cuatro etapas: la primera se centr�� en la recopilaci��n de informaci��n tanto te��rica como hist��rica; la segunda fue la elaboraci��n del diagn��stico de la situaci��n actual en lo referente a los usos de suelo; la tercera estuvo destinada a la formulaci��n de una metodolog��a que gu��e la elaboraci��n del modelo, basado en la informaci��n bibliogr��fica revisada con anterioridad, y finalmente en la ��ltima etapa se llev�� a cabo la aplicaci��n de lo propuesto para el ��rea de an��lisis.

La historia de la traducci��n como tarea de investigaci��n de las letras costarricenses

Se pone de relieve la importancia hist��rica y pertinencia cultural del desarrollo de la traducci��n en Costa Rica, en particular de su literatura. Se exploran algunos antecedentes y referencias al asunto, se se��alan algunos d��ficits significativos y se plantean cinco propuestas te��ricas: existe una dependencia de las literaturas nacionales de su traducci��n; la traducci��n debe formar parte de las historias literarias nacionales; se debe explicitar la relaci��n entre la historiograf��a pol��tica y social y la traducci��n; se debe considerar el patrimonio literario como parte de la identidad cultural; por ��ltimo, la traducci��n debe verse como parte de la memoria de la humanidad y, por tanto, su relevante valor cultural.Emphasis is given to the historical importance and cultural pertinence of the development of translation in Costa Rica, and of its literature in particular. Some background and references are provided, and significant gaps are addressed, along with five theoretical proposals: National literatures depend on being translated; translation should be part of national literary histories; the relation between political and social historiography and translation should be explicit; literary heritage should be part of cultural identity; and translation should be seen as part of the memory of humanity, and in turn its relevant cultural value recognized.

La depredaci��n animal como problema ��tico

El presente ensayo sintetiza y analiza algunas de las consideraciones filos��ficas en torno a la depredaci��n animal vista como un problema ��tico, esto es,de incumbencia y acci��n para el hombre. Se examinar��n algunas posiciones a favor de la acci��n del hombre para la preservaci��n y cuidado de los animales, y otras que, al contrario, argumentan por la no intervenci��n del humano en la vida de los animales y en el normal curso de la vida en la naturaleza. Finalmente, la autora defender�� su posici��n a favor del vegetarianismo como ��nica intervenci��n l��cita por parte de los seres humanos para disminuir la depredaci��n animal, mientras que rechazar�� la tesis del intervencionismo, que pretende detener toda clase de depredaci��n en el reino animal.

Evocation to the Dr. Carlos J. Finlay Barres on the centennial of his death

About the editorial of the Professor Guillermo Llanos: "Carlos J. Finlay: the forgotten Pasteur of America", a hundred years after his death and through a documental review, a summary of the life and work of this great man of science was conducted. Finlay was a notable figure of the American medicine, he conceived a new infection way able to explain the propagation of the yellow fever, and added the possibility of their scientific confirmation by an experimental method. For all the above-mentioned Finlay was recognized as the humanity's benefactor.

O genoc��dio como problema internacional contempor��neo : um estudo do caso sudan��s

Disserta����o (mestrado)���Universidade de Bras��lia, Instituto de Rela����es Internacionais, 2016.