Discursos sobre os gêneros discursivos: análise dos dizeres de sujeitos-professores do Ensino Fundamental I

Buscamos investigar, neste trabalho, quais são os discursos sobre os gêneros discursivos que circulam entre sujeitos-professores que atuam nos anos finais (4º e 5º anos) do Ensino Fundamental I, em escolas públicas municipais. Buscamos compreender também, a maneira como esses sujeitos (se) significam, em suas relações com a língua e a história. O interesse pela temática investigada se dá, principalmente, porque observamos, ao longo de nossos anos de experiência no magistério, que, embora os gêneros discursivos conforme definidos por Bakhtin (1997) sejam considerados pelos Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais e por outros documentos legais que fundamentam a Educação Básica, como um dos principais objetivos do ensino de língua portuguesa, o conceito ainda desperta muitas dúvidas nos docentes. Filiamo-nos à Análise de Discurso de matriz francesa, postulada por Pêcheux (2009), área do conhecimento basicamente constituída na intersecção entre o materialismo histórico, a psicanálise e a linguística, e que considera a língua como lugar de materialização do discurso que é a língua em movimento, em uso pelos sujeitos. Na construção de nosso referencial teórico, mobilizamos, ainda, a teoria bakhtiniana dos gêneros do discurso, e as contribuições de teóricos das ciências da educação, tais como Pimenta (2012), Tardif (2002), Giroux (1997), Sacristán (1998), entre outros. O corpus da pesquisa é representado por seis entrevistas semiestruturadas, realizadas com sujeitos-professores que atuam em classes de 4º e 5º ano do ensino fundamental, em escolas de rede pública municipal. A partir da transcrição das entrevistas, foram realizados recortes que constituíram o material analisado neste estudo. As análises realizadas aqui indiciam que os sujeitos-professores entrevistados circulam por formações discursivas e ideológicas cristalizadas, no que diz respeito à relação dos estudantes com a língua. Tais docentes buscam desenvolver um trabalho pedagógico mediado pelos critérios de suposta familiaridade, utilidade ou praticidade em relação aos usos sociais que os gêneros discursivos poderiam ter para os estudantes. Além disso, as análises discursivas de alguns recortes apontam para um equívoco na compreensão do conceito bakhtiniano de gêneros discursivos, compreendidos, no cotidiano escolar, como uma classificação tipológica e estanque, excluindo a dinamicidade e a plasticidade que envolvem o conceito, conforme proposto por Bakhtin (1997). A cristalização da definição do conceito de gêneros discursivos, na dimensão tipológica, favorece o cerceamento da prática pedagógica, colaborando para a difusão de práticas que visam o esgotamento dos gêneros discursivos, buscando apresentar o maior número possível de gêneros aos estudantes, sob a forma de modelos que deverão ser seguidos em suas produções textuais futuras, e que lhes serão cobrados em avaliações internas e externas.

Identificação de padrões de uso do solo urbano em São Paulo/SP utilizando parâmetros de variogramas.

As imagens de alta resolução espacial impulsionaram os estudos de Sensoriamento Remoto em ambientes urbanos, já que elas permitem uma melhor distinção dos elementos que compõem esse ambiente tão heterogêneo. Técnicas de Geoestatística são cada vez mais utilizadas em estudos de Sensoriamento Remoto e o variograma é uma importante ferramenta de análise geoestatística, pois permitem entender o comportamento espacial de uma variável regionalizada, neste caso, os níveis de cinza de uma imagem de satélite. O presente trabalho pretende avaliar a proposta metodológica que consiste em identificar padrões residenciais urbanos de três classes de uso e ocupação do solo por meio da análise dos valores apresentados pelos parâmetros, alcance, patamar e efeito pepita de um variograma. A hipótese é que os valores correspondentes a esses parâmetros representem o comportamento espectral padrão de cada classe e, portando, indicam que há um padrão na organização espacial de cada uma das classes. Para a presente pesquisa foram utilizadas imagem IKONOS 2002, e a classificação de uso e ocupação do solo da sub-bacia do córrego Bananal na bacia do Rio Cabuçu de Baixo em São Paulo SP. Amostras das imagens de cada classe foram extraídas e os valores de nível de cinza em cada pixel foram utilizados para calcular os variogramas. Após análise dos resultados obtidos, apenas o parâmetro alcance foi levado em consideração, pois é através desse parâmetro que se observa o grau de homogeneidade de cada amostra. Os valores de alcance obtidos nos cálculos dos variogramas identificaram com melhor precisão a classe Conjuntos Residenciais que é uma classe com padrões e características singulares, já a identificação das classes Ocupação Densa Regular e Ocupação Densa Irregular não obteve uma precisão boa, sendo que essas classes são similares em diversos aspectos.

Towards Closed-loop Deep Brain Stimulation: Behavior Recognition from Human STN

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) provides significant therapeutic benefit for movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease (PD). Current DBS devices lack real-time feedback (thus are open loop) and stimulation parameters are adjusted during scheduled visits with a clinician. A closed-loop DBS system may reduce power consumption and side effects by adjusting stimulation parameters based on patient’s behavior. Thus behavior detection is a major step in designing such systems. Various physiological signals can be used to recognize the behaviors. Subthalamic Nucleus (STN) Local field Potential (LFP) is a great candidate signal for the neural feedback, because it can be recorded from the stimulation lead and does not require additional sensors. This thesis proposes novel detection and classification techniques for behavior recognition based on deep brain LFP. Behavior detection from such signals is the vital step in developing the next generation of closed-loop DBS devices. LFP recordings from 13 subjects are utilized in this study to design and evaluate our method. Recordings were performed during the surgery and the subjects were asked to perform various behavioral tasks. Various techniques are used understand how the behaviors modulate the STN. One method studies the time-frequency patterns in the STN LFP during the tasks. Another method measures the temporal inter-hemispheric connectivity of the STN as well as the connectivity between STN and Pre-frontal Cortex (PFC). Experimental results demonstrate that different behaviors create different m odulation patterns in STN and it’s connectivity. We use these patterns as features to classify behaviors. A method for single trial recognition of the patient’s current task is proposed. This method uses wavelet coefficients as features and support vector machine (SVM) as the classifier for recognition of a selection of behaviors: speech, motor, and random. The proposed method is 82.4% accurate for the binary classification and 73.2% for classifying three tasks. As the next step, a practical behavior detection method which asynchronously detects behaviors is proposed. This method does not use any priori knowledge of behavior onsets and is capable of asynchronously detect the finger movements of PD patients. Our study indicates that there is a motor-modulated inter-hemispheric connectivity between LFP signals recorded bilaterally from STN. We utilize a non-linear regression method to measure this inter-hemispheric connectivity and to detect the finger movements. Our experimental results using STN LFP recorded from eight patients with PD demonstrate this is a promising approach for behavior detection and developing novel closed-loop DBS systems.

Identification of geostationary satellites using polarization data from unresolved images

In order to protect critical military and commercial space assets, the United States Space Surveillance Network must have the ability to positively identify and characterize all space objects. Unfortunately, positive identification and characterization of space objects is a manual and labor intensive process today since even large telescopes cannot provide resolved images of most space objects. Since resolved images of geosynchronous satellites are not technically feasible with current technology, another method of distinguishing space objects was explored that exploits the polarization signature from unresolved images. The objective of this study was to collect and analyze visible-spectrum polarization data from unresolved images of geosynchronous satellites taken over various solar phase angles. Different collection geometries were used to evaluate the polarization contribution of solar arrays, thermal control materials, antennas, and the satellite bus as the solar phase angle changed. Since materials on space objects age due to the space environment, it was postulated that their polarization signature may change enough to allow discrimination of identical satellites launched at different times. The instrumentation used in this experiment was a United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) Department of Physics system that consists of a 20-inch Ritchey-Chrétien telescope and a dual focal plane optical train fed with a polarizing beam splitter. A rigorous calibration of the system was performed that included corrections for pixel bias, dark current, and response. Additionally, the two channel polarimeter was calibrated by experimentally determining the Mueller matrix for the system and relating image intensity at the two cameras to Stokes parameters S0 and S1. After the system calibration, polarization data was collected during three nights on eight geosynchronous satellites built by various manufacturers and launched several years apart. Three pairs of the eight satellites were identical buses to determine if identical buses could be correctly differentiated. When Stokes parameters were plotted against time and solar phase angle, the data indicates that there were distinguishing features in S0 (total intensity) and S1 (linear polarization) that may lead to positive identification or classification of each satellite.

Influencia de la geometría en la determinación de los puntos de conflicto en una intersección de viales

En una intersección todos los cruces de trayectorias, tanto de los vehículos como de los peatones que la utilizan, se realizan a nivel, produciéndose, por lo tanto, una coincidencia de movimientos en el tiempo y en el espacio. La geometría de la intersección condiciona las trayectorias que describen los vehículos y peatones. El análisis de estas trayectorias es el que permitirá la determinación de los puntos de conflicto y su clasificación en primarios, secundarios o terciarios. Este análisis es imprescindible para la toma de decisiones sobre las posibles mejoras de la intersección, tanto en lo concerniente a su geometría como al tipo de regulación necesaria.

Errors Associated to Keratoconus Grading using Systems based on Corneal Power

Purpose: To analyze and define the possible errors that may be introduced in keratoconus classification when the keratometric corneal power is used in such classification. Materials and methods: Retrospective study including a total of 44 keratoconus eyes. A comprehensive ophthalmologic examination was performed in all cases, which included a corneal analysis with the Pentacam system (Oculus). Classical keratometric corneal power (Pk), Gaussian corneal power (Pc Gauss), True Net Power (TNP) (Gaussian power neglecting the corneal thickness effect), and an adjusted keratometric corneal power (Pkadj) (keratometric power considering a variable keratometric index) were calculated. All cases included in the study were classified according to five different classification systems: Alió-Shabayek, Amsler-Krumeich, Rabinowitz-McDonnell, collaborative longitudinal evaluation of keratoconus (CLEK), and McMahon. Results: When Pk and Pkadj were compared, differences in the type of grading of keratoconus cases was found in 13.6% of eyes when the Alió-Shabayek or the Amsler-Krumeich systems were used. Likewise, grading differences were observed in 22.7% of eyes with the Rabinowitz-McDonnell and McMahon classification systems and in 31.8% of eyes with the CLEK classification system. All reclassified cases using Pkadj were done in a less severe stage, indicating that the use of Pk may lead to the classification of a cornea as keratoconus, being normal. In general, the results obtained using Pkadj, Pc Gauss or the TNP were equivalent. Differences between Pkadj and Pc Gauss were within ± 0.7D. Conclusion: The use of classical keratometric corneal power may lead to incorrect grading of the severity of keratoconus, with a trend to a more severe grading.

An approach for characterising the weathering behaviour of Flysch slopes applied to the carbonatic Flysch of Alicante (Spain)

Various studies indicate that most of the slope instabilities affecting Flysch heterogeneous rock masses are related to differential weathering of the lithologies that make up the slope. Therefore, the weathering characteristics of the intact rock are of great importance for the study of these types of slopes and their associated instability processes. The main aim of this study is to characterise the weathering properties of the different lithologies outcropping in the carbonatic Flysch of Alicante (Spain), in order to understand the effects of environmental weathering on them, following slope excavation. To this end, 151 strata samples obtained from 11 different slopes, 5–40 years old, were studied. The lithologies were identified and their mechanical characteristics obtained using field and laboratory tests. Additionally, the slaking properties of intact rocks were determined, and a classification system proposed based on the first and fifth slake cycles (Id1 and Id5 respectively) and an Index of Weathering (IW5), defined in the study. Information obtained from the laboratory and the field was used to characterise the weathering behaviour of the rocks. Furthermore, the slaking properties determined from laboratory tests were related to the in-situ weathering properties of rocks (i.e., the weathering profile, patterns and length, and weathering rate). The proposed relationship between laboratory test results, field data, and in-situ observations provides a useful tool for predicting the response of slopes to weathering after excavation during the preliminary stages of design.

Intelligent Decision-Making System Frameworks for a Digital Plan of Work: A Theoretical Investigation for the Construction Industry

The construction industry is characterised by fragmentation and suffers from lack of collaboration, often adopting adversarial working practices to achieve deliverables. For the UK Government and construction industry, BIM is a game changer aiming to rectify this fragmentation and promote collaboration. However it has become clear that there is an essential need to have better controls and definitions of both data deliverables and data classification. Traditional methods and techniques for collating and inputting data have shown to be time consuming and provide little to improve or add value to the overall task of improving deliverables. Hence arose the need in the industry to develop a Digital Plan of Work (DPoW) toolkit that would aid the decision making process, providing the required control over the project workflows and data deliverables, and enabling better collaboration through transparency of need and delivery. The specification for the existing Digital Plan of Work (DPoW) was to be, an industry standard method of describing geometric, requirements and data deliveries at key stages of the project cycle, with the addition of a structured and standardised information classification system. However surveys and interviews conducted within this research indicate that the current DPoW resembles a digitised version of the pre-existing plans of work and does not push towards the data enriched decision-making abilities that advancements in technology now offer. A Digital Framework is not simply the digitisation of current or historic standard methods and procedures, it is a new intelligent driven digital system that uses new tools, processes, procedures and work flows to eradicate waste and increase efficiency. In addition to reporting on conducted surveys above, this research paper will present a theoretical investigation into usage of Intelligent Decision Support Systems within a digital plan of work framework. Furthermore this paper will present findings on the suitability to utilise advancements in intelligent decision-making system frameworks and Artificial Intelligence for a UK BIM Framework. This should form the foundations of decision-making for projects implemented at BIM level 2. The gap identified in this paper is that the current digital toolkit does not incorporate the intelligent characteristics available in other industries through advancements in technology and collation of vast amounts of data that a digital plan of work framework could have access to and begin to develop, learn and adapt for decision-making through the live interaction of project stakeholders.

Relación del gasto en ocio y vacaciones con variables del ciclo de vida del hogar, demográficas, geográficas y económicas

El gasto en ocio y vacaciones de los hogares puede depender de variables demográficas, geográficas y económicas asociadas al hogar o al sustentador principal. También afecta el tipo de hogar, cuya clasificación puede realizarse según los modelos considerados en la teoría del ciclo de vida del hogar (CVH). En este trabajo, se utiliza el programa estadístico SPAD para aplicar la metodología de la caracterización de la variable y analizar el poder explicativo de un total de doce variables sobre el gasto en “vacaciones todo incluido”, “servicios culturales” y otras cinco partidas destacadas del grupo “Ocio, espectáculos y cultura” de la Encuesta de Presupuestos Familiares (EPF) de España. El estudio confirma el interés de considerar variables como el número de dependientes para segmentar consumidores de ocio y vacaciones, pero no de variables más complejas basadas en modelos del CVH.

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