La Lanterne : journal politique quotidien

1913/12/14 (N13385,A36).

La Lanterne : journal politique quotidien

1911/12/14 (N3490,A28).

La Lanterne : journal politique quotidien

1926/12/14 (N18027,A52).

La Lanterne : journal politique quotidien

1918/12/14 (N15118,A42).

La Lanterne : journal politique quotidien

1907/12/14 (N11192,A30).

La Lanterne : journal politique quotidien

1891/12/14 (N5350,A15).

Teste de condutividade elétrica em função do período e da temperatura de embebição para sementes de milheto

O presente trabalho objetivou estudar os efeitos de período e temperatura de embebição sobre os resultados do teste de condutividade elétrica para a avaliação do vigor de sementes de milheto (Pennisetum americanum L.). Foram realizados dois experimentos. No primeiro, estudaram-se os períodos de embebição de 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22 e 24 horas, à temperatura de 25ºC, e no segundo as temperaturas de 20, 25, 30, 35 e 40ºC, em período de embebição mais promissor do primeiro experimento. Os testes foram realizados com três lotes de sementes, sendo o lote 1 representado pela cultivar Comum e os lotes 2 e 3 pela cultivar BN2, utilizando-se para cada repetição 100 sementes em 100ml de água para embebição. Empregou-se delineamento experimental inteiramente casualizado, com quatro repetições por tratamento. Os resultados mostram que é possível reduzir o período de embebição das sementes para duas horas e que nesse período a temperatura teve pouca influência. Assim sendo, a temperatura de 25ºC, durante a embebição, parece a mais conveniente para a condução deste teste.

La Lanterne : journal politique quotidien

1880/12/14 (A4,N1334).

Press forming of paperboard – advancement of converting tools and process control

Press forming is nowadays one of the most common industrial methods in use for producing deeper trays from paperboard. Demands for material properties like recyclability and sustainability have increased also in the packaging industry, but there are still limitations related to the formability of paperboard. A majority of recent studies have focused on material development, but the potential of the package manufacturing process can also be improved by the development of tooling and process control. In this study, advanced converting tools (die cutting tools and the press forming mould) are created for production scale paperboard tray manufacturing. Also monitoring methods that enable the production of paperboard trays with enhanced quality, and can be utilized in process control are developed. The principles for tray blank preparation, including creasing pattern and die cutting tool design are introduced. The mould heating arrangement and determination of mould clearance are investigated to improve the quality of the press formed trays. The effect of the spring back of the tray walls on the tray dimensions can be managed by adjusting the heat-related process parameters and estimating it at the mould design stage. This enables production speed optimization as the process parameters can be adjusted more freely. Real-time monitoring of pressing force by using multiple force sensors embedded in the mould structure can be utilized in the evaluation of material characteristics on a modified production machinery. Comprehensive process control can be achieved with a combination of measurement of the outer dimensions of the trays and pressing force monitoring. The control method enables detection of defects and tracking changes in the material properties. The optimized converting tools provide a basis for effective operation of the control system.

Adopting the Vaadin Java framework to rebuild VTT’s Web Interfaces and Database Applications

With the growth in new technologies, using online tools have become an everyday lifestyle. It has a greater impact on researchers as the data obtained from various experiments needs to be analyzed and knowledge of programming has become mandatory even for pure biologists. Hence, VTT came up with a new tool, R Executables (REX) which is a web application designed to provide a graphical interface for biological data functions like Image analysis, Gene expression data analysis, plotting, disease and control studies etc., which employs R functions to provide results. REX provides a user interactive application for the biologists to directly enter the values and run the required analysis with a single click. The program processes the given data in the background and prints results rapidly. Due to growth of data and load on server, the interface has gained problems concerning time consumption, poor GUI, data storage issues, security, minimal user interactive experience and crashes with large amount of data. This thesis handles the methods by which these problems were resolved and made REX a better application for the future. The old REX was developed using Python Django and now, a new programming language, Vaadin has been implemented. Vaadin is a Java framework for developing web applications and the programming language is extremely similar to Java with new rich components. Vaadin provides better security, better speed, good and interactive interface. In this thesis, subset functionalities of REX was selected which includes IST bulk plotting and image segmentation and implemented those using Vaadin. A code of 662 lines was programmed by me which included Vaadin as the front-end handler while R language was used for back-end data retrieval, computing and plotting. The application is optimized to allow further functionalities to be migrated with ease from old REX. Future development is focused on including Hight throughput screening functions along with gene expression database handling

Metrics for Predicting User Behavior and Experience in an Interactive Storytelling System

In much of the previous research into the field of interactive storytelling, the focus has been on the creation of complete systems, then evaluating the performance of those systems based on user experience. Less focus has been placed on finding general solutions to problems that manifest in many different types of interactive storytelling systems. The goal of this thesis was to identify potential candidates for metrics that a system could use to predict player behavior or how players experience the story they are presented with, and to put these metrics to an empirical test. The three metrics that were used were morality, relationships and conflict. The game used for user testing of the metrics, Regicide is an interactive storytelling experience that was created in conjunction with Eero Itkonen. Data, in the forms of internal system data and survey answers, collected through user testing, was used to evaluate hypotheses for each metric. Out of the three chosen metrics, morality performed the best in this study. Though further research and refinement may be required, the results were promising, and point to the conclusion that user responses to questions of morality are a strong predictor for their choices in similar situations later on in the course of an interactive story. A similar examination for user relationships with other characters in the story did not produce promising results, but several problems were recognized in terms of methodology and further research with a better optimized system may yield different results. On the subject of conflict, several aspects, proposed by Ware et al. (2012), were evaluated separately. Results were inconclusive, with the aspect of directness showing the most promise.