A Vila Acaba Mundo e a construção de mundos possíveis: reflexões sobre uma experiência de luta pela moradia

A presente dissertação de mestrado objetivou discutir o espaço urbano e seus conflitos a partir da história da Vila Acaba Mundo, localizada em Belo Horizonte Minas Gerais, cujos moradores têm se organizado e reivindicado os direitos à moradia e à cidade por algumas décadas, com razoável êxito. Pretendeu-se analisar a mobilização dos moradores da referida Vila, com atenção especial aos eventos ocorridos em 2008 e 2009, a fim de perquirir acerca das identidades coletivas formadas, bem como compreender e problematizar a constituição dinâmica de práticas e significados que conformam a comunidade e suas interações com outras coletividades e com a cidade em sua história. Almejou-se, em um âmbito mais geral, compreender como as práticas e os significados construídos pelos moradores da Vila Acaba Mundo, em sua história, contribuem para a localização de elementos emancipatórios no sentido da superação das condições sociais hoje existentes. Na tentativa de valorizar a dimensão da prática social, os códigos culturais produzidos e a articulação entre teoria e prática, em contraposição à valorização excessiva da institucionalidade e das dimensões discursivas da realidade, foi necessária a adoção de uma metodologia qualitativa de pesquisa, bem como a combinação de diversas técnicas e ferramentas de investigação, tais como: observação participante, aplicação de entrevistas semi-estruturadas e grupo focal. Além disso, foi traçado um breve histórico da Vila Acaba Mundo, com base principalmente no relato dos moradores. Buscou-se construir um referencial teórico para a apreensão do processo de organização e mobilização da referida Vila, o que permitiu que fossem apontados caminhos para o entendimento de sua história e para a compreensão do espaço urbano, em sua dimensão social.

Telenovela, folhetim eletrônico: tópicos para estudo da teleficção

O romance-folhetim, gênero que invadiu os rodapés dos jornais no século XIX e constituiu as bases de grandes clássicos da literatura, traz consigo marcas do melodrama, levando-o a ultrapassar os limites temporais do seu surgimento e se integrar aos recursos midiáticos e à performance teatral para dar origem a tramas que hoje se desenrolam diariamente na tela da televisão de milhares de telespectadores durante meses, em especial na América Latina. O romance-folhetim se perpetua através das telenovelas, principal representante da teleficção, que possui uma linguagem narrativa particular, mantendo as matrizes folhetinescas, e impondo-se como uma nova modalidade textual dentro do universo do entretenimento e da literatura industrial. Exemplo disso é a narrativa de Dancin days (1978), elencada como corpus para o estudo apresentado por essa dissertação, a fim de demonstrar a linha tênue que une a telenovela ao romance-folhetim, constituindo este uma matriz para as narrativas audiovisuais

O lugar do sujeito nos Serviços Residenciais Terapêuticos

Esta pesquisa iniciou-se a partir do questionamento geral sobre o que faria a clínica psicanalítica no Serviço Residencial Terapêutico. Buscaram-se balizas na história da reforma psiquiátrica brasileira e em fundamentos da psicanálise aplicada a terapêutica a fim de discutir uma articulação entre essas duas áreas. É defendida a tese de que existe uma clínica necessária ao trabalho nos SRT, já que a mudança da realidade objetiva conseqüente à saída dos asilos não é suficiente para que os moradores sintam-se em casa. Além disso, é defendida a tese de que trata-se de psicanálise no seio de uma casa, mas não de um dispositivo específico ao SRT que possa ser definido a partir de critérios ou categorias da clínica, da terapêutica ou do tratamento. Questionou-se, então, como acontece a operação que faz com que se reconheça um espaço como íntimo ou o contrário, estranho. Ou seja, o sentimento de se estar em casa, a sensação de algo da ordem do familiar não é automática, sendo operação dependente de um trabalho subjetivo. Para Lacan, a casa do sujeito encontra-se em um ponto no Outro, situado por ele a partir de uma ausência, o φ. Na neurose esta cava é mobiliada, deixando furos, pela fantasia, ordenada pelo objeto a. Estas elaborações foram trabalhadas a partir de um caso. Foi discutido por fim o trabalho do cuidador e a supervisão nele implicada como o profissional que sustenta a brecha pela qual se pode abrir ao inconsciente para que o sujeito possa retornar a sua casa

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An ingenious new CMOS-compatible process which promises to significantly improve the performance of power devices is discussed. A novel power device concept based on the use of high voltage regions suspended on thin semiconductor/dielectric membranes is reported. The membrane power devices are manufactured in a fully-CMOS compatible silicon-on-insulator (SOI) process followed by a bulk etching step and subsequent back-passivation. The concept is applicable to a class of high voltage devices such as LDMOSFETs, diodes, LIGBTs and superjunctions.

On-chip deposition of carbon nanotubes using CMOS microhotplates.

The direct deposition of carbon nanotubes on CMOS microhotplates is demonstrated in this paper. Tungsten microhotplates, fabricated on thin SOI membranes aside CMOS control circuitry, are used to locally grow carbon nanotubes by chemical vapour deposition. Unlike bulk heating of the entire chip, which could cause degradation to CMOS devices and interconnects due to high growth temperatures in excess of 500 °C, this novel technique allows carbon nanotubes to be grown on-chip in localized regions. The microfabricated heaters are thermally isolated from the rest of the CMOS chip as they are on the membranes. This allows carbon nanotubes to be grown alongside CMOS circuitry on the same wafer without any external heating, thus enabling new applications (e.g. smart gas sensing) where the integration of CMOS and carbon nanotubes is required.

Growth of carbon nanotubes on fully processed silicon-on-insulator CMOS substrates.

This paper describes the growth of Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) both aligned and non-aligned on fully processed CMOS substrates containing high temperature tungsten metallization. While the growth method has been demonstrated in fabricating CNT gas sensitive layers for high temperatures SOI CMOS sensors, it can be employed in a variety of applications which require the use of CNTs or other nanomaterials with CMOS electronics. In our experiments we have grown CNTs both on SOI CMOS substrates and SOI CMOS microhotplates (suspended on membranes formed by post-CMOS deep RIE etching). The fully processed SOI substrates contain CMOS devices and circuits and additionally, some wafers contained high current LDMOSFETs and bipolar structures such as Lateral Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors. All these devices were used as test structures to investigate the effect of additional post-CMOS processing such as CNT growth, membrane formation, high temperature annealing, etc. Electrical characterisation of the devices with CNTs were performed along with SEM and Raman spectroscopy. The CNTs were grown both at low and high temperatures, the former being compatible with Aluminium metallization while the latter being possible through the use of the high temperature CMOS metallization (Tungsten). In both cases we have found that there is no change in the electrical behaviour of the CMOS devices, circuits or the high current devices. A slight degradation of the thermal performance of the CMOS microhotplates was observed due to the extra heat dissipation path created by the CNT layers, but this is expected as CNTs exhibit a high thermal conductance. In addition we also observed that in the case of high temperature CNT growth a slight degradation in the manufacturing yield was observed. This is especially the case where large area membranes with a diameter in excess of 500 microns are used.

Wind climate trends in the Pacific Northwest and the implications to renewable energy supply

EXTRACT (SEE PDF FOR FULL ABSTRACT): This paper examines the influence of wind climate variations on new Pacific Northwest renewable energy sources. Wind represents a potentially valuable supplemental source of energy in the region. ... The recent period of weaker winds may be associated with a stronger North Pacific Low in the last decade. This would result in winter storms more often being deflected farther north, to Canada. Also, in the last dozen years, lower SOI values were common. Other investigators have found low SOI to be associated with drier conditions in the Pacific Northwest.

Recent trends in the climate of the tropical Pacific region

EXTRACT (SEE PDF FOR FULL ABSTRACT): Observations of climate variables in the tropical Pacific region are examined for the period 1970-1994. We look at a variety of climate variables, including upper ocean temperatures, surface wind stress, precipitation, and the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) and find evidence for two distinct decadal-scale warmings in the tropical Pacific ocean-atmosphere climate system during this period.

Materials and devices toward three-dimensional integration

It has been shown that the apparent benefits of a two-layer stacked SOI system, i.e. packing density and speed improvements, are less than could be expected in the context of a VLSI requirement [1]. In this project the stacked SOI system has been identified as having major application in the realization of integrated, mixed technology systems. Zone-melting-recrystallization (ZMR) with lasers and electron beams have been used to produce device quality SOI material and a small test-bed circuit has been designed as a demonstration of the feasibility of this approach. © 1988.

Analytic model for turn off in the silicon-on-insulator LIGBT

Lateral insulated gate bipolar transistors (LIGBTs) in silicon-on-insulator (SOI) show a unique turn off characteristic when compared to junction-isolated RESURF LIGBTs or vertical IGBTs. The turn off characteristic shows an extended `terrace' where, after the initial fast transient characteristic of IGBTs due to the loss of the electron current, the current stays almost at the same value for an extended period of time, before suddenly dropping to zero. In this paper, we show that this terrace arises because there is a value of LIGBT current during switch off where the rate of expansion of the depletion region with respect to the anode current is infinite. Once this level of anode current is approached, the depletion region starts to expand very rapidly, and is only stopped when it reaches the n-type buffer layer surrounding the anode. Once this happens, the current rapidly drops to zero. A quasi-static analytic model is derived to explain this behaviour. The analytically modelled turn off characteristic agrees well with that found by numerical simulation.

Improved infrared thermal imaging of a CMOS MEMS device

We report a technique which can be used to improve the accuracy of infrared (IR) surface temperature measurements made on MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical- Systems) devices. The technique was used to thermally characterize a SOI (Silicon-On-Insulator) CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) MEMS thermal flow sensor. Conventional IR temperature measurements made on the sensor were shown to give significant surface temperature errors, due to the optical transparency of the SiO 2 membrane layers and low emissivity/high reflectivity of the metal. By making IR measurements on radiative carbon micro-particles placed in isothermal contact with the device, the accuracy of the surface temperature measurement was significantly improved. © 2010 EDA Publishing/THERMINIC.

Voltage programmable dual-band bandpass/bandstop filter response in a single micro-electro-mechanical device

This paper reports on a switchable multi-band filter response achieved within a single micro-electro-mechanical device. A prototype device fabricated in a SOI process demonstrates a voltage programmable and tunable, dual-band, band-pass/band-stop response. Both analytical and finite element models are introduced in this paper to elucidate the operating principle of the filter and to guide filter design. Voltage programmability of the filter characteristic is demonstrated with the ability to independently tune the centre frequency and bandwidth for each band. A representative measurement shows that the minimum 3 dB-bandwidth (BW) is 155 Hz, 140Hz, and 20 dB-BW is 216 Hz, 203Hz for the upper-band and lower-band center frequencies located at 131.5 kHz and 130.7 kHz, respectively. © 2011 IEEE.

Relationship between El Nino and summer monsoon rainfall over Pakistan

The present paper deals with the influence of El Nino event on the summer monsoon rainfall over Pakistan. The correlation between monthly rainfall of summer monsoon season and bi-Monthly Multivariate ENSO Index (MEI) has been calculated to see the influence of El Nino on the summer monsoon rainfall. MEI is bimonthly ENSO Index pertaining to the period from first week of previous month to first week of the month under consideration. While study the correlation's with the ENSO events out side the Pacific Ocean MEI is more appropriate than other indices like Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) as MEI integrates complete information on ENSO viz. six oceanic and meteorological variables over the tropical Pacific. The results of the study show that there is a tendency of reduction in summer monsoon rainfall over Pakistan during El Nino years. The deficiency in % rainfall is statistically significant up to 90% level during July and September months. It is interesting to note that Pakistan receives more than normal rainfall during summer monsoon season in the immediate following year after the El Nino event. The correlation analysis is also performed on the summer monsoon months for individual provinces of Pakistan. All provinces receive deficient rainfall during monsoon months. The deficiency in rainfall over Punjab during all monsoon months is significant, whereas the deficiency in rainfall is significant during July and August over NWFP and Sindh respectively. No significant impact of El Nino on the summer monsoon rainfall over Baluchistan is observed.

Electrical conduction and optical properties of doped silicon-on-insulator photonic crystals

We investigate the electrical properties of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) photonic crystals as a function of both doping level and air filling factor. The resistance trends can be clearly explained by the presence of a depletion region around the sidewalls of the holes that is caused by band pinning at the surface. To understand the trade-off between the carrier transport and the optical losses due to free electrons in the doped SOI, we also measured the resonant modes of L3 photonic crystal nanocavities and found that surprisingly high doping levels, up to 1018 / cm3, are acceptable for practical devices with Q factors as high as 4× 104. © 2011 American Institute of Physics.

Enhanced light emission in active silicon-on-insulator photonic crystal slabs and slot waveguides

We present experimental measurements on Silicon-on-insulator (SOI) photonic crystal slabs with an active layer containing Er3+ ions-doped Silicon nanoclusters (Si-nc), showing strong enhancement of 1.54 μm emission at room temperature. We provide a systematic theoretical analysis to interpret such results. In order to get further insight, we discuss experimental data on the guided luminescence of unpatterned SOI planar slot waveguides, which show enhanced light emission in transverse-magnetic (TM) modes over transverse-electric (TE) ones. ©2007 IEEE.