Troca de informação e ações conjuntas desenvolvidas pelo grupo de big bands Movimento Elefantes

Este trabalho visou a identificação das trocas de informações e ações conjuntas realizadas por participantes do Movimento Elefantes (ME), grupo constituído por 10 Big Bands formado em 2009. Buscou-se também identificar quais são os objetivos do grupamento, conforme são entendidos pelos participantes, e as dificuldades enfrentas pelo ME, por eles apontadas. A pesquisa de campo teve natureza exploratória, tendo sido aplicado aos músicos questionário via internet, com questões abertas. Os resultados obtidos, com base em análise de conteúdo, apontam que as trocas estão relacionadas predominantemente com questões estéticas, sendo também relevantes as indicações profissionais. Os objetivos considerados pelos respondentes são criar mais espaços para apresentação e promover integração entre os músicos. Embora estes objetivos sejam atingidos, o grupamento enfrenta dificuldades significativas, devido ao baixo comprometimento dos músicos e estrutura organizacional precária. São sugeridas medidas visando melhorar os resultados deste grupamento, que está inserido na chamada indústria criativa.

Troca de informação e ações conjuntas desenvolvidas pelo grupo de Big Bands Movimento Elefantes

Este trabalho visou a identificação das trocas de informações e ações conjuntas realizadas por participantes do Movimento Elefantes (ME), grupo constituído por 10 Big Bands formado em 2009. Buscou-se também identificar quais são os objetivos do grupamento, conforme são entendidos pelos participantes, e as dificuldades enfrentas pelo ME, por eles apontadas. A pesquisa de campo teve natureza exploratória, tendo sido aplicado aos músicos questionário via internet, com questões abertas. Os resultados obtidos, com base em análise de conteúdo, apontam que as trocas estão relacionadas predominantemente com questões estéticas, sendo também relevantes as indicações profissionais. Os objetivos considerados pelos respondentes são criar mais espaços para apresentação e promover integração entre os músicos. Embora estes objetivos sejam atingidos, o grupamento enfrenta dificuldades significativas, devido ao baixo comprometimento dos músicos e estrutura organizacional precária. São sugeridas medidas visando melhorar os resultados deste grupamento, que está inserido na chamada indústria criativa.

Localização geográfica assistida aplicada a pessoas com necessidades especiais

Segundo o documento do Programa Nacional para a Saúde Mental, Portugal tem a prevalência mais elevada de pessoas com perturbações mentais (22,9%), entre oito países europeus, e é o segundo, a nível mundial, em nove países analisados. Perante o exposto anteriormente, existe uma elevada necessidade de cuidados com essas pessoas, já que um dos principais problemas deste tipo de doenças é a desorientação e a consequente falta de orientação espacial. Uma das possíveis soluções para este controlo, que deve ser efetuado a estes doentes, pode ser o uso constante de GPS, para as monitorizar. Porém, através dessa mesma monitorização com recurso ao sistema GPS, deparamo-nos com algumas limitações, em termos de eficácia, já que o GPS pode funcionar mal em determinadas situações, tais como o mau tempo, em ambientes fechados, ou mesmo em ambientes abertos mas rodeados por prédios elevados. Para o uso da solução supracitada e para contornar os problemas referidos anteriormente, pretende-se desenvolver uma aplicação móvel para o seguimento de seres humanos, em tempo real, direcionada para pessoas com necessidades de cuidados especiais, tais como portadores de Alzheimer ou algum grau de deficiência. Esta aplicação baseia-se na informação obtida do GPS integrado no dispositivo. Quando este não estiver disponível ou a sua precisão for limitada, a aplicação deverá estimar a localização, através das antenas do operador. Para suportar esta funcionalidade, a aplicação integrará um módulo de Raciocínio Baseado em Casos que, gradualmente, irá aprendendo a classificar a posição do utilizador, a partir da distribuição das antenas em seu redor, bem como pela intensidade dos sinais recebidos. A aplicação será complementada por uma aplicação web que permitirá a visualização dos dados e a visualização de notificações, nos casos em que um utilizador saia de limites pré-determinados

Desarrollo de un dispositivo de liberación para la industria aeroespacial basado en una aleación con memoria de forma de NiTi.

Los dispositivos liberadores son utilizados en los satélites para desplegar los paneles solares, antenas y otros apéndices en las etapas iniciales de su puesta en órbita. En la actualidad, muchos de estos dispositivos tienen actuadores activados con cargas pirotécnicas. Esto trae algunas desventajas: niveles de shock elevados sobre los componentes cercanos, no son reutilizables y no son seguros de manipular. Por ello, es que desde hace unos años se están realizando importantes esfuerzos para desarrollar dispositivos no-pirotécnicos. En este trabajo se realiza el desarrollo de un dispositivo liberador que utiliza como actuador un cilindro tubular de una Aleación de Memoria de Forma (SMA, del inglés Shape Memory Alloys) de NiTi. Las SMAs tienen la posibilidad de deformarse por debajo de determinada temperatura y luego al calentarse, recuperar su forma original. Al restringir mecánicamente la trayectoria de recuperación, la aleación genera un esfuerzo mecánico. En el presente trabajo se caracteriza esta aleación, recurriendo a diversos tratamientos térmicos para obtener las propiedades deseadas. La liberación del conjunto se produce cuando el elemento de unión entre las piezas, el cual consiste en un bulón con una entalla circunferencial, se fractura debido al estiramiento de un actuador de NiTi previamente comprimido. Dada la importancia del bulón, se estudiaron diversos materiales para el mismo. Además se analizó el efecto de la geometría de la entalla y la profundidad de la misma. Finalmente, se realizaron pruebas de integración entre el actuador de SMA, el bulón y otros elementos auxiliares. Se pudo probar el funcionamiento del conjunto con éxito.

Modelo institucional do processo de estruturação de empresas de desenvolvimento de software: um estudo de múltiplos casos

Some authors have shown the need of understanding the technological structuring process in contemporary firms. From this perspective, the software industry is a very important element because it provides products and services directly to many organizations from many fields. In this case, the Brazilian software industry has some peculiarities that distinguish it from other industries located in developed countries, which makes its understanding even more relevant. There is evidence that local firms take different strategies and structural configurations to enter into a market naturally dominated by large multinational firms. Therefore, this study aims to understand not only the structural configurations assumed by domestic firms but also the dynamic and the process that lead to these different configurations. To do so, this PhD dissertation investigates the institutional environment, its entities and the isomorphic movements, by employing an exploratory, descriptive and explanatory multiple cases study. Eight software development companies from the Recife's information technology Cluster were visited. Also, a form was applied and an interview with one of the main firm s professional was conducted. Although the study is predominantly qualitative, part of the data was analyzed through charts and graphs, providing a companies and environment overview that was very useful to analysis done through the interviews interpretation. As a result, it was realized that companies are structured around hybrids business models from two ideal types of software development companies, which are: software factory and technology-based company. Regarding the development process, it was found that there is a balanced distribution between the traditional and agile development paradigm. Among the traditional methodologies, the Rational Unified Process (RUP) is predominant. The Scrum is the most used methodology among the organizations based on the Agile Manifesto's principles. Regarding the structuring process, each institutional entity acts in such way that generates different isomorphic pressure. Emphasis was given to entities such as customers, research agencies, clusters, market-leading businesses, public universities, incubators, software industry organizations, technology vendors, development tool suppliers and manager s school and background because they relate themselves in a close way with the software firms. About this relationship, a dual and bilateral influence was found. Finally, the structuring level of the organizational field has been also identified as low, which gives a chance to organizational actors of acting independently

Apoio governamental à inovação tecnológica: análise da indústria farmacêutica paraense

The transformations economical, cultural and social that happen in world ambit they are associated to the intense progress and expansion of new technologies, forcing governments, people, companies and nations to the introduction of new patterns of behavior, forcing, in that way, to the continuous renewal of products and technological processes to maintain the competitiveness, so much among nations, as in the managerial world. In that matter, the technological innovation is recognized as basic factor of maintainable economical competitiveness, being the responsible for the breaking and/or improvement of the techniques and production processes, what presupposes the systematization varied institutional arrangements that they involve firms, interaction nets among companies, government agencies, universities, research institutes, laboratories of companies and scientists and engineers activities. Those arrangements, to the if they articulate with the educational system, with the industrial and managerial section and, also, with the financial institutions, they take the form that Freeman (1987) it coined of national system of innovation, promoted through public politics of CT&I, which seek to induce and to support innovative initiatives in the companies, as well as to establish demands and to prioritize vocations and regional potentialities. In that context of government support to the technological innovation interferes this study, that it looked for to know the reasons of the fragility innovative in the pharmaceutical industry of State of Pará in Brazil, pointed for PINTEC (2005), starting from the point of view of the businessmen of that section. For such, the qualitative approach was used - with interviews directing semi and the technique of the content analysis. The results of the research pointed that the fragilities innovative of the section links to the ignorance of the government support to the technological innovation on the part of the businessmen of the pharmaceutical industry of State of Pará in Brazil

Relações de cooperação em consórcios públicos de regiões metropolitanas: análises do CONDIAM/PB e consórcio grande Recife

With the disorganized decentralization occurred in Brazil after the 1988 Constitution, municipalities have risen to the level of federal entities. This phenomenon became known as "municipalism" also brought some negative effects such as low capacity financial, economic and political of these entities. In the face of this reality , the municipalities sought in models of collaborative features to address public policy issues ultrarregionais, one of these models are the Public Consortia. Characterized as the organization of all federal entities that aim to solve public policy implementation alone that they could not, or spend great resources for such. This reality of the municipalities have an aggravating factor when looking at the situation in Metropolitan Regions (MRs). This is because the RMs has a historical process of formation that does not encourage cooperation, since that were created top-down during the military regime. Furthermore, the metropolitan municipalities have significant power asymmetries, localist vision, rigidity earmarked revenues, different scenarios conurbation, difficulty standardization of concepts and others that contribute to the vision of low cooperation of these metropolitan areas. Thus, the problem of this work is in the presence of collaborative arrangements, such as the Public Consortia in metropolitan areas, which are seen as areas of low cooperation. To elucidate this research was used for analysis the cases of CONDIAM/PB and Consórcio Grande Recife/PE, because they are apparently antagonistic, but with some points of similarity. The cases has as foundation the Theory of Common Resources, which provides the possibility of collective action through the initiative of individuals. This theory has as its methodology for analyzing the picture IAD Framework, which proposes its analysis based on three axes: external variables, the arena of action and results. The nature of the method of this research was classified as exploratory and descriptive. For the stage of date analysis, was used the method of document analysis and content, Further than of separation of the cases according to theur especificities. At the end of the study, noted that the CONDIAM/PB was a strategy of municipal government of Joao Pessoa to attract funds from the Federal Government for the purpose of to build a landfill, and over the years the ideology of cooperation was left aside, the prevailing view localist municipalities. In the case of Consórcio Grande Recife/PE, members act with some degree of cooperation, especially the collaborative aspect of the region, however, still prevails with greater strength the power of the state of Pernambuco in the decisions and paths of the consortium. Thus, was conclude that the Public Consortia analyzed are an experience of collaborative arrangement, from the initiative of members, as the theory of common resources says, but has not actually signed as a practice of collective action to overcome the dilemmas faced by metropolitan areas

Identidade, memória e narrativas na dança de São Gonçalo do povoado Mussuca (SE)

This study deals with the participation of the dance of São Gonçalo of the Mussuca town/SE, in the process of construction of the ethnic identity among this social group. The Mussuca is a grouping recognized as afro-descendents, linked with black enslaved people in the valley of the Cotinguiba region. The collective memory functions as a drive of this linking with the past and if it makes to elaborate narratives on this descent. The objective of this study was to investigate the ways the rite went through to constitute itself as an element of ethnic representation. Internal and external agents had been identified who had participated in different contexts. By means of an ethnographic work we ve reached some aspects of the local structure social which demonstrated the contradictions through the social relations of the group. This process of ethnic autorecognition presents the kinship and the space question as definers of the social arrangements which establish its ethnic boundaries

Desarrollo de un dispositivo de liberación para la industria aeroespacial basado en una aleación con memoria de forma de NiTi.

Los dispositivos liberadores son utilizados en los satélites para desplegar los paneles solares, antenas y otros apéndices en las etapas iniciales de su puesta en órbita. En la actualidad, muchos de estos dispositivos tienen actuadores activados con cargas pirotécnicas. Esto trae algunas desventajas: niveles de shock elevados sobre los componentes cercanos, no son reutilizables y no son seguros de manipular. Por ello, es que desde hace unos años se están realizando importantes esfuerzos para desarrollar dispositivos no-pirotécnicos. En este trabajo se realiza el desarrollo de un dispositivo liberador que utiliza como actuador un cilindro tubular de una Aleación de Memoria de Forma (SMA, del inglés Shape Memory Alloys) de NiTi. Las SMAs tienen la posibilidad de deformarse por debajo de determinada temperatura y luego al calentarse, recuperar su forma original. Al restringir mecánicamente la trayectoria de recuperación, la aleación genera un esfuerzo mecánico. En el presente trabajo se caracteriza esta aleación, recurriendo a diversos tratamientos térmicos para obtener las propiedades deseadas. La liberación del conjunto se produce cuando el elemento de unión entre las piezas, el cual consiste en un bulón con una entalla circunferencial, se fractura debido al estiramiento de un actuador de NiTi previamente comprimido. Dada la importancia del bulón, se estudiaron diversos materiales para el mismo. Además se analizó el efecto de la geometría de la entalla y la profundidad de la misma. Finalmente, se realizaron pruebas de integración entre el actuador de SMA, el bulón y otros elementos auxiliares. Se pudo probar el funcionamiento del conjunto con éxito.

Saudosa Maloca, Maloca querida: um estudo morfológico da relação forma/usos do espaço em moradias autoconstruídas e construídas pelo poder público após um ano de ocupação

This study intends to enhance the existing knowledge concerning the patterns of the uses of space for low cost housing in Parnamirim, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, by way of comparative morphological studies in spatial arrangements and articulations regarding three distinct, however inter-related, sets of social housing: (1) a development comprising 21 self-built houses erected on public routes and illegal plots within a tract of land originally designed to be an industrial development: (2) architect-designed houses built by the public authority in order to accommodate the previous 21 (plus a few additions) families occupying the self-built dwellings, and (3) modifications performed by dwellers on a total of those 24 houses built by the public authority after an occupation period of one year. The predominant uses of each room within the self-built and modified houses were represented in ground plan, based on empirical observation, surveys with dwellers and the use of analytical procedures of morphologic analysis of nature predominantly geometric (specific) and topology (space syntax analysis). A scale of priorities was identified in relation to the uses of each room, its geometrical arrangement (adjacency, front/back relations etc), and underlying structures (connectivity, depth and spatial integration) in order to establish congruencies and non-congruencies between a social-cultural order embedded in the self-built domestic space and the design logic contained in the houses offered by official agencies. The comparative analysis points towards the convivial existence of two tendencies: one that seems to reinforce a design logic inasmuch as the additions and modifications performed by the dwellers do not alter but even emphasize the original configuration of the designed houses, and another one in which those patterns are subverted in accordance with a logic which, to a lesser or greater degree, coincides with that of the self-built dwellings

Layout, conforto e satisfação dos usuários em escritórios: uma avaliação pós-ocupação no edifício da sede administrativa do INPE-CRN

This research aimed to identify the link between the layout of workspaces in offices and the design strategies for environmental comfort. Strategies surveyed were focused on the thermal, visual and luminic comfort. In this research, visual comfort is related to issues of visual integration within and between the interior and exterior of the building. This is a case study conducted at the administrative headquarters of Centro Regional Nordeste do Instituto de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE-CRN), located in Natal/RN. The methodological strategy used was the Post-Occupancy Evaluation, which combined the survey data on the building (layout of workspaces, bioclimatic strategies adopted in the design, use of these strategies) with some techniques aimed at acquiring qualitative information related to users. The workspace layout is primordial to satisfaction and productivity of workers. Issues such as concentration, communication, privacy, personal identity, density and space efficiency, barriers (access, visual and even ventilation and lighting), among others, are associated with the layout. The environmental comfort is one of the essential elements to maintaining life quality in workplace. Moreover, it is an important factor in user`s perception of the space in which he or she are inserted. Both layout and environmental comfort issues should be collected and analyzed in the establishment phase of the programming step. That way, it is possible to get adequate answers to these questions in subsequent project phases. It was found that changes in the program that occurred over time, especially concerning persons (number and characteristics), resulted in changes in layout, generating high density and inflexible environments. It turns difficult to adjust the furniture to the occupants` requirement, including comfort needs. However, the presence of strategies for environmental quality provides comfort to spaces, ensuring that, even in situations not considered optimal, users perceive the environment in a positive way. It was found that the relationship between environmental comfort and layout takes the following forms: in changing the perception of comfort, depending on the layout of the arrangements; adjustments in layout, due to needs for comfort; and the elevation of user satisfaction and environmental quality due to the presence of strategies comfort even in situations of inadequate layout

Sistema de rádio comunicações para UAV

Os veículos aéreos não tripulados, mais conhecidos por drones, têm tomado atualmente uma posição importante na sociedade. Para além da sua importância no meio militar, têm sido cada vez mais utilizados para meios comerciais uma vez que o seu custo é relativamente baixo e podem ser utilizados para inúmeras aplicações. Devido à sua importância em missões de salvamento, reconhecimento de terreno e até mesmo de ataque, é fundamental uma boa comunicação entre a aeronave e a estação terrestre. Sendo a antena um dos principais elementos do sistema de comunicação, esta dissertação centrou-se no desenvolvimento de uma agregado de antenas a operar à frequência de 2.45GHz. Pretende-se que este agregado apresente polarização circular direita bem como um ganho e largura de banda elevados. Com o objetivo de se obter uma comunicação mais eficiente entre a aeronave e a estação terrestre, o agregado permitirá o redirecionamento do feixe principal do diagrama de radiação. Para tal, serão analisadas três abordagens distintas recorrendo a linhas de atraso e switches, permitindo que seja efetuado beamforming.

Sistema de emulação de aerogeradores para aplicação em geração distribuída de energia elétrica

Power generation from alternative sources is at present the subject of numerous research and development in science and industry. Wind energy stands out in this scenario as one of the most prominent alternative in the generation of electricity, by its numerous advantages. In research works, computer reproduction and experimental behavior of a wind turbine are very suitable tools for the development and study of new technologies and the use of wind potential of a given region. These tools generally are desired to include simulation of mechanical and electrical parameters that directly affect the energy conversion. This work presents the energy conversion process in wind systems for power generation, in order to develop a tool for wind turbine emulation testing experimental, using LabVIEW® software. The purpose of this tool is to emulate the torque developed in an axis wind turbine. The physical setup consists of a three phase induction motor and a permanent magnet synchronous generator, which are evaluated under different wind speed conditions. This tool has the objective to be flexible to other laboratory arrangements, and can be used in other wind power generation structures in real time. A modeling of the wind power system is presented, from the turbine to the electrical generator. A simulation tool is developed using Matlab/Simulink® with the purpose to pre-validate the experiment setup. Finally, the design is implemented in a laboratory setup.

Acousto-optic modulation of optical reflection properties in fiber Bragg gratings and the application in fiber lasers

This thesis aims to investigate the interaction of acoustic waves and fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) in standard and suspended-core fibers (SCFs), to evaluate the influence of the fiber, grating and modulator design on the increase of the modulation efficiency, bandwidth and frequency. Initially, the frequency response and the resonant acoustic modes of a low frequency acousto-optic modulator (f < 1.2 MHz) are numerically investigated by using the finite element method. Later, the interaction of longitudinal acoustic waves and FBGs in SCFs is also numerically investigated. The fiber geometric parameters are varied and the strain and grating properties are simulated by means of the finite element method and the transfer matrix method. The study indicates that the air holes composing the SCF cause a significant reduction of the amount of silica in the fiber cross section increasing acousto-optic interaction in the core. Experimental modulation of the reflectivity of FBGs inscribed in two distinct SCFs indicates evidences of this increased interaction. Besides, a method to acoustically induce a dynamic phase-shift in a chirped FBG employing an optimized design of modulator is shown. Afterwards, a combination of this modulator and a FBG inscribed in a three air holes SCF is applied to mode-lock an ytterbium doped fiber laser. To improve the modulator design for future applications, two other distinct devices are investigated to increase the acousto-optic interaction, bandwidth and frequency (f > 10 MHz). A high reflectivity modulation has been achieved for a modulator based on a tapered fiber. Moreover, an increased modulated bandwidth (320 pm) has been obtained for a modulator based on interaction of a radial long period grating (RLPG) and a FBG inscribed in a standard fiber. In summary, the results show a considerable reduction of the grating/fiber length and the modulator size, indicating possibilities for compact and faster acousto-optic fiber devices. Additionally, the increased interaction efficiency, modulated bandwidth and frequency can be useful to shorten the pulse width of future all-fiber mode-locked fiber lasers, as well, to other photonic devices which require the control of the light in optical fibers by electrically tunable acoustic waves.

Caracterização elementar de ligas metálicas em implantes dentários

An ideal biomaterial for dental implants must have very high biocompatibility, which means that such materials should not provoke any serious adverse tissue response. Also, used metal alloys must have high fatigue resistance due the masticatory force and good corrosion resistance. These properties are rendered by using alpha and beta stabilizers, such as Al, V, Ni, Fe, Cr, Cu, Zn. Commercially pure titanium (TiCP) is used often for dental and orthopedic implants manufacturing. However, sometimes other alloys are employed and consequently it is essential to research the chemical elements present in those alloys that could bring prejudice for the health. Present work investigated TiCP metal alloys used for dental implant manufacturing and evaluated the presence of stabilizing elements within existing limits and standards for such materials. For alloy characterization and identification of stabilizing elements it was used EDXRF technique. This method allows to perform qualitative and quantitative analysis of the materials using the spectra of the characteristic X-rays emitted by the elements present in the metal samples. The experimental setup was based on two X- rays tubes (AMPTEK Mini X model with Ag and Au targets), a X-123SDD detector (AMPTEK) and a 0.5mm Cu collimator, developed due to the sample characteristics. The other experimental setup used as a complementary technique is composed of an X-ray tube with a Mo target, collimator 0.65mm and XFlash (SDD) detector - ARTAX 200 (BRUKER). Other method for elemental characterization by energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) applied in present work was based on Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) EVO® (Zeeis). This method also was used to evaluate the surface microstructure of the sample. The percentual of Ti obtained in the elementary characterization was among 93.35 ± 0.17% and 95.34 ± 0.19 %. These values are considered below the reference limit of 98.635% to 99.5% for TiCP, established by Association of metals centric materials engineers and scientists Society (ASM). The presence of elements Al and V in all samples also contributed to underpin the fact that are not TiCP implants. The values for Al vary between 6.3 ± 1.3% and 3.7 ± 2.0% and for V, between 0.26 ± 0.09% and 0.112 ± 0.048%. According to the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), these elements should not be present in TiCP and in accordance with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the presence of Al should be <0.01% and V should be of 0.009 ± 0.001%. Obtained results showed that implant materials are not exactly TiCP but, were manufactured using Ti-Al-V alloy, which contained Fe, Ni, Cu and Zn. The quantitative analysis and elementary characterization of experimental results shows that the best accuracy and precision were reached with X-Ray tube with Au target and collimator of 0.5 mm. Use of technique of EDS confirmed the results of EDXRF for Ti-Al-V alloy. Evaluating the surface microstructure by SEM of the implants, it was possible to infer that ten of the thirteen studied samples are contemporaneous, rough surface and three with machined surface.