A Mapping-Scheduling Algorithm for Hardware Acceleration on Reconfigurable Platforms

Reconfigurable platforms are a promising technology that offers an interesting trade-off between flexibility and performance, which many recent embedded system applications demand, especially in fields such as multimedia processing. These applications typically involve multiple ad-hoc tasks for hardware acceleration, which are usually represented using formalisms such as Data Flow Diagrams (DFDs), Data Flow Graphs (DFGs), Control and Data Flow Graphs (CDFGs) or Petri Nets. However, none of these models is able to capture at the same time the pipeline behavior between tasks (that therefore can coexist in order to minimize the application execution time), their communication patterns, and their data dependencies. This paper proves that the knowledge of all this information can be effectively exploited to reduce the resource requirements and the timing performance of modern reconfigurable systems, where a set of hardware accelerators is used to support the computation. For this purpose, this paper proposes a novel task representation model, named Temporal Constrained Data Flow Diagram (TCDFD), which includes all this information. This paper also presents a mapping-scheduling algorithm that is able to take advantage of the new TCDFD model. It aims at minimizing the dynamic reconfiguration overhead while meeting the communication requirements among the tasks. Experimental results show that the presented approach achieves up to 75% of resources saving and up to 89% of reconfiguration overhead reduction with respect to other state-of-the-art techniques for reconfigurable platforms.

Development of new analytical procedures of isotope geochemistry by mass spectrometry. Application to the study of high-pressure metamorphic rocks from the Iberian Massif

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Sociabilidades e hedonismos: etnografia entre jovens usuários de substâncias psicoativas sintéticas Fortaleza Ceará

This dissertation shows a comparison between practices related to the body, to identities and to the health of young drug takers of synthetic and manipulated psychoactive substances living in Fortaleza. Through ethnographic accompaniment of parties and two social nets of young people I was able to verify the differences and similarities that make these addicted singular and plural in their notion of ethos and world vision. Notions of being hippie/alternative and being punk are present between these nets. Because their use and circulation are developed in environments usually distinct, it is possible to trace singular aspects between the nets and its actions. In parallel, on the attempt to build a triangulated data, I had information related to youth and drugs in local media and in governmental institutions bound to health mental and city security policies. With this junction of data I present a perspective to questions evolving formal and informal important controls to the conduction of their lives and identities. I present this as a sequel to well developed studies in Brasil about youth in interface to drug use, although still not very explored in the state of Ceará.

Diseño urbano arquitectónico de infraestructura verde en la cabecera parroquial de Sinincay del Cantón Cuenca

Este proyecto estudia e implementa estrategias de Infraestructura Verde, como respuesta al déficit de áreas verdes públicas en tejidos urbanos que se encuentran en proceso de consolidación, debido a que el acelerado crecimiento de las ciudades en la mayoría de los casos ocasiona pérdida de recursos naturales. Dando como resultado una gran mancha urbana carente de servicios hidrológicos, ecológicos y ambientales, provocando que sus habitantes no cuenten con una calidad de vida adecuada. La Infraestructura Verde se concibe como una red de áreas verdes públicas ya sean urbanas y rurales, que además se interrelaciona con otras redes como la azul y la de transportes no motorizados. En primera instancia se estudian los conceptos y teorías más destacadas sobre Infraestructura Verde. Seguidamente se analiza cómo caso puntual las áreas verdes de la ciudad de Cuenca y posteriormente se realiza una revisión de casos sobresalientes en los que se emplean estrategias de la teoría revisada, los mismos que nos proporcionarán criterios de intervención, aplicables a la zona de estudio. Posteriormente se realiza el análisis del lugar de intervención, abordando tres escalas: la parroquial, de cabecera parroquial y del área de estudio, lo que nos permite conocer las necesidades, requerimientos y potencialidades de éstas. Para finalmente desarrollar el anteproyecto de Infraestructura Verde, el cual considera las distintas escalas antes mencionadas y de ésta manera aporta a disminuir el déficit de áreas verdes en este tipo de tejidos urbanos.

Ocorrência de tripanossomatídeos em morcegos (Mammalia : Chiroptera) no Distrito Federal, Brasil

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, 2016.

Suupa uchinaanchu : a construção da rede transnacional okinawana

Tese (doutorado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Departamento de Antropologia, Programa de Pós-graduação em Antropologia Social, 2016.