Analyyttista geometriaa GeoGebralla

GeoGebra on ilmainen, Java-pohjainen, dynaaminen matematiikkaohjelmisto, jossa geometriaan on yhdistetty algebraa, funktio-oppia sekä diferentiaali- ja integraalilaskentaa. Tämän tutkielman aiheena on matematiikkaohjelma GeoGebran käyttö lukion analyyttisen geometrian opetuksessa, jonka keskeisimpiä tavoitteita on saada oppilas ymmärtämään algebrallisten ja geometristen käsitteiden välisiä yhteyksiä. Lukion analyyttisen geometrian kurssin keskeisistä aihealueista on tässä tutkielmassa valittu käsiteltäviksi piste, suora ja jana koordinaatistossa sekä pistejoukon yhtälöt. Pistejoukon yhtälöistä tarkemmin käsitellään suorien ja kartioleikkausten yhtälöitä. Tutkielmassa esitellään GeoGebra-ohjelman käyttömahdollisuuksia analyyttisen geometrian opetuksessa ja laaditaan monipuolisia opetuskäyttöön soveltuvia dynaamisia GeoGebra-konstruktioita. Käsiteltyihin analyyttisen geometrian aiheisiin on laadittu myös harjoitustehtäviä ratkaisuineen. Kaikki GeoGebra-konstruktiot ovat vapaasti käytettävissä dynaamisina tiedostoina sekä liitteenä olevalla cd-rom-levyllä että osoitteessa https://sites.google. com/site/analyyttistageometriaageogebra/. Sähköinen materiaali on saatavilla sekä GeoGebran omassa tallennusmuodossa (.ggb) että html-muodossa. Html-tiedostot avautuvat Java-sovelluksina suoraan verkkoselaimeen, joten niiden käyttö on helppoa myös ilman erityistä GeoGebran käytön osaamista.

Warning system based on theoretical-experimental study of dispersion of soluble pollutants in rivers

Information about capacity of transport and dispersion of soluble pollutants in natural streams are important in the management of water resources, especially in planning preventive measures to minimize the problems caused by accidental or intentional waste, in public health and economic activities that depend on the use of water. Considering this importance, this study aimed to develop a warning system for rivers, based on experimental techniques using tracers and analytical equations of one-dimensional transport of soluble pollutants conservative, to subsidizing the decision-making in the management of water resources. The system was development in JAVA programming language and MySQL database can predict the travel time of pollutants clouds from a point of eviction and graphically displays the temporal distribution of concentrations of passage clouds, in a particular location, downstream from the point of its launch.

Social tagging within task management

Social tagging evolved in response to a need to tag heterogeneous objects, the automated tagging of which is usually not feasible by current technological means. Social tagging can be used for more flexible competence management within organizations. The profiles of employees can be built in the form of groups of tags, as employees tag each other, based on their familiarity of each other’s expertise. This can serve as a replacement for the more traditional competence management approaches, which usually become outdated due to social and organizational hurdles, and obsolete data. These limitations can be overcome by people tagging, as the information revealed by such tags is usually based on most recent employee interaction and knowledge. Task management as part of personal information management aims at the support of users’ individual task handling. This can include collaborating with other individuals, sharing one’s knowledge, both functional and process-related, and distributing documents and web resources. In this context, Task patterns can be used as templates that collect information and experience around tasks associated to it during run time, facilitating agility. The effective collaboration among contributors necessitates the means to find the appropriate individuals to work with on the task, and this can be made possible by using social tagging to describe individual competencies. The goal of this study is to support finding and tagging people within task management, through the effective exploitation of the work/task context. This involves the utilization of knowledge of the workers’ expertise, nature of the task/task pattern and information available from the documents and web resources attached to the task. Vice versa, task management provides an excellent environment for social tagging due to the task context that already provides suitable tags. The study also aims at assisting users of the task management solution with the collaborative construction of light-weight ontology by inferring semantic relations between tags. The thesis project aims at an implementation of people finding & tagging within the java application for task management that consumes web services, which provide the required ontology for the organization.

ANATI QUANTI: software de análises quantitativas para estudos em anatomia vegetal

Em diversos estudos interdisciplinares em que a Anatomia Vegetal é utilizada, análises quantitativas complementares são necessárias. Geralmente, a avaliação micromorfométrica é feita manualmente e/ou utilizando programas computacionais de análise de imagens não específicos. Este trabalho teve como objetivo desenvolver um programa específico para Anatomia Vegetal quantitativa e testar sua eficiência e aceitação por usuários. A solução foi elaborada na linguagem Java, visando maior mobilidade em relação ao sistema operacional a ser usado. O software desenvolvido foi denominado ANATI QUANTI e testado pelos alunos, pesquisadores e professores do Laboratório de Anatomia Vegetal da Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV). Todos os entrevistados receberam fotos para efetuarem medições no ANATI QUANTI e comparar com os resultados obtidos utilizando o software disponível. Os voluntários, através de questionários previamente formulados, destacaram as principais vantagens e desvantagens do programa desenvolvido em relação ao software disponível. Além de ser mais específico, simples e ágil do que o software disponível, o ANATI QUANTI é confiável, atendendo à expectativa dos entrevistados. Entretanto, há necessidade de acrescentar recursos adicionais, como a inserção de novas escalas, o que aumentaria a gama de usuários. O ANATI QUANTI já está em uso nas pesquisas desenvolvidas por usuários na UFV. Por ser um software livre e de código aberto, será disponibilizado na internet gratuitamente.