O projeto de modernidade nas crônicas da seção De Palanque de Artur Azevedo

Pós-graduação em Letras - FCLAS

Ilustração não-digital e digital: um estudo das etapas da produção para otimização da comunicação

This article contains a brief summary of the thesis defended in Visual Poetics, whose title is “Digital and Non Digital Illustration: A Study of the Steps in the Production Process for the Optimization of Communication”. With the detailing of these major items, the mindset of the thesis was the research of the process of digital and not digital production.

Gestão ambiental e o meio urbano do município de Franca: uma abordagem a partir da Política Nacional de Resíduos Sólidos

Pós-graduação em Planejamento e Análise de Políticas Públicas - FCHS

Gestão ambiental e o meio urbano do município de Franca: uma abordagem a partir da Política Nacional de Resíduos Sólidos

Pós-graduação em Planejamento e Análise de Políticas Públicas - FCHS

La semplificazione dell’'altro': la trasformazione della Palestina e dei suoi abitanti sotto l’influenza britannica, 1831-1922

Stile. Teoria e prassi nell'opera di Viollet-le-Duc

Per Viollet-le-Duc lo “stile” «è la manifestazione di un ideale fondato su un principio» dove per principio si intende il principio d’ordine della struttura, quest’ultimo deve rispondere direttamente alla Legge dell’”unità” che deve essere sempre rispettata nell’ideazione dell’opera architettonica. A partire da questo nodo centrale del pensiero viollettiano, la presente ricerca si è posta come obiettivo quello dell’esplorazione dei legami fra teoria e prassi nell’opera di Viollet-le-Duc, nei quali lo “stile” ricorre come un "fil rouge" costante, presentandosi come una possibile inedita chiave di lettura di questa figura protagonista della storia del restauro e dell’architettura dell’Ottocento. Il lavoro di ricerca si é dunque concentrato su una nuova lettura dei documenti sia editi che inediti, oltre che su un’accurata ricognizione bibliografica e documentaria, e sullo studio diretto delle architetture. La ricerca archivistica si é dedicata in particolare sull’analisi sistematica dei disegni originali di progetto e delle relazioni tecniche delle opere di Viollet-le- Duc. A partire da questa prima ricognizione, sono stati selezionati due casi- studio ritenuti particolarmente significativi nell’ambito della tematica scelta: il progetto di restauro della chiesa della Madeleine a Vézelay (1840-1859) e il progetto della Maison Milon in rue Douai a Parigi (1857-1860). Attraverso il parallelo lavoro di analisi dei casi-studio e degli scritti di Viollet- le-Duc, si è cercato di verificare le possibili corrispondenze tra teoria e prassi operativa: confrontando i progetti sia con le opere teoriche, sia con la concreta testimonianza degli edifici realizzati.

Exercise training in heart failure: from theory to practice. A consensus document of the Heart Failure Association and the European Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation

The European Society of Cardiology heart failure guidelines firmly recommend regular physical activity and structured exercise training (ET), but this recommendation is still poorly implemented in daily clinical practice outside specialized centres and in the real world of heart failure clinics. In reality, exercise intolerance can be successfully tackled by applying ET. We need to encourage the mindset that breathlessness may be evidence of signalling between the periphery and central haemodynamic performance and regular physical activity may ultimately bring about favourable changes in myocardial function, symptoms, functional capacity, and increased hospitalization-free life span and probably survival. In this position paper, we provide practical advice for the application of exercise in heart failure and how to overcome traditional barriers, based on the current scientific and clinical knowledge supporting the beneficial effect of this intervention.

Psychological Real Estate: Fractured Female Identity in the Victorian Novel

"Psychological Real Estate: Fractured Female Identity in the Victorian Novel" examines the use of domestic space in three Victorian novels, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (1847), Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret (1862), and George Eliot's Middlemarch (1871-2). Because Victorian gender identity was conceived of in spatial terms, this thesis explores how the three female authors use complicated domestic environments to engage the problem of conventional Victorian femininity. In the Victorian mindset, a woman's place is confined to the home, or private sphere; however, even the private sphere is intruded upon by public spaces. Expected to conform to the Victorian formulation of femininity in public spaces within the home, women had only their private spaces to cultivate the unique, individualistic aspects of their selves. This thesis explores the ways in which the female protagonists negotiate these gender encoded spaces to argue that because Victorian women had to maintain separate and often disparate identities within domestic space, their identities became problematically fractured. Additionally, in each of these texts, the authors use the failure or loss of the estate, the structure which rigidly upholds the gendered binaries, to expose the harm such fracturing identity formulation caused for Victorian society as a whole. This thesis concludes by examining the final residences of the female characters and arguing that the authors use these final private spaces to assert more feminist re-envisionings of their society's construction of femininity.

Improving bovine udder health: a national mastitis control program in the Netherlands

Because of increasing bulk milk somatic cell counts and continuous clinical mastitis problems in a substantial number of herds, a national mastitis control program was started in 2005 to improve udder health in the Netherlands. The program started with founding the Dutch Udder Health Centre (UGCN), which had the task to coordinate the program. The program consisted of 2 parts: a research part and a knowledge-transfer part, which were integrated as much as possible. The knowledge-transfer part comprised 2 communication strategies: a central and a peripheral approach. The central approach was based on educating farmers using comprehensive science-based and rational argumentation about mastitis prevention and included on-farm study group meetings. Comprehensive education materials were developed for farmers that were internally motivated to improve udder health. In the peripheral approach it was tried to motivate farmers to implement certain management measures using nontechnical arguments. Mass media campaigns were used that focused on one single aspect of mastitis prevention. These communication strategies, as well as an integrated approach between various stakeholders and different scientific disciplines were used to reach as many farmers as possible. It should be noted that, because this intervention took place at a national level, no control group was available, as it would be impossible to isolate farmers from all forms of communication for 5 years. Based on several studies executed during and after the program, however, the results suggest that udder health seemed to have improved on a national level during the course of the program from 2005 to 2010. Within a cohort of dairy herds monitored during the program, the prevalence of subclinical mastitis did not change significantly (23.0 in 2004 vs. 22.2 in 2009). The incidence rate of clinical mastitis, however, decreased significantly, from 33.5 to 28.1 quarter cases per 100 cow years at risk. The most important elements of the farmers' mindset toward mastitis control also changed favorably. The simulated costs of mastitis per farm were reduced compared with a situation in which the mastitis would not have changed, with € 400 per year. When this amount is extrapolated to all Dutch farms, the sector as a whole reduced the total costs of mastitis by € 8 million per year. It is difficult to assign the improved udder health completely to the efforts of the program due to the lack of a control group. Nevertheless, investing € 8 million by the Dutch dairy industry in a 5-yr national mastitis control program likely improved udder health and seemed to pay for itself financially.

Putting It All Together

Putting it all together: technology design drivers to move your classroom from your campus to the world This workshop will introduce methodologies available for moving the current “classroom” mindset to a learning environment without boundaries. Participants will explore the design drivers necessary to create the technology supports for transcendent learning environments.

Multiple-Choice Testing in Science and Technology Courses

Wide spread and continuing use of multiple-choice testing in technical subjects is leading to a mindset amongst students which is antithetical with actual use of intellect.

Legal Aspects which Implement Good Practice Measures in the Management of Construction and Demolition Waste

The construction industry, one of the most important ones in the development of a country, generates unavoidable impacts on the environment. The social demand towards greater respect for the environment is a high and general outcry. Therefore, the construction industry needs to reduce the impact it produces. Proper waste management is not enough; we must take a further step in environmental management, where new measures need to be introduced for the prevention at source, such as good practices to promote recycling. Following the amendment of the legal frame applicable to Construction and Demolition Waste (C&D waste), important developments have been incorporated in European and International laws, aiming to promote the culture of reusing and recycling. This change of mindset, that is progressively taking place in society, is allowing for the consideration of C&D waste no longer as an unusable waste, but as a reusable material. The main objective of the work presented in this paper is to enhance C&D waste management systems through the development of preventive measures during the construction process. These measures concern all the agents intervening in the construction process as only the personal implication of all of them can ensure an efficient management of the C&D waste generated. Finally, a model based on preventive measures achieves organizational cohesion between the different stages of the construction process, as well as promoting the conservation of raw materials through the use and waste minimization. All of these in order to achieve a C&D waste management system, whose primary goal is zero waste generation

Evaluación de las librerías disponibles para la definición de gestos y uso de los mismos para ser usados en U.I. con Kinect

La rápida evolución de tecnologías que mejoran la interacción con los ordenadores ha cambiado la forma de pensar de la sociedad actual. Una de las últimas alternativas se centra en el reconocimiento facial y de gestos, el cual ha dado muy buenos resultados, acercando ordenadores y humanos. El objetivo de este proyecto era desarrollar un prototipo que permita el reconocimiento de gestos mediante el dispositivo Kinect, el cual usa una de las tecnologías mencionadas anteriormente. Para la realización de este prototipo, fue necesario el estudio del funcionamiento de Kinect. Una vez realizado, el siguiente paso consistió en la búsqueda de librerías que facilitaran el reconocimiento de gestos, para compararlas y finalmente escoger una de ellas. Al ser una tecnología reciente, no existen demasiadas aplicaciones que utilicen Kinect y por lo tanto, la búsqueda de la librería era una parte fundamental del proyecto. Tras elegir la librería, se analizaron las características que debía tener el prototipo para realizar el diseño del mismo. Este diseño se realizó de forma iterativa y con numerosos cambios para otorgar al prototipo la mayor abstracción posible y una mayor orientación a objetos, para de esta manera, favorecer los posibles cambios que sean necesarios al ser una tecnología nueva y muy cambiante. Finalmente, el paso final fue la implementación del prototipo bajo el diseño propuesto, consiguiendo un prototipo funcional capaz de reconocer, almacenar, mostrar y definir diferentes gestos. Los resultados ofrecidos por Kinect son muy satisfactorios, con una gran precisión y eficiencia, demostrando el potencial de las nuevas tecnologías de interacción sin contacto, cuyo único defecto se encuentra en ser una tecnología poco madura y en evolución. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The fast development of technologies that enhance interaction with computers has changed the mindset of the society. One of the latest alternatives focuses on face and gesture recognition, which has been very successful, bringing closer computers and humans. The purpose of this project was to develop a gesture recognition prototype with the Kinect device, which uses one of the technologies mentioned above. For the realization of this prototype, it was necessary to study how Kinect works. Once done, the next step was to search for libraries to facilitate the gesture recognition, to compare them and finally choose one of them. Because it is a recent technology, there are not many applications that use Kinect and therefore, the library search was an essential part of the project. After selecting the library, the characteristics that the prototype should have were analyzed for the design. This design was performed iteratively with numerous changes to give the prototype abstraction and object orientation, because as a new technology, it changes fast. Therefore, with this design it would be easier to deal with possible changes. Finally, the final step was the implementation of the prototype under the proposed design, getting a functional prototype able to recognize, store, display and define different gestures. The results offered by Kinect are very satisfactory, with high accuracy and efficiency, demonstrating the potential of the new interaction technologies without contact, whose only fault is to be a little mature technology and evolving.