Positron measurements in Mg-doped GaN and development of digital Doppler broadening spectroscopy

In this work parameters of Mg-doped GaN samples were studied using positron annihilation spectroscopy and analyzed. It is shown that gallium vacancies exist in an unintentionally doped sample. Next, the sample with higher concentration of Mg and low growth temperature contains vacancy clusters. In case of low concentration of Mg the growth temperature does not affect the formation of defects. Analog electronics can be replaced by a modern digital device. While promising a high quantity of benefits, the performance of these digitizers requires thorough adjustment. A 14-bit two channel digitizer has been tested in order to achieve better performance than the one of a traditional analog setup, and the adjustment process is described. It has been shown that the digital device is unable to achieve better energy resolution, but it is quite close to the corresponding attribute of the available analog system, which had been used for measurements in Mg-doped GaN.

Drawing and writing on the screen

This chapter focuses on the physicality of the iPad as an object, and how that physicality affects the interactions children have with the device generally, and the apps specifically. Thinking about the physicality of the iPad is important because the materials, size, weight and appearance make the iPad quite unlike most other toys and equipment in the kindergarten space. Most strikingly, this physicality does not ‘represent’ the virtual vast dimensions of the iPad brought about through the diverse functions and contents of the apps contained in it. While the iPad is small enough and functional enough to be easily handled and operated even by young children, it is capable of performing highly complex, highly technological tasks that take it beyond its diminutive dimensions. This virtual-actual contrast is interesting to consider in relation to the other resources more commonly found in a kindergarten space. While objects such as toys, bricks, building materials often do prompt the child to imagine and invent beyond the physical boundaries of the toy, they not have the same types of virtual-actual contrasts of a digital device such as the iPad. How then, might children be drawn to the iPad because of its physical, technological and virtual difference? Particularly, how might this virtual-actual difference impact on the physical skills associated with writing and drawing: skills usually learnt through the use of a pencil and paper? While the research project did not set out to compare how digital and paper-based resources affect writing and drawing skills there was great interest to see how young children negotiated drawing and writing on the shiny glass surface of the iPad.

How talk and interaction unfold in a digitally enabled preschool classroom

The use of mobile digital devices, such as laptops and tablets, has implications for how teachers interact with young students within the institutional context of educational settings. This article examines language and participation in a digitally enabled preschool classroom as students engage with teachers and peers. Ethnomethodology, conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis are used to explicate video-recorded episodes of students (aged 3-5 years) interacting while using a laptop and a tablet. Attending to the sequential organization (when, how) and the context relevance (where) of talk and interaction, analysis shows how the intersection of interactions involving the teacher, students and digital devices, shape the ways that talk and interactions unfold. Analysis found that the teacher-student interactions were jointly arranged around a participation framework that included: 1) the teacher’s embodied action that mobilizes an accompanying action by a student, 2) allocation of turn-taking and participation while using a digital device and, 3) the affordances of the digital device in relation to the participants’ social organization. In this way, it is possible to understand not just what a digital device is or does, but the affordances of what it makes possible in constituting teachers’ and students’ social and learning relationships.

Avaliação da função endotelial em pacientes com hipertensão arterial resistente

A hipertensão arterial resistente (HAR) é definida pela persistência da pressão arterial (PA)≥140/90mmHg a despeito do uso de 3 anti-hipertensivos em doses plenas, incluindo diurético. Revisão recente da literatura mostra poucos estudos avaliando o perfil e o comportamento da função endotelial em pacientes com HAR. Objetiva avaliar a função endotelial em pacientes hipertensos resistentes. Estudo transversal com 60 pacientes que foram avaliados em uma visita (V3) de um estudo longitudinal, onde numa primeira fase todos pacientes tiveram padronização do tratamento anti-hipertensivo. Foram incluídos pacientes (V0) com PA>160/100mmHg e <220mmHg e todos receberam clortalidona 25mg/dia e enalapril 20mg 2x/dia ou losartana 50mg 2x/dia (intolerantes ao enalapril). Visita 1: se PA>140/90mmHg acrescentou-se anlodipino 5mg/dia, foi realizado avaliação laboratorial de rotina do hipertenso e monitorização ambulatorial da PA-24h (MAPA). Visita 2: se PA>140/90mmHganlodipino foi titulado para 10mg/dia. Visita 3: todos os pacientes receberam avaliação clínica, da pressão arterial por MAPA, laboratorial de rotina e da função endotelial. Formaram-se dois grupos: os que controlaram a PA, grupo hipertensão arterial controlada (HAC); e os que permaneceram com PA de consultório>140/90mmHg e PA na MAPA-24h>130/80mmHg, foram considerados resistentes. O grupo HAR recebeu aleatoriamente espironolactona ou clonidina por mais 12 semanas para tentar controlar a PA e o grupo HAC teve assistência farmacológica mantida no mesmo período. A PA foi avaliada por método oscilométrico com aparelho digital semi-automático Microlife modelo BP3AC1-1PC e MAPA por aparelho SpaceLabs 90207. A função endotelial avaliada através de tonometria arteriolar periférica (PAT) pelo Endo-PAT2000 e por biomarcadores (I-CAM-1, V-CAM-1, VEGF, MCP-1, IL-6, adiponectina) através da técnica LuminexTMxMAP. Dos 60 pacientes avaliados, 36 controlaram a PA, grupo HAC, e 24 permaneceram resistentes ao tratamento, grupo HAR, na visitaV3. Na avaliação da PA pela MAPA-24h observamos que no grupo HAC a PAS-24h foi de 121,1+1,7mmHg e no grupo HAR 147+3,3mmHg, enquanto a PAD-24h no grupo HAC foi de 76,64+1,5mmHg e no grupo HAR 88,58+2,4mmHg (p<0,0001). O descenso noturno, apesar de maior no grupo HAC, não apresentou significância estatística entre os dois grupos (p> 0,05). A função endotelial avaliada através do PAT mostrou índice de hiperemia reativa de 1,850,056 e 1,65+0,074 nos grupos HAC e HAR respectivamente (p= 0,036) e quando avaliada através dos biomarcadores observamos: ICAM-1 (HAC= 186,6+12,65 vs HAR= 240,9+23,76ng/ml, p= 0,038), VCAM-1 (HAC= 627,137,09vs HAR= 706,086,10ng/ml, p= 0,372),VEGF (HAC= 403,394,91 vs HAR= 612,788,27pg/ml, p= 0,123) e MCP-1 (HAC= 694,969,09 vs HAR= 787,052,80pg/ml, p= 0,315). Na avaliação dos biomarcadores inflamatórios, observamos IL-6 no grupo HAC= 1,8970,2165pg/mle no HAR= 9,7934,421pg/ml (p= 0,027) e adiponectina no grupo HAC= 105701516pg/ml e HAR= 84221295pg/ml (p=0,301). A razão de prevalência do comprometimento da função endotelial no grupo HAR foi de 54% (OR= 3,55; 95% IC 1,18- 10.67; p= 0,029). No presente trabalho, as análises das variáveis estudadas na visita V3, mostraram que os pacientes com HAR têm maior comprometimento da função endotelial que os pacientes com HAC.

Imagem corporal e fatores de risco em praticantes de caminhada da cidade do Natal-RN

Body image is the figure of our bodies built in our minds and the degree of dissatisfaction is often associated with risk factors identified by anthropometric measures. The purpose of this descriptive study was to evaluate the risk factors associated to morphological and functional variables associate to the perception of auto-image in middle-aged walkers of the south zone of the city of Natal. A hundred and thirty volunteers had been evaluated in four groups in function of the gender and age group. As measurement evaluations were used an auto-image perception questionnaire proposed by Stunkart of nine silhouettes numbered for both gender was applied; a weighing machine equipped with stadiometer for the body mass (kg) and stature (m) and the body mass index (kg/m2) that was calculated with base in measures of the body weight and stature and classified according to norms of the National Institute of Health (2000) as well as the systolic and diastolic blood pressure by a electronic digital device (DIGITRONIC). A metal anthropometric tape was used for the waist to hip ratio (WHR). It was used Analyses of variance (ANOVA) one-way, post hoc of Tukey and correlation of Spearman for the nonparametric data adopting the level of ρ≤ 0,05 for rejection of the null hypothesis. The body mass index indicated high factors of risk in the consisting groups. In all the groups were registered the desire to reduce their silhouettes. The body weight shows reduced when compared with the younger group in the male group of superior age group, while in the female group the inverse one occurs. The autoimage perception is associated with the classification of the waist to hip ratio in the female gender in the age group of the 50 to the 59 years and in the classification of the body mass index of all constituted groups. Significant associations had not been found for classification of the systolic and diastolic blood pressure in relation to the auto-image 41 perception. This thesis presents relation of interdisciplinarity and its contents have application in the fields of Physical Education, Medicine, Physiotherapy and Nursing

O enfermeiro como educador nos serviços de saúde: o olhar do graduando

Pós-graduação em Enfermagem (mestrado profissional) - FMB

Análise comparativa por meio da densidade óptica radiográfica entre o grau de osteopenia induzida pela fenitoína e ausência hormonal em ratos

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Estudo comparativo in vivo e in vitro da resistência ao cisalhamento de braquetes metálicos colador com resina polimerizada com luz halógena e LEd

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

O uso da voz e do tablet em narrativas de histórias

Introduction: This study is part of some activities developed in a school library in Marília - SP. Objective: To approach the voice pad use in historical narratives. Methodology: The book chosen by the storyteller for this experiment was “A Menina do Narizinho Arrebitado” written by Monteiro Lobato, the first Brazilian book to gain an interactive version for the pad device. Results: It was observe in that activity like a digital device excites children, being a new way to interaction with stories. With features enticing and easier to use, the tablets provide the reading levels of dynamism and interactivity so far unthinkable. Conclusions: With the results of this research, it is concluded that audiovisual resources allow interaction and dynamism, providing enthusiasm to the listeners; being a pleasurable and diverse action that enables the professional to use new tools to stimulate the taste to hear and share stories as well as to attend a school library.

Construcción de repositorios institucionales open source con Software Greenstone

Se aborda la construcción de repositorios institucionales open source con Software Greenstone. Se realiza un recorrido teórico y otro modélico desarrollando en él una aplicación práctica. El primer recorrido, que constituye el marco teórico, comprende una descripción, de: la filosofía open access (acceso abierto) y open source (código abierto) para la creación de repositorios institucionales. También abarca en líneas generales las temáticas relacionadas al protocolo OAI, el marco legal en lo que hace a la propiedad intelectual, las licencias y una aproximación a los metadatos. En el mismo recorrido se abordan aspectos teóricos de los repositorios institucionales: acepciones, beneficios, tipos, componentes intervinientes, herramientas open source para la creación de repositorios, descripción de las herramientas y finalmente, la descripción ampliada del Software Greenstone; elegido para el desarrollo modélico del repositorio institucional colocado en un demostrativo digital. El segundo recorrido, correspondiente al desarrollo modélico, incluye por un lado el modelo en sí del repositorio con el Software Greenstone; detallándose aquí uno a uno los componentes que lo conforman. Es el insumo teórico-práctico para el diseño -paso a paso- del repositorio institucional. Por otro lado, se incluye el resultado de la modelización, es decir el repositorio creado, el cual es exportado en entorno web a un soporte digital para su visibilización. El diseño del repositorio, paso a paso, constituye el núcleo sustantivo de aportes de este trabajo de tesina

Construcción de repositorios institucionales open source con Software Greenstone

Se aborda la construcción de repositorios institucionales open source con Software Greenstone. Se realiza un recorrido teórico y otro modélico desarrollando en él una aplicación práctica. El primer recorrido, que constituye el marco teórico, comprende una descripción, de: la filosofía open access (acceso abierto) y open source (código abierto) para la creación de repositorios institucionales. También abarca en líneas generales las temáticas relacionadas al protocolo OAI, el marco legal en lo que hace a la propiedad intelectual, las licencias y una aproximación a los metadatos. En el mismo recorrido se abordan aspectos teóricos de los repositorios institucionales: acepciones, beneficios, tipos, componentes intervinientes, herramientas open source para la creación de repositorios, descripción de las herramientas y finalmente, la descripción ampliada del Software Greenstone; elegido para el desarrollo modélico del repositorio institucional colocado en un demostrativo digital. El segundo recorrido, correspondiente al desarrollo modélico, incluye por un lado el modelo en sí del repositorio con el Software Greenstone; detallándose aquí uno a uno los componentes que lo conforman. Es el insumo teórico-práctico para el diseño -paso a paso- del repositorio institucional. Por otro lado, se incluye el resultado de la modelización, es decir el repositorio creado, el cual es exportado en entorno web a un soporte digital para su visibilización. El diseño del repositorio, paso a paso, constituye el núcleo sustantivo de aportes de este trabajo de tesina

A survey of music educator's understanding and use of advanced audio technology in their instructional methods and strategies

This study examines the correlation between how certified music educators understand audio technology and how they incorporate it in their instructional methods. Participants were classroom music teachers selected from fifty middle schools in Miami- Dade Public Schools. The study adopted a non-experimental research design in which a survey was the primary tool of investigation. The findings reveal that a majority of middle school music teachers in Miami-Dade are not familiar with advanced audiorecording software or any other digital device dedicated to the recording and processing of audio signals. Moreover, they report a lack of opportunities to develop this knowledge. Younger music teachers, however, are more open to developing up-to-date instructional methodologies. Most of the participants agreed that music instruction should be a platform for preparing students for a future in the entertainment industry. A basic knowledge of music business should be delivered to students enrolled in middle-school music courses.

Tutankamón

O presente trabalho pretende apresentar e descrever a metodologia processual e respectivas relexões que sustentam a criação de um artefato digital interativo construído de forma a que alguns dos elementos bidimensionais que o constituem sejam manipuladas de forma a que criem ao jogador a ilusão de tridimensionalidade. Em 1992 a Id Software com o jogo Wolfenstein 3D, introduziu uma referência visual à tridimensionalidade, utilizando para o efeito tecnologia 2D, a qual, através de um sistema de redimensionamento e posicionamento de imagens, consegui transmitir a noção de tridimensionalidade, utilizando na altura um tipo de jogo em primeira pessoa, ou seja, o jogador experiência uma campo visual que visa reproduzir a própria experiência do mundo táctil na relação que dispõe entre os espaços e objetos. Através do Processing, uma linguagem de programação que assenta no Java, estes objetivos conceptuais serão reproduzidos, que procuram, por um lado, transmitir esta aparente ilusão de tridimensionalidade e por outro não utilizar um tipo de artefacto digital que proporciona uma jogabilidade em primeira pessoa mas sim possibilitam ao jogador uma experiência visual que aborda todo o espaço em que é lhe permitido circular, no qual é lhe exposto as adversidades que precisa de superar para progredir. Para que isto seja possível o jogador assume o papel de um personagem e através da sua interação com o artefato, vai ediicando uma narrativa visual que visa o seu envolvimento com a temática representada. Como tema é utilizada uma representação da busca pelo Sarcófago do faraó da 18ª Dinastia Tutankamón (1332 - 1323 AC) pelo explorador britânico Howard Carter (1874 - 1939) cuja expedição no Vales do Reis em 1922 constitui ainda hoje a mais célebre descoberta arqueológica relacionada com Antigo Egipto. Ao longo desta Dissertação são abordados temas que visam resoluções tanto no campo técnico e tecnológico, através da programação e sua linguagem, como no campo visual e estético que visa uma conexão consciente com a temática a representar e a ser experienciada

User interaction monitoring and analysis framework

An overview is given of a user interaction monitoring and analysis framework called BaranC. Monitoring and analysing human-digital interaction is an essential part of developing a user model as the basis for investigating user experience. The primary human-digital interaction, such as on a laptop or smartphone, is best understood and modelled in the wider context of the user and their environment. The BaranC framework provides monitoring and analysis capabilities that not only records all user interaction with a digital device (e.g. smartphone), but also collects all available context data (such as from sensors in the digital device itself, a fitness band or a smart appliances). The data collected by BaranC is recorded as a User Digital Imprint (UDI) which is, in effect, the user model and provides the basis for data analysis. BaranC provides functionality that is useful for user experience studies, user interface design evaluation, and providing user assistance services. An important concern for personal data is privacy, and the framework gives the user full control over the monitoring, storing and sharing of their data.

A service-oriented user interaction analysis framework supporting adaptive applications

A comprehensive user model, built by monitoring a user's current use of applications, can be an excellent starting point for building adaptive user-centred applications. The BaranC framework monitors all user interaction with a digital device (e.g. smartphone), and also collects all available context data (such as from sensors in the digital device itself, in a smart watch, or in smart appliances) in order to build a full model of user application behaviour. The model built from the collected data, called the UDI (User Digital Imprint), is further augmented by analysis services, for example, a service to produce activity profiles from smartphone sensor data. The enhanced UDI model can then be the basis for building an appropriate adaptive application that is user-centred as it is based on an individual user model. As BaranC supports continuous user monitoring, an application can be dynamically adaptive in real-time to the current context (e.g. time, location or activity). Furthermore, since BaranC is continuously augmenting the user model with more monitored data, over time the user model changes, and the adaptive application can adapt gradually over time to changing user behaviour patterns. BaranC has been implemented as a service-oriented framework where the collection of data for the UDI and all sharing of the UDI data are kept strictly under the user's control. In addition, being service-oriented allows (with the user's permission) its monitoring and analysis services to be easily used by 3rd parties in order to provide 3rd party adaptive assistant services. An example 3rd party service demonstrator, built on top of BaranC, proactively assists a user by dynamic predication, based on the current context, what apps and contacts the user is likely to need. BaranC introduces an innovative user-controlled unified service model of monitoring and use of personal digital activity data in order to provide adaptive user-centred applications. This aims to improve on the current situation where the diversity of adaptive applications results in a proliferation of applications monitoring and using personal data, resulting in a lack of clarity, a dispersal of data, and a diminution of user control.