Litet rum stor funktion är ett examensarbete i Informationsdesign med inriktningen Rumslig gestaltning. I studien undersöks hur ett multifunktionellt förskolerum kan utformas för att bjuda in till och stödja dess funktioner samt underlätta skiftet mellan de olika aktiviteterna. Syftet med utformningen är att skapa en tydlig och inbjudande miljö för förskolebarnen att vistas i samt att underlätta pedagogernas arbete. Designarbetet utgår från ett rum på avdelningen Vatten på Krongatans förskola i Eskilstuna. I dagsläget uppfyller inte rummets utformning användarnas behov och det är inte anpassat för de funktioner som ska finnas där. Kvalitativa intervjuer och en analys av rummet har genomförts för att identifiera behoven som ligger till grund för arbetet. Studien har även baserats på teorier och tidigare forskning om de rumsliga designelementen färg, ljus, form och material samt teorier om affordance, gestaltlagar och designprinciper. Utifrån detta har ett gestaltningsförslag för det multifunktionella förskolerummet tagits fram. Förslaget består bland annat av flexibla lösningar och designelement som valts utifrån teorier i syfte att gestaltningen ska uppfylla användarnas behov samt skapa förutsättningar för att lösa det praktiska informationsdesignproblemet. / This thesis is a study on how to design a multifunctional preschool room in order to make it inviting to its users and to support its functions as well as facilitate the shift between the various activities. The purpose of the design work is to create a legible and inviting environment for preschool children to stay in and to facilitate the teachers' work. This study is based on a specific room at Krongatan preschool in Eskilstuna, Sweden. The current design of the room is not supporting the users’ needs and it is not adjusted to the several activities that are supposed to be performed there. The study is based on qualitative interviews and an analysis of the room to identify the users’ needs. It is also based on theories and previous research about the spatial design elements colour, light, form and material, as well as theories of affordances and design principles. Based on these theories and methods, a design proposal for the multifunctional preschool room has been developed. The proposed design consists of a number of flexible solutions and design elements that are selected from theory in order to accomplish an environment that meet the users’ needs and creates conditions to solve the practical problems.

Aide à la conception de légendes personnalisées et originales : proposition d'une méthode coopérative pour le choix des couleurs Les utilisateurs s'approprient aisément les outils cartographiques numériques pour se construire leur propre carte. Cependant, l'accès aux outils ne suffit pas pour concevoir une légende cartographique de qualité. Il est nécessaire de savoir comment faire de bons choix de représentation graphique, en particulier de bons choix de couleurs. Une expertise cartographique comportant des connaissances en sémiologie graphique et en perception des couleurs (contrastes et harmonies) est nécessaire : soit l'utilisateur possède ces connaissances, soit les outils doivent les lui apporter. Dans ce contexte, nous cherchons à aider les utilisateurs à concevoir des légendes personnalisées et originales, en nous concentrant sur l'aide au choix des couleurs. Nous proposons une méthode de conception coopérative en quatre phases reposant sur des interactions homme-machine : 1- choix d'une source d'inspiration, 2- acquisition des préférences de l'utilisateur sur les sources d'inspiration, 3- interprétation des préférences et construction de légendes adaptées, 4- retouche de légendes. Deux stratégies de conception sont envisagées en utilisant deux types de sources d'inspiration : des échantillons de carte et des toiles de maîtres. En partant du constat que des désaccords entre l'utilisateur et le système peuvent se produire, nous proposons d'utiliser des techniques de dialogue homme-machine pour améliorer l'adaptation du système à l'utilisateur. Le modèle de dialogue ainsi proposé est implémenté dans le prototype COLorLEGend (COLLEG) / Helping users to make on-demand and original legends : proposition of a cooperative method to choose colours Current cartographic tools allow technically novice and expert users to make maps. However resulting legends may be of poor quality because users do not know how to make good choices of graphic representation and especially good choices of colours. Cartographic expertise including semiologic rules and colour perception knowledge (contrasts and harmony) is required. If users are not experts, cartographic tools should other them this expertise. In this context, we want to help users to design customized and original legends, by helping them to select suitable colours. We propose a cooperative method in four stages : 1- selection of an inspiration source, 2- identification of user's colour preferences on inspiration sources, 3- interpretation of preferences and design of suitable legends, 4- refinement of legends. Two legend design strategies, based on map samples and master paintings, are used. However, conflicts between the user and the system may appear. Therefore we propose to rely on human-machine dialog techniques in order to better adapt the process to the user. A dialog model is implemented and the prototype COLorLEGend (COLLEG) is presented

The diploma thesis explores the basic methods of measuring the efficiency and effectiveness of advertising campaigns. Expecially, the method of Color - Word association Technique. It is one of the unusual methods that successfully measure these factors of advertising from the presepective of attitudinal preferences and associations. The aim of thesis is to approach standard and non-standard approaches to measuring the efficiency and effectiveness of advertising campaigns and in concrete example of company which is selling the products from prevention against fleas and ticks.Describe and apply these approaches.Furthermore, based on the state before the campaign and after campaign,to analyze and show changes in attitudes of target group. Finally, to propose the strategy for future planning and to recommend effective investment of funds in the next year and efficient communication products of services through the media.

This study addresses the influence of elevated pressures, fuel type, fuel flow rate and co-flow air on the flame structure and flickering behaviour of laminar oscillating diffusion flames. Photomultipliers, high speed photography and schlieren, accompanied with digital image processing techniques have been used to study the flame dynamics. Furthermore, the effects of pressure on the flame geometry and two-dimensional soot temperature distribution in a laminar stable diffusion flame have been investigated, utilising narrow band photography and two-colour pyrometry technique in the near infra-red region. This study provides a broad dataset on the diffusion (sooty) flame properties under pressures from atmospheric to 16 bar for three gaseous hydrocarbon fuels (methane, ethylene and propane) in a co-flow burner facility.It has been observed that the flame properties are very sensitive to the fuel type and flow rate at elevated pressures. The cross-sectional area of the stable flame shows an average inverse dependence on pressure to the power of n, where n was found to be 0.8±0.2 for ethylene flame, 0.5±0.1 for methane flame and 0.6±0.1 for propane flame. The height of a flame increases firstly with pressure and then decreases with further increase of pressure. It is observed that the region of stable combustion was markedly reduced as pressure was increased. An ethylene flame flickers with at least three dominant modes, each with corresponding harmonics at elevated pressures. In contrast, methane flames flicker with one dominant frequency and as many as six harmonic modes at elevated pressures. The increase in fuel flow rate was observed to increase the magnitude of oscillation. The flickering frequency, however, remains almost constant at each pressure. The dominant flickering frequency of a methane diffusion flame shows a power-law dependence on chamber pressure.It has been observed that the flame dynamics and stability are also strongly affected by the co-flow air velocity. When the co-flow velocity reached a certain value, the buoyancy driven flame oscillation was completely suppressed. The schlieren imaging has revealed that the co-flow of air is able to push the initiation point of outer toroidal vortices beyond the visible flame to create a very stable flame. The oscillation frequency was observed to increase linearly with the air co-flow rate. The soot temperature results obtained by applying the two-colour method in the near infra-red region shows that in diffusion flames the overall temperatures decrease with increasing pressure. It is shown that the rate of temperature drop is greater for a pressure increase at lower pressures in comparison with higher pressures.

The present thesis proposes new methods for obtaining objective and accurate diagnoses in modern healthcare. Non-invasive techniques have been used to examine or diagnose three different medical conditions, namely neuropathy among diabetics, radiotherapy induced erythema (skin redness) among breast cancer patients and diagnoses of cutaneous malignant melanoma. The techniques used were Near-InfraRed spectroscopy (NIR), Multi Frequency Bio Impedance Analysis of whole body (MFBIA-body), Laser Doppler Imaging (LDI) and Digital Colour Photography (DCP). The neuropathy for diabetics was studied in papers I and II. The first study was performed on diabetics and control subjects of both genders. A separation was seen between males and females and therefore the data had to be divided in order to obtain good models. NIR spectroscopy was shown to be a viable technique for measuring neuropathy once the division according to gender was made. The second study on diabetics, where MFBIA-body was added to the analysis, was performed on males exclusively. Principal component analysis showed that healthy reference subjects tend to separate from diabetics. Also, diabetics with severe neuropathy separate from persons less affected. The preliminary study presented in paper III was performed on breast cancer patients in order to investigate if NIR, LDI and DCP were able to detect radiotherapy induced erythema. The promising results in the preliminary study motivated a new and larger study. This study, presented in papers IV and V, intended to investigate the measurement techniques further but also to examine the effect that two different skin lotions, Essex and Aloe vera have on the development of erythema. The Wilcoxon signed rank sum test showed that DCP and NIR could detect erythema, which is developed during one week of radiation treatment. LDI was able to detect erythema developed during two weeks of treatment. None of the techniques could detect any differences between the two lotions regarding the development of erythema. The use of NIR to diagnose cutaneous malignant melanoma is presented as unpublished results in this thesis. This study gave promising but inconclusive results. NIR could be of interest for future development of instrumentation for diagnosis of skin cancer.

Orientador: Leonor Patricia Cerdeira Morellato / Resumo: A visão é o principal sentido utilizado pelos polinizadores para forragear, no qual a cor das flores é a primeira característica de atração. A percepção dos sinais de cores depende da coloração do segundo plano das flores, composto principalmente pelas folhas. Diferenças na composição das espécies e na estrutura da vegetação, e também na sazonalidade climática, podem interferir na cor do segundo plano de folhas em diferentes vegetações e estações, interferindo como os polinizadores percebem a flor. Portanto, a diversidade de cores das flores e os padrões de floração de uma comunidade podem estar relacionados com a composição de polinizadores e condições ambientais. Desta maneira, utilizando comunidades vegetais e considerando o sistema visual das abelhas, nós descrevemos e comparamos a diversidade de cores das flores e seus sinais, dando importância para a cor do segundo plano de folhas em duas vegetações sazonais tropicais e uma vegetação sazonal temperada. Em seguida, para vincular os sinais florais com a sazonalidade, nós analisamos a importância das síndromes de polinização levantadas, o padrão de floração, a influência da cor do segundo plano de folhas no padrão de cor das flores entre as estações. Nós encontramos diferenças na diversidade de cores das flores e confirmamos a influência da coloração do segundo plano de folhas, juntamente com a estrutura da vegetação e a intensidade da sazonalidade nos sinais florais exibidos em diferentes vegetações sazonais, de acordo co... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: Vision is the main sense used to forage by pollinators being the flower colour the primary feature of attraction. Colour signals perception depend on the flower background colouration, mainly composed by leaves. Differences in species composition and vegetation structure, and also the seasonality, may change the leaf-background colouration of different vegetations and seasons, interfering how the pollinators perceive a flower. Therefore, flower colour diversity and flowering patterns of a community may be related to the pollinators’ composition and environmental conditions. Using a community level-approach and according to bee visual system, we described and compared the flower colour diversity and the signals of a temperate and two tropical seasonal vegetations, considering their leaf background colouration. Then, to link flower signals to seasonality and using the cerrado sensu stricto as a model of seasonal vegetation, we analysed the importance of the surveyed pollination syndromes, the community flowering pattern, flowering patterns according to the colour of flowers and the influence of seasonal changes in the background colouration in the flower colour signals between seasons. We found differences in flower colour diversity and confirmed the influence of the leaf- background colouration, along with the vegetation structure and seasonality intensity, in flower colour signals displayed in different seasonal vegetations according to the colour vision of bees. Higher value... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

Cement bonded particleboards contain organic base and as they are set outside, extreme weather condition, such as frost, chemical defrosting substances or sulphates, cause their degradation. The presence of the organic base in the matrix of the material could be the reason why there is higher probability of degrading when compared with materials containing an inorganic base. It could be partially eliminated by an appropriate surface modification of the slab, which main goal is to weaken the impact of an aggressive environment and to extend the lifespan of the board. On the other hand, the surface modifications based on a polymer base are prone to degrade because of other unfavourable conditions such as UV radiation when compared with the cement bonded particleboard. The classification of the surface modifications and the way of their degradation caused by the aggressive environment in real applications are presented in the theoretical part of the thesis. In the experimental part, appropriate methodical ways of testing the resistance of cement bonded particleboard’s coating system were chosen. Then, the testing and comparing of the physical, mechanical and aesthetic properties of different types of coatings were done. Moreover, a spectrophotometric analysis of the colour shade changes for the different aggressive environment were carried out. Furthermore, microstructures of chosen surface modifications were assessed by using an optical and an electron microscope.

Current knowledge about impact of colour models on performance of convolutional neural network is investigated in the first part of this thesis. The experiment based on obtained knowledge is conducted in the second part. Six colour models HSV, CIE 1931 XYZ, CIE 1976 L*a*b*, YIQ a YCbCr and deep convolutional neural network ResNet-101 are used. RGB colour model achieved the highest classification accuracy, whereas HSV color model has the lowest accuracy in this experiment.

This thesis deals with an electronic circuit and a PCB of a modular RGB LED display with the Ehernet interface. Firstly, author describes a RGB colour model, features of RGB LED displays, ways of control them. The next chapter contains a short description of the Ethernet interface, UDP and TCP protocols and a lwIP TCP/IP stack. The last theoretical chapter is an introduction to ARM Cortex-M3 and Cortex-M4 based microcontrollers. The next chaper is deals with a hardware design of the modular RGB LED display. The device is designed to be modular. Individual devices can be combosed together and create a larger display. Data from the Ethernet interface will be displayed on the RGB LED matrix, resolution of the matrix is 32 × 32 (1024 diodes). A refresh frequency is 100 Hz, a color depth is High color (16 bits) and a scanning 1/16 (two rows is driven at the same time). The next chapter describes the firmware for the RGB LED display, all its logical parts including a web page. Author also created the PC application, which sends pictures using UDP protocol to individual modules.

This thesis is focused on measuring the quality of lighting in operating rooms. Operating lights are very demanding in terms of quality requirements for each parameter, so it is important to specify exactly these parameters and check them regurarly. To measure the quality of the light source, was used a special kit from Maquet. Measurement procedure was not as accurate as it was for operating lighting need, therefore, this work includes a proposal to improve the measurement of quality lighting in operating theaters. In cooperation with University Hospital Brno Bohunice University Hospital Motol and the company Maquet measured nine operating lights, each light were compared in terms of parameters such as maximum light intensity, light distribution in the surgical field. In each category were selected several lighting, which reached the best results. The various parameters were compared with values declared by the manufacturer.