智慧家庭的概念早在半世紀前就被提出,但至今仍被認為是豪宅的配備, 到目前為止也沒有「智慧家庭產業」出現。解決智慧家庭系統的維運議題, 是智慧家庭技術普及化,進而形成產業的重要前提。Broadband Forum 所提 出的 CWMP 是目前較普及與成熟的維運技術,但 CWMP 在軟體架構與軟 體設計上仍具有改善空間,包含用企業級技術來定義嵌入裝置規範,導致 效能與擴充性不佳;領域模型設計不良,開發人員難以學習與理解,以及 Web 回呼(Callback)機制未臻完善,無法彈性應對各種裝置回呼狀況。針對 這些議題,本論文提出以資源導向架構風格來改良 CWMP,並針對現行各 種 Web Callback 機制做實驗與分析,評估適合 CWMP 應用場域中的 Callback 機制,基於上述機制,建構基於資源導向架構的 CWMP 智慧家庭服務維運 平台,並透過實驗與實作應用情境,並驗證其功能完備性、效能及實務上 之可行性。 / The vision of smart home has been depicted for over a half-century. Nevertheless, Smart Home technologies are still not widely deployed in most people’s living spaces. The main reason is that operations management technologies for smart home such as remote deployment, monitoring, and maintenance are not well studied and only a few attempts have so far been made toward this aspect. CWMP, proposed by Broadband Forum, is a promising standard for realizing a Smart Home operations management platform. Several design issues, namely, poor performance and scalability, poor domain model design and inappropriate web callback architecture, have been identified. The objective of this thesis is, therefore, to deal with the issues mentioned above by suggesting a set of new ways to design CWMP functionalities. The overall approach is based on the RESTful architectural style. Finally, the proposed designs are realized as an operations management platform prototype. Validations and experiments are performed to verify the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

This report treats a product development project conducted in the course Degree Project for the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Innovation and Design Engineering, MSGC12, at Karlstads University. The course is a part of the faculty of heath, sciences and engineering. The report is written by the student Elin Berg, the supervisor of the project is Kristina Gullander and the examnier is Leo de Vin. The assignment is provided by Support Design, a Swedish company in Sunne that manufactures and distributes ergnomic chairs. The chairs are mainly sold to clients working in the dental and medical markets, but also office workers. Customers often sit on the chairs for long workdays, and several users sometimes perform precision work that requires relief for the arms and shoulders. Today, Support Design does not manufacture its own armrests but buys these from the US and China. The aim of the project is to develop an ergonomic armrest for dental operator chairs where the target group is dentists, dental hygienists and dentist assistants. The armrest should have functions that relieve, provide support and are flexible in order for the user to change the working position. The purpose of the project is to expand the Support Designs business by introducing its own armrest production. Eventually, this would give the company competitive advantages, facilitate logistics and result in better margins. The work process follows the methods that are part of a product development process. The phases of the project are project start, project planning, research, product specification, concept generation, concept selection, sub-report, design, final prototype, opposition, presentation, and exhibition. The research is the most important phase in identifying the user's needs, thus developing ergonomic armrests that fulfill the necessary functions.

This diploma thesis addresses the issue of tiredness. I analyze tiredness from the point of view as the problem that may occur during the teaching process. The theoretical part is focused on the explanation of the concept of psychohygiene, from its historical development to the modern concept, i.e. mental health, tiredness, types of tiredness, its stages and determinants, the specification of the period of adolescence, the influence of environment on the individual. The part of the research addresses the root causes of student´s tiredness. It focuses on the subjective feeling of the perceptions of tiredness with regard to the day of the week, time, the environment of the high school, the influence of natural stimulants.

Distributed infrastructures (e.g., water networks and electric Grids) are difficult to manage due to their scale, lack of accessibility, complexity, ageing and uncertainties in knowledge of their structure. In addition they are subject to loads that can be highly variable and unpredictable and to accidental events such as component failure, leakage and malicious tampering. To support in-field operations and central management of these infrastructures, the availability of consistent and up-to-date knowledge about the current state of the network and how it would respond to planned interventions is argued to be highly desirable. However, at present, large-scale infrastructures are “data rich but knowledge poor”. Data, algorithms and tools for network analysis are improving but there is a need to integrate them to support more directly engineering operations. Current ICT solutions are mainly based on specialized, monolithic and heavyweight software packages that restrict the dissemination of dynamic information and its appropriate and timely presentation particularly to field engineers who operate in a resource constrained and less reliable environments. This thesis proposes a solution to these problems by recognizing that current monolithic ICT solutions for infrastructure management seek to meet the requirements of different human roles and operating environments (defined in this work as field and central sides). It proposes an architectural approach to providing dynamic, predictive, user-centric, device and platform independent access to consistent and up-to-date knowledge. This architecture integrates the components required to implement the functionalities of data gathering, data storage, simulation modelling, and information visualization and analysis. These components are tightly coupled in current implementations of software for analysing the behaviour of networks. The architectural approach, by contrast, requires they be kept as separate as possible and interact only when required using common and standard protocols. The thesis particularly concentrates on engineering practices in clean water distribution networks but the methods are applicable to other structural networks, for example, the electricity Grid. A prototype implementation is provided that establishes a dynamic hydraulic simulation model and enables the model to be queried via remote access in a device and platform independent manner.This thesis provides an extensive evaluation comparing the architecture driven approach with current approaches, to substantiate the above claims. This evaluation is conducted by the use of benchmarks that are currently published and accepted in the water engineering community. To facilitate this evaluation, a working prototype of the whole architecture has been developed and is made available under an open source licence.

The main objective of this diploma thesis is to design and develop a cloud hosted service that allows developers of games for Windows Phone 7 platform to extend their products with social and competitive aspect using Platform as a Service solution Windows Azure for hosting the backend of this system. The first part of the thesis analyses systems that are available on the market and that are providing similar services for the target platform. Based on this analysis, functional and general requirements for the future application are specified in the second part. Based on these requirements, use case analysis is made. The third part of the thesis is dedicated to description of the most important features, APIs and specifics of the Windows Phone 7 software platform. The fourth part is dedicated to Windows Azure as a Cloud platform both in terms of most important services, their characteristics and APIs used to utilise them and in terms of their business and pricing conditions. The fifth part addresses the architecture and the most important implementation details of the application. The final part contains the user guide for both the Windows Phone 7 application and for developers interested in using the library containing the API during the development of their game. The output of this thesis is the designed and implemented application with client-server architecture ready to have its backend deployed in Windows Azure environment and to have its frontend deployed on Windows Phone 7 devices. The client part of the system is comprised of a library intended for developers of games, which encapsulates the API needed to access the backend on the Internet, and a graphic frontend intended for end users. The server part, which contains most of the application logic, has REST interface. The applications architecture allows future development in terms of new functionality and expansion on more client platforms.

This diploma thesis aims at design and implementation of I:ZI Repository application. I:ZI Repository application provides management of data mining tasks and theirs results repository and functions for search in this repository. I:ZI Repository is a REST API build on top of Java EE technology, Berkeley XML database is used for storing data mining tasks. I:ZI Repository application was created based on XQuery search application. The application has completely new structure compared to XQuery search application, all functionality of XQuery search application is present in I:ZI Repository application. Possibilities of using more general search query was added into I:ZI Repository application as well as fuzzy approaches for searching and possibility of clustering search results. Enhanced logging of application activities aimed at logging incoming search queries and outgoing search results is a part of implementation. Results of application testing are included as well.

Extensive research has shown that electrochemistry is one of the factors that govern the flotation of sulfide minerals. Flotation is often adversely affected by uncontrolled oxidation, which is also an electrochemical process. The interest in pyrrhotite recovery arose after observing that there is a substantial loss of PGM due to the depression of pyrrhotite and the subsequent loss of any PGMs associated with it. The first part of this study focuses on the influence of chemical composition and crystal structure on the electrochemical behaviour of pyrrhotite in a 0.05 M Na2B4O7 solution. Rest potential and polarisation resistance measurements, as well as anodic polarisation diagrams, showed that the magnetic 4C type pyrrhotite is anodically more reactive than the non-magnetic 6C type pyrrhotite. It was also shown in cathodic polarisation diagrams that the non-magnetic 6C type pyrrhotite is a better substrate for oxygen reduction and is less susceptible to oxidation. ToF-SIMS showed the formation of an oxide layer on the pyrrhotite surface after oxidation. In the second part of this work, the influence of galvanic interactions on the electrochemical behaviour of pyrrhotite in contact with pentlandite was investigated. It was observed that, under oxygen-saturated conditions, as the amount of pentlandite increases, the reactivity towards oxidation of the mixed mineral system is reduced. Impedance measurements showed a decrease in capacitance values, indicating the formation of a continuous oxide layer on the surface and an increase in oxide layer thickness with decreasing pentlandite content. Anodic polarisation diagrams showed that under oxygen-deficient conditions and in the low potential region, pentlandite behaves as an inert material and does not have an influence on the oxidation behaviour of pyrrhotite. Hence, the anodic activities of the different magnetic 4C type pyrrhotites from Sudbury Gertrude, Phoenix and Russia were compared. It was shown that the oxidation reactivity decreased in the following order: Sudbury Gertrude magnetic 4C pyrrhotite > Phoenix magnetic 4C pyrrhotite > Russian magnetic 4C pyrrhotite; it also varied according to location. In the transpassive region, higher anodic currents were observed on the mixed samples because both pentlandite and pyrrhotite reacts. The reactivity increased in the order: pure pyrrhotite (Russia) < medium-pentlandite (Sudbury Gertrude) < high-pentlandite (Phoenix). In the presence of potassium ethyl xanthate, there was no change in the initial anodic reactivities of the different pyrrhotites. The anodic polarisation diagrams of the pure and mixed samples showed a reduction in the maximum anodic peak current, suggesting the presence of xanthate on the surface, which hinders oxidation of the mineral surface. In addition, the influence of cleaning of oxidised pyrrhotite with gaseous carbon dioxide was studied, using electrochemical and microflotation measurements. Electrochemical measurements indicated that CO2 treatment resulted in depassivation of the oxidised surfaces; this was supported by ToF-SIMS measurements that demonstrated a reduction in the oxide layer thickness after CO2 treatment. Anodic polarisation diagrams showed a higher anodic peak current, indicating that the surface is more reactive. Gaseous carbon dioxide conditioning of oxidised pyrrhotite resulted in improved flotation response of pyrrhotite with the aid of copper activation and higher air flow rate. Copyright / Dissertation (MEng)--University of Pretoria, 2010. / Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering / unrestricted

A despeito das evidências de que a redução do repouso no leito após cateterismo cardíaco diagnóstico sob abordagem transfemoral não aumenta as complicações decorrentes da punção arterial, esta prática ainda não está incoporada em muitos laboratórios de hemodinâmica (LH), principalmente em centros latino-americanos. Buscando preencher esta lacuna do conhecimento testou-se neste estudo se a redução do tempo de repouso no leito para três horas (GI), comparada a repouso de cinco horas (GC), não aumenta as complicações decorrentes da punção arterial após cateterismo cardíaco diagnóstico eletivo com introdutor 6 French e abordagem transfemoral. Foi conduzido um Ensaio clínico randomizado (ECR) no LH de um hospital público e universitário, região metropolitana, do Rio Grande do Sul no período de janeiro de 2011 a setembro de 2013. Foram incluídos pacientes adultos ambulatoriais. O GI deambulou três horas após a retirada do introdutor, e o GC após cinco horas. Todos pacientes permaneceram cinco horas na sala de observação onde foram observados a cada hora, pela equipe de enfermagem, e contatados por telefone em 24, 48 e 72 horas após a alta hospitalar. Foram avaliados os seguintes desfechos: hematoma, sangramento, hematoma retroperitoneal, pseudoaneurisma, formação de fístula arteriovenosa e reação vaso vagal Incluíram-se 730 pacientes: GI (n=367) e GC (n=363), média de idade de 62+11 anos. Durante a permanência dos pacientes na sala de observação do LH o hematoma foi a complicação mais observada em ambos os grupos, 12(3%) no GI e 13(4%) no GC (P=0,87); no GI 11(3%) pacientes apresentaram hematoma classificado como pequeno e 1(0,3%) apresentou hematoma classificado como grande; enquanto que no GC 11(3%) pacientes apresentaram hematoma classificado como pequeno e 2(0,6%) apresentaram hematoma classificado como grande; o sangramento ocorreu em 4(1%) dos pacientes no GI e 6(2%) no GC (P=0,51), tanto no GI como no GC a ocorrência de sangramento foi considerada menor. A reação vaso vagal ocorreu em 5(1,4%) pacientes no GI e 4(1,1%) pacientes no GC (P=0,75). Nos contatos em 24, 48 e 72 horas a equimose foi a complicação mais prevalente nos três períodos, para ambos os grupos, seguida pelo relato de dor no local da punção, para nenhuma das comparações foi observado significância estatistica. Apenas 1(0,3%) paciente do GC apresentou pseudoaneurisma no contato em 48 horas, necessitando retornar ao hospital para tratamento. Não foi observada nenhuma outra complicação durante todo o período do estudo. Os resultados deste estudo permitem concluir que a intervenção na redução do tempo de repouso para três horas após cateterismo cardíaco diagnóstico eletivo mostrou-se segura, sem aumento de complicações quando comparada aos pacientes que permaneceram em repouso de cinco horas. / Despite evidence that point out that reduction of rest in bed time after diagnostic cardiac catheterization using transfemoral approach does not contribute to complications of arterial puncture, such practice was still not incorporated into several hemodynamic laboratories (HL), especially in Latin American centers. In order to fill this knowledge gap, this study presents a test for the reduction of rest in bed time of three hours (IG) compared to rest in bed time of five hours (CG), aiming at verifying if the time does not increase complications of arterial puncture after diagnostic cardiac catheterization using 6 French introducer and the transfemoral approach. A randomized clinical trial (RCT) was conducted at a HL in a public university hospital located in the metropolitan area of Rio Grande do Sul/Brazil, between January 2011 and September 2013. Adult outpatients were included in this trial. The IG remained three hours after the withdrawal of the 6 French introducer and the CG remained five hours in the ambulatory. All patients remained five hours in the observation room, being checked every one hour by the nursing staff and being contacted by telephone at 24, 48 and 72 hours after the discharge. The outcomes hematoma, bleeding, retroperitoneal hemorrhage, pseudoaneurysm, arteriovenous fistula and vasovagal response were assessed. For the study, 730 patients were included and separated into GI (n=367) and GC (n=363), mean age of 62 ± 11. While patients remained in the observation room in the HL, the hematoma was the most common complication observed in both groups, 12(3%) in IG and 13(4%) in CG (P=0.87); in IG, 11(3%) patients presented small hematoma and 1(0.3%) presented large hematoma; in CG, 11(3%) patients presented small hematoma and 2(0.6%) presented large hematoma; bleeding occurred in 4(1%) patients in IG and 6(2%) in CG (P=0.51); both IG and CG presented minor bleeding occurrences. The vasovagal response occurred in 5(1.4%) patients in IG and 4(1.1%) patients in CG (P=0.75). During telephone contacts at 24, 48 and 72 hours, ecchymosis was the most prevalent complication for the three periods in both groups, followed by pain at the puncture site. Statistical significance was not observed in any of the comparisons. Only 1(0.3%) patient in the CG had pseudoaneurysm within 48 hours after discharge and had to return to the hospital for treatment. No other complications were observed during the study period. The results of this study demonstrate that reducing the time of rest in bed for three hours after diagnostic cardiac catheterization proved to be a safe procedure, with no increase in complications when compared to patients who remained resting in bed for five hours. / Con relación a las evidencias de que la reducción del reposo en el lecho tras cateterismo cardíaco diagnóstico bajo abordaje transfemoral no aumenta las complicaciones decurrentes de la punción arterial, esta práctica aún no está incorporada en muchos laboratorios de hemodinámica (LH), principalmente en centros latinoamericanos. En la tentativa de rellenar este hueco del conocimiento se hizo un test en este estudio para saber si la reducción del tiempo de reposo en el leco para tres horas (GI), comparada a cinco horas (GC), no aumenta las complicaciones decurrentes de la punción arterial tras cateterismo cardíaco diagnóstico con introductor 6 French y vía transfemoral. Fue dirigido un Ensayo clínico randomizado (ECR) en LH de un hospital público y universitario, región metropolitana, de Río Grande del Sur en el periodo de enero de 2011 a septiembre de 2013. Fueron incluidos pacientes adultos ambulatoriales. GI deambuló tres horas luego de la retirada del introductor, y GC tras cinco horas. Todos los pacientes permanecieron cinco horas en la sala de observación donde fueron observados a cada hora, por el equipo de enfermería, y contactados por teléfono en 24, 48 y 72 horas tras el alta hospitalario. Fueron evaluados los siguientes resultados: hematoma, hemorragia, hematoma retroperitoneal, pseudoaneurisma, formación de fístula arteriovenosa, reacción vaso y vagal. Se incluyeron 730 pacientes en la sala de observación de LH, el hematoma fue la complicación más observada en ambos grupos, 12 (3%) GI y 13 (4%) GC (P=0,87); en GI 11(3%) pacientes presentaron hematoma clasificado como pequeño y 1(0,3%) presentó hematoma clasificado como grande; mientras que en GC 11(3%) pacientes presentaron hematoma clasificado como pequeño y 2 (0,6%) presentaron hematoma clasificado como grande; la hemorragia ocurrió en 4 (1%) de los pacientes en GI y 6 (2%) en GC (P=0,51), tanto en GI como en GC la ocurrencia de hemorragia fue considerada menor. La reacción vaso vagal ocurrió en 5 (1,4%) pacientes en GI y 4 (1,1%) pacientes en GC (P=0,75). En los contactos en 24, 48 y 72 horas la equimosis fue la complicación que más prevaleció en los tres periodos, para ambos grupos, seguida por el relato de dolor en el local de la punción, para ninguna de las comparaciones fue observada significancia estadística. 1 (0,3%) paciente de GC presentó pseudoaneurisma en el contacto en 48 horas, necesitando volver al hospital para tratamiento. No se observó ninguna otra complicación durante todo el periodo del estudio. Los resultados de este estudio permiten concluir que la intervención en la reducción del tiempo de reposo para tres horas luego de cateterismo cardíaco diagnóstico electivo es posible y segura, sin aumento de complicaciones cuando comparada a los pacientes que permanecieron en reposo de cinco horas.

[pt] A necessidade da determinação do comportamento tensão-deformação de solos sob carregamento para fins de projeto de Engenharia exige o conhecimento prévio do estado natural de tensões ao que o solo está imposto. Quando se trata de solos residuais tropicais, este desafio amplia-se ainda mais devido à ação do intemperismo e variação de umidade. O estado natural do solo é usualmente expresso pelo coeficiente de empuxo no repouso (K0). Para a determinação de K0 três classes de métodos são utilizadas: métodos de correlação, de determinação in situ e em laboratório. Neste estudo, é utilizada uma célula rígida com sistema de controle de sucção para a obtenção de K0 em laboratório. Foram analisadas três amostras de solo residual de Gnaisse com diferentes graus de intemperismo, provenientes de São Conrado, Rio de Janeiro, denominadas: solo residual jovem (SRJ); solo residual de transição (SRT); e solo residual maduro (SRM). Para a análise da influência da sucção no valor do coeficiente de empuxo, cada amostra de solo foi ensaiada sob três diferentes condições de umidade, que tentaram representar as seguintes condições: mais úmida, com sucção de 10 kPa; intermediária, com 40 kPa de sucção; e mais seca, com 100 kPa. Os valores de K0 obtidos nos ensaios variaram de 0,50 a 0,65. Os resultados seguiram, em parte, a tendência esperada. Entretanto, devido à heterogeneidade do material estudado, é necessário realizar repetições dos ensaios a fim de obter dados representativos. / [en] The necessity to determine the stress-strain behavior of soils under loading for the purpose of engineering projects requires early knowledge of the natural state of stress that acting on the mass of soil. When it comes to tropical residual soils, this challenge is even greater due to weathering and moisture variation. The natural state of the soil is usually expressed by the coefficient of earth pressure at rest (K0). For the determination of K0 three classes of methods can be used: correlation meth-ods, in situ determination and laboratory tests. On this research, one rigid cell with system of suction control is used to obtain values of K0 in laboratory tests. Were analyzed three samples of Gneiss residual soil with different degrees of weathering. The samples were provenient to São Conrado, Rio de Janeiro and namely: young residual soil (SRJ), transition residual soil (SRT) and mature residual soil (SRM). To evaluate the influence of suction on the value of coefficient of earth pressure at rest, each sample of soil were tested into three different levels of moisture which correspond of following conditions: more humid, with suction of 10 kPa; interme-diate, with 40 kPa of suction; and more dry, with 100 kPa. The K0 values obtained in the tests ranged from 0,50 to 0,65. In general, the results attended the expected trend. However, due to the great heterogeneity of the studied material, it is neces-sary to perform repetitions of tests in order to obtain representative data.

Objectives This randomized controlled trial evaluates the effects of two different rest periods between as set of balance exercises after stroke during inpatient rehabilitation. Results Twenty patients after stroke [11 males; mean (SD) age 65.4 (11.5) years; duration of illness 5.3 (3.4) weeks; 16 (80%) left-sided strokes] were randomly allocated into two groups of either a full rest (FR) of 4 min (n = 10) or a short rest (SR) of 1 min between exercise sets (n = 10). Patients improved from baseline until immediately after exercises in one-leg standing time on the affected leg [SR: mean difference 5.1 s (SD 10.3) and FR: 2.0 s (2.4)] and tandem standing time (TST). [SR: 14.9 s (SD 24.6) and FR: 5.7 s (12.0)], but OLST and TST did not differ significantly between groups (p = 0.35 and p = 0.52, respectively). Trial registration The study was registered retrospectively in the German Register of Clinical Trials with the ID: DRKS00013979