Orientador: Núbia Bernardi / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Civil, Arquitetura e Urbanismo / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-23T17:00:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Martin_ClaudiaMaria_M.pdf: 137646573 bytes, checksum: b6bfa7e878949686c21ad73ffef90d02 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: A necessidade de uma arquitetura acessível tem sido cada vez mais solicitada e torna-se importante ao arquiteto compreender a diferença entre o conceito de projeto de arquitetura "acessível" e o conceito de projeto de arquitetura "universal". Enquanto o projeto acessível é aquele que atende Normas Técnicas de acessibilidade garantindo a utilização dos ambientes por pessoas com deficiência e/ou mobilidade reduzida, o projeto universal é baseado em princípios do Desenho Universal (DU) e visa criar espaços que não segregam e que atendam o maior número possível de diversidades. Esta pesquisa teve por objetivo demonstrar a diferença entre estes conceitos aliando conceitos do DU aos parâmetros de acessibilidade apresentados na norma técnica NBR 9050:2004, que trata da acessibilidade a edificações, mobiliário, espaços e equipamentos urbanos sendo a principal referência utilizada no Brasil para orientação técnica de soluções arquitetônicas acessíveis. A metodologia incluiu uma análise de conteúdo de publicações referentes à acessibilidade no ambiente construído e uma pesquisa de exemplos iconográficos e diretrizes conceituais dos princípios do DU aplicados a projetos de arquitetura. O resultado da pesquisa foi à criação de um documento de auxílio ao arquiteto durante a elaboração de projetos. Este documento relaciona de maneira síncrona alguns parâmetros de acessibilidade que constam na NBR 9050:2004 com os conceitos do DU, facilitando o entendimento destes conceitos para a sua aplicação no projeto de arquitetura. Desta forma esta pesquisa pretende contribuir para a elaboração de projetos que expressem com clareza os conceitos de uma arquitetura universal / Abstract: The need to produce accessible architecture is increasingly asked for and therefore it is important for designers to fully understand the difference between the concept of "accessible" architecture and the concept of "universal" architecture. While accessible design attends Technical Standards by ensuring the accessibility of environments for people with disabilities and/or with reduced mobility, universal design is based on the principles of Universal Design (UD) and aims to provide spaces that do not segregate and that serve the biggest number of diversities. This study demonstrated the difference between these concepts adding the concepts of UD to the accessibility parameters presented in the Brazilian technical standard NBR 9050:2004, that deals with accessibility of buildings, furniture, spaces and urban equipment and is the main reference in Brazil for technical orientation towards accessible architecture solutions. The methodology included an analysis of the content of publications relating to questions of accessibility in the built environment and a search of examples and conceptual guidelines to incorporate UD principles into architectural designs. The result of this study was the creation of a document to help designers during their design process and project development. This document connects some accessibility parameters synchronously contained in the standard NBR 9050:2004 with the concepts of UD, facilitating the understanding of these concepts for their application in architectural design. Thus this research contributes to the development of design solutions that express more clearly the concepts of a universal architecture / Mestrado / Arquitetura, Tecnologia e Cidade / Mestra em Arquitetura, Tecnologia e Cidade

South Africa has a deeply entrenched relationship with the global Disability Rights Movement and the social model of disability, the roots of which were nascent as early as 1964 in Nelson Mandela’s Rivonia Trial speech. Since South Africa’s transition to democracy in 1994, steps have been taken through legislation and policy to give expression to disability rights. The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 recognises disability equality together with race and gender equity and other rights. In 2007, South Africa was one of the first countries to sign the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), and the UNCRPD was established as a national objective through the White Paper on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 2015 (WPRPD). The Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act, 2000 references universal design, universal access and reasonable accommodation as tools to achieve disability equality through safe, equal and dignified access. From 2008, new regulations were applied to public buildings, public space, transport and housing, and new infrastructure standards were introduced to promote accessibility. The DoT’s Moving South Africa study (1999) identified barriers to all forms of transport for special categories of passengers. In 2007, the Department of Transport (DoT) developed the Public Transport Strategy to help guide, support and monitor municipalities in implementing accessible public transport systems, and 13 major municipalities were selected to test the implementation of the Integrated Public Transport Network (IPTN): Johannesburg, Cape Town, Tshwane, Ekurhuleni, Nelson Mandela Bay, Buffalo City, eThekwini, Polokwane, Rustenburg, Mbombela, Msunduzi, and Mangaung. A thirteenth was added in 2013/4, George. The Public Transport Network Grant (PTNG) was aimed at helping municipalities to accelerate the construction and improvement of accessible, affordable, integrated, efficient and sustainable public transport networks within the 20-year timeframe provided in Moving South Africa. The National Land Transport Act, 2009 mandates universal access in public transport. In 2016, in pursuit of this aim, the DoT published the Comprehensive Integrated Transport Plan, as well as the first standards for pedestrian crossings in line with WPRPD requirements. The DoT developed the Universal Design Access Plan (UDAP) for the 13 IPTN municipalities to record and measure progress towards a universally accessible transport system. This master’s dissertation examines and evaluates the implementation of universally accessible transport systems in the 13 IPTN municipalities, between 2010 and 2020, within this context. / Dissertation (MTRP) University of Pretoria, 2021. / Department of Transport / Town and Regional Planning / MTRP / Unrestricted

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Cosmology, as an all-encompassing theoretical construction of universal reality, serves as one of the best indicators for a variety of philosophical, scientific, and cultural values. Within any cosmological system, the question of extraterrestrial life is an important element. Mere existence or nonexistence, however, only exposes a small portion of the ideological significance behind the contemplation of life outside of earth. The manners by which both believers and disbelievers justify their opinions and the ways they characterize other worlds and their inhabitants show much more about the particular ideas behind such decisions and the general climate of thought surrounding those who consider the topic. By exploring both physical and abstract structures of the universe, and specifically concepts on the plurality of worlds and extraterrestrial life, Western European thought in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries reveals not an era of pure advancement and modernization, but as a time of both tradition and change.

Tese de mestrado. Design Industrial. Universidade do Porto. Faculdade de Engenharia. 2010

Globalizationhas lead to a condition of an ever increasing role of the Multinational Corporations(MNCs) acting on the global arena. This development has further resulted in thecreation and wide recognition of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). WhileCSR is thought to enhance quality of life and promote human rights, at timesthe norms which is often referred to as universal and that are building up thefoundation of CSR clashes with culturally manifested practices. This study aimsat providing a discussion of how we can address CSR and thus norms consideredas universal when they clashes with practices regarded as culturally embedded.This study will conduct the practice of guanxi – a Chinese custom oftenconfused with corruption – and explore the possibility to think outside the boxby making use of postcolonial theory when approaching the problem of culturalrelativism, ethnocentrism and moral dilemmas.

This paper designs and implements a DSP based Multi-function Monitoring Control System, operate for induction motor, intelligent battery charger and residual capacity estimator and Uninterrupt Power System to develop effectively and complete well. This paper that Multi-function Monitoring Control System set up RS-232 standard, to use Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter Communication, to use DSP software refinement, to solve using ¡§8250¡¨ that Communication IC complete PC and DSP Communication generally. And DSP software monitor and control that induction motor, intelligent battery charger and residual capacity estimator and Uninterrupt Power System well. Monitoring control system utilize DSP operate very fast¡Aso DSP software function to supply hardware work¡Ato reduce prime cost.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of Anthropology, June 2001. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2008. Graduate Programme in Mathematics and Statistics. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 275-278). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:NR45986

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the standard civil time scale available via time signals in use in most parts of the world today. Leap seconds are the means to keep civil time, or UTC, aligned with adjusted Universal Time (UT1), a time based on Earth rotation corrected for polar variation. They are intentional adjustments to UTC that are instituted to prevent the difference between UT1 and UTC from exceeding +/- 0.9 seconds, based upon international agreement. Over a decade ago various technical communities for whom a continuous time scale would be more suitable than UTC, as disseminated in real-time, currently provides began making a case that the definition of UTC should be changed to eliminate leap seconds as a way to specify time unambiguously. This issue was discussed at the 2012 World Radiocommunications Conference (WRC), but consensus for elimination of the leap second was not achieved and a decision was postponed until the 2015 WRC. This report examines the leap second debate by summarizing general concepts of time and basic aspects of the leap second, followed by a discussion of non-technical considerations, technical aspects, and possible solutions. / text