Orientador: Luiz Benedicto Lacerda Orlandi / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-21T17:33:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Blumer_DiogoGondim_M.pdf: 2205632 bytes, checksum: 6d54fddab57374aa0e30bfa211298c4d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: A noção de vida percorre singulares tramas conceituais na filosofia de Deleuze. Seguir a sinuosidade desse percurso tornará possível uma caracterização mais segura do vitalismo desse filósofo. Pensado em função de tensões entre o que ele tematiza como vida orgânica e vida não orgânica, esse vitalismo implica complexas relações entre articulações extensivas e intensivas, vetores que modulam a própria vida em suas oscilações entre uma saúde dominante e uma paradoxal grande saúde / Abstract: The notion of life covers in a unique conceptual scheme in Deleuze philosophy. The sinuosity of this path will enable us to understand better the vitalism of this philosopher. Due to the tensions between the life he thematizes as organic and non-organic life, this vitalism involves complex relationships between extensive and intensive joints, vectors that modulate life itself in its oscillations between a dominant health and a paradoxical great health / Mestrado / Filosofia / Mestre em Filosofia

Orientador: Luiz Benedicto Lacerda Orlandi / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-03T16:37:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Craia_EladioConstantinoPablo_D.pdf: 782456 bytes, checksum: 873c89f3f04da46b3ac7d5bbd2ed94ef (MD5) Previous issue date: 2003 / Resumo: O presente trabalho tem como objetivo central interrogar o problema do estatuto ontológico da técnica a partir da ontologia de Gilles Deleuze. Em um primeiro momento é elaborada uma cartografia geral da filosofia da técnica, desde a ¿filosofia engenheril¿, passando pela ¿filosofia da técnica das humanidades¿, até o pensamento de Martim Heidegger, indicando suas características e as diferenças entre elas. Seguidamente é caracterizada a ontologia deleuziana segundo os eixos especulativos da univocidade, imanência, expressionismo ontológico e complexo questão-problema. Em um terceiro momento, a ontologia de Deleuze é singularizada entorno do conceito de virtual; assim, esta noção é abordada e pensada dentro da obra de Deleuze visando definir a ontologia deleuziana como especificamente virtual. Finalmente, o horizonte ontológico deleuziano é aplicado como categoria de análise para pensar a técnica de uma perspectiva distinta da apresentada no primeiro momento. Assim, com esta ferramenta conceitual, a própria técnica é caracterizada como virtual e produtiva / Abstract: The present work has as its central objective to question the problem of the Technique ontological statute since the ontology by Gilles Deleuze. Firstly, a general cartography on the Technique Philosophy is performed, beginning with the "engineering Philosophy, moving on to the "humanities' Technique Philosophy", until the thought of Martim Heidegger, indicating the characteristics of each, end the differences between them. Secondly, the deleuzian ontology is characterized according to the univocality, immanence, ontological expressionism, and the question-problem complex speculative axes. Thirdly, the ontology by Deleuze is sigularized around the concept of virtual; thus, such notion is approached and thought within Deleuze's opus aiming at defining the deleuzian ontology as specifically virtual. Finally, the deleuzian ontological horizon is applied as analysis category to think the Technique from a distinct perspective than the one presented in the first moment. So, armed with such conceptual tools, the Technique itself is characterized as virtual and productive / Doutorado / Doutor em Filosofia

Orientador: Fernando Antonio Novais / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Economia / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-14T01:40:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Paiva_CarlosAguedoNagel_M.pdf: 21973812 bytes, checksum: 7a0bb56dc645d7dfb7959c7f2efe8a2a (MD5) Previous issue date: 1991 / Resumo: Não informado / Abstract: Not informed. / Mestrado / Mestre em Economia

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<p>This report defines a present problem with U.S. bridges and suggests several reasons for bridge infrastructure deterioration and degradation, such as traffic overload, expired life cycles, environmental and operational conditions, and budget cuts. The most commonly used nondestructive evaluation (NDE) methods for determining the health of bridge infrastructure are summarized and compared. Advantages and disadvantages of each NDE technique are provided, and the lack of an adequate method which can quantitatively monitor the structural integrity of bridges is noted.</p> <p>This report then discusses the possibility of health monitoring sensor systems for the quantitative NDE of bridge infrastructure. Several types of sensors that may be used to collect paSSlve and quantitative data related to the structural integrity of bridges are evaluated, and the extrinsic Fabry-Perot interferometric (EFPI) fiber optic sensor is suggested as the preferred sensor.</p> <p>The fabrication processes and operational principles of EFPIs are presented. Two case studies which demonstrate the performance of EFPI sensors when used in health monitoring sensor systems are provided. Finally, a design criteria checklist suggests several questions that need to be asked (or more thoroughly defined) concerning the usefulness, reliability, durability, and sensitivity of EFPI-based health monitoring sensor systems.</p> / Master of Science

The confluence of rapid technology developments in microelectronics, telecommunication, computers, networking and displays is making it possible to conceive of systems that offer new ways for people to interact and collaborate. Multi-user networking allows team collaboration for both application development and simulation while hardware and software modularity bring economy of scale. Advances in low power technologies and high energy density storage devices is making it possible to move these technologies off the desk and into the hands of mobile individuals. The human interface to these technologies is still largely unexplored but offers significant potential in applications that have a need for flexibility, improved information flow, and group participation at reduced costs. <p>This objective of this project is to develop a system that will increase performance and reduce costs associated with the interaction and collaboration of people who are remotely located from each other and who are engaged in team-oriented work. The Mobile Electronic Conferencing System (MECS) is designed to solve a problem facing a large (fictitious) manufacturing firm, Macropolis, that has a large percentage of mobile and distributedly located employees who need to confer and share data in real time. Macropolis is not unlike other large corporations that need to find new ways to promote more efficient collaborative work. <p>The concept of MECS is based upon rapidly accelerating trends in microelectronics, displays, telecommunications, computers, information management, etc. that will make it possible to construct an affordable, high value-added system for remote collaboration within the next decade. The approach taken in this project is to design a workable system using technology that is available now. While current technology is limited in bandwidth, resolution, human-computer interfaces, computational speed and energy efficiency for portable equipment, this project shows that a cost effective system can be designed and beneficially used today. The MECS is designed to be modular so that new technologies can be incorporated as they become available. The MECS can also serve as a testbed for evaluating alternatives and to gain a better understanding of human factors issues associated with the efficient use and social acceptability of remote, electronic-based, conferencing in the future. / Master of Science

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One of the most dramatic events in any employee’s working career is to be dismissed and even more so if the employee regards the dismissal as unfair. The right not to be unfairly dismissed is considered one of the most basic workers’ rights in South Africa and is also contained in Convention C158 of the International Labour Organization (ILO). Section 23(1)(a) of the South African Constitution states that: “[e]veryone has the right to fair labour practices.” Labour legislation gives effect to this right in section 1(a) and 1 (b) of the LRA which states: “to give effect to and regulate the fundamental rights conferred by section 23 of the Constitution; to give effect to the obligations incurred by the Republic as a member state of the ILO.” Section 185(a) of the Labour Relations Act also states that: “[e]very employee has the right not to be unfairly dismissed.” Section 188(1)(a) – (b) expands on this protection against unfair dismissal by providing that a dismissal will be unfair: “if the employer fails to prove … that the dismissal was effected in accordance with a fair procedure”. The pre-dismissal procedures that must be followed by the employer have been codified to some extent in the Code of Good Practice: Dismissal, contained in Schedule 8 of the LRA. In terms of section 138(6) and section 203(3) of the LRA, commissioners who are required to determine if a dismissal was procedurally fair are compelled to take Schedule 8 into consideration. The main objectives of this thesis were to critically evaluate the content and application of those provisions of Schedule 8 that establish procedural requirements to disciplinary enquiries and to recommend possible changes to the Code of Good Practice: Dismissal. It is apparent that the procedural requirements for a disciplinary enquiry in terms of Schedule 8 are vastly different from those that still form the basis of most disciplinary codes and procedures implemented by employers after the Mahlangu v CIM Deltak judgment of the former Industrial Court in 1986. It is also clear that the principles of ILO Convention C158 are given effect in South Africa’s dismissal law. Procedural fairness in disciplinary enquiries does not lie in elaborate, complex and rigid court-like procedures but in flexibility and in adhering to the audi alteram partem principle. A disciplinary enquiry is not a court case and the workplace is not a court of law. The belief that South Africa’s dismissal law is rigid and inflexible is inaccurate. A comparative analysis of South African dismissal law with ILO Convention C158 and three other international jurisdictions clearly demonstrates that the dismissal regime in South Africa makes provision for flexibility. Employers, employees, trade unions, labour consultants and lawyers are all to blame for the formal court-like procedures that form the basis of most disciplinary enquiries in the workplace in South Africa today. The guidelines provided by Schedule 8 are in line with the ILO’s principles. Consequently disciplinary enquiries should be handled according to those principles. The disciplinary codes and procedures of employers should be amended to reflect the core principles of ILO Convention C158 and the five basic guidelines contained in Schedule 8. Furthermore disciplinary codes and procedures should not be used as an inflexible set of rules but as a guideline from which some deviation is permissible in certain circumstances. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2010. / Human Resource Management / unrestricted

<p>"Tomorri Ltd." is an Albanian private company owned by Protopapa family that produces wheat flour for the Albanian domestic market. Its successful business operation not only enabled Tomori owners to recover their original investment over a relatively short payback period, but also provided them with an additional $100,000 available for new investment.</p> <p> The purpose of this paper was to identify the right investment decision for the Tomorri owners given three feasible alternatives. The primary method used to evaluate these alternatives was the Net Present Value approach. Net Present Value for each investment alternative was calculated based on a ten year stream of cash flows. A sensitivity analysis was then performed to test the responsiveness of the Net Present Values to fluctuations in the expected interest rates and salvage values associated with the three alternatives.</p> <p> The results of the Net Present Value analysis were used to provide the owners of "Tomorri Ltd." with the optimal alternative of investing in a new compact flour mill outside of Tirana.</p> / Master of Science

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