Os Parques Tecnológicos têm se mostrado estratégias de desenvolvimento alinhadas a busca constante pela competitividade, ferramentas usadas por cidades, regiões e países em busca de sustentabilidade, auxiliando no fortalecimento tecnológico e na inserção na economia do conhecimento. Nesses centros de inovação, a produção, disseminação e uso do conhecimento são intensivos, e sua gestão torna-se imperiosa. Sendo assim, a Gestão do Conhecimento vem atender essa necessidade, e embora ela tenha alcançado um estágio consolidado como campo de pesquisa, a sua relação com os Parques Tecnológicos tem sido pouco explorada na literatura. Fundamentado na análise e reflexão dessas lacunas de pesquisa, este trabalho visa propor um conjunto de diretrizes para o desenvolvimento da Gestão do Conhecimento em Parques Tecnológicos. Para tal fim, foi desenvolvido e aplicado um instrumento de coleta de dados em cinco Parque Tecnológicos, sendo quatro no Brasil e um na Espanha. Os estudos de caso selecionados foram analisados, identificando iniciativas. Dessa forma obteve-se como diretrizes o desenvolvimento de um plano estratégico para a Gestão do Conhecimento, a organização de eventos para o incentivo à cultura; governança quádruplo hélice, canais de comunicação e layout planejado para suportar a estrutura, formação de uma equipe com responsabilidades explícitas, incentivo a projetos conjuntos, programas de capacitação, programas de softlanding e benchmarking, métricas, ferramentas e redes com parceiros estratégicos como fontes de conhecimento. Os resultados do trabalho contribuem para o desenvolvimento das pesquisas que relacionam as duas áreas de estudo, no âmbito empresarial a diretrizes propostas suportarão programas de implementação da Gestão do Conhecimento em Parques Tecnológicos. / The Technology Parks have proven development strategies aligned constant search for competitiveness, tools used by cities, regions and countries in search of sustainability, assisting in technological empowerment and inclusion in the knowledge economy. These innovation centers, production, dissemination and use of knowledge are intensive, and management becomes imperative. Thus, Knowledge Management meets this need, and although it has achieved a consolidated stage as a research field, its relationship with the Technological Parks was little explored in the literature. Based on the analysis and reflection of these research gaps, this paper aims to propose a set of guidelines for the development of Knowledge Management in Technology Parks. To this end, was developed and applied a data collection instrument in five Technological Park, four in Brazil and one in Spain. The selected case studies were analyzed, identifying initiatives. Thus it was obtained as guidelines to develop a strategic plan for knowledge management, the organization of events to encourage the culture; quad helix governance , communication channels and planned layout to support the structure , forming a team with explicit responsibilities, encouraging joint projects, training programs, Softlanding programs and benchmarking, metrics, tools and networking with strategic partners as sources of knowledge . The outcomes contribute to the development of research linking the two areas of study. In business under the proposed guidelines will support implementation of programs of Knowledge Management in Technology Parks.

In south Florida, the Greater Everglades ecosystem supports sixteen species of wading birds. Wading birds serve as important indicator species because they are highly mobile, demonstrate flexible habitat selection, and respond quickly to changes in habitat quality. Models that establish habitat relationships from distribution patterns of wading birds can be used to predict changes in habitat quality that may result from restoration and climate change. I developed spatio-temporal species distribution models for the Great Egret, White Ibis, and Wood Stork over a decadal gradient of environmental conditions to identify factors that link habitat availability to habitat use (i.e., habitat selection), habitat use to species abundance, and species abundance (over multiple scales) to nesting effort and success. Hydrological variables (depth, recession rate, days since drydown, reversal, and hydroperiod) over multiple temporal scales and with existing links to wading bird responses were used as proxies for landscape processes that influence prey availability (i.e., resources). In temporal foraging conditions (TFC) models, species demonstrated conditional preferences for resources based on resource levels at differing temporal scales. Wading bird abundance was highest when prey production from optimal periods of wetland inundation was concentrated in shallow depths. Similar responses were observed in spatial foraging conditions (SFC) models predicting spatial occurrence over time, accounting for spatial autocorrelation. The TFC index represents conditions within suitable depths that change daily and reflects patch quality, whereas the SFC index spatially represents suitability of all cells and reflects daily landscape patch abundance. I linked these indices to responses at the nest initiation and nest provisioning breeding phases from 1993-2013. The timing of increases and overall magnitude of resource pulses predicted by the TFC in March and April were strongly linked to breeding responses by all species. Great Egret nesting effort and success were higher with increases in conspecific attraction (i.e., clustering). Wood Stork nesting effort was closely related to timing of concurrently high levels of patch quality (regional scale) and abundance (400-m scale), indicating the importance of a multi-scaled approach. The models helped identify positive and negative changes to multi-annual resource pulses from hydrological restoration and climate change scenarios, respectively. / Includes bibliography. / Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2014. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

A criação de parques tecnológicos tem sido bastante acionada para incentivar o processo inovador no Brasil. Verifica-se um grande aumento no número de iniciativas de parques tecnológicos, fato que reflete as políticas de incentivo específico aos parques e a importância que a inovação possui como parte do processo de desenvolvimento econômico. Considerados como ambientes propícios às atividades das empresas inovadoras, os parques tecnológicos tem como objetivo reunir elementos específicos que gerem uma sinergia capaz de formar redes de cooperação para a inovação. As relações entre empresas, universidades e centros de pesquisa recebem, portanto, importância destacada uma vez que podem engendrar inovações e transferência de tecnologia. Desta forma, os parques tecnológicos podem constituir meios inovadores que, de acordo com Aydalot (1986), correspondem as condições externas à empresa que impulsionam a adoção da inovação e que podem desempenhar um papel determinante no processo de incubação de inovações. No Brasil, o estado de São Paulo constitui o ente federativo com o maior número de iniciativas de parques tecnológicos e também é o único a possuir uma política específica para o seu fomento, o Sistema Paulista de Parques Tecnológicos - SPTec. Partindo da análise dos parques tecnológicos do estado de São Paulo em operação e com credenciamento definitivo no SPTec, esta tese busca compreender a forma de atuação dos parques no fomento da inovação, como estruturas de apoio e como estruturas capazes de suscitar inovação, podendo compor meios inovadores. / The creation of science parks has been quite adopted to encourage the innovative process in Brazil. There is a large increase in the number of science parks initiatives, a fact that reflects the specific incentive policies to parks and the importance that innovation has as part of the economic development process. Considered environments capable of developing innovative activities in companies, science parks aim to bring together specific elements that create a synergy able to forming collaborative networks for innovation. Relations between companies, universities and research centers receive so prominent importance since they can engender innovation and technology transfer. Thus, science parks can provide innovative environments that, according to Aydalot (1986), correspond to the external conditions that drive enterprise adoption of innovation and that can play a decisive role in the incubation of innovation process. In Brazil, the state of São Paulo is the federal entity with the largest number of initiatives science parks and is also the only one to have a specific policy for promoting them, the Paulista System Technology Parks - SPTec. Based on the analysis of science parks in the state of São Paulo in operation and final accreditation in SPTec, this thesis seeks to understand the modus operandi of the parks in fostering innovation as support structures as structures capable of giving rise to innovation. In this movement, science parks can compose innovative environments.

Esta pesquisa analisa o modo de vida dos moradores locais no interior de uma unidade de conservação de proteção integral, o Parque Estadual Turístico do Alto Ribeira (PETAR). Quando o Parque foi criado já residiam vários grupos humanos na região, entre eles o Bairro Ribeirão dos Camargo, que constitui o local de estudo. O Bairro está composto por aproximadamente 50 famílias. Com a implantação da área protegida, mais da metade das famílias foram incluídas nos limites do Parque, dividindo espacialmente os moradores do Bairro em dois grupos; os de dentro e os de fora do PETAR. As principais atividades econômicas dos habitantes do Bairro, até finais da década de 1980, eram a agricultura de coivara, a caça, a pesca, a criação de suínos, de aves de curral e o extrativismo, como reserva monetária em caso de escassez ou de emergência. Também usavam a floresta como fonte de lenha, plantas medicinais e alimentícias, material para artesanato, materiais para construção e reparação das vivendas e demais infraestrutura, e elaboração de cabos de ferramentas simples para uso na lavoura. Com o estabelecimento do PETAR, e a consequente instauração da legislação ambiental, as principais atividades geradoras de renda dos moradores locais foram criminalizadas, repercutindo na reprodução e manutenção de seu modo de vida. Diante da desproteção do Estado dos direitos de acesso à terra dos agricultores familiares locais, eles se organizaram e desenvolveram uma série de estratégias para permanecer no território que eles acreditam como próprio. Apresentando ante a Fundação Florestal, em 2014, a proposta de criação de uma Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável, fundamentados na Lei N° 9.985 de 18 de julho de 2000, melhor conhecida como Lei do SNUC, que possibilitaria os moradores do Bairro Ribeirão dos Camargo permanecerem na área. Contudo, vários dos antigos residentes abandonaram o local devido às restrições de uso agrícola do solo e do extrativismo. O Bairro sofre de uma contínua emigração, principalmente dos jovens, que logo depois de completar o colegial, não encontram uma ocupação lícita que gere uma renda que lhes permita permanecer na área. No caso do cenário atual não mudar, a descaracterização do agricultor familiar do Bairro é inevitável. O agricultor irá desaparecer, vai passar de mateiro, agricultor familiar, artesão, criador de suínos para guarda noturno, motorista, cozinheiro, servente. Com ele se perderá a agrobiodiversidade local e um cúmulo de conhecimentos da relação ser humano-natureza que poderiam ser valiosos para aprimorar a conservação da biodiversidade no PETAR. / This research analyses the livelihood of local residents in a state park, PETAR (Parque Estadual Turístico do Alto Ribeira in portuguese). When the Park was created several human groups habited the region, among them, the study area the community called Bairro Ribeirão dos Camargo. The community is composed of approximately 50 families. With the establishment of the protected area, more than half of the families were included on the boundaries of the Park, the neighborhood residents were spatially divided in two groups; on the inside and the outside of the PETAR. The main economic activities of the inhabitants of the community were slash-and-burn agriculture, hunting, fishing, raising pigs and chicken, and extractivism as monetary reserve in case of scarcity or emergency. They also made use of the forest as a source of firewood, medicinal and food plants, material for crafts, materials for construction and repair of houses, other infrastructure and simple farm tools for agriculture. With the establishment of PETAR, and the consequent fulfillment of environmental legislation, the main income-generating activities of local residents were criminalized, with consequences on the reproduction of their livelihood. Face the State\' unprotecting of the local farmers\' rights to access to land, they organized and developed a series of strategies to remain in the territory that they believe own. They presented at Forest Foundation, at 2014, the proposal for the creation of a Sustainable Development Reserve -RDS- (Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável in portuguese), based on the SNUC law, a RDS would allow the residents of the Bairro Ribeirão dos Camargo remain in the area. However, many of the former residents have left the site due to restrictions on agricultural use of soil and extractivism. The community suffers a continuing emigration, especially of young people, who soon after completing high school are not finding a lawful occupation to generate an income that allows them to remain in the area. If the current scenario does not change the disappearance of community\' family farmer is inevitable. The small farmer will disappear. He will move from family farmer, craftsman and pigs farmer to night guard, driver, cook, and servant. With family farmer\' disappearance will be lost a local agro-biodiversity and an accumulation of knowledge of the relationship man-nature that could be valuable to improve biodiversity conservation in PETAR.

Neste trabalho foi feito um diagnóstico da situação do Parque Nacional das Emas(GO)onde se procurou evidenciar as razões pelas quais o parque não corresponde de forma eficaz aos objetivos de conservação e uso público. Foram trabalhadas questões como o uso do solo no entorno, os recursos humanos e financeiros disponíveis, a estrutura de funcionamento das instituições competentes e o zoneamento interno do parque, buscando-se sempre alternativas de manejo. A abordagem da área de estudo foi feita através da identificação de Unidades de Paisagem de diferentes grandezas (UPs). Essas UPs permitiram o enquadramento do Parque em contextos maiores, favorecendo, ao mesmo tempo, a compreensão de sua dinâmica interna. Como recurso metodológico, as UPs possibilitaram a integração de questões do âmbito natural com o político-administrativo.

MSc., Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, 2011 / Abundance counts of ungulate species which are carried out using an aerial census are susceptible to measurement errors. These measurement errors result from environmental factors such as vegetation cover and the resultant effect that factors, such as the annual rainfall pattern, have on the accuracy of the count. Given these measurement errors, models of population abundance that are based on these counts should not only account for the population dynamic process - they need to model the measurement error process simultaneously in order to produce plausible estimates. In addition to this, the recorded counts from these censuses do not give a breakdown of the total count into the different gender and life-history stages of the animals counted. This research report investigates the usefulness of a hierarchical Bayesian hidden process modelling approach at explicitly including the measurement error process and a sub-model for the gender and life-history stage of the animals counted into a population dynamics model based on the aerial census counts. The data used are aerial counts of Kudu in the Kruger National Park from 1983 to 1993. The result is a model which estimates the measurement error in each year of the census and also breaks down the overall count into the numbers in each gender and life-history stage. The usefulness of the model is evaluated based on statistical model diagnostics.

Computer technology has advanced to the point where it has invaded our lives and become embedded in our environment. The problem with this is that not everyone has it, can use it, understands it or finds value in it. This requires an innovative solution that couples technology use in a communal and public space that provides both free access to technology and technology that is meaningful. Interactive architecture suggest new modes of interacting and interfacing between users and their environments offering the potential for richer and more intuitive dialogues between users, each other and our wider environments. Harnessed in a sustainable platform like a supermarket, it can become a manageable grassroots solution that serves the civic, cultural and social needs of a community. If developed in line with the goals of facilitating public information exchange and discourse in the built environment the application of interactive environments to its context seems well suited to contribute towards encouraging active user participation, social interaction and personal empowerment.

This research represents the first multi-year investigation of the feeding ecology of Gombe’s Cercopithecus populations. The main goal of this study was to identify dietary overlap and distinctiveness among the phenotypes in our study group, a mixed species group of guenons comprised of C. ascanius, C. mitis, and C. ascanius x C. mitis hybrids. Field assistants collected feeding data using ad libitum observations as well as instantaneous scan sampling at 30-minute intervals from July 2014 to December 2018. A total of 63 plant species were identified in our group’s diet. Results indicate that a significant difference exists between the diets of each phenotype. The results also found an unusually high percentage of invertebrate eating (54%) in our group. These findings suggest that invertebrates are an important food resource for the Gombe study group and may help facilitate coexistence in an environment where there are many sympatric primate species. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2019. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

The purpose of this project was to broaden my skill set and responsibilities within a well-established theatre company by transitioning from performer to director. I would accomplish this goal by using my extensive knowledge of the inner-workings of the Redlands Theatre Festival, while applying my own set of techniques, philosophies, and judgments. The project was based around the Redlands Theatre Festival’s (RTF) production of The Hot L Baltimore, written by Lanford Wilson, performed by resident actors and the acting company of RTF. I was given the opportunity to direct the play under the supervision of the Artistic Producing Director and founder of the then 40-year-old theatre company. The assignment had one main component: directing a successful production in an already-established company of experienced theatre artists. This main task was riddled with myriad complications in its production methodology. Contributing factors to the success of this project included thorough research of the period and material, a strong background in acting, creativity and the willing suspension of disbelief amongst performers and audience, trial and error, and the drive to share my passion of theatre. Many opinions and critiques were available upon the opening of the production and I am confident that this project was a success, in many ways. The play was well-received by audiences, as well as a positive and educational experience for the performers. Upon the completion of the project, I have a deeper understanding of the specialized techniques that are required, and necessary, for me to amass future successes in similar endeavors with the Redlands Theatre Festival.

The objective of this study was to quantitatively document interactions between black bears and backcountry visitors, and to identify the factors affecting those encounters. Fine hundred and ninety-two interactions were observed. The most common responses of visitors to bears were to watch, walk toward, and talk to others and/or point at the bear. Bears responded to humans largely by walking away, watching, traveling around, walking toward, and running away from people. Each behavior for both species was categorized into one of four response classes: (1) fear/avoidance, (2) neutrality, (3) approach, or (4) aggression. Over 65 percent of visitor responses were neutral. People were least likely to react to bears with fear/avoidance behavior. Bears also were most likely to be neutral. Of particular interest is the low occurrence of aggression shown by bears. Less than two percent of all responses fell into this category, most of which were exhibited by two animals. We witnessed no interactions which resulted in injury or even contact between visitors and bears. When ursid aggression did occur, bears appeared to be more aggressive in June, with younger visitors, and at close distances. Both human aggression and fear were correlated with short interactions. Bear behavior was greatly altered by possession of camper foods. Bears were more neutral and walked toward people less after they had begun to eat. They also showed much less fear of visitors at this time. Other correlations of both human and ursid behavior with biotic and abiotic variables ( temporal, spatial, environmental, etc.) are presented and discussed. Recommendations for improved management are also suggested.