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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
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Efeito das varia??es de pH e do ?cido g?strico na superf?cie de resinas compostas de incremento ?nico

Somacal, Deise Caren 10 January 2018 (has links)
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Materials and Methods: Thirty samples of each composite resin were obtained: G1 (control): Z250; G2: Filtek Bulk-Fill (FTK); G3: Tetric N Ceram Bulk-Fill (TTC); G4: Aura Bulk-Fill (AUR). After 24 h, the samples were polished and then alternated by DES/RE solutions for 15 cycles of 24 h each at 37?C. Then, the samples were submitted to simulated toothbrushing. The Ra and Cn measurements were quantitatively analyzed in three stages: after polishing (Ra0 and Cn0), after pH cycles (Ra1 and Cn1) and after simulated toothbrushing (Ra2 and Cn2). Measurements on new samples submitted only to simulated toothbrushing were also performed (Ra* and Cn*). The Ra values were submitted to two-way ANOVA, followed by the Tukey?s test (?=0.05). The Kruskal-Wallis test followed by multiple comparisons was applied for Cn analysis. Surface topography and bacterial adhesion were observed by Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). Results: Z250, FTK and TTC showed no significant change in Ra regardless of the treatment performed, except for AUR which obtained superior Ra at Ra2 (p <0.05). In the bacterial count, FTK differed from the others in Cn0 and Cn1. In Cn2 there was no difference between the composite resins. Only after Cn*, the Z250 differed from all other materials. SEM images showed cracking and exposure of fillers in Ra1, with detachment of the exposed fillers. Microcavities were observed in all composite resins in Ra2. Bacterial adhesion occurred in all composite resins regardless of the treatment. There was greater bacterial adhesion in Cn1 for Z250 and FTK. Conclusion: The pH cycles did not alter the Ra of composite resins Z250, FTK, TTC and AUR. Simulated toothbrushing after pH cycles caused Ra increase only for AUR, and reduced bacterial adhesion in Z250 and FTK composite resins. There was degradation of the surface of all composite resins, as well as bacterial adhesion. (Artigo 2 Effect of gastric acid on the surface of bulk-fill composite resins) Aim: To evaluate, in vitro, quantitatively and qualitatively, the effect of gastric acid on surface roughness and bacterial adhesion in Bulk-Fill composite resins followed by simulated toothbrushing. Materials and Methods: 30 samples of each Bulk-Fill composite resin were obtained: G1 (control): Z250; G2: Filtek Bulk- Fill (FTK); G3: Tetric N-Ceram Bulk-Fill (TTC); G4: Aura Bulk-Fill (AUR). The samples were polished after 24 h and immersed in 10 ml of gastric acid for 24 h at 37?C. Following, the samples were submitted to simulated toothbrushing. Ra and Cn were obtained in three different stages: initial (Ra0 and Cn0), after gastric acid (Ra1 and Cn1) and after gastric acid and simulated toothbrushing (Ra2 and Cn2). Additional samples were submitted to the simulated toothbrushing test only and received the same measurements (Ra* and Cn*).Two-way ANOVA was used to evaluate Ra, followed by the Tukey test. Regarding the Cn analysis, the Kruskal-Wallis test was used, followed by multiple comparisons. The significance level was of 5%. Results: Z250 and FTK had a significant increase in surface roughness in Ra1. In Ra2, the four composite resins did not significantly differ from Ra0, but there was a significant reduction of the means in Ra2 of Z250 and FTK compared to Ra1. For Cn, Z250 and FTK allowed an increased biofilm accumulation in comparison with TTC and AUR. SEM images showed crack formation and exposure of fillers in Ra1, occurring detachment of the exposed fillers. Microcavities were observed in all composite resins in Ra2. Bacterial adhesion occurred in all composite resins regardless of the treatment. There was higher bacterial adhesion in Cn1, followed by reduction of bacterial adhesion in Cn2 for all tested materials, except for AUR. Conclusion: Gastric acid increased the surface roughness of Z250 and FTK composite resins, as well as promoted higher bacterial accumulation compared to TTC and AUR composite resins. There was degradation of the surface of all composite resins, as well as bacterial adhesion. / (Artigo 1 Efeito das varia??es do pH na superf?cie de resinas compostas de incremento ?nico) Objetivo: Avaliar, in vitro, de forma quantitativa e qualitativa, o efeito das varia??es de pH na rugosidade superficial (Ra) e na ades?o bacteriana (Cn) de resinas compostas de incremento ?nico seguido de escova??o simulada. Materiais e M?todos: Trinta amostras de cada resina composta (5mm de largura e 4mm de altura) foram obtidas -G1(controle): Z250; G2: Filtek Bulk-Fill (FTK); G3: Tetric N Ceram Bulk-Fill (TTC); G4: Aura Bulk-Fill (AUR). Ap?s 24 h, as amostras foram polidas e ent?o alternaram por solu??es DES/RE por 15 ciclos de 24 h cada a 37?C. Na sequ?ncia foram submetidas ? escova??o simulada. As medidas Ra e Cn foram analisadas quantitativamente em tr?s etapas: ap?s polimento (Ra0 e Cn0), ap?s ciclos de pH (Ra1 e Cn1) e ap?s escova??o simulada (Ra2 e Cn2). Medi??es em novas amostras submetidas apenas ? escova??o simulada foram realizadas (Ra* e Cn*). Para an?lise dos dados de Ra foi utilizada a ANOVA de dois fatores, seguida do teste de Tukey (?=0,05). O teste de Kruskal-Wallis seguido de compara??es m?ltiplas foi utilizado para an?lise de Cn. A topografia superficial e a ades?o bacteriana foram observadas em Microscopia Eletr?nica de Varredura (MEV). Resultados: Z250, FTK e TTC n?o tiveram altera??o significativa de Ra independente do tratamento realizado, com exce??o da AUR que obteve Ra superior em Ra2 (p<0,05). Em Cn, FTK diferiu das demais em Cn0 e Cn1. Em Cn2 n?o houve diferen?a entre as resinas compostas. Apenas ap?s Cn*, a Z250 diferiu dos outros materiais. Imagens em MEV evidenciaram forma??o de trincas e exposi??o de part?culas de carga em Ra1, com desprendimento das part?culas expostas. Houve forma??o de microcavidades em todas as resinas compostas em Ra2. Ocorreu ades?o bacteriana em todas as resinas compostas independente do tratamento. Houve maior ades?o bacteriana em Cn1 para Z250 e FTK. Conclus?o: Os ciclos de pH n?o alteraram Ra das resinas compostas Z250, FTK, TTC e AUR. A escova??o simulada ap?s os ciclos de pH causou aumento de Ra apenas para AUR e reduziu a ades?o bacteriana nas resinas compostas Z250 e FTK. Houve degrada??o da superf?cie de todas as resinas compostas, assim como ades?o bacteriana. (Artigo 2 Efeito do ?cido g?strico na superf?cie de resinas compostas de incremento ?nico) Objetivo: Avaliar de forma quantitativa e qualitativa o efeito do ?cido g?strico na rugosidade superficial e na ades?o bacteriana nas resinas compostas de incremento ?nico (Bulk-Fill) seguido de escova??o simulada. Materiais e M?todos: Trinta amostras de cada resina composta (di?metro de 5mm e altura de 4mm) foram obtidas - G1(controle): Z250; G2: Filtek Bulk-Fill (FTK); G3: Tetric N-Ceram Bulk-Fill (TTC); G4: Aura Bulk-Fill (AUR). As amostras foram confeccionadas e polidas ap?s 24 h. As amostras foram imersas em 10 ml de ?cido g?strico durante 24 h em 37?C. Na sequ?ncia, as resinas compostas foram submetidas ? escova??o simulada. As medidas de Rugosidade Superficial (Ra) e Contagem bacteriana (Cn) foram obtidas em tr?s diferentes etapas: inicial (Ra0 e Cn0), ap?s ?cido g?strico (Ra1 e Cn1) e ap?s ?cido g?strico e escova??o simulada (Ra2 e Cn2). Amostras adicionais foram submetidas unicamente ao teste de escova??o simulada e receberam as mesmas medi??es (Ra* e Cn*). ANOVA de dois fatores foi utilizada para avalia??o de Ra, seguida do teste de Tukey. Para an?lise de Cn foi utilizado o teste de Kruskal-Wallis, seguido de compara??es m?ltiplas. O n?vel de signific?ncia foi de 5%. A topografia superficial e a ades?o bacteriana foram observadas em microscopia eletr?nica de varredura (MEV). Resultados: Z250 e FTK tiveram aumento significativo na rugosidade superficial em Ra1. Em Ra2, as quatro resinas compostas n?o diferiram estatisticamente de Ra0, por?m houve redu??o significativa das m?dias em Ra2 da Z250 e FTK em compara??o a Ra1. Para Cn, Z250 e FTK permitiram maior ac?mulo de biofilme em rela??o ? TTC e AUR. Imagens em MEV evidenciaram forma??o de trincas e exposi??o de part?culas de carga em Ra1, ocorrendo desprendimento das part?culas de carga expostas. Microcavidades foram observadas em todas as resinas compostas em Ra2. A ades?o bacteriana ocorreu em todas as resinas compostas independente do tratamento. Houve maior ades?o bacteriana em Cn1, seguida de redu??o da ades?o bacteriana em Cn2 para todos os materiais testados, exceto pela AUR. Conclus?o: O ?cido g?strico aumentou a rugosidade superficial das resinas compostas Z250 e FTK, assim como promoveu maior ac?mulo bacteriano em rela??o ?s resinas compostas TTC e AUR. Houve degrada??o da superf?cie de todas as resinas compostas, assim como ades?o bacteriana.
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Schémas numérique d'ordre élevé en temps et en espace pour l'équation des ondes du premier ordre. Application à la Reverse Time Migration. / High Order time and space schemes for the first order wave equation. Application to the Reverse Time Migration.

Ventimiglia, Florent 05 June 2014 (has links)
L’imagerie du sous-sol par équations d’onde est une application de l’ingénierie pétrolière qui mobilise des ressources de calcul très importantes. On dispose aujourd’hui de calculateurs puissants qui rendent accessible l’imagerie de régions complexes mais des progrès sont encore nécessaires pour réduire les coûts de calcul et améliorer la qualité des simulations. Les méthodes utilisées aujourd’hui ne permettent toujours pas d’imager correctement des régions très hétérogènes 3D parce qu’elles sont trop coûteuses et /ou pas assez précises. Les méthodes d’éléments finis sont reconnues pour leur efficacité à produire des simulations de qualité dans des milieux hétérogènes. Dans cette thèse, on a fait le choix d’utiliser une méthode de Galerkine discontinue (DG) d’ordre élevé à flux centrés pour résoudre l’équation des ondes acoustiques et on développe un schéma d’ordre élevé pour l’intégration en temps qui peut se coupler avec la technique de discrétisation en espace, sans générer des coûts de calcul plus élevés qu’avec le schéma d’ordre deux Leap-Frog qui est le plus couramment employé. Le nouveau schéma est comparé au schéma d’ordre élevé ADER qui s’avère plus coûteux car il requiert un plus grand nombre d’opérations pour un niveau de précision fixé. De plus, le schéma ADER utilise plus de mémoire, ce qui joue aussi en faveur du nouveau schéma car la production d’images du sous-sol consomme beaucoup de mémoire et justifie de développer des méthodes numériques qui utilisent la mémoire au minimum. On analyse également la précision des deux schémas intégrés dans un code industriel et appliqués à des cas test réalistes. On met en évidence des phénomènes de pollution numériques liés à la mise en oeuvre d'une source ponctuelle dans le schéma DG et on montre qu'on peut éliminer ces ondes parasites en introduisant un terme de pénalisation non dissipatif dans la formulation DG. On finit cette thèse en discutant les difficultés engendrées par l'utilisation de schémas numériques dans un contexte industriel, et en particulier l'effet des calculs en simple précision. / Oil engineering uses a wide variety of technologies including imaging wave equation which involves very large computing resources. Very powerful computers are now available that make imaging of complex areas possible, but further progress is needed both to reduce the computational cost and improve the simulation accuracy. The current methods still do not allow to image properly heterogeneous 3D regions because they are too expensive and / or not accurate enough. Finite element methods turn out to be efficient for producing good simulations in heterogeneous media. In this thesis, we thus chose to use a high order Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method based upon centered fluxes to solve the acoustic wave equation and developed a high-order scheme for time integration which can be coupled with the space discretization technique, without generating higher computational cost than the second-order Leap Frog scheme which is the most widely used . The new scheme is compared to the high order ADER scheme which is more expensive because it requires a larger number of computations for a fixed level of accuracy. In addition, the ADER scheme uses more memory, which also works in favor of the new scheme since producing subsurface images consumes lots of memory and justifies the development of low-memory numerical methods. The accuracy of both schemes is then analyzed when they are included in an industrial code and applied to realistic problems. The comparison highlights the phenomena of numerical pollution that occur when injecting a point source in the DG scheme and shows that spurious waves can be eliminated by introducing a non-dissipative penalty term in the DG formulation. This work ends by discussing the difficulties induced by using numerical methods in an industrial framework, and in particular the effect of single precision calculations.
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Elabora??o e avalia??o de indicadores comportamentais de ader?ncia ao tratamento hemodial?tico / Elaboration and evaluation of behavioural indicators of the adherence to the hemodial?tico treatment

Martins, Remerson Russel 11 July 2008 (has links)
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:38:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 RemersonRM.pdf: 448865 bytes, checksum: 14cbfed29d38210302974844ec6adb11 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-07-11 / Introduction: This work intents to characterize behavioral indicators of tack to the hemodialysis treatment in a sample of carrying patients of chronic kidney failure (CKF) in the great Natal/RN. The therapeutical adherence represents the agreement degree between the patient behavior and the health team lapsings. The CKF is the gradual and irreversible loss of the renal function, being the hemodialysis treatment an important alternative to assist or to substitute the kidneys. Method: The sample consisted in 80 chronic kidney patients in hemodialysis treatment in two located clinical centers in the region of the great Natal, RN. It was used as instruments (a) a protocol of clinical data collection, (b) the Millon Index of Personality Styles (MIPS) and (c) a script of halfstructuralized interview. Results: The results show a balance between the genders (51% of female and 48.8% of the male sex), average age and equal average time of dialysis respectively to the 43,4 years (?13,25 years) and 22,04 years (?4,24 years). The marital status of half of the sample is married, predominating basic education (43.6%) and a familiar income until a minimum wage (43.8%). It had been defined six physicianlaboratorial indicators to evaluate the therapeutical adherence, further the use of the evaluation of the health team and the patient themselves. Thus, there was an average adherence around 55.97% of the sample ?18.37%). However only between selfassessment of the patients about the adherence and the assessment made by blood pressure post-dialysis indicated a significant association (p=0,029, qui-square test). On the other hand, there was a significant association (p <0.05, chi-square test) among the criteria for treatment adherence and issues investigated in the interview - the perception on the quality of the health services provided to patients, the difficulties following the prescribed diet, the characterization of the days between dialysis sessions and the perception of patients about the dialysis sessions. It was also noted a significant association (p <0.05, Levene test) between adherence to therapy and scales that constitute the MIPS. The health team characterized the patients more adherent behavior as an attitude of acceptance of the treatment, looking actively for their implementation, for more information and knowledge, and establishing a positive communication with the team and with other patients. Similar results were confirmed by the MIPS evaluation. According to that assessment the more compliant patients adopt a more optimistic attitude, trying to act or adapt themselves to their environment, processing cognitively both concrete and objective information, such as more speculative and symbolic information. In addition they establish a gregarious, cooperative, submissive and flexibly pattern of interpersonal relationships to social demands. These characteristics managed to explain 55.7% of the adherence variation according the health team and 23.3% of the variation according the CaxP laboratory indicator. Conclusions: The MIPS shown to be able to identify the most and least adherent to therapy patients. The use of different adherence indicators is important for an evaluation covering the different facets of this process. The adhesion levels are observed within registered by the relevant literature. There is need for further studies with a larger sample to deepen the data findings in this work / Introdu??o: Este trabalho busca caracterizar indicadores comportamentais de ader?ncia ao tratamento hemodial?tico por meio do Invent?rio Millon de Estilos de Personalidade em uma amostra de pacientes portadores de insufici?ncia renal cr?nica (IRC) na grande Natal/RN. A ader?ncia terap?utica representa o grau de concord?ncia entre o comportamento do paciente e as prescri??es da equipe de sa?de. A IRC ? a perda progressiva e irrevers?vel da fun??o renal, sendo o tratamento hemodial?tico uma importante alternativa para auxiliar ou substituir os rins. M?todo: A amostra consistiu de 80 pacientes renais cr?nicos em tratamento hemodial?tico em dois centros cl?nicos localizados na regi?o da grande Natal, RN. Utilizaram-se como instrumentos (a) um protocolo de coleta de dados cl?nicos, (b) o invent?rio Millon de estilos de personalidade (MIPS) e (c) um roteiro de entrevista semi-estruturada. Resultados: Os resultados mostram que houve equil?brio entre os sexos (51% do sexo feminino e 48,8% do sexo masculino), idade m?dia e tempo m?dio de di?lise respectivamente iguais ? 43,4 anos (?13,25 anos) e 22,04 anos (?4,24 anos). O estado civil de metade da amostra ? casado, predominando o ensino fundamental (43,6%) e uma renda familiar at? um sal?rio m?nimo (43,8%). Definiram-se seis indicadores cl?nico-laboratoriais para avaliar a ader?ncia terap?utica, mais o uso da avalia??o da equipe de sa?de e do pr?prio paciente. Desse modo, observou-se uma ader?ncia m?dia em torno de 55,97% da amostra (?18,37%). Contudo apenas entre a auto-avalia??o do paciente acerca da ader?ncia e a avalia??o feita atrav?s da press?o arterial p?s-di?lise indicou-se uma associa??o significativa (p=0,029, teste qui-quadrado). Por outro lado, houve uma associa??o significativa (p<0,05, teste qui-quadrado) entre os crit?rios de ader?ncia ao tratamento e aspectos investigados na entrevista a percep??o da qualidade dos servi?os de sa?de prestados aos pacientes, as dificuldades no seguimento da dieta prescrita, a caracteriza??o dos dias entre as sess?es de di?lise e a percep??o dos pacientes acerca das sess?es de di?lise. Tamb?m se observou uma associa??o significativa (p<0,05, teste de Levene) entre a ader?ncia terap?utica e as escalas que constituem o MIPS. A equipe de sa?de caracterizou o comportamento do paciente mais aderente como uma postura de aceita??o do tratamento, buscando ativamente pela sua realiza??o, por informa??es e mais conhecimento, al?m de estabelecer uma comunica??o positiva com a equipe e com os demais pacientes. Resultados semelhantes foram confirmados pela avalia??o do MIPS. Segundo essa avalia??o os pacientes mais aderentes adotam uma atitude mais otimista, buscando agir ou adaptar-se ao seu meio, processando cognitivamente tanto informa??es concretas e objetivas, como informa??es mais especulativas e simb?licas. Al?m de estabelecer um padr?o de relacionamento interpessoal greg?rio, cooperativo, submisso e flex?vel ?s demandas sociais. Estas caracter?sticas conseguiram explicar 55,7% da varia??o da ader?ncia definida segundo a equipe de sa?de e 23,3% da varia??o da ader?ncia segundo o indicador laboratorial CaxP. Conclus?es: O MIPS demonstrou ser capaz de identificar os pacientes mais e menos aderentes. O uso de diferentes indicadores de ader?ncia ? importante para uma avalia??o que abarque as diferentes facetas desse processo. Os n?veis de ader?ncia observados est?o dentro do registrado pela literatura pertinente. H? a necessidade de outros estudos com uma amostra maior para aprofundar os dados achados nesse trabalho
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Tränen in der modernen Kunst

Spiekermann, Geraldine 15 June 2012 (has links)
Tränen überschreiten die Grenzen des Körpers von innen nach außen und werden damit zu einem sichtbaren Anzeichen eines seelischen Extremzustands. In der Arbeit wird untersucht, ob die Träne, die Körpergrenzen gefährdet oder sogar auflöst, in der modernen und gegenwärtigen Kunst Metapher und Trägerin innerästhetischer Transgression werden kann. Dies bedeutet zugleich, dass eine Umwertung der Träne, von der Perle der Reinheit zu einem bedrohlichen Fluidum, stattgefunden hat. Die Träne als eine bedrohliche Grenzüberschreiterin ist ein Motiv, das in früheren Kunstepochen so nicht anzutreffen ist. Damit verweist sie zugleich exemplarisch auf die Auflösungsstrategien, welche die Kunst des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts bestimmen. Fotoarbeiten von Man Ray, Madame Yevonde und Sam Taylor-Wood, Zeichnungen von Pablo Picasso und Hans Bellmer, Performances von Marina Abramović und Gina Pane, Video-arbeiten von Bill Viola und Bas Jan Ader, Installationen von Daniele Buetti und eine Buchserie von Dieter Roth, denen allen das Motiv der Träne gemeinsam ist, werden in einem Close Rea-ding auf Auflösungstendenzen hin untersucht. Besonderes Augenmerk gilt medienspezifischen Strukturen und Analogien. / Tears overstep the bounds of the human body from within – to become evidence of a crit-ical state of mind. The present study examines whether the tear, which endangers or even dispels the boundaries of the body, could be seen as a metaphor and even as an indication of aesthetic transgression in modern and contemporary art. This would mean that the tear as motif has also undergone a paradigm change, from the pearl of purity to a threatening fluid. The aspect of the tear as a transgressor of boundaries is not to be found in earlier periods of art. Accordingly, it also references the process of disintegration, which strongly determines 20th and 21st century art. Photographs by Man Ray, Madame Yevonde and Sam Taylor-Wood, drawings by Pablo Picasso and Hans Bellmer, performances of Marina Abramovic and Gina Pane, video works by Bill Viola and Bas Jan Ader, installations by Daniele Buetti and a series of books by Dieter Roth – which all deal with the tear complex – will be examined in close reading. Their connection with disintegrative tendencies will be scrutinised, and special attention given to media-specific structures and analogies.
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High order numerical methods for a unified theory of fluid and solid mechanics

Chiocchetti, Simone 10 June 2022 (has links)
This dissertation is a contribution to the development of a unified model of continuum mechanics, describing both fluids and elastic solids as a general continua, with a simple material parameter choice being the distinction between inviscid or viscous fluid, or elastic solids or visco-elasto-plastic media. Additional physical effects such as surface tension, rate-dependent material failure and fatigue can be, and have been, included in the same formalism. The model extends a hyperelastic formulation of solid mechanics in Eulerian coordinates to fluid flows by means of stiff algebraic relaxation source terms. The governing equations are then solved by means of high order ADER Discontinuous Galerkin and Finite Volume schemes on fixed Cartesian meshes and on moving unstructured polygonal meshes with adaptive connectivity, the latter constructed and moved by means of a in- house Fortran library for the generation of high quality Delaunay and Voronoi meshes. Further, the thesis introduces a new family of exponential-type and semi- analytical time-integration methods for the stiff source terms governing friction and pressure relaxation in Baer-Nunziato compressible multiphase flows, as well as for relaxation in the unified model of continuum mechanics, associated with viscosity and plasticity, and heat conduction effects. Theoretical consideration about the model are also given, from the solution of weak hyperbolicity issues affecting some special cases of the governing equations, to the computation of accurate eigenvalue estimates, to the discussion of the geometrical structure of the equations and involution constraints of curl type, then enforced both via a GLM curl cleaning method, and by means of special involution-preserving discrete differential operators, implemented in a semi-implicit framework. Concerning applications to real-world problems, this thesis includes simulation ranging from low-Mach viscous two-phase flow, to shockwaves in compressible viscous flow on unstructured moving grids, to diffuse interface crack formation in solids.

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