Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-12-19T14:55:25Z No. of bitstreams: 1 nataliadossantosmamede.pdf: 2733061 bytes, checksum: ef7843999c3eb8781f62c95f7de8f66e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-12-19T15:45:18Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 nataliadossantosmamede.pdf: 2733061 bytes, checksum: ef7843999c3eb8781f62c95f7de8f66e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-19T15:45:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 nataliadossantosmamede.pdf: 2733061 bytes, checksum: ef7843999c3eb8781f62c95f7de8f66e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-02-28 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / O movimento dos animais é motivado pela necessidade de executar atividades em certos tipos de habitat em um tempo específico. As baleias-jubarte migram de áreas de alimentação, no verão, para áreas reprodutivas, no inverno. Sua distribuição é bem conhecida na costa brasileira, mas, a extensão de sua área de cria ainda não é clara. Compreender as relações entre fatores físicos ambientais, definindo o nicho de reprodução, e o cuidado parental é importante para efetivar planejamentos de Áreas Marinhas Protegidas destinadas a englobar habitats críticos. A partir da telemetria satelital, 41 fêmeas acompanhadas por filhote foram marcadas com transmissores (ARGOS), com o objetivo de caracterizar os movimentos de fêmeas e filhotes na costa brasileira e correlacionálos a variáveis ambientais. A distância em média percorrida foi de 1.005 km (±29,97) com a distância mínima 56 e máxima 4.050 km. Os pares fêmea - filhote se concentraram em distâncias a costa menores que 150 km e usaram em sua maioria profundidades menores que 100m. As freqüências mais elevadas de localizações foram associadas aos maiores buffers ao redor dos recifes de coral. A área de cria de baleias-jubarte no Atlântico Sul Ocidental está relacionada a águas rasas e costeiras, sendo mais ampla do que a distribuição de recifes de coral. As escolhas de uso de habitat das fêmeas em áreas reprodutivas é um balanço do gasto energético entre a movimentação e cuidado maternal. A disponibilidade de características ambientais favoráveis ao cuidado parental dificilmente é avaliada, podendo resultar em interpretações parciais dos fenômenos de distribuição e uso do espaço em cetáceos. / The movement of animals is motivated by the need to carry out activities in certain habitat types in a specific time. Humpback whales, migrate to feeding grounds in summer to breeding grounds in winter. Its distribution is well known in the Brazilian coast, but the extent of his nurse area is not yet clear. Understand the relationship between physical environmental factors defining the niche of reproduction and parental care is important for effective planning of marine protected areas to encompass critical habitats. The telemetry from the satellite 41 females accompanied by calf were marked with transmitters (ARGOS), aiming to characterize the movements of females and calves on the Brazilian coast and correlate them with environmental variables. The average distance traveled was 1.005 km (± 29.97) with a maximum 56 and minimum distance 4.050 km. The couple female - calf focused on distances less than 150 km coastline and use mostly shallower water than 100m. The higher frequencies of locations are associated with larger buffers around coral reefs. The nurse area of humpback whales in the South Atlantic is related to coastal and shallow waters, being broader than the distribution of coral reefs. The choices of habitat use of females in breeding areas are a balance of energy expenditure between the drive and maternal care. The availability of environmental characteristics conducive to parental care is rarely evaluated and may result in partial interpretations of the phenomena of distribution and use of space in cetaceans.

A multi-scale approach was used to investigate the occurrence and physical characteristics of viral surrogates in water systems. This approach resulted in a methodology to quantify the dynamics and physical parameters of viral surrogates, including bacteriophages and nanoparticles. Physical parameters impacting the occurrence and survival of viruses can be incorporated into models that predict the levels of viral contamination in specific types of water. Multiple full-scale water systems (U.S., Italy and Australia) were tested including surface water, drinking water, stormwater and wastewater systems. Water quality parameters assessed included viral markers (TTV, polyomavirus, microviridae and adenovirus), bacteriophages (MS2 and ΦX-174), and coliforms (total coliforms and E. coli). In this study, the lack of correlations between adenovirus and that of bacterial indicators suggests that these bacterial indicators are not suitable as indicators of viral contamination. In the wastewater samples, microviridae were correlated to the adenovirus, polyomavirus, and TTV. While TTV may have some qualities which are consistent with an indicator such as physical similarity to enteric viruses and occurrence in populations worldwide, the use of TTV as an indicator may be limited as a result of the detection occurrence. The limitations of TTV may impede further analysis and other makers such as coliphages, and microviridae may be easier to study in the near future. Batch scale adsorption tests were conducted. Protein-coated latex nanospheres were used to model bacteriophages (MS2 and ΦX-174) and includes a comparison of the zeta potentials in lab water, and two artificial groundwaters with monovalent and divalent electrolytes. This research shows that protein-coated particles have higher average log10 removals than uncoated particles. Although, the method of fluorescently labeling nanoparticles may not provide consistent data at the nanoscale. The results show both that research on viruses at any scale can be difficult and that new methodologies are needed to analyze virus characteristics in water systems. A new dynamic light scattering methodology, area recorded generalized optical scattering (ARGOS) method, was developed for observing the dynamics of nanoparticles, including bacteriophages MS2 and ΦX-174. This method should be further utilized to predict virus fate and transport in environmental systems and through treatment processes. While the concentration of MS2 is higher than ΦX-174 as demonstrated by relative total intensity, the RMSD shows that the dynamics are greater and have more variation in ΦX-174 than MS2 and this may be a result of the hydrophobic nature of ΦX-174. Relationships such as these should be further explored, and may reflect relationships such as particle bonds or hydrophobicity.

A sensor network is comprised of a large number of sensor nodes with limited power, which collect and process data from a target domain and transmit information back to specific sites, such as, headquarters and disaster control centers. Since the wireless communication channel shared by sensor nodes is broadcast in nature, a Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol is needed to specify how nodes share the channel, which plays a central role in the performance of a sensor network. In this thesis, we investigate the performance of randomized and time hopping Aloha MAC protocols by theoretical analysis and simulations. The first part of our research formulates the multiple access collision problem raised from the ARGOS satellite telemetry system. We analyze the factors that affect the performance of the system and derive the mathematical model. We simulate the system and generate valuable performance results for design purpose. In the second part of the thesis, we extend our research to sensor networks with Impulse Radio Ultra WideBand (IR- UWB) physical layer defined in IEEE802.15.4a. We analyze and model the time hopping Aloha MAC protocol and verify the results with simulations using NS-2 network simulator.

L'objet de cette thèse est l'étude du terrain cultuel argien et de la toile des relations tissées entre les Argiens et leurs dieux par le biais des pratiques religieuses. Celles-ci sont envisagées dans un cadre chronologique large, de l'organisation de la cité d'Argos au VIlle s. av. notre ère, à la visite de Pausanias à Argos au Ile s. de notre ère. À l'aide de toutes les sources disponibles, nous étudions les espaces sacrés et le temps religieux argiens à de multiples échelles : de l'"oikos" aux sanctuaires de la cité, des rites quotidiens aux cultes rendus lors des grandes fêtes annuelles, de l'acte individuel à l'action collective de groupes - professionnels ou associatifs - ou de l'ensemble de la cité. Ce faisant, nous avons cherché à replacer sans cesse les hommes au centre de ces questions afin d'appréhender aussi bien les relations qu'ils entretenaient avec leurs divinités que le rôle de chacun des acteurs, des responsables des charges religieuses aux participants anonymes. / The main purpose of this thesis is to clarify the Argive cultic ground and the web of relationships woven between the Argives and their Gods, thanks to numerous religious practices performed from the Eighth century BC, date of the organization of the polis, till the Second century AD, when Pausanias visited this city. Studying the ancient sources at our disposition, I propose an account of the Argive sacred spaces and time, following a range of multiple scales : from the oikoi to the city sanctuaries, from the rites of the everyday life to those performed during annual and civic festivals, from the individual pious acts to those implicating a restricted group - cultic or professional associations - or the city as a whole. Proceeding step by step, I always tried to put men and women at the centre of all these questions in order to show not only the relationship they established with their gods but also their roles as actors - anonymous individuals or those taking hold or sharing a religious charge - playing a part in cultic practices.

This thesis describes the development of a prototype Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) enabled intelligent component system, called Architectural General Object System (ARGOS), to facilitate the storage of design information in lightweight cases that can be used on the desktop computer over the total life of the facility. It uses CBR techniques combined with Microsoft ActiveX controls (object technology) to provide a useful autonomous component to implement some of the software requirements of such a system within the context of the global design and construction environment. These technologies ensure a platform independent environment and integration into the Internet. The use of XML (Extensible Mark-up Language) as a design language is explored to facilitate the storage of design data in a persistent and neutral manner independent from the software that originally created it. This ensures a long data life and the enables different actors over the life cycle of a facility to use their own relevant software to process the design information. During the development of AEDES (Architectural Evaluation and Design System), the research team realised that the problem of structuring design knowledge in such a way to support relevant software systems across the life cycle of a facility is far more complex than originally anticipated. Although there are many similarities between the construction and the manufacturing industries, there are also significant and problematic differences. Architectural design tasks take place in an open world where the reasoner's knowledge is incomplete or inconsistent. Due to this the focus in computer-aided architectural design research has shifted back and forth from attempts to totally automate the entire design process to its partial support through drafting tools. In an attempt to overcome some of the enormous complexities, that researchers struggled with over the past 35 years, a prototype intelligent autonomous design component ARGOS is developed in this research. It is clear that automated design methods are not tractable and it is therefore more worthwhile to pursue the creation of a neutral design language and the creation of intelligent and flexible design tools to manipulate these design fragments. An in-depth study is made of various important out-of-industry manufacturing techniques, CBR and object technology and to establish clearly what the desirable characteristics of ARGOS should be. An important requirement is that ARGOS should be generic and non-prescriptive and should work in a Microsoft Windows compliant environment. A solution without the use of CAD is proposed that ensure a generic solution that could add value to many different construction industry actors in many different environments. More recently attempts are being made to introduce post-modern Artificial Intelligence (AI) into design and architecture. Despite all these efforts it is clear that architectural briefing and design has not reached the status of a science and it is unlikely ever to. This is confirmed by recent breakthroughs in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Knowledge Management that provide deeper insights into the cognitive processes of the designer. This study indicates that XML is a viable means of expressing design knowledge and a feasible alternative for the complex Building Product Models currently proposed whilst at the same time supporting operations in the Internet environment. Design information and the ability to retrieve it is now more important than the software application that originally created it. The autonomous intelligent component ARGOS provides a method to encapsulate design knowledge at both tacit and explicit cognitive levels whilst at the same time providing global communication in a convenient desktop environment. ARGOS is designed in a parametric way that supports any design process that requires positional, volumetric and spatial relationship analysis in both 2D and 3D. Multiple autonomous copies can be placed in a container environment such as Excel. Any process written in any computer language that supports the use of ActiveX controls can be used to manipulate the ARGOS instances. / Dissertation (Ph.D. (Applied Sciences))--University of Pretoria, 2000. / Architecture / unrestricted

Argos est l’un des sites majeurs de la Grèce dont l’occupation n’a cessé depuis le Néolithique jusqu’à nos jours. Cette occupation continue se traduit par un patrimoine anthropologique riche, en partie exhumé par les fouilles de l’École Française d’Athènes. Depuis les premières fouilles de Wilhelm Vollgraff en 1902, Argos a livré plusieurs centaines de tombes dispersées dans la ville moderne. Nous adoptons ici une approche bio-archéologique des sépultures, de l’Helladique moyen à l’époque ottomane, ayant livré des restes anthropologiques, en vue d’apporter un éclairage nouveau sur ce qui pouvaient être les conditions de vie à Argos. Un travail d’identification est tout d’abord réalisé afin de rendre exploitable cette collection, en grande partie issue de fouilles anciennes. Pour les 341 individus dénombrés, on a procédé à une estimation du sexe et de l’âge à travers l’étude anthropologique. Une étude croisée est ensuite réalisée faisant appel à des disciplines variées telles que : l’anthropologie dentaire, l’étude des isotopes stables ou encore la tribologie. Cela nous fournit une carte d’identité unique des individus de cette collection. Notre synthèse illustre l’intérêt de ce type d’approche multidisciplinaire en revisitant notre perception de l’Helladique moyen (2000-1600 BC), La confrontation des données bio-archéologiques et des pratiques funéraires permet de confirmer, ou parfois de nuancer, nos connaissances sur la Grèce mésohelladique parfois qualifiée de “tiers monde” de l’Égée. On y entrevoit un monde certes difficile, mais dans lequel la position d’Argos semble finalement relativement confortable en comparaison des sites voisins. / Argos is one of the major sites of Greece whose occupation has continued since the Neolithic to the present. This continued occupation results in a rich anthropological heritage, partly revealed by the excavations of the French School of Athens. Since the first excavations conducted by Wilhelm Vollgraff in 1902, Argos has revealed hundreds of graves scattered in the modern city. We adopt here a bio-archaeological approach of the burials from the Middle Helladic to the Ottoman period, which delivered anthropological remains, with the intention to shed new light on what could have been the living conditions in Argos. An identification work is first performed to make usable this collection, which largely results from earlier excavations. For the 341 individuals listed, sex, age and stature could be determined through anthropological study. A crossover study was then carried out using a variety of disciplines such as dental anthropology, the study of stable isotopes or tribology. This provides us with a unique description of the individuals of this collection. Our synthesis illustrates the value of this type of multidisciplinary approach by revisiting our perception of the Middle Helladic period (2000-1600 BC). Comparison of bio-archaeological and burial practices data confirms or sometimes nuances, our knowledge of mesohelladic Greece sometimes called the “third world” of the Aegean. It envisions a world that is certainly difficult, but in which Argos finally seems to be in a relatively comfortable position compared to neighboring sites.

Depuis 1978, le système ARGOS assure à l’échelle mondiale la collecte de données et la localisation de plateformes pour des applications liées au suivi d’animaux, à l’océanographie et à la sécurité maritime. La localisation exploite le décalage Doppler affectant la fréquence de porteuse des messages émis par les plateformes et réceptionnés par des satellites dédiés. Au cours des vingt dernières années, les puissances d’émission des plateformes se sont réduites pour des conditions d’utilisation toujours plus extrêmes, augmentant le nombre de localisations de moindre qualité. Paradoxalement, les utilisateurs ont cherché à identifier des comportements à des échelles de plus en plus petites. L’objectif de ce projet est de développer un algorithme de localisation plus performant dans le contexte actuel afin de remplacer le traitement temps réel historique basé sur un ajustement par moindres carrés. Un service hors ligne, permettant de déterminer des localisations encore plus précises, est proposé dans un second temps.Le problème est reformulé comme l’estimation de l’état d’un système dynamique stochastique, tenant compte d’un ensemble de modèles de déplacement admissibles pour les plateformes. La détermination exacte de la loi a posteriori de l’état présente alors une complexité exponentiellement croissante avec le temps. Le filtre « Interacting Multiple Model » (IMM) est devenu l’outil standard pour approximer en temps réel la loi a posteriori avec un coût de calcul constant. Pour des applications hors ligne, de nombreuses solutions sous-optimales de lissage multi-modèle ont aussi été proposées. La première contribution méthodologique de ce travail présente l’extension du cadre initial de l’IMM à un ensemble de modèles hétérogènes, c.-à-d. dont les vecteurs d’état sont de tailles et de sémantiques différentes. En outre, nous proposons une nouvelle méthode pour le lissage multi-modèle qui offre une complexité réduite et de meilleures performances que les solutions existantes. L’algorithme de localisation ARGOS a été réécrit en y incorporant le filtre IMM en tant que traitement temps réel et le lisseur multi-modèle comme service hors ligne. Une étude, menée sur un panel de 200 plateformes munies d’un récepteur GPS utilisé comme vérité terrain, montre que ces stratégies améliorent significativement la précision de localisation quand peu de messages sont reçus. En outre, elles délivrent en moyenne 30% de localisations supplémentaires et permettent de caractériser systématiquement l’erreur de positionnement / The ARGOS service was launched in 1978 to serve environmental applications including oceanography, wildlife tracking and maritime safety. The system allows for worldwide positioning and data collection of Platform Terminal Transmitters (PTTs). The positioning is achieved by exploiting the Doppler shift in the carrier frequency of the messages transmitted by the PTTs and recorded by dedicated satellite-borne receivers. Over the last twenty years, the transmission power has decreased significantly and platforms have been used in increasingly harsh environments. This led to deliver a greater number of low quality locations while users sought to identify finer platform behavior. This work first focuses on the implementation of a more efficient location processing to replace the historical real time processing relying on a Least Squares adjustment. Secondly, an offline service to infer locations with even higher accuracy is proposed.The location problem is formulated as the estimation of the state vector of a dynamical system, accounting for a set of admissible movement models of the platform. The exact determination of the state posterior pdf displays a complexity growing exponentially with time. The Interacting Multiple Model (IMM) algorithm has become a standard online approach to derive an approximated solution with a constant computational complexity. For offline applications, many sub-optimal multiple model schemes have also been proposed. Our methodological contributions first focused on extending the framework of the IMM filter so as to handle a bank of models with state vectors of heterogeneous size and meaning. Second, we investigated a new sub-optimal solution for multiple model smoothing which proves to be less computationally expensive and displays markedly better performance than equivalent algorithms. The ARGOS location processing was rewritten to include the IMM filter as real time processing and the IMM smoother as offline service. We eventually analyzed their performances using a large dataset obtained from over 200 mobiles carrying both an ARGOS transmitter and a GPS receiver used as ground truth. The results show that the new approaches significantly improve the positioning accuracy, especially when few messages are received. Moreover, the algorithms deliver 30% more positions and give a systematic estimation of the location error

Embedded controllers coordinate the behaviours of specialised hardware components to satisfy broader application requirements. They are difficult to model and to program. One of the greatest challenges is to express intricate timing behaviours???which arise from the physical characteristics of components???while not precluding efficient implementations on resource-constrained platforms. Aspects of this challenge are addressed by this thesis through four distinct applications of timed automata and the synchronous languages Argos and Esterel. A novel framework for simulating controllers written in an imperative synchronous language is described. It includes a transformation of synchronous models into timed automata that accounts for timing properties which are important in constrained implementations but ignored by the usual assumption of synchrony. The transformation provides an interface between the discrete time of synchronous programs and a continuous model of time. This interface is extended to provide a way for simulating Argos programs within the widely-used Simulink software. Timed automata are well-suited for semantic descriptions, like the aforementioned transformation, and for modelling abstract algorithms and protocols. This thesis also includes a different type of case study. The timing diagram of a small-scale embedded component is modelled in more detail than usual with the aim of studying timing properties in this type of system. Multiple models are constructed, including one of an assembly language controller. Their interrelations are verified in Uppaal using a construction for timed trace inclusion testing. Existing constructions for testing timed trace inclusion do not directly address recent features of the Uppaal modelling language. Novel solutions for the problems presented by selection bindings, quantifiers, and channel arrays in Uppaal are presented in this thesis. The first known implementation of a tool for automatically generating a timed trace inclusion construction is described. The timed automata case study demonstrates one way of implementing application timing behaviours while respecting implementation constraints. A more challenging, but less detailed, example is proposed to evaluate the adequacy of Esterel for such tasks. Since none of the standard techniques are completely adequate, a novel alternative for expressing delays in physical time is proposed. Programs in standard Esterel are recovered through syntactic transformations that account for platform constraints.

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Cette thèse s’inscrit dans une démarche de géographie historique et d’histoire des représentations de l’espace dans l’Antiquité. Elle vise avant tout à essayer de combler une lacune de l’historiographie contemporaine, à savoir celle d’une définition spatiale de ce que recouvre le terme d’Argolide et des réalités auxquelles il renvoie aux époques archaïque et classique. Cette région, située au nord-est du Péloponnèse, n’apparaît proprement sous le nom d'Argolide, dans les textes littéraires, qu’à l’époque romaine. Une unité territoriale préexistait-elle aux périodes plus anciennes ? L’Argolide est-elle un territoire ou une région aux époques archaïque et classique ou n’est-elle qu’une construction historiographique des Anciens et des Modernes ? En partant de l’analyse des territorialités qui se sont exprimées à ces époques dans la péninsule argolique, nous nous interrogeons sur les représentations spatiales qui touchaient cet espace, pour comprendre s’il formait alors chez les Anciens une unité géographique. La péninsule argolique est parcourue de nombreuses identités, qui forment autant de territoires à des échelles variées (celles de la kômè, de la cité ou encore du territoire ethnique), sans pour autant avoir une identité propre et affirmée qui ferait d’elle un territoire. L’Argolide est le résultat d’une intervention active d’Argos dans le domaine des représentations : elle correspond non seulement au lot de Téménos, qui constitua le mythe argien territorial par excellence, mais aussi à l’association des domaines sur lesquels règnent Agamemnon et Diomède dans le Catalogue des Vaisseaux. L’Argolide regroupe donc symboliquement l’ensemble du nord-est du Péloponnèse. Entité mythologique dans l’imaginaire argien qui se diffusa dans l’ensemble de la Grèce archaïque et classique, l’Argolide est également une réalité tangible, puisqu’elle forme une véritable région aux époques archaïque et classique, c'est-à-dire un cadre propice aux interactions économiques, cultuelles ou culturelles. / This thesis follows the methodology of historical geography and of the history of spatial representations in Ancient Greece. Its main goal is to fill the gap in contemporary historiography, regarding the spatial definition covered by the term of Argolid and the realities to which it refers in the archaic and classical periods. The Argolid, located in the north-east of the Peloponnese, only appears as a region in literature during the Roman period. Did a territorial unit exist in earlier periods? Is the Argolid a territory or a region in the archaic and classical periods or is it just a histographical construct by the Ancients and Moderns?Starting from the analysis of expressed territorialities at these times in the Argolic peninsula, we study the spatial representations related to this space, in order to understand whether it formed a geographical unit for the Greeks back then. In the Argolic peninsula, many identities coexisted, which formed as many territories at different scales (those of kome, of the city or of the ethnic territory). Nevertheless, the peninsula did not have a clear and strong identity that would have made it a territory.The Argolid is the result of active interventions of Argos in the field of representations: it is linked not only to the lot of Temenos, which constituted the famous territorial Argive myth, but also to the association of the areas under the rule of Agamemnon and Diomedes in the Catalogue of Ships. The Argolid hence symbolically includes all the cities of the northeastern Peloponnese. Originally a mythological entity in Argives’ minds, which was later diffused throughout the archaic and classical Greece, the Argolid is also a concrete reality, since it forms a real region in Archaic and Classical periods, that is to say, a favorable environment to economic, worship or cultural interactions.