Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 102-116).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Kent State University, 2007. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Apr. 29, 2009). Advisor: Stevan E. Hobfoll. Keywords: psychological, distress, resources, inner-city, women, AIDS, HIV, program. Includes bibliographical references (p. 82-101).

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Michigan, 1992.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Notre Dame, 2006. / Thesis directed by Donald B. Pope-Davis for the Department of Psychology. "April 2006." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 106-111).

Thèse (M.Ps.) -- Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 2004. / "Mémoire de maîtrise présenté à l'Université du Québec à Chicoutimi comme exigence partielle de la maîtrise en psychologie offerte à l'Université du Québec à Chicoutimi en vertu d'un protocole d'entente avec l'Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières." Comprend des réf. bibliogr. : f. [123]-143. Document électronique également accessible en format PDF.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Notre Dame, 2007. / Thesis directed by Cindy S. Bergeman for the Department of Psychology. "April 2007." "Graduate Program in Developmental Psychology"--T.p. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 47-55).

Thesis (Ed. D.)--University of North Texas, May, 2007. / Title from title page display. Includes bibliographical references.

Αυτή η εργασία περιγράφει το όραμα των προσωποκεντρικών επικοινωνιών (I centric communications). Ο κύριος στόχος της εργασίας είναι η εστίαση στις διάφορες πτυχές των προσωποκεντρικών επικοινωνιών. Η επικοινωνιακή συμπεριφορά των ανθρώπων χαρακτηρίζεται από συχνές αλληλεπιδράσεις με ένα σύνολο από αντικείμενα στο περιβάλλον τους, τα οποία αποτελούν τον προσωπικό επικοινωνιακό τους χώρο. Η προσέγγιση των προσωποκεντρικών επικοινωνιών είναι η δημιουργία επικοινωνιακών συστημάτων τα οποία δεν βασίζονται σε συγκεκριμένες τεχνολογίες αλλά στην ανάλυση του προσωπικού επικοινωνιακού χώρου. Το αποτέλεσμα είναι ένα σύστημα επικοινωνίας το οποίο προσαρμόζεται σε συγκεκριμένες ανάγκες του κάθε ατόμου. Ένα τέτοιο σύστημα μπορεί να ενεργεί σύμφωνα με τις απαιτήσεις του ανθρώπου, αντανακλώντας πρόσφατες ενέργειες ώστε να επιτρέπει την δημιουργία προφίλ και την προσαρμογή του σε αυτές. Μία τεχνολογία κατάλληλη για τέτοιου είδους συστήματα είναι η τεχνολογία UPnP η οποία ορίζει μία αρχιτεκτονική δικτύου για διάχυτη ομότιμη συνδεσιμότητα για ευφυείς συσκευές, ασύρματες συσκευές και υπολογιστές. Η UPnP τεχνολογία παρέχει μία κατανεμημένη αρχιτεκτονική ανοιχτής δικτύωσης που επιτρέπει σε TCP/IP και Web τεχνολογίες εκτός του ελέγχου και της μεταφοράς δεδομένων μεταξύ δικτυωμένων συσκευών, την αρραγή δικτύωση γειτνίασης. Εν συνεχεία, περιγράφεται η διαδικασία απόκτησης μίας διεύθυνσης δικτύου κατά την εισαγωγή μίας συσκευής σε ένα δίκτυο. Μετά την απόκτηση της ΙΡ διεύθυνσης για να μπορεί ο δυναμικός ξενιστής να στείλει ΙΡ πακέτα στο συνδεδεμένο σε αυτό δίκτυο, πρέπει να προσδιορίσει την διεύθυνση ενός τουλάχιστον λειτουργικού δρομολογητή. Τέλος, περιγράφεται η διαδικασία με την οποία κόμβοι του δικτύου, όπως οι δρομολογητές και οι ξενιστές ανακοινώνουν την εγγραφή τους σε μία ομάδα πολυεκπομπής. / This thesis describes the vision of I centric communications. The main objective of this thesis is to focus on the various aspects of I centric communications. The communication behaviour of human beings is characterized by frequent interactions with a set of objects in their environement. The set of objects, controlled by each individual, define its individual communication space. The approach of I centric communications is to build communication systems not based on specific technologies, but on the analysis of the individual communication space. The result is a communication system that adapts to the specific demands of each individual. Such a system will act on behalf of human’s demands, reflecting recent actions to enable profiling and self adaptation. I centric Services adapt to individual communication spaces and situations. A suitable technology for such communication systems is UPnP technology, which is a new architecture for pervasive peer-to-peer connectivity of intelligent appliances, wireless devices and PCs. UPnP technology provides a distributed, open networking architecture that enables TCP/IP and Web technologies to provide seamless proximity networking in addition to control and data transfer among networked devices. Furthermore, a procedure of allocating network addresses is described during the entry of a device in the network. After acquiring an IP address, the dynamic host has to discover the address of at least one operational router on its directly attached subnet so that they are capable of sending IP datagrams in that subnet. In conclusion, the way by which network nodes, such as hosts and routers, report their IP multicast group memberships to any neighboring multicast routers, is described.

La prise en considération des spécificités du public cible et des contextes d’usage d’une application interactive peut interroger les principes méthodologiques généralement recommandés pour la conception et l’évaluation d’application informatique. Dans le cas de la création d’un outil dédié à un jeune public avec TSA (Troubles du Spectre Autistique), les difficultés de communication et les altérations des interactions sociales de ces derniers empêchent la mise en œuvre d’une méthodologie « ordinaire » de conception centrée utilisateur. Au-delà de la prise en considération du potentiel, établi, qu’offre le numérique pour le jeune public avec TSA, il s’agit d’identifier et de mettre en œuvre les méthodes et techniques utiles à l’évaluation des prototypes proposés, en tenant compte des caractéristiques du public et de son contexte quotidien en structure scolaire.Les travaux de recherche présentés dans cette thèse se situent dans le domaine des interactions hommes-machines (IHM). Ils questionnent les principes méthodologiques de conception centrée utilisateur : Comment répondre aux objectifs d’évaluation quand la communication verbale n’est pas garantie ? Quel rôle pour l’utilisateur cible dans le cycle de conception-évaluation ? Quels rôles pour l’entourage humain et spécialisé ? Comment observer et analyser l’usage d’un logiciel sur tablette dans le contexte quotidien du public cible ?Plus précisément, la problématique porte sur l’adaptation des méthodes d’évaluation ordinaires aux caractéristiques et comportements spécifiques d’un public extraordinaire. / Taking into account the specificities of the target audience and the contexts of use of an interactive application imply to question the generally recommended methodological principles for computer application design and evaluation. In the case of the creation of a tool dedicated to a young audience with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD), communication difficulties and alterations in their social interactions prevent the implementation of an "ordinary", user-centered design methodology. Beyond the consideration of the established potential offered by digital technology for young people with ASD, it is a question of identifying and implementing the methods and techniques useful in order to evaluate the proposed prototypes, taking into account the characteristics of the public and its everyday context in school structure.The research presented in this thesis belong to the field of human-machine interactions (HMI). It questions the methodological principles of user-centered design: How to meet evaluation objectives when verbal communication is not guaranteed? What role for the target user in the design-evaluation cycle? What are the roles for the human and specialized relatives? How to observe and analyze the use of tablet software in the daily context of the target audience?More specifically, the research concerns the adaptation of ordinary methods of evaluation to the specific characteristics and behaviors of an extraordinary audience.

Orientador: José Roberto Moro / Banca: Ricardo Machado da Silva / Banca: Sandra Helena Unêda Trevisoli / Resumo: O presente trabalho foi realizado em duas Fazendas Experimentais da Monsanto do Brasil Ltda, localizadas nos municípios de Barretos - SP e Rolândia - PR, na safra verão 2007/08. O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar os parâmetros de estabilidade e adaptabilidade de oito linhagens elites de milho (seis utilizadas como fêmea e duas como macho em cruzamentos de híbridos simples comerciais e experimentais) em oito ambientes pelo modelo de EBERHART & RUSSELL. Os ambientes foram caracterizados por duas localidades, duas épocas de semeadura (setembro e outubro) e dois sistemas de manejo de solo (convencional e plantio direto). Utilizou-se o delineamento em blocos casualizados com quatro repetições. Avaliaramse os caracteres de produção de grãos (kg ha-1), rendimento de sacos de sessenta mil sementes por hectare, altura de plantas, altura de espiga e comprimento de espiga. Constataram-se efeitos significativos para as linhagens, ambientes e interação linhagens x ambiente para todas as características avaliadas. Observou-se que todas as linhagens tiveram comportamento imprevisível para produção de grãos. De uma forma geral, observou-se uma maior produção de grãos no ambiente de Rolândia, semeado em setembro no sistema de plantio direto. O ambiente que propiciou a maior produção de grãos, necessariamente não é o ambiente com maior rendimento de sacos de 60 mil sementes por hectare. Os ambientes de Barretos se mostraram propícios para aumentar os parâmetros de altura de planta e altura de espiga. Três das oito linhagens mostraram uma adaptabilidade a ambientes desfavoráveis, enquanto que as demais linhagens ... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: This work was conducted in two Monsanto's farms, located in the cities of Barretos - SP and Rolândia - PR during the 2007/08 summer season. The objective of this work was to evaluate the parameters of stability and adaptability of eight Elite inbred lines of maize (six used as female and two used as male in single crosses of commercial and experimental hybrids) in eight environments by EBERHART & RUSSELL's method. The environments were characterized by two locations, two planting dates (September and October) and two systems of soil tillage (no till and tillage). The experimental design used was a complete randomized block with four replications. It was observed the characters of grain yield (kg ha-1), weight of thousands kernels, yield of sixty thousand kernels bag ha-1, plant height, ear height and ear length. It was evidenced significant effects for inbred lines, environments and inbred lines x environment interaction for all traits evaluated. It was observed that all inbred lines showed unstable behaviour. In general, there was a higher grain yield in environment of Rolândia, planted in September in no till system. The environment with the highest grain yield, not necessarily is the environment with highest yield of 60 thousand kernels bags ha-1. Environments of Barretos showed conditions to increasing the parameters of plant height and ear height. Three of eight inbred lines showed an adaptability to unfavorable environments, while other inbred lines showed an adaptability to favorable environments. Only two inbred lines showed the coefficient of determination above 80%. In general, the inbred line 8-F had the fourth highest grain yield (2675.3 kg ha-1) and ... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre