This study investigates how the layout and structure of battle arenas in a melee-driven multiplayer split-screen game influence player engagement. By iterating on two arenas, making informed design decisions based on data from weekly playtests. Data collection involved observations, interviews, and an automated C# data-collecting tool. Metrics focused on social interaction, success, participation, and area interaction, linked to enjoyment, immersion, and level of interaction. We conducted six playtests with eleven arena iterations. Key findings include a player preference for arenas where they experienced higher success rates, either through hit accuracy or wins; excessive spatial restrictions leading to player frustration and decreased enjoyment due to mobility difficulties; and a general preference for asymmetrical arenas, which were favored for their varied gameplay and strategic opportunities, despite slightly lower active combat participation. The final arena design was asymmetrical, featuring four distinct zones, each providing unique gameplay experiences and strategic opportunities. This study highlights how arena design can enhance player engagement by balancing spatial dynamics and strategic elements.

Disruption of cognitive abilities such as learning, memory and spatial navigation accompanies a number of neuropsychiatric disorders including schizophrenia. Cognitive symptoms are also most difficult to target by available pharmacotherapy.. Behavioral and molecular evidence point to a disruption of NMDA receptors and glutamatergic and dopaminergic neurotransmission. Impaired cognitive coordination has been proposed as a core cognitive deficit in schizophrenia. Non- competitive NMDAR antagonists are used to model schizophrenia- related symptoms in humans and in experimental animals. Place avoidance on a rotating arena is used to model cognitive functions disrupted in an animal model of schizophrenia. The goal of this thesis is to show whether the deficit in place avoidance is due to disrupted cognitive coordination or another effect of NMDAR antagonism such as hyperlocomotion, general learning deficit, or altered sensitivity.

O Urbanismo Ecológico surge como uma forma de reconciliar a paisagem com a ocupação urbana, pautado pelas potencialidades e limitações dos recursos naturais. As áreas verdes não exercem a função somente do embelezamento e da melhoria da qualidade visual e ambiental, elas se transformam em verdadeiros artefatos de engenharia e elementos de uma infraestrutura verde de alto desempenho. A arborização viária ganha força e escala ao conectar fragmentos de florestas urbanas e áreas verdes dispersas no tecido urbano. Os resultados da pesquisa mudam o olhar sobre a várzea dos rios. Renegadas na cidade contemporânea, no Urbanismo Ecológico, as planícies fluviais se tornam elementos estruturais e conectores da malha urbana e de grande valor. A tese parte da hipótese de que é possível implantar o Urbanismo Ecológico em São Paulo através da execução de um processo amplo e ferramentas que vão de políticas públicas, ações da iniciativa privada e envolvimento comunitário, tendo como consequência a melhoria da qualidade ambiental e de vida urbana. A pesquisa foca em Itaquera, bairro impactado pela implantação de grandes equipamentos urbanos pertencentes ao polo institucional e que abriga o novo estádio de futebol do clube Corinthians, para realização de jogos da Copa do Mundo de 2014. Através de levantamentos de campo, mapeamentos e análise de estudos de caso nos Estados Unidos e na África do Sul, identifica-se a clara oportunidade de transformação no entorno da arena a partir da aplicação de princípios ecológicos. Por fim, a pesquisa apresenta uma proposta de Urbanismo Ecológico para o entorno da Arena Corinthians, a partir de suas potencialidades locais, suas áreas verdes, sua hidrografia e a sua nova dinâmica decorrente de novos investimentos públicos e privados. / Ecological Urbanism has emerged as a way to reconcile the landscape with urban occupation, ruled by the potentialities and limitations of natural resources. Green áreas do not function only beautifying and improving the visual and environmental quality, they become true engineering artifacts and elements of a high performance green infrastructure. The street tree system gains strength and scale while connecting fragments of urban forests and green areas scattered in the urban fabric. The research results change the look on the river floodplains. Segregated in the contemporary city, under Ecological Urbanism principles, floodplains become structural elements and links of the urban fabric adding great value. The thesis presents the hypothesis that it is possible to implement the Ecological Urbanism in São Paulo through the implementation of a comprehensive process and tools ranging from public policies, private sector actions and community engagement resulting on the improvement of environmental quality and urban life. The research focuses on Itaquera neighborhood impacted by the implementation of large urban facilities part of an institutional hub and home to the new soccer stadium of Corinthians club that will host World Cup 2014 games. Through field surveys, mapping and analysis of case studies in the United States and in South Africa is possible to identify a clear opportunity for transformation in the vicinity of the arena based on ecological principles. At last, the research presents an Ecological Urbanism proposal for the surroundings of the Arena Corinthians taking advantage of its local potentiality, green areas, hydrograph and new dynamic as a result of new public and private investments.

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Submitted by William Justo Figueiro (williamjf) on 2015-08-11T19:55:20Z No. of bitstreams: 1 06e.pdf: 1356843 bytes, checksum: af35d0c75475e16d325c24adadb9dee4 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-08-11T19:55:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 06e.pdf: 1356843 bytes, checksum: af35d0c75475e16d325c24adadb9dee4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Esta pesquisa estabeleceu como objetivo principal conhecer e compreender o Programa Mais Educação (PME) e os discursos sobre aprendizagem na arena da prática a partir de um estudo de caso com gestores e professores da rede municipal de São Leopoldo/RS. Orientaram a pesquisa os marcos teóricos conceituais do ciclo de políticas (policy cycle approach) de Ball & Bowe (1992), baseados nos estudos de Mainardes (2006), como um modelo analítico de políticas que permite o ir e vir entre as diferentes arenas que constituem as políticas em geral e a do PME em particular. Para empreender sentido aos discursos de gestores e professores, foi utilizada a teoria da Análise de Discurso da linha francesa iniciada por Michel Pechêux (1988). Foram analisados documentos do PME e realizadas entrevistas semiestruturadas com gestores e professores. Para análise das políticas educacionais, nos baseamos em Teodoro (2011), Afonso (2010, 2013), Ravitch (2011), Werle (2005, 2010, 2011), entre outros. Através dos dados produzidos nas entrevistas e do objetivo do estudo, foi possível identificar as seguintes categorias de análise: (Re)apropriação do PME na arena da prática e as ingerências nas políticas educacionais; o Programa Mais Educação: a escola dentro da escola; a aprendizagem no PME, seus conceitos e suas evidências: concretas ou abstratas?; a estrutura do PME: a responsabilidade da escola; os monitores no PME: a concretização das ideias da terceira via e os discursos do não saber. As categorias empregadas evidenciaram que a (re)apropriação do PME na arena da prática foi insipiente em função das escassas possibilidades de discussão e reelaboração da política na escola estudada. O PME é compreendido como uma outra escola dentro da mesma escola pela forma gerencialista e fragmentada na qual as atividades do Programa não são conhecidas e articuladas pelos professores. Constatou-se que o PME está alinhado aos princípios da globalização, do neoliberalismo e do novo gerencialismo, advindos da arena da influência. O PME propõe um robustecimento das funções da escola, colocando sob sua responsabilidade a garantia de direitos sociais às crianças e adolescentes. Por fim, a aprendizagem é evidenciada na voz de gestores e professores pelos resultados das avaliações em larga escala, através do IDEB. / This research aims to know and understand the Programa Mais Educação (“More Education” Program - PME) and the discourses on learning in the practical sphere from a case study with managers and teachers of the public school network in the city of São Leopoldo, state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The research was guided by the theoretical and conceptual perspectives of Ball and Bowe’s policy cycle approach (1992) and based on the works of Mainardes (2006), which provided an analytical model for studying policies that allows the coming and going among different spheres that constitute policies in general and the PME in particular. To attribute meaning to discourses by teachers and managers, the theory of Discourse Analysis, in its French formulation by Michel Pechêux, was used (1988). PME documents were analyzed and semi-structured interviews with managers and teachers were conducted. The analyses of educational policies were based on Teodoro (2011), Afonso (2010, 2013), Ravitch (2011), Werle (2005, 2010, 2011), among others. From the data produced in the interviews and the object of the study, the following analytical categories could be drawn: (Re)appropriation of the PME in the practical sphere and interferences in educational policies; the PME: a school within a school; learning in the PME, its concepts, and evidences: concrete or abstract?, the PME structure: school’s responsibility; supervisors in the PME: the third way’s ideas and the discourses of not knowing rendered concrete. The categories used evidenced that the (re)appropriation of the PME in the practical sphere was inceptive due to the few possibilities of discussion and re-elaboration of the policy within the studied school. The PME is understood as another school within the school due to the managerial and fragmented way in which the Program’s activities are not known and articulated by the teachers. The PME was seen as in line with the principles of globalization, neoliberalism, and the new managerialism, brought forth from the sphere of influence. The PME proposes strengthening the school’s functions, attributing the responsibility for social rights for children and adolescents to the school. Finally, learning is evidenced in the speech of managers and teachers from the results of large-scale evaluations through the IDEB.

O Urbanismo Ecológico surge como uma forma de reconciliar a paisagem com a ocupação urbana, pautado pelas potencialidades e limitações dos recursos naturais. As áreas verdes não exercem a função somente do embelezamento e da melhoria da qualidade visual e ambiental, elas se transformam em verdadeiros artefatos de engenharia e elementos de uma infraestrutura verde de alto desempenho. A arborização viária ganha força e escala ao conectar fragmentos de florestas urbanas e áreas verdes dispersas no tecido urbano. Os resultados da pesquisa mudam o olhar sobre a várzea dos rios. Renegadas na cidade contemporânea, no Urbanismo Ecológico, as planícies fluviais se tornam elementos estruturais e conectores da malha urbana e de grande valor. A tese parte da hipótese de que é possível implantar o Urbanismo Ecológico em São Paulo através da execução de um processo amplo e ferramentas que vão de políticas públicas, ações da iniciativa privada e envolvimento comunitário, tendo como consequência a melhoria da qualidade ambiental e de vida urbana. A pesquisa foca em Itaquera, bairro impactado pela implantação de grandes equipamentos urbanos pertencentes ao polo institucional e que abriga o novo estádio de futebol do clube Corinthians, para realização de jogos da Copa do Mundo de 2014. Através de levantamentos de campo, mapeamentos e análise de estudos de caso nos Estados Unidos e na África do Sul, identifica-se a clara oportunidade de transformação no entorno da arena a partir da aplicação de princípios ecológicos. Por fim, a pesquisa apresenta uma proposta de Urbanismo Ecológico para o entorno da Arena Corinthians, a partir de suas potencialidades locais, suas áreas verdes, sua hidrografia e a sua nova dinâmica decorrente de novos investimentos públicos e privados. / Ecological Urbanism has emerged as a way to reconcile the landscape with urban occupation, ruled by the potentialities and limitations of natural resources. Green áreas do not function only beautifying and improving the visual and environmental quality, they become true engineering artifacts and elements of a high performance green infrastructure. The street tree system gains strength and scale while connecting fragments of urban forests and green areas scattered in the urban fabric. The research results change the look on the river floodplains. Segregated in the contemporary city, under Ecological Urbanism principles, floodplains become structural elements and links of the urban fabric adding great value. The thesis presents the hypothesis that it is possible to implement the Ecological Urbanism in São Paulo through the implementation of a comprehensive process and tools ranging from public policies, private sector actions and community engagement resulting on the improvement of environmental quality and urban life. The research focuses on Itaquera neighborhood impacted by the implementation of large urban facilities part of an institutional hub and home to the new soccer stadium of Corinthians club that will host World Cup 2014 games. Through field surveys, mapping and analysis of case studies in the United States and in South Africa is possible to identify a clear opportunity for transformation in the vicinity of the arena based on ecological principles. At last, the research presents an Ecological Urbanism proposal for the surroundings of the Arena Corinthians taking advantage of its local potentiality, green areas, hydrograph and new dynamic as a result of new public and private investments.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T18:39:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Elaine Regina Correa Brandao.pdf: 5199379 bytes, checksum: 85266453099661239d6ff9817c132930 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-12-10 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / To perform the World Cup 2014, Brazil seeks economic and financial feasibility of investments in projects. However, this whole organization to the world depends on the efficiency and effectiveness in the management of projects of the host cities; projects that are planned and executed by the three tiers of government (Federal, State and Municipal). In this context, this study aims to identify the structure of the Planning, Execution and Control of projects from the World Cup 2014 in Brazil, Cuiabá, capital of Mato Grosso. So, we defined the theoretical framework based on the concepts of renowned authors who talk about relevant aspects: Planning, Implementation and Control, especially in the public sector for the management of projects. Regarding methodology, we chose to study with a qualitative approach exploratory and descriptive, using a case study on the design of Arena Pantanal held at Secretária Extraordinária da Copa (SECOPA) in Cuiabá-MT, where we performed the data collection, document analysis and interviews. To make the analysis of results, we used additional data obtained from a secondary site and available in the SECOPA. Through them, we conclude that the World Cup 2014 tends to project the host city of Cuiabá-MT, where the design of the master plan of the project was based in order to meet the budget Laws prioritizing the needs of society and involving large investments in infrastructure, such as the construction of Arena Pantanal Multiuso. Therefore, the SECOPA has been working with the challenges, risks and constraints (expropriations, fundraising, lawsuits etc..). Remarkable, also, the many opportunities (increase in employment generation, income, consumption, projecting the city as a tourist attraction, urban mobility), besides adding other direct and indirect benefits, expressive and positively affecting the socioeconomic development of Cuiabá- MT / Para a realização da Copa do Mundo de 2014 o Brasil busca a viabilidade econômica e financeira dos investimentos nos projetos. Contudo, toda essa organização para o mundial depende da eficiência e eficácia na gestão dos projetos das cidades-sede; projetos que são planejados e executados pelas três esferas governamentais (Federal, Estadual e Municipal). Neste contexto, este estudo objetiva identificar a estrutura do Planejamento, Execução e Controle dos projetos da Copa do Mundo de 2014 no Brasil, em Cuiabá capital do Estado do Mato Grosso. Para tanto, foi definido o referencial teórico com base nos conceitos de autores renomados que discorrem sobre os aspectos relevantes do Planejamento, Execução e Controle, especialmente no setor público, para o gerenciamento dos projetos. Com relação à metodologia foi feita opção pela pesquisa com abordagem qualitativa do tipo exploratório-descritiva, por meio de um estudo de caso sobre o projeto da Arena Pantanal , realizado na Secretária Extraordinária da Copa (SECOPA) sediada em Cuiabá-MT, local onde foi efetuada a coleta dos dados, a análise documental, bem como, as entrevistas. Para compor a análise dos resultados foram utilizados dados complementares obtidos de forma secundária e disponíveis no site da SECOPA. Pelos resultados obtidos é possível concluir que a Copa de 2014 tende a projetar, de forma significativa e positiva, a cidade-sede de Cuiabá-MT, considerando que o planejamento do plano diretor dos projetos foi embasado com o intuito de atender as Leis orçamentárias, priorizando as necessidades da sociedade e envolvendo investimentos elevados na infraestrutura, como a construção da Arena Pantanal Multiuso. Para tanto, a SECOPA vem trabalhando com os desafios, riscos e condicionantes (desapropriações, captação de recursos, ações na justiça, etc.). Destacam-se, igualmente, as inúmeras oportunidades (aumento na geração de emprego, renda, consumo, projeção da cidade como ponto turístico, mobilidade urbana), além de agregar outros benefícios diretos e indiretos, afetando expressiva e positivamente o desenvolvimento socioeconômico de Cuiabá-MT

Cette thèse étudie l'ordinaire bureaucratique des agents de la circonscription scolaire - l'administration scolaire déconcentrée - au Bénin et la manière dont ils "font" l'école primaire au quotidien; Fondé sur quinze mois de terrain entre 2012 et 2015 principalement passés dans deux circonscriptions scolaires du pays, mon travail étudie plus particulièrement l'autorité des chefs - inspecteurs et conseillers pédagogiques - sur la gestion locale de l'école, qu'ils se plaignaient d'avoir perdue depuis 1990 et l'ouverture démocratique du pays. A travers l'analyse socio-historique de la construction des inspections et du groupe professionnel des inspecteurs, l'étude de la circulation de l'autorité au sein de l'arène scolaire locale et des rapports hiérarchiques et pédagogiques entretenus avec les enseignants, je montre comment se négocie, quotidiennement, l'autorité publique sur le service local d'enseignement. Je documente ainsi le jeu entre autorités premières et secondes sur la gestion de l'école à travers les rapports entretenus avec les autorités hiérarchiques, les syndicats, les enseignants, les parents ou la mairie. Les dynamiques de concertation, de négociation ou de contournement de l'administration scolaire locale participent à la production quotidienne de l'école et interrogent l'autorité de la circonscription sur les affaires scolaires. J'analyse également les effets des récentes réformes managériales sur les conditions de travail et les formes de professionnalité des inspecteurs et conseillers. En montrant la coexistence des figures de l'inspecteur "loup-garou", de l'inspecteur "conseiller" et de l'inspecteur "gestionnaire", je ne questionne pas seulement les transformations des ethos professionnels et des manières d'être "chef", mais également la pluralité des façons de faire l'Etat et l'école dans les salles de classe béninoises. / This thesis focuses on the bureaucratic routine of agents of school districts - the decentralized school administration - in Benin, and the ways in which they "make" primary school on a day-to-day basis. Relying on a fifteen months-fieldwork research (2012-2015) conducted mainly in two school districts of the country, this dissertation studies more specifically the leaders' authority - inspectors and pedagogical advisors - over the local management of school that they claim to have lost with the democratic opening in the 1990s. Through a socio-historical analysis of the construction of inspections and the inspectors' occupational group, the study of the circulation of authority within the school's local arena, and the inspectors' hierarchical and pedagogical relations with teachers, I show how public authority is negociated within the local education service. In doing so, I document the strategies at play between first and second-level authorities through the relations maintained with the hierarchical authorities, the unions, the teachers, the parents or the town hall. The dynamics of dialogue, negociation or circumvention of the school district participate in the day-to-day functioning of school and question the local administration's authority over school issues. I also analyse the effects of recent managerial reforms on the inspectors and advisors' working conditions and their professional culture. By demonstrating the coexistence of the figure of the "werewolf" inspector, the "counsellor" inspector and the "manager" inspector, I do not only question the transformations in the ethos of professionals and in the ways of being "a leader", I also question the multiplicity of ways of making the State and making school in Benin's classrooms.

<p>Detta är en kapacitets- och känslighetsanalys av bagagehanteringssystem vid Arlanda flygplats. Studien är ett examensarbete för civilingenjörsutbildningen Kommunikations- och Transportsystem vid Linköpings universitet och är utförd på uppdrag av Luftfartsverket, LFV Teknik under 2004 och 2005. </p><p>Studien har gjorts med datorstödd simulering som analysverktyg. Studien har gjorts genom att en simuleringsmodell av det studerade systemet har byggts i simuleringsprogrammet Arena. Denna modell har matats med trafikunderlag från en normalvecka under 2004. Utifrån denna modell och utifrån förväntade trafikökningar har sedan ett antal kapacitets- och känslighetsanalysscenarier formulerats och dessa har sedan simulerats och resultaten har tolkats och analyserats samt jämförts med resultaten från grundmodellen. </p><p>Kapacitetsanalysen visar att anläggningen är väl rustad för att ta emot den annalkande trafikökning som förväntas under de närmaste åren, eftersom den ökade trafiken inte innebär några signifikanta problem genom ökat antal väskor som inte hinner med sina flighter. Det som dock kan vara en begränsande faktor är att fickallokeringssystemet inte är effektivt och det sänker anläggningens verkliga kapacitet. För att kunna nyttja anläggningen maximalt bör fickallokeringssystemet ses över. </p><p>Känslighetsanalysen visar att systemet är mycket sårbart för störningar, särskilt om kommunikationen med BSM-centralen går ner eller om en Röntgen Level 2-maskin går sönder. Sådana händelser resulterar i att anläggningens kapacitet minskar kraftigt och i vissa fall klarar anläggningen inte av att hantera dagens trafikmängd. En handlingsplan för hur dessa störningar och konsekvenserna av dem ska minimeras bör införas snarast. </p> / <p>This is a capacity and sensitivity analysis of a baggage handling system at Stockholm-Arlanda airport. The study is a Master's Thesis in Communication and Transport Systems Engineering at the University of Linköping. The study was done on behalf of the Swedish Civil Aviation Administration. The analysis tool that was used is simulation. </p><p>In the study, a simulation model of the baggage handling system was implemented in the simulation program Arena. A base scenario containing the traffic program from one week in 2004 was created and used as a reference scenario. A total of 8 different scenarios were created to form the capacity and sensitivity analyses. </p><p>The capacity analysis showed that the baggage handling system will be able to handle the forecasted increases in traffic over the next few years with relative ease. The X-ray machines are currently not working at anywhere near full capacity. However, the system is currently not being used in an efficient way. The pocket allocation method is far from optimal because flights that use more than one pocket are allocated adjacent pockets only which can be very inefficient. This method needs to be revised for the system to work efficiently. </p><p>The sensitivity analysis showed that the system is very vulnerable if certain things happen. In particular if the communication link with the Baggage Source Message-central in London is lost there will be big problems because all luggage will go to the Manual Encoding Station (MES). The MES will then be very digested and it will take a considerably larger amount of time for the baggage to pass through the system. Problems will also occur if one of the two Level 2 X-ray-machines break down. The remaining machine cannot handle all the baggage by itself, especially not if there are flights to the USA about to depart since baggage heading for the USA must be run through X-ray Level 2. It is strongly recommended that handling plans are formed to minimise the effects of such events.</p>

In this explorative study internet dating is studied as shared commitment to a common collective activity. Focus is on social formative emotions and internet dating in the rhythm of everyday life. The study is based on an interactionist theory/method package related to grounded theory and situational analysis. Sixty-eight participants of a Swedish internet dating site have been interviewed by e-mail. Fifteen of these interviews were followed up by a second one. Internet dating mainly occurs during evenings at home. It is kept separate from other commitments in daily life, such as work, as collisions of activities might lead to emotional and tension-ridden situations. The essential social process involved in internet dating is searching for a future someone/something. This process is given strength by the future- and action-oriented emotion of hope of happiness. The future is represented in imagination by talk about sought for emotions. The internet daters want to end their commitment to internet dating, while the internet dating company, for economic reasons, wants them to continue with the activity. The internet daters learn to manage their spontaneous emotions; they learn not to show "too much" future-oriented emotions. Instead a "relaxed" attitude, based on the present, is encouraged among participants. The act of imagining and searching for a future someone/something is formalized and organized by means of internet dating sites. Emotions are thus being commercialized in the interest of the internet dating company.