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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T18:47:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Claudia Cristina Mussolini.pdf: 5103559 bytes, checksum: 952d3dbe93a9759e8c64b64fc8538643 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-02-16 / Assistive devices are used by elderly people to help them in their daily tasks, at work and in their integration with the community. Such devices contribute to the improvement of the elderly s functional capacity. During our field research, our attention was drawn to the fact that some of the elderly people devised and made their own assistive devices. In order to understand such behavior, our study employed a quantitative approach through semi-structured interviews with five elderly people, residents of the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Results showed that through a facilitating physical and social environment, defined types of self-efficacy expression were enabled (BANDURA, 1977;1991;1993), thus allowing those elderly people to efficiently devise, make and use albeit with some functional limitations the device that they needed. Furthermore, the assistive device built by the elderly serves as a continuous feedback for their self-esteem, since it bears the marks of their identity and life history traits. The presence of self-efficacy in the elderly s personality is an inner resource capable of minimizing the effects of functional incapacities, which may, in turn, affect their well-being and quality of life during their ageing process. Therefore, geriatric assistance programs should support and encourage the creative and productive potential of older individuals as a means to ensure their social integration and participation / Dispositivos assistivos são utilizados por idosos para auxiliá-los nas atividades de vida diária, no trabalho e na integração com a comunidade, tendo como objetivo principal a melhora da capacidade funcional. Em nossa experiência de campo, chamou a nossa atenção, o fato de alguns idosos utilizarem dispositivos assistivos idealizados e construídos por eles mesmos. Para entender este comportamento, nosso estudo utilizou-se da abordagem qualitativa, através de entrevistas semi-estruturadas com cinco idosos moradores da Cidade de São Paulo. Como resultado, percebemos que através de um ambiente físico e social facilitador houve a possibilidade da expressão da auto-eficácia (BANDURA, 1977;1991;1993) contribuindo para que estes idosos mesmo com algumas limitações funcionais - fossem capazes de pensar, construir e usar com eficiência o dispositivo que lhe faltava. Além disso, o dispositivo assistivo construído serve de constante feedback para a auto-estima dos idosos, pois traz em si marcas da sua identidade e da sua história de vida. A presença da auto-eficácia na personalidade dos idosos serve como um recurso interno para minimizar os efeitos das incapacidades funcionais que podem afetar o bem-estar e a qualidade de vida no envelhecimento. Cabe, portanto, aos programas com caráter gerontológico estimular o potencial vivencial e criativo deste segmento garantindo a sua integração e atuação social

Durant ces dernières années, nous avons assisté à une forte émergence de nouvelles technologies et environnements informatiques tels que le cloud computing, l'informatique ubiquitaire ou les réseaux de capteurs. Ces environnements ont permis d'élaborer de nouveaux types d'applications avec une forte valeur ajoutée pour les usagés. Néanmoins, ils ont aussi soulevés de nombreux défis liés notamment à la conception, au déploiement et à la gestion de cycle de vie des applications. Ceci est dû à la nature même de ces environnements distribués, caractérisés par une grande flexibilité, un dynamisme accru et une forte hétérogénéité des ressources. L'objectif principal de cette thèse est de fournir une solution générique, réutilisable et extensible pour l'auto-gestion de ces applications. Nous nous sommes concentrés sur la fourniture d'un support logiciel permettant de gérer à l'exécution les architectures et leur cycle de vie, notamment pour les applications à base de composants s'exécutant dans des environnements dynamiques, distributes et à grande échelle. De façon à atteindre cet objectif, nous proposons une solution synergique - le framework Cube - combin- ant des techniques issues de domaines de recherche adjacents tels que l'auto-organisation, la satisfaction de contraintes, l'auto-adaptation et la reflexion fondée sur les modèles architecturaux. Dans notre solution, un ensemble de gestionnaires autonomiques décentralisés s'auto-organise de façon à construire et gérer une application cible en s'appuyant sur une description partagée des buts de l'application. Cette description formelle, appelé Archetype, prend la forme d'un graphe orienté exprim- ant les différents éléments de l'architecture et un ensemble de contraintes. Un prototype du framework Cube a été implanté dans le domaine particulier de la médiation. Des expériences ont été conduites dans le cadre de deux projets de recherché nationaux: Self-XL et Medical. Les résultats obtenus démontrent la validité de notre approche pour créer, réparer et adapter des applications à base de composants s'exécutant dans des environnements distribués, dynamiques et hétérogènes.

MOREIRA, Rubenita Alves. Dos Mitos á picaresca: uma caminhada residual pelo Auto da Compadecida de Ariano Suassuna. 2007. 230 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Letras) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Literatura, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras, Fortaleza-CE, 2007. / Submitted by Liliane oliveira (morena.liliane@hotmail.com) on 2012-07-11T13:05:50Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2007_DIS_RAMOREIRA.pdf: 1299453 bytes, checksum: ccb1b781fe0cf354af8af56cc3aa2a13 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Josineide Góis(josineide@ufc.br) on 2012-07-18T13:21:00Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2007_DIS_RAMOREIRA.pdf: 1299453 bytes, checksum: ccb1b781fe0cf354af8af56cc3aa2a13 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-07-18T13:21:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2007_DIS_RAMOREIRA.pdf: 1299453 bytes, checksum: ccb1b781fe0cf354af8af56cc3aa2a13 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Analisa os aspectos residuais constantes no Auto da Compadecida, de Ariano Suassuna. O enfoque teórico utilizado é o da residualidade, método investigativo de Roberto Pontes. Nesse método, buscam-se resquícios literários e culturais, principalmente do medievo, nas manifestações literárias e culturais da contemporaneidade. O Auto da Compadecida se constitui em texto riquíssimo para esse tipo de pesquisa, pois apresenta traços remanescentes de diversas épocas. Como as narrativas populares do Nordeste brasileiro alimentam a produção literária de Suassuna, é imprescindível que estudemos os mitos e lendas dessa região, assim como a literatura de folhetos. Convém ressaltar que essas fontes temáticas do Romanceiro popular do Nordeste, atualizadas no Auto da Compadecida, estão associadas tanto aos milagres marianos em autos ibéricos medievais e renascentistas quanto aos personagens da commedia dell’arte italiana e, por isso, fazem parte do presente trabalho. / Analiza los aspectos residuales que hay en el Auto de la Compadecida, de Ariano Suassuna. El enfoque teórico es el de la residualidad, método de investigación de Roberto Pontes. En el citado método se buscan resquicios literarios y culturales, principalmente del Medievo, en las manifestaciones literarias y culturales de la contemporaneidad. El Auto de la Compadecida se constituye como un texto riquísimo para este tipo de investigación, pues presenta marcas remanecientes de diversas épocas. Como las narrativas populares del Nordeste de Brasil alimentan la producción literaria de Suassuna, es imprescindible que estudiemos los mitos y leyendas de esta región, bien como la literatura de cordel, las hojas o pliegos sueltos. Conviene resaltar que estas fuentes temáticas del Romancero popular del Nordeste brasileño presentes en el Auto de la Compadecida se asocian tanto a los milagros marianos y autos ibéricos medievales y renacentistas, como a los personajes de la commedia dell’arte italiana y, por ello, forman parte del presente trabajo

Mimer les processus biologiques par des méthodes s'affranchissant de la nécessité d'activation enzymatique est un défi pour la communauté des chimistes. Parmi ces processus nous nous sommes intéressés à la ligation et la polymérisation d'acides nucléiques. Les procédés chimiques existants nécessitent généralement l'emploi d'un activateur et conduisent en majorité à des jonctions internucléosidiques irréversibles, incompatibles avec les systèmes vivants. Pour réaliser la ligation et la polymérisation réversibles d'ADN en l'absence d'activation chimique ou enzymatique, nous avons utilisé des oligonucléotides modifiés par une fonction acide boronique qui a la propriété de se lier de manière covalente et réversible avec des fonctions cis 1,2 diol.Un analogue de la thymidine fonctionnalisé par un acide boronique a ainsi été synthétisé et incorporé à l'extrémité 5' d'un oligonucléotide. En présence d'une matrice et d'un partenaire 3' diol, une jonction boronate peut alors être obtenue. L'influence de la nature des fonctions à l'extrémité 3' du partenaire a été étudiée afin de déterminer les paramètres gouvernant la ligation et a notamment conduit à la formation d'une jonction oxazaborolidine en présence d'un partenaire aminoalcool. Par ailleurs, cette méthodologie a été appliquée à des processus visant à mimer la polymérisation par la formation de multiples jonctions boronates entre des oligonucléotides bifonctionnalisés par un acide boronique et un diol. Enfin l'auto polymérisation d'un duplexe en l'absence de matrice a été évaluée. / Mimicry of biological processes by non enzymatic ways is a challenge for chemists. Among those processes, we have been focusing on the ligation and polymerization of nucleic acids. Reported chemical methods usually require an activator and lead mostly to irreversible internucleosidic linkage which are incompatible with living systems. To perform DNA ligation and polymerization under enzyme free and activator free conditions, we used modified oligonucleotides bearing a boronic acid function able to bind covalently and reversibly cis 1,2 diols.Thus, a thymidine analog functionalized by a boronic acid was synthesized and introduced at the 5' end of an oligonucleotide. In the presence of a template and a 3 end diol partner, a boronate junction can be obtained. Influence of the nature of functions at the 3' end of the partner have been studied to indentify the parameters governing the ligation and allowed the formation of an internucleosidic oxazaborolidine linkage with an aminoalcohol partner. In addition, this methodology has been applied to polymerization mimicking processes by the formation of multiple boronate junctions between bifunctionnal oligonucleotides bearing a boronic acid and a diol. Finally we evaluated the auto polymerization of a duplex in the absence of template.

Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2017-02-13T19:54:01Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DanielSilvaPolari_DISSERT.pdf: 1547318 bytes, checksum: 92ebdd280f0c098be7201ceab8cc41b4 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2017-02-14T21:42:04Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DanielSilvaPolari_DISSERT.pdf: 1547318 bytes, checksum: 92ebdd280f0c098be7201ceab8cc41b4 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-02-14T21:42:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DanielSilvaPolari_DISSERT.pdf: 1547318 bytes, checksum: 92ebdd280f0c098be7201ceab8cc41b4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-04 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior (CAPES) / Consci?ncia como fen?meno biol?gico pode consistir de diferentes estados sensoriais, sentimentos e emo??es. Comportamentos especializado, a??es sofisticadas de comunica??o, meta-cogni??o, intera??o social, orienta??o especial, use de mapas mentais para navega??o e mem?ria espaciais, apontam para tipos diferentes de processamentos consciente em g?neros que n?o o Homo. O presente trabalho busca identificar a auto-percep??o em diferentes esp?cies, com testes do espelho em Callithrix jacchus e com testes de auto-localiza??o em Dinoponera quadriceps. O comportamento de C. jacchus no espelho foi catalogado utilizando dois protocolos diferentes: com marca e sem marca. A capacidade de navega??o de D. quadriceps durante o forrageio, foi calculada considerando tr?s diferentes categorias: (1) acesso livre ao ninho/recurso, (2) acesso direto bloqueado por objeto opaco; e 3) bloqueado por objeto transparente. Nossos resultados apontam para auto-percep??o e mambas as esp?cies, com C. jacchus apresentando comportamentos de verifica??o de conting?ncia, auto-observa??o, al?m de utilizar a imagem refletida para observar o ambiente e reagir a marca. D. quadriceps foram capazes de perceber sua pr?pria localiza??o no ambiente e calcular caminhos curtos at? a col?nia ap?s obter o recurso alimentar, em todos os tr?s tipos de testes. Aqui n?s apresentamos evid?ncia de estados conscientes em outras esp?cies que n?o vertebrados. / Consciousness, as a biological phenomenon, may consists of states of feeling, sensation or awareness. Specialized behaviour, sophisticated actions of communication, metacognition, social interaction, spatial orientation, the use of mental maps for navigation, and spatial memory, all point to conscious processing in genus other than Homo. This work aims to identify self-awareness states in two different species: using mirror self-recognition tests in Callithrix jacchus, and using self-perception tests in Dinoponera quadriceps. Displays of C. jacchus self-recognition using a mirror, were appraised with two protocols: no mark and with mark. D.quadriceps navigational capability displays during foraging trips to food resource, were appraised considering three different tests categories: (1) free access, (2) blocked by opaque object; and 3) blocked by clear object. Our results show self-perception in both studied species. With marmosets displaying contingency check behaviour to the specular image, self-observation, environmental exploration using the mirror as a tool and little, but significant mark reactions. Tocandiras were able to perceive its own location and to calculate short return paths to the colony after obtaining the food resource in all three types of tests. Here we provide further evidence of conscious states for species other than vertebrates.

ITC/USA 2007 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-Third Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 22-25, 2007 / Riviera Hotel & Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / The Joint Mission Environment Test Capability (JMETC) is a distributed live, virtual, and constructive (LVC) testing capability developed to support the acquisition community and to demonstrate Net-Ready Key Performance Parameters (KPP) requirements in a customer-specific Joint Mission Environment (JME). JMETC provides connectivity to the Services’ distributed test capabilities and simulations, as well as industry test resources. JMETC uses the Test and Training Enabling Architecture, TENA, which is well-designed for supporting JMETC events. TENA provides the architecture and software capabilities necessary to enable interoperability among range instrumentation systems, facilities, and simulations. TENA, used in major field exercises and numerous distributed test events, provides JMETC with a technology already being deployed in DoD.

The future smart home will be enhanced and driven by the recent advance of the Internet of Things (IoT), which advocates the integration of computational devices within an Internet architecture on a global scale [1, 2]. In the IoT paradigm, the smart home will be developed by interconnecting a plethora of smart objects both inside and outside the home environment [3-5]. The recent take-up of these connected devices within home environments is slowly and surely transforming traditional home living environments. Such connected and integrated home environments lead to the concept of the smart home, which has attracted significant research efforts to enhance the functionality of home environments with a wide range of novel services. The wide availability of services and devices within contemporary smart home environments make their management a challenging and rewarding task. The trend whereby the development of smart home services is decoupled from that of smart home devices increases the complexity of this task. As such, it is desirable that smart home services are developed and deployed independently, rather than pre-bundled with specific devices, although it must be recognised that this is not always practical. Moreover, systems need to facilitate the deployment process and cope with any changes in the target environment after deployment. Maintaining complex smart home systems throughout their lifecycle entails considerable resources and effort. These challenges have stimulated the need for dynamic auto-configurable services amongst such distributed systems. Although significant research has been directed towards achieving auto-configuration, none of the existing solutions is sufficient to achieve auto-configuration within smart home environments. All such solutions are considered incomplete, as they lack the ability to meet all smart home requirements efficiently. These requirements include the ability to adapt flexibly to new and dynamic home environments without direct user intervention. Fulfilling these requirements would enhance the performance of smart home systems and help to address cost-effectiveness, considering the financial implications of the manual configuration of smart home environments. Current configuration approaches fail to meet one or more of the requirements of smart homes. If one of these approaches meets the flexibility criterion, the configuration is either not executed online without affecting the system or requires direct user intervention. In other words, there is no adequate solution to allow smart home systems to adapt dynamically to changing circumstances, hence to enable the correct interconnections among its components without direct user intervention and the interruption of the whole system. Therefore, it is necessary to develop an efficient, adaptive, agile and flexible system that adapts dynamically to each new requirement of the smart home environment. This research aims to devise methods to automate the activities associated with customised service delivery for dynamic home environments by exploiting recent advances in the field of ubiquitous robotics and Semantic Web technologies. It introduces a novel approach called the Knowledge-based Auto-configuration Software Robot (Sobot) for Smart Home Environments, which utilises the Sobot to achieve auto-configuration of the system. The research work was conducted under the Distributed Integrated Care Services and Systems (iCARE) project, which was designed to accomplish and deliver integrated distributed ecosystems with a homecare focus. The auto-configuration Sobot which is the focus of this thesis is a key component of the iCARE project. It will become one of the key enabling technologies for generic smart home environments. It has a profound impact on designing and implementing a high quality system. Its main role is to generate a feasible configuration that meets the given requirements using the knowledgebase of the smart home environment as a core component. The knowledgebase plays a pivotal role in helping the Sobot to automatically select the most appropriate resources in a given context-aware system via semantic searching and matching. Ontology as a technique of knowledgebase representation generally helps to design and develop a specific domain. It is also a key technology for the Semantic Web, which enables a common understanding amongst software agents and people, clarifies the domain assumptions and facilitates the reuse and analysis of its knowledge. The main advantages of the Sobot over traditional applications is its awareness of the changing digital and physical environments and its ability to interpret these changes, extract the relevant contextual data and merge any new information or knowledge. The Sobot is capable of creating new or alternative feasible configurations to meet the system's goal by utilising inferred facts based on the smart home ontological model, so that the system can adapt to the changed environment. Furthermore, the Sobot has the capability to execute the generated reconfiguration plan without interrupting the running of the system. A proof-of-concept testbed has been designed and implemented. The case studies carried out have shown the potential of the proposed approach to achieve flexible and reliable auto-configuration of the smart home system, with promising directions for future research.

Diversity and Teamwork are currently some of the trendiest human resources strategies of boosting team performance and ultimately, organizational performance. This study analyzes the impact of gender, racial, age and employment status diversity on teamwork, and is one of the first studies on diversity and teamwork in the mature phase of Japanese transplants. The theoretical framework includes elements of the symbolic interactionist theory, Kanter.s theory on tokenism, revised contact hypothesis and perspectives on cultural diversity (Ely and Thomas, 2001). The data were collected from interviews with 87 workers from 16 production teams working on the assembly line at a top Japanese auto transplant in US, as well as from observation, analysis of corporate literature and the annual opinion survey. Furthermore, intermediary variables like team climate or team spirit have been found to mediate the relationships between diversity and team performance. Gender mixed teams reported a more enjoyable and pleasant experience in teams, whereas the male teams exposed more rivalry and competition and the female teams had more interpersonal conflicts. Similarly, the racially diverse teams have more fun and more interesting things to discuss at work, which alleviates the boredom caused by the routine of the assembly-line. Age-balanced teams also have optimal functioning in terms of productivity, quality, safety and problem-solving. Differences in employment status were found to bring inequality and different standards of performance for permanent and temporary workers, which can threaten the fundamental principles of teamwork.

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