Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T13:49:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JERONIMO MOREIRA DE OLIVEIRA.pdf: 636181 bytes, checksum: 539d8ed2373fcf99662b7c61fb149b41 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-05-25 / This thesis is useful to religion, religiousity and archetypes. The question is:- does understanding of the real and the imaginary conducts a person to a better situation in his/her life? To answer this question one would have to know the meaning of the phrase - a better situation in his/her live . Once the religiosity according to tell of the Other, these are, considered of moral tenor and the actions are used in the conduct as a sociologic vision to determine how these actions are done to the religious comprehension. How would be the mind s alchemy in old times seem through today s symbolic systems? Exemplifying, today, we have a CAVI (Ciclo de Aprendizagem Vivencial do Imaginário Imaginary s Lively Learning) very strong/virtual the technology that became CAV (Ciclo de Aprendizagem Vivencial Lively Learning Cycle) and the ours forefathers CAVI. The interaction of archetypes in the gender (father/mother) makes us comprehend the oracle s alchemy : seek the transformation as a stimulus the symbolic system of the CAV and CAVI together form the resultant. / Esta tese é da utilidade da religião, religiosidade e arquétipos. A questão é:- a compreensão do real e imaginário direciona a pessoa para uma melhor situação em sua vida? Para responder a esta questão teria de saber qual é o significado da frase- ...uma melhor situação em sua vida . Uma vez que a religiosidade esteja de acordo com dizer/fazer do Outro, estes são, considerados de teor moral e as ações são utilizadas na conduta como uma visão sociológica para determinar como estas ações são efetuadas para a compreensão religiosa. Como seria a alquimia da mente em tempos passados vistas pelo sistema simbólico de hoje? Exemplificando, hoje temos um (CAVI) Ciclo de Aprendizagem Vivencial do Imaginário muito forte/virtuala tecnologia, que passa a ser o nosso (CAV) Ciclo de Aprendizagem Vivencial e o CAVI dos nossos antepassados. A interação dos arquétipos nos gêneros (pai/mãe) nos faz compreender a alquimia do oráculo: buscar a transformação tendo como estímulo o sistema simbólico do CAV e do CAVI que somados formam a resultante.

Kärlstelhet mäts för att identifiera funktionella förändringar av kärlväggen som är bra att upptäcka i förväg innan det utvecklas fler komplikationer gällande hjärt- och kärlsjukdomar. Mätning av pulsvågshastighet med Sphygmocor för mätning av kärlstelhet används idag som ”gold standard” metod men blodtrycksförändringar vid undersökningstillfället påverkar resultatets noggrannhet. Då introducerades en ny utrustning (VaSera) och ekvation som beräknar kardio-ankel vaskulär index (CAVI). Syftet med Vasera är framförallt att vara oberoende av blodtrycket vid mätningstillfället. Utrustningen har även förmåga att sköta flera steg av proceduren automatiskt, vilket minskar på tiden som krävs för undersökningen. Utrustningen är dock ny och därmed behöver dess tillförlitlighet analyseras. Syftet med denna studie är att jämföra manuella (Sphygmocor) med automatiska (Vasera) mätmetoder genom att analysera korrelationen och överensstämmelsen mellan metoderna. Studien omfattade 138 frivilliga deltagare som genomförde både manuella och automatiska mätningar av kärlstelhet under samma dag. Resultaten av studien visade signifikant korrelation mellan båda mätmetoderna för alla parametrar. Däremot visade Bland-Altmananalyserna en svag överensstämmelse mellan mätmetoderna och det förekom också signifikanta skillnader mellan mätmetoderna (p < 0,001). Slutsatsen av denna studie är att det finns ett samband mellan mätningarna men ingen överensstämmelse mellan metoderna kunde visas. Vidare kompletterande studier kommer att krävas för att bekräfta tillförlitligheten av hos Vasera. / Arterial stiffness is measured to identify functional changes of the arterial wall, which acts as a good predictor for other complications concerning cardiovascular diseases. Measurements of pulse wave velocity with Sphygmocor for assessment of arterial stiffness is used today as the gold standard method. However, changes in blood pressure during the time of examination affects the accuracy of the results. Therefore, a new device (Vasera) and equation was introduced to calculate the cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI). The purpose of Vasera is primarily to be independent of blood pressure during the time of measurement. The device also has the ability to complete several steps of the measurement procedures automatically, which reduces the time consumed to complete the examination. However, the device is new and thus needs its reliability analyzed. The purpose of this study is to compare manual (Sphygmocor) with automatic (Vasera) measurement methods by analyzing the correlation and agreement of them. Of the 148 volunteer participants included in this study, the result showed significant correlation for both methods of measurements for all parameters. However, the Bland-Altman analysis showed a poor agreement between the methods. Furthermore, the differences between the measuring methods were significant (p < 0.001). The conclusion of this study is that there is a correlation between the two methods but the agreement is poor. Further studies will be required to confirm the reliability of Vasera.

This semestral thesis deals with continuous monitoring of pulmonary ventilation during the patients' theraphy and focuses especially on monitoring of their ventilation processes. It is necessarry to detect, monitor and differentiate abdominal and thoracic breathing during the theraphy. This thesis describes the very basic and common method, a spirometry. Next, an overview of more advanced state-of-the-art methods based on both, tactile and proximity principles is given. In addition to that, two recently developed methods by BUT are discussed as well -- a tactile-based measurement similar to blood pressure sensor and a proximity-based measurement method employing TOF cameras. The data acquired by these two methods are proccesed and examined in order to evaluate and justify their performance in a real application.