Thesis (M.S.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 2006. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 71-73).

Thesis (Ph.D)--Washington State University, August 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 91-93).

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Thesis (MScEng)--University of Stellenbosch, 2003. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: A multiprocessor hardware-in-the-Ioop operating system was developed for the Integrated Test System (ITS) and is aimed at implementing the ITS as a space emulation vehicle. The thesis contains a study of satellite orbits, Kepler elements, geomagnetic fields and communication protocol between the processors. The system structure consists of an orbit generator, a core-operating system and is presented with a study of the satellite sensors. In implementing the orbit propagator, there was a need to pay special attention to the Halving algorithm, the Newton Raphson method and the True Solution. These algorithms were used to calculate the true anomaly angle as a function of eccentric anomaly. The communications protocol was tested and all the errors, with their solutions, have been discussed. A concept of a geomagnetic field emulator has also been included in the hardware-in-theloop operating system. The evaluation of those aspects of the system and the conclusion are presented together with recommendations. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: 'n multiprosesseerder Hardeware in die lus bedryfstelsel is ontwikkel vir 'n Geintegreerde Toets Stelsel (ITS) en poog om die ITS te implementeer as 'n ruimte emulasie stelsel. Die tesis behels die studie van sateliet wentelbane, Kepler wentelbaan elemente, geomagnetiese velde en kommunikasie protokolle tussen die prosesseerders. Die stelsel struktuur betaal uit 'n wentelbaan propageerder, 'n kern bedryfstelsel en 'n studie van satelliet instrumentasie. As 'n deel van die implementering van die wentelbaan propageerder is die halveer algoritme, Newton-Raphson algoritme en die ware oplossing as numeriese oplossings ondersoek. Die kommunikasie protokol is getoets en foute ondersoek en word bespreek. 'n konsep vir 'n Geomagnetiese veld emulasie word die hardeware in die lus stelsel ingesluit. Die stelsel word ge-ewalueer en die gevolgtrekkings en aanbevelings gemaak.

Master of Science / Department of Agricultural Economics / Vincent Amanor-Boadu / Metabolic syndrome (MetS) continues to be a public health concern in the United States. The current prevalence rate is about 34% among American adults. One of the recommended line of treatment for the components of MetS is dietary behavior change. Although, many dietary recommendations guidelines are published to aid in better dietary choices, little is known about how effectively they alter dietary choices. Thus, the overall objective of this study was to examine the extent to which knowledge about the presence of metabolic syndrome components influenced macronutrient intake. Data from 2013-2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) were used for the study. The variables used were taken from modules of the NHANES dataset: demographic, dietary (day 1 and 2 recall), questionnaire (blood Pressure & Cholesterol, medical condition, diabetes and weight history), examination (blood pressure and body measures) and laboratory (cholesterol – high density lipoprotein, and triglycerides and plasma fasting glucose). Daily macronutrients (calories, protein, carbohydrate, fat and total sugar) intake were regressed on knowledge of MetS components presence and demographic characteristics using Ordinary Least Square model. The results show that having information that one has diabetes was associated with a reduced intake of daily calories (160 kcal), carbohydrate (22.73 g) and total sugar (15.26 g). There was no significant association between protein and fat intakes and the knowledge of the presence of a metabolic syndrome component in the econometric model. Ageing was associated with increase in calorie (16 kcal/day), protein (0.502 g/day) and fat (0.66 g/day) intake. Males consumed higher amounts of all macronutrients than females. Higher education was associated with higher fat intake (5.09 g/day for High School and 4.54 g/day for college compared with those with less than high school education) but reduced sugar intake (8.86 g/day) for those with college education. It was found that 27.59% of individual’s who had diabetes did not know they had it, and about 41% of those who did know they were overweight had central obesity. The study concludes that compared to knowledge about high triglyceride levels, low high-density lipoprotein, diabetes, high blood pressure and overweight, knowledge about having diabetes seems to motivate people to change their dietary intake. This may be due to the immediate effect of diet on diabetic patients compared to the other MetS components. The result of this is that it may be appropriate to pursue drug therapy for addressing the other MetS components while diet change may be effective contributor to managing diabetes.

SILVA, Jefferson de Carvalho. Infra-estrutura de componentes paralelos para aplicações de computação de alto desempenho. 2008. 116 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em ciência da computação)- Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza-CE, 2008. / Submitted by Elineudson Ribeiro (elineudsonr@gmail.com) on 2016-07-11T17:12:14Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2008_dis_jcsilva.pdf: 2178874 bytes, checksum: 5bcf83ebb42062e08e5e2782af8986e8 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Rocilda Sales (rocilda@ufc.br) on 2016-07-18T14:56:45Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2008_dis_jcsilva.pdf: 2178874 bytes, checksum: 5bcf83ebb42062e08e5e2782af8986e8 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-18T14:56:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2008_dis_jcsilva.pdf: 2178874 bytes, checksum: 5bcf83ebb42062e08e5e2782af8986e8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / The development of new High Performance Computing (HPC) application has demanded a set of tools for reconciling high level of a abstraction with software integration. In particular, we are interested in component-based solutions presented by the scientific community in the last years. Components have been applied to meet new requirements of high performance application such as: interoperability, reusability, maintainability and productivity. Recent approaches for component based development time in HPC context, however, have not reconciled more expressive ways for parallel programming and efficiency. Unfortunately, this issue increases the software development time and gets worse when user have poor knowledge of architectural details of parallel computers and of requirements of applications. Precious time is lost optimizing parallel code, probably with non-portable results, instead of being applied to the solutions of the problem. This dissertation presents the Hash Programming Environment (HPE), a solution based on the # (reads "Hash") Component Model and on the Hash Framework Architecture. HPE defines a set of component kinds for building, deploying and executing parallel programs targeted at clusters of multiprocessors. The Hash Framework Architecture has three loosely coupled modules: the Front-End, the Back-End and the Core. The main contribution of this work is the implementation of the Back-End and the Core. The main contribution of this work is the implementation of the Back-End, since we have an early version of the Front-End and Core, both developed in Java on top of the Eclipse Platform. The Back-End was implemented as a parallel extension of a Mono, an open source component platform based on CLI (Common Language Interface) standard. Once independently done, we bound all the modules together, using web services technology. For evaluating the proposed Back-End, we have developed a small conceptual test application, composed by # components. / A construção de novas aplicações voltadas à Computação de Alto Desempenho (CAD) têm exigido ferramentas que conciliem um alto poder de abstração e integração de software. Dentre as soluções apresentadas pela comunidade científica estamos particularmente interessados naquelas baseadas em tecnologia de componentes. Os componentes têm sido usados para abordar novos requisitos de aplicações de alto desempenho, entre as quais destacamos: interoperabilidade, reusabilidade, manutenibilidade e produtividade. As abordagens das aplicações atuais baseadas em tecnologia de componentes, no entanto, não conseguem abstrair formas mais gerais de paralelismo de maneira eficiente, tornando ainda o processo de desenvolvimento difícil, principalmente se o usuário for leigo no conhecimento das peculiaridades de arquiteturas de computação paralela. Um tempo precioso, o qual deveria ser utilizado para a solução do problema, é perdido na implementação eficiente do código de paralelização. Diante desse contexto, esta dissertação apresenta o HPE (Hash Programming Environment), uma solução baseada no modelo # de componentes paralelos e na arquitetura Hash. O HPE define um conjunto de espécies de componentes responsáveis pela construção, implantação e execução de programas paralelos sobre clusters de multiprocessadores. A arquitetura Hash é constituída de três módulos distintos: o Front-End, o Back-End e o Core. A contribuição principal deste trabalho reside na implementação de um Back-End, como uma plataforma de componentes paralelos que estende o Mono, plataforma de componentes de código aberto baseado no padrão CLI (Common Language Interface). Feito isso, unimos o back-End às implementações já existentes do Front-End e do Core, ambos em java e sobre a plataforma de desenvolvimento Eclipse, através de serviços web (web service). Ao final, apresentaremos um pequeno teste de conceito, construído por um programa paralelo construído a partir de componentes #, segundo as premissas e conceitos apresentados neste trabalho.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:33:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-03-22Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:25:05Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 lemos_nls_dr_jabo.pdf: 838782 bytes, checksum: 238b4effdb205aa65f543d58a5a6058b (MD5) / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) / O presente estudo visou identificar mudanças na estrutura do pasto de capim-tanzânia e no comportamento ingestivo de caprinos da raça Anglo nubiana sob índices de área foliar residual (IAFr) em sistema de lotação intermitente. O experimento foi realizado na Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP, campus de Jaboticabal-SP, durante o período de outubro/2009 a maio/2011. Os tratamentos consistiram em três IAFr (0,8 – 1,6 – 2,4), dispostos em delineamento em blocos casualizados, num esquema de parcelas sub-subdivididas. O período de descanso foi adotado segundo o critério de 95% de interceptação luminosa. Amostras de forragem foram colhidas em pontos de altura média a fim de estimar as características estruturais e produtivas. Avaliou-se o comportamento ingestivo animal em pastejo através das variáveis massa do bocado e taxa de bocado. Os IAFr preconizados foram aplicados corretamente resultando em valores médios de 0,9, 1,5 e 2,3 IAFr. No pré-pastejo, não houve efeito do IAFr na massa seca de forragem do capim-tanzânia o que não gerou diferenças na %pastejo, %ruminação e %ócio. Entretanto, os caprinos diminuíram a %pastejo e %ruminação, e aumentaram a %ócio ao longo dos dias de ocupação. A altura do pasto apresentou valor médio de 88 cm aos 95% interceptação luminosa. No pós-pastejo, a massa seca de folha aumentou junto com IAFr e a massa seca de colmo foi similar em todos IAFr testados. Portanto, os diferentes IAFr resultam em mudanças na estrutura do pasto e, consequentemente, modificam o comportamento de caprinos em pastejo / The present study aimed to identify structural changes in Tanzaniagrass and the ingestive behavior of goats in different residua leaf area index (RLAI) under intermittent stocking. The experiment was realized in the University of Sao Paulo State, from October/2009 until May/2011. The treatments consisted of three RLAI (0,8 to 1,6 - 2,4) in random blocks with split-split-plot design. The rest period was used at the criteria of 95% light interceptation. Forage samples were collected at points of average height and after, was realized the separation of the morphological components (leaf, stem and dead material) with aim to estimate the productivity and the structural characteristics. The animal behavior of the grazing and the bit mass, bit rate, variables reflecting the ingestive behavior was evaluated. The treatments were applied correctly resulting in average values of 0.9, 1.5 and 2.3 IAFr. In the pre-grazing wasn´t observed effect in the forage mass which does not cause differences in %grazing, %rumination and %others activities. However, goats decreased the %grazing and %rumination, and increased the %others activities during the days of occupation. The sward height averaged at the 95% light interceptation was 88 cm. In the post-grazing conditions, the leaf dry mass increased with IAFr and the stem dry mass was similar in all tested IAFr. Therefore, the different IAFr result in changes in sward structure and thus modify the behavior of goats in grazing

Orientador: Martha Herr / Resumo: A principal questão abordada neste trabalho é o tratamento das tensões acentuais entre os acentos decorrentes da periodicidade métrica musical e os acentos rítmicos-prosódicos detectados na justaposição dos componentes melódicos verbal e musical da canção. Em nossa hipótese, uma vez identificadas, estas tensões poderliam ser atenuadas ou intensificadas na performance do canto, através do estabelecimento de linhas de interpretação. Para isso, propomos uma série de procedimentos analíticos referenciados por modelos teóricos-aplicativos da lingüística (especialmente a fonogolia prosódica de Nespor e Vogel, 1986) e o modelo de análise prosódica musical de Duarte, 1999. Como objetivo de aplicação, selecionamos as célebres canções de câmara de Cláudio Santoro e Vinícius de Moraes, nas quais o tratamento de tensões rítmico-prosódicas se apresenta como um importante aspecto a ser considerado pelos intérpretes. Através da análise destas canções, verificamos a eficiência aplicativa dos procedimentos propostos. Além da prática interpretativa, este trabalho também visa contribuir com outras áreas de interesse da música, sobretudo a composição e a pedagogia do canto. Em todas essas áreas, ressaltamos a sua utilidade como ferramenta autônoma e/ou integrada a outros modelos analíticos. / Abstract: The principal question of this study is the treatament of accentual tensions detected which occur as a result of metric preriodicity and rhytmic/prosodic accents manifested in the juxtaposition between verbal and musical components in the melody of the song. It is our hypothesis that, once identified these tensions can be relaxed or intensiefied in the performance of a song, trough the establishment of lines or interpretation. For this, we propose a series of analytic procedures based on theoretic/aplicative models of linguistics (specifically, the prosodic phonology of Nespor e Vogel, 1986) and the model of musical proposody analysis of Duarte, 1999. As our object of apllication, we have selected the celebrated songs of Cláudio Santoro and Vinícius de Moraes, in twhich the rhytmic/prosodic must be considered and resolved by the performes. Through the analysis of these songs, we can verify the efficient application of the proposed procedures. In addition to its practical interpretation, this study also seeks to contibute areas of musical interest above all composition and vocalmpedagogy. In all these areas, we have emphasized its usefulness as a tool when used in isolation or when integrated with other analitical methods. / Mestre