Esta tese apresenta os resultados da pesquisa desenvolvida com o objetivo de investigar as possibilidades e os limites para a coordenação compartilhada do trabalho pedagógico no Centro Educacional Unificado (CEU) entre coordenadores pedagógicos das unidades educacionais e coordenadores educacionais da Gestoria do CEU. A partir dos aportes teóricos do materialismo histórico dialético, da pedagogia como ciência da e para a educação, da Pedagogia Histórico-Crítica, da didática e da gestão escolar, a pesquisa foi desenvolvida por meio da análise de elementos recolhidos em fonte empírica (o CEU Luxemburgo), em fonte documental (legislação educacional municipal, publicações oficiais da Secretaria Municipal de Educação e documentação pedagógica do CEU Luxemburgo) e em fonte teórico-acadêmica (teses e dissertações sobre o Centro Educacional Unificado e sobre a coordenação pedagógica na Rede Municipal de Ensino de São Paulo). As referências teóricas e os elementos recolhidos nas três fontes permitiram explicar os conceitos de trabalho pedagógico, coordenação do trabalho pedagógico e coordenação compartilhada do trabalho pedagógico, que contribuíram para o entendimento que as possibilidades e os limites para a coordenação compartilhada do trabalho pedagógico no CEU se relacionam diretamente com a contradição existente entre fragmentação e integração do trabalho pedagógico nesse Centro. Com o apoio da fundamentação teórica proposta, foi possível compreender que a coordenação do trabalho pedagógico no Centro Educacional Unificado (o singular), no contexto do próprio CEU (o particular), apresenta contradições que revelam as possibilidades e os limites para a coordenação compartilhada do trabalho pedagógico (o universal). Por isso, defendemos a tese de que o trabalho pedagógico no CEU, numa perspectiva articulada e integrada entre as unidades educacionais e a Gestoria, na proposta da educação unificada, acena para um novo modo de coordenação desse trabalho: a coordenação compartilhada do trabalho pedagógico entre coordenadores pedagógicos e coordenadores educacionais. Propomos a superação do trabalho pedagógico fragmentado, por intermédio da coordenação compartilhada desse trabalho, como transformação político-pedagógica necessária para que as atividades no CEU se potencializem, de modo a ampliar as aprendizagens das crianças, dos adolescentes e dos adultos, na perspectiva da formação desses sujeitos para a emancipação humana. / This thesis presents the results of research carried out in order to investigate the possibilities and limits to the shared coordination of the pedagogical work in the Unified Educational Centre (CEU) between pedagogical coordinators from educational units and educational coordinators from CEUs Gestoria. From the theoretical contributions of dialectical historical materialism, of pedagogy as science from and for education, of the Historical-Critical Pedagogy, of didactics and school management, the research was developed through the analysis of evidence gathered in empirical source (CEU Luxembourg), in documentary source (municipal educational legislation, official publications of the Municipal Department of Education and pedagogical documentation from CEU Luxembourg) and theoretical-academic source (theses and dissertations about the Unified educational Center and the pedagogical coordination in the Municipal Education Network from Sao Paulo). The theoretical references and evidence gathered in the three sources allowed to explain the concepts of pedagogical work, coordination of pedagogical work and shared coordination of the pedagogical work, which contributed to understanding the possibilities and limits to the shared coordination of the pedagogical work at CEU is relate directly to the contradiction between fragmentation and integration of the pedagogical work in this Center. With the support of theoretical proposal reasoning it was possible to understand that the coordination of educational work in the Unified Educational Center (the singular) in the context of CEU (particular) shows contradictions that reveal the possibilities and limits to the shared coordination of pedagogical work (universal). Therefore, we defend the thesis that the pedagogical work at CEU, in a coordinated and integrated approach between the educational units and the Gestoria, in the proposal of the unified education, indicate a new way of coordinating this work: the shared coordination of educational work among pedagogical coordinators and educational coordinators. We propose to overcome the fragmented pedagogical work, through the shared coordination of such work as a political-pedagogical transformation needed to strengthen the activities in the CEU, in order to extend the learning of children, adolescents and adults in view of the formation of these subjects for human emancipation.

Ce travail de thèse étudie l’improvisation socio-motrice, entre deux personnes. Nos capacités d’improvisation reflètent notre faculté à interagir avec autrui en adaptant nos réponses comportementales à celles de l’autre. Deux paramètres rendent compte de ces capacités : la créativité motrice, c’est-à-dire la richesse des mouvements, et la coordination interpersonnelle. Bien que fondamentaux dans le succès de nos interactions sociales, leur investigation conjointe, jamais réalisée, semble nécessaire. Le but de cette thèse était donc d’investiguer les comportements moteurs inter- et intra-personnels en situation d’improvisation. Pour cela, nous avons d’abord : (i) recueilli et défini les méthodes d’analyse de la créativité motrice et de la coordination, (ii) analysé les capacités d’improvisation et leur acquisition, (iii) mesuré l’effet de l’improvisation sur l’organisation posturale de chacun, et finalement (iv) évalué les capacités d’improvisation en présence d’un déficit d’interaction sociale (associé à la schizophrénie). Pris ensemble, nos résultats indiquent que l’improvisation socio-motrice est un bon témoin de nos interactions sociales. Nous montrons précisément que les capacités d’improvisation permettent de discriminer un individu sain d’un individu souffrant de déficit social. La coordination interpersonnelle semble jouer un rôle fondamental, aussi bien dans l’acquisition de l’improvisation que dans la stabilité posturale qui la sous-tend. Ces résultats sont discutés à travers l’approche des patrons dynamiques de coordination. Nous proposons un modèle simplifié de l’improvisation intégrant la coordination et la créativité. Nos conclusions offrent des perspectives permettant de mieux comprendre et améliorer nos interactions sociales, en présence ou non de désordres sociaux. / This work investigates the socio-motor improvisation that occurs between two people. Improvisation capacities rely on our ability to interact with others by adapting our own behavioral answers to those of the other. Two parameters display these capacities: motor creativity (i.e., the richness of our movements) and interpersonal coordination. Although these two parameters are fundamental in the success of social interaction, they were never investigated jointly. This was the goal of our thesis. We aimed to explore intra- and interpersonal motor behaviors during improvisation. To do so, (i) we reviewed existing methods analyzing creativity and coordination, and proposed new ones, (ii) we measured improvisation capacities and their possible acquisition, (iii) we evaluated the influence of improvisation on postural organization of each person and (iv) we assessed the ability to improvise in presence of social deficits (associated with schizophrenia). Taken together, our results demonstrate that socio-motor improvisation is a good candidate to capture our social interactions. More precisely, we show that such capacities could discriminate healthy people from patients suffering from social deficits. Interpersonal coordination seems fundamental since it improves improvisation capacities and postural stability during social interaction. These results are discussed in the conceptual framework of the dynamical approach to movement coordination. We propose a simplified model of socio-motor improvisation including creativity and coordination. Finally, our conclusions offer new perspectives for the understanding and the improvement of social interactions, in presence or not of social disorders.

After many years of limited activity in the field of coordination research, new organizing forms with the aim to abandon managerial hierarchies have caused a renaissance in the research of new solutions to this universal organizing problem. An emerging stream of research about Self-Managing Organizations (SMOs) which eliminates formal hierarchies and managers completely, have left researchers wondering about SMOs new coordination solution as antecedent organizing forms have their coordination solution strongly dependent on managers. The aim of this thesis was to explore and identify the mechanisms that SMOs utilize to coordinate work output, how these mechanisms are configured and how they correspond to the settings of SMOs. Due to the nascent state of knowledge development within this field, the aim was operationalized with the help of coordination conceptualizations and theory from nearby fields. A multiple case-study was conducted, using deep, semi structured interviews, triangulated with internal documentation, external documentation and archival records. The study identified the mechanisms Planning based on ‘sense and respond’, Competence driven and partially fluent roles, the merged category of Familiarity peer-trust and transparency, Digital infrastructure, Cultural content and finally, Content of repeated procedures. Through a self-composed analytical approach, the study revealed that traditionally mechanistic coordination mechanisms were of less importance to SMOs and had an added organic and group-dependent dimension to their configurations, compared to similar mechanisms in hierarchies. Furthermore, the findings suggested that Digital infrastructure, Cultural content and Content of repeated procedures were configured in a way, particularly useful and important to SMOs. The reason was that the three mechanisms constituted a mechanistic but editable framing, which both aligned and encouraged organic efforts in a certain direction. They also corresponded well to SMOs settings as they could be exercised and edited by anyone, they facilitated coordination cross-teams without managers and they were scalable in theory.

O mercado da construção civil vem tendo crescimento significativo e as construtoras e incorporadoras, visando sua manutenção no mercado, vêm buscando procedimentos para produzir edifícios rapidamente, com qualidade e a um preço acessível, para suprir a demanda mercadológica. Neste contexto, nos deparamos com a coordenação de projetos de edifícios, que visa garantir ao empreendimento a sua construção no prazo, com qualidade e sem desperdícios e retrabalho, fazendo uso de um processo seriado com procedimentos padrões. Por essa razão, o presente trabalho aborda a coordenação de projetos de edifícios, seus conceitos, suas atividades, como estas são realizadas e quais ferramentais de apoio são indispensáveis à garantia dessa qualidade esperada. Objetiva-se discutir a coordenação de projeto de edifícios, mostrando sua importância e necessidade, bem como mostrar as suas melhores práticas e as suas ferramentas de apoio indispensáveis. Para a realização da pesquisa foi feita revisão bibliográfica sobre o tema e um estudo de caso realizado em duas empresas que são construtoras e incorporadoras e que possuem um departamento interno responsável pela coordenação de projetos de edifícios. Como ferramenta do estudo de caso foram utilizadas entrevistas com profissionais das empresas e com profissionais externos à empresa, que atuam na área em estudo. Nos departamentos de coordenação de projetos de edifícios das empresas estudadas, foram coletados documentos que formalizam a coordenação. Os dados coletados da empresa na prática foram confrontados com a literatura pesquisada para o embasamento da pesquisa. Com isso, foi possível mostrar, neste trabalho, as melhores práticas e suas ferramentas de apoio para coordenação de projetos de edifícios, por meio desse confronto teoria-prática. / The construction market has had significant growth and builders and developers in order to maintain the market are seeking procedures to produce buildings faster and with a high quality and affordable to meet the market demand. In this context, we are faced with the coordination of building projects aimed at ensuring the development of their construction on time quality and without waste and rework through the process in series. For this reason, this paper addresses the coordination of building projects its concepts their activities as they are carried out and what kind of support tools are needed to ensure the expected quality. It aims to promote the coordination of building design, showing their importance and need, demonstrating their best practices and the tools that are essential. The study was conducted through a literature review on the subject and a case study carried out in two businesses company that are builders and developers and have an internal department responsible for the coordination of building projects. To support the case study were used interviews with business people and professionals outside the company working in the study area. In the departments of project coordination buildings of the companies studied were collected documents formalizing the coordination. The data collected from the company\'s practice were confronted with the literature in order to support the fundamentals of the research. Thus it was possible to demonstrate in this work, best practices and tools to support coordination of building projects, through the comparison between theory and practice.

Master of Science / Department of Computing and Information Sciences / Eugene Vasserman / As medical systems expand to allow for the increase the number of devices, new ways to protect patient safety have be developed. The Integrated Clinical Environment, ICE, standard sets up a set of standards that define what an integrated hospital system is. Within the specification is a direct call for a forensic logger that can be used to review patient and system data. The MDCF is one implementation of the ICE standard, but it lacked a key component the ICE standard requires, a logger. Many loggers exist in industry, with varying rates of success and usefulness. A medically sound logger has to be able to completely retell exactly what happened during an event, including patient, device, and system information, so that the right medical professional can provide the best care. Several loggers have been built for MDCF, but few were practical due to the invasiveness of the service. A universal subscriber, a service that is able to connect to all publishing data streams, logging service was built for the MDCF which has the ability to record all information that passes over the MDCF messaging service. This implementation was then stress tested with varying numbers of devices and amounts of data. A reviewing tool was also built that allows for replay of device data that is similar to the original device UI. Future work will include looking into storing system information such as state changes within MDCF and system health. There is also a push to further integrate the forensic reviewer into the core MDCF UI.

BACKGROUND:The Affordable Care Act of 2010 proposed maximum penalty equal to 1% of regular Medicare reimbursements which prompted change in how hospitals regard 30-day readmissions. While several hospital to home transitional care models demonstrated a reduction in readmissions and cost savings, programs adapted to population needs and existing resources was essential.METHODS:Focusing on process and outcomes evaluation, a retrospective analysis of a modified community based care transitions program was conducted.RESULTS:In addition to high levels of patient satisfaction with the care transitions program, participants' confidence with self care was significantly improved. Further, the program evaluation demonstrated a 73% reduction in readmissions and an actual Medicare cost savings during the 9-month study period of $214,192, excluding the cost to administer the program.CONCLUSIONS:While there are several transitional care programs in existence, a customized approach is desirable and often required as the most cost effective way to manage care transitions and employ evidence based policy making. This study established some of the pitfalls when implementing a community-based transitional care program and demonstrated encouraging outcomes.

Certain tasks require multiple robots to cooperate in order to solve them. The main problem with multi-robot systems is that they are inherently complex and usually situated in a dynamic environment. Now, biological immune systems possess a natural distributed control and exhibit real-time adaptivity, properties that are required to solve problems in multi-robot systems. In this thesis, biological immune systems and their response to external elements to maintain an organism's health state are researched. The objective of this research is to propose immune-inspired approaches to cooperation, to establish an adaptive cooperation algorithm, and to determine the refinements that can be applied in relation to cooperation. Two immune-inspired models that are based on the immune network theory are proposed, namely the Immune Network T-cell-regulated---with Memory (INT-M) and the Immune Network T-cell-regulated---Cross-Reactive (INT-X) models. The INT-M model is further studied where the results have suggested that the model is feasible and suitable to be used, especially in the multi-robot cooperative shepherding domain. The Collecting task in the RoboShepherd scenario and the application of the INT-M algorithm for multi-robot cooperation are discussed. This scenario provides a highly dynamic and complex situation that has wide applicability in real-world problems. The underlying 'mechanism of cooperation' in the immune inspired model (INT-M) is verified to be adaptive in this chosen scenario. Several multi-robot cooperative shepherding factors are studied and refinements proposed, notably methods used for Shepherds' Approach, Shepherds' Formation and Steering Points' Distance. This study also recognises the importance of flock identification in relation to cooperative shepherding, and the Connected Components Labelling method to overcome the related problem is presented. Further work is suggested on the proposed INT-X model that was not implemented in this study, since it builds on top of the INT-M algorithm and its refinements. This study can also be extended to include other shepherding behaviours, further investigation of other useful features of biological immune systems, and the application of the proposed models to other cooperative tasks.