Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009-02-19Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:15:16Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 david_p_me_assis.pdf: 620546 bytes, checksum: b1dedb2696453b638800512b8b185d09 (MD5) / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) / A presente pesquisa discute as questões relacionadas às práticas das jovens das classes populares envolvidas nos crimes de estupro, sedução e rapto, todos delitos contra os costumes sociais, ocorridos na cidade de Assis entre os anos de 1950 e 1979, bem como as representações lançadas pelos membros do Poder Judiciário sobre tais comportamentos. A grande maioria das vítimas destes delitos estava diretamente envolvida no mercado de trabalho e possuía um menor monitoramento de suas práticas sociais. Diante disto, os membros do Poder Judiciário, os quais preservavam as representações tradicionais sobre o feminino, repreendiam estes comportamentos e os consideravam desviantes da moral e dos costumes. Sem levar em consideração a idade e as características culturais das vítimas, julgavam-nas como se fossem mulheres rebeldes e, muitas vezes, promíscuas. Pertencentes a um grupo social específico, essas jovens foram vítimas não apenas dos crimes contra os costumes, mas também da discriminação de uma sociedade machista e conservadora. / This present research discusses questions related to practices of young women from popular classes involved in rape, seduction and kidnapping crimes, all these delicts against the social custom happened in Assis city between 1950 and the 1979, and it also discusses the representations instituted by members of the Judiciary Committee about these behaviors. Great part of the victims concerning those delicts was involved at the job market and had a low supervision of their social practices. For this reason, members of the Judiciary Committee, who preserved the traditional representations about the feminine, reprehended these behaviors and considered them diverged from the moral and custom. Without considering age and cultural features of the victims, they were judged as rebel and, most of the time, promiscuous women. Belonging to a specific social group, these young women were not only victims of crimes against the custom, but they were also victims of discrimination by a sexist and conservative society.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:31:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2004-11-05Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:20:49Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 manzine_lg_dr_botfca.pdf: 570411 bytes, checksum: 7ffe63fb122d825827f76347ba38c828 (MD5) / Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) / O presente trabalho tem como objetivo utilizar a Teoria Fuzzy para obtenção de uma metodologia alternativa na escolha da estrutura tarifária de energia elétrica mais conveniente para a agroindústria e, em conseqüência, colaborar, reduzindo também os custos da oferta de energia elétrica para o país. A metodologia citada utiliza como variáveis principais o índice de utilização de energia elétrica e o fator de carga do horário de ponta. Estes dois parâmetros elétricos, juntamente com o fator de carga do horário fora de ponta, fornecem o enquadramento tarifário que mais se ajusta a uma determinada UC. Uma aplicação da metodologia estudada é apresentada num estudo de caso, envolvendo resultados obtidos com a migração tarifária de uma UC e ainda uma abordagem comparando os preços médios da energia elétrica para um consumidor em pleno funcionamento e para um projeto de planta elétrica. O Modelo Fuzzy alternativo construído teve desempenho comparável ao modelo, usando as fórmulas de preço médio de energia elétrica para o enquadramento tarifário de uma UC, fato confirmado no estudo de caso levado a efeito neste trabalho. Relativamente ao estudo de caso, chegou-se à conclusão afirmativa para a migração tarifária da ETC para a MTHSV, com diminuição no valor da demanda contratada. As análises feitas com o GMG, instalado na UC, mostraram ganho financeiro ao se gerar energia elétrica na atual estrutura e organização da linha de produção da UC, sendo desaconselhável sob o ponto de vista financeiro, se o GMG tiver de ser adquirido. Quanto ao controle das demandas de potências solicitadas, estudos mostraram que é necessário, não sendo, porém viável levando-se em conta o aspecto estritamente financeiro com um controlador de demanda nos moldes propostos por uma empresa especializada, consultada com esta finalidade. / The present work aims to use Fuzzy Theory to obtain an alternative methodology in choosing the most convenient tariff structure of electric energy for agroindustry and as consequence to cooperate for its rational use and also reduce the costs in offering electric energy for the country. The methodology uses as main variables the index of electric energy usage and the load factor at peak hours. These two electric parameters along with the load factor out of peak hours make up the tariff adjustment which best applies to a determined consuming unit. One usage of the studied methodology is shown in a case study involving obtained results from tariff migration of one consuming unit. It is also presented an approach comparing average tariff of electric energy for consumers at full work as well as for an electric plant project. The built alternative Fuzzy Model had a performance comparable to the main model using formulas of electric energy average tariff for tariff adjustment of one consuming unit. Such procedure was confirmed in the case study carried out in this work. Concerning the case study there was a positive conclusion for tariff migration of CCT to GSTTM with a decrease on the value of the contracted demand. Analysis carried out with GMG, which was installed at consuming unit, showed a financial profit when generating electric energy on the current structure and organization of production line at consuming unit thus being unadvisable under financial aspects if GMC is to be purchased. Researches show that it is necessary the control of required energy demand. However it is not viable considering only the financial aspects with a demand controller under the proposed models for a specialized company which was consulted for such aim.

The world is a fractured place, faceted and fascinating in variety but broken in strife. Artist Gerhard Richter, said “Art is the highest form of hope” and the thinker Martin Heidegger said that art is a “happening of truth”. Marc Chagall hoped his art connected with people’s lives and sufferings and would become infused with prayer for redemption. How does visual art (and thinking theoretically and theologically about art) contribute toward hope and truth that bring the fragments of society into personal and communal connection? This is a practice-based (or studio-led) thesis in stained glass making at the juncture of the interdisciplinary fields of visual culture and religion. Making the visual art of stained glass windows involves collaborating, selecting, breaking, combining – processes that embody the unifying of disparate pieces. There are three projects and three chapters included in this research that work cohesively to show how visual art can facilitate a shift in us to see with compassion that guides our actions to care, and the word “EidenSight” is introduced to give vocabulary to this. Research draws primarily from reflections on collaborative studio work, visual art and visual artists, aesthetic theory (especially of Heidegger’s essay “The Origin of the Work of Art”) and thinking theologically through these sources. Stained glass has been a profession of work and a profession of faith; here the ancient art is created for contemporary places and raises questions theoretically and theologically and identifies themes that contribute to an understanding of how art affects us. Over the centuries, stained glass has contributed to architecture, art history, and theological aesthetics, as well as viewers’ personal and social experiences, from ecclesial settings to public spaces. This research contributes three commissioned site-specific stained glass installations (two in the US and one for the University of Stirling’s Art Collection) that lead the written thesis which is embedded full of images and has a correlating website: www.eidensite.weebly.com. The results are visual and verbal: requirements for the practice-based thesis include a heavily documented practical element in correlation with a shorter written component (30-80,000 words). Within the limits of these parameters, this research offers completed stained glass windows and a written thesis that includes insights from those projects, plus three chapters on: the material of glass, the space of the window, and the implications of being stained and a main conclusion that ties those elements together contributing to the overall thesis question: can art help us see with compassion that leads to care. Three institutions now have an original work of art substantiated by written theory, and the submitted thesis is substantiated by works of art viewable on different continents.

Orientador: Nelson Miguel Teixeira / Banca: Carlos Roberto Padovani / Banca: Isidoro Casal Caminha Junior / Banca: Luiz Francisco da Cruz / Banca: Odival Faccenda / Resumo: O presente trabalho tem como objetivo utilizar a Teoria Fuzzy para obtenção de uma metodologia alternativa na escolha da estrutura tarifária de energia elétrica mais conveniente para a agroindústria e, em conseqüência, colaborar, reduzindo também os custos da oferta de energia elétrica para o país. A metodologia citada utiliza como variáveis principais o índice de utilização de energia elétrica e o fator de carga do horário de ponta. Estes dois parâmetros elétricos, juntamente com o fator de carga do horário fora de ponta, fornecem o enquadramento tarifário que mais se ajusta a uma determinada UC. Uma aplicação da metodologia estudada é apresentada num estudo de caso, envolvendo resultados obtidos com a migração tarifária de uma UC e ainda uma abordagem comparando os preços médios da energia elétrica para um consumidor em pleno funcionamento e para um projeto de planta elétrica. O Modelo Fuzzy alternativo construído teve desempenho comparável ao modelo, usando as fórmulas de preço médio de energia elétrica para o enquadramento tarifário de uma UC, fato confirmado no estudo de caso levado a efeito neste trabalho. Relativamente ao estudo de caso, chegou-se à conclusão afirmativa para a migração tarifária da ETC para a MTHSV, com diminuição no valor da demanda contratada. As análises feitas com o GMG, instalado na UC, mostraram ganho financeiro ao se gerar energia elétrica na atual estrutura e organização da linha de produção da UC, sendo desaconselhável sob o ponto de vista financeiro, se o GMG tiver de ser adquirido. Quanto ao controle das demandas de potências solicitadas, estudos mostraram que é necessário, não sendo, porém viável levando-se em conta o aspecto estritamente financeiro com um controlador de demanda nos moldes propostos por uma empresa especializada, consultada com esta finalidade. / Abstract: The present work aims to use Fuzzy Theory to obtain an alternative methodology in choosing the most convenient tariff structure of electric energy for agroindustry and as consequence to cooperate for its rational use and also reduce the costs in offering electric energy for the country. The methodology uses as main variables the index of electric energy usage and the load factor at peak hours. These two electric parameters along with the load factor out of peak hours make up the tariff adjustment which best applies to a determined consuming unit. One usage of the studied methodology is shown in a case study involving obtained results from tariff migration of one consuming unit. It is also presented an approach comparing average tariff of electric energy for consumers at full work as well as for an electric plant project. The built alternative Fuzzy Model had a performance comparable to the main model using formulas of electric energy average tariff for tariff adjustment of one consuming unit. Such procedure was confirmed in the case study carried out in this work. Concerning the case study there was a positive conclusion for tariff migration of CCT to GSTTM with a decrease on the value of the contracted demand. Analysis carried out with GMG, which was installed at consuming unit, showed a financial profit when generating electric energy on the current structure and organization of production line at consuming unit thus being unadvisable under financial aspects if GMC is to be purchased. Researches show that it is necessary the control of required energy demand. However it is not viable considering only the financial aspects with a demand controller under the proposed models for a specialized company which was consulted for such aim. / Doutor

Early in 2003, African Muslims in Uitenhage’s township, Kwa-Nobuhle, learnt that Muslim women, led by Sheikh Nceba Salamntu, in South Africa’s Port Elizabeth New Brighton township, were allowed, contrary to previous practice, to follow a funeral procession right up to the graveyard. The resultant discomfort on the one hand, and excitement on the other caused by this event among Muslims in the township, forms the basis of this research. It gives focus to Muslim women, the ones most affected by their customary restriction from the gravesites. The researchi exposes the basis for women’s exclusion from funeral processions in the Muslim community. It was established that many of these Muslim women who challenged the practice were converts from Christianity to Islam. One of the bases for their action was that they were passive recipients of Islam. Furthermore, it was found that the exclusion of women from the funeral procession has no basis in Islamic writings.

The Regional Integration Agreements surround the international economy as an alternative to total liberalization of markets. Latin America was not astonished with the resurgence of the post-cold war regionalism. Regarding the imperfect customs union Mercosur, even when in this kind of agreement the goal is a Common External Tariff (CET) that would stimulate the external competitiveness under the aegis of the XXIV article of the GATT/OMC, discrimination still persists. In this case, Brazil, by removing restrictions to commerce for the members of the Block, reduced the CET tariff to 10 %. As an effect of the change in trade politics due to integration, a redirection in Mercosur trade flow took place. With a glance on the Brazilian economy and the rice market, which behavioral pattern would these alterations have, under the optics of the customs unions approach, knowing that Brazil is a loyal rice importer from Argentina and Uruguay now with the benefit of the absence of tariff restriction? According to the Vinerian approach, these effects might be beneficial trade creation or damaging trade diversion for the economical welfare. These effects to Mercosur can be measured with a partial equilibrium model for the cereal in order to find the potential of trade creation and diversion after the change in Brazil s import politics. As a result, we find that the greatest trade potential was created with the tariff reduction in the Block, from 1995 to 1999, as well as the trade creation surpassed the trade diversion to the Block from 1991 to 1994. Regarding the trade creation, Argentina was the more benefited country to the removal of tariffs. Nevertheless, the trade creation has gradually diminished for both members of the Mercosur. As consequence the Brazilian internal production has been more competitive than the imports, even without tariff protection. Regarding trade diversion, its values were minimal, so the damages to third party trade represent somewhat if compared to the potential of trade creation in the Block. Finally, it was clear that the alterations of the rough rice trade tariff allowed a great potential of trade creation and a real impact on the Brazil importation and internal production of rice. / Os Acordos Regionais de Integração permeiam a economia internacional como uma alternativa à total liberalização dos mercados. No caso a união aduaneira imperfeita do Mercado Comum do Sul (Mercosul) alterou a dinâmica do mercado de arroz. Nesse caso, o Brasil ao remover as restrições ao comércio para os membros do Bloco reduziu a proteção em uma TEC de 10%. Como efeito, a mudança nos instrumentos de política comercial, em função da integração, geraram uma re-orientação dos fluxos de comércio no Mercosul. Com um olhar na economia brasileira e sobre o mercado de arroz, essas alterações, pela ótica da abordagem das uniões aduaneiras, teriam qual padrão de comportamento, sabendo que o Brasil é fiel importador de arroz da Argentina e Uruguai agora beneficiados pela ausência de restrição tarifária? Segundo a abordagem Vineriana esses efeitos poderiam ser benéficos criação de comércio ou prejudiciais desvio de comércio para o bem-estar econômico. Os efeitos, criação e desvio de comércio, ocorridos no Mercosul foram mensurados por meio de um modelo de equilíbrio parcial para o cereal a fim de estimar o potencial de comércio criado e desviado. Como resultado, tem-se que no período de 1995 a 1999 se concentra o maior potencial de comércio criado com a desgravação tarifária no Bloco. Bem como, o comércio criado entre 1991 e 1994 superou o comércio desviado para dentro do Bloco. Sob essa ótica, a partir da direção comércio criado, a Argentina foi país que mais se beneficiou com a remoção das tarifas. Contudo, o comércio criado, paulatinamente, diminuiu ao longo do tempo para ambos os membros do Mercosul. Do lado do desvio de comércio, seus valores foram mínimos e, dessa forma, os prejuízos ao comércio com terceiros, pouco representam se comparado ao potencial de comércio criado no interior do Bloco. Por fim, ficou claro que mediante a alterações na tarifa, no comércio de arroz, existe um grande potencial de criação de comércio e um real impacto sobre as importações e produção brasileira de arroz.

This present thesis has been prudently undertaken how to approach practically and theologically the ethical issues for the effective preaching with Confucian filial piety which has challenged Korean churches. Serious conflicts are arising among Korean families because of Confucianism teachings that filial piety is the highest virtue of all ethical teachings and that ancestor worship is the continuation of filial piety to the dead parents. This issue creates a rigorous religious controversy for Korean Christians and places obstacles in the path of evangelism in Korean society. Chapter one reveals the research orientation which gives general information on how to approach and develop this issue. I approach this issue historically, theologically, practically, and/or biblically. I adopt fundamental practical theology as the main research positioning, which was suggested by Don Browning. I also make use of seven movements proposed by J C Müller in order to present the literary research and six fundamental steps proposed by Lewis and Demarest only for the theological foundation in chapter three. Chapter two reveals the effect of Confucian ancestor worship has on Asian countries and Christians, specifically in China, Taiwan, Japan, and Korea, which are under the influence of Confucianism, and how Confucian ancestor worship hinders people from receiving and following Jesus Christ and a common barrier to evangelism in these Eastern Asian countries. Chapter three reveals the theological foundations of Confucianism and Christianity. Confucianism has its own specific theologies of worship form, temple, canon, afterlife, and gods like those of Christianity. A comparison with the theological foundations of Confucianism and Christianity is made for a better understanding of Confucian ancestor worship and filial piety. Chapter four reveals the differences between Confucian and biblical teachings on filial piety. Confucian filial piety was taught by Confucius who is a founder of Confucianism, while the origins of biblical filial piety are rooted in the Old and New Testaments. The Bible teaches that filial piety is directed toward living parents, but Confucianism teaches that filial piety is to both living and dead parents; filial piety to the dead parents is ancestor worship. Chapter five reveals the distinctions between Confucian and biblical teachings on ancestor worship. Confucians believe that dead ancestors are able to protect their own families, bring fortunes to their descendants, watch over their own families, and to reward the right and punish the wrong, but the Bible ascribes to ancestor worship as idolatry as taught in the second commandment. Chapter six reveals the ways of practical theological applications of filial piety and ancestor worship. I propose the ways of practical theological applications without compromise in the circumstance of the acceptance of ancestor worship as a custom. Further, I challenge preachers as central to reconciliation how to make an effort to aid the rooting of biblical filial piety into Korean society as a traditional Korean heritage. I hope that this thesis will help non-Christians to understand the Christian perspective of filial piety and ancestor worship and why Christians reject Confucian ancestor worship, and how Christianity emphasizes filial piety. Further, my intent is to help Christians confirm their beliefs, challenge non- Christians by showing what Christians believe, and give wisdom on how to create harmony with non-Christian family members. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2013. / Practical Theology / unrestricted

Application domains such as Bio-informatics, DSP, Structural Biology, Fluid Dynamics, high resolution direction finding, state estimation, adaptive noise cancellation etc. demand high performance computing solutions for their simulation environments. The core computations of these applications are in Numerical Linear Algebra (NLA) kernels. Direct solvers are predominantly required in the domains like DSP, estimation algorithms like Kalman Filter etc, where the matrices on which operations need to be performed are either small or medium sized, but dense. Faddeev's Algorithm is often used for solving dense linear system of equations. Modified Faddeev's algorithm (MFA) is a general algorithm on which LU decomposition, QR factorization or SVD of matrices can be realized. MFA has the good property of realizing a host of matrix operations by computing the Schur complements on four blocked matrices, thereby reducing the overall computation requirements. We will use MFA as a representative Direct Solver in this work. We further discuss Given's rotation based QR algorithm for Decomposition of any matrix, often used to solve the linear least square problem. Systolic Array Architectures are widely accepted ASIC solutions for NLA algorithms. But the \can of worms" associated with this traditional solution spawns the need for alternative solutions. While popular custom hardware solution in form of systolic arrays can deliver high performance, but because of their rigid structure they are not scalable and reconfigurable, and hence not commercially viable. We show how a Reconfigurable computing platform can serve to contain the \can of worms". REDEFINE, a coarse grained runtime reconfigurable architecture has been used for systolic actualization of NLA kernels. We elaborate upon streaming NLA-specific enhancements to REDEFINE in order to meet expected performance goals. We explore the need for an algorithm aware custom compilation framework. We bring about a proposition to realize Faddeev's Algorithm on REDEFINE. We show that REDEFINE performs several times faster than traditional GPPs. Further we direct our interest to QR Decomposition to be the next NLA kernel as it ensures better stability than LU and other decompositions. We use QR Decomposition as a case study to explore the design space of the proposed solution on REDEFINE. We also investigate the architectural details of the Custom Functional Units (CFU) for these NLA kernels. We determine the right size of the sub-array in accordance with the optimal pipeline depth of the core execution units and the number of such units to be used per sub-array. The framework used to realize QR Decomposition can be generalized for the realization of other algorithms dealing with decompositions like LU, Faddeev's Algorithm, Gauss-Jordon etc with different CFU definitions .

Embedded system designers face multiple challenges in fulfilling the runtime requirements of programs. Effective scheduling of programs is required to extract as much parallelism as possible. These scheduling algorithms must also improve speedup after instruction-set extensions have occurred. Scheduling of dynamic code at run time is made more difficult when the static components of the program are scheduled inefficiently. This research aims to optimize a program’s static code at compile time. This is achieved with four algorithms designed to schedule code at the task and instruction level. Additionally, the algorithms improve scheduling using instruction set extended code on symmetrical homogeneous multiprocessor systems. Using these algorithms, we achieve speedups up to 3.86X over sequential execution for a 4-issue 2-processor system, and show better performance than recent heuristic techniques for small programs. Finally, the algorithms generate speedup values for a 64-point FFT that are similar to the test runs.

Este projeto apresenta uma metodologia aplicada à análise da viabilidade de se otimizar código fonte C para o processador embarcado Nios II. Esta metodologia utiliza ferramentas de análise de código que traçam o perfil da aplicação, identificando suas partes críticas em relação ao tempo de execução, as quais são o gprof e o performance counter. Para otimizar o código para o processador Nios II, são utilizadas tanto instruções customizadas quanto uma ferramenta automática de aceleração de código, o compilador C2H. Como casos de estudo, foram escolhidos três algoritmos devido à sua importância no campo da robótica móvel, sendo eles o gaxpy, o EKF e o SIFT. A partir da aplicação da metodologia para se otimizar cada um dos casos, foi comparada a eficiência tanto das ferramentas de análise de código, quanto das ferramentas de otimização, bem como a validade da metodologia proposta / This project presents a methodology applied to analyze the viability of C source code optimization for the Nios II embedded processor. This methodology utilizes the gprof and performance counter source code analysis tools to profile the source code of an application, and identify its critical time consuming parts. The optimization of C source code for the Nios II processor was performed using custom instructions and an automatic source code acceleration tool, the C2H compiler. Three algorithms were chosen as study cases, based on their importance to mobile robotics. Those were the gaxpy, EKF and SIFT algorithms. After applying the presented methodology to optimize each study case, efficiency comparisons were made between the source code analysis tools, as well between the optimization tools, in order to validate the presented methodology