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abstract: The Internet of Things (IoT) has become a more pervasive part of everyday life. IoT networks such as wireless sensor networks, depend greatly on the limiting unnecessary power consumption. As such, providing low-power, adaptable software can greatly improve network design. For streaming live video content, Wireless Video Sensor Network Platform compatible Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (WVSNP-DASH) aims to revolutionize wireless segmented video streaming by providing a low-power, adaptable framework to compete with modern DASH players such as Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG-DASH) and Apple’s Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Live Streaming (HLS). Each segment is independently playable, and does not depend on a manifest file, resulting in greatly improved power performance. My work was to show that WVSNP-DASH is capable of further power savings at the level of the wireless sensor node itself if a native capture program is implemented at the camera sensor node. I created a native capture program in the C language that fulfills the name-based segmentation requirements of WVSNP-DASH. I present this program with intent to measure its power consumption on a hardware test-bed in future. To my knowledge, this is the first program to generate WVSNP-DASH playable video segments. The results show that our program could be utilized by WVSNP-DASH, but there are issues with the efficiency, so provided are an additional outline for further improvements. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Computer Engineering 2018

Orientador: Erika Veruska Paiva Ortolan / Resumo: A mão é um órgão que está envolvido em praticamente todas as nossas atividades da vida diária, apresentando assim uma variedade de funções, e para seu perfeito funcionamento necessita de completa harmonia entre os vários tecidos que a compõem. A principal função da mão é sua capacidade de realizar os mais diferentes tipos de pinça, preensão e sensibilidade. Isso se deve aos movimentos harmônicos e independentes dos dedos e à oposição do polegar.A avaliação da função da mão nas atividades da vida diária e profissional colabora na determinação do grau de deficiência do ponto de vista laboral, indica o grau de independência do paciente, detecta necessidade do uso de órteses para facilitar ou possibilitar a realização de tarefas e colabora na indicação de tratamento, além deavaliar os resultados após as intervenções terapêuticas.Objetivo:Verificar a correlação entre a avaliação física dos punhos e mãos e o Questionário de Qualidade de Vida SF-36; entre a avaliação física e o Questionário DisabilitiesoftheArm, ShoulderandHand (Dash); entre o DisabilitiesoftheArm, ShoulderandHand (Dash) e o Questionário de Qualidade de Vida SF-36.Método: 139 pacientes, com afecções do punho ou da mão foram selecionados prospectivamente no ambulatório de Cirurgia da Mão do Hospital das Clinicas da FMB-UNESP, durante o período de setembro de 2010 a agosto de 2011. Todos foram avaliados clinicamente, durante consulta de rotina, não sendo foco da avaliação se os pacientes haviam recebido tratamento cir... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: Introduction: The hand is an organ that is involved in almost all our daily activities, thus presenting a variety of functions, and flawless performance that requires harmony between the various tissues that compose it. The main function of the hand is its ability to carry out the most different types of tweezers and hold. This is due to harmonics and independent movements of the fingers and thumb of the opposition. The assessment of hand function in activities of daily life and work assists in determining the degree of disability of the labor standpoint, indicates the degree of patient independence, detects the need for orthosis to facilitate or enable the execution of tasks and collaborates the indication for treatment and to evaluate the results after therapeutic interventions. Objective: To investigate the correlation between physical assessment of the wrists and hands and the Quality of Life Questionnaire SF- 36; between physical assessment and questionnaire Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand (Dash); between the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand (Dash) and the Quality of Life Questionnaire SF-36. Results: We evaluated 139 patients, 71 were women and 68 men with a mean age of 42.8 years (18-84 years). 128 were right-handed and left-handed 11, 73 patients had diseases in the right wrist or hand, 47 in left and 19 bilateral, 71 patients had conditions on the dominant side. Statistical analysis performed using the Pearson correlation coefficient showed a sig... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Doutor

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2017-05-30T15:08:44Z No. of bitstreams: 1 rodrigodamascenomarangon.pdf: 825004 bytes, checksum: f6fba786f13817ab4b7d8d41a6cf4d04 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2017-05-30T15:36:45Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 rodrigodamascenomarangon.pdf: 825004 bytes, checksum: f6fba786f13817ab4b7d8d41a6cf4d04 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-30T15:36:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 rodrigodamascenomarangon.pdf: 825004 bytes, checksum: f6fba786f13817ab4b7d8d41a6cf4d04 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-08-26 / O consumo de multimídia pela web tem crescido fortemente ao longo dos últimos anos. Com isso surge a preocupação do consumo de banda, que é significativamente reforçada pelo aumento da utilização da computação móvel. É fato conhecido que o consumo de banda para a multimídia ultrapassou o consumo nas redes P2P, e tende ao crescimento nos próximos anos. Nesse cenário, as tecnologias de streaming multimídia via HTTP vieram como parte da solução do problema de maior demanda de tráfego de multimídia. O MPEG-DASH é uma dessas tecnologias, e atualmente é utilizada em grande parte por grandes corporações que distribuem multimídia, como por exemplo Google e Netflix. No entanto, o processo da criação das mídias no padrão MPEG-DASH é um processo trabalhoso e de pouca documentação. O presente trabalho apresenta técnicas para transcodificação, segmentação e reprodução de mídias no padrão MPEG-DASH. As mídias convertidas são parte do material didático produzido pelo Centro de Educação a Distância da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora. O estudo foca no processo técnico de padronização das mídias para MPEG-DASH, dá foco aos problemas encontrados, além de analisar aspectos da reprodução das mídias. A dissertação traz também um estudo de caso, e análise de aspectos relevantes relacionados ao ambiente computacional da pesquisa. Foram testadas diversas técnicas e ferramentas, e os problemas, soluções e sugestões de uso são relatados ao longo do trabalho. Os resultados mostram que os resultados, apesar de problemas pontuais, são viáveis e benéficos para o consumidor do conjunto de mídias apresentado. / The multimedia consumption over the world wide web has been strongly growing along the last years. Hence it comes concerns about the bandwidth consumption, bolstered by significant raise of mobile computing. It is a known fact that multimedia bandwidth exceeded P2P network in terms of bandwidth consumption, and tend to grow in the next years. In this scenario, HTTP multimedia streaming technology came as a part of solution to the increasing multimedia bandwidth demand. MPEG-DASH is one of those technologies, currently employed at big distributing multimedia corporations, like Google and Netflix. However, the media transcoding and segmentation to MPEG-DASH standard is a laborious process and still slightly documented. This work cover in details techniques to media transcoding, segmentation, and reproduction on MPEG-DASH standard. The converted media are part of Centro de Educação a Distância of Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora produced courseware. The work aims at technical process of MPEG DASH media standardization, with focus on raised problems, and includes some aspects of media reproduction. This work brings a case study, and an analysis of applicable aspects of computing environment. Were tested several techniques and tools and the problems, solutions and suggestions are reported through the work. Results shows that the results, although few problems, are viable and advantageous to consumer of the specified media set.

Title: Training strategy in the long sprint Objectives: The point of my thesis is to compare the content and the extent of the sport conditioning of three selected athletes specialized in 200 meter dash, in 400 meter dash and in 800 meter dash. The other point of my thesis is to determine the identical and vice versa dissimilar elements in the strategy of the sport training for the long sprint within three selected athletes. Methods: In my thesis I used the method of description and comparison of the extent of the sport conditioning in pursued general and special indicators of the athletic training. Results: The representation of the training extent in the special training indicators was basically corresponding to athlete's specialization. I found the minimal training extent for development of special power within selected athletes P. J. and J. K. Only athlete P. S. has been attending the necessary conditioning in the full extent of the individual needs for the appropriate performance in the long sprint. Key words: Athletics, performance, training, 200 meter dash, 400 meter dash, 800 meter dash. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

As increasing numbers of baby boomers enter retirement age, Georgia senior centers will be inundated with more computer-savvy seniors than ever before. Web-based nutrition education is a pragmatic option to complement the traditional classroom nutrition education sometimes hindered by the centers’ limited monetary and personnel resources. This exploratory observational study sought to pilot test a companion to classroom nutrition education, a prototype Dietary Approaches to Stopping Hypertension (DASH) diet website, for future implementation in Georgia senior centers. Classroom DASH diet lessons were designed and pilot tested on a convenience sample of community dwelling older adults in 6 metropolitan area centers (n=109). Next, the same lessons were incorporated into a senior-friendly DASH diet website specially designed to meet the needs of older adults and pilot tested on a second convenience sample in one center (n=5). Descriptive and analytical statistics were used to compare baseline and post-website blood pressures, body weights, and DASH-related nutrition knowledge. There was a significant difference in the scores for systolic blood pressure at baseline (M=145.60, SD=8.385) and post-website (M=136.40, SD=9.607) conditions; t(4)=3.74, p =.020. Diastolic blood pressure and weight showed no significant change. A survey of DASH-related knowledge, behaviors, and beliefs showed movement towards desired responses on 44% of survey questions after the intervention. An opinion survey collected seniors’ perspectives on their website experience. 100% of participants reported satisfaction with the website and willingness to continue using it. Refinements to the alpha-prototype website are recommended before further testing with a larger pilot study group. Although expanded research is necessary, results from this limited pilot test suggest that web-based nutrition education is a promising method to reinforce classroom lessons teaching dietary and lifestyle management of hypertension in Georgia senior centers. Multi-component nutrition education holds potential to address diversity in cultures, learning preferences, and functional limitations of Georgia seniors.