This diploma thesis in theoretical part describes methods of Reverse engineering and Rapid prototyping. Each method describes its characteristics, pros and cons and usability. Practical part deals with application of these methods on part of a ledge of Škoda 1000 MB, digitalization of object, creating a new volume model, analyzing its dimensions and geometry using deviation analysis, creating prototype, choosing suitable manufacturing technology and technical-economical aspects.

YouTube is a website which attracts children of different ages. Many children spend a lot of time watching YouTube every day. The interest in YouTube creates learning opportunities in children’s spare time and this knowledge is brought to school. Since the purpose of this essay is to analyze Youtubers’ speech variation and whether they reinforce gender stereotypes. We have chosen to carry out a sociolinguistic analysis of four Youtubers, and relate this to possible language learning, based on a sociocultural perspective on learning. Our analysis showed that these Youtubers actually reinforce gendered speech stereotypes, even though there were some deviations. These results indicate that YouTube and Youtubers could have a big influence on children because of the number of hours children spend on the website. Children may look up to these youtubers, identify with some of them, and imitate their language and attitudes. The language and attitudes children learn from watching YouTube will be brought to school, which means that teachers need to have this in mind when planning English lessons. This may help reinforce language learning and also keep the English subject interesting.

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 22-25, 2001 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / In current practice sensor data is digitized and input into computers, displays, and recorders. To try to reduce the volume of digitized data, our original hypothesis was that by selecting a subset of digital values from an over-sampled signal, we could improve signal identification and improve perhaps Nyquist performance. Our investigations did not lead to significant improvements but did clarify our thinking regarding the usage of digitized data.

La métrologie 3D permet la vérification de spécifications géométriques et dimensionnelles sur des pièces mécaniques. Ce contrôle est classiquement réalisé à partir de mesures avec des capteurs à contact montés sur des machines à mesurer tridimensionnelles. Ce type de mesures offre une très grande qualité de données acquises mais requiert un temps d'exécution relativement long. Les présents travaux s'attachent donc à développer les mesures optiques dans le cadre de la métrologie 3D qui, avec une qualité diminuée, permettent une exécution beaucoup plus rapide. L'absence de norme concernant ces systèmes de mesure a pour conséquence leur utilisation rare dans le cadre de la métrologie. En effet, le choix d'un système est généralement réalisé à partir de spécifications sur sa qualité. Nous proposons donc une méthode de qualification des systèmes de mesure optiques permettant de quantifier la qualité des données qu'ils fournissent. Les données ainsi qualifiées sont stockées dans une base de données. Un processus global d'inspection 3D multi-systèmes est mis en place, permettant le choix du système de numérisation le mieux adapté (à contact ou sans contact) en termes de qualité et de coût de numérisation, à partir des données qualifiées de la base de données. Lors de l'utilisation de systèmes de mesure optiques, la baisse de qualité est essentiellement due au bruit de numérisation inhérent à ce type de systèmes. Un filtre permettant d'éliminer ce bruit, tout en gardant le défaut de forme de la surface, est mis en place dans le processus afin de rendre possible la vérification de spécifications avec des intervalles de tolérance faibles à l'aide de systèmes de mesure optiques. / 3D metrology allows GD\&{}T verification on mechanical parts. This verification is usually calculated using data obtained with a touch probe mounted on a coordinate measuring machine. Such a measurement offers a high data quality but requires an expensive processing time. The proposed research aims at expanding optical measurements in 3D metrology, reducing execution time but with a lower data quality. The lack of standard in this field makes the use of optical sensors uncommon in 3D metrology. Indeed, the system selection is mostly carried out from its quality specifications. Therefore we propose a protocol to assess the quality of optical measuring systems that allows in particular quantification of acquired data quality. The results of measuring system qualification are stored in a database. Taking advantages of this database, a global multi-system 3D inspection process is set up allowing the selection of the best digitizing system (contact or contactless) in terms of quality and digitizing cost. When using optical sensors, the poor quality is mostly due to digitizing noise inherent to this kind of systems. A filter that removes noise, keeping the form deviation of the surface, is proposed in the process to make possible the specification verification for applications with small tolerance intervals using optical systems.

O objetivo deste trabalho é estudar os métodos de digitalização de bases cartográficas na escala de 1:50.000, bem como analisar formas de realizar o controle de qualidade do produto final. No processo de digitalização foram empregadas as seguintes metodologias: digitalização em mesa, em tela (heads-up), semi-automática e automática. O emprego de tais metodologias de digitalização prevê a possível utilização da base cartográfica digital em um sistema de informação geográfica, necessitando assim de alguns cuidados adicionais. Em todo esse processo, deverão ser levados em conta variáveis como: tipo e qualidade do mapa original, equipamentos, programas, recursos especiais oferecidos e uma avaliação dos tempos de digitalização e edição. Também foi dada atenção ao controle de qualidade geométrica, propondo-se um roteiro para avaliar o padrão de exatidão cartográfico (PEC), seguindo as normas vigentes no país e utilizando nesse processo pontos de controle com coordenadas obtidas das folhas 1:10.000 do IGC e de levantamentos GPS. / The purpose of this work is to study digitizing methods for cartographic bases in 1:50.000 scale, as well as to analyse ways to carry out the quality control for the final products. During the digitizing process, have been the following methods employed: tablet digitizing, screen (heads-up), semi automatic and automatic raster/vector conversion. These methodologies foresees the introduction of this cartographic base in a geographic information system, which asks for some further care. All this process shall be considered variables such as: kind of map, original quality of map, equipment, programs, special resources and an evaluation of time spent in digitzing and edition. Attention has also been given to the geometric quality control by observing cartographic accuracy standard (CAS) result, based on the standards used in Brazil and, for this, taking into account control points with coordinates obtained from 1:10.000 IGC maps and GPS surveying.

O objetivo deste trabalho é estudar os métodos de digitalização de bases cartográficas na escala de 1:50.000, bem como analisar formas de realizar o controle de qualidade do produto final. No processo de digitalização foram empregadas as seguintes metodologias: digitalização em mesa, em tela (heads-up), semi-automática e automática. O emprego de tais metodologias de digitalização prevê a possível utilização da base cartográfica digital em um sistema de informação geográfica, necessitando assim de alguns cuidados adicionais. Em todo esse processo, deverão ser levados em conta variáveis como: tipo e qualidade do mapa original, equipamentos, programas, recursos especiais oferecidos e uma avaliação dos tempos de digitalização e edição. Também foi dada atenção ao controle de qualidade geométrica, propondo-se um roteiro para avaliar o padrão de exatidão cartográfico (PEC), seguindo as normas vigentes no país e utilizando nesse processo pontos de controle com coordenadas obtidas das folhas 1:10.000 do IGC e de levantamentos GPS. / The purpose of this work is to study digitizing methods for cartographic bases in 1:50.000 scale, as well as to analyse ways to carry out the quality control for the final products. During the digitizing process, have been the following methods employed: tablet digitizing, screen (heads-up), semi automatic and automatic raster/vector conversion. These methodologies foresees the introduction of this cartographic base in a geographic information system, which asks for some further care. All this process shall be considered variables such as: kind of map, original quality of map, equipment, programs, special resources and an evaluation of time spent in digitzing and edition. Attention has also been given to the geometric quality control by observing cartographic accuracy standard (CAS) result, based on the standards used in Brazil and, for this, taking into account control points with coordinates obtained from 1:10.000 IGC maps and GPS surveying.

<p>Conventional airborne laser scanner systems output the three-dimensional coordinates of the surface location hit by the laser pulse. Data storage capacity and processing speeds available today has made it possible to digitally sample and store the entire reflected waveform, instead of only extracting the coordinates. Research has shown that return waveforms can give even more detailed insights into the vertical structure of surface objects, surface slope, roughness and reflectivity than the conventional systems. One of the most important advantages with registering the waveforms is that it gives the user the possibility to himself define the way range is calculated in post-processing. </p><p>In this thesis different techniques have been tested to visualize a waveform data set in order to get a better understanding of the waveforms and how they can be used to improve methods for classification of ground objects.</p><p>A pulse detection algorithm, using the EM algorithm, has been implemented and tested. The algorithm output position and width of the echo pulses. One of the results of this thesis is that echo pulses reflected by vegetation tend to be wider than those reflected by for example a road. Another result is that up till five echo pulses can be detected compared to two echo pulses that the conventional system detects.</p>

Conventional airborne laser scanner systems output the three-dimensional coordinates of the surface location hit by the laser pulse. Data storage capacity and processing speeds available today has made it possible to digitally sample and store the entire reflected waveform, instead of only extracting the coordinates. Research has shown that return waveforms can give even more detailed insights into the vertical structure of surface objects, surface slope, roughness and reflectivity than the conventional systems. One of the most important advantages with registering the waveforms is that it gives the user the possibility to himself define the way range is calculated in post-processing. In this thesis different techniques have been tested to visualize a waveform data set in order to get a better understanding of the waveforms and how they can be used to improve methods for classification of ground objects. A pulse detection algorithm, using the EM algorithm, has been implemented and tested. The algorithm output position and width of the echo pulses. One of the results of this thesis is that echo pulses reflected by vegetation tend to be wider than those reflected by for example a road. Another result is that up till five echo pulses can be detected compared to two echo pulses that the conventional system detects.

A museum catalog is a legible, interpretable information system that acts as a rhetorical exposition of the museum’s collection and work. The unity of a collection is of course distinct from that represented in a catalog, and still further from the reader’s experience of it. But the information that comprises such an assemblage of individual records or representations, consistent metadata, support the ability to “read” collections as finite, enclosed, or complete. Here I perform a close reading of the elements and relationships that underpin the Walker Art Center’s online Permanent Collection catalog, an emergent publication funded by The Getty Foundation’s Online Scholarly Catalog Initiative (OSCI). I incorporate multiple layers of interpretation into my reading of the structure and contents of the museum website, drawing on concepts developed in information science and textual studies by Bonnie Mak and Johanna Drucker. My performance of reading of the new catalog helps me begin to address how collectively, online representation in virtual frames, contextualization within a website, searching, and browsing support divergent interpretations of a collection catalogue as a text. I conclude that to engage a catalog at a scholarly level, and to interpret and synthesize meaning of the catalog as a text, the museum must situate its self-representation spatially and temporally. / text

The aim of the diploma thesis "The Role of Multimedia in Educational Support Systems" is to analyze the current role of multimedia in information systems and to explore the existent use of multimedia in the educational process at VŠE. By doing so, the reader will be presented with a comprehensive roundup of the current technological tendencies concerning multimedia and their use in the educational environment. Among the topics analyzed within the scope of the technological foundations establishing chapters are the current role of multimedia, data types, transmission channels and the digitizing process. In the subsequent section, multimedia is being perceived as a concrete tool supporting the educational process. Based on the research conducted at VŠE that analyzed the technological, financial and personnel conditions, a concept of multimedia learning model was proposed in the eighth and final chapter. The current state analysis and the proposed multimedia education model at VŠE constitute the author's principal contribution to the educational field and at the same time a starting point for a future melioration of multimedia education deployment at VŠE.