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Overcapacity is a self-reflexive, personal journey film that explores the filmmaker's exploration of his lifelong problem with obesity and health. The film follows his progress as he discusses his weight problem with his partner and parents as well as works with a personal trainer and doctor in an effort to affect a lifestyle change while also confronting issues that have led to and perpetuate his current health situation.

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For me, architecture is a service--a way of helping people and the environment--and I wanted my thesis to reflect this idea. This thesis combines human rehabilitation and environmental remediation in order to study how these two types of healing interact. Specifically, the program of the building is a rehabilitation center for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) patients (who stereotypically have an obsession with order and cleanliness). Both the patients and the site are going through the process of healing, but they are doing so in ways that juxtapose each other: while the dirt, plants, and water on the site are made cleaner, the patients are undergoing therapy that helps them understand that it is okay to be "dirtier." This brings into question what the terms "clean" and "dirty" really mean. Through my year-long research into OCD rehabilitation, environmental remediation, and the meaning of dirt, I came across a quotation that summed up this idea within my thesis. It came from the appropriately titled book, Dirt: "A landscape architect's understanding of dirt--as a fertile medium--overturns the term's negative connotations to understand it as explicitly productive." (Born 8) Therefore, my thesis explores dirt's productivity and challenges visitors' and patients' preconceptions of order and disorder. Overall, however, my goal was to create a project that allowed a forgotten, polluted site to be reclaimed by the city and for the patients, through therapy, to reclaim their lives. / Master of Architecture / For me, architecture is a service—a way of helping people and the environment—and I wanted my thesis to reflect this idea. This thesis combines human rehabilitation and environmental remediation in order to study how these two types of healing interact. Originally, the program of my building was going to be a rehabilitation clinic for drug addicts, located on a polluted site that needed to be remediated, because then the patients and the site would have the parallel experience of being cleansed of poison. But Dr. Paul Emmons suggested that I instead design a rehabilitation center for OCD patients (who stereotypically have an obsession with order and cleanliness). This was intriguing to me because while the patients and the site would still both be healing, they would be doing so in ways that juxtaposed each other: while the dirt, plants, and water on the site would be made cleaner, the patients would be undergoing therapy that helped them understand that it is okay to be “dirtier.” This brought into question what the terms “clean” and “dirty” really mean. Through my year-long research into OCD rehabilitation, environmental remediation, and the meaning of dirt, I came across Mary Douglas’ book Purity and Danger, where she defines dirt as “matter out of place” and states: “As we know it, dirt is essentially disorder. There is no such thing as absolute dirt: it exists in the eye of the beholder” (Douglas 2). However, the most important and meaningful quote that summed up this idea within my thesis came from another book, appropriately titled Dirt: “A landscape architect’s understanding of dirt—as a fertile medium—overturns the term’s negative connotations to understand it as explicitly productive.” (Born 8) A simple example of redefining dirt that many of us already have in our homes is a pizza stone or cast iron pan, which are both seasoned with the leftover “dirt” of food. Neither of these items are ever meant to be cleaned with soap (they require only water) and the flavors of past foods help to enrich all future foods you make with it. Therefore, my thesis explores dirt’s productivity and challenges visitors’ and patients’ preconceptions of order and disorder. Overall, however, my goal was to create a project that allowed a forgotten, polluted site to be reclaimed by the city and for the patients, through therapy, to reclaim their lives.

Background: The high degree of digitalization in today's society allows for the possibility totrack material and equipment on construction sites, offering a deeper understanding andpotentially optimizing their efficiency. With the help of tracking, one can optimize the usewhile also make demands on suppliers on the type of material and equipment you as acustomer want and be able to control, this in a fast and safe way. At present, there is notracking solution for dirt that allows companies and individuals to control how the handlingtakes place and where the dirt originally comes from. This creates problems as it ischallenging to analyze and optimize the use of dirt due to the fact that it is not possible totrack digitally, and one do not get the same understanding of how dirt is handled. The marketthereby demands a solution that allows tracking of dirt in as fast, easy, and safe way.  Purpose: To understand who users and stakeholders are and to develop a solution that helpsusers and stakeholders to track, store, send and receive data and dirt of interest. This is tosimplify the tracking of relevant dirt and data while also improving the efficiency ofcompanies in terms of data flow and create security and reliability between users andstakeholders when it comes to buying, transporting, and selling dirt Method: The research method used in this thesis is based on Blessing and Chakrabarti'sDesign Research Method (DRM) while the main solution method is based on DesignThinking from the ME310 course at Stanford University.  Result: The result presents a solution that allows tracking of dirt on and off construction sitesand other relevant areas that suiting the users which are considered to be individuals andcompanies primarily connected to the sale, purchase and transportation of dirt. The solutionfacilitates tracking while minimizing paperwork as the solution offers to save all data in oneplace that everyone connected to the dirt can take part in. This means that the solution isuniversal and can be used between companies, while authorities and customers can accessinformation to check that companies that handle dirt follow the laws, rules, and requirementsplaced on them. Conclusions: This thesis proves the possibility for the development and use of a system totrack dirt and its properties in a fast, simple, and safe way while facilitating for the userregarding paperwork and optimization of how work should be. This in combination with thecompanies transparency and traceability increases, which means that customers andauthorities can take greater responsibility in ensuring that companies comply with the rules,laws, and requirements imposed on them. / Bakgrund: I dagens digitala samhälle så har spårning av material och utrustning, inte minstpå byggarbetsplatser, blivit till stor nytta då man kan få en bättre förståelse över hur materialoch utrustning ska användas på ett så effektivt sätt som möjligt. Man kan med hjälp avspårning optimera användningen medans man även kan ställa krav på leverantörer på vilkentyp av material och utrusningen man som kund vill ha och kunna kontrollera detta på ettsnabbt och säkert sätt. I dagsläget finns det inte en spårningslösning för dirt som tillåter attföretag och privatpersoner kan kontroller hur hanteringen sker och var dirt ursprungligenkommer ifrån. Detta skapar problem då det är svårt att analysera och optimera användningenav dirt på grund av att det inte går att spåra digitalt och man får inte samma förståelse för hurdirt hanteras. Marknaden efterfrågar därmed en lösning som tillåter spårning av dirt på ett såsnabbt, lätt och säkert sätt som möjligt.  Syfte: Förstå vem som är användare samt intressenter och att utveckla en lösning som hjälperanvändare och intressenter att spåra, lagra, skicka och ta emot data om dirt av intresse. Dettaför att förenkla spårning av relevant dirt samt data och samtidigt förbättra effektiviteten hosföretag när det gäller dataflöde och skapa säkerhet och tillförlitlighet mellan användare ochintressenter när det gäller att köpa, transportera och sälja dirt.  Metod: Forskningsmetoden som använts i detta arbete är baserad på Blessing ochChakrabartis Design Research Metod (DRM) samtidigt som den huvudsakligalösningsmetoden är baserad på Design Thinking från kursen ME310 på Stanford University. Resultat: Resultatet presenterar en lösning som tillåter spårning av dirt på och utanförbyggarbetsplatser och andra relevanta områden som passar användaren som anses varpersoner och företag främst kopplade till försäljning, köp och transport av dirt. Lösningenunderlättar spåningen samtidigt som den minimerar pappersarbete då lösningen erbjuder attspara all data på ett ställe som alla som är kopplade till dirt kan ta del av. Detta medför attlösningen är universal och kan användas mellan företag medans myndigheter och kunder kanta del av information för att kontroller att företag som hanterar dirt följer dem lagar, regleroch krav som ställs på dem.  Slutsatser: Detta arbete visar på att det går att utveckla och använda system för att spåra dirtoch dess egenskaper på ett snabbt, enkel och säkert sätt samtidigt som man underlättar föranvändaren gällande pappersarbete och optimering av hur arbete bör utföras. Detta ikombination med att företagens transparens och spårbarhet ökar vilket medför att kunder ochmyndigheter kan ta ett större ansvar i att kontroller att företag följer dem regler, lagar ochkrav som ställs på dem.

This thesis presents research associated to phenotyping of plants by applying informatics techniques which includes databases, web technologies, image processing and feature measurements of 2D and 3D images. The thesis presents two enabling bioinformatics tools related by a shared set of research objectives and distinct by the nature of their applications. The first project called ClearedLeavesDB, is a common platform for plant biologists to share data and metadata about cleared leaf images. This project resulted in an online interactive database of cleared leaf images. The second project called Digital Imaging of Root Traits (DIRT), is an application to store, manage, share and process root images as well as analyze root image traits with respect to different experiments. This application is deployed on iPlant's cyber-infrastructure and currently supports management of 2D root images and high-throughput processing and structural descriptor/trait estimation from root images. The application enables storage, management and sharing heterogeneous image data and metadata including dynamic environmental and descriptor data. In the final part of the thesis, I describe ongoing challenges in developing new methods to measure global and local descriptors from reconstructed 3D root images.

It was suggested that dirt was a way of falling away from perfection and through introducing or allowing dirt you could avoid the sterile and lifeless. A ephemeral and intangible entity, dirt is, by its nature, an elusive creature. This intangibility encouraged me to draw a clearer definition for myself of what dirt meant. If dirt was not limited to patina and grime how could it be understood in terms of design. This is the essence of my thesis. / Some pictures have been removed for publication.

An overarching goal of my dissertation is to delineate social systemic processes as first and foremost embodied, experiential processes. I argue that such processes manifest through and depend upon the organism’s affective integration with her environment. Whereby, I delineate concepts like alienation and agency as manifesting through an affective intelligibility. Symbolic alienation, then, represents a circumstance in which institutional narratives purport moral or aesthetic truths that denigrate and deny the organism’s affective understanding of a circumstance. Agentic growth refers to the organism’s affective adaptation to an environment. Such growth follows from the process of working through experiential discordance (i.e., the disturbance of experiential flow or continuity) and manifests as a new-found sense of trust and understanding. Experiential discordance is an unavoidable occurrence because the organism-environment relationship is a dynamic one. If the organism is unable to mitigate and repair such discordance, she will face the threat of traumatization. Furthermore, those who disrupt the conventional-institutional organization or channeling of experience take on the character of dirt and thereby represent a dirty Other. If institutions react to the troubling, dirty Other by means of systemic repression, rather than genuine communication and reintegration, then said dirty Other takes on the character of shit. In such a circumstance, the presence of the dirty Other likely reveals deep, social systemic inadequacies and thereby ruptures the collective’s existential confidence and praxeological competence.

Submitted by Nadir Basilio (nadirsb@uninove.br) on 2018-04-13T17:54:47Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Arnoldo Mesquita Filho.pdf: 3369344 bytes, checksum: 1db89a5c8d8f47568c9a72abadfb5eba (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-04-13T17:54:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Arnoldo Mesquita Filho.pdf: 3369344 bytes, checksum: 1db89a5c8d8f47568c9a72abadfb5eba (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-02-28 / The study aimed to diagnose the current state of unpaved roads that were recovered by the Sustainable Development Project Microbacias II - Access to the Market of the Government of the State of São Paulo. To do so, based on consultation with the documents provided by the Coordination of Integral Technical Assistance (CATI), two roads were located in the municipality of Santa Isabel - SP. Afterwards, evaluation of the traffic conditions of these roads was applied based on subjective methodology, as proposed by Riverson et al. (1987), and objective methodology, according to Eaton and Beaucham (1995). A total of 22 sample units with extensions of 100 m each and with different areas were selected. The results of the diagnoses obtained by the different methodologies presented great divergence. Thus, for the subjective method, three classes of degrees of trafficability were found, being 36% good, 46% regular and 18% very bad. The results obtained by the objective method allowed the classification of four traffic classes, being 23% excellent, 27% very good, 23% good and 27% reasonable. They contribute, as they clarify the differences in the results of both methods and indicate the need for studies that seek to find the causes of such differences, as well as to propose adaptations to existing methods, so that, finally, the results contribute in fact to actions of the public power with ways to appropriate intervention. / O estudo teve como objetivo diagnosticar o atual estado de estradas não pavimentadas e que foram recuperadas pelo Projeto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Microbacias II – Acesso ao Mercado do Governo do Estado de São Paulo. Para tanto, selecionou, com base em consulta aos documentos fornecidos pela Coordenadoria de Assistência Técnica Integral (CATI), duas estradas localizadas no município de Santa Isabel – SP. Na sequência, aplicou-se avaliação das condições de trafegabilidade destas estradas com base em metodologia subjetiva, conforme proposta por Riverson et al. (1987), e metodologia objetiva, de acordo com Eaton e Beaucham (1995). Foi selecionado um total de 22 unidades amostrais com extensões de 100 m cada e com áreas distintas. Os resultados dos diagnósticos obtidos pelas diferentes metodologias apresentaram grande divergência. Assim, para o método subjetivo, foram encontradas três classes de graus de trafegabilidade, sendo 36% bons, 46% regulares e 18% muito ruins. Já os resultados obtidos pelo método objetivo, permitiram a classificação de quatro classes de trafegabilidade, sendo 23% excelentes, 27% muito boas, 23% boas e 27% razoáveis. Os contribuem, uma vez que clareiam as diferenças existentes nos resultados de ambos os métodos e indicam a necessidade de estudos que busquem encontrar as causas de tais diferenças, bem como que se proponham a realizar adaptações aos métodos existentes, para que, enfim, os resultados contribuam de fato para ações do poder público com vias a adequada intervenção.