This work conducted at Centro de Estudos Superiores de Maceió CESMAC and investigated the utilization of teaching suporting techniques tools in the process of distant education. It made use of Portal Educacional to examine their contribuition in the formation process of the lecturer, their use by the professors in the semipresent training modality and also to report their academic application in the institution. The focus of the research was located in every unit of CESMAC: Faculdade de Ciências Juridicas; Faculdade de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde; Faculdade de Ciências Exatas e Tecnológicas; Faculdade de Educação e Comunicação; Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Faculdade de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas, in which participants were the professors who, to a greater or lesser extent, made use of the portal in the period of four months, from August to November/2005. The methodology used was base don a case study with a qualitative. The first chapter of the work deals with the necessity and utility of the ICT in the initial formation of the instructor, the is related to the utilization of the ITC in the semipresent university teaching and the third in the utilization of the Educational Portal. / Esta pesquisa investiga a utilização das ferramentas de suporte à docência na educação a distância, a partir das possibilidades oferecidas por portais educacionais para a formação docente e a utilização deste pelos professores do ensino superior na modalidade semipresencial e do relato do uso das ferramentas do Portal Universitário pelos professores do Centro de Estudos Superiores de Maceió. O locus da pesquisa englobou todas as Faculdades do CESMAC: Faculdade de Ciências Jurídicas; Faculdade de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde; Faculdade de Ciências Exatas e Tecnológicas; Faculdade de Educação e Comunicação; Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Faculdade de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas. Os envolvidos foram os professores que mais e menos utilizaram o Portal Universitário de agosto a novembro de 2005. A metodologia utilizada foi o estudo de caso com abordagem qualitativa. No estudo são tratadas a necessidade e utilidade das TIC na formação inicial dos professores, o uso das TIC no ensino superior semipresencial e a utilização do Portal Educacional pelos professores do ensino superior .

Este estudo mapeou os serviços de reabilitação no Brasil utilizados pelos usuários do Hospital de Reabilitação de Anomalias Craniofaciais da Universidade de São Paulo (HRAC/USP) e faz um diagnóstico das necessidades de capacitação dos profissionais que os atendem nas áreas de fonoaudiologia, odontologia, psicologia e serviço social. Os objetivos dessa pesquisa foram: identificar formas de articulação dos serviços/reabilitadores com órgãos locais e HRAC; levantar o perfil dos reabilitadores e conhecer suas necessidades e o interesse em participar do programa de capacitação do HRAC; propor a ampliação das formas de intercâmbio e articulação dos serviços/reabilitadores com diferentes organizações e contribuir para a construção de um pólo de capacitação, tendo como compromisso a humanização e qualificação da atenção. O estudo teve dois momentos: 1º) remessa de questionário para os pacientes do Projeto Florida (475) - projeto interdisciplinar desenvolvido em parceria com a Universidade da Flórida - para identificar os serviços / reabilitadores de seus municípios e/ou região de origem; 2º) remessa de questionário aos serviços/reabilitadores identificados (61). Dentre esses, obtivemos resposta de 21 serviços em 19 cidades, oito Estados e três regiões, em sua maioria de natureza pública e do Terceiro Setor, prestando serviços de reabilitação e assistência social, estabelecendo relações de parceria/convênios com o próprio HRAC, com Prefeituras Municipais/Secretarias de Saúde e Associações de Pais e Pessoas com Fissura Labiopalatina. Os profissionais (72) relataram dificuldades para a prática profissional na área da fissura, com destaque para área de fonoaudiologia, o que sugere medidas urgentes no sentido de se estabelecer estratégias. (95,4%) dos profissionais demonstraram interesse e a necessidade de participar de cursos de capacitação. As sugestões para o atendimento dessa demanda são: aprofundamento no conteúdo dos cursos específicos ministrados no Curso de Anomalias Craniofaciais, ampliação do conteúdo da disciplina de Política de Saúde e Reabilitação ministrada nos cursos de Pós-graduação, chegando à criação de um Núcleo de Telessaúde do HRAC/USP, Articulação da Rede Nacional de serviços na área da fissura labiopalatina que podem impulsionar a criação do pólo de capacitação do HRAC na área, em parceria com outros pólos de educação permanente do SUS no Brasil e do programa de descentralização do HRAC/USP. / This study investigated the services/programs accessed by patients from HRAC-USP, at their cities of origin, focusing on the professionals? reported need for further training in the areas of communication disorders, dentistry, psychology and social work.The objectives of this research were: 1) to identify the route followed by professionals/services in the hospital and other organizations to locate and to have access to out-services/programs for continuity care in craniofacial area; 2) to describe the profile of professionals serving the HRAC?s patients in their cities of origin and to learn about these professionals need and interest in further training in the craniofacial area; 3) to propose means to expand exchange of services and exchange between professionals among existing organizations serving patients with craniofacial anomalies; and 4) to contribute to the development of a network for continuing education focusing on humanization and quality of services. The study had 2 phases: 1) during phase 1 a Questionnaire investigating the existence and the access to outservices/professionals in the patients? city of origin, was distributed to 475 patients participating in another research involving the HRAC and the University of Florida (Florida Project); 2) during phase 2 another questionnaire was sent to the services/professionals serving the HRAC?s patients in their cities of origin and to learn about their profile need and interest in further training in the craniofacial area; was sent to all 61 services identified during phase. Out of the 61 services contacted a total of 21 replied to the second questionnaire. These services represented 19 different cities, 8 states and 3 regions of the country. Most of the services were supported with public or non governmental organizations resources and offered social or rehabilitative services by means of partnerships with the HRAC, local city government or parent/patients? support groups. The 72 professionals from the 21 services investigated that replied to the second questionnaire reported limited abilities to practice in the craniofacial areas, mainly Communication Disorders, suggesting the urgent need for the development of a network for continuing education. A total of 95.4% professionals indicated need and interest to participate in further training programs. The author?s suggestions for attending the reported needs are: 1) to advance the content of already existing courses at HRAC in the Craniofacial Area; 2) to improve the content of the Political Health and Rehabilitative Services discipline already ministered at the Graduate Program at HRAC; 3) the development of a Center for Interactive-Distant Learning at HRAC (Telessaúde HRAC-USP), 4) the organization of all national services in the Craniofacial Area fostering the development of a National Network for Training in Craniofacial Anomalies in a partnership with other networks supported by the Ministry of Health (SUS) and in agreement with HRAC goal for decentralization of services.

In a world that is getting more and more globalized and dependent of the progress within the sphere of technology, there is a need for organizations to keep up with this development. Virtual Teams are a developing area, where there is a strive and a consistent desire to evolve and reach a higher level of efficiency. There is also a development when it comes to communication and is a consequence of a world that is increasingly globalized, and creating global competition is facilitated by a wider use of information and communication technology This leads to higher demands on the Virtual Leader in order to make sure that the team reaches its full potential, and being able to tackle the challenges that comes with leading an in a Virtual Environment. Since it is a subject that is still going through a phase of evolution, there is a knowledge gap in both a theoretical and practical view. The creation of Virtual Teams and the Virtual Leader encounters several aggravating challenges compared to traditionally collocated teams. There is a need for a clear definition of a Virtual Leader as well how to handle upcoming challenges. This study suggests a suitable definition for a Virtual Leader, where the result was drawn from a literature review and qualitative data from ten different companies and twenty respondents. A connection is drawn to the Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation model (FIRO) made by Will Schutz in 1958. The main objectives of a leader are still the same, it is rather the context that has changed, and therefore an expansion of the model is presented. This reinforces the purpose of this study which is to investigate how a Virtual Leader can overcome the aforementioned challenges and ensure that everyone in the team are heading in the same direction.

Développer un système de rendu distant pour terminaux légers et mobiles traitant d'objets multimédias et de leur sémantique consiste à (1) offrir une véritable expérience multimédia collaborative au niveau du terminal, (2) assurer la compatibilité avec les contraintes liées au réseau (bande passante, erreurs et latence variables en temps) et au terminal (ressources de calcul et de mémoire réduites) et (3) s'affranchir des types de terminaux et des spécificités des communautés.Cette thèse traite de ces enjeux et se positionne en rupture avec l'état de l'art en développant une architecture support fondée sur la gestion sémantique du contenu multimédia. Le principe consiste à convertir en temps réel le contenu graphique généré par l'application en un graphe de scène multimédia et à le gérer en fonction de la sémantique de ses composantes.L'optimisation de la bande passante est assurée par la compression adaptative du graphe de scène et par la compression sans perte des messages de collaboration. Les deux méthodes développées sont caractérisées respectivement par la création d'un unique graphe de scène intrinsèquement adaptable au réseau/terminal et par la mise à jour dynamique du dictionnaire de codage en fonction des messages générés par les utilisateurs. Elles sont brevetées.Les fonctionnalités collaboratives interviennent directement au niveau du contenu grâce à l'enrichissement du graphe de scène par un nouveau type de nœud, dont la normalisation ISO est en cours.Le démonstrateur logiciel sous-jacent, dénommé MASC (Multimedia Adaptive Semantic Collaboration), permet de comparer objectivement cette nouvelle architecture aux solutions actuellement déployées par des acteurs majeurs du domaine (VNC RBF ou Microsoft RDP). Deux types d'application ont été considérés : l'édition du texte et la navigation sur Internet. Les évaluations quantitatives montrent: (1) un impact limité des artéfacts visuels de conversion (PSNR compris entre 30 et 42 dB et SSIM supérieur à 0,9999), (2) consommation de la bande passante downlink (resp. uplink) réduite d'un facteur de 2 à 60 (resp. de 3 à 10), (3) latence dans la transmission des événements générés par l'utilisateur réduite d'un facteur de 4 à 6, (4) consommation des ressources de calcul côté client réduite d'un facteur 1,5 par rapport à VNC RFB. / Defining a multimedia remote viewer for mobile thin clients comes across with threefold scientific/technical constraints: (1) providing at the client side heterogeneous multimedia content and the support for ultimate collaboration functionalities, (2) ensuring a stable quality of services despite constrained resources available for the network and the terminal, and (3) featuring terminal independency and benefiting from community support.The present thesis addresses these challenges by developing a collaborative, semantic multimedia remote viewer. The underlying architecture features novel components for scene-graph creation and management, as well as for collaborative user events handling.The adaptive compression of the multimedia scene graph and the lossless compression of the collaborative messages are optimized through two devoted algorithms. The former creates a unique scene-graph, intrinsically adaptable to the network/terminal conditions. The latter dynamically generates and updates the encoding table according to the messages generated by the collaborative users. Both algorithms are patented.The direct collaborative functionality is ensured at the content level by enriching the scene graph with a new type of node where currently becomes a part of the ISO standards.The experimental setup considers the Linux X windows system and BiFS/LASeR multimedia scene technologies on the server and client sides, respectively. The implemented solution was objectively benchmarked against currently deployed solutions (VNC RFB and Microsoft RDP), by considering text-editing and www-browsing applications. The quantitative assessments demonstrate: (1) limited depreciation of the visual quality, e.g. PSNR values between 30 and 42dB or SSIM values larger than 0.9999; (2) downlink bandwidth gain factors ranging from 2 to 60; (3) efficient real-time user event management expressed by network roundtrip-time reduction by factors of 4 to 6 and by up-link bandwidth gain factors from 3 to 10; (4) feasible CPU activity, larger than in the Microsoft RDP case but reduced by a factor of 1.5 with respect to the VNC RFB.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-01-26T18:49:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JAQUELINE_DISSERTACAO_2011.pdf: 4393733 bytes, checksum: fe7f4c861e196210c0c97bc6a7d91d42 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-11-24 / The present study is fruit of a research in which we investigated the comprehension that public school teachers have towards the use of computers in teaching. In this perspective we investigated the contexts, processes, factors, computational resources availability and the results of the educational computing introduction in schools. The data analysis and discussions were based on the theoretical contributions that subside the emergent educational paradigm, specially towards computers in teaching and teachers formation. It is a qualitative research which involved the practice and computer acquaintance of one pedagogic coordinator and eight elementary school teachers of a public school in the city of José Bonifácio, state of São Paulo. The research actions were developed in six two-hour meetings and eighteen hours of distant work (online), completing thirty hours. For this a distant teaching gallery called TelEduc was used. In order to collect the data we used structured questionnaires, reflexive meetings and the fulfillment of activities in the distant teaching environment. The analysis of the information led to the conclusion that the lack of ability with computers and the absence of a computational use planning characterized an obstacle in the application of the Computational Environment Room (CER). / O presente trabalho é fruto de uma pesquisa que investigou a compreensão que os professores de escola pública estadual têm da utilização da tecnologia da informação e comunicação na prática docente. Nesta perspectiva, foram estudados contextos, processos, fatores, disponibilidade de recursos computacionais e resultados da introdução da Informática educacional nas escolas. A análise e a discussão dos dados foram feitas à luz de contribuições teóricas que subsidiam o paradigma educacional emergente , especialmente relacionadas à tecnologia da informação e comunicação aplicada ao ensino e à formação de professores. Tratou-se de uma pesquisa fundamentalmente de caráter qualitativo que envolveu a prática e a familiaridade das ferramentas computacionais de um coordenador pedagógico e oito professores do Ensino Fundamental de uma escola da rede pública estadual de ensino da cidade de José Bonifácio - SP. As ações elaboradas para esta pesquisa desenvolveram-se por meio de seis encontros presenciais de 2 horas cada e 18 horas de trabalho a distância (on-line), perfazendo-se um total de 30 horas, com a utilização da plataforma de Ensino a distância denominada TelEduc . Os instrumentos utilizados na coleta de dados foram questionários estruturados, encontros presenciais reflexivos, realização das atividades propostas no ambiente de Ensino a distância. A análise das informações obtidas permitiu concluir que a falta de habilidade com equipamentos computacionais e a ausência de um planejamento para o uso dos recursos computacionais apresentam-se como entraves na utilização da Sala Ambiente de Informática (SAI).

Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-18T17:54:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JAQUELINE_DISSERTACAO_2011.pdf: 4393733 bytes, checksum: fe7f4c861e196210c0c97bc6a7d91d42 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-11-24 / The present study is fruit of a research in which we investigated the comprehension that public school teachers have towards the use of computers in teaching. In this perspective we investigated the contexts, processes, factors, computational resources availability and the results of the educational computing introduction in schools. The data analysis and discussions were based on the theoretical contributions that subside the emergent educational paradigm, specially towards computers in teaching and teachers formation. It is a qualitative research which involved the practice and computer acquaintance of one pedagogic coordinator and eight elementary school teachers of a public school in the city of José Bonifácio, state of São Paulo. The research actions were developed in six two-hour meetings and eighteen hours of distant work (online), completing thirty hours. For this a distant teaching gallery called TelEduc was used. In order to collect the data we used structured questionnaires, reflexive meetings and the fulfillment of activities in the distant teaching environment. The analysis of the information led to the conclusion that the lack of ability with computers and the absence of a computational use planning characterized an obstacle in the application of the Computational Environment Room (CER). / O presente trabalho é fruto de uma pesquisa que investigou a compreensão que os professores de escola pública estadual têm da utilização da tecnologia da informação e comunicação na prática docente. Nesta perspectiva, foram estudados contextos, processos, fatores, disponibilidade de recursos computacionais e resultados da introdução da Informática educacional nas escolas. A análise e a discussão dos dados foram feitas à luz de contribuições teóricas que subsidiam o paradigma educacional emergente , especialmente relacionadas à tecnologia da informação e comunicação aplicada ao ensino e à formação de professores. Tratou-se de uma pesquisa fundamentalmente de caráter qualitativo que envolveu a prática e a familiaridade das ferramentas computacionais de um coordenador pedagógico e oito professores do Ensino Fundamental de uma escola da rede pública estadual de ensino da cidade de José Bonifácio - SP. As ações elaboradas para esta pesquisa desenvolveram-se por meio de seis encontros presenciais de 2 horas cada e 18 horas de trabalho a distância (on-line), perfazendo-se um total de 30 horas, com a utilização da plataforma de Ensino a distância denominada TelEduc . Os instrumentos utilizados na coleta de dados foram questionários estruturados, encontros presenciais reflexivos, realização das atividades propostas no ambiente de Ensino a distância. A análise das informações obtidas permitiu concluir que a falta de habilidade com equipamentos computacionais e a ausência de um planejamento para o uso dos recursos computacionais apresentam-se como entraves na utilização da Sala Ambiente de Informática (SAI).

Distant brain metastases from oral squamous cell carcinomas (OSCC) are extremely rare. Here we describe a case of a 53-year-old man with a primary OSCC who referred to the neurosurgical department because of epileptic seizures. MR imaging revealed an enhancing lesion in the right parietal lobe. A craniotomy with tumor removing was performed. Histopathological examination verified an invasive, minimally differentiated metastasis of the primary OSCC. The patient refused whole brain radiation therapy and died from pulmonary metastatic disease 10 months after the neurosurgical intervention without any cerebral recurrence. To the authors’ knowledge, only two similar cases have been previously reported.

Les techniques d'apprentissage profond ont fait un bond au cours des dernières années, et ont considérablement changé la manière dont les tâches de traitement automatique du langage naturel (TALN) sont traitées. En quelques années, les réseaux de neurones et les plongements de mots sont rapidement devenus des composants centraux à adopter dans le domaine. La supervision distante (SD) est une technique connue en TALN qui consiste à générer automatiquement des données étiquetées à partir d'exemples partiellement annotés. Traditionnellement, ces données sont utilisées pour l'entraînement en l'absence d'annotations manuelles, ou comme données supplémentaires pour améliorer les performances de généralisation. Dans cette thèse, nous étudions comment la supervision distante peut être utilisée dans un cadre d'un TALN moderne basé sur l'apprentissage profond. Puisque les algorithmes d'apprentissage profond s'améliorent lorsqu'une quantité massive de données est fournie (en particulier pour l'apprentissage des représentations), nous revisitons la génération automatique des données avec la supervision distante à partir de Wikipédia. On applique des post-traitements sur Wikipédia pour augmenter la quantité d'exemples annotés, tout en introduisant une quantité raisonnable de bruit. Ensuite, nous explorons différentes méthodes d'utilisation de données obtenues par supervision distante pour l'apprentissage des représentations, principalement pour apprendre des représentations de mots classiques (statistiques) et contextuelles. À cause de sa position centrale pour de nombreuses applications du TALN, nous choisissons la reconnaissance d'entité nommée (NER) comme tâche principale. Nous expérimentons avec des bancs d’essai NER standards et nous observons des performances état de l’art. Ce faisant, nous étudions un cadre plus intéressant, à savoir l'amélioration des performances inter-domaines (généralisation). / Recent years have seen a leap in deep learning techniques that greatly changed the way Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks are tackled. In a couple of years, neural networks and word embeddings quickly became central components to be adopted in the domain. Distant supervision (DS) is a well-used technique in NLP to produce labeled data from partially annotated examples. Traditionally, it was mainly used as training data in the absence of manual annotations, or as additional training data to improve generalization performances. In this thesis, we study how distant supervision can be employed within a modern deep learning based NLP framework. As deep learning algorithms gets better when massive amount of data is provided (especially for representation learning), we revisit the task of generating distant supervision data from Wikipedia. We apply post-processing treatments on the original dump to further increase the quantity of labeled examples, while introducing a reasonable amount of noise. Then, we explore different methods for using distant supervision data for representation learning, mainly to learn classic and contextualized word representations. Due to its importance as a basic component in many NLP applications, we choose Named-Entity Recognition (NER) as our main task. We experiment on standard NER benchmarks showing state-of-the-art performances. By doing so, we investigate a more interesting setting, that is, improving the cross-domain (generalization) performances.

The diploma thesis entitled Forms and methods of cooperation with parents is focused on distance learning in the 1st year of elementary school. It represents a method of teaching that was established in March 2020 in connection with the covid-19 pandemics. During the new school year 2020/21, this form de facto became the main educational form. The aim of the diploma thesis is to describe the positives and difficulties of distance learning and its specifics in a broader context, especially in terms of methods and forms applied within the cooperation with the family. It is a dynamic material that monitors a longer period of time, and so in connection with the circumstances, the main topic has changed. The work was expanded in a sense of describing the progress in the way of education during the re-closing of schools, thus reflecting the satisfaction or dissatisfaction of parents with the teaching forms and, except for the first year, it also describes the major part of the second year. The theoretical part is focused on three key areas. First, it characterizes distance education, then focuses on the period of entry of the first-graders and, aims to establish suitable ways of communication between the school, family and pupils. The empirical part finds out in several ways whether the school was again...

This thesis investigates what parental mediation strategies parents of children under twouse and what factors are involved that influence their decisions. To find that out, it isalso of interest to this work how these parents integrate media in daily routines withtheir children and for what purposes they turn to digital devices. To find out about theirmediation strategies, six families kept a media diary and ten first-time parents wereinterviewed as follow-up to the diaries. The results of both methods showed that parentsof children under two mainly used restrictive mediation, active mediation and distantmediation. Restrictions regarded time, content, devices, and location. However, theserestrictions were no clear formulated rules yet but affiliate to the high awareness that theparticipants stated regarding media use with their children, probably also influenced bymoral panics. The same applies to distant mediation: even though media was used inmoments when parents needed to do e.g. housework, most parents refrained fromreferring to media as a ‘babysitter’. The most intriguing finding is that first-time parentsrestrict their own media use so that their child’s screen time is as little as possible.Acting as role models, parents would hide their devices when their child becomes awareor look at it somewhere where their child cannot see it. Factors that influencedmediation strategy decisions were high awareness also due to official recommendations,concerns of parents, positive notions towards media use, tendency to show more aschild grows, and negative emotions connected to media. With these findings, this thesiscontributes to contemporary research on mediation strategies of parents under twowhich is still scarce now but needs to be considered in further research as this studyproves.