Thesis (M. En.)--Miami University, Institute of Environmental Sciences, 2006. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 35 [1st set of paginations]).

The research problem reflected a lower number of female postgraduate students and academics as compared to their male counterparts within the Faculty of Engineering at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. A descriptive survey was disseminated to a stratified sample of undergraduate final year students in the disciplines of Chemical, Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Electronic, Computer and Bioresources Engineering. An online survey was also sent to the nine female academics within the Faculty. The study indicates that the social and academic environment within the Faculty of Engineering at the University of KwaZulu-Natal was not a deterrent to female graduates studying further and entering academia. The exam performance of both male and female students was similar and neither the drop-out rate nor failure was due to gender but rather to the choice of degree. An issue of concern to both the student and the academic group was the low numbers of female academics. / Development Studies / M.A. (Development Studies)

Burnout can occur in any occupation and is a risk in the modern world of work. The objective of the study was to investigate how burnout, coping and sense of coherence are related and influence each other in an engineering environment. A Cross-sectional survey design was used in this descriptive study. The convenience sample consisted of 118 engineers and scientists at various levels in a global engineering organisation that is based in South Africa. The Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), Coping Orientations to the Problems Experienced (COPE) and Sense of Coherence (SOC) questionnaires were administered for this quantitative study. A theoretical relationship was proved by means of a literature study and an empirical relationship proved that there is indeed a relationship between the constructs and that focus and venting of emotions as well as SOC are predictors of emotional exhaustion and cynicism. SOC also proved to be a predictor of professional efficacy. / Industrial and Organisational Psychology / M.A. (Industrial and Organisational Psychology)

Os principais objetos de estudo dessa dissertação são uma estatística e um mapa da Província de São Paulo, ambos encomendados pela recém-instituída Assembleia Legislativa Provincial, em 1835, ao engenheiro-militar Daniel Pedro Müller (1785-1841). Planejados para serem utilizados como instrumentos de poder a serviço de grupos da elite paulista, no controle da administração provincial, a reconstituição dos contextos de sua produção, impressão e circulação permitem estabelecer nexos entre esses artefatos e a sociedade que os produziu e utilizou pela primeira vez, ampliando a compreensão da dinâmica política, econômica e social da Província paulista da primeira metade do Oitocentos. Para estudá-los buscou-se, inicialmente, reconstituir a trajetória de Daniel Pedro Müller, bem como caracterizar os grupos da elite paulista que passaram a ocupar os espaços de poder provincial a partir da transição do regime absolutista para a monarquia constitucional, no princípio da década de 1820, até o final da primeira metade daquele século. Em seguida, passou-se à análise dos artefatos propriamente ditos, buscando estabelecer relações entre esses objetos e os contextos político, econômico e social em que estavam inseridos. Por fim, a partir de dois exemplos concretos da economia política provincial a apropriação das terras indígenas para o avanço das culturas de exportação e subsistência em direção ao Oeste e a orientação da política econômica ao desenvolvimento da infraestrutura viária paulista buscou-se demonstrar como a construção territorial engendrada por estes artefatos serviu como instrumento de poder para a realização dos interesses e desígnios de autoridades administrativas em aliança com a elite mercantil-exportadora paulista. / The main study objects of this masters thesis are a statistic and a map of the Province of São Paulo, both commissioned in 1835 by the recently established Provincial Legislative Assembly to the military engineer Daniel Pedro Müller (1785-1841). Planned to be used as instruments of power to serve groups of the local elite in control of the provincial administration, the reconstitution of the contexts of its production, printing and circulation allows us to establish links between these artifacts and the society who produced and used them for the first time, expanding the comprehension of the political, economic and social dynamics of the Paulista province during the first half of the 19th century. In order to study these artifacts we sought, in the first place, to rebuild the trajectory of Daniel Pedro Müller as well as to characterize the Paulista elite groups that came to occupy the spaces of provincial power from the transition from the absolutist regime to the constitutional monarchy in the beginning of the 1820s, up to the end of the first half of that century. Afterwards we went to the analysis of the actual artifacts, aiming to establish relationships between these objects and the political, economic and social context in which they were entered. Finally, from two concrete examples of the provincial economic politics the appropriation of indigenous lands for the advancements of the exports and subsistence cultures towards the West part of the province and the guidance of the political economy for the development of the Paulista road infrastructure we aimed to demonstrate how the territorial construction engendered by these artifacts was used as an instrument of power to attend the interests and intends of administrative authorities in alliance with the São Paulo exporting-mercantile elite.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:33:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 AlexanderCFR_TESE.pdf: 2277990 bytes, checksum: fde046b8c7771a53154cf0f53839f90c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-07-08 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / This study aimed to compare the development of crab and tree communities of two restored mangrove areas, one planted with Rhizophora mangle and the other naturally recovered, and also to compare the predation of Grapsid crab Goniopsis cruentata and the Ocypodid Ucides cordatus over the propagules of three mangrove trees: Rhizophora mangle, Avicennia schaueriana e Laguncularia racemosa. Specifically, we tested the hypothesis that Goniopsis predation is more important that Ucides predation, and that these consumers have antagonist effects over propagule consumption. In each area, 10 quadrates were selected at random to analyze tree richness, diameter, height, tree biomass and crab richness and density five years after restoration experiment start. Results show that tree height, biomass and crab density were significantly higher in artificially restored area. No significant differences were observed in crab species richness between areas, but higher tree richness was observed in self-recovered area. Results suggest that planting propagules of Rhizophora can significantly increase tree recovering if the aim was increase tree biomass and crab density, which can accelerate return of ecological functionality. Goniopsis is a more important propagule predator than Ucides both in natural and restored areas. The effects of Goniopis were higher in absence of Ucides, due to negative interactions among these two predator species. The preference of Goniopsis by Avicennia and Laguncularia can favor the dominance of Rhizophora observed in Neotropical mangroves. This study suggests that propagule predation by Goniopsis should be controlled in restoration programs, if dominance of Rhizophora is undesirable respect to more rich tree communities / O presente estudo teve como objetivo comparar o desenvolvimento das comunidades de ?rvores e caranguejos de duas ?reas de mangue restauradas, uma plantada com Rhizophora mangle e outra naturalmente recuperada, al?m de comparar a magnitude da preda??o do Graps?deo Goniopsis cruentata e do Ocypod?deo Ucides cordatus sobre os prop?gulos de tr?s esp?cies de mangue: Rhizophora mangle, Avicennia schaueriana e Laguncularia racemosa. Em particular, foi testada a hip?tese de que a preda??o de Goniopsis ? mais importante que a preda??o por Ucides e que esses consumidores possuem efeitos antag?nicos sobre a preda??o de prop?gulos. Em cada ?rea, 10 quadrantes foram aleatoriamente selecionados para analisar a riqueza arb?rea, di?metro, altura, biomassa arb?rea e riqueza e densidade de caranguejos cinco anos ap?s o in?cio do experimento de restaura??o. Os resultados mostraram que tanto a altura e biomassa arb?reas quanto a densidade de caranguejos foram significativamente maiores na ?rea artificialmente restaurada. N?o foram observadas diferen?as significativas na riqueza de esp?cies de caranguejos entre as ?reas, mas houve uma maior riqueza de esp?cies de ?rvores na ?rea auto-recuperada. Estes resultados sugerem que o plantio de prop?gulos de Rhizophora pode aumentar significativamente a recupera??o da cobertura vegetal, se o objetivo for elevar a biomassa arb?rea e a densidade de caranguejos, o qual pode acelerar o retorno da funcionalidade ecossist?mica. Goniopsis foi um predador de prop?gulos mais importante que Ucides tanto em ?reas naturais quanto restauradas. Os efeitos de Goniopsis foram maiores na aus?ncia de Ucides devido a intera??es negativas entre estas esp?cies de predador. A prefer?ncia de Goniopsis por Avicennia e Laguncularia pode favorecer a domin?ncia de Rhizophora observada nos mangues Neotropicais. Este estudo sugere que a preda??o de prop?gulos por Goniopsis em programas de restaura??o de mangue deveria ser controlada se a domin?ncia de Rhizophora ? indesej?vel em rela??o a comunidades com mais esp?cies de ?rvore

Com o intuito de contribuir para preencher a lacuna existente na historiografia sobre os engenheiros e arquitetos atuantes no campo da construção civil, procura-se resgatar a discussão sobre habitação popular no âmbito dos periódicos de engenharia e de publicações editadas em São Paulo entre 1916 e 1931. Assim, toma-se como escopo o tratamento dado à questão da habitação popular entre o Concurso para projetos de Habitações Proletárias Econômicas, de 1916, e o I Congresso de Habitação, realizado no início de 1931. Estes dois acontecimentos são momentos nos quais engenheiros e arquitetos travaram discussões importantes em torno de uma proposta de habitação econômica. Entre as questões discutidas estão as inovações espaciais, que são influenciadas por questões de conforto, higiene e economia, concomitantemente à discussão tecnológica, que perpassa as questões da racionalização dos materiais de construção, das técnicas construtivas e de urbanismo. Discute-se também a atuação do engenheiro-arquiteto Bruno Simões Magro, útil para se entender a complexidade do tema da habitação econômica e como esse tipo de profissional, dito engenheiro arquiteto, atuou na questão da habitação popular / With the intention of contributing towards filling the historical gap existent in our knowledge of the activities of engineers and architects in the field of the construction, a discussion on popular housing in engineering periodicals and in publications edited in São Paulo between 1916 and 1931 is resuscitated. With this aim, the treatment given to the subject of popular housing between the I Contest for projects of Cost-Saving Proletarian Housing, of 1916, and the I Housing Congress, accomplished in the beginning of 1931, were taken as a basis. These two events are moments in which engineers and architects had important discussions around a proposal of cost-saving housing. Amongst the subjects discussed, space innovations are discussed as influenced by questions of comfort, hygiene and economy, side by side with technological discussion that permeates the subjects of rationalization of construction materials, construction techniques and urbanization. In addition, the performance of the engineer-architect Bruno Simões Magro is useful to understand the complexity of the theme of the low-cost housing, and how this type of professional, known as engineer-architect, acted in questioning of popular housing

Orientador: Andre Munhoz de Argollo Ferrão / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Civil / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-02T19:07:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Pinheiro_GustavoFocesi_M.pdf: 6228447 bytes, checksum: e6c78043aed6090f1657570c752366a2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2002 / Resumo: O atual estágio de desenvolvimento da humanidade apresenta-se cada vez mais agressivo ao ambiente e ao homem. O crescimento populacional aumenta cada vez mais o impacto das atividades produtivas e das edificações sobre o meio. Por esse motivo é importante que o desenvolvimento seja sustentável. Assim, foi realizada uma pesquisa por meio de questionários pré-testados, para verificar como os engenheiros civis e arquitetos estão preparados para reduzir o impacto das edificações sobre o ambiente e como podem ser melhor informados sobre o assunto. O resultado mostra que a maioria dos profissionais, que responderam ao questionário, têm pouco conhecimento sobre o conceito de desenvolvimento sustentável, reconhecem os impactos das edificações sobre o ambiente, acreditam que a qualidade seja o item mais importante para a construção civil, e têm interesse em conhecer e aplicar mais os conceitos que diminuam o impacto das construções sobre o meio / Abstract: The present human development has been proven wrong by its aggressive means on the environment and to the society. The global population growth, the industrialization and the edifications grown too, to meet the demand, interfering directly in the environment. It¿s important the application of a sustainable development in the civil construction. To identify how the professionals of civil construction are prepared to reduce the affects of edifications on the environment, a survey with pre-tested questionnaires was applied. In this questionnaire, the results show that the respondents do not know precisely what sustainable development means. The answer showed that a great deal of the professionals are worried about the constructions' impact on the environment, and have interest in knowing and getting to know more about the concepts and applying them to their professional life, and think: that quality is the most important thing to the civil construction / Mestrado / Edificações / Mestre em Engenharia Civil

En 1945, le génie militaire français est devenu l’arme des communications. À leur arrivée en Indochine, malgré la pauvreté de leurs effectifs, les formations du génie œuvrent donc au rétablissement des itinéraires. Cependant, la nature même de la guerre d’Indochine et les caractéristiques propres au milieu physique des pays de la péninsule indochinoise obligent le génie à s’adapter, tout en assurant de plus en plus de responsabilités. À partir de 1951, la menace chinoise comme le renforcement du corps de bataille viêt-minh font apparaître de nouvelles missions qui se traduisent par l’équipement du théâtre d’opérations, rendu possible par l’arrivée de l’aide américaine. En dépit de la montée en puissance du génie d’Extrême-Orient, la perte progressive de la liberté d’action du corps expéditionnaire se solde par la défaite des Français. Enfin, entre 1954 et 1956, les sapeurs accueillent les réfugiés et les unités du corps expéditionnaire en provenance du Nord-Vietnam puis, procèdent à l’évacuation de l’Indochine. / In 1945, French army engineers became the routes building branch. From the moment they arrive in Indochina, engineers reestablish itineraries, in spite of a limited number personnel. However the deep nature of the Indochina war and the particular of south-eastern Asian terrain force the engineers to adapt while they take more and more responsibilities. By 1951, the Chinese threat and the reinforcement of the Viet-Minh result in new missions which necessitate a development of infrastructures on the theatre, thanks to American support. Despite the increasing presence of the engineers, the French defeat is caused by a progressive restrain of the movement for the expeditionary corps. Eventually between 1954 and 1956, the engineers gather the refugees and the expeditionary corps units from North-Vietnam and manage the evacuation from Indochina.

A study of Asian clam (Corbicula fluminea Müller) colonization in relation to changes in aquatic vegetation community as a result of management of Hydrilla verticillata (L. f.) Royle with grass carp was conducted at the Lewisville Aquatic Ecosystem Research Facility (LAERF), Lewisville, TX, from April 2015 through October 2016. Percent vegetation cover, C. fluminea abundance and water quality metrics (pH, turbidity, conductivity, DO, calcium, chlorophyll a) from 16 experimental subjects were analyzed. Treatments included four replicated grass carp stocking densities; 1-control with no fish stocked (n = 4), 2-low density of 40-43 fish per vegetated ha (n = 4), 3-medium density of 72-81 fish per vegetated ha (n = 4) and 4-high density of 110-129 fish per vegetated ha (n = 4). Data analysis showed statistical significance in the relation of C. fluminea abundance to percent vegetation cover (multiple linear regression, r2 = 0.820), grass carp stocking densities (two-way analysis of variance, p = <0.001) and chlorophyll a (multiple linear regression, r2 = 0.339). Findings of this research indicate the possibility that management of hydrilla had enabled establishment of secondary invasive species.

The Diploma thesis is divided into 2 parts. The first one deals with the description of CAN-bus and the protocol of SAE J1939. The second part contains the practical solution to controlling of Passenger Operated Doors and controlling of Air Sprinte (ECAS). Both parts refer to contemporary (conventions/standards) and the whole task is solved in a new program environment KIBES-32.