The object of this thesis was to find out the opinion about grades among teachers in music, taking into consideration the underlying purposes, which are normally highlighted to motivate grades and to elucidate the music teachers view on the their possibilities to evaluate the pupils achievements and to give fair grades. Four music teachers were interviewed and transcriptions were made from the interviews. Relevant substance of the interviews was described and in the discussion part of the study a comparison was made with the research that was reviewed in the background. The main conclusion in the study is the teachers in music are not basically against grades and that they have a good understanding of the purposes with grades. They are also of the opinion that there are good opportunities to tool and individualise the pedagogy even though lack of resources is an obstacle. Guidance is needed on a national level but there is a hesitation about national tests. Teachers have a clear opinion about the certain difficulties, which are related to evaluation and grades in the subject music. / <p>Validerat; 20130520 (global_studentproject_submitter)</p>

Everyone wants others to think as well of them as possible, particularly during structured social presentations, such as a speech. High self-monitors have an innate facility with impression management-the process of projecting a favorable social image. If a student is a high self-monitor, how might this impact his or her grades? Might low self-monitors' grades improve during the course? Surprisingly the results of this thesis showed that self-monitoring was not correlated with speech grades. Reasons for this finding and possible insights for future research are also discussed.

The New Zealand forest industry produces a diverse range of log grades and sorts to meet domestic and export market demands and to maximise returns to the forest grower. An implication for the supply chain is the number of log grades and sorts a harvesting operation is expected to produce from one species, radiata pine (Pinus radiata). The number of log grades and sorts can impact on landing size and layout requirements, value recovery, log-making complexity, machine utilisation and quality control requirements. A study was conducted to investigate if the number of log sorts affects mechanised log processing productivity and value recovery. This would determine if any gross value gains derived from producing a higher number of sorts are offset by losses in log processing productivity. Two landing-based mechanised log processors at cable yarder harvesting operations were studied using different cutting scenarios producing five, nine, twelve and fifteen log sorts. The study collected data from over 26 hours of mechanised processing which included the processing of 578 stems at an average piece size of approximately 1.6 m³. Machine utilisation results showed processors spending 84% of total time on productive tasks and that 49% of total time was spent on the primary productive tasks of log processing. Quadratic regressions were used to model log processing productivity trends which showed piece size and cutting scenario as significant predictor variables (p-value <0.01). There was a significant difference between cutting scenario with five log sorts and the cutting scenarios with twelve and fifteen log sorts (p-values <0.05), as well as a significant difference between the nine and fifteen log sort cutting scenarios (p-value <0.01). There was not enough evidence to suggest productivity was different between cutting scenarios producing five and nine log sorts. Based on this analysis, it was likely that the null hypothesis that the number of log sorts does not affect log processing productivity should be rejected. At a piece size of 2 m³, the productivity model estimated processing productivity was 10% higher producing nine log sorts compared to producing fifteen log sorts. A linear regression model showed a strong relationship between gross value recovery, piece size and cutting scenario (p-value <0.01). Gross value recovery increased as the number of log sorts increased. A significant model suggested it is likely null hypothesis 2, that the number of log sorts does not affect gross value recovery, should be rejected. There were only some differences in variances between cutting scenarios which were statistically significant. Both the average results and regression estimates showed the five log sort cutting scenario recovering 94% of the value of the cutting scenario with fifteen log sorts. Incremental gains in value recovery as the number of log sorts increased were marginal, which appeared to be due to log prices for many major log grades trading in a close range in relation to historic price trends. Regression trends for productivity and gross value recovery indicated that the most optimal cutting scenario, in terms of processing value outturn per productive machine hour, was the cutting scenario producing nine log sorts. This suggests that declines in processor productivity offset gains in gross value recovery when producing twelve and fifteen log sorts. Market sensitivity analysis suggested that differentials in log prices impact on the number of log sorts which optimise the value outturn per productive machine hour from log processing.

A university has been shown to have a positive effect on society and has led to greater awareness of the social problems found in our towns today and a willingness to openly discuss and resolve them. Universities have a social and civic role that improves the social living conditions in the areas surrounding them. A university also improves the local economy by creating jobs and attracting new businesses which in turn lead to an improved infrastructure and a subsequent decrease in residence segregation. Residential segregation is a growing phenomenon in Sweden where students living in disadvantaged areas are less likely to succeed in school than students living in more advantaged areas, as is often shown by their school results. The purpose of this study is to analyze a university’s effects on high school student’s grades in different socioeconomic living areas in Sweden. Is there a correlation between the student’s grades in these areas and the presence of a university in the region? To analyze these effects, a multilevel regression model in two scales has been used. his thesis shows that a direct correlation exists between high school students’ grades and the presence of a university in the region. A university has a strong improving effect on the grades of students from highly resourceful areas. The study further illustrates that although a new university will lead to an improvement of the general standard of education of a region, the introduction of more universities does not result in an increase in the number of people with a university education.

This study was to ascertain what relationship exists between the semester grades earned by students enrolled in the beginning drafting course at North Texas State University and the number of years of mechanical drawing that the student had in high school.

The purpose of this investigation is to determine the factors that are associated with freshman students who make superior marks in freshman college English and with students who make failing marks in freshman college English.

As propriedades da turbulência induzida em um fluido viscoso através da oscilação de uma grade foram investigadas experimentalmente utilizando a técnica DPIV (Digital Particle Image Velocimetry). Perfis verticais da energia cinética turbulenta, taxa de dissipação de energia, viscosidade turbulenta e escala de comprimento foram obtidos e comparados com soluções analíticas existentes. Os dados experimentais mostram uma boa concordância com as predições teóricas. Adicionalmente, foi observado que há uma variação significativa da intensidade turbulenta para distâncias próximas da grade. Com o aumento da distância, a turbulência se torna mais homogênea no plano horizontal, e estas variações tendem a desaparecer. Os resultados mostram também que o escoamento somente pode ser considerado livre de cisalhamento para grandes distâncias da grade, onde as tensões de Reynolds se aproximam de zero. Além disso, descobriu-se que são necessários no mínimo 450 campos de vetores para assegurar a precisão das medidas. Também foram realizadas medidas de turbulência em uma configuração de duas grades. Os resultados mostram que a região central entre as duas grades possui certas propriedades similares à turbulência isotrópica. Adicionalmente, foram realizadas comparações com o modelo k-&#949, mostrando que o mesmo pode ser aplicado a uma configuração de duas grades. / The properties of turbulence induced in a viscous fluid by oscillating a grid were investigated experimentally using the digital particle image velocimetry (DPIV). Vertical profiles of the turbulent energy, the dissipation rate, the eddy viscosity and a lengthscale have been obtained and compared with available analytical solutions. The experimental data agree well with the theoretical predictions. In addition, it could be observed that there are significant variations of the turbulent intensities at a small distance from the grid. With increasing distance from the grid, the turbulence becomes more homogeneous in the horizontal plane, and the variations in the turbulent intensities are reduced. The results also show that the turbulence can be considered to be shear-free only at a distance sufficiently far away from the grid, where the Reynolds shear stress aproaches zero. It became evident, furthermore, that at least 450 vector maps should be taken to ensure the accuracy of the measured velocity fluctuations. Turbulence was also measured for a two-grid configuration. It was found that the central region between the grids has certain properties similar to that of isotropic turbulence. The results show good agreement with the k-&#949 model, validating the application of the k-&#949 model to a pair of oscillating-grids.

Grades de Bragg em fibras ópticas vêm sendo bastante utilizadas nas áreas de telecomunicações e sensores. Na área de sensores, elas servem para medir grandezas como deformação e temperatura. Uma das vantagens da utilização de grades de Bragg em sensores a fibra óptica é que estas grandezas alteram o comprimento de onda do pico de refletividade e não o nível de potência do elemento sensor, fazendo com que o sensor a grade de Bragg seja menos sujeito à variação da potência da fonte e degradação dos componentes.Uma forma de se detectar a variação do comprimento de onda da grade é através de um analisador de espectro óptico. Entretanto, essa solução não é muita prática para testes de campo com esses sensores. Uma forma mais adequada de se medir esse parâmetro é através do uso dos chamados Interrogadores de sensores a grade de Bragg. Esses Interrogadores transformam variações de comprimento de onda em variações de amplitude, facilmente detectadas através de um fotodetector. Dois tipos de Interrogadores foram analisados e estudados experimentalmente nesta tese: o interrogador a filtro casado (IFC) e o interrogador a filme fino (IFF). Suas características principais são apresentadas nesta tese e o desempenho de cada um deles é analisado. O Interrogador a filtro casado apresentou um desempenho melhor do que aquele baseado em filme fino, mas com a desvantagem de requerer muitos componentes para sistemas com um número grande de sensores.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-02-04T21:45:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Vanderlei Costa.pdf: 1535805 bytes, checksum: 1edf57ffedf62a0db7a4c94312b486d6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-10-03 / Plataformas de grade computacional têm sido adotadas para promover o compartilhamento, agregação e coordenação de grandes quantidades de recursos geograficamente distribuídos e multi-institucionais. Em tais ambientes, que envolvem grandes quantidades de recursos localizados em diversos domínios administrativos e sujeitos a uma diversidade de políticas de controle de acesso, o controle de acesso é obrigatório. Como principal contribuição, o presente trabalho estende o arcabouço (framework) de portais GridSphere com o objetivo de fornecer ferramentas de controle de acesso que podem ser utilizadas para o desenvolvimento de aplicaçõess para grades computacionais. Os mecanismos e ferramentas propostos também realizam o controle de acesso no nível de invocação de serviço, que pode ser usado por qualquer aplicação compatível com OGSA que realize invocações a serviços de grade. Nossa abordagem permite a integração e consistência entre políticas de autorização aplicadas no lado do portal e no lado do provedor de serviço.

A crescente disponibilizaÃÃo de serviÃos atravÃs da Internet vem impondo uma demanda cada vez maior por recursos de processamento no lado servidor favorecendo a utilizaÃÃo dos Clusters de Computadores e das Grades Computacionais. Em paralelo, a engenharia de software traz novos paradigmas, como a OrientaÃÃo a ServiÃos, que impÃem novos desafios a serem tratados pelos fornecedores de serviÃos. A convergÃncia destes fatores deu origem as Arquiteturas de Grades Computacionais Orientadas a ServiÃos. Neste trabalho à apresentada uma proposta de arquitetura em grades computacionais orientada a serviÃos, denominada GDSAC (Grid â DiffServ Admission Control), que trata de aspectos ligados à QoS (Quality of Service) e a diferenciaÃÃo de serviÃos. A arquitetura G-DSAC à uma extensÃo da arquitetura WS-DSAC (Web Servers â DiffServ AdmissionControl). Està extensÃo compreende a concepÃÃo de uma soluÃÃo voltada para grades computacionais que à capaz de garantir os SLAs (Service Level Agreements) estabelecidos com os consumidores de serviÃos utilizando de forma otimizada os recursos de processamento disponibilizados na grade. A soluÃÃo permite ainda a diferenciaÃÃo de serviÃos no que diz respeito aos tempos de resposta oferecidos aos clientes, usuÃrios finais e serviÃos consumidores. A nova arquitetura introduz um bloco de funcionalidades em uma plataforma de grade computacional orientada a serviÃos formada por multclusters. Esse bloco permite a publicaÃÃo e localizaÃÃo de serviÃos, autenticaÃÃo e classificaÃÃo de requisiÃÃes e o escalonamento das mesmas dentro da grade de acordo com a classe de serviÃo a qual pertencem. Foi tambÃm implementado um protÃtipo que permitiu a realizaÃÃo de experimentos em uma plataforma real de testes visando avaliar a capacidade da soluÃÃo em atingir os objetivos por ela proposto