九年一貫課程「將傳統學科統整為七大學習領域」，在知識結構方面的改變，對教師的影響甚大；其中，尤以「綜合活動學習領域」的實施，最令基層教師感到困擾。研究者多年來擔任師資培育中心的教學研究發現，現行九年一貫課程「綜合活動學習領域」的實施，存在著許多問題。綜合課程強調「統整課程」及「合科教學」的部分，期能透過「綜合活動學習領域」的設置及活動過程的體驗與反思，將傳統的分科課程，統整為相互關聯的領域，並且落實學生生活能力的陶養。其若以「美學/哲學的課程取向」論述，教師可依循課程綱要，自主的規劃教學活動，學校也可採取彈性課程的方式，由生活經驗出發，讓學童探索真實生活中的經驗，學習對事物做深入的體驗、判斷與理解意義；因此，如何促使「生活中美感」與「體驗活動」產生聯結，落實學童生活能力的陶養，便成為「綜合活動課程實踐」的關鍵因素。 本文採用敘事分析的探究途徑，針對國小「綜合活動學習領域」教師的教學實踐敘事，進行「教師自我歸因」的敘事意義創塑，強調「閱讀文本、分享對話、游移遊戲」半結構式的課程設計，一種閱讀詮釋、對話視域與遊戲體驗的課程美學探究。本研究發現： 1、透過「教師敘事－自我歸因」的概念範疇，論述「綜合活動學習領域」課程美學之可能實踐途徑；包含：省思跨領域綜合課程的交互作用；充實學生生活使其發展完美人性；閱讀、對話與分享意念的課程實踐；課程中的主體性與情境詮釋以及一種「詮釋性反省的手法」：教師藉以覺察「師生從學習經驗中協商出的意義」，進而重新審視課程中「教育經驗的內涵及意圖」，「敘事」得以「喚醒了課程主體」，一種生命歷程、多元情境脈絡的建構過程、衝擊與協商。 2、透過「課程實踐－教學敘事」的案例分析，探究「觀看/閱讀生活世界」課程美學之可能實踐途徑；包含：協商的、批判性的、互為文本的解讀；師生互為「觀看、傾聽、感覺和感動」；「體驗作為一種學習方式」的課程實施；「故事作為一種學習方式」的課程實施；「想像文本作為一種學習方式」的課程實施以及「詩性智慧作為一種學習方式」的課程實施：綜合活動課程藉以創造出一個「詩性的經驗、感性的融合」，使其經營出一種對話遊戲中的新經驗，由詩、遊戲、美感經驗所構成的學習課程；在學習過程中，師生得以審視「由故事、創造組成，觸及學習者感覺、同情與想像力思維、詩性的體驗和實踐的智慧」。 3、透過「課程美學－詮釋批判」的概念範疇，探究「師生交感於美學視野」的互動過程之可能途徑；包含：詩性的、經驗內容的自我體驗和表白；在意義流動開展中解構自己的課程世界；情境互動、解構文本、賞析與視野融合；一種神話、故事、夢想與想像課程意圖；教育如何促使人們發展自己的知覺力量；如何促使人們發展美好生活的課程實踐：教師藉以審視或覺察「他們處於不斷的變化之中」，一種「主動的學習歷程，一種整體的生命經驗」，而且透過「課程的動態觀點」，所有的課程設計，都可以是一種思維過程的課程經驗，一種美好生活的「覺醒和意識」的模式。 4、透過「課程敘事－語言流動」的分析架構，探究「生活中美感」與「體驗活動」產生聯結之途徑；包含：語言的可能性與「觀看途徑」的運作；「以學生為主體」真實生活世界的知識實踐；能將「生活世界」真實存在的主題加以關連；對話提供未完成性的關連與希望的存有覺察；教育情境的動態發展，人與豐富情境的「邂逅」：教師藉以重新審視過程中「課程片段、組成部分的反思與回饋」，一種「人與情境多樣性的檢視」，透過「自由的實踐」，質疑一切看似靜態與不易變更之社會事實，一種互動不斷演化出渾沌的、眾多不同模式的課程實踐。 / Integrating the traditional disciplines into seven main learning areas according to Grade 1-9 Curriculum has imposed great impact on both knowledge structures and the instructors; especially the practice of Integrative Activities Learning really troubles the grass-roots teachers. Base on years of experience as an instructor in Teacher Education Center, I’ve found that the current implementation of Integrative Activities Learning is not easy to be executed in reality. The purpose of Integrative Activities Learning is to emphasize on integrated curriculum and all teaching aspect, and through the participation in the planned activities, students are in the mean time trained to have good life skills. When focusing on Aesthetics/Philosophy Course Orientation, not only the teachers can follow the curriculum guidelines to set the pace of the appropriate teaching plans, the schools can also adopt flexible curriculum; this will be a good way to guide the students in learning, exploring and experiencing daily events. Moreover, through the practice of Integrative Activities, students can learn to link their daily experiences with beauty of life, thus, they’re trained to own life skills. This abstract uses narrative analysis as the mean to proceed the evaluation on the effectiveness of practicing Integrative Activities Learning in elementary schools. To study the result of stressing on story reading, dialogue sharing and doing waver game – a curriculum for attaining story understanding, dialogue forming and gaming experience. This research found the following points. 1.Through the concept of narrative analysis and self-attribution to realize the possible ways of implementing Integrative Activities Learning in elementary schools. Teachers can guide students to learn to appreciate beauty and moral values in the process of reading, sharing dialogues and thoughts with others and further more, developing good life skills. 2.Through the concept of curriculum practice and teaching narrative to find the possible ways of practicing aesthetics curriculum in schools. Teachers can interact with students by sharing with one another about what their thoughts are in watching, listening and feeling from doing group activities. Through experimenting, reading and imagination brainstorming, Integrative Activities Learning can be a great tool to create a fun and productive learning experience for both teachers and students. 3.Through the concept of curriculum aesthetics and interpretation of critical to determine the possible ways of teacher/student interaction on beauty. Teachers and students can interact through studying myths, stories and dreams; by taking the initiative to learn and share inner thoughts with others, students can cultivate an overall life experience and gain the awakening and awareness through calculated curriculum learning. 4.Through the concept of curriculum narrative and language flow to find the connection between beauty of life and experience activities. Teachers can show the students the possibilities of languages usages, discuss the life themes of this living world with students and help them to examine, question and clarify the seems unchanged social facts and find the core value of their own through participating in the course.

Os agroecossistemas consistem em complexas relações tróficas entre plantas, herbívoros, e seus inimigos naturais. Sabe-se que a maioria das plantas é capaz de produzir compostos voláteis, utilizados como sinais químicos por diferentes grupos de insetos. Esses voláteis podem ser produzidos de forma constitutiva em plantas sadias, ou seja, sem indução. Por outro lado, a produção de voláteis induzidos se dá a partir do contato de secreções liberadas pelo fitófago com injurias ocasionadas pela alimentação ou oviposição no tecido vegetal. Para os fitófagos esses voláteis podem sinalizar a presença da planta hospedeira, bem como a presença de coespecíficos e do parceiro sexual. Já para os inimigos naturais, predadores e parasitóides, os voláteis induzidos podem sinalizar a presença do inseto fitófago (presa/ hospedeiro) na planta. Nesse contexto as respostas comportamentais de Diaphorina citri Kuwayama (Hemiptera: Psyllidae), aos voláteis de plantas de murta, Murraya paniculata (L.) Jack (Rutaceae), infestadas ou não por coespecíficos, foram estudadas. Também foram investigadas as respostas dos psilídeos aos voláteis de plantas de Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck (Rutaceae) infectadas por bactérias causadoras do Huanglongbing ou HLB, uma das mais sérias doenças dos citros. Nos bioensaios visando compostos repelentes a D. citri, foram testados os voláteis de plantas de goiaba, Psidium guajava L.(Myrtaceae) e sua interferência na localização de plantas de Citrus limonia (L.) Osbeck (Rutaceae) pelos psilídeos. As respostas comportamentais foram mensuradas em olfatômetro Y e de quatro vias. Antes de estabelecer os bioensaios de olfatometria foram realizados estudos do comportamento sexual de D. citri. Os resultados obtidos evidenciaram que o início da atividade sexual de D. citri ocorreu entre o segundo e terceiro dia após a emergência, e que os psilídeos foram mais ativos durante a fotofase. Quanto às influências dos voláteis de plantas, machos e fêmeas de D. citri responderam diferentemente aos mesmos estímulos olfativos. Assim, os machos foram atraídos apenas aos odores associados às fêmeas. Já as fêmeas, foram atraídas aos odores das plantas, porém, evitando os odores associados aos machos, inclusive de plantas previamente infestadas por estes. Verificou-se também, que os adultos de D. citri distinguiram os voláteis de citros com HLB dos voláteis de plantas saudáveis. Sendo assim, ficou nítida a atratividade dos voláteis de plantas infectadas, tanto aos psilídeos machos quanto às fêmeas. Na busca por compostos repelentes, também foi possível demonstrar que os voláteis de P. guajava não somente dificultou à localização de plantas de C. limonia por D. citri, como também repeliram os psilídeos. As descobertas aqui apresentadas poderão auxiliar a elaboração de novas táticas para o manejo comportamental de D. citri. / The agro-ecosystems consist of complex trophic relationships between plants, herbivores and their natural enemies. It is known that the majority of plants can produce volatiles compounds used as chemical signals by different groups of insects. These compounds can be produced constitutively in healthy plants, i.e., without induction. In other hand, the production of induced volatiles occurs from the contact of secretions released by phytophagous with injuries caused by feeding or oviposition in plant tissue. For phytophagous, these volatile compounds may signal the presence of the host plant, as well as the presence of conspecifics and the sexual partner. Although, natural enemies, predators and parasitoids, the induced volatiles can signal the presence of phytophagous insects (prey / host) in the plant. In this context, the behavioral responses of Diaphorina citri Kuwayama (Hemiptera: Psyllidae) to plant volatiles of jasmine, Murraya paniculata (L.) Jack (Rutaceae) infested or not by conspecifics, were studied. It was also investigated the responses of psyllids to volatiles of Citrus sinensis infected by bacteria that cause the huanglongbing or HLB, one of the most serious diseases of citrus. Given the studies that aim to identify repellent compounds to D. citri, it was tested plant volatiles of guava, Psidium guajava L. (Myrtaceae) and their impact on plant location of Citrus limonia (L.) Osbeck (Rutaceae) by psyllids. Behavioral responses were measured by Y-tube and four-way olfactometers. Before establishing the olfactometry assays, studies of D. citri sexual behavior were performed. The obtained results showed that the beginning of D. citri sexual activities occurred between the second and third days after emergence, and the psyllids were more active during the photophase. In regard to the effects of plant volatiles, males and females of D. citri differently responded to the same olfactory stimuli. Thus, males were attracted only to odors associated with females. Females were attracted to plant odors, although they avoided odors associated with males, including plants previously infested by them. It was also verified that D. citri adults distinguished volatiles citrus with HLB from volatiles released by healthy plants. Given that, it was clear that volatiles from infected plants were attractive to both males and females psyllids. In search of repellent compounds, also was possible demonstrated that P. guajava volatiles not only hindered the location of plants of C. limonia by D. citri, but also provided repellent effect to psyllids. The findings presented here may help the development of new tactics for the behavioral management of D. citri.

Este trabalho trata sobre a transferência de frequência em neurônios de disparo, especificamente neurônios integra-e-dispara com escoamento e neurônios de Izhikevich. Através de análises matemáticas analíticas e sistemáticas simulações numéricas é obtida a função de ganho, a transferência de frequência estacionária e dinâmica dos neurônios utilizados, para diversos valores dos parâmetros do modelo. Desse modo, são realizados múltiplos ajustes às curvas obtidas, e os coeficientes estimados são apresentados. Com base em todos esses dados, são obtidas diversas características dessas relações de transferência de frequência, e como suas propriedades variam com relação aos principais parâmetros do modelo de neurônio e sinapse utilizados. Diversos resultados interessantes foram apresentados, incluindo evidências de que a função ganho do neurônio integra-e-dispara pode se comportar de modo bastante semelhante à função de ganho e transferência estacionária do neurônio de Izhikevich, dependendo dos parâmetros adotados; a divisão do plano de parâmetros do modelo integra-e-dispara de acordo com a linearidade da transferência de frequência dinâmica; o limiar da intensidade de corrente contínua e de frequência de spikes pré-sinápticos de um neurônio de Izhikevich é determinado apenas pelo parâmetro b, no intervalo de parâmetros usual; modelos de sinapses distintos tendem a não alterar a forma da transferência de frequência estacionária de um neurônio de Izhikevich. / This work is about the frequency transfer of spiking neurons, specifically integrate-and-fire neurons and Izhikevich neurons. Through analytical and systematic numerical simulations the gain function, the stationary and dynamic frequency transfer of the adopted neuron models, are obtained for several values of the model parameters. Thus, multiple fits are made to the curves obtained, and the estimated coefficients are presented. Based on all these data, several characteristics of the frequency transfer relations are obtained, and information is obtained about how their properties vary with respect the parameters of the adopted neuron and synapse model. Several interesting results have been presented, including evidences that the integrate-and-fire neuron\'s gain function can behave quite similarly to the Izhikevich neuron\'s stationary transfer and gain function, depending of the adopted parameters. We also obtained the division of the parameters plane of integrate-and-fire model according to the linearity of the dynamic frequency transfer. It was also verified that the thresholds of the presynaptic spikes\' current intensity and frequency of an Izhikevich neuron are determined only by the parameter b, in the usual parameter range. In addition, it was observed that the considered distinct synapses models tend not to depart from the stationary frequency transfer of an Izhikevich neuron.

為因應預測目的不同，有時需要各種預測水平{\rm (forecast horizon)} ，例如，月預測可供進料、生產、補貨及倉儲之參考，年預測則可作為產 能規畫、產品線規畫、投資決策等之準則。然而，預測結構卻會因水平的 不同而彼此相異，以致產生諸多預測值的矛盾。有鑑於此，本研究主要以 一簡單且具理論基礎的整合{\rm intergration)} 過程，解決預測值互相 矛盾的問題。由於年資料通常屬於連續性模式，月資料則多為季節性模式 ，兩者透過的轉移函數形態截然不同，而且在解釋變數的選取上更是迥異 ，因此，需要經由加權平均的整合，才能使月預測值的加總等於年預測值 。至於權數的決定則以離散程度為準則，由於年資料為月資料的加總，兩 者均值相差甚多，故以變異係數為測量離散情形的標準。本研究主要乃遵 循{\rm Box-Jenkins} 的模式建立法則，構建連續性轉移函數模式及季節 性、轉移函數模式，並加以整合調整。在實證分析中以台灣啤酒銷售量為 例說明預測流程，年銷量預測方面以國民所得為解釋變數; 月銷量預測方 面則以氣溫為解釋變數，最後以加權平均將兩者整合調整。

Young people are currently affected in the realm of self-esteem, identity development and relational behaviour amidst advancing technology. There is the need for research in this area. Obstacles include fragmented homes, distance job–location and back-log parental education. There is the need for spiritual direction and for the formation of Christian spiritual principles. This is evident in the attraction of young people to cults and the influences of the New Age. The study will explore the complexity of relationships, identity and behaviour in young people. The empirical research will be obtained with permission from a school in the Eastern Cape; the focus group of this study is ages 11 – 18 years. The aim of this study will be to explore interventions which can help facilitate better personal, family and peer relationships in adolescents. The aim will further be to help bring about better integration in their personalities, relationships and communication. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / M. Th. (Practical Theology)

Obiettivo: Accrescere la conoscenza relativa a come supportare il coinvolgimento attivo dei pazienti anziani, descrivendo i contenuti di interventi per il coinvolgimento attivo con pazienti anziani attualmente presenti sul panorama scientifico, sviluppando un nuovo intervento e studiando le prime fasi della sua implementazione. Metodo: Nel primo studio, in risposta al primo obiettivo, è stata condotta una analisi sistematica della letteratura scientifica sul tema. Il secondo studio ha visto la conduzione di focus groups con professionisti sanitari e interviste individuali a pazienti anziani per raffinare e validare qualitativamente un nuovo intervento per il coinvolgimento attivo. Nel terzo studio, si è studiata l’implementazione iniziale dell’intervento in un contesto italiano di cure integrate attraverso una ricerca partecipativa. Risultati: Il principale risultato del primo studio è stato la sbilanciata attenzione tra i 35 interventi per il coinvolgimento attivo presenti in letteratura per le componenti emotive a favore di quelle educative e comportamentali. È sulla base dei risultati del primo studio e di un modello teorico che è stata sviluppata una prima bozza di intervento. Nel secondo studio, la prospettiva di professionisti sanitari e pazienti anziani ha fornito indicazioni per modificare l’intervento e renderlo potenzialmente implementabile nella pratica clinica. L’intervento che è risultato consiste di almeno due incontri mensili individuali, più un set personalizzato di esercizi riflessivi per il paziente da compilare in autonomia a casa. Infine, il terzo studio ha osservato come le diverse pratiche educative presenti nei diversi setting – ospedaliero, ambulatoriale, territoriale - di un contesto di cura integrato hanno generato diverse, specifiche, difficoltà per l’implementazione. Un certo sforzo di flessibilità e personalizzazione dei contenuti e delle procedure dell’intervento è stato dunque richiesto. Implicazioni: L’intervento sviluppato mostra potenzialità nel supportare il coinvolgimento attivo dei pazienti anziani, ma necessita di ulteriori studi relativi all’implementabilità sul lungo termine e alla sua efficacia. / Aim: To contribute knowledge about how patient engagement support can be provided to older adults, by describing the contents of interventions aimed at patient engagement for older adults, developing a patient engagement intervention, and studying its early-stage implementation. Methods: In study 1, a systematic review of the literature was performed. In study 2, a qualitative study with focus groups involving healthcare professionals and individual interviews to older adults was conducted to develop the intervention. In study 3, a qualitative study of a participatory process was accomplished to explore the early-stage implementation of the intervention in one integrated-care organization. Results: The main finding of study 1 was that the emotional dimension was less used than the educational and behavioural dimensions among the 35 patient engagement interventions for older adults. The findings from the study 1 were used, together with a theory of patient engagement, to develop a draft of an individual patient engagement intervention for older adults (PHEinAction). In the study 2, the views of healthcare professionals and older adults were used to refine and finally endorse it. The final version of PHEinAction consisted of at least two face-to-face one hour individual sessions one month apart, plus a set of personalized home-based exercises aimed to facilitate a range of emotional, behavioural, cognitive changes for patient engagement. Finally, the study 3 observed how the existing patient education practice of inpatient, outpatient and territorial settings differently challenged the implementation. A certain degree of flexibility of PHEinAction’s contents and procedures was required to address these challenges. Implications: PHEinAction shows promise as an intervention to improve patient engagement in older adults. However, more research is needed, especially focusing on long-term implementation studies and evaluation of effects with experimental studies.

Os agroecossistemas consistem em complexas relações tróficas entre plantas, herbívoros, e seus inimigos naturais. Sabe-se que a maioria das plantas é capaz de produzir compostos voláteis, utilizados como sinais químicos por diferentes grupos de insetos. Esses voláteis podem ser produzidos de forma constitutiva em plantas sadias, ou seja, sem indução. Por outro lado, a produção de voláteis induzidos se dá a partir do contato de secreções liberadas pelo fitófago com injurias ocasionadas pela alimentação ou oviposição no tecido vegetal. Para os fitófagos esses voláteis podem sinalizar a presença da planta hospedeira, bem como a presença de coespecíficos e do parceiro sexual. Já para os inimigos naturais, predadores e parasitóides, os voláteis induzidos podem sinalizar a presença do inseto fitófago (presa/ hospedeiro) na planta. Nesse contexto as respostas comportamentais de Diaphorina citri Kuwayama (Hemiptera: Psyllidae), aos voláteis de plantas de murta, Murraya paniculata (L.) Jack (Rutaceae), infestadas ou não por coespecíficos, foram estudadas. Também foram investigadas as respostas dos psilídeos aos voláteis de plantas de Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck (Rutaceae) infectadas por bactérias causadoras do Huanglongbing ou HLB, uma das mais sérias doenças dos citros. Nos bioensaios visando compostos repelentes a D. citri, foram testados os voláteis de plantas de goiaba, Psidium guajava L.(Myrtaceae) e sua interferência na localização de plantas de Citrus limonia (L.) Osbeck (Rutaceae) pelos psilídeos. As respostas comportamentais foram mensuradas em olfatômetro Y e de quatro vias. Antes de estabelecer os bioensaios de olfatometria foram realizados estudos do comportamento sexual de D. citri. Os resultados obtidos evidenciaram que o início da atividade sexual de D. citri ocorreu entre o segundo e terceiro dia após a emergência, e que os psilídeos foram mais ativos durante a fotofase. Quanto às influências dos voláteis de plantas, machos e fêmeas de D. citri responderam diferentemente aos mesmos estímulos olfativos. Assim, os machos foram atraídos apenas aos odores associados às fêmeas. Já as fêmeas, foram atraídas aos odores das plantas, porém, evitando os odores associados aos machos, inclusive de plantas previamente infestadas por estes. Verificou-se também, que os adultos de D. citri distinguiram os voláteis de citros com HLB dos voláteis de plantas saudáveis. Sendo assim, ficou nítida a atratividade dos voláteis de plantas infectadas, tanto aos psilídeos machos quanto às fêmeas. Na busca por compostos repelentes, também foi possível demonstrar que os voláteis de P. guajava não somente dificultou à localização de plantas de C. limonia por D. citri, como também repeliram os psilídeos. As descobertas aqui apresentadas poderão auxiliar a elaboração de novas táticas para o manejo comportamental de D. citri. / The agro-ecosystems consist of complex trophic relationships between plants, herbivores and their natural enemies. It is known that the majority of plants can produce volatiles compounds used as chemical signals by different groups of insects. These compounds can be produced constitutively in healthy plants, i.e., without induction. In other hand, the production of induced volatiles occurs from the contact of secretions released by phytophagous with injuries caused by feeding or oviposition in plant tissue. For phytophagous, these volatile compounds may signal the presence of the host plant, as well as the presence of conspecifics and the sexual partner. Although, natural enemies, predators and parasitoids, the induced volatiles can signal the presence of phytophagous insects (prey / host) in the plant. In this context, the behavioral responses of Diaphorina citri Kuwayama (Hemiptera: Psyllidae) to plant volatiles of jasmine, Murraya paniculata (L.) Jack (Rutaceae) infested or not by conspecifics, were studied. It was also investigated the responses of psyllids to volatiles of Citrus sinensis infected by bacteria that cause the huanglongbing or HLB, one of the most serious diseases of citrus. Given the studies that aim to identify repellent compounds to D. citri, it was tested plant volatiles of guava, Psidium guajava L. (Myrtaceae) and their impact on plant location of Citrus limonia (L.) Osbeck (Rutaceae) by psyllids. Behavioral responses were measured by Y-tube and four-way olfactometers. Before establishing the olfactometry assays, studies of D. citri sexual behavior were performed. The obtained results showed that the beginning of D. citri sexual activities occurred between the second and third days after emergence, and the psyllids were more active during the photophase. In regard to the effects of plant volatiles, males and females of D. citri differently responded to the same olfactory stimuli. Thus, males were attracted only to odors associated with females. Females were attracted to plant odors, although they avoided odors associated with males, including plants previously infested by them. It was also verified that D. citri adults distinguished volatiles citrus with HLB from volatiles released by healthy plants. Given that, it was clear that volatiles from infected plants were attractive to both males and females psyllids. In search of repellent compounds, also was possible demonstrated that P. guajava volatiles not only hindered the location of plants of C. limonia by D. citri, but also provided repellent effect to psyllids. The findings presented here may help the development of new tactics for the behavioral management of D. citri.

I extended an artificial life platform called GReaNs (the name stands for Gene Regulatory evolving artificial Networks) to explore the evolutionary abilities of biologically inspired Spiking Neural Network (SNN) model. The encoding of SNNs in GReaNs was inspired by the encoding of gene regulatory networks. As proof-of-principle, I used GReaNs to evolve SNNs to obtain a network with an output neuron which generates a predefined spike train in response to a specific input. Temporal pattern recognition was one of the main tasks during my studies. It is widely believed that nervous systems of biological organisms use temporal patterns of inputs to encode information. The learning technique used for temporal pattern recognition is not clear yet. I studied the ability to evolve spiking networks with different numbers of interneurons in the absence and the presence of noise to recognize predefined temporal patterns of inputs. Results showed, that in the presence of noise, it was possible to evolve successful networks. However, the networks with only one interneuron were not robust to noise. The foraging behaviour of many small animals depends mainly on their olfactory system. I explored whether it was possible to evolve SNNs able to control an agent to find food particles on 2-dimensional maps. Using ring rate encoding to encode the sensory information in the olfactory input neurons, I managed to obtain SNNs able to control an agent that could detect the position of the food particles and move toward it. Furthermore, I did unsuccessful attempts to use GReaNs to evolve an SNN able to control an agent able to collect sound sources from one type out of several sound types. Each sound type is represented as a pattern of different frequencies. In order to use the computational power of neuromorphic hardware, I integrated GReaNs with the SpiNNaker hardware system. Only the simulation part was carried out using SpiNNaker, but the rest steps of the genetic algorithm were done with GReaNs.

[pt] Atualmente, o intercâmbio eletrônico de dados é uma importante ferramenta para as parcerias entre empresas de setores competitivos do mercado global. A indústria da construção civil também necessita usufruir os benefícios oferecidos pelo trabalho colaborativo, através de ferramentas desenvolvidas segundo os conceitos da Engenharia Simultânea, como sistemas integrados para planejamento e projeto em CAD. Este trabalho propõe um ambiente de integração de sistemas de planejamento e de projeto na construção de estruturas de aço. O princípio básico deste ambiente é facilitar a relação entre as diversas atividades, como o planejamento da construção, o projeto e a montagem da estrutura e a análise de custos. Uma das premissas adotadas é que as tarefas básicas do sistema integrado são executadas por programas já existentes e utilizados normalmente pelo mercado, com o objetivo de minimizar o impacto do uso deste padrão de desenvolvimento. A integração entre os diversos módulos é feita através dos recursos disponibilizados pela Internet. Tendo em vista a consolidação da Internet como um padrão de comunicação e um banco de dados como ponto central de toda a integração proposta, as principais tarefas deste trabalho consistem na definição de um modelo de dados utilizando um padrão estabelecido para a comunicação entre os diversos programas e o desenvolvimento de um protótipo da arquitetura proposta para a integração dos diversos módulos. Estudos amplos têm sido feitos para o desenvolvimento de um padrão completo para representação de dados de um projeto de estruturas de aço. Este trabalho utiliza o padrão CIS/2, publicado para o projeto CIMsteel, e que envolve o trabalho de diversas organizações representativas de várias áreas da indústria da construção civil. / [en] Nowadays, electronic data interchange is an important tool for the partnership between companies from global market competitive sectors. The steel construction industry can also benefit from the collaborative work, through tools developed according to the concepts of the Concurrent Engineering, such as CAD design integrated systems. This work proposes an environment for integration of steel construction design and building planning systems. The basic principle of this environment is to facilitate the relationship amongst the several activities involved, such as the construction planning, the structure project, structural assembly and the cost evaluation. One of the adopted proposition is that the basic tasks of the integrated system are executed by software already available in the market and used in current professional ativities, with the objective of minimizing the impact of the use of this development standard. System modules are integrated by the Internet resources. With the consolidation of the Internet as means of communication and a database as the central point of all the proposed integration, the main task of this work consists on the definition of a data model using an established procedure for the inter-programs communication. Another task is the development of a prototype of the proposed architecture for the several modules integration. Worldwide studies have been made for the development of a complete standard for representation of steel structures data. This work uses the CIS/2 pattern, published for the CIMsteel project, with involvement of several representative organizations of many construction industry areas.

This diploma thesis deals with design of DC/DC converter which will be used in one-phase inverter powered from batteries. Required parameters are output power of 100 W, input voltage of 24 V and output voltage of 350 V. In the first part is briefly discussed used topology of flyback converter. In the next part is designed impulse transformer with a request to design impulse transformer as small as possible. Thesis continues with draft of power components placed on primary and secondary side of converter. In this thesis is part about limitation of voltage overshoot at turn off transistor. Next part of this thesis deals with the design of control circuits using an integrated circuit from the UC384x family. Thesis continues with the production and debugging of the converter. At the end of this thesis are measurements confirming the correctness of the proposed design.