Este trabalho aborda o uso de experimentação remota como forma de aprimorar a educação em sistemas de controle e automação. Para isto, uma arquitetura é proposta, onde experimentos reais podem ser combinados com partes simuladas (virtuais) criando um experimento de realidade mista. Um ambiente de ensino à distância, acessível na Internet, engloba o experimento remoto para proporcionar maiores recursos pedagógicos, guias e materiais educacionais teóricos aos estudantes. As diversas tecnologias, presentes no estado da arte, utilizadas para a elaboração da arquitetura são descritas e comparadas para facilitar o entendimento das escolhas realizadas. Trabalhos correlatos são apresentados para descrever o estado da arte dos laboratórios de experiências remotas de diversos tipos. Com base neste estudo, deficiências e vantagens são apontadas para a criação da arquitetura proposta. Para validar a arquitetura são propostos diversos estudos de caso com implementações utilizadas nos cursos de automação e controle da instituição na qual este trabalho está relacionado, ou ainda em cursos de educação à distância para atingir um público mais amplo. Esta dissertação está relacionada como resultado importante do consórcio internacional RExNet, financiado pelo projeto europeu Alfa, do qual a UFRGS faz parte. / This work aims to the use of remotely web-based experiments to improve the learning process of automation and control systems theory courses. An architecture combining virtual learning environments, remote experiments, students guide and experiments analysis is proposed based on a wide state of art study. The validation of the architecture uses state of art technologies and new simple developed programs to implement the case studies presented. All implementations presented in this work uses an Internet accessible virtual learning environment providing educational resources, guides and learning material to create a distance learning course associated with the remote mixed reality experiment. The experiment is integrated in the learning environment and support the mixture of real equipments combined with simulated ones (virtual). This mixture of equipments (components) is automatic controlled by the user and is a new developed technology called interchangeable components. The state of art section of this work presents, compare and describes several technologies used to implement the proposed architecture. Related work of remote experimentation and virtual learning environments is also presented. The architecture was elaborated based on appointed advantages and drawbacks of the related studies. This work is part of the RExNet consortium, supported by the European Alfa project.

Este trabalho aborda o uso de experimentação remota como forma de aprimorar a educação em sistemas de controle e automação. Para isto, uma arquitetura é proposta, onde experimentos reais podem ser combinados com partes simuladas (virtuais) criando um experimento de realidade mista. Um ambiente de ensino à distância, acessível na Internet, engloba o experimento remoto para proporcionar maiores recursos pedagógicos, guias e materiais educacionais teóricos aos estudantes. As diversas tecnologias, presentes no estado da arte, utilizadas para a elaboração da arquitetura são descritas e comparadas para facilitar o entendimento das escolhas realizadas. Trabalhos correlatos são apresentados para descrever o estado da arte dos laboratórios de experiências remotas de diversos tipos. Com base neste estudo, deficiências e vantagens são apontadas para a criação da arquitetura proposta. Para validar a arquitetura são propostos diversos estudos de caso com implementações utilizadas nos cursos de automação e controle da instituição na qual este trabalho está relacionado, ou ainda em cursos de educação à distância para atingir um público mais amplo. Esta dissertação está relacionada como resultado importante do consórcio internacional RExNet, financiado pelo projeto europeu Alfa, do qual a UFRGS faz parte. / This work aims to the use of remotely web-based experiments to improve the learning process of automation and control systems theory courses. An architecture combining virtual learning environments, remote experiments, students guide and experiments analysis is proposed based on a wide state of art study. The validation of the architecture uses state of art technologies and new simple developed programs to implement the case studies presented. All implementations presented in this work uses an Internet accessible virtual learning environment providing educational resources, guides and learning material to create a distance learning course associated with the remote mixed reality experiment. The experiment is integrated in the learning environment and support the mixture of real equipments combined with simulated ones (virtual). This mixture of equipments (components) is automatic controlled by the user and is a new developed technology called interchangeable components. The state of art section of this work presents, compare and describes several technologies used to implement the proposed architecture. Related work of remote experimentation and virtual learning environments is also presented. The architecture was elaborated based on appointed advantages and drawbacks of the related studies. This work is part of the RExNet consortium, supported by the European Alfa project.

Este trabalho aborda o uso de experimentação remota como forma de aprimorar a educação em sistemas de controle e automação. Para isto, uma arquitetura é proposta, onde experimentos reais podem ser combinados com partes simuladas (virtuais) criando um experimento de realidade mista. Um ambiente de ensino à distância, acessível na Internet, engloba o experimento remoto para proporcionar maiores recursos pedagógicos, guias e materiais educacionais teóricos aos estudantes. As diversas tecnologias, presentes no estado da arte, utilizadas para a elaboração da arquitetura são descritas e comparadas para facilitar o entendimento das escolhas realizadas. Trabalhos correlatos são apresentados para descrever o estado da arte dos laboratórios de experiências remotas de diversos tipos. Com base neste estudo, deficiências e vantagens são apontadas para a criação da arquitetura proposta. Para validar a arquitetura são propostos diversos estudos de caso com implementações utilizadas nos cursos de automação e controle da instituição na qual este trabalho está relacionado, ou ainda em cursos de educação à distância para atingir um público mais amplo. Esta dissertação está relacionada como resultado importante do consórcio internacional RExNet, financiado pelo projeto europeu Alfa, do qual a UFRGS faz parte. / This work aims to the use of remotely web-based experiments to improve the learning process of automation and control systems theory courses. An architecture combining virtual learning environments, remote experiments, students guide and experiments analysis is proposed based on a wide state of art study. The validation of the architecture uses state of art technologies and new simple developed programs to implement the case studies presented. All implementations presented in this work uses an Internet accessible virtual learning environment providing educational resources, guides and learning material to create a distance learning course associated with the remote mixed reality experiment. The experiment is integrated in the learning environment and support the mixture of real equipments combined with simulated ones (virtual). This mixture of equipments (components) is automatic controlled by the user and is a new developed technology called interchangeable components. The state of art section of this work presents, compare and describes several technologies used to implement the proposed architecture. Related work of remote experimentation and virtual learning environments is also presented. The architecture was elaborated based on appointed advantages and drawbacks of the related studies. This work is part of the RExNet consortium, supported by the European Alfa project.

Os Laboratórios de Investigação Médica (LIM) do HCFMUSP foram criados com a publicação do Decreto n. 9.720, de 20 de abril de 1977, que oficializou o Regulamento do Hospital das Clínicas da FMUSP (HCFMUSP). Por esse instrumento, os LIM se apresentam como uma das unidades do HCFMUSP, ao qual se vinculam administrativamente. Pelo mesmo instrumento, vinculam-se academicamente à Faculdade de Medicina da USP (FMUSP). Esse conjunto de laboratórios desenvolve pesquisa básica e aplicada nos diversos campos das ciências da saúde, além de métodos diagnósticos. Até a implantação da Reforma Universitária, em 1968, as atividades de pesquisa básica transcorriam nos departamentos básicos da FMUSP, articuladas com os departamentos aplicados, que se estabeleceram no HCFMUSP desde sua criação, em 1943, resultando no avanço da assistência médica prestada aos pacientes. Os departamentos básicos, com seus laboratórios e salas de aula, ocupavam quase todo o edifício sede. Com a aplicação das medidas da Reforma Universitária e presentes no Estatuto da USP, esses departamentos foram transferidos para o campus da Cidade Universitária, onde nuclearam, sobretudo, o Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas (ICB). Decorreu da Reforma importante ruptura na produção de conhecimentos na FMUSP, além do arriscado esvaziamento do prédio. O objetivo desta dissertação é reconstituir, pela perspectiva histórica, a trajetória institucional percorrida para sanar as perdas sofridas pela FMUSP e pelo HC e que culminaram com a criação dos LIM no período compreendido entre a implantação da Reforma Universitária até sua efetiva incorporação à estrutura do HCFMUSP, em 1977. O percurso da criação dos LIM foi reconstituído pelo diálogo entre os vestígios encontrados na documentação institucional e as memórias de atores institucionais que viveram esse período, apoiado pela historiografia acerca do ensino e das práticas médicas da FMUSP e do HCFMUSP / The Medical Investigation Laboratories (LIMs) of the University of São Paulo Medical School Clinics Hospital (HCFMUSP) were created with the passing of decree n. 9.720 of April 20, 1977, which formalized the latter\'s by-laws. As set by the decree, the LIMs are one of the units of HCFMUSP, to which they are administratively connected. The same instrument also establishes an academic link between the labs and the Medical School of the University (FMUSP). This set of labs conducts basic and applied research in the most diverse fields of health sciences, and develops diagnostic methods. Up until the 1968 University Reform in Brazil, basic research activity was conducted by the basic departments in conjunction with the applied departments of the Medical School - which existed at HCFMUSP since its foundation in 1943. This arrangement resulted in improvements in the medical care provided to patients. The basic departments, along with their labs and classrooms, occupied almost the entire headquarters building. With the enforcement of the measures defined by the University Reform - also present in the by-laws of the University of São Paulo - these departments were transferred to the main campus (Cidade Universitária) and mostly placed under the umbrella of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences (ICB). As a consequence of the Reform, there was a risky emptying of FMUSP\'s building, and a disruption in its knowledge production. The objective of the present dissertation is to reconstruct, from a historical perspective, the institutional path taken with the aim of overcoming the losses faced by the medical school and its hospital, which culminated in the creation of the LIMs in the period between the implementation of the University Reform and the laboratories\' actual incorporation into HCFMUSP\'s structure in 1977. The LIMs\' creation process was reconstructed based on a dialogue between the traces found in the institution\'s documents and the recollections of players who witnessed the process, with the support of historiography on FMUSP and HCFMUSP\'s medical and teaching practices

Orientador: André Santanchè / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-23T17:44:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gomes_AlessandradaSilva_M.pdf: 4166967 bytes, checksum: 7ce00ab41a5ab2aef293bf05c6e50ee5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: Os dados científicos, serviços e ferramentas on-line disponíveis na Web oferecem oportunidades sem precedentes de conceber nos tipos de laboratório mixando recursos. Dados experimentais e coletados podem substanciar laboratórios assíncronos. Combinados com software apto a mashup é possível produzir laboratórios híbridos para confrontar, por exemplo, simulações sintéticas com observações. Este trabalho explora esta oportunidade no contexto da Educação através do nosso meta-laboratório, um ambiente de autoria para produzir laboratórios pela combinação de blocos de construção encapsulados em componentes. Introduzimos aqui os padrões de composição de laboratórios e os templates ativos para Web como mecanismos fundamentais para dar suporte à tarefa de autoria de laboratórios. Os laboratórios podem ser embutidos e mixados em documentos Web. Este trabalho mostra experimentos práticos da produção de laboratórios Web virtuais e híbridos / Abstract: The amount of scientific data, services and on-line tools available on the Web offer an unprecedented opportunity to conceive new kinds of laboratories blending resources. Existing experimental and collected data can substantiate asynchronous laboratories. Combined with mashup enabled software, it is possible to produce hybrid laboratories to confront, for example, synthetic simulations with observations. This work addresses this opportunity in the Education context through our metalaboratory, an authoring environment to produce laboratories by combining building blocks encapsulated in components. We introduce here the lab composition patterns and the active Web templates as fundamental mechanisms to support a lab authoring task. These laboratories can be embedded and mashed-up in Web documents. This work shows practical experiments of producing Web virtual and hybrid laboratories / Mestrado / Ciência da Computação / Mestra em Ciência da Computação

Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science, Department of Teaching and Didactics of Chemistry, Hlavova 8, Prague 2 Author: Bc. Eva Hrobařová Name: The teaching materials for chemical education - experimental and practical chemistry with different kind of food ABSTRACT: In this thesis I elaborated the theme "The teaching material for active chemical education - experimental and practical chemistry with different kind of food". I created a questionnaire with name "Availability of laboratories and schoolrooms of chemistry in college". The results of this questionnaire were a base for choice of the experiments with different kind of food. Each experiment is completed by photos and a few questions for students. In this work I also analysed several thesis about practical and experimental chemistry. In this thesis I lay stress on importance of experimental and practice chemistry in colleges in Czech Republic. My task was to create easy teaching materials for active education and the utilization of easy experiments to illustrate theory. The experiments are very easy, it's not necessary many tools and it's not even necessary to use chemical laboratory. .

Yeung Kin. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 86-89). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgement --- p.iii / Tables of Contents --- p.iv / List of Figures --- p.vi / List of Tables --- p.vii / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Distance Learning (DL) and Virtual Laboratory (VL) --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Overview of related research --- p.3 / Chapter 1.3 --- Web-based Control Laboratory --- p.5 / Chapter 1.4 --- Contributions of the Project --- p.8 / Chapter 1.5 --- Thesis Outline --- p.10 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- System Architectures --- p.11 / Chapter 2.1 --- Hardware Architecture --- p.11 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- Internal Distributed System --- p.12 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- Video Server System --- p.14 / Chapter 2.1.3 --- Application Systems --- p.15 / Chapter 2.2 --- Software Architecture --- p.17 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Client Side Context --- p.17 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Web Server Context --- p.19 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- Software Context in Controller PC --- p.24 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- System Attributes --- p.33 / Chapter 3.1 --- Protocol Attribute --- p.33 / Chapter 3.2 --- Client/Server Structure --- p.36 / Chapter 3.3 --- Multi-layer Structure --- p.39 / Chapter 3.4 --- Inter-process Flow Attribute --- p.41 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Experiment Description --- p.43 / Chapter 4.1 --- Client Interface --- p.43 / Chapter 4.2 --- Experiments Implementation --- p.46 / Chapter 4.3 --- Controller Analysis --- p.47 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- System Theory --- p.47 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- PID Control --- p.49 / Chapter 4.3.3 --- Set Point Control by State Space Method --- p.51 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- System Characteristics --- p.54 / Chapter 5.1 --- Distance Learning --- p.54 / Chapter 5.2 --- Networking Issues --- p.55 / Chapter 5.3 --- Design Issues --- p.56 / Chapter 5.4 --- Security Issue --- p.56 / Chapter 5.5 --- Interface Issues --- p.57 / Chapter 5.6 --- Future Enhancement --- p.58 / Chapter Chapter 6 --- Impacts and Further Work --- p.59 / Chapter 6.1 --- Impacts on Web-based Laboratory --- p.59 / Chapter 6.2 --- Impacts on Society --- p.60 / Chapter 6.3 --- Future Work --- p.61 / Chapter Chapter 7 --- Conclusion --- p.63 / Appendices --- p.65 / Appendix I. Selected Source Code of Server Side Programs --- p.65 / Appendix II. Selected Client Experiment Interface --- p.81 / Appendix III. Laboratory Experiment Manual --- p.84 / Bibliography --- p.86

The necessity for a functional user friendly laboratory data management program has become evident as the quantity of information required for modern scientific research has increased to to titanic proportions. The required union of strong computer power, ease of operation, and adaptability have until recently been outside the realm of most research laboratories. Previous systems, in addition to their high cost, are necessarily complex and require software experts in order to effect any changes that the end user might deem necessary. This study examines the Apple Macintosh computer program Hypercard as an interactive laboratory information system that is user-friendly, cost effective, and adaptable to the changing demands within a modern molecular or microbiology.

This thesis reports on the modification of the "Safecode" computer-program to monitor the safety of radio-isotope laboratories, and its application to 24 compliance audits in NSW during the period 1999 to 2006. Additionally, an attempt was made to predict the level of risk to persons working within those laboratories. Based on the current NSW radiation control legislation and the relevant Australian Standards a comprehensive audit checklist was developed for this project. Each safety requirement in those documents was used to develop a question, resulting in 187 questions in the checklist. The questions were grouped into the following seven Topic Elements: Licensing and Registration; Radiation Safety Administration; Personal and Area Monitoring; Dose Limit Compliance; Documentation/Records; RSO/RSC Qualifications and Duties; and Facilities. A novel feature was the allocation of "weighting factors" to individual questions and Elements. The computer program facilitated analysis of data and provided output in spreadsheet and graphical form. .The on-site physical audits were conducted using the project check-list, and were supplemented by discussions with the client's representative. The results showed significant variation between sites with overall compliance scores ranging from 37% to 94%. The reasons for this large variation stem from differences in local management regime; the appointment of an RSO at one site; variation in the extent of adoption of relevant codes of practice; and legislative weaknesses. Further analysis of the data presented legal, advisory and combined scores for each Element for each site; and variations over time. The graphic displays of the results were appreciated by client management. The formula developed to predict risk, based on the physical parameters alone, showed little relationship to the total audit scores. Statistical analysis of the two data groups by correlation coefficient confirmed this general finding. Development of the formula however served to indicate deficiencies in the Question Set, and the importance of human factors in achieving a high degree of safety.

The Facility Manager of a laboratory environment continuously walks a fine line between safe and economical operation of that facility. The primary responsibility of the laboratory is to provide a safe environment for personnel while optimizing the space for experiment. Energy efficiency is not a necessary goal. Laboratories typically require HVAC systems utilizing 100% outside air to protect the occupants. Facilities demanding the basic design requirement of 100% outside air can result in annual energy costs 4 to 5 times greater than that of the typical office building requiring 20 CFM per person. With energy costs typically representing a substantial part of an organizations operating budget is it prudent for facility managers to seek opportunities to reduce these costs. The intent of this research is to show that participation of a knowledgeable Facility Manager, during the initial design phase of a laboratory facility, can result in a finished product capable of easily incorporating a variety of energy efficiency technologies. The scope of this research is limited to smaller chemical laboratories supported with less than 20,000 CFM of comfort air. When the Facility Manager actively participates in the design process for laboratory environments there is potential for increased HVAC energy efficiency. A substantial portion of this research has been conducted from the authors daily experience and responsibility for a small chemical laboratory. Additional data was collected using personal interviews among industry experts and fellow colleagues working in the Atlanta metropolitan area with significant laboratory experience. This research focused on the mechanical systems supporting laboratories as they represent the largest percentage in first costs, energy consumption, and offer the greatest opportunity for energy reduction. The results of this research are intended to provide guidance to Facility Managers to incorporate cost effective energy recovery systems in either new construction or at a future date. The results of this research project the impact of energy consumption in a small chemical laboratory from the hypothetical installation of a customized energy recovery system.