Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:31:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2005-12-07Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:01:31Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 sapucci_lf_dr_prud.pdf: 3782471 bytes, checksum: af4cccfc2f5cb3b6dd4ba86dfb21c180 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / A quantificação do vapor d'água integrado na atmosfera (IWV - Integrated Water Vapor), ao contrário de outras variáveis meteorológicas, é algo que ainda se apresenta como um grande desafio para as Ciências Atmosféricas. Diversos mecanismos, envolvendo diferentes técnicas, têm sido empregados e testados para esse fim em diferentes regiões do globo por pesquisa dores das mais variadas áreas da ciência. Essa tese apresenta uma contribuição a esse tema ao empregar receptores GPS (Global Positioning System) em bases terrestres, localizados no Brasil, envolvendo instituições de pesquisa na área de Geodésia e de Meteorologia. Os objetivos principais desse trabalho são validar os valores do IWV obtidos a partir das observações GPS e contribuir com a viabilização da utilização de redes ativas de receptores GPS, existentes atualmente e futuras, no monitoramento do IWV como suporte às atividades da Meteorologia e Climatologia no Brasil. Os resultados obtidos mostram que, com a efetivação desse processo, poderá ser obtida uma fonte adicional de informações da umidade para Previsão Numérica de Tempo (PNT). Além disso, é mostrado também que a alta resolução temporal dos valores do IWV obtidos a partir das observações GPS pode contribuir para a melhoria dos resultados gerados por outras técnicas empregadas na mesma tarefa. Em contrapartida, um modelo de PNT é utilizado para gerar previsões da influência da troposfera nos sinais GPS, visando beneficiar aplicações GPS em tempo real. Os resultados gerados nesse trabalho são frutos da sinergia entre as duas áreas envolvidas e mostram que, atualmente, há boas perspectivas para essa parceria no Brasil. / Quantification of Integrated Water Vapor (IWV), unlike other meteorological variables, still represents a significant challenge to the Atmospheric Sciences. In this task several techniques using different mechanisms have been employed and tested in different regions of the planet. Many researchers from several areas of science have been involved in this process. This thesis presents a contribution to this theme, employing ground-based GPS receivers installed on Brazilian territory, involving Geodesy and Meteorology research institutes. The main aim of this work is to contribute in order to make enable the use of the existing networks of continuously operating GPS receivers, and those that will be installed in the future, in IWV monitoring to support meteorological and climatological activities in Brazil. The results generated show that in this process it is possible to obtain an additional source of humidity information for Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP). Furthermore, the prospect of using the ground-based GPS receivers to monitor atmospheric water vapor is promising because thehigh temporal resolution of IWV values from GPS observations can improve the results generated from other techniques employed in the same task. At the same time, a NWP model is applied to generate predictions of the atmosphere's influence over radiofrequency signals, to improve real time GPS applications. The results of this work stem from the synergy between the two areas of science involved. They show that the current outlook for this partnership in Brazil is good, and that both Meteorology and Geodesy will benefit.

In fact Dersimi people have constructed a visible population in Europe, there needs to be more studies made about the diasporic existence of Dersimis in Europe. Being aware of this need, this study attempts to contribute to the understanding of the existence of Dersimi people through Europe. In line with this, this study focuses on the re-invention of Dersim identity in Berlin around a Dersimi association, Berlin Dersim Community. According to this, the intensive participant observation conducted around the Dersimi association is the main source for this study. In the light of this ethnographic fieldwork, the following findings are found out in this study: Self identification on the basis of homeland identity is a significant phenomena for Dersimi people which unites Dersimi people around Berlin Dersim Community Association. And Dersimi people around the association can be defined as diaspora according to Robert Cohen&rsquo / s usage of the term. Being a part of Turkish labour diaspora in Berlin, Dersimi people have transformed into a cultural diaspora with the passing years abroad.

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Above ground steel storage tanks are used worldwide for the storage of various liquids. EN 14015:2005, which has traditionally been used to design the tanks, does not necessarily fulfil the requirements of the Swedish Building Code. This has been underlined by hand calculation models in EN 1993-1-6:2007, EN 1993-4-2:2007 and numerical analysis using Finite Element Method (FEM). Therefore, this thesis investigates the differences between these design models and, preliminarily, the use of high-strength steel in tank shells. A 10600 m3 cylindrical steel tank of diameter 26 m and height of 21 m located in Gothenburg, Sweden is studied. The study is limited to the assessment of the stress in the shell courses due to the hydrostatic pressure from the fluid action of a filled tank, and the buckling behaviour of the shell courses of an empty tank subjected to self-weight, snow and wind loads. Particularly, models of the tank shell with a yield strength of 355 MPa are investigated in detail, while the results of the 700 MPa model are considered as preliminary study, since the material is currently not used for tank shells. An analysis of the fluid action on the tank shell courses in each of the three hand calculation models, showed that the EN 14015 model utilizes thicker courses than both Eurocodes. One benefit of the Eurocode models is that they do not limit the thickness of the shell courses, but it is still necessary to have thicker courses in the upper part of the tank in order to achieve sufficient resistance against buckling. EN 14015:2005, on the other hand, limits the minimum thickness to 6 mm for the investigated tank. Furthermore, only EN 1993-1-6 is applicable to the models with a yield strength of 700 MPa as per EN 1993-1-12 and this resulted in a uniform shell thickness of 6 mm. However, an increase in yield strength has no buckling benefits whatsoever.  Buckling is the most critical aspect as observed in this study. EN 14015 has no specific buckling calculations but uses the approach of determining the number of stiffening rings which are deemed adequate against buckling. In this study, 3 secondary stiffening rings were found to be adequate. In comparison, the results of EN 1993-4-2 are very conservative and lead to a very high and uneconomical number of stiffening rings, ranging from 30 to 52 stiffening rings depending on the reliability class. EN 1993-1-6 resulted in 6-17 stiffening rings, for reliability classes 1-3 and fabrication classes A-C. Therefore, the so-called analytical models in the Eurocodes result in a much denser spacing of stiffening rings than 14015:2005.  The buckling stresses due to the design loads were found to be lower than the yield strength of the tank shells for both hand calculation and FEM models. This means that the tank shells failed in buckling before the yield strength of the material was reached. Based on the parametric study of the EN 1993-1-6 (355 MPa) model regarding reliability class 1 and fabrication class A using FEM, the spacing of the stiffening rings can be increased up to 60 % (from 3825 mm to 6120 mm) with the variable loads also increased simultaneously up to 3.8 times before the shell buckles. Therefore, the design of future tanks using numerical analysis guarantee’s more reliability than all the aforementioned standards.  The design for buckling according to EN 14015 is only valid for a design snow load and under-pressure ≤ 1.2 KN/m2. However, according to the standard itis possible to agree to use it for larger actions or use another design model for buckling.

The chronology of the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Near East is currently a topic of intense scholarly debate. The conventional/orthodox chronology for this period has been assembled over the past one-two centuries using information from King-lists, royal annals and administrative documents, primarily those from the Great Kingdoms of Egypt, Assyria and Babylonia. This major enterprise has resulted in what can best be described as an extremely complex but little understood jigsaw puzzle composed of a multiplicity of loosely connected data. I argue in my thesis that this conventional chronology is fundamentally wrong, and that Egyptian New Kingdom (Memphite) dates should be lowered by 200 years to match historical actuality. This chronological adjustment is achieved in two stages: first, the removal of precisely 85 years of absolute Assyrian chronology from between the reigns of Shalmaneser II and Ashur-dan II; and second, the downward displacement of Egyptian Memphite dates relative to LBA Assyrian chronology by a further 115 years. Moreover, I rely upon Kuhnian epistemology to structure this alternate chronology so as to make it methodologically superior to the conventional chronology in terms of historical accuracy, precision, consistency and testability.