abstract: This research effort focuses on thermal management system (TMS) design for a high-performance, Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV). The thermal performance for various components in an electrified powertrain is investigated using a 3D finite difference model for a complete vehicle system, including inherently temperature-sensitive components. The components include the electric motor (EM), power electronics, Energy Storage System (ESS), and Internal Combustion Engine (ICE). A model-based design approach is utilized, where a combination of experimental work and simulation are integrated. After defining heat sources and heat sinks within the power train system, temporal and spatial boundary conditions were extracted experimentally to facilitate the 3D simulation under different road-load scenarios. Material properties, surface conditions, and environmental factors were defined for the geometrical surface mesh representation of the system. Meanwhile the finite differencing code handles the heat transfer phenomena via conduction and radiation, all convective heat transfer mode within the powertrain are defined using fluid nodes and fluid streams within the powertrain. Conclusions are drawn through correlating experimental results to the outcome from the thermal model. The outcome from this research effort is a 3D thermal performance predictive tool that can be utilized in order to evaluate the design of advanced thermal management systems (TMSs) for alternative powertrains in early design/concept stages of the development process. For future work, it is recommended that a full validation of the 3D thermal model be completed. Subsequently, design improvements can be made to the TMS. Some possible improvements include analysis and evaluation of shielding of the catalytic converter, exhaust manifold, and power electronics, as well as substituting for material with better thermal performance in other temperature-sensitive components, where applicable. The result of this improvement in design would be achieving an effective TMS for a high-performance PHEV. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Engineering 2017

Orientador: Otávio José de Oliveira / Banca: Rosane Aparecida Gomes Battistelle / Banca: Luiz Cesar Ribeiro Carpinetti / Resumo: O objetivo deste trabalho é identificar e analisar os benefícios e dificuldades da gestão ambiental em empresas industriais certificadas segundo a norma ISO 14001 no Estado de São Paulo. Para realização deste estudo adotou-se a pesquisa qualitativa complementada pela pesquisa quantitativa, tendo como base a realização de um estudo de caso com função exploratória, por permitir uma visão geral referente a determinado fato e possibilitar a apreensão da experiência, sua relação com referências teóricas e compreensão de outras situações significativas. O estudo de caso foi realizado em uma empresa de baterias automotivas localizada no município de Bauru, SP, com um sistema de gestão ambiental tendo como base a norma ISO 14001 implantado em 2005. A realização do estudo de caso permitiu verificar os vários benefícios obtidos com essa implantação, representados principalmente por aumento da demanda e redução da poluição ambiental. Uma das dificuldades na gestão do SGA é proveniente do aumento de custos, de um modo geral, para a empresa. A pesquisa quantitativa foi realizada por meio de survey com uso de questionário enviado pela Internet para empresas do Estado de São Paulo, certificadas pela norma ISO 14001, com apoio do site da Faculdade de Engenharia de Produção, UNESP - Bauru. Antes do envio, foram feitos contatos por telefone com as pessoas responsáveis pelo SGA nas organizações. As perguntas foram elaboradas de acordo com a escala de Likert, que permitiu medir o grau de concordância ou discordância em relação às afirmações sobre os benefícios e dificuldades apresentadas na gestão da ISO 14001. O número de empresas que respondeu o questionário representou 35,6% do total das certificadas e atendeu as estimativas da amostra. Os resultados das pesquisas mostraram que as hipóteses sobre os benefícios e dificuldades. Os resultados das pesquisas... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The objective of this work is to identify and to analyze the benefits and difficulties of the environmental management in certified industrial companies according to the norm ISO 14001 in the state of São Paulo. For accomplishment of this study the qualitative research was adopted complemented by the quantitative research, tends as base the accomplishment of a case study with exploratory function, for to allow a general vision regarding certain fact and to make possible the apprehension of the experience, your relationship with theoretical references and understanding of other significant situations. The case study was accomplished in a company of automotive batteries located in the city of Bauru, SP, with an environmental management system tends as base the norm ISO 14001 implanted in 2005. The accomplishment of the case study allowed to verify the several benefits obtained with that implantation, represented mainly by increase of the demand and reduction of the environmental pollution. One of the difficulties in the management of SGA is originating from the increase of costs, in a general way, for the company. The quantitative research was accomplished through survey with questionnaire use sent by internet for companies of the state of São Paulo, certified for the norm ISO 14001, with support of the site of University of Engineering of Production, UNESP - Bauru. Before the sending, they were made contacts by telephone with the responsible people for SGA in the organizations. The questions were elaborated in agreement with the scale of Likert, that allowed to measure the agreement degree or disagreement in relation to the statements about the benefits and difficulties present in the management of ISO 14001. The number of companies that answered the questionnaire represented 35,6% of the total of the certified ones and he/she assisted the estimates of the sample. The results of the... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

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Le choix d'un système de gestion de bases de données (SGBD) et de plateforme d'exécution pour le déploiement est une tâche primordiale pour la satisfaction des besoins non-fonctionnels(comme la performance temporelle et la consommation d'énergie). La difficulté de ce choix explique la multitude de tests pour évaluer la qualité des bases de données (BD) développées.Cette évaluation se base essentiellement sur l'utilisation des métriques associées aux besoins non fonctionnels. En effet, une mine de tests existe couvrant toutes les phases de cycle de vie de conception d'une BD. Les tests et leurs environnements sont généralement publiés dans des articles scientifiques ou dans des sites web dédiés comme le TPC (Transaction Processing Council).Par conséquent, cette thèse contribue à la capitalisation et l'exploitation des tests effectués afin de diminuer la complexité du processus de choix. En analysant finement les tests, nous remarquons que chaque test porte sur les jeux de données utilisés, la plateforme d'exécution, les besoins non fonctionnels, les requêtes, etc. Nous proposons une démarche de conceptualisation et de persistance de toutes .ces dimensions ainsi que les résultats de tests. Cette thèse a donné lieu aux trois contributions. (1) Une conceptualisation basée sur des modélisations descriptive,prescriptive et ontologique pour expliciter les différentes dimensions. (2) Le développement d'un entrepôt de tests multidimensionnel permettant de stocker les environnements de tests et leurs résultats. (3) Le développement d'une méthodologie de prise de décision basée sur un système de recommandation de SGBD et de plateformes. / Choosing appropriate database management systems (DBMS) and/or execution platforms for given database (DB) is complex and tends to be time- and effort-intensive since this choice has an important impact on the satisfaction of non-functional requirements (e.g., temporal performance or energy consumption). lndeed, a large number of tests have been performed for assessing the quality of developed DB. This assessment often involves metrics associated with non-functional requirement. That leads to a mine of tests covering all life-cycle phases of the DB's design. Tests and their environments are usually published in scientific articles or specific websites such as Transaction Processing Council (TPC). Therefore, this thesis bas taken a special interest to the capitalization and the reutilization of performed tests to reduce and mastery the complexity of the DBMS/platforms selection process. By analyzing the test accurately, we identify that tests concem: the data set, the execution platform, the addressed non-functional requirements, the used queries, etc. Thus, we propose an approach of conceptualization and persistence of all dimensions as well as the results of tests. Conseguently, this thesis leads to the following contributions. (1) The design model based on descriptive, prescriptive and ontological concepts to raise the different dimensions. (2) The development of a multidimensional repository to store the test environments and their results. (3) The development of a decision making methodology based on a recommender system for DBMS and platforms selection.

The implementation of the Integrated Quality Management System (IQMS) is analysed with interest in its effect on professional development of the teaching staff. This analysis is done through the experiences and perceptions of educators who are involved in this process. IQMS is a national policy of appraising and developing the teaching staff and was formed after an agreement was reached between the South African Department of Education and the teacher organizations in 2003. It was scheduled to be implemented in 2004. This article determines teacher appraisal processes on an international level and how similar appraisal processes are applied in South African context and then determines how educators in the South African context experience and perceive the effects of their appraisal process (IQMS) on their professional development. / Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2012. / Education Management and Policy Studies / unrestricted

Human-machine teaming aims to meld human cognitive strengths and the unique capabilities of smart machines to create intelligent teams adaptive to rapidly changing circumstances. One major contributor to the problem of human-machine teaming is a lack of communication skills on the part of the machine. The primary objective of this research is focused on a machine’s interruption timings or when a machine should share and communicate information with human teammates within human-machine teaming interactions. Previous work addresses interruption timings from the perspective of single human, multitasking and multiple human, single task interactions. The primary aim of this dissertation is to augment this area by approaching the same problem from the perspective of a multiple human, multitasking interaction. The proposed machine is the Collaborative Communication Interruption Management System (C-CIMS) which is tasked with leveraging speech information from a human-human task and making inferences on when to interrupt with information related to an orthogonal human-machine task. This study and previous literature both suggest monitoring task boundaries and engagement as candidate moments of interruptibility within multiple human, multitasking interactions. The goal then becomes designing an intermediate step between human teammate communication and points of interruptibility within these interactions. The proposed intermediate step is the mapping of low-level speech information such as prosodic and lexical information onto higher constructs indicative of interruptibility. C-CIMS is composed of a Task Boundary Prosody Model, a Task Boundary Topic Model, and finally a Task Engagement Topic Model. Each of these components are evaluated separately in terms of how they perform within two different simulated human-machine teaming scenarios and the speed vs. accuracy tradeoffs as well as other limitations of each module. Overall the Task Boundary Prosody Model is tractable within a real-time system because of the low-latency in processing prosodic information, but is less accurate at predicting task boundaries even within human-machine interactions with simple dialogue. Conversely, the Task Boundary and Task Engagement Topic Models do well inferring task boundaries and engagement respectively, but are intractable in a real-time system because of the bottleneck in producing automatic speech recognition transcriptions to make interruption decisions. The overall contribution of this work is a novel approach to predicting interruptibility within human-machine teams by modeling higher constructs indicative of interruptibility using low-level speech information.

Presented thesis is focused to the document management system in the firm E-solutions, Ld. Selection of this firm is purposeful, because I have been working in the firm for several years. My thesis is targeted to the complex analysis of document management system (DMS) in the firm and the results of the analysis will be used for the implementation of new DMS. The target is accomplished by following steps, which can be expressed as partial concrete goals: First, the present situation of DMS in the firm is described, next, the detail description of the documents, the system should work with, is presented. Description of these documents is structured to the DMS needs. Subsequently firm processes which should DMS support are identified and analysed. These processes are converted to the optimal conditions to maximize their effectiveness in the DMS support. Integral part of the analysis is the consistent collection of the requirements to the new system. The thesis is divided into theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part describes DMS generally, explains basic principles of DMS (characteristics, documentation and functionality) and creates base line for the practical part. The more comprehensive practical part of the thesis is directed to the document management in the firm E-solutions, Ld. Presentation of the basic information about the firm is followed by detail solution of partial goals. Assessment of the achieved results creates the final part of the work. The thesis will serve in the firm or at a contactor of DMS as the base for the selection, parameterisation and implementation of the concrete DMS solution.

The teoretic part of the document is about sustainable development, its reasons and history, about instruments of measuration and achievement. Next there is described the Environmental Management System, its extensiveness, requirements, benefits for company and the standards of EMS. In the document are described the differences between certification according to ISO 14000 or EMAS. Costs according to the etaps and posibility to financial subventions are analyzed in this document too. The next part is research-based tail, based on list of question to Czech companies, in which EMS is implemented. The research was pointed to prove the declared benefits for companies, experiences with EMS and general attitude of companies to this issue. In the end of the document there are comments, results of research and knowledge, which was observed during the research.

Graduation Theses describes analysis of fulfilment of requirements in accordance with International Standards ISO 9001 in company KAMPI OFFICE. The objective of this Graduation Theses is comparison of requirements in accordance with International Standards ISO 9001 with the present status in company KAMPI OFFICE, determining the fulfilment of these requirements and recommendations to change some nonconforming activities.