A computação paralela tem se estabelecido como uma ferramenta indispensável para conseguir o desempenho esperado em aplicações de muitas áreas científicas. É importante avaliar os fatores que limitam o desempenho de uma aplicação paralela. Este trabalho vem apresentar o desenvolvimento e a implementação de uma ferramenta chamada Hierarchical Analyses que permite o levantamento de dados para análise de fatores de desempenho em programas paralelos de forma hierárquica, ou seja, permite coletar as informações acompanhando o nível de abstração usado pelo programador. Essa ferramenta é composta pelos módulos de coleta e transformação dos dados. O módulo de coleta chamado HieraCollector é responsável por coletar e armazenar os dados em arquivos no formato XML, sendo que o usuário não precisa alterar o código fonte de sua aplicação. O módulo de transformação chamado HieraTransform é reponsável por transformar os dados coletados extraindo medidas que permitam a realização da análise do programa paralelo. Para validação dos módulos de coleta e transformação foi utilizada a biblioteca MPI e o framework OOPS que utiliza orientação a objetos. Outra contribuição deste trabalho, foi o desenvolvimento da ferramenta visual chamada HieraOLAP que auxilia o usuário na análise de desempenho de programas paralelos. / Parallel computing has become an essential tool to achieve the performance needed by many scientific applications. The evaluation of performance factors of parallel applications is of utmost significant. This work presents the developement and implementation of a tool called Hierarchical Analyses which facilitates data collection for performance analysis of parallel programs with hierarchical information, i.e. the information is collected in the various abstraction levels used in the application program. The tool consists of a collection and a transformation modules. The collection module (HieraCollector) collects the data and stores it in XML format. The transformation module (HieraTransform) processes the collected data computing measurements to be used in the analysis of parallel code. To validate the tool, implementations adapted to MPI and the OOPS framework have been developed. Another contribution of this work is the development of a visual tool called HieraOLAP to help the user in the analysis of parallel program performance.

A computação paralela tem se estabelecido como uma ferramenta indispensável para conseguir o desempenho esperado em aplicações de muitas áreas científicas. É importante avaliar os fatores que limitam o desempenho de uma aplicação paralela. Este trabalho vem apresentar o desenvolvimento e a implementação de uma ferramenta chamada Hierarchical Analyses que permite o levantamento de dados para análise de fatores de desempenho em programas paralelos de forma hierárquica, ou seja, permite coletar as informações acompanhando o nível de abstração usado pelo programador. Essa ferramenta é composta pelos módulos de coleta e transformação dos dados. O módulo de coleta chamado HieraCollector é responsável por coletar e armazenar os dados em arquivos no formato XML, sendo que o usuário não precisa alterar o código fonte de sua aplicação. O módulo de transformação chamado HieraTransform é reponsável por transformar os dados coletados extraindo medidas que permitam a realização da análise do programa paralelo. Para validação dos módulos de coleta e transformação foi utilizada a biblioteca MPI e o framework OOPS que utiliza orientação a objetos. Outra contribuição deste trabalho, foi o desenvolvimento da ferramenta visual chamada HieraOLAP que auxilia o usuário na análise de desempenho de programas paralelos. / Parallel computing has become an essential tool to achieve the performance needed by many scientific applications. The evaluation of performance factors of parallel applications is of utmost significant. This work presents the developement and implementation of a tool called Hierarchical Analyses which facilitates data collection for performance analysis of parallel programs with hierarchical information, i.e. the information is collected in the various abstraction levels used in the application program. The tool consists of a collection and a transformation modules. The collection module (HieraCollector) collects the data and stores it in XML format. The transformation module (HieraTransform) processes the collected data computing measurements to be used in the analysis of parallel code. To validate the tool, implementations adapted to MPI and the OOPS framework have been developed. Another contribution of this work is the development of a visual tool called HieraOLAP to help the user in the analysis of parallel program performance.

The complexity of dynamical systems (spanning brain, body and environment) can yield complex adaptive behaviors from non-linear interactions of individuals in space and time. A lack of reliable instruments to assess these varying behaviors results in inferences of how changes in behavior occurred over an extended period of time rather than being based on direct scientific measures. The aim of this study was to develop a scale of complexity and perceptual-cognitive skills' assessment in the sport soccer and to evaluate structural and criterion reliability. Based on the embodied cognition literature, the construct of this scale was identified with three dimensions to assess perceptual-cognitive performance of players when acting within different levels of complex team synergies. A sample of 10 soccer coaches - group A (n = 5 coaches; M = 24 yrs professional coaching experience) and group B (n = 5 coaches; M = 1 year of amateur coaching experience) were recruited to participate in the study. A total of 100 clips of 10 previously recorded soccer matches were analyzed in two assessment periods with one month between the end of the first assessment and the beginning of the second. This resulted in a combined total of 1000 measures used for the study. The results demonstrated that high skilled coaches were more reliable in the complexity dimension (r = 0.87) and also in the decision making dimension (r = 0.79) than low qualified coaches (r = 0.79) and (r = 0.71) respectively; and the complexity dimension was more stable across trials between professional and amateur coaches in the first data collection i (r = 0.79) and second data collection (r = 0 .73) than the decision making dimension (r = 0.50) and (r = 0.43) respectively. These findings indicate that this scale is reliable across applications and at different times with high and low qualified coaches. The use of the scale may be useful for identifying elements of emerging complexity at the team-fractal-player level; determine a perceptual-cognitive profile in athletes; and to better understand complex tactical dynamics in soccer.

This thesis is a monograph on The Play about the Norberg Strike 1891–92, a pioneering project and performance relating to working-class cultural expressions. The project was initiated in the summer of 1975, and the first successful performances were held in June and July 1977. The democracy of cultural life was very positively manifested in The Play and in Swedish media, it was described as the first working-class play. It served as a model for other similar productions, set in many places in Sweden. The investigation began with field studies, which facilitated the choice of a suitable theory. A starting-point was that a specific working-class culture exists, subordinated to the dominant middle class culture. Social class distinction is an underlying concept for hegemony, and also for the spanning theoretical framework used in my investigation. It comprises a public sphere theory, formulated by Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge in their book Öffentlichkeit und Erfahrung (1972). Their concept counter-public sphere is applied to The Play. The main purpose was to describe the characteristic features of The Play, by delineating and analysing the production phase, particularly the aesthetically elaborated parts, i.e. the script production, the staging, the performance, and the reception, all consistent with the working-class culture and the local conditions in Norberg. A more subordinated purpose was to complete the common definition of the term working-class play. The Play about the Norberg Strike succeeded in putting the negative influences of the bourgeois public sphere aside, replacing it with positive categories. The work processes were of vital importance, as was the forming of new platforms and communication channels based on the local working-class experiences and lives. Consequently, The Play became a genuine expression and a solid breakthrough for working-class experiences.