The main aim of this master's thesis is create golf ball picker with charging station. These two components create the system, which automates process of golf ball collection on driving range. The robot replaces human manual activity in this branch and it eliminates injury. On the other hand, robot respects functional, psychological, ecological and aesthetic demands. It demarcates standard principles of these days and new way how to collect balls on driving range.

Garantir tratamento e disposição final adequada para os resíduos sólidos urbanos é um desafio para as administrações municipais, principalmente porque a geração de resíduos tem aumentado à taxa maior do que a de aumento da população e as grandes áreas para construção de aterros sanitários são escassas nas grandes cidades. Assim, desde o final da década de 1980, no Brasil, alguns municípios têm implementado programas de coleta seletiva de resíduos sólidos urbanos em parceria com organizações de catadores, que desviam resíduos da disposição em aterros sanitários, aumentando sua vida útil. Torna-se importante olhar para os programas de coleta seletiva como parte de políticas públicas, enfatizando sua continuidade administrativa e seus objetivos. Nesse sentido, buscou-se estudar o programa de coleta seletiva de Santo André SP, entre os anos de 1998 e 2011. O objetivo é estudar como se deram a elaboração e a implementação do programa de coleta seletiva do município de Santo André, em 1998, e como vem sendo feito seu monitoramento e avaliação nos anos posteriores, até o ano de 2011. Para isso foi utilizada a abordagem de policy cycle, que considera a política pública como um ciclo deliberativo, constituído por vários estágios, formando um processo dinâmico e de aprendizagem. Foi realizada pesquisa bibliográfica e documental, bem como entrevistas qualitativas semi-estruturadas com: representantes do Serviço Municipal de Saneamento Ambiental de Santo André (Semasa); os coordenadores administrativos das duas cooperativas parceiras do programa (Coopcicla e Coop Cidade Limpa) e uma amostra randômica de seis cooperados de cada uma das cooperativas parceiras do programa. Após as entrevistas, houve aplicação de questionários a todos os catadores da Coopcicla e Coop Cidade Limpa, totalizando 79 cooperados. Além disso, foram realizadas visitas técnicas com registros escritos e fotográficos aos equipamentos públicos: estação de coleta, usina de triagem e reciclagem de papel, centrais de triagem de materiais recicláveis, usina de reciclagem de madeira. Foi possível constatar que o programa de coleta seletiva foi elaborado com objetivo de atender toda a população urbana do município; em seguida, foi implementado, colocando-se em prática as ações planejadas, mas até o momento não há ações de monitoramento e avaliação do programa, que poderiam produzir aprendizagem administrativa. Em relação às cooperativas, a parceria com o Semasa é instável, o número de catadores vem diminuindo e não há ações para enfrentar coletas paralelas de materiais recicláveis. Por outro lado, as cooperativas garantem aos catadores renda maior que em suas ocupações anteriores, estabilidade e inclusão. Como conclusão, não pode ser considerado satisfatório que um programa municipal de coleta seletiva que existe há mais de 10 anos, dispõe de coleta porta a porta em 100% de sua área urbana, pontos de entrega voluntária, estações de coleta seletiva consiga desviar menos de 3% dos resíduos sólidos urbanos do aterro sanitário. Nesse sentido, faz-se necessário mudar o paradigma: ter coleta seletiva não significa só oferecer o serviço; é necessário coletar seletivamente, com a participação dos munícipes. / Guaranteeing treatment and appropriate disposal to municipal solid waste is a challenge to municipal administrations, mainly because waste generation has increased more than population and big areas to landfills are few in big cities. Thus, since last 1980, in Brazil, a few cities have implemented municipal programs of selective waste collection in partnership with waste pickers organizations, that remove waste from landfills, increasing your lifetime. It is important to look at programs of selective waste collection as part of policy, emphasizing your administrative continuity and objectives. Therein it was sought to study Santo Andrés program of selective waste collection, between 1998 and 2011. The objective is to study how were formulation and implementation of Santo Andrés program of selective waste collection, in 1998, and how it has been making your monitoring and evaluation in the following years, until 1998. For this reason it was used policy cycle approach, that considers policy as a deliberative cycle, formed by several steps, constituting a dynamic and learning process. It was made bibliographical and documental research, such as qualitative semi-structured interviews with: managers of Serviço Municipal de Saneamento Ambiental de Santo André (Semasa); managers of two partner cooperatives of program (Coopcicla and Coop Cidade Limpa) and a random sample of six members of each cooperative. After the interviews, it was made questionnaire application to all waste pickers of Coopcicla and Coop Cidade Limpa, totalizing 79 members. In addiction, it was made technical visits with written and photographic records to public equipment: collect station, paper selection and recycling plant, recyclables selection centers, wood recycling plant. It was possible to notice that program of selective waste collection was formulated with the objective to cover all urban population; it was implemented, putting planned actions into practice, but there are not monitoring and evaluation, that would produce administrative learning. Concerning cooperatives, the partnership with Semasa is not steady, members of cooperatives number has decreased and there are not actions to face parallels recyclables collects. In the other hand, the cooperatives guarantee to your members bigger income than in former occupations, stability and inclusion. As a conclusion, it is not satisfactory that a municipal program of selective waste collection that exists for more than 10 years, has door to door selective waste collection in 100% of urban area, collect stations is able to remove less than 3% of municipal solid waste from landfill. Therein it is necessary to change the paradigm: selective collection does not mean to offer the service; it is necessary to collect in a selective way, with people participation.

Aerial lifts are used to elevate people and material to high heights. There are many different types of aerial lifts which have vastly different dynamics characteristics. Thus, a new categorization for aerial lifts was created and organizes them by their kinematics. Many accidents occur while using aerial lifts. Hazards of aerial lifts and current solutions to those hazards were reviewed to understand the causes of the accidents. Some major accidents are due to the complex dynamics and flexibility of aerial lifts, such as oscillations and tip-overs. Oscillations of full-size aerial lifts were experimentally tested to determine frequencies in different configurations. Machine-motion induced oscillations of an articulating aerial lift were simulated and analyzed for both non-overcenter and overcenter configurations. Input shaping was used to achieve reduction in machine-motion induced oscillations. Tip-over stability margin was used to simulate and analyze the stability of both non-overcenter and overcenter configurations. The effect of increased platform mass on tip-over stability margin was also analyzed. The results in this thesis are a categorization of aerial lifts including their hazards and methods of reducing those hazards, an experimental verification of the dynamic response of full-size aerial lifts, a fully dynamic tip-over prediction model of double-boom articulating aerial lift by applying flexibility in the joints and realistic velocity profiles, and a detailed study of the dynamics of a double-boom articulating aerial lift.

Garantir tratamento e disposição final adequada para os resíduos sólidos urbanos é um desafio para as administrações municipais, principalmente porque a geração de resíduos tem aumentado à taxa maior do que a de aumento da população e as grandes áreas para construção de aterros sanitários são escassas nas grandes cidades. Assim, desde o final da década de 1980, no Brasil, alguns municípios têm implementado programas de coleta seletiva de resíduos sólidos urbanos em parceria com organizações de catadores, que desviam resíduos da disposição em aterros sanitários, aumentando sua vida útil. Torna-se importante olhar para os programas de coleta seletiva como parte de políticas públicas, enfatizando sua continuidade administrativa e seus objetivos. Nesse sentido, buscou-se estudar o programa de coleta seletiva de Santo André SP, entre os anos de 1998 e 2011. O objetivo é estudar como se deram a elaboração e a implementação do programa de coleta seletiva do município de Santo André, em 1998, e como vem sendo feito seu monitoramento e avaliação nos anos posteriores, até o ano de 2011. Para isso foi utilizada a abordagem de policy cycle, que considera a política pública como um ciclo deliberativo, constituído por vários estágios, formando um processo dinâmico e de aprendizagem. Foi realizada pesquisa bibliográfica e documental, bem como entrevistas qualitativas semi-estruturadas com: representantes do Serviço Municipal de Saneamento Ambiental de Santo André (Semasa); os coordenadores administrativos das duas cooperativas parceiras do programa (Coopcicla e Coop Cidade Limpa) e uma amostra randômica de seis cooperados de cada uma das cooperativas parceiras do programa. Após as entrevistas, houve aplicação de questionários a todos os catadores da Coopcicla e Coop Cidade Limpa, totalizando 79 cooperados. Além disso, foram realizadas visitas técnicas com registros escritos e fotográficos aos equipamentos públicos: estação de coleta, usina de triagem e reciclagem de papel, centrais de triagem de materiais recicláveis, usina de reciclagem de madeira. Foi possível constatar que o programa de coleta seletiva foi elaborado com objetivo de atender toda a população urbana do município; em seguida, foi implementado, colocando-se em prática as ações planejadas, mas até o momento não há ações de monitoramento e avaliação do programa, que poderiam produzir aprendizagem administrativa. Em relação às cooperativas, a parceria com o Semasa é instável, o número de catadores vem diminuindo e não há ações para enfrentar coletas paralelas de materiais recicláveis. Por outro lado, as cooperativas garantem aos catadores renda maior que em suas ocupações anteriores, estabilidade e inclusão. Como conclusão, não pode ser considerado satisfatório que um programa municipal de coleta seletiva que existe há mais de 10 anos, dispõe de coleta porta a porta em 100% de sua área urbana, pontos de entrega voluntária, estações de coleta seletiva consiga desviar menos de 3% dos resíduos sólidos urbanos do aterro sanitário. Nesse sentido, faz-se necessário mudar o paradigma: ter coleta seletiva não significa só oferecer o serviço; é necessário coletar seletivamente, com a participação dos munícipes. / Guaranteeing treatment and appropriate disposal to municipal solid waste is a challenge to municipal administrations, mainly because waste generation has increased more than population and big areas to landfills are few in big cities. Thus, since last 1980, in Brazil, a few cities have implemented municipal programs of selective waste collection in partnership with waste pickers organizations, that remove waste from landfills, increasing your lifetime. It is important to look at programs of selective waste collection as part of policy, emphasizing your administrative continuity and objectives. Therein it was sought to study Santo Andrés program of selective waste collection, between 1998 and 2011. The objective is to study how were formulation and implementation of Santo Andrés program of selective waste collection, in 1998, and how it has been making your monitoring and evaluation in the following years, until 1998. For this reason it was used policy cycle approach, that considers policy as a deliberative cycle, formed by several steps, constituting a dynamic and learning process. It was made bibliographical and documental research, such as qualitative semi-structured interviews with: managers of Serviço Municipal de Saneamento Ambiental de Santo André (Semasa); managers of two partner cooperatives of program (Coopcicla and Coop Cidade Limpa) and a random sample of six members of each cooperative. After the interviews, it was made questionnaire application to all waste pickers of Coopcicla and Coop Cidade Limpa, totalizing 79 members. In addiction, it was made technical visits with written and photographic records to public equipment: collect station, paper selection and recycling plant, recyclables selection centers, wood recycling plant. It was possible to notice that program of selective waste collection was formulated with the objective to cover all urban population; it was implemented, putting planned actions into practice, but there are not monitoring and evaluation, that would produce administrative learning. Concerning cooperatives, the partnership with Semasa is not steady, members of cooperatives number has decreased and there are not actions to face parallels recyclables collects. In the other hand, the cooperatives guarantee to your members bigger income than in former occupations, stability and inclusion. As a conclusion, it is not satisfactory that a municipal program of selective waste collection that exists for more than 10 years, has door to door selective waste collection in 100% of urban area, collect stations is able to remove less than 3% of municipal solid waste from landfill. Therein it is necessary to change the paradigm: selective collection does not mean to offer the service; it is necessary to collect in a selective way, with people participation.

Today,   most traditional method used in the research of immune cells, such as flow   cytometry and microscopy, are based on average values of cell responses.   However, immune cells are heterogeneous and respond differently to a given   stimuli. There is also a risk that important, but rare, behaviors of   individual cells are missed when a larger population of immune cells is   analyzed. Also, flow cytometry and microscopy do not allow long-term survival   of cells; these methods lack the ability to do dynamic long-term analysis of   motile immune cells, i.e. studies of cell-cell interactions, morphology and proliferation.   In a   patient who is affected by cancer, the cell heterogeneity contributes to the   ability to battle various types of cancer or virus infections. In an   outbreak, immune cells recognize and kill tumor cells. However, the number of   specific immune cells is sometimes too few to kill all the tumor cells in a   successful way. One way to help these patients is to isolate, select out and   cultivate the active immune cells with capacity to kill tumor cells.   The   Cell Physic Laboratory (a part of the department of Applied Physics) at the   Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) has developed a method for single-cell   analysis where the immune cells are trapped in microwells in a silicon chip.   The immune cells are then studied by using fluorescence microscopy in an   inverted setup. The method enables high-throughput experiments due to the   parallelization. Furthermore, since the immune cells survive long periods in   the chip, the cells can be analyzed over several days up to weeks. The   research group has also developed a semi-automatic ‘cell-picker’. The   cell-picker will be used in combination with the developed method for   single-cell analysis, which enables picking of cells of interest. In this report, experiments for the characterization and evaluation of the biocompatibility of two generations of the cell-picker will be presented. The experiments include development of a protocol for the cell-picking process, studies of the survival time of transferred cells for both generation of the cell-picker and studies of surface coating in the chip in order to increase the biocompatibility. The preliminary results indicate that the cell-picker has potential to be used as a selection tool for immune cells of interest.

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This project is a study of the wastescape - a network of waste - of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack in Odisha, India.  The study incorporates key locations, e.g. landfills, urban wastelands and waste warehouses; major actors in the formal and informal waste sector; and flows of waste through economic and social systems. Drawing from the studies, multiple interventions within the wastescape are proposed for improvement of the economic, ecologic and social situation. An important aspect of the project is the development of an approach for how to, as architects, work with big, complex, contingent networks; how to map and understand such a system; and how to determine where to intervene. To improve the existing wastescape, interventions must consciously and holistically address multiple scales; levels of formal-informal; and phases within the waste cycle. The study includes a vast amount of possible interventions. Some of the interventions are further detailed to show feasibility; impact on the wastescape; and synergies with other interventions within the wastescape. / Projektet “Wastescape of Bhubaneswar & Cuttack” är en studie av ett nätverk av skräpflöden genom Bhubaneswar och Cuttack i Odisha, Indien. Studien inkorporerar viktiga platser, t.ex. deponier, urbana ödemarker och lokaler för skräphandel; stora aktörer i den formella och informella skräpsektorn; och flöden av skräp genom ekonomiska och sociala system. Utifrån dessa studier, ett flertal interventioner i “the wastescape” föreslås för att förbättra den ekonomiska, ekologiska och sociala situationen. En viktig aspekt av arbetet är utvecklingen av ett sätt att, som arkitekt, arbeta med storskaliga, komplexa och inter-beroende nätverk; hur sådana system kan kartläggas och förstås; samt hur det går att avgöra vart och hur interventioner passar in i “the wastescape”. För att förbättra “the wastescape”, interventioner måste medvetet och holistiskt adressera multipla skalor; nivåer av formell-informell; och faser i skräpets kretslopp. Studien innehåller ett stort nummer av möjliga interventioner. Några av dessa interventioner är ytterligare detaljerade för att visa på genomförbarhet; påverkan på “the wastescape”; och synergier gentemot andra interventioner i “the wastescape”.