Submitted by Cássia Santos (cassia.bcufg@gmail.com) on 2014-10-16T15:13:44Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertacao Ely Rodrigues de Almeida - 2013.pdf: 1560361 bytes, checksum: 153a2514b81e70d5b31e01a1cc0d09b6 (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Jaqueline Silva (jtas29@gmail.com) on 2014-10-20T20:06:38Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertacao Ely Rodrigues de Almeida - 2013.pdf: 1560361 bytes, checksum: 153a2514b81e70d5b31e01a1cc0d09b6 (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-10-20T20:06:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertacao Ely Rodrigues de Almeida - 2013.pdf: 1560361 bytes, checksum: 153a2514b81e70d5b31e01a1cc0d09b6 (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-10-15 / INTRODUCTION: Anticoagulation with warfarin is used in the presence of hypercoagulability and as prophylaxis for thromboembolism. Prothrombin time and activity and the international normalized ratio (PTA/INR) are the standard tests for laboratory follow up of the anticoagulation rate. Hemorrhage is one complication of this therapy. Therefore, one speculates on the possibility of diagnosing cases in which there is excess anticoagulation, by means of the analysis of hematuria in urinalysis and the association with PTA/INR. OBJECTIVE: Analyze the existence of a correlation between hematuria in urinalysis and high PTA/INR, among users of warfarin. METHODOLOGY: This is a descriptive, analytical, primary, quantitative and cross-sectional investigation. The study included 128 patients, 63 of whom were being treated with warfarin, and formed the group of anticoagulated patients (ACG). The remaining 65 patients who were not using anticoagulants formed the non anticoagulated group (NACG). For this study, 152 blood and urine samples were collected; 24 patients of the ACG contributed twice for the PTA/INR and urinalysis, at two different times. All the participants of the NACG also had the PTA/INR and urinalysis tests done. Patients with a clinical suspicion of conditions that might cause hematuria were excluded. The social and demographic data of these individuals were analyzed and the numerical variables of hematuria and of other urinalysis and INR parameters were measured and analyzed. The prevalence and the correlation between hematuria and PTA/INR levels were calculated. Data from the tests, medical appointments and the records of patients recruited in the collection room of the Clinical Laboratory of the HC-UFG were evaluated statistically, and emphasis was placed on the Spearman's correlation for hematuria and PTA/INR (IC 95%; p< 0.05). The study was approved by the Committee on Ethics and Human Research of the HC-UFG, protocol No. 016/2012. RESULTS: The amount of warfarin given on a weekly basis ranged from 10 to 65 mg. If one considers the INR between 2 and 3.9 acceptable for adequate anticoagulation, 59.77% of the individuals were adequately anticoagulated, 35% were insufficiently anticoagulated and 5.75% were excessively anticoagulated. The prevalence of hematuria among the ACG members was 26.44 % (CI 95% 17.98 – 36.43) and among NACG members, 29.23 % (CI 95% 19.16 – 41.11). The correlation coefficient between hematuria and INR was 0.012 (p=0.887). CONCLUSIONS: The most of the patients (59.7%) were within the recommended therapeutic range for controlling patients. There was no correlation between hematuria as measured by urinalysis and anticoagulation levels measured by the INR. / INTRODUÇÃO: A anticoagulação com varfarina é usada na hipercoagubilidade e como profilaxia para o tromboembolismo. O tempo e atividade de protrombina e a relação normatizada internacional (TAP/RNI) são os exames padrões para acompanhamento laboratorial da taxa de anticoagulação. A hemorragia é uma complicação desta terapia. Dessa forma, especula-se a possibilidade de diagnosticar casos em que haja excesso de anticoagulação, por meio da análise da hematúria no exame dos elementos anormais e sedimentoscopia da urina (EAS) e a associação com TAP/RNI. OBJETIVO: Analisar a existência de correlação entre hematúria no EAS e TAP /RNI elevados, nos usuários do anticoagulante varfarina. METODOLOGIA: Estudo descritivo, analítico, primário, quantitativo e transversal. Incluíram-se 128 pacientes, sendo 63 tratados com varfarina, formando um grupo anticoagulado (GAC) e 65 que não faziam uso de anticoagulantes, grupo não anticoagulado (GNAC). Colheram-se 152 amostras de sangue e urina; das quais 24 pacientes do GAC contribuíram duas vezes para exames TAP/RNI e EAS, em dois momentos distintos. Todos os participantes do GNAC também se submeteram aos exames TAP/RNI e EAS. Excluíram-se pacientes com suspeita clínica de condições que causassem hematúria. Analisaram-se os dados sociodemográficos e fez-se a mensuração e a análise das variáveis numéricas hematúria e de outros parâmetros do EAS e RNI. Calculou-se a prevalência e a correlação entre hematúria e níveis de TAP/RNI. Os dados oriundos de exames, consultas médicas e dos prontuários dos pacientes recrutados na sala de coleta do Laboratório Clinico do HC-UFG, foram avaliados estatisticamente, com ênfase na correlação de Spearman para hematúria e TAP/RNI (IC 95%; p<0,05). O projeto foi aprovado pelo Comitê de Ética e Pesquisa Humana do HC-UFG sob o nº 016/2012. RESULTADOS: A quantidade de varfarina semanal variou de 10 a 65 mg. Considerando-se o valor de RNI entre 2 e 3,9, como valor aceitável para adequada anticoagulação, 59,77% estavam adequadamente anticoagulados, 35% insuficientemente e, com efeito anticoagulante excessivo, 5,75%. A prevalência de hematúria no GAC foi de 26,44 % (IC 95% 17,98 – 36,43) e no GNAC, foi de 29,23 % (IC 95% 19,16 – 41,11). O coeficiente de correlação entre hematúria e RNI foi de 0,012 (p=0,887). CONCLUSÕES: A maioria dos pacientes (59,7%) tinha a RNI na faixa terapêutica preconizada para anticoagulação. Não houve correlação entre hematúria ao exame EAS e os níveis de anticoagulação medidos pela RNI.

Network on Chip (NoC) has emerged as a competitive and efficient communication infrastructure for the core based design of System on Chip. Resource (core), router and interface between router and core are the three main parts of a NoC. Each core communicates with the network through the interface, also called Resource Network Interface (RNI). One approach to speed up the design at NoC based systems is to develop standardized RNI. Design of RNI depends to some extent on the type of routing technique used in NoC. Control of route decision base the categorization of source and distributed routing algorithms. In source routing a complete path to the destination is provided in the packet header at the source, whereas in distributed routing, the path is dynamically computed in routers as the packet moves through the network. Buffering, flitization, deflitization and transfer of data from core to router and vice versa, are common responsibilities of RNI in both types of routing. In source routing, RNI has an extra functionality of storing complete paths to all destinations in tables, extracting path to reach a desired destination and adding it in the header flit. In this thesis, we have made an effort towards designing and prototyping a standardized and efficient RNI for both source and distributed routing. VHDL is used as a design language and prototyping of both types RNI has been carried out on Altera DE2 FPGA board. Testing of RNI was conducted by using Nios II soft core. Simulation results show that the best case flit latency, for both types RNI is 4 clock cycles. RNI design is also resource efficient because it consumes only 2% of the available resources on the target platform.

<p>Network on Chip (NoC) has emerged as a competitive and efficient communication infrastructure for the core based design of System on Chip. Resource (core), router and interface between router and core are the three main parts of a NoC. Each core communicates with the network through the interface, also called Resource Network Interface (RNI). One approach to speed up the design at NoC based systems is to develop standardized RNI. Design of RNI depends to some extent on the type of routing technique used in NoC. Control of route decision base the categorization of source and distributed routing algorithms. In source routing a complete path to the destination is provided in the packet header at the source, whereas in distributed routing, the path is dynamically computed in routers as the packet moves through the network. Buffering, flitization, deflitization and transfer of data from core to router and vice versa, are common responsibilities of RNI in both types of routing. In source routing, RNI has an extra functionality of storing complete paths to all destinations in tables, extracting path to reach a desired destination and adding it in the header flit. In this thesis, we have made an effort towards designing and prototyping a standardized and efficient RNI for both source and distributed routing. VHDL is used as a design language and prototyping of both types RNI has been carried out on Altera DE2 FPGA board. Testing of RNI was conducted by using Nios II soft core. Simulation results show that the best case flit latency, for both types RNI is 4 clock cycles. RNI design is also resource efficient because it consumes only 2% of the available resources on the target platform.</p>

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Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2017-11-22T19:39:17Z No. of bitstreams: 1 FredSizenandoRossiterPinheiro_TESE.pdf: 2936282 bytes, checksum: e043d67f2ec70c4303eadd2ce8383354 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2017-11-22T23:29:37Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 FredSizenandoRossiterPinheiro_TESE.pdf: 2936282 bytes, checksum: e043d67f2ec70c4303eadd2ce8383354 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-11-22T23:29:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 FredSizenandoRossiterPinheiro_TESE.pdf: 2936282 bytes, checksum: e043d67f2ec70c4303eadd2ce8383354 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-12-17 / O surgimento da Telefonia Celular, a partir dos anos 1990, e a constru??o fren?tica de torres nas cidades assustou a popula??o, levou a comunidade cient?fica mundial e os ?rg?os de controle ambiental a dar maior aten??o ?s ondas eletromagn?ticas n?o ionizantes. Um estado pobre como o Rio Grande do Norte evoluiu a quantidade de celulares em opera??o de 340 mil no ano 2002 para 4,6 milh?es em 2014. No RN a quantidade de linhas celulares supera a pr?pria popula??o, com uma densidade de 128,98 acessos para cada 100 habitantes. Natal, a capital do RN, com 850 mil habitantes, j? possui 882 Esta??es R?dio Base dos Sistemas celulares em 167,26 km2 de ?rea urbana. O objetivo do presente trabalho ? fazer um diagn?stico sobre a exposi??o ? radia??o eletromagn?tica n?o ionizante em toda ?rea urbana da Cidade. A metodologia usada levou em conta medi??es de intensidade das radia??es feitas em 160 diferentes pontos da cidade. As medi??es foram feitas na faixa de 88MHz a 2.400 MHz. Os servi?os de telecomunica??es avaliados na pesquisa foram: TV (Broadcasting), R?dio FM (Broadcasting), Sistemas Celulares e WLAN (IEEE 802.11bg).Foram considerados para compara??o os limites de exposi??o do ICNIRP (InternationalCommission on Non IonizationProtection), par?metros: ?Intensidade de Campo El?trico? e ?Raz?o de Exposi??o? (ER). Resultados: de acordo com as medi??es realizadas, 48.48 % da exposi??o eletromagn?tica outdoor na cidade do Natal decorre da radia??o emitida pelos transmissores de TV. Da mesma forma, constatou-se que, em 77,2 % dos pontos pesquisados, a intensidade do campo el?trico gerada pelas TVs supera todos os demais servi?os de telecomunica??es, inclusive a Telefonia Celular. A Taxa de Exposi??o (ER) m?dia de Radia??o N?o Ionizante verificada para a faixa de frequ?ncia pesquisada foi de 4,43. 10 -3, enquanto o valor m?ximo foi de 7,67. 10-2. Foi desenvolvido modelo para estimativa do Campo El?trico gerado pelos transmissores das TVs em qualquer ponto da cidade. Utilizouse a T?cnica Estat?stica de Regress?o Multivariada, a partir das 160 amostras. As equa??es finais obtidas permitem as estimativas com grau de precis?o R2 superior a 0,9, p<0,1. Constatou-se que o expoente de atenua??o para propaga??o de RF na cidade varia entre 2,8 e 3,8. A exposi??o eletromagn?tica ? RNI em ambientes outdoor em Natal est? em n?veis abaixo dos limites de seguran?a definidos pelo ICNIRP e ANATEL. Os servi?os que mais contribuem para RNI em Natal s?o: 1-TV, 2-Sistema Celular e 3-R?dios FMs. / The electromagnetic waves used in the telecommunication systems until the 1980?s were considered by the governments environmental control organs as apparently ?clean? forms of energy, whose effects weren?t considered any harmful to people?s health. The development of the mobile cellular telecommunication, beginning in the 1990?s, and the frenetic construction of antennas in the cities? urban areas scared the population in general and turned the attention of the world?s scientific community to the theme. In a poor Brazilian State, such as Rio Grande do Norte ? RN (GDP:R$ 51,4 billion in 2013) , the amount of cellular phones in operation went from 340.000 in 2002 to 4.6 million phones in 2014. In RN the number of cellular lines overcomes its own population, with a density of 128.98 accesses for each 100 inhabitants. Natal, the capital city of the State, with 850.000 inhabitants, already has 885 radio base stations of the cellular systems in 167.26 km? of urban area. The data is from ANATEL (august 2015). The objective of this work is to make a diagnosis about the actual situation of the emission of non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation in all urban area of the city of Natal. The methodology used took into account measurements of the intensity of the radiation taken in 160 different sites throughout the city. This radiation was measured in the range of 88MHz to 2.400 MHz. The collected data was compared to the limits of exposure of the ICNIRP (International Commission on Non Ionization Protection). The ICNIRP parameters used as reference were: ?intensity of electric field? and ?exposure ratio?. The telecommunication services researched were: TV broadcasting, FM radio broadcasting, cellular systems and WLAN (IEE 802.11bg). The obtained results allowed the drawing of a map comparing the data between the measured values and the limits of exposure to RNI defined by ICNIRP and ANATEL. The evaluation criteria used was the parameters Intensity of Electric Field and Exposure Ratio (ER). Results: according to the measurements taken, 48.48% of the outdoor electromagnetic exposure in the municipality of Natal are originated from TV transmitters. Similarly, in 77.2% of the researched locations, the intensity of the electric field originated from TVs overcomes all the rest of the wireless telecommunication services, including the cellular system. Based on the information that the radiation emitted by the TV transmitters is the most relevant in the city, a model to estimate the intensity of the electric field resulting from this service in any point in town was developed. This model was developed based on multivariate regression techniques. The final equations obtained allowed the estimative of the electric field with a level of precision R2> 0,9 and p<0,1. It was found that the exponent RF propagation attenuation in Natal varies between 2.6 and 2.8.The average Exposure Rate (ER) to NIR observed in the researched frequency rate was of 4.43.10-3, while the maximum value was of 7.67. 10- Conclusions: The results of the study demonstrated that the levels of electromagnetic exposure to NIR in outdoor environments in the city of Natal are lower than the security limits set by ICNIRP and ANATEL. The services that contribute most to NIR in Natal are 1-TV, 2- Cellular System and 3-FM Radios.

Bruhn (2008) and Griffiths (1978) have referred in passing to Messiaen's use of non-Western content as an appropriation, but a consideration of its potential moral and aesthetic failings within the scope of modern literature on artistic cultural appropriation is an underexplored topic. Messiaen's first encounter with India came during his student years, by way of a Sanskrit version of Saṅgītaratnākara (c. 1240 CE) written by the thirteenth-century Hindu musicologist Śārṅgadeva. I examine Messiaen's use of Indian deśītālas within a cultural appropriation context. Non-Western music provided a safe space for him to explore the familiar, and served as validation for previously held creative interests, prompting the expansion and development of rhythmic techniques from the unfamiliar. Chapter 1 examines the different forms of artistic cultural appropriation, drawing on the ideas of James O. Young and Conrad G. Brunk (2012) and Bruce H. Ziff and Pratima V. Rao (1997). I consider the impact of power dynamic inequality between 'insider' and 'outsider' cultures. I evaluate the relation between aesthetic errors and authenticity. Chapter 2 considers the internal and external factors and that prompted Messiaen to draw on non-Western rhythm. I examine Messiaen's appropriation of Indian rhythm in relation to Bloomian poetic misreading, and whether his appropriation of Indian rhythm reveals an authentic intention. Chapter 3 analyses Messiaen's interpretation of Śārṅgadeva's 120 deśītālas and its underlying Hindu symbolism. Chapter 4 contextualises Messiaen's Japanese poem Sept haïkaï (1962) in relation to other European Orientalist artworks of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, and also in relation to Michael Sullivan's (1987: 209) three-tiered definitions of japonism.