O objetivo desse estudo foi realizar o diagnóstico de aspectos da ocupação das áreas comuns do Campus da USP da Capital em relação à prática de atividade física, a fim de levantar elementos para a construção de um plano de gestão dessa atividade com base nas teorias e modelos da administração. Para isso, estudou-se os anos de 2013 e 2014, as características do território, ocupação das áreas comuns do Campus da USP pelas assessorias esportivas, as principais ocorrências relacionadas à prática esportiva registradas na Guarda Universitária, Ouvidoria da USP, Prefeitura do Campus e Sistema de Ambulância, os serviços oferecidos pelas assessorias esportivas, o comportamento do mercado destas assessorias presentes no Campus e o perfil do gestor de assessoria esportiva. Além disso, estudou-se a ocupação e o comportamento em termos de prática esportiva dos praticantes e a opinião destes sobre a prática de atividades físicas no Campus da USP. Foram analisados dados dos órgãos administrativos da USP relacionados à prática esportiva e aplicado questionário às assessorias e praticantes. Resultados: as principais ocorrências registradas na guarda universitária estavam relacionadas a furtos em veículos, seguidos de acidente pessoal e atropelamento, e ocorreram prioritariamente no período matutino; No serviço de ambulância a principal ocorrência foi relacionada a acidentes com queda de ciclistas; A principal reclamação está vinculada à prática de ciclismo tanto na Ouvidoria como na Prefeitura do Campus; Houve um crescimento expressivo do número de assessorias esportivas nos últimos dez anos; As assessorias esportivas em conjunto movimentam só em relação aos serviços de treinamento, cerca de 2 milhões e setecentos mil reais ao mês; Prioritariamente, as assessorias esportivas oferecem seus treinamentos no Campus da USP devido à demanda dos praticantes; O Campus da USP é escolhido como local para treino pelos praticantes principalmente devido a variação de percurso, a proximidade de casa ou do trabalho, ser um local arborizado, amplo, poder realizar treinos longos e ser considerado o melhor local para treinamento. Conclusão: a partir das análises apresentadas, pudemos obter o diagnóstico do uso do espaço, onde buscamos informações acerca do ambiente externo de forma a identificar e interpretar as tendências, visando analisar as informações e determinar quais apresentam oportunidades e ameaças para propor um plano de gestão / The objective of this study was to achieve a diagnosis of the occupation aspects concerning the common areas of USP Campus in São Paulo, the Capital of the State of São Paulo, with regards to the practice of the physical activities, aiming at an assessment of the elements for the elaboration of a management plan for these activities, based on administration theories and models. To accomplish this, we studied as references the occupation in the years 2013 and 2014; the characteristics of the territory; the occupation of common areas at the USP Campus by the running clubs; the main occurrences related to sports practice registered by USP Safety Department, Complaints Department, Superintendence, and Ambulance System; the services provided by the running clubs; the behavior of the running clubs market present in the Campus; and their profile. In addition to this, we also studied the occupation and behavior in terms of sports practice of the participants, their opinion about the practice of such physical sports at USP Campus. Data from USP Administrative Organs about sports practice was analyzed and a questionnaire was applied to the coaches and runners. Results: the main occurrences registered by USP Safety Department were related to vehicle thefts followed by running over, which occurred mainly in the morning. As for the Ambulance Service, the main occurrences were related cyclists to accidents and falls. The most important claims, both in the Complaint Department and in the Superintendence, regard the cycling practice. There has been a relevant growth in the number of running clubs in the past ten years. The running clubs together make around 2.7 million Reais monthly. They provide their running club services mainly at USP Campus due to the runners demand. USP Campus is chosen as a place for training among the runners thanks to the variety of routes, proximity to their houses and/or work, for being a green wide place, for the possibility of long training sessions, and for being considered the best place for training. Conclusion: based on the analysis presented we were able to obtain a diagnosis of the space use, where we obtained information about the external environment in order to identify and interpret the tendencies, aiming at analyzing the information and determining which represent opportunities and threats so as to propose a management plan

Purpose: Monitor changes in force production, running economy (RE), and running kinematics (RK) in a highly trained marathon runner after beginning a strength training (ST) program. Methods: One marathon runner (M, 27 y, 165 cm, 53.3 kg, VO2pesk 67.43 ml/kg/min, PR 2:33:13) with no history of ST completed a 12-week block periodized ST program. Baseline and reliability testing was conducted over a two-month period prior to ST. The completed ST RPE and work (volume load*displacement) and running volume (km/wk) were monitored over the 12 weeks. The athlete performed an isometric mid-thigh pull to assess peak force (PF, N), rate of force development at 250 ms (RFD250), and net impulse at 250 ms (NI250) during baseline and throughout ST. The athlete performed a steady state test on a treadmill instrumented with the OptojumpTM optic sensor system to assess RE (ml/kg/km) and RK during baseline and throughout ST. Impact of the ST program was assessed by percent change of the variables during the taper from the baseline average and by the odds of a true change using the typical error and smallest worthwhile change. Results: PF improved (120:1 odds) by 17.11%, RFD250 improved (22:1 odds) by 24.73%, and NI250 improved (10:1 odds) by 16.70% before competition. Ground contact time decreased (7:1 odds) by 2.57%, flight time decreased (1:1 odds) by 1.49%, step rate increased (2:1 odds) by 2.28%, and step length decreased (57:1: odds) by 2.21%. RE improved (3:1 odds) by 2.09%. Conclusion: Improving a runner’s maximal strength and rate of force development may positively influence RK and RE.

Šis darbas yra skirtas aukšto meistriškumo bėgikės rengimosi 2003 metų besirengiančios pagrindiniams metų startams analizei. Treneriai, sportininkai ir mokslininkai vis dar ieško efektyvesnių priemonių ir metodų, tobulinant treniruočių metodiką. Sporto mokslo atstovai, sporto edukologai turėtų daugiau dėmesio skirti į aukšto meistriškumo sportininkų pasirengimo technologijų naujumą, jų tobulinimą. Tyrimo tikslas: išanalizuoti vidutinių nuotolių bėgikės, besirengiančios pagrindiniams metų startams, metinį ugdymo(si) modelį. Uždaviniai: 1. išanalizuoti didelio meistriškumo bėgikių ugdymo tendencijas; nustatyti bėgikės pratybų kryptingumo kitimą bei turinio formavimo ypatumus metinio rengimo struktūroje; atskleisti bėgikės ugdymo mikrociklų formavimo tendencijas, atsižvelgiant į rengimo uždavinius; išanalizuoti bėgikės rengimo metodų kitimo tendencijas. Darbe yra išanalizuota vidutinių nuotolių didelio meistriškumo bėgikės besirengiančios pagrindiniams metų startams metinio treniruotės ciklo struktūra ir treniruotės proceso optimizavimas. Pateiktos įvairaus kryptingumo fizinio krūvio reikšmės, į kurias turėtų orientuotis specialistai, rengiantys sportininkus svarbiausiems startams. 2002 – 2003 metų treniruočių cikle R.D geriausią sportinę formą įgijo svarbiausiuose metų startuose. Artėjant svarbiausioms varžyboms 800m bei 1500m bėgimo rezultatai palaipsniuji gerėjo o paskutiniuose sezono startuose buvo pasiekti asmeniniai sporininkės rekordai (800m – 2.02,24s... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / On work is devoted to the analysis of a runner of great mastership preparation for the basic competition in 2003.Coatches ,athletes and scientists are still looking for more efective manses and methods to improve the training methodology. The delegates of sport edukation should pay more atention to the novelty of technologics and their development. The aim of the research is to analyse the annual training model. The objects are:to analyse training tendencies of great mastership runners; to ascertain a runner’s chauge of practical training perposefulness and peculiarities of content formation in the structure of an annual preparation;to disclose the tendencies of formation of runner training microcycles taking into account a runner‘s preparation tasks in his state;to analyse the tendencies of change of runner‘s preparation of methods. The structure of cycle of annual training and the optimise of process of training has been analysed. There are some varios meanings of purposeful physical loads. In the training cycle in 2003-2004 R.D. has achieved the higest sporting form in her the most significant competition.When the most significant competition was approached the results in 800m. and 1500m.running has been improved.The personal records of runner has been achievd in the last competitions of the season.(800.-2.02.24s; 1500m-4.07.78s) The general load of running 82km is odding with the scientists‘s (Suslovas, Karoblis 1995m)recomendable load(30km),because the runner was... [to full text]

Games are irritating when they are too hard, and boring when they are too easy. Level Eight is a game development company which is, during this project, developing an endless runner. This thesis describes research and implementation of a dynamic difficulty adjustment system in Level Eights’ endless runner by considering several conditions of the player. This was accomplished with the help of the game environment by implementing procedural content generation and combine it with the dynamic difficulty adjustment system. / Spel är irriterande när de är för svåra, och tråkiga när de är för lätta. Level Eight är ett spelutvecklingsföretag som under detta projekt utvecklar ett ändlöst löparspel. Denna avhandling beskriver forskning och genomförande av ett dynamiskt svårighets justeringssystem i Level Eights ändlöst löparspel genom att överväga flera villkor för spelaren. Detta uppnåddes med hjälp av spelmiljön genom att implementera procedurell innehållsgenerering och kombinera den med det dynamiska svårighets justering systemet.

Procedural content generation (PCG) is increasingly used to generate many aspects in a variety of games. AI players, both hand scripted or also generated (by AI methods), are used to evaluate this content. Comparatively little effort is invested in using PCG to generate the whole game, including its rules. In this thesis, we use evolutionary algorithms to generate the game rules, its content and the evaluating AI player on a narrow, but flourishing, genre of endless runners - games where the player is constantly running. For this purpose, we have implemented a framework for creating endless runner games. Our approach could provide more efficiency for game designers, explore completely new game concepts in endless runners, platformer games, and be further generalized to other game genres.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2008-11-13Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:54:06Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 bulgarelli_emb_me_jabo.pdf: 236415 bytes, checksum: 527cf344cf8f231a39b406fdcbabe5e1 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Para obtenção de bons resultados de produtividade com menor custo, o uso do espaçamento entrelinhas e densidades de plantas na linha devem ser adequados, pois, a população de plantas é um dos fatores que se destacam por afetar diretamente os componentes de produção. Tendo em vista a escassez de informações relacionadas ao comportamento de variedades de amendoim, principalmente as rasteiras, cultivadas em diferentes populações, propôs-se no presente trabalho estudar os efeitos da densidade de plantas no desenvolvimento e produtividade do amendoim. Foram conduzidos três experimentos envolvendo três cultivares, sendo duas rasteiras Runner IAC 886 e IAC Caiapó e uma ereta IAC Tatu ST. Foram estudadas quatro densidades de plantas (22, 18, 12 e 6 plantas/m) mantendo-se o espaçamento entrelinhas em 0,90 m. Utilizou-se o delineamento em blocos ao acaso com quatro repetições, sendo a parcela experimental constituída de 7 linhas de 5 m de comprimento. Os resultados foram submetidos à análise de variância pelo teste F e as médias foram comparadas pelo teste de Tukey a 5% de probabilidade. As características relacionadas ao crescimento vegetativo foram pouco influenciadas pelas densidades de plantas. A cultivar Runner IAC 886 apresentou maior número de ramificações na menor densidade de plantas e a IAC Caiapó, apresentou maior comprimento de ramificações na maior densidade de plantas. Dentre as características relacionadas à produtividade, a mais afetada pela densidade de plantas foi o número de vagens por planta. A cultivar IAC Caiapó apresentou maior número de vagens por planta na menor densidade testada. As cultivares rasteiras Runner IAC 886 e IAC Caiapó apresentaram produtividades semelhantes nas diferentes densidades testadas e a ereta IAC Tatu ST, maiores produtividades nas maiores densidades de plantas. / The row spacing and plants density must be adequate for obtaining yield increases with lower costs, since the plants population is one of the main factors directly affecting the yield components. Once the information related to peanut varieties behavior in different populations is scarce, the aim of the present work was to study the effect of plants density on peanut yield and development. Experiments were carried out using three cultivars, the runner type ones Runner IAC 886 and IAC Caiapó and the bunch type IAC Tatu ST. Four plants density (22, 18, 12 and 6 plants per meter of row) were evaluated in 0.90 m row spacing. The randomized block design was used with four replicates, being the experimental plots composed by 7 rows of 5 m length each. Data were submitted to the variance analysis by the F test and means were compared by the Tukey test (5% probability). Traits related to vegetative growth were lightly affected by the different plants density. The higher plant branching was observed at the lower density for the Runner IAC 886 cultivar, while the IAC Caiapó showed higher plant branching at the higher density. Among the yield components, the number of pods per plant was the most affected trait by the plants density change. The IAC Caiapó cultivar showed the higher number of pods per plant at the lower tested density. Otherwise, the runner type cultivars Runner IAC 886 and IAC Caiapó showed similar results for yield at the different tested densities, whereas the bunch type IAC Tatu ST had higher yield at higher plants density.

Orientadores: Rezende Gomes dos Santos, Ricardo Fuoco / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Mecanica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-08T07:46:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Kolososki_Jorge_M.pdf: 7343986 bytes, checksum: 91fb9f7d500f8f650a42e7e445885c96 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2001 / Resumo: Durante o vazamento dos moldes, o fluxo de metal através dos canais está sujeito a grande turbulência, gerando filmes de óxidos devido a exposição ao ar. Estes óxidos podem permanecer nas peças fundidas como descontinuidades, prejudicando as propriedades, em particular a resistência mecânica e a dutilidade. São apresentados os principais conceitos e as principais recomendações existentes na literatura para o projeto dos sistemas de canais de ligas com elevada tendência à oxidação, como as ligas de alumínio. Estes princípios e recomendações foram utilizados para projetar seis diferentes sistemas de canais para o preenchimento de placas na posição vertical, utilizando liga de alumínio UNS A03560. A avaliação do grau de turbulência alcançado em cada um dos sistemas de canais projetados foi feita através da maior ou menor geração de inclusões de óxidos, medida através de ensaios de flexão de corpos-de-prova retirados diretamente das placas. São apresentados os resultados destes ensaios de flexão e evidências de inclusões de óxidos nas fraturas dos corpos-de-prova ensaiados / Abstract: During mould pouring, metal flow in runner system is submitted to large turbulence and air contact, producing oxide films. This oxide is incorporated to cast products as inclusions and discontinuities, reducing noticeably mechanical strength and ductility. The principal concepts and literature recommendations for the best runner system project applied to alloys with high oxidation tendency, like aluminum alloys, were presented in this work. This information was used to project six different runner systems for plate casting in vertical position, considering aluminum alloy UNS A03560 as the cast metal. The evaluation of turbulence degree reached in each one of the systems was made by oxide inclusion classification, comparing results of three-point bend tests in specimens obtained from the six plate cast procedures. Mechanical test results and oxide inclusion evidence in fracture surface of those broken specimens are presented. / Mestrado / Materiais e Processos de Fabricação / Mestre em Engenharia Mecânica

O proposito deste trabalho é apresentar uma metodologia para projeto de uma turbina axial para micro aproveitamentos hidráulicos com ênfase no projeto das geometrias do rotor e distribuidor, incluindo os resultados analíticos e numéricos através do método dos painéis. Comparações do projeto analítico com testes de campo são também apresentadas. A metodologia analítica utilizada foi a teoria do escoamento não-viscoso de Wenig que avalia os fatores de interferência para modelar o quanto as características de sustentação e arrasto de uma cascata de perfis são relacionadas com as de um perfil isolado. Foi verificado que a teoria de Wenig fornece uma boa previsão do fator de interferência se o ângulo de ataque for relativamente baixo e a espessura das pás for relativamente pequena quando comparada com a distância entre as pás. A metodologia numérica usando o método de vorticidade superficial proposto por Martensen para uma cascata de perfis e para um perfil isolado foi utilizada para se ter uma comparação com os coeficientes analíticos de sustentação e arrasto. Testes de campo foram realizados em um protótipo de 20 kW de acordo com a norma IEC-60041 e sua comparação com o método analítico e por consequência o método numérico validou o método empregado para confecção das pás do rotor e distribuidor. / The purpose of this work is to present a methodology to design a small axial hydraulic turbine with emphasis on the project of the profiles of the runner and wicket gate, including both analytical and numerical results from a cascade panel method. Comparisons with field test measurements of a prototype are also presented. The analytical methodology used is the Wenigs inviscid flow theory which requires the evaluation of interference factors to model how lift and drag characteristics of the turbine cascade of blades are related to those of a single isolated airfoil. It is found that the Wenigs theory provides a reasonable prediction of the lift interference factor if both the angle of attack is relatively low and the thickness of the blades is relatively small when compared to the distance between the blades. The numerical methodology that relies the Hess and Smiths 2-D panel method for a cascade of blades and for an isolated airfoil was used in order to have a comparison with the analytical lift and drag. Prototype field test measurements of the turbine power output, in agreement with IEC-60041 standards, were carried out to evaluate the results using the analytical and numerical methods.

This master‘s thesis deals with small water power plant Beneš. The first part of the thesis tries to find causes of low efficiency of this power plant. The second part contains suggestions of construction changes for increasing of efficiency – design of new runner blades and basic parameters of new distributor.

I uppsatsen jämförs en kvinnlig och en manlig hjälte, utifrån ett genusperspektiv, isamtida actionfilm för att se hur de framställs. Syftet med denna uppsats är attundersöka om den kvinnliga hjälten verkligen utmanar stereotyperna. De filmernasom analyseras är The Hunger Games och The Maze Runner. Den metod somanvänds för att genomföra analysen är en karaktärsanalys utifrån karaktärsklockanskapad av Jens Eder. Resultaten av undersökningen visar tydliga tecken påstereotypiska drag hos den kvinnliga, men även den manliga hjältekaraktären. TheHunger Games är trots det ändå en film som är positiv till utvecklingen avkvinnliga hjältar.