When two elite, female figure skaters are both at a crossroads with their skating performance, they decide to form a same-sex skating pair for a chance to save their careers.

I dagens samhälle är det mycket viktigt för många att ha stabil uppkoppling för trådlös kommunikation. För att uppnå bra nätverkstäckning behöver radioantenner placeras ut på så optimala platser som möjligt.  För att förenkla processen att identifiera dessa platser påbörjades utvecklingen av en radiovågssimulator hos arbetsgivaren. Två olika program har skapats som utgör grunden för simulatorn, ett som kan generera en 3D-miljö som återspeglar en verklig plats, och det andra programmet simulerar radiostrålar med hjälp av strålspårning.  Problemet är att dessa program inte kan köras samtidigt som ett enda program, vilket innebär att täckningen inte kan undersökas i den miljö som genererats. Detta projekt har som mål att få de två olika programmen att fungera tillsammans så att det är möjligt att analysera var täckning kommer finnas om sändare placeras ut i miljön. Det ska även vara möjligt att byta betraktningsperspektiv i miljön för att möjliggöra att användaren kan undersöka var täckning finns i 3D-miljön. För att uppnå målen undersöktes de tidigare programmen för att avgöra hur programmen skulle kunna kopplas tillsammans. Resultatet är att de två programmen nu kan köras tillsammans som ett enda program där radiovågssimuleringen kan interagera med den automatiskt genererade 3D-miljön. Detta skapar ett program som tydligt kan simulera var sändare kommer att erbjuda stabil täckning i den miljön som genererats. / In today's society, a stable wireless connection is very important for many. In order to achieve good network coverage, radio antennas need to be placed in the most optimal locations possible. In order to simplify the process of identifying these locations, the development of a radio wave simulator was previously started at the employer. Two different programs have been created that form the basis of the simulator, one that can generate a 3D environment that reflects a real location, and the other program simulates radio waves using ray tracing. The problem is that these programs cannot run concurrently as a single program, which means that coverage cannot be examined in the generated environment. This project aims to make the two different programs work together so that it is possible to analyze where coverage will be if transmitters are placed in the environment. It must also be possible to change the viewing perspective in the environment to enable the user to examine where coverage is in the 3D environment. To achieve the objectives, the previous programs were examined to determine how the programs could be linked together. The result is that the two programs can now run together as a single program where the radio wave simulation can interact with the automatically generated 3D environment. This creates a program that can clearly simulate where transmitters will offer stable coverage in the environment generated.

INTRODUCTION: (Study A) Trauma-Related Nightmares (TRNs) are a core feature of Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). We explored linguistic and somatic-experience differences between self-reports of trauma and those of nightmares related to the trauma. (Study B) Neurotic personality features are associated with many psychological disorders, including PTSD. Based on this relationship, we explored whether neuroticism predicts the rate of nightmares and bad dreams as well as the number of replicative nightmares (TRNs similar or exactly like their traumatic experience), above and beyond PTSD severity. METHODS: (Study A) Seventeen participants with varying severity of PTSD symptoms reporting recurring TRNs (mean age 27.47 years, SD = 10.33, 14 females) recalled a traumatic experience and nightmares related to that trauma. Trauma reports were written by participants, while nightmare reports were transcribed from audio recordings made as they were recalled following nightmares. Following both types of reports, participants indicated co-occurring somatic experiences by choosing from a list of 51 selections. Choices were later grouped into cardiovascular, respiratory, interoceptive, and tension categories. Linguistic content was measured using the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) program and positive emotion, negative emotion, and somatosensory category words were totaled. Since trauma reports had significantly higher word counts than TRNs (p=0.0495), LIWC categories were normalized for total word count. Total and symptom- cluster severities of PTSD were assessed using the PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5). Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Tests and Spearman Correlations were used for statistical analysis, as Shapiro-Wilk tests showed that data were non-normally distributed. (Study B) 126 participants who had experienced a traumatic event within the past two years were recruited (mean age 24.13 years, SD = 4.994, 69% female) and, for an average of 14.89 nights, completed a dream questionnaire on which occurrence of nightmares (causing awakening) and bad dreams were reported and ranked based on their similarity to their recent traumatic experience. PTSD symptoms were assessed using the PCL-5 and personality features such as neuroticism were measured using the NEO Personality Inventory Revised (NEO PI-R), a questionnaire based on the Five Factor Model of personality. The combined number of nightmares and bad dreams was divided by the total number of nights reported and expressed as a rate, while a replicative nightmare count was generated by summing “similar to traumatic experience” and “exactly like traumatic experience” ratings. Hierarchical regressions were used to determine whether neuroticism predicted the rate of nightmare and bad dreams as well as the number of replicative nightmares above and beyond PTSD severity. Pearson correlations were used to check for relationships between variables and possible collinearity. RESULTS: (Study A) There were significantly more somatic experiences of interoception (p=0.0084) and tension (p=0.024) in trauma vs nightmare reports. The intrusion cluster of the PCL-5 was associated with cardiovascular (rho=0.592, p=0.0156) and respiratory (rho=0.619, p=0.0109) experiences in trauma reports, and interoception (rho=0.718, p=0.0033) and tension (rho=0.556, p=0.0224) experiences in nightmare reports. (Study B) In two hierarchical regression models, neuroticism predicted neither nightmare and bad dream rate nor number of replicative nightmares over and above total or PTSD symptom cluster severity (p=0.596; p=0.886). Collinearity checks did demonstrate a moderate positive relationship between these variables (r=0.317, p<0.001). CONCLUSION: (Study A) More somatic experiences of interoception and tension were recalled from traumas than TRNs. Because the brain is deafferented from sensory input during dreaming, we expected, but did not find, state differences in other somatic experiences. Word categories in narratives also did not show state differences. Only the intrusion symptoms of PTSD predicted bodily sensations in trauma as well as TRN reports. (Study B) We found that neuroticism did not predict either nightmare and bad dream rate or the number of replicative nightmares above and beyond PTSD severity, when taking demographic factors into account. The positive correlation between PTSD and neuroticism could explain this lack of significance. SUPPORT: R21MH128619

Le présent mémoire témoigne des passages obligés des personnages et des lieux du roman Antoine Noblecourt et la quête de Neith dont je suis l'auteur vers le scénario, puis du scénario vers l'animatique 3D. Il rend compte de certaines réflexions entourant le processus de transécriture à laquelle nous nous sommes prêté. Le terme « transécriture » diffère de cet autre terme qu'est l'« adaptation » qui, dans l'esprit de plusieurs, évoque certains critères de fidélité. Grâce, notamment, aux trois types d'intervention créationnelle proposés par André Gaudreault et Philippe Marion, il s'agit d'observer le processus créateur. Celui-ci implique le passage de la fabula ou du sujet vers Yinventio effectuée à partir des moyens expressifs qu'offre un médium particulier et, enfin, la dispositio ou l'expression elle-même. Au-delà des descriptions qui fournissent des indications quant aux lieux dans lesquels les actions se situent, les dialogues ont, relativement à la dispositio, leur importance. Leur examen permettra de témoigner de la psychologie des personnages du récit. La transécriture du roman vers le scénario, puis du récit scénaristique vers l'animatique a permis l'avancement d'étapes préalables à la réalisation de l'oeuvre filmique 3D anticipée et, de le faire, en ayant réfléchi sur l'écriture des lieux et la mise en présence des personnages du roman.

Large variations in writing styles and difficulties in segmenting cursive words are the main reasons for handwritten cursive words recognition for being such a challenging task. An Indian postal document reading system based on a segmentation-free context based stochastic model is presented. The originality of the work resides on a combination of high-level perceptual features with the low-level pixel information considered by the former model and a pruning strategy in the Viterbi decoding to reduce the recognition time. While the low-level information can be easily extracted from the analyzed form, the discriminative power of such information has some limits as describes the shape with less precision. For that reason, we have considered in the framework of an analytical approach, using an implicit segmentation, the implant of high-level information reduced to a lower level. This enrichment can be perceived as a weight at pixel level, assigning an importance to each analyzed pixel based on their perceptual properties. The challenge is to combine the different type of features considering a certain dependence between them. To reduce the decoding time in the Viterbi search, a cumulative threshold mechanism is proposed in a flat lexicon representation. Instead of using a trie representation where the common prefix parts are shared we propose a threshold mechanism in the flat lexicon where based just on a partial Viterbi analysis, we can prune a model and stop the further processing. The cumulative thresholds are based on matching scores calculated at each letter level, allowing a certain dynamic and elasticity to the model. As we are interested in a complete postal address recognition system, we have also focused our attention on digit recognition, proposing different neural and stochastic solutions. To increase the accuracy and robustness of the classifiers a combination scheme is also proposed. The results obtained on different datasets written on Latin and Bengali scripts have shown the interest of the method and the recognition module developed will be integrated in a generic system for the Indian postal automation.

Trygg-bas scripts är mentala anknytningsrepresentationer som bildas och utvecklas hos individen utifrån dess samvaro med anknytningsperson(er). Studiens syfte var att undersöka förekomst av idrottsrelaterade (tävlings) script och sambandet mellan trygg-bas styrka i barnens eventuella sporttävlingsscript, trygg-bas generellt och koherens i barnets anknytningsrepresentation. Dessutom söktes förståelse för barns och föräldrars involvering och upplevelse av barnets idrottsaktivitet. Föräldrapress undersöktes från både barn- och föräldraperspektiv. Slutligen diskuterades samband mellan barnets anknytning och föräldrapress. Barnen testades för scriptkunskap (Secure Base Script Test, SBST; Psouni &amp; Apetroaia, 2011), samt blev intervjuade (Friends and Family Interview, FFI; Steele &amp; Steele, 2005). Idrottsenkäter besvarades av barn och föräldrar. Idrottsaktiva skolbarn i åldern 9-12 år (N = 86) och föräldrar (N = 74) deltog. Nivåerna av föräldrapress är låga, dock något högre sett från barnens perspektiv. Signifikanta, negativa korrelationer mellan trygg anknytning och föräldrapress rapporteras. Föräldrarnas sensitivitet och/eller barnens balanserade emotionssystem kan vara förklaringar. Samband mellan barnens generella trygg-bas scripts och ett sporttävlingsscript rapporteras. Scriptkunskap för att tackla sporttävlingar var högre för trygga än för otrygga barn (F(1,40) = 5.05, p = .03, partiell η2 = .11). Vilket tyder på att tryggt anknutna barn har en trygg-bas kunskap som är nyttig i idrottssituationer, vilket framhäver anknytningsteorins relevans för sportpsykologi. / Secure base scripts are mental attachment representations that develop in the individual during interactions with caregiver(s). In the study we assessed the importance of attachment representation coherence, scripted attachment knowledge and, for children’s scripted knowledge of coping in a sports competition. Besides, a sport enquiry investigating children’s and parental involvement and experience in the child’s sports activities. Parental pressure from both the child and parents perspective was evaluated. Finally, any connection between the child’s attachment and parental pressure was discussed. Children were interviewed (Friends and Family Interview, FFI; Steele &amp; Steele, 2005) and, tested for scripted attachment knowledge (Secure Base Script Test, SBST; Psouni &amp; Apetroaia, 2011). Sports questionnaires were answered by children and parents. School children active in sport, 9-12 years (N = 86) and parents (N = 74) participated. The level of parental pressure is low seen from both the child and parents perspective, anyhow, the children reporting a slightly higher level of pressure. Significant, negative correlations between secure attachment and parental pressure are reported. Parental sensitivity and/or the secure children’s balanced emotional system might be explanations. Scripted knowledge of coping in sports competitions predicted by children’s scripted attachment knowledge (SBST) is reported. Scripted knowledge of coping in sports competitions was higher for Secure than for Insecure children (F(1,40) = 5.05, p = .03, partial η2 = .11). Our findings suggest that securely attached children have an overarching secure base knowledge which is particularly useful in sports situations, thereby highlighting the relevance of attachment theory for sports education and sports psychology.

Dieser Beitrag befasst sich mit der Analyse eines CSCL-Scripts im Rahmen einer Video-Lernumgebung für die Hochschullehre. Teilnehmende der Experimentalgruppe beschäftigen sich in fünf Phasen mit der Peer Annotation von Videomaterial und mit Peer Assessment, denen im Vergleich zu einer Kontrollgruppe ein schrittweiser und zeitlich gesteuerter Ablauf zugrunde liegt. Der Beitrag verfolgt das Ziel, auf Basis von Analysen erhobener Logdaten aufzuzeigen, welchen Einfluss der Script-Einsatz auf die Effektivität der Interaktion und die Kollaboration zwischen Teilnehmenden hat sowie welche Auswirkungen das Script auf die Nutzungsintensivität und die Arbeitsverteilteilung innerhalb der Gruppen hat.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-14T12:36:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1579166 bytes, checksum: d3ba80babda5e722f7dbc5aaf9f3a941 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-08-30 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / EDA Tools (Electronic Design Automation) are used to facilitate the project and layout of Integrated Circuits (IC). Floorplanning is an important step in the layout design phase of the development of an IC. In this step the macroblocks are positioned on the chip, and the following properties are determined: the location of input and output pads, the location of the power pads and the strategies of distribution of the power and clock signal by the core. Commonly a wrapper in HDL that maps the input and output ports of the project in instances of pads is done, with the different types, defined by the developer and a file that indicates the position of each pad on the circuit. Thus, both the mapping and positioning are usually manually done through scripts, generating a great difficulty for developers, because an IC with a reasonable amount of inputs and outputs becomes extremely susceptible to human failure. These files are generally used by all EDA tools as well as by the Design kits suppliers, moreover, the tools have different syntaxes for the files. This work shows a tool with a GUI (Graphical User Interface) able to provide to the developers an easy and intuitive way to manage both the mapping and positioning of the pads, making the process faster and less susceptive to human failure. To validate the work, the tool is tested on some IC projects / As ferramentas EDA (Electronic Design Automation) são utilizadas para facilitar o projeto e desenho de circuitos integrados (CI). O Floorplaning é uma importante etapa na fase de design do layout no desenvolvimento de um CI. Nesta etapa, os macroblocos são posicionados no chip, além de serem decididas: a localização dos pads de entrada e saída, a localização dos pads de alimentação e as estratégias de distribuição da alimentação e do sinal de clock pelo núcleo. Comumente, é feito um wrapper em HDL que mapeia as portas de entrada e saída do projeto em instâncias de Pads, com seus diferentes tipos, definidos pelo desenvolvedor e um arquivo que indica a posição de cada Pad no circuito. Dessa maneira, tanto esse mapeamento quanto tal posicionamento, em geral, são feitos manualmente por meio de scripts, gerando uma dificuldade para os desenvolvedores, pois para um CI com uma quantidade razoável de entradas e saídas esses procedimentos são susceptíveis a falhas. Esses arquivos, em geral, são utilizados em todas as ferramentas EDA e também pelos fornecedores de Design Kits, além disso, as ferramentas possuem sintaxes diferentes para os arquivos. Este trabalho propõe a construção de uma ferramenta com interface gráfica capaz de fornecer aos desenvolvedores uma maneira mais fácil e intuitiva de gerenciar tanto o mapeamento quanto o posicionamento dos pads, tornando o processo mais rápido e menos susceptível a falhas humanas. Para validar o trabalho, a ferramenta é testada em projetos de CI s.

This study evaluates the predictive capacity of sociodemographic variables of the mother over the level of maternal secure base scripts. The participants were 83 mothers from 15 to 45 years old (M = 24.72, SD = 8.70).The level of maternal secure base was evaluated through the Narratives of Adult Attachment (Waters & Waters, 2006). The results show that the participants do not have an adequate level of secure base script. It was found that interaction between the age of the mother and the educational attainment level, partly explains the level of the maternal secure base script (R2 = .19). The protector role of the level of educational attainment for older mothers to have a higher level of secure base scripts isproposed. / Este estudio evalúa la capacidad predictiva de variables sociodemográficas de la madre sobre sus guiones de base segura. Participaron 83 madres de 15 a 45 años de edad (M =24.72, DE = 8.70). El nivel de base segura materno fue evaluado a través de las Narrativas de Apego Adulto (Waters & Waters, 2006). Los resultados muestran que las participantes no cuentan con un adecuado nivel de base segura. Se encontró que la interacción entre la edad y el nivel de instrucción materno explica en parte el nivel de base segura de las madres (R2 =.19). Se postula el rol protector del nivel de instrucción para que las madres mayores, tengan un mayor nivel de base segura en sus guiones. / Esta pesquisa avalia a capacidade preditiva das variáveis sócio-demográficas da mãe, a partir de seu script de base segura. Participaram 83 mães com idades entre 15 e 45 anos (M = 24.72, DE = 8.70). O nível de script de base segura materno foi avaliado através das Narrativas de Apego Adulto (Waters & Waters, 2006). Os resultados mostram que as participantes não apresentam um nível adequado de base segura. Encontrou-se que a interação entre idade e grau de instrução da mãe explica, em parte, o nível de base segura das mães (R2 = .19). Propõe-se que um grau de instrução maior constituiria um papel protetor nas mães mais velhas, para elas apresentarem maior nível de base segura nos seus scripts.

Bakgrund: Tidigare forskning har visat att parrelationer och sexualliv påverkats efter att den ena i förhållandet förvärvat en hjärnskada. Det kan finnas en diskrepans mellan parets olika syn på vad som är problematiskt i förhållandet. Ofta har hjärnskadan medfört att partnern fått ett ökat ansvar och därmed även en rollförändring.Syfte och metod: Syftet med studien är att belysa hur partners till personer som förvärvat en hjärnskada upplever parrelationen med särskilt fokus på det gemensamma sexuallivet. Studien bygger på åtta individuella intervjuer med partners till personer som i vuxen ålder förvärvat en hjärnskada. Resultat: De övergripande resultaten visar att den förvärvade hjärnskadan påverkat parets dagliga liv. De flesta uppgav att även sexuallivet påverkats, både det gemensamma och partnerns egen sexualitet. Detta har hanterats på olika sätt. En balansgång framträdde mellan att se till det bästa för relationen, och att se till individuella behov. Två olika inställningar till sexuallivet framkom. Å ena sidan ansågs sexuella aktiviteter vara något som skulle komma spontant, och å andra sidan att sexuallivet liksom andra aktiviteter behövde planeras. / Background: Earlier research has shown that relations and sexual life has been affected after one of the partners has acquired a brain injury. There might be a discrepancy between the partners as to what is problematic in the relationship. Often the brain injury has caused the partner to take greater responsibility, therefore also a change in roles. Purpose and method: The purpose of the study is to show how partners to people with brain injury experience their relationship, with focus on the sexual life. The study is based on eight individual’s interviews with partners to people who have acquired a brain injury in their adult life. Results: The overall results show that the brain injury has affected the couple’s daily life. Most said that their sexual life had also been affected, both the mutual and the partners own sexuality. There are different ways to cope with this. A balancing act was shown between a person’s individual needs and the needs of the partner. Two different points of view were expressed about the sexual life. On the one hand sexual activities were seen as something spontaneous, on the other hand, like so many other things, it needed planning.