Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2016-06-13T13:44:40Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 1050690 bytes, checksum: e11eda4c34563f5924abd89bc52742c1 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-13T13:44:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 1050690 bytes, checksum: e11eda4c34563f5924abd89bc52742c1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-06-16 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Our study focuses on the poetry of contemporary Brazilian writer Stella Leonardos, particularly in the first part of Amanhecência work, published in 1974, which features recreations of songs of the troubadour period. The rare academic production about the Troubadour and the very few studies on the neotrovadoresca strand produced by authors / the contemporary / as, notably by the poet Stella Leonardos, justifies our research proposal to entangle the process of (re) reading of lyric medieval with its reception by literary criticism. Therefore, we approach, at first, the tradition of medieval and Neotrovadorismo aesthetics in contemporary literature; then proceeded to a discussion of the canonical criteria for the inclusion / exclusion of works and authors / the national or international literature. We propose, finally, the poetic analysis of Stella Leonardos regarding your neotrovadoresca facet in four rewrites friend of songs, namely: Barcarolle, The songbook of desajuda, pastorela fragment and Cantiga of pilgrimage. How we use the theoretical underpinning research by Georg Otte (1999), Roberto Reis (1993), Cristófol y Sel (2008), Segismundo Spina (2006, 1956 and 1996), Lenia Mongelli & Yara Frateschi Vieira (2003). We also present the contributions of some of the most respected current researchers discussing Neotrovadorismo, Tereza Lópes (1997), Maleval (2002). / O nosso estudo se concentra na produção poética da escritora brasileira contemporânea Stella Leonardos, especificamente na primeira parte da obra Amanhecência, publicada em 1974, a qual alberga recriações de cantigas do período trovadoresco. A rara produção acadêmica acerca do Trovadorismo, bem como os pouquíssimos estudos sobre a vertente neotrovadoresca produzidos por autores/as contemporâneos/as, notadamente pela a poetisa Stella Leonardos, justifica a nossa proposta de pesquisa ao entrelaçar o processo de (re)leitura da lírica medieval com a sua recepção pela crítica literária. Para tanto, abordamos, em um primeiro momento, a tradição do medievo e da estética do Neotrovadorismo na literatura contemporânea; em seguida, procedemos a uma discussão dos critérios canônicos referentes à inclusão/exclusão de obras e autores/as da literatura nacional ou internacional. Propomos, por fim, a análise da poética de Stella Leonardos no que diz respeito a sua faceta neotrovadoresca em quatro reescritas de cantigas de amigo, a saber: Barcarola, Do cancioneiro da desajuda, Fragmento de pastorela e Cantiga de romaria. Como esteio teórico recorremos às pesquisas desenvolvidas por Georg Otte (1999), Roberto Reis (1993), Cristófol y Sel (2008), Segismundo Spina (2006, 1956 e 1996), Lênia Mongelli & Yara Vieira Frateschi (2003). Apresentamos também as contribuições de alguns dos mais conceituados pesquisadores atuais que discutem o Neotrovadorismo, Tereza Lópes (1997), Maleval (2002)

Submitted by Milenna Moraes Figueiredo (milennasjn@gmail.com) on 2016-04-06T18:25:30Z No. of bitstreams: 1 javierlopez.pdf: 4318872 bytes, checksum: cee0619f9eb8f5b2145257d1520e8a52 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by cleuza maria medina dos santos (cleuzamai@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-04-11T20:52:00Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 javierlopez.pdf: 4318872 bytes, checksum: cee0619f9eb8f5b2145257d1520e8a52 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-11T20:52:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 javierlopez.pdf: 4318872 bytes, checksum: cee0619f9eb8f5b2145257d1520e8a52 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / O presente Estudo, pertencente à linha de pesquisa Educação Ambiental: Ensino e Formação de Educadores(as), do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Ambiental da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, FURG, tem como Problema de Pesquisa a avaliação do Impacto do Uso dos Modelos em Educação Ambiental. Esse problema se justifica na medida em que é cada vez mais frequente o uso de Modelos em Educação em geral e em Educação Ambiental, em particular. O uso de modelos até aqui tem sido avaliado quanto às potencialidades que esta ferramenta oferece na construção de cenários que permitam representar Problemas Ambientais. A presente pesquisa, realizada no Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia Rio Grande do Sul (IFRS), Campus Rio Grande, procurou agregar conhecimento aos resultados previamente encontrados pelo Grupo ModelCiências da FURG. Este trabalho foi desenvolvido em quatro etapas: 1) a escolha de um problema ambiental - para esse fim foi realizado um levantamento com os alunos do Integrado e do PROEJA. O problema identificado foi o das ?Drogas?; 2) a construção da amostra - foi feita uma análise dos dados usados na pesquisa que identificou o problema. A amostra formada pelos alunos do Integrado foi a que melhor se comportou do ponto de vista estatístico. Foi programada uma Palestra e nela aplicado um questionário. Isso permitiu formar uma amostra com pessoas interessadas e conhecedoras do problema das Drogas. Também foi possível incorporar à amostra alunos dos Cursos Superiores e Técnicos, cuja faixa etária era superior à correspondente aos alunos do Integrado, na sua maioria formada por adolescentes; 3) definição do experimento - foi construído, usando o software STELLA, um modelo para o Problema das Drogas, bem como os instrumentos que permitiram responder nossa questão de pesquisa; 4) a coleta e análise de dados ? O modelo, através de um simulador, foi utilizado junto aos alunos da amostra, com o objetivo de avaliar se ao usá-lo eles teriam algum tipo de mudança nas suas convicções iniciais. Para tanto, os participantes avaliaram, antes e após o uso do modelo, através de simulações, os fatores que imaginavam influenciar no problema. Também foram avaliadas a concepção e o funcionamento do modelo. Ao final das quatro etapas, os resultados do estudo mostraram que os alunos da amostra entenderam o modelo como adequado e que o uso de modelos, com o software STELLA, no problema específico das Drogas, teve interferência sobre os mesmos, pois a grande maioria mudou sua convicção quanto à importância dos fatores que agravavam ou aliviavam o problema, pois esses resultados variaram em cinco, dos sete fatores avaliados. / The present Study, inserted in the Environmental Education research line: Teaching and teachers in-service, of the Post Graduation Program in Environmental Education of the Federal University of Rio Grande, FURG, has as Research Problem the Impact evaluation of the Models use in Environmental Education. This problem is justified by the fact that it is more common the Models use in Education in general and in Environmental Education, in particular. The models use hitherto has been evaluated regarding the potentialities that this tool offers in the scenarios construction that allow to represent Environmental Problems. For the present research, accomplished in the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology Rio Grande do Sul (IFRS), Rio Grande Campus, tried to aggregate knowledge to the results previously found by the Group ModelCiências from FURG. This work was developed in four stages: 1) the choice of an environmental problem - for this it was accomplished a research with the students of the Integrated and of PROEJA. The identified problem was the one of the ?Drugs?; 2) the sample construction - it was done a data analysis used in the research that identified the problem. The sample formed by students of the Integrated was the one that better behaved of the statistical point of view. It was programmed a Lecture and at the end applied a questionnaire. That allowed forming a sample with people interested and with knowledge of the Drugs problem. It also was possible to incorporate to the sample students of the Superior and Technical Courses, whose age range was superior to the correspondent students of the Integrated, in its majority formed by teenagers; 3) experiment definition - it was built, using STELLA software, a model for the Drugs Problem, as well as the instruments that allowed to answer our research question; 4) the data collection and analysis - the model, through a simulator, was used with the sample students, with the goal of evaluating if when using the model they would have some kind of change in their initial convictions. For this, the participants evaluated, through simulations, before and after the model use the factors that imagined influencing in the problem. There also were evaluated the conception and the model operation. At the end of the four stages, the study results showed that the sample students understood the model as adequate and that the models use, with STELLA software, in the specific problem of the Drugs, had interference on them, because the great majority changed their conviction regarding the factors importance that worsened or alleviated the problem, because these results varied in five, of the seven evaluated factors.

The aim of this project was to quantitatively measure the resilience of the building water cycle. In order to accomplish this goal, a framework was developed that outlines how building water resilience can be evaluated. The framework presented assumed that resilience describes the fulfillment of system functions; in this case, the system functions considered are those actualized by the building water system. A building water resilience assessment model (WRAM) was developed with the ability to simulate different building water cycles and resilience scenarios. Resilience is dependent on the type and magnitude of a disturbance. Therefore, unique disruption scenarios were developed to test the building water cycle resilience: (1) loss of municipal potable water and (2) loss of both municipal potable water and power. Under each scenario, the building water cycle was tested based on the type of building and the water management strategies utilized by the building. The WRAM requires organization of water demand and source connections, and an explicit prioritization framework was produced based on water source and demand preferences found in literature. The framework gives priority to treated wastewater, stormwater, rainwater, condensate, reclaimed water, and potable water, respectively. The baseline prioritization may be manipulated by restricting demand-source connections, and shifting priorities was shown to affect the potential for potable water offsets as a precursor to resilience. Real building water demand profiles were developed from data collected using smart meters at four building sites (multi-residential neighborhood, commercial building, elementary school, and community center). Water source profiles were developed using hourly climate data for the region. Detailed building water demand and supply profiles were developed for the multi-residential and elementary school building sites for resilience assessment using the WRAM. Each building water profile was adapted into 9 scenarios with each subjected to the two disruption schemes for 5 different disruption durations (1 hour, 6 hours, 24 hours, 72 hours, and 168 hours) at 10 different randomized dates and time throughout the year. The result was 450 model runs for each building subjected to each disruption scheme (potable water loss or potable water and central power loss). The relationship between resilience and sustainability was examined based on sustainable building practices accepted by the U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) Leadership in Environmental and Energy Design (LEED) green building rating system. Building WRAM outcomes include unique water demand and supply profiles used to describe resilience in terms of the level of service (LOS) of building water functions. Analysis of water profiles validated redundancy, diversity, capacity, alternative water, passivity, preparation, and adaptation potential indicators as gauges of the resilience of the building water cycle. Results showed that resilience correlates with alternative water building water management strategies, but high resilience values are still attainable using storage of non-renewable, non-sustainable sources. However, building water cycles utilizing alternative water maintained steadier resilience as disruption lengths increase due to the ability of sources to be replenished during disruption events. The strongest correlation with LOS was observed for the diversity, redundancy, alternative water, and capacity indicators when scenarios utilizing only potable water were excluded from analysis. For these scenarios, correlation values were 0.56 for diversity, 0.56 for redundancy, 0.60 for capacity, and 1.00 for alternative water for the multi-residential building subjected to potable water loss; and 0.33 for diversity, 0.24 for redundancy, 0.62 for capacity, and 1.00 for alternative water for the multi-residential building subjected to both potable water and central power disruption. For elementary school scenarios that did not utilize potable water storage, correlation values were 0.67 for diversity, 0.64 for redundancy, 0.06 for capacity, and 0.89 for alternative water when subjected to disruption of potable water; and 0.67 for diversity, 0.64 for redundancy, 0.06 for capacity, and 0.80 for alternative water when subjected to disruption of potable water and central power. Passivity correlation to LOS was between 0.77 and 1.00 for all scenarios, building types, and disruption schemes. Passivity correlation with LOS was lower for potable water disruption scenarios, but higher when building water cycles lost power in addition to potable water. The average of each indicator was also calculated for each scenario for each of the five disruption durations by grouping the individual values from each of the 10 randomized disruption start dates and times. The correlation between the average capacity indicator and LOS greatly increased with this method to a range of 0.41 to 0.78 for all buildings subjected to each disruption scheme. In addition, a positive correlation between the preparation indicator and LOS (and corresponding negative correlation between the adaptation potential indicator and LOS) emerged for scenarios that do not utilize potable water storage. For disruption of potable water, the preparation correlation value was 0.94 for the multi-residential building and 0.78 for the elementary school. For disruption of potable water and central power, the preparation correlation value was 0.32 for the multi-residential building and 0.79 for the elementary school.

Scientific evidence points to a changing global climate. The most vital and visible impacts of this phenomenon for sea-level communities are sea-level rise, coastal erosion, and more frequent severe coastal storms. However, limited research has been conducted to date to project the damage from rising maximum water levels and corresponding storm surges, and their impacts on the sustainability of coastal communities. This research focuses on the urban coastal community of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.), Canada as part of the C-Change International Community University research Alliance (ICURA), “Managing Adaptation to Environmental Change in Coastal Communities: Canada and the Caribbean.” The stochastic process that underlies, maximum observed water levels in Charlottetown, is modeled using historical data. Maximum observed water levels and storm surges are represented by fitted conditional and marginal univariate probability density functions. The statistical package “Easy-Fit” is used as a tool for analyzing goodness of fit to the historical data for maximum observed water levels in Charlottetown. A System Dynamics (SD) model, using STELLA, is developed to simulate the projected impacts of maximum observed water levels on the City of Charlottetown. The SD model captures the dynamics of the four pillars of community sustainability, namely Environmental, Economic, Social-Cultural and Human sectors identified for the City of Charlottetown. The model defines and evaluates the robustness of alternative adaptation strategies for various model scenarios to projected storms over a long-term planning period. The results quantify the vulnerability of Charlottetown. The analysis of the results from implementing 3 main adaptation strategies for protection, accommodation, and retreat scenarios as well as the ones from the most common current response of “doing nothing”, provide information on the dynamic and pillar-related impacts of storms on Charlottetown. Analysis of these strategy options clearly indicates that doing nothing in the face of more frequent severe storms is an inefficient strategy. Model results show that the protect strategy is unlikely to deliver complete protection, and the retreat option is costly and not well received. The accommodation strategy including a combination of protection options and controlled retreat will provide the most robust option for the coastal City of Charlottetown. The SD model and analysis provides a framework for the evaluation of adaptation strategies for alternative coastal communities.

Masters of Science / The redistribution patterns of trace elements related to ore mineralisation in the secondary environment are the foundation of regolith exploration geochemistry. Understanding the controls of these element patterns is important for the detection of underlying ore deposits, especially in areas where bedrock is concealed by extensive regolith. The study area, which hosts PGE and gold deposits within the Stella Layered Intrusion is one such area. A major aim of this study was to use major element data to characterise the regolith materials enclosing the PGE mineralisation in the Stella Layered Intrusion to ascertain the degree of weathering that has occurred. Furthermore, the study aimed to relate the weathering patterns in regolith to the distribution of pathfinder elements of PGEs and gold in areas proximal and distal to the mineralised zones. The study was conducted using XRF data, which included major oxide and trace element data. These data were used to characterise regolith materials (scatter plots, K/Al versus Mg/Al plots) and calculating indices that determine the degree of weathering such as CIA and ICV indices as well as A-CN-K and A-CN-FM diagrams. Signatures of pathfinder/ trace elements were enhanced by hydroxylamine hydrochloride partial selective leach technique. The distribution patterns of the partial leach data were compared to the intensity of weathering and weathering products, e.g. manganese oxides, carbonates in areas proximal and distal to the ore zone. In the Serpens North Prospect, the major horizons that were identified include saprolith, stone line and aeolian sands. Incipient calcrete formation occurs in some parts of the Sirius Prospect, while in some parts, well developed, thick calcrete layers are found interlayered with the saprolith and aeolian sand.

This essay examines possible subject positions offered to a female in relations to the decadence genre in the novel Berta Funcke (1885) by Stella Kleve, pseudonym for Mathilda Malling. The aim is to study how a female can be decadent. I analyze subject positions and examine how they enable decadent expressions of the female character. To understand subject positions in relations to the historical context I use Chris Weedon’s approach to feminist poststructuralism. I define decadence as a relative concept and understand it as a wider experience of decadence and dissolution in society. The methodological framework is based on hermeneutic reading. The result shows that the female protagonist is under the influence of many subjectivities simultaneously. Her decadence can be seen as both a source of emancipation and of constraint. From the analysis, I’ve been able to distinguish four characteristic subject positions: The Erotic, The Hermaphrodite, The Actress and The Hothouse Plant. The subject positions are bound to stereotypes of the time but also permits the female protagonist to transcend gender definitions. The result shows that the decadent aesthetics, expressions and vocabulary open up new ways of being for the female character.

The purpose of this thesis is to design a robust test facility for a small space nuclear power system and model its physical behavior under different scenarios. The test facility will be used to simulate a 1-10kWe nuclear reactor, its electrical generation, and heat removal capabilities. This simulator will be used to explore, test and understand the steady-state and transient operation capabilities of small space nuclear power systems. Currently, the system is planned to operate on a variable, electrical heat source directly connected to heat pipes. The heat pipes are to be stainless steel with a water working fluid. These heat pipes will then be connected to a power conversion simulator or actual power conversion technologies. The power conversion simulator is connected to a radiator using a water based heat pipe network using fins and connecting plates in a cylindrical geometry. Modeling of the facility was performed using two different analysis programs, STELLA and SolidWorks. STELLA was used as a lumped sum heat transport code, and SolidWorks was used as a more accurate system to verify the validity of STELLA's results. Both programs were used to analyze startup, heat pipe failures, and loss of power conversion with the end goal of finding safe operational transient scenarios for the transient test facility. / Graduation date: 2013

Further distribution of all or part of this report is subject to the Distribution Statement appearing on the front cover. / One of the global security challenges the United States faces is disaster coupled with political instability. The U.S. Military‘s ability to rapidly respond to disasters enhances regional and global security and stability. Foreign Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (FHA/DR), increasingly a mission that relies on a significant military component, focuses on the provision of goods and services such as health care, supplies necessary for survival, and infrastructure repair, with the goal of reducing the immediate human suffering. The disaster in this project‘s scenario is catastrophic flooding that occurs in one of Africa‘s most populated and wealthiest countries that threatens the stability and development of West Africa. This project, employing a systems engineering methodology, focuses on the 60 days after the disaster and the requirements to provide this assistance in the form of goods and services. Many system-of-systems architectures were developed to investigate the effectiveness of utilizing a Seabase for the primary delivery of aid. Two simulation tools, SimKit, and STELLA, were used to model and examine these architectures with the former addressing the delivery and throughput concerns while the latter focused on the satisfaction of the population and the limitation of criminal activity. Based on the results of modeling, the team provided recommendations relative to the most effective architectures in influencing the population of this coastal area as well as accomplishing the FHA/DR mission.

The decorative and the textual have a complex and uneasy entanglement within the history and practice of modernist art. Sometimes celebrated as critical modernist strategies, sometimes denigrated or repressed as the opposite of Art, the decorative and the textual were understood as "foreign" forms that variously endangered, or, in turn, invigorated the power of art. My creative practice, which includes installation, painting, photography, text and an exhibition catalogue, exploits and explores this decorative and textual instability within modernist art practice. In my work, (visual) codes conventionally associated with the fields of writing and pattern, are re-examined and problematised by placing them within the context of visual art. When writing and pattern become the subject of painting there is an intriguing oscillation, complication and dialogue between the spaces and codes of reading and seeing, writing and pattern, the decorative and the abstract. The thesis also explores the decorative and textual instability within modernism by analysing some key contradictory moments in aesthetic thought and arts practice. In the writings of Clement Greenberg, a "decorative" painting is deemed the highest achievement of modernist abstract painting but to arrive at this goal, the decorative must be used against itself. In Frank Stella's early abstract paintings, decorative patterns structure the work, and yet the artist and his commentators only see the work as a kind of pure, abstract painting. In Lawrence Weiner's statement-sculptures, the terse, laconic text, that nominates materials and processes, is thought to be a "direct" form of art information that would remain unchanged even in reproduction. But as Weiner's work is reproduced in journals and magazines, this "direct" form of art is complicated through a variety of reproductive forms - documentary photographs, transcription errors and differences in the visual format and typography of the text. In these key moments of contradiction, concepts such as the decorative and the textual, that have often been regarded as peripheral to visual art, will be shown to have central significance in analysing its specific qualities.

For over ten years the Western Basin of Lake Erie has been plagued by significant harmful algal blooms (HABs). Lake Erie is a body of water situated between the United States of America (USA) and Canada. The lake provides water to approximately 40 million people and is a considerable source of economic value. The Western Basin of Lake Erie is highly prone to HABs due to the shallow depth and large phosphorus (P) loads received from the large area of agricultural land surrounding the lake and its tributaries. HABs cause extensive ecosystem degradation, have multiple negative health impacts, and cause significant economic losses for the tourism and fishery industries. Five products with P load reducing properties from the three nutrient control categories (biological, physical, and chemical) were chosen to determine how effective their P load reduction pathways were. Additionally, these products were analyzed to determine if they could generate positive remediation effects on the Lake Erie HAB. Of these five products, the technologies Water 3.0 and PO4 Sponge were applied to a Western Basin HAB model generated using the Stella Professional software from ISEE Systems. The two products were modeled individually and collectively to compare the application effects on the HAB model. The model results illustrate the significant reduction in P load and HAB extent that the application of these products at wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) and within waterways could have. The application of both products at multiple locations within the model showed the greatest P load reduction and nearly eliminated the HAB extent. Unfortunately, the residual P from extensive historical P loading into the lake would prevent such a significant reduction from occurring for over a decade. Current practices and regulations in the Lake Erie Basin are not stimulating P load reductions significant enough to remediate the HAB. As the Western Basin HAB continues to occur annually, the waste stream produced by the HAB remains unutilized. Implementing new and innovative technologies in the basin can generate high quality commodity streams out of the wasted biological algal matter. Meanwhile the implementation of new technologies and practices can help reduce the HAB to a smaller size that would have smaller negative impacts to the economy, health, and ecology.