Title from accompanying document. / Collegiate Chorale ; conducted by Kathleen Wilson ; J. Sloop, soprano ; D. Huyett, piano ; J. Hall, organ ; Student String quartet ; Student Recorder Ensemble. / Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries

This research has examined the application of machine learning and statistical methods for developing roadside particle (number/mass concentrations) prediction models that can be used for air quality management. Data collected from continuous monitoring stations including pollutants, traffic and meteorological variables were used for training the models. A hybrid feature selection method involving Genetic Algorithms and Random Forests was successfully used in selecting the most relevant predictor variables for the models from the variables selected based on their correlation with the PM\(_+\), PM\(_{2.5}\) and PNC concentrations. The study found that the hybrid feature selection can be used with both statistical and machine learning methods to produce less expensive and more efficient air quality prediction models. Among the machine learning models studied the Boosted Regression Trees (BRT), Random Forests (RF), Extreme Learning Machines (ELM) and Deep Learning Algorithms were found to be the most suitable for the predictions of roadside PM\(_+\), PM\(_{2.5}\), and PNC concentrations. The machine learning models performed better than the ADMS-road model in spatiotemporal predictions involving monitoring sites locations. Moreover, they performed much better in predicting the concentrations in street Canyons. The ANN and BRT were found to be suitable for air quality management applications involving traffic management scenarios.

Submitted by Sandra Pereira (srpereira@ufrrj.br) on 2017-01-03T11:08:37Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2015 - Petterson Gon?alves Teixeira.pdf: 16842852 bytes, checksum: e9c00432825a84e2bba0d4f3d19e803b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-01-03T11:08:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2015 - Petterson Gon?alves Teixeira.pdf: 16842852 bytes, checksum: e9c00432825a84e2bba0d4f3d19e803b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-11-27 / This study repots the importance of teaching practices and their contribution in the teachinglearning process when they provide both theoretical and practical studies by using IFES?s Soil and Plant Laboratory. The general objective of this study was to analyze the contribution level of IFES?s Soil and Plant Laboratory (LSP) ? Campus Itapina in the academic education of students in the agronomy superior course. Since the LSP is recognized as of excellence around the nation, it was brought about the need to investigate students? and professors? standpoint whether the teaching reaches not only the understanding and mastery of the curriculum subject contents, but also and mainly the development of capabilities to articulate the theoretical and practical knowledge so as to contextualize them in their practical actions during the academic and professional life. To prove the veracity of this study, the methodology adopted the qualitative and quantitative approaches and, according to the purpose, the study was classified as an applied research of exploratory character. As to the technical procedures, the research is classified as bibliographical, documental and participatory. The instruments used for the research were observation, documental research and questionnaires containing open and closed questions answered by students taking the agronomy course during the second semester of the years 2010, 2011 and 2014 as means of comparison of theoretical and practical knowledge. Professors also answered questionnaires if their subjects were related to the soils and plants, according to the curriculum subject contents of the agronomy superior course. This study was organized in chapters, which describe the steps of the agricultural knowledge historicity, the evolution of agricultural teaching at IFES ? Campus Itapina, as well as the emergence of the agronomy course at the institution. It also reports the importance of IFES?s Soil and Plant Laboratory and its relevant contributions to the teaching, research and extension programs in the Campus. The obtained results helped the acknowledgment of the importance of academic practices during the agricultural teaching, according to the data from the questionnaires, which demonstrate the satisfaction rates, the acquired knowledge, the importance of the course, the development of the students, as well as the contribution of the LSP to the education of the students in the agronomy superior course. This research is supposed to contribute to needed changes and improvements in the pedagogical plan for the course so as to significantly contribute to the awakening and increase of the scientific interest of students. / A presente pesquisa relata a import?ncia das pr?ticas de ensino e a contribui??o destas no processo ensino-aprendizagem, quando proporcionam a rela??o te?rico - pr?tico - laboratorial no curso superior de Agronomia. O objetivo geral foi o de analisar o n?vel de contribui??o que o Laborat?rio de Solos e Plantas do IFES ? Campus Itapina exerce para a forma??o acad?mica dos discentes do curso superior de Agronomia. Sabendo-se que o LSP tem seu reconhecimento de excel?ncia em n?vel nacional, surgiu a inquieta??o de se investigar se, para os alunos e docentes do curso de Agronomia, o ensino atinge n?o somente a compreens?o e o dom?nio dos conte?dos das disciplinas curriculares, mas, principalmente, o desenvolvimento de suas capacidades de articular os diversos saberes te?rico-pr?ticos e contextualiz?-los em suas a??es pr?ticas na vida acad?mico-profissional. Para comprova??o da veracidade deste trabalho, a metodologia adotou abordagens qualitativas e quantitativas e, de acordo com a finalidade, classificou-se como pesquisa aplicada, de car?ter explorat?rio. Quanto aos procedimentos t?cnicos, a pesquisa pode ser classificada como bibliogr?fica, documental e pesquisa participante. Os instrumentos de pesquisa utilizados foram a observa??o, a pesquisa documental e a aplica??o de question?rios com perguntas abertas e fechadas aos discentes do curso de Agronomia dos anos de 2010/2, 2011/2 e 2014/2, como forma comparativa ao conhecimento te?rico-pr?tico. Tamb?m se aplicou question?rio aos docentes cujas disciplinas t?m como base o ensino das ?reas afins e correlatas ? solos e plantas, conforme a matriz curricular do curso superior de Agronomia. A organiza??o deste trabalho deu-se por meio de cap?tulos, por onde se transcrevem as etapas da historicidade do conhecimento agr?cola, a evolu??o do ensino agr?cola no IFES - Campus Itapina, at? situar o surgimento do curso de Agronomia nessa institui??o. Destacou-se, tamb?m, a import?ncia do Laborat?rio de Solos e Plantas e sua relevante contribui??o ao ensino, ? pesquisa e ? extens?o do Campus.Os resultados obtidos neste trabalho nos ajudam a compreender qu?o importantes s?o as pr?ticas acad?micas no ensino agron?mico, conforme os dados analisados nos question?rios, que demonstram os percentuais de satisfa??o, conhecimentos adquiridos, a import?ncia do curso, o desenvolvimento dos alunos e a contribui??o do Laborat?rio de Solos e Plantas para a forma??o acad?mica dos alunos do curso superior de Agronomia.Espera-se que esta pesquisa possa contribuir para as mudan?as de melhorias necess?rias no plano pedag?gico de ensino do curso, a fim de incrementar significativamente contribui??es no despertar cient?fico dos discentes.

Submitted by SBI Biblioteca Digital (sbi.bibliotecadigital@puc-campinas.edu.br) on 2016-05-10T11:51:29Z No. of bitstreams: 1 FELIPE ALVES PEREIRA ADAID.pdf: 2685517 bytes, checksum: c6766aea86db2181c29cf63074a04491 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-05-10T11:51:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 FELIPE ALVES PEREIRA ADAID.pdf: 2685517 bytes, checksum: c6766aea86db2181c29cf63074a04491 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-19 / The present study has as its object the Legal Education. In relation to general objective, matter the discussion on the state of the art in the Legal Education, with the purpose to identify their theoretical trends, so the question which gives essence to these thesis can be formulated: based on state of the art research, how to think the comparative analysis of the theoretical trends on the Legal Education in Brazil from 2004 to 2014? Thus, are specific objectives of the research the analysis of the theoretical basis of theses and dissertations published in the last 10 years which discuss the Legal Education. Thus, were identified and mapped its theoretical, analyzed their works and related to each other. The search method, then, was the bibliographical review of the researches of Postgraduation bounded by the State of the art and the works that give theoretical foundation. Specifically about the method, it?s worth mentioning that the theses and dissertations will be searched using the database of the Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, by means of descriptors that will represent the best research related to Legal Education, namely: Legal Education, Legal Education, Law Course, Law School and, finally, Law School. Moreover, established the result of theses and dissertations relating to the theme and the proposed period, the method followed by the qualitative analysis of their references, in order to identify which authors have been more used in same surveys. Furthermore, in relation to the theoretical framework of the thesis, it can be said that is related to the authors resulting from State of Art analysis: Horacio Wanderlei Rodrigues, Luis Alberto Warat, Jos? Eduardo Faria, Eduardo Carlos Bianca Bittar and Roberto Lyra Filho. In relation to the structure of the thesis, it is possible to affirm that she was divided into three chapters, which are initially dealing with the issue of the State of the art, by presentation of its concept, in addition to detailing of the research method and also the general analysis of the result; in sequence, the works related will be categorized in two distinct groups of authors, which are the ones that don?t relate to the Legal Education and those who have a direct relationship with him; finally, the last chapter will present even more specific the principal authors of the category of Legal Education, as well as their works, still in this chapter, shall be performed a relation between the authors more referenced in the researches, in an attempt to find elements to sustain its influence to the discussion of the Legal Education. / A presente pesquisa teve como o objeto o Ensino Jur?dico. Em rela??o ao objetivo geral importa a discuss?o do Estado da Arte no Ensino Jur?dico, com a finalidade de identificar suas tend?ncias te?ricas, dessarte, a pergunta que deu ess?ncia ? disserta??o p?de ser, pois, formulada: com base na pesquisa do tipo Estado da Arte, como pensar a an?lise comparativa das tend?ncias te?ricas sobre o Ensino Jur?dico no Brasil de 2004 a 2014? Sendo assim, foram objetivos espec?ficos da pesquisa a an?lise da base te?rica de teses e disserta??es publicadas nos ?ltimos 10 anos as quais discutem o Ensino Jur?dico. Desta feita, foram identificados e mapeados seus te?ricos, apreciadas suas obras e relacionadas entre si. O m?todo de pesquisa, ent?o, foi o da revis?o bibliogr?fica das pesquisas de P?s-Gradua??o delimitadas pelo Estado da Arte e das obras que lhe deram baldrame te?rico. Especificamente ainda sobre o m?todo, n?o obsta ressaltar que as teses e disserta??es foram pesquisadas por meio do banco de dados da Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Disserta??es, por meio de descritores que representaram a melhor busca relacionada ao Ensino Jur?dico, quais sejam, Educa??o Jur?dica, Ensino Jur?dico, Curso de Direito, Ensino do Direito e, por fim, Ensino de Direito. Ademais, estabelecido o resultado das teses e disserta??es relativo ao tema e ao per?odo proposto, o m?todo seguiu por meio da an?lise qualitativa de suas refer?ncias, de forma a identificar quais autores t?m sido mais utilizados nas mesmas pesquisas. Outrossim, em rela??o ao referencial te?rico da disserta??o, pode-se dizer que est? relacionada com os pr?prios autores resultantes da an?lise do Estado da Arte, sendo eles: Hor?cio Wanderlei Rodrigues, Luis Alberto Warat, Jos? Eduardo Faria, Eduardo Carlos Bianca Bittar e Roberto Lyra Filho. Em rela??o ? estrutura da disserta??o, foi poss?vel afirmar que ela se dividiu em tr?s cap?tulos, quais sejam, inicialmente a tratar da quest?o do Estado da Arte, pela apresenta??o de seu conceito, al?m do detalhamento do m?todo de pesquisa e tamb?m da an?lise geral do resultado; na sequ?ncia, as obras relacionadas foram categorizadas em dois grupos distintos de autores, quais sejam, aqueles que n?o se relacionavam com o Ensino Jur?dico e aqueles que tinham rela??o direta com ele; por fim, o ?ltimo cap?tulo apresentou de forma ainda mais espec?fica os principais autores da Categoria do Ensino Jur?dico, bem como suas obras, ainda neste cap?tulo, foi realizada uma rela??o entre os autores mais referenciados nas pesquisas, na tentativa de encontrar elementos que sustentem sua influ?ncia ? discuss?o do Ensino Jur?dico.

A possible way to continuously monitor the whole water distribution system is to equip pipes with many microsensors. If these sensors are to be integrated within the pipe walls, it is important to assess their impact on the structural integrity of the pipes. In order to test a large number of samples, small polyethylene samples were produced using compression moulding and tested in different stress modes such as tension, bending, Charpy impact and flexural creep, with respect to different chip sizes (4 and 16mm\(^²\)), shapes (circle and square), numbers (one and two), orientations and position as well as sample dimensions and chip-polyethylene interface. It was discovered that the square chip contributes to the highest increase in the polymer stiffness, but significantly reduces its ductility. The 4mm\(^²\) circle causes the smallest disruption in the polymer integrity, especially when including multiple chips and when there is no adhesion. It significantly improves the impact resistance, while its effect in the short and long term bending stress modes is insignificant. The 16mm\(^²\) circle perpendicular to the load direction failed in bending at large strains. The optimal chip orientation for improving the impact strength and reducing the embrittlement effect in tension is parallel to the applied load.

The sense of crisis that marks our times may be seen as a crisis for dominant groups whose once-secure hegemony is being challenged by marginalised others. It is in theorising the reply from the dominant group to the voices of the oppressed that existing Western conceptions of social change fall silent. The dominant Pakeha group in Aotearoa New Zealand has used discourses of benign colonisation and harmonious race relations to resist 165 years of communication from indigenous Māori about their oppression and a dishonoured treaty for settlement. My research documents the appearance of the Treaty of Waitangi into the Pakeha consciousness, and the now 30 year-long response by a Pakeha antiracism movement to educate their own cultural group about its agreements. Targeting government, community and social services organisations, activist educators used Freire's (1975) approach of conscientising dialogue to present a more critical view of colonisation, and to encourage participants to consider the complicity of their organisations in ongoing structural and cultural racism. Based on my membership of local and national networks of activist educators, I was able to organise and facilitate data gathering from three sources to investigate processes of Pakeha change in: (i) unpublished material describing the antiracism and Treaty movement's historical theorising and strategies over 30 years, (ii) a country-wide process of co-theorising among contemporary Treaty educator groups about their work and perceived influence, and (iii) a collection of organisational accounts of Treaty-focused change. The collected records confirmed that a coherent anti-colonial discourse, which I have termed 'Pakeha honouring the Treaty', was in use to construct institutional and constitutional changes in non-government organisations. My interpretation of key elements in a local theory of transforming action included emotional responses to counter-cultural information, collective work for cultural and institutional change and practising a mutually agreed relationship with Māori. I concluded that these emotional, collective and relationship processes in dominant group change were crucial in helping to construct the new conceptual resources of 'affirming Māori authority' and 'striving towards a right relationship with Māori'. These counter-colonial constructions allowed Pakeha a non-resistant and facilitative response to Māori challenge, and enabled a dialogue with Māori about decolonisation. By examining in one research programme the genealogy and interdependencies of a new discourse, my research contributes to theorising about the production of new, counter-hegemonic discourses, and confirms the crucial part played by social movements in developing new, liberatory constructions of the social order. My research calls for further theory-building on (i) emotional and spiritual aspects of transformational learning, (ii) processes involved in consciously-undertaken cultural change by dominant/coloniser groups, and (iii) practising of mutually agreed relationships with indigenous peoples by dominant/coloniser groups. My research has implications for theorising how coloniser and dominant groups generally may participate in liberatory social change and decolonisation work, and the part played by the Western states in the global struggles by indigenous people for recognition of their world-views and aspirations. It remains to be seen whether counter-colonial discourses and organisational changes aimed at 'honouring the Treaty' with indigenous peoples will be sufficiently widely adopted to help transform Western dominating cultures and colonial projects. In the meantime, acknowledging and documenting these counter-colonial discourses and their constructions opens up increasing possibilities for constructing, from a history of colonisation, a different future.

This thesis researches Kāpō Māori (Māori who are blind or sight impaired) and their pursuit of Te Reo Māori. Te Reo Māori is a very significant cultural marker for Kāpō Māori to identify themselves as Māori. Kāpō Māori face many challenges, challenges that are unknown to the mainstream. The thesis surveys the fortunes of Te Reo Māori as it struggles to survive and find acceptance in Aotearoa/New Zealand, outlines attitudes towards disabled persons, who suffer discrimination and marginalisation, and summarises the story of the Blind in Aotearoa/New Zealand, especially through the history of The Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind, to provide context for the challenges faced by Kāpō Māori. For Kāpō Māori, discrimination and marginalisation is increased because all Māori suffer the disabilities that are a result of colonisation. The thesis sets out a methodology for field research, and draws from interviews with research participants to present the experiences of Kāpō Māori. This thesis provides an insight into the issues Kāpō Māori encounter when trying to engage Kāpō Māori , and draws those issues forward from darkness, where they are unknown, into the world of light by providing Kāpō Māori with a forum for discussion of these issues.

Elabor�� dans les premi��res d��cennies du XIIe si��cle, le tympan central du portail de la nef de V��zelay est l'un des t��moins privil��gi��s du renouveau iconographique que conna��t l'art roman entre la fin du XIe et le d��but du XIIe si��cle. Maintes fois ��tudi��e, son iconographie demeure pourtant ��nigmatique par la raret�� de son th��me - la Pentec��te - et plus encore ses sc��nes p��riph��riques, portant l'image des peuples de la terre. C'est �� ce motif, dans sa relation au contexte qui l'environne, que cette ��tude est d��di��e. Le premier chapitre envisage les circonstances historiques, intellectuelles et monumentales qui ont vues l'��laboration d'un tel programme, lequel se r��v��le fortement ancr�� dans le renouveau que conna��t la communaut�� au XIe si��cle. Le second chapitre, consacr�� �� l'iconographie tympanale, en livre l'��tude mat��rielle et descriptive avant de la replacer au sein de la tradition iconographique de la Pentec��te. Une analyse qui d��montre combien le tympan, nonobstant sa raret��, se conforme aux principes de cette tradition. Le dernier chapitre, enfin, aborde le motif des peuples de la terre. Il en livre tout d'abord une d��finition affin��e par l'analyse g��n��rale de ses formes et traditions iconographiques, litt��raires et conceptuelles depuis l'antiquit��. R��v��lant une pr��dilection pour le champ ornemental et divertissant au Moyen ��ge, le motif acc��de, au tympan, �� une valeur symbolique et s��mantique rare propre au cadre religieux au sein duquel il prend place. Objet de curiosit�� et image d'alt��rit��, il fonctionne ici tel un point d'entr��e pour le fid��le, autant qu'il unifie l'iconographie tympanale et renforce les notions inh��rentes au th��me de la Pentec��te.

Legionella pneumophila est la bact��rie responsable de la l��gionellose, une pneumonie atypique dans les pays industrialis��s. Les souches pathog��nes sont issues de notre environnement apr��s multiplication �� l'int��rieur d'amibes, sont diss��min��es par la technologie humaine, puis peuvent infecter les macrophages alv��olaires humains. Ce travail vise �� caract��riser une famille d'effecteurs du syst��me de s��cr��tion de type IV Dot/Icm transloqu��s dans le cytoplasme de la cellule h��te, des prot��ine kinases, et en particulier �� ��tablir le r��le de la prot��ine kinase LegK2 dans la virulence. L'analyse in silico et des tests de phosphorylation in vitro ont permis d'identifier 5 prot��ine kinases fonctionnelles, LegK1-LegK5, cod��es par la souche ��pid��mique L. pneumophila Lens. Des tests de translocation ont montr�� qu'�� l'exception de LegK5, les prot��ine kinases de Legionella sont transloqu��es dans la cellule h��te de fa��on Icm/Dot d��pendante. LegK2 joue un r��le cl�� dans la virulence, comme d��montr�� par inactivation de g��ne. Les vacuoles contenant le mutant legK2 pr��sentent un recrutement moins efficace de reticulum endoplasmique, ce qui entraine une r��plication intracellulaire retard��e. Un mutant de substitution d��ficient pour l'activit�� kinase pr��sente les m��mes d��fauts de virulence, ce qui d��montre le r��le central de la phosphorylation dans le contr��le de ce processus. Les m��canismes mol��culaires contr��l��s par LegK2 sont actuellement recherch��s par identification de partenaires et/ou substrats prot��iques.

During the last years, MultiProtocol Label Switching (MPLS) has been deployed by most large Service Providers (SP). The main driver for MPLS deployment is the ability to provide new services with stringent Service Level Agreements (SLAs) such as layer-2 and layer-3 Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) as well as Voice and Video over IP. Most of these services are already deployed inside single SP networks. However, customers now require world-wide VPN and VoIP services. Therefore, SPs need to collaborate to offer these services across multiple SP networks. Inside a single SP network, each node usually knows the complete topology of the network with the load and delay of all the links. Based on this information, each router is able to compute constrained paths toward any other router inside the SP network. Then, it can establish a connection and reserve resources along the computed path with the Resource reSerVation Protocol (RSVP-TE). However, when services with stringent requirements must cross multiple SP networks the computation of the path becomes a problem. Routers in different SP networks exchange routing information by using the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). BGP provides reachability information. It does not distribute complete topology, delay and bandwidth information. One way to provide guaranteed services crossing different SPs is to delegate the computation of the paths to a Path Computation Element (PCE) that learns the topology of the different SPs. However, this requires that SPs reveal information that they usually consider confidential, their topology. In this thesis, we perform active measurements to show the difficulty to engineer the interdomain traffic with BGP. MPLS together with RSVP-TE provide much more control on the traffic. We define extensions to RSVP-TE for the protection of inter-AS MPLS paths. The aim is to be able to provide the same service guarantees as inside a domain while keeping the internal topology of SPs confidential, as required by SPs. We propose and evaluate distributed techniques relying on PCEs for the computation of interdomain constrained paths respecting the latter confidentiality requirement.