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According to the combination of video/HDTV, data, and voice on a single medium, dubbed ¡§Triple Play¡¨, requires more sophisticated QoS (Quality of Service) features than are available in either VDSL1 or ADSL. Lastly, Triple Play services, with a minimum of three TV channels, several VoIP connections, and sufficient speed for Internet access, require high data rates of at least 30 ¡V 40 Mbit/s, about twice of what can be achieved under real field conditions with today¡¦s ADSL2+ solutions. VDSL2 was developed and standardized in record time to address the shortcomings of existing access technologies. It serves as the ideal xDSL technology for eliminating last-mile bottlenecks and to enable global mass deployment of advanced Triple Play services.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-12T17:16:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 arquivo106_1.pdf: 836968 bytes, checksum: 95ebc9f8f077d5223f13ccec5b31ea1d (MD5) license.txt: 1748 bytes, checksum: 8a4605be74aa9ea9d79846c1fba20a33 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Com a descoberta de novos reservatórios de petróleo iniciou-se no país uma discussão sobre mudanças na regulação do setor de exploração e produção (upstream). Este trabalho analisa os projetos de lei que estão em discussão no Congresso Nacional. Traça uma análise histórica da formação da indústria do petróleo em âmbito internacional e no Brasil. Discorre sobre as principais modalidades regulatórias da indústria do petróleo. Apresenta a atual legislação para o upstream brasileiro e apresenta as mudanças por vir

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The most people in the study tradition economic theory often thought the market competition degree is intense promotes the essential condition which the social welfare increases, but recent researchers have already discussed the implications of entry on social welfare to a large extent and found that entry does not increase welfare always. Previous works are useful the input suppliers and final good producers are vertically integrated; those analyses may not be suitable in vertically separated industries. Let us consider an economy with upstream and downstream markets, there are upstream firms producing a homogenous input and downstream firms producing homogenous goods to final consumers. We discuss the upstream and downstream department manufacturers the market turnover condition how to affect manufacturer of competition behavior this vertical correlation industry, the number of firms, industrial profit and the social welfare. This model analysis under free entry in the upstream market supposition or not, we find that entry in the downstream market always increases social welfare. But we discussed the downstream market when does not permit the firm free entry under the supposition, after upstream firms free entry social welfare respectively will receive the downstream firm¡¦s entry cost, the number of downstream firms or the number of upstream firms three influences.

The advancement in the CATV industry has been remarkable. In the beginning, CATV provided a few television channels. Now it provides a variety of advanced services such as video on demand (VOD), Internet access, Pay-Per-View on demand and interactive TV. These advances have increased the popularity of CATV manyfold. Current improvements focus on interactive services with high quality. These interactive services require more upstream (transmission from customer premises to cable operator premises) channel bandwidth. The flow of data through the CATV network in both the upstream and downstream directions is governed by a standard referred to as the Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) standard. The latest version is DOCSIS 3.1, which was released in January 2014. The previous version, DOCSIS 3.0, was released in 2006. One component of the upstream communication link is the QAM demodulator. An important component in the QAM demodulator is the equalizer, whose purpose is to remove distortion caused by the imperfect upstream channel as well as the residual timing offset and frequency offset. Most of the timing and frequency offset are corrected by timing and frequency recovery circuits; what remains is referred to as offset. A DOCSIS receiver, and hence the equalizer within, can be implemented with ASIC or FPGA technology. Implementing an equalizer in an ASIC has a large nonrecurring engineering cost, but relatively small per chip production cost. Implementing equalizer in an FPGA has very low non-recurring cost, but a relatively high per chip cost. If the choice technology was based on cost, one would think it would depends only on the volume, but in practice that is not the case. The dominant factor when it comes to profit, is the time-to-market, which makes FPGA technology the only choice. The goal of this thesis is to design a cost optimized equalizer for DOCSIS upstream demodulator and implement in an FPGA. With this in mind, an important objective is to establish a relationship between the equalizer’s critical parameters and its performance. The parameter-performance relationship that has been established in this study revealed that equalizer step size and length parameters should be 1/64 and approximately 20 to yield a near optimum equalizer when considering the MER-convergence time trade-off. In the pursuit of the objective another relationship was established that is useful in determining the accuracy of the timing recovery circuit. That relationship establishes the sensitivity both of the MER and convergence time to timing offset. The equalizer algorithm was implemented in a cost effective manner using DSP Builder. The effort to minimize cost was focused on minimizing the number of multipliers. It is shown that the equalizer can be constructed with 8 multipliers when the proposed time sharing algorithm is implemented.

Drift moves aquatic insects downstream, risking depopulation of upstream reaches. However, the necessity and exist­ence of an upstream flight to compensate for drift has not been undisputed. I analysed a sample of approximately 70 000 Trichoptera from a stream in northern Sweden collected during one season in 1974. The overall flight direction was upstream. Females had a stronger upstream flight than males and species varied in both flight direction and strength of the preference. Flight direction was not affected by wind or trap type. Upstream flight varied during the season and with different larval behaviours. Upstream flight increased with the size of the imago and with the abun­dance in flight. A colonisation cycle might be in effect but even though upstream flight occurs, it might not be neces­sary to sustain populations in upstream reaches.

Drift moves aquatic insects downstream, risking depopulation of upstream reaches. However, the necessity and exist-ence of an upstream flight to compensate for drift has not been undisputed. I analysed a sample of approximately 70 000 Trichoptera from a stream in northern Sweden collected during one season in 1974. The overall flight direction was upstream. Females had a stronger upstream flight than males and species varied in both flight direction and strength of the preference. Flight direction was not affected by wind or trap type. Upstream flight varied during the season and with different larval behaviours. Upstream flight increased with the size of the imago and with the abun-dance in flight. A colonisation cycle might be in effect but even though upstream flight occurs, it might not be neces-sary to sustain populations in upstream reaches.

Zwei numerische Verfahren, das Upstream- und das MacCormack-Verfahren, werden im Hinblick auf ihre Eigenschaften bei der Lösung unterschiedlicher Advektionsprobleme verglichen. Das Letzere, welches eine Genauigkeit zweiter Ordnung liefert, wird in den Impulsadvektionsteil des numerischen Strömungsmodells MISKAM implementiert und anhand von Sensitivitätsstudien mit dem Upstream-Verfahren verglichen. Anschließend findet eine Modellevaluierung mit Hilfe von Datensätzen, welche am Hamburger Grenzschichtwindkanal erzeugt wurden, statt. Das Verfahren zeigt bei stabiler thermischer Modellschichtung signifikant veränderte Ergebnisse, deutlich zeigt sich die verringerte numerische Diffusion, vor allem im Bereich von Ecken und Kanten eines Hindernisses. / Two numerical schemes are compared concerning their numerical abilities when solving different advection problems. MacCormack\'s scheme which is of second order accuracy is implemented in the numerical flow model MISKAM in order to calculate the advection of momentum. It is compared to the upstream scheme with the help of sensitivity studies and with a model evaluation using wind tunnel data from the University of Hamburg. The scheme shows for stable thermical stratification significant differences near the edges of obstacles that result mainly from the reduced numerical diffusion which was the major problem when using the upstream scheme.

A presente pesquisa faz uma avaliação da influenciado regime de fluxo na estabilidade de uma barragem construída pela disposição hidráulica de rejeitos. Usualmente, essas estruturas são avaliadas com modelos de equilíbrio limite adotando-se, de modo simplificado, uma superfície freática em um regime hidrostático. No entanto, em casos em que a condutividade hidráulica da fundação ou de camadas na base do aterro é relevante em relação à dos rejeitos, o fluxo se torna verticalizado e o gradiente significativo, portanto, a premissa de regime hidrostático se torna não válida. Com o objetivo de avaliar a influência desses fatores, foram realizadas análises numéricas, simulando condições de fluxo e seus reflexos nos fatores de segurança. Ademais, foi desenvolvida uma extensa análise de dados e cálculos no estudo de caso de uma barragem, com expectativa de ampliar a vida útil de uma Planta de beneficiamento de minério de ferro. Ao se incorporar a real distribuição de pressões neutras, medidas na barragem, concluiu-se que o seu Fator de Segurança era cerca de 20% maior do que o obtido em cálculos simplificados, que desconsideram o regime de fluxo descendente, admitido, por hipótese, na barragem em estudo. Alguns comentários quanto à segurança à liquefação foram feitos, exceto a liquefação dinâmica, que foge do escopo desse trabalho. / The present research evaluates the influence of the foundations permeability in the scheme of flow and in the stability of a dam built through the hydraulic tailings disposal. Usually, these structures are evaluated with models of equilibrium limit, considering, in a simplified way, a phreatic surface in a hydrostatic scheme. However, in cases in which the foundations hydraulic conductivity is relevant when related to the tailings, the flow becomes verticalized and the gradient becomes significant. Therefore, the hydrostatic scheme premise becomes not valid. With the purpose of evaluating the influence of these factors, numerical analysis were made, simulating flow conditions and their influence in the factor of safety. Moreover, an extensive data and calculations analysis was developed in the case study of a dam, with the expectation of increasing the lifetime of an ore mining beneficiation plan. When incorporating the actual distribution of porepressure, measured at the dam, it was concluded that the safety factor of the dam was about 20% higher than that obtained for simplified calculations, that disregard the downward flow regime, admitted in the dam under study. Some comments about the safety of liquefaction were made, except the dynamic liquefaction, beyond the scope of this work.