Looking for a new use of the old brewery situated on the border of the old town of Broumov.

Order in design, whether in music or a building comes from bringing together parts to make a whole. These parts can have an autonomous existence separately and combine to formulate a different event collectively. This thesis is a study of how a building accommodates to the changing needs of a diverse community. It does this by investigating to what end two neighboring apartments, one small and one medium-sized could combine to develop into one large apartment, and revert back again to two apartments when the needs of the inhabitants change. This concept could be paralleled to Jazz, where the musicians find means of altering the sound of the music through improvisation between the notes of the song. The structure of the building like the notes of the melody provides the stationary component and forms the rhythmic beat between the apartments. The pauses or gaps between the structure provide the opportunity for flexibility and improvisation. The melody of the construction comes from the integration of the repetitious permanent structural elements, semipermanent conditions and spontaneously alterable parts. The orchestration of these components allows the building to transform and experience an altering production of its own. / Master of Architecture

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Orientador: Luis Carlos Paschoarelli / Banca: José Carlos Plácido da Silva / Banca: Nuno Miguel Lopes de Oliveira / Resumo: O presente estudo apresenta uma alternativa de aplicação dos princípios do design ergonômico no projeto e avaliação de uma assento modular com regulagem vertical, buscando prevenir e minimizar os problemas decorrentes do desvio da coluna vertebral do tipo escoliose: uma das principais seqüelas da paralisia cerebral (PC). A revisão bibliográfica abordou as relações entre design, ergonomia e fisioterapia, bem como os procedimentos de reabilitação da pessoa com PC, particularmente os meios tecnológicos de tratamento da escoliose. Os objetivos do estudo envolveram a intervenção projetual com a aplicação dos princípios do design ergonômico, e a aplicação e validação de técnicas clínicas e fisioterapêuticas na avaliação da usabilidade de assentos especiais para reabilitação. Aspectos éticos foram considerados na abordagem com 3 indivíduos portadores de PC e escoliose, sendo que um deles utilizou um assento adaptado com regulagem vertical, e os demais fizeram uso de assento comum. Os procedimentos das avaliações envolveram diferentes formas de abordagem e profissionais, com avaliações pré e pós-uso do produto, num intervalo de 90 dias. Os resultados indicaram melhorias psico-sociais, ortopédicas, neurológicas e clínicas do usuário do assento adaptado, sendo que a avaliação da biofotogrametria computadorizada indicou uma melhora significativa (p '< OU =') 0,01) nas condições posturais da coluna vertebral. Tais resultados comprovaram a eficiência da adaptação proposta no produto; uma nova alternativa na avaliação de usabilidade de produtos para a reabilitação; além da conseqüente melhoria na qualidade de vida das pessoas com necessidades especiais. / Abstract: This study presents an alternative application of the principals of ergonomic design, using this project and its evaluation of a vertically regulated modular chair, seeking to prevent and minimize the problems caused by the curvature of the spine such as scoliosis: one of the main consequences of cerebral palsy (CP). The bibliographical sources used approached the relationship between design, ergonomics and physiotherapy, as well as the procedure of rehabilitation of people with CP, particularly the technological methods of treating scoliosis. The objectives of this study involve the intervention of this project with the application of the principals of ergonomic design, and the application and validation of clinical and physiotherapeutic techniques in the evaluation of the use of special seating for rehabilitation. Ethical aspects were considered in the approach used with theree individuals with CP and scoliosis: one of them used the vertically regulated chair and the others the standard chair. The evaluation procedures involved a variety of methods of approach and different professionals, with pre and post use product evaluation, during a period of ninety days. The results showed psychosocial, orthopedic, neurological and clinical improvements to the adapted chair user: "Computerized Biophotogrammetry" evaluation showed significant improvement (p '< OU =') 0,01) in the spinal posture condition. Such results prove the efficiency of the proposed product adaptation; a new alternative in the evaluation of the use of the product for rehabilitation; and, consequential improvement to the quality of life of people with special needs. / Mestre

A framework to compartmentalize microfluidic surfaces was developed. Substrates are separated from surface modifying agents with an intermediate binding layer (IBL). The IBL is comprised of two compounds which bind together using a non-covalent interaction; a host compound is immobilized on the substrate, and a guest compound is conjugated to the surface modifying agent. The primary benefit of the IBL architecture is adaptability: substrates and surface compounds become modular components with standard connectors. Beta-Cyclodextrin (BCD) and adamantane (AD) were selected as the model immobilized host and conjugated guest, respectively. A quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) was assembled and developed to study the BCD/AD complexation interaction. Kinetic, thermodynamic, and Langmuir isotherm data were reported for AD-derivatives binding with immobilized BCD. QCM was also used to investigate neutravidin (NA) binding onto AD-PEG and AD-PEG-biotin coatings immobilized to t-BCD surfaces. QCM was an effective platform to validate the use of BCD/AD as the IBL interaction prior to microfluidic implementation. The BCD/AD IBL was successfully demonstrated in a microfluidic environment. Microfluidic devices were fabricated using the soft-lithographic technique. Adapted surface modifications were visualized using fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) probes within the microfluidic device and detected using confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM). Surface modifications were applied to demonstrate the fundamental functions of surface passivation, specific binding, and visualization using the IBL architecture. Consistent with QCM data, AD-PEG passivated the surface and AD-PEG-biotin specifically bound NA to the BCD surface. Thus, an adaptable surface modification architecture for microfluidic applications was developed and demonstrated.

A framework to compartmentalize microfluidic surfaces was developed. Substrates are separated from surface modifying agents with an intermediate binding layer (IBL). The IBL is comprised of two compounds which bind together using a non-covalent interaction; a host compound is immobilized on the substrate, and a guest compound is conjugated to the surface modifying agent. The primary benefit of the IBL architecture is adaptability: substrates and surface compounds become modular components with standard connectors. Beta-Cyclodextrin (BCD) and adamantane (AD) were selected as the model immobilized host and conjugated guest, respectively. A quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) was assembled and developed to study the BCD/AD complexation interaction. Kinetic, thermodynamic, and Langmuir isotherm data were reported for AD-derivatives binding with immobilized BCD. QCM was also used to investigate neutravidin (NA) binding onto AD-PEG and AD-PEG-biotin coatings immobilized to t-BCD surfaces. QCM was an effective platform to validate the use of BCD/AD as the IBL interaction prior to microfluidic implementation. The BCD/AD IBL was successfully demonstrated in a microfluidic environment. Microfluidic devices were fabricated using the soft-lithographic technique. Adapted surface modifications were visualized using fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) probes within the microfluidic device and detected using confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM). Surface modifications were applied to demonstrate the fundamental functions of surface passivation, specific binding, and visualization using the IBL architecture. Consistent with QCM data, AD-PEG passivated the surface and AD-PEG-biotin specifically bound NA to the BCD surface. Thus, an adaptable surface modification architecture for microfluidic applications was developed and demonstrated.

The goal of this thesis is to provide an adaptable protocol stack architecture for data fusion applications. Towards the goal, this thesis presents the design of SensorStack, that addresses three key issues. First, towards network-level adaptability, how to dynamically adapt the placement of a fusion application task graph on the network? We have designed a distributed role assignment algorithm and implemented in the context of DFuse, a framework for distributed data fusion. Second, towards node-level adaptability, how to facilitate cross-layering on a node to foster agile adaptation of a node's behavior commensurate with the network-level changes? SensorStack provides information exchange service (IES) as a framework for cross-module information exchange. Finally, towards tying the network and node level adaptability together, control data published in IES needs to be shared across the network. SensorStack uses a probabilistic broadcast based dissemination service (IDS) for control data. We implement SensorStack in TinyOS and Linux to validate the SensorStack design, and use simulation experiments to investigate its network performance. Experiments demonstrate the utility of adaptability in SensorStack to increase application longevity.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:24:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2006-12-15Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:30:47Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 gananca_as_me_bauru.pdf: 2038119 bytes, checksum: 255caa1e61b323355f27249e0ca110ce (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / O presente estudo apresenta uma alternativa de aplicação dos princípios do design ergonômico no projeto e avaliação de uma assento modular com regulagem vertical, buscando prevenir e minimizar os problemas decorrentes do desvio da coluna vertebral do tipo escoliose: uma das principais seqüelas da paralisia cerebral (PC). A revisão bibliográfica abordou as relações entre design, ergonomia e fisioterapia, bem como os procedimentos de reabilitação da pessoa com PC, particularmente os meios tecnológicos de tratamento da escoliose. Os objetivos do estudo envolveram a intervenção projetual com a aplicação dos princípios do design ergonômico, e a aplicação e validação de técnicas clínicas e fisioterapêuticas na avaliação da usabilidade de assentos especiais para reabilitação. Aspectos éticos foram considerados na abordagem com 3 indivíduos portadores de PC e escoliose, sendo que um deles utilizou um assento adaptado com regulagem vertical, e os demais fizeram uso de assento comum. Os procedimentos das avaliações envolveram diferentes formas de abordagem e profissionais, com avaliações pré e pós-uso do produto, num intervalo de 90 dias. Os resultados indicaram melhorias psico-sociais, ortopédicas, neurológicas e clínicas do usuário do assento adaptado, sendo que a avaliação da biofotogrametria computadorizada indicou uma melhora significativa (p '< OU =') 0,01) nas condições posturais da coluna vertebral. Tais resultados comprovaram a eficiência da adaptação proposta no produto; uma nova alternativa na avaliação de usabilidade de produtos para a reabilitação; além da conseqüente melhoria na qualidade de vida das pessoas com necessidades especiais. / This study presents an alternative application of the principals of ergonomic design, using this project and its evaluation of a vertically regulated modular chair, seeking to prevent and minimize the problems caused by the curvature of the spine such as scoliosis: one of the main consequences of cerebral palsy (CP). The bibliographical sources used approached the relationship between design, ergonomics and physiotherapy, as well as the procedure of rehabilitation of people with CP, particularly the technological methods of treating scoliosis. The objectives of this study involve the intervention of this project with the application of the principals of ergonomic design, and the application and validation of clinical and physiotherapeutic techniques in the evaluation of the use of special seating for rehabilitation. Ethical aspects were considered in the approach used with theree individuals with CP and scoliosis: one of them used the vertically regulated chair and the others the standard chair. The evaluation procedures involved a variety of methods of approach and different professionals, with pre and post use product evaluation, during a period of ninety days. The results showed psychosocial, orthopedic, neurological and clinical improvements to the adapted chair user: Computerized Biophotogrammetry evaluation showed significant improvement (p '< OU =') 0,01) in the spinal posture condition. Such results prove the efficiency of the proposed product adaptation; a new alternative in the evaluation of the use of the product for rehabilitation; and, consequential improvement to the quality of life of people with special needs.

Marabastad has a history characterized by strife and turmoil on one end and jubilation and decadence on the other. To preserve sanity within these hardships, residents often turn towards music as a socioeconomic emollient to relieve the burdens of everyday life. As a result music (specifically jazz) has embedded itself into the historical narrative of Marabastad and its people. Today, the area is no longer comprised of a homogenous demographic; it is home to a diverse populace of a multi-national origin. What once was a precinct characterized by its strong association with the “timiti” and “Marabi” cultures, it is now composed of a plethora of varying cultures, and as a result - musical genres. This study seeks to identify the historical importance of music within Marabastad, through identifying varying “territories” of the environment which are utilized as a means of promoting music within the region. Once these have been identified, the application of these territories and their associated principles within a built form is intended to provide a social platform for music to be enjoyed, while allowing for the cross-pollination of the varying musical genres which exist within the precinct. / Dissertation MArch(Prof)--University of Pretoria, 2014 / Architecture / MArch(Prof) / Unrestricted

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