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The theses presents results of experiments with spring barley started in years 2017 and 2018. The experiments were put into practice at Mr Jiří Nepovím's (BSc) place in Opatovice near Světlá nad Sázavou. Laudis 550 was used as the experimental variety of spring barley and the objective of the experiment was to observe the increasing amount of nitrogen and its effect on the resulting quantity and quality. The experimental amounts of nitrogen were set to 60 kg.ha-1, 75 kg.ha-1, 90 kg.ha-1, 105 kg.ha-1 and 120 kg.ha-1. With the increasing amount of nitrogen the crop increased of 0,2 - 0,4 t.ha-1. The share of nitrogen substances in grain increased of 0,2-0,5 %.

This thesis evaluates the Children’s Fitness Tax Credit and similar credits to determine whether they are suitable to increase physical activity levels in Canada. It begins by reviewing the literature on physical activity to establish that increasing physical activity is a worthy public policy goal. It then reviews the literature on tax expenditures and health behaviour interventions to provide information in order to evaluate the credits. The credits are then described and their stated purpose is discussed. This description establishes how quickly the credits expanded from one small credit to many. One of the credits, the Active Families Benefit, requires a new concept to evaluate it as it is not simply a tax measure or a spending measure. The term hybrid tax measure is introduced to explore this credit. An evaluation of the credits considering their effectiveness, efficiency and equity in determining their suitability to increase physical activity is performed and the conclusion is made that they are unlikely to be effective and that the inequity of the credits is problematic, particularly in light of this ineffectiveness finding. It is recommended that the credits be repealed and no new credits be created, but as repeal is unlikely, alternative recommendations are also provided.

La qualité des pièces découpées pour les industries électroniques et micromécaniques est appréciée via trois critères principaux : le niveau de bavure, l’aspect du bord découpé et la précision dimensionnelle. Or, l’étude de la qualité des pièces découpées ne peut se faire sans une compréhension de l’usure des poinçons. Ainsi, des méthodes de mesure en continu et in situ de l’usure ont été mises au point et validées, soit l’activation superficielle et la mesure par double réplique. Ainsi, il a été possible de suivre l’influence d’un certain nombre de paramètres du procédé sur l’évolution de l’usure lors du découpage. Par ailleurs, nous avons mis au point une méthode de quantification de la bavure sur la totalité du contour découpé. Il a ainsi été possible d’étudier l’évolution de la bavure au cours de la découpe. L’aspect des bords découpés a été examiné grâce à des relevés topographiques permettant le suivi de son évolution. Ainsi, une corrélation entre la cinétique d’usure des poinçons et l’apparition de la bavure a été établi. De plus, une simulation expérimentale de l’usure des poinçons a été entreprise. Un dispositif expérimental de tribométrie a été conçu et installé sur la ligne de presse, simulant les conditions de frottement d’un poinçon sur une tôle. Il a permis d’évaluer l’abrasivité des tôlesminces vis-à-vis des poinçons. Par ailleurs, une modélisation numérique de l'opération de découpage par éléments finis a été entreprise, permettant d’approcher le profil d’usure d’un poinçon de géométrie cylindrique. Et par conséquent la possibilité de prédire son évolution en fonction du nombre de pièces découpées devient accessible en fonction des paramètres du procédé / The blanked parts quality for electronic and amicromechanical industry is assessed using threemain criterions: the burr amount, the appearance ofthe cut edge and dimensional accuracy. However, thestudy of the quality of the blanked pieces can not bedone without an understanding of the punches wear.Thus, methods for continuous and in-situ wearmeasurements have been developed and validated:Thin Layer Activation and measurement by doublereplica. Thus, it was possible to follow the influenceof process parameters on the wear evolution duringblanking.In addition, we have developed a method forquantifying the burr on the entire blanked contour. Itwas thus possible to study the evolution of the burrduring blanking. The appearance of the cut edges wasexamined by means of topographic survey for monitoringits evolution. Thus, a correlation between the kinetics ofpunches wear and the appearance of the burr has beenestablished. In addition, an experimental simulation ofpunches wear was undertaken. An experimentaltribometry was designed and installed on the press line,simulating the conditions of friction of a punch on onesheet. It evaluated the abrasiveness of thin sheets againstthe punches.Additionally, a numerical modelling of blanking wasundertaken to approach the wear profile of a punch ofcylindrical geometry. And therefore the ability to predictits evolution contingent on the number of blanked pieces becomes available depending on process parameters

Syftet med denna rapport var att utreda hur föroreningsmängder och föroreningskoncentrationer i dagvattendammars sediment påverkas av markanvändningen i avrinningsområdet. Sedimentprovtagning skedde under april 2019 i tre dagvattendammar i Gävle, med olika markanvändningar: industri, villaområde samt två avrinningsområden innehållande trafik. Markanvändningen ”trafik vid Västerbacken” hade en trafikintensitet på cirka 2000 bilar/dygn och ”trafik vid Hamnleden” en intensitet på 7000 bilar/dygn. Provtagningen utfördes med rysskannborr och sedimentdjup mättes för att kvantifiera sedimentvolymen i dagvattendammarna. Proverna skickades till laboratorie för analys av metaller, fosfor, alifater, aromater samt polycykliska aromatiska kolväten [PAH]. Dagvattendammen med markanvändning industriområde hade sedimentet med högst föroreningskoncentrationer, följt av villaområde – trafik vid Hamnleden – trafik vid Västerbacken. Resultaten för denna studie visar att inga markanta skillnader kan ses vid jämförelse av föroreningskoncentrationer i sedimentet, utifrån omgivande markanvändning. Markanvändningarna visade liknande koncentrationsmönster i de grafiska figurer som jämfördes. Resultatet kan bero på att dagvattendammarna ligger geografiskt nära och därmed kan bli påverkade av samma atmosfäriska nedfall och bakgrundshalter. Det förväntades inte att föroreningskoncentrationerna i villaområdets sediment skulle vara näst högst. En förklaring kan vara den högre halten organiskt material i villaområdets sediment, vissa föroreningar tenderar att binda starkt till organiskt material. Däremot sågs stora skillnader mellan dagvattendammarnas föroreningsmängder i sedimentet (jämförelsetalet ”fastlagd förorening per år”), vilket återspeglades av sedimentvolymen. Störst mängd föroreningar och störst sedimentvolym sågs i dagvattendammen med markanvändning industriområde. I fallande skala följde trafik vid Hamnleden – trafik vid Västerbacken – villaområde. Resultatet kan bero på skillnader i andel partikulära fraktioner i dagvattnet från respektive markanvändning, där industriområdet i så fall har störst andel partikulära fraktioner enligt resultatet i denna studie. Beräkningar utfördes i StormTac för teoretisk föroreningstransport i inkommande dagvatten till dagvattendammarna. Beräkningarna genererade i totalmängder (lösta och partikulära fraktioner). När föroreningstransporten jämfördes med ”fastlagd förorening per år” för villaområde sågs att föroreningstransportens mängder var markant större, vilket delvis kan förklaras med att totalmängder jämfördes med partikulära mängder. En slutsats som dras är att omgivande markanvändning påverkar föroreningsmängderna i sedimentet och sedimentvolymen, snarare än koncentrationerna. / This thesis addresses how human activities in the catchment area could influence the contaminant concentrations and amounts of contaminants in the sediments of stormwater ponds. Sediment sampling was done in April 2019. The storm water ponds had different land uses: industrial, residential (detached area) and two land uses of traffic with different intensities; “traffic by Hamnleden” (7000 cars/day) and “traffic by Västerbacken” (2000 cars/day). Samples were taken with a Russian corer and sediment depth was measured to quantify sediment volume. Samples were sent to laboratory for analysis of metals, phosphorus, aliphatics, aromatics and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons [PAH]. The stormwater pond with industry as land use had the highest concentration of contaminants in the sediment, followed by residential area – traffic by Hamnleden – traffic by Västerbacken. The results of this study showed that the land use concentrations of contaminants were all similar, and the patterns of concentration in the graphic figures were similar. The results could be explained by the narrow geographic area in which the three storm water ponds are situated. They could be affected by the same atmospheric downfall which could even out the concentrations. It was not expected that the residential area would have one of the highest concentrations in the sediment. This could be explained by the high content of organic matter, as some contaminants create strong chemical bonding with organic matter. Bigger differences were seen for the amounts of contaminants in the sediments and the comparative figure “fixated amount of contaminant per year”. The land use industry had the highest amount of contaminants followed by traffic by Hamnleden – traffic by Västerbacken – residential area. This is probably due to differences in particle quota in the storm water coming from the land uses. Calculations were done for the amount of transported contaminants in stormwater, via the watershed management tool and model StormTac. The calculated transportation of contaminants resulted in total amounts of contaminants, meaning both dissolved and particulate fractions. The calculations from StormTac were compared with the comparative figure “fixated amount of contaminant per year” for the land use residential area, and the amounts were significantly higher for the calculated transportation. This could partly be explained by comparing total amounts with particulate amounts. A conclusion of this report is that land use affects the amounts of contaminants and sediment volume in the studied storm water ponds, rather than the concentrations.

Lässt sich Persönlichkeit als Risikofaktor bei Personen mit Alkoholabhängigkeit verstehen? Dies ist die Leitfrage der Studie. In einem Querschnittsdesign werden insgesamt 297 alkoholabhängige Personen untersucht. Es wird eine umfassende Persönlichkeitsdiagnostik (TPF, SKID-II, DITS-40) durchgeführt. In unterschiedlichen Bereichen des Suchtverhaltens (Suchtverlauf, Trinkmenge, Abstinenzverhalten, Rückfall) werden Hochrisikogruppen gebildet und mit der jeweils übrigen Stichprobe mittels binär logistischer Regression verglichen. Die Einflussvariablen der logistischen Modelle werden als Risikofaktoren für Hochrisikoverhalten gedeutet. Es zeigt sich, dass Persönlichkeitsvariablen in vielen Bereichen des Suchtverhaltens eine wichtige Rolle spielen. Insbesondere gilt dies für den Suchtverlauf vor der ersten Entgiftungsbehandlung, die Trinkmenge und das Rückfallverhalten. Für den Suchtverlauf nach der ersten Entgiftungsbehandlung und das Abstinenzverhalten gilt dies weitaus weniger. Insgesamt wird Hochrisikoverhalten in unterschiedlichen Bereichen des Suchtverhaltens stark durch Persönlichkeitsvariablen geprägt. Hierauf sollte in der Praxis jede Therapie adäquat reagieren. / Is it possible to consider personality as a risk factor in people who are alcohol dependent? This is the main question to be addressed in this project. A total of 297 alcohol dependent people are tested in a cross-sectional design. A comprehensive personality diagnosis is undertaken (TPF, SKID-II, DITS-40). In various aspects of alcohol abuse (history of abuse, amount consumed, abstinence behaviour, relapse) high-risk groups are formed and compared with the rest of the sample in each case by means of binary logistic regression. The influencing variables of the logistic models are interpreted as risk factors for high risk behaviour. What this shows is that personality variables play a major role in many areas of abusive behaviour. This applies especially to the history of abuse before the first detoxification treatment, the amount consumed an the relapse behaviour. This applies to a far lesser extent to the history of abuse after the first detoxification treatment and abstinence behaviour. Overall, high-risk behaviour in various aspects of alcohol abuse is strongly influenced by personality. Every therapy should have the appropriate answer to this in practise.

[pt] Na década de noventa, no Brasil, havia uma predominância de empresas verticalizadas no setor elétrico, pertencentes aos governos estaduais e federais, que no decorrer do processo de reestruturação e privatização sofreram uma desverticalização das suas atividades, em geração, transmissão, distribuição e comercialização. Após iniciada a privatização das companhias foi criada a Agência Nacional de Energia Elétrica (ANEEL),responsável por regular as atividades do setor elétrico brasileiro. Estas mudanças acarretaram em diferentes modelos de mercado caracterizados pelo acentuado uso dos sistemas de transmissão. Neste cenário, foi definido pela ANEEL que as concessionárias de distribuição devem pagar às transmissoras pela utilização de suas instalações o Encargo de Uso do Sistema de Transmissão (EUST). Para isso, é necessário informar o Montante de Uso do Sistema de Transmissão (MUST) para cada ponto de conexão e período tarifário por meio do Contrato de Uso do Sistema de Transmissão (CUST). Em caso de ultrapassagem dos valores firmados neste contrato acima de um percentual estipulado, a contratante terá que pagar uma penalidade. Esta dissertação tem por finalidade apresentar uma nova metodologia na determinação do valor ótimo do MUST, baseado em equivalentes estáticos flexíveis, fluxo de potência probabilístico e técnicas de otimização estocástica de modo a equilibrar o custo do transporte de energia e o custo da penalidade. Primeiro, utiliza-se uma técnica de redução de rede, flexível e precisa. Segundo, as incertezas provenientes das cargas, geração e topologia da rede são mapeadas nos pontos de conexão em análise. Terceiro, utiliza-se uma técnica simples de otimização estocástica para obter o MUST a ser contratado, pela distribuidora de energia elétrica, em cada barra de fronteira. Por último, a metodologia proposta é empregada no sistema acadêmico IEEE RTS com o objetivo de demonstrar a sua eficiência sendo os resultados obtidos amplamente discutidos. / [en] In Brazil, during the 1990s, there was a predominance of vertical companies in the electricity sector, belonging to the state and federal governments, which in the course of the restructuring and privatization process suffered a deverticalization of their activities into generation, transmission, distribution, and commercialization. After the beginning of this privatization process, the National Electric Energy Agency (ANEEL) was created, which is responsible for regulating the activities of the Brazilian electricity sector. These changes have led to different market models characterized by the strong use of the transmission systems. In this scenario, it was defined by ANEEL that the distribution concessionaires must pay the transmission companies for the use of their equipment. Thus, it is necessary to inform the Transmission System Usage Amount (MUST) for each connection point and tariff period by means of the Transmission System Use Agreement (CUST). In case of exceeding a specified percentage of the contracted amounts, the contractor will have to pay penalties. This dissertation aims to present a new methodology to determine the optimal value of MUST, based on flexible static equivalents, probabilistic power flow, and stochastic optimization techniques, in order to balance the energy transport and penalty costs. First, a flexible and accurate network reduction technique is used. Second, the uncertainties arising from the load, generation, and topology of the network are mapped at the connection points under analysis. Third, a simple stochastic optimization technique is used to obtain the MUST to be contracted by the electric power distributor at each border bus. Finally, the proposed methodology is used in the IEEE RTS academic system in order to demonstrate its efficiency, and the obtained results are widely discussed.

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No. of bitstreams: 1 sales_ar_me_bauru.pdf: 3094814 bytes, checksum: 40ab5a77d5ee1153c2e541c020d3ca6c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-12-09 / A aplicação da mínima quantidade de lubrificante (MQL) na usinagem dos metais começaram a ser estudados como alternativa para reduzir o uso dos fluidos de corte, para poder atingir uma produção mais limpa e menos prejudicial ao meio ambiente e aos trabalhadores, na retificação, apesar de ser considerada uma técnica inovadora no aspecto ambiental, sua aplicação é restrita devido à geração excessiva de calor e ao entupimento dos poros do rebolo causado pelos cavacos, e isto prejudica a qualidade final do produto e aumenta o desgaste da ferramenta. Esta pesquisa buscou aprimorar o uso do MQL utilizando óleo solúvel sintético da Quimatic Tapimatic ME-2. Além de usar o jato com a mistura ar e óleo e proporções de água injetado na interface rebolo-peça à alta velocidade um jato de ar comprimido, foi utilizado na superfície de corte do rebolo para minimizar o empastamento do rebolo gerado durante o processo de usinagem pela mistura formada pelo óleo do MQL mais os cavacos. Foram realizados ensaios na retificação cilíndrica externa de mergulho do aço ABNT 4340, temperado e revenido com dureza média de 54 HRC, usando rebolo de nitreto de boro cúbico (CBN) com ligante vitrificado. Os métodos de lubri-refrigeração propostos foram o convencional com fluido em abundância e o MQL (sem limpeza da superfície de corte do rebolo) e MQL (com a limpeza, utilizando o ângulo de incidência do ar comprimido na superfície de corte do rebolo fixo a 30 graus). Este ângulo foi escolhido por ser a melhor condição mostrada nos trabalhos de outros autores. Consideraram-se as variáveis de saída do processo: rugosidade, desgaste diametral do rebolo, circularidade, além de análises metalográficas e medições de microdureza da superfície retificada para verificação de danos térmicos; de forma a analisar a viabilidade da substituição do tradicional método de aplicação dos fluidos em abundância pelo MQL com a limpeza. Os resultados mostraram a possibilidade de implementação da técnica da limpeza do rebolo como um aprimoramento tecnológico da mínima quantidade de lubrificante na retificação, reduzindo o consumo dos fluidos de corte. A técnica MQL com limpeza para um ângulo específico de incidência do ar comprimido mostrou-se extremamente eficiente com a obtenção de melhor acabamento superficial e dimensional, além de menor desgaste da ferramenta abrasiva e isenção de danos térmicos, quando comparada com os métodos convencionais sem a limpeza do rebolo. / The application of minimum quantity of lubricant (MQL) on machining of metals has emerged as an alternative to reduce the abundance of cutting fluids and then achieve a cleaner production. In grinding, although considered a breakthrough technique in the environmental aspect, its application is restricted due to excessive generation of heat and grinding wheel loading caused by the chips, damaging the final product quality and increasing tool wear. The objective of this research was to improve the MQL technique synthetic soluble oil Quimatic Tapmatic ME-2 using beyond the jet with air mixture and oil and water proportions using an additional jet of compressed air to clean the clogged pores of the wheel. Grinding wheel in tests were performed in cylindrical plunge grinding of the ABNT 4340 steel, quenched and tempered (54 HRC), with a vitrified cubic boron nitride (CBN). The suggested methods of lubrication were conventional (abundant fluid), MQL (that without the use of air jet to cleaning the wheel) and MQL plus cleaning system using the angle of incidence of the compressed air on the cutting surface of the grinding wheel fixed to 30 degrees. Other autors chose This angle to be the best condition shown in the works. This performance was evaluated based on an analysis of the process output variables: roughness, diametric wear of the grinding, roundness, and metallographic analysis plus microhardness measurements of the grounded surface to verify thermal damage incidence. The results showed the possibility of implementing the technique of cleaning as a technological enhancement to minimum quantity of lubricant in the grinding, reducing the use of cutting fluids. The technique MQL plus cleaning system, in a specific incident angle of the compressed air was extremely efficient, resulting in better surface finish, reduced tool wear and free of thermal damage when compared with conventional methods without cleaning of the wheel.

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Characterizing the uncertainty in rainfall using stochastic models has been a challenging area of research in the field of operational hydrology for about half a century. Simulated sequences drawn from such models find use in a variety of hydrological applications. Traditionally, parametric models are used for simulating rainfall. But the parametric models are not parsimonious and have uncertainties associated with identification of model form, normalizing transformation, and parameter estimation. None of the models in vogue have gained universal acceptability among practising engineers. This may either be due to lack of confidence in the existing models, or the inability to adopt models proposed in literature because of their complexity or both. In the present study, a new nonparametric Matched Block Bootstrap (MABB) model is proposed for stochastic simulation of rainfall at daily time scale. It is based on conditional matching of blocks formed from the historical rainfall data using a set of predictors (conditioning variables) proposed for matching the blocks. The efficiency of the developed model is demonstrated through application to rainfall data from India, Australia, and USA. The performance of MABB is compared with two non-parametric rainfall simulation models, k-NN and ROG-RAG, for a site in Melbourne, Australia. The results showed that MABB model is a feasible alternative to ROG-RAG and k-NN models for simulating daily rainfall sequences for hydrologic applications. Further it is found that MABB and ROG-RAG models outperform k-NN model. The proposed MABB model preserved the summary statistics of rainfall and fraction of wet days at daily, monthly, seasonal and annual scales. It could also provide reasonable performance in simulating spell statistics. The MABB is parsimonious and requires less computational effort than ROG-RAG model. It reproduces probability density function (marginal distribution) fairly well due to its data driven nature. Results obtained for sites in India and U.S.A. show that the model is robust and promising.