This diploma thesis is called Autism and game and there are two main parts theoretical one and practical one. The theoretical introduction is based on general knowledge about autism, followed by important chapters of the thesis which are concerned on the visual communication, visual communication strategy in autism and compensation aids. The content of the practical part is the origin and solution description of the compensation aid suggested by myself the visual calendar for better orientation in the longer time space. In the conclusion of the thesis there is an assessment of the visual calendar use in practice. In addition there is a picture supplement.

Vaccination is one of the most important preventive epidemiological measures. My thesis focuses on comparing vaccination strategies of the EU countries with those of the Czech Republic. When collecting information, I studied the present situation of all twenty seven EU countries, including WHO recommendations on immunization, and suggestions of both ECDC and vaccine producers. Available incidence data about particular preventable diseases and vaccination coverage are also mentioned. Furthermore, I also point out the effectiveness of vaccination, illustrating the fact on the occurrence of specific illnesses. This is especially apparent from Czech vaccination schedule for measles, which, owing to taken measures, occur only as an imported malady. Vaccination schedules vary considerably among the EU countries. The Czech Republic follows same schedules as most of the EU countries and has a well-developed vaccination system, established in Notice no. 537/2006 Sb. of vaccination against infectious diseases, as amended. The number of illnesses, vaccination against which is prescribed, almost doesn?t differ from other European countries, and neither does the sickness rate. Quite to the contrary; compared to certain EU states, vaccination coverage in the Czech Republic is steadily high and recommendations to update vaccination schedules arise only from new findings and freshly emerged epidemiological situation. New vaccines against infectious diseases are being introduced to the market each year and individual countries therefore often reappraise, adjust and update their vaccination schedules. It?s imperative that they take into consideration present epidemiological situation, both in the countries themselves and in surrounding states, and also the knowledge of trends in infectious diseases occurrence. It?s necessary to update vaccination schedules and to increase the number of vaccines ? be it within periodic vaccinations covered by state, or personally requested vaccinations compensated by insurance companies ?, thus improving vaccination coverage. 5 Attempts at unification are unrealistic. In view of various epidemiological situations, means of individual countries, and attitudes towards vaccination in certain liberal leaning states, it is not possible to dictate vaccine use or vaccination schedules to any country. Considering the scope of the issue, the aim of my thesis isn?t to suggest solutions, but rather to monitor the present circumstances in individual states, find sources of information, and compare the situation in the EU and Czech Republic.

This report will be covering further development of the Realtime-Updated Dashboard made by two students for Flex Applications in VT2017. The task now is to integrate the Dashboard with Outlook calendar. A theoretical deepening into the General Data Protection Regulation was made due to recent development in the European Union. This was used to set strict guidelines for design, consent and security of the application.   The application is a back-end service written mostly in C#, however some TypeScript language was used with Angular 2 framework along with LESS and HTML5. The application is developed as a stand-alone project as the Realtime-Updated Dashboard is now live in the system and it would pose a security risk for Flex which was a great opportunity to study and learn more about ASP.NET MVC model along with TypeScript, Angular2, LESS and HTML5. Integrating with Outlook calendar was just the first step, more calendars will be added in time. The main point of the application is to give the Realtime-Updated Dashboard added value and prove/show integration with Outlook calendar was possible.

The diploma thesis aims to find out what was the media image of the end of the Mayan calendar as the supposed end of the world in 2012. A a number of theories, reflections and predictions were made about what would probably happen on December 21, 2012. The apocalyptic predictions of the end of the world appeared most often. Probably due to deeper ignorance of the theme and attractiveness of catastrophic scenarios, the end of the Mayan calendar has become a widespread phenomenon that resonated across society and has become a frequent subject of media stories. The analysis of media content investigated the extent to which the 2012 phenomenon of the selected media was really devoted, what kind of approach to the topic the media took and whether it encouraged fear or uncertainty in society. The thesis provides a sufficient theoretical basis and historical context that the subsequent analysis can then rely on.

Cette thèse propose de rapprocher l'histoire naturelle du cerf, appréhendée à travers les écrits des naturalistes et des veneurs, de l'ethnohistoire de l'Europe occidentale. Il s'agit donc de confronter des récits censés être vrais parce que fondés sur des faits observables, à des récits explicitement imaginaires. Nous avons modifié la définition du mythème développée par Claude Lévi-Strauss, à partir des termes narratifs (T) et leur inverse (T-1), et des fonctions narratives (F) et leur inverse (F-1). Nous définissons le mythème comme la combinaison des quatre versions possibles d'un récit, la version TF et la version contraposée T-1F-1, mais aussi les variantes TF-1 ou T-1F ; à la suite de Lévi-Strauss, nous considérons un mythe comme l'ensemble de ses variantes. Comme les objets réels existent indépendamment des usages et des représentations que peuvent en avoir les communautés humaines, des mythèmes ont été formulés relativement au cerf, à sa place dans l'environnement, aux bonnes façons d'employer son cœur, son cuir ou son bois pour signifier le cours du temps ou le destin des hommes. Nous avons isolé une vingtaine de ces mythèmes et les avons classés par ordre croissant d'abstraction, en considérant que chacun d'eux permettait de figer une relation entre termes et fonctions narratives, ou de résoudre une dissonance cognitive. Pour autant, aucun récit ne prétend relier entre eux tous ces mythèmes. La plupart ne sont reliés entre eux que de façon elliptique, la narration ne donnant pas les détails nécessaires à la vraisemblance ou à la véracité des récits. Pour y remédier, nous montrons l'existence, dans les rites religieux contemporains de Bretagne, d'un repérage cohérent des directions cardinales et intermédiaires, fondé sur les levers et couchers solaires aux solstices. A partir des indications horaires et directionnelles, puis des indications horaires et calendaires, nous restituons les dates dédiées aux saints hommes au cerf, l'agencement des sites de culte entre eux et la forme des trajets de procession, au solstice d'été. Par extrapolation à des niveaux supérieurs de l'échelle des grandeurs spatiales, nous restituons trois types de parcours rituels ; en l'état actuel du dossier, la relation entre le rite et son ampleur territoriale ne permet pas de présumer de la fonction sociale des trajets à l'échelle nationale ou européenne. En extrapolant aux niveaux inférieurs de l'échelle temporelle nous restituons les « unités » de calcul calendaire inférieures à la journée, en particulier la fréquence cardiaque de repos (60 battements par minute chez l'Homme). Le rapprochement est fait entre la métrique temporelle, écartelé entre ses cadences rapide (le pouls cardiaque) et lente (la précession des équinoxes), et la métrique spatiale, opposant le microcosme domestique au macrocosme borné par la « sphère des fixes ». S'en déduit intuitivement la fonction sociale des thèmes relatifs aux niveaux inférieurs des échelles de grandeur: le cœur, la maisonnée, etc... Une interprétation distincte des rites estivaux et hivernaux est alors proposée, à partir des récits mythiques des Celtes insulaires. / This thesis proposes a link between the natural history of the red deer, as seen in the writings of naturalists and huntsmen, with the folklore of Western Europe. It is a confrontation of tales that are supposed to be true, since based on observable facts, with purely fictional tales. We have altered the definition of the mytheme developed by Claude Lévi-Strauss, on the basis of narrative terms (T) and their opposite (T-1), and narrative functions (F) and their opposite (F-1). We define the mytheme as being the combination of four possible versions of a tale, the TF version and the contrapositive T-1F-1 version, as well as TF-1 or T-1F variations; like Lévi-Strauss, we consider the myth along with all of its variations. Since actual objects exist independently of the uses and representations that human populations may have of them, mythemes have been formulated concerning the red deer, its place in the environment and the right ways to use its heart, its hide or its antlers to represent the passage of time or man's destiny. We have isolated some twenty mythemes and classified them in increasing order of abstraction, considering that each of them enables a relationship to be forged between narrative terms and functions, or resolves a cognitive dissonance. However, no tale may claim to connect all these mythemes together. Most are only connected in an elliptical manner, since the narration does not provide all the details necessary to establish the plausibility or veracity of the tales. To resolve this issue, we prove the existence, in Breton contemporary religious rites, of a coherent system of cardinal and intermediary directions, based on sunrise and sunset during the solstices. Based on time and direction indications, then time and calendar indications, we restore the dates dedicated to human saints to the red deer, and the positioning of worship sites in relation to one another and the shape of procession routes to the summer solstice. By extrapolation to the upper levels of the scale of space measurements, we recreate three types of ritual itineraries; at the present time, the relationship between the rite and its territorial extent does not enable any presumption regarding the social function of routes on a national or European scale. By extrapolation to the lower levels of the time scale, we recreate the “units” of calendar calculation of less than one day, and in particular the idle heart rate (60 beats / minute in man). A link is established between the time metric, between its rapid rate (heart rate) and slow rate (axial precession), and the space metric, opposing the domestic microcosm and the macrocosm limited by the “sphere of fixed stars”. The social function of the themes related to the lower levels of the measurement scales can then be deduced intuitively: heart, household, etc. A separate interpretation of summer and winter rites is then proposed, based on the mythical tales of insular Celts.

Orientador: Regina Célia Baptista Belluzzo / Banca: Suely Fadul Vilibor Flory / Banca: Maximiliano Martin Vicente / Resumo: O jornalismo cultural impresso, estudado em veículos do interior do Estado de São Paulo, é o objeto desta pesquisa. Apesar de ser um tema atraente, são escassos os dados que demonstrem aspectos da situação e uma tendência na cobertura de cadernos culturais desses veículos. A partir do acompanhamento, ao longo de um período, das matérias que viraram manchetes dos cadernos, em oito jornais do Estado de São Paulo representativos de suas áreas administrativas regionais e que dispunham de sites na internet; da análise de uma edição selecionada forma aleatória e das respostas obtidas por meio da aplicação de questionário aos seus editores; foi possível desenvolver um raciocínio e deduzir algumas características que permitiram a consecução da hipótese central do estudo. Registrando-se, assim, a possibilidade de que a cobertura desses jornais estivesse focada principalmente no acompanhamento da agenda de eventos e datas comemorativas, deixando em segundo ou até terceiro plano matérias mais polêmicas e relativas à política cultural. Ao final, apresenta-se discussão com base em teorias de jornalismo, como agenda setting e gatekeeper, aspectos de gestão de pessoas e informações sobre a formação profissional dos jornalistas, recomendando-se que novas formas de conduta devam ser adotadas. / Abstract: The cultural printed journalism, studied in vehicles of interior of São Paulo state, is the object of this research. In spite of being an attractive theme, there are scarce data that demonstrates aspects of this situation and a tendency in the cultural covering of those vehicles. Starting form the accompaniment, for a period, of the subjects that turned headlines, in eight newspapers of São Paulo state with importance in their regional administrative areas and that had sites in the Internet, from the analysis of one edition, selected in an aleatory way, and from the answers about a questionnaire sent to the publisher, it was possible to develop an idea and to deduce some characteristics that allowed the attainment of the central hypothesis of this study. Anyway, the possibility that the covering of these vehicles was based on the accompaniment of the events' calendar, leaving in second or until third plane polemic and relative matters to the cultural politics. At the end, this discussion is based on journalism theories, as agenda setting and gatekeeper, aspects of people's administration and information about the journalists' professional formation, being recommended that news forms of conduct shoud be adopted. / Mestre

The use of smartphone applications has increased dramatically in the last decade. With the technology being ubiquitous around us it is important to reduce the required cognitive demand for interacting with the technology. A common use of smartphones is calendar applications. This paper investigates if cognitive load can be lowered by using a calendar application specifically designed with cognitive load in mind compared to the widely used Google Calendar. The hypothesis is that the application will generate a lower cognitive load in comparison. An experiment was conducted where participants were instructed to perform a primary task by following given instructions of what to do in the calendar application while also performing a secondary task. There were no significant differences in performance except for two tasks where the new app performed worse. Participants also reported a higher level of frustration for the new app which could mean that their cognitive load was slightly higher. / Användandet av smartphone applikationer har ökat dramatiskt under det senaste decenniet, eftersom att tekniken hela tiden är närvarande runt om oss så är det viktigt att minska de kognitiva kraven som behövs vid användandet. Ett vanligt användande av smartphones är kalenderapplikationer, den här studien undersöker om den kognitiva belastningen kan minskas vid användandet av en kalender app genom att använda applikation som designats med kognitiv belastning i åtanke för att sen jämföras mot Google Kalender. Hypotesen är att applikationen kommer att generera en lägre kognitiv belastning i jämförelse. Ett experiment utfördes där deltagarna instruerades att utföra en huvuduppgift som innebar att utföra givna instruktioner med uppdrag i kalendarapplikationen, samtidigt som en sekundär uppgift utfördes där deltagarna fick trycka på en knapp när en signal hördes. Det var ingen signifikant skillnad i prestation förutom i två uppgifter där appen presterade sämre, deltagarna rapporterade också en högre nivå av frustration vilket skulle kunna innebära att den kognitiva belastningen var något högre.

CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior / A falta de um manejo adequado da irrigaÃÃo por parte da maioria dos produtores instalados nos perÃmetros pÃblicos irrigados no estado do Cearà à considerado como o principal fator com interferÃncia direta na produtividade, custo de produÃÃo, qualidade dos produtos comercializados e principalmente na questÃo ambiental, onde o uso inadequado da Ãgua de nossos mananciais poderà comprometer seriamente nossas geraÃÃes futuras. A iniciativa de desenvolvimento de ferramentas para auxiliar o produtor a realizar um manejo de irrigaÃÃo satisfatÃrio, que seja acessÃvel e de fÃcil operaÃÃo à uma meta que devemos sempre definir como prioritÃria. Esse trabalho visa o desenvolvimento de um aplicativo para dispositivos mÃveis, capaz de utilizar uma base de dados prÃpria na realizaÃÃo do cÃlculo do tempo diÃrio de irrigaÃÃo para cada cultura em uma determinada data. Foram utilizadas tÃcnicas e ferramentas de desenvolvimento de software, especÃficas para a plataforma mÃvel Android. O aplicativo visa auxiliar na conduÃÃo de um manejo com uso racional de Ãgua nos perÃmetros irrigados localizados no estado de CearÃ, semiÃrido nordestino, mitigando a falta da assistÃncia tÃcnica especializada em agricultura de precisÃo, utilizando bancos de dados com informaÃÃes necessÃrias para o cÃlculo da necessidade hÃdrica e posterior recomendaÃÃo do tempo de irrigaÃÃo. Entre os bancos de dados instalados, conta-se com as series histÃricas da âevapotranspiraÃÃo potencial de referÃnciaâ dos Ãltimos dez anos nas regiÃes representativas onde se encontram implantados os oito principais perÃmetros irrigados do estado do CearÃ: Curu-Paraipaba, Pentecostes, Baixo AcaraÃ, Araras Norte, Jaguaribe Apodi, Morada Nova, Tabuleiros de Russas e IcÃ-Lima Campos, alÃm dos bancos de dados com informaÃÃes relativas ao âcoeficiente de cultivoâ e âPercentual de coberturaâ dos principais cultivos explorados nos perÃmetros. O sistema desenvolvido apresenta uma nova abordagem para o manejo da irrigaÃÃo, fazendo uso da mobilidade disponÃvel em celulares para permitir que os usuÃrios realizem o cÃlculo do tempo de irrigaÃÃo diÃrio em qualquer um dos perÃmetros irrigados do estado do CearÃ. A utilizaÃÃo do aplicativo em simulaÃÃo para o PerÃmetro Irrigado Baixo AcaraÃ, demonstrou uma reduÃÃo de aproximadamente 26 % em relaÃÃo a utilizaÃÃo atual de Ãgua na irrigaÃÃo, permitindo concluir-se que o seu uso proporciona um bom manejo de irrigaÃÃo e poderà resultar em uma economia de Ãgua necessÃria para reduÃÃo dos impactos recorrentes dos longos e repetitivos perÃodos de estiagem sobre os recursos hÃdricos do estado do CearÃ. / The lack of a proper irrigation management by the majority of producers in irrigated public areas in the state of Cearà is considered the main factor with direct influence on productivity, cost of production, quality of products, and especially in the environmental issue, where the inappropriate use of water from our springs could seriously compromise our future generations. The initiative in the development of tools to assist the producer to carry out a satisfactory irrigation management that is accessible and of easy operation is a goal that should always be set as a priority. This work aims to develop an application for mobile devices, able to use its own database in the realization of the daily irrigation time calculation for each crop on a certain date. Techniques and software development tools were used specificly for the Android mobile platform. The application intends to assist in conducting a management with rational use of water in irrigated areas in the state of CearÃ, semi-arid northeast, mitigating the lack of technical assistance specialized in precision farming, using databases with information necessary for the calculation of the need water and subsequent irrigation time recommendation. Among the installed databases, it has historical series of "potential reference evapotranspiration" for the past ten years in representative regions where the eight main irrigation schemes of the Cearà state: Curu-Paraipaba, Pentecostes, Baixo AcaraÃ, Araras Norte, Jaguaribe Apodi, Morada Nova, Tabuleiros de Russas e IcÃ-Lima Campos are located and also databases with information on the "crop coefficient" and "coverage percentage" of major crops exploited on the perimeters. This application was developed to present a new approach to irrigation management, making use of the available mobile phones in order to allow users to perform the calculation of the daily irrigation time in any of the irrigated perimeters of the Cearà state. The use of the application in simulation for the Irrigated Perimeter Baixo Acaraà demonstrated a reduction of approximately 26% over the current use of water in irrigation, allowing its use be concluded that provides good irrigation management and could result in an economy of water required to reduce the impact of recurring long and repetitive periods of drought on water resources of the state of CearÃ.

Orientadores: Jorge Megid Neto, Fernando Jorge da Paixão Filho / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-18T09:25:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mesquita_SimoneCristinadeFreitas_M.pdf: 7182957 bytes, checksum: d8433857f30b7f1fd0d55e59664354b1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: Esta pesquisa teve por objetivo analisar os efeitos da aplicação do projeto "O Calendário e a Medida do Tempo" no ensino aprendizagem de ciências de uma turma do 5º ano do Ensino Fundamental, em uma escola pública do município de Santa Bárbara D'Oeste- SP. Seus temas vinculavam-se ao conteúdo presente no planejamento do ensino de Ciências dessa série e buscou a integração com outras áreas. Este trabalho justifica-se pela constatação de que o ensino de Ciências tem sido marcado pela fragmentação do conhecimento e pela falta de contextualização. Buscou investigar em que medida o Projeto favorece a integração curricular nos anos iniciais do Ensino Fundamental e o desenvolvimento cognitivo dos alunos. Três atividades básicas foram realizadas pelos alunos de modo coletivo e individual, ao longo do ano letivo, complementadas com leituras de textos de gêneros diversos, sistematizações em grupo, entrevistas com pessoas da comunidade e cadernos de memórias dos alunos. Esta pesquisa é do tipo experimental, sem grupo de controle. Os dados foram coletados em sala de aula, com ajustes no direcionamento da proposta, tendo sido observada a modificação no comportamento e aprendizagem dos alunos envolvidos. Os resultados obtidos indicam que a aplicação do projeto favoreceu a construção de um conhecimento integral que busca a reciprocidade e a interação entre as áreas curriculares envolvidas. Os alunos apresentaram mudanças de pensamento, construíram individual e coletivamente conhecimentos sobre os temas tratados e interagiram com outros alunos, professores e funcionários da escola, bem como com seus pais, familiares e pessoas do seu bairro. As atividades desenvolvidas e o Projeto Calendário mostraram-se bastante adequados como mecanismo de trabalho nos anos iniciais do Ensino Fundamental, na perspectiva interdisciplinar e de construção coletiva de conhecimentos. / Abstract: The aim of this research was to analyse the effects of the implementation "The Calendar and the Measure of the Time" Project in 5th grade of an Elementary public school in Santa Barbara Do Oeste - São Paulo. The theme of this research were linked to the contents of Science taught in this grade, and aimed the integration with other areas. This work is justified by the evidence that science teaching has been marked by knowledge fragmentation and lack of contextualization. The main question was how the Project implementation could improve the integration of the contents and the cognitive development of the students in the early years of the Elementary school. During the year three basic activities were done by the students (individually or in groups). These activities were complemented with readings of different texts, systematizations in groups, interviews with people from the town and notebooks with students' memories. This research had experimental basis, without a control group; data were collected in the classroom with adjustments in the direction of the proposal. Changing in learning and behavior of students involved were observed. The results indicated that project implementation helped students to develop a full knowledge that aims reciprocity and interaction between curriculum areas involved. The students presented changes in thinking, built knowledge individually and collectively on the topics covered, and interacted with other students, teachers and school employees, as well as their parents, relatives and people in their neighborhood. The activities and the "Calendar Project" were quite suitable as a working mechanism in the early years of elementary school in multidisciplinary perspective and collective construction of knowledge. / Mestrado / Ensino e Práticas Culturais / Mestre em Educação

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Este estudo visa discutir as relações socioespaciais dos povos indígenas que vivem na terra Indígena de São Marcos, mais especificamente na área conhecida como baixo São Marcos e que está localizada na região sul da terra indígena. Ou seja, de forma analítica será compreendida a relação dos povos indígenas com o meio físico em que vivem, configurando uma transformação no espaço, através das ações humanas, mediadas pela cultura. A presente dissertação de mestrado vem a colaborar com esforços teórico analíticos, segmentado em discussões teórico comparativo e fundamentado nas premissas teórica da geografia e antropologia que trabalham com a temática que envolve territorialidade e espacialidade dos indígenas na formação de paisagens culturais para compreensão da organização dos indivíduos no espaço geográfico através de suas territorialidades. Quanto ao objetivo deste trabalho, se busca uma compreensão sobre a temática do calendário cultural ao qual se baseia em uma proposta teórico-metodológica da construção do mesmo e que envolve a sistematização e compreensão das relações sociais, espaciais, ambientais, econômicas e culturais existente na comunidade indígena da Ilha ao qual foi possível a partir de um estudo exploratório que utilizou como procedimento metodológico a revisão da literatura em livros, artigos científicos e pesquisa em campo. Com base nestas discussões, a presente pesquisa conclui que as relações socioespaciais dos povos indígenas que habitam a comunidade da Ilha tem se modificado e adquirido novos aspectos que incluem costumes e modo de vida do homem da sociedade nacional e que fica expresso a exemplo, em suas lavouras de melancia que tem caráter comercial e não mais só para sua subsistência. E dentro do projeto de construção do calendário cultural o cultivo da melancieira se tornou a atividade escolhida para se tornar o objeto de estudo dessa dissertação.