Orientador: Carlos Alberto dos Reis Filho / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Eletrica e de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-05T17:36:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Salustiano_RogerioEsteves_M.pdf: 3698724 bytes, checksum: a5c6d59ec19db38f5a0324243ddb1eb5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: Este trabalho propõe um sistema computacional no qual são aplicadas técnicas de Fusão de Sensores no monitoramento de ambientes. O sistema proposto permite a utilização e incorporação de diversos tipos de dados, incluindo imagens, sons e números em diferentes bases. Dentre os diversos algoritmos pertinentes a um sistema como este, foram implementados os de Sensores em Consenso que visam a combinação de dados de uma mesma natureza. O sistema proposto é suficientemente flexível, permitindo a inclusão de novos tipos de dados e os correspondentes algoritmos que os processem. Todo o processo de recebimento dos dados produzidos pelos sensores, configuração e visualização dos resultados é realizado através da Internet / Abstract: This work proposes a computer system in which Sensor Fusion techniques are applied to monitoring the environment. The proposed system allows the use and incorporation of different data types, including images, sounds and numbers in different bases. Among the existing algorithms that pertain to a system like this, those, which aim to combine data of the same nature, called Consensus Sensors, have been particularly implemented. The proposed system is flexible enough and allows the inclusion of new data types and their corresponding algorithms. The whole process of receiving the data produced by the sensors, configuration of produced results as well as their visualization is performed through the Internet / Mestrado / Eletrônica, Microeletrônica e Optoeletrônica / Mestre em Engenharia Elétrica

Orientador: Carolina Maria Rodriguez Zuccolillo / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-13T05:38:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Campos_ThiagoManchinide_M.pdf: 786161 bytes, checksum: 9d189f5dd27c5c93bb7a5f293eea5696 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: Esta dissertação tem como objetivo analisar os sentidos das noções de liberdade e cidadania no discurso político educacional brasileiro, de forma a verificar o sentido destas no processo de construção e funcionamento do consenso. Sendo estas noções provenientes da Grécia Antiga, acreditamos que contribuiria para a pesquisa acompanhar o seu percurso histórico, passando pela Idade Média, Revolução Francesa e Revolução Industrial, desembocando no Brasil do século XX. Tendo em vista explicitar o histórico na constituição de sentidos, o corpus foi constituído por recortes das Leis de Diretrizes e Bases de 1961, 1971 e 1996; das Constituições de 1946, 1967 (e a respectiva Emenda Constitucional de 1969) e 1988; e dos PCNs de Língua Portuguesa do Ensino Fundamental e as Bases Legais dos PCNs do Ensino Médio. Lançando mão a algumas ferramentas propostas pela Análise de Discurso, decidimos focar nos capítulos e artigos que dizem respeito à temática do projeto, de forma a fazer uma análise caracterizada pela verticalidade. Concluímos que os sentidos de liberdade e cidadania são apresentados nos respectivos documentos como a priori, nunca sendo discutidos. A análise mostrou que, no que diz respeito à cidadania, os documentos são contraditórios, sendo esta apresentada como um direito constitucional, mas também como algo a ser "conquistado" via instrução, sendo que o domínio da "Língua Nacional" tem um papel importante. Neste sentido, a escola, metáfora da cidade urbanizada, espaço de visibilidade, de produção de saberes sobre o indivíduo, é o espaço onde o aluno pode "vir a ser cidadão". Operando dentro de uma lógica consensual de apagamento das diferenças, a escola disciplina o indivíduo, tratando todos como iguais. Desta forma, a análise mostrou que cidadão é o indivíduo escolarizado, sendo liberdade e cidadania práticas ideológicas às quais este tem que se submeter, ocasionando a produção de uma divisão entre o cidadão e o não-cidadão brasileiro / Abstract: The objective of this dissertation is to analyze the meanings of the notions of freedom and citizenship in the Brazilian political educational discourse, allowing to verify the meaning of these in the process of construction and functioning of the consensus. The fact that these notions proceed from ancient Greece, we believed that it would contribute to this research to follow their historical course, passing by the Middle Ages, the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution and ending in Brazil on the 20th century. With the objective of expliciting the role of the historical in the constitution of meanings, the corpus was constituted by clippings of the "Leis de Diretrizes e Bases" of 1961, 1971 and 1996; the Federal Constitutions of 1946, 1967 (and the respective Constitutional Amendment of 1969) and 1988; the PCNs of Portuguese Language of Basic School and the Legal Bases of the PCNs of High School. Using some tools proposed by the Discourse Analysis, we decide to focus on the chapters and articles that are connected to the thematic of the project, vertically characterizing the analysis. We concluded that the meanings of freedom and citizenship are presented "a priori" in the respective documents, never being discussed. The analysis showed that the documents are contradictory in what says respect to the citizenship. It is presented as a constitutional right, but also as something "to be conquered" by way of instruction. In this process, the domain of the "National Language" has an important role. The school, metaphor of the urbanized city, space of visibility, production of knowledge about the individual, is the space where the student can "come to be a citizen". Operating inside a consensual logic of deletion of the differences, the school disciplines the individual, treating all as equal. In such a way, the analysis showed that the citizen is the schoolarized individual, being freedom and citizenship ideological practices, to which the individual has to submit itself, causing to the production of a division between the citizen and the Brazilian non-citizen / Mestrado / Linguistica / Mestre em Linguística

A influência da cultura na adaptação individual tem sido uma questão de considerável importância na psicologia, antropologia e em outras ciências sociais; no entanto, dificuldades teóricas e metodológicas têm limitado a possibilidade de investigar diretamente esses processos. A investigação de modelos da vida familiar faz-se importante devido ao papel estrutural da família na sociedade brasileira e sua relação com a saúde mental e desenvolvimento dos indivíduos. Na antropologia cognitiva, modelos culturais servem como uma função diretiva para o comportamento, construindo processos de significação para os indivíduos. O conceito de consenso cultural refere-se ao modo em que os modelos culturais são compartilhados e valorados pelos indivíduos. Enquanto que o conceito de consonância cultural foi proposto para descrever o grau com que o indivíduo, em seu próprio comportamento ou percepção, se aproxima do modelo cultural compartilhado. O presente estudo propôs-se a identificar a presença de modelos culturais na vida familiar, a existência de um consenso cultural acerca desses modelos e analisar a consonância cultural da população urbana estudada em Ribeirão Preto. Este trabalho integrou o Projeto “Cultura e Adaptação Individual” (CADI) e analisou parte dos dados relacionados à vida familiar. Participaram desta pesquisa 295 habitantes de Ribeirão Preto, com idades entre 18 a 67 anos. No método foram empregados técnicas cognitivas (lista livre, agrupamento livre e entrevista de consenso cultural), grupo focal e a Escala de Consonância Cultural da Vida Familiar desenvolvida pela equipe do projeto CADI. Os dados foram analisados utilizando modelos estatísticos apropriados e a análise temática de conteúdo. Nos resultados verificou-se que há um único modelo de vida familiar sendo compartilhado, há um bom compartilhamento desse modelo e uma valorização de elementos afetivos em detrimento de uma dimensão relacionada à estrutura familiar. O modelo cultural da vida familiar foi composto por elementos positivos e negativos aos vínculos familiares. Os elementos positivos puderam ser relacionados à estrutura familiar e ao funcionamento afetivo e qualidade das relações familiares. Os elementos negativos puderam ser distribuídos em um “continuum de poder prejudicial aos vínculos familiares e aos indivíduos”. Sendo que “vício”, “violência” e “irresponsabilidade” foram os elementos relacionados como potencialmente mais destrutivos aos vínculos familiares e às funções protetivas que a família poderia desempenhar. A configuração familiar vem sendo afetada por transformações sociais, relacionadas principalmente à evolução tecnológica, ao desejo por um novo estilo estilo de vida e a entrada da mulher no mercado de trabalho. A consonância cultural da vida familiar não apresentou diferenças significativas entre os quatro bairros estudados o que demonstra que os sujeitos se percebem vivendo a vida familiar independentemente das diferenças sócio-econômicas. O método empregado mostrouse adequado para a investigação dos objetivos do projeto. Espera-se que este trabalho possa contribuir para um melhor entendimento da família no Brasil e assim auxiliar na adequação e efinição de políticas públicas em nossa sociedade. / The influence of culture on individual adaptation has been a question of considerable importance in Psycology, in Anthropology and other social sciences; however, theoretical and methodological difficulties have limited the ability of researchers to directly investigate these processes. The investigation of familiar life models is important due to the structural role of a family in the Brazilian society and its relation with mental health and the development of individuals. In cognitive Anthropology, cultural models construct meaning for individuals and serve as a directive function for individual behavior. The term cultural consensus has been defined as the way cultural models are shared and rated by individuals. Whereas the concept of cultural consonance has been proposed to describe the degree to which an individual, in their own behavior or belief, approximate shared cultural model in some domain. The present work has been proposed to identify the presence of cultural models in familiar life, the existence of a cultural consensus related to these models and analyze the cultural consonance of the urban population studied in Ribeirão Preto. This work integrated the project “Culture and Individual Adaptation” (CADI- in Portuguese) and analyzed part of the data related to familiar life. Two hundred and ninety-five inhabitants from Ribeirão Preto, between 18 and 67 years old, participated in this research. In the methodology, cognitive techniques were used (free list, pile sort and cultural consensus interview), focal group and the Cultural Consonance Scale of Familiar Life developed by the team of the CADI project. The data was analized using appropriate statistical models and the thematic analysis of contents. In the results, it was observed that there is a single model of familiar life being shared, there is a good division of this model and a valorization of affective elements instead of a dimension related to familiar structure. The cultural model of the familiar life was composed by positive and negative elements in terms of family bonds. The positive elements could be related to familiar structure and the affective functioning and the quality of family relations. The negative elements could be divided into a “continuum of power which is harmful to family bonds and individuals”, while “addiction”, “violence” and “irresponsibility” were the elements reported as potentially more harmful to family bonds and the protective functions that a family could perform. The familiar configuration has been affected by social changes, due mainly to technological evolution, the desire of a new life style and the growing role of women in the working market. The cultural consonance of familiar life has not shown significant differences among the four neighborhoods studied, a fact that shows that individuals are aware of familiar life no matter the social and economical differences. The methodology applied has proved to be appropriate for the investigation of the goals of the project. This work is expected to contribute to a better understanding of families in Brazil and then, help to fit and define the public politics in our society.

O processo de gestão de organizações de saúde necessita de ferramentas de monitoramento para auxiliar a tomada de decisão, contribuindo para a melhor qualidade dos serviços prestados. Objetivo: Explorar as formas de construção de um conjunto de indicadores de modo a possibilitar o estabelecimento de uma medida que permita o monitoramento de um centro cirúrgico. Procura-se, desse modo, elaborar um modelo que utilize uma abordagem baseada em consenso para a definição dos indicadores e para o levantamento dos pesos de ponderação. Metodologia: Considerando o objetivo proposto, foi realizada uma pesquisa de campo e exploratória, utilizando levantamento de dados primários e secundários. Foi utilizada a ferramenta de análise hierárquica de processos (AHP), proposta por Thomas L. Saaty (1991) com foco na definição dos pesos de importância relativa dos indicadores; para o cálculo do consenso, foi utilizada a medida proposta por Wierman e Tastle (2005). Resultados: Após a revisão da literatura e do processo de entrevistas com os especialistas foram propostos 37 indicadores para a composição do painel de monitoramento da unidade de centro cirúrgico. Constatou que a opinião dos especialistas sobre o peso de importância dos indicadores é muito equilibrada e harmoniosa. No cálculo do peso de importância dos indicadores propostos verificou-se que 15 indicadores são responsáveis por 73% do resultado final do painel. No que se refere ao consenso sobre as notas dos indicadores, observou-se uma redução do entendimento dos especialistas. Conclusões: o resultado final da análise das dimensões de estrutura, processo e resultado, a unidade de centro cirúrgico foi considerada satisfatória em uma escada de insatisfatório à excelente. Para que o painel proposto possa ser utilizado de forma dinâmica no processo de gestão sugere-se a redução do mesmo para os 15 indicadores com maior peso de importância. Através da análise dos dados e das medidas de consenso apuradas, verificou-se a necessidade de entendimento sobre as estratégias e metas da organização. A construção de um painel ponderado pelo consenso dos especialistas adiciona a ferramenta de monitoramento a possibilidade de verificar o alinhamento dos indicadores com as metas do planejamento estratégico da organização. / The health organizations management process requires monitoring tools to boost decisionmaking, contributing to a better quality of services. Objective: To explore ways to construct a set of indicators also allowing the establishment of a measure that permits monitoring of a surgical center. Thus, seeking to develop a model using an approach based on consensus on the definition of indicators and for acquiring weights ponderation. Methodology: Considering the proposed objective, a field research and exploration were conducted using survey of primary and secondary data. We used hierarchical analysis tool for process (AHP), proposed by Thomas L. Saaty (1991) focused on defining the relative importance of weights indicators; to calculate the consensus, we used the measure proposed by Wierman and tastle (2005). Results: After reviewing the literature and interviewing process with the experts were proposed 37 indicators for monitoring the composition of the panel of the surgical center unit. It found that the opinions of experts on the weight of importance of indicators is very balanced and harmonious. In calculating the weight of importance of the proposed indicators we found that 15 indicators are responsible for 73% of the final result of the panel. As regards the consensus on the scores of indicators, there was a reduction in the understanding of experts. Conclusions: The final result of the analysis of the structure dimensions, process and result, the surgical center unit was considered satisfactory in an excellent to unsatisfactory ladder. For the proposed panel it can be dynamically used in the management process suggested to reduce even to 15 indicators with greater weight of importance. By analyzing the calculated consensus measures, there is a need for understanding the strategies and goals of the organization. The construction of a panel weighted by consensus of the experts adds monitoring tool the possibility to check the alignment of indicators with the organization\'s strategic planning goals.

Orientador: Pedro L. Goergen / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-04T03:15:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gomes_LuizRoberto_D.pdf: 543289 bytes, checksum: bc7cdc0cf571d21dff7bcd1f3e6afb8c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / Resumo: No formato de uma pesquisa teórico-conceitual, sob o título ¿O consenso na Teoria do Agir Comunicativo de Habermas e suas implicações para a Educação¿, a presente tese busca elucidar, por intermédio da explicitação do conceito de consenso, alguns dos mais relevantes aspectos da teoria habermasiana para a educação contemporânea. Trata-se de uma investigação que resgata as premissas teóricas de Habermas, como base conceitual e como identificação das possíveis contribuições da sua teoria para a fundamentação de um projeto educativo crítico-emancipatório baseado no reconhecimento intersubjetivo das pretensões de validade do agir comunicativo. Para efeito de demonstração da tese, o autor fundamenta os seus argumentos no conceito de consenso que lhe permite analisar os impactos da crise da contemporaneidade à luz do debate que se estabelece entre modernidade e pós-modernidade. Com o referencial do potencial crítico e reflexivo da modernidade, continuado por Habermas na Teoria do Agir Comunicativo, o estudo salienta a relevância do consenso como um critério fundamental para o desenvolvimento de uma ação educativa emancipatória / Abstract: In the format of a theoretical-conceptual research, under the title "The consensus in the Theory of the Act of Habermas and its implications for the Education", the present thesis tries to elucidate, through explicit of the consensus concept, some of the more important habermasian theory aspects for the contemporary education. It is an investigation that rescues Habermas' theoretical premises, like conceptual base and as possible contributions identification of his theory for the development of an educational project critic-emancipatory based on recognition inter-subjective of the validity pretenses of the communicative act. For thesis demonstration effect, the author bases his arguments in the consensus concept that allows you to analyze the contemporaneousness crisis impacts to the debate light that is established between modernity and post-modernity. With referential of the modernity potential critic and reflexive, continued by Habermas in the Communicative Acting Theory, the study points out the consensus relevance as a fundamental criterion for the development of an educational emancipating action / Doutorado / Historia, Filosofia e Educação / Doutor em Educação

Aims: Exercise and physical activity have been found to be beneficial in managing disabilities caused by multiple sclerosis (MS). Despite the known benefits, people with MS (pwMS) are inactive. Research has focused on structured exercise programmes, rarely considering a broader range of activities, which pwMS integrate into everyday life. The aims of this study were to gain in-depth understanding of the priorities and meanings of exercise and physical activity from the perspective of pwMS and to explore how these might inform clinical practice. Methods: a mixed methods approach using three interconnected studies was adopted: Study 1: A four-round Delphi questionnaire scoped and determined consensus of priorities for exercise and physical activity and the reasons why pwMS (n=101) engaged in these activities. Content and statistical analyses were utilised. Study 2: Sixteen face-to-face, semi-structured interviews were conducted with pwMS to explore the meanings ascribed to exercise and physical activity in relation to the Delphi study. Study 3: Three focus groups involving 14 physiotherapists explored perceptions about exercise and physical activity. Data were analysed for studies 2 and 3 using Framework Analysis and themes developed. Results: outcome from each phase 1. Study 1 revealed that the prioritised exercise and physical activity practices and the reasons why pwMS (n=70) undertook these activities were diverse. Consensus was found for the exercise and physical activity practices (W=0.744, p < 0.0001) and the reasons why pwMS engaged in these activities (W=0.723, p < 0.0001). 2. Study 2 demonstrated that the meanings pwMS ascribed to exercise and physical activity was beyond ‘movement’ reflecting how they lived with a variable and progressive condition. Contextual factors, specifically personal factors were dominant influences. 3. Study 3 highlighted that physiotherapists shared similar views in some aspects to pwMS, however physiotherapists perceptions of exercise and physical activity were predominately influenced by their theoretical knowledge. Conclusion: The priorities and meanings ascribed to exercise and physical activity were ‘a matter of perspective’ and context driven. Understanding the strategies used by pwMS for prioritisation might help clinicians support pwMS more effectively in their decision making about exercise and physical activity. Taking this approach creates the opportunity to deliver a more focused patient-centred approach in the management of MS. Recommendations for clinical practice and further research were identified.

Purpose: to describe the knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes of physicians and hospital administrators regarding the role and scope of practice of acute care nurse practitioners in rural Montana. Background: Nurse practitioners have been increasingly called upon to provide high quality and cost-effective healthcare in variety of settings and have consistently shown to provide a high-level of patient care in both the primary and acute care settings. The acute care nurse practitioner specialty is relatively new, and with very few licensed acute care nurse practitioners in the state of Montana, the role and scope of practice is not well understood by physicians and hospital administrators who are often tasked with hiring and recruiting providers in the hospital setting. The Consensus Model, which served as the conceptual framework for this project, advocates that nurses provide care for the population that is specific to their licensure, accreditation, certification, and education. Method: Some 28 physicians and hospital administrators completed a survey that included 21 Likert scale statements that were divided into the subscales of Knowledge, Belief, and Attitude. Results included: 1) An existing gap in knowledge regarding the role and scope of practice of acute care nurse practitioners, 2) acute care nurse practitioners should always have some form of physician oversite, and 3) there is disparity in patient outcomes when patient care is provided by nurse practitioners. Conclusion: Attitudes of survey respondents were overwhelmingly positive for the future of acute care nurse practitioners filling various provider roles in the hospital setting. These results can provide a foundation for future inquiry and can assist in the development of education and collaborative efforts to further advance the utilization of acute care nurse practitioners in Montana.

La thèse est intitulée :« Justice politique et démocratie chez John Rawls. Repères pour une rationalité politique africaine contemporaine ». Notre objectif est d’utiliser les contenus essentiels de la conception politique de la justice de John Rawls pour proposer une voie qui serait la meilleure en vue de venir à bout des crises et de l’instabilité politique en Afrique noire en général et en République Démocratique du Congo en particulier. Dans l'introduction, nous avons réaménagé la problématique en allant dans le sens de plus de précision sans trop nous écarter de la question principale. Nous avons précisé l’hypothèse et l’objet de la thèse. Nous avons ainsi nettoyé l’introduction en écartant tous les aspects qui pouvaient poser problème.Pour ce qui concerne le corps du texte, nous avons commencé par une brève présentation du principal auteur de référence. Nous avons ainsi présenté brièvement J. Rawls, ses principaux ouvrages ainsi que les principaux précurseurs de sa pensée. Ensuite, nous avons analysé la conception de la justice politique de l’auteur avec une attention particulière en faveur de son volet domestique. Nous avons montré que cette conception de la justice politique a été élaborée comme une réaction aux défis de la crise de la justice politique dans les démocraties occidentales. Elle y a soulevé néanmoins certains enthousiasmes et certaines inquiétudes. Mais malgré cela, ses contenus essentiels pourraient être utilisés pour élaborer des réaménagements des processus politiques face aux déficits de la justice politique en Afrique. A cet effet, nous avons décrit la manière dont se présente la crise de la justice politique en Afrique et nous l’avons illustré par un cas concret de la crise de la justice politique en rd Congo. Nous avons analysé quelques élaborations théoriques de quelques philosophes africains en réaction à cette crise. Et nous avons montré que pour venir à bout de l’instabilité politique due à la crise de la justice politique en Afrique, il faut construire chaque Etat africain suivant le modèle d’un système équitable de coopération. Mais pour ce faire, il faut inverser le sens de la pyramide et prendre comme socle d'émergence de la justice politique le village, c’est-à-dire les institutions de la justice politique à la base :construire chaque village africain, en général, et chaque village rd congolais, en particulier, comme un système équitable de coopération ouvert à la liberté, à l’égalité de chances et à l’amélioration des conditions existentielles des citoyens les plus défavorisés. On harmonisera ainsi le système démocratique du sommet (les institutions nationales) à la base (les institutions villageoises). / Doctorat en Philosophie / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

Graph signal processing analyzes signals supported on the nodes of a network with respect to a shift operator matrix that conforms to the graph structure. For shift-invariant graph filters, which are polynomial functions of the shift matrix, the filter response is defined by the value of the filter polynomial at the shift matrix eigenvalues. Thus, information regarding the spectral decomposition of the shift matrix plays an important role in filter design. However, under stochastic conditions leading to uncertain network structure, the eigenvalues of the shift matrix become random, complicating the filter design task. In such case, empirical distribution functions built from the random matrix eigenvalues may exhibit deterministic limiting behavior that can be exploited for problems on large-scale random networks. Acceleration filters for distributed average consensus dynamics on random networks provide the application covered in this thesis work. The thesis discusses methods from random matrix theory appropriate for analyzing adjacency matrix spectral asymptotics for both directed and undirected random networks, introducing relevant theorems. Network distribution properties that allow computational simplification of these methods are developed, and the methods are applied to important classes of random network distributions. Subsequently, the thesis presents the main contributions, which consist of optimization problems for consensus acceleration filters based on the obtained asymptotic spectral density information. The presented methods cover several cases for the random network distribution, including both undirected and directed networks as well as both constant and switching random networks. These methods also cover two related optimization objectives, asymptotic convergence rate and graph total variation.

Background: Considering high merger failure in the process of strategy implementation, there is a need to elaborate on strategic consensus building during this major organizational change. Purpose: To gain understanding about the strategic consensus building process in a merged organization from a teleological perspective. The premerger influence and the intervening circumstances are expected to affect the process of consensus building. Methodology: A single case study approach was taken by interviewing twelve senior managers from two hierarchical levels as well as five managers from the corporate strategy department of a merged organization to gain a comprehensive understanding of the research topic. Findings: The empirical findings indicated that consensus on strategic priorities is essential for further development of a merged organization. In addition, this study has identified three strategic consensus building facilitators vertical communication, transparency, and agility.