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The study of the spatial aspects of multipath in wireless communications environments is an increasingly important addition to the study of the temporal aspects in the search for ways to increase the utilization of the available wireless channel capacity. Traditionally, multipath has been viewed as an encumbrance in wireless communications, two of the major impairments being signal fading and intersymbol interference. However, recently the potential advantages of the diversity offered by multipath rich environments in multiuser communications have been recognised. Space time coding, for example, is a recent technique which relies on a rich scattering environment to create many practically uncorrelated signal transmission channels. Most often, statistical models have been used to describe the multipath environments in such applications. This approach has met with reasonable success but is limited when the statistical nature of a field is not easily determined or is not readily described by a known distribution.¶ Our primary aim in this thesis is to probe further into the nature of multipath environments in order to gain a greater understanding of their characteristics and diversity potential. We highlight the shortcomings of beamforming in a multipath multiuser access environment. We show that the ability of a beamformer to resolve two or more signals in angle directly limits its achievable capacity.¶ We test the probity of multipath as a source of spatial diversity, the limiting case of which is co-located users. We introduce the concept of separability to define the fundamental limits of a receiver to extract the signal of a desired user from interfering users’ signals and noise. We consider the separability performances of the minimum mean square error (MMSE), decorrelating (DEC) and matched filter (MF) detectors as we bring the positions of a desired and an interfering user closer together. We show that both the MMSE and DEC detectors are able to achieve acceptable levels of separability with the users as close as λ/10.¶ In seeking a better understanding of the nature of multipath fields themselves, we take two approaches. In the first we take a path oriented approach. The effects on the variation of the field power of the relative values of parameters such as amplitude and propagation direction are considered for a two path field. The results are applied to a theoretical analysis of the behaviour of linear detectors in multipath fields. This approach is insightful for fields with small numbers of multipaths, but quickly becomes mathematically complex.¶ In a more general approach, we take a field oriented view, seeking to quantify the complexity of arbitrary fields. We find that a multipath field has an intrinsic dimensionality of (πe)R/λ≈8.54R/λ, for a field in a two dimensional circular region, increasing only linearly with the radius R of the region. This result implies that there is no such thing as an arbitrarily complicated multipath field. That is, a field generated by any number of nearfield and farfield, specular and diffuse multipath reflections is no more complicated than a field generated by a limited number of plane waves. As such, there are limits on how rich multipath can be. This result has significant implications including means: i) to determine a parsimonious parameterization for arbitrary multipath fields and ii) of synthesizing arbitrary multipath fields with arbitrarily located nearfield or farfield, spatially discrete or continuous sources. The theoretical results are corroborated by examples of multipath field analysis and synthesis.

Les Composés Organiques Volatils (COV) jouent un rôle important dans la chimie de l'atmosphère et participent à la formation de polluants secondaires comme l'ozone et les aérosols organiques. Les émissions biogéniques de COV dominent d'un facteur dix les émissions anthropiques à l'échelle globale mais leur caractérisation à l'échelle régionale est incertaine. Les progrès en modélisation de la chimie atmosphérique passent par l'amélioration des inventaires d'émissions, ce qui nécessite des mesures de flux in situ. Ces travaux portent sur l'étude des émissions de COV biogéniques par les végétations méditerranéennes dans le cadre du programme ChArMEx (Chemistry and Aerosol Mediterranean Experiment) qui vise à concentrer les efforts scientifiques sur l'étude de la chimie et des aérosols de l'atmosphère du bassin méditerranéen. La méthode Eddy Covariance (EC) permet de quantifier directement les échanges d'espèces chimiques entre la surface et l'atmosphère. Cette méthode constitue une référence pour les mesures de flux mais n'est applicable qu'à un nombre limité d'espèces car elle requiert la mesure rapide (~ 0,1 s) et simultanée de la concentration du composé étudié ainsi que de la vitesse du vent vertical. Afin d'élargir le champ de mise en œuvre de cette technique d'autres solutions dérivées de l'EC ont été proposées, dont la méthode Disjunct Eddy Covariance (DEC) qui a pour particularité de réduire la contrainte sur la mesure rapide de l'espèce chimique tout en gardant une précision acceptable sur le calcul du flux. Dans le cadre de ces travaux de thèse un système de prélèvement a été développé pour mettre en œuvre la mesure de flux de COV par la méthode DEC. Ce dispositif appelé MEDEE (Mesures par Échantillonnage Disjoint des Échanges d'Espèces en trace) repose sur une technologie nouvelle qui permet une capture rapide d'un échantillon d'air et assure son transfert à pression constante vers un analyseur connecté en ligne. Il est composé de deux "seringues mécaniques" actionnées par des vérins électriques dont le fonctionnement est alterné pour alimenter en continu l'analyseur. Trois électrovannes disposées à l'entrée de chaque réservoir dirigent le flux d'air en fonction du cycle de fonctionnement. L'ensemble du système est cadencé par un microcontrôleur avec une précision à la milliseconde. Le système de prélèvement a été réalisé en matériaux inertes chimiquement pour éviter la dégradation de l'échantillon et être compatible avec les espèces en trace réactives. MEDEE a été testé et validé pour les mesures de flux au sol et en avion lors de deux campagnes de terrain. Le système MEDEE a ainsi permis, lors de deux campagnes de mesures pendant les étés 2010 et 2011 au-dessus d'une forêt de chênes pubescents, de mesurer les flux d'isoprène grâce à un couplage avec un analyseur adapté (Fast Isoprene Sensor). Un réseau de neurones artificiels (RNA) a ensuite été utilisé pour déterminer une paramétrisation des flux d'isoprène en fonction des paramètres environnementaux à partir des observations des campagnes de mesures. La modélisation des émissions d'isoprène a été validée pour les conditions environnementales rencontrées. Cette paramétrisation servira dans un modèle de chimie atmosphérique à l'étude de l'impact des émissions de COV biogéniques sur la qualité de l'air.

The purpose of this study is to analyze the predictive power of the ability estimates obtained through the two-parameter IRT model on the English Proficiency Exam administered at BaSkent University in September 2001 (BUSPE 2001). As prerequisite analyses the fit of one- and two-parameter models of IRT were investigated. The data used for this study were the test data of all students (727) who took BUSPE 2001 and the departmental English course grades of the passing students. At the first stage, whether the assumptions of IRT were met was investigated. Next, the observed and theoretical distribution of the test data was reviewed by using chi square statistics. After that, the invariance of ability estimates across different sets of items and invariance of item parameters across different groups of students were examined. At the second stage, the predictive validity of BUSPE 2001 and its subtests was analyzed by using both classical test scores and ability estimates of the better fitting IRT model. The findings revealed that the test met the assumptions of unidimensionality, local independence and nonspeededness, the assumptions of equal discrimination indices was not met. Whether the assumption of minimal guessing was met remained vague. The chi square statistics indicated that only the two parameter model fitted the test data. The ability estimates were found to be invariant across different item sets and the item parameters were found to be invariant across different groups of students. The IRT estimated predictive validity outweighed the predictive validity calculated through classical total scores both for the whole test and its subtests. The reading subtest was the best predictor of future performance in departmental English courses among all subtests.

?rea de concentra??o: Odontopediatria. / Submitted by Nivaldo Melo (nivaldo.melo@ufvjm.edu.br) on 2015-11-16T16:57:42Z No. of bitstreams: 2 ana_clara_sa_pinto.pdf: 998607 bytes, checksum: b17518e3d148cf4bd704371c7260c785 (MD5) license_rdf: 23898 bytes, checksum: e363e809996cf46ada20da1accfcd9c7 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Rodrigo Martins Cruz (rodrigo.cruz@ufvjm.edu.br) on 2015-11-16T17:02:03Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 ana_clara_sa_pinto.pdf: 998607 bytes, checksum: b17518e3d148cf4bd704371c7260c785 (MD5) license_rdf: 23898 bytes, checksum: e363e809996cf46ada20da1accfcd9c7 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-11-16T17:02:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 ana_clara_sa_pinto.pdf: 998607 bytes, checksum: b17518e3d148cf4bd704371c7260c785 (MD5) license_rdf: 23898 bytes, checksum: e363e809996cf46ada20da1accfcd9c7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Funda??o de Amparo ? Pesquisa do estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG) / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior (CAPES) / O Tratamento Restaurador Atraum?tico (ART) ? uma t?cnica minimamente invasiva na qual remove-se somente o tecido cariado necrosado, utilizando-se instrumentos manuais. O Cimento de Ion?mero de Vidro (CIV) ? o material eleito para selar as cavidades na t?cnica do ART devido ?s suas propriedades f?sicas, qu?micas e biol?gicas favor?veis. O objetivo do presente estudo foi comparar a performance cl?nica do Cimento de Ion?mero de Vidro (CIV) de alta viscosidade (Ketac Molar Easymix?3M? ESPE, Seefeld, Germany) com um CIV convencional de baixa viscosidade (Vidrion R?SS White, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil) acrescido de nanocristais de celulose (NC)- (CIVNC) em cavidades classe I de molares dec?duos usando a t?cnica do Tratamento Restaurador Atraum?tico (ART). Sessenta crian?as de 4 a 7 anos de idade, residentes na cidade de Diamantina- Minas Gerais, que apresentaram no m?nimo dois molares dec?duos com les?es de c?rie classe I em dentina foram inclu?das. Um ensaio cl?nico randomizado duplo cego foi realizado no qual os dois materiais (Ketac Molar e CIVNC) foram aleatoriamente inseridos nas cavidades, ap?s sorteios do dente a ser restaurado e do material a ser utilizado. A performance cl?nica das restaura??es foi avaliada ap?s 3 meses usando o crit?rio de Frencken. Considerou-se insucesso de uma restaura??o quando a mesma apresentava defeito marginal ?0,5 mm, desgaste gradual >0,5 mm, quando a restaura??o foi perdida ou substitu?da por outra e a extra??o do dente. A an?lise de sobrevida das restaura??es foi feita usando o teste Qui-quadrado com tend?ncia linear. Adotou-se o valor de p<0,05 como significativamente estat?stico. A taxa de sobrevida das restaura??es para o Ketac Molar foi de 96,7% e para o CIVNC 94,7%. Uma diferen?a estatisticamente significativa (p=0,034) foi observada entre os dois cimentos em rela??o ? presen?a de defeitos marginais menores que 0,5 mm encontrados em 18,3% dos dentes tratados com CIVNC e em 6,5% das restaura??es realizadas com Ketac Molar. A performance cl?nica de ambos os cimentos de ion?mero de vidro foi satisfat?ria ap?s tr?s meses. A maior diferen?a entre os dois materiais foi observada em defeitos marginais menores que 0,5 mm. / Disserta??o (Mestrado) ? Programa de P?s-Gradua??o em Odontologia, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, 2015. / ABSTRACT Atraumatic Restorative Treatment (ART) is a minimally invasive technique that involves only the removal of necrotic dentin, using manual instruments. The glass ionomer cement (GIC) is the material chosen to seal the cavities at the ART approach due to their physical, chemical and biological favorable properties. The aim of this study was to compare the clinical performance of a high viscosity glass ionomer cement (GIC) (Ketac Molar Easymix/3M? ESPE, Seefeld, Germany) with a conventional low viscosity GIC (Vidrion R?SS White River de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil) added cellulose nanocrystals (NC)- (GICCN) in class I cavities of primary molars using the Atraumatic Restorative Treatment (ART) technique. Sixty children aged 4-7 years, residents in the city of Diamantina-Minas Gerais, who had at least two primary molars with carious lesions class I in dentin were included. A randomized double-blind clinical trial was conducted and the two materials (Ketac Molar and GICCN) were randomly inserted into the cavities, after raffles of the tooth to be restored and the material to be used. The clinical performance of the restorations was evaluated after 3 months using the criteria of Frencken. It was considered failure of a restoration when it presented a marginal defect ?0.5 mm, gradual wear >0.5 mm, when the restoration was lost or replaced by another treatment and the tooth extraction. Restorations survival analysis were made using the Chi-square test with linear trend. The value of p<0.05 was adopted as statistically significant. The survival rate of restorations for Ketac Molar was 96.7% and 94.7% for the GICCN. A statistically significant difference (p=0.034) was observed between the two cements in relation to the presence of marginal defects lower than 0.5 mm found in 18.3% of the treated teeth with the modified cement (GICCN) and in 6.5% of the restorations with Ketac Molar. The clinical performance of both glass ionomer cements was satisfactory after three months. Increased difference between the two materials was observed on marginal defects lower than 0.5 mm.

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No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Viviane Pires Ribeiro - 2018.pdf: 3368479 bytes, checksum: fd3252e9742263060b64c4e3c56313fa (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-06-08 / Outro / With the merger of Celg by the Enel group, one of the largest private companies in the Brazilian electric power sector, Enel Distribuição Goias has been facing serious problems related to its indicators of continued power supply, due to the fact that Celg-D has been in recent years, among the worst positions in the national ranking of service continuity and as one of the concessionaires that most compensates its consumers, directly affecting the company's results and generating losses to its shareholders. The requirement of the purchase agreement, defined by Aneel, is that, from 2019, the worsening trends in the SAID and SAIF indicators of Enel-GO will be reversed, under penalty of being intervened by the regulator and even losing the concession. In this scenario is the following question: Does the trend in the indicators of continuity of the Celg have the characteristic of persistence to the shocks, that is, it has long memory? The objective of this study is to analyze the persistence of the series of duration (SAID) and frequency (SAIF) of interruptions of the power supply of the company's electric sets during the periods prior to its privatization, from 2014 to 2016. Specifically, it seeks to test whether the series have long memory, to verify if the presence of structural breaks in the data changes the results and to identify if there is heterogeneity in the behavior of the series in different sets. For this, the methodology used is the method proposed by Robinson (1995) to analyze the persistence of the series and the Andrews and Ploberger (1994) test, with p-value using the approximations of Hansen (1997). The results suggest that there is a difference in the order of integration, depending on the type of series, duration or frequency and the electric set involved. Since the frequency series, in general, present more persistence than those of duration. When considering the potential presence of data breaks, there is a change in the order of integration of some series and in most of the sets the order found is less than 1. Therefore, both fractional integration analysis that considers the presence of break, do not consider, they point out that there are few sets that present persistent series and the majority of those who present are those that receive the highest compensations. However, it is not only the sets that receive large monetary amounts, in the form of compensations, that have series of persistent duration and / or frequency. Therefore, the hypothesis that part of the trend in the indicators has long-term components is partially rejected, in approximately 24% of the sets that received the highest DIC indicator compensations and in 40% of the sets that received the highest FIC compensation. In this way, the present work differs from the previous literature both in the sense of analyzing the behavior of the series of continuity indicators, with a methodology considered more robust, as well as by the database, not yet explored by the academy. Finally, the analysis allows both the direction of public and business policies and can be used by the company in making ex-ante decisions on the adoption of policies to reduce its indicators. / Com a incorporação da Celg pelo grupo Enel, uma das maiores empresas privadas do setor elétrico brasileiro, a Enel Distribuição Goiás vêm enfrentando problemas relacionados aos seus indicadores de continuidade do fornecimento de energia, devido ao fato da Celg-D ter ficado, nos últimos anos, entre as piores posições no ranking nacional da continuidade do serviço e como uma das concessionárias que mais compensa os seus consumidores, afetando diretamente o resultado da empresa e gerando prejuízo aos seus acionistas. A exigência do contrato de compra, definido pela Aneel, é que a partir de 2019, sejam revertidas as tendências de piora nos indicadores de DEC e FEC, sob a pena de sofrer uma intervenção do órgão regulador e até mesmo, perder a concessão. Neste cenário cabe a seguinte pergunta: A tendência nos indicadores de continuidade da Celg tem a característica de persistência aos choques, ou seja, apresenta memória longa? Assim, o presente trabalho tem por objetivo analisar a persistência das séries de duração (DEC) e frequência (FEC) das interrupções do fornecimento de energia dos conjuntos elétricos da companhia, durante os períodos anteriores à sua desestatização, de 2014 a 2016 (ainda Celg-D). Especificamente, busca testar se as séries possuem memória longa, verificar se a presença de quebra estrutural nos dados altera os resultados e identificar se há heterogeneidade no comportamento das séries em diferentes conjuntos. Para tanto, a metodologia empregada é o método proposto por Robinson (1995) para analisar a persistência e o teste de quebra estrutural de Andrews e Ploberger (1994), com p-valor usando as aproximações de Hansen (1997). Os resultados obtidos sugerem que há diferença na ordem de integração, dependendo do tipo de série, duração ou frequência e do conjunto elétrico envolvido. Sendo que as séries de frequência, no geral, apresentam um maior grau de persistência do que as de duração. Quando considera a potencial presença de quebra nos dados, há alteração na ordem de integração de algumas séries e na maioria dos conjuntos a ordem encontrada é inferior a 1. Portanto, tanto a análise de integração fracionária que considera a presença de quebra, quanto a que não considera, apontam que são poucos os conjuntos que apresentam séries persistentes e a maioria dos que apresentam são os que recebem as maiores compensações. Porém, não é somente os conjuntos que recebem grandes valores monetários, em forma de compensações, que possuem séries de duração e/ou frequência persistentes. Logo, a hipótese de que parte da tendência nos indicadores tenha componentes de longo prazo é parcialmente não rejeitada, em aproximadamente 24% dos conjuntos que receberam as maiores compensações do indicador de DIC e em 40% dos conjuntos que receberam as maiores compensações de FIC. Desta forma, o presente trabalho se diferencia da literatura prévia tanto no sentido de analisar o comportamento das séries dos indicadores de continuidade, com uma metodologia considerada mais robusta, como também pela base de dados, ainda não explorada pela academia. Por fim, a análise permite tanto o direcionamento de políticas públicas como empresariais, podendo ser utilizada pela companhia na tomada de decisão ex-ante sobre a adoção de políticas para a redução dos seus indicadores.

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This thesis examines public discourses concerning global warming. More specifically, it works to understand how the American media talks about environmentalism within the context of the Kyoto Protocols. This study is rooted in Foucault’s notions of power and discourse and also looks to the theoretical tenets of critical rhetoric developed by McKerrow (1989) and McGee (1990) to understand how the American debate over the protocols might create problematic approaches to environmentalism. These understandings may result from troubling articulations of ideographic fragments, which operate as texts in a postmodern society. As the Kyoto Protocols are set to expire, it is important to explore what influence the discourses surrounding Kyoto may have had. As the effects of humanity upon the environment become clearer, this study questions discourses that not only justify our impact, but may allow us to ignore it altogether. This thesis also contributes to the study of Environmental Communication. Consequently, this thesis examines discourses present in three popular American news magazines to observe how environmentalism is articulated in debates over the Kyoto Protocols and climate change. / Literature review -- The critical orientation -- Kyoto as an ideograph -- Rethinking Kyoto and environmentalism / Department of Communication Studies