A partir de uma de uma atividade denominada “Dinâmica das Cartas”, o autor convidou seus estudantes do Ensino Médio a escreverem cartas para si mesmos a serem recebidas cinco anos depois. Após esse período, conforme o combinado, tais cartas foram remetidas de volta aos seus autores pelo correio e houve um reencontro com todos os participantes. Trinta e oito voluntários aceitaram o convite do autor e continuaram um processo de aprofundamento de reflexões sobre a Dinâmica das Cartas por meio de e-mails, cartas e encontros presenciais. O produto desse processo foi analisado pelo autor a partir da obra de Henri Bergson, de maneira especial, por meio dos conceitos de intuição, memória, duração e experiência integral. Constatou-se que, sustentada pela amizade, as experiências escolares podem envolver a inteligência e a intuição, mediante um misto de processos da mente e da memória, que podem se entrelaçar em experiências integrais. Por fim, ao verificarmos que a intuição é o fio metodológico capaz de, em complemento à inteligência, transformar as vivências educativas em experiências integrais, apontamos a necessidade de se organizar pressupostos mais consistentes para uma Pedagogia da Intuição. / From an activity called a "Dynamics of Letters", the author invited his high school students to write letters to themselves to be received five years later. After this period, as agreed, such letters were sent back to their authors by mail and there was a meeting with all participants. Thirty-eight volunteers accepted the invitation of the author and continued a process of deepening reflection on the dynamics of letters through e-mails, letters and meetings. The product of this process was analyzed by the author based on work of Henri Bergson, especially, through the concepts of intuition, memory, duration and integral experience. Thus, we conclude that through friendship, the dynamics of the Letters was formed as an integral experience. We see through this dynamic that the school experiences may involve intelligence and intuition, through a combination of processes of the mind and memory, which can be interwoven through the integral experiences. Finally, to verify that intuition is the thread methodological able to, in addition to intelligence, transform the educational experiences in integral experiences, highlighting the need to organize more consistent fundamentals for a Pedagogy of Intuition.

Objective: To evaluate the association between shift work and blood pressure, pre-hypertension and hypertension in nursing personnel of a large general hospital. Methods: In a cross-sectional survey, 493 nurses, nurse technicians and assistants, were selected at random in a large general hospital. Hypertension was diagnosed by the mean of four automatic blood pressure readings>= 140/90 mmHg or use of blood pressure lowering agents, and pre-hypertension by systolic blood pressure>= 120-139 or diastolic blood pressure>= 80-89 mmHg. Risk factors for hypertension were evaluated by a standardized questionnaire and anthropometric measurements. The association between turns of work, defined as day or night, and by the combination of turns, and blood pressure, pre-hypertension and hypertension was explored in bivariate and multivariate analyses, controlling for risk factors for hypertension by covariance analysis and modified regression Poisson. Results: The mean age of the participants was 34.3 ± 9.4 years and 88.2% were women. Night shift workers were older, more frequently married or divorced, and less educated. The prevalence of hypertension in the whole sample was 16%, and 28% had pre-hypertension. Blood pressure (after adjustment for confounding) was not different in day and night shift workers. The prevalence of hypertension and pre-hypertension by shift work (day/night and combination of turns) was not different in the bivariate analysis and after adjustment for confounding (all risk ratios = 1.0). Conclusion: Night shift work is not associated with blood pressure, hypertension and pre-hypertension in nurses and nurses assistants working in a large general hospital.

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(English) The dissertation explores the vowel system of Czech L3 Spanish, focusing on three facets of its architecture: vowel quality (following SLM by Flege 1995, 1999, 2003), vowel quantity and vocalic sequences between words. Preliminary studies (Čechová 2013, 2014) suggest that there might be some evidence for the Mechanism of Equivalence in Czech L3 Spanish, since the vowel spaces of both languages consist of the same categories, with different phonetic realizations. Hence, the more similar the sounds are, the harder it is to capture the relevant difference, necessary to attain native-like pronunciation. Vowel quantity, being traditionally associated with the phonological feature of length in Czech (Palková 1994), is not present in Spanish, and compensating for that property, some Czech speakers tend to pronounce accented syllables with extraordinarily longer durations. Finally, vowel sequences in Spanish are usually subjetct to resyllabification, whereas Czech prefers glottalization to keep morphemes of words separated. These predictions were tested in 22 university Czech students with advanced level of Spanish (C1-C1). Subsequent analysis revealed consistent inclination towards L1 in terms of vowel quality, in less extent in vowel quantity, and although the prevalecent strategy for majority...

O presente trabalho investiga as transformações nas formas de prestação de trabalho e nos tempos de trabalho em razão do rearranjo das relações laborais e das novas tecnologias de comunicação e informação. O objetivo dessa dissertação é compreender se a reordenação do modelo de trabalho clássico e a proliferação das novas tecnologias de comunicação e informação compatibilizam-se com o regime de sobreaviso e se este serve como resposta aos novos problemas decorrentes da conexão e disponibilidade dos trabalhadores. Na primeira parte do trabalho é feita uma análise das formas de organização do trabalho que motivaram o desenvolvimento das normas de Direito do Trabalho que regulam o controle da jornada e do contexto fático que contribuiu para o surgimento das regras limitadoras da duração do trabalho. No segundo capítulo, analisa-se as transformações determinadas principalmente pelo modelo pós-industrial, marcado por um grande avanço das tecnologias da informação, que reformulou as características da duração do trabalho para o qual foi concebido o Direito do Trabalho tradicional. No terceiro capítulo aborda-se justamente os reflexos das transformações do mundo do trabalho especificamente sobre o modelo do sobreaviso, para verificar a compatibilidade das normas já existentes com os novos meios de prestação de trabalho. A abordagem do trabalho é marcada pelos métodos indutivo e dialético, e a técnica de pesquisa adotada é a documentação indireta, a partir de pesquisa documental e de pesquisa bibliográfica. Ao final, como resultado do estudo, compreende-se que o regime de sobreaviso não se revela adequado como única resposta aos problemas decorrentes das transformações dos modos de prestação de trabalho e dos tempos de trabalho, razão pela qual se faz necessário buscar alternativas para assegurar outras respostas a essas situações laborais. / This work investigates the transformations in work patterns and working times due to the rearrangement of labor relations and the new technologies of communication and information. The purpose of this dissertation is to understand whether the reorganization of the classic work model and the proliferation of new communication and information technologies are compatible with the 'oncall/ standby time" and whether it serves as an answer to the new problems arising from the connection and availability of workers. The first part of this paper analyzes the forms of labor organization that motivated the development of Labor Law rules that regulate the control of time and the context that contributed to the emergence of the regulations limiting the duration of work. In the second chapter, it is analyzed the transformations determined mainly by the post-industrial model, marked by a significant advance in information technology, which reformulated the characteristics of the duration of work for which the traditional Labor Law was conceived. In the third chapter, the consequences of the transformations of the labor world are explicitly approached on the model of "on call time/standby time," to check if the existing rules are compatible with the rearrangement of labor. This work approach is marked by the inductive and dialectical methods, and the research technique adopted is the indirect documentation, based on documentary research and bibliographic research. In the end, as a result of the study, it is understood that the "on call time/standby time" is not appropriate as the only answer to the problems arising from the changes of work and working hours, which is why it is necessary to seek alternatives to ensure other responses to these situations.

A ferrovia, fenômeno econômico e social de grande relevância no contexto da industrialização e urbanização da região sul do Brasil, é interpretada aqui pela narrativa etnográfica. A pesquisa, que tem por horizonte temático a duração e a memória coletiva da ferrovia sul-brasileira, apresenta narradores aposentados, colecionadores e militantes do patrimônio cultural. Assim, este estudo insere-se em uma perspectiva da Antropologia Visual e Antropologia Urbana e da Memória. A dissertação também agrega reflexões sobre o papel do antropólogo e a da restituição no âmbito de pesquisas relacionadas ao campo do patrimônio cultural. Desta forma traz contribuições para as discussões temáticas sobre a patrimonialização da memória ferroviária no Brasil. Neste estudo reconhecemos os ferroviários aposentados como narradores e etnocolecionadores, habitantes e protagonistas que significam e estetizam o patrimônio cultural ferroviário através das suas identidades mobilizadas na forma discursiva. / The railroad, an economic and social phenomenon of great relevance in the context of the southern region of Brazil, is interpreted here by the ethnographic narrative. The research, whose thematic horizon is the duration and the collective memory of the South Brazilian railroad, presents retired narrators, collectors and militants of cultural heritage. Thus, this study is inserted in a perspective of Visual Anthropology and Urban Anthropology and Memory. The dissertation also includes reflections on the role of anthropologist and restitution in the field of research related to the field of cultural heritage. In this way it contributes to the thematic discussions on the patrimonialization of the railway memory in Brazil. In this study we recognize the retired railwaymen as narrators and ethnocontainers, inhabitants and protagonists who signify and aesthetize the railway cultural heritage through their identities mobilized in the discursive form.

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Objective: To evaluate the association between shift work and blood pressure, pre-hypertension and hypertension in nursing personnel of a large general hospital. Methods: In a cross-sectional survey, 493 nurses, nurse technicians and assistants, were selected at random in a large general hospital. Hypertension was diagnosed by the mean of four automatic blood pressure readings>= 140/90 mmHg or use of blood pressure lowering agents, and pre-hypertension by systolic blood pressure>= 120-139 or diastolic blood pressure>= 80-89 mmHg. Risk factors for hypertension were evaluated by a standardized questionnaire and anthropometric measurements. The association between turns of work, defined as day or night, and by the combination of turns, and blood pressure, pre-hypertension and hypertension was explored in bivariate and multivariate analyses, controlling for risk factors for hypertension by covariance analysis and modified regression Poisson. Results: The mean age of the participants was 34.3 ± 9.4 years and 88.2% were women. Night shift workers were older, more frequently married or divorced, and less educated. The prevalence of hypertension in the whole sample was 16%, and 28% had pre-hypertension. Blood pressure (after adjustment for confounding) was not different in day and night shift workers. The prevalence of hypertension and pre-hypertension by shift work (day/night and combination of turns) was not different in the bivariate analysis and after adjustment for confounding (all risk ratios = 1.0). Conclusion: Night shift work is not associated with blood pressure, hypertension and pre-hypertension in nurses and nurses assistants working in a large general hospital.

Esta dissertação procura estabelecer uma confrontação teórica entre a filosofia da duração de Henri Bergson e o projeto composicional de Claude Debussy, no que diz respeito às estratégias de renovação da noção tradicional de tempo, estratégias que, embora aplicadas a setores distintos, fazem reverberar analogamente o mesmo espírito de época. Evidentemente, não desejamos propor homologias entre conceitos da filosofia e soluções técnicas musicais. Observamos todavia que tanto o projeto filosófico de Bergson quanto o projeto musical de Debussy compartilham o solo de uma crise geral de expressividade na passagem do século 19 para o 20, diante do esgotamento das possibilidades formais tanto do gênero conceitual no interior da filosofia quanto da tonalidade no interior da linguagem musical. Nos dois primeiros capítulos, analisamos a constituição do bergsonismo como o método que, contendo duas etapas indissociáveis (crítica da metafísica ocidental e proposição da intuição como modalidade de conhecimento), fornece um novo conceito positivo de tempo; apontamos em seguida os critérios para uma eventual estética bergsoniana. Nos capítulos seguintes, descrevemos a formalização da temporalidade musical na obra de Debussy, à luz do bergsonismo, verificando de que maneira seus procedimentos composicionais rompem com as proto-narrativas do tempo musical sedimentadas pela tonalidade. A escolha do quadro bergsoniano também decorre da oposição, sugerida por Theodor Adorno em Filosofia da Nova Música, entre a temporalidade das obras de Debussy e aquela das obras de Stravinsky. Apesar das técnicas de espacialização dos planos e da construção de modelos temáticos atomizados, Debussy conseguiria preservar a sensação orgânica de uma temporalidade subjetivamente perceptível, que Adorno chama de bergsonismo musical, ao passo que Stravinsky realizaria a dissolução métrica do tempo musical, mediante justaposições e montagens rítmicas que abandonam a ideia de transição (ou seja, lançando o tempo-espaço contra o tempo-duração). / This dissertation aims to establish a theoretical confrontation between Henri Bergsons philosophy and Claude Debussys composition techniques, namely concerning the strategies for a renewed conception of time; although these strategies belong to different cultural domains, they do seem to reverberate the same Zeitgeist in terms of expression. Our intention here is not to offer strict homologies between philosophical concepts and musical techniques. Nevertheless, we observe that both Bergsons philosophy and Debussys project share the cultural grounds of a general crisis of expression by the end of the 19th century, after the impoverishment of expression inward the traditional conceptual operations of philosophy and inward the common practice rules of tonal music. In the first and second chapters, we analyze the constitution of bergsonism as a philosophical method that, merging two different steps (critique of traditional metaphysics and proposition of a new modality of knowledge), is able to offer a new positive conception of time ; afterwards, we point out the possible criteria for an musical aesthetics based on bergsonism. In the remaining chapters, we try to describe, from a bergsonian perspective, the temporality formalization in Debussys oeuvres, emphasizing the procedures by which the proto-narratives of common practice musical time are rejected. Our choice for the bergsonian conceptual frame is also based on the opposition, suggested by Theodor Adorno in Philosophy of New Music, between Debussys music temporality formalization and Stravinskys one. Despite his spatialization techniques and his atomized thematic models, Debussy would preserve the organic sense of a recognizable subjective time, a musical sense that Adorno calls musical bergsonism; on the other hand, Stravinskys music would try to dissolve the subjective perception of time, by juxtaposing different thematic and rhythmic materials without proper preparation according to common practice rules and thus neglecting the transition of traditional musical time itself (Stravinsky would play space-time against duration-time in music)

Thesis (MTech (Electrical Engineering))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2014. / The application of digital control techniques has become dominant in power electronics owing to several advantages they present, when compared to analogue solutions. Their development is based on the use of microprocessors and microcontrollers, such as Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), Digital signal processors (DSP), Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), or a combination of these devices. This thesis presents an investigation of a soft-core based FPGA control system as a solution for power electronic applications. The aim was the development and implementation of a conversion controller, which purpose is to supply control inputs in the form of digital Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) signals, to a number of power electronic applications, such as single half and full bridge DC-DC converters, three phase and multicell inverters. The PWM control technique is achieved via their power semiconductor switching devices. These PWM control signals are necessary for the high frequency conversion of an analog input voltage (AC, DC or unregulated) to an analog output voltage of another level (AC or DC). This was intended to be achieved by exploiting and combining the advantages that FPGA and embedded processors provide such as high reconfigurability and multipurpose ability. This controller’s digital outputs, namely PWM switching signals, can be directly delivered to an analog signal amplification circuit to create an adequate voltage level before being processed by the converters’ switches.