<p>The objective of this Master's thesis is to study whether it is possible to create a versatile game engine that can be both application independent and easy to use. In order to study this issue, we have implemented a prototype game engine that supports 2D game development. The system includes predefined programming constructs in order to make game development faster and easier.The conclusion of this thesis work is that the presented problem, while theoretically possible to solve, would introduce too many practical problems during the game development. Furthermore, we conclude that growth in ease of use may limit the functionality of the engine.</p>

Uppsatsens titel: Lättläst – för alla? Key words: Easy-to-Read (Lättläst), Printed matter (Trycksak), Readability (Läsbarhet), Legibility (Läslighet), Reading value (Läsvärde). Syfte: Vårt syfte med examensarbetet var att med text och layout framställa ett lättläst material, i tryckt form, anpassat till målgruppen. Frågeställningar: Går det att framställa ett lättläst och tydligt informationsmaterial som fungerar för alla? Om det inte går att framställa ett informationsmaterial som fungerar för alla, behövs i stället olika versioner för att alla ska förstå? I så fall hur många versioner? Hur ska materialet anpassas till målgruppen när det gäller språkutformning och layout? Teori:   Vårt arbetssätt följde den hermeneutiska spiralen. Vi gick från förförståelse och tolkning genom litteratursökning, tidigare forskning och analysering av material och målgrupp, till erfarenheter genom utprovningar. Därefter reviderade vi materialet och vidgade förståelsen genom nya utprovningar och fick återigen ny erfarenhet. Vi fick på så sätt påtaglig kunskap om målgruppens krav och behov. Metod: Vi valde att arbeta både kvantitativt och kvalitativt, genom att utföra enkätundersökning samt intervju. Vi använde oss av båda tillvägagångssätten eftersom de kompletterade varandra. De metoder som vi använde oss av var litteratursökning, analysering av material samt målgruppsanalys (intervju- och enkätmetodik). Vi arbetade efter en iterativ metod, det vill säga fortlöpande utprovningar. Under utprovningarna använde vi "tänka högt"-metoden, prestationstest samt synpunkter från experter. Slutsats: Vår slutsats var att det gick att framställa ett lättläst och tydligt informationsmaterial som fungerade för alla i vår målgrupp, oavsett ålder, kön och bakgrund. Genom utprovningarna framkom det att samtliga av testpersonerna föredrog vår lättlästa version och ingen ansåg att texten var för lätt. Tvärtom var alla positiva till förändringarna i materialet eftersom de förstod informationen och tyckte att innehållet var relevant. Vi skapade ett lättläst material genom att till exempel använda konkreta ord, korta meningar utan bisatser, ordförklaringar, luftig layout samt överskådligt innehåll med tydliga och kortfattade rubriker.

Since the two side of SEF and ARATS started the meeting again in Beijing in JUN 13th 2008, completed two issues of both weekend Direct air links between Taiwan and China and the people visit Taiwan from mainland, in july 4,2008, the first group came to Taiwan as tourists from mainland. Those tourists, not only bring lots of good business but also been very helpful to our sightseeing industrial Because of those reasons, I decided to discuss : 1.what are the real effects to our tourist business by allowing tourists from mainland? 2. which parts of Taiwan are really gets benefits from them? So in this thesis, only discuss the international tourist hotels. we find out lots of ideas by survey from the internet and, and also understand what the government think about the policy of allowing tourists from mainland by developed of passed issues and policy. The international tourist hotels are the most been helped and gets benefits in this situation by allowing tourists from mainland, we found out the increase of room average, at the same time, hotel stuffs also got the strong feeling about tourists from china bring lots of benefits to them, although they also bring lots of problems in rooms, food and language, but we still found out more benefits than that in this issue. we hope Kaohsiung will become the biggest model of all by allowing tourists from china, and by the changing of the government policy, make the flight in both come and out in Kaohsiung become regular, we believe in the future of Kaohsiung tourist business will be better, not only the hotels been helped but also the economic of Kaohsiung will be better.

Thermal maturity modeling is widely used in basin modeling. Of the available models, Easy%Ro has gained acceptance. Thermal gradients (TG) at seventy wells in the Thrace Basin are calibrated against vitrinite reflectance (%Ro). A 90% confidence interval is used to assess the uncertainty. Best paleo-TG are obtained from the MSR curves. Comparison of the paleo-TG with the actual ones showed that thermal regime of the Thrace Basin did not dramatically change during geologic history. A correlation between geological and thermal properties of the basin is established. Thermal regime of the Thrace Basin is controlled by 1) basement edge affect / 2) crustal thickness variations ad basement heat flow / 3) lateral thermal conductivity variations within the stratigraphic column / 4) transient heat flow affect / and 5) influence of the tectonic features. Basement edge affect is traced at the steep northern margin. Central part of the basin demonstrates lower TG. THe Eocene Ceylan Formation with relatively lower thermal conductivity plays a thermal reducing role. Areas of high sediment influx are associated with low TG due to the transient effect of the immature sediments. Fault systems of the Thrace Basin do not possibly have influence on paleo-thermal gradients.

This essay explores the colonial nature of the American road movie, specifically through the lens of how road movies treat the South according to Stuart Hall’s concepts of identity and Edward Said’s on Othering and the colonial gaze. To accomplish this, the essay analyzes the classic 1969 road movie, “Easy Rider”, and the more contemporary parody from 2008, “Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay.” The thrust of this paper becomes: if a progressive parody of road movies cannot escape the trappings of colonialism “Easy Rider” displays, perhaps the road movie itself is flawed.

Submitted by FLAVIA HOSNE DE FREITAS GALVÃO null (flahosne@yahoo.com.br) on 2018-01-19T10:37:58Z No. of bitstreams: 1 TESE FLAVIA HOSNE DE FREITAS GALVÃO.pdf: 1449223 bytes, checksum: e77cfcea26a6530eea393b67b92877ff (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Lucia Martins Frederico null (mlucia@fca.unesp.br) on 2018-01-22T11:54:20Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 galvao,fhf_dr_bot.pdf: 1449223 bytes, checksum: e77cfcea26a6530eea393b67b92877ff (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-01-22T11:54:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 galvao,fhf_dr_bot.pdf: 1449223 bytes, checksum: e77cfcea26a6530eea393b67b92877ff (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-11-23 / O crescimento e profissionalização do agronegócio torna primordial a busca pelo conhecimento na gestão e adoção de práticas administrativas que facilitem e otimizem o trabalho no campo. A capacitação contínua do profissionalprecisa ser prática e teórica, para que se possa entender a gestão do agronegócio como um todo e, assim, melhorar a qualidade de seus negócios com maior produtividade e sustentabilidade. Por outro lado, as unidades de produção de base familiar têm se destacado como objeto de pesquisa pela estrutura social e desenvolvimento sustentável do meio rural brasileiro. Vivemos um momento de questionamentos quanto ao que agride ou não o meio ambiente e os seres viventes. A agricultura familiar é de importância ímpar neste novo olhar para o mundo e a sua preservação, e por consequência a preservação do seu saber, aliada a uma geração de valor pelo seu trabalho. O presente estudo analisou e diagnosticou a importância do planejamento e organização da estrutura de produção e comercialização, a viabilidade econômica de acordo com sua lógica sustentável de produção familiar. Foi realizado um estudo de caso com um grupo de dezesseis agricultores caracterizados como familiares liderados por mulheres. Após análise realizada concluiu-se que o trabalho individual não é economicamente viável, assim, viabilizou-se o trabalho conjunto por meio da constituição de uma cooperativa, cujo nome deu-se como “Grupo Mulher”. Ao final do estudo foi criado um modelo de Plano de Negócio para Agricultura Familiar através de um quadro simples a fim de facilitar o manuseio para os envolvidos. / The growth and professionalization of agribusiness makes it primordial the search for knowledge in the management and adoption of administrative practices that facilitate and optimize the work in field. The continuous training of the professional must be theoretical and practice, so that one can understand the management of the agribusiness as a whole and, improve the quality of this business with productivity and sustainability. On the other side, family based production units have been highlighted as an object of research by the social structure and sustainable development of the Brazilian rural environment. We live in a moment of answers as what affects the environment or the living beings. Family farming is of a unique importance in this new look of world and its preservation, and consequently the preservation of its knowledge, allied to a generation of value for its work. The present study analyzed and diagnosed the importance of planning and organization of production and marketing structure, economic viability according to its sustainable logic of family production. A case study was conducted with a group of sixteen farmers characterized as family members headed by women. After this analysis, it concluded that the individual work is not economically viable, then, the joint work was possible through the creation of a cooperative, whose name was given as ‘GrupoMulher’. At the end of this study, a Business Plan for Family Agriculture model was created through a simple framework to facilitate the handling for those involved.

In a world with an increasing flow of written information online and offline, the demand for automatic translation, simplification and summarization technology is growing. The tool StilLett uses several lexical and semantic rules to automatically simplify text, shortening the time from original text to simplified text compared to manual simplification. Four of the simplification types were evaluated in this study, using three different eye tracking measures; total dwell time, number of regressions, and average fixation duration. No statistically significant differences were found for any of the simplification types when compared to the corresponding original sentences, indicating that for this population the difficulty of the sentences was roughly the same.

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Despite the findings and studies on the relationship between literacy and literacy in early childhood education and the discussion is still surrounded by doubts and uncertainties to which not even the teachers who work at this level can find answers and direct the course of the educational process . The theoretical and adopted Framework for the realization of this work was the cultural historical theory, and Vygotsky (1999) as its principal representative. Therefore, for this research, the Vygotskian concept of mediation will have special emphasis, because he is central to reflect on the idea of intentionality and the systematic work in early childhood education institutions - ensuring the specificity of each age group - as a way to oppose us to work based on spontaneity and welfare, characteristic of care historically proposed to the education of young children. We conduct theoretical character studies to understand the history of early childhood education in Brazil and understand the functions and characteristics assigned to that level to ensure that the child is respected as a subject of rights; to this end, we rely on current laws, official documents, such as the Law of Education Guidelines and Bases (1996), the National Curriculum Reference for Early Childhood Education (1998), among others, and literature production concerning the education of children 0-6 years among them Ariès (1978), Kuhlmann Junior (2004), Kramer (1985), Oliveira (2002), Arce (2004). Dialogue with authors such as Vygotsky (2001), Mortatti (2010) and Smith (2003), we reflect on the relationship between literacy, literacy and the role of the teacher from kindergarten. From observation of classes and pedagogical practices of teachers and interviews, we analyzed the conceptions and practices of teachers about the object of study. From the data, we have developed four categories of analysis that enabled us to know as Early Childhood Education teachers understand the literacy and literacy and how to express that understanding in their teaching. Also, realize that municipal and federal educational policies have directly influenced the educational practice of these teachers. In this sense, the challenge was to understand the concepts and practices of teachers considering the subjectivity of considering the historical and cultural context in which it is incurred. / A presente pesquisa teve como objetivo analisar as concepções e práticas de Alfabetização e Letramento de professores da pré-escola da rede municipal de educação de Catalão-GO. Apesar das descobertas e estudos acerca da relação entre os processos de alfabetização e letramento na e Educação Infantil, a discussão ainda é cercada por dúvidas e incertezas para as quais nem mesmo os educadores que atuam neste nível conseguem encontrar respostas e direcionar os rumos do processo educativo. O Referencial teórico-adotado para a realização desse trabalho foi a teoria histórico cultural, tendo Vygotsky (1999) como seu principal representante. Logo, para a realização desta pesquisa, o conceito vygotskyano da mediação terá ênfase especial, por ser ele central para refletirmos sobre a ideia de intencionalidade e sistematicidade do trabalho desenvolvido dentro de instituições de Educação Infantil – garantindo as especificidades de cada faixa etária – como forma de nos opormos ao trabalho pautado no espontaneísmo e no assistencialismo, característicos do atendimento historicamente proposto à educação das crianças pequenas. Realizamos estudos de cunho teórico para conhecer o histórico da Educação Infantil no Brasil e compreender as funções e especificidades atribuídas a esse nível para garantir que a criança seja respeitada como um sujeito de direitos; para tal, nos apoiamos na legislação atual, em documentos oficiais, como Lei das Diretrizes e Bases da Educação (1996), o Referencial Curricular Nacional para a Educação Infantil (1998), dentre outros, e produções bibliográficas que dizem respeito à educação das crianças de 0 a 6 anos, dentre eles Ariès (1978), Kuhlmann Júnior (2004), Krammer (1985), Oliveira (2002), Arce (2004). Dialogando com autores como Vygotsky (2001), Mortatti (2010) e Soares (2003), pudemos refletir sobre as relações entre alfabetização, letramento e a atuação do professor da Educação Infantil. A partir de observação das aulas e práticas pedagógicas de professores e entrevistas, analisamos quais as concepções e práticas dos professores acerca do objeto de estudo. A partir dos dados, desenvolvemos quatro categorias de análises que nos possibilitou conhecer como os professores de Educação Infantil compreendem os processos de alfabetização e letramento e como manifestam tal compreensão na sua prática pedagógica. Além disso, percebemos que as políticas educacionais municipais e federais têm influenciado diretamente na prática pedagógica desses professores. Nesse sentido, o grande desafio foi compreender as concepções e práticas dos professores considerando a subjetividade dos sujeitos, considerando o contexto histórico e cultural em que é constituída.

The objective of this Master's thesis is to study whether it is possible to create a versatile game engine that can be both application independent and easy to use. In order to study this issue, we have implemented a prototype game engine that supports 2D game development. The system includes predefined programming constructs in order to make game development faster and easier.The conclusion of this thesis work is that the presented problem, while theoretically possible to solve, would introduce too many practical problems during the game development. Furthermore, we conclude that growth in ease of use may limit the functionality of the engine.

This report describes a bachelor thesis performed at Xcerion for their subsidiary CloudMe. CloudMe has a service for cloud computing which makes your files accessible from anywhere, anytime. Cloud computing is addressed to both business and ordinary home users. With the ability to store important documents or family photos in the cloud other important subjects can be focused on. A cloud can in short be described as a metaphor for the internet and with the growing server houses and accessibility of cloud computing the need for USB-sticks (Universal Serial Bus) and hard drives are slowly fading away. CloudMe today offers several different services to access the cloud from a number of devices which includes smartphones, a web-browser and the home computer. This thesis work is about upgrading and improving their desktop application, Easy Upload. Easy Upload makes it possible to back-up several folders to the cloud but with the only option of uploading files and folders. Only uploading files to the cloud makes the application very restricted and lacking of an important feature, downloading from the cloud. Designing this new feature resulted in four different synchronization options; Upload, Download, Bidirectional and Hotsync, each configurable for every connected folder. With these options a user is offered the possibility to choose which synchronization best to use for the task in hand. The ability to choose, and configure, any folder on your computer opens up the restrictions which several large cloud computing services has today with one specific folder for the entire cloud. To ease the access and the understanding of these new synchronization options, a complete redesign of the user interface was developed. The name Easy Upload could no longer be associated with this application and therefore Easy Upload was renamed to suit the new functionality of the application and bring it closer to the association with the company CloudMe. When this thesis work was completed Easy Upload was considered to be the predecessor of CloudMe Sync.