The aim of this master’s thesis is a design and a realization of an interface device for various aircraft buses. The work shows the issue of Aircraft Interface Device and describes the most used types of avionics buses. It deals with the theoretical design of the PCI/104–Express module and is using modularity for maximum configurability of the device. The work also brings the selection of appropriate components and their use in design. The last part describes a firmware architecture.

Diploma thesis topic deals with air transport of dangerous goods. In the beginning part it describes air cargo transportation itself as well as the main characteristics. Thesis introduces organizations involved in international transport of dangerous goods. Next part of diploma thesis reveals project analysis of air transportation of dangerous goods in respect of IATA Dangerous Goods regulations and procedures. Thesis also covers introduction to air transportation of dangerous goods in specific conditions of DHL Express Company.

Muchas personas en la actualidad, debido a sus actividades laborales y estudiantiles, no cuentan con suficiente tiempo para poder ocuparse del cuidado de su imagen personal, debido a que sus horarios son complicados y los centros en los que se brindan este tipo de servicios no brindan horarios extendidos. El modelo de negocio que presentamos a continuación se realiza gracias al resultado del estudio que refleja un incremento en el sector belleza e imagen personal en el Perú, a ello se suma el valor que se le da a la optimización del tiempo, para lo cual se crea Manicure Móvil Express, que ofrece un servicio innovador y asequible para el cuidado de la imagen personal, acercándose al cliente de una forma distinta al convencional, esta solución propone llegar a los clientes que trabajan y estudian en las zonas de San Isidro, Jesús María y Santiago de Surco. Los servicios ofrecidos varían en precios que se adecuan a las exigencias del mercado y la competencia. El estudio de mercado para nuestra idea de negocio muestra una aceptación del 92% de los encuestados, el cual indica la viabilidad del negocio, sustentándolo en estudios financieros con una inversión S/60,947.90 y recuperable a los dos años y dos meses generando un valor actual neto de S/. 170,792 y una tasa interna de retorno de 73%. Esta información puede asegurar que el negocio será rentable y viable, y que se le puede ofrecer al inversionista recuperar hasta casi el triple de su inversión. / Many people today, because of its labor and student activities, do not have enough time to be able to deal with the care of his personal image, because their schedules are complicated and the centers in which such services are provided, they do not provide extended hours. The business model that we present below is a result of the study that reflects an increase in the sector beauty and self-image in the Peru, furthermore the value given the time optimization, which creates mobile Manicure Express offering an innovative and affordable service for the care of personal image, approaching a customer in a way different from the conventional, this solution proposes to reach customers who work and study in the areas of San Isidro, Jesús María and Santiago de Surco. The services offered vary in prices that are suited to the demands of the market and the competition. The market for our business idea study shows an acceptance of 92% of the respondents, which indicates the viability of the business, sustaining him in financial studies with an investment of S/60,947.90 and recoverable at two years and two months generating a value current net of S /. 170,792, and an internal rate of return of 73%. This information can ensure that the business will be profitable and viable, and that can be offered to investors recover up to almost three times their investment. / Tesis

Thesis advisor: Noah P. Snyder / Dam removal is a widely used river restoration technique. Historically, dams produced hydropower, controlled flooding, and provided water storage, but currently many dams in the United States, specifically low head dams in New England, are obsolete. This study aims to assess the ability of a simple morphodynamic sediment transport model, Dam Removal Express Assessment Model (DREAM-1), developed by Cui et al. (2006a). I compare simulations to a dam removal monitoring project that quantified the physical response of the Souhegan River to the removal of the Merrimack Village Dam (MVD), Merrimack, NH. Pearson et al. (2011) reported results of field monitoring from August 2007-May 2010 and found that the Souhegan River responded to dam removal in two phases: initial rapid incision of impoundment sediment induced by immediate base level drop of 3.9 m (~50% of impounded sediment eroded in ~2 months), followed by an event-driven phase in which impoundment sediment eroded primarily during floods. The reach downstream of the dam showed a similar two-phase response, with rapid deposition in the first three weeks after dam removal followed by bed degradation to the pre-removal elevation profile within a year. I have continued the field methods of Pearson et al. (2011) for the past two survey periods, June 2011 and July 2012. Using five years of comprehensive field data, I conduct a hindcast to compare the sediment erosion and deposition patterns predicted by DREAM-1 to the observed downstream response of the Souhegan River. I model the changes in bed elevation for the downstream and upstream channel reaches at intervals that correspond with the dates of four longitudinal profile surveys and seven annual cross-section surveys. Results of the hindcast show that DREAM-1 predicts channel elevation accurately within one meter and with average discrepancy of ±0.35 m when compared to average channel bed elevations of each cross-section. DREAM-1 successfully simulates two phases of upstream channel response, rapid impoundment erosion followed by a longer period of gradual sedimentation change. However, DREAM-1 erodes to base elevation within 11 weeks after dam removal (erosion of the 88% impoundment sand), leaving little sand for transport during the later survey periods. This overestimation of impoundment erosion is likely the product of limitations of the model, specifically the simplification of channel cross-sections with constant width throughout the simulation. The model assumes uniform lateral sediment transport in the impoundment and does not capture the variation in width due to incision and channel widening. This hinders the ability of the model to simulate some details of the sediment budget developed by Pearson et al. (2011) and extended with recent surveys. / Thesis (MS) — Boston College, 2013. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Earth and Environmental Sciences.

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In this dissertation, we aim to investigate some delivery planning problems under different aspects of uncertain conditions in order to present some insights on how to develop more efficient and effective logistics solutions in the challenging, dynamic and competitive industry of express delivery nowadays. / Lastly, we introduce a travel time estimation method which can be considered as an upstream extension on the first delivery planning problem or any routing problems that require travel time in a road network as an input parameter. We realize that different trips may traverse on some links that are transited by other trips as well; and therefore linear and quadratic programming models can be developed to infer the travel time of any road segments which are traversed by more than one trip from the consideration of the common road segments of various trips. Bus routes information is proposed as the data source because of their coverage on the road network and their data available. Robustness of the proposed models is evaluated according to the deviation between the resultant inferences and the means of the segment travel times. It is found that the basic models suffer from a fundamental problem of underspecification issue if the number of observed trips (i.e. constraints) is fewer than the number of road segments (i.e. variables) to be estimated. Therefore, two additional types of constraints are introduced to address these issues. / The focus of the second delivery planning problem addressed in this dissertation is switched to the randomness of the demands at the delivery locations. We consider a single-depot problem in which a large volume of packages have to be delivered in a dense and small area with a lot of high-rise buildings within an extremely tight delivery commitment time window. At each vertex, the package volume (i.e. demand) is a highly stochastic variable and its service time is also dependent on the demand. This version of problem is typically faced by express service providers which offer premium express services to customers that are protected by the money back guarantee (MBG) condition. We name this version of problem as a time-constrained vehicle routing problem with stochastic demands and service times (SVRP-D). Since both the demand and service time of a vertex are stochastic, the vehicle capacity and the commitment-time (i.e. deadline) constraints may not be satisfied after the demands are realized, and recourse action is thus necessary to "rescue" the "infeasible" delivery plan through additional effort and cost. Three typical recourse actions are independently considered: (1) restocking; (2) outsourcing; and (3) reassignment. A two-stage stochastic integer programming is proposed such that the first-stage problem is to determine a set of a priori routes which minimize the vehicle travel cost and the cost for any known recourse actions. Dependent on a first-stage solution, the second-stage problem is to decide the optimal recourse plan with least cost according to the pre-determined recourse action. / Two delivery planning problems and one travel time estimation model under various aspects of randomness are addressed in this dissertation. The first delivery planning problem considers an extension on a well-known problem---the vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW), where the travel time required between each delivery location is a stochastic variable, instead of a fixed value. We name this version of the VRPTW as a vehicle routing problem with time windows and stochastic travel times (VRPTWST). A two-stage stochastic integer programming with recourse model is developed and its objective is to minimize the vehicle travel cost together with the expected loss due to the violation of the delivery time windows. An exact branch-and-cut (B&C) algorithm is proposed. This algorithm is effective for small-size problems, e.g. instances with only 8 vertices. For larger-size problems, some modifications on the B&C algorithm are suggested to improve the solution time with only a small deviation from optimality. / Wong Chi Fat. / "May 2007." / Adviser: Janny Leung. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-01, Section: B, page: 0596. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-270). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstract in English and Chinese. / School code: 1307.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-14T14:42:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 390080.pdf: 12875992 bytes, checksum: bc980660acd72e0401bb159ad554b831 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-01-15 / Verificou-se, tamb?m, as transforma??es do conceito da liberdade de express?o e suas vari?veis no tempo e no espa?o, atrav?s de uma revis?o hist?rica a partir dos cl?ssicos da livre express?o at? os estudos atuais sobre a constitucionaliza??o do direito ? informa??o, com base em John Milton (1644,1999), Stuart Mill (1859, 1978), Barbosa Lima Sobrinho (1977, 1980), Freitas Nobre (1968, 1998), Darcy Arruda Miranda (1994), Alberto Andr? (2000), Jos? Marques de Melo (1973, 2003a, 2003b) e Norberto Bobbio (1999, 2002, 2003). O entendimento do Poder Judici?rio ─ em todas as inst?ncias processuais ─ fundamentou-se na Revista de Jurisprud?ncia, publicada pelo Tribunal de Justi?a do Rio Grande do Sul, em edi??o especial sobre o caso, em 2004. As interfer?ncias resultantes da an?lise de conte?do da Decis?o Judicial ─ interpretadas com base nos estudos de Freitas Nobre (1998), de Alberto Andr? (2000), de Nilson Lage (2001) e de Nelson Traquina (2001) ─ possibilitaram o entendimento das articula??es e influ?ncias, bem como a compreens?o dos limites da liberdade de express?o na Decis?o Judicial sobre o Caso Editora Revis?o, considerado paradigm?tico para as duas ?reas de pesquisa.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-14T14:48:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 438725.pdf: 603025 bytes, checksum: 38041e65f0d682279c82aa96ef5bd3f0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-03-28 / The present work aims to conform the Brazilian criminal law, especially the offenses against the honor, to a contemporary understanding of freedom of expression. First of all, it was established how serious is the threat posed by these laws to this fundamental freedom, conclusion which inspired its study in the American constitutional system, where the First Amendment has a large "breathing space". Still, by analyzing the First Amendment doctrines, the study of criminal defamation, particularly at state level, and by understanding the actual malice standard, it was discovered that the truth and the right to critique are protected by freedom of expression and awarded by the exchange of ideas in a democracy. Finally, it was found that truth and justification form the core of this fundamental right in Brazil on grounds similar to American law, ensuring the debate in society, protecting it from possible criminal actions filed by public officials, public figures or even individuals involved in matters of public interest which have as their goal to deter criticism and censor the truth / O presente trabalho visa a readequar o direito penal brasileiro, principalmente os crimes contra a honra, a uma compreens?o contempor?nea de liberdade de express?o. Primeiramente, foi constatada a seriedade da amea?a que essas normas representam contra tal liberdade fundamental, conclus?o que inspirou seu estudo no sistema constitucional americano, onde a Primeira Emenda possui um amplo espa?o de respiro. Ainda, atrav?s da an?lise de doutrinas da Primeira Emenda, do estudo da criminal defamation, notadamente em ?mbito estadual, e da compreens?o do standard actual malice, descobriu-se que a verdade e o direito ? cr?tica s?o elementos protegidos pela liberdade de express?o e resguardados pelo interc?mbio de ideias, em uma democracia. Por fim, verificou-se que a verdade e a justifica??o comp?em o n?cleo essencial desse direito fundamental no Brasil com fundamentos semelhantes aos do direito americano, para assegurar o debate em sociedade, resguardando-o de eventuais a??es criminais ajuizadas por funcion?rios p?blicos, figuras p?blicas, ou mesmo particulares envolvidos em assuntos de interesse p?blico que tenham por objeto coibir a cr?tica e censurar a verdade

Submitted by Setor de Tratamento da Informa??o - BC/PUCRS (tede2@pucrs.br) on 2016-02-19T18:46:22Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DIS_BRUNO_MARTINS_NOVELLO_PARCIAL.pdf: 439357 bytes, checksum: e5a773a4f5e1be1b72fe8fc40681e86e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-02-19T18:46:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DIS_BRUNO_MARTINS_NOVELLO_PARCIAL.pdf: 439357 bytes, checksum: e5a773a4f5e1be1b72fe8fc40681e86e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-01-21 / Considering the role that facial expressions play in interpersonal relations, efforts have been made in order to better understand this topic. However, there are still gaps concerning research with adolescents. As this developmental stage is marked by interpersonal relations, and as these are related to a better quality of life, this dissertation aimed to fulfill some of the gaps in the topic. Two studies were conducted. Study I aimed to fill the gap concerning the absence of an image database containing facial stimuli representing the six basic emotion expressions encompassing the entire period of adolescence and its transition to the beginning of adulthood. To this end, posed and spontaneous expressions of 31 teenagers and young adult from 12-20 years (14 men, Mage = 17.4, SD = 2.7) were collected with the use of three strategies: emotive scenarios, posed expressions, and reactions to visual stimuli. Two thousand two hundred and seventy nine frames were captured. Expert judges (N = 3) filtered the frames, thus leading to a total of 42 final frames (three for each basic emotion, and three depicting neutral faces, equally divided between genders). These images were standardized and after passing through a new panel of expert judges (N = 4), they have been validated, thus composing the Youth Emotion Picture Set (YEPS). Since there is a lack of studies that directly investigate the role of covariates in recognizing expressions, Study II aimed to investigate the role the verbal IQ, pubertal development, and socialization in the accuracy of recognition of expressions among adolescents. Participants were 90 adolescents and young adults (44 males, Mage = 16.7, SD = 2.4) divided into four age groups: 12-14 (n = 23), 15-16 (n = 19), 17-18 (n = 24), and 19-20 years (n = 25). They were assessed with regard to verbal IQ, number of friends, weekly interactions with friends, and level of pubertal development. After that, they completed an experimental task in which they had to categorize the emotion displayed in three different presentation speeds (200ms, 500ms, 1000ms). The facial stimuli used were collected from the YEPS. Findings showed that number of interactions with friends per week was inversely related to accuracy in recognizing anger and disgust. Verbal IQ was significantly proportional to the accuracy of surprise, disgust, and anger. Pubertal development was related to the recognition of expressions of happiness. This dissertation resulted in the development of the YEPS, an instrument that can be used in studies exploring emotions in adolescents or for clinical application purposes. Study II revealed that different covariates influenced the recognition of emotion expressions. The covariates predicted differently accuracy in emotion recognition, with none of them explaining it for all emotions under investigation. / Por considerar a import?ncia do papel que as express?es faciais desempenham em rela??es interpessoais, esfor?os t?m sido realizados para estudar o tema. Entretanto, ainda existem lacunas referentes a pesquisas com o p?blico adolescente. Como esta etapa do ciclo vital ? um per?odo no qual rela??es interpessoais passam a ter destaque estando relacionadas a uma melhor qualidade de vida, esta disserta??o teve o objetivo de suprir algumas destas lacunas. Para tanto, foram conduzidos dois estudos. O Estudo I objetivou preencher a lacuna referente ? aus?ncia de um banco de imagens que contenha est?mulos faciais que representem as seis express?es b?sicas, englobando todo o per?odo da adolesc?ncia e sua transi??o para o in?cio da vida adulta. Para tal, foram coletadas express?es posadas e espont?neas de 31 jovens de 12 a 20 anos (14 homens, Midade = 17,4, DP = 2,7). Tr?s estrat?gias foram usadas: cen?rios mentais, express?es posadas e rea??es a est?mulos visuais. Foram captados 2279 frames que ap?s passarem por processos de filtragem do pesquisador foram avaliados por tr?s ju?zes experts e reduzidos a um total de 42 frames (tr?s para cada emo??o b?sica e tr?s para faces neutras, igualmente divididos entre os g?neros). Estas imagens foram padronizadas e, ap?s terem passado por mais um painel de quatro ju?zes, foram validadas constituindo assim o Youth Emotion Picture Set (YEPS). Dado que existe uma car?ncia de estudos que investiguem diretamente a relev?ncia de covari?veis no reconhecimento de express?es faciais, o Estudo II teve como objetivo investigar o papel do QI verbal, do desenvolvimento p?bere e da socializa??o poderiam ter na acur?cia do reconhecimento de express?es em adolescentes. Participaram do estudo 90 adolescentes e jovens adultos (44 do sexo masculino, Midade = 16,7, DP = 2,4) divididos em quatro grupos et?rios: 12-14 (n = 23), 15-16 (n = 19), 17-18 (n = 24) e 19-20 anos (n = 25). Eles tiveram seu QI verbal, quantidade de amigos, frequ?ncia de intera??es semanais com amigos e o n?vel de desenvolvimento p?bere avaliados e realizaram uma tarefa experimental na qual deveriam categorizar a emo??o apresentada nas imagens do YEPS em tr?s velocidades (200ms, 500ms, 1000ms). Os resultados indicaram que a quantidade de intera??es sociais por semana com amigos est? inversamente relacionada ? acur?cia no reconhecimento de express?es de raiva e nojo. O QI verbal foi significantemente proporcional a acur?cia da identifica??o de express?es de surpresa, nojo e raiva. O desenvolvimento p?bere se relacionou ao reconhecimento de express?es de alegria. A partir desta disserta??o, foi poss?vel desenvolver o YEPS, um instrumento que pode ser utilizado em outras pesquisas ou em estudos de aplica??o cl?nica. Em rela??o ao Estudo II, foi poss?vel identificar o modo como diferentes covari?veis operam no reconhecimento de express?es e que, entre as covari?veis estudadas, n?o existiu uma que fosse capaz de influenciar a acur?cia de todas as emo??es.

A Emoção Expressa (EE) é um conceito referente à qualidade das relações familiares e pode ser considerada como um traço ou como um estado das interações, caracterizada por três dimensões: comentários críticos (CC), hostilidade e superenvolvimento emocional (SEE). Obje tivos: avaliar e descrever o nível de EE entre cuidadores de pessoas com transtorno mental e sua associação com variáveis sociodemográficas, estresse precoce, sintomas se estresse, estilo de vida e sofrimento mental. Método: estudo com abordagem quantitativa, epidemiológico, corte transversal e caráter correlacional. Participaram 112 familiares cuidadores de pessoas com transtorno mental admitidas para internação em um hospital psiquiátrico no interior do Estado de São Paulo. Os instrumentos utilizados foram: Questionário sociodemográfico, de condições ocupacionais e de saúde; Questionário Familiar; Questionário sobre Traumas na Infância; Inventário de Sintomas de Estresse para Adultos de LIPP; Questionário Estilo de Vida Fantástico; Self-Reporting Questionnaire 20. A análise da confiabilidade e da consistência interna das escalas foi feita por meio do cálculo do coeficiente Alfa de Cronbach. Seguiu-se as análises estatísticas descritivas (cálculo das frequências, médias e desvio-padrão das respostas dos cuidadores aos instrumentos), bivariadas (para verificar a associação entre as variáveis, por meio dos testes Qui -Quadrado de Pearson, Exato de Fisher e Mann-Whitney) e de regressão logística, utilizando-se o programa SPSS versão 22.0. O nível de significância adotado foi de 5% (alfa <= 0,05). Todas as questões éticas foram respeitadas. Re sultados : a maioria dos cuidadores de pessoas com transtornos mentais em início de internação foi avaliada com altos níveis de EE (tanto global quanto nos domínios CC e SEE), com presença de estresse precoce, com presença de sintomas de estresse e com presença de sofrimento mental. Quanto ao estilo de vida, a maioria foi avaliada com estilo de vida bom ou muito bom. A EE no domínio SEE apresentou associação estatisticamente significativa com as variáveis uso frequente de medicamentos, estresse precoce, fase do estresse e sofrimento mental . Foram identificados como fatores de proteção para alta EE no domínio CC o ensino fundamental e a renda familiar. Já a idade foi fator de risco para alta EE no domínio CC. Já para alta EE no domínio SEE, o estresse precoce e o sofrimento mental foram fatores de risco. Conclusõe s : este estudo possibilitou avaliar importantes aspectos que podem influenciar a qualidade das relações entre cuidador e pessoa com transtorno mental. Emoção Expressa, estresse precoce, sintomas de estresse e sofrimento mental destacam- se como fenômenos relevantes ao planejamento do cuidado à familiares cuidadores de pessoas com transtornos mentais. Dada a complexidade desse fenômeno, são necessários estudos ampliados que abordem características tanto dos famil iares quanto dos pacientes e do ambiente, em diversos momentos, tais como na internação, após a alta e ao longo dos tratamentos extra hospitalares / Emotion Express (EE) is a concept referring to the quality of family relationships and can be considered as a stroke or as a state of the interactions, characterized by three dimensions: critical comments (CC), hostility and emotional overinvolvement (EOI). Objectives: to evaluate and describe the EE level among caregivers of people with mental disorders and their association with sociodemographic variables, early stress symptoms stress, lifestyle and mental suffering. Method: study of quantitative epidemiological approach, cross-sectional and correlational character. Participated 112 family caregivers of people with mental illness admitted to hospital in a psychiatric hospital in the state of São Paulo. The instruments used were: sociodemographic questionnaire, occupational and health conditions; Family Questionnaire; Questionnaire on Trauma in Childhood; Inventory of Stress Symptoms for Adults Lipp; Fantastic Lifestyle Questionnaire; Self-Reporting Questionnaire 20. The analysis of reliability and internal consistency of the scales was done by calculating Cronbach\'s alpha coefficient. Descriptive statistical analysis was followed (calculation of frequencies, means and standard deviations of the responses of caregivers instruments), bivariate (to verify the association between variables, using the chi -square tests of Pearson, Fisher exact and Mann Whitney) and logistic regression using SPSS version 22.0. The significance level was 5% (alpha <= 0.05). All ethical issues have been met. Results: most of the carers of people with mental disorders in early hospitalization was evaluated with high levels of EE (both globally and in the CC and EOI domains), with the presence of early stress, with the presence of stress symptoms and the presence of suffering mental. As for the lifestyle, most were evaluated with style good or very good life. EE in the EOI domain showed a statistically significant association with the variables frequent medicines use, early stress, stress phase and mental suffering. They were identified as EE for high protection factors in the CC domain elementary school and family income. In contrast, age was a risk factor for high EE in the CC domain. As for high EE in the EOI domain, early stress and mental suffering were risk factors. Conclus ions : this study evaluates important aspects that can influence the quality of the relationship between caregiver and person with mental disorder. Expressed Emotion, early stress, stress symptoms and mental suffering stand out as phenomena relevant to the planning of care for family caregivers of people with mental disorders. Given the complexity of this phenomenon, we need expanded studies that address characteristics of both relatives and patients and the environment, at various times, such as in hospital after discharge and over the extra hospital treatment