Submitted by Camila Fernandes de Oliveira null (oliveirafcamila@gmail.com) on 2016-10-01T04:04:15Z No. of bitstreams: 1 OLIVEIRA, CF - Práticas Participativas.pdf: 3313660 bytes, checksum: 78283fa789dea7bee80eb8580a83d3eb (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ana Paula Grisoto (grisotoana@reitoria.unesp.br) on 2016-10-05T14:35:56Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 oliveira_cf_me_bauru.pdf: 3313660 bytes, checksum: 78283fa789dea7bee80eb8580a83d3eb (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-10-05T14:35:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 oliveira_cf_me_bauru.pdf: 3313660 bytes, checksum: 78283fa789dea7bee80eb8580a83d3eb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-08-18 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Com a popularização da internet, a maneira que a sociedade se organiza foi alterada, incluindo a facilidade – e a velocidade – com que acessam informações, a possibilidade de se relacionar com outros membros do público e a oportunidade de criar releituras dos textos originais. Com o objetivo de identificar como os fãs constituem uma esfera de consumo de mídia ativo, foi escolhido como objeto o fansite brasileiro Potterish dedicado a Harry Potter. Utilizando a análise de conteúdo como metodologia, este trabalho considera sua estrutura e os trabalhos de fãs apresentados no fansite, as publicações da seção de notícias no último trimestre de 2015, os textos da seção de colunas com interpretações sobre a obra publicados em 2014 e 2015 e a cobertura realizada nos perfis do Potterish no Twitter e no Facebook sobre o anúncio do lançamento em livro do roteiro da peça Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Este trabalho se apoia no referencial teórico produzido pelos estudos de fãs, com destaque aos autores Booth, Duffett, Fiske, Jenkins e Hills, além de autores que colaboram para a compreensão da sociedade contemporânea, como Thompson e Canclini. Os resultados da pesquisa mostraram que a estrutura do fansite representa principalmente os prazeres de performance de Duffett (2013), relacionados às atividades cuja proposta é experienciar o fandom, a seleção de notícia reúne informações em português sobre as novidades relacionadas à franquia, as colunas do Potterish se destacam pelas interpretações da história não explícitas nos livros e a atividade do Potterish nas redes sociais apresenta coerência de linguagem e maior interação com os fãs do que o próprio site. O fansite se apresenta como um facilitador do acesso à informação para os fãs ao traduzir o que é publicado em outro idioma, compartilhar com os outros fãs e organizar de maneira que os usuários do site sejam capazes de se atualizar sobre o objeto de seu fandom. / The popularization of the Internet changed the way society is organized, including the ease - and speed – to access information, the ability to relate to other members of the public and the opportunity to create new readings of the original texts. In order to identify how the fans are an active media consumption sphere, the Brazilian fan site Potterish dedicated to Harry Potter was chosen as the object of this research. Using the content analysis as a methodology, this paper considers the structure of Potterish and the fanworks presented on the fan site, the news section publications in the last quarter of 2015, the texts of the columns section with interpretations of the story published in 2014 and 2015 and coverage held on Potterish profiles on Twitter and Facebook about the announcement of the publishing of the play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. This work is based on the theoretical framework produced by fans studies, especially the authors Booth, Duffett, Fiske, Hills and Jenkins, and the authors that contribute to the understanding of contemporary society, as Thompson and Canclini. Research results showed that the fan site structure mainly represents the pleasures of performance of Duffett (2013), related to the activities whose purpose is to experience the fandom, the news selection gathers information in Portuguese about what is new related to the franchise, the columns of the Potterish are highlighted by interpretations of the story that is not explicit in the books and the activity of Potterish on social networks websites shows language consistency and greater interaction with the fans than the site itself.

Submitted by Marina Paula Darcie null (marina_paula_darcie@hotmail.com) on 2017-11-30T01:55:25Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DARCIE, Marina. As fãs mais legais do mundo.pdf: 3247432 bytes, checksum: e07f086206f03adb6b500f28d71aeaf1 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Minervina Teixeira Lopes null (vina_lopes@bauru.unesp.br) on 2017-11-30T12:44:56Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 darcie_mp_me_bauru.pdf: 3193730 bytes, checksum: 62051113a246b7aae327dd1828c9b831 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-11-30T12:44:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 darcie_mp_me_bauru.pdf: 3193730 bytes, checksum: 62051113a246b7aae327dd1828c9b831 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-10-31 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Diversas possibilidades surgem com a internet a cada dia, e uma delas é a grande teia de interações e o advento de novos personagens no sistema comunicativo que detêm, de forma tão semelhante quanto nos veículos de comunicação tradicionais, o poder de influenciar e modificar a opinião do seu público. Esses novos comunicadores são os “ídolos” sociais que estão ancorados nas novas plataformas de comunicação e possuem discurso amplamente difundido no seu meio de atuação. O influenciador não é limitado a apenas uma ferramenta de trabalho, ele pode estar – e geralmente está – presente em outras redes, produzindo conteúdo para o blog, o YouTube e para o Instagram, mostrando sua rotina no Snapchat, conversando com seus fãs pelo Facebook e pelo Twitter, evidenciando a fluidez da comunicação digital. Nesse sentido, a imagem dos influenciadores digitais pode ser definida como um personagem que usa o espaço comunicativo virtual possibilitado pelas redes sociais para dialogar com seu público seguidor e expor sua opinião sobre o próprio consumo e experiências ou qualquer assunto que tenha afinidade; esse autogerenciamento de imagem – configurado em uma narrativa de si mesmo – e o contato imediato e negociação constante com seu público faz desses personagens uma mídia completa, sem a necessidade de uma indústria para ampará-lo. As novas ferramentas que possibilitam a comunicação instantânea e direta criaram, assim, novas dimensões para a relação e as interações entre ídolo-fã. Nesse contexto destacado, foram investigados os vínculos comunicativos criados pelos fãs através de suas sociabilidades na rede, entendendo o conceito de fã e analisando a bibliografia de referência para compreender se as definições dialogam com a realidade das redes digitais e dos agrupamentos da rede na sociedade contemporânea. A comunidade de fãs da influenciadora Karol Pinheiro e o universo comunicativo criado por ela (“As coisas mais legais do Mundo”) foram escolhidos para a construção da pesquisa empírica e da análise, uma vez que o grupo se mobiliza através da internet e das redes sociais para discutir, ressignificar e repercutir o conteúdo criado pela celebridade virtual. A pesquisa objetivou compreender os múltiplos processos comunicativos evidenciados através dos conteúdos que consomem, como se mobilizam e dialogam, quais as ressignificações feitas no conteúdo original, e quais redes usam para se informar e “habitar”, conhecendo, assim, práticas comunicativas que os fãs online utilizam. / Internet creates a lot of possibilities every day. One of them is the communities created around new characters in web that keep it together and influences its people: the digital influencers (DI). The digital influencer use a lot of many tools of the internet for work and are not present only in one media; the DI usually uses the blogs for posting texts, YouTube and Instagram for sharing his life and also chat with his fans using Facebook and Twitter. That way, the digital influencer is able to share his point of view about labels, products, experiences, and other kind of stuff that are part of his life. The DI is a full and complete media, promoting himself and negotiating with his fans the content shared. This way, new media on the internet raises a closer and more direct relationship between an idol and his fans. So we intend to study the communicative processes between an idol and his fans in the context mentioned by exploring in the books and academic texts the many concepts about fan, its culture, routine, consume and kinds of communication. We choose the influencer Karol Pinheiro and her channel "As coisas mais legais do mundo" for observing her fans, studying and then create our text. Our main objective is understanding all kind of interaction between idol-fan and fan-fan on internet and which social media they use for being in and socialize.

Desde a última década, as autoridades aeronáuticas dos países membros da ICAO vem, gradativamente, aumentando as restrições nos níveis de ruído externo de aeronaves, principalmente nas proximidades dos aeroportos. Por isso os novos motores aeronáuticos precisam ter projetos mais silenciosos, tornando as técnicas de predição de ruído de motores cada vez mais importantes. Diferente das técnicas semi-analíticas, que vêm evoluindo nas últimas décadas, as técnicas semiempíricas possuem suas bases lastreadas em técnicas e dados que remontam à década de 70, como as desenvolvidas no projeto ANOPP. Uma bancada de estudos aeroacústicos para um conjunto rotor/estator foi construída no departamento de Engenharia Aeronáutica da Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos, permitindo desenvolver uma metodologia capaz de gerar uma técnica semi-empírica utilizando métodos e dados novos. Tal bancada é capaz de variar a rotação, o espaçamento rotor/estator e controlar a vazão mássica, resultando em 71 configurações avaliadas. Para isso, uma antena de parede com 14 microfones foi usada. O espectro do ruído de banda larga é modelado como um ruído rosa e o ruído tonal é modelado por um comportamento exponencial, resultando em 5 parâmetros: nível do ruído, decaimento linear e fator de forma da banda larga, nível do primeiro tonal e o decaimento exponencial de seus harmônicos. Uma regressão superficial Kriging é utilizada para aproximar os 5 parâmetros utilizando as variáveis do experimento e o estudo mostrou que Mach Tip e RSS são as principais variáveis que definem o ruído, assim como utilizado pelo projeto ANOPP. Assim, um modelo de previsão é definido para o conjunto rotor/estator estudado na bancada, o que permite prever o espectro em condições não ensaiadas. A análise do modelo resultou em uma ferramenta de interpretação dos resultados. Ao modelo são aplicadas 3 técnicas de validação cruzada: leave one out, monte carlo e repeated k-folds e mostrou que o modelo desenvolvido possui um erro médio, do nível do ruído total do espectro, de 2.35 dBs e desvio padrão de 0.91. / Since the last decade, the countries members of ICAO, via its aeronautical authorities, has been gradually increasing the restrictions on external aircraft noise levels, especially in the vicinity of airports. Because that, the new aero-engines need quieter designs, so noise prediction techniques for aero-engines are getting even more important. Semi-analytical techniques have undergone a major evolution since the 70th until nowadays, but semi-empirical techniques still have their bases pegged in techniques and data defined on the 70th, developed in the ANOPP project. An Aeroacoustics Fan Rig to investigate a Rotor/Stator assembly was developed at Aeronautical Engineering Department of São Carlos School of Engineering, allowing the development of a methodology capable of defining a semi-empirical technique based on new data and methods. Such rig is able to vary the rotation, the rotor/stator spacing and mass flow rate, resulting in a set of 71 configurations tested. To measure the noise, a microphone wall antenna with 14 sensors were used. The broadband noise was modeled by a pink noise and the tonal with exponential behavior, resulting in 5 parameters: broadband noise level, decay and form factor and the level and decay of tonal noise. A superficial kriging regression were used to approach the parameters using the experimental variables and the investigation has shown that Mach Tip and RSS are the most important variables that defines the noise, as well on ANOPP. A prediction model for the rotor/stator noise are defined with the 5 approximation of the parameters, that allow to predict the spectra at operations points not measured. The model analyses of the model resulted on a tool for results interpretation. Tree different cross validation techniques are applied to model: leave ou out, Monte Carlo and repeated k-folds. That analysis shows that the model developed has average error of 2.35 dBs and standard deviation of 0.91 for the spectrum level predicted.

In South Africa, nearly 80 % of electricity is generated from coal fired power plants. Due to the complexity of the interconnected systems that make up a typical power plant, analysis of the root causes of load losses is not a straightforward process. This often leads to losses incorrectly being ascribed to the Induced Draught (ID) fan, where detection occurs, while the problem actually originates elsewhere in the plant. The focus of this study was to develop and demonstrate a modelling methodology to quantify the effects of major plant anomalies on the capacity of ID fans in coal fired power plants. The ensuing model calculates the operating point of the ID fan that is a result of anomalies experienced elsewhere in the plant. This model can be applied in conjunction with performance test data as part of a root cause analysis procedure. The model has three main sections that are integrated to determine the ID fan operating point. The first section is a water/steam cycle model that was pre-configured in VirtualPlantTM. The steam plant model was verified via energy balance calculations and validated against original heat balance diagrams. The second is a draught group model developed using FlownexSETM. This onedimensional network is a simplification of the flue gas side of the five main draught group components, from the furnace inlet to the chimney exit, characterising only the aggregate heat transfer and pressure loss in the system. The designated ID fan model is based on the original fan performance curves. The third section is a Boiler Mass and Energy Balance (BMEB) specifically created for this purpose to: (1) translate the VirtualPlant results for the steam cycle into applicable boundary conditions for the Flownex draught group model; and (2) to calculate the fluid properties applicable to the draught group based on the coal characteristics and combustion process. The integrated modelling methodology was applied to a 600 MW class coal fired power plant to investigate the impact of six major anomalies that are typically encountered. These are: changes in coal quality; increased boiler flue gas exit temperatures; air ingress into the boiler; air heater inleakage to the flue gas stream; feed water heaters out-of-service; and condenser backpressure degradation. It was inter alia found that a low calorific value (CV) coal of 14 MJ/kg compared to a typical 17 MJ/kg reduced the fan's capacity by 2.1 %. Also, having both HP FWH out of service decreased the fan's capacity by 16.2 %.

The thesis considers a change in the manufacturing technology of a fan impeller from welding to 3D printing. The wish of the manufacturer was to investigate if such a change is possible and financially profitable and decide on a further approach to manufacturing. Models were created using information from the manufacturer and using them, conditions for manufacturing the impeller in the 1:1 ratio were derived. Based on the new technological process and the experience from prints a new price calculation for the fan impeller using 3D printing was created.

Tato práce se zabývá reprezentací nestacionárních harmonických signálů s časově proměnnými komponentami. Primárně je zaměřena na Harmonickou transformaci a jeji variantu se subkvadratickou výpočetní složitostí, Rychlou harmonickou transformaci. V této práci jsou prezentovány dva algoritmy využívající Rychlou harmonickou transformaci. Prvni používá jako metodu odhadu změny základního kmitočtu sbírané logaritmické spektrum a druhá používá metodu analýzy syntézou. Oba algoritmy jsou použity k analýze řečového segmentu pro porovnání vystupů. Nakonec je algoritmus využívající metody analýzy syntézou použit na reálné zvukové signály, aby bylo možné změřit zlepšení reprezentace kmitočtově modulovaných signálů za použití Harmonické transformace.

By applying ethnographic method this study sought to explore how football’s mediatization is inviting the digital displacement of fan culture by social media-based communities. It also aimed to understand how contemporary football fans engage online as part of identifying themselves as supporters of a football club. This research was motivated by the global resonance of fandom which is due to the media becoming part of the experience of being a fan, resulting to the formation of transnational communities. The two-way online communication has enabled supporting from afar, forming digital fans. Liverpool FC’s Greek fans official group on Facebook was used as the case study for content analysis, along with in-depth interviews. The results have shown that social media have been the facilitators of football’s mediatization, digitalizing fan habits that used to be parts of the social life. Self-identification as a fan has taken a much more cosmopolitan outlook, which prioritizes participation. The dimensions of participation are though mediatized, resulting to highly engaged communities regardless of locality. To deal with the redefinition of fandom expression, this thesis has contributed with an end-result protype of a service addressing the process of doing digital fandom. As media technology develops, football’s mediatization will only exponentially increase and this study can offer insights to the better understanding of the different dimensions that digital fan culture adds to the sport.

Cette enquête s’intéresse à la réception des œuvres fictionnelles, lorsque celle-ci se concrétise dans des « créations dérivées », c’est-à-dire des productions dues aux récepteurs les plus engagés, et en recherche les déterminants sociaux dans des contextes donnés. Si, sous l’effet de la numérisation de la culture, de nombreux contenus créés par les utilisateurs sur Internet témoignent d’une appropriation croissante des produits médiatiques, il faut mesurer la spécificité de ces pratiques culturelles amateurs et leurs continuités avec des engagements fictionnels plus anciens : ce travail le montre ici à travers le cas des fanfictions, ces textes, en plein essor depuis les années 2000, écrits par des fans, pour compléter, prolonger ou amender des œuvres fictionnelles originales. En croisant sociologie de la culture et histoire littéraire, ce travail défend que les fanfictions reposent sur des mécanismes fondamentaux liés à la réception et à la circulation sociale des univers fictionnels, mais qui s’expriment toujours selon des contraintes à la fois sociales, économiques, médiatiques et juridiques. À partir d'uncorpus d’un millier de textes, d’observations sur un des principaux sites hébergeurs et de comparaisons historiques, ce doctorat discute d'abord le passé des fanfictions en ne le limitant aux années 1960 où elles étaient déjà présentes dans les fanzines et tout en ne le confondant pas avec celui de toute la littérature. L’étude souligne ensuite comment ces textes restent le résultat d’une production et d’une organisation collectives où le support de diffusion, les interactions entre fans et avec les industries culturelles structurent leur format et leur contenu. / This study deals with the reception of fictional works, when it materializes as “derivative works”, i.e. products made by active audiences, and seek the social factors explaining the shape took by these creations in a given context. If a lot of user generated contents now on the Internet –thanks to the digitalization of culture and the spread of ICT– shows that media products are more and more appropriated by amateurs, the specificity of these cultural practices and their continuity with older types of fictional involvements must be assessed: it will be exemplified through the case of fanfictions, also on a growing trend since the 2000s on the Web, that is texts, written by fans, which finish off, extend or correct original fictional works. Mixing cultural and media sociology with literary history, this dissertation suggests that fanfictions rest upon basic mechanisms linked to the reception and the circulation of fictional worlds, but always constrained by social, economic, media and legal factors. Based on the study of a thousand of fanfictions, observations from one of their main archives, and comparisons with literary successes which also generated derivatives texts, this research first discusses fanfictions’ past, extending it further than the 1960s when they were published in fanzines, but distinguishing it from the whole literature’s past. The inquiry then reveals how fanfictions are still the result of a collective production and organization, in which the broadcasting medium, the interactions between fans and with creative industries construct their format and content.

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The current study explored how fan identification and negative rival perception affect the decision to blast or support the rival in indirect competition in college football. 258 participants (M age=24.15, 51.16% female) responded after being targeted via social media, email, and in person. Fans higher in identification had a more negative rival perception, were more likely to blast the rival, and were less likely to support the rival in indirect competition. A negative rival perception increased blasting and decreased rival support. The results contribute to current literature on rivalry and fan identification and aid marketers in marketing segmentation and targeting new segments to increase viewership and attendance.