Thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Master of Technology: Electrical Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology 2014 / The IEC 61850 standard, “Communication networks and systems in substations” was promulgated to accommodate the need for a common communication platform within substations for devices from different vendors. The IEC 61850 standard proposes a substation automation architecture that is Ethernet-based, with a “station-bus” for protection devices within the substation and a “process bus” where raw data from the voltage and current transformers are published onto the data network using a device known as a Merging Unit. To date, most of the standardization efforts were focused at the station bus level where event-triggered messages are exchanged between the substation automation devices, commonly referred to as Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs). These messages are known as Generic Object Oriented Substation Event messages. Equipment from vendors to accommodate the “process bus” paradigm, however is still limited at present. The Centre for Substation Automation and Energy Management Systems was established within the Electrical Engineering Department at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology with one of its objectives being the development of equipment either for simulation or real-time purposes in compliance with the IEC 61850 standard. In order to fulfil this long-term objective of the Centre, an in-depth understanding of the IEC 61850 standard is required. This document details the efforts at acquiring the requisite knowledge base in support of the educational objectives of the Centre and the research project implements a simulation of a merging unit which is compliant with the functional behavior as stipulated by the standard. This limited functional implementation (i.e. non-real-time) of the merging unit, is achieved through the development of a virtualized data acquisition node capable of synthetic generation of waveforms, encoding of the data and publishing the data in a format compliant with the IEC 61850-9-2 sampled value message structure. This functional behavior of the virtual sensor node which was implemented has been validated against the behavior of a commercial device and the sampled value message structure is validated against the standard. The temporal behavior of the proposed device is commented upon. This research project forms the basis for future real-time implementation of a merging unit.

The thesis deals with a current issue of the relationship between pharmaceutical manufacturers and physicians. Its objective it to find out the influence pharmaceutical companies exercise on a physician decision making on providing health care, what influences physicians´ medication selection and whether there are differences in individual physicians´ specializations. Based on the findings of the research the thesis aims at creating suggestions of changes in legislation concerning the relationship between a physician and a pharmaceutical company and the establishment of new rules. The introductory theoretical part describes the role of a physician and pharmaceutical companies in the current health care system. In the practical part the method of qualitative research, characteristics of the research database and results of standardized interviews using direct quotations are presented. Discussion is focused on comparing the research results with the views of media articles and the own opinion of the thesis writer. In the conclusive part of the thesis existing rules are described and the writer recommends some measures which may lead to changes in public attitudes. Another issue, which goes beyond this thesis and could become a topic for further research, is also outlined. Based on the collected data, in the closing part of the work a hypothesis for a potential quantitative research is stated. The contribution of the thesis is based on the possibility of clarifying complicated relations between physicians and pharmaceutical manufacturers both for professional and general public.

Due to the enactment of the 30076 Act, which modified the Peruvian Criminal Code, the author of this article analyses and explains the changes made in the article 46. With that purpose, he develops the meaning of the “circumstances”in criminal matters, and the reason for being of mitigation and aggravation.Furthermore, the author analyses in detail the eight generic mitigating circumstances that the modified article introduces (the age of the imputed, the voluntary reparation after committing the illicit act, the absence of a criminal record, among others), explaining them and realizing a comparison between what other criminal codes around the world, our old code and the new article 46 estipulate. / A raíz de la dación de la Ley 30076, que modifica el Código Penal, el autor del presente artículo analiza y explica los cambios realizados en el artículo 46.Para ello, desarrolla el significado de las “circunstancias” en el ámbito penal, así como el sentido de las atenuantes y agravantes.Asimismo, analiza detalladamente las ocho atenuantes genéricas que plantea el nuevo artículo (la edad del imputado, la reparación voluntaria luego de cometer el acto ilícito, la carencia de antecedentes penales, entre otros), explicándolasy realizando una comparación entre lo que estipulan diferentes códigos penales alrededor del mundo, nuestro código antiguo y nuestro nuevo artículo 46.

Tomando como ponto de partida a crítica às perspectivas que fazem prevalecer os aspectos estáveis dos gêneros discursivos em detrimento da fluidez que os relativiza, a presente pesquisa dá relevo aos elementos instáveis desse processo conjugando, a um só tempo, traços contínuos mais propensos à referida estabilização dos gêneros e descontínuos mais afeitos àquilo que chamo de instabilidade genérica. Do ponto de vista do processo de produção dos gêneros do discurso, a instabilidade genérica se inscreve no texto segundo diferentes marcas enunciativo-discursivas, assinalando pontos de ruptura e evidenciando um funcionamento marcado mais pela permanente incompletude do que pela pretensa fixidez de seus contornos. Parte-se da análise de corpus constituído por um conjunto de 84 textos produzidos, no ano de 2006, por professoras alfabetizadoras em um curso de formação (promovido pela Prefeitura Municipal de Cubatão-SP) chamado Letra e vida. Por ocasião desse curso, foi solicitado às participantes que redigissem, como atividade inicial, suas memórias de alfabetização, textos a partir dos quais elas deveriam reconstruir, preferencialmente de forma literária, as lembranças do tempo em que foram alfabetizadas. A partir dessa proposta, em que já se depreende um primeiro traço da instabilidade genérica (o diálogo com a esfera literária), delineia-se uma tensão inicial entre as memórias propriamente ditas, tomadas aqui, ao menos em um de seus sentidos, como processo de registro das lembranças, e os memoriais, gêneros efetivamente produzidos, tomados, neste caso, enquanto produto, ainda que provisório, daquele registro. Buscando comprovar que a instabilidade genérica é a propriedade definidora do gênero memorial, são eleitos metodologicamente dois campos de observação para a análise dos memoriais: o campo das vozes das memórias, em cujos domínios a instabilidade genérica manifesta-se no modo pelo qual as relações intergenéricas se marcam no fio textual-discursivo dos memoriais os gêneros do discurso sempre em vias de se tornarem outro gênero - e o campo do tempo das memórias, domínio no qual a instabilidade genérica é captada por meio do traço mais singular dos memoriais aqui analisados: o inescapável diálogo estabelecido entre o passado e o presente. Esses dois aspectos possibilitam situar o regime de instabilidade do gênero memorialístico, segundo a dinâmica constitutiva dos encontros (e eventuais sobreposições) de diferentes vozes e de diferentes temporalidades. Além da defesa da instabilidade genérica para o gênero memorial, o trabalho abre, ainda, a possibilidade de ampliar essa constatação para outros gêneros do discurso. / Considering the criticism of perspectives as a starting point which causes the stable aspects of genres at the expense of fluidity that relativizes, this research emphasizes unstable elements combining process, at the same time, continuous lines - more prone to that stabilization of genres - and discontinuous and used to what I call generic instability. From the production of genres discourse point of view, the generic instability falls within the text as reported by different enunciative-discursive marks, indicating breaking points which prove a functional permanent incompleteness marked by the supposed fixity of its contours. This research starts with the corpus analysis of a group of 84 texts produced in 2006, by kindergarten teachers taking a course called Letra e Vida which was sponsored by Cubatão City Hall. In the beginning, this group of teachers was asked to draft some of their memories from the time when they first started to learn how to write considering literacy (ability to read and write) forms if possible. From that point, in which appears from a first feature of the generic instability (dialogue with the literary sphere), an initial tension is outlined between the memories themselves, at least in one of its senses as a memory recording process and memorial genres actually produced and seen as a product of that record. Furthermore, in order to prove that the generic instability is the defining property of the memorial genre, two fields of observation are chosen methodologically with the purpose of analyzing memorials such as the voices of memories field in which the domain of generic instability manifests itself through intergeneric ways and are marked in the text and the memorial discourse lines - the speech genres always follow routes that turn them into another genre and the time of memories field, an area in which the generic instability is captured through the most unique feature seen in this research: the inescapable dialogue established between the past and the present. These two aforementioned aspects place the memorialistic gender instability system along with the constitutive dynamics of different voice encounters within different time frames. Besides the thesis of generic instability for the memorial genre, this work leaves the gap open to various other possibilities of amplifying the observation to other genres of discourse studies.

nÃo hà / O acesso a medicamentos de qualidade e de baixo preÃo à um dos princÃpios fundamentais das polÃticas de saÃde definidas nos programas de governo de diferentes paÃses. Desde a sua introduÃÃo o medicamento genÃrico procurou garantir um maior acesso à populaÃÃo, uma vez que tais medicamentos apresentam qualidade, seguranÃa e eficÃcia idÃnticas à dos produtos de referÃncia, porÃm com um preÃo muito mais baixo. Uma vez criada esta nova categoria de medicamentos, as agÃncias regulatÃrias dos diferentes paÃses, atravÃs de suas normativas de registro de produtos, criaram sistemas para garantir a identidade desta categoria de medicamentos. Para atender as exigÃncias de qualidade, seguranÃa e eficÃcia definida para esta categoria, cada paÃs utilizando ou nÃo as normas internacionais como base, gerou diferenÃas em seus requisitos para o registro de medicamentos genÃricos, garantindo sua soberania regulatÃria ou ate mesmo, em alguns casos, defendendo sua produÃÃo local. O objetivo deste trabalho à demonstrar os diferentes nÃveis de exigÃncias, para o registro de medicamentos genÃricos, praticados pelas agÃncias regulatÃrias dos ministÃrios da saÃde dos paÃses comparados neste trabalho. Para atender esta proposta foram feitas comparaÃÃes entre as legislaÃÃes praticadas pelos paÃses selecionados, no intuito de demonstrar as principais diferenÃas existentes entre os mesmos. Este trabalho contÃm as legislaÃÃes vigentes em cada paÃs comparado e os comentÃrios e explicaÃÃes dos procedimentos adotados por cada um. A principal conclusÃo demonstrada atravÃs deste trabalho à que as informaÃÃes administrativas, na submissÃo de um dossià de registro de produto genÃrico, sÃo apresentadas de forma diferente em cada paÃs, porÃm a essÃncia tÃcnica destes requisitos nÃo à tÃo diferente. Somente os nÃveis de detalhamento exigidos podem apresentar nÃveis de dificuldade maior ou menor. / Access to medicines with quality and low price constitutes the fundamental principle of health policies in government programs of different countries. Since their introduction, generic medicines were designed to ensure improved access by the populace, given their identical quality, safety and effectiveness when compared to their reference products and also given their much lower cost. Further, upon creation of this new pharmaceutical category, national health regulatory agencies around the world, through their product registration regulations, developed systems to define and enforce the criteria governing generic medicines. To meet the aforementioned requirements of quality, safety and effectiveness, each country - whether or not using international regulations as its regulatory basis â to some degree varied its requirements for the registration of generic medicines in order to ensure its regulatory sovereignty and in some cases to protect its local production. The objective of this work is to demonstrate the differences between generic medicine registration requirements, of the health regulatory agencies of the countries compared herein. To achieve this goal, comparisons were made between relevant pieces of legislation of selected countries and regions. This work contains the effective regulations applied in each comparative region as well as comments and explanations of the procedures adopted by each one. The main conclusion demonstrated through this work is that the administrative information in the submission of dossiers for registration of generic products is presented in different formats in each country. However, the technical essence of these requirements is not so different in that only the required levels of detail present greater or lesser degrees of difficulty.

Let M be a possibly non compact smooth manifold. We study genericity in the C^k topology (3<=k<=+infty) of nondegeneracy properties of semi-Riemannian geodesic flows on M. Namely, we prove a new version of the Bumpy Metric Theorem for a such M and also genericity of metrics that do not possess any degenerate geodesics satisfying suitable endpoints conditions. This extends results of Biliotti, Javaloyes and Piccione for geodesics with fixed endpoints to the case where endpoints lie on a compact submanifold P of MxM that satisfies an admissibility condition. Immediate consequences are generic non conjugacy between two points and non focality between a point and a submanifold (or also between two submanifolds). / Seja M uma variedade suave possivelmente não compacta. Estuda-se a genericidade na topologia C^k (3<=k<=+infty) de propriedades de não degenerescência de fluxos geodésicos semi-Riemannianos em M. A saber, provase uma nova versão do Teorema de Métricas Bumpy para uma tal M e também a genericidade de métricas que não possuem geodésicas degeneradas cujos pontos finais satisfazem certas condições. Isso estende resultados anteriores de Biliotti, Javaloyes and Piccione para geodésicas com extremos fixos para o caso onde os extremos variam em uma subvariedade compacta P de M ×M que satisfaz uma condição de admissibilidade. Consequências imediatas são genericidade de não conjugação entre dois pontos e não focalidade entre um ponto e uma subvariedade (ou também entre duas subvariedades).

[pt] O objetivo deste estudo é o de comparar o desempenho do paradigma SCP (Mason, 1939; Bain, 1956, 1968), e de Porter (1980) na indústria farmacêutica brasileira no período de 1999 a 2002. Não se pretende, portanto, analisar a aplicabilidade ou robustez destes modelos ou mesmo criticá-los, mas tão somente testar sua aderência à realidade brasileira. Para a pesquisa, foram consideradas as 50 empresas da indústria farmacêutica brasileira com maior faturamento em reais no ano de 2002, representando 91% do faturamento total e 90% das unidades vendidas. Os dados foram retirados de Cohen (2004) e têm como fonte a base de dados do Pharmaceutical Market Brazil- PMB. Com base na técnica estatística de Modelo de Equações Estruturais e nos passos descritos por Hair et al (1998) para sua aplicação, testaram-se as variáveis selecionadas, determinaram-se as cargas em cada um dos modelos por meio da utilização do LISREL e, por fim, compararam-se os resultados apurados para os dois modelos teóricos. Concluiu-se, reservadamente, a despeito da qualidade da amostra, de pequena quantidade de casos, e do número de variáveis usadas para medir os construtos, que as estratégias das empresas têm influência mais importante no desempenho que o ambiente, confirmando estudos anteriores, e que esta influência é igual nos dois modelos testados. Uma sugestão para melhoria dos resultados diz respeito à troca da amostra pelo universo dos laboratórios, o que aumentaria a possibilidade de aderência dos modelos, sem que isso, necessariamente, venha a implicar relação direta com técnicas gerenciais. Outra, sem dúvida, seria a manutenção da amostra, mas com reavaliação das variáveis de teste. / [en] This study aims at comparing the performance of SCP (Mason, 1939; Bain, 1956, 1968) and Porter´s (1980) models in the Brazilian pharmaceutical industry between 1999 and 2002. The intension is not, therefore, to analyze the applicability or robustness of these models or even to criticize them, but just to test its adherence to the Brazilian reality. For the research, the 50 companies with greater revenue in reais in the year of 2002, in the pharmaceutical industry, are considered. They represent 91% of the total industry revenue and 90% of the industry sold units. Data are collected after Cohen (2004), which source is the Pharmaceutical Market Brazil-PMB data base. Based on the statistical technique of Structural Equations Model - SEM and using the stages described by Hair et al (1998) for its application, the selected variables are tested, the models are designed and calculated by means of LISREL and, at the end, results are compared. The conclusion, with reserves, is that, despite the quality of the sample - having small number of cases and proporcional great number of variables used to measure the constructs - the companies strategies show greater influence on the performance than the industrial structure, confirming previous studies, and that this influence is same in the two tested models. A suggestion for the improvement of the results concerns changing the used sample for the universe of the laboratories, what would increase the possibility of adherence of the models, without implicating direct relationship with managerial techniques. Other sugestion is to maintain the sample, but with revaluation of the test variables.

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Ce travail décrit les différentes formes que prennent les emprunts à l'épopée dans les comédies d'Aristophane afin de définir le rapport construit par la comédie entre les deux genres littéraires, entre dérision comique et hommage littéraire, ruptures et continuités idéologiques, filiations et innovations poétiques. / This study tries to describe the various forms of Aristophanic borrowing to epic poetry, in order to define the relationship between the two genres: mockery or homage to the poet, ideological break or continuity, poetic filiation or innovation?

The aim of this study is to investigate the occurrence of sexist language-use in the British online newspaper The Daily Mail. The material consists of 162 articles that were analysed by using feminist stylistics. The scope of the study was limited to selected features from feminist stylistics at word- and discourse-level. The features of linguistic sexism analysed were the use of gendered generic words, naming of females and males and how female and male characters are described. The gender of the journalists was also analysed to examine if it affected the language-use in terms of sexism. The results show that linguistic sexism is expressed to some extent at both word-level and discourse-level. At word-level linguistic sexism is expressed inthe generic use of some masculine words, the difference of how first name and surname are used to refer to women and men and in the use of titles. At the level of discourse linguistic sexism is expressed in the difference of how women and men are referred to in terms of their relationship to others and in terms of appearance. The gender of the journalist did not show any significance for the language-use in terms of sexism. Considering the limited material of the study, the results might not be suitable for generalisations. The results are nonetheless interesting and it can be concluded that the toolkit of feminist stylistic is relevant to this day and that linguistic sexism exists to some extent in the online version of The Daily Mail.