Performance in Lesotho at senior level (COSC) has been poor. One of the subjects which is performed poorly is Biology 5090. This prompted the researcher to examine factors responsible for the poor performance in Biology 5090. The study also aimed at finding ways in which teachers envisage to improve Biology 5090 performance. Data was collected from three schools through semi-structured interviews and document analysis. The study also adopted the General System Theory (GST) as the theoretical framework. Data was analyzed in line with qualitative content analysis, and from the perspective of the GST. The data analysis scheme was developed and presented (appendix P). The results of the study showed that Biology 5090 performance was affected by factors such as human resources, and the transformation process. The study also suggested ways in which Biology 5090 performance could be improved in Lesotho. These include: in-serving training, team work and others. / Science and Technology Education / M. Ed. (Natural Science Education)

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-04-26T20:24:33Z No. of bitstreams: 1 brunocesardenazarethciribelli.pdf: 1919890 bytes, checksum: 7ad60d16635df11c2618e2edb1642fa5 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-06-02T15:13:42Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 brunocesardenazarethciribelli.pdf: 1919890 bytes, checksum: 7ad60d16635df11c2618e2edb1642fa5 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T15:13:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 brunocesardenazarethciribelli.pdf: 1919890 bytes, checksum: 7ad60d16635df11c2618e2edb1642fa5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-06-29 / A presente dissertação, fruto da pesquisa realizada no Mestrado Profissional em Gestão e Avaliação da Educação Pública do CAED/UFJF, apresenta como temática a retenção e a evasão escolares no ensino superior, especificamente entre alunos do Bacharelado Interdisciplinar em Ciências Exatas da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF). O termo evasão, para esta pesquisa, é considerado como sendo o desligamento do acadêmico de seu curso, tanto para fora da UFJF – abandono, cancelamento de matrícula, jubilamento, transferência –, quanto para outro curso da instituição – transferência interna ou novo ingresso por processo seletivo. Já em relação à retenção, este estudo a associa às reprovações sofridas pelo acadêmico ao longo de seu curso, ao qual se mantém vinculado, o que implica a ultrapassagem do tempo previsto para a integralização curricular da graduação pelo estudante. A partir da estrutura de pré-requisitos do referido curso, têm sido verificados casos frequentes de baixo rendimento acadêmico, especialmente nas disciplinas iniciais. A retenção nessas disciplinas tem dificultado a evolução do acadêmico dentro do curso, sendo possível, assim, levantar a hipótese de que o fato de o estudante não apresentar essa evolução contribua para os casos de evasão, bem como possibilite a investigação de fatores que tenham favorecido essa situação educacional preocupante. Assim, a realização deste estudo justifica-se por constatar-se que, tanto em nível local quanto nacional, as instituições de ensino superior vêm, ao longo dos anos, enfrentando problemas consideráveis relacionados à evasão e/ou repetência entre seus acadêmicos. Diante desse cenário, esta dissertação buscou analisar a retenção e evasão entre alunos do primeiro ciclo do Bacharelado Interdisciplinar em Ciências Exatas da UFJF, considerando pesquisa documental e referencial teórico sobre o tema, além de realizar entrevistas a professores e gestores da instituição. Por fim, foram propostas duas ações de intervenção – criação de uma atividade de apoio pedagógico e um programa de monitoramento do desempenho acadêmico –, visando à melhoria do desempenho dos alunos, e, como uma possível consequência, permitir que os acadêmicos concluam com êxito e no tempo adequado o seu curso, reduzindo os casos de reprovação e abandono escolar. / This dissertation, result of a research held in Professional Masters in Management and Evaluation of Public Education of CAED/UFJF, presents as its theme the retention and school dropout in higher education, specifically among students of Interdisciplinary Bachelor in Exact Sciences of Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF). The term evasion, for this research is considered to be the shutdown of his academic course, both out of UFJF - abandonment, enrollment cancellation, dismissal, transfer - and for another course of the institution - internal transfer or a new entrance selective process. Regarding retention, this study associates the failures suffered by the academic along his course, which he remains tied, that implies the expected time is exceeded complete curricular graduation by the student. From the above mentioned course prerequisites structure, frequent cases of low academic performance have been checked, especially in the early disciplines. Retention in these disciplines has hindered the development of academic within the courseand it is possible thus raise the hypothesis that the fact that the student does not present such developments contribute to the cases of evasion, and allows the investigation of factors that have favored this worrying educational situation. Thus, this study is justified by noting that both the local and national level, higher education institutions have, over the years, facing considerable problems related to evasion and/or repetition among their academics. Considering this scenario, this thesis seeks to analyze retention and dropout among students of the first cycle of the Interdisciplinary Bachelor of Exact Sciences of UFJF considering documentary research and theoretical framework on the subject, in addition to conducting interviews with teachers and managers of the institution. Finally, two intervention actions were proposed - creation of a pedagogical support activity and a monitoring of academic performance program - aiming the improvement of student performance, and as a possible consequence, allow academics to successfully complete their course and in the appropriate time, reducing cases of failure and dropout.

Following my Bachelor's Project the goal of this Thesis is to examine more deeply the contradiction between the current theory and didactics of the Art Education and the educational reality of the pre-school education. The essence of this Thesis is an evaluation research concerning the current competence conditions of individual educationalists of the particular nursery. The data collection methods triangulation including observation, unstructured interview and photo documentation of art works allows to grasp the given issue of individual views integration. My proposals and recommendations in order to improve the given practice and achieve a further professional development of the educationalists are based on this complex analysis.

Master's thesis is devoted to the topic of humor in art education. The aim of the thesis is to define the basic theoretical humor in the theoretical part of the work, plus accompany the humor theme with fine arts to highlight the place of humor in education. The aim of the empirical part is to characterize own artwork using humor, describe the series of realized artworks with humorous themes, especially mapping humor in art education. In master's thesis the theoretical basis of humor is outlined at a general level, in conjunction with visual arts and pedagogy. Own work with humorous elements constitutes an author's book. It contains thematic series of art tasks with humorous themes and their reflection. The main focus of the thesis lies in a qualitative research study of manifestations of humor in art education based on direct observation of lessons in art education. To analyze data, the Mayring's Qualitative Content Analysis is used. As the main aim of the research was determined to map the utilization and character of humor in teaching with three art teachers. Within the interpretation of research findings on the sample, the concept of humor in lessons with various art teachers was differentiated. There were also several areas defined, in which the humorous expressions for teaching are linked....

Cette thèse étudie quelques problèmes d’analyse harmonique sur les groupes quantiques compacts. Elle consiste en trois parties. La première partie présente la théorie Lp élémentaire des transformées de Fourier, les convolutions et les multiplicateurs sur les groupes quantiques compacts, y compris la théorie de Hausdorff-Young et les inégalités de Young.Dans la seconde partie, nous caractérisons les opérateurs de convolution positifs sur un groupe quantique fini qui envoient Lp dans L2, et donnons aussi quelques constructions sur les groupes quantiques compacts infinis. La méthode pour étudier les états non-dégénérés fournit une formule générale pour calculer les états idempotents associés aux images deHopf, qui généralise un travail de Banica, Franz et Skalski. La troisième partie est consacrée à l’étude des ensembles de Sidon, des ensembles _(p) et des notions associées pour les groupes quantiques compacts. Nous établissons différentes caractérisations des ensembles de Sidon, et en particulier nous démontrons que tout ensemble de Sidon est un ensemble de Sidon fort au sens de Picardello. Nous donnons quelques liens entre les ensembles de Sidon, les ensembles _(p) et les lacunarités pour les multiplicateurs de Fourier sur Lp, généralisant un travail de Blendek et Michali˘cek. Nous démontrons aussi l’existence des ensembles de type _(p) pour les systèmes orthogonaux dans les espaces Lp non commutatifs, et déduisons les propriétés correspondantes pour les groupes quantiques compacts. Nous considérons aussi les ensembles de Sidon centraux, et nous prouvons que les groupes quantiques compacts ayant les mêmes règles de fusion et les mêmes fonctions de dimension ont des ensemble de Sidon centraux identiques. Quelques exemples sont aussi étudiés dans cette thèse. Les travaux présentés dans cette thèse se basent sur deux articles de l’auteur. Le premier s’intitule “Lp-improving convolution operators on finite quantum groups” et a été accepté pour publication dans Indiana University Mathematics Journal, et le deuxième est un travail intitulé “Lacunary Fourier series for compact quantum groups” et a été publié en ligne dans Communications in Mathematical Physics. / This thesis studies some problems in the theory of harmonic analysis on compact quantum groups. It consists of three parts. The first part presents some elementary Lp theory of Fourier transforms, convolutions and multipliers on compact quantum groups, including the Hausdorff-Young theory and Young’s inequalities. In the second part, we characterize positive convolution operators on a finite quantum group G which are Lp-improving, and also give some constructions on infinite compact quantum groups. The methods for ondegeneratestates yield a general formula for computing idempotent states associated to Hopf images, which generalizes earlier work of Banica, Franz and Skalski. The third part is devoted to the study of Sidon sets, _(p)-sets and some related notions for compact quantum groups. We establish several different characterizations of Sidon sets, and in particular prove that any Sidon set in a discrete group is a strong Sidon set in the sense of Picardello. We give several relations between Sidon sets, _(p)-sets and lacunarities for Lp-Fourier multipliers, generalizing a previous work by Blendek and Michali˘cek. We also prove the existence of _(p)-sets for orthogonal systems in noncommutative Lp-spaces, and deduce the corresponding properties for compact quantum groups. Central Sidon sets are also discussed, and it turns out that the compact quantum groups with the same fusion rules and the same dimension functions have identical central Sidon sets. Several examples are also included. The thesis is principally based on two works by the author, entitled “Lp-improvingconvolution operators on finite quantum groups” and “Lacunary Fourier series for compact quantum groups”, which have been accepted for publication in Indiana University Mathematics Journal and Communications in Mathematical Physics respectively.

Plant invertases are a class of proteins that have enzymatic function in cleaving sucrose to fructose and glucose. Cell wall invertase, located on the exterior of the cell wall of plant cells, plays a key role in the unloading of sucrose from the apoplast to the sink tissues. Cell wall invertase interacts with an inhibitor, cell wall invertase inhibitor, post-transcriptionally to regulate its activity. The inhibitor is constitutively expressed in pollen development, early developing seeds, and senescing leaves: indicative of sucrose allocation being a limiting factor at these stages of development. We introduced algal bicarbonate transporters LCIA/CCP1 to Camelina sativa for the purpose of increasing photosynthetic capacity. The bicarbonate transporters concentrate CO2 at RuBisCO by pumping CO2 in the form of bicarbonate through the membrane, then converting it back to CO2 at RuBisCO, increasing CO2 concentration. Results from these plants have shown an increase in seed number, but not seed mass, along with a faster rate of maturity and senescence. This is indicative of acclimation to high CO2 conditions, resulting from insertion of the bicarbonate transporters. RNA sequencing was performed and a putative invertase inhibitor was recognized as being expressed in the transgenic C. sativa but not in the wild type. Our strategy is to knock out two invertase inhibitors using induced RNA silencing, dramatically altering sucrose allocation into developing seeds and resulting in an increase in seed biomass. It is the aim of this research to increase the biomass of C. sativa seeds in order to increase its effectiveness as an agent to create sustainable biofuels.

Concrete as a building material is subject to continuous innovation and thanks to advanced technology and quantum of research, its properties are still improved. It is logical that the more concrete we produce, the more waste it arises. The volume of this waste can not be stored in landfills endlessly, nowadays most of the waste economies in the world are trying to recycle concrete rubble. The recycling is not such a problem, the technology has been long verified but the quality of the recycled concrete aggregate is unquestionably one of the primary assumption which leads to accomplish required properties of concrete. In fact, the recycling process is „crushing“ the concrete into particles with an effort to eliminate the cement paste on the surface of the aggregate. An ideal solution would be create a resistant and firm coating that would adhere perfectly to the cement matrix. This diploma thesis is focused on the properties of recycled concrete aggregate and methods of improvement and optimization of the concrete mix composition.

Bien que la commande prédictive fasse appel à des paramètres ayant une signification concrète, la valeur de ces derniers impacte fortement les performances obtenues du système à contrôler. Leur réglage n’étant pas trivial, la littérature fait état d’un nombre conséquent de méthodes de réglage. Celles-ci ne garantissent cependant pas des valeurs optimales. L’objectif de cette thèse est de proposer une approche analytique et originale de réglage de ces paramètres. Initialement applicable aux systèmes MIMO linéaires, l’approche proposée a été étendue aux systèmes non linéaires avec ou sans contraintes et pour lesquels il existe un modèle Takagi-Sugeno (T-S). La classe des systemès non linéaires considérés ici est écrite sous la forme quasi-linéaire paramétrique (quasi-LPV). Sous l’hypothese que le système soit commandable et observable, la méthode proposée garantit la stabilité optimale de ce système en boucle fermée. Pour ce faire, elle s’appuie, d’une part, sur une technique d’amélioration du conditionnement de la matrice hessienne et, d’autre part, sur le concept de rang effectif. Elle présente également l’avantage de requérir une charge calculatoire moindre que celle des approches identifiées dans la littérature. L’intérêt de l’approche proposée est montré à travers l’application en simulation à différents systèmes de complexité croissante. Les travaux menés ont permis d’aboutir à une stratégie de commande prédictive auto-adaptative dénommée "ATSMPC" (Adaptive Takagi-Sugeno Model-based Predictive Control). / Even though predictive control uses concrete parameters, the value of these latter has a strong impact on the obtained performances from the system to be controlled. Their tuning is not trivial. That is why the literature reports a number of adjustment methods. However, these ones do not always guarantee optimal values. The goal of this thesis is to propose an analytical and original tuning tuning approach of these parameters. Initially applicable to linear MIMO systems, the proposed approach has been extended to non-linear systems with or without constraints and for which a Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) model exists. The class of nonlinear systems considered here is written in quasi-linear parametric form (quasi-LPV). Assuming that the system is controllable and observable, the proposed method guarantees the optimal stability of this closed-loop system. To do this, it relies, on the one hand, on a conditioning improving technique of the Hessian matrix and, on the other hand, on the concept of effective rank. It also has the advantage of requiring a lower computational load than the approaches identified in the literature. The interest of the proposed approach is shown through the simulation on different systems of increasingcomplexity. The work carried out has led to a self-adaptive predictive control strategy called "ATSMPC" (Adaptive Takagi-Sugeno Model-based Predictive Control).

This thesis deals with the role of inspection in shaping the policy of increasing the quality of social services in the Czech Republic from the perspective of the provider, the founder and policy makers. The policy of improving the quality intentions and direction, which should lead to the identification of existing service levels, remedy identified problems and improve performance at different levels. The first part deals with general and specific quality concept in the market sector and in social services. The evaluation systems and quality management known from the commercial sector are presented and subsequently applied to the evaluation of the quality of social services. The practical part of my attempt is to answer the question, how inspection affects improving of policy-making quality of social services. The main method used is a case studies based on semi-structured interviews. In conclusion, the outputs describing the role of inspection from the perspective of individual actors are presented. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

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