Des essais ont été réalisés en 2010 à Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures et à Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue afin de comparer deux espèces destinées à la production d’éthanol (millet perlé sucré/sorgho sucré), deux dates de récolte (août/septembre) et quatre délais entre le hachage et le pressage (0,5, 2, 4 et 6 heures) sur le rendement en biomasse et en sucres et sur la valeur nutritive du fourrage et de l’ensilage du résidu pressé. Le sorgho sucré représente une meilleure source de sucres comparé au millet perlé sucré. La récolte réalisée en août permet d’obtenir un fourrage et un ensilage des résidus pressés de meilleure valeur nutritive, alors que celle effectuée en septembre permet de maximiser le rendement en biomasse et en sucres. Le délai entre le hachage et le pressage n’affecte pas la teneur et le rendement en sucres du jus. Les ensilages fabriqués à partir du résidu pressé des deux espèces se sont bien conservés. / Field studies were conducted in 2010 at Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures and Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue to compare two crops potentially used for ethanol production (sweet pearl millet/sweet sorghum), two harvest dates (August/September), and four delays between mowing and pressing the biomass (0.5, 2, 4, and 6 hours) for biomass and sugar yields and nutritive value of the forage and silage made with the residue. Sweet sorghum is a better source of sugar than sweet pearl millet. The harvest in August produces a forage and a silage of greater nutritive value, whereas the harvest in September maximizes biomass and sugar yields. The delay between mowing and pressing the biomass had no significant impact on yield and sugar concentration of the juice. Silages made from the pressed forage material of both species were well preserved.

Le sorgho sucré (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) et le millet perlé sucré (Pennisetum glaucum(L.) R.BR.) sont deux graminées résistantes à la sécheresse pouvant servir à la fabrication d’éthanol. Leur potentiel en alimentation animale n’a été observé qu’à travers le sous-produit des industries de l’éthanol : la bagasse. L’objectif de l’étude était de déterminer si le sorgho et le millet perlé sucrés représentent des substituts viables au maïs fourrager quant au rendement, à la valeur nutritive et à l’ensilabilité, en production laitière au Canada. Deux hybrides de sorgho sucré BMR (plus digestible), un de millet perlé sucré et un de maïs fourrager ont été comparés dans cinq écozones canadiennes durant deux années consécutives. Au stade phénologique recommandé pour récolter le maïs fourrager, les sorghos et millet perlé sucrés avaient des rendements similaires au maïs dans trois écozones. En moyenne pour les cinq écozones, la teneur en matière sèche du millet perlé sucré (290 g kg-1) était supérieure à celle des sorghos sucrés (250 g kg-1) alors que celle du maïs était en moyenne de 330 g kg-1. La digestibilité in vitro des fibres insolubles au détergent neutre (NDFd) des sorghos sucrés (710 g kg-1 NDF) était supérieure au maïs (590 g kg-1 NDF) alors que leur teneur en unités nutritives totales (UNT) (530 g kg-1 MS) se rapprochait de celle du maïs (550 g kg-1 MS). Le millet perlé sucré présentait une NDFd et une teneur en UNT inférieures au maïs fourrager pour l’ensemble des écozones. Le processus de fermentation du fourrage en ensilage a été complété avec succès pour l’ensemble des hybrides après 90 jours en mini-silos. Les hybrides de sorgho sucrés testés représentent donc des substituts viables au maïs fourrager, à condition d’obtenir une teneur en matière sèche à la récolte d’au moins 300 g kg-1. / Sweet sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) and sweet pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum(L.) R. BR.) are two drought-resistant annual grasses that are suitable for ethanol production.However, their potential for animals feeding was only observed through the by-product of ethanol industries : the bagasse. The objective of this study was to determine if sweet sorghum and sweet pearl millet are sustainable alternatives to corn forage in terms of yield, nutritive value, and ensilability in the Canadian dairy context. Two sweet sorghum hybrids BMR, one sweet pearl millet hybrid, and one forage corn hybrid were compared for two years in five Canadian ecozones. Overall, at the recommended forage corn’s harvesting stage, sweet sorghum and sweet pearl millet had equivalent yields than forage corn in three ecozones. In the five ecozones, the average dry matter (DM) of sweet pearl millet (290 g kg-1) was higher than sweet sorghum hybrids (250g kg-1) and lower than corn (330g kg-1). The in vitrodigestibility of neutral detergent fibre (NDFd) was higher for sweet sorghum (710 g kg-1 NDF) than forage corn (590g kg-1 NDF), while total digestible nutrient (TDN) concentration was similar for sweet sorghum (530g kg-1 DM) and forage corn (550 g kg-1 DM). Across all ecozones, sweet pearl millet had lower TDN concentration and lower NDFd than forage corn. The fermentation process of forage to silage was successfully completed for all hybrids after 90 days in mini laboratory-silos. Sweet sorghum hybrids would represent viable substitutes to forage corn, as long as their DM concentration reaches at least 300 g kg-1 at harvest.

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Tableau d'honneur de la Faculté des études supérieures et postdorales, 2015-2016 / Dans le cadre de ce projet, deux expériences ont été réalisées à la ferme expérimentale de l’Université Laval à Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures visant à améliorer l’extraction des sucres solubles de la biomasse du millet perlé sucré et du sorgho sucré pour une éventuelle production de bioéthanol. L’expérience de 2013 a démontré que l’imprégnation de la biomasse hachée lors d’un premier pressage avec du jus déjà extrait n’a pas amélioré le rendement en jus des deux plantes et les taux d’extraction des sucres (fructose, glucose, sucrose et sucres solubles totaux) n’ont pas été améliorés suite à cette imprégnation. Les taux d’extraction des sucres solubles totaux de la biomasse du sorgho sucré et du millet perlé sucré sont de 26,5% et 28%, respectivement. L’expérience de 2014 avait pour objectif de déterminer l’effet de l’imprégnation de la bagasse du millet perlé sucré et du sorgho sucré sur le taux d’extraction des sucres. Les résultats ont démontré que l’extraction des sucres résiduels est meilleure avec l’utilisation de l’eau pour l’imprégnation de la bagasse pour un deuxième pressage qu’avec le recyclage du jus de premier pressage. Cependant, la durée de l’imprégnation de la bagasse n’a aucune influence sur l’extraction de ces sucres. En imprégnant la bagasse avec de l’eau, environ 36% et 47,5% des sucres solubles totaux ont été extraits de la biomasse du sorgho sucré et du millet perlé sucré, respectivement. / Two experiments were conducted at the Université Laval experimental station in Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures to improve soluble sugars extraction from sweet pearl millet and sweet sorghum biomass for an eventual production of bioethanol. The 2013 experiment revealed that wetting the chopped biomass for a first pressing, with the already extracted juice, did not improve the juice yield of both crops. Also, the sugars (fructose, glucose, sucrose, and total soluble sugars) extraction rates have not been improved. The extraction rate of total soluble sugars from the biomass of sweet sorghum and sweet pearl millet were 26.5% and 28%, respectively. The objective of the 2014 experiment was to determine the effects of wetting sweet pearl millet and sweet sorghum bagasse on sugars extraction rates. Results demonstrated that the use of water is more efficient in extracting residual sugars than recycling the first pressing juice. However, the wetting duration has no effect on the extraction of these residual sugars from the bagasse. When using water for impregnation, about 36% and 47.5% of total soluble sugars were extracted from sweet sorghum and sweet pearl millet biomass, respectively.

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 26-29, 1992 / Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center, San Diego, California / Due to the vast amount of data required to be collected for design/performance analysis of operational and development systems, there has evolved a real requirement for a high-speed, large capacity, data collection/record system in a small Flight/Ruggedized package. This need is realized by several user communities and factors which include the evolution of small operational vehicles (airborne, land and UAV’s), the desire of weapons manufacturers/integrators to be independent from the vehicle during vehicle integration, and a general need for a field/airborne, reliable portable data collection system for intelligence gathering, operational performance verification and on-board data processing. In the Air Defence community, the need for a ruggedized record system was highlighted after Desert Storm, in which the operational performance of the Patriot Missile was questioned and data collection was not performed to support the performance. The Aydin Vector Division in conjunction with the prime contractor, has come up with a solution to this problem which utilizes a commercially available helical scan 8mm data storage unit. This solution provides a highly reliable record system, ruggedized for airborne and field environments and a low price in comparison with the more traditional approaches currently offered. This paper will describe the design implementation of this small ruggedized, flight worthy Data collection system deemed the ATD-800. It will also discuss the performance and limitations of implementing such a system, as well as provide several applications and solutions to different operational environments to be encountered. Additionally, the paper will conclude with several product enhancements which may benefit the flight test, operational and intelligence communities in the future.

Este trabalho foi realizado no âmbito do Núcleo de Pesquisa das Novas Tecnologias de Comunicação Aplicadas à Educação (NACE Escola do Futuro - USP) e visa identificar ao longo de 28 anos de história a contribuição dos projetos de pesquisa-ação para a aquisição de competências e habilidades (Literacias de Mídia e Informação - MIL) pelos participantes, principalmente professores e alunos, possibilitando o protagonismo desses atores nos processos de aprendizagem. Para tanto, foi estabelecido o Modelo Metodológico de Pesquisa em Comunicação, proposto por Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes e uma abordagem etnográfica. Os procedimentos metodológicos adotados foram pesquisa bibliográfica, observação participante, levantamento documental, mapeamento dos projetos de pesquisa-ação, entrevista em profundidade semiestruturada e análise dos dados. Acredita-se que essa abordagem se configura como um dos olhares possíveis para avaliar os projetos de intervenção na comunidade, somando às métricas tradicionais de avaliação de desempenho um conjunto de novos critérios. / This study was developed in the scope of New Applied Communication Technologies for Education Research Laboratory (NACE School of the Future - USP) and aims to identify over 28 years of history the contribution of action research projects to the acquisition of competences and skills (Media and Information Literacy - MIL) by the participants, mainly teachers and students, enabling the protagonism of these actors in the learning processes. For this, the Methodological Model of Communication Research proposed by Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes and an ethnographic approach was established. The methodological procedures adopted were bibliographic research, participant observation, documentary survey, mapping of action research projects, semistructured in-depth interviews and data analysis. It is considered that this is one of the possible approaches to evaluate community intervention projects, adding to the traditional metrics of performance evaluation a set of new criteria.

The scope of this thesis is the design and verification of an electronic packaging of a device which is a subunit of a network system that is designed for combat communication in sheltering ship. According to the project requirements this device is subjected to some environmental and electromagnetic interference tests. This thesis includes design and manufacturing steps as well as vibration, shock and thermal analyses. Electromagnetic interference is examined through the design procedure and total shielding effectiveness of the device is calculated after the applications of some electromagnetic interference precautions which are given in details.

Dans cette thèse, nous proposons d’approcher le Movimiento Ibérico de Liberación (MIL), petit groupe anticapitaliste et internationaliste agissant dans les années soixante-dix à Barcelone, au travers de ses représentations médiatiques. Nous privilégions pour ce faire une approche double, qui croise perspective diachronique – un parcours de la presse sous le franquisme jusqu’aux médias en démocratie – et regard synchronique – une étude conjointe et comparative de différents journaux. L’examen du discours de presse relatif au MIL présente en effet un intérêt méthodologique majeur, dans la mesure où il fait apparaître une constellation d’ethos qui tiennent lieu d’identité politique au MIL. Les procédures de nomination ou de qualification du groupe, si elles disent long sur les différentes configurations discursives desquelles elles émanent, contribuent à donner du MIL un portrait au kaléidoscope, qui cristallise toujours les langages et les problématiques contemporaines. En confrontant les textes du groupe lui-même à ceux qu’en produisent les médias, nous chercherons à comprendre ce qui advient dans les jeux d’écart, de distorsion ou de recouvrement que cette mise en regard fait apparaître. Les représentations du MIL sont multiples et évolutives : durement réprimé sous le franquisme, le groupe fait peu à peu l’objet d’un mouvement de revalorisation, centré sur la figure de Salvador Puig Antich qui se voit dès lors instituée en métonymie des revendications mémorielles les plus récentes, voire en icône de l’antifranquisme. Notre travail s’attachera à étudier ce qui se joue au cœur de ces dispositifs rhétoriques, pour comprendre ce que les médias font au MIL et au projet politique dont il était porteur. / Throughout this doctoral thesis, we will focus on the Movimiento Ibérico de Liberación (MIL), small anticapitalist and internationalist group which operated in the seventies in Barcelona. We will then take the press representations of it as the point at issue. Therefore, we support a double approach, which blends both a diachronic perspective – different samples of the subject in written press under Franco’s dictatorship up to democracy – and a synchronic point of view – a complete and comparative survey of various newspapers. The analysis of the press’s point of view in what concerns the MIL shows a major methodological interest, insofar as it reveals an ethos constellation which stands for the political identity of the MIL. Even when the different nominal and classifying strategies of the group sustain each newspaper’s different rhetoric settings, they also display a kaleidoscope-type portrait of the MIL, which embodies contemporary languages and issues. By comparing the written documents that the MIL itself published to the media’s, we will be able to identify and understand increasing gaps, distortions or even coincidences between both. We can find multiple representations of the MIL which at the same time prove an evolution. The group, severely persecuted during Franco’s dictatorship, gradually gained support and acceptance due to the figure of Salvador Puig Antich. He would not only become a metonymy of the most recent memorial claims, but also an icon of anti-francoism. Our approach will be focused on the rhetorical tools used by the media in order to find out what it does to the MIL and to its political project.

Este trabalho foi realizado no âmbito do Núcleo de Pesquisa das Novas Tecnologias de Comunicação Aplicadas à Educação (NACE Escola do Futuro - USP) e visa identificar ao longo de 28 anos de história a contribuição dos projetos de pesquisa-ação para a aquisição de competências e habilidades (Literacias de Mídia e Informação - MIL) pelos participantes, principalmente professores e alunos, possibilitando o protagonismo desses atores nos processos de aprendizagem. Para tanto, foi estabelecido o Modelo Metodológico de Pesquisa em Comunicação, proposto por Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes e uma abordagem etnográfica. Os procedimentos metodológicos adotados foram pesquisa bibliográfica, observação participante, levantamento documental, mapeamento dos projetos de pesquisa-ação, entrevista em profundidade semiestruturada e análise dos dados. Acredita-se que essa abordagem se configura como um dos olhares possíveis para avaliar os projetos de intervenção na comunidade, somando às métricas tradicionais de avaliação de desempenho um conjunto de novos critérios. / This study was developed in the scope of New Applied Communication Technologies for Education Research Laboratory (NACE School of the Future - USP) and aims to identify over 28 years of history the contribution of action research projects to the acquisition of competences and skills (Media and Information Literacy - MIL) by the participants, mainly teachers and students, enabling the protagonism of these actors in the learning processes. For this, the Methodological Model of Communication Research proposed by Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes and an ethnographic approach was established. The methodological procedures adopted were bibliographic research, participant observation, documentary survey, mapping of action research projects, semistructured in-depth interviews and data analysis. It is considered that this is one of the possible approaches to evaluate community intervention projects, adding to the traditional metrics of performance evaluation a set of new criteria.

ITC/USA 2005 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-First Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 24-27, 2005 / Riviera Hotel & Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / Solid State On-Board Recording is becoming a revolutionary way of recording airborne telemetry data and IRIG 106 Chapter 10 “Solid State On-Board Recorder Standard” provides interface documentation for solid state digital data acquisition. The Reduction and Analysis Program for Telemetry Recordings (RAPTR) is a standardized and extensible software application developed by the 96th Communications Group, Test and Analysis Division, at Eglin AFB, and provides a data reduction capability for disk files in Chapter 10 format. This paper provides the system description and software architecture of RAPTR and presents the 96th Communication Group’s total solution for Chapter 10 telemetry data reduction.