A uva cv Niágara Rosada tem uma grande importância econômica na viticultura do estado de São Paulo, principalmente na região de Campinas, sendo consumida como fruta fresca no mercado interno. Essa cultivar pode produzir de 10 a 15 toneladas por hectare, cachos com massa de 100 a 300 g, com produção concentrada nos meses de dezembro a fevereiro; sendo que atualmente é comum se obter uma segunda safra proveniente da poda de verão, com colheita entre maio a julho. Porém a obtenção de duas safras todo ano pode reduzir a vida útil e apresentar efeito depressivo à videira. O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar a influência de diferentes freqüências de poda de produção e a proteção química de doenças na produção e qualidade dos frutos. Foram avaliados três tratamentos na condução de uva no sistema de espaldeira: T1: cinco podas em dois anos e meio (duas podas por ano), com tratamento fitossanitário para controle do míldio da videira (Plasmopora viticola), T2: quatro podas em dois anos e meio (1,5 podas por ano), com tratamento fitossanitário para controle do míldio da videira, T3: cinco podas em dois anos e meio (duas podas por ano), sem tratamento fitossanitário para controle do míldio. Em cada ciclo de produção foram avaliados: a) número de cachos por planta, b) massa dos cachos por planta em quilogramas , c) rendimento em quilogramas por hectare; d) SST (° Brix) dos frutos, e) porcentagem de severidade de míldio nas folhas, f) porcentagem de desfolha após a colheita. A partir da terceira safra observaram-se diferenças significativas entre os tratamentos, quanto ao número de cachos por planta, massa dos cachos, rendimento e sólidos solúveis totais, mostrando uma resposta estatisticamente positiva no tratamento T2 (com n - 1 podas realizadas, onde n: número de podas de verão realizadas e com tratamento fitossanitário). O tratamento fitossanitário mostrou resultados significativos quanto a redução na severidade de doença nas folhas e redução da desfolha após a colheita. / The cultivation of grapes \'hp Niagara Rosada\' has a great economic importance in viticulture in the state of Sao Paulo, mainly in the region of Campinas, being consumed as fresh fruit in the domestic market. This cultivar can produce 10-15 tons per hectare, clusters with mass 100-300 g, with manufacturing concentrated in the months from December to February, and currently it is common to get a second harvest from the summer pruning, to yield between May-July. But to obtain two harvests every year can reduce the life and present depressive effect on the vine. The objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of different pruning frequencies of production and chemical protection of disease in production and fruit quality. Three treatments were evaluated in the conduct of the grape trellis system: T1: pruning five in two and a half years (two cuttings per year), with treatment plant for control of grape downy mildew (Plasmopora viticola), T2: four pruning in two years and a half (1.5 cuttings per year), with treatment to control downy mildew of the vine, T3: pruning five in two and a half years (two cuttings per year), without a treatment to control downy mildew. In each production cycle were evaluated: a) number of clusters per plant, b) mass of clusters per plant in kilograms per plant, c) yield in kilograms per hectare; d) SST (° Brix) of fruits and) percentage of severity of mildew on the leaves, f) percentage of defoliation after harvest. From the third harvest there were significant differences between treatments regarding the number of bunches per plant, cluster weight, yield and total soluble solids, demonstrating a statistically positive response in treatment T2 (with n - 1 pruning, where n : number of summer pruning performed and treatment plant). The treatment plant showed significant results regarding the reduction in disease severity on leaves and reduction in defoliation after harvest.

A uva cv Niágara Rosada tem uma grande importância econômica na viticultura do estado de São Paulo, principalmente na região de Campinas, sendo consumida como fruta fresca no mercado interno. Essa cultivar pode produzir de 10 a 15 toneladas por hectare, cachos com massa de 100 a 300 g, com produção concentrada nos meses de dezembro a fevereiro; sendo que atualmente é comum se obter uma segunda safra proveniente da poda de verão, com colheita entre maio a julho. Porém a obtenção de duas safras todo ano pode reduzir a vida útil e apresentar efeito depressivo à videira. O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar a influência de diferentes freqüências de poda de produção e a proteção química de doenças na produção e qualidade dos frutos. Foram avaliados três tratamentos na condução de uva no sistema de espaldeira: T1: cinco podas em dois anos e meio (duas podas por ano), com tratamento fitossanitário para controle do míldio da videira (Plasmopora viticola), T2: quatro podas em dois anos e meio (1,5 podas por ano), com tratamento fitossanitário para controle do míldio da videira, T3: cinco podas em dois anos e meio (duas podas por ano), sem tratamento fitossanitário para controle do míldio. Em cada ciclo de produção foram avaliados: a) número de cachos por planta, b) massa dos cachos por planta em quilogramas , c) rendimento em quilogramas por hectare; d) SST (° Brix) dos frutos, e) porcentagem de severidade de míldio nas folhas, f) porcentagem de desfolha após a colheita. A partir da terceira safra observaram-se diferenças significativas entre os tratamentos, quanto ao número de cachos por planta, massa dos cachos, rendimento e sólidos solúveis totais, mostrando uma resposta estatisticamente positiva no tratamento T2 (com n - 1 podas realizadas, onde n: número de podas de verão realizadas e com tratamento fitossanitário). O tratamento fitossanitário mostrou resultados significativos quanto a redução na severidade de doença nas folhas e redução da desfolha após a colheita. / The cultivation of grapes \'hp Niagara Rosada\' has a great economic importance in viticulture in the state of Sao Paulo, mainly in the region of Campinas, being consumed as fresh fruit in the domestic market. This cultivar can produce 10-15 tons per hectare, clusters with mass 100-300 g, with manufacturing concentrated in the months from December to February, and currently it is common to get a second harvest from the summer pruning, to yield between May-July. But to obtain two harvests every year can reduce the life and present depressive effect on the vine. The objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of different pruning frequencies of production and chemical protection of disease in production and fruit quality. Three treatments were evaluated in the conduct of the grape trellis system: T1: pruning five in two and a half years (two cuttings per year), with treatment plant for control of grape downy mildew (Plasmopora viticola), T2: four pruning in two years and a half (1.5 cuttings per year), with treatment to control downy mildew of the vine, T3: pruning five in two and a half years (two cuttings per year), without a treatment to control downy mildew. In each production cycle were evaluated: a) number of clusters per plant, b) mass of clusters per plant in kilograms per plant, c) yield in kilograms per hectare; d) SST (° Brix) of fruits and) percentage of severity of mildew on the leaves, f) percentage of defoliation after harvest. From the third harvest there were significant differences between treatments regarding the number of bunches per plant, cluster weight, yield and total soluble solids, demonstrating a statistically positive response in treatment T2 (with n - 1 pruning, where n : number of summer pruning performed and treatment plant). The treatment plant showed significant results regarding the reduction in disease severity on leaves and reduction in defoliation after harvest.

This thesis proposes a fresh engagement with the idea of the archaic as a means to recover and replenish some of the lost vitality suffered during what William Barrett characterized the modern period as “the gigantic externalization of life.” An introductory essay examines how the related ideas of the archaic, the primal, and the prehistoric have at key moments provided a source of creative energy for the arts of the last century. Collections of found material, and several photographic studies document the city of Niagara Falls—icon of American pop culture and faded relic of romanticism. The photographs present an alternative to the world of the touristic snapshot, and address the questions: In the age of simulation how do we know what is real anymore? Can we learn to see with archaic eyes?

This thesis proposes a fresh engagement with the idea of the archaic as a means to recover and replenish some of the lost vitality suffered during what William Barrett characterized the modern period as “the gigantic externalization of life.” An introductory essay examines how the related ideas of the archaic, the primal, and the prehistoric have at key moments provided a source of creative energy for the arts of the last century. Collections of found material, and several photographic studies document the city of Niagara Falls—icon of American pop culture and faded relic of romanticism. The photographs present an alternative to the world of the touristic snapshot, and address the questions: In the age of simulation how do we know what is real anymore? Can we learn to see with archaic eyes?

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Carleton University, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-274). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Groundwater chemistry on the Niagara Peninsula has been identified as highly mineralized in comparison to groundwaters collected from the same bedrock formations elsewhere in southern Ontario. Three geochemical zones were discerned using hierarchical cluster analysis and other geochemical and isotopic methods. The Escarpment Zone, located along the Niagara and Onondaga Escarpments, is characterized by unconfined aquifer conditions, parameters reflective of surficial contaminants, including road salt, and elevated HCO3, DOC, NO3-, coliform bacteria and tritium. In contrast, in the Salina Zone thick, low-permeability sediments and gypsiferous bedrock results in highly mineralized groundwaters with Ca-SO4 geochemical facies and elevated S2-, Ca2+, Mg2+, K+, Na+, SO42-, Cl-, Br-, Sr2+, NH4+ and CH4. The Guelph Zone contains the lowest electrical conductivity of the three zones and elevated F-. Outliers exist with groundwater geochemistry that differs from the local geochemical zone and the host aquifer. These sites have elevated SO42- (>1000 to 5200 mg/L) with depleted δ34SSO4 (-2.2 to 14.3‰ VCDT) signatures that differs starkly from Devonian and Silurian evaporites (~20 to 32 ‰) in the host formations. This exogenic SO4 was identified in a cross-formational northeast – southwest linear trend crossing three major groundwater flow systems. The lack of down-stream impact in these systems and tritium groundwater ages that are typically only decades old indicate a young, non-geological origin and implicate anthropogenic activities. Additionally, nine samples were identified with elevated methane concentrations and δ13CCH4 signatures within the thermogenic range. As thermogenic methane is not produced within shallow aquifers and would be short-lived in the presence of the ubiquitous sulfate, these samples imply recent upward migration of methane from depth through vertical conduits. Taken together, the evidence supports large-scale upward movement of fluids in the centre of the Niagara geochemical anomaly and more sporadic upward transport of gases over a wider area of the peninsula. The most likely vector is through corroded and leaking casings or boreholes of abandoned (century) gas wells that are common across the peninsula. / Thesis / Master of Science (MSc)

Americana Suite is a seven movement musical composition inspired by nineteenth and early twentieth century American master paintings. Representative artists from each of the major schools of American painting include Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, George Bellows, Edward Hopper and Georgia O'Keeffe. Essentially pluralist in style, the suite is written for ensembles of varying size and genre, spanning from full orchestra and contemporary big band to intimate jazz chamber ensembles and electro-acoustic hybrids. Four of the seven movements are written for jazz ensembles and incorporate improvisation, while the other three orchestral movements explore romantic, impressionist and cinematic idioms. Historical summaries of each school, artist and painting are followed by detailed aesthetic and theoretical analyses of the respective movements. Harmonica virtuoso Howard Levy performs as a special guest artist.

Power gating is a technique commonly used for runtime leakage reduction in digital CMOS circuits. In microprocessors, power gating can be implemented by using sleep transistors to selectively deactivate circuit modules when they are idle during program execution. In this dissertation, a framework for power gating arithmetic functional units in embedded microprocessors with architecture and compiler support is proposed. During compile time, program regions are identified where one or more functional units are idle and sleep instructions are inserted into the code so that those units can be put to sleep during program execution. Subsequently, when their need is detected during the instruction decode stage, they are woken up with the help of hardware control signals. For a set of benchmarks from the MiBench suite, leakage energy savings of 27% and 31% are achieved (based on a 70 nm PTM model) in the functional units of a processor, modeled on the ARM architecture, with and without floating point units, respectively. Further, the impact of traditional performance-enhancing compiler optimizations on the amount of leakage savings obtained with this framework is studied through analysis and simulations. Based on the observations, a leakage-aware compilation flow is derived that improves the effectiveness of this framework. It is observed that, through the use of various compiler optimizations, an additional savings of around 15% and even up to 9X leakage energy savings in individual functional units is possible. Finally,in the context of multi-core processors supporting multithreading, three different microarchitectural techniques, for different multithreading schemes, are investigated for state-retentive power gating of register files. In an in-order core, when a thread gets blocked due to a memory stall, the corresponding register file can be placed in a low leakage state. When the memory stall gets resolved, the register file is activated so that it may be accessed again. The overhead due to wake-up latency is completely hidden in two of the schemes, while it is hidden for the most part in the third. Experimental results on multiprogrammed workloads comprised of SPEC 2000 integer benchmarks show that, in an 8-core processor executing 64 threads, the average leakage savings in the register files, modeled in FreePDK 45 nm MTCMOS technology, are 42% in coarse-grained multithreading, while they are between 7% and 8% in fine-grained and simultaneous multithreading. The contributions of this dissertation represent a significant advancement in the quest for reducing leakage energy consumption in microprocessors with minimal degradation in performance.

This thesis deals with developing program components for collection of semantically labeled data from Honeywell's Hawk controller. The basic principles and capabilities of development using Niagara Framework, on which Hawk is based, are explained. Lastly, the specific components and external database application is described.

This dissertation examines how American businesses’ focus on transportation and trade came to be key agents of US imperialism at the turn of the twentieth century. Extending our understanding of the architecture and urbanism of US industry and commerce, “Empire’s Stores” turns to the design, construction, and maintenance of transnational and transimperial supply chains and the physical infrastructure that made them possible—what I call the architecture of conveyance. Divided into four chapters, the project examines the built environment created by a set of firms and related industries selected geographically: to the West, the “Big Five” sugar factors and their predecessors operating in the Hawaiian Islands; to the North, the Niagara Falls Power Company and related hydroelectric concerns located along the Niagara Frontier; to the South, the United Fruit Company’s operations, including both tourism and trade, anchored in the Port of New Orleans; and, to the East, the storage, handling, and shipment of freight at the Bush Terminal Company in Brooklyn, New York. Through these case studies I show how American corporations produced and profited from imperial formations and, in doing so, reshaped territorial, geographic, and economic borders.