The purpose of the project is to develop a demo system for the satellite computer company Uni-bap. This demo system is used by the sales team at business fairs to showcase the potential andcapabilities of Unibap’s solutions. However, the current demo system lacks the visual appeal anduser-friendliness desired by the sales team. Our task is to address these shortcomings by devel-oping an application that is both educational and user-friendly. Additionally, the project involvesconstructing a demo box for the computer running our application to enhance its portability andensure efficient heat management.Through internal and external interviews with Unibap’s employees and other industry experts, weformulated the aims and goals of the project. The results included designing a Graphical UserInterface (GUI) for the demo system. Although we did not have time to implement all the plannedfeatures, the results were positive in terms of design and the implementations achieved so far. Theconstruction of the demo box was also successful, enhancing the system’s portability and heatmanagement. Further improvements are suggested to make the GUI even more user-friendly and educational.

Under 1960- och 70-talen genomfördes Miljonprogrammet i Sverige, ett ambitiöst byggprojekt som syftade till att skapa en miljon nya bostäder på tio år. Dessa bostadsområden byggdes snabbt och med fokus på att lösa den akuta bostadsbristen. Trots de goda intentionerna har många av dessa områden, som Kungsmarken, senare drabbats av segregaƟ on och sociala utmaningar. Bristande integration och socioekonomiska skillnader har lett till att dessa områden ofta upplevs som isolerade från resten av samhället. Detta projekt kommer att undersöka stadsplaneringsstrategier för att främja integration i segregerade bostadsområden, med Kungsmarken som fallstudie. Genom att studera tidigare framgångsrika projekt i Alby och Rosengård kommer effektiva metoder att identifieras och anpassas för Kungsmarken. Projektet kommer att presentera konkreta åtgärder för att främja integration. Målet är att utveckla en inkluderande stadsplanering som minskar segregation och främjar en mer integrerad samhällsutveckling.

Andelen avhopp från svensk civilingenjörsutbildning är oroväckande hög, omkring 50 %. Orsaken anges ofta kunna hänföras till matematikkurser inom programmen. Ingenjörsstudenter är ofta inte tillräckligt väl förberedda för att klara den höjda abstraktionsnivån och de höjda kraven, jämfört med matematikkurser på gymnasiet. Forskning har påvisat skillnader i matematik mellan gymnasieutbildning och högre utbildningm, som sannolikt orsakar problem för oförberedda studenter. Denna studie syftar till att identifiera några specifika problem som eleverna möter under övergången och föreslå för matematiklärare på gymnasiet hur de kan underlätta övergången för sina elever. Fyra semistrukturerade intervjuer har genomförts med matematiklärare vid universitetet för att få insikter om universitetets förväntningar och matematikområden där de nya studenternas förkunskaper inte är tillfredsställande. Resultaten användes sedan för att analysera kursplanen och en lärobok i kursen Matematik 4. Resultaten tyder på att det finns flera perspektiv på övergångsproblemet och flera orsaker till skillnaderna mellan utbildningsnivåerna. Vissa skillnader skapas på grund av olika syn på matematik som ämne. Andra skillnader förklaras av bristande överensstämmelse mellan läroboken, läroplanen och universitetets förväntningar. Fyra möjliga sätt att minska övergångsproblemet föreslås för gymnasielärare: att (1) använda välplanerade läxor, (2) arbeta med olika matematiska texter, (3) kontrollera tillgången till miniräknare och formelblad och (4) hålla kontakt och samarbete med ett universitet. / The drop-off rate from Swedish engineering education is worryingly high, at about 50 %. The reason is commonly stated as pertaining to mathematics courses within the programmes. Engineering students are often not prepared well enough to handle the increased abstraction level and requirements, as compared to mathematics courses in Swedish upper secondary school. Research has shown that there are indeed differences in mathematics between secondary and tertiary education which are likely to cause problems for unprepared students. This study aims to identify some specific issues that students face during the transition and propose to upper secondary school math teachers ways of easing the transition for their students. Four semistructured interviews were carried out with university math teachers in order to gather insight about university expectations and areas of mathematics where the new students’ prior knowledge is not satisfactory. The findings were then used to analyze the course syllabus and a textbook in the course Mathematics 4. Results indicate there are several perspectives on the transition problem and several reasons for the differences between the education levels. Some differences are created due to different views on mathematics as a subject. Other differences are explained by lacking correspondence between the textbook, the course syllabus and university expectations. Four possible ways of lessening the transition problem are proposed for upper secondary school teachers: (1) using well-planned homework, (2) working with different mathematical texts, (3) controlling the availability of calculators and formula sheets and (4) maintaining contact and cooperation with a university.

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Historicamente, são conhecidos vários pontos de contacto entre a música e conceitos das áreas de estudo científico. Este projeto visa explorar e compreender o potencial destas relações, apostando na atividade musical como uma ponte de contacto para tópicos das ciências da computação. Surgindo através de uma parceria com o Serviço Educativo da Orquestra de Jazz de Matosinhos, foram desenvolvidas e implementadas atividades sob a forma de workshops práticos, com participantes da Escola Secundária João Gonçalves Zarco, do concelho de Matosinhos, tendo como objetivo apurar de que forma é que estratégias e abordagens baseadas na atividade musical potenciam o contacto com as ciências da computação e a programação. A metodologia utilizada foi direcionada por uma revisão de literatura inicial, seguida de uma implementação prática de sessões com os participantes, terminando em dois momentos de apresentação pública dos trabalhos desenvolvidos, sendo suportada por uma fase final de recolha de testemunhos e comentários por parte dos envolvidos. Face aos resultados obtidos, acredita-se terem sido desenvolvidas, com sucesso, práticas e estratégias que, inseridas no contexto das referidas sessões, respondem aos objetivos desta dissertação. / Historically, several points of contact are known between music and concepts in the areas of scientific study. This project aims to explore and understand the potential of these relationships, focusing on musical activity as a bridge for topics related with computer science. Through a partnership with the Educational Service of the Orquestra de Jazz de Matosinhos, activities were developed and implemented in the form of practical workshops, with participants from Escola Secundária João Gonçalves Zarco, Matosinhos county, in order to find out how strategies and approaches based on musical activity can enhance contact with computer science and programming. The methodology used was guided by an initial literature review, followed by a practical implementation of sessions with the participants, ending in two moments of public presentation of the works developed, being supported by a final phase of gathering testimonies and comments by those involved . Given the results obtained, it is believed that successful practices and strategies were developed that, inserted in the context of these sessions, respond to the objectives of this dissertation.

Os grandes e crescentes acervos de áudio na web têm transformado a prática do design de som. Neste contexto, sampling -- uma ferramenta essencial do design de som -- mudou de gravações mecânicas para os domínios da cópia e reprodução no computador. A navegação eficaz nos grandes acervos e a recuperação de conteúdo tornaram-se um problema bem identificado em Music Information Retrieval, nomeadamente através da adoção de metodologias baseadas no conteúdo do áudio.Apesar da sua robustez e eficácia, as soluções tecnológicas atuais assentam principalmente em métodos (estatísticos) de processamento de sinal, cuja terminologia atinge um nível de adequação centrada no utilizador.Esta dissertação avança uma nova estratégia orientada semanticamente para navegação e recuperação de conteúdo de áudio, em particular, sons ambientais, a partir de grandes acervos de áudio na web. Por fim, pretendemos simplificar a extração de pedidos definidos pelo utilizador para promover uma geração fluida de paisagens sonoras. No nosso trabalho, os pedidos aos acervos de áudio na web são feitos por dimensões afetivas que se relacionam com estados emocionais (exemplo: baixa ativação e baixa valência) e descrições semânticas das fontes de áudio (exemplo: chuva). Para tal, mapeamos as anotações humanas das dimensões afetivas para descrições espectrais de áudio extraídas do conteúdo do sinal. A extração de novos sons dos acervos da web é feita estipulando um pedido que combina um ponto num plano afetivo bidimensional e tags semânticas. A aplicação protótipo, MScaper, implementa o método no ambiente Ableton Live. A avaliação da nossa pesquisa avaliou a confiabilidade perceptual dos descritores espectrais de áudio na captura de dimensões afetivas e a usabilidade da MScaper. Os resultados mostram que as características espectrais do áudio capturam significativamente as dimensões afetivas e que o MScaper foi entendido pelos os utilizadores experientes como tendo excelente usabilidade. / The large and growing archives of audio content on the web have been transforming the sound design practice. In this context, sampling -- a fundamental sound design tool -- has shifted from mechanical recording to the realms of the copying and cutting on the computer. To effectively browse these large archives and retrieve content became a well-identified problem in Music Information Retrieval, namely through the adoption of audio content-based methodologies. Despite its robustness and effectiveness, current technological solutions rely mostly on (statistical) signal processing methods, whose terminology do attain a level of user-centered explanatory adequacy.This dissertation advances a novel semantically-oriented strategy for browsing and retrieving audio content, in particular, environmental sounds, from large web audio archives. Ultimately, we aim to streamline the retrieval of user-defined queries to foster a fluid generation of soundscapes. In our work, querying web audio archives is done by affective dimensions that relate to emotional states (e.g., low arousal and low valence) and semantic audio source descriptions (e.g., rain). To this end, we map human annotations of affective dimensions to spectral audio-content descriptions extracted from the signal content. Retrieving new sounds from web archives is then made by specifying a query which combines a point in a 2-dimensional affective plane and semantic tags. A prototype application, MScaper, implements the method in the Ableton Live environment. An evaluation of our research assesses the perceptual soundness of the spectral audio-content descriptors in capturing affective dimensions and the usability of MScaper. The results show that spectral audio features significantly capture affective dimensions and that MScaper has been perceived by expert-users as having excellent usability.