Written and oral material produced by a group of low-achieving learners of English from the 2-year lines of the Swedish upper secondary school was analysed from the perspective of grammatical correctness and communicative ability. The grammatical analysis focussed on the verb phrase and tests included both free production in speech and writing and elicitation tests. Communicative ability was assessed ‘ ‘objectively* ’ by identifying such parameters as fluency, copiousness and span, and “holistically” by using non-expert evaluators.The scores thus obtained were correlated. Grammatical correctness was correlated with communicative ability both in speech and in writing and writing proficiency was correlated with speech proficiency with respect to both grammatical correctness and communicative ability.Our findings are that there is a positive correlation between grammatical correctness and communicative ability. A remarkable finding is that the percentage of correct verb phrases correlates very weakly with communicative ability in written data. In oral data, the correlation is in fact slightly negative. The learner’s competence in grammar is reflected in both his written and oral performance. On the other hand, there is no correlation between communicative ability in writing and communicative ability in speech.The study shows that a working command of a set of syntactic rules is essential for communication. Errors are, however, an integral part of the learning process. The major part of errors are accounted for by the learner’s use of compensatory strategies. Among these low-achievers, communicative ability in conversation is distinct from writing ability. / digitalisering@umu

Over the last few decades, we have been witnessing a tremendous evolution in mobile computing, wireless networking and hand-held devices. In the future communication networks, users are anticipated to become even more mobile demanding for ubiquitous connectivity to different applications which will be preferably aware of their context. Admittedly, location information as part of their context is of paramount importance from both application and network perspectives. From application or user point of view, service provision can upgrade if adaptation to the user's context is enabled. From network point of view, functionalities such as routing, handoff management, resource allocation and others can also benefit if user's location can be tracked or even predicted. Within this context, we focus our attention on indoor localization and handoff prediction which are indispensable components towards the ultimate success of the envisioned pervasive communication era. While outdoor positioning systems have already proven their potential in a wide range of commercial applications, the path towards a successful indoor location system is recognized to be much more difficult, mainly due to the harsh indoor characteristics and requirement for higher accuracy. Similarly, handoff management in the future heterogeneous wireless networks is much more challenging than in traditional homogeneous networks. Handoff schemes must be seamless for meeting strict Quality of Service (QoS) requirements of the future applications and functional despite the diversity of operation features of the different technologies. In addition, handoff decisions should be flexible enough to accommodate user preferences from a wide range of criteria offered by all technologies. The main objective of this thesis is to devise accurate, time and power efficient location and handoff management systems in order to satisfy better context-aware and mobile applications. For indoor localization, the potential of Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies as standalone location sensing technologies are first studied by testing several algorithms and metrics in a real experimental testbed or by extensive simulations, while their shortcomings are also identified. Their integration in a common architecture is then proposed in order to combine their key benefits and overcome their limitations. The performance superiority of the synergetic system over the stand alone counterparts is validated via extensive analysis. Regarding the handoff management task, we pinpoint that context awareness can also enhance the network functionality. Consequently, two such schemes which utilize information obtained from localization systems are proposed. The first scheme relies on a RFID tag deployment, alike our RFID positioning architecture, and by following the WLAN scene analysis positioning concept, predicts the next network layer location, i.e. the next point of attachment to the network. The second scheme relies on an integrated RFID and Wireless Sensor/Actuator Network (WSAN) deployment for tracking the users' physical location and subsequently for predicting next their handoff point at both link and network layers. Being independent of the underlying principle wireless access technology, both schemes can be easily implemented in heterogeneous networks. Performance evaluation results demonstrate the advantages of the proposed schemes over the standard protocols regarding prediction accuracy, time latency and energy savings

Le cadre général des travaux de cette thèse est la chaîne logistique des pièces de rechange et particulièrement l’amélioration de sa performance en prévision et en gestion des stocks à plusieurs niveaux de service. La spécificité d’une demande faible et erratique ne permet pas l’utilisation des approches classiques de prévision. Par ailleurs, les mesures de performance associées reposant sur des indicateurs purement statistiques ne reflètent pas nécessairement les objectifs de gestion d’une chaîne logistique qui cherche à s’aligner avec différents niveaux d’exigence des contrats de maintenance. Après une description des processus et des outils en prévision et en gestion de stocks utilisés dans ce contexte, ces travaux proposent de nouvelles approches de sélection des méthodes de prévisions qui intègrent prévision et gestion de stocks, qui permettent la priorisation en service ou en inventaire et qui utilisent une segmentation par profil de la demande et par niveau de maturité des pièces. Par la suite, ces travaux considèrent le cas de la différenciation client dans le modèle de gestion de stocks basé sur des prévisions, en comparant la performance de la politique à niveau critique avec les politiques classiques à stock commun ou séparé. Chaque processus étudié a été accompagné d’une analyse comparative entre différentes méthodes de prévisions et politiques de gestion de stocks sur des données réelles du cas d’application industrielle de la chaine logistique de GE Healthcare. Ce qui a permis de construire un ensemble de recommandations en fonction de la segmentation de la pièce et des priorités des décideurs. / The main scope of these works is the spare parts supply chain management, particularly the improvement of forecasting and inventory management performance. The specificity of low and erratic demand does not allow the use of conventional approaches of forecasting. Moreover, the associated performance measurements, based on purely statistical indicators, are not adapted to this context. Indeed, it should align with different levels of expectations of the maintenance contracts. After a presentation of the processes and tools used by the dedicated literature. Here we propose new performance analysis approaches seeking to combine the statistical performance of forecasting methods and inventory management performance while considering decision makers priorities and using demand pattern as well as parts age segmentations. These works also address the use of customer differentiation in the inventory model based on forecasting, by comparing the performance of the critical level policy with the common stock and separated stock policies. Each studied process was associated with a comparative analysis of different forecasting methods and inventory management models based on real data of the spare parts supply chain of GE Healthcare, which allowed us to define a set of methods and parameters recommendations according to both part segmentations and supply chain priorities.

L'objectif de ce travail a été de développer un modèle pour prédire le comportement d'une installation photovoltaïque (PV) dans une zone désertique maritime, afin d'optimiser la production instantanée et de maintenir les performances au fil du temps. Les données issues du monitoring d’une centrale solaire ont été analysées afin d’en extraire des indicateurs de performances et d’étudier l'impact des facteurs climatiques (température, irradiation et dépôts de poussière). Les méthodes d'analyse de performance, telles que la "transposition aux conditions de référence" (Ex. PVUSA) et "estimation des mesures de performance" (Ex. PR) ont été appliquées pour évaluer le taux de dégradation annuel de l'installation. Une première indication de la durée de vie des installations PV pour le climat de Djibouti a été obtenue, ainsi qu'une capacité à prédire l'évolution à long terme de cette centrale et des futures installations PV. Parallèlement, un modèle numérique de l'installation PV a été construit en utilisant TRNSYS, incluant les modules et les onduleurs, pour retranscrire le comportement du système PV dans son ensemble, ainsi que les conditions environnementales dans lesquelles il évolue. Le modèle inclus dans la bibliothèque TRNSYS a été amélioré à l'aide de résultats expérimentaux, en particulier en ce qui concerne la dépendance thermique. Un modèle prédictif a donc été développé combinant l'accumulation de poussière, un modèle empirique de températures et de dégradation du module. Enfin, une étude paramétrique a été réalisée avec le modèle complet, afin d'évaluer l'impact du nettoyage pour divers scénarios d’empoussièrement. Les résultats contribueront à l'optimisation de la conception et de l'exploitation des centrales solaires dans ce type de climat. / The objective of this work has been to develop a model for the behavior of a photovoltaic (PV) plant in an arid zone, to optimize instantaneous production and maintain performance over time. Monitoring data were collected for a solar power plant, which were then studied to infer the impact of climatic factors (temperature, irradiation and dust deposits). Performance analysis techniques including "transposition to reference conditions" (eg. PVUSA) and "estimation of standard performance measures" (eg. PR) were applied to evaluate the annual degradation rate of the facility. A first indication of expected lifetime of PV installations for the climate of Djibouti was thus obtained, as well as a capacity to predict the long-term evolution of the plant and future installations. In parallel, a numerical model of the photovoltaic installation was constructed using TRNSYS, including the modules and inverters, to transcribe the behavior of the PV system as a whole, and also the environmental conditions in which it evolves. The model included in the standard TRNSYS library was improved with the aid of experimental results, in particular with regards the thermal dependence. A predictive model was thus developed combining dust accumulation, an empirical model of module temperatures and degradation. Finally, a parametric study was undertaken with the complete model, to evaluate the impact of cleaning schedules under various dust scenarios. The results will contribute to the optimization of solar power plant design and operation in this type of climate.

Cette thèse traite des performances des serveurs de données en multi-cœur. Plus précisément nous nous intéressons au passage à l'échelle avec le nombre de cœurs. Dans un premier temps, nous étudions le fonctionnement interne d'un support d'exécution événementiel multi-cœur. Nous montrons tout d'abord que le faux-partage ainsi que les mécanismes de communications inter-cœurs dégradent fortement les performances et empêchent le passage à l'échelle des applications. Nous proposons alors plusieurs optimisations pour pallier ces comportements. Dans un second temps, nous comparons les performances en multi-cœur de trois serveurs Web chacun représentatif d'un modèle de programmation. Nous remarquons que les différences de performances observées entre les serveurs varient lorsque le nombre de cœurs augmente. Après une analyse approfondie des performances observées, nous identifions la cause de la limitation du passage à l'échelle des serveurs étudiés. Nous présentons une proposition ainsi qu'un ensemble de pistes pour lever cette limitation. / This thesis studies the performances of data servers on multicores. More precisely, we focus on the scalability with the number of cores. First, we study the internals of an event-driven multicore runtime. We demonstrate that false sharing and inter-core communications hurt performances badly, and prevent applications from scaling. We then propose several optimisations to fix these issues. In a second part, we compare the multicore performances of three Webservers, each reprensentative of a programming model. We observe that the differences between each server's performances vary as the number of cores increases. We are able to pinpoint the cause of the scalability limitation observed. We present one approach and some perspectives to overcome this limit.

L'objectif du travail présenté dans cette thèse est de répondre à un verrou fondamental, qui est «comment programmer d'une manière rigoureuse et efficace des applications embarquées sur des plateformes multi-coeurs?». Cette problématique pose plusieurs défis: 1) le développement d'une approche rigoureuse basée sur les modèles pour pouvoir garantir la correction; 2) le « mariage » entre modèle physique et modèle de calcul, c'est-à-dire, l'intégration du fonctionnel et non-fonctionnel; 3) l'adaptabilité. Pour s'attaquer à ces défis, nous avons développé un flot de conception rigoureux autour du langage BIP. Ce flot de conception permet l'exploration de l'espace de conception, le traitement à diffèrent niveaux d'abstraction à la fois pour la plate-forme et l'application, la génération du code et le déploiement sur des plates-formes multi-cœurs. La méthode utilisée s'appuie sur des transformations source-vers-source des modèles BIP. Ces transformations sont correctes-par-construction. Nous illustrons ce flot de conception avec la modélisation et le déploiement de plusieurs applications sur deux plates-formes différentes. La première plate-forme considérée est MPARM, une plate-forme virtuelle, basée sur des processeurs ARM et structurée avec des clusters, où chacun contient plusieurs cœurs. Pour cette plate-forme, nous avons considérée les applications suivantes: la factorisation de Cholesky, le décodage MPEG-2, le décodage MJPEG, la Transformée de Fourier Rapide et un algorithme de demosaicing. La seconde plate-forme est P2012/STHORM, une plate-forme multi-cœur, basée sur plusieurs clusters capable d'une gestion énergétique efficace. L'application considérée sur P2012/STHORM est l'algorithme HMAX. Les résultats expérimentaux montrent l'intérêt du flot de conception, notamment l'analyse rapide des performances ainsi que la modélisation au niveau du système, la génération de code et le déploiement. / The advent of many-core platforms is nowadays challenging our capabilities for efficient and predictable design. To meet this challenge, designers need methods and tools for guaranteeing essential properties and determining tradeoffs between performance and efficient resource management. In the process of designing a mixed software/hardware system, functional constraints and also extra-functional specifications should be taken into account as an essential part for the design of embedded systems. The impact of design choices on the overall behavior of the system should also be analyzed. This implies a deep understanding of the interaction between application software and the underlying execution platform. We present a rigorous model-based design flow for building parallel applications running on top of many-core platforms. The flow is based on the BIP - Behavior, Interaction, Priority - component framework and its associated toolbox. The method allows generation of a correct-by-construction mixed hardware/software system model for manycore platforms from an application software and a mapping. It is based on source-to-source correct-by-construction transformations of BIP models. It provides full support for modeling application software and validation of its functional correctness, modeling and performance analysis of system-level models, code generation and deployment on target many-core platforms. Our design flow is illustrated through the modeling and deployment of various software applications on two different hardware platforms; MPARM and platform P2012/STHORM. MPARM is a virtual ARM-based multi-cluster manycore platform, configured by the number of clusters, the number of ARM cores per cluster, and their interconnections. On MPARM, the software applications considered are the Cholesky factorization, the MPEG-2 decoding, the MJPEG decoding, the Fast Fourier Transform and the Demosaicing algorithm. Platform 2012 (P2012/STHORM) is a power efficient manycore computing fabric, which is highly modular and based on multiple clusters capable of aggressive fine-grained power management. As a case study on P2012/STHORM, we used the HMAX algorithm. Experimental results show the merits of the design flow, notably performance analysis as well as correct-by-construction system level modeling, code generation and efficient deployment.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:09:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JonatasALJ_TESE.pdf: 9049452 bytes, checksum: dd9b668c8bc7791108be8a6bbc44e152 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-04-28 / A self-flotator vibrational prototype electromechanical drive for treatment of oil and water emulsion or like emulsion is presented and evaluated. Oil production and refining to obtain derivatives is carried out under arrangements technically referred to as on-shore and off-shore, ie, on the continent and in the sea. In Brazil 80 % of the petroleum production is taken at sea and area of deployment and it cost scale are worrisome. It is associated, oily water production on a large scale, carrier 95% of the potential pollutant of activity whose final destination is the environment medium, terrestrial or maritime. Although diversified set of techniques and water treatment systems are in use or research, we propose an innovative system that operates in a sustainable way without chemical additives, for the good of the ecosystem. Labyrinth adsor-bent is used in metal spirals, and laboratory scale flow. Equipment and process patents are claimed. Treatments were performed at different flow rates and bands often monitored with control systems, some built, other bought for this purpose. Measurements of the levels of oil and grease (OGC) of efluents treaty remained within the range of legal framework under test conditions. Adsorbents were weighed before and after treatment for obtaining oil impregna-tion, the performance goal of vibratory action and treatment as a whole. Treatment technolo-gies in course are referenced, to compare performance, qualitatively and quantitatively. The vibration energy consumption is faced with and without conventional flotation and self-flotation. There are good prospects for the proposed, especially in reducing the residence time, by capillary action system. The impregnation dimensionless parameter was created and confronted with consecrated dimensionless parameters, on the vibrational version, such as Weber number and Froude number in quadratic form, referred to as vibrational criticality. Re-sults suggest limits to the vibration intensity / Um prot?tipo vibr?til autoflotador de acionamento eletromec?nico para tratamento de ?gua de produ??o de petr?leo e emuls?o cong?nere ? apresentado e avaliado. A produ??o de petr?leo para refinamento e obten??o de derivados ? realizada sob modalidades tecnicamente referidas como on-shore e off-shore, isto ?, no continente e no mar. No Brasil 80% da produ??o petrol?-fera ? feita no mar e ?rea de implanta??o e escala de custo s?o preocupantes. Associa-se ?gua oleosa de produ??o, efluente abundante em larga escala, carreadora de 95% do potencial polu-idor da atividade cujo destino final ? o meio ambiente mar?timo ou terrestre. Embora diversi-ficado conjunto de t?cnicas e sistemas de tratamento d ?gua encontram-se em uso ou pesqui-sa, prop?e-se um sistema inovador que opera de forma sustent?vel sem aditivos qu?micos, pa-ra o bem do ecossistema. Utilizou-se labirinto adsorvente, em espirais met?licos, e escala la-boratorial de fluxo. Patentes de equipamento e processo s?o reivindicadas. Realizaram-se tra-tamentos em vaz?es e faixas de frequ?ncia distintas, monitoradas com sistemas de controle, uns constru?dos, outros aquistados para tal. Medi??es do teor de ?leo e graxa (TOG) do eflu-ente tratado mantiveram-se dentro do intervalo de enquadramento legal nas condi??es de en-saio. Pesaram-se os adsorventes antes e ap?s o tratamento para obten??o da impregna??o de ?leo, meta de desempenho da a??o vibrat?ria e tratamento como um todo. Tecnologias atuais de tratamento s?o referenciadas para compara??o de desempenho, qualitativa e quantitativa-mente. Confrontou-se consumo energ?tico operando-se em vibra??o, com e sem flota??o con-vencional, e com autoflota??o. Vislumbram-se boas perspectivas de rendimento do sistema proposto, sobretudo, na redu??o do tempo de resid?ncia por a??o de capilaridade. Criou-se o par?metro adimensional de impregna??o e se lhe confrontou com consagrados par?metros a-dimensionais, na vers?o vibracional, como n?mero de Weber e n?mero de Froud quadr?tico, referido como criticalidade vibr?til. Resultados sugerem limites ? intensidade vibrat?ria

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:55:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 RenataPB_DISSERT.pdf: 1489254 bytes, checksum: 88fdf1027875fb6b83dbe203da3c24f7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-11-14 / It s notorious the advance of computer networks in recent decades, whether in relation to transmission rates, the number of interconnected devices or the existing applications. In parallel, it s also visible this progress in various sectors of the automation, such as: industrial, commercial and residential. In one of its branches, we find the hospital networks, which can make the use of a range of services, ranging from the simple registration of patients to a surgery by a robot under the supervision of a physician. In the context of both worlds, appear the applications in Telemedicine and Telehealth, which work with the transfer in real time of high resolution images, sound, video and patient data. Then comes a problem, since the computer networks, originally developed for the transfer of less complex data, is now being used by a service that involves high transfer rates and needs requirements for quality of service (QoS) offered by the network . Thus, this work aims to do the analysis and comparison of performance of a network when subjected to this type of application, for two different situations: the first without the use of QoS policies, and the second with the application of such policies, using as scenario for testing, the Metropolitan Health Network of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) / ? not?rio o avan?o das redes de computadores nas ?ltimas d?cadas, seja em rela??o ?s taxas de transmiss?o, ao n?mero de dispositivos interconectados ou mesmo ?s aplica??es existentes. Em paralelo, percebemos tamb?m este avan?o nos diversos segmentos da ?rea de automa??o, tais como: industrial, comercial e residencial. Em uma de suas ramifica??es, encontram-se as redes hospitalares, que podem fazer uso de uma gama de servi?os, que v?o desde o simples cadastro de pacientes at? uma cirurgia feita por um rob? sob a supervis?o de um m?dico especialista. No contexto dos dois universos, aparecem as aplica??es em Telemedicina e Telessa?de, que trabalham com a transfer?ncia, em tempo real, de imagens de alta resolu??o, som, v?deo e dados de pacientes. Surge ent?o um problema, visto que as redes de computadores, inicialmente criadas para a transfer?ncia de dados menos complexos, est? sendo agora usada por um servi?o que envolve altas taxas de transfer?ncia e apresenta requisitos em rela??o ? qualidade do servi?o (QoS) oferecido pela rede. Desta forma, este trabalho realiza uma an?lise e compara??o de desempenho de uma rede quando submetida a esse tipo de aplica??o, para duas situa??es distintas: a primeira sem o uso de pol?ticas de QoS, e a segunda com a aplica??o de tais pol?ticas, usando como cen?rio para os testes, a Rede Metropolitana de Sa?de da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN)

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In the last decade, web browsers have seen a remarkable increase of performance, especially in the JavaScript engines. JavaScript has over the years gone from being a slow and rather limited language, to today have become feature-rich and fast. It’s speed can be around the same or half of comparable code written in C++, but this speed is directly dependent on the choice of the web browser, and the best performance is seen in browsers using JIT compilation techniques. Even though the language has seen a dramatic increase in performance, there’s still major problems regarding memory usage. JavaScript applications typically consume 3-4 times more memory than similar applications written in C++. Many browser vendors, like Opera Software, acknowledge this and are currently trying to optimize their memory usage. This issue is hopefully non-existent within a near future. Because the majority of scientific papers written about JavaScript only compare performance using the industry benchmarks SunSpider and V8, this thesis have chosen to widen the scope. The benchmarks really give no information about how JavaScript stands in comparison to C#, C++ and other popular languages. To be able to compare that, I’ve implemented a GIF decoder, an XML parser and various elementary tests in both JavaScript and C++ to compare how far apart the languages are in terms of speed, memory usage and responsiveness.