Diss. Univ. St. Gallen, 2004.

Techn. Universiẗat, Diss., 2002--Berlin.

In order to combat the climate change caused by increasing emissions of CO2 from industrial processes, Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technologies have been accepted worldwide to address these pressing global warming concerns. So as to efficiently manage material and financial losses across the entire stream, accurate accounting and monitoring through fiscal metering of CO2 in CCS transportation pipelines are core and required features for the deployment of CCS technologies. Moreover, these technical requirements are part of the legal compliance schemes and guidelines from various regulatory bodies. This thesis reports experimental studies of two different metering technologies, an Averaging Pitot Tube (APT) and a Coriolis mass flowmeter (CMF), for CO2 flow measurement, together with the design and implementation of a CO2 flow calibration facility. A prototype system for the leak detection of the gas phase of CO2 is also developed. A review of the methodologies and technologies for the flow measurement and leak detection of CO2 gas is firstly given, followed by the discussion of the main challenges and technical requirements in their applications. Based on this review, two flow metering technologies, APT and CMF, are selected for experimental studies and a calibration platform using both volumetric and direct mass measurement methods for the gas phase of CO2 is also developed. The APT and CMF were calibrated and evaluated in the test facility. Experimental results obtained in this test facility demonstrate that the instruments are capable of accurately metering gaseous CO2 within a measurement uncertainty of ±1.5%. Flow characterization of the fluid under wet and mixed components conditions were further assessed with both meters. Under wet CO2 flow, results obtained show that both flow instruments are subject to significant measurement errors. The APT gave an error of up to ±25%, for a liquid fraction of 20%, while the error of the CMF was up ±6%, for a liquid fraction of 10%. Further investigations show that these errors can, however, be corrected through simple and straightforward algorithms that can be easily incorporated into computing processes in the flowmeters. In binary gaseous mixture tests, the CMF proved to be very reliable in the gas combination processes and likewise in the metering of the CO2 mixture (≤ ±1%), while a higher degree of uncertainty was registered for the APT (≤ ±4%). Overall analyses from investigations confirmed the APT and CMF instruments as promising technologies for CO2 flow measurement and can be further improved for application in actual CCS conditions. In addition, this thesis describes experimental investigations of the leak detection of CO2 gas from a pipeline, with emphasis on full controllability and flexibility of the operational process. An imaging system using passive temperature change detection techniques is designed, implemented and evaluated. The effectiveness of the developed technique is examined on a laboratory-scale flow rig system. Results obtained from tests confirmed the operability of the system configuration and validation of the thermal imaging approach. Suggestions for future development and enhancement of the proposed techniques are finally given.

Submitted by JOSÉ CARLOS CONSTANTIN JUNIOR null (jcconstantin@hotmail.com) on 2017-04-03T01:35:35Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação de Mestrado - PROFESSORES INICIANTES DO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO a proposta de formação de ingressantes da SEESP.pdf: 1989071 bytes, checksum: 70a5d0fc27a68a71d74092f8a871d6f3 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Juliano Benedito Ferreira (julianoferreira@reitoria.unesp.br) on 2017-04-07T16:29:32Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 constantinjunior_jc_me_arafcl.pdf: 1989071 bytes, checksum: 70a5d0fc27a68a71d74092f8a871d6f3 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-04-07T16:29:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 constantinjunior_jc_me_arafcl.pdf: 1989071 bytes, checksum: 70a5d0fc27a68a71d74092f8a871d6f3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-02-03 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) / O presente trabalho estrutura-se em torno da temática da Formação Continuada de Professores. É uma pesquisa desenvolvida utilizando uma abordagem qualitativa que se realizou por meio de dois procedimentos metodológicos, a pesquisa bibliográfica e a pesquisa documental. Buscou descrever a Escola de Formação e Aperfeiçoamento de Professores “Paulo Renato Costa Souza” – EFAP, política educacional de formação de professores, criada em 2009 pela Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo- SEE/SP, como estratégia de melhoria da educação no Estado. Analisou duas propostas de formação continuada de professores, intituladas como Curso de Formação de Ingressantes. Tem como objetivo central confrontar o curso de formação específica para ingresso na SEE/SP com as pesquisas sobre o professor iniciante em etapas da Educação Básica do Estado de São Paulo, para verificar se este atende as necessidades destes professores de acordo com o que dizem as pesquisas da área. O referencial teórico baseou-se em autores que desenvolvem estudos sobre a formação de professores, tais como, Carlos Marcelo Garcia, Maria da Graça N. Mizukami, Vera Maria Candau e Luciana Giovanni. E autores que se dedicam à investigação sobre o início da carreira e desenvolvimento profissional na carreira, tais como, Michaël Huberman, Maurice Tardif, e Carlos Marcelo Garcia. Os resultados evidenciam que o Curso de Formação da SEE/SP é uma ação inovadora de formação continuada do professor ingressante na rede estadual paulista, dos quais muitos são iniciantes, entretanto não atende ou atende minimamente às necessidades destes professores de acordo com o que dizem as pesquisas da área, valorizando de forma extrema a formação de conteúdos específicos em detrimento dos conteúdos pedagógicos e de uma epistemologia da prática profissional. Além disso, os achados da pesquisa revelam uma intenção na proposta de formação oferecida pela SEE/SP que é a busca por uma padronização da atividade docente por meio de materiais prontos, denominados por Caderno do Professor e Cadernos do Aluno. Importante destacar ainda, que existe a tentativa de “fabricação” de uma nova identidade para os professores da rede estadual paulista, o que se revela no tempo despendido no Curso para estudos relativos ao Currículo Oficial do Estado de São Paulo, com a avaliação externa SARESP e com os materiais pedagógicos oficiais. Com isso, pode-se afirmar que a proposta de formação oferecida pela EFAP por meio do Curso de Formação Específica baseia-se na racionalidade técnica, com atividades e conteúdos oferecidos por um curso de modelo clássico de formação com ênfase no treinamento ou reciclagem dos professores, uma instrução do que ensinar e de como ensinar. / The structure of this present work, is about the theme of Teacher’s Continuous Training. Is is a developed research using a qualitative approach which was accomplished via two methodological procedures, a bibliographic research and a documentary research. It seeked to describe the School of Techer’s Training an Improvement “Paulo Renato Costa Souza” – EFAP, educational policies of Teacher’s training, created in 2009 by the Educational Department of the State of São Paulo – SEE/SP, as a strategy for the improvement of the State’s education. Two proposals were analyzed about Teacher’s Continuous Training, entitled as a beginner’s training course. With the central aim to confront the course of specific training to join into SEE-SP, with the researches about the beginner teacher, in stages of the Basic Education in the State of São Paulo, to verify if these meet the needs of these teachers according to what is said in the researches. The theoretical framework was based in the authors that developed studies about the teacher’s training, such as, Carlos Marcelo Garcia, Maria da Graça N. Mizukami, Vera Maria Candau and Luciana M. Giovanni. And about authors that have devote themselves to the investigation of the beginning of the career and the professional development of the career, such as, Michael Huberman, Maurice Tardif, and Carlos Marcelo Garcia. The results highlight that the Formation of the SEE/SP, is an innovative action of the continuous training of the incoming teacher in the State of São Paulo’s system, of which, many are initiating, yet, they don’t meet or meet minimally to the needs of these teachers, according to the researches in this area, valuing in an extreme way, the formation of specific contents in detriment of pedagogical contents and of a epistemology of professional practice. Besides, the results of the research reveal an intention in the formation proposal offered by SEE/SP, which is the search for a standardization of the teacher’s activity through prompt material, denominated as Teacher’s Book and Student’s Book. It’s also important to highlight, that there is the attempt of “manufacturing” a new identity for the teachers in the State of São Paulo system, which reveals itself on the time spend on the Course for studies related to the Official Curriculum of the State of São Paulo, with an external evaluation SARESP and with official pedagogical materials. So then, it can be affirmed that the formation proposal offered by EFAP through the Specific Formation Course, bases itself in the technical rationality, with activities and contents offered by a course of classical type of formation with an emphasis on the workout and the recycling of the teachers, instructions of what to teach and how to teach.

Submitted by isabela.moljf@hotmail.com (isabela.moljf@hotmail.com) on 2017-05-15T12:25:28Z No. of bitstreams: 1 normaribeironassersalomao.pdf: 2554843 bytes, checksum: 8eb85afd198857663b5d583aefa1dc6f (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2017-05-17T15:53:45Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 normaribeironassersalomao.pdf: 2554843 bytes, checksum: 8eb85afd198857663b5d583aefa1dc6f (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-17T15:53:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 normaribeironassersalomao.pdf: 2554843 bytes, checksum: 8eb85afd198857663b5d583aefa1dc6f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-12-17 / Este trabalho propõe-se a lançar um olhar sobre o ver em Thomas Merton ao deixar-se tocar pela espiritualidade Zen budista na sua trajetória cristã. O eixo central desta tese será, portanto, o foco na sua via mística em comunhão com a natureza. A rigorosa tradição monástica Zen e o monasticismo trapista da Ordem Cisterciense assemelham-se na rígida disciplina de sua vida cotidiana. A criação para Merton está associada à visão de sacralidade, sendo que este amor é compartilhado pela perspectiva do Zen Budismo, no qual Natureza/Despertar são inseparáveis. A sede de Deus e de aprendizado levou o monge a uma peregrinação pelo continente asiático. Na sua busca da grande compaixão, ele encontrou o outro lado da montanha e viveu experiências místicas definitivas em sítios sagrados da Ásia. / This study proposes one sharp “looking” at Thomas Merton’s “seeing” considering how he let himself to be touched by the Zen Buddhist spirituality on his Christian journey. The axis of this thesis will be, therefore, to promote a focus on his mystic life lived in a great communion with the nature. The strict Zen monastic tradition and the trapist monasticism of the Cisters are really alike on their rigid disciplines taken seriously for the everyday living by the monks. The Creation in accordance with Merton’s thoughts is extremely associated with the vision of sacrality, furthermore the divine love is shared through a Zen perspective where nature/ to awake are inseparable. Thirsty of God and learning he has done a pilgrimage around the eastern continent and on his search for the great compassion he finally found the “other side of the mountain”, or in another words: he has lived many remarkable mystic experiences indeed while visiting some Asian sacred places.

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Japan is one of the world’s 34 biodiversity hotspots, according to Conservation International (CI). The methods used by various organisations to define priorities differ, however, and all have weaknesses when trying to identify hotspots at finer resolutions. The goal of this thesis is to investigate how biodiversity hotspots in Japan could be revealed and mapped in order to encapsulate conservation elements of biodiversity in practical ways and at various scales. Bioquality is a term that emphasises the concentration within a community of elements of biodiversity with high conservation value. It evaluates the global rarity and taxonomic distinctiveness of plant species or infra-specific taxa using four Star categories. At a plant community level, the Genetic Heat Index (GHI), which is a standardised global range size rarity score, is calculated using weighted Star statuses of species in the community. Bioquality hotspots are assessed here for the first time for the flora and vegetation in Japan – and for temperate Asia – by categorising the Japanese flora into Stars and by applying GHI to survey data and literature-based sources. Keys to Stars are developed for the Japanese flora, with adjustments for variability in species geographic range size information and for taxonomic relatedness. A Flora of Japan (FOJ) database was compiled as a BRAHMS database, containing 8,262 accepted names (30,656 taxon names in total, including synonyms) in 258 families – the first full database of Japanese vascular plants. A total of 7,145 taxa are assigned Stars; from the rarest to the widespread class, there are 884 Black, 756 Gold, 833 Blue, and 4,672 Green Star taxa, confirming that Japan as a whole contains a high proportion of globally rare taxa (23% taxa in Black or Gold). A protocol for calibrating the weight of Stars based on species geographic range is developed based on fine-resolution distribution maps within Japan and coarse–resolution Taxonomic Database Working Group (TDWG) code information. The protocol optimises calculation for temperate regions. The first ever bioquality hotspot maps of Japan are produced using two independent data sources on species distribution at national level: 1) 50 botanical prefectures using 4,830 species from the FOJ database; 2) 1,418 Horikawa ‘geoquadrats’ (0.1° latitude by 0.15° longitude grid) maps covering 829 species. The Ryukyu Islands and Ogasawara Islands are identified as bioquality hotspots, and high mountain ranges in mainland Japan are predicted to contain areas potentially high in GHI; the spatial patterns of GHI are generally concordant between maps of different resolutions. These findings highlight that bioquality assessment can be applied meaningfully at various spatial resolutions. Using field sampling data and existing literature, three study sites are further investigated on a local level: 1) the satochi-satoyama landscape, the current national priority area for biodiversity conservation; 2) various vegetation types of Okinawa-jima Island, the Ryukyu Islands; and 3) the Utaki sacred groves within the predicted hotspot of the Ryukyu Islands. The Ryukyu Islands are confirmed to contain bioquality hotspots within many individual sites, while there was generally low GHI across the satochi-satoyama landscape. The field study outcomes, together with a gap analysis of the existing coverage of protected areas, highlight three important points that are directly relevant to national biodiversity conservation planning: 1) the Ryukyu Islands urgently need newly designated protected areas; 2) the satochi-satoyama landscape conservation should redirect its focus on cultural benefits to the public; 3) the existing protected areas, particularly on mountain areas, need re-evaluation in terms of upgrading their status in light of the bioquality assessment.

Four elementary school children were tested on 120 words containing the short e (e.g., ten, pen) and short a (e.g., tan, pan) sounds. Words were tested in the hear-write (H/W) and see-say (S/S) channels. No programmed consequences were scheduled during baseline (BL) tests 1-3. After BL, an error analysis categorized words based on channel error and topography of error. Praise was delivered during tests 4-6 for correct responses. Children's responses were variable within channel and across channels for a majority of words. By the end of the praise phase, there was a decrease in the number of words with errors, for all children in their error word group. Error topographies began to stabilize for some words during praise.

This work focuses on the analysis of plasma irregularities generated during two active space experiments: the injection of an artificial dust layer, and high-power radio waves. The objective of the "first experiment is to examine the effects of artificially created dust layers on the scatter of radars from plasma irregularities embedded in dusty plasma in space. This is an alternate approach for understanding the mechanisms of enhanced radar scatter from plasma irregularities embedded in Noctilucent Clouds and Polar Mesospheric Summer Echoes. The second experiment involves a transmission of high power electromagnetic waves into the ionospheric plasma from the ground, which can excite stimulated electromagnetic emissions offset from the transmitter frequency. These stimulated electromagnetic emissions provide diagnostic information of the ionosphere and thus can be used to investigate fundamental physical principles which govern the earth\'s ionosphere, so that present and future transmission technologies may take into account the complexities of the ionosphere. The interaction altitude of the artificial dust layer and high power radio waves is approximately 250 km and 160 km respectively, thus dealing with uniquely different regions of the ionosphere. Each experiment is discussed separately using theoretical, observational and advanced computational methodologies. The study first investigates plasma turbulence associated with the creation of an artificial dust layer in the earth's ionosphere. Two scenarios are considered for plasma irregularity generation as dust is injected at an oblique angle across the geomagnetic field. The first is a shear-driven plasma instability due to inhomogeneities in the boundary layer between the injected charged dust layer and the background plasma. This begins to appear at very early times once the dust is released into the space plasma, which is of the order or less than the dust charging time period. The second mechanism is free streaming of the charged dust relative to the background plasma. This produces irregularities at times much longer than the dust charging period and also longer than the dust plasma period. Although both mechanisms are shown to produce turbulence in the lower hybrid frequency range, the resulting irregularities have important differences in their physical characteristics. A comparison between the processes is made to determine the consequences for upcoming observations. Both processes are shown to have the possibility of generating turbulence after the release of dust for the regimes of upcoming space experiments over a range of timescales. This work also presents the first observations of unique narrowband emissions ordered near the Hydrogen ion (H+) gyro-frequency (fcH) in the Stimulated Electromagnetic Emission (SEE) spectrum when the transmitter is tuned near the second electron gyro-harmonic frequency (2fce), during ionospheric modification experiments. The frequency structuring of these newly discovered emission lines is quite unexpected since H+ is known to be a minor constituent in the interaction region which is near 160 km altitude. The spectral lines are typically shifted from the pump wave frequency by harmonics of a frequency about 10% less than fcH (" 800 Hz) and have a bandwidth of less than 50 Hz which is near the O+ gyro-frequency fcO. A theory is proposed to explain these emissions in terms of a Parametric Decay Instability (PDI) in a multi-ion species plasma due to possible proton precipitation associated with the disturbed conditions during the heating experiment. The observations can be explained by including several percent H+ ions into the background plasma. The implications are new possibilities for characterizing proton precipitation events during ionospheric heating experiments. / Ph. D.

Digital commerce is a natural part of our everyday life. To fast and easily be able to make purchases from our home without stress has become a matter of course for us. But the new way to make purchases places new demands on the sales, not least at the important customer meeting. The interaction between customer and seller disappears completely and known marketing methods must be adapted to the new conditions. How does the customer journey change when the step from discovering a product to buying it is just a few clicks away? The study aims to investigate and develop a digital sales process for a mobile game aimed for children. The process is based on the marketing framework See-Think-Do-Care and tries to answer questions like which components are needed in a sales flow? How can a product be adapted to different types of users and can UX design be used to get interested customers to buy the product? The method is divided into two different sections. One section for evaluating the chosen marketing framework and another for the development of the sales process. The development of the sales process was made stepwise by prototypes in different degrees of fidelity. The first part of the result ended up in the implementation of the marketing framework, a developed customer journey, and a compilation of ten guidelines to adhere to for increasing the conversion of new customers. The sales flow was then developed step by step from only showing the routing to be a clickable solution similar to the intended end product. The di↵erent prototypes were evaluated by user testing and it was shown that the largest problem was not to make users understand the sales flow, it was to make them understand the actual product. The hope is that the result of the study will be able to be tested in production and be used in the real sales of the product.