Made available in DSpace on 2015-12-03T18:35:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Nilton_Cesar_Carraro.pdf: 896223 bytes, checksum: 8c0daf04f6bcf3e81b87cc842356e7fd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-07-30 / The study of the use of the management information in the decisions of the strategic disposition by the footwear Industry of Ja?? - SP - investigates the use of the management information in a systemic process. The population of the research was limited to the formal footwear Industry comprehending Ja?? and neighbouring cities, both located in the center-west of S??o Paulo State, which during several decades, cultivated this economical activity causing Ja?? to be renowned as the Women Footwear National Capital. As an incentive to the research the great entering of hand-made Asian products, mostly footwear, brings about some apprehension about the local Industry competitiveness condition, at first taking the research to revision of the techniques of strategical management which could make the systemic use of the management information evident in the search for competition advantages. Expecting to create a census, questionaires were both handed out as well as made available in the Internet, where only 41 Industries answered to the calling, translating what would be a census into an aleatory sample. After this gathering, the questionaire involving 24 questions on the structure and organization aspects, was then treated statistically, with the creation of frequency tables, to define the entries for the treatment of the Chi-Squared tests, homogeneity and independency - crossing a series of variants and testing the results obtained. In the search for the strategic disposition, it was possible to make it evident that factors related to the experience of the entrepreneurs, period of existence of the firms, and the fact of belonging to a footwear center, are the main tools in the generation of management information capable to help in the decisions of strategic disposition, however, issues such as the low number and qualification of administrative employees impair the organization structure of these Industries, jeopardizing the use this management information. Negative factors to the research were made clear through the analysis which points out the lack of planning and strategic controlling, the lack of information about competition, the lack of indicators which proves the business performance and mostly the lack of knowledge about skills and competences which must be created to guarantee the profits and the continuity of its future activities. As a main result of the research, it is understood that this area of business has management information, however, not enough to bear the necessary decisions in the strategic disposition of this Industry. / O estudo sobre a utiliza????o da informa????o gerencial nas decis??es de posicionamento estrat??gico pela ind??stria de cal??ados de Ja?? - SP procura investigar o uso das informa????es gerenciais dentro de um processo sist??mico. Delimitou-se a popula????o da pesquisa ?? ind??stria formal de cal??ados que comp??e o munic??pio de Ja?? e cidades circunvizinhas, ambas localizadas na regi??o centro-oeste do Estado de S??o Paulo, que ao longo de v??rias d??cadas cultivaram essa atividade econ??mica levando Ja?? a ser reconhecida como a Capital Nacional do Cal??ado Feminino. Como est??mulo ?? pesquisa, a grande entrada de produtos manufaturados vindos da ??sia, principalmente o cal??ado, gera uma inquieta????o sobre a condi????o de competitividade da ind??stria local, conduzindo a principio a pesquisa para revis??o de t??cnicas sobre gest??o estrat??gica que pudessem evidenciar o uso sist??mico da informa????o gerencial na busca de vantagens competitivas. Com a expectativa de se criar um censo, foram distribu??dos question??rios tanto pessoalmente como por meio da internet, onde apenas 41 ind??strias responderam ao chamado, traduzindo o que seria um censo em uma amostra aleat??ria. Ap??s essa coleta, o question??rio envolvendo 24 quest??es, abordando estrutura e aspectos organizacionais, passou a ser tratado estatisticamente, com a cria????o de tabelas de freq????ncia para defini????o das entradas para tratamento dos testes qui-quadrado, homogeneidade e independ??ncia - cruzando uma s??rie de vari??veis e testando os resultados obtidos. Na busca pelo posicionamento estrat??gico, pode-se evidenciar que fatores ligados ?? experi??ncia dos empres??rios, tempo de exist??ncia das empresas, e o fato de pertencer a um p??lo cal??adista, s??o as principais ferramentas na gera????o de informa????es gerenciais com poder de auxiliar nas decis??es de posicionamento estrat??gico, no entanto, quest??es como a baixa quantidade e qualifica????o dos empregados do setor administrativo prejudicam a estrutura organizacional dessas ind??strias, comprometendo negativamente a utiliza????o dessa informa????o gerencial. Fatores negativos a pesquisa foram evidenciados por meio das an??lises que apontam a falta de planejamento e controle estrat??gico, a falta de informa????es sobre a concorr??ncia, falta de indicadores que comprovam o desempenho empresarial, e principalmente a falta de conhecimento sobre habilidades e compet??ncias que devem ser geradas no intuito de garantir os lucros e continuidade de suas atividades futuras. Como resultado principal da pesquisa, percebe-se que o setor possui informa????es gerenciais, por??m, elas n??o s??o suficientes para suportar decis??es necess??rias no posicionamento estrat??gico dessa ind??stria.

Using dirt and cleaning as a point of departure, I have examined how categorization and intentionality affects our perception of value. The work is partly performative in its nature where this performativity sets the limelight on the transition between categories: From dirt to craft, from irrational behaviour to art. In the artistic process, I have used coffee rings on table cloths, shoeprints on wallpapers and  the act of mopping as a means of questioning. Through this, I also reveal and question hierarchies in society. The essay discusses and theoretically relates to the artistic work. / Med utgångspunkt i smuts har jag underökt hur kategorisering och intentionalitet påverkar vår uppfattning av värde. Arbetet är delvis performativt till sin natur, där denna performativitet sätter fokus på övergången från en kategori till en annan: Från smuts till konsthantverk, från irrationellt beteende till konst. I den konstnärliga processen har jag använt mig av kafferingar på dukar, skoavtryck på tapeter och moppande av golv som medel för ifrågasättande. PÅ detta vis blottlägger och ifrågasätter jag hierarkier i samhället. I uppsatsen diskuterar jag och relaterar teoretiskt till det konstnärliga arbetet.

Fossils belonging to the genus Homo, dating as far back as two million years ago, exhibit uniquely efficient features suggesting that early humans had evolved to become exceptional endurance runners. Although they did not have the cushion or stability-control features provided in our modern day running shoes, our early human ancestors experienced far less of the running-related injuries we experience today. The injury rate has been estimated as high as 90% annually for Americans training for a marathon and as high as 79% annually for all American endurance runners. There is an injury epidemic in conventionally shod populations that does not exist in the habitually unshod or minimally shod populations around the world. This has led many to conclude that the recent advent of highly technological shoes might be the problem. Although current literature has been inconclusive, there are two main limitations in virtually all of the studies: 1) transition phases of less than three months and 2) transition phases without rehabilitation exercises. These two aspects are key to the treatment of the structural consequences on the muscles and tendons of the foot and calf that habitually shod individuals have faced. This study includes a discussion of the cumulative consequences that lifelong shoe usage has on the development of the feet and lower legs. I propose a 78-week study that addresses the limitations of past studies by implementing a gradual, 32-week, multi-shoe transition complemented by an evidence-based rehabilitation program. I believe that this approach will restore strength and elasticity to muscles and tendons that have been inhibited by lifelong usage of overconstructed shoes and adequately prepare runners for the increased demand brought on by a­­­­­ changing running mechanic. This comprehensive, multifaceted transition plan to a fully minimalist shoe will provide novel insight into the ongoing barefoot debate. Can this approach finally demonstrate the proposed benefits of losing the shoes?

The diploma thesis concerns static project of chosen parts of load-bearing structure four-storey multifunctional building. It´s frame structural systém locally supported colomns. The thesis suggests floor slab above ground floor including punching, colomn, foundation pad, basement wall, loaded soil and strip foundation. Every element was judged by load-bearing capacity, designed reinforcement and made drawings of reinforcement. Calculation of internal forces is made by finite element method of the program dlubal RFEM.

The aim of the thesis is the design and assessment of selected elements of a new build multi-storey office building. The supporting structure of monolithic reinforced concrete skeleton is modeled SCIA Engineer and burdened set load cases and combinations. The outputs of the internal forces of the calculation program are dimensioned selected elements. Selected elements include locally supported slab, columns, column shoes, basement wall and footing still. The thesis is selected reinforced concrete elements assessed on the ultimate limit state. The output of this work is static calculation of individual elements. Another part of the output consists of drawings solved elements.

The final thesis is focused on reworking hospital pavilion from cast-in-place structure to precast concrete frame. Calculation of internal forces is made by software system SCIA Engineer. Main load-bearing elements are inner beam, outside beam and all columns in axis 2-C. This thesis contains assembly report, structural design, calculations and drawings of the designed parts, joint details, assembly material drawing and hand calculation.

The potential of Digital twin (DT) technology outside of the industrial field has been recognized by researchers who have promoted the vision of applying DTs technology beyond manufacturing, to purposes such as enhancing human well-being and improving quality of life (QoL). The expanded definition of DTs to incorporate living and nonliving physical entities into the definition of DTs was a key motivation behind the model introduced in this thesis for building health digital twins of citizens. In contrast with DTs that have been developed in more industrial fields, this type of digital twins modeling necessitates protecting each citizen's unique identity while also representing features common to all citizens in a unified way. In nature, DNA is an example of a model that is both unified, common to all humans, and unique, distinguishing each human as an individual. DNA’s architecture is what inspired us to propose a digital twin DNA (DT-DNA) model as the basis for building health DTs for citizens. A review of the literature shows that no unified model for citizens’ health has been developed that can act as a base for building digital twins of citizens while also protecting their unique identity thus we aim to fill this gap in this research. Accordingly, in this thesis, we proposed a DT-DNA model, which is specifically designed to protect the unique identity of each citizen’s digital twin, similar to what DNA does for each human. We also proposed a DT-DNA-based framework to build standardized health digital twins of citizens on micro, meso and macro levels using two ISO standards: ISO/IEEE 11073 (X73) and ISO 37120. To achieve our goal, we started by analyzing the biological DNA model and the influencing factors shaping health in smart cities. The purpose of the first is to highlight the DNA model features which provide the building blocks for our DT-DNA model. The purpose of the latter is to determine the main bases of our DT-DNA model of health DTs. Based on the analysis results; we proposed DT-DNA to model health DTs for citizens. In keeping with our DNA analogy, we have identified four bases, A, T, G, and C, for our unified and unique DT-DNA model. The A base in the proposed model represents a citizen’s anthropometric when we build the DT-DNA on an individual level and represents the city’s regulatory authorities when we build the DT-DNA on community and city levels. The T base represents different tasks included in the provided health data that are required to model citizens’ health DT-DNA on different levels. The G base represents the geographic and temporal information of the city, where the citizen exists at the time of data collection. The C base represents the context at the time of data collection. To proof the concept, we present our initial work on building health DTs for citizens in four case studies. The first two case studies are dedicated for health DTs at the micro level, the third case study is dedicated for health DTs at the meso level and the fourth case study is dedicated for health DTs at the macro level. In addition, we developed an algorithm to compare cities in terms of their community fitness and health services status. The four case studies provide promising results in terms of applicability of the proposed DT-DNA model and framework in handling the health data of citizens, communities and cities, collected through various sources, and presenting them in a standardized, unique model.

L’étude présentée ici a pour but d’analyser la manière d’utiliser l’arc outrepassé, en plan et en élévation, et l’arc en retrait sur ses piliers, dans une région et dans un temps pragmatiquement défini du monde méditerranéen particulièrement riche en éléments architecturaux de ce type. L’arc en retrait n’est pas inconnu dans la recherche mais, faute d’identification précise et donc de terminologie adaptée, il a été confondu avec l’arc outrepassé sous des dénominations différentes. Faisant l’objet de diverses théories dans l’historiographie, ces deux types d’arcs ont été utilisés comme arguments majeurs dans la datation et dans la filiation stylistique des édifices dans lesquels ils se trouvent. L’objectif de cette approche consiste à confronter ces courants historiographiques, inscrivant un monument donné comme relevant du monde wisigothique, mozarabe ou carolingienne, à l’analyse des monuments in situ dans les régions catalano-roussillonnaises et languedociennes où ces formes présentent une concentration considérable. Dans ces théories tenaces, souvent assimilables à des idées reçues sans discernement, l’abbaye de Saint-Michel de Cuxa a occupé une place particulière de sorte que son attribution s’est répercutée sur de nombreux édifices, surtout des chapelles rurales, gravitant dans son orbite. Les monuments situés sur les deux versants des Pyrénées possédant ces formes en élévation ou dans la planimétrie constituent un corpus de 98 édifices. Ils ne révèlent pas seulement une certaine uniformité pour l’ensemble du territoire mais, au-delà, permettent également de définir des microrégions homogènes. L’étude de ce territoire est intégrée dans une analyse historiographique plus vaste de ces deux types d’arcs qui cherche la réponse à leur origine, à leur propagation géographique au fil de temps et présente les différentes réflexions sur la raison d’être de leur emploi. A côté des théories pragmatiques qui considèrent ces formes comme des procédés techniques offrant des avantages constructifs et des mesures techniques qui cherchent à établir une typologie séparant les arcs de différentes époques et de différentes aires géographiques, une attention particulière est apportée aux dimensions idéologiques, liturgiques et symboliques liées à ces tracés. / This study focusses, in façade and in plan, on the horseshoe arch, the hallmark of architecture in the first flowering of the Middle Ages, and on the recessed arch on piers, its more or less unrecognised contemporary. The geographical extent of the occurrence of these two types of arch has been defined by the periodic enlargement of the area where they are really concentrated: Spanish Catalonia and French Languedoc-Roussillon. Applied often to dating a building, and becoming involved as a result in a stylistic epistemology, as well as being the targets of the entrenched dogmas of a vast historiography, these pieces of evidence are here studied on the ground in their architectural context so as to juxtapose fieldwork with the theories on their deployment developed a century ago. Given the spread of developed mediaeval arches, this work endeavours to place their corpus in a wider general study which clearly cannot depend on an exhaustive survey, but which is able to suggest, nevertheless, that the realm of the Moorish arch transcends the territorial and chronological limits of Visigothic, Mozarabic, Carolingian or Islamic culture. The origin of the recessed arch on its piers, for which we propose the term «mushroom shape» displays an undeniable origin in antiquity. Its diffusion in time and space coincides with the horse-shoe throughout the vast Mediterranean ambit. The corpus of the area studied brings together 98 buildings which preserve in their structure the Moorish arch and/or the recessed arch on piers. An analysis of arch assembly, incorporated in the overall study of a building’s construction, confirms that the Moorish design or that of the recessed arch on piers concerned not only arches but was inherent in a general building process observable in the raising of the vault, or of any transverse arches or in openings, doorways or windows. The endurance of these same building procedures for centuries, for minor works such as small country chapels, as for the great abbey church of Saint- Michel de Cuxa, testifies to a conservative art associated with basic techniques.

NilsonGroup presenterade uppdraget att undersöka vattenbaserade lim som alternativ till lösningsbaserade lim vid tillverkning av skor, vilket var grunden till det här arbetets ämne och avgränsningar har tagits fram. Vattenbaserade lim är ett alternativ till lösningsbaserade lim som inte är lika hälsofarligt, då lösningsmedelkan orsaka allvarliga hälsoeffekter. Enligt NilsonGroup ligger skobranschen steget efter vad det gäller hållbarhet och i nuläget saknas det en satsning på hållbarutveckling, medan andra branscher är bättre på att leta efter nya möjligheter. Det här arbetet vill lyfta fram på vilka sätt vattenbaserade lim är ett mindre riskfylltalternativ till lösningsbaserade lim och visa att skillnaderna i limfogens egenskaper inte blir så olika. Första delen av resultatet innefattar en definition av lim och limning. Fokus ligger på att reda ut vad som krävs och hur en limfog skapas med ett lim mellan två ytor, för att läsaren ska få en grundlig kunskap om det innan arbetet går in på lim i skor. Det presenteras även vilka egenskaper som är viktiga för en limfog och vilka faktorer det är som vanligtvis vägs in vid val av lim. Andra delen handlar om material, lim och limfogar i skoindustrin. Resultatet visar att det är den övre delen av skon och sulan som är den mest kritiska limfogen att skapa vid tillverkningen av en sko, samt att de mest förekommande lim som används vid skotillverkning är av polymererna polyuretan och polykloropren. De material till den övre delen av skon som främst används av NilsonGroup och generellt hela skoindustrin, är syntetiskt skinn, läder och bomull. Till en skos sula används gummi och polyuretan i störst utsträckning. Resultatet kommer fram till fem olika kombinationer av material och vattenbaserade lim som har bra potential att kunna bilda en hållbar limfog. Resultatet visar även att de egenskaper som vattenbaserade och lösningsbaserade polykloropren- och polyuretanlim ger en limfog är lika, så när det kommer till att välja mellan vattenbaserade lim och lösningsbaserade lim, så är det komponenterna i limmen och riskerna de medför som innefattar den stora skillnaden. I bilaga 1presenteras alla de mest förekommande komponenter som polyuretan- och polykloroprenlim består av, samt vilka hälsoeffekter de kan orsaka vid exponering för ämnet. / NilsonGroup presented the assignment to investigate water-borne adhesives as an alternative to solvent-borne adhesives in shoe production. This represent the purpose of this work and the limitations that have been developed. Water-borne adhesives do not pose as serious health risks as solvent-borne adhesives, mainly because of the solvent that may cause serious health risks. According to NilsonGroup, the shoe industry is a step behind in terms of sustainability and there is no investment in sustainable development. While other industries are stepping forward in terms of sustainability. The purpose of this work is to highlight waterborne adhesives as a less critical alternative to solvent-borne adhesives. And to prove that the characteristics between the two choices are not so different. The first part of this work explains adhesives and adhesive bonding. The part explains the requirements and how an adhesive joint is created from an adhesive between two different surfaces. This is necessary to get the reader to understand the basics about adhesive bonding before the work focus on adhesives in shoes. Important properties related to the adhesive joint and the common factors when choosing adhesives is also a part of this work. Second part of this work deals with material, adhesives and adhesive joints in the shoe industry. The upper part of the shoe and sole bonding process is the most critical joint in the shoe and the most common adhesives in the shoe industry is made of polyurethane and polychloroprene polymers. Some common materials used in the upper part of shoes made by NilsonGroup, and the shoe industry overall, are synthetic leather, leather and cotton. The sole is usually made of rubber or polyurethane. The result presents five different combinations of material and waterborne adhesives that may have the potential to produce a durable joint. The result shows that the properties related to waterborne and solvent-borne adhesives are equivalent. When choosing type of adhesive, the components in the adhesives and the health risk they cause, makes up the big difference. Appendix 1 presents common components in polyurethane and polychloroprene adhesives along with health risks that they may cause when exposed.