This master's thesis is devoted to the studies of possibilities, which can be used for representation of moving objects data and for querying such spatio-temporal data. It also shows results of the master's thesis created by Ing. Jaroslav Vališ, that should be used for the solution of this master's thesis. But based on the theoretical grounds defined at the beginning of this work was designed and implemented new database extension for saving and querying spatio-temporal data. Special usage of this extension is demonstrated in an example application. This application uses the database extension for the implementation of its own database functions that are domain specific. At the conclusion, there are presented ways of the farther development of this database extension and the results of this master's thesis are there set into the context of the following project, doctoral thesis "Moving objects database".

This thesis seeks to investigate the influence and applicability of three technical writing principles across electronic maintenance manuals in the aerospace defense industry: military standard (MIL-STD) guidelines, plain language, and audience scope. Aerospace defense technical writers are liaisons tasked with coherent communication on advanced technological developments for technicians maintaining equipment. Their primary responsibility involves synthesizing specialized content from subject matter experts to draft comprehensive instructions for personnel safety and product sustainment during critical military operations. Current literature insufficiently examines the significance between aerospace defense technical documents and product performance following routine maintenance. Poorly composed manuals contribute to technician misinterpretation or disregard due to convoluted procedures and disorganized appearances increasing malfunction probabilities. Writing-based MIL-STDs and Simplified English emerged as efforts to mitigate understanding obstructs amongst domestic and international novice technicians. Maintenance manuals must conform to governmental guidelines including product liability laws, cultural variables, and audience expectations. Interview findings with two practitioners each from a different aerospace defense company supports the prediction that technical writing theories considerably impacts maintenance manual quality and recipience throughout the aerospace defense industry.

Despite the ongoing investments in programs to increase sexual health awareness among young adults globally, many youths remain vulnerable to sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Two-thirds of all STDs occur among youths engaging in high-risk sexual behaviors, which put young adults at higher risk of STDs and can result in serious consequences including infertility. Additionally, the social consequences of STD affect families and communities. While a need exists for increased public awareness of STDs among young adults, extant intervention and prevention activities should be informed by a cultural perspective, including the integration of community and government roles. The purpose of this social ecological study was to investigate the perceptions of STDs and the potential factors responsible for the increased frequency of STDs based on the lived experiences of 20 young adults with STDs in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. Through a qualitative approach using a phenomenological research design, this study employed semi-structured interviews, and the resultant data were analyzed and coded. The findings indicated that college-aged students increasingly engaged in sexually risky behavior with multiple sexual partners for financial gain and power. Additionally, while institutions promoted abstinence as an effective strategy to reduce STD infections, the findings indicated a strong relationship between the phenomenon and individual interconnectedness with the larger society. Because the sexual behavior of young adults in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, is influenced at multiple ecological levels, effective and sustaining culturally appropriate STD interventions must involve the larger society including young adults in all stages of intervention development and implementation.

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 26-29, 1998 / Town & Country Resort Hotel and Convention Center, San Diego, California / Airborne instrumentation used during flight tests is being installed and maintained in a unique way by operational bomber testers from the Air Force’s 53d Wing. The ability of the flight test community to test on operational aircraft has always been somewhat curtailed by the need for advanced forms of instrumentation. Operational fighter flight test squadrons have aircraft assigned to them, which they modify on as needed basis, much the same as developmental testers. However, bomber operational test units must use operational aircraft to accomplish their mission as there are no bombers in the Air Force’s Air Combat Command (ACC) specifically set aside for operational tests. During test missions, these units borrow aircraft from operational bomb wings, and then return them to service with the bomb wing after testing is complete. Yet, the requirement for instrumentation on these test missions is not much different than that of developmental testers. The weapon system engineer’s typically require Mil-Std-1553, video, telemetry, and Global Positioning System (GPS) Time-Space-Position-Information airborne receiver recordings. In addition, this data must be synchronized with an IRIG-B time code source, and recorded with the same precision as the data gathered during development test and evaluation (DT&E). As a result, several techniques have been developed, and instrumentation systems designed for these operational test units to incorporate instrumentation on operational aircraft. Several factors hamper the usual modification process in place at bases such as Edwards AFB and Eglin AFB. Primary among these is the requirement to maintain the aircraft in an operational configuration, and still meet all of the modification design safety criteria placed on the design team by the aircraft’s single manager. Secondary to the list of restrictions is modification time. Aircraft resources are stretched quite thin when one considers all of the bomb wing’s operational commitments. When they must release an aircraft for test missions, the testers must insure that schedule impacts are minimal. Therefore, these systems must install and de-install within one to two days and be completely portable. Placing holes in existing structures or adding new permanent structure is unacceptable. In addition, these aircraft must be capable of returning to combat ready status at any time. This paper centers on the B-52 bomber, and the active aircraft temporary modifications under control of the 49th Test Squadron (49 TESTS) at Barksdale AFB in Louisiana. The B-52 presents unique design challenges all its own, in addition to the general restrictions already mentioned. This paper will present the options that the 49 TESTS has successfully used to overcome the aforementioned restrictions, and provide an appropriate level of specialized instrumentation for its data collection requirements.

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 17-20, 1988 / Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada / Software development is becoming less an art form and more an engineering discipline. Methods of software development which leave as little as possible to chance are constantly being sought and documented. However, the gap between what is written and what is actually applied is usually quite wide. The only way this gap can be narrowed is through practical application of these very detailed and complex methods. Since it is unlikely that the complexity of these methods will be reduced, automation must be employed wherever possible in the software development process. This paper addresses the successful development of software for the Navy's Realtime Telemetry Processing System III (RTPS III) using practical application of existing methodology in conjunction with a Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tool. Based on this experience, the conclusion presents implications affecting software development the 1990s.

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 26-29, 1992 / Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center, San Diego, California / MIL-STD-1553 multiplex data buses are commonly used to link complex software-controlled systems in modern aircraft. The software in these aircraft is routinely updated; each update requires flight testing. Also, sophisticated weapons and electronic warfare systems which are integrated into operationally-ready aircraft must be routinely evaluated. The simplest way to perform the required evaluation is to record all the data from the multiplex data buses during an operational flight; these data can then be replayed and examined after the flight. Traditionally, some operational systems had to be disabled or removed from an aircraft to allow installation of a data acquisition system. This paper discusses a MILSTD- 1553 multiplex bus Record-All Small Data Acquisition System (RASDAS) installed in a McDonnell Douglas CF-188 fighter aircraft to record all data from two 1553 multiplex data buses without displacing any operational equipment. The specific requirements and constraints associated with evaluating the integrated systems of a CF-188 aircraft are examined; further, RASDAS implementation in this aircraft type is discussed from planning to flight evaluation.

A implantação de ações voltadas à prevenção das DST/aids em serviços de atenção primária à saúde (APS) é uma estratégia proposta no Brasil e internacionalmente desde os anos 1990. Por ser considerada uma estratégia sustentável de ampliação da cobertura e do acesso, está entre as prioridades do Ministério da Saúde. O presente estudo avalia a implantação destas ações em uma unidade de atenção primária organizada pela Estratégia de Saúde da Família (ESF), na região metropolitana de São Paulo. Assume como pressuposto que a possibilidade desta implantação será tanto maior em unidades de APS cuja organização tecnológica esteja orientada pela noção de integralidade. Trata-se de pesquisa avaliativa, realizada por estudo de caso em profundidade, utilizando entrevistas semi-estruturadas e observação direta das atividades da USF. Os resultados indicam que o perfil tecnológico da USF não difere significativamente dos tradicionais serviços de APS. O cuidado médico individual centraliza e determina o trabalho, reduzindo-se a prevenção, basicamente, à reiteração de orientações prescritivas, à semelhança do modelo da educação sanitária. Orientações específicas para a prevenção das DST/aids são realizadas em algumas das ações previamente existentes na USF; a única ação especificamente implantada com essa finalidade é a testagem para HIV, sífilis e hepatites. Os achados indicam que as características tecnológicas dominantes limitam o potencial de concretização da atenção integral, prejudicando particularmente as atividades preventivas que se realizam prioritariamente pelo diálogo e que demandam abordagens singulares. Contudo, a realização de algumas ações de prevenção das DST/aids, bem como sua valorização no plano discursivo, indicam potencialidades de integração. O processo de implantação dessas ações, ao proporcionar a entrada de questões complexas e de novos valores no cotidiano destes serviços, tem o potencial de tensionar o modelo predominante, contribuindo para a concretização de novos e melhores arranjos tecnológicos direcionados à consecução da integralidade. Considera-se que os desafios para a objetivação dos valores que orientam o plano ético-normativo da resposta brasileira à aids nas práticas de prevenção requer maiores investimentos dos órgãos gestores na definição tecnológica dessas ações e no processo de implantação / The implementation STD/AIDS prevention activities into primary health care (PHC) facilities is proposed in Brazil and internationally since the 1990s. Understood as a sustainable strategy to amplify the coverage and access of such activities, its among the priorities of the Brazilian Ministry of Health. This study evaluates the implementation of STD/AIDS prevention activities into one primary health care (PHC) facility organized by the Family Health Strategy, located at the São Paulos metropolitan region. It assumes that the potential of such implementation will be higher in PHC facilities oriented towards comprehensive care. Its an evaluative research, through an in depth case study, using semistructured interviews and direct observation of the activities of USF. Results show that the FHCF technological organization doesnt differ significantly from the traditional Brazilian PHC facilities Individualize medical care determines the work organization and prevention is limited, basically, to standardized orientations, as in the sanitary education model. Specific STD/AIDS prevention orientations are delivered in some of the FHCF preexisting activities; the activity specifically implemented to STD/AIDS prevention is the testing for HIV, syphilis and hepatites B and C. The findings indicate that the dominant technological characteristics limit the potential for comprehensive care, particularly damaging the preventive activities done through dialogue and that require singular approaches. However, the execution of some actions to prevent STD/AIDS, as well as its recovery plan in discursive, indicates potential for integration. The implementation process may introduce in the daily work of these facilities some complex questions and new values and, therefore, it may tension the predominant health care model, contributing to the building of new and better technological models oriented towards comprehensive health care. We consider that the challenges to concretize, in the prevention activities, the values that orientate the ethical and normative plan of the Brazilian response demand a bigger investment on the technological definition on these activities, as well as in their implementation process

A presente pesquisa tem por finalidade apresentar uma análise acerca dos pressupostos filosóficos, educacionais, psicológicos e históricos contidos no projeto \"Viver nas aldeias com saúde: conhecer e prevenir Doenças Sexualmente Transmissíveis (DST) e Aids\". Essa iniciativa foi realizada com os discentes do Curso de Formação de Professores Kadiwéu e Kinikinau de Mato Grosso do Sul, no período de novembro de 2003 a fevereiro de 2004, na Reserva Indígena Kadiwéu oferecido pela Escola Municipal Indígena \"Ejiwajegi\" Pólo e Extensões, vinculada à Prefeitura Municipal de Porto Murtinho. A participação nesse projeto, bem como as reflexões dele decorrentes, possibilitou-me conhecer as concepções dessas sociedades indígenas a respeito de corpo e sexualidade; saúde e doença; prevenção, tratamento e comunidade; contribuindo, dessa forma, para o aprimoramento das políticas públicas destinadas a essa população. Para aprofundar as bases do projeto mencionado, tive de retornar ao início do século XX, pois foi a partir da criação do Serviço de Proteção aos Índios e Localização de Trabalhadores Nacionais (SPILTN, posteriormente Serviço de Proteção aos Índios SPI), em 1910, que se iniciaram as experiências sistemáticas de escolarização dos grupos indígenas do país. Nesse exercício de sistematização, apresentarei a produção acadêmica a respeito do tema, problematizando-a, a partir de obras que considero significativas no contexto científico. Os Estados de Mato Grosso e Mato Grosso do Sul foram escolhidos para análise, pois neles se concentram os grupos indígenas com experiências em práticas educativas. A pesquisa foi desenvolvida por meio de fontes diversificadas escritas, iconográficas e orais além da análise de documentos provenientes, sobretudo, de missões religiosas e do órgão indigenista oficial (primeiramente SPI e posteriormente Funai Fundação Nacional do Índio). Os dados coletados no conjunto das Oficinas de Prevenção das Doenças Sexualmente Transmissíveis (DST) e da Aids foram analisados a partir de referenciais teóricos provenientes da antropologia, assim como das teorias que se debruçam sobre as representações sociais da doença, a partir de estudos da história indígena, da educação e da psicologia social. O eixo central da prevenção das DST/Aids está na sexualidade e na intimidade de homens e mulheres. Isso implica desvelar todo o núcleo cultural das etnias estudadas. O aprender a proteger-se passa pela linguagem e pela estruturação do discurso da temática preventiva. A escola é uma mediadora em potencial; afinal, trata-se de um espaço universal de produção de saberes e conhecer as formas de disseminação do HIV é também uma das maneiras de aprender a se proteger, não só do Outro, mas, sobretudo de si e do seu próprio desejo. / The aim of this research is to analyze the philosophical, educational, psychological and historical presuppositions of the project \"Viver nas aldeias com saúde: conhecer e prevenir Doenças Sexualmente Transmissíveis (DST) e Aids\". This initiative was taken with the teachers of the Kadiwéu and Kinikinau Teacher Formation Course of Mato Grosso do Sul, from November 2003 to February 2004, in Reserva Indígena Kadiwéu , offered by Escola Municipal Indígena \"Ejiwajegi\" Pólo e Extensões, linked to the Prefeitura Municipal of Porto Murtinho. The participation in this project, as well as the reflections it arose, allowed me to know the conceptions of this indigenous societies about body and sexuality; health and disease; prevention, treatment and community; contribut ing, thus, to the improvement of public policies towards this population. In order to deepen the projects basis, I had to come back to the beginning of the 20th century , as it was from the creation of the Serviço de Proteção aos Índios e Localização de Trabalhadores Nacionais (SPILTN, later called Serviço de Proteção aos Índios SPI), in 1910, that the systematic experiences of schooling of indigenous groups in the country started. In this attempt at systematizing, I present an academic production about the theme, focusing it from works I have regarded as significant in the scientific context. The States of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul have been chosen for analysis, as they concentrate the indigenous groups with experience in educational practice. The research has been developed with the help of diversified sources written, iconographic and oral in addition to the analysis of documents coming especially from religious missions and from the official indigenous organization (formerly SPI and then Funai Fundação Nacional do Índio). The data collected in the Workshops of Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) and Aids have been analyzed from theoretical references based on anthropology, as well as on theories which lean towards the social representations of the disease, and also from studies of indigenous history, education and social psychology. The central axis of STD/Aids prevention lies on sexuality and on intimacy between men and women. This implies unveiling the whole cultural nucleus of the ethnic groups studied. Learning to protect oneself passes through language and through the structure of the preventive thematic discourse. The school is a potential mediator; after all, it is a universal space of knowledge production and knowing the forms of HIV spread is also one of the ways to learn to protect, not only from the Other, but specially from oneself an from ones own wish.

A presente pesquisa tem por finalidade apresentar uma análise acerca dos pressupostos filosóficos, educacionais, psicológicos e históricos contidos no projeto \"Viver nas aldeias com saúde: conhecer e prevenir Doenças Sexualmente Transmissíveis (DST) e Aids\". Essa iniciativa foi realizada com os discentes do Curso de Formação de Professores Kadiwéu e Kinikinau de Mato Grosso do Sul, no período de novembro de 2003 a fevereiro de 2004, na Reserva Indígena Kadiwéu oferecido pela Escola Municipal Indígena \"Ejiwajegi\" Pólo e Extensões, vinculada à Prefeitura Municipal de Porto Murtinho. A participação nesse projeto, bem como as reflexões dele decorrentes, possibilitou-me conhecer as concepções dessas sociedades indígenas a respeito de corpo e sexualidade; saúde e doença; prevenção, tratamento e comunidade; contribuindo, dessa forma, para o aprimoramento das políticas públicas destinadas a essa população. Para aprofundar as bases do projeto mencionado, tive de retornar ao início do século XX, pois foi a partir da criação do Serviço de Proteção aos Índios e Localização de Trabalhadores Nacionais (SPILTN, posteriormente Serviço de Proteção aos Índios SPI), em 1910, que se iniciaram as experiências sistemáticas de escolarização dos grupos indígenas do país. Nesse exercício de sistematização, apresentarei a produção acadêmica a respeito do tema, problematizando-a, a partir de obras que considero significativas no contexto científico. Os Estados de Mato Grosso e Mato Grosso do Sul foram escolhidos para análise, pois neles se concentram os grupos indígenas com experiências em práticas educativas. A pesquisa foi desenvolvida por meio de fontes diversificadas escritas, iconográficas e orais além da análise de documentos provenientes, sobretudo, de missões religiosas e do órgão indigenista oficial (primeiramente SPI e posteriormente Funai Fundação Nacional do Índio). Os dados coletados no conjunto das Oficinas de Prevenção das Doenças Sexualmente Transmissíveis (DST) e da Aids foram analisados a partir de referenciais teóricos provenientes da antropologia, assim como das teorias que se debruçam sobre as representações sociais da doença, a partir de estudos da história indígena, da educação e da psicologia social. O eixo central da prevenção das DST/Aids está na sexualidade e na intimidade de homens e mulheres. Isso implica desvelar todo o núcleo cultural das etnias estudadas. O aprender a proteger-se passa pela linguagem e pela estruturação do discurso da temática preventiva. A escola é uma mediadora em potencial; afinal, trata-se de um espaço universal de produção de saberes e conhecer as formas de disseminação do HIV é também uma das maneiras de aprender a se proteger, não só do Outro, mas, sobretudo de si e do seu próprio desejo. / The aim of this research is to analyze the philosophical, educational, psychological and historical presuppositions of the project \"Viver nas aldeias com saúde: conhecer e prevenir Doenças Sexualmente Transmissíveis (DST) e Aids\". This initiative was taken with the teachers of the Kadiwéu and Kinikinau Teacher Formation Course of Mato Grosso do Sul, from November 2003 to February 2004, in Reserva Indígena Kadiwéu , offered by Escola Municipal Indígena \"Ejiwajegi\" Pólo e Extensões, linked to the Prefeitura Municipal of Porto Murtinho. The participation in this project, as well as the reflections it arose, allowed me to know the conceptions of this indigenous societies about body and sexuality; health and disease; prevention, treatment and community; contribut ing, thus, to the improvement of public policies towards this population. In order to deepen the projects basis, I had to come back to the beginning of the 20th century , as it was from the creation of the Serviço de Proteção aos Índios e Localização de Trabalhadores Nacionais (SPILTN, later called Serviço de Proteção aos Índios SPI), in 1910, that the systematic experiences of schooling of indigenous groups in the country started. In this attempt at systematizing, I present an academic production about the theme, focusing it from works I have regarded as significant in the scientific context. The States of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul have been chosen for analysis, as they concentrate the indigenous groups with experience in educational practice. The research has been developed with the help of diversified sources written, iconographic and oral in addition to the analysis of documents coming especially from religious missions and from the official indigenous organization (formerly SPI and then Funai Fundação Nacional do Índio). The data collected in the Workshops of Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) and Aids have been analyzed from theoretical references based on anthropology, as well as on theories which lean towards the social representations of the disease, and also from studies of indigenous history, education and social psychology. The central axis of STD/Aids prevention lies on sexuality and on intimacy between men and women. This implies unveiling the whole cultural nucleus of the ethnic groups studied. Learning to protect oneself passes through language and through the structure of the preventive thematic discourse. The school is a potential mediator; after all, it is a universal space of knowledge production and knowing the forms of HIV spread is also one of the ways to learn to protect, not only from the Other, but specially from oneself an from ones own wish.

The incidence of gonorrhea had declined since the HIV epidemic in the late 1980s, but is now increasing globally due to the emergence of antibiotic-resistant forms of this disease. In South Africa, the incidence of gonorrhea is highest among Black women due to their high co-infection rates with HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). This study examined the psychosocial determinants of gonorrhea among Black women aged 18 - 35 in the Langa township in Cape Town, South Africa. All participants had reported at least one sexual experience and at least one positive test for gonorrhea in the past two years. Participant recruitment involved flyer distribution at LoveLife, the community partner to the research study. After an initial screening call, 12 women were considered eligible and participated in the study. Interview data were gathered, transcribed, then hand-coded for emergent themes, guided by the tenets of the information-motivation-behavioral (IMB) skills conceptual framework. The findings of the study identified that the women did not have extensive knowledge of gonorrhea but believed that factors such as a sense of vulnerability, stress in relationships, and social/environmental factors increased their risk of contracting gonorrhea disease. These findings have global implications, as they lay the foundation for follow-up quantitative studies and outline policy recommendations for addressing gonorrhea.