In a time where child obesity is reaching an alarming level it is important to provide tools for weight loss that are accessible to many children. Furthermore, it is important for these tools to be easy and fun to use to keep the users engaged in the tool over a long period of time, since losing weight is nothing that can be done in a day. By designing and implementing a mobile application for logging food intake and the incorporation of gamification elements, this study seeks to address the problem of users losing interest in the tool and rebounding to unhealthy eating. Gamification is a concept of making applications that traditionally has nothing to do with games into a more game-like experience to enhance user engagement. After the development of the application was complete, the participants of the study used the application as a part of their daily routine to log all the food they consumed. When interviewing the participants after testing the application the overall response for the gamification elements was positive. However, the general design and implementation of the application seemed to affect the user engagement more than the additional gamification elements.

Mobile edge computing (MEC) has been considered as a promising technology to handle computation-intensive and latency-sensitive tasks for mobile user equipments (UEs) in next-generation mobile networks. Mobile UEs can offload these tasks to nearby edge servers, which are typically deployed on base stations (BSs) that are equipped with computation resources. Thus, the task execution latency as well as the energy consumption of mobile devices can be reduced. Mobility management has played a fundamental role in MEC, which associates UEs with the appropriate BSs. In the existing handover decision-making process, the communication costs dominate. However, in edge scenario, the computation capacity constraints should also be considered. Due to user mobility, mobile UEs are nonuniformly distributed over time and space. Edge servers in hot-spot areas can be overloaded while others are underloaded. When edge servers are densely deployed, each UE may have multiple choices to offload its tasks. Instead, if edge servers are sparsely deployed, UEs may only have one option for task offloading. This aggravates the unbalanced workload of the deployed edge servers. Therefore, how to serve the dynamic hot-spot areas needs to be addressed in different edge server deployment scenarios. Considering these two scenarios discussed above, two problems are addressed in this thesis: 1) with densely deployed edge servers, for each mobile UE, how to choose the appropriate edge servers independently without full system information is inves- tigated, and 2) with sparsely deployed edge servers, how to serve dynamic hot-spot areas in an efficient and flexible way is emphasized. First, with BSs densely de- ployed in hot-spot areas, mobile UEs can offload their tasks to one of the available edge servers nearby. However, precise full system information such as the server workload can be hard to be synchronized in real time, which also introduces extra signaling overhead for mobility management decision-making. Thus, a user-centric reinforcement-learning-based mobility management scheme is proposed to handle sys- tem uncertainties. Each UE observes the task latency and automatically learns the optimal mobility management strategy through trial and feedback. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme manifests superiority in dealing with system uncer- tainties. When compared with the traditional received signal strength (RSS)-based handover scheme, the proposed scheme reduces the task execution latency by about 30%. Second, fixed edge servers that are sparsely deployed around mobile UEs are not flexible enough to deal with time-varying task offloading. Dispatching mobile servers is formulated as a variable-sized bin-packing problem with geographic constraints. A novel online unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-mounted edge server dispatching scheme is proposed to provide flexible mobile-to-mobile edge computing services. UAVs are dispatched to the appropriate hover locations by identifying the hot-spot areas sequen- tially. Theoretical analysis is provided with the worst-case performance guarantee. Extensive evaluations driven by real-world mobile requests show that, with a given task finish time, the mobile dispatching scheme can serve 59% more users on aver- age when compared with the fixed deployment. In addition, the server utilization reaches 98% during the daytime with intensive task requests. Utilizing both the fixed and mobile edge servers can satisfy even more UE demands with fewer UAVs to be dispatched and a better server utilization. To sum up, not only the communication condition but also the computation lim- itation have an impact on the edge server selection and mobility management in MEC. Moreover, dispatching mobile edge servers can be an effective and flexible way to supplement the fixed servers and deal with dynamic offloading requests. / Graduate

The aim of this thesis is to describe information about GERD, its etiology, anatomy, pathology, treatment options and rehabilitation in patients with GERD. Lower oesophageal sphincter and antireflux barrier. The study was approved by the ethics committee. 30 probands were included in the study and their health status was verified using the Health Related Quality of Life questionnaire. A manometric catheter was inserted, proband was instructed to maintain various postural positions. Lying supine with lower limbs elevated above the surface, lying supine with lower limbs elevated above the surface with head fixated manualy, sitting and standing position, load in the center of gravity 3/6/9 kg, load outside the center of gravity 3/6/9 kg, lifting of the office chair. It has been shown that LES pressure increases in all postural positions compared to resting pressure. The positions activate the diaphragm to demonstrate the postural function of the diaphragm. The most significant change in LES pressures was in the postural position of lying supine with lower limbs elevated above the surface, the LES resting pressure of 20.34mmHg changed to the pressure of LES 40.92mmHg. Clinical experience and studies have shown that patients with GERD have disposition for respiratory and / or vertebrogenic difficulties....

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T13:30:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gabriela Gramkow.pdf: 4675678 bytes, checksum: 85a1f0d55aa3c1a1cea150cf8064f930 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-02-01 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This study clarifies and reorganizes the story of the Experimental Health Unit at São Paulo (UES), a public facility that assists offending young people diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder (ASPD). All the process with reference to the UES between 2002 and 2011 was investigated, since the project to its institutionalization. More specifically, we analyzed the relation among psycho and legal forces that undertake battles in a field of struggle. For this purpose, we use documentary research, mainly the legal processes of the young admitted to the UES and administrative process, constituted by the judiciary. This administrative process monitors and encourages the creation of some treatment for young infractors with mental health demands, arising in the configuration of this experimental unit. The analysis, guided by Foucault and Castel´s works, sought to identify the possibility of producing ASPD and UES. Psycho and justice utterances were systematized by a strategy for compulsory admission a CONTINUUM ADMISSION supported by the argument of dangerousness and social defense. The psycho-legal tactics of the protective measure of psycho treatment under restraint and civil interdiction combined with compulsory psychiatric hospitalization controls the admission circuit on behalf of social protection and guaranteeing the right to health. In questioning the materialization of the UES with the detention of offending young and trial psi-law continuum, we put focus in the analysis of the psycho-legal tactics for the regulation of juvenile crime by the biopolitics and its social control strategies through the pathological path. In this analysis, we understand the control that UES operates, showing two lines of argument: the line of social danger and the line of investiment in treatment. The network of knowledge-power in the political management of juvenile crime in Brazil is updated, set up a legal-political paradigm as a solution to an apparent new demand. From the assessment of human profiles, the control strategy of the deviant operates a risk management policy of the not teachable as the prevention of recurrence of the dangerous individual. In risk management, crime is a risk not eradicable. The UES highlights power relations that dialogue with the design field as a political model, forged in the logic of exception. Understanding the ASPD as incurable and untreatable , the management of juvenile crime isolates the perilous individual through modern and efficient technologies by the argument of the social order. The way UES deals with the ASPD is linked to the model of exile for purification of the socius. UES simulates an unlikely treatment process that lasts for four years and six young individuals continue to suffer ineffective trials / O presente trabalho explicita e reorganiza as tramas que compõem a história da Unidade Experimental de Saúde do Estado de São Paulo (UES), equipamento público destinado a jovens autores de atos infracionais diagnosticados com Transtorno de personalidade anti-social (TPAS). Acompanhamos desvios, inflexões de rumos e estabilizações que foram se produzindo no período de 2002 a 2011 em torno do caso UES, de sua fase de Projeto à institucionalização. Rastreamos mais especificamente as relações psijurídicas que empreendem jogos de forças em um campo de luta, forjando posições e contraposições. Para tanto, nos valemos de pesquisa documental, principalmente, de processos jurídicos de jovens internados na UES e de processo administrativo constituído pelo poder judiciário. Esse processo administrativo monitora e incita a criação de respostas de tratamento aos jovens autores de ato infracional com demandas em saúde mental e que derivam na constituição dessa unidade experimental. A análise, orientada pelas obras de Foucault e Castel, buscou identificar as condições de possibilidade de produção do TPAS e da UES. Foram sistematizadas as enunciações produzidas pelos atores psi e os atores da justiça na configuração de uma estratégia de internamento compulsório um CONTINUUM INTERNAMENTO - sustentado no argumento da periculosidade e da defesa social. As táticas psi-jurídicas da medida protetiva de tratamento psi em regime de contenção e da interdição civil cumulada com internação psiquiátrica compulsória regulam o circuito do internamento em nome da proteção social e da garantia do direito à saúde. Na problematização da emergência da UES com a prática do internamento de jovens autores de ato infracional e a experimentação do continuum psi-jurídico, colocamos em análise a articulação da tática psi-jurídica para a regulação da criminalidade juvenil pela biopolítica da população e suas estratégias de controle social pela via da patologização. Nessa análise, depreende-se uma lógica de controle a operar a fórmula UES. Duas linhas de argumentos se agenciam e se retroalimentam: a linha do perigo social e a linha do investimento no tratamento. A rede de relações de saber-poder na política de gestão da criminalidade juvenil brasileira se atualiza; configura-se um paradigma jurídico-político como solução para uma aparente nova demanda. A partir do exame de perfis humanos, a estratégia de controle dos desviantes opera uma gestão dos riscos dos ineducáveis como política de prevenção da reincidência do indivíduo perigoso. Na gestão dos riscos, a criminalidade é um risco não erradicável. O acontecimento UES põe em evidência relações de poder que dialogam com a concepção de campo como modelo político, forjado numa lógica de exceção. Entendendo o TPAS como incurável e intratável , a gestão da criminalidade juvenil isola o indivíduo periculoso por meio de tecnologias modernas e eficientes pelo argumento da ordem social. A FÓRMULA UES de conter o TPAS está vinculado ao modelo de exílio para purificação do socius. A UES simula processo de tratamento improvável que perdura por quatro anos; e seis jovens continuam sofrendo experimentações malogradas

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No. of bitstreams: 2 Tese - Renata Ramos da Silva Carvalho - 2018.pdf: 4606190 bytes, checksum: be46a59437a9a4c7611096ff9e27e4fa (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-04-10 / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Goiás - FAPEG / The main goal of this study is to investigate and to present what would be the necessary enlargement of undergraduate and strictu sensu graduate enrollments, and of the expansion funds, so that the SUs, by the state of the federation, could contribute to the success of the NEP goals (2014-2024) for higher education. Furthermore, this study also aims to evaluate the first two years of the implementation of the targets 12, 13 and 14, and to carry out the projection of its challenges for the country by the year 2024; to comprehend how the SUs are inserted in the context of higher education in Brazil; to identify the main institutional and academic characteristics and the main asymmetries in the set of Brazilian State Universities; to detect the main existing asymmetries in the group of Brazilian SUs; to analyze the content of the goals for higher education of the State Education Plans (SEPs), to investigate the average cost and expense per student of the SUs; to estimate what would be the necessary increase of resources, as a percentage of national and state GDP, so that the states, through their SUs, can contribute to the achievement of these goals. From the methodological point of view, the first step of this research has shown to be an exploratory study which later developed into a descriptive, critical interpretative study that has been subsidized by documental and bibliographic research, collection and analysis of statistical data for the accomplishment of projection estimation presented here. This study is composed of four main categories of analysis: the expansion of Brazilian higher education, the education plans (national and state), the institutional and academic profile of the UEs, and, finally, the funding of the SUs. These categories are theoretically supported by the studies of Aguiar (2010), Amaral e Pinto (2005), Amaral (2016), Dourado (2010, 2011, 2016, 2017), Fialho (2011, 2012), Martins (2000), Oliveira and Dourado (2016), Oliveira (2011), Ranieri (2000), Sguissardi (2000, 2014), among others. The data collected by this study reveal that the challenges of expansion and funding are audacious for the states to contribute to the PNE (2014-2024) goals for higher education. Therefore, it is defended as a thesis that although the SUs integrate the same administrative category as "state public universities", they are constituted by a set of HEIs marked by institutional asymmetries in several aspects: as to its architecture of spatial organization; to the characteristics of offer of their undergraduate enrollments, as to the qualification of its academic staff; as regarding the offer and performance in the stricto sensu post-graduate course ; its statutory regulations; in terms of their funding; and regarding its challenges of expansion towards the goals of the PNE (2014-2024) for higher education. This study understands that the asymmetries identified in the set of the SUs are mainly due to the fact that they have very different contexts regarding their creation, structuring, and functioning, and because they are subordinated to different maintainers (states of the federation) and to distinct academic, institutional regulations and financial capacity. Moreover, it is argued that the challenges of the SUs in front of the PNE (2014-2024) goals for higher education explicit the present contradictions in terms of the higher education offer promoted by these institutions, in terms of its funding, and in terms of the regional inequalities of this group of HEIs. These contradictions and the imperative challenges of enrollment expansion and the increase in the funding, necessary for the SUs to contribute to the success of these goals, allows us to affirm that there are objective limits which compromise the effective participation of the states in reaching these goals for higher education in brazil, through their SUs. Moreover, it is possible to affirm that the effectiveness of the content proposed by the PNE strategy 12.18 (2014-2024) is of fundamental importance for the states of the federation to contribute to the achievement of these goals for higher education, through their SUs. / Este estudo possui como principal objetivo investigar e apresentar qual seria a expansão necessária de matrículas de graduação e pós-graduação stricto sensu e a ampliação no financiamento para que as UEs, por estado da federação, possam contribuir com o êxito das metas do PNE (2014-2024) para a educação superior. Para além deste, objetiva-se também: avaliar os dois primeiros anos de vigência das metas 12, 13 e 14 e realizar a projeção de seus desafios para o país e até o ano de 2024; compreender como as UEs estão inseridas no contexto da educação superior do país; identificar as principais características institucionais e acadêmicas e as principais assimetrias no conjunto das UEs brasileiras; analisar o conteúdo das metas para a educação superior dos Planos Estaduais de Educação (PEEs); apurar o custo e o gasto médio do aluno das UEs por estado da federação; estimar qual seria a ampliação necessária de recursos, como percentual do PIB nacional e estadual, para que os estados, por meio de suas UEs, contribuíssem para o alcance dessas metas. Do ponto de vista metodológico, a primeira etapa desta pesquisa mostrou-se como um estudo exploratório, que depois evoluiu para um estudo descritivo de caráter crítico e interpretativo, sendo subsidiado por pesquisa documental, bibliográfica, levantamento e tratamento de dados estatísticos para a realização dos cálculos das projeções apresentadas. Este estudo é composto por quatro principais categorias de análise: a expansão da educação superior no Brasil, os planos de educação (o nacional e os estaduais), o perfil institucional e acadêmico das UEs e, por fim, o financiamento das UEs. Essas categorias apoiam-se teoricamente nos estudos de Aguiar (2010), Amaral e Pinto (2005), Amaral (2016), Dourado (2010, 2011, 2016, 2017), Fialho (2011, 2012), Martins (2000), Oliveira e Dourado (2016), Oliveira (2011), Ranieri (2000), Sguissardi (2000, 2014), entre outros. Os dados levantados por este estudo revelam que são audaciosos os desafios de expansão e financiamento para que os estados possam contribuir com as metas do PNE (2014-2024) para a educação superior. Portanto, defende-se como tese que, embora as UEs integrem a mesma categoria administrativa sendo “universidades públicas estaduais”, elas se constituem por um conjunto de IES marcado por assimetrias institucionais em diversos aspectos: quanto à sua arquitetura de organização espacial; quanto às características de oferta das suas matrículas de graduação; quanto à titulação de seu corpo docente; quanto à oferta e atuação na pós-graduação stricto sensu; quanto às suas regulamentações normativas; quanto ao seu financiamento; quanto aos seus desafios de expansão perante as metas do PNE (2014-2024) para a educação superior. Este estudo compreende que essas assimetrias idenficadas no conjunto das UEs são decorrentes, principalmente, do fato de elas possuírem contextos muito distintos quanto à sua criação, estruturação e funcionamento e por estarem subordinadas a mantenedores (estados da federação) e regulamentações acadêmicas, institucionais e capacidade financeira distintos. Defende-se ainda que os desafios das UEs perante as metas do PNE (2014-2024) para a educação superior explicitam as contradições presentes quanto à oferta de educação superior promovida por essas instituições, quanto ao seu financiamento e quanto às desigualdades regionais desse conjunto de IES. Essas contradições e os imperativos desafios de expansão de matrículas e ampliação no financiamento necessário para que as UEs possam contribuir com o êxito dessas metas permitem-nos afirmar que existem limites de caráter objetivo que comprometem a efetiva participação dos estados, por meio de suas UEs, no alcance dessas metas para a educação superior no Brasil. É possível afirmar ainda que a efetivação do conteúdo proposto pela estratégia 12.18 do PNE (2014-2024) é de fundamental importância para que os estados da federação, por meio de suas UEs, contribuam para o alcance dessas metas.