Thesis (M.S.)--University of Florida, 2004. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on July 7, 2005). Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-85).

Den här rapporten är en utredning och analys av lämpliga arbetsuppgifter och deras nödvändiga verktyg och hjälpmedel för en skiftledare, Watch Supervisor, vid ett framtida center för fjärrstyrda flygledningstorn, Remote Tower. Ett center för fjärrstyrda flygledningstorn är en centraliserad enhet med uppgiften att flygleda och kontrollera flygsäkerheten på och nära en eller flera flygplatser. Utgångspunkten för datainsamlingen har varit intervjuer med verksamma flygledare och skiftledare på LFV, Sveriges statliga verk för flygtrafiktjänst. Studiebesök har även gjorts vid olika enheter, både flygledartorn och radarkontrollcentraler, däribland Sundsvall RTC som är världens första central för fjärrstyrd flygledning godkänd att sättas i drift. Insamlad data har kompilerats och analyserats och en rekommendation presenteras i slutet av denna rapport angående arbetsuppgifter och verktyg för ovan nämnda skiftledare i ett RTC. Resultatet visar att rollen kommer ha stora likheter med befintliga skiftledarpositioner i den svenska flygledningen.

Submitted by Maria Suzana Diniz (msuzanad@hotmail.com) on 2015-11-13T14:49:02Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1796658 bytes, checksum: 65136a7b2712e41b7b2617e625089c8e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-11-13T14:49:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1796658 bytes, checksum: 65136a7b2712e41b7b2617e625089c8e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-02-05 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The change of the attention to mental health model within the NHS is directed to the expansion of health care practices that seek to include and integrate the different subject areas of society, implementing care technologies in order to promote health promotion and prevention of illness mental. In this sense, the Caring for the Caregiver / Rescue Self-esteem acts as a light care technology that provides a forum for support, speaking and listening, which in turn enables its members to redeem their self-esteem, helping them to face and overcome the difficulties of everyday life. This research aimed to: identify care practices offered by care spaces that arouse in the users the desire to care for themselves; investigate the motivation of health professionals about the development of workshops with community care. It is a comprehensive research of qualitative-interpretative approach to the study of which was used thematic oral history as a methodological way. The setting of the research was the center of Integrative and Complementary Practices - Balance of Being and the Center for Comprehensive Care Health, located in the city of João Pessoa - PB.O empirical data were obtained through interviews with ten employees and the analysis of this material was performed based on the thematic analysis proposed by Minayo, which enabled the construction of the thematic axes: I - Relationship care of themselves and each other: awakening to resilience; II - Workshops taking care of the caregiver / redemption of self-esteem, motivation of health workers. The speeches of the collaborators revealed significant changes in personal and professional context in which it was revealed that the workshops of care made possible the rescue of self-esteem, awakening to the resilience, the look itself from the self, reinforcing the concept of autonomy, contributing to the (re) signification of his life story, his sufferings. The process of change observed from the inclusion of these individuals in the workshops of care, fostered a better understanding of self and other, recognizing the dialectical relationship of care and also contribute to the establishment and strengthening of bonds. We conclude therefore, that taking care of the caregiver / redemption of self-esteem corroborates with the principles of the NHS, encouraging the implementation and consolidation of new care practices that enhance health promotion, prevention and restoration of health of individuals, families and communities so integral. / A mudança do modelo de atenção á saúde mental dentro do SUS é direcionado para a ampliação de práticas de cuidado que visam incluir e integrar os sujeitos aos diferentes espaços da sociedade, implementando tecnologias de cuidado a fim de promover a promoção a saúde e prevenção do adoecimento mental. Nesse sentido, o Cuidando do Cuidador/Resgate da Autoestima atua como uma tecnologia leve de cuidado que propicia um espaço de apoio, fala e escuta, que por sua vez, possibilita aos seus integrantes resgatar a sua autoestima, ajudando-o a enfrentar e superar as dificuldades do dia a dia. Esta pesquisa teve como objetivos: identificar as práticas de cuidado oferecidas pelos espaços de cuidado que despertam nos usuários o desejo de cuidar de si; investigar a motivação dos profissionais de saúde acerca do desenvolvimento das oficinas de cuidado com a comunidade. Trata-se de uma pesquisa compreensivo-interpretativa de abordagem qualitativa, para cujo estudo se utilizou a História Oral Temática como caminho metodológico. O cenário da investigação foi o Centro de Práticas Integrativas e Complementares – Equilíbrio do Ser localizado no município de João Pessoa – PB.O material empírico foi produzido através de entrevistas realizadas com seis colaboradores e a análise desse material foi realizada com base na análise temática proposta por Minayo, que possibilitou a construção dos eixos temáticos: I – Usuárias e o cuidar de si motivados por uma possibilidade de transformação; II – A repercussão das oficinas de cuidando do cuidador/resgate da autoestima na vida das usuárias; III – Práticas de cuidados de cuidado utilizadas como ferramentas fortalecedoras da promoção da saúde. Os discursos das colaboradoras revelaram mudanças significativas no âmbito pessoal em que foi possível perceber que as oficinas de cuidado possibilitaram o resgate da autoestima, o despertar para a resiliência, o olhar para si a partir do autoconhecimento, potencializando o resgate da autonomia, contribuindo para a (re)significação da sua história de vida, seus sofrimentos. O processo de mudança observado a partir da inserção desses indivíduos nas oficinas de cuidado, favoreceu uma melhor compreensão de si e do outro, reconhecendo a relação dialética do cuidado e também contribuindo para o estabelecimento e fortalecimento de vínculos. Conclui-se portanto, que o cuidando do cuidador/resgate da autoestima corrobora com os princípios do SUS, incentivando a implementação e consolidação de novas práticas de cuidado que potencializam ações de promoção, prevenção e recuperação da saúde de indivíduos, famílias e comunidades de maneira integral.

FAPEAL - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Alagoas / Estima-se que 50% dos genes codificadores de proteínas possuem oscilação rítmica em diferentes tecidos de mamíferos. Curiosamente, metade das proteínas desses genes possuem seus RNAm correspondentes com expressão constitutiva (arrítmica), ressaltando a relevância de eventos pós-transcricionais para a oscilação de proteínas. Os “High throughput Assays” (HTA) circadianos são extremamente importantes, pois fornecem informações acerca da expressão de milhares de transcritos e de proteínas, uma rica coleção cronobiológica que pode ajudar na resolução de diferentes problemas científicos, não apenas os abordados nas pesquisas originais. Embora altamente reprodutivos e informativos, ensaios de biologia molecular circadiana apresentam algumas divergências em seus resultados, ressaltando a necessidade do aprimoramento de métodos de normalização e análise dos diferentes ensaios de expressão. Até o momento, não se conhecem os impactos da normalização do RNA em ensaios de expressão de pequenos RNAs, como miRNAs. Este estudo objetivou: (1) analisar a co-expressão de miRNAs e RNAm e proteínas de genes alvos; (2) identificar e validar miRNAs candidatos ao sistema molecular circadiano; (3) analisar o impacto da normalização do RNA total em estudos circadianos de miRNAs. Através da sistematização de diferentes dados circadianos de HTA (RNA-seq, small RNA-seq, Chip-seq e proteoma), de bioinformática e de interações miRNA:RNAm validadas, identificamos uma lista de 152 microRNAs (miRNAs) candidatos ao controle pós-transcricional dos ritmos moleculares. Desses, os dois mais relevantes, miR29b-3p e miR-23b-3p, foram experimentalmente validados como importantes para a manutenção do período dos ritmos das células U2OS PER2:LUC. Análises de HTA também permitiram a identificação de diferenças nas fases de expressão de miRNAs 3p e 5p, com genes alvos divergentes. Interessantemente, a identificação de padrões de expressão de RNAm e proteínas de genes alvos de miRNAs, permite sugerir um mecanismo de ajuste das amplitudes dos ritmos das proteínas dependente da fase do RNAm. Por fim, através do controle de etapas experimentais, demonstramos oscilação circadiana na concentração do RNA total de diferentes regiões de cérebros de camundongos. A normalização desse ritmo, durante a síntese de cDNA, afeta o perfil de expressão de transcritos, incluindo os dos genes relógio Per1-2 e Bmal1. Ademais, através de análises com RNA exógeno, ou spike-ins, demonstramos que o ajuste da concentração do RNA compromete a análise de miRNAs, possivelmente por interferências nos rendimentos de extração e nas reações de síntese de cDNA. Este estudo apresenta dois novos miRNAs importantes para a manutenção da ritmicidade circadiana e uma nova estratégia de análise de qPCR para estudos cronobiológicos de miRNAs.

Transitional justice emerged as an integral part of state- and peacebuilding processes during the same period as the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This created a market for human rights promotion in which non-governmental organizations were perceived as experts. Although transitional justice is a well-researched area, few studies have analyzed the production of knowledge by non-governmental organizations in this field. The aim of this study is to bridge this research gap by analyzing how two non-governmental organizations – Human Rights Watch and Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation – create and use the concept of victim in their reports. The reports were analyzed in two steps, based on qualitative content analysis. The first step was to code the material based on theoretical assumptions and the content. The second step was to create a narrative which was the base for the theoretical analysis of the material. The analysis centers around three key concepts: cosmopolitanism, representation and the subaltern. This theoretical framework is created based on the two scholars Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Ulrich Beck. The analysis shows that both organizations are creating a space in their reports, a cosmopolitan reality, in which they are legitimizing their own work. The creation of different subjects, such as victim, is also done in relation to this space. In other words, the organizations create the concept of victim to suit their own world-view and rationale.

In the past years, utilization of ECG for verification and identification in biometry is investigated. The topic is investigated in this thesis. Recordings from ECG ID database from PhysioNet and our own ECG recordings recorded using Apple Watch 4 are used for training and testing this method. Many of the existing methods have proven the possibility of using ECG for biometry, however they were using clinical ECG devices. This thesis investigates using recordings from wearable devices, specifically smart watch. 16 features are extracted from ECG recordings and a random forest classifier is used for verification and identification. The features include time intervals between fiducial points, voltage difference between fiducial points and PR intervals variability in a recording. The average performance of verification model of 14 people is TRR 96,19 %, TAR 84,25 %.

SmartWatches are watches with the property that they can connect to internet.The interest and market for smartwatches has increased remarkably over the pastfew years. However, most of today's solutions cover only the frequency bandsBluetooth (BT) and Global Positioning System(GPS). A desired property of thenext generation of smartwatches is to include additional frequency bands suchas Global System for Mobile Communication(GSM) and Third Generation (3G)cellular bands, so that the Smart Watch can become independent of a smartphone.This sets new challenges for antenna design in small regions. The limited sizetogether with the increased bandwidth demand causes the major problem.The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the antenna concept for wrist wear-able devices that has earlier been developed by the RF team at Sunway Commu-nication AB in Stockholm. The main objective of this project is to study howthis antenna concept can be changed to achieve a given set of requirements onfrequency, bandwidth and eciency. Characteristic Mode Analysis and antennaquality factor calculated from the input impedance, are tools used to help under-stand and improve the characteristics of the antenna.A decomposition method and a parametric study were initially applied to theplanar version of the antenna concept. We investigated then the inuence of theposition of the feeds and the slot that separates the two antenna elements. Anoptimised design of the planar antenna was achieved based on the results fromthose studies. Four prototypes of this antenna were built and measured in the RFlaboratory in Kista.The possibility of miniaturization was studied through simulations by analysingthe eect of using a higher dielectric constant material in the antenna. Two dif-ferent arrangements were investigated. The eect of bending the antenna to t ona human wrist was also investigated, where a frequency shift was observed in theresults. The change in bandwidth of the dierent modes is related to the changein the stored energy of the antenna caused by the bending.We made a prototype of the planar antenna that shows a good agreement withsimulation results and fulls the basic requirements on frequency, bandwidth andeciency. We also found that the addition of a shorting pin showed a bandwidthimprovement of the high-band port and we showed through simulation that it ispossible to reduce the size of the antenna by adding a layer of PCABS material.

As media organisations dedicate less money and resources to journalism covering issuesrelating to development and social change, NGO’s are becoming increasingly visible as newscreators, funders and enablers. NGOs and media organisations are now frequentlycollaborating and even making partnerships to produce news content, which is having wide-ranging effects on the field of journalism.These phenomena coincide with the wide diversification of the news media landscape overthe past 2 decades, with a generation of ‘new media’ organisations rising up to challengethe dominance of legacy media entities, and bringing with them new practices andunderstandings of journalistic values.Where previous research has centred on the ‘blurring of roles’ between traditionalmainstream media outlets and NGOs, this thesis explores partnerships between NGOs and‘new media’ organisations which are not necessarily grounded upon the core practices ofprofessional journalism, using a case study of a recent ‘content partnership’ between the UShuman rights NGO Human Rights Watch, and the viral content website Upworthy.Given the vertiginous rise of digital media organisations over the past two decades, suchpartnerships could have a significant impact on how both NGOs communicate, and howmedia entities interact with NGOs, raising questions over journalistic standards, the powerdynamics between NGOs and the media, and even the viability of ‘objective’ news coveragein the future.To interrogate these issues, this thesis studies articles and videos produced as part of thepartnership between Human Rights Watch and Upworthy through statistical and textualanalyses, taking primary theoretical inspiration from Kate Wright’s “Moral Economies:Interrogating the Interactions of NGOs, Journalists and Freelancers”, (2016) and MatthewPowers’ Beyond Boon or Bane; Using normative theories to evaluate the newsmakingefforts of NGOs (2017).The findings of this study could be of use to NGO practitioners and journalists who areconsidering engaging in an NGO-media partnership, as well as to journalism, media anddevelopment researchers.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T20:21:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Thania Enriqueta Soto Lemke.pdf: 522307 bytes, checksum: 7727adfbbfe4020f406e1fb1b490a593 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-10-19 / The transnational nature of phenomena as human rights and the environment consolidated action spaces for civil society agents and, specifically, transnational non-governmental organizations which were organized to attend the demands from the state area and the international organizations; besides rising local problems to an international sphere. As to human rights, the defence of universal values has been constituted into a fertile arena for non-governmental organizations action. Protagonists of a constant monitoring movement and pression on governments and international organizations, aiming the respect for civil and political rights, these actors from the institutional field were raised to direct actions in the governability sphere worldwide, not only referring to human rights themselves , in a consultig way, but also their role as opinion makers. Taking into account the direct actions performed by the transnational non-governmental Human Rights Watch organization, this research intends to contribute towards the understanding of action strategies taken by transnational non-governmental organizations in the contemporary international relations / A natureza transnacional de fenômenos como os direitos humanos e o meio ambiente consolidou espaços de atuação de agentes da sociedade civil e, especificamente, de organizações não-governamentais transnacionais que se organizaram para atender demandas vindas da esfera estatal e dos organismos internacionais e elevando problemáticas locais à esfera internacional. No campo específico dos direitos humanos, a defesa de valores universais se constituiu numa arena fértil para a atuação das ONGs transnacionais. Protagonistas de uma ação constante de monitoramento e pressão aos governos e organizações internacionais para o respeito dos direitos civis e políticos, alçaram estes atores da esfera institucional a atuação na esfera da governabilidade mundial; no que se refere aos direitos humanos, em caráter consultivo além da atuação como formadores de opinião. A partir do estudo dos instrumentos de atuação da organização não- governamental transnacional Human Rights Watch, esta pesquisa pretende contribuir no entendimento das estratégias de atuação das ONGs transnacionais nas relações internacionais contemporâneas