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There is a clear trend in the aircraft industry to use more electrical systems in propulsion and electromechanical and electrohydraulic actuators to comply with environmental sustainability and to improve reliability and maintenance processes. The increase of electrical consumption requires an increase of the rated voltages to supply power to these so called More Electrical Aircraft (MEA). Unfortunately, this voltage rise, currently up to 540 Vdc, can lead to ionization processes within the electric wiring due to the lower air density at high altitudes. As a consequence, a degraded insulation can create extremely hazardous events in flight such as arcs between wires (serial) or between wires and fuselage (parallel). Serial arcs in DC bus circuits are specially dangerous for the aircraft operation, so its detection within fractions of seconds is required to ensure a reliable operation. However, during a sustained serial arc the rated current can be passing through air deceiving the protections and avoiding their tripping. In this work, it has been found that arcing introduces high frequency current pulses superimposed to the DC component that can be identified to detect the occurrence of an arc. The frequency components of these pulses depend on the line characteristics and can be detected with inductive sensors. This manuscript also designs and tests a light and inexpensive sensor for arc detection in aircraft applications.

The subject of the article is Reinhart Koselleck’s critique of hermeneutics primacy. More specifically, we shed light on the Koselleckian critique of hermeneutics’ universality by examining some aspects of his confrontation with Hans-Georg Gadamer. In schematic terms, the article is divided into four parts. First, we analyze how the German historian appropriated Martin Heidegger’s philosophy when making an unusual reading of Being and time. After that, we seek to better understand Koselleck’s critique of Gadamerian hermeneutics. In a third moment, we briefly present the constitutive “tension” of all historiographical work according to Koselleck’s perspective. Finally, we use an excerpt from a novel by Hermann Hesse in order to illustrate the Koselleckian argument about sense (Sinn) and non-sense (Unsinn) in history. In conclusion, our aim is to show that maybe Koselleck and Gadamer agreed with each other – maybe they were just looking at the problem from different prisms. O tema do artigo é a crítica de Reinhart Koselleck ao primado da hermenêutica. Mais especificamente, jogamos luz sobre a crítica koselleckiana à pretensão de universalidade da hermenêutica a partir do exame de alguns aspectos do seu embate com Hans-Georg Gadamer. Em termos esquemáticos, o artigo é dividido em quatro partes. Primeiramente, analisamos como o historiador alemão se apropriou da filosofia de Martin Heidegger ao fazer uma leitura incomum de Ser e tempo. No passo seguinte, buscamos entender melhor a crítica de Koselleck à hermenêutica gadameriana. Em um terceiro momento, apresentamos rapidamente a “tensão” constitutiva de todo labor historiográfico segundo a perspectiva de Koselleck. Para terminar, lançamos mão de um trecho de um romance de Hermann Hesse com o intuito de ilustrar o argumento koselleckiano sobre o sentido (Sinn) e o não sentido (Unsinn) na história. Ao concluir, o nosso objetivo é mostrar que talvez Koselleck e Gadamer concordassem um com o outro – talvez eles estivessem apenas olhando o problema a partir de prismas diferentes.

O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar a toxicidade aguda das FSA dos combustíveis fóssil S500, S10, Biodiesel, e misturas comerciais (B10), tendo a Artemia sp. como organismo teste. Essa avaliação foi realizada através da exposição de náuplios fase II e III - 48 horas vida, por um período de 24-48h, em concentrações de 5, 10, 22, 46 e 100% de FSA e analisada a CL50 e CL90. Os resultados obtidos demonstram que os combustíveis que apresentaram maior toxicidade foram os fósseis S500 com CL50- 24h 8,5 % de FSA e CL90- 24h 29,4% de FSA, seguido do S10, que apresentaram a mesma concentração de letalidade para o CL50- 24h e CL90- 24h de 12% ± 3, seguido das misturas S10+B100 com CL 50- 24h - 15,2 % de FSA e CL90- 24h 32, 6%, e do S500+B100 com CL 50- 24h 39% de FSA e CL90- 24h 64,7% FSA. O biodiesel não apresentou toxicidade significava na exposição por 24h. Após 48h de exposição, todos os combustíveis apresentaram elevada toxicicidade nos organismos avaliados. Os resultados demonstraram que em 24 horas, os combustíveis mais tóxicos são os fósseis, sendo o S500 mais tóxico que o S10, quando adicionado de biodiesel o S10+B100 torna-se mais tóxico que o S500+B. Após 48h, todos os combustíveis apresentaram toxicidade elevada.

Purpose: Higher education institutions have used more and more project management tools to run development projects to create new professional postgraduate programs. The purpose of this research was to propose an adaptive project management model for creating a professional doctoral course in Business Administration, in order to fulfill the goals established by CAPES. Design/methodology/approach: For such, the qualitative approach was favored with the adoption of the single case study method. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with academic coordinators who are experts in the field in addition to the gathering of documents, thus using data triangulation to explore the phenomenon. The analysis of primary data and the analysis of documents from the Coordinating Agency for Advanced Training of Graduate Personnel (CAPES) served as inputs for analyzing and interpreting the results. Findings: As a result, we developed an adaptive project management model with the following characteristics: a) constant planning of activities, occurring in every cycle of interactions; b) iteration using short activities, allowing for more control of the project; c) validations performed continuously to ensure the goals proposed by CAPES are reached; and d) adaptable to change of scope during the execution phase of the project life cycle. Research limitations/implication: Among the limitations of the study is the lack of other studies related to the use of adaptive project management methodologies for developing postgraduate programs. And for future researches, we point out the need for applying the proposed model, to verify its efficacy and adherence to the development of a professional doctoral course. Originality/value: This study contributes to the academy by highlighting the need for project management as a tool and technique for the development of stricto sensu professional graduate programs. In this way, HEIs will be able to use a model of adaptive project management practices to achieve the objectives proposed by the CAPES evaluation process. As a result, HEIs are strengthened in the management, control and monitoring of the progress of their programs. RESUMO Objetivo: Para conduzir os projetos de desenvolvimento e criação de novos programas de pós-graduação stricto sensu profissional, as instituições de ensino superior têm, cada vez mais, utilizado ferramentas de gestão de projetos. Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo propor um modelo de práticas adaptativas de gerenciamento de projetos de curso de um Doutorado Profissional em Administração, visando o alcance dos objetivos propostos pela CAPES. Design/metodologia/abordagem: A abordagem utilizada foi qualitativa, por meio do método de estudo de caso único. Para explorar o fenômeno, houve a condução de entrevistas semiestruturadas com coordenadores acadêmicos especialistas em pós-graduação e a coletada de documentos, o que permitiu a triangulação dos dados. A análise de dados primários e a análise de documentos da CAPES serviram como insumos para análise e interpretação dos resultados. Resultados: Como resultado, desenvolvemos um modelo adaptativo de gerenciamento de projetos com as seguintes características: a) planejamento constante das atividades, ocorrendo a cada novo ciclo de interações; b) iterações de atividades curtas, que permitem maior controle do projeto; c) validações realizadas a todo o momento para garantir o cumprimento das metas propostas pela CAPES e; d) adaptável a mudanças do escopo durante a execução do ciclo de vida do projeto. Limitações/implicações da pesquisa: O estudo do uso de práticas de gestão de projetos e metodologias adaptativas de gerenciamento de projetos ainda é escasso, no que tange ao contexto de desenvolvimento de programas de pós-graduação stricto sensu. O processo de absorção dos conceitos relacionados à gestão de projetos é árduo, devido à maioria dos coordenadores de programas executarem os processos de avaliação da CAPES de forma automática, seguindo apenas os quesitos e prazos determinados pela ficha de avaliação, sem determinar marcos e períodos curtos de entrega. Originalidade/valor: Este estudo contribui para a academia ao evidenciar a necessidade da gestão de projetos como ferramenta e técnica para o desenvolvimento de programas de pós-graduação stricto sensu profissional. Dessa forma, as IES terão a possibilidade de utilizar um modelo de práticas adaptativas de gerenciamento de projetos, para o alcance dos objetivos propostos pelo processo de avaliação da CAPES. Com isso, as IES se fortalecem na gestão, no controle e no monitoramento do avanço de seus programas.

Benign nerve sheath tumours include perineuriomas, schwannomas and neurofibromas. Hybrid schwannoma-perineurioma represents a cutaneous, subcutaneous or occasionally intra-osseous tumour with schwannian cytomorphology and perineurioma-like architecture consisting of a mixture of both types of cells. These tumours can develop at any age and there is no gender-predilection. Tongue is the most frequently affected site, followed by palate, mouth floor, jugal mucosa, lips and, more rarely, mandible. We present a case of hybrid tumour with schwannoma-perineurioma morphology located on the right mandibular body (intra-osseous) of a 54-year-old female patient. The tumour was symptomatic and evolving for six months. Microscopically, it was encapsulated and highly cellularised, presenting fascicular aspect and exhibiting scant mitotic activity. The tumour consisted of distinct cellular populations involving fusiform cells, cells with wavy and hyperchromatic nucleus or even epithelioid cells. Positive immunostaining for S-100 and epithelial membrane antigen (EMA) was observed. The lesion was completely removed under general anaesthesia, with the patient showing no clinical or radiographic sign of relapse after two-year follow-up. Despite the limited knowledge on the pathogenesis of Hybrid Schwannoma-Perineurioma, these tumours seem to present a non-aggressive biological behaviour. Conservative surgery provides adequate solution without recurrence, even after a long-term follow-up. Key words:Nerve sheath tumours, Schwannoma, Perineurioma, Immunohistochemistry.

This work presents a methodology to perform the scale-up of a solid fuel furnace to a higher heat output with maintaining or improving the burn-out quality. As basis to derive the scale-up concept, an example of a 35 kW screw burner for biomass fuels is investigated. Based on the Pi-theorem, the relevant dimensionless parameters are derived and similarity rules for the scale-up are proposed as follows: As initial conditions, the height to diameter ratio of the combustion chamber, the mean Reynolds number in the combustion chamber and the mean square velocity through the combustion chamber shall be kept constant or in the case of the Reynolds number may also increase. Additionally the effective momentum flux ratio between the secondary air injected in the combustion chamber and the gases from the pyrolysis and gasification section also shall be kept constant to maintain the mixing conditions between combustible gases and secondary air. Finally the thermal surface load on the screw also shall be kept constant. The influence of different scale-up approaches on thermal surface load, gas velocity, pressure losses, Reynolds number and height-to-diameter ratio are compared and discussed and a scaling approach to increase the heat output from 35 kW to 150 kW is described. For a theoretical validation of the scale-up, CFD simulations are performed to investigate the predicted pollutant emissions and the pressure loss for the scaled 150 kW furnace.

A profound understanding of the fuel conversion on a grate boiler is crucial for an optimised boiler operation with a minimised pollutant emission. This work presents gas measurements and numeric simulations of a 150 kW moving grate boiler. The fuel bed model considers drying, pyrolysis and gasification. In the experiments, temperature profiles above the fuel bed and the fuel bed height are measured. Pyrolysis gas is sampled with a cooled probe and analysed on its CO, CO2, CH4, VOC, H2O, H2 and O2 composition. The experiments show that drying occurs in the first third of the grate with a relatively constant release of water vapour from the fuel bed. The temperature of the dried fuel further increases on the grate. The release of volatiles from the fuel pyrolysis starts towards the end of the drying zone and occurs in a relatively narrow zone. The fuel bed simulations are validated, discussed and used to analyse the influence of parameters on the fuel conversion such as the moisture content of the fuel and the primary air distribution. The model forms a basis to calculate the entry conditions for subsequent gas phase simulations.

Este trabalho relata o processo de desenvolvimento de um jogo eletrônico de RPG acessível em LIBRAS. O seu desenvolvimento segue elementos e mecânicas similares à JRPGs das décadas de 80 e 90 e está sendo desenvolvido com RPG Maker MV, Inkscape e FontForge. De modo geral, mas não se restringe, o público-alvo serão os estudantes do Ensino Fundamental (I e II) e com a possibilidade de ser um jogo acessível para alunos surdos. O processo de criação do jogo segue a metodologia ágil, iterativa e incremental.

Submitted by Nadir Basilio (nadirsb@uninove.br) on 2020-07-09T21:38:32Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Gabriel Barroso de Azevedo.pdf: 6761828 bytes, checksum: 718e6b2105a967160d2edf00ce82cccb (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2020-07-09T21:38:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gabriel Barroso de Azevedo.pdf: 6761828 bytes, checksum: 718e6b2105a967160d2edf00ce82cccb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2020-03-26 Higher education institutions have used more and more project management tools to run development projects to create new professional postgraduate programs. The purpose of this research was to propose an adaptive project management model for the development of a professional doctoral course project in Business Administration, in order to fulfill the goals established by CAPES. For such, the qualitative approach was favored with the adoption of the single case study method. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with academic coordinators who are experts in the field in addition to the gathering of documents, thus using data triangulation to explore the phenomenon. The analysis of primary data and the analysis of documents from the Coordinating Agency for Advanced Training of Graduate Personnel (CAPES) served as inputs for analyzing and interpreting the results. As a result, we developed an adaptive project management model with the following characteristics: a) constant planning of activities, occurring in every cycle of interactions; b) iteration using short activities, allowing for more control of the project; c) validations performed continuously to ensure the goals proposed by CAPES are reached; and d) adaptable to change of scope during the execution phase of the project life cycle. Para conduzir os projetos de desenvolvimento e criação de novos programas de pós-graduação stricto sensu profissional, as instituições de ensino superior têm, cada vez mais, utilizado ferramentas de gestão de projetos. Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo propor um modelo de práticas adaptativas de gerenciamento de projetos para o desenvolvimento de um projeto de curso de um Doutorado Profissional em Administração, visando o alcance dos objetivos propostos pela CAPES. A abordagem utilizada foi qualitativa, por meio do método de estudo de caso único. Para explorar o fenômeno, houve a condução de entrevistas semiestruturadas com coordenadores acadêmicos especialistas em pós-graduação e a coletada de documentos, o que permitiu a triangulação dos dados. A análise de dados primários e a análise de documentos da CAPES serviram como insumos para análise e interpretação dos resultados. Como resultado, desenvolvemos um modelo adaptativo de gerenciamento de projetos com as seguintes características: a) planejamento constante das atividades, ocorrendo a cada novo ciclo de interações; b) iterações de atividades curtas, que permitem maior controle do projeto; c) validações realizadas a todo o momento para garantir o cumprimento das metas propostas pela CAPES e; d) adaptável a mudanças do escopo durante a execução do ciclo de vida do projeto.

This paper reviews the results of a challenging engineering project that arose with the goal of implementing an electromechanical, automatic, portable, and inexpensive device. The device should be able to assist people who lack of dexterity in their hands to use small tools and everyday utensils, such as scissors or tweezers. In this paper, the hardware development and software functionality are described. The original specifications were developed to implement an affordable functional prototype able to serve as a low-cost assistive technology. Several commonly used electronic devices were integrated to create an innovative application. A simple mechanical system based on gears and a worm screw is used to convert the stepper motor rotation to a linear movement on the device tip. A tool-oriented control to increase the device usability was designed through two simultaneous communication channels: touch-screen and smartphone app. Pilot trials were conducted at healthcare facilities to evaluate the technical feasibility, the obtained functionality, as well as the device acceptance by target users. Based on user experience design, the app functionality was enhanced and subsequently tested. Finally, a review and reformulation of the specifications of the original design were accomplished. These changes helped to achieve a system with a lower manufacturing cost and better acceptance, while considering the user in the development cycle. This work was supported in part by the RoboCity2030-III-CM Project (Robotica aplicada a la mejora de la calidad de vida de los ciudadanos. Fase III; S2013/MIT-2748), in part by the Programas de Actividades I+D en la Comunidad de Madrid, in part by the Structural Funds of the EU, and in part by the private Fundacion Universia.

A combined 1D-fuel-bed and 3D-CFD model for the simulation of an innovative 35 kW screw burner has been developed and validated with experiments. The 1D-fuel-bed model is a further development of a previously presented walking column approach and accounts for the special transport conditions in a screw burner. A new reduced chemical mechanism combined with the Eddy Dissipation Concept (EDC) combustion model is used in the subsequent 3D-CFD simulation. Detailed and reduced mechanisms are first compared in an opposed jet burner and then an improved reduced chemistry model is used in CFD calculations to investigate the influence of different primary and secondary air settings and to be validated with experimental data from a 35 kW prototype burner. The model enables a reasonable prediction of the trends of variations of the excess air ratio in the primary zone (primary λ) and of the global excess air on the emissions and the heat output and is therefore suitable for the design of biomass combustion systems with a moving fuel bed.

Made available in DSpace on 2022-06-22T23:46:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2016-08-30 The scope of this dissertational paper is to summarize the research report undertaken in the analysis of international society, in the context of advanced globalization of economic, political, social, cultural and juridical processes, aiming, first, to investigate how the legal system and political relations work internationally, in order to verify the way the entities that participate and act on the global geopolitical space interrelate with each other. In this perspective, we sought to establish whether the operation of this international system reveals or not some structural logical trend to organize power that transcends the contractual guidance of states approaches, pointing evidences of a federalization process whit cross-border projection. In other words, as well as a federal state is geopolitically distributed, the aim of this research was to ascertain whether the power in international society is organized as a federative system, or not. The paper had its starting point, basically, on the commonly held idea of limitation or loss of the national sovereignty, and holds an arrow pointing to identify - according to a qualitative, descriptive and bibliographic methodology of approach to the object of this research - if the international systems is becoming into a federal type. In this sense, it was necessary to go, analytically and critically, throughout the concepts of the modern nation-state bases - the ideas of nation, of constitutionalism and of the state itself - starting from a reanalysis guided by the processes and consequences of globalization, which affect human relations at the level of identity, economy, geography etc. Based on the premise of weakening of the relationship that held together nation-State-and-sovereignty, we would "re-read" the national-State position in the global society within the theory of federalism. According to that, we could see that the characteristics commonly attributed to national federations can also be identified, somehow, on the way normative-institutional arrangements of international system have been structured and how they work legally and politically. From the principle of distribution of power in cross-border scale, "post-national federalism" would occur not as an agreed and designed structure among international actors, but as a reorganization process of global society, where several entities work cooperatively, though in an autonomous way, under the orientation of an order of values and norms that seems to be, in some sense, superior and common for all. Keywords: Federalism. Sovereignty. Globalization. National identity. Post-nationalism. A presente dissertação sintetiza a pesquisa que foi empreendida na análise da sociedade internacional, no contexto de avanço dos processos políticos, econômicos, sociais, culturais e jurídicos da globalização, com o intuito inicial de averiguar o funcionamento do sistema de direito e de relações internacionais, no sentido de verificar como se relacionam as entidades que participam e atuam no espaço geopolítico global. Nessa perspectiva, buscou-se identificar se o funcionamento desse sistema revela alguma lógica ou alguma tendência de organização do poder que, transcendendo a orientação contratualista das aproximações estatais, aponte indícios de um processo federativo de projeção transfronteiriça. Noutras palavras, à semelhança de como se estrutura a organização política no âmbito do Estado federal, o intuito da pesquisa foi averiguar se o poder, na sociedade internacional, encontra-se distribuído numa sistemática federativa. O trabalho teve como pressuposto, basicamente, a ideia comumente difundida acerca da crescente limitação ou perda do exercício fático da soberania, e, como proposta, uma leitura que identifique ¿ com base numa metodologia qualitativa, descritiva e bibliográfica ¿ a formação dum sistema de federalismo internacional. Para tanto, foi necessário percorrer, analítica e criticamente, as bases do moderno Estado nacional ¿ a ideia de nação, de constitucionalismo e do próprio conceito de Estado ¿ a partir duma releitura que teve como vetor de orientação os reflexos que a globalização projeta nas relações humanas em nível de identidade, economia, geografia etc. Com base na premissa de enfraquecimento da interrelação nacionalismo-Estado-soberania, procedeu-se à leitura da posição dos Estadosnação na sociedade global à luz da teoria do federalismo, por meio da qual se pôde perceber que as características comumente atribuídas às federações nacionais podem ser identificadas, de alguma maneira, na forma como se têm estruturado e como têm funcionado os arranjos normativos e institucionais do sistema internacional. A partir duma lógica de distribuição do poder, em escala transfronteiriça, o federalismo ¿pós-nacional¿ não apareceria como uma estruturação acordada e projetada por atores internacionais, mas como um processo de reorganização da sociedade global, onde várias entidades funcionam de maneira cooperada e autônoma, sob a orientação dum ordenamento de valores e normas que se mostre, de alguma forma, superior e comum. Palavras-chave: Federalismo. Soberania. Globalização. Identidade nacional. Pósnacionalismo.

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Die weitere Emissionsreduzierung wird in den nachsten Jahren ein Schwerpunkt der Entwicklung von Dieselmotoren sein. Die innermotorischen Masnahmen werden hierbei eine entscheidende Masnahme bleiben — auch nach Einfuhrung des Partikelfilters. Die homogene Dieselverbrennung (HCCI) zeichnet sich durch sehr geringe Stickoxidund Partikelemissionen aus. In einem Vorhaben der FVV wurde dieses Brennverfahren auf die Umsetzbarkeit im Pkw-Dieselmotor untersucht und bewertet. Forschungsstellen waren das Institut fur Verbrennungsmotoren und Kraftfahrwesen (IVK) der Universitat Stuttgart und das Laboratorium fur Aerothermochemie und Verbrennungssysteme (LAV) der ETH Zurich, die Obhut ubernahm GM Powertrain Europe.

Further reduction of emissions from Diesel engines will play a central role in development over the next few years. Measures inside the engine will continue to play a crucial role here — even after the introduction of the particulate filter. Homogenous Diesel Combustion (HCCI) is distinguished by extremely low nitrogen-oxide and particulate emissions. In a project undertaken by the Research Society for Combustion Engines in Frankfurt (FVV), this combustion process has been analysed and assessed as to its implementation in diesel passenger-car engines. The research centres involved were the Institute for Combustion Engines and Automotive Engineering (IVK) of Stuttgart University and the Laboratory for Aerothermochemistry and Combustion Systems (LAV) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich); overall responsibility was assumed by GM Powertrain Europe.

Os estivadores do Porto do Mucuripe são trabalhadores sem vínculo empregatício com a Companhia Docas do Ceará. Atuam no convés e no porão dos navios, fazendo o embarque, o desembarque e a organização dos contêineres. Neste ambiente de constante exposição a riscos, o médico do trabalho é fundamental na organização de planos de prevenção de acidentes, de educação dos trabalhadores e de monitorização dos riscos. O objetivo do artigo é caracterizar e conhecer o estivador, correlacionar o ambiente portuário e o seu processo produtivo com os fatores de risco e os agravos associados, bem como ressaltar a importância da medicina do trabalho para o controle de tais riscos. O trabalho de campo foi desenvolvido nos meses de janeiro e de fevereiro de 2003, com a aplicação de 60 questionários aos estivadores. A análise dos dados evidencia que os principais problemas de saúde inerentes à profissão de estivador são, entre outros, os distúrbios osteoarticulares (hérnia de disco e desgastes na articulação do joelho) e metabólicos (diabetes e hipertensão arterial). Estes se devem não só ao trabalho, mas também e, com grande influência, ao contexto de vida destes profissionais.The stevedores of the Port of Mucuripe are workers without employment bond with the Company Dock of Ceará. They act in the deck and the stowage of the ships, making the embarkment, the landing and the organization of containers. In this environment of constant exposition to risks, occupational physician is basic in the organization of plans of prevention of accidents, education of the workers and monitorization of the risks. The objective of this article is to characterize and to know the stevedore’s job, to correlate the port environment and its productive process with the factors of risk and the damages associates, as well as standing out the importance of the Occupational Medicine for the control of such risks. The fieldwork was developed in the months of January and February of 2003, with the application of 60 questionnaires to the stevedores. The analysis of the data evidence that the main inherent problems of health this stevedore’s job are, among others, the osteo-articulate (lumbar disc hernia and consumings in the joint of the knee) and metabolic disturbances (diabetes and arterial hipertension). These if not only must to the work, but also and, with great influence, to the context of life of these professionals.