Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Production of Interiors'

Engaging Space focuses on arranging as means to engage with space. The adaptive arrangements and spatial negotiations of street vendors provide the stimulus for my inquiry. Noticing the various ways vendors constantly engage spatially has led me to observe the ways spatial practices are adapted to suit various requirements. What might I learn, as an interior practitioner, from the spatial practices of street vendors? How might this be applied to an interior practice, to inform an understanding of adaptive methods to engage with space? Undertaking a practice of vendoring, the projects then become engaging spaces - exploring a practice of arranging to produce interiors.

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This research presents an approach to the fact that the hinterland is a cultural phenomenon that promotes the landscape, giving the Brazil-interior settings. With a view to assessing content endlessly reissued, the handling of stories about the backcountry led an exercise in theoretical and conceptual experimentation. Taking as study material from cuttings of literary exponents as Hugo de Carvalho Ramos, Bernardo Elis, João Acciole, Léo Godoy Otero, Eli Brasiliense, Mário Rizério Leite, Affonso Arinos and Carmo Bernardes, as well as the pictorial work of Issac Alarcão, the travelogue of Augusta de Faro Fleury Curado, and iconographic, cartographic and/or historiographical material about markers on the backwoods as the troops, the car steers, the cattle, the ranch and their own swing, what happened was an opportunity for review of the place and time temporalized spatialized in discursive productions. To expose the composition of the place were covered projections of a fluctuating space and unfinished. To be noticed and be a prospective way, the hinterland is assessed in this study provide the thematic nature (and often dramatic) the achievements of the discursive landscape hinterland. It was necessary to exercise a juxtaposition of content that mediate permeate the place, which unfolds according to the descriptive labels that strengthen the region invented by very different perspectives narratives. More narrowly, it longed to be interpreted as a manifestation of the interior landscape imagined place, multi-experiencied, interactive and pregnant women, which is always becoming.
Esta pesquisa apresenta uma abordagem para o fato de que o sertão é um fenômeno cultural que promove a paisagem, concedendo configurações ao Brasil-interior. Com vistas à apreciação de conteúdos incessantemente reeditados, o manuseio de narrativas sobre o sertão ocasionou um exercício com experimentações teórico-conceituais. Ao tomar como material de estudo recortes da produção literária de expoentes como Hugo de Carvalho Ramos, Bernardo Elis, João Acciole, Léo Godoy Otero, Eli Brasiliense, Mário Rizério Leite, Affonso Arinos e Carmo Bernardes, como também o trabalho pictórico de Issac Alarcão, o diário de viagem de Augusta de Faro Fleury Curado e ainda narrativas iconográficas, cartográficas e/ou historiográficas sobre marcadores do sertão como a tropa, o carro de bois, a boiada, o rancho e o próprio sertanejo, o que houve foi a possibilidade de revisão do lugar temporalizado e do tempo espacializado em produções discursivas. Para expor a composição do lugar, foram contempladas projeções de um espaço flutuante e inacabado. Ao ser percebido e por ser uma forma em perspectiva, o sertão é apreciado neste estudo ao conceder cunho temático (e quase sempre dramático) às realizações discursivas da paisagem sertão. Foi necessário exercitar uma justaposição de conteúdos que mediassem atravessamentos pelo lugar, o qual se desdobra descritivamente em função dos marcadores que consolidam a região inventada, pelas mais diversas perspectivas narrativas. Mais restritamente, almejou-se interpretar a paisagem sertão como manifestação do lugar imaginado, multi-experienciado, interativo e gestante, que está sempre em devir.

Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Arquitetura, com a especialização em Arquitetura apresentada na Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de Mestre.
Com o desenvolvimento e a centralização dos serviços nas cidades o abandono do meio rural foi grande e despovoou o interior de Portugal, em favor do litoral. No Algarve, esse fenómeno foi potenciado pelo desenvolvimento turístico e crescimento da indústria do “sol e praia”. O território do interior ficou ao abandono pois a população fugia do trabalho rigoroso do campo em busca de melhores condições de vida na cidade. Com o avanço tecnológico e a utilização de máquinas na agricultura agilizaram-se processos agrícolas e desenvolveram-se novas formas de trabalhar, o que minimizou, em parte, os efeitos negativos deste êxodo. No Algarve o problema mantém-se. A maioria da população vive no litoral e trabalha no sector terciário; a população que vive no interior trabalha na agricultura e não consegue valorizar suficientemente os seus produtos agrícolas tradicionais. Falta organização aos produtores, formação e conhecimento para que se unam e desenvolvam em conjunto uma valorização do que produzem. Os produtos são vendidos em bruto, sem qualquer tipo de transformação, e dessa forma não é possível obter maiores lucros e atividades financeiramente sustentáveis. Este projeto pretende ajudar a criar no interior algarvio uma cooperativa de produtores locais que explorem algumas das riquezas da produção local: o medronho, o mel, e as ervas aromáticas. A cooperativa seria um contributo para o desenvolvimento do território e iria atrair população para trabalhar e permanecer no local, funcionando ligada a um centro interpretativo de valorização do interior algarvio, para que existisse uma relação próxima e esclarecida entre ambiente, produto, produtor e consumidor. Foi escolhida a aldeia do Talurdo, no concelho de Silves, pela sua localização geográfica interior e próxima dessas matérias-primas, pela existência de habitações e rede elétrica, e pela proximidade de pequenos produtores instalados. O presente estudo terminará com uma estratégia de reocupação e desenvolvimento local que possa conferir à aldeia do Talurdo um programa adequado, sustentável do ponto de vista histórico-cultural, arquitetónico, ambiental e, sempre importante e decisivo, economicamente viável.
ABSTRACT: The present work intends to think, question and act on the rurality of the Algarve’s countryside, more accurately on the village of Talurdo, in the municipality of Silves. It’s done, in this sense, an extensive analysis of the Algarve’s region involving his geographic, demographic, economic and architectonic characteristics. We approach the region that, until the proclamation of the republic, was considered as the second kingdom of the Portuguese crown (King of Portugal and Algarve’s). This region rely on a vast sand area, possessing extensive beaches and a mild climate, which has promoted an appropriation of the coast on the part of the fishing, canning and hotel activities. Nowadays the region of Algarve works as a touristic stop for the rest of the country, seizing specially the coast area, raising little awareness about the cultural reality and most genuine traditions. The Algarve’s Countryside was left to oblivion and abandonment, without investment in the improvement of infrastructures and in the quality of life of the population, much smaller in comparison with the seaside (they had no access to basic sanitation, electricity…). Silves is the second biggest municipality of the Algarve, accomodating the coastline (Pêra e Armação de pêra) the “barrocal” area (Alcantarilha, Algoz, Silves e Tunes), and the mountains (S. Bartolomeu de Messines e S. Marcos da Serra). Silves is a historical city that developed around it’s strategic geographic location. It’s placed on the limit between “barrocal” and the mountains, on the top of a hill with sight to the sea and all the Arade’s riverbed (formerly navigable). The city was occupied by Romans, Visigoths and Muslims, responsible for it’s development and fortification. The village of Talurdo it’s located in the municipality of Silves, in the road that connects Silves to S. Marcos da Serra and crosses the mountainous area of Silves (municipal 502). This track is characterized by twists and turns, ascents and descents that offer panoramic views of the Algarve’s Interior.
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This thesis project is an exploration of process in both design and winemaking. Wine has long been a part of Virginia’s history and culture and in recent years has influenced architecture and design that is specific to winemaking and hospitality. Through an interior intervention, this project addresses the many challenges of marrying production and hospitality design criteria under one roof. The final design encourages understanding of process through links between production and consumption with both a winemaking facility and laboratory that are integrated into the surrounding hospitality-oriented spaces. This visual exposure to the facility stimulates patron interest and intuitive knowledge of the intricate nature of the winemaking process. The concept of process is revealed through the use of materials and their application, designed in such a way to encourage patrons to explore how they are constructed. The use of natural materials that patina are used to celebrate the aging process that is inextricably linked to both design and wine. In addition, new ways of using materials that are part of the winemaking process are employed to expose patrons to nuanced aspects of the process that otherwise remain hidden.

Manufacturing processes should operate at optimal levels in order to remain competitive in current economic environment. The optimal manufacturing performance can be achieved by overall equipment efficiency which is also a measurement for Total Productive Maintenance (TPM). The successful implementation of TPM has been evaluated at Faurecia Interior Systems. The research consisted out of a literature review into the elements and benefits of TPM. A questionnaire was sent to all operator level personnel at Faurecia Interior Systems to establish their views on the implementation level of TPM at the East London site. In conclusion, this research paper has also led to the development of recommendations which should improve TPM at the site.

This thesis describes and interprets furniture produced in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) between c. 1800 and 1900 as part of a cultural 'dialogue' of everyday objects between Europe and Asia. By synthesizing the research methods of furniture history and material culture, the present work examines Ceylonese furniture within the context of the society in which it was produced and used. For the first time, the range of furniture produced on the island during the nineteenth century is categorized and defining characteristics of such furniture are outlined. In addition, and again for the first time, consumption of furniture in Ceylon during this period is examined and the place of these artefacts within the production of Western cultural practices is explained. Specifically, this thesis also contributes to an understanding of the history of Ceylon by interpreting the acquisition and use of western-style furniture by the indigenous social elite as part of the production of anglicized life-styles on the island. The present work contributes to debates centred on colonialism and culture by historicizing and localizing the furniture of the island. Such furniture, it is argued, in addition to its use value, reproduced European refinement and civility in the domestic interiors of Ceylon; in this way furniture, despite its quotidian nature, is taken to be expressive and constitutive of the colonial relationship between the British and Ceylonese. Through analysis of archival data, examination of the furniture itself and interpretation of the communicative capacities of these artefacts, explanation of the empirical and symbolic is combined in a new understanding of a substantial, but overlooked, part of the object-world of nineteenth century Ceylon. Through the process of developing and using a new conceptual framework for the interpretation of colonial furniture produced in Asia, a contribution is made to the study of furniture history and, more specifically, items of furniture from Ceylon are interpreted as materializations of human behaviour and constitutive elements in the production of culture.

El trabajo de investigación, se divide en tres grandes bloques. El primero lo hemos denominado, El Derecho a la Felicidad como Derecho Constitucional. El segundo lleva por título Los límites del Producto Interior Bruto. Por último, el tercero de los mismos es el relativo a Los Índices de Felicidad. En cuanto a los principales objetivos y temas de esta investigación, de igual manera podemos agruparlos también en tres, y se corresponden con cada una de las partes en los que hemos dividido este trabajo. En primer lugar, conocer si existe o ha existido a lo largo de la historia, lo que podríamos denominar como un derecho a la felicidad, y si ese derecho ha sido reconocido en los textos constitucionales de las distintas naciones. En segundo lugar, comprobar si el Producto Interior Bruto, que se ha convertido desde su creación en el principal indicador del nivel de desarrollo y de bienestar material de un país, tiene sus limitaciones y carencias, y si por tanto, es el más adecuado para medir el progreso y el bienestar de nuestras sociedades. Asimismo, conocer si diversas organizaciones internacionales y/o alguna comisión, se han pronunciado al respecto mediante resoluciones o recomendaciones, para seguidamente estudiarlas. En tercer y último lugar, comprobar si, en correspondencia con el objetivo anterior, son necesarios nuevos índices e indicadores complementarios al Producto Interior Bruto y si se han creado lo que denominaremos como “índices de felicidad” desde una perspectiva internacional, especialmente por las organizaciones internacionales más relevantes, para seguidamente analizar los mismos, junto al índice de la Felicidad Nacional Bruta de Bután, pionero a nivel nacional. Hemos empleado como principal metodología a seguir, tanto el análisis de contenido de dichos textos constitucionales, como el de las citadas recomendaciones y resoluciones de diferentes organizaciones internacionales; así como el análisis comparativo de los resultados que se han obtenido de los índices de felicidad analizados. Todo ello ha supuesto, teniendo en cuenta la complejidad del fenómeno a investigar, junto a los objetivos de la investigación, la puesta en práctica de una metodología cualitativa, mediante un amplio desarrollo normativo, y con un análisis teórico, documental y bibliográfico, realizado fundamentalmente tanto en la primera como en la segunda parte de este trabajo; junto a un tratamiento descriptivo y comparativo de los resultados obtenidos en los distintos índices de felicidad analizados, el cual se desarrolla principalmente en la tercera parte de la investigación. En la primera parte, El Derecho a la Felicidad como Derecho Constitucional, repasamos las Constituciones, además de determinadas Declaraciones, que a lo largo de la historia han reconocido ese derecho a la felicidad, o al menos el derecho a su búsqueda, en sus propios textos. En la segunda parte, Los límites del Producto Interior Bruto, comprobamos como existe una corriente a nivel internacional, con voces de gran peso, que critican la utilización del Producto Interior Bruto como única medida del progreso y desarrollo de los países, como así lo refleja la relevante Comisión para la Medición del Desempeño Económico y el Progreso Social; el Proyecto Global para la Medición del Progreso de las Sociedades, de la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económicos (OCDE); la Resolución de 2011 del Parlamento Europeo que lleva por título Más allá del PIB - Evaluación del progreso en un mundo cambiante; y la Resolución 65/309 de la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas del mismo año, denominada La felicidad: hacia un enfoque holístico del desarrollo; las cuales no hacen otra cosa que incidir en la necesidad de implantar nuevos índices e indicadores que complementen al Producto Interior Bruto como medida del desarrollo y bienestar de las naciones, y en los que la felicidad debe tener un papel cada vez más transcendente. Por último, en la tercera parte, analizamos los tres índices de felicidad a nivel internacional que consideramos más relevantes en la actualidad. Se trata del Índice de Desarrollo Humano del Programa de Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD), el World Happiness Report de la Sustainable Development Solutions Network de Naciones Unidas (SDSN) y el Better Life Index de la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económicos (OCDE). Asimismo, procedemos a analizar un índice de felicidad a nivel nacional, la Felicidad Nacional Bruta de Bután. Respecto a las principales conclusiones alcanzadas, como aspectos generales podemos afirmar que, por extraño que pueda parecer, ya que nos encontramos ante dos conceptos de ámbitos muy diferentes, existe una relación entre Derecho y Felicidad. De hecho, el Derecho a la felicidad, al bienestar subjetivo o al menos el derecho a la búsqueda de la felicidad en alguna de su acepciones, ha sido a lo largo de la historia, y sigue siéndolo en algunos Estados, un Derecho reconocido en las Constituciones de diversas naciones, si bien es cierto que en una minoría de las mismas. Por otro lado, existen diversos factores que nos demuestran que debemos replantearnos los instrumentos actuales de medición del desarrollo y del progreso, especialmente el Producto Interior Bruto, el cual además no puede emplearse como la única medida que determine el bienestar de una nación. Por tanto, la medición del bienestar debe complementarse con diversos estudios e índices que profundicen en la felicidad como un nuevo enfoque holístico del desarrollo. Asimismo, en un plano público, y en relación con la primera de las conclusiones, si la felicidad es el objetivo último de todo Gobierno, los índices de felicidad deben de servir a los gobernantes de las naciones a orientar sus políticas hacia la misma, si lo que pretenden es que sus ciudadanos sean lo más felices posibles. Por último, llegamos a diversas conclusiones a raíz de los resultados obtenidos en los distintos índices de felicidad.
The research is divided into three sections. The first one is called, The Right to Happiness as a Constitutional Right. The second one is entitled The Limits of Gross Domestic Product. Finally, the third one is related to Happiness Indices. The main objectives of this research are also three, and they correspond to each one of the sections. First, to determine whether there is or there has been throughout history, what might be called as a right to happiness, and if that right has been recognized in the Constitutions of some nation. Second, to verify if the Gross Domestic Product, which has become since its creation in the main indicator of the level of development and material welfare of a country, has its limitations and shortcomings, and if it is the best option to measure progress and welfare of our societies. Also, to find out if any international organization and/or commission, have pronounced about it with resolutions or recommendations, in order to study them. Third, and finally, to determine if new rates and additional indicators of Gross Domestic Product are needed and whether have been created what we call as "indices of happiness" from an international perspective, especially by relevant international organizations, in order to analyze them, with the Gross National Happiness of Bhutan, a pioneering nationwide. We have used as main methodology, the content analysis of these constitutional provisions, and of these recommendations and resolutions by international organizations; and the comparative analysis of the results that have been obtained with the happiness indices analyzed. All this has meant, taking into account the complexity of this investigation and its objectives, the implementation of a qualitative methodology with a comprehensive study of the policy framework, and a bibliographic and theoretical analysis, during the first and second part of this research. In the third part of the investigation has been carried out a descriptive and comparative analysis of the results obtained in the different happiness indices studied. In the first section, The Right to Happiness as a Constitutional Right, we reviewed the Constitutions and certain statements, which have recognized the right to happiness, or at least the right to the pursuit of happiness. In the second section, The Limits of Gross Domestic Product, we confirm that there is a current and international movement, that criticizes the use of Gross Domestic Product as the only one measure of progress and development of countries, such as have been indicated by the relevant Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress; the Global Project on Measuring the Progress of Societies, of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); the Resolution in 2011 of the European Parliament entitled Beyond GDP - Measuring progress in a changing world; and the Resolution 65/309 of the United Nations General Assembly the same year, called Happiness: towards a holistic approach to development. All of them believe in the need to introduce new indexes and indicators to complement Gross Domestic Product as a measure of development and welfare of nations, and that happiness should play an important role. Finally, in the third section, we analyze the three indices of happiness at international level that we consider most relevant today. These are the Human Development Index of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the World Happiness Report of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network United Nations (SDSN) and the Better Life Index of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Also, we proceed to analyze a happiness nationwide index, the Gross National Happiness of Bhutan. Regarding the main conclusions, we can say that, despite of the fact that they are two very different concepts, we can find a relationship between Law and Happiness. In fact, the right to happiness, to subjective well-being or at least the right to pursuit of the happiness, has been throughout the ages, and still is in some States, a right recognized in the Constitutions of different countries, although it is true that they are a minority. On the other hand, there are several factors that show us that we need to rethink about current measurement instruments of development and progress, especially the Gross Domestic Product, which cannot be used as the only one measure in order to determine the well-being of a nation. Therefore, the measurement of welfare should be complemented by different studies and indexes related to happiness as a new holistic approach to development. Also, in a public level and in relation to the first conclusion, if happiness is the last goal of any government, happiness indices should help the rulers of nations in order to direct their policies towards the happiness, if what they want is that their citizens were as happy as possible. Finally, we have reached different conclusions related to the results of the indices of happiness analyzed.

Memoria para optar al título de Diseñador Industrial
El presente entregable expone el recorrido realizado para determinar la propuesta formal de la interfaz de usuario para un sistema que permite controlar y monitorear, de forma remota, las variables críticas de un cultivo de interior con luz artificial. Para llevar a cabo este objetivo se plantea un enfoque metodológico que extrae e integra contenidos de los textos “Design Thinking”, “Diseño y Desarrollo de Productos” y “Cómo Nacen los Objetos” como referencias fundamentales. Este trabajo para optar al Título Profesional de Diseñador mención Industrial, se presenta como parte fundamental del desarrollo de un proyecto de producto enfocado en salir al mercado. El documento se divide en tres capítulos donde se desarrolla la solución conceptual, la arquitectura del producto y la estructura formal del producto respectivamente. Los croquis, las maquetas y los prototipos son herramientas fundamentales utilizadas en este proyecto con el propósito de comprender al usuario, proponer soluciones y materializarlas. El resultado final son las planimetrías del producto, que reflejan un trabajo concurrente entre las diferentes áreas de desarrollo. Todo lo referente a software, electrónica y comercialización del producto, queda fuera de los alcances de esta memoria de diseño.

Ingeniero Civil Industrial
El siguiente trabajo se desarrolla en un retailer especialista dedicado a la ropa íntima femenina, con una importante oferta de productos de temporada, para los que resulta fundamental la administración de inventario y de precios en el tiempo. De forma complementaria, el retailer incorpora información de cámaras de video, donde se observa el tráfico en las distintas tiendas, pudiendo apoyar en las decisiones antes mencionadas. El objetivo del trabajo es definir una política de precios para productos de moda cuantificando el descuento y el período a realizarlo, usando información transaccional y de cámaras de video. Además se evalúa el aporte de la información de las cámaras para el proceso de fijación de precios y se caracteriza la tasa de conversión de las tiendas y de los productos a evaluar en cuanto a sus principales variables explicativas. Se utiliza una metodología que modela la demanda como un proceso de poisson que considera la llegada de clientes de la información de cámaras y la probabilidad de comprar dado el precio. Una vez definido el modelo de estimación de demanda se utiliza como input en la estimación de precios óptimos que tiene por objetivo maximizar recursivamente los ingresos esperados. Se trabaja con 23 artículos de la categoría trajes de baño que representan el 27% de las ventas de la categoría en el período. Se obtuvo una estimación de demanda con un MAPE semanal menor al 25%. Se definió una política de precios que busca concentrar la demanda en la temporada alta, con un precio alto al inicio y descuentos tempranos dejando pocas unidades para el final de la temporada. Actualmente el problema del retailer es que comienza de manera tardía con los descuentos, lo que lleva a que al final de temporada se deba rematar un alto porcentaje del stock. Con este cambio propuesto en la política de precios se espera tener un aumento de los ingresos de alrededor de un 5%. En cuanto al aporte de la información de cámaras por sobre la transaccional se concluye que en la estimación de demanda no es mucho mejor (disminuye el error en un 2%), principalmente por la fuerte correlación entre las variables (0,91). Su mayor potencial se encuentra al analizar la tasa de conversión, asociada positivamente a la lealtad de los clientes. Se cumplieron los objetivos del trabajo, llegando a resultados satisfactorios. Se proponen mejoras en la estimación de demanda al incorporar más información del tráfico a lo largo del tiempo, pudiendo realizarse regresiones sobre estos valores. Se propone también ahondar en otros usos de la información de cámaras, como lo es gestión de personal, de cajas, entre otros.

Orientador: Antonio Carlos Carrera de Souza
Banca: Silvio Donizetti de Oliveira Gallo
Banca: Sônia Maria Clareto
Banca: Maria Helena Falcão Vasconcellos
Banca: Antonio Vicente Marafioti Garnica
Resumo: O foco central deste trabalho é fazer um exercício de pensamento acerca de como são potencializados os processos de produção de subjetividade em uma escola que passa por alterações em seu projeto político-pedagógico. Para tanto, aproxima-se do pensamento da Filosofia da Diferença junto a Foucault e Deleuze. A produção de conhecimento que aqui se faz não está pautada na representação e, sim, numa política cognitiva inventiva que exige uma problematização tanto das macro como das micropolíticas do cotidiano da escola de pesquisa. A metodologia adotada, a cartografia, encontra-se em consonância com a Filosofia da Diferença e a política cognitiva assumida. O método da cartografia visa a acompanhar os processos indo pelo meio das coisas, onde elas crescem, no caso desta pesquisa, na intensidade da vida- escola. A política de narratividade assumida inspira-se em Deleuze e Guattari, quando trazem em O que é filosofia?, o abrigo, segundo Lawrence. A escrita, então, é uma caminhada no abrigo da vida-escola, que ora se mostra mais duro, ora mais poroso, na inesgotável relação de forças que são no homem com as forças de fora
Abstract: The central focus of this work is to carry out an exercise in thinking as regards the way the processes of production of subjectivity are potentialised in a school which is undergoing alterations in its political-pedagogical project. To do this, it approaches the thought of the "Philosophy of the Difference" together with Foucault and Deleuze. The production of knowledge presented here is not based on representation but on an inventive cognitive policy that requires a problemization of not only the macro - but also the micro-politics of the daily routine of the research school. The methodology adopted, cartography, is consistent with the Philosophy of the Difference and the cognitive policy assumed. The method of cartography aims at following the processes by going through the heart of things, where they grow - in the case of this research, in the intensity of life-school. The narrative policy adopted is inspired in Deleuze and Guattari, when they provide in What is philosophy?, some shelter, according to Lawrence. Writing, then, is a walk in the shelter of life-school, which at one moment shows itself as harder, at other moments more porous, in the inexhaustible relationship of forces that are man with forces from outside
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With the 1988 Federal Constitution municipalities acquire financial, adminstrative and political autonomy counting with importants prerrogatives regarding public politicy production relevant to citizien. Considering that, the presente study discuss councilors action regarding one of theirs main activities, legislate. Therefore it was analise the presented bills in nine municipalities of Parana State on the period from 2009 to 2012. The aim is to analise the bills content brought by the municipal Legislative and discuss the relations of Executive and Legislative in the law-making process. Thereunto it was resort to some legislative activities indicators as such the data rate and success rate dominance. The theme, scope and effect are part of a classification of the bills. In reference to the bills theme, the Legislative is a potent producer of honorific, social and urban bills. On the other hand, the Executive produce economic and administrative bills, result of their constitutional prerogatives. Regarding the scope, the Legislative bills ar majority individual and sectoral. On the effects of proposals, council members generally prefer not to submit bills that burden the population directly, but in a diluted form.
Com a Constituição de 1988, os municípios adquiriram autonomia financeira, administrativa e política, contando com importantes prerrogativas em relação a produção de políticas públicas de relevante aos cidadãos. Considerando o exposto, o presente estudo discute a ação dos vereadores, em relação a uma de suas principais atividades, a de legislar. Para tanto, analisou-se os projetos de lei ordinárias apresentados em nove municípios do interior do Paraná, no período de 2009 a 2012. O objetivo é analisar os conteúdos dos projetos propostos pelo Poder Legislativo municipal e discutir a relação entre os Poderes Executivo e Legislativo no processo de construção de leis. Para isso utiliza-se alguns indicadores da atividade legislativa destas instituições, como a taxa de sucesso e dominância. Compõe a analise uma classificação temática, da abrangência e dos efeitos dos projetos de lei. Os resultados apontam que a relação entre os Poderes é marcada pelo predomínio do Executivo sobre o Legislativo em municípios pequenos e médio. Com relação a temática dos projetos o Poder Legislativo municipal é um contundente produtor de projetos honoríficos, sociais e urbanos. O Poder Executivo por sua vez, propõe projetos de cunho econômico e administrativo, frutos de suas prerrogativas constitucionais. A respeito da abrangência, os projetos propostos pelo Legislativo são em sua maioria individual e setorial. Sobre os efeitos das propostas, os vereadores em geral preferem não apresentar projetos que onerem a população de forma direta, mas sim de maneira diluída.

I den här uppsatsen undersöks en gård i Ljusdalsbygden i Hälsingland som kallas Utigården. På gården finns idag en byggnad som kallas mangelstugan där måleri och tapeter från 1806-1807 finns bevarat. Frågeställningen är när, hur och varför den inreddes samt vem eller vilka som kan ha utfört arbetet. Syftet är att frångå generella förklaringar, lägga ett mer individuellt perspektiv på en interiör och på så vis ge den ett mervärde. Arkivariska källor och litteratur tolkas tillsammans med den fysiska byggnadens interiör för att i viss mån kartlägga den sociala och ekonomiska kontexten som omgav interiören. Mangelstugan interiör visar också prov på hur måleri och tapeter verkade sida vid sida. Ur deras estetiska uttryck samt rumsplacering tolkas statusskillnader mellan de båda samt att mangelstugan bör ha varit en representativ byggnad. Stilinfluenser belyses också. Bland annat lyfter uppsatsen fram en fransk tapet som högst sannolikt varit förlaga till mellankammarens måleri i mangelstugan. Här säkerställs att allmogemålarna använde sig av förlagor, men att slutresultatet var unikt och personligt. Mangelstugans interiör visar prov på hur en sådan interiör kunde se ut på början av 1800-talet i en gård i ljusdal och ett möjligt scenario rörande upphovsmännen, där Ljusdalsmålarna Arve och HindriksOlle lyfts fram som potentiella upphovsmän, bidrar till att knyta fler värden till interiören vilket förhoppningsvis leder till ökade möjligheter att bevaras. I uppsatsen klargörs att gården bör ha flyttats till dagens gårdsläge troligen mellan 1802-1806 samt att mangelstugan uppförts efter flytten och av dateringarna att döma år 1806. Olof Jonsson brukade hemmanet när mangelstugan byggdes och inreddes. Hans bouppteckning visar att gården bör ha varit välställd. Utifrån detta diskuteras hur mangelstugan fyllde många funktioner. Representativitet, manifestation, exkluderande och inkluderande samt estetiska kvalitéer är exempel på sådana.

The focus of this essay is a building belonging to a farmhouse in Ljusdal, Hälsingland, called Utigården. The building has wallpaper and mural paintings preserved from the beginning of the 19th century. The aim of this essay is to investigate when, how and why the interior was made as well as by whom. This serves to put a more individual perspective on one certain interior instead of using more general explanations. This knowledge will lead to more knowledge and values being ascribed to this interior and hopefully an increased will to preserve it in the future. It gives us an example of how an interior from this time might look like, how traditional paintings are mixed with modern motives and wallpapers and how all of this together is symbolic and guides us through the rooms. Their aesthetic qualities shows that it was most probably a representative building. Different theories about influnces and inspiration are also illustrated. The mapping of certain social and economical factors serves to show the circumstances for when the interior was made as well as why. Probably the farm was moved between 1802-1806 and this might explain the new building. Different theories of why it was important to invest in these representative building and what different values they might have fulfilled are also discussed in this essay. Representatation, including and excluding factors and aesthetic values are some of them. Two potential painters are discussed as having painted the interior. They are called Arve and HindriksOlle. A possible scenario is created around their connections to Utigården.

This thesis analyzes a forest-based biomass supply chain network considering uncertainties and variations. It is based on the Williams Lake Timber Supply Area (TSA) located in British Columbia, Canada. The network includes: five conversion facilities distributed in three locations, two types of forest-based biomass, sourced from 337 cutblocks, and two types of sawmill residues sourced from three local sawmills. The main objective of this research is to evaluate the supply chain of forest-based residues for bioenergy and biofuel production considering uncertainties and variations. The specific objectives of this research are to: 1) Develop a simulation model to evaluate a forest-based biomass supply chain for bioenergy and biofuel production considering uncertainties and variations; and 2) apply the simulation model to a case study. To achieve the objectives, a discrete-event simulation model is developed using the commercial software Anylogic 7® (Anylogic 7, 2000). Evaluating a network with various supply and demand points, with various biomass types, and a hybrid push-pull biomass flow management distinguishes this work from previous research. The results show the demand is fulfilled to at least 95%, requiring 23 to 24 trucks during the peak season. Furthermore, the cost and CO₂ equivalent emissions vary per location, from $56.52 to $87.36 and from 19.66 to 72.61 (kg/odt), respectively. Long transportation distances and transportation cycle times greatly affected the number of required resources, and consequently the final cost per oven dry tonne. This results in higher costs than similar studies performed in less remote areas. Finally, a sensitivity analysis is performed to evaluate the effect of changes in moisture content and in supply and demand. Extreme changes in biomass supply and demand affected dramatically the demand fulfillment. By increasing the biomass demand 20% while simultaneously decreasing the biomass supply 20%, reduced the demand fulfillment by 23.18%. Finally, this model can be improved in several ways, one of them being by including the possibility of routing between different cutblocks to consolidate biomass pick-ups, therefore increasing the demand fulfillment of the supply chain and possibly reducing costs.
Forestry, Faculty of
Graduate

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O presente trabalho apresenta o método primal-dual previsor-corretor de pontos interiores para programação quadrática, com restrições lineares e quadráticos e variáveis canalizadas, e a aplicação deste método na resolução de problemas multiobjetivo de despacho econômico e ambiental, encontrados na engenharia elétrica. Pretende-se determinar soluções que sejam eficientes em relação ao custo dos combustíveis empregados na geração termoelétrica de energia e ao controle da emissão de poluentes, investigando-se duas estratégias: a primeira estratégica considera na função objetivo a soma ponderada entre as funções objetivo econômica e objetivo ambiental; a segunda estratégia considera o problema de despacho econômico condicionado à restrição ambiental, limitada superiormente para níveis permissíveis de missão. Para a resolução destes, uma implementação computacional do método primal-dual foi realizada em linguagem de programação C++, considerando o procedimento previsor-corretor com uma estratégia de barreira modificada para as restrições quadráticas de desigualdade, quando consideramos a segunda estratégia. Os resultados obtidos demonstram a eficiência do método em destaque em comparação a outros métodos como algoritmos genéticos co-evolutivo, atávico híbrido e cultural, bem como ao método primal-dual de pontos interiores, com procedimento de busca unidimensional, que estão divulgados na literatura
This paper presents the primal-dual predictor-corrector interior point method for quadratic programming with linear and quadratic constraints and bounded variables, and its application in multiobjective problems of economic and environmental dispatch, found in electrical engineering. It is intended to determine effective solutions to the fuel cost used in thermal power generation and emissions control, by investigating two strategy; the first strategy considers the objective function as weighted sum of economic and environmental objective functions; the second strategy considers the economic dispatch problem subject to environmental constraint, upper bounded for allowable emission levels. To solve them, a computational implementation of primal-dual methods was performed in C++ programming language, considering the predictor-corrector procedure with a strategy of modified barrier for the quadratic inequality constraints, when we considerer the second strategy. The results obtained demonstrate the efficiency of the method highlighted in comparison with the co-evolutive genetic algorithms, hybrid and atavistic cultural, as well the primal-dual interior point method with one-dimensional search procedure, which are found in the literature

Orientador: Antonio Roberto Balbo
Banca: Helenice de Oliveira F. Silva
Banca: Edmea Cassia Baptista
Resumo: O presente trabalho apresenta o método primal-dual previsor-corretor de pontos interiores para programação quadrática, com restrições lineares e quadráticos e variáveis canalizadas, e a aplicação deste método na resolução de problemas multiobjetivo de despacho econômico e ambiental, encontrados na engenharia elétrica. Pretende-se determinar soluções que sejam eficientes em relação ao custo dos combustíveis empregados na geração termoelétrica de energia e ao controle da emissão de poluentes, investigando-se duas estratégias: a primeira estratégica considera na função objetivo a soma ponderada entre as funções objetivo econômica e objetivo ambiental; a segunda estratégia considera o problema de despacho econômico condicionado à restrição ambiental, limitada superiormente para níveis permissíveis de missão. Para a resolução destes, uma implementação computacional do método primal-dual foi realizada em linguagem de programação C++, considerando o procedimento previsor-corretor com uma estratégia de barreira modificada para as restrições quadráticas de desigualdade, quando consideramos a segunda estratégia. Os resultados obtidos demonstram a eficiência do método em destaque em comparação a outros métodos como algoritmos genéticos co-evolutivo, atávico híbrido e cultural, bem como ao método primal-dual de pontos interiores, com procedimento de busca unidimensional, que estão divulgados na literatura
Abstract: This paper presents the primal-dual predictor-corrector interior point method for quadratic programming with linear and quadratic constraints and bounded variables, and its application in multiobjective problems of economic and environmental dispatch, found in electrical engineering. It is intended to determine effective solutions to the fuel cost used in thermal power generation and emissions control, by investigating two strategy; the first strategy considers the objective function as weighted sum of economic and environmental objective functions; the second strategy considers the economic dispatch problem subject to environmental constraint, upper bounded for allowable emission levels. To solve them, a computational implementation of primal-dual methods was performed in C++ programming language, considering the predictor-corrector procedure with a strategy of modified barrier for the quadratic inequality constraints, when we considerer the second strategy. The results obtained demonstrate the efficiency of the method highlighted in comparison with the co-evolutive genetic algorithms, hybrid and atavistic cultural, as well the primal-dual interior point method with one-dimensional search procedure, which are found in the literature
Mestre

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O foco central deste trabalho é fazer um exercício de pensamento acerca de como são potencializados os processos de produção de subjetividade em uma escola que passa por alterações em seu projeto político-pedagógico. Para tanto, aproxima-se do pensamento da Filosofia da Diferença junto a Foucault e Deleuze. A produção de conhecimento que aqui se faz não está pautada na representação e, sim, numa política cognitiva inventiva que exige uma problematização tanto das macro como das micropolíticas do cotidiano da escola de pesquisa. A metodologia adotada, a cartografia, encontra-se em consonância com a Filosofia da Diferença e a política cognitiva assumida. O método da cartografia visa a acompanhar os processos indo pelo meio das coisas, onde elas crescem, no caso desta pesquisa, na intensidade da vida- escola. A política de narratividade assumida inspira-se em Deleuze e Guattari, quando trazem em O que é filosofia?, o abrigo, segundo Lawrence. A escrita, então, é uma caminhada no abrigo da vida-escola, que ora se mostra mais duro, ora mais poroso, na inesgotável relação de forças que são no homem com as forças de fora
The central focus of this work is to carry out an exercise in thinking as regards the way the processes of production of subjectivity are potentialised in a school which is undergoing alterations in its political-pedagogical project. To do this, it approaches the thought of the “Philosophy of the Difference” together with Foucault and Deleuze. The production of knowledge presented here is not based on representation but on an inventive cognitive policy that requires a problemization of not only the macro – but also the micro-politics of the daily routine of the research school. The methodology adopted, cartography, is consistent with the Philosophy of the Difference and the cognitive policy assumed. The method of cartography aims at following the processes by going through the heart of things, where they grow – in the case of this research, in the intensity of life-school. The narrative policy adopted is inspired in Deleuze and Guattari, when they provide in What is philosophy?, some shelter, according to Lawrence. Writing, then, is a walk in the shelter of life-school, which at one moment shows itself as harder, at other moments more porous, in the inexhaustible relationship of forces that are man with forces from outside

El presente trabajo de investigación pretende brindar un análisis del Sector Vitivinícola en los últimos años y desarrollar una estrategia comercial integral para los pequeños productores vitivinícolas que les permita incrementar su rentabilidad en el corto plazo. El tema de la investigación surge en el año 2013 como correlato al ingreso en el Fondo Vitivinícola Mendoza como coordinador del programa provincial de Pequeños Bodegueros de Mendoza. Esta posibilidad profesional puso el desafío de interpretar, de una forma más precisa, la industria considerada más importante para la Provincia de Mendoza, no solo por su aporte a la actividad económica, sino también por su fuerte influencia en la cultura de la población.
Fil: García, Juan Carlos. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas.

La présente étude concerne l’étude d’optimisation thermique d’une machine électrique. Un modèle nodal est utilisé pour la simulation du champ de température. Ce modèle résout l’équation de la chaleur en trois dimensions, en coordonnées cylindriques et en régime transitoire ou permanent. On prend en compte les deux mécanismes de transport les plus importants : La conduction et la convection. L’évaluation de ce modèle est effectuée par l’intermédiaire de 13 valeurs de débits de référence. C’est en faisant varier ces variables qu’on évalue la performance du refroidissement dans la machine. Avant de partir sur l’étude d’optimisation de cettegéométrie, on a lancé une étude d’optimisation d’un cas plus simple afin de mieux comprendre les différents outils d’optimisation disponibles. L’expérience acquise avec les cas simples est utilisée dans l’optimisation thermique de la machine. La machine est thermiquement évaluée sur la combinaison de deux critères : la température maximale et la température moyenne. Des contraintes ont été additionnées afin d’obtenir des résultats physiquement acceptables. Le problème est résolu à l’aide des méthodes de gradient (Active-set et Point-Intérieur) et des Algorithmes Génétiques
This work relates the thermal optimization of an electrical machine. The lumped method is used to simulate the temperature field. This model solves the heat equation in three dimensions, in cylindrical coordinates and in transient or steady state. We consider two transport mechanisms: conduction and convection. The evaluation of this model is performed by means of 13 design variables that correspond to the main flow rates of the equipment. We analyse the machine cooling performance by varying these 13 flow rates. Before starting the study of such a complicated geometry, we picked a simpler case in order to better understand the variety of the available optimization tools. The experience obtained in the simpler case is applyed in the resolution of the thermal optimization problem of the electrical machine. This machine is evaluated from the thermal point of view by combining two criteria : the maximum and the mean temperature. Constraints are used to keep the problem consistent. We solved the problem using the gradient based methods (Active-set and Interior-Point) and the Genetic Algorithms

The Greater Vancouver Regional District applies about 15,000 dry tonnes of biosolids per year to various types of land in British Columbia (BC) in an effort to divert biosolids from landfilling, incineration, and ocean disposal. The effects of biosolids (20, and 60 Mg ha⁻¹) and chemical fertilizer on aggregate stability, bulk density, aeration porosity, total C and N of stable aggregates, and the hydrolysis of fluorescein diacetate (FDA) in aggregates> 2 mm were investigated five years after soil application in three common forage production systems (crested wheatgrass = CW, native range = NR, and irrigated alfalfa = IA) in the southern interior of BC. At each of the three sites, the experiment was laid out in 2001 in a randomized block design with four treatments replicated over four blocks. Soil samples were collected during spring, summer, and fall 2005 and 2006. At the CW site, biosolids at 60 Mg ha⁻¹ increased the stability and proportion of soil aggregates> 1 mm, the concentration of C and N in aggregates, and the hydrolysis of FDA. On the NR site, there were no differences in the mean weight diameter (MWD) or the proportion of stable aggregates> 1 mm from either biosolids rates, yet together the biosolids treatments were greater from the control or fertilizer treatments during every sample period in 2006. Biosolids applied at 20 Mg ha⁻¹ significantly increased total C and N of stable aggregates and reduced bulk density relative to all other treatments. At the IA site, biosolids applied at 60 Mg ha⁻¹ decreased bulk density in 2005 and 2006, relative to the control and the fertilizer treatment decreased aeration porosity and the concentration of C in aggregates. Our data showed that, land applied biosolids to these common forage production systems in the southern interior of BC enhanced aggregate stability and total C of stable aggregates. The majority of improvements to soil properties at the CW and IA sites came from biosolids applied at 60 Mg ha⁻¹, while the greatest improvements to soil properties at the NR site were from the 20 Mg ha⁻¹ biosolids treatment. This is thought to be due to greater site productivity (above and below ground) from the 60 Mg ha⁻¹ treatment at the CW and IA sites, as compared to the NR site where the 20 Mg ha⁻¹ biosolids treatment decreased bulk density and increased the concentration of C and N among stable aggregates, relative to all other treatments.
Land and Food Systems, Faculty of
Graduate

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Analizan los factores determinantes de la dinámica de la inversión productiva privada en el Perú, con la utilización de una serie cronológica para el período 1970-2010. Se toma como fundamento la teoría económica. El estudio busca identificar, cuantificar y contrastar las hipótesis de incidencia del nivel de actividad, de las restricciones financieras, de la política tributaria, de la inversión pública y del “clima de inversión”, en la acumulación de capital productivo en la economía peruana. Dentro del marco metodológico de la investigación científica, el alcance del trabajo puede definirse como descriptivo-explicativo y el método que se utiliza es el inductivo-deductivo. Además se aplica un diseño no experimental. Para la comprobación de las hipótesis, previa exhaustiva revisión de la literatura teórico-empírica y continuidad de la tendencia de los estudios referidos a la inversión privada en América Latina, se opta por un modelo ad-hoc, que consiste en tomar variables de diversas teorías explicativas sobre el comportamiento de la FBKF. El análisis econométrico se realiza utilizando la técnica de Vectores Autorregresivos Estructurales (SVAR, Structural Vector Autoregressive), a partir de datos oficiales del BCRP, CEPAL, Banco Mundial, INEI y otras. Se efectúa la estimación empírica de un modelo general y específico para cada una de las subhipótesis planteadas inicialmente; considerando niveles de significación de 10%, 5% y 1%. Al seguir la metodología de Sims (1980), previamente, se aplican el test de causalidad a lo Granger, la descomposición matricial de Cholesky, el filtro de Hodrick-Prescott y los test de Dickey-Fuller y Phillips-Perron y por último, los modelos impulso-respuesta entre variables. Se encuentra que el modelo general, que interrelaciona a todas las variables, se comporta según lo esperado, a juzgar por la bondad de ajuste (R-cuadrado: valor mínimo 0.87 y valor máximo 0.99), y los resultados de impulso-respuesta, que corroboran, por ejemplo, que ante un choque del PBI, la FBKF reacciona inmediatamente de manera positiva. Asimismo, del análisis bivariante, se puede contrastar que el signo de los coeficientes, para la mayoría de los casos, es consistente con la argumentación teórica y lo planteado en las subhipótesis de partida. Así, podemos comprobar empíricamente que el PBI y la FBKF están relacionados positivamente, cumpliéndose el principio del acelerador; de igual forma se cumple que la tasa real de interés incide negativamente en la inversión privada, aunque no de manera contundente, pues la restricción crediticia (“Credit Crunch”) se explica mejor por la morosidad de la cartera, antes que por la tasa de interés. Se rechaza la hipótesis del crowding-out, ya que, si bien el impacto positivo, es casi imperceptible tampoco es negativo, lo que significa que existe un efecto neutro de la inversión pública sobre la inversión privada. Finalmente, la evidencia empírica nos dice que el “clima de inversión” es una variable clave que impacta positivamente sobre la formación bruta de capital privado. Se concluye que los resultados encontrados, en el presente estudio, podrían contribuir a alcanzar el segundo gran objetivo que se propuso al inicio: prescribir políticas para fomentar la inversión empresarial privada en el Perú, principalmente en espacios subnacionales.
Tesis

Orientador: Marcio Rogério Silveira
Banca: Everaldo Santos Melazzo
Banca: Lisandra Pereira Lamoso
Resumo: Este trabalho tem como objetivo avaliar o papel dos agentes estatais executores da política habitacional no desenvolvimento urbano do interior paulista, focando no estudo comparativo de quatro cidades: Araçatuba, Marília, Presidente Prudente e São José do Rio Preto. Por meio do levantamento da atuação do Banco Nacional de Habitação (BNH), da Caixa Econômica Federal (CEF), e da Companhia de Desenvolvimento Habitacional e Urbano do Estado de São Paulo (CDHU), focando principalmente na produção de habitações, buscamos entender seus papéis e os interesses consubstanciados por trás de suas ações. Para a identificação destes interesses, realizamos ampla análise sobre o contexto histórico em que estas políticas e seus agentes foram forjados, o que nos levou ao debate sobre as principais dinâmicas de nossa formação socioespacial, por meio da teoria da dualidade básica da economia brasileira, de Ignácio Rangel. O resultado final é um esforço teórico na tentativa de entender as relações de poder e de hegemonia que se estabelecem no processo de produção do espaço, das quais a política habitacional é apenas uma delas
Abstract: This study aims to evaluate the role of state agents responsible for execute the housing policy in the urban development in São Paulo State, focusing on the comparative study of four cities: Araçatuba, Marília, Presidente Prudente and São José do Rio Preto. Trough the evaluation of the performance of Banco Nacional de Habitação (BNH), the Caixa Economica Federal (CEF) and the Companhia de Desenvolvimento Habitacional e Urbano do estado de São Paulo (CDHU), focusing mainly on the production of housing, we seek to understand their roles and interests embodied behind their actions. To identify these concerns, we conducted extensive analysis on the historical context in which these policies and their agents were forged, which led us to the debate on key dynamics of our sociospatial formation, through the theory of the basic duality of the Brazilian economy, the Ignacio Rangel. The end result is a theoretical effort in trying to understand power and hegemony relationships that are established in the production of space, of which housing policy is only one of them
Mestre

SammanfattningUppsatsen är utformad efter ett förslag från Anders Ryberg vid Länsstyrelsen i Västra Götalands län. Förslaget var att lokalisera användningsområden för den ull som i dagsläget kasseras i Sverige. I början beskriver vi grundläggande fakta om ullfibern för att ge dig som läsare ett bättre begrepp om ullfiberns användningsområden som senare tas upp i arbetet. Detta följs av en beskrivning av de miljöaspekter som ullanvändningen medför, vilket dessutom är viktigt ur en marknadsföringssynpunkt. De ullkvalitéer vi har i Sverige beskrivs därefter kortfattat, följt av en presentation av svenska företag och projekt som arbetar med svensk ull. Därefter beskrivs Australiens, Storbritanniens och Norges ullindustrier. Deras marknadsfringsstrategier och infrastrukturer för ullhantering är viktiga att ta del av om den svenska ullindustrin ska kunna konkurrera i framtiden. Vi har även funnit många intressanta användningsområden för den svenska ullen. Däribland finner vi geotextil, isolering och ull i avfallshantering enklast att producera utifrån de förutsättningar vi har i Sverige. Våra slutsatser är att det krävs en hel del initiativ, framförallt från fårägarna i Sverige, för att skapa en större efterfrågan på svensk ull. Tillvägagångssättet är att skapa infrastruktur för uppsamling och sortering av ullen runtom i landet, sedan marknadsföra ullen med hjälp av information om dess unika egenskaper och positiva miljöaspekter.

AbstractThe thesis is developed from a proposition by Anders Ryberg at the county administration board of Västra Götaland. The proposition was to evaluate new fields of utility for the Swedish wool which today is disregarded. First off we give a basic description of the facts concerning the wool fiber in order for you as a reader to better comprehend how the wool fiber applies in different fields of utility, which is brought up later in the thesis. This is followed by a description of the environmental aspects which comes with the usage of wool, which also is important from a marketing point of view. The different types of wool we have in Sweden are then briefly described, followed by a presentation of Swedish companies and projects who are working with Swedish wool. Thereafter we describe the wool industries of Australia, Great Britain and Norway. Their marketing strategies and infrastructures for wool handling are important to acknowledge if the Swedish wool industry are to be able to compete in the future. We have also found many interesting fields of utility for the Swedish wool. Among many we have found geotextile, isolation and wool in waste management the easiest ones to produce looking at the prerequisites we have in Sweden. Our conclusions are that a lot of initiative will be needed, especially from the Swedish sheep owners, to be able to create a larger demand for Swedish wool. The way to go about it is by creating an infrastructure for collecting and sorting of the wool around the country, then implicate marketing with information about the unique abilities of wool and its positive environmental aspects.

Program: Textil produktutveckling med entreprenörs- och affärsinriktning

Esta pesquisa tem como objeto a prática de desenvolvimento pessoal e capacitação profissional conhecida como coaching. Traduzido do inglês o coach é o treinador, aquele que conduz o seu coachee (treinando) num determinado processo de aprendizagem. Neste trabalho, busco investigar como o coaching acaba se tornando um tipo específico de treinamento (executivo e gerencial), com suas peculiaridades teóricas e metodológicas. Dessa forma, busco investigar também quais são os fundamentos de sua origem no Brasil, como ele chega a nosso país, e de que forma que ele pode ser conectado ao contexto histórico da reestruturação produtiva. Por isso, a abordagem de nossa investigação é radicada na sociologia do trabalho e na sociologia econômica. A análise aqui registrada buscou compreender também as trajetórias dos profissionais do coaching, os coaches. Para tal, realizamos entrevistas semiestruturadas e em profundidade com coaches de dois pólos dinâmicos da economia brasileira: Porto Alegre (RS) e São Paulo (SP). A nossa abordagem metodológica é qualitativa, formulada para poder abarcar uma análise de conteúdo. A análise comparada entre a absorção do coaching nesses dois pólos permitiu construir recorrências, observar códigos de uma linguagem própria do campo gerencial brasileiro, e aferir correlações entre essa linguagem e novas demandas por disciplinamento para o trabalho. Partiu-se do pressuposto de que realizar uma interpretação sociológica sobre o fenômeno significa, em primeiro lugar, saber encontrar o seu espaço na esteira da reestruturação produtiva neoliberal. E, em segundo lugar, o modo como ele pode ser relacionado a um entendimento mais geral sobre os sistemas integrados de gestão pós-fordistas. Estas pautas colocam na ordem do dia uma discussão sobre a presença da governança corporativa na sociedade brasileira contemporânea. Nesse escopo, coloca-se um papel preponderante nos atores do campo gerencial que, graças às suas qualidades seriam responsáveis por garantir a adesão de todos aos objetivos, e a condução de acordo com os seus imperativos. Assim, metas e objetivos (e o próprio método em si) são referenciados através de princípios de legitimação e princípios de heteronomia. Estes princípios demarcam os limites daquilo que chamamos de “sistema de pensamento” do coaching.
This master’s degree dissertation aims to investigate the practice of personal development and professional training known as coaching. Translated from the english language, the coach is the person who leads his coachee in a process of learning. In this work, we investigate how the coaching becomes a specific kind of executive and managerial training, with some theoretical and methodological singularities. Thus, we also seek to trace the concept’s recepetion in Brazil and how it can be related to the historic context of the post-70’s productive restructuring. Therefore, the approach of our research is based in the sociology of labor and also in the economic sociology. Our analysis also sought to understand the brazilian coaches trajectories. To this end, we conducted semi-estructured interviews with professionals from two dynamic poles of the brazilian economy: Porto Alegre city (Rio Grande do Sul state) and Sao Paulo city (Sao Paulo state). Our methodological approach is qualitative, formulated in order to encompass a content analysis of the coaches thought. The comparative analysis between the absorption of coaching in these two poles allowed us to trace recurrences, observe codes of the brazilian managerial field’s language, and assess correlations between this language and the new demands for discipline to the work. We started from the assumption that to conduct a sociological interpretation of the phenomenon is necessary, first of all, to understand its place in the wake of neoliberal economic transformations. And, secondly, how it can be related to a comprehension about the integrated post-Fordists management systems. These guidelines place on the sociological agenda the discussion about the presence of the corporate governance in contemporary brazilian society. In this context, we find an important role in the management field actors, caused by their responsability for ensuring the participation of workers into the objectives of the organizations, and also for conducting them in accordance with its requirements. Thus, their objectives are based on legitimizing and heteronomy principles. These principles demarcate the boundaries of what we call "the thought system" of coaching in Brazil.

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Este trabalho tem como objetivo avaliar o papel dos agentes estatais executores da política habitacional no desenvolvimento urbano do interior paulista, focando no estudo comparativo de quatro cidades: Araçatuba, Marília, Presidente Prudente e São José do Rio Preto. Por meio do levantamento da atuação do Banco Nacional de Habitação (BNH), da Caixa Econômica Federal (CEF), e da Companhia de Desenvolvimento Habitacional e Urbano do Estado de São Paulo (CDHU), focando principalmente na produção de habitações, buscamos entender seus papéis e os interesses consubstanciados por trás de suas ações. Para a identificação destes interesses, realizamos ampla análise sobre o contexto histórico em que estas políticas e seus agentes foram forjados, o que nos levou ao debate sobre as principais dinâmicas de nossa formação socioespacial, por meio da teoria da dualidade básica da economia brasileira, de Ignácio Rangel. O resultado final é um esforço teórico na tentativa de entender as relações de poder e de hegemonia que se estabelecem no processo de produção do espaço, das quais a política habitacional é apenas uma delas
This study aims to evaluate the role of state agents responsible for execute the housing policy in the urban development in São Paulo State, focusing on the comparative study of four cities: Araçatuba, Marília, Presidente Prudente and São José do Rio Preto. Trough the evaluation of the performance of Banco Nacional de Habitação (BNH), the Caixa Economica Federal (CEF) and the Companhia de Desenvolvimento Habitacional e Urbano do estado de São Paulo (CDHU), focusing mainly on the production of housing, we seek to understand their roles and interests embodied behind their actions. To identify these concerns, we conducted extensive analysis on the historical context in which these policies and their agents were forged, which led us to the debate on key dynamics of our sociospatial formation, through the theory of the basic duality of the Brazilian economy, the Ignacio Rangel. The end result is a theoretical effort in trying to understand power and hegemony relationships that are established in the production of space, of which housing policy is only one of them

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Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
O Brasil encontra-se na posição de grande produtor e exportador de commodities agrícolas, ao passo que é uma potência mundial em termos de biodiversidade e recursos hídricos. Com o uso e ocupação do solo em franca intensificação, torna-se cada vez mais importante direcionar atenções para potenciais sinergias entre a exploração agrícola e a proteção ambiental através do conceito de Serviços Ambientais (SA). Logo, instrumentos econômicos como o Pagamento por Serviços Ambientais (PSA) configuram-se como uma alternativa de assegurar a manutenção de processos ecológicos concomitante à atividade agropecuária. Desta forma, a nova versão do Código Florestal Brasileiro (CFB nº 12651/2012) da Legislação Ambiental Brasileira (LAB), prevê pagamento ou incentivos à conservação dos ecossistemas que forneçam serviços, entretanto, o texto desta nova lei deixa lacunas quanto aos mecanismos de implementação. Com base nestes aspectos, esse trabalho aborda em três capítulos questões sobre SA e PSA, cujo primeiro é uma apresentação geral do tema e da metodologia base utilizada nos capítulos seguintes. O capítulo 2 inicia a investigação dos serviços de maior relevância fornecidos nas áreas de produção de cana-de-açúcar e de alimentos (dentro do Cinturão de cana-de-açúcar), pela perspectiva dos agricultores destes dois grupos. Como resultado, evidencia-se que ambos os grupos apresentam perspectivas de sinergia, mas também distinções significativas quanto à percepção sobre os serviços ambientais fornecidos nas diferentes paisagens. Os serviços de regulação climática local e manutenção da água são importantes para o desenvolvimento agrícola, bem-estar da população urbana e dos agricultores de modo geral. Enquanto a polinização, dispersão de sementes e controle de pragas foram reconhecidos apenas pelos produtores das unidades rurais de alimentos. Posto isto, a visão política dos produtores e tomadores de decisão do município de Rio Claro-SP, referente à operacionalização dos SA, convergiu em pagamentos destinados à preservação de remanescentes florestais de custódia obrigatória (i.e Área de Preservação Permanente-APP e Reserva Legal-RL), a fim de proteger os mananciais. No entanto, houve conflito de opiniões entre os atores em caso de o poder público decidir implementar esquemas de PSA que contemplem apenas produtores com déficits de APP e RL em detrimento daqueles que sempre estiveram de acordo com a LAB, o que caracterizaria futuras externalidades sociais e econômicas negativas no contexto de política pública. Por fim no capítulo 3, a comparação de experiência de PSA entre Brasil e Escócia, mostrou que a integração dos objetivos das políticas públicas agrícolas, ambientais e de desenvolvimento econômico, com um fundo de financiamento comum e claro, ajuda atenuar processos burocráticos de gestão orçamentária e conflito entre pagadores e beneficiários em projetos de PSA locais. Diante de toda a avaliação da pesquisa, conclui-se que a abordagem participatória de estudo, ou seja, que envolve diversos atores sociais dentre eles o corpo científico, possibilitou compreender as diferentes perspectivas dos atores em nível local, seja de produção agrícola em grande escala (cana-de-açúcar) quanto na escala familiar de alimentos e de tomada de decisão para as exigências de SA nacionais. Dessa forma, evidenciou-se a necessidade de várias e complexas etapas para operacionalização de SA e sua possibilidade na gestão dos recursos naturais, diante da situação de expansão de commodities agrícolas e acelerada perda de serviços ambientais. Portanto, o estudo se faz relevante para elaboração de políticas públicas voltadas a implementação de PSA, no contexto de desenvolvimento agrícola e paisagens degradadas.
Brazil is a major producer and exporter of agricultural commodities and a world power in terms of biodiversity and water resources. With the ongoing process of land-use intensification, it becomes increasingly important to investigate and promote potential synergies between agriculture and natural resources conservation, mostly represented through the concept of Ecosystem Services (ES). Therefore, economic instruments such as Payment for Environmental Services (PSA) are an alternative to ensure the maintenance of ecological processes concomitant to agricultural activity. The new version of the Brazilian Forest Code (BFC nº 12651/2012) of the Brazilian Environmental Legislation (BEL) predicts payment or incentives for the conservation of ecosystems that provide services. However, the text of this law leaves gaps regarding implementation mechanisms. Based on these aspects, this dissertation addresses three chapters on ES and PES, the first of which is a general presentation of the theme and the methodology used in the following chapters. The chapter 2 begins the investigation of the services the most relevance provided in the areas of sugarcane and food production in Rio Claro (inside sugarcane belt in São Paulo state), according farmers’ perspective of these two groups. As results, both groups show perspectives of synergy, but also significant distinctions regarding the perception on the ES provided in the different landscapes. The services relative to local climate regulation and water maintenance are important for agricultural development, farmers and urban population well-being, overall. While pollination, seed dispersal and pest control were services recognized only by food farmers. Therefore, political point of view of farmers and decision-makers from Rio Claro municipality, referring to the operationalization of the SA, converged in payments destined to the preservation of forest remnants of compulsory custody (i.e. Permanent Preservation Area-PPA and Legal Reserve- LR) in order to protect the water springs. Therefore, political point of view of farmers and decision-makers from Rio Claro municipality, referring to the operationalization of the ES converged in payments destined to the preservation of forest remnants of compulsory custody (i.e. Permanent Preservation Area-PPA and Legal Reserve- LR) in order to protect the water springs. Nevertheless, there were opinion conflicts among the actors, supposing that public authorities decide to implement PES schemes that only contemplate producers with PPA and LR deficits, in detriment of those who have always been in agreement with LAB. This, in turn, cam characterize social and economic externalities in the context of public policy. Finally, in chapter 3, the comparison of PES experiences between Brazil and Scotland showed us that, the integration of agricultural, environmental and economic public policy with a common and clear financing fund helps to attenuate bureaucratic processes of budgetary management and reduces the conflicts between payers and beneficiaries in local PES projects. In additional, it was concluded which, the study participatory approach, involving several social actors, among them the scientific body, made possible to comprehension of the different actor’s perspective at the local level either agricultural of large-scale (sugarcane) or familiar scale (food production), as well as, of decision making for national ES requirements. Thus, the study demonstrates need of various and complexes steps to ES operationalization and its possibility in the management of natural resources, in reason of the expansion of agricultural commodities, as well as, in local where there is accelerated loss of ES. Therefore, the study is relevant for the elaboration of public policies aimed at the implementation of PES in the context of agricultural development and degraded landscapes.
FAPESP: 2014/08345-5

Contract furniture which is manufactured depending on the client&
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s design or specification requirements on a contract basis is executed in small and medium sized furniture companies in Turkey. This one-of-a-kind production organization provides component manufacturing opportunity to furniture SMEs via subcontracting. In this study, the use of design consultancy is investigated to understand how it should be used in the current organization, in order to implement this production system efficiently. This study also examines contract furniture production to have foresight for the development of furniture SMEs in Turkey. In a literature review, the generic context of contracting activities in relation to design activity is investigated. Methods of design consultancy use in product development processes are searched. Design consultancy in construction industry is examined Data about design and production capabilities of Turkish furniture SMEs is collected. Production planning processes of a contract furniture company was investigated and discussed in a case study. These two groups of data were compared in order to drive conclusions.

El presente trabajo tiene como finalidad mejorar la eficiencia de las líneas de confección de ropa interior de una empresa textil. Se desarrolla una metodología basada en el análisis, el diagnóstico y las propuestas de mejora para lograr mejores indicadores de eficiencia. La optimización de la eficiencia de las líneas es medida a través de la OEE (por las siglas en inglés de Overall Equipment Effectiveness) que involucra aspectos de calidad, rendimiento y disponibilidad de las líneas de confecciones. En el análisis realizado se identificó que los principales problemas detectados en el mapa de flujo de valor actual fueron desorden en el área, alto tiempo de búsqueda de herramientas y tiempos de parada de máquina altos y frecuentes. Es por eso que se propone implementar herramientas de manufactura esbelta como solución a estos problemas, las cuales son la implementación de la metodología 5S’s acompañada del mantenimiento autónomo y el SMED (por las siglas en inglés de Single Minute Exchange of Die). La correcta implementación de las herramientas de manufactura esbelta logra un aumento en los tres indicadores que involucran el OEE. El primer indicador es el incremento de la disponibilidad de las máquinas en 25% provocado por la reducción del tiempo de set-up y del tiempo de reparación de las máquinas. Otro indicador que impacta en el beneficio es el rendimiento de las líneas de confecciones, aumentando en 2% debido al alza del tiempo bruto de producción. Por último, la tasa de calidad obtiene un crecimiento de 4.3% como consecuencia de la reducción de productos defectuosos. Estos tres indicadores logran un incremento del OEE de 34.92%. Otros beneficios son el incremento de la capacidad productiva, ahorro de horas hombres, incremento del área de trabajo y motivación del personal.
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Después que el ex Mercado Mayorista Número 1 fue removido por la autoridad municipal, La Parada ha cobrado visibilidad. No obstante, su problemática, que atañe a la ciudad y sus autoridades, ha sido abordada de manera general, parcial y homogenizante. Debido a ello, el estudio de caso se enfoca en las comerciantes ambulantes que pertenecen a la asociación “Húsares de la Pampa de Productos Perecibles”, ubicados en la avenida 28 de Julio, Cercado de Lima. Se observó prácticas políticas locales, tomando en cuenta su funcionamiento, manejo, y administración de la organización, a partir de relaciones espaciales donde se desarrolla la vida cotidiana y laboral de estas personas, habitada de solidaridad y cooperación, así como también del conflicto entre ellos. La metodología empleada fue de enfoque cualitativo, que permitió una adecuada aproximación a la naturaleza de los problemas y necesidades del grupo. A la vez, permitió explorar contextos en los que opera las relaciones espaciales como parte de la convivencia y el trabajo. Para todo esto se utilizó técnicas de recojo de información como: observación participante, entrevistas a profundidad, revisión de registros escritos y/o periodísticos. La investigación ratifica la importancia de la asociación, tanto para la producción del espacio de trabajo como para la reproducción de las relaciones espaciales allí desarrolladas. Estas prácticas políticas reflejarán aspectos organizacionales, así como del proceso de deliberación para la toma de decisiones, dentro de dinámicas formales y no formales al interior del grupo y con los cuales manejarán sus diferencias a través de consensos.
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Revisa ordenadamente los antecedentes sobre el tema y analiza el rol que juega el progreso tecnológico dentro del crecimiento económico para un país poco industrializado como el Perú y la región, evaluando en primer lugar los procesos de estructurales organizaciones vigentes y, luego investigando el vínculo que existe entre ambas variables mediante un análisis de regresión causal: variación del PIB per cápita y una medida del esfuerzo innovativo, sobre la experiencia existente en el Perú, considerando además estudios comparativos internacionales. Un análisis regresional apoyado en técnicas estadísticas permite concluir que, pese a que existe una correlación positiva entre ambas variables, la relación causal de la misma se produce en un sentido contrario al que evidencia la teoría económica. En consecuencia, no se puede concluir que la innovación pueda ser vista como determinante del crecimiento económico en el país ni en la región; sin embargo y bajo el respaldo de que la innovación crece junto con el crecimiento de la economía es viable pensar que el estímulo de actividades innovativas pueda impulsar el crecimiento económico.
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Busca la relación entre el crecimiento económico y la pobreza extrema a través de datos panel para los 24 departamentos del país en el periodo de 2007 - 2014. Se utiliza los datos del Sistema de Información Regional para la toma de decisiones del INEI y se utiliza el modelo de efectos fijos escogido mediante la aplicación del Test de Hausman. Las variables utilizadas en el modelo econométrico fueron de pobreza extrema, PBI per cápita, tasa de desempleo y gasto público en educación (gasto público en educación inicial, primaria y secundaria) a través de la tasa de crecimiento. Entre los resultados se encontró que la única variable que tuvo un impacto significativo en la pobreza extrema fue el PBI per cápita (p<0.001; coef=-0.0016). Es decir, un aumento del PBI per cápita reduce la incidencia de la pobreza extrema. En el análisis por correlación de los departamentos se encuentra que diecisiete departamentos presentan una relación inversa de PBI per cápita con la pobreza extrema y para el departamento de Lima no solo se tiene influencia del PBI per cápita sino también de la tasa de desempleo. Se concluye que el crecimiento económico, medido a través del PBI per cápita, influye en la reducción de la pobreza extrema. El país a lo largo del periodo de estudio ha experimentado una reducción de la pobreza extrema, así como el crecimiento económico medido por PBI per cápita y esto apoya la hipótesis planteada.
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In this Master of Interior Design practicum project, the tenants of Andre Breton’s Surrealist theory inform the design of a commercial fashion studio and showroom in the adaptive reuse of a vacant warehouse in Bushwick, New York. The project looks at the circumstances of creative activity for fashion design production. The purpose is to investigate how the interior environment induces spontaneous creation: how one’s working environment influences the work, and conversely how the content changes the interior. Relevant theories on imagination and experimentation in art practice have been used as a foundation for design exploration, primarily through automatism in painting. The design process therefore demonstrates how the correlative relationship between Surrealism and creativity can be evidenced through interior spatial representation. Exterior and interior form and materiality inform the spatial experience and respond to the post-industrial context.

Este trabajo condensa 2 años de investigación de un Proyecto presentado a la Secretaría de Ciencia y Técnica de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata. En el 1º año de investigación (año 2006) se construyó un Marco Teórico-Metodológico de análisis de la vivienda y su “fachada interior” (hall, sala de estar y/o living-room, comedor, cocina, baño y dormitorios), con el cual se procedió en el 2º año de investigación (año 2007) a la búsqueda y recopilación de material documental diverso (fuentes primarias y secundarias); que se clasificó, ordenó y archivó según un estudio de “casos” de historia del diseño (industrial y artesanal) de utensilios, enseres, artefactos, muebles, electrodomésticos y otros productos paradigmáticos (objeto de estudio) con valor histórico y patrimonial, del habitar doméstico de la Argentina del período: 1880-1990. Que por sus características arquitectónicas, artísticas y estilísticas así como tecnológicas, resultaron ser paradigmas en la evolución histórica, definiendo una realidad artificial, estratificada en capas geológicas (Ezio Manzini, 1992) dando por resultado un complejo paisaje interior ecléctico –resultado del orden burgués- en sus ambientaciones y muebles (Rosario Bernatene, 1997-2000). Se procedió con una metodología holística (interdisciplinaria-hermenéutica) e integradora de las segmentadas: Historia del Arte, de la Arquitectura, del Diseño Industrial y de la Ciencia y Técnica; impulsando el reconocimiento de la “Historia del Diseño Industrial doméstico Argentino del siglo XX” -restos arcaicos de la colonización tecnológica (Michael de Certeau, 1980)- como parte del Patrimonio Industrial de los Argentinos.

The main research problem was to determine interior design’s methods of cultural production. The original knowledge contributions of this thesis is summatively included in the imaginal interiors hypothesis: “Interior design produces culture through synthesis, proximity, associations, timeliness, and technification”. The study was undertaken as an initial study of the role of interior design in the field of cultural production. It aimed to make tacit interior design methods explicit and emerged from the assumption that interior designers who excel in the creation of meaning are rewarded for it in the form of cultural and economic capital. The study is important since it may improve the praxis of interior design, it expands the discipline’s research methodology, and it reviews the production methods of an emergent discipline. The study considered cultural production as an iterative practice comprised of the individual acts of generation and interpretation and the group manifestations of meaning. Within this domain interior artefacts are considered as a material objects within a semiotic context. These objects are functional and their primary communicative role is to portray their function. Making the generation of culture analogous to the generation of meaning allowed me to assess the interior artefact from a logical point of view and enabled me to speculate on the role of interior design within the larger cultural discourse. The research was located in the interpretivist paradigm. It took a non-positivist, social constructivist stance. I believe that meanings are emergent from the research process. The research encompassed a literature review, the collection of suitable examples, and the conduct of critical analysis. The primary research methods were constructivist grounded theory and phenomenography. Qualitative, interpretivist tools were developed and utilised in the content analysis through interpretation. The analysis followed a process of coding and analytic integration to construct theory. The analysis is based on a non-probability, judgmental sample of representations of interior artefacts which was compiled to cover the substantive area with a degree of representivity and generality. The corpus contains photographic documentation and meta-data for 72 interior artefacts. The thesis presented a theory for the construction of meaning in interior design as it manifested in the substantive area. This was presented in a narrative format where the five imaginal methods were described by illustrating and discussing their general properties, the actions they undertake and the effects these create. ‘Synthesis’ relate to the selection of meaningful components and bringing them together in a cohesive whole. ‘Proximity’ relates to the placement of objects in space to create meaningful arrangements and patterns. ‘Associations’ involve connections in the mind between different components and to methods which infer meaning. ‘Technification’ is concerned with the physical expression of meaning. This theory should be considered as the foremost response to the research problem. The theory that is presented here is the result of identifying, isolating, describing, and interpreting interior design’s methods of cultural production. The thesis contributes to the theoretical consideration of the role of meaning in interior design, how the discipline creates that meaning, and how this production of meaning influences cultural production in general. In terms of the discipline’s larger cultural role I concluded that the professional practice of interior design is the best located occupation to denote occupation, inhabitation, and identity in the public built environment; in addition the discipline communicates theoretical discourses through its cultural effluent. The practical contributions of the thesis manifests in facilitating the production of meaning in new interior artefacts. The thesis makes provision for the inclusion of imaginal aspects in the discipline’s production by strategically expanding the interior design process. The practical contributions can be summarised as a call for the inclusion of knowledge-based, empirical research practice in the interior design process. The thesis presents a design strategy to augment, but not replace, well-developed design intuition. This strategy is a novel contribution to interior design’s production processes.
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Throughout time nature has been a prescribed healer of stress on the human condition. Its vital integration into our daily lives has been proven by scientific evidence. The majority of Americans spend approximately 1/3 of their life working, whatever that job may entail. Therefore, it makes sense that the environments that we spend so much of our life in for work at extremely important to our physical and mental health, however, current workplace models are not acknowledging that. Redefining the workplace to integrate nature would start to change work life in this country and how work itself is viewed. This thesis focuses on creating healthy and holistic production spaces for workers in areas like Western Massachusetts. Because this area shares urban and rural qualities while being primarily suburban of major Northeastern cities such as Boston and New York, it provides unique ground for a wide array of work occupations and work types. On a chosen site of Northampton, MA, a new work model will be developed around the exposure to nature integral to a collaborative co-op/ incubator space for small businesses in the area who need office and production spaces in a community setting. The progression of this research will lead to a developed incubation space with a positive environmental impact. Precedent research of archetypes such as Michael Singer’s Alterra Atria, and Miller Hull’s Bullitt Center exemplify sustainable criteria in relation to office architecture. By using concepts underlying an even further integration with the community ideas from John Dinkeloo & Kevin Roche’s Ford Foundation Headquarters, Candilis, Josic and Woods’ Freie University Berlin and BIG & Heatherwick’s New Google Headquarters. By creating a building that addresses the diverse makeup of the larger community of Northampton, MA, this co-op space would become an example of how a workplace can work with nature towards a greater impact on the environment post-occupancy.

INPRINT is a local fashion house , involved with the adaptive re-use of the Saxon Building in the Pretoria CBD. The design attempts to: -Celebrate the relationship between past and present, new and old within architecture and the fashion industry. -Showcase the relationship between fashion retail and the craft of garment production. -Redefine the relationship between interior architecture and fashion. -Provide a platform to encourage and exhibit local fashion design and production. The reinfusion of energy into the interior space of the Saxon Building along Church Street gives the interior and the building as a whole its significance as currently it is insufficiently used and has no reference to the sites historical significance. Reprogramming and designing of this space also contributes to the current Tshwane urban renewal project of the surrounding area. This project was initiated due to a fascination between the role that interior environments and clothing have on an individual, as well as the dramatic change in fashion retail since the 1800’s. Through the introduction of a multi use program, the original function of the building, a retail store, becomes more accessible to a variety of users and the general public within and around the CBD. The interior as a whole becomes a network of interactive spaces encouraging personal relationships and social interaction, thus engaging the public with the craft of fashion. The existing character has been reinterpreted allowing the Saxon Building to regain its former identity and significance. This investigation supports the idea that spaces, as with clothing, contributes to the identity of the users, the South African garment industry and the greater context.
Dissertation MInt(Prof)--University of Pretoria, 2014
Architecture
MInt(Prof)
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Doutoramento em Engenharia Agronómica - Instituto Superior de Agronomia
The area of peach trees, in Beira Interior region, covers 25% of the Portuguese total area of peach trees, being 64% of the orchards located in distric cambisols and 30% in distric fluvisols, with an average size of 7.6 ha per grower. In potted plant and field trials, the effect of nitrogen fertilisation on peach tree nutritional status, vigour, yield, fruit quality, susceptibility to Phomopsis amygdali, and presence of insects like Anarsia lineatella, scolitydae, and aphids was studied. The nitrogen fertilisation showed effects on the nutritional status and vegetative growth, but in the field trial there were no significant effects on total yield (19 to 30 t.ha-1), commercial yield (16 to 28 t.ha-1), and fruit size. The Multiple Correspondence Analysis allowed us to identify that susceptibility to peach constriction canker was changed by rainfall and leaf nitrogen content, showing higher susceptibility the plants with higher nitrogen fertilisation in high rainfall conditions, but the nitrogen effect was not so striking in low rainfall conditions. In Rich Lady peach commercial orchards, there was a close association between canker susceptibility, plant age, and leaf nitrogen contents; high levels of canker incidence associated with older orchards and high leaf nitrogen content were detected; the nitrogen effect was not so evident when plants were younger.

INDICE - INDICE DE TABLAS Y GRAFICOS - AGRADECIMIENTOS - RESUMEN - I.-Introducción - II.- Marco Teórico - 1) Investigación de Mercado - A) Concepto - 2) Contribución de la investigación de mercados - 2) a) En la toma de decisiones básicas - 2) b) En la tarea directiva - 2) c) En la rentabilidad de la empresa - 3) Aplicaciones de la investigación de mercados - 4) Proceso de Investigación de Mercados - 5) Proceso de Decisión del Consumidor - 6) Modelo de Negocios - 7) Identificación de segmentos de mercado y mercados meta - 8) Estrategias de posicionamiento de marcas - III.- Metodología - IV.- Objetivos del Trabajo - V.- Límites o Alcance del trabajo - VI.- Organización del trabajo - Maestría en Dirección de Negocios – Año 2015 - CAPITULO 1 - Análisis Económico de la Industria Láctea Argentina - CAPITULO 2 - El Sector Gourmet en Argentina - CAPITULO 3 - Oferta de Quesos Gourmet en Córdoba - CAPITULO 4 - Atributos de la Elección de la Alternativa Gourmet - CAPITULO 5 - La Empresa: Establecimiento Don Santiago - CAPITULO 6 - Investigación de Mercado - CAPITULO 7 -Presentación de la propuesta - CAPITULO 8 - Elementos de Medición y Control - CONCLUSIONES - BIBLIOGRAFIA - ANEXO 1: Encuesta
El presente trabajo hace referencia a una Empresa Láctea ubicada en el interior de la Provincia de Córdoba. En el mismo se analiza y estudia el Mercado de Quesos Gourmet, más precisamente la demanda de estos productos. Para llegar a tal fin se basa en una Investigación de Mercado, realizando una encuesta en la Ciudad de Córdoba. Los resultados marcan la existencia de tres segmentos atractivos, siendo éstos el mercado objetivo. Junto con el estudio del marco teórico llevado a la práctica y en base a la información obtenida se elabora a través del Modelo de Canvas, una propuesta para el lanzamiento de los Productos Gourmet en esta localidad. También se brindan elementos de medición y control para realizar luego de la implantación de la propuesta, para identificar las diferencias entre lo real y lo planeado, medirlos, cuantificarlos y poder realizar las correcciones a tiempo, para lograr la mayor efectividad posible del plan elaborado.
Fil: Rosales, Exequiel. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas; Argentina.