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He, Zheng M. Eng Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "How should indicators be found for scenario monitoring ?" Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81093.
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Thesis (M. Eng. in Logistics)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, 2013.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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Scenario planning is a widely used approach for developing long-term strategies. The typical scenario process involves developing scenarios, identifying strategies whose success is contingent on the scenario, and monitoring the environment regularly to know which scenario(s) may become more likely. Hence it becomes necessary to find a way to monitor the business environment in order to inform the process of making strategic decisions under uncertainty. This thesis proposes to use a set of nested indicators to monitor environment. The approach consists of a seven-step process to build composite indicators and link them with scenarios. Individual indicators are selected based on intuitive theoretical frameworks. Different weights are assigned to individual indicators using factor analysis. And then composite indicators are built by linear aggregation of individual indicators. The composite indicators are used to assess the changes in the driving forces over time. Such changes serve as the basis for judging whether the level of the driving forces is high or low. Those levels are then used to infer which scenario is likely to come to pass. This thesis used a set of four scenarios to illustrate the application of the approach. Those scenarios were built for a chemical company's supply chain in Asian/Pacific region in 2025. The result suggested that the environment of the sub-region in the monitoring year was more like a "Collaborative World" or a mix of "Collaborative World" and "Demanding World". And it is more possible that the environment was evolving into those two scenarios instead of the others.
by Zheng He.
M.Eng.in Logistics
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Xu, Xia M. Eng Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "How to Identify leading indicators for scenario monitoring." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/92122.
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Thesis: M. Eng. in Logistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, 2014.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (page 57).
Being able to quickly adapt to changes in the business environment has been widely acknowledged as essential for sustainable success by business leaders. Scenario planning is recognized as an effective tool used to explore ambiguous business environment dynamics over a long time horizon and identifying ways to translate uncertainty into potential future strategies. After the potential scenarios are developed and formulated into business strategies, the practical decision-making process then requires continuous review. Existing literature suggests that companies must actively monitor the business environment using appropriate indicators and understand their implications. This research specifically aims to develop a systematic, quantitative approach to identifying potential leading indicators for scenario monitoring. This approach is a framework that calculates correlation between various datasets from public databases, identifying, screening then consolidating the key driving forces of particular business scenarios. This process, in concert with a thorough qualitative assessment by business leader practitioners, enables an effective practice of scenario planning that allows the business to adapt its strategic long term plans in a constantly shifting global environment.
by Xia Xu.
M. Eng. in Logistics
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DeNucci, Thomas W. "Diagnostic indicators for shipboard systems using non-intrusive load monitoring." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33576.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2005.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 87-88).
Field studies have demonstrated that the Non-Intrusive Load monitor (NILM) can provide real-time indication of the condition of electro-mechanical systems on board naval vessels. Results from data collected from engineering systems on board USCGC SENECA (WMEC-906), a 270-foot U.S. Coast Guard cutter, indicate that the NILM can effectively identify faults, failures and deviations from normal operating conditions on numerous shipboard engineering systems. Data collected from the sewage system identified metrics that can be applied, for example, to cycling systems (high pressure air, hydraulic systems, etc.) to differentiate between periods of heavy usage and fault conditions. Sewage system variability and randomness was minimized by employing a MATLAB simulation designed to permit exploration of system behavior that might not have been exposed during other conditions. Simulation data suggests that the presence, location and magnitude of a spike in the pump run distribution indicated the presence of a leak. Data from the actual shipboard system, when subjected to a quantifiable leak, displayed the same behavior. Data collected from the Auxiliary Seawater (ASW) System indicated that the NILM is able to predict the failure of a flexible coupling linking the pump and motor components.
(cont.) The ASW motor-pump system was modeled using a 5th order induction motor simulation to explore the electro-mechanical relationships between the motor, coupling and pump. Changes to the mechanical parameters of the coupling were captured in the electrical signature of the motor in both the simulation and shipboard data. Frequency domain analysis of the ASW System data also suggested that the clogging of a heat exchanger on a critical shipboard system can be identified with the NILM, although the extent of diagnosis is dependent on the system flow patterns. Further development of hardware and software, along with continued research into the behavior of shipboard systems, will allow the NILM to augment existing monitoring systems and potentially serve as a stand-alone indicator of critical system performance.
by Thomas W. DeNucci.
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McKay, Thomas Duncan. "Diagnostic indicators for shipboard mechanical systems using non-intrusive load monitoring." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/2344.
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CIVINSThis thesis examines the use of Non-intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) in auxiliary shipboard systems, such as a low pressure air system, to determine the state of equipment in larger connected systems, such as the main propulsion engines. Using data collected on previously installed NILM's at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Philadelphia DDG-51 Land Based Engineering Site (LBES), major event changes were analyzed and diagnosed using power data collected from the in-service low pressure air compressor (LPAC) and the in-service fuel oil pump. Events investigated include main propulsion engine starts and loadings, gas turbine generators starts, major electrical load shifts, and leak insertions into the low pressure air system. An additional NILM was installed on the General Electric LM2500 Universal Engine Controller (UEC) in order to assist in the diagnosis of various state changes. The UEC provides the appropriate interfaces to monitor and control each LM2500 GTM. The UEC controls the application of starter air, ignition power, and fuel to the engine while also receiving feedback of engine parameters from sensors on the engine. Using the combined data received by the LPAC, fuel oil pump, and UEC, a diagnosis system is derived that can detect major events in the engineering plant described above.
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Brun, Emeric. "Key Performance Indicators for the monitoring of large-scale battery storage systems." Thesis, KTH, Energiteknik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-263899.
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In the context of the fight against climate change, the electricity sector is experiencing a complete renewal. Power grids are undergoing a transformation from centralized and unidirectional systems to multilevel and more integrated networks with, among others, the insertion of intermittent Renewable Energy Sources (RES) on the production side and with the emergence of new consumer behaviors on the demand side. In this context, Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) are gaining momentum. Their excellent technical performances combined with a falling price make these storage solutions applicable to multiple scales and applications, ranging from the electrification of rural areas to the reinforcement of modern power grids. Large scale BESSs are complex systems, for which the electrochemical cells are only the elementary building blocks. Such storage systems consist of a hierarchical assembly of these cells, a complex control structure, a precise thermal management and a reversible power conversion apparatus, cooperating to ensure a smooth and safe operation. To deal with this complexity, BESS owners and operators need synthetic indicators to quickly assess the operation of their storage systems. In this work, this question of the monitoring of large scale BESSs is addressed with a selection, implementation and discussion of Key Performance Indicators (KPI). After a presentation of the multiple components constituting a BESS, a review of the main KPIs found in the literature is proposed. This preliminary phase concluded with the definition of four main categories covering the multiple aspects of the operation of a BESS: operation, performance, ageing and safety. Where needed, a choice was made to choose the estimation techniques offering the best tradeoff between accuracy, ease of implementation and computational load. Then, the overall implementation strategy used to take advantage of the large amount of data available was presented. The results were obtained for actual large-scale Li-Ion BESS projects, covering multiple applications and chemistries. Based on these illustrative results, the robustness and the accuracy of the indicators was discussed. More importantly, a special attention was paid to the methodology, meaning and interdependencies of these KPIs to enable battery owners to better understand their system.Inom ramen för kampen mot klimatförändringar upplever elsektorn en fullständig förnyelse. Kraftnät genomgår en omvandling från centraliserade och enkelriktade system till flernivå och mer integrerade nätverk, bland annat införande av intermittenta förnybara energikällor på produktionssidan och med uppkomsten av nya konsumentbeteenden på efterfrågesidan. I detta sammanhang får batterilagringssystem fart. Deras utmärkta tekniska prestanda i kombination med ett fallande pris gör att dessa lagringslösningar är tillämpliga på flera skalor och applikationer, allt från elektrifiering av landsbygden till förstärkning av moderna elnät. Storskaliga batterilagringssystem är komplexa system för vilka de elektrokemiska cellerna endast är de grundläggande byggstenarna. Sådana lagringssystem består av en hierarkisk sammansättning av dessa celler, en komplex kontrollstruktur, en exakt termisk hantering och en reversibel kraftomvandlingsapparat, som samarbetar för att säkerställa en smidig och säker drift. För att hantera denna komplexitet behöver batterilagringssystem-ägare och operatörer syntetiska indikatorer för att snabbt utvärdera driften av deras lagringssystem. I detta arbete behandlas denna fråga om övervakning av storskaliga batterilagringssystem med ett urval, implementering och diskussion av viktiga resultatindikatorer. Efter en presentation av de flera komponenterna som utgör ett batterilagringssystem föreslås en översyn av de viktigaste resultatindikatorer som finns i litteraturen. Denna preliminära fas avslutades med definitionen av fyra huvudkategorier som täcker flera aspekter av driften av en BESS: drift, prestanda, åldrande och säkerhet. Vid behov gjordes ett val för att välja uppskattningstekniker som erbjuder bästa -ivavvägning mellan noggrannhet, enkel implementering och beräkningslast. Sedan presenterades den övergripande implementeringsstrategin som användes för att dra fördel av den stora mängden tillgängliga data. Resultaten erhölls för faktiska storskaliga Li-Ion BESS-projekt, som täcker flera applikationer och kemister. Baserat på dessa illustrativa resultat diskuterades indikatorernas robusthet och noggrannhet. Ännu viktigare var att särskild uppmärksamhet ägnades åt dessa resultatindikatorer metodik, betydelse och beroende av varandra för att möjliggöra för varje batteriägare att bättre förstå sitt system.
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Hui, Ka Chun. "Voltage collapse indicators for on-line voltage security monitoring in power systems." Thesis, Imperial College London, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313312.
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Mahasele, Phehello Anthony. "Monitoring and evaluation indicators of the HIV & AIDS programme in Grahamstown's public sector health care system." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003248.
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South Africa is one of the countries hardest hit with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) epidemic. In response to the epidemic, the South African government adopted the Comprehensive HIV & AIDS Care, Management and Treatment programme strategic plan (CCMT) in 2000 (1) and developed the Operational Plan for CCMT for antiretroviral therapy rollout in 2003 (2). In order to monitor the progress of the implementation of CCMT, the National Department of Health (NDOH) adopted the Monitoring and Evaluation (M & E) framework in 2004 (3). The aim of this study was to assess the HIV & AIDS programme in Grahamstown‘s public sector health care system by using the national M & E indicators of the HIV & AIDS programme. The national M & E framework was used as the data collection tool and available information was collected from various sources such as the District Health Office (DHO), Primary Health Care (PHC) office, accredited antiretroviral sites and the provincial pharmaceutical depot. Group interviews were conducted with key stakeholder health care professionals at the District Health Office, Primary Health Care office, Settlers Hospital and the provincial Department of Health personnel. A one-on-one interview was conducted with the Deputy Director of HIV & AIDS Directorate, monitoring and evaluation in the National Department of Health. Available indicators such as budget and expenditure including antiretroviral procurement; human resources; nutrition-related indicators; prevention care and treatment indicators were collected. A group interview was conducted to document current practices, or where there was a lack of documentation, for indicators such as traditional medicines and pharmacovigilance. Most of the national M & E indicators are not required to be collected or collated by the district because the reporting format designed by the provincial Department of Health is different. Facilities, districts and provinces in South Africa are at different levels of implementation of the antiretroviral programme and hence a common format of the M & E indicators is not used by all provinces. Uniform data collection is not achieved due to human resources‘ constraints and other challenges such as continued use of manual reporting systems by the clinics. Districts are expected to report according to the formats drawn up by the provincial Department of Health (DOH) and there is a lack of awareness regarding the national M & E document amongst the Grahamstown Health Care Professionals. There is a need for training on the use of the M & E national framework so that the HCPs at the primary and secondary levels of the health care system are proficient with the process of M & E, and can provide inputs as well as take ownership of the process. The establishment of an M & E unit in Grahamstown is essential so that data collection and submission of the HIV & AIDS programme in the public sector according to the National M & E framework is addressed. However, despite all constraints and challenges in the public sector health care system in Grahamstown, available human and financial resources are being used effectively to maintain the HIV & AIDS programme.
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Garman, Ian, and Ahmad Ahmad Haj. "Monitoring air quality indicators and energy consumption in Dalarnas Villa during operation of a demand-controlled exhaust ventilation system." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Energiteknik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-34470.
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A real-world study was undertaken of the indoor air quality in a recently-built single family home in central Sweden, to establish whether demand controlled ventilation provided superior interior conditions, when compared with other air supply strategies, including the standard used by the Swedish buildings regulator. The property was highly airtight, with ventilation achieved using a forced exhaust system. Extraction was possible from all rooms of the house, and using a Renson Healthbox air handling unit, the rates of air flow from each room could be adjusted either according to a time schedule, or under demand control according to the unit’s sensing of the air quality in individual rooms. Five ventilation modes were evaluated, each for a period of 24 hours. Occupancy of the house was standardised, with test participants. Two separate air quality monitors were deployed to verify whether measurements made at the air handling unit were representative of the conditions that occupants experienced. Key measurements were the stable level of carbon dioxide overnight in an occupied double bedroom and the time taken for that room to refresh to background CO2 level the following day. The time taken for a kitchen/living room to similarly refresh was also examined. The study found that demand controlled ventilation achieved indoor air quality – assessed on carbon dioxide concentration – comparable with rates of fixed ventilation far greater than the regulated standard. In doing so, the air volume exchanged over a representative day was 33 % less than that standard, providing for significant energy savings. The parallel monitoring of air quality inside the room and via the air exhaust duct showed noticeable variation, but indicated the air handling unit under demand control would never ventilate insufficiently, based on its internal CO2 sensors.
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Kirkland, Benjamin T. "Geomorphologic evolution of a rapidly deteriorating barrier island system with multiple sediment sources: Eastern Isles Dernieres, Louisiana, 1887 to 2006." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2012. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1564.
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Trinity, East, and Wine Islands make up the eastern half of the Isles Dernieres barrier arc in south-central Louisiana. Formed following the abandonment of the Lafourche delta complex, subsidence and storm erosion have led to rapid deterioration of the system. Since 1887, the land area of the islands has decreased seventy-seven percent, and the gulf shoreline has retreated landward more than a kilometer. Wave ravinement on the shoreface of the islands is responsible for the most sediment loss; liberated sediment travels longshore to tidal inlets. The dominant ebb tidal currents then transport the sediment to where it is deposited in ebb tidal deltas or carried to the west, out of the system. A large lobe of sediment bypassing Cat Island Pass is entering the system from the eastern lower shoreface, which helps replace some of the sediment lost through wave ravinement to the upper shoreface.
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Solorio, Rigoberto. "A WEB-BASED TEMPERATURE MONITORING SYSTEM FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND LETTERS." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/129.
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In general, server rooms have restricted access requiring that staff possess access codes, keys, etc. Normally, only administrators are provided access to protect the physical hardware and the data stored in the servers. Servers also have firewalls to restrict outsiders from accessing them via the Internet. Servers also cost a lot of money. For this reason, server rooms also need to be protected against overheating. This will prolong the lifecycle of the units and can prevent data loss from hardware failure.
The California State University San Bernardino (CSUSB), Specifically the College of Arts and Letters server room has faced power failures that affected the Air Conditioning Unit (AC) and as a result the room became overheated for a long time, causing hardware failure to server units. This is why this project is important for the College and needs to be implemented as soon as possible.
The administrator’s old method of controlling server room temperature was by manually adjusting the temperature box inside of the server room. Now it can be controlled and monitored using remote access.
The purpose of A Web-Based Temperature Monitoring System for the College of Arts and Letters proposed in this project is to allow users to monitor the server room temperature through a website by using any computer or mobile device that has Internet access. Also, this system notifies users when the room attains a critical temperature by sending an email/text to the server room administrator.
A Web-Based Temperature Monitoring System for the College of Arts and Letters project is for the exclusive use of the College of Arts & Letters (CAL) server room. The administrator is the only person that can grant access to others by creating a proper account.
For this project three prototypes will be implemented, first to measure the current server room temperature, the second to show the temperature history of the room, and third to use the built-in search system to locate times that given temperatures were attained.
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Shu, Jingying, and Jiawei Song. "Analysis for Real Estate Investment of China : Based on the Warning System of Monitoring Macro Economy Prosperity." Thesis, KTH, Bygg- och fastighetsekonomi, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-89798.
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Real estate industry plays a significant role in high speed of economic development in China. However, with increasingly high housing price and scare land resources, real estate development is caught in a vicious circle. A large number of families could not afford their housing while housing prices have no trend to decrease which leads to huger gap between the rich and the poor and causes indirectly instability of society. Therefore, creating a healthy and stable real estate investment market is extremely urgent. The purpose of the thesis is to research the relationship between leading index of macro economy prosperity and real estate investment based on the reality. We found that leading indicator Granger causes real estate investment while real estate investment Granger causes leading indicator at the same time. Based on that, this paper also forecasts the real estate investment with VAR models in the following 7 years which was proved to a circle of real estate market. In the light of our research, some target suggestions are pointed out at last.
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Jingying, Shu, and Song Jiawei. "Analysis for Real Estate Investment of China : Based on the Warning System of Monitoring Macro Economy Prosperity." Thesis, KTH, Fastigheter och byggande, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-48749.
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Real estate industry plays a significant role in high speed of economic development in China. However, with increasingly high housing price and scare land resources, real estate development is caught in a vicious circle. A large number of families could not afford their housing while housing prices have no trend to decrease which leads to huger gap between the rich and the poor and causes indirectly instability of society. Therefore, creating a healthy and stable real estate investment market is extremly urgent. The purpose of the thesis is to research the relationship between leading index of macro economy prosperity and real estate investment based on the reality. We found that leading indicator Granger causes real estate investment while real estate investment Granger causes leading indicator at the same time. Based on that, this paper also forecasts the real estate investment with VAR models in the following 7 years which was proved to a circle of real estate market. In the light of our research, some target suggestions are pointed out at last.
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Oliveira, de Souza Alex. "Suivi des effets produits sur le patrimoine architectural par les processus de préservation de secteurs urbains sauvegardés au Brésil : proposition de méthode et test dapplication au cas de São Luís." Thesis, Paris Est, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PEST1119.
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Cette recherche est organisée à partir des réflexions sur la gestion des héritages urbanistique des villes et sur les processus d´apprentissage collectif des lieux, associés à la préservation cognitive et à l´accroissement de durabilité urbaine. Ces réflexions sont transposées et appliquées au processus de préservation des secteurs urbains sauvegardés au Brésil. Ces processus traitent de problèmes superposés, caractérisés par un contrôle institutionnel « figé » et « muséal », par un réinvestissement économique, touristique et culturel ponctuel et dépendant de l´État et par une incapacité de réduire la précarité sociale et la perte graduel du patrimoine bâti. Ces problèmes ne sont pas clairement reconnus par les gestionnaires et encore moins par la société. Une des causes est la non application de la dimension évaluative proposée par les plans de préservation, selon l´orientation de l´IPHAN (Institut du Patrimoine Historique, Artistique National) et le manque d´outils d´aide à la décision adaptés aux secteurs sauvegardés. De ce fait, une méthode de suivi des effets sur le patrimoine architectural produits par le processus de préservation de secteurs urbains sauvegardés a été élaborée. La méthode, appelée SEPPS, est structurée autour de l´articulation entre objectifs de suivi et critères d´observation. Ces derniers sont organisés selon quatre niveaux d´analyse et chacun d'eux est renseigné par trois types d´indicateurs : situation générale, atout et frein. Un test d´application a été réalisé avec la méthode sur le secteur de sauvegarde fédérale de la ville de São Luís. Ce test a montré que la méthode est adaptée au secteur avec leurs repères historiques et géographiques, qu'elle est opérationnelle du point de vue de l´articulation entre les données produites et le calcul des indicateurs et que ses critères sont valides au travers de l´évaluations des acteurs locaux. Les résultats obtenus ont montré que les outils de synthèse permettent une appropriation globale de l´état du processus, en identifiant les critères que présentent les meilleurs niveaux d´atout ou les freins les plus élevés. En outre, la méthode s´est avérée transposables à d'autres sites et facilement adaptable à un système d´informations géographiquesThis research is organized based on some reflections about the management of cities' urban heritages and about the collective cognitive understanding of places. Those questions were associated with the cognitive preservation and with the increase in urban sustainability. Those reflections are transposed and applied to the process of preservation of urban classified sectors in Brazil which deal with overlapping problems. Processes that are characterized by a rigid and museum-like institutional control, and by touristic and cultural economic reinvestments that are themselves isolated and depend on the state. They are also characterized by their inability to reduce the conditions of social precariousness and the gradual loss of the built heritage. Those problems are not clearly recognized by the urban managers and much less by society as a whole. One of the reasons for that is there is no application of the evaluative dimension proposed for the preservation plans according to th e IPHAN (Institute of the historic and artistic national heritage). Another reason is the lack of auxiliary tools that could help the decision making process adapted to the urban classified sectors. Facing these facts, a method was created, in order to monitor the effects of the preservation process of the classified urban sectors on the architectural heritage. This method is called MEPPS. It is organized based on the articulation between monitoring goals and observation criteria. The criteria are organized according to four different levels of analysis. Each one of them is given by three indicators: the one of the general situation; the one of opportunity and the one of constraints. A trial was done with this method in the federal classified area in São Luis. This test showed that the method can be applied to this sector, for it is adequate to the historic and geographic references that value the site. This method is also operational as it allows an easy articulation betwee n the data produced by the monitoring process and the definition of preservation policy. Moreover, its criteria were validated by the local actors. The results show that synthesis tools allow a global comprehension of the process's condition, indicating the criteria that present the best levels of opportunity or the increase in constraints. Moreover, the method showed itself applicable in others sites, as well as easily adaptable to a system of geographic information
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Gadeckienė, Rūta. "Mokomųjų dalykų edukacinės kokybės rodikliai bendrojo lavinimo vidurinėje mokykloje." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2008. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2007~D_20080926_180654-18043.
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Magistro darbe yra suformuluota Lietuvos švietimo sistemos politikos problema – nors švietimo kokybė yra nurodoma kaip vienas iš svarbiausių švietimo politikos prioritetų, nėra vieningo sutarimo, kas yra švietimo kokybė, kokiais kriterijais remiantis matuoti kokybę švietimo sistemoje. Atlikta Lietuvos Respublikos norminių aktų, kuriais vadovaujantis nustatomi švietimo sistemos prioritetai, analizė. Išanalizuoti įvairių Lietuvos ir užsienio autorių teoriniai ir praktiniai darbai, kuriais siekta patikslinti bendrojo lavinimo vidurinės mokyklos švietimo kokybės sampratą. Patvirtinama autorės suformuluota mokslinio darbo hipotezė, kad švietimo kokybei matuoti sukurta Valstybės švietimo stebėsenos rodiklių sistema nepakankamai apima bendrojo lavinimo mokyklos mokomuosius dalykus, be to, mokyklose vykdomas vidaus ir išorės auditas analizuoja mokyklą kaip atskirą švietimo sistemos vienetą, o abiejų tipų audito rezultatai neatsispindi Valstybės švietimo stebėsenos rodiklių sistemoje.
Atsakydama į iškeltus tikslus, autorė formuluoja mokslinio darbo išvadas. Švietimo kokybė – tai visuma požymių, apibūdinančių švietimo įstaigą kaip sudėtinį švietimo sistemos vienetą, kurio kokybišką egzistavimą lemia mokomoji aplinka, mokymo priemonės, kvalifikuoti pedagogai, pamokinė ir popamokinė veikla, moksleivių pasiekimai, mokyklos bendruomenės (tėvų, mokinių, pedagogų ir visuomenės) tarpusavio santykiai, kuriems vertinti pasitelkiamas vidinis vertinimas (savianalizė) ir išorinis (ekspertinis)... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]The following problem of Lithuanian education system policy is enunciated in the master thesis: although the quality of education is referred as one of the most important priorities in the education policy, there is no unanimous agreement about the quality of education itself and the criteria to measure it. The acts of Lithuanian Republic defining the priorities of education system were analyzed. On purpose to specify the conception of quality at secondary school education, the analysis of works by Lithuanian and foreign authors was performed. The hypothesis stated by the author in the study is confirmed. According to the author, the system of education monitoring indicators developed by the state to measure the quality of education is insufficient as far as the subjects at secondary school are concerned. Moreover, the school is analyzed as a separate unit of the education system while the internal and external audit is being accomplished there. Besides, the results of both the internal and external audit are not reflected in the state’s system of education monitoring indicators. According to objects the author proposed to herself, the inferences of the study are drawn. The quality of education is the whole of features, characterizing educational institution as the multiple unit of the education system which existence of quality is referred to teaching and learning environment, instructional aids, qualified educators, school and extra-curricular activities, the achievements... [to full text]
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Miller, Benjamin Verlinden. "The Hydrology of the Carroll Cave-Toronto Springs System: Identifying and Examining Source Mixing through Dye Tracing, Geochemical Monitoring, Seepage Runs, and Statistical Methods." TopSCHOLAR®, 2010. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/216.
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In karst areas relationships between activities occurring on the surface and the overall health of the subsurface environment are often highly interconnected. However, the complex nature of karst flow systems can often make identification of these connections difficult. Carroll Cave, a large stream cave system located in the central Missouri Ozarks, is known for its biological and speleological significance. A dye tracing project to delineate a Carroll Cave recharge area through dye tracing has identified an area of 18.5 km2 which contributes water to the cave. The water from Thunder River within Carroll Cave was positively traced to eight springs of the thirteen springs at a distributary spring system known as Toronto Springs. Through examination of the geochemistry of the individual springs, differences in water chemistry between the various outlets has become evident. Additional work with YSI Sonde dataloggers and consideration of carbonate chemistry relationships has sought to further define the variations in hydrochemical behavior, thus aiding in the discrimination potential spring sources. Primary sources thought to contribute water to the spring system include Carroll Cave and Wet Glaize Creek, with some minor influence from other losing streams in the vicinity. Seepage runs along Wet Glaize Creek have also identified major losing reaches, in close proximity to structural features, which may contribute water to Toronto Springs. Examination of the measured parameters and derived have identified that Carroll Cave and Wet Glaize Creek are the primary end members for Ca2+, Mg2+, HCO3-, specific conductance, and temperature. Using these parameters a two end member mixing model has been developed which describes the mixing zone setting at Toronto Springs and calculates the average proportions of flow contributions by the end members. By using a multi-proxy approach of dye tracing, seepage runs, and geochemistry for the individual springs, the source waters and pathways for the springs at Toronto Springs have been identified.
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Blomqvist, Göran. "De-icing salt and the roadside environment : Air-borne exposure, damage to Norway spruce and system monitoring." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2001. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-3140.
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After decades of investigation, we still have to deal withthe problem of environmental effects of the use of de-icingsalt on roads. Lacking useful indicators of the system, westill do not know the environmental utility of ameliorativemeasures taken. The thesis aims at
i) describing the system of de-icing practices and theirenvironmental effects with special reference to the exposure ofthe roadside environment to air-borne salt and damage to Norwayspruce seedlings and ii) at proposing indicators for afollow-up system. By collecting bulk deposition and relatingthe deposition pattern to factors concerning wind androad-maintenance characteristics, the influence of thesefactors on air-borne exposure is investigated. By exposingNorway spruce (Picea abies(L.) Karst.) seedlings to roadsideconditions the influence ofsalt exposure on the degree ofdamage is investigated. Based on a comparison of severalsystems of monitoring, improvements are suggested by proposingnew indicators for salt use and its environmental effects.
A large part of the salt that is applied on the road surfacewill be transported by air and deposited on the ground in theroadside. While the vast majority of the salt will be depositedwithin some tens of metres of the road, some may still be windtransported several hundred metres away. The wind directionplays an important role for the deposition already at adistance of some ten metres from the road. Wind speedinfluences the distance to which the salt is transported.Chloride concentration in unwashed needles collected after thesalting season is positively related to the bulk deposition ofCl during the exposure. The degree of damage can be describedby a sigmoid curve of response to the Cl concentration inneedles. Improvements to the follow-up system are suggested byproposing indicators of the driving forces, pressures, states,impacts and possible responses as regards the undesired impactson water resources, vegetation and the roadside scenery as asocietal asset.
Keywords:road, de-icing salt, air-borne, environmentalimpact, vegetation damage, Norway spruce, seedling, follow-up,monitoring, indicator
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Webb, Margaret J. "An assessment and review of currently existing databases as a foundation for the monitoring of health status of a population within a defined geographic location /." St. John's, NF : [s.n.], 2001. http://collections.mun.ca/u?/theses,51432.
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Caporuscio, Elizabeth. "EVALUATION OF A SEQUENTIAL POND SYSTEM FOR DETENTION AND TREATMENT OF RUNOFF AT SKYPARK, SANTA'S VILLAGE." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/773.
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Understanding the extent to which human activities impact surface water resources has become increasingly important as both human population growth and related landscape changes impact water quality and quantity across varying geographical scales. Skypark, Santa’s Village is a 233.76-acre tourism-based outdoor recreation area located in Skyforest, California residing within the San Bernardino National Forest. The park is situated at Hooks Creek, the headwaters of the Mojave River Watershed, and is characterized by a diverse landscape that includes forest cover and human development, including impervious surfaces, a restored meadow, and recreational trails. In 2016, Hencks Meadow was considered degraded by human activity and restored by the Natural Resources Conservation Services (NRCS) using best management practices (BMPs) to manage stormwater runoff and mitigate pollutants entering recreational downstream surface water. Three BMP detention basins were constructed to store and improve water quality from stormwater runoff. The purpose of this study is to observe the extent to which the engineered BMP detention basins design were effective in mitigating stormwater pollution from entering Hooks Creek. Over a six to eight month period (January to August), ponds were tested in situ bi-weekly for temperature (ºC), dissolved oxygen (mg/L), pH, turbidity (NTU), conductivity (µS/cm), nitrate (mg/L), and ammonium (mg/L), with additional laboratory tests for total suspended solids (mg/L), total dissolved solids (mg/L), chemical oxygen demand (mg/L), total coliform (MPN/100mL), Escherichia coli (MPN/100mL), and trace metals (µg/L). The results of this study support that the BMP design is improving surface stormwater runoff from impervious surfaces before it enters Hooks Creek. Findings could also promote the design and implementation of stormwater BMP detention basins at other site locations where water degradation is evident. Furthermore, this research can be used to promote the necessary improvement of water quality and quantity on a widespread geographical scale.
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Обайдіку, Августін Рахім, and Augustine Raheem Obaidiku. "Багатофункціональний програмно-апаратний модуль для управління і моніторингу мікроклімату житлового об'єкту." Master's thesis, Тернопільський національний технічний університет імені Івана Пулюя, 2021. http://elartu.tntu.edu.ua/handle/lib/36677.
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Метою кваліфікаційної роботи є розробка програмно-апаратного модуля моніторингу параметрів мікроклімату будівлі та навколишнього середовища.
У роботі були розглянуті теоретичні та практичні аспекти розробки програмно-апаратного модуля для моніторингу параметрів мікроклімату будівлі. Обґрунтовано вибір засобів розробки програмної частини апаратно-програмного комплексу.
В ході даної роботи було розроблено та реалізовано програмно-апаратний модуль для моніторингу параметрів мікроклімату, який без участі людини вимірює температуру навколишнього повітря, відносну вологість і атмосферний тиск.The purpose of the work is to develop a software and hardware module for monitoring of the parameters of the microclimate of the building and the environment. Theoretical and practical aspects of software and hardware module of development for monitoring of building microclimate parameters were considered in the work. The choice of means of software development of the hardware and software complex is substantiated. In the course of this work, a software and hardware module for monitoring of the parameters of the microclimate was developed and implemented, which measures the ambient temperature, relative humidity and atmospheric pressure without human intervention.
LIST OF SYMBOLS 7 INTRODUCTION 8 CHAPTER 1. ANALYSIS OF EXISTING SOFTWARE ADDITIONS FOR MONITORING OF MICROCLIMATE PARAMETERS BUILDINGS 11 1.1. The need to create comfortable indoor conditions 11 1.2. Analysis of existing means of control of climatic indicators indoors 11 1.3. Generalization of analysis results and setting research objectives 14 1.4. Requirements for the software module for monitoring the parameters of the building 14 CHAPTER 2. METHODS AND MEANS OF MEASURING PARAMETERS MICROCLIMATE AND FIELDS OF APPLICATION 16 2.1. Ambient temperature 16 2.2. Relative humidity of ambient air 17 2.3. Atmospheric pressure 19 2.4. Light 20 2.5. Environmental monitoring 20 2.6. “Smart Home” 21 CHAPTER 3. FORMATION OF HARDWARE PLATFORM AND DATA TRANSFER INTERFACES 23 3.1. Temperature and humidity sensor DHT22 23 3.2. Digital temperature sensor DS18B20 24 3.3. Ethernet module WIZnet W5500 26 3.4. Arduino Uno central microcontroller 27 3.5. IEEE 802.11 wireless standard 28 3.6. Inter-Integrated Circuit interface 28 53.7. Single-channel data transmission interface 29 3.8. Construction of hardware and software module 29 3.9. Conclusions to the section 35 CHAPTER 4. DESCRIPTION OF THE SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATION 36 4.1. Software module architecture 36 4.2. MQQT protocol 38 4.3. Development environment for Arduino 44 4.4. MajorDoMo management system 44 4.5. Fibaro control system 45 4.6. Open Remote management system 45 4.7. NetPing management system 45 4.8. Work with the system of monitoring microclimate parameters 46 4.9. Conclusions to the section 50 CHAPTER 5. OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY IN EMERGENCIES 51 5.1. Effects of electromagnetic radiation on the human body 51 5.2. Types of hazards 54 5.3. Road Transport Safety 56 5.4. Conclusions to the section 57 CONCLUSIONS 59 REFERENCES 60 APPENDIX A – PUBLICATIONS 62 APPENDIX B – PROGRAM LISTING 77
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Van, Dyke Jason. "Modeling Behaviour of Damaged Turbine Blades for Engine Health Diagnostics and Prognostics." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/20312.
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The reliability of modern gas turbine engines is largely due to careful damage tolerant design a method of structural design based on the assumption that flaws (cracks) exist in any structure and will continue to grow with usage. With proper monitoring, largely in the form of periodic inspections at conservative intervals reliability and safety is maintained. These methods while reliable can lead to the early retirement of some components and unforeseen failure if design assumptions fail to reflect reality.
With improvements to sensor and computing technology there is a growing interest in a system that could continuously monitor the health of structural aircraft as well as forecast future damage accumulation in real-time.
Through the use of two-dimensional and three-dimensional numerical modeling the initial goals and findings for this continued work include: (a) establishing measurable parameters directly linked to the health of the blade and (b) the feasibility of detecting accumulated damage to the structural material and thermal barrier coating as well as the onset of damage causing structural failure.
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Haro, Monteagudo David. "Methodology for the optimal management design of water resources system under hydrologic uncertainty." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de València, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/45996.
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Un sistema de gestión de sequías apropiado requiere de la anticipación de los posibles
efectos que un episodio de este tipo tenga sobre el sistema de recursos hídricos. Esta tarea sin
embargo resulta más complicada de lo que parece. En primer lugar, debido al alto grado de
incertidumbre existente en la predicción de variables hidrológicas futuras. Y en segundo,
debido al riesgo de sobrerreacción en la activación de medidas de mitigación generando falsa
sensación de escasez, o sequía artificial. A este respecto, los planes especiales de sequía
proveen de herramientas para la gestión eficiente de situaciones con escasez de recursos y la
preparación de cara a futuros eventos. De todos modos, las diferentes estrategias de
operación seguidas en cada sistema de recursos hídricos hacen que las herramientas que en
algunos casos resultaron altamente útiles no lo sean tanto cuando se aplican en sistemas
distintos.
Debido a la falta de tiempo y/o al exceso de confianza en los trabajos realizados por
terceros, con excelentes resultados en sus respectivos casos, a veces se cae en el error de
implementar metodologías no del todo apropiadas en sistemas con requisitos completamente
distintos. El desarrollo y utilización de metodologías generalizadas aplicables a diferentes
sistemas y capaces de proporcionar resultados adaptados a cada caso es, por tanto, muy
deseable. Este es el caso de las herramientas de modelación de sistemas de recursos hídricos
generalizadas. Estas permiten homogeneizar los procesos mientras siguen siendo los
suficientemente adaptables para proporcionar resultados apropiados para cada caso de
estudio.
Esta tesis presenta una serie de herramientas destinadas a avanzar en el análisis y
comprensión de los sistemas de recursos hídricos, haciendo énfasis en la prevención de
sequías y la gestión de riesgos. Las herramientas desarrolladas incluyen: un modelo de
optimización generalizado para esquemas de recursos hídricos, con capacidad para la
representación detallada de cualquier sistema de recursos hídricos, y una metodología de
análisis de riesgo basada en la optimización de Monte Carlo con múltiples series sintéticas. Con
estas herramientas es posible incluir tanto la componente superficial como la subterránea del
sistema estudiado dentro del proceso de optimización. La optimización está basada en la
resolución iterativa de redes de flujo. Se probó la consistencia y eficiencia de diferentes
algoritmos de resolución para encontrar un balance entre la velocidad de cálculo, el número
de iteraciones, y la consistencia de los resultados, aportando recomendaciones para el uso de
cada algoritmo dadas las diferencias entre los mismos.
Las herramientas desarrolladas se aplican en dos casos de estudio reales en la
evaluación y posibilidad de complementación de los sistemas de monitorización y alerta
temprana de sequías existentes en los mismos. En el primer caso, se propone un enfoque
alternativo para la monitorización de la sequía en el sistema de operación anual del río Órbigo
(España), complementándolo con la utilización de la metodología de análisis de riesgo. En el
segundo caso, las herramientas se emplean en un sistema con una estrategia de operación
completamente distinta. Se estudia como el análisis de riesgo de la gestión óptima puede
ayudar a la activación anticipada de los escenarios de sequía en los sistemas de los ríos Júcar y
Turia, cuya operación es hiperanual. En esta ocasión, el sistema de indicadores existente goza
de una gran confianza por parte de los usuarios. La metodología de análisis de riesgo es, sin
embargo, capaz de anticipar los eventos de sequía con mayor alarma, aspecto que es deseable
si se quiere evitar que los episodios en desarrollo vayan a más. En ambos casos se muestra
como la evaluación anticipada de las posibles situaciones futuras del sistema permiten una
definición confiable de los escenarios de sequía con suficiente antelación para la activación
efectiva de medidas de prevención y/o mitigación en caso de ser necesarias.
La utilización de indicadores provenientes de modelos frente a indicadores basados en
datos observados es complementaria y ambos deberían utilizarse de forma conjunta para
mejorar la gestión preventiva de los sistemas de recursos hídricos. El empleo de modelos de
optimización en situaciones de incertidumbre hidrológica es muy apropiado gracias a la no
necesidad de definir reglas de gestión para obtener los mejores resultados del sistema, y
teniendo en cuenta que las reglas de operación habituales pueden no ser completamente
adecuadas en estas ocasiones.Haro Monteagudo, D. (2014). Methodology for the optimal management design of water resources system under hydrologic uncertainty [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/45996
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Grimm, Sylvia Christina de Andrade. "Potencialidades e alcances do monitoramento como ferramenta de gestão da saúde." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/6/6135/tde-29032016-135118/.
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No Brasil, a construção bem como as mudanças nos mais de vinte anos do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) tem demandado um crescente interesse em estratégias que valorizem o uso da informação em saúde. Cada vez mais as incertezas entre a complexidade deste sistema e as intervenções necessárias para atender os seus preceitos e as necessidades da população precisam de respostas ágeis e efetivas. A efetividade dos serviços e a equidade em sua prestação são cruciais na atenção à saúde e mostram-se como desafio frente à dificuldade de avaliação dos resultados das ações pela demora no impacto nos indicadores epidemiológicos clássicos. O monitoramento é uma prática que pode ser destacada pela agilidade nas respostas, porém é nítido o quanto a discussão sobre o assunto é pouco estabelecida na literatura disponível. Se apresenta como uma prática interativa e proativa que utiliza informações disponíveis com o potencial de organizar e divulgar rapidamente as descobertas feitas, gerar um aprendizado organizacional e apoiar o processo decisório. A proposta deste estudo considerou o Painel de Monitoramento da Secretaria Municipal da Saúde de São Paulo como ponto de partida para pesquisar sobre as potencialidades do monitoramento na gestão. Uma pesquisa de métodos mistos foi a opção metodológica para este trabalho que buscou aprofundar o marco referencial teórico sobre monitoramento, descrever e analisar criticamente as referências técnicas utilizadas para a construção da proposta e realizar um estudo de caso único em território descentralizado do município de São Paulo sobre a rotina local na sua utilização e com isso analisar as potencialidades e os alcances desta experiência na gestão municipal. Concluiu-se que o monitoramento por meio de indicadores selecionados a partir de dados secundários é uma estratégia oportuna de acompanhar a tendência de determinadas ações possibilitando assim a emissão de juízo de valor e tomada de decisão com rapidez. O aplicativo propicia aos gestores e técnicos informações relevantes que apoiam o processo decisório, além de possibilitar a sua utilização em diferentes contextos da gestão e portes territoriais. Por outro lado, a prática cotidiana é pautada por prioridades normativas, onde a precisão do registro, a coerência das fontes e a quantidade apontada sobrepõem-se à informação em si, o seu significado e as ações necessárias para o enfrentamento dos problemas. O uso da informação é cultura em construção e o Painel de Monitoramento traz a possibilidade de organizar, qualificar e difundir dados secundários dos diferentes sistemas de informação do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS). Além disso, tem contribuído também no papel de fomentar as discussões sobre os diferentes temas que envolvem as prioridades de uma gestão em todos os níveis do sistema de saúde do município de São Paulo.In Brazil, construction and changes in more than twenty years of the Unified Health System (SUS) has demanded an increasing interest in strategies to enhance the use of health information. Increasingly, uncertainties between the complexity of this system and the interventions required to meet its precepts and the population\'s needs require agile and effective responses. The effectiveness of services and equity in its provision are crucial in health care and shows up as large challenge facing the difficulty of effective evaluation of this attention for the delay in the impact on classical epidemiological indicators. Monitoring is a practice that can be highlighted by the responsiveness, but it is clear how the discussion on the subject not yet established in the available literature. It is presented as an interactive and proactive practice using information available with the potential to quickly organize and disseminate discoveries made, generate organizational learning and support decision making. This study considered the Monitoring Panel of the Health Department of São Paulo as a starting point to research on the potential monitoring in a management. A survey of mixed methods was the method chosen for this work that sought to deepen the theoretical framework on monitoring, review and critically analyze the theoretical foundations of tool construction and conduct a case study in a decentralized space in São Paulo on the routine site on its use and thus evaluate the potential and scope of this experience in municipal management. It was concluded that monitoring through indicators from secondary data is an agile strategy to follow the trend of certain actions thus enabling value-issue and decision making quickly. The application provides managers and technical relevant information supporting the decisionmaking process, and enable its use in different areas of management and territorial sizes. On the other hand, everyday practice is still guided by normative priorities, where the accuracy of the record, the consistency of sources, pointed amount, overrides the information itself, its meaning and the necessary actions to face the problems. The use of information is culture construction and Monitoring Panel brings the ability to organize, disseminate and qualify secondary data from different information systems of the National Health System (SUS). Moreover, it has also contributed in part to encouraging discussions on the different issues involving the priorities of management at all levels of the São Paulo municipal health system.
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Anderson, Lakin. "Measuring Sustainable Cities: An approach for assessing municipal-level sustainability indicator systems in Sweden." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-209524.
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It is now common for managers, strategists, planners and citizens at municipality level to use sustainable development indicators (SDI) to help them work towards sustainable development. SDI constitute an information system for monitoring, reporting and decision-making which in theory should help us decide how to intervene in natural, economic, social and political systems for a better, more sustainable future. But not all indicator systems are created equal. Some are better tools than others when it comes to helping cities and municipalities in their work, and thousands of municipalities use SDI worldwide. How then should we assess the effectiveness of existing indicators for municipalities? To answer this question I develop an approach for assessing the edesign, creation and communication of existing, in-use SDI, and then apply it in a case study in Falun Municipality in Dalarna County, Sweden. The approach assesses five aspects of SDI: ‘Vision’, ‘Framework’, ‘Indicator Selection’, ‘Stakeholder Participation’ and ‘Communication’. The findings in Falun suggest that SDI have been essential to the implementation of sustainable development in policy and action in general municipal operations, but the municipality has not moved beyond a ‘conventional’ sustainable development vision and monitoring strategy. The benefits and constraints of the current indicator system are then discussed using the above approach, and the thesis finishes by offering suggestions for the municipality going forward. I also point to the need to develop a standardised assessment method for thousands of municipalities using indicator systems used today, to help in ongoing review and improvement of SDI in practice.
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Minier, Nicolas. "Implementing Performance Measurement to support Continuous Improvement : An empirical case study in construction industry." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Kvalitetsteknik, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-110860.
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Performance Measurement is necessary in order to support the implementation of a Continuous Improvement approach within a company. Performance Measurement has been a subject of increasing interest for researchers and practitioners. The questions addressed in the literature especially evolved from “what” to measure to “how” to measure. The present thesis follows this evolution by exploring how companies can successfully implement Performance Measurement. The thesis follows a parallel research design including a literature review and a case study. From one side, a literature review aims at explaining the main theories behind Performance Measurement, such as the concept of Performance Measurement System, as well as giving some recommendation for its implementation. On the other side, an empirical case study, conducted in a construction industry company, presents a practical implementation of Performance Measurement including some of the indicators dashboards built in several factories and departments of the company. The results of this case study are also supported by several interviews conducted at different steps of the implementation with the different actors involved. Then a theoretical verification is conducted by comparing the theory from the literature review with the empirical results from the case study. It especially allows to verify some recommendations as well as to identify a few gaps. The results of this study can be seen as a set of verified recommendations in order to successfully implement Performance Measurement within a company. These recommendations come from the comparison between theory and practice and they are divided in three main parts: the Key Performance Indicators identification, the Performance Measurement System design, and the practical implementation of Performance Measurement. Regarding this last part, five key success factors (e.g. perceived benefits of performance measurement, top management commitment) and five barriers (e.g. time and effort required, human behaviour) have been verified. Moreover, some Performance Measurement issues are discussed, such as the reduction of the complexity, the potential gaps between local approaches and global consistency, as well as the concept of organisational learning. Finally, the thesis identifies three kinds of trade-offs (e.g. accuracy of the data and cost of collection) that need to be considered when implementing Performance Measurement.
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Alexander, J. R. "Community indicators: development, monitoring and reporting." Lincoln University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10182/1164.
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The New Zealand Government is striving to improve the way it measures progress and plans for change in an integrated ‘whole of government’ manner. The Local Government Act 2002 serves to strengthen participatory democracy and community governance. Under the Act, local authorities are charged with monitoring, and, not less than once every three years, reporting on the progress made by the community in achieving its outcomes for the district or region. These outcomes belong to the community and encompass what the community considers important to progress towards. Indicators that measure economic, social, environmental, cultural and democratic progress at local level are a primary tool that local authorities use to measure the progress towards their desired outcomes. To successfully track progress, it is important that indicators are technically sound and reflect the values of the entire community. The monitoring of indicators is expected to be ongoing and participatory. The New Zealand Government has leant heavily towards a decentralised locally driven approach to community indicators. The purpose of this study was to explore the manner in which different local authorities have undertaken community indicator: development, monitoring and reporting. This was undertaken through a two pronged approach: 1). A scoping exercise assessing the contents of eighteen local authority LTCCPs, 2). In-depth case studies of community indicator programmes of five of the eighteen local authorities. It was found that the approaches used to develop, monitor and report community indicators ranged abruptly across local authorities. Some councils appear to have relatively robust and meaningful indicator processes in place, which are both technically sound and have gained representative community input. In contrast, other councils hold a compliance mentality towards community indicators and have done the bare minimum when designing their indicator frameworks. These frameworks have tended to be council dominated with few opportunities for community involvement. In addition to this, local authorities poorly communicated indicators through their LTCCPs. The inadequate information detailing indicators processes is unlikely to both educate and promote community buy-in. Councils must place greater emphasis on the engagement of the entire community including other governmental departments, to ensure that indicators are relevant and meaningful for all. Consistency across local authority indicator frameworks will also help to ensure that all local authorities are working in an integrated manner towards the common goal of improving community well-being. Initiatives such as the Linked indicators Project and the Quality of Life Project are possible methods of ensuring consistent indicator frameworks. Finally, councils must provide greater information about community indicators within their LTCCPs.
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Шевченко, Валентина Володимирівна. "Науково-технічні засади підтримки конкурентоспроможності турбогенераторів і забезпечення їхньої ефективної роботи при тривалій експлуатації." Thesis, Національний технічний університет "Харківський політехнічний інститут", 2020. http://repository.kpi.kharkov.ua/handle/KhPI-Press/48915.
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Дисертація на здобуття вченого ступеня доктора технічних наук. Спеціальність 05.09.01 – Електричні машини і апарати. – Кафедра електричних машин Національного технічного університету "Харківський політехнічний інститут", Харків, 2020. Дисертація присвячена науково-прикладної проблеми забезпечення надійної роботи сучасних ТГ на блоках ТЕС і АЕС, дослідженню особливостей роботи ТГ, які протягом тривалого часу перебувають в експлуатації, продовженню термінів їх експлуатації, підвищенню конкурентоспроможності нових ТГ на світовому ринку. Розроблені наукові концепції, що підтверджують перспективність виконання робіт з вдосконалення ТГ з урахуванням загальносвітових екологічних проблем, активного розвитку і зна-чною державної підтримки відновлюваних джерел енергії. З використанням теорії цик-лічного розвитку встановлено, що для України є перспективним стабілізаційне-стагнаційний сценарій, який передбачає подальше вдосконалення і розвиток теплової електроенергетики (ТЕС і АЕС), вдосконалення і підвищення потужності ТГ. Проведено комплекс досліджень щодо вдосконалення ТГ: підвищення потужності в одиниці виконання, зниження їх масогабаритних показників, вдосконалення систем охолодження, використання нових технологій і матеріалів. Складена структурно-логічна схема виконання робіт з підтримки науково-технічної конкурентоспроможності вітчизняних ТГ з урахуванням технічного рівня заводу-виробника і технічних можливостей супутніх галузей в напрямках зменшення питомої маси ТГ, заміни водневої системи охолодження на повітряну, збільшення потужності нових ТГ в одиниці виконання і потужності ТГ, що вже працюють на блоках електростанцій, без зміни габаритів. Доведе-на необхідність під час визначення черговості включення ТГ в енергосистему враховувати не тільки собівартість електроенергії, але і дані їх стану, а також те, що підтриму-вати номінальні параметри енергосистеми України доцільно турбогенераторами поту-жністю 200-300 МВт, встановленими на ТЕС, і використання для такого регулювання турбогенераторів АЕС неприпустимо. Виконано порівняння і показано наскільки і чому вітчизняні ТГ поступаються за питомою масою ТГ провідних світових фірм, чому вони важче зарубіжних аналогів. Вирішення цих питань дозволяє підвищити надійність ТГ, які тривалий час в експлуатації, і дозволяє впроваджувати перспективні рішення для підтримки конкурентоспроможності вітчизняних ТГ на світовому ринку. Запропонована методика комплексного системного контролю стану ТГ в період тривалої експлуатації з урахуванням особливостей режимів роботи енергетичних мереж і переході до проведення ремонтів по фактичному стану, а не за графіком планово-попереджувальних ремонтів. Запропоновані і обґрунтовані напрями зниження масогабаритних показників ТГ шляхом використання більш перспективних технологій, стандартних профілів і нових матеріалів при проведенні робіт з вдосконалення їх неактивної зони. Проаналізоване розвиток, стан і перспективи підвищення надійності систем охолодження, запропоновані напрями створення і діагностики сучасних охолоджувачів. Розроблено та науково обґрунтований метод контролю стану ТГ в режимі on-line, запропоновано вважати найбільш інформативним показником рівень вібрації, що скорочує необхідну додаткову кількість каналів контролю і знижує навантаження на операторів блоків електростанцій. Отримані в роботі наукові результати базуються на експериментальних даних, що були отримані при сервісному обслуговуванні і проведенні ремонтів ТГ на блоках електростанцій України та інших країн. Розглянуті проблеми і запропоновані напрямки поліпшення професійної підготовки робітників ТЕС і АЕС, визначені шляхи підвищення їхньої економічної зацікавленості для утримання в націо-нальній електроенергетиці.The thesis is submitted for the academic degree of doctor of technical sciences. Specialty 05.09.01 – Electrical machines and apparatuses. – Department of Electrical Machines of National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute", Kharkov, 2020. The dissertation is devoted to the scientific and applied problem of ensuring reliable operation of modern turbogenerators (TG) at thermal and nuclear power plants (TPP and NPP) units, research of TG features, which are in operation for a long time, extension of their operation, increasing the competitiveness of new TG on the world market. Scientific concepts have been developed that confirm the prospects for the implementation of work to improve TG, taking into account global environmental problems, active development and significant government support for renewable energy sources. Using the theory of cyclical development, it is established that for Ukraine is a promising stabilization and stagnation scenario, which provides for further improvement and development of thermal power plants (TPP and NPP), improvement and increase of TG capacity. A set of studies was carried out to improve the TG: increase of capacity in unit of execution, decrease in their mass and size indicators, improvement of cooling systems, use of new technologies and materials. Taking into account the technical level of the manufacturer and the technical capabilities of related industries, a structural and logical scheme of work to maintain scientific and technical competitiveness of domestic TGs was drawn up. The research was performed to reduce the specific weight of TG, to replace the hydrogen cooling system with air, to increase the capacity of new TG and TG already operating at power plants. At the same time there was a requirement to preserve the dimensions. Proven need to take into account not only the cost of electricity, but also data on their condition in determining the order of inclusion of TG in the power system. It is proved that it is expedient to maintain the nominal parameters of the power system of Ukraine with turbo-generators with a capacity of 200-300 MW, which are installed at thermal power plants. The use of NPP turbogenerators for such regulation is unacceptable. A comparison is made and it is shown to what extent and why domestic turbogenerators are inferior in specific weight to t TGs of the world's leading companies, why they are heavier than foreign counterparts. The decision of these questions allows to increase TG reliability which are in operation for a long time, allows to implement perspective decisions for maintenance of competitiveness of domestic TGs in the world market. A method of complex system monitoring of turbogenerators, which have been operating at power plants for a long time, was proposed. The method took into account the peculiarities of the turbogenerators on the modern power grid and the transition to repairs on the actual condition, rather than on the schedule of planned and preventive repairs. The directions of reduction of mass-dimensional indicators of turbogenerators by means of improvement of their inactive zone are offered and proved. To do this, it is pro-posed to use more promising technologies, standard profiles and new materials. The development, condition and prospects of increase of reliability of cooling systems are analyzed; the directions of creation and diagnostics of modern coolers are offered. Developed and scientifically substantiated method of monitoring the state of TG in the on-line mode; it is proposed to consider the level of vibration as the most informative indicator; this reduces the required additional number of control channels and reduces the load on power plant operators. The scientific results obtained in this work are based on experimental data obtained during service and repairs of turbogenerators at power plants in Ukraine and other countries. Problems are considered and directions of improvement of professional training of workers of TPP and NPP are offered, ways of increase of their economic interest for maintenance in the national electric power industry are defined.
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Gonçalves, Diego Lustre. "Monitoramento de áreas de proteção ambiental através de indicadores de sustentabilidade." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8135/tde-20052015-150145/.
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O sucesso da gestão de uma Área de Proteção Ambiental é algo impreciso e de difícil classificação. APAs são Unidades de Conservação de Uso Sustentável que integram tanto áreas públicas quanto privadas em seu território. Visam tanto à conservação e manejo de seus recursos naturais como melhoria da qualidade de vida da população que ali vive. Além disso, trata-se de UCs carentes de mecanismos de monitoramento e relativamente desvalorizadas no âmbito científico e da gestão pública. Entendendo que as APAs seguem os pressupostos do conceito de Desenvolvimento Sustentável (DS), buscamos nos chamados indicadores de sustentabilidade uma possibilidade de mensuração de sua gestão. Tendo a Teoria Geral dos Sistemas como principal embasamento teórico, procuramos analisar as APAs sob um olhar sistêmico. Utilizando como procedimentos metodológicos a pesquisa bibliográfica e a pesquisa experimental, buscamos exemplos sobre modelos existentes e integração destes com as características singulares às APAs. Assim, foram obtidas variáveis de análise sistêmicas e estruturais com as quais foi possível definir forma, estrutura e processos do Sistema APA. Como resultado, construímos um modelo prévio ou esboço metodológico para o monitoramento da gestão de APAs com vistas em atingir o DS. Esse modelo faz uso de indicadores de sustentabilidade que abrangem as dimensões ambiental, econômica, social e de gestão. Através de pesquisa empírica procuramos testar o modelo na APA Capivari-Monos, localizada no extremo sul da Cidade de São Paulo, na qual foram construídos indicadores de forma participativa através do Conselho Gestor da APA. Os resultados obtidos, embora com certa carga de subjetividade, apontam tendência preocupante, cujas causas extrapolam a própria gestão recaindo sobre as responsabilidades dos órgãos públicos executores de políticas públicas. Espera-se que o modelo proposto possa ser testado em outras condições e reproduzido em outras APAs.The successful management of an Environmental Protection Area is somewhat unclear and difficult to classify. APAs are Conservation Units of Sustainable Use comprising both public and private areas in their territory. Target both the conservation and management of natural resources such as improving the quality of life of people living there. Furthermore, it is deprived of CUs monitoring mechanisms and relatively undervalued in the scientific and public management. Understanding that EPAs follow the assumptions of the concept of Sustainable Development (SD), we seek the one called sustainability indicators measurability of its management. Having the General Systems Theory as a primary theoretical basis, we analyzed the EPAs under a systemic perspective. Using as methodological instruments the literature and experimental research, we seek examples of existing models and integrating these with the unique characteristics to EPAs. Thus, systemic and structural variables were obtained in which was possible to define the form, structure and processes of the \"EPA System\". As a result, we construct a prior model or methodological outline for monitoring the management of APAs with a view to achieving the SD. This model makes use of sustainability indicators covering environmental, economic, social and manegement dimensions. Through empirical research attempted to test the model in EPA Capivari- Monos, located at the southern end of the City of São Paulo, in which indicators were constructed in a participatory manner through the Management Council of the EPA. The results, though with a certain load of subjectivity, point worrying trend, the causes go beyond the management itself falling on the responsibilities of public agencies executing public policy. It is expected that the proposed model can be tested in other conditions and reproduced other EPAs.
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Viljoen, Francois. "Sustainability indicators for monitoring tourism route development in Africa." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/729.
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Антонюк, Наталія Анатоліївна, Наталия Анатольевна Антонюк, Nataliia Anatoliivna Antoniuk, Ірина Йосипівна Плікус, Ирина Иосифовна Пликус, Iryna Yosypivna Plikus, and А. Myronova. "Indicators of financial system security." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2020. https://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/81036.
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У статті розглянуто показники безпеки фінансової системи.В статье рассмотрены показатели безопасности финансовой системы.
The article discusses the indicators of the security of the financial system.
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Карінцева, Олександра Іванівна, Александра Ивановна Каринцева, Oleksandra Ivanivna Karintseva, Олена Василівна Шкарупа, Елена Васильевна Шкарупа, and Olena Vasylivna Shkarupa. "Sustainable development indicators founding system." Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2004. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/22926.
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Ratecki, Tomasz. "Fatigue Monitoring System." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2010. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1141.
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This work provides an innovative solution for monitoring fatigue for users behind workstations. A web camera was adjusted to work in near infrared range and a system of 880 nm IR diodes was implemented to create an IR vision system to localize and track the eye pupils. The software developed monitors and tracks eyes for signs of fatigue by measuring PERCLOS. The software developed runs on the workstation and is designed to draw limited computational power, so as to not interfere with the user task. To overcome low-frame rate imposed by the hardware limitations and to improve real time monitoring, two-phases detection and tacking algorithm is implemented. The proposed system successfully monitors fatigue at a rate of 8 fps. The system is well suited to monitor users in command centers, flight control centers, airport traffic dispatches, military operation and command centers, etc., but the work can be extended to wearable devices and other environments.
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Ozmen, Teoman. "Gas Turbine Monitoring System." Master's thesis, METU, 2006. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12607957/index.pdf.
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In this study, a new gas turbine monitoring system being able to carry out appropriate run process is set up for a gas turbine with 250 kW power rating and its accessories. The system with the mechanical and electrical connections of the required sub-parts is transformed to a kind of the test stand. Performance test result calculation method is described. In addition that, performance evaluation software being able to apply with the completion of the preliminary performance tests is developed for this gas turbine.
This system has infrastructure for the gas turbine sub-components performance and aerothermodynamics research. This system is also designed for aviation training facility as a training material for the gas turbine start and run demonstration. This system provides the preliminary gas turbine performance research requirements in the laboratory environment.
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Raj, Kolupula Yuva Deva. "Chromatic Particulate Monitoring System." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.526954.
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Miller, Allan J. V. "Power system harmonic monitoring." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/6043.
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This thesis documents the design details, development, and field testing of an advanced power system harmonic monitor. It begins by reviewing present harmonic standards and harmonic monitoring equipment. It then goes on to describe the design and field use of the first generation harmonic monitor. From the field use a number of problems with this monitor are identified leading to the second generation harmonic monitor known as CHART II. The acronym CHART means Continuous Harmonic Analysis in Real-Time. The design of the monitor including the data acquisition and computer processing equipment, as well as the display system, is such that it can acquire multiple channels of power system signals from remote locations. It can compute the harmonics of these signals continuously on a cycle-by-cycle basis, and store only the harmonics of interest. Harmonic computation is performed in real-time, with results displayed as they occur. Acquired data can be accurately time stamped for comparison with data from other monitoring sites, enabling simultaneous measurement at remote locations. The key areas of technology involved in implementing such an instrumentation system are: data acquisition from power system equipment, digital fibre optics, real-time digital signal processing, high speed multiprocessing bus systems, real-time multitasking operating systems, global positioning satellite systems, and computer networking. The application of digital signal processing to power system harmonic measurement is covered, and a field trial with the CHART II monitor is documented.
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Wang, Fa-Liang. "Blood pressure monitoring system /." Online version of thesis, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11172.
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Anthony, Brian W. 1972. "Video based system monitoring." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/38263.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2006.Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-216).
In this work we develop new algorithms for video comparison, for video alignment, and for determining the similarity between entire video clips or detecting similarities between sub-videos. The intent of this work is to develop video-based techniques for autonomous monitoring of systems in industrial, manufacturing, and research environments. We develop an algorithm, Dynamic Time and Space Warping, to determine a model-free similarity between an example and an unknown video. The algorithm optimally shifts space and warps time according to local measures of video similarity. The resulting similarity measure is an optimal path of similarity versus space and time used to optimally align or compare the two video. We demonstrate the applicability of such similarity measures to industrial wear monitoring, failure prediction, and assembly-line feedback control and to non-industrial settings with examples in sports and entertainment. We extend the similarity machinery and introduce a new technique for video event-detection. The local similarity is integrated along the optimal space-time path in order to determine a cumulative similarity.
(cont.) We demonstrate the applicability to content query and surveillance; we identify the temporal and spatial location inside of a large video stream which is similar to a query, or template, video. We explore applications in video classification. We investigate the performance degradation and robustness of the algorithms to noise via distortion of real examples and simulation. We develop techniques to aid engineers in the selection of a video template that is relevant to their monitoring application and locally robust to noise. We explore the structure and computational complexity of the algorithms. We demonstrate that the algorithms are highly-parallelizable and that the fast processing rates necessary for many industrial monitoring applications are achievable.
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Cooke, Richard David. "An intelligent monitoring system." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2000. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.399128.
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Ashwear, Nasseradeen. "Vibration Frequencies as Status Indicators for Tensegrity Structures." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Strukturmekanik, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-145164.
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Applications of vibration structural health monitoring (VHM) techniques are increasing rapidly. This is because of the advances in sensors and instrumentation during the last decades. VHM uses the vibration properties to evaluate many civil structures during the design steps, building steps and service life. The stiffness and frequencies of tensegrity structures are primarily related to the level of pre-stress. The present work investigates the possibilities to use this relation in designing, constructing and evaluating the tensegrity structures. The first part of the present work studies the improvement of current models for resonance frequency simulation of tensegrities by introducing the bending behaviour of all components, and by a one-way coupling between the axial force and the stiffness. From this, both local and global vibration modes are obtained. The resonance frequencies are seen as non-linearly dependent on the pre-stress level in the structure, thereby giving a basis for diagnosis of structural conditions from measured frequencies. The new aspects of tensegrity simulations are shown for simple, plane structures but the basic methods are easily used also for more complex structures. In the second part, the environmental temperature effects on vibration properties of tensegrity structures have been investigated, considering primarily seasonal temperature differences (uniform temperature differences). Changes in dynamic characteristics due to temperature variations were compared with the changes due to decreasing pre-tension in one of the cables. In general, it is shown that the change in structural frequencies made by temperature changes could be equivalent to the change made by damage (slacking). Different combinations of materials used and boundary conditions are also investigated. These are shown to have a significant impact on the pre-stress level and the natural frequencies of the tensegrity structures when the environment temperature is changed.Användandet av vibrationsbaserade hälsokontrollsmetoder (VHM) för strukturer ökar snabbt.Detta har möjliggjorts av utvecklingen inom mätmetoder och mätutrus- tning under de senaste decennierna.Dessa metoder använder sig av de uppmätta eller simulerade vibrationsegenskaperna underdesign-, uppbyggnads- och nyttjandestadierna hos många slag av byggnadsverk. Styvheten och resonansfrekvenserna hos tensegritets-strukturer är i hög grad beroendepå den aktuella förspänningsnivån. Föreliggande arbete undersöker möjlig- heterna attanvända detta beroende i konstruktion, byggande och utvärdering av sådana strukturer. Den första delen av föreliggande arbete studerar förbättringar av de vanligen användamodellerna för simulering av resonansfrekvenser hos tensegritetsstrukturergenom att införa de ingående komponenternas böjningsegenskaper, och genom att i enriktning koppla normalkraften till böjstyvheten. Genom detta kan såväl lokala som globalavibrationsmoder hittas. Resonansfrekvenserna ses därmed som icke-linjärt beroende avförspänningsnivån i strukturen. Detta ger därmed möjligheter att diagnosticera strukturenskondition från uppmätta frekvenser. De nya simuleringsmöjligheternademonstreras för enkla, plana strukturer, men de utvecklade metoderna kan också lättanpassas till mera komplexa fall. Den andra delen av arbetet undersöker hur strukturernas vibrationsegenskaper ärberoende på temperatureffekter i omgivningen. I första hand beaktas säsongsvisa (likformiga)temperaturvariationer. Förändringar i de dynamiska egenskaperna beroende påtemperaturförändringar jämfördes med dem som beror på en minskande förspänning hos någonav de ingående kablarna. I allmänhet gäller att förändringarna i resonansfrekvenser kanvara av samma storleksordning som de som beror på skador (minskad förspänning).Olika kombinationer av material, och olika upplagsförhållanden undersöktes.Dessa egenskaper visades ha en betydande effekt på förspänningsnivån, och därmed ocksåpå resonansfrekvenserna, hos tensegritets-strukturerna som utsätts för temperaturvariationer.
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Poppleton, Lawrence. "Qualitative social inquiry and state of the environment reporting : can qualitative social inquiry make a contribution to the state of the environment reporting? /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1998. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ENV/09envp831.pdf.
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Kieninger, Jochen [Verfasser], and Gerald A. [Akademischer Betreuer] Urban. "Electrochemical microsensor system for cell culture monitoring = Elektrochemisches Mikrosensor-System zum Zellkultur-Monitoring." Freiburg : Universität, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1114995657/34.
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Johari, Shirazi Iman. "Combining Business Intelligence, Indicators, and the User Requirements Notation for Performance Monitoring." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23540.
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Organizations use Business Intelligence (BI) systems to monitor how well they are meeting
their goals and objectives. Yet, very often BI systems do not include clear models of
the organization’s goals or of how to measure whether they are satisfied or not. Several
researchers now attempt to integrate goal models into BI systems, but there are still major
challenges related to how to get access to the BI data to populate the part of the goal
model (often indicators) used to assess goal satisfaction.
This thesis explores a new approach to integrate BI systems with goal models. In
particular, it explores the integration of IBM Cognos Business Intelligence, a leading BI
tool, with an Eclipse-based goal modeling tool named jUCMNav. jUCMNav is an open
source graphical editor for the User Requirements Notation (URN), which includes the
Use Case Map notation for scenarios and processes and the Goal-oriented Requirement
Language for business objectives. URN was recently extended with the concept of Key
Performance Indicator (KPI) to enable performance assessment and monitoring of business
processes. In jUCMNav, KPIs are currently calculated or modified manually. The
new integration proposed in this thesis maps these KPIs to report elements that are generated
automatically by Cognos based on the model defined in jUCMNav at runtime, with
minimum effort. We are using IBM Cognos Mashup Service, which includes web services
that enable the retrieval of report elements at the most granular level. This transformation
provides managers and analysts with useful goal-oriented and process-oriented
monitoring views fed by just-in-time BI information. This new solution also automates
retrieving data from Cognos servers, which helps reducing the high costs usually caused
by the amount of manual work required otherwise.
The novel approach presented in this thesis avoids manual report generation and
minimizes any contract with respect to the location of manually created reports, hence
leading to better usability and performance. The approach and its tool support are illustrated
with an ongoing example, validated with a case study, and verified through testing.
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Costanzo, Simon. "Development of indicators for assessing and monitoring nutrient influences in coastal waters /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2001. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe16274.pdf.
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Kocha, Jahnavi. "A Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Uranium Concentrations at the Abandoned New Hope Method Mine in the Mojave Desert." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2237.
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The impacts of mining are easily observable in the way they alter the terrain of landscapes, displace animals, and increase waste accumulation in an area. An unobservable impact and one that lasts a long time is by radioactive exposure in the environment. Specifically, this is a risk at uranium (U) mine sites which are expanding in number to accommodate the world’s growing energy needs, and even to accommodate weapons manufacturing. This paper analyses the impacts of an abandoned uranium mine on the local environment through measurements of Uranium concentration in soil, plants, and rocks. Transect sampling was used to collect 22 soil samples and 17 plant samples between 5 and 100m of the mine shaft. Uranium concentrations in soil and plant samples, digested with nitric acid, were measured with an Inductively Coupled Plasma - Optical Emission Spectrometry (ICP-OES), and an X-ray Powder Diffraction (XRD) analysis was used to find the mineral contents of the rock samples. Satellite positions were associated with each sample, which allowed an effective spatial analysis of the Uranium concentration values. U values in soil ranged from 0 to 5.291ppm, with mean concentrations of 0.710 ppm, and U values in plants ranged from 0.0323 to 0.1121ppm with mean concentrations of 0.0558 ppm. A paired t-test determined that there was no spatial autocorrelation in U concentrations of plants and adjacent soils. The highest U concentration was found closest to the mine, peaking at ~7.3 meters from the mine, and low spatial variability occurs in U concentrations at greater than 10 meters from the mine. In comparison with other mines internationally, U concentrations at this study site were low, which may be indicative of a small operating mine, efficient clean-up, and transport mechanisms of U in desert environments.
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Kikkert, Lisette. "Gait characteristics as indicators of cognitive impairment in geriatric patients." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018GREAS013/document.
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Le dé cit cognitif est une cause majeure de handicap de la personne âgée. Du fait de l’augmentation de la durée de vie, le nombre de personnes âgées qui pourraient béné cier d’une prise en charge spécialisée dans le but de ralentir leur perte fonctionnelle va croitre. En dépit de traitement validé qui stoppe le processus neurodégénératif, des interventions spéci ques peuvent en ralentir les manifestations. De nombreuses études expérimentales, neuroscienti ques et comportementales ont démontré la relation étroite entre cognition en motricité.Ce travail doctoral propose d’explorer si certaines caractéristiques de la marche sont des biomarqueurs non-invasifs d’un trouble cognitif et des chutes, et de mieux comprendre les relations entre la cognition et le contrôle de la marche. Le cadre théorique était l’hypothèse de la « Perte de Complexité ». Des analyses multivariées ont été appliquées aux critères de jugement dynamiques de marche en relation avec le statut cognitif-et-chute (Le Chapitre 1).Le Chapitre 2 est une revue systématique de la littérature. Nous avons recensé 20 études longitudinales de prédiction de trouble de la marche et de dé cit cognitif. La vitesse de marche était associée à la cognition, son ralentissement était un prédicteur de la perte cognitive. Cette revue a aussi mis en évidence la nécessité d’améliorer la mesure des phénomènes concernésL’objectif du Chapitre 3 était de déterminer ce qu’apportait l’évaluation cognitive (MMSE, mémoire et fonctions exécutives) et des paramètres dynamiques précis de la marche, au bilan habituel du risque de chute. La précision de la classi cation entre chuteurs et non- chuteurs a augmenté avec l’ajout de la cognition et des paramètres de marche de AUC=0.86 à AUC=0.93. La spéci cité du modèle de classi cation a, quant à elle, augmenté de 60% à 72% avec l’ajout des mesures cognitives, et de 72% à 80% avec l’ajout des paramètres dynamiques de la marche. Dans leur ensemble, ces résultats montrent l’intérêt d’une approche multidimensionnelle incluant l’évaluation des fonctions cognitives et de la marche, dans la prédiction du risque de chute chez la personne âgée.Le Chapitre 4 détermine les paramètres de marche les plus associés au déclin cognitif. La vitesse de marche, la régularité, la prévisibilité et la stabilité ont montré que les simples et doubles-tâches étaient les plus discriminantes (score VIP moyen de 1.12). La marche des patients avec troubles cognitifs est plus lente, moins régulière et moins stable que celle de personnes âgées saines. Cependant, les résultats montrent également que la discrimination des patients âgés avec et sans dé cit cognitif, fondée sur l’exploitation des paramètres de marche uniquement, est faible, avec 57% (simple tâche) et 64% (double-tâche) des patients classés de manière erronée.Le Chapitre 5 présente une étude pilote prospective dans laquelle les paramètres de marche les plus discriminants du Chapitre 4 ont été étudiés. Les résultats ont montré qu’un déclin cognitif signi catif observé après 14.4 mois en moyenne était corrélé avec une marche plus régulière (ρ=0.579*) et plus prévisible (ρ=0.486*) mesurée pendent les mesures de ligne de base, mais pas avec la vitesse de marche de la ligne de base (ρ=0.073). Une augmentationde la régularité et de la prévisibilité de la marche est le re et d’une perte de la complexité de la marche, témoin d’une détérioration future des fonctions cognitives chez les patients âgés.Les résultats de ce travail doctoral sont résumés et discutés dans le Chapitre 6The rising life expectancy will result in an increased number of ‘older old adults’ who will need specialized geriatric care to slow functional decline. Cognitive impairment is a major cause of disability in geriatric patients. Even though there is no cure yet to reverse neurodegeneration, tailored interventions can slow disease progression and reduce symptoms. Because of the abundant evidence from experimental, neuroscienti c, and behavioral studies that underscored the close link between motor- and cognitive function, the present thesis proposed to use gait characteristics as non-invasive indicators of cognitive impairment and falls in geriatric patients. The main objective therefore was to increase our understanding of the relationship between gait and cognition in this vulnerable population, in which gait outcomes were calculated from 3D-acceleration signals of the lower trunk that were collected with an iPod Touch 4G. The ‘Loss of Complexity’ hypothesis provided a theoretical framework. Multivariate analyses were applied to dynamic gait outcomes in relation to cognitive- and fall-status (Chapter 1).Chapter 2 presents a systematic literature review including 20 longitudinal studies that examined associations between baseline gait function and future cognitive decline. A slow gait speed was associated with future decline in global cognition and in speci c cognitive functions, and with an increased risk for Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and dementia (maximal odds and hazard ratios of 10.4 and 11.1, respectively) in 4.5 years on average. The review projected that future research could increase the speci city of the gait-cognition link by indexing gait and cognition in more detail.From this perspective, Chapter 3 examined whether an extensive cognitive evaluation (global cognition, memory, and executive functioning) and ne-grained, dynamic gait outcomes could add to a usual fall-risk screening. The overall classi cation accuracy of fallers and non-fallers increased from Area Under the Curve (AUC) =0.86 to AUC=0.93. The speci city of the fall-classi cation model increased from 60% to 72% when cognitive outcomes were added, and from 72% up to 80% when gait dynamics were added to the model. The results underscored the need for a multifactorial approach in fall risk assessment in geriatric patients, including a detailed evaluation of cognitive- and gait function.Chapter 4 explored what gait outcomes are most susceptible to change with cognitive decline, and examined multiple gait outcomes in relation to cognitive impairment. Outcomes related to gait speed, regularity, predictability, and stability revealed with the highest discriminative power, indicated by the Variable Importance in Projection (VIP)-values for single- and dual-tasking (average VIP-score of 1.12, with a VIP-score>1 indicating a high discriminative power). Geriatric patients walked slower, less regular, and less stable than healthy old controls. However, the discrimination of geriatric patients with- and without cognitive impairment based on gait outcomes alone was poor, with 57% (single-task) and 64% (dual-task) of the patients being misclassi ed.In Chapter 5, the gait outcomes with the highest discriminative power in chapter 4 were studied in a prospective pilot study. Signi cant cognitive decline (in global cognition, memory, and executive functioning) over 14.4 months on average correlated with a moreregular (ρ=0.579*) and more predictable (ρ=0.486*) gait at baseline, but not with baseline gait speed (ρ=0.073). The increased gait regularity and predictability re ected a loss of gait complexity and this loss of gait complexity may thus predict future cognitive decline in geriatric patients.The results are summarized and discussed in Chapter 6 of this thesis
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Rodriguez, Wilfrid. "Remote sensing and landscape analysis of indicators of estuarine condition in the Northeastern United States /." View online ; access limited to URI, 2003. http://0-wwwlib.umi.com.helin.uri.edu/dissertations/dlnow/3112127.
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Makvandian, Negar. "Seasonal Affective Disorder Monitoring System." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-199586.
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Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are essential technologies for environmental monitoring. They are composed of small electronic devices, which can monitor, collect and report environmental data autonomously and continuously with respect to energy consumption and accuracy of data. Recently, mobile phones have become integral part of our daily lives. They have been widely used as mobile sensors to monitor the human behaviour and emotion. Mental problem is becoming a global concern in modern society. Some of the psychological problems, such as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), may cause depression and sickness due to the lack of sunlight in long and dark winters. In this master thesis, we design a system, named Seasonal Affective Disorder Monitoring (SADM), to measure human sociability and light exposure to study the SAD psychological problem among people. The goal of this work is to monitor and improve the mental and physical health of people in our society. The system utilizes both stationary sensors and mobile sensors for monitoring light intensity and human activities continuously, which can help us to learn more about their mental and physical health in diff( erent seasons. The results give us a history of the level of the people's activity and also the percentage of light intensity in the environment and light intensity that individuals received in daily life. Using this information, we analyse the relation between human behaviour and seasonal changes.
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Lindstrand, Johan. "System for Mine Prodding Monitoring." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Science and Technology, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-17177.
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Prodding is a procedure which is normally employed in the process of demining. Itis performed by probing the ground in order to detect the presence of sub-surfacemines and/or unexploded ordnances.The Swedish Armed Forces via SWEDEC runs a demining school in Eksjö.The demining school educates personnel from amongst others the Swedish PoliceService and the Swedish Armed Forces in courses involving demining. Prodding isa vital part of their training. The school has experienced problems with teachinggroups of students in prodding. This thesis is a system development of a proddingmonitoring system that will facilitate the teaching of the prodding method bysupervising groups of students individual prodding performances. The monitoringsystem is based on equipping prodders with sensors measuring their motion. Themeasured information is continuously and wirelessly sent from the sensors to asoftware system that visualizes and stores it in a database.
Minpikning är en aktivitet som normalt innefattas som en del av en minröjningsprocess. Minpikning innebär att man lokaliserar landminor eller oexploderad ammunition genom att försiktigt känna sig för i marken med ett spetsigt föremål.
Försvarsmakten driver genom SWEDEC amröjskolan i Eksjö. Amröjskolan utbildar personal från bl.a. polisen och försvarsmakten i kurser rörande minröjning och ammunitionsröjning. Ett vitalt moment i utbildningen är att lära ut minpikning, något som de har upplevt svårigheter att lära ut i grupp. Det här examensarbetet är en systemutveckling av ett övervakningssystem som ska underlätta undervisningen i minpikning genom att övervaka en grupp elevers enskilda minpikningsutföranden. Övervakningssystemet bygger på att utrusta minpikar med sensorer som mäter dess rörelser. Den uppmätta informationen förs kontinuerligt och trådlöst från sensorerna till ett mjukvarusystem som visualiserar samt lagrar den i en databas.
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Williams, Thomas. "Rowing performance monitoring system development." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Engineering, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/6469.
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The aim of this work was to develop sensory devices and data acquisition system to facilitate investigations into the mechanics of the rowing system, comprising the rower(s), boat and oars. As such, the parameters to be measured were: boat and seat position, velocity and acceleration; oar force; foot force; oar angle and rower heart rate.
An oar force sensor was designed that fitted into the cavity of a modified oarlock. This sensor design is cheap, yields sound results and its presence is almost not noticeable to the rower. A review of previously applied methods of oar force measurement, predating 1900, is included.
Foot force is of interest to many different fields of research, thus there is a large amount of literature on the subject of foot force measurement. A comprehensive review of this literature is used to aid in the design of the required sensor. The combination of a non-simple dynamic loading (i.e. time varying spatially distributed normal and shear forces), with static foot position distinguishes the problem of measuring the force under the feet during rowing from most previously considered cases. A strain gauge-based force sensing plate was designed to measure both normal force distribution and unidirectional shear force under the feet. Sample results are presented from a study with international class New Zealand rowers on a rowing ergometer. The sensor, performs well under normal force loadings, but needs modification to measure shear accurately. Possible modifications are suggested.
While only a single oar angle, known as the sweep angle, was required to be measured, a sensor combination capable of measuring the spatial orientation of the oar relative to the boat was conceived. A new method of relative orientation estimation, via approximation of the Rodrigues' vector, which allows relative weighting of sensory data, was derived. Unfortunately, calibration issues prevented the gathering of meaningful data in the time available. A full theoretical development, including a new calibration scheme, which should alleviate the encountered problems, is included.
While the motion of the rower within the boat is an important consideration in the dynamics of the rowing system, few previous researchers have measured it. These previous methods are briefly described, before the sensor used in this study, the optical rotary encoder, is detailed. Differentiation of the encoder signal to obtain seat velocity and acceleration relative to the boat was achieved using a purpose designed simple Kalman filter.
The kinematic parameters of the boat, i.e. position, velocity and acceleration were measured using a combination of accelerometer and submerged impeller. The information from these two sensors was combined using a variant of the Kalman filter used in the differentiation of the encoder signal. The combination of the seat and boat kinematics allows study of the motion of the system centre of mass.
Supplying power to, and collecting data from the above sensory devices was a purpose built data acquisition system dubbed ORAC (On-the-water Rowing Acquisition Computer). ORAC was designed to transmit the collected information, in real-time, to a remote laptop computer via wireless LAN, but the system used proved to have insufficient range, and hence ORAC was used as a standalone computer.
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Farrow, Malcolm. "A wound infection monitoring system." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2010. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=24943.
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Infection control is a key aspect of wound management strategies. An infected wound results in chemical imbalances in the wound and may lead to prolonged healing times and wound surface degradation. Wound dressings changes may result in damage to healing tissues and an increased risk of infection. This thesis presents details of a measurement system based on sensors that can be placed at the wound-dressing interface and potentially monitor the bacteria in real time. Two systems were developed, one to grow bacteria in suspension and the second to encourage biofilms to grow on the electrode surfaces. Both systems allow the electrical impedance to be measured and were used to evaluate the impedance characteristics of bacterial growth with two sensor materials, silver-silver chloride and carbon. The bacteria Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis were selected as species commonly isolated from wounds. The growth of bacteria was confirmed by plate counting methods from the suspensions and by microscopy staining techniques of the biofilms. The impedance data was analysed for discernible differences in the impedance profiles to distinguish the absence and/or presence of bacteria. Equivalent circuit modelling was performed to provide further information on the physical processes occurring within the systems. The main findings were that the impedance profiles of silver-silver chloride sensors in bacterial suspensions could detect the presence of high cell densities. However, the electrodes tended to inhibit the growth of bacteria and also prevented biofilms forming on the electrode surfaces. The Staphylococcus aureus strains adhered to the carbon sensors and in at least one strain the impedance profiles had discernible differences. All the strains with carbon sensors produced noticeable differences in the equivalent circuit model analysis. These results show that there is potential to create a real-time infection monitor for wounds.
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McColl, David. "A novel wound monitoring system." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.426302.
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