Monitoring the hydraulic stability of Antifer blocks : an IoT-based approach

Breakwaters are resilient marine infrastructures, or barriers, built out into the sea to protect a coast or a harbour from the force of waves. The environmental conditions that these structures continuously face are challenging and the continuous monitorization of its hydraulic stability is a key success factor for preventive maintenance of these critical infrastructures. This paper introduces the architecture of an IoT solution designed to monitor the hydraulic stability of Antifer blocks, a common building block used for breakwater infrastructures construction, by measuring, recording, processing, and communicating the data related to the displacement of an Antifer block, in a laboratory context. The IoT device has been designed to meet the following requirements: 3D displacement measurement (up to 25 mm); corrosion-proof and waterproof; wireless charging and wireless communication; and autonomy above one month. Preliminary results have shown that the SmartAntifer prototype fulfills the core application requirements and presents an average consumption of 90 mA, which results in 11 hours of autonomy when equipped with a battery with a capacity of 1000 mAh.5311-8814-F0ED | Sara Maria da Cruz Maia de Oliveira PaivaN/

Software "Modellus" e modelagem matem?tica: relacionando conceitos matem?ticos com fen?menos da f?sica

This research presents an application and analysis of Modellus Software in the ninth grade of Elementary School, associated with practical activities involving Kinematics, which started from a problem of reality suggested by the students. The mathematical subject is about functions, presenting general and essential concepts, developing models from physical problems and study of tables and graphs. The investigated problem was: Does the use of the computational resource Modellus help in the teaching-learning process of the functions concept? The subjects were developed aiming to allow the researched student relate the content with their daily life. The Modellus Software was chosen for the possibility of the student interacting with the development of graphics, animations and tables from mathematical models. The conclusions of the research were obtained by analyzing the activities carried out, evaluations and diagnostic questionnaires. We sought to base these considerations with the presentation of results generated by the students to assert that the Software Modellus allowed a differentiated learning, in which the student interacted with the knowledge construction regarding to the subject functions. It was concluded that the Modellus Software was adequate for the teaching of functions with this class of ninth grade from the data analyzed in this dissertation.O presente trabalho apresenta uma aplica??o e an?lise do Software Modellus na nona s?rie do Ensino Fundamental, aliada ? atividades pr?ticas envolvendo Cinem?tica, partindo de um problema da realidade sugerido pelos alunos. O assunto matem?tico refere-se ? fun??es, abordando conceitos gerais e essenciais, constru??o de modelos a partir de problemas f?sicos e estudo de tabelas e gr?ficos. O problema investigado foi: A utiliza??o do recurso computacional Modellus auxilia no processo de ensino-aprendizagem do conceito de fun??es? Os temas foram trabalhados visando permitir que o estudante pesquisado relacione o conte?do com seu dia-a-dia. Optou-se pelo Software Modellus pela possibilidade do aluno interagir com a constru??o gr?fica, anima??es e tabelas a partir de modelos matem?ticos. As conclus?es foram obtidas analisando as atividades realizadas, avalia??es e question?rios diagn?sticos. Buscou-se embasar tais considera??es com a apresenta??o de resultados produzidos pelos alunos para afirmar que o Software Modellus permitiu uma aprendizagem diferenciada, onde o aluno interagiu com a constru??o do conhecimento referente ao assunto fun??es. Concluiu-se que o Software Modellus mostrou-se adequado para o ensino de fun??es com esta turma de 9? s?rie a partir dos dados analisados nesta disserta??o

Crowd quantification with flow direction estimation : a low-cost IoT-enabled solution

Monitoring crowds in public environments is of great value for understanding human routines and managing crowd routes in indoor or outdoor environments. This type of information is crucial to improve the business strategy of an organization, and can be achieved by performing crowd quantification and flow direction estimation to generate information that can be later used by a business intelligence/analytic layer to improve sales of a specific service or targeting a new specific product. In this paper, we propose the design of an IoT Crowd sensor composed of an array of ultrasonic ping sensors that is responsible for detecting movement in specific directions. The proposed device has a built-in algorithm that is optimized to quantify and detect the human flow direction in indoor spaces such as hallways. Results have shown an average accuracy above 86% in the five scenarios evaluated when using an array with three elements.5311-8814-F0ED | Sara Maria da Cruz Maia de Oliveira PaivaN/

Ep?stola da Geografia: da forma??o cient?fica ao surgimento do Estado na Idade Moderna

The epistemological development of the Modern Age Geography is enriched with the somatization of man as its object of study and research, making the Geography a Science able of discuss issues related to Politics, Power and Territory. These concepts are essentials in issues concerning State prototypes of passed times, in the Antiquity, Midle Age and Modern Age, which are revealed today as models imbued with social problems due to power centralization in institutions that manipulate individual and collective personalities. For this reason, understanding the process of development of the Geographic Science, having the knowledge of the main Classic Geographers and Libertarians theories, makes the researcher as well as the reader, enlightened people on the territorial configuration of today. The theoretical representations of the leading names of Geography in the Modern Age, the set of expressions on the States models presented by philosephers of the Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Age, and the conjectures concerning the transition from of the feudal mode of production to the capitalist mode, supports and legitimize the concepts of State, Territory and Power Relations, which are strictly related to the moment that the man becomes object of geographical studies and the contemporary territorial configuration.O desenvolvimento epistemol?gico da Geografia na Idade Moderna se enriquece com a somatiza??o do homem como seu objeto de investiga??o e estudo, tornando a Geografia uma Ci?ncia capacitada para tratar de temas relacionados ? Pol?tica, ao Poder e ao Territ?rio. Esses conceitos s?o essenciais nas abordagens relativas aos prot?tipos de Estados de quadras temporais passadas, na Antiguidade, Idade M?dia e Moderna, que se revelam hoje, como modelos impregnados de problem?ticas sociais, devido ? centraliza??o de for?as manipuladoras de institui??es e personalidades individuais e coletivas. Por isso, entender o processo de desenvolvimento da Ci?ncia Geogr?fica, tendo o conhecimento das teorias dos principais Ge?grafos Cl?ssicos e Libert?rios, faz do pesquisador bem como do leitor, pessoas esclarecidas sobre a configura??o territorial da atualidade. As representa??es te?ricas dos principais nomes da Geografia na Idade Moderna, o conjunto de express?es acerca dos modelos de Estados apresentados por fil?sofos da Idade Antiga, Medieval e Moderna, e, as conjunturas referentes ? transi??o do modo de produ??o feudal para o capitalista, d?o suporte e legitimam os conceitos de Estado, Territ?rio e Poder, os quais est?o estritamente relacionados com o momento que torna o homem objeto de estudos geogr?ficos e a configura??o territorial contempor?nea

A COMUNICA??O NA PR?TICA DA GEST?O IMOBILI?RIA EM EMPRESAS NO SERT?O DO ESTADO DA PARA?BA

Relat?rio Final do Est?gio Obrigat?rio/Trabalho de Conclus?o de Curso apresentado ao Instituto Federal de Educa??o, Ci?ncia e Tecnologia da Para?ba ? IFPB, curso Superior de Tecnologia em Neg?cios Imobili?rios, como parte das atividades para obten??o do Grau de Tecn?logo em Neg?cios Imobili?rios

OS IMPACTOS DA COMUNICA??O ORGANIZACIONAL: UM ESTUDO DE CASO NO N?CLEO DE CONTRATOS E DOCUMENTA??ES DA SECRETARIA DE ESTADO DA RECEITA DA PARA?BA (SER-PB)

A necessidade de comunica??o ? essencial para o funcionamento de qualquer institui??o. Por?m, o papel da comunica??o no ambiente organizacional, est? passando por incessante mudan?a durante os anos. Todavia, a sua n?o aplicabilidade ? a causa de in?meros decl?nios empresarias e estar aberto a essas mudan?as ? um fator estrat?gico para qualquer institui??o. Essas mudan?as, sem duvida, t?m estimulado aos pesquisadores, o desenvolvimento de novos conceitos e teorias sobre os processos comunicativos na esfera corporativa. Um desses conceitos ? a comunica??o organizacional, que tem como prop?sito necessidade de dialogo, troca e participa??o entre os gestores, funcion?rios e o ambiente externo, e ? compreendida como o elemento estrat?gico nas institui??es respons?vel pela reconstru??o da cultura organizacional e da identidade corporativa. O objetivo dessa pesquisa ? analisar os poss?veis erros de processos advindos das falhas de comunica??o interna da SER-PB e quais foram seus impacto nos processos da organiza??o. Foi realizada uma pesquisa de campo, dentro do N?cleo de Contratos e Documenta??es - NCD, embasados por um estudo de caso documental e descritivo por explorar situa??es do local onde a pesquisa est? sendo realizada, retratando a situa??o em que est? sendo feita a investiga??o e explicando os motivos do problema em situa??es que n?o permitem a utiliza??o de experimentos. A pesquisa foi viabilizada atrav?s da observa??o in loco, em uma amostra n?o probabil?stica intencional de 32 processos licitat?rios com problemas relacionadas a comunica??o. Os resultados da pesquisa demonstraram que a empresa possui problemas comunicativos internos e externos graves, oriundos da falta de padroniza??o das atividades exercidas no ?mbito institucional, al?m de problemas de comunica??o gerencial descendentes. A empresa aplicou, na medida do poss?vel, as a??es de mudan?as sugeridas pelo autor desta obra, e os resultados come?aram a aparecer de imediato. A remodelagem da cultura da organiza??o leva tempo, mas o que j? se sabe, ? que aquele conceito de comunica??o ultrapassada j? n?o existe mais e o que se ver dentro da institui??o ? um processo mais participativo, com di?logos mais heterog?neos e um local de trabalho mais agrad?vel

O ENSINO DE L?NGUAS ESTRANGEIRAS MODERNAS PARA SURDOS: DA TEORIA A PR?TICA

A tem?tica sobre inclus?o na educa??o ? tema frequentemente debatida no cen?rio educacional brasileiro, por?m quando enfatizado o ensino de l?nguas estrangeiras para alunos surdos na escola regular essa discurs?o ? quase que inexistente. Considerando a import?ncia do debate sobre esta tem?tica nossa pesquisa objetivou realizar um estudo te?rico das legisla??es educacionais nacional, promovendo um di?logo entre estas e as realidades encontradas nas nossas escolas. Desenvolvida a partir de pesquisas te?ricas em textos legais referentes ? educa??o em geral, educa??o de surdos e metodologias de ensino de ensino de l?nguas estrangeiras, e nossas pr?ticas e observa??es em sala de aula com alunos surdos no Ensino M?dio regular. Debatemos os v?rios fatores que comprometem o ensino igualit?rio a estes sujeitos, e indicando pr?ticas que aliadas ?s leis possam trazer uma melhoria e efetiva??o do direito a uma educa??o de qualidade

Joining sustainable design and internet of things technologies on campus : the IPVC smartbottle practical case

Higher education institutions (HEIs) are favored environments for the implementation of technological solutions that accelerate the generation of smart campi, given the dynamic ecosystem they create based on the involvement of inspired and motivated human resources (students, professors, and researchers), moving around in an atmosphere of advanced digital infrastructures and services. Moreover, HEIs have, in their mission, not only the creation of integrated knowledge through Research and Development (R&D) activities but also solving societal problems that address the academic community expectations concerning environmental issues, contributing, therefore, towards a greener society embodied within the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This article addresses the design and implementation of a Smartbottle Ecosystem in which an interactive and reusable water bottle communicates with an intelligent water refill station, both integrated by the Internet of Things (IoT) and Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), to eliminate the use of single-use plastic water bottles in the premises of the Polytechnical Institute of Viana do Castelo (IPVC), an HEI with nearly 6000 students. Three main contributions were identified in this research: (i) the proposal of a novel methodology based on the association of Design Thinking and Participatory Design as the basis for Sustainable Design; (ii) the design and development of an IoT-enabled smartbottle prototype; and (iii) the usability evaluation of the proposed prototype. The adopted methodology is rooted in Design Thinking and mixes it with a Participatory Design approach, including the end-user opinion throughout the Smartbottle Ecosystem design process, not only for the product design requirements but also for its specification. By promoting a participatory solution tailored to the IPVC academic community, recycled plastic has been identified as the preferential material and a marine mammal was selected for the smartbottle shape, in the process of developing a solution to replace the single-use plastic bottles.7519-C505-DF9E | Ant?nio Jos? Candeias CuradoN/