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O Desenvolvimento e a inserção da bicicleta na política de mobilidade urbana brasileira
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas. Programa de Pós-Graduação Interdisciplinar em Ciências HumanasO objetivo deste estudo interdisciplinar é situar o desenvolvimento como processo e utilizar este conhecimento para contextualizar a inserção da bicicleta na política nacional de mobilidade urbana, buscando compreender os fatores deste processo que inibem as iniciativas e estratégias dos setores e agentes dedicados a evidenciar os diversos aspectos positivos dessa inserção. Para atender ao objetivo proposto foram adotados os seguintes procedimentos metodológicos: pesquisa bibliográfica; pesquisa documental; levantamento de dados e pesquisa participante. A pesquisa bibliográfica e documental envolveu publicações técnicas e científicas, magazines, textos publicados por instituições governamentais e leis e/ou projetos de lei federais, decretos referentes à mobilidade urbana, pela pesquisa nos sítios eletrônicos de entidades nacionais e internacionais. Os atores/agentes abordados fazem parte dos setores governamental, técnico, indústria e comércio, e da sociedade civil relacionados à inserção da mobilidade por bicicleta na política nacional de mobilidade urbana, os quais foram chamados a contribuir por meio de entrevistas pessoais, via skype, por telefone, através de mensagens eletrônicas. O resultado é um texto de revisão permeado por entrevistas e depoimentos de atores/agentes da política de mobilidade urbana, e em especial da política de mobilidade por bicicleta em nível nacional, que dialogam com a literatura técnico-científica ao longo dos capítulos que abordam: o Desenvolvimento da Sociedade; a Mobilidade Urbana na Agenda da Sustentabilidade Ambiental; a Mobilidade por Bicicleta nos Planos Governamentais Brasileiros e a Mudança do Paradigma: de Transporte para Mobilidade Urbana e Acessibilidade. A palavra fragmentada "(des) envolvimento" revela a necessidade do paradigma capital-expansionista de reduzir as práticas sociais que mantém o foco nas necessidades humanas fundamentais. É dessa forma que a cultura ao carro se expandiu, ocupou espaço nas vias e nas vidas urbanas. Mesmo sendo uma opção que não resolve os problemas de mobilidade da maioria, a sociedade investe nesta forma de transporte de uma maneira que vai contra a equidade, a cidadania, coloca em cheque o valor social do transporte. A mudança dos paradigmas da mobilidade urbana passa pela prioridade aos transportes coletivos, ao andar a pé e ao andar em bicicleta. É uma questão de cidadania, de justiça social, de sustentabilidade, de uso racional do espaço urbano. Mas existem barreiras a essa mudança, fazendo com que a mobilidade urbana sustentável precise ser trabalhada como um produto a ser assumido, é preciso a utilização de marketing social, pois a cultura favorável aos motorizados individuais está muito arraigada nas sociedades. Para que o poder público "tenha a coragem" de implementar a Política de Mobilidade Urbana Sustentável, e principalmente no que se refere aos investimentos relativos à mobilidade por bicicleta, é necessário que a população aceite, defenda, reivindique a mudança. Há um número crescente de usuários da bicicleta como transporte e de movimentos sociais de defesa da mobilidade por bicicleta no Brasil. A visibilidade desse segmento da sociedade, apesar de crescente, não tem sido suficiente para pressionar o poder público para mudanças mais significativas. Mas, entende-se que apesar de todos os problemas que os movimentos sociais enfrentam em suas lutas diárias, ainda são eles os responsáveis pelas mudanças sociais; e continuam a ser eles os fomentadores de uma consciência crítica.The aim of this interdisciplinary study is to situate development as a process and use this knowledge to contextualize the cycling inclusion in the national urban mobility policy, aiming to understand the factors related to this process that hinder initiatives and strategies from sectors and from agents that highlight the various positive aspects of this inclusion. To attain this proposed goal the following methodological procedures were adopted: literature review, documental research, data surveys and participative research. The literature review and the documental research involved technical and scientific publications, magazines, documents published by governmental institutions and laws or federal bills, decrees related to urban mobility, and research on electronic sites of national and international entities. The actors and agents approached are part of the government, technical (public and private), industry and commerce, and civil society sectors, related to the movements of insertion of cycling mobility in the national urban mobility policy, which were asked to contribute through personal interviews, via Skype, telephone and electronic messages. The effort resulted in a revision text permeated with interviews and testimonials from urban mobility policy actors and agents involved in the Brazilian scenario, dialoguing with the scientific and technical literature throughout the chapters that address: the Society Development; Urban Mobility in the Environmental Sustainability Agenda; Cycling Mobility in the Brazilian Government Plans and The Paradigm Change: from Transport to Urban Mobility and Accessibility. The fragmented word "de(en)velopment" reveals the need of the expansion capital paradigm to reduce social practices that focus on basic human needs. That's the way car culture has expanded, taking up space on roads and in urban life. Even though car culture is an option that does not solve the mobility problems of the majority, society invests mostly in this form of transport, opposite to equity and citizenship, putting in check the social value of transport. Changing paradigms of urban mobility requires giving priority to public transport, walking and cycling. It is a matter of citizenship, social justice, sustainability and rational use of urban space. But there are barriers to this change, bringing the necessity of treating sustainable urban mobility as a product to be assumed, and social marketing should therefore be used because the culture favorable to private, motorized transport is deeply rooted in today's society. To give political support to the government for the implementation of the Sustainable Urban Mobility policy, and especially the cycling policy, it is necessary that the people accept, defend, and demand change. There is an increasing number of bicycle users as a preferential transportation mode, and cycling advocacy groups in Brazil. The visibility of this segment of society, although increasing, has clearly not been sufficient to put pressure on the government to bring about more significant changes. But it is understood that despite all the problems that social movements face in their daily struggles, they are responsible for social change, and they continue to be the developers of a critical consciousness
Data visualisation in R
No full textCílem práce je představit možnosti grafického zobrazení dat a ukázat implementaci těchto zobrazení v R. Grafická zobrazení jsou rozdělena dle počtu a charakteru proměnných. Jednotlivá zobrazení jsou popsána a je ukázán postup jejich tvorby. Zobrazení jsou porovnávána mezi sebou a je diskutován jejich přínos stejně tak jako výhody a nevýhody oproti ostatním. Je předvedena jejich implementace v R. Dále je rozvedena tvorba grafů v R obecně, včetně druhotného přizpůsobování a kombinování těchto grafů. Jsou prezentovány autorem vytvořené funkce umožňující tvorbu některých z méně tradičních grafů.The aim of this thesis is to present ways of visualising data using R. Based on the number and types of variables suitable visualisation methods are presented. These methods are described and their creation is explained. They are further discussed and compared. Implementation of these methods in R is shown. Finally, the ways of customizing and combining graphs in R are presented, including some custom author-created functions
R v Ireland; R v Burstow [1998] AC 147, House of Lords
No full textEssential Cases: Criminal Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in R v Ireland; R v Burstow [1998] AC 147, House of Lords. The document also included supporting commentary from author Jonathan Herring.</p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Liftings for noncomplete probability spaces
No full textThe current state of knowledge concerning liftings for noncomplete probability spaces is discussed. This is a somewhat expanded version of the author's talk given at the 1991 Summer Conference on General Topology and Applications in Honor of Mary Ellen Rudin and Her Work.PT: S; CR: BURKE MR, IN PRESS P AM MATH S BURKE MR, 1991, ISRAEL J MATH, V73, P33 BURKE MR, 1992, ISRAEL J MATH, V79, P289 CARLSON T, THEOREM LIFTING CHRISTENSEN JPR, 1974, TOPOLOGY BOREL STRUC FREMLIN DH, 1989, HDB BOOLEAN ALGEBRAS, P877 INOESCUTULCEA A, 1966, 5TH P BERK S MATH ST, V2 IONESCUTULCEA A, 1967, CONTRIBUTIONS PROB 1, P63 IONESCUTULCEA A, 1969, TOPICS THEORY LIFTIN JECH TJ, 1978, SET THEORY JOHNSON RA, 1980, P AM MATH SOC, V80, P234 JUST W, IN PRESS T AM MATH S KUPKA J, 1983, INDIANA U MATH J, V32, P717 LOSERT V, 1983, LNM, V1080, P95 MAHARAM D, 1958, P AM MATH SOC, V9, P987 SHELAH S, 1983, ISRAEL J MATH, V45, P90 TALAGRAND M, 1982, P AM MATH SOC, V84, P379 VONNEUMANN J, 1931, CRELLES J MATH, V165, P109; NR: 18; TC: 0; J9: ANN N Y ACAD SCI; PG: 4; GA: BZ86BSource type: Electronic(1
R v Khawaja and the Fraught Question of Rehabilitation in Terrorism Sentencing
No full textIn R v Khawaja, Supreme Court of Canada addressed the question of how courts should handle the sentencing of terrorism offenders. Although it affirmed the Ontario Court of Appeal’s decision to raise the sentence imposed by the trial judge, the Supreme Court took a different approach to the importance of rehabilitation as a goal in terrorism sentencing generally. The Court of Appeal found that because of terrorism’s unique and serious nature, there should be very little consideration of the possibility of rehabilitation. The Supreme Court disagreed, ruling that the weight to be placed on rehabilitation in such cases should be left to trial judges and that, depending on the facts, rehabilitation could be a significant factor even in the context of very serious terror offences.
The author reviews the history of R v Khawaja, contrasting the Supreme Court’s decision with the approach of the Ontario Court of Appeal both in Khawaja and in a number of other cases. He reviews the British and Australian jurisprudence drawn on by the Court of Appeal, which looks on terrorism as a distinct type of crime that calls only for an emphasis on deterrence and punishment in sentencing, and argues that the Supreme Court’s decision indicates a significantly different attitude to the issue. Khawaja allows for rehabilitation to potentially factor into the sentencing of terrorism offenders. The author further considers this decision though the lens Antony Duff’s theory of punishment, which suggests that the concepts of moral agency, equality and the possibility of individual redemption are foundational to a sense of political community. He argues that the Supreme Court’s decision constitutes an implicit affirmation of Duff’s view on the importance of the goal of rehabilitation even for the worst offenders.Peer reviewedPost-prin
R v Khawaja and the fraught question of rehabilitation in terrorism sentencing
No full textIn R v Khawaja, Supreme Court of Canada addressed the question of how courts should handle the sentencing of terrorism offenders. Although it affirmed the Ontario Court of Appeal’s decision to raise the sentence imposed by the trial judge, the Supreme Court took a different approach to the importance of rehabilitation as a goal in terrorism sentencing generally. The Court of Appeal found that because of terrorism’s unique and serious nature, there should be very little consideration of the possibility of rehabilitation. The Supreme Court disagreed, ruling that the weight to be placed on rehabilitation in such cases should be left to trial judges and that, depending on the facts, rehabilitation could be a significant factor even in the context of very serious terror offences.
The author reviews the history of R v Khawaja, contrasting the Supreme Court’s decision with the approach of the Ontario Court of Appeal both in Khawaja and in a number of other cases. He reviews the British and Australian jurisprudence drawn on by the Court of Appeal, which looks on terrorism as a distinct type of crime that calls only for an emphasis on deterrence and punishment in sentencing, and argues that the Supreme Court’s decision indicates a significantly different attitude to the issue. Khawaja allows for rehabilitation to potentially factor into the sentencing of terrorism offenders. The author further considers this decision though the lens Antony Duff’s theory of punishment, which suggests that the concepts of moral agency, equality and the possibility of individual redemption are foundational to a sense of political community. He argues that the Supreme Court’s decision constitutes an implicit affirmation of Duff’s view on the importance of the goal of rehabilitation even for the worst offenders.Peer reviewedPost-prin
R v Pagett (1983) 76 Cr App R 279, Court of Appeal
No full textEssential Cases: Criminal Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in R v Pagett (1983) 76 Cr App R 279, Court of Appeal. The document also included supporting commentary from author Jonathan Herring.</p
R v G and R [2003] UKHL 50, House of Lords
No full textEssential Cases: Criminal Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in R v G and R [2003] UKHL 50, House of Lords. The document also included supporting commentary from author Jonathan Herring.</p
Ground-Based Soil Moisture Retrieval Using the Correlation Between Dual-Polarization GNSS-R Interference Patterns
No full textSoil moisture (SM) is an important state variable in land surface models. Here, we investigate the potential of a ground-based global navigation satellite system receiver with two linearly polarized antennas that measure the interference power (IP) of direct and reflected signals in horizontal polarization (H-pol) and vertical polarization (V-pol) to estimate SM. The coefficient of determination between the IP waveforms at H-pol and V-pol ( ) was used as a predictor of SM. A coherent specular reflection model was employed to first explore the relationship between and SM for different values of soil roughness. That relationship was subsequently applied to estimate SM from determined from global positioning system (GPS) signals acquired continuously by a ground-based receiver between May and December 2022 for an area with very smooth bare soil. The results show that the proposed method can estimate the SM of the upper 10-cm layer with high accuracy (with a root-mean-square error (RMSE) of approximately 1.5 vol.%) and demonstrate the potential of the ground-based IP technique as a practical system solution for proximal remote sensing of SM over bare soils .Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Mathematical Geodesy and PositioningGeoscience and Remote Sensin
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