37 research outputs found
Avaliação das condições de aplicabilidade do projeto SiAC considerando as concepções dos dirigentes de empresas construtoras do município de Balneário Camboriú
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnológico. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia de Produção.Esta tese busca analisar as condições de aplicabilidade do projeto SiAC do PBQP-H no sub setor de edificações no município de Balneário Camboriú. É estabelecido um modelo analítico para a pesquisa da tese que tem como base o tema de mudança organizacional. Este modelo define o conteúdo da mudança e seu contexto de aplicação como dois elementos indutores para adesão a processos de mudança (Daft, Pettigrew), e as questões de arquitetura organizacional e ciclo de aprendizagem profunda (Senge) como requisitos de efetiva implementação desta. Aplica-se um questionário como instrumento de pesquisa, o qual é criado a partir dos requisitos do projeto SiAC e compõe 23 questões que se aplicam aos dirigentes de empresas construtoras do município em questão e investigam a percepção destes em relação à custos e benefícios de cada requisito. A análise do padrão de respostas é realizada pelo uso de técnicas de estatística descritiva e multivariada. A partir das informações da pesquisa realizada e da análise das características da indústria da construção civil apresentadas na tese, conclui-se pela existência de requisitos considerados críticos no conjunto de requisitos propostos pelo SiAC. Estes requisitos agrupam-se principalmente nas áreas de medição e análise e de gestão de recursos humanos, e representam barreiras para a implementação do projeto SiAC no setor estudado. Recomenda-se uma revisão nos níveis de evolução de adesão ao projeto SiAC, e que este níveis se configurem respectivamente por procedimentos nas áreas de gestão da conformidade, gestão de recursos humanos e gestão estratégica. Recomenda-se ainda que se reoriente os critérios de concessão de direito à financiamento público àquelas construtoras que obtiverem certificação na etapa de gestão de conformidade This thesis has the intent of studying the applicability conditions of SiAC project of the PBQP-H in the building sector of the Balneário Camboriú city. An analytic model to the research of the thesis is created and it has as base the theme of organizational change. This model introduce the content of the change an its context of application as two elements of incitement to adhesion to change process (Daft, Pettigrew) and the questions of company architecture and deep learning cycle (Senge) as requisite of effective establishment of this process. A questionnaire is applied as research instrument wich is created taking the requisites of SiAC project as base. This questionnaire has 23 questions and is applied in the building company's managers of the city studied with the intention of evidencing their point of view of costs and benefits that each requisite provide. To analyze the answer's standard are applied multicriteria analysis and descriptive statistic. Taking the informations of the research and the Civil Construction Industry characteristics as base, this thesis conclude that in the requisites proposed by SiAC's project there are someone's who are critical. These critical requisites are mainly clustered in the areas of measurement and analysis, and in the area of human resources management and are obstacles to the implantation of SiAC project in the studied industry. A revision in the evolution levels for adhesion in the SiAC project is recommended and also is recommended that these levels been constituted through proceedings in the areas of conformity management, human resources management and strategic management. Also is recommended that the rules for concession of public financing been redefined to allow that those building companies that have been certified in the stage of conformity management can receive the financing
Why has the journal Mutations en Méditerranée (MeM) chosen the Creative Commons CC-BY license?
No full textCo-authored with Isabelle Gras, Open Science Unit, SCD Aix-Marseille University Translation in English: Emma Maines Original in French Reminder: Creative Commons license goals and functionality Creative Commons licenses facilitate both the distribution and sharing of knowledge, all while ensuring the protection of authors’ rights. These licenses allow the author, under certain conditions, to pre-authorize users’ potential reproductions, modifications, distributions, and uses of their or..
The technology of orgasm "hysteria", the vibrator, and women's sexual satisfaction
No full textThe author explores hysteria in Western medicine throughout the ages and examines the characterization of female sexuality as a disease requiring treatment. Medical authorities, she writes, were able to defend and justify the clinical production of orgasm in women as necessary to maintain the dominant view of sexuality, which defined sex as penetration to male orgasm - a practice that consistently fails to produce orgasm in a majority of the female populationThis male-centered definition of satisfying and healthy coitus shaped not only the development of concepts of female sexual pathology but also the instrumentation designed to cope with the
Anthropology of the Memorial: Observations and Reflections on American Cultural Rituals Associated with Death
No full textThis paper is a meditation on contemporary rituals in the United States associated with death—in this case, the memorial. The essay addresses David R. MAINES' advocacy of using narrative to address a social (and anthropological) event. There are social expectations at memorials, rituals of talking good about the deceased, rituals of grief. Friends and family come together to communicate about the deceased. Strangers connect by their mutual connection to the dead. Every culture has its own set of rituals and rules when it comes to honoring and admiring the dead; this one is American. From an autoethnographical approach, the author reveals his own inner ritual, a personal memory, of a friend and former lover who has passed. The author discusses the processes of recording dialogue and experience via memory, and the criteria for quality in this autoethnography.
URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs09036
Anthropology of the memorial: observations and reflections on American cultural rituals associated with death
No full textDieser Beitrag befasst sich mit zeitgenössischen amerikanischen Todesritualen, konkreter mit der Kultur des Gedenkens. Hierzu greife ich auf den Vorschlag von David R. MAINES zurück, Erzählungen zu verwenden, um soziale (und für die Anthropologie relevante) Ereignisse zu untersuchen.
In Bezug auf Gedenken und Gedenkstätten gibt es spezifische soziale Erwartungen, es gibt Rituale, über Tote nur Gutes zu berichten, Rituale von Trauer. Bekannte und Familienangehörige kommen zusammen und sprechen über die Verstorbenen. Fremde treffen einander infolge ihrer Verbindung zu dem oder der Toten. Jede Kultur hat ein eigenes Set an Ritualen und Regeln, Tote zu ehren und an sie zu denken; mir geht es um diejenigen in Nordamerika.
Hierzu nutze ich einen autoethnografischen Ansatz, um mich den eigenen inneren Ritualen des Abschiednehmens von einer verstorbenen Freundin und früheren Geliebten zu nähern. Ich beschäftige mich auch mit der Frage, wie ein solcher Zugang festgehalten und präsentiert werden kann und diskutiere Qualitätskriterien für autobiografische Studien.This paper is a meditation on contemporary rituals in the United States associated with death—in this case, the memorial. The essay addresses David R. MAINES' advocacy of using narrative to address a social (and anthropological) event. There are social expectations at memorials, rituals of talking good about the deceased, rituals of grief. Friends and family come together to communicate about the deceased. Strangers connect by their mutual connection to the dead. Every culture has its own set of rituals and rules when it comes to honoring and admiring the dead; this one is American. From an autoethnographical approach, the author reveals his own inner ritual, a personal memory, of a friend and former lover who has passed. The author discusses the processes of recording dialogue and experience via memory, and the criteria for quality in this autoethnography.Este artículo es una meditación sobre los rituales contemporáneos en los Estados Unidos asociados con la muerte, en este caso, el memorial. El ensayo aborda el alegato de David R. MAINES sobre el uso de la narrativa para hacer frente a un evento social (y antropológico). Hay expectativas sociales en los memoriales, los rituales del hablar bien sobre los fallecidos, los rituales de duelo. Amigos y familiares se reúnen para hablar acerca de los fallecidos. Los extraños se conectan por su mutua relación con los muertos. Cada cultura tiene su propio conjunto de rituales y reglas cuando se trata de honrar a los muertos y admirarlos, aquí se aborda la americana. Desde un enfoque autoetnográfico, el autor revela su propio ritual interior, una memoria personal, de un amigo y ex amante que ha muerto. El autor analiza los procesos del diálogo de recuerdo y la experiencia a través de la memoria, y los criterios de calidad en esta autoetnografía
Soil carbon sequestration through crops rotation in a Mediterranean Cambisols: measurement and modelling
No full textEGU21-6372
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-6372
EGU General Assembly 2021
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Soil carbon sequestration through crops rotation in a
Mediterranean Cambisols: measurement and modelling
Enrico Balugani, Martina Maines, Denis Zannoni, Alessandro Buscaroli, and Diego Marazza
Bologna University, Bologna University, CIRSA, Italy ([email protected])
Soil carbon sequestration (SCS) has been identified by the IPCC as one of the most promising and
cheap methodology to reduce atmospheric CO2. Moreover, an increase in soil organic carbon
(SOC) levels improves soil quality by increasing soil structure (and, hence, resistance to erosion)
and promoting soil ecosystems services like water retention, productivity, and biodiversity. Various
agricultural techniques are available to increase SOC; among them, crop rotation can improve SOC
through soil coverage, changes in water regimes, increase in both carbon inputs, and increase in
soil aggregates formation.
SOC dynamic models, such as RothC, have been suggested by the IPCC as a way to evaluate the
SCS potentials of different soils. Such models could also be used to evaluate the sequestration
potential of different agricultural practices. Moreover RothC allows to estimate the time within
which the SOC variation, due to a certain agronomic management, can be considered significant
as measurable above a threshold value.
In this study, we evaluated the SOC changes for different crop rotations through direct
measurements and RothC modelling, with the objective of: (a) estimating their SCS potential, and
(b) propose a robust monitoring methodology for SCS practices. We performed the study in an
agricultural field close to Ravenna (Italy) characterized by Cambisols and humid subtropical
climate. Soil carbon content was assessed before the setup of the crop rotation, and after 3 years
of rotation. A RothC model was calibrated with field data, and used to estimate SOC dynamics to
50 years, in order to assess long-term SCS. The model results were also used to assess the best
methodology to estimate the SOC variation significance.
The measured SOC was similar to the equilibrium SOC predicted by the RothC model, on average,
for the crop rotations. The measurements showed that the SOC, already low at the beginning of
the experiment, further decreased due to the crop rotation practice. Of those tested, the best for
SCS involves the following crops: corn, soybeans, wheat on tilled soil, and soybeans; while the
worst is with corn, wheat on tilled soil, and wheat on untilled soil. However, the SOC variations
predicted by RothC for the various rotations were too small to be observable in the field during
experimentation. This could be due both to the uncertainty associated with SOC sampling and
analysis, and to the short duration of the experiment. The moving average computations on the
simulation values allowed us to assess the time required to measure the long-term trend of SOC
variation as significant with respect to the environmental background, instrumental error, and SO
The potential of using Collective Intelligence principles and approaches in Service Design projects aiming for a systemic change
No full textLAUREA MAGISTRALELa Collective Intelligence (CI) coinvolge persone che collaborano, spesso con l'ausilio della tecnologia, per mobilitare una gamma più ampia di informazioni, idee e intuizioni al fine di affrontare una sfida sociale. Questa tesi esplora il potenziale dell'utilizzo dei principi e degli approcci del Collective Intelligence Design (CID) nei progetti di Service Design miranti a un cambiamento sistemico. Poiché il Service Design sta attraversando una trasformazione che affronta problemi complessi all'interno di ecosistemi, il CID offre approcci preziosi per la co-creazione di soluzioni innovative, considerando l'interconnessione dei vari stakeholder. L'obiettivo è indagare i valori e le sfide che il CID potrebbe porre ai service designers che lavorano con progetti di trasformazione. Per giungere ai risultati, l'autore ha analizzato casi di studio CID applicati nel mondo reale e ha condotto una sessione di ricerca sugli utenti con sette service designers provenienti da contesti diversi, composta da interviste e da una dinamica di posizionamento delle carte. I risultati sono culminati in un mazzo di carte che comprende le categorie di pratica, metodi e tecnologie per portare riflessioni per potenziare approcci già applicati o sperimentarne di nuovi. Sintetizzando le intuizioni della letteratura, dell'analisi e dei service designers, questa tesi esplora i valori e le sfide potenziali di questi approcci per gli studiosi, i professionisti e le organizzazioni che mirano a navigare in nuove metodologie e competenze all'interno dei progetti di service design.Collective intelligence (CI) involves people working together, often with the help of technology, to mobilize a broader range of information, ideas, and insights to address a social challenge. This thesis explores the potential of using Collective Intelligence Design (CID) principles and approaches in Service Design projects aiming for a systemic change. As Service Design goes through a transformation that tackles complex problems within ecosystems, CID offers valuable approaches for co-creating innovative solutions considering various stakeholders' interconnectedness. The aim is to investigate the values and challenges that CID might pose for service designers working with transformational projects. To arrive at results, the author analyzed real-world applied CID case studies and conducted a user research session with seven service designers from different backgrounds composed of interviews and a dynamic with card positioning. The results culminated in a card deck comprising the categories of practice, methods, and technologies to bring reflections to potentialize already applied approaches or experiment with new ones. By synthesizing insights from literature, analysis, and service designers, this thesis explores these approaches' potential values and challenges for scholars, practitioners, and organizations aiming to navigate new methodologies and skills within service design projects
Echo: Poems
No full textGoing beyond Carl Sandburg\u27s concept of poetry as an echo, asking a shadow to dance, this collection, its rhythm encompassing the echo, brings back and sheds new light on the childhood, coming of age, and tough issues of the baby boomer generation. Lovin does the hard work, looking back at things/to come from a time/not yet arrived resulting in her flawless dance as the reader\u27s reward.
-Hilda Downer, author of Sky Under the Roof: Poems
Christina Lovin\u27s outstanding new collection Echo is wrapped in images of a time when A Toni and a tube of Fire and Ice, / some typing lessons, and a course in shorthand / could take a girl a long way if she was wise . Lovin reveals to her readers that growing up in small town America is more than eating ribbon candy, TV westerns, or lounging on the porch glider. Echo is an impressive work.
-Leah Maines, Author of Beyond the Riverhttps://encompass.eku.edu/fs_books/1094/thumbnail.jp
Pavimentos drenantes: estudo sobre peças de concreto permeável do tipo Paver intertravado poroso / Drainage floors: study on porous interlocked Paver type Permeable concrete parts
No full textO desenvolvimento e a utilização de infraestruturas sustentáveis é uma estratégia que ganha crescente importância em âmbito global com o aumento da conscientização sobre a construção de sistemas de pavimentação sustentáveis no país. Nesse sentido, o presente projeto visa estudar a efetividade dos pavimentos drenantes, cujo principal benefício é evitar o rápido e indesejado acúmulo de volumes de água acima da superfície do piso. Por permitirem a passagem de água, eles também proporcionam impacto ambiental positivo na prevenção de enchentes urbanas, redução de ilhas de calor e manutenção de aquíferos subterrâneos. A fim de justificar a finalidade do projeto, pretende-se desenvolver um estudo sobre o revestimento permeável de concreto poroso para pavimento do tipo paver drenante em laboratório concedido por um fabricante local. Na determinação do coeficiente de permeabilidade (k) foi construída uma bancada em estrutura metálica constituída de grelha e calha para realização do ensaio. Os resultados da pesquisa convergiram com o disposto na norma técnica cujo escopo tipifica os revestimentos permeáveis, regulamenta o método e o cálculo da eficiência hidráulica dos pavimentos drenantes
PAVIMENTOS DRENANTES: ESTUDO SOBRE PEÇAS DE CONCRETO PERMEÁVEL DO TIPO PAVER INTERTRAVADO POROSO
No full textRESUMO: O desenvolvimento e a utilização de infraestruturas sustentáveis é uma estratégia que ganha crescente importância em âmbito global com o aumento da conscientização sobre a construção de sistemas de pavimentação sustentáveis no país. Nesse sentido, o presente projeto visa estudar a efetividade dos pavimentos drenantes, cujo principal benefício é evitar o rápido e indesejado acúmulo de volumes de água acima da superfície do piso. Por permitirem a passagem de água, eles também proporcionam impacto ambiental positivo na prevenção de enchentes urbanas, redução de ilhas de calor e manutenção de aquíferos subterrâneos. A fim de justificar a finalidade do projeto, pretende-se desenvolver um estudo sobre o revestimento permeável de concreto poroso para pavimento do tipo paver drenante em laboratório concedido por um fabricante local. Na determinação do coeficiente de permeabilidade (k) foi construída uma bancada em estrutura metálica constituída de grelha e calha para realização do ensaio. Os resultados da pesquisa convergiram com o disposto na norma técnica cujo escopo tipifica os revestimentos permeáveis, regulamenta o método e o cálculo da eficiência hidráulica dos pavimentos drenantes
