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O presente relatório resulta da implementação de uma unidade didática numa turma de 30 alunos do 7.º ano de escolaridade do Ensino Básico, no Colégio de Santa Doroteia, em Lisboa, realizada no decorrer da Iniciação à Prática Pedagógica, do Mestrado em Ensino de Artes Visuais no …

A wide selection of deterministic and stochastic methods have been developed to conduct nuclear reactor criticality calculations and to improve the efficiency of these methods, a branch of neutronics method research focuses on the acceleration of source convergence process which…

Performance-Based Design (PBD) has gained popularity as a procedure for the seismic design of structures. In order to achieve the objectives of PBD, it is essential to have accurate modelling approaches. Non-linear Time History Analysis (NLTHA) is the most complex technique that…

The thesis explores methods for integration of structural analysis, design and production in a digital design environment. The somewhat ambiguous title implies the ambition to make such integration in relation to the explorative phase of the design process which is described by …

Laser technologies have made distinguished contributions to modern industry. These have typically been realised through the important role played by lasers in the advancement of manufacturing technology in many areas such as welding, which has become an important joining techniq…

Noncommutative Riemannian geometry is an area that has seen intense activity over the past 25 years. Despite this, noncommutative complex geometry is only now beginning to receive serious attention. The theory of quantum groups provides a large family of very interesting potenti…

The purpose of this study was to examine factors related to Indonesian elementary teachers' mathematical knowledge for teaching, and the effectiveness of a professional development program in improving their mathematical knowledge for teaching. Subjects consisted of 167 Indonesi…

We study two problems about embedding groups into metric spaces. In the first problem, we study how the wreath product operation affects the compression bounds for two finitely generated groups when the target space is Lp for p ∈ [1,2]. We show that the wreath product preserves …

The purpose of this study is to investigate how upper elementary school (grades 6 through 8) geometry education in Turkey has developed since the reform movement of 2004. Mathematics education in Turkey revolves around the historical context surrounding the national curriculum, …

Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are considered as potential candidates for "More-Moore" and "More-than-Moore" applications due to their versatile use as sensors, switches, and actuators. Examples include accelerometers for sensing, RF-MEMS capacitive switches in communicat…

Visibility problems in computational geometry have received considerable attention in recent years due to not only their theoretical beauty, but also their wide range of applications in many areas of the real world, e.g., computer graphics, pattern recognition, robotics, etc. Re…

The desire to orient human civilization within the universe is evident in the most ancient structures of the world, including Stonehenge, the Pyramids of Giza and the Pantheon. The baroque architect, priest and polymath, Guarino Guarini (1624–1683), designed seventeen architectu…

The instructional decisions made by classroom teachers impact the learning acquired by students. The Common Core Mathematics Standards and the history of mathematics education in the United States create a background for how geometry standards are taught in one Midwest middle sc…

In recent years, mathematicians working in nonlinear algebra have actively explored the use of algebraic geometry, combinatorics and symbolic computations to answer questions in a diverse field of applications, with an emphasis on statistics and optimization. This dissertation i…

This work enables the computation of material properties, both static and dynamic, from 2D images, and of course, from 3D images. For example, we may compute the porosity of a rock from a microscopy image. Moreover, from that single microscopy image, we can produce a 3D geometry…

As new engines are built, the necessity of improving the initial design grows. The preliminary design of nozzles is one of the most important parts due to being the component that increases the speed of the flow even more than the rest of the engine. There are a lot of factors i…

In 1981 the author submitted that "many of the (then) more recent school syllabuses remain disjointed and give expression still to a school mathematics course as step-by-step progression through a list of disparate topics". The position has not changed. It is not yet generally a…