Plataformas móveis, gamificação e aprendizagem

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Rafael Pereira Dubiela

2014-03-01

Full Text Available Os Professores Rafael Dubiela e André Battaiola da UFPR respondem questões elaboradas por pesquisadores da Universidade Casagrande - UCG/Equador. As perguntas se referem à aprendizagem baseada (que se utiliza de plataformas móveis. Discorrem sobre os recursos disponíveis, as diferenças entre a aprendizagem tradicional e aquela baseada em tais dispositivos, o impacto dos equipamentos móveis na aprendizagem e discutem o que caracteriza o futuro nesta temática. [Idiomas disponíveis: português e espanhol].

Impacto da participação especial em campos gigantes offshore de petróleo Impact of special participation tax in offshore petroleum giant fields

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Rodrigo Mendes Gandra

2006-08-01

Full Text Available Utilizando um cenário como estudo de caso, objetiva-se explorar o impacto econômico da Lei que rege a cobrança da Participação Especial (PE pela Agência Nacional do Petróleo (ANP sobre a decisão de investimento em projetos situados exclusivamente em campos gigantes de petróleo no Brasil. Embora este seja um exercício indutivo sem maiores pretensões, ele pode ser tomado como representativo para retratar a realidade das grandes empresas que têm em seu portfolio oportunidades de desenvolvimento de concessões com grande potencial petrolífero. Subsidiariamente, propõe-se uma alternativa ao modelo de tributação vigente.The main objective of this technical study is to show the economic impact of Special Participation Tax on decisions at projects of investments at Brazilian offshore fields with high production of petroleum. An alternative estimation approach is proposed in this paper for Special Participation Tax to facilitate the economic viability of offshore projects. This technical study is only a exercise of a real situation which big companies face when it have the opportunity to develop concessions with high potential of petroleum. Above all, we propose an alternative way to calculate the assessment.

O acidente da plataforma de petróleo P-36 revisitado 15 anos depois: da gestão de situações incidentais e acidentais aos fatores organizacionais

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Marcelo Gonçalves Figueiredo

2018-03-01

Full Text Available Resumo: O acidente com a plataforma P-36 na Bacia de Campos, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, se configura como um dos grandes desastres internacionais da indústria do petróleo. Nosso objetivo na reflexão aqui empreendida é: (a verificar, com base em um caso específico, a questão do papel que exerce a dimensão humana na confiabilidade de sistemas de elevada complexidade - com foco na gestão de situações incidentais e acidentais -, capazes de acarretar acidentes de grande magnitude. E, ao nos debruçarmos sobre tal intento, somos remetidos à necessidade de (b dar visibilidade à interveniência de alguns dos fatores organizacionais como elementos que podem contribuir para agravar o grau de risco da atividade em plataformas offshore, conduzindo a análise para além das chamadas causas imediatas. No que tange aos métodos de investigação, tomamos por base, principalmente, a pesquisa documental (com destaque para os relatórios da Petrobras, ANP/DPC e CREA-RJ e as interlocuções que mantivemos com três profissionais que atuaram na P-36. Os resultados indicam que a gestão das situações incidentais e acidentais, na qual se circunscrevem as tomadas de decisão em contextos emergenciais, deve se valer da contribuição que os trabalhadores podem agregar no sentido de apontar e discutir com os gestores certas lacunas do processo, por intermédio do compartilhamento e da flexibilização de decisões e da análise coletiva das situações de risco. Indicam também que determinados fatores organizacionais contribuíram para a ocorrência do sinistro, corroborando estudos nacionais e internacionais acerca de grandes acidentes, que apontam para a necessidade de mudança no enfoque adotado pela gerência das empresas do setor petrolífero.

Vídeo pedagógico interativo como prova de conceito para plataforma inteligente de ensino

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Ana Paula Dantas Passos

2014-04-01

Full Text Available O desenvolvimento das tecnologias da informação e comunicação (TICs vem provocando inúmeras reflexões quanto a postura do professor frente a alunos habituados às tecnologias. Promover a interatividade entre aluno e materais pedagógicos e entre professor e aluno é um dos desafios que o video pedagógico O CICLO DA ÁGUA, produzido pela LIGHTRAY Multimedia, vem assumir como prova de conceito da plataforma HORUS de ensino, idealizada por GANDOLLA (2001. Neste artigo estão colocadas, de forma breve, as diretrizes e os conceitos da plataforma, bem como a estrutura da prova de conceito que o vídeo O CICLO DA ÁGUA representa para a avaliação da eficiênia pedagógica do modelo de aprendizagem proposto pela plataforma HORUS, pois o vídeo foi concebido para auto-aprendizagem pelo aluno, seus familiares e professores, e para uso em sala de aula pelo professor, o que é ilustrado pelo breve relato de experiência do uso do video por professores da prefeitura de Monteiro Lobato, município de São Paulo.

Plataformas digitais: reconfigurações e heranças do título jornalístico

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jeferson bertolini

2013-05-01

Full Text Available Os títulos jornalísticos têm sofrido mudanças profundas por conta do consumo de notícias via plataformas digitais. Estão maiores. Perderam a característica história de “dizer muito em poucas palavras”. Em parte, as mudanças se devem às estratégias usadas pelos jornais para posicionar bem suas notícias nos buscadores de internet, cada vez mais acessados. Este artigo pretende apresentar algumas características dos títulos em ambiente digital, recuperar características consolidadas no jornalismo impresso e apontar traços comuns entre ambos.

Performance en plataformas de microservicios

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Kirilov Yankov, Dimitar

2017-01-01

En esta memoria se hace una introducción al ámbito de los microservicios y las tecnologías que los acompañan, describiendo de forma detallada el proceso de creación e integración de una plataforma de alto rendimiento basada en microservicios. Una vez generada la plataforma, se hace un estudio y análisis de su rendimiento en una maquina local cuando hay un gran volumen de peticiones, usando una variedad de pruebas o benchmarks y viendo en que nivel afectan al rendimiento. ...

Plataforma de co-emulação de falhas em circuitos integrados.

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Jorge Arturo Corso Sarmiento

2011-01-01

Este trabalho apresenta uma plataforma e uma técnica para o melhoramento da eficiência da graduação de falhas stuck-at de padrões de teste através do uso de co-emulação de hardware. Os fabricantes de Circuitos Integrados continuamente buscam novas formas de testar seus dispositivos com o intuito de distribuir peças sem defeitos aos seus clientes. Scan é uma técnica bem conhecida que consegue alta cobertura de falhas com eficiência. As demandas por novos recursos motivam a criação de sistemas ...

Efeito agudo dos extensores do joelho unilateral na cadeira extensora com e sem estímulos na plataforma vibratória

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Fernando Roberto Ferreira

2013-10-01

Full Text Available INTRODUÇÃO: Nos últimos anos muitos estudos foram feitos com o objetivo de avaliar a utilização da vibração mecânica como parte de treinamento para melhora do condicionamento físico. Entretanto, a maioria avaliou os efeitos dos exercícios em conjunto com o treinamento vibratório para determinar se havia melhora após o treinamento, sem avaliar os efeitos dos exercícios realizados na plataforma com e sem vibração. OBJETIVO: Avaliar o efeito agudo do exercício nos extensores do joelho, com e sem o estímulo da plataforma vibratória. MÉTODOS: Trinta indivíduos ativos, do sexo masculino, com idades entre 18 e 45 anos, realizaram, de forma randomizada, três protocolos: grupo plataforma ligada (GPL, grupo plataforma desligada (GPD e grupo controle (GC. Cada protocolo começava com aquecimento de cinco minutos em bicicleta ergométrica, com carga entre 75 e 100 watts e 70 rotações por minuto, seguido por seis séries de 10 movimentos de agachamento unilateral com intervalo de um minuto entre elas, com ou sem vibração mecânica, e terminava com o Work Test, realizado apenas no membro inferior dominante para determinação das valências físicas: trabalho, força, potência e velocidade. O grupo controle realizou apenas o Work Test após o aquecimento. RESULTADOS: Apenas a variável velocidade apresentou diferença estatisticamente significante (p < 0,05 quando comparado o GPL ao GC. CONCLUSÃO: O estímulo na plataforma vibratória não exerceu influência nas variáveis trabalho e potência dos extensores do joelho unilateral, mas, na velocidade do movimento, exerceu influência negativa causando fadiga.

Plataformas marítimas para recreo

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Maaskant, H. A.

1963-11-01

Full Text Available At Scheveningen, in Holland, a number of platforms over the sea have been recently set up. These platforms, or piers, constitute a set of recreational units. Each of these platforms, three in number, has a specific function, which is strictly sporting and recreational. One of them is a solarium, another is a fishing base, and the third a restaurant. Each of them is a fine viewpoint towards the sea and the coast. The section of the beach where these platforms are situated is bordered by a great maritime avenue, along which several hotels, amusement establishments and residential blocks are located. Access to these platforms is along a pier consisting of prestressed concrete portal frames. The partial structures making up these platforms have been carefully designed. Various constructional methods were initially proposed, including metallic and timber ones, but prestressed concrete was finally chosen as being the cheapest. The structure consists of a series of columns supporting a flooring deck with reinforcing members, of conventional design. Along the southern part of the United Kingdom there are various seaside piers, but their function is not strictly recreational nor a vantage point to watch the sea: they rather serve various aspects of daily life, which require moments of leisure. It was in this sense that the original project of these platforms was envisaged.Se ha construido recientemente, en Scheveningen, Holanda, una serie de plataformas enclavadas en el mar, con su correspondiente acceso, que constituye un conjunto variado de recreos. Cada, una de estas tres plataformas tiene su misión específica, meramente recreativa: solario, pesca y restaurante. Todas ellas son verdaderos miradores hacia el mar o costa. La zona de playa en la que están situadas las plataformas está bordeada por una gran avenida o paseo marítimo, donde se encuentran varios hoteles, lugares de recreo y bloques residenciales. El acceso a estas plataformas se realiza

Estratégia de offshoring em subsidiárias de corporações multinacionais no Brasil

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Paulo Roberto Gião

2011-01-01

Dentro da área de Negócios Internacionais, uma nova tendência surgiu no início da década de 2000, em complemento ao movimento de outsourcing que já se observava há décadas. Este movimento denominado offshoring passou a ocupar importante espaço na mídia e também em periódicos especializados, onde se procurou entender, caracterizar e delimitar sua abrangência, causas e conseqüências. Este trabalho procura contribuir neste tema através de um survey realizado junto a 172 subsidiárias de multinaci...

MODELO PARA LA INTEROPERABILIDAD DE CONTENIDOS EDUCATIVOS EN DIVERSAS PLATAFORMAS

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Adriana Xiomara Reyes-Gamboa

2014-01-01

Full Text Available Este artículo presenta los resultados del proyecto de interoperabilidad entre plataformas “diseño de un modelo para la interoperabilidad de contenidos educativos en las diversas plataformas basadas en la nube”, el cual busca el correcto despliegue de contenidos audiovisuales en las diferentes plataformas de los dispositivos, el modelo desarrollado se basó en una caracterización de cada una de las plataformas en busca de funcionalidades comunes entre ellas. Este modelo fue validado mediante un caso práctico donde un grupo de personas utilizo el modelo y evaluó su desempeño y despliegue de los contenidos en cada uno de los dispositivos

A autoapresentação dos portugueses nas plataformas de online dating

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Sepúlveda, Rita Adriana Couto Ferreira Corrêa de

2016-01-01

Mestrado em Comunicação, Cultura e Tecnologias de Informação Tem-se vindo a registar um crescimento dos serviços de online dating, quer na quantidade como na diversidade de plataformas disponíveis no mercado. Por um lado, devido a características próprias do meio onde se disponibilizam, oferecem uma maior facilidade e rapidez na obtenção de resultados por outro, devido a mudanças sociais na dinâmica de comunicação e relacionamento mais pessoas recorre a estes. Nesta perspetiva,...

Hiperplasia em túnicas de artérias coronárias de beijupirás criados em sistema offshore

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V.F. Pedrosa

2015-06-01

Full Text Available As lesões coronarianas já foram relatadas em espécies de peixes anádromos, com características semelhantes às observadas em aterosclerose humana, mas não em peixes cultivados sem interferência de padrões reprodutivos. Objetivou-se descrever lesões coronarianas em beijupirá (Rachycentron canadum criado em sistema offshore, em 54 exemplares coletados ao longo do cultivo de oito meses. Amostras de tecido cardíaco de alevinos e juvenis foram submetidas à análise histopatológica e à microscopia eletrônica de transmissão (MET, para visualização de lesões coronarianas, sendo as lâminas histológicas coradas pela técnica de hematoxilina-eosina, ácido periódico de Schiff, alcian blue e reticulina de Gomori. Exames realizados pela fotomicroscopia de luz evidenciaram lesões arteriais caracterizadas por hiperplasia das túnicas íntima e média de artérias coronárias em, respectivamente, 29,63% e 79,63% dos animais, com redução do lúmen arterial. Na MET, foram observadas alterações na estrutura das coronárias com espessamento do endotélio e membrana basal, proliferação de fibroblastos e fibras colágenas, com acúmulo de material lipídico subendotelial, resíduos celulares aderidos à membrana basal e vesículas pinocitóticas com presença de lisossomos isolados. Constatou-se que os peixes da espécie Rachycentron canadum criados em cativeiro desenvolvem lesão arterial do tipo crônica degenerativa inflamatória.

Preparando um ambiente de desenvolvimento para a plataforma android

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Felipe Pires de Oliveira

2015-11-01

Full Text Available Este artigo descreve as etapas para a criação de um ambiente de desenvolvimento para a plataforma Android. O artigo foi dividido em quatro partes: Primeiro uma introdução sobre o assunto. Na segunda seção são mostrados os passos necessários para a configuração do ambiente de desenvolvimento. Na terceira seção, é demonstrado como criar uma aplicação para dispositivo Android que calculo Índice de Massa Corporal (IMC. A quarta seção apresenta as considerações finais. A solução abordada tem como base a IDE Eclipse e o SDK do Android, bem como o Kit de Desenvolvimento Java da Oracle (JDK.

Preparando um ambiente de desenvolvimento para a plataforma android

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Felipe Pires de Oliveira

2015-12-01

Full Text Available Este artigo descreve as etapas para a criação de um ambiente de desenvolvimento para a plataforma Android. O artigo foi dividido em quatro partes: Primeiro uma introdução sobre o assunto. Na segunda seção são mostrados os passos necessários para a configuração do ambiente de desenvolvimento. Na terceira seção, é demonstrado como criar uma aplicação para dispositivo Android que calculo Índice de Massa Corporal (IMC. A quarta seção apresenta as considerações finais. A solução abordada tem como base a IDE Eclipse e o SDK do Android, bem como o Kit de Desenvolvimento Java da Oracle (JDK.

Estudio Comparativo de Plataformas Cloud Computing para Arquitecturas SOA

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Franco Bocchio

2013-10-01

Full Text Available Las plataformas Cloud Computing están fundadas en un paradigma tecnológico moderno que ofrece nuevas alternativas a empresas de diversas envergaduras para implementar modelos de negocios innovadores. Con estos nuevos modelos de negocio las empresas pequeñas pueden hacer uso de las plataformas Cloud Computing disponiendo de la posibilidad de incrementar, tanto progresiva como abruptamente, su capacidad de cómputo y almacenamiento de datos en función de las necesidades y en tiempo real, implicando una oportunidad singular para la competencia de mercado. En adición, las arquitecturas orientadas a servicios otorgan características de grandes beneficios para los sistemas modernos, permitiendo altos niveles de reutilización de funcionalidades, encapsulamiento y nuevas oportunidades para sociedades entre proveedores y consumidores de servicios. En este trabajo se propone, entonces, analizar y comparar las plataformas de los principales proveedores de servicios Cloud Computing, alineados a los distintos modelos arquitectónicos SOA que de las plataformas antedichas se desprenden con el objetivo de encontrar similitudes y diferencias, así como también faltantes.

Condições hidrográficas na plataforma continental ao largo de Ubatuba: variações sazonais e em média escala Hydrographic conditions on the continental shelf off Ubatuba: seasonal and meso-scale variability

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Belmiro Mendes de Castro Filho

1987-01-01

estruturas térmica e halina, tem provavelmente um importante papel na troca de massas de água entre a costa e o talude, contribuindo para o enriquecimento das águas da plataforma continental através dos movimentos ascendentes que ocorrem em seu núcleo.Hydrographic conditions on the continental shelf offshore of Ubatuba have shown different water mass distributions for summer (December, 1985 and winter (July, 1986. Two physical domains were identified: inner shelf and outer shelf, both separated by a front particularly well defined during the winter, The inner shelf has a two layer vertical stratification during summer, with a strong thermocline at mid-depths. During winter this region shows almost no stratification, During summer the upper layer (depths smaller than 20 m is filled with Coastal Water (CW, which interacts with Tropical Water (TW offshore. South Atlantic Central Water (SACA predominates in the lower layer during surrmer. Vertical interaction between CW and SACA is restricted to a band near the coast. During winter SACA does not penetrate towards the coast in the lower layer and, as a consequence, the inner shelf shows the presence of CW only. For winter interactions between CW and SACA are observed only across the front that separates inner and outer shelf. For this season there is also a noticeable intrusion of TW towards the coast on the upper layer of the outer shelf. A descriptive model for the wind driven seasonal circulation of the inner shelf is sugested, based on: 1 the water mass distributions observed and: 2 meteorological conditions from a coastal station located southward of Ubatuba, The outer shelf dynamics seems to suffer strong influence from the Brazil Current. Eddies or meanders with characteristics of frontal eddies, have been observed on both seasons on the outer shelf. These eddies should play an important role on the water mass exchange between the shelf and the slope, contributing for the enrichment of shelf waters by the upward

Avaliação de um Módulo de Reconhecimento de Fala na Plataforma Arduino

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Carlos Alberto Andrade

2016-06-01

Full Text Available O grande avanço tecnológico gerado pela globalização tornou urgente a busca por dispositivos eletrônicos que sejam viáveis, ágeis e práticos. Uma ferramenta poderosa e que cingi todo esse cunho fundamental é a possibilidade de realizar a interação com tais dispositivos por meio do reconhecimento da fala. O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar um módulo de reconhecimento de fala compatível com a plataforma Arduino, identificando seus recursos como também suas limitações. A metodologia adotada incluiu testes de reconhecimento em um ambiente com ruído e uma análise de SNR (Signal-to-Noise Ratio para o microfone que acompanha o módulo. Ao longo deste artigo são apresentados os principais conceitos relacionados ao reconhecimento de fala, sobre a plataforma Arduino e funcionamento do módulo analisado. 

Adoção da plataforma lattes como fonte de dados para caracterização de redes científicas

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Thiago Magela Rodrigues Dias

2016-09-01

Full Text Available http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1518-2924.2016v21n47p16 Os estudos sobre dados de produções científicas têm recebido atenção de pesquisadores, de diversas áreas, que visam obter conhecimento sobre a evolução das pesquisas em geral. Tais estudos possibilitam a análise da produção científica para diversos propósitos e um dos desafios neste tipo de análise está na diversidade de repositórios contendo dados em formatos e estruturas distintas. Os currículos da Plataforma Lattes se caracterizam atualmente como importante ferramenta para que pesquisadores, acadêmicos e estudantes, registrem seus dados, sendo amplamente utilizados, se caracterizando como um dos maiores repositórios de dados sobre produção científica, técnica, artística e profissional, contendo milhões de pesquisadores cadastrados. Neste trabalho é proposta uma plataforma para extração de todo o conjunto de dados dos currículos Lattes compondo um grande repositório de dados científicos, além disso, são implementadas técnicas para análises bibliométricas dos dados e identificação de redes de colaboração científica. Como resultados são apresentados estudos que objetivam obter uma visão geral sobre o repositório de currículos Lattes e como o conteúdo destes currículos pode ser utilizado para a caracterização de redes de colaboração científica. Conclui-se que os currículos Lattes são uma fonte extremamente rica de dados científicos e que sua adoção para estudos bibliométricos e baseados em análise de redes cientificas podem proporcionar resultados importantes para compreensão de como a ciência brasileira tem sido realizada. A grande dificuldade ao se analisar todo o repositório de dados da Plataforma Lattes está relacionada ao grande volume de dados que a compõem e ainda devido ao uso de técnicas, como por exemplo de identificação de colaborações pouco eficientes e computacionalmente complexas. Logo, este trabalho apresenta todo

Pirólise de resíduos poliméricos gerados por atividades offshore Pyrolysis of offshore solid wastes

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Mara L. de Oliveira

2009-01-01

Full Text Available Resíduos plásticos gerados pelas atividades offshore da indústria de exploração e produção de óleo e gás, após caracterização por ensaio de identificação das classes poliméricas e análise térmica, foram pirolisados em atmosfera inerte a 450 °C. Os óleos pirolíticos foram caracterizados por espectrofotometria de infravermelho por transformada de Fourier (FTIR e cromatografia em fase gasosa acoplada à espectrometria de massas (CG/EM, indicando a composição de parafinas, olefinas e aromáticos.Solid wastes from oil and gas offshore exploration and production activities, after characterization of polymeric classes and thermal identification analysis tests, were pyrolysed under an inert atmosphere at 450 °C. The pyrolysis oil was characterized by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR gas chromatography mass spectrometry (CG/EM, indicating high generation of paraffin, olefines and aromatics.

Plataforma para Auxílio ao Ensino de Programação e Robótica Pedagógica

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Vitória Heliane Pereira dos Santos Sobrinha

2016-12-01

Full Text Available Este trabalho descreve uma Application Programming Interface (API, que pode ser utilizada para comunicação e controle de um robô pedagógico. A API foi desenvolvida nas linguagens C++ e Python, que são as primeiras linguagens ensinadas no curso técnico em informática do IFPB Guarabira. Os métodos implementados permitem ao robô andar para frente, andar para trás, virar à direita, virar à esquerda e obter a distância até um obstáculo à frente. A API encapsula toda a complexidade para comunicação e transmissão dos comandos. Junto a ela, está sendo desenvolvida uma Plataforma de Programação Visual  (PPV em Python. Essa plataforma, em conjunto com a API, será utilizada para tornar mais fácil e atrativa a aprendizagem de programação para os alunos iniciantes e alunos surdos. A motivação deste trabalho é utilizar a robótica como uma ferramenta de ensino, ajudando no entendimento de conceitos complexos na área de computação e de outras disciplinas, como física e matemática. Usando a PPV, os alunos poderão aprender com maior facilidade os comandos da linguagem Python, por meio de associação de imagens com os comandos. Devido a essa característica, espera-se que os alunos surdos consigam identificar com maior facilidade os comandos que estão associados às imagens.

Modelo de sistemas de informação técnica baseado numa plataforma SIG

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Almeida, António Manuel Galinho Pires de

2006-01-01

Dissertação apresentada como requisito parcial para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Ciência e Sistemas de Informação Geográfica O presente trabalho pretende desenvolver um modelo conceptual de um Sistema de Informação Técnica (SIT) baseado numa plataforma SIG, aplicado à Industria, mais especificamente à rede eléctrica de uma fábrica, apresentando ao mesmo tempo a metodologia a seguir na integração do modelo numa organização, e as vantagens que uma ferramenta como esta poderá pro...

Desarrollo de una plataforma de crowdfunding distribuida sobre Ethereum

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Calvo María, Adrián; Jacynycz García, Viktor

2015-01-01

Betfunding es una plataforma de crowdfunding distribuida que usa apuestas en lugar de donaciones para promover la producción artística y el trabajo creativo. A diferencia de otras plataformas de crowdfunding, en Betfunding son los inversores quienes proponen un proyecto y buscan creadores mediante la creación de una recompensa por su trabajo. Cualquier persona puede convertirse en creador de un proyecto si se compromete con los usuarios mediante una fianza. La evaluación de éxito o fracaso...

Relationship between force platform and two functional tests for measuring balance in the elderly Relação entre plataforma de força e dois testes funcionais para medidas de equilíbrio em idosos

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André W. O. Gil

2011-12-01

Full Text Available BACKGROUND: Clinical and laboratory methods have been developed to assess the different dimensions of postural control with the aim to increase the clinical relevance of decisions about balance deficit. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to correlate the force platform measurements with two functional tests used to evaluate balance in elderly. METHODS: A total of 124 physically independent elderly volunteers participated in this study. Subjects performed the following three tests: 1 a traditional functional balance test, named the one-leg standing test, which measures the time in seconds at this position; 2 a functionalagility/dynamic balance test, which quantifies the total time in seconds that a subject canstand up from a chair and move as quickly as possible around two cones; and 3 an unipodal balance test on a force platform. RESULTS: The one-leg standing test yielded a mean of 12 seconds (SD=9 s, while the mean time observed in the functional agility/dynamic balance test was 26 seconds (SD=6 s. The correlations between the balance parameters of force platform and two functional tests varied between -0.28 and 0.20, which shows a weak association between them. CONCLUSIONS: Our results support the idea that these functional tests do not necessarily furnish the same information regarding balance mechanisms as the force platform. This study contributes to the evaluation of balance in elderly and suggests that functional tests should be used with caution especially in regards to the purposes of the research and when conducting clinical assessments of the elderly.CONTEXTUALIZAÇÃO: Diferentes métodos clínicos e laboratoriais têm sido desenvolvidos para avaliar as dimensões do controle postural a fim de aumentar a relevância clínica nas decisões quanto ao déficit de equilíbrio. Objetivos: Correlacionar as medidas de plataforma de força com dois testes funcionais usados para avaliar o equilíbrio em idosos. MÉTODOS: Cento e vinte

Plataforma d'autoavaluacio per a Teoria Economica Plataforma de auto-evaluación para Teoría Económica

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Juliette Milgram-Baleix

2009-12-01

Full Text Available En este artículo se describe una plataforma de autoevaluación para alumnos de asignaturas de Teoría Económica de primer ciclo. El objetivo es propiciar la autonomía, el trabajo asiduo y personal y el autoaprendizaje del estudiante. El sistema es aplicable a otras asignaturas, en particular asignaturas que utilizan las herramientas matemáticas y en las que se requieren la corrección de numerosos ejercicios numéricos. Esta plataforma ha permitido aumentar el rendimiento y participación de los usuarios, un seguimiento por parte del profesor del proceso de aprendizaje y una homogeneización de contenidos y criterios de evaluación entre los profesores implicados.

Desenvolvimento de um ambiente virtual de ensino em histologia para estudantes da saúde

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Daniel Fernando Pereira Vasconcelos

Full Text Available As tecnologias da informação e da comunicação (TICs têm sido amplamente utilizadas no ensino da saúde. As plataformas usadas para o desenvolvimento do ambiente virtual de ensino (AVE geralmente apresentam uma linguagem de informática complexa. O objetivo deste trabalho foi desenvolver um AVE em Histologia voltado para estudantes da área da saúde, disponibilizado na internet com o uso de uma plataforma de uso gratuito e livre. O material elaborado utilizou diferentes TICs, como: animações, vídeos, atlas virtual, aulas virtuais, simulados online e chat. Foi desenvolvido um AVE com uso da plataforma online wordpress.org, que apresentou as seguintes vantagens: fácil manipulação, gerenciamento e atualização do site; interface simples; ampla quantidade de plugins disponíveis, que supriram as necessidades primárias do AVE; e utilização gratuita e livre. Embora esse recurso possa facilitar o aprendizado em Histologia, é preciso avaliar sua efetividade.

Racionalidade online: provimento de razões em discussões virtuais

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Ricardo Fabrino Mendonça

Full Text Available Resumo Este artigo se propõe a discutir a ideia de racionalidade que está no coração das abordagens deliberacionistas de democracia. Essa discussão embasa a realização de um estudo empírico focado em um banco de dados com 2.375 comentários sobre direitos LGBT em quatro arenas online: Youtube, Facebook, comentários de notícias e Votenaweb. O objetivo é discutir os principais fatores a influenciar no incremento do provimento de razões por postagens nessas arenas. Na análise, testamos cinco hipóteses: (H1 A chance de postagens apresentarem justificativas depende da plataforma em que se encontram essas postagens; (H2 A chance de postagens apresentarem justificativas é maior em debates em que há equilíbrio entre as posições defendidas; (H3 A chance de postagens apresentarem justificativas tende a ser maior quando há mais reciprocidade; (H4 A chance de postagens apresentarem justificativas é menor se o nível de desrespeito é maior; e (H5 A chance de postagens apresentarem justificativas é menor em mensagens enviadas por anônimos. Os resultados indicam que, entre as variáveis testadas, a "plataforma" e a "presença de respeito" são as mais importantes para induzir o provimento de justificativas.

Determination and environmental estimation of NORMs in marine sediment environment of offshore platforms; Determinacao e avaliacao ambiental de NORMs em sedimento marinho entorno de plataformas offshore

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Vegueria, Sergio F. Jerez, E-mail: sfjerez@vm.uff.br [Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Niteroi, RJ (Brazil). Departamento de Quimica Analitica; Godoy, Jose M., E-mail: rccampos@puc-rio.br, E-mail: jmgodoy@puc-rio.br [Instituto de Radioprotecao e Dosimetria (IRD/CNEN-RJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ (Brazil)

2013-07-01

The natural radioactive materials (NORM known as) are found in the earth's crust, and during the process of production of oil and gas are concentrated in the produced water and the fouling (scale) pipes used for extraction. The production of oil and gas from produced water comes, comprising: forming water (water naturally present in the well ); injection water , usually sea water previously injected into the well to maintaining the pressure while the oil is removed; and water condensed in some cases of gas production. A high radioactivity of {sup 226}Ra (natural grade of {sup 238}U) and {sup 228}Ra (from the natural series of {sup 232}Th) is detected in produced water due to the high solubility of radio in formation water as uranium and thorium, which are insoluble in this medium, remain the rock matrix. The study was conducted in the area of offshore oil production in the state of Rio de January and included the determination of uranium, {sup 226}Ra, {sup 210}Pb and {sup 228}Ra in marine sediment near the points of discharge of produced water from oil platforms. After the pre-treatment and digestion of samples, the determination of the natural uranium was performed on a mass spectrometer with inductively coupled plasma (ICP -MS). The activities of {sup 226}Ra and {sup 228}Ra were determined by high resolution gamma spectrometry through {sup 214}Bi and {sup 228}Ac , respectively. And in the case of {sup 210}Pb, a correction was made for self-absorption employing an external source of this radionuclide. The results showed that there is no impact in sediments in the vicinity of the studied platforms.

Tres grandes plataformas marinas Mar del Norte

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Soulas, R.

1978-03-01

Full Text Available This article analyzes the different building stages of three large sea platforms. After studying the structure's main characteristics, preparing scale models and calculating ail the elements, platform construction was carried out in three stages: — Dry-dock construction of the hull base. — Installation in the water and finishing the structure. — Immersion and bridge installation. Finally, the necessary operations to move the platform to its definite location were carried out. The structures are formed by a parallelepiped hull of reinforced concrete, divided into compartments by means of vertical orthogonals panels on top of which 2 or 4 piles are placed to support the bridge.

En este artículo se analizan las diversas etapas en la realización de tres grandes plataformas marinas. Después de un estudio de las características principales de la estructura, ensayos en modelo reducido y cálculo de todos los elementos, se procede a la construcción de las plataformas en tres fases: — Construcción en seco de la base del casco. — Colocación en el agua y acabado de la estructura. — Inmersión y colocación del puente. Por último, se realizan las operaciones necesarias para llevar la plataforma a su ubicación definitiva. Las estructuras están formadas por un casco paralelepipédico de hormigón armado, dividido en compartimientos mediante tabiques verticales ortogonales y sobre el que se han colocado 2 ó 4 pilas que soportan el puente.

Análise da resistência à corrosão por pite em soldas de reparo pelo processo TIG em aço inoxidável superduplex UNS S32750 Analysis of pitting corrosion resistance in welding repair by GTAW procedure in a superduplex stainless steel UNS S32750

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Juliana Primo Basílio de Souza

2011-06-01

Full Text Available Atualmente, os aços inoxidáveis superduplex (AISD estão sendo muito empregados no Brasil em setores industriais tais como petroquímico, energético, naval e plataformas offshore, tendo vasta aplicação em vasos de pressão em processos críticos, trocadores de calor, reatores, tubulações, umbilicais, digestores, bombas e naqueles componentes onde a produtividade contínua é essencial e o custo não é a maior limitação. No entanto, durante processos de fabricação e montagem, assim como na vida em serviço destes componentes de processo pode existir a necessidade eventual de efetuar soldagens de reparo. Deste modo, o presente trabalho, visa avaliar a microestrutura e os valores de resistência à corrosão por pites na zona termicamente afetada (ZTA e metal de solda do AISD UNS S32750 durante a simulação de um processo de reparo mediante a utilização do processo de soldagem TIG (GTAW. Os resultados obtidos permitem estabelecer diretrizes para a realização de procedimentos de soldagem de reparo em AISD.Currently superduplex stainless steels (SDSS are being extensively employed in the petrochemical, power generation, naval and offshore industries. The uses of these materials are: pressure vessels for critical processes, heat exchangers, reactors, pipes, umbilicals, digesters, pumps and other facilities where continuous use is essential and cost is not the main limitation. However, during fabrication and assembly, or as consequence of service, repair welding operations may be necessary. Thus, in this study a simulation of welding repair by GTAW process was performed in a SDSS UNS S32750. The objective of this work was to evaluate the microstructure and the values of critical pitting resistance (CPT in the weld metal, heat affected zone and base metal. The results obtained allows the determination of welding procedures and recommendations useful to the welding repair of SDSS.

Ultraschall 2013: O Festival de Música Nova em Berlim (Resenha

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Gustavo Alfaix

2013-12-01

Full Text Available Dentre os festivais de música erudita contemporânea que acontecem pelo mundo, o Ultraschall – que acontece anualmente em Berlim – mostra-se como uma das plataformas de afirmação mais disputadas pelos novos compositores, ao mesmo tempo em que dá espaço para uma sustentação do repertório já consagrado desse gênero musical.

Europeana: La plataforma del patrimonio cultural europeo

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José Luis González Olivares

2015-07-01

Full Text Available RAMOS SIMÓN, LUIS FERNANDO y  ARQUERO AVILÉS, ROSARIO (coordinadores. Europeana: La plataforma del patrimonio cultural europeo. Gijón: Trea, 2014, 302 págs. ISBN: 978-84-9704-840-8.Los profesores de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Documentación de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Luis Fernando Ramos y Rosario Arquero han sido los coordinadores de este libro que ofrece una visión muy completa sobre Europeana; el libro se estructura en once capítulos que resultan atrayentes al lector y que va introduciéndole en el contexto y el contenido de Europeana, contribuyendo a conocer y comprender este proyecto nacido en el año 2008, apadrinado por  la Unión Europea, Europeana es una plataforma digital que ofrece acceso al patrimonio cultural y científico de Europa y que desde la lectura de este libro se vislumbra su verdadera magnitud. [...

Aprendizaje autorregulado a través de la plataforma virtual Moodle

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Bárbara Valenzuela-Zambrano

2013-04-01

Full Text Available La utilización de las plataformas virtuales hoy en día es inherente al quehacer docente, razón por lo cual en esta investigación se analiza el uso del software Moodle y su relación con el fomento del aprendizaje autorregulado. Para ello se profundiza en aspectos como la descripción de las principales actividades de fomento del aprendizaje autorregulado, las plataformas de enseñanza virtual y la revisión de investigaciones que han utilizado Moodle. Los resultados dan cuenta del impacto positivo que ha tenido su uso, tanto en docentes como en estudiantes. La plataforma puede utilizarse en el diseño de la mayoría de las actividades autorregulatorias, principalmente en las relacionadas con la promoción de la autoevaluación. Sin embargo, la mayoría de las investigaciones da cuenta de una subutilización de los recursos virtuales y de sus potenciales pedagógicos inexplorados.

Absorption refrigeration cycle applied to offshore platforms; Refrigeracao por absorcao aplicada a plataformas de petroleo

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Ferreira, Maximino Joaquim Pina [KROMAV Engenharia, Rio de Janeiro, RJ (Brazil); Pinto, Luiz Antonio Vaz; Belchior, Carlos Rodrigues Pereira [Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), RJ (Brazil). Coordenacao dos Programas de Pos-graduacao de Engenharia (COPPE)

2004-07-01

To produce cold from the heat seems a task unlikely or even impossible. However, absorption systems produce cooling from heat sources and it exist since the century XIX. In industrial places is very important to improve the energy use, even more in places where the activities involve great costs and incomes. Traditionally the alternatives conflict in the aspects of initial and operational costs. This paper describes the absorption systems operation and its main advantages and disadvantages, when compared to the traditional systems with compressor. The known fact that a vapor compressor system presents larger efficiency is not enough to validate it for all of the applications. In this sense, the initial and operational analysis of the costs of the absorption systems becomes interesting. In spite of, double effect absorption systems are demonstrating the evolution of the absorption cycle in order to obtain better performance. Turbo-generators and Turbo-compressors of the offshore platforms are thermal machines that reject great amount of heat in the exhaust gases. This heat is used for heating of water used in the Process Plant. The processes of separation of the mixture water-oil-gas from the well, for instance, use that heat. Even after the passage of the water in the Plant of Process, the residual heat is still enough for the use in absorption systems. A simulation is done using real data of an offshore platform. Two possible alternatives are compared under technical and economical aspects. Sensibility analysis is also performed in order to verify possible impacts of variations of electric power cost. (author)

Comparativa técnica y prospectiva de las principales plataformas MOOC de código abierto

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Juanan Pereira

2014-01-01

Full Text Available El desarrollo de cursos abiertos masivos online (MOOCs es un fenómeno en pleno auge a nivel mundial. Todos estos cursos se asientan en plataformas tecnológicas cuyas características técnicas conviene tener en cuenta, más aún tratándose de desarrollos de código abierto. Por lo tanto, a la hora de hacer una elección, tan relevante o más que analizar las características funcionales de la plataforma, es analizar los aspectos más técnicos. En este sentido, son importantes en tanto detalles de carácter político: ¿a quién pertenece la propiedad intelectual de la plataforma? ¿bajo qué licencia se distribuyen?, como económicos: ¿ya existe lo que quiero hacer? ¿puedo basarme o reutilizar material existente?, y educativos: ¿cuáles son las principales funcionales técnicas? ¿cómo analizar y adecuar el itinerario formativo del alumnado en función del uso de la plataforma? ¿cómo dar soporte a miles de usuarios concurrentes de forma eficiente y eficaz?.Este trabajo tiene como objetivo contribuir con un análisis técnico comparativo de las principales plataformas MOOC disponibles bajo licencias abiertas, aportando claves que permitan, a los responsables de entidades educativas que vayan a desarrollar sus propios cursos masivos online, tomar decisiones sobre la plataforma a usar. Este trabajo de investigación incluye también un análisis prospectivo sobre las líneas de trabajo futuras en las que están trabajando las plataformas más activas.

Hydrodynamic forces on heave plates for offshore systems oscillating close to the seabed or the free surface

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Garrido Mendoza, Carlos Ariel

2015-01-01

La energía eólica marina es uno de los recursos energéticos con mayor proyección pudiendo contribuir a reducir el consumo de combustibles fósiles y a cubrir la demanda de energía en todo el mundo. El concepto de aerogenerador marino está basado en estructuras fijas como jackets o en plataformas flotantes, ya sea una semisumergible o una TLP. Se espera que la energía eólica offshore juegue un papel importante en el perfil de producción energética de los próximos años; por tanto, las turbinas e...

Análisis de la infoestructura que presentan 22 portales gubernamentales de los países ubicados en la plataforma continental de América

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Octavio Islas

2008-09-01

Full Text Available En este artículo presentaré los resultados que arrojó el estudio de usabilidad de los 22 portales ciudadanos de los países ubicados en la plataforma continental de América. El estudio fue realizado en 2006. Palabras-clave: Economía del conocimiento; portales ciudadanos; gobierno electrónico; internet; información. ABSTRACT This paper presents the results brought by the study of usability of 22 citizen portals of countries that compose America’s continental platform. The study took place in 2006. Keywords: Knowledge economy; citizen portals; electronic government; internet; information. RESUMO Este artigo artículo apresenta os resultados trazidos pelo estudo de usabilidade de 22 portais cidadãos dos países implicados na plataforma continental da América. Este estudo foi realizado em 2006. Palavras-chave: Economia do conhecimento; portais cidadãos; governo eletrônico; internet; informação.

Desempeño del trabajo en equipo y plataformas virtuales educativas

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Gilberto Manuel Córdoba Cárdenas; Ramón René Palacio Cinco; Joaquín Cortez González

2015-01-01

El propósito de este estudio es evaluar el desempeño de los miem- bros de los equipos virtuales en cuanto a la realización de tareas y por el uso de herramientas para identificar factores que impiden el buen desem- peño. Participaron 94 alumnos de la modalidad virtual Se diseñó un ins- trumento para medir el nivel de desempeño de los miembros. Los resul- tados muestran diferencias en el uso de las distintas plataformas. Este es- tudio motiva a la selección de plataformas que promueva que los ...

Offshore degasser vessel capacity versus performance qualitative evaluation for waste water treatment; Avaliacao qualitativa da capacidade versus desempenho de vaso degaseificador em plataformas offshore visando tratamento de agua produzida para descarte

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Melo, Marcel V.; Pereira Junior, Oswaldo de A. [PETROBRAS S.A., Rio de Janeiro, RJ (Brazil); Silva, Daniel B.V.F. [Engineering Simulation and Scientific Software (ESSS), Rio de Janeiro, RJ (Brazil)

2008-07-01

Present work shows a qualitative evaluation of an offshore degasser vessel aiming the improvement of the water processing plant capacity. For such computational fluid dynamics (CFD) allowed the analysis of the flow pattern inside the vessel for different operational flow rates and internal geometries. This vessel is responsible for the process of water final polishing to be disposed into the sea. Original capacity of the vessel is 13.308 m{sup 3}/d, but after some changes in the outlet section, the processing capacity increased to 24.000 m{sup 3}/d, without changing its separation efficiency. However, as newer production predictions state that the new processing capacity should be increased to 26.000 m{sup 3}/d, there is some uncertainty on how would be this vessel behaviour, given the new operational condition. CFD analysis will be used to evaluate the flow characteristics inside the vessel (residence time distribution), therefore providing information on the separation performance for each one of the specified conditions and internal modifications. (author)

Plataformas de datos abiertos: disponibilidad de mercado

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Viena Muirragui Irrazábal

2016-12-01

Full Text Available El documento presenta las oportunidades que dentro del contexto de disponibilidad de mercado existen para el uso de las plataformas open data, ya que no todas las organizaciones tienen recursos propios que sean suficientes para implantar sus plataformas desde una base inicial, siendo por lo tanto necesario requerir aquellas que han sido desarrolladas por empresas expertas en ello; si se considera tomar ésta opción tendrían a resolver el proceso, sin embargo podría constituirse en una pérdida de capacidad de llegar a personalizar y adecuar integralmente la plataforma a las necesidades especificas de la organización que las requiera. Tomando en consideración lo expuesto, en este artículo de revisión se detallan características con las que cuentan  algunas de las plataformas consideradas principales por su aplicabilidad que están disponibles en el mercado, sea a través de un modelo de software gratuito o libre y, también,  con licencia comercial, en otros casos. Los datos que han sido considerados para este análisis se los referencia con respecto a la información que los propios proveedores han proporcionado por medio de documentación que se encuentra publicada por ellos  en la web, como también se ha considerado la experiencia con versiones trial y ejemplos utilizables de manera abierta.   Abstract   The paper presents the opportunities within the context of market availability exist for the use of open data platforms, since not all organizations have their own resources which are sufficient to implement their platforms from an initial base, being therefore necessary to require those that have been developed by expert companies in it; considering taking this option would solve the process, however it could become a loss of ability to reach fully customize and adapt the platform to the specific needs of the organization that requires them. Considering the above, in this review article features are detailed with that feature

Los MOOC en la plataforma educativa MiriadaX

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Rosario Medina Salguero

2014-01-01

Full Text Available Actualmente los procesos formativos en la educación superior se están dirigiendo hacia un novedoso formato que integra tres principios básicos que son gratuidad, masividad y ubicuidad. Estos principios son la matriz de los denominados, con sigla inglesa, MOOC (Cursos Online Masivos en Abierto. Esta innovación disruptiva ha incitado una revolución en la formación universitaria, removiendo la estructura organizativa tradicional de las universidades. Por ello, el presente trabajo describe el entorno MOOC de la plataforma MiriadaX (https://www.miriadax.net/. Asimismo, desarrolla, desde una perspectiva descriptiva, la génesis y fundamentación paradigmática en la que se sustenta esta plataforma y los elementos que la integran. Por último, se muestra los elementos que componen un MOOC y a modo de ejemplificación, la implementación didáctica del workspace del curso https://www.miriadax.net/web/estadistica-investigadores.

PLATAFORMAS PARA GESTÃO DO CONHECIMENTO: ESTUDO DE CASO SOBRE A ATIVAÇÃO DO VALOR DE EXCEDENTES COGNITIVOS POR MEIO DO DESENVOLVIMENTO DE UM CONTEXTO CAPACITANTE VIRTUAL

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José Francisco Rezende

2016-06-01

Full Text Available O estudo de caso descreve e enquadra características de implementação e de utilização de uma plataforma virtual para gestão do conhecimento. A óptica de análise está alicerçada nos construtos teóricos de Von Krogh, Ichijo e Nonaka (2001, de Barney e Hesterly (2007, e de Shirky (2011, que norteiam, respectivamente a criação de contextos capacitantes na formação de valor extraordinário por meio do conhecimento baseado nos excedentes cognitivos de participantes uma organização. A organização observada é uma entidade patronal que congrega associados do setor industrial do estado do Rio de Janeiro. Os achados sobre dois dos quatro ambientes da plataforma apontam a sintonia entre proposições teóricas, antevistas na revisão de literatura, e os resultados de fato, decorrentes do processo de interação entre usuários ao longo da concepção, instalação e ativação da plataforma, potencializando a geração de diferenciais e valor extraordinário em processos, produtos e serviços.

Meios digitais participativos e economia criativa: uma exploração das plataformas Brasileiras de crowdfunding

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César Steffen

2015-04-01

Full Text Available Com a Internet surge o crowdfunding, sistema de financiamento coletivo que permite que pessoas de toda a rede efetuem contribuições para viabilizar um projeto. O Brasil já conta com mais de 59 plataformas com variados objetivos e formas de atuação. Neste artigo serão analisados o crowdfunding e as plataformas brasileiras, seus formatos e regras, de forma a observar suas características e especificidades. Duas plataformas com maior quantidade de projetos foram selecionadas para um aprofundamento da descrição e análise.

Influencia de la rodilla en la amortiguación de vibraciones sobre plataforma oscilante

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Alejandro Bruñó-Soler

2014-01-01

Full Text Available La utilización de plataformas vibratorias se ha extendido en los ámbitos deportivo y clínico. Sin embargo, son escasos los trabajos sobre su correcta utilización y seguridad. En este estudio transversal se registró, en 22 sujetos sanos (23,7 ± 3,7 años, talla 1,75 ± 0,08 m, masa 71,63 ± 14,5 kg con un nivel de actividad física bajo/medio, la aceleración en el eje vertical en la cabeza durante la posición de bipedestación sobre una plataforma vibratoria, en tres angulaciones distintas (180º, 150º y 120º, a tres frecuencias de vibración (5, 16 y 27 Hz y a una amplitud constante (3 mm. El objetivo del estudio fue valorar la influencia de la posición de la rodilla sobre la transmisión de vibraciones desde la plataforma hasta la cabeza. Los resultados indican que la amortiguación de la vibración aumentó con cada incremento en el grado de flexión de la rodilla, siendo la influencia de la posición articular tanto más relevante cuanto mayor fue la frecuencia de vibración de la plataforma (p <0.001. Estos resultados sugieren que para la realización segura de ejercicios en bipedestación sobre plataforma vibratoria a intensidades altas debe evitarse la extensión completa de rodilla.

O novo pleito brasileiro no mar: a plataforma continental estendida e o Projeto Amazônia Azul

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Alexandre Pereira da Silva

2013-01-01

Full Text Available O presente estudo analisa a submissão do Brasil a uma plataforma continental estendida formulada à Comissão de Limites da Plataforma Continental (CLPC. Primeiramente, o trabalho apresenta a evolução dos limites marítimos brasileiros ao longo de sua formação histórica até o momento atual. Posteriormente, examina o conceito jurídico de plataforma continental elaborado pela Convenção das Nações Unidas sobre o Direito do Mar (CNUDM e a atuação da CLPC na fixação dos limites exteriores desse espaço do mar. Na parte final, destaca as implicações das recomendações "definitivas e obrigatórias" dessa instituição internacional sobre os interesses brasileiros na plataforma continental estendida.

Integración de sistemas de comunicaciones móviles inalámbricas en una plataforma GIS

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Casademont Serra, Jordi; López Aguilera, M. Elena; Paradells Aspas, Josep

2002-01-01

El artículo presenta una nueva plataforma desarrollada para la comercialización de servicios avanzados de información geográfica para uso en dispositivos portátiles. La plataforma utiliza las redes de telecomunicación disponibles hoy en día: Internet como red troncal y las redes celulares GSM y GPRS como redes de acceso. La plataforma implementa un sistema para la comercialización de información geográfica en forma de mapas vectoriales, que se pueden adquirir de un ser...

Alliance contract for offshore EPC projects; Acordos de alianca em projetos EPC para instalacoes offshore

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Barbosa, Sergio Gil Sias; Barbosa, Fernando Sampaio [Odebrecht S.A. (Brazil)

2004-07-01

This paper has the objective of divulgation of the Alliance Agreements concepts in Brazil and to promote its practice amongst organizations with complimentary competencies for the execution of EPC offshore projects. These alliances were first adopted in the 80's as part of the outsourcing process in the industry in general and were adapted to suit EPC offshore projects on the North Sea in the 90's, to render feasible some projects that presented high level of prices and risks. The contractual modality of Alliance Agreements is characterized by an integrated project team composed by the best professionals of the client and the contractor. This team is responsible for the engineering, planning, estimation and risk analysis, matching both client's and contractor's viewpoints and needs, focusing on constructability, suitability for the purpose and cost effectiveness, aiming at having a project realized cost closer to the feasibility studies and creating a 'Win Win' type relationship for all partners involved. (author)

Alliance contract for offshore EPC projects; Acordos de alianca em projetos EPC para instalacoes offshore

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Barbosa, Sergio Gil Sias; Barbosa, Fernando Sampaio [Odebrecht S.A. (Brazil)

2004-07-01

This paper has the objective of divulgation of the Alliance Agreements concepts in Brazil and to promote its practice amongst organizations with complimentary competencies for the execution of EPC offshore projects. These alliances were first adopted in the 80's as part of the outsourcing process in the industry in general and were adapted to suit EPC offshore projects on the North Sea in the 90's, to render feasible some projects that presented high level of prices and risks. The contractual modality of Alliance Agreements is characterized by an integrated project team composed by the best professionals of the client and the contractor. This team is responsible for the engineering, planning, estimation and risk analysis, matching both client's and contractor's viewpoints and needs, focusing on constructability, suitability for the purpose and cost effectiveness, aiming at having a project realized cost closer to the feasibility studies and creating a 'Win Win' type relationship for all partners involved. (author)

Implementación de módulos funcionales en plataforma de lectura digital

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Sánchez Force, Jaime

2015-01-01

Hoy en día existen multitud de redes sociales y plataformas dedicadas a servicios de entretenimiento digital, que incrementan su popularidad a pasos agigantados. Entre ellas las plataformas de lectura digital están ganando usuarios a un ritmo enorme, lo que las hace altamente atractivas para poder tener organizada tu biblioteca, encontrar nuevos títulos, compartir experiencias con otras personas, y en definitiva, hacer que la lectura vaya un paso más allá del simple hecho de ab...

Comparação do controle postural em cinco tarefas de equílibrio e a relação dos riscos de quedas entre idosas e adultas jovens

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Gil, André Wilson de Oliveira; Silva, Rubens Alexandre da; Oliveira, Marcio Rogério de; Carvalho, Carlos Eduardo; Oliveira, Deise Aparecida de Almeida Pires

2017-01-01

RESUMO O envelhecimento é um processo natural que acarreta mudanças intrínsecas e extrínsecas ao organismo. O objetivo é analisar cinco tarefas de equilíbrio postural em idosas através da Plataforma de força, correlacionando com o risco de quedas avaliado pelo teste Timed Up and Go (TUG). Participaram do estudo 43 idosos e 40 adultos jovens, todos do sexo feminino, que foram avaliadas em uma plataforma de força com um protocolo padrão: descalças, com os braços ao longo do corpo nas tarefas bi...

Metaversos y educación: Second Life como plataforma educativa

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Israel V. Márquez

2011-05-01

Full Text Available Presentamos en este artículo algunas de las particularidades de los metaversos como nuevos espacios formativos. Tomando como ejemplo el caso de Second Life y a partir de la propia experiencia del autor en este metaverso, se exploran las posibilidades formativas de estas nuevas plataformas audiovisuales 3D así como algunas de sus ventajas y desventajas como plataforma educativa. El estudio de las dinámicas complejas entre avatares y entre el usuario y el propio metaverso nos abren nuevas vías de investigación para el estudio de la educación en el siglo XXI que deben ser exploradas y examinadas por la comunidad educativa y académica por su importancia actual y sus posibles alternativas futuras.   

Diferentes situaciones de aprendizaje y apuntes para la elección de una plataforma tecnológica adecuada

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Pere Lluís Barbarà

2006-01-01

Actualmente existen tres grupos de opciones para la selección de una plataforma tecnológica de aprendizaje a través de las TIC. Por un lado la opción de elaborar una plataforma propia, aunque esta opción que en un inicio fue la alternativa y el modelo, actualmente puede resultar poco recomendable en términos de rentabilidad; la posibilidad de contratar un producto de mercado, y finalmente la utilización de una plataforma elaborada bajo los criterios de "software libre". En cada una de las tre...

Análisis de soldadura de una plataforma para transporte de maquinaria pesada

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Armijo Verdezoto, Ivan Rodrigo; Serano V, Omar

2009-01-01

El presente trabajo trata del “Análisis de Soldadura de una Plataforma para Transporte de Maquinaria Pesada”, así como del costo de construcción de dicha estructura ampliamente usada en el campo del transporte y alquiler de maquinaria en el Ecuador, teniendo también otras diversas formas de uso para esta plataforma siempre y cuando estén dentro del límite de capacidad (30ton); usos tales como transporte de tanques, vigas de grandes dimensiones, etc. Se realizó un análisis previo a la est...

Estratégias discursivo textuais presentes em narr ativas transmídia

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Renata Moschiar Papadópoli Ramos

2014-12-01

Full Text Available Vivemos em um período de intensas transformações proporcionadas pelos avanços tecnológicos. Nesse cenário, surgem novas formas de comunicação: novas estruturas discursivo-textuais, novas formas de produção, de interação e veiculação. O processo de narrativas transmídia é um exemplo oriundo desse cenário. Caracterizam-se por narrativas expandidas por diferentes plataformas de mídias a fim de gerar colaboração, participação e interação do interlocutor. Levando em consideração a amplitude e abrangência das estratégias transmidiáticas, este artigo apresenta uma análise de uma narrativa transmídia do ponto de vista da sua produção, com o objetivo de identificar e caracterizar suas estratégias discursivo -textuais com base nos conceitos da área da comunicação, sobretudo por meio de estudos de Henry Jenkins (2009 sobre narrativas transmídia e da Linguística Textual, principalmente os estudos de Koch (2011 acerca dos fatores de textualidade, com destaque para o conceito de intertextualidade, base do processo de produção transmídia. Nossa investigação se justifica já que se propõe a realizar um estudo mais abrangente em relação às novas formas de produção textual que surgem na atualidade, pois grande parte das pesquisas se encontram no âmbito de análise de textos digitais, isto é, hipertextos, e uma narrativa transmídia compreende além de textos para plataformas de mídia digitais, textos para plataformas de mídia impressa, eletrônica, entre outras.

Plataformas elevadoras para trabajar en árboles frutales de gran tamaño.

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Gil Sierra, Jacinto

2008-01-01

Una de las tendencias en la fruticultura desde hace muchos años es la reducción del tamaño de los árboles. plantándolos en marcos más estrechos. Sin embargo, sigue habiendo huertos con frutales de gran tamaño, como son los tradicionales en los valles de los ríos aragoneses. La única posibilidad de alcanzar la copa de los árboles grandes es recurrir a escaleras o al uso de plataformas elevadoras. En este artículo se analizan las distintas posibilidades de uso de dichas plataformas, sus caracte...

Práticas e consumos dos jovens portugueses em ambientes digitais

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Amaral, Inês; Reis, Bruno Carriço; Lopes, Paula; Quintas, Célia

2017-01-01

Na cultura juvenil, as lógicas de mobilidade, multiscreen e multitarefa permitem equacionar novas práticas mediáticas numa era de convergência das plataformas digitais e dos consumos em cross-media. Neste artigo, descrevemos indicadores de atividades online de jovens portugueses com o objetivo de analisar as suas práticas mediáticas digitais e os consumos em rede que decorrem da apropriação dos recursos técnicos. O estudo empírico foi operacionalizado com recurso ao inquérito por questi...

Marine and offshore pollution regulations for sanitary effluents discharge - 2010 scenario: MEPC.159(55); Legislacao ambiental para o descarte de efluentes sanitarios por navios e plataformas offshore - cenario 2010: MEPC.159(55)

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Canale, Cristiane Lopes de Almeida; Arruda, Jose Eduardo; Miocque, Andre [VICEL, Rio das Ostras, RJ (Brazil)

2008-07-01

In response to the constant increase of the marine environment destruction, due to the exploration of its natural resources, several important international conventions have been edited since the years 60's aiming to improve the control of the pollution in the oceans. Annex IV of MARPOL 73/78 (The international Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships) issued by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) entered in force in August 1st, 2005 establishing international rules for controlling the pollution caused by human sewage discharged from ships and offshore platforms. The rules established by IMO Resolutions go through constant improvements due to frequent innovations on technology, science and politics. Brazil as one of the MARPOL 73/78 Convention signatory countries, applies all the rules determined in this Convention through specific legislation. In October 2006 the IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee established the new resolution MEPC.159 (55) amending the parameters of sewage analysis and the performance tests for Sewage Treatment Units to be installed on board ships and offshore platforms from January 1st 2010, with the purpose to reduce the parameters of the pollution caused by human sewage discharge on board ships and offshore platforms. (author)

Uso de la plataforma Moodle como apoyo a la docencia presencial universitaria

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Ángel Ramón Mirabal Montes de Oca

2015-01-01

Full Text Available Este estudio buscó identificar las competencias tecnológicas de los docentes de una Universidad al utilizar Moodle como complemento a sus clases presenciales. Se analizó el uso de dicha plataforma mediante un enfoque cualitativo-descriptivo, con la participación de cinco docentes. Se realizaron entrevistas y análisis de la utilización de la plataforma, como resultado se identificaron las competencias tecnológicas asociadas al uso de Moodle. Se concluye que las herramientas tecnológicas no son utilizadas a su máxima eficacia para mejorar la práctica del docente, por lo que se recomienda capacitación sobre su uso y beneficios.

Plataforma Blackboard: treinamento dos professores para a eficácia na EaD

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Daniel Serravalle de Sá

2010-08-01

Full Text Available http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1807-9288.2010v6n1p124 O presente artigo faz considerações sobre o uso da plataforma Blackboard Academic Suite como ferramenta de ensino no âmbito do Departamento de Espanhol, Português e Estudos Latino-Americanos (SPLAS na Universidade de Manchester. O que se oferece é um depoimento da experiência do autor enquanto um professor-usuário dessa tecnologia aplicada ao ensino. Reflete-se aqui sobre as funcionalidades da plataforma e a questão do treinamento necessário para utilização plena do programa e o sucesso da experiência educativa.

O processo de outsourcing offshore da função produção: um estudo na Trikke Tech inc

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Israel Ferreira Júnior

2010-11-01

Full Text Available Nos últimos anos, tem aumentado a cada dia o número de empresas que utilizam a estratégia do outsourcing, motivadas principalmente pelos ganhos em economia de custo. O objetivo deste artigo é verificar como empresa inovadora utilizou a estratégia do outsourcing offshore de sua produção com vistas ao aumento da competitividade. Com base em revisão de literatura, identificou-se conceitos, características, motivações e benefícios, riscos e problemas, e os principais países ou destinos da prática do outsourcing offshore. Após o levantamento bibliográfico, pesquisa de campo foi realizada na empresa TRIKKE TECH INC. Os dados foram coletados por meio de entrevistas realizadas com um dos proprietários e fundadores da empresa, bem como pela análise de material institucional e publicação sobre a empresa. Após análise dos dados, foi possível verificar o desenvolvimento do processo de utilização da estratégia de outsourcing offshore, os benefícios obtidos e as dificuldades enfrentadas, bem como as soluções adotadas. A utilização da estratégia de outsourcing offshore tem possibilitado à empresa competir em nível mundial com seu produto, em decorrência dos baixos custos de produção. Apesar dos benefícios obtidos com a parceria realizada, a empresa monitora constantemente o relacionamento para evitar problemas e riscos inesperados, inerentes ao processo de outsourcing offshore.

Terapia de restauración vascular con plataformas biorreabsorbibles. La cuarta revolución

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Darío Echeverri

2014-07-01

Full Text Available Con la aprobación y concesión del Registro Sanitario 201300 4713 del 25 de febrero de 2013, con vigencia hasta el año 2023, por parte del Instituto Nacional de Vigilancia de Medicamentos y Alimentos como órgano oficial del Ministerio de Salud y Protección Social de Colombia, a la plataforma biorreabsorbible Absorb BVS®, con el nombre de stent medicado biorreabsorbible, la introducción de estas plataformas al portafolio terapéutico del cardiólogo intervencionista para el tratamiento de pacientes seleccionados con enfermedad coronaria, ha generado gran expectativa gracias a la seguridad y eficacia que han demostrado en comparación con los stents liberadores de medicamento, con resultados de no inferioridad y con el ofrecimiento de una serie de ventajas por las cuales ha sido considerado la «cuarta revolución». En este artículo se hace una revisión acerca de las plataformas existentes, de su mecanismo de acción, así como de sus potenciales ventajas y limitaciones.

Análisis etnográfico multi-plataforma. Inmersiones en internet y desafíos de campo

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Mariana Loreta Magallanes Udovicich

2017-07-01

Full Text Available Diferentes cuestiones han sido discutidas en torno a la etnografía virtual en el marco de los estudios de internet, tales como los desafíos para la noción de campo, las conexiones online y offline, las implicancias de la mediación tecnológica y los aspectos éticos del proceso de investigación. El artículo se aproxima a un aspecto menos abordado: las interacciones multi-plataforma en sitios de redes sociales en internet (SRS. El estudio etnográfico virtual realizado en la comunidad de profesionales de la comunicación CórdobaPR, permite retroalimentar las discusiones en torno a la inmersión y delimitación del campo, las posibilidades de registro, la sistematización y análisis de información, así como la mutación de plataformas web y migración de usuarios. Sus resultados permiten reconocer los desafíos implicados en el traspaso desde interacciones uni-plataforma a multi-plataforma, las cuales involucran una complejización de los intercambios a través de múltiples capas de software.

ComeDicloud: Plataforma de factura electrònica

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Amorós Carafí, Pol

2016-01-01

Plataforma web que substituirà el software d'escriptori actual de la empresa eDiversa per un sistema més modern que redueixi els costos de manteniment i faciliti la escalabilitat per seguir augmentant el número d'usuaris. Web platform that will replace the current desktop software to a more modern system that reduces maintenance costs and improves scalability to keep increasing the number of users.

Cultura, memória e curadoria digital na plataforma SNIIC | Culture, memory and digital curation in SNIIC platform

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Maria José Vicentini Jorente

2015-05-01

Full Text Available RESUMO O Sistema Nacional de Informações e Indicadores Cultural (SNIIC é uma plataforma convergente e colaborativa que reúne objetos e recursos digitais, com o objetivo de agregar em uma única base de dados informações referentes à cultura e possibilitar o monitoramento das metas e implementação do Sistema Nacional de Cultura (SNC. O objetivo deste trabalho é refletir sobre a atualização dos conceitos de memória em suas instâncias individual, coletiva e, finalmente, digital considerando:(a quais as possibilidades que a plataforma digital SNIIC pode oferecer para a promover de discursos plurais, dar voz e visibilidade à diversidade cultural; e (b qual o seu papel na construção, preservação e disseminação da memória coletiva e do patrimônio cultural. A metodologia da pesquisa qualifica-se por sua natureza bibliográfica, descritiva e exploratória, concentrando-se na abordagem temática da ciência da informação acerca da web colaborativa e seus reflexos para a cultura e memória sociais. Muitos desafios e questionamentos surgem a respeito da participação e colaboração do usuário, assim como dos novos fluxos informacionais por meio de aplicações web, da preservação dos inúmeros registros de atividades e patrimônios culturais, para que sirvam de subsídios na composição da memória individual e social brasileira. Resta-nos conhecer, fazer uso efetivo e disseminar a existência da plataforma cultural, enfatizando sua importância e funcionalidades, estimulando a participação das pessoas a atuarem na construção coletiva da cultura, por meio da apropriação social da informação cultural e mediante as múltiplas formas de interação daí surgidas. Palavras-chave: Memória na Internet; Cultura; Informação e Tecnologia; WebColaborativa; Plataforma Digital. ABSTRACT The Brazilian National System of Cultural Information and Indicators (Sistema Nacional de Informações e Indicadores Cultural - SNIIC is a

AC-RESEARCH/2016 : plataforma digital de difusión para jóvenes investigadores

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García García, Isabel; Chaves Martín, Miguel Ángel

2016-01-01

Los textos que configuran el presente libro son el resultado final del Proyecto de Innovación y Mejora de la Calidad Docente, ACResearch, nueva plataforma digital de difusión para jóvenes investigadores en artes plásticas, arquitectura y comunicación en la ciudad contemporánea que se ha desarrollado durante el año 2015, dando continuidad al proyecto iniciado el año anterior. Su finalidad fue la creación de una plataforma de expansión para jóvenes investigadores a través de la web del grupo de...

Reestruturação produtiva, terceirização e relações de trabalho na indústria petrolífera offshore da Bacia de Campos (RJ Productive reorganization, outsourcing and labor relations in an offshore oil industry in Campos Basin

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Denise Alvarez

2007-04-01

Full Text Available Este artigo analisa as correlações do uso intensivo da tercerização com as relações de trabalho nas plataformas offshore da Bacia de Campos (RJ. Abordamos prioritariamente o intervalo que abrange os últimos 10 anos, período em que acompanhamos de forma sistemática o referido campo empírico. O referencial teórico-metodológico utilizado no curso da pesquisa, na qual se insere esta contribuição, inspira-se com maior ênfase no instrumental da Ergonomia da Atividade e da Psicodinâmica do Trabalho numa perspectiva ergológica. Em nossa análise, além da tendência à precarização do trabalho em sentido mais global, merecem destaque as possíveis perdas no ativo de conhecimento formal e informal (um patrimônio longamente acumulado devido à fragmentação dos coletivos de trabalho, já que consideramos a coesão destes um elemento crucial para a confiabilidade do sistema. Em verdade, a precarização do trabalho contribui para esta fragmentação, e tem como uma de suas causas o avanço pouco criterioso da terceirização, na esteira das várias iniciativas de flexibilização organizacional ligadas à reestruturação produtiva do setor. Isto acarretou conseqüências nefastas para a saúde e a segurança dos trabalhadores indicando que a opção pela terceirização como instrumento de gestão, da forma com que vinha sendo conduzida até recentemente, não estaria considerando tais implicações com o devido rigor.This paper analyses the correlations between the intensive use of outsourcing and labor organizations on offshore oil platforms in the Campos Basin (Rio de Janeiro. We studied and followed the reported empirical field over the last 10 years in a systematic way. The theorist-methodological referential applied in our research, in which this work can be found, was inspired by Ergonomics of the Activity and the Psycho Dynamic of the Work. In our analysis, two aspects should be mentioned: the tendency of increasing

USO DE LA PLATAFORMA VIRTUAL DEL RECINTO URACCAN-NUEVA GUINEA, II SEMESTRE 2012

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Margarita Arastenia Zamora Huete

2013-10-01

Full Text Available Se valora el uso de la plataforma virtual del recinto URACCAN-Nueva Guinea, en el área  de Ciencias Administrativas e Informática, implementada durante el II semestre del 2012. Se desarrolló bajo un enfoque cuantitativo empleando la encuesta como técnica de recolección de datos y entrevistas a fuentes específicas. La investigación da mayor relevancia a la plataforma virtual Moodle y sus características por ser el software educativo utilizado por el recinto universitario para desarrollar los procesos educativos en los entornos virtuales.Los resultados muestran el poco uso de la plataforma virtual, tanto de estudiantes y docentes, aunque la universidad ha realizado esfuerzo por capacitar a los docentes en metodologías a través de entornos virtuales; empero, el diseño de los cursos por algunos docentes no incentiva su uso: son pocos atractivos y no se aprovechan todas las opciones que la plataforma otorga para su uso eficiente. Los estudiantes y docentes ven con buenas expectativas y aprueban de manera complementaria la utilización de plataformas virtuales para el desarrollo de sus clases, ya que existen pocas condiciones en la universidad en cuanto al acceso y equipos para su implementación.SummaryThis study was carried out in order to evaluate the virtual platform use in URACCAN-Nueva Guinea campus, in the area of Administrative Sciences and Informatics, implemented during the second semester of the year 2012. It was developed with a quantitative approach using the survey as a technique for data collection and interviews with specific sources. The research gives major importance to the Moodle virtual platform and its characteristics, for being the educational software used by the campus to develop educational processes in virtual environments.The results show little use of the virtual platform, both by students and teachers, although the university has made efforts to train teachers in methodologies through virtual environments

Estudio de adaptabilidad para dispositivos móviles en plataformas MOOC

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Francisco Brazuelo Grund

2015-01-01

Full Text Available Los MOOC ( Massive Open Online Courses constituyen una modalidad de educación a distancia , reciente , pero con un importante impacto y extensión, especialmente en el ámbito de las instituciones universitarias. Su s principios, enraizados en el conectivismo, permite n un acceso gratuito y abierto a contenidos educativos, fomentando la universalización de la educación y la formación continua. Su difusión se basa en cursos alojados en plataforma s de aprendizaje online y, en parte considerable, el acceso se realiza desde dispositivos móviles. El estudio descriptivo , que a con tinuación se presenta , ha implicado el análisis de 22 plataformas MOOC, nacionales e internacionales, con el propósito de conocer su grado de adaptabilidad ubicua y portable para dispositivos móviles , entre los que se destacan smartphones, phablets y table tas digitales bajo los criterios de visibilidad en pantallas de dispositivos móviles, capacidad responsiva de los contenidos y existencia de versión en forma de App o aplicación móvil . Los resultados muestran limitaciones en la adaptación móvil de plataformas MOOC que condicionan su visib ilidad y, por tanto, plantea la necesidad de una redefinición de los procesos iniciales de diseño , y por ende de sus contenidos, según los principios del Mobile Learning o Aprendizaje Móvil con la finalidad de acomo dar estos cursos a los contextos reales de aprendizaje de los usuarios en situaciones de movilidad.

Plataformas de colheita e colheita manual com trilha mecânica sobre a qualidade de sementes de arroz ( Oryza sativa, L. Harvest header and manual harvest with mechanical strip on rice ( Oryza sativa, L. seeds quality

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Daniel Fernandez Franco

1999-06-01

Full Text Available Durante a colheita do arroz irrigado ocorrem perdas e danos físicos e fisiológicos às sementes. No final da década de oitenta, surgiram as plataformas recolhedoras, que retiram ou arrancam o grão ao invés de cortar a panícula, porém, pouco se conhece a respeito dos danos físicos e fisiológicos que este sistema de plataforma pode causar às sementes. Este trabalho teve por objetivo avaliar os danos mecânicos causados às sementes dos cultivares de arroz BR-IRGA 409 e BR-IRGA 410, por três formas de colheita: (a colheita manual e trilha mecânica; (b colheita com plataforma de corte; (c colheita com plataforma recolhedora. Quando a colheita foi mecânica, realizou-se a coleta das amostras diretamente no graneleiro. O delineamento experimental foi blocos ao acaso, com seis repetições. Os resultados demonstraram que as sementes de arroz irrigado dos cultivares estudados não apresentaram diferenças significativas em suas qualidades físicas e fisiológicas, quando colhidas com plataforma de corte e com a plataforma recolhedora. Estes dois métodos de colheita, porém, apresentaram danos significativamente maiores quando comparados à colheita manual e trilha mecânica.During irrigated rice harvesting occur losses and physical and phisiological seed damage. Late 80's, appeared the strippers headers that strip the grain, instead of cutting the spike. However, little is know about physical and phisiological seed damage by harvest header. The objective of this work was to evaluate the mechanical damage caused to BR-IRGA 409 and BR-IRGA 410 rice cultivars by three harvesting methods: (a manual harvesting and mechanical strip; (b cutterbar harvesting and; (c stripper header harvesting. Samples were collected directly in the grain tank when the harvest was mechanical. The experimental design was randomized blocks with six replications. Results demonstrated that the rice seeds of the studied variety didn't showed significant differences in

Plataforma productiva como fuerza del desarrollo endógeno del sector de manufacturas plásticas

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Maryana Sandrea; Mariby Boscán

2014-01-01

La plataforma productiva de una localidad constituye un soporte a la actividad empresarial, en términos de infraestructura física y servicios conexos, que dependiendo de sus condiciones estimula o frena el desarrollo endógeno. En este contexto, el objetivo general de la investigación consiste en analizar las condiciones de la plataforma productiva como fomento al desarrollo endógeno, en el sector de manufacturas plásticas, utilizando básicamente los aportes de Vázquez (2005 y 2007). El estudi...

Accessing offshoring advantages

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Mykhaylenko, Alona; Motika, Agnes; Wæhrens, Brian Vejrum

2015-01-01

. Assuming that different levels of synergy may exist between particular offshoring strategic decisions (choosing offshore outsourcing or captive offshoring and the type of function) and different offshoring advantages, this work advocates that the actual fact of realization of certain offshoring advantages...

Plataforma de auto-evaluación para Teoría Económica

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Ana Isabel Moro-Egido

2009-12-01

Full Text Available En este artículo se describe una plataforma de autoevaluación para alumnos de asignaturas de Teoría Económica de primer ciclo. El objetivo es propiciar la autonomía, el trabajo asiduo y personal y el autoaprendizaje del estudiante. El sistema es aplicable a otras asignaturas, en particular asignaturas que utilizan las herramientas matemáticas y en las que se requieren la corrección de numerosos ejercicios numéricos. Esta plataforma ha permitido aumentar el rendimiento y participación de los usuarios, un seguimiento por parte del profesor del proceso de aprendizaje y una homogeneización de contenidos y criterios de evaluación entre los profesores implicados.

Plataformas para prospecciones petrolíferas en el mar

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Garnault, André

1968-03-01

ón aparecieron las plataformas flotantes, que eran remolcadas y fijadas en el lugar elegido. La Sociedad francesa Neptune dispone de dos de estas plataformas: la Neptune I y la Neptune-Gascogne, cuyas características de funcionamiento se describen en el presente artículo. Estas plataformas presentan tres puntos de apoyo fijos sobre el suelo; pero, en un futuro próximo, para poder alcanzar mayores profundidades —200 a 300 m— será necesario eliminar estos puntos de apoyo por la servidumbre que representa. Están en estudio plataformas semisumergibles con sistemas de anclaje estáticos o dinámicos y se espera poder realizar pruebas experimentales en breve plazo.

Offshoring de serviços de call center: um estudo comparativo entre Brasil, Índia e África do Sul Offshoring de servicios de call center: un estudio comparativo entre Brasil, India y África del Sur Offshoring of call center services: a comparison of brazilian, indian and south african options

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Paulo Roberto Gião

2009-06-01

Full Text Available O setor de call centers tem apresentado grande desenvolvimento em todo o mundo, impulsionado principalmente pelo avanço observado nas telecomunicações e na tecnologia da informação e pela necessidade de oferecer atendimento aos clientes, em muitos casos sob exigência de órgãos reguladores. Uma forte tendência internacional também tem sido observada no setor, referente ao offshoring (migração de serviços de países desenvolvidos para países emergentes. Este artigo discute o offshoring de serviços de call center e apresenta três objetivos. O primeiro é comparar, a partir de variáveis críticas, a indústria de call centers em três países emergentes: Índia, África do Sul e Brasil. O segundo é entender os motivos que levaram a Índia a ocupar papel de destaque mundial no offshoring de serviços de call center. O terceiro objetivo é entender o que distingue os call centers brasileiros dos indianos no que diz respeito às variáveis relevantes para o offshoring. Para isso, foram analisados dados primários de 235 empresas de call center coletados a partir da aplicação de um survey nos três países analisados. Esses dados são oriundos de uma pesquisa internacional intitulada The Global Call Center Industry Project (GCCIP, que está sendo realizada simultaneamente em vinte países de todos os continentes.El sector de call centers ha presentado gran desarrollo en todo el mundo, impulsado principalmente por el avance observado en las telecomunicaciones y tecnología de la información y por la necesidad de ofrecer atención a los clientes, en muchos casos bajo exigencia de órganos reguladores. Una fuerte tendencia internacional también ha sido observada en el sector, referente al offshoring de servicios de países desarrollados para países emergentes. Este artículo discute el offshoring de servicios de call center y presenta tres objetivos. El primero es comparar, a partir de variables críticas, la industria de call

LA PLATAFORMA ILIAS COMO APOYO A LA DOCENCIA PRESENCIAL EN INGENIERÍA TÉCNICA INDUSTRIAL

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María del Mar Ramos Tejada

2010-01-01

Full Text Available El avance que se ha producido en los últimos tiempos en el área de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación "TIC" supone un reto y una oportunidad en el ámbito educativo. Uno de los aspectos más relevantes de este desarrollo está relacionado con la introducción e implementación de las llamadas plataformas de docencia virtual, basadas en Internet como medio de distribución. En este trabajo describiremos las principales herramientas proporcionadas por "ILIAS", la plataforma de software libre elegida por la Universidad de Jaén. También se propondrá cómo utilizar "ILIAS" como instrumento didáctico para el apoyo de la docencia presencial. Para ello, pondremos el ejemplo de cómo "ILIAS" es utilizada en las asignaturas de Física Eléctrica y Física Mecánica de la titulación de Ingeniería Técnica Industrial en la Universidad de Jaén. Partiendo de tales asignaturas discutiremos qué beneficios puede la plataforma ILIAS aportar a la docencia presencial, a qué dificultades podemos enfrentarnos al utilizarla, y cómo valora el alumnado el uso de esta herramienta. Como conclusión, las plataformas virtuales aportan nuevos recursos educativos a la docencia presencial en aspectos tales como la comunicación, la difusión de materiales didácticos y la evaluación. Estos recursos, pese a sus limitaciones, enriquecen el proceso de aprendizaje y reciben una valoración muy positiva por parte del alumnado.

Una Plataforma Web para Gestionar los Derechos de Propiedad Intelectual Resultantes de la Investigación Universitaria

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Rodolfo Schmal

2011-11-01

Full Text Available Se presenta el desarrollo de un modelo de procesos y una plataforma web para gestionar los derechos de propiedad industrial asociados a los resultados de los programas y proyectos de investigación que se ejecutan en la Universidad de Talca (Chile. El trabajo se inició con una investigación exploratoria seguida de la construcción de un modelo de procesos haciendo uso de la notación BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation. Finalmente se procedió a desarrollar la plataforma web aplicando la metodología de desarrollo ágil de proyectos XP (eXtreme Programming. El resultado alcanzado -el modelo de procesos y la plataforma web-, han posibilitado la formalización de procesos, la definición de reglas, la identificación de roles por parte de los distintos actores involucrados, y están facilitando el monitoreo de las solicitudes de protección de los derechos de propiedad industrial en la Universidad.

Modelo numérico tri-dimensional linear da plataforma continental do Estado do Maranhão Linear three-dimensional numerical model of Maranhão State continental shelf

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José Edson Rodrigues Pereira

1995-01-01

Full Text Available Um modelo numérico hidrodinámico tri-dimensional linear, do tipo Heaps, foi implementado para a plataforma continental do Estado do Maranhão, visando a simulação da circulação gerada por efeitos astronômicos e meteorológicos na área. O modelo foi processado para cinco condições, a fim de calcular a circulação na plataforma devida aos seguintes efeitos: componente de maré semi-diurna lunar principal (M2, composição das principais componentes astronômicas de maré na área, condições meteorológicas médias de verão, condições meteorológicas médias de inverno e forçantes de maré em períodos específicos de interesse. Mapas cotidais e elipses de correntes da componente M2 foram obtidos, sendo esta componente preponderante na circulação local. Elevações e correntes sazonais médias são, em geral, muito menores que as astronômicas, permitindo o uso apenas de forçantes de maré em previsões hidrodinámicas. As simulações do modelo foram satisfatórias na plataforma e menos precisas nas baías e áreas internas rasas, onde atrasos de fase significativos são observados, devido a efeitos de menor escala que a adotada pelo modelo.A linear three-dimensional hydrodynamical numerical model, Heaps type, was implemented to the continental shelf of Maranhão State, aiming the simulation of the circulation generated by astronomical and meteorological effects in that area. Five runs of the model were performed, in order to compute the circulation in the shelf due to the following effects: principal lunar semi-diurnal component (M2, composition of the principal astronomical components in the area, mean summer meteorological conditions, mean winter meteorological conditions and tidal forcing in specific periods of interest. M2 cotidal maps and currents ellipses were obtained, that one being the most important component in the tidal circulation. Mean seasonal elevations and currents are generally much smaller than the

Development of heavy oil fields onshore and offshore: resemblances and challenges; Desenvolvimento de campos de oleos pesados em terra e em mar: semelhancas e desafios

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Branco, Celso Cesar Moreira; Moczydlower, Priscila [PETROBRAS S.A., Rio de Janeiro, RJ (Brazil). Centro de Pesquisas (CENPES)

2008-07-01

The so called offshore heavy oils (API gravity lower than 19) and extra heavy oils (API lower than 10) are receiving increasing importance due to the light oil production decline and also to exploration difficulties. In countries like Canada, Venezuela, China and the US (California) there are immense onshore heavy oil resources sometimes classified as non conventional. Differently in Brazil, onshore heavy oil volumes are modest being important those located in offshore fields (although non comparable to the Canadian and Venezuelan ones). The issue raised in this paper is: the field location, whether onshore or offshore, is always the main constraint in the development process? Well, the question has both a 'yes' and 'no' as an answer. There are important differences but some similarities in the technologies that can be applied. In this text the authors intend to explore this point while at the same time depicting some of the main related aspects under research for proper exploitation of heavy and extra heavy oil assets. The most relevant difference between onshore and offshore heavy oil fields is the application of thermal methods for improved recovery: while worldwide spread and commercially applied to onshore fields, steam injection is not yet viable for offshore operations. The only option for improving recovery in offshore fields is water injection, which has the drawback of producing large volumes of water during the field life. Another aspect is the cost of the production wells: much cheaper onshore they allow well spacing in the order of 100 m or even 50 m whereas in offshore well spacing are in the 1000 m range. From the flow assurance point of view, inland installations can take use of solvents for heavy oil dilution, such as diesel or naphtha. Offshore this option is complicated by the long distances from the wellheads to the producing facilities in the platform, in the case of wet completions. There are also differences regarding the

Estratégias de ensino em enfermagem para colaborar e trabalhar em equipe: revisão integrativa da literatura

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Joana Marques Romeiro

2018-04-01

Full Text Available RESUMO Objetivo Identificar na literatura de Enfermagem, publicada entre 2010-2014, as estratégias de ensino aplicadas pelos docentes na promoção da capacidade de colaboração e de trabalho em equipe no estudante de Enfermagem. Métodos A revisão integrativa da literatura permitiu a seleção dos estudos empíricos publicados em Enfermagem, entre janeiro de 2010 e dezembro de 2014. A pesquisa decorreu em abril de 2015, recorrendo à plataforma EBSCOhost para pesquisa nas bases de dados CINAHL® Plus with Full text, Nursing & Allied Health Collection, Cochrane Collection, MedicLatina e MEDLINE with Full text, Academic Search Complete, Education Research Complete. Resultados Obtiveram-se 18 estudos empíricos. Abordagens acadêmicas baseadas em simulações de alta e baixa fidelidade, “role play”, trabalhos de grupo, debates reflexivos e estágios clínicos foram estratégias empregadas. Conclusões Salienta-se a necessidade de instrumentos que possam ser usados na avaliação da competência de colaborar e trabalhar em equipe nos estudantes do primeiro ciclo de Enfermagem.

Integration of Wave and Offshore Wind Energy in a European Offshore Grid

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Chozas, Julia Fernandez; Sørensen, H. C.; Korpås, M.

2010-01-01

of offshore renewable energy sources. According to this, the paper covers i) public and private initiatives for offshore transmission networks, ii) the synergies between the wave and the offshore wind energy sector within an offshore grid, iii) power transmission options for offshore generation and iv...

Crear dispositivo para personas sordas (plataforma hardware Arduino)

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Codina Barberà, Marc

2013-01-01

El trabajo expuesto en la presente memoria tiene como objetivo la creación de un prototipo de avisos para gente sorda. El sistema se encargará de facilitar la interactuación entre una persona con problemas auditivos y los señales sonoros que pueden hallarse en una casa. El prototipo se ha desarrollado a partir de la plataforma hardware Arduino, un Smartphone con sistema operativo Android y la tecnología de comunicaciones inalámbricas Bluetooth y ZigBee. El treball exposat en aquesta memòri...

Aplicaciones sobre plataformas de redes neuronales en tiempo real

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Tosini, Marcelo Alejandro; Acosta, Nelson

2003-01-01

El presente trabajo pretende el diseño de una metodología para la construcción de aplicaciones basadas en redes neuronales sobre una plataforma Muren. Las aplicaciones se restringen a sistemas de control y reconocimiento de patrones por imágenes. Se describe la arquitectura del sistema de desarrollo Muren, basado en 2 procesadores ZISC de 78 neuronas cada uno, una FPGA Spartan II, bancos de memoria y lógica adicional de comunicación.

Uso de Plataformas para el Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Virtuales en el Modelado de Robot Manipuladores

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Róger E. Sánchez-Alonso

2017-07-01

Full Text Available Resumen: En este trabajo se propone el uso de plataformas para el desarrollo de aplicaciones virtuales como herramientas para el modelado de robots manipuladores. La propuesta se basa en aprovechar el gran potencial que actualmente tienen estas plataformas para solucionar la dinámica de cuerpos rígidos, lo que permite modelar de forma sencilla los aspectos mecánicos del manipulador. Por otro lado, la posibilidad ofrecida por estas plataformas de incorporar código de programación en lenguajes convencionales, permite modelar el comportamiento dinámico de sistemas físicos reales, tales como sensores y actuadores, lo que hace posible la implementación de una etapa virtual de instrumentación y control tal y como se realiza en un robot real. El uso de estas plataformas permite modelar desde cero cualquier robot manipulador. El modelado de un robot paralelo reconfigurable es presentado como caso de estudio. Abstract: This paper describes the use of platforms for the development of virtual applications as tools for modeling of robot manipulators. The proposal is based on take advantage of the potential that these platforms currently have for solving the rigid body dynamics, which easily allows modeling the mechanical aspects of the manipulator. On the other hand, the possibility offered by these platforms of incorporate programming code in conventional languages allows to modeling the dynamic behavior of real physical systems, such as sensors and actuators, which allows implementing the development of the instrumentation and control stage of an industrial robot in the same way as a real one. Using these platforms allows the modeling from the bases of any manipulator robot. The modeling of a reconfigurable parallel robot is presented as a case study. Palabras clave: Modelado, Robots manipuladores, Realidad virtual, Sistemas dinámicos, Keywords: Modeling, Manipulator Robots, Virtual reality, Dynamic systems

Criterios de evaluación de plataformas virtuales de código abierto para ambientes de aprendizajes colaborativos

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Chiarani, Marcela Cristina; Pianucci, Irma Guadalupe; Lucero, María Margarita

2004-01-01

Se comunica aquí una nueva perspectiva de análisis para la consecución de un ambiente de aprendizaje virtual que permita el logro de un ambiente ideal para el desarrollo de aprendizajes colaborativos, utilizando plataformas virtuales de Open Source (OS) Es por ello que, como una primera aproximación a esta tarea, se presenta una propuesta de criterios para la evaluación de plataformas de OS factibles de ser adaptados en esa dirección.

La formación pedagógica para el uso de plataformas virtuales: una asignatura pendiente

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Bermúdez Rodríguez, Francisco; Lapaz Castillo, José Luís; Marqués Calvo, José Joaquín; Voltas Aguilar, Jordi; Fueyo Gutiérrez, Aquilina

2012-01-01

La inclusión de las plataformas o campus virtuales en el ámbito educativo universitario es ya una realidad, no sólo en aquellas instituciones de carácter no presencial o a distancia, sino también en las de carácter presencial, que es donde últimamente más se han introducido estas tecnologías. Aunque las universidades poseen planes estratégico-tecnológicos de introducción de las TIC, la formación recibida por el profesorado para el uso de las plataformas tiende más a una mera presentación de s...

Impacto del uso de la Plataforma Virtual Moodle en el proceso de enseñanza aprendizaje en la Universidad Continental

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Carlos Peralta Santa Cruz

2011-12-01

Full Text Available Objetivos: Determinar el impacto del uso de la plataforma virtual Moodle en el proceso de enseñanza aprendizaje de los estudiantes de pregrado de todas las carreras profesionales de la Universidad Continental. Métodos: La investigación es de tipo exploratorio, descriptivo. La población está conformada por todos los estudiantes matriculados en el semestre 2011-I de pregrado que corresponde a 6370 estudiantes de las distintas carreras profesionales de la Universidad Continental; la muestra fue no probabilística, considerando a 362 estudiantes. Resultados: El conocimiento que tienen los estudiantes respecto al uso de la plataforma virtual Moodle en la Universidad Continental por parte de los estudiantes es de 87%; los estudiantes de la facultad de Ingeniería en un 85% manifiestan que conocen la obligatoriedad de su uso y en la facultad de Ciencias de la Empresa sólo el 89%. Respecto a la frecuencia de uso de la plataforma virtual Moodle, el 34% de estudiantes de la facultad de Ingeniería hace uso diario y en la facultad de Ciencias de la Empresa el 36% de estudiantes. El recurso más utilizado por los estudiantes es la descarga de archivos, que generalmente se trata de material de clase que los docentes publican; luego, el recurso menos utilizado es el chat. Conclusiones: Los estudiantes utilizan la plataforma virtual Moodle en su mayoría para realizar transacciones de descarga de contenidos, es decir como servidores de archivos, luego el uso de los recursos propios de la plataforma virtual diseñados para generar aprendizajes como foros, chats, etc, son de poco uso.

Structural steels for fixed offshore platforms: technical challenges at the Brazilian national supply chain; Acos estruturais para plataformas fixas offshore: desafios tecnicos junto a cadeia de suprimentos nacional brasileira

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Castro, Fabio Modesti Orsini de [Promon Engenharia Ltda., Rio de Janeiro, RJ (Brazil)

2012-07-01

This paper presents the main technical requirements for structural steel applied to the construction of bottom fixed offshore platforms, based on the most widely adopted and recognized actual standards. The mechanical properties and lab tests necessary to fulfill the Risk Management and E and P companies requirements are presented aiming to build the theoretical bases necessary for the engineering design of projects of this kind. The main types of steel available in the national market are presented at the end, giving an overall look at the Brazilian steel supply chain. (author)

Automatic guided wave communication system using steel pipes as communication channel for flood detection in steel offshoreoilrigs; Sistema automatico de comunicacion de ondas guiadas para la deteccion de tubos de refuerzo inundados en plataformas petroleras costa fuera

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Mijarez Cstro, Rito; Martinez Ramirez, Fernando [Instituto de Investigaciones Electricas, Cuernavaca, Morelos (Mexico)

2010-10-09

An automatic guided wave Pulse Position Modulation (PPM) system, using steel tubes as communication channel, for detecting flooding in the hollow sub-sea structures of offshore oilrigs is presented. The system employs two smart piezoelectric based sensors and modulators and a demodulator based on a piezoelectric transducer, a Digital Signal Processor (DSP) and a microcontroller. Experiments performed in the laboratory, in a tubular steel heliport structure and the base of a deck of an oilrig under construction, have successfully distinguished automatically guided wave encoded information. [Spanish] Este articulo presenta un trabajo de investigacion en el cual se desarrolla un sistema automatico de comunicacion de ondas guiadas por modulacion por posicion de pulsos (PPM), orientado a la deteccion de miembros inundados en los tubos de refuerzo de las plataformas petroleras costa fuera. El sistema utiliza de manera novedosa tubos de acero como medio de comunicacion y emplea dos sensores/moduladores inteligentes compuestos de cristales piezoelectricos, electronica basada en un microcontrolador y baterias. La instrumentacion del demodulador consta de un transductor piezoelectrico de ultrasonido, un procesador digital de senales (DSP) y un microcontrolador, el cual lleva a cabo de manera automatica la deteccion de ondas guiadas. Los experimentos se realizaron en aire, en laboratorio, en una estructura tubular de acero del helipuerto y en la base de una plataforma bajo construccion.

Implementación de Plataformas Virtuales de Aprendizaje: Caso de Éxito “Universidad Corporativa de la ACP”

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Martínez, Anthony; Ochomogo, Yenny; Miguelena, Ramfis

2014-01-01

El uso de las plataformas virtuales de aprendizaje ha ido en aumento, permitiendo de esta manera crear entornos de enseñanza-aprendizaje en donde se integren contenidos didácticos y herramientas que faciliten la comunicación, colaboración y gestión educativa. A partir de esta premisa y con el objetivo de implementar este tipo de plataformas en diferentes organizaciones de nuestro país, se presenta este artículo, en donde queda plasmada la metodología que se utilizó en la implementación de la ...

Fatigue Reliability and Calibration of Fatigue Design Factors for Offshore Wind Turbines

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Sergio Márquez-Domínguez

2012-06-01

Full Text Available Consequences of failure of offshore wind turbines (OWTs is in general lower than consequences of failure of, e.g., oil & gas platforms. It is reasonable that lower fatigue design factors can be applied for fatigue design of OWTs when compared to other fixed offshore structures. Calibration of appropriate partial safety factors/Fatigue Design Factors (<em>FDF> for steel substructures for OWTs is the scope of this paper. A reliability-based approach is used and a probabilistic model has been developed, where design and limit state equations are established for fatigue failure. The strength and load uncertainties are described by stochastic variables. SN and fracture mechanics approaches are considered for to model the fatigue life. Further, both linear and bi-linear SN-curves are formulated and various approximations are investigated. The acceptable reliability level for fatigue failure of OWTs is discussed and results are presented for calibrated optimal fatigue design factors. Further, the influence of inspections is considered in order to extend and maintain a given target safety level.

Diferentes situaciones de aprendizaje y apuntes para la elección de una plataforma tecnológica adecuada

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Pere Lluís Barbarà

2006-12-01

Full Text Available Actualmente existen tres grupos de opciones para la selección de una plataforma tecnológica de aprendizaje a través de las TIC. Por un lado la opción de elaborar una plataforma propia, aunque esta opción que en un inicio fue la alternativa y el modelo, actualmente puede resultar poco recomendable en términos de rentabilidad; la posibilidad de contratar un producto de mercado, y finalmente la utilización de una plataforma elaborada bajo los criterios de "software libre". En cada una de las tres opciones existen aspectos a considerar, aunque posiblemente actualmente muchas docentes se inclinan por el uso de plataformas de "software libre". Sin embargo y en la actualidad, la plataforma tecnológica no es el más importante de los tres actores a tener en cuenta en un proyecto docente basado en las TIC. Los contenidos o materiales tienen una mayor relevancia, y hay que dar mas importancia todavía, al papel a jugar por el profesor o el tutor en el proyecto docente. Con respecto a los contenidos, la tendencia a elaborar materiales basados en animaciones y un mayor dialogo se impone, así como para determinados proyectos las simulaciones de determinadas operaciones. Pero uno de los mayores valores añadidos que hay que tener en cuenta para el éxito de un proyecto docente basado en las TIC, es la capacidad de dinamización del mismo y la creación de un ambiente colaborativo por parte del profesor/tutor. Estos tres elementos que podemos tildar de "actores" en el proceso de aprendizaje con el uso de las TIC, serán fundamentales en el momento en que la sociedad decida realizar un cambio revolucionario en la educación, si consigue a través de proyectos mundiales como "Laptop for children" socializar el acceso a la información y al conocimiento.

Diferentes situaciones de aprendizaje y apuntes para la elección de una plataforma tecnológica adecuada

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Pere Lluís Barbarà

Full Text Available Actualmente existen tres grupos de opciones para la selección de una plataforma tecnológica de aprendizaje a través de las TIC. Por un lado la opción de elaborar una plataforma propia, aunque esta opción que en un inicio fue la alternativa y el modelo, actualmente puede resultar poco recomendable en términos de rentabilidad; la posibilidad de contratar un producto de mercado, y finalmente la utilización de una plataforma elaborada bajo los criterios de "software libre". En cada una de las tres opciones existen aspectos a considerar, aunque posiblemente actualmente muchas docentes se inclinan por el uso de plataformas de "software libre". Sin embargo y en la actualidad, la plataforma tecnológica no es el más importante de los tres actores a tener en cuenta en un proyecto docente basado en las TIC. Los contenidos o materiales tienen una mayor relevancia, y hay que dar mas importancia todavía, al papel a jugar por el profesor o el tutor en el proyecto docente. Con respecto a los contenidos, la tendencia a elaborar materiales basados en animaciones y un mayor dialogo se impone, así como para determinados proyectos las simulaciones de determinadas operaciones. Pero uno de los mayores valores añadidos que hay que tener en cuenta para el éxito de un proyecto docente basado en las TIC, es la capacidad de dinamización del mismo y la creación de un ambiente colaborativo por parte del profesor/tutor. Estos tres elementos que podemos tildar de "actores" en el proceso de aprendizaje con el uso de las TIC, serán fundamentales en el momento en que la sociedad decida realizar un cambio revolucionario en la educación, si consigue a través de proyectos mundiales como "Laptop for children" socializar el acceso a la información y al conocimiento.

Occupational health offshore

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Crosbie, A.; Davies, F.

2002-07-01

The proceedings contain the 29 papers presented at the conference plus the opening address from the chair of the Health and Safety Commission. The papers in the first session were concerned with policy, strategy and leadership and included a perspective from the offshore industry advisory committee, details of a health planning tool for occupational health assurance and lessons from occupational health management in the offshore sector. The two sessions on the second day dealt with occupational health in the offshore design process and case studies involving physical, chemical and biological agents. Topics included the need to consider occupational health when designing offshore installations, the development of a human factors engineering strategy in petrochemical engineering projects, measuring occupational exposure to hazardous chemicals, implementation of the noise at work regulations, hand arm vibration syndrome and issues with potable water maintenance. The two sessions on the third day were concerned with human factors and psychological health, and well-being and fitness for duty. Topics covered included circadian adaption to shift change in offshore shift workers, managing stress in the offshore environment, the role of employee assistance programmes in organisational stress management, health care and first aid (the revised ACOP), well-being at work, the medical and physical fitness of offshore emergency response rescue team members, the impact of health surveillance and promotion of offshore accident rates, and the implication of safety and heath of the aging of the workforce ion the Norwegian offshore industry.

Offshoring Process

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Slepniov, Dmitrij; Sørensen, Brian Vejrum; Katayama, Hiroshi

2011-01-01

The purpose of this chapter is to contribute to the knowledge on how production offshoring and international operations management vary across cultural contexts. The chapter attempts to shed light on how companies approach the process of offshoring in different cultural contexts. In order...... of globalisation. Yet there are clear differences in how offshoring is conducted in Denmark and Japan. The main differences are outlined in a framework and explained employing cultural variables. The findings lead to a number of propositions suggesting that the process of offshoring is not simply a uniform...... technical-rational calculation of the most efficient organisation of activities across national borders, but it is rather specific to the parent companies’ national contexts....

Regressão linear geograficamente ponderada em ambiente SIG

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Luís Eduardo Ximenes Carvalho

2009-10-01

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Este artigo aborda considerações teóricas e resultados da implementação em ambiente SIG de um modelo confirmatório de estatística espacial — regressão linear geograficamente ponderada (RGP — não disponível em ambiente livre. Os aspectos teóricos deste modelo local de regressão espacial foram amplamente discutidos em virtude da escassa bibliografia existente. O modelo RGP foi implementado na linguagem de programação GISDK do SIG-T TransCAD, utilizando compreensivamente as ferramentas de manipulação, tratamento georreferenciado dos dados e rotinas de análise espacial disponibilizadas em plataformas SIG. Ao final, espera-se ter desenvolvido, ainda que de maneira parcial, uma importante ferramenta que contribuirá para a compreensão e refinamento da modelagem de fenômenos geográficos tão amplamente analisados em estudos de Planejamento de Transportes.

Offshore Investment Funds

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Shang-Jin Wei

1999-12-01

Full Text Available Offshore investment funds are alleged to have engaged in trading behavior that is different from their onshore counterparts because they may be subject to less supervision and regulation. In particular, they may trade more intensely. They could also pursue more aggressively certain trading strategies such as positive feedback trading or herding that could contribute to a greater volatility in the market. Using a unique data set, this chapter compares the trading behavior in the Korean stock market between offshore investment funds with their onshore counterparts registered in the US and UK. There are a number of interesting findings. First, there is indeed evidence suggesting that the offshore funds trade more intensely than their onshore counterparts. Second, however, there is no evidence that the offshore funds engage in positive feedback trading. In contrast, there is strong evidence that the funds from the U.S. and U.K. do. Third, while offshore funds do herd, they do so far less than onshore funds in the U.S. or UK. Fourth, offshore funds hold less glamour stocks (e.g. stocks with high P/E in their portfolio than funds in the U.S. or U.K. do. Moreover, flight to glamour stocks during the in-crisis period is less evident in the case of offshore funds. In sum, offshore funds are no especially worrisome monsters.

SISTEMA MÓVEL ANALISADOR DE FALTA EM LINHAS DE ALTA TENSÃO

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David Calhau Jorge

2017-01-01

Full Text Available Este trabalho apresenta uma ferramenta móvel desenvolvida para simular um relé de distância, dispositivo muito utilizado para acusar falhas em linhas de alta tensão. Os dados colhidos da rede elétrica são simulados por um microcontrolador, sendo posteriormente enviados a um celular com sistema operacional Android versão 2.3. Através de uma transmissão GSM (Sistema Global para Comunicações Móveis os dados podem ser recebidos em qualquer lugar sendo encaminhados a uma rede neural que mostrará se a falta está em determinado trecho de proteção. O objetivo do trabalho não é mostrar apenas o software Android ou a rede neural, mas como a mobilidade pode dar significativa contribuição para o setor de energia elétrica. Além de simular o relé de distância, através da rede neural, os dados adquiridos são inseridos em um banco de dados, o que produz um repositório que traz informações sobre as falhas em uma rede de alta tensão. Através da geração de gráficos, torna-se possível analisar o histórico de eventos em determinada rede elétrica e até mesmo alterar os parâmetros de funcionamento do microcontrolador. O intuito do trabalho é mostrar que as redes neurais artificiais podem substituir, com eficiência, o tradicional cálculo de faltas em linhas e mostrar, também, que o atual estágio de software/hardware dos dispositivos móveis já permite executar aplicações pesadas, a priori utilizadas em computadores pessoais. Cálculos outrora feitos em desktops e mainframes podem migrar para plataformas móveis, o que traz mobilidade. Inúmeros aplicativos, como os jogos, exploram o poder de processamento destas novas gerações, porém ainda são poucos os programas focados em sistemas elétricos de potência que estão presentes em plataformas móveis. O uso de redes neurais artificiais aliadas aos dispositivos móveis representa grandes ganhos às empresas fornecedoras de energia, as quais realizam inúmeros c

Whether and What to Offshore?

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Jensen, Peter Ørberg; Pedersen, Torben

In this article, we explore the idea that offshoring of services and technical work should be regarded as a dynamic process that evolves over time. Firms gradually move from offshoring of simple, standardized activities towards offshoring of advanced activities when they accumulate experience...... with offshoring, and this type of offshoring comes with an entirely different set of characteristics compared to traditional, cost-seeking offshoring. Based on a unique survey among the total population of firms in the eastern region of Denmark, we analyze some of the dynamics of this process through a model...... that incorporates two different aspects of the process of offshoring. First, we approach the question of whether to offshore and establish a baseline that investigates the determinants of firms’ participation—or lack thereof—in offshoring. Secondly, we approach the question of what to offshore and the subsequent...

Pig lift applications in offshore dry completion wells; Aplicacao do pig lift em pocos offshore de completacao seca

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Lima, Paulo C.R.; Faria, Rogerio Costa; Almeida, Alcino Resende [PETROBRAS S.A., Rio de Janeiro, RJ (Brazil)

2000-07-01

Production increases of 10% to 130% have been obtained with pig lift installations on offshore oil wells in the Cacao Field, southeast Brazil. At the present time 3 wells out of 5 are being produced with pig lift. These deep, highly deviated wells with little space on the platform to the required surface equipment presented a challenge to pig lift technology. However, these difficulties were overcame and the benefits obtained helped to maintain the economical attractiveness of the platform. (author)

Práticas linguísticas em Big Data

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Vinícius Vargas Vieira dos Santos

2017-01-01

RESUMO: O presente artigo objetiva tratar possíveis relações entre novas mídias digitais e certos aspectos conceituais da linguagem, como significado e performatividade. Big data é o termo que se refere ao acúmulo de dados digitais que caracterizou as mídias de comunicação em massa nas duas últimas décadas e está diretamente relacionado à atual configuração da plataforma de serviços de tecnologia Web 2.0. As escalas de desmedido volume e variedade de dados digitais e altos índices de velocida...

Industrial opportunities - offshore

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Gerrits, D.J.

1998-01-01

Industrial opportunities available in the Canadian offshore petroleum industry are discussed. Oil has been produced offshore from Nova Scotia since 1992, and offshore from Newfoundland since 1997. Special needs that must be addressed in offshore operations in eastern Canada such as the cold North Atlantic environment, isolation, logistics, safety, and quality assurance, are examined. The most obvious opportunities lie with the designing, building and installing the facilities needed to extract oil and gas from beneath the sea floor and transport it to market. However, there are also opportunities in designing and fabricating clothing, customized food containers and other equipment for offshore needs. Short term opportunities also exist in the decommissioning of depleted production fields and their facilities. One of the greatest obstacles facing new entrants into the offshore oil and gas industry is the lack of a track record. To meet this challenge, the ability to seek out partners to pursue local and international opportunities through joint ventures, strategic alliances and technology sharing partnering arrangements is of great importance. It may be the difference between success and failure. 6 figs

From Offshoring to Backshoring

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Slepniov, Dmitrij; Madsen, Erik Skov

2015-01-01

The purpose of this paper is to examine the evolution of offshoring over time. The paper employs qualitative methodology and on the basis of two case studies of Danish companies, it develops a framework conceptualizing the stages of offshoring and highlights the factors driving the transition...... between these stages. The framework challenges the linear nature of offshoring and proposes the existence of ‘the pendulum effect’. The pendulum effect suggests that the modes of offshoring (i.e. captive and non-captive) and geographies of offshoring (i.e. home and abroad) are not static; rather...

Financiamento coletivo no cinema brasileiro: um panorama a partir da plataforma Catarse = Collective fnancing in brazilian cinema: an overview from the platform Catarse

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Valiati, Vanessa Amália Dalpizol

2015-01-01

Full Text Available Este artigo busca compreender o sistema de financiamento coletivo aplicado a projetos da área audiovisual e também traçar o perfl das obras financiadas, verifcando de que forma o crowdfunding está inserido no mercado audiovisual brasileiro. Para delimitar o objeto desta pesquisa, o estudo tomará como base o funcionamento e os dados fornecidos pela plataforma on-line de financiamento coletivo Catarse, a maior do gênero no País em número de projetos e arrecadação. Diante do cenário observado, a pesquisa indicou que o crowdfunding tornou-se uma opção viável para o financiamento de obras de baixo orçamento e alternativa para realizadores iniciantes ao complementar os meios tradicionais de captação de recursos

Too much or too little of R&D offshoring : The impact of captive offshoring and contract offshoring on innovation performance

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Steinberg, Philip; Procher, Vivien D.; Urbig, Diemo

2017-01-01

Innovating firms may acquire foreign knowledge and improve their innovation performance by offshoring their R&D activities to their own foreign affiliates (captive offshoring) as well as by contracting out their R&D to external foreign parties (contract offshoring). This study examines the impact of

Plataforma de ensayo de inductancias para convertidores estáticos

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Román Lumbreras, Manuel; Velasco Quesada, Guillermo; Conesa Roca, Alfons; Pérez Delgado, Raúl; Codina, Albert; González, Jaime

2009-01-01

Reproducido con autorización del Grupo Tecnipublicaciones Este artículo presenta una plataforma para la realización de ensayos, en condiciones reales, sobre las inductancias que se instalarán en serie entre los convertidores estáticos y la red eléctrica en centrales solares fotovoltaicas con un consumo mínimo sin necesidad de convertidores y paneles para la generación fotovoltaica. Su finalidad es servir tanto para el ensayo y el control de la calidad de las inductancias fabric...

Diversidad de peces demersales en la plataforma continental del Ecuador

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Coello, D.; Herrera, M.

2010-01-01

A partir de información colectada de cuatro cruceros de investigación a bordo del B/l Tohalli, se analiza la diversidad de peces óseos y elasmobranquios presentes en la plataforma continental del Ecuador. Los valores medios de diversidad estimados indican que tanto las poblaciones de peces óseos y condrictios demersales hasta los 120 m de profundidad presenten heterogeneidad, con un grado significativo de organización. Las fluctuaciones en el índice de diversidad en las diferentes subáreas y ...

Safety in offshore engineering an academic course covering safety in offshore wind

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Cerda Salzmann, D.J.

2011-01-01

Offshore projects are known for their challenging conditions, generally leading to high risks. Therefore no offshore project can go without a continuous and extensive assessment on safety issues. The Delft University of Technology is currently developing a course "Safety in Offshore Engineering"

Problemática jurídica de la economía colaborativa: especial referencia a la fiscalidad de las plataformas

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Lucas Durán, Manuel Jesús

2017-01-01

La economía colaborativa, entendida como las transferencias de bienes y servicios realizadas entre particulares conectados a través de una plataforma de internet, está cada vez más extendida. Ello no obstante, su reciente irrupción ha generado una serie de dudas en lo que respecta a la normativa aplicable a la misma y, particularmente, en relación con las obligaciones fiscales (materiales o formales) que han de cumplir las plataformas a través de las que se gestionan este tipo ...

Offshore in depth

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Ebdon, J F

1968-08-01

The world-wide scope of offshore areas is discussed. Offshore areas of the U.S. and the world are where one of the ''hottest'' hydrocarbon booms--drilling, production, and pipelining--are in action today. Most of the current activity in offshore exploration and drilling is crude oil directed. However, big non-associated natural gas finds have been made. Additionally, for every barrel of crude oil produced, either or both associated natural gas and dissolved natural gas are produced in some varying ratio as casinghead gas. Thus, with worldwide production of some 2.5-million bbl of crude oil per day from offshore areas of Free-World countries, there are vast volumes of casinghead natural gas produced, over and above that produced from non-associated natural gas wells to the seaward of land masses. If offshore gas of any classification is produced in commercial volumes close to onshore population centers, then the possibility of marketing is fairly good. If remote from population centers, it is usually flared or shut-in. The development of gas liquefaction and cryogenic tankers has started, but international ocean traffic in LNG is still in its infancy. Current offshore gas pipelines are described.

A intera??o tutor-alunos em EAD: protagonistas de a??es de leitura e escrita

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Soares, Inaldo Firmino

2010-01-01

Sob os alicerces da Lingu?stica Aplicada, que vem focalizando as atividades linguageiras a partir de diferentes enfoques te?ricos, este trabalho resulta de uma pesquisa sobre as a??es de linguagem nas intera??es realizadas por alunos e tutores de um curso de Especializa??o em Ensino a Dist?ncia, a partir da plataforma Moodle, e os reflexos dessas a??es no desenvolvimento e aprimoramento da linguagem verbal desses sujeitos. O tema foi abordado ? luz do Interacionismo Sociodis...

Educação Permanente em Saúde e Manoel de Barros: uma Aproximação Desformadora

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Eluana Borges Leitão de Figueiredo

Full Text Available RESUMO Trata-se de uma reflexão que promove diálogo entre pressupostos da Educação Permanente em Saúde (EPS e proposições desformadoras do poeta Manoel de Barros, com o objetivo de contribuir para a transvisão da formação e do trabalho em saúde. Optou-se por desvelar tal aproximação com base nos versos do poema “As lições de RQ”, que funcionaram como plataforma para os saltos reflexivos. A discussão encontrou respaldo principal em Paulo Freire e Adolfo Sanchez Vázquez, uma vez que caminhou na perspectiva de uma práxis revolucionária, transformadora e libertadora.

Utilidad de una plataforma educativa en línea para la especialidad de urgencias médico-quirúrgicas en México

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Jorge Loria-Castellanos

2014-06-01

Full Text Available OBJETIVO: Determinar la utilidad de una plataforma educativa tipo Moodle para el desarrollo del conocimiento en residentes de la especialidad de urgencias médico-quirúrgicas (UMQ. MÉTODOS: Estudio cuasiexperimental que comparó los resultados en las evaluaciones departamentales de los residentes de la especialidad de UMQ de dos unidades hospitalarias mexicanas, posterior a desarrollar sus actividades académicas con diferentes estrategias educativas. El grupo control desarrolló actividades de forma tradicional (sesiones magistrales, discusión dirigida, mientras que el grupo comparativo realizó actividades en plataforma tipo Moodle, a través de diferentes recursos (foros, chats, wikis, subida de archivos. Se empleó estadística no paramétrica. El estudio fue realizado en los ciclos académicos 2010 - 2011 y 2011 - 2012, disponiéndose de tres versiones del curso en línea según el grado académico de los residentes (primero, segundo o tercer año. RESULTADOS: Se encontraron diferencias estadísticamente significativas en las evaluaciones de mitad de ciclo académico, las cuales registraron un incremento en las evaluaciones de fin de ciclo, principalmente en los residentes de tercer año. En ambos ciclos académicos, las evaluaciones de mitad de ciclo informaron que solo un residente del grupo control se ubicó en el rango medio, mientras que la mayoría lo hizo en los rangos bajos. Los recursos más utilizados dentro de la plataforma Moodle fueron la subida de archivos (77% y el foro (63%. El 46,4% de los residentes refirieron algún tipo de limitación al momento de emplear la plataforma, siendo la principal la falta de tiempo (76,9%. CONCLUSIONES: El empleo de una plataforma educativa tipo Moodle parece ser de utilidad y tener mayores alcances en el desarrollo de conocimientos en comparación con las estrategias tradicionales. Se recomienda implementar estrategias educativas apoyadas en plataformas tipo Moodle tanto en la especialidad

Curación de contenidos en bibliotecas mediante plataformas social media

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Guallar, Javier

2016-01-01

English abstract. The use of content curation by libraries in social media platforms is analyzed. Social media analyzed are Scoop.it, Paper.li, Flipboard, Storify, Milq, List.ly, Facebook and Twitter, with many examples of use by libraries. Spanish abstract. Se analiza el uso de la curación de contenidos por bibliotecas en plataformas de medios sociales. Los medios sociales analizados son Pinterest, Scoop.it, Paper.li, Flipboard, Storify, Milq, List.ly, Facebook y Twitter, con variados ejempl...

Avaliação do potencial do turismo marítimo-desportivo em Cabo-Verde: uma análise a partir da população residente

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Semedo, Mirian Benair Fernandes Lopes

2015-01-01

O presente estudo tem como objetivo principal avaliar o potencial do turismo marítimo-desportivo em Cabo Verde. Uma análise a partir da população residente. Como instrumento de recolha de dados recorreu-se ao questionário, aplicado a uma amostra de duzentos residentes em Cabo Verde. O preenchimento dos questionários decorreu na versão online na plataforma googledrive. O questionário foi dividido em quatro secções distintas: 1) A caraterização sociodemográfica dos praticantes do turismo maríti...

Offshore risk assessment

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Vinnem, Jan-Erik

2014-01-01

  Offshore Risk Assessment was the first book to deal with quantified risk assessment (QRA) as applied specifically to offshore installations and operations. Risk assessment techniques have been used for more than three decades in the offshore oil and gas industry, and their use is set to expand increasingly as the industry moves into new areas and faces new challenges in older regions.   This updated and expanded third edition has been informed by a major R&D program on offshore risk assessment in Norway and summarizes research from 2006 to the present day. Rooted with a thorough discussion of risk metrics and risk analysis methodology,  subsequent chapters are devoted to analytical approaches to escalation, escape, evacuation and rescue analysis of safety and emergency systems.   Separate chapters analyze the main hazards of offshore structures: fire, explosion, collision, and falling objects as well as structural and marine hazards. Risk mitigation and control are discussed, as well as an illustrat...

Offshore wind energy developments

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Stolpe, Mathias; Buhl, Thomas; Sumer, B. Mutlu

2014-01-01

This chapter will give a brief overview of a few of the activities within offshore wind energy research, specifically 1) Support structure optimization, 2) Blade coatings for wind turbines; 3) Scour protection of foundations, 4) Offshore HVDC and 5) Offshore wind services....

Un prototipo de plataforma de ciudades inteligentes : Aplicación para la protección ciudadana en el departamento de Godoy Cruz

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Iacono, Lucas; Pacini, Elina; Godoy, Pablo; García Garino, Carlos; Monge, David A.; Catania, Carlos

2017-01-01

Como objetivo general se propone implementar una plataforma de Ciudad Inteligente en el departamento de Godoy Cruz, Mendoza, destinada a la seguridad ciudadana. Se propone recolectar datos a través de la interconexión de redes de sensores inalámbricos (WSN), que serán utilizados para integrar la plataforma de Ciudad Inteligente. La integración de WSN y Cloud Computing da lugar a infraestructuras denominadas Cloud de Sensores, las cuales pueden aplicarse a ciudades inteligentes. En este ...

Comportamiento de los tejidos óseo y mucoso perimplantarios con la utilización de un sistema de implantes dentales de plataforma estrecha. Un año de seguimiento

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Fernández Formoso, Noelia

2012-01-01

Se asignaron un total de 43 pacientes en dos grupos: grupo control con implantes convencionales y grupo test con implantes de plataforma estrecha. Se procedió a medir los siguientes parámetros: medición del nivel óseo y medición de los tejidos blandos. Se utilizaron dos métodos radiográficos: método convencional y la técnica modificada. Resultados: 1)nivel óseo: la pérdida de tejido óseo con plataforma estrecha mejora los resultados obtenidos con plataforma convencional, 2)tejidos blandos: me...

Domestic R&D and Offshoring

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Junge, Martin; Sørensen, Anders

2017-01-01

survey and register data. No evidence is found for a lower probability of own R&D after offshoring takes place compared to before. Moreover, offshoring does not lead to lower R&D intensity in general. However, firms that offshore R&D activity have larger R&D intensity after offshoring has taken place...

Current trends in offshore technology

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Korsgaard, J.

1994-01-01

Although this is a technical symposium concerning advances in the technology of producing oil and gas offshore, a keynote address would not be complete without mentioning non-technical factors which are extremely important for the business of producing oil and gas offshore. These are political factors and economic factors. Offshore operations are an easy target for political forces that are opposed to marine operations involving the production and transfer of hydrocarbons. For example, the oil pollution act of 1990 was a reaction to the Exxon Valdez grounding in Alaska and this act has added significantly to the risk and cost of operating offshore. Another example of this is that it is becoming more and more difficult to dispose of produced water offshore. Producing oil and gas offshore is a business that competes with other energy sources such as coal and oil and gas from wells on land. The offshore oil can only compete with these other resources by providing the same product at a competitive price. Since offshore operations are inherently more costly than land operations, the offshore oil field or gas field must be significantly larger than a land field in order to be produced. Also the offshore oil field or gas field is more susceptible to environmental risks from weather. On a more positive note, there are technical developments which are taking place and have continuously taken place to make offshore oil and gas both more economic and safer to produce. These developments are briefly discussed

Offshoring and International Competitiveness

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Ørberg Jensen, Peter D.; Pedersen, Torben

2012-01-01

During the past decade, offshoring has become an established business practice. Yet it is still more common to offshore less advanced tasks compared with offshoring more advanced tasks, i.e., tasks closer to the core activities of the firm. The latter is a new phenomenon which raises many new iss...

Offshore Transmission Technology

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NONE

2012-10-15

The purpose of this document is to give an overview of offshore electricity transmission technologies. In particular this document is concerned with the use of High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) systems and more specifically with the development of Voltage Source Converter (VSC) technology. This report outlines the current state of the main technology groups required for offshore HVDC transmission as well as giving examples of offshore projects (both current and future). Finally some indications of likely unit costs for HV assets are given.

Lenguaje específico de dominio para la definición de la plataforma en el desarrollo de software dirigido por modelos

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Jiménez Dorado, Juan Camilo

2014-01-01

Los enfoques tradicionales de Desarrollo de Software Dirigido por Modelos (MDSD) basados en la vista funcional han arrojado resultados positivos en los últimos años, no obstante, han presentado dificultades en aspectos como: el soporte multi-plataforma, la expresividad de los modelos y la intervención de las transformaciones. Este trabajo presenta una propuesta de modelado de la plataforma (vistas lógica y física de una aplicación), dentro de un enfoque multi-vistas para MDSD, de tal forma qu...

Outsourcing software development offshore making IT work

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Gold, Tandy

2004-01-01

THE OFFSHORE IMPERATIVECrunching the Offshore Numbers: What the Financials PortendWelcome to the Definitive Guide on Offshore OutsourcingSetting the Stage: The Compelling Offshore StoryOffshore Outsourcing versus Traditional IT OutsourcingChallenges of Offshore OutsourcingChapter SummaryGetting Started in OffshoreExecutive Support and Communications: The Key to SuccessA Look at an Example of Enlightened Leadership: Handling Employee Impact at a Northeast Utilities CompanyWell-Planned and Executed Communications: A Critical Success Factor for Offshore Program InitiationEstablishing the Offshore

Offshore wind energy prospects

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Gaudiosi, Gaetano

1999-01-01

In last two years offshore wind energy is becoming a focal point of national and non national organisations particularly after the limitations of fossil fuel consumption, adopted by many developed countries after Kyoto conference at the end of 1997 on global climate change. North Europe is particularly interested in offshore for the limited land areas still available, due to the intensive use of its territory and its today high wind capacity. Really the total wind capacity in Europe could increase from the 1997 value of 4450 MW up to 40 000 MW within 2010, according the White Paper 1997 of the European Commission; a significant percentage (25%) could be sited offshore up to 10 000 MW, because of close saturation of the land sites at that time. World wind capacity could increase from the 1997 value of 7200 MW up to 60 000 MW within 2010 with a good percentage (20%) offshore 12 000 MW. In last seven years wind capacity in shallow water of coastal areas has reached 34 MW. Five wind farms are functioning in the internal seas of Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden; however such siting is mostly to be considered as semi-offshore condition. Wind farms in real offshore sites, open seas with waves and water depth over 10 m, are now proposed in North Sea at 10-20 km off the coasts of Netherlands, Denmark using large size wind turbine (1-2 MW). In 1997 an offshore proposal was supported in Netherlands by Greenpeace after the OWEMES '97 seminar, held in Italy on offshore wind in the spring 1997. A review is presented in the paper of European offshore wind programs with trends in technology, economics and siting effects. (Author)

Assessing offshore wind potential

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Adelaja, Adesoji; McKeown, Charles; Calnin, Benjamin; Hailu, Yohannes

2012-01-01

Quantifying wind potential is a pivotal initial step in developing and articulating a state’s policies and strategies for offshore wind industry development. This is particularly important in the Great Lakes States where lessons from other offshore environments are not directly applicable. This paper presents the framework developed for conducting a preliminary assessment of offshore wind potential. Information on lake bathymetry and wind resources were combined in simulating alternative scenarios of technically feasible turbine construction depths and distance concerns by stakeholders. These yielded estimates of developable offshore wind areas and potential power generation. While concerns about the visibility of turbines from shore reduce the power that can be generated, engineering solutions that increase the depths at which turbines can be sited increase such potential power output. This paper discusses the costs associated with technical limitations on depth and the social costs related to public sentiments about distance from the shoreline, as well as the possible tradeoffs. The results point to a very large untapped energy resource in the Michigan’s Great Lakes, large enough to prompt policy action from the state government. - Highlights: ▶ We build a theoretical framework for modeling offshore wind power production. ▶ Illustration of the impact of technology and social limitations on offshore wind energy development. ▶ Geospatial modeling of the offshore wind potential of the Great Lakes.

Wind energy in offshore grids

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Schröder, Sascha Thorsten

special characteristics of offshore grids. With an operational real options approach, it is furthermore illustrated how different support schemes and connections to additional countries affect the investment case of an offshore wind farm and the income of the transmission system operator. The investment...... and investment implications under different regulatory frameworks are a hitherto underrepresented research field. They are addressed by this thesis. Offshore grids between several countries combine the absorption of wind energy with international power trading. However, the inclusion into an offshore grid......This cumulative PhD thesis deals with wind integration in offshore grids from an economic point of view. It is composed of a generic part and eight papers. As the topic has mostly been analysed with a focus on topology and technical issues until now, market-operational questions in offshore grids...

The Hidden Costs of Offshoring

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Møller Larsen, Marcus; Manning, Stephan; Pedersen, Torben

2011-01-01

of offshoring. Specifically, we propose that hidden costs can be explained by the combination of increasing structural, operational and social complexity of offshoring activities. In addition, we suggest that firm orientation towards organizational design as part of an offshoring strategy and offshoring......This study seeks to explain hidden costs of offshoring, i.e. unexpected costs resulting from the relocation of business tasks and activities outside the home country. We develop a model that highlights the role of complexity, design orientation and experience in explaining hidden costs...... experience moderate the relationship between complexity and hidden costs negatively i.e. reduces the cost generating impact of complexity. We develop three hypotheses and test them on comprehensive data from the Offshoring Research Network (ORN). In general, we find support for our hypotheses. A key result...

Offshore Wind Energy Market Overview (Presentation)

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Baring-Gould, I.

2013-07-01

This presentation describes the current international market conditions regarding offshore wind, including the breakdown of installation costs, how to reduce costs, and the physical siting considerations considered when planning offshore wind construction. The presentation offers several examples of international existing and planned offshore wind farm sites and compares existing international offshore resources with U.S. resources. The presentation covers future offshore wind trends and cites some challenges that the United States must overcome before it will be able to fully develop offshore wind sites.

Offshore investments-cui prodis? Schrodinger's cat in offshore financing: Both alive and dead

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Stepuk Anna

2014-01-01

Full Text Available Trends of FDI in offshore tax havens were compared to efforts and efficiency of regulatory authorities to prevent money laundering. Based on available data it was stated that current position in offshore FDI stays alive and officially dead at the same time, keeping the balance of interests for the main stakeholders: corporations, authorities and financial institutes support further offshore investments. Analysis based on volumes of trade and financial transactions between offshore centers, developed and developing countries. As a result withdrawal of financial resources from the developing countries degrades social capital funding and supports corruption growth.

Conceptualização de serviços de interfaces em contextos de telemedicina

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Teixeira, Cristina Rosária Ferreira

2010-01-01

O presente estudo pretende propor a conceptualização de uma plataforma de telemedicina, que permita a profissionais de saúde trabalhar e estar em contacto, sob paradigmas de comunicação e partilha de informação da web 2.0. Focalizada nas interfaces de teleconsulta e telediagnóstico, toda a conceptualização de design de interacção tem preocupações de usabilidade. Assim sendo, torna-se necessário compreender o contexto e as necessidades inerentes à execução de tarefas labor...

Control del dron a través de la plataforma Mocap

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Callejón Bosque, Miguel Angel

2017-01-01

El objetivo del proyecto consiste en desarrollar un software para poder controlar el dron a través de la plataforma mocap instalada en la universidad. Mediante el servidor del mocap se recibirán las coordenadas del actor y/o de los cuerpos rígidos y el software será capaz de procesarlas para enviarle a través del módulo de radio frecuencia las ordenes de movimiento necesarias para que el dron llegue a las coordenadas correctas. También el software dispone de una interfaz gráfic...

Plataforma smartphone para biossensores de espectroscopia de infravermelho próximo

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Queirós, André Ricardo Cabral

2014-01-01

O tema “Plataforma smartphone para biossensores de Espectroscopia de Infravermelho Próximo”, surge no âmbito da instrumentação médica, na área das BCI – Brain Computer Interfaces, devido à necessidade de encontrar um dispositivo portátil, de custo acessível e elevada performance que permita obter informação acerca da actividade neuronal do córtex motor no decorrer duma determinada tarefa. O objectivo do trabalho consiste no desenvolvimento duma sonda capaz de detectar as alterações hemodin...

BOAS PRÁTICAS PARA A CONCEPÇÃO DE UMA PLATAFORMA LOGÍSTICA DE BENS NÃO PERECÍVEIS: UM CASO DE EMPREENDEDORISMO SOCIAL

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Luisa Margarida Carvalho

2011-06-01

Full Text Available A multimensionalidade dos fenómenos da pobreza e da exclusão social obrigam ao encontro de diversos actores na procura de soluções participadas. O envolvimento de diversas organizações em parceria para a resolução de problemas e necessidades sociais pode ser encarado como uma solução inovadora que potencia práticas de empreendedorismo social. Neste âmbito a criação de um Mercado Social de bens não perecíveis na cidade Setúbal - Portugal envolvendo diversas entidades, nomeadamente Instituições Particulares de Solidariedade Social (IPSS, Câmara Municipal de Setúbal e Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal formam uma rede de cooperação cujo objectivo base se centra na resolução de problemas sociais em tempos de crise. Este estudo tem como objectivo descrever as boas práticas que suportaram a concepção da plataforma logística para o Mercado Social de bens não perecíveis, apontando caminhos e procedimentos passíveis de disseminar noutros contextos e formas de transferência de conhecimento do ensino superior para a comunidade local.

El proyecto europeo TENCompetence: plataforma para el desarrollo de competencias a lo largo de la vida

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Hernández-Leo, Davinia

2009-01-01

Hernández-Leo, D., "El proyecto europeo TENCompetence: plataforma para el desarrollo de competencias a lo largo de la vida" IX Jornadas de Promotores de Formación Continua - III Jornadas E-Learning en la Administración Pública, Valladolid, Spain, 24 junio 2009(in Spanish)

Offshoring research directions

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Velthuijsen, Hugo

2012-01-01

Outsourcing and offshoring provide companies with ways to achieve their business objectives better or more cost effectively or despite a shortage of specific resources. From a research point of view, outsourcing and offshoring have mostly been studied as something that large companies do, not small

National Offshore Wind Energy Grid Interconnection Study

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Daniel, John P. [ABB Inc; Liu, Shu [ABB Inc; Ibanez, Eduardo [National Renewable Energy Laboratory; Pennock, Ken [AWS Truepower; Reed, Greg [University of Pittsburgh; Hanes, Spencer [Duke Energy

2014-07-30

The National Offshore Wind Energy Grid Interconnection Study (NOWEGIS) considers the availability and potential impacts of interconnecting large amounts of offshore wind energy into the transmission system of the lower 48 contiguous United States. A total of 54GW of offshore wind was assumed to be the target for the analyses conducted. A variety of issues are considered including: the anticipated staging of offshore wind; the offshore wind resource availability; offshore wind energy power production profiles; offshore wind variability; present and potential technologies for collection and delivery of offshore wind energy to the onshore grid; potential impacts to existing utility systems most likely to receive large amounts of offshore wind; and regulatory influences on offshore wind development. The technologies considered the reliability of various high-voltage ac (HVAC) and high-voltage dc (HVDC) technology options and configurations. The utility system impacts of GW-scale integration of offshore wind are considered from an operational steady-state perspective and from a regional and national production cost perspective.

Offshore concrete structures; Estructuras Offshore (mar adentro) de Hormigon

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Lamas Pardo, M.; Carral Couce, L. M.

2011-07-01

In the offshore industry there are two possible materials for the construction of the hull of a structure; the steel and concrete, with the first one widely used until now, as in the rest of the shipbuilding industry of merchant ships, warships, etc. Materials such as aluminum, GRP or timber areused in small units with lengths lower than 100 m, and in less adverse conditions than in the offshore industry. Nevertheless, some ships/barges have been built of concrete in the past, but have been rather isolated cases which have not changed the practice in the industry. In the First and Second World War were built by the scarcity of materials, while the series of barges by Alfred A. Yee was a rare exception. Other units were also made in concrete, but almost anecdotal. Still, the behaviour of these concrete structures, especially in terms of maintenance, has been excellent. Therefore, the fact that the concrete has not had an adequate reception so far in shipbuilding, does not mean that in will not be the material best suited for the offshore industry in the future. The extra displacement and associated fuel costs in concrete ships have been found prohibitive in the past. But the loss of mobility of a concrete hull in relation to a steel hull can be perfectly offset by the advantages offered by the concrete, as the shipping and offshore industry have very different priorities. One of the main differences in these priorities is in terms of maintenance and resistance to fatigue, precisely where the concrete performs better. ships can easily be dry docked for maintenance and repair, while in the offshore platforms these works have to be done in situ so maintenance and fatigue are crucial to them. Besides these, the concrete has other advantages according to findings of several studies. And although they are interested in the conclusions that the makes as they came from people in the concrete industry, the fact that in recent years concrete offshore unit shave been built

Offshore investments: Denmark shows the way

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1998-01-01

This article presents an overview of the use of wind power in Denmark and discusses the tremendous growth in the manufacture of wind turbines since 1981 with Denmark holding some 60% of the worlds' wind turbine market. The move to offshore wind farms is explained in terms of the shortage of land and the quality of the offshore wind, and details of the Tuno Knob pilot offshore wind farm are given. Offshore wind power in Europe, the challenges to offshore operations, the costs involved, environmental effects of the use of offshore wind, and the growing amount of wind power capacity are discussed

Global offshore pipeline markets

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Knight, R.; Parsons, B.

2001-01-01

In this article, two experts forecast a recovery in the offshore pipeline market followed by accelerating growth. A number of clearly definable macro trends are affecting the world offshore oil and gas industry and will be of considerable significance to the offshore pipelines industry. The authors' view is of markets that show every chance of enjoying long-term growth prospects driven by the fundamentals of a continuing increase in demand for offshore oil and gas. The offshore industry however has a highly cyclical nature, due to the impact of variations in oil and gas prices and the differing state of maturity of individual regions. Therefore those companies that are able to offer the widest range of pipe types and diameters and methods of installation across the greatest range of geographic markets are likely to prosper most. Thus, this continues to be a market best suited to those able to operate on a global scale and make a corporate commitment measured in decades

Panorama 2012 - Offshore hydrocarbons

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Serbutoviez, Sylvain

2011-12-01

Technological progress is enabling production from offshore oil and gas fields at increasingly ambitious depths (3, 000 metres). Investment in offshore production is running at around $100 billion per year, accounting for one-fifth of all investment in oil exploration and development worldwide. However, the global economic crisis that broke at the end of 2008 and the accident involving the Macondo well temporarily disrupted the race to deep offshore technology. (author)

Comparison of growth rates estimated by otolith reading of Scorpaena porcus and Scorpaena notata caught on artificial and natural reefs of the northern Adriatic sea

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Giuseppe Scarcella

2011-01-01

Full Text Available Despite the high number of studies on fish assemblages associated with artificial reefs and offshore platforms, little information exists on the growth rates of fish living on artificial and natural substrates. Age and growth was determined throughout otolith reading on two commercial scorpionfishes (Scorpaena porcus and Scorpaena notata caught in the surroundings of artificial structures (artificial reefs and gas platforms and natural habitats. Von Bertalanffy growth parameters were calculated for each species separately for each site. Age of S. porcus and S. notata ranged from 0 to 8 years and from 0 to 16 years, respectively. Kimura test applied to Von Bertalanffy growth curves indicated that the individuals of both species inhabiting the artificial structures had higher growth parameters than those caught in the natural habitat. The presence of artificial habitats in the northern Adriatic Sea positively affects growth rates and growth performance of both species, likely for the greater prey availability in respect to the natural open sea.Apesar do elevado número de estudos sobre as assembléias de peixes associadas a recifes artificiais e plataformas offshore, existe pouca informação sobre as taxas de crescimento dos peixes que vivem em substratos artificiais e naturais. A idade e crescimento foram determinados pela leitura de otólitos em dois peixes escorpião comerciais (Scorpaena porcus e Scorpaena notata capturados nas imediações de estruturas artificiais (recifes artificiais e plataformas de gás e habitats naturais. Parâmetros de crescimento de von Bertalanffy foram calculadoss separadamente para cada espécie e cada local. A idade de Scorpaena porcus e Scorpaena notata variou entre 0 e 8 anos e 0 e 16 anos, respectivamente. O teste Kimura aplicado às curvas de crescimento de Bertalanffy indicaram que os indivíduos das duas espécies que habitam as estruturas artificiais tinham parâmetros de crescimento mais elevados do que

Evidências da evolução dos sistemas de paleodrenagens na plataforma continental da região de São Sebastião (litoral norte do estado de São Paulo

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Luis Américo Conti

2009-11-01

Full Text Available Este trabalho apresenta aspectos da relação entre a evolução da paleodrenagem e evolução do nível do mar pós Ultimo Máximo Glacial (UMG para a região da plataforma continental da região de São Sebastião, Litoral norte do Estado de São Paulo – Brasil. Para tal, foram analisados modelos topográficos de detalhe da região de Plataforma Continental a partir de Modelos Digitais de Terreno além de dados de subsuperfície obtidos a partir de linhas sísmicas de alta resolução. Dois grandes sistemas de paleodrenagens foram identificados e descritos para a área. Ambos os sistemas fluviais apresentam boas evidencias de preservação tanto em topografia de fundo (ainda que recoberto por sedimentos transgressivos marinhos quanto em subsuperfície, associado a feições de corte e preenchimento (escavação de superfície regressiva erosiva. O conjunto de evidencias do estabelecimento de paleodrenagens foi denominado neste trabalho como Sistemas Canal/Vale (SCV. No caso da região estudada, é possível observar que os registros dos SCVs apresentam dimensões consideravelmente grandes (tamanho dos vales/canais em relação à atual rede de drenagem costeira na área. Modelos descritos na literatura sugerem que rápidas transgressões marinhas tendem a amplificar o efeito erosivo da passagem da linha de costa e afogamento dos canais o que poderia explicar a incongruência entre as características dos sistemas hidrológicos atuais e os registros geológicos e geomorfológicos, sugerindo que os processos de subida do nível do mar pós UMG deve ter sido rápido o suficiente, na região estudada para que pequenos canais fluviais (como o Rio Juqueriquerê tenham sido fortemente erodidos, formando feições como vales e canais escavados de dimensões consideráveis

Estudo do envelhecimento de poliuretanos aplicados na indústria de petróleo Study of ageing of polyurethanes applied to the offshore industry

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Fabio G. Aquino

2010-01-01

Full Text Available O Brasil é mundialmente renomado como um líder na extração de petróleo, em águas profundas e ultra profundas. Dentro da cadeia produtiva, grande parte do petróleo e do gás produzido é escoada através de dutos flexíveis que conectam os poços de produção às plataformas. Quando estão apoiadas no fundo do mar, em condição de serviço estático, os dutos flexíveis são denominados flowlines e quando se elevam do fundo do mar até a plataforma, em condição de serviço dinâmico, são denominados risers. Os tubos projetados para aplicações dinâmicas são dotados de bends stiffeners, componentes com formato cônico e, em geral, de base uretânica que têm a função de fornecer uma transição entre a estrutura dos tubos, de rigidez suave, e a plataforma, extremamente rígida. Este trabalho abordou a variação das propriedades mecânicas de poliuretanos como resultado da ação da hidrólise, por envelhecimento acelerado. Os corpos de prova foram expostos a 50, 60 e 70 ºC. A variação de massa também foi determinada considerando que esses materiais são projetados para uma vida útil superior a vinte anos. Os poliuretanos apresentaram degradação significativa a 70 ºC, o que pode reduzir seu tempo de aplicação no campo por falha mecânica quando submetido a elevadas temperaturas.Brazil is worldwide renowned as a leader in oil and gas extraction in deep and ultra deep water. In the production chain, a great part of the oil and gas produced is conveyed through flexible pipelines that connect the production wells to the platforms. When the pipes are laid on the seabed in a static service condition, the flexible pipes are called flowlines and when raised from the seabed to the platform in a dynamic service condition, they are called risers. The pipes designed for dynamic applications are equipped with bend stiffeners, components with conical form and in general based on polyurethanes, which have the function of providing a

Decolonizando acciones públicas contra el feminicidio con cuerpos disidentes: el performance y la plataforma arte acción en Chiapas México

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Brittany Chávez

2014-12-01

Full Text Available Proponemos una forma alternativa de denunciar y visibilizar la violencia feminicida en la región de Chiapas por medio de la plataforma de performance y activismo Arte Acción. Tres partes constituyen este artículo: la situación del feminicidio en Chiapas y nuestra metodología desde lo erótico, lo decolonial y lo pedagógico; la creación de la memoria colectiva a través de acciones públicas; y nuestro trabajo continuado con la plataforma como un modo de activismo alternativo.

Utilización de las redes sociales y de una plataforma virtual por los alumnos de la facultad de ciencias de la salud

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Rivas Velasco, Ana; García Martínez, Olga; Luna Bertos, Elvira de; Ramos Torrecillas, Javier; Díaz Rodríguez, Lourdes

2011-01-01

Las redes sociales y las plataformas virtuales, tienen mucho que ver con las nuevas metodologías activas y participativas que de modo masivo se están adoptando en el Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior. El objetivo del presente trabajo fue evaluar el uso de las redes sociales y la plataforma virtual SWAD por parte del alumnado de Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud de la Universidad de Granada. En el curso 2010/2011 se ha realizado una encuesta sobre el uso de las TICs a los alu...

Geomorfologia, cobertura sedimentar e transporte de sedimentos na plataforma continental interna entre a Ponta de Saquarema e o Cabo Frio (RJ Geomorphology, sediment distribution and transpon on the inner continental shelf between Ponta de Saquarema and Cabo Frio (RJ

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Dieter Muehe

1993-01-01

Full Text Available A plataforma continental interna defronte à restinga da Massambaba - um sistema de duplos cordões litorâneos localizados entre Saquarema e Arraial do Cabo, com 48 km de extensão - apresenta topografia regular, interrompida por raros afloramentos de rochas do embasamento cristalino e por ocorrências localizadas de arenitos de praia. Um amplo afloramento destes últimos ocorre na faixa batimétrica de 48 a 60 m, correspondendo à posição da linha de costa cerca de 10.000 anos atrás. Outro afloramento de arenitos de praia, de reduzida dimensão, ocorre próximo ao perfil S-4, à distância de 50 m da face da praia, em profundidade de 4 m. A cobertura sedimentar, sem aporte significativo de sedimentos terrígenos, é constituída predominantemente por areias quartzosas reliquiares. O gradiente batimétrico apresenta declividade elevada, atípica para uma plataforma passiva, atingindo o limite distai da plataforma continental interna, a isobatimétrica de 60 m, a uma distância da ordem de 4 milhas náuticas da linha de praia. O padrão de distribuição granulométrico apresenta gradientes de decréscimo em direção a leste, isto é, em direção ao Cabo Frio, e em direção a maiores profundidades. A diminuição do tamanho granulométrico em direção ao Cabo Frio é atribuída como sendo resultado do aporte de sedimentos terrígenos através de um sistema de drenagem pleistocênico, interrompido pela construção do cordão litorâneo mais interiorizado, e à remobilização dos sedimentos por ação de ondas e correntes com transporte residual em direção a leste.The inner continental shelf in front of the Massambaba beach, an East-West striking, 48 km long, double barrier beach, located between the towns of Saquarema and Arraial do Cabo presents a monotonous topography with only few outcrops of crystaline rocks, patches of beach rocks and a sediment cover of mainly relict quartz sand. The topographic gradient, steeper as expected for

Regulação médica em emergência pela plataforma web: um estudo piloto

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Mário Sérgio Adolfi Júnior

2010-12-01

Full Text Available OBJETIVO: Descrever um sistema gestor de regulação médica em emergência baseado na rede mundial de computadores. MÉTODOS: O Sistema de Regulação de Urgências e Emergências foi desenvolvido segundo modelo evolutivo de software de prototipação. A comunicação entre os usuários e o sistema foi implementada utilizando tecnologias web; o sistema foi desenvolvido em personal home page (PHP e o banco de dados, em MySQL. O protótipo foi baseado no processo de regulação médica da Divisão Regional de Saúde XIII do Estado de São Paulo e aplicado a 26 municípios dessa regional durante quatro semanas consecutivas em setembro de 2009. O sistema possibilitou a documentação das solicitações em ordem cronológica, sem permitir edição de dados já inseridos e garantindo o acesso hierarquizado e sigiloso às informações para cada participante do sistema. RESULTADOS: O sistema apresentou 100% de disponibilidade, confiabilidade e integridade da informação. Foram realizadas 1.046 solicitações ao sistema, das quais 703 (68% foram completadas. Os solicitantes apresentaram 98% de adesão ao sistema na primeira semana de aplicação, e a adesão dos prestadores de serviço foi gradativa (37% na quarta semana. Os municípios mais próximos de Ribeirão Preto que não possuem prestadores de alta complexidade foram os que mais utilizaram o sistema. CONCLUSÕES: A regulação médica de solicitações de emergência pela rede mundial de computadores mostrou-se exeqüível e confiável, possibilitando a transparência do processo e acesso direto às informações por parte dos gestores. Possibilitou a construção de indicadores para monitorizar e aprimorar o processo, na perspectiva da criação de uma regulação semi-automatizada e de avanços na organização do sistema.

LINKCARE, realització d'una plataforma de telemedicina experimental per la monitorització continua de malalts crònics de l'Hospital Clínic de Barcelona

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Álvarez Baldó, Andrea

2010-01-01

LINKARE es una plataforma de Telemedicina experimental. La primera fase del proyecto está diseñada y desarrollada. Los trabajos a realizar consisten en la implantación de la plataforma LINKCARE en un entorno real, inicialmente de preproducción y posteriromente de producción, en el Hospital Clínic, por ello el proyecto se desarrollará en esta institución.

Marcha holográfica: espectros de uma sociedade em rede

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Elizabeth Motta Jacob

2016-07-01

Full Text Available Em abril de 2015 a rua do Congresso Nacional da cidade de Madrid foi tomada por centenas de manifestantes, mas pela primeira vez na história das lutas políticas seus participantes não eram corpóreos. A manifestação Hologramas por la Liberdad realizada pela plataforma No somos delito contra a nova Lei de segurança cidadã que visa restringir a liberdade de expressão e manifestação política da população, veio através da arte holográfica traduzir os anseios dos indignados. Visamos analisar este movimento de insubordinação que se tornou possível através das redes sociais e da convergência midiática que têm dado novos contornos as formas de organização e dinâmicas de ativismo políticas bem como tem sido capaz de faze-los reverberar em escala mundial.

Offshore industry: medical emergency response in the offshore oil and gas industry.

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Ponsonby, Will; Mika, Frano; Irons, Greg

2009-08-01

The hunt for oil and gas has taken workers into new more distant locations including those offshore. The remoteness of the offshore platforms and vessels coupled with the potential risk of being cut off by bad weather presents particular challenges for medical emergency response (MER). Firstly to define the challenges for MER in terms of locations, population and epidemiology of injuries and illnesses in the offshore environment. Secondly to give examples of legal requirements and industry standards to manage MER. Thirdly to look at existing and emerging practice to manage these challenges. A review of published literature was supplemented with a summary of current practice in the industry. Medical professionals (medics) working offshore on installations and vessels are primarily responsible for the medical care of the workers. The medics have clinics with suitable medical equipment for managing emergencies as well as providing limited primary care. Some countries have legislation that stipulate minimum requirements. Where there is no national legislation, industry and company guidance is used to define the MER standards. Supervision of the offshore medics is often provided by doctors on shore via radio and phone links. These methods of communication are now being augmented with more sophisticated telemedicine solutions such as the Internet and live video links. These newer solutions allow for prompt high-quality care and provide the scope for a variety of new treatment options to be available for the offshore workforce.

Uncovering the Hidden Costs of Offshoring

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Larsen, Marcus M.; Manning, Stephan; Pedersen, Torben

2013-01-01

This study investigates estimation errors due to hidden costs—the costs of implementation that are neglected in strategic decision-making processes—in the context of services offshoring. Based on data from the Offshoring Research Network, we find that decision makers are more likely to make cost......-estimation errors given increasing configuration and task complexity in captive offshoring and offshore outsourcing, respectively. Moreover, we show that experience and a strong orientation toward organizational design in the offshoring strategy reduce the cost-estimation errors that follow from complexity. Our...

Tidal influence on offshore wind fields and resource predictions[Efficient Development of Offshore Windfarms

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Khan, D. [Entec UK Ltd., Doherty Innovation Centre, Penicuik (United Kingdom); Infield, D. [Loughborough Univ., Centre for Renewable Energy Systems Tecnology, Loughborough (United Kingdom)

2002-03-01

The rise and fall of the sea surface due to tides effectively moves an offshore wind turbine hub through the wind shear profile. This effect is quantified using measured data from 3 offshore UK sites. Statistical evidence of the influence of tide on mean wind speed and turbulence is presented. The implications of this effect for predicting offshore wind resource are outlined. (au)

Aspectos tributarios de las plataformas digitales en Colombia: actualidad y retos

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Cabrera Cabrera, Omar Sebastián

2017-01-01

Los agigantados avances en las tecnologías de la comunicación y la información han labrado el terreno para el arribo de la economía digital. Esta situación lleva a señalar que es una realidad ineludible que la mayoría de las operaciones de negocios se canalizan hoy a través del comercio electrónico, donde las últimas décadas atestiguan el auge y revolución de todas las formas de las plataformas digitales. No obstante, estos nuevos modelos digitales de negocios conllevan importantes intrincaci...

BotMentor: Bot de ayuda al estudiante en la plataforma Telegram

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González Acedo, Eloy; Sánchez Ramírez, Pedro

2017-01-01

Este documento detalla el proceso de análisis, diseño e implementación del proyecto de fin de grado BotMentor, así como otras etapas necesarias para su realización. Este proyecto consiste en una plataforma pensada inicialmente para alumnos, que, haciendo uso de los sistemas de información de la universidad y más en concreto de la facultad de informática de la complutense, provea a éstos de la información relevante que puede interesar a un alumno y la provee de manera rápida y eficaz. Dicho...

Yacimientos de Celestina en la Plataforma Valles-San Luis Potosí

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Rocha Rocha, Macario

2008-01-01

En la zona de estudio, la Plataforma Valles-San Luis Potosí (PVSLP), existen depósitos de celestina; las características geotectónicas de la zona, hacen pensar que estos depósitos se asocian con evaporitas del Jurásico Superior-Cretácico Inferior. La mineralización de celestina arma en la Formación El Abra y en menor grado la Formación Indidura, en forma de vetas, mantos, zonas de brecha y cuerpos irregulares. La mineralogía consiste básicamente de celestina y algunos minerales...

Healthy offshore workforce? A qualitative study on offshore wind employees' occupational strain, health, and coping.

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Mette, Janika; Velasco Garrido, Marcial; Harth, Volker; Preisser, Alexandra M; Mache, Stefanie

2018-01-23

Offshore work has been described as demanding and stressful. Despite this, evidence regarding the occupational strain, health, and coping behaviors of workers in the growing offshore wind industry in Germany is still limited. The purpose of our study was to explore offshore wind employees' perceptions of occupational strain and health, and to investigate their strategies for dealing with the demands of offshore work. We conducted 21 semi-structured telephone interviews with employees in the German offshore wind industry. The interviews were transcribed and analyzed in a deductive-inductive approach following Mayring's qualitative content analysis. Workers generally reported good mental and physical health. However, they also stated perceptions of stress at work, fatigue, difficulties detaching from work, and sleeping problems, all to varying extents. In addition, physical health impairment in relation to offshore work, e.g. musculoskeletal and gastrointestinal complaints, was documented. Employees described different strategies for coping with their job demands. The strategies comprised of both problem and emotion-focused approaches, and were classified as either work-related, health-related, or related to seeking social support. Our study is the first to investigate the occupational strain, health, and coping of workers in the expanding German offshore wind industry. The results offer new insights that can be utilized for future research in this field. In terms of practical implications, the findings suggest that measures should be carried out aimed at reducing occupational strain and health impairment among offshore wind workers. In addition, interventions should be initiated that foster offshore wind workers' health and empower them to further expand on effective coping strategies at their workplace.

Leitura e escrita em ambientes virtuais de aprendizagem

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Rigo, Rosa Maria

2013-01-01

Full Text Available Este artigo objetiva avaliar os processos de leitura e escrita em ambientes virtuais de aprendizagem, e sua contribuição com o desenvolvimento pessoal e profissional, bem como sua aplicabilidade no cotidiano escolar dos professores participantes do projeto. A presente proposta foi oferecida a 115 professores dos anos iniciais do ensino fundamental, de diversos estados e países de latino-americanos. Denominado Comunidade Virtual Espiritualidade na Educação, a presente experiência foi realizada na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS, na modalidade totalmente à distância, utilizando a Plataforma Moodle. Este projeto foi programado para acontecer em 8 módulos perfazendo um total de 64 horas. Diversos temas foram abordados. Neste artigo avaliaremos apenas os critérios da leitura e escrita. Deste modo a investigação assume a seguinte problemática: de que maneira acontecem os processos de leitura e escrita no ambiente virtual e como estes contribuem com o desenvolvimento pessoal e profissional dos professores no cotidiano escolar?

Competência social para interagir em ambientes virtuais de aprendizagem Las competencias sociales para interactuar en plataformas virtuales de aprendizaje Social abilities to interact in virtual learning environments

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Edilaine Cristina da Silva

2011-03-01

Full Text Available Objetivo. Investigar a associação entre as características de competência social para interagir no meio acadêmico e o uso das ferramentas de comunicação do ambiente virtual. Metodologia. Estudo quantitativo, participarem 32 estudantes de graduação de enfermagem, alunos do Curso On-line de Transtornos de Humor e de Personalidade, parte da disciplina Enfermagem Psiquiátrica. O ambiente virtual de aprendizagem utilizado para o Curso On-line foi o TELEDUC. Registro de acessos a ferramentas de comunicação; Questionário de Característica Social para interagir com colegas no âmbito acadêmico (QCS. Foram realizados testes de correlação de Pearson entre os escores obtidos das características de competência social e a frequência de uso das ferramentas de comunicação do ambiente virtual. Resultados. Observou-se correlação positiva moderada entre o fator sociabilidade e acessos a ferramentas "Chat" (r=0.61 e "Fórum" (r=0.50; correlação negativa moderada entre os níveis de agressividade e a ferramenta "Correio" (r=-0.37; correlação positiva entre níveis de liderança e o "Correio" (r=0,53; correlação negativa moderada entre os níveis de inibição e as ferramentas "Chat" (r=-0.65 e "Fórum" (r=-0.63. Conclusão. A competência social contribui para a participação do estudante em processos educativos à distância, portanto deve ser levada em consideração no processo ensinoaprendizagem realizada em ambientes virtuais.Objetivo. Investigar la asociación entre las características de las habilidades sociales para interactuar académicamente y el uso de herramientas de comunicación de plataforma virtual de aprendizaje. Estudio cuantitativo, realizado en Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brasil, en 2006. Participaron 32 estudiantes de enfermería del curso en línea sobre Transtornos del Humor y Personalidad, parte del curso de Enfermería Psiquiátrica. La plataforma de aprendizaje virtual utilizada para el curso en línea fue

Co-sourcing in software development offshoring

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Schlichter, Bjarne Rerup; Persson, John Stouby

2013-01-01

Software development projects are increasingly geographical distributed with offshoring, which introduce complex risks that can lead to project failure. Co-sourcing is a highly integrative and cohesive approach, seen successful, to software development offshoring. However, research of how co......-sourcing shapes the perception and alleviation of common offshoring risks is limited. We present a case study of how a certified CMMI-level 5 Danish software supplier approaches these risks in offshore co-sourcing. The paper explains how common offshoring risks are perceived and alleviated when adopting the co...

Design off-shore wind climate

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Larsen, G C; Joergensen, H E [Risoe National Lab., Wind Energy and Atmospheric Physics Dept., Roskilde (Denmark)

1999-03-01

Specific recommendations of off-shore turbulence intensities, applicable for design purposes, are lacking in the present IEC-code. The present off-shore wind climate analysis presents the distribution of the turbulence standard deviation around the mean turbulence standard deviation, conditioned on the mean wind speed. Measured distributions, based on a huge amount of measuring data from two shallow water off-shore sites, are parameterized by fitting to a three parameter Weibull distribution. Combining a simple heuristic load model with the parameterized probability density functions of the turbulence standard deviations, an empirical off-shore design turbulence intensity is evaluated that in average yields the same fatigue damage as the distributed turbulence intensity. The proposed off-shore design turbulence intensity is, within the IEC code framework, applicable for extreme as well as for fatigue load determination. (au)

OFFSHORING FOR SUSTAINABLE VALUE MANAGEMENT

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Thaddeus Oforegbunam Ebiringa

2014-05-01

Full Text Available This paper evaluates offshoring as a strategic value management initiative using Cadbury Nigeria Plc as a case study. Through offshoring risks associated with inventory holding are hedged. A comparative analysis of in-house and offshored cost profiles as well as critical risk factors that affect firm value are evaluated. The result shows that offshoring led to immediate costs saving, freeing of funds previously held in inventory for other working capital investments as well as profitability for vendors. However, aside financial benefits to partners, it leads to increased stakeholders awareness, shared values, partnerships, teamwork and risk mitigation. It therefore follows that for sustainability of financial benefits of offshoring, concerted effort must be made by partners to ensure that critical drivers of value management are not compromised.

Simulación de Plataformas Robóticas de Movimiento para Aplicaciones de Realidad Virtual Mediante Filtros Digitales

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Sergio Casas

2017-10-01

Full Text Available Resumen: El uso de plataformas robóticas de movimiento en simuladores de vehículos y aplicaciones de Realidad Virtual es relativamente habitual. Sin embargo, el ajuste de los algoritmos que controlan su funcionamiento, denominados algoritmos de washout, no es sencillo y requiere de numerosas pruebas hasta obtener una apropiada fidelidad de movimiento. Disponer de herramientas que permitan simular plataformas de movimiento puede permitir simplificar esta tarea. Es por ello que este trabajo presenta un método para la caracterización y simulación de manipuladores robóticos mediante filtros digitales de segundo orden, sencillo de implementar y ajustar a partir de una caracterización previa. El simulador se construye con el objetivo de permitir la simulación rápida de manipuladores robóticos y se ejemplifica con una plataforma de dos grados de libertad, aunque el método propuesto podría emplearse en otros dispositivos. En las pruebas realizadas se valida la precisión y velocidad de la simulación, concluyéndose que se obtiene una fidelidad satisfactoria y una velocidad de simulación elevada que permite emplear el simulador como sustituto del hardware real con algoritmos de washout. Abstract: Robotic motion platforms are used in many vehicle simulators and Virtual Reality applications. However, the set-up of the so-called washout algorithms that control the generation of self-motion is a hard process, since a great deal of tests need to be performed before reaching a proper motion fidelity. The availability of simulation tools eases this tuning task. Therefore, a motion platform characterization and simulation method is proposed in this paper. The method relies on second order digital filters and provides a reliable, yet very fast simulation system, which is assessed by means of a two degree-of-freedom motion platform, although the method might be applied to simulate other motion mechanisms. Palabras clave: Plataformas de movimiento

Offshore oil and gas and offshore wind power - different in terms of safety.?; Offshore Oel and Gas und Offshore Wind - mit Sicherheit ''anders''.?

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Weise, F.; Tatulinski, M. [DNV GL - Oil and Gas Germany, Hamburg (Germany)

2014-07-01

Safety standards in the oil and gas industry have risen to a high level over the past decades, driven in part by momentous accidents. Furthermore, an expanded framework has recently been defined through the new EU Offshore Safety Directive, which in Germany is still in the process of its transposition into national law. The installation of offshore wind farms in the North and Baltic Sea has within the shortest of time brought forth an entirely new branch of industry, most of whose players have no significant experience with offshore operations. One of the greatest challenges is the working environment, which is being approached in different ways by those involved. The supervisory authorities responsible are only just beginning to develop the competence required for their tasks, with the effect that regulations pertaining to onshore operations are often simply adopted as they are. This is in some cases impacting on the oil and gas industry, as is discussed in the present lecture. [German] Die Oel und Gas Industrie hat in den vergangen Jahrzehnten einen hohen Sicherheitsstandard entwickelt, teilweise getrieben durch signifikante Unfallereignisse. Aktuell wurde zudem mit der neuen EU-Offshore Richtlinie ein erweiterter Rahmen definiert, der sich in Deutschland noch in der gesetzgeberischen Umsetzung befindet. Durch die Installation von Offshore-Windparks in der Nord- und Ostsee ist innerhalb kuerzester Zeit zusaetzlich ein neuer Industriebereich entstanden, dessen Marktteilnehmer mehrheitlich nicht ueber signifikante Offshore-Erfahrung verfuegen. Insbesondere das Arbeitsumfeld stellt dabei eine Herausforderung dar, die von den Beteiligten unterschiedlich geloest wird. Ferner beginnen auch die verantwortlichen Aufsichtsbehoerden erst mit dem Aufbau entsprechender Kompetenzen, so dass vielfach auch Regelungen aus dem Onshore-Bereich uebertragen werden. Dies fuehrt teilweise zu Auswirkungen auf die Oel- und Gasindustrie, die im Rahmen dieses Vortrages diskutiert werden.

Dutch offshore suppliers in confident mood

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Beudel, M.

1998-01-01

A series of linked articles discusses the current state of the Netherland's offshore industry. Reduced taxes, and availability of exploration licenses has meant that explorers and producers are drawn to the small size, but frequent yield explorations on Holland's continental shelf. The excellent operation record of Rotterdam's Verolme Botlek yard; for repair and maintenance of offshore platforms and associated plant, is explored as the facility plans to diversify into newbuilding. The construction of an offshore basin designed for the hydrodynamic testing of offshore plant intended for deepwater use is described. The Netherlands maritime research institute (Marin) aims to stay at the forefront of offshore research and development with this new facility. Other articles cover pipe tensioning, new large linear winches and innovations in offshore drilling and production. (UK)

Flora ficologica da plataforma continental do litoral setentrional da bacia potiguar (RN), Brasil, com ênfase em chlorophyta

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De Lourdes Montenegro Cocentino, Adilma

2009-01-01

Foram estudadas as macroalgas marinhas bentônicas de um habitat pouco explorado (Bacia Potiguar, Rio Grande do Norte, Nordeste do Brasil) e cuja informação florística é rara, para se conhecer a diversidade taxonômica e padrões de distribuição em um infralitoral tropical, onde vários empreendimentos estão em fase de instalação, sendo enfatizadas as Chlorophyta, como indicadoras da qualidade ambiental. Amostragens de macroalgas bentônicas foram feitas, com dois tipos de dragas e ...

Offshoring R&D

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Hansen, Zaza Nadja Lee; Rasmussen, Lauge Baungaard

2010-01-01

Companies are increasingly offshoring R&D activities. Many firms, however, experience difficulties related to virtual teamwork across cultures and time zones. The research question is: How does increasing R&D offshoring impact transparency of communication structures and knowledge sharing? Using...... case studies from Danish multinational corporations with R&D activities in China, India or Eastern Europe this paper analyses the impact observed in these companies in regard to communication structures and knowledge sharing in management of offshored R&D activities. The findings show that companies...... attempt to increase transparency through formalisation of knowledge and clear communication structures. However, the influence of tacit knowledge, horizontal communication and culture seem largely overlooked. Therefore the authors suggest a context based approach to transparency accustomed...

Offshore Wind Energy Resource Assessment for Alaska

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Doubrawa Moreira, Paula [National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Scott, George N. [National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Musial, Walter D. [National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Kilcher, Levi F. [National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Draxl, Caroline [National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Lantz, Eric J. [National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

2018-01-02

This report quantifies Alaska's offshore wind resource capacity while focusing on its unique nature. It is a supplement to the existing U.S. Offshore Wind Resource Assessment, which evaluated the offshore wind resource for all other U.S. states. Together, these reports provide the foundation for the nation's offshore wind value proposition. Both studies were developed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. The analysis presented herein represents the first quantitative evidence of the offshore wind energy potential of Alaska. The technical offshore wind resource area in Alaska is larger than the technical offshore resource area of all other coastal U.S. states combined. Despite the abundant wind resource available, significant challenges inhibit large-scale offshore wind deployment in Alaska, such as the remoteness of the resource, its distance from load centers, and the wealth of land available for onshore wind development. Throughout this report, the energy landscape of Alaska is reviewed and a resource assessment analysis is performed in terms of gross and technical offshore capacity and energy potential.

Proceedings of the ENDOW workshop 'Offshore wakes: Measurements and modelling[Efficient Development of Offshore Windfarms

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Barthelmie, R.J. (ed.)

2002-03-01

The papers presented in these Proceedings are the result of a workshop held at Risoe National Laboratory on March 7 and 8 2002 entitled 'Offshore Wakes: Measurements and Modelling'. The Workshop was arranged to showcase results of the European Community supported project 'Efficient Development of Offshore Windfarms (ENDOW)' and featured a series of eight presentations discussing modelling of wakes and boundary layers, existing and new measurements from offshore wind farms and how these will be linked in a new design tool and applied at planned offshore wind farms. In addition seven invited presentations covered a range of relevant topics from analytical approaches to fatigue and extreme loads in wind turbine clusters, current wake modelling in WAsP, optimising power production at Arklow Bank, Particle Image Velocimetry study of a wind turbine wake in a yaw, offshore wind measurements in Massachusetts, accuracy of SODAR measurements for wind energy and tidal influence of offshore wind speeds and turbulence. (au)

Organizational Adaptation in Offshoring

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Geisler Asmussen, Christian; Møller Larsen, Marcus; Pedersen, Torben

2016-01-01

Offshoring offers managers the promise of substantial economic benefits, but also comes with the risk of increased complexity and coordination challenges. We argue that offshoring firms must accumulate architectural knowledge to keep the cost of coordination of the geographically separated activi...

Offshore wind development research.

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2014-04-01

Offshore wind (OSW) development is a new undertaking in the US. This project is a response to : New Jerseys 2011 Energy Master Plan that envisions procuring 22.5% of the states power : originating from renewable sources by 2021. The Offshore Wi...

Offshore Fish Community: Ecological Interactions | Science ...

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The offshore (>80 m) fish community of Lake Superior is made up of predominately native species. The most prominent species are deepwater sculpin, kiyi, cisco, siscowet lake trout, burbot, and the exotic sea lamprey. Bloater and shortjaw cisco are also found in the offshore zone. Bloater is abundant in the offshore zone but appears restricted to depths shallower than 150 m (Selgeby and Hoff 1996; Stockwell et al. 2010), although it occuppied greater depths several decades ago (Dryer 1966; Peck 1977). Shortjaw is relatively rare in the offshore zone (Hoff and Todd 2004; Gorman and Hoff 2009; Gorman and Todd 2007). Lake whitefish is also known to frequent bathymetric depths >100 m (Yule et al. 2008b). In this chapter, we develop a conceptual model of the offshore food web based on data collected during 2001-2005 and on inferences from species interactions known for the nearshore fish community. We then develop a framework for examination of energy and nutrient movements within the pelagic and benthic habitats of the offshore zone and across the offshore and nearshore zones. To document research results.

Offshore Wind Power Planning in Korea

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Seo, Chul Soo; Cha, Seung-Tae; Park, Sang Ho

2012-01-01

this possible, Korea has announced the National offshore power roadmap and is now in pursuit. However, large scale offshore wind farms can incur many problems, such as power quality problems, when connecting to a power system.[1][2] Thus, KEPCO is on the process of a research study to evaluate the effects...... that connecting offshore wind power generation to a power system has on the power system. This paper looks over offshore wind power planning in Korea and describes the development of impact assessment technology of offshore wind farms.......Wind power generation is globally recognized as the most universal and reliable form of renewable energy. Korea is currently depending mostly on coal and petroleum to generate electrical power and is now trying to replace them with renewable energy such as offshore wind power generation. To make...

Offshore system for integration of the wind energy; Sistema offshore para integracao de energia eolica

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Decker, Jan de [3E, Brussels (Belgium); Tambke, Jens [Universidade de Oldemburg (Germany). ForWind; Voelker, J. [Dena - Agencia Alema de Energia (Germany); Michalowska-Knap, Katarzyna [Instituto de Energia Renovavel (Poland)

2010-09-15

The Offshore Grid project aims to analyze the conditions required for the development of an offshore transmission network to integrate renewable energy (wind) to the national electrical systems, securely and efficiently. Regulatory aspects, technical, economic and political are considered, that will help the various players in the industry to have a common view on the offshore power grids in Europe.

A New Coordinated Voltage Control Scheme for Offshore AC Grid of HVDC Connected Offshore Wind Power Plants

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Sakamuri, Jayachandra N.; Cutululis, Nicolaos Antonio; Rather, Zakir Hussain

2015-01-01

This paper proposes a coordinated voltage control scheme (CVCS) which enhances the voltage ride through (VRT) capability of an offshore AC grid comprised of a cluster of offshore wind power plants (WPP) connected through AC cables to the offshore voltage source converter based high voltage DC (VSC......-HVDC) converter station. Due to limited short circuit power contribution from power electronic interfaced variable speed wind generators and with the onshore main grid decoupled by the HVDC link, the offshore AC grid becomes more vulnerable to dynamic voltage events. Therefore, a short circuit fault...... in the offshore AC Grid is likely to have significant implications on the voltage of the offshore AC grid, hence on the power flow to the onshore mainland grid. The proposed CVCS integrates individual local reactive power control of wind turbines and of the HVDC converter with the secondary voltage controller...

Métodos de avaliação do olfato em pacientes vítimas de hemorragia subaracnóidea: revisão sistemática

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Lima,Sandro Júnior Henrique; Azevedo Filho,Hildo Rocha Cirne de; Silva,Hilton Justino da

2016-01-01

RESUMO Objetivos: Revisar de forma sistemática os métodos para avaliação do olfato em vítimas de hemorragia subaracnóidea aneurismática, e identificar as alterações encontradas com a utilização desses métodos. Estratégia de pesquisa: A pesquisa bibliográfica foi realizada na plataforma de busca PubMed e nas bases de dados Web of Science, Scopus, PsycINFO, CINAHL e ScienceDirect, tendo a busca de dados ocorrida em agosto e setembro de 2014. Critérios de seleção: Artigos originais publicad...

Offshore concrete structures

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Lamas Pardo, M.; Carral Couce, L. M.

2011-01-01

In the offshore industry there are two possible materials for the construction of the hull of a structure; the steel and concrete, with the first one widely used until now, as in the rest of the shiphuidling industry of merchant ships, warships, etc. Materials such as aluminum, GRP or timber areused in small units with lengths lower than 100 m, and in less adverse conditions than in the offshore industry. Nevertheless, some ships/barges have been built of concrete in the past, but have been rather isolated cases which have not changed the practice in the industry. In the First and Second World War were built by the scarcity of materials, while the series of barges by Alfred A. Yee was a rare exception. Other units were also made in concrete, but almost anecdotal. Still, the behaviour of these concrete structures, especially in terms of maintenance, has been excellent. Therefore, the fact that the concrete has not had an adequate reception so far in shipbuilding, does not mean that in will not be the material best suited for the offshore industry in the future. The extra displacement and associated fuel costs in concrete ships have been found prohibitive in the past. But the loss of mobility of a concrete hull in relation to a steel hull can be perfectly offset by the advantages offered by the concrete, as the shipping and offshore industry have very different priorities. One of the main differences in these priorities is in terms of maintenance and resistance to fatigue, precisely where the concrete performs better. ships can easily be dry docked for maintenance and repair, while in the offshore platforms these works have to be done in situ so maintenance and fatigue are crucial to them. Besides these, the concrete has other advantages according to findings of several studies. And although they are interested in the conclusions that the makes as they came from people in the concrete industry, the fact that in recent years concrete offshore unit shave been built

Las plataformas e-learning en el aula. Un caso práctico de Edmodo en la clase de español como segunda lengua

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Martín Sampedro, Héctor J.

2012-10-01

Full Text Available Este trabajo expone en primer lugar una contextualización de la plataforma Edmodo para pasar a las conclusiones extraídas a partir de un estudio empírico realizado durante seis meses con un grupo de nueve estudiantes estadounidenses, dentro del programa de prácticas del centro CINECU. Los resultados muestran una propuesta de aplicación de esta plataforma como herramienta para la enseñanza de español como lengua extranjera y una reflexión sobre sus ventajas e inconvenientes en la clase de español.

Offshore Wind Market and Economic Analysis

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Hamilton, Bruce Duncan [Navigant Consulting, Inc., Chicago, IL (United States)

2014-08-27

This report is the third annual assessment of the U.S. offshore wind market. It includes the following major sections: Section 1: key data on developments in the offshore wind technology sector and the global development of offshore wind projects, with a particular focus on progress in the United States; Section 2: analysis of policy developments at the federal and state levels that have been effective in advancing offshore wind deployment in the United States; Section 3: analysis of actual and projected economic impact, including regional development and job creation; Section 4: analysis of developments in relevant sectors of the economy with the potential to affect offshore wind deployment in the United States

Import, Offshoring and Wages

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Fosse, Henrik Barslund; Maitra, Madhura

Offshoring firms are found to pay higher average wages than purely domestic firms. We provide a unifying empirical approach by capturing the different channels through which offshoring may explain this wage difference: (i) due to change in the composition of workers (skill composition effect) (ii......) because all existing workers get higher pay (rent sharing effect). Using Danish worker-firm data we explain how much each channel contributes to higher wages. To estimate the causal effect of offshoring on wages we use China’s accession to the WTO in December 2001 - and the soon after boom in Chinese...

Análise da produção em auditoria e saúde pública a partir da base de dados da Biblioteca Virtual da Saúde

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Fábio Solon Tajra

Full Text Available Trata-se de revisão da literatura de base a partir de pesquisa bibliográfica realizada na plataforma da Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde com o objetivo de caracterizar as pesquisas produzidas sobre auditoria no SUS. O levantamento bibliográfico abrangeu as publicações nacionais em auditoria de 2000 a 2010, sendo identificados quatorze documentos para compor a amostra do estudo. Os achados das pesquisas foram classificados de acordo com o tema investigado e os aspectos metodológicos categorizados. Os resultados ressaltam a insuficiência de estudos voltados para essa temática e a necessidade de divulgação dos relatos como fator de consolidação do processo de trabalho em saúde pública.

The economics of offshore wind

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Green, Richard; Vasilakos, Nicholas

2011-01-01

This paper presents an overview of the main issues associated with the economics of offshore wind. Investment in offshore wind systems has been growing rapidly throughout Europe, and the technology will be essential in meeting EU targets for renewable energy in 2020. Offshore wind suffers from high installation and connection costs, however, making government support essential. We review various support policies used in Europe, concluding that tender-based feed-in tariff schemes, as used in Denmark, may be best for providing adequate support while minimising developers' rents. It may prove economic to build an international offshore grid connecting wind farms belonging to different countries that are sited close to each other. (author)

The economics of offshore wind

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Green, Richard; Vasilakos, Nicholas [Department of Economics, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT (United Kingdom)

2011-02-15

This paper presents an overview of the main issues associated with the economics of offshore wind. Investment in offshore wind systems has been growing rapidly throughout Europe, and the technology will be essential in meeting EU targets for renewable energy in 2020. Offshore wind suffers from high installation and connection costs, however, making government support essential. We review various support policies used in Europe, concluding that tender-based feed-in tariff schemes, as used in Denmark, may be best for providing adequate support while minimising developers' rents. It may prove economic to build an international offshore grid connecting wind farms belonging to different countries that are sited close to each other. (author)

NREL Offshore Balance-of-System Model

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Maness, Michael [National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Maples, Benjamin [National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Smith, Aaron [National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

2017-01-01

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has investigated the potential for 20% of nationwide electricity demand to be generated from wind by 2030 and, more recently, 35% by 2050. Achieving this level of wind power generation may require the development and deployment of offshore wind technologies. DOE (2008) has indicated that reaching these 2030 and 2050 scenarios could result in approximately 10% and 20%, respectively, of wind energy generation to come from offshore resources. By the end of 2013, 6.5 gigawatts of offshore wind were installed globally. The first U.S. project, the Block Island Wind Farm off the coast of Rhode Island, has recently begun operations. One of the major reasons that offshore wind development in the United States is lagging behind global trends is the high capital expenditures required. An understanding of the costs and associated drivers of building a commercial-scale offshore wind plant in the United States will inform future research and help U.S. investors feel more confident in offshore wind development. In an effort to explain these costs, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory has developed the Offshore Balance-of-System model.

Offshore wind energy. An overview on the activities in Germany; Offshore-Windenergie. Ein Ueberblick ueber die Aktivitaeten in Deutschland

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Worm, Anja [media consulta Deutschland GmbH, Berlin (Germany)

2013-02-15

The brochure under consideration provides an overview of the activities of offshore wind energy in Germany. The first offshore wind farms are built and generate more electricity than expected. The offshore wind farms serve as a field of learning for new technologies. The power of offshore wind farms opened new prospects for the economy. The northern Federal States of Germany as well as the traditional locations for mechanical engineering and steel production benefit from offshore wind energy.

Danish offshore wind - Key environmental issues

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2006-11-01

Danish experience from the past 15 years shows that offshore wind farms, if placed right, can be engineered and operated without significant damage to the marine environment and vulnerable species. The comprehensive environmental monitoring programmes of Horns Rev Offshore Wind Farm and Nysted Offshore Wind Farm confirm that, under the rieght conditions, even big wind farms pose low risk to birds, mammals and fish, even though there will be changes in the living conditions of some species by an increase in habitat heterogeneity. The monitoring also shows that appropriate siting of offshore wind farms is an essential precondition for ensuring limited impact on nature and the environment, and that careful spatial planning is necessary to avoid damaging cumulative impacts. Due consideration to limiting the impacts on nature together with positive attitudes towards offshore wind farms in local communities and challenging energy policy objectives at national and international levels mean that prospects look bright for future offshore expansion. (au)

Desarrollo de una plataforma web para una red de monitorización de calidad del aire

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Zeas Orellana, Nancy

2015-01-01

Diseño y desarrollo de una plataforma web responsiva que permita conocer acerca de la calidad del aire y publicar información a través de redes sociales. Los datos se obtienen a través de la API de CommSensum, la cual comparte información de las redes de monitoreo suscritas, en formato RDF/XML.

Estudo experimental de um supressor de vibração PTMD em um modelo reduzido de jumper submerso

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Luan Grégori Tochetto

2013-01-01

Resumo: Tubulações submarinas, tais como risers e jumpers, sofrem carregamentos estáticos e dinâmicos devido a forças ambientais, correntes marítimas e ondas, carregamentos devido aos deslocamentos da unidade flutuante de produção (plataformas ou navios), escoamento interno, além de outras causas. O controle dos deslocamentos oscilatórios dessas tubulações é fundamental para a confiabilidade e vida em fadiga desses sistemas, motivando projetos de pesquisa com tal propósito nos últimos anos. U...

Offshore Outsourcing

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Petersen, Bent; Benito, Gabriel R. G.; Dovgan, Olesya

While the extant literature on offshore outsourcing deals with this operation mode in isolation, and typically with a focus on cost effects, we address the broader question of how companies choose and use outsourcing as part of foreign operation mode development and as a contributor to internatio...... that outsourcing can be used proactively to promote expanded international operations.......While the extant literature on offshore outsourcing deals with this operation mode in isolation, and typically with a focus on cost effects, we address the broader question of how companies choose and use outsourcing as part of foreign operation mode development and as a contributor...

2016 Offshore Wind Market Report

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Musial, Walter [National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Beiter, Philipp [National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Schwabe, Paul [National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Tian, Tian [National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Stehly, Tyler [National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Spitsen, Paul [National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

2017-08-07

The 2016 Offshore Wind Technologies Market Report is intended to provide stakeholders with quantitative information about the offshore wind market, technology, and cost trends in the United States and worldwide.

La seguridad informática en el trabajo con la plataforma Moodle (Computer Security in Working with the Moodle Platform

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María-José Luisa Romero-Moreno

2010-12-01

Full Text Available Resumen: El trabajo presenta los aspectos de seguridad de la plataforma Moodle. Es sabido que los Sistemas Virtuales de Formación impregnan el mundo académico (Campus Virtuales pero cada día más el de la empresa (Formación Continua. Las plataformas eLearning se nos presentan como herramientas adecuadas en estos contextos. Apostamos por el software libre y dentro de él por la plataforma que a día de hoy constituye un auténtico referente en el ámbito de la formación. Pero nos parece fundamental que profesores y tutores puedan tener la seguridad de que sus ficheros están debidamente protegidos. Analizaremos como aprovechar los niveles de seguridad de la herramienta y como configurarla para obtener los resultados esperados.Abstract: This paper presents the security aspects of Moodle platform. It is known that the Virtual Training Systems impregnate the academic world (Virtual Campus but faster and faster the company’s (Continuing Training. The platforms eLearning are presented as suitable tools in these contexts. Here we focus on free software and especially on the platform that today is a real landmark in the area of Virtual Training. But it seems essential that teachers and tutors can be safe that their files are protected. In what follow we will analyze how to take advantage of the security levels and how to configure the tool to obtain the expected results. 

CFD for wind and tidal offshore turbines

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Montlaur, Adeline

2015-01-01

The book encompasses novel CFD techniques to compute offshore wind and tidal applications. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) techniques are regarded as the main design tool to explore the new engineering challenges presented by offshore wind and tidal turbines for energy generation. The difficulty and costs of undertaking experimental tests in offshore environments have increased the interest in the field of CFD which is used to design appropriate turbines and blades, understand fluid flow physical phenomena associated with offshore environments, predict power production or characterise offshore environments, amongst other topics.

Energy from Offshore Wind: Preprint

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Musial, W.; Butterfield, S.; Ram, B.

2006-02-01

This paper provides an overview of the nascent offshore wind energy industry including a status of the commercial offshore industry and the technologies that will be needed for full market development.

Determinantes de la competitividad basados en el conocimiento : evidencias extraídas de una plataforma de inteligencia aplicada al sector turístico español

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Camisón Zornoza, César; Camisón Haba, Sergio

2017-01-01

Este artículo analiza la situación competitiva de la empresa turística española en cuanto a las capacidades tecnológicas e informacionales de que dispone para impulsar una competitividad basada en el conocimiento. Tras el diagnóstico, se presentan los resultados de una investigación colaborativa orientada a desarrollar una nueva plataforma TIC. Las evidencias empíricas extraídas de cuatro casos piloto de implantación de esta plataforma de inteligencia competitiva avalan con rotundidad el pote...

Utilizing offshore potentials for wind power generation; Nutzung der Offshore-Potentiale fuer die Windenergie

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Hannemann, H. [Neptun Industrie GmbH, Rostock (Germany)

2000-07-01

The contribution discusses the importance of the offshore market and recommends measures to develop it. A turnkey offer is required for exports, which means that all organisations cooperating in the pilot project must prove their competence. The status of a pilot project in the Baltic Sea and the further plans for the park (20 systems, 40 MW, more than 10 km off the coast, water depth about 20 m) are reviewed. [German] Zur Erschliessung des Offshore - Marktes fuer Windenergieanlagen ist es erforderlich, die Technologie ''vor der eigenen Haustuer'' demonstrieren zu koennen. Nach einer Betrachtung der europaeischen Offshore - Windenergie - Potentiale und der davon moeglicherweise nutzbaren Anteile wird die Bedeutung des Offshore - Marktes deutlich. Besonders fuer die Hersteller ist der Offshore - Markt fuer den langfristigen Export von besonderer Bedeutung. Um den Export zu realisieren, ist ein Turnkey - Angebot erforderlich, so dass im Pilotprojekt alle an der gesamten Realisation beteiligten Organisationen ihre Kompetenz beweisen muessen und koennen. Der Stand eines Pilotprojektes in der Ostsee und die weitere Planung fuer den Park (20 Anlagen, 40 MW, >10 km Kuestenentfernung, ca. 20 m Wassertiefe) wird dargestellt. (orig.)

Incorporació de funcions a la plataforma robòtica RosPiBot

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Fernández Vuelta, Adrián

2015-01-01

RosPiBot és una plataforma robòtica de quatre rodes que va sorgir de la restauració del robot Wifibot en un projecte recent. Es caracteritza per la seva capacitat d’adaptació a múltiples terrenys. En l’actual projecte, en primer lloc es presenta el moviment del robot i el comportament dels sensors que seran necessaris en tasques de localització. En segon lloc, es mostra la incorporació de ROS, un marc de treball àmpliament emprat en robòtica, juntament amb el desenvolupament...

Falsehood and fabulation in platforms for sharing videos

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Sonia Montaño

2014-07-01

Full Text Available O artigo pensa o estado-vídeo do audiovisual contemporâneo em um lugar de passagem: as plataformas de compartilhamento on-line. Analisa vídeos de Guel Arraes e de Michel Gondry, com ênfase na potência do falso e na fabulação como expressão das vizinhanças que eles criam entre imagens e tecnologias, e problematiza as vizinhanças encontradas em vídeos e nas interfaces das plataformas com vistas à necessidade de pensar uma ética das imagens em tempos de globalização.

Aplicaciones web para móvil: Estudio y desarrollo de una plataforma web orientada a la telemedicina

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Gutiérrez Díez, Pablo

2013-01-01

En el presente Trabajo Fin de Máster, se realiza un estudio y desarrollo de una plataforma web para dispositivos móviles orientada a la telemedicina, concretamente en el campo de la salud mental. Las aplicaciones mHealth (Mobile Health) se encuentran en auge y continuarán siendo un factor importante en la asistencia sanitaria, dado que ...

Wind energy in offshore grids

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Schroeder, S.T.

2013-01-15

This cumulative PhD thesis deals with wind integration in offshore grids from an economic point of view. It is composed of a generic part and eight papers. As the topic has mostly been analysed with a focus on topology and technical issues until now, market-operational questions in offshore grids and investment implications under different regulatory frameworks are a hitherto underrepresented research field. They are addressed by this thesis. Offshore grids between several countries combine the absorption of wind energy with international power trading. However, the inclusion into an offshore grid affects the economics of an offshore wind park. It is shown that the spot market income is lower if an offshore wind farm is placed in an interconnector and subject to nodal pricing instead of having a national affiliation. Moreover, congestion in the interconnector can prevent the wind farm from correcting its wind forecast errors in a specific onshore balancing group. An analytical approach with a transmission system operator and a wind farm as stakeholders illustrates resulting incentives for strategic behaviour. Depending on the regulatory regime, they may be inclined to announce more or less generation than expected at the closure of the day-ahead spot market. This can lead to a suboptimal utilisation of the infrastructure and associated socio-economic losses. These and possibly undesired reallocative effects between the parties can be avoided if the regulatory regime is adjusted to reflect special characteristics of offshore grids. With an operational real options approach, it is furthermore illustrated how different support schemes and connections to additional countries affect the investment case of an offshore wind farm and the income of the transmission system operator. The investment framework has also been addressed with a policy study about possible combinations of support schemes and international cooperation mechanisms between countries to achieve their

IS OFFSHORING AN INTERNATIONAL PROCESS

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Paulo Roberto Gião

2012-01-01

Full Text Available This article proposes to analyze the applicability of transaction cost economics - TCE (Coase, 1937; Williamson, 1975, 1979 through its characteristic make-or-buy expression, considering the offshoring pace and emerging economy firms. The make-or-buy decision must be flexible enough to explain offshoring characteristics and developed and emerging economy firms scenarios. As secondary objectives, and to show the trail to the main purpose, two research questions were identified and discussed during the paper: Is offshoring process an international movement only from developed countries to emerging economies? Is the main reason of offshoring the looking for low-cost work / activities? To achieve the proposed objectives, the structure of this paper begins with a reasonable or acceptable definition of offshoring. Some reasons (or “the reason” for the process are also another important starting point. The majority of articles referee the idea that low-cost is the main reason for offshoring, and if it is correct, transaction cost economics seems to be a good basis for our analysis purpose and integrative intention. Also some literature connections between offshoring and TCE are presented and, naturally TCE is presented in highlights for understanding these connections. Ending this section, some different arguments based on newer researches are presented by some authors presenting another perspective as the main reason. After this theoretical approach, a scenario analysis and some discussions are presented based on all possible interactions among firm from developed (DC and emerging economies (EE and examples of international corporations are presented to clarify and improve the understanding of our research questions and to build new contributions to international business theory.

Diseño y validación de la plataforma PLEVALEX como respuesta a los retos de diseño de exámenes de lenguas para fines específicos

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Jesús García Laborda

2007-10-01

Full Text Available Este artículo describe las necesidades de diseño y validación que llevaron al desarrollo de la Plataforma de Evaluación Valenciana de Lenguas Extranjeras (PLEVALEX para exámenes orales y escritos a través de Internet. Aunque la plataforma es multilingüe, en este trabajo nos referiremos a su uso para exámenes de inglés con fines específicos. La plataforma fue desarrollada por el Grupo de Investigación en Lenguas para Fines Específicos (GILFE de la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. La validación se hizo en cooperación con el Centro de Investigación en Tecnologías Gráficas (CITG de la misma universidad. La prueba de ergonomía se realizó a tres niveles: diseñadores, expertos y usuarios. El seguimiento realizado con estudiantes de comunicación audiovisual y profesores de la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia indicó una reacción positiva hacia la plataforma de exámenes en red.

The Economic Geography of Offshoring

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Ørberg Jensen, Peter D.; Pedersen, Torben

2011-01-01

when distinguishing between standardized and advanced activities. Asia attracts as many advanced activities as Western Europe while North America attracts more advanced activities even in manufacturing. Central and Eastern Europe attract offshoring in manufacturing and IT, but the activities...... that are offshored to these regions are typically not advanced. One important theoretical implication of this study is that a more detailed understanding of the nature of offshored activities is needed, since such attributes appear to be an important determinant of location choice....

Incertidumbres en Mediciones de Caudal con Perfiladores de Corriente Acústicos Doppler desde Plataformas Móviles

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Tarrab, Leticia

2014-01-01

Tesis (DCI)--FCEFN-UNC, 2013 Determina la incertidumbre en las mediciones de caudal con Perfiladores de Corriente Acústicos Doppler (ADCP) desde plataformas móviles a los fines de optimizar las técnicas de medición y elaborar recomendaciones para minimizar los errores (sesgo e incertidumbre aleatoria) en el uso de las técnicas de medición de caudales.

Offshore atomic power plants

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Anon.

1975-01-01

Various merits of offshore atomic power plants are illustrated, and their systems are assessed. The planning of the offshore atomic power plants in USA is reviewed, and the construction costs of the offshore plant in Japan were estimated. Air pollution problem may be solved by the offshore atomic power plants remarkably. Deep water at low temperature may be advantageously used as cooling water for condensers. Marine resources may be bred by building artificial habitats and by providing spring-up equipments. In the case of floating plants, the plant design can be standardized so that the construction costs may be reduced. The offshore plants can be classified into three systems, namely artificial island system, floating system and sea bottom-based system. The island system may be realized with the present level of civil engineering, but requires the development of technology for the resistance of base against earthquake and its calculation means. The floating system may be constructed with conventional power plant engineering and shipbuilding engineering, but the aseismatic stability of breakwater may be a problem to be solved. Deep water floating system and deep water submerging system are conceivable, but its realization may be difficult. The sea bottom-based system with large caissons can be realized by the present civil engineering, but the construction of the caissons, stability against earthquake and resistance to waves may be problems to be solved. The technical prediction and assessment of new plant sites for nuclear power plants have been reported by Science and Technology Agency in 1974. The construction costs of an offshore plant has been estimated by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry to be yen71,026/kW as of 1985. (Iwakiri, K.)

Offshoring and Changes in Firms’ Domestic Employment

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Timmermans, Bram; Østergaard, Christian Richter

difference on a set of employment characteristics, i.e. employment growth, growth in high skilled employees, and growth in employees with a background in science and engineering, by using a partial propensity score matching approach. The findings of the analyses show that there are clear differences between......In this paper, we investigate, by merging the Danish linked employer-employee database with a Danish offshoring survey, the difference in employment between offshoring and non-offshoring firms that are active in manufacturing industries and business services in Denmark. We measure the mean...... Danish offshoring and non-offshoring firms in how the employee composition changes over time. The change in employment composition differ considerably between manufacturing industries and business services and on whether firms offshore administrative and technical business functions or other types...

Comportamento de ensaios de arrancamento de placas embutidas em camadas de solo-cimento-fibra

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Vinícius Girardello

2014-01-01

Fundações diretas submetidas a carregamentos de compressão vertical têm sido frequentemente ensaiadas e seus comportamentos já são bem conhecidos no ramo de projeto de fundações. Fundações submetidas à tração têm crescido em importância devido ao aumento de perspectivas de uso de fontes de energia renováveis tais como turbinas de energia eólica e não renováveis tais como plataformas petrolíferas, bem como torres de transmissão de energia, cujas cargas de tração podem ser de grande importância...

Plataforma productiva como fuerza del desarrollo endógeno del sector de manufacturas plásticas

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Maryana Sandrea

2014-01-01

Full Text Available La plataforma productiva de una localidad constituye un soporte a la actividad empresarial, en términos de infraestructura física y servicios conexos, que dependiendo de sus condiciones estimula o frena el desarrollo endógeno. En este contexto, el objetivo general de la investigación consiste en analizar las condiciones de la plataforma productiva como fomento al desarrollo endógeno, en el sector de manufacturas plásticas, utilizando básicamente los aportes de Vázquez (2005 y 2007. El estudio realizado es descriptivo y de campo, con un diseño transversal, no experimental, incluyendo una entrevista a 30 empresas, guiada con un formato estructurado. Entre los resultados destacan: el 56,7% de los entrevistados presentan una posición desfavorable, en cuanto a las condiciones de la plataforma de apoyo al proceso productivo como estímulo al desarrollo del sector en la región, un 63,4% de los consultados afirman que la infraestructura física para el traslado de mercancías no favorecen la actividad del sector. La mayoría (76,7% de los entrevistados consideró que el funcionamiento de los servicios administrativos del gobierno, constituye un soporte valioso a las actividades empresariales, especialmente en cuanto a la posibilidad de realizar trámites vía Internet. Para la mayoría de las empresas consideradas (60%, el desarrollo urbano del territorio se presenta como una fuerza relativamente débil en el entorno productivo. Se concluye, que la relativa debilidad de ésta fuerza en la región, obedece a las deficiencias en las condiciones de la infraestructura económica, en particular al mantenimiento de la red de carreteras secundarias, así como en la prestación del servicio eléctrico, mientras que la infraestructura institucional resultó fortalecida, por tanto, para elevar el grado de desarrollo será necesario realizar intervenciones a fin de mejorar las condiciones de la infraestructura económica.

Plataforma productiva como fuerza del desarrollo endógeno del sector de manufacturas plásticas

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Maryana Sandrea

2014-01-01

Full Text Available La plataforma productiva de una localidad constituye un soporte a la actividad empresarial, en términos de infraestructura física y servicios conexos, que dependiendo de sus condiciones estimula o frena el desarrollo endógeno. En este contexto, el objetivo general de la investigación consiste en analizar las condiciones de la plataforma productiva como fomento al desarrollo endógeno, en el sector de manufacturas plásticas, utilizando básicamente los aportes de Vázquez (2005 y 2007. El estudio realizado es descriptivo y de campo, con un diseño transversal, no experimental, incluyendo una entrevista a 30 empresas, guiada con un formato estructurado. Entre los resultados destacan: el 56,7% de los entrevistados presentan una posición desfavorable, en cuanto a las condiciones de la plataforma de apoyo al proceso productivo como estímulo al desarrollo del sector en la región, un 63,4% de los consultados afirman que la infraestructura física para el traslado de mercancías no favorecen la actividad del sector. La mayoría(76,7% de los entrevistados consideró que el funcionamiento de los servicios administrativos del gobierno, constituye un soporte valioso a las actividades empresariales, especialmente en cuanto a la posibilidad de realizar trámites vía Internet.Para la mayoría de las empresas consideradas (60%, el desarrollo urbano del territorio se presenta como una fuerza relativamente débil en el entorno productivo.Se concluye, que la relativa debilidad de ésta fuerza en la región, obedece a las deficiencias en las condiciones de la infraestructura económica, en particular al mantenimiento de la red de carreteras secundarias, así como en la prestación del servicio eléctrico, mientras que la infraestructura institucional resultó fortalecida, por tanto, para elevar el grado de desarrollo será necesario realizar intervenciones a fin de mejorar las condiciones de la infraestructura económica.

NEW OFFSHORE LOCATIONS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

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RADULESCU IRINA GABRIELA

2014-05-01

Full Text Available The offshore activity provides benefits for the host market and has positive effects on services, and on producers that use intermediate services. FDI in services has an important impact on the offshore activity, especially through transfer of technology. Many transnational companies have recognized the advantages of offshoring and the fact that it becomes a key globalization force. Recently, the Central European countries have become popular destinations among offshoring

Noise from offshore wind turbines

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Soendergaard, B.; Plovsing, B.

2005-07-01

Noise assessment of wind turbines through calculations is based on sound power levels measured according to e.g. IEC 61400-11. With larger wind turbines and distances some of the calculation models give erroneous results. Noise propagation over water is different from propagation over land. For that reason it is important be able to make valid noise assessments for offshore wind farms. A suggestion for an offshore measurement method is described and a survey of models for noise propagation offshore has been made. (au)

Desempeño de Algoritmos Gusano en la Navegación de una Plataforma Robótica Móvil

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Luis Alvarez

2013-11-01

Full Text Available El presente trabajo presenta la implementación de algoritmos de navegación denominados gusano 1 y gusano 2 sobre la plataforma robotica móvil de iRobot Create, los cuales se brindaron la capacidad de autonomía para navegar dentro de entornos desconocidos. Además, se utilizaron los módulos de radio frecuencia, que funcionan bajo el estándar ZigBee, para dotar de comunicación inalambrica entre el robot y una PC. Se realizaron pruebas de comunicación para determinar la máxima distancia de trabajo a la que pueden funcionar los módulos RF en interiores; mientras que, para el análisis de desempeño de los algoritmos básicos de navegación montados sobre la plataforma robótica móvil se definieron tres escenarios diferentes donde se verificó la certeza de haber alcanzado la meta por el robot.

Some characteristics of offshore operations

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Popov Đorđe

2011-01-01

Full Text Available Offshore operations are not on the margins of the world economy. They are an integral part of modern business practice. They have become one of the most important instruments in the contemporary globalized financial system. Offshore operations and tax havens are not only conduits for tax avoidance and evasion but belong more broadly to the world of finance, for the business of managing the monetary resources of an organization, country or individuals. Offshore business operating in tax havens is at the heart of a particular type of globalization that is characterized by a growing gap between the very rich and everyone else. Tax havens are financial conduits that, in exchange for a fee, use their one principal asset- their sovereignty to serve a nonresident constituency of accountants and lawyers, bankers and financiers, who bring a demand for offshore operations.

Learning Paths to Offshore Outsourcing

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Maskell, Peter; Pedersen, Torben; Petersen, Bent

A corporation’s offshore outsourcing may be seen as the result of a discrete, strategic decision taken in response to an increasing pressure from worldwide competition. However, empirical evidence of a representative cross-sector sample of international Danish firms indicates that offshore sourcing...... in low-cost countries is best described as a learning-by-doing process in which the offshore outsourcing of a corporation goes through a sequence of stages towards sourcing for innovation. Initially, a corporation’s outsourcing is driven by a desire for cost minimization. Over a period of time...... the outsourcing experience lessens the cognitive limitations of decision-makers as to the advantages that can be achieved through outsourcing in low-cost countries: the insourcer/vendor may not only offer cost advantages, but also quality improvement and innovation. The quality improvements that offshore...

Offshore Wind Turbine Foundation Design

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Passon, Patrik; Branner, Kim; Larsen, Søren Ejling; Hvenekær Rasmussen, Jørgen

2015-01-01

Offshore vindenergi er i høj grad modnet i det seneste årti med en årligt installeret kapacitet på mere end1 GW. En vigtig faktor for den videre udvikling af offshore vindenergi i stor målestok, er en reduktion af de samlede udgifter til produceret energi. I betragtning af for eksempel faldet i olieprisen siden sommeren 2014 og dens fortsatte fald ind i 2015, er det endnu vigtigere at sænke omkostningerne til etablering af vedvarende energikilder såsom offshore vindenergi, for at nå frem til ...

Development of Offshore Wind Power Industry

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Liu Xiao

2011-01-01

The offshore wind power development target as initially proposed in "The 12=Five-Year" on energy recourses development and renewable energy recourses currently under development is to reach 5m KW by 2015 and 30m KW by 2020. With the unfolding of offshore wind turbine planning from different areas, the curtain of offshore wind power development for our country's "The 12=Five-Year" has been opened.

Managing Risk Areas in Software Development Offshoring

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Persson, John Stouby; Schlichter, Bjarne Rerup

2015-01-01

Software companies are increasingly offshoring development to countries with high expertise at lower cost. Offshoring involves particular risk areas that if ignored increase the likelihood of failure. However, the offshoring client’s maturity level may influence the management of these risk areas...

Annual Report 2001. Plataforma Solar de Almeria

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2002-01-01

This Annual Report for the year 2001 begins a new series in this type of document for the Plataforma Solar de Almeria. For the first time it includes activities carried out of our facilities since the withdrawal of the German Aerospace Agency (DLR) in December 1998 from the joint operation and management of the PSA. Since January, 1999, the Plataforma Solar has been managed entirely by the CIEMAT, although it continues to enjoy the considerable fruitful collaboration of DLR in a new framework of relations based on specific R and D projects of mutual interest. This new orientation, beginning in 1999 and 2000, and its results, permit us to write this report of 2001's activities optimistically, having now consolidated the new organizational structure and cleared in logical unknowns that at one time may have existed concerning the future of a facility that may be considered unique in the world. The publication of the Plan for the Promotion of Renewable Energies in Spain in December 1999, the boost received from the European Commission's 5th Framework Program R and D projects and the assistance received from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and Profit programs, not to mention the decisive internal support from the CIEMAT Executive Committee, have meant that we now enjoy an undoubtedly better situation than at the beginning of this new stage. Fruit of it are the significant R and D results in the different solar concentrating technologies described in this Report and the creation of new installations, that will be enlarged during the next two years as new projects in the fields of solar thermal storage for trough collectors, solar desalination with a new field of CPC collectors or high solar flux materials treatments in the new vertical-axis furnace are begun. The imminent approval of a premium for electricity generated by solar thermal power plants, which recognizes their environmental benefit and that other renewable energies are already enjoying will mean

The effects of meshed offshore grids on offshore wind investment – a real options analysis

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Schröder, Sascha Thorsten; Kitzing, Lena

2012-01-01

Offshore wind farms in future meshed offshore grids could be subject to different regulatory regimes. Feed-in tariffs would absorb market risk from wind farm operators, whereas price premium mechanisms leave operators exposed to market price signals. In this case, it plays a decisive role which...... price applies to a node in an offshore grid. The offshore node will either be integrated into any of the neighbouring markets, with access to the respective maximum price, or be subject to separate nodal pricing. We investigate the different regulatory regimes for connections to one to four countries...... based on a stochastic model capturing uncertainties in prices and line failures. The stochastic analysis shows that in case the wind park is granted access to the respective maximum price, there is a significant option value connected to the operational flexibility of accessing several markets: The wind...

The effects of meshed offshore grids on offshore wind investment – a real options analysis

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Schröder, Sascha Thorsten; Kitzing, Lena

2012-01-01

based on a stochastic model capturing uncertainties in prices and line failures. The stochastic analysis shows that in case the wind park is granted access to the respective maximum price, there is a significant option value connected to the operational flexibility of accessing several markets: The wind......Offshore wind farms in future meshed offshore grids could be subject to different regulatory regimes. Feed-in tariffs would absorb market risk from wind farm operators, whereas price premium mechanisms leave operators exposed to market price signals. In this case, it plays a decisive role which...... price applies to a node in an offshore grid. The offshore node will either be integrated into any of the neighbouring markets, with access to the respective maximum price, or be subject to separate nodal pricing. We investigate the different regulatory regimes for connections to one to four countries...

Wave Run-Up on Offshore Windturbine Foundations

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Frigaard, Peter; De Vos, Leen

2005-01-01

In the last decade, several offshore wind-farms are built and offshore wind energy promises to be a suitable alternative to provide green energy. However, there still are some engineering challenges in placing the wind turbine foundations offshore. For example, unexpected damage to boat landing...

China: an emerging offshore wind development hotspot. With a new assessment of China's offshore wind potential

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Reinvang, Rasmus; Enslow, Rachel; Beaumont, Hubert

2010-08-15

This study provides new and more detailed estimates of the offshore wind energy resources in China, with particular focus on Southern China. The study points out that the offshore wind industry is ramping up in China with at least 11.9GW in the development pipeline per April 2010. The study estimates the offshore wind potential of China (excluding Taiwan) to 11,580TWh/year. The study proves estimates and wind energy resource maps per province. Fujian, Zhejiang and Hainan stand out with the highest offshore wind speeds in China while Guangdong also shows significant potential, with annual wind speed averages of 6.5-10.2m/s and an energy density range of 12-36GWh/km2. Even though current offshore wind development is mainly taking place in Fujian and Jiangsu, this study shows that the potential is likely even greater in other provinces. The study was developed by the Chinese Wind Energy Association (CWEA) and Sun Yat-sen University, and commissioned by WWF as part of a project funded by the Norwegian Agency of development Coopeartion (Norad). Methodology and constraints: The wind resource analysis improves upon previous studies in estimating the wind energy generation potential for offshore wind power in China, with available meteorological data adjusted for influence of typhoons. The study models how much energy offshore wind can produce along China's coast up to 100km from the shore by calculating the energy output of theoretical wind farms by applying the power curve of a 3MW turbine at a 100m hub height. In addition the study further expands by giving special consideration to the deep-sea offshore potential at +50m water depths. The study focuses particularly on the coastline from Shandong down to Hainan. The final results provide good indication of the offshore wind resource in China when comparing one area to the other. The report can therefore be used as a preliminary tool to identifying most interesting provinces and locations for offshore wind

Publicidad dinámica y plataformas digitales: brand placement en espacios públicos y transmisiones deportivas en televisión

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Ortiz Sobrino, Miguel Ángel; Montemayor Ruiz, Francisco Javier

2014-01-01

Las imágenes virtuales, la publicidad digital dinámica multimedia diseñada para espacios públicos y las plataformas digitales utilizadas en las transmisiones deportivas en televisión son hoy herramientas esenciales para la estrategia del emplazamiento de las marcas publicitarias.

2016 Offshore Wind Technologies Market Report

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Musial, Walter; Beiter, Philipp; Schwabe, Paul; Tian, Tian; Stehly, Tyler; Spitsen, Paul; Robertson, Amy; Gevorgian, Vahan

2017-08-08

The 2016 Offshore Wind Technologies Market Report was developed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and is intended to provide offshore wind policymakers, regulators, developers, researchers, engineers, financiers, and supply chain participants, with quantitative information about the offshore wind market, technology, and cost trends in the United States and worldwide. In particular, this report is intended to provide detailed information on the domestic offshore wind industry to provide context to help navigate technical and market barriers and opportunities. The scope of the report covers the status of the 111 operating offshore wind projects in the global fleet through December 31, 2016, and provides the status and analysis on a broader pipeline of 593 projects at some stage of development. In addition, this report provides a wider assessment of domestic developments and events through the second quarter of 2017 to provide a more up-to-date discussion of this dynamically evolving industry.

Práticas de ensinar a distância mediadas por ambiente virtual / Las prácticas de la enseñanza a distancia mediadas por medios virtuales

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Guaracira Gouvêa

2008-01-01

Full Text Available Atualmente, a existência de discursos expressos nas leis educacionais e em parte da produção acadêmica contemporânea, colocando as tecnologias como relevantes e necessárias aos processoseducacionais, exige, antes de qualquer filiação, um exame crítico das questões que envolvem as relações que se estabelecem entre sujeitos em práticas educativas nas quais as tecnologias de informação e comunicação (TICs se fazem presentes. No caso deste estudo, estou interessada em discutir como os professores conduzem sua prática quando propõem situações didáticas mediadas por uma plataforma, em um contexto de disciplinas de um curso presencial, ministradas parcialmente a distância. Para tal, optei por estudar a implantação de módulos baseados em EaD em disciplinas de curso de graduaç��o em Pedagogia de uma universidade pública e realizar acompanhamento dosmomentos a distância Neste trabalho, considero como ferramentas metodológicas a observação participante das reuniões de preparação da implantação das disciplinas, as gravações em áudio dessas reuniões; o caderno de registros do professor da disciplina onde todas as ocorrências eram anotadas, inclusive as associadas à plataforma. A análise realizada indica que o ato de elaboração do materialdidático para ser disponibilizado na plataforma fez surgir questões que envolvem a escolha da plataforma e dos procedimentos didáticos e que estes e o desenho da plataforma descaracterizaram o uso dos meios digitais, pois os parâmetros espaços-temporais foram fixados e a linguagem multimídia e formas de comunicação diferenciadas não foram utilizadas.Abstract Actualmente, la existencia de los discursos, se expresa en las leyes educacionales y en parte de la producción académica contemporánea, poniendo las tecnologías como pertinentes y necesarias para el proceso educativo, requiere, antes de cualquier adhesión, un examen crítico de las cuestiones queafectan a

Combinando la realidad aumentada con las plataformas de e-elearning adaptativas

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Ramón Fabregat Gesa

2012-08-01

Full Text Available Los Sistemas Hipermedia Adaptativos (SHA y la Realidad Aumentada forman parte de las tecnologías con mayor potencial en la enseñanza y de los procesos de aprendizaje. El objetivo de este trabajo es explicar cómo combinar la realidad aumentada con las plataformas de e-learning adaptativas, para ponerlas a disposición de los estudiantes en el proceso de aprendizaje, de manera que les permita beneficiarse de la relación con los objetos en el espacio que los rodea, lo que conlleva a que los entornos de e-learning adaptativos permitan un aprendizaje más personalizado y de esta manera, permitir al estudiante avanzar al ritmo de sus propias capacidades e intereses.

Estudo do vazamento e captura de óleo em ambiente subaquátco

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Feller, Rafael

2012-01-01

Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnológico, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Química, Florianópolis, 2012 A ocorrência de acidentes em processos de extração de petróleo offshore tem sido um sério problema em virtude de vazamentos e suas conseqüências. Além das perdas econômicas, há o grande impacto ambiental ocasionado por tais derramamentos, que causam danos à fauna, à flora e a ambientes naturais (praias, recifes, etc.). Nesse contexto, est...

Offshore Fish Community: Ecological Interactions

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The offshore (>80 m) fish community of Lake Superior is made up of predominately native species. The most prominent species are deepwater sculpin, kiyi, cisco, siscowet lake trout, burbot, and the exotic sea lamprey. Bloater and shortjaw cisco are also found in the offshore zone...

Offshore wind power in Finland

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Holttinen, H. [VTT Energy, Espoo (Finland)

1998-12-31

The objectives of the project were to estimate the technical offshore wind power potential of the Gulf of Bothnia, with cost assessments, to study icing conditions and ice loads, and to design a foundation suitable for the environmental conditions. The technical offshore potential from Vaasa to Tornio is huge, more than 40 TWh/a, although the cost of offshore wind power is still higher than on land. Wind turbines have not previously been designed for the icing conditions found in Gulf of Bothnia and the recommendations for load cases and siting of megawatt-class turbines are an important result of the project. (orig.)

Offshore Wind Energy Cost Modeling Installation and Decommissioning

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Kaiser, Mark J

2012-01-01

Offshore wind energy is one of the most promising and fastest growing alternative energy sources in the world. Offshore Wind Energy Cost Modeling provides a methodological framework to assess installation and decommissioning costs, and using examples from the European experience, provides a broad review of existing processes and systems used in the offshore wind industry. Offshore Wind Energy Cost Modeling provides a step-by-step guide to modeling costs over four sections. These sections cover: ·Background and introductory material, ·Installation processes and vessel requirements, ·Installation cost estimation, and ·Decommissioning methods and cost estimation.  This self-contained and detailed treatment of the key principles in offshore wind development is supported throughout by visual aids and data tables. Offshore Wind Energy Cost Modeling is a key resource for anyone interested in the offshore wind industry, particularly those interested in the technical and economic aspects of installation and decom...

Offshore petroleum engineering task force report

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Ruelokke, M.

1999-05-01

The Offshore Petroleum Engineering Task Force was established in July 1998 in response to concerns about Newfoundland and Labrador's share of offshore petroleum engineering activity, with the aim of determining the current capability of the local sector, the demand for such companies and individuals until the year 2010, their capability to grow over that time-frame, and requirements in order to achieve that growth. The report summarizes the analysis undertaken by the Task Force as well as the conclusions it reached and associated recommendations. Section two provides an overview of the offshore engineering activity, including its origins, structure, and key success factors, and its also provides a profile of the industry, internationally, in Canada and in Newfoundland. Section three presents an analysis of the future demand for offshore engineering in Newfoundland until 2010, based on three development scenarios. Section four based on a Consulting Engineers of Newfoundland and Labrador (CENL) survey, establishes the present offshore engineering capacity and capabilities within the province. Section five examines current education and training programs and their ability to respond to future demands. Section six summarizes the conclusions of the analysis and presents recommendations designed to facilitate and promote the development of the local offshore engineering industry. 6 figs

Grid Integration of Offshore Wind | Wind | NREL

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Grid Integration of Offshore Wind Grid Integration of Offshore Wind Much can be learned from the existing land-based integration research for handling the variability and uncertainty of the wind resource Arklow Bank offshore wind park consists of seven GE Wind 3.6-MW wind turbines. Integration and

Conference on offshore wind power in France and Germany

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Meyer, Ronny; Furois, Timothee; Nolte, Nico; Lanoe, Frederic; Lehmann-Matthaei, Bjoern; Ifflaender, Andree; Courcambeck, Alexandre; Giese, Norbert; Kavafyan, Philippe; Bjaert, Niels; Wagner, Andreas; Guillet, Jerome

2014-01-01

The French-German office for Renewable energies (OFAEnR) organised a conference on offshore wind power in France and Germany. In the framework of this French-German exchange of experience, about 120 participants exchanged views on the planning and authorisation procedures implemented in both countries and on the installation, connection to the grid and maintenance of offshore wind turbines. environmental impacts and usage conflicts linked with offshore wind farms exploitation were addressed as well. This document brings together the available presentations (slides) made during this event: 1 - Update: Offshore Wind In Germany (Ronny Meyer); 2 - Offshore wind development in France (Timothee Furois); 3 - The Licensing Procedure for Offshore Wind Farms in the German EEZ (Nico Nolte); 4 - Spatial Planning and Permitting in France: What leverage for more efficiency? (Frederic Lanoe); 5 - Results of 10 years environmental research on FINO-platforms (Bjoern Lehmann-Matthaei); 6 - Offshore Grid Connection - Status Quo and Overview (Andree Ifflaender); 7 - Grid connection of Offshore Wind in France: Situation, perspectives and recommendations (Alexandre Courcambeck); 8 - Controlling risks and warranting safety: Best practices for the installation, exploitation and maintenance of offshore wind turbines (Norbert Giese); 9 - Offshore wind Bremerhaven experience: An essential asset for the development of a complete Wind Offshore industry in France (Philippe Kavafyan); 10 - Standardizing and Cost Reduction -Lessons Learned from London Array (Niels Bjaert); 11 - Offshore Wind energy in Germany: System Benefits and Cost Reduction Potentials. Presentation of study results from prognos/fichtner and Fraunhofer-IWeS (Andreas Wagner); 12 - Offshore Wind energy financing - opportunities and risks (Jerome Guillet)

Denmark - supplier of competitive offshore wind solutions. Megavind's strategy for offshore wind research, development and demonstration

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2010-12-15

In May 2006, the Danish Government presented a report on promoting environmentally effective technology and established a number of innovative partnerships. The partnerships intend to strengthen public-private cooperation between the state, industry, universities and venture capital to accelerate innovation for a number of green technologies. The partnership for wind energy is called Megavind. Megavind's strategy for offshore wind describes the offshore challenges and suggests research, development and demonstration (RD and D) priorities to enable offshore wind power become to competitive with other energy technologies. The strategy lists key recommendations as well as key thematic priorities and for each of these a number of RD and D priorities. Under each thematic priority references are made to the European Strategic Energy Technology plan (SET-plan), which prioritises offshore wind RD and D in Europe. (LN)

The offshore benthic fish community

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Lantry, Brian F.; Lantry, Jana R.; Weidel, Brian C.; Walsh, Maureen; Hoyle, James A.; Schaner, Teodore; Neave, Fraser B.; Keir, Michael

2014-01-01

Lake Ontario’s offshore benthic fish community includes primarily slimy sculpin, lake whitefish, rainbow smelt, lake trout, burbot, and sea lamprey. Of these, lake trout have been the focus of an international restoration effort for more than three decades (Elrod et al. 1995; Lantry and Lantry 2008). The deepwater sculpin and three species of deepwater ciscoes (Coregonus spp.) that were historically important in the offshore benthic zone became rare or were extirpated by the 1960s (Christie 1973; Owens et al. 2003; Lantry et al. 2007b; Roth et al. 2013). Ecosystem changes continue to influence the offshore benthic fish community, including the effects of dreissenid mussels, the near disappearance of burrowing amphipods (Diporeia spp.) (Dermott et al. 2005; Watkins et al. 2007), and the increased abundance and expanded geographic distribution of round goby (see Nearshore Fish Community chapter) (Lantry et al. 2007b). The fish-community objectives for the offshore benthic fish community, as described by Stewart et al. (1999), are:

IFREMER-ADEME colloquium 'Offshore renewable energies: offshore wind energy - sea currents and waves. Collection of abstracts

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2004-10-01

This document contains programme and abstracts of contributions presented during a colloquium. These contributions first addresses the context, and regulatory and economic aspects of offshore wind and sea energy: specificities related to the Public Maritime Domain for the implantation of offshore wind turbines, economy of sea energies within a perspective of de-carbonation of the world energy sector, case of offshore wind turbines and assessment of economic impacts of the implantation of sea renewable energy production units, financing stakes for offshore wind energy projects. A second set of contribution addresses the state-of -the-art and feedbacks for offshore wind energy installations. The third set addresses the assessment of resource potential, measurements, models and production prediction for offshore wind energy: case of French coasts, use of radar for remote sensing, wind climatology modelling, data acquisition for wind farm and data processing. The fourth set of contributions addresses the state-of-the-art, feedback, and R and D for sea current energy, while the fifth one addressed the same aspects for sea wave energy. Technology, installations, maintenance and storage in the field of wind energy are then addressed, and the last set deals with environmental and social-economical impacts of sea renewable energies

The onshore influence of offshore fresh groundwater

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Knight, Andrew C.; Werner, Adrian D.; Morgan, Leanne K.

2018-06-01

Freshwater contained within the submarine extensions of coastal aquifers is increasingly proposed as a freshwater source for coastal communities. However, the extent to which offshore freshwater supports onshore pumping is currently unknown on a global scale. This study provides the first attempt to examine the likely prevalence of situations where offshore freshwater influences onshore salinities, considering various sites from around the world. The groundwater conditions in twenty-seven confined and semi-confined coastal aquifers with plausible connections to inferred or observed offshore freshwater are explored. The investigation uses available onshore salinities and groundwater levels, and offshore salinity knowledge, in combination with analytical modelling, to develop simplified conceptual models of the study sites. Seven different conceptual models are proposed based on the freshwater-saltwater extent and insights gained from analytical modelling. We consider both present-day and pre-development conditions in assessing potential modern contributions to offshore fresh groundwater. Conceptual models also include interpretations of whether offshore freshwater is a significant factor influencing onshore salinities and well pumping sustainability. The results indicate that onshore water levels have declined between pre-development and present-day conditions in fourteen of the fifteen regions for which pre-development data are available. Estimates of the associated steady-state freshwater extents show the potential for considerable offshore fresh groundwater losses accompanying these declines. Both present-day and pre-development heads are insufficient to account for the observed offshore freshwater in all cases where adequate data exist. This suggests that paleo-freshwater and/or aquifer heterogeneities contribute significantly to offshore freshwater extent. Present-day heads indicate that active seawater intrusion (SWI) will eventually impact onshore pumping

Diseño de plataformas sensibles empleando grafeno y nanopartículas metálicas

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Dalfovo, María Celeste

2016-01-01

Existe una gran necesidad de detectar analitos en diversas áreas tales como el monitoreo ambiental, el diagnóstico de enfermedades, la seguridad en alimentos, hasta potenciales amenazas químicas y biológicas, las cuales demandan a la ciencia y tecnología a que se desarrollen nuevos materiales (dispositivos) que posean propiedades superlativas. En este contexto, la presente Tesis aborda el uso de plataformas sensibles las cuales emplean nanopartículas (NPs) protegidas con grupos orgá...

Developments in offshore technology. Entwicklungen in der Offshoretechnik

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1981-01-01

This book contains the summarized lectures held on the 8th of October, 1981 within the first status Seminar 'Offshore technology' which was organized by the Federal Minstry for Research and Technology. Contents are divided into: 1. Offshore-natural gas liquefaction, conveying systems. Offshore-tanker charging with supercold liquiefied gases; development of LNG-offshore - convayance systems; 2.) Development of components and installations in offshore structures: mooving-measuring- and monitoring systems for the installation of the EPOS deck; underwater-piling with a hydraulic-pile hammer; cast steel nodes for offshore-structures (material, calculation, design); 3.) underwater tools: the underwater-working system SUPRA; test results and experience with the unmanned UW-instrument-carrier FUGE; development of a mobile diver assistance vehicle for inspection and maintenance duties; 4.) underwater-pipeline-technique: flexible offshore-pipeline/continuous production and assembly, pipeline assembly at sea according to the J-Method with flash-welding technique; construction and testing of UWAG I (underwater working device) for embedding cables and pipes in the ocean soil.

Estudo comparativo entre duas plataformas para realização de Lasik personalizado para correção de miopia e astigmatismo: Alcon CustomCornea® versus Bausch & Lomb Zyoptix® Wavefront-Guided Lasik for low to moderate myopia: CustomCornea® versus Zyoptix®

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Telma Pereira Barreiro

2009-08-01

Full Text Available OBJETIVO: Comparar os resultados obtidos após o Lasik personalizado utilizando duas plataformas diferentes. MÉTODOS: Estudo prospectivo, randomizado com 50 pacientes míopes submetidos a cirurgia refrativa em ambos os olhos. Foram selecionados para o estudo, pacientes com equivalente esférico semelhante entre os olhos. Todos foram submetidos a Lasik bilateral e simultâneo, sendo que um olho foi operado pela plataforma CustomCornea® e o outro pela Zyoptix®. Acuidade visual sem e com correção, refração dinâmica e estática, medida das aberrações oculares, teste de sensibilidade ao contraste foram realizados no período pré-operatório e pós-operatório de 1, 3 e 6 meses. RESULTADOS: No período pré-operatório a média do equivalente esférico era de -3,29 ± 1,56 D no grupo CustomCornea® e de -3,22 ± 1,50 D no Zyoptix® (p=0,267. No sexto mês de pós-operatório, a média do equivalente esférico no grupo CustomCornea® era de -0,077 ± 0,23 D e -0,282 ± 0,30 D no Zyoptix® (p 20/20 foi alcançada em 86% dos olhos no grupo CustomCornea® e 70% no grupo Zyoptix® (p=0,094. Nenhum paciente perdeu duas ou mais linhas da melhor acuidade visual corrigida. Cem por cento dos olhos CustomCornea® e 88% dos Zyoptix® ficaram entre ± 0,50 D da emetropia (p=0,014*. Melhora da sensibilidade ao contraste em todas as frequências espaciais testadas foi observada em ambos os grupos. A aberração esférica apresentou aumento em ambos os grupos, porém este foi estatisticamente maior na plataforma Zyoptix® (pPURPOSE: To compare the visual and clinical outcomes of Wavefront-guided laser in situ keratomileusis (Lasik with Alcon CustomCornea® and Zyoptix® systems. METHODS: A prospective, randomized, masked and bilateral study was conducted. Fifty patients with preoperative spherical equivalent ranging from -1.00 to -6.50 D were enrolled for customized ablation in both eyes. All of them were submitted to Lasik CustomCornea® treatment in one

Aplicación de la nueva plataforma virtual (Moodle) en el proceso de enseñanza/aprendizaje del Análisis de estados financieros en la UCM

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Rodríguez Paredes, Mercedes; Rodríguez López, Ángel; Fidalgo Cerviño, Esther

2011-01-01

El objetivo principal de este proyecto es el diseño y desarrollo de metodologías en la enseñanza/aprendizaje universitaria del Análisis de estados financieros, aplicando la filosofía y utilizando las herramientas de la nueva plataforma (Moodle), con el objetivo de contrastar la hipótesis de que la enseñanza a través de la plataforma virtual motivará mucho más a los discentes, de forma que los conocimientos y competencias en el área de referencia se verán ampliamente potenciados. Así, el desar...

Understanding public responses to offshore wind power

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Haggett, Claire

2011-01-01

This paper is about understanding the role and importance of public responses to offshore wind power. It builds on a framework for understanding social acceptance and opposition to onshore turbines, and reviews the emerging research on offshore wind. While less is known about how people will respond to offshore than onshore wind, there is now an emerging body of research. From this literature, several common factors which influence responses have emerged and are discussed here: the (continued) role of visual impact; place attachment to the local area; lack of tangible benefits; relationships with developers and outsiders; and the role of the planning and decision-making systems. The paper argues that, as with onshore developments, the public should be included in decision-making about offshore wind farms, and that they have a key role which should not be underestimated. The paper concludes with some thoughts about the means to involve people and how effected communities might be effectively acknowledged, identified and engaged. - Research Highlights: →Comprehensive review of public responses to offshore wind literature. →Applies key lessons and analytic insights from onshore wind to offshore wind. →Emphasizes the role and importance of the public in the planning and implementation of offshore wind energy.

Global Production: The Case of Offshore Programming

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Nørbjerg, Jacob; Havn, Erling; Bansler, Jørgen P.

1997-01-01

of software is no exception.In this paper, we present a newly started research project on offshore program-ming, that is the practice of sending software development “offshore,” to India or other low wage areas. The project focuses on the organisation of offshore program-ming and, particularly, on the role...

Socio-economic Impacts—Offshore Activities/Energy

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Halsnæs, Kirsten; Drews, Martin; Clausen, Niels-Erik

2016-01-01

sector and renewable electricity generation—mainly from offshore wind—is increasing. Energy and offshore activities in the North Sea are critically vulnerable to climate change along the full supply chain. The major vulnerabilities for offshore installations like rigs, offshore wind energy and pipelines......, it is highly uncertain how much the future potential of other renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, terrestrial biomass, or emerging technologies like wave, tidal or marine biomass could be positively or negatively affected. Due to the different national energy supply mixes the vulnerability to climate......-related impacts will vary among North Sea countries. To ensure safe and reliable future operations comprehensive and systematic risk assessments are therefore needed which account for, for example, the high integration of power systems in the region....

Integración de sistemas electrónicos de una plataforma de rehabilitación locomotora con simulación en ANFIS

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Adolfo Avila Barón

2013-09-01

Full Text Available Los dispositivos para la rehabilitación locomotora son usados por un gran número de personas alrededor del mundo; la confiabilidad en estos dispositivos, su óptimo funcionamiento y la calidad del equipo son un interesante tema para los diseñadores y sus usuarios. Este documento muestra como el diseño de hardware y software de una plataforma de rehabilitación de la locomoción contribuyen a la confiabilidad de su uso, describe también como la programación embebida es aplicada en el sistema de monitoreo de esta plataforma. Los dispositivos médicos de rehabilitación de la locomoción son usados para ejecutar tratamientos no invasivos en los pacientes, estos pueden lograr efectos tanto positivos como negativos en la recuperación; pero un adecuado seguimiento en el control y monitoreo de éstos dispositivos es determinante hacia la recuperación. Este documento contiene información sobre el desarrollo de sistemas de redes neuronales y sistemas difusos combinados en el control y monitoreo de la plataforma de rehabilitación locomotora, también relaciona variables como la descarga de peso, la velocidad de una caminadora, el ritmo cardiaco ECG de los pacientes; aspectos que involucran, la integración de las partes, mediante la simulación con el software ANFIS de MATLAB y su aplicación de software embebido usando procesadores digitales DSPS.

Operational management of offshore energy assets

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Kolios, A. J.; Martinez Luengo, M.

2016-02-01

Energy assets and especially those deployed offshore are subject to a variety of harsh operational and environmental conditions which lead to deterioration of their performance and structural capacity over time. The aim of reduction of CAPEX in new installations shifts focus to operational management to monitor and assess performance of critical assets ensuring their fitness for service throughout their service life and also to provide appropriate and effective information towards requalification or other end of life scenarios, optimizing the OPEX. Over the last decades, the offshore oil & gas industry has developed and applied various approaches in operational management of assets through Structural Health and Condition Monitoring (SHM/CM) systems which can be, at a certain level, transferable to offshore renewable installations. This paper aims to highlight the key differences between offshore oil & gas and renewable energy assets from a structural integrity and reliability perspective, provide a comprehensive overview of different approaches that are available and applicable, and distinguish the benefits of such systems in the efficient operation of offshore energy assets.

Fine Slicing of the Value Chain and Offshoring of Essential Activities

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Linares-Navarro, Esmeralda; Pedersen, Torben; Pla-Barber, José

2014-01-01

The offshoring of more advanced activities is increasing and a debate about the limits of offshoring has emerged. Companies are fine-slicing their value chains, and moving beyond the offshoring of peripheral and non-core activities to the offshoring of advanced and essential activities that are c......The offshoring of more advanced activities is increasing and a debate about the limits of offshoring has emerged. Companies are fine-slicing their value chains, and moving beyond the offshoring of peripheral and non-core activities to the offshoring of advanced and essential activities...... that companies are redefining their core activities and in this process, some essential activities previously viewed as core activities are being detached from the core, and they become more offshorable. The study uses a sample of 565 offshoring operations conducted by 263 multinational companies from 15...... European countries. A logistic regression was used to analyze the relationship between the activities offshored (non-core versus essential activities) and the offshoring mode implemented (captive offshoring versus offshore outsourcing). We find that essential activities are typically offshored using...

Pricing offshore wind power

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Levitt, Andrew C.; Kempton, Willett; Smith, Aaron P.; Musial, Walt; Firestone, Jeremy

2011-01-01

Offshore wind offers a very large clean power resource, but electricity from the first US offshore wind contracts is costlier than current regional wholesale electricity prices. To better understand the factors that drive these costs, we develop a pro-forma cash flow model to calculate two results: the levelized cost of energy, and the breakeven price required for financial viability. We then determine input values based on our analysis of capital markets and of 35 operating and planned projects in Europe, China, and the United States. The model is run for a range of inputs appropriate to US policies, electricity markets, and capital markets to assess how changes in policy incentives, project inputs, and financial structure affect the breakeven price of offshore wind power. The model and documentation are made publicly available. - Highlights: → We calculate the Breakeven Price (BP) required to deploy offshore wind plants. → We determine values for cost drivers and review incentives structures in the US. → We develop 3 scenarios using today's technology but varying in industry experience. → BP differs widely by Cost Scenario; relative policy effectiveness varies by stage. → The low-range BP is below regional market values in the Northeast United States.

Offshore Supply Industry Dynamics

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Roslyng Olesen, Thomas

This report is part of the research project “The competitive challenges and strategic development possibilities for The Blue Denmark”, which was launched in 2014. The project is funded by the Danish Maritime Fund and carried out by researchers at CBS Maritime which is a Business in Society Platform...... with companies in the maritime sector. This report “Offshore Supply Industry Dynamics – Business strategies in the offshore supply industry” is the second report in mapping project D. It examines the markets and business strategies of various suppliers and furthermore presents an analysis of the challenges...... at Copenhagen Business School with a focus on value creation in the maritime industries. The project embraces various maritime segments from shipping and offshore to ports and suppliers. The research questions for the individual projects have been formulated by researchers at CBS Maritime in cooperation...

Plataforma Racial? O racismo, a sub-representação e a ausência de questões raciais em campanhas eleitorais

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Harvey, Isadora Lopes

2016-01-01

Haja visto o processo histórico pós-escravista no Brasil, ainda enfrentamos resíduos de uma política de branqueamento da população negra. Os moldes da política anti-negros/as e os incentivos à miscigenação foram se desenvolvendo em uma ideologia antirracista baseada em pilares racistas. Buscando expor algumas das principais implicações resultantes dessa dinâmica, esta pesquisa aborda a representação de negros/as em esferas políticas brasileiras, com foco nas candidaturas negras...

Offshore rectenna feasbility

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Freeman, J. W.; Hervey, D.; Glaser, P.

1980-01-01

A preliminary study of the feasibility and cost of an offshore rectenna to serve the upper metropolitan east coast was performed. A candidate site at which to build a 5 GW rectenna was selected on the basis of proximity to load centers, avoidance of shipping lanes, sea floor terrain, and relocated conditions. Several types of support structures were selected for study based initially on the reference system rectenna concept of a wire mesh ground screen and dipoles each with its own rectifier and filter circuits. Possible secondary uses of an offshore rectenna were examined and are evaluated.

Gela offshore field

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Pagliughi, G

1965-06-01

The field of Gela, off the southern shore of Sicily, is the only producing offshore field in the Mediterranean. It produces from Triassic dolimite limestones of 434-m thickness, water level at -3517 m. It is a water-drive reservoir producing 10/sup 0/F API oil and has 79 wells, some of them on shore. Most offshore wells are directional wells from shore; there are also 2 fixed platforms and a special mobile platform. The wells are on pump (stroke, 72 in.; capacity 200 tons per day). The crude goes directly to a combination refinery-petrochemical complex at Gela.

Offshore Energy Knowledge Exchange Workshop Report

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2012-04-12

A report detailing the presentations and topics discussed at the Offshore Energy Knowledge Exchange Workshop, an event designed to bring together offshore energy industry representatives to share information, best practices, and lessons learned.

DISEÑO E IMPLEMENTACIÓN DE UNA PLATAFORMA EXPERIMENTAL DE DOS GRADOS DE LIBERTAD CONTROLADA POR DOS TÉCNICAS: PID Y LÓGICA DIFUSA

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Leonardo Solaque Guzmán

2014-01-01

Full Text Available El presente artículo tiene por objeto mostrar una estructura de dos grados de libertad, concebida y diseñada para aproximarse a la experimentación de leyes de control de sistemas tipo helicópteros de cuatro hélices (Quad-Rotor – Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. Se realizó el modelado y control para dicha plataforma. Dos tipos de control se abarcaron: uno basado en técnicas lineales tipo PID, que hace uso de la linealización por series de Taylor; y el otro basado en técnicas de control difuso. Se deja una plataforma abierta y, mediante la incursión en software-hardware in loop, se habilita para experimentar otras teorías de control.

Attitude and acceptance of offshore wind farms

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Ladenburg, Jacob; Möller, B.

2011-01-01

farms attributes on attitude towards offshore wind farms. The results point towards that the travel time and the attributes of the nearest offshore wind farm influence the attitude significantly. Travel time has mixed effects on the attitude, whilst offshore wind farms with many turbines generate more...... a novel contribution to this field. First of all, we give a thorough review of the studies that have analysed the relation between experience with wind turbines and attitude. In addition, we supplement the review by analysing the effect of travel distance to the nearest offshore wind farm and the wind...

Estudo comparativo das plataformas de ensino-aprendizagemComparative study of teaching-learning plataforms

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Patricia Gabardo

2010-01-01

Full Text Available O impulso registrado pela Educação a Distância (EAD com o desenvolvimento das novas Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação (TIC nos últimos anos, demonstra o aperfeiçoamento tecnológico dos ambientes virtuais de aprendizagem. O fato requereu a necessidade de aperfeiçoar-se o uso de novas ferramentas, potencializando seu uso e propondo uma nova visão pedagógica à modalidade, que é o de contribuir para o aprendizado autônomo do aluno, porém de forma mais colaborativa. Nesse aspecto, as plataformas utilizadas pelas Instituições de Ensino Superior para EAD estariam de acordo com esta nova visão? Estudo de caso relativo às plataformas para ensino e aprendizagem utilizadas no Brasil demonstra o largo caminho que há para ser percorrido na potencialização das novas tecnologias.The impulse recorded by Distance Learning with the development of new Information and Communication Technology (ICT in recent years demonstrates the technological improvement of virtual learning environments. That required the need to improve the use of new tools, increasing its use and propose a new pedagogical approach to sport, which is to contribute to the autonomous learning of the student, but in a more collaborative. In this respect, the platforms used by higher education institutions for distance education would be consistent with this new vision? Case study on teaching and learning platforms used in Brazil demonstrates the wide path that is to be traversed in the potentiation of new Technologies.

The Capabilities of the Offshore Middlemen

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Mahnke, Volker; Wareham, Jonathan

preliminary theoretical justification for the emergence of offshore intermediaries; describe how and why they develop intermediation capabilities; and offer initial evidence substantiating their function and processes in intermediating transnational offshoring relationships in software development...

Environmental risk in the offshore industry

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Woods, I.T.; Shirley, D.; Bottelberghs, P.H.

1991-01-01

The subject of oil pollution of the sea by the offshore industry is topical as a result of recent incidents both in the U.K. and overseas. While these incidents have primarily involved crude carriers, it has led to pressure to quantify the risk to the environment from the offshore industry in general. In this paper a method for the assessment of the frequency and size of oil spills from offshore installations is presented. It relies on previously reported spills to determine spill size/frequency information for a range of offshore activities, such as transport by pipeline, drilling and processing. Modification factors are used so local conditions, such as the number of wells drilled, throughput and well depth, can be considered in the assessment of the oil spill risk from a particular installation

Análise do Comportamento do Consumidor Esportivo em Relação à Memória e Preferência de Marca: Um Estudo de Caso da Maratona de São Paulo

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Eduardo de Oliveira Cruz Carlassara

2016-10-01

Full Text Available Nos últimos anos, o mercado de corrida de rua apresentou forte crescimento e evolução. O foco, nos eventos da modalidade, não mais está nos atletas profissionais e sim em atletas amadores que buscam, acima de tudo, a prática de uma atividade física e o entretenimento. Neste cenário, empresas passam a adotar os eventos de corridas de rua como plataforma de relacionamento com o público praticante em questão. O objetivo do presente artigo é analisar o comportamento do consumidor esportivo em relação à memória e preferência por determinada marca de material esportivo, em detrimento de outra, na Maratona de São Paulo. A efetividade das estratégias de relacionamento de cada empresa é colocada em análise uma vez que ditam as preferências dos participantes do evento.

An approach to 3D modeling of marine platforms in operation; Un enfoque al modelado 3D de plataformas marinas en operacion

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Gomez Camargo, Octavio [Instituto de Investigaciones Electricas, Cuernavaca, Morelos (Mexico)

2007-07-01

During the useful life of the marine platforms it is of great importance to have an intelligent three-dimensional model, that faithfully represents the facilities, in order to optimize the operative and maintenance procedures as well as to have a real information of the condition of the equipment and of each one of the components to facilitate the decision making, to make a risk analysis and dangerous operation analyses (HAZOP) and to make designs of improvements, modernization, substitutions and extensions. At the moment, the marine platforms are being designed with CAD tools, reason why before its installation they have a 3D model, which is updated as the design advances, until arriving at the approved version for construction. Later, the digital model of the marine platform serves to guide in the construction and follow up the advance of the same. Similarly, the model 3D is due to update with respect to the changes that arise during the construction and installation, until the commissioning of the platform, nevertheless, many of these were constructed when these tools were not yet available, reason why it becomes necessary to construct the digital model according to the present condition they exhibit. In order to develop the digital model of the marine platforms in operation, the activities are grouped in three large stages: specification of scope, retrieval of the information and modeling. [Spanish] Durante la vida util de las plataformas marinas es de gran importancia contar con un modelo tridimensional inteligente, que represente fielmente las instalaciones, con la finalidad de optimizar los procedimientos operativos y de mantenimiento asi como de disponer de informacion real del estado de los equipos y de cada uno de los componentes para facilitar la toma de decisiones, para hacer analisis de riesgos y analisis de operaciones peligrosas (HAZOP) y para hacer disenos de mejoras, modernizaciones, sustituciones y ampliaciones. Actualmente, las plataformas

10 CFR 150.7 - Persons in offshore waters not exempt.

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2010-01-01

... 10 Energy 2 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Persons in offshore waters not exempt. 150.7 Section 150.7... AGREEMENT STATES AND IN OFFSHORE WATERS UNDER SECTION 274 Continued Commission Regulatory Authority in Offshore Waters § 150.7 Persons in offshore waters not exempt. Persons in offshore waters are not exempt...

Um esquema de autorização para a segurança em sistemas distribuídos de larga escala

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Westphall, Carla Merkle

2013-01-01

Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, 2000. A especificação e o gerenciamento de políticas de autorização em sistemas que usam objetos distribuídos de larga escala representa um desafio para o estabelecimento de ambientes seguros. Esta tese propõe um Esquema de Autorização para sistemas distribuídos usando abstrações do modelo CORBA de segurança integrado aos suportes de segurança das plataformas Java e Web. Este esquema de autorização, construído usando...

APLICACIÓN DE INGENIERÍA DIRIGIDA POR MODELOS (MDA, PARA LA CONSTRUCCIÓN DE UNA HERRAMIENTA DE MODELADO DE DOMINIO ESPECÍFICO (DSM Y LA CREACIÓN DE MÓDULOS EN SISTEMAS DE GESTIÓN DE APRENDIZAJE (LMS INDEPENDIENTES DE LA PLATAFORMA

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CARLOS ENRIQUE MONTENEGRO MARÍN

2011-01-01

Full Text Available El objetivo general es realizar un modelado específico de dominio para la construcción de módulos en sistemas de gestión del aprendizaje (LMS independientes de la plataforma. Para esto, el punto de partida es un metamodelo para la construcción de un lenguaje específico de dominio (DSL que con ingeniería dirigida por modelos (MDE y aplicando las debidas transformaciones se consiga de un modelo independiente de la plataforma, el despliegue de este modelo se realizara en varias plataformas LMSs.

Las Cumbres de las Américas: una nueva plataforma para la sociedad civil

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Tussie, Diana; Botto, Mercedes

2005-01-01

RESUMEN: Este artículo analiza los avances logrados por las Cumbres de las Américas en materia de incorporación de los actores no gubernamentales en la definición de la agenda hemisférica. La descripción identifica los alcances de la apertura a nivel regional y a nivel nacional. En la conclusión, se evalúan los desafíos que enfrentan los foros de participación de la sociedad civil para institucionalizarse como plataformas democráticas de consulta y diálogo entre gobiernos y actores no guberna...

Water-hydraulic power transmission for offshore wind farms

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Diepeveen, N.F.B.; Jarquin Laguna, A.; Kempenaar, A.S.

2012-01-01

The current state of the art of offshore wind turbine power transmission technology is expensive, heavy and maintenance intensive. The Delft Offshore Turbine project considers a radically new concept for power transmission in an offshore wind farm: using seawater as power transmission medium. For

Offshore Wind Energy Systems Engineering Curriculum Development

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McGowan, Jon G. [Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (United States); Manwell, James F. [Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (United States); Lackner, Matthew A. [Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (United States)

2012-12-31

Utility-scale electricity produced from offshore wind farms has the potential to contribute significantly to the energy production of the United States. In order for the U.S. to rapidly develop these abundant resources, knowledgeable scientists and engineers with sound understanding of offshore wind energy systems are critical. This report summarizes the development of an upper-level engineering course in "Offshore Wind Energy Systems Engineering." This course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive knowledge of both the technical challenges of offshore wind energy and the practical regulatory, permitting, and planning aspects of developing offshore wind farms in the U.S. This course was offered on a pilot basis in 2011 at the University of Massachusetts and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), TU Delft, and GL Garrad Hassan have reviewed its content. As summarized in this report, the course consists of 17 separate topic areas emphasizing appropriate engineering fundamentals as well as development, planning, and regulatory issues. In addition to the course summary, the report gives the details of a public Internet site where references and related course material can be obtained. This course will fill a pressing need for the education and training of the U.S. workforce in this critically important area. Fundamentally, this course will be unique due to two attributes: an emphasis on the engineering and technical aspects of offshore wind energy systems, and a focus on offshore wind energy issues specific to the United States.

Offshoring in textile industry

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MONTÓN GARCÍA, JORGE

2015-01-01

[ EN] This project is about offshoring in the textile industry, focusing in the rights violated in this process, this concept can be defined as the moving of various operations of a company to another country for reasons such as lower labor costs or more favorable economic conditions in that other country. The project describes the evolution of offshoring, which started in 1960’s and has continued since then; it was characterized primarily by the transferring of factories from the develope...

Boundary Spanning in Offshored Information Systems Development Projects

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Krishnan, Poornima

2010-01-01

Recent growth in offshore outsourcing of information systems (IS) services is accompanied by managing the offshore projects successfully. Much of the project failures can be attributed to geographic and organizational boundaries which create differences in culture, language, work patterns, and decision making processes among the offshore project…

Lake Michigan Offshore Wind Feasibility Assessment

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Boezaart, Arnold [GVSU; Edmonson, James [GVSU; Standridge, Charles [GVSU; Pervez, Nahid [GVSU; Desai, Neel [University of Michigan; Williams, Bruce [University of Delaware; Clark, Aaron [GVSU; Zeitler, David [GVSU; Kendall, Scott [GVSU; Biddanda, Bopi [GVSU; Steinman, Alan [GVSU; Klatt, Brian [Michigan State University; Gehring, J. L. [Michigan State University; Walter, K. [Michigan State University; Nordman, Erik E. [GVSU

2014-06-30

The purpose of this project was to conduct the first comprehensive offshore wind assessment over Lake Michigan and to advance the body of knowledge needed to support future commercial wind energy development on the Great Lakes. The project involved evaluation and selection of emerging wind measurement technology and the permitting, installation and operation of the first mid-lake wind assessment meteorological (MET) facilities in Michigan’s Great Lakes. In addition, the project provided the first opportunity to deploy and field test floating LIDAR and Laser Wind Sensor (LWS) technology, and important research related equipment key to the sitting and permitting of future offshore wind energy development in accordance with public participation guidelines established by the Michigan Great Lakes Wind Council (GLOW). The project created opportunities for public dialogue and community education about offshore wind resource management and continued the dialogue to foster Great Lake wind resource utilization consistent with the focus of the GLOW Council. The technology proved to be effective, affordable, mobile, and the methods of data measurement accurate. The public benefited from a substantial increase in knowledge of the wind resources over Lake Michigan and gained insights about the potential environmental impacts of offshore wind turbine placements in the future. The unique first ever hub height wind resource assessment using LWS technology over water and development of related research data along with the permitting, sitting, and deployment of the WindSentinel MET buoy has captured public attention and has helped to increase awareness of the potential of future offshore wind energy development on the Great Lakes. Specifically, this project supported the acquisition and operation of a WindSentinel (WS) MET wind assessment buoy, and associated research for 549 days over multiple years at three locations on Lake Michigan. Four research objectives were defined for the

Offshore wind resources at Danish measurement sites

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Barthelmie, R J; Courtney, M S; Lange, B; Nielsen, M; Sempreviva, A M [Risoe National Lab., Dept. of Wind Energy and Atmospheric Physics, Roskilde (Denmark); Svenson, J; Olsen, F [SEAS, Haslev (Denmark); Christensen, T [Elsamprojekt, Fredericia (Denmark)

1999-03-01

In order to characterise wind and turbulence characteristics at prospective offshore wind energy sites, meteorological observations from a number of purpose-built offshore monitoring sites have been analyzed and compared with long wind speed time series. New analyses have been conducted on the data sets focussing on meteorology, turbulence, extreme winds and wind and wave interactions. Relationships between wind speed, turbulence and fetch are highly complex. Minimum turbulence intensity offshore is associated with wind speeds of about 12 m/s. At lower wind speeds, stability effects are important while at higher winds speeds wind and wave interactions appear to dominate. On average, turbulence intensity offshore at 48 m height is approximately 0.08 if no coastal effects are present. However, the effect of the coastal discontinuity persists in wind speed and turbulence characteristics for considerable distances offshore. The majority of the adjustment of appears to occur within 20 km of the coast. (au)

Offshore Vendors’ Software Development Team Configurations

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Chakraborty, Suranjan; Sarker, Saonee; Rai, Sudhanshu

2012-01-01

This research uses configuration theory and data collected from a major IT vendor organization to examine primary configurations of distributed teams in a global off-shoring context. The study indicates that off-shoring vendor organizations typically deploy three different types of configurations...

46 CFR 15.520 - Mobile offshore drilling units.

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2010-10-01

... 46 Shipping 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Mobile offshore drilling units. 15.520 Section 15.520... REQUIREMENTS Manning Requirements; Inspected Vessels § 15.520 Mobile offshore drilling units. (a) The requirements in this section for mobile offshore drilling units (MODUs) supplement other requirements in this...

EWeA Offshore 2013 - Side event: 'Offshore wind energy - Potentialities and industrial opportunities in France and in Germany. French-German cross perspectives

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Genachte, Anne-Benedicte; Kavafyan, Philippe; Wagner, Andreas; Bour, Gregoire

2013-01-01

At the EWEA Offshore 2013 exhibition, the French-German office for Renewable energies (OFAEnR) organised a side-conference on Offshore wind energy and its Potentialities and industrial opportunities in France and in Germany. In the framework of this French-German exchange of experience, about 50 participants exchanged views on the conditions for the development of a durable offshore wind energy industry both in France and in Germany. This document brings together the available presentations (slides) made during this event: 1 - Supporting industrial development of offshore wind in Europe (Anne-Benedicte Genachte); 2 - Offshore wind energy: the Bremerhaven experience. An asset for the deployment of a complete industrial field in France (Philippe Kavafyan); 3 - Status, Prospects and Challenges for Offshore Wind energy in Germany - incl. Legal Framework and Presentation of cost reduction study results (Andreas Wagner); 4 - Offshore grid connection in Germany - Challenges and recommendations (Gregoire Bour)

The EU Offshore Safety Directive and its potential effects. Opportunity or handicap?; Die EU Offshore Safety Directive und ihre moeglichen Auswirkungen. Chance oder Handicap?

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Schwiederowski, Claudia [RWE Dea AG, Hamburg (Germany)

2014-07-01

The purpose of the EU Offshore Safety Directive, which took effect on 18 July 2013, is to define minimum requirements for the prevention of severe accidents in connection with offshore crude oil or natural gas activities of any kind and the containment of the follow-on effects of such accidents. This is without question a logical consequence of the offshore incidents seen around the globe over the past decades. An interesting question in this context is for whom the EU Offshore Safety Directive has become an opportunity and for whom a handicap. [German] Ziel der am 18. Juli 2013 in Kraft getretenen EU Offshore Safety Direktive ist die Festlegung von Mindestanforderungen fuer die Verhinderung schwerer Unfaelle bei Offshore-Erdoel- bzw. - Erdgasaktivitaeten und die Begrenzung etwaiger Unfallfolgen. Nach den weltweiten Offshore- Ereignissen der vergangenen Jahrzehnte ist dies ohne Zweifel eine logische Entwicklung. Nun stellt sich die Frage: Fuer wen entwickelt sich die EU Offshore Safety Directive zur Chance, fuer wen zum Handicap?.

Youtubers e reviews de moda e beleza : perceções e intenção de compra dos consumidores em Portugal

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Ponte, Maria Soeiro da

2017-01-01

Mestrado em Marketing Devido à evolução da era digital e com a emergência de novas plataformas, os consumidores tornaram-se mais recetivos ao conteúdo partilhado nas redes sociais, como o YouTube, procurando informação que os auxilie na sua decisão de compra. Por seu turno, os criadores de conteúdo desta rede social ? os youtubers ? criam e partilham vídeos como reviews de produtos, demonstrações de utilização de produtos e a sua rotina diária de forma genuína e verdadeira. Esta partilha d...

The offshorization of economy: the present realities

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Maslak Olga

2017-01-01

Full Text Available In this article the essence and main types of offshore zones have been studied. It has been analyzed the main reasons for cooperation with the tax havens, established that the main reason of the Ukrainian economy offshorization is not only the desire of economic entities to optimize taxes, but also the desire to protect their assets from the negative impact of the crisis phenomena in the national economy during 2010-2016. The foreign experience of the anti-offshore regulation has been researched. It has been defined that the general anti-offshore regulation vector should be based on the principles of financial transparency, active cooperation with the international community, an optimal combination of instruments that restrict the capital outflows and the effective instruments that stimulate the business development in the country. It has been also established that the mechanism of deoffshorization should be aimed not only at elimination of the territories with the preferential taxation, but also at receiving benefits from their use on the basis of the existing financial infrastructure of the leading world offshore centers. The experience of China in attracting additional foreign investments, gaining wider access to financial resources through the cooperation with an offshore financial centre has been researched.

Offshoring and financial markets

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Gianfranco Battisti

2014-06-01

Full Text Available The paper analyses the nature and extent of the offshore world, a grey area that is playing a major role in present-day economy. The main institutions moulding this peculiar environment are discussed: preferential tax regimes, tax havens and offshore financial centers. Their role in the globalised world is outlined after a scrutiny of the specialized literature, reports by non-governmental bodies and companies’ advertisings. Finally, we present a tentative reconstruction of its geographical organization, inclusive of cartographic representations of the main international networks.

31 CFR 587.406 - Offshore transactions.

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2010-07-01

... 31 Money and Finance: Treasury 3 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Offshore transactions. 587.406 Section 587.406 Money and Finance: Treasury Regulations Relating to Money and Finance (Continued) OFFICE... MONTENEGRO) MILOSEVIC SANCTIONS REGULATIONS Interpretations § 587.406 Offshore transactions. The prohibitions...

Project alliancing in the offshore industry

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Halman, Johannes I.M.; Braks, B.F.M.

In this paper the shift towards new types of project organisation within the Offshore Industry is explained and discussed. Special focus is given to the organisational concept of Project Alliancing. The principles, structure and culture of a Project Alliance as applied within the Offshore Industry

Screening Criteria and Considerations of Offshore Enhanced Oil Recovery

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Pan-Sang Kang

2016-01-01

Full Text Available The application of enhanced oil recovery (EOR in offshore oil fields has received significant attention due to the potentially enormous amount of recoverable oil. However, EOR application offshore is in its very early stage due to conditions that are more complex than onshore oil fields, owing to the unique parameters present offshore. Therefore, successful EOR applications in offshore oil fields require different screening criteria than those for conventional onshore applications. A comprehensive database for onshore applications of EOR processes together with a limited offshore EOR application database are analyzed in this paper, and the important parameters for successful offshore application are incorporated into the new EOR screening criteria. In this paper, screening criteria to determine acceptable EOR processes for offshore fields, including hydrocarbon gas miscible, CO2 miscible, and polymer processes, are presented. Suggested screening criteria for these EOR processes comprise quantitative boundaries and qualitative considerations. Quantitative screening criteria are predominantly based on quantifiable data, such as oil and reservoir properties. Qualitative screening considerations mainly focus on the operational issues present offshore, including platform space constraints, limited disposal options, injectant availability, and flow assurance matters (including hydrate formation and difficulties in emulsion separation.

Energy Usage of Residents on Offshore Islands in Taiwan

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Szu-Cheng Lu

2015-05-01

Full Text Available A field study was conducted through interviews on offshore islands in Taiwan to investigate the energy usage of local residents. A comparison of household appliance usage in mainland Taiwan with that on the offshore islands revealed that, overall, the most commonly used household appliances are steam cookers/rice cookers, water dispensers, and washing machines. For other household appliances, Levels 2 and 3 offshore isles have lower use penetration rates compared with those in mainland Taiwan and on Level 1 offshore isles, particularly for the use of computers. By contrast, the use penetration rate for chest freezers on Levels 2 and 3 offshore isles is high, and each household has one or more freezers on average. This appliance is not a commonly observed household product in mainland Taiwan or on Level 1 offshore isles. Furthermore, because of the government policy, every household on parts of Level 2 offshore isles and on all Level 3 offshore isles has a fixed monthly charge of electricity. The transportation of liquefied petroleum gas is also inconvenient, and the gas price is slightly higher, leading to the tendency of residents to consume excessive amounts of electrical energy, which does not correspond with the aim of the government to conserve energy and reduce carbon emissions; thus, the relevant authorities’ review and improvement on energy consumption on Levels 2 and 3 offshore isles are required.

Sensitivity analysis of floating offshore wind farms

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Castro-Santos, Laura; Diaz-Casas, Vicente

2015-01-01

Highlights: • Develop a sensitivity analysis of a floating offshore wind farm. • Influence on the life-cycle costs involved in a floating offshore wind farm. • Influence on IRR, NPV, pay-back period, LCOE and cost of power. • Important variables: distance, wind resource, electric tariff, etc. • It helps to investors to take decisions in the future. - Abstract: The future of offshore wind energy will be in deep waters. In this context, the main objective of the present paper is to develop a sensitivity analysis of a floating offshore wind farm. It will show how much the output variables can vary when the input variables are changing. For this purpose two different scenarios will be taken into account: the life-cycle costs involved in a floating offshore wind farm (cost of conception and definition, cost of design and development, cost of manufacturing, cost of installation, cost of exploitation and cost of dismantling) and the most important economic indexes in terms of economic feasibility of a floating offshore wind farm (internal rate of return, net present value, discounted pay-back period, levelized cost of energy and cost of power). Results indicate that the most important variables in economic terms are the number of wind turbines and the distance from farm to shore in the costs’ scenario, and the wind scale parameter and the electric tariff for the economic indexes. This study will help investors to take into account these variables in the development of floating offshore wind farms in the future

A elaboraçao de um ambiente virtual de aprendizagem em síndromes genéticas

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Mirela Machado Picolini

2013-04-01

Full Text Available OBJETIVO: desenvolver um ambiente virtual de aprendizagem (AVA para alunos do ensino fundamental sobre síndromes genéticas. MÉTODO:o AVA, conhecido como Cybertutor, possibilita o aprendizado do aluno pela internet de forma interativa. A metodologia deste estudo foi composta de duas etapas, a de desenvolvimento e a de disponibilização do AVA. O desenvolvimento do conteúdo educacional, gráfico e audiovisual do Cybertutor contou com o auxílio de um geneticista do HRAC/USP e de informações científicas disponibilizadas em livros, artigos, teses e dissertações nacionais e internacionais. O Cybertutor foi disponibilizado na plataforma do Projeto Jovem Doutor (http://www.jovemdoutor.org.br/jdr/ pela equipe técnica da DTM/FMUSP. RESULTADOS: o Cybertutor elaborado possibilitou estruturar o conteúdo educacional, gráfico e audiovisual em tópicos, inserir questões de reforço, lista de discussão e verificar o desempenho dos alunos. CONCLUSÃO: o AVA desenvolvido pode ser uma importante ferramenta de educação em saúde em Síndromes Genéticas, abrangendo as mais diversas regiões do país.

Offshore Aquaculture: I Know It When I See It

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Halley E. Froehlich

2017-05-01

Full Text Available Offshore aquaculture is increasingly viewed as a mechanism to meet growing protein demand for seafood, while minimizing adverse consequences on the environment and other uses in the oceans. However, despite growing interest in offshore aquaculture, there appears to be no consensus as to what measures commonly define an offshore site or how effects of offshore aquaculture—relative to more nearshore practices—are assessed. This lack of agreement on what constitutes offshore aquaculture has the potential to convolute communication, create uncertainty in regulatory processes, and impede understanding of the ecological implications of offshore farming. To begin addressing these issues, we reviewed and analyzed biologically-focused primary and gray literature (Ntotal = 70 that categorize and quantify characteristics of offshore aquaculture from around the world. We found that many “offshore” descriptions are relatively close to shore (<3 nm and significantly shallower (minimum depth ≤30 m than may be assumed. We also uncovered an overall lack of consistent reporting of even the most common location-focused metrics (distance from shore, depth, current, a dearth of impact related studies (n = 17, and narrow scope of the studies themselves (i.e., 82% nutrient pollution. Of the finite subset of articles that investigated negative ecological impacts of offshore aquaculture, we found the probability of any measurable impact from an offshore farm appears to significantly decrease with distance from the farm (probability of measurable response at 90 m ± SE = 0.01 ± 0.03. Such general, but informative points of reference could be more robustly quantified with better systematic and standardized reporting of physical farm characteristics and a broader scope of ecological investigation into the effects of marine aquaculture. With offshore aquaculture still in its infancy, consistent metrics are needed for a comparable framework to guide sustainable

Canadian East Coast offshore petroleum industry safe lifting practices respecting offshore pedestal cranes, offshore containers, loose gear, other lifting devices, and operational best practices : standard practices

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2007-11-15

This document was developed by a working group with representatives from the petroleum industry, the Offshore Petroleum Boards and Certifying Authorities. It outlines industry best practices for operators responsible for the management, planning and execution of offshore lifting operations. Its purpose is to assist in the interpretation of applicable legislation and standards. Considered within the practice are safe design requirements, manufacture, certification, testing, maintenance and inspection requirements for pedestal cranes, offshore containers, loose gear and lifting devices. Operational best practices for lifting operations are also included along with a section that identifies additional requirements for personnel lifting operations, including personnel transfers by crane and man-riding operations. 82 refs., 2 tabs., 4 figs., 3 appendices.

31 CFR 544.406 - Offshore transactions.

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2010-07-01

... 31 Money and Finance: Treasury 3 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Offshore transactions. 544.406 Section 544.406 Money and Finance: Treasury Regulations Relating to Money and Finance (Continued) OFFICE... SANCTIONS REGULATIONS Interpretations § 544.406 Offshore transactions. The prohibitions in § 544.201 on...

31 CFR 593.406 - Offshore transactions.

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2010-07-01

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31 CFR 541.406 - Offshore transactions.

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2010-07-01

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31 CFR 537.406 - Offshore transactions.

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2010-07-01

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31 CFR 542.406 - Offshore transactions.

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2010-07-01

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Viewing engineering offshoring in a network perspective

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Hansen, Zaza Nadja Lee; Zhang, Yufeng; Ahmed-Kristensen, Saeema

2013-01-01

of how to effectively manage engineering offshoring activities in a context of global engineering networks. The main research question, therefore, is: “Can offshoring of engineering tasks be explained and managed using the concept of Global Engineering Networks (GEN)?” Effective approaches to handling...... of large multinational corporations in Denmark were carried out. Data gathering was mainly documentary studies and interviews. The main data analysis approaches were coding (Strauss and Corbin) and pattern-matching (Yin). The dataset was analysed using the GEN framework suggested by Zhang et al. and Zhang...... by extending the GEN framework to address complications within engineering offshoring. This strengthens both academic fields, and will be able to help engineering managers to develop appropriate engineering network configurations for offshore engineering operations....

Managing Hidden Costs of Offshoring

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Larsen, Marcus M.; Pedersen, Torben

2014-01-01

This chapter investigates the concept of the ‘hidden costs’ of offshoring, i.e. unexpected offshoring costs exceeding the initially expected costs. Due to the highly undefined nature of these costs, we position our analysis towards the strategic responses of firms’ realisation of hidden costs....... In this regard, we argue that a major response to the hidden costs of offshoring is the identification and utilisation of strategic mechanisms in the organisational design to eventually achieving system integration in a globally dispersed and disaggregated organisation. This is heavily moderated by a learning......-by-doing process, where hidden costs motivate firms and their employees to search for new and better knowledge on how to successfully manage the organisation. We illustrate this thesis based on the case of the LEGO Group....

Integración del sistema SoloWAN de optimización de tráfico en redes WAN como un servicio dentro de una plataforma IaaS basada en OpenStack

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Vega García, Carlos

2016-01-01

El trabajo consiste en la integración del software SoloWAN de optimización de tráfico en redes WAN, desarrollado en el Center for Open Middleware (COM) de la UPM, como un servicio dentro de una plataforma IaaS basada en OpenStack. Para alcanzar este propósito, se ha llevado a cabo un proceso de desarrollo partiendo del estudio de la plataforma OpenStack, analizando sus características, entendiendo los nodos que de los que está compuesta, así como los diferentes servicios que ofrece. S...

Offshore Wind Turbine Design

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Frandsen, Sten; Hansen, Erik Asp; Ibsen, Lars Bo

2006-01-01

Current offshore wind turbine design methods have matured to a 1st generation state, manifested in the draft of a possible standard, IEC 61400-3 (2005). It is now time to investigate the possibilities of improving existing methods. To do so in an efficient manner a clear identification of the most...... important uncertainty drivers specific for offshore wind turbine design loads is required. Describing the initial efforts in a Danish research project, the paper points to focal points for research and development. These are mainly: soil-structure interaction, improved modelling of wave loads from deep...

Efficient promotion of electricity production from offshore wind; Effiziente Foerderung der Stromerzeugung aus Offshore-Wind

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Panzer, Christian; Auer, Hans; Lettner, Georg [Technische Univ. Wien (Austria). Energy Economics Group (EEG)

2014-03-15

Efficient promotion of electricity production from offshore wind stands in dynamic relationship with various influence factors, the most important of which are promotion instruments, topographic givens, regulation of grid connection, and supraregional market integration concepts. Using three case studies from different countries to highlight national differences in the promotion of offshore wind power plants the present analysis points out ways of improving the efficiency of promotion instruments.

Offshore wind potential evaluation and remote sensing imagery; Evaluation du potentiel eolien offshore et imagerie satellitale

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Fichaux, N.

2003-12-15

Offshore wind energy may help to contribute to the respect of the Kyoto objectives by Europe. It is a key issue to struggle against global change. To sit the future offshore wind parks, it is necessary to accurately evaluate the spatial repartition of the wind potential. We demonstrate that the offshore wind potential shall be represented by maps of wind statistics. As remote sensing is a tool for measuring space physical phenomena, we evaluate its potentialities for mapping wind statistics. Space-borne scatterometers enables the obtention of wind statistics, but far from our areas of interest and at low spatial resolution. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) enables the computation of high resolution wind maps over our areas of interest, but are unsuitable to compute wind statistics. We define the mathematical framework of a statistical method. That method enables to take advantage of both scatterometer and SAR to compute maps of wind statistics at high spatial resolution over the areas of interest. It enables remote sensing to be used operationally to map the offshore wind potential. (author)

31 CFR 543.406 - Offshore transactions.

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2010-07-01

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31 CFR 597.406 - Offshore transactions.

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2010-07-01

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31 CFR 547.406 - Offshore transactions.

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31 CFR 548.406 - Offshore transactions.

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31 CFR 546.406 - Offshore transactions.

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31 CFR 588.406 - Offshore transactions.

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Offshore Outlook: the European Side Perspectives offshore : le point de vue européen

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Delacour J.

2006-11-01

Full Text Available The offshore hydrocarbon potential of Europe was fully revealed during the 1970s by various major discoveries which, after the first oil shock in 1973 and in the light of the high energy consumption in this zone, were a major asset in the new equilibria that would be found between producing and consuming countries. The offshore potential of Europe is concentrated in two zones: the North Sea and the Mediterranean. The North Sea, with the particularly harsh operating conditions, has quickly given rise to what can today be qualified as a new engineering state-of-the-art. At the same time, developments in the Mediterranean have brought a demonstration of entirely original and profitable petroleum achievements. For the future and despite current economic uncertainties, the outlook for European offshore development remain particularly attractive, obviously with regard to oil, but also, and more and more so, from the standpoint of natural gas. Le potentiel offshore en hydrocarbures de l'Europe a été pleinement mis en évidence au cours des années 70 par un certain nombre de grandes découvertes qui constituaient, après le premier choc pétrolier de 1973, compte tenu des fortes consommations d'énergie dans cette zone, un atout majeur dans les nouveaux équilibres qui s'instauraient entre pays producteurs et pays consommateurs. Le potentiel offshore de l'Europe se concentre sur deux zones : la mer du Nord et la Méditerranée. La mer du Nord, avec des conditions d'exploitation particulièrement sévères, a donné rapidement naissance à ce que l'on peut, aujourd'hui, qualifier de nouvel art de l'ingénieur, tandis que les développements en Méditerranée apportaient la démonstration de réalisations pétrolières tout à fait originales et profitables. Pour le futur, et malgré les incertitudes économiques actuelles, les perspectives de développement de l'offshore européen restent particulièrement attractives, au niveau du pétrole �

Baltic 2 offshore wind farm. Challenges and solutions during design and erection of a 288 MW offshore wind power plant; Baltic 2 Offshore Windpark. Herausforderungen und Loesungen waehrend der Design- und Errichtungsphase eines 288 MW Offshore-Windkraftwerks

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Stamatelopoulos, Georg-Nikolaus; Kansy, Stefan [EnBW Energie Baden-Wuerttemberg AG, Stuttgart (Germany); Hannibal, John Michael [Siemens AG, Hamburg (Germany). Wind Power and Renewables Div.; Frettloehr, Bjoern [EnBW Energie Baden-Wuerttemberg AG, Hamburg (Germany). Wind und Maritime Technik

2015-05-01

Offshore wind offers a great potential for reliable power supply with markedly less future costs. However, offshore also means special requirements related to transport and installation at sea. Even if these requirements alone are very stringent, they are not the only ones that apply. Meeting these challenges requires project organisation comparable to other major projects.

The Organizational Design of Offshoring

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Ørberg Jensen, Peter D.; Larsen, Marcus M.; Pedersen, Torben

2013-01-01

Offshoring can be defined as the relocation of organizational tasks and services to foreign locations. At the same time as the scale and scope of offshoring have reached unprecedented levels in recent years, firms have increasingly been exposed to the challenges relating to managing an organizati...... implies an organizational reconfiguration consisting of three stages: disintegration, relocation and reintegration. We discuss the implications of this perspective and outline a research agenda....

Denmark - supplier of competitive offshore wind solutions. Megavind's strategy for offshore wind research, development and demonstration

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2010-12-15

In May 2006, the Danish Government presented a report on promoting environmentally effective technology and established a number of innovative partnerships. The partnerships intend to strengthen public-private cooperation between the state, industry, universities and venture capital to accelerate innovation for a number of green technologies. The partnership for wind energy is called Megavind. Megavind's strategy for offshore wind describes the offshore challenges and suggests research, development and demonstration (RD and D) priorities to enable offshore wind power become to competitive with other energy technologies. The strategy lists key recommendations as well as key thematic priorities and for each of these a number of RD and D priorities. Under each thematic priority references are made to the European Strategic Energy Technology plan (SET-plan), which prioritises offshore wind RD and D in Europe. (LN)

Offshoring in the Semiconductor Industry: Historical Perspectives

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Brown, Clair; Linden, Greg

2005-01-01

Semiconductor design is a frequently-cited example of the new wave of offshoring and foreign-outsourcing of service sector jobs. It is certainly a concern to U.S. design engineers themselves. In addition to the current wave of white-collar outsourcing, the industry also has a rich experience with offshoring of manufacturing activity. Semiconductor companies were among the first to invest in offshore facilities to manufacture goods for imports back to the U.S. A brief review of these earlie...

The offshorization of economy: the present realities

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Maslak Olga; Grishko Natalya; Hlazunova Olha; Vorobiova Kateryna

2017-01-01

In this article the essence and main types of offshore zones have been studied. It has been analyzed the main reasons for cooperation with the tax havens, established that the main reason of the Ukrainian economy offshorization is not only the desire of economic entities to optimize taxes, but also the desire to protect their assets from the negative impact of the crisis phenomena in the national economy during 2010-2016. The foreign experience of the anti-offshore regulation has been researc...

Switching overvoltages in offshore wind power grids

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Arana Aristi, Ivan

and cables are presented. In Chapter 4 results from time domain measurements and simulations of switching operations in offshore wind power grids are described. Specifically, switching operations on a single wind turbine, the collection grid, the export system and the external grid measured in several real...... offshore wind farms are shown together with simulation results. Switching operations in offshore wind power grids can be simulated with different electromagnetic transient programs. Different programs were used in the project and compared results are included in Chapter 4. Also in Chapter 4 different......Switching transients in wind turbines, the collection grid, the export system and the external grid in offshore wind farms, during normal or abnormal operation, are the most important phenomena when conducting insulation coordination studies. However, the recommended models and methods from...

As redes sociais na internet e suas apropriações por jovens brasileiros e portugueses em idade escolar

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Luiz Alexandre da Silva Rosado

Full Text Available O fenômeno das redes sociais on-line é marcante na atual fase da internet 2.0, tendo crescido vertiginosamente, a partir do ano 2005, com a adesão majoritária de jovens, que as acessam por computadores fixos e móveis, em plataformas dos mais variados tipos. Por meio delas, trocam mensagens e compartilham conteúdos os mais diversos. Diante desse cenário, com base em duas pesquisas convergentes, pretende-se discutir os usos e as apropriações das redes sociais on-line por jovens alunos do ensino fundamental e médio e destacar os pontos mais pertinentes da atual fase da internet nos contextos pessoal, familiar e escolar. Foram aplicados questionários, inspirados em modelo de pesquisa elaborado na Itália, a 404 alunos brasileiros de oito escolas no Rio de Janeiro e a 549 alunos portugueses de 11 escolas na região portuguesa de Castelo Branco. Com essa rica empiria, verificou-se em que pontos os jovens se aproximam dos ideais de uma nova subjetividade (o leitor imerso nas novas mídias e de um jovem naturalmente afeito aos suportes digitais (o nativo digital

Soil-Structure Interaction for Non-Slender, Large-Diameter Offshore Monopiles

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Sørensen, Søren Peder Hyldal

Offshore wind power is a domestic, sustainable and largely untapped energy resource. Today, the modern offshore wind turbine offers competitive production prices compared to other sources of renewable energy. Therefore, it is a key technology in breaking the dependence on fossil fuels...... and in achieving the energy and climate goals of the future. For offshore wind turbines, the costs of foundation typically constitute 20-30% of the total costs. Hence, improved methods for the design of foundations for offshore wind turbines can increase the competitiveness of offshore wind energy significantly....... The monopile foundation concept has been employed as the foundation for the majority of the currently installed offshore wind turbines. Therefore, this PhD thesis concerns the soil-pile interaction for non-slender, large-diameter offshore piles. A combination of numerical and physical modelling has been...

BUSY: Una plataforma para la gestión de reservas por hora en PyMes

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González Cabrero, Juan Carlos

2016-01-01

El objetivo de este proyecto consiste en el desarrollo de una plataforma software enfocada a pequeñas y medianas empresas (PyMEs), para llevar a cabo la organización de servicios ofrecidos a los clientes. buSy es una herramienta cómoda y sencilla para la gestión de reservas y control de horarios con un ámbito de negocio generalista, ya que su enfoque global permite la utilización de esta aplicación a una amplia gama de categorías de empresa. Se trata de un proyecto web desar...

Síntesis de óxido de grafeno como plataforma nanoscópica para materiales funcionales.

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GUERRERO CONTRERAS, JESÚS

2015-01-01

En esta Tesis Doctoral se estudió la síntesis y modificación química del óxido de grafeno para usarse como plataforma para materiales funcionales. Se sintetizaron polvos de óxido de grafeno con diferente grado de oxidación a través de variaciones del método de Hummers para conocer la influencia de estas modificaciones sobre la estructura molecular, el grado de exfoliación y el contenido de oxígeno del material y éstas se relacionaron con el tamaño de dominio cristalino, la abso...

Visual disamenities from off-shore wind farms in Denmark

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Ladenburg, Jacob; Dubgaard, Alex; Tranberg, Jesper

2006-01-01

Expansion of the off-shore wind power plays a significant role in the energy policies of many EU countries. However, off-shore wind farms create visual disamenities. These disamenities can be reduced by locating wind farms at larger distances from the coast – and accepting higher costs per k......Wh produced. Base on the choices among alternative wind farm outlays, the preferences for reducing visual disamenities of off-shore wind farms were elicited using the Choice Experiment Method. The results show a clear picture; the respondents in three independent samples are willing to pay for mowing future...... off-shore wind farms away from the shore to reduce the wind farms visibility. However, the results also denote that the preferences vary with regards to the experiences with visual disamenities of off-shore wind farms. The respondents Horns Revs sample, where the off-shore wind farm is located...

Offshore Resource Assessment and Design Conditions: A Data Requirements and Gaps Analysis for Offshore Renewable Energy Systems

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Elliott, Dennis [National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Frame, Caitlin [National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Washington, DC (United States); Gill, Carrie [National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Washington, DC (United States); Hanson, Howard [Florida Atlantic Univ., Boca Raton, FL (United States); Moriarty, Patrick [National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Powell, Mark [National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Washington, DC (United States); Shaw, William J. [Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States); Wilczak, Jim [National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Washington, DC (United States); Wynne, Jason [Energetics, Columbia, MD (United States)

2012-03-01

The offshore renewable energy industry requires accurate meteorological and oceanographic (“metocean”) data for evaluating the energy potential, economic viability, and engineering requirements of offshore renewable energy projects. It is generally recognized that currently available metocean data, instrumentation, and models are not adequate to meet all of the stakeholder needs on a national scale. Conducting wind and wave resource assessments and establishing load design conditions requires both interagency collaboration as well as valuable input from experts in industry and academia. Under the Department of Energy and Department of Interior Memorandum of Understanding, the Resource Assessment and Design Condition initiative supports collaborative national efforts by adding to core atmospheric and marine science knowledge relevant to offshore energy development. Such efforts include a more thorough understanding and data collection of key metocean phenomena such as wind velocity and shear; low-level jets; ocean, tidal, and current velocities; wave characteristics; geotechnical data relating to surface and subsurface characteristics; seasonal and diurnal variations; and the interaction among these conditions. Figure 1 presents a graphical representation of some metocean phenomena that can impact offshore energy systems. This document outlines the metocean observations currently available; those that are not available; and those that require additional temporal-spatial coverage, resolution, or processing for offshore energy in an effort to gather agreed-upon, needed observations.

A GLANCE AT OFFSHORE WIND TURBINE FOUNDATION STRUCTURES

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Jianhua Zhang

2016-06-01

Full Text Available Energy poverty and climate change are crucial issues we face in our societies. Offshore wind energy has been a reliable solution to both of these problems - solving our growing energy problems while reducing CO2 emission. Innovative foundation design is one of the setbacks faced by this industry. Designing and constructing a cost effective offshore wind farm is greatly hampered by technical and infrastructural challenges, especially in foundation structures. This paper provides a detailed overview of issues related to this problem, with the aim of eliminating the frequent misunderstandings which can arise among engineers and investors working in the offshore wind energy sector. It begins by investigating the latest data and recommendations regarding the design and deployment of various kinds of offshore wind turbine (OWT foundations. It provides a framework which enables us to study the different OWT foundations, including prototypes and their limitations. Various structural failure modes are highlighted and corrosion measures are presented. Moreover, various removal methods of support structures are put forward. Finally, this paper presents the setbacks preventing the spread of offshore wind energy and the future works for offshore wind energy applications.

Offshore Supply Industry Dynamics

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Roslyng Olesen, Thomas

The value chains for offshore oil and gas and offshore wind are both basically driven by the demand for energy. This is heavily dependent on a number of factors including the price of various energy sources and the policy making of the states which influence legislation, indirect subsidies...... of services including includes legal advice, financing, insurance etc. The two value chains have a number of activities in common. Both include (1) a tender and concession phase where the energy company obtains the right to explore and produce energy from the authorities. (2) An exploration phase where...

The Offshore New European Wind Atlas

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Karagali, I.; Hahmann, A. N.; Badger, M.; Hasager, C.; Mann, J.

2017-12-01

The New European Wind Atlas (NEWA) is a joint effort of research agencies from eight European countries, co-funded under the ERANET Plus Program. The project is structured around two areas of work: development of dynamical downscaling methodologies and measurement campaigns to validate these methodologies, leading to the creation and publication of a European wind atlas in electronic form. This atlas will contain an offshore component extending 100 km from the European coasts. To achieve this, mesoscale models along with various observational datasets are utilised. Scanning lidars located at the coastline were used to compare the coastal wind gradient reproduced by the meso-scale model. Currently, an experimental campaign is occurring in the Baltic Sea, with a lidar located in a commercial ship sailing from Germany to Lithuania, thus covering the entire span of the south Baltic basin. In addition, satellite wind retrievals from scatterometers and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) instruments were used to generate mean wind field maps and validate offshore modelled wind fields and identify the optimal model set-up parameters.The aim of this study is to compare the initial outputs from the offshore wind atlas produced by the Weather & Research Forecasting (WRF) model, still in pre-operational phase, and the METOP-A/B Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT) wind fields, reprocessed to stress equivalent winds at 10m. Different experiments were set-up to evaluate the model sensitivity for the various domains covered by the NEWA offshore atlas. ASCAT winds were utilised to assess the performance of the WRF offshore atlases. In addition, ASCAT winds were used to create an offshore atlas covering the years 2007 to 2016, capturing the signature of various spatial wind features, such as channelling and lee effects from complex coastal topographical elements.

Economic optimization of offshore wind farms

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Pauling, T.

1996-09-01

The study on the title subject continues the development of a cost model for offshore wind farms started at the Institute for Wind Energy (IW) in 1995, and applies it on different kinds of cost analyses. The model will be considered within the European research project 'Structural and Economic Optimization of Bottom-Mounted Offshore Wind Energy Converters' (Opti-OWECS, JOR3-CT95-0087) co-ordinated by the IW, where also the cost analyses and optimization will be extended. The conclusions of the investigations have already been presented at the European Union Wind Energy Conference '96 at Goeteborg, Sweden. In Chapter 1, a short overview of former offshore studies and projects is given, especially those dealing with cost analysis. Typical cost breakdowns of offshore and onshore wind farms are compared. Chapter 2 contains a brief description of the cost model in its present state. The recent improvements and extensions are documented in Chapter 3, and a validation by means of a recalculation of two former offshore studies is carried out in Chapter 4. In Chapter 5, four different offshore sites are compared with respect to the same farm size and an optimized farm design: Jade in the German part of the North Sea near Wilhelmshafen; Swansea Bay in the Bristol Channel at the British Atlantic Coast; Rostock at the German Baltic Coast, and IJmuiden in the Dutch part of the North Sea. In Chapter 6, a sensitivity study is carried out for a variety of site, design and economical parameters. The results of this project are summarized in Chapter 7, and an outlook is given in Chapter 8. The appendix contains among others a description of the SCOptiM2 code, where the model is implemented, as well as data obtained from the parameter studies and design optimizations. 30 figs., 8 tabs., 6 appendices, 40 refs

Offshore production flares: a PETROBRAS review

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Pagot, Paulo R.; Burmann, Clovis P.; Araujo, Paulo Bento de; Motomura, Tsukasa [PETROBRAS S.A., Rio de Janeiro, RJ (Brazil)

2008-07-01

The purpose of the present work is to briefly present the offshore flare system technological evolution and the main design criteria for flare and its supporting structure. In order to perform the aimed task, this work was divided into two parts: the first part presents the technological evolution of the offshore production flares and the second one discusses the flare system designing criteria. The evolution of the technology associated to the offshore production flares is organized by the authors just dividing the history in four chronological phases. Each phase is defined by the predominant use of the, by the time, most up-to-date technological alternative and it will be described with the help of sketches, drawings, photographs, data and information about the platforms where such technologies were applied. The second part of the present work discusses the dimensional criteria, interesting aspects and flaws of the offshore flare systems in two different fields, which are: definition of the flare system capacity; and flow and thermal design of the flare system. (author)

Development opportunities for the UK offshore wind industry

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1999-01-01

This report summarises the results of a study investigating the UK's ability to compete for the construction of offshore wind farms. The European offshore wind farm market is examined, and the UK offshore construction equipment and wind farm construction methods are analysed, and recommendations for a purpose build or modified construction vessel are presented. The appendix gives UK construction companies addresses and contact names

Indian offshore wind energy policy - lessons from Europe

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Mani, S.; Dhingra, T. [Univ. of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), Dehradun (India)

2012-07-01

Indian Economy is growing at 8% for the past few years and is expected to continue this momentum into the foreseeable future. To sustain this growth, power sector needs to build additional generation capacity at an unprecedented pace. However, continued dependence on fossil fuels (especially Coal and Oil) to power the growth of electricity generation capacity, is hardly sustainable in the long run. The reasons are well known - Environmental concerns, depleting fossil fuel resources, excessive dependency on Oil imports - that it hardly merits repetition. Renewable Energy source forms a miniscule portion (25 GW, {approx} 12%) of India's overall Energy consumption today (202 GW). The share of wind energy (17 GW) is 67% of the total renewable energy basket. But the contribution from offshore wind farms is non-existent, as all the wind energy generated in India is only through onshore Wind farms. India needs a policy framework to encourage the development of offshore wind farms. Several European countries, most notably the UK, Germany and Denmark, have effective offshore wind energy policies that have helped them to accelerate the growth of their offshore wind energy sector. This paper does an exhaustive study to identify the building blocks of a successful offshore wind energy policy initiative adopted by selected European countries, which can be leveraged by India to articulate its own offshore wind energy policy. This paper also suggests a model to predict the log-odds of growth of offshore wind energy sector in India. (Author)

Prospects of the French offshore wind power market

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Anon.

2011-12-01

This market study about the French offshore wind power industry presents: 1 - the bases of the offshore wind power market: wind turbine operation principle, foundations and scale change; 2 - business model of offshore wind power projects: logistical, technical and financial challenges, cost structure and profitability of projects (investment, power generation costs, incentive mechanisms), project development time; 3 - European and French regulatory framework: the energy/climate package, the French 'Grenelle de l'Environnement' commitments for the development of renewable energies; 4 - start up of the French offshore wind power market: the onshore wind power market looking for growth relaying, the lateness of the offshore market, outlines of the call for bids and of the first phase launching (schedule, selected sites and candidates), market development stakes and opportunities; 5 - offshore wind power overview in Europe - lessons for the French market prospects: status of the European market (installed power/country, projects in progress), European leaders of the market (analysis of the British, Danish and German markets successful takeoff), specificities of the French market (are all favourable conditions present?); 6 - takeoff of the French market - what opportunities on the overall value chain?: front-end of the industry (manufacturers and component suppliers: industry structure, competition, R and D, subcontractors in France), back-end of the industry (developers/operators: sector analysis, ambitions, alliances, competences), specific French know-how in offshore installation and connection of wind turbines (reconversion of harbour areas, re-positioning of shipbuilding industry). (J.S.)

Operation and maintenance of offshore wind farms

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Petersen, Kristian R.; Madsen, Erik Skov; Bilberg, Arne

The offshore wind industry is booming and larger, more efficient wind-turbines have constantly been introduced into the market. However, research within the field of the operation and maintenance (O&M) of offshore wind farms is limited as the field is still immature. In this paper, two current ma...... maintenance models - RCM and TPM - are discussed in this context. Furthermore, through a case study, the paper looks into Modularization and SSLP, as these concepts can be utilized to optimize maintenance. This is a new approach for the offshore wind industry....

Reliability evaluation for offshore wind farms

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Zhao, Menghua; Blåbjerg, Frede; Chen, Zhe

2005-01-01

In this paper, a new reliability index - Loss Of Generation Ratio Probability (LOGRP) is proposed for evaluating the reliability of an electrical system for offshore wind farms, which emphasizes the design of wind farms rather than the adequacy for specific load demand. A practical method...... to calculate LOGRP of offshore wind farms is proposed and evaluated....

A fair wind for the offshore

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Houot, G.

2009-01-01

The wind power future will take into account the sea. But to increase, the offshore channel must manage its organization and create a real cross-border cooperation. The author presents an economic analysis of the market with a special attention to the french sector. A map of the offshore sites in Europe is provided. (A.L.B.)

Offshore northern Europe, the challenges

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Bergseth, S.

1996-01-01

This paper relates to challenges of the offshore activity in the North Sea. It is appropriate to address these challenges in the context of generating values through efficient management of resources, markets, safety and technology, as the challenges lie therein. The petroleum industry is built to turn natural resources into market value, assuring broad benefits to stake holders and shareholders. In the following, the challenges facing the industry the industry offshore Northern Europe is examined on this background

Offshore wind farm repowering optimization

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Hou, Peng; Enevoldsen, Peter; Hu, Weihao

2017-01-01

is focused on optimization of offshore wind farm repowering, which is one option for the wind farm owner at end of life for the offshore wind farm. The LCoE is used as the evaluation index to identify whether it is economical to invest in such a way. In an optimized repowering strategy, different types...... of wind turbines are selected to replace the original wind turbines to reconstruct the wind farm, which is demonstrated to be better than the refurbishment approach which replaces the old wind turbines with the same type. The simulations performed in this research reveal that the reconstructed wind farm......, which consists of multiple types of wind turbine, has a smaller LCoE (10.43%) than the refurbishment approach, which shows the superiority of the proposed method. This research contributes an optimization tool to the wind industry, which consequently drives down the cost of energy produced by offshore...

Getting the most from offshoring

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Wæhrens, Brian Vejrum; Slepniov, Dmitrij; Johansen, John

2014-01-01

Tapping into global resources is supposed to improve performance and contribute to a firm’s competitive advantage. However, a high offshoring quota may also lead to erosion of the firm’s home base capabilities and have wider negative implications for both the home base site position and the firm...... as a whole. The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize this scenario and propose how its adverse impacts can be addressed. From previous studies we know that the roles and mandates of home based sites of offshoring companies are changing from broad scoped manufacturing towards innovation and network...... orchestration. On the basis of the findings from the survey, series of workshops and case studies of Danish companies presented in this paper, we seek to determine the longer term effects of offshoring for home based sites. We conceptualize the findings in a framework and close with discussing the need...

Offshore: Economic Deterrent or Necessity

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Igor B. Turuev

2014-01-01

Full Text Available The downside of investment's addition rate in Russia, lack of capital investments result from "poor investment attractiveness". As a result, the companies' financial imbalance together with high investments risks lead to capital outflow from the country by virtue of offshores. Along with negative aspects connected with "financial oases" many advantages are given to the business community: lessening of tax payments, monetary privacy and confidentiality of operations. Taking in consideration the above and also the existence of specific international agreements concerning the avoidance of double taxation and offshore zones, the banner of the latter appears to be quite difficult and would divest the global economy of an important segment of global economic growth. The author performed a SWOT analysis of the role and the importance of offshores in international economy. Tolerant coexistence of local and global economic interests seems to be achievable by implementing a distinct circumspect and complex plan of measures aimed at the raise of the investment attractiveness of a country, for which the creation of "Skolkovo" and new Institutes for market development would not be sufficient. Transparent and oriented on business stability and safety provision of monitor and regulatory system, data interflow, improvement of prudential control on financial markets operations - are parts of measures that have to be accomplished in order to solve and exclude the problems associated with offshores. But the author also appeals to not forgetting that besides the offshores exists a number of such issues directly related to the outflow of capital as lowering of inflationary pace, enlargement of direct investment flow-in, support of social peace, which have to be handled for the purposes of improvement of domestic investment climate of countries with developing economy.

International activities and experience in offshore wind power generation; Internationale Aktivitaeten und Erfahrungen im Bereich der Offshore-Windenergienutzung

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Rehfeldt, K.; Gerdes, G.J.

2002-01-01

Current activities in the area of offshore wind energy are being made only in the European Community in the form of concrete plans or as projects. Denmark and Sweden began as pioneers in the setting up of offshore wind parks along their coast in the Baltic Sea. As a world-wide first, Denmark saw the practicality of offshore wind energy as a way of reducing the emission of CO{sub 2} and opening new doors in the wind energy branch. Essential is not to name the ambitious goals, but that at the designated suitable regions, pilot projects are implemented therefore initiating extensive research and development projects. Our European neighbours have shown us through their own experience what great potential and underlying dynamic offshore wind energy has. The development of projects can be given with confidence to private sector, if however the main consensus from promoters and environmentalists is desired, then in this instance the governmental participation as a guide would be desirable. (orig.)

Overall Optimization for Offshore Wind Farm Electrical System

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Hou, Peng; Hu, Weihao; Chen, Cong

2017-01-01

Based on particle swarm optimization (PSO), an optimization platform for offshore wind farm electrical system (OWFES) is proposed in this paper, where the main components of an offshore wind farm and key technical constraints are considered as input parameters. The offshore wind farm electrical...... system is optimized in accordance with initial investment by considering three aspects: the number and siting of offshore substations (OS), the cable connection layout of both collection system (CS) and transmission system (TS) as well as the selection of electrical components in terms of voltage level...... that save 3.01% total cost compared with the industrial layout, and can be a useful tool for OWFES design and evaluation....

Legal aspects of financing Canadian offshore oil and gas developments

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Green, J.M.; Hudec, A.J.

1992-01-01

A review is presented of the significant legal considerations involved in structuring, negotiating, and documenting commercial financing of a Canadian offshore oil and gas production facility. Emphasis is placed on the Hibernia Project in the Newfoundland offshore as an example, and more specifically the $450 million bank financing completed in November 1991. The legal framework governing offshore production financing in this case was complex, due to the project's location in international waters on the continental shelf. Complex intergovernmental arrangements have been implemented between Canada and Newfoundland to govern the offshore area and regulate the project. An agreement called the Atlantic Accord allowed the Canada Newfoundland Offshore Petroleum Board (CNOPB) to grant production licenses and to regulate offshore exploration and development, with matters relating to legislation, taxation, and royalties shared between the governments. Certain other acts were enacted or extended for application to the offshore area. The CNOPB administers a registry system for transfers and security interests in offshore licenses. Security interests including property are ensured by the Hibernia Act, which makes Newfoundland's existing security interest regime applicable to the offshore. The project owners are operating Hibernia as a joint venture, and the structure of project financing and inter-creditor arrangements is examined. The competing security interest of project lenders and non-defaulting participants is discussed, along with assignment of priorities on the security in case of default

46 CFR 111.105-33 - Mobile offshore drilling units.

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2010-10-01

... 46 Shipping 4 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Mobile offshore drilling units. 111.105-33 Section 111... ELECTRIC SYSTEMS-GENERAL REQUIREMENTS Hazardous Locations § 111.105-33 Mobile offshore drilling units. (a) Applicability. This section applies to each mobile offshore drilling unit. (b) Definitions. As used in this...

Produção de minitubérculos de batata semente básica em hidroponia em função de doses de nitrogênio

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Carla de Bem Santos Souza

Full Text Available A dose ótima de nitrogênio (N na cultura da batata depende do sistema de produção. O objetivo do trabalho foi determinar a dose ótima de N para a produção de minitubérculos de batata-semente básica em hidroponia e verificar o desenvolvimento da planta no sistema hidropônico em plataforma de telha amianto. O experimento foi realizado em ambiente protegido, no Departamento de Fitotecnia da Universidade Federal de Viçosa, utilizando o plantio de broto da cultivar Asterix. Os tratamentos foram constituídos por quatro doses de N (45; 90; 180 e 270 mg L-1, sendo 10% de cada dose de N aplicadas na forma de nitrato de amônio (N-NH4+ e o restante de N na forma de nitrato de cálcio e nitrato de potássio. O maior número (14,1 tubérculos/planta e a máxima massa de tubérculos (68,4 g/planta foram obtidos com 188,9 e 270 mg L-1 de N, respectivamente. Portanto, número e massa de tubérculos não foram otimizados pela mesma dose de N. O índice crítico SPAD na quarta folha é variável com a idade da planta sendo de 38,4 o maior valor atingido aos 58 DAT.

Whether or Not to Prepare for Offshoring

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Møller Larsen, Marcus; Geisler Asmussen, Christian; Pedersen, Torben

2012-01-01

A consequence of offshoring is increased coordination costs. To counter this, firms can strive to identify a cost reducing organizational configuration either ex ante or ex post to the offshoring implementation. In this paper, we investigate the performance implications of these contrasting strat...

Dynamic analysis and design of offshore structures

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Chandrasekaran, Srinivasan

2015-01-01

This book  attempts to provide readers with an overall idea of various types of offshore platform geometries. It covers the various environmental loads encountered by these structures, a detailed description of the fundamentals of structural dynamics in a class-room style, estimate of damping in offshore structures and their applications in the preliminary analysis and design. Basic concepts of structural dynamics are emphasized through simple illustrative examples and exercises. Design methodologies and guidelines, which are FORM based concepts are explained through a few applied example structures. Each chapter also has tutorials and exercises for self-learning. A dedicated chapter on stochastic dynamics will help the students to extend the basic concepts of structural dynamics to this advanced domain of research. Hydrodynamic response of offshore structures with perforated members is one of the recent research applications, which is found to be one of the effective manner of retrofitting offshore structur...

Second wind in the offshore wind industry

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Philippe, Edouard; Neyme, Eric; Deboos, Christophe; Villageois, Jean-Remy; Gouverneur, Philippe; Gerard, Bernard; Fournier, Eric; Petrus, Raymond; Lemarquis, David; Dener, Marc; Bivaud, Jean-Pierre; Lemaire, Etienne; Nielsen, Steffen; Lafon, Xavier; Lagandre, Pierre; Nadai, Alain; Pinot de Villechenon, Edouard; Westhues, Markus; Herpers, Frederick; Bisiaux, Christophe; Sperlich, Miriam; Bales, Vincent; Vandenbroeck, Jan; His, Stephane; Derrey, Thierry; Barakat, Georges; Dakyo, Brayima; Carme, Laurent; Petit, Frederic; Ytournel, Sophie; Westhues, Markus; Diller, Armin; Premont, Antoine de; Ruer, Jacques; Lanoe, Frederic; Declercq, Jan; Holmager, Morten; Fidelin, Daniel; Guillet, Jerome; Dudziak, Gregory; Lapierre, Anne; Couturier, Ludovic; Audineau, Jean-Pierre; Rouaix, Eric; De Roeck, Yann-Herve; Quesnel, Louis; Duguet, Benjamin

2011-06-01

After several keynote addresses, this publication contains contributions and Power Point presentations proposed during this conference on the development of offshore wind energy. The successive sessions addressed the following issues: the offshore mass production of electricity (examples of Denmark and Belgium, laying and protecting offshore cables), the space, economic and environmental planning (the Danish experience, the role of the Coastal area integrated management, importance of the public debate, so on), the logistics of port infrastructures (simulation tools, example of Bremerhaven, issues related to project management), innovation at the core of industrial strategies (high power wind turbines, the 6 MW Alstom turbine, chain value and innovation in offshore wind energy, the Vertiwing innovating project of a floating wind turbine, a bench test in Charleston, foundations, gravity base structures, the British experience, the Danish experience), the economic and organisational conditions for development, the validation and certification of technologies

Prácticas de Pruebas desde la Industria de Software. La Plataforma ASISTO como Caso de Estudio

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Blanquicett, Luis A.; Bonfante, María C.; Acosta-Solano, Jairo

2018-01-01

Resumen Este artículo revisa conceptos, metodologías y estándares de calidad en procesos de pruebas de software. Se presenta el proceso utilizado para validar y verificar el grado de cumplimiento de requerimientos levantados inicialmente para el desarrollo de la Plataforma Integradora para la Prestación de Servicios y Planes de Seguimiento para la Salud en el Trabajo, ASISTO. Esta fue desarrollada por la firma SYSNET, en el marco de la convocatoria de Colciencias 709 de 2015 para un grupo de ...

Perfil dos bolsistas de produtividade em pesquisa do CNPQ em Psicologia

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Guilherme Welter Wendt

Full Text Available Este estudo teve por objetivo analisar o perfil dos bolsistas de produtividade em pesquisa do CNPq da área de Psicologia segundo os dados declarados na Plataforma Lattes. O número de artigos, livros e capítulos de livro, bem como orientações de iniciação científica, mestrado, doutorado e pósdoutorado de 297 pesquisadores bolsistas da área foram coletados no decorrer da última semana de abril de 2011. Também foram coletados dados acerca das instituições às quais os bolsistas estão vinculados. Foram realizadas análises estatísticas descritivas (levantamento de frequências, médias e desvios-padrão para caracterização da produtividade da amostra, e inferenciais (qui-quadrado e ANOVA para comparar os bolsistas de cada categoria em relação ao número de publicações e de orientações e de dados demográficos e institucionais. Os resultados mostram que houve predomínio do sexo feminino (63% e da bolsa tipo 2 (58,6% entre os bolsistas. A maioria dos bolsistas está vinculada atualmente a instituições públicas (79,1%. A Região Sudeste apresentou o maior número de bolsistas (53,6%, seguida da Região Sul (18,5%. Pesquisadores com bolsas de categorias mais altas (1A e 1B apresentaram médias significativamente maiores quanto à produção de artigos, livros e capítulos de livro bem como ao número de orientações concluídas. As implicações e as limitações do estudo são discutidas.

Terminology Guideline for Classifying Offshore Wind Energy Resources

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Beiter, Philipp [National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Musial, Walt [National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

2016-09-01

The purpose of this guideline is to establish a clear and consistent vocabulary for conveying offshore wind resource potential and to interpret this vocabulary in terms that are familiar to the oil and gas (O&G) industry. This involves clarifying and refining existing definitions of offshore wind energy resource classes. The terminology developed in this guideline represents one of several possible sets of vocabulary that may differ with respect to their purpose, data availability, and comprehensiveness. It was customized to correspond with established offshore wind practices and existing renewable energy industry terminology (e.g. DOE 2013, Brown et al. 2015) while conforming to established fossil resource classification as best as possible. The developers of the guideline recognize the fundamental differences that exist between fossil and renewable energy resources with respect to availability, accessibility, lifetime, and quality. Any quantitative comparison between fossil and renewable energy resources, including offshore wind, is therefore limited. For instance, O&G resources are finite and there may be significant uncertainty associated with the amount of the resource. In contrast, aboveground renewable resources, such as offshore wind, do not generally deplete over time but can vary significantly subhourly, daily, seasonally, and annually. The intent of this guideline is to make these differences transparent and develop an offshore wind resource classification that conforms to established fossil resource classifications where possible. This guideline also provides methods to quantitatively compare certain offshore wind energy resources to O&G resource classes for specific applications. Finally, this guideline identifies areas where analogies to established O&G terminology may be inappropriate or subject to misinterpretation.

CARACTERIZACIÓN DE CARGAS DE BAILE EN UNA PLATAFORMA EXPERIMENTAL

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Diana Carolina Millán Yusti

2013-12-01

Full Text Available La utilización de materiales ligeros y resistentes ha permitido la construcción de sistemas de entrepisos que satisfacen condiciones ideales espaciales y geométricas para albergar grandes cantidades de personas. A pesar que estas características de peso y resistencia representan una disminución de costos en la construcción, estos entrepisos tienden a ser más susceptibles a presentar problemas de vibraciones, especialmente cuando la excitación puede ser clasificada como actividad rítmica. En este artículo se presenta la caracterización de cargas producidas por personas realizando actividades de baile, a partir de mediciones en una plataforma experimental de escala real. Se identifican los factores de impacto y coeficientes de Fourier que representan la carga debida a personas que bailan, a la que es sometida la estructura. Los resultados de la presente investigación fueron obtenidos dentro de un proyecto de investigación financiado por Colciencias y la Universidad del Valle contrato .382-2009.

Plataforma virtual como herramienta de gestión en el aprendizaje de contenidos procedimentales, de la asignatura de juego de negocios, en la Facultad de Ciencias Administrativas y Recursos Humanos de la USMP. Año 2014

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Trillo Tello, Pedro Enrique

2015-01-01

El presente trabajo de investigación recomienda a las autoridades institucionales el profundizar en el uso de las plataformas virtuales como herramientas didácticas para los docentes para el aprendizaje de contenidos procedimentales de nuestros estudiantes. Se ha determinado en el estudio realizado que las plataformas virtuales tienen un mejor resultado en el aprendizaje de contenidos procedimentales por parte del estudiante. Este resultado se trabajó por medio de una evaluación a dos grupos ...

Soil-Structure Interaction For Nonslender, Large-Diameter Offshore Monopiles

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Sørensen, Søren Peder Hyldal

Strong political and industrial forces, especially in Northern Europe, support the development of new technologies as well as improvements of existing technologies within the field of renewable energy. Offshore wind power is a domestic, sustainable and largely untapped energy resource. Today......, the modern offshore wind turbine offers competitive production prices compared to other sources of renewable energy. Therefore, it is a key technology in breaking the dependence on fossil fuels and in achieving the energy and climate goals of the future. For offshore wind turbines, the costs of foundation...... typically constitutes 20-30 % of the total costs. Hence, improved methods for the design of foundations for offshore wind turbines can increase the competitiveness of offshore wind energy significantly. The monopile foundation concept has been employed as the foundation for the majority of the currently...

Optimized power generation in offshore wind parks

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Oliveira Filho, J. de; Papp, Z.

2011-01-01

Electricity generation on offshore wind parks has an increasing economic importance - the European Commission foresees that 12% of the wind energy will be produced on offshore installations by 2020, and this share is likely to increase further in the following years. However, the continuously

Offshore wind market outlook in Northern Europe

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Pimenta de Miranda, Wilfried; Trulsson, Ola; Ekloef, Eva-Britt; Niemenen, Karel

2010-08-15

After more than 10 years of slow developments, the offshore wind market is now accelerating. Thanks to a sustained political drive from UK and Germany, the rest of Northern Europe is now following the path as offshore wind is being recognized as one of the key resources available to the EU to meet its renewable energy ambitions. Exposed to increasing technical issues, rising costs and the financial crisis, lessons learned are now being shared and integrated throughout Europe and appropriate regulatory and planning reforms are now being deployed to speed the deployment of offshore wind. (Author)

Major hazards onshore and offshore

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1992-01-01

This symposium continues the tradition of bringing together papers on a topic of current interest and importance in terms of process safety - in this case, Major Hazards Onshore and Offshore. Lord Cullen in his report on the Piper Alpha disaster has, in effect, suggested that the experience gained in the control of major hazards onshore during the 1980s should be applied to improve safety offshore during the 1990s. This major three-day symposium reviews what has been learned so far with regard to major hazards and considers its present and future applications both onshore and offshore. The topics covered in the programme are wide ranging and deal with all aspects of legislation, the application of regulations, techniques for evaluating hazards and prescribing safety measures in design, construction and operation, the importance of the human factors, and recent technical developments in protective measures, relief venting and predicting the consequences of fires and explosions. (author)

A framework for offshore vendor capability development

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Yusuf Wibisono, Yogi; Govindaraju, Rajesri; Irianto, Dradjad; Sudirman, Iman

2016-02-01

Offshore outsourcing is a common practice conducted by companies, especially in developed countries, by relocating one or more their business processes to other companies abroad, especially in developing countries. This practice grows rapidly owing to the ease of accessing qualified vendors with a lower cost. Vendors in developing countries compete more intensely to acquire offshore projects. Indonesia is still below India, China, Malaysia as main global offshore destinations. Vendor capability is among other factors that contribute to the inability of Indonesian vendor in competing with other companies in the global market. Therefore, it is essential to study how to increase the vendor's capability in Indonesia, in the context of global offshore outsourcing. Previous studies on the vendor's capability mainly focus on capabilities without considering the dynamic of capabilities due to the environmental changes. In order to be able to compete with competitors and maintain the competitive advantage, it is necessary for vendors to develop their capabilities continuously. The purpose of this study is to develop a framework that describes offshore vendor capability development along the client-vendor relationship stages. The framework consists of three main components, i.e. the stages of client-vendor relationship, the success of each stage, and the capabilities of vendor at each stage.

ISM Approach to Model Offshore Outsourcing Risks

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Sunand Kumar

2014-07-01

Full Text Available In an effort to achieve a competitive advantage via cost reductions and improved market responsiveness, organizations are increasingly employing offshore outsourcing as a major component of their supply chain strategies. But as evident from literature number of risks such as Political risk, Risk due to cultural differences, Compliance and regulatory risk, Opportunistic risk and Organization structural risk, which adversely affect the performance of offshore outsourcing in a supply chain network. This also leads to dissatisfaction among different stake holders. The main objective of this paper is to identify and understand the mutual interaction among various risks which affect the performance of offshore outsourcing.  To this effect, authors have identified various risks through extant review of literature.  From this information, an integrated model using interpretive structural modelling (ISM for risks affecting offshore outsourcing is developed and the structural relationships between these risks are modeled.  Further, MICMAC analysis is done to analyze the driving power and dependency of risks which shall be helpful to managers to identify and classify important criterions and to reveal the direct and indirect effects of each criterion on offshore outsourcing. Results show that political risk and risk due to cultural differences are act as strong drivers.

COMO FAZER UM BOM TRABALHO EM EXPERIÊNCIA DO USUÁRIO APESAR DAS LIMITAÇÕES

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Andressa Vieira

2011-10-01

Full Text Available Nem sempre é possível seguir as boas práticas e metodologias no dia-a-dia do mercado de trabalho. Neste artigo, designers de experiência do usuário contam como driblam as limitações (de tempo, tecnologia e pessoal para conseguir elaborar as melhores interfaces possíveis. Como os autores do artigo trabalham em uma empresa de infraestrutura de internet, usam casos reais do cotidiano de trabalho para ilustrar problemas e soluções. Assim, são apresentados exemplos de interfaces de contratação de domínio e hospedagem, plataforma de loja virtual, ferramenta de help desk e website, enquanto casos reais para exemplificar as metodologias adotadas pela equipe.

Governance Models of R&D Offshoring: : Innovatoin Performance and Absorptive Capacity

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Steinberg, Philip; Procher, Vivien D.

2015-01-01

The globalization of business functions has led to an increase in offshoring of R&D. Firms’ offshoring models of R&D include captive offshoring (foreign R&D spending to affiliates) and offshore outsourcing (foreign R&D spending to external partners). For 2,421 R&D-active German enterprises we

Solar power satellite offshore rectenna study

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1980-01-01

It was found that an offshore rectenna is feasible and cost competitive with land rectennas but that the type of rectenna which is suitable for offshore use is quite different from that specified in the present reference system. The result is a nonground plane design which minimizes the weight and greatly reduces the number of costly support towers. This preferred design is an antenna array consisting of individually encapsulated dipoles with reflectors supported on feed wires. Such a 5 GW rectenna could be built at a 50 m water depth site to withstand hurricane and icing conditions for a one time cost of 5.7 billion dollars. Subsequent units would be about 1/3 less expensive. The east coast site chosen for this study represents an extreme case of severe environmental conditions. More benign and more shallow water sites would result in lower costs. Secondary uses such as mariculture appear practical with only minor impact on the rectenna design. The potential advantages of an offshore rectenna, such as no land requirements, removal of microwave radiation from populated areas and minimal impact on the local geopolitics argue strongly that further investigation of the offshore rectenna should be vigorously pursued.

Processo de tomada de decisão sob incerteza em investimentos internacionais na exploração & produção offshore de petróleo: uma abordagem multicritério

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Marcus Vinicius Margueron

2005-12-01

Full Text Available Este trabalho apresenta o desenvolvimento teórico sobre a análise de projetos de exploração e produção de petróleo, desde a avaliação econômica tradicional através do Fluxo de Caixa Descontado até a apresentação da Teoria da Utilidade Multiatributo (MAUT, que possibilita a consideração dos riscos e incertezas típicos dos investimentos internacionais no setor upstream do petróleo em um novo ambiente competitivo entre as firmas. Por fim, o trabalho inclui um estudo de caso sobre a aplicação da MAUT na priorização de dez oportunidades exploratórias offshore ao redor do mundo oferecidas a uma multinacional brasileira fictícia de acordo com as preferências dos tomadores de decisão sobre aspectos operacionais, políticos e tecnológicos.This paper presents the theoretical developments in techniques of decision-making analysis in petroleum exploration and production projects, from economic evaluation using Discount Cash Flow (DCF up to and including a presentation of the Multi-Attribute Utility Theory (MAUT, which enables consideration of typical risks and uncertainties in international petroleum upstream investments in a new competitive situation among firms. Finally, a case study of the MAUT was developed and applied to define priorities among ten offshore exploration opportunities around the world offered to a fictitious Brazilian petroleum multinational company, according to decision-makers' preferences regarding operational, political and technological issues.

Modern earthquake engineering offshore and land-based structures

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Jia, Junbo

2017-01-01

This book addresses applications of earthquake engineering for both offshore and land-based structures. It is self-contained as a reference work and covers a wide range of topics, including topics related to engineering seismology, geotechnical earthquake engineering, structural engineering, as well as special contents dedicated to design philosophy, determination of ground motions, shock waves, tsunamis, earthquake damage, seismic response of offshore and arctic structures, spatial varied ground motions, simplified and advanced seismic analysis methods, sudden subsidence of offshore platforms, tank liquid impacts during earthquakes, seismic resistance of non-structural elements, and various types of mitigation measures, etc. The target readership includes professionals in offshore and civil engineering, officials and regulators, as well as researchers and students in this field.

Site selection for offshore wind farms along the Indian coast

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ManiMurali, R.; Vidya, P.J.; Modi, P.; JayaKumar, S.

This study deals with locating the potential sites for offshore wind farms and also deals with feasibility of installing offshore wind farms through scientific examination of the requirements along the coast of India Offshore wind energy is almost...

Offshoring in the Semiconductor Industry: A Historical Perspective

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Brown, Clair; Linden, Greg

2005-01-01

Semiconductor design is a frequently-cited example of the new wave of offshoring and foreign-outsourcing of service sector jobs. It is certainly a concern to U.S. design engineers themselves. In addition to the current wave of white-collar outsourcing, the industry also has a rich experience with offshoring of manufacturing activity. Semiconductor companies were among the first to invest in offshore facilities to manufacture goods for imports back to the U.S. A brief review of these...

Gaining Flexibility and Innovation through Offshore Outsourcing

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Michela Pellicelli

2018-05-01

Full Text Available Recently, offshore outsourcing has become extremely important for companies that compete worldwide. In many industries, only companies that manage to be competitive globally can aspire to attain sustainable competitive advantages. Therefore, offshore outsourcing has become essential for many companies and recently has become more and more a vital part of the long-term strategies of the leading firms. The rapidly shifting conditions in the marketplace is forcing management to constantly review and defend its core competencies. Management is now confronted with a higher level of complexity and disruptions brought about in particular by the new waves of globalization and the irresistible march of technological changes. For these reasons, offshore outsourcing is transforming the functions of the traditional firms into a network of competencies. The tendency to offshore most of the productive and economic activities and processes can lead companies to transform themselves into virtual organizations, where all the functions could be outsourced through the formation of flexible networks and agile organizational structures.

Co-sourcing in software development offshoring

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Schlichter, Bjarne Rerup; Persson, John Stouby

2013-01-01

Software development projects are increasingly geographical distributed with offshoring, which introduce complex risks that can lead to project failure. Co-sourcing is a highly integrative and cohesive approach, seen successful, to software development offshoring. However, research of how co-sour......-taking by high attention to of the closely interrelated structure and technology components in terms of CMMI and the actors’ cohesion and integration in terms of Scrum....

Emergency response in the Newfoundland offshore industry

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Dempsey, J. [Cormorant Ltd., St. John' s, NL (Canada)

2006-07-01

This presentation reviewed current offshore oil activities with respect to safety issues regarding year-round marine operations in a harsh environment. Considerable logistics support is required for all offshore activities, including seismic and geotechnical surveys; exploration and production drilling; well testing; subsea construction; on-site production; and, delivery to market. Response to an offshore emergency must address the urgency of the incident along with stakeholder concerns. This presentation described the different types of emergencies and addressed issues regarding contingency planning; preventative measures; response philosophy; response scope; response at site; emergency management; communications links; and, oil spill response. The following current operations were highlighted: ExxonMobil's production drilling from the gravity-based concrete platform at Hibernia; Petro-Canada's production drilling at the Terra Nova FPSO; Husky Energy's production drilling at White Rose; and Chevron Canada's exploration drilling at the Orphan Basin. It was noted that in an emergency situation, the focus is on the welfare of offshore personnel. On an average day, the total offshore population is in the order of 1000 workers, all registered in the Personnel Logistics System which is updated with the departure of every helicopter from St. John's, Newfoundland or from the offshore platform. It is possible to prepare for foreseeable emergency incidents such as fire, explosion or gas leaks; spills to the marine environment; structural damage or collisions; persons lost at sea; helicopter or support vessel accidents; vessel sinking; sabotage; serious injuries or loss of life; severe ice events; and, loss of well control. The establishment of permanent safety zones at the Hibernia, White Rose and Terra Nova production fields are among the preventative measures, along with standby vessels that provide a rescue service for offshore installations

Emergency response in the Newfoundland offshore industry

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Dempsey, J.

2006-01-01

This presentation reviewed current offshore oil activities with respect to safety issues regarding year-round marine operations in a harsh environment. Considerable logistics support is required for all offshore activities, including seismic and geotechnical surveys; exploration and production drilling; well testing; subsea construction; on-site production; and, delivery to market. Response to an offshore emergency must address the urgency of the incident along with stakeholder concerns. This presentation described the different types of emergencies and addressed issues regarding contingency planning; preventative measures; response philosophy; response scope; response at site; emergency management; communications links; and, oil spill response. The following current operations were highlighted: ExxonMobil's production drilling from the gravity-based concrete platform at Hibernia; Petro-Canada's production drilling at the Terra Nova FPSO; Husky Energy's production drilling at White Rose; and Chevron Canada's exploration drilling at the Orphan Basin. It was noted that in an emergency situation, the focus is on the welfare of offshore personnel. On an average day, the total offshore population is in the order of 1000 workers, all registered in the Personnel Logistics System which is updated with the departure of every helicopter from St. John's, Newfoundland or from the offshore platform. It is possible to prepare for foreseeable emergency incidents such as fire, explosion or gas leaks; spills to the marine environment; structural damage or collisions; persons lost at sea; helicopter or support vessel accidents; vessel sinking; sabotage; serious injuries or loss of life; severe ice events; and, loss of well control. The establishment of permanent safety zones at the Hibernia, White Rose and Terra Nova production fields are among the preventative measures, along with standby vessels that provide a rescue service for offshore installations. Supply vessels are also

Offshore wind farm Bockstigen - installation and operation experience

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Lange, B [Risoe National Lab., Wind Energy and Atmospheric Physics Dept., Roskilde (Denmark); Aagaard, E; Andersen, P E; Moeller, A [Wind World af 1997 A/S, Noerresundby (Denmark); Niklasson, S; Wickman, A [Vindkompaniet, Degerhamn (Sweden)

1999-03-01

The first Swedish offshore wind farm Bockstigen is operating since March 1998 near the coast of Gotland. It was built as a demonstration project by the Swedish wind farm developer Vindkompaniet, the Danish wind turbine manufacturer Wind World and the British offshore construction company Seacore and partly funded under the EU-THERMIE program. Bockstigen is the fourth offshore wind farm world-wide. While at previous wind farms the main emphasis laid on the demonstration of the technical feasibility of offshore wind energy utilisation, Bockstigen was aimed at demonstrating its economic viability. A number of innovative concepts have been employed: Drilled monopile foundations were used to save costs. A new construction method has been applied making use of a jack-up barge. A new control system for the turbines and the whole wind farm was developed, which controls the maximum power output, the flicker and the reactive power consumption depending on online measurements of the actual grid state. These new developments have been implemented successfully. A substantial cost reduction compared to previous offshore projects could be achieved. (au)

Uso de tecnologías para facilitar el proceso de composición escrita: análisis del efecto de la plataforma RedacText 2.0 en la calidad de los textos académicos escritos por estudiantes de Magisterio

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Teodoro Álvarez Angulo

2017-01-01

Full Text Available Este trabajo busca estudiar el efecto de la plataforma RedacText 2.0 en la calidad de los textos escritos por estudiantes del Grado en Maestro de Educación Primaria. Dicha plataforma se basa en el Modelo de producción de textos del Grupo Didactext (2003 y 2015 y ha sido diseñada para orientar a los estudiantes a lo largo del proceso de producción de textos académicos, mediante actividades que pretenden desarrollar estrategias cognitivas y metacognitivas propias del proceso de producción textual. Para lo anterior, se realizó un estudio con diseño de medidas repetidas en el que se solicitó a un grupo de estudiantes la redacción de dos textos: el Texto 1 (T1 -escrito de la manera en que cada escritor solía escribir- y el Texto 2 (T2 -escrito con ayuda de la plataforma-. La comparación entre los resultados del T1 y del T2, mediante la aplicación de una serie de indicadores textuales de calidad (ITC, nos permite sostener que la plataforma resulta ser un instrumento efectivo para mejorar la calidad de algunos aspectos del texto, principalmente en lo que respecta a los elementos retóricos ya que no produjo cambios en los aspectos de contenido. Ello plantea la necesidad de introducir modificaciones en la plataforma para que sea una herramienta más eficiente en estos aspectos del proceso de composición escrita.

The offshoring challenge strategic design and innovation for tomorrow’s organization

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Bals, Lydia; Jensen, Peter; Larsen, Marcus

2013-01-01

The continuous search for efficiency gains and the goal of attaining a sustainable competitive advantage have steadily increased the volume of goods and services procured globally from third party vendors. In this context, named as “the next wave of globalization”, the offshoring phenomenon has stimulated research and political debates. With the rise of services offshoring, international value chain disaggregation for services has reached a formerly unknown scale. Also, it is increasingly complex transactions, requiring a higher degree of qualification, which are becoming subject to offshoring as well. The Offshoring Challenge: Strategic Design and Innovation for Tomorrow’s Organization features selected chapters by an international research community on the topic of offshoring. All potential business models from offshore outsourcing to third party providers are covered, from cooperative arrangements to internal organizational set-ups including captive offshore centers. Contributions have significant in...

2014-2015 Offshore Wind Technologies Market Report

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Smith, Aaron

2015-11-18

This presentation provides an overview of progress toward offshore wind cost reduction in Europe and implications for the U.S. market. The presentation covers an overview of offshore wind developments, economic and performance trends, empirical evidence of LCOE reduction, and challenges and opportunities in the U.S. market.

Offshore wind energy potential in China

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Hong, Lixuan; Möller, Bernd

2011-01-01

and economic costs. However, the influence of tropical cyclone risks on these regions and detailed assessments at regional or local scale are worth of further discussions. Nevertheless, the models and results provide a foundation for a more comprehensive regional planning framework that would address......This paper investigates available offshore wind energy resources in China’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) with the aid of a Geographical Information System (GIS), which allows the influence of technical, spatial and economic constraints on offshore wind resources being reflected in a continuous...... space. Geospatial supply curves and spatial distribution of levelised production cost (LPC) are developed, which provide information on the available potential of offshore wind energy at or below a given cost, and its corresponding geographical locations. The GIS-based models also reflect the impacts...

RBI Optimization of Offshore Wind Turbines

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Ramírez, José G. Rangel; Sørensen, John Dalsgaard

2009-01-01

methods for oil & gas installations, a framework for optimal inspection and maintenance planning of offshore wind turbines is presented. Special aspects for offshore wind turbines considered are the fatigue loading characteristics where usually the wind loading are dominating the wave loading, wake......Wind turbines for electricity production have increased significantly the last years both in production capability and size. This development is expected to continue also in the coming years. Offshore wind turbines with an electricity production of 5-10 MW are planned. Typically, the wind turbine...... support structure is a steel structure consisting of a tower and a monopile, tripod or jacket type foundation. This paper considers aspects of inspection and maintenance planning of fatigue prone details in jacket and tripod type of wind turbine support structures. Based on risk-based inspection planning...

Offshore Wind Power at Rough Sea

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Petersen, Kristian Rasmus; Madsen, Erik Skov; Bilberg, Arne

2013-01-01

This study compare the current operations and maintenance issues of one offshore wind park at very rough sea conditions and two onshore wind parks. Through a detailed data analysis and case studies this study identifies how improvements have been made in maintenance of large wind turbines. Howeve......, the study has also revealed the need for new maintenance models including a shift from breakdown and preventive maintenances and towards more predictive maintenance to reduce the cost of energy for offshore wind energy installations in the future.......This study compare the current operations and maintenance issues of one offshore wind park at very rough sea conditions and two onshore wind parks. Through a detailed data analysis and case studies this study identifies how improvements have been made in maintenance of large wind turbines. However...

Project alliancing in the offshore industry

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Halman, J.I.M.; Braks, B.F.M.

1999-01-01

In this paper the shift towards new types of project organisation within the offshore industry is explained and discussed. Special focus is given to the organisational concept of project alliancing. The principles, structure and culture of a project alliance as applied within the offshore industry are described. In the paper the organisational concept of project alliancing is discussed on its potential to reduce project costs and enhance profits, both for the operator (oil and gas company) as well as for participating contractors. A risk and reward mechanism developed to share project risks and rewards between allied parties is explained for an alliance case. Based upon an in-depth study carried out within a contractor company in the offshore industry the organisational and financial implications of project alliancing are presented. (author)

Medical status of the offshore population

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Coleshaw, S.R.K.; Harris, R.A.

1998-06-01

The offshore workforce are generally considered to be a healthy occupational group due to regular medical screening, a degree of health surveillance, self-selection, and an increasing number of health promotion programmes being run both onshore and offshore. That said, factors such as the increasing age of the workforce, the often poor lifestyle and the sometimes difficult psychosocial environment remain areas of concern when considering the physical and mental well-being of the workforce. The medical status of offshore workers was investigated by surveying the information collected during the medical screening process, over a cross-section of the population assessed by an independent health service provider. Demographic information, medical history and the results of medical examination were entered into a relational database, to allow analysis and interrogation of the data. (UK)

Quantifying the hurricane catastrophe risk to offshore wind power.

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Rose, Stephen; Jaramillo, Paulina; Small, Mitchell J; Apt, Jay

2013-12-01

The U.S. Department of Energy has estimated that over 50 GW of offshore wind power will be required for the United States to generate 20% of its electricity from wind. Developers are actively planning offshore wind farms along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts and several leases have been signed for offshore sites. These planned projects are in areas that are sometimes struck by hurricanes. We present a method to estimate the catastrophe risk to offshore wind power using simulated hurricanes. Using this method, we estimate the fraction of offshore wind power simultaneously offline and the cumulative damage in a region. In Texas, the most vulnerable region we studied, 10% of offshore wind power could be offline simultaneously because of hurricane damage with a 100-year return period and 6% could be destroyed in any 10-year period. We also estimate the risks to single wind farms in four representative locations; we find the risks are significant but lower than those estimated in previously published results. Much of the hurricane risk to offshore wind turbines can be mitigated by designing turbines for higher maximum wind speeds, ensuring that turbine nacelles can turn quickly to track the wind direction even when grid power is lost, and building in areas with lower risk. © 2013 Society for Risk Analysis.

Plataforma terapeútica basada en Kinect para niños con parálisis cerebral infantil

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Duro González, Belén

2015-01-01

El sistema SONRIE (Sistema de terapia, basadO en KiNect, paRa nIños con parálisis cErebral), realizado como Proyecto Fin de Grado por Dña. Estefanía Sampedro Sánchez, se desarrolló con el fin de permitir el proceso de rehabilitación de los músculos faciales en niños con Parálisis Cerebral Infantil (PCI). SONRIE se compone de una plataforma de juegos cuyo objetivo es lograr una mejora terapéutica en la musculatura orofacial de niños diagnosticados de PCI con edades comprendidas entre los 4 y l...

Critical success factors for offshoring of enterprise resource planning (ERP implementations

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Rajneesh Chauhan

2012-01-01

Full Text Available Background: In recent years, offshoring enterprise resource planning (ERP implementation has been an emerging trend in the field of offshoring information technology (IT. However, both ERP implementations and IT offshoring are fraught with risks, and when both ERP implementation and IT offshoring happen together, the risks become even more pronounced. Therefore, it is important to understand and identify the issues of ERP implementation in an offshoring situation. Objectives: The purpose of this paper is to highlight the key factors that enable successful offshoring ERP implementation from the client and the vendor perspective. Methods/Approach: The paper uses literature as a basis for identifying a critical success factor, data collected through semi-structured interviews with ERP managers at various levels of the subject organizations, and eventually their analysis. Results: The findings of the paper reveal that various factors are critical while implementing offshoring ERP. They include: offshoring partnership, project management, project team composition, people issues, communications and compliance of the onsite team composition. It is also noticed that ten factors are grouped into three categories: the client side, the vendor side, and both. Conclusions: Organizations are currently undertaking or considering the offshoring ERP implementation particularly from India. This paper will enable them to understand the possible challenges and areas of offshoring the ERP implementation program. The value and originality of the paper comes from the fact that up to now, ERP implementation in offshoring has not been comprehensively explored. This research provides a complete understanding of the critical success factors from the client, the vendor or both the client and the vendor perspective. It also enables researchers to analyse ili rethink ili review offshoring in different service areas.

How Offshore Outsourcing Affects Costs and Value Creation

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Brandl, Kristin; Mol, Michael J.

2012-01-01

Although academic and public interest in service offshoring has increased in recent years, research remains focused mainly on antecedents and benefits of activities, overlooking process aspects. For that reason, we take a process perspective when conceptualizing around offshore outsourcing...... affects costs and value creation in the respective stages. The reconceptualization enables us to provide a clearer and more fine-grained picture of the effects of offshoring and outsourcing decisions, thus helping to further develop our understanding of the reasoning to relocate services geographical...

Una plataforma multiagente para la búsqueda de recursos educacionales considerando aspectos culturales

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Bender, Cristina

2006-01-01

Full Text Available En este trabajo se propone una arquitectura multiagente para la recuperación de recursos educacionales, que ayude a los usuarios a encontrar cursos que se adecuen a sus características personales y aspectos culturales. En este trabajo, se considera como aspectos culturales a las características que permiten distinguir las preferencias de estudiantes pertenecientes a distintas regiones geográficas. La plataforma multiagente planteada incluye varios tipos de agentes que tienen funcionalidades diferentes. En particular, se modela el Educational Resources Finder Agent como un agente BDI Graduado. Este agente se encarga de la recuperación de los mejores cursos de acuerdo al perfil de cada estudiante. Se describe el sistema multiagente completo y se presenta un ejemplo ilustrativo del proceso de búsqueda.

Coordinated control of wind power plants in offshore HVDC grids

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Sakamuri, Jayachandra N.

2017-01-01

power between different countries, and different synchronous areas. It is very likely that they will then be combined with offshore wind power plant (OWPP) connections in the North Sea, transforming it in a multi terminal DC (MTDC) grid and, therefore, in a fully meshed offshore DC grid in near future......During the recent years, there has been a significant penetration of offshore wind power into the power system and this trend is expected to continue in the future. The North Sea in Europe has higher potential for offshore wind power; therefore, the North Seas Countries' Offshore Grid initiative....... However, increased penetration of offshore wind power into the power system poses several challenges to its security. This thesis deals with two main research challenges, (1) Develop, and analyze the coordinated control strategies for AC voltage and reactive power control in the cluster of OWPPs connected...

The environmental impact from an offshore plant

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Larsson, A.-K.

1994-01-01

Wind measurements in different countries have shown the existence of a large energy potential in offshore winds. Taking into consideration the limited suitable area on land for wind power plants it is essential to know the environmental influence from and on an offshore plant. The first offshore wind power plant was built in Sweden in 1990 in order to examine the influence on birds, fish and fishing, shipping, public opinion, maintenance and the effects on foundation from waves and ice. So far, the programme shows that the birds try to avoid the plant by flying further away from it out over the sea. (Author)

Offshore Financial Centers in Global Capital Flow

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Lutsyshyn Zoriana

2017-12-01

Full Text Available The article is dedicated to investigation of the place and role of offshore financial centers in financial globalization system, and of the reasons for using offshores in assets securitization mechanism. Numerous offshore and other preferential zones enabling to avoid the effective national and governmental tax regime are important attributes of global financial system and redistributive links of world financial flows. At present, around 70 countries and territories offer their offshore services for foreign capital, bank transactions, profitability from activities in financial markets proper. The global offshore business concentrates large amounts often having no relation to the country of origin, the so-called cosmopolitan capital (wandering. Although in the early 80's of the XXth century offshore companies were considered to control approximately 500 billion dollars, it was already in the early 90's that this amount doubled and was estimated as 1 trillion dollars. Today, from ⅓ to half of the world capital turnover goes through offshore business channels, and therefore, almost half of non-resident bank deposits are concentrated in world offshore centers. These are the world financial centers comprising international capital markets that provide for the accumulation and redistribution of world capital. From the process of reproduction (circulation of capital, the world financial centers plunge out the most homogeneous and mobile element — money, and freely manipulating with them, concentrate huge economic power in their hands. The role of world financial centers was also enhanced by the latest achievements in computer science, allowing execution of instant transactions and movement of huge amounts to any point of the world within the shortest possible time. The world financial centers consist not only of powerful banks and financial institutions operating on the international scene, but also have currency, stock and other exchanges as their

New Models for Maintenance of Offshore Wind Farms

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Petersen, Kristian R.

component that was causing a large amount of downtime were identified. Further analysis with the Reliability-Centred Maintenance concept helped determine the most appropriate maintenance strategy. In the final perspective, long-term strategic decisions were the focus. Asset Management and especially Asset...... Life-Cycle Management were studied using a case study. The case study analysis was used to generate strategies to help managers perform maintenance more proactively and to prepare the management of the offshore wind farm turbines for the future. Existing literature on Asset Life-Cycle Management has......Operations and maintenance (O&M) processes are important for keeping offshore wind turbines in operation. Costs related to such activities constitute approximately 30% of the lifetime cost of an offshore wind farm project. Currently, the offshore wind energy industry has shown a rapid increase...

Levels of Outsourcing and Offshoring

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Madsen, Erik Skov; Slepniov, Dmitrij

2011-01-01

The purpose of this paper is to examine the evolution of offshoring and outsourcing over time and highlight strategic considerations underpinning this process in companies. On the basis of four case studies of Danish and German industrial companies, this paper develops a holistic framework...... conceptualizing various levels of outsourcing and offshoring as well as factors driving the transition between these levels. The framework adds to better understanding of the process and challenges the linear nature of it and suggests that ‘backsourcing’ and repatriation of activities should receive more...

Offshore Outsourcing Induced by Domestic Providers

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Yutian Chen; Pradeep Dubey; Debapriya Sen

2005-01-01

We show that offshore outsourcing can occur even when there are no economies of scale or cost advantages for the foreign firms. What drives the phenomenon is that domestic firms, by accepting orders for intermediate goods, incur the disadvantage of becoming Stackelberg followers in the ensuing competition to sell the final good. Thus they have incentive to quote high provider prices to ward off future competitors, compelling them to outsource offshore.

46 CFR 11.470 - Officer endorsements as offshore installation manager.

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2010-10-01

... 46 Shipping 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Officer endorsements as offshore installation manager... Officer endorsements as offshore installation manager. (a) Officer endorsements as offshore installation manager (OIM) include: (1) OIM Unrestricted; (2) OIM Surface Units on Location; (3) OIM Surface Units...

Conceptual Model of Offshore Wind Environmental Risk Evaluation System

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Anderson, Richard M.; Copping, Andrea E.; Van Cleve, Frances B.; Unwin, Stephen D.; Hamilton, Erin L.

2010-06-01

In this report we describe the development of the Environmental Risk Evaluation System (ERES), a risk-informed analytical process for estimating the environmental risks associated with the construction and operation of offshore wind energy generation projects. The development of ERES for offshore wind is closely allied to a concurrent process undertaken to examine environmental effects of marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) energy generation, although specific risk-relevant attributes will differ between the MHK and offshore wind domains. During FY10, a conceptual design of ERES for offshore wind will be developed. The offshore wind ERES mockup described in this report will provide a preview of the functionality of a fully developed risk evaluation system that will use risk assessment techniques to determine priority stressors on aquatic organisms and environments from specific technology aspects, identify key uncertainties underlying high-risk issues, compile a wide-range of data types in an innovative and flexible data organizing scheme, and inform planning and decision processes with a transparent and technically robust decision-support tool. A fully functional version of ERES for offshore wind will be developed in a subsequent phase of the project.

Nearshore versus Offshore

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Klinge Jacobsen, Henrik; Hevia Koch, Pablo Alejandro; Wolter, Christoph

Currently there exist high expectations for the development of wind energy, particularly in Europe, out of whichoffshore wind turbine developments will be central as tools to achieve current energy targets. The question betweennearshore and (far)-offshore is particularly relevant, both because of...

Testes sanguíneos de biomarcadores para diagnóstico e tratamento de desordens mentais: foco em esquizofrenia

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Sabine Bahn

2013-01-01

Full Text Available A descoberta e a aplicação clínica de biomarcadores para desordens mentais são confrontadas com muitos desafios. Em geral, os atuais métodos de descoberta e validação de biomarcadores não produziram os resultados que foram inicialmente aguardados depois da finalização do Projeto Genoma Humano. Isso se deve principalmente à falta de processos padronizados conectando a descoberta de marcadores com tecnologias para a validação e a tradução para uma plataforma que ofereça precisão e fácil uso em clínica. Como consequência, a maior parte dos psiquiatras e praticantes em geral são relutantes em aceitar que testes de biomarcadores pode suplementar ou substituir os métodos de diagnóstico utilizados baseados em entrevista. Apesar disso, agências regulatórias concordam agora que melhoras nos correntes métodos são essenciais. Além disso, essas agências estipularam que biomarcadores são importantes para o desenvolvimento de futuras drogas e iniciaram esforços no sentido de modernizar métodos e técnicas para suportar esses esforços. Aqui revisamos os desafios encontrados por essa tentativa do ponto de vista de psiquiatras, praticantes em geral, agências reguladoras e cientistas de biomarcadores. Também descrevemos o desenvolvimento de um novo teste sanguíneo molecular para esquizofrenia como um primeiro passo a esse objetivo.

Turismo na Plataforma do Conhecimento

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Susana de Araujo Gastal

2015-10-01

Full Text Available Fechamos a presente edição da Revista dos Ventos - Turismo e Hospitalidade, ainda sob o impacto das apresentações de trabalhos e discussões realizados durante a edição 2015 do Seminário da Associação Nacional de Pesquisa em Turismo. Uma das constatações mais repetidas por quem dele participou, foi a crescente maturidade que a área vem apresentando, tanto no conteúdo das reflexões, como no aprofundamento das pesquisas, com certeza decorrentes da presença, hoje consolidada, dos Programas de Pós-Graduação. Cada vez mais, os trabalhos encaminhados a eventos e periódicos, aprofundam as especificidades teóricas do Turismo e da Hospitalidade, em termos conceituais e metodológicos. Susana Gastal – Doutor. Editor da Revista Rosa dos Ventos – Turismo e Hospitalidade.  

Federal Offshore Statistics, 1993. Leasing, exploration, production, and revenue as of December 31, 1993

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Francois, D.K.

1994-12-31

This document contains statistical data on the following: federal offshore lands; offshore leasing activity and status; offshore development activity; offshore production of crude oil and natural gas; federal offshore oil and natural gas sales volume and royalties; revenue from federal offshore leases; disbursement of federal offshore revenue; reserves and resource estimates of offshore oil and natural gas; oil pollution in US and international waters; and international activities and marine minerals. A glossary is included.

A novel floating offshore wind turbine concept

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Vita, Luca; Schmidt Paulsen, Uwe; Friis Pedersen, Troels

2009-01-01

This paper will present a novel concept of a floating offshore wind turbine. The new concept is intended for vertical-axis wind turbine technology. The main purpose is to increase simplicity and to reduce total costs of an installed offshore wind farm. The concept is intended for deep water...... and large size turbines....

Offshore Wind Power

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Negra, Nicola Barberis

reliability models, and a new model that accounts for all relevant factors that influence the evaluations is developed. According to this representation, some simulations are performed and both the points of view of the wind farm owner and the system operator are evaluated and compared. A sequential Monte...... Carlo simulation is used for these calculations: this method, in spite of an extended computation time, has shown flexibility in performing reliability studies, especially in case of wind generation, and a broad range of results which can be evaluated. The modelling is then extended to the entire power......The aim of the project is to investigate the influence of wind farms on the reliability of power systems. This task is particularly important for large offshore wind farms, because failure of a large wind farm might have significant influence on the balance of the power system, and because offshore...

Scour around Offshore Wind Turbine Foundations

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Petersen, Thor Ugelvig

Over the last decades several offshore wind farms have been installed and commissioned in the European waters. Typically the foundations of the wind turbines are protected against scour at the base by installing scour protection with rock dump. The Egmond aan Zee offshore wind farm located about 10...... the performance (stability) of the scour protection and to quantify the edge scour development at the circumference of the scour protection. The survey campaign showed considerable edge scour of up to 2.7 m, which was expected from design considerations. However, no clear information exists on the mechanisms...... causing the edge scour development around scour protections at offshore wind turbine foundations. The purpose of the present thesis is to investigate and explain the development of the edge scour in such applications, and describe the flow mechanism causing the scour. Furthermore, the dissertation also...

Nearshore and offshore environmental effects monitoring at the Sable Offshore Energy project

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Hurley, G. V.

2000-01-01

A monitoring program to determine whether any temporary or permanent environmental perturbations may be attributable to the Sable offshore gas pipeline project as it approaches landfall at Goldboro through an outer bay is discussed, This nearshore region is an active fishing region for the residents of Goldboro, hence the concern about possible contamination. The monitoring project began with a baseline study, followed by monitoring the construction and the recovery period following construction, to ensure that any persistent changes to the nearshore aquatic environment were documented. The monitoring study included representatives of the fishing community to ensure that concerns are addressed early and on a continuing basis. At various phases of the project water properties,sediment modelling, the effects of construction on sea bottom conditions, benthic biota and cultivated mussels, water quality, phytoplankton, and resuspension of toxic cysts, terns and other seabirds were studied. Monitoring programs were also established for sea urchins and mussels, two important commercial species. Commercial-sized sea urchins showed a decrease of 60 per cent between 1998 and 1999 (i.e. the construction period). Recovery of sea urchin population in the immediate trench region will be the special focus of the post-construction monitoring phase. Mussel spat settlement and mussel tissue condition, lobster trapping, water properties, and bird behaviour showed no measurable changes during construction monitoring. In addition to these studies there is an ongoing offshore monitoring program in effect by Sable Offshore Energy Inc., put in place as a condition of approval of its Development Plan by the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board. This program monitors attributes such as water quality, suspended particulate matter in the benthic boundary layer, sediment quality, the benthic habitat and megafaunal community, shellfish body burden and taint, marine mammals and seabirds

Diseño y cálculo de una plataforma motorizada móvil para trasladar un equipo de elevación comercial dentro de los carriles de una nave industrial para labores de mantenimiento

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VALLS RIERA, CARLOS

2018-01-01

[ES] El presente proyecto consiste en realizar el diseño de una plataforma transportadora motorizada, la cual va a transportar una máquina elevadora para poder realizar trabajos de mantenimiento. Este diseño se lleva a cabo mediante el uso de programas CAD-CAE y los análisis de cálculos pertinentes. En el proyecto se desarrollan los planos de la plataforma, materiales a utilizar, esquemas eléctricos, componentes electrónicos, manuales y normativa de seguridad, cálculo de ejes y rodamientos...

Fair shares: a preliminary framework and case analyzing the ethics of offshoring.

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Gordon, Cameron; Zimmerman, Alan

2010-06-01

Much has been written about the offshoring phenomenon from an economic efficiency perspective. Most authors have attempted to measure the net economic effects of the strategy and many purport to show that "in the long run" that benefits will outweigh the costs. There is also a relatively large literature on implementation which describes the best way to manage the offshoring process. But what is the morality of offshoring? What is its "rightness" or "wrongness?" Little analysis of the ethics of offshoring has been completed thus far. This paper develops a preliminary framework for analyzing the ethics of offshoring and then applies this framework to basic case study of offshoring in the U.S. The paper following discusses the definition of offshoring; shifts to the basic philosophical grounding of the ethical concepts; develops a template for conducting an ethics analysis of offshoring; applies this template using basic data for offshoring in the United States; and conducts a preliminary ethical analysis of the phenomenon in that country, using a form of utilitarianism as an analytical baseline. The paper concludes with suggestions for further research.

World offshore energy loss statistics

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Kaiser, Mark J.

2007-01-01

Offshore operations present a unique set of environmental conditions and adverse exposure not observed in a land environment taking place in a confined space in a hostile environment under the constant danger of catastrophe and loss. It is possible to engineer some risks to a very low threshold of probability, but losses and unforeseen events can never be entirely eliminated because of cost considerations, the human factor, and environmental uncertainty. Risk events occur infrequently but have the potential of generating large losses, as evident by the 2005 hurricane season in the Gulf of Mexico, which was the most destructive and costliest natural disaster in the history of offshore production. The purpose of this paper is to provide a statistical assessment of energy losses in offshore basins using the Willis Energy Loss database. A description of the loss categories and causes of property damage are provided, followed by a statistical assessment of damage and loss broken out by region, cause, and loss category for the time horizon 1970-2004. The impact of the 2004-2005 hurricane season in the Gulf of Mexico is summarized

Quantifying the hurricane risk to offshore wind turbines.

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Rose, Stephen; Jaramillo, Paulina; Small, Mitchell J; Grossmann, Iris; Apt, Jay

2012-02-28

The U.S. Department of Energy has estimated that if the United States is to generate 20% of its electricity from wind, over 50 GW will be required from shallow offshore turbines. Hurricanes are a potential risk to these turbines. Turbine tower buckling has been observed in typhoons, but no offshore wind turbines have yet been built in the United States. We present a probabilistic model to estimate the number of turbines that would be destroyed by hurricanes in an offshore wind farm. We apply this model to estimate the risk to offshore wind farms in four representative locations in the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal waters of the United States. In the most vulnerable areas now being actively considered by developers, nearly half the turbines in a farm are likely to be destroyed in a 20-y period. Reasonable mitigation measures--increasing the design reference wind load, ensuring that the nacelle can be turned into rapidly changing winds, and building most wind plants in the areas with lower risk--can greatly enhance the probability that offshore wind can help to meet the United States' electricity needs.

Unique ecological impacts associated with offshore floating nuclear power plants

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Adams, S.M.; McLean, R.B.

1979-01-01

The ecological impacts that could occur as a result of site construction and operation of an offshore floating nuclear power plant are identified by comparing the principal ecological features associated with offshore siting with those associated with the siting of onshore estuarine plants. In general, the ecological impacts of offshore nuclear plants should be relatively smaller than those of estuarine plants. Possible factors that could increase the relative impacts of offshore plants are high frequency of contact with schools of fish, siting near inlets to estuaries or other ecologically important areas, and the persistence of halogen residuals. Identifying the potential ecological impacts associated with the siting of offshore plants permits the development of various monitoring programs and measures to minimize these impacts

Floating offshore turbines

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Tande, John Olav Giæver; Merz, Karl; Schmidt Paulsen, Uwe

2014-01-01

metric of energy production per unit steel mass. Floating offshore wind turbines represent a promising technology. The successful operation of HyWind and WindFloat in full scale demonstrates a well advanced technology readiness level, where further development will go into refining the concepts, cost...

INORE: The International Network on Offshore Renewable Energy

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Martini, Michele; De Andrén, Andrés

2015-01-01

The International Network on Offshore Renewable Energy (INORE) is a non-profit organization run by volunteers. INORE was born to support early stage researchers in the offshore renewable energy field. Today, INORE has more than 1200 members from more than 70 different countries. The aim of this organization is to facilitate networking and information exchange between young researchers and professionals. This is achieved by arranging symposia, workshops, networking events and issuing scholarships. Three main knowledge areas are currently within INORE’s dedication: sea wave energy, tidal current energy and offshore wind energy.

Over the Top: o consumo audiovisual em softwares culturais

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Wagner Silva Montes

2014-01-01

Este trabalho visa abordar o status atual das plataformas de distribuição de vídeo via internet no Brasil, procurando compreender seu estatuto transformador do modo de consumo doméstico de vídeo. Para tanto, utilizaremos os recursos teóricos disponíveis que tratam de novas mídias e internet, procurando também através da experiência profissional do autor na participação no desenvolvimento de uma plataforma nacional de distribuição de vídeo, estabelecer pontos comuns e singularidades desse novo...

Trajetórias tecnológicas no segmento offshore: ambiente e oportunidades Technological trajectories in the offshore segment: enviroment and opportunities

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José Benedito Ortiz Neto

2008-08-01

Full Text Available Este artigo apresenta as diferentes trajetórias tecnológicas do segmento offshore na indústria petrolífera mundial considerando os seus principais aspectos e marcos constituintes. Mais especificamente, serão analisadas as trajetórias diferentes nas duas primeiras grandes províncias de petróleo do segmento offshore: o Golfo do México (EUA e o Mar do Norte (Europa. Junto com a Bacia de Campos (Brasil, são as mais produtivas e ricas do planeta e onde as três trajetórias tecnológicas foram desenvolvidas. Esse levantamento histórico é importante porque resgata os elementos que dão as bases do conhecimento tecnológico que permitiu à Petrobras, de forma inédita, iniciar as suas atividades offshore nas décadas de 1960-1970. Será visto aqui que a exploração offshore significou o surgimento de um novo paradigma tecnológico sustentado por três trajetórias.This article presents different technological trajectories concerning the offshore exploration segment in the world petroleum industry, considering their main aspects and components. More specifically, different trajectories will be analyzed in the first two largest crude oil territories: Gulf of Mexico (USA and Sea North (Europe. These, along with Bacia de Campos in Brazil, are the most productive and the richest regions in the planet and, therefore, where the three technological trajectories have been developed. This historic survey is important because it reveals the elements that provide the basis for technological knowledge, which allowed Petrobras to start its offshore activities in the 60s and 70s, via an original technology. The offshore exploration meant the emergence of a new technological paradigm supported by three trajectories.

De-offshorization as a Factor of Development of the National Economy

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Galina S. Panova

2014-01-01

Full Text Available The article shows that the concept of "de-offshorization" is interpreted in the economic literature. On the one hand, de-offshorization is seen as a fight against offshore or tightening control over operations in offshore areas, and on the other as facilitating business environment and as a factor of development of the national economy. However, these approaches are not contrary to the understanding of the de-offshorization as a State policy aimed at improving the tax, legislative, enforcement and information sphere of activity of economic entities to reduce capital flight and repatriation. The analysis of the objectives and characteristics of the formation of offshore zones in the world and it is concluded that in general the offshore zone, favorable tax to optimize international economic cooperation, including trade and entrepreneurship. The article stresses that Russia currently has two approaches, the adherents of which have opposing views on combat offshore. Some consider that the need to impose a ban on business that manages the Russian business from foreign jurisdictions and prints there. Others are convinced that first of all it is necessary to improve the conditions for business in Russia, and then to demand the return of money. The authors offer a comprehensive solution to the problem of de-offshorization of the economy, which, in their view, should include not only economic, but also political, institutional, legal, fiscal and administrative components. In General, to ensure a stable, clear, transparent and objective rules of business in all sectors, to make the illegal withdrawal of capital/assets in offshore areas has a reputation and uneconomical. To this end, to take practical measures aimed at improving the transparency of the offshore business. In particular, the promising directions of the de-offshorization the Russian economy with international experience are defined: development and improvement of the financial, fiscal

Ambientes virtuais e mídias de comunicação, abordando a explosão das mídias na sociedade da informação e seu impacto na aprendiza-gem - o uso do WhatsApp como plataforma de m-learning

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Paulo Cesar Pereira

2016-09-01

Full Text Available Este trabalho tem como objetivo verificar o atual uso e desenvolvimento das plataformas denominadas m-learning, suas vantagens e desafios a serem enfrentados para a sua disseminação na educação à distância. Descreve brevemente a evolução dos ambientes de aprendizagem através do uso das Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação e avalia a possibilidade de utilização da tecnologia de computação móvel no auxílio ao processo de aprendizagem. O trabalho foi realizado através de pesquisa exploratória, de campo e bibliográfica, consistindo no levantamento do conhecimento bibliográfico disponível em produções atuais e no levantamento das percepções de professores de diversos níveis de formação, vinculação, tempo de docência e idades a respeito do uso de ambientes de m-Learning, em especial o Wattsapp. Por meio do desenvolvimento do presente estudo, foi possível observar que o uso do m-learningainda está em fase embrionária no contexto brasileiro, mas o uso de dispositivos móveis na educação é algo que não deve ser ignorado ou pensado como improvável em pouco tempo, pois atualmente, alunos e professores buscam a interação pessoal, entre si, permitida por esta tecnologia, muito além de ser somente um distribuidor de conteúdos educacionais.

Availability evaluation of offshore wind energy networks within the Dutch power system

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Tuinema, B.W.; Gibescu, M.; Kling, W.L.

2010-01-01

In the future, a large-scale expansion of offshore wind energy is expected in the Netherlands. For this large-scale expansion, a well-designed offshore network is needed. Different network configurations will lead to other availability of the offshore network and therefore also the offshore wind

The offshore trend: Structural changes in the wind power sector

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Markard, Jochen; Petersen, Regula

2009-01-01

In recent years, the wind power sector has begun to move offshore, i.e. to use space and good wind speeds on the open sea for large scale electricity generation. Offshore wind power, however, is not just technologically challenging but also a capital intensive and risky business that requires particular financial and organizational resources not all potential investors might have. We therefore address the question, what impact offshore wind power may have on ownership and organizational structures in the wind power sector. We compare on- and offshore wind park ownership in Denmark, the UK and Germany. The analysis shows that offshore wind power in all three countries is dominated by large firms, many of which are from the electricity sector. In Denmark and the UK, also investors from the gas and oil industry play an important role in the offshore wind business. This development represents a major shift for countries such as Germany and Denmark, in which the wind power sector has grown and matured on the basis of investments by individuals, farmers, cooperatives and independent project developers. The structural changes by which offshore wind power is accompanied have consequences for turbine manufacturers, project developers, investors, associations and policy makers in the field.

Offshore environmental aspects

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Lindeboom, H.J.; Degraer, S.

2016-01-01

The number of offshore wind farms (OWFs) is increasing rapidly, leading to questions about the cumulative environmental impact of such farms. The major impacts are caused by the noise produced in the building phase, the new hard substratum, the moving rotor blades, possible underwater noise in

Review report 2004. The Danish offshore wind farm demonstration project: Horns Rev and Nysted offshore wind farms. Environmental impact assessment and monitoring

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2005-10-15

The present review report presents the two wind farms Horns Rev and Nysted with regard to environmental characteristics and the results of the environmental studies carried out in connection with the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and the baseline and monitoring programmes at the two sites. The descriptions of the programmes are based on extracts from the individual annual reports. Detailed information on method, programmes and conclusions can be found in these reports (see Appendix 1). This review report is divided into two parts. The first part contains a description of the potential environmental impacts of offshore wind farms and the potentially affected part of the environment. The second part includes a description of Horns Rev and Nysted Offshore Wind Farm and the environmental studies carried out here until the end of 2003. Appendix I is a list of the literature published on the studies carried out at Horns Rev and Nysted Offshore Wind Farm. Appendix II is a list of some of the literature relevant to the demonstration projects but not directly related to the projects. The offshore wind farm situated in the Roedsand area is officially denoted Nysted Offshore Wind Farm, and in the present report the denotation 'Nysted' will be used as well when referring to Nysted Offshore Wind Farm. The denotation Roedsand will be used when referring to the actual area Roedsand. (au)

Review report 2003. The Danish offshore wind farm demonstration project: Horns Rev and Nysted offshore wind farms. Environmental impact assessment and monitoring

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2004-09-15

The present review report presents the two wind farms Homs Rev and Nysted, with regard to environmental characteristics and the results of the environmental studies carried out in connection with the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and the baseline and monitoring programmes at the two sites. The descriptions of the programmes are based on extracts from the individual annual reports. Detailed information on methods, programmes and conclusions can be found in these reports. This review report is divided into two parts. The first part contains a description of the potential environmentally impacts of offshore wind farms and the potentially affected part of the environment. The second part includes a description of Horns Rev and Nysted Offshore Wind Farm and the environmental studies carried out here until the end of 2003. Appendix I is a list of the literature published on the studies carried out at Hors Rev and Nysted Offshore Wind Farm. Appendix II is a list of some of the literature relevant to the demonstration projects but not directly related to the projects. The offshore wind farm situated at the bdsand area is officially denoted Nysted Offshore Wind Farm, and in the present report the denotation 'Nysted' will be used as well when referring to Nysted Offshore Wind Farm. The denotation Roedsand will be used when referring to the actual area Roedsand. (au)

Review report 2004. The Danish offshore wind farm demonstration project: Horns Rev and Nysted offshore wind farms. Environmental impact assessment and monitoring

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2005-10-15

The present review report presents the two wind farms Horns Rev and Nysted with regard to environmental characteristics and the results of the environmental studies carried out in connection with the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and the baseline and monitoring programmes at the two sites. The descriptions of the programmes are based on extracts from the individual annual reports. Detailed information on method, programmes and conclusions can be found in these reports (see Appendix 1). This review report is divided into two parts. The first part contains a description of the potential environmental impacts of offshore wind farms and the potentially affected part of the environment. The second part includes a description of Horns Rev and Nysted Offshore Wind Farm and the environmental studies carried out here until the end of 2003. Appendix I is a list of the literature published on the studies carried out at Horns Rev and Nysted Offshore Wind Farm. Appendix II is a list of some of the literature relevant to the demonstration projects but not directly related to the projects. The offshore wind farm situated in the Roedsand area is officially denoted Nysted Offshore Wind Farm, and in the present report the denotation 'Nysted' will be used as well when referring to Nysted Offshore Wind Farm. The denotation Roedsand will be used when referring to the actual area Roedsand. (au)

U.S. Offshore Wind Manufacturing and Supply Chain Development

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Hamilton, Bruce Duncan [Navigant Consulting, Inc.

2013-02-22

The objective of the report is to provide an assessment of the domestic supply chain and manufacturing infrastructure supporting the U.S. offshore wind market. The report provides baseline information and develops a strategy for future development of the supply chain required to support projected offshore wind deployment levels. A brief description of each of the key chapters includes: » Chapter 1: Offshore Wind Plant Costs and Anticipated Technology Advancements. Determines the cost breakdown of offshore wind plants and identifies technical trends and anticipated advancements in offshore wind manufacturing and construction. » Chapter 2: Potential Supply Chain Requirements and Opportunities. Provides an organized, analytical approach to identifying and bounding the uncertainties associated with a future U.S. offshore wind market. It projects potential component-level supply chain needs under three demand scenarios and identifies key supply chain challenges and opportunities facing the future U.S. market as well as current suppliers of the nation’s land-based wind market. » Chapter 3: Strategy for Future Development. Evaluates the gap or competitive advantage of adding manufacturing capacity in the U.S. vs. overseas, and evaluates examples of policies that have been successful . » Chapter 4: Pathways for Market Entry. Identifies technical and business pathways for market entry by potential suppliers of large-scale offshore turbine components and technical services. The report is intended for use by the following industry stakeholder groups: (a) Industry participants who seek baseline cost and supplier information for key component segments and the overall U.S. offshore wind market (Chapters 1 and 2). The component-level requirements and opportunities presented in Section 2.3 will be particularly useful in identifying market sizes, competition, and risks for the various component segments. (b) Federal, state, and local policymakers and economic development

Paleocene stratigraphic plays in Uruguay offshore

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Morales, E; Soto, M; Ferro, S; Tomasini, J; De Santa Ana, H; Conti, B.; Veroslavsky, G.

2012-01-01

The Uruguayan continental margin offshore evolution is represented by three large mega sequences: pre rift, rift and post rift, which are correlated with other South Atlantic basins. The tectonic and stratigraphic knowledge about the Uruguayan offshore evolution enable a hydrocarbon potential approximation . The mapping of the seismic depositional sequences are covered by deep basins. The methodology used identify the migration of Uruguayan side depo centers such as the stratigraphic plays group in particular a prospective Paleocene sequence

Offshoring and Job Stability : Evidence from Italian Manufacturing

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Lo Turco, A.; Maggioni, D.; Picchio, M.

2012-01-01

Abstract: We study the relationship between offshoring and job stability in Italy in the period 1995–2001 by using an administrative dataset on manufacturing workers. We find that the international fragmentation of production negatively affects job stability. Service offshoring and material

Canadian offshore standards become world model

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Reid, W.

2000-01-01

Newfoundland's emerging offshore industry is becoming known not only for its frontier petroleum exploration and development expertise, but it is also gaining international recognition for making good use of its experience to provide advice to future developers on how to deal with multiple levels of governments and community groups, infrastructure development, adverse effects on the local environment, society and the economy. The companies active offshore-Newfoundland have acquired world-class expertise from working their offshore oil fields on the Grand Banks. There is a steady demand for that expertise for application in other regions, mostly from oil-industry personnel. Requests for sharing that experience have come from the United States, Norway and Australia, but also from within Canada, particularly from British Columbia. In British Columbia, coastal exploration has been going on since the early 1900s, with increasing concern for the impact of petroleum activity on the coastal environment, culminating with the imposition of a moratorium in 1959. Now, the British Columbia government is interested in learning about the procedures it should follow to reach a decision on whether to lift the moratorium in effect (on and off) since 1959. The interest in possible resumption of exploration and development activity is motivated by recent studies by the Geological Survey of Canada, which suggest a hydrocarbon potential five times greater than the Hibernia oil field off Newfoundland. An indication of this interest in opening up the west coast to offshore exploration is the recent seminar at Memorial University in St. John's. Speakers at the seminar presented an overview of the lessons learned from the east coast, the social and economic impacts of offshore oil and gas development and how such development might co-exist with British Columbia's marine ecosystem and fishery resources

REPERCUSION DEL USO DE LA PLATAFORMA VIRTUAL MATHXL EN EL RENDIMIENTO ACADEMICO DE LOS ALUMNOS EN EL CURSO CALCULO INTEGRAL DEL PROGRAMA PROFESIONAL INGENIERIA CIVIL DE LA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE SANTA MARIA DE AREQUIPA 2010-II Y 2011-II

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SÁNCHEZ-MORENO MESTAS, MARTHA BEATRIZ

2013-01-01

EL APRENDIZAJE DEFINICIONES TIPOS DE APRENDIZAJE APRENDIZAJE POR ENSAYO Y ERROR TEORÍAS DEL APRENDIZAJE LAS ESTRATEGIAS DE APRENDIZAJE EL MODELO DE ENSEÑANZA-APRENDIZAJE EN LA UNIVERSIDAD LA ENSEÑANZA-APRENDIZAJE Y LOS ENTORNOS VIRTUALES EL AULA VIRTUAL DEFINICIÓN DE AULA VIRTUAL USOS DEL AULA VIRTUAL LA ENSEÑANZA VIRTUAL UNIVERSITARIA AMBIENTES HÍBRIDOS DE APRENDIZAJE PLATAFORMAS VIRTUALES DE APRENDIZAJE USO DE LAS PLATAFORMAS DE ENSEÑANZA VIRTUAL EN LA DOCENCIA UNIVERSITARIA VENTAJAS QUE LA...

Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board annual report, 1992-1993

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

1993-06-01

The Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board was established as the agency responsible for the regulation of the hydrocarbon resources in the Nova Scotia offshore. The Board evaluates resource potential, administers petroleum exploration and production rights, approves offshore activities, and approves benefits and development plans. The main activities of the Board in 1992-1993 are summarized and financial statements are presented. Highlights include production of 572,300 m 3 of oil during the first production season of LASMO Nova Scotia Ltd.'s Cohasset development, the first commercial offshore oil production for Canada; four major resource evaluation projects in the Glenelg Field, the Laurentian sub-basin, the Fundy Rift Basin, and the Panuke Field; holding of discussions between Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and Canada on the maritime boundary lines between respective offshore petroleum board jurisdictions, in the wake of a June 1992 determination of the disputed maritime boundary around St. Pierre et Miquelon; and amendments of certain safety-related legislation applicable to offshore operations. Employment benefits of the Cohasset project during 1992 totalled ca 470 Nova Scotians and 120 other Canadians. 3 tabs

Mid-Atlantic Offshore Wind Interconnection and Transmission (MAOWIT)

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Kempton, Willett [Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE (United States)

2016-04-05

This project has carried out a detailed analysis to evaluate the pros and cons of offshore transmission, a possible method to decrease balance-of-system costs and permitting time identified in the DOE Office Wind Strategic Plan (DOE, 2011). It also addresses questions regarding the adequacy of existing transmission infrastructure and the ability of existing generating resources to provide the necessary Ancillary Services (A/S) support (spinning and contingency reserves) in the ISO territory. This project has completed the tasks identified in the proposal: 1. Evaluation of the offshore wind resource off PJM, then examination of offshore wind penetrations consistent with U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) targets and with their assumed resource size (DOE, 2011). 2. Comparison of piecemeal radial connections to the Independent System Operator (ISO) with connections via a high-voltage direct current (HVDC) offshore network similar to a team partner. 3. High-resolution examination of power fluctuations at each node due to wind energy variability 4. Analysis of wind power production profiles over the Eastern offshore region of the regional ISO to assess the effectiveness of long-distance, North- South transmission for leveling offshore wind energy output 5. Analysis of how the third and fourth items affect the need for ISO grid upgrades, congestion management, and demand for Ancillary Services (A/S) 6. Analysis of actual historic 36-hr and 24-hr forecasts to solve the unit commitment problem and determine the optimal mix of generators given the need to respond to both wind variability and wind forecasting uncertainties.

Hydropower flexibility and transmission expansion to support integration of offshore wind

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Cutululis, Nicolaos Antonio; Farahmand, Hossein; Jaehnert, S.

2016-01-01

is one of the fast responding sources of electricity, thus power systems with considerable amounts of flexible hydro power can potentially offer easier integration of offshore wind power. The interaction between offshore wind and hydro power can be benefic, especially when looking at how the flexibility......In 2013, offshore wind grew over 50%. This increase, concentrated in a relatively small geographical area, can lead to an increased variability of the power produced by offshore wind. The variability is one of the key issues, along transmission, in integrating offshore wind power. Hydro power...... of hydro generation can match the variability of offshore wind, allowing for larger shares of variable generation to be integrated in the power systems without decreasing its stability. The analysis includes two interrelated models, a market model and a flow-based model. The results show that hydropower...

76 FR 24504 - National Offshore Safety Advisory Committee

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2011-05-02

... DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY [Docket No. USCG-2011-0183] National Offshore Safety Advisory... Committee Meeting. SUMMARY: The National Offshore Safety Advisory Committee (NOSAC) will meet on May 19... completed its business. ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at Wyndham Riverfront Hotel, Bacchus room, 701...

Offshore wind investments – Realism about cost developments is necessary

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Schwanitz, Valeria Jana; Wierling, August

2016-01-01

Data available from the recent boom in European offshore wind investments contradict widely held expectations about a decline in costs per kW. Our review shows that scenario projections for investment costs are systematically flawed by over-optimistic assumptions. Contrasting offshore wind technology with onshore wind and nuclear power, we argue that offshore wind could be a candidate for negative learning since a trend towards more complex OWP (offshore wind parks) exists and uncertainty remains high. We estimate technical uncertainty and input cost uncertainty to calculate whether investments in offshore wind technology are profitable today. Applying a real option model to two reference plants using empirically derived parameter values, we allow for sunk cost and the possibility to abandon the investment. We find that for a large parameter range, investments are not profitable, even with substantial support such as feed-in tariffs under the German Energy Act. Therefore, policy incentives for building larger and more complex offshore wind parks bear a high risk to fail in their aim of bringing down investment costs. Policies that instead incentivize the optimization of offshore wind technology – in particular by increasing the load factor and material efficiency and bringing down decommissioning costs – are more sustainable. - Highlights: • We review offshore wind power investments. • Contrary to expectations costs increase. • It is unlikely to see a turn in the near future as complexity is growing. • We deploy an empirically based real option model. • Investments are not profitable across a large parameter range.

Revised guidance on reporting of offshore hydrocarbon releases

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1996-11-01

The application offshore of the Reporting of Injuries, Disease and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR 1995) has resulted in a new statutory reporting form. The definitions in RIDDOR 95 covering offshore hydrocarbon releases have been slightly revised, making it necessary to revise the guidance on reporting of offshore hydrocarbon releases. RIDDOR 1995 does not affect the existing voluntary arrangements for completion of forms. The receipt of correctly completed forms is important to ensure good output data from the database, and the guidance contained in this document is therefore aimed at assisting completion of the voluntary form. (UK)

Five offshore wind farms by EDF, GDF Suez and Iberdrola. France; Vijf offshore windparken door EDF, GDF Suez en Iberdrola. Frankrijk

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Polo-Leemreis, J. [TWA Netwerk, Paris (France)

2012-02-15

Five offshore wind farms are planned to be built off the Northwest coast of France. On 11 January 2012, three international consortia, led by the French businesses EDF EN (Energie Nouvelles), GDF Suez and the Spanish business Iberdrola, submitted their project proposals to this end. The French government highly values the contribution that offshore wind farms can make to the development of a new industrial sector. This would bring highly needed benefits to the French economy [Dutch] Voor de Noordwest-kust van Frankrijk moeten vijf offshore windparken komen. Op 11 januari 2012 hebben drie internationale consortia onder leiding van de Franse bedrijven EDF EN (Energies Nouvelles), GDF Suez en het Spaanse Iberdrola hun projectvoorstellen hiervoor ingediend. De Franse regering hecht veel waarde aan de bijdrage die offshore windparken kunnen leveren aan de ontwikkeling van een nieuwe industriele sector. De Franse economie zou dit goed kunnen gebruiken.

Transiciones textuales para la comunicación jurídica: aprender ciencias jurídicas en plataformas virtuales

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Flores Doña, María de la Sierra; Matesanz del Barrio, María

2011-01-01

Producción Científica La comunicación del conocimiento jurídico en el ámbito universitario está mediatizada, en gran medida, por el uso de tecnologías, en particular por la utilización de plataformas de aprendizaje enmarcadas en los campus virtuales de las Universidades. La utilización de tecnologías educativas, para que resulte eficiente, necesita disponer de metodologías que las sustenten, definidas para la consecución de unos objetivos claros que permitan su desarrollo...

Offshore floating windmills

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

1993-10-01

The aim was to produce a general survey of the profitability of establishing floating offshore wind turbine arrays and to compare this with the cost and profitability of constructing offshore arrays with fixed foundations and arrays located on land sites. Aspects of design in all cases are described, also into relation to the special demands placed on dimensioning in relation to the types of location and foundation. The costs of the offshore arrays are evaluated in relation to capacity under conditions in Danish waters. The advantage of floating arrays is that they can be placed far out to sea where they can not be seen from the coast and thus not be considered to spoil the marine view. But as the water gets deeper the cost of floating foundations rises. It was found that it would not be technologically profitable to establish floating arrays at a depth of less than 30 - 40 meters which means that only the outer Danish waters can be taken into consideration. For depths of up to 70 meters, individual floating bases are more expensive than fixed ones but would be cheaper if a number of windmills could share the same anchor. For depths of more than 70 meters floating foundations would be the cheapest. The cost is dependent on the depth and distance from the coast and also on wind conditions. The main conclusion is that currently the cost of establishing wind turbine arrays in deeper outer waters on floating foundations is comparable to that of arrays sited at inner waters on solid foundations placed on the sea bed. (AB) (20 refs.)

Offshore 2010. Final report; Offshore 2010. Sluttrapport

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2001-07-01

An overview of the accomplishments of the various projects that have received support from the Norwegian Research Council's program 'Offshore 2010'. The following projects are presented, some have English and some Norwegian project names: 'Critical parameters influencing inhibitor performance in multiphase flow', 'Development of the drilling optimization simulator (DDS) and a totally integrated drilling optimization system', 'Produksjonsoptimalisering og automatisk styring av broenner og roerledninger (PETRONICS)', 'Termisk isolerte undervannsroer for sikring av broenntransport over store avstander', 'Utvikling av magnetisk frekvensformer for styring av store subsea pumper paa havdyp ned mot 4000 meter', 'Flerfase stroemningsmaaler for permanent nedihulls installasjon', 'Hastighetsmaaling i flerfase stroemning ved passiv akustikk', 'Oil/water seperation offshore: optimized flow- and seperation behavior', 'Stroemningshastighet', 'A rock mechanics based reservoir simulation', 'MultiTool fase 2 - et flerbruksverktoey for nedihulls applikasjoner', 'Utvikling av undervanns olje-i-vann monitor for kontinuerlig maaling av lave oljekonsentrasjoner basert paa TR-LIFS', 'Subsea multipath ultrasonic liquid flow meter', 'Fluid characterization at elevated pressures and temperatures (Flucha II)'. The two main goals for the research program are 1. The development of new technology and competency in the field of downhole- and subsea processing and multiphase transportation, and 2. Innovation and commercialisation in small and medium sized companies (less than 100 employees). Some details on the financing and results are included (ml)

The importance of the stimulation vessels in the Brazilian offshore basins: a history of technological evolution; A importancia dos barcos de estimulacao em bacias offshore brasileiras: uma historia de evolucao tecnologica

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Torres, Ricardo S.; Prata, Fernando Gaspar M.; Dean, Gregory D. [BJ Services do Brasil Ltda., RJ (Brazil)

2004-07-01

The Campos Basin is known as one of the most challenging deep water basins in the world. Currently there are thirty-seven platforms, more than a thousand oil wells, and about 4200 kilometers of submarine pipelines, having produced more than 1,2 billion barrels of oil per year and 15,7 million cubic meters of gas per day. The Campos Basin is responsible for more than 80% of Brazil's national production. Brazil intends to produce 2,2 million barrels of oil per day by 2007, when it will reach self-sufficiency. Therefore, the continued development of the offshore basins, such as Campos, Santos and Espirito Santo will be critical to meet this goal. In this context, the technological evolution of the vessels that render stimulation services is of fundamental importance to improve job quality, reduce time, protect with the environment, enable efficient communication, and ensure operational viability of new techniques. This paper reports on the history of this vessels, describing and illustrating new and state-of-the-art technology, historical cases of pioneering operations, data transmission in real time and the benefits for offshore operators with a global vision. (author)

Offshore Wind Turbines Situated in Areas with Strong Currents

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Jensen, Morten S.; Juul Larsen, Brian; Frigaard, Peter

Prediction of local scour caused by offshore wind turbine foundations using empirical formulae or numerical models.......Prediction of local scour caused by offshore wind turbine foundations using empirical formulae or numerical models....

Offshore wind resource estimation for wind energy

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Hasager, Charlotte Bay; Badger, Merete; Mouche, A.

2010-01-01

Satellite remote sensing from active and passive microwave instruments is used to estimate the offshore wind resource in the Northern European Seas in the EU-Norsewind project. The satellite data include 8 years of Envisat ASAR, 10 years of QuikSCAT, and 23 years of SSM/I. The satellite observati......Satellite remote sensing from active and passive microwave instruments is used to estimate the offshore wind resource in the Northern European Seas in the EU-Norsewind project. The satellite data include 8 years of Envisat ASAR, 10 years of QuikSCAT, and 23 years of SSM/I. The satellite...... observations are compared to selected offshore meteorological masts in the Baltic Sea and North Sea. The overall aim of the Norsewind project is a state-of-the-art wind atlas at 100 m height. The satellite winds are all valid at 10 m above sea level. Extrapolation to higher heights is a challenge. Mesoscale...... modeling of the winds at hub height will be compared to data from wind lidars observing at 100 m above sea level. Plans are also to compare mesoscale model results and satellite-based estimates of the offshore wind resource....

Offshore oil: Correctness of perspective

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Burns, R.F.

1993-01-01

Except for the Gulf of Mexico, the offshore oil industry has been virtually banned from the US Exclusive Economic Zone for ten years. The oil potential in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is also off limits. The Gulf of Mexico is the only place with prospects for future success and a number of companies both large and small are determined to move forward. The depressed price of oil does not encourage development but recently gas prices in the US have increased, making offshore gas development more feasible. Perhaps most significant is development and application of new technology and more intense management to make sure it works. The offshore oil companies and support industries have made significant technological advances, expending over and above the dollars paid in taxes, lease fees, and royalties. The ocean industries harbor a great reservoir of high technology knowledge. They have demonstrated the ability to successfully meet a vast array of challenges in exploring for, drilling, and producing oil and gas in extreme conditions. These facts beg the question as to the rational basis of each and every regulation and the ban on drilling

Conference on offshore wind energy in France and Germany: challenges of a promising segment

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Chrupek, Thierry; Falk, Thorsten; Hofmann, Stefanie; Gouverneur, Philippe; Le Visage, Christophe; Saint Martin, Gro de; Meyerjuergens, Tim; Dachicourt, Pierre-Georges; Hube, Wilfried

2008-01-01

The French-German office for Renewable energies (OFAEnR) organised a conference on the development of offshore wind energy in France and Germany. In the framework of this French-German exchange of experience, more than 100 participants exchanged views on offshore wind energy development, and on the conflicts of usage between fishermen and offshore wind farms. This document brings together the available presentations (slides) made during this event: 1 - Offshore wind energy development in France (Thierry Chrupek); 2 - Present day situation of offshore wind energy development and use in Germany (Thorsten Falk); 3 - Risks and profitability of offshore wind energy (Philippe Gouverneur); 4 - Sea and shore integrated management: what impacts for offshore wind energy? (Christophe Le Visage); 5 - Towards and offshore grid? (Gro de Saint Martin); 6 - Grid connection of offshore wind farms in Germany (Tim Meyerjuergens); 7 - Conflicts of usage between professional fishing and offshore wind farms (Pierre-Georges Dachicourt); 8 - Ecological evaluative research for the use of offshore wind energy - Advantages, projects and studies. Environmental follow-up of wind energy projects (Stefanie Hofmann); 9 - Alpha Ventus offshore test park: context, progress of the installation and next steps (Wilfried Hube)

L'exploitation pétrolière offshore : production et sécurité Offshore Oil Production and Safety

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Champlon D.

2006-11-01

Full Text Available Depuis la première découverte pétrolière réalisée en 1859, l'industrie pétrolière a connu une expansion considérable. Pour faire face à l'accroissement des besoins du monde en hydrocarbures, l'exploration des bassins sédimentaires susceptibles de contenir du pétrole ou du gaz naturel s'est progressivement développée. Compte tenu du potentiel prometteur en hydrocarbures des fonds marins, la recherche de nouveaux gisements s'est étendue aux bassins sédimentaires situés sous les océans, d'abord tout près des côtes, puis sur les plateaux continentaux (par moins de 200 m d'eau et maintenant, au-delà, par des profondeurs d'eau de plusieurs milliers de mètres. Cette expansion de l'offshore repose depuis 1960 sur la mise au point de techniques originales et multiples, à la mesure de la nouveauté et de la complexité des problèmes à résoudre. Parallèlement, le développement des activités offshore et maintenant la conquête des mers difficiles ou profondes ont suscité la mise en place de normes de sécurité et de réglementations très sévères afin de garantir une protection efficace des installations, des personnes et des autres usagers de la mer, et de prévenir tout danger de pollution éventuelle. Enfin, si l'on replace aujourd'hui l'ensemble des activités offshore dans le contexte énergétique mondial, on peut se poser deux questions - Le coût des opérations marines en mer ne devient-il pas prohibitif ? - La situation énergétique justifie-t-elle la conquête des mers de plus en plus profondes ? II serait vain de prétendre apporter dès aujourd'hui une réponse précise et catégorique à toutes ces interrogations. Néanmoins, l'analyse économique des activités offshore, la prise en compte de l'expérience du passé et l'extrapolation des tendances observées apportent déjà des éléments d'appréciation fort utiles. Since oil was first discovered in 1859, the petroleum industry has expanded considerably

Atmospheric Characterization of the US Offshore Sites and Impact on Turbine Performance (Poster)

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Arora, Dhiraj [Alstom Renewable US LLC; Ehrmann, Robert [Alstom Renewable US LLC; Zuo, Delong [Texas Tech University; Xiao, Jingting [Texas Tech University

2016-10-25

Reliable, long term offshore atmospheric data is critical to development of the US offshore wind industry. There exists significant lack of meteorological, oceanographic, and geological data at potential US offshore sites. Assessment of wind resources at heights in the range of 25-200m is needed to understand and characterize offshore wind turbine performance. Data from the US Department of Energy owned WindSentinel buoy from two US offshore sites and one European site is analyzed. Low Level Jet (LLJ) phenomena and its potential impact on the performance of an offshore wind turbine is investigated.

Caminhos possíveis para a avaliação das práticas da Vigilância em Saúde

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Maria Filomena de Gouveia Vilela

Full Text Available Resumo Trata-se de pesquisa avaliativa, qualitativa que se propôs investigar a autoavaliação como dispositivo de análise das práticas da Vigilância em Saúde, valendo-se de questionário construído pelos pesquisadores, adaptado da Autovaliação da Melhoria do Acesso e da Qualidade da Atenção Básica (AMAQ e disponibilizado na plataforma FORMSUS. Quarenta e um trabalhadores e gestores da Vigilância em Saúde de um município de grande porte do estado de São Paulo avaliaram as dimensões da “gestão” e “trabalho da equipe” e suas respectivas subdimensões. Criaram-se duas categorias de análise dos resultados: “Gestão” e “Equipe”, em diálogo com referenciais da Gestão, Avaliação e Vigilância em Saúde. A maior parte das subdimensões da “gestão” e “trabalho da equipe” foram avaliadas como satisfatórias. A autoavaliação, mediante o instrumento aplicado, mostrou-se potente para a análise das práticas da Vigilância em Saúde, em conjunto com outros dispositivos adotados no SUS. Diferentemente dos processos habituais de avaliação, pautados em indicadores quantitativos, este processo autoavaliativo incluiu os sujeitos e trouxe a possibilidade de incorporar aos modos de fazer da Vigilância em Saúde o olhar para si e sustentar futuros contratos de gestão entre trabalhadores e gestores.

Mapping seabird sensitivity to offshore wind farms.

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Bradbury, Gareth; Trinder, Mark; Furness, Bob; Banks, Alex N; Caldow, Richard W G; Hume, Duncan

2014-01-01

We present a Geographic Information System (GIS) tool, SeaMaST (Seabird Mapping and Sensitivity Tool), to provide evidence on the use of sea areas by seabirds and inshore waterbirds in English territorial waters, mapping their relative sensitivity to offshore wind farms. SeaMaST is a freely available evidence source for use by all connected to the offshore wind industry and will assist statutory agencies in assessing potential risks to seabird populations from planned developments. Data were compiled from offshore boat and aerial observer surveys spanning the period 1979-2012. The data were analysed using distance analysis and Density Surface Modelling to produce predicted bird densities across a grid covering English territorial waters at a resolution of 3 km×3 km. Coefficients of Variation were estimated for each grid cell density, as an indication of confidence in predictions. Offshore wind farm sensitivity scores were compiled for seabird species using English territorial waters. The comparative risks to each species of collision with turbines and displacement from operational turbines were reviewed and scored separately, and the scores were multiplied by the bird density estimates to produce relative sensitivity maps. The sensitivity maps reflected well the amassed distributions of the most sensitive species. SeaMaST is an important new tool for assessing potential impacts on seabird populations from offshore development at a time when multiple large areas of development are proposed which overlap with many seabird species' ranges. It will inform marine spatial planning as well as identifying priority areas of sea usage by marine birds. Example SeaMaST outputs are presented.

Offshore code comparison collaboration continuation (OC4), phase I - Results of coupled simulations of an offshore wind turbine with jacket support structure

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Popko, Wojciech; Vorpahl, Fabian; Zuga, Adam

2012-01-01

In this paper, the exemplary results of the IEA Wind Task 30 "Offshore Code Comparison Collaboration Continuation" (OC4) Project - Phase I, focused on the coupled simulation of an offshore wind turbine (OWT) with a jacket support structure, are presented. The focus of this task has been the verif......In this paper, the exemplary results of the IEA Wind Task 30 "Offshore Code Comparison Collaboration Continuation" (OC4) Project - Phase I, focused on the coupled simulation of an offshore wind turbine (OWT) with a jacket support structure, are presented. The focus of this task has been...... the verification of OWT modeling codes through code-to-code comparisons. The discrepancies between the results are shown and the sources of the differences are discussed. The importance of the local dynamics of the structure is depicted in the simulation results. Furthermore, attention is given to aspects...

77 FR 54908 - TC Offshore, LLC; Notice Establishing Deadline for Comments

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2012-09-06

... DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [Docket No. RP12-908-000] TC Offshore, LLC; Notice Establishing Deadline for Comments On August 29, 2012, TC Offshore, LLC (TC Offshore... is hereby given that participants in the captioned proceedings may file comments to TC Offshsore's...

Offshore wind industry capabilities in the UK

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NONE

1999-07-01

This report summarises the results of a questionnaire survey distributed to companies and organisations interested in opportunities in offshore wind energy industries that may results in the improved competitiveness of the industry. The potential areas of advantage for the UK offshore industry are examined including resource and design conditions, turbine design and manufacture, electrical systems, operation and maintenance, project management and finance. Networking and communications are considered.

THE USE OF OFFSHORE JURISDICTIONS IN INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL FITTINGS

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DANIELA RADU

2012-05-01

Full Text Available Essential legal and financial Structures, sometimes complex, had until recently been small and medium entrepreneurs away from the use of offshore jurisdictions, but the constraints of increasingly heavy taxation of excessive in certain States, you push even those with limited resources to use in these jurisdictions to protect revenue. The purpose of this research is to analyze the offshore jurisdictions in order to determine the possibilities of useof their disadvantages in order to improve measures to combat tax evasion, as well as for the use of their advantages in order to reduce illegal migration and regular employment of capital through the analysis of specific cases of the use of offshore jurisdictions – Case Frabklin Jurado, The Bank of Commerce and Credit InternationalAmerican Express Bank International. Scientific novelty and originality of the investigation consists of:-the identification on the basis of international practice, some offshore jurisdictions specific items in order to reflect their fiscal policies (trade and investment, etc.-analysis of cases of the use of offshore jurisdictions in international financial fittings (such as the Bank of Credit and Commerce International; Franklin Jurado; American Express Bank International,-identification of the impact paradisurilor tax and offshore financial centres of the world economy– revealing secret financial transactions carried out within the framework of ofssore, research instruments jurisdictions and management techniques of cadrulacestor tax jurisdictions.It is interesting to be seen through the prism of analysis of economic-fiscal financiare if a competition is beneficial or not for the welfare of States and to what extent this competition will have a say in future developments and tax paradisurilor finanaciare offshore centres. In conclusion, I appreciate that in order to survive successfully in the global economy of the future, offshoreJurisdictions should promote a

Hydrography, phytoplankton biomass and photosynthesis in shelf and oceanic waters off southeastern Brazil during autumn (may/june, 1983

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Frederico Pereira Brandini

1988-01-01

Full Text Available Spatial distribution of chlorophyll-a, phytoplankton photosynthesis and nutrients were studied in relation to the hydrographic environment of the southeastern Brazil from May 3 to June 31 of 1983 during an oceanographia cruise conducted by the R/V "Almirante Saldanha" of the Brazilian Navy. Temperature and salinity at 5 meters depth ranged from 21 to 25º C and from 33.00 to 37.11, respectively. The concentration of nutrients varied, nitrate + nitrite-N from 1.0-3.0 µg-at/l, phosphate-P 0.1-0.9 µg-at/l and silicate-Si 5-25 µg-at/l. The chlorophyll-a concentrations along the coast varied from 0.35 to 1.48 mg/m³ with maxima in front of Paranaguá Bay (PR and over the southern shelf of Santa Catarina State. Low concentrations around 0.20 mg/m³ of uniform distribution were observed in shelf and off-shelf areas. Comparatively high concentrations were measured over the shelf break zone in front of Paranaguá Bay indicationg the occurrence of shelf break upwelling of deep nutrient rich waters. The pattern of vertical distribution was stratified and irregular in coastal stations and uniform in shelf and oceanic waters although some subsurface peaks were sometimes detected. The integrated chlorophyll values within the euphotic layer varied between 2.70 and 28.06 mg/m². The surface photo synthetic capacity varied from 0.4 to 7.7 mgC/mgChl.a/hr with higher values obtained in coastal areas.. The vertical distributions were variable in coastal areas and more uniform in mid-shelf stations. Sub-surface maxima of photosynthesis were detected in both nearshore and off-shore stations, and surface inhibition was not observed.Os padrões de distribuição espacial de parâmetros hidrográficos, clorofila-a e fotossíntese do fitoplancton são estudados em relação ao regime oceanográfico da região sueste do Brasil nos meses de maio e junho de 1983. A região oceânica foi totalmente dominada pela Agua Tropical da Corrente do Brasil (AT com caracter

Estudios estéticos sobre la plataforma web Tumblr: la personalidad de su estructura y arquitectura de la información

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Robles Mateo, Elena

2015-12-01

Full Text Available Este trabajo es un acercamiento a la red social web 2.0 Tumblr para el estudio y análisis de su arquitectura de la información que sirve como base de argumento general de nuestra investigación, que es reconocer la plataforma como un escenario de creación a partir de la actividad colectiva que en ella se lleva a cabo y el uso de material compartido, y también cómo esto la diferencia de otras redes sociales y forma la correspondiente personalidad de sus usuarios. Hemos pretendido relacionar la forma y la estructura que caracterizan la herramienta digital Tumblr como la clave del éxito de las acciones de los usuarios y el manejo del contenido que se alberga y se comparte, un estudio sobre la cibercultura que está en actual crecimiento y expansión. La forma en la que se ha dispuesto al público la herramienta es el eje para entender el comportamiento social que llega a abarcar, por qué los usuarios de Tumblr se identifican con un tipo de acciones relacionadas con los archivos de la plataforma y el uso que hacen de éstos.

Wave run-up on offshore wind turbine foundations

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Baden, Elisabeth; Skourup, Jesper; Andersen, Thomas Lykke

2012-01-01

Wave run-up on appurtenances like boat landings, ladders, platforms and J-tubes of Offshore Wind Turbine foundations have in some cases caused severe and costly damage to these installations. A well-known example of large run-up was registered at the foundations of Horns Reef Offshore Wind Farm, ...

Observações sobre stomatopoda Squilla brasiliensis calman, 1917 na plataforma continental do Rio Grande do Sul Observation on the Stamatopoda Squilla brasiliensis Calman, 1917 on the continental shelf of the Rio Grande do Sul State

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Luiz Roberto Tommasi

1987-01-01

Full Text Available O Stomatopoda Squilla brasiliensis ocorreu em 60 estações na plataforma continental do Rio Grande do Sul. É aparentemente, bastante freqüente entre 19 e 285 m de profundidade, mas especialmente entre 100 e 150 m, temperatura da água de fundo de 12,22 a 24,45ºC, salinidade de 30,20 a 36,16º/.., fundo de areia fina e lodo com baixo teor de calcario (0-20% na fração menor do que 44µ. Ocorreu especialmente em fundos sob influencia da massa de água Subtropical. As maiores abundancias ocorreram entre 30º e 31ºS e entre 49º e 50ºW. Vários exemplares, tanto machos como fêmeas, apresentaram telso com bordos entumescidos, o que sugere não ser essa uma característica ligada ao sexo nesta espécie .The distribution of Squilla brasiliensis Caiman, 1917 (Crustacea Stomatopoda is by the first time discussed in the continental plataform in the region of Rio Grande do Sul State, in relationship with depth, temperature and salinity. Apparently the distribution of that species is more related to salinity than to depth and temperature, and specially to the water mass of Subtropical origin. The largest densities were found between 84 and 128 m depth.

National Offshore Wind Energy Grid Interconnection Study Executive Summary

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Daniel, John P. [ABB, Inc., Cary, NC (United States); Liu, Shu [ABB, Inc., Cary, NC (United States); Ibanez, Eduardo [National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Pennock, Ken [AWS Truepower, Albany, NY (United States); Reed, Gregory [Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA (United States); Hanes, Spencer [Duke Energy, Charlotte, NC (United States)

2014-07-30

The National Offshore Wind Energy Grid Interconnection Study (NOWEGIS) considers the availability and potential impacts of interconnecting large amounts of offshore wind energy into the transmission system of the lower 48 contiguous United States.

National Offshore Wind Energy Grid Interconnection Study Full Report

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Daniel, John P. [ABB, Inc., Cary, NC (United States); Liu, Shu [ABB, Inc., Cary, NC (United States); Ibanez, Eduardo [National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Pennock, Ken [AWS Truepower, Albany, NY (United States); Reed, Gregory [Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA (United States); Hanes, Spencer [Duke Energy, Charlotte, NC (United States)

2014-07-30

The National Offshore Wind Energy Grid Interconnection Study (NOWEGIS) considers the availability and potential impacts of interconnecting large amounts of offshore wind energy into the transmission system of the lower 48 contiguous United States.

Análise da pressão plantar e do equilíbrio postural em diferentes fases da gestação

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Ribas, SI; Guirro, ECO

2007-01-01

OBJETIVO: Analisar a pressão plantar e o equilíbrio postural nos três trimestres de gravidez, bem como a correlação com as características antropométricas. METODOLOGIA: 60 voluntárias com idade média de 23,3 ± 5,5 anos, sendo 15 mulheres em cada grupo: não-gestantes (C), primeiro (1T), segundo (2T) e terceiro trimestre (3T). A avaliação foi efetuada por meio de plataforma de pressão na posição bipodal com os olhos abertos. As variáveis analisadas nos pés direito e esquerdo foram: pico de pres...

Analise dos pés através da baropodometria e da classificação plantar em escolares de Guaratinguetá

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Azevedo, Liliana Aparecida de Paula [UNESP

2006-01-01

O presente estudo teve por objetivo realizar um levantamento do padrão do pé em crianças no início da segunda infância. A metodologia utilizou duas plataformas de força para detecção da distribuição das pressões plantares e da impressão plantar para mensurar o arco longitudinal medial, por conseguinte, classificar os tipos de pés. Foram comparadas as forças plantares da porção medial, lateral e as forças plantares da região anterior e posterior dos pés. Os pés, após serem classificados, foram...

China, Norway and offshore wind development. A win-win wind relationship?

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Enslow, Rachel

2010-03-15

This study published by WWF Norway, outlines the status of offshore wind power development in China and looks at how the Norwegian offshore industry can contribute to speed it up. Today China is the world's fastest growing market for renewable energy. China's annual offshore wind energy generation potential is 11,000 TWh, similar to that of the North Sea. The study estimates that in the next decade China will install 30 GW of offshore wind energy generation capacity. This could mitigate 1.3 billion tons of CO{sub 2} over the 20 year asset lifetime (more than the total Norwegian emissions forecast over the same period). To unleash China's potential and speed up development of offshore wind energy production, however, bridges must to be built between stakeholders with the relevant experience and the best available technology and policy makers and project developers in China. This study puts forward possible ways for future cooperation between China and Norway - a country with a world leading offshore industry cluster - in order to leverage mutual strengths to upscale and commercialize offshore wind technology for the global market. (Author)

China, Norway and offshore wind development. A win-win wind relationship?

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Enslow, Rachel

2010-03-15

This study published by WWF Norway, outlines the status of offshore wind power development in China and looks at how the Norwegian offshore industry can contribute to speed it up. Today China is the world's fastest growing market for renewable energy. China's annual offshore wind energy generation potential is 11,000 TWh, similar to that of the North Sea. The study estimates that in the next decade China will install 30 GW of offshore wind energy generation capacity. This could mitigate 1.3 billion tons of CO{sub 2} over the 20 year asset lifetime (more than the total Norwegian emissions forecast over the same period). To unleash China's potential and speed up development of offshore wind energy production, however, bridges must to be built between stakeholders with the relevant experience and the best available technology and policy makers and project developers in China. This study puts forward possible ways for future cooperation between China and Norway - a country with a world leading offshore industry cluster - in order to leverage mutual strengths to upscale and commercialize offshore wind technology for the global market. (Author)

From laggard to leader: Explaining offshore wind developments in the UK

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Kern, Florian; Smith, Adrian; Shaw, Chris; Raven, Rob; Verhees, Bram

2014-01-01

Offshore wind technology has recently undergone rapid deployment in the UK. And yet, up until recently, the UK was considered a laggard in terms of deploying renewable energy. How can this burst of offshore wind activity be explained? An economic analysis would seek signs for newfound competitiveness for offshore wind in energy markets. A policy analysis would highlight renewable energy policy developments and assess their contribution to economic prospects of offshore wind. However, neither perspective sheds sufficient light on the advocacy of the actors involved in the development and deployment of the technology. Without an account of technology politics it is hard to explain continuing policy support despite rising costs. By analysing the actor networks and narratives underpinning policy support for offshore wind, we explain how a fairly effective protective space was constructed through the enroling of key political and economic interests. - Highlights: • UK is world leader in offshore wind deployment. • Article explains boom in deployment by looking at the politics of renewable energy policy. • Offshore wind is supported by a variety of actors with aligned political and economic interests. • Analysis highlights the importance of a system builder

Physical Modelling of Silt in Relation to Offshore Wind Turbines

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Holmsgaard, Rikke

precisely so that the competitiveness of offshore wind turbines can be improved. Carrying out in situ tests offshore is very expensive. Therefore, all experiment regarding this project is conducted onshore. A field in Dronninglund was found useful for this purpose since the subsoil at the field mainly......Offshore wind energy is a sustainable form of energy that can help reduce the emission of greenhouse gases and increase the share of renewable energy. In order to ensure that offshore wind energy can continue to be a competitive source of energy compared to other types of renewable energy...... consists of silty soil and the water table is situated just below the surface so the field is comparable to offshore conditions. In connection with the project, CPT and SCPT (Seismic Cone Penetration Test) were conducted in the field, just like large soil samples were collected with the purpose of carrying...

ESTIMATION OF AGING EFFECTS OF PILES IN MALAYSIAN OFFSHORE LOCATIONS

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JERIN M. GEORGE

2017-04-01

Full Text Available An increasing demand for extending life and subsequently higher loading requirements of offshore jacket platforms are among the key problems faced by the offshore industry. The Aging effect has been proved to increase the axial capacity of piles, but proper methods to estimate and quantify these effects have not been developed. Borehole data from ten different Malaysian offshore locations have been analysed and they were employed to estimate the setup factor for different locations using AAU method. The setup factors found were used in the Skov and Denver equation to calculate capacity ratios of the offshore piles. The study showed that there will be an average improvement in the axial capacity of offshore piles by 42.2% and 34.9% for clayey and mixed soils respectively after a time equal to the normal design life (25 years of a jacket platform.

Solution Proposals for Japan-Oriented Offshore Software Development in China

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Zhang, Lei; Zhang, Xuan; Chai, Meiping; Tan, Yibing; Miyake, Shigeru; Taniguchi, Yoji; Hosoya, Jun; Mibe, Ryota

Surveys on the Japan-oriented vendors in China were conducted twice to find out the existent problems in the Japan-oriented offshore software development. From these survey results, four main problems were found out, which were the frequent requirement changes from the product owner, the misunderstanding of the requirement specification in the vendor side, the heavy overhead of the project management and the low-efficiency communication between the product owner and the vendor. Several solutions are proposed to solve these four problems, which mainly consist of the improvement of the offshore software development process and the development of the offshore development supporting tools. The proposed offshore development process is based on the application of the prototype development, the iteration development and the customer test driven development processes. The proposed offshore development supporting tools include the project management assistant tool and the communication assistant tool.

46 CFR 11.468 - Officer endorsements for mobile offshore drilling units.

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2010-10-01

... 46 Shipping 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Officer endorsements for mobile offshore drilling units... Officer endorsements for mobile offshore drilling units. Officer endorsements for service on mobile offshore drilling units (MODUs) authorize service on units of any gross tons upon ocean waters while on...

Offshore windfarms and their impact on fish abundance and community structure

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Stenberg, Claus; Dinesen, Grete E.; Deurs, Mikael van

2012-01-01

Deployment of offshore windfarms (OWF) is rapidly expanding. A before–after control impact (BACI) approach was used to study the impact of one of the world’s largest offshore windfarms (Horns Rev Offshore Windfarm) on fish assemblages and species diversity. Fish were generally more abundant in th...

ANÁLISIS DE LA EFECTIVIDAD DEL USO DE LA PLATAFORMA VIRTUAL WEBCT EN EL PROCESO DE ENSEÑANZA Y APRENDIZAJE EN LA UNIVERSIDAD DEL MAGDALENA, COLOMBIA

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MÓNICA LUZ PÉREZ CERVANTES

2012-01-01

Full Text Available En las carreras de pregrado en Educación de la Universidad del Magdalena, la mayor parte de los docentes adoptan un modelo de enseñanza tradicional, pese a que las TIC ofrecen la posibilidades de interacción docente - estudiantes, no la utilizan de manera asertiva en sus clases, debido a que consideran que sólo resultan útiles en la educación a distancia. En los últimos tres años, un grupo reducido de docentes han comenzado a incorporar, de manera tímida, la plataforma WebCT como escenarios complementarios a la clase presencial, pero no se han realizado investigaciones que recojan las percepciones de los actores, que demuestren la efectividad de la utilización combinada de actividades colaborativas presenciales con las actividades apoyadas en la plataforma virtual. El propósito de la investigación fue analizar la efectividad de la plataforma WebCT en el desarrollo de un curso de formación disciplinar impartido de manera tradicional presencial complementado con enseñanza virtual, apoyada en los aportes de Vygotsky, Ausubel, Pozo, Coll, Marqués, Sangrá, entre otros, realizada de acuerdo con el paradigma cualitativo, con un enfoque descriptivo y con un diseño correspondiente a un Estudio de caso, en el cual se utilizó como técnicas el grupo focal y dos encuestas que permitieron apreciar la opinión de los estudiantes acerca del uso de las TIC y uso de la plataforma WebCT, así como la interacción en las actividades desarrolladas durante el curso en la plataforma virtual. Para ello se contó con la participación de 70 estudiantes de Licenciatura en Informática en el primer semestre académico de 2010. Los resultados indican que en el modelo didáctico híbrido se combinan la responsabilidad, rapidez y calidad de respuesta del docente con la participación fluida del estudiante en la realización de actividades y entregas de trabajos, por los aportes al grupo a través de los foros y del Chat, así como la motivación generada

Risk assessment for ship collisions against offshore structures

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Pedersen, Preben Terndrup

2014-01-01

to changes in ship traffic in the vicinity of the offshore structures and new developments within navigational equipment and pro¬cedures. The paper highlights some of the available analytical elements in collision frequency estimation and response calculations for different types of offshore installations......Offshore installations served by in-field vessels and/or situated in the vicinity of ship traf¬fic lanes are exposed to collision hazards such as risk of loss of life, economic loss, and environmental damage. Therefore, one of the many performance goals in the design phase of such structures...... and indicates how these tools can be applied to evaluate relevant risk control options....

OFFSHORIZATION AS MAIN PROBLEM OF HOLDING GROUPS TAXATION

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Y. Petlenko

2016-01-01

Full Text Available At this article, we have analyzed and systematized the conditions of holdings' activity to reduce the taxation level in countries and on the territory of special, so-called offshore, jurisdiction. In addition, we have made a suggestionhow to regulatean offshore capital flows inorder to prevent from tax frauds.

Analysis of North Sea Offshore Wind Power Variability

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Buatois, A.; Gibescu, M.; Rawn, B.G.; Van der Meijden, M.A.M.M.

2014-01-01

This paper evaluates, for a 2030 scenario, the impact on onshore power systems in terms of the variability of the power generated by 81 GW of offshore wind farms installed in the North Sea. Meso-scale reanalysis data are used as input for computing the hourly power production for offshore wind

Wave and offshore wind potential for the island of Tenerife

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Veigas, M.; Iglesias, G.

2013-01-01

Highlights: • The island aims to reduce its carbon footprint by developing renewable energy. • The substantial wave and offshore wind resources around the island are examined. • One area is appropriate for installing a hybrid wave–offshore wind farm. - Abstract: The island of Tenerife, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in the Atlantic Ocean, aims to be energy self-sufficient in order to reduce its carbon footprint. To accomplish this goal it should develop the renewable sources, in particular wave and offshore wind energy. The objectives of this work are twofold; (i) to characterize the wave and offshore wind power distribution around the island and (ii) to determine which offshore area is best suited for their exploitation, taking into account the resource and other conditioning factors such as the bathymetry, distance to the coastline and ports, and offshore zoning. To carry out this research, hindcast wave and wind data obtained with numerical models are used alongside observations from meteorological stations. One area, in the vicinity of Puerto de la Cruz, is identified as having great potential for installing a hybrid floating wave–wind farm. Both resources are characterized for the area selected: the wave resource in terms of wave directions, significant wave heights and energy periods; the offshore wind resource in terms of directions and speeds in addition to the seasonality for the both resources. It is found that most of the wave resource is provided by N and NNW waves with significant wave heights between 1.5 m and 3.0 m and energy periods between 10 s and 14 s. It follows that the Wave Energy Converters deployed in the area should have maximum efficiency in those ranges. As for the offshore wind resource, most of the energy corresponds to NNE and NE winds with speeds between 9 and 14 m s −1 , which should be taken into account when selecting the offshore wind turbines

Support schemes and market design in international offshore grids

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Schröder, Sascha Thorsten

2013-01-01

International offshore grids can combine the grid connection of offshore wind parks with the possibility for international power trading in the future. This paper investigates the choice of support scheme and power market design in international offshore grids and derives resulting incentives...... support. For a stable investment framework in the near future, a tendering/feed-in tariff may be the best choice. It avoids exposing wind farms to balancing with multiple countries. In the long run, also other support scheme options may be of interest....

Assessment of Ports for Offshore Wind Development in the United States

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Elkinton, Chris [DNV GL; Blatiak, Alicia; Ameen, Hafsa

2014-03-21

As offshore wind energy develops in the United States, port facilities will become strategic hubs in the offshore wind farm supply chain because all plant and transport logistics must transit through these facilities. Therefore, these facilities must provide suitable infrastructure to meet the specific requirements of the offshore wind industry. As a result, it is crucial that federal and state policy-makers and port authorities take effective action to position ports in the offshore wind value chain to take best advantage of their economic potential. The U.S. Department of Energy tasked the independent consultancy GL Garrad Hassan (GL GH) with carrying out a review of the current capability of U.S. ports to support offshore wind project development and an assessment of the challenges and opportunities related to upgrading this capability to support the growth of as many as 54 gigawatts of offshore wind installed in U.S. waters by 2030. The GL GH report and the open-access web-based Ports Assessment Tool resulting from this study will aid decision-makers in making informed decisions regarding the choice of ports for specific offshore projects, and the types of investments that would be required to make individual port facilities suitable to serve offshore wind manufacturing, installation and/or operations. The offshore wind industry in the United States is still in its infancy and this study finds that additional port facilities capable of supporting offshore wind projects are needed to meet the anticipated project build-out by 2030; however, no significant barriers exist to prevent the development of such facilities. Furthermore, significant port capabilities are in place today with purpose-build port infrastructure currently being built. While there are currently no offshore wind farms operating in the United States, much of the infrastructure critical to the success of such projects does exist, albeit in the service of other industries. This conclusion is based

Decommissioning and abandonment of offshore installations

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Side, J.C.

1992-01-01

To the onlooker surprising little thought was given at the project planning stage to the fate of offshore facilities once their production lifetimes had come to an end. Throughout the 1970s at least, international law required the complete removal of all structures and installations one disused or abandoned. Fishermen's organisations were led to believe that such installations would be entirely removed yet many of the designs of these show that removal was not much in the minds of the engineers or project management during the design stages. Changes in the text of the United Nations' Convention on the Law of the Sea and (by their widespread legal adoption) in customary international law may now permit partial removal of installations subject to important safeguards for navigation, the environment and other users of the sea. Of the North Sea states at least one has adopted policies that will minimise the cost associated with offshore decommissioning and abandonment and both the UK and Norway are adopting legislation which will provide for a case by case approach to the decommissioning and abandonment of offshore facilities and allow partial removal options. There has thus been a recent and significant change in approach to the abandonment of offshore oil and gas installations. This chapter reviews the development of abandonment laws and policies, outlines the available removal options, and provides a consideration of the environmental and fishery implications of these for the North Sea. (Author)

2014 Offshore Wind Market and Economic Analysis

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Hamilton, Bruce [Navigant Consulting, Inc., Burlington, MA (United States)

2014-08-25

The objective of this report is to provide a comprehensive annual assessment of the U.S. offshore wind market.This 3rd annual report focuses on new developments that have occurred in 2014. The report provides stakeholders with a reliable and consistent data source addressing entry barriers and U.S. competitiveness in the offshore wind market. Available for download are both the full report and the report's underlying data.

Offshore wind turbines reliability, availability and maintenance

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Tavner, Peter

2012-01-01

The first book to specifically focus on offshore wind turbine technology and which addresses practically wind turbine reliability and availability. The book draws on the author's experience of power generation reliability and availability and the condition monitoring of that plant to describe the problems facing the developers of offshore wind farms and the solutions available to them to raise availability, reduce cost of energy and improve through life cost.

ISM Approach to Model Offshore Outsourcing Risks

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Kumar, Sunand; Sharma, Rajiv Kumar; Chauhan, Prashant

2014-01-01

[EN] In an effort to achieve a competitive advantage via cost reductions and improved market responsiveness, organizations are increasingly employing offshore outsourcing as a major component of their supply chain strategies. But as evident from literature number of risks such as Political risk, Risk due to cultural differences, Compliance and regulatory risk, Opportunistic risk and Organization structural risk, which adversely affect the performance of offshore outsourcing in a supply chain ...

Effects of offshore wind farms on birds

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Petersen, Ib Krag; Fox, Anthony David; Desholm, Mark

På konferencen "Offshore Wind Energy Development Site Assessment and Characterization: Evaluation of the Current Status and European Experience" blev der gjort rede for danske erfaringer med effekten af havvindmølleparker på havfugle.......På konferencen "Offshore Wind Energy Development Site Assessment and Characterization: Evaluation of the Current Status and European Experience" blev der gjort rede for danske erfaringer med effekten af havvindmølleparker på havfugle....

Fatigue Reliability of Offshore Wind Turbine Systems

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Marquez-Dominguez, Sergio; Sørensen, John Dalsgaard

2012-01-01

of appropriate partial safety factors / fatigue design factors (FDF) for steel substructures of offshore wind turbines (OWTs). The fatigue life is modeled by the SN approach. Design and limit state equations are established based on the accumulated fatigue damage. The acceptable reliability level for optimal...... fatigue design of OWTs is discussed and results for reliability assessment of typical fatigue critical design of offshore steel support structures are presented....

Scour Forecasting for Offshore Wind Parks

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Hartvig, Peres Akrawi

In an effort to minimize the costs of offshore wind parks, the present research deals with optimizing a certain aspect of the support structure, namely the approach to scour. Scour is the phenomenon of seabed changes in the vicinity of the support structure that arises when the support structure......, scour forecasts facilitate the comparison between a scour design based on either deployment of scour-protection or enhanced structural design. The broad goal is to develop a method that produces accurate scour forecasts for offshore wind parks. The present research investigates more specifically which...

The offshore hydrocarbon releases (HCR) database

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Bruce, R.A.P.

1995-01-01

Following Cullen Recommendation 39 which states that: ''The regulatory body should be responsible for maintaining a database with regard to hydrocarbon leaks, spills, and ignitions in the Industry and for the benefit of Industry'', HSE Offshore Safety Division (HSE-OSD) has now been operating the Hydrocarbon Releases (HCR) Database for approximately 3 years. This paper deals with the reporting of Offshore Hydrocarbon Releases, the setting up of the HCR Database, the collection of associated equipment population data, and the main features and benefits of the database, including discussion on the latest output information. (author)

Improved Methodology of Weather Window Prediction for Offshore Operations Based on Probabilities of Operation Failure

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Gintautas, Tomas; Sørensen, John Dalsgaard

2017-01-01

The offshore wind industry is building and planning new wind farms further offshore due to increasing demand on sustainable energy production and already occupied prime resource locations closer to shore. Costs of operation and maintenance, transport and installation of offshore wind turbines...... already contribute significantly to the cost of produced electricity and will continue to increase, due to moving further offshore, if the current techniques of predicting offshore wind farm accessibility are to stay the same. The majority of offshore operations are carried out by specialized ships...... that must be hired for the duration of the operation. Therefore, offshore wind farm accessibility and costs of offshore activities are primarily driven by the expected number of operational hours offshore and waiting times for weather windows, suitable for offshore operations. Having more reliable weather...

Fatigue Life of High-Strength Steel Offshore Tubular Joints

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Petersen, Rasmus Ingomar; Agerskov, Henning; Lopez Martinez, Luis

1996-01-01

In the present investigation, the fatigue life of tubular joints in offshore steel structures is studied. Two test series on full-scale tubular joints have been carried through. One series was on joints in conventional offshore structural steel, and the other series was on joints in high-strength......In the present investigation, the fatigue life of tubular joints in offshore steel structures is studied. Two test series on full-scale tubular joints have been carried through. One series was on joints in conventional offshore structural steel, and the other series was on joints in high......-strength steel with a yield stress of 820-830 MPa and with high weldability and toughness properties. The test specimens of both series had the same geometry. The present report concentrates on the results obtained in the investigation on the high-strength steel tubular joints.The test specimens were fabricated...... from Ø 324-610 mm tubes, and the joints were loaded in in-plane bending. Both fatigue tests under constant amplitude loading and tests with a stochastic loading that is realistic in relation to offshore structures, are included in the investigation.A comparison between constant amplitude and variable...

Globalization of environmental regulations for offshore E & P operations

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Shannon, B.E.

1995-12-31

One of the enduring legacies of the Rio Environmental Summit of 1992 (United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, UNCED) is Agenda 21 (Chapter 17 - Protection of the Oceans), which among other things called for the assessment of the need for a global authority to regulate offshore Exploration & Production (E&P) discharges, emissions and safety. Despite advice to the contrary from the International Maritime Organization (IMO), interest is building within the European community for the standardization of regulations for offshore E&P activities. Several international of regulations for offshore E&P activities. Several international frameworks or forums have been mentioned as possible candidates. These include the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, 1982 (UNCLOS); London Convention 1972 (LC 1972) and the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as modified by the Protocol of 1978 (MARPOL) 73/78. International offshore oil and gas operators operate within requirements of regional conventions under the United Nations Environmental Program`s (UNEP) - Regional Seas Program. Domestic offshore operations are undertaken under the auspices of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Minerals Management Service.

Investigation of Wind Turbine Rotor Concepts for Offshore Wind Farms

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Ceyhan, Özlem; Grasso, Francesco

2014-01-01

Current plans in offshore wind energy developments call for further reduction of cost of energy. In order to contribute to this goal, several wind turbine rotor concepts have been investigated. Assuming the future offshore wind turbines will operate only in the offshore wind farms, the rotor concepts are not only evaluated for their stand-alone performances and their potential in reducing the loads, but also for their performance in an offshore wind farm. In order to do that, the 10MW reference wind turbine designed in Innwind.EU project is chosen as baseline. Several rotor parameters have been modified and their influences are investigated for offshore wind turbine design purposes. This investigation is carried out as a conceptual parametrical study. All concepts are evaluated numerically with BOT (Blade optimisation tool) software in wind turbine level and with Farmflow software in wind farm level for two wind farm layouts. At the end, all these concepts are compared with each other in terms of their advantages and disadvantages

A methodology for the prediction of offshore wind energy resources

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Watson, S J; Watson, G M [Rutherford Appleton Lab., Oxfordshire (United Kingdom); Holt, R.J. [Univ. of East Anglia, Climatic Research Unit, Norwich (United Kingdom)] Barthelmie, R.J. [Risoe National Lab., Dept. of Wind Energy and Atmospheric Physics, Roskilde (Denmark); Zuylen, E.J. van [Ecofys Energy and Environment, Utrecht (Netherlands)] Cleijne, J.W. [Kema Sustainable, Arnhem (Netherlands)

1999-03-01

There are increasing constraints on the development of wind power on land. Recently, there has been a move to develop wind power offshore, though the amount of measured wind speed data at potential offshore wind farm sites is sparse. We present a novel methodology for the prediction of offshore wind power resources which is being applied to European Union waters. The first stage is to calculate the geostrophic wind from long-term pressure fields over the sea area of interest. Secondly, the geostrophic wind is transformed to the sea level using WA{sup s}P, taking account of near shore topography. Finally, these values are corrected for land/sea climatology (stability) effects using an analytical Coastal discontinuity Model (CDM). These values are further refined using high resolution offshore data at selected sites. The final values are validated against existing offshore datasets. Preliminary results are presented of the geostrophic wind speed validation in European Union waters. (au)

Análisis psicopedagógico desde el paradigma constructivista de una estrategia de aprendizaje a través de la plataforma virtual Schoology para favorecer la Orientación vocacional de estudiantes del Colegio Marista de Alajuela

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Castillo Castillo, Paula María

2015-01-01

El documento “Análisis psicopedagógico desde el paradigma constructivista de una estrategia de aprendizaje a través de la plataforma virtual Schoology para favorecer la Orientación vocacional de estudiantes del Colegio Marista de Alajuela.” es un Trabajo Final de Graduación realizado para optar por el grado de Maestría en Psicopedagogía. En el presente se plantea el siguiente problema de investigación: ¿Cómo una estrategia de aprendizaje a través de la plataforma virtual Schoology puede fa...

Assessing locomotion deficiency in broiler chicken Medida de deficiência locomotora em frango de corte

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Irenilza de Alencar Nääs

2010-04-01

parte horizontal da área de passagem foi colocado um tapete fino, com elementos sensores de cristal piezoelétrico, para registrar o pico de força vertical das patas do frango quando este caminhava sobre a plataforma. O sistema de mensuração consistiu de um tapete com sensores eletrônicos e um programa computacional que permitiu o registro de forças em tempo real e o processamento e a análise de dados. Imagens de vídeo foram tomadas a partir de duas câmeras digitais para atribuir o gait score. Quarenta frangos machos foram aleatoriamente selecionados em condições similares de alojamento e da mesma granja, com idade variando de 49 a 28 dias (dez de cada idade e usados no experimento. A medida consistiu em induzir a ave a caminhar sobre a plataforma de força que automaticamente registrava o pico de força da passada. O gait score aumentou com o peso e a idade das aves. Foi encontrada assimetria nos picos de força da cada pata, independente da idade ou gait score. Embora não tenha sido identificado visualmente nos frangos, o pico de força vertical é diferente tanto na pata direita quanto na esquerda, levando a um caminhar lento e desigual. A deficiência locomotora foi mais intensa em aves mais velhas.

Decommissioning of offshore installations

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Oeen, Sigrun; Iversen, Per Erik; Stokke, Reidunn; Nielsen, Frantz; Henriksen, Thor; Natvig, Henning; Dretvik, Oeystein; Martinsen, Finn; Bakke, Gunnstein

2010-07-01

New legislation on the handling and storage of radioactive substances came into force 1 January 2011. This version of the report is updated to reflect this new regulation and will therefore in some chapters differ from the Norwegian version (see NEI-NO--1660). The Ministry of the Environment commissioned the Climate and Pollution Agency to examine the environmental impacts associated with the decommissioning of offshore installations (demolition and recycling). This has involved an assessment of the volumes and types of waste material and of decommissioning capacity in Norway now and in the future. This report also presents proposals for measures and instruments to address environmental and other concerns that arise in connection with the decommissioning of offshore installations. At present, Norway has four decommissioning facilities for offshore installations, three of which are currently involved in decommissioning projects. Waste treatment plants of this kind are required to hold permits under the Pollution Control Act. The permit system allows the pollution control authority to tailor the requirements in a specific permit by evaluating conditions and limits for releases of pollutants on a case-to-case basis, and the Act also provides for requirements to be tightened up in line with the development of best available techniques (BAT). The environmental risks posed by decommissioning facilities are much the same as those from process industries and other waste treatment plants that are regulated by means of individual permits. Strict requirements are intended to ensure that environmental and health concerns are taken into account. The review of the four Norwegian decommissioning facilities in connection with this report shows that the degree to which requirements need to be tightened up varies from one facility to another. The permit for the Vats yard is newest and contains the strictest conditions. The Climate and Pollution Agency recommends a number of measures