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Logan, Lori W. "Companion dog therapy home care provider." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10147300.
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The American healthcare system is being overwhelmed with chronic illnesses. These illnesses account for a significant amount of total healthcare expenditures. Medicare/Medicaid and Managed Care Organizations (MCO’s) are seeking innovative treatment at cost savings. Disease Management (DM) is an intervention intended to reduce healthcare expenditures and advance the quality of life for persons with chronic conditions by preventing or reducing the effects of the disease through integrated care. Companion Pet Therapy 4 U is proposing Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) which is a fluctuating set of diagnostic and therapeutic modalities that are considered to be unconventional. This approach utilizes a combination of Alternative Therapy (AT) and Disease Management (DM) home care services to elderly chronically ill homebound patients. A companion dog/ trainer and a care coordinator/nurse will visit homebound patients, review patient care plans, and educate patients on DM. Companion Pet Therapy 4 U will reduce healthcare expenditures, produce cost savings by empowering chronically ill homebound elderly patients to become pro-active in the treatment process.
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Vitcu, Irina. "Management of experimental peri-implantitis around porous-surfaced implants in dog." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape4/PQDD_0017/MQ53418.pdf.
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Alexander, KA, JW McNutt, MB Briggs, PE Standers, P. Funston, G. Hemston, D. Keet, and Vuuren M. Van. "Multi-host pathogens and carnivore management in southern Africa." Elsevier, 2008. http://encore.tut.ac.za/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external?sp=1001215.
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A retrospective serosurvey of multi-host feline and canine viruses among carnivore species in
southern Africa (n = 1018) identified widespread pathogen exposure even in remote protected
areas. In contrast to morality experienced in East African predators, canine distemper virus
(CDV) infection among African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) in Botswana was not associated with
identifiable change in pup survivorship or disease related mortality of adults. A disease outbreak
of unknown aetiology occurred in the same population over 4 weeks in 1996. Outbreak
boundaries coincided with ecotones, not the spatial distribution of contiguous packs, highlighting
the potential importance of landscape heterogeneities in these processes. Direct management of
pathogens in domestic animal reservoirs is complicated by the apparent complexity of pathogen
maintenance and transmission in these large systems. Conservation effort should be focused at
securing large metapopulations able to compensate for expected episodic generalist pathogen invasion and attention directed to addressing underlying causes of population depression such as
habitat loss and wildlife conflict.
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Bradshaw, Yolonda F. "The Impact of Breed Identification, Potential Adopter Perceptions and Demographics, and Dog Behavior on Shelter Dog Adoptability." The Ohio State University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1619162805127048.
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Williams, David Leonard. "Canine chronic superficial keratitis : histochemical characterisation and clinical management." Thesis, Royal Veterinary College (University of London), 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.307438.
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Eddy, Zachary. "Efficacy of native grassland barriers at limiting prairie dog dispersal in Logan county, Kansas." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/12055.
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Master of ArtsDepartment of Geography
J. M. Shawn Hutchinson
Prairie dogs (Cynomys spp.) are social, ground-dwelling rodents native to North American short- and mixed-grass prairie. They are also the main prey of the Federally-endangered black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes). At the same time, prairie dog colonization is highly opposed by most agricultural landowners. Therefore nonlethal population management techniques must be investigated. This paper presents the results of research on the effectiveness of ungrazed vegetative barriers composed of native plants at limiting prairie dog dispersal away from a ferret reintroduction site in northwest Kansas. Data was collected on barrier quality and condition as well as estimates of population densities of immigrant prairie dogs, dispersing through the vegetative barrier to reoccupy previously extirpated colonies on properties surrounding the ferret reintroduction site. Using strip transects and aboveground visual counts to estimate population densities and visual obstruction ranking techniques to sample barrier condition, statistical analysis of the data indicated that while barrier condition increased over time, it was not effective at limiting prairie dog emigration from the black-footed ferret reintroduction site.
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Caudill, Gretchen Elizabeth. "Effects of Habitat Manipulations on Utah Prairie Dogs (Cynomys Parvidens) and Their Habitats on the Awapa Plateau Recovery Area in South-Central Utah." DigitalCommons@USU, 2012. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1271.
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The Utah prairie dog (Cynomys parvidens) was listed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as an endangered species in 1973 because of range-wide population declines. The species was reclassified as threatened in 1984 because of population increases on private lands. Habitat fragmentation coupled with a lack of suitable habitat has impeded species recovery. Desired species habitat conditions include 0-8% shrub cover, 12-40% cool-season grass cover, and 1-10% perennial forb cover. Cool-season grasses are critical for Utah prairie dogs because of high spring energy requirements. Past research suggested that reducing shrub cover may increase cover of desired grasses and forbs. From 2008-2010, I evaluated the effects of high intensity fall sheep grazing and low application of herbicide (tebuthiuron) as tools to reduce shrub cover and enhance grass and forb cover on the Awapa Plateau Utah prairie dog recovery area in south-central Utah. I placed 1700 ewes in 4 ha stratified and randomly selected plots until >70% vegetation utilization was achieved. Five additional randomly-selected plots were treated with tebuthiuron at a rate of ~1.68 kg/ha. Percent cover of grass, forbs, and shrubs was recorded on treatments and paired control plots in June 2009 and 2010 to determine treatment vegetation responses. I also affixed 22 juvenile Utah prairie dogs with radio transmitters to determine if over-winter survival differed relative to treatment. Live shrub cover was lower on grazed plots in year 1 (P<0.001) and in year 2 (P=0.015). Dead shrub cover in grazed plots was higher in year 1 (P<0.001). Grazed plots exhibited increased forb cover from year 1 (P=0.104) to year 2 (P=0.008). Live shrub cover was lower in herbicide plots in year 2 (P=0.002). Dead shrub cover in herbicide plots was higher in year 2 (P=0.006). Tebuthiuron and grazed plots exhibited a reduction in shrub height (P=0.010, P=0.026, respectively). Tebuthiron plots exhibited less grass cover (P=0.034). Intensive sheep grazing and a low application of tebuthiuron reduced both shrub cover and vertical structure, but failed to increase the percent of grass cover when compared to the control plots. All plots exhibited reduced grass cover in 2010 in response to below normal precipitation. However, percent grass cover was higher on the grazed plots. It is possible that low inherent site productivity in combination with below normal average precipitation compromised treatment effects. Because of radio transmitter failure, I was not able to obtain survival data after hibernation. Prairie dog counts and weights did not differ by treatment type. If climate change reduces overall precipitation on the Awapa Plateau, recovery of the Utah prairie dog on this site will be problematic.
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Yoak, Andrew James. "Disease Control through Fertility Control: Explorations in Two Urban Systems." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1430989186.
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Staley, Dana G. "Does the REIT Tale Wag the Dog? The Relationship Between Tenant Ownership and the Volatility of Retail REIT Stock Returns." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/451.
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This paper will assess the relationship between tenant characteristics and public REIT volatility. Specifically, we focus on the retail REIT subset of the industry. Given that retail REITs are one the most transparent asset classes, they provide an interesting landscape for evaluating the relationship between the firm and the customers, or in this case, the tenants. Specifically, we assess how major tenant ownership, public or private equity owned, impacts the volatility of the REIT’s stock price using 2010 data on 30 retail REITs. Controlling for tenant credit quality, leverage, ROE, book-to-market, size, age, region and property focus, we find that a higher percentage of rental revenue from private equity owned tenants is associated with lower REIT stock volatility, and a higher percentage of rental revenue from publicly owned tenants is associated with higher REIT stock volatility.
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Silva, Marta Mariano da. "Surgical management and outcome following adrenalectomy : a retrospective case study in 16 dogs, 2008-2018." Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/16057.
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Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Medicina VeterináriaPrimary neoplasms of the adrenal gland might represent more than 1-2% of all canine tumours and can originate various worrisome clinical presentations; hence why adrenalectomy is generally the treatment of choice. Identification of prognostic factors with occasional uncertainty or contradictions among different authors renders further investigations welcomed. A retrospective study was conducted in 16 dogs undergoing adrenalectomy with the aim to describe the clinical features, surgical management and outcome. Review of clinical records and interviews with owners and veterinarians involved were performed to register clinical variables, such as, signalment, relevant history, clinical signs, laboratory, imaging and surgical findings, histopathology results, and outcome. The median survival time was calculated through Kaplan-Meier estimate. Intra- (92%) and postoperative (67%) complications, and perioperative mortality (31%) rates were comparable to recent studies; as was the median survival time (419 days), with 64% of long-term survivors living for more than 1 year, up to 3 years, approximately. This case series emphasizes that if dogs survive the immediate perioperative period, long-term outcome is generally good with possibility of prolonged survival times, as local or distant tumour recurrence appears to be low. This study also promotes awareness of adrenal incidentalomas (25%) and emergency clinical presentations (19%). Outcome predictors such as age of patients with phaeochromocytomas, size of tumour, surgeon’s experience in dealing with caval invasion, presence of metastasis at surgery, acute adrenal haemorrhage, major intraoperative haemorrhage, and postoperative disseminated intravascular coagulopathy must be considered in the approach to these cases.
RESUMO - MANEIO CIRÚRGICO E RESULTADO APÓS ADRENALECTOMIA: UM ESTUDO RETROSPETIVO DE CASOS EM 16 CÃES (2008-2018). - Neoplasias primárias das glândulas adrenais poderão representar mais do que 1-2% de todos os tumores caninos e podem originar vários quadros clínicos preocupantes; e por isso é que a adrenalectomia é geralmente o tratamento de escolha. A identificação de fatores de prognóstico com incerteza ou contradições ocasionais entre diversos autores ditam que investigações adicionais sejam bem-vindas. Um estudo retrospetivo foi conduzido em 16 cães submetidos a adrenalectomia, para descrever o quadro clínico, maneio e resultado cirúrgico. Foi feita a revisão de historiais clínicos e entrevistas a donos e veterinários envolvidos de forma a registar variáveis clínicas como identificação do animal, historial relevante, sinais clínicos, achados laboratoriais, imagiológicos e cirúrgicos, resultados de histopatologia, e resultado. A mediana dos tempos de sobrevivência foi calculada através da estimativa de Kaplan-Meier. As taxas de complicações intra- (92%) e pós-cirúrgicas (67%), e de mortalidade (31%) foram comparáveis a estudos recentes; assim como o tempo mediano de sobrevivência (419 dias), com 64% dos sobreviventes a longo prazo a viveram por mais de 1 ano, até 3 anos, aproximadamente. Esta série de casos enfatiza que se os cães sobreviverem o período peri-cirúrgico imediato, o resultado a longo prazo é geralmente bom com possibilidade de tempos de sobrevivência prolongados, uma vez também que a taxa de recorrência local ou distante aparenta ser baixa. Este estudo promove também a consciencialização de incidentalomas das adrenais (25%) e de quadros clínicos de emergência (19%). Fatores de prognóstico tais como idade dos pacientes com feocromocitomas, tamanho do tumor, experiência do cirurgião em lidar com invasão da veia cava, presença de metástases na altura da cirurgia, hemorragia aguda adrenal, hemorragia intra-cirúrgica de maior importância, e coagulopatia intravascular disseminada pós-cirúrgica, devem ser considerados na abordagem a estes casos.
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Mace, Jennifer. "Are CDS Auctions the Tail Wagging the Dog? An Empirical Study of Corporate Bond Return Volatility at the Time of Default." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2212.
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Over the past decade, numerous engineered credit events and cases of market participants manipulating bond prices to influence Credit Default Swap (CDS) auction payouts have occurred. These cases have become increasingly common, and the CFTC has stated they may constitute market manipulation and undermine not only the CDS market but also the credit derivative and default markets. Although there is a plethora of news and media coverage on publicized cases, there is no previous empirical research on evidence of these practices. This paper is motivated by the desire to determine if there is indirect evidence of bond price manipulation around default and of market participants’ attempts to favorably move CDS’s underlying bond prices to achieve more profitable positions around default and emerging from CDS auctions. The analysis is performed by analyzing the effect of a bonds’ inclusion in CDS auctions on bond return volatility around the time of default while controlling for credit risk, illiquidity, firm fundamentals, and other bond-level controls. I find that bond return volatility around default is much higher as a result of a bond’s inclusion in a CDS auction, which serves as indirect evidence of bond price manipulation around default as market participants strive for more profitable CDS auction outcomes and possibly of manufactured credit events. Consistent with previous literature, I also find that bond illiquidity significantly impacts bond return volatility. My results are robust to propensity score matching, implementing double-robust estimators, and controlling for any time-varying cross-sectionally-invariant fluctuations in bond return volatility.
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Ribeiro, Ana Margarida de Bastos. "Approach, management and prediction of prognosis in the acute abdomen syndrome in dogs. Study of prognosis predictors in 28 cases." Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa. Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/6207.
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Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Medicina VeterináriaThe acute abdomen syndrome is characterized by an acute onset of abdominal pain, usually associated with general signs such as vomiting, diarrhoea, postural and gait changes, anorexia, lethargy and shock. Success results from a proactive approach to management, including rapid stabilization of major body systems, early identification of the inciting problem(s), attention to comorbid conditions, and timely definitive therapy. Herewith comes decision making, whether to take a patient to surgery or manage the patient medically. A thorough and systematic approach requires the use of diagnostic imaging modalities, including radiology and ultrasonography, performing diagnostic peritoneal lavage or abdominal paracentesis techniques, and blood work evaluation, including complete blood count and biochemistry profiles. In some cases, the results of diagnostic tests may lead to surgical versus medical management, particularly when a patient fails to respond to medical management alone. In other cases, rapid surgical management is necessary for patient survival. Also it must take into account the capabilities and equipment of the clinic, as well as the staff skills. This may be extremely effortful, time-consuming and expensive so the owners must be informed about the prognosis for survival as they frequently face the dilemma of euthanasia. In an attempt to make more valid prognostic assessment in cases of acute abdomen syndrome, many individual predictive factors and univariable analysis where investigated. A retrospective study was carried out on 28 dogs presented with acute abdomen. Medical records were reviewed and information regarding dog signalment, history, clinical and laboratory data, surgical findings and outcome was collected. After analysis, several easily measurable parameters were found to be outcome predictors in dogs with acute abdomen, these being creatinine and alkaline phosphatase values, skin tent evaluation and dehydration.
RESUMO - ABORDAGEM, MANEIO E PREVISÃO DE PROGNÓSTICO NA SÍNDROME DE ABDÓMEN AGUDO EM CÃES. ESTUDO DE PREVISORES DE PROGNÓSTICO EM 28 CASOS - A síndrome de abdómen agudo é caracterizada por dor abdominal de início repentino, normalmente associada a sinais clínicos gerais tais como vómito, diarreia, alterações de postura e equilíbrio, anorexia, letargia e choque. O sucesso na resolução desta síndrome resulta de uma abordagem proactiva ao maneio médico, incluindo estabilização rápida dos sistemas vitais, rápida identificação, atenção a situações concomitantes e terapia definitiva realizada atempadamente. Posto isto, a decisão de submeter o paciente a cirurgia ou de o tratar conservativamente tem de ser tomada. Uma abordagem completa e sistemática passa pela imagiologia, incluindo raio-x e ecografia, lavagem peritoneal diagnóstica ou abdominocentese, e análises sanguíneas, incluindo hemograma e bioquímicas. Por vezes, os resultados dos testes diagnósticos podem levar ao maneio médico versus o cirúrgico, especialmente quando não há resposta à terapêutica conservativa por parte do paciente. Noutros casos, o maneio cirúrgico urgente é necessário para a sobrevivência do doente. É também necessário ter em consideração as capacidades e equipamento do centro de atendimento médico veterinário, bem como as competências dos veterinários responsáveis. Isto pode ser extremamente trabalhoso, demorado e caro para os proprietários, devendo estes ser informados acerca do prognóstico, visto que muitas das vezes deparam-se com o dilema da eutanásia. Na tentativa de tornar a avaliação prognóstica mais eficaz na síndrome de abdómen agudo, foram avaliados previsores individuais de prognóstico e realizada a respetiva análise univariada. Foi realizado um estudo retrospectivo em 28 cães que se apresentaram com abdómen agudo. A anamnese foi feita e a informação sobre os sinais clínicos, os dados do exame físico e laboratoriais, os achados das cirurgias e prognóstico foram colhidos. Após análise, alguns parâmetros facilmente mensuráveis, mostraram contribuir para a previsão do prognóstico em cães com abdómen agudo, sendo estes os valores de creatinina e fosfatase alcalina, a avaliação da prega de pele e a desidratação do animal.
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Mansfield, Charles. "The role of literary texts in tourism destination management, place creation and marketing : a case study on Concarneau in Finistère, Brittany, and the Simenon Novel, The Yellow Dog." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/4785.
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This doctoral thesis approaches literary tourism initially from an historical perspective in order to define the phenomenon through a review of the existing academic literature in the field. The forms of literary tourism are analysed to provide a typology and from this the value of literary tourism is explained both from the visitor's point of view and the destination manager's. Current theories underpinning the existing literature on literary tourism, including Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital are reviewed. To extend the current state of research and to answer the research questions a case study of successful urban literary tourism is identified, in this case in Brittany, France. The uses of French literature in literary tourism are reviewed to provide a sound basis on which to examine French texts and tourist destinations. Novel methods of field research are developed to formalise and to make reproducible the methodology for this study and for future work drawing on, and seeking to combine both literary theory and ethnography. Following a pilot study on the French Riviera the full discovery instruments are designed and applied in fieldwork on the case destination, Concarneau, using the detective novel, The Yellow Dog, which is set in Concarneau. Analysis of the findings from this provide a new contribution to the field of literary theory, in the area of reader interpellation, and answer the research questions in the form of a new set of recommendations for DMOs and tourism stakeholders. From the empirical study that used Web 2.0 social media, only available since 2013, an analysis of which novels do stimulate literary tourism is presented for the first time. Out of the research process new methods have been evolved, and are presented in the conclusion, for the DMO to synthesise and leverage digital resources. This provides DMOs with interpretation processes for its managed heritage to use with its local stakeholders in hotels and in tourism businesses. Finally, an innovative conceptualisation of what constitutes tourism knowledge is proposed.
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Rice, Jennifer E. "Dogs in the Workplace: The Emotional, Social, and Physical Benefits to Employees." Xavier University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1565807557585623.
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Santos, Sara Isabel Rosário. "Otohematoma canino: epidemiologia e terapêutica." Bachelor's thesis, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/976.
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Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Medicina VeterináriaO otohematoma canino é uma entidade clínica comum em Medicina Veterinária. Este caracteriza-se como uma tumefacção flutuante, tensa e por vezes dolorosa, que varia em tamanho e posição. Embora se possa encontrar em ambas as faces da orelha, geralmente, localiza-se apenas na superfície côncava. Os principais factores predisponentes do otohematoma que têm sido investigados são o tipo de orelha, a raça, a idade, o sexo e presença de outras afecções concomitantes. A importância da otite externa, do trauma, da hipersensibilidade e das alterações imunológicas e degenerativas na patogénese desta afecção é controversa. Têm sido usados vários métodos cirúrgicos e conservativos no tratamento do otohematoma canino, com resultados variáveis. Realizou-se um estudo retrospectivo, utilizando os dados recolhidos das fichas clínicas de 24 cães com otohematoma, diagnosticado no período entre 6 de Janeiro de 2003 e 1 de Agosto de 2008, visando estabelecer um padrão epidemiológico do otohematoma canino na população estudada. O sexo masculino foi o mais afectado, com 70,8% dos casos e a faixa etária mais representada foi a dos 3 aos 9 anos de idade (69,4%). A raça Indeterminada obteve maior incidência de otohematomas (20,4%), seguindo-se a raça Serra da Estrela (16,9%) e a Labrador Retriver (12,7%). A maioria dos animais afectados apresentou um peso corporal superior a 25 Kg (58,3%). Quanto à distribuição temporal, obtiveram-se 3 picos de maior incidência de otohematomas, que corresponderam aos meses de Janeiro, Setembro e Novembro. A otite externa associada ao otohematoma foi diagnosticada em 45,8% dos animais e a dermatite atópica em 8,3%. Os resultados obtidos no presente estudo sugerem que o otohematoma canino tem como factores de risco: a idade adulta, o porte elevado do animal, orelhas do tipo pendente e existência de factores passíveis de desencadear traumas auriculares. Foram, ainda, avaliadas retrospectivamente 3 técnicas terapêuticas quanto à sua eficácia e prognóstico. Dos 4 casos tratados por aspiração com agulha e injecção local de corticóides, 3 recidivaram e o resultado estético foi bom em todos. Quanto às técnicas cirúrgicas, a que envolve a incisão, drenagem e sutura com esponja obteve 25% de recidivas, e a que recorre à incisão, drenagem e sutura com botões resultou em 16,7% de recidivas. O resultado estético só não foi positivo num dos casos resolvidos através de cirurgia com botões, em que ocorreu espessamento da orelha. Esta última técnica foi a que originou mais complicações. Nos 5 casos em que não se efectuou tratamento do otohematoma, ocorreu fibrose e espessamento da orelha.
ABSTRACT - CANINE AURAL HEMATOMA: EPIDEMIOLOGY AND TERAPHEUTIC Canine aural hematoma is a common condition in veterinary medicine. It is a floating, tense and sometimes painful swelling, which changes in size and position. Although it can be found on both aspects of the ear, usually is located only on the concave surface. Main factors that may predispose to aural hematoma are type of ear, breed, age, sex and presence of other concurrent diseases. The importance of otitis externa, trauma, hypersensitivity, immunological changes and degenerative diseases in the pathogenesis of this condition is controversial. It has been used several conservative and surgical methods in the treatment of canine aural hematoma, with different results. It was performed a retrospective study, using data collected from clinical bulletin of 24 dogs with aural hematoma diagnosed between January 6, 2003 to August 1, 2008, to establish an epidemiological pattern of canine aural hematoma in studed population. Males were more affected than females with 70.8% of cases and dogs between 3 to 9 years were the most represented (69,4%). Crossbreed dogs had highest incidence of aural hematomas (20.4%), followed by Serra da Estrela (16.9%) and Labrador Retriver (12.7%). Most affected animals had a weight exceeding 25 kg (58,3%). Temporal distribution obtained was 3 peak with highest incidence of aural hematomas, which corresponded to the months of January, September and November. Otitis externa associated with aural hematoma, was diagnosed in 45.8% of the animals and atopic dermatitis in 8.3%. The results of this study suggest that adult age, large size of the animal, pendular pinna and presence of factors that can trigger auricular trauma are risk factors of canine aural hematoma. It were also evaluated retrospectively 3 therapeutic techniques, as to its effectiveness and prognosis. Of the 4 cases corrected by needle aspiration and local injection of steroids, 3 relapsed. Surgery which involves incision, drainage and suture with sponge had 25% of recurrences, and surgery with incision, drainage and suture with buttons resulted in 16.7% of recurrences. Cosmetic result wasn´t good in one case resolved through surgery with buttons, which developed thickening of the pinna. This last technique originated more complications that the others. In 5 cases without aural hematoma treatment, fibrosis and thickening of the pinna was always present.
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Damsager, John. "Hundebid af mennesker : En analyse af behovet for et paradigmeskift i risikostyringen af hundebid." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för miljö- och livsvetenskaper, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-56529.
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This Master thesis contains a risk assessment regarding the possibility for humans to be bitten by dogs in Denmark. As a part of this risk assessment the thesis contains an analysis of the effect of the introduction of legal bans of specific breeds in Denmark. Furthermore, the thesis contains an analysis of the societal context for the Danish legislation. This is done with back ground in models of risk management developed by James Reason and William Haddon Jr. The conclusion is that the Danish society continuously is vulnerable regarding the risk of humans being bitten by dogs – and that the ban of certain breeds have been without effect on the number of persons seeking hospital care for dog bites. The thesis demonstrates that the risk of human dog bites is highest in the private sphere and in the local area. The thesis reveal that the Danish state has failed to target the principal factors: context, situation and relation between man and dog in connection to situations where dog bites occur.Bedømt til karakteren "VG".
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O'Brien, John William. "The ecology and management of the large carnivore guild on Shamwari Game Reserve, Eastern Cape." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002604.
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Shamwari Game Reserve was the first enclosed conservation area in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa to reintroduce free ranging lions, cheetahs, leopards and wild dogs back into their historic range. At that time (2000 – 2001), little information was available on the ecology and behaviour of these predators in the habitats of the Eastern Cape, and management decisions were based on assumptions and unfounded comparisons with extant populations but from quite different habitats. The aim of this study was therefore to obtain a better understanding of the feeding ecology and space use of the predator guild, and the carrying capacity of Shamwari Game Reserve to enable more informed management decisions. In addition, the reserve is a photographic based tourism venture and understanding both the ecological and financial sustainability of the predator guild was important. The diets of the predators were similar to those reported in other studies; larger predators killed a greater range of prey species than did smaller predators and a small number of prey species made up the majority of the kills. The larger predators had a higher mean kill mass than the smaller species and prey selection was influenced by prey size, prey abundance and prey habitat preference, and risk associated with hunting the species. Diet was flexible and responded to natural and management induced changes in prey abundance. There was a considerable overlap in space use by the lions, cheetahs and leopards with their core areas being centred on and around the Bushmans River. Space use was driven by resource distribution and landscape attributes, and by the presence of other predators of the same or different species. The long term viability of wild dog within the reserve was explored and the results confirmed that there was neither the required space nor the ecological processes and the wild dogs were removed from the reserve. A carrying capacity of the reserve for the predator guild was determined using the Maximum Sustainable Yield method to assess the potential prey species off take and a resultant density of 3.3 to 6.6 lion female equivalent units per 10 000 ha was established. The natural carrying capacity of the reserve with respect to predators will not sustain the tourism objectives and consequently prey supplementation was necessary to maintain predator density at levels high enough to sustain tourism. Under these conditions the large predator guild is still sustainable financially although careful, responsible management is needed to provide ecological sustainability.
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Baquero, Oswaldo Santos. "Manejo populacional de cães e gatos: métodos quantitativos para caracterizar populações, identificar prioridades e estabelecer indicadores." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/10/10134/tde-16122015-105959/.
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O manejo populacional de cães e gatos é um conjunto de estratégias para controlar e prevenir problemas relacionados com o convívio entre esses animais e os seres humanos. Nesta tese é proposto um fluxo de trabalho baseado em métodos quantitativos, para auxiliar o planejamento, implementação e monitoramento de programas de manejo populacional de animais de companhia. Ao seguir o fluxo de trabalho é possível coletar dados para caracterizar populações, analisar esses dados para propor intervenções e avaliar o efeito das intervenções. A proposta foi baseada na articulação de cinco pesquisas. Na primeira pesquisa foi implementado de um desenho amostral complexo para caracterizar a população de cães e gatos domiciliados de Votorantim, São Paulo. Na segunda pesquisa que foi baseada nos dados levantados na primeira, foram usadas análises de correspondências múltiplas para identificar perfis de opiniões públicas em relação ao abandono de cães e gatos. Na terceira pesquisa foi avaliada a validade do desenho amostral usado na primeira pesquisa, mediante simulações estocásticas. Na quarta pesquisa foi desenvolvido um modelo matemático de manejo populacional que permite priorizar as intervenções de acordo com o efeito que produzem. Na quinta pesquisa foi desenvolvido um modelo matemático para avaliar a eficiência do controle reprodutivo realizado com contraceptivos de efeito reversível. Os modelos das duas últimas pesquisas foram baseados em sistemas acoplados de equações diferenciais e em análises de sensibilidade global e local. A proposta foi implementada em um software de código aberto, o pacote do R capm, que pode ser incorporado na rotina de trabalho dos setores envolvidos no manejo populacional de animais de companhiaDog and cat population management is a set of strategies to control and prevent problems related with the coexistence between those animals and human beings. In this thesis it is proposed a work-fiow based on quantitative methods to support the planning, implementation and mo- nitoring of companion animal population management programs. Following the work-fiow, it is possible to collecf data to characterize populations, analyze that data to propose interventions and assess the effect of interventions. The proposal was based on the articulation of five rese- arches. In the first research, a complex sampling design was implemented to characterize the owned dog and cat populations of Votorantim, São Paulo. In the second research, which was based on data from the first one, public opinion profiles regarding dog and cat abandonment were identified using multiple correspondence analysis. In the third research, the validity of the sampling design used in the first research was assessed through stochastic simulations. In the fourth research, a mathematical model of population management was developed. With that model, it is possible to prioritize interventions according to the effect they produce. In the fifth research, a mathematical model was developed to assess the efficiency of reproductive control based on contraceptives with reversible effect. The models of the last two researches were based on systems of coupled differential equations, and on global and local sensitivity analysis. The proposal was implemented in an open source software, the R package capm, that can be incorporated in the working routine of sectors involved with companion animal population management
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Stenmark, Edvin, and Liv Söderqvist. "JAG GER DIG MIN MORGON,JAG GER DIG MIN DAG. : En kvalitativ studie om chefers uppfattningar av tillgänglighet och uppkoppling i arbetslivet." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-142855.
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Kriminalvården är en statlig myndighet som i dagsläget befinner sig i startgroparna för att ta fram en tillgänglighetspolicy. De diskuterar även eventuella åtgärder för att hantera användandet av informations- och kommunikationsteknik (IKT) kopplat till arbete. Studien syftar till att beskriva och analysera fenomenet tillgänglighet och uppkoppling utifrån chefers uppfattningar inom Kriminalvården samt hur de hanterar detta. Vidare syftar studien till att undersöka chefers uppfattade möjligheter och utmaningar kopplat till ämnet. Insamlingen av datamaterialet skedde via tio semistrukturerade intervjuer som bearbetades utifrån en fenomenografisk analysmetod. Studiens resultat pekade på såväl likheter som skillnader mellan chefernas uppfattningar. Majoriteten av cheferna uttryckte att de satte en tydlig gräns mellan arbete och fritid vilket analysen dock inte tydde på. Cheferna uppfattade i stor utsträckning att tillgänglighet och uppkoppling inte var ett problem. Några chefer hade strategier för att hantera uppkopplingen och andra inte. En skillnad var i hur cheferna hanterade mejl utanför kontorstid. Detta kunde ske genom att några chefer skickade mejl,vissa inte alls och en del chefer skickade mejl även om de var av uppfattningen att det sände dåliga signaler.
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Kohler, Robert. "Etat des lieux de la Médiation animale dans les Etablissements d'hébergement pour personnes âgées dépendantes en France : De la théorie vers la conception d’un cahier des charges." Thesis, Lyon 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011LYO30044.
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Nous nous interrogeons sur les enjeux de la présence animale au sein d’une institution médico-sociale pour tenter de répondre aux controverses juridiques, mais également managériales, que soulève cette question. Notre questionnement s’inscrit dans une évolution sociétale favorable à la reconnaissance citoyenne de la personne âgée dépendante, et plus particulièrement dans ses droits sociaux et culturels. Notre problématique renvoie aux questions essentielles sur le pouvoir d’une personne vieillissante de décider elle-même de la conduite de sa vie. C’est ce que nous étudions au travers de cet outil particulier, mais symptomatique en milieu institutionnel, qu’est l’animal d’accompagnement social.Nous débutons notre travail autour d’une réflexion pratique et théorique d’un projet d’introduction d’un chien éduqué dans un établissement d’hébergement pour personnes âgées dépendantes. Nous y abordons tout d’abord les questions liées à la connaissance et à la compréhension des usagers que les activités de médiation animale mettent en exergue (1ère partie), puis à partir de ce constat, de développer les aspects managériaux qui s’y trouvent liés en leurs propensions à insérer un projet dans un cadre institutionnel et en leurs facultés d’introduire un nouvel espace de réflexion et de construction du sens (2ème partie) - le résumé de l’ensemble de ces éléments constituant le cahier des charges de la médiation animaleWe are researching the implications of animal assisted therapy within a social care facility in an attempt to respond to the legal and managerial controversies surrounding the scheme. Our research is part of a societal trend towards recognizing the citizen rights of dependent elderly people, and in particular their social and cultural rights. We are studying important questions relating to the power of ageing people to make their own decisions about their lives. That is our main aim in researching the use of companion animals, which may be a revealing tool when used in an institutional setting.We will begin our work by discussing the practical and theoretical implications of the plan to introduce a trained dog into a nursing home for dependent elderly people. We will first discuss the issues related to the knowledge and understanding of the users which will be highlighted through animal assisted therapy (1st part). Secondly, we will develop the managerial implications related to the implementation of this idea in an institutional framework and the possibility of introducing a new space for reflection and the construction of meaning (2rd part). These elements will be used to develop specifications for the animal assisted therapy project
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Zhang, Zhuoli. "Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) management in peatlands." Thesis, Durham University, 2015. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/11357/.
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Peatlands are serving as one of the most important terrestrial carbon stores in the United Kingdom and globally. In the UK, the current trend of peatlands turning from carbon sinks to carbon sources is widely observed and reported. As numerous factors may affect the carbon cycle of peatlands, including climate, land management, hydrology and vegetation, dissolved organic carbon (DOC) was commonly used as an indicator of peatland carbon changes. Besides the function as an indicator of carbon turnover in peatland, increasing DOC in the stream water also raises concern in water companies as the removal of DOC from water represents a major cost of water treatment. This thesis investigates the impacts of land management such as drain blocking and revegetation on stream DOC changes. By building a pilot column study, this thesis also assessed the potential of bank filtration serving as DOC treatment in UK. Results of drain blocking shows the management was a significant impact on the DOC changes. However, later investigation of peak flow events indicates such positive impacts from drain blocking were minor in terms of high peak flow events. Since the majority of DOC export occurred during such peak flow events, drain blocking were found not as an efficient management of DOC changes. The field study of revegetation observed minor effects of revegetation on stream DOC. The results of column bank filtration indicate low DOC removal rate under the current stream DOC level in UK. The bank filtration may efficient remove DOC when higher DOC input applied. However, it is not suitable for UK peatland under current DOC export.
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Whitworth, Robin E. "Analysis of the DoD 5000.2R project management process." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1998. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA359703.
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Thesis (M.S. in Management) Naval Postgraduate School, December 1998."December 1998." Thesis advisor(s): Orin E. Marvel, Keith F. Snider. Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-200). Also available online.
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Rasmussen, David N. Ruegger Keith L. "A functional analysis of DoD implementation of seat management /." Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1999. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA371340.
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Thesis (M.S. in Information Technology Management) Naval Postgraduate School, September 1999."September 1999". Thesis advisor(s): William James Haga, Matthew S. Feely. Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-89). Also Available online.
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Rasmussen, David N., and Keith L. Ruegger. "A functional analysis of DoD implementation of seat management." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/26566.
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimitedThis study explores the use of seat management as a method of overcoming the difficulty of procuring, managing and maintaining information technology. Seat management, also known as desktop outsourcing, involves the acquisition and management of all hardware and software, desktop and network management, operations management, support services and technology refreshment into one concise contract managed by a vendor who specializes in IT. The findings of this functional analysis, focusing on seat management, total cost of ownership and asset management, are reported. These findings show that seat management is not a panacea. But, when used in conjunction with sound management practices it can provide benefits to an organization
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Holton, Lynne Louise. "The measurement of pain in dogs." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.366201.
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Pratt, Donald E. Jr, and Brian K. Jones. "MOBILE DEVICE MANAGEMENT IN THE DoD ENTERPRISE NETWORK: FACTORS FOR RISK MANAGEMENT, INTEGRATION, AND IT ACQUISITION." Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/32886.
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The Office of the Department of Defense Chief Information Officer (DoD CIO) has developed a mobile device strategy that will require the DoD information technology (IT) system acquisition process to acquire a mobile device management (MDM) toolset to mitigate information assurance (IA) risks created through the use of mobile devices on the enterprise domain. In an effort to target affordability and control cost growth, IT professionals need to understand how IA concerns are addressed through MDM and how properly scoped solutions can be sourced to reduce project risks related to cost, schedule, and performance for projects that involve obtaining an MDM toolset through the DoD acquisition process. This research develops a mixed method study to understand the concerns of federal information technology professionals who are knowledgeable on MDM and the acquisition professionals who procure the MDM solutions. In this research, the authors provide DoD professionals with a framework to select optimal MDM solutions through the identification of baseline requirements in order to operate effectively in a resource constrained environment.
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Durieux, Florence. "Management de l'innovation : une approche évolutionniste." Paris 9, 1997. https://portail.bu.dauphine.fr/fileviewer/index.php?doc=1997PA090049.
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Les recherches traitant de la gestion de l'innovation portent surtout sur des projets pris individuellement. L'objectif de la présente recherche est de décrire, de comprendre et de modéliser la dynamique d'évolution d'un ensemble de projets d'innovation. Cet objectif peut être résume par la question : comment vit et meurt une population de projets d'innovation ? La recherche se situe au carrefour de trois courants théoriques indépendants mais complémentaires : la gestion de l'innovation, la théorie des systèmes dynamiques non linéaires et l'écologie des populations. Elle s'articule en trois étapes : (1) description de l'évolution d'une population de projets d'innovation, (2) identification de la nature (aléatoire ou déterministe) de la dynamique d'évolution, (3) détermination des lois sous-jacentes à l'évolution de la population. Nos résultats mettent en évidence la nature déterministe de la dynamique d'évolution de la population de projets. De plus, lors de la détermination des lois sous-jacentes à révolution, une forme principale d'interaction entre les projets a émergé : la compétition. De fait, les projets sont en concurrence pour obtenir des ressources limitées. La loi pilotant l'évolution semble ainsi être fonction de la densité de la population, ce qui est caractéristique des phénomènes de sélection naturelle. Dans les organisations, on constate que seuls survivent les projets en adéquation avec l'environnementResearch on innovation management deals mainly with individual projects. The purpose of this study is to describe and explain the evolution dynamics of a series of innovation projects. The aim is to answer the following question : how does a population of innovation projects live and die ? This study is based on three independant theoretical currents : innovation management, nonlinear dynamic system theory and population ecology. Six types of interactions between innovation projects have emerged from me search for determining me evolution underlying laws. Competition is the main form of interaction : projects are competing for limited resources available within organizations. Hence, the law governing the observed evolution is a function of population density, illustrated by a kind of natural selection of projects : projects corresponding to their environment are the only ones likely to survive
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Van, Praag Nicolas. "La déviance managériale : Gouvernance, rating et crédit management." Paris 9, 2007. https://portail.bu.dauphine.fr/fileviewer/index.php?doc=2007PA090068.
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Roure, Lionel. "Le management des innovations : une comparaison France/Allemagne." Paris 9, 1999. https://portail.bu.dauphine.fr/fileviewer/index.php?doc=1999PA090012.
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Haglund, Carl-Christian, and Mika Wåhlin. "Vad förväntade du dig? : En studie om förväntningar i Talent Management-processen." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Ekonomihögskolan, ELNU, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-21242.
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Det senaste decenniet har konkurrensen på arbetsmarknaden ökat ochefterfrågan på talanger blivit allt vanligare. Arbetet med att attrahera, rekrytera, utveckla och behålla sina medarbetare har därför fått stort fokus bland företag och kan bland annat göras genom Talent Management-processen. Employer Branding(EB) är en vanlig strategi inom detta som innebär att som företag attrahera talanger genom ett starkt varumärke. Även arbetstagare lägger större fokus på att marknadsföra sig själva genom bland annat Self Marketing (SM). Oundvikligen bygger både arbetsgivare och arbetstagare upp förväntningar om vad dessa kan bidra med till motsvarande part och frågan är hur dessa förväntningar infrias?Syftet med denna uppsats är att visa hur förväntningarna mellan arbetsgivare och arbetstagare som är berörda av Talent Management kan se ut och hur dessa förväntningar påverkar relationen mellan parterna.I syfte att svara på vår frågeställning har vi valt att genomföra en kvalitativ studie med en deduktiv ansats. I studien har vi intervjuat ett Talent Managementkonsultföretag i syfte att erhålla expertutlåtande samt intervjuat två företag inom tjänstesektorn, varav två arbetstagare och en arbetsgivare på respektive företag.Studien har visat att EB och SM är de främsta faktorerna som skapar förväntningar bland arbetsgivare och arbetstagare, trots detta har endast en av samtliga talanger under studien gett tydliga och konkreta exempel på vilka förväntningar denne hade på arbetsgivaren och arbetsgivarna har inte gett några tydliga och konkreta exempel på förväntningar. Överlag förväntade sig arbetsgivarna arbetstagare som skulle arbeta hårt och arbetstagarna förväntade sig ett utvecklande arbete med en attraktiv företagskultur. De opreciserade förväntningarna på prestationerna kan bero på den förändrande arbetsmarknaden där nya roller och arbetsuppgifter ständigt uppkommer.
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Williams, Joshua P. (Joshua Prop). "Creating DoD program success through program management leadership and trust-based relationships." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/100388.
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Thesis: S.M. in Engineering and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, System Design and Management Program, 2015.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-177).
Program management is the art of creating success in a complex and ever changing environment. It is fueled on knowledge work. Trust and the relationships are the foundational enablers that must be actively managed and nurtured. The Department of Defense Acquisition System is vast and as with any large system, it contains a multitude of issues. This examination focuses on program management challenges faced by the Government Program Manager and their Defense Contractor counterpart, and how each introduce trust-based relationship barriers and enablers impacting an actor's ability to establish trust and a relationship. This inspection explores trust-based relationship barriers and enablers derived from five different bodies of knowledge. First, I establish a barrier and enabler baseline based on my own professional experience. Second, I capture literature research and theory based barriers and enablers, which provide a diverse and rich understanding of trust and relationships. Third, I conduct a process research study of two major programs and inspect readily available and secondary information to determine trust patterns, common themes, and unique perspectives. Fourth, I survey Acquisition Professionals to determine trust-based relationship barriers and enablers at the Executive, PM-to-PM, and Program Level. Concluding, I interview Acquisition Professionals to garner a deeper understanding of the Department of Defense Acquisition System. Throughout each body of knowledge, I compare barriers and enablers to identify common themes, which produces the basis for each recommendation. Recommendations are focused on improving a PM's skills and the environment in which he or she operates. Actors within the DoD Acquisition System are trained on process routines but are not adequately trained on enablers such as leadership and communication, which build a capability to intelligently execute the routine. Intelligent application of the process routine introduces program management flexibility and trust. This in turn allows an actor to leverage the process to build trust and success system wide. Without actors, trust, and relationships, the process will never produce 'art of the possible' results.
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Petrucci, David J. "Improved affordability in DoD acquisitions through strategic management of systemic cost risk." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/100364.
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Thesis: S.M. in Engineering and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, System Design and Management Program, 2014.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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For almost 70 years, actual costs of Major Defense Acquisition Programs (MDAPs) in the Department of Defense (DoD) have exceeded on average between 20% and 506% of their life cycle cost estimates, which are official expectations of actual program costs prior to completion. Despite numerous DoD acquisition reform efforts and implementation of sophisticated cost estimation techniques, this cost growth continues to exist. Accurate cost estimates are vital to the capital budgeting process for the DoD since they are used to set the affordability cap for each MDAP and across DoD Component weapon system program portfolios. Affordability is defined as the upper limit a DoD Component can allocate for a program without reducing costs or shifting resources between programs. To improve affordability in the DoD, a method that quantifies and adjusts for the persistent cost growth to enhance the accuracy of cost estimates is needed to promote more responsible and sustainable MDAP capital investment decisions. This thesis presents a simple yet powerful method of quantifying and correcting for systemic cost estimation risk in MDAPs to improve cost estimate accuracy and, consequently, affordability. Cost estimation risk is defined as the difference between estimated and actual MDAP costs (on average a deficit), and it consists of systemic and program-specific components. This dichotomized risk framework is similar to the one used in the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) in which the growth rate in value of any one of a set of assets comprising a market in equilibrium is proportional to its systemic risk exposure to that market. In the CAPM, systemic risk aggregated risk from multiple economic factors - pervades the market and is unavoidable, and asset-specific risk is considered unpredictable due to idiosyncratic uncertainties. By analogy, the growth rate in cost estimates for a program belonging to the "market" of MDAPs is assumed proportional to that MDAP's systemic risk exposure to the market. Like in CAPM, systemic cost estimation risk - aggregated risk from 26 systemic factors identified in this thesis - pervades the market for MDAPs, as evidenced by historical cost overruns, and program-specific cost risk is considered unpredictable and best mitigated by program-dedicated professional cost estimators in the DoD and defense industry. From this analogy, the expected growth-beta relationship of CAPM may be adapted to determine for MDAPs the systemic cost risk-adjusted growth rates for the defense commodity classes of aircraft, electronics and software, missiles, ships, space and satellites, and vehicles. These classes are the same used by the Bureau of Economic Analysis to segment defense commodities into distinct price index "baskets" based upon common inflation risks among commodities within each class. Based on this rationale, each MDAP is assumed to share systemic cost risk within its respective class; this risk is measured by beta in the expected growth-beta relationship. Defense commodity class beta values are calculated by linear regression of historical percentage cost estimate changes of member MDAPs with those of all MDAPs, and then averaging these beta values over the appropriate defense commodity class. Next, the expected cost estimate growth rate for any MDAP may be calculated by first estimating the future expected growth rate in all MDAPs using the arithmetic mean of historical annual cost estimate percentage changes, and then scaling this rate by the particular MDAP's systemic cost risk exposure - the defense commodity class beta value for which it is a member. Finally, the Systemic Risk Factor (SRF) for each defense commodity class is calculated from these growth rates and the forecast time horizon, adjusted for compounding effects over relatively longer time horizons, and then applied to current MDAP cost estimates to form systemic risk-adjusted cost estimates to improve affordability. This method was applied to an empirical retrospective case study using a set of cost data from six MDAPs, one from each commodity class, as a partial validation of the method. The results of this study show an overall 57% enhancement in estimation accuracy when comparing the initial and SRF-adjusted MDAP cost estimates to the final estimates, indicating quantifying and adjusting for systemic cost risk can improve cost estimation accuracy. To show the effectiveness of this method on improving affordability, these six programs were combined to form a hypothetical acquisition portfolio and assessed for affordability over a five year period. While the unadjusted portfolio was not affordable four out of five years, the SRF-adjusted portfolio was affordable in all but the last year, illustrating the benefit of adjusting cost estimates for systemic risk. However, the benefits of improved cost estimate accuracy and affordability come at the cost of potentially over-budgeting for priority MDAPs thereby leaving less funds available for other, lower priority programs. Additionally, this method is not shown to be optimal in the sense of minimizing cost estimate errors to maximize affordability. Still, empirical results are promising and warrant further research into the idea of using SRFs to adjust life cycle cost estimates and ultimately improve MDAP affordability for the DoD.
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Li, Tianchao. "Grid resource management with service level agreements." kostenfrei, 2008. http://mediatum2.ub.tum.de/doc/646207/646207.pdf.
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Joffre, Olivier. "Le management de l'intégration dans les "fusions entre égaux"." Paris 9, 2006. https://portail.bu.dauphine.fr/fileviewer/index.php?doc=2006PA090052.
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Kiddie, Jenna L. "Assessing quality of life in kennelled dogs." Thesis, Royal Veterinary College (University of London), 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.572476.
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Choi, Paul Koon Ping. "The use of design of experiments (DOE) : time for company management to decide." Thesis, University of the West of Scotland, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.556176.
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Many corporations over the world showed evidence of getting positive benefits from using design and analysis of experiments (DOE), however, some others did not. Companies did not use DOE or failed in using it (for some reasons) might lose their opportunities of getting those benefits which their counterparts received. Despite the advantages of. DOE, the technique is not commonly used by management. The purpose of this research is to investigate why the technique is not applied more often and hence suggestions are made to help rectify the situation. The research covered four main stages: literature review, samples of representative literature, questionnaire survey via the Internet and a case study using action research methodology being carried out in a printed circuit board company in Hong Kong. Triangulation was used in this research in order to uncover knowledge about the topic of study and tradeoff bias caused. A random sampling method and a judgmental sampling method were used in the samples of representative literature. Subsequently, two questionnaire surveys via the Internet were respectively conducted. The snowball sampling method was used to contact targeted companies. Data and information received from the surveyed companies on the use, or not, of DOE were collected and analyzed. The results and findings of the two questionnaire surveys indicated of what, how and why companies use, or not use, of DOE in their operations. A case study using action research methodology was also carried out in a local company. The action research was three-fold: (I) the researcher (i.e. the author) conducted DOE training to a team of staff, (2) trained staff undertook a current industrial problem and resolved it by using DOE, and (3) the company changed from the state of 'non-use of DOE' to the one of 'use of DOE' for better performance practices. Feedbacks from top management and the staff enriched the researcher to answer the posed research questions and achieved the objectives of the whole study.
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Ford, Anthony W. "WV DPMS district level pavement management system for West Virginia DOH district 5 /." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2001. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=1870.
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Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2001.Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 186 p. : ill. (some col.). Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-129).
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Pavlos, Delias. "An agent-based workflow management system for marketing decision support." Paris 9, 2009. https://portail.bu.dauphine.fr/fileviewer/index.php?doc=2009PA090081.
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Sauviat, Chantal. "Qualité et management participatif : théorie et pratiques, un écart significatif." Paris 9, 1991. https://portail.bu.dauphine.fr/fileviewer/index.php?doc=1991PA090043.
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Depuis le début des années 80, la qualité des produits est présentée comme un atout majeur pour les entreprises nationales dans le contexte économique actuel. Une première partie mettra en évidence les raisons pour lesquelles les composantes compétitives de la qualité se révèlent pertinentes que ce soit dans une stratégie de domination par les couts ou une stratégie de différenciation. Toutefois, l'obtention de la qualité requiert de la part du personnel des attitudes et des compétences nouvelles, lesquelles débouchent sur un nouveau mode opératoire. Le management participatif, tant par ses fondements que par ses outils, satisfait aux exigences sociales d'une démarche qualité (deuxième partie). A l'épreuve des faits, l'on constate que la relation "management participatif qualité" n'a pas toujours eu les effets positifs escomptés. Cet écart constaté entre la réalité observée et le discours dominant s'explique. Ce dernier véhicule fréquemment une image exagérément simplificatrice et mécaniste de la firme ; il présente, en outre, ce management participatif comme une technique aisément transposable et systématiquement porteuse de succès. La pratique de la qualité rappelle que l'entreprise est avant tout une organisation humaine qui ne saurait être entièrement cernée par un outil de management (troisième partie)Since the beginning of the 1980's the quality of the products has been considered as a great asset for the national firms in today's economical context. A first part will show the reasons why the competitive components of quality prove pertinent, whether in a strategy of domination by costs, or in a strategy of differentiation. To obtain quality, however, new attitudes and competences, which open on to new proceedings, are required from the staff. A participative management, by its structures as well as by its means, meets the social requirements of a search for quality (second part). Facts have shown that the "participative management-quality" relationship has not always had the positive results that have been expected. The gap between the facts that be observed, and the prevailing discourse can be explained. The later usually conveys an exaggeratedly simplifying and mechanist idea of the firm. Moreover, it shows, participative management as an easily transposable technique systematically leading to success. The search for quality recalls that a firm is above all a human organization which can't be entirely determined by any means of management
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Marest, Philippe. "Eléments pour l'information de la composante management du système d'information." Paris 9, 1993. https://portail.bu.dauphine.fr/fileviewer/index.php?doc=1993PA090050.
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Avec l'évolution de la conjoncture économique les entreprises doivent dorénavant contrôler efficacement leur fonctionnement et bien connaitre leur environnement. L'information d'une des deux composantes du système d'information d'une organisation la composante management permet ce contrôle et cette connaissance. Mais elle pose encore de nombreux problèmes contrairement à l'information de la composante production, aujourd'hui bien maitrisée grâce à l'emploi de méthodes éprouvées. L'objectif de cette thèse est de proposer des éléments de méthode pour mieux comprendre ces problèmes et tenter de les résoudre. En premier lieu, les caractéristiques de la composante management sont précisées et elle est comparée à d'autres concepts. La capacité de quelques méthodes courantes à informatiser la composante management est ensuite mesurée: l'étude montre qu'elles ne sont pas adaptées. Des éléments de méthodes sont alors recherchés, une démarche spécifique et des outils conceptuels sont proposés pour informatiser la composante management et leur pertinence est vérifiée. Pour conclure, des perspectives sur l'évolution des techniques informatiques sont esquissées et l'impact sur les deux composantes du système d'information est analysé
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Ravasco, Gerard. "Don Bosco Technical School: A Situational Survey and Strategic Analysis." Thesis, Preston University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71586.
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Don Bosco Technical School in Phnom Penh is a typical example of a long-running non-profit institution in Cambodia. In this part of the world it is plainly called an NGO – a non-governmental organization. It provides vocational skills training education to some four hundred out-of-school youth every year. And yet it does not charge for tuition; nay more it even provides free lunch at noon. So how does Don Bosco Technical School survive this monetary based and profit oriented society? What are its sustainability secrets?This capstone project strives to look at the institution from a business perspective with organizational behavior, strategic planning, and human resource management as criteria.To achieve this, the process will include: •A critical evaluation of its organic strategic plan through a thorough analysis of its strategic documents like: logical framework, organizational charts, and programming sheets.•A structured interview of key employees gauging factors such as: their job satisfaction, job fit, and job identification with organizational values. •An in-depth analysis of its human resource management through observation of operations and investigation of corresponding documents like: salary scales, contracts, policies and procedures.The results of the study show that Don Bosco’s main strength lies in the staff’s strong commitment to the mission of the organization thereby providing the motivation to continue the work in spite of financial odds. On the other hand it has room for improvement in terms of organizing a more formal human resource management system due to its institutionalizing trend and for sustained sustainability of its work.
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Loukopoulos, Panayiotis. "Studies on the pathobiology and management of canine osteosarcoma /." St. Lucia, Qld, 2002. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe16505.pdf.
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Zobair, Hamza A. "A method for finding common attributes in hetrogenous DoD databases." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2004. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/04Jun%5FZobair.pdf.
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Skrijelj, Lejla. "Population dynamics and management strategies of stray and free-ranging dogs in Bor, Serbia." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för ekonomi, teknik och naturvetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-40143.
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Dogs are one of the most widespread carnivore and the third most invasive mammal, after cats and rodents. Stray dogs affect wildlife negatively by predation, disturbance, disease spreading, competition and hybridization with other wild canids. Even in urban environments stray dogs cause problems such as disturbance, pollution, traffic accidents, bites and risk of disease spreading. Serbia is one of many countries in the Balkan region that has a problem with overpopulation of stray dogs. The aim of this study is to investigate the population dynamics of stray dogs in Bor, Serbia and discuss different dog population management strategies. A total of 361 stray dogs were registered, 111 male dogs, 85 female dogs and 165 dogs with undetermined sex. 55 dogs (15.23%) were estimated to be older than 7 years old, 262 dogs (72.57%) were estimated to be between 3-7 years old, 30 dogs (8.31%) were estimated to be between 6-24 months old and 14 dogs (3.87) were estimated to be between 0-6 months old. No dogs showed any signs of rabies or CDV (canine distemper virus) and 241 stray dogs (66.75%) seemed healthy. 120 stray dogs (33.25%) did however have some kind of impaired health. To achieve a stop in the population increase,70% sterilisation rate is required and to teach responsible dog ownership. The stray dogs showed different reactions towards people, 164 dogs (45.42%) were neutral and 100 dogs (27.70%) showed no fear or aggression towards humans and gladly interacted. Since the dogs are highly accessible, they would be acceptable for a TNR (trap-neuter-release) program and male dogs need to be prioritised considering their dispersal patterns.Hundar är en av de mest spridda karnivorerna och det tredje mest invasiva däggdjuret, efter katter och gnagare. Gatuhundar påverkar vilda djur negativt genom predation, störning, spridning av sjukdomar, konkurrens och hybridisering med andra vilda hunddjur. Även i urbana miljöer har gatuhundar en negativ påverkan, genom störning, förorening, trafikolyckor, bett och sjukdomsrisk. Serbien är ett av många länder i Balkanregionen som har för stora populationer av gatuhundar. I detta arbete undersöks populationsdynamiken hos gatuhundar i Bor, Serbien och diskuterar olika metoder för att hantera gatuhundpopulationen. Totalt inventerades 361 gatuhundar, 111 hanar, 85 honor och 165 med obestämt kön. 55 hundar (15.23%) uppskattades vara äldre än 7 år, 262 hundar (72.57%) uppskattades vara mellan 3-7 år, 30 hundar (8.31%) uppskattades vara mellan 6-24 månader gamla och 14 hundar (3.87) uppskattades vara mellan 0-6 månader gamla. Inga hundar visade tecken på rabies eller CDV (canine distemper virus) och 241 gatuhundar (66.75%) föreföll friska. Däremot visade 120 hundar (33.25%) någon typ av nedsatt hälsa. För att uppnå ett stopp i populationsökningen krävs minst 70% steriliseringstakt samt att man lär ut ansvarsfullt hundägande. Gatuhundarna visade olika reaktioner mot människor, 164 hundar (45.42%) var neutrala och 100 hundar (27.70%) visade ingen rädsla eller aggression för människor och interagerade gärna. Eftersom gatuhundarna är lättillgängliga, skulle de kunna ingå i populationshanteringar som TNR (trap-neuter-release) och hanhundar bör prioriteras med tanke på deras spridningsmönster.
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Rector, Herschel H. "An historical analysis of DON procurement appropriations during fiscal years 1981 through 1989." Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 1990. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA246285.
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Thesis (M.S. in Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 1990.Thesis Advisor: Doyle, Richard B. Second Reader: Moses, Doug. "December 1990." Description based on title screen as viewed on April 1, 2010. DTIC Identifier(s): Naval budgets, Naval procurement, Navy, public administration, defense buildup, Congress. Author(s) subject terms: DON procurements, Navy procurement budgeting, aircraft procurement, weapons procurement, shipbuilding and conversion procurement, procurement, Marine Corps. Includes bibliographical references (p. 53-54). Also available in print.
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Brown, Kevin M. S. M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Re-Architecting the DoD acquisition process : a transition to the information age." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34628.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design and Management Program, 2006.Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-150).
The military is the midst of significant change, due to the DoD transformation guidance and movement to Network-Centric Warfare/Operations. Unfortunately, both the guidance given, roadmaps produced and the level of espoused support for the transformation have caused fundamental change to occur slowly and at increasing expense. The military material development process was designed around a platform-centric system and worked well, but now the information age is causing a move to network-centric systems. This fundamental shift is not aligned with the DoD development process and reform will require broad changes in both organization and policy. This paper reviews the NCW Transformation goal, the DoD transformation guidance and compares them to the Transformation Roadmaps of the Army, Navy and Air Force. These guidance documents are then compared with actual transformation changes and the associated factors effecting the change, using J. Forrester type system dynamics models. The systems dynamics analysis studies numerous transformation factors for their effects and yields recommended alternative development architecture.
(cont.) The goal of the paper is to align the DoD development process with the transformation guidance goals to result in a process which speeds prototype testing, development and fielding of new military systems, while integrating state-of-the-art business practice and theory. This resulted in the creation of several models which describe the various acquisition systems and a new model which addresses the issues found in the other models. The new model represents a reconfigured architecture for the DoD acquisitions system and a new organization to implement the transformation.
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Evripiotis, Michel. ""Pouvoir, politique et nouvelles voies du management dans l'entreprise du troisième type"." Paris 9, 1992. https://portail.bu.dauphine.fr/fileviewer/index.php?doc=1992PA090034.
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Une crise économique est toujours une crise de management. Le nouveau management de deux grandes écoles, américaine et japonaise, montre que l'utilisation des travailleurs et le mode d'organisation fédérant leur activité font la différence. La Californie représente l'individualité, le risque, l'innovation, le changement. Son avenir dépend de ses capacités à se diversifier. La redoutable omniprésence économique du Japon inquiète l'Occident. Quel est le secret de sa réussite ? On pense au caractère spécifique de sa culture, sans voir que le Japon allie étroitement les entreprises et l'administration avec un objectif primordial : la croissance économique illimitée. Conscients de ce dynamisme, les dirigeants américains ont mis en œuvre un projet d'alliance stratégique entre les deux pays pour asseoir un véritable "monopole-partage" sur les marchés de pointe. Ainsi se dessine une réelle prise en tenaille de la CEE par les Etats-Unis et le Japon. Le management traditionnel de l'entreprise européenne est condamné. Les nations européennes et leurs entreprises doivent comprendre que leur objectif commun est la lutte pour la compétitivité internationale. Patronat, syndicats et Etat ont besoin d'un nouvel esprit combinant innovation technologique et innovation sociale. La recherche de ce nouvel esprit, pour être efficace, passe par le changement des règles de l'environnement économique, social et politique. La globalisation de la concurrence et le progrès technique avancent beaucoup plus vite que la construction européenne. Seule, une coopération forte permettra à l’Europe une stratégie globale efficaceAn economic crisis is always a management crisis. The new management of two schools, American and Japanese, shows that the utilization of the workers and the mode of organization federating their activity make the difference. California represents individualism, risk, innovation, change. Its future depends on its capacities to diversify itself. The formidable economic presence of japan makes anxious the occident country. What is the secret of its success? Everyone thinks of the specific character of its culture without realizing that the japan narrowly allies enterprises and administration with a primordial objective: the unlimited economic growth. Conscious of this dynamism, the American leaders worked up a project of strategic alliance between the two countries to assure a real "sharing-monopoly" on the high-tech markets. Thus the real prize in pincers of EEC by the USA and japan appears. The traditional management of the European enterprises is lost. The European nations and their enterprises must understand that their common objective is the struggle for the international competition. Employers, syndicates and state need to have a new spirit which combines the technological innovation and the social innovation. The research of this new spirit, in order to an effective result, must cross the change of rules of the economic, social and politic environment. The totality of the competition and the technical progress advance much more quickly than the European formation
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El, Dine Deff Aïcha Karam. "La transmissibilité et l'applicabilité du modèle de management français aux entreprises égyptiennes." Paris 9, 1988. https://portail.bu.dauphine.fr/fileviewer/index.php?doc=1987PA090077.
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La théorie de management compare ne fournit guère de solution viable aux problèmes de transfert des techniques de management moderne que rencontrent les pays sous-développés et de leurs applications. Les chercheurs n'ont encore que peu exploré les dimensions culturelles. A partir d'une problématique traditionnelle, qui peut se résumer par la question suivante : "peut-on exister une connaissance purement objective?", nous avons montré qu'il fallait répondre non, toute connaissance contient une part subjective, cette dernière est liée aux interactions" culture-personnalité- comportement- attitudes". Concentrons notre attention sur les facteurs culturels. La lecture de nombreux ouvrages et les résultats tirés de plusieurs recherches nous a permis de montrer l'opposition des modèles culturels français et égyptiens. L'élaboration du modèle français de management a révélé les relations de dépendance entre les variables culturelles (causales) et les variables managériales. Nous avons examiné les possibilités de transfert et d'application du modèle de management français par le biais d'une comparaison des philosophies et des pratiques (enquêtes sur le terrain). L'analyse de réponses obtenues par les interviewes (français et égyptiens) a été effectuée en prenant en considération les spécificités culturelles (modèles culturels français et égyptiens)The comparative management theory can't offer a viable solution to the problems underdeveloped countries stumble across when it comes to transferring and applying modern management techniques. As yet researchers have done only little exploring of cultural dimensions. The traditional problem setting can be best summed up by raising the question "can we conceive of a fully objective knowledge?", and we showed the answer could only be negative, in every knowledge whichever lies a subjective part, that is connected to the interactions occurring between culture, personality, behavior and attitudes. Let us now dwell on the cultural factors. Studying a good lot of reading material enabled us to outline the opposition between French and Egyptian cultural models. The working up of the French type of management clearly showed the dependence interrelations exiting between (causal) cultural variables and managerial variables. We have studied and analyzed the possibilities of transferring and implementing the French model, taking into account the cultural factors, though a comparison between philosophies and practices
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Rydberg, Pia. "Fattar dom inte att dom behöver oss : En kvalitattiv studie av kuratorer inom hälso- och sjukvård." Thesis, Hälsohögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, HHJ, Avd. för beteendevetenskap och socialt arbete, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-38867.
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Many social workers that are working within the current healthcare system, feel that their profession is being marginalized, and they are worried that the social perspective might be lost, which would affect both the healthcare system and the patient in an undesirable way. This is a situation that is described by the social workers that were interviewed for the work of this assay. There is a proposition about a special legitimisation for social workers within the healthcare system. The main aim of this proposition is to secure the patient safety. A second aim is to secure that the social perspective will remain with in the healthcare system. The governance of the public sector of today, focuses on increasing the efficiency by control and review of measurable goals, which has affected the professionals' use of their skills and lead to de-professionalization. In today's knowledge management, measurable treatment through manuals is seemingly more important than professional competence, which has weakened the curators' profession role in healthcare. This picture is clearly stated in this essay's empirical study and is confirmed by the literature studied. The trust delegation has the task to develop a reform that will better use the employees' skills so that the Swedish citizens receive their needed services through trust-based governance. The proposed introduction of legitimisation and the work of the trust delegation can both lead to changes for the social workers and the social perspective. For the social workers, the proposal raises hope. A legitimisation might strengthen their occupational role and at the same time indicate that the social perspective in healthcare is a specific and necessary area, which can lead to the development of the profession's jurisdiction.
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Walan, Alexander M. G. "Application of System Maturity Level to Cost and Schedule Risk in Major DoD Programs." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10846206.
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In an effort to control cost and schedule growth, the US Department of Defense mandates that defense acquisition programs perform Technology Readiness Acquisitions (TRAs) during the acquisition cycle. Technology maturity is widely believed to correlate with cost and schedule risk in complex development programs, with the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) the metric currently used for assessing technology maturity. However, while a schedule-related correlation has been demonstrated, no research has shown a statistically significant correlation between a system’s overall technology maturity and cost growth. This study demonstrates that an acceptable system level metric can be constructed with the available TRLs that aids in controlling cost growth. This work validates this metric as a useful tool for program managers and system engineering professionals. Utilizing published data on US Department of Defense acquisition programs, this study defines a System Maturity Level (SML) metric that can be computed from existing TRLs and is a statistically significant predictor of cost risk. A System Maturity Level cost-risk curve is also introduced in order to help engineering managers make cost-risk decisions.