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Valterová, Jana. "Czech-Scottish Cultural Standards at Work Environment." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-203789.
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This diploma thesis is focused on Czech-Scottish cultural standards at work environment. The main aim is to define Scottish cultural standards at work environment from the Czech point of view and to compare them with the theory. The thesis begins with the definition of culture, cultural dimensions introduced by G. Hofstede, F. Trompenaars and E. T. Hall and cultural standards by A. Thomas. It continues to the description of Scotland with its geography, history, language, economic situation and various systems in the society, such as the legal system, educational system, health care system, a role of the family and religion. Further, Scottish national identity, key values and traditions are identified and there are added some information about work in Scotland. The thesis then leads us onwards to the determination of eight cultural standards at work environment and six cultural standards connected with the daily life in Scotland based on the qualitative research. The standards concerning work environment are further compared with the theory. At the end of the thesis, there are provided some recommendations for Czechs who are going to work with Scots.
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Holmstrup, Mark A. "Privacy protection standards for the information sharing environment." Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 2009. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2009/Sep/09Sep%5FHolmstrup.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Homeland Security and Defense))--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2009.Thesis Advisor(s): Bergin, Richard D. ; Josefek, Robert A. "September 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on November 9, 2009. Author(s) subject terms: Information Sharing Environment, privacy, collaboration, constitutionality, Transportation Security Administration, Program Manager Information Sharing Environment, information sharing. Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-96). Also available in print.
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Korol, A. O. "Environmental management and international standards." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2017. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/65975.
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al-Safadi, Yasser Haycam. "Distributed computing environment for standards based multimedia healthcare systems." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187400.
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The Open Software Foundation (OSF) Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) is an integrated set of services that facilitates the construction, use and maintenance of distributed applications in a heterogeneous computing environment. The OSF DCE services include remote procedure calls, naming service, threads service, time service, and security service. Several OSF DCE toolkits are currently available from computer and software vendors. The Global Picture Archiving and Communication System (Global PACS) operates in a medical environment for managing digital images over a large geographical area. This dissertation presents an approach to developing a platform to support multimedia Global PACS applications using the OSF DCE services and toolkits. Dynamic sequences such as Ultrasound are retrieved from a scalable video service over a TCP/IP connection. The Comprehensive Chart and the Remote Consultation and Diagnosis system are multimedia Global PACS applications that demonstrate the utility of this approach. The Comprehensive Chart is a multimedia medical record browser that provides a comprehensive view of patient data. The user of the Comprehensive Chart is authenticated using DCE Security and can access the objects only allowed by the Access Control List. System resources locations are transparent to the user and are located using the DCE Directory Service. Patient data privacy is maintained during communication through the use of secure remote procedure calls. The Remote Consultation and Diagnosis system was developed under a National Science Foundation project headed by Dr. Ralph Martinez, University of Arizona. It allows medical experts at different geographical locations to view the same image and exchange synchronized voice and image annotation commands. The current version uses the DCE Directory Service to dynamically locate session participants. These participants are authenticated and they can access objects only allowed by access control lists. The DCE Time Service will hide time zone differences among participants, and support the timestamp mechanism for the synchronization of voice and image annotation commands. The use of the OSF DCE approach features an open architecture, heterogeneity, security, scalability, and technology independence. This approach can be used to develop general purpose multimedia delivery applications. Finally, this design and implementation provides the foundation for extending medical services to rural areas.
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Stottlemyer, Alan R., and Kevin M. Hassett. "Open Systems Architecture in a COTS environment." International Foundation for Telemetering, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/608368.
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International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 28-31, 1996 / Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center, San Diego, CaliforniaA distributed architecture framework has been developed for NASA at Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) as the basis for developing an extended series of space mission support data systems. The architecture is designed to include both mission development and operations. It specifically addresses the problems of standardizing a framework for which commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) applications and infrastructure are expected to provide most of the components of the systems. The resulting distributed architecture is developed based on a combination of a layered architecture, and carefully selected open standards. The layering provides the needed flexibility in mission design to support the wide variability of mission requirements. The standards are selected to address the most important interfaces, while not over constraining the implementation options.
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Rice, Jeanne M. O'Brien. "Comparison of legal standards in sexual harassment hostile work environment /." Full text available online, 2008. http://www.lib.rowan.edu/find/theses.
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Cory, Dennis C., and Lester D. Taylor. "On the Distributional Implications of Safe Drinking Water Standards." CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/623433.
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The provision of safe drinking water provides a dramatic example of the inherent complexity involved in incorporating environmental justice (EJ) considerations into the implementation and enforcement of new environmental standards. To promote substantive EJ, implementation policy must be concerned with the
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risk reduction of new and revised regulations. The regulatory concern is that higher water bills for low-income customers of small public water systems may result in less disposable income for other health-related goods and services. In the net, this trade-off may be welfare decreasing, not increasing. Advocates of Health–Health Analysis have argued that the reduction in health-related spending creates a problem for traditional benefit-cost analysis since the long-run health implications of this reduction are not considered. The results of this investigation tend to support this contention. An evaluation of the internal structure of consumption expenditures reveals that low-expenditure households can be expected to react to an increase in the relative price of housing-related goods and services due to a water-rate hike by reducing both housing and health-related expenditures. That is, the representative low-expenditure household re-establishes equilibrium by not only decreasing housing-related spending, but also by decreasing spending on health-related expenditures in a modest but significant way. These results reflect the fact that expenditures on housing are a major proportion of overall household spending, and that accommodating drinking water surcharges exacerbates both health and food security concerns for low-expenditures households.
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Roy, Rohit. "Environmental standards in world trade : a study of the trade-environment nexus, disadvantages of the unilatereal imposition of standards and mutual recognition as an alternative." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2015. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/95392/.
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This thesis explores the trade related aspects of environmental standards. It assesses the potential for trade related conflict between Developed and Developing countries arising out of Unilateral Environmental Action (UEA). Furthermore it analyses the concept of Mutual Recognition (MR) and Mutual Recognition Agreements (MRAs) to understand how the inherent characteristics may potentially be utilized to reduce friction in international trade while implementing standards. The thesis also looks at the WTO compatibility of environmental standards, UEAs and MRAs. It uses a “Black Letter” methodology of doctrinal analysis, concentrating on doctrinal principles associated with the transnational governance of environmental standards and includes the analysis of statutes and cases of the WTO.
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Rosenau, W. Paul. "Development standardization : its origins, implementation and effect on the residential environment." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26907.
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The built environment has evolved through a layering process of both human needs and aspirations. We as a society 'Worship' the remnants of these richly varied and complex environments. In the previous 100 years, however, our environment has become a battleground for survival on many levels: environmental health, societal boundaries and quality of life. The so-called haphazard mode of environmental development was proceeding so quickly that 'MAN', through organization and control, sought to harness rampant growth by providing a mechanism to, in essence, protect us from ourselves. This mechanism was development standardization.
Zoning and subdivision standards initially had a very positive effect on residential districts. They achieved the desired objective of improving the health, safety and welfare of local citizens. To remain a successful regulatory mechanism, however, requires frequent review. (Generally government regulations are continually reviewed because of a need to respond to current reality - a typical example is tax reform laws). This is especially true for development regulation, which necessarily must respond to the rapidly changing and dynamic evolution of the North American city and its peoples.
In the case of residential development standards, however, there has been a lack of policy review resulting in a back-water of no change to the standard. Development standards, that were a direct response to mass housing development in the early nineteen hundreds, in many instances are still in place in municipalities in the Greater Vancouver area and likely throughout many other North American cities as well.
It is apparent that the very standards that were invoked to ensure residential quality are now preventing development from creating that quality. At the core of the issue of planning and design standards is the lack of understanding of these two disciplines - by each other and by the public. As a result, in many instances both planners and the public equate design with a simple problem solving process according to explicit rules - the standards. Herein lies the core of the problem. This misrepresentation of design and what it stands for in terms of environmental quality. This misunderstanding has greatly influenced the world we live in and this influence as of late is not of the positive nature. The thrust of this thesis is an exploration of the issue of design in the context of residential development standards. What are the standards which influence/impact residential development? What were the objectives for which these standards were originally implemented? How do the standards currently support the implementation of recognized design principles which lead to high quality environments? What kind of residential world is created by adherence to the standards and what opportunities are lost?
It is evident from this study that while the mechanism and often the mathematical formula of development standardization have remained relatively constant during the past half century, the city and the city dweller have not. Most new neighbourhoods in today's North American city lack identity, character and quality environment due to a set of zoning and subdivision standards that are antiquated and often based on arbitrary numbers. The case study examples of Village Homes in California and Ashcroft subdivision in Richmond, illustrate that conventional development standards prevent adherence to established residential design principles and that the nature of development standards is such that they are unable to contend with important and often basic design issues that are not amenable to simple arithmetic formula and measurement. It is also clear that standards not only adversely effect the physical condition of the residential environment, but also the people involved in the process of designing, constructing and regulating residential development. The designer is disillusioned, the developer confused, and the planner misfocused. The result is poor design, poor development, and poor planning. The failure to adopt and implement consistent and up-to-date policies and objectives for residential development standards has lead to the creation of stale, un-inviting, un-interesting and characterless living environments. The lesson to be learned here is that planners must first become more in tune with the issues and principles of design and second they must not be afraid to question established planning mechanisms. We therefore must ensure that a) the best mechanism is being employed and b) that it is based on appropriate and current policies and objectives that are leading to a better residential environment.Applied Science, Faculty of
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Weir, Malcolm. "TECHNOLOGY CONVERGENCE: OBSERVATIONS ON TRANSITIONAL APPROACHES FOR DATA ACQUISITION IN A TCP/IP ENVIRONMENT." International Foundation for Telemetering, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/604539.
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ITC/USA 2007 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-Third Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 22-25, 2007 / Riviera Hotel & Convention Center, Las Vegas, NevadaThis paper discusses how IRIG 106 Chapter 10 recording techniques could be employed in a network-centric environment, while maintaining as many of the strengths of the traditional approach. In the course of that discussion, aspects of the published standard which would have to be disregarded or reinterpreted for a network-centric approach to be adopted are illustrated.
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Qureshi, Mahvash Saeed. "Globalisation, the trade-environment nexus and international trade standards : implications for developing countries." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.614291.
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Persson, Anders J. "Ethical problems in work and working environment contexts." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Infrastructure, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-1741.
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This thesis identifies and systematizes two categories ofpractical problems that stem from work and working environmentcontexts: workplace privacy and occupational health risks. Thefocus of the discussion is on ethical justification. Do we havereason to accept a certain level of (potential) harm toemployees by virtue of the fact that they are employees, and ifso, under what circumstances? The thesis consists of a briefintroduction and three essays.
InEssayI, it is argued that employees have a prima facieright to privacy, but that this right can be overridden bycompeting moral principles that follow, explicitly orimplicitly, from the contract of employment. Three types ofjustification are specified: those that refer to the employer'sinterests, those that refer to the interests of the employee,and those that refer to the interests of third parties. A setof ethical criteria is developed and used in the subsequentessay to determine the moral status of infringement ofworkplace privacy.
InEssayII, these criteria are applied to three broadcategories of intrusive workplace practices: (1) monitoring andsurveillance, (2) genetic testing, and (3) drug testing.Scenarios are used to show that such practical ethical problemscan be handled systematically using proposed guidelines. It isalso shown that some practices are dubious and at least some ofthem can be replaced by less intrusive means of ensuring thedesired outcome, for instance efficiency or safety in aworkplace.
EssayIII deals with the fact that health and safetystandards for employees are less protective than those thatapply to the public. Emphasis is put on the distinction betweenexposure and risk, and this distinction is claimed to be a keyfactor in the relevance of arguments in favour of such doublestandards. The analysis of 'double standards' for public andoccupational exposure to risk aims to show that a justificationof such standards is closely linked to two separate types ofissues, namely empirical and normative issues. It is claimedthat this kind of differentiation seems to be supported neitherby a reasonable conception of the contract of employment nor byany obvious ethical principle that is applicable to workplacesor work situations in general.
Key words:Contract of employment, double standards,drug testing, ethics, ethical justification, exposure, genetictesting, health and safety standards, privacy, surveillance,risks, work, work environment
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Spencer, Ronald L. "Implementing international standards for "continuing supervision"." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=111581.
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The Outer Space Treaty established the obligation to provide continuing supervision of its national space activities by the appropriate state. The implementation of this obligation remains a matter of state discretion. Since this Treaty came into force the world has evolved to become reliant on space based utilities to enable the global economy and state governance. Today, space faring states are increasingly dependent upon the supervision practices of other states to assure its space interests as the attribution of state responsibility becomes more difficult to ascribe.Therefore, the absence of binding supervision standards may become an impediment to future space applications due to three identified trends. First, the trend towards space commercialization requires active state supervision. Second, the rise in environmental hazards requires minimal safety standards to decrease the harmful effects on space applications. Third, space security requires identification of intentional acts and prudent measures to safeguard vital space applications.
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Söderström, Anna-Karin. "Hållbarhetsredovisning : Identifiering och prioritering av hållbarhetsfrågor i en verksamhet som Sweco Environment." Thesis, KTH, Industriell ekologi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-215132.
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I en hållbarhetsredovisning redovisar en organisation information om sin påverkan inom ekonomisk, miljömässig och social hållbar utveckling. Några av de inledande stegen i en redovisningsprocess är att identifiera organisationens hållbarhetsfrågor, och att bestämma frågornas prioriteringsordning för att på så sätt kunna bestämma ett väsentligt innehåll till redovisningen. De här stegen av redovisningsprocessen har varit i fokus under arbetet. En identifiering och prioritering av konsultbolaget Sweco Environments hållbarhetsfrågor har gjorts, i det övergripande syftet att lägga en grund för fortsatt arbete med hållbarhetsredovisning på Sweco och i liknande verksamheter. Mål med arbetet har varit att identifiera hållbarhetsfrågorna genom intressentdialog, och att prioritera frågorna för att kunna ge förslag till innehåll i en redovisning för bolaget. Den använda metoden för identifiering och prioritering har också utvärderats och diskuteras, bland annat genom att olika metoder jämförts. Som underlag vid val av metod och källa till mycket information användes GRI Standarder för hållbarhetsredovisning, som därmed också studerades. Det har diskuterats huruvida de här standarderna helt täcker den lag om hållbarhetsredovisning som gäller från den 1 december 2016. En slutsats är att de stämmer så väl överens att ett användande kan rekommenderas, även om standarderna inte skulle bedömas uppfylla lagkraven helt. Att redovisa enligt standarderna bedöms också vara fördelaktigt med tanke på både författare och läsare av en redovisning. Under arbetet har standarderna över lag fungerat bra som hjälpmedel, och de rekommenderas att användas av Sweco och liknande verksamheter. Intressentdialogen genomfördes genom att nio personer ur nio olika intressentgrupper intervjuades. En workshop med anställda hölls också på kontoret i Stockholm. Av de hållbarhetsfrågor som identifierades handlar de fem högst prioriterade om jämställdhet, klimat, resor, medarbetares psykiska hälsa och avfallshantering. Frågorna kan anses relevanta för hela Sweco och även konsultföretag i allmänhet, och de rekommenderas därför att diskuteras som innehåll i en kommande redovisning för Sweco. En slutsats av arbetet är att intressentdialogen passar mycket bra vid identifiering och prioritering av hållbarhetsfrågor och då en hållbarhetsredovisning ska skrivas. Den kan inte bara ge innehåll åt utan även förankra kunskap om redovisningen, både i och utanför organisationen. Intressentdialogen bör dock kompletteras med andra metoder för en mer fullständig väsentlighetsanalys. Slutligen bör hållbarhetsredovisningen knytas ordentligt till verksamhetens befintliga hållbarhetsarbete, strategi och mål, både för att få ett trovärdigt innehåll och för att kunna fungera som ett verktyg för hållbar utveckling.In a sustainability report, an organization is informing about its economic, environmental and social impact on sustainable development. Initial steps of the reporting process are to identify topics of sustainability that are relevant for the organization in question, and to prioritize them so that a relevant content can be decided for the report. These two steps in the reporting process have been in focus during the study. The sustainability topics of the consulting company Sweco Environment have been identified and prioritized, for the overall aim of providing a basis for a continued work with sustainability reporting at the parent company Sweco and in similar organizations. The objectives were to identify topics by holding a stakeholder dialogue, and to prioritize the topics to be able to suggest content for a report of the company. The used method for identification and prioritization has also been evaluated and discussed, by comparing different methods to each other for example. The GRI Standards for sustainability reporting were extensively used, when methods were chosen and for searching information in general. Therefore, the standards were also thoroughly studied. It is discussed whether the law of sustainability reporting, which is effective from 1 December 2016, can be fully followed by using the GRI Standards. A conclusion is that they correspond to such an extent that using the standards would be favorable, even if they would not correspond entirely. Also, to report in accordance with the standards is assessed to be favorable considering the writers as well as readers of a report. The standards have worked well as a tool during the thesis work and are recommended to use for sustainability reporting by Sweco and similar enterprises. In the stakeholder dialogue, one person from each of the nine stakeholder groups head/management, sustainability coordinator, junior consultant, senior consultant, supplier, competitor, customer, none governmental organization and academy/university was interviewed. Also, a workshop was held at the office in Stockholm. Among the identified sustainability topics, the five most material were found to be equality, climate, travelling, mental health of employees and waste management. A conclusion is that the topics are relevant for Sweco and for consulting companies in general, why they could be discussed for a future sustainability report of Sweco. A conclusion from the work is that the stakeholder dialogue is a highly suitable method for identifying and prioritizing topics when writing a sustainability report. Apart from defining the report content it can be used for establishing a knowledge base about the reporting process inside and outside of the organization. However, the method should be complemented with others for a more complete materiality analysis. The semi-structured interview method that was used is also suitable in the context. Finally, the sustainability report has to be properly linked to ongoing sustainability work, strategies and goals of the organization in order to be reliable and have the possibility to work as a tool for a sustainable development.
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Mokwe, Ozonzeadi Ngozi Uzoamaka. "River sediment sampling and environment quality standards : a case study of the Ravensbourne River." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2014. https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/964y5/river-sediment-sampling-and-environment-quality-standards-a-case-study-of-the-ravensbourne-river.
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Sediment is a major sink for heavy metals in river, and poses significant risks not only to river quality but also to aquatic and benthic organisms. At present in the UK, there are no mandatory sediment quality standards. This is partly due to insufficient toxicity data but also due to problems with identification of appropriate sediment monitoring and analytical techniques. The aim of this research was to examine the sampling different river sediment compartments in order to monitor compliance with any future UK sediment environmental quality standards (EQS). The significance of sediment physical and chemical characteristics on sampling and analysis was also determined. The Ravensbourne River, a tributary of the River Thames located in the highly urbanised South Eastern area of London was used for this study. Sediment was collected from the bed using the Van Veer grab, the bank using hand trowel, and from the water column (suspended sediment) using the time integrated suspended tube sampler between the period of July 2010 and December, 2011. The result for the total metal extraction carried out using aqua regia found that there were no significant differences in the metal concentrations retained in the different compartments by the <63μm sediment fraction but there were differences between the 63μm-2mm fractions of the bed and bank. The metal concentration in the bed, bank and suspended sediment exceeded the draft UK sediment quality guidelines. Sequential extraction was also carried out to determine metal speciation in each sediment compartment using the Maiz et al. (1997) and Tessier et al. (1979) methods. The Maiz et al. (1997) found over 80% of the metals in each sediment compartment were not bioavailable, while Tessier et al. (1979) method found most of the metals to be associated with the Fe/Mn and the residual phase. The bed sediment compartment and the <2mm (<63μm + 63μm-2mm) fraction appears to be the most suitable sediment sample for sediment monitoring from this study.
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Ntile, Zukiswa. "Assessing the personal development of employees in a municipal environment." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1020420.
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Skills transfer to Municipal employees is lacking due to management delays in acknowledging and understanding its importance to the affected employees. These result in poor work performance and services delivery to the communities. In the research design the Job Performance in any organisation is expected to be releasing good results or outcomes. Employees expect to be recognised in their work they perform. The employers’ responsibility is to ensure that the employee’s interests are taken care of reasonably. Scarce skill is a very important aspect in the career of specialised skilled employees and expectations are very high in this kind of environment. Globally the scarce skill is one of the aspects that is encouraged that organisations should take cognisance of. When staff is recruited and works for the Municipality it is vital that they are retained and capacitated through trainings. The employees that have worked for the Municipality a longer period should or must at least transfer those skills for the preparation of the succession planning and continuity in the organisation. The data was collected in a form of a questionnaire where respondents indicated their responses based on the questions formulated to measure their job performance, scarce skills, retention of staff, recruitment and selection, on-the-job training for skills transfer and training in relevant field. The data collected was analysed and presented in the form of tables and percentages. The study has revealed that the clear strategies recommended are essential in the personal development of employees through training, recognition inthe institution by way of remuneration or awards and ensuring to retain staff for a longer period for succession planning in a municipal environment.
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Richartz, Dinah. "Achieving high ethical standards, social responsibility, and focus on exceptional quality in the corporate environment." Online version, 2008. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2008/2008richartzd.pdf.
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Laska, William David. "Development of a standards based open environment for the worldwide military command and control system." Master's thesis, This resource online, 1993. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-03302010-020318/.
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Fish, Jo Anna Baarda. "Teachers implementing literacy instruction in a performance-standards environment a collective case study in second grade /." restricted, 2007. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-12032007-131900/.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2007.Title from file title page. Dana L. Fox, committee chair; Celeste Compton Bates, Joyce E. Many, Amy Seely Flint, Joel Meyers, committee members. Electronic text (165 p. : ill.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Aug, 21, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 142-150).
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Fish, Jo Anna. "Teachers Implementing Literacy Instruction in a Performance-Standards Environment: A Collective Case Study in Second Grade." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2008. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/msit_diss/31.
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Literacy expectations on elementary classrooms are intensifying with each outcry for accountability by the public and by educational policy makers (Hoffman & Pearson, 2001). Many states, including Georgia, have developed new performance-based curricula in response to expectations for academic performance (Georgia Performance Standards, 2005). However, few researchers have focused on how teachers interpret these performance standards in their local classroom settings. This collective case study research, established within a social constructivist theoretical frame (Vygotsky, 1978), provided an in-depth examination of how the mandated language arts policy of the Georgia Performance Standards (GPS) influenced teachers’ thoughts and decisions about daily literacy instruction. Specific guiding questions for the study were: (1) What literacy expectations do three second-grade teachers have for their students’ literacy development? (2) Where do these expectations originate? (3) How do these three teachers craft and implement instruction in light of their expectations? (4) How do the state mandates constrain or provide opportunities for these three teachers to develop their expectations and implement instruction for their students’ literacy development? Multiple data sources included interviews, classroom observations and field notes, verbal protocols, classroom artifacts and documents, and the researcher’s journal. Data analysis utilized constant comparison and grounded theory analysis within and across cases (Strauss & Corbin, 1990). Trustworthiness and rigor were established through credibility, transferability, dependability, and confirmability (Guba & Lincoln, 1985). This study was designed to give voice to the teachers at the forefront of increasing accountability measures in Georgia’s public elementary school classrooms. Findings revealed that study participants used different funds of knowledge in complex ways to establish literacy expectations and implement instruction and that a fund of knowledge related to mandated accountability measures was influential in the participants’ instructional decision-making processes. When the delivery model of training for the GPS included opportunities to discuss student learning outcomes and reflect on instructional practices, the GPS directly influenced writing instruction. Implications for action from this study are grounded in the study’s key findings and conclusions and hold relevance for the fields of preservice teacher education, professional learning for teachers, school and county administration, and state and federal educational policy making.
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Alnsour, Jamal Ahmad Mohammad. "Planning and managing the built environment in the context of compliance with residential standards in Jordan." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.431526.
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CORREA, MOEMA VIEIRA GOMES. "HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE ENVIRONMENT: BERGAMA MOVEMENT (TURKEY) AGAINST GOLD MINING. EUROPEAN STANDARDS IN THE MARGINS?" PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2008. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=12986@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO
FUNDAÇÃO DE APOIO À PESQUISA DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO
A presente dissertação analisa o caso do movimento social de Bergama, surgido na Turquia, nos anos 1990, como resistência local à mineração de ouro por uma corporação transnacional, esta apoiada pelo governo nacional. Frente a estes antagonistas, a luta local provocou a formação de uma rede de ativismo transnacional em apoio à causa. A fim de contestar duplos padrões nas atividades de corporações transnacionais e agências financiadoras, que prejudicam a subsistência de grupos subalternos, a rede invocou conjuntamente normas ambientais e de direitos humanos em prol da justiça ambiental. Tal estratégia se insere na crescente formulação, por atores coletivos, de uma linguagem de novos direitos. Assim, a pesquisa examina processos de contenda transnacional que permitiram ao movimento ter acesso a instituições supranacionais européias - o Parlamento Europeu, a Comissão Européia e a Corte Européia de Direitos Humanos. Investiga-se então a resposta destas instituições às demandas do movimento, bem como os impactos de suas intervenções, de modo a avaliar especialmente os potenciais e limites da estratégia baseada em direitos para grupos desproporcionalmente afetados pela degradação ambiental. A discussão do caso revela como é difícil demandar a observância de padrões europeus nas margens do sistema-mundo moderno/colonial, onde se localizam as atividades mais degradantes, e os Estados são mais vulneráveis às pressões do capitalismo global. Ademais, expõe a imbricação entre processos locais, regionais e globais, bem como a impossibilidade de separar de forma estanque política doméstica e internacional, no emaranhado das relações intranacionais, transnacionais e internacionais, permeadas pela colonialidade do poder.
This dissertation analyzes the Bergama social movement, which arose in Turkey in the 1990s as local resistance to gold mining by a transnational corporation supported by the national government. Facing these antagonists, the local struggle lead to the establishment of a transnational advocacy network. In order to defy double standards in the activities of transnational corporations and financing agencies, which threaten the livelihoods of subaltern groups, the network appealed to both environmental and human rights norms on behalf of environmental justice. Such a strategy involves the framing process by collective actors of a language of new rights. Thus, the dissertation examines the processes of transnational contention that allowed the movement to gain access to European supranational institutions - the European Parliament, the European Commission, and the European Court of Human Rights. The response of these institutions to the movement`s demands is examined, as well as the impacts of their interventions, particularly so as to evaluate the limits and potential of a rights-based strategy for groups disproportionately affected by environmental degradation. The case reveals how difficult it is to demand respect for European standards at the margins of the modern/colonial world-system, where the heaviest polluting activity is to be found, and states are more vulnerable to the pressures of global capitalism. Furthermore, it shows how local, regional and global processes are inextricably interwoven, hence the impossibility to make a clear-cut distinction between domestic and international politics amidst the entanglement of intra-, trans- and international relations, all permeated with the coloniality of power.
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Moura, André Aroldo Freitas de. "Financial reporting standards on accounting quality, analysts' information environment and cost of capital in Latin America." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2017. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7863/.
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This thesis is structured upon three studies. The first study investigates whether mandatory IFRS adoption improves accounting quality in Latin America. The findings show that in the post-adoption period: accrual earnings management practices are reduced, value relevance of accounting increases, and the delay in recognising bad news reduces. However, these improvements cannot be found in firms with high bankruptcy possibility and poorly performing firms. The second study focuses on whether the analysts’ information environment has improved since the IFRS adoption. The results show that the mandatory adoption of IFRS improves analysts’ information environment, even after controlling for the firm-level reporting incentives. The third study focuses on whether IFRS has affected the cost of equity and debt in Latin America. The findings show that the cost of equity and debt decreased significantly in the post-IFRS period. Overall, the results found can be attributed to IFRS as the institutional environment has not changed significantly around the years of the mandatory adoption of IFRS. Thus, IFRS can contribute to enhance the accounting quality of Latin American firms, and may help to develop the capital market and the development of these firms.
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Pringle, Perkins Bobby II. "EDUCATIONAL CHANGE: DEVELOPMENT OF A CREATIVITY ENCOURAGING PEDAGOGICAL FRAMEWORK FOR A STANDARDS-BASED MIDDLE SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1469204520.
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Al-Rumaihi, Jassim Shaheen Hamad. "Setting accounting standards in a non-Western environment : with special reference to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia." Thesis, University of Dundee, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.390411.
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Helding, Karen A. "Effectiveness of national board certified teachers in terms of classroom environment, attitudes and achievement among secondary science students." Thesis, Curtin University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2502.
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A United States organization, called the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS), was initiated to strengthen the pedagogy of teaching and, subsequently, improve student achievement. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of the NBPTS in terms of whether National Board Certified (NBC) teachers are effective in promoting positive classroom environments and student attitudes and in enhancing student achievement. The sample consisted of 927 Grade 8 and 10 science students from 12 secondary schools. Altogether, 443 students in 21 classes comprised the NBC teacher group and 484 students in 17 classes comprised the non-NBC teacher group. Students completed a learning environment questionnaire, the What Is Happening In this Class? (WIHIC), and an attitude scale based on the Test Of Science-Related Attitude (TOSRA). Scores from the science portion of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test FCAT, a state-mandated examination, were collected to measure achievement. This research is unique in that it is the first time that a learning environments study has included a sample of National Board Certified (NBC) and non-NBC teachers in order to compare their effectiveness in terms of secondary students' perceptions of their science learning environment, attitudes toward science, and science achievement. The study revealed that the revised version of the WIHIC and the modified attitude scale are valid and reliable instruments for assessing perceptions of the classroom environment and attitudes toward science among secondary science students in Miami-Dade County, Florida.In addition, a much stronger association with learning environment was found for students' attitude than for students' achievement. The contributions and significance of this study are not only that it adds to the area of research that pertains to the efficacy of NBC teachers, but it also adds to the field of learning environments research. This study is useful because it could be replicated to provide additional empirical evidence about the effect National Board teachers have on students in the classroom and add to the growth of educational data on the impact of National Teacher Certification and classroom learning environments research.
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Geradin, Damien. "Trade and the environment in European Community and United States law : a study of the tension between free trade and state environmental policies with particular reference to the areas of waste, product standards and process standards." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.363861.
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Maue, Allison. ""Reasonable Person" vs. "Reasonable Woman": An Evaluation of the Standards Used in Determining Hostile Work Environment Sexual Harassment." TopSCHOLAR®, 1998. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/268.
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Currently, there is a debate in progress over which standard is appropriate for use when evaluating hostile work environment sexual harassment. Traditionally the "reasonable person" has been used as the viewpoint from which to evaluate potentially harassing behavior. However, the historical 1991 federal court case Ellison vs. Brady introduced the "reasonable woman" standard due to the belief that the traditional standard may unwittingly be biased toward men. Most research to date has focused on the benefits and/or disadvantages of utilizing one standard over the other. The present research represents an attempt to discover whether the implementation of a standard truly makes a difference; that is, if invoking a particular standard results in altering the evaluation of hostile work environment sexual harassment by a juror. Results indicated that standard had no effect on an individual's interpretation of hostile environment sexual harassment, whether the data were examined as males, as females, or the group.
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Akyuz, Didem. "Supporting a standards-based teaching and learning environment a case study of an expert middle school mathematics teacher." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4657.
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Although it has been more than 20 years since the publication of Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics (NCTM, 1989) and 10 years since the second version of standards, Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (NCTM, 2000), the research underlines the lack of essential practices for standards-based teaching (Franke, Kazemi, & Battey, 2007). The literature also emphasizes the importance of planning in standards-based teaching, although few studies focus on the direct planning of the teacher (Kilpatrick, Swafford, & Findell, 2001). The aim of the current study was to conduct a case study to extract the planning and classroom practices of an expert seventh grade mathematics teacher. The extracted practices were interpreted using the teaching-in-context theory which is based on the beliefs, goals, and knowledge of the teacher. The case study was conducted in a design experiment environment where the instructional sequence was revised based on the classroom instruction. The data were collected through different resources including videotapes of classroom sessions, teacher notes, students' artifacts, audiotapes of daily teacher interviews, weekly teacher meetings and classroom small groups in five weeks. Transcripts were used to observe the action patterns of the teacher during both planning and classroom practices. By triangulating the data, planning practices were separated into five categories: preparation, reflection, anticipation, assessment, and revision. These practices were interrelated in an environment of collaboration. Classroom practices also were categorized into five groups, namely creating and sustaining social norms, facilitating genuine mathematical discourse, supporting the development of sociomathematical norms, capitalizing on students' imagery to create inscriptions and notation, and developing small groups as communities of learners.; Similar to the planning practices, these were also highly interrelated with social norms playing a key role in application of all other practices. The results showed that the expert teacher used a diverse set of practices with each practice comprised of multiple actions to create and sustain a standards-based environment. The results also indicated that standards-based teaching requires a rich and connected body of knowledge about students, curriculum, content, and literature. It was found that the depth of the teacher's knowledge allowed her to develop practices that were consistent with her beliefs and goals. Finally, the planning and classroom practices were found to be highly interrelated. While effective planning practices facilitated the application of standards-based teaching, the classroom teaching practices equipped the teacher with the data necessary to perform effective planning practices.ID: 029051074; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Central Florida, 2010.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 292-305).
Ph.D.
Doctorate
School of Teaching, Learning, and Leadership
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Bishop, Keith Allan. "Predictor Variables Related To Falls In A Long-Term Care Environment." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/9717.
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Although a great deal is known about the etiology of falls in elderly individuals, fall accidents continue to represent a significant burden to elders residing in long-term care facilities. It has been stated that 75% of deaths due to falls in the United States occur in the 13% of the population age 65 and over. The first objective of the study was to identify which fall-predictor variables acknowledged in the research literature are associated with increased fall frequency with the older population. Identifying specific predictor variables related to a high occurrence of falls in long-term care setting can assist in the redesign of tools and programs aimed to recognize fall risk, and prevent fall-related accidents and fatalities in the geriatric population. The second objective of the study was to identify which combination of predictor variables could better predict the frequency of falls.
A history of falls variable was the only predictive variable that differed significantly between groups of residents who had sustained subsequent falls and those who had not. Other variables including age, mental status, day number of stay, elimination, visual impairment, confinement, blood pressure drop, gait and balance, and medication were found to not be statistically significant between groups of fallers and non-fallers. In this setting, the current design of the tool had limited accuracy and exhibited an inability to effectively discriminate between resident populations at risk of falling and those not at risk of falling. Consequently, the current fall risk assessment tool is not adequate for assessing fall risk in this clinical setting.Master of Science
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Helding, Karen A. "Effectiveness of national board certified teachers in terms of classroom environment, attitudes and achievement among secondary science students." Curtin University of Technology, Science and Mathematics Education Centre, 2006. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=16716.
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A United States organization, called the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS), was initiated to strengthen the pedagogy of teaching and, subsequently, improve student achievement. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of the NBPTS in terms of whether National Board Certified (NBC) teachers are effective in promoting positive classroom environments and student attitudes and in enhancing student achievement. The sample consisted of 927 Grade 8 and 10 science students from 12 secondary schools. Altogether, 443 students in 21 classes comprised the NBC teacher group and 484 students in 17 classes comprised the non-NBC teacher group. Students completed a learning environment questionnaire, the What Is Happening In this Class? (WIHIC), and an attitude scale based on the Test Of Science-Related Attitude (TOSRA). Scores from the science portion of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test FCAT, a state-mandated examination, were collected to measure achievement. This research is unique in that it is the first time that a learning environments study has included a sample of National Board Certified (NBC) and non-NBC teachers in order to compare their effectiveness in terms of secondary students' perceptions of their science learning environment, attitudes toward science, and science achievement. The study revealed that the revised version of the WIHIC and the modified attitude scale are valid and reliable instruments for assessing perceptions of the classroom environment and attitudes toward science among secondary science students in Miami-Dade County, Florida.In addition, a much stronger association with learning environment was found for students' attitude than for students' achievement. The contributions and significance of this study are not only that it adds to the area of research that pertains to the efficacy of NBC teachers, but it also adds to the field of learning environments research. This study is useful because it could be replicated to provide additional empirical evidence about the effect National Board teachers have on students in the classroom and add to the growth of educational data on the impact of National Teacher Certification and classroom learning environments research.
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Dyer, Troy. "Signalling IPO readiness in a changing environment : the changing impact of listing standards and media coverage on IPO performance." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/79765.
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The study responds to a call for further research into the impact of changes in the initial public offering (IPO) signalling environment, on IPO signalling and IPO performance, in particular the impact of changes in the regulatory and media environment of IPOs. The study makes a contribution to theory, practice and methodology. The study examines the impact of a major change in the IPO environment, the 2008 global financial crisis (GFC), on IPO signalling and IPO performance. The study is set in the South African IPO market, based on a survey of the population of IPOs on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), and the Alternative Exchange (AltX, a division of JSE), from 2003 to 2019, the period over which the JSE and AltX have coexisted to date. The study confirms that there was an increase in the impact of listing standards and media coverage on IPO performance, comparing pre-GFC and post-GFC. The study makes three contributions to signalling theory. First, the study finds that major changes in the IPO environment, such as the GFC, have an impact on IPO signalling and IPO performance. Second, the study finds that there was an increase in the signalling impact of listings standards and media coverage on IPO performance, from pre-GFC to post-GFC. Third, the study tests the application of signalling theory in the smaller IPO market of South Africa, and demonstrates the effects and limitations of signalling theory in a smaller IPO market. The study contributes to practice by informing the decision-making of key IPO players, including listing companies, investors and stock exchanges. The study contributes to methodology in demonstrating the use of sample selection criteria, based on IPO signalling studies, in the South African IPO market, in which signalling theory has not previously been adopted as the primary theory base in IPO studies. Study limitations include the relatively small size of the IPO population surveyed, a consequence of the limited size of the IPO market in South Africa. The study has identified various opportunities for further research. One is to improve scholarly understanding of the relationship between cross-listings and IPO performance, as revealed by the study, suggesting the signalling impact of the increased globalisation of the exchange environment.Thesis (DPhil)--University of Pretoria, 2020.
Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS)
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Zahedi, Saed. "Virtualization Security Threat Forensic and Environment Safeguarding." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för datavetenskap (DV), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-32144.
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The advent of virtualization technologies has evolved the IT infrastructure and organizations are migrating to virtual platforms. Virtualization is also the foundation for cloud platform services. Virtualization is known to provide more security into the infrastructure apart from agility and flexibility. However security aspects of virtualization are often overlooked. Various attacks to the virtualization hypervisor and its administration component are desirable for adversaries. The threats to virtualization must be rigorously scrutinized to realize common breaches and knowing what is more attractive for attackers. In this thesis a current state of perimeter and operational threats along with taxonomy of virtualization security threats is provided. The common attacks based on vulnerability database are investigated. A distribution of the virtualization software vulnerabilities, mapped to the taxonomy is visualized. The famous industry best practices and standards are introduced and key features of each one are presented for safeguarding the virtualization environments. A discussion of other possible approaches to investigate the severity of threats based on automatic systems is presented.
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Bendová, Ivana. "Česko-mexické a mexicko-české kulturní standardy ve studijním prostředí." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-205013.
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The main objective of the thesis is to define a Czech-Mexican and Mexican-Czech cultural standards focused on students. The findings are compared with the theory of cultural standards by Ivan Nový. Identification of cultural standards is studied on the basis of the cultural standards method of Alexander Thomas based on an analysis of recurring conflict situations. The data collection was carried out through qualitative interviews with Czech having experience studying in Mexico and Mexican who studied in the Czech Republic. The research aims to analyse the differences in the approach to the time, the perception of authorities and difference in the meaning of education of Mexicans and Czechs. In the end, research findings provide recommendations for Czechs planning to study in Mexico as well as for Mexicans who wish to study in the Czech Republic.
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Strouhalová, Markéta. "Komparace česko-amerických a americko-českých kulturních standardů ve studijním prostředí." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-205029.
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Nowadays, exchange programs are becoming increasingly popular among students all over the world. Thanks to high-quality education, the United States are much desired destination, the Czech Republic attracts Americans with its great location in the heart of Europe and rich history. Cultural values in American society are however in many respects way different from the ones we share in Czech environment. Therefore cultural shock can appear when a student decides to move to another country in order to study there. Understanding cultural differences is essential for successful interaction with local individuals. The main topic of this thesis is the concept of cultural standards defined by Alexander Thomas, applied on university study environment in the Czech Republic and the USA. The aim was to identify Czech-American cultural standards in the study environment from the perspective of Czech university students who studied in the US at least for one semester and US-Czech cultural standards from the perspective of students from the USA. Identified standards were then compared with theoretical conclusions from research of cultural dimensions done by Fons Trompenaars and Geert Hofstede. At the end, recommendations are written for students of both nationalities, which should help them to integrate into foreign environment and eliminate potential culture shock.
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Heywood, Jacqualine, and n/a. "'Talking' and 'doing' gene technology politics: a policy analysis." Griffith University. Australian School of Environmental Studies, 2004. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20041029.100010.
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This thesis explores the environmental politics surrounding agricultural biotechnology innovations and diffusion. Recent developments in agricultural biotechnology are accompanied by growing social concerns that such innovations pose risks to the environment and to human health. Biosafety is a term used to discuss the possibility of such risks. Currently, the regulation of agricultural gene-technology and biosafety are contentious environmental issues for national and international policy communities. However, detailed studies of the conflicts and complexities generated by biotechnology for environmental governance are scarce. In particular, little is understood of the ways in which biotechnology issues emerge on regulatory agendas, and research gaps remain on how differing perspectives of biotechnological risks impact on policy outcomes. This thesis makes a significant contribution to these outstanding research issues. My contribution is a new analytical framework that unearths the discursive role biotechnology plays in constructing international environmental policy regimes. I develop this framework on the understanding that the use of language resources like storylines, metaphors and other rhetorical devices are critical in shaping environmental policy in general and biotechnology governance in particular. This analytical framework couples a language analysis to an investigation of the practices of institutional power. The result is a discourse analysis that provides important and useful insights into the theory and practice of biosafety policy. In other words, my thesis explores both the talking and the doing of policymaking and thereby provides new insights into the contested and uncertain environmental policy area of international gene-technology regulation. Specifically, I undertake a discourse analysis of international biosafety politics within the Convention on Biological Diversity. I apply my discourse analysis to a case study: the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity, 2000. My research provides a different reading of international gene-technology politics, one that questions the constructed nature of biotechnology as a policy problem and reveals the power relations involved in producing particular policy options and outcomes on biosafety. There are a number of key research findings that emerged from the application of my discursive analytical framework to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. I find that biosafety is a highly fluid concept. It can enlarge or contract depending on the way in which language resources are mobilised by policy actors and interest groups to secure definitions and generate consensus around their preferred understandings of biosafety. Moreover, my research indicates that the more radical texts for biosafety can be recast by dominant interest groups into scripts for shallow reform agendas. Institutionalised policy practices also effect policy outcomes. My research finds that the use of Expert Panels, for example, is important in shaping international policy communities understanding of the policy problems posed by biotechnology risks. In the light of these findings, my thesis argues that the ability of interest groups and policy actors to win language games within institutional settings also enables them to secure their preferred policy outcomes. I import the concept of authorship as a new policy concept to discuss the ways in which such groups exercise social power to secure their understanding of biosafety, which thereby effect the writing of the dominant accounts of what constitutes an acceptable international biosafety standard within the Cartagena Protocol. In short, my thesis is a new account of biosafety politics that fills some of the current knowledge gaps about how biotechnology is emerging onto regulatory agendas. It also demonstrates the mechanisms of power and the language struggles that determine biosafety policy outcomes within multi-lateral environmental agreements such as the Convention on Biological Diversity.
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Heywood, Jacqualine. "'Talking' and 'doing' gene technology politics: a policy analysis." Thesis, Griffith University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365762.
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This thesis explores the environmental politics surrounding agricultural biotechnology innovations and diffusion. Recent developments in agricultural biotechnology are accompanied by growing social concerns that such innovations pose risks to the environment and to human health. Biosafety is a term used to discuss the possibility of such risks. Currently, the regulation of agricultural gene-technology and biosafety are contentious environmental issues for national and international policy communities. However, detailed studies of the conflicts and complexities generated by biotechnology for environmental governance are scarce. In particular, little is understood of the ways in which biotechnology issues emerge on regulatory agendas, and research gaps remain on how differing perspectives of biotechnological risks impact on policy outcomes. This thesis makes a significant contribution to these outstanding research issues. My contribution is a new analytical framework that unearths the discursive role biotechnology plays in constructing international environmental policy regimes. I develop this framework on the understanding that the use of language resources like storylines, metaphors and other rhetorical devices are critical in shaping environmental policy in general and biotechnology governance in particular. This analytical framework couples a language analysis to an investigation of the practices of institutional power. The result is a discourse analysis that provides important and useful insights into the theory and practice of biosafety policy. In other words, my thesis explores both the ‘talking’ and the ‘doing’ of policymaking and thereby provides new insights into the contested and uncertain environmental policy area of international gene-technology regulation. Specifically, I undertake a discourse analysis of international biosafety politics within the Convention on Biological Diversity. I apply my discourse analysis to a case study: the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity, 2000. My research provides a different reading of international gene-technology politics, one that questions the constructed nature of biotechnology as a policy problem and reveals the power relations involved in producing particular policy options and outcomes on biosafety. There are a number of key research findings that emerged from the application of my discursive analytical framework to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. I find that biosafety is a highly fluid concept. It can enlarge or contract depending on the way in which language resources are mobilised by policy actors and interest groups to secure definitions and generate consensus around their preferred understandings of biosafety. Moreover, my research indicates that the more radical texts for biosafety can be recast by dominant interest groups into scripts for shallow reform agendas. Institutionalised policy practices also effect policy outcomes. My research finds that the use of Expert Panels, for example, is important in shaping international policy communities’ understanding of the policy problems posed by biotechnology risks. In the light of these findings, my thesis argues that the ability of interest groups and policy actors to win language games within institutional settings also enables them to secure their preferred policy outcomes. I import the concept of authorship as a new policy concept to discuss the ways in which such groups exercise social power to secure their understanding of biosafety, which thereby effect the ‘writing’ of the dominant accounts of what constitutes an acceptable international biosafety standard within the Cartagena Protocol. In short, my thesis is a new account of biosafety politics that fills some of the current knowledge gaps about how biotechnology is emerging onto regulatory agendas. It also demonstrates the mechanisms of power and the language struggles that determine biosafety policy outcomes within multi-lateral environmental agreements such as the Convention on Biological Diversity.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Australian School of Environmental Studies
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Rolfe, Damian C. "An investigation into a bentonite clay based geosynthetic liner in a caustic refinery environment." Thesis, Curtin University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/828.
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Bauxite residue (red mud) management is a major environmental issue for alumina refineries. The global average for residue storage can cover in excess of 2.1 million square metres per refinery and is increasing annually by 300 to 400 thousand square metres. Residue has the potential to damage surface and groundwater quality due to the residue’s high alkalinity. Bauxite residue drying areas (RDAs) need to be designed in a manner that is safe for the population and the natural environment. Currently, RDA construction practice relies on the placement of a minimum of two clay lifts, a constructed low permeability base and an embankment seal that is at least equivalent to a 0.5m depth of mechanically compacted clay with a permeability coefficient of less than 10-9m/sec. This is overlain with a high-density polyethylene (HDPE) geomembrane, as the primary seal against seepage of caustic liquor. In Western Australia it is becoming increasingly difficult to source sufficient clay for future RDA constructionTo continue to meet and improve on current community and environmental standards, this investigation proposes an alternative to the clay lining system. A factory prehydrated geosynthetic liner (GCL) was evaluated in terms of its feasibility and its use in the design of a RDA, which would reduce the dependency on the sourcing of mass volumes of high quality clay from potentially long distances. The investigation also reviews the use of the GCL in a structural application, utilising it as a secondary containment measure under concrete bunds containing alumina process tanks.
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Franco, Gilbert Ernest. "Productivity Standards, Marriage and Family Therapist Job Satisfaction, and Turnover Intent." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/461.
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Turnover among mental health professionals is high, which can have a direct impact on access to services and continuity of care. Informed by goal-setting theory, social-cognitive theory, and self-efficacy, this quantitative study investigated how California community mental health agency productivity standards were related to self-efficacy, job satisfaction, and marriage and family therapist (MFT) turnover intent among 141 MFTs. Participants completed a Demographic and Productivity Questionnaire, Job Self-Efficacy Scale, Job Satisfaction Scale, and Turnover Intention Scale. The relationship between participant age, gender, experience, number of work hours, licensure status, and job site with job satisfaction and turnover intent were assessed using hierarchical multiple regression. The results of the study showed that productivity standards positively impacted (i.e. increased) turnover intent and were partially mediated by job self-efficacy and job satisfaction. Additionally, productivity standards negatively impacted job satisfaction, as partially mediated by job self-efficacy. Hours worked per week and gender were also found to impact turnover intent. Licensure status was found to impact job satisfaction. Implications for positive social change include assisting MFT employers in community mental health agencies in designing jobs for providers that promote job satisfaction and reduce turnover intent.
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Samuelsson, Göran. "I godsets skugga? : frälsebonden på Ängsö : familj och arbete 1700-1880 /." Stockholm : Stads- och kommunhistoriska institutet, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-241.
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Foua, Bi Kema Alexis. "Enduring child labour on Ivory Coast's cocoa farms : practicality of the ILO standards and the missed opportunities." Thesis, Brunel University, 2014. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/10578.
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This thesis examines the enduring nature of child labour on Ivory Coast’s cocoa farms. The thesis shows that the role of the state in promoting instead of inhibiting child labour practices in the Ivory Coast favours the thriving of challenging factors to any prospect of a total abolition. This thesis focuses on the influences of traditions customary practices underpinning the child labour practice. The thesis shows the adverse role of Multinational Corporations operating in Ivory Coast’s cocoa industry. This thesis shows that despite Ivory Coast being a signatory to the ILO Convention on the Worst Forms of Child Labour 1999 (No. 182), the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1999) as well as other regional and sub-regional legal instruments, the appropriate legal and policy response to child labour has yet to be provided. The thesis, therefore, offers the pedagogic approach as the shifting factor.
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Boolaky, Doorgakunt Lakshi D. "The Impact of the Financial Reporting Environment and Institutional Pressures on Capital Flows and Transfer Pricing Rules: A Cross Country Analysis." Thesis, Griffith University, 2023. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/421341.
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Given the ongoing debate on International Financial Reporting Standards, foreign direct investment, stock market and transfer pricing, this thesis, for the first time, through three separate studies, investigates the effect(s) of the financial reporting environment (international standards on auditing and its interaction with international financial reporting standards) on capital flows (i.e. foreign direct investment and market capitalisation) and the institutional factors driving the adoption of transfer pricing rules. Foreign direct investment is important to all types of economies. Emerging and developing economies always develop economic policies (both fiscal and monetary) to attract foreign direct investment. The debate on International Financial Reporting Standards and capital flows is only one aspect of the Financial Reporting Environment. Study 1 of this thesis has informed the body of literature on the crucial role that the financial reporting environment of an economy would play in order to boost its FDI. So far, investors, policy makers, advisors have insights only and only on the microeconomic drivers of FDI. Likewise, as regards to short term capital flows, we have been informed only of the macro-economic environment influencing it and very few accounting performance indicators that influence for example, share prices and market capitalisation. Through study 2 of this thesis, an investigation of the impact of the financial reporting environment on share prices and market capitalisation has been conducted to increase our understanding of the roles of globally accepted reporting standards on the strength of financial information on the stock market. This thesis adds to the ongoing debate by providing insights on the role of International Standards on Auditing and its interaction with International Financial Reporting Standards on both foreign direct investment and market capitalisation. Study 3 as a separate study has examined the transfer pricing and its adoption and implementation across countries. Using institutional pressures, study 3 has informed the body of literature on the impact of institutions on the adoption of Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Transfer Pricing rules. It also increases our understanding on the impact of institutional pressures on the adoption of Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Transfer Pricing rules.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Dept Account,Finance & Econ
Griffith Business School
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Sadaoui, Lamia. "Conception de systèmes antennaires MIMO multi-standards LTE pour les nœuds relais." Thesis, Université Côte d'Azur (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018AZUR4222/document.
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Pour déployer la quatrième génération de téléphonie 4G/LTE ou « LTE advanced », les opérateurs mobiles sont confrontés à de fortes contraintes : d’une part assurer une bonne couverture géographique mais aussi une excellente qualité de service. Ceci nécessite une ingénierie du réseau qui dépasse largement ce qui a été mis en place pour les réseaux GSM ou 3G. L’industrie des télécoms a créé pour cela le concept de « small cells » ou petites cellules qui viennent en renfort des « macrocells » ou grosses cellules. Cette thèse cherche à apporter une solution à cette problématique à travers notamment le développement d'antennes pour « smart cells ». Cette étude, supportée par le projet FUI NETCOM, doit permettre aux opérateurs d’étendre la couverture et la capacité de leurs réseaux à moindre coût tout en préservant la qualité de service. Pour cela, l’objectif plus précis de cette thèse est de concevoir un système multi-antennaire multistandard MIMO (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) dédié à des noeuds relais pour le déploiement de la quatrième génération de téléphonie LTE. Cette conception doit être compatible avec 3 bandes de fréquences du LTE : (700-900 MHz) pour les bandes LTE 700 et LTE 800, (1710-1880 MHz) pour les bandes GSM 1800 / LTE 1800 et la dernière (2500-2690 MHz) pour le LTE 2600. Pour cela, nous avons étudié tout d’abord un système à 4 accès mono-bande, en nous concentrant uniquement sur la bande basse de 700 à 900 MHz. Dans une seconde étude, nous avons cherché à couvrir les deux autres bandes supérieures en nous servant d’éléments parasites pour constituer un système MIMO à 4 accès tri-bande. Nous avons ensuite étudié l’influence de l’environnement proche du système antennaire, avec la présence d’un radiateur métallique. Un problème important et fréquent dans les systèmes multi-antennes étant le couplage, nous avons également étudié et réalisé une technique de découplage. Celle-ci servira à isoler les éléments rayonnants à espacement réduit, conçus pour nos trois bandes LTETo deploy the fourth generation called 4G/LTE or "LTE advanced", mobile operators face strong constraints: they must ensure a good geographic coverage but also an excellent quality of service. This requires new methods that go far beyond what has been implemented for GSM or 3G networks. The telecom industry has created the concept of "small cells" that reinforce the "macrocells" deployed by the operators. This thesis tries to provide a solution to this problem and more particularly through the development of antennas for a product called "smart cell". This study, supported by the FUI project NETCOM, should enable mobile operators to extend the coverage and capacity of their networks at a lower cost while maintaining a good quality of service. To do that, the aim of this thesis more particularly is the design of a multi-band multi-antennas MIMO system (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) dedicated to relay nodes for the deployment of the fourth generation 4G/LTE or "LTE advanced". The antenna design considers the coverage of the three LTE operating frequency bands and must be compatible with them. The (700-900 MHz) frequency band is used for the LTE 700 and LTE 800 bands, (1710-1880 MHz) for the GSM 1800/LTE 1800 bands and the last (2500-2690 MHz) for the LTE 2600 bands. In our first study, a reference system with 4 access was studied in simulation and measured, for only the low band 700-900 MHz. In a second study, we tried to cover the other two higher bands to have a tri-band system using the parasitic elements to get a three-band MIMO system with 4 access. We studied then, the influence of the environment close to the antenna system, with the presence of a metallic radiator. As we often encounter a frequent problem in multi-antenna systems which is the coupling problem between the different access of a multi antenna system, so we have studied and realized a decoupling technique. This technique was used to enhance the isolation between the different access
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Vallier, Romain. "La conformité environnementale, une politique juridique au service de la performance globale de l’entreprise." Thesis, Université Côte d'Azur (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018AZUR0028/document.
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Cette étude porte sur la conformité environnementale, une politique juridique au service de la performance globale de l’entreprise. Il s’agira de démontrer que les réglementations environnementales et les normes environnementales volontaires auxquelles tentent de se conformer les entreprises et les États, peuvent améliorer à la fois leur protection de l’environnement, leur compétitivité, et dans une certaine mesure leur performance sociale. Cette conformité environnementale a pris un essor particulier depuis les grands phénomènes économiques induits par la mondialisation. La mondialisation se caractérise depuis les années 1970 par l’avènement d’une économie de marché ouverte dans laquelle les entreprises circulent librement d’un pays à un autre. Cette économie repose notamment sur le libre-échange des biens, des services, des technologies, des capitaux, ainsi que sur libre circulation des entreprises elles-mêmes. La mondialisation se caractérise également, du fait de l’ouverture de cette économie, par la mise en concurrence des États et des entreprises à l’échelle internationale. Ce phénomène économique de la mondialisation a toutefois entraîné une dégradation majeure de l’environnement au fil des années. Afin de répondre à ces différents enjeux, les États ont mis en place des mécanismes réglementaires ainsi que des mécanismes volontaires de protection de l’environnement destinés à encadrer les activités des entreprises, qui forment le socle de la politique juridique de conformité environnementale menée par ces entreprises. Les entreprises tentent alors de s’adapter à ces mécanismes juridiques afin de mieux protéger l’environnement, mais aussi afin de devenir plus compétitivesThe aim of the thesis consists of wondering how companies lead their legal politics to get a global performance. In other words, it will be advisable to demonstrate that environmental regulations and voluntary environmental standards which companies and States try to conform, can improve at the same time their environmental protection, their competitiveness, and to a lesser extent their social performance. This environmental compliance has taken a particular development since the big economic phenomena led by the globalization. The globalization is characterized since the 1970s by the advent of an opened market economy in which companies circulate freely from a country to another. This economy is particularly based on free trade of properties, services, technologies, capital, as well as on free circulation of companies themselves. But globalization had led to a serious environmental degradation. In order to meet these challenges as operationally as possible, countries have put regulations and voluntary standards with a view to regulating firms’ activities, that form the basis of a environmental compliance legal policy undertaken by these companies. These companies are trying to adapt to those legal mechanisms in order to better protect the environment, but also to become more competitive
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Mattingly, Richard Scott. "THE IMPACT OF RE-ACCREDITATION PROCESSES AND INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT UPON A COMMUNITY COLLEGE'S EFFORTS TO MEET MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR ASSESSING GENERAL EDUCATION." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/171511.
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As one result of the accountability movement in American postsecondary education, accrediting agencies have increased their emphasis on student learning outcomes assessment. Among other consequences, this change has impacted the manner in which institutions of higher education (IHEs) plan, implement, assess, and revise the general education portion of their curricula. Yet, although accreditation has promoted the practice of general education assessment, studies suggest that it has not necessarily helped IHEs to use assessment effectively for improvement. In particular, community colleges have faced unique challenges in implementing general education assessment plans and using their results for improvement. This single case study sought to illuminate the manner in which the convergence of environmental characteristics and the Middle States Commission on Higher Education's (MSCHE) re-accreditation and sanctioning processes impacted a community college's plans for assessing general education. To accomplish this, the researcher conducted an intensive examination of a community college, which MSCHE had recently required to submit a progress report that detailed specific improvements to the IHE's plan for assessing general education. The data showed that re-accreditation served as a primary motivator for changes to this IHE's approach to general education assessment. However, interview responses suggested that MSCHE could have assisted the community college by providing more support as institutional leaders sought to produce a required progress report that sufficiently documented their general education assessment plan. Four overarching components of the institutional environment had a complex impact on the community college's ability to meet accreditation standards. The physical environment neither stimulated nor inhibited efforts to meet standards at this IHE and the human aggregate environment had a predominantly positive impact on these efforts. Data related to the organizational environment proved mixed. While some stimulants of change existed, other organizational factors inhibited the ability of this community college to meet MSCHE standards related to general education assessment. Finally, the constructed environment of collective beliefs had an overwhelmingly positive impact on these efforts. These findings led to several recommendations for the case study IHE, MSCHE, the state, and future researchers. In addition, they have yielded valuable insights about the combined impact of the regional accreditation process and environmental characteristics upon an IHE's ability to meet standards in areas such as general education and assessment. The recommendations may assist other IHEs needing to improve both their general education assessment plans and, more broadly, their ability to meet the standards of regional accrediting bodies. Furthermore, they may assist regional accrediting bodies and states with improving their ability to facilitate substantive change.
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Korhonen, Karoliina. "Sanitation in Moria : The Sphere minimum standards and sustainability in a protracted crisis." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-414595.
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With over 19,200 asylum seekers living on its premises, the Moria refugee camp is operating way over its capacity of 3000 residents. Due to the uncontrolled, rapid growth of the camp, the existing sanitation infrastructure has fallen into disrepair under excessive usage. While the old toilets and showers are breaking down and lacking maintenance, creating new facilities has been slow, resulting in hundreds of people sharing one latrine. In this thesis, I analyze whether Moria‟s sanitation services meet the Sphere minimum standards and propose improvements based on the sustainable settlements framework. I argue that Moria is midst a protracted crisis. This means that in addition to meeting the minimum standards, the camp needs sustainable settlement planning for the many years it still has ahead of it. As a method, I use integrative literature review. The thesis finds that Moria cannot meet any of the Sphere standards as people live in a degrading, dangerous and unhealthy environment. Women and disabled people face additional challenges when using the few latrines, which are far away and have long queues. There is a risk of SGBV for vulnerable groups. Wastewater from Moria used to pollute a local stream until the sewage system was connected to a waste-processing plant in 2019, which is the only positive aspect that was found in the literature. However, broken pipes still create significant problems inside the camp. Seeing that waste is a problem on the tightly-packed camp, it is important that when new toilets are built they process excreta safely while saving space. I have introduced sustainable sanitation solutions that turn excreta into soil improver and energy. These toilets have long life-spans and are optimized to save space. They solve the problem of pollution and ideally, enhance the independence of their users, as excreta is turned into safe-to-handle products. To ensure that the users accept the new technologies, their engagement in the planning of the services is essential.
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Upadhyay, Naimish S. "Green Local Governments in Florida: An Analysis of Sustainability and Green Building Policies." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0003096.
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Kaizar, Libor. "Analýza výkonnosti systému managementu." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta strojního inženýrství, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-231514.
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In this thesis is described the analysis performance of management system. It´s all about quality management system and environmental management system. Ti describes the course of internal audit in selected company.
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Thomasson, Victoria Lee. "A Study of the Relationship Between School Climate and Student Performance on the Virginia Standards Of Learning Tests in Elementary Schools." VCU Scholars Compass, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10156/1810.
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Chan, Hsiung Wei Roy. "Performance analysis of IEEE 802.11A signals under different operational environments." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2004. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/04Sept%5FChan.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S. in Electrical Engineering)--Naval Postgraduate School, Sept. 2004.Thesis advisor(s): Tri T. Ha, Randy L. Borchardt. Includes bibliographical references (p. 89). Also available online.