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Bengtson, Kevin. "A comparison of the Australian federal vocational rehabilitation system to the American state-federal vocational rehabilitation system." Online version, 2001. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2001/2001bengtsonk.pdf.
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McMahon, Marshall E. "Federal reserve behavior : 1923-1931 /." New York ; London : Garland, 1993. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37404078x.
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Hanna, Ninos. "Founding of the Federal Reserve System: A Political History." Thesis, Boston College, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104882.
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Thesis advisor: Marc LandyThesis advisor: Gerald Easter
The Federal Reserve System has been the focus of significant scrutiny, but stakeholders educated as to its history and functions are aware that it serves as a crucial resource for preserving national (and by extension global) economic stability. This paper consists of a historical overview of the Federal Reserve and the many controversies, which have led to adjustments that improved the system and kept it effective throughout changing times. With discussion of its constitutional foundations, the establishment of the central bank of the United States, pertinent legislation, and political controversies, the Federal Reserve will be explained in a comprehensive way that can lead to accurate appreciation for the nature of the System, as it exists today – with greater transparency and importance than ever before
Thesis (MA) — Boston College, 2015
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Political Science
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Varela, David F. "The federal system and corporate law: the case of Delaware." Thesis, McGill University, 1989. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=55686.
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Caplan, Arnie. "The role of recreational sports in the federal prison system." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1996. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/mq22039.pdf.
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Mallak, Larry A. "Applying the management system model to a federal government organization." Thesis, This resource online, 1986. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-03022010-020105/.
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Mitchell, Joseph Pershing. "The Central Bankers: Administrative Legitimacy and the Federal Reserve System." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26363.
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In this dissertation, I study the legitimacy of the Federal Reserve System. Administrative legitimacy, I argue, is an evaluative (or subjective) concept consisting of two beliefs: first, administrative institutions have a right to govern; second, they are an appropriate way to handle public tasks.
After discussing scholarship on legitimacy, I examine the Federal Reserve System, asking two questions about it. First, how have its officials attempted to legitimate both their institution and their actions over time? Second, how have elected officials, scholars, and political activists attempted to (de)legitimate the Fed and its officialsâ actions?
While answering my research questions, I tell a story about which strategies the institutionâ s supporters have used to legitimate the Fed and which strategies the institutionâ s opponents have used to delegitimate it. To do so, I examine two things: the public argument about the Fedâ s administrative legitimacy from 1970 to 1995; the Fedâ s interactions with its environment, those with direct implications for its legitimacy, during this time.Ph. D.
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Souto, Maria de Fátima Dantas Carneiro. "A Política Pública de Transformação do Sistema Federal de Educação Profissional e Tecnológica: uma Reconfiguração Identitária do Instituto Federal de Educação Ciência e Tecnologia da Paraíba - IFPB." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2017. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/9327.
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Professional education in Brazil registers, in the current historical juncture, a new scenario, based on a policy of expansion and reordering of this mode of teaching. The reordering policy of the federal network of professional education was given by the Organization of Federal Institutes of education, science and technology or, simply, Federal Institutes (IF). The Federal Institutes are several Campi institutions of higher education, professional, basic, intended to offer professional and technical education in the different methods of teaching. Were organized from the integration of two or more federal institutions professional education of a State, and the transformation of Federal Centers of technological education, Agro-technical schools and Federal technical schools linked to Federal universities. Federal Institutes fit the responsibility to promote the vertical integration of basic education to graduate; to promote the expansion of the number of campuses and the offer of courses considering the needs of the regions served. Highlights the completion of expansion management, staff and faculty, as well as the adequacy of facilities, in order to ensure the quality of education offered, all of this without losing sight of your own identity. The present study aimed to analyze the process of organization of the identity of this "new" institutionalism. We analyze the effects of institutional changes, which occurred between the period 2003 to 2010, the IFPB, whereas the vision and discourse of institutional actors. The scarcity of studies on the subject and the importance given to education by the Brazilian education policies for the current importance of this study. The research process was structured into three levels, namely: theoretical review, document analysis and field research. Field research, held at the Federal Institute of education, science and technology of Paraíba, semi-structured interviews with six institutional actors who have lived the process of transformation. The study indicates that the policy of the Organization of the Federal Institutes in Brazil, in addition to the proposal to extend the tender offer of the middle-level vocational education, represented the consolidation of a network of education intended, specifically, to the professional education and required an effort of adaptation by the same.
A educação profissional no Brasil registra, na atual conjuntura histórica, um novo cenário, fundamentado em uma política de expansão e de reordenamento dessa modalidade de ensino. A política de reordenamento da rede federal de educação profissional se deu mediante a organização de Institutos Federais de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia ou, simplesmente, Institutos Federais (IF). Os Institutos Federais são instituições multicampi de educação superior, básica e profissional, destinados a ofertar educação profissional e tecnológica nas diferentes modalidades de ensino. Foram organizados a partir da integração de duas ou mais instituições federais de educação profissional de um mesmo estado, e da transformação de Centros Federais de Educação Tecnológica, de Escolas Agrotécnicas e de Escolas Técnicas Federais vinculadas a Universidades Federais. Aos Institutos Federais coube a responsabilidade de promoverem a verticalização da educação básica à pós-graduação; de promoverem a expansão do número de campi e a oferta de cursos considerando a necessidade das regiões atendidas. Destaca-se ainda a realização da gestão da expansão, do corpo técnico e docente, como também a adequação das instalações físicas, para poderem garantir a qualidade da educação ofertada, isso tudo sem perderem de vista sua própria identidade. O presente estudo objetivou analisar o processo de organização da identidade dessa “nova” institucionalidade. Propusemo-nos analisar as repercussões das mudanças institucionais, ocorridas entre o período 2003 a 2010, no IFPB, considerando a visão e o discurso dos atores institucionais. A escassez de estudos sobre o tema e a relevância dada à educação profissional pelas atuais políticas educativas brasileiras justificam a importância deste estudo. O processo de pesquisa foi estruturado em três níveis, a saber: revisão teórica, análise documental e pesquisa de campo. A pesquisa de campo, realizada no Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Paraíba, contou com a realização de entrevistas semiestruturadas com seis atores institucionais que viveram todo o processo da transformação. O estudo indica que a política de organização dos Institutos Federais no Brasil, para além da proposta de ampliar a oferta pública do ensino profissional de nível médio, representou a consolidação de uma rede de ensino destinada, especificamente, à educação profissional e requereu um esforço de adequação por parte dos mesmos.
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Bullock, Robert J. "NOTICE: A tutorial expert system for Federal Government notice requirement disputes." Thesis, Pennsylvania State University, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/42107.
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Contract claims are an unacceptable by-product of the construction industry. Claims occur for many reasons: differences in contract interpretation, lack of perfection in the contract documents, failure to accurately estimate the cost of the project, errors in contract administration, acceleration, and delay. The majority of claims originate as disagreements in the field. Many of these claims or disputes could have been avoided by field personnel, given that they possessed ample knowledge about legal theories.
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Posey, Brian Wenford Jesse. "Dynamic Time Metered Delivery (DTMD) : potential effect on the goals of the Federal Communications Commission's "National Broadband Plan."." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70805.
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Thesis (S.M. in Engineering and Management)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, System Design and Management Program, 2011.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-101).
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has stated that broadband is the great infrastructure challenge of the early 21st century. On March 16, 2010 the FCC published "Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan". One of the goals of the FCC Plan is having 1OOM U.S. households with affordable access to actual download speeds of at least 100Mbps and actual upload speeds of at least 50Mbps. The FCC also has the goal that every American should have affordable access to robust broadband (5Mbps) service. This paper examines the potential use of Dynamic Time Metered Delivery (DTMD) in the furtherance of these goals using data and analysis from public sources and TelePulse Technologies Corporation (inventors of DTMD). The key questions the research proposes to answer are: * Using Hypercube analysis, how would key elements of the value chain for phone companies categorize and react to DTMD as an innovation? * Are there specific goals of the FCC National Broadband Plan that might be directly furthered by the use of DTMD? By decreasing the price of broadband performance, DTMD can further FCC goals for broadband adoption in rural communities, less dense suburban communities and low income urban communities. With DTMD and without capital expenditure, the current broadband un-served can be enabled with a broadband speed of minimum 5Mbps on their current phone lines. The cost for a phone company to provide the service goes from being a capital expenditure to a consumable expenditure. In the case of broadband deployment, for rural communities, less dense urban communities and low income urban communities, private sector business goals and public sector goals conflict. Various parts of a broadband provider's value chain may see needed innovation as potentially disruptive, lacking a robust total market, or lacking a high degree of interest by the service provider (the perceived driver of market volume). While private sector investment in broadband has increased, that funding is focused on more at improving current investment with incremental improvement to market proven technologies. FCC driven investment opportunities and incentives to innovate for the unserved should include opportunities to innovate with technologies that are not fully market proven.
by Brian Wenford Jesse Posey.
S.M.in Engineering and Management
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Breth, Bruce R. "An historical analysis and comparison of the military retirement system and the federal employee retirement system." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1998. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA348433.
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Thesis (M.S. in Management) Naval Postgraduate School, June 1998.Thesis advisor(s): Richard B. Doyle, Frank J. Barrett. "June 1998." Includes bibliographical references (p. 85). Also available online.
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McPherson, Nani L. "The use of vocational evaluation in the state-federal vocational rehabilitation system." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2006. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2006/2006mcphersonn.pdf.
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Johal, Surjinder. "Political economy models of trade and the environment in a federal system." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.288483.
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Lawson, Christopher M. (Christopher Michael). "Group decision making in a prototype engineering system : the Federal Open Market Committee." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/43854.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, June 2008."May 26, 2008."
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All ES evolve as the result of stakeholder decisions and decision processes that affect their design and operation. These decision making problems often involve many stakeholders, each of whom have a say in the outcome. This has been termed a lateral alignment problem, as opposed to a unitary decision making problem. Lateral alignment focuses on group decision making where stakeholders are nominally organizationally independent, interact to maximize their own goals and simultaneously a common goal, and who are able to influence decision outcomes to varying degrees through power and influence. Previous work in the relevant literatures has focused on two variants used to assess and model group decision making. Type 0 Group Decision problems involve anonymous voting, where stakeholders do not interact. Type 1 Group Decision problems involve non-cooperative interaction where stakeholders try to maximize their self-interest through negotiation. We define the lateral alignment problem as a Type 2 Group Decision problem, which involve elements of both non-cooperative and cooperative behavior. Type 2 Group Decisions have not been fully treated in the existing literatures. In this thesis, we evaluate a prototype Type 2 Group Decisions: the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) from 1970-1994 as a test case. One major advantage of studying the FOMC is the availability of data and relevant analytical published work. Our original empirical findings include: 1. Information ambiguity is the major factor that impacts coalition dynamics, via the number of starting bids, in FOMC decision making. 2. Deliberation time is directly determined by information ambiguity and the relationship is the same across chairmen eras. 3. Decision efficacy falls off gradually as information ambiguity increases.
(cont.) 4. Members whose past views are best reflected as correct in hindsight appear to build up reputation and have greater influence on decision outcomes. We also develop an agent based model (ABM) to study the FOMC. As we show, the ABM is very effective at predicting observables of the FOMC decision making process. These observables are: 1. Membership in the Winning Coalition. 2. Number of Bargaining Rounds. 3. Decision Outcomes. 4. The Number of Starting Bids. In chapter 6 we discuss issues of generalizing the findings of this to other ES. Our sample includes the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), SEMATECH, and the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NGATS).
by Christopher M. Lawson.
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Gruber, Peter. "Market expectations of short interest rates." St. Gallen, 2005. http://www.biblio.unisg.ch/org/biblio/edoc.nsf/wwwDisplayIdentifier/03608056001/$FILE/03608056001.pdf.
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Machado, Fábio Firmino. "Integração e visibilidade para sistemas de bibliotecas: aprendendo com a Universidade Federal da Paraíba." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2014. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/5911.
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This report is intended to serve as a parameter to validation by the managers of the Library System of the Universidade Federal da Paraíba - SISTEMOTECA , the use of the Integrated Management of Academic Activities - SIGAA Module Library , replacing ORTODOCS Information System in use for over fifteen years. Describes the two systems in general, emphasizing their functionality and chronologically recounts the implementation of the module , the sectoral Center Libraries Health Sciences - CCS and the Center for Technology and Regional Development - CTDR , members of the Library System of UFPB strategically taken as a pilot because of its size and volume of the acquis. The type of research used a qualitative development and deployment was recorded by the author through participant observation where the involved subjects met in committee established for this purpose and discussed the progress and barriers encountered during the process . At the end of the implementation of sectoral coordinators questionnaires and interviews were applied to the direction of the Library System of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte - SISBI as a complementary element of research in order to verify in situ the current reality of the effective use of SIGAA - Library Module . Finally , reports results and final considerations contextualizing the implementation and indicating the relevant points with some recommendations .
Este relatório tem a finalidade de servir de parâmetro para validação pelos gestores do Sistema de Bibliotecas da Universidade Federal da Paraíba SISTEMOTECA, do uso do Sistema Integrado de Gestão de Atividades Acadêmicas - SIGAA, Módulo Biblioteca, em substituição ao Sistema de Informação ORTODOCS em uso há mais de quinze anos. Descreve os dois sistemas em linhas gerais, enfatizando suas funcionalidades e relata cronologicamente a implantação do módulo, nas bibliotecas setoriais do Centro de Ciências da Saúde - CCS e do Centro de Tecnologia e Desenvolvimento Regional - CTDR, integrantes do Sistema de Bibliotecas da UFPB, estrategicamente tomadas como piloto em virtude de suas dimensões e volume do acervo. O tipo de pesquisa utilizada foi qualitativa e o desenvolvimento da implantação foi registrado pelo autor através da observação participante onde os sujeitos envolvidos se reuniam em comissão criada com esse propósito e discutiam os avanços e barreiras encontrados no decorrer do processo. Ao término da implantação foram aplicados questionários aos coordenadores das setoriais e entrevista com a Direção do Sistema de Bibliotecas da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte SISBI como elemento complementar de pesquisa com a finalidade de verificar in loco a realidade atual do uso efetivo do SIGAA Módulo Biblioteca. Por fim, relata os resultados e as considerações finais contextualizando a implantação e indicando os pontos relevantes com algumas recomendações.
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Silva, Denis Vinicius Ricardo da. "Determinação de um modelo geoidal local para o Distrito Federal." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UnB, 2017. http://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/30984.
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O modelo geoidal é parte fundamental na transformação entre as altitudes ortométricas e geométricas. Existem aspectos positivos na sua utilização quando comparados a métodos clássicos de levantamento. O surgimento das técnicas de posicionamento por GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) impulsionou de maneira significativa diversas linhas de pesquisa, na busca de um modelo geoidal cada vez mais preciso. A disponibilidade de dados altimétricos, gravimetria terrestre e orbital também contribuíram neste sentido. Deste então, várias abordagens para a obtenção de um modelo geoidal tem sido apresentadas. Atualmente a integração de diferentes métodos se mostra uma alternativa promissora para o cálculo do geoide. Neste contexto, o emprego da técnica Remove-Calcula-Restaura (RCR) tem demonstrado resultados importantes no Brasil e em outras partes do mundo. A base de todas as formulações da técnica RCR envolve métodos gravimétrico e orbital, por isto, utiliza Modelos Digitais de Terreno (MDT), dados gravimétricos terrestres, Modelos do Geopotencial Global (MGG) e valor de densidade para o cálculo de modelos geoidais. Neste trabalho é apresentado um levantamento das diferentes formulações utilizadas no processo de redução gravimétrica. Também uma análise das principais variáveis que possam influenciar no cálculo das anomalias gravimétricas e na elaboração de modelos geoidais, a partir da técnica RCR. Para o cálculo, utilizou-se um pacote denominado GRAVTool, baseado no software MATLAB®. No final da pesquisa, tem-se também, como marco, a determinação de um modelo geoidal local para o Distrito Federal.
The geoidal model is a fundamental part of the transformation between orthometric and geometric heights. There are positive aspects in its use when compared to classical survey methods. The emergence of GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) positioning techniques has significantly boosted several lines of research in the search for an increasingly accurate geoidal model. The availability of altimetric data, terrestrial and orbital gravimetry also contributed in this sense. From this, several approaches to obtaining a geoid model have been presented. Currently the integration of different methods shows a promising alternative for the calculation of the geoid. In this context, the use of the Remove-Compute-Restore technique (RCR) has shown important results in Brazil and in other parts of the world. The basis of all RCR technique formulations is derived from gravimetric and orbital methods, using Digital Terrain Models (DTM), terrestrial gravimetric data, Global Geopotential Models (GGM) and density value for the calculation of geoid models. This work presents a revision of the different formulations used in the gravimetric reduction process. Also an analysis of the main variables that can influence the calculation of the gravimetric anomalies and the elaboration of geoid models from the RCR technique. For the calculation, a package called GRAVTool, based on the MATLAB® software, is used. At the end of the research, we also have as a landmark, the determination of a local geoidal model for the Brazilian Federal District.
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Krieghoff, Niels. "Banking regulation in a federal system : lessons from American and German banking history." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2013. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/758/.
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This dissertation contrasts the development of the regulatory structure of the American and German banking systems until the mid-20th century. It explains why the countries' regulatory structures diverged into diametrically opposite directions, even though both countries had federal political systems and regularly observed the developments in the other country. Furthermore, after the Second World War, the American military government was even able to mold the German banking system into an idealized version of the American one. The thesis also provides an explanation why this assimilation attempt ultimately failed, and why there was a strong institutional persistency between Nazi Germany and West Germany instead. The original contributions to knowledge are the following: (1) This thesis offers a novel perspective on the evolution of the structure of American banking regulation by interpreting it as being largely driven by constitutional conflict (2) it shows that prior to the Banking Crisis of 1931 there was no intention to introduce a comprehensive regulatory structure for the banking sector in Germany (3) It provides a reassessment of the origins of the German Credit Act of 1961 as a non-deterministic process (4) It interprets German banking regulation after the Second World War as a failed Institutional Assimilation, which provides evidence that the decentralized regulatory arrangement of the American banking system was held in place by strong states' rights. In the absence of strong states' rights such a system would not persist and, indeed, in Germany it did not (5) It re-interprets German post-war economic history as being driven by the need of the German federal government to re-establish supremacy over economic matters. This assigns a new important role for Ludwig Erhard in German post-war competition history, as being an enabler of liberalization rather than being a liberalizing force himself.
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Steelman, Burle G. "Evaluating the use of cognitive-behavioral treatment programs in the federal probation system /." Read thesis online, 2009. http://library.uco.edu/UCOthesis/SteelmanBG2009.pdf.
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Al-Ali, Maytha. "The development of the UAE federal higher education system : main characteristics and influences." Thesis, University of Bath, 2014. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.629671.
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This study examines the impact of globalization on the newly-adopted, American-based federal higher education model of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) through the lenses of World Polity theory. The higher education environment has been transformed by shared global ideas and policy models. In many developing countries, higher education is perceived to be central to socio-political and economic development. The federal higher education system in the (UAE) represented by the three federal universities - United Arab Emirates University (UAEU), Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT), and Zayed University (ZU) - is tasked not only with educating UAE nationals, but also with the “Emiritization” or nationalization of the labor market, which is highly dependent on foreign expatriates. The UAE has made a transformational shift in its federal higher education model by replacing its Arabic-based model with English-based instruction and American curricula. Some UAE public universities sought and were granted accreditation by US regional accrediting bodies. This study was focused on the three UAE federal universities to identify the main characteristics of the newly adopted model and the extent to which it draws on western and indigenous models and principles, and to validate the global reach of higher education ideas and values to the environment other than those where they originated from. The research investigates various issues related to higher education development including the socio-cultural and organizational aspects of it. The research questions are not only significant to the UAE but they also address key issues that are especially sensitive yet similarly applicable across the Gulf region and similar developing countries. The findings reveal that in the UAE the profound cultural and religious differences reflecting local and national path dependencies are undercut by dominant western models of higher education. While the US and the UAE differ in their values, culture, level of development, several aspects of the higher education model look quite similar. These similar aspects were not mandated, but communicated, and governed by the culture of a global higher education exchange. The world polity of higher education has played a key role in sustaining and promulgating a common culture to nations and communities around the world.
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Okoroji, Joseph Chukwudi. "Federal-state relations in Nigeria's Second Republic : a study of conflict and co-operation." Thesis, Keele University, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.279829.
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Rivey, Darren. "A practical method for incorporating Real Options analysis into US federal benefit-cost analysis procedures." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/43102.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design and Management Program, 2007.Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-83).
This research identifies how Real Options (RO) thinking might acceptably and effectively complement the current mandates for Benefit-Cost Analysis (BCA) defined by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in Circular A-94. The research examines opportunities for improving economic analysis using mandated rules for a large complex system, highlights where improvements can be made with RO thinking, and proposes a framework that can be optionally and generically applied to mandated decisionmaking guidelines. The framework relies on a simple spreadsheet analysis that is augmented with Monte-Carlo simulation. The proposed approach complements existing practices and should be easy to integrate with current tools, procedures, staff, and resources.This approach builds upon a careful analysis of Federal mandates for benefit-cost analyses, the implementing directions of the OMB, and the way these guidelines are followed by practitioners who have to deal with the particularities that exist in the field. The current practice was determined by examining several case studies of work for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and through discussions with FAA officials knowledgeable about the BCA methods in practice. The proposed approach with FAA Airport Benefit-Cost Analysis Guidelines was applied to a Hypothetical Project for illustrative purposes.
by Darren Rivey.
S.M.
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Narmukhamedova, Dina. "Monetární politika USA od 90. let do současnosti v národním a světovém kontextu." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-199772.
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This thesis deals with monetary policy implemented by the Central bank of the United States the Federal Reserve System (Fed) from the 90s to the present day. The goal of this thesis is to assess the impact of monetary policy of the Fed on the American and the world economy in a given time interval. The first chapter deals with the general theory of functions of the central bank, its structure and history. The rest of the chapters are devoted to the description of the economic situation in the USA in the sub-periods and analyzing the steps and procedures that Fed had undertaken in response to these economic situation. The last chapter deals with the financial crisis of recent years, including possible causes and consequences, focusing on the main measures applied by the Fed in an effort to avoid or at least mitigate the crisis and the current development of the Fed.
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Ferreira, Gilmar Gonçalves. "Condições atuariais para a construção do fundo previdenciário federal - FUNPRESP." Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/12/12138/tde-27062008-162839/.
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Este trabalho analisa as condições atuariais para criação do Fundo previdenciário federal (FUNPRESP) e como será o novo sistema previdenciário após o funcionamento desse Fundo que finalmente concluirá, em âmbito federal, as reformas iniciadas em 1998. A partir desse estudo concluímos que o novo sistema previdenciário, sistema misto, pagará benefícios menores para os servidores que ingressarem depois da criação do fundo quando comparados com os atuais servidores. Em razão disso os atuais servidores, analisando apenas os ganhos financeiros, não migrarão para o Fundo federal conforme é esperado pelo Governo. As mulheres receberão nesse novo sistema previdenciário benefícios menores em função do menor tempo de contribuição, expectativa de vida maior e menor taxa de crescimento salarial. Mas os grandes avanços com a criação do fundo serão o equilíbrio atuarial do sistema federal de previdência e o fim das grandes desigualdades entre esse sistema e o regime geral de previdência. A criação do Fundo fará com que os benefícios fiquem atrelados diretamente à contribuição de cada servidor, diferentemente do que ocorria antes quando os benefícios eram proporcionais à remuneração do servidor - até 2003 era equivalente a última remuneração e depois de 2003 é equivalente à média das 80% maiores remunerações.The present work analyzes the actuarial conditions for the creation of the Brazilian Federal Social Security Fund (FUNPRESP) and how the new Social Security System will work after the effective functioning of the Fund. We could say that in the federal sphere it will finally finish off the reforms initiated in 1998. We conclude that the new Social Security System (called \"mixed system\") will provide lower payments to the beneficiaries who start to contribute after the creation of the Fund. In consequence, the current beneficiaries will not migrate to the new Federal Fund, as the government expects, because some simple analysis will make they conclude that they would incur into financial losses. Along with that, female beneficiaries will receive fewer benefits than men from that new Social Security System, basically for three reasons: a) their shorter time of contribution; b), their higher life expectancy; and c), the lower rate at which their payments actually grow. We also conclude that the real advantages brought by the creation of the Fund are: a) the actuarial equilibrium of the Federal Social Security System, and b) the end of the huge inequalities between that system and the \"general\" Brazilian Social Security System (INSS). The creation of the Fund will link the benefits directly to the contribution of each servant, as opposed to when benefits were proportional to the servant\'s pay (equal to it until 2003, or equivalent to the average of the 80% highest salaries).
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Chapman, Brett. "A re-analysis of the role of race in the federal death penalty system." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/9263.
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Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2009.Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Badenhop, Stephen W. "Federal Failures: The Ohio-Michigan Boundary Dispute." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1206135823.
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Sukhoverkhov, Mikhail. "Význam ropy, rublu a dolaru v geoekonomických procesech." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-197609.
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This master thesis deals with a number of international processes in terms of geoeconomics. The main goal of this work is to research the position of dollar, ruble and petroleum in geoeconomic processes. At first goes the analysis of the current condition of the United States dollar, the assessment of exposure level of the system to other countries to establish the real role of the U.S. Federal Reserve. Then goes the analysis of the current status of Russian ruble and the Central Bank of Russian Federation. A large part of the work is devoted to petroleum as a basic raw material at present and its relations to U.S. dollar. At the end is the assessment of the U.S. dollar prospects in the 21 century and possible solutions, which will probably help to eliminate the negative consequences in case of using dollar as the dominant financial system in the world.
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Chan, Kam-lan Debby. "A study of public-private partnerships and financing strategies in Hong Kong's education system." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk:8888/cgi-bin/hkuto%5Ftoc%5Fpdf?B23294772.
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Nagase, Yoko. "Acid rain and interregional redistribution in a federal system characterized by decentralized leadership and information /." view abstract or download file of text, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9948027.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 1999.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 59-60). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users. Address: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9948027.
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Frizell, Julie Dolan. "The Causes and Effects of Commercial Bank Participation in the Federal Home Loan Bank System." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/29347.
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The 1990s saw significant increases in commercial bank membership in the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) System and extensive growths in FHLB assets and outstanding advances. Since FHLB policies may enable risk-taking behavior by the System's member institutions, this research evaluates the impact of the FHLBs on community bank members, local consumers, and local markets.
Results suggest that commercial bank liquidity is enhanced by and managed with the use of System advances, and investments in loans and mortgage-related assets increase with FHLB participation, particularly by small bank members. Credit quality and bank financial conditions improve after participating in the FHLB program, and cost savings from borrowing System funds may contribute to higher rates paid on deposits in local markets. However, banks with greater exposure to interest rate risk are more likely to become FHLB members, and interest rate risk exposure further increases after membership attainment, as the amount of advances borrowed increases, and the longer members remain in the FHLB program. Long-term advances have not been used to lengthen liability duration to offset growth in long-term asset investments, which makes the FHLB System more highly susceptible to rising rates.Ph. D.
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Laiacona, Christina M. "Implications of 21 Code of Federal Regulations Part 11-Computer Validations and COTS System Testing." NSUWorks, 2003. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/gscis_etd/655.
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Information technology is critical in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) mission to protect and promote public health. The use of computers as tools to capture, create, store, manage, and archive information related to business operations presents a number of formidable challenges and issues relating to data and information trustworthiness and reliability for the FDA regulated pharmaceutical industry. After five years of implementation, the pharmaceutical industry has not developed a consistent interpretation of21 Code of Federal Regulations Part II and approaches to computer validation are still unclear. As of this writing, new guidelines are still being issued. In February 2003, for example, the FDA issued the Guidance for Industry Part 11, Electronic Records; Electronic Signatures-Scope and Application. The draft guidance states that Part II will be re-examined and provisions of the regulation may be revised.
Computer validation as defined by the FDA means confirmation by examination and provision of objective evidence that computer system specifications conform to user needs and intended uses, and that all requirements can be consistently fulfilled. During computer validation, testing is performed to prove that the system will capture, create, store, manage, and archive regulatory records in a reliable and trustworthy way. The challenge of meeting the FDA requirement for validation of software systems is compounded by the fact that the industry depends on Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) systems. These systems are developed to provide general business solutions and market demand drives the selection of what features will be included in the software. As a result, COTS systems do not necessarily comply with the industry requirements for computer validation.
This case study analyzes COTS system testing as a computer validation key practice area and proposes a computer validation key practice model for COTS testing. In addition, the study contributes to a greater understanding of COTS testing strategies and helps shed light on the practical implications of the still-evolving federal regulation.
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Reid, A. C. A., and n/a. "An examination of overlap in the Australian Federal system of review of administrative decisions : and some suggestions for change." University of Canberra. Management, 1990. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20061107.104025.
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Klaiman, Tamar. "Factors that Influence State Written Pandemic Flu Plan Inclusion of Federal Recommendations." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2009. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/40399.
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The threat of a pandemic influenza outbreak is considered imminent and could cause severe morbidity and mortality as well as devastating economic losses. The U.S. government has worked to empower states to respond to a pandemic, but there has been minimal evaluation to determine the success of such efforts. The purpose of this study was to examine states' preparedness for a pandemic as documented by states' written pandemic plans and evaluate what political and structural factors may be associated with pandemic plan inclusion of federal recommendations. This was a cross-sectional comparative analysis of 50 states' pandemic influenza plans as of March 2008. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) State and Local Pandemic Influenza Planning Checklist was turned into a matrix with each of 85 recommendations making up 10 overarching domains coded as "no mention" = 1, "brief mention but no description or action item" = 2, or "description or action of the item" = 3. Forty-nine complete plans and one state's plan summary were included in the analysis. Each state's domain scores were calculated by adding the scores of each factor within the domain. A "total preparedness score" for each state, was derived by adding the unweighted scores of each domain. Federal recommendations surrounding leadership, networking and surveillance have been well-integrated, but greater efforts are needed to develop partnerships with health care agencies and to focus on antiviral preparedness and infection controls. Federal and state governments have invested resources in pandemic planning and published recommendations for such planning; however, little research has been conducted focusing on what predicts integration of federal recommendations in written state plans. Understanding the factors that influence state plans can offer health departments strategies for increasing their effectiveness in pandemic preparedness and response. This study compared models for bureaucratic behavior and health department structural variables to evaluate what factors may be associated with pandemic plans. The findings showed that structural variables offer greater explanation for pandemic plan comprehensiveness than political theory models, but more work is needed to glean causal relationships. Recommendations to assist state health departments, legislators, and responders in improving state pandemic plans are presented as well as suggested areas for future research.
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Helander, Anna, and Ebba Jansson. "ETT HOT MOT DEMOKRATIN? En jämförelse av tre federativa system." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-67627.
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This essay sets out to compare democratic legitimacy in three federal systems: United States of America (USA), European Union (EU) and Germany. The main question of the essay concerns the institutional design of the USA, EU and Germany's federal systems and how it is likely to affect democratic legitimacy. This main question is divided into four subqueries that lead the empirical analysis. These are: 1) What does the federal system's electoral process look like?, 2) How many voters do the federal systems have per mandate?, 3) In what ways do laws, rules and decisions create restrictions on the democratic process of the different systems?, and 4) Are there any changes and trends in development that may lead to weaker / stronger democratic legitimacy in the three federal systems? The essay is based on the assumption on legitimacy as a political concept and that it refers to whether people accept the political system's authority. The method for this essay is a comparative study using ‘most similar system design’. The empirical section includes collected material related to democratic legitimacy and the democratic process of the three federal systems, in relation to Robert Dahl's traditional democratic theory demonstrating five criteria a democratic process should achieve. It is difficult to measure to what extent the criteria in the traditional democratic theory are achieved, thus the empirical outcome is not comprehensive. However, it is possible to discuss the outcome and draw conclusions by studying the extent of legitimacy in the systems, in relation to each other. The empirical study thus shows that the German democratic process is more likely to fulfill a democratic process according to Robert Dahl’s democracy theory than the other two systems. USA tend to show more extensive restrictions for fulfilling the requirements of a democratic process than the other two systems. EU:s results is similar to USA, but does not have the same extensive restrictions. Therefore, Germany demonstrates a higher degree of democratic legitimacy than USA and EU do. USA demonstrates a lower degree of democratic legitimacy and EU:s democratic legitimacy is similar to USA. Our hypothesis, that the institutional structure of the system affects the outcome of democratic legitimacy, is thus confirmed in the study results.
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Khoza, Bongani Terrence. "An evaluation and discussion of a deposit insurance system: Should South Africa adopt such a system?" University of Western Cape, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7581.
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Magister Legum - LLMThe research will evaluate and discuss the importance of Deposit Insurance Systems (DIS) and the necessity of having this system. Important to the evaluation is an analytical consideration of how the South African Reserve Bank (SARB), the National Treasury (NT) and other global financial bodies proposed the approach thereof. Insofar as most jurisdictions had already adopted the DIS as encouraged by the international financial institutions, the study shall determine whether it is plausible for South Africa to derive guidance in her approach taking into account the potential risks posed by the safety-net.
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MESQUITA, Margareth de Figueiredo Nogueira. "Avaliação do impacto do Programa de Apoio a Planos de Reestruturação e Expansão das Universidades Federais (REUNI), no Sistema de Bibliotecas Universitárias da Universidade Federal do Ceará." www.teses.ufc.br, 2016. http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/15815.
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MESQUITA, Margareth de Figueiredo Nogueira. Avaliação do impacto do Programa de Apoio a Planos de Reestruturação e Expansão das Universidades Federais (REUNI), no Sistema de Bibliotecas Universitárias da Universidade Federal do Ceará. 2016. 117f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Políticas Públicas e Gestão da Educação Superior, Fortaleza (CE), 2016.Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-03-29T12:57:35Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_dis_mfnmesquita.pdf: 774821 bytes, checksum: 53bbc2f3e4169abc010b3ec79b6c8c10 (MD5)
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This study carried out an impact evaluation of the Support Program to the Plans of Restructuring and Expanding the Federal Universities – REUNI directed to the University Library System – SBU at Federal University of Ceará – UFC. It has as goal to identify the enhancements occurred in the UFC’s Library System during the last seven years, especially those resulting from the implementation of the REUNI Program. This research is exploratory of the documental kind and its relevance is due to the identification of the improvements occurring in the Library System of the UFC as result of the REUNI, to the extent of being able to reveal whether the strength of the Law of the Evaluation System of Higher Education (SINAES), no. 10.861 from April 14th of 2004, as a tool to improve the SBU. Thus, we analyzed the UFC’s investments applied to that system, comparing them with those made from the installation onward. The data were about the actions and inversions in the period from 2001 to 2006, before the REUNI, when the evaluation system, SINAES, still was taking the first steps at the federal institution of higher education. The data were compared to the inversions from 2007 to 2014, which was born from the REUNI and analyzed by this study. The results showed that the REUNI was a relevant factor and an effective tool to both, the modernization of the library systems and its management in the UFC, and that somehow SINAES has contributed to the improvement and the increase in the collection of the University Libraries System.
O estudo apresenta a avaliação do impacto do Programa de Apoio a Planos de Reestruturação e Expansão das Universidades Federais (REUNI) no Sistema de Bibliotecas Universitárias (SBU) da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC). Tem por objetivo identificar as melhorias ocorridas no Sistema de Bibliotecas da UFC nos últimos sete anos, especialmente a partir da implantação do REUNI. A pesquisa é exploratória e torna-se relevante por possibilitar a identificação das melhorias ocorridas no Sistema de Bibliotecas da UFC com o advento do REUNI, ao tempo em que busca desvelar se a força da Lei nº 10.861, de 14 de abril de 2004, do Sistema de Avaliação da Educação Superior (SINAES) como instrumento de melhoria da qualidade da educação superior, proporcionou o avanço de maiores investimentos no SBU. Para tanto, tentou-se analisar os investimentos da UFC no referido sistema antes do REUNI, comparando-os com os que ocorreram a partir da sua implantação, o que culmina também com as ações demandadas do Sistema Nacional de Avaliação da Educação Superior (SINAES). Os dados apresentados referem-se às ações e investimentos do período de 2001 a 2006, anterior ao REUNI, e quando o sistema de avaliação, SINAES, ainda estreava seus primeiros passos nas instituições federais de ensino superior. Os dados referentes aos anos de 2007 a 2014 analisados nesta pesquisa permitem conferir que houve significativo aumento do acervo, reflexo do considerável investimento de recursos. Esses dados foram importantes para a conclusão de que o REUNI foi um fator preponderante e instrumento eficaz tanto para a modernização do sistema de bibliotecas como para a gestão desse sistema na UFC e que, de alguma forma, o SINAES vem contribuindo para a melhoria e para o aumento do acervo do Sistema de Bibliotecas Universitárias.
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Campos, Ellwes Colle de. "RELIGIÃO E HOMOSSEXUALIDADE: Ícones Religiosos na Parada do Orgulho Gay do Distrito Federal." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, 2006. http://localhost:8080/tede/handle/tede/940.
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Previous issue date: 2006-08-31The gay pride parade like a rite. Following this logic, it s necessary to expose the constituent elements of this rite, as well as the present symbology, where it is possible to verify a ethos and the vision of the world that they delineate the cultural traces of the movements homosexuals in Brasilia. Of this form, the present speech in the related event requires social recognition, for to recoup the respect, the freedom of being, the citizenship and the dignity in relation to the too much parameters of the society, that is, the too much social segments that compose the established social system, where, in a functional or system vision, it does not have exclusion: all it must be considered, therefore, one perceives of implicit form the indignation and the idea of the church is the main legislator of the marginality of this category.
É possível compreender a Parada do Orgulho Gay como sendo um ritual. Seguindo esta lógica, há que se expor os elementos constitutivos desse rito , bem como a simbologia presente no mesmo, onde então se verifica um ethos e uma visão de mundo que delineiam os traços culturais dos movimentos homossexuais em Brasília. Desta forma, o discurso presente no referido evento requer reconhecimento social, ou seja, recuperar o respeito, a liberdade de ser, a cidadania e a dignidade em relação aos demais parâmetros da sociedade, isto é, os demais segmentos sociais que compõem o sistema social estabelecido, onde, numa visão funcionalista e/ou sistêmica, não há exclusão: o todo deve ser considerado, portanto, percebe-se de forma implícita a indignação e a idéia de que a Igreja é a principal legitimadora da marginalização desta categoria.
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BRITO, MARCOS ANTONIO BEZERRA. "A METHODIC FOR THE NATIONAL TAXATION SYSTEM: THE FEDERAL FISCAL TAXATION PROCEEDING IN THE CONTEMPORARY CONSTITUTIONALISM." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2010. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=35050@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROA finalidade desta tese sobre o poder de polícia fiscal fazendário é propor um método de trabalho para a administração fazendária federal que atenda aos requisitos de legitimidade de suas decisões nos procedimentos fiscais, à vista das novas tarefas do estado constitucional contemporâneo brasileiro, fixadas pela CF88 no modelo de tributação estatal, o qual alterou o sistema de lançamento tributário federal.
This thesis about fiscal taxation proceedings has the purpose to offer a work methodic for the brazilian federal tax administration, to attend legitimation requirements for taxation proceedings and the new state tasks fixed for the taxation in the brazilian constitution, that has changed the federal taxation system.
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Lukmann, Andrew T. "Unintended effects of federal transportation policy: a look at the lifecycle costs of the interstate system." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/55157.
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Thesis (S.M. in Transportation)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering; and, (S.M. in Technology and Policy)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, Technology and Policy Program, 2009.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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The federal surface transportation program in the United States stands at a crossroads. Short on money and lacking vision, the program is in need of reevaluation and reform. This thesis attempts to illustrate the current issues affecting the program within the historical context of transportation system development and proposes a series of policy reforms to refocus the program. An analysis of the history of US transportation policy demonstrates ongoing persistent trends towards multimodal approaches, increased federal involvement and a shift in focus from rural development to enabling the growth of metropolitan economies. The analysis also shows how Congress has historically made significant progress when an over-arching vision can be connected to implementation mechanisms that provide new funding to broad constituencies in all fifty states. By positing a basic model utilizing infrastructure lifecycle costs to illustrate the dynamics of systematic infrastructure needs, the research demonstrates the added costs of past policies - particularly deferred maintenance - and the implications of current inaction. The research finds an estimated $7.2 billion dollar shortfall in annual funding on the Interstate system alone - mostly for reconstruction. Additionally, the results indicate a significant increase in annual system costs ($28.3 billion vs. $18.82 billion) under a regime of deferred maintenance as opposed to regular upkeep. Using this as a foundation, the balance of the work discusses the political argument in support of a federal role in system maintenance, recommends a series of policy reforms to address short and long term issues with the federal program and presents an overview of possible revenue streams to fund these changes. The thesis then recommends that a new national multimodal vision, focused on state of good repair and the opportunity to generate short-term construction jobs and long-term economic growth, can be the basis for successful reauthorization legislation.
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Kotenko, Diana G. "Prospective Reappointment and the Monetary Policy Preferences of the Federal Open Market Committee Members." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1246273422.
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HernaÌndez, Ady Patricia Carrera. "The political economy of intergovernmental fiscal realtionships : an analysis of the Mexican federal transfer system 1980-2000." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.397573.
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This thesis analyses how political factors have influenced the design and implementation of the Mexican transfer system from 1980 to 2000. Mexico displays several features that suggest a high possibility of successfully implementing a decentralisation process. Despite this, its transfer system did not follow the general principles established by fiscal federalism, fiscal decentralisation and theory of grants. In order to explain this paradox, the thesis considers the crucial role that intergovernmental transfers have played within the overall political system. The thesis addresses three major research questions: How has the transfer system been designed?; How have political factors been incorporated in the design and implementation of intergovernmental transfers?; What have been the outcomes from this process? The political dimension of transfer systems is well recognised but has not been well studied to date. The thesis uses intergovernmental relations theory (lOR) as a pioneering approach for a systematic study of this political dimension. The major argument of this thesis is that, contrary to official wisdom, fiscal relationships between different levels of government in Mexico have been driven mainly by political rather than economic considerations. The prevalence of these political factors in the design and implementation of federal transfers to subnational governments explains to a large extent the problems experienced in the Mexican process of fiscal decentralisation.
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Albright, Cynthia A. "A proposed legislative bill to economically index the small purchase thresholds within the Federal government procurement system." Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 1990. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA245193.
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Thesis (M.S. in Manaqement)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 1990.Thesis Advisor(s): Gates, William ; Doyle, Richard. "December 1990." Description based on title screen as viewed on March 30, 2010. DTIC Descriptor(s): NATO, government procurement, automatic, viability, indexes, political science, theses DTIC Identifier(s): Indexes, *legislation, government procurement, political negotiations, theses, federal law. Author(s) subject terms: Small purchase Thresholds; Increase to Includes bibliographical references (p. 45-46). Also available in print.
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Isaacs, Rebecca Frances. "Schooling for success : the US federal government, the American education system and the Cold War, 1947-1957." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2015. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/6253/.
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This thesis seeks to demonstrate that, during the post war and early Cold War years, the US Federal government, and in particular the Executive branch, was inspired to increase the role which it played in the US Education system. It also seeks to chart the methods it utilised in order to do so. One inspiration was the desire to direct the US education system towards a curriculum which better benefitted the nation’s Cold War effort, including placing a greater emphasis upon scientific education and training, more tightly regulating the discussion over democratic vs. communist ideologies in the classroom and the pursuit of a greater equalisation in opportunity for African American students. Further inspiration was provided by both the widespread expansion of centralised government programs and the increased importance of education to social progress witnessed across the world after the Second World War, and both President Truman’s own personal commitment to the equalisation of education opportunity, and the Democratic Party’s pursuit of black votes during the Truman Administration. This thesis charts the Executive and Judicial branches’ innovative and unorthodox usage of the powers available to them in order to garner greater influence over the education system, and assesses the varying rates of success of these programmes in order to demonstrate the significant and irrevocable shift in the relationship between the US Federal government and the US education system which occurred during the early Cold War.
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Ricketts, Robert C. (Robert Carlton). "Alternative Social Security Taxing Schemes: an Analysis of Vertical and Horizontal Equity in the Federal Tax System." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1988. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331574/.
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The objectives of this study were twofold. One objective was to analyze the effects of growth in the social security tax, when combined with recent changes in U.S. income tax law, on the distribution of the combined income and social security tax burden during the 1980s. The second objective was to estimate the effects of certain proposals for social security tax reform upon that distribution. The above analyses were performed using simulation techniques applied to the 1984 IRS Individual Tax Model File. The data from this file were used to estimate the income and social security tax liabilities for sample taxpayers under tax law in effect in 1980, 1984 and 1988 and under fourteen proposals for social security reform (under 1988 law). The results indicated that the income tax distribution was almost 25 percent more progressive under 1988 tax law than under 1980 tax law. In contrast, the combined distribution of income and social security taxes was almost 25 percent less progressive under 1988 income and social security tax law relative to 1980. Two types of social security tax reform were analyzed. One type consisted of reforms to the basic social security tax structure, such as removal of the earnings ceiling, provision of exemptions and replacement of the current single tax rate with a two-tiered graduated rate structure. The second type of reform consisted of proposals to expand the theoretical tax base subject to the social security levy. The results suggested that these reforms could generate substantial increases in progressivity in the combined tax distribution. In general, it would appear that changes in the social security tax structure could generate greater improvements in progressivity than expansion of the theoretical tax base, although the greatest improvement was associated with a combination of these two reforms. With regard to horizontal equity, expansion of the theoretical tax base generated the most improvement.
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Mesquita, Margareth de Figueiredo Nogueira. "AvaliaÃÃo do impacto do Programa de Apoio a Planos de ReestruturaÃÃo e ExpansÃo das Universidades Federais (REUNI), no Sistema de Bibliotecas UniversitÃrias da Universidade Federal do CearÃ." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2016. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=16324.
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nÃo hÃO estudo apresenta a avaliaÃÃo do impacto do Programa de Apoio a Planos de ReestruturaÃÃo e ExpansÃo das Universidades Federais (REUNI) no Sistema de Bibliotecas UniversitÃrias (SBU) da Universidade Federal do Cearà (UFC). Tem por objetivo identificar as melhorias ocorridas no Sistema de Bibliotecas da UFC nos Ãltimos sete anos, especialmente a partir da implantaÃÃo do REUNI. A pesquisa à exploratÃria e torna-se relevante por possibilitar a identificaÃÃo das melhorias ocorridas no Sistema de Bibliotecas da UFC com o advento do REUNI, ao tempo em que busca desvelar se a forÃa da Lei n 10.861, de 14 de abril de 2004, do Sistema de AvaliaÃÃo da EducaÃÃo Superior (SINAES) como instrumento de melhoria da qualidade da educaÃÃo superior, proporcionou o avanÃo de maiores investimentos no SBU. Para tanto, tentou-se analisar os investimentos da UFC no referido sistema antes do REUNI, comparando-os com os que ocorreram a partir da sua implantaÃÃo, o que culmina tambÃm com as aÃÃes demandadas do Sistema Nacional de AvaliaÃÃo da EducaÃÃo Superior (SINAES). Os dados apresentados referem-se Ãs aÃÃes e investimentos do perÃodo de 2001 a 2006, anterior ao REUNI, e quando o sistema de avaliaÃÃo, SINAES, ainda estreava seus primeiros passos nas instituiÃÃes federais de ensino superior. Os dados referentes aos anos de 2007 a 2014 analisados nesta pesquisa permitem conferir que houve significativo aumento do acervo, reflexo do considerÃvel investimento de recursos. Esses dados foram importantes para a conclusÃo de que o REUNI foi um fator preponderante e instrumento eficaz tanto para a modernizaÃÃo do sistema de bibliotecas como para a gestÃo desse sistema na UFC e que, de alguma forma, o SINAES vem contribuindo para a melhoria e para o aumento do acervo do Sistema de Bibliotecas UniversitÃrias.
This study carried out an impact evaluation of the Support Program to the Plans of Restructuring and Expanding the Federal Universities â REUNI directed to the University Library System â SBU at Federal University of Cearà â UFC. It has as goal to identify the enhancements occurred in the UFCâs Library System during the last seven years, especially those resulting from the implementation of the REUNI Program. This research is exploratory of the documental kind and its relevance is due to the identification of the improvements occurring in the Library System of the UFC as result of the REUNI, to the extent of being able to reveal whether the strength of the Law of the Evaluation System of Higher Education (SINAES), no. 10.861 from April 14th of 2004, as a tool to improve the SBU. Thus, we analyzed the UFCâs investments applied to that system, comparing them with those made from the installation onward. The data were about the actions and inversions in the period from 2001 to 2006, before the REUNI, when the evaluation system, SINAES, still was taking the first steps at the federal institution of higher education. The data were compared to the inversions from 2007 to 2014, which was born from the REUNI and analyzed by this study. The results showed that the REUNI was a relevant factor and an effective tool to both, the modernization of the library systems and its management in the UFC, and that somehow SINAES has contributed to the improvement and the increase in the collection of the University Libraries System.
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Choi, Sun Ki. "The Determinants and Trends in Public-Private Wage and Fringe Benefit Differential." UKnowledge, 2016. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/economics_etds/26.
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The decline in private sector wages in the aftermath of the Great Recession reopened a longstanding debate about whether public sector employees make more than private sector employees. However, much of this debate has only focused on the difference in wages over the past few years. This paper uses the Current Population Survey from 1995-2013 to examine how the federal-private wage differential has evolved over time. Wage regressions are estimated by year for federal and private sector workers. I then use these estimates to calculate the federal-private wage differential. This is augmented with selectivity bias corrections for each year. Probit estimates of the probability of receiving employer-provided health insurance and a pension plan are also estimated for each year. The findings suggest that the federal pay differential is invariably positive, but fell during the 1990s, began to rise in the early 2000s, and has continued to rise to the end of the sample period. In this paper, I also examine the difference in wage and fringe benefit between state/local government employees and private sector employees. For the analysis, this paper uses the American Community Survey from 2012-2014 to examine how the state/local-private wage gaps vary by state. Probit estimates of the probability of receiving employer-sponsored health insurance are also estimated. The findings present a wide range of the wage differentials between state/local government employees and private sector counterparts. On the other hand, public employees enjoy higher probability of receiving health insurance through a current employer.
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Izosimova, Alexandra [Mitwirkender]. "Modelling the interaction between calcium and nickel in the soil plant system / Federal Agricultural Research Centre. Alexandra Izosimova." Braunschweig : FAL, 2005. http://d-nb.info/982466501/34.
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Lambert, Kishayra J. "System for Award Management (SAM)--creating efficiencies in federal government contracting through the use of streamlining and integration." Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/10792.
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Joint Applied ProjectThe purpose of this project is to review the legacy federal procurement systems that will be consolidated into SAM. The next step will be to provide an overview of the efficiency gaps with the current legacy procurement systems. This will be followed by an analysis of how SAM will streamline and integrate the legacy systems and an evaluation of the efficiencies created in Federal Government Contracting through the use of SAM. Finally, the author will review additional systems that could be more efficient if they were integrated into SAM and provide research conclusions and recommendations based on that analysis of the existing systems and the capabilities of SAM.
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Santos, LucÃlia Alves dos. "IntegraÃÃo de um sistema de recomposiÃÃo automÃtico via OPC para automaÃÃo da rede elÃtrica de distribuiÃÃo em mÃdia tensÃo do campus do Pici da Universidade Federal do CearÃ." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2015. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=16331.
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Durante muito tempo a manutenÃÃo do sistema de distribuiÃÃo do campus do Pici da Universidade Federal do Cearà - UFC foi de responsabilidade da Companhia EnergÃtica do Cearà â Coelce, pela parceria entre os governos federal e estadual. No entanto, com a privatizaÃÃo da Coelce no ano de 1998, a UFC assumiu essa demanda e por muitos anos, por falta de recursos e planejamento, fez-se apenas intervenÃÃes corretivas emergenciais na infraestrutura existente, resultando em vÃrios problemas na continuidade de suprimento. Felizmente, os Ãltimos gestores atentaram para o problema e muitos investimentos na rede de distribuiÃÃo em mÃdia tensÃo estÃo sendo realizados, visando à modernizaÃÃo e melhoria da seguranÃa, disponibilidade e continuidade do suprimento de energia elÃtrica do campus do Pici. Estas aÃÃes tÃm embasamento tÃcnico nos estudos realizados pelo Departamento de Engenharia ElÃtrica em parceria com o setor de engenharia da UFC (UFC-Infra). Nesse contexto, foi idealizada e està em fase de implantaÃÃo uma subestaÃÃo de 69-13,8 kV, composta de dois transformadores de 5/6,25 MVA, sendo um de reserva, trÃs saÃdas de alimentadores e nove religadores distribuÃdos ao longo da rede de mÃdia tensÃo em 13,8 kV do campus. Este sistema serà operado, supervisionado e controlado por um sistema SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Aquisition), desenvolvido na plataforma comercial Elipse Power, utilizando o banco de dados Microsoft SQL Server 2012 â versÃo Express. No Ãmbito da automaÃÃo, foi desenvolvida e integrada ao SCADA, via comunicaÃÃo OPC (Open Platform Communications), uma funÃÃo avanÃada denominada, Sistema de RecomposiÃÃo AutomÃtica (SRA-PICI). O SRA-PICI foi desenvolvido em linguagem C#, utilizando o programa Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, modelado em Redes de Petri Coloridas, e testado usando a ferramenta de anÃlise CPN Tools. Para integraÃÃo dos aplicativos SCADA e SRA foi utilizado o protocolo aberto OPC que especifica a comunicaÃÃo de dados em tempo real entre um elemento fonte e um elemento receptor de diferentes fabricantes. Testes de validaÃÃo do SRA e da comunicaÃÃo entre os aplicativos foram realizados em laboratÃrio, que atestam o sucesso da implementaÃÃo e abrem perspectivas importantes para avanÃar na direÃÃo de uma rede elÃtrica inteligente para o campus do Pici.For a long time the maintenance of the power distribution system of the Pici Campus of the Federal University of Cearà - UFC was the responsibility of the Energy Company of Cearà - Coelce, by the partnership between the federal and state governments. However, with the privatization of Coelce in 1998, the UFC assumed that demand and for many years, due to lack of resources and planning, only the emergency and corrective interventions have taken place, thereby have emerged several problems in continuous supply. Fortunately, the last managers have paid attention to the problem and many investments in the medium voltage distribution network are being carried out, aimed at modernizing and improving security, availability and continuity of energy supply of Pici campus. These actions were based on technical studies conducted by the Department of Electrical Engineering in partnership with the engineering sector of the UFC (UFC-Infra). In this context, was designed and is being implemented a power substation of 69 to 13.8 kV, with two transformers of 5 / 6.25 MVA, , three outputs feeders and nine reclosers distributed throughout the medium voltage distribution network of the campus. This system will be operated, supervised and controlled by a SCADA system (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition), developed in the commercial platform Elipse Power using the Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database - Express version. In the field of automation, it was developed and integrated into the SCADA via OPC (Open Communications Platform), an advanced function called Automatic Restoration System (ARS-PICI). The ARS-PICI was developed in C # using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 program, modelled on Colored Petri Nets, and tested using the CPN Tools analysis program. For integration of the SCADA and the ARS application software was used the OPC open protocol that specifies the real time data communication between a source element and a receiving element from different manufacturers. Validation tests of the ARS and communication between the software SCADA-ARS were performed in the laboratory, attesting to the successful implementation and opening important perspectives to advance toward a smart grid to the campus of the Pici.
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Figueredo, Francisco Carlos Marques. "Gestão patrimonial: um estudo sobre o controle de material permanente na Universidade Federal do Maranhão." Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2015. http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/4765.
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This study focuses on the financial management of movable property in the Center of Biological and Health Sciences (CCBS) of the Federal University of Maranhão (UFMA), according to Torres Junior (2003) the wealth management is to plan, organize, control, ensure, conserve and promote the best use of permanent materials available in the organization. This research aims to examine the criteria adopted in the processes of acquisition and disposal of permanent materials. Therefore, we discussed knowledge of the asset management regulations applied to heritage resources, information technology in public administration and sustainable logistics plan. This knowledge is grounded in the views of authors such as Davemport (1994), Moresi (2000), Francischini and Gurgel (2002), Cross (2003), Coutinho (2004), Silva, Ribeiro and Rodrigues (2004), Martins et AL (2007 ), Oliveira (2007), Pozo (2007), Bobsin and Lobler (2008), Carvalho Filho (2008), Gomes and Tortato (2010), Santos (2012), Meirelles (2012), Vinhais, Manso and Silva (2012) , Meza and Fijor (2013), among others. This case study is descriptive, exploratory and qualitative. Two questionnaires were applied to servers with the academic departments of the CCBS and Registration Division Asset respectively, and proceeded the analysis of existing documentation in the archives of the institution on the financial management which enabled the collection of data that were subsequently analyzed. The results show that the studied unit has been unable to efficiently manage its property, not given the precepts both the current legislation, as the organs of internal and external control. In one of the goals are some proposals for improvements, such as preparation of a manual of procedures based on current legislation, promote seminars on asset management.O presente estudo trata sobre a gestão patrimonial de bens móveis no Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde (CCBS) da Universidade Federal do Maranhão (UFMA), segundo Torres Junior (2003) a administração patrimonial consiste em planejar, organizar, controlar, zelar, conservar e promover a melhor utilização dos materiais permanentes disponíveis na organização. A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo principal analisar os critérios adotados nos processos de aquisição e de descarte de materiais permanentes. Para tanto foram discutidos conhecimentos sobre a gestão patrimonial, legislação aplicada aos recursos patrimoniais, a tecnologia de informação na administração pública e o plano de logística sustentável. Esses conhecimentos estão alicerçados nas visões de autores como Davemport (1994), Moresi (2000), Francischini e Gurgel (2002), Cruz (2003), Coutinho (2004), Silva, Ribeiro e Rodrigues (2004), Martins et AL (2007), Oliveira (2007), Pozo (2007), Bobsin e Lobler (2008), Carvalho Filho (2008), Gomes e Tortato (2010), Santos (2012), Meirelles (2012), Vinhais, Manso e Silva (2012), Meza e Fijor (2013), dentre outros. Este estudo de caso é descritivo, exploratório e de natureza qualitativa. Foram aplicados dois questionários junto aos servidores dos departamentos acadêmicos do CCBS e da Divisão de Registro Patrimonial, respectivamente, e procedida a análise da documentação existente nos arquivos da instituição sobre a gestão patrimonial, que possibilitou a coleta de dados que posteriormente foram analisados. Os resultados revelam que a unidade pesquisada não vem conseguindo gerenciar de forma eficiente seus bens móveis, não atendendo ao que preceitua tanto a legislação vigente, quanto os órgãos de controle interno e externo. Em um dos objetivos são apresentadas algumas propostas de melhorias, tais como, elaboração de um manual de procedimentos baseado na legislação vigente, promover seminários sobre a gestão patrimonial.