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Sjöqvist, Nils. "Optimisation of Planned Downtime Events." Thesis, KTH, Hållbar produktionsutveckling (ML), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-252701.
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This thesis evaluates the product to product changeover process of the line S10 at the Coca-Cola European Partners manufacturing plant in Jordbro, Sweden. The target has been to propose improvements to reduce the total planned downtime by 10%. The total planned downtime in March of 2019 was 4449 minutes. Secondary data has been used to identify the current situation. A study visit took place at the Coca-Cola European partners manufacturing facility in Dongen, the Netherlands, to serveas inspiration. Single Minute Exchange of Dye (SMED) methodology was applied to improve the most frequent planned downtime event (PDT event), which was performed 22 times during March of 2019 at an average of 72,8 minutes. The theoretical improvement for PDT event CIP programme 1, by applying SMED methodology, is estimated to roughly 16 minutes. This theoretically saves 8% of the total planned downtime for March of 2019. The same solutions from the SMED methodology could be applied to other PDT events, which would increase the number of events from 22 to 27. This would theoretical save 9,6 % of planned downtime for March of 2019.Det här examensarbetet utvärderar produktomställningsprocessen på linjen S10 som vid Coca-Cola European Partners produktionsanläggning i Jordbro, Sverige. Målet har varit att föreslå lösningar som reducerar den totala ställtiden med 10%. Den totala ställtiden för mars 2019 var 4449 minuter. Sekundärdata har använts för att identifiera nuläget. Ett studiebesök utfördes hos Coca-Cola European Partners produktionsanläggning i Dongen, Nederländerna, för att inspirera möjliga lösningar. Single Minute Exchange of Dye (SMED) metodologi tillämpades för att förbättra den mest frekventa omställningsprocessen, som utfördes 22 gånger under mars 2019 med en genomsnittlig ställtid på 72,8 minuter. Den teoretiska förbättringen av omställningsprocessen CIP program 1, med hjälp av SMED metodologi, uppskattas till ungefärligt 16 minuter. Detta reducerar den totala ställtiden för mars 2019 teoretiskt med 8%. Samma lösningsförslag från SMED metodologin skulle kunna tillämpas på andra omställningsprocesser, vilket skulle öka antal processer från 22 till 27. Teoretiskt sätt skulle detta reducera den totala ställtiden för mars 2019 med 9,6%.
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Hobbs, Megan Elizabeth. "University Fundraising Through Special Events: An Application of the Theory of Planned Behavior." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2016. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1666.
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The purpose of this study was to apply the Revised Theory of Planned Behavior and EVENTQUAL models to explore (1) event qualities that significantly impact guests’ satisfaction with a university event that they attend, (2) significant factors influencing university loyalty as a result of an event, and (3) willingness to make a charitable donation to a university as a result of attending an event. An online survey was sent to attendees of an annual Cal Poly auction event between 2002 and 2016 that directly benefits Cal Poly students. The data were used to test a series of hypotheses to determine the fit of a proposed theoretical model.
Although the study was limited by a small sample size of 74 subjects, it resulted in the creation of a revised event fundraising model. Student involvement proved to be the only quality significantly predicting a guest’s overall satisfaction with the event, explaining 12% of the variance. The combination of overall event satisfaction with a subset of the revised theory of planned behavior variables (attitude, descriptive norm, and moral norm) explained 51% of the variance in predicting university loyalty. Finally, intention to donate was best predicted as a combination of prescriptive norm, attitude, and university loyalty, accounting for 57% of the variance.
Overall, the revised model is applicable in aspects of university event planning including event branding, marketing, and the involvement of students at the event. Of serious note is the statistically significant attitude variable. If an event planner can utilize a university event to shift the guests’ attitudes towards the event and university, this can greatly enhance not only intention to donate at one particular event, but the loyalty these people feel to the university or program.
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Cabanillas, Arredondo Dennis Leonardo, Gonzáles Maydee Aracely Hernández, Artica Daniel Inocente, Vargas Yessenia Pilar Najarro, and Luna Aldair Erlan Nestares. "Tabú Planner." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/626655.
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En el presente documento se detalla un proyecto que ha sido desarrollado durante varios meses, en donde se investigó rigurosamente el mercado y se determinó la viabilidad de este. El proyecto, llamado Tabú Planner, es una página web que servirá de intermediario entre una concentración diversificada de microempresarios proveedores de diferentes servicios para realizar eventos y miles de personas que tienen la necesidad de realizar un evento en específico. Esta página consiste en conectar a los microempresarios que no tienen un lugar determinado donde promocionar sus servicios y al usuario quien tampoco conoce proveedores para realizar su evento; se realizó la validación y se obtuvo como resultado que invierten mucho tiempo en la búsqueda, e incluso no los encuentran en las condiciones que ellos esperaban. Nosotros, como compañía, somos ese nexo importante para que las necesidades de ambos puedan suplirse.
Para la inversión inicial se requerirá un importe de S/33,050 soles, el cual será aportada mayoritariamente por los accionistas, pero un importe menor será por tercero. Las fuentes de ingresos serán mediante el pago de membresías que irán desde los tres meses hasta los doce meses. Además, se contará con una oficina que servirá para tener un contacto directo con nuestros socios claves.
Con respecto a la evaluación financiera, el negocio genera un Valor Presente Neto de 46,841.19. La TIR del proyecto asciende a 13%, con un retorno de inversión a partir del 1.76 años.This document details our Project that has been developed throughout the past five months, in which we investigated the market and determined its viability. The project is called “Tabú Planner”, which is a website that serves as an intermediary between a diversified market of small entrepreneurs that provide different services related to the organization of events, and thousands of people who have the need to organize a specific event. This website relays to connect those entrepreneurs that doesn’t develop a promotion strategy in which the sell their products and those customers that doesn’t know which are the best providers. We realized the validation, and it resulted that customers waste too much time finding the suitable one, and even in the case they find them, it often doesn’t fulfill their expectations. Our company is the suitable relation to fulfill those necessities. For the initial investment, the amount of S/ 33,050 is needed, which will be mostly contributed by the shareholders, but a small margin will be invested by a third party. The income stream will be made through the payment of memberships that will offered from three months to twelve months. In addition, there is an office that serves to have direct contact with our key partners. Related to our financial evaluation, this project generates a Net Present Value of 46,841.19. The project’s TIR amount to 13% with a return over investment starting at 1.76 years.
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Maric, Borislav. "Event Planner : Development of an event planning tool." Thesis, University of Gävle, Department of Mathematics, Natural and Computer Sciences, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-191.
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The event planning tool described here is a software developed in the form of a web application enabling continuous access to the information about the events for persons interested in organizing events and those interested in participating at them. For event organizers the tool gives the opportunity to create, edit, present the events and to view the participation statistics for the events they are organizing. The software was developed with PHP and MySQL. The iterative procedure of its development is described in this document.
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Shannon, Thomas. "Leveraging successful collaborative processes to improve performance outcomes in large-scale event planning Super Bowl, a planned Homeland Security event /." Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 2010. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2010/Mar/10Mar%5FShannon.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Homeland Security and Defense))--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2010.Thesis Advisor(s): Wollman, Lauren. Second Reader: Joyce, Nola. "March 2010." Description based on title screen as viewed on April 23, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: Event Planning, Super Bowl, Collaborative Process, Security in Special Events, Incident Management, Public Private Collaboration Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-87). Also available in print.
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Alexander, Amanda 1984 Kim Dae-Young. "A study of the individual and organizational characteristics influencing event planner's perception on information content and channel choice." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5352.
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The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on December 21, 2009). Thesis advisor: Dr. Dae-Young Kim. Includes bibliographical references.
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Davids, Fawwaaz. "The Theory of Planned Behaviour and the Entrepreneurial Event Model as predictive models of entrepreneurial intention." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27299.
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The Theory of Planned Behaviour and The Entrepreneurial Event Model were used as models to predict entrepreneurial intention amongst final year students. The sufficiency of this paradigm was compared with the aim of determining which model predicts entrepreneurial intention the most within a South African context. A sample of 186 students was used to determine the sufficiency of the Theory of Planned Behaviour. As part of our methodology, a sub-set (n = 123) of the sample was used to determine the sufficiency of the Entrepreneurial Event Model. The sample consisted of final year commerce and engineering students. The results of the regression analysis indicated that the Theory of Planned Behaviour explained 58% of the variance in entrepreneurial intention. The Entrepreneurial Event Model was found to be less sufficient than the Theory of Planned Behaviour and only explained 38% of the variance in entrepreneurial intention. Therefore, when predicting entrepreneurial intention in a South African context, the Theory of Planned Behaviour can be considered the more sufficient model of prediction. Future research should consider using the Theory of Planned Behaviour, rather than Entrepreneurial Event Model, for entrepreneurial intention prediction among students in South Africa.
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Kwoczek, Simon [Verfasser]. "Enhanced mobility awareness : a data-driven approach to analyze traffic under planned special event scenarios / Simon Kwoczek." Hannover : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1161845607/34.
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Daniel, Howard Wayne. "A planned program designed to enhance a congregation's preparation for and participation in the preaching event of worship." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1990. http://www.tren.com.
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Blodgett, Nicole Petsas. "Predictors of time to return to work following a planned medical event: total knee replacement as an exemplar." Diss., University of Iowa, 2014. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1828.
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Little is known about time to return to work (TRTW) following planned medical events. This study was a secondary analysis (n=94) to determine predictors of time to return to work following a total knee replacement for osteoarthritis. Significant predictors of delayed TRTW following a knee replacement: 1) use of workplace modifications (in 6wks vs 5 wks) and 2) poor physical function (in 7wks vs 6 wks). These findings have large implications for workers undergoing knee replacement, orthopedic clinicians, and occupational health nurses.
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Godlewska, Marta. "EVENT PLANNERS' RATINGS OF DESTINATION SELECTION VARIABLES: A COMPARISON BETWEEN MEMBERS OF THREE PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION G." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2006. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3093.
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Several researchers have attempted to understand the destination selection criteria that are important to event planners (Crouch & Ritchie, 1998; Getz, 2003; Oppermann, 1996). However, an examination of the previous studies indicated that only limited understanding of the destination selection criteria has been provided. There is little research that compares event planners belonging to different professional associations and their rating of destination selection criteria. This study examined the differences that exist between three groups of event planners in rating thirteen destination selection variables. The study provides more understanding in the search of an optimal combination of destination selection mix based on multiple dependent variables. This study found significant differences in ratings of five out of thirteen destination selection variables by event planners who were the members of three different associations. Therefore it is providing a valuable contribution to the existing body of literature. From a practical standpoint, this study can help by providing information about how planners of different events feel about certain destination criteria at the time a destination selection is made. All parties with a vested interest in the event industry may use this information to appropriately position their services in the market and tailor their products to better compete for the limited number of events in an environment where the space to host such events continues to grow.M.S.
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Mohd, Khir Masrur. "Developing an event safety risk typology : a qualitative study of risk perception amongst event planners and venue managers in Malaysia." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2014. http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/4441/.
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This study explored the significance of risk and safety and the need for proper operating procedures in identifying the link between the types and categories of event safety related risks from the perception of event planners and venue managers within the event management industry in Malaysia. Event management is an emerging profession in need of methodical tools to ensure the success and safety of all stakeholders within this field. Despite a plethora of literature confirming that risk and safety is fundamental in event planning and management, a thorough literature review has exposed the insuffiency of research within general risk and safety management areas and, more specifically, the lack of research relating to event risk management and safety. This empirical investigation started by exploring the concept of risk and risk perception and adapts this approach in the field of event management. This has been taken in order to investigate the perceptions of event/venue managers in Malaysia towards risks and safety issues in planning and managing events. Due to the lack of empirical studies in this area, a qualitative exploratory case study approach using semi-structured interviews has been conducted aiming at exploring the importance of this topic, and identifying (and justifying) several important themes within the research context. The sample participants were recruited based on purposive and snowballing sampling technique comprising 33 event/venue managers from various event related organisations in Malaysia. The data were analysed using both inductive and deductive approaches by adopting a typology outlined in the literature. A pragmatic approach of thematic analysis focusing on identifiable themes and patterns of living and/or behaviour has been adopted. A post positivist paradigm with the use of a reflexive approach in analysing data in that the researcher became an important instrument of analysis for the research. The findings identify seven major themes focusing on important types of risks associated with the safety of event employees and event attendees from a Malaysian perspective. These safety risk categories known as: crowd safety and crowd control; technical and logistics hazards; alcohol-related risks; security risks and issues; environmental health and safety; financial risks and insurances and; emergency services. Thus, this research attempts to enhance the current understanding of Malaysian event risk management practice by proposing a generic typology focusing on important risk factors based on a Malaysian perspective. The empirical outcome in the form of an event safety risk typology answered the need for an analytical tool in order to improve the management of risk and safety within the event management domain, and also provided an avenue for further research within this emerging field.
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Zainea, George Dan. "Small-angle rejection and study of inelastic events in the Jefferson Lab focal plane polarimeter." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0011/MQ35862.pdf.
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Serra, Léo. "Cellular events and regulations during leaf margin morphogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019SACLS102.
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Comprendre comment la coordination des cellules entre elles permet l’émergence d’une forme est une des questions les plus fascinantes en biologie du développement. Au cours de cette thèse, nous avons utilisé les premiers stades de développement des feuilles dentelées d'Arabidopsis thaliana comme modèle pour étudier la relation entre les évènements cellulaires et la morphogenèse. Pendant le développement des feuilles d'Arabidopsis thaliana, le contrôle fin de la prolifération et de l'expansion cellulaire permet la croissance différentielle au niveau de la marge foliaire, nécessaire à la formation des indentations. Dans ce modèle, la croissance différentielle est le résultat de l'interaction entre la signalisation de l’auxine et l’activité des facteurs de transcription CUP SHAPED COTYLEDONS impliqués dans le maintien de l'identité des domaines frontières. Pour affiner la compréhension des relations complexes entre les facteurs de transcriptions CUC, les réponses auxiniques et les événements cellulaires à l'origine des indentations foliaires, nous avons utilisé des expériences d’imagerie en temps réel sur des primordia foliaires de lignées exprimant des rapporteurs de développement et/ou de réponse auxinique. Nos résultats ont révélé un contrôle dynamique de la croissance différentielle à la marge des feuilles et l'implication critique de CUC3 dans la répression locale de la croissance cellulaireHow a shape arises from the coordinated behavior of cells is one of the most fascinating questions in developmental biology. Here we used the early stages of development of serrated leaves in Arabidopsis thaliana as a model to study the tight relation between cellular behaviour and morphogenesis. During Arabidopsis thaliana leaf development the fine control of cell proliferation and cell expansion sustains differential growth at the margin required for the formation of leaf outgrowth named teeth. In this model, differential growth is the result of interplay between auxin signaling and CUC transcription factors that are involved in the maintenance of boundary domain identity. To clarify the interconnected relations between patterns of CUC TFs and auxin responses as well as the cellular events behind serrations we used time-lapse experiments on vegetative primordia of lines expressing developmental and/or auxin response reporters. Our results revealed a tight and dynamic control of differential growth at the leaf margin and the critical involvement of CUC3 in the local repression of cell growth in combination with low auxin responses
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Carreno, Marjorie Emelina, and Chloé Mireille Nelly Lourme. "El problema del endeudamiento en una empresa de servicios: Imagina the Special Event Planners." Thesis, Universidad de las Américas Puebla, 2011. http://catarina.udlap.mx/u_dl_a/tales/documentos/bce/carreno_me/.
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Ochieng, Judith Auma. "The role of disturbances in mangrove wood formation and forest structure: Effect of large sedimentation events." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/232475.
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Disturbance can take various forms and are characteristic of any ecosystem including mangroves. When maintained within certain allowable limits, disturbances permits maintenance of a given stable state which is equivalent to resilience hence the ecological status is not compromised. Disturbances may disrupt the natural balance of processes within such ecosystems including changes in sediment budgets and salinity and tidal regimes. As such, it may trigger a series of responses in tree establishment and development. While such responses may be displayed in loss of stability of a forest and may culminate in irreversible degradation of the system, disturbances could also result in improved performance of physiological processes and consequently tree growth. It may equally lead to the development of adaptive mechanisms to counteract the resultant otherwise stressful effects. Sediment accretion is one of the important natural processes within the mangrove environment particularly in the face of relative sea level rise. In each case, sediment fluxes are gradual and while the trees thrive from the benefits of terrestrial sediment, the system ensures balance in elevation for possible sea level rise scenario. However, abrupt and/or rapid sediment input leading to partial burial of the trees may be detrimental to the trees development in the short term and the entire ecosystem in the long run. But how are ecophysiological processes affected before the mangroves trees die from partial sediment burial? What is the threshold below which normal tree functioning is ensured.The main objective of this study was to understand the impacts of disturbance on mangrove trees, as individuals and as an assemblage. Specifically the study targeted large sedimentation on selected ecophysiological processes (phenology, water transport), root development and general physiognomy and hence its impact on wood formation in mangroves. A survey was also done on the extent of wood exploitation and other human activities, in order to obtain background information on the environmental management in the area and hence to help create an integrated picture of the evolving mangrove ecosystem in the human-nature context.Main question: What is the significance of sedimentation in shaping the ecological status of mangrove forests?Doctorat en Sciences
Author's maiden name: Judith Auma OKELLO
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Tsang, Hsian-li Hanley, and 曾顯禮. "Interstitial museum plane: an urban event infrastructure for Zhihang Historic Temple District." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B30252015.
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De, Paolo Florencia. "Plan de negocios para una empresa de organización de eventos." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, 2013. http://bdigital.uncu.edu.ar/6702.
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Esta investigación busca comprobar, luego de analizar el mercado, clientes, demanda, etc., la factibilidad de desarrollar en la provincia de Mendoza una empresa dedicada a la organización de eventos.Fil: De Paolo, Florencia. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas.
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Leite, Márcia Figueiredo. "Análise da temperatura da região próxima à mesopausa equatorial durante evento de aquecimento abrupto da estratosfera polar." Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, 2012. http://tede.bc.uepb.edu.br/tede/jspui/handle/tede/1791.
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During the northern hemisphere winter the stratospheric polar temperature increases abruptly. On some occasions, the stratospheric polar region experience more intense heating, which are accompanied by a reversal in the zonal mean circulation. These events are classified as sudden stratospheric warming. Some studies showed intense connection between the events of abrupt warming of the Northern Hemisphere polar stratosphere and mesospheric cooling of the region, as well as between these events and disturbances in the mesosphere and the ionosphere at middle and low latitudes, including the equatorial region. The objective of this study was to investigate possible effects of sudden warming event in stratospheric polar temperature behavior of the equatorial region near the menopause. In this sense, temperature data estimated from meteor radar measurements obtained at São João do Cariri-PB (7.4°S, 36.5°W) were analyzed together with data from the polar stratosphere, provided by National Centre for Environmental Prediction (NCEP). Analyzing the results it was found that during the sudden stratospheric warming major the mesopause temperatures on the São João do Cariri are lower than during the stratospheric warming events considered minor. Also was verified an anti-correlation between the equatorial mean mesopause temperature and the temperature in the polar cap (poleward of 60 N) at 10 hPa, during Sudden Stratospheric Warming Major events.
Durante o inverno do hemisfério norte a temperatura da estratosfera polar aumenta de forma brusca. Em algumas ocasiões, a estratosfera polar experimenta aquecimentos mais intensos, os quais são acompanhados de uma inversão na circulação zonal média. Estes eventos são classificados como aquecimentos abruptos estratosféricos (Sudden Stratospheric Warming). Alguns estudos evidenciaram conexão entre os eventos intensos de aquecimento abrupto da estratosfera polar do hemisfério norte e o esfriamento da região mesosférica, assim como entre os eventos e perturbações presentes na mesosfera e na ionosfera em médias e baixas latitudes, incluindo a região equatorial. O objetivo deste trabalho foi investigar possíveis efeitos de evento de aquecimento abrupto da estratosfera polar no comportamento da temperatura da região próxima à mesopausa equatorial. Neste sentido, dados de temperaturas estimados a partir de medidas obtidas com radar meteórico em São João do Cariri-PB (7,4°S, 36,5°O) foram analisados juntamente com dados da estratosfera polar, fornecidos pelo National Centre for Environmental Prediction (NCEP). Analisados os resultados, verificou-se que durante evento intenso de aquecimento abrupto da estratosfera polar, as temperaturas da mesopausa sobre São João do Cariri são mais baixas do que durante os eventos de aquecimento estratosféricos considerados fracos. Também foram verificadas anticorrelações entre a temperatura próxima a região da mesopausa equatorial e a média zonal da temperatura da estratosfera polar durante eventos intensos de aquecimento abrupto da estratosfera.
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Slawinski, Lucie. "La famille de transporteurs de monosaccharides ERD6-like (Early Response to Dehydration six-like) : émergence, évolution chez les plantes terrestres et réponses au déficit hydrique dans les feuilles d'Arabidopsis thaliana." Thesis, Poitiers, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017POIT2310.
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La caractérisation des réponses des plantes à la sécheresse est un enjeu actuel majeur. La gestion du carbone dans l’adaptation des végétaux aux contraintes environnementales requiert l’activité de transporteurs de monosaccharides ERD6-like (Early Response to Dehydration six-like), transporteurs impliqués dans la compartimentation subcellulaire des sucres et leur remobilisation à l’échelle de l’organisme. Le premier axe de la thèse a été dédié à l’analyse phylogénétique des ERD6-like par une approche de génomique évolutive. L’identification de 519 ERD6-like dans les protéomes de 47 Embryophytes a permis de reconstituer l’histoire évolutive de cette famille en mettant en exergue des événements majeurs de duplications. Le second axe a permis d’établir la cartographie de l’expression des ERD6-like dans les différents organes d’Arabidopsis thaliana et a mené à l’identification de gènes exprimés de façon constitutive dans tous les organes, et d’autres, manifestant une expression préférentielle. Le troisième axe a permis d’étudier la réponse des ERD6-like à la carence en eau, dans les feuilles d’A. thaliana. Pour cela, le phénotypage morphologique, biochimique et physiologique des rosettes de plantes cultivées en conditions normales d’alimentation hydrique ou de stress hydrique a été réalisé. Le profil d’expression des AtERD6-like au cours de la cinétique de carence en eau a mis en évidence l’induction de quatre AtERD6-like en réponse au déficit hydrique. L’analyse de simples mutants pour ces gènes, a permis d’initier l’étude de la diversification fonctionnelle des ERD6-like d’A. thalianaNowadays, characterizing plants responses to drought is a major goal for plant scientists. The carbon management in response to environmental cues involves the activity of ERD6-like (Early Response to Dehydration six-like) monosaccharides transporters, playing roles in sugar subcellular partitioning and re-allocation at the scale of the whole organism. The first purpose of this PhD thesis focused on the analysis of the ERD6-like evolution into the plant Kingdom, using a phylogeny approach. Identification of 519 ERD6-like in the proteome of 47 plants species lead to rebuild the evolutionary story of this gene family, and to provide evidence for the major duplication events. The second purpose was the mapping of ERD6-like expression levels in different organs of Arabidopsis thaliana and lead to the identification of almost constitutively expressed copies and others displaying organ-preferential expression patterns. The third purpose was to study the responses of ERD6-like genes to water starvation in A. thaliana leaves. This highlighted the expression induction of 4 AtERD6-like during water deficit. Finally, the characterization of erd6-like insertional mutants initiated the study of the functional diversity of this large family of monosaccharide transporters in Arabidopsis thaliana
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Pradel, Benjamin. "Rendez-vous en ville ! Urbanisme temporaire et urbanité évènementielle : les nouveaux rythmes collectifs." Phd thesis, Université Paris-Est, 2010. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00546513.
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La métropole est polychronique. L'isolement d'un de ses rythmes permet de nuancer les théories de la modernité liquide et de la ville en continu. À travers l'étude de trois événements festifs métropolitains à Paris et Bruxelles, nous proposons une lecture de l'histoire urbaine par ses temps partagés, une description des mécanismes par lesquels les rythmes sociaux émergent et une analyse de leur rôle social et spatial. Réinterrogé par le concept de rendez-vous collectifs, les rythmes urbains sont une co-production entre un urbanisme temporaire et une urbanité événementielle. Ces deux éléments explique le double rôle spatial et social des rythmes événementiels. Les institutions municipales instrumentalisent l'urbanisme temporaire pour signifier le temps, organiser le rassemblement et produire du lieu. L'urbanité événementielle est le résultat des interprétations individuelles des événements comme signe temporel qui produit du lien social et un sens commun des lieux. La répétition de la rencontre entre l'urbanisme temporaire et l'urbanité événementielle provient d'une part, de la décision politique de d'instrumentaliser le rendez-vous dans l'organisation urbaine, d'autre part de la synchronisation des individus qui organisent leurs temps pour participer au rassemblement. La rationalité qui anime les participants est motivée par la valorisation des interactions de face-à-face et la production de liens sociaux associatifs, dans une société interrogée par la différenciation et la désynchronisation des modes de vie. L'individu ne se passe pas de rassemblements rituels, dans des lieux et selon des temporalités saisonnières. Ces rythmes collectifs sont adaptés à la métropole, à la complexification de ses territoires, à l'hybridation de ses représentations culturelles et à l'individualisation de ses temporalités. Au-delà, le concept de rythme est une théorie de morphologie sociale qui rend compte du fonctionnement des sociétés de façon multiscalaire et dynamique. Elle s'inscrit dans les théories sociologiques intermédiaires qui lient l'individu et le collectif, l'habitant et les institutions, la morphologie spatiale et temporelle de groupements humains de toutes tailles. Le fait métropolitain, influençant et influencé par l'individu et le global, constitue une échelle mésociale heuristique
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Junutytė, Laura. "Filosofijos ir kūrybos santykis G. Deleuze'o postfilosofijoje." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2005. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20050523_154129-32621.
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This master work analyzes relationship between philosophy and creation developed in the works of Gilles Deleuze. This French philosopher thinks in postnietzschean paradigm. He develops philosophy of becoming, taken from Nietzsche. Deleuze rejects thinking of identity, saying that creation is the first princip, whereas identity is the second. He uses the idea of overturned Platon, so his main purpose is to open new perspectives of thinking. Another aspect of difference is considered with Felix Guattari by model of rhizome, what pressupose an open system in mind and in philosophy, too. Creation in philosophy involves three great aspects: creation of concepts, setting up the plane of immanence, inventing conceptual personae. As Deleuze and Guattari insists, philosophy is not contemplation, reflection or communication, but creation of concepts, that are always new. Concepts a not given; it must be created. Concepts opens and acts onto the plane of immanence, what means that philosophy must act only immanently, without any trancendent pressupposition. The conceptual personae produces the plane of immanence and gives to the concepts their specific force. Otherwise, inventing of conceptual personae shows the relationship between philosophy and experience of philosopher or what mode of existence every thinker invents. Creation in philosophy requires experimentation and good taste. There is no abstract thruth: every thruth is created and acts only immanently. Deleuze and Guattari... [to full text]
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Retinskaya, Ekaterina. "Reverse engineering of heavy-ion collisions : unraveling initial conditions from anisotropic flow data." Phd thesis, Université Paris Sud - Paris XI, 2014. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01068777.
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Ultra-Relativistic heavy-ion physics is a promising field of high energy physics connecting two fields: nuclear physics and elementary particle physics. Experimental achievements of the last years have provided an opportunity to study the properties of a new state of matter created in heavy-ion collisions called quark-gluon plasma. The initial state of two colliding nuclei is affected by fluctuations coming from wave- functions of nucleons. These fluctuations lead to the momentum anisotropy of the hadronic matter which is observed by the detectors. The system created in the collision behaves like a fluid, so the initial state is connected to the final state via hydrodynamic evolution. In this thesis we model the evolution with relativistic viscous hydrodynamics. Our results, combined with experimental data, give non trivial constraints on the initial state, thus achieving "reverse engineering" of the heavy-ion collisions. The observable which characterizes the momentum anisotropy is the anisotropic flow vn. We present the first measurements of the first harmonic of the anisotropic flow called directed flow v1 in Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC. We then perform the first viscous hydrodynamic modeling of directed flow and show that it is less sensitive to viscosity than higher harmonics. Comparison of these experimental data with the modeling allows to extract the values of the dipole asymmetry of the initial state, which provides constraints on the models of initial states. A prediction for directed flow v1 in Au-Au collisions is also made for RHIC. We then perform a similar modeling of the second and third harmonics of the anisotropic flow, called respectively elliptic v2 and triangular v3 flow. A combined analysis of the elliptic and triangular flow data compared with viscous hydrodynamic calculations allows us to put constraints on initial ellipticity and triangularity of the system. These constraints are then used as a filter for different models of initial state. At the end of this thesis, we show perspectives in the studies of the initial state which are opened by recent measurements of event-plane correlations which could shed light on the initial state fluctuations.
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Gardner, Robert Matthew. "A Wide-Area Perspective on Power System Operation and Dynamics." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26779.
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Classically, wide-area synchronized power system monitoring has been an expensive task requiring significant investment in utility communications infrastructures for the service of relatively few costly sensors. The purpose of this research is to demonstrate the viability of power system monitoring from very low voltage levels (120 V). Challenging the accepted norms in power system monitoring, the document will present the use of inexpensive GPS time synchronized sensors in mass numbers at the distribution level. In the past, such low level monitoring has been overlooked due to a perceived imbalance between the required investment and the usefulness of the resulting deluge of information. However, distribution level monitoring offers several advantages over bulk transmission system monitoring. First, practically everyone with access to electricity also has a measurement port into the electric power system. Second, internet access and GPS availability have become pedestrian commodities providing a communications and synchronization infrastructure for the transmission of low-voltage measurements. Third, these ubiquitous measurement points exist in an interconnected fashion irrespective of utility boundaries. This work offers insight into which parameters are meaningful to monitor at the distribution level and provides applications that add unprecedented value to the data extracted from this level. System models comprising the entire Eastern Interconnection are exploited in conjunction with a bounty of distribution level measurement data for the development of wide-area disturbance detection, classification, analysis, and location routines.
The main contributions of this work are fivefold: the introduction of a novel power system disturbance detection algorithm; the development of a power system oscillation damping analysis methodology; the development of several parametric and non-parametric power system disturbance location methods, new methods of power system phenomena visualization, and the proposal and mapping of an online power system event reporting scheme.Ph. D.
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"Congestion Mitigation for Planned Special Events: Parking, Ridesharing and Network Configuration." Doctoral diss., 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.55534.
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abstract: This dissertation investigates congestion mitigation during the ingress of a planned special event (PSE). PSEs would impact the regular operation of the transportation system within certain time periods due to increased travel demand or reduced capacities on certain road segments. For individual attendees, cruising for parking during a PSE could be a struggle given the severe congestion and scarcity of parking spaces in the network. With the development of smartphones-based ridesharing services such as Uber/Lyft, more and more attendees are turning to ridesharing rather than driving by themselves. This study explores congestion mitigation during a planned special event considering parking, ridesharing and network configuration from both attendees and planner’s perspectives.
Parking availability (occupancy of parking facility) information is the fundamental building block for both travelers and planners to make parking-related decisions. It is highly valued by travelers and is one of the most important inputs to many parking models. This dissertation proposes a model-based practical framework to predict future occupancy from historical occupancy data alone. The framework consists of two modules: estimation of model parameters, and occupancy prediction. At the core of the predictive framework, a queuing model is employed to describe the stochastic occupancy change of a parking facility.
From an attendee’s perspective, the probability of finding parking at a particular parking facility is more treasured than occupancy information for parking search. However, it is hard to estimate parking probabilities even with accurate occupancy data in a dynamic environment. In the second part of this dissertation, taking one step further, the idea of introducing learning algorithms into parking guidance and information systems that employ a central server is investigated, in order to provide estimated optimal parking searching strategies to travelers. With the help of the Markov Decision Process (MDP), the parking searching process on a network with uncertain parking availabilities can be modeled and analyzed.
Finally, from a planner’s perspective, a bi-level model is proposed to generate a comprehensive PSE traffic management plan considering parking, ridesharing and route recommendations at the same time. The upper level is an optimization model aiming to minimize total travel time experienced by travelers. In the lower level, a link transmission model incorporating parking and ridesharing is used to evaluate decisions from and provide feedback to the upper level. A congestion relief algorithm is proposed and tested on a real-world network.Dissertation/Thesis
Doctoral Dissertation Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering 2019
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Sin-YiLin and 林欣儀. "Factors Effect on Participation Intention of Road Running Events: The Application of Theory of Planned Behavior." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/k3nd2n.
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Gavaza, Paul 1972. "Using the theory of planned behavior to predict Texas pharmacists' intention to report serious adverse drug events." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-05-747.
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The purpose of this dissertation was to use the theory of planned behavior (TPB) to predict Texas pharmacists’ intention to report serious adverse drug effects (ADEs) to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The study explored the utility of the TPB model constructs (attitude [A], subjective norm [SN], perceived behavioral control [PBC]), as well as past reporting behavior (PRB), and perceived moral obligation (PMO) to predict pharmacists’ intention to report serious ADEs to the FDA. The study also determined if the pharmacists’ A, SN and PBC were related to practice characteristics and demographic factors.
A survey was developed based on two focus group interviews, pretested and mailed to 1,500 Texas practicing pharmacists. An overall response rate of 26.4 percent was obtained (n = 377 pharmacists). Overall, pharmacists intended to report serious ADEs, had a favorable attitude towards reporting, were somewhat influenced by social norms regarding reporting and perceived themselves to have some control over reporting serious ADEs to the FDA. For direct measures, A and SN were significant predictors of intention to report serious ADEs, but PBC was not. The TPB constructs together accounted for 34.0 percent of the variance in intention to report serious ADEs to the FDA. Using indirect measures, A, SN and PBC were significant predictors of intention and together accounted for 28.8 percent of the variance in intention to report serious ADEs. PRB and PMO improved the explanatory power of the regression models (direct and indirect measures) over and above the TPB constructs. Unlike most other practice characteristics and demographic factors examined, knowledge was significantly related with the TPB constructs.
In summary, A, SN, PBC (indirect measures), PRB, and PMO influence the formation of pharmacists’ intention to report serious ADEs. The TPB has utility in predicting ADE reporting behavior. Pharmacy educators should explore pharmacists’ attitudes, beliefs, and expectations of important others in designing educational programs. Strategies to help pharmacists report more serious ADEs should focus on altering their perception of social pressure towards reporting and addressing the barriers towards ADE reporting (e.g., lack of knowledge).text
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TSENG, CHIA-CHENG, and 曾嘉政. "An Exploration on the Behavioral Intention of Watching E-Sport Events based on the Theory of Planned Behavior." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/36755421885376205167.
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碩士華夏科技大學
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Abstract Professional sport events have become a part of the repertoire of public entertainment, which can be accessed through mass media such as television or internet. Relying on broadcasting and visibility, the rapid developing e-sport events greatly depends on the number of viewers. To further investigate the factors affecting the public's interest in such events, the theory of planned behavior is applied to explore the intention of viewers in watching such events. Online investigative questionnaires were provided and 297 valid samples were collected. Structured equation modeling is used to analyze the relationship between the behavioral intention of e-sport event viewers and preexisting factors including attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavioral control. It was found that the attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavioral control of the viewers have significant impacts on behavioral intention, where the perceived behavioral control plays a decisive role. Viewers agree with the belief that watching e-sport events is a non-faulty and meaningful activity has a positive effect on public impression because the willingness of watching these events may depend on whether the people around them share the same or similar values. Also, better accessibility can facilitate utilization.
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Jhang, Jhe-Wei, and 張哲瑋. "A Simulation-based Multiclass, Multimodal Traffic Assignment Model with Departure Time and Parking Location Considerations for Planned Special Events." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/34387249408216230822.
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In order to evaluate the effects of parking management strategies a planned special event, this study presents a multiclass, multimodal dynamic traffic simulation model with departure time and parking location for planned special events. By adopting a hierarchy decision structure, the influence of in-vehicle travel time, walking time, time spent looking for parking, parking fee, bus fare, and schedule delay costs toward the travel choice behaviours of participators of planned special events are considered simultaneously. In the first stage, participators make mode and departure time choices. Then, they make parking location choices if they choose to use private mode. Finally, they make route choices. They wish to spend minimal travel costs to arrive at a venue on their schedules. By adopting a mesoscopic transportation planning software, Cube, this simulation model is constructed to predict the traffic flow patterns in space and time. Time-dependent daily trips and extra trips generated by the planned special event are assigned into the road network together. Referencing the field investigation of New Year’s Eve in Taoyuan City, a numerical example is used to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed simulation model.
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Chou, Wen-Rui, and 周汶叡. "Analysis of Traffic Mitigation Plans for Planned Special Events - A Case Study of the New Year’s Eve in Taoyuan County." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/298gcg.
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In this study, we focus on cyclic planned special events (PSE) which are held at a fixed place. A major of participants will attend the PSE by private vehicles. First, we collect relevant information of travel behaviors of event participants by means of interview survey. Second, we present a travel behavior model of event participants, including departure time choice, mode choice, and route choice. Third, we use mesoscopic transportation planning software, Cube, to simulate these travel choice behaviors of event participants. Finally, we evaluate the impact of traffic mitigation plans by using this Cube model from the perspectives of event participants and non-participants. New Year’s Eve in Taoyuan County was used as a case study. The results show that if event participants pay much attention to the schedule delay, they will carefully choose their departure times. In addition, we found that reducing the public transit cost and increasing the parking cost of private vehicles can help increase the proportion of public transit of event participants, improve the overall network performance, and decrease the impact of non-participants.
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Chen, Wei-Hao, and 陳威豪. "A Simulation-based Travel Choice Model and Analysis of Traffic Mitigation Plans for Planned Special Events - A Case Study of the New Year''s Eve in Taoyuan County." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/uw5m3v.
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We focus on the travel choice behaviours of participants who attend planned special events (PSE) by private vehicles mainly. PSEs are periodically held at a fixed place. New Year’s Eve in Taoyuan County was used as a case study. We collect relevant information of travel behaviors of event participants by means of interview survey. Using Cube Voyager, a mesoscopic and systematic assessment tool is developed to explore participant behaviours of planned special event for mode and departure time window choices, evaluate event scenarios, and duplicate what happened during previous planned special events for a better understanding of the related issues. The simulation-based, multi-class, multi-modal traffic assignment model with departure time windows can be used to forecast the occurrence time and the level of traffic congestion produced by a planned special event. In this study, the 2015 New Year’s Eve celebration in Taoyuan City was used as a case study. Different types of traffic control plans were proposed to reduce the traffic impact of the planned special event. The impacts of a planned special event towards event participants and commuters and the mitigation measures for various traffic control plans are also established successfully in this study.
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Nai-Wen, Chang, and 張乃文. "Application of Theory of Planned Behavior to Explore Sport Tourism Attraction and Participants’ Behavior Intentions：A Case Study of Bali Marathon Event." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/6xj2uy.
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Tourism industries of global countries’ GDP for 2011 accounted for more than 10%. Sport tourism was the fastest growing sector in the global travel and tourism industry, and it was the mainstream market, especially in sport event. There were total 448 running activities held in 2014. Marathon was one of the most important event. The purpose of this study was to explore the structure of marathon event tourism attraction and participation behavior intention through the Theory of Planned Behavior. Convenience sampling was used to collect data from marathon event in Bali. There were total 348 valid questionnaires returned. The results revealed:First, different age and groups had significant differences in sport tourism attraction; 31-40 year-old people in“historical” attraction variable was significant than above 61 year-old people; half-marathon participants in “historical” attraction variable was significant than marathon participants. Second, after attraction model was modified by confirmatory factor analysis, the result of fit measures as following: X2 = 709.56, X2/df = 2.28, RMSEA = 0.06, GFI = 0.87, and PCFI = 0.71. These values demonstrated good fit of this model. Third, the results of structure equation modeling showed the factors of participants’ behavior tendency, in which perceived behavioral control had the strongest effect, following were attitude, subjective norm, and sport event tourism attraction, in which path coefficient were 0.49, 0.44, 0.06, and 0.05 respectively. The study of contribution was to provide a more precisely prediction of participation behavior. The findings made hosts able to use limited resource effectively, and planned marketing strategies according to the factors attraction, attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control.
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Říhová, Miroslava. "Rozhovor v dopravněpsychologickém vyšetření." Master's thesis, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-341317.
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Master thesis is focused on one of the crutial and the most problematic tools at the same time of driver diagnostic which is the interwiev. In the theorethical part of the thesis we concern on the targets and basic starting points of the driver assesment, from which the explorative areas of the interwiev. We discuss the role of the interwiev in the systém of methods which can be used for driver behaviour prediction and its specific kontext or the social desirability influence. The interwiev is divided into four phases - introducion (contract), anmnestic data gathering, diagnostical part, and conclusion. The theory of planned behaviour, and Behavioral Event Interview are presented in the diagnosticlal as the two sources of the design of semi-standardized interview. Empirical part contains a specific interwiev design including the recommended question set for mapping of the ability to view and reflection, driving style and characteristics, attitudes to risk behavior a possibility of the driver change from the point of his behaviour.. Then, the qualitative assesment of the question sets using the contrast method, comparison and subsequent interpretation based on the content analysis of the driver statements in accompanying case reports. Based on the analysis of the driver statements we set several key...
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Rodda, Jillian Maree. "Severe crouch gait in the sagittal gait patterns of spastic diplegic cerebral palsy: the impact of single event multilevel surgery." 2005. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/2022.
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The purpose of this thesis was to study the outcome of Single Event Multilevel Surgery (SEMLS) on the gait pattern known as crouch gait in children with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy. The term “crouch gait” in the literature has been defined by many authors to mean a flexed knee coupled with many different combinations of posture at the ankle. Consequently it was necessary to provide a robust definition of crouch gait before the outcome study could proceed. Crouch gait was defined in the context of a classification of sagittal gait patterns in spastic diplegia. In the cross-sectional study on the classification of sagittal gait patterns, 187 children with spastic diplegia were categorised according to visual recognition of their gait pattern and sagittal plane kinematic data. Six gait patterns in spastic diplegia were identified, one of which was crouch gait. A pattern of increasing age, severity and biomechanical incompetency in maintaining an extended posture was seen across the gait patterns and crouch gait appeared to be the “end” gait pattern. A longitudinal study documented how the identified gait patterns evolved over time. Thirty-four children were followed for more than one year and the results indicated that the stability of the gait pattern was variable. The reliability of the classification was found to be acceptable. (For complete abstract open document)
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VALOUŠKOVÁ, Aneta. "Nasazení dobrovolníků při řešení mimořádných událostí v Jihomoravském kraji." Master's thesis, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-53706.
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The theme of my diploma thesis is the engagement of the volunteers in the solution to the accidents in the South-Moravia region. In my diploma thesis I am involved in the issue of the engagement of the volunteers in the solution to the accidents in the South-Moravia region. I assume that the utilization of the potential of the volunteers is one of the possibilities of the acquisition of the forces, which could be used for the recovery of the consequences, post-traumatic care to struck persons and other activities within the solution to the accidents, all parallelly with the actions of the professional teams of the integrated rescue system bodies. The needs of the population in case of the accidents are rather differentiated, and the engagement of the volunteers completes the appointed forces and means of the integrated rescue system bodies. At present time, the adequate legal framework, modifying the engagement of the volunteers in the solution to the accidents, does not exist in the Czech Republic. Non-governmental non-profit organizations are united in the South-Moravia region into the Panel of the South-Moravia Region, which establishes the platform and enables the South-Moravia Region more effective engagement of the non-governmental non-profit organizations. The volunteers, organized in the Panel of the South-Moravia Region, are engaged in the solution to the accidents and the trainings organized in the level of the region, municipalities with widened competence and the integrated rescue system bodies.
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Turley, Andrew C. "Reading the Game: Exploring Narratives in Video Games as Literary Texts." Thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/18520.
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)Video games are increasingly recognized as powerful tools for learning in classrooms. However, they are widely neglected in the field of English, particularly as objects worthy of literary study. This project argues the place of video games as objects of literary study and criticism, combining the theories of Espen Aarseth, Ian Bogost, Henry Jenkins, and James Paul Gee. The author of this study presents an approach to literary criticism of video games that he names “player-generated narratives.” Through player-generated narratives, players as readers of video games create loci for interpretative strategies that lead to both decoding and critical inspection of game narratives. This project includes a case-study of the video game Undertale taught in multiple college literature classrooms over the course of a year. Results of the study show that a video game introduced as a work of literature to a classroom increases participation, actives disengaged students, and connects literary concepts across media through multimodal learning. The project concludes with a chapter discussing applications of video games as texts in literature classrooms, including addressing the practical concerns of migrating video games into an educational setting.
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Malebana, Mmakgabo Justice. "Entrepreneurial intent of final-year commerce students in the rural provinces of South Africa." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/8588.
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Owing to the fact that entrepreneurship is widely considered to be a mechanism for reducing unemployment, the purpose of the study was to assess whether final-year Commerce students in the predominantly rural provinces, the Eastern Cape Province and the Limpopo Province, have the intention to start their own businesses.The study draws heavily from entrepreneurial intent models and focuses on the relationship between three key variables, namely, exposure to entrepreneurship education, awareness of entrepreneurial support and social capital to establish whether they are related to the intention of final-year Commerce studentsto start their own businesses.
The literature review concentrated on entrepreneurial intent and entrepreneurial intent models; government entrepreneurial support initiatives in South Africa and in other countries and their role in the development of entrepreneurial intent, emergence of new ventures and the growth of small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs); entrepreneurship education and its role in enhancing entrepreneurial self-efficacy, entrepreneurial competencies and entrepreneurial intent;the influence of social capital on entrepreneurial intent and the different stages on the new venture life-cycle; and concludes with the link between entrepreneurship and the establishment of SMMEs.
A survey was conducted among National Diploma (ND): Internal Auditing, Cost and Management Accounting and Financial information systems students (IAUD, CMA and FIS) (who had six months exposure to entrepreneurship education), ND: Entrepreneurship/Small Business Management (E/SBM) (who had three years exposure to entrepreneurship education) and ND: Management (without exposure to entrepreneurship education). The respondents for the study comprised 355 final year students of which 276 were from Walter Sisulu University in the Eastern Cape Province and 79 were from Tshwane University of Technology (Polokwane Campus) in the LimpopoProvince.Data was analysed using descriptive statistics and nonparametric statistics.
The findings reveal that the majority of the respondents had the intention to start a business in the future.The entrepreneurial intent of the ND: E/SBM students was
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