Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Psi COMPASS'

In this thesis a prototype board for data aqcusition is designed and manufactured. The board is compliant with Compact PCI Express and it can sample an analog signal with two time interleaved ADC:s. Furthermore, the board is also equiped with one FPGA for the possibility of signal processing. The thesis also include a study for investigation what is needed for a total solution for data aqcusition, represention and managing the sampled data with LabView.

Le mémoire rapporte les travaux effectués pour l’élaboration de membranes asymétriques de type co-polyalcoxyéther-imide (PEI) afin d'obtenir des membranes polymères à haut flux, sélectives pour la séparation de molécules organiques à partir de mélanges aqueux par procédés membranaires. La séparation des mélanges liquides (i.e. toluène - heptane, eau - éthanol, soluté organique dilué en solution aqueuse) a été étudiée par pervaporation (PV) et par nanofiltration (NF) à l'aide de membranes PEI originales asymétriques comportant une peau dense autosupportée. Ces membranes ont été préparées dans des conditions expérimentales contrôlées à partir de solutions DMF-H2O de l'acide polyamique correspondant (APA) en relation avec le diagramme de phase ternaire ; après l’inversion de phase dans un bain d'eau, les membranes d’APA ont été cyclisées en imides par traitement thermique. Les propriétés physiques des membranes (IR, TGA) ont été caractérisées, et les morphologies correspondantes, enregistrées par SEM, ont été utilisées pour optimiser la préparation des membranes asymétriques pour améliorer les propriétés de séparation en ajustant l'épaisseur de la couche dense. Les performances obtenues en pervaporation et en nanofiltration ont été examinées à la lumière de l'influence de trois séries de paramètres, à savoir les paramètres d’élaboration des membranes (composition du collodion, température du bain d'inversion de phase), les conditions expérimentales de perméation (température, pression) et des propriétés moléculaires du soluté (masse molaire, rayon, polarité). Les résultats de pervaporation ont montré que des membranes asymétriques PEI à peau denses pouvaient bien être obtenues, donnant lieu à une sélectivité moléculaire en accord avec le modèle de solution-diffusion. Les résultats obtenus en NF pour des solutés organiques dilués dans l'eau (≈ 500 ppm) ont montré que le degré de rejet des solutés étaient fortement liés aux conditions d’élaboration des membranes PEI et des propriétés des solutés. Les valeurs de seuil de coupure moléculaire des membranes (MWCO) ont été déterminées avec une série de polyéthylène glycol (400
The work aimed to prepare co-polyalkylether-imide (PEI) asymmetric membranes in order to get high flux water selective polymeric membranes suitable for the separation of organic molecules from aqueous mixtures by membrane processes. The separation of liquid mixtures (i.e. toluene – heptane, water – ethanol and low concentrated organic solute in aqueous solutions) was studied by pervaporation (PV) and by nanofiltration (NF) using homemade integrally skinned asymmetric PEI membranes. These membranes were prepared under controlled experimental conditions from DMF-H2O solutions of the corresponding polyamic acid (PAA) with respect to the ternary phase diagram; after the wet phase inversion in a water bath, the PAA membranes were imidized by thermal treatment. The membrane physical properties (IR, TGA) were characterized and the related morphologies, recorded by SEM, were used to optimize the asymmetric membrane preparation to improve the separation properties by tuning the thickness of the dense top layer. The performances of the pervaporation and nanofiltration separations were examined in the light of the influence of three sets of parameters, i.e. membrane elaboration parameters (dope composition, inversion bath temperature), experimental permeation conditions (temperature, applied pressure) and solute molecular properties (molecular weight, radius, polarity). The PV results showed that tight asymmetric PEI membranes could well be obtained, giving rise to a molecular selectivity in agreement with the solution-diffusion model. The NF results obtained with diluted organics in water (≈500ppm) have shown that the degree of rejection of the organic solutes was strongly linked to the PEI elaboration conditions and to the solute properties. The molecular cutoff values (MWCO) of the membranes were determined with a series of polyethyleneglycol (400 < Mw (g/mole) <6000) for an applied NF pressure up to 10 Bar; it was shown that the PEI membrane MWCO could be ranged between 400 and 1000g/mol at 30°C. It was also found with some PEI membranes that high permeation fluxes together with good separation selectivity could be obtained leading to interesting performances compared to literature data. Thus, it is expected that the development of these new asymmetric block copolyimide rubbery membranes might give rise to high performance membrane systems for applications in liquid-liquid separations, in particular in nanofiltration separations

One of the motivating reasons for the development of hydroponics was avoidance of root pathogens. Hydroponics involves growing crops in relatively sterile media, isolated from the underlying soil which may have disease pressure. However, even when hydroponics is coupled with controlled environments such as high tunnels and climate-controlled greenhouses, soil-borne pathogens can enter the growing area and proliferate due to optimal environmental conditions for pathogen growth. Control of root pathogens is difficult and usually achieved through synthetic fungicides since few biocontrol options are available. Compost water extracts (CWE) have recently been gaining the attention of greenhouse growers because they may be a low-cost, environmentally friendly approach to control root disease. CWE are mixtures of compost and water incubated for a defined period of time, either with or without aeration, and with or without additives intended to increase microbial populations, which in turn suppress disease. Much anecdotal, but very little scientific, evidence exists describing CWE effect on suppressing soil-borne pathogens. The present study 1) examined the effect of an aerated CWE on disease suppression at the laboratory scale and in container studies using different soilless substrates, 2) investigated a phenotypic change at the root level caused by CWE that may be associated with disease suppression, and 3) isolated some factors in the production of CWE that affect the ability of a CWE to suppress disease. The common model pathogen-host system of Fusarium solani f.sp. pisi and pea was used to examine CWE-induced disease suppression, with information then being translatable to similar patho-systems involved in greenhouse crop production. In the first study, laboratory-based root growth and infection assays resulted in 100% suppression of F. solani when roots were drenched in CWE. These protected seedlings were then taken to a greenhouse and transplanted into fine coconut coir, watered with hydroponic nutrient solution, and grown for five weeks. At the end of the experiment, 23% of the shoots of the pathogen-inoculated, CWE-drenched seedlings remained healthy while only 2% of the inoculated seedlings without CWE drench remained healthy. All of the roots of the inoculated seedlings developed lesions, even those drenched in CWE. However, 29% of the CWE drenched roots were able to recover from disease, growing white healthy roots past the lesion, while only 2% recovered naturally. A shorter-term container study was conducted in the laboratory to determine the effects of CWE-induced suppression when peas were grown in different substrates and to determine if the hydroponic nutrient solution had an effect on the suppression. Peas were grown in sterilized fine and coarse coconut coir fiber and sand irrigated with water, with a second set of fine coir irrigated with hydroponic nutrient solution. Pea seeds with 20-25mm radicles were inoculated with pathogen and sown directly into CWE-drenched substrate and grown for three weeks. At the end of the experiment, 80%, 60%, 90%, and 50% of the shoots of the inoculated, CWE-drenched seedlings remained healthy when grown in fine coir, coarse coir, sand, and fine coir irrigated with hydroponic nutrient solution, respectively. Nearly 100% of the roots grown in coconut coir substrates again developed necrotic lesions but 83%, 87%, 100%, and 87% grew healthy roots beyond the disease region. The hydroponic nutrient solution had a negative effect on suppression, with a reduction of at least 30 percentage points. Sand demonstrated a natural ability to suppress F. solani. Only 23% of inoculated seedlings had dead or dying shoots by the end of the experiment (compared to 77-80% in coir substrates) and although all but one of the roots developed lesions, all were able to recover on their own with CWE. CWE further increased shoot health and also prevented 57% of the roots from developing lesions. In a second study, two different CWE were used to examine the effect on root border cell dispersion and dynamics in pea, maize, cotton, and cucumber and its relation to disease suppression. Dispersal of border cells after immersion of roots into water or CWE was measured by direct observation over time using a compound microscope and stereoscope. Pictures were taken and the number of border cells released into suspension were enumerated by counting the total number of cells in aliquots taken from the suspension. Border cells formed a mass surrounding root tips within seconds after exposure to water, and most cells dispersed into suspension spontaneously. In CWE, >90% of the border cell population instead remained appressed to the root surface, even after vigorous agitation. This altered border cell phenomena was consistent for pea, maize, and cotton and for both CWE tested. For most cucumber roots (n=86/95), inhibition of border cell dispersal in both CWE was similar to that observed in pea, maize, and cotton. However, some individual cucumber roots (8±5%) exhibited a distinct phenotype. For example, border cells of one root immersed into CWE remained tightly adhered to the root tip even after 30 minutes while border cells of another root immersed at the same time in the same sample of CWE expanded significantly within 5 minutes and continued to expand over time. In a previous study, sheath development over time in growth pouches also was distinct in cucumber compared with pea, with detachment of the sheaths over time, and root infection was reduced by only 38% in cucumber compared with 100% protection in pea (Curlango-Rivera et al. 2013). Further research is needed to evaluate whether this difference in retention of border cell sheaths plays a role in the observed difference in inhibition of root infection. In the third study, a series of investigations were conducted to isolate different factors that contribute to the suppression ability of a CWE by changing incrementally changing some aspect of the CWE production process. The basic aerated CWE recipe (with molasses, kelp, humic acid, rock phosphate, and silica) provided 100% protection of pea from root disease while the non-aerated basic recipe CWE provided 72% protection. Aerated CWE made of only compost and water resulted in 58% protection. It was found that molasses did not contribute to the suppression ability of the ACWE, while kelp contributed strongly. When soluble kelp was added by itself to the compost and water, the CWE provided 80% suppression. However, when all additives were included except molasses and kelp, suppression remained high (93%) indicating that humic acids, rock phosphate, and/or silica were also major contributors toward the suppression effect. Optimal fermentation time for ACWE was 24 hr to achieve 100% suppression, with increased time resulting in inconsistent suppression results. Optimal fermentation time for NCWE was 3 days or 8 days. These studies are important contributions to understanding the differences that might be expected in CWE suppression when growing in different substrates, some of the factors in the production of CWE that affects the ability of a CWE to suppress disease, and the phenotypic effect CWE has on the root zone of plants and the possible relationship between that effect and disease suppression.

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 22-25, 2001 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada
NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) is continually looking for methods to reduce cost and schedule while keeping the quality of work high. MSFC is NASA’s lead center for space transportation and microgravity research. When supporting NASA’s programs several decisions concerning the avionics system must be made. Usually many trade studies must be conducted to determine the best ways to meet the customer’s requirements. When deciding the flight data system, one of the first trade studies normally conducted is the determination of the data bus architecture. The schedule, cost, reliability, and environments are some of the factors that are reviewed in the determination of the data bus architecture. Based on the studies, the data bus architecture could result in a proprietary data bus or a commercial data bus. The cost factor usually removes the proprietary data bus from consideration. The commercial data bus architecture’s range from Versa Module Euro card (VME) to Compact PCI to STD 32 to PC 104. If cost, schedule and size are prime factors, VME is usually not considered. If the prime factors are cost, schedule, and size then Compact PCI, STD 32 and PC 104 are the choices for the data bus architecture. MSFC’s center director has funded a study from his discretionary fund to determine an optimal low cost commercial data bus architecture. The goal of the study is to functionally and environmentally test Compact PCI, STD 32 and PC 104 data bus architectures. This paper will summarize the results of the data bus architecture study.

L'objet de la thèse est d'analyser à travers l'étude des représentations et du comportement décisionnel du commissaire aux comptes, le processus d'audit légal dans un contexte de PME dont le système d'information est basé sur un PGI. Par conséquent, il s'agit de déterminer si la présence d'un système informatique intégré au sein de la PME contrôlée, est de nature à faire évoluer le processus d'audit légal. Dans le cadre d'une démarche interprétative et qualitative, des investigations ont été menées auprès de commissaires aux comptes, auditant en univers PGI/PME. Elles ont permis d'énoncer deux résultats majeurs. Le premier révèle que les progiciels de gestion intégrés sont créateurs de confiance pour certains répondants, mais suscitent également de la défiance pour d'autres. Toutefois, c'est la position critique qui est dominante. Le second enseignement de cette recherche souligne qu'il existe une évolution variable dans la pratique des auditeurs, ce qui met partiellement en échec la théorie de l'adaptabilité décisionnelle de l'individu. Plus généralement, les observations tendent à montrer que la technologie PGI ne remet pas en cause la finalité et les fondements de la démarche du certificateur
The aim of this thesis is to analyse - through the study of the representations and decision-making behaviour of the legal auditor - the legal audit process in an SME-context where the information system is based on an ERP. Therefore, we intend to determine whether the presence of an integrated information system within the audited SME is likely to alter the legal audit process. In the framework of an interpretative and qualitative approach, investigations were carried out among legal auditors working in an SME/ERP environment. These surveys have allowed us to formulate two major results. The first result reveals that ERPs are trustworthy systems to some respondents, but they also arouse mistrust in others. However, on the whole, the sentiment of mistrust prevails. The second result of this research indicates that varied and unsettled changes exist in each auditors'work methods, which partly challenges the theory of individual decision-making adaptability. More generally speaking, observations tend to show that ERP technology doesn't call into question the purpose and the fondations of the auditor's approach

The internet is one of the most widely used mediums for communication in modern society and it has become an everyday necessity for many. It is therefore of utmost importance that it remains as secure as possible. SSL and TLS are the backbones of internet security and an integral part of these technologies are the certificates used. Certificate authorities (CAs) can issue certificates that validate that domains are who they claim to be. If a user trusts a CA they can in turn also trust domains that have been validated by them. CAs can in turn trust other CAs and this, in turn, creates a chain of trust called a certificate chain. In this thesis, the structure of these certificate chains is analysed and a longitudinal dataset is created. The analysis looks at how the certificate chains have changed over time and puts extra focus on the domains of big tech companies. The dataset created can also be used for further analysis in the future and will be a useful tool in the examination of historical certificate chains. Our findings show that the certificate chains of the domains studied do change over time; both their structure and the lengths of them vary noticeably. Most of the observed domains show a decrease in average chain length between the years of 2013 and 2020 and the structure of the chains vary significantly over the years.

Ce mémoire de thèse concerne l’étude des composés ternaires Terre rare–magnésium–nickel utilisable pour le stockage de l’hydrogène. Ces composés ont été obtenus par fusion ou par mécanosynthèse. Les intermétalliques YNi4-xAlxMg, dérivant des phases de Laves de structure cubique ont été étudiés. Ils réagissent de manière réversible avec l’hydrogène à P et T ambiantes. Le comportement structural lors d’une hydruration a été étudié par DRX in situ. Le composé conserve sa symétrie cubique mais avec diminution de la cristallinité. Cette étude est complétée par l’étude de composés : (i) riche en terre rare (e.g. Gd4NiMg) qui absorbe l’hydrogène à température ambiante de manière irréversible. La structure de l’intermétallique et de l’hydrure sont déterminées. La décomposition de l’hydrure à température supérieure à 90°C est expliquée. (ii) riche en magnésium. Nous avons pu identifié un nouveau composé de formulation proche de Mg77Gd9Ni14.5 de structure CFC
This work deals with the study of ternary compounds Rare Earth – magnesium - nickel used ofr hydrogen storage. All the compounds are prepared by fusion and by mechanical alloying method.. The compounds YNi4-xAlxMg, derived from the cubic Laves phases have been studied in the first part. It reacts reversibly towards hydrogen at atmospheric pressure and room temperature. The structural behaviour during the hydrogen sorption has been studied by in situ XRD. The compound remains cubic with a decrease of the crystallinity. This study is completed by the study of compounds : (i) rich in rare earth (e.g. Gd4NiMg) that absorb hydrogen at room temperature but irreversibly. Structures of both the intermetallic and the hydride have been determined. The decomposition of the hydride at temperature higher than 90°C is also explained. (ii) rich in magnesium. A new compounds with a formulation closed to Mg77Gd9Ni14.5 has been identified and it crystallized with a cubic faces centred structure

This work presents an introduction to the geometry of the moduli space M_{0,n} of smooth algebraic curves of genus zero and presents two ways of compactifying it, yielding the space \overline{M}_{0,n}. In his first construction Kapranov, starting from a result by Castelnuovo, compactifies M_{0,n} by means of Veronese curves and their limit positions, yielding boundary divisors. On the other hand, Kapranov compactifies M_{0,n} by iterated blow-up of the projective space P^{n-3} at n-1 points in general position and at all linear spaces spanned by them, yielding exceptional divisors and the hyperplane class. Focusing on the correspondence between boundary divisors and Veronese curves and on the role of the hyperplane class, we show that there is a dictionary between boundary divisors, exceptional divisors and the hyperplane class. In particular, we present a realization of \overline{M}_{0,5} as a del Pezzo surface of degree 5 and we compare the space \overline{M}_{0,6} with the Segre cubic. We conclude by presenting some generalizations of Kapranov’s construction by Hassett and Losev Manin in order to appreciate the modular structure of the rounds of blow-up.

Proteins in Escherichia coli were compared in terms of essentiality, centrality, and conservation. The hypotheses of this study are: for proteins in Escherichia coli, (1) there is a positive, measureable correlation between protein conservation and essentiality, (2) there is a positive relationship between conservation and degree centrality, and (3) essentiality and centrality also have a positive correlation. The third hypothesis was supported by a moderate correlation, the first with a weak correlation, and the second hypotheis was not supported. When proteins that did not map to orthologous groups and proteins that had no interactions were removed, the relationship between essentality and conservation increased to a strong relationship. This was due to the effect of proteins that did not map to orthologus groups and suggests that protein orthology represented by clusters of orthologus groups does not accurately dipict protein conservation among the species studied.

Peruvian Airport Company (en adelante PAC) es la empresa a la cual se le ha adjudicado la concesión del mantenimiento, ampliación y administración del Aeropuerto Internacional Kuntur (en adelante AIK). De acuerdo con el contrato de concesión y el Plan de Desarrollo mínimo para la modernización de la infraestructura aeroportuaria, PAC está obligado a cumplir con hitos de inversión y mejoras obligatorias relacionadas con el incremento de las operaciones aeroportuarias. Para poder cumplir con ello, se busca que para el año 2022 el sistema actual incremente su capacidad de procesamiento de equipajes de 1,735 a 3,229 equipajes/hora en horario de máxima demanda. Mediante la implementación del programa “Mejoras en el sistema de transporte de equipajes” se busca ampliar y mejorar el sistema actual y evitar “cuellos de botella” y picos de demanda que podrían generar reclamos por parte de las aerolíneas y multas por incumplimiento de parte del organismo regulador (OSITRAN – MTC). Este programa está conformado por cuatro proyectos: Upgrade del sistema de máquinas de rayos X, Mejoras en el sistema de transferencia, Trabajos de Infraestructura y Ampliación e instalación de fajas transportadoras. El proyecto objeto de estudio del presente trabajo de investigación, es la Ampliación e instalación de fajas transportadoras en las zonas 01 a la 07 y deberá ser ejecutado en 453 días, desde el 06/02/2017 hasta el 31/10/2018. Se proyecta un valor actual neto de U$ 1,679,821 utilizando la tasa de retorno WACC de 9.26% y un presupuesto de $. 4,744,521.
Peruvian Airport Company (PAC) is the company that has been awarded the maintenance, expansion and administration of Kuntur International Airport (AIK). In accordance with the concession contract and the Minimum Development Plan for the modernization of airport infrastructure, PAC is obliged to comply with investment milestones and mandatory improvements related to the increase airport operations. In order to comply with this, the current system should process approximately 3,229 bags/hour during peak demand hours by 2022; however, it currently only processes 1,735 bags/hour. The implementation of the "Improvements in the baggage transport system" program seeks to expand and improve the current system and avoid "bottlenecks" and spikes in demand that could lead to airline claims and fines for non-compliance by the regulatory body (OSITRAN – MTC). This program involves four projects: Upgrade of the X-ray machine system, Improvements in the transfer system, Infrastructure Works and Expansion and installation of conveyor belts. The project under study covers only the supervision of the expansion and installation of conveyor belts in zones 01 to 07 and should be implemented in 453 days, from 06/02/2017 to 29/10/2018. A net present value of $1,679,821 is projected using WACC return rate 9.26% and a budgeted amount of $. 4,744,521.
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This thesis deals with the subject of project management, primarily from the viewpoint of the development of a tool for project management support using the PRINCE2 methodology and the Unicorn Universe information system. The subject of the theoretical part is the definition of a project and project management and a description and a comparison of the most widely used project management standards, PRINCE2, PMI and IPMA. Subsequently, the emphasis is put on a detailed description of PRINCE2 with regard to its use in the next parts of the work. At the end of the theoretical part of the thesis the chapters are devoted to Unicorn Universe and to Unicorn Enterprise System Powered Company, which is a methodology used for company management. In the practical part, the author followed the recommended 4-phases process of the development of a new methodology set defined by the UESPC methodology; inception, elaboration, construction and transition. By means of the analysis in inception and elaboration stages and creation of A4 and High Level Concept documents, which describe specific ways how to implement various elements of PRINCE2into the Unicorn Universe, and the subsequent production of project management tool prototype, the author worked his way up to the construction stage, in which he designed and created definitions of meta artifacts and scripts for their later implementation in the final phase, called transition. In this phase metaartifacts were set up. They are templates for management and control artifacts and for other items necessary for the production of the methodological set, a final product of the thesis. At the end of thesis, the automation scripts, as proposed in the previous stage to verify the practical use of the thesis product, were assigned for implementation.

Ce travail concerne la modélisation, à l’échelle moléculaire, de l’interaction entre des nanoparticules carbonées et le rayonnement électromagnétique. Le but est d’aider à la compréhension des propriétés optiques des particules de suie afin de mieux quantifier l’influence des suies sur l’atmosphère et le climat. L’étude de l’interaction rayonnement/particules de suie fraîche a été effectuée par la méthode PDI ; il a été montré que : i) le coefficient d’absorption massique (MAC) des particules de suie dépend de la répartition des atomes dans la particule et de leurs liaisons, en particulier entre 200 et 350 nm ; ii) le MAC diffère selon que le cœur de la particule carbonée est occupé ou non par des plans graphitiques ; iii) un modèle analytique n’est pas adapté pour calculer le MAC d’une nanoparticule carbonée présentant des défauts structuraux. De plus, des méthodes de chimie quantique ont été utilisées pour caractériser le vieillissement des suies. Les résultats montrent que : i) NO, Cl, et HCl sont physisorbées sur une surface carbonée parfaite alors que sur une surface défective, ces espèces sont chimisorbées et conduisent à une modification de la surface ; ii) la présence de Cl conduit à un piégeage fort des molécules d’eau supérieur à celui obtenu lorsqu’un site oxygéné est présent sur la surface carbonée, expliquant ainsi le caractère hydrophile des suies émises lors d’incendies dans des milieux industriels. Enfin, la méthode PDI a été appliquée au calcul de la polarisabilité de HAP afin d’interpréter des spectres d’absorption des grains carbonés du milieu interstellaire, en incluant des molécules pour lesquelles aucune donnée n’était actuellement disponible
This work concerns the modeling, at the molecular level, of the interaction between carbonaceous particles of nanometric size and the electromagnetic radiation. The goal is to improve our understanding of the optical properties of soot particles, to better quantify the influence of soot on the atmosphere and on climate change. The study of the interaction between radiation and fresh soot particles was carried out using the point dipole interaction method; it has been shown that: i) the mass absorption coefficient (MAC) of these soot nanoparticles may significantly depend on their atomistic details, especially between 200 and 350 nm; ii) the MAC depends on whether the heart of the carbonaceous particle is occupied or not by graphite planes; iii) an analytical model is not suitable for calculating the MAC of carbonaceous nanoparticles having structural defects. In addition, quantum chemical methods have been used to characterize the ageing of soot. The results obtained are i) NO, Cl, and HCl are physisorbed on a perfect carbonaceous surface whereas on a defective surface, these species are chemisorbed and lead to a modification of the surface; ii) on a carbonaceous surface, the presence of adsorbed Cl atoms leads to a strong trapping of the surrounding water molecules. This may be related to the highly hydrophilic nature of soot emitted during fires in industrial environments. Finally, the PDI method was applied to calculate the polarizability of PAHs to help at interpreting the absorption spectra of carbonaceous grains in the interstellar medium, including molecules for which no data was currently available

Tema della ricerca di dottorato è l’equity crowdfunding, meccanismo di finanziamento alternativo al tradizionale canale del credito bancario, che coinvolge attraverso portali internet il pubblico dei piccoli investitori. L’istituto dell’equity crowdfunding è stato introdotto nell’ordinamento italiano con il d.l. n. 179/2012, noto Decreto Crescita -bis, inizialmente per favorire il finanziamento delle sole start-up innovative, e poi, con successive riforme, la platea degli emittenti è stata ampliata a tutte le piccole e medie imprese. L’obiettivo del lavoro è stato studiare sia l’impatto delle deroghe alle norme di diritto comune delle società, in particolare alla disciplina delle società a responsabilità limitata, sia analizzare il valore delle regole di autonomia privata, previste dai gestori dei portali di equity crowdfunding per la pubblicazione delle offerte, all’interno del sistema delle fonti. La tesi è stata strutturata in cinque capitoli. La presente tesi di dottorato è stata strutturata in cinque capitoli. Nel primo capitolo, dopo una panoramica sulle fonti di finanziamento extra bancarie per le SMEs, si ripercorre l’evoluzione della regolamentazione italiana dell’equity crowdfunding; il secondo è dedicato sia all’analisi comparata del fenomeno sia alle prospettive comunitarie in jure condendo; il terzo si occupa dell’analisi delle deroghe introdotte al diritto societario comune delle società a responsabilità limitata.; il quarto capitolo è incentrato sulla figura dei gestori dei portali di equity crowdfunding; infine, l’ultimo analizza la natura delle regole di autonomia privata adottate dai portali e la loro collocazione nel sistema delle fonti del diritto.
The theme of the doctoral research is the equity crowdfunding, a new financial mechanism alternative to the traditional bank credit channel, which involves the small investors (the crowd) called to subscribe the companies’ shares through internet portals, entitled «The Equity Crowdfunding And The Iusser’s Statute». The institute of equity crowdfunding was introduced into Italian legal system thanks to the d.l. n. 179/2012, initially to encourage the financing of only innovative start-ups and then, due to subsequent reforms, the audience of iussers was exstended to small and medium-sized enterprises. The goal of the work was to study both the impact of the exceptions to the rules of corporate law, with particular focus on the limited liability companies, and to analyze the value of the rules of private autonomy provided by the portal operators, placed as condition of access to the pubblication of the financing offers, within the hierarchy of law. to access funding trough web portals and to analyze the nature of the rules of private authority possibly provided by the portal operators of equity crowdfunding placed as condition of access to the publication of the financing offer, within the hierarchy of law. The thesis has been structerd into five chapters. In the first chapter, after an overview about non-bank financing’s sources for the SMEs, it is reviewed the evolution of the Italian regulation of equity crowdfunding. The second chapter is dedicated both to the comparative analysis of the phenomenon and to the regulatory process in the Community legislation. The third chapter deals with the analysis of the exemptions introduced to the general corporate law of limited liability companies. The fourth chapter focuses on the figure of the managers of the equity crowdfunding portals. The last chapter analyzes the nature of the rules of private autonomy adopted by the portals and their place in the system of sources of law.

In this work we present the basic theoretical concepts of the description of the nucleon spin structure. The theoretical background of two processes of interest - Semi-inclusive DIS and Drell-Yan - in the terms of Transverse Momentum De- pendent Parton distribution Functions is presented. The COMPASS experiment and particularly its unique polarised target are described in detail. Several target related measurements are presented. The express analysis and detector efficien- cies analysis are presented as examples of important hardware related analysis. Finally two measurements of Transverse Spin Asymmetries are presented. The first measurement is the measurement of the Transverse Spin Asymmetries in J/ψ production in the Semi-inclusive DIS on polarised protons. The second mea- surement is the measurement of Transverse Spin Asymmetries in J/ψ in the π− p polarised Drell-Yan data. 1

Jointly-supervised doctoral thesis Title: Nucleon spin structure studies in Drell-Yan process at COMPASS Author: Jan Matoušek Department I: Department of Low Temperature Physics, Faculty of Mathem- atics and Physics, Charles University Department II: Department of Physics, University of Trieste Supervisor I: prof. Miroslav Finger (Department I) Supervisor II: prof. Anna Martin (Department II) Abstract: The nucleon structure is presently described by Transverse Momentum Depend- ent (TMD) Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs), which generalise the collinear PDFs, adding partonic spin and transverse momentum degrees of freedom. The recent HERMES and COMPASS data on hadron production in deep inelastic scattering (SIDIS) of leptons off transversely polarised nucleons have provided a decisive validation of this framework. Nevertheless, the TMD PDFs should be studied in complementary reactions, like pp hard scattering and Drell-Yan pro- cesses. In particular the Sivers TMD PDF, which encodes the correlation between the nucleon transverse spin and quark transverse momentum and appears in the Sivers Transverse Spin Asymmetry (TSA), is expected to have opposite sign in Drell-Yan and SIDIS. In 2015 COMPASS measured for the first time the Drell- Yan process on a transversely polarised target π− p↑ → µ− µ+ X to test...

Esta investigação enquadra-se no âmbito da Responsabilidade Social Corporativa com o tema do Alinhamento entre Empresa e Causa das empresas do PSI-20 nas iniciativas sociais corporativas. Assim, caracterizou-se esse alinhamento e analisaram-se os factores que o influenciam. Para responder aos objectivos de investigação realizou-se um inquérito por questionário assente numa amostra por conveniência de 283 consumidores Portugueses, entre os 18 e os 64 anos, residentes na Grande Lisboa e no Grande Porto. Os resultados demonstram que o Tipo de Causa é factor influenciador do alinhamento entre Empresa e Causa e factor influenciador do alinhamento entre Sector e Empresa. Nas características do Consumidor (Cliente, Geração Millennial e Género), os resultados dos testes de hipótese não comprovaram a relação com o Alinhamento entre Empresa e Causa ou com o Alinhamento entre Sector e Causa em qualquer uma delas. Foram parcialmente comprovadas a correlação positiva entre o Alinhamento entre Sector e Causa e o Alinhamento entre Empresa e Causa, a relação entre a Identificação do Consumidor com a Causa e o Alinhamento entre Empresa e Causa e a relação entre a Identificação do Consumidor com a Causa e o Alinhamento entre Sector e Causa. Finalmente, não se comprovou a correlação positiva entre o Alinhamento entre Causa e Empresa e a Reputação da Empresa via RSE. Conclui-se que o Tipo de Causa é importante na tomada de decisão sobre iniciativas sociais corporativas e que deve ser seleccionado em função do Alinhamento entre Empresa e Causa.
This study fits in the extent of Corporate Social Responsibility, and it is about Company- Cause Fit of social corporate initiatives of 10 PSI-20 companies. In order to better understand the construct of Company-Cause Fit, a full description of the concept (10 causes pre-determined and 10 companies) was made and the factors influencing that alignment were analyzed (Company, Cause and Consumer characteristics). In order to achieve the investigation goals a structured questionnaire was delivered through a sample of 283 Portuguese consumers living in Lisbon and Porto with ages between 18 and 64 years old. Concerning the Cause’s characteristics, the results demonstrate that the Cause’s Type is an influencer of Company-Cause fit and an influencer of Sector Cause fit. In spite of that, when consider the Consumer characteristics (Client, Millennial Generation and Gender) the tests do not prove the relation with Company-cause fit. On the other hand, partial proof was achieved concerning the correlation between Company-cause fit and Sector-cause fit, between Cause relevance to the Consumer and Company-cause fit and between Cause relevance to the Consumer and Sector cause fit. Lastly, the positive correlation between Company-cause fit and Company Reputation through Corporate Social Responsibility was not confirmed. This investigation concludes that the decision of which Type of cause to choose is an important one when a Company develops corporate social initiatives and that it should be oriented to manage Company-cause fit (an exploratory decision making support instrument is proposed – the Good Match analysis).

碩士
國立中央大學
化學學系
107
Proton exchange membrane fuel cells operating at high temperatures can avoid the problems of carbon monoxide poisoning catalysts, increase the chemical reaction rate of batteries, etc. However, current commercial PEMFC membranes are prepared based on polyperfluorosulfonic acid materials, for example, the Nafion series of DuPont. But at high temperatures, water molecules tend to evaporate from the Nafion membrane, causing severe deterioration in ionic conductivity that does not provide satisfactory performance. Phosphoric acid-doped polybenzimidazole (PBI) is a common choice for polymer electrolyte membranes at high temperatures because PBI has good phosphoric acid doping ability can exhibit high proton conductivity at high temperatures. However, in very high phosphoric acid, the PBI membrane will decrease the mechanical properties. In addition, the high price of PBI also causes obstacles to widespread use. The development of high-temperature fuel cell membranes with high proton conductivity and high chemical stability without loss of mechanical integrity has become a material science research issue to be overcome. In this study, it is shown that the PEI can form a relatively complete crosslinked structure with sPSU with the increase of the proportion of addition. Therefore, the composite polymer film not only exhibits better thermal stability but also can effectively improve the phosphoric acid doping of the membrane. In addition to retention ability, these membranes can maintain conductivity at high temperatures. Among these membranes, a membrane with 40 wt% PEI has the best high-temperature proton conductivity, 1.2*10-1 S/cm at 160 °C. Incresing PEI content to 50 wt% PEI decreased its proton conductivity by 9*10-2 S/cm. Furthermore, addition of ZrP-SH causes the structure of the membrane to become denser due to the interaction between the coupling agent (MPTMS) and the polymer, so that the phosphoric acid doped amount is decreases, which in turn affects the proton conductivity of the membrane, but when the amount of ZrP-SH added >5wt%, the proton conductivity will increase slightly. This is because ZrP has the ability to proton transfer, which can be effectively improved by functionalization. In the absence of phosphoric acid, ZrP-SH can establish a new proton transfer channel with the polymer to improve its performance.

碩士
佛光人文社會學院
經濟學系
94
For a long time, suspect insider trading occurs frequently in Taiwan stock market. The corporate directors, supervisors and insiders of listed companies often take advantage of their authorities to trade stocks through dummy accounts in order to avoid insider-trading decree and catch filthy lucre. This makes a serious impact on the operation of Taiwan stock market such as it makes the listed companies to raise capital more difficult and ruin the economic development. At this moment, Securities Regulation doesn’t endow Financial Supervisory Commission and Taiwan Stocks Exchange Corporation with search and investigation authority. Moreover, with the lack of specialties and manpowers of judiciary sections, the long-winded trials on suspect insider-trading cases is unable to handle with serious economic crimes rapidly so that insider-trading occurs frequently till right now. Those cause investors enormous profit losses and harmful trading order and self-discipline severely, much less social justice and righteousness. During the Nov 2004~Apr 2005, the Taiwan listed company, Power Quotitent International CO. LTD., do the window dressing in its annual report and then happen the inside trading. First, the PQI case is only a small window dressing case but someone had received the inside trading news. They enter in to alliance with media, legitimate institution, and stock -market millionaire takes illegal profit from this company. Although the related legitimate institutions make more restrictions to avoid the inside trading happen again. Due to the rapid path of domestic finance and social environment, the inside trading strategy change over time. It is more difficult for legitimate institution to deal with the inside trading cases. Stock market is one of civilization productions under economic developments. All in one, stock market should be expected as a frank, transpicuous and fair-trading place. In fact, this is merely a pursuable apotheosis; especially the suspect insider-trading cases emerge in an endless stream. Because of endless wants and needs of human nature, greed can’t be avoided. Consequently, insiders take advantage of inside information to sneak profits, and cause unfair trade. The PQI case is just one of insider-trading cases in Taiwan Stock Market. Based on the public and non-public information, we try to prove the facts of PQI case, and offer a resolvent to lead Taiwan stock Exchange Market toward the path of even justice, logicality and righteousness.

碩士
東海大學
企業管理學系碩士班
98
The effectiveness of management for training quality has always bee very difficult to master and evaluate, and it has rendered uneasy for enterprises as what course to take when they are to conduct training. Thus, when the government devotes tremendous effort to facilitate the system of training quality, the extent of acceptance and affirmation by enterprises is considered as the primary factor if they are willing to place investment on training expenditures. In fact, the training of traditional enterprises requires employees to do the things right, without much thought what is right. Nonetheless, this study would exploit focus group and initiate from management strategy as starting point to formulate short-term, medium-term, and long-term strategic objectives. It would then follow competence standard needed to achieve the objective to evaluate if training currently facilitated by the company is effective. This study has taken small and medium-sized enterprise as Chung Pei company from traditional industry as sample, and it has, for two consecutive years, collected information for execution of Taiwan Training Quality System, TTQS and information of difference before and after the execution to carry out analysis the reference to facilitate the activity practice of training for enterprises and related studies for academic world to execute training. As such, it can then corroborate if training is a kind of formal procedure, and a long-term, systematic, and disciplined project with objective. It is hoped that this study can help to resolve the difficulty of inconsistency between knowledge and deed among enterprise. Though enterprises are clearly aware that talents are their most valuable assets they have reckoned training as cost rather than investment blind-spot. Besides, it would focus on issues that training cannot be evaluated, and the irrelevancy between requirements of training to objective of enterprises. The study would, through performance of training, help to enhance the competence of employees in various aspects to improve the needed standard for each of the events.

碩士
國立中央大學
化學工程與材料工程研究所
95
Cylindrical adsorbers are usually used for pressure swing adsorption (PSA) processes. In this study, the flat-box adsorbers which stack together replace the traditional cylindrical adsorbers. First, work was done to verify the applicability of the simulation program on the system of air (20.762% oxygen, 0.938% argon, and 78.300% nitrogen) separation with OXYSIV-5XPTM from UOP packed cylindrically in a commercialize oxygen generator. Another verification of the applicability of the simulation program was performed for separation of air (21% oxygen, and 79% nitrogen) with 5A zeolite in Skarstrom cycle. The latter simulation results was compared with the published experimental data. Instantaneous equilibrium between solid and gas phase with non-isothermal operation were assumed and the bed pressure drop could be neglected. The adsorption isotherms used were extend Langmuir isotherms. After confirming the accuracy of the simulation program, the traditional cylindrical adsorbers were replaced by new compact flat-box adsorbers. The performance of the flat-box adsorbers was similar to that of the traditional cylindrical adsorbers at same purge to feed ratio and product to feed ratio. But the flat-box adsorbers was better than the cylindrical adsorbers in the usage rate of packing space. The effects of operating variables such as the heat transfer coefficient between neighboring adsorbers, step time, bed length, and adsorption pressure were investigated on the performance of PSA. Finally, as the feed pressure was reduced from 4.26 atm to 3.26 atm, the feed flow rate changed form 3.75 L/min to 2.88 L/min. A little price was paid: the oxygen purity in product was reduced from 94.22 % to 93.39 %, but less cost of electric power was used by pump.

碩士
國立臺灣科技大學
管理研究所
97
The industry framework is changed by globalization. How in such a rapidly changing environment the manager shall use the strength and weakness of the company’s internal environment as a condition of competition to cope with the constantly changing outside environment? Moreover, how the manager can elevate the execution of the organization to maintain the value of the company？ I study the PSA Tape Industry –Case on Company A by the structured interview of key persons and content analysis. In the research we addressed the issue regarding the future development of A company, how to integrate its capabilities and assets to further improve its profitability and competitiveness, and sail to another blue ocean. How to create uncontested market space and make the competition irrelevant?

Internacional Finance Master Project
The thesis offers a general review about corporate social responsibility (CSR) and some related subjects like CSR strategies, relation between stakeholders and shareholders, some CSR theories, its justifications and limitations, opinions from important economists and companies. We then show a bit of what are the first 10 companies from PSI-20 doing about its CSR strategies and in what point are they focusing. From the general public perspective, this thesis provides a preliminary study of the opinion that Portuguese people have about those 10 companies, CSR and its importance and what are the Portuguese views when confronted with the position of being different stakeholders. We focus primarily in what three different stakeholders, customers, suppliers and employees, expect from companies and their market strategies, based on existing studies outside of Portugal. After that, we use a survey made in Portugal in order to ascertain whether the idea is the same. Finally, this research suggests about in which areas the companies should invest firstly on in order to have a good CSR strategy.
A tese apresenta uma revisão geral sobre responsabilidade social empresarial (RSE) e alguns assuntos relacionados, como estratégias de RSE, a relação entre as partes interessadas e accionistas, algumas teorias de RSE, suas justificativas e limitações, as opiniões de economistas e empresas importantes. Também é estudado um pouco daquilo que as 10 primeiras empresas do PSI-20 estão a fazer sobre as suas estratégias de RSE, e em que pontos se estão a focar. Do ponto de vista público em geral, esta tese fornece um estudo preliminar da opinião que a população Portuguesa tem sobre as 10 empresas, a RSE e a sua importância e quais são as expectativas dos Portugueses quando confrontado com a hipótese de estarem na posição de diferentes partes interessadas. Concentramo-nos em primeiro lugar em três diferentes partes interessadas, clientes, fornecedores e trabalhadores, e o que estas esperam das empresas e das suas estratégias de mercado, com base em estudos existentes fora de Portugal. Depois disso, usamos um levantamento feito em Portugal, a fim de verificar se a opinião é a mesma. Finalmente, esta pesquisa sugere sobre algumas áreas em que as empresas devem investir em primeiro lugar, para ter uma boa estratégia de RSE.

碩士
國立交通大學
管理學院高階主管管理碩士學程
95
The amount of production and distribution of adhesive tape in a country reveal the extent of its industrial development and its living standard. In industrial countries such as America, Japan, Germany and England, adhesive tapes are produce in great quantity and widely use. In Taiwan, adhesive industry has been established for more than fifty years, and is recognized as one of the leading supplier in the global market. The F enterprise is one of the oldest adhesive manufacturers in Taiwan, with its advanced precision coating technology; the company developed thousands of adhesive tapes and label stocks to meet the diverse demands from the market, and is reputed to be the leader in the development and manufacture of adhesive products in Taiwan. In the early days Taiwan’s economy revenue was mainly based on the exportation of agriculture products, now the economic growth took place mostly in the revolutionary development of IT industry. The F enterprise observed and participated in the evolution of Taiwan. But today’s business leader faces a global business environment and the rise of China; the company needs to strategy a long-term plan to overcome the crisis. In this research we address the issue regarding the future development of the F enterprise, how to integrate its capabilities and assets to further improve its profitability and competitiveness, and lead to another generation of business success.

碩士
國防大學
資訊管理學系
107
Since the use of credit cards in the electronic payment industry, it has gradually become a part of the daily lives of many people. However, the use of credit cards, including the payment and billing between the two ends, how to protect the data is not only the basic responsibility of the electronic payment industry, but also the concerns of the majority of users. 　　Looking at the domestic industry promotion in line with ISO 27001 related standards and norms is very mature, and the recent rise of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) remains to be implemented. Therefore, this study will consider both PCI-DSS and ISO 27001 international standards, and study how to obtain similarities and differences between the two domains to ensure that the organization meets both sets of standards or meets the requirements of PCI-DSS after verifying ISO 27001. . 　　In order to achieve the above objectives, this study will explore the mapping of PCI-DSS and ISO 27001 specifications, and construct the formal concept ontology of domain knowledge and record it on the correlation matrix for analysis. After implementing the correlation analysis, it is found that PCI-DSS is more important than the implementation and management procedures (ie application) of independent technical components, and ISO 27001 is the information security plan (ie framework) for verifying the implementation and management of the organization. auxiliary. In addition, it also provides recommendations for the establishment of PCI-DSS after the company has passed ISO 27001, which is used as a reference for enterprises to implement the dual standard security mode. Thereby improving the security protection strength and competitiveness of the enterprise organization, thereby reducing the time and cost of the enterprise organization manager to infer the double standard verification of the security.

碩士
高苑科技大學
經營管理研究所
103
This study aims at exploring the influence of brand knowledge and advertising message on purchase intention for Pai Ma energy drink of company W, and further examining the relationship of purchase intention between brand knowledge and advertising message. It, sampling adult consumers ever drinking or buying the drink of Kaohsiung city as research subject, conducts the questionnaire, releasing 400 copies of questionnaires and collecting back 356 effective copies with 89.00% of effective collection rate. Research findings show that the relationship of brand knowledge to purchase intention appears significantly positive influence, and that of advertising message also demonstrates significantly positive influence. And of the dimension variables, the brand image is with greater influence on purchase intention in brand knowledge dimension, and comparative advertising message is the most influential to purchase intention in advertising message dimension. As for background variables, different gender, different occupation, and different education for consumers express significant differences to purchase intention dimension, while different marriage, different age and different monthly income appear no differences to purchase intention dimension.