Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Set of recommendations'

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1992 and Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1992.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 135-136).
by Anthony Donal McGettigan.
M.S.

This research was focused on analyzing and interpreting the U.S. Supreme Court’s holdings in several cases that directly affect the juvenile justice system and the sentencing process of youth offenders. Drawing primarily from Miller v. Alabama (2012) and the Supreme Court’s ‘Miller doctrine’, this thesis goes against the viewpoints of many policymakers, arguing that life without parole and mandatory adult sentence minimums for youth offenders are ‘cruel and unusual’ punishments that are unconstitutional as sentencing options for a juvenile offender. In order to arrive at the conclusion that the aforementioned punishments violate a youth’s 8th Amendment right to a proportional sentence, this thesis drew from previously unavailable research in modern neuroscience that substantiates the Supreme Court’s claim that “Children are different” on a developmental basis and thus, can never possess the same degree of culpability for a crime as an adult offender. If one accepts the conclusions made in this thesis, it is a matter only of when, not if, the sentencing process for youth offenders experiences a paradigm shift on a legislative level, and becomes a much more efficient and successful process where rehabilitation becomes the foremost goal. If science and developmental psychology support the Supreme Court’s assertion that nearly all juvenile crime-activity is the result of “transient immaturity,” then why are 16 year olds being sentenced to life without the possibility of parole? This thesis explores the possible answers to this question, and anticipates the possible impediments to national changes in juvenile sentencing procedures.

The aim of this thesis is to create a set of recommendations for the selected engineering enterprise. The purpose of these recommendations is to increase the enterprise effectivness and its adaptability quotient. In the first part of this thesis, based on a literature search, the management systems of successful Czech and foreign entrepreneurs are described. In the next part the most appropriate managerial approach is chosen on the basis of the performed qualitative research and this section also describes the current situation of the selected engineering enterprise. In the last part are given individual recommendations and steps to achieve their implementation.

The aim of this thesis is to analyze the business environment of Ukraine from year 2001 to 2011 and evaluate the major changes and trends. I will proceed from the basic assessment of the economic environment in Ukraine to its focus on business issues. At the beginning I will show the development of general macroeconomic indicators of Ukrainian economy, then I will give statistics on international trade and investment. The next section will evaluate the international trade of Ukraine with its main partners. After that I will focus on the possibilities of cooperation with Czech Republic. At the end I will show specific actions related to the establishment of a foreign legal entity. Based on the analysis and my own experience I will create recommendations for entrepreneurs wishing to start working and develop business in Ukraine. I will also make some proposals for improvements to be made in the business environment in Ukraine to ensure effective trade with foreign business partners. The result of this thesis should be the conclusion if Ukraine is moving in the right direction nowadays.

Thesis (M.S. in )--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2008.
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The Black Sea historically was the theater of rivalry between great powers, mainly the Ottoman Empire and Russia. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, rivalry on the Black Sea became much less intense as Russia weakened and NATO was not paying much attention to it. After the 2008 invasion of Georgia and the 2014 annexation of Crimea, NATO gradually resumed activity on the Black Sea, sending warships of non-littoral NATO members and conducting joint maritime exercises. Russia built a robust anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) bubble in Crimea and responded to NATO activation with provocative actions against NATO ships. At its most recent summit in Warsaw in 2016, NATO paid quite a lot attention to the Black Sea issue and committed to increase NATO presence in the area; nevertheless, the organization shared no signs of a clear strategy. This thesis discusses a potential alternative strategy for NATO, which is based on using its own strategy against Russia—with littoral NATO members and partners building a couple of A2/AD bubbles around the Russian one. The suggested strategy consists of the creation of a Black Sea defense coordination center, an integrated network of all source data exchanged, and the combined capabilities of robust land-based mobile anti-ship missiles, mobile air defense systems, and sea and air surveillance radars, as well as aviation and naval assets.
Civilian, Ministry of Defence of Georgia

Salmon aquaculture can be a potential solution to bridge the gap between declining capture fisheries and increasing seafood demand. However, the environmental impacts it creates have generated criticism. The overall objectives of this dissertation are to examine the economic consequences of environmental issues associated with salmon aquaculture, and to explore policy implications and recommendations for reducing environmental impacts. These objectives are addressed in five main analyses. The growth of salmon aquaculture is analyzed based on farmed salmon production in the four leading producing countries and the sector as a whole. Analyses indicate that salmon aquaculture is unlikely to continue to grow at its current pace. A joint production function approach is used to estimate pollution abatement costs for the salmon aquaculture industry. Results reveal that pollution abatement costs vary among observations and models. On average, pollution abatement cost is estimated at 3.5% in terms of total farmed salmon production, and 6.5% in terms of total revenue of farmed salmon. The ecological and economic impacts of sea lice from salmon farms on wild salmon population and fisheries are also studied. Analyses suggest that these effects are minor when the sea lice induced mortality rate is below 20%, while they can be severe if the mortality is greater than 30%. Sea lice have greater ecological and economic impacts on pink salmon than on chum salmon. These effects are greater under a fixed exploitation rate than under a target escapement policy. The economic performance of open netcage and sea-bag production systems for salmon aquaculture is compared. Netcage systems appear to be more economically profitable than sea-bag systems when environmental costs are either not or only partially included. Sea-bag systems can be financially profitable only when the salmon they produce can achieve a price premium. Finally, policy implications are explored and recommendations are made for sustaining salmon aquaculture in a holistic manner based on the results from previous chapters. Technologies, economic-based instruments and more stringent environmental policies can be employed to reduce environmental impacts. However, there is no single solution to solve these environmental impacts, and a combination of policy options is needed.

An ergonomically designed work environment may decrease work related musculoskeletal disorders, lead to less sick leaves and increase production time for operators and companies all around the world. Volvo Construction Equipment wants to deepen the knowledge and investigate more carefully how operators are actually sitting whilst operating the machines, how this affects placement of controls and furthermore optimize controls placements accordingly. The purpose is to enhance their product development process by suggesting guidelines for control placement with improved ergonomics based on operators’ sitting postures. The goal is to deliver a process which identifies and transfers sitting postures to RAMSIS and uses them for control placement recommendations in the cab and operator environments. Delimitations concerns: physical ergonomics, 80% usability of the resulted process on the machine types, and the level of detail for controls and their placements. Research, analysis, interviews, test driving of machines, video recordings of operators and the ergonomic software RAMSIS has served as base for analysis. The analysis led to (i) the conclusion that sitting postures affect optimal ergonomic placement of controls, though not ISO-standards, (ii) the conclusion that RAMSIS heavy truck postures does not seem to correspond to Volvo CE’s operators’ sitting postures and (iii) and to an advanced engineering project process suitable for all machine types and applicable in the product development process. The result can also be used for other machines than construction equipment. The resulted process consists of three independent sub-processes with step by step explanations and recommendations of; (i) what information that needs to be gathered, (ii) how to identify and transfer sitting postures into RAMSIS, (iii) how to use RAMSIS to create e design aid for recommended control placement. The thesis also contains additional enhancements to Volvo CE’s product development process with focus on ergonomics. A conclusion is that the use of motion capture could not be verified to work for Volvo Construction Equipment, though it was verified that if motion capture works, the process works. Another conclusion is that the suggested body landmarks not could be verified that they are all needed for this purpose except for those needed for control placement. Though they are based on previous sitting posture identification in vehicles and only those that also occur in RAMSIS are recommended, and therefore they can be used. This thesis also questions the most important parameters for interior vehicle design (hip- and eye locations) and suggests that shoulder locations are just as important. The thesis concluded five parameters for control categorization, and added seven categories in addition to those mentioned in the ISO-standards. Other contradictions and loopholes in the ISO-standards were identified, highlighted and discussed. Suggestions for improving the ergonomic analyses in RAMSIS can also be found in this report. More future research mentioned is more details on control placement as well as research regarding sitting postures are suggested. If the resulted process is delimited to concern upper body postures, other methods for posture identification may be used.

Estudar a diversidade genética, a adaptabilidade e estabilidade de genótipos de soja é de extrema importância para os programas de melhoramento genético, visto que a identificação de parentais é prejudicada pela estreita base genética da soja brasileira, além disso, a recomendação de cultivares para as diversas regiões brasileiras constituise em um dos principais desafios do melhoramento. Esta dissertação está subdividida em três capítulos, sendo que no primeiro realizou-se o referencial teórico da soja, importância econômica, melhoramento genético e ferrugem asiática. O segundo capítulo foi desenvolvido com o objetivo de avaliar a divergência genética de genótipos de soja sob infecção natural por ferrugem. O experimento foi realizado na Fazenda Capim Branco da UFU, na safra 2016/17. Utilizaram-se 14 genótipos, sendo 10 linhagens desenvolvidas pelo Programa de Melhoramento Genético de Soja da UFU e 4 cultivares (UFUS 7415, UFUS Riqueza, TMG 801 e BRSGO 7560), em delineamento de blocos casualizados com três repetições. Concluiu-se que existe variabilidade genética para todos os caracteres agronômicos avaliados, com exceção de altura de inserção da primeira vagem e altura de planta na floração. As linhagens UFUS 1117-01, UFUS 1117-07, UFUS 1117-08, UFUS 1117-09, UFUS 1117-10 apresentaram resistência a Phakopsora pachyrhizi e foi identificado que os caracteres de altura de planta na maturidade, número de vagens chochas, número de dias para a maturidade e área abaixo da curva de progresso da doença foram os que mais contribuíram para a divergência genética. Algumas hibridações foram sugeridas objetivando a resistência à ferrugem asiática, em todos os cruzamentos a linhagem UFUS 1117-06 esteve presente. O terceiro capítulo refere-se ao estudo da adaptabilidade e estabilidade produtiva dos 14 genótipos de soja cultivados nas safras 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17. Foi possível concluir que a interação genótipos por ambientes é do tipo complexa para a produtividade de grãos. A linhagem UFUS 1117-01 foi identificada como sendo de alta estabilidade produtiva pelos métodos de Eberhart e Russel (1966), Wricke (1965), Additive Main Effects and Multiplicative Interaction (AMMI 1 e AMMI 2), e Centroide. O genótipo UFUS 1117-07 apresentou alta estabilidade pelos métodos Eberhart e Russel (1966), Wricke (1965), Lin e Binns 1988 modificado por Carneiro 1999 e ampla adaptabilidade por Eberhart e Russel e Centroide, já UFUS 1117-09 foi identificado como sendo adaptável a ambientes desfavoráveis por Lin e Binns modificado por Carneiro, AMMI1 e Centroide, enquanto que UFUS 1117-10 apresentou adaptabilidade a ambientes favoráveis pelos métodos AMMI1 e Centroide e alta estabilidade por Eberhart e Russel.
Studying a genetic diversity, adaptability and stability of soybean genotypes are of extreme importance for breeding programs, since the identification of parents is impaired by the narrow genetic base of Brazilian soybean, and a recommendation of cultivars for the different regions is one of the main challenges for improvement. This dissertation is subdivided into three chapters, the first is the theoretical reference of soy, economic importance, genetic breeding and Asian rust. The second chapter was developed with the objective of evaluating the genetic divergence of soybean genotypes under natural rust infection. The experiment was carried out at Fazenda Capim Branco, UFU, in the 2016/17 harvest. A total of 14 genotypes were used, including 10 lines developed by the UFU Soybean Breeding Program and four cultivars (UFUS 7415, UFUS Riqueza, TMG 801 and BRSGO 7560) in a randomized complete block design with three replicates. It was concluded that there is genetic variability for all agronomic traits, except for the height of the first pod and plant height at flowering. The lineages UFUS 1117-01, UFUS 1117-07, UFUS 1117-08, UFUS 1117-09, UFUS 1117-10 presented resistance to Phakopsora pachyrhizi and were identified in components of plant height at maturity, number of pods, number of days to maturity and area under disease progress curve they were the ones that contributed most to a genetic divergence. Hybridizations were suggested aiming the resistance to Asian rust, the strain UFUS 1117-06 was present in all crosses. The third chapter refers to the study of the adaptability and productive stability of the 14 soybean genotypes grown in the 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17 seasons. It was possible to conclude that the genotypesenvironments interaction is of a complex type for grain yield. UFUS 1117-01 lineage was identified as being of high stability produced by the methods of Eberhart and Russel (1966), Wricke (1965), Principal additive effects and multiplicative interaction (AMMI 1 and AMMI 2), and Centroid. UFUS 1117-07 genotype showed high stability by the methods Eberhart and Russel (1966), Wricke (1965), Lin and Binns 1988 modified by Carneiro 1999 and wide adaptability by Eberhart and Russel and Centroid. UFUS 1117-09 was identified as being adaptive to unfavorable environments by Lin and Binns modified by Carneiro, AMMI1 and Centroid, while UFUS 1117-10 presented adaptability to environments favorable to AMMI1 and Centroid and high stability by Eberhart and Russel.
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Notre recherche porte sur le rôle de la crédibilité des offres dans les sites d’e-commerce et les facteurs qui la déterminent. 294 personnes ont été interrogées à exprimer leur perception sur la crédibilité des offres de livres qui ont été composées en variant la source et les signes de leur réputation. La recherche s’inscrit dans une approche quasi-expérimentale qui vise à mesurer l’impact de ces facteurs sur la crédibilité perçue mais aussi à mesurer l’influence de cette dernière sur l’intérêt accordé à l’offre et en conséquence sur l’intention d’achat. Les analyses sont faites en se basant sur un modèle d’équation structurelle (SEM). Les résultats témoignent le rôle pivot de la crédibilité qui médiatise l’effet des signaux de la qualité de l’offre mis sur l’intérêt qu’elle soulève. Cet intérêt, à son tour, convoie l’impact de la crédibilité sur l’intention d’achat. Dans ses relations de cause, la crédibilité reconnaît ces signaux comme ses déterminants importants dont les poids sont de même ampleur et dont les effets sont additifs. Nous trouvons également l’effet significatif de la confiance dans la source ainsi que l’intérêt à la catégorie sur la crédibilité. L’effet de la confiance est positif et remarquable tandis que celui de l’intérêt à la catégorie reste négatif. Enfin, ces résultats nous permettent de conclure l’importance de la crédibilité : soigner la crédibilité de l’offre est le chemin au renforcement de l’intérêt du consommateur ainsi qu’aux performances des ventes
Our research examines the role of online offers credibility in the customer judgment process and its determinants. 294 persons were requested to express their perception of online book offers credibility which were composed varying on their source and also on a number of reputation signals. This quasi-experiment aims for measuring impact of these factors on offer credibility but also for investigating influence of this one on consumer interest in offer and consequently on his purchase intention. Statistical analysis bases on a SEM model. The most important research finding shows that credibility mediates effects of reputation signals on consumer interest in offer. This element of interest, in turn, executes mediating effect on the causal relationship between credibility and purchase intention. Other results indicate that all the 4 reputation signals are positively associated, at the same amplitude, with perceived offer credibility. These effects are additive, which suggests that multiply these signals must be essential way for improving credibility. We found otherwise that credibility is also affected by consumer trust on the source and his interest manifested on the product category. Effect of trust is positive and remarkable while interest in the category effect is negative, which reveals that people with better knowledge level may be more skeptic than others in judgment process. According to these results, our proposal on the importance of credibility element in e-commerce activities is clear: look after the offer credibility is the nexus of merchants selling performance

Arbetet behandlade vilka konsekvenser inom driften (ekonomiska kostnader och teknologi) som rederier kommer att drabbas av när IMO:s barlastkonvention träder i kraft då barlastvattnet måste renas innan inträde i Östersjön. Arbetets syfte var att få fram vilka konsekvenser det blir för rederier när IMO:s barlastkonvention träder i kraft. Resultatet skulle jämföra skillnaden mellan lag och rekommendation då Helsingforskonventionens rekommendationer baseras på IMO:s barlastkonventions krav. En kvalitativ metod valdes för att komma fram till resultatet, i form av en öppen intervjustudie, där fyra olika företag har intervjuats. Syftet med intervjuerna var att se ifall de följde Helsingforskonventionens rekommendationer och vilka konsekvenser det skulle innebära och skulle komma att krävas då Barlastkonventionen träder i kraft. Resultatet visade att kostnaderna kommer att bli omfattande vid installation samt att det kommer att krävas teknologiska åtgärder. Vidare visade undersökningen att inköpskostnaden endast utgör en liten del av fartygets investering och att barlastreningsanläggningar är tämligen underhållsfria.
The task discussed the consequences within the ship’s operation (economical costs and technology) companies will be affected with when IMO’s Ballast Water Convention enters into force and ballast water has to be treated before entrance to the Baltic Sea. The purpose with the task was to find out which consequences companies will be forced with when IMO’s Ballast Water Convention enters into force. The result compares the difference between law and recommendation because HELCOM’s recommendations are based on IMO’s Ballast Water Convention’s laws. A qualitative method has been used, such as an open interview form, where four different companies were interviewed. The purpose with the interviews was to see if the companies followed HELCOM’s recommendations and which consequences it would lead to and would be necessary when the Ballast Water Convention enters into force. The results showed that the costs would be extensive when installation takes place and it will require technical arrangements. The task also shows that the purchase cost only makes a small part of the vessel’s investment and ballast water treatment systems are almost totally maintenance-free.

碩士
國立臺灣大學
國際企業學研究所
93
To form a consideration set, consumers must pick out the preferable attributes that would help them to have easy-to-compare alternatives since they are limited by time, money and ability when dealing with information. A product could only be purchased when the product was taken into the consideration set. Therefore, it becomes crucial to any firms that take consumers’ preferences as the base of its product-buying recommendation and new products development plans. There are strong marketing strategic implications of a consideration set since the consideration set can be used at analyzing consumer behavior, brand loyalty and changes in market share. This paper attempts to construct two consideration sets in different modes, which stands for distinct strategic meanings. In the past, when a sales clerk was giving product-purchasing recommendations for customers, he could only make a random one to them due to his unawareness of his customers. However, with database marketing, purchasing history could be recorded and traced, and all information is updated and analyzed every time of a purchase. All these would benefit a firm by at least separating consumers into target groups, establishing marketing preference structures and reflecting heterogeneity and dynamics among consumers. In this regard, this paper is trying to utilize Logit Model and SUR Model to construct a new product recommendation system by giving the reserved sample to test the validity of recommendation and comparing the Hit Rate of these two consideration sets in both modes

碩士
國立成功大學
資訊工程學系碩博士班
96
The explosive growth of information makes people confused in making a choice among a huge amount of products, like movies, books, etc. To help people clarify what they want easily, in this study, we proposed an intelligent recommendation approach that integrates collaborative information and content features to predict user preferences on the basis of rough-set theory. The contribution of this paper is that our proposed approach can completely solve the traditional problems occurring in recent studies, such as cold-star, first-rater, sparsity and scalability problems. The empirical evaluation results reveal that our proposed approach can reduce the gap between user’s interest and recommended items more effectively than other existing approaches in terms of accuracy of recommendations.

碩士
淡江大學
管理科學學系碩士班
100
Today in the 21st century environment, due to the popularity of computers and the social economic recovery, online shopping is getting that trend. In the traditional marketing system, almost every 10-20 years, will have new marketing system, to become a new method of selling product to the end of consumer. So, in the beginning of the 1990s, the prevalence of the Internet and e-commerce, so far, due to advances in technology, the popularity of computers and consumer demands of shopping convenience, and create the called”home economic”. Therefore, the online shopping market is increasingly prosperous development, while many consumers tend to price low, the convenience and security of the trading mechanism, therefore, the online shopping platform is not high consumer loyalty, in order to attract a wider consumer to purchase goods, and help enterprises significant increase in the website traffic and improve the network platform of consumer loyalty, this study will design a personalized recommendation mechanism, providing consumers with more refined shopping environment and service. In this study, a combination of rough sets and data mining of association rules, focus on the rules of dealing with uncertainty information generated to help the marketing decision-makers can accurately segment the market and the development of the rough-set based association rule algorithm, together with the relative weight of the concept of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), the establishment of external and referral mechanism will be the appropriate product and platform path recommended to consumers, the end to see if it can change their consumption behavior.