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Schilder, Dirk. "Smart Capital for Start-ups." Doctoral thesis, Technische Universitaet Bergakademie Freiberg Universitaetsbibliothek "Georgius Agricola", 2009. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:105-0846717.
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Unternehmensgründungen sind durch ein hohes Maß an Unsicherheit und durch eine häufige Notwendigkeit externer Beratung gekennzeichnet. Daher ist Smart Capital, als eine spezielle Finanzierungsform, die Kapital und Informationsflüsse in Form von Betreuung und Beratung verbindet, von besonderer Bedeutung für junge Unternehmen. Der empirische Teil der Dissertation analysiert die verschiedenen Typen von Finanziers, die als potentielle Anbieter von Smart Capital angesehen werden sowie regionale Einflüsse auf Finanzierungsbeziehungen im Rahmen von Smart Capital. Des Weiteren wird die Rolle der öffentlichen Hand auf dem Markt für Smart Capital untersucht. Die Analysen machen deutlich, dass viele verschiedene Typen von Finanziers als Anbieter von Smart Capital in Deutschland agieren. Regionale Nähe zwischen dem Investor und den finanzierten Unternehmen spielt dabei jedoch nur eine untergeordnete Rolle. Eine regionale Unterversorgung an Smart Capital für junge Unternehmen ist unter diesem Aspekt nicht zu befürchten. Des Weiteren zeigen die Ergebnisse, dass öffentlich geförderte Anbieter von Smart Capital ihre Förderfunktion im Wesentlichen erfüllen.
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Paladini, Sofia <1995>. "Torino: da città-fabbrica a smart city. Analisi della candidatura al context European Capital of Smart Tourism." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/17561.
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Negli anni, la città di Torino ha vissuto una profonda trasformazione: da città-fabbrica, incentrata esclusivamente sulla sua industria manifatturiera, è divenuta una smart city, una città intelligente dove gli individui, consapevoli dell’importanza delle nuove tecnologie, modificano il proprio modus vivendi et operandi in base alle nuove richieste della società. Il lavoro si apre con una breve introduzione sull’evoluzione del turismo, a cui segue una descrizione dei nuovi concetti di digital business ecosystem e di smart destination, per poi avviare uno studio approfondito dell’impegno profuso dall’Unione Europea nel settore turistico. A questo proposito, viene preso in considerazione il context European Capital of Smart Tourism, proposto dalla Commissione Europea, dove la città di Torino si candida e risulta tra le dieci finaliste. Il corpo di questo lavoro è focalizzato interamente su Torino, con un’analisi dettagliata delle sue caratteristiche e potenzialità nei settori dell’accessibilità, della sostenibilità, della digitalizzazione e del patrimonio culturale legato alla creatività, i quattro parametri presi in esame dal comitato di valutazione del context. Attraverso lo studio dei tre piani strategici della città, susseguitisi dal 1998, si mette in risalto l’obiettivo primario del capoluogo piemontese: divenire una metropoli entro il 2025. Pertanto, sulla base di tale scopo, viene avviato un paragone con i vincitori del context per proporre nuove best practices da applicare all’interno dell’organizzazione cittadina nel tentativo di ottenere un riconoscimento più ampio a livello europeo. Infine, segue una breve descrizione di quei settori che sono stati messi da parte dal context in esame, per valutare un'eventuale posizione di Torino se le categorie di selezione fossero state diverse.
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Fingerle, Christian H. "Smart money : influence of venture capitalists on high potential companies /." Sternenfels : Verlag Wissenschaft & Praxis, 2005. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2638622&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Göransson, Scalzotto Joel. "It´s The Smart City, Stupid! : A critical study of Smart narratives, Attraction Hysteria & the production of Smart Space in the European Green Capital 2020." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-182392.
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In this research, the “Smart City-edifice” of Lisbon has been examined through qualitative field work carried out in the city. The concept of the Smart City- edifice has been designed by the author in an attempt to grasp the ambiguous Smart City ambition as an assemblage of (i) specific techniques incorporated into the urban environment (ii) the modes of governance which these techniques allow for, particularly real time data collection & (iii) issues of city branding, placemaking and urban, Smart regeneration. The highlighted empirical material has been produced in collaboration with interlocutors from three different projects, and relate to the three different facets of the Smart Cityedifice: A developer of a gamification scheme (e-governance), a sustainable neighbourhood project (Tech-driven sustainability and governance/civic participation) and lastly a creative hub (branding, creativity & regeneration). These facets are being examined in the context of Lisbon, a city which has gone through a re-formulation of urban agendas in the capitalist restructuring of the economy in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. The post-crisis strategy in Lisbon is interpreted as a sort of “attraction hysteria” (Anttiroiko, 2014), as much effort has been placed on attracting global capital and tourism, incentivised not least by a liberalized, profitable housing market. This attraction hysteria is understood by the author as producing specific implications for the development of the Smart Cityedifice. Main findings include the hinderances that said politics have produced for ambitions of civic participation and other democratic visions of the Smart City. These findings are understood in the light of the Lefebvrian framework of the “right to the city” and critical understandings of the touristified city. The field work itself has been guided by two key research questions, these being: a) How are Smart City narratives being operationalized locally by actors in Lisbon? B) What possible tensions could arise between Smart aims of global urban competitiveness and aims of civic participation, in the context of Lisbon?
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Urrutia, Daniela. "Smart Capacitaciones : paintball para mejorar equipos de trabajo." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2018. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/168674.
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Tesis para optar al grado de Magíster en AdministraciónEl principal recurso de las empresas son las personas. Mientras mejor funcionen los equipos de trabajo, mejor será su rentabilidad Las empresas que buscan capacitar a sus trabajadores siempre tienen la interrogante de si estas capacitaciones funcionan o no, si son efectivas, lo que es muy difícil de probar. Este proyecto ofrece la posibilidad de realizar capacitaciones en habilidades blandas con un método innovador: mediante simulaciones con diversos juegos, y principalmente paintball. Este método da a conocer las falencias reales de los asistentes, ya que los expone a una competencia grabada, para luego desarrollar las brechas que fueron expuestas en este simulacro mediante la ayuda de profesionales expertos en la materia, y finalmente medir sus avances, logrando dar una evidencia a las empresas que contratan el servicio para así asegurar su inversión. Las regiones primera y segunda tienen las compañías mineras más grandes, que cuentan con la mayor cantidad de personal, sin embargo, no existen empresas de capacitación que brinden este servicio como se ofrecen en Santiago y en las ciudades más grandes. Por otra parte el gobierno ofrece beneficios tributarios para la contratación de capacitaciones, lo que facilita su contratación. Otro punto a considerar es que la tendencia es contratar servicios que contribuyan al aprendizaje a largo plazo y al cambio real en el comportamiento de los colaboradores que beneficie la productividad. Por esta razón las empresas prefieren los cursos de capacitación que privilegien las actividades prácticas, las dinámicas grupales en vez de cátedras, ya que de esta manera se facilita el aprendizaje y la concentración. El tamaño del mercado en pesos es de 3.300 millones de pesos anuales aproximadamente que se estima que estas empresas gastan en capacitar a sus trabajadores en habilidades blandas en las dos regiones mencionadas, donde el gobierno proporciona una franquicia tributaria a las empresas que tengan una planilla anual de remuneraciones imponibles superior a 35 UTM ($1.600.000). Este proyecto busca penetrar en el mercado y ganar un 15% del mercado gracias a nuestro servicio innovador y efectivo, probando nuestra eficacia mediante una evaluación objetiva, la cuán se detalla en este informe. Para el inversionista, aprovechar esta oportunidad de negocio significa invertir MM$ 43 aproximadamente el primer año a finales del año 2018 y MM$ 33 el segundo año a finales del año 2019 y recibir un VAN de MM$ 1.148 a 5 años con una TIR de 149,445% y un valor residual del proyecto de MM$ 1.587 al 5º año de operación. Este valor en el año 0 con una tasa de descuento del 12.94% es de MM$ 947 y considera vender el proyecto al precio que generan los flujos de caja a perpetuidad al 5º año, cuando el proyecto se estabilice.
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Carrier, Brent L. 1962. "Will the emergence of public debt capital in construction financing be "smart money?"." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/64900.
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Acedo, Sánchez Albert. "Place and City: merging our affective and social spatial dimension in the (smart) platial city." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Jaume I, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/666678.
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A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor in Information Management, specialization in Geographic Information SystemsWe are living in (smart) cities that hold social-oriented promises but currently, most of these cities disregard the humans. Although some alternatives are appearing such as smart citizen-centric approaches, there is a lack of how promoting truly appealing perspectives toward a common good or better social synergies. Thereby, smart cities, with their associated Information and Communication Technology tools, are offering new possibilities, but, unfortunately, citizens are not fully exploiting the opportunities to empower themselves because, among other reasons, they are not aware of their common spatialities. Currently, we are not able to operationalize the spatial humanurban interactions regarding citizens’ cognitions, feelings and behaviors towards city places (i.e., sense of place) and meaningful geographic human relationships (i.e., social capital). Both concepts are significant as resources for an alternative landscape based on human perception and organization of social interactions fostered through the geographic place(s). In this research, we highlight the need to understand and operationalize social concepts spatial dimension for a better understanding of a smart citizen-centric approach which is mainly dependent on our capability to understand platial urban dynamics. We conceptualized a (spatial) conceptual framework for sense of place and social capital at the individual level to study their spatial relationship in the urban context. We developed a web map-based survey based on the literature to spatialize, characterize and measure sense of place, social capital and civic engagement. Using the spatial data collected, we validated our framework and demonstrated the importance to encompass the spatial dimension of social concepts (i.e., sense of place and social capital) as pivotal aspect (1) to understand the platial urban dynamics; (2) to provide useful social-spatial data to city processes (e.g. civic engagement); and (3) to reveal the potential to include them in social theory and structural equation models. Furthermore, we highlighted the crucial role of Geographic Information Science (GISc) techniques to gather the spatial dimension of those social concepts. Although in this research we focus on the spatial relationship between sense of place and social capital on civic engagement, the possibilities to relate our framework and methodology to other city based-notions can bring to light new platial urban dynamics. This research wants to open up the agenda for further research into exploratory place-based geography studies and, simultaneously, sets up a common social ground to build other socially-oriented conceptualizations or applications on top of it.
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Sardadvar, Sascha, and Christian Reiner. "Does the Presence of High-Skilled Employees Increase Total and High-Skilled Employment in the Long Run? Evidence from Austria." WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2015. http://epub.wu.ac.at/4549/1/Sardadvar_ePub_2.pdf.
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Studies conducted for the US have found a positive effect of human capital endowments on employment growth, with human capital endowments diverging at the same time. In contrast, studies for European countries have found convergence of human capital endowments. This paper tests these relationships for 99 Austrian districts for the observation period 1971-2011 by estimating how the presence of high-skilled employment affects total, low-skilled and high-skilled employment growth. To this end, OLS, fixed effects and first difference regressions are estimated. The results show continuous convergence of high-skilled employment which, however, slowed downed significantly since the 1990s. In contrast to previous studies, evidence for positive effects of high-skilled on total and low-skilled employment is only weak and varies over time. Furthermore, the results show that total and high-skilled employment in suburban areas grew faster than in other regions, while districts which bordered the Eastern Bloc were disadvantaged. Nevertheless, spatial neighbourhood effects within Austria are only weak. (authors' abstract)Series: Working Papers in Regional Science
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Lee, Angela. "Seeding Sustainability Over Extracting Capital: Advancing a Vision for Technology Justice in the Canadian Agri-Food Sector." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/42003.
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The detrimental consequences associated with industrial models of food production are becoming more difficult to ignore. In response, one dominant approach to mitigating the myriad environmental, social, and ethical harms relating to food has sought to increase the efficiency of agricultural outputs through scientific and technological innovation. Although technology certainly has some role to play in any vision of a sustainable future, technocratic approaches to problem solving are insufficient—and arguably inappropriate—for addressing many of the kinds of complex challenges that we face today.
There are recent indications that both agri-food law and policy and innovation policy are being taken more seriously in Canada, which creates an opportunity to reflect more deliberately on their ends and means. This dissertation explores the topic of how laws, policies, and other tools of governance can work to better align technological innovations in the agri-food sector with shared environmental goals and ethical aspirations. Taking a critical legal perspective closely informed by feminist insights and the work of existing, analogous justice movements, I examine several interlinkages between technology, law, the environment, and society to evaluate some of the failings of existing approaches to food systems transformation and to offer a contribution to the conversation about alternative pathways. Given the context-specific nature of food systems and food systems governance, my focus is primarily on Canada, but the universal importance of food in a globalized world renders some comparative and transnational discussion unavoidable.
I use case studies and discourse analysis to demonstrate that, when considered through a justice-oriented lens, several of the new and emerging technologies being championed in the agri-food sector may not be as beneficial as their proponents claim. Instead, they may serve to retrench injustice and cement existing, exploitative power structures, making them more difficult to challenge and change later down the line. Thus, if technologies are to serve public instead of private interests in the ways they are incentivized, designed, regulated, and used, we will need to see broad systemic and structural reforms informed by thoughtful shifts in our values and priorities, rather than merely reactive adjustments to our policies and practices. Though this undertaking will be difficult, it is not impossible; this dissertation offers one way to facilitate the process of seeding change for environmental sustainability and technological justice.
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Childers, Rex A. "Cold Warriors, Good Neighbors, Smart Power: U.S. Army, Berlin, 1961-1994." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1435760823.
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Mouttaki, Adil. "Rabat ville intelligente : entre ambitions et réalisations." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université Côte d'Azur, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024COAZ2017.
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Les villes se développent rapidement. En conséquence, elles s'exposent à des pressions sociales et urbaines croissantes, notamment en termes d'accès aux services administratifs, de santé, de logement et d'emploi. Pour relever ces défis, elles optent pour des approches de gouvernance basées sur les technologies numériques. Cependant, l'enjeu n'est pas seulement d'acquérir les innovations numériques, mais aussi de garantir la rationalité des décisions prises et la participation juste et effective de toutes les parties prenantes, notamment les habitants des quartiers défavorisés. C'est dans ce contexte de mutation numérique que Rabat, capitale du Royaume du Maroc, vise à rendre son dispositif de ville intelligente réactif aux préoccupations contemporaines. Elle vise à tirer parti de ses potentialités historiques, géographiques, administratives, et culturelles distinctives. En 2023, Rabat occupait le cinquième rang parmi les villes arabes au classement de l'Institut suisse (IMD), dépassant ainsi sa concurrente voisine, Casablanca. Cependant, la même étude a montré que Rabat a un bilan mitigé en matière d'usage des technologies numériques, en particulier dans les domaines d'accès aux services de santé, d'enseignement, de loisir, et aux financement destinés aux entreprises. Ce constat constitue un des éléments phares qui nous a guidés dans le choix du sujet de cette thèse. Ainsi, notre problématique de recherche s'articule autour du questionnement suivant : Peut-on qualifier le projet de « Rabat : ville intelligente » de projet démocratique, équitable et participatif ? Sans remettre en cause la crédibilité de ce projet, la question de l'acceptabilité sociale, notamment de ceux qui devraient, théoriquement, en être les premiers bénéficiaires nous interpelle à plusieurs égards. Cela nous ramène à la question initialement soulevée par Vincent Meyer en 2017 concernant les mesures prises pour que la transition digitale ne devienne elle-même un facteur supplémentaire d'inégalités. Pour approcher ce sujet, nous avons fait appel aux méthodes et techniques déployées à la fois par les géographes et par les chercheurs en sciences de l'information et de la communication. S'agissant d'une thèse en cotutelle internationale à l'interface des deux disciplines, le matériel mobilisé s'appuie à la fois sur l'exploitation d'une littérature riche pour le cadrage théorique et sur des études empiriques de terrain pour la compréhension du processus de fabrique du projet « Rabat-ville intelligente » et de son fonctionnement. Cette recherche est organisée en 7 chapitres intéressant 3 niveaux : Le premier se focalise sur le cadre théorique, la problématique de recherche, les hypothèses et la méthodologie utilisée. Le deuxième aborde les notions d'intelligence humaine et du solutionnisme numérique, avant d'enchainer (de 3 à 5) sur le contexte géographique, historique et sociodémographique de la ville de Rabat, puis sur les enjeux de gouvernance urbaine. En dernier lieu, les chapitres 6 et 7 présentent les enseignements tirés de cette recherche, en essayant de mettre en évidence les forces et les insuffisances enregistrées en matière de participation, d'acceptabilité sociale, de communication et de financementCities are growing rapidly. As a result, they are exposed to increasing social and urban pressures, particularly in terms of access to administrative, health, housing and employment services. To meet these challenges, they are opting for governance approaches based on digital technologies. But the challenge is not only to appropriate digital innovations, but also to guarantee the rationality of the decisions taken and the fair and effective participation of all stakeholders, particularly residents of disadvantaged neighborhoods. It is in this context of digital transformation that Rabat, capital of the Kingdom of Morocco, aims to make its smart city system responsive to contemporary concerns. It aims to capitalize on its distinctive historical, geographical, administrative and cultural potential. In 2023, Rabat ranked fifth among Arab cities in the Swiss Institute (IMD) ranking, surpassing its neighboring competitor, Casablanca. However, the same study showed that Rabat has a mixed record in the use of digital technologies, particularly in the areas of access to health services, education, leisure and business financing. This observation constitutes one of the key elements which guided us in the choice of the subject of this thesis. Thus, our research problem revolves around the following question: Can we qualify the “Rabat: smart city” project as a democratic, equitable and participatory project? Without calling into question the credibility of this project, the question of social acceptability, particularly of those who should, in theory, be the first beneficiaries, challenges us in several respects. This brings us back to the question initially asked by Vincent Meyer in 2017 concerning the measures taken to ensure that the digital transition itself does not become an additional factor of inequality. To address this subject, we called on the methods and techniques deployed both by geographers and by researchers in information and communication sciences. As this is a joint international thesis at the interface of the two disciplines, the material used is based both on the exploitation of a rich literature for theoretical support and on empirical field studies for understanding the manufacturing process of the “Rabat-intelligent city” project and its operation. This research is organized into 7 chapters comprising 3 levels: The first concerns the theoretical framework, the research problem, the hypotheses and the methodology used. The second addresses the notions of human intelligence and digital solutionism, before addressing the geographical, historical and socio-demographic context of the city of Rabat, then the issues of urban governance. Finally, Chapters 6 and 7 present the lessons learned from this research, trying to highlight the strengths and gaps recorded in terms of participation, social acceptability, communication and financing
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Lapointe, Vincent. "Essays on corporate social responsibility and socially responsible investment." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013AIXM1093/document.
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Notre thèse traite des thématiques de la responsabilité sociétale des entreprises (RSE), de sa relation avec la performance économique et financière de l’entreprise, et de l’investissement socialement responsable (ISR). Ces thématiques ont récemment gagné en popularité, favorisées par un contexte de crise économique et environnementale. Notre thèse se compose de quatre principaux chapitres. Notre premier chapitre est une revue de la littérature académique sur la RSE et l’ISR. Nous proposons une revue interdisciplinaire de la littérature académique partagée entre l’économie et les sciences de gestion (éthique appliquée aux entreprises, stratégie et finance). Notre second chapitre est une analyse empirique de la relation entre RSE et performance financière de l’entreprise sous l’angle du coût du capital. Nous nous intéressons à l’impact de la publication d’une notation de la politique de RSE d’une entreprise sur la liquidité de ses titres et la taille de sa base d’actionnaires. Nos troisième et quatrième chapitres sont des analyses des propriétés de portefeuilles d’ISR construits à l’aide de nouvelles méthodes d’allocations. Ainsi nous analysons comment des stratégies d’allocations basées sur le risque modifient la performance des portefeuilles d’actifs financiers émis par des émetteurs ayant une politique de RSE, et réciproquement comment un univers d’investissement composé uniquement d’émetteurs ayant une politique de RSE modifie les propriétés de ces allocations alternativesOur thesis examines corporate social responsibility (CSR) and how it is linked to a firm’s economic and financial performance, as well as socially responsible investment (SRI). With the current environmental and economic uncertainty, these issues are attracting increasing interest. Our thesis is organized in four chapters. Chapter 1 is a literature review on CSR and SRI. We propose an interdisciplinary review of the academic literature in both economics and management sciences (ethics applied to business, strategy and finance). Chapter 2 is an empirical analysis of the relationship between CSR and a firm’s financial performance in terms of cost of capital. We look at the impact of publishing an evaluation of the firm’s involvement in CSR on the liquidity of its stocks and the size of its investor base. Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 are analyses of the characteristics of SRI portfolios built according to new allocation methodologies. We analyze how risk-based allocations impact the performance of the portfolios of financial products of issuers involved in CSR, and reciprocally, how a universe of investment composed of the financial products of issuers involved in CSR impacts the properties of these alternative allocations
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McFerren, Mary Margaret. "Incentives and Barriers to Participation in Community Nutrition Education Programs for Recipients of Food Stamps and Temporary Assistance to Needy Families." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27013.
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The purpose of this study was to explore the incentives and barriers perceived by low-income women of child-bearing age related to their participation in nutrition education programs. The specific programs of concern in this study are the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) and the Food Stamp Nutrition Education (FSNE) program. This qualitative study sought to hear the voices of the women so that nutrition programs can be made more successful in reaching this population. Personal interviews were conducted with 23 women in their homes or appropriate local sites, and transcripts were analyzed to identify categories and themes.
People of low socioeconomic status and those with the least education have higher rates of obesity and overweight and suffer disproportionately from poor health. Women receiving Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) also receive Medicaid. Medicaid costs have escalated due to the obesity rate, which is currently estimated at 64% of the adult population. In addition, 30% of American children are experiencing obesity or are overweight. It is important for parents to understand the causes of obesity and the effects of the chronic diseases related to obesity. Prevention programs are more cost effective than medical treatment of the diseases associated with obesity, and proper nutrition can reduce the incidence of chronic diseases.
Findings of this study suggest that isolation is the main impediment to participating in nutrition education programs. Missing from the interviewed women's circumstances are social capital, human capital, and economic capital. Social capital relates to the connections and relationships that are important in life. Human capital involves the knowledge and skills acquired through life experiences. Economic capital refers to individual wealth or economic resources available to an individual or community.
Nutrition education programs should be refined to incorporate opportunities for socialization that will develop trust and reciprocity, as well as nutrition knowledge. Based on the results of this study, Virginia Cooperative Extension programs will be adapted to incorporate weight control and cooking classes with nutritious recipes. The learning environment will be safe, learner-centered, and fun. New marketing tools that are more appealing to the prospective clients will be developed.Ed. D.
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Menšík, Ondřej. "Zhodnocení budovy investicí do inteligentního domovního systému." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-225960.
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This thesis deals with investments issue for smart house systems. The theoretical part describes the definitions of the economic area, the area of intelligent systems and real estate valuation. In the practical part, there is detected the real estate price, accomplished a survey of public opinion and designed particular smart house system. The proposed solution is divided into sections and evaluated from economic and non-economic aspect. In the conclusion there is determined the value of the real estate after the completion of the investment.
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Lisi, Cosimo. "Paris et l'origine coloniale de la ville contemporaine : accumulation primitive, production de l'espace, pratiques artistiques, production de subjectivité (XIXe et Xxe siècles)." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 8, 2022. http://www.theses.fr/2022PA080012.
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ABSTRACT: Cette recherche vise à interroger les formes à travers lesquelles l’articu- lation entre production artistique-culturelle et production capitaliste de l’espace urbain, s’est réalisée dans le contexte parisien, marqué par des pratiques d’intervention néocoloniale, en prenant en considération un temps long (xixe et xxe siècles).En retraçant les moments de rupture et de rencontre avec les processus d’accumulation et en suivant les territoires existentiels traversés, nous es- sayons de tracer le chemin qui a conduit certains mouvements artistiques à renverser le paradigme de l’art institutionnel et à construire un agence- ment entre production esthétique et production sociale. La restructura- tion capitaliste néolibérale des années 1980-1990 a investi cet agencement après la destruction des mouvements révolutionnaires des années 1960- 1970. Le dépassement de l’art, envisagé par les mouvements artistiques radicaux, s’est transformé en une nouvelle séparation à travers la rupture avec les classes jugées dangereuses, cible des stratégies de gouvernement, en se traduisant, dans les années 2000, dans un dépassement phantasma- gorique, dans la soi-disant ville créative. À la base des processus de ségré- gation / identification se trouve le dispositif cartographique qui structure les stratégies coloniales et néocoloniales d’organisation de l’espace urbain. L’accumulation primitive continue est une des clefs de lecture des proces- sus prises en considérationIn this research, I genealogically trace the progressive emergence of an articulation between artistical-cultural production and capitalist pro- duction in the urban shaping of Paris. I retain a long time (19th and 20th centuries) . At first, I consider how the early 2000s smart city model ab- sorbed and domesticated the radical claim by 1960s aesthetic movements to overcome art as a contemplative relationship. Whereas those move- ments posited the intimate connection between aesthetic and social pro- duction, the city following the capitalist restructuration present itself as a« fantasmagoric » unity. I then retrieve the deep conflicts structuring such apparent unity showing how contemporary urbanscape directly reorgan- ized colonial technologies, such as cartography and identification. The colonial matrix of urban governance highlights that segregating policies are at the heart of the aesthetic model of structuring both social partici- pation and neo-colonial exclusion within the contemporary urban space. Continuous primitive accumulation is a reading key of the process taken into consideration
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Ekvall, Caroline, and Jonathan Furelid. "Det smarta kapitalet : En studie av nyetablerade IT-företags syn på relationen till sitt riskkapitalbolag." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Management and Economics, 2001. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-781.
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Background: The growth of the venture capital industry has given birth to new relations between investors and entrepreneurial firms. Venture capital firms are by definition investors serving as an active partner which implies a deeper relation between investors and entrepreneurs than has been the case previously. This new situation leads to a number of questions. Do venture capitalists really act as active partners with a long term interest in the venture? Do they add any value besides capital? How important is their influence in the portfolio company's decision making process?
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to give a deeper understanding of the relation between venture capital firms and IT companies in the start-up phase.
Limitations: This study is limited to Swedish IT companies. We have further chosen to study the phenomenon from the portfolio company's point of view. A final limitation that has been made is to focus on companies financed by formal venture capital.
Realisation: Using theories treating interorganisational relations and adjacent theories treating power we have chosen to study the relation between venture capital firms and their portfolio companies. The empirical data was gathered through interviews with five entrepreneurial companies in the IT business. The studyhas been carried out with an approach similar to a qualitative case study.
Result: We have found that the venture capital firm is seen as a very devoted partner with a long term interest in the company and that their contribution of resources is important. Regarding its influence in the portfolio company's decision making process we have concluded that this is due to an informal power position resulting from their possession of critical resources. In particular we have found that the possession of capital gives rise to a very influential position in the portfolio company.
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Schilder, Dirk. "Smart Capital for Start-ups: an empirical investigation of relationship financing in Germany." Doctoral thesis, 2007. https://tubaf.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A22575.
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Unternehmensgründungen sind durch ein hohes Maß an Unsicherheit und durch eine häufige Notwendigkeit externer Beratung gekennzeichnet. Daher ist Smart Capital, als eine spezielle Finanzierungsform, die Kapital und Informationsflüsse in Form von Betreuung und Beratung verbindet, von besonderer Bedeutung für junge Unternehmen. Der empirische Teil der Dissertation analysiert die verschiedenen Typen von Finanziers, die als potentielle Anbieter von Smart Capital angesehen werden sowie regionale Einflüsse auf Finanzierungsbeziehungen im Rahmen von Smart Capital. Des Weiteren wird die Rolle der öffentlichen Hand auf dem Markt für Smart Capital untersucht. Die Analysen machen deutlich, dass viele verschiedene Typen von Finanziers als Anbieter von Smart Capital in Deutschland agieren. Regionale Nähe zwischen dem Investor und den finanzierten Unternehmen spielt dabei jedoch nur eine untergeordnete Rolle. Eine regionale Unterversorgung an Smart Capital für junge Unternehmen ist unter diesem Aspekt nicht zu befürchten. Des Weiteren zeigen die Ergebnisse, dass öffentlich geförderte Anbieter von Smart Capital ihre Förderfunktion im Wesentlichen erfüllen.
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Lin, Yao-Hung, and 林耀泓. "The smart money effect of capital allocation strategy for the Taiwanese life insurance industry." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/95691444064988972965.
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碩士佛光大學
管理學系
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All the samples in discussion of smart money effect in the past researches focused on funds. However, the capital which life insurance industry can manipulate has become more and more in recent years. For example, the capital they could use in 2008 increased by 0.6% comparing to that of in 2007 in the aspect of asset allocation, yet the stock holding in 2008 remarkably decreased than in 2007. As we found out more, a global financial crisis, known as “Financial Tsunami”, also happened in the same year. This study assumed that the capital of life insurance has smart money effect since smart money effect can be used to predict the trend of market.The research period of this study was from January 1992 to December 2010. Twenty-three domestic and seven foreign life insurance companies had been chosen as research samples. There were thirty samples in total. The study adopted Multiple Regression Analysis to analyze the asset allocation of life insurance, stock, bond, and real estate price index. The result indicated that the holding parts in the early stage of life insurance had great impact on the current price index, especially the stock index. As a result, the asset allocation of life insurance can truly predict the market price, which shows the smart money effect.
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Lagarda, Cuevas Guillermo. "Essays on two contemporary topics through an intergenerational lens: smart technologies and economic sanctions." Thesis, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27305.
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This thesis centers its scope on the macroeconomic implications of two contemporary issues affecting welfare: the arrival of smart technologies and global control policies as sanctions. The key element that integrates these topics into the thesis is the intergenerational perspective. The thesis employs overlapping generations (OLG) models to study how smart technologies could modify long-term economic conditions and how fiscal policies are to be thought as a global matter rather than isolated decisions. The first chapter addresses the circumstances under which smart technologies may drive people out of well-compensated work. The Chapter uses a two-period OLG model comprising two type of workers, high and low-tech, and two goods –a capital intensive one and a labor intensive one. Automation, characterized as legacy code, combines with capital to give birth to a smart machine: a robot. In turn, as automation capacity grows these robots leave future workers– both high and low-tech– worse off. The lower code relative to capital increases the high-tech worker’s compensation, savings, and capital formation. However, as code accumulates, demand for high-tech labor falls, limiting younger generations’ savings and investments. Similarly, the second chapter seeks to answer whether robots raise or lower economic well-being. The setup is once again a two-period OLG. However, in this economy two goods are produced and consumed, but only one is fully automatable. Robots may be harmful except when robotic productivity is high enough that induces a virtuous circle of rising wages, savings, and output, producing the open-ended constant growth of an AK model. Additionally, a government transfer can turn an increase in robotic productivity into a long-term welfare improvement for future generations. Finally, the third chapter develops a large-scale multi-country OLG model to address the fiscal implications of global sanctions to a country –namely Russia. The model is uniquely suited to understanding the long-term effect of different trade and fiscal regimes. The sanctioned country responds either by seizing foreign assets, or imposing capital controls, policies that might hurt the sanctioning countries. In all scenarios, except for the most benign, all generations alive at the time are made worse off in the sanctioned country.
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Schilder, Dirk [Verfasser]. "Smart capital for start-ups : an empirical investigation of relationship financing in Germany / vorgelegt von Dirk Schilder." 2007. http://d-nb.info/985233443/34.
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Syu, Jhu-Fong, and 許茱峯. "Financial Crisis, Capital Structure and Corporate Operations － A Case Study of Smart Phone Related Industries In Taiwan." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/bnptt6.
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碩士淡江大學
國際企業學系碩士在職專班
102
This thesis empirically examines the effectiveness of various capital structures in coping with the adverse effects of the U.S. subprime financial crises on the smart phone related industries in Taiwan. The quarterly sales of the 15 selected sample firms are examined. The event study method which uses the autoregressive model as the foundation for creating a forecasting model, are adopted to calculate the abnormal sales level to represent performances of the sample firms. Comparisons of the performances of the sample firms during the 8 seasons before and after the 2nd season of 2008 are conducted. The panel data analysis of the effects of 4 capital structures, namely the ratios of equity, long term liabilities, bank finance and accounts/ notes payables to total assets on the abnormal sales are then conducted using data covering the 10 seasons beginning from 2008Q1 to 2010Q2 and regression coefficients estimated. The empirical studies have shown that the performances of the sample firms varies and firms that relied heavily on bank loans performed well during the crisis, implying that maintaining good relationship with banks is a good strategy in running business.
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Li, Ci Hong, and 李奇紘. "Study on the assessment factors of community smart growth- to Farley& Costanza five major capital theory." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/14197580500670660666.
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碩士國立臺中教育大學
環境教育研究所
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The scale of community is between nation and family, and it is the bridge used to communicate these two as well. Community is a basic unit of national development, so the community development is helpful to nation and the publics. The researcher hope to develop the community with smart growth, making the community flourishing. The aims of this research are: (1) finding the necessary principle factors for developing the smart growth community. (2) Constructing the hierarchy structure for the smart growth community estimation, and finding the weight for each factors. (3) Constructing the estimation standards for the evaluating factors of smart growth community. The smart growth community estimation model is constructed by generalizing some relative factors after paper review, and sifting the estimation factors from expert group decision via Fuzzy Delphi Method (FDM). Then the weights of respective estimation factors could be calculated through the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). Finally, each estimation factors will be divided into several levels and the data will be corrected after the experts examining. The conclusions of research are: (1)There are 26 estimation factors for smart growth community. The first layer includes Material capital and Intangible capital. The second layer includes Natural capital, Human capital, Built capital, Social capital, and Interaction capital. The third layer includes 18 factors such as Biodiversity, Community trust, Communication and Cooperation, and so on. (2)For the whole, the weight difference between the Material capital (0.523) and the Intangible capital (0.477) are small. The experts think the Human capital is more important than Natural capital and Built capital when driving community growth under the Material capital of Natural capital weight (0.344), Human capital weight (0.523), and Built capital weight (0.176). The experts think the Social capital is more important than Interaction capital under the Intangible capital of Social capital weight (0.622), and the Interaction capital weight (0.378). (3)Our research constructs 42 estimation standards for the evaluating factors of smart growth community to be the references for estimating the communities. According to the research process and conclusions, the community should set community network, community trust, and community standard as their primary consideration items for the community manage process if the community wants to develop toward smart growth is suggested.For the future suggestions, such as the following researcher might choose community base for this theory and make improvements aiming at the defects.
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Liao, Hung-Yuan, and 廖宏源. "The Relationship between Capital Structure and Corporate Value－Evidence from the Smart-Phone Component Industry in Taiwan." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/54182830651864731076.
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碩士銘傳大學
企業管理學系碩士班
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There was more than 70% of smart-phone usage rate in the Taiwan''s market in 2010, and it was also found that Samsung, HTC and Apple were major manufacturers in 2012. As considering environmental pollution or high production costs, there are many smart-phone component suppliers for these producers in Taiwan. Therefore, it is worth investigating the influential factors on capital structure and the relationship between capital structure and corporate value for Taiwan’s smart-phone component suppliers. The objectives of the study are: (1) to investigate the influential factors on the capital structure of Samsung, HTC and Apple for respective suppliers in Taiwan, (2) to explore the relationship between capital structure and corporate value for component suppliers of these three producers, respectively, and (3) to analyze the two relationships mentioned above for those firms with diverse component orders from more than one producers. The sample is collected from listed and OTC firms during the period of 2010-2012. Through the method of multiple regressions, the study finds that the influential factors on capital structure are firm size, profitability and non-debt tax shield, and that the relationship mentioned above for firms with diverse component orders from more than one producer is more closer than those from one major producer.
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Chen, Guan-Yan, and 陳冠延. "Hot Money and Smart Money Effect in International Capital Flows on the Volatility of Foreign Exchange Market." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/vg4y8s.
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碩士國立臺中科技大學
財務金融研究所碩士班
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This study investigates the impact of international capital flows. We apply the ICSS algorithm to identify the volatile periods and stable periods of foreign exchange market, and then distinguish the hot money effect and the smart effect by analyzing the causality relation between stock market and foreign exchange market. The hot money effect implies that foreign exchange market leads stock market. Since international capital flow into the market can impact the foreign exchange market, and then raise the stock market. The smart money effect implies the capital can invest the valuable stock market. Therefore, once the stock market raise can attract the international capital flow into the market, and then influence the foreign exchange market. Moreover, we separate the international capital flows into three category, foreign directly investment (FDI), other investment (OI), and security investment (PI), to explore the effect of international capital flows on the volatility of foreign exchange market. The empirical results show that the smart money effect exists on the stable periods and has the negative effect on the foreign exchange rates. In the volatile periods, we find the hot money effect and the impact of the international capital flows on the foreign exchange rates is positive.
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Jia, Jia. "Reasons for local smart growth efforts: An evaluation of the Commonwealth Capital Program and its outcomes in Massachusetts." 2011. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3465019.
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The Massachusetts model illustrates the latest approach to smart growth—the incentive based program. This study examines the reasons for and actual outcomes of local smart growth efforts through one of the Massachusetts' smart growth incentives—the Commonwealth Capital (CC) Program. The main objectives of this research are built on two conceptual models through a mixed approach that combines qualitative and quantitative methods. The qualitative method is mainly utilized to evaluate the implementation of the CC program. The results indicate that the program is a good measure of municipal smart growth efforts representative of goals of the state. Communities with diverse land bases have some advantage, as a variety of zoning methods can be employed. It is not obvious that communities have changed their own zoning in response to the stimuli of the CC program. The first model is applied through various statistical tests to investigate the relationships among the towns' characteristics and CC data. Homeownership, education and access to the highway system are significant factors related to municipal smart growth efforts in Massachusetts. Wealth, population and quantity of open spaces are only significant for certain type of communities (e.g. maturing suburbs, developing towns etc). Municipal political preferences (e.g. forms of municipal governance, DEM/GOP preference etc) and municipal planners' efforts have some influence on the adoptions of smart growth policies, though the specific outcomes might vary case by case. The second model tests the statistical relationships between CC data and the Urban Sprawl in Massachusetts. The urban sprawl are defined by Urban Sprawl Indicator (USI) as the amount of residential land consumed per building permit in the five past years per community in Massachusetts. The CC scores and USIs negatively fit the regression line well, indicating that local smart growth efforts have generally controlled land consumption in the past. In particular, the USIs in developing suburbs appear more responsive to the CC data. The spatial lag model shows sprawl is a net-effect phenomena and the cluster of sprawl in a region might weaken the effectiveness of particular municipal smart growth efforts. Lastly, this research suggests that the design of state land use policies ought to follow the nature of geographic segmentation of municipal smart growth preferences.
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Acedo, Sánchez Albert. "Place and city: merging our affective and social spatial dimension in the (smart) platial city." Doctoral thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/56701.
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A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor in Information Management, specialization in Geographic Information SystemsWe are living in (smart) cities that hold social-oriented promises but currently, most of these cities disregard the humans. Although some alternatives are appearing such as smart citizen-centric approaches, there is a lack of how promoting truly appealing perspectives toward a common good or better social synergies. Thereby, smart cities, with their associated Information and Communication Technology tools, are offering new possibilities, but, unfortunately, citizens are not fully exploiting the opportunities to empower themselves because, among other reasons, they are not aware of their common spatialities. Currently, we are not able to operationalize the spatial humanurban interactions regarding citizens’ cognitions, feelings and behaviors towards city places (i.e., sense of place) and meaningful geographic human relationships (i.e., social capital). Both concepts are significant as resources for an alternative landscape based on human perception and organization of social interactions fostered through the geographic place(s). In this research, we highlight the need to understand and operationalize social concepts spatial dimension for a better understanding of a smart citizen-centric approach which is mainly dependent on our capability to understand platial urban dynamics. We conceptualized a (spatial) conceptual framework for sense of place and social capital at the individual level to study their spatial relationship in the urban context. We developed a web map-based survey based on the literature to spatialize, characterize and measure sense of place, social capital and civic engagement. Using the spatial data collected, we validated our framework and demonstrated the importance to encompass the spatial dimension of social concepts (i.e., sense of place and social capital) as pivotal aspect (1) to understand the platial urban dynamics; (2) to provide useful social-spatial data to city processes (e.g. civic engagement); and (3) to reveal the potential to include them in social theory and structural equation models. Furthermore, we highlighted the crucial role of Geographic Information Science (GISc) techniques to gather the spatial dimension of those social concepts. Although in this research we focus on the spatial relationship between sense of place and social capital on civic engagement, the possibilities to relate our framework and methodology to other city based-notions can bring to light new platial urban dynamics. This research wants to open up the agenda for further research into exploratory place-based geography studies and, simultaneously, sets up a common social ground to build other socially-oriented conceptualizations or applications on top of it.
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Cheng, Chiao-Yin, and 鄭喬尹. "The Mediating Effect of Work Effort on the Relationship between Positive Psychological Capital and Job Performance - Work Smart as a Moderator." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/03663804040275140945.
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碩士國立彰化師範大學
人力資源管理研究所
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Facing the competition of new generation, how to improve the employee's job performance is the key factor of enterprises to maintain competitive advantage. Recently, in the field of positive organizational behavior, the construct of positive psychological capital (consisting of the positive psychological resources of efficacy, hope, optimism, and resilience) has been demonstrated to be related to employee’s job performance. This study not only focused on the influence of employees’ positive psychological capital on job performance, but also investigated the mediating effects between the relation of positive psychological capital and job performance on the work effort. Moreover, we investigated whether employee working smart plays a moderated mediating effect on the relation between work effort and employee’s job performance. Using “Top 1000 manufacture companies in Taiwan” by Commonwealth Magazine as the population, the 83 companies were selected randomly. Sent 566 employee’s questionnaires out, and then 347 employee questionnaires were responded. The responded rates were 62%. Confirmatory factor analyses were applied to examine the construct validities of adopted measurement instruments and Hierarchical Multiple Regression was to test the hypotheses. The results showed that:(1)positive psychological capital was positively related to job performance;(2)positive psychological capital was positively related to work effort;(3)work effort was partial mediated the relationship between positive psychological capital and job performance;(4)work smart had no moderated mediation effect among positive psychological capital,work effort and job performance;(5)work smart was partial mediated the relationship between positive psychological capital and job performance. Finally, the recommendations were made as follows: first, personality trait and interviewee’s positive psychological capital should be used as important evaluating instruments for personnel recruiting; second, in order to promote job performance, enterprises should develop supervisor and employee’s positive psychological capital; at last, enterprises should spread the concept of work smart, so that can increase employees’ job performance.
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Nunes, Rui Miguel Monteiro Soares de Oliveira. "O futuro do equity crowdfunding: utilização de tecnologia blockchain para criação de valor em plataformas de financiamento colaborativo de capital." Master's thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/21831.
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As plataformas de "crowdfunding" são cada vez mais utilizadas como meio de
captação de investimento, donativos ou empréstimos para financiar projetos, empresas,
organizações e causas.
No "equity crowdfunding" o investidor adquire uma participação de uma empresa
ou projeto e é remunerado consoante o sucesso deste. É um dos mais complexos, mais
interessantes na óptica do investidor, mas também mais arriscado dos vários tipos de
"crowdfunding" e como tal tem problemas, também estes complexos, que importa abordar
quando se visita o tema.
O objetivo desta investigação é apurar se uma tecnologia emergente, a
"Distribuited Ledger Technology" ("Blockchain"), pode ajudar a mitigar alguns dos
problemas associados às plataformas de "equity crowdfunding" ou mesmo adicionar-lhe
funcionalidades e valências, tornando-as mais apelativas para os "fundraisers" e
investidores, os dois públicos-alvo destas plataformas.
Através do desenho e modelação de uma plataforma de "equity crowdfunding" que
utiliza um "ledger" desconcentrado para o registo das transações aí ocorridas, com
capacidade para carregar e executar "smart contracts", foi possível constatar que a
tecnologia "blockchain" pode criar valor neste tipo de plataforma, podendo mitigar ou
mesmo resolver alguns dos problemas associados a este tipo de "crowdfunding".Crowdfunding platforms are increasingly used as a mean to raise funds, in form of investment, donations or loans to finance projects, companies, organizations or causes. In equity crowdfunding the investor acquires a stake in a company or project, and is rewarded depending on its success. It’s one of the most complex, but also one of the most interesting types of crowdfunding from the investor’s prespective. Because of its complexity, equity crowdfunding has also complex problems and limitations that need to be addressed. The purpose of this investigation is to verify if the Distribuited Ledger Technology (Blockchain), an emerging technology, can mitigate or solve some of the problems and limitations of equity crowdfunding platforms, or even add features, making this type of crowdfunding more appealing to fundraisers and investors. Through the design and modeling of an equity crowdfunding platform that uses a distribuited ledger to record the transactions that occur and with the capacity to load and execute smart contracts, it was possible to verify that blockchain technology can create value in this type of platforms, being able to mitigate or even solve some of the problems associated with equity crowdfunding.
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Raslan, Hannah Franziska. "Proptech1 ventures." Master's thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/106042.
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PropTech1Venturesis the first European vertical venture capital fund focused on innovating real estate industry. Real estate experts, venture capitalists and serial entrepreneurs joined forces in a sector-specific fund to promote Prop Tech start-ups with capital, strategic partner-ships and synergies through a closely-knit network in the real estate sector. This case study analyzes the investment approach of a vertical fund providing smart money to start-ups and adding a strategic next to a financial value to the investors.
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Gonçalves, António Poiares Maduro Cid. "Os novos canais de comunicação e a democracia : análise dos efeitos dos media sociais na criação de capital social." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/29862.
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Nesta investigação procurou-se analisar os efeitos que as novas dinâmicas comunicacionais
têm na democracia, mais especificamente qual a influência que os novos media têm na
criação de capital social. Recorrendo a conceitos e noções criadas previamente por vários
autores em cada um dos temas, procurou-se relacionar os conceitos identificados com os
dados obtidos num inquérito concretizado pelos autores. A Democracia não se pode tomar
como garantida, sendo importante a existência de um elevado nível de confiança nos outros
e nas instituições. Desta forma identificam-se problemas causados pelas novas dinâmicas
comunicacionais na qualidade da democracia, e foram procuradas soluções naquela que é a
temática das Smart Cities. Os resultados desta investigação realçam a importância da
criação de medidas de forma a gerar um aumento de capital social, este que tem na
sociedade um papel de impulsor a uma maior participação cívica.This research aimed to analyze the effects that new communicational dynamics have on democracy, more specifically what influence the new media have in the creation of social capital. Using concepts and notions previously created by several authors in each field, we sought to relate the concepts identified with the data obtained in a survey carried out by the authors. Democracy cannot be taken as guaranteed, and the existence of a high level of trust in others and in the institutions is important factor for the maintenance of democracy. In this way we identify the problems caused by new communicational dynamics in the quality of democracy, and solutions were sought in the theme of Smart Cities. The results of this research highlight the importance of creating measures in order to generate an increase in social capital, which has in society a role of impeller for greater civic participation.
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Sing, Hoi Wong. "Performance measurement systems and manager satisfaction in Singaporean small/medium firms." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1040250.
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Professional Doctorate - Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)Purpose – This study seeks to examine the empirical relationship between the perception of a balanced and linked performance measurement system, the conceptual use of performance measures, and the satisfaction of managers with their performance measurement systems in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore. In doing so, this study seeks to replicate and extend a significant research project conducted in Germany (Sandt, Schaeffer and Weber, 2001) into another cultural setting and with different users. Design/ methodology/ approach – The sample for the study is 600 managers from 300 SMEs in Singapore. To address common method variance (CMV) concerns in international business research, the present study uses a postal/online questionnaire survey (quantitative), followed by semi-structured email interviews (qualitative), as a method of triangulation. This mixed data collection process will, hopefully, provide greater insight into the concerns of the present study. Findings – The results indicate that 71 participating managers from 39 SMEs are satisfied with their performance measures, as their responses indicated that they perceived the measures that they used to be balanced and linked to their strategic plans. This suggests that managers' satisfaction with performance measures that they used related more positively to the conceptual use of the measures to improve firm’s performance. From eight respondents in the qualitative survey, the majority revealed that they use the feedback from the measures as a learning tool to help them balance profit, growth, and to control the firm’s results. The rest of the respondents use information from the performance measurement system to balance short-term results against long-term capabilities and growth opportunities of the firm. Research limitations – Besides the CMV-bias concern, the other main limitations of the study are the small sample size (relative to the total number of Singapore SMEs), and that the survey only applies to English-speaking SME managers. Practical implications – The study suggests that different firms may need different performance measures, since the strategies are unique to each firm. The findings will, hopefully, arouse Singapore SME managers' awareness of the strategic role of performance measurement in improving the firm's performance. Managers may also consider the findings from the present research useful as a benchmark of their firm’s performance measurement practices compared to other SMEs. Originality/ value – Firstly, the present research was a replication and extension of the German study to focus on Asian SMEs with a strong influence of Confucianism. The present research appears to be the first to examine the attitude of Singapore’s SME managers towards their firm's performance measurement systems. Secondly, this study aspires to contribute to the literature on managers' satisfaction with the conceptual use of performance measurement systems to improve their firm's performance. Thirdly, the evidence suggests that, despite the increased use of financial and non-financial measures, short-term financial measures remain crucial for the Singaporean SMEs in the sample to track their performance.
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Ya-Fang, Hsieh, and 謝雅芳. "A Research on the Construction of a Measuring Scale of Five Major Capitals of Community Smart Growth." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/38503791457945935264.
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碩士國立臺中教育大學
環境教育研究所
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The purpose of this study is to construct a Measuring Scale of Five Major Capitals of Community Smart Growth for communites. Based on the steps of scale development, the researcher constructed a standardized testing tool and establishment of temporary norms for communities and governmental units in Taiwan in terms of community smart growth. Based on the relevant literature, Five major capitals are nature capital (natural resources, ecological system, and environmental quality), human capital (school principal, school teacher, community volunteer and community leader), construction capital (the proportion of existing facilities, walkale environment and community culture), social capital (community network, community norms and community trust), and interaction capital (professional growth, industry and economy, and communication and cooperation) (16 factors in total). Then, 771 questionnaires (48 questions) were sent to 44 communities randomly, and 377 valid questionnaires from 31 communitis were returned. The conclusions of research are: (1) The Measuring Scale of Five Major Capitals of Community Smart Growth has 44items resulted from the experts examining and a trial survey。 (2) The Five Major Capitals ‘s Cronbach α of the whole scale and, finding that Cronbach α of the whole measuring scale is .932 and subscales are between .812-.912. The internal consistency is good. (3) When the original score of a community is 163, the percential rank is 50, the community the score of which is 163 surpasses 50% of communities. (4)According to the research process and conclusions, the community should construction capital items for the community manage profess if the community wants to develop toward smart growth is suggested.
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SBARDELLA, MARCO. "Una comunicazione sostenibile per il territorio. Comunicazione generativa, marketing territoriale, capitale sociale e nuovi paradigmi di sviluppo: il caso San Casciano Smart Place." Doctoral thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2158/976480.
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Il presente lavoro è frutto di una ricerca pluriennale che ha inteso indagare, sia attraverso l’analisi delle fonti bibliografiche che l’applicazione diretta al caso di studio presentato (il progetto San Casciano Smart Place), il ruolo della comunicazione – nello specifico adottando il paradigma della comunicazione generativa, che da anni viene studiato e applicato ai progetti del Communication Strategies Lab (CSL) dell’Università di Firenze
– nelle strategie di promozione e di valorizzazione del territorio, soprattutto in ambito rurale.
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PŮBALOVÁ, Ludmila. "Přístupy k smrti a k pohřbívání v různých historických epochách lidstva." Master's thesis, 2008. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-49584.
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Dissertation .. The approaches towards death and burial in different historical epochs of mankind dealing with a view of death in intellectual conceptions during the history. People have been engaged in the question of life and deaths for ages. It is one of the oldest, the hardests and the most fundamental questions which are asked. We can think of the death in two levels: a general and a personal. The comprehension of deaths was developing in history. Thesis traces, what affected and how it is possible, that the today`s subject of personal death states taboo, even if masmedia floods us with death of others. For understanding, the thesis goes throught history. From the methodological aspects it follows the time line, divides the history into ancient world, the Middle Ages and modern period, as well as on horizontal line following individually nations and their intellectual directions.