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Sarker, Pradipta K., and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Phenomenological inquiry into the experience of web project managers." Deakin University. School of Information Systems, 2003. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20051208.091736.
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The advent of the Internet and the World Wide Web has been instrumental in bringing about the growth in the implementation of web-based information systems (WBIS). Such systems are designed with the aim of improving productivity, data accuracy, and the reduction of paperwork and administrative overheads. Moreover, unlike their conventional non-web-based predecessors, the WBIS are commonly aimed at users who are casual and untrained, geographically distributed and non-homogenous. The dissemination of WBIS necessitates additional infrastructure support in the form of a security system, workflow and transaction management, and web administration.
WBIS are commonly developed using an evolutionary approach, whereby the version of the application, acquired from the vendor, is first deployed as a pilot, in order to gather feedback from the target users before the evolutionary cycles commence. While a number of web development methodologies have been proposed by existing research, there is a dearth of empirical evidence that elucidates the experiences of project initiators in pursuing the evolution of web services, a process that undoubtedly involves dealing with stakeholder issues.
This research project presents a phenomenological investigation of the experiences of project managers with the implementation of web-based employee service systems (ESS), a domain that has witnessed a sharp growth in Australia in recent times. However, the project managers rich, multidimensional account of their experiences with the implementation of ESS revealed the social obstacles and fragility of intra-organizational relationships that demanded a cautious and tactful approach. Thus, the study provides a socio-organizational perspective to web projects in contrast to the functionalist paradigm of current web development methodologies. The research also confirms that consideration of the concerns of stakeholders by project managers is crucial to the successive cycles of ESS evolution. Project managers address stakeholder concerns by pursuing actions that are aimed at encouraging ESS usage, but at the same time, such actions can have consequences necessitating subsequent iterations of system enhancement and improvement. Finally, the research also discovered that despite the different socio-political climate prevalent in various organizations, in which ESS are being implemented, the experiences of project managers in dealing with stakeholder concerns can be captured and independently confirmed in terms of their perceived relevance and usefulness in problem-solving within the application domain.
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Akkermans, Henricus Andreas. "Modelling with managers : Participative business modelling for effective strategic decision-making /." Online version, 1995. http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/24262.
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Matus, Petersen Sebastián, and Bravo Rodrigo Alejandro Uribe. "Community managers : teorías ímplicitas sobre la comunicación en la web 2.0." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2012. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/139760.
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Tesis para optar al grado de Magíster en MarketingAutores no envían autorización, para acceso a texto completo de su documento.
Este estudio busca conocer las teorías implícitas, que corresponden a explicaciones subjetivas de procesos científicos sin fundamentos teóricos, que en este caso tienen los profesionales de un cargo relativamente nuevo que ha originado la industria digital durante los últimos años: los denominados Community Managers, o administradores de comunidades digitales, que se encargan de representar a las marcas en la web mediante las Redes Sociales. A través de una serie de entrevistas en profundidad, se logró conocer como estos profesionales, pertenecientes a la primera oleada de trabajadores que encajan en la categoría de Nativos Digitales, representan y perciben la importancia de su rol en el Marketing Digital, y qué recomendaciones tienen para aumentar la fidelización y la lealtad del usuario de la Web 2.0 hacia las marcas. Los resultados indican que, primero, las empresas deben estar presentes sí o sí en las Redes Sociales, lograr conocer quién es su consumidor fijándose objetivos de mediano y largo plazo, estar a la par con sus clientes y entregar soluciones y respuestas oportunas. El cargo del Community Manager tiene la imporante misión de personificar a la marca en el mundo digital, y esta es una tarea que requiere dedicación y tiempo. De esta manera, si se cumple este objetivo de forma correcta, el usuario voluntariamente evocará sentimientos positivos hacia la marca, la defenderá y recomendará a sus pares, generando efectos de viralización en un modelo de lealtad mutua entre marca y usuario.
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Hardy, David Wallace. "Design considerations to be addressed when developing Web based applications for senior managers." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1998. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA355772.
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Thesis (M.S. in Information Technology Management) Naval Postgraduate School, September 1998."September 1998." Thesis advisor(s): Barry A. Frew. Includes bibliographical references (p. 73-77). Also available online.
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Saengratwatchara, Supornchai. "Anticedents [i.e. antecedents] of intention to adopt web-based computer aided facility management (CAFM) by facility managers." Diss., Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users, 2007.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Human Environment and Design, 2007.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Apr. 16, 2009) Includes bibliographical references (p. 106-111). Also issued in print.
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Santos, Ricardo Meléndez, Anthony Aguilar Gallardo, and Jimmy Armas Aguirre. "Reference Model to Identify the Maturity Level of Cyber Threat Intelligence on the Dark Web." Repositorio Academico - UPC, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/653788.
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El texto completo de este trabajo no está disponible en el Repositorio Académico UPC por restricciones de la casa editorial donde ha sido publicado.In this article, we propose a reference model to identify the maturity level of the cyber intelligence threat process. This proposal considers the dark web as an important source of cyber threats causing a latent risk that organizations do not consider in their cybersecurity strategies. The proposed model aims to increase the maturity level of the process through a set of proposed controls according to the information found on the dark web. The model consists of three phases: (1) Identification of information assets using cyber threat intelligence tools. (2) Diagnosis of the exposure of information assets. (3) Proposal of controls according to the proposed categories and criteria. The validation of the proposal was carried out in an insurance institution in Lima, Peru, with data obtained by the institution. The measurement was made with artifacts that allowed to obtain an initial value of the current panorama of the company. Preliminary results showed 196 emails and passwords exposed on the dark web of which one corresponded to the technology manager of the company under evaluation. With this identification, it was diagnosed that the institution was at a “Normal” maturity level, and from the implementation of the proposed controls, the “Advanced” level was reached.
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Shailer, G. E. P. "Contextualising the performance of owner-managed firms : a conceptual framework based on owner-managers' objectives /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 1996. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phs526.pdf.
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Jakobovits, Rex M. "The Web interfacing repository manager : a framework for developing web-based experiment management systems /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7007.
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Dash, Suvendu Kumar. "Context-based metrics for evaluating changes to web pages." Thesis, Texas A&M University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/79.
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The web provides a lot of fluid information but this information changes, moves, and even disappears over time. Bookmark lists, portals, and paths are collections where the building blocks are web pages, which are susceptible to these changes. A lot of research, both in industry and in academia, focuses on organizing this vast amount of data. In this thesis, I present context-based algorithms for measuring changes to a document. The methods proposed use other documents in a collection as the context for evaluating changes in the web pages. These metrics will be used in maintaining paths as the individual pages in paths change. This approach will enhance the evaluations of change made by the currently existing Path Manager, in the Walden's Paths project that is being developed in the Center for the Study of Digital Libraries at Texas A&M University.
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Ravindran, Balaji. "Managing Information System Integration Technologies--A Study of Text Mined Industry White Papers." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2003. http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/u?/NOD,38.
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Thesis (M.S.)--University of New Orleans, 2003.Title from electronic submission form. "A thesis ... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Engineering Management"--Thesis t.p. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Klaar, Jonathan, and Allen Masak. "Webbläsares inbyggda lösenordshanterare : Faktorer som påverkar privatpersoners användning/ickeanvändning av webbläsares inbyggda lösenordshanterare." Thesis, Jönköping University, JTH, Avdelningen för datateknik och informatik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-53217.
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Kunskap om lösenord och deras säkerhet är idag något som förbises av den gemene datoranvändaren. Lösenordshanterare kan både hjälpa och skydda vid hanteringen av lösenord. De flesta webbläsare idag har inbyggda funktioner för lösenordshantering. Utifrån existerande litteratur kunde det identifieras att det behövs data kring vilka faktorer som påverkar webbläsares användare att använda respektive inte använda dessa inbyggda lösenordshanterare. Syftet med rapporten är att presentera en analys av faktorer som påverkar varför privatpersoner väljer att använda respektive inte använda webbläsares inbyggda lösenordshanterare. Resultatet presenteras med hjälp av kvalitativa semi-strukturerade intervjuer där 33 respondenter deltagit och besvarat frågor kring deras hantering av lösenord och användning av webbläsares inbyggda lösenordshanterare. Resultat från intervjuer visade att faktorer som var av betydande roll för ickeanvändande respondenter var starkt kopplade till datorvana och hur ofta respondenter använde datorn. De faktorer som spelade störst roll för användare av verktyget var enkelhet och tidseffektivitet. Icke-användare tenderade att ha en behovsbrist gällande verktyget, mestadels på grund av deras avsaknad av datoranvändning. Faktorer som påverkar användare och icke-användare visade sig stämma överens med tidigare forskning. Dessutom sammanfattades att antalet respondenter som var användare av lösenordshanterare var betydligt högre än vad som tidigare hävdats i litteratur. Majoriteten av respondenterna (79%) var användare av lösenordshanterare, vilket motsäger tidigare studier som utförts där endast 23% använder sig av lösenordshanterare.Knowledge of passwords and their security is today something that is overlooked by the everyday computer user. Password managers can both help and protect when managing passwords. Most web browsers today have built-in password management features. Based on existing literature, it could be identified that there is a need for knowledge concerning which factors influence web browser users to use or not use their built-in password managers. The purpose of the report is to present an analysis of factors that affect why private individuals choose to use or not use browsers built-in password managers. The results are presented with the help of qualitative semi-structured interviews in which 33 respondents participated and answered questions about their handling of passwords and the use of web browsers built-in password managers. Results from the interviews showed that factors that were significant for non-user respondents were strongly linked to computer skills and how often respondents used the computer. The factors that played the biggest role for users of the tool were simplicity and time efficiency. Non-users tended to have a lack of need for the tool, mostly because of their lack of computer usage. Factors affecting users and non-users were found to be consistent with previous research. In addition, it was concluded that the number of respondents who were users of password managers was significantly higher than previously claimed in the literature. The majority of respondents (79%) were users of password managers, which contradicts previous studies conducted where only 23% use password managers.
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Martins, José Daniel Posada Vilas Boas. "Sofinare-workflow management, a case study: a web database application development." Master's thesis, Universidade da Beira Interior, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/2000.
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A web-based application has been developed to ensure recording of all details of maintenance
works carried out at SOFINARE (a Portuguese aeronautical company meeting EASA PART 145
standards). The main objective is to have a safe and easy-to-use system to control and retain
maintenance work records. This application is just the beginning of a future software that
later will be developed by Grupo7Air engineers to be used in their organisation covering
specific aspects such as having all maintenance information (aircrafts, technicians, manuals,
maintenance programmes, works, inventory, component tracking, etc.) stored in a vast group
of tables, which will form the database, in a way that, any data one wants to know can be
picked up in those tables through the Software.
This research was carried out at AEROTÉCNICA and SOFINARE, both Portuguese
aeronautical organisations, with the purpose of analysing the maintenance process and also to
study how a software implementation can be done to controlling the maintenance process in
the aeronautical maintenance industry. Later on, this software can be continuously developed
and upgraded to be widely used in the entire Grupo7Air organisation, to help through the
maintenance management while complying with the existent aeronautical legislation
requirements, while ensuring aircraft maintenance planning is efficient and accurate, and, at
the same time, helping the needs of the company to survive, that is, being able to keep
making money in the present crisis.
This work begun by planning how the database should be created in order to save
maintenance organisation data safely and correctly, so it can be used later to future software
tasks.
This application has been developed (and it will continue to be) using PHP open
source language and MySQL database resource. The use of PHP and MySQL as the developing
programming languages allow this software to be a multiple platform software in a time
saving way, since the source code is recognized by the different browsers, that is, it works on
Internet Explorer, or Mozilla Firefox for example, being these, the favorite browsers of the
company’s staff, running under Windows, OS X or Linux. Implementing and learning the
software through one’s favorite browser is thus simplified, it doesn’t have to be installed in
each employee PC and also reduces implementation costs. The PC has only to be able to
connect to the internal server and have access to internal database where all data are safely
stored through this application.Esta dissertação reflete a pesquisa levada a cabo nas instalações das empresas de manutenção aeronáutica Sofinare e Aerotécnica. Ambas empresas fazem parte do Grupo7Air, um grupo que incide totalmente na área da aeronáutica. A Aerotécnica está interessada em iniciar um grande projeto, que incide na criação de um software que contemple todas as empresas do Grupo7Air, tendo sobretudo em conta que este grupo é constituído por empresas certificadas EASA-Part 145 (manutenção), Part-M (gestão da aeronavegabilidade), Part-21 (projeto/design) e Part-147 (formação de Técnicos de Manutenção Aeronáutica). Pretende-se criar uma aplicação que possa gerir toda a informação com que as empresas do grupo trabalham diariamente, ou seja, gerir toda a informação relativa à manutenção aeronáutica (programas de manutenção, componentes, sub-componentes e o seu rastreio, diretivas, ferramentas, material em armazém, etc.), de tal modo que haverá a necessidade da existência de uma grande base de dados alojada num servidor, sendo constituída por inúmeras tabelas que terão toda a informação armazenada. Atualmente a Aerotécnica (juntamente com a Aerovip), dado o seu âmbito na indústria de manutenção aeronáutica, possui uma aplicação designada por C.A.L.M.: um poderoso software que lhes permite inúmeras vantagens, tornando-se uma ferramenta essencial para o trabalho do seu dia-a-dia. No entanto, para além do seu elevado custo, apresenta algumas limitações que se pretendem eliminar, tais como: haver a necessidade de instalar o software em todos os computadores da empresa onde é necessário usá-lo. Por isso, concluiu-se que uma ferramenta que funcionasse através da web (aplicação-web) seria o ideal, estando cada trabalhador da empresa à distância de um simples browser para gerir ou consultar qualquer informação que lhe fosse necessária, sem haver a necessidade de ter que instalar a aplicação em todos os computadores da empresa. Além disso, é pretendido uma aplicação que desempenhe todas as funções do CALM e mais outras funções que surgirão do interesse da empresa, sendo que o código do Software poderá ser alterado, visto que será open-source, e constantemente atualizado, de maneira a cobrir os interesses da empresa. Nesta dissertação, estudou-se um possível começo do desenvolvimento deste software e da sua base de dados, que já pudesse ajudar o pessoal da Sofinare a registar informaticamente a abertura e fecho de Ordens de Trabalho.
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Zhuang, Yan. "A scalable web-based distributed network management architecture and the manager MIB design." Thesis, University of Macau, 1998. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b1637002.
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Lightbody, Margaret. "Financial managers in a church organisation : understanding their experience /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2000. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phl7236.pdf.
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Hansson, Andreas. "Relational Database Web Application : Web administration interface for visualizing and predicting relationships to manage relational databases." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Avdelningen för informations- och kommunikationssystem, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-25879.
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There is a need of storing and keeping track of things. As the amount of information increases, so does the demand for suitable applications that can manage the data. This thesis has had its focus on developing a web administration interface for relational databases, where the focus has been on managing and visualizing the data, where relationships between data within the database could be predicted through an algorithm. During the thesis, it was revealed that administrators can utilize naming conventions for databases, a property which can be used to predict its relationships. Furthermore, existing applications for managing databases has been compared with the thesis' implementation. Notable differences are that existing solutions are focused towards the structure of the data, rather than the data itself. To accomplish all this, an agile method was chosen for fast results within the deadline, together with standardized web development tools and JavaScript frameworks. The resulting implementation consists of a front- and backend. The frontend was developed using the Ember.JS framework for making web applications and the backend was implemented using Node.JS, together with a component for handling different database dialects called Sequelize. It has been concluded that the prototype this thesis has resulted in works as a proof of concept, complete with a prediction algorithm that can suggest relationships within databases that utilizes convenient and consistent naming conventions. In the future, further research and tests could be conducted to evaluate the security, reliability and usability of the application, to ensure its production quality.
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Ziegler, Luciano. "Development of the Web-Based Admissions and Management System for IELP." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2010. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/104.
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The academic program The Intensive English Language Program (IELP) at the University of New Orleans (UNO) offers one of the most effective and diverse language programs in the United States. This thesis is to report the development of the Webbased database application that manages admissions, students learning progress, and course offering of this program. The system development followed a simplified Unified Process for Software Development (UP) using the Unified Modeling Language (UML) models such as the requirement catch model – use cases, the analysis model – activity diagrams, and the design model –communication diagrams. The new system has met and exceeded all the business requirements and has been operating to support the further growth of the IELP at UNO. Significant attention has been given to information security; multiple techniques have been applied in addition to the security measures enforced in the hosting environment – the University Computing Center.
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Ginige, Jeewani A. "Change impact analysis to manage process evolution in web workflows." View thesis, 2008. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/32727.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Western Sydney, 2008.A thesis submitted to the University of Western Sydney, College of Health and Science, School of Computing and Mathematics in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Includes bibliographical references.
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Perry, Sonja Michele. "An integrated intranet and dynamic database application for the Security Manager at Naval Postgraduate School." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2002. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/02sep%5FPerry.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S. in Information Technology Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2002.Thesis advisor(s): Randy L. Borchardt, Dan C. Boger. Includes bibliographical references (p. 67). Also available online.
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Strang, Lynn Reglyn Marie. "Occupational stress in blue-collar managers in the collision repair industry /." Adelaide, 1995. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARPS/09arpss897.pdf.
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Sheng, Quanzheng Computer Science & Engineering Faculty of Engineering UNSW. "Composite web services provisioning in dynamic environments." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Computer Science and Engineering, 2006. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/23457.
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Web services composition is emerging as a promising technology for the effective automation of application-to-application collaborations. The application integration problems have been subject of much research in the past years. However, with growth in importance of business process automation and highly dynamic nature of the Internet, this research has taken on a new significance and importance. Adequate solutions to this problem will be very important to make enterprise systems more flexible, robust and usable in the future. In this dissertation, we present a novel approach for the declarative definition and scalable orchestration of composite Web services in large, autonomous, heterogeneous, and dynamic environments. We first propose a composition model for composing Web services in a personalized and adaptive manner. We model composite Web services based on statecharts. To cater for large amounts of dynamic Web services, we use the concept of service community that groups services together and is responsible for the runtime selection of services against user's preferences. We use the concept of process schema that specific users can adjust with their personal preferences. A set of exception handling policies can be specified to proactively react to runtime exceptions. We then propose a tuple space based service orchestration model for distributed, self-managed composite services execution. We introduce the concept of execution controller that is associated with a service and is responsible for monitoring and controlling service executions. The knowledge required by a controller is statically extracted from the specification of personalized composite services. We also present techniques for robust Web services provisioning. The techniques presented in this dissertation are implemented in Self-Serv, a prototype that provides a set of tools for Web service composition and execution. Finally, we conduct an extensive usability and performance study of the proposed techniques. The experimental results reveal that our system i) provides an efficient support for specifying, deploying, and accessing composite services; ii) is more scalable and outperforms the centralized approach when the exchanged messages become bigger; and iii) is more robust and adaptive in highly dynamic environments.
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Souza, Arthur Emanoel C?ssio da Silva e. "Cloud query manager: uso de web sem?ntica para evitar o problema de aprisionamento em IaaS." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2015. http://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/20154.
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A computa??o em nuvem pode ser definida como um modelo computacional distribu?do atrav?s do qual s?o compartilhados recursos (hardware, armazenamento, plataformas de desenvolvimento e comunica??o) na forma de servi?os pagos e acess?veis com um esfor?o m?nimo de gest?o e intera??o. Um grande benef?cio desse modelo ? possibilitar a utiliza??o de variados provedores (i.e. uma arquitetura multiplataforma) para compor um conjunto de servi?os no intuito de obter uma configura??o ?tima em desempenho e custo. Entretanto, a utiliza??o multiplataforma ? impossibilitada pelo problema de cloud lock-in. O cloud lock-in ? a depend?ncia entre uma aplica??o e uma plataforma de nuvem. Ele ? comumente endere?ado por tr?s estrat?gias: (i) uso de camada intermedi?ria que se interp?e aos consumidores de servi?os de nuvem e o provedor, (ii) uso de interfaces padronizadas para acesso a nuvem, ou ainda (iii) uso de modelos com especifica??es abertas. Este trabalho define uma abordagem para avaliar estas estrat?gias. Tal abordagem foi executada e observou-se que apesar dos avan?os conseguidos por estas estrat?gias, nenhuma delas resolve efetivamente o problema do cloud lock-in. Neste sentido, esse trabalho prop?e o uso de Web Sem?ntica para evitar o cloud lock-in, onde modelos em RDF s?o usados para especificar os recursos de uma nuvem, que s?o gerenciados via consultas SPARQL. Nessa dire??o, esse trabalho: (i) apresenta um modelo avaliativo que quantifica o problema do cloud lock-in, (ii) avalia o cloud lock-in entre tr?s solu??es multi-cloud e tr?s plataformas de nuvem, (iii) prop?e utilizar RDF e SPARQL na ger?ncia de recursos de nuvem, (iv) apresenta o Cloud Query Manager (CQM), um servidor SPARQL que implementa a proposta, e (v) compara tr?s solu??es multi-cloud em rela??o ao CQM quanto ao tempo de resposta e a efetividade na resolu??o do cloud lock-in.
Cloud computing can be defined as a distributed computational model by through resources (hardware, storage, development platforms and communication) are shared, as paid services accessible with minimal management effort and interaction. A great benefit of this model is to enable the use of various providers (e.g a multi-cloud architecture) to compose a set of services in order to obtain an optimal configuration for performance and cost. However, the multi-cloud use is precluded by the problem of cloud lock-in. The cloud lock-in is the dependency between an application and a cloud platform. It is commonly addressed by three strategies: (i) use of intermediate layer that stands to consumers of cloud services and the provider, (ii) use of standardized interfaces to access the cloud, or (iii) use of models with open specifications. This paper outlines an approach to evaluate these strategies. This approach was performed and it was found that despite the advances made by these strategies, none of them actually solves the problem of lock-in cloud. In this sense, this work proposes the use of Semantic Web to avoid cloud lock-in, where RDF models are used to specify the features of a cloud, which are managed by SPARQL queries. In this direction, this work: (i) presents an evaluation model that quantifies the problem of cloud lock-in, (ii) evaluates the cloud lock-in from three multi-cloud solutions and three cloud platforms, (iii) proposes using RDF and SPARQL on management of cloud resources, (iv) presents the cloud Query Manager (CQM), an SPARQL server that implements the proposal, and (v) comparing three multi-cloud solutions in relation to CQM on the response time and the effectiveness in the resolution of cloud lock-in.
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Hope, David. "Managing variability : information, integrity and usefulness for environmental managers in South Australia's Coorong /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 1989. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ENV/09envh791.pdf.
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Ramesh, Babu Aiswarya, and Rida Ijaz. "Sometimes We Win, Sometimes We Learn-Project Manager’s Learning from Project Failures." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Företagsekonomi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-31121.
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Project failures are a reality that most project managers face several times in their careers, but even more significant than the failure itself, is what these individuals learn after experiencing it. Studies do exist within the entrepreneurship literature which analyze failure of entrepreneurial projects. But these are not particularly focused on projects executed within organizations and the experiences of entrepreneurs would be different to those of project managers within firms, after a failure occurs. The authors have made a research from a sample of 6 project managers over such project failures. Using Kolb's experiential Theory to understand the learning that occurs after project failures helped the authors to create a model which the project managers can use in their process of learning after failures. This study also elaborates about the project management literature in association with project failures and also the various aspects of learning that can be achieved in an organization.
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Oliveira, Martinho André Cerqueira de. "O recurso a tecnologias web para suporte da gestão do conhecimento organizacional: um exemplo nacional." Master's thesis, [s.n.], 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10284/4274.
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Dissertação de Mestrado apresentada à Universidade Fernando Pessoa como parte dos requisitos para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Ciências EmpresariaisNas empresas a competitividade é cada vez maior e tem sido intensificada ao longo dos anos, as transformações que ocorrem rapidamente em todo sector empresarial e o número de concorrentes no mercado são factores que levam as empresas a procurarem novas fontes de vantagem competitiva. As novas estruturas empresariais e práticas de organização do trabalho, terão como objectivos, superar os limites da inovação, da aprendizagem e da criação de novo conhecimento. Deste modo as práticas de Gestão do Conhecimento podem ser definitivamente uma vantagem competitiva para as empresas. Ao criar uma cultura baseada no Conhecimento inicia-se a definição de uma orientação estratégica e uma Gestão de topo, Gestão que será apoiada no recurso ao digital. A quantidade de informação com que diariamente as empresas lidam torna-se uma dificuldade, para isso as ferramentas informáticas tornam-se importantes para a Gestão das Empresas. A Web e a sua evolução são factores que facilitam que as empresas se tornem mais colaborativas e com maior assertividade na procura de informação, relevante para o seu sucesso. O recurso à Web 3.0 vai permitir que as pessoas e as máquinas se liguem, evoluam, partilhem e usem o conhecimento numa escala sem precedentes e de novas formas que tornam a experiência da Internet melhor. Possibilita que decisões de negócios sejam fundamentadas em mais e melhores dados gerados por sistemas inteligentes. O presente estudo visa compreender de que forma as tecnologias e a sua utilização poderá ter impacto na Gestão do Conhecimento nas empresas. Para isso foi utilizado o Grounded Theory para a pesquisa de dados e o trabalho realizado neste contexto permite perceber que no futuro poderá ser a Web e o Digital que farão a maior parte do trabalho no campo da Gestão do Conhecimento. In companies competitiveness is increasing and has been enhanced over the years, the changes that occur rapidly across the business sector and the numbers of competitors in the market are factors that lead companies to search for new sources of competitive advantage. The new business structures and practices of work organization have as objectives, overcome the limits of innovation, learning and creating new knowledge. For that the practice of Knowledge Management can definitely be a competitive advantage for companies. With the creation of a Knowledge-Based culture begins the definition of a strategic orientation and top management, management that will be supported in the digital resource. The amount of information that companies deal daily becomes a difficulty for the companies, for that computer tools become important for the Management of Enterprises. The Web and its evolution are factors that make it easier for businesses become more collaborative and more assertive in seeking information relevant to success. The use of Web 3.0 will allow people and machines to connect, evolve, share and use knowledge on an unprecedented scale and new ways to make the Internet experience better. Business decisions are based on more and better data generated by intelligent systems. This study aims to understand how the technologies and their use may have an impact on knowledge management in Enterprises. For this we used the Grounded Theory for the research data, and the work done in this context allows us to understand that in the future could be the Web and Digital that will make the most of the work in the field of Knowledge Management.
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Faria, Filipa Maria Ferreira Prego de. "O papel do community manager Toluna SAS: comunidade online interativa." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/13878.
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Mestrado em Línguas e Relações EmpresariaisAtualmente, a maioria das empresas encontra-se ligada a uma das ferramentas mais poderosas do mundo: a internet. Com o crescimento deste fenómeno, surgem aplicativos para melhorarem o seu aproveitamento. As empresas começam a usufruir da Web 2.0, que visa a utilização da internet como uma plataforma social. O trabalho aqui apresentado pretende fazer uma análise profunda da empresa online Toluna SAS e explicar o surgimento do profissional responsável por essa plataforma social, o Community Manager.
Most companies are connected to one of the most powerful tools in the world: the internet. With the rise of this phenomenon, new applications are built-in to improve the use of internet. Companies are adopting the Web 2.0 which aims to use internet as a social platform. The goal of this study is to analyze an online company, Toluna SAS and explain the emergence of the professional, responsible for this social platform: The Community Manager.
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Lima, Dutra Moisés. "An ontology-based approach to manage conflicts in collaborative design." Thesis, Lyon 1, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009LYO10241/document.
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De nos jours, les projets de conception complexes de produits exigent que les équipes de concepteurs se réunissent pour faciliter le partage de leurs compétences et expertises respectives afin de produire un ensemble de solutions de conception efficace. Dû au besoin croissant d’échanger les connaissances, les projets de conception modernes sont encore plus structurés pour travailler avec des équipes distribuées qui collaborent sur un réseau informatique pour accomplir une conception optimale de produit. Néanmoins, dans ce processus de conception collaborative, l'intégration d'équipes multidisciplinaires – qui implique l'échange et le partage des connaissances et compétences – génère fréquemment des situations conflictuelles. Les différents points de vue et perspectives des experts, les différentes façons de communiquer et collaborer au niveau de connaissances, rendent le processus difficilement maitrisable. Pour accomplir un scénario optimal, certains problèmes doivent d’abords être résolus comme la spécification et formalisation des besoins, l’intégration d'ontologies, la détection et la résolution des conflits. Spécifier et formaliser les connaissances demandent un grand effort afin d’obtenir un modèle de représentation pour agréger plusieurs domaines différents des connaissances. Chaque expert pourrait s'exprimer afin que les autres comprennent leurs informations correctement. Il est donc nécessaire d’utiliser un modèle de représentation de données suffisamment clair et flexible pour accomplir cette tâche. Certains modèles actuels ne parviennent pas à fournir une solution efficace pour le partage des connaissances et pour la collaboration des projets de conception, car ces modèles n’intègrent pas les aspects géographiques, temporels, fonctionnels de la conception avec un modèle de représentation des connaissances flexible et générique. Ce travail propose une architecture, pour la conception collaborative, qui ambitionne d'être synchrone, générique, orientée aux services, basée sur les agents, et basée sur les ontologies. Des modèles particuliers de représentation sont transformés en instances d'ontologie et sont fusionnés pour accomplir le model final de conception d’un produit. C'est une approche synchrone parce que le processus de fusion est entrepris en même temps que l'interaction entre concepteurs. C'est générique parce qu'elle permet aux utilisateurs de travailler avec deux approches pour l’intégration d'ontologies : celle qui utilise une ontologie générique et celle qui utilise un processus d'harmonisation. Notre proposition se concentre sur les conflits de la conception collaborative et fait usage de Web Ontology Language (OWL) et des Services Web, le premier comme langage pour représenter les connaissances et le dernier comme un support technologique pour la communicationToday’s complex design projects require teams of designers to work collaboratively by sharing their respective expertise in order to produce effective design solutions. Due to the increasing need for exchanging knowledge, modern design projects are more structured to work with distributed virtual teams that collaborate over computer networks to achieve overall optimization in design. Nevertheless, in a collaborative design process, the integration of multidisciplinary virtual teams – involving exchange and sharing of knowledge and expertise – frequently and inevitably generates conflicting situations. Different experts’ viewpoints and perspectives, in addition to several ways of communicating and collaborating at the knowledge level, make all this process very hard to manage. In order to achieve an optimal scenario, some problems must first be solved, such as requirement specification and formalization, ontology integration, and conflict detection and resolution. Specifying and formalizing the knowledge demands a great effort towards obtaining representation patterns that aggregate several disjoint knowledge areas. Each expert should express himself so that the others can understand his information correctly. It is necessary, therefore, to use a flexible and sufficiently extensive data representation model to accomplish such a task. Some current models fall short of providing an effective solution to effective knowledge sharing and collaboration on design projects, because they fail to combine the geographical, temporal, and functional design aspects with a flexible and generic knowledge representation model. This work proposes an information model-driven collaborative design architecture that supports synchronous, generic, service-oriented, agent-based, and ontology-based teamwork. Particular representation models are transformed into ontology instances and merged together in order to accomplish the final product design. It is a synchronous approach because the concurrent processes are undertaken at the same time that the interactions among designers take place. It is generic because it provides the users with two approaches for ontology integration: the use of a predefined generic ontology and the harmonization process. Our proposal focuses on collaborative design conflict resolution by using Web Ontology Language (OWL) and Web Services, the former as a tool for knowledge representation and the latter as a technological support for communication
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Dalin, Peter. "Food-web interactions and population variability of leaf beetles in managed and natural willow stands /." Uppsala : Dept. of Entomology, Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, 2004. http://epsilon.slu.se/s303.pdf.
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Andrijevic, Veronika, and Malin Lilliecreutz. "Process development for BAUHAUS WEB´s warehouse managed by PostNord TPL at increased customer order management." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Kommunikations- och transportsystem, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-173091.
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PostNord TPL manages the warehouse for BAUHAUS WEB, which has expanded since the start in 2011. PostNord TPL face the challenge of handling articles with different characteristics from BAUHAUS WEB's wide product range. In consultation with BAUHAUS WEB, PostNord TPL believes that the number of customer orders will continue to increase. PostNord TPL now wants to prepare for the spring of 2021 by identifying process improvements and efficiency proposals for inventory management. To understand the processes and identify the challenges within, a process mapping was done for the departments Delivery and Dispatch. Based on a workshop held during the thesis work, a need to relocate the items in the warehouse based on picking frequency was identified for Dispatch and a need for a correction for division of labor within Delivery. Division of labor concerns the activity logging of deliveries performed by a group leader. The items picked at the warehouse are picked according to different picking lists based on customer orders that vary from day to day. By examining the design of a picking list, it was possible to investigate if an ABC-classification would make the picking process more efficient. For storage areas with one customer order per picking list, the analysis showed that an ABC-classification favored the inventory management. The number of warehouse employees required to handle the increase in customer order during spring of 2021 was calculated with resource plans for Delivery and Dispatch. For the departments Delivery and Dispatch two resource plans each were made. The resource plan for Delivery considering logging of deliveries showed a marginal difference in number of employees. For Dispatch the resource plan considering the picking time reduction from the ABC-classification gave the least number of employees. PostNord TPL should carry out an ABC-classification to make the inventory management more efficient which contributes to fewer employees and affects the storage and refill of goods. A future study that this work can be followed up with, is to investigate whether and how the ABC-classification changes during the entire low season and the transition between high and low season.
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Strydom, Sonja Catherine. "n Ondersoek na die bronne van werksatisfaksie en werkstres onder middelvlakbestuurders in die Wes-Kaap." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/51848.
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Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2000.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Owing to the dramatic change in the South African political and economic environment during the last few years, it seems more important than ever for upper level management in organizations to be aware of the sources which encourage and discourage their middle level managers to strive to implement the organizational goals. The focus of this study is on male and female middle level managers, and as no documented South African study based on such a sample group could be found, the study is largely investigativeby nature. The general aim of the study is to investigate the different attitudes and perceptions of men and women with regard to sources of job satisfaction, sources which contribute to job dissatisfaction, and job stress. In this regard it was decided to make use of triangulation by which qualitative and quantitative research methods are used. Thematic analysis is used on the qualitative level to identify the possible sources of job satisfaction, dissatisfaction and job stress. This method is quantitatively supported by a determination of the frequencies and percentages of subject responses by means of semi structured interviews. Although certain limitations are identified in the study, significant differences were found in the quantitative data with regard to the causes of job satisfaction and dissatisfaction between men and women. The causes of job stress seems to be similar for both sexes. On a qualitative level it was found that the experience of success is rated as the most important source of job satisfaction and that interpersonal relationships are the most significant source of job dissatisfaction. Further it seems that work expectations / demands are the major source of job stress for the subjects.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Omdat die Suid-Afrikaanse politieke- en ekonomiese omgewing die afgelope paar jaar geweldig verander het, blyk dit noodsaakliker as ooit te wees dat die topbestuur van organisasies bewus sal wees wat hul werkers - in die besonder middelvlakbestuurders- aanmoedig, maar ook ontmoedig om organisatoriese doelwitte na te streef en te implementeer. Die fokus van hierdie studie is op manlike en vroulike middelvlakbestuurders. Aangesien daar geen gedokumenteerde studies rakende die bronne van werksatisfaksie én werkstres by middelvlakbestuurders in die bedryf onderneem is nie, is die studie tot 'n groot mate ondersoekend van aard. Die algemene doelstelling van die studie is om ondersoek in te stel na die verskillende houdings en persepsies van mans en dames rakende werksatisfaksie, bronne wat bydra dat werksatisfaksie nie ervaar word nie, en werkstres. In dié verband is besluit om van triangulasie gebruik te maak, dit wil sê van kwalitatiewe- en kwantitatiewe navorsingsmetodes. Op die kwalitatiewe vlak word tematiese analise gebruik om potensiële bronne van werksatisfaksie, dissatisfaksie en werkstres te identifiseer. Hierdie metode word verder kwantitatief ondersteun deur 'n bepaling van frekwensies en persentasies van subjekte se response wat uit semi-gestruktureerde onderhoude verkry is. Alhoewel daar heelwat beperkings in die studie geïdentifiseer is, is daar uit die kwantitatiewe data gevind dat daar 'n verskil is in die bronne van werksatisfaksie en dissatisfaksie by mans en dames. Die bronne van werkstres is egter dieselfde vir beide geslagte. Op 'n meer kwalitatiewe vlak blyk dit dat die ervaring van sukses die grootste bron van ....werksatisfaksie is en dat interpersoonlike verhoudings die bron is wat die meeste bydra tot dissatisfaksie. Verder blyk dit dat werksverwagtinge / -eise die grootste bron van werkstres vir die subjekte is.
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Hamár, Lukáš. "Nástroj pro regresní testování GUI platformy Xtend." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta elektrotechniky a komunikačních technologií, 2020. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-412997.
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The diploma thesis deals with regression testing of the Campaign Manager web application of the Xtend product. The work interprets the software development methodologies and subsequently it describes the types of testing that are closely related to development. Furthermore, the work focuses on tools used for the graphical user interface testing and their mutual comparison. The next part of the work is dedicated to the creation of the development environment and it analyzes the structure of test cases that were developed in the created environment. The last section describes how the Campaign Manager was tested and how test results were generated and obtained.
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Soares, Rogerio Alves. "A prescriptive framework using wiki tool to manage risks in information technology projects." Universidade Nove de Julho, 2016. http://bibliotecatede.uninove.br/handle/tede/1736.
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A importância dos projetos de Tecnologia de Informação (TI) para os negócios aumentou e os resultados dos projetos impactam diretamente a estratégia e os lucros das empresas. Neste contexto, o processo de gerenciamento de risco pode ajudar gerentes de projeto a analisar as consequências das mudanças a serem feitas no objetivo e nas baselines dos projetos. O gerenciamento de riscos também permite aos gerentes de projetos a terem uma visão holística dos projetos. Apesar dos gerentes de projetos reconhecerem a importância do gerenciamento de riscos, muitos o fazem parcialmente, ou até mesmo não conseguem gerenciar os riscos devido às dificuldades diárias e à pressão do tempo. Plataformas wiki possuem algumas características herdadas das ferramentas Web 2.0 que podem ajudar gerentes de projetos no gerenciamento de riscos. Wikis também podem ajudar gerentes de projeto a envolver suas equipes e stakeholders nas discussões, na divulgação e no monitoramento dos riscos. Esta dissertação propõe um framework, chamado Wiki for Risk Management (W4RM), a ser adotado em gerenciamento riscos de projetos de TI. A pesquisa foi dividida em três estágios: revisão de literatura, grupo focal e entrevistas conduzidas a partir de abordagem metodológica construtivista. Esta pesquisa concluiu que gerentes de projetos enfrentam uma série de dificuldades ao gerenciarem, dificuldades estas já apontadas em por outros autores na área de gerenciamento de projetos. Os resultados indicam que devido às estas dificuldades, gerentes de projetos não conseguem gerenciar riscos em seus projetos como esperado. Uma importante contribuição desta pesquisa para a teoria é uma robusta análise dos problemas existente no gerenciamento de riscos. Outra contribuição teórica é o framework proposto para gerenciamento de riscos em projetos de TI. Uma contribuição para a prática é que o framework W4RM pode ser usado por profissionais em gerenciamento de projetos.
The importance of Information Technology (IT) projects for business is increasing and project results directly impact organizations’ strategy and performance. In this scenario, risk management processes can help project managers to analyze the consequences of changes on project goals and baselines. By managing risks, project managers can have a holistic view of projects. Despite project managers recognizing the importance of risk management, many of them only manage risks partially or even, skip this process due to daily difficulties and time pressure. Wiki platforms have some characteristics and principles inherited from Web 2.0 tools that can be useful when adopted on risk management. Wikis can help project managers evolve their teams and stakeholders on the process of identifying, reporting and monitoring risks on projects. This thesis proposes a framework - the Wiki for Risk Management (W4RM) - that can be used on risk management in IT projects. The process of designing the framework was divided into three stages: literature review, one focus group and interviews based on a constructivist methodological approach. This research points out that professionals face a series of difficulties as they engage on risk management, as previously argued by other authors on project management research area. Due to these difficulties, project managers are not able to manage risks as expected. An important theoretical contribution of this research is the robust analysis existing issues on risk management in IT settings. Another contribution of this thesis is the proposed framework for risk management for IT projects. For managerial implication of this research the W4RM framework that can be used by practitioners on project management.
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Dyrhage, Max. "Incorporating a tag management system in an agile web development process to become more data-driven." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för datavetenskap och kommunikation (CSC), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-240395.
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Web analytics are used to track and examine user behavior on websites and web applications. In order to take data driven decisions companies and organizations working with the web look to web analytics to understand their users. A piece of Javascript code that collect user behavior and information is often referred to as a tag, which can be managed through a tag management system. Tag management systems can provide structure to how a website’s users’ behaviors are being measured. This study examines how a tag management system can enable web analytics of user data to be incorporated in an agile web development process at the Swedish company Dailybitsof. With a literature study, case study and interviews with professionals on the subject, a set of recommendations to enable web analytics is presented. This study suggests that a tag management system can enable web analytics to be incorporated into an agile web development process if it is implemented in combination with changes to the agile process.Webbanalys används för att spåra och undersöka användarbeteende på hemsidor och webbapplikationer. För att ta datadrivna beslut, använder sig företag och organisationer av webbanalys för att förstå sina användare. Några rader Javascript-kod kan användas för att samla upp användarbeteende och kallas ibland för ett tag. Dessa tags kan behandlas i ett så kallad tag management-system. Tag management-system kan ge struktur över hur användarbeteendet på en hemsida spåras och analyseras. Den har uppsatsen undersöker hur ett tag management-system kan möjliggöra att data från webbanalys blir använt i en agil webbutvecklingsprocess hos det svenska företaget Dailybitsof. Med en litteraturstudie, fallstudie och intervjuer med professionella inom ämnet presenteras rekommendationer för att att möjliggöra webbanalys. Uppsatsen föreslår att ett tag management-system kan möjliggöra användandet av webbanalys i en agil webbutvecklingsprocess om det implementeras i kombination med ändringar av den agila processen.
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Watson, Yvonne M. "Federal Managers' Use of Evidence (Performance Measurement Data and Evaluation Results)| Are We There Yet?" Thesis, The George Washington University, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13423761.
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Understanding federal managers’ use of evidence (performance measurement data and evaluation results) to inform decision-making is an important step to develop concrete strategies to remove barriers to use and increase use. The goals of this research are to: 1) explain the extent to which senior level managers and executives in federal agencies use performance measurement data and evaluation findings and results to inform decision-making; 2) understand the factors that influence use of evidence to inform decision-making; and 3) explore strategies to enhance the use of evidence.
The study employs a case study approach focusing on four federal agencies whose managers’ exhibit varying degrees of success in utilizing evidence (e.g., performance measurement data and program evaluation results). The four case study agencies that are the subject of the study are: United States Agency for International Development (AID), Department of Treasury (Treasury), the Small Business Administration (SBA), and Department of Transportation (DOT). The study relied on publicly available secondary data sources that were supplemented by document reviews and interviews with a small number of key informants.
The findings indicate that performance measurement use occurs within the four case study agencies, however, it’s use declined from 2007 to 2017 for SBA, DOT and Treasury. Although a decline in use for some categories was evident in AID, other types of use increased. The results indicate that nearly 40% or more of respondents for the case study agencies use performance measurement data to inform decisions related to program strategy, problem identification and improvements and personnel performance related issues.
The data also suggest an important distinction and nuance associated with different levels of management who use performance information, as well as specific types of use. For example, the agency’s top leaders and first line supervisors are more likely to use performance measurement data. However, an organization’s middle management tends to be less likely to use data to inform decisions regarding changes to the program.
The most common factors that influence performance information use across the four case study agencies include: manager perceptions about who pays attention to performance information, the lack of incentives and the perceived authority (or lack of) to make changes to improve the program. In addition, access to timely and readily available data, information technology and or systems capable of providing the needed data, access to training, and staff knowledge and expertise to develop performance measures and conduct evaluations were found to influence the use of performance measurement.
In general, there is an overall decline in the percentage of managers who report an evaluation of their program was conducted from 2013 to 2017 in all four case study agencies. Despite this decline, over 50% of AID managers were aware of an evaluation that was conducted within the past five years. The lower responses reported by DOT (28%), SBA (32%) and Treasury (34%) is consistent with the absence of robust program evaluation efforts. In 2017, managers at AID, SBA and Treasury report using program evaluation results to implement changes to improve program management or performance, while AID, DOT and Treasury managers report using program evaluation to assess program effectiveness, value or worth.
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Koval, Breanna Colette. "Are We Just Guessing? An Exploratory Study of Minnesota Emergency Managers' Perceptions of Citizen Preparedness." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2015. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/27892.
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Emergency management research suggests that citizen preparedness is paramount to household survival in disasters. Thus, having a citizenry that is well prepared is ideal for individuals who work directly in emergency management and disaster response roles. At the lowest governmental level, it is the local emergency manager who is tasked with the job of promoting preparedness to their respective jurisdictions. However, to effectively promote preparedness to citizens, it is presumed that an emergency manager would need a fairly accurate perception of citizen preparedness. However, emergency managers rarely have data to determine their jurisdiction?s level of preparedness. Without data to inform a perception, how does an emergency manager determine the preparedness of his or her jurisdiction? This study explores two possible cognitive heuristics that could play a role in how county-level emergency managers form their perceptions of preparedness; the availability heuristic and the false consensus effect.
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Shefchik, Michael James. "Effectively incorporating web tools into the community college composition curriculum." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2435.
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This project shows how web tools can be effectively integrated into the community college composition curriculum through staff development. It shows the need for adaptation of materials designed for K-12 education to the community college level and the development of grade-appropriate materials using web resources. The need for authentic assessment is explored and the means to prove it were supplied. Examples of web tools, sites for developing web tools and resources for accessing and applying authentic assessment tools were given.
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Roth, Steffen. "How Many Networks Are We to Manage?" Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, 2007. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:swb:ch1-200700161.
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The continuous transformation of the industrial society into a service and knowledge society is accompanied by profound change of demand: Customer requests will increasingly focus on individual products, shorter delivery times and appropriate prices. To encounter these challenges under the conditions of dynamic global markets and inter-regional competition, the CRC 457 “Non-Hierarchical Regional Production-Networks” at the Chemnitz University of Technology focuses on SME and investigates ways to implement customer-oriented, temporary networking of smallest, autonomous units (“competence cells”) in the region of South-West-Saxony.
As a partial result of this research we are able to present a model of competence cell based networking distinguishing between three levels of networking, each with its own logic of reproduction (cp. Figure 1):
1) According to a most general concept, networks can be seen as given in any social context. Regarding a specific region, one has to assume that there is a broad array of infra-structural, mental and communicative relations; that as a whole we call the Regional Network. This level can be seen as basic level of competence cell based networking, specific elements (competence cells) of this network can be seen as necessary resources of the following level.
2) The second level of networking we call Competence Network. The first continuous problem of this network is to select competence cells according to relevant parameters that may be defined by customer orders or, in view of new market entry, be generated by the Competence Network itself. The second problem is to arrange these cells along a product specific value chain and, by this means, to create temporary production networks. Concerning both of the problems, the third is to find a non-hierarchical mode of negotiation.
3) On the third level temporary alliances of basically autonomous competence cells can be observed. After executing their order, these Production Networks dissolve and the constituent cells reenter the second or even the first level of networking.
Generalising our observation we now assume that every phenomena labelled as regional or industrial network or district should be investigated in view of (these) different levels of networking, especially if we are interested in dealing more efficiently with the problems of network management. Hence, we suggest to first answer the question “Which (of these) networks are we to manage?” before asking how.
Concerning the latter, a synopsis on the discourse on managing networks shows three major approaches:
1) Networks are assumed to be uncontrollable (cp. e.g. Castells 2001), as they are self-organised systems selecting external control impulses only by their own criterias of relevance, so we have either to adapt the logic of the target system (which implies self-adaption) or to take the risk of being totally ignored. With this in mind we can’t speak of control in terms of causal logic.
2) Networks are assumed to be cultivable: According to Wenger and Snyder (2000) for example networks are uncontrollable, but - like a gardener - we are able to set adequate general conditions for their “growth” and continuity.
3) Networks are assumed to be controllable: For authors like Sydow (2000) networks are to be seen as hybrid forms of coordination recombining aspects of market and hierarchy. Thus, recombining the classical means of control will finally lead to the ability to manage networks.
It will be to show that each of these approaches focuses on specific aspects of networking, thus, each of them is creating a self-contained concept of networks: Castells refers to networks as a basal nexus of (global) interconnectedness that, like the Regional Network in our case, obviously can’t be managed. Wenger and Snyder are interested in network-organisations that (like Competence Networks) also can’t be controlled but can be implemented by and embedded in other social systems (cp. Grabher 1993). Sydow finally observes networks of more or less autonomous organisations corresponding to our Production Networks, which are in deed more or less controllable.
Not least because of their different theoretical assumptions, all these concepts seemed to be not only incommensurable but incompatible so far. Nonetheless, during our work in CRC 457 we were to manage all these concepts while approaching to one single objective of research. Therefore, we had to ask, how many perspectives on network are we to manage? The answer is: at least three. Integrating these, we generated a holistic life-cycle model of network, which we like to present as starting point for further research in the field network management.
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Lima, Dutra Moisés, and Dutra Moisés Lima. "An ontology-based approach to manage conflicts in collaborative design." Phd thesis, Université Claude Bernard - Lyon I, 2009. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00692473.
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Today's complex design projects require teams of designers to work collaboratively by sharing their respective expertise in order to produce effective design solutions. Due to the increasing need for exchanging knowledge, modern design projects are more structured to work with distributed virtual teams that collaborate over computer networks to achieve overall optimization in design. Nevertheless, in a collaborative design process, the integration of multidisciplinary virtual teams - involving exchange and sharing of knowledge and expertise - frequently and inevitably generates conflicting situations. Different experts' viewpoints and perspectives, in addition to several ways of communicating and collaborating at the knowledge level, make all this process very hard to manage. In order to achieve an optimal scenario, some problems must first be solved, such as requirement specification and formalization, ontology integration, and conflict detection and resolution. Specifying and formalizing the knowledge demands a great effort towards obtaining representation patterns that aggregate several disjoint knowledge areas. Each expert should express himself so that the others can understand his information correctly. It is necessary, therefore, to use a flexible and sufficiently extensive data representation model to accomplish such a task. Some current models fall short of providing an effective solution to effective knowledge sharing and collaboration on design projects, because they fail to combine the geographical, temporal, and functional design aspects with a flexible and generic knowledge representation model. This work proposes an information model-driven collaborative design architecture that supports synchronous, generic, service-oriented, agent-based, and ontology-based teamwork. Particular representation models are transformed into ontology instances and merged together in order to accomplish the final product design. It is a synchronous approach because the concurrent processes are undertaken at the same time that the interactions among designers take place. It is generic because it provides the users with two approaches for ontology integration: the use of a predefined generic ontology and the harmonization process. Our proposal focuses on collaborative design conflict resolution by using Web Ontology Language (OWL) and Web Services, the former as a tool for knowledge representation and the latter as a technological support for communication.
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Alzafiri, Fayiz M. "An Experimental Investigation on the Effects of Web-Based Instruction/Training on Cognitive and Psychomotor Learning." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2000. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2661/.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of web-based instruction (WBI) on cognitive and psychomotor learning. The subjects of the study received two types of instructional methods, WBI (experimental group) and traditional classroom instruction (control group). Each group received 30 minutes of instruction on "Soldering a Circuit Board." The researcher chose this content subject because it involved both cognitive and psychomotor objectives, which suited the purpose of this study. It was hypothesized that there would be no significant difference between the two methods of instruction, and also that there would be no significant interaction effects between methods of instruction and gender. Forty-six subjects from a population of students enrolled in summer classes offered by the Applied Technology, Training and Development (ATTD) program at the University of North Texas voluntarily participated in this study. Random assignment of subjects was applied in this study. A subject matter expert delivered the content for both the experimental and control groups. To measure cognitive variable, a 10 item, multiple-choice test was administered immediately after instruction. To measure the psychomotor variable, a 15-item checklist was utilized by trained judges to evaluate learners performances while soldering. The 2 x 2 factorial model with interaction was used in this study. The analysis was run for each of the dependent variables, cognitive and psychomotor learning. Although there was not a statistically significant difference in the main effects of method of instruction or interaction effects between method and gender, the results imply that students in the traditional-classroom instruction group performed better than those in the WBI group in psychomotor learning. Perhaps, this trend would be statistically significant if the sample size were larger. This study provides empirical evidence for the effectiveness of WBI in delivering cognitive and psychomotor objectives. The outcome of this study supports the need for more research on the effects of WBI on learning domains.
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Elrufaie, Elharith Omer. "A Wiki paradigm to manage online course content." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2446.
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This project develops a new version of the Wiki style administration of online course content. It will implement a teaching and learning tool that works as a easy and quick communication interface between instructor and student. The second purpose of the project is to design an easily extendable and maintainable architecture, which provides a generic Wiki system that can work for any information technology department and handle sets of courses and insturctors.
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Cabarkapa, Dragan. "Authorization Architecture for SWoT." Thesis, KTH, Radio Systems Laboratory (RS Lab), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-134639.
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Social Web of Things (SWoT) is a user centric framework which facilitates interaction between software agents deployed on smart things and in the cloud. Software agents deployed on smart things are remotely accessible, host sensitive resources, and often represent high value targets. SWoT currently does not feature adequate security mechanisms which could protect software agents from unauthorized access. In this thesis, we aim to rectify this deficiency by introducing platform independent, exible, and user centric authorization mechanism inSWoT. We derive requirements and design of abstract authorization architecture from the preceding seminal work performed in SENSEI project. SENSEI and SWoT share same problem domain, but while SENSEI addresses enterprise use cases SWoT focusses on consumer use cases. This single but fundamental difference motivates adaptations of SENSEI contributions for application in SWoT. To realize concrete authorization architecture we perform extensive study of various authorization solutions. Results of our study indicate that novel User Managed Access (UMA) protocol represents promising solution for SWoT. We present the Authorization as a Service solution for SWoT framework, based on UMA protocol. This solution enables users to manage and control communication between software agents deployed on smart things and in the cloud from single centralized location. It also features runtime association of software agents, management, evaluation, and enforcement of access permissions for resources provided by software agents."Social Web of Things" (SWOT) är en användarcentrerad ram som underlättar samverkan mellan agenter som körs på smarta saker och i molnet. Agenter som körs på smarta saker är fjärråtkomst, värd känsliga resurser, och ofta utgör högt värde mål. För närvarande SWOT ramverket omfattar inte lämpliga säkerhetsmekanismer som skulle kunna skydda dessa agenter från obehörig åtkomst. I denna uppsats vill vi rätta till detta brist genom att införa plattformsoberoende, flexibel och användarvänlig centrerad auktorisation mekanism i SWOT ramen. Vi härleda krav och design av abstrakt tillstånd arkitektur från föregående sädes-arbete som utförs i ett SENSEI projektet. SENSEI och SWOT delar samma problem domän, men samtidigt SENSEI behandlar ärenden företagsbruk SWOT fokuserar på konsumenten användningsfall. Denna singel men grundläggande skillnaden motiverar anpassningar av SENSEI avgifter för ansökan i SWOT. Till realisera konkreta tillstånd arkitektur vi utför ett omfattande studie av olika lösningar för tillstånd. Resultat av vår studie tyder på att en ny användarhanterad tillgång (UMA) Protokollet utgör lovande lösning för SWOT. Vi presenterar tillståndet som en service lösning för SWOT ramverk, baserat på UMA-protokollet. Denna lösning gör det möjligt för användare att hantera och kontrollera kommunikationen mellan agenter utplacerade på smarta saker och i molnet från enstaka centraliserad plats. Dessutom gör vår lösning dynamisk sammanslutning av agenter, ledning, utvärdering och tillsyn av tillträde behörigheter för resurser som tillhandahålls av agenter.
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Frost, Carol Margaret. "Spillover and species interactions across habitat edges between managed and natural forests." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Biological Sciences, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/8989.
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We are currently faced with the global challenge of conserving biological diversity while also increasing food production to meet the demands of a growing human population. Land-use change, primarily resulting from conversion to production land, is currently the leading cause of biodiversity loss. This occurs through habitat loss, fragmentation of remaining natural habitats, and resulting edge effects. Land-sparing and land-sharing approaches have been discussed as alternative ways to engineer landscapes to mitigate biodiversity loss while meeting production objectives. However, these represent extremes on a continuum of real-world landscapes, and it will be important to understand the mechanisms by which adjacent land use affects natural remnant ecosystems in order to make local land-management decisions that achieve conservation, as well as production, objectives.
This thesis investigates the impact of juxtaposing production and natural forest on the community-wide interactions between lepidopteran herbivores and their parasitoids, as mediated by parasitoid spillover between habitats. The first and overarching objective was to determine whether herbivore productivity drives asymmetrical spillover of predators and parasitoids, primarily from managed to natural habitats, and whether this spillover alters trophic interactions in the recipient habitat. The study of trophic interactions at a community level requires understanding of both direct and indirect interactions. However, community-level indirect interactions are generally difficult to predict and measure, and these have therefore remained understudied. Apparent competition is an indirect interaction mechanism thought to be very important in structuring host-parasitoid assemblages. However, this is known primarily from studies of single species pairs, and its community-wide impacts are less clear. Therefore, my second objective was to determine whether apparent competition could be predicted for all species pairs within an herbivore assemblage, based on a measure of parasitoid overlap. My third objective was to determine whether certain host or parasitoid species traits can predict the involvement of those species in apparent competition.
My key findings were that there is a net spillover of generalist predators and parasitoids from plantation to native forest, and that for generalists, this depends on herbivore abundance in the plantation forest. Herbivore populations across the edge were linked by shared parasitoids in apparent competition. Consequently, an experimental reduction of herbivore density in the plantation forest changed parasitism rates in the natural forest, as predicted based on parasitoid overlap. Finally, several host and parasitoid traits were identified that can predict the degree to which host or parasitoid species will be involved in apparent competition, a finding which may have extensive application in biological control, as well as in predicting spillover edge effects.
Overall, this work suggests that asymmetrical spillover between production and natural habitats occurs in relation to productivity differences, with greater movement of predators and parasitoids in the managed-to-natural forest direction. The degree to which this affected species interactions has implications for landscape design to achieve conservation objectives in production landscapes.
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Hájek, Jan. "Modernizace podnikového informačního systému pomocí projektového řízení." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-224646.
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The main goal of the diploma thesis is to prepare a plan for information system modernization with use of project management for HARTMANN-RICO company. This task is going to be solved with use of critical analysis and project management. The result is going to be detailed plan of the project with all necessary prerequisites including economical evaluation. Based on which management will make a decision about acual project realisation.
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Rogers, Lucy Margaret. "The relevance of locus of control, emotional intelligence, coping resources, and coping responses, to how individuals manage anxiety /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 2004. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARPS/09arpsr7241.pdf.
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Vasconcellos, Cristhiano Bossardi de. "SISTEMA DE GERENCIAMENTO GEORREFERENCIADO PARA CONTROLE SANITÁRIO ANIMAL, BASEADO EM INTERNET COM USO DE SOFTWARE LIVRE." Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2007. http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/9586.
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The agents of animal diseases harm the human population in several ways, provoking diseases called zoonosis, in other words, the diseases that they are transmitted from the vertebrate animals to the man. The animal sanitary control is an activity of extreme importance for our society concerning the health and economy. The high number of establishments that they need to be fiscalized and the enormous amount of collected data, requests a lot of organization and they should allow managers of the fiscalization agencies to have fast access to updated
information. Many zoonosis demand fast actions and, for this, the avaliable spatial information is of fundamental importance to avoid higher economical-social damages.
However, the government agencies lack of specialized computer tools for the treatment of these data, mainly due to the costs of software licensing and hardware demands, hindering the work of sanitary administration. Now, with the development of the geotechnologies it is available a great variety of tools in free software, allowing fast and efficient access of these information. Among them WebGIS are inserted. They are the technologies, politics and
necessary people to promote the publication of geospatial data (group of integrated data) in Internet, making possible the user's interaction in the construction of maps and in the access to non spatial information. In this context, as a result of this work it was obtained a WebGIS,
integrating several solutions in free software to systematize the data of animal sanitary control of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, allowing the spatial visualization of the establishments, giving support to the managers to take decision and with reduced technological costs.Os agentes de doenças animais prejudicam a população humana de diversas formas, provocando doenças que são as chamadas zoonoses, ou seja, as doenças que se transmitem dos animais vertebrados ao homem. O controle sanitário animal é uma atividade de extrema importância para a nossa sociedade no que diz respeito à saúde e economia. O grande número de estabelecimentos que precisam ser fiscalizados e a enorme quantidade de dados coletados requerem muita organização e devem permitir que gestores dos órgãos de fiscalização tenham acesso rápido a informações atualizadas. São muitas as zoonoses que exigem ações rápidas e, para isto, a informação disponibilizada de forma espacial é de fundamental importância para evitar maiores prejuízos econômico-sociais. No entanto, os órgãos governamentais carecem de ferramentas computacionais especializadas para o tratamento destes dados, principalmente devido aos custos de licenciamento de software e exigências de hardware, dificultando o trabalho de gestão sanitária. Atualmente, com o desenvolvimento das geotecnologias, está disponível uma grande variedade de ferramentas computacionais em software livre que permitem o acesso rápido e eficiente a estas informações. Entre elas, estão inseridos os WebGIS, que são as tecnologias, políticas e pessoas necessárias para promover a disponibilização de dados geoespaciais (conjunto de dados integrados) na Internet, possibilitando a interação do usuário na construção de mapas e no acesso às informações não espaciais. Neste contexto, como resultado deste trabalho obteve-se um WebGIS, integrando diversas soluções em software livre para sistematizar os dados de controle sanitário animal do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, que permitem a visualização espacial dos estabelecimentos, e dão suporte aos gestores para tomadas de decisão, com custos tecnológicos reduzidos.
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Mills, David. "The role of goal setting in the diabetes case management of aboriginal and non-aboriginal populations in rural South Australia /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 2005. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09MD/09mdm6571.pdf.
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Thesis (M.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of General Practice, 2005.Includes publications published as a result of ideas developed in this thesis, inserted at end. "April 2005" Includes bibliographical references (leaves 210-242).
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Egmond, Marcellinus Hendricus van. "Rain falls on all of us (but some manage to get more wet than others) political context and electoral participation /." [S.l. : Amsterdam : s.n.] ; Universiteit van Amsterdam [Host], 2003. http://dare.uva.nl/document/70224.
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Cetrez, Zeynep, and Dam Primo Van. "IN DIGITALIZATION WE TRUST ? : An exploration of the impact of digitalization on the trustworthiness of the leader in Dutch start-ups from the perspective of managers and employees." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för organisation och entreprenörskap (OE), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-77098.
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This thesis examines what impact digitalization can have on the trustworthiness of the leader through the lens of managers and employees in Dutch start-ups. The study explores the intersection set of trust, leadership and digitalization. As there was no prior research on the research issue at hand, a model that incorporated a process of trust and its interaction with digitalization has been constructed by the authors. The model relied on previous research on models of the trust process and characteristics of digitalization in the light of leadership. First a theoretical framework is built through a literature survey. A qualitative inquiry through interviews was carried out in order to be able to analyze the trustworthiness of the leader. The objective of the authors during the research was to document how leaders and followers perceived a trustee (leader) in a trust process with digitalization involved. The analysis revealed that even though digitalization has pervaded our lives; its impact on the trustworthiness of the leader has remained limited so far. Empirical data from this research indicated that the impact of digitalization on the three attributes of trustworthiness of the trustee was the strongest: objectives and intentions, competence and integrity. There were also digitalization related implications that could be drawn from the accounts of the interviewees. Thesis findings contribute to a better understanding of the role of the leader in a trust process in digitalized organizational environments and encourage further research in the field of trust especially when digital technologies have become so pervasive in the work life.
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Crosslin, Matthew B. "Customizable Modality Pathway Learning Design: Exploring Personalized Learning Choices through a Lens of Self-Regulated Learning." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc849703/.
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Open online courses provide a unique opportunity to examine learner preferences in an environment that removes several pressures associated with traditional learning. This mixed methods study sought to examine the pathways that learners will create for themselves when given the choice between an instructor-directed modality and learner-directed modality. Study participants were first examined based on their levels of self-regulated learning. Follow-up qualitative interviews were conducted to examine the choices that participants made, the impact of the course design on those choices, and what role self-regulation played in the process. The resulting analysis revealed that participants desired an overall learning experience that was tailored to personal learning preferences, but that technical and design limitations can create barriers in the learning experience. The results from this research can help shape future instructional design efforts that wish to increase learner agency and choice in the educational process.
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Miwa, Masato. "Physical and Hydrologic Responses of an Intensively Managed Loblolly Pine Plantation to Forest Harvesting and Site Preparation." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/29049.
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The Southeastern Lower Coastal Plain wet pine flats include thousands of acres of jurisdictional wetlands that are economically, socially, and environmentally important. These highly productive forests have been intensively managed as pine plantations for the past few decades. More recently, harvesting and site preparation practices have become a concern among natural resource managers because intensive forestry practices may alter soil physical properties and site hydrology. These alterations could decrease seedling survival, growth, and future site productivity. However, the effects of soil disturbance on long-term site productivity and the effects of amelioration techniques on site hydrology are uncertain. The overall objectives of this study were (1) to characterize disturbed forest soil morphology and physical properties, (2) to assess their impact on the processes that control site hydrology and site productivity, (3) to determine effects of harvesting and site preparation on site hydrology, specifically on the overall hydrological balance and on spatial and temporal patterns of surface water storage.
The study site is located in an intensively managed loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) plantation in the lower coastal plain of South Carolina. This study was established in winter 1991, and dry- and wet-weather harvesting treatments were installed in summer 1993 and winter 1994, respectively. Bedding and mole channel/bedding treatments were installed in both dry- and wet-harvested plots in fall 1995. Soil profiles were described for a recently disturbed, deeply-rutted area, and 2-year-old deeply-rutted and churned areas, bedded and undisturbed areas. Intact soil core samples and composite loose soil samples were collected from each morphological section for soil physical characterizations. Automated weather station and wells were used to collect continuous climatic and surface water level data since 1996. Surface water levels were monitored monthly on a 20 x 20 m grid of 1-m wells since 1992. Total groundwater heads were determined from differential piezometer measurements at high and low elevation places in each treatment plot.
Soil profile descriptions and soil physical property measurements indicated that significant amounts of organic debris were incorporated into the surface horizons, and subsurface soil horizons showed significant soil structural changes and increased redoximorphic features caused by soil disturbance. The disturbed soil layers in recently created traffic ruts consisted of exposed and severely disturbed subsurface soils, but this layer was naturally ameliorated 2 years after the disturbance. Bedding site preparation had little amelioration effects on the physical properties of surface soil horizons because the surface horizons already had some incorporation of organic debris. Overall, the main consequence of bedding in a disturbed wet site was to increase the aerated soil volume. The bedding appeared to have little effect on disturbed subsurface horizons.
Groundwater head in the study site was constantly higher than -25 cm during the study period, which caused groundwater inflow when the surface water level was low. Frequent fluctuation of the surface water level and constant water supply from the groundwater probably explain the high productivity of the study site. Results of the annual water balance showed that surface soil water storage changes were very small, and annual precipitation and potential evapotranspiration were approximately equal. Silvicultural practices and minor topography on the study site had significant effects on the water balance because they influenced surface water level.
Surface water hydraulic gradient evaluation and multivariate cluster analysis indicated that micro-site hydrology and water flow patterns were significantly altered by wet-weather harvesting and bedding site preparation, but overall site hydrology was not altered. Evaluation of predicted surface water level indicated that micro-topography and precipitation patterns had significant influences on surface water levels during the site establishment period. These results revealed that the hydrologic components of wetland delineation are complex in the wet pine flatwoods.Ph. D.
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Laveaux, Michele Barbara. "Assisting students with concept acquisition in basic skills reading through the use of an interactive website." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2688.
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This project creates an interactive website on the literature surrounding reading and concept acquisition skills in adult learners. This website used in conjunction with the Basic Skills English 10A course given in community colleges will enhance reading and concept acquisitions skills enabling student the self cofidence, encouragement and motivation to complete the course.