Rozprawy doktorskie: „Company 105”

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Chen, Lu. "Irvine Barclay Theatre Operating Company". ScholarWorks@UNO, 2009. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/aa_rpts/105.

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The following report, which I hope will serve as a reference for future alumni and arts administrators who are interested in theatre operation and performing arts management, is based on my internship experience at the Irvine Barclay Theatre, which took place from July 1st to September 30th, 2009. The Irvine Barclay Theatre is a performing arts center which is uniquely designed to bring international and culturally-diverse programs which range from music to dance to drama to the Orange County community. It has the capacity to hold 756 people. It is managed by an independent non-profit operating company with its own professional staff and governed by a volunteer-based board of directors. This report includes detailed information in regards to the Barclay's history and current operations. It also includes sections on my contributions, a S.W.O.T. analysis, best practices, and recommendations I've formulated from knowledge I have acquired through the Arts Administration program and my internship as a multi-purpose assistant at the Barclay. It is important to note that throughout the time my internship and the writing of this report took place, the United States was experiencing the effects of a severe economic recession.

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Pedain, Christoph. "Managing processes and information technology in mergers : the integration of finance processes and systems". Thesis, Cranfield University, 2003. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/100.

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Many companies use mergers to achieve their growth goals or target technology position. To realise synergies that justify the merger transaction, an integration of the merged companies is often necessary. Such integartion takes place across company business areas (such as finance or sales) and across the layers of management consideration, which are strategy, human resources, organisation, processes, and information technology. In merger integration techniques, there is a significant gap regarding the management of operational level issues. Yet, especially for the finance business area, an integration of processes and information technology is of high importance and often required swiftly after the merger. The author therefore presents an approach designed for managing the operational level merger in the finance business area. To close the gap in considering operational level issues, the author has developed a model for integraring finance processes and information technology of merging companies. For such model development, literature resources have been used along with merger experiences of the author, and interviews with merger experts. Validation of the developed model has been conducted by using in-depth case studies for showing the effects of applying the model. Further validation interviews have been conducted to support the generality of the approach. Accommodating the significant increase of task complexity during mergers compared to normal business operation, the presented approach focuses on managing interdependencies instead of project detail. Features of this approach comprise: An organisational proposal to settinmg up merger programme management; An interdependency model, vertically interconnecting the finance business area with strategic and organisational merger decisions, and horizontally interconnecting the finance business area with other business areas. It could be shown that the presented model improves merger integration quality by reducing complexity of merger management. The model is most applicable for larger companies, and can be used in any merger phase.

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Haugen, Jenna. "Green Employees: Organizational Identification in an Environmentally Friendly Company". TopSCHOLAR®, 2009. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/107/.

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Goltz, Eileen. "A Corporate View of Housing and Community in a Company Town: Copper Cliff, 1886 to 1920". Ontario Historical Society, Toronto, Ont, 1990. https://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca/dspace/handle/10219/155.

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Traces the development of the company town of Copper Cliff (now part of Sudbury), Ontario, to show how a corporation viewed the purpose of such a community and how it was used to meet company ends. Copper Cliff was a settlement around the copper mines of the Canadian Copper Company. A highly pragmatic solution to the problem of getting workers to resettle in out-of-the-way places, these towns usually had their houses, water and systems, schools, roads, stores, and entertainment centers built and financed by the primary company operating in the area. To the company, the housing and the town in general were investments, and also a 'tool' for controlling workers.
Based on company records and local archives; 6 tables, 8 illus., 72 notes.

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Mokhtari, Dizaji Reza 1968. "Business model transformation for the international division of a fortune 100 high technology company". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/43116.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design and Management Program, 2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-127).
Raytheon Canada in Waterloo, Ontario offers a very interesting but challenging research case. As one of the international divisions of Raytheon Corporation, the company has a business model similar to its parent company. The company however is facing new trends in its business environment which have characteristics different than those of its parent company. The main focus of this thesis is to identify the key missing elements in the company's current business model and propose solutions in order to assist the company to adopt the best strategy to successfully operate in this evolving market.The company's interactions with the rest of Raytheon are limited due to the recent tightening of ITAR regulations. Although the company's organization structure is still tightly integrated to the rest of Raytheon, Raytheon US restricts the company's access to the best practice from the rest of the corporation in US. Another interesting observation relates to the company's two major product lines. ATM, Raytheon Canada's legacy product line is being disrupted by the recent arrival of ADS-B technology. This new technology has the potential of providing a major threat to company's sustainability. At the same time Raytheon Canada is introducing HFSWR, which is a disruptive technology, to maritime surveillance market. The company is facing the challenges of commercializing this breakthrough technology to a highly regulated and fragmented market. Raytheon Canada needs to operate in this complex business environment. This makes the company a remarkable research case for analyzing its current business model and ways to improve it through integrating the latest business knowledge from both industry and academia.
(cont) The goal of the thesis is to assist Raytheon Canada to transform its business model by determining the key characteristics of its future business model through detailed assessment of the company's current business model and study of the enterprise future business environment. This is obtained by studying the market research data, the strategic goals of parent company, trends in the technology and product landscape, and the customer behavior. Solutions are proposed for developing a realistic roadmap to transform the current business model of the company to address the future business environment challenges.
by Reza Mokhtari-Dizaji.
S.M.

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Ahlström, Söderling Ragnar. "Regionala företags förutsättningar för internationell konkurrenskraft : utvärdering av en undersökningsmodell /". Stockholm : Företagsekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms universitet, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-1025.

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Edraki, Alireza. "Compact Cas9s and Their Natural Inhibitors for Genome Editing". eScholarship@UMMS, 2019. https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/gsbs_diss/1052.

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Recent advances with the bacterial CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) defense system as genome editing tools have opened a new avenue for targeting disease-causing mutations. The programmability of the Cas9 endonuclease by RNA makes it a potentially powerful therapeutic tool to correct such mutations. The CRISPR-Cas9 system consists of a Cas9 endonuclease that is guided by RNA (sgRNA) to create double-stranded breaks in a target DNA segment complementary to the guide. This process is dependent on a 2-8 nucleotide sequence (called PAM) that is adjacent to the target and functions as a Cas9 binding signal. Each Cas9 ortholog recognizes a unique PAM. However, factors such as the size of Cas9 or the frequency of its PAM sequence in the genome have hindered its clinical use. The Cas9 from Streptococcus pyogenes (SpyCas9) is commonly used in research because its PAM (NGG, where “N” symbolizes any nucleotide) is present every ~8 bp in the genome, providing robust targeting potential. However, it is too large to fit into typical viral vectors used for in vivo delivery, namely adeno-associated vectors (AAV). While several Cas9 orthologs have been characterized, none satisfied the need for a compact, accurate Cas9 with a short PAM. In this thesis, we use two approaches to identify new compact Cas9 orthologs with small PAMs, one using anti-CRISPR proteins and one by searching through closely related Cas9s. First, we use the presence of anti-CRISPRs (naturally occurring, phage-encoded peptides that inhibit CRISPR-Cas9 described in chapter 2) in a genome as indicators of Cas9s that may be highly active. These orthologs come with the added advantage of having inhibitors that can be used as off-switches. We characterize four Cas9s that are targeted by anti-CRISPR proteins and show that they recognize diverse PAMs in vitro. One of the four Cas9’s, namely HpaCas9 from Haemophilus parainfluenzae, induces efficient genome editing in mammalian cells. However, its long N4GATTT PAM does not satisfy the short PAM criterion. For our second approach, we asked whether closely related Cas9 orthologs with drastically different PAM-interacting domains (PIDs, the domain responsible for PAM recognition) recognize different PAMs, and if so, can be used for genome editing. To this end, we exploited natural variation in the PID of closely related Cas9s to identify a compact ortholog from Neisseria meningitidis (Nme2Cas9). Nme2Cas9 recognizes a simple dinucleotide PAM (N4CC) that provides a high target site density. All-in-one AAV delivery of Nme2Cas9 with a guide RNA into adult mouse liver produces efficient genome editing and reduced serum cholesterol with exceptionally high specificity. We further expand our single-AAV platform to pre-implanted zygotes for streamlined generation of genome-edited mice. Finally, we show preliminary data on how CRISPR-Cas9 can be used for therapeutic genome editing for Amytrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Our new findings promise to accelerate the development of genome editing tools for biomedical and therapeutic applications.

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Song, Jiguo. "Compact Trench-Based Silicon-on-Insulator Rib Waveguide 90-Degree and 105-Degree Bend and Splitter Design". Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2008. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2547.pdf.

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Cackett, Edward M. "Compact objects in active galactic nuclei and X-ray binaries". Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/150.

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In this thesis I study the inner-most regions of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) using the reverberation mapping technique, and neutron star low-mass X-ray binaries in quiescence using X-ray observations. Using the 13-year optical monitoring data for the AGN NGC 5548, the luminosity dependence of the Hβ emitting radius was modelled using a delay map, finding that the radius scales with luminosity as predicted by recent theoretical models. Time-delays between the continuum at different wavelengths in AGN can be used to probe the accretion disc. Here, continuum time-delays in a sample of 14 AGN were used to measure the radial temperature profile of the accretion discs, determine the nuclear extinction, and measure distances to the objects. However, the distances measured correspond to a value for Hubble's constant that is a factor of ~2 lower than the accepted value. The implications of this on the thermal disc reprocessing model are discussed. I present two Chandra observations of the neutron star transient in the globular cluster NGC 6440 in quiescence, where the power-law component to the spectrum is seen to be variable between the observations, suggesting that there is ongoing residual accretion. From a Chandra observation of the globular cluster Terzan 1, I have identifed the likely quiescent counterpart to a transient previously observed in outburst, and discuss the other sources within the cluster. Using Chandra and XMM-Newton monitoring observations of two neutron star transients (KS 1731-260 and MXB 1659-29) in quiescence I have found that the neutron star crusts in both sources have now returned to thermal equilibrium with the core. These observations also indicate that the crusts in both sources may have a high thermal conductivity and that enhanced neutrino emission may be occurring in the core. Finally, the discovery of an X-ray transient with XMM-Newton is presented, and the other sources in this observation discussed.

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Cannon, Katharine Elizabeth. "Assessing impact and transfer of lean 101, 5-S and eureka training at Company XYZ". Online version, 2009. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2009/2009cannonk.pdf.

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Wynia, Katie Ann. "The Spatial Distribution of Tobacco Pipe Fragments at the Hudson's Bay Company Fort Vancouver Village Site: Smoking as a Shared and Social Practice". PDXScholar, 2013. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1085.

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This thesis represents one of the first systematic, detailed spatial analyses of artifacts at the mid-19th century Hudson's Bay Company's Fort Vancouver Village site, and of clay tobacco pipe fragments in general. Historical documents emphasize the multi-cultural nature of the Village, but archaeologically there appears to be little evidence of ethnicity (Kardas 1971; Chance and Chance 1976; Thomas and Hibbs 1984:723). Following recent approaches to cultural interaction in which researchers examined the nuanced uses of material culture (Lightfoot et al 1998; Martindale 2009; Voss 2008); this study analyzed the spatial distribution of tobacco pipe fragments for behavioral information through a practice theory approach (Bourdieu 1977; Ortner 2006). The analysis aimed to determine the role of tobacco smoking in the Village. It evaluated tobacco smoking as a significant and social behavior, the visibility of maintenance behaviors in the clay pipe distributions, and evidence of ethnic variation in tobacco consumption. Spatial patterning characteristics were compiled from the few behavioral studies of clay pipe fragments (Davies 2011; Fox 1998: Hamilton 1990; Hartnett 2004; Hoffman and Ross 1973, 1974; King and Miller 1987), and indications of ethnic specific behaviors from archaeological and historical evidence (Burley et al 1992; Jacobs 1958; Jameson 2007). Distributional maps examined three pipe assemblage characteristics: fragment frequency, use wear fragment frequency, and the bowl to stem fragment ratio, to define smoking locations on the Village landscape. Visibility of maintenance and refuse disposal behaviors in the size distribution of fragments was measured through the Artifact Size Index (ASI) (Bon Harper and McReynolds 2011). This analysis also tested two possible indications of ethnic variation: differential use of stone vs. clay pipes, and consumption rates as reflected through clay pipe assemblages. The commonality of tobacco smoking locations across the landscape suggests a significant, social, and shared practice between households. Analysis of maintenance behaviors and ethnic variation proved inconclusive. This study demonstrates the value of spatially analyzing clay pipe fragment distributions for behavioral information. The insight gained from examining multiple spatial patterns suggests future studies can benefit from analyzing the spatial distribution of diagnostic characteristics of pipes and other artifact types.

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Silva, Rafael Ragazzo Pacheco. "Contribuição Previdenciária Patronal: tratamento desfavorável das pequenas empresas exportadoras". Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/107/107131/tde-01092017-092159/.

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A Constituição Federal determina a imunidade de receitas decorrentes de exportação em relação às Contribuições Sociais. Entretanto, a Receita Federal do Brasil defende o entendimento de que essa imunidade, para fins da Contribuição Previdenciária Patronal, somente se aplica às exportações realizadas de forma direta, sem quaisquer intermediários, conforme a Instrução Normativa nº 971/09. Essa interpretação prejudica mais sensivelmente as pequenas empresas, que, por questões fáticas, são mais dependentes das trading companies para comercializarem os seus produtos no mercado externo. Analisando as prescrições constitucionais relativas à questão, bem como os fundamentos desses benefícios fiscais, conclui-se que as restrições ao aproveitamento da imunidade ofendem tanto as prescrições constitucionais relativas à imunidade tributária, que jamais diferenciam as modalidades de exportação, quanto a exigência também constitucional de tratamento jurídico favorecido aos pequenos empreendimentos. Analisando-se outros tributos, constata-se a tendência uniforme em se conferir o mesmo tratamento tanto para a exportação direta quanto para a indireta, de forma que o atual tratamento em relação à Contribuição Previdenciária Patronal se mostra equivocado.
The Federal Constitution determines the exemption of export revenues regarding the Social Security Contributions. However, Brazilian Federal Tax Administration advocates that this exemption in what concerns the Employer Social Security Contribution is only applicable to direct exports, without any intermediaries, in accordance to Regulation nº 971/09. This point of view onerates small business more significantly, which, by factual reasons, are the most dependant of trading companies to sell their goods in the international market. Analyzing the constitutional prescriptions concerning this matters, as well as the basis of these tax favors, it is concluded that the restrictions on the use of the exemption offends not only the constitutional prescriptions regarding the tax exemption, which never differentiate direct export from indirect export, but also the constitutional demand of the favored legal treatmant of small firms. By analyzing other taxes it is possible to note an uniform tendency of treating both direct and indirect exports equally, so that the present treatment regarding the Employer Social Security Contribution is inadequate.

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Karlsson, Lina, i Sara Uddén. "Global Mindset : Enhancing a Company's Global Approach". Thesis, Umeå University, Umeå School of Business, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-1015.

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How is it possible for organizations to manage the fast paced changes and imperative demands that increased globalization implies? In order to become successful in the global market, it is vital to be aware of cultural influence on business and how to approach diversity. Consequently, management plays a significant role, and the challenge is therefore to cultivate a global way of thinking among managers.

The main purpose of this thesis, which is to create a deeper understanding of a company’s global approach has lead to the following question:

How can managers increase their global mindsets so as to improve a company’s global approach?

As Permobil is an international company eager to expand, we have focused on understanding their global approach using a hermeneutic perspective. In order to do this, ten interviews with managers at Permobil have been conducted. A comparison between managers in Sweden and the United States has been performed, and furthermore we have searched for signs indicative of a global mindset. The method of reasoning has been deductive, which implies that the empirical results have been analyzed together with recognized theories.

This research shows that managers in Sweden and the United States possess a number of valuable qualities that contribute to a global way of thinking, although there are differences between the two countries. A prerequisite is that managers understand the value of a global way of thinking. In order to stay successful internationally, the Permobil Corporation should for instance increase the global communication, strive for a more diverse workforce and attain a better balance between local and global focus. Our conclusion is that the managers more actively have to look for improvements and stay open-minded when facing diversity. This would contribute to the development of their global mindsets, which in turn would meliorate the company’s global outlook.

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Sam, Nerine Carmel. "A study to analyse the organisational wellness present in a Port Elizabeth-based pharmaceutical company with the intent of developing and implementing an organisational wellness programme". Thesis, Port Elizabeth Technikon, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/185.

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South African employees have found a wide range of stressors prevalent in their working experience. The impact of these stressors on the lives of the employees adversely affects the organisational effectiveness of any organisation. The 21st century business world has become more stressful and risky because of the daily workplace demands, coupled with internal competitive challenges, placed on employees. The effect of this stress on employees is seen in an increase in absenteeism, a loss in employee productivity, increased insurance premiums, reduced workforce efficiency and an increase in training and employment costs. As a result, organisations are compelled to commit their management team to ensuring their employees health and wellness. This can be achieved through the implementation of a structured wellness programme or policy. This study's intention, forming the main problem, was to determine the wellness programmes that would be required by the pharmaceutical company, Bodene (Pty) Ltd, in order to enhance, maintain and develop its organisational wellness. This resulted in the development of a wellness programme. The approach taken to resolve this problem began with an intensive literature survey to determine the critical wellness factors that literature indicated as necessary for employees to be successful and happy in their work environments and outside of them. This was followed by an empirical study undertaken within the Small Volume Parenteral department of the organisation. The study was undertaken by the administration of a structured employee questionnaire to blue collar workers and a select number of middle managers in order to determine the level of wellness present amongst the employees. In addition, a structured management questionnaire was administered to the Sister-on-site and the Industrial Relations manager in order to determine whether any wellness programmes currently existed within the organisation, the extent to which they had been implemented, the extent to which they are successful within the organisation and the role, if any, that management play in actively promoting employee wellness. Among the main findings, on the negative side, the study revealed that employees within the department are close-lipped when it comes to revealing information of a personal nature. This has resulted in a difficulty in assessing their sexual and financial wellness, in particular. With regards to management, findings revealed that the employees felt that there is not enough trust between the employee and management. It was also indicated that management is not as open as possible with the employees. In addition, employees indicated that they felt that there was a lack of communication among team members as well as various forms of discrimination existing in the organisation. On the positive side, the study has indicated that a respect for all cultures exists within the organisation. It has also indicated that a minimal amount of conflict is experienced between superiors and subordinates and that the majority of employees feel a sense of belonging within the organisation. Findings from the literature survey undertaken and the empirical study done within the organisation were integrated and a coherent organisational wellness programme was developed. The organisational wellness programme has been recommended to the management of Bodene (Pty) Ltd. If the programme is considered viable, it will be implemented within the organisation.

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Koschitzki, Fabian, Dietmar Öller i Hauke-Christoph Santel. "The impact of outsourcing on the planning environment and planning method of a company which manufactures high complex products". Thesis, Växjö University, School of Management and Economics, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-1095.

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Today outsourcing is a widely-used method for companies to face the problem of a more and

more competitive business world. Especially offshore outsourcing to a distant country, where

the labour costs are comparatively low, is quite popular in the media. Nevertheless, a lot of

companies fail in accomplishing the high gains they hoped for. One reason for this is the

miscalculation of the effects of outsourcing on the company which leads to a wrong

behaviour of the management during the outsourcing process. Hence, a better

understanding of the impact of outsourcing is crucial for the success of a company. To

improve this, one way is to analyse the planning environment and the resulting planning

method of a company before and after outsourcing.

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Anderson, Lindsey B. "Big Trouble for the Big Three: An Audience Perspective of the Appropriateness and Effectiveness of the Big Three Automakers’ Image Repair Strategies". Thesis, Connect to resource online, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/2184.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2010.
Title from screen (viewed on July 18, 2010). Department of Communication Studies, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): John Parrish-Sprowl, Kristina Horn Sheeler, Ronald Sandwina. Includes vitae. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 133-138).

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Ebert, Svend. "Wavelets on Lie groups and homogeneous spaces". Doctoral thesis, Technische Universitaet Bergakademie Freiberg Universitaetsbibliothek "Georgius Agricola", 2011. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:105-qucosa-78988.

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Within the past decades, wavelets and associated wavelet transforms have been intensively investigated in both applied and pure mathematics. They and the related multi-scale analysis provide essential tools to describe, analyse and modify signals, images or, in rather abstract concepts, functions, function spaces and associated operators. We introduce the concept of diffusive wavelets where the dilation operator is provided by an evolution like process that comes from an approximate identity. The translation operator is naturally defined by a regular representation of the Lie group where we want to construct wavelets. For compact Lie groups the theory can be formulated in a very elegant way and also for homogeneous spaces of those groups we formulate the theory in the theory of non-commutative harmonic analysis. Explicit realisation are given for the Rotation group SO(3), the k-Torus, the Spin group and the n-sphere as homogeneous space. As non compact example we discuss diffusive wavelets on the Heisenberg group, where the construction succeeds thanks to existence of the Plancherel measure for this group. The last chapter is devoted to the Radon transform on SO(3), where the application on diffusive wavelets can be used for its inversion. The discussion of a variational spline approach provides criteria for the choice of points for measurements in concrete applications.

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Schmidt, Mike [Verfasser]. "Grenzüberschreitender Formwechsel : Verfahrens- und Registerrecht im Lichte des Company Law Package und die praktische Umsetzung / Mike Karl Schmidt". Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2020. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:101:1-2020112801381892188325.

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Hellbom, Fredrik. "Genomförandet av bemanningsdirektivet 2008/104/EG : En problematisk implementering för Sverige?" Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Rättsvetenskap, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-13986.

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Abstract The use of temporary agency workers has increased significantly during the last decades. Due to considerable differences in the legal status and working conditions of temporary agency workers within the EU, the directive 2008/104/EC on temporary agency work was adopted in 2008. The current directive has a two folded purpose, first and foremost to improve the employment and working conditions for temporary agency workers, by establishing the principle of equal treatment. The second purpose is to create greater acceptance for the temporary work agencies, and also to review and remove any unjustified restrictions or prohibitions against them. There are several different models for labour market regulation represented within the EU. The Swedish and Nordic model has through history relied heavily on regulation via collective agreements, entered into by the social partners, with a minimal amount of state interference and regulation. For Sweden there is a potential problem in the implementation of the directive on temporary agency work, since it follows from case law by the European Court of Justice (ECJ). That the Swedish type of collective agreement, that lacks universal applicability, is insufficient as the sole means of implementing EU directives establishing rights for all workers. The main purpose of this thesis is to analyze if and how it’s possible to implement the directive on temporary agency work, within the established Swedish model for labour market regulation, and at the same meet the requirements of the EU-law.
Sammanfattning Användandet av uthyrd arbetskraft från bemanningsföretag har ökat avsevärt de senaste decennierna. EU:s bemanningsdirektiv 2008/104/EG har tillkommit med anledning av att arbetsvillkoren och den rättsliga regleringen med avseende på bemanningsarbete idag skiljer sig kraftigt bland EU:s medlemsstater. Bemanningsdirektivet har ett tudelat syfte, dels syftar det till att förbättra arbetsvillkoren för bemanningsanställda genom införandet av en likabehandlingsprincip av bemanningsanställda. Därtill syftar direktivet till att skapa större acceptans och undanrö-ja hinder för bemanningsföretagen. Inom EU:s medlemsstater finns en rad olika arbetsmarknadsmodeller representerande. Den svenska och nordiska modellen karaktäriseras av minimalt med statlig reglering, och en hög grad av reglering genom kollektivavtal som förhandlas fram och sluts mellan arbetsmarknadens parter. Den kontinentala modellen som kan sägas var den härskande inom övriga EU och så även för EU:s reglering, bygger på reglering genom lag och en lagfäst möjlighet till att allmängiltigförklara (utsträcka) vissa kollektivavtal. Vilket innebär att arbetsgivare som inte är bundna av kollektivavtal, tvingas tillämpa ett visst avtal. För Sveriges del uppkommer ett potentiellt problem i genomförandet av bemanningsdirektivet, då det följer av äldre rättspraxis från EU-domstolen att vår svenska typ av kollektivavtal inte är ett fullgott sätt att implementera EU-direktiv. Det huvudsakliga syftet med denna uppsats är att utreda om och hur det går att genomföra bemanningsdirektivet inom den svenska modellen, och samtidigt leva upp till de krav som följer av EU-rätten. Enligt min bedömning kommer det krävas att en bakomliggande lagstiftning införs, som garanterar direktivets skydd för samtliga arbetstagare. Den nödvändiga lagstiftningen kan dock utformas på ett sätt som inte undergräver den svenska modellen.

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Björkqvist, Johanna, Erik Johannesson i Linn Jorikson. "Companies on Facebook : How many of the 100 largest Swedish Companies have a Facebook page, and how do they use it?" Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, EMM (Entreprenörskap, Marknadsföring, Management), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-15525.

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Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to see if the 100 largest Swedish companies are present on Facebook, and if they are, how they use their business pages. Further the customers’ perception of companies’ use of Facebook will be included. To investigate this, three research questions were created. Background: As Web 2.0 and its application has changed, the use of Internet, both for companies and customers, there has been change in how information is delivered and how people take in information. One application of Web 2.0 is Facebook, and in this investigation the authors will look at the use of the application in companies marketing strategy. Many researchers and marketers (Constantinides & Fountain, 2008; Carlsson, 2009; Yang et al., 2009) recognizes the importance for companies to take advantage of this new media and sees a value generating process for both company and customer, but how this value generates profits is harder to identify. Further the market and possibility to reach customers is every day increasing as Facebook has gone from 100 million in 2008 to approximately 600 million members in 2011. Today in Sweden, over four million people have a Facebook account. Method: To gather empirical data the use of a coding sheet has been developed through content analysis when investigating the selected companies’ business pages. The companies were found from a list over the 100 largest Swedish companies ranked after turnover. Further to collect the customers’ perception of companies on Facebook a focus group were conducted. In the focus group a semi-structured interview approach was chosen to create an open discussion within the group but still maintaining on the subject in hand. To analyze the empirical findings theories about social media, customer loyalty and communication were used. Conclusion: The authors of this thesis have determined three different appearance areas by companies on Facebook; support forum, advertising channel and just exist on the social media. Two main ways for companies to use Facebook is as a customer support page or as an advertising/promotion/publicity channel. In customers support pages the communication between the company and customer is more substantial and different types of communication are to be found such as B2C, C2B and C2C. By using Facebook as advertising /promotion /publicity page the companies communicate more through pictures and videos that is pushed out by the company. The customers interact through viewing and commenting the uploaded material. The result from the focus group showed that the customer appreciated the advertising/promotion/publicity page as this corresponds with their perception of companies on Facebook. The participant saw the customer support page on Facebook as unserious and not a suitable way of communicating with a company.

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Kraft, Bryan C. "EFFECTS OF OVARIECTOMY AND ANATOMICAL POSITION ON THE COMPACT BONE AS SEEN IN THREE MONTH SUMMER OVINE MODEL". DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2014. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1205.

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The purpose of this study is to characterize the compact-bone remodeling response to an ovariectomy model of human postmenopausal osteoporosis. Animal models are a beneficial practice allowing for the evaluation of the effectiveness of medical therapies and devices on diseases. The ovine model was chosen for this study due to its large size, similar bone remodeling to humans, and cost effectiveness. The main obstacle to overcome with the use of the ovine model was the lack of natural menopause experienced by this species. To overcome this, it was necessary to perform an ovariectomy to create estrogen depletion and artificially induce menopause in the sheep. The use of OVX (ovariectomized) sheep has been widely accepted as a model for the loss of bone mass. Effects of bone loss first appear around 3 months post-ovariectomy, however the effect of the bone loss at the 3 month time point as well as its effect on different anatomical positions within the bone have not been thoroughly studied. 16 skeletally mature Columbia-Rambouillet cross ewes were used for this portion of the study. The group of 16 was divided into 2 groups, one underwent an ovariectomy procedure and the other group underwent a sham surgery to put them through the same surgical stress as the test group. 3 months post surgery the ewes were sacrificed and had their right and left radii and ulna removed. The left radial-ulna bone was then divided into 6 anatomical locations: craniolateral, cranial, craniomedial, caudolateral, caudal, and caudomedial. With the bone divided into different anatomical sectors, microradiographs were fabricated to allow for further analysis of the bone samples. Using the microradiographs histomorphometric measurements were taken to quantify the bone remodeling occurring; the measurements taken were the bone volume to tissue volume, fraction of remodeled tissue and material, the millimeter (mm) of cement line per square mm of bone tissue and material, osteons per field, and the mean osteon area. Densitometry analysis was also performed using the microradiographs using image analysis and the use of an aluminum step wedge on each microradiograph as a key. Once all of the data was collected a 2-way repeated measures ANOVA statistical analysis was performed on the histomorphometry and densitometry data to evaluate the possible differences seen due to treatment, anatomical sector, and possible interaction of both. For the histomorphometry portion there was a significant variation seen between the caudal sectors of bone in the OVX vs control sheep in both the fraction of remodeled material and the mean osteonal area. There was also a significant variation seen between the caudomedial sectors of bone in the OVX vs control sheep for the average osteons per field. For the densitometry analysis it was found that the OVX sheep had significantly lower bone density than the control sheep. This study shows that there are significant changes seen even after only 3 months with depleted estrogen levels and that differences can be seen based on the anatomical sector of the bone. With this information it will be important to take this into consideration when creating future studies using the ovariectomized ewe as an animal model for postmenopausal osteoporosis study.

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Souza, Aline Rachadel de. "Proposta de ações estratégicas fundamentadas em custos para uma microempresa de comércio varejista". Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, 2014. http://tede.udesc.br/handle/handle/135.

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Many researches appoint the importance of de retail s micro and small companies to the Brazil s economic development. However, is important to note that the micro and small companies dealing with problems that, depending on their size, activities and capital, can affect their development. Given the current economic scenario, the importance of de management process in the micro and small companies is emphasized. This work proposed to realize a strategic analysis based on the costs structure of paint s retail micro company and created strategic proposals. To this was realized a quality research, by the case study method, and descriptive nature. Data collection was carried out in primary and secondary sources. Data analysis was supported, mainly, by excel sheets. Was analyzed: cost structure, sales, spent, profitability of products, place, organizational structure , disclosure, customers, competitors and suppliers. Was possible to conclude that the costs structure lack, with a pricing method based on owners intuition, results on products injury. Proposed the company a categorization of their spending , a costing method based on absorption costing a pricing methodology based on the assessment from the cost method , relationship actions with suppliers, customers and competitors.
Diversas pesquisas apontam a importância do comércio e das micro e pequenas empresas para o desenvolvimento econômico do Brasil. Porém, cabe destacar que as micro e pequenas empresas deparam-se com alguns entraves, que, dependendo de suas características, como tamanho, atividade, capital (financeiro e humano), podem afetar o seu desenvolvimento. Diante do atual cenário econômico, enaltece-se a importância de estruturar os processos gerenciais nas micro e pequenas empresas. O presente trabalho propôs-se a realizar uma análise estratégica fundamentada na estrutura de custos de uma micro empresa do ramo de comércio varejista de tintas e elaborar propostas de atuação estratégica. Para isso foi realizada uma pesquisa predominantemente qualitativa, pelo método de estudo de caso, de cunho descritivo. A coleta de dados foi realizada em dados primários e secundários. A análise de dados foi suportada, principalmente, por meio de planilhas de Excel. Foram analisadas: a estrutura de custos da empresa, as vendas, os gastos, a lucratividade dos produtos, localização, estrutura organizacional, divulgação, clientes, concorrentes e fornecedores. Foi possível observar que a falta de uma estrutura de custos, aliada a formatação de preços baseada na intuição dos sócios, levava a empresa e ter prejuízos em diversas linhas de produtos. Propôs-se a empresa uma categorização dos seus gastos, um método de custeio baseado no custeio por absorção, uma metodologia de formação de preço baseada no rateio proveniente do método de custeio, ações de relacionamento com fornecedores, clientes e concorrentes.

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McNulty, Christine. "Olfactory Approaches to Historical Study: The Smells of Chicago's Stockyard Jungle, 1900-1910". Thesis, Connect to resource online, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/1898.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2009.
Title from screen (viewed on August 28, 2009). Department of History, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): Marianne Wokeck. Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 93-99).

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Leonardi, Carlos César. "A construção da represa Guarapiranga: imagem, técnica e paisagem". Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/100/100135/tde-01102018-193535/.

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O trabalho visa por meio de um conjunto de imagens fotográficas da Fundação Energia e Saneamento e de outras fontes correlatas do período analisar historicamente a construção da represa Guarapiranga (1906-1909) em Santo Amaro, ao sul da cidade de São Paulo, bem como discutir as alterações da paisagem e as técnicas de engenharia envolvidas no processo. Tratava-se de um empreendimento da canadense The São Paulo Tramway, Light and Power Company Ltd., companhia de força e luz a se instalar no Brasil, em 1899. Para tanto, apresenta-se também a história da ocupação do Estado e as demandas de água e energia na região, sobretudo em fins do XIX e começo do XX
The work aims at historically analyzing the construction of the Guarapiranga dam (1906-1909) in Santo Amaro, south of the city of São Paulo, through a series of photographic images of the Energy and Sanitation Foundation and other related sources. Besides, it intends to discuss the landscape changes promoted by and the engineering techniques employed in the process. It was an enterprise of the Canadian The São Paulo Tramway, Light and Power Company Ltd., company of force and light to be installed in Brazil, in 1899. For this, we also present the history of the State occupation and the demands of water and energy in the region, especially in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

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Crespi, kelly Menezes. "Competências coletivas em uma equipe de tecnologia da informação de uma empresa de grande porte : o caso da empresa Grendene S.A". reponame:Repositório Institucional da UCS, 2012. https://repositorio.ucs.br/handle/11338/109.

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Os temas competências coletivas e tecnologia da informação, estão relacionados dentro do contexto organizacional, como uma forma de vantagem competitiva para as empresas. Dada a necessidade de conhecer e analisar as competências coletivas das equipes de trabalho, a fim de dar subsídios para as organizações reterem seus talentos, contratarem colaboradores com o perfil adequado e atingirem suas estratégias organizacionais, este estudo tem como principais objetivos investigar quais são as competências coletivas nas equipes de Tecnologia da Informação de empresas de grande porte e como ocorre a articulação das competências individuais integrando e interagindo para o benefício do todo. O referencial teórico é composto pelos conceitos de competências individuais, competências organizacionais, competências coletivas e tecnologia da informação. As competências coletivas são entendidas de forma macro, como a habilidade de um grupo agir coletivamente em prol de um objetivo comum. Este estudo é delineado por sua natureza aplicada, caráter exploratório-descrito e com abordagem quantitativa e qualitativa. Para a realização da coleta de dados foi elaborado um instrumento de pesquisa que foi aplicado para 132 funcionários da Divisão de TI da empresa Grendene S.A.. Já para a análise dos resultados, foram utilizadas algumas técnicas estatísticas como análise descritiva, análise fatorial, análise de correlação, análise de regressão e variância. Na discussão dos resultados foi identificado que as variáveis explicativas das competências coletivas na equipe de tecnologia da informação da empresa analisada são: Proatividade, Comunicação, Cooperação e Relacionamento Interpessoal. Sendo, Proatividade a variável que apresentou maior intensidade de associação. Também foram identificados os elementos vinculados de cada fator e as diferenças significativas em relação as competências coletivas e o perfil dos respondentes. Concluiu-se através deste estudo que as competências coletivas e individuais são uma via de mão dupla. Elas são dependentes e servem de base para que as organizações identifiquem suas competências e possam realizam ações para fortalecêlas. Também destaca-se, que este estudo ajudou a expandir o conhecimento com relação ao perfil dos profissionais de Tecnologia da Informação.
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The subjects of collective competence and information technology are related within the organizational context, as a way of competitive advantage to the companies. Given the necessity of knowing and analyzing the collective competence of working teams, in order to give subsidies for the organizations to maintain their most talented workers, hire employees with adequate profiles and reach the organizational strategies, this study has been made with the main objectives of investigating what kind of collective competences in the information technology teams of big companies and also how the articulation of individual competences happens, integrating and interacting to the benefit of the whole. The theoretical reference is composed with the concepts of individual competences, organizational competences, collective competences and information technology. The collective competences are understood in a macro form, as the ability of a group to act collectively to reach a common goal. This study is outlined by its applied nature, exploratory-described and quantitative and qualitative approach. In order to collect the needed data, an instrument of research has been developed, which has been applied to 132 employees of the information technology department of Grendene S.A.. When it comes to analyzing the results, techniques of statistic analysis such as descriptive analysis, factorial analysis, correlation analysis and Regression and variables analysis have been used. The discussion of the results has identified that the explanatory variables of the collective competences in the information technology in the analyzed company are: proactivity, communication, cooperation and interpersonal relationship. It has also showed that proactivity is the variable that owns the most intensity of association. Other bounded elements of all the factors have been identified and the significant differences related to collective competences and the profile of the analyzed people. Through this study, one would conclude that individual competence and collective competence are a two way street. They work dependently of each other and are the base for the organizations to identify their competences so they can pursue actions to make them stronger. This study has also helped expanding the knowledge of the kind of profile the professionals of information technology have.

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Slaviša, Maslić. "NADABS A component container for the .NET (compact) framework /". Zürich : ETH, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Information and Communication Group, Research Group, 2004. http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/show?type=dipl&nr=135.

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Phaswana, Malilimalo. "DO COMPANY CHARACTERISTICS INFLUENCE THE QUALITY OF INTEGRATED REPORTING? A STUDY OF SOUTH AFRICAN JSE TOP 100 LISTED COMPANIES. LISTED COMPANIES". Master's thesis, Faculty of Commerce, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/29996.

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This dissertation investigates whether a statistically significant relationship exists between a company’s corporate characteristics and the quality of its integrated report. The JSE Top 100 companies are used as the study population, with the Ernst & Young Excellence in Reporting ratings used as the framework for assessing integrated reporting quality. A multiple multivariate regression analysis was employed to assess the impact of ten company characteristics that were found to be prominent by other studies. The results show that firm size, board diversity, board independence and firms in the resource sector show a statistically significant positive association with components of integrated reporting quality as described in the Integrated Reporting Framework. The results suggest that firms with stronger adherence to good corporate practices, with firm board diversity and board independence as a possible indicator, are more responsive to the need for quality integrated reporting. Further, firms with greater accountability to stakeholders through their size of sector also appear to respond to this obligation through increased disclosures.

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Niederkrüger, Matthias, Christian Salb, Michael Beck, Niko Hildebrandt, Hans-Gerd Löhmannsröben i Gerd Marowsky. "Improvement of a fluorescence immunoassay with a compact diode-pumped solid state laser at 315 nm". Universität Potsdam, 2006. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2006/1015/.

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We demonstrate the improvement of fluorescence immunoassay (FIA) diagnostics in deploying a newly developed compact diode-pumped solid state (DPSS) laser with emission at 315 nm. The laser is based on the quasi-three-level transition in Nd:YAG at 946 nm. The pulsed operation is either realized by an active Q-switch using an electro-optical device or by introduction of a Cr⁴⁺:YAG saturable absorber as passive Q-switch element. By extra-cavity second harmonic generation in different nonlinear crystal media we obtained blue light at 473 nm. Subsequent mixing of the fundamental and the second harmonic in a β-barium-borate crystal provided pulsed emission at 315 nm with up to 20 μJ maximum pulse energy and 17 ns pulse duration. Substitution of a nitrogen laser in a FIA diagnostics system by the DPSS laser succeeded in considerable improvement of the detection limit. Despite significantly lower pulse energies (7 μJ DPSS laser versus 150 μJ nitrogen laser), in preliminary investigations the limit of detection was reduced by a factor of three for a typical FIA.

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Rosa, Ana Teresa Ratti de Oliveira. "A geração de valor por meio da aplicação do marketing em pequenas empresas: um estudo na área médica". Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2013. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/1075.

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Due to the increasingly competitive among small medical companies and the expectations of customers in this market, this study aims to discuss ways of marketing being a value generator for small companies providing medical services. Thus, we developed a case study of the Pediatric Clinic and Vaccinations Dr. Paul Rose Ltda. At this company was made the application of the philosophy of strategic management and guided by the fundamentals of marketing which resulted in significant expansion of the offer value to the public and consequently a higher potential for profitability and market share of the Taubaté City the São Paulo State, which has 603 health facilities, and of these, 384 are isolated clinics and 124 are clinics and specialization centers. For this qualitative research, with a unique case of study, the triangulation of data was made through in-depth interviews with workforce (managers and employees),with external public (costumers) and documentary survey (database of the company and external). The theoretical foundation in marketing as value generator was essentially guided by concepts which call for building business value through the provision of differentials that are grounded in the needs of the market and consider the corporate capacity. Were adopted, too, concepts and authors who value building lasting relationships between companies and their customers. The main results are related to the possibilities of differentiation of small business in the medical field through the application of marketing. The main findings of this study indicate that the consequences of the application of marketing are financial, market positioning, brand building, development of personal skills and, especially, the value perception of the final customer
Em função do cenário cada vez mais competitivo entre as pequenas empresas da área médica e das expectativas dos clientes desse mercado, este estudo tem como objetivo discutir os meios do marketing ser gerador de valor para pequenas empresas prestadoras de serviços médicos. Desta maneira, desenvolveu-se um estudo de caso único, da Clínica Pediátrica e de Vacinações Dr. Paulo Rosa Ltda. Nessa empresa foi realizada a aplicação da filosofia da gestão estratégica e orientada pelos fundamentos do marketing o que resultou em significativa ampliação da oferta de valor ao público e, como consequência, a elevação do potencial de rentabilidade e da participação no mercado do Município de Taubaté, interior do Estado de São Paulo, que conta com 603 estabelecimentos de saúde, destes, 384 são consultórios isolados e 124 são clínicas/centros de especialidade. Para esta pesquisa qualitativa, com um estudo de caso único, a triangulação dos dados foi feita por meio de entrevistas em profundidade com o público interno (gestores e colaboradores), com o público externo (clientes) e levantamento documental (bancos de dados da empresa e externos). O embasamento teórico sobre o marketing como gerador de valor foi pautado essencialmente por conceitos que preconizam a construção de valor para o negócio por meio da oferta de diferenciais que estejam focados nas necessidades do mercado, que gerem a percepção de qualidade em seu público e que considerem a capacidade corporativa. Foram adotados, também, conceitos e autores que valorizam a construção de relacionamentos duradouros entre empresas e seus clientes. Os principais resultados são referentes às possibilidades de diferenciação da pequena empresa da área médica por meio da geração de valor resultante da aplicação do marketing. As principais conclusões desse estudo apontam que as consequências da aplicação do marketing são de ordem financeira, de posicionamento de mercado, de desenvolvimento das competências pessoais e corporativas e, principalmente, da percepção de valor do cliente final

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Selenhag, Christine-Jane. "Pay-for-delay: A competition law analysis of settlement agreements in the pharmaceutical sector". Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Juridiska institutionen, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-169528.

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During the last two decades many pharmaceutical originator companies have struggled with refilling its pipelines with novel pharmaceutical products. At the same time many of these companies have lost patent protection for its most profitable drugs and more are expected to do so in the very near future. When pharmaceutical patents expire it is generally expected that generic manufacturers enter the market with significantly cheaper versions of the pre-patented drugs. Accordingly, generic entry poses strong competitive price pressure on originator companies and the latter may therefore be inclined to hinder these competitors from entering the market. The preparations for generic launch often starts a few years before patent expiry and it is therefore common that patent disputes arise. Patent disputes are not only highly complex, time consuming and costly, the disputes are often also characterized by a high degree of uncertainty to whether or not the patents are infringed and/or valid. Thus, incentives for settling the disputes out of court are often high for both originator and generic undertakings. Legitimate patent settlement agreements are generally not considered to pose any competitive concern. However, the Commission has observed that these settlement agreements has been used to conceal anti-competitive terms by which the originator companies sets out to buy off its generic competitors for delaying its plans to enter the market. These anti-competitive arrangements are more generally known as pay-for-delay settlements. The Commission has issued two decisions against pay-for-delay settlements of which the GC has confirmed the Commission’s assessments. After fulfilling a three-step criteria developed by the Commission, these agreements were considered to have as its object the restriction of competition within the meaning of article 101 (1) TFEU. When an agreement is categorized as a restriction by object it is considered to be by its very nature restrictive of competition, and is therefore presumptively illegal. This approach has been vastly criticized in the legal doctrine for not being sufficiently clear and legally certain. Therefore, the purpose of this essay has been to critically analyze the Commission’s approach in assessing patent settlement agreements. The overall findings of the analysis do however indicate that the Commission’s categorization of pay-for-delay settlements as restrictions of competition by object follows the established rules of EU competition law and should therefore be justified.

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Perry, Jay Martin. "Shillelaghs, shovels, and secrets Irish immigrants secret societies and the building of Indiana internal improvements, 1835-1837 /". Connect to resource online, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/2056.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2009.
Title from screen (viewed on February 1, 2010). Department of History, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): Marianne S. Wokeck, Jason M. Kelly, Anita J. Morgan. Includes vitae. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 106-114).

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Yu, Melissa, i Karolina Öhlund. "Handel med utsläppsrätter : En analys av bristerna i redovisnings- och beskattningsreglerna". Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Commercial Law, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-1105.

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Sammanfattning

För att vända den globala uppvärmningen grundlades i Kyotoprotokollet tre marknadsmekanismer som syftar till att på olika sätt åstadkomma minskade utsläpp av vissa växthusga-ser. Den enda av dessa mekanismer som i nuläget är aktiv, är handeln med utsläppsrätter som hänför sig till utsläppen av koldioxid.

Eftersom EU är part i Kyotoavtalet antog Europaparlamentet och Europeiska Unionens råd ett direktiv (2003/87/EG)(handelsdirektivet) för att uppnå de åtaganden som antagits i protokollet. Handelsdirektivet implementerades i svensk rätt genom lag (2004:1199) om handel med utsläppsrätter. Innehavet av en utsläppsrätt medför en rätt att släppa ut ett ton koldioxid. Enligt handelsdirektivet skall 95 % av utsläppsrätterna delas ut gratis till utvalda företag med höga nivåer av utsläpp. Dessa utsläppsrätter lämnas i form av näringsbidrag. Resterande andel av utsläppsrätterna är direkt tillgänglig för handel på den öppna marknaden. Genom att vidta utsläppsminskande åtgärder kan företag minska sitt behov av utsläppsrät-ter och därigenom få möjlighet att sälja dem. På motsvarande sätt kan ett företag, istället för att vidta utsläppsminskande åtgärder, välja att köpa in extra utsläppsrätter. På så sätt uppnås Kyotoprotokollets mål på ett kostnadseffektivt sätt. Antalet tillgängliga utsläppsrät-ter kommer framöver att minskas med varje ny handelsperiod för att på så vis motivera fö-retagen till att reducera sina utsläpp.

Handelssystemet syftar till att på ett kostnadseffektivt sätt minska de totala utsläppen av koldioxid. Vidare är handelssystemet uppdelat i olika handelsperioder där den första testpe-rioden löper mellan åren 2005 och 2007. Efterföljande handelsperioder kommer att löpa med fem års intervaller. Nästa handelsperiod kommer således att starta år 2008 och avslu-tas år 2012, denna period kommer att infalla samtidigt som Kyotoprotokollets första åta-gandeperiod. Varken handelsdirektivet eller svensk lag innehåller någon vägledning i hur utsläppsrätterna, som ny rättsfigur, skall passa in i övrig existerande lagstiftning. Det finns således möjligheter till att ett stort antal nationella och internationella oklarheter uppstår inom alla juridiska aspekter av handeln med utsläppsrätter.

Enligt vår analys resulterar användningen av OECD:s modellavtal, applicerat på utsläpps-rätter, i att beskattningsrätten allokeras på samma sätt, oavsett vilken artikel som anses omfatta transaktionen. Konsekvenserna av handel med utsläppsrätter kommer således slutligen att bestämmas av nationell lagstiftning. Tack vare de gemenskapsrättsliga förordningarna och direktiven som antagits inom de redovisnings- och mervärdesskatterättsliga områdena är behandlingen av utsläppsrätterna delvis harmoniserad mellan EU:s medlemsstater. Inom Sverige har många av de problem och frågeställningar som väckts gällande utsläppsrätter kunnat lösas på nationell nivå.

Handeln med utsläppsrätter har dessutom till syfte att inkludera även stater som inte är medlemmar i EU vilket innebär att den harmonisering som skett idag är långt ifrån tillräcklig. Dessutom kommer under den kommande handelsperioden även de två övriga meka-nismerna Clean Development Mechanism och Joint Implementation att aktiveras, vilket innebär att ett stort antal nya frågeställningar kan väntas uppstå på både nationell och in-ternationell nivå. Det finns således även under kommande år ett stort behov att utreda de juridiska konsekvenserna av Kyotoprotokollet.

I denna magisteruppsats ställs därför ett antal frågor angående hur artiklarna i OECD:s modellavtal skall appliceras på den internationella handeln med utsläppsrätter och vilka mervärdesskatterättsliga regler som skall anses omfatta sådan handel. Slutligen analyseras även hur innehav av utsläppsrätter skall behandlas i de berörda företagens redovisning.

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To reverse the increasing global warming the Kyoto Protocol established three market mechanisms intended to reduce the emissions of green house gases. The only currently active mechanism within the Protocol is the Emission Trading System.

Since the EU is a member of the Kyoto Protocol, in order to achieve the goals agreed in the Protocol, the European Council approved a Directive (2003/87/EG) setting the framework for an EU-wide system of green house gas emission allowance trading. The Directive was implemented into Swedish legislation through lag (2004:1199) om handel med utsläppsrätter. One emission allowance grants the possessor a right to emit one tonne of car-bon dioxide into the atmosphere. The purpose of the system is to reduce the emissions of green house gas in a cost effective manner and thereby decrease global warming. The European Emission Trading System is divided into different commitment periods where the initial period runs from 2005 to 2007. This commitment period is also regarded as a learning-by-doing period for Member States. Subsequent periods will be of five years be-ginning in 2008, concurrently with the first commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol.

As many as 95 % of the emission rights will be distributed as government grants to certain companies with high emission levels. Remaining emission rights will be immediately avail-able for trading on the open market. Through emission reducing procedures, companies can reduce their need of emission rights, enabling them the opportunity to trade with the remaining units. This aims to create an incentive for companies to reduce their need of emission rights, thus decreasing the number of tradable units.

However, neither Swedish law nor the Directive contains any guidance regarding how the existing legal regulations should be applied to Emission Trading Units. This lack of guidance may result in a number of national and international uncertainties regarding the legal aspects of emissions trading.

In our application of the model tax convention to international transactions with emission rights, we will show that it is irrelevant which article is chosen to include emission units. Therefore the final consequences of such transactions will be determined within the national law of the taxing state.

Since community law legislation has been enacted by the EU legislative council, the ac-counting and value added tax rules that apply to emission rights trading have been partially harmonized.

Due to the partial harmonization, many of the current issues regarding emission rights have been clarified on a national level in Sweden. Nevertheless, since the trading system is in-tended to extend also to non EU-members, the present level of harmonization still remains insufficient. In addition, the future activation of the remaining mechanisms, Clean Development Mechanism and Joint Implementation, can also be expected to give rise to a number of new uncertainties. Hence, the legal consequences of Emission Rights Trading re-main in need of further investigation.

In this master’s thesis we will address several questions regarding how the articles in the OECD Model Tax Convention should be applied to the international trade with Emission Rights. We will also analyze the value added tax rules that are applicable to such trade and how possession of Emission Trading Units will affect business accounting procedures.

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Santos, Filho Oswaldo Martins dos. "O ÍNDICE DE SUSTENTABILIDADE EMPRESARIAL E O IMPACTO NO VALOR DAS AÇÕES: UM ESTUDO DE EVENTO". Universidade Metodista de São Paulo, 2010. http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/165.

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Due to the necessity of insertion of sustainable development politics within the context of organizations, companies invest in resources expecting that the adoption of these actions may bring strategic and economical benefits, reflected in the image of the organization as well as in its valorization in the market. In this setting, Sustainability Indexes were created in a global scale, and these indexes, in general, evaluate several dimensions of the organization relations with society, environment and with the suppliers of capital to companies. In Brazil, specifically in 2005, the created the Corporate Sustainability Index (ISE) to gather the shares of companies that incorporate in their business objectives, social responsibility as well as company sustainability. Due to what was mentioned above, this paper has the objective of verifying what is the impact in the actions of the sample from 43 companies before the entrance and the exit of CSI funds. The methodology of event study aimed identifies the abnormal returns after the divulgence of the CSI funds, from the editions 2005 to 2009, according to the search, the risk-adjusted return and the market-adjusted return were used. The financial data, before and after the event, were extracted from the data base of São Paulo Stock Market. The results demonstrated the positive relation among the participation of some companies in the portfolios of the ISE and the financial performance of their share value. Moreover, the results showed that the necessary investments in sustainable development did not result in loss, once it could be noticed the predominance of positive abnormal returns in all situations analyzed in this paper.
Diante da necessidade de inserção de políticas de desenvolvimento sustentável dentro do contexto das organizações, as empresas investem em recursos esperando que a adoção dessas práticas possa trazer benefícios econômicos e estratégicos, refletidos na imagem da organização e na sua valorização no mercado. Neste cenário, Índices de Sustentabilidade foram criados em escala global, e estes índices em geral, avaliam várias dimensões das relações da organização com a sociedade, meio ambiente e com os provedores de capital para a empresa. No Brasil, especificamente no ano de 2005, foi criado o Índice de Sustentabilidade Empresarial (ISE) para reunir as ações de empresas que incorporam em suas diretrizes de negócio práticas de responsabilidade social e sustentabilidade empresarial. Com isso, a presente dissertação tem por objetivo verificar qual o impacto no valor das ações de uma amostra de 43 empresas perante a entrada ou saída das mesmas das carteiras do ISE. A metodologia de estudo de evento buscou identificar os retornos anormais após as divulgações das carteiras do ISE, de 2005 a 2009, através do modelo de retorno ajustado ao risco e ao mercado. Os dados financeiros, antes e depois do evento, foram extraídos da base de dados da Bolsa de Valores de São Paulo. Os resultados alcançados indicaram relação positiva entre a participação de algumas empresas nas carteiras do ISE e o desempenho financeiro das suas ações, além de mostrar que os investimentos necessários em desenvolvimento sustentável não acarretam perdas, visto a predominância de retornos anormais positivos em todas as situações analisadas neste estudo.

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Jönsson, Josefin, i Camilla Eklöf. "Combating climate change : A case study of Statoil′s climate strategy". Thesis, Mälardalen University, School of Sustainable Development of Society and Technology, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-1015.

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Level: Master thesis in Business administration with concentration towards Ecological economics

Title: Combating climate change – a case study of Statoil’s climate strategy

Problem: The world is facing an environmental situation where we no longer can ignore problems like climate change, losses of species and an overall environmental degradation. Many actors have to take their responsibility and do as much as they can for a sustainable development. One crucial actor is the business world. Often, they both have the knowledge and financial power to make a difference. Higher environmental regulations and pressure from stakeholders, such as the Swedish government or the EU, forces companies to consider the environment while doing business. This requires a strategy.

Purpose: The purpose with the essay is to identify and study Statoil’s climate strategy. We also want to identify the most important internal and external factors that are affecting the strategy.

Method: The thesis is based on a qualitative method made up by two parts, interviews and literature studies. We made one informant interview and two respondent interviews with two environmental executives from Statoil AB.

Results: Statoil has a mainly pro-active strategy and are very ambiguous in the climate question, although their strategy is highly affected by the surrounding. Developing new technologies, cooperation and profiling are the main parts of their strategy. They are affected by the dominating discourse ecological modernization, as well as by the organizational field. They are in turn affecting the field by their offensive strategy. The customers and the legal framework are the most important external factors of impact. Whereas the corporate group StatoilHydro and financial resources are the most important internal factors.

Keywords: Climate strategy, environmental strategy, responsible company, greening, ecological modernization

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Crawford, Kevin, i Martin Johnson. "DETERMINATION OF AN OPTIMAL DATA BUS ARCHITECTURE FOR A FLIGHT DATA SYSTEM". International Foundation for Telemetering, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/606463.

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

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ur-Rehman, Fazal. "Design and development of detector modules for a highly compact and portable preclinical PET system". Elsevier, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/9592.

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Preclinical PET systems image animal models of chronic human disease that are used to evaluate new therapeutic strategies for the treatment of cancer and other diseases. Once these animals are out of a controlled environment for PET imaging, they typically can not be taken back as they may have been exposed to outside disease. A highly compact PET system is thus required to be developed that can operate within a bio-safety cabinet inside a barrier facility. We investigated using 100-mm-long LYSO scintillator crystals oriented in the axial direction and read out at both ends by position sensitive photomultiplier tubes (PSPMTs) to construct a compact PET. The optimization of light collection for axial encoding of events was carried out using different reflector materials and surface treatments of 3 × 2 × 100 mm3 and 2 × 2 × 100 mm3 polished crystals. The detector response was examined by irradiating the crystals at discrete positions using an electronically collimated 511 keV photon beam. The ratio of two PSPMT signals was used to find the axial-resolution while their sum was used to determine the energy resolution. We then explored the effects of creating systematic band patterns of surface roughing on 1 to 4 long surfaces of the crystals to modulate light-transport with the goal of further improving axial-resolution. These experimental results were used to benchmark DETECT2000 Monte Carlo simulations for our detector geometry. The axial-positioning calibration was carried out by evaluating a uniform flood-irradiation method and comparing with the collimated-irradiation method using 2 × 2 × 100 mm3 crystal detectors. The best axial-positioning resolution of 3.4 mm was achieved in this study for 2 × 2 × 100 mm3 Teflon-wrapped crystals with banding-patterns on only two opposite surfaces, fulfilling the design criteria of our proposed PET. The benchmarked DETECT2000 models can now be used to predict the performance of a complete detector module design. The calibration methods agreed if the trigger threshold energies were adjusted to give similar single event rates in both PSPMTs for uniform flood-irradiation. The implementation of flood-irradiation method in our complete PET scanner will provide a simple axial-positioning calibration.

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Sciacca, Francesco G. P. "Analogue readout and signal processing for micro strip gas chambers of the compact muon solenoid at LHC". Thesis, Imperial College London, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.391719.

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Barbosa, Ariela Natasha Parrilha. "Urbanismo bioclimático: efeitos do desenho urbano na sensação térmica". Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/102/102131/tde-16042018-152343/.

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A presente pesquisa trata da influência da verticalização na sensação térmica urbana, dentro de um contexto de diretrizes de compactação das cidades, aplicada à cidade de Maringá / PR, cujo clima é subtropical úmido. Pretende avaliar se o aumento do gabarito dos edifícios da região apontada, realizado de modo a respeitar o parcelamento e o uso e ocupação do solo, interfere no conforto térmico urbano, mediante a verificação do índice de temperatura fisiológica equivalente (PET). Seu desenvolvimento é realizado com base na análise de resultados obtidos por meio de ferramentas computacionais, especialmente o software ENVI-met, seguindo as seguintes etapas: 1. Histórico Urbanístico, em que se avalia o plano inicial da cidade e o seu perfil atual; 2. Caracterização Climática, na qual se elabora o arquivo climático do município, sua carta de ventos, bem como todos os tratamentos necessários para a aplicação do software; 3. Modelagem e Simulação, em que se define e constrói os cenários, para posterior simulação; 4. Avaliação Ambiental, em que se analisa a sensação térmica dos resultados da simulação. Por fim, mediante a avaliação dos resultados obtidos, demonstra-se que a verticalização, em climas subtropicais úmidos, pode ser utilizada como atenuação da sensação térmica.
This research deals with the influence of verticalization on urban thermal sensation, within a context of city compaction guidelines, applied to the city of Maringá / PR, whose climate is humid subtropical. The objective of this study is to evaluate whether the increase in the model of the buildings in the mentioned region, in order to respect the parceling and the use and occupation of the soil, interferes with the urban thermal comfort by checking the equivalent Physiological Temperature Index (PET). Its development will be carried out based on the analysis of results obtained through computational tools, especially the ENVI-met software, following the following steps: 1. Urban History, in which the initial plan of the city and its current profile will be evaluated; 2. Climatic Characterization, in which the climatic archive of the municipality, its chart of winds, as well as all the necessary treatments for the application of the software will be elaborated; 3. Modeling and Simulation, in which the scenarios will be defined and constructed, for later simulation; 4. Environmental Assessment, in which the thermal sensation of the results of the simulation will be analyzed. Finally, by means of the evaluation of the obtained results, it will be shown that the verticalization, in humid subtropical climates, can be used as attenuation of the thermal sensation.

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Chang, Kai-Han, i 張凱涵. "The comparison of Corporate Governance in Taiwan 50 Index Company, Taiwan Mid-Cap 100 Index Company And Matching Company". Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/67869348045039560493.

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碩士
實踐大學
財務金融與保險研究所
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This paper investigates the Taiwan stock index difference of corporate governance between Taiwan 50 Index , Taiwan Mid-Cap 100 index and Matching companies using Pearson correlation analysis, 　ANOVA and Logistic regression analysis. The samples period from 2003 to 2009. The empirical results in logistic regression find that Taiwan 50 Index and Taiwan Mid-Cap 100 Index groups show that Taiwan 50 Index’s director and supervisor of pledge ratio and director compensation was significantly highter than Taiwan Mid-Cap 100 Index. However, Taiwan Mid-Cap 100 Index’s manager shareholding ratio, shares in multiples of earings deviate and CEO as general manager significantly higher than Taiwan 50 Index. Taiwan 50 Index and matching company groups show that matching company’s the number of directors and CEO as general manager significantly highter than Taiwan 50 Index. Taiwan Mid-Cap 100 index and matching company groups show that matching company’s manager ownership, percentage of independent directors and CEO as general manager significantly higher than the matching company.

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Masitenyane, Lehlohonolo Amos. "Examining customer-supplier relationships: customer service quality in a precast concrete manufacturing company". Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10352/103.

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Thesis (M.Tech - Marketing, Faculty of Management Sciences)--Vaal University of Technology, 2010
This study provides a framework for customer-supplier relationships and service quality measurement in a precast concrete manufacturing firm with the use of the universally accepted SERVQUAL model. Within an increasingly competitive precast concrete market, customer satisfaction is a critical goal for manufacturers of all types. Customer-supplier relationships and service quality were therefore investigated in this study. A quantitative research approach was used in the study to analyse the data. This approach enabled the researcher to obtain an accurate measure of all constructs that relate to service quality improvement for the particular concrete manufacturing firm amongst contractors, civil consultants, government institutions and end users. A sample size of 246 respondents from Gauteng Province was used. Descriptive statistics were used to explain the characteristics of sample data. In addition, factor analysis was used to condense the variables into five factors in order to capture the essence of service quality within a cementitious products organisation. Five dimensions, responsiveness, problem- solving, physical aspects, service personnel and physical appearance were extracted to measure service quality. Results showed that satisfied customers tend to re-patronise suppliers who enhance their service outputs provided to the customers. Thus it is imperative to enhance customer satisfaction and ultimately customer loyalty. These results suggest that improved service qualities can be useful for building customer loyalty and long- lasting relationships. The reliability analysis produced a Cronbach alpha which ranged from 0.700 to 0.815 which were deemed acceptable. The Pearson correlation analysis showed that service quality is associated with customers' future buying behaviour in terms of their decisions to purchase and recommend the supplier to others. Customers felt that service personnel were friendly, courteous and possessed the knowledge to answer customer questions. They exhibited a favourable image of the company and its services. This service dimension was ranked first in terms of importance by the customers therefore, the precast concrete manufacturer ought not be complacent but rather seek innovative ways in maintaining the service personnel dimension of service quality. The overall mean score of expectation of service quality by customers was 4.71. This indicates that the service provided by this company is satisfactory. It therefore suggests that, it is necessary for managerial intervention to prioritise in all these areas to develop a strategy of service quality improvement. Training of personnel is an essential component of service quality enhancement especially with complaints and the complaints-handling procedures. The management team of the organisation needs to play an active role in ensuring that all personnel are adequately trained and highly motivated to understand the user‟s specific problems and in the process to provide competent solutions to problems. Based on literature and results emanating from the empirical survey, these findings may assist the organisation in the enhancement of its service-quality levels. Hence, service-quality levels should be monitored carefully on a continuous basis.

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Harsy, Ramsay Amanda R. "Locally compact property A groups". Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/6242.

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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
In 1970, Serge Novikov made a statement which is now called, "The Novikov Conjecture" and is considered to be one of the major open problems in topology. This statement was motivated by the endeavor to understand manifolds of arbitrary dimensions by relating the surgery map with the homology of the fundamental group of the manifold, which becomes diffi cult for manifolds of dimension greater than two. The Novikov Conjecture is interesting because it comes up in problems in many different branches of mathematics like algebra, analysis, K-theory, differential geometry, operator algebras and representation theory. Yu later proved the Novikov Conjecture holds for all closed manifolds with discrete fundamental groups that are coarsely embeddable into a Hilbert space. The class of groups that are uniformly embeddable into Hilbert Spaces includes groups of Property A which were introduced by Yu. In fact, Property A is generally a property of metric spaces and is stable under quasi-isometry. In this thesis, a new version of Yu's Property A in the case of locally compact groups is introduced. This new notion of Property A coincides with Yu's Property A in the case of discrete groups, but is different in the case of general locally compact groups. In particular, Gromov's locally compact hyperbolic groups is of Property A.

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Wang, Kuan-Chieh, i 王冠捷. "An Investigation of the Relationship Between Pay Distribution and Company Performance: From Taiwan High Compensation 100 Index". Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/24591890326706934908.

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國立臺北大學
經濟學系
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The Taiwan Stock Exchange announced Taiwan High Compensation (HC) 100 Index in August 2014. The objective of Taiwan HC 100 Index is to encourage employers to improve compensation of employees, thereby retaining and attracting outstanding employees. Thus, such Index will contribute to an equilibrium that all involved parties, employees, employers, and investors, will be better off. Based on analysis of the constituent stocks of Taiwan HC 100 Index, this paper attempts to examine correlation between the structure of personnel expenses and performance of enterprises. Let the stocks of HC100, EC100, and OC100, each of which representing a distinct structure of personnel expenses in enterprises. The results show that structure of HC100 cannot affect performances, structure of EC100 increases Return on asset (ROA), adjusted ROA, Return on equity (ROE) and adjusted ROE significantly and structure of OC100 is harmful to ROA, adjusted ROA, ROE and adjusted ROE. So we conclude that the structure of personnel expenses prefers to give relatively high salaries to executives can attract more talented person and stimulate working efficiency by the tournament theory. Therefore, high salaries to executives increase the performances of enterprise further.

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Mpofu, Kudzai. "Exploring the novel concept of business rescue under the South African Companies Act 71 of 2008". Diss., 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11602/1065.

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Department of Mercantile Law
Business rescue provisions are meant to assist a financially distressed company. It seems that the success of business rescue rests on three factors, namely a competent business rescue practitioner and a practicable business rescue plan; the consent and cooperation of shareholders and creditors. However, academics and case law point out concerns as to the regulation of the aforementioned essential ingredients. The purpose of this study is to ascertain the level of the efficacy of the Companies Act provisions on business rescue as contained in Chapter 6. The researcher compares the current business rescue regime and the previous judicial management procedure to find out how the current regime can be improved. Since the business rescue regime was adopted from other jurisdictions the researcher also compares the practices in some of those jurisdictions with that of South Africa to establish the goals and expectations of business rescue in modern corporate operations.
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Howe, Elijah Cody. "Philanthropic Colonialism: New England Philanthropy in Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1860". Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/2727.

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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
In 1854 the United States Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska bill which left the question of slavery in the territory up to a vote of popular sovereignty. Upon the passage of the bill, New England’s most elite class of citizens, led by Eli Thayer, mobilized their networks of philanthropy in New England to ensure the Kansas-Nebraska territory did not embrace slavery. The effort by the New England elite to make the territories free was intertwined in a larger web of philanthropic motivations aimed to steer the future of America on a path that would replicate New England society throughout the country. The process and goal of their philanthropy in the Kansas-Nebraska Territory was not dissimilar from their philanthropy in New England. Moral classification of those in material poverty mixed with a dose of paternalism and free labor capitalism was the antidote to the disease of moral degradation and poverty. When Missourians resisted the encroachment of New Englanders on the frontier, the New England elites shifted their philanthropy from moral reform to the funding and facilitation of violence under the guise of philanthropy and disaster relief. For six years, until the outbreak of the American Civil War, New England philanthropists facilitated and helped fund the conflict known as Bleeding Kansas.

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Pathak, Durvesh. "Compressed convolutional neural network for autonomous systems". Thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/17921.

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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
The word “Perception” seems to be intuitive and maybe the most straightforward problem for the human brain because as a child we have been trained to classify images, detect objects, but for computers, it can be a daunting task. Giving intuition and reasoning to a computer which has mere capabilities to accept commands and process those commands is a big challenge. However, recent leaps in hardware development, sophisticated software frameworks, and mathematical techniques have made it a little less daunting if not easy. There are various applications built around to the concept of “Perception”. These applications require substantial computational resources, expensive hardware, and some sophisticated software frameworks. Building an application for perception for the embedded system is an entirely different ballgame. Embedded system is a culmination of hardware, software and peripherals developed for specific tasks with imposed constraints on memory and power. Therefore, the applications developed should keep in mind the memory and power constraints imposed due to the nature of these systems. Before 2012, the problems related to “Perception” such as classification, object detection were solved using algorithms with manually engineered features. However, in recent years, instead of manually engineering the features, these features are learned through learning algorithms. The game-changing architecture of Convolution Neural Networks proposed in 2012 by Alex K [1], provided a tremendous momentum in the direction of pushing Neural networks for perception. This thesis is an attempt to develop a convolution neural network architecture for embedded systems, i.e. an architecture that has a small model size and competitive accuracy. Recreate state-of-the-art architectures using fire module’s concept to reduce the model size of the architecture. The proposed compact models are feasible for deployment on embedded devices such as the Bluebox 2.0. Furthermore, attempts are made to integrate the compact Convolution Neural Network with object detection pipelines.

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Kienker, Brittany Lynn. "The Henry Ford : sustaining Henry Ford's philanthropic legacy". Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/4654.

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This dissertation argues that the Edison Institute (presently known as The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan) survived internal and external challenges through the evolution of the Ford family’s leadership and the organization’s funding strategy. Following Henry Ford’s death, the museum complex relied upon the Ford Foundation and the Ford Motor Company Fund as its sole means of philanthropic support. These foundations granted the Edison Institute a significant endowment, which it used to sustain its facilities in conjunction with its inaugural fundraising program. Navigating a changing legal, corporate, and philanthropic landscape in Detroit and around the world, the Ford family perpetuated Henry Ford’s legacy at the Edison Institute with the valuable guidance of executives and staff of their corporation, foundation, and philanthropies. Together they transitioned the Edison Institute into a sustainable and public nonprofit organization by overcoming threats related to the deaths of two generations of the Ford family, changes in the Edison Institute’s administration and organizational structure, the reorganization of the Ford Foundation, the effects of the Tax Reform Act of 1969, and legal complications due to overlap between the Fords’ corporate and philanthropic interests. The Ford family provided integral leadership for the development and evolution of the Edison Institute’s funding strategy and its relationship to their other corporate and philanthropic enterprises. The Institute’s management and funding can be best understood within the context of philanthropic developments of the Ford family during this period, including the formation of the Ford Foundation’s funding and concurrent activity. This dissertation focuses on the research question of how the Edison Institute survived the Ford family’s evolving philanthropic strategy to seek a sustainable funding and management structure. The work examines its central research question over multiple chapters organized around the Ford family’s changing leadership at the Edison Institute, the increase of professionalized managers, and the Ford’s use of their corporation and philanthropies to provide integral support to the Edison Institute. In order to sustain the Edison Institute throughout the twentieth century, it adapted its operations to accommodate Henry Ford’s founding legacy, its legal environment, and the evolving practice of philanthropy in the United States.

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Liao, Jui-Jung, i 廖瑞榮. "The research on the management of the 100-tonne-under long-line fishing vessels in South Pacific Ocean: example of Company A". Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/65633369873512517407.

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碩士
國立中山大學
高階經營碩士班
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Abstract In Taiwan, long-line fishing has been the major technique in fishery. With the enhancement of fishing techniques, the fishing zone of Taiwan has spread all over three of World Oceans, and Taiwan has been regarded as one of five largest pelagic fishing countries. Pelagic long-line fishery plays a crucial role in economic development in Taiwan. In recent years, the fishery environments, whether in domestic or foreign fishing zone, have been dramatically changing. Since the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea has been resulted, all of coastal nations have subsequently set up the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) or marine economic development zone, which is stretched out 200 nautical miles from a nation’s coast. However, the establishment of marine economic development zone also brings about the high seas’ largely shrinking. Since the past, the increasing extinction of fish species is mainly resulted from illegal fishing techniques, fishing in the fishing-prohibited zone or during the prohibited period, catching fingerlings and using illegitimate fishing gear. Under such a decreasing fishing circumstance, those Taiwanese long-line fishing vessels under 100 tonnes, mostly fishing in the South Pacific Ocean, are struggling with many changes, such as international fishing limitation, the fishing vessels decreasing policy, the diminishing amount of fish caused by climate changes, the raising oil price and cost. Respecting the situation that most of long-line fishing vessels are managed by ship owners instead of fishery companies, and the fishing-related records are too scarce to provide for reference, this research will explore how the 100-tonne-under long-line fishing vessels owners can manage their business in South Pacific Ocean. All information in this study is acquired from Fisheries Agency in Taiwan and interviews with long-line fishing vessels owners. The questions asked in those interviews mainly target fishing benefit, cost, method of supplies, and the policy on captain and crew management. Based on the analysis of those cases mentioned above, we can figure out the practical operation and management of the 100-tonne-under long-line fishing vessels owners in Taiwan. Furthermore, this study also points out current difficulties in fishery management, providing for those vessels owners as the crucial reference of increasing competitive advantages. Keywords: Long-Line Fishing, South Pacific Ocean, Business Management, Yellowfin Tuna, Cost-Benefit Analysis

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Huang, Sheng-Huei, i 黃勝輝. "Assess whether the Taiwan listing cabinet company is highly paid to meet the efficiency of wage phenomenon - to High Compensation 100 Index as an example". Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/egma8u.

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Hardy, Marc Alan. "Defining community need through the lens of the elite : a history of the Indianapolis Foundation and its funding of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, 1893-1984". Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/3086.

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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
This history investigates the beginnings of community foundations in general and the creation of the Indianapolis Foundation specifically and its eventual funding of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. My findings reveal that, contrary to previous histories that have been written, the creation of community foundations was not driven by benevolence but by changes in federal and state banking laws starting in 1913 that allowed banks to have trust departments that broke the monopoly that trust companies had long enjoyed. In response, trust company executives chartered community trusts to publicly position themselves as benevolent, community-minded businessmen. This distinguished them as trustworthy compared to the greedy bankers of the day, which helped trust companies gain trust customers. Community trusts were responsible for identifying and disbursing funds to deserving beneficiaries, thereby relieving trust companies of a costly and time consuming burden. Even more important, the trust companies retained control over the community trusts by appointing surrogate board members. In addition, none of the trust companies that chartered the Indianapolis Foundation donated their own money, yet appeared charitable. All of these factors made community foundations a very lucrative arrangement. Funding the areas of arts and culture was not designated in the Indianapolis Foundation’s original purpose statement, yet the Indiana State Symphony Society was funded at the height of the Great Depression while many Indianapolis citizens went hungry. The love of music played a very small part in efforts by the wealthy elite to garner support from the Indianapolis Foundation for the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. The public justifications for funding the symphony began with giving psychological relief to the citizens of Indianapolis from the pressures of the Great Depression, to the need of employment for musicians, then the importance of musical education of children, expanding to the importance of the symphony to the city’s reputation, and finally, in the 1980s, the symphony as a community asset that helped rejuvenate downtown Indianapolis. However, the real reason for funding was that the wealthy elite wanted the symphony to use as a flattering cultural institution that would elevate their social status and attract fellow elites and businesses to Indianapolis.

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Perry, Jay Martin. "Shillelaghs, Shovels, and Secrets: Irish Immigrant Secret Societies and the Building of Indiana Internal Improvements, 1835-1837". Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/2056.

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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
In the 1830s, Indiana undertook an ambitious internal improvements program, building the state’s first railroad and multiple canals. To complete the projects, Indiana used Irish immigrant laborers. The Irish laborers developed a reputation for brawling amongst themselves, highlighted by a riot involving 600 laborers working on the Wabash and Erie Canal in 1835. Multiple volumes of Indiana history identify the Wabash and Erie riot as a one-time event inspired by Protestant and Catholic animosity imported from Ireland. A review of the historical record, however, contradicts these long-held assumptions. Inspired by Irish traditions of faction fighting and peasant secret societies, Irish immigrant laborers formed secret societies that used violence against competitors in hopes of securing access to internal improvement jobs for their own membership. The rival secret societies, the Corkonians and the Fardowns, organized based on their provincial origins in Ireland. Examples of Corkonian and Fardown violence occurred throughout the country. In Indiana, a pattern of Corkonian and Fardown conflict resulted in skirmishes on at least three different construction sites between 1835 and 1837. In contrast to the traditional narrative, the Corkonians and Fardowns were both pioneers of the first wave of large-scale Irish Catholic immigration whose rivalry centered on job protection and economic grievances.

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