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Bullock, Michael L. "Successful Human Resource Outsourcing Strategies". ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6181.
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Human resource outsourcing (HRO) is a strategic choice that managers implement because of a variety of anticipated benefits. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to identify HRO strategies managers used to reduce operating costs while maintaining human resource (HR) effectiveness. Data were collected from semistructured interviews using open-ended questions and a review of company documents. Study participants represented 3 midwestern firms with 50 or more employees. The participants drawn from the population consisted of a minimum of 2 participants per organization who had increased their organization's strategic value using HRO strategies. The transaction cost economics (TCE) theory was the conceptual framework for this study. Data were analyzed using methodological triangulation to identify codes from words, phrases, and sentences using multiple sources to identify recurring themes. Five key themes emerged: outsourcing strategies, outsourced functions, operational costs, organizational effectiveness, and success measurement. The findings of this study may lead to social change by supporting managers in making HRO decisions conducive to reducing operating costs while maintaining HR effectiveness, which might positively impact social change by providing core function jobs to the local community thereby decreasing unemployment rates.
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Blackburn, Alan. "The knowledge-based resources built through human resource management practice". Thesis, Lancaster University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.418875.
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Cuervo-Cazurra, Alvaro 1968. "Resource development through the co-evolution of resources and scope". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/9765.
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Jones, Yakama Manty. "Debt overhang and natural resources : revisiting the resource curse hypothesis". Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2014. http://bbktheses.da.ulcc.ac.uk/95/.
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Growth literature presents evidence that resource abundant economies comparatively grow less than other economies, giving rise to the ‘Resource Curse Hypothesis’. Many researchers have developed several theories to explain the ‘Resource Curse’ but there are very few explicit considerations of ‘Debt Overhang’ in these explanations. This study concentrates on the ‘Debt Overhang –Resource Curse’ link given the significant relationships between debt sustainability and other resource spending. It also implicitly seeks to test key competing theories. The key contribution is the evaluation of the ‘Resource Curse’ and ‘Debt Overhang’ phenomena simultaneously using mixed methods analysis. This thesis consist of three complementary empirical studies organised in chapters under the ‘Debt Overhang-Resource Curse’ theme: A Panel Data Analysis of Debt Overhang, Natural Resources and Growth in 153 countries from 1970 to 2011; A Time Series Analysis of Sierra Leone’s Debt Overhang, Natural Resource and Growth Experience from 1970 to 2011 and A Perceptions and Documentary Analysis of Debt Overhang, Natural Resources and Growth in Sierra Leone. In Chapter Three, the ‘Debt Overhang –Resource Curse’ hypothesis was tested by estimating a system of simultaneous equations using the Generalised Method of Moments Three - Staged Least Squares estimator for the whole panel and carefully defined subsets. The results confirmed the ‘Debt Overhang –Resource Curse’ hypothesis in the case of least developed countries, mineral rich countries and petroleum rich countries although it failed to excel when the whole panel was examined. The ‘Debt Overhang –Resource Curse’ hypothesis was also confirmed in Chapter Four, when a Structural Vector Autoregressive Model was estimated for Sierra Leone : a resource rich, heavily indebted poor country at the bottom of the Human Development Index, has recently received large economic growth projections. The results for Sierra Leone were further confirmed using cointegration and Granger causality tests. The investigation continued with a perceptions and documentary analysis in Chapter Five. It investigated whether perceptions of Sierra Leoneans provide support for the Debt Overhang –Resource Curse hypothesis by estimating a structural equation model using Partial Least Squares, utilising data collected during a survey of mining communities. The results of the estimations were triangulated with findings from interviews, observations and documentary analysis. This analysis provided support for the hypothesis as well as some complementary theories within the Resource Curse debate. This simultaneous assessment of the impact of both debt overhang and natural resources on growth went beyond quantitative investigations to provide proof of the link shared by these elements. It also made a rationale for a ‘case-by-case’ analysis of economic growth and development phenomena, resulting in policy recommendations with a greater degree of alignment.
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中島, 誠., i Makoto NAKAJIMA. "資源交換理論に基く資源分類の再考". 名古屋大学大学院教育発達科学研究科, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/9475.
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Colak, Erdem. "Resource Investment Problem With Time/resource Trade-offs". Master's thesis, METU, 2011. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613376/index.pdf.
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In this study, we consider a resource investment problem with time/resource trade-offs in project environments. We assume each mode of an activity is characterized by its processing time and resource requirement and there is a single renewable resource. Our aim is to minimize the maximum resource usage, hence the total amount invested for the single resource.
We formulate the problem as a mixed integer linear model and find optimal solutions for small sized problem instances. We propose several lower bounding procedures to find high quality estimates on the optimal resource investment cost. We use our lower bounds to evaluate the performance of our heuristic procedures.
The results of our computational experiments have revealed the satisfactory performances of our lower bounds and heuristic procedures.
Projects, Resource Investment Time/Resource Trade-off, Bounding Procedures
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Aysu, Aydin. "Resource-constrained and Resource-efficient Modern Cryptosystem Design". Diss., Virginia Tech, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/78469.
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In the context of a system design, resource-constraints refer to severe restrictions on allowable resources, while resource-efficiency is the capability to achieve a desired performance and, at the same time, to reduce wasting resources. To design for low-cost platforms, these fundamental concepts are useful under different scenarios and they call for different approaches, yet they are often mixed. Resource-constrained systems require aggressive optimizations, even at the expense of performance, to meet the stringent resource limitations. On the other hand, resource-efficient systems need a careful trade-off between resources and performance, to achieve the best possible combination. Designing systems for resource-constraints with the optimizations for resource-efficiency, or vice versa, can result in a suboptimal solution.
Using modern cryptographic applications as the driving domain, I first distinguish resource-constraints from resource-efficiency. Then, I introduce the recurring strategies to handle these cases and apply them on modern cryptosystem designs. I illustrate that by clarifying the application context, and then by using appropriate strategies, it is possible to push the envelope on what is perceived as achievable, by up to two orders-of-magnitude.
In the first part of this dissertation, I focus on resource-constrained modern cryptosystems. The driving application is Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) based symmetric-key authentication. I first propose the smallest block cipher in 128-bit security level. Then, I show how to systematically extend this design into the smallest application-specific instruction set processor for PUF-based authentication protocols. I conclude this part by proposing a compact method to combine multiple PUF components within a system into a single device identifier.
In the second part of this dissertation, I focus on resource-efficient modern cryptosystems. The driving application is post-quantum public-key schemes. I first demonstrate energy-efficient computing techniques for post-quantum digital signatures. Then, I propose an area-efficient partitioning and a Hardware/Software codesign for its implementation. The results of these implemented modern cryptosystems validate the advantage of my approach by quantifying the drastic improvements over the previous best.Ph. D.
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Smirnova, Anna R. "The Misalignment of Resources to Preferred Strategies in Resource-Dependent Environments". Thesis, Regent University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3576854.
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Organizations work, interact, and depend on the environments that surround them. The quality, quantity, and type of resources attracted by the organization often misalign with needed resources and force the leader to make strategic choices and changes in order to sustain operations. Resource scarcities force organizations and their leaders to access resources from other actors in the environment and pursue new innovations that use alternative resources. This research applies a qualitative phenomenological approach to discovering the actual experiential process of 10 leaders as they faced the challenge of making strategic changes and choices in an attempt to realign available resources. Through content analysis of the interviews and the imaginative variation method of the findings, the study revealed that the major source of uncertainty in Russia are the laws and the government regulations, economic fluctuations and geopolitical complexities, and the instability of national contributors. The resource pool consists of human, financial, and intellectual resources, and nonprofits are highly dependent on its partners such as donors and volunteers, though consider it a subject for multiplication rather than reduction. The development of good relationships with partners is strategy number one for the purpose of the constant acquisition of resources and network development. The next strategy recommended by coresearchers is an ability to change and adapt, including the ability to anticipate changes in the environment and to act accordingly. There is also a discussion on the subject of the context and national ownership that were considered to be keys for any successful leadership in Russia. Rational choice, a part of the decision-making strategy that helps the leader to be a wizard with resources, align the existing ones and hunt for new ones in an ambiguous resource-dependent environment, which is also discussed.
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Tsani, Stella. "Natural resources, governance and institutional quality : the role of resource funds". Thesis, University of Reading, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.542070.
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Diallo, Thierno Amadou. "Beyond the resource curse : mineral resources and development in Guinea-Conakry". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/98930.
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Thesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2015.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 73-76).
Natural resource endowments are no guarantee of socioeconomic development. Many developing countries are rich in natural resources (minerals, oil, gas, hydropower), and yet many of their citizens remain in poverty and their economies have failed to grow; the "paradox of plenty". Despite its natural resources (bauxite, iron ore, diamond, gold and hydropower), Guinea has been unsuccessful in marshaling and leveraging these resources to produce socioeconomic development. The critical challenge for Guinea, just like many resource-rich countries, is governance failures- decades of military rule, corruption and resource mismanagement after centuries of French colonial rule. This thesis uses secondary sources and data to argue that the resource curse as a phenomenon in resource-rich countries has limitations as it does not offer these countries a path for how their resources could be used to propel social and economic development. To overcome the so-called resource curse, this thesis argues that the key to unlocking economic and social development in mineral-rich Guinea, is investing its resource-generated revenue to develop the country's infrastructure services. Infrastructures such as roads, telecommunications, water, power, education and health facilities are the foundation for socioeconomic development. The new hope for Guinea rests in the fact that after more than fifty two years of military and authoritarian rule, the country transitioned to "democracy" for the first time in 2010. This coupled with the emergence of new global players such as China and other emerging countries, with their quests to secure stable natural resources to fuel their industries, comes a new window of opportunity for resource-rich countries such as Guinea to leverage and link its extractive industries to develop key infrastructure services. Guinea could leverage its bauxite and iron ore industries to transition to onsite transformation of these materials, whose transformation is energy-intensive. Guinea could then leverage the demand for power from the onsite transformation to develop its untapped hydropower generation capacity to supply both mines and the rest of the country. However, this will not happen without governance reforms in Guinea's extractive industries and mining code.
by Thierno Amadou Diallo.
M.C.P.
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Sehi, Tamara Grullon. "Human resource professionals' perception of human resources' value to senior management". CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1486.
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This study examines and describes the perceptions of human resource professionals about their contribution and that of their departments to strategic planning and management. Human resource leaders from organizations with five hundred or more employees in Southern California responded to this survey. The significance of this study is its potential to increase our understanding of the contribution of the human resource function to strategic planning.
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Rayapati, Navya. "Resource planner". Kansas State University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/32557.
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Master of ScienceComputing & Information Sciences
Daniel Andresen
When a software development company wants to achieve its goals on time and efficiently use its staff on the projects, it is necessary for the company to have hands on information related to number of employees working on various projects along with their skill set and the number of employees still needed to complete the projects on time. Resource Planner is a convenient tool to handle various projects in a software company efficiently. It is an online tool to manage projects currently running with the company as well as future projects. This tool tracks the employees working for the existing projects and details of new projects like no. of employees required, location, etc., and also estimates revenue which helps higher management to know the status of the various projects and work force. With this tool, HR can estimate the requirement of employees for the new projects and hence can recruit exact number of employees. The project manager can view the details of the employees in the company and the employees in his projects. He can also get the information of how many employees are there in a particular project and their skill set. When he wants employees for a particular project, he can add that information mentioning how many are working on the project and how many employees are totally needed for the project. This information can be had both for online and offline projects. This information is used in generating a special report called GAP summary. This application is developed using Java Spring MVC Framework and MySql database. The main goal of the project is to get familiar with Spring MVC Framework.
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Prudnikova, N. "Efficiency of Resource Potential of Enterprises". Thesis, Київський національний університет технологій та дизайну, 2017. https://er.knutd.edu.ua/handle/123456789/8445.
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Mendoza, Charles E. "Resource planning and resource allocation in the construction industry". Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/26222.
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Szierbowski-Seibel, Klaas [Verfasser]. "The development of the human resource function towards a strategic role - four essays in human resource management focusing on strategic human resource management involvement, human resource outsourcing and human resources mangement and the relationship with organizational performance / Klaas Szierbowski-Seibel". Paderborn : Universitätsbibliothek, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1186785934/34.
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Petrova, Marina [Verfasser]. "Cognitive resource manager framework for optimal resource allocation / Marina Petrova". Aachen : Hochschulbibliothek der Rheinisch-Westfälischen Technischen Hochschule Aachen, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1014458196/34.
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Lindholm, Rickard. "Analysis of Resource Isolation and Resource Management in Network Virtualization". Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för kommunikationssystem, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-11740.
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Context. Virtualized networks are considered a major advancement in the technology of today, virtualized networks are offering plenty of functional benefits compared to todays dedicated networking elements. The virtualization allows network designers to separate networks and adapting the resources depending on the actual loads in other words, Load Balancing. Virtual networks would enable a minimized downtime for deployment of updates and similar tasks by performing a simple migration and then updating the linking after properly testing and preparing the Virtual Machine with the new software. When this technology is successfully proven to be efficient or evaluated and later adapted to the existing flaws. Virtualized networks will at that point claim the tasks of todays dedicated networking elements. But there are still unknown behaviors and effects of the technology for example, how the scheduler or hypervisor handles the virtual separation since they do share the same physical transmission resources.Objectives. By performing the experiments in this thesis, the hope is to learn about the effects of virtualization and how it performs under stress. By learning about the performance under stress it would also increase the knowledge about the efficiency of network virtualization. The experiments are conducted by creating scripts, using already written programs and systems, adding different loads and measuring the effects, this is documented so that other students and researchers can benefit from the research done in this thesis.Methods. In this thesis 5 different methodologies are performed: Experimental validation, statistical comparative analysis, resource sharing, control theory and literature review. Two systems are compared to previous research by evaluating the statistical results and analyzing them. As mentioned earlier the investigation of this thesis is focusing on how the scheduler executes the resource sharing under stress. The first system which is the control test is designed without any interference and a 5 Mbit/s UDP stream which is going through the system under test and being timestamped on measurement points on both the ingress and the egress, the second experiment involves an interfering load of a 5 Mbit/s UDP stream on the same system under test. Since it is a complex system quite some literature reviewing was done but mostly to gain a understanding and an overview of the different parts of the system and so that some obstacles would be able to be avoided.Results. The statistical comparative analysis of the experiments produced two graphs and two tables containing the coefficient of variance of the two experiments. The graph of the control test produced a graph with a quite even distribution over the time intervals with a coefficient of variance difference to the power of 10−3 and increasing somewhat over the larger time intervals. The second experiment with two virtual machines and an interfering packet stream are more distributed over the 0.0025 seconds and the 0.005 seconds intervals with a larger difference than the control test having a difference to the power of 10−2, showing some signs of a bottleneck in the system.Conclusions. Since the performance of the experiments and also the statistical handling of the data took longer than expected the choice was made to not deploy the system using Open Virtual Switch instead of Linux Bridge, hence there is not any other experiments to compare the performance with. But from referred research under related works the researcher concluded that the difference between Open Virtual Switch and Linux Bridge is small when compared without introducing any load. This is also confirmed on the website of Open Virtual Switch which states that Open Virtual Switch uses the same base as Linux Bridge. Linux Bridge is performing according to the expectations, it is a simple yet powerful tool and the results are confirming the previous research which claims that there are bottlenecks in the system. According to the pre-set requirement for validity for this experiment the difference of the CoV would be greater than to the power of 10−5, the measured difference was to the power of 10−2 which gives support to the theory that there are bottlenecks in the system. In the future it would be interesting to examine more about the effects of different hypervisors, virtualization techniques, packet generators etcetera to tackle these problems. A company that have taken countermeasures is Intel who have developed DPDK which confronts these efficiency problems by tailoring the scheduler towards the specific tasks. The downside of Intel’s DPDK is that it limits the user to Intel processors and removes one of the most important benefits of virtualization, the independence. But Intel have tried to keep it as independent as possible by maintaining DPDK as open source.
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Vargas, Roslyn. "Adoption Factors Impacting Human Resource Analytics Among Human Resource Professionals". NSUWorks, 2015. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/hsbe_etd/5.
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In today’s fast paced, ever-changing world, one cannot help hearing the terms Big Data and analytics. The Internet holds vast amounts of data and this data, for example in retail, is being used to predict shopping habits, current needs, trends, and more. Why should this be limited to the retail side of an organization? Today, there is a more significant push for Human Resource (HR) professionals to be strategic business partners, and, therefore, HR professionals need to work on leading, not lagging, in the area of measurements and analytics. Some organizations that have adopted the use of analytics in their HR departments have been extremely successful. If this is the case, why are not more HR professionals adopting the use of human resource analytics (HRA)?
The purpose of this study is to gain insight as to the reasons why more HR professionals are not using HRA to improve organizational performance and to gain and maintain a competitive advantage. An exploration of prior research was performed and resulted in the development of a model representing factors that impact the adoption of HRA. The model was then tested for content validity and reliability using Partial Least Squares of Path Modeling. Results of the study of 302 HR professionals, currently working in the field of HR, suggest the hypotheses testing social influence, tool availability, effort expectancy, performance expectancy, and quantitative self-efficacy as factors impacting the adoption of HRA were all significant. Conversely, the factors data availability, fear appeals, and general self-efficacy were not significant. Findings indicate that the factors impacting the adoption of HRA are not only in the hands of the HR professional but, to some extent, the organization as well. If organizations truly want to adopt HRA, they must make available to the HR professionals the tools, data, resources, and support necessary. This study contributes to the literature on individual-level adoption, specifically of HRA. Implications for theory and practice are discussed, as well as further research.
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Anne, Clément. "Beyond the resource curse : Macroeconomic strategies in resource dependent economies". Thesis, Université Clermont Auvergne (2017-2020), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019CLFAD024.
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En réponse à la littérature dense concernant les impacts directs et indirects des ressources naturelles sur le développement, cette thèse cherche à analyser les économies dépendantes en ressources naturelles au-delà de la malédiction des ressources naturelles, et analyse 3 problématiques macroéconomiques importantes auxquelles ces pays font face. A l'inverse de la tendance à se focaliser uniquement sur un échantillon de pays selon les ressources produites ou le niveau de développement, cette thèse ne discrimine pas selon ces facteurs afin d'inclure les pays partageant leur exposition à la volatilité des prix des matières premières comme menace importante, tout en analysant les pays ayant eu des fortunes diverses dans la gestion des richesses issues des ressources naturelles.Tout d'abord, elle fournit une analyse empirique des déterminants de la procyclicité de la politique budgétaire qui est une tendance des autorités budgétaires à fournir des réponses budgétaires dans la même direction que le cycle économique, soit restrictive en période de diminution de la croissance économique, et expansionniste en période de croissance soutenue. Basée sur 81 pays pour la période 1992-2012, l'étude évalue un large ensemble de déterminants potentiels et trouve une importance des facteurs de politique économique pour expliquer la limitation de la procyclicité budgétaire dans la partie croissante du cycle économique. Elle appuie également l'idée que les Fonds Souverains sont plus efficaces que les règles budgétaires pour limiter la procyclicité budgétaire, en particulier à travers la limitation de la hausse des dépenses dans les bonnes périodes économiques. Le chapitre suivant fournit une étude empirique sur la relation entre les prix des matières premières et la diversification des exportations, une problématique particulièrement importante afin d'évaluer si les pays dépendants en ressources naturelles ont utilisé les hausses de prix comme opportunité pour diversifier leur économie au-delà du secteur des ressources naturelles. A l'aide d'un panel de 78 pays pour la période 1970-2012, il en ressort une relation empirique positive entre les variations des prix des ressources naturelles et la concentration des exportations, en particulier à travers la concentration de l'ensemble des biens exportés auparavant (marge intensive) durant les périodes de hausse des prix des matières premières. Il met également en évidence une plus forte concentration des exportations à la suite de la hausse du prix des ressources naturelles dans les années 2000 que lors de l'épisode des années 1970, ce qui a pu compliquer la reprise économique dans ces pays depuis le retour des prix des matières premières à un niveau bas.Finalement, cette thèse inclut une analyse critique du concept de Fonds Souverains qui a été une recommandation en vogue pour les pays afin de gérer l'argent issue de leurs ressources naturelles. Après avoir fourni un résumé critique de ce que la notion recouvre, ce dernier chapitre fournit un cadre pour comprendre ces fonds dans un continuum de fonds publiques. Cela permet de déterminer des recommandations quant aux problématiques macroéconomiques pour lesquels ces fonds peuvent être utiles dans le contexte des pays dépendants en ressources naturelles, ainsi que les facteurs qui peuvent diminuer la pertinence ou l'efficacité de tels fonds. Cette thèse met en lumière la pertinence d'étudier les problématiques importantes auxquelles font faces les pays dépendants en ressources au lieu de rester dans le cadre du long débat de la malédiction des ressources naturelles, et incite à de futurs travaux visant à aider les décideurs politiques de ces pays pour mettre en œuvre des stratégies macroéconomiques adaptées à leurs économiesAs a response to the intensive literature regarding the direct or indirect impacts of natural resources on economic development, this thesis intends to analyze resource dependent economies beyond the scope of the resource curse and provide analyses on 3 key macroeconomic challenges faced by those countries. Unlike the trend to focus only on a set of countries depending on their resources produced or their level of economic development, this thesis does not discriminate according to these factors to include countries sharing their exposure to international commodity price volatility as a major threat, while analyzing countries which may have had various successes in their management of resource wealth.First, it empirically analyzes the determinants of fiscal procyclicality which is the tendency of fiscal authorities to give fiscal policy responses in the same direction as the economic cycle, restrictive in case of a decrease of economic growth and expansionary in the periods of sustained economic growth. Based on a sample of 81 countries over 1992-2012, this study assesses a variety of potential candidates and find an importance of political-economy determinants in limiting fiscal procyclicality especially in the higher part of the business cycle. It also provides some support to the idea that Sovereign Wealth Funds are more effective than Fiscal Rules to limit fiscal procyclicality especially through a limitation of expenditure growth in good economic periods.The next chapter provides an empirical study to the relationship between commodity prices and export diversification, a challenge especially important to assess whether resource dependent economies used commodity price booms as opportunities to diversify their economy away from the resource sector. Based on a panel of 78 countries over 1970-2012 it finds a strong empirical support to the impact of commodity price booms on export concentration especially through a concentration of the mix of already exported products (intensive margin) during periods of commodity price booms and an increase of export diversification during periods of commodity price busts. It also highlights the higher concentration of exports during the 2000s commodity price boom than following the 1970s boom, which may have complicated the recovery of those countries since the reversal of commodity prices to a low level.Finally, it provides a critical analysis to the concept of Sovereign Wealth Funds which has been a trendy recommendation for countries to manage their resource wealth. After providing a critical review to what this notion may cover, it provides a framework to understand funds labeled as Sovereign Wealth Funds in a continuum of public funds. This enables to give some recommendations regarding the macroeconomic challenges those funds may help managing in the context of resource dependent economies as well as the factors which could limit a fund's relevance or effectiveness.This thesis highlights the relevance of studying key challenges faced by resource dependent countries instead of focusing to the long-lasting debate of the resource curse and calls for future works to help policymakers in those countries to implement sound macroeconomic strategies for their economies
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Гладченко, Оксана Робертівна, Оксана Робертовна Гладченко, Oksana Robertivna Hladchenko i A. Kuzmenko. "Human resource management". Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2010. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/16947.
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Baraban, S. "Resource-saving technologies". Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2013. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/31056.
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All that is routinely used by mankind, from electric lighting to flat-screen TV sets and iPhone - depends on our ability to pump out of the Earth's resources. Modern life of humanity is depend on the expense of natural resources.
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Maniymaran, Balasubramaneya. "Resource addressable network". Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=66777.
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The success of P2P file sharing applications prompted new efforts to explore the applicability of using P2P overlays in other applications, for example, to build computing clusters. These new genres of P2P applications necessitate mechanisms for discovering resources (not contents) in P2P systems. Existing solutions address this issue by converting the resource descriptions into contents and then use content discovery overlays to store and retrieve these descriptions. They use structured P2P overlays that provides the best search efficiency for content discovery. Even though this approach works well, it suffers from a number of drawbacks. For example, structured overlays are designed for discovering specific contents and querying to find a range of content makes the system inefficient. Unfortunately, it is highly likely for resources queries to include range specification like "memory ≥ 3GB." Further, these research efforts discover resources based on their attributes, but neglect connectivity metrics, latency and bandwidth. These issues warrant another look at resource discovery in distributed systems. I introduce a new resource discovery scheme called resource addressable network (RAN) to address these issues. The inability to support range queries in structured overlays is a result from assigning the nodes with random node IDs. The mechanisms introduced in this thesis produce non-random node IDs such that, while they provide a structured search space, they also retain the characteristics of the unstructured metric space where the resources are naturally located, for example, the attribute–value space; the proximity between two resources in terms of their attributes is reflected also in their node IDs. Producing such a mapping from a unstructured metric space to a structured search space and designing supporting architecture is the key contribution of this thesis. RAN is multi-tier discovery substrLe succès des applications de partage de fichier P2P a suscité de nouveaux efforts dans l'exploration de l'utilisation des réseaux logiques P2P dans d'autres applications, telle que la construction des grilles de calcul. Ce nouveau genre d'applications P2P nécessitent des mécanismes de découverte de ressources (et non du contenu) dans les systèmes P2P. Les solutions existantes convertissent la description des ressources en contenu et utilisent les réseaux logiques de découverte pour stocker et rechercher ces descriptions. Elles exploitent ainsi les réseaux logiques structurés P2P qui permettent d'obtenir les meilleurs résultats de recherche en terme de contenu. Bien que cette approche fonctionne correctement, elle souffre d'un certain nombre de defauts. Par exemple, les réseaux logiques structurés sont conçus pour découvrir des contenus spécifiques et une requête par plage de contenu rend le système inefficace. Malheureusement, il est très commun d'inclure dans les requêtes de ressources des plages de spécification telle que "3 Go de mémoire." En outre, ces efforts de recherche découvrent des ressources fondées sur leurs attributs, mais négligent les paramètres de connectivité, de latence et de bande passante. Ces questions justifient un autre regard sur la découverte de ressources dans les systèmes distribués.Je présente un nouveau système de découverte de ressource appelé Réseau Adressable de Ressources / Resource Addressable Network (RAN) afin de répondre à ces questions. L'incapacité de supporter les requêtes par plage dans les réseaux logiques est dûe à l'assignation aléatoire d'identifiant pour les noeuds. Les mécanismes introduits dans cette thèse fournissent des identifiants non aléatoires de noeuds : en plus de l'espace de recherche structuré, ils mémorisent les caractéristiques de connectivité de l'espace non structuré sous-jacent où les r
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Vanderbrugen, Celeste Jeanine 1961. "Community resource evaluation". Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291786.
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The purpose of this study was to develop a flexible multidisciplinary participatory development model for practical application. This design emphasized the indigenous information and communication systems for the duration of the project. The model was practically applied to three distinct rural Native American communities. Each community chose a separate development project. Technology, resource awareness and training emerged as the common goals. Project determination was made through multiple session focus groups and written surveys. The success of each of the model application processes and projects was determined by participant outcomes and follow-up surveys. It was found that project participants viewed their project as successful and the process which they had engaged in positively affected their attitudes regarding future projects.
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Fain, Norm. "Wastewater - A Resource". Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/296459.
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From the Proceedings of the 1991 Meetings of the Arizona Section - American Water Resources Association and the Hydrology Section - Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science - April 20, 1991, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, ArizonaAs the Southwest United States grows and develops, one basic resource becomes a primary necessity for survival: Water. Currently, accepted sources are being consumed at a higher rate than nature replenishes them. This is necessitating the need to find and develop new water resources. In conjunction with the proper treatment and management, wastewater is a water resource, known as reuse. Properly managed, reused water can augment the available water supply. Primary applications include irrigation of agricultural and landscaped areas, surface water recreational areas, and groundwater recharge. These uses relieve the demands on the generally accepted water resources, thus increasing the net water supply. The required level of treatment varies with the intended reuse application. Treatment levels for reuse range from secondary to tertiary treatment systems. Some reuse applications provide additional treatment to the water. The reuser must assure that the treatment system and reuse application provide an equal or improved water quality to that of the receiving body of water. Regardless of the application, stringent operation and maintenance of the reuse system is essential. A well planned management program will minimize hazards associated with reuse of wastewater. This program is required to keep the liabilities of both the treatment plant and reuse site owners to a minimum. Without this, reuse is not a viable option. The underlying questions remain to determine the feasibility of reuse for a community: Does the water supply require augmentation to meet the demands of the future? Is the Owner willing to address and implement a diligent system management program?
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Heese, Ralf. "Resource Centered Store". Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/17408.
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Mit dem Resource Description Framework (RDF) können Eigenschaften von und die Beziehungen zwischen Ressourcen maschinenverarbeitbar beschrieben werden. Dadurch werden diese Daten für Maschinen zugänglicher und können unter anderem automatisch Daten zu einer Ressource lokalisieren und verarbeiten, unterschiedliche Bedeutungen einer Zeichenkette erkennen und implizite Informationen ableiten. Das Datenmodell von RDF und der zugehörigen Anfragesprache SPARQL basiert auf gerichteten und beschrifteten Multigraphen. Forschungsergebnisse haben gezeigt, dass relationale DBMS zum Verwalten von RDF-Daten ungeeignet sind. Native basierende RDF-DBMS können Anfragen in kürzerer Zeit verarbeiten. Der Leistungsgewinn wird durch redundantes Speichern von Tripeln in mehreren B+-Bäumen erzielt. Jedoch sind Join-ähnliche Operationen zum Berechnen des Ergebnisses erforderlich, was bei größeren Anfragen zu Leistungseinbußen führt. In dieser Arbeit wird der Resource Centered Store (RCS) entwickelt, dessen Speichermodell RDF-inhärente Eigenschaften ausnutzt, um Anfragen ohne die Notwendigkeit redundanter Speicherung effizient beantworten zu können. Die grundlegende Idee des RCS-Speichermodells besteht im Gruppieren der Daten als sternförmigen Teilgraphen auf Datenbankseiten. Die verwendeten Prinzipien ähnelt denen in RDBMS und daher können deren Algorithmen zur Beantwortung von Anfragen wiederverwendet werden. Darüber hinaus werden Transformationsregeln und Heuristiken zum Optimieren von SPARQL-Anfragen zum Finden eines möglichst optimalen Ausführungsplans definiert. In diesem Kontext wurden auch graphmusterbasierte Indexe spezifiziert und deren Nutzen für die Verarbeitung von Anfragen untersucht. Das RCS-Speichermodell wurde prototypisch implementiert und im Vergleich zum nativen RDF-DBMS Jena TDB evaluiert. Die durchgeführten Experimenten zeigen, dass das System insbesondere für das Beantworten von Anfragen mit großen sternförmigen Teilmustern geeignet ist.The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is the conceptual foundation for representing properties of real-world or virtual resources and describing the relationships between them. Standards based on RDF allow machines to access and process information automatically and locate additional data about resources. It also supports the discovery of relationships between concepts. The smallest information unit in RDF are triples which form a directed labeled multi-graph. The query language SPARQL is also based on a graph model which makes it difficult for relational DBMS to store and query RDF data efficiently. The most performant DBMS for managing and querying RDF data implement a RDF-specific storage model based on a set of B+ tree indexes. The key disadvantages of these systems are the increased usage of secondary storage in cause of redundantly stored triples as well as the necessity of expensive join operation to compute the solutions of a SPARQL query. In this work we develop and describe the Resource Centered Store which exploits RDF inherent characteristics to avoid the requirement for storing triples redundantly while improving the query performance of larger queries. In the RCS storage model triples are grouped by their first component (subject) and storing these star-shaped subgraphs on database pages -- similar to relational DBMS. As a result the RCS can benefit from principles and algorithms that have been developed in the context of relational databases. Additionally, we defined transformation rules and heuristics to optimize SPARQL queries and generate an efficient query execution plan. In this context we also defined graph pattern based indexes and investigated their benefits for computing the solutions of queries. We implemented the RCS storage model prototypically and compared it to the native RDF DBMS Jena TDB. Our experiments showed that our storage model is especially suited to speed up the query performance of large star-shaped graph pattern.
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Adhikari, Bhim. "Property rights and natural resources : socio-economic heterogeneity and common property resource management". Thesis, University of York, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.288589.
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Mohamed, Omer Yusuf Adam. "Resource Allocation for Improved Performance and Resource Efficiency in Cloud Computing". Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/17596.
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Allocating resources for applications is attributed to cost-efficiency measures only in the light of two other factors of paramount importance, namely application performance achieved and resource efficiency associated. Achieving satisfactory performance within QoS requirements is indeed the foremost objective to attain for any given application. However, the efficiency obtained for the relevant deployed resources is equally critical as it determines to what extent a resource allocation decision was comparable to optimality, and hence may be perceived cost-efficient in that regard. Achieving high application performance comes in conflict with maintaining high resource efficiency. The compromise between the two to seek a feasible trade-off at which a cost-efficient allocation can be claimed is without doubt a complex multi-dimensional problem as it directly has to deal with an adamant prime issue that is known as performance unpredictability. It is particularly raised in resource provisioning from large-scale clouds (whose infrastructure is virtualised and shared) due to factors mainly include: heterogeneity of cloud resources, workload uncertainty, and performance interference. This thesis attempts to optimise allocation decisions made for cloud-hosted applications against the challenge of performance unpredictability by improving their resource efficiency while ensuring that each application can satisfy its performance objectives in a cost-efficient deployment. To this end, we follow a holistic approach to present our contributions through which we address each factor of the aforementioned challenge when designing allocation mechanisms to achieve optimal allocations that are efficient performance-, utilisation-, and cost-wise. Firstly, we devise a resource allocation framework that exploits and thus benefits from heterogeneity of cloud resources such that application performance is predictable despite of being running on heterogeneous resources with varying computing capacities. Then, we address the long-standing problem of resource over-provisioning in cloud datacenters in response to workload uncertainty. Finally, we design and built a QoS-aware resource controlling system that enables coordinated execution amongst multiple applications on shared resources, with which a potential performance interference can be mitigated.
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Gasiorowski, Laura. "THE ROLE OF KEY RESOURCE PROVIDERS IN NEW VENTURE RESOURCE ACQUISITION". Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/516028.
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Business Administration/Strategic ManagementD.B.A.
This dissertation consists of three essays examining how new ventures acquire knowledge and how the acquisition of knowledge influences new venture outcomes. In Essay 1, I focus on how network connections affect entrepreneur’s knowledge of the value of their idea and their decision to quit or persist. In Essay 2, I focus on knowledge diversity between the founding team and their peers, and how the interaction of knowledge affects quitting, acquisitions, and funding. In Essay 3, I focus on how a venture’s need for external knowledge and experience change over time as the venture develops. The first essay focuses on how entrepreneurs’ networks may affect their assessment of their venture’s potential and their decision to quit. I examine founder networks in entrepreneurial accelerator cohorts, and find that central ventures whose founding teams have greater access to information are more likely to quit. Consistent with my predictions, the results suggest that better access to information helps reduce uncertainties regarding the expected future returns of the venture. Similar to Lerner and Malmendier (2013), my findings suggest that with more information, founding teams revise expected future returns to a lower level than previously estimated, and this increases the likelihood that the venture will cease operations. I also find that the effect of network information on quitting is weakened by other internal and external sources of information. Specifically, the usefulness of information from networks and the likelihood of quitting diminishes when the entrepreneurs have prior founding experience and when the venture receives more external attention. Overall, this study sheds light on competing sources of information for new ventures and its implications for important firm outcomes. The second essay investigates how access to specific types of knowledge affects both new venture learning and competition, which influences the outcome trajectory of the venture. I find that the relative similarity between the founding team’s prior knowledge and the distribution of knowledge in the broader cohort influences venture outcomes. I find that startup teams with a high share of technical backgrounds in cohorts with a high share of founders with technical backgrounds are more likely to exit via quitting or acquisition, while technical teams in a cohort with a high share of entrepreneurial experience are also more likely to get VC funding. Similarly, startup teams with a high share of business backgrounds in a cohort with a high share of founders with business backgrounds are less likely to get VC funding, while the same team in a technical cohort is more likely to get VC funding. Overall, I highlight the significance of different types of knowledge – on the part of the founding teams and their peers—in shaping the ability of startups to navigate critical decisions regarding exit and financing. The third essay explores the type of expertise and connections founders bring in through the appointment of early directors and how this evolves over time. I argue that as new ventures face pressures to rapidly learn and evolve, it must be the case that they seek out different types of expertise along the way. But we have no systematic evidence of who they seek out, when they seek them, and the mechanisms through which this occurs. Using data on the human and social capital of board members in 1,200 new ventures in the Computer Software industry, I develop several stylized findings. I find several systematic patterns in the experience and connections of directors appointed over time as ventures move through different stages of development.
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Houle, James J. "Community decisions about innovations in water resource management and protection". Thesis, University of New Hampshire, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10000397.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the social, economic and technological factors that influence rates of adoption of innovative stormwater management approaches in municipal organizations in the Great Bay watershed, NH. The scope of this study was to investigate how innovations spread through municipal populations in a specific region and watershed area of the US. The methodology used mixed qualitative methods, including semi-structured interviews, case studies, and surveys to examine perceptions, attitudes, and beliefs that influence the adoption of innovative stormwater management solutions, as well as the governance characteristics of municipalities at different stages of adoption. Major findings include: adopter categories can be relatively easily and quickly categorized into early and late majorities as a preliminary means to identify populations of ready and willing audiences interested in and capable of advancing innovations; early and late adopter classifications followed general diffusion theory, but differed in substantial ways that could influence overall project or program success; and finally that early majority communities have more internal and external capacity to advance innovations as well as higher levels of peer-to-peer trust to offset perceptions related to economic risk that can either advance or stall innovative stormwater management solution adoption. This research offers insights on how to allocate scarce resources to optimally improve water quality through stormwater management solutions, and makes recommendations for how to effectively and efficiently generate greater understanding of complex barriers to adoption that thwart innovation in municipal governance organizations. One significant implication is that agents of change who want to move innovations through a broad municipal population should focus their efforts on working with innovators and early adopters that have status within relevant peer networks and who have capacity to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of innovations.
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Smith, Charity Ruth. "Sexuality education and resource management in the church setting". Thesis, Kansas State University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/38208.
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Master of ScienceSchool of Family Studies and Human Services
Karen S. Myers-Bowman
This study explores the link between resources and sexuality education within the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS). Six churches were involved in this study representing small, medium, and large congregations based on the full-time employed staff. Both church staff and volunteers were interviewed to learn the following: 1) What kind of sexuality education services does the church provide? 2) What are the sexuality education needs of the church membership? 3) What resources are necessary for providing sexuality education? 4) What are the barriers to providing sexuality education? The findings indicate that all churches were providing sexuality education; however, there were great variations. Each church also had unique resources and barriers for providing additional sexuality education for parishioners in various life stages. It was found that resources have a huge impact on the availability of sexuality education within a church setting. These resources were found to be tangible and intangible along with internal and external to the church.
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Gaspar, Tamas S. "Strategy-to-task resource management : application of hierarchies in Defense Resource Planning". Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1999. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA367961.
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Thesis (M.S. in Management) Naval Postgraduate School, June 1999."June 1999". Thesis advisor(s): Gregory Hildebrandt, Raymond E. Franck. Includes bibliographical references (p. 85-87). Also available online.
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Huang, Richard Yu-Hua. "Automatic resource specification generation for resource selection in large-scale distributed environments". Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2007. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3277802.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2007.Title from first page of PDF file (viewed October 10, 2007). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 168-173).
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Amachigh, Shina Lexy Fabian. "Teacher career in resource-deprived and resource-adequate high schools in Oklahoma /". Access abstract and link to full text, 1992. http://0-wwwlib.umi.com.library.utulsa.edu/dissertations/fullcit/9219062.
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Zhu, Hong. "Women as strategic resource and organization performance: a perspective of resource synergy". HKBU Institutional Repository, 2014. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/72.
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This thesis develops a new theoretical perspective (i.e., the resource synergy perspective) to explain how women in the workforce may help improve organization performance. Drawing upon this theoretical perspective, I study how women, as an important strategic human resource, can be better utilized with the resource synergy generated between women resources and certain synergy-relevant variables. Among the synergy-relevant variables, this perspective highlights the importance of organization strategy and leadership, because these two variables are developed based on organizational resources and should be contingent on the environmental and situational factors that are partly uncontrollable by an organization. In addition, the roles of organization culture as a type of environmental factor and task characteristics as a situational factor are also considered. To realize the research goals, I conduct two studies at different levels. In study 1, I propose that organizations can take advantage of women resources by increasing the proportion of women in the employees at the macro level. Moreover, I propose that organization strategy, culture, and task characteristic have coordinative and supportive effects on the increase of the proportion of women, leading to the generation of resource synergy. Specifically, I seek to prove that, with the coordination and coherence of these synergy-relevant variables (i.e., customer-oriented strategy), the culture of collectivism, and task complexity, women‘s resources can be better utilized. Thus, the generated synergy can bring greater competitive advantages for organizations and thus lead to higher organization financial performance. In study 2, I proceed to suggest that making full use of women resource at the micro level is also important. The resource synergy perspective provides a new explanation for the roles of inequality and leadership in the utilization of women resources in organizations. This study proposes that women‘s inequality perceptions have negative effects on their performance in organizations, thus preventing organizations from making full use of its important strategic resources and generating synergy. With these damaging effects, it is difficult for an organization to make full use of women resources and achieve competitive advantages. However, with a high level of leader-member exchange (LMX), which indicates high quality in leader-member relationships, female employees may still have the motivation to perform well. Thus, the negative effects of inequality can be attenuated and women resources can be better utilized with the synergistic effects of LMX. To test the above hypotheses, I conduct two empirical studies in China. The sample of study 1 includes 132 organizations from the service industry. Results of the hierarchical regression analysis support the positive effects of increasing the proportion of women on the organization‘s return on assets (ROA) but fail to support its positive relationship with market growth. The results also reveal that organization synergy-relevant variables such as customer-oriented strategy, the culture of collectivism, and task complexity do generate synergy with women resources. In other words, with the existence of these variables, the positive effects of the proportion of women on ROA and market growth are both enhanced. Study 2, which is conducted in organizations from four industries in China (i.e., chemistry, electronic, manufacturing, and hospitality), consists of 190 female employees and 51 matched leaders. Results of the hierarchical regression analysis show that organization inequality is negatively related to women‘s job-related performance and positively relates to their turnover intentions. In addition, LMX is found to positively moderate the effects of inequality on women‘s job-related performance and negatively moderates the effects on their turnover intentions. At the end of this thesis, the research‘s theoretical and managerial implications are discussed. This thesis makes six contributions to the literature: 1) It is among the first to specify that women are a type of strategic resource for organizations and provide systematic investigations on how to make full use of this resource. 2) This research deepens the understanding of women as a type of resources by identifying certain boundary conditions; i.e., the synergy-relevant variables. 3) This research develops a new perspective (i.e., the resource synergy perspective) to study the utilization of women as a strategic resource for organizations at multi levels. 4) This research should extend the literature of culture by identifying the role of collectivism in making use of women as a resource. 5) This research can also add to the literature of leadership by examining the role of LMX in making use of women resources. 6) This research provides a new theoretical perspective for the relationship between employees‘ inequality perceptions and their job performance. In addition to the theoretical implications, this research also provides useful knowledge for the management in organizations. First, based on the research findings, organizations should provide equal opportunity in employment for women and include more women in the workforce. Second, it is also critical to retain the existing female workforce through better talent management, thereby providing a work environment supporting the utilization of women resources. Based on the synergy relevant variables examined in this research, organizations should pay attention to their strategy, culture and task characteristics. It is important for organizations to consider about whether their culture supports the utilization of women resources or not. By the culture of high collectivism, organizations can provide a favorable work environment where women are more likely to be accepted and respected. Moreover, a strategy of customer orientation is beneficial for women resource to be deployed fully. Also organization should pay attention to place women in appropriate tasks. Third, this research highlights the importance of women‘s individual performance in realizing their value in organizations. It is vital for organizations and managers to improve women‘s equality perceptions within organizations. Moreover, managers and organizations should take measures to enhance the quality of leader-subordinate exchange relationship. Moreover, the strength and limitations of this research are also discussed. The research has several strengths. First, this research is theory-driven. Second, I conduct two empirical studies at multi-levels to address the issue of making full use of women in organizations. Third, the sample size is large in both studies (study 1, 132 organizations; study 2, 190 female employees and 51 matched leaders). Fourth, the threat of common method bias is further minimized because I collect the data of study 2 from both employees and their immediate supervisors. Fifth, I adopted the appropriate approaches to analyze the data and test the hypotheses. Finally, I try to suggest possible directions for future research on the utilization of women resources in organizations. Keywords: utilization of women resources, the proportion of women, inequality, resource synergy, performance
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Bareis, Luka. "Interstate resource conflicts : international networks and the realpolitik of natural resource acquisition". Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2018. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3783/.
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This work sets out to investigate the effects of natural resource conditions on interstate conflict. It is specifically concerned with understanding when states pursue a violent natural resource acquisition strategy and what the main factors explaining the choice between violent and non-violent resource acquisitions by states are. It has been hypothesized that conditions of natural resource scarcity and foreign resource concentrations have an impact on the conflict propensity of states; and furthermore, that the network level plays a fundamental role in conceptualising and assessing those conditions. In light of a large number of mechanisms posited in the literature, partly working in opposing directions, this study offers a conceptualization of resource conditions arising from threat and opportunity settings, a distinct multilevel resource access framework, and a structured approach to their empirical investigation. The main analysis is conducted in form of a fixed effects logistic model with standard errors clustered on the dyad-level and covering country-dyads of the period 1962-2010 with Military Interstate Dispute (MID) initiation as dependent variable. Overall, the findings of this research suggest that insights with regard to the resource conflict link could be enhanced by taking into account resource frameworks introduced in this work and the network level of analysis. In fact, significant support has been found for the conflict enhancing effect of resource scarcity conditions, especially so if conceptualized in form of perceived resource access security that is nested in the network dimension. With regard to foreign resource conditions this study identifies the costs of conquest as a key factor, even though empirical support is somewhat lower. The reason for this may be the opposing effect of the strategic oil hypothesis for which this analysis also finds considerable support, especially when captured through the network level. Overall, it appears that the conflict-related dynamics arising from a resource threat setting are stronger than those arising from an opportunity setting. The concepts and empirical findings of this study also have significant implications for the direction of future research as they shift the focus from resource ownership to resource access, and ultimately add to the understanding of the causes of war in general. In summary, the empirical findings of this study support that: 1. A conceptual distinction needs to be made between the set of mechanisms associated with resource scarcity (desperate predator mechanisms) and those associated with foreign resource concentrations (greedy predator mechanisms). This distinction is important because each set of mechanisms is nested in a different setting, threat vs. opportunity, respectively. As a result the underlying dynamics with regard to the nexus between resource conditions to interstate conflicts over resources are distinct. This has implications for the key aspects to consider under each set. 2. Resource scarcity should be framed in form of perceived resource access security when investigating scarcity-induced conflicts over resources. This implies a shift of focus from ‘how much’ to ‘who has control or access. Importantly, this means that even in face of general resource abundance, situations of individual resource scarcity are very possible and even likely. 3. The main dimension for assessing resource access security is the trade dimension, more specifically the degree of security with regard to imports of resources. 4. Access security through imports should be conceptualized in terms of embeddedness within global resource trade networks. 5. Unlike resource scarcity, conflicts associated with conditions of foreign resource concentrations should be assessed in terms of the degree to which such concentrations are perceived as an opportunity for conquest. 6. In addition to risks, the main dimension for assessing a resource acquisition opportunity is the degree of costs relative to benefits. 7. The network level appears to be helpful for assessing the degree to which a foreign resource concentration is perceived as opportunity, because it is able to (1) address the major risk factor associated predominantly with this resource-conflict mechanism, namely that of resource importer intervention; and (2) extend the assessment of potential benefits and costs beyond those only associated with the target state directly.
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sapkota, saroj. "EFFICIENT RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ON EMBEDDED DEVICES VIA ISOLATION AND ADAPTIVE RESOURCE ALLOCATION". OpenSIUC, 2021. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2831.
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The advent of Chip Multiprocessor (CMP) with high performance, compact size and power efficiency has made many engineering marvel possible. CMPs has played great role in industrial automation, autonomous vehicle, embedded AI, and medical prognosis. In industrial autonomy or in autonomous vehicle there are many critical task which has to be run in isolation without any interference and delay. Virtualization software (Hypervisors) are being used for application isolation in CMPs. Hypervisors such as XEN, KVM are fully fledged hypervisor with many features and have their own scheduling scheme thus, scheduling overhead. In this thesis we used light-weight partitioning hypervisor known as Jailhouse in order to provide isolation to critical task. From our experiment we see that Jailhouse provide better isolation without any scheduling overhead which is suitable for real time application. As Jailhouse partition available resources among cells without any emulation, the number of cell we can create is limited. Also, the resources from root cell (which runs Linux) get divided and application running on it may suffer from resource constraints. We purpose adaptive offloading in order to address this issue which shows performance and quality improvement. We also explore deep learning and its implementation in edge computing device. The availability of GPUs and large data set made it possible to use deep learning state-of-art in many fields computer vision, medical diagnosis, image processing, surveillance, etc. It is evident that deep learning consists of two parts training and inferencing, both of these are power and compute intensive. We implemented YOLOV3 object detection state-of-art algorithm in NVIDIA AGX Xavier. We utilized Tensor and NVDLA cores in the Xavier using NVIDIA TensorRT and CUDA library. This has resulted more than 100% improvement in performance and significant decrease in power consumption from original YOLOV3 in FP16 precision. We explorer FP16 and INT8 precision with TensorRT, and DLA. INT8 precision further optimizes the performance and power with some compromise in accuracy. Our results shows, we can optimize inference engine by using TensorRT and DLA in edge computing device like Jetson Xavier.
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Seres, Sandu. "Resource recovery from MSW fly ash : Resource recovery from MSW fly ash". Thesis, Umeå universitet, Kemiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-154377.
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Godwin-Opara, Margaret N. "A Resource-Based Perspective on Financial Resource Strategies for Small Business Sustainability". ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2819.
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Each year entrepreneurs start many new businesses, and some of these businesses will fail within the first 2 years. In addition, many owners will cite lack of adequate financial resources as a contributory factor to the failure. The purpose of this multiple case study was to identify the strategies that some small business owners used to obtain financial resources needed to operate a financially sustainable business. The population consisted of machine shops in South Central Kansas. A resource-based view theory served as the conceptual framework that grounded the study. The data collection process consisted of 9 interview questions. The data analysis process entailed using coding techniques to identify keywords, phrases, and concepts. Member checking ensured the credibility and trustworthiness of the data interpretation and analysis. The process led to the following 4 themes: (a) the role of access to financial resources in business success, (b) strategies used when external funding is not available or desirable, (c) strategies used to obtain external financing, and (d) challenges faced in obtaining external financing. The implications for positive social change include the potential to provide new insights to support existing and prospective entrepreneurs in their efforts to obtain financial resources needed to operate a financially sustainable business. The findings from the study may contribute to the prosperity and benefit of the owners, their employees, the local community, and the U.S. economy.
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Benfatto, Maria Chiara. "Human Resource Information Systems and the performance of the Human Resource Function". Doctoral thesis, Luiss Guido Carli, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11385/200739.
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Historical overview – From transactional HR to Strategic HR. Benefits and Drawbacks. Empirical studies in HRIS. Elements of current technology in HRM. Trends in the HR technology. Impact of the HR integrated model. HR specialist systems in the back-office. Self-Service and Shared Service Systems. The integrated management of HRIS. Research Model. Rational and Design.
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Larsen, Rasmus Klocker. "Dialogue and revolution : fostering legitimate stakeholder agency in natural resource governance". Doctoral thesis, Wageningen University, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-69503.
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This thesis explores how people exert their agency in policy processes that pertain to natural resource governance, and how they construct the required sense of legitimacy for such actions. It also examines the manner in which facilitated multi-stakeholder processes foster legitimate stakeholder agency, and reflects on how they may ensure the rigour of research interventions in situations characterised by intractable uncertainty and controversy.Contents:Chapter I. Introduction. Chapter 2-7: 6 papers. Chapter 8: Discussion and synthesis
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Davidsson, Simon. "Natural resources and sustainable energy : Growth rates and resource flows for low-carbon systems". Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Naturresurser och hållbar utveckling, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-301930.
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Large-scale deployment of low-carbon energy technologies is important for counteracting anthropogenic climate change and achieving universal energy access. This thesis explores potential growth rates of technologies necessary to reach a more sustainable global energy system, the material and energy flows required to commission these technologies, and potential future availability of the required resources. These issues are investigated in five papers. Potential future growth rates of wind energy and solar photovoltaics, and the associated material requirements are explored, taking the expected service life of these technologies into account. Methodology for assessing net energy return and natural resource use for wind energy systems are analyzed. Potential future availability of lithium and phosphate rock are also investigated. Estimates of energy and materials required for technologies such as wind energy and photovoltaics vary, and depend on the assumptions made and methods used. Still, it is clear that commissioning of low-carbon technologies on the scale required to reach and sustain a low-carbon energy system in coming decades requires significant quantities of both bulk materials and scarcer resources. For some technologies, such as thin film solar cells and electric vehicles with lithium-ion batteries, availability of materials could become an issue for potential growth rates. Future phosphate rock production could become highly dependent on few countries, and potential political, social and environmental aspects of this should be investigated in more detail. Material and energy flows should be considered when analyzing growth rates of low-carbon technologies. Their estimated service life can indicate sustainable growth rates of technologies, as well as when materials are available for end-of-life recycling. Resource constrained growth curve models can be used to explore future production of natural resources. A higher disaggregation of these models can enable more detailed analysis of potential constraints. This thesis contributes to the discussion on how to create a more sustainable global energy system, but the methods to assess current and future energy and material flows, and availability of natural resources, should be further developed in the future.
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Carney, Donald P. "Application-aware resource scheduling /". View online version; access limited to Brown University users, 2005. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3174582.
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Vong, Tze Ngai. "Managing human resource development". Thesis, University of Macau, 2000. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b1636787.
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Wassermann, Renata. "Resource-bounded belief revision". Amsterdam : Amsterdam : Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam ; Universiteit van Amsterdam [Host], 2000. http://dare.uva.nl/document/83874.
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Murray, Jason Hastings. "Constrained marine resource management". Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2007. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3274515.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2007.Title from first page of PDF file (viewed October 3, 2007). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 68-72).
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Lundy, Olive. "Strategic human resource management". Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.292572.
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Halabe, Vijaya Bhatta. "Resource modeling for DAT". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/11368.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1995.Includes bibliographical references (v. 2, leaves 209-210).
by Vijaya Bhatta Halabe.
Ph.D.
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Smith, Scott T. (Scott Thomas) 1976. "Scalable distributed resource location". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/47618.
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Thesis (S.B. and M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1998.Includes bibliographical references (p. 45).
by Scott T. Smith.
S.B.and M.Eng.
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Duncan, Niall James. "Mapping Scotland's hydropower resource". Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9664.
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Increased renewable electricity generation is key to the reduction of carbon emissions and has the added benefit of reducing reliance on imported gas and coal while increasing diversity of the generation mix. To encourage development of renewable generation the Scottish Government has adopted an ambitious 100% renewable electricity generation target to be met by 2020. Although hydropower has generally been considered insignificant in a UK context, when forming part of a Scottish target the resource becomes much more significant as the majority of the UK’s existing capacity and potential for new capacity is located within Scotland. Scotland has a long history of hydropower development with the majority of current operational capacity installed during the mid 20th century. Recent studies have produced a range of estimates for the remaining resource from 286 to 1000 MW. The studies undertaken have tended to rely upon catchment analogue methods or the use of regression equations to produce estimates of flow at sites of interest, with simple assumptions of installation costs and energy yield. This work uses a novel method combining time series flow data produced from a distributed hydrological model with GIS techniques and a detailed parametric cost model to enable a state-of-the-art hydropower resource model to be developed. The use of time series flow data allowed investigation of the spatial and temporal characteristics of the resource to be made, both run-of-river and impoundment schemes to be investigated and a preliminary assessment of the impact of climate change to be performed. Three financial scenarios have been considered using 5%, 10% and 15% discount rates as this is the most sensitive variable when assessing the feasibility of hydropower projects, reflecting the cost of finance available and investors’ attitude to risk. The spread of discount rates will account for changes in available subsidies, electricity prices and ongoing costs. Clearly availability of low cost finance and a low risk subsidy environment will have the largest impact on hydropower development. A major limiting factor was found to be the cost of grid connection; if this were reduced the potential figure could be higher. The results of this work show that at a 10% discount rate, 440 MW of new run-of river hydropower potential capable of producing 1.7 TWh per year is available. Exploitation of this would represent an additional 4% contribution towards the Scottish Government’s 100% renewable electricity target.
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Ruivo, Pedro Miguel Fernandes. "Lean enterprise resource planning". Master's thesis, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/5921.
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Dissertação apresentada na Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova
de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia e Gestão IndustrialThis essay focus on Lean Management domain, following the ERP business application perspective linked with Lean Supply Chain, Lean Manufacturing and Lean Accounting, build on an electronic equipment manufacture company. Lean authors, consultants, managers and thinkers were studied to select and adopt the best Lean strategies taking in account the traditional business management ERP tool. The detected gaps were eliminated and/or reduced by developing solutions and adopting techniques based on Lean principles. Lean manufacturing practices were extended into the supply chain contributing now as a horizontal collaboration tool to all enterprise management functions,vendors and customers. Implementing Lean Accounting techniques allowed an increase of the stream value return, especially in terms of better capacity management capabilities,due decision make based also on non financial metrics. Due these Lean solutions, the company ERP system can be streamlined to perform the business shift and one of the most important enterprise assets can meet the strategic goals defined for Lean Enterprise Resource Planning. Therefore this assay proposes the implementation of this Lean strategy to turn into a lean company, more agile and proactive, to rapidly address the constant changes in business landscape.