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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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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.
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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.
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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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Byrd, Lawrence Allen. "The public land manager in collaborative conservation planing: a comparative analysis of three case studies in Montana." Diss., [Missoula, Mont.] : The University of Montana, 2009. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-06122009-134838.
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Wallaker, Mark. "Unconventional Natural Resources." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Geofysik, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-226068.
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Hocking, Ian. "Resources and parsing." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.275903.
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Lanfranco, Garrido Lecca Fernando. "Tahoe Resources - Valorización." Master's thesis, Universidad del Pacífico, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11354/1148.
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El presente trabajo tiene por objeto valorizar Tahoe Resources Inc., una sociedad minera canadiense dedicada a la producción de metales preciosos (oro y plata) en América. En cuanto a su estructura, el presente trabajo se divide en ocho capítulos. Los primeros cuatro capítulos tienen como propósito presentar las particularidades de la compañía y de la industria a la que pertenece, así como las condiciones que ambas enfrentan en los ambientes internacional, regional y doméstico. En los siguientes cuatro capítulos se presentan los principales ratios financieros de Tahoe (liquidez, gestión, rentabilidad y solvencia) y los supuestos para la valorización de la compañía. También se describen y aplican los métodos para la valorización de Tahoe, como el método de flujos descontados y el de valorización relativa o por múltiplos, los cuales permiten determinar el valor por acción para, finalmente, concluir si, dadas las circunstancias, es recomendable o no invertir en dicho título.
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Minnion, Anton Roscoe. "Crowsdsourcing semantic resources." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2015. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/2013923/.
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Finding easier and less resource-intensive ways of building knowledge resources is necessary to help broaden the coverage and use of semantic web technologies. Crowdsourcing presents a means through which knowledge can be efficiently acquired to build semantic resources. Crowds can be identified that represent communities whose knowledge could be used to build domain ontologies. This work presents a knowledge acquisition approach aimed at incorporating ontology engineering tasks into community crowd activity. The success of this approach is evaluated by the degree to which a crowd consensus is reached regarding the description of the target domain. Two experiments are described which test the effectiveness of the approach. The first experiment tests the approach by using a crowd that is aware of the knowledge acquisition task. In the second experiment, the crowd is unaware of the knowledge acquisition task and is motivated to contribute through the use of an interactive map. The results of these two experiments show that a similar consensus is reached from both experiments, suggesting that the approach offered provides a valid mechanism for incorporating knowledge acquisition tasks into routine crowd activity.
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Kurdziolek, Margaret Angela. "Classroom resources and impact on learning." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/28687.
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In the past, educators and policy makers believed that by providing more resources they could directly improve student-learning outcomes. To their frustration, this turns out not to be entirely true. Resources may be necessary but they are not sufficient. Resources themselves are not self-enacting, that is, they do not make change inevitable. Differences in their effects depend on differences in their use. This is also true in the case of educational technologies. As developers of these technologies we need to understand how resources fit within the classroom environment as enacted and how they can be effectively used to increase student learning.
I report on four case studies conducted within the context of the Scaling-Up SimCalc study. In the study, â treatmentâ teachers were given a set of new resources to use: a combination of curriculum, educational software, and teacher professional development. â Delayed treatmentâ (control) teachers were asked to use their usual curriculum. Year-one study results demonstrated by randomized controlled testing the successful use of technology in class settings; however, there was little information on how the students and teachers actually interacted with the resources.
Case study classrooms were selected to examine the effects of variation of computational resource arrangements: one utilized a computer lab, two used mobile laptop carts, and one used a laptop connected to a projector. The first round coding and analysis shows that the observed classrooms varied not only in their classroom set-ups but also in how teachers and students interacted with the software, the workbooks, and with one another. The variety of resource interaction points to the robustness of the SimCalc project: students and teachers can interact with the SimCalc resources in a variety of ways and still achieve student-learning gains. However, through subsequent review and analysis of the observation data five themes emerged. These themes suggest commonalities in classrooms practices surrounding the use of resources. Two new theoretical constructs, â socio-physical resource richnessâ and â resource use withitnessâ , help describe (1) physical and social arrangements of resources and (2) how teachers and students manage resource use.Ph. D.
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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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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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Abrahams, Zerelda. "Illegitimate tasks, personal resources and job resources as antecedents of job crafting." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/96093.
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Thesis (MCom)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In the modern world of work, there has been growing concern regarding the adequacy of traditional job redesign approaches in serving the changing nature of work. It has specifically been argued by Frese and Fay (2001) that in the modern world of work, jobs require a higher degree of initiative due to factors such as global competition, faster rate of innovation, new production concepts, and changes in the job concept. The modern world of work poses a number of challenges which include increased levels of initiative by employees in order to develop their knowledge and skills in order to remain ‘current’, creative ideas, and an increased need for employees to make more and more decisions on their own. In order to survive in today’s challenging market place, employees thus should show high levels of proactivity and initiative. Job crafting is the process by which individuals make physical and cognitive changes to the task or relational boundaries of their work (Wrzesniewski & Dutton, 2001). It is proactive behaviour requiring adaptation to challenges and constraints presented by the working environment. It thus would be useful to be aware of the most important factors that contribute to the occurrence of such proactive behaviours. The objective of this research study therefore was to test whether salient job and personal resources, and job demands as depicted by the Job Demands-Resources model account for the variance in job crafting for a sample of employees working within the financial services industry. A literature review was conducted and hypotheses were formulated, and tested by means of an ex post facto correlation design. Data was collected from a sample of 236 employees employed by a company within the financial services industry. A self-administered web-based survey was used for the purpose of collecting the data and participation in the study was voluntary. The data collected was strictly confidential and anonymous. A number of separate measurement instruments to measure the specific latent variables were carefully selected for inclusion in the survey based on their reliability and validity. The research findings specifically illustrate that employees who receive feedback on their performance as well as those who are engaged in their jobs, are more likely to craft their jobs. The results also show that engagement mediates the relationship between autonomy and job crafting, as well as the relationship between feedback and job crafting (the latter being mediated only partially by engagement). Finally, it was found that proactive personality was positively related to job crafting. The research findings therefore illustrate the importance of specific job- and personal resources in fostering job crafting behaviours. The results, together with the managerial implications and practical interventions suggested, provide South African managers and industrial psychologists with valuable insight into managing and encouraging job crafting within the workplace. This research study commenced only once ethical clearance was received from the Research Ethics Committee of Stellenbosch University.
AFRIKAANS OPSOMMING: In die moderne wêreld van werk is daar toenemende kommer oor die geskiktheid van die tradisionele herontwerp van werk en hoe dit gepaard gaan met die veranderende aard van werk. Frese en Fay (2001) het spesifiek aangedui dat in die moderne wêreld van werk, 'n hoër mate van inisiatief vereis word as gevolg van faktore soos wêreldwye mededinging, vinniger tempo van innovering, nuwe produksie konsepte, en veranderinge in die konsep van werk. Die moderne wêreld van werk verg baie meer van individue, wat onder andere insluit hoër vlakke van inisiatief deur werknemers om hul kennis en vaardighede te ontwikkel om sodoende op datum te bly met tegnologiese veranderinge, kreatiewe idees, en 'n verhoogde behoefte vir werknemers om meer en meer besluite op hul eie te neem. Om dus in vandag se uitdagende wereld van werk te oorleef, word dit van werknemers verwag om hoë vlakke van pro-aktiwiteit en inisiatief te toon. ‘Job crafting’ is die proses waardeur individue fisiese en kognitiewe veranderinge in hul werks take en -verhoudinge aanbring (Wrzesniewski & Dutton, 2001). Dit is pro-aktiewe gedrag wat werknemers help om aan te pas by die uitdagings wat deur die moderne werksomgewing daargestel word. Dit sal dus voordelig wees om bewus te wees van die belangrikste faktore wat bydra tot hierdie pro-aktiewe gedrag in die werksplek. Die doel van hierdie navorsing was dus om te toets of belangrike werks- en persoonlike hulpbronne, en werks-vereistes soos deur die ‘Job Demands-Resources’ model voorgestel, ‘n waardevolle verduideliking is vir verskillende vlakke van ‘job crafting’ vir 'n groep in die finansiele bedryf. 'n Literatuuroorsig is uitgevoer en hipoteses geformuleer wat deur middel van 'n ex post facto-korrelasie-ontwerp getoets is. Data is ingesamel vanuit 'n streekproef van 236 werknemers van 'n maatskappy in die finansiële bedryf. 'n Self-toegepaste web-gebaseerde vraelys is vir die versameling van data gebruik en deelname aan die studie was vrywillig. Die dataversameling was streng vertroulik and anoniem. 'n Aantal afsonderlike metingsinstrumente om die spesifieke latente veranderlikes te meet, is noukeurig op grond van geldigheid en betroubaarheid gekies en ingesluit in die opname ingesluit. Die navorsings resultate illustreer dat wanneer werknemers terugvoering ontvang oor hul prestasie sowel as diegene wat betrokke is in hul werk, meer geneig is om hul werk te ‘craft’. Die resultate toon ook dat betrokkenheid die verhouding tussen outonomie en ‘job crafting’ bemiddel, sowel as die verhouding tussen terugvoering en job crafting (laasgenoemde word net gedeeltelik deur betrokkenheid bemiddel). Ten slotte, is daar gevind dat ‘n pro-aktiewe persoonlikheid n positiewe verwantskap met ‘job crafting’ het. Die navorsing illustreer dus die belangrikheid van spesifieke werks- en persoonlike hulpbronne in die bevordering van ‘job crafting’. Die resultate, tesame met die bestuurs-implikasies en praktiese ingrypings wat voorgestel word, bied Suid-Afrikaanse bestuurders en bedryfsielkundiges met waardevolle insigte in die bestuur en aanmoediging van ‘job crafting’ binne die werkplek. Hierdie navorsingstudie was voortgesit toe etiese klaring ontvang is van die Etiekkomitee van die Universiteit van Stellenbosch.
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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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Cater, Charles. "Corporations, Resources and War." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.503955.
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Hawley, K. M. "Strategic resources of Iraq." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/27287.
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MendonÃa, Luiz Alberto Ribeiro. "Water resources of Araripe." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2001. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=15908.
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nÃo hÃCom a finalidade de entender o funcionamento dos aqÃÃferos da Chapada do Araripe, quantificar suas reservas e avaliar a vulnerabilidade à poluiÃÃo, foram aplicados, na ausÃncia de dados hidrogeolÃgicos e hidrolÃgicos sistematizados, mÃtodos de hidrogeologia, hidroquÃmica, hidrologia isotÃpica, edafologia, ecologia e modelagem numÃrica. Os resultados sÃo interpretados sinoticamente. Foram feitos (i) a avaliaÃÃo da geologia, (ii) a interpretaÃÃo de medidas quÃmica e isotÃpica (O-18, C-13, H-3 e C-14) das Ãguas, (iii) o estudo da matÃria orgÃnica dos solos (importante agente na recarga) utilizando os isÃtopos N-15 e C-13, (iv) o cÃlculo da capacidade de infiltraÃÃo, em solos de diferentes formaÃÃes florestais, utilizando o modelo de GREEN e AMPT, (v) a simulaÃÃo do fluxo subterrÃneo utilizando os modelos computacionais MODFLOW e MODPATH e (vi) a obtenÃÃo dos Ãndices de vulnerabilidade à poluiÃÃo utilizando o mÃtodo de FOSTER e HIRATA. Verificou-se, desta maneira, a intima interrelaÃÃo entre hidrologia, climatologia e ecologia da chapada. Na porÃÃo leste, Ãrea de floresta e de pluviosidade elevada, as Ãguas do Sistema AqÃÃfero Superior sÃo jovens (tempo de residÃncia de ≈ 180 anos e δ 18O≈ -3,24 â) derivadas de chuvas atuais (δ 18O ≈ -3,2 â), enquanto na porÃÃo oeste, mais seca e com vegetaÃÃo rala, encontra-se paleo-Ãguas (pmC ≈ 25,5, ≈10.932 anos) marcadas ainda pelo clima pleistocÃnico mais frio (δ 18O ≈ -5 â). Na primeira Ãrea, a recarga à avaliada em ≈ 4 % da precipitaÃÃo anual; porem, as anÃlises de solos indicam uma reduÃÃo da capacidade de infiltraÃÃo para somente 20 % em Ãreas desmatadas, ilustrando a forte influÃncia de mudanÃas da cobertura vegetal sobre o balanÃo hÃdrico (e a vazÃo das fontes) da chapada. A reserva permanente do Sistema AqÃÃfero Superior, calculada pelo MODFLOW, à de 13 * 109 m3/ano, a reserva reguladora de 21,4 * 106 m3/ano e a infiltraÃÃo profunda atravÃs de fraturas no aquiclude Santana de 3 * 105 m3/ano. A porÃÃo leste, à de moderada vulnerabilidade à poluiÃÃo, com exceÃÃo da falha de Jardim que à de alta vulnerabilidade. A porÃÃo oeste apresenta-se de baixa vulnerabilidade, com exceÃÃo da falha nas proximidades dos poÃos SerrolÃndia I e II que à de moderada vulnerabilidade. Os barreiros estÃo em estado sanitÃrio muito ruim e constituem a entrada principal de poluiÃÃo para a Ãgua subterrÃnea
The objectives of this research were to understand the aquifers of the Araripe Plateau, quantify their resources, and assess their vulnerability to pollution. In order to address the lack of hydrologic and hydrogeologic data, methods from various areas were employed (hydrogeology, hydrochemistry, isotope hydrology, soil science, ecology and numerical modeling). Results are interpreted in a synoptic way. We performed (i) geologic analysis, (ii) chemical and isotopic analyses (O-18, C-13, H-3 and C-14) of water samples, (iii) studied organic material in soils (important to recharge) using N-15 and C-13, (iv) determined the capacity of infiltration for soils with different vegetation using the GREEN and AMPT model, (v) performed MODFLOW and MODPATH simulations of groundwater flow, and (vi) vulnerability study (FOSTER and HIRATA). In this fashion, an intimate relationship between hydrology, climate and ecology was verified for the Araripe Plateau. In the eastern section, with forests and elevated rainfall, waters of the Upper Aquifer System are young (residence time ≈ 180 years) and are derived from present day rainfall, whereas in the western section, with low rainfall and sparse vegetation, paleo-waters (pmC ≈ 25,5, ≈10.932 years) are found, identified by its colder pleistocenic climate (δ 18O ≈ -5 â). In the first area, recharge is estimated to be ≈ 4 % of annual rainfall. However, for areas of deforestation, soil analyses indicate a reduction in the infiltration capacity to only 20 %, illustrating the strong influence of changes in vegetation on the water balance (and the discharge of springs) of the Plateau. MODFLOW simulations calculate for the Upper Aquifer System permanent reserves of 13*109 m3/year, regulating reserves of 21,4*106 m3/year, and a deep percolation, through fractures in the aquiclude Santana, to the Cariri Valley of 3*105 m3/year. With respect to vulnerability, the eastern section is moderate, with exception of the fault of Jardim which is highly vulnerable. The western section of the Araripe Plateau presents low vulnerability, but increasing to moderate in the area of the wells Serrolandia I and II. The ponds (âbarreirosâ) of the Plateau are of very poor sanitary condition and represent critical spots for aquifer pollution
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Moser, Michele R. "Resources Available to Everyone." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5005.
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Dean, Caroline Elizabeth. "Statistics for electronic resources." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14704.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 67-74).Electronic resources represent a large portion of many libraries' information resources in the current climate of hybrid libraries where print and electronic formats coexist. Since the dramatic uptake of electronic resources in libraries during the 1990's the topic of usage statistics has been on librarians' lips. The expectations that librarians had of being able to compare resources based on usage statistics were soon dashed as it became apparent that electronic resource providers were not measuring usage uniformly. Given the initial disappointments that librarians had in terms of electronic resource usage statistics the author set out to find the reasons why librarians were keeping statistics for electronic resources, which statistics they were keeping for electronic resources, and what were the issues and concerns with regard to statistics for electronic resources. To get an international answer to these questions a literature review was undertaken. The South African point of view was sought through an e-mail survey that was sent out to the 23 South African academic libraries that form the South African National Library and Information Consortium (SANLiC). A 65% response rate was recorded. The international and South African answers to the three questions were very similar. The study found that the reasons why librarians keep electronic resources statistics were to "assess the value of different online products/services"; to "make better-informed purchasing decisions"; to "plan infrastructure and allocation of resources"; and to "support internal marketing and promotion of library services". The study also found that the statistics that librarians were keeping are: sessions, searches, documents downloaded, turnaways, location of use, number of electronic resources, expenditure and virtual visits. The number of virtual visits was kept by international libraries but no South African libraries reported keeping this information. The concerns that were raised by both international and South African libraries were found to be about: the continued lack of standardisation; the time-consuming nature of data collection; the reliability of the usage data; the fact that the data need to be looked at in context; the management of the data; and how to count electronic resources. Clear definitions of the latter are essential. A concern raised in South Africa but not in the international literature is that there exists a lack of understanding amongst some South African librarians of the basic concepts of electronic resources usage statistics. The author concludes with a suggestion that the CHELSA Measures for Quality be implemented so that librarians can see that the collection of usage data for electronic resources has some purpose. Once this is in place one or more training events under the auspices of SANLiC should be organised in order to train librarians in the best practice of electronic resource usage statistics.
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Williams, L. K. "Polyurethanes from renewable resources." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2013. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/4358/.
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A series of polyurethane (PU) and polyurethane-urea (PUU) elastomers derived from a renewable source have been synthesised and characterised extensively. Comparisons have been made to analogous series of elastomers utilising petroleum derived diisocyanates. The renewable elastomers utilised a difuranic diisocyanate (DFDI) derived from furfural, a readily available raw material synthesised from agricultural waste. DFDI was synthesised using a modified version of a published procedure, utilising triphosgene for the formation of the diisocyanate. The reaction kinetics of the diisocyanates used were compared using an adiabatic temperature rise technique in both catalysed and uncatalysed reactions, showing that DFDI reacts at approximately one fifteenth the rate of MDI with primary alcohols. The polyurethane series comprised MDI/DFDI and 1,4-butanediol (BD) hard segments (HS) and polytetrahydrofuran (PTHF) soft segments (SS) at 1, 2 and 2.9 kDa molecular weights. The PUU series utilised the 2kDa PTHF SS and the amine precursor to the diisocyanate, in effect simulating the HS produced in a water blown (polyurethane-urea) foam. In all PU elastomers the DFDI variants displayed much greater degrees of phase separation as evidenced by lower soft segment (SS) Tgs observed by both DSC and DMTA measurements, greater invariants observed in SAXS frames, more SS crystallinity observed in WAXS data and a much more clearly defined morphology observed in tapping mode AFM images. Crystallinity within the SS was found to be much higher in DFDI based elastomers, whereas crystalline hard segments were only observed in MDI based PU elastomers and was more pronounced at higher HS contents and at lower SS molecular weights. The PUU elastomers showed very clear morphologies in AFM images but were found to possess a lower degree of phase separation overall, agreeing with previous literature suggesting that the stronger hydrogen bonding of urea groups can hinder phase separation.
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Hashemian, Mozhdeh. "Optimizing Police Resources Deployment." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/35378.
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The Ottawa Police Service (OPS) deploys its resources based on the needs of predefined zones. However, the current zoning approach has been acknowledged as inefficient due to negative impacts on costs, proficiency, quality of services and time management. The zoning approach has also been acknowledged as inefficient due to its static nature, its inflexibility and its inability to adjust systematically according to the number of currently available police vehicles. It also cannot assist in addressing demand changes throughout the day in order to reduce call responses in neighbouring zones. Therefore, the demand variation could lead to a significant decrease in police efficiency, since those officers who have been allocated to other
zones are not able to participate in events outside their zones without permission. It may cause a high volume of waiting calls and increased response time depending on the time of day, shifts, seasons, etc. Hence, the OPS needs to find a new model for resource deployment that can provide the same coverage but with better service quality.
Resource allocation has always been a challenge for emergency services like police, fire emergency, and ambulance services since it has a direct impact on the efficiency and effectiveness of the service activities. The ambulance and fire emergency services have received research attention while the optimization of police resources remains largely ignored. While there are many similarities between ambulance and police deployment there are also significant differences that mean the direct transfer of ambulance models to police deployment is not feasible.
This research addresses the lack of an effective tool for the deployment of police resources. We develop a simulation model that analyzes potential deployment plans in order to determine their effect on response times. The model has been developed in partnership with the Ottawa Police Service (OPS) and will address the obstacles, disadvantages, and geographical constraints of the existing allocation model. The OPS needs to align deployment with the service demand and their operational goals (response times, visibility, workload, compliance, etc.).
Repositioning police vehicles in real time, helps in responding to future calls more effectively without adding more officers.
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中島, 誠., and 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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Falcao, de Jesus Manuel Jose Romao Xavier. "Civil war and natural resources : a quantitative approach." Thesis, Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/1140.
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Herrera, Catalán Pedro, and Oscar Millones. "Estimating the Cost of Mining Pollution on Water Resources: Parametric and Nonparametric Resources." Economía, 2012. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/117289.
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This study estimates the economic costs of mining pollution on water resources for the years 2008 and 2009 based on the conceptual framework of Environmental Efficiency. This framework identifies such costs as the mining companies’ trade-off between increasing production that is saleable at market prices (desirable output) and reducing the environmental pollution that emerges from the production process (undesirable output). These economic costs were calculated from parametric and non parametric production possibility frontiers for 28 and 37 mining units in 2008 and 2009, respectively, which were under the purview of the National Campaign for Environmental Monitoring of Effluent and Water Resources, conducted by the Energy and Mining Investment Supervisory Agency (Osinergmin) in those years. The results show that the economic cost of mining pollution on water resources rose to U.S. $ 814.7 million and U.S. $ 448.8 million for 2008 and 2009, respectively. These economic costs were highly concentrated in a few mining units, within a few pollution parameters, and were also higher in mining units with average/low mineral production. Taking into consideration that at present the fine and penalty system in the mining sector is based on administrative criteria, this study proposes a System of Environmentally Efficient Sanctions based on economic criteria so as to establish a preventive mechanism for pollution. It is hoped that this mechanism will generate the necessary incentives for mining companies to address the negative externalities that emerge from their production process.En este estudio se aproximan los costos económicos de la contaminación ambiental minera sobre los recursos hídricos para 2008 y 2009 en el marco conceptual de la Eficiencia Medioambiental, que interpreta dichos costos como el trade-off de los empresarios mineros entre incrementar su producción que es vendible a precios de mercado (output deseable) yreducir la contaminación ambiental que se desprende de su proceso productivo (output no deseable). Dichos costos económicos fueron calculados a partir de fronteras de posibilidades de producción paramétricas y no paramétricas para 28 y 37 unidades mineras en los años 2008 y 2009 respectivamente, las que estuvieron bajo el ámbito de la Campaña Nacional deMonitoreo Ambiental de Efluentes y Recursos Hídricos que realizó el Organismo Supervisor de Inversión Energía y Minería (Osinergmin) en dichos años. Los resultados indican que los costos económicos de la contaminación ambiental minera sobre los recursos hídricos ascendieron, en promedio, para los años 2008 y 2009, a US$ 814,7 millones,y US$ 448,8 millones, respectivamente. Dichos costos estuvieron altamente concentrados en pocas unidades productivas, así como en pocos parámetros de contaminación, y fueron mayores en unidades mineras con producción media/baja de minerales. Dado que en la actualidad el sistema de multas y sanciones en el sector minero se basa en criterios administrativos, el estudio propone un Sistema de Sanciones Ambientalmente Eficiente basado en criterios económicos
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Deese, Marilyn Nicole. "Testing an extention [sic] of the job demands-resources model the addition of personal resources as mediators to the resources-engagement relationship /." Connect to this title online, 2009. http://etd.lib.clemson.edu/documents/1252423820/.
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Singh, Jaidev. "State-making and community-based natural resource management : cases of the Vhimba CAMPFIRE Project (Zimbabwe) and the Chimanimani Transfrontier Conservation Area (Mozambique) /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/5532.
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Huang, Xi. "Improve the innovation resources agglomeration capacity of Shanghai." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-31723.
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Since the 21st century, with the further development of globalization, innovation resources came into an open innovation era. Innovation resources can flow freely in a global scale. In the process of flow, innovation resources agglomeration in some cities, makes these cities become the global science and technology innovation center. Innovation has become the most important source of competitive advantage, and building innovative capacity can provide a strong impetus for the comprehensive competitiveness and economic prosperity (Porter & Stern, 2001). Innovation resources agglomeration makes innovation happen continuously, thus makes the global science and technology innovation center becomes the new engine and important support of national comprehensive strength. After two major industrial structure shift, the traditional development advantages are vanishing. The current economic growth of Shanghai is below the national average; the traditional development advantage is gradually weakening. At the same time, China's economy is faced with an L-shaped recession (Lei, 2016). Therefore, to become the global science and technology innovation center is not only necessary for Shanghai’s own transformation and development, but also accordance with the national development strategy. The aim of the Chinese government is to preliminarily finishes the work of develop Shanghai into the global science and technology innovation center during the period of 13th Five-Year Development Plan1 (from 2016 to 2020). Improve the innovation resources agglomeration capacity of Shanghai, and maximum accumulate innovation resources is the key to success. The existing studies have shown that innovation resources agglomeration has the characteristic of self-organizing, and there is the Matthew effect in this process: the better the innovation foundation, the more obvious the agglomeration effect, and vice versa. This research will from the perspective of the innovation system theory, using DEA method to study the R&D resources utilization efficiency of Shanghai’s industrial enterprises above designated size, demonstrates the deficiencies of Shanghai’s innovation resources agglomeration foundation, and put forward suggestions for improvement.
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Ramaswamy, Subramanian. "Active management of Cache resources." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/24663.
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This dissertation addresses two sets of challenges facing processor design as the industry enters the deep sub-micron region of semiconductor design. The first set of challenges relates to the memory bottleneck. As the focus shifts from scaling processor frequency to scaling the number of cores, performance growth demands increasing die area. Scaling the number of cores also places a concurrent area demand in the form of larger caches. While on-chip caches occupy 50-60% of area and consume 20-30% of energy expended on-chip, their performance and energy efficiencies are less than 15% and 1% respectively for a range of benchmarks! The second set of challenges is posed by transistor leakage and process variation (inter-die and intra-die) at future technology nodes. Leakage power is anticipated to increase exponentially and sharply lower defect-free yield with successive technology generations. For performance scaling to continue, cache efficiencies have to improve significantly. This thesis proposes and evaluates a broad family of such improvements.
This dissertation first contributes a model for cache efficiencies and finds them to be extremely low - performance efficiencies less than 15% and energy efficiencies in the order of 1%. Studying the sources of inefficiency leads to a framework for efficiency improvement based on two interrelated strategies. The approach for improving energy efficiency primarily relies on sizing the cache to match the application memory footprint during a program phase while powering down all remaining cache sets. Importantly, the sized is fully functional with no references to inactive sets. Improving performance efficiency primarily relies on cache shaping, i.e., changing the placement function and thereby the manner in which memory shares the cache.
Sizing and shaping are applied at different phase of the design cycle: i) post-manufacturing & offline, ii) at compile-time, and at iii) run-time. This thesis proposes and explores techniques at each phase collectively realizing a repertoire of techniques for future memory system designers. The techniques use a combination of HW-SW techniques and are demonstrated to provide substantive improvements with modest overheads.
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Hai, Qu, Sun PiaoYi, and Li Xiang. "Waste disposal and renewable resources." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Sektionen för hälsa och samhälle, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-10871.
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Purpose/aim: The purpose of this dissertation is to find out the effect of waste disposal on environment and to explore the effect of renewable resources on economy. We use some data to test and verify the existence of effects. Design/methodology/approach: We use our questionnaires to collect data, and analyze the data in statistical tests. We use case studies to find examples to verify the significance of waste classification and renewable resources as well as the problems in main cities of China. Findings: The analysis shows that we need to focus on waste classification education, if we want to apply it in real life. The best way to use renewable resource more widely is to aquire government support. If we can carry out waste classification better, we can make use of more renewable resources. Originality/value: The value of this paper is that we prove that using waste classification and renewable resource can increase economic growth rate and protect the environment. It is also important because economic growth brings about the reduction of environment quality. When the environment quality decreases, the economic level will also decrease.
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Schmitt, Douglas S. "Protecting our most valuable resources /." Full text available online, 2004. http://www.lib.rowan.edu/find/theses.
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Sarr, M. "Essays on resources and institutions." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2009. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/15824/.
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This thesis consists of four essays covering two sets of issues linking resources to institutions. Chapter 1 provides a summary of the thesis. Chapter 2 provides a general overview of the resource curse literature, emphasising the role of institutions, the nature of the political regimes in resource-rich countries and the link with civil conflicts. Chapter 3 examines the implications of liberal lending practices of international credit markets to dictators during resource booms. We show that the combination of institutional weaknesses such as unaccountable leadership and unsound lending may give autocrats perverse incentives to loot and destabilise their countries, which impedes economic growth. Chapter 4 investigates what motivates some dictators in resource-rich countries to invest in productivity enhancing public goods while others deliberately choose predatory or repressive policies. We find that the ruler is more likely invest in public goods when the productivity of the non-resource sector is high, and when he is relatively ineffective in controlling the country's resources. Chapter 5 presents an overview of the literature on intellectual property rights focusing on the problems raised by sequential innovations for the design of patents and the role of legal institutions in resolving disputes. Chapter 6 examines the nature of the North-South divide in the bioscience industries as a hold-up problem caused by the lack of coordination between North and South property rights systems. We develop a model of bargaining in a sequential R&D framework that demonstrates the mechanism by which underinvestment in maintaining biodiversity and inefficient flow of information occurs. Chapter 7 assumes that the coordination problem is resolved and investigates the number and placement of the property rights to provide incentives for efficient investment in information generation. We show that the existence of a property right in the genetic resources is necessary for the South to share in the rents from the R&D sector. When traditional knowledge is the South's private information, it is not necessary to establish a separate property right in it to appropriate its return.
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黃祐榮 and Yao-wing Robert Wong. "Strategic human resources management system." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1993. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31265856.
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Al-Sahhaf, Habeeb. "Human resources management in Kuwait." Thesis, Cranfield University, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.278719.
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MacLean, Allan. "The management of cognitive resources." Thesis, Durham University, 1986. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/6863/.
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It is argued that an understanding of complex cognitive performance can best be achieved by considering both processing and representational cognitive resources. In any given task, control processes are important for configuring such resources appropriately and passing information between them. A computer controlled alphabet counting task which allows storage and processing requirements to be independently manipulated is used to gain a better understanding of the organisation and utilisation of resources by providing access to the microstructure of performance. Three main directions are explored. The first establishes baseline conditions for varying parameters of the task. Most notably, it demonstrates that resources are typically set up for the expected task difficulty prior to the task commencing, rather than as a consequence of immediate task demands. The second theme explores individual differences in carrying out one of the more complex conditions of the task, and shows that subgroups of subjects can be isolated who exhibit distinct patterns of performance. Moreover, in a task of this complexity, gross predictors of individual differences, such as IQ, do not relate to overall performance in any simple way, although they can be understood within each subgroup. The third group of experiments explore sensitivity to stressors external to the immediate task. Two 'environmental stressors' (alcohol and noise) and one 'cognitive stressor' (an additional concurrent memory load) are examined. Reliable differential effects are observed on the storage and processing phases of the task within individual subjects, but variations in the precise pattern of effects between subjects result in group data being potentially misleading. Finally, the requirements for an appropriate framework which can capture the most important aspects of resource management are considered, and a framework incorporating components of contemporary models of working memory is presented.
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Souza, Andrew A. "Wasted resources volunteers and disasters." Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 2009. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2009/Dec/09Dec%5FSouza.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Homeland Security and Defense))--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2009.Thesis Advisor(s): Dahl, Erik. Second Reader: Piombo, Jessica. "December 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on January 26, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: Volunteer, Convergene, Real ID, National Identity Card, WHTI, Volunteer Mobilization Center, First Responder Credentialing Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-105). Also available in print.
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Wong, Yao-wing Robert. "Strategic human resources management system /." Hong Kong : [University of Hong Kong], 1993. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13497819.
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Bessing, Johan. "Snålandsstolen : Snåla with material resources." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för design (DE), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-86010.
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This is a project about how the furniture industry could become more sustainable intheir waste handling. The project is based in Småland both geographically and interms of heritage and history in order to encourage locally produced products. Thecollaborators for this project are the two furniture companies Swedese andStrömslunds Snickerifabrik AB. Both companies have their production in Vaggeryd,Småland. Both companies are struggling with the waste that they produce. The aim ofthis project is to find a sustainable solution for their waste issue. In order to find asolution two theories are applied. The first one is industrial symbiosis which meansthat several industries can, by collaboration, profit from each other’s resources. Thesecond theory is circular economy which encourage remake, reuse or recycling of aproduct once it has reached its end of life. To prove that this solution would be possiblea hunting chair was made by combining the waste material that was gathered fromSwedese and Strömlunds. The decision to make a hunting chair was made to connectthe chair with the heritage of hunting and foresting in rural Småland. The making ofthe chair was different in the way that instead of that the designer would tell thematerial what was possible it was instead the material that decided the limitationsand possibilities. The final product fulfils its purpose and works perfectly for outdooractivities, even though some minor design decisions could have been changed. Theoutcome proves that Swedese and Strömslunds could benefit from working more withcircular economy and start cooperating in order to work as an industrial symbiosis.
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Zhang, Yuan Ph D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Parsing with sparse annotated resources." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/82180.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2013.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
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This thesis focuses on algorithms for parsing within the context of sparse annotated resources. Despite recent progress in parsing techniques, existing methods require significant resources for training. Therefore, current technology is limited when it comes to parsing sentences in new languages or new grammars. We propose methods for parsing when annotated resources are limited. In the first scenario, we explore an automatic method for mapping language-specific part of- speech (POS) tags into a universal tagset. Universal tagsets play a crucial role in cross-lingual syntactic transfer of multilingual dependency parsers. Our central assumption is that a high-quality mapping yields POS annotations with coherent linguistic properties which are consistent across source and target languages. We encode this intuition in an objective function. Given the exponential size of the mapping space, we propose a novel method for optimizing the objective over mappings. Our results demonstrate that automatically induced mappings rival their manually designed counterparts when evaluated in the context of multilingual parsing. In the second scenario, we consider the problem of cross-formalism transfer in parsing. We are interested in parsing constituency-based grammars such as HPSG and CCG using a small amount of data annotated in the target formalisms and a large quantity of coarse CFG annotations from the Penn Treebank. While the trees annotated in all of the target formalisms share a similar basic syntactic structure with the Penn Treebank CFG, they also encode additional constraints and semantic features. To handle this apparent difference, we design a probabilistic model that jointly generates CFG and target formalism parses. The model includes features of both parses, enabling transfer between the formalisms, and preserves parsing efficiency. Experimental results show that across a range of formalisms, our model benefits from the coarse annotations.
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Graebner, Randall (Randall Eugene) 1978. "Online education through shared resources." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/86467.
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Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2000.Includes bibliographical references (p. 128-130).
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Lennan, Richard. "C21 Resources Spring 2011 Promo." The Church in the 21st Century Center at Boston College, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:103914.
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Berkland, Adam. "Religious Congregations and Civic Resources." Thesis, Boston College, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/684.
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Thesis advisor: Kay SchlozmanMuch has been said recently about the decline in both political and non-political civic participation in the United States. Many American religious congregations, however, continue to stand strong as voluntary associations connecting people with the political and civic life in our country. This paper explains the role that religious congregations can play as promoters of civic engagement. Specifically, it describes the mechanisms by which religious congregations can provide what I call civic resources to their members, resources members utilize to participate in other forms of civic activity outside of their congregation. These resources can be broken down into three main categories. Civic skills are the communication and organizational abilities that an individual can draw upon to make participation more effective. Congregations provide opportunities for members to gain experience using such skills when becoming involved in church governance or in organizing church committees to take on special tasks or put on special events. Social infrastructure captures the value of the social networks and organizational resources available to members of a congregation. The tight-knit social community within a church serves as an effective network to spread relevant information or recruit volunteers for any collective activity. Finally, there are a number of psychological resources a congregation can bring to bear on an individual. Oftentimes the religious teachings of congregations encourage members to adopt civic-minded values and attitudes that serve as a strong motivation to participate
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Heinke, Jens. "Water Resources in the Anthropocene." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/22497.
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Der hydrologische Kreislauf versorgt die Menschheit mit Wasserressourcen, die für ihr Wohlergehen unabdingbar sind. Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, das Verständnis über klimabedingte Veränderungen des hydrologischen Kreislaufs zu verbessern, wie diese die Verfügbarkeit von Wasserressourcen in der Zukunft beeinflussen und welche Möglichkeiten bestehen, den Druck auf die verfügbaren Wasserressourcen durch Verringerung des anthropogenen Wasserverbrauchs zu reduzieren. Diese Dissertation zeigt, dass der Klimawandel eine große Bedrohung für die Wasserversorgung der zukünftigen Bevölkerung darstellt. Durch Begrenzung des Anstiegs der globalen Mitteltemperatur auf 2 K oder sogar 1,5 K über das vorindustrielle Niveau können gravierende negative Auswirkungen auf die Wasserverfügbarkeit jedoch weitgehend vermieden werden. Dennoch wären einige Regionen wie der Mittelmeerraum "eher wahrscheinlich" von schwerwiegenden hydrologischen Veränderungen betroffen, und in großen Teilen der Welt könnten negative Auswirkungen auf die Wasserverfügbarkeit aufgrund der großen Unsicherheiten in den Projektionen nicht ausgeschlossen werden. Bei der Untersuchung der Nachfrageseite liegt der Schwerpunkt auf der Wassernutzung in der Tierproduktion. Diese Dissertation schätzt den gegenwärtigen Wasserverbrauch für die Produktion von Tierfutter auf 4666 km3/yr (44 % des gesamten landwirtschaftlichen Wasserverbrauchs). Große Verbesserungen der Wasserproduktivität können bei Schweinen und Geflügel durch Verbesserungen sowohl in der Futtermittelproduktion als auch in der Tierhaltung erzielt werden. Bei Wiederkäuern liegt das größte Potenzial in der Verbesserung der Tierhaltung. Allerdings geht eine effizientere Futterverwertung bei Wiederkäuern, die durch erhöhte Beigabe von Kraftfutter erzielt wird, mit einem erhöhten Wasserbedarf für die Produktion des Futters einher. Dadurch ist die Verbesserung der Wasserproduktivität bei Wiederkäuern begrenzt.The hydrological cycle provides humanity with water resources that are essential for its well-being. The aim of this thesis is to advance the understanding of climate-related changes in the hydrological cycle, how they will affect the availability of water resources in the future, and what opportunities exist to reduce anthropogenic water use to lower the pressure on water resources. This thesis demonstrates that climate change is a large threat to freshwater supply for future populations. Limiting the increase in global mean temperature to 2 K or even 1.5 K above pre-industrial levels can mitigate most of the severe negative impacts on water resources. However, some regions such as the Mediterranean would still ‘more likely than not’ be affected by severe hydrological change, and in large parts of the world, negative impacts on water availability could not be ruled out due to the large uncertainties in the projections. On the demand side, the focus is on water use in the livestock sector. This thesis estimates that about 4666 km3/yr (44 % of total agricultural water use) are currently used for feed production for the livestock sector. Large improvements in livestock water productivity can be achieved for pigs and poultry by improvements in feed production and livestock rearing alike. For ruminants, the largest potential lies in improving livestock management. However, improving the feed use efficiency of ruminants through increased supplementation with forage crops comes at the cost of increased water requirements to produce the feed. This limits the potential for improving livestock water productivity in ruminant production.
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Barnes, Richard A. "Property rights and natural resources /." Oxford : Hart Publ, 2009. http://aleph.unisg.ch/hsgscan/hm00262927.pdf.
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Wallace, Rick L. "Internet Resources for Health Professionals." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 1999. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8806.
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Moghaddam, Atefeh. "Production scheduling : unavailabitlity of resources." Troyes, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012TROY0025.
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Dans le marché d’aujourd’hui, l’un des facteurs de survie les plus importants pour une entreprise est la garantie de la satisfaction des clients. Parfois, une entreprise ne peut pas satisfaire les exigences de ses clients à cause de contraintes telles que la capacité limitée ou les dates de fin strictes. Elle est donc obligée d’ignorer certaines commandes et de les rejeter ou encore de sous-traiter ces commandes. Dans les deux cas, la société est soumise à des frais. Dans cette thèse, nous étudions les différents types de ligne de production dans lesquels le rejet des commandes est possible. D’abord, nous avons étudié le problème d’ordonnancement bi-objectif sur une seule machine. Nous avons proposé une méthode exacte et plusieurs méta-heuristiques et heuristique efficaces pour trouver une bonne estimation de solutions non-dominées. Ainsi, nous avons étudié les différents concepts de dominance afin de limiter notre recherche dans la région la plus prometteuse du front de Pareto. Par la suite, nous avons étudié un problème d’ordonnancement réentrant à deux machines. Dans ce cas, le rejet des tâches a lieu en fonction de leurs dates de fin strictes. Nous avons considéré deux décisions simultanées : l’acceptation des tâches et leur ordonnancement. Un modèle de programmation linéaire mixte en nombres entiers et différents algorithmes génétiques multi-objectifs, ainsi que l’intégration des concepts de dominance divers, ont été proposés. Enfin, un problème plus général d’ordonnancement flow-shop de permutation réentrant avec dates de fin strictes et le rejet autorisé a été abordéIn today’s competitive market, one of the most important survival factors for a company is the achievement of customers’ satisfaction. Sometimes, a company can not fulfill its customers’ requirements due to the constraints such as limited capacity or tight due dates so it is obliged to ignore some orders and reject them or find another supplier to out-source those orders. In both cases, the company is charged a fee. In this thesis we investigate different types of production line in which rejection of the jobs is possible. At the beginning, we studied a variant of the problem as bi-objective single-machine scheduling problem with rejection. We proposed an exact method and some efficient metaheuristics and a heuristic to find a good estimation of non-dominated solution set. We found that in industrial case, most of the time the decision maker preferred the non-dominated solutions placed in the middle part of Pareto front. So we investigated different dominance concepts apart from Pareto in order to limit our research into the most promising region of Pareto front. Then we studied a two-machine re-entrant scheduling problem with rejection. In this case, the rejection of jobs occurred due to their strict due dates. So we examined simultaneous job acceptance and scheduling decisions. A mixed integer linear programming model and different multi-objective genetic-based algorithms were proposed by integrating various dominance concepts. Finally, a more general problem of re-entrant permutation flow-shop scheduling problem with strict due dates and rejection was tackled
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Harley-McClaskey, Deborah. "Leadership Impact on Human Resources." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2008. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4714.
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Kimball, Pauline Aines. "Disability resources for the educator." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2358.
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This thesis identifies what disability resources are currently accessible and needed by the educator in order to service the disabled student in the classroom. It is a compilation of medical, academic, financial and equipment resources currently available to the educator.