Dissertations / Theses: 'Management Sciencees'

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Albrecht, Chad Orsen. "International fraud: A management perspective." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Ramon Llull, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/9196.

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L'objectiu de la meva tesi és tractar i entendre millor els múltiples aspectes de la corrupció i el frau internacionals des de la perspectiva del management. Amb aquesta finalitat, hi proporciono un compendi d'articles, tots els quals han estat publicats en journals amb revisors, o bé estan en procés de ser-ho.
El primer article que presento en la meva tesi fou publicat al European Business Forum, una revista especialitzada patrocinada per la CEMS, que és llegida per més de 40.000 professionals dels negocis d'arreu d'Europa. Alguns dels diaris internacionals més importants, com ara el Times of London Newspaper, també citen aquest article a bastament. S'hi exposa per què i com es cometen els fraus.
El segon article que comento a la tesi es troba actualment en fase de "revisió i reenviament" al Journal of Business Ethics. Es tracta d'un journal sobre factors d'impacte, inclòs a la llista dels 40 millors journals de management que publica el Financial Times. Aquest article tracta de com les persones fan servir el poder per reclutar altres persones per tal que participin en el frau d'estats financers. Aquest segon article també es va sotmetre a la revisió d'àrbitres a l'edició 2007 de la European Academy of Management Conference que tingué lloc a París, França.
El tercer article que es presenta en la meva tesi fou publicat a The Journal of Digital Forensics, Security, and Law. També s'havia presentat prèviament a la XII Conferència Anual d'AMCIS amb revisors, que tingué lloc a Acapulco, Mèxic. La Conferència d'AMCIS és un dels principals congressos acadèmics que tracten dels camps relacionats amb els sistemes d'informació. Aquest tercer article analitza com els responsables de perpetrar el frau se serveixen dels principis i les estratègies de poder i negociació per enredar les persones per Internet perquè participin en projectes de frau.
El quart article que comento fou publicat a l'Information Systems Security Journal. Aquest journal fa 17 anys que el publica Taylor and Francis Publishing -una de les principals editorials de journals acadèmics-, i és la publicació oficial de CISSP i SSCP. L'article analitza les tendències actuals en matèria de frau i la seva detecció.
El cinquè article que es presenta fou publicat a la Corporate Finance Review. Aquest article tracta específicament del frau d'estats financers als Estats Units. També explica què pot fer Europa per aprendre dels errors comesos als Estats Units. La Corporate Finance Review és patrocinada per Thomson Education -una editorial líder en l'àmbit educatiu. Actualment, la revista es troba al 12è any de publicació.
Finalment, el darrer article que presento a la tesi és un comentari que es va fer sobre el tema del frau entre dos professors americans i jo mateix. Aquest diàleg es va publicar al Journal of Management, Spirituality, and Religion. El comentari tractava el tema de la relació entre organitzacions imbuïdes en la religió i el frau.
El objetivo de mi tesis es tratar de entender mejor los múltiples aspectos de la corrupción y el fraude internacionales desde la perspectiva del management. Para ello, proporciono un compendio de artículos, todos ellos publicados en journals con revisores, o bien que se hallan en proceso de publicación.
El primer artículo que presento en mi tesis fue publicado en el European Business Forum, una revista especializada patrocinada por la CEMS, que es leída por más de 40.000 profesionales de los negocios de toda Europa. Algunos de los diarios internacionales más importantes, como el Times of London Newspaper, también citan este artículo ampliamente. En él se expone por qué y cómo se cometen los fraudes.
El segundo artículo que comento en mi tesis se halla actualmente en fase de "revisión y reenvío" al Journal of Business Ethics. Se trata de un journal sobre factores de impacto, incluido en la lista de los 40 mejores journals de management que publica el Financial Times. Dicho artículo trata de cómo las personas se sirven del poder para reclutar a otras personas para que participen en el fraude de estados financieros. Este segundo artículo también fue sometido a la revisión de árbitros en la edición 2007 de la European Academy of Management Conference celebrada en París, Francia.
El tercer artículo que presento en mi tesis fue publicado en The Journal of Digital Forensics, Security, and Law. Asimismo, previamente se había presentado en la XII Conferencia Anual de AMCIS con revisores, celebrada en Acapulco, México. La Conferencia de AMCIS es uno de los principales congresos académicos que tratan de los campos relacionados con los sistemas de información. Este tercer artículo analiza cómo los responsables de perpetrar el fraude se sirven de los principios y estrategias de poder y negociación para enredar a persones por Internet para que participen en proyectos de fraude.
El cuarto artículo que comento fue publicado en el Information Systems Security Journal. Este journal es publicado desde hace 17 años por Taylor and Francis Publishing -una de las principales editoriales de journals académicos-, y es la publicación oficial de CISSP y SSCP. En dicho artículo se analizan las tendencias actuales en materia de fraude y su detección.
El quinto artículo que se presenta fue publicado en la Corporate Finance Review. Este artículo trata específicamente del fraude de estados financieros en Estados Unidos. També explica qué puede hacer Europa para aprender de los errores cometidos en Estados Unidos. La Corporate Finance Review cuenta con el patrocinio de Thomson Education -una editorial líder en el ámbito educativo. En la actualidad, la revista se halla en el 12.º año de publicación.
Finalmente, el último artículo que presento en mi tesis es un comentario sobre el tema del fraude, realizado entre dos profesores americanos y yo mismo. Dicho diálogo fue publicado en el Journal of Management, Spirituality, and Religion. El comentario trataba del tema de la relación entre organizaciones imbuidas en la religión y el fraude.
The purpose of my dissertation is to address and better understand the many aspects of International Fraud and Corruption from a Management Perspective. In my dissertation, I provide a compendium of publications. Each publication was published, or is in the process of being published, in a peer-review journal.
The first article that is presented in my dissertation was published in the European Business Forum, a CEMS sponsored journal that is read by more than 40,000 business professionals throughout Europe. Several major international newspapers, including the prestigious Times of London Newspaper, also quoted this article extensively. The article addresses why and how fraud are committed.
The second article that is presented in my dissertation is currently under "revise and resubmit" status at the Journal of Business Ethics. This journal is an impact factor journal and is included on the Financial Times list of top 40 management journals. The article addresses how individuals use power to recruit other people to participate in financial statement fraud. This second article was also presented at the peer review 2007 European Academy of Management Conference in Paris, France.
The third article that is presented in my dissertation was published in The Journal of Digital Forensics, Security, and Law. This article was also previously presented at the 12th annual peer-review AMCIS conference in Acapulco, Mexico. The AMCIS conference is one of the leading academic conferences within the information systems fields. This third article addresses how perpetrators use the principles and strategies of power and negotiation to con individuals via the Internet to participate in fraud schemes.
The fourth article presented in my dissertation was published in Information Systems Security Journal. This journal is currently in its 17th year of publication and is published by Taylor and Francis Publishing - one of the leading publishers in academic journals. This journal is also the official publication of the CISSP and SSCP. The article deals with current trends in fraud and its detection.
The fifth article that is presented in my dissertation was published in the journal Corporate Finance Review. This article specifically deals with financial statement fraud in the United States. The article further explains what Europe can do to learn from the mistakes of the United States. Thomson Education - a leader in educational publishing, is the sponsor of Corporate Finance Review. The journal is currently in its 12th year of publication.
Finally, the last article presented in my dissertation is a commentary that took place on the subject of fraud between two American professors and myself. The dialogue was published in the Journal of Management, Spirituality, and Religion. The topic of the commentary was on the relationship between organizations embedded in religion and fraud.

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Nadrowski, Karin, Daniel Seifarth, Sophia Ratcliffe, Christian Wirth, and Lutz Maicher. "Identifiers in e-Science platforms for the ecological sciences." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-101319.

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In the emerging Web of Data, publishing stable and unique identifiers promises great potential in using the web as common platform to discover and enrich data in the ecologic sciences. With our collaborative e-Science platform “BEFdata”, we generated and published unique identifiers for the data repository of the Biodiversity – Ecosystem Functioning Research Unit of the German Research Foundation (BEF-China; DFG: FOR 891). We linked part of the identifiers to two external data providers, thus creating a virtual common platform including several ecological repositories. We used the Global Biodiversity Facility (GBIF) as well the International Plant Name Index (IPNI) to enrich the data from our own field observations. We conclude in discussing other potential providers for identifiers for the ecological research domain. We demonstrate the ease of making use of existing decentralized and unsupervised identifiers for a data repository, which opens new avenues to collaborative data discovery for learning, teaching, and research in ecology.

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Yan, Kwan-shing, and 甄君成. "Management science: quenes in cinemas." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31267798.

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Yan, Kwan-shing. "Management science : quenes in cinemas /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B18024646.

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Brogliato, Marcelo Salhab. "Essays in computational management science." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/24615.

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A presente tese é formada por três trabalhos científicos na área de Management Science Computacional. A gestão moderna e a alta tecnologia interagem em múltiplas e profundas formas. O professor Andre Ng diz aos seus estudantes na Escola de Negócios de Stanford que “Inteligência Artificial é a nova eletricidade”, como sua forma hiperbólica de enfatizar o potencial transformador da tecnologia. O primeiro trabalho é inspirado na possibilidade de que haverá alguma forma de dinheiro digital e estuda ledger distribuídas, propondo e analisando o Hathor, uma arquitetura alternativa para criptomoedas escaláveis. O segundo trabalho pode ser um item crucial no entendimento de tomadas de decisão, nos trazendo um modelo formal de recognition-primed decisions. Situada na intersecção entre psicologia cognitiva, ciência da computação, neuro-ciência e inteligência artifical, ele apresenta um framework open-source, multi-plataforma e altamente paralelo da Sparse Distributed Memory e analisa a dinâmica da memória e algumas aplicações. O terceiro e último trabalho se situa na intersecção entre marketing, difusão de inovação tecnologica e modelagem, extendendo o famoso modelo de Bass para levar em consideração usuário que, após adotar a tecnologia por um tempo, decidiram rejeitá-la.
This thesis presents three specific, self-contained, scientific papers in the Computational Management Science area. Modern management and high technology interact in multiple, profound, ways. Professor Andrew Ng tells students at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business that “AI is the new electricity”, as his hyperbolic way to emphasize the potential transformational power of the technology. The first paper is inspired by the possibility that there will be some form of purely digital money and studies distributed ledgers, proposing and analyzing Hathor, an alternative architecture towards a scalable cryptocurrency. The second paper may be a crucial item in understanding human decision making, perhaps, bringing us a formal model of recognition-primed decision. Lying at the intersection of cognitive psychology, computer science, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence, it presents an open-source, cross-platform, and highly parallel framework of the Sparse Distributed Memory and analyzes the dynamics of the memory with some applications. Last but not least, the third paper lies at the intersection of marketing, diffusion of technological innovation, and modeling, extending the famous Bass model to account for users who, after adopting the innovation for a while, decide to reject it later on.

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Chada, Daniel de Magalhães. "From cognitive science to management science: two computational contributions." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/17053.

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This work is composed of two contributions. One borrows from the work of Charles Kemp and Joshua Tenenbaum, concerning the discovery of structural form: their model is used to study the Business Week Rankings of U.S. Business Schools, and to investigate how other structural forms (structured visualizations) of the same information used to generate the rankings can bring insights into the space of business schools in the U.S., and into rankings in general. The other essay is purely theoretical in nature. It is a study to develop a model of human memory that does not exceed our (human) psychological short-term memory limitations. This study is based on Pentti Kanerva’s Sparse Distributed Memory, in which human memories are registered into a vast (but virtual) memory space, and this registration occurs in massively parallel and distributed fashion, in ideal neurons.
Este trabalho é composto de duas contribuições. Uma se usa do trabalhode Charles Kemp e Joshua Tenenbaum sobre a descoberta da forma estrutural: o seu modelo é usado para estudar os rankings da revista Business Week sobre escolas de administração, e para investigar como outras formas estruturais (visualizações estruturadas) da mesma informação usada para gerar os rankings pode trazer discernimento no espaço de escolas de negócios nos Estados Unidos e em rankings em geral. O outro ensaio é de natureza puramente teórica. Ele é um estudo no desenvolvimento de um modelo de memória que não excede os nossos (humanos) limites de memória de curto-prazo. Este estudo se baseia na Sparse Distributed Memory (Memória Esparsa e Distribuida) de Pentti Kanerva, na qual memórias humanas são registradas em um vasto (mas virtual) espaço, e este registro ocorre de forma maciçamente paralela e distribuida, em neurons ideais.

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Layouni, Mohamed. "Privacy-preserving personal information management." Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=86764.

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The spread of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has transformed the way we deliver services, and has made them in general more efficient and more accessible to users. With these improvements however came new challenges. The extensive use of electronic services in our daily life, and the massive gathering of transactional data have led to serious privacy violations.
In this thesis we provide techniques to enhance users' privacy, and to give them greater control over their data. We propose a protocol allowing users to authorize access to their remotely-stored records, according to a self-chosen privacy policy, and without the storage server learning the access pattern to their records, or the index of the queried records. This prevents the storage server from linking the identity of the party retrieving a record to that of the record owner. In many applications, the association between the identity of the record retriever and that of the record owner represents sensitive information, and needs to be kept private. The proposed protocol is called Accredited Symmetrically Private Information Retrieval (ASPIR), and uses Brands's Anonymous Credentials [Bra00] and a Symmetrically Private Information Retrieval (SPIR) scheme by Lipmaa [Lip05], as building blocks.
Next, we extend the above ASPIR protocol to a setting where the stored records belong to multiple owners simultaneously. The new protocol, called Multi-Authorizer ASPIR, allows the owners of a record to authorize access to their data according to a self-chosen privacy policy, without the storage server learning the access pattern to their record. We present constructions for settings where the retrieving party has to provide authorizations either from all the owners of the target record, or from a subset of them of size greater that a certain threshold. We also consider the case of a General Access Structure, where the retrieval is allowed only if authorizations from certain pre-defined subsets of the owners are provided. The Multi-authorizer ASPIR protocol is more efficient than ASPIR, and can be built with any SPIR primitive.
Finally, we dedicate the last part of the thesis to applying privacy preserving techniques to a real world problem. In particular, we consider the area of e-health, and provide a privacy-preserving protocol for handling prescriptions in the Belgian healthcare system.
La prolifération des services électroniques a eu des retombées positives sur nos sociétés. Les technologies de l'information ont révolutionné divers domaines clé de notre vie, notamment les services gouvernementaux, les affaires, la santé, les transports, les communications et l'éducation. Souvent, le passage au numérique, a rendu les services plus accessibles, plus rapides, plus faciles à utiliser et socialement plus inclusifs. Cependant, avec ces améliorations sont apparus aussi de nouveaux problèmes. En effet, l'utilisation des services électroniques au quotidien, et la collecte massives de données transactionnelles sur les utilisateurs, ont conduit à l'établissement de ce qu'on appelle communément les "dossiers électroniques". Un dossier électronique est une compilation de données personnelles récoltées lorsqu'un individu effectue des transactions électroniques ou reçoit des services. Ces dossiers sont de plus en plus utilisés par le gouvernement et les corporations pour prendre des décisions importantes sur les individus, sans que ces derniers ne soient capables d'y participer.
Cette thèse présente des techniques pour protéger davantage la vie privée des citoyens et leur donner plus de contrôle sur leurs données. On propose, entre autres, un protocole pour permettre à des utilisateurs d'autoriser l'accès à leurs données, sauvegardées sur un serveur distant, sans que celui-ci n'apprenne d'informations sur la fréquence et la distribution des accès, ou même sur l'indice des données récupérées. Ceci empêche le serveur d'établir des liens entre l'identité d'un propriétaire de données, et celle de l'agent qui a demandé l'accès à ses données. On peut penser à une multitude de scénarios où la divulgation de l'existence d'un tel lien est non souhaitable. Le protocole qu'on propose est nommé ASPIR de l'Anglais (Accredited Symmetrically Private Information Retrieval), et utilise les systèmes de certification de Brands [Bra00], ainsi que le système SPIR de Lipmaa [Lip05].
Dans un deuxième temps, on généralise le protocole ASPIR initial à un environnement où les entrées appartiennent à plusieurs parties. Le nouveau protocole, nommé Multi-Authorizer ASPIR, permet aux propriétaires d'autoriser l'accès à leurs données selon une politique qu'ils ont eux même choisie, et sans que le serveur n'apprenne des informations sur la fréquence et la distribution des accès. On présente des constructions pour des scénarios où le demandeur de données doit fournir une autorisation de la part de tous les (respectivement une partie des) propriétaires. Le protocole, Multi-authorizer ASPIR, est plus performant, et peut être implanté avec n'importe quel système SPIR.
Enfin, la dernière partie de la thèse est dédiée à l'application des techniques de protection de la vie privée à un exemple concret de la vie courante. L'exemple qu'on traite appartient au domaine de la santé. On présente alors un protocole pour gérer les ordonnances médicales, qui est compatible avec le système de santé Belge. Le protocole proposé préserve la vie privée des patients et des médecins.

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Huang, Jianyuan. "Computer science graduate project management system." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3250.

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This project is a development and tracking system for graduate students in the Department of Computer Science of CSUSB. This project will cover front-end web site development, back-end database design and security. This website provides secure access to information about ideas for projects, status on on-going projects, and reports of finished projects using My SQL and Apache Tomcat.

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Seromo, M. "Academic excellence office in the faculty of management sciences." Tshwane University of Technology, 2013. http://encore.tut.ac.za/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external?sp=1001653.

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Introduction In 2010, the Faculty of Management Sciences identified some of the root causes of student high failure rate as: students under preparedness, wrong career choice, lack of academic support, unexpected subjects such as accounting and statistics, written and oral communication and the different teaching and learning style. Underachieving students spend more unduly years in the system, they fail, repeat subjects and dropout causing concern for the university, faculty, and the government. In view of these facts the declining faculty performance and high student failure rate in the faculty of Management Sciences created a serious challenge that needed immediate academic interventions.

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Davids, Steven Emlyn. "A soft systems approach to social sciences projects." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52133.

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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2001
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This paper asks the question: "Is the Guide to the PMBOICs method appropriate for doing projects of a social science character?" Inthis enquiry extensive use is made ofliterature that is available via the world wide web. This paper follows the school of thought that regards the world as a complex set of interrelated systems. Humans as social beings are an integral part of these complex systems. In order to do justice to human endeavours, one must understand the systems in which humans operate and interpret all human undertakings in relation to those systems. Three broad types of systems approaches to project management are distinguished. A common underlying principle of all three approaches is that they regard social systems as complex, highly volatile and in constant flux. A direct consequence of this characteristic of social systems is that project goals are also not simple and rigidly fixed. The project goals are also complex, in constant flux and open-ended. The traditional Guide to the PMBOICs method for doing project management is unable to deal effectively with these complex and volatile system problems. This paper advocates that a slightly modified version of Checkland's soft systems method be used to deal with social projects, which are by definition, also complex projects. It is proposed that Checkland's soft systems method should be used in addition to the traditional approach. The method proposed by this paper is, to various degrees, already being implemented in practice. The proposed method is, however, presently not being catered for in the project management software packages that are readily and commercially available.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie ondersoek die vraag: "Is die metode soos voorgestel in die Guide to the PMBOK geskik vir projekte met 'n sosiaal wetenskaplike karakter?" In die ondersoek word op grootskaal gebruik gemaak van literatuur wat beskikbaar is op die internet. Hierdie studie sluit aan by die wetenskaplike gedagterigting wat die wêreld beskou as bestaande uit 'n reeks ingewikkelde en onderling verbinde sisteme. As sosiale wese is die mens 'n integrale deel van hierdie gekompliseerde sisteme. Om reg te laat geskied aan menslike handelinge, moet die sisteme waarbinne die mens leef verstaan word. Menslike handeling moet ook vertolk word teen die agtergrond van daardie sisteme en in verhouding tot die sisteme. Drie gedagterigtings kan onderskei word binne die sisteem benadering tot projekbestuur. 'n Gemeenskaplike en onderliggende beginsel van al drie gedagterigtings is dat hulle sosiale sisteme beskou as gekompliseerd, uiters onbestendig en in voortdurende beweging. 'n Direkte gevolg van hierdie eienskap van sosiale sisteme is dat projekte se doelwitte ook nie maklik definieerbaar en stabiel is nie. Projekte se doelwitte is gekompliseerd, onbestendig en oop. Die konvensionele metodes vir projekbestuur soos voorgestel deur die Guide to the PMBOK is nie in staat om hierdie gekompliseerde en onbestendige sisteem probleme effektief te hanteer nie. Hierdie studie debatteer dat 'n effens gewysigde weergawe van Checkland se sagte sisteem metode gebruik word vir die doen van sosiale projekte, wat per definisie gekompliseerde projekte is. Dit word aan die hand gedoen dat Checkland se sagte sisteem metode gebruik word saam met die konvensionele benadering. Die metode wat hierdie studie bepleit, word alreeds tot vlakke in die praktyk toegepas. Daar word egter nie voorsieining gemaak vir die voorgestelde metode in rekenaar sagte ware programme in projekbestuur wat redelik algemeen in die kleinhandel beskikbaar is nie.

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Kinzell, Deborah. "Implementation of Professional Academic Advisors in Minot State University's College of Arts and Sciences and College of Education and Health Sciences." Thesis, Minot State University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10846685.

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The purpose of this research project was to determine perceptions or concerns faculty advisors at Minot State University have regarding professional academic advisors and steps that can be taken to address those perceptions and concerns so that professional academic advisors can be implemented. A survey was sent to all full-time tenure track faculty, and the data were analyzed using t-tests of unequal variances to compare whether the College of Education and Health Sciences was more inclined than the College of Arts and Sciences to implement professional academic advisors. Additional t-tests of unequal variances were used to compare whether faculty who had 10 or fewer years of service with Minot State University were more inclined to use professional academic advisors than faculty with 11 or more years of service. The survey results indicated that faculty overall had many misconceptions regarding professional academic advisors and while the College of Education and Health Science and the College of Arts and Sciences had similar views regarding professional academic advisors, faculty who had 10 or fewer years of service were more likely to be in favor of professional academic advisors than those with 11 or more years of service. Suggestions from the lead faculty advisor at the University of North Dakota (UND) were used to determine best practices, and the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) database was also searched for best practices and qualifications for professional academic advisors.

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Medema, Wietske. "Integrated water resources management and adaptive management : shaping science and practice." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2008. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/3531.

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Complexity of challenges associated with water resources management is increasing due to factors such as climate variability and uncertainty, increased regulatory requirements, changes in planning horizons, and trans-boundary considerations. Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) and Adaptive Management (AM) are widely publicized approaches developed and proposed to deal with this complexity. Both concepts have a history reaching back decades, but have been facing difficulties in their transfer from theory into practice. There is a clear need to look in more detail at the process of transforming IWRM and AM theory into practice and this research investigates this process and the factors that mediate it. A conceptual framework was developed - characterizing the process for transfer of theory into practice - that formed the basis for development of the research questions. The research approach focused on analyzing the implementation pathways of IWRM and AM in four case studies, whose selection was informed by the need to explore a context with extensive history of IWRM and AM practice. Data collection took place through semi-structured interviews aiming to uncover how those involved in planning and implementation of IWRM and AM experienced these processes. Besides aiming to understand the ‘lived experiences’, a more abstract framework of the process, factors and dynamics was derived, grounded in the views of the respondents. The findings indicate different types of factors that influence the theory to practice process for IWRM and AM, relating to: (a) theory and its use in practice; (b) the environment that can complicate or facilitate the implementation process; (c) the way cooperation and decision-making processes are organized; and (d) individual attributes of those involved. Incorporating lessons from past into current initiatives are vital to more effective implementation of IWRM and AM. This research gives greater insight into the mediating factors and dynamics, providing this through empirical evidence into design of IWRM and AM planning and implementation. It also provides a thorough discussion on what IWRM and AM exactly mean, proposing a new definition for both concepts.

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Boulanger, Jean-Sebastien. "Interest management for massively multiplayer games." Thesis, McGill University, 2007. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=18280.

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The popularity of massively multiplayer games has increased in recent years and game providers are facing scalability problems to accomodate growing populations of users. Broadcasting all state changes to every player is not a viable solution to maintain a consistent game state in a massively multiplayer game. To successfully overcome the challenge of scale, massively multiplayer games have to employ sophisticated interest management techniques that only send relevant state changes to each player. In this thesis we develop a space partitioning technique based on triangulation that adapts to the world’s obstacles. We introduce obstacle-aware interest management algorithms that use the triangular partitioning to determine the relevance of objects based on the occlusion created by obstacles. We compare the performance of both obstacle-aware and state-of-the-art interest management algorithms based on measurements obtained in a real massively multiplayer game using human and computer-generated player actions. We show that obstacle-aware interest management algorithms can reduce the number of update messages between players and that algorithms based on our triangle-based partitioning can scale to a larger number of objects. The experiments also show that measurements obtained with computer-controlled players performing random actions can approximate measurements of games played by real humans, provided that the traces of the random players are designed adequately. As the size of the world and the number of players of massively multiplayer games increases, adaptive interest management techniques such as the ones studied in this thesis will become increasingly important.
La popularité des jeux massivement multijoueurs a augmenté de façon phénoménale au cours des dernières années. Les fournisseurs de jeux rencontrent de plus en plus de problèmes d’extensibilité pour supporter des populations croissantes de joueurs. La diffusion à tous les joueurs des changements réalisés dans le monde virtuel n’est pas une solution viable pour maintenir une vision cohérente du monde dans un jeu massivement multijoueurs. Pour surmonter ce défi d’extensibilité, les jeux massivement multijoueurs doivent utiliser des techniques de gestion d’intérêt sophistiquées qui relaient seulement l’information pertinente vers chaque joueur. Dans cette thèse nous développons une technique de partition de l’espace qui s’adapte aux obstacles du monde virtuel en utilisant une triangulation. Nous présentons des algorithmes sensible-aux-obstacles de gestion d’intérêt qui emploient les partitions triangulaires pour déterminer la pertinence des objets pour chaque joueur, selon l’occlusion créée par les obstacles. Nous comparons l’efficacité des algorithmes sensible-aux-obstacles et d’autres algorithmes modernes de gestion d’intérêt à l’aide de données obtenues d’un vrai jeu massivement multijoueurs. À cet effet, nous utilisons à la fois des actions de vrais joueurs et des actions de joueurs générées par ordinateur. Nous démontrons que les algorithmes sensible-aux-obstacles de gestion d’intérêt peuvent réduirent le nombre de messages relayés entre les joueurs. Nous démontrons également que les algorithmes utilisant notre partition triangulaire peuvent s’adapter à un plus grand nombre d’objets tout en conservant de bonnes performances. Nos expériences suggèrent également que les résultats obtenus à partir de joueurs contrôlés par ordinateur se déplaçant aléatoirement ce rapprochent des résultats obtenus avec de vrais joueurs, dans la mesure où les actions aléatoires des joueurs son

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Wason, Jasmin Lesley. "Automating data management in science and engineering." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.396143.

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Ranj, Bar Amin. "Confidentiality and integrity management in online systems." Thesis, McGill University, 2013. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=117112.

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The dominant role of social networking in the web is turning human relations into conduits of information flow. This means that the way information spreads on the web is determined to a large extent by human decisions. Consequently, information security, confidentiality and integrity of shared data, relies on the quality of the collective decisions made by the users. Recently, many access control schemes have been proposed to control unauthorized propagation and modification of information in online systems; however, there is still a need for mechanisms to evaluate the risk of information leakage and unauthorized modifications within online systems. First, the thesis focuses on the confidentiality of information in online social networks. A novel community-centric confidentiality control mechanism for information flow management on the social web is presented. A Monte Carlo based algorithm is developed to determine the potential spread of a shared data object and to inform the user of the risk of information leakage associated with different sharing decisions she can make in a social network. The scheme also provides a facility to reduce information flowing to a specific user (i.e., black listing a specific user). Second the thesis focuses on the integrity of artifacts in crowdsourcing systems. A new approach for managing the integrity of contents created in crowdsourcing repositories named Social Integrity Management (SIM) is presented. SIM integrates two conflicting approaches to manage integrity in crowdsourcing systems: owner-centric and owner-free schemes. The ownership bottleneck is relaxed by including co-ownerships and having multiple versions. Finally, the thesis presents a thorough analysis of the Stack Exchange sites as an example of widely used crowdsourcing question answering systems. The dump datasets are used to analyze various user behaviors in crowdsourcing question answering systems by considering the effect of tagging, user reputation and user feedback. Observed characteristics from the studies are used in the modeling and evaluation of social integrity management.
Le rôle prépondérant des réseaux sociaux sur le web change les relations humaines enconduits d'échange d'information. Ainsi, l'information qui est véhiculée sur le web est déterminée en grande partie par les prises de décisions humaines. Conséquemment, la sécurité de l'information, la confidentialité et l'intégrité de l'information partagée dépendentde la qualité des décisions prises collectivement par les utilisateurs. Récemment, plusieurs schémas de contrôle d'accès ont été proposés pour contrôler la propagation non autorisée et la modification de l'information dans les systèmes en ligne. Par contre, il y a encore un besoin de mécanismes dévaluation des risques de fuites d'information et de modifications non autorisées à l'intérieur des systèmes en ligne. Premièrement, la thèse se concentre sur la confidentialité de l'information dans les réseaux sociaux en ligne. Un nouveau mécanisme de contrôle de la confidentialité axé sur la communité pour la gestion de circulation de l'information est présenté. Un algorithme basé sur le modèle Monte Carlo est développé pour déterminer la possibilité de la diffusion des éléments de données partagés ainsi que pour informer l'utilisateur des risques de fuite d'information associés aux différentes décisions de partage que l'utilisateur pourra faire dans un réseau social. Le schéma fournit également une installation pour réduire l'échappement de l'information à un utilisateur spécifique (ex. mettre un utilisateur sur une liste noire). Deuxièmement, la thèse se concentre sur l'intégrité des objets des systèmes de crowdsourcing. Une approche nouvelle pour gérer l'intégrité du contenu créé par les archives de crowdsourcing appelé Gestion de l'intégrité sociale (Social Integrity Management) est présentée. Cette approcheintgre deux approches contradictoires pour gérer l'intégrité des systèmes de crowdsourcing: les schémas basés sur le propriétaire et les schémas sans propriétaires. La problématique de la propriété est d´etendue en incluant la copropriété et la possibilité d'avoir plusieurs versions. Finalement, la thèse présente une analyse complète des sites d'échange commeexemple de système de réponses aux questions par le crowdsourcing qui sont grandement utilisés. L'ensemble de données déchargées est utilisé pour analyser le comportement de différents utilisateurs dans les systèmes de réponses aux questions basés sur le crowdsourcing en considérant les effets d'étiquetage, la réputation des utilisateurs et les commentaires des utilisateurs. Les caract´eristiques observées par les études sont utilisées dans la simulationet l'évaluation de la gérance de l'intégrité sociale.

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De, Kock Johannes Marthinus. "Optimal management of MPLS networks." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52977.

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Thesis (MSc)--Stellenbosch University, 2002.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) is a routing technology which can manage Quality of Service (QoS) in scalable connectionless networks using relatively simple packet forwarding mechanisms. This thesis considers the optimisation of the QoS offered by an MPLS network. The QoS measure used is the expected packet delay which is minimised by switching packets along optimal label switched paths (LSPs). Two mathematical models of MPLS networks are presented together with appropriate algorithms for optimally dividing the network traffic into forwarding equivalence classes (FECs), finding optimal LSPs which minimise the expected packet delay and switching these FECs along the optimal LSPs. These algorithms are applied to compute optimal LSPs for several test networks. The mathematics on which these algorithms are based is also reviewed. This thesis provides the MPLS network operator with efficient packet routing algorithms for optimising the network's QoS.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) is 'n roeteringsmetode om die diensvlak (QoS) van 'n skaleerbare, verbindinglose netwerk te bestuur deur middel van relatief eenvoudige versendingsmeganismes. Hierdie tesis beskou die optimering van die QoS van 'n MPLS-netwerk. Die QoS-maatstaf is die verwagte vert raging van 'n netwerk-pakkie. Dit word geminimeer deur pakkies langs optimale "label switched paths" (LSPs) te stuur. Twee wiskundige modelle van MPLS-netwerke word ondersoek. Toepaslike algoritmes word verskaf vir die optimale verdeling van die netwerkverkeer in "forwarding equivalence classes" (FECs), die soektog na optimale LSPs (wat die verwagte pakkie-vertraging minimeer) en die stuur van die FECs langs die optimale LSPs. Hierdie algoritmes word ingespan om optimale LSPs vir verskeie toetsnetwerke op te stel. Die wiskundige teorie waarop hierdie algoritmes gegrond is, word ook hersien. Hierdie tesis verskaf doeltreffende roeteringsalgoritmes waarmee 'n MPLS-netwerkbestuurderj-es die netwerk se QoS kan optimeer.

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Shearn, Peter Anthony. "Making science visible : new forms of science and technology management and evaluation." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2002. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.500670.

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Brocklesby, John. "Looking at the management sciences through the lens of autopoietic theory." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2001. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3094/.

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The broad aim of this research has been to employ the various propositions of Humberto Maturana, as derived from his and Francisco Varela's central concept 'Autopoiesis', as a lens or frame through which to critically reflect on both Management Science and major traditions within it. Such reflection has been carried out with both a 'critical' and a 'developmental eye'. From a critical standpoint the research identifies gaps in existing understandings, and suggests ways in which these may be plugged. Used in this mode, the research shows that Autopoietic Theory is a body of knowledge that management scientists, especially inexperienced ones, can turn to as a means of enriching and/or enhancing their practice in distinctive ways, or allowing them to better prepare for it. Used from a developmental standpoint, the research shows how Maturana's epistemological propositions invoke a particular kind of critically reflective Management Science practice, and, how Autopoietic Theory more generally, can stretch the limits of existing practice. In developing these lines of argumentation the main contribution of the work is to remind members of the various Management Science communities that theirs is an activity that is carried out by real human beings first and by impartial scientists second; moreover, that Management Science is an activity that takes place in human, social and organisational contexts. Acknowledgement of this has far reaching ramifications. In that regard, the main contribution of the research can be taken to be an argument in favour of repositioning 'humanity', in all its various facets, much more centrally within the discipline than has been the case hitherto.

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Haggart, Melanie Jane. "Organochlorine management policy in Canada, the challenge of applying science to contaminant management." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq24148.pdf.

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Colavito, Melanie Meyers. "The Role of Science in Collaborative Forest Management." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/593634.

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Forest health in the United States has been suffering due to threats such as climate change, wildfire, and human development. As a result, efforts are being undertaken to restore natural processes, improve health, and foster resilience in forested systems. Such efforts involve diverse stakeholders, land management agencies, scientists, and the public, who work together collaboratively to find common goals and agreeable solutions. Central to collaborative forest management is an emphasis on using science to inform decision-making. Yet there are many challenges to applying science in decision-making and developing actionable scientific information for management. Many of the efforts to better align science and decision-making have focused on climate research, and additional empirical evidence is needed to provide context-specific recommendations for connecting science and decision-making in different areas of natural resource management. To that end, this dissertation provides an assessment of the role of science in collaborative forest management. The central question that unifies this work is: how is science applied in decision-making for collaborative forest management, and in what ways can the use of science for decision-making in this context be improved? The first two appendices address this within the context of the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP): Appendix A examines the role of science in the CFLRP; and Appendix B assesses how science informs decision-making in the CFLRP. Appendix C addresses the application, development, and communication of scientific information to support resilient forest management. This dissertation illustrates the importance of common goals, in-person interactions, and sustained communication between scientists and decision-makers in order to integrate science into the forest management process.

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O'Leary, Bethan Christine. "Reconciling science and politics in marine resource management." Thesis, University of York, 2012. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2599/.

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Fishery resources are in principle renewable, but modern fisheries are typically characterised by excessive fishing effort, fleet overcapacity, illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing along with deficient governance. This has led to growing trends of unsustainability. Fisheries management is a social and political process which aims to regulate human activities within the constraints of the biological ecosystem in which it operates. But the incorporation of sustainability into fishery practices around the world has to date generally failed. In this thesis I explore the relationship between science and politics in several different spheres of marine resource management. Analysis of the extent to which European politicians have adhered to scientific recommendations on annual total allowable catches (TACs) from 1987 to 2011 for 11 stocks revealed that in 68% of decisions TACs were set higher than recommendations. Politically-adjusted TACs averaged 33-37% above scientifically advised levels. A simple stochastic model indicated that such politically-driven decision-making dramatically reduces stock sustainability. With 88% of European fish stocks overexploited relative to maximum sustainable yield targets, I conclude that political mismanagement must bear a considerable share of the responsibility for this decline. Whilst the practice of political adjustment of scientific advice reveals the negative political impact on management and its failure to integrate science into management, the establishment of marine protected areas (MPAs) shows the relationship between science and politics in a more positive light. MPAs are increasingly being established to protect and rebuild coastal and marine ecosystems. However, the process of establishing these areas is not simple, particularly in areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ) where few MPAs currently exist. Nevertheless, in 2010 the OSPAR Commission successfully established six MPAs forming the world's first network of MPAs in ABNJ. I summarise how this network was created, identify the main challenges, and offer a series of key lessons learned, highlighting approaches that may also be effective for similar efforts in the future. This success story was driven by strong political commitment and based on the best available science, and serves as an example of the positive integration of science into management by politicians. The difficult relationship between science and politics is illustrated clearly by the story of the Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus). This species has become the quintessential example of overfishing and general mismanagement of the world’s fisheries. An age-structured spatial model of the two stocks of Atlantic bluefin tuna highlighted the importance of taking area and stock movement into consideration when determining total allowable catches for the Atlantic bluefin tuna fisheries. The western bluefin stock was found to be more sensitive to assumptions of stock movement and mixing than the eastern populations, corroborating previous research. My results also indicated that to maximise the total catches of bluefin in perpetuity, it may be better to cease fishing in the western Atlantic and to only target individuals in the eastern Atlantic. The estimated timeframes for recovery are found to be medium to long term if fishing were halted today (within 20 years for both stocks to attain their BMSY) and it is estimated that a 34% reduction in fishing mortality on both stocks is the minimum required decrease to ensure recovery. The aim of this model is to further research on the integration of science into a political management system in order to create a sustainable fishery. In this thesis I identify several important requirements for sustainable fisheries management, namely: the need for a sound scientific basis, stakeholder engagement and cooperation, and strong political commitment and willingness.

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AlJabban, Tarek. "Distributed database storage management for a cloud computing infrastructure." Thesis, McGill University, 2013. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=114556.

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Internet applications have recently witnessed tremendous growth in terms of both size and complexity. Cloud computing is one of the several distributed technologies that have emerged to help meeting the objectives of these applications in terms of achieving high availability, performance and scalability.Platform as a Service (PaaS) is one kind of services provided by cloud solutions. These systems often follow a multi-tier architecture consisting mainly of a presentation tier, an application tier and a database tier. The volumes of data exchanged between the application tier and the database tier become huge, especially for enterprise level applications. As a result, the design of the database tier in cloud systems has to carefully address the scalability challenges rising from the huge data volumes. In this thesis, we propose a data distribution approach to improve the scalability of the database tier. Our approach is applied to a traditional single database server. It works by replacing the traditionally used single machine storage paradigm with a distributed storage paradigm. The suggested approach maintains the features that originally exists in the database system, and additionally provides the features of distribution and replication. Distributing the data storage helps improving the system fault-tolerance as it decreases the possibility of having a failure at the database server. It also helps resolve specific performance issues such as reducing the I/O usage and consecutively decreasing the possibility of an I/O bottleneck. Yet, it produces other performance challenges that need to be addressed. To prove the feasibility of our proposed approach, we use it to implement two extensions to the storage manager module of the PostgreSQL database system, using the HDFS distributed file system, and the HBase distributed key-value store.
Les applications Internet ont récemment connu une croissance considérable en termes de taille et de complexité. Afin de satisfaire la forte demande pour les ressources informatiques et les espaces de stockage, les technologies en distribution ont commencé à devenir plus impliquées dans les applications à grande échelle. Le Cloud Computing est l'une de ces nombreuses technologies qui ont émergé pour aider à atteindre les objectifs de ces applications, telles que la haute disponibilité, les performances et l'évolutivité.Platform as a Service (PaaS) est un type de service qui peut être fourni par les solutions de Cloud Computing. Ces systèmes suivent souvent une architecture multi-niveaux qui se compose principalement d'un niveau de présentation, un niveau d'application et d'un niveau de base de données. Les volumes de données échangées entre l'application et la base de données deviennent énormes en particulier pour les applications de niveau entreprise. En conséquence, la conception de la base de données dans les systèmes de Cloud Computing doit prendre en compte le challenge de l'évolution des quantités énormes de données. Dans cette mémoire, nous proposons une approche de distribution des données qui peuvent être utilisées pour améliorer l'évolutivité des bases de données. Nous proposons deux techniques qui peuvent être appliquées à un serveur de base de données unique traditionnelle.Ces techniques fonctionnent en remplaçant le paradigme traditionnel utilisant une seule machine de stockage avec un paradigme de stockage distribué. Les techniques proposées maintiennent les caractéristiques qui existaient à l'origine dans le système de base de données, et en plus fournissent les caractéristiques de la distribution et de la réplication. Ces deux fonctionnalités supplémentaires aident à améliorer le système de tolérance aux pannes, car ils diminuent la possibilité d'avoir une défaillance au niveau du serveur de base de données. La distribution du stockage permet de résoudre les problèmes de performances spécifiques, tels que la réduction de l'utilisation des entrées/sorties et consécutivement de diminuer la possibilité de saturation des entrées/sorties.Par ailleurs, cela produit d'autres défis de performances qui doivent être pris en compte. Pour prouver la faisabilité de nos techniques, nous les avons implémentées comme des extensions du module de gestion de stockage de la base de données PostgreSQL.

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Bates, Anthony Shawn. "The Trilogy of Science: Filling the Knowledge Management Gap with Knowledge Science and Theory." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3977.

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The international knowledge management field has different ways of investigating, developing, believing, and studying knowledge management. Knowledge management (KM) is distinguished deductively by know-how, and its intangible nature establishes different approaches to KM concepts, practices, and developments. Exploratory research and theoretical principles have formed functional intelligences from 1896 to 2013, leading to a knowledge management knowledge science (KMKS) concept that derived a grounded theory of knowledge activity (KAT). This study addressed the impact of knowledge production problems on KM practice. The purpose of this qualitative meta-analysis study was to fit KM practice within the framework of knowledge science (KS) study. Themed questions and research variables focused on field mechanisms, operative functions, principle theory, and relationships of KMKS. The action research used by American practitioners has not established a formal structure for KS. The meta-data-analysis examined 385 transdisciplinary peer-reviewed articles using social science, service science, and systems science databases, with a selection of interdisciplinary studies that had a practice-research-theory framework. Key attributes utilizing Boolean limiters, words, phrases and publication dates, along with triangulation, language analysis and coding through analytic software identified commonalities of the data under study. Findings reflect that KM has not become a theoretically saturated field. KS as the forensic science of KM creates a paradigm shift, causes social change that averts rapid shifts in management direction and uncertainty, and connects KM philosophy and science of knowledge. These findings have social change implications by informing the work of managers and academics to generate a methodical applied science.

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Eklund, Pieta. "Knowledge management på en dagstidning." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap / Bibliotekshögskolan, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-16347.

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The purpose of this study was to describe how journalists do research for their articles and whether there is a need to create a knowledge bank of the material that journalists use for writing these articles. I also looked at how knowledge management could be used at a daily newspaper to add value to the information used by the journalists. The thesis is based on four interviews with journalists, a literature review and a practical project. I helped a journalist with his information seeking and later tried to organize the material. This project gave me an understanding of how varying the material that journalists use is and how difficult it would be to try to organize it in order to create an organizational knowledge resource of the material. The study shows that journalists use a lot of information in their work and a big part of their job consists of information seeking. A lot of the retrieved information is not used more than once. The study shows that if the material was organized and made available for other journalists at the newspaper, it would make journalists work more effective. The results also show that there are some knowledge management tools available at the newspaper but these are not used for knowledge management purposes. Journalists also need to change their way of thinking about their profession from the industrial era to the information and knowledge era in order to make knowledge management succeed and benefit the organization and its employees.
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Toupal, Rebecca Stuart. "Landscape perceptions and natural resource management: Finding the 'social' in the 'sciences'." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/279917.

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Multi-cultural demands of public lands in the United States continue to challenge federal land managers to address social and cultural concerns in their planning efforts. Specifically, these individuals lack adequate knowledge of cultural concerns as well as a consistent strategy for acquiring that knowledge for use in decision-making. Current federal approaches to cultural concerns include public participation, conservation partnerships, government-to-government consultations with American Indian tribes, cultural resource inventories, and landscape analysis. Since cultural knowledge arises from human-nature relationships and shared perceptions of natural environments, and landscapes are the ultimate expression of such knowledge, an exploratory methodology was developed for a different approach to understanding cultural concerns through landscape perceptions. Using cultural landscape theories and applications from the natural and social sciences, this study examined the landscape perceptions of four groups concerned with management planning of the Baboquivari Wilderness Area in southern Arizona: the Bureau of Land Management, landowners of the Altar Valley, recreationists, and members of the Tohono O'odham Nation. The methodology is based on a human nature relationships rather than cultural aspects or features. It takes a holistic approach that differs from other perception studies by including: emic aspects of data collection and analysis; a spatial component: triangulation of data collection through narrative and graphic descriptions; conducting ethnographic, on-site interviews; and consensus analysis and small-sample theory. The results include: verification of four cultural groups; two levels of consensus---in the population of concern, and in each group---that overlap in some aspects of landscape perception; descriptions of four cultural landscapes that illustrate similarities and differences among the groups, and include patterns and representations of spatial relationships; an effective methodology for revealing cultural concerns that are not identified through public forums, and with potential for application by agencies at the field office level.

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Ford, Neil Spencer, and Nicholas Waldon Zimmon. "A data-based Financial Management Information System (FMIS) for Administrative Sciences Department." Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/27584.

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The Administrative Sciences (AS) Department of the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) is placing an increasing emphasis on keeping departmental expenses at minimum levels requiring the AS Department to carefully monitor a large number of complex financial accounts. It becomes necessary to develop a Financial Management Information System that would result in improved management of financial assets, better use of clerical skills, and more detailed, accurate, and up-to-date reporting within the AS Department. Based on the requirement analysis and prototypes performed by previous work, this thesis develops and implements a personal computer-based Management Information System for the Management of the many funding accounts controlled by the Administrative Sciences Department. The central objective was to integrate accounting transactions performed in several different offices, currently using different software programs, into a single all-encompassing Management Information System. The system was written using dBASE IV and is currently operational.

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Ford, Neil Spencer Zimmon Nicholas Waldon. "A data-based Financial Management Information System (FMIS) for Administrative Sciences Department." Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 1990. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA241958.

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Thesis (M.S. in Financial Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 1990.
Thesis Advisor(s): Liao, Shu. Second Reader: Bui, Tung. "December 1990." Description based on title screen as viewed on March 30, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: Financial Management Information System, DBase IV, Data-Based Management System. Includes bibliographical references (p. 111). Also available in print.

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Tang, Fugui. "A proximity determinable social pseudonym framework in online identity management system." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=107858.

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Online identities play critical roles in the current Internet world. One of the virtues of traditional online identities, in forms of pseudonyms, is the privacy protection of online users. Users can create as many anonymous identities as they want with only an email account. However, the anonymity itself could be a limitation because of the lack of accountability.The prevalence of online social networks inspires us to create a social pseudonym framework through which it is possible to determine proximity between pseudonyms while retaining privacy. The basic idea of this work is mapping the online social network into a geometric space and assigning each user a coordinate according to the relationship with his/her neighborhood. The coordinate itself will not disclose any information of a user, but by computing the coordinates distance, proximity between users could be estimated with a certain probability. I evaluated the framework with several real online social network datasets. The results indicate that the proposed framework is promising under certain conditions.
Dans le contexte d'Internet, les identifiants des usagers jouent un rôle critique. L'un des avantages des identifiants traditionnels, soient les pseudonymes, est de fournir une protection de la vie privée des usagers. Les usagers peuvent créer autant d'identifiants anonymes qu'ils le désirent simplement en utilisant une adresse courriel. Par contre, l'anonymité même peut devenir un facteur limitant dû à la déresponsabilisation des usagers. L'importance des réseaux sociaux en ligne nous inspire à créer un système de pseudonymes sociaux à travers lequel il sera possible de déterminer la proximité entre pseudonymes tout en conservant la confidentialité. Le système se base sur l'idée d'associer un réseau social à un espace géométrique et d'assigner des coordonnées à chaque usager qui dépendent de la relation entre l'usager et son voisinage. Les coordonnées elles-même ne fournissent aucune information confidentielle à propos d'un usager. Cependant, en calculant la distance entre différentes coordonnées, la proximité entre usagers peut être estimée avec une certaine probabilité. J'ai évalué le système avec des données provenant de réseaux sociaux réels. Les résultats indiquent que le système proposé, en imposant certaines conditions, est prometteur.

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Papastefano, N., and der Walt SE Arnoldi-van. "A complexity science-based management framework for virtual organisations." African Journal of Business Management, 2010. http://encore.tut.ac.za/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external?sp=1001182.

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Abstract The virtual organisation challenges traditional management assumptions because a new means of coordinating globally dispersed employees is needed. To understand the collective activities of a workforce separated by space and time, this paper describes a complexity science-based management framework for virtual organisations. Specific focus is on a South African virtual organisation as a complex adaptive system. A single, embedded case study strategy was followed, and multiple data sources used to generate theory. In this paper, results are reported that clarify the management of an organisation where technology replaces conventional face-toface contexts for socialisation and assimilation. The paper shows how managers create a virtual context for sharing meaning and interaction through synergy, empowerment, participation and an accountable, committed workforce.

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Gonçalves, Leandra Regina. "Regional Fisheries Management Organizations: is power listening to Science?" Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/101/101131/tde-21112016-164951/.

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One of the biggest challenges in contemporary global environmental governance is the future of marine biodiversity. Over the years, increased fishing efforts in previously remote areas drove many fish stocks to scarcity. The Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (RFMOs) emerged to solve the international fishery crisis, on the assumption that they would provide a forum where Member States may agree and discuss binding rules for the conservation and management of fish stocks within its geographical area of responsibility. Although some agreements existed for more than 60 years, many authors agree that they have not been fully effective in promoting the maintenance and conservation of fish stocks. There are many reasons that might explain the lack of effectiveness, one of them being that science is not very often listened to in the political decision-making process. In this research, the influence of knowledge and science in shaping policy decisions will be observed and analyzed. Therefore, the use of the epistemic communities theory, that which forms part of the constructivist turn in international relations -- was used to answer the main question posed here: when does power listen to science? When it does, does it bring more effectiveness in terms of knowledge, input from epistemic communities, does it induce states to change their behavior, and do these influences lead to policies, which can credibly improve biomass? Using process tracing, through elite interviews, and with a systematic compilation and study of meeting reports from three RFMOs: the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR); the International Convention for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT); and the Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna (CCSBT), the final conclusion is that they may listen to science, but their strategy, allies, and the ways in which it occurs differ case-by-case.
Um dos maiores desafios na governança ambiental global contemporânea é o futuro dos ecossistemas e da biodiversidade marinha. Ao longo dos anos, o aumento do esforço de pesca nas áreas anteriormente remotas levou muitas populações de peixes à escassez. As Organizações Regionais para o Ordenamento Pesqueiro (OROPs) surgiram para resolver a crise internacional de pesca, através um fórum onde os Estados-Membros podem acordar e discutir regras vinculativas para a conservação e gestão dos recursos pesqueiros no âmbito da sua área geográfica de responsabilidade. Embora alguns acordos existam há mais de 60 anos, muitos pesquisadores concordam que os mesmos não têm sido totalmente eficazes para promover a manutenção e conservação dos recursos pesqueiros. Muitas razões podem explicar a falta de eficiência no manejo, uma delas é que, o aconselhamento cientifico não é muitas vezes considerado nas decisões políticas. Nesta pesquisa, a influência do conhecimento e da ciência na tomada de decisões políticas serão avaliadas. Para isso, a teoria das comunidades epistêmicas, que faz parte da veia construtivista em Relações Internacionais, foi usada para responder à principal questão colocada aqui: quando é que o poder ouviu a ciência? E isso trouxe mais eficiência em termos do conhecimento proveniente das comunidades epistêmicas induzir os Estados a mudarem seu comportamento e a influência levar a políticas que aumentem a biomassa dos estoques pesqueiros? Com o uso de process tracing, por meio de entrevistas com atores e uma compilação sistemática dos relatórios das reuniões anuais, as OROPS: CCAMLR, ICCAT e CCSBT foram estudadas, e a conclusão final é que, os tomadores de decisão podem ouvir a ciência, porém, a estratégia, os aliados e a forma como a influência se desenvolve varia caso a caso.

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Lee, Jeongseok. "Knowledge management in preserving ecosystems the case of Seoul /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3380098.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, 2009.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 13, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-12, Section: A, page: 4849. Adviser: Robert Agranoff.

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Roger, Kathleen Mary Louise. "A nursing workload manager for a patient data management system /." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61047.

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This thesis presents the design and implementation of a Nursing Workload Manager module for a Patient Data Management System in an intensive care unit. The Nursing Workload Manager aids in the planning and documentation of the nurse's workload. It automates the generation of the nursing care plan and automatically assigns a score to the care plan based on a nursing workload measurement system. In the thesis a literature survey of patient data management systems, nursing workload measurement systems and system evaluation methods is presented. This is followed by an overview of the work environment of an intensive care unit. The functionality of the Nursing Workload Manager is described and details of the software environment and application implementation are discussed. Finally, the results of a user evaluation of the module are presented, and future work on the module is discussed.

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Nicolau, Daniela E. "Knowledge production and transfer in physical and life sciences /." Access via Murdoch University Digital Theses Project, 2002. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20061122.141122.

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Lohse, Peter A. (Peter Andreas). "Distribution of knowledge production in the chemical sciences in the US." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65786.

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Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2011.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 43-44).
A citation analysis was carried out to gain an understanding of the geographical and institutional distribution of highly cited articles in the chemical sciences in the US over the last thirty years. The contribution of US chemistry departments was determined by quantifying the number of highly cited articles published by individual authors or groups of authors from the same department. Articles stemming from collaborative research across schools were not considered. The results show that a dilution in intradepartmental knowledge production has occurred both on a geographical and institutional level. Three chemistry departments have emerged as strong producers of high impact articles over the last thirty years: the University of North Carolina, Texas A&M University and the University of Utah. In terms of aggregate numbers of highly cited articles these three schools are in the top ten of over seventy schools which were evaluated; their chemistry departments are en par in terms of scientific impact with those from Ivy League schools like Stanford University, Harvard University and the California Institute of Technology. While the literature reports increasing concentration for the US research base, the present analysis shows a dilution in chemical knowledge production when collaborative efforts across departments and schools are excluded. This finding suggests that the increase in concentration in the US science base is not a uniform trend when studied on a more granular level.
by Peter A. Lohse.
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Koosimile, Anthony Tsatsing. "Science curriculum implementation in Botswana." Thesis, University of York, 1999. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/9794/.

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Paucar-Caceres, A. "Business culture and management science methodologies in England and France." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.435608.

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Heyboer, Maarten. "Knowledge-development in applied science: the case of range management." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/46039.

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This study traces the evolution of the applied ecological discipline of range management in terms of the goals, methods, concepts, and criteria developed by range management for their science between 1897 and 1920. It argues, in contrast to the traditional view uÌ uat describes the knowledge-development process in applied science as just science applied to social problems, that wider social goals, values, concepts, and criteria play a definite role in shaping the applied science knowledge-development process.

The first generation of range management allowed the primary users of the knowledge in the wider society, the stockmen in the West and Southwest, to have a direct influence on the knowledge-development process. The next generation of scientists eliminated the stockmen's direct influence on the knowledge-development process, yet the stockmen still influenced that process indirectly in various ways.

This study concludes that an orientation towards the wider society that actually applies the knowledge is characteristic of range management and may be illustrative of illustrative of many applied sciences. Due to that orientation towards the wider society and to the wider society's influence on the scientist's choice of methods,concepts, and criteria, another characteristic of range management and possibly of other applied sciences is a tension in the knowledge development process between that orientation and the individual goals of scientists in their research.

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Deadman, Peter John 1960. "Modeling individual behavior in common pool resource management experiments with autonomous agents." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/282396.

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This work introduces and illustrates the potential of intelligent agent based modeling and simulation as a tool for understanding individual action and group performance in common pool resource dilemmas. Three groups of models were developed, based on previously documented common pool resource experiments, and simulated using the Swarm multi-agent simulation environment. Agents in these models were designed to represent the actions of the individual appropriators in the experiments and the common pool resource itself. The three groups of models are differentiated by the capabilities of the appropriator agents and address; preassigned fixed strategies with no communication, a simple induction based approach to selecting amongst alternative strategies with no communication, and the induction based approach with two simple communication routines. Simulations of these three groups of models rendered observations of some potential relationships between individual action and group performance in common pool resource experimental situations. In particular, simulations of agents employing the induction based approach with no-communication generated group level behavior with similar performance characteristics to groups in actual experiments. A discussion relates the behavior of these simulations to other simulation based work in game theory and learning theory. Some potential future directions for this research, and possible applications in natural resources management, are discussed.

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Ku, Shawn. "Disability management, developing the ideal disability management model : the Diamond Health Management model." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0002/MQ45231.pdf.

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Wilhelmsson, Jesper. "Efficient memory management for message-passing concurrency." Licentiate thesis, Uppsala : Univ. : Dept. of Information Technology, Univ, 2005. http://www.it.uu.se/research/reports/lic/2005-001/.

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Zia, Vivian. "A computerized nursing workload management system in a pediatric ICU." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape16/PQDD_0007/MQ29638.pdf.

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Cook, Susanne Welch. "Adolescent risk preference and asthma symptom self-management: Assessing symptom management scenarios." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280507.

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Adolescent asthma symptom self-management choices frequently involve uncertain outcomes that include potential dangers such as trigger exposures or delays in treatments that can lead to increased morbidity or mortality. Nurses must understand factors that influence how adolescents make symptom decisions. The purpose of the investigation was to assess eight adolescent asthma symptom scenarios for use with the standard gamble technique (SGT) for making choices. The aims were to: (1) estimate the internal consistency and content validity of the scenarios; (2) estimate the relationship between measured risk preferences, age, and gender; and (3) describe adolescent responses to using the SGT. Thirty-six adolescents participated. Risk preferences or utilities elicited during face-to-face interviews with 31 adolescents were used to answer research questions. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Cronbach's alpha, Kendall's tau correlations, and point biserial correlations. Content validity (CV) ratings from 36 adolescents were used to compute indexes and establish CV of the scenarios. Qualitative responses were analyzed using a modified case study strategy to further establish CV and assess using SGT with adolescents. The estimates of internal consistency reliability and relationships between utilities, age, and gender were limited by the non-normal distributions of utility and age data sets and small sample size. The standardized alpha was .70 for the eight-scenario composite. Eight significant inter-item correlations and seven significant item-total correlations were identified. One significant correlation between age and an individual scenario utility score was found. No significant relationships between age and mean utility scores or gender and the individual or mean utility scores were seen. The CV indexes support the relevancy of the content of the eight-scenario composite as evidenced by 94.5% of the adolescents rating the individual scenarios as CV for the domains and 92% for the risk areas. In addition, the adolescents rated 94% percent of the composites as CV. The qualitative responses support the quantitative data and describe the SGT as a method that adolescents can use. Future studies are needed with a larger sample to further examine the internal consistency of the scenarios and the relationships between age, gender, and utility scores measured with the SGT.

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Bjerre, Johan. "Load management for a telecom charging system." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Computer and Information Science, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-15220.

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There are a huge number of customers using Ericsson’s prepaid telecom charging system. This means that even the smallest optimization done in its management of load results in a big win when considering time and CPU usage. Ericsson wishes therefore to learn about how the load management can be improved considering speed, i.e. faster response to load changes.

In this thesis work two subsystems of the prepaid telecom system are modeled. The first subsystem treats and prepares the telecom activity before it enters the second subsystem which checks if there is coverage for the action that the telecom activity asks for to be performed. A model which is an emulation of the subsystems is built using c++. It captures the timing of the real system not the logic or function. The c++ approach is compared to a Matlab approach which runs much slower in simulation. In addition, the model enables full view of the queue sizes and the rejects made by the regulator.

Verification has been performed with self generated data based on synthetic test cases. Verification and analysis show that the model captures the intended behavior of load management. Information about different software parameters and its influence on the output is obtained. Different scenarios are tested and the outcome discussed.

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Kirstein-Jost, Simone. "Auflösung von Anaphern im Rahmen der Informationsextraktion für Ontologie-Management im Bereich Life Sciences." Hamburg Kovač, 2009. http://d-nb.info/999217755/04.

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Siyaya, Mlindeni Celinhlalo, B. B. Ndlovu, and B. T. Gamede. "Factors influencing learner performance in the economic and management sciences in the Ilembe district." Thesis, University of Zululand, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10530/1796.

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Submitted to the faculty of education in fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Education in the Department of Social Science Education at the University of Zululand, 2019
This thesis explores “Factors Influencing Learner Performance in the Economic and Management Sciences in the iLembe District”. This study has used a mixed methodology, in Mandeni ward in KwaZulu-Natal. This district has four hundred and forty-two (442) schools. The district is divided into five (5) wards. One of those wards is Mandeni Ward, which has thirty-four (34) schools. The data analysing technique that was used is thematic analysis. The greatly publicised poor matric results in South Africa point to many systemic challenges in the education system. The system of education in South Africa requires teachers who are highly skilled to impart knowledge to learners. The historic curriculum paradigm shifts in the South African education system brought numerous changes. In the process of these curriculum changes, there is no evidence that suggests teachers’ involvement. For example, the introduction of Economic and Management Sciences (EMS) as a learning area brought about challenges to educators as EMS became a combination of three learning areas in one. The challenge of identifying a competent teacher in the three-layered EMS was exacerbated by the introduction of external examinations in grade seven, during the 2014 academic year. This research has attempted to investigate the factors that exist for teachers and heads of department with regards to EMS. In this study, a range of questioning statements that render relevant information about the factors that may influence performance in EMS have been employed. Through the use of interviews, qualitative data were collected from grade seven to nine teachers, as well as heads of department. Another set of data was generated using questionnaires given to the same participants. The final set of data was obtained using document analysis: where mark schedules for grade seven were analysed with the aim of investigating learner performance. This study found that EMS is being taught by unqualified EMS teachers due to the shortage of qualified EMS teachers (Modise, 2014). The absence of qualified teachers negatively impacts on the educational objectives of the EMS learning area. The study also discovered that the lack of exposure to commercial subjects in high school does dampen the confidence and the enthusiasm of the teacher and hamper their eagerness to stand in front of the learners to teach EMS. The insufficient time allocated for EMS and EMS workshops also negatively impacts on the objectives and outcomes for this subject. The lack of parental involvement in EMS related discussions also hampers the educational objectives of the EMS learning space. There are recommendations that suggest that there is a need to urgently revisit the manner in which EMS teachers are trained. The provision of EMS related resources has to be drastically improved if vi the stakeholders desire to witness identifiable and life-changing results. There is dire need to immediately review the EMS curriculum policy.

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Chrystie, Jeanetta R. "A Model for Applying Total Quality Management in Computer Information Systems Management." NSUWorks, 1998. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/gscis_etd/454.

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Total Quality Management addressed the importance of an organization listening to its customers and taking a structured, strategic approach to providing improved products and services. Problems were no stranger to most information systems departments. Software quality problems, work backlogs, negative user perceptions of IS; all pointed to a need for total quality management concepts and techniques to be applied in the processes and to the products of an IS department. TQM provided the tools and techniques necessary to bring continuous quality improvements in IS. In this study, the researcher conducted literature searches on Total Quality Management, its history and development, leading proponents, quality basics, and quality awards. TQM's use of baselines and benchmarking was presented. The appropriate use of each of TQM's seven problem-solving tools, quality function deployment, and the seven management and planning tools was explained. Future trends in TQM were also documented. A TQM literature search on customer identification, including employees and vendors was reviewed. Literature research on determining customer needs and prioritizing those needs was presented. Extensive research on the need for customer surveys, the development of accurate survey instruments, and validating and testing a survey was covered. TQM's emphasis on customer service and employee involvement was applied toward creating a model for implementing TQM in the IS department of an organization. A search of the literature for applications and case studies on additional IS management issues, the use of TQM in academia, and relevant TQM studies provided additional problem-solving information. Through incorporating TQM principles into IS management practices, a new strategic TQMIS (Total Quality Management Information Systems) conceptual framework was developed, based on further literature searches on model creation and validation. A customer survey was designed and piloted to provide example baseline and benchmarking information. The customer surveys provided totals for both customer perceptions of the service levels they received and the customer-defined relative importance of these items. An IS problem list was created from the survey data, demonstrating that process. In this study, the researcher accomplished her aims of creating the TQMIS conceptual framework and a pilot survey example for beginning a TQMIS effort.

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Fumai, Nicola. "A database for an intensive care unit patient data management system." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=22500.

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Computerization has had a large impact on hospital intensive care units, allowing continuous monitoring and display of physiological patient data. Treatment of the critically ill patient, however, now requires assimilating large amounts of patient data.
Computers can help by processing the data and displaying the information in easy to understand formats. Also, knowledge-based systems can provide advice in diagnosis and treatment of patients. If these systems are to be effective, they must be integrated into the total hospital information system and the separate computer data must be jointly integrated into a new database which will become the primary medical record.
This thesis presents the design and implementation of a computerized database for an intensive care unit patient data management system being developed for the Montreal Children's Hospital. The database integrates data from the various PDMS components into one logical information store. The patient data currently managed includes physiological parameter data, patient administrative data and fluid balance data.
A simulator design is also described, which allows for thorough validation and verification of the Patient Data Management System. This simulator can easily be extended for use as a teaching and training tool for PDMS users.
The database and simulator were developed in C and implemented under the OS/2 operating system environment. The database is based on the OS/2 Extended Edition relational Database Manager.

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Simon, Katie. "Finding synergistic conservation values? Māori tikanga, science, resource management and law." The University of Waikato, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2639.

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In this doctorate, I provide a balanced and collaborative approach to knowledge/value change between the contesting worldviews of indigenous knowledge and western science, termed 'synergistic'. My search for synergy is comparative and reconciliatory. This endeavours to overcome the popular pre-occupation with conflict and opposition. Rather, both difference and similarity are recognised. Through the comparison of such synergy, I argue that Māori development requires for its further advancement a focus not only on difference and conflict, but also on affinity and convergence. My primary concern is to establish a better understanding of the synergistic, adaptive strategies or indigenous innovation of Māori kaitiaki, environmental stewards. I investigate conflicting and converging Māori and western scientific conservation and use values in Aotearoa/New Zealand environmental governance and management regimes under the Resource Management Act 1991, with specific regard to indicator development. The balance of values were compared in ecological environmental governance, from five Aotearoa governmental authorities and three Māori river communities, utilising Māori and western social science methods. My focus on indicators pinpoints contesting knowledge/value change between the marginalisation of indigenous knowledge and dominance of western science. This seeks to highlight the potential viability of Māori kaitiakitanga, stewardship in global and national terms of sustainability. However, potential synergy is held back by a prevailing viewpoint of the indigenous worldview as backward, past-oriented and non-synergistic. An oppositional dogma predominates, which is a key problem to overcome. It spans world and national literature, resulting in considerable gaps in knowledge on synergy, conceptually, methodologically, empirically and analytically. This is addressed by an authoritative Māori synergistic standpoint from my own cultural lens and decolonised theorising, termed 'nuanced problem solving'. I articulate both worldviews in knowledge/value change through comparative, evolutionary, multi-dimensional, cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary research on synergy. My nuanced problem solving encapsulates the two main parts of the doctorate, whereby synergy is correlated between theory and social practice. Part one deals with value comparison in theory utilising high abstracted concepts and methods at the global level of environmental governance. Part two deals with value balance in social practice utilising medium abstracted and concrete empirical and analytical research at global, national, regional, district and cross-tribal levels of environmental governance. Potential synergy cross-cuts each part from high abstracted thought down and from the practical flax roots up. I argue that Māori advancement fluctuates between them. Drawing on cultural and theoretical leanings of the Māori synergistic standpoint, both a strong correlation with existing theory and expanded synergistic theorising was found. Due to the expansiveness of the research, these correlated findings only provide an embryonic understanding of potential synergy. A postscript describes my other work on synergy with five external agencies concerning foreshore, lakeside, wastewater, land disposal and carbon marketing kaitiakitanga. I argue that additional research on synergy is needed in order to further advance Māori.

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Abouarghoub, Wessam M. T. "Implementing the new science of risk management to tanker freight markets." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2013. http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/20836/.

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Studies in the area of shipping freight risk measurement and management are limited and the understandings of the impact of freight volatility dynamics on the freight market remain insufficient and under-researched. The few studies that explore different approaches to measuring freight risk disagree on the most suitable measures and this is down to different interpretation of the underlying conditional variance for freight rates. Thus, the intention of this study is to contribute to the literature in the field of shipping freight risk studies. In this thesis tanker freight risk is measured using univariate and multivariate value-at-risk measures that are structured on a variety of single- and multi-state conditional variance models. Moreover, uncorrelated freight risk factors and conditional freight-beta are estimated through an orthogonal conditional variance and a dynamic freight-beta approach for a portfolio of freight returns, respectively. This thesis also investigates the hypothesis of the state dependency of freight dynamics through a conditional freight limitation framework, which distinguishes between ‘ship-owner’ and ‘cargo-owner’ markets, in particular pre- and during the most recent financial crisis. Furthermore, the short and long term effect of the financial crisis on freight markets are examined through a multi-state Markov switching-regime framework that provides thresholds indicating different freight bands for distinct market conditions. Thus, the hypothesis of variation in the freight-return relation is investigated on the basis that up and down market movements are defined as shipping agent controlled. Additionally, specific and systematic risks for the tanker market are extracted and compared across distinct tanker segments. Finally, a practical insight into shipping practitioners’ measurement and management of freight risk for different shipping segments is examined, where the directional accuracy and volatility of short- and long-term forward curves are assessed and compared against a general perception in the literature.

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Mitchell, Melissa. "Strategic human resource management plan for Task Applied Science (Pty) Ltd." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/96217.

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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.
Human resource management is a widely researched field. However, the research done in terms of small to medium-sized enterprises, is extremely limited, especially in South Africa. The aim of this research was to investigate human resource management practices in one such a company, and to develop a feasible action plan to improve on these practices. The chosen company, Task Applied Science (Pty) Ltd, is a medical research company based in Cape Town, South Africa. The data for the study was obtained through a literature review and interviews. The data from the literature review identified best practices and frameworks. This was combined with interviewing company employees as well as HRM practitioners in the medical field to not only identify problems, but to also suggest possible solutions. These solutions were compiled in a comprehensive action plan. As such, the results offer a workable solution for Task Applied Science, and can serve as example for all small to medium-sized enterprises. The literature review further showed that smaller companies tend to ignore the importance of human resource management due to the time and costs involved and the fact that they are focussed on the external environment rather than the internal. This cannot simply be remedied by implementing practices developed in large companies. Best practices need to be customised to fit the needs of the specific company. The findings showed that only certain human resource management practices were implemented in reaction to crises, or as needs arose. This, combined with the rapid growth and lack of structure, caused a breakdown in communication, transparency, and trust. Staff loyalty decreased because they felt that they were left in the dark. Both the company strategy and values became vague, and thus staff could not be aligned to it. Noteworthy was that the increase in policies and documentation did not cause employees to feel restricted, but rather that it created a feeling of security. The study made it abundantly clear that the human resources department needs to be treated as a strategic partner in the planning and execution of the company strategy; especially in terms of efficient change management. Their role is to communicate the strategic direction, while at the same time acting as an activist for the staff, voicing their needs and capabilities. The proposed action plan focused mainly on the company culture and the alignment of staff with the company’s business strategy. This was done by addressing issues such as company culture, communication, company values, and staff development. The plan offers practical solutions within each of these categories. Furthermore, it suggests solutions in terms of efficient staff recruitment and knowledge management. By implementing this plan the company will be able to increase the synergy between the business units within the company, eradicating silos, and establishing the staff as a competitive advantage. In addition to this, it will establish the human resources department as a credible partner for the staff in developing both their personal and professional lives.

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