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Tully, Jeffrey. "Pediatric Out‐of‐Hospital Cardiac Arrest in the State of Arizona." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/315931.
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A Thesis submitted to The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Medicine.Comprehensive databases which collect data on out of hospital cardiac arrests have been useful in identifying markers of outcome in adults, but this data is limited in children. The Arizona Department of Health Services’ Save Hearts in Arizona Registry and Education (SHARE) database contains data on pediatric cardiac arrests in the field and offers a unique opportunity to examine outcome measures and pre-hospital care. We retrospectively analyzed 312 children (1-215 months) from the SHARE database between 2004-2010. Variables assessed included: bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) administration, transport times and impact of Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) availability on outcome to hospital discharge. Data were analyzed by t-test and Fisher’s exact test. Of 312 children with out of hospital cardiac arrest, 11 (3.6%) survived to hospital discharge. The low survival rates in this review make statistical comparisons difficult, though potential trends were noted that, with additional numbers to increase power, may provide insight into factors affecting survival from pediatric OHCA that have not been assessed on a wide scale in this vulnerable population.
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Henry, Daniella. "Pension Effect on Out-of-State Teacher Turnover in North Carolina." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1325.
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This paper examines the impact on pension generosity on teacher turnover in North Carolina Public School teachers. It specifically focuses on the impacts of vesting, employer contribution, and pension generosity for out-of-state teachers in their first five years of teaching. High rates of teacher turnovers, especially teachers in their early career, have been shown to negatively impact North Carolina students. As states search for solutions to decrease turnover and recruit more qualified teachers, the effects of pension programs on teacher turnover has yet to be thoroughly examined. This paper found that there was a slight negative correlation between teacher turnover and the generosity of pension programs.
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Schultz, Christine Yang Lawson. "Undergraduate admissions at the University of Delaware improving the yield of non-resident profile enhancing students /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file [ ] Mb., 284 p, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3220717.
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Weeks, Erin Maureen. "Out of Africa & into the Sunshine State : tracking an exotic invader." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/83839.
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Thesis (S.M. in Science Writing)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Comparative Media Studies, 2013.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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This is the story of an invasive species and one man's quest to eradicate it. The Nile monitor lizard (Varanus niloticus), smaller cousin of the famed Komodo dragon, grows into six feet of carnivorous, ill-tempered muscle. The animal's size and aggression make it a poor candidate for the exotic pet trade, but the species nevertheless obtained popularity in the 1990s. Two decades later, the descendants of released Nile monitors are breeding in the coastal town of Cape Coral, Florida, where the lizards benefit from extensive drainage canals and a buffet of native wildlife-and they're spreading. Herpetologist Todd Campbell has devoted more than a decade of his research to these reptiles, attempting to understand how they got here, how their invasion is wreaking havoc on native ecosystems, and most of all, how to eliminate them for good. The challenges he's faced along the way echo the wider concerns of fighting invasive species, which represent one of the greatest threats to global biodiversity and ecosystems but are poorly studied and rarely prioritized. This thesis follows the trajectory of the Nile monitor from its native Africa to southern Florida, exploring what it is about this lizard's natural history, ecology, and allure to reptile enthusiasts that has made it a charismatic symbol of the perils of biological invasion.
by Erin Maureen Weeks.
S.M.in Science Writing
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Gulliver, Ian AH. "Going Out: Successes and Failures of Chinese State-owned Enterprises in Foreign Markets." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/893.
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China’s State-owned Enterprises are important actors in China’s foreign policy arsenal. In the last decade, these massive companies began an international expansion unlike anything seen before on Earth. Going into developing nations, these companies undertake massive infrastructure and development projects in countries that most western nations have written off. This paper examines the success and failure of SOEs when they go abroad employing three case studies from the past decade, the Mes Aynak copper mine in Afghanistan, the Sicomines infrastructure and copper project in the Congo, and the COVEC highway project in Poland. The projects are then analyzed to determine the strengths and weaknesses of SOEs and comments on whether or not they are successful tools of diplomacy in our contemporary globalized world.
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Marsh, Michael N. "Out-of-body and near-death experiences : brain-state phenomena or glimpses of immortality?" Thesis, University of Oxford, 2006. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:09faa988-2080-4187-887e-3acadebe9558.
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What certainty is there for personal survival after death? Five key authors, critically analysed in this thesis, think that OB/ND experiences offer such assurances. Most OB/ND events follow severe clinical crises profoundly embarrassing cerebral function. At the nadir of brain function, invariably resulting in unconsciousness, authors aver that the escape of soul (Sabom), mind, or free consciousness (Moody, Ring, Grey, Fenwick), in providing glimpses of heaven, offers proof of immortality. I disagree. The semantic content of early-phase ND experiences reveals dream-like bizarreness and illogicality, consistent with de-activation of critical cortical controls. Conversely, late-phase experiences, tinged with 'moral' compulsions about earthly responsibilities, herald the progressive intrusion of conscious-awareness into that subconscious mentation. These experiences, abruptly terminating as conscious-awareness erupts, are transient - as demonstrated by narrative word counts - indicating origins from reawakening, not moribund, brains. My argument is underpinned by these latter crucial observations. Pain, intruding into ND phenomenology, is another occurrence hardly consistent with an escape of mind or 'free consciousness' into the hereafter. "Tunnel" phenomenology, a rapid movement from darkness into heavenly brightness, involves a retrospective synthesis of vestibular-generated rotation/accelerations, and a progressively enlarging and engulfing light, signalling re-establishment of an effective circulation to associative visual centres. The content of ND experiences, as with dreams, involves the temporo-parietal cortex. OB experiences derive from central vestibular activity (superior and inferior parietal lobules) in dormant, recumbent patients. Allied aberrations of allocentric space create bodily reduplications and sensed invisible presences. Thus, OB do not warrant "mystical" interpretations. The spiritual overtones accorded OB/ND experiences by authors are inconsistent with classical (Judaeo-Christian) accounts of divine disclosure. The eschatology adumbrated in published texts implies immortality, and seriously fails to embrace a preferred resurrectional eschatology as professed credally. I therefore conclude that OB/ND phenomenology, rather than offering alleged glimpses of eternity, reflects living, not dead, brains re-awakening to full conscious-awareness from antecedent metabolic insults.
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Solomon-Schwartz, Benjamin Peretz. "Out of bounds? : rhetoric of urban form and its influence on state legislation in Massachusetts." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/44201.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2008.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 66-69).
Urban form is the product of the actions of a multitude of actors, from governments to individuals, from corporations to activist organizations. It is the result of rules, ideas, assumptions,and arguments, all of which accumulate and evolve over many years. Among these many paths of influence, urban form is the outcome of state policy, including the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In turn, state policy is a product of multiple objectives and is shaped, often indirectly,by shared ideas about urban form. In order to understand the ways in which policy and form are intertwined, this thesis explores the influence of ideas about urban form on three recent state laws in Massachusetts: the Community Preservation Act from 2000, 40R/40S (Smart Growth Zoning and Housing Production) from 2004 and 2005, and landlocked tidelands legislation from 2007. Each law has plausibly significant impacts on urban form, but urban form is not the driving factor in any of these cases. In each case study, rhetoric of urban form emerged indirectly in the discussions about the legislation. The prevalence of this rhetoric indicates that it was essential that the legislation be consistent with shared conceptions of the urban forms native to Massachusetts. These ideas of vernacular form are dominated by the idea of New England village, but also include a secondary urban vernacular that is applied to select urban locations. Each piece of legislation had to be consistent enough with an idea of vernacular urban form so that it could be presented and advocated in terms of the vernacular.
(cont) Chapter three explores the variety of paths along which ideas of the vernacular form operate in each case study.This analysis of the ways that ideas about urban form shape state legislation suggests lessons that could improve the physical setting of the Commonwealth. Ultimately, the lessons have the potential to positively influence the lives of the Commonwealth's inhabitants, workers, and visitors.
by Benjamin P. Solomon-Schwartz.
M.C.P.
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Farantatos, Evangelos. "A predictive out-of-step protection scheme based on PMU enabled distributed dynamic state estimation." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/45863.
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Recent widespread blackouts have indicated the need for more efficient and accurate power system monitoring, control and protection tools. Power system state estimation, which is the major tool that is used nowadays for providing the real-time model of the system, has significant biases resulting mainly from the complexity and geographic spread and separation of an electric power system. Synchrophasor technology is a promising technology that has numerous advantages compared to conventional metering devices. PMUs provide synchronized measurements, where synchronization is achieved via a GPS clock which provides the synchronizing signal with accuracy of 1 μsec. As a result, the computed phasors have a common reference (UTC time) and can be used in local computations, thus distributing the state estimation process. The first part of the work presents a PMU enabled dynamic state estimator (DSE) that can capture with high fidelity the dynamics of the system and extract in real time the dynamic model of the system. The described DSE is performed in a decentralized way, on the substation level based on local measurements which are globally valid. The substation based DSE uses data from relays, PMUs, meters, FDRs etc in the substation only, thus avoiding all issues associated with transmission of data and associated time latencies. This approach enables very fast DSE update rate which can go up to more than 60 executions per second.
The distributed state estimation architecture that synchrophasor technology enables, along with the fast sampling rate and the accuracy of the measurements that PMUs provide, enable the computation of the real-time dynamic model of the system and the development of numerous power system applications for more efficient control and protection of the system. In the second part of the work, a transient stability monitoring scheme is presented that utilizes the information given by the dynamic state estimation and enables real-time monitoring of the transient swings of the system and characterizes the stability of the system in real time. In particular, the real-time dynamic model of the system, as given by the DSE, is utilized to evaluate the system's energy function based on Lyapunov's direct method and extract stability properties from the energy function. The two major components of the scheme are a) the calculation of the center of oscillations of the system and b) the derivation of an equivalent, reduced sized model which is used for the calculation of the potential and kinetic energy of the system based on which the stability of the system is determined. Finally, as an application of the transient stability monitoring scheme, an energy based out-of-step protection scheme is proposed. The energy of the generator is continuously monitored and if it exceeds a predefined threshold then instability is asserted and a trip signal can be sent to the generator. The major advantage of the scheme is that the out-of-step condition is predicted before its occurrence and therefore relays can act much faster than today's technology. The scheme is compared to presently available state of the art out-of-step protection schemes in order to verify its superiority.
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LangBruttig, Artis. "The Cost of Dropping Out: An Examination of State-level Vocational Funding on High School Dropout Rates." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2013. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/sociology_theses/37.
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The Perkins IV Act was passed in 2006 to promote high school graduation for youth while introducing skills they need to be prepared for in the labor market. Yearly progress reports measure if CTE programs are successful in reducing dropout rates but fall short for a number of reasons. Using state-level data from the National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Consortium (NASDCTEc) website for the 2009-2010 school year, state-level data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data (CCD) database for 2009-2010, and dropout data from the U.S. Department of Education for the 2010-2011 school year to establish causality, my research seeks to address the extent to which Perkins IV funding reduces drop out rates at the state-level.
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Krug, Michael [Verfasser], and Harald [Akademischer Betreuer] Weinfurter. "Ionization based state read out of a single Rb-87 atom / Michael Krug ; Betreuer: Harald Weinfurter." München : Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1152946242/34.
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Guo, Ming. "Making a Market out of a Welfare State : Swedish Local Politicians’ Perspectives on Elderly Care Marketisation." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-142342.
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Market reforms have quite notably been used as a solution to increase the quality of public services and efficiency since the 1990s. Sweden has also introduced marketisation in the field of elderly care since 1992 to cope with increasing care needs while maintaining costs at a reasonable level. Yet, the introduction of a market mechanism in the welfare state is subject to increasing political and public debates. Many are sceptical about the purported benefits of a market, such as increased quality and reduced costs, as proposed by New Public Management. There have also been increasing critiques of the profit-making in care services in recent years. After two decades of marketisation, it is worthwhile to map out local politicians’ attitude patterns, namely, how they perceive the use of a market or quasi-market in a welfare state, where the market mechanism might challenge traditional principles such as universalism, solidarity, and equality. Complementary to studies on attitudes of public welfare, this research uses a unique survey dataset from 2014 to expand current understandings of politicians’ perspectives of marketisation. To be more specific, this study analyses three different aspects of marketisation: production, regulation, and financing. The results show that attitudinal differences between left- and right-wing politicians on private for-profit providers remain distinct. Political orientations of individuals, political majority in municipalities, and the privatisation level already achieved locally are identified as important factors in explaining local politicians’ willingness to privatise further. The preference differences continue to exist between the two blocs, and political ideology plays a major role in explaining these differences, more so than individual factors such as age, gender, or working position. Self-reported answers reveal that political ideology influences attitude formation. To a large extent, left- and right-wing politicians agree on welfare principles such as universalism, and they both recognise potential impacts that the market could have on society, such as inequality. It seems plausible that welfare state pluralism is the direction of the future. This case study serves as a solid example for examining the market development of public welfare in advanced welfare states and also contributes to the discussion of the potential role of political ideology in post-austerity welfare reforms.Marknadsreformer har i ökande grad använts som en lösning för att öka effektiviteten och kvaliteten på offentliga tjänster sedan 1990-talet. I Sverige har också en gradvis marknadsanpassning ägt rum från tidigt 1990-tal med syfte att klara av ökade vårdbehov och för att upprätthålla kostnaderna på en rimlig nivå. Införandet av marknadsmekanismer i välfärdsstaten har blivit föremål för en livlig offentlig debatt. Många debattörer har varit klart skeptiska till de påstådda fördelarna med en marknadsanpassning, såsom förbättrad kvalitet och reducerade kostnader, som bland annat hävdats av New Public Managementskolans anhängare. Samtidigt har också skett en växande kritik av vinstuttagen och vinsttillväxten inom offentligfinansierad vård och omsorg de senaste åren. Efter två årtionden av marknadsanpassning är det motiverat att kartlägga lokalpolitikernas attityder, avseende hur de ser på den ökande marknadsanpassningen av den traditionella välfärdsstaten, där marknadsmekanismen kan utmana principer som universalism, solidaritet och jämställdhet. Förutom tidigare analyser av attityder beträffande offentlig välfärd är denna studie baserad på en unik enkätundersökning riktad till svenska kommunpolitiker genomförd 2014 i syfte att undersöka politikernas syn på de ökade marknadsinslagen inom offentlig äldreomsorg. Studien analyserar tre olika aspekter av marknadsanpassningen: produktion, reglering och finansiering. Resultatet visar att skillnaderna i attityder mellan vänster - och högerpolitiker avseende inslaget av privata vinstdrivande tjänsteleverantörer är mycket tydligt. Individernas politiska tillhörighet, politisk majoritet i kommunerna och privatiseringsnivån identifieras som viktiga faktorer för att förklara lokala politikernas villighet att öka privatiseringsgraden ytterligare. Det finns tydliga preferensskillnader mellan de två blocken och den politiska ideologin spelar en övergripande roll, medan individuella faktorer som ålder, kön eller politisk position spelar en klart mindre roll. Att ideologin är viktig konfirmeras även av politikernas självskattning avseende vilken betydelse olika faktorer har haft för deras attityder. I hög grad finns en samstämmighet mellan vänster- och högerpolitiker avseende välfärdsprinciper som universalism, och både blocken anser att marknaden kan bidra till ökad ojämlikhet i samhället. Det verkar troligt att välfärdsstatspluralismen är riktningen för framtiden. Denna fallstudie kan utgöra ett exempel för studier av marknadsanpassning i offentlig välfärd i avancerade välfärdsstater. Studien kan också bidra till diskussioner om den politiska ideologins potentiella roll för reformer av välfärdsstaten.
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Byron-Alhassan, Aziza. "State of the Heart: Neurophysiological and Neuropsychological Sequelae of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest In Good Outcome Survivors." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/41030.
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Survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) are at risk for hypoxic-ischemic brain injury, which can cause a broad range of effects from death to subtle cognitive impairment. This dissertation includes two studies of OHCA patients who had made good neurological recovery after OHCA. In both studies, patients were evaluated near the time of hospital discharge, when crucial decisions such as rehabilitation plans are made. In addition, OHCA survivors were compared with a myocardial infarction (MI) control group in both studies. Study 1 explored the frequency, severity, and predictors of cognitive dysfunction in OHCA survivors, and characterized the cognitive profile of these patients using a comprehensive neuropsychological battery. Study 2 explored grey matter volume (GMV) in OHCA survivors, MI patients, and healthy controls, and correlated these with cognitive dysfunction and important clinical characteristics (e.g., downtime). While OHCA patients performed poorer on cognitive testing than MI patients, both groups showed decreased GMVs compared to healthy controls. OHCA survivors who have had good neurological recovery may still face significant challenges when they re-engage in difficult cognitive tasks post-arrest. To date, these cognitive issues after OHCA have been somewhat overlooked in Canada's healthcare system. A better understanding of hypoxic-ischemic brain injury among survivors will aid in the promotion of targeted interventions and rehabilitation efforts, and may help clinicians predict those who are most at risk.
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Sun, Jue, and 孙珏. "Falling in and out of the cosmopolitan romance: state, market, and the making of Shanghainese women'sromantic love experiences." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B4784937X.
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Shanghai is often regarded as China’s best embodiment of cosmopolitanism,
transcending the local through the purchase of global goods that, in turn,
allows its citizens to be part of a post-socialist world. This aspiring outlook of
Shanghai is often the result of larger institutional changes, such as the move to
a market economy and China’s entry into WTO. Crucial to the understanding
of how this state-mediated cosmopolitan culture came to have an impact on
the lives of individuals, the key patterns in romantic experiences of young
Shanghainese women are discussed in elaborate detail in this thesis. In
particular, this study focuses on two specific forces, namely the state and the
market, that have greatly shaped the romantic context of cosmopolitan
Shanghai. As such, this thesis seeks to answer three key questions: 1) Is it
possible that the Chinese state has (re)structured contemporary Shanghainese
women’s romantic experiences and, if so, in what ways? 2) Do current
findings on the role of the consumer market in shaping romantic practices also
apply within the context under study? 3) In what ways have Shanghainese
women played out their love lives in the current context?
Building a theoretical framework from state-role theory which emphasizes the
role of the Chinese state in initiating life-altering social transformations and
theory that relates romantic love to the consumer culture and the social
organization of advanced capitalism, this thesis asserts that the romantic
experiences of young Shanghainese women both mirror and extend the
fundamental arguments framing both theories, thus offering new levels of
complexity for examining the relationship between romantic love and culture.
Through an open-ended interview process following grounded theory
principles, 44 respondents (age 25-39) are asked questions regarding their
romantic experiences to provide key details from the context under study. The
findings of this study suggest that the state and the state-mediated consumer
culture has produced contradictions in the romantic experiences of young
Shanghainese women. While as cosmopolitan individuals young women are
supposed to be desirous and constraint-free in pursuit of their romantic ideals,
persistent class and gender hierarchies, and rising economic and emotional
uncertainties, nevertheless, undercut their freedom and many of the incentives
to realize these ideals. Such freedom is further undercut by mounting pressure
from their parents who are primarily dependent on their only daughters, as a
result of the family-planning policy and other shifting state policies in the past,
for long-term financial and emotional care amidst rising costs and barely
functional social welfare programs. Caught in a tension between self desires
and traditional role obligations, young women become rational actors in their
romantic experiences as they negotiate or even transform the conventionalities
by lurching between different understandings of love and varying moralities of
self and family to justify their motives and behaviors. As such, their romantic
experiences embody the market ethos of consumer capitalism—rational, selfinterested,
strategic, and profit-maximizing––complexly entangled in a
material and moral environment built by the socialist state.published_or_final_version
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Beall, Jonathan Andrew. ""Won't we never get out of this state?": western soldiers in post-civil war Texas, 1865-1866." Texas A&M University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/1498.
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After the Civil War, the government needed to send an occupation force into
Texas to help rebuild the state government and confront the French Imperialist forces
that had invaded Mexico. Unfortunately, the government was required to use volunteers
because the Regular Army was not yet prepared to handle such a mission. Using citizen
soldiers for peacetime occupation was a break from past military tradition, and the men
did not appreciate such an act.
Historians of Reconstruction Texas have focused on state politics, the rampant
violence in the state throughout this period, and the role of freedmen in situating
themselves to an uncertain and hostile society. Studies of the military in post-Civil War
Texas have examined the armys role in the states political reconstruction, but largely
ignore the soldiers. Additionally, these works tend to over-generalize the experience and
relations of the troops and Texans.
This thesis looks at Western citizen soldiers, comprising the Fourth and
Thirteenth Army Corps as well as two cavalry divisions, stationed in Texas after the war
from the Rio Grande to San Antonio to Marshall. Beginning with the units receiving
official orders to proceed to Texas after the surrender of the principal Confederate forces
in 1865, it follows the movements from wartime positions in Tennessee and Alabama to
peacetime posts within Texas. The study examines Texan-soldier relations as they
differed from place to place. It also investigates the Westerners peacetime occupation
duties and the conditions endured in Texas. The thesis argues that there was diversity in
both the Western volunteers experiences and relations with occupied Texans, and it was
not as monolithic as past historians have suggested. Specifically, this study endeavors to
supplement the existing historiography of the army in Texas during Reconstruction.
Broadly, this thesis also hopes to be a more general look at the use of citizen soldiers for
postwar occupation duty.
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Coelho, Karen. "Timed Out: Temporal Struggles between the State and the Poor in the Context of U.S. Welfare Reform." University of Arizona, Department of Anthropology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/110078.
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1999 Dozier Award WinnerWelfare reform, in its attempts to order the lives of women on cash assistance, uses time as a means of controlling women. Single mothers living in poverty experience, perceive and use time in ways that the state welfare bureaucracy fails to recognize and/or refuses to work with. Poverty is anchored in a historical and cyclical dynamic based on low valuations of people's time, structured by race, class and gender. This essay shows how specific temporal sequences, orderings and flows are implicated in the etiology of poverty, forming cumulative feedback loops that challenge the linear trajectory of the welfare-to-work model. It argues that the welfare state bureaucracy practices a powerful politics of time, consisting in the imposition of forms of order and rigid temporal structures on the highly contingent and unpredictable lives of the poor. These temporal devices of control, rather than facilitating women's efforts to move from dependence to self-reliance, only exacerbate their struggles to manage the vagaries and irregularities of time in their lives. Time thus constitutes a locus of struggle in the welfare relationship, between women on welfare and the welfare agency.
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Hurst, Andrew W. "Not yet out of the woods : a political ecology of state forest policy and practice in mainland Tanzania, 1961-1998." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.404792.
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RUTHERFORD, ROBERT WESLEY. "MODELING AND TESTING OF THE INTERFACIAL STRESS STATE OF A 316L STAINLESS STEEL CLAD TUNGSTEN COMPOSITE USING PUSH-OUT TESTING." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin996070635.
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Kenny, James Lawrence Carleton University Dissertation History. "Getting the lead out: state, capital and society and the development of New Brunswick's base metal industry, 1952-1972." Ottawa, 1994.
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Stapleton, Mary. "The effect of working alliance on client drop-out for persons with disabilities in a state-federal vocational rehabilitation agency." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/7265.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2007.Thesis research directed by: Counseling and Personnel Services. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Anderson, Dana. "Riding the storm out : a case study of public sector education leaders' perceptions of organizational decline and downsizing within Washington State, USA." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2012. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10020778/.
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The ripples from the global recession of 2008 continue to progress through the public sector. Faced with declining resources and accountability for increased organisational outcomes, leaders transform their organisations by setting direction during decline and redesign their organisations by downsizing. Downsizing agents, or executioners, respond to the needs of victims of downsizing, however fail to attend to their own needs or the needs of downsizing survivors. This study utilizes transformational leadership theory to frame leaders' responses to economic decline, and contributes to filling the gap in academic study regarding the influences of economic decline in the public sector. The purpose of this study was to explore perspectives of a selection of educational leaders regarding the influence of economic decline on their organisations and individuals. Participants included a sampling of executive educational leaders representing the state/regional, district and school levels within Washington State, USA. The qualitative analysis of 23 semi-structured interviews resulted in six findings 2 • participants readily recognized the existence of decline and attributed the cause to fiscal and economic contexts external to their organisations; • decline resulted in profound influences at the organisational level; • the enduring quality of organisational mission and purpose coupled with concern for worker well-being constrained leader responses to decline; • decline invariably resulted in organisational downsizing, predominantly through workforce reductions; • downsizing was most significantly experienced at the individual level, represented by the roles of victim, survivor or executioner; • leaders mediated negative influences by articulating a vision beyond the current economic crisis, providing care and support to individuals and ensuring effective and transparent communication regarding their planned responses to decline. Many participants reported no formal preparation for their role as leaders of organisations experiencing decline, indicating a need to apply the present study's findings to leader preparation and training. As lack of previous academic interest in decline and downsizing in educational settings was also found, indicating a need for further empirical research, particularly regarding the experiences of downsizing agents, or executioners.
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Viehland, Dennis Warren. "Nonresident enrollment demand in public higher education." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184740.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of changes in nonresident tuition on nonresident enrollment and tuition revenue in American public four-year colleges and universities. The economic framework used to examine this relationship was the human capital investment model, which assumed a two-stage model of student choice. The analysis calculated a price elasticity coefficient and a student price response coefficient for nonresident first-time freshmen in three institutional classifications (i.e., doctoral-granting universities, comprehensive universities, and baccalaureate institutions) and for all institutions combined. Nine institutional, economic, and demographic variables were regressed on the dependent variable--a ratio of probabilities of nonresident enrollment to resident enrollment. The regression equations were estimated in double-log functional form utilizing ordinary least squares procedures. The student data used in the study were Fall 1986 first-time freshmen enrolled in 435 public four-year institutions. The major findings of the study include: (1) The price elasticity of demand with respect to nonresident tuition for all institutions in the study was estimated to be -0.60. The student price response coefficient (SPRC) for a $100 change in tuition was calculated to be -1.69 percent. (2) The price elasticity of demand for baccalaureate institutions was estimated to be negative unitary elastic (i.e., -1.00). The baccalaureate SPRC was calculated to be -3.2 percent. (3) Nonresident enrollment demand was positively associated with migration patterns of the nonstudent population, employment rate in the destination state, and home state per capita income. In summary, nonresident students in the average public four-year college or university are only moderately sensitive to changes in price. Nonresident tuition increases in the public sector will cause relatively small declines in enrollment and will be accompanied by increased tuition revenue. Students at baccalaureate institutions are more sensitive to changes in price; tuition increases in these institutions will result in larger declines in enrollment and will have no impact on tuition revenue. Institutional officials and state policy makers should be aware of these results when considering the impact of changes in tuition on nonresident enrollment and institutional revenues.
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Laughridge, James Lee. "An analysis of mechanisms designed to reduce crowd-out among state children's health insurance programs and their implications for public service." Birmingham, Ala. : University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2009. https://www.mhsl.uab.edu/dt/2009m/laughridge.pdf.
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Rojan, Katharina. "Light-matter interactions : artificial and solid-state crystals embedded in an optical cavity." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017GREAY039/document.
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Ce manuscrit est consacré à la caractérisation de structures cristallines pour des applications de technologie quantique. Il est composé de deux parties.Dans un premier projet, nous étudions la transition d'une particule d'un état étendu à un état localisé dans un cristal artificiel quasipériodique, dont le potentiel dépend de la position de la particule. Nous considérons un atome ultrafroid, confiné par un réseau optique et incorporé dans une cavité optique. Le dipôle atomique est en interaction forte avec le champ électrique dans la cavité, ce qui mène à un deuxième potentiel optique pour l'atome. La position de l'atome dans la cavité influence notamment le champ intracavité~: le mouvement de l'atome a donc un effet rétroactif sur le potentiel dans lequel il est confiné. Pour des longueurs d'onde incommensurables, nous montrons que la compétition entre les deux réseaux optiques donne lieu à un potentiel quasipériodique pour l'atome. Nous déterminons les paramètres pour lesquels nous reproduisons le modèle Aubry-André et nous discutons les effets de la rétroaction de la cavité sur la transition de localisation.Le deuxième projet est une proposition pour générer une radiation THz, en utilisant le couplage entre excitons et phonons dans un cristal semi-conducteur. Nous proposons un schéma de conversion de fréquence, basé sur une chaîne d'interactions naturellement présentes dans une cavité semi-conductrice pompée. La partie cruciale du schéma de conversion de fréquence est l'interaction faible entre des excitons et des phonons transverses optiques. Nous la dérivons en commençant avec l'interaction électron-phonon via le potentiel de déformation et en prenant en compte les propriétés de symétrie du cristal. Nous identifions les conditions nécessaires pour générer une radiation THz, nous estimons la puissance de l'émission et nous montrons que l'interaction entre excitons et phonons transverses optiques fournit une susceptibilité non linéaire d'ordre deuxThis thesis is devoted to the characterization of crystalline structures for quantum technological applications. It is composed of two parts.In a first project we study the localization transition of one particle in an one-dimensional artificial quasiperiodic crystal, whose potential depends on the particle position. We consider an ultracold atom in an optical lattice, embedded in an optical cavity. The atom strongly couples to the cavity, leading to a second optical potential. The position of the atom within the cavity affects the cavity field, thus the atomic motion backacts on the potential it is subjected to. For incommensurate wavelengths, we show that the competition between the two potentials yields a quasiperiodic potential. We determine the parameters for which we reproduce the Aubry-Andr'e model and discuss the effects of the backaction on the localization transition.In the second project we propose a frequency down-conversion scheme to generate THz radiation using the exciton-phonon coupling in a semiconductor crystal. Our idea is based on a chain of interactions that are naturally present in a pumped semiconductor microcavity. We derive the crucial exciton-phonon coupling, starting from the electron-phonon interaction via the deformation potential and taking into account the crystal symmetry properties. We identify conditions necessary for THz emission, estimate the emission power and show that the exciton-phonon interaction provides a second-order susceptibility
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Merchan, Restrepo Victor Alejandro [Verfasser], Jens-Uwe [Akademischer Betreuer] Repke, Jens-Uwe [Gutachter] Repke, Günter [Gutachter] Wozny, and Flavio [Gutachter] Manenti. "Efficient implementation of advanced molecularly-based equation of state models out of the documentation level / Victor Alejandro Merchan Restrepo ; Gutachter: Jens-Uwe Repke, Günter Wozny, Flavio Manenti ; Betreuer: Jens-Uwe Repke." Berlin : Technische Universität Berlin, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1183789564/34.
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Lin, Hua. "Communication Infrastructure for the Smart Grid: A Co-Simulation Based Study on Techniques to Improve the Power Transmission System Functions with Efficient Data Networks." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/29248.
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The vision of the smart grid is predicated upon pervasive use of modern digital communication techniques in today's power system. As wide area measurements and control techniques are being developed and deployed for a more resilient power system, the role of communication networks is becoming prominent. Advanced communication infrastructure provides much wider system observability and enables globally optimal control schemes. Wide area measurement and monitoring with Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) or Intelligent Electronic Devices (IED) is a growing trend in this context. However, the large amount of data collected by PMUs or IEDs needs to be transferred over the data network to control centers where real-time state estimation, protection, and control decisions are made. The volume and frequency of such data transfers, and real-time delivery requirements mandate that sufficient bandwidth and proper delay characteristics must be ensured for the correct operations. Power system dynamics get influenced by the underlying communication infrastructure. Therefore, extensive integration of power system and communication infrastructure mandates that the two systems be studied as a single distributed cyber-physical system.
This dissertation proposes a global event-driven co-simulation framework, which is termed as GECO, for interconnected power system and communication network. GECO can be used as a design pattern for hybrid system simulation with continuous/discrete sub-components. An implementation of GECO is achieved by integrating two software packages: PSLF and NS2 into the framework. Besides, this dissertation proposes and studies a set of power system applications which can be only properly evaluated on a co-simulation framework like GECO, namely communication-based distance relay protection, all-PMU state estimation and PMU-based out-of-step protection. All of them take advantage of interplays between the power grid and the communication infrastructure. The GECO experiments described in this dissertation not only show the efficacy of the GECO framework, but also provide experience on how to go about using GECO in smart grid planning activities.Ph. D.
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Sakaï, Nariaki. "Équation d'état et transition liquide-cristal dans une suspension granulaire confinée." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PSLEE049/document.
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Les comportements thermiques d'une suspension granulaire en deux dimensions maintenue dans un état stationnaire hors équilibre ont été étudiés expérimentalement. L'analyse de la distribution spatiale des particules a montré qu’il existe une équation d’état reliant la densité de particules et deux autres quantités mesurables que nous interprétons comme une température et une pression granulaire. Cette équation d’état révèle l’existence d’interactions interactions attractives entre les particules. De plus, la dépendance de cette température aux différentes quantités physiques du problème montre qu'il existe deux régimes de fluctuations, que nous interprétons comme des régimes inertiels et visqueux. Dans ce dernier régime, la suspension se comporte de manière additive : il n'existe pas de corrélations à longue portée sur les fluctuations de densité, ce qui est étonnant dans une suspension où les corrélations de vitesses sont connues pour être à longue portée. Deuxièmement, le système exhibe une transition de phase ordre/désordre caractérisée par de grandes fluctuations et des hétérogénéités qui émergent proche du point critique. Ces hétérogénéités sont constituées d'amas de particules localement cristallisées dans une phase fluide désordonnée. L'analyse de la morphologie de ces structures révèlent une invariance d'échelle et a permis d'extraire plusieurs exposants critiques à l'aide d'outils de la théorie de la percolation. Troisièmement, la puissance injectée pour maintenir le système dans un état stationnaire hors équilibre peut être relié simplement à certaines quantités physiques de la suspension, et montre que l'injection de l'énergie se fait de la même manière quelque soit la phase ou le régime de fluctuations de la suspensionThe thermal-like behavior of a two-dimensional granular suspension maintained in an out-of equilibrium steady state is experimentally studied. We uncovered a state equation relating the density of particles and two measureable quantities that we interpret as a pressure and a temperature. The comparison of the equation of state to the hard disks one shows that there is attractive interaction between particles. The dependency of the temperature to the physical quantities of our suspension shows two regimes of fluctuations that we interpret as a viscous and an inertial regime. In the viscous regime, the system is additive: there is no long range correlation on fluctuations of density, which is surprising in a suspension where velocity correlations are usually known to be long ranged. Second, the system is subjected to liquid-to-crystal phase transition characterized by large fluctuations and heterogeneities that rise near the critical point. Heterogeneities are made of many locally crystallized patches of particles surrounded by a disordered fluid phase. The analysis of their morphologies shows scale invariance and allowed to extract several critical exponents using tools of percolation theory. Third, the energy flux which goes through the suspension in order to keep the system in a out of equilibrium steady state can be expressed simply with respect to physical quantities of the system, and shows that the way we inject energy is independent from the phase or the fluctuations regime of the system
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Choudhary, Niket Kumar. "A Synthesizable HDL Model for Out-of-Order Superscalar Processors." NCSU, 2009. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07082009-161145/.
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Many contemporary servers, personal and laptop computers, and even cell phones are powered by high-performance superscalar processors. In the past, conventional microarchitecture and technology scaling has afforded leaps in their performance and functionality. Today, conventional microarchitecture and technology scaling are both yielding lower returns with increasing costs. Therefore, any microarchitecture level decision to increase performance needs to be critically analyzed from a technology standpoint. To address this critical need, we have developed a register transfer level (RTL) model of a superscalar microarchitecture with similar complexity of a current generation processor. The RTL model is written in Verilog and is fully synthesizable. The model can be implemented in different technology nodes using a well established ASIC design flow to provide high fidelity estimation of propagation delay, power consumption, area, and other technology related costs. The RTL model is supplemented with a register file compiler to estimate the costs of multi-ported memory structures which are extensively used in a superscalar microarchitecture. The RTL model is also tightly integrated with a C++ functional simulator to assist and accelerate verification.
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Berry, Joel. "Liquid-solid systems out of equilibrium: phase-field crystal studies of solidification, melting, and plasticity." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=106330.
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Dynamic processes in nonequilibrium liquid-solid systems are studied over mesoscopic time scales and atomistic length scales using phase-field crystal (PFC) models. Various freezing and melting transitions are examined in two and three dimensions, and microscopic phenomena responsible for solid-phase plasticity are investigated. A primary focus is on the issue of describing atomistic dynamics over time scales that are generally inaccessible to conventional approaches. Glass forming dynamics in supercooled liquids near a glass transition are studied numerically, and the central features of the transition, including a number of behaviors previously undemonstrated within PFC / classical density functional theory simulations, are successfully reproduced. A connection between the liquid dynamic correlation length and transition fragility is identified, and a physically motivated time scaling applied to the simulation data is shown to generate qualitative agreement with basic glass transition phenomenology across 12 orders of magnitude in time. The competing processes of amorphous precursor nucleation and crystallization in diffusion-dominated spinodal and non-spinodal simple liquids are also examined. Melting and premelting transitions in defected body-centered cubic solids are studied numerically, and a localized melting theory based on defect elastic energies is formulated. Basic features of the dynamic phase separation patterns that develop in growing heteroepitaxially strained alloy films are also outlined based on numerical simulations of a binary PFC model. Finally, dislocation dynamics are examined in strained periodic systems. The central features of dislocation glide, climb, and annihilation are shown to naturally emerge within PFC models, and the dynamics of individual dislocations are found to reduce to a simple generalized equation of motion.Des procédés dynamiques dans des systèmes liquide-solide non-équilibrés sont étudiés au cours d'échelles de temps mésoscopiques et d'échelles de longueur atomistiques en utilisant des modèles « phase-field crystal » (PFC). Diverses transitions de congélation et de fusion sont examinées en deux et trois dimensions, et les phénomènes microscopiques responsables de la plasticité des phases solides sont étudiées. Un accent est mis sur la problématique des dynamiques atomistiques au cours d'échelles de temps qui sont généralement inaccessibles aux approches conventionnelles. Les dynamiques de formation vitreuse dans les liquides metastables surfondus près d'une transition vitreuse sont étudiés numériquement, et les caractéristiques centrales de la transition, y compris un certain nombre de comportements qui n'ont pas été démontrées précédemment par les modèles PFC / simulations de la théorie classique densité fonctionnelle, sont reproduites avec succès. Un lien entre la longueur de corrélation dynamique liquide et la fragilité est identifié, et il est démontré par une normalisation de temps physiquement motivé, appliquée aux données de simulation, qu'il y a une correspondance qualitative avec des bases phénomènes de transition vitreuse sur 12 ordres de grandeurs de temps. Les procédés concurrentiels de la nucléation de précurseurs amorphes et de la cristallisation dominées par la diffusion dans les liquides simples spinodaux et non-spinodaux sont aussi examinés. Les transitions de fusion et pré-fusion dans des solides cubiques centrés ayant des défauts sont étudiés numériquement, et une théorie de fusion localisée basée sur les énergies élastiques des défauts est formulée. Des caractéristiques de base des motifs de la séparation de phase dynamique qui se développent pendant la croissance des films tendus heteroepitaxiellement sont également etudiés en utilisant des simulations numériques d'un modèle binaire PFC. Enfin, les dynamiques des dislocations sont examinées dans les systèmes périodiques tendus, ainsi il est démontré que les caractéristiques fondamentales des procédés de glisse, d'escalade, et d'annihilation émergent naturellement des modèles PFC.
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Jing, Yijia. "State prison privatization in the US a study of the causes and mangnitude /." Connect to this title online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1122571301.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005.Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xii, 165 p.; also includes graphics. Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-144). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center
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Pennerstorfer, Astrid, and Michaela Neumayr. "Examining the Association of Welfare State Expenditure, Non-profit Regimes and Charitable Giving." Springer, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11266-016-9739-7.
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This paper explores cross-country variations in charitable giving and investigates the association of welfare state policies with private philanthropy.
Hypotheses are drawn from crowding-out theory and considerations about the influence of a country's mixed economy of welfare. We add to the on-going discussion
concerning the crowding-out hypothesis with empirical evidence by looking at specific charitable subsectors people donate to across countries. Using Eurobarometer
survey data that include 23 countries, we find no evidence for a crowding-out effect, but rather a crosswise crowding-in effect of private donations.
Moreover, giving behaviour differs between non-profit regimes.
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Rice, Tamara J. "Riding out the waves community college transfers graduating with bachelor's degrees /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1206385493.
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O'Neil, Dara Veronica. "Predicting public managers' readiness for contracting of professional services in a changing State Government Agency." Diss., Available online, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007, 2007. http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-06282007-154406/.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008.Dr. Hans Klein, Committee Member ; Dr. Diana Hicks, Committee Member ; Dr. Barry Bozeman, Committee Member ; Dr. Gordon Kingsley, Committee Chair ; Dr. Michael Meyer, Committee Member.
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Covaciu, Andra-Iustina. "Missing out on childhood - the impact of natural disasters on Haitian children's rights." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21723.
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Children’s rights are human rights, regardless their vulnerability and dependence on adults. However, the situation of children’s rights in Haiti has always been delicate and it became even more fragile in the aftermath of the 2010 Earthquake and the 2016 Hurricane Matthew. Within this paper, the sociology of disaster theory together with case study and legal analysis as methods aim at analysing the effects of the two natural disasters on Haitian children’s rights. The paper also seeks to understand whether any differences could be noticed between the outcomes of the two catastrophes as well as to analyse the international and national institutional response to the aforementioned disasters. It is concluded that the two natural disasters had an enormous impact on the most important rights of Haitian children. Not many differences could be noticed, between the two events, and regardless the aid provided by the international community, Haitian children’s rights are still neglected, as we speak.
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Davidson, Karen Voncille. "Teacher stress in rural middle schools teachers' perceptions of three contributing factors /." Diss., Mississippi State : Mississippi State University, 2009. http://library.msstate.edu/etd/show.asp?etd=etd-04012009-145856.
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Angelaki, Aikaterini. "La différenciation entre les Etats membres de l'Union européenne." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018STRAA025.
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La différenciation entre les États membres de l’Union européenne s’est progressivement transformée en un leitmotiv du débat sur l’avenir de l’intégration. Ce débat a resurgi avec l’activation de la clause du retrait par le Royaume-Uni, qui pose dans un cadre renouvelé la question de la compatibilité du processus de création d’une « union sans cesse plus étroite » avec la possibilité pour les États membres d’emprunter différentes voies d’intégration. L’objectif de la présente étude est d’apporter un éclairage sur cette question, en se focalisant sur l’amplification des manifestations de la différenciation en droit positif. La première partie de l’étude vise à cerner la tension entre l’uniformité du statut d’État membre de l’Union et la participation asymétrique des États aux actions engagées pour la réalisation des objectifs assignés à l’Union. La différenciation s’avère ainsi un facteur de relativisation de l’homogénéité du statut d’État membre, sans néanmoins mettre en cause son unicité en tant que catégorie juridique. La seconde partie s’intéresse aux effets de la différenciation sur la structure de l’Union. La prise en compte de la différence d’implication des États n’est pas sans incidence sur le système institutionnel et juridique de l’Union, sans que cela traduise un désordre affectant l’intégrité de l’Union. Il devient alors évident que, dans la creatio continua que constitue la construction européenne, la différenciation pose une question de degré, plutôt que de principeDifferentiation between the Member States of the European Union has gradually turned into a leitmotif of the debate regarding the future of the European integration. This debate re-emerged in the context of the activation of the withdrawal clause by the United Kingdom, by raising once more the question of the compatibility of the "ever closer union" concept with the possibility for the Member States to follow different paths of integration. The aim of this study is to clarify this question by focusing on the amplification of the various forms of differentiation in positive law. The first part of the study aims to identify the contrast between the uniformity of the EU membership and the asymmetrical participation of the Member States in actions undertaken to achieve the objectives assigned to the Union. Differentiation proves thus to be a relativizing factor of the homogeneity of the Member State's status, without, however, questioning its uniqueness as a legal category. The second part of the study focuses on the effects of differentiation on the structure of the Union. The different extent of participation of each Member State in EU policies has an impact on the Union's institutional and legal framework, even though this impact does not create a disorder affecting the integrity of the Union as such. It is thus apparent that within the creatio continua of the European construction, differentiation poses more a question of degree rather than principle
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Demko, Jennifer Lynn. "Axial pull-out strength of 3.5 cortical and 4.0 cancellous bone screws placed in canine proximal tibias using manual and power tapping." Master's thesis, Mississippi State : Mississippi State University, 2008. http://library.msstate.edu/etd/show.asp?etd=etd-03312008-205137.
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Matsiliza, Noluthando Shirley. "An overview of the selected out-structured technikons a critical analysis on the new academic landscape in the South African higher education /." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2006. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05022007-114345.
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Landes, François. "Viscoelastic Interfaces Driven in Disordered Media and Applications to Friction." Thesis, Paris 11, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA112171/document.
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De nombreux systèmes complexes soumis à un ajout continu d'énergie réagissent à cet ajout par une accumulation de tension au cours du temps, interrompue par de soudaines libérations d'énergie appelées avalanches. Récemment, il a été remarqué que plusieurs propriétés élémentaires de la dynamique d'avalanche sont issues de processus de relaxation ayant lieu à une échelle microscopique, processus qui sont négligés dans la plupart des modèles. Lors de ma thèse, j'ai étudié deux modèles classiques d'avalanches, modifiés par l'ajout d'une forme de relaxation la plus simple possible. Le premier système est une interface viscoélastique tirée à travers un milieu désordonné. En champ moyen, nous prouvons que l'interface a un comportement périodique caractérisé par une nouvelle échelle temporelle (émergente), avec des avalanches qui touchent l'ensemble du système. Le calcul semi-analytique de la force de friction agissant sur la surface donne des résultats compatibles avec les expériences de friction classique. En dimension finie (2D), les événements touchant l'ensemble du système (trouvés en champ moyen) deviennent localisés, et les simulations numériques donnent des résultats en bon accord avec plusieurs caractéristiques importantes des tremblements de terre, tant qualitativement que quantitativement. Le second système incluant également une forme très simple de relaxation est un modèle jouet d'avalanche : c'est la percolation dirigée. Dans notre étude d'une variante non-markovienne de la percolation dirigée, nous avons observé que la classe d'universalité était modifiée mais seulement partiellement. En particulier, un exposant change de valeur tandis que plusieurs relations d'échelle sont préservées. Cette idée d'une classe d'universalité étendue, obtenue par l'ajout d'une perturbation non-markovienne offre des perspectives prometteuses pour notre premier systèmeMany complex systems respond to a continuous input of energy by an accumulation of stress over time, interrupted by sudden energy releases called avalanches. Recently, it has been pointed out that several basic features of avalanche dynamics are induced at the microscopic level by relaxation processes, which are neglected by most models. During my thesis, I studied two well-known models of avalanche dynamics, modified minimally by the inclusion of some forms of relaxation. The first system is that of a viscoelastic interface driven in a disordered medium. In mean-field, we prove that the interface has a periodic behaviour (with a new, emerging time scale), with avalanche events that span the whole system. We compute semi-analytically the friction force acting on this surface, and find that it is compatible with classical friction experiments. In finite dimensions (2D), the mean-field system-sized events become local, and numerical simulations give qualitative and quantitative results in good agreement with several important features of real earthquakes. The second system including a minimal form of relaxation consists in a toy model of avalanches: the Directed Percolation process. In our study of a non-Markovian variant of Directed Percolation, we observed that the universality class was modified but not completely. In particular, in the non-Markov case an exponent changes of value while several scaling relations still hold. This picture of an extended universality class obtained by the addition of a non-Markovian perturbation to the dynamics provides promising prospects for our first system
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Taboada, Mier José Carlos. "WATCH OUT! Not all that glitters is gold. The due motivation in arbitration awards and the appeal of annulment in court." Derecho & Sociedad, 2017. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/118548.
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This article present a way to analyze the motivation for arbitration awards and how it should be evaluated by the judges of the Judiciary at the time of the annulment proceedings. The objective is give elements such as the state of the normative question, the factual situation of the case and the structure argued for the definition in order to analyzing, from the simplest level, whether an award is motivated or not.El presente artículo busca presentar una forma de poder analizar la debida motivación dentro de los laudos arbitrales y cómo debería ser evaluada por los jueces del Poder Judicial al momento de que se presenten los recursos de anulación. Se busca plantear elementos como el estado de la cuestión normativa, la situación fáctica del caso y la estructura argumentaba a fin de analizar, desde el plano más simple, si es que un laudo se encuentra motivado o no.
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Rejanovinschi, Talledo Moisés. "Consumer protection and State proposal in private self-regulation and administrative procedures: an initial approach." IUS ET VERITAS, 2017. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/122805.
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Are State proposals on private self-regulation and administrative procedures on consumption adequate? The present papper analyzes the challenges of its application, providing a final reflection on the complaints in social networks.¿Son adecuadas las propuestas Estatales sobre autorregulación privada y procedimientos administrativos en materia de consumo? El presente artículo analiza los retos de su aplicación brindando una reflexión final acerca de los reclamos en redes sociales.
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Atse, Assi Camille. "Rattachement territorial et rattachement personnel dans le statut de la Cour pénale internationale." Thesis, Paris 2, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA020042.
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A Rome, les délégations des Etats présents ont convenu que la CPI n’exercera sa compétence à l’égard des crimes relevant du Statut que s’ils ont été commis sur le territoire, à bord d’un navire ou aéronef ou encore par le ressortissant d’un Etat partie et l’ont expressément codifié dans l’article 12, § 2 du Statut. Rédigé dans les dernières heures de la Conférence, le mécanisme a laissé en suspens beaucoup de questions brûlantes. Depuis, la portée de la disposition en ce qui concerne son champ d’application et son contenu est très discutée. Toutes ces lacunes et inquiétudes ont jusqu’à ce jour entretenu le malentendu persistant observé à l’égard de la Cour pénale internationale et semblent nuire à la clarté de sa mission. La présente étude vient aider à fixer l’état du droit sur les problèmes d’ordre pénal qui surgissent encore. Il s’agira, à partir d’un examen approfondi de la jurisprudence et de la pratique, de clarifier, dans une première partie, les concepts de rattachements territorial et personnel définis dans le Statut de Rome, c'est-à-dire d’en délimiter les contours et d’en déterminer sa consistance. Dans une seconde partie, l’on mettra en lumière la manière dont les deux titres de compétence énoncés alternativement dans le Statut de Rome permettent à la CPI d’étendre sa compétence, en toute légalité, à la fois à l’égard des Etats parties et des Etats non partiesIn Rome, the delegations of the participating States agreed that the International Criminal Court (ICC) would only exercise jurisdiction regarding crimes set out in the Statute provided that these crimes were committed on the territory, on board a vessel or aircraft or by a national of a State Party, as stressed in article 12, § 2 of the Statute. This mechanism, which was drafted in the very last hours of the Conference, left open many critical issues. Since then, the scope and content of this provision is the subject of heated debate. These gaps, and the concern they raised until now, have perpetuated the persisting misunderstanding about the ICC and seem to undermine the clarity of the Court’s mission. The study helps to assess the state of the law on the criminal issues that remain so far. As a first step, it aims at clarifying, on the basis of an extensive review of the case-law and practice, the concepts of territorial and personal links defined in the Rome Statute, by marking out their contours and determining their substance. Secondly, it will be demonstrated how these two grounds of jurisdiction set out in the Rome Statute allow the ICC to lawfully expand its jurisdiction, both vis-à-vis State Parties as well as non-Party States
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Ramarumo, Relebohile Gertrude. "The impact of organisational culture on job stress and burnout in graded hospitality establishments in the Freestate province." Thesis, Bloemfontein: Central University of Technology, Free State, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11462/231.
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Thesis (M. Tech) (Tourism and Hospitality Management)) Central University of Technology, Free State, 2014Job stress and burnout can have a detrimental effect on the health of employees and their job performance. This is especially applicable to the hospitality industry which is a service-intensive industry where customer needs and wants are the most important focus. Organisational culture being defined as the social glue that helps bring the organisation together is seen in this case as the proper mechanism that managers could use to deal with the detrimental effects of job stress and burnout. This study assessed the impact of organisational culture on job stress and burnout in graded hospitality establishments in the Free State Province. The two main economic areas of the Free State, namely Bloemfontein and Clarence, were included in the study. A structured questionnaire was administered to all staff members in 46 graded accommodation establishments, and a total number of 227 questionnaires were collected for data analysis. The questionnaire consisted of a demographic section, an organisational culture section (based on the Competing Value Framework), a job stress section (based on Spielberger’s Job Stress Survey) and a burnout section (based on the Maslach Burnout Inventory). Data were interpreted using both descriptive and inferential statistics (including factor analysis and t-tests). The findings indicate that graded hospitality establishments had a predominantly Rational Culture, which points to strong external positioning and competitiveness. The Rational Culture is externally focused and does not adequately consider the needs of internal constituents – notably the employees. The cultural values associated with the Rational Culture are thus not as conducive in moderating job stress and burnout as the Group and Developmental Cultures. Appropriate recommendations are proposed in mitigating the effect of job stress and burnout in the hospitality industry.
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Nogueira, Leila de Mello Yañez. "Estabilidade versus flexibilidade: a dicotomia necessária à inovação na gestão de recursos humanos em uma organização pública, estatal eestratégica como Bio-Manguinhos / Fiocruz." reponame:Repositório Institucional da FIOCRUZ, 2009. https://www.arca.fiocruz.br/handle/icict/2500.
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Previous issue date: 2009Este trabalho propõe analisar o fenômeno da terceirização desenvolvido ao longo das duas últimas décadas em Bio-Manguinhos. Trata-se de um estudo de caso realizado na unidade de produção de vacinas e reagentes para diagnóstico da Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Inicialmente foi realizado um estudo de cenário, analisando a política de gestão do trabalho desenvolvida pelo Estado brasileiro para as instituições públicas. A seguir, a análise passou a verificar a inserção da Fiocruz nessas políticas, desde a sua criação e no decorrer de vigência de diferentes formas de contratação, alternando da extrema rigidez para a total flexibilidade sempre com foco na gestão do trabalho, e, como essas políticas se refletiram no desempenho de Bio-Manguinhos. Baseado no contexto da conformação do Estado e na análise do desempenho da unidade, o trabalho critica a falta de planejamento e de prospecção dessas políticas, que favoreça a inovação de processos, produtos e procedimentos e o desempenho pleno de uma unidade de produção de insumos para a saúde, tão necessários ao atendimento das necessidades da população brasileira. Critica também, a ausência de um modelo de Estado consolidado que sirva de arcabouço à formulação dessas políticas. Devido às fortes críticas dos órgãos de controle acerca da extrapolação dos limites da terceirização praticada nas últimas duas décadas e à falta de definição clara desses marcos legais, o trabalho apresenta uma metodologia baseada nas atribuições dos cargos do plano de carreiras da Fiocruz e culmina com a apresentação de uma matriz de atribuições passíveis de serem realizadas por contratação indireta. Conclui pela necessidade de convivência de dois quadros de trabalhadores: um permanente formado por servidores, estáveis e de carreira e outro flexível, executado por contratação indireta, de caráter eventual, temporário ou de apoio às atividades relacionadas à missão de Bio-Manguinhos. O trabalho ainda sugere a aplicação da mesma metodologia às demais unidades da Fiocruz e que a instituição afirme, frente aos órgãos de controle, quais atividades que ela precisa manter no quadro de servidores permanente e quais ela quer delegar a terceiros sem contudo, ferir a legislação vigente. Por fim, constata-se que a metodologia apresentada ameniza, mas não resolve o problema, dessa forma, recomenda-se à Fiocruz buscar mecanismos que altere o modelo de gestão pelo qual está submetida a fim de viabilizar as duas formas de incorporação de mão-de-obra.
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Mallangi, Siva Sai Reddy. "Low-Power Policies Based on DVFS for the MUSEIC v2 System-on-Chip." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för informations- och kommunikationsteknik (ICT), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-229443.
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Multi functional health monitoring wearable devices are quite prominent these days. Usually these devices are battery-operated and consequently are limited by their battery life (from few hours to a few weeks depending on the application). Of late, it was realized that these devices, which are currently being operated at fixed voltage and frequency, are capable of operating at multiple voltages and frequencies. By switching these voltages and frequencies to lower values based upon power requirements, these devices can achieve tremendous benefits in the form of energy savings. Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) techniques have proven to be handy in this situation for an efficient trade-off between energy and timely behavior. Within imec, wearable devices make use of the indigenously developed MUSEIC v2 (Multi Sensor Integrated circuit version 2.0). This system is optimized for efficient and accurate collection, processing, and transfer of data from multiple (health) sensors. MUSEIC v2 has limited means in controlling the voltage and frequency dynamically. In this thesis we explore how traditional DVFS techniques can be applied to the MUSEIC v2. Experiments were conducted to find out the optimum power modes to efficiently operate and also to scale up-down the supply voltage and frequency. Considering the overhead caused when switching voltage and frequency, transition analysis was also done. Real-time and non real-time benchmarks were implemented based on these techniques and their performance results were obtained and analyzed. In this process, several state of the art scheduling algorithms and scaling techniques were reviewed in identifying a suitable technique. Using our proposed scaling technique implementation, we have achieved 86.95% power reduction in average, in contrast to the conventional way of the MUSEIC v2 chip’s processor operating at a fixed voltage and frequency. Techniques that include light sleep and deep sleep mode were also studied and implemented, which tested the system’s capability in accommodating Dynamic Power Management (DPM) techniques that can achieve greater benefits. A novel approach for implementing the deep sleep mechanism was also proposed and found that it can obtain up to 71.54% power savings, when compared to a traditional way of executing deep sleep mode.Nuförtiden så har multifunktionella bärbara hälsoenheter fått en betydande roll. Dessa enheter drivs vanligtvis av batterier och är därför begränsade av batteritiden (från ett par timmar till ett par veckor beroende på tillämpningen). På senaste tiden har det framkommit att dessa enheter som används vid en fast spänning och frekvens kan användas vid flera spänningar och frekvenser. Genom att byta till lägre spänning och frekvens på grund av effektbehov så kan enheterna få enorma fördelar när det kommer till energibesparing. Dynamisk skalning av spänning och frekvens-tekniker (såkallad Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling, DVFS) har visat sig vara användbara i detta sammanhang för en effektiv avvägning mellan energi och beteende. Hos Imec så använder sig bärbara enheter av den internt utvecklade MUSEIC v2 (Multi Sensor Integrated circuit version 2.0). Systemet är optimerat för effektiv och korrekt insamling, bearbetning och överföring av data från flera (hälso) sensorer. MUSEIC v2 har begränsad möjlighet att styra spänningen och frekvensen dynamiskt. I detta examensarbete undersöker vi hur traditionella DVFS-tekniker kan appliceras på MUSEIC v2. Experiment utfördes för att ta reda på de optimala effektlägena och för att effektivt kunna styra och även skala upp matningsspänningen och frekvensen. Eftersom att ”overhead” skapades vid växling av spänning och frekvens gjordes också en övergångsanalys. Realtidsoch icke-realtidskalkyler genomfördes baserat på dessa tekniker och resultaten sammanställdes och analyserades. I denna process granskades flera toppmoderna schemaläggningsalgoritmer och skalningstekniker för att hitta en lämplig teknik. Genom att använda vår föreslagna skalningsteknikimplementering har vi uppnått 86,95% effektreduktion i jämförelse med det konventionella sättet att MUSEIC v2-chipets processor arbetar med en fast spänning och frekvens. Tekniker som inkluderar lätt sömn och djupt sömnläge studerades och implementerades, vilket testade systemets förmåga att tillgodose DPM-tekniker (Dynamic Power Management) som kan uppnå ännu större fördelar. En ny metod för att genomföra den djupa sömnmekanismen föreslogs också och enligt erhållna resultat så kan den ge upp till 71,54% lägre energiförbrukning jämfört med det traditionella sättet att implementera djupt sömnläge.
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"Retaining Out-of-State Freshmen at ASU." Doctoral diss., 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.43969.
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abstract: College completion has become a national priority in the United States. Before students can graduate from a college or university, however, they must survive their first year in higher education. The retention of out-of-state freshmen is a major piece of the larger college student retention puzzle due to recent national enrollment trends and the financial implications of out-of-state student enrollment. With public universities nationwide receiving less financial support from state governments, many of these institutions have used a strategy of aggressively recruiting and increasingly enrolling out-of-state students because the higher tuition these students pay can help offset the loss of state funding. Despite the importance of out-of-state students to the national higher education landscape, little research has been conducted on out-of-state student retention.
This study examined the relation between a resource website and the engagement, sense of belonging, homesickness, and retention of out-of-state freshmen at Arizona State University (ASU). Mixed methods of inquiry were utilized; data sources included a pre- and post-intervention student survey, student interviews, student essay artifacts, website utilization records, and university retention reports.
This study demonstrated that freshmen coming to ASU from another state experienced four main challenges related to being an out-of-state student. Those challenges were homesickness, adjusting to living in Arizona, managing finances, and making friends at ASU. Out-of-state students therefore needed extra support for their transition. The study found that an out-of-state student resource website had a positive association with co-curricular engagement and homesickness frequency reduction. Moreover, the site provided useful information on the challenges experienced by out-of-state freshmen. Discussion includes possible explanations for the findings and implications for practice and research.Dissertation/Thesis
Doctoral Dissertation Leadership and Innovation 2017
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Chen, Yu-Hung, and 陳聿宏. "Privatization of State-Owned Enterprises－Auction versus Management Buy-Out?" Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/86953792107801955596.
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This thesis studies the topics related to the state-owned enterprises and the privatization of the state-owned enterprises. It discovers first that, when the government cannot prevent the manager from hollowing out the assets of the enterprises before the privatization by the mechanism of surveillance or operation, the way of privatization by management buy-out compared to auction will obtain a higher selling price. Second, when the government may prevent the manager from hollowing out the assets of the enterprise by the mechanism of operation, the way of privatization by management buy-out and auction will be indifferent. Finally, when the government is inefficient of deciding the price of the management buy-out, the way of privatization by auction compared to management buy-out will obtain a higher selling price. In the discussion of privatization, the operation of the state-owned enterprises is thought of much more inefficient than the private-owned ones. The privatization of the state-owned enterprises may effectively improve the operating efficiency, but the process of privatization may run into the agency problem of the manager hollowing out the assets of the enterprises. If the problem of the hollowing out the assets is too serious, it will eliminate the operating efficiency of the private-owned enterprises. Therefore to decide whether the state-owned enterprises need to be privatized, it must be considered if the process of privatization in government is efficient. This thesis finds, only after the operating efficiency and the privatization efficiency are all taken into account, the privatization can show the advantage which the private-owned enterprises can bring.
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"A fast method for out-of-step protection using state plane trajectories analysis." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2011-12-264.
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This thesis proposes a novel out-of-step protection technique using the state-plane representation of the generator speed and power angle. The critical clearing angle is computed using the principle that the total energy of the system at the instant the fault is cleared should be equal to the maximum potential energy of the system. The critical clearing time corresponding to this value of critical clearing angle is obtained directly using the time calibration
of the relative speed versus power angle solution curve. The simultaneous calculation of the critical clearing angle and the time makes the proposed state plane approach much faster than the two-blinder scheme, Equal Area Criterion (EAC) method, rate of change of impedance method, the Swing Center Voltage (SCV) technique, transient energy calculation method, and the frequency deviation calculation from voltage signal method discussed in the literature.
The proposed state plane prediction scheme is used to detect the rst swing out-of-step condition in single machine in nite bus (SMIB) system as well as larger power system con gurations (two-area and IEEE 39-bus test systems) using system wide information. A
coherency analysis is performed in a multi-machine system to find out the two critical groups of generators. The critical generator groups are then represented with a SMIB equivalent
system, and the state plane algorithm is applied to the reduced equivalent. Electromagnetic transient simulations are carried out using PSCAD/EMTDCTM to test the proposed algorithm
in the above discussed test systems. The simulation studies show that the proposed method is computationally e cient, and accurate even for the larger power systems. The technique also does not require any o ine studies.
This thesis also proposes another out-of-step protection technique using generator state deviations to detect multi-swing instability conditions in power system. It uses wide-area
measurements of generator electrical power and speed deviations as inputs to the proposed scheme to detect instability. This technique is not as fast as the state plane approach but can predict multi-swing instability conditions in power system. The state plane method and state deviation method are used together to nd rst swing and multi-swing instability conditions. Two-area power system con guration is used to demonstrate multi-swing instability
prediction. Di erent power swing conditions such as stable, rst swing unstable and multi-swing unstable scenarios are created and the proposed techniques are tested to verify their performance. The proposed techniques are also compared with the conventional two
blinder technique.
A facility for hardware-in-the-loop testing of the relays using a digital simulator is available in the Power System Laboratory at the University of Saskatchewan. An out-of-step relay module is developed in a digital signal processing board (ADSP BF533TM from Analog Devices Inc.) and a closed loop test is performed using the real time digital simulator (RTDSTM). The simulator mimics the power system behaviour in real time, and the analog
time signals from simulator can be communicated to the relay module. The relay can also feed back the signals to the simulator which can be used to operate the circuit breaker elements in the power system. The SMIB and two area systems are used to test the relay in real time. The relay prototypes for both of the proposed techniques are developed in this thesis. The hardware-in-the-loop implementation and testing show that the calculation
times required for the proposed methods are small, and the state plane method especially can predict instability condition much faster than all other methods in current literature.
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Liou, Chih-Shian. "The politics of China’s “Going Out” strategy: overseas expansion of central state-owned enterprises." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-05-826.
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The growing global presence of China’s state-owned enterprise (SOEs) has captured much of the world’s attention. Continuous waves of SOEs’ overseas ventures, a result of government-led transnationalization officially dubbed the “Going Out” strategy, have generated great uneasiness in international relations. This dissertation, The Politics of China’s “Going Out” Strategy: Overseas Expansion of Central State-owned Enterprises, seeks to answer the following question: how the Chinese central state and central SOEs interact with one another as the “Going Out” strategy has evolved.
This dissertation finds that the transnationalization of SOEs is by no means a coherent policy but rather is fraught with power struggle, with various bureaucratic agencies setting different goals for SOEs on the one hand and with SOEs managers defending corporate interests without incurring political setbacks on the other. The state’s advocacy of the overseas expansion of SOEs was aimed at achieving national economic and security goals, but SOEs, with their expanded autonomy gained from the new state-market relationship, have been able to ignore state directives that were detrimental to firms’ financial performance. This dissertation also finds that negotiation and bargaining between China’s fragmented bureaucracy and SOE managers over the terms of firms’ “going out” grow more intense as corporate autonomy become increasingly institutionalized with the progress of reform. Over time, SOEs’ overseas expansion reflected more the firms’ corporate strategy than the state’s policy objectives.text
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MacLeod, Dag. "Taking the state back out? privatization and the limits of neoliberal reform in Mexico /." 2001. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/50265373.html.
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Chang, Li-Yen, and 張麗燕. "China's State-Owned Enterprises' “Going Out” Strategy ─An Analysis of the Principle-Agent Theory." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/r3re34.
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China became one of the World Trade Organization (WTO) members in 2001, in accordance with the provisions of the World Trade Organization, China have to open its domestic market fully, it can’t depend on its low- technology and low-cost labor to sustain its economic growth anymore. So Chinese leaders proposed the “Going Out” strategy that the government-led to overcome the impact when China was admitted to WTO. It is a way to expand its exports and promote the growth of its economy, and Chinese enterprises could improve its management and the levels of technical by international cooperation or international investments. However, the members of “Going Out” are mostly the China’s state-owned enterprises but one-third of them are not profitable from the transnational operations according to the official data. Most of the traditional analyses of economic factors and security strategies provide an insufficient foundation for understanding the recent surge in overseas expansion of China’s SOEs, and it can’t explain further about the current performance of state-owned enterprises’ fault and the financial losses . Therefore, the dissertation focuses on the internal institutional structures within China, and based on the principal-agent theory and with the administrative bureaucracies, fragmented bureaucratic principals, as well as managerial dual identities and bureaucratic control in China’s state sector. This study also adopts document analysis and historical analysis, discussing how State agencies and State-owned enterprises taking advantage of its own autonomy and functions to carry out State-owned enterprises transnational mergers under the existing system of political and economic development in China. Moreover, by taking Ministry of railways of the People's Republic of China and the railway-related enterprises as well as China National Petroleum Corporation as two representative cases. Above the three factors how to affect the principal-agent relationship between the China’s SOEs and the Chinese central government, as well as the China’s SOEs agenda setting and the results of “Going Out”.