Dissertations / Theses: 'Quality of regulation'

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Foley, Sean D. V. "The impact of regulation on market quality." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/11565.

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This dissertation studies the impact of market structure changes on market efficiency and integrity. Thematically, it is concerned with the actual behaviour of market participants and their associated impact on key market variables such as the degree of liquidity, the size of trading costs, the quality of price discovery and the integrity of the market itself. The fundamental changes to the trading landscape brought about by fragmentation have significantly changed the way that many traders execute transactions. In light of the vast and complex changes that have recently occurred in markets, this thesis conducts an empirical investigation of these microstructure issues. These studies contribute to the understanding of modern markets, the health of which is integral for effective price discovery and liquidity provision. The four studies in this dissertation examine several key market microstructure issues, including: causes of the pre-bid price run-up ahead of takeover announcements; the impact high frequency trading has on market efficiency and integrity; and the effect of both the introduction and regulation of dark trading. The outcomes of these studies are comprehensively discussed and their contributions to the field are duly noted. Given the significant and rapid change occurring in current equity markets, the findings in this dissertation are relevant for market practitioners, exchange venue designers, and market regulators.

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Padgett, Stephen Mark. "Negotiating quality : everyday practices and nursing self regulation /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7306.

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Olanie, Aaron Z. "Essays on regulation policy, wildlife quality, and excess demand." Thesis, Washington State University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3598102.

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The second chapter examines how both domestic and foreign tobacco regulations affect the flow of tobacco trade. I develop a gravity equation incorporating a comprehensive set of domestic and foreign tobacco regulations into a country's tobacco import demand and estimate their bilateral effects. The results suggest a country's tobacco imports are significantly affected by their trading partner's tobacco regulations. There are two important results: spatial regulations reduce tobacco trade regardless of trade direction and marketing regulations in importing countries may actually increase tobacco imports. These results highlight the importance of understand regulations in an increasingly multilateral economy.

The third chapter investigates the effects of varying levels of access and excludability on a common pool resource with intrinsic quality characteristics. I analyze the case of deer hunting on leased properties by hunting clubs and estimate the lease size elasticity of both harvest and antler quality. The results suggest lease size has a small but significant effect. For all clubs with smaller than average hunting leases, a simulated increase to the average size results in approximately a 4.5 percent increase in the average antler quality of deer harvested. Although I analyze properties leased by hunting clubs, the results are applicable to various other management scenarios.

The fourth chapter develops the relationship between excess demand and purchase options. I illustrate a mechanism allowing firms to smooth sales across periods with uncertain quality and increase expected profit over the market clearing strategy. By "underpricing" high quality goods and offering a purchase option guaranteeing a single price regardless of quality, firms create excess demand and increase consumer willingness to pay for their purchase option. The firm maximizes profit by choosing a guaranteed price low enough to create sufficient excess demand and consumer willingness to pay for the purchase option that markets clear when quality is low. Using a numeric example, I demonstrate a case where this behavior increases profit over the market clearing strategy.

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Kassim, Angzzas Sari Mohd. "Fruit quality metabolites and gene regulation in red raspberry." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.510825.

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Steiner, Rebecca Elizabeth. "Regulation of Translational Quality Control by Phenylalanyl-tRNA Synthetase." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1561468654993642.

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McCormack, Colette. "Regulation, accountability and the law : the legal regulation of water quality within the water supply industry." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.341052.

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Pienaar, Natalie. "Economic Applications of Product Quality Regulation in WTO Trade Agreements." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm University, Institute for International Economic Studies, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-485.

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This thesis comprises three theoretical essays on the economic applications of product quality regulation in WTO Agreements:

Economic Applications of the WTO Consistency Requirement Article 5.5 (consistency) of the SPS Agreement requires countries to avoid arbitrary distinctions in health protection on goods that are associated with the same disease, if such distinctions result in discrimination or a disguised restriction on trade. For a bound tariff, a marginally binding consistency constraint improves welfare but welfare is reduced if the constraint is interpreted too strictly. When tariffs are negotiated subject to consistency, the welfare effects of consistency depend on whether trade negotiators are myopic or forward-looking.

Public Opinion, Product Quality Regulation and Trade attempts to answer the following questions. Should governments be forced to admit products that science deems healthy, but consumers do not? Are consumer fears sufficient to justify a ban on a healthy import or should the fears refect scientifically proven risk? To what extent can regulatory authorities exploit these fears for protectionist purposes? In an adverse selection model, consumers have imperfect information with regard to government type and import product quality. The government of the country exporting the product of uncertain quality has an incentive to commit to a strategy where it recognises the importing country's right to ban the unhealthy import but tariff retaliates if the importing country bans a healthy import. Under such a strategy first best is achieved; consumers learn product quality and consumption distortions associated with consumer fear are eliminated. Allowing the importing

Asymmetric Information and Country-of-Origin Labelling concerns information asymmetries as a rationale for trade policy when adverse selection is an international problem. Firms in countries North and South choose between producing high or low quality. Those choosing low quality take advantage of adverse selection problems, while those choosing high quality do so to establish reputations and earn positive profits in subsequent periods when information is perfect. Cross-country differences in the relative costs of producing high quality result in different average qualities and prices in autarky. Trade is welfare deteriorating (improving) for the North (South). Allowing the Northern government the option of origin-labelling eliminates the international externalities associated with trade when adverse selection is a transnational problem, and is unambiguously welfare improving for the North.

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Munnik, Magen C. "An investigation of water quality regulation by the Karsriviervlei, Bredasdorp." University of the Western Cape, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/6086.

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Magister Scientiae - MSc (Earth Science)
Studies have shown that ecosystem services that are provided by wetlands are beneficial to the improvement of water quality regulation. Some of these ecosystem services may include sequestration of sediment, toxicants and nutrients by wetlands, which contributes to the quality of water in rivers downstream and thereby, the health and well-being of humanity and the environment. However, studies have also shown that there has been insufficient research done on how natural wetlands regulate water quality. Therefore, this study investigated the regulation of water quality by a wetland located in an agricultural setting in the Western Cape. This type of research was essential to South Africa as the country is experiencing a great loss and degradation of wetlands, even though national policies and legislation are geared towards their protection and rehabilitation. The study was aimed at evaluating the assumption that wetlands improve the quality of water in river systems, using the Karsriviervlei as a case study and by invoking two objectives. The first objective was to investigate the spatial and temporal variation in selected water quality variables upstream, through the wetland and downstream. The second objective was to investigate the hydrogeomorphic characteristics and processes of the Karsriviervlei that determined the effectiveness of wetlands, in regulating water quality. Furthermore, the study also consisted of two methods that provided an understanding of how natural wetlands regulate water quality.

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Shearer, Alexander Glennon. "HMG-CoA reductase : protein regulation by a quality control pathway /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3144341.

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Geymüller, Philipp von, and Anton Burger. "Assessing the effects of quality regulation in Norway with a quality regulated version of dynamic DEA." Forschungsinstitut für Regulierungsökonomie, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2007. http://epub.wu.ac.at/990/1/document.pdf.

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In order to find out why energy-not-supplied in Norway - the most important indicator for the quality of service in the quality-regulation regime there - decreased more pronounced before the introduction of quality-regulation in 2001 than after it, we develop a dynamic quality-DEA-model and apply it to a representative sample of distribution-net operators. Our model enables us to calculate a counter-factual and thus to tentatively answer the question: What would have happened, had there been no quality-regulation? This way we find strong evidence that the quality-regulation in Norway did not have an effect on the behavior of the firms. (author's abstract)
Series: Working Papers / Research Institute for Regulatory Economics

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Garcia, i. Fruitós Elena. "Regulation of recombinant proteína solubility and conformational quality in Escherichia coli." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/3923.

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All the processes that take place in a cell require one or more proteins, meaning that they are essential components of life. Proteins are macromolecules consisting of amino acid units, all of them being constructed with combinations of only 20 amino acids. The primary structure of a protein molecule is determined by the sequence of amino acids connected by peptide bonds forming a polypeptide chain. Once the amino acid chain is synthesized, the protein folds by a physical process that might be eventually assisted by other proteins, reaching its characteristic three‐dimensional structure that is the final, functional conformation. However, although it is known that all the proteins must properly fold into their correct native conformation to be functional, their final conformation cannot be predicted from their primary amino acid sequence, being protein folding mechanisms one of the most challenging problems in biology today. Many proteins of relevant industrial or medical value are produced in low amounts in their natural sources. However, at the end of the seventies, the development of recombinant DNA technologies opened a new promising era for protein production in high amounts for both research and industrial applications. This had a tremendous impact, for example, in many areas of medicine as a tool to produce new drugs for the treatment of diseases and genetic disorders. Genetic engineering permits the introduction of the encoding genes of the protein of interest into recipient cells, where these genes are positioned downstream of regulable promoters in movable genetic elements, mainly plasmids. Under suitable conditions, these transgenic cells acting as protein production bio‐factories would be expected to act as unlimited and inexpensive source of rare, highly valuable proteins not only for proteomics and structural functional genomics1 but also for large‐scale preparative purposes. The quality as well as the quantity of the produced recombinant protein is greatly influenced by the chosen biological cell system. Bacteria have been the most commonly used organisms for protein production, specially the enterobacteria Escherichia coli, not only for the low cost of the used processes, but also for its fast growth. Generally, in Escherichia coli, the rather small host cell proteins can fold properly, adopting a native, biological active conformation. However, when producing heterologous proteins, specially those with eukaryotic or viral origin, important obstacles appear during the protein production process: a) in most cases, the protein is produced in a non functional conformation; b) sometimes the formed product is toxic for the cell; c) the protein often results proteolytically degraded2; d) the product is accumulated as an insoluble, non‐functional protein aggregates, known as inclusion bodies3. Therefore, even though the important advantages of the use of bacteria as a expression system, Escherichia coli also presents some drawbacks, such as its inability to carry most of the post‐transcriptional modifications, often required for eukaryotic protein function, the lack of a secretion mechanism to release the protein to the medium, and the inability to create an oxidative environment to facilitate disulfide bond formation required to achieve the final, functional structure of some proteins. Therefore, this leads to the production of proteins which are not always suitable for immediate use. This means that, to date, many proteins have been excluded from the biotechnological and pharmaceutical market because they cannot be produced in high yields as soluble and active products. To avoid protein folding problems encountered in bacteria under overexpression conditions, mainly secretion and post‐transcriptional modifications, alternative host cells, such as yeast, filamentous fungi, mammalian or insect cells, have been explored. Nevertheless, an enormous number of deficiencies in these systems such as difficulty of genetic manipulation, low productivity and high costs, shows that these organisms are not ideal for this aim and that, even when bacteria show some obstacles in the production process and often this system has to be optimized for specific products, it is, in most of the cases, the best choice.

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Zait, Dzeti A. E. "Flavour quality factors and its regulation in red raspberry (rubus idaeus)." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2012. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=19077.

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Breeding in red raspberries is hampered by genetic incompatibility between varieties and a long juvenility period. Molecular breeding efforts in red raspberry have provided viable applications to incorporate disease resistance in new varieties. This approach could also be applied in developing non-GM strategies to improve flavour quality of red raspberries, successful in other related fruit crops (e.g. peach, apple), with 'good' flavour quality determined by sensory panellists. In this study, sensory data was correlated to data on flavour metabolites (e.g. sugars, organic acids and volatiles) through statistical modelling, which yielded possible causal relationships. These flavour traits data were then mapped to genetic loci and / or candidate genes on an already existing raspberry genetic linkage map and generated genomic regions most likely responsible for trait variation, potentially genetic markers for flavour quality. These markers could be used to select seedlings w ith propensity to develop premium flavour quality prior to planting, thus reducing time required to produce new varieties. This study aimed to investigate flavour development in red raspberry cross population (Glen Moy x Latham) impacted by environmental (different year and cultivation methods) and genetic (different genotypes in a cross mapping population) factors. Flavour metabolites; sugars and acids contents, were quantified via chromatographic methods (HPLC-UV/Vis, HPLC-MS) and other flavour-related datasets (oBrix, 10-berry weight, volatiles and pigment-related contents) were obtained from parallel researches. These datasets were correlated to sensory scorings (sweetness, sourness and flavour intensity) of progenies in the mapping populations, via statistical regression analyses (PLS-1), in order to identify factors most responsible for variances in flavour traits. Genetic explanations of flavour quality were obtained through mapping sweetness, sourness and flavour i ntensity and flavour-related datasets to the red raspberry genetic linkage map (Graham et al., 2009) which yielded flavour-related quantitative trait loci (QTLs). Overall, polytunnel cultivation was most effective in producing fruits with high flavour scores and metabolites contents. Sweetness and flavour intensity, both closely linked, were significantly correlated to sugars content, with notable contributions by volatiles content, especially hexenol. Raspberry ketone (RK) had compounded effects with other metabolites in impacting sweetness and flavour intensity but not sourness. Sourness was a complex trait poorly explained by metabolites content or any other flavour-associated variable. Linkage group (LG) 3 had most number of QTLs that co-localised to markers associated to processes affecting overall plant growth and to biosynthetic pathways of other flavour compounds (e.g. phenypropanoid pathways for volatiles). These results indicate flavour quality development as a complex trait and many factors affect it. Although genetic selection for improved flavour quality is possible, effects from genetic x environmental interactions most impact on flavour quality, with clear advantage of developing good flavour berries with increased metabolites under polytunnel cultivation. Results from this study add to knowledge on factors affecting red raspberry flavour, which could assist breeders in developing control strategies and help focus future breeding efforts on factors that most impact on flavour quality. Furthermore, results from this study can be transferred to other Rosaceae species and add to existing efforts to develop modern flavour quality management strategies.

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Clements, Michael Edward. "Local telephone quality-of-service : the impact of regulation and competition." The Ohio State University, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1273857327.

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Clements, Michael E. "Local telephone quality-of-service : the impact of regulation and competition /." The Ohio State University, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1486397841222342.

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Rehman, Muneer. "Pre- and Post-Harvest Regulation of Fruit Quality in Sweet Orange." Thesis, Curtin University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/69384.

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Poor colour of orange fruit causes serious economic losses to growers. Spray application of abscisic acid, prohexadione-Ca, paclobutrazol or methyl jasmonate at 6 or 3 weeks before harvest promoted fruit colour in M7 Navel. Hot water (50 °C) 5 min dip alone or combined with thiabendazol, methyl jasmonate 1 min dip (0.1 - 0.50 mM) or nitric oxide (5 - 20 µL L-1) fumigation reduced chilling injury in Midknight Valencia and Lane Late oranges.

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Yule, Mhairi. "Emotion regulation, executive functioning and quality of life following stroke : a research portfolio." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/8009.

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Systematic review Executive dysfunction is commonly reported following stroke with most research in this area focused on frontal lobe lesions. A systematic review was carried out to evaluate the evidence of executive dysfunction following stroke as compared to control groups. It was found that executive functions are consistently impaired following stroke and is not limited to frontal lobe lesions. Processing speed, mental flexibility, attention and working memory impairments were found to be the most common executive functioning impairments following stroke. Given the impact executive dysfunction may have on successful rehabilitation, relationships, return to work and quality of life, a comprehensive assessment of such difficulties is important following stroke to aid in the development of appropriate and effective rehabilitation strategies. Future research should use larger samples and a wide range of measures to assess different aspects of executive functioning. Introduction Mood disorders and psychological distress are common following stroke, and depression and emotional lability have been studied extensively. There has, however, been little research into difficulties in emotion regulation following stroke and whether this is associated with emotional or cognitive difficulties. The current study investigated emotion regulation difficulties following stroke and their relationship with quality of life, executive functions, anxiety and depression. Method Fifty participants who had suffered a stroke and forty five age matched controls completed the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, the World Health Organization Quality of Life assessment – Brief version and the National Adult Reading Test. In addition individuals with stroke completed four measures of executive functioning – Color Trails Test, Verbal Fluency, Brixton Spatial Anticipation Test and the Hayling Sentence Completion Test. Results Individuals with stroke had significantly greater difficulties in emotion regulation compared to age matched controls and this was significantly associated with lower self reported quality of life and increased levels of both anxiety and depression. No significant associations were found between emotion regulation and executive functions or between executive dysfunction and lower self reported quality of life. Discussion The current study found evidence that individuals who have suffered a stroke have more difficulties in emotion regulation than an age matched control group. This is clinically important as emotion regulation difficulties are found in mood disorders and it may be that such difficulties precipitate and/or maintain depression following stroke. The absence of an association between difficulties in emotion regulation and executive functioning suggests that other factors may influence such difficulties, such as the trauma of having a stroke. Future research should explore emotion regulation difficulties further following stroke, particularly investigating whether the course of these difficulties changes over time and if they are linked to type of stroke or lesion location.

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Olarnsakul, Tavinie. "Can Regulation Improve Ethics Within The Auditing Profession?" Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1672.

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This paper will examine the effectiveness of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) in improving ethics within the external auditing profession. The first chapter explores well-known ethical theories and professional code of conducts related to the auditing profession. The second chapter details the generally accepted auditing standards and changes that have been made throughout the years. The third chapter examines past corporate fraudulent scandals (Waste Management, Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, Enron) and studies the role of auditors in contributing to the collapse of these corporations. The forth chapter details the objective of the SOX and how it plans to protect the investing public and improve the reliability of financial information. Finally, the fifth chapter compiles various research studies that examine the effects of the SOX and its impact on audit quality. The author discovered that regulation could help enhance ethics through indirect measures that aim to improve audit qualities, and thus, promote virtue ethics within the auditing profession. Some of these measures include establishing an oversight board to strengthen regulation and enforcement (section 101), reducing the scope of non-audit services (section 201), requiring auditors to attest to a client’s internal control operating effectiveness (section 404) and promoting principles-based standards within the profession (section 108). Through these measures, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act has managed to regain the public trust and improve audit quality, thereby, enhancing ethics within the auditing profession.

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Christensen, Kara Alise. "Examining relationships between interpersonal emotion regulation, psychopathology, andrelationship quality in female friend dyads." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1563803675071968.

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Ramaswamy, Srinivasan. "Dynamic call admission control and quality-of-service regulation in ATM networks." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq23061.pdf.

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Rohani, Jafri Mohd. "The development and analysis of quality control adjustment schemes for process regulation." Ohio : Ohio University, 1995. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1179951651.

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Poetsch, Mareike Susann [Verfasser]. "Regulation of cardiac protein quality control by deubiquitinating enzymes / Mareike Susann Poetsch." Gießen : Universitätsbibliothek, 2019. http://d-nb.info/119221496X/34.

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Adamiak, Sylwia J. "The nutritional regulation of oocyte quality and early embryo development in cattle." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2006. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13625/.

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The importance of nutrition on reproductive performance is well recognised. However,the mechanisms and specific factors regulating their interaction are still poorly understood. Interest has recently intensified, as fertility in dairy cows has declined. There is a body of evidence on the negative effects of reduced body condition, the high levels of energy and protein intake, however, the results are inconsistent between studies and the role of specific factors, such as insulin and leptin, in the regulation of ovarian function in cattle remains unclear. The main objective of this thesis, therefore, was to test the effects of animal body composition, planes of nutrition and diet composition with emphasis on endocrine and metabolic factors, including progesterone, oestradiol, insulin, IGF-I and leptin, on oocyte quality and early embryo development in cattle. This thesis has demonstrated that alterations in planes of nutrition (Maintenance (M) vs twice maintenance (2M)) affected oocyte quality, and that the effects were dependent on animal body condition score (BCS) (Low vs Moderate). Whilst high (2M) levels of feeding were beneficial for oocytes from animals in Low BCS, they were detrimental to oocyte quality for animals in Moderate BCS. Furthermore, the combination of feeding level and animal BCS created low (10 ull.J/ml), moderate (20 ).lIU/ml) and high (40).lIU/ml) plasma insulin concentrations. Inevitably, however, it also led to the creation of three corresponding levels of plasma leptin concentrations (low: 2 ng/ ml, moderate: 4 ng/ml, and high: 7 ng/ml), indicating that the effects of these metabolic hormones on ovarian function cannot be separated in vivo. However, there was no correlation between changes in metabolic hormones and oocyte quality, suggesting that other endocrine or metabolic factors, not recorded in this study, may be involved in determining the post-fertilisation developmental competence of oocytes. Animal body composition also played an important role in the dietary-induced modifications to oocyte developmental competence both in vivo and in vitro. Indicated by post-fertilisation development in vitro, oocyte quality was enhanced in Low BCS heifers offered the Fibre than the Starch based diets (43.6 vs 24.6% blastocysts for Fibre vs Starch diet), whereas inclusion of protected lipid reduced oocyte developmental competence (27.7 vs 42.9% blastocysts for presence vs absence of Megalac). However, in Moderate BCS heifers, diet composition had litde effect on oocyte quality. Although dietary treatments had little effect on endocrine profile, elevated plasma leptin concentrations were consistently correlated (P<0.001) with increased animal body fatness. The effects of dietary treatments on oocyte maturation in vivo, however, varied from those observed when sera from these animals were used during the final stages of oocyte maturation in vitro, and during early embryo development. These findings suggest that while some diets may be beneficial to oocyte development, they could have a negative effect on embryo quality and subsequent survival. Interestingly, serum harvested from Low BCS heifers enhanced blastocyst formation in vitro compared to serum from heifers in Moderate BCS (24.2 vs 19.0%). This indicates that animal BCS is an important factor involved in the regulation of not only oocyte quality, but also early embryo development. The reasons for these discrepancies between BCS groups, however, remain unknown. Finally, this thesis produced an interesting and novel insight into the nutritional regulation of the lipid content and fatty acid composition of bovine plasma, granulose cells (GCs) and cumulus-oocyte complexes (COCs), and also the effects of serum from contrasting nutritional backgrounds on the lipid content and fatty acid composition of embryos. In general, the inclusion of supplemental fatty acids in the diet significantly increased the lipid content of all tissues tested. The fatty acid composition of COCs and embryos, however, was not correlated with their quality. Nevertheless, differences in the fatty acid composition of plasma, GCs and COCs indicated that there is a selective mechanism of fatty acid uptake by the follicle compartment, which has a preference for saturated fatty acids. The importance and function of specific fatty acids in determining oocyte and embryo quality remain to be elucidated. This thesis has therefore demonstrated that animal body composition is an important factor determining the effects of feeding level and diet composition on oocyte and early embryo development. In summary, high levels of feeding and the Fibre based diets can enhance oocyte quality in thin, but not in moderately fat animals. Alterations in plasma insulin and leptin concentrations did not appear to be correlated with oocyte quality in the present studies, indicating that other factors, not monitored in this project, are possibly involved in the regulation of oocyte developmental competence.

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Viveros, Zuazo Aresio Antonio. "The Moral Hazard and the Regulation of the Quality of Public Services." Derecho & Sociedad, 2016. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/117842.

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One of the main purposes of a Regulatory Agency is to monitor the quality of the service that regulated companies provide to its final users, in order to achieve an improvement in its performance and verify compliance with minimum quality standards that legislation impose on the concessionaires of public services.Given the asymmetry of information that tends to exist between the companies providing public services and the regulator, the decision by the latter allows them to reduce the costs that must be incurred to provide a service with appropriate quality standards, in order to maximize their benefits; and prevents the regulator to oversee such a service and take necessary corrective actions for the population. This conflict of interest is known as moral hazard.This article identifies and describes the situations in which moral hazard can occur, proposing the use of incentives to resolve the conflict.
Una de las funciones de un organismo regulador es la supervisión de la calidad del servicio que las empresas reguladas prestan a los usuarios finales, con el objeto de lograr una mejora en su prestación y verificar el cumplimiento de los estándares de calidad mínimos que la legislación de la materia impone a las concesionarias de dichos servicios públicos.Dada la asimetría de información que tiende a existir entre las empresas prestadoras de servicios públicos y el regulador, la toma de decisiones por parte de éstas les permite disminuir los costos en que deben incurrir para prestar un servicio con estándares de calidad adecuados, a efectos de maximizar sus beneficios; e impide que el regulador pueda fiscalizar tal servicio y tomar las acciones correctivas necesarias en favor de la población. Este conflicto de intereses es conocido como riesgo moral. El presente artículo identifica y describe las situaciones en las que puede presentarse riesgo moral, proponiendo la utilización de incentivos para solucionar dicho conflicto.

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Solver, Torbjörn. "Reliability in performance-based regulation." Licentiate thesis, KTH, School of Electrical Engineering (EES), 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-606.

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In reregulated and restructured electricity markets the production and retail of electricity is conducted on competitive markets, the transmission and distribution on the other hand can be considered as natural monopolies. The financial regulation of Distribution System Operators (DSOs) has in many countries, partly as a consequence of the restructuring in ownership, gone through a major switch in regulatory policy. From applying regulatory regimes were the DSOs were allowed to charge their customers according to their actual cost plus some profit, i.e. cost-based regulation, to regulatory models in which the DSOs performance are valued in order to set the allowable revenue, i.e. Performance-Based Regulation (PBR). In regulatory regimes that value performance, the direct link between cost and income is weakened or sometimes removed. This give the regulated DSOs strong cost cutting incentives and there is consequently a risk of system reliability deterioration due to postponed maintenance and investments in order to save costs. To balance this risk the PBR-framework is normally complemented with some kind of quality regulation (QR). How both the PBR and QR frameworks are constructed determines the incentive that the DSO will act on and will therefore influence the system reliability development.

This thesis links the areas of distribution system reliability and performancebased regulation. First, the key incentive features within PBR, that includes the quality of supply, are identified using qualitative measures that involve analyses of applied regulatory regimes, and general regulatory policies. This results in a qualitative comparison of applied PBR models. Further, the qualitative results are quantified and analysed further using time sequential Monte Carlo simulations (MCS). The MCS enables detailed analysis of regulatory features, parameter settings and financial risk assessments. In addition, the applied PBRframeworks can be quantitatively compared. Finally, some focus have been put on the Swedish regulation and the tool developed for DSO regulation, the Network Performance Assessment Model (NPAM), what obstacles there might be and what consequences it might bring when in affect.

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Huang, Helen Yan. "Regulation of quality of service in electricity distribution networks : application to New Zealand." Thesis, University of Auckland, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/10403.

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It has been commonly recognised that incentive regulation provides strong incentives for cost reduction. However, the incentives for cost reduction may lead to degradation of service quality. Quality of service is becoming regulated; service quality incentive schemes, service quality targets, guaranteed service level, and information disclosure are the most popular forms of service quality regulation. However, little empirical research has been done in relation to the impact of service quality regulation on the quality of service. The primary objective of this study is to understand the development of service quality regulation schemes in the electricity distribution network. The second objective is to examine how the regulation of quality of service has been structured and applied to electricity distribution networks, primarily in the UK where the application of incentive mechanisms is most advanced, and also to evaluate the effectiveness of the service quality incentive scheme in that country. The third objective is to investigate the effectiveness of the service quality targets regime under targeted control regime in New Zealand and to explore the scope for improvement. A theoretical model of quality choice under incentive regulation is formulated in order to develop testable hypotheses regarding the expected signs of regression coefficients. Two empirical studies are undertaken to provide empirical evidence: one analyses the effectiveness of the service quality incentive scheme in electricity distribution networks in the UK; the other examines the impact of service quality standards on the actual quality of service in electricity distribution networks in New Zealand. The econometric analysis uses panel data. Empirical results are as follows: (1) There is strong evidence to support the hypothesis that the information and incentive project (IIP) in the UK has had a statistically significant effect on service quality. (2) There is evidence that outage duration has been affected by regulatory regimes in New Zealand. However, there is no conclusive evidence that the interruption frequency has been reduced.
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Al-Bakry, Ahmed Nasser Abdullah. "Regulation of fruit quality in sweet pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) by water stress." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.368247.

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Baddevithana, Tanuja Dulmini Dominick Mahinda. "Bank regulation implications for managing accounting quality risk : a basel and IFRS perspective." Thesis, University of Greenwich, 2012. http://gala.gre.ac.uk/11944/.

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This thesis examines whether accounting quality, measured as the difference between accounting and market price change, had an impact on the five primary UK banks that adopted IASB’s IFRS accounting standards in 2005. The findings reveal that the changes in accounting standards resulted in the banks experiencing decreased levels of accounting quality and increased levels of exposure to financial distress risk in the period 2005 to 2008, compared to the pre-adoption period of 1992 to 2004. These findings are corroborated when examining a secondary sample of banking related firms that also adopted the same standards in 2005. A control group that did not adopt these standards exhibited an opposite trend, recording a comparative increase in accounting quality from 2005 to 2008. For all firms tested, the 1-day market price Value-at-Risk (VaR) levels increased year-on-year from 2005 to 2009, with VaR breaches during March and May 2006. These firms, for the 2005 to 2009 period, also displayed increased levels of financial market volatility. Importantly, examining the banks’ Basel capital requirements, it is implied that their levels increased after 2005. These findings, in general, contribute to extending literature that focuses on the accounting standards change. One of the findings from this examination is that contrary to the European Commission’s 2002 (EC 2002) and IASB’s (IASB 2009) expectation to strengthen the efficient functioning of the European and global financial markets, in the UK the banking sector’s investor uncertainty increased significantly during 2005 to 2009. Another finding relates to the measurements applied in this research. Changes in accounting quality and the Basel minimum capital requirement are examined by applying two measures systemised as the relative delta and the regulatory relative delta respectively. Both function by quantifying differences between accounting totals and market price. It is discovered that these measures, accounting VaR, and the technology framework, as introduced in this study, have potential benefits and regulatory implications. These are aimed at facilitating the mitigation of risks that impact on accounting quality.

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Sumual, Maria Fransisca. "Regulation of fruit softening, colour development and quality in controlled atmosphere stored mango." Thesis, Curtin University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2296.

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CA storage of ‘Kensington Pride’ mango fruit pre-treated with MJ, Put, and 1-MCP maintained firmness, controlled pectolytic enzyme activity, and reduced colour and skin pigments degradation. These postharvest treatments also improved sugars to acids ratio and preserved carotenoids synthesis and antioxidants level in fruit pulp during CA storage. In conclusion, the effects of CA storage together with MJ, Put, or 1-MCP improved fruit quality during three to four weeks of storage to a limited extend.

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Moraes, Mônica Cristina Martinez de. "A avaliação da escola pelos pais." [s.n.], 2010. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/251424.

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Orientador: Mara Regina Lemes de Sordi
Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação
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Resumo: O tema da qualidade da escola vem envolvendo cada vez mais diferentes atores e setores sociais. Da discussão sobre a qualidade da aprendizagem à gestão do Estado, ampliam-se os objetos de estudos. Há, porém, uma faceta ainda pouco explorada: a participação dos pais na avaliação da escola. Esta pesquisa buscou examinar como ocorre o processo de avaliação das escolas de ensino fundamental pelos pais. O estudo foi desenvolvido ao longo de cinco anos em nove escolas municipais de ensino fundamental da cidade de Campinas/SP em que se verificou a conjugação de dados sobre exclusão social e, ao mesmo tempo, a busca por matrículas nessas escolas. Tratou-se de estudo qualitativo baseado em Minayo, organizado dialogicamente em três fases. A fase exploratória discutiu a construção do objeto num esforço teórico e empírico. A fase de trabalho de campo concentrou-se na confrontação entre os conceitos, as técnicas e a realidade concreta. Para isso, foi aplicado questionário e realizada discussão de grupos de pais das nove escolas municipais de ensino fundamental da cidade de Campinas/SP que tiveram sua demanda por vaga atendida em 2008. Na fase de análise de dados fez-se o tratamento do material recolhido com os pais por meio da Análise de Conteúdo, o que possibilitou identificar quatro referenciais de avaliação das escolas pelos pais: a localização, a referência de pessoas conhecidas, o trabalho pedagógico, o clima institucional. Concluiu-se que os pais constroem um sistema de referências relativo à escola de seus filhos e por meio dele justificam suas avaliações e seus julgamentos de qualidade.
Abstract: In recent years, school quality has been largely discussed among several Brazilian actors and social sectors. In effect, the subject is plural and has been exploited in a variety of thematic that range from "quality of learning" to "Estate management". However, a few studies inquired how parents take part in the school evaluation process of their children, which is the reason for this research. The present qualitative study, wich is based on Minayo's theory, has been applied in nine public schools (first grade level) in Campinas city, Sao Paulo Estate, during a period of five years. It has been organized in three phases interacting dialecticaly: 1- exploitition, 2- reserch on the field, and 3- analyses of the data. The first phase, discussed the theorectic and empirical elements in order to build the object of study. The second phase, was centered in the confrontation between concepts and techniques on one hand, and the concrete reality on the other. In order to accomplish that, a questionaire was applied as well as group discussion by the parents. Finally, the last phase, the data gathered has been analyzed (Content Analysis Technique) which allowed the identification of four guidelines for parents to evaluate their children's school: geographic placement, reference by others, pedagogic stature, and institutional atmosphere. The major theses guiding this research states that parents build a system of reference relating to their children's school and by this, justify their evaluations and judgements of quality.
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Pinto, Marta Filipa Pedro Guedes. "Avaliação da qualidade físico-química e microbiológica de leite pasteurizado produzido por micro empresas em Alagoas, Brasil." Master's thesis, ISA/UTL, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/4083.

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Mestrado em Engenharia Alimentar - Instituto Superior de Agronomia
Milk is an food product that we ingest during our lives. Mostly for beeing very complete nutritiously, what makes it, simultaneously susceptible to damage by way of development. Therefore it is essential to control it's processing. In Microbiological Food Lab of "Universidade Federal de Alagoas" there were analysed 115 samples of pasteurized milk type C, from 16 small companies, who belong to Cooperativa de Produção Leiteira de Alagoas – CPLA – who participated in the program "Fome Zero" (Zero Hunger) of the brazilian government, in which the goal is to supply this food to needed families. The physical-chemical parameters (fat content, titratable acidity,dry residue free of fat matter, 15ºC density, freezing index, protein matter, and alcohol stability) and microbiological (NMP resolve of Coliforms at 35 ºC and 45 ºC and research of Salmonella sp.) they were analysed according to Normative Instruction no. 51 (2002) and according to brazilian conventional methodology. According to the results obtained, only for 15 ºC density, dry residue free of fat matter and Salmonella spp. there were no unconformitys found. It is recommended the implementation/improvement of programs, on food manufacturing pratices, sanitation and control of critical control points, in order to ensure the safety of the final product.

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Guertin, Camille. "A Self-Determination Theory Perspective on the Success and Failure of Eating Regulation In Women: Does Planning and Self-Monitoring the Quality Versus the Quantity of Eating Matter?" Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/41532.

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Based within the Self-Determination Theory (SDT), the overall objective of this thesis was to examine how motivational processes involved in the regulation of eating give rise to different self-regulation strategies in terms of eating quality and quantity, and how the adoption of these strategies influence women’s eating behaviors and life satisfaction over time. This objective was achieved through a series of eight studies, divided into four manuscripts. First, a measure that would allow us to assess healthy and unhealthy eating behaviors based on recent recommendations of Canada’s Food Guide was developed and validated. In Manuscript #1, we validated the Healthy and Unhealthy Eating Behavior Scale (HUEBS) by examining the structure of the scale (Study 1 N = 360; Study 2 N = 711) and by establishing convergent validity through the examination of the relationships between motivational concepts, healthy and unhealthy eating behaviors as measured by the HUEBS, and waist circumference (Study 2 N = 711; Study 3 N = 264). Results supported the factor structure of the scale. It was also demonstrated that as women moved along stages of change for eating regulation, they reported higher levels of self-determined (versus non-self-determined) motivation and a higher consumption of healthy (versus unhealthy) foods. Furthermore, findings showed that healthy eating fully mediated the relationship between self-determined motivation and waist-circumference, and that the relationship between self-determined motivation and healthy eating was moderated by stages of change. Since there was also a need to develop a scale that would allow us to measure planning and self-monitoring strategies in terms of eating quality (i.e., nutrient intake) and quantity (i.e., calories and portion sizes), Manuscript #2 validated the Planning and Self-Monitoring the Quality and Quantity Scale (PMQQS; Study 1 N = 355; Study 2 N = 318). Results supported the 6-factor structure of the scale and demonstrated that strategies related to the quality of eating were more strongly and positively associated with healthy eating and more strongly and negatively associated with unhealthy eating, whereas strategies related to the quantity of eating were more strongly and positively associated with bulimic symptoms and Body Mass Index (BMI). Manuscript #3 then examined if the strategies assessed by the PMQQS provided additional variance to eating behaviors over and above the effects of motivation (Study 1 N = 456) and if the strategies mediated the relationships between motivation and eating, while controlling for BMI (Study 1 N = 456; Study 2 N = 979). Overall, it was found that strategies played a significant role in explaining eating behaviors and that planning and self-monitoring the quality of eating mediated the relationships between autonomous motivation and healthy and unhealthy eating, whereas planning and self-monitoring the quantity of eating mediated the relationship between controlled motivation and bulimic symptoms. Finally, in Manuscript #4, we tested a longitudinal model (N = 230) examining the roles of goals and motivation in the prediction of the strategies and various types of eating and the effects of adopting these behaviors on life satisfaction over a 3-month period. Results revealed that intrinsic goals were positively associated with autonomous motivation whereas extrinsic goals were positively associated with controlled motivation for eating regulation at Time 1 (the baseline), and that autonomous motivation positively predicted quality strategies whereas controlled motivation positively predicted quantity strategies at Time 2 (1 month). Planning and self-monitoring quality then predicted healthy and unhealthy eating behaviors, whereas planning and self-monitoring quantity predicted bulimic symptoms at Time 3 (3 months). Finally, healthy eating was positively associated with life satisfaction, whereas bulimic symptoms was negatively associated with life satisfaction at Time 3. Overall, this thesis increases knowledge on why some women succeed, whereas others fail, to regulate their eating behaviors over time.

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Ballew, Hailey B. "Accounting Quality Benefits of Regulatory Spillover:Evidence from the Banking Industry." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu15609423195075.

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Griffen, Lindsay M. "Reducing Pollutants in Industrial Stormwater Runoff: Improved Water Quality Protection Using Prioritized Facility Regulation." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0001377.

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Zago, Angelo. "Self-regulation, productivity, and nonlinear pricing three essays on quality production in agricultural markets /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/3623.

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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2006.
Thesis research directed by: Agricultural and Resource Economics. 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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Elsholz, Alexander [Verfasser]. "Regulation of protein quality control systems in low GC, Gram-positive bacteria / Alexander Elsholz." Greifswald : Universitätsbibliothek Greifswald, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1012034402/34.

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Bleibtreu, Christopher [Verfasser]. "Audit Market Regulation, Supplier Concentration, and the Quality of Audited Financial Statements / Christopher Bleibtreu." Konstanz : Bibliothek der Universität Konstanz, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1026847133/34.

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Nayoan, Johana. "Self-regulation and quality of life after a heart attack : a cross-cultural study." Thesis, Bucks New University, 2010. http://bucks.collections.crest.ac.uk/10113/.

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Objective. Coronary heart disease has been on the rise in poorer countries and decreasing in developed countries over the last twenty years. However, the cardiac-related health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in poorer countries has not been studied. This study aimed to compare HRQOL following heart attack in a developing country in the East with that of a developed country in the West. Using the self-regulation of health and illness behaviour, the relationships between illness beliefs, coping cognitions and HRQOL are studied. Design. This study was a cross-sectional correlational survey and data were collected shortly before myocardial infarction patients were discharged from hospital. Methods. A sample of 243 individuals from the UK and Indonesia were recruited. Illness beliefs were assessed with the B-IPQ, along with coping cognitions (Brief-COPE) and health-related quality of life (MacNew questionnaire). Results. Illness beliefs and coping cognitions predicted HRQOL in the combined sample. Some aspects of socio-demographic and clinical variables were concurrently associated with HRQOL. Conclusion. The results demonstrate that people in the East have low illness beliefs and these are associated with worse HRQOL compared with those in the West. The findings suggest that there is an urgent need for smoking cessation campaigns in the East, while the West could benefit more from tailored-cardiac rehabilitation programme.

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Taylor, Heidi Brunner. "Family-of-origin quality, regulation of negative affect, marital stability, and couple drinking patterns /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2006. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1405.pdf.

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Brunner, Heidi M. "Family-of-Origin Quality, Regulation of Negative Affect, Marital Stability, and Couple Drinking Patterns." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2006. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/484.

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The primary purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of family-of-origin quality, adult regulation of negative affect, and marital stability with the extent to which couples report they drink similarly and the extent to which they report that the husband drinks more than the wife. It was hypothesized that these two types of couple drinking patterns would be impacted by each individual spouse's context as well as by the interaction of those contexts. A national sample of 1498 couples or 2996 individuals (1498 wives and 1498 husbands married to each other) participated in this study. This study sought to understand the family-of-origin influences when there was not an alcoholic parent in the home. Therefore, adult children of alcoholics were excluded from the sample. The results of this study suggested that wives family-of-origin quality and both spouses' regulation of negative affect were highly predictive of a husband drinking more than the wife, and moderately to highly predictive of couple drinking similarity. The husband's family-of-origin had only indirect effects on both alcohol use patterns. His family-of-origin had moderately significant effects on drinking similarity through the mediating variable of the husband's regulation of negative affect. His family-of-origin had moderate to highly significant effects on whether or not he drinks more than his wife through two indirect paths, with regulation of negative affect and marital stability as mediating variables. When examining partner effects on couple alcohol use patterns, findings suggest the contributions of husband and wife are not entirely equal. Findings suggest that the wife's family-of-origin influences the pattern of the ‘husband drinking more than his wife’, through the mediating variable of the husband's regulation of negative affect, and this relationship was found to be stronger than his own family-of-origin. The wife's family-of-origin and her regulation of negative affect were more predictive of whether or not the couple drank similarly than the husband's family-of-origin or his regulation of negative affect. The most poignant conclusion drawn from this study is the importance of recognizing not only individual contributors to later alcohol use, but also the influence of the interacting couple contexts when examining couple alcohol use patterns.

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O'leary, Kimberly. "Disentangling the Impact of Poor Sleep from Depressive Symptoms on Emotion Regulation." Scholar Commons, 2019. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7875.

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Depressive symptoms and sleep are both strongly associated with deficits in emotional functioning (Durmer & Dinges, 2005; van der Helm & Walker, 2010). Although sleep and depression are tightly intertwined, understanding their independent and conjoint impact on emotional functioning is imperative. Given the limitations of previous designs, the primary goal of this study was to examine the separate impact of poor sleep quality and depressive symptoms on emotion regulation. In order to accomplish this goal, we preselected groups on the basis of their sleep and depression profiles: individuals with mainly sleep problems (N = 30), individuals with mainly depressive symptoms (N = 10), individuals who scored highly on both problems (N = 37), as well as individuals who are low on both problems (N = 33). Main predictions were that sleep would be uniquely associated with poor trait and laboratory emotion regulation. Results were contrary to hypotheses in that we found main effects of depression on all self-reported measures of emotion regulation and a main effect of sleep on rumination alone. Sleep and depression both predicted affective consequences of laboratory emotion regulation but in the opposite of the expected direction: greater severity scores predicted more benefit from instructed emotion regulation strategy use in the laboratory. Further discussion centers on the complexity of sleep problems and future directions for a greater understanding of sleep within emotion regulation.

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Sharma, I. Prakash Carleton University Dissertation Economics. "Import quota and product quality; the case of the Canadian clothing industry." Ottawa, 1992.

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Cardona, Laura A. "Conceptualizing Quality of College Life." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc699982/.

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The objectives of this study were to mathematically model the quality of college life (QCL) concept and to study the associations between attachment style, emotion regulation abilities, psychological needs fulfillment and QCL via structural equation modeling. Data was collected from 507 undergraduate students (men = 178, women = 329; age M = 21.78 years, SD = 4.37). This data was used to provide evidence for the validity of the College Adjustment Scales (CAS) as a measure of quality of college life. The CAS demonstrated good convergent validity with the World Health Organization Quality of Life measure (WHOQOL), Subjective Well-being and Psychological Well-being Scales. Results: Students who were insecurely attached were as likely to feel adequate in their academic and professional endeavors as securely attached students. However, insecurely attached students had lower QCL levels, lower fulfillment of psychological needs and more emotion regulation difficulties than securely attached students. The results also indicated that Anxious Attachment and Avoidant Attachment were positively and strongly associated. Nonetheless, Anxious Attachment and Avoidant Attachment affected QCL through different mechanism. Emotion regulation mediated the path between Anxious Attachment and QCL while the fulfillment of psychological needs mediated the path between Avoidant Attachment and QCL. The fulfillment of psychological needs also mediated the path between emotion regulation and QCL. The described pattern of results was found for three separate models representing 1) the student’s attachment with their romantic partner, 2) best friend and 3) mother. Additionally, the study’s findings suggest a change in primary attachment figure during the college years. Emotion regulation, the fulfillment of psychological needs and QCL were all affected more strongly by the student’s attachment style with their romantic partner and best friend compared to their attachment style with their parents.

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Magosi, Lerato E. "Role of Snx9 in the Regulation of Mitochondrial Morphology." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/22924.

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Mitochondria are dynamic; they alter their shape through fission, fusion and budding of vesicles. Mitochondrial vesicles serve as a quality control mechanism enabling these organelles to rid themselves of damaged lipids and proteins. Dysregulation in mitochondrial dynamics and quality control have been linked to Parkinson’s Disease, making the identification of molecules requisite for these processes a priority. We identified the endocytic protein, Sorting nexin 9 (Snx9) through a genome wide siRNA screen for genes which substantially alter mitochondrial morphology and therefore are important for its maintenance. In this work, the role of Snx9 in mitochondrial morphology is examined. Ultrastructural imaging of mitochondria within cells silenced for Snx9 revealed unbudded vesicles along a hyperfused mitochondrial reticulum suggesting a role for Snx9 in the release of these vesicles. The vesicular profiles contained concentric membranous whorls enriched for neutral lipids. Localization studies suggest the Parkinson’s disease genes, Parkin and Vps35 localize to the unbudded profiles.

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Maddock, Tara A. "Science, policy, and stakeholder participation in water quality regulation : the emergence of Ohio's TMDL program /." The Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1486402544588568.

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Melo, Oscar Alfredo. "Service quality and asymmetric information in the regulation of monopolies the Chilean electricity distribution industry /." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/7816.

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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2007.
Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics. 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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Forbes, Andrew. "Customer-Side Voltage Regulation to Mitigate PV-induced Power Quality Problems in Radial Distribution Networks." Thesis, Forbes, Andrew (2018) Customer-Side Voltage Regulation to Mitigate PV-induced Power Quality Problems in Radial Distribution Networks. Honours thesis, Murdoch University, 2018. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/41909/.

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The objective of this thesis is to illustrate the effectiveness of customer-side voltage regulation in unbalanced distribution networks, under increasing levels of distributed generation, with the overarching aim of reducing voltage magnitude and voltage imbalance violations. The voltage regulators will be installed between the point of common coupling and the customer point of access. This thesis focusses on a static timeseries load flow study that has been developed using Python 3.6. Load flow simulations have been carried out at PV penetrations levels from 30 to 100 per cent, utilising three different loads models––constant power, constant impedance and an equal impedance-power ratio. An algorithm has been developed for selecting the location of the voltage regulators, which uses the performance of the network in terms of voltage magnitude and voltage imbalance. The test network is based on a real four-wire multipleearthed neutral distribution network in Perth, Western Australia. Real and reactive power readings from customer meters have been used. The voltage regulator model is constructed around an autotransformer regulator with 32 steps and an effective adjustment range of ±10%. The proposed voltage regulation methodology in this thesis is effective in addressing the problems of voltage magnitude violations and to a lesser extent, voltage imbalance, in the presence of high PV penetration. However, the benefits this solution offers in terms of voltage violation reduction, loss reduction and autonomous operation, are not enough to overcome the current cost of these devices. The existing on-load tap changer solution modelled in this thesis for comparison, is shown to deliver better technical outcomes in terms of network performance, for less cost.

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PORRU, MARCELLA. "Quality regulation and energy saving through control and monitoring techniques for industrial multicomponent distillation columns." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11584/266573.

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This Thesis deals with the problem of the quality control and monitoring and the related energy consuming aspects in industrial multicomponent distillation columns. These have important relevance especially in case of units subjected to important changes in operating conditions which manifests in fluctuation of the product concentration. Due to the low reliability of the seldom available and delayed analytic composition measurements, they cannot be employed for an efficient online monitoring of the separation. Instead, this Thesis proposes the use of composition observers with passive innovation mechanism and driven by temperature measurements. The passive structure allows to limit the number of ODEs to be online integrated, which is a central issue to obtain a product suitable for the industrial implementation. The design of this passive structure involves the choice of number and location of the temperature sensors, the choice of the innovated component and the set of modeled components in the (possibly simplified) estimation model. This issue is addressed with a simple and systematic methodology that employs steady state information about the per-component temperature gradient of the column and detectability measures and conditions. Differently from the majority of the works in literature, the proposed methodology allows also to assess the feasibility of obtaining good estimation performance using the available temperature sensors in real columns. Even the analytic composition measurements cannot be employed for quality control in feedback control loops mainly due to delay problems. Instead, temperature feedback controllers are usually used. But even if the temperature sensor is well located (and in this Thesis a criterion for sensor location is suggested based on an extension of the slope criterion to the multicomponent case), when the operating conditions undergo changes, the indirect regulation of the product quality cannot be achieved, with alternating periods of under and over-purification that also adversely affect the energy requirement for the column functioning. Thus, in this Thesis an application oriented solution is proposed consisting in adding a feedforward temperature setpoint compensation that guarantee a close quality regulation, including a more efficient management of the energy, under the changing operating modes of the column. The methodologies and techniques proposed and described in this Thesis are tested with an industrial multicomponent IC4-NC4 splitter located at the Sarlux Refinery (Sarroch, Italy), which, motivated by the good results, has already implemented the composition estimator and is going to implement the feedforward setpoint compensator.

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Smagghue, Gabriel. "Essays on the impact of international trade and labor regulation on firms." Thesis, Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014IEPP0022/document.

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La littérature récente en commerce international et macroéconomie a souligné le rôle majeur de grandes firmes dans les résultats agrégés d'une économie. Les grandes firmes influencent, inter alia, les fluctuations économiques, les performances à l'exportation et les inégalités de salaires et de coût de la vie. Il est donc crucial de saisir comment les grandes firmes émergent et se comportent. Cette thèse s'intéresse à trois aspects de cette question. Premièrement, j'étudie comment les firmes ajustent la qualité de leurs produits à une intensification de la compétition "low-cost" sur les marchés étrangers. Pour ce faire, je développe une nouvelle méthode d'estimation de la qualité des produits au niveau firme et je trouve que les firmes augmentent leur qualité en réponse à la compétition "low-cost". Deuxièmement, j'examine la manière dont les firmes ajustent leurs ventes lorsqu'un choc de demande (e.g., une récession) frappe une de leurs destinations. Dans le cadre de l'industrie du Champagne durant la récession de 2000-2001, je montre que les firmes ré-allouent leurs ventes vers les marchés dont les conditions de demandes sont plus favorables. Cela suggère un nouveau mécanisme de diffusion internationale des chocs. Finalement, je regarde la manière dont les firmes ajustent leur taille et leur mix de capital et travail lorsque la régulation du travail contraint plus fortement les grandes firmes. Dans le cas du seuil de 50 employés en France, je trouve que les firmes se contractent et substituent du travail au capital pour limiter le coût de la régulation. Au niveau macro, mes résultats suggèrent que la régulation profite aux travailleurs mais pas aux détenteurs de capital
Recent literature in international economics and macroeconomics has pointed to the major role played by large firms in shaping aggregate economic outcomes. Large firms influence, inter alia, economic fluctuations, performance on export markets and inequalities between workers and between consumers. It is therefore crucial to understand how large firms emerge and behave. In the present thesis, I look at three independent aspects of this question. First, I study how exporting firms adjust the quality of the products they export in response to an intensification of "low-cost" competition in foreign markets. To this end, I develop a new method to estimate the quality of products at the firm-level and I find evidence that firms upgrade quality in response to "low-cost" competition. Second, I investigate the way exporting firms adjust their sales when a demand shock (e.g. an economic recession, a war) occurs in one of their destinations. In the context of the Champagne wine industry during the 2000-2001 economic recession, I show that firms reallocate their sales toward markets where demand conditions are relatively more favorable. Lastly, I look at the way firms adjust their size and their mix of capital and labor in response to labor regulations which are more binding to large firms. I find that firms shrink and substitute capital for labor to mitigate the labor cost of the regulation. At the aggregate level, preliminary results suggests that workers gain from the regulation while capital owners lose

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Schirda, Brittney Leigh. "Examining the role of trait mindfulness and emotion regulation in quality of life in multiple sclerosis." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1416924817.

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Phillips, Alicia Jane. "An investigation of long day care services in Australia that are Exceeding the National Quality Standard." Thesis, University of Sydney, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/22869.

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The National Quality Framework (NQF) was introduced in 2012 to raise quality and drive continuous improvement in early childhood education and care (ECEC) services. Under the NQF, ECEC services are assessed and rated using the National Quality Standard (NQS), through an assessment and rating process. This study investigated the characteristics of long day care (LDC) services rated as high-quality, and the extent to which these characteristics are assessed in the assessment and rating process. The study adopted a qualitative, multiple case study design to examine and compare five LDC services rated as Exceeding the NQS and explore educators’ perceptions of the NQS assessment and rating process. Triangulation of data collection methods (observations, educator interviews and document analysis) elicited rich meanings of ‘high-quality ECEC’ in LDC centres. Foucauldian ideas of discourse, power/knowledge and regimes of truth, and a theorising of quality as subjective, informed data analysis. The quality characteristics identified in this study were consistent across the five LDC services. However, the routes to achieving quality were markedly different and dependent on each service’s context. Findings also showed variation in each service’s provision of quality ECEC to elements in the NQS. Applying Foucault’s work on discourse to these findings, it is suggested that quality in ECEC is in part being produced and disseminated through policy discourses and policy texts such as the NQF and NQS. The educators in this study had mixed perceptions about the assessment and rating process. Findings suggest the need for an improved system to better measure quality ECEC. However, enhancing service quality requires a greater focus on additional policy levers such as improving work conditions, minimising staff turnover and increasing professional recognition through equitable wages.

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