Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Rest cure'

Įmonė UAB „Duomenų Centras“ nuomoja serverius jau 13 metų. Atlikus tyrimus paaiškėjo, kad įmonė eksportuoja apie 75% savo paslaugų į daugiau nei 130 pasaulio šalių. Prie šio rezultato labai prisidėjo Duomenų Centro partneriai iš Lietuvos ir kitų šalių. Partneris – tai svarbiausias klientas, kuris pritraukia kitus naujus klientus. Per įmonės gyvavimo metus visas perpardavinėjimo ir partnerių klientų paslaugų valdymo procesas buvo per elektorinį paštą - tai užtrunka, tokios paslaugos nėra itin patrauklios šiuolaikinėje interneto rinkoje. Todėl dokumente atskleidžiama „partnerių programa“, bei API posistemė, kuri leidžia įmonės partneriams vykdyti su paslaugomis susijusias funkcijas.
The modern data center of Balticservers have been selling their services now for 13 years. The research revealed that the company exports 75% of its services to more than 130 countries worldwide. Moreover, the company has partners from Lithuania and many other countries. The product has been designed for partners that optimizes the process of reselling Balticservers services. It offers a WHMCS module which allows an easy creation and customization of services that are desired to be resold from Balticservers. Also, this includes an API communication between two separated systems that are WHMCS and Korys which Balticservers are currently developing and using in their daily work. API has been developed by using PHP scripting language, cURL and JSON technologies. The document exposes a few similar API systems’ comparison, product requirement specification, architecture’s specification, testing protocol and partners API documentation.

Thesis advisor: Richard, S.J. McGowan
The Natural Resource Curse literature proposes to explain why and to what extent resource-wealthy countries have poor economic growth outcomes. Most research focuses on direct economic explanations, considering the role of governing institutions exogenously if at all. One emerging branch of explanations attempts to address this shortcoming, focusing on the indirect effects of institutional deterioration on economic outcomes in resource-rich countries. I add to this emerging literature by performing an econometric analysis of 16 oil-producing nations, examining the impact of national oil rent dependency on 12 dimensions of government quality from 1987-2008. I find that oil dependency has a significant negative impact on government quality in 11 of the 12 dimensions. I also find that controlling for preexisting levels of democracy does not significantly mitigate institutional resource curse effects. This runs counter to findings about economic effects, which tend to disappear when democracy levels are high
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2010
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Economics Honors Program
Discipline: College Honors Program
Discipline: Economics

Le tematiche etiche di fine vita si inseriscono all’interno di uno scenario che si caratterizza da frequenti e numerosi dibattiti che vedono il coinvolgimento dei mass media, dell’opinione pubblica, dei professionisti sanitari e non e degli esperti di bioetica. La cura e l’assistenza ai malati in condizione di fine vita sono caratterizzate da notevoli problematiche causate dai numerosi sintomi sia fisici che psicologici che la malattia porta al malato e alla sua famiglia. L’etica si occupa di ciò che viene considerato dall’uomo giusto o sbagliato, ossia tratta ciò che riguarda la morale e i valori dell’uomo che ne determinano il suo comportamento. La medicina vede un’applicazione sempre più forte delle tecnologie ed allora si chiede all’etica di capire come essa possa gestire le nuove potenzialità coerentemente con i suoi fini specifici, evitando che prevalga l’attitudine puramente tecnica per cui tutto ciò che si può fare si legittima di per sé. La bioetica, che si occupa delle questioni morali che nascono dal progresso della ricerca biologica, tecnologica e medica, viene chiamata in causa di fronte a quelle tecnologie che cercano di oltrepassare il limite della scienza per invadere quello della morale, provocando di conseguenza critiche, polemiche e dilemmi. La persona inguaribile, con una ridotta aspettativa di vita, è bisognosa di assistenza continuativa durante l’accompagnamento alla morte, nei confronti del quale appare inutile il ricorso a terapie di tipo eziologico, restando possibili soltanto la somministrazione di interventi e trattamenti sintomatici di natura palliativa. Di fronte all’impossibilità di guarire diventa allora indispensabile non più curare (to cure) ma prendersi cura (to care). La filosofia delle cure palliative sottolinea che è importante non solo intervenire sui sintomi fisici: ciò può essere settoriale rispetto alla sofferenza nella sua globalità (total pain). Lo scopo fondamentale che le cure palliative devono conseguire, soprattutto nel periodo precedente la morte della persona, è il contatto comunicativo con la stessa, contatto che si rende concreto con l’intensificazione della presenza: per la persona assistita è importante che ci sia qualcuno con cui condividere l’esperienza della vita che si conclude. Si ritiene quindi fondamentale che l’assistenza fornita al malato terminale dai servizi socio-sanitari preposti rispetti la sua qualità di vita, attraverso il controllo del dolore e il supporto psicologico alla famiglia e al malato stesso. Oltre a cercare di applicare al meglio la filosofia delle cure palliative, è opportuno che i servizi compiano periodicamente una verifica sull’attività svolta dai vari professionisti coinvolti, ad esempio attraverso la valutazione della qualità percepita, per individuare ed evidenziare punti critici e di forza dei servizi al fine di attuare, quindi, un miglioramento continuo in questo ambito di cura così delicato.

La tesi tratta del modo con la quale gli studenti vengano isolati durante una prova d'esame al computer all'interno di un laboratorio informatico e dello sviluppo di un'applicazione che permetta l'attivazione e la disattivazione del firewall FortiGate da remoto, facendo uso delle REST API e della libreria cURL.

Countries with rich natural resource endowments suffer from lower economic growth and various other ills. This work tests whether the resource curse also extends to the quality of regulation and the level of corruption. A theoretical framework is developed that informs the specification of interactive random effects models. A cross-national panel data set is used to estimate these models. Due to multicollinearity, only an effect of metals and ores exports on corruption can be discerned. Marginal effects computations show that whether nature corrupts or not crucially depends on a country's institutions. A broad tax base and high levels of education appear to serve as inoculations for countries against the side-effects of mineral wealth.

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Petroleum evaluation is analyze it using different methodologies, following international standards to know their chemical and physicochemical properties, contaminant levels, composition and especially their ability to generate derivatives. Many of these analyzes consuming a lot of time, large amount of samples , supplies and need an organized transportation logistics, schedule and professionals involved. Looking for alternatives that optimize the evaluation and enable the use of new technologies, seven samples of different centrifuged Brazilian oils previously characterized by Petrobras were analyzed by thermogravimetry in 25-900? C range using heating rates of 05, 10 and 20?C per minute. With experimental data obtained, characterizations correlations were performed and provided: generation of true boiling point curves (TBP) simulated; comparing fractions generated with appropriate cut standard in temperature ranges; an approach to obtain Watson characterization factor; and compare micro carbon residue formed. The results showed a good chance of reproducing simulated TBP curve from thermogravimetry taking into account the composition, density and other oil properties. Proposed correlations for experimental characterization factor and carbon residue followed Petrobras characterizations, showing that thermogravimetry can be used as a tool on oil evaluation, because your quick analysis, accuracy, and requires a minimum number of samples and consumables
A avalia??o de petr?leo consiste em analis?-lo por diferentes metodologias, seguindo normas internacionais para conhecer suas propriedades qu?micas, f?sico-qu?micas, teor de contaminantes, composi??o e principalmente sua capacidade em gerar derivados. Muitas dessas an?lises s?o demoradas, consomem uma grande quantidade de amostras, insumos e precisam de uma organizada log?stica de transporte, cronograma de realiza??o e profissionais envolvidos. Para buscar alternativas que otimizem essa avalia??o e permitam a utiliza??o de novas tecnologias, sete amostras de diferentes petr?leos brasileiros centrifugados e caracterizados previamente pela Petrobr?s foram analisadas por termogravim?trica numa faixa de temperatura de 25 a 900?C utilizando raz?es de aquecimento de 05, 10 e 20?C por minuto. Com os dados obtidos experimentalmente, foram realizadas correla??es com as caracteriza??es disponibilizadas que permitiram: a gera??o de curvas de pontos de ebuli??o verdadeiros (Curva PEV) simulada; a compara??o entre as fra??es geradas com as devidas faixas de temperaturas de corte padr?o; uma aproxima??o para obter o fator de caracteriza??o de Watson; e comparar os res?duos de carbono micro. Os resultados mostraram uma boa possibilidade de reproduzir uma curva PEV simulada a partir da termogravimetria levando em considera??o a composi??o, densidade e outras propriedades do petr?leo; as correla??es propostas experimentalmente para o fator de caracteriza??o e res?duo de carbono acompanharam as caracteriza??es informadas pela Petrobr?s, mostrando que a termogravimetria pode ser utilizada como ferramenta na avalia??o de petr?leos, apresentando rapidez na an?lise, precis?o, al?m de necessitar de uma quantidade m?nima de amostras e insumos

Cette thèse est composée de trois essais; dans le premier essai je traite les questions de la détermination, de la variance et des répercussions de la corruption. J’ai montré que la corruption est déterminée par la part des travailleurs non qualifiés sur la population. Si cette part est large alors il existe une corruption, si elle est faible la corruption est inexistante, et pour des niveaux intermédiaires, il existe une multiplicité d’équilibres. La corruption augmente les inégalités salariales entre travailleurs qualifiés et non qualifiés, et une perte de bien-être. Dans le deuxième essai je traite la question de lutte contre la corruption à travers l’incitation salariale. Avec une technologie de contrôle endogène, je montre que le gouvernement peut mieux accepter la corruption lorsqu’il est coûteux de contrôler. Lorsqu’il est optimal de combattre alors le gouvernement peut le faire soit à travers des salaires d’efficience ou soit par le contrôle. Néanmoins le rôle des salaires d’efficience dans la lutte contre la corruption est moindre dans les sociétés avec un niveau de malhonnêteté élevé. Le troisième essai traite la malédiction des ressources naturelles. Je montre que l'éducation et la corruption sont déterminées conjointement ; les ressources naturelles affectent l’incitation à investir en éducation et en ‘rent-seeking’ ce qui en retour affecte la croissance. En outre, la relation entre une abondance et la malédiction des ressources naturelles n’est pas monotone. Pour un niveau d’inégalité d’accès à l’éducation faible et un coût élevé de participation dans la vie politique, un niveau de croissance élevé et la trappe à la pauvreté coexistent
This dissertation consists of three essays. The topics cover determination, variance and repercussions of corruption (essay one), corruption deterrence through wage incentives (essay two), and natural resource curse (essay three). In the first essay, I show that for a larger population of unskilled labor, there is a widespread corruption and for a smaller population there is no corruption. For the intermediate levels there are multiple equilibria. On its consequences, corruption increases wage inequality between skilled and unskilled workers, and results in output and welfare losses. In the second essay, I argue that deterring corruption through efficiency wage may become prohibitively expensive. With endogenous monitoring technology that allows capturing the dual role of auditing, as a complement with and as a substitute for wage incentives, I find that the government is better-off accepting corruption when it is costly to monitor. When it is optimal to deter bribery, the government can do it either through efficiency wages or monitoring. The role of efficiency wages decreases in societies with higher level of dishonesty. In the third essay, I build a theory explaining a resource curse. In contrast to the existing literature which generally considers low education, corruption and natural resources separately, I combine three strands of literature. Natural resources affect incentives to invest in education and rent seeking that in turn affects growth. Second, the relationship between resource-abundance and resource-curse is non-monotonic. For low inequality in access to education and high cost of political participation, high-growth and poverty-trap equilibria co-exist

Le Pérou, extrêmement riche en minerais, connaît depuis les années 2000 une forte croissance économique. Àla question de savoir si sa richesse minérale condamne le Pérou à la malédiction des ressources naturelles, nousrépondons que ce n’est pas le cas à l’heure actuelle, mais nous mettons en évidence une forte dépendance vis-à-visde l’activité minière. La question centrale est celle du développement durable de l’activité minière. La mesure dela dépréciation du capital minier (dcm) est l’indicateur fondamental pour évaluer la situation. Diverses méthodesd’estimation existent, mais notre analyse microéconomique basée sur la règle de Hotelling fournit une valeurd’environ 7 % du pib sur la période 2000–2008, soit le double de l’approximation donnée par la Banque Mondiale.Nous proposons d’intégrer la dcm aux indicateurs macroéconomiques traditionnels, ce qui permet de mettreen évidence la surestimation de la croissance économique. Conformément à la règle de Hartwick, il apparaîtclairement que le développement péruvien n’est pas durable ; les revenus miniers ne compensent pas la dcmet ne sont pas réinvestis en faveur du développement du pays. Il faudrait donc taxer les entreprises minières àhauteur de la dcm, et créer un fonds de ressources naturelles. Nos résultats montrent qu’épargner seulement 8 %de la dcm permettrait d’atteindre un revenu durable pour les générations futures. La création d’un tel fonds deressources naturelles aurait également pour avantage de réduire l’instabilité macroéconomique et de promouvoirune meilleure gouvernabilité
Since the 2000s, Peru, a country extremely rich in minerals has experienced strong economic growth. WouldPeru be condemned to the resource curse because of its mineral wealth? For now this is not the case; howeverwe point up a strong dependence upon the mining sector. The main question relates to the sustainability of themining industry. The mineral depletion rate is a fundamental indicator to assess the situation. To calculate this,there are many forecasting methods available ; our microeconomic analysis based on the Hotelling rule providesa value of around 7 % of gdp for the period between 2000 and 2008, which represents double the estimation ofthe World Bank.We recommend the mineral depletion be taken into account when calculating traditional macroeconomic indicators;it would highlight the overestimation of economic growth. According to the Hartwick rule, it is clearthat Peruvian development is not sustainable; mining revenues do not offset the mineral depletion and are notreinvested in the development of the country. Therefore, the solution should be to tax mining companies at alevel equivalent to that of depletion and, with the new income, to create a natural resource fund. Saving only8 % of the mineral depletion would suffice to generate sustainable rent for futures generations. In addition, thecreation of a natural resource fund would reduce macroeconomic instability and enforce better governance

abstract: Research literature were reviewed regarding the land-use economic theory of bid-rent curves and the modern emergence of polycentric cities. Two independent Geographic Information System (GIS) analyses were completed to test the hypothesis that bid-rent methodology could be used to tease out trends in residential locations, and hence contribute to present-day urban planning efforts. Specifically, these analyses sought to address the relationships between place of work and place of residence in urban areas. A generalizable set of benchmarks for identifying urban employment centers were established for 10 study cities in the United States, and bid-rent curves were calculated under separate monocentric assumptions and polycentric assumptions. The results presented wide variations in real bid-rent curves that a) overall deviated dramatically from the hypothetical distribution of rent, and b) spoke to the unique residential patterns in individual U.S. cities. The implications of these variations were discussed with regard to equitable housing for marginalized groups and access to centers of employment.
Dissertation/Thesis
M.U.E.P. Geography 2014

Some oil-rich countries suffer from a resource curse, a paradoxical situation in which a country with oil wealth has poor economic growth and social development. A country can escape the resource curse by selecting appropriate policies. Governments are responsible for utilizing the right policies and managing the natural resource revenue effectively to benefit their nation. In this report, various economic, political, and social measurements are used to examine the fall into the resource curse by Nigeria, Iraq, and Brazil for a period of time, and the scape of Norway from the resource curse. The report also evaluates the current circumstances of Iraq to determine which direction the resource curse will take. Several recommendations are presented to direct Iraq out of the resource curse.
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This paper critically revisits the debate on natural resource rent, curse and conflict, interrogating some of the key assumptions that have become received knowledge in extant discourses. The paper demonstrates how orthodox theories’ preoccupation with issues of resource rent and resource curse tend to be marred by slants of ahistoricity and state-centricity. Adopting a stakeholder approach to the issues of resource rent and conflict in Africa, the author argues that natural resource rents produce and attract a multiplicity of competitive stakeholders, both domestic and external, in the resource-rich states. The competition and jostling of stakeholders for access to, and appropriation of, rentier resources is too often an antagonistic process in many emerging economies that has consequences and implications for violent conflict. The paper attempts a new conceptual explanation of how natural resource rents dialectically generate stakes, stakeholders and political conflict. The paper concludes by proposing the need for the more conflict-prone African rentier states to transition to a more functional state model, the transformative state.

There is growing consensus that unless resource-rich developing countries improve their domestic governance systems, rising exploitation of mineral, oil and gas resources may result in long-term adverse developmental outcomes associated with the “resource curse”. Despite the consensus, reforms do not abound. This dissertation investigates the obstacles to such reforms, and the mechanisms and strategies that can possibly overcome these obstacles. I argue that two trapping mechanisms are binding these countries to a “weak governance curse”. One mechanism is the phenomenon of path dependence, which makes a dysfunctional governance path initiated at a past historical juncture resistant to change over time. The other mechanism is rent-seeking behaviour associated with high resource rents, which creates perverse incentives for political and economic actors to resist reforms. The Law and Development literature has recently produced a rich body of knowledge on governance reform in developing countries, yet it has largely neglected the potential role of innovative global regulatory mechanisms, beyond development assistance, in this process. I argue that this evolving literature ought to draw from global regulation studies to investigate the interaction between unconventional global regulatory mechanisms and domestic governance reform. In this thesis I analyze whether extraterritorial home country regulations, such as anti-bribery, anti-money laundering and securities disclosure regulations, and transnational public-private partnerships, such as the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, may offer institutional opportunities for external and internal actors to facilitate policy reforms in resource-rich and governance-poor countries. My conclusion is twofold. First, there is reason for cautious optimism regarding the potential for unconventional global regulatory mechanisms to provoke positive feedback effects in domestic governance reform. These mechanisms can open innovative institutional pathways of influence to outsiders and insiders promoting governance reform. Second, instead of searching for a regulatory silver bullet, the most promising way to promote reforms in resilient dysfunctional governance systems is to make use of the wide range of conventional and unconventional mechanisms available. A constellation of regulatory instruments opens up the possibility for outside and inside reformers to benefit from a different policy mix of available mechanisms, depending on the specific circumstances of a given country at a particular time.

We examine the e ect of natural resources on the social and political fabric of lowincome communities. We combine geospatial data on mining activity with household surveys we conducted in Northern Mozambique. We nd that mines decrease the level of trust, especially in neighbors, local and national leaders. In the same direction, households living in mining areas contribute less to public goods. A signi cant negative e ect on participation to local community groups only emerges when using matching methods. On the political side, mineral endowments lead to institutional degradation in the form of lower level of democratic decision-making in the community, lower preference for democratic decisions by the households and increased corruption in the allocation of public funds, which suggest rent-seeking behavior of both the political elite and the population. We also document weak evidence of violence within and around mining areas. These results unveil the presence of both social and political mechanisms behind the natural resource curse and call for carefully monitoring the ongoing expansion of the extractive industries in Africa.

The study compares FIT (Feed-in tariff) and RPS (Renewable Portfolio Standard) as the two most commonly used support schemes for renewable energy sources (RES) in the EU. It examines a relationship of an Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) and by a practical experiment for public lighting in Prague the study proposes an ecological functioning of electricity grids in the EU with CO2 emissions reduction effect. The main contribution lies in the recency and originality of the econometric analysis and practical experiment. FIT and RPS analysis demonstrates that both schemes affect demand for electricity and increase its price. The econometric model was tested for 28 EU countries for 1990-2013. The results say that the EU is currently located on the downslope of the inverted U-shaped EKC with a turning point, after which the dependence begins to grow. Nevertheless, for the most of observations the turning point is too far to be a source of concern. Practical experiment has shown that installation of energy saving devices for electricity grids in the EU can bring satisfactory results in reducing CO2 emissions independently of state aid. More efficient use of existing energy sources, however, should rather serve as a complement to conventional support, phasing out with the development of RES technologies....

Esta tese é composta por três capítulos subordinados ao tema da Economia do Ambiente. Nos capítulos 1 e 2 investiga-se empiricamente a existência da hipótese da Curva Ambiental de Kuznets (CAK) para descrever a relação entre as emissões de CO2 e o crescimento económico para Portugal, entre 1960 e 2010. É um estudo inovador, pois além da vertente de âmbito nacional, analisa setorialmente a CAK para os dois principais emissores de dióxido de carbono: o setor da produção de eletricidade e o setor dos transportes. Adicionalmente, são incorporadas no modelo outras variáveis que potencialmente podem ser determinantes para as emissões de CO2, nomeadamente o preço do crude, o preço médio dos combustíveis, a taxa de motorização, a temperatura média e a precipitação média. No capítulo 1 recorre-se à metodologia da cointegração não linear para as formas funcionais quadrática e cúbica, quer em níveis quer em logaritmos naturais. No capítulo 2, utiliza-se a técnica da cointegração com quebras de estrutura desconhecidas para um modelo linear, também em níveis e logaritmos. As duas abordagens econométricas evidenciam resultados distintos. No capítulo 3, desenvolve-se um modelo de Cournot de dois períodos para se aferir o comportamento estratégico dos produtores de eletricidade térmica e de eletricidade produzida a partir de fontes renováveis (E-FER), quando este último, para além da quantidade, tem de decidir o nível de investimento em capacidade instalada para estar disponível no período seguinte. Os resultados são comparados com as soluções do ótimo social.
This thesis consists of three chapters in the field of Environmental Economics. Chapters 1 and 2 investigate the empirical existence of the hypothesis of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) to describe the relationship between CO2 emissions and economic growth for Portugal between 1960 and 2010. It is an innovative study because it goes beyond the aggregate national data to provide a sectoral analysis of the EKC hypothesis for the two major carbon emitters: the power generation sector and the transport sector. Additionally, we add into the model other variables that can potentially act as determinants of CO2 emissions, namely the price of crude oil, the average price of fuel, the rate of motorization, the average temperature and average precipitation. Chapter 1 uses the non-linear cointegration methodology to analyse both the quadratic and cubic functional forms, in levels or in natural logarithms. Chapter 2 employs the approach of cointegration with unknown structural breaks in a linear model, also at levels and logarithms. The two econometric approaches reveal different results. In Chapter 3, a two-period Cournot model is developed to assess the strategic behaviour of both thermal and renewable electricity (RES-E) producers when the latter, besides quantity, has to make a decision about capacity investment to be available in the next period. The results are then compared with socially optimal solutions.