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Viard, Antoine. "Production improvement in a traditional small scale company." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för innovation, design och teknik, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-20863.
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Nowadays business atmosphere is to constantly come up with new improvements, in order to become more competitive, or simply stay competitive.Lean manufacturing rose up few decades ago and is now famous for its radical improvements but also for its difficulty to implement. The aim of this study is to get a better understanding of how can Lean bring such important changes, but also what must be done in order to implement it.In order to solve the problem of this report, it was decided to conduct a quantitative research relying on a case study. The company chosen wants to implement Lean but does not really know how to achieve it, so it is a very good opportunity for this project to collaborate with it and see what can be done to implement Lean manufacturing.The results of this thesis demonstrate the need of implementing a philosophy, a way of thinking, rather than different production tools. People must also be prepared for long implementation, which can take between 5 to 10 years. One of the key factors for this implementation is the involvement and empowerment of workers, who will massively contribute to the change process by removing different kind of waste which slow down the processes.
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Drincic, Samir, and Asim Dedic. "Evolving test-case selection at a large scale company." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Avdelningen för programvarusystem, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-1364.
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This paper presents a possible solution for selection of test-cases that should be executed to provide good coverage and quality at UIQ Technologies. It describes how the company can sort and prioritize their test-cases, so that quality is maintained while having controlled amount of test-cases. The idea behind the proposed method is to prioritize the test-cases and execute those that received highest prioritization first and thereby ensuring that all high-risk defects are found first. We have created a model that performs those tasks and we have also executed it on an ongoing project at UIQ Technology to provide data for comparison with the currently used model. We also make a comparison proving that our proposed method is more effective then the current method. We have emphasized adaptability and changeability of the model so that UIQ Technology easily can modify and adapt the model later on.
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Jain, Himalaya. "Learning compact representations for large scale image search." Thesis, Rennes 1, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018REN1S027/document.
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Cette thèse aborde le problème de la recherche d'images à grande échelle. Pour aborder la recherche d'images à grande échelle, il est nécessaire de coder des images avec des représentations compactes qui peuvent être efficacement utilisées pour comparer des images de manière significative. L'obtention d'une telle représentation compacte peut se faire soit en comprimant des représentations efficaces de grande dimension, soit en apprenant des représentations compactes de bout en bout. Le travail de cette thèse explore et avance dans ces deux directions. Dans notre première contribution, nous étendons les approches de quantification vectorielle structurée telles que la quantification de produit en proposant une représentation somme pondérée de codewords. Nous testons et vérifions les avantages de notre approche pour la recherche approximative du plus proche voisin sur les caractéristiques d'image locales et globales, ce qui est un moyen important d'aborder la recherche d'images à grande échelle. L'apprentissage de la représentation compacte pour la recherche d'images a récemment attiré beaucoup d'attention avec diverses approches basées sur le hachage profond proposées. Dans de telles approches, les réseaux de neurones convolutifs profonds apprennent à coder des images en codes binaires compacts. Dans cette thèse, nous proposons une approche d'apprentissage supervisé profond pour la représentation binaire structurée qui rappelle une approche de quantification vectorielle structurée telle que PQ. Notre approche bénéficie de la recherche asymétrique par rapport aux approches de hachage profond et apporte une nette amélioration de la précision de la recherche au même débit binaire. L'index inversé est une autre partie importante du système de recherche à grande échelle en dehors de la représentation compacte. À cette fin, nous étendons nos idées pour l'apprentissage de la représentation compacte supervisée pour la construction d'index inversés. Dans ce travail, nous abordons l'indexation inversée avec un apprentissage approfondi supervisé et essayons d'unifier l'apprentissage de l'indice inversé et de la représentation compacte. Nous évaluons minutieusement toutes les méthodes proposées sur divers ensembles de données accessibles au public. Nos méthodes surpassent ou sont compétitives avec l'état de l'artThis thesis addresses the problem of large-scale image search. To tackle image search at large scale, it is required to encode images with compact representations which can be efficiently employed to compare images meaningfully. Obtaining such compact representation can be done either by compressing effective high dimensional representations or by learning compact representations in an end-to-end manner. The work in this thesis explores and advances in both of these directions. In our first contribution, we extend structured vector quantization approaches such as Product Quantization by proposing a weighted codeword sum representation. We test and verify the benefits of our approach for approximate nearest neighbor search on local and global image features which is an important way to approach large scale image search. Learning compact representation for image search recently got a lot of attention with various deep hashing based approaches being proposed. In such approaches, deep convolutional neural networks are learned to encode images into compact binary codes. In this thesis we propose a deep supervised learning approach for structured binary representation which is a reminiscent of structured vector quantization approaches such as PQ. Our approach benefits from asymmetric search over deep hashing approaches and gives a clear improvement for search accuracy at the same bit-rate. Inverted index is another important part of large scale search system apart from the compact representation. To this end, we extend our ideas for supervised compact representation learning for building inverted indexes. In this work we approach inverted indexing with supervised deep learning and make an attempt to unify the learning of inverted index and compact representation. We thoroughly evaluate all the proposed methods on various publicly available datasets. Our methods either outperform, or are competitive with the state-of-the-art
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Suomela, R. (Riku). "Using lean principles to improve software development practices in a large-scale software intensive company." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2015. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201511212155.
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Lean software development is the result of adapting lean principles from the manufacturing context to the software development domain. Recently, the various applications of lean software development have been studied but more empirical evidence is needed, especially from the practitioners’ point of view.
Firstly, this thesis provides answers for the understanding of lean software development from the practitioners’ point of view. Secondly, this thesis provides answers on the opportunities and barriers in applying the lean software development. In order to study this, a case study was conducted in a large-scale software intensive company. Focus groups were conducted to collect qualitative data.
Studying the understanding of lean software development showed that four of the seven lean software development principles were identifiable from the discussion in the focus group sessions. The difference between agile and lean was recognized.
The opportunities in achieving a culture of continuous improvement and involving people in the transformation were found and can be also identified from the existing research. Some new opportunities were also identified, such as using informal code-reviews as a practice in development and focusing improvements on the activities that consume the most time in the day-to-day work.
The barriers that were found, such as avoiding sub-optimization, facilitation of improvement and having time to experiment, can also be identified from the existing research. Some of the barriers not identifiable from the existing research were the lack of quality thinking and varying standards in gate keeping. The findings of this study were presented in the case company with positive feedback and were discussed to be included into future improvement initiatives. This study also identified the power of the focus group method as a tool that could be used to drive improvement work.
Suggested directions for future research include studying lean software development in a similar case study and taking a look at the possibilities of using focus group method as a tool for driving improvement initiatives in software development companies.
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Wessman, Love, and Niklas Wessman. "Threat modeling of large-scale computer systems : Implementing and evaluating threat modeling at Company X." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-280099.
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Threat modeling is a growing field in cyber security. As computer systems grow larger and more complicated, the understanding of how to model and protect these systems becomes ever more important. Threat modeling is a method well suited for this task. The two primary motivations behind this research is to strengthen the cyber security at Company X and help the development of threat modeling, which in turn can help strengthen the field of cyber security. The main question that is investigated is what results can be achieved from the KTH Threat Modeling Method applied to specific systems used by Company X. This question is answered by implementing the method on the specified systems. The experience and the result of the implementation of the model are then used to evaluate the threat model method. The produced model implies that the biggest risk in the investigated systems are the Connected Smoke Sensor and the Smart Meter which measures water and electricity usage. Some of the given recommendations are to create protections against SQL-injection by keeping the systems up to date and to validate input. The main impression from implementing the threat model method on Company X is that the method is easy to use, learn and to understand. Another result was that the more information one has about the systems used in the IT-infrastructure being investigated, the more precise the threat model can become. The method is ideally used with focus on pure, interconnected software implementations, rather than modeling several non-connected systems in a single iteration of the method, which is what this report does. In order to teach and spread the method easier, a comprehensive written source such as a book could be utilized. To improve the method itself, the inclusion of automated attack simulation and modeling tools is suggested. Lastly, the KTH Threat Modeling Method is an iterative process, which can and should be improved by continuously iterating over the model going more in depth by every step. The body of work presented in this report is a first iteration of this ongoing process. The findings of this report point to the fact that while the KTH threat modeling method is already a mature method fully able to produce meaningful threat modeling results, there are still aspects that could be improved or added which would increase the overall strength of the method.Hotmodellering är ett växande område inom cybersäkerhet. När datorsystem växer och blir mer komplicerade, så blir kunskapen om hur man modellerar och skyddar systemen allt viktigare. Hotmodellering är ett verktyg väl anpassat till denna uppgift. I den här rapporten ligger fokuset på att höja cybersäkerheten på Företag X och att bidra till utvecklingen av hotmodellering, vilket i sig bidrar till att stärka forskningen kring cybersäkerhet. Den huvudsakliga frågan som undersöks är vilka resultat som kan uppnås med en implementation av KTH Threat Modeling Method på specifika system hos Företag X. Frågan besvaras genom att implementera metoden på de specificerade systemen. Därefter används erfarenheten av utvecklingen och det framtagna resultatet till att evaluera hotmodellerings metoden. Den framtagna modellen pekar på att den största risken i de undersökta systemen hos Företag X är deras internetanslutna rökdetektorer och smarta mätare som mäter vatten- och elförbrukning. De rekommendationer som ges är bland annat att skydda sig mot SQL-injektionerna genom att hålla systemen uppdaterade och att validera indata. De huvudsakliga intrycken som erhölls från att implementera hotmodelleringsmetoden på Företag X är att metoden är lätt att använda, lära sig, och förstå. Ett annat resultat är att ju mer information hotmodelleraren har kring systemen som utforskas, desto mer exakt kan hotmodellen bli. Metoden är idealiskt lämpad för renodlad, sammansluten mjukvara, snarare än att modellera flera icke-sammanslutna system i en och samma iteration av metoden, vilket är vad denna rapport gör. För att förenkla utlärningsprocessen av metoden så kan en omfattande skriven resurs som exempelvis en bok vara till god hjälp. För att förbättra själva metoden föreslås integration av automatiserade attacksimulerings- och modelleringsverktyg. The KTH Threat Modeling Method är en iterativ process. Modellen kan och bör göras bättre genom att kontinuerligt iterera över arbetet flera gånger, där modellens detaljrikhet ökas för varje iteration. Det som presenteras i denna rapport är första iterationen av denna process. Innebörden av resultaten från denna rapport visar att även om hotmodelleringsmetoden redan är en mogen metod som kan producera meningsfulla hotmodelleringsresultat, finns det fortfarande vissa bitar som kan förbättras eller läggas till, vilket enligt författarna skulle öka metodens styrka i allmänhet.
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Walton, Mark 1960. "Two scale compactification of the E(8)xE(8) heterotic string." Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=75346.
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A simple two scale compactification scheme for the E(8) x E(8) heterotic string is studied. The internal space used is a direct product of two compact spaces, each with its own length scale. Compactification on the smaller 4-dimensional (4d) manifold is carried out to obtain 6d theories with simple supersymmetry (SUSY). Assuming the background torsion vanishes, we show that this manifold must be K3. Compactification on K3 is studied in detail. Also analyzed are the two possible torsion-free compactifications on the orbifold K3$ sp prime$ (the limit of the manifold K3). The compactification from 6d to 4d on the larger scale 2d manifold results in Grand Unified Theories (GUT's) with broken SUSY. We show that it is not possible to generate a realistic theory using our scheme. Strings exclude what is conceivable from the perspective of point field theories: getting a realistic GUT from a 6d theory with simple SUSY.
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Flores, Julian, and Adam Trevarthan. "Agile Methodology Implementation in a Remote Digital Environment : A Case Study of a Large Scale Insurance Company." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-176700.
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Through this case study, we sought to analyze a U.S. based insurance company’s implementation of agile methodologies in a remote digital environment in comparison to using agile in a typical physical environment work setting. We wanted to gain an in-depth perception through questioning if this company changed how they use agile methodologies during the COVID-19 pandemic, what the benefits and drawbacks of using agile methodologies are in a remote digital environment, if individual project roles were impacted with remote use of agile methodologies, and what is the reasoning of the company regarding the use of agile methodologies remotely after the pandemic? A semi-structured interview was done with six respondents that work with agile methodologies in an IT Division at a large scale U.S. insurance company to gain insight into our questions through a qualitative study. According to the respondents, they were satisfied with how the company implemented agile methodologies remotely, but some felt it was a wake-up call that agile methodologies were not the best methodology that their project team could employ. These results can be used for future organizations not just to see how they can better implement agile methodologies in a remote setting and how they can better use agile methodologies to foster better communication, Knowledge Transfer, and Competence Development with their employees.
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Fang, Xiao. "Perturbation Theories in Astrophysics: From Large-Scale Structure To Compact Objects." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1531217962535791.
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Stirling, Terri M. "Alcan Jamaica Company and small-scale agriculture, an analysis of competing land uses and changing land-use patterns." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ39155.pdf.
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Helvínová, Veronika. "Implementace BIM do podniku malého rozsahu v ČR." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-371913.
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The topic and the aim of the thesis is to define BIM characteristics, the pros and cons of BIM implementation and the development of BIM situation in the Czech Republic. Current situation is analysed in selected regions due to a newly arising situation of a possible use of public procurement by BIM methods. Simultaneously are examined current pros and cons of implementing BIM in companies. Based on a knowledge and results of the survey is created a potential scheme of a process needed by implementing BIM into the small-scale company.
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Hunt, Joanne (Mary Joanne) Carleton University Dissertation Management Studies. "Comparing customer and sales representative perceptions of customer orientation: an application of the SOCO SCALE in an industrial service company." Ottawa, 1990.
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Moezi, Negin. "Statistical compact model strategies for nano CMOS transistors subject of atomic scale variability." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2012. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3447/.
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One of the major limiting factors of the CMOS device, circuit and system simulation in sub 100nm regimes is the statistical variability introduced by the discreteness of charge and granularity of matter. The statistical variability cannot be eliminated by tuning the layout or by tightening fabrication process control. Since the compact models are the key bridge between technology and design, it is necessary to transfer reliably the MOSFET statistical variability information into compact models to facilitate variability aware design practice. The aim of this project is the development of a statistical extraction methodology essential to capture statistical variability with optimum set of parameters particularly in industry standard compact model BSIM. This task is accomplished by using a detailed study on the sensitivity analysis of the transistor current in respect to key parameters in compact model in combination with error analysis of the fitted Id-Vg characteristics. The key point in the developed direct statistical compact model strategy is that the impacts of statistical variability can be captured in device characteristics by tuning a limited number of parameters and keeping the values for remaining major set equal to their default values obtained from the “uniform” MOSFET compact model extraction. However, the statistical compact model extraction strategies will accurately represent the distribution and correlation of the electrical MOSFET figures of merit. Statistical compact model parameters are generated using statistical parameter generation techniques such as uncorrelated parameter distributions, principal component analysis and nonlinear power method. The accuracy of these methods is evaluated in comparison with the results obtained from ‘atomistic’ simulations. The impact of the correlations in the compact model parameters has been analyzed along with the corresponding transistor figures of merit. The accuracy of the circuit simulations with different statistical compact model libraries has been studied. Moreover, the impact of the MOSFET width/length on the statistical trend of the optimum set of statistical compact model parameters and electrical figures of merit has been analyzed with two methods to capture geometry dependencies in proposed statistical models.
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Ala-Mutka, Jonatan. "Powering Africa by Empowering its People : An Action Research study at a Zambian microgrid company building local capacity to reach large scale viability." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-261596.
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Despite recent advances in the global electrification rates, increasing from 76% in 1990 to 85% in 2012, the United Nations goal of universal access to electricity by 2030 is still far from achieved, with an estimated 1.1 billion people still without access to electricity. Over half of these live in Sub-Saharan Africa, with a majority in rural areas and extreme poverty. Major challenges are inert with the current electrification path of centralized grid extension, leaving these people without power in decades to come. Microgrids, a decentralized power system consisting of solar power generation, energy storage and distribution technology, has been hailed as the only option to provide life improving and productivity inducing power for rural communities in Africa. However, despite recent hype and development in the sector, the diffusion of microgrids is still incremental due to a lack of viable large-scale operation, required for profitability. This is explained by targeting customers in remote rural areas with low ability to pay, and the task of delivering expensive technology and complex operations needed to manage and operate the grids. No industry blueprint or research on how to operate microgrids at scale or profitably exists. This thesis explores one blueprint, with the promise to increase profitability and allow for a more sustainable scaling. Local Capacity building is a decentralized approach by developing capacity directly in the local communities, through recruiting, skills development and training of people to be employed to operate and manage their local microgrids. The results consist of a framework outlining what local capacity building is, through research propositions that define the key components capturing the complete system of local capacity building is for scaling a microgrid business, along with the challenges and opportunities associated with scaling a business using local capacity building. It has been developed iteratively by application of an action research approach conducted on a small-scale Zambian Microgrid company facing radical growth. The researcher was immersed in the context, at the heart of this change, and in a participatory and interventionist fashion turning every stone to explore what local capacity building is, resulting in a robust study anchored in the field. Because of the contextually embedded nature of the data, this also means that the results are local. It is up to the reader to assess the applicability of the results in another context. The extensive results span multiple areas of the business, capturing the complexity of local capacity building, and contribute to knowledge on a holistic level on what local capacity building is. This blueprint was deemed viable to further develop in the small-scale Zambian microgrid company, specifically because of its potential to lower operating expenses and offer a more sustainable way to scale, and in extension diffuse microgrids in Africa.Trots en positiv utveckling i tillgång till el globalt, ökandes från 76% år 1990, till 85% år 2012, så är Förenta Nationernas mål om universell tillgång till el till år 2030, långt ifrån att bli uppfyllt. 1.1 miljarder människor estimeras vara utan tillgång till el globalt, där över hälften av dessa bor i Sub-Saharanska Afrika, med majoriteten levandes på landsbygden och i extrem fattigdom. Stora utmaningar finns med innevarande elektrifierings strategin, som handlar om centraliserad elproduktion och distribution genom ett centralt elnät, detta kommer att lämna dessa människor utan el under lång tid framöver. Mikronät, ett decentraliserat energisystem, som kan producera och distribuera el, har lyfts fram som det bästa alternativet för att försörja livsförbättrande och produktivitetsökande elektricitet för samhällen på landsbygden i Afrika. Dock, trots nylig hype och utveckling i mikronät sektorn, så är spridningen av mikronät fortfarande inkrementell, beroende av en brist på genomförbarheten av att driva mikronät verksamheten i stor skala, vilket krävs för lönsamhet. Detta förklaras av den fundamentala utmaningen i att inrikta sig mot kunder i avlägsna områden, med en låg förmåga att betala, kombinerat med leveransen av dyr teknologi, och de komplex operativa strukturerna som krävs. Det finns ingen forskning eller blåkopia i industrin som visar hur man skulle kunna bedriva mikronäts verksamhets i stor skala, eller på ett lönsamt vis. Denna forskning undersöker en möjlig sådan blåkopia, med löftet att öka lönsamheten och möjliggöra en mer hållbar spridning. Utveckling av lokal kapacitet, är ett decentraliserat tillvägagångssätt för att utveckla kapacitet direkt i dessa avlägsna samhällen, genom rekrytering, färdighetsutveckling och utbildning av människor för att bli anställda för att sköta deras lokala mikronät. Resultaten i studien består av ett ramverk som visar vad utveckling av lokal kapacitet innebär, genom forskningsförslag som definierar vilka nyckelkomponenter som krävs för att skala upp en mikronäts verksamhet, tillsammans med utmaningar och möjligheter för att göra detta. Ramverket har utvecklats iterativt genom applicering av Action Research, utförd i ett småskaligt mikronät företag i Zambia som står inför en radikal expansion. Forskaren var fördjupad i företagskontexten, i hjärtat av förändringen, och på ett ingripande och deltagande sätt vänt på varenda sten för att utforska vad utveckling av lokal kapacitet är. Detta resulterade i en robust studie, förankrad i verkligheten. På grund av den kontextuellt inbäddade naturen av datan, så betyder detta även att resultaten är lokala. Det är upp till läsaren att bedöma till vilken grad resultaten kan appliceras i en annan kontext. De omfattande resultaten spänner över många olika områden i företaget, och lyckas fånga komplexiteten i vad utveckling av lokal kapacitet är. Blåkopian som utvecklades, bedömdes värdefull att utveckla vidare i företaget där studien gjorde, specifikt för dess potential att minska de operativa kostnaderna och erbjuda ett mer hållbart sätt att skala verksamheten, och i förlängningen, erbjuda ett mer hållbart sätt att sprida tillgång till el i Afrika.
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Hildebrand, Diogo Fajardo Nunes. "A identificação do consumidor com a empresa : desenvolvimento de uma escala." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/10067.
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A identificação do consumidor com a empresa é um assunto relativamente novo dentro da academia de Marketing. Preocupados com os relacionamentos de alto nível mantidos entre empresas e clientes e fundamentados na teoria da Identidade Social, Bhattacharya e Sen (2003) estabelecem a identificação consumidor-empresa como o primeiro substrato psicológico que resulta em relações profundas, comprometidas e significativas entre os clientes e as organizações. Aproveitando as sugestões dos autores e procurando oferecer um instrumento que auxilie a academia a encontrar subsídio empírico que sustente o modelo conceitual sugerido por Bhattacharya e Sen (2003), a presente dissertação teve como objetivo desenvolver uma escala que mensure o componente cognitivo da identificação do consumidor com a empresa. Para tanto, primeiramente foi realizada uma etapa exploratória, que lançou mão de entrevistas em profundidade e de técnicas projetivas para gerar uma amostra de 21 itens. Esta amostra, então, foi submetida a uma purificação por meio da Análise Fatorial Exploratória. A análise, realizada em uma base de dados, obtida por meio de uma survey aplicada a 226 estudantes de graduação, resultou em uma escala final composta por 8 itens, distribuídos em 4 dimensões, que, explicaram 69,43% da variância. As dimensões compreenderam adequadamente os atributos do objeto sendo mensurado e apresentaram significância estatística, embora tenham desempenhado apenas moderadamente quanto à consistência interna.The Consumer-Company Identification is a relatively new issue among the marketing academy. Bhattacharya and Sen (2003), dove into the Social Identity theory and observing the relationship-gold struck by some companies, established Consumer- Company Identification as the primary psychological substrate for the kind of deep, committed, and meaningful relationships among the organization and its customers. Exploiting the suggestions of the authors and aiming a contribution to the academy, through an instrument that permits the empirical verification of the conceptual model proposed by Bhattacharya and Sen (2003), this thesis had as goal the development of a scale to measure the cognitive component of the Consumer-Company identification. Therefore, first an exploratory research was developed, stepped on in-depth interviews and projective technique, generating a sample of 21 items. Afterwards, a purification stage was carried on, using the Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA). The EFA, applied on the data base obtained from a survey with 226 undergraduate students, resulted in a final scale composed by 8 items, distributed in 4 dimensions, which, explained 69,43% of the variance. The dimensions covered satisfactorily the attributes of the object mesured and presented high statistical significance, although they performed only an average internal consistency.
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Timmerman, Kathleen M. "A Hardware Compact Genetic Algorithm for Hover Improvement in an Insect-Scale Flapping-Wing Micro Air Vehicle." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1347296530.
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DUMAS, AUGUSTIN YANN. "Large scale companies and the challenge of being innovative: the integration of external startups." Thesis, KTH, Industriell ekonomi och organisation (Inst.), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-236538.
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During the 20th century, Large Scale Companies (LSCs) mindset was all about minimizing risks and maximizing profits. On top of this, they were heavily relying on intellectual property – culture of secret – and they were shaped to exploit rather than to explore. In this context, open innovation brought a completely new approach. As part of the changing landscape, trends of corporate venturing appeared about five years ago. Among LSCs which have chosen to get on the train of innovation, different strategies have been adopted from one company to another. Only today are people witnessing corporate venturing getting more structured. Yet, LSCs have not focused enough just yet on the development of venture structures with external startups. It is essential to understand how to make incubation and acceleration of external startups successful within LSCs. This study adopts LSCs’ perspective and aims at providing them with the best practices that currently exist in the innovation ecosystem in terms of corporate venturing. In particular, this study focuses on how Large Scale Companies (LSCs) can take advantage of external startups through a corporate incubator and/or corporate accelerator in order to become more innovative. The study suggests the venturing process should be divided into three main stages: the identification of the appropriate venture structure and of the right startups, the follow-up of the integrated startups of the corporate venture structure and finally the exit strategy. Building upon the business model canvas and customer value proposition theories, the suggestion is made for LSCs to step backwards and reflect thoroughly about the corporate venture strategy they want to adopt. LSCs should be aware that they evolve as part of a complex venturing ecosystem, and that each tool, rather than being isolated, should embrace and collaborate with the multitude of existing structures.Under de 20 århundradena var Large Scale Companies (LSCs) tankegangen allt om minimering av risker och maximesring av överskott. Utöver detta var de starkt beroende av immateriella rättigheter - hemlighetskulturen - och de var formade att utnyttja snarare än att utforska. I det här sammanhanget kom öppen innovation till ett helt nytt tillvägagångssätt. Som ett led i det förändrade landskapet uppträdde trenderna för företagsvågningar för ungefär fem år sedan. Blandt LSCs, som har valt att få på toget eller innovation, olika strategier har beslutats från ett företag till ett annat. Endast idag är människors vittnesbörd om företagsvågar att bli mer strukturerad. Ändå har LSCs inte fokuserat tillräckligt på utvecklingen av venturestrukturer med externa startups. Det är viktigt att förstå hur man gör inkubation och acceleration av externa startups framgångsrika inom LSCs. Denna studie antar LSCs perspektiv och syftar till att ge dem de bästa praxis som för närvarande finns i innovationsekosystemet när det gäller företagsledning. I synnerhet fokuserar den här studien på hur Large Scale Companies (LSC) kan dra nytta av externa uppstart genom en företags inkubator och / eller företagsaccelerator för att bli mer innovativ. De studier som antyder vid venturingprocessen bör delas in tre huvudfaser: Identifiering av den aktuella riskstrukturen och rätt uppstart, uppföljning av den integrerade uppstarten av den organisationsstruktur och slutgiltigt slutstrategi. Med utgångspunkt i affärsmodellens kanfas och kundvärdes propositionsteorier, görs förslaget att LSCs ska gå bakåt och reflektera noggrant på företagsledningsstrategin som de vill anta. LSCs borde vara medvetna om att de utvecklas som en del av ett komplext venturerande ekosystem, och att varje verktyg, istället för att isoleras, ska omfamna och samarbeta med de många befintliga strukturerna.
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Karkulahti, Linnéa, and Lovisa Nycander. "An overview analysis of possible on-site renewable energy technologies for medium scale industries in Sri Lanka : A case study of a newspaper company in Sri Lanka." Thesis, KTH, Industriell ekologi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-214466.
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The world is now facing a transition from a fossil fuel dependent society to an energy sustainable one. This is happening by the world moving towards renewable energy resources and technologies. To realize and accelerate the transition, the key stakeholders of energy systems, such as the industries around the world needs to be involved and contribute to this transition. This paper investigates the possibilities of implementing on-site renewable energy technology solutions, for a medium-scale company in the developing country Sri Lanka. This company, Wijeya Newspapers Ltd., in particular has its own intention and vision of being 100% carbon neutral in their operations. This study keeps its major focus on the aspects of economical sustainability and technological feasibility but the environmental and societal impacts are investigated as well. Wijeya Newspaper’s printing factory form the base of this study and is located in Hokandaraarea outside the capital town Colombo. Among the options of renewable energy, the potential of solar power is large at the location and the area of the rooftop could generate 640 MWh electricity every year. As the factory is located in an urban area, the option wind power plant is not practical, due to poor wind conditions and other reasons. The bioenergy, in the form of biogas is produced in the factory by taking organic waste into an anaerobic digester. This generate a daily production of around 30 m3 biogas which could contribute to around 18 MWhelectricity on an annual basis. By looking at and analyzing data for the area and the factory’s operation alongside practical work, literature studies and calculations, the feasibilities of generating electricity from biomass, wind and solar energy was done. In conclusion, generating energy from biomass, solar and windpower on-site, is technically feasible but solar power and bioenergy are the only ones that could generate economic and environmental savings. However, neither of these renewable energy technologies will alone or in combination be able to supply the factory’s total energy demand, due to the practical limitations posed by the location. Among those three renewable options, also encouraged by Sri Lanka energy regulations and promotional efforts by the governmentfor solar energy in urban areas, the solar PV rooftop system has become the most economically feasible option.
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Mohelník, Václav. "Podnikatelský projekt jako podklad pro získání podpory na založení podniku." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-222329.
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First chapter is defining main object and methods of elaboration. Second chapter is aimed at theoretical material, on which next following practical part have been worked out. This thirt part is split into three sections, one of them is small and medium company, another is support for small and medium companies and the last one is specification of entrepreneurial project. This part is devided into six segments, the first is introductory study, the second is marketing study, the third is financial study, the fourth is technical study, the fifth is human resources study and the last one is hypothese about success of this study. All these studies were used as a key material for last part entrepreneurial project for getting subvention from Ceskomoravska zarucni a rozvojova banka.
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Trencansky, David, and Dimitrios Tsaparlidis. "The effects of company´s age, size and type of industry on the level of CSR : The development of a new scale for measurement of the level of CSR." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-95150.
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Sustainable development is one of the most frequently used expressions in the economic context. Its importance is emphasized not only at the national level but also at the corporate level. The purpose of this study is to find the influence of company´s age, size and type of industry on the level of sustainable development among Swedish companies. In order to accurately evaluate the level of sustainable development a comprehensive measurement scale is needed. We have recognized the research gap of lack of sustainability measurement methods. Thus, the second goal we have decided to achieve is to develop an extensive measurement scale for sustainability performance evaluation. The main contribution of the study lies in filling the research gap by providing a new measurement method that can be adopted in order to evaluate the sustainability performance and to find the effects of company age, size and type of industry on the level of CSR. The relationships in the study are hypothesized and summarized in the conceptual model and consequently tested. This study distinguishes five underlying perspectives of sustainability and several categories of company ages, size and types of industry. These aspects are in the focal point of the questionnaire sent to our sample of Swedish companies. The data collected from the survey were analyzed in SPSS statistics program using a variety of analytical methods. At first, each set of questions was analyzed separately. Thereafter, the findings regarding each determinant of CSR were thoroughly discussed. Based on the results from analytical tests a revised conceptual model is proposed. The new features added to the model should enhance its quality and explanatory value. The collected data reveal that the responding Swedish companies engage in the sustainability perspectives in a considerable extent. According to the results of the study there is no or minor effect of company age and type of industry on the level of CSR. Company size, however, is found to be a significant determinant of CSR causing an U-shaped effect. This U-shaped effect of company size implies that the level of CSR activities decreases as a company grows from small to middle-sized but increases from middle-sized to large company.
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Shi, Hanbin. "Etude du transfert de chaleur en canaux millimétriques de type zigzag pour le développement et l'extrapolation de réacteurs-échangeurs compacts." Thesis, Toulouse 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019TOU30266.
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Cette thèse porte sur la caractérisation thermique de réacteurs échangeurs de chaleur compacts. Le but est de mesurer des coefficients de transfert thermique dans ces appareils et de comprendre l’effet d’intensification du transfert thermique lié à leur géométrie. Des prototypes de réacteurs échangeurs sont utilisés, composés de trois plaques : deux plaques dites « procédé » et « utilité » où sont gravés des canaux millimétriques droits ou en zigzag de section carrée, séparées par une plaque en aluminium. Le coefficient de transfert de chaleur est déterminé expérimentalement et numériquement. L’influence de la géométrie du canal, des propriétés des fluides et des débits sur le transfert de chaleur est discutée. Une méthode expérimentale de mesure de la température locale est mise en œuvre, basée sur de la fluorescence induite par laser. Enfin, l’effet d’un changement d’échelle de ces appareils pour la mise en œuvre de réactions compétitives exothermiques est étudiéThis thesis is about the thermal characterization of compact heat-exchanger (HEX) reactors. The objective is to measure heat transfer coefficients in these devices and understand the effect of intensification of heat transfer related to their geometry. The compact HEX reactor prototypes used are composed of three plates: two plates called process plate and utility plate where millimetric square straight or zigzag channels are engraved, separated by an aluminum plate. The heat transfer coefficient is measured experimentally and numerically. The influence of channel geometry, fluid properties and flow rates on heat transfer is discussed. An experimental method for measuring the local temperature is implemented, based on laser-induced fluorescence. Finally, the effect of scale-up of these devices for the implementation of competitive exothermic reactions is studied
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Schneider, Stefan [Verfasser], Gudrun Johanna [Akademischer Betreuer] Klinker, and Martin [Akademischer Betreuer] Bichler. "Compact Bidding Languages and Supplier Selection for Markets with Economies of Scale and Scope / Stefan Schneider. Gutachter: Gudrun Johanna Klinker. Betreuer: Martin Bichler." München : Universitätsbibliothek der TU München, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1015628184/34.
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Malherbe, Victor. "Multi-scale modeling of radiation effects for emerging space electronics : from transistors to chips in orbit." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018AIXM0753/document.
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En raison de leur impact sur la fiabilité des systèmes, les effets du rayonnement cosmique sur l’électronique ont été étudiés dès le début de l’exploration spatiale. Néanmoins, de récentes évolutions industrielles bouleversent les pratiques dans le domaine, les technologies standard devenant de plus en plus attrayantes pour réaliser des circuits durcis aux radiations. Du fait de leurs fréquences élevées, des nouvelles architectures de transistor et des temps de durcissement réduits, les puces fabriquées suivant les derniers procédés CMOS posent de nombreux défis. Ce travail s’attelle donc à la simulation des aléas logiques permanents (SEU) et transitoires (SET), en technologies FD-SOI et bulk Si avancées. La réponse radiative des transistors FD-SOI 28 nm est tout d’abord étudiée par le biais de simulations TCAD, amenant au développement de deux modèles innovants pour décrire les courants induits par particules ionisantes en FD-SOI. Le premier est principalement comportemental, tandis que le second capture des phénomènes complexes tels que l’amplification bipolaire parasite et la rétroaction du circuit, à partir des premiers principes de semi-conducteurs et en accord avec les simulations TCAD poussées.Ces modèles compacts sont alors couplés à une plateforme de simulation Monte Carlo du taux d’erreurs radiatives (SER) conduisant à une large validation sur des données expérimentales recueillies sous faisceau de particules. Enfin, des études par simulation prédictive sont présentées sur des cellules mémoire et portes logiques en FD-SOI 28 nm et bulk Si 65 nm, permettant d’approfondir la compréhension des mécanismes contribuant au SER en orbite des circuits intégrés modernesThe effects of cosmic radiation on electronics have been studied since the early days of space exploration, given the severe reliability constraints arising from harsh space environments. However, recent evolutions in the space industry landscape are changing radiation effects practices and methodologies, with mainstream technologies becoming increasingly attractive for radiation-hardened integrated circuits. Due to their high operating frequencies, new transistor architectures, and short rad-hard development times, chips manufactured in latest CMOS processes pose a variety of challenges, both from an experimental standpoint and for modeling perspectives. This work thus focuses on simulating single-event upsets and transients in advanced FD-SOI and bulk silicon processes.The soft-error response of 28 nm FD-SOI transistors is first investigated through TCAD simulations, allowing to develop two innovative models for radiation-induced currents in FD-SOI. One of them is mainly behavioral, while the other captures complex phenomena, such as parasitic bipolar amplification and circuit feedback effects, from first semiconductor principles and in agreement with detailed TCAD simulations.These compact models are then interfaced to a complete Monte Carlo Soft-Error Rate (SER) simulation platform, leading to extensive validation against experimental data collected on several test vehicles under accelerated particle beams. Finally, predictive simulation studies are presented on bit-cells, sequential and combinational logic gates in 28 nm FD-SOI and 65 nm bulk Si, providing insights into the mechanisms that contribute to the SER of modern integrated circuits in orbit
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Sooma, Renata. "ESTUDO DA EFICÁCIA ADAPTATIVA DE HERDEIROS DE EMPRESA FAMILIAR." Universidade Metodista de São Paulo, 2005. http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/1421.
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Previous issue date: 2005-10-17The present work focuon studying the adaptative efficiency of familial company heirs, second to the Adaptation Theory of Ryad Simon. The objectives were: 1. investigate the adaptative efficiency of familial company heirs; 2. describe the aspects of the adaptative dynamics of the heirs; 3. describe the aspects of the familial dinamic internalized by the heirs of each family; 4. investigate the repercussions obtained by the analysis of the adaptative efficiency of each heirs in the familial company context. The method used was clinic, and the technique called the preventive clinic interview. Seven heirs of two different familial companies were interviewed, being that all of them work at them. The data of the interviews have been clinically assessed by the Operable Adaptive Diagnostic Scale OADS - and factor analysis, second to the Adaptation Evolution Theory by Ryad Simon. The results found were: 72% (5 heirs) have been classified in group 4 Severe Ineffective Adaptation; 14% (1 heir) in group 5 - Grave Ineffective Adaptation, and 14% (1heir) in group 3 Moderate Ineffective Adaptation in Crisis. In the analysis of the results, it has been verified that importance of the Affective-Relational area, 100% of the heirs were classified with highly inadequate answers and the one who balanced the different classifications, mentioned above, was in Productivity area. Coming to this diagnostic we could perceive the importance of the relationship with the father figure, present both at home and company. In the analysis of the heirs and the dynamic of the two families, it was concluded that when the father figure behaves in an omnipotent and non replaceable way, then the children are not allowed to grow up and search for satisfaction in what they produce, different from when this father is able to set boundaries, but more steadily, delegating responsibilities to his children, demostrating trustworthifulness on them. This posture facilitate the reach of satisfaction in the Productivity area. In this study it has become evident that the familial dynamic extend itself until the enterpreneurial one so that in one of these families, whose father was able to delegate to this children the control over the company, the dynamic in the enterprise seems to be healthy, permeated by constructive impulses. As for the other, whose father maintains the control, it seems to be very sick, being the destructive impulses in majority, which is spread to the company a well.
O presente trabalho visa estudar a eficácia adaptativa dos herdeiros de empresa familiar, segundo a teoria da adaptação de Ryad Simon. Os objetivos foram: 1. investigar a eficácia adaptativa dos herdeiros de empresa familiar; 2. descrever aspectos da dinâmica adaptativa dos herdeiros; 3. descrever aspectos da dinâmica familiar internalizada pelos herdeiros de cada família; 4. investigar as repercussões obtidas pela análise da eficácia adaptativa de cada herdeiro no contexto da empresa familiar. O método utilizado foi clínico e a técnica, a entrevista clínica preventiva. Foram entrevistados sete herdeiros de duas diferentes empresas familiar, todos os herdeiros atuam profissionalmente nelas. Os dados das entrevistas foram avaliados clinicamente por meio da Escala Diagnóstica Adaptativa Operacionalizada (EDAO), e análise dos fatores, segundo Teoria da Evolução da Adaptação, de Ryad Simon. Os resultados encontrados foram: 72% (5 herdeiros) encontraram-se classificados no grupo 4 Adaptação Ineficaz Severa, 14% (1 herdeiro) no grupo 5 Adaptação Ineficaz Grave, e 14% (1herdeiro) no grupo 3 Adaptação Ineficaz Moderada em CRISE. Na análise destes resultados verificou-se a importância central do setor Afetivo-Relacional, 100% dos herdeiros foram classificados com respostas pouquíssimo adequadas, e o que mesclou as diferentes classificações, descritas acima, foi no setor Produtividade. Frente a este diagnóstico percebemos a importância das relações com a figura paterna, presente tanto no lar como na empresa. Na análise dos herdeiros e da dinâmica das duas famílias concluímos que quando a figura paterna comporta-se de forma onipotente e insubstituível, não permite que os filhos cresçam e busquem satisfação no que produzem. Diferente de quando este pai consegue colocar limites, mas gradativamente delega responsabilidades aos filhos, demonstrando confiar neles. Esta postura facilita o encontro da satisfação na área produtiva. Neste estudo ficou evidente que a dinâmica familiar estende-se até a empresarial, desta forma em uma das famílias, cujo pai foi capaz de delegar aos filhos o poder na empresa, a dinâmica na empresa parece ser saudável, permeada por impulsos construtivos. Enquanto a outra, cujo pai mantém o poder na empresa, parece estar muito doente, predominando os impulsos destrutivos na família com repercussão, também, na empresa.
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Charvát, Daniel. "Hodnocení výkonnosti podniku." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2008. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-264910.
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The main objective of these thesis was to describe the theoreticle principles of the financial analysis, its function, the value of the outcome and its application possibilities. Apply this method on a czech trade company, describe the outcome and suggest recommended steps.
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Binous, Mohamed Sabeur. "Simulations numériques d'écoulements anisothermes turbulents : application à la cavité ventilée." Thesis, Perpignan, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PERP0031/document.
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Ce travail concerne une étude numérique d’écoulements incompressiblesanisothermes dans une cavité. Dans un premier temps, nous procédons à une modélisation destransferts de chaleur dans une paroi dont l’une de ses faces est recouverte d’une couche dematériau à changement de phase (MCP) de faible épaisseur. Cette modélisation est basée surune condition aux limites de type Signorini. Les équations de transfert sont résolues par uneprocédure itérative spécifique. Cette procédure est ensuite appliquée aux transferts dans unecavité différentiellement chauffée dont l’une des parois est recouverte d’une couche de MCPde faible épaisseur. Les équations qui régissent les transferts d’air sont résolues par uneméthode semi-implicite aux différences finies de second ordre et l’algorithme de projection.Nous validons la procédure en l’appliquant à la cavité entrainée, la marche descendante,l’écoulement autour d’un barreau de section carrée et la convection naturelle dans une cavitédifférentiellement chauffée. Dans un deuxième temps, une étude d’écoulements turbulentsincompressibles dans une cavité ventilée a été effectuée en utilisant un solveur de hauteprécision parallèle développée au LAMPS. Les équations de transfert sont résolues par unschéma compact aux différences finies et l’algorithme de projection. Il est montré notammentque le flux de chaleur appliqué à la paroi inférieure de la cavité influence considérablement lastructure de l’écoulement et les transferts de chaleur ainsi que les champs moyens etfluctuants de la vitesse et de la températureThe aim of this work is about a numerical study of anisothermal incompressible flowsconfined in a cavity. We perform a modeling of heat transfer in a wall where one of its faces iscovered with a thin layer of phase change material (PCM). This modeling is based on aSignorini boundary condition. The transfer equations are solved by a specific iterativeprocedure. This procedure is then applied to a differentially heated cavity, one of the walls ofwhich is covered with a thin layer of PCM. The transfer equations are solved by a semi-implicit method with finite second order differences and the projection algorithm. We validatethe procedure by applying it to the lid-driven cavity, downward motion, flow around a squaresection bar and natural convection in a differentially heated cavity. In a second step, the studyof incompressible turbulent flows in a ventilated cavity was carried out using a parallel highprecision solver developed at LAMPS. The transfer equations are solved by a finite differencecompact scheme and the projection algorithm. It is shown in particular that the heat flowapplied to the lower wall of the cavity greatly influences the structure of the flow and the heattransfers, as well as the mean and fluctuating fields of velocity and temperature
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Xie, Jianyong. "Electrical-thermal modeling and simulation for three-dimensional integrated systems." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/50307.
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The continuous miniaturization of electronic systems using the three-dimensional (3D) integration technique has brought in new challenges for the computer-aided design and modeling of 3D integrated circuits (ICs) and systems. The major challenges for the modeling and analysis of 3D integrated systems mainly stem from four aspects: (a) the interaction between the electrical and thermal domains in an integrated system, (b) the increasing modeling complexity arising from 3D systems requires the development of multiscale techniques for the modeling and analysis of DC voltage drop, thermal gradients, and electromagnetic behaviors, (c) efficient modeling of microfluidic cooling, and (d) the demand of performing fast thermal simulation with varying design parameters. Addressing these challenges for the electrical/thermal modeling and analysis of 3D systems necessitates the development of novel numerical modeling methods.
This dissertation mainly focuses on developing efficient electrical and thermal numerical modeling and co-simulation methods for 3D integrated systems. The developed numerical methods can be classified into three categories. The first category aims to investigate the interaction between electrical and thermal characteristics for power delivery networks (PDNs) in steady state and the thermal effect on characteristics of through-silicon via (TSV) arrays at high frequencies. The steady-state electrical-thermal interaction for PDNs is addressed by developing a voltage drop-thermal co-simulation method while the thermal effect on TSV characteristics is studied by proposing a thermal-electrical analysis approach for TSV arrays.
The second category of numerical methods focuses on developing multiscale modeling approaches for the voltage drop and thermal analysis. A multiscale modeling method based on the finite-element non-conformal domain decomposition technique has been developed for the voltage drop and thermal analysis of 3D systems. The proposed method allows the modeling of a 3D multiscale system using independent mesh grids in sub-domains. As a result, the system unknowns can be greatly reduced. In addition, to improve the simulation efficiency, the cascadic multigrid solving approach has been adopted for the voltage drop-thermal co-simulation with a large number of unknowns.
The focus of the last category is to develop fast thermal simulation methods using compact models and model order reduction (MOR). To overcome the computational cost using the computational fluid dynamics simulation, a finite-volume compact thermal model has been developed for the microchannel-based fluidic cooling. This compact thermal model enables the fast thermal simulation of 3D ICs with a large number of microchannels for early-stage design. In addition, a system-level thermal modeling method using domain decomposition and model order reduction is developed for both the steady-state and transient thermal analysis. The proposed approach can efficiently support thermal modeling with varying design parameters without using parameterized MOR techniques.
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Shao, Shengzhi. "Integrated Aircraft Fleeting, Routing, and Crew Pairing Models and Algorithms for the Airline Industry." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/49609.
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The air transportation market has been growing steadily for the past three decades since the airline deregulation in 1978. With competition also becoming more intense, airline companies have been trying to enhance their market shares and profit margins by composing favorable flight schedules and by efficiently allocating their resources of aircraft and crews so as to reduce operational costs. In practice, this is achieved based on demand forecasts and resource availabilities through a structured airline scheduling process that is comprised of four decision stages: schedule planning, fleet assignment, aircraft routing, and crew scheduling. The outputs of this process are flight schedules along with associated assignments of aircraft and crews that maximize the total expected profit.
Traditionally, airlines deal with these four operational scheduling stages in a sequential manner. However, there exist obvious interdependencies among these stages so that restrictive solutions from preceding stages are likely to limit the scope of decisions for succeeding stages, thus leading to suboptimal results and even infeasibilities. To overcome this drawback, we first study the aircraft routing problem, and develop some novel modeling foundations based on which we construct and analyze an integrated model that incorporates fleet assignment, aircraft routing, and crew pairing within a single framework.
Given a set of flights to be covered by a specific fleet type, the aircraft routing problem (ARP) determines a flight sequence for each individual aircraft in this fleet, while incorporating specific considerations of minimum turn-time and maintenance checks, as well as restrictions on the total accumulated flying time, the total number of takeoffs, and the total number of days between two consecutive maintenance operations. This stage is significant to airline companies as it directly assigns routes and maintenance breaks for each aircraft in service. Most approaches for solving this problem adopt set partitioning formulations that include exponentially many variables, thus requiring the design of specialized column generation or branch-and-price algorithms. In this dissertation, however, we present a novel compact polynomially sized representation for the ARP, which is then linearized and lifted using the Reformulation-Linearization Technique (RLT). The resulting formulation remains polynomial in size, and we show that it can be solved very efficiently by commercial software without complicated algorithmic implementations. Our numerical experiments using real data obtained from United Airlines demonstrate significant savings in computational effort; for example, for a daily network involving 344 flights, our approach required only about 10 CPU seconds for deriving an optimal solution.
We next extend Model ARP to incorporate its preceding and succeeding decision stages, i.e., fleet assignment and crew pairing, within an integrated framework. We formulate a suitable representation for the integrated fleeting, routing, and crew pairing problem (FRC), which accommodates a set of fleet types in a compact manner similar to that used for constructing the aforementioned aircraft routing model, and we generate eligible crew pairings on-the-fly within a set partitioning framework. Furthermore, to better represent industrial practice, we incorporate itinerary-based passenger demands for different fare-classes. The large size of the resulting model obviates a direct solution using off-the-shelf software; hence, we design a solution approach based on Benders decomposition and column generation using several acceleration techniques along with a branch-and-price heuristic for effectively deriving a solution to this model. In order to demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed model and solution approach and to provide insights for the airline industry, we generated several test instances using historical data obtained from United Airlines. Computational results reveal that the massively-sized integrated model can be effectively solved in reasonable times ranging from several minutes to about ten hours, depending on the size and structure of the instance. Moreover, our benchmark results demonstrate an average of 2.73% improvement in total profit (which translates to about 43 million dollars per year) over a partially integrated approach that combines the fleeting and routing decisions, but solves the crew pairing problem sequentially. This improvement is observed to accrue due to the fact that the fully integrated model effectively explores alternative fleet assignment decisions that better utilize available resources and yield significantly lower crew costs.Ph. D.
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Mavridou, Evanthia. "Robust image description with laplacian profile and radial Fourier transform." Thesis, Grenoble, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014GRENM065/document.
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L'objectif de cette thèse est l'étude d'un descripteur d'images adapté à une grande variété d'applications. Nous cherchons à obtenir un descripteur robuste et discriminant, facile à adapter et peu coûteux en calcul et en mémoire.Nous définissons un nouveau descripteur, composé de valeurs du Laplacien à différentes échelles et de valeurs d'une transformée de Fourier radiale, calculées à partir d'une pyramide Gaussienne. Ce descripteur capture une information de forme multi-échelle autour d'un point de l'image. L'expérimentation a montré que malgré une taille mémoire réduite les performances en robustesse et en pouvoir discriminant de ce descripteur sont à la heuteur de l'état de l'art.Nous avons expérimenté ce descripteur avec trois types de tâches différentes.Le premier type de tâche est la mise en correspondance de points-clés avec des images transformées par rotation, changement d'échelle, floutage, codage JPEG, changement de point de vue, ou changement d'éclairage. Nous montrons que la performance de notre descripteur est au niveau des meilleurs descripteurs connus dans l'état de l'art. Le deuxième type de tâche est la détection de formes. Nous avons utilisé le descripteur pour la création de deux détecteurs de personnes, construits avec Adaboost. Comparé à un détecteur semblable construit avec des histogrammes de gradients (HOG) nos détecteurs sont très compétitifs tout en utilisant des descripteurs sensiblement plus compacts. Le dernier type de tâche est la détection de symétries de réflexion dans des images "du monde réel". Nous proposons une technique de détection d'axes potentiels de symétries en miroir. Avec cette tâche nous montrons que notre descripteur peut être genéralisé à des situations complexes. L'expérimentation montre que cette méthode est robuste et discriminante, tout en conservant un faible coût en calcul et en mémoireIn this thesis we explore a new image description method composed of a multi-scale vector of Laplacians of Gaussians, the Laplacian Profile, and a Radial Fourier Transform. This method captures shape information with different proportions around a point in the image. A Gaussian pyramid of scaled images is used for the extraction of the descriptor vectors. The aim of this new method is to provide image description that can be suitable for diverse applications. Adjustability as well as low computational and memory needs are as important as robustness and discrimination power. We created a method with the ability to capture the image signal efficiently with descriptor vectors of particularly small length compared to the state of the art. Experiments show that despite its small vector length, the new descriptor shows reasonable robustness and discrimination power that are competitive to the state of the art performance.We test our proposed image description method on three different visual tasks. The first task is keypoint matching for images that have undergone image transformations like rotation, scaling, blurring, JPEG compression, changes in viewpoint and changes in light. We show that against other methods from the state of the art, the proposed descriptor performs equivalently with a very small vector length. The second task is on pattern detection. We use the proposed descriptor to create two different Adaboost based detectors for people detection in images. Compared to a similar detector using Histograms of Oriented Gradients (HOG), the detectors with the proposed method show competitive performance using significantly smaller descriptor vectors. The last task is on reflection symmetry detection in real world images. We introduce a technique that exploits the proposed descriptor for detecting possible symmetry axes for the two reflecting parts of a mirror symmetric pattern. This technique introduces constraints and ideas of how to collect more efficiently the information that is important to identify reflection symmetry in images. With this task we show that the proposed descriptor can be generalized for rather complicated applications. The set of the experiments confirms the qualities of the proposed method of being easily adjustable and requires relatively low computational and storage requirements while remaining robust and discriminative
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Mráčková, Vanda. "Obytný soubor Brno-Řečkovice." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-225811.
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Master’s thesis concern with the area on the edge of urban district Brno-Řečkovice a Mokrá Hora which is defined by street Terezy Novákové and Žilkova. In this territory is designed new residential complex which is integrated into existing buildings and area of the Czech Army. The main theme of this projet is created compact housing development with adequate population density which complete current built-up area and guarantee high-quality enviroment for living present and future inhabitants. Urban development respect surrounding houses. New complex has mainly block character which is created by block of flats and transformed into low row houses. In the proposed complex prevail residential function which is supplemented by public facilities like kindergarten, sports grounds and basic services. The urban philosophy put emphasis on human scale, high-quality public space and general contentment, liveliness and safety in street’s area.
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Wang, Yao-Hui, and 王耀輝. "Determinants of Company Investment Scale." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/5epkmf.
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碩士國立臺灣科技大學
財務金融研究所
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Investment decision, financing decision and dividend decision together make up financial decisions. Investment decision is one of the important financial decisions in a company, and it is the core in financial decisions. Meanwhile investment decision as an important aspect of enterprise value decisions, it would be far-reaching effects on the development of company. Hence, the study of corporate investment behavior has become one of the important issues of academic research. This article is based on the investment behavior of company as the starting point, with the MM theory and information asymmetry theory, learn from domestic and foreign related literature’s research methods and conclusions, using 2007-2016 listed and OTC Taiwanese firms as subjects, to explore the company's share price, liquidity ratio and financing cash flow. How to impact the company's investment scale respectively by multiple linear regression analysis. Empirical studies show that, in general, (1) There is positive correlation between financing cash flow and investment scale. The funds be raise by company can be used for the company's operations and development, it will also drive the company investment. (2) There is negative correlation between liquidity ratio and investment scale. High liquidity ratio indicates that the company has good solvency. But the reverse is the company may prepare too much cash for debt service, leading to funds for investment become insufficient. (3)There is positive correlation between company's share price and investment scale. The share price represents the company's operating conditions, high price will bring the company more funds for business development. Keywords: Investment decision, Stock price, Liquidity ratio, Financing cash flow
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Liu, Yu-Han, and 柳育漢. "Construct the Assessment Scale of Private Ambulance Company." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/d47sr2.
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碩士中國醫藥大學
醫務管理學系碩士在職專班
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Purpose Inter-Hospital emergency and critical care medical transfer is a very important key index of medical care network sound or not. Most of the hospitals in Taiwan will appoint some or all of the ambulance service provided by the ambulance company''s services. In order to maintain the quality, effective to use the medical resources , and improve the operation efficiency of ambulance, There is an really important issue of ambulance company’s operations in this stage. Research Methods This study through the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) perspectives to investigated the evaluation indexes of mission execution of private ambulance company ,and create Private Ambulance Company Assessment Scale (PACA Scale), first collection the domestic and foreign literature to select the index data, Construct total thirty indexs list of BSC four dimensions, then use the Modified Delphi Method to examine by the panel of experts and two rounds of structured questionnaire expert analysis. Establish consistency consensus from the panel of experts. Compiled the BSC PACA Scale and evaluation index to apply to the private ambulance execute the missions. And then used Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) to get the weight of index of PACA Scale. Results After Delphi questionnaire expert analysis of survey, through the first stage of the two rounds of questionnaire analysis, created twenty-eight indexs ba a index evaluation for the private ambulance execute the missions. And a member of the Panel of Experts high consensus on the second stage of three rounds of expert questionnaire construct rating scale of private ambulance company assessment (PACA Scale). And its through the feasibility analysis assessment applied to three private ambulance companies by the actual test. Finally used Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) though the Expert Choice Software 2000 2nd Edition to analyse and get the the weight of index of PACA Scale. Conclusions and recommendations The results showed The topic of private company should be follow the indexs including the proportion of patient satisfaction and complaints of Customer perspective. The internal process perspective like To make operations standardization, enhance operational efficiency, maintaining the quality and safety of transportation. Ongoing implementation of education and training, improve operating standards and increased license of Learning and growth perspective. And the Financial perspective to control the operating costs, improved the operating income, and update the ambulance equipment.
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WEN, NIU HUI, and 牛慧雯. "Scale Economies and Density Economies in Taiwan Power Company." Thesis, 1996. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/74008149515716275698.
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陳韻如. "The Anaylsis of Scale of Economies in Financial Holding Company." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/31613139071034712194.
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Chiu, Wei-Sheng, and 邱偉聖. "Accounting Firms' Scale, Company Financial Characteris-tic and Relation of Accruals." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/87377637536897554536.
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碩士中國文化大學
會計研究所
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According to the foreign scholars’ researches, if the company has a lot of accruals, it will hire Big-4 accounting firms to audit theirs’ financial reporting to assure credible accruals. But there are more and more fraudulent cases occurring in our listed compa-nies and the credible of accruals is affecting much of the financial reports’ quality. It is worthy of investigating the relation of accruals between Big-4 and non-Big-4. The results show that partial of company financial characteristics can explain credible accruals, except auditing opinion. Big-4’s auditing qualities are still better than non Big-4.
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Wang, Chin-chou, and 王欽洲. "Establishing Managerial Competencies Evaluation Scale-to a food company as an example." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/78195916287858677974.
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碩士國立中正大學
企業管理所
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Outstanding staff are enterprise''s most important assets. But the staffs that the working performance is good are there attitude, behavior and personality to suitable for serving as a executive? This research puts relevant documents of company competencies to develop the suitable management function questionnaire for the case company. Company competencies were composed of the core competencies and managerial competencies of the case company. The statistics show that the questionnaire has good reliability. Each subscale internal consistency coefficients Cronbach ?ranged from 0.8361 ~ 0.9073 between. According to the then-item analysis showed that the items were able to distinguish between a high and a low variations between shows that the scale of the items that will have the power of discrimination. This study also verified through factor analysis to confirm the construct validity, and certification-fit analysis of the test findings were supported by the statistics, Therefore, the establishment of the "Managerial competencies evaluation scale" causal theory model with the actual data is fit, said the instrument had good construct validity. Finally, the study tested for the actual performance of the subscales effect superscript. According to Pearson correlation analysis obtained validity coefficient. Analysis of results showed that its validity coefficients ranged from 0.341 ~ 0.511 between, P value of less than 0.01, said the evaluation scale with good validity. Propose this case company can think that set up the competency, expand the competency topic in this direction.
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Mayer, Nicholas. "Starbucks corporation: store growth at scale continues." Master's thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/36388.
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Lin, Kun-Yuan, and 林坤淵. "SME Business Strategy based on Economical Scale - A Case Study of C Company." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/10847796683573840325.
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碩士逢甲大學
經營管理碩士在職專班
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Due to the restrictions by obtaining the operation resources, a small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) is usually not able to achieve its business strategy in one single step. Instead, a SME often has to divide its strategy in several successive execution phases. Hence, it is very important for a SME by setting up its business strategy to think about how can the company proceed the each execution phase depending on its economies of scale respectively, in order to accomplish the established development goal finally. In the present thesis, the SME shock-absorber manufacture industry in Taiwan was analyzed and a case study has been conducted in this field. The retrospective method was employed additionally to the five forces analysis and the SWOT-analysis, to investigate the several development phases of this SME study case. In order to summarize up the operation strategy, the analysis in the present work was structured in the following 4 dimensions: the three endpoints in the Smiling Curve (R&D, production and marketing) and the fourth: financial / account system. Basing on various theories in the literature, the economy conditions, problems and solutions in each of the development phases of the object company were studied and the strategies adopted could be concluded. As it can be shown in the present thesis, when a SME does not have sufficient resource and has to divide its business strategy in several execution phases, this SME still can set up a proper time-phased strategy depending on its economies of scale at that moment. The methodology applied is the five forces analysis for the industry field environment and, secondly, the SWOT analysis for the company in- and externally. Furthermore, the concluded strategies and the relative considerations in this work can also serve well as good reference for the other SME by drawing up their business strategies.
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Koopman, Sharene Grace. "The experiences of senior leaders driving large scale change in a construction company." Diss., 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/8590.
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A phenomenological study was conducted to explore and understand the personal
experiences and meaning ascribed by senior leaders within a large multidisciplinary
construction company. An effort was made to understand how they personally experienced
leading others, what they learnt about themselves, what challenged them most, and what
support, if any they had during their leadership of large-scale organisational change. The
research found that there is a significant personal cost to the individual. This cost comes in
terms of career, work-life balance and even reputation. It provides an opportunity to grow in
self-knowledge, provided leaders are open to learn and reflect and that there is a substantive
support structure both internally and externally to the organisation in order to ‘survive’.
Without this malleable disposition, the already high cost escalates to the extent that it could
be life threatening. In spite of the prolific literature available, the leaders claim that
shareholders and most others do not understand the extreme length of time it takes to start
and embed change that is sustainable. Without that understanding from the other role
players, the leader carries not only the blame but also the scars of failed change.Industrial & Organisational Psychology
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Tsai, Teng-Hui, and 蔡騰輝. "A Study of the Feasibility of ERP Cloud Service in a Small-Scale Company." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/71567095921919889894.
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碩士中華大學
企業管理學系碩士班
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Due to limited resource and manpower, a Small-Scale Company(SSC) is hard to set up a complete management system and effectively manage its operation. The application of an integration system of enterprise requirement planning (ERP) is one of the effective methods to improve the management of a SCC. However, a SCC generally utilizes management system only with a standalone function, i.e., inventory management, sales management or accounting management etc. This is because the current ERP system is not developed for a SCC and requires expensive hardware and software investment and huge manpower for operation and subsequent maintenance. Therefore, the study of applications of the ERP cloud to facilitate the effective management of a SCC is significant and valuable. Basically, a ERP cloud service is a new business model. For the requirement of a SCC, ERP cloud service will confront different technique and operational issues. For example, what is a reasonable software structure for the ERP cloud service or what is the operational process of an ERP cloud service etc. The operational issues of an ERP cloud service is study in this paper. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to study the operational model and its feasibility of the ERP cloud service in a SCC. The introduction and operational model of an ERP cloud service in a SCC is first proposed. The applications of an ERP cloud service to improve the effective management of a SCC and the related possible operational issues are then discussed. Finally, a real case of an ERP cloud service in a SCC in Taiwan is utilized to illustrate and demonstrate the application model and feasibility of the ERP cloud service in a SCC.
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Chen, Yu-Chuan, and 陳玉川. "Development of the Scale for Measuring Climate for Organizational Innovation in Taiwan Power Company." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/81214430151158496910.
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碩士國立交通大學
經營管理研究所
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Confronting the rapidly changing and keenly competitive business environment, corporations lose the competitive advantage very easily due to the imitation of competitors. To ensure long-term development and success, corporations have to keep their competitive advantage via constant innovation. The purpose of this paper is to construct a proper instrument for measuring the organizational innovation climate in Taiwan Power Company (TPC) so as to access employees’ overall perception of the organizational climate for innovation. The content of the preliminary scale was mainly based on KEYS (Amabile, 1996). Moreover, some items were modified or added to meet TPC’s characteristics. A sample of 485 useful questionnaires from TPC Transmission & Substation Projects Department were received, with the response rate of 73.7%. A series of analysis were conducted for scale development. EFA was used to extract constructs of organizational climate for innovation. CFA was then employed to acess the scale’s reliability and construct validity. Criterion-related validity was evaluated by using Strucutural equestion modeling (SEM). Both reliability and validity were supported. The scale, with adequate reliability and validities, is composed of 26 items for five constructs of organizatinal encouragement, work-group support, autonomy/challenge, workload pressures and organizatinal impediments. The instrument is helpful to investigate organizational innovation climate for TPC, and to provide the information needed for creating an innovative work environment.
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Chia-HuaYu and 游家華. "Improving Gray Scale Quality of TFT-LCD Monitor at H Company Using Six Sigma." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/46963681516991396935.
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碩士國立成功大學
高階管理碩士在職專班
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The thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) manufactures along with the semiconductor fabrication manufactures are the leading industries in Taiwan. In the recent years, due to the fast growth of flat panel display research and technology development, the TFT-LCD products become indispensable in our life and has been widely adopted into the display application for liquid crystal television, liquid crystal monitor, laptop computer, portable DVD player, digital photo frame and car navigation system, etc. The Flat Panel Display has a characteristic high risk in fast changing industrial circumstance, either. Therefore, the TFT-LCD industry is needed to have a fast response to deal with various contingencies to be able to survive in such a highly competitive environment. Thus, how to boost the operation efficiency through the technique innovation and quality improvement become the urgent industrial topics to all the local TFT-LCD manufactures. This research utilizes Six Sigma as a process improvement tool to explore the key characteristics that influence the gray scale performance of the LCD for improving the human sensation taste of the high image quality of LCD monitor. This study focuses on refining the manufacturing process 17 inches wide-view LCD monitor within H Company using Six Sigma’s DMAIC methodology. The results show that both the quality loss and customer complaint have been reduced and the company’s competitive advantage has been upgraded to a world-class level. This research employs Six Sigma’s DMAIC methodology to improve the color gray scale of LCD monitor for H Company. By successfully implementing Six Sigma, the pre-tilt angle and gamma value of the process capability indices (Cpk and Zbench) have been upgraded to B and A grade respectively. Besides the improvement of image quality, it also decreases the quality loss, which caused by the process variation. Base on the monthly shipment of 5,000 sets monitor, it can save NT$2,240,000 of quality loss, and annual cost saving is expected to be NT$26,900,000. Hopefully, the results and conclusions drawn from this research may serve as a useful reference for implementing Six Sigma at TFT-LCD industry.
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Wu, Hsueh-Hua, and 吳雪華. "The Impact of the scale on the Performance of Operational Efficiency for Financial Holding Company." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/32091683962291088419.
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Wan-Yu, Lu, and 盧宛玉. "The Assessment Scale on Innovation Ability of R&D Department- A Case of Computer Company." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/18310080703147899076.
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碩士輔仁大學
企業管理學系管理學碩士在職專班
100
"Innovation" is one of critical factors if companies would like to sustain & development when face the competitive environment. Hence, companies often invest much money and efforts to cultivate R&D talents. In general, companies tried to find the talents during recruitment stage for business growth, and then, they establish a robust mechanism of human resources which can make positive effects to promote the innovation capability of R&D personnel. This paper aimed to assess the innovation capability of R&D personnel, and investigate the results by a really case. This study was based on the relevant literatures of innovation capability, take advantage of a case of R&D personnel which investigate its dimensions of innovation capability and scale analysis, besides, verify the performance appraisal of creative ability through employee self-assessment and competent evaluation. There were 250 samples from one company’s R&D personnel which received 198 copies and got a returned rate of 79.2%. Finally, the valid samples were 170 copies which eliminated 28 invalid questionnaires and obtained the effective sample rate of 68%. Factor analysis, Pearson correlation, and regression analysis were applied to this study. The results showed that there are four dimensions of the impact of R&D innovation capability, included motivation, adventure, problem analysis, and expertise. According to Spencer, L. & Spencer, M. proposed the concept of the iceberg model in 1993, the tip of the iceberg is obvious, and can be changed through self-enrichment or training, such as problem analysis and expertise. But the lower of the iceberg is belonged to the inherent part of person, it is not easy to be changed by the outside influence, such as motivation, adventure. This study provides the important references for the human resource departments in the selection, cultivating, transfer, promotion of R&D personnel.
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Chang, Chun-Yuan, and 張君源. "A Case Study of Competitive Advantages of A Medium Scale Taiwanese Electronic Company with MBNQA Structure." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/44597020577252994147.
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碩士國立臺灣大學
商學組
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This study attempts to figure out, for a company competing in providing manufacturing service, having any strategies to proceed a business transformation. Our first point is aimed to what caused this stagnancy is an issue for us to ponder over. Then discuss how to promote the competitiveness of Taiwanese electric manufacturing industry. This research uses this study, based on the United States National Quality Award for performance excellence criteria (2012-2013) of indicators, thereby experiencing the practices, potential difficulties and relevant solutions. Following is exploring the key factors of the transforming frame by means of theoretical discussion among those successful models, further to strictly execute, physically meeting client’s demands, settling their problems, exhibiting their values, ultimately enjoying the high profits of done reforming. What is important is for those entrepreneurs to perceive in advance to catch the right timing of reform, putting hard efforts, lasting for a period of time, in order to obtain remarkable achievement. Since the technology of Taiwanese electric manufacturing industry is reaching its mature stage with stable background and competitive capability worldwide, further, I’m familiar with the operation and product development with years of manufacturing experience. There are two advantages to mention: the first is enlarging prospects of enterprises, the second shall be the perfect integration between literature reference and practical experience, thereby reducing the hard work and promoting the possibility of success in the course of reforming.
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Chen, Mei-Jin, and 陳美津. "The Study of Business Strategy from Small to Larger Scale ─A Case Study of Vedan Company." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/54920009604853879375.
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碩士國立雲林科技大學
企業管理系碩士班
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THE STUDY OF BUSINESS STRATEGY FROM SMALL TO LARGER SCALE ∼A Case Study of Vedan Company Student：Mei-Jin Chen Advisor：Hui-Yun Yu Department of Business Administration National Yunlin University of Science and Technology ABSTRACT The traditional small and medium enterprises (SMEs) play the key role all the time in Taiwan’s economic growth. With the change of the economy and social system, the impact of the global competition forces many SMEs which can not catch new innovation to be knocked out of the market. Crises can be turned as opportunities. The concerned issue focuses on how traditional SMEs generate growth with limited resources. The growth pace is supposed to be tracked; thus, the understanding of enterprise resources, core competence and the growth course is critical for continued growth of the company. The research is aimed at Vedan company in Taiwan as an case study example, probing into the growth course of the enterprise. The conclusions and suggestion are inducted as follows: 1. The sustainability of competitive advantages of the core business is the key factor for continued growth of the company. Enterprises should pay attentions to the environmental changes and also review the enterprise-owned competitive advantages to determine whether they can continuously exist with face of environmental changes. 2. Innovation is the key factor to establish competitive advantages and the development of the enterprise. Peter Drucker (1985) points out that innovation is not evaluated by its newness, scientific essence or petty trick, but by customer acceptance after the product hits the market; in other words, the innovation should focuses on the contribution of created values for consumers. (1). The enterprise should invest resources on the activities which create value and capability, building sustained competitive advantages. (2). The traditional businesses in Taiwan have moved their manufacturing bases abroad to maintain their advantages and profits based on the low cost factors, including land, labor, material and etc. However, this approach could not meet the long-term growth needs. 3. The mode of growth (1). The first phase of the growth is generated from original business field to acquire economy of scope through diversification, strengthening the competitive advantages. (2). The second phase focuses on the application of globalization strategies, and expands geographic coverage to establish growth. 4. The brand is the only substantial competitive advantage for internationalization. 5. The establishment of of business strategy planning system The growth of the company closely links to the ability of business strategy planning. Owing to the fast-changing internal and external business environments, the appropriate timing of introduction of business strategy planning thus becomes very important for SME development to guide the enterprise to allocate resources effeciently. 6. The person of talent is the only the motive force of the growth. Only when the enterprise confirm the position and plan the unequivocal strategy goal, do the system of learning set appropriate managerial competencies training into action for building the strategy human resources. According to strategy of the enterprise reserve the human resources for development.
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Hsieh, Wan-Neng, and 謝萬能. "Study on Alternative of Safety Performance of Promotion Agreements Organization at Large-Scale Earthworks- Case of J Company." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/rt49w3.
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碩士崑山科技大學
企業管理研究所
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The construction is one of important parts of national operation so that excellent construction management will decide the safety and comfort ability of building structure. The scope of construction management will mainly discuss about progress, cost, quality and safety. However most of construction management technical personnel consider the construction progress, cost and quality to be the important items for check and acceptance. And they don’t pay attention to the safety management not to mention the influence of construction health management. From preliminary literature review, this research finds out that progress, cost and quality are the construction management focus and present a significant positive correlation to the profitability of project construction. Except above-mentioned progress, cost and quality, the safety is also an important management item. The progress, cost and quality are the positive performance index for profit, while the safety is regarded as passive performance index. As such the construction personnel usually neglect the importance of safety management. After the occurrence of serious occupational disaster, the project construction will turn profitability into loss. In terms of safety, many scholars regard as loss control that is called as passive performance index. It doesn’t mean the passive performance index won’t affect the project profitability. The statistics of death toll for major occupational disaster at workplace in Taiwan from 1993 to 2012 indicate that the death toll for major occupational disaster of 1993 was 649 persons and decreased to 422 persons in 2000. The death toll in 2012 was 319 persons that significantly decreased after comparing with that of 2000. There is still huge gap comparing with that of European and American countries. Additionally Taiwan government promoted Taiwan Occupational Health and Safety Systems (TOSHMS) in 2007, the death toll slightly declined. The TOSHMS is promoted just few years, the enterprises are not familiar with its practice so that the decrease of disaster is not significant. After the Labor Safety & Health Act was promulgated in 1974, the government uses the labor inspection to confirm whether the enterprises legally implement the safety and health equipment and measures. However the government fully carried out the labor inspection until the development of high technology industry in Taiwan. Though the labor inspection has been implemented for 20 years, many enterprises are still not aware of the actual practice of health and safety management. The research subject, “The Effect Study on Promoting Health and Safety Consultative Organization to Improve the Industrial Safety of Large-scale Earthworks-A Case of Large-Scale Earthworks” clearly describes that the research aims to use the health and safety management of construction project for large-scale earthworks in increasing the industrial safety performance of that project. In the large-scale earthworks of health and safety management, this research analyzes the Labor Safety & Health Act and finds out that consultative organization, mentioned in the Article 17, is ad hoc group instead of a normal organization and is existed during construction project implementation duration. Under such condition, how to confirm the personnel within this ad hoc group, health and safety equipment, operational materials, health and safety management methods and constantly changing construction environment therefore become the important purposes of this research.
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KAO, WEN-PIN, and 高文彬. "Small Scale Taiwan IC Design Company Competence Analysis by Value Chain ：A Case Study of AccFast Technology Corp." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/03754087268971635733.
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碩士國立清華大學
高階主管經營管理碩士在職專班
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IC design companies play an important role in Taiwan high technology industry for their industry sales amount is No.2 worldwide. Among over 200 IC design companies, more than 100 are all small companies whose yearly sales amount were under 100 millions NT dollars. Those small companies must create their competitive advantage persistently to cope with the local and global competition. Therefore, a tool for analyzing the competitive advantage will be very essential. My study chooses value chain perspective to analyze the value activities and chain relationship in small IC design companies in Taiwan. With AccFast Technology Corp. as a case, this study confirms that value chain analysis is a beneficial tool to analysis competitive advantage of a company.
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"A review of the problems encountered in private large scale redevelopment schemes." Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1985. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5886330.
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Yang, Yi-Yun, and 楊漪雲. "A Study on Decision Making to Expand Industrial Scale in China: Connector Industry in Company A as an Example." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/45295286190084448204.
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碩士元智大學
管理研究所
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Taiwan’s economy was taking off and made its great stride ever in the 1970s. After this highly develped period, Taiwan has suffered from the surge of cost both in land value and laborage, the rise of awareness of environmental protection and foreign exchange fluctuation, which made its economical system deteriorated from day to day due to limeted resources and markets. Regarding this, the bussinesses in Taiwan have no way to go but reach out to overseas trade and invest abroad in such a dramatical economical competition worldwide. It is through global resource arrangement that Taiwan may breakthrough the limitation of territorial resources and markets to enrich the capability that may boost industrial innovation and economic scale. Since 1980, China has actively pursued economic reform and opening-up policy which not only provides abundant but cheap labor, lands and resources but attracts lots of multinational enterprises and makes it easier to invest and operate in China. Such a policy has made China a place of great chances for Taiwan to make overseas investment. As messures to satisfy the demands of potential cumstomers and expand business territories, overseas investment can help expand the stage great enough to live and grow. Because fluncturation and uncertainty are always accompanied with the dramatical changing external environment of global industry, the business has to estimate prudently and take into consieration the satisfaction of stakeholders, the appropriate timing of investment and huge investment of resources while making decisions to any plan of overseas investment. This paper is a case study aimed to dicuss how the chosen company takes strategy to maintain longlasting competitive capacity while coping with the plate-movement-like of the global supply chain. The studied case took foreign direct investment (FDI) policy at the first stage to construct factories at Kunshan area, China, in 2006. While moving to the second stage of investment expansion in 2007, this company has suffered greatly from China’s drmatical financial policy to weaken foreign investers, such as macro-control, the deflation of credit crunch, the decreased import tax rate, and the upcoming new draft Labor Contract Law and tax reform in 2008. The decision maker took greater risks than ever in such an uncertain investment environment. Therefore, the best policy for this company is to intergrate internal and external resoruces, allocate budget dedicately, and estimate feasibility carefully before expanding its scale in China to ensure the most suitable project to be selected for a smooth investment in such environment full of uncertainty. Key words: expand industrial scale, decision making, capital budget
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Yem, Wan-Chi, and 顏婉琪. "An Empirical Study on the Relationship betweenManagerial Scale and Business Scope Ratio withPerformance of Financial Holding Company Subsidiary Banks." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/77238753404636169551.
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碩士樹德科技大學
金融保險研究所
94
An Empirical Study on the Relationship between Managerial Scale and Business Scope Ratio with Performance of Financial Holding Company Subsidiary Banks Advisor: Dr. Maria Kuo Student: Wan-Chi Yen Abstract The focus of this thesis is financial holding subsidiary banks on the relationship between managerial scale and business scope ratio with performance. Base on the literature review and empirical observation, the types of managerial scale are divided into two types-total assets and number of branches. In addition, the business scope ratio is type bank-oriented financial holding company. Bank performance is CAMEL rating system bases, into four types asset quality, earnings, liquidity, growing. In data analysis, the financial holding companies in Taiwan were used as the sample space. Available samples are use to collect Central Bank of China (Taiwan) TEJ data, then complex data analysis by regression analysis, correlation, multiple regression analysis, and finals the conclusions are summarized as following. 1. The relationship among the managerial scale and performance is significant. 2. The relationship among the business scope ratio and performance is significant. 3. The relationship among the managerial scale and the business scope ratio is significant. 4. The study implied that both managerial scale and business scope ratio is significant to performance. Keywords: financial holding company, managerial scale, business scope ratio, performance, CAMEL system.