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Winfree, Walter R. (Walter Russell) 1947. "The Role of Persons Other Than Professional Development Staff in the Solicitation of Major Gifts From Private Individuals for Senior Colleges and Universities." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1989. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331300/.
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The purposes of this study were to determine and describe the roles of persons other than professional development staff in the solicitation of major gifts from private individuals for selected senior colleges and universities as perceived by senior development officers. The activities of four groups of nondevelopment staff, trustees, president/chancellor, private citizens, and nondevelopment staff/faculty, were examined through the four steps of the major gift solicitation process: identification and rating, cultivation, the in person solicitation, and the thank-you process following the gift. The population encompassed all accredited, degree granting four year colleges and universities in the United States which solicit major gifts from private individuals. The sample consisted of the 223 schools which had received one or more gifts of one million dollars or more from private individuals as reported in Giving USA. Philanthronin Digest, or The Chronicle of Higher Education, between January 1, 1985, and December 31, 1987. The research instrument was a mailed questionnaire which was sent to the Chief Development Officer of the 223 schools in the sample. Replies were received from 162 institutions, for a response rate of 72.7%. Examination of the results of this study indicated that the services of nondevelopment personnel were used in the major gift solicitation process at the vast majority of schools in the United States, that over half of the major gift dollars solicited were attributable to the efforts of these individuals, and that the president/chancel lor was the most important advocate for an institution's development program followed by the trustees, private citizens, and finally the nondevelopment staff/faculty. Further examination of the data revealed specific determinants which a senior development officer should, for different nondevelopment groups, weigh more or less heavily when deciding which individual(s) will have the greatest likelihood of being influential with major donor prospects.
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Garcia, Norma Garza. "A study of teacher solicitations and student responses during read-alouds with kindergarten, first grade, and second grade students." Thesis, [College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1919.
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Sauvaget, Matilde. "Les relations jeunes-adultes chez les fourmis : sollicitations alimentaires des larves de l'espèce Ectatomma tuberculatum." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCD053/document.
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L'investissement des adultes pour augmenter la survie des jeunes est souvent optimisé par une communication émise par les jeunes et informant les parents de leur niveau de besoin. Nous avons exploré dans cette thèse si les comportements des larves de fourmi pouvaient être des quémandes alimentaires telles que définies par les modèles de communication honnête. En effet, les fourmis, eusociales, possèdent un système de relations sociales et de coopérations qui diffère du modèle parental classiquement décrit. Nous avons donc testé chez la fourmi Ectatomma tuberculatum si les comportements des larves pouvaient refléter leur niveau de besoin et si les ouvrières apportaient la nourriture en fonction du signal comme prédit par les modèles. Nous montrons dans cette thèse que les mouvements émis par les larves ainsi qu'un composé chimique volatil larvaire pourraient tous deux intervenir et influencer l'apport alimentaire par les ouvrières. Les mouvements larvaires augmentent avec le stade de développement des larves et le composé chimique augmenterait avec le niveau d'affamement des larves. Les ouvrières, nourrices et fourrageuses, pourraient donc optimiser la répartition des ressources alimentaires de la colonie grâce à ces signaux ou indices des larves. Cependant, nous montrons aussi que plusieurs autres facteurs proximaux interviennent. Les mouvements larvaires font suite à des contacts fortuits avec les ouvrières, et l'organisation spatiale des ouvrières et des larves influencent les mouvements larvaires et le nourrissage. Des hypothèses alternatives ou complémentaires à la communication sont donc proposéesParental investment to increase survivability of the young is often optimised by signalling emitted by the young and informing the parents of their level of need. In this thesis, we explored whether the behaviour of ant larvae could be analysed as food solicitations as defined by honest communication models. Indeed, ants are highly social and their social relations differ from the social relation in parent-offspring systems which is usually analysed for food solicitations. We therefore tested, in the ant Ectatomma tuberculatum, whether behaviour of the larvae was correlated with the level of need and if workers provisioned larvae with food according to the intensity of the signal, as predicted by honest signalling models. We showed in this thesis that movements displayed by the larvae as well as a larval volatile emission could influence food provisioning by workers. Larval movements increase with larval developmental stage and volatile emission vary with nutritional state of the larvae. Nurse and forager workers could then optimise food resources allocation inside the nest thanks to signals or cues from the larvae. However, we also show that several other proximal factors are involved. Larval movements are not freely displayed but follow a contact with a worker, and spatial organisation of workers and larvae influences larval movements and food provisioning. Thus we propose alternative or complementary hypotheses to the communication hypothesis
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Lin, Yu-Luen. "Solicitation Management System." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2006. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2976.
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This project updated the California State University, San Bernardino's Office of Technology Transfer and Commercialization's Solicitation Management System (SMS) software, used to facilitate the processing of grant proposal solicitations. The SMS software update improved the interface so that it is more user-friendly, increased the processing speed, and added additional functions necessary to comply with new requirements. The software was rewritten using the Spring and Hibernate frameworks.
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Fan, Yao-Long. "Re-engineering the solicitation management system." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2006. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3179.
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The scope of this project includes a re-engineering of the internal architecture of the Solicitation Management System (SMS), a web-based application that facilitates the running of grant proposal solicitations for the Office of Technology Transfer and Commercialization at California State University San Bernardino (CSUSB). A goal of the project is to increase consistency and efficiency of the code base of the system, making it easier to understand, maintain, and extend. The previous version of SMS was written to rely on the Spring and Hibernate frameworks. The project includes a restructuring of the system to remove reliance on the Spring framework, but maintain reliance on Hibernate. The result is an updated version of the SMS. The system was written using current technologies such as Java, JSP, and CSS.
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Strader, Laura K. "An Exploration in Funding Independent Film." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1410189827.
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Davidge, Michael. "Stirrings still and the solicitation of value in Samuel Beckett's work." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0004/MQ39420.pdf.
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Safiniuk, Brad. "Offspring solicitation of parental care in American white pelicans, Pelecanus erythrorhynchos." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape2/PQDD_0014/MQ53219.pdf.
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Martinez, Luis A. "Neural Regulation of Sexual Solicitation in Female Syrian Hamsters: Role of Oxytocin." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2013. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/neurosci_diss/8.
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In most animal species, reproductive success depends critically on precopulatory or solicitational behaviors that occur prior to mating. The specific sensory systems and behavioral strategies employed in precopulatory behaviors vary across species; in all cases, however, animals must be able to identify potential mating partners and solicit sexual interest. Female Syrian hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus) engage in multiple forms of precopulatory behaviors that are preferentially expressed to males or their odors, including vaginal scent marking and sexual odor preference. Conspecific odors relevant for precopulatory behaviors are processed by a network of forebrain areas that includes the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) and the medial preoptic area (MPOA). The precise functional and neurochemical mechanisms whereby these areas regulate the expression of precopulatory behaviors, however, are unknown. Therefore, the aim of this dissertation is to address the following research questions: (1) Is the neuropeptide oxytocin (OT), acting within BNST or MPOA, necessary for the normal expression of odor-guided precopulatory behaviors? (2) Is BNST or (3) MPOA required for the preferential expression of vaginal marking or investigation towards male odors?, and (4) Does OT interact with social odor processing to regulate vaginal marking? We found that blockade of OT receptors (OTRs) in MPOA and BNST decreased vaginal marking to male odors. There was no effect of OTR blockade on sexual odor preference. Selective lesions of BNST also disrupted preferential vaginal marking responses to male odors, without affecting sexual odor preference. In contrast, lesions of MPOA disrupted odor preference without affecting vaginal marking responses. Finally, central blockade of OTRs eliminated the normal pattern of increased activation of neurons to male vs. female odors in BNST, but not MPOA. Considered together, these results suggest that OT normally acts within BNST to drive preferential vaginal marking responses to male odors via selective facilitation of neural responses to these odors, and further, that there are separate and distinct neural circuits that regulate different forms of odor-guided precopulatory behaviors in females.
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Wang, Chia-Chi. "Online solicitation management system for the Office of Technology Transfer and Commercialization." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2950.
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The Online Solicitation Management System (OSMS) is a web-based system designed for California State University, San Bernardino's Office of Technology Transfer and Commercialization (OTTC) to run grant proposal solicitations more efficiently. The system accepts grant proposals, finds the best matched evaluators, calculates evaluation scores, and generated reports. Users in the system are divided into five (5) different roles: system administrator, program officer, staff, evaluator and applicant.
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Chen, Kun-Che. "Extending the solicitation management system: User interface improvement and system administration support." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2008. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3398.
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The main purpose of this project is to develop new functionalities for the Solicitation Management System (SMS) to support the Office of Technology Transfer and Commercialization (OTTC), California State University San Bernardino (CSUSB) and the Center for the Commercialization of Advanced Technology (CCAT), San Diego State University (SDSU) for the 2008 solicitation, which opened on 28 Jan 2008. SMS is a system built to facilitate the processing of grant proposal solicitations. The SMS was first built in 2004 and was primarily used by the OTTC, CSUSB for its solicitation activities. The new version of the SMS is more user friendly, so that it is easier for users to use and comprehend. The purpose of this software is to aid the processing of a solicitation for organizations that conduct solicitations for grant proposals.
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Schulz, Anja, Emilia Bergen, Petya Schuhmann, Jürgen Hoyer, and Pekka Santtila. "Online Sexual Solicitation of Minors: How Often and between Whom Does It Occur?" Sage, 2016. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A35635.
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Objectives: This study examined how frequently online sexual solicitation of adolescents and children by adults occurs and what characteristics the perpetrators have using a novel methodological approach. Method: In an online survey, we investigated the frequency of online sexual solicitation exhibited by adult Internet users (N ¼ 2,828), including a subgroup recruited on pedophilia-related websites. Perpetrators soliciting adolescents were compared to those soliciting children concerning solicitation outcomes (e.g., cybersex) and demography. Results: In total, 4.5 percent reported soliciting adolescents and 1.0 percent reported soliciting children. Most solicitors of adolescents and children were from pedophilia-related websites (49.1 and 79.2 percent). Solicitation frequently involved sexual outcomes (47.5 percent), which also followed nonsexual interaction. The minors’ age did not affect the odds of sexual outcomes. A substantial proportion of perpetrators were female. Conclusions: This study offers unprecedented data on the number of adults soliciting minors. Although adolescents were more often target of solicitation, the risk of sexual outcomes was equally high in solicitation of children, suggesting younger children to be considered in prevention efforts as well. Nonsexual interactions resulting in sexual outcomes need to be more closely examined to inform appropriate prevention efforts. Moreover, awareness should be raised about females as perpetrators.
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Romano, Nicholas C., Christina Bauer, Hsinchun Chen, and Jay F. Nunamaker. "The MindMine Comment Analysis Tool for Collaborative Attitude Solicitation, Analysis, Sense-Making and Visualization." HICSS, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105501.
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Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of MIS, University of ArizonaThis paper describes a study to explore the integration of Group Support Systems (GSS) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to provide solicitation, analytical, visualization and sense-making support for attitudes from large distributed marketing focus groups. The paper describes two experiments and the concomitant evolutionary design and development of an attitude analysis process and the MindMine Comment Analysis Tool. The analysis process circumvents many of the problems associated with traditional data gathering via closed-ended questionnaires and potentially biased interviews by providing support for online free response evaluative comments. MindMine allows teams of raters to analyze comments from any source, including electronic meetings, discussion groups or surveys, whether they are Web-based or same-place. The analysis results are then displayed as visualizations that enable the team quickly to make sense of attitudes reflected in the comment set, which we believe provide richer information and a more detailed understanding of attitudes.
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Cotter, Adam. "'It's an epidemic out there': Constructing the Online Solicitation of Children as a Social Problem." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/22920.
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Social problems emerge when a behaviour, individual, or group is collectively defined as problematic. Online child solicitation is explored as a behaviour that has been defined as a social problem. This paper analyzes and explores the claims and claimsmaking process of one advocacy group, Perverted Justice. Their use of rhetorical strategies designed to persuade are of particular importance. In addition, the definitions, examples, and estimates they use to construct the problem are explored. Perverted Justice constructs the Internet as an inherently dangerous space, asserts that all children are at risk, and that online solicitation is a significant social problem. Furthermore, law enforcement, parents, and advocacy groups cannot protect children. Criticisms are rendered illegitimate through the use of rhetorical strategies. The way in which Perverted Justice constructs online child solicitation and their role in solving this issue incorporates elements of neo-liberalism, neo-conservatism, and vigilantism, reflecting the wider regulatory framework.
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Shandilya, Neeraj. "Study of the (nano) particles emission during mechanical solicitation and environmental weathering of the products." Thesis, Compiègne, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015COMP2170/document.
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Les nanomatériaux manufacturés (comme les nanoparticules d’oxydes métalliques, les nanotubes de carbone, les nanofibres etc.) possèdent des propriétés remarquables qui leur confèrent des applications industrielles innovantes. Néanmoins, ces nouveaux matériaux soulèvent des inquiétudes vis à vis de leurs potentiels risques. Ces nanomatériaux manufacturés connaissent une production et une commercialisation croissantes. Par conséquent, de plus en plus de personnes sont potentiellement exposées à ces nanomatériaux (aussi bien les consommateurs que les opérateurs) à travers les aérosols qui pourraient être émis au cours du cycle de vie du matériau. L’une des approches possibles de réduction de risque serait la prévention de l’émission qui consisterait en une conception réfléchie du matériau avec un compromis performance/sûreté. La thèse présentée ici suit cette approche. Il s’agit de comprendre le phénomène et les mécanismes d’émission des nanomatériaux manufacturés à l’aide d’outils théoriques et expérimentaux. Le dispositif expérimental développé au cours de cette étude vise (i) à reproduire à l’échelle laboratoire des activités en conditions réelles, (ii) à identifier les mécanismes d’émission, et (iii) à mener simultanément des analyses qualitatives et quantitatives* des nanomatériaux manufacturés émis. Pour la sollicitation mécanique, le procédé d’abrasion a été choisi ; quant au vieillissement environnemental, le choix s’est porté sur un procédé d’exposition accélérée aux rayons d’UV en présence d’humidité et de chaleur. Les résultats suggèrent que les entités microscopiques présentes à la surface d’un matériau (appelées aspérités ou rugosités) subissent globalement 4 types de mécanismes d’enlèvement pendant l’abrasion, suivant la variation de 18 paramètres (liés au matériau et au procédé). Ces mécanismes déterminent la forme, la taille et le nombre de particules de l’aérosol émis. De plus, dans le cas des échantillons testés dans les conditions expérimentales données, il a été observé, lors des essais mécaniques seuls, la génération d’aérosols dans lesquels sont retrouvées des nanomatériaux manufacturés liées à leur matrice. Il s’agit de particules nanométriques et micrométriques. Cependant, dans le cas du couplage abrasion/vieillissement environnemental, après un temps donné de détérioration, il est constaté l’émission de nanomatériaux manufacturés libres, en plus des nanomatériaux manufacturés liés à leur matrice. Les résultats expérimentaux relatifs aux sollicitations mécaniques ont été mis en corrélation avec des lois de mécanique classique utilisant des modèles analytiques. Le modèle utilise en partie des relations semi-empiriques ; après ajustement, on observe une très bonne convergence modèle-expérience. Ce modèle a été utilisé pour réaliser une étude de sensibilité sur les 18 paramètres évoqués précédemment, et ce pour une variation de 25% pour chaque paramètre. Ceci permet d'illustrer la capacité du modèle à hiérarchiser l'influence des différents paramètres sur l'émission de particules, pour des conditions données. Ainsi, ce travail a permis de développer un ensemble constitué d’une part d’outils expérimentaux et d’autre part d’un modèle. Si cet ensemble est largement perfectible, il permet toutefois d’ores et déjà d’entamer une conception “nanosafe by design”Engineering nanomaterials (ENM) like metal oxide nanoparticles, carbon nanotubes, nanofibers, etc. possess various innovative properties and their industrial use creates new opportunities. However, they also present new risks and uncertainties. There is an ever growing production and use of the products containing these ENM, like nanocomposites or nanocoatings, which result in an increasing number of workers and consumers exposed to ENM upon their emission (in the form of aerosols) from the products containing them. One of the most favored approaches, to minimize this emission, would be a preventive one which would focus on altering the product’s material properties during its design phase itself without compromising with any of its added benefits.This thesis advocates this approach. It attempts to understand the ENM emission phenomenon and its yielding mechanisms on the basis of combined experimental and theoretical approaches. The experimental set-up, developed during this thesis, is equipped with the necessary elements which can (i) seek to reproduce the real life activities on a laboratory scale (ii) identify the emission mechanism (iii) carry out both qualitative as well as quantitative*analysis of the emitted ENM simultaneously. Whilst the mean chosen for applying the mechanical solicitation or stress is an abrasion process, for the environmental weathering, it is an accelerated UV exposure process in the presence of humidity and heat. The results suggest that depending upon 18 material and process properties/parameters, the microscopic entities present on the surface of a product, called asperities, undergo mainly 4 types of removal mechanisms during abrasion. It is these mechanisms that decide the shape, size and the number of the aerosol particles emitted. Moreover, for the given test samples and experimental conditions studied during the thesis, application of the mechanical stresses alone was found to generate the emitted ENM aerosols in which ENM is always embedded inside the product matrix, thus, a representative product element. In such a case, the emitted aerosols comprise of both nanoparticles as well as microparticles. But if the mechanical stresses are coupled with the environmental weathering, then the eventual deterioration of the product, after a certain weathering duration, may lead to the emission of the free ENM aerosols too. All these experimental findings, pertaining to the effect of the mechanical stresses alone, have also been put into the perspective with classical material and mechanics state laws using a predictive analytical model. A close agreement** of the estimated results of this model with the experimentally measured ones has validated its functioning. This model was used to perform a sensitivity analysis on the aforementioned 18 parameters to rank the influence of a25% variation in each of their values on the particle emission for the given conditions.Thus, during the present thesis, both experimental and theoretical approaches have been developed to study the emission. Despite the fact that these approaches are perfectible, they can still be used during product design phase for the product to be “nanosafe by design”
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Ottesen, Niles. "A solicitation of the management of the City of Milwaukee to institute residential fire sprinkler requirements." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2004. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2004/2004ottesenn.pdf.
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Amirouche, Amin. "Integration of functions dedicated to the mechanical solicitation and characterization of biological cells in microfluidic devices." Thesis, Lyon, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LYSE1226/document.
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Cette thèse vise à évaluer deux techniques différentes pour la distinction d'échantillons biologiques mécaniquement altérés. Les deux approches ont été mises au point et étudiées avec un objectif à long terme qui est l'application de ces méthodes au diagnostic basé sur le phénotype mécanique. Bien que, nous avons élaboré ces approches dans le cas de globules rouges (GR), comme leurs propriétés mécaniques peuvent être affectées par des pathologies importantes, tous les concepts développés dans ce travail peuvent être adaptés à d'autres types de cellules.Nous avons caractérisé les propriétés mécaniques de GR à l'aide d'une technique microfluidique passive. L'accent a été mis sur la relaxation de globules rouges sains (GRs) à la sortie d'un canal à largeur variante et la dépendance de la réponse mécanique aux conditions expérimentales a été démontrée. Nous avons rapporté deux modes de relaxation du GR en fonction des paramètres de l'écoulement, et nous avons utilisé l'interface entre ces deux modes pour remonter aux propriétés mécaniques du GR. Lors de la seconde approche, nous avons présenté les résultats obtenus au cours de l'étude du comportement mécanique des GRs à l'aide de l'électrodeformation. Nous avons étudié l'influence des paramètres expérimentaux sur la réponse cellulaire et conclu sur des conditions optimisées pour la sollicitation des cellules sans les altérer. Pour finir, nous avons fait le point sur l'évaluation de ces deux techniques dans la discrimination des échantillons mécaniquement défaillants des sujets sains. Les avantages et inconvénients des deux approches ont été discutésThis thesis aims at evaluating two different techniques for the distinction of mechanically impaired biological samples. Both approaches were developed and investigated keeping in mind the long term objective which is the application of these approaches to diagnosis based on cell mechanical phenotype. Although, we developed these approaches on Red Blood Cells as as their mechanical properties can be affected by important pathologies, all the concepts developed in this work can be adapted to other cell types.We characterized mechanically RBCs using a passive microfluidic technique. We focused on the shape relaxation of healthy Red Blood Cells (hRBCs) flowing out of an oscillating width channel and demonstrated the dependency of their mechanical response upon the experimental conditions. We reported the existence of two relaxation modes for RBCs depending on the flow parameters, we used the interface between the two modes to extract the mechanical properties of RBC.Using a second approach, we presented the results obtained during the study of the mechanical behavior of hRBCs using electrodeformation assays. We investigated the influence of the solicitation parameters on the cell response and concluded on optimized conditions for cell solicitation without altering them. Finally, we evaluated both techniques in the discrimination of rigidified samples from healthy couterparts. Advantages and drawbacks of both techniques were discussed
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Hougaard, Shaela Annice. "Tweeting for a Cause: A Content Analysis of Successful Charitable Nonprofits' Publishing Strategies on Twitter." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2017. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6274.
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A study examining the content strategies within Twitter posts, from nine charitable nonprofit organizations was conducted. The content analysis was conducted to identify content strategies (relationship cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship) behind each Twitter post from these nine organizations, within a one-week period. The study also looked at levels of engagement on each tweet as well as interactivity from the organization. The results showed that these nine charitable nonprofit organizations were primarily using stewardship strategies and techniques in their posts. The study also found that relationship cultivation yielded higher levels of retweets and that the relationship cultivation and solicitation combination strategy received higher levels of likes, while the organizations lacked in interactivity (two-way communication). The results from this study add a level of Twitter analysis to the ongoing research of fundraising on social media, and provide questions for future research.
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Lestrade, Kévin. "Simulation de trajectoires complexes à l’aide d’un hexapode de mouvement : application aux sports de glisse." Thesis, Paris, ENSAM, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016ENAM0037/document.
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Le projet SIMUSURF consiste en l’utilisation d’un robot hexapode de mouvement pour l’analyse de la réponse biomécanique d’un sujet positionné sur un plateau mobile et soumis à des mouvements de translation et/ou de rotation. Ce robot permet l’apprentissage d’activités sportives nécessitant des conditions particulières d’équilibre. Les sports de glisse tels que le surf, le ski ou le snowboard sont des activités qui nécessitent la conduite de trajectoire du support (planche de surf, skis ou snowboard) et l’équilibre du sportif. Pour un simulateur de surf, l’hexapode équipé de plates-formes de forces permettra alors d’établir des relations entre figures et réponse biomécanique du surfeur, d’étudier la variabilité interindividuelle pour exécuter un mouvement donné et d’optimiser le geste sportif dans un but d’aide à la performance.L’étude concernant le développement de ce simulateur à partir de l’hexapode a été abordée sous deux aspects.- D’un point de vue instrumentation et acquisition, la simulation des trajectoires correspondant aux mouvements de l’ensemble {surfeur + planche} sur l’eau a nécessité la constitution d’une base de données expérimentales permettant notamment d’identifier un modèle dynamique de comportement d’interactions entre le surfeur, sa planche et la vague. Pour ces mesures in situ, l’instrumentation d’une planche a été nécessaire. La conception d’une planche instrumentée et la mise en place d’un protocole d’acquisition dans les conditions extrêmes que représente l’environnement marin ont été un des verrous technologiques associés à ce projet.- D’un point de vue mécanique et robotique, il a été indispensable d’optimiser le pilotage de cette machine (au total 6 vérins avec des vitesses potentielles de 5 m/s) pour atteindre les trajectoires désirées ou les efforts multiaxiaux à imposer dans le cas particulier d’un pilotage complexe en effort.Afin d’être réaliste, un simulateur de surf réalisé autour d’un hexapode devait être capable de reproduire les mouvements complexes et de dynamiques élevées d’une planche de surf sur une vague et soumis aux efforts du surfeur. Ces performances ont été atteintes en tenant compte des phénomènes de couplage dynamiques existants entre ses actionneurs et en mettant en œuvre une approche de commande multivariable efficace : une approche CRONE permettant de synthétiser des lois de commande à la fois performantes et robustes, c’est-à-dire résistant à une connaissance imparfaite du système commandéThe project SIMUSURF consists in using an hexapod to analyze the biomechanical response of a human subject positioned on the moving platform of the hexapod and submitted to a translation and/or rotation movement. This robot allows practice of sport activities where balanced specific conditions are required. Riding sports such as surf, ski or snowboard are sports for which special skills to steer the support (surfboard, snowboard or ski for instance) are needed. The development of a surf simulator, using the hexapod equipped with multi-axis force plates, will allow to study the relations between figure and biomechanical response of the surfer, the interindividual variability to execute a given movement and to optimise the actions of the person aiming at better performances.The development of this simulator from the hexapod has been approached from two aspects.- From an instrumentation and acquisition point of view, simulation of the trajectories corresponding to the movements of the set {surfer + board} on the ocean required the constitution of an experimental database to identify such a behavioral dynamic model of the interactions between the surfer, his board and the wave. For these in situ experimentations, instrumentation of a surfboard was required. The design of an instrumented board and the implementation of an acquisition protocol in the extreme conditions due to the marine environment have been one of the technological hurdles associated.- From a mechanical and robotics point of view, it was essential to optimize the control of the hexapode (a total of 6 actuators with the potential speed of 5 m/s) to reach the desired trajectory or multiaxial efforts to impose in the special case of a force complex command.To be realistic, a surfing simulator designed with an hexapod had to be able to reproduce the complex movements and high dynamic of a surfboard on a wave and submitted to the efforts of surfer. These specifications were reached by taking account of existing dynamic coupling phenomena between actuators and implementing effective multivariable control approach: CRONE approach synthesizing control laws both powerful and robust, that is resistant to imperfect knowledge of the controlled system
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Rashdan, Adam. "Requirement prioritization in Software Engineering : A Systematic Literature Review on Techniques and Methods." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för datavetenskap och medieteknik (DM), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-105747.
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The present study provides a systematic overview of the most important software requirement prioritization techniques. Software requirement prioritization is a process in software engineering that precludes the actual development of software application programs and deals with assigning priorities to single requirements to define the order of their implementation. The study aims to help researchers and practitioners in deciding about the right technique since each has its advantages and limitations. Compared to the existing reviews, the current one not only captures the most promising techniques but the more general trends behind them. The study utilizes the review protocol method that aims to answer four research questions about the most popular techniques, their taxonomy, their limitations, and involved processes. The empirical data was collected from six databases for scientific manuscripts and put under scrutiny to identify the most relevant and elaborated papers. The results from 53 selected manuscripts and 106 discovered techniques demonstrate that there is evidence of a gradual shift from purely manual elicitation methods to computed-assisted and/or algorithmic ones.
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Bergman, Martin. "The evolution of territoriality in butterflies." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Zoologiska institutionen, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-54668.
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Competition over mating opportunities is a conspicuous characteristic of animal behaviour. In many butterfly species the males establish territories in places advantageous for encountering females. This thesis addresses questions about how territoriality has evolved and is maintained in butterflies. The studies have been conducted using the speckled wood butterfly, Pararge aegeria, as a model species. Males of P. aegeria are found in sunspots on the forest floor (paper I-V), on the lookout for females visiting the sunspots. However, males are only found in sunspots above a certain size (paper III). This behavior is maintained by a mating success advantage, where using large sunspots instead of small sunspots as perching areas generates a higher reproductive output (paper I). The mating success asymmetry is not explained by female choice or by a female preference for large sunspots per se (paper I, V), but rather the large sunspot facilitates visual performance of perching males and improves flight pursuit and interception of females (paper III). Winners of territorial contests gain sole ownership of large sunspot territories, while losers search for a new suitable sunspot territory (paper I, II & IV) or use smaller, suboptimal sunspots as perching sites (paper II). Territorial contests between P. aegeria males are not settled due to an obvious morphological/physiological asymmetry (paper I). Rather, variation in resource value and motivational asymmetries are important for settling contests (paper IV). A majority of male-female interactions (paper V) and matings (paper I) are initiated by a perching male detecting and intercepting a flying female. Furthermore, females can affect their chances of being detected by a perching male by behaving more conspicuously (paper V). This thesis highlights the role of female behaviour, variation in resource value and motivation asymmetries to understand the evolution of territoriality in butterflies.
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Laibi, Babatounde. "Comportement hygro-thermo-mécanique de matériaux structuraux pour la construction associant des fibres de kénaf à des terres argileuses." Thesis, Normandie, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017NORMC265/document.
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Les briques de terre compressée (BTC) à la façon traditionnelle au Bénin présentent de piètres propriétés mécaniques, ce qui explique que les populations recourent aux parpaings de ciment relativement trop couteux et dont l’emploi affecte fortement les ressources en eau et en énergie. Ce travail propose des pistes d’amélioration des BTC pour l’écoconstruction par l’ajout de fibres végétales à des sols usités localement pour la construction. Cette stratégie permet de valoriser les matières premières minérales et végétales dans un domaine d’activités qui concerne une grande partie de la population. Dans un premier temps, un sol a été choisi d’après sa composition chimique, ses propriétés physiques, mécaniques et technologiques. Le choix de la fibre de kénaf pour le renforcement de la matrice minérale se justifie par ses excellentes propriétés mécaniques spécifiques et sa disponibilité à très faible coût. Les effets des fibres sur le comportement du sol au jeune âge, puis sur les comportements mécanique et hygrothermique des matériaux consolidés sous 5 MPa (pression applicable avec les équipements facilement disponibles au Bénin), ont été étudiés pour trois taux massiques de fibres (0,5%; 1% et 1,5% relativement au sol) dans différentes longueurs (5, 10, 20 et 30 mm). Les résultats indiquent une nette amélioration du comportement mécanique des BTC renforcés par le kénaf en termes des résistances à la flexion et à la compression, et de la résistance à la rupture catastrophique (comportement pseudo ductile). Les résultats les plus élevés sont obtenus pour une teneur de 0,5% de fibres de longueur 30 mm. L’ajout de ciment seul au sol fibré (taux de 3, 5 et 7%) ou de ciment associé au laitier de haut fourneau (taux de 3-5% et 5-10%, respectivement) permet en sus d’améliorer de façon importante la résistance à la prise d’eau. Les meilleurs résultats sont obtenus avec 5% de ciment et 10% de laitier de haut fourneau. Les mesures réalisées en chambre biclimatique ont permis de caractériser les matériaux comme paroi séparatrice, en étudiant les transferts de chaleur et de vapeur d’eau. Les résultats mettent en évidence l’effet significatif de l’ajout d’un liant au BTC : L’ajout d’un liant diminue le déphasage et augmente l’atténuation du matériau. Les meilleurs résultats de comportement hygrothermique sont obtenus pour le sol fibré.Cette étude démontre qu’il est possible de produire au Bénin, à partir de matières premières locales et avec des équipements peu onéreux, des éco-matériaux aux propriétés mécaniques et hygrothermiques satisfaisantes pour la construction d’habitat de type R+1Traditional Compressed Earth Blocks (CEB) in the Republic of Benin have poor mechanical properties, this justifies why people rely on relatively expensive cement blocks; the use of which greatly affects resources such as water and energy. In this work we have proposed ways to enhance CEB properties for eco-construction by adding plant fibers to locally used construction's soils. This strategy makes it possible to value mineral and vegetable raw materials in a field of an activity that is common to a large part of the population. At first, a soil was chosen according to its chemical composition, its physical, mechanical and technological properties. The choice of kenaf fiber for the reinforcement of the mineral matrix isjustified by its excellent specific mechanical properties and its availability at very low cost. The effects of fibers on soil behavior at young age and on the mechanical and hygrothermal behavior of consolidated materials under 5 MPa (pressure applicable with equipment readily available in Benin) were studied for three mass content of fibers relatively to the soil (0.5% 1% and 1.5%) and different lengths (5, 10, 20 and 30 mm). The results indicated a remarkable improvement in the mechanical behavior of kenaf-reinforced CEBs in terms of flexural and compressive strengths and tolerance to damage. The highest results were obtained with 0.5% of fibers 30 mm long. The addition of a binder (3, 5 and 7% of cement) or (3-5% and 5-10% of cement and blast furnace slag mix) allowed an important reduction in water uptake. The best mechanical results were obtained for a biocomposite made up with BAK soil, 0.5% of flax fibers 30 mm long and a mix of 5% cement and 10% blast furnace slag. Measurements carried out in a biclimatic chamber made it possible to characterize the hydric and thermal behavior of the soil-based materials. The addition of a binder decreases the phase shift and increases the attenuation of the material. These different results show that it is possible to produce in Benin with the available equipment, CEB with mechanical and hygrothermal properties sufficient enought for the construction of type R + 1 habitat
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Robert, Bruno. "Exercício de direito de voto nas assembleias das companhias brasileiras, pedidos públicos de procuração, voto e participação à distância." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/2/2132/tde-11022015-145315/.
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Pela primeira vez em sua história o mercado de capitais nacional lida com uma real, ainda que localizada, tendência de dispersão da titularidade acionária e com certo nível de popularização do investimento em companhias abertas, estimulados por um crescimento econômico, de consumo e de investimento estrangeiro também sem precedentes. A última década foi, de fato, um período fascinante para os entusiastas do direito societário; um período de crescente complexificação e especialização no ambiente societário nacional, que, em conjunto com o desenvolvimento recente das tecnologias de comunicação, vem desafiando os fundamentos da Lei das Sociedades por Ações, de 1976, e testando a capacidade de adaptação das instituições legais e regulatórias brasileiras. Nesse contexto, o estudo dos mecanismos de exercício do direito de voto, dos pedidos públicos de procuração e para o voto e participação à distância nas assembleias, mostrou-se um meio efetivo de contribuição para a construção de uma ponte entre o antigo e o novo mercado de capitais brasileiro. Para tanto, são três as contribuições principais pretendidas por este estudo. A primeira consiste na análise sistematizada inaugural, na doutrina nacional, da legislação e da regulação aplicáveis aos pedidos públicos de procuração, voto e participação à distância nas assembleias gerais. Essa análise conclui pela necessidade da realização de determinados ajustes na regulação do mercado de capitais brasileiro. Entre esses ajustes, estão (i) a construção de uma disciplina para a inclusão de propostas de acionistas no material de pedidos públicos de procuração da administração e (ii) a elaboração de normas que regulem o exercício do direito de voto e a participação à distância nas assembleias gerais, normas essas que devem pressupor ambos como direitos legalmente garantidos aos acionistas e que devem prever a possibilidade de implementação escalonada das correspondentes obrigações das companhias, de acordo com a evolução dos meios tecnológicos disponíveis. A segunda contribuição consiste na reflexão, também seminal no cenário brasileiro, a respeito dos efeitos da dissociação entre a titularidade da ação e o exercício do direito de voto no mercado de capitais contemporâneo, bem como dos efeitos decorrentes da correlata defasagem entre a compreensão doutrinária do direito de voto e a compreensão doutrinária do exercício desse direito. A desatualização da legislação, da regulação e principalmente da doutrina brasileira em relação às normas em vigor nos mercados mais desenvolvidos, no que diz respeito à assimilação do desenvolvimento tecnológico e dos instrumentos financeiros pelo direito societário, é agravada pelo fato de que as transações realizadas no mercado local já envolvem os mais modernos e complexos instrumentos financeiros utilizados globalmente. O consequente descolamento entre o direito e a realidade, verificados concretamente em casos como o aluguel de ações, o uso de derivativos e a venda do voto, por exemplo, desestabiliza as bases para responsabilização pelo cometimento de abusos no exercício do direito de voto, na medida em que a relação entre a titularidade da ação e o exercício do direito de voto já não é mais tão clara. Este trabalho procura trazer à superfície essas questões e realinhar o entendimento científico a respeito do exercício do direito de voto com as práticas atuais do mercado. A terceira contribuição consiste no questionamento por este estudo da capacidade da Lei das Sociedades por Ações de enfrentar uma nova realidade, em que deixa de ser certa a existência da polarização de poder entre um controlador majoritário e acionistas minoritários atomizados, e na qual necessidades históricas de fisicalidade e concomitância deixam de ser pressupostos obrigatórios na construção de conceitos relacionados ao relacionamento entre acionistas, administradores e a companhia. O trabalho constata que a Lei das Sociedades por Ações não está inteiramente preparada para uma realidade em que nem sempre haverá um acionista controlador definido e em que o acionista minoritário nem sempre será um pequeno e pouco informado investidor, mas eventualmente um investidor institucional, com escala e recursos suficientes para efetivamente processar as informações divulgadas pela companhia e interferir em sua gestão. No mesmo passo, constata-se também que a ideia da realização de assembleias que deixem de ser delimitadas no espaço e no tempo, e que não mais dependam da interação física e simultânea de seus participantes, perfeitamente aceitável na atual dimensão das interações sociais, está ainda longe de ser consistentemente recepcionada pela legislação societária nacional. Uma análise abrangente dos efeitos para o mercado Brasileiro dos limites de uma magistral, mas já trintária lei societária, em contraste com o impacto do desenvolvimento financeiro e tecnológico experimentado pelo mundo em anos recentes, já era, assim, mais do que devida. Este estudo procura, assim, fazer frente a essa necessidade ao identificar alguns dos sinais de defasagem da lei societária e colocá-los em discussão.For the first time in history the country is dealing with a real, although restricted, tendency of corporate dispersion, and a certain level of popularization of the investment in listed companies, all stimulated by an unprecedented expansion of the economy, consumption, and foreign investments. It has been indeed a fascinating period for the corporate law enthusiasts; a period of growing complexity and specialization in the national corporate environment, which, altogether with the new communication technologies, has been challenging the foundations of the Brazilian Corporation Law, enacted in 1976, and testing the capacity of adaption of Brazilian legal and regulatory institutions. In this scenario, studying the mechanisms of voting, proxy solicitation, and remote voting and participation in shareholders meetings, seemed to be the most natural way to contribute to build a bridge between the old Brazilian market and the new one. The main contributions expected from the thesis are threefold: First, an inaugural analysis of the new legislation and regulation applicable to proxy voting, remote voting and participation in Brazil. The analysis concluded for the necessity of certain adjustments on the Brazilian regulation, e.g. (i) the construction of a discipline for the inclusion of shareholders proposals in the management proxy material, and (ii) the enactment of rules governing remote voting and participation that assumes them as a right of the shareholder, while consenting to the companies certain flexibility of implementation connected to the development of the technologies available. Second, a thorough and also seminal study on the effects of the decoupling of shares ownership and exercise of voting rights in the contemporary market, and a contribution to update the scientific comprehension of the act of voting in corporate law, rather than simply the comprehension of the right to vote. While the Brazilian law and regulation are in certain aspects still trying to catch up with modern markets regulation, concerning the assimilation of new communication and financial technologies by the corporate legal framework, the local transactions already involve the most updated and complex financial instruments. The legal gap created, and concretely identified in cases as the lending of stocks, the use of derivatives instruments, and the sale of votes, puts in risk the stability of the market and destabilizes the discipline of liability for the abusive use of voting power as Brazilian law and courts are used to know, as the link between share ownership and vote are not as clear as before. The study seeks to bring to light these issues and to realign the scientific comprehension of voting with the current markets practices. Third, a first questioning of the Brazilian Corporation Law capacity to face a reality where there may be no power polarization between an absolute controlling shareholder and small minority shareholders, and where historical necessities of physicality and concomitance are, as a consequence of the new means of communication, no longer mandatory elements of the concepts connected to the relationship among shareholders, management, and the company. The study verifies that Brazilian Corporation Law is not prepared for a reality where there may be no clear controlling shareholders anymore and where minority shareholders may not be an uninformed small investor, but a resourceful hedge fund. On the same token, the idea of a shareholder meeting that is not delimited in space and time, and that does not depend on the physical and simultaneous interaction between parties, perfectly acceptable by our current society, is still far from any consistent reception by the corporation legal framework. A comprehensive analysis on the effects for the Brazilian markets of the limits of a great but old law, in contrast with the impact of recent years financial and technological development, were more than due. This study aims to fulfill this scientific gap, identifying some of the items in need of updating and starting discussion over them.
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Holland, Aneatra. "Nonprofit Leaders' Strategies in Capturing the Attention of Committed, Large Donors." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3227.
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Few U.S. nonprofit organizations meet annual operational costs. Facing government funding cuts, U.S. nonprofit leaders have had to seek other revenue streams to remain operable and ensure that the clients they serve continue to receive support. Leaders often seek out large donors but lack strategies for successfully doing so. The purpose of this multiple case study was to explore the strategies successful nonprofit leaders have used to capture the attention of committed, large donors in Southern California. Government failure theory and independence theory constituted the conceptual framework. The purposeful sampling method consisted of 3 nonprofit agency managers who had operated a nonprofit for at least 5 years, while securing a longstanding partnership of large, committed donors. These managers substantiated having met the criteria in having successfully gained committed large donor(s), and operating in a geographic setting with no less than 50,000 residents. Data included participant interviews and company websites. Transcribed data were analyzed by comparing meanings that formulated clusters into themes, and then triangulated across sources to bolster the trustworthiness of interpretations. From these clusters, 5 distinctive themes were identified: cultivating donors, building personal relationships with donors, promoting the mission, understanding relationship contribution, and detailing directly what the donation will accomplish. Findings impact social change by fortifying nonprofits with committed large donors, to reduce need in society, and create greater financial independence within communities.
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Brundage, Kimberly A. "Understanding the Role of Emotions and Social Influences in Charitable Giving Decisions." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1417865883.
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Lacan, Camille. "Les déterminants de la décision d'émettre du bouche-à-oreille sollicité : le cas des contributeurs à une campagne de financement participatif." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PSLED055.
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Portés par l’évolution rapide d’Internet, les réseaux sociaux sont devenus de nouveaux moyens d’expression pour émettre et consulter des communications de bouche-à-oreille (BAO). Les marketeurs sont intéressés pour mieux utiliser ce BAO dans une politique de communication. Ils élaborent pour cela des stratégies de « sollicitation » consistant à demander à une personne de recommander une offre à ses proches en vue d’atteindre un but. Si l’utilisation de sollicitations se développe, la question de la réponse d’un individu à une sollicitation de BAO reste en suspens. En se basant sur la théorie du comportement dirigé vers un but (Perugini & Bagozzi, 2001), cette recherche propose un modèle général de la réponse à une sollicitation de BAO qui intègre l’influence de la formulation de la sollicitation (gains vs. pertes), de l’éloignement de l’échéance et du type de projet. Le modèle est testé dans le contexte des campagnes de financement participatif où la sollicitation de BAO est fréquemment utilisée pour augmenter le faible taux de succès des campagnes (20%). Les résultats de six études montrent que (1) les individus répondent plus favorablement à une sollicitation de BAO quand l’échéance est proche et que cet effet dépend de la formulation de la sollicitation. (2) En adaptant la formulation à l’éloignement de l’échéance, une sollicitation est en mesure de rendre l’action de BAO plus désirable et de générer une émotion anticipée de fierté ce qui en retour augmente l’intention de BAO. L’effet modérateur du niveau de risque social est aussi validé dans la réponse à la sollicitation. (3) Finalement, la sollicitation de BAO permet bien de développer la visibilité et d’accroître le succès d’une campagneDriven by the rapid evolution of the Internet, online social networks have become new channels of expression to issue and consult Word-of-Mouth (WOM). Marketers are increasingly interested in better using WOM in a communication policy. They develop strategies of “solicitation” for asking a person a recommendation of an offer to his family and acquaintances in order to achieve a goal. If the use of solicited WOM is growing, the question of an individual's response to a WOM solicitation remains unsettled. Drawing on Goal-Directed Behaviour theory (Perugini & Bagozzi, 2001), this research proposes a general model of the response to a WOM solicitation which integrates the influence of the solicitation formulation (gain vs loss), time remaining before the deadline and the type of project. The model is tested in the context of crowdfunding where a WOM solicitation is frequently used to increase the campaigns' low success rate (20%). The results of six studies show that (1) individuals respond more favourably to a WOM solicitation when the deadline is close and that effect depends on the formulation. (2) By adapting the formulation to the deadline, a solicitation is able to make the WOM action more desirable and generate an anticipated emotion of pride which in turn increases the WOM intention. The moderating effect of social risk is also validated in the response to a solicitation. (3) Finally, a WOM solicitation makes it possible to develop the visibility and increases the campaign' success rate
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Martin, Pauline. "Plasticity and damage mechanisms in specific multiphased steels with bainitic matrix under various mechanical loading paths : influence of temperature." Thesis, Normandie, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019NORMC227.
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Ce travail de thèse porte sur les mécanismes de plasticité et d'endommagement des aciers complexe-phase (CP). La microstructure bainitique de ces aciers, permets d’acquérir de bonnes propriétés de formabilité, qui intéressent les constructeurs automobiles. Cependant, la complexité de ces microstructures, qui se caractérisent par une grande quantité de joints de grains et une densité élevée de dislocations, influence la plasticité et les mécanismes d'endommagement. Afin d'estimer l'impact de la microstructure, une étude des caractéristiques métallurgiques des aciers à phases complexes est réalisée. Les mécanismes de plasticité sont ensuite étudiés par des tests de tension-compression afin d’étudier les mécanismes d’écrouissage du matériau. Ensuite, l’évolution de l’endommagement au sein de la microstructure est analysée à différente taux de triaxialité des contraintes afin d’obtenir la fraction de surface volumique ainsi que le nombre et le diamètre moyen des vides en fonction de la déformation plastique. Enfin, pour examiner la stabilité thermique de ces paramètres (microstructure, plasticité et endommagement), des expériences sont effectuées dans une plage de températures allant de 20 ° C à 600 ° CThis PhD work investigates plasticity and damage mechanisms of complex phase steels. The bainitic microstructures of such steels, which feature retained austenite islands, result in these steels exhibiting good formability properties, which are of interest to automotive companies. However, the complexity of these microstructures, which are characterised by a high amount of grain boundaries and a high density of dislocations, influences plasticity and damage mechanisms. In order to estimate the impact of a steel's microstructure on these properties, the investigation of metallurgical features of complex phase steels provided by the company Faurecia is performed. Plasticity mechanisms are then investigated by tension-compression tests to determine the influence of long- and short-range interactions on the motion dislocation. Thereafter, the evolution of damage within microstructures is analysed at different stress triaxialities in order to obtain the volume area fraction and the number and average diameter of voids as functions of plastic strain. Finally, to examine the thermal stability of these parameters (microstructure, plasticity, and damage), experiments are performed at a range of temperatures between 20°C and 600°C
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Schulz, Anja, Emilia Bergen, Petya Schuhmann, and Jürgen Hoyer. "Social Anxiety and Loneliness in Adults Who Solicit Minors Online." Sage, 2017. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A35392.
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This study examined the association of social anxiety, loneliness, and problematic Internet use (PIU) with the online solicitation of minors. Within a convenience sample of adult Internet users from Germany, Finland, and Sweden (N = 2,828), we compared the responses of participants who had not interacted sexually with strangers online (n = 2,049) with participants who sexually interacted with unknown adults online (n = 642), and both groups with adults who sexually solicited unknown minors online (n = 137). Online sexual interaction with adults was associated with higher levels of social anxiety, loneliness, and PIU compared with not sexually interacting with strangers online. Sexually soliciting minors online was associated with higher levels of social anxiety, loneliness, and PIU compared with sexually interacting with adults and not sexually interacting with strangers at all. Interestingly, compared with those with adult contacts, loneliness was specifically pronounced for participants who solicited children, whereas social anxiety and PIU were pronounced for participants soliciting adolescents. These findings suggest that social anxiety, loneliness, and PIU may be among the motivators for using the Internet to solicit individuals of different age groups for sexual purposes. These factors emerged as specifically relevant for adults who sexually solicited minors and who reported greater impairments compared with adults who sexually interacted with adults. These characteristics may thus be important to consider for assessment and treatment procedures for individuals soliciting minors online.
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Kuhr, Brittanie Elizabeth. "Donor Perceptions of Cultivation and Stewardship at Lourdes University." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1430428438.
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Gourcilleau, Delphine. "Etude des étapes précoces de la mécanoperception chez le peuplier." Phd thesis, Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand II, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00653354.
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Afin de survivre dans un environnement fluctuant, les plantes ont développé la capacité de percevoir et de répondre à des stimuli externes divers et parfois extrêmes. Les sollicitations mécaniques jouent un rôle important au cours du développement des plantes et un nombre croissant d'études s'intéresse à la mécanoperception. Le dessin de la voie de signalisation entre la perception du signal et la régulation des gènes précoces reste incertain. Un modèle de la mécanoperception, proposant que la variable mécanoperçue soit la déformation de la membrane, a été vérifié à l'échelle de la plante entière mais doit être validé au niveau cellulaire. Pour cela, et afin d'identifier les acteurs moléculaires précoces de la réponse à la sollicitation mécanique, nous avons analysé la régulation du gène mécanosensible PtaZFP2 sur cultures cellulaires de peuplier. Le gène PtaZFP2 appartient à la famille multigénique des Q-type C2H2-ZFPs codant des facteurs de transcription putatifs et comprenant 16 membres chez le peuplier. Une analyse phylogénétique et l'analyse de l'expression de ces gènes en réponse à différents stress abiotiques ont montré l'existence de deux groupes phylogénétiques. Ils se différencient par des doigts de zinc caractéristiques et deux nouveaux motifs protéiques (MALEAL et LVDCHY) spécifiques à chacun des groupes. Cette étude nous a également permis d'identifier un autre gène, PtaZFP1, proche phylogénétiquement de PtaZFP2 et fortement induit par une flexion. Après avoir mis au point un système de sollicitation mécanique sur cultures cellulaires, nous avons démontré l'implication du calcium, des calmodulines, des jasmonates et du H2O2 dans l'induction précoce du gène PtaZFP2 par un signal mécanique. Nos travaux suggèrent également l'existence d'une interaction entre la NADPH oxydase (enzyme impliquée dans la production d'EAO) et les calmodulines en amont de PtaZFP2. Finalement, des résultats préliminaires suggèrent une localisation nucléaire de cette protéine et une accumulation transitoire au sein des tiges 2h après une flexion. Les outils moléculaires produits au cours de ce travail (anticorps, protéines recombinantes) permettront de comprendre le rôle de PtaZFP2 dans cette voie de signalisation.
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Chennouf, Nawal. "Phénomènes de transfert de chaleur et de masse dans les composites de bois de palmier dattier : comportement sous sollicitations dynamiques." Thesis, Paris Est, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PESC0012.
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Promouvoir le béton à base de bois de palmier dattier (DPC) dans la construction neuve et dans la rénovation des bâtiments existants nécessite en premier lieu une caractérisation complète de son comportement hygrothermique à multi échelle (matériau, paroi et bâtiment). Dans ce travail de thèse, le comportement hygrothermique du béton de bois palmier dattier a été étudié expérimentalement à l'échelle matériau, puis à l'échelle mur. Dans une première partie, les isothermes d’adsorption-désorption ainsi que l’effet d’hystérésis du DPC ont été caractérisés dans des conditions statiques. Les résultats recueillis ont révélé une capacité hydrique élevée de ce matériau par rapport à d’autres matériaux de construction. Par ailleurs, la valeur du tampon hydrique et l'effet de la température sur les cycles successifs d'adsorption / désorption ont également été évalués dans des conditions dynamiques. Il a été constaté que le processus de sorption est fortement affecté par la variation de la température. Les résultats obtenus ont permis de classer le DPC comme un matériau hygroscopique possédant une excellente capacité de régulation d’humidité. Dans la deuxième partie de la thèse, le comportement hygrothermique d’un mur en DPC a été étudié expérimentalement à l’aide d’une chambre climatique. Plusieurs scénarios de variations de température et d'humidité relative ont été appliqués sur une seule face du mur. Les variations de la température et d'humidité à différentes profondeurs de la paroi ont été mesurées à l'aide de capteurs. Plusieurs phénomènes thermo-hydriques ont été mis en évidence tels que l'effet du couplage de transfert de chaleur et d'humidité relatif aux phénomènes d'évaporation-condensation et d’adsorption-désorption. En outre, une inertie thermique et hydrique importante a été observée à travers le mur de DPC, ce qui permet de limiter la surchauffe et de réduire la condensation interstitielle pour des constructions durablesPromoting the date palm concrete in new constructions and renovating buildings requires a full hygrothermal characterization at several scales (material, wall and building). In this thesis, the hygrothermal behavior of date palm concrete was experimentally investigated, firstly at material scale then at wall scale. In the first part, the adsorption-desorption isotherms and the hysteresis effect of DPC were characterized under static conditions.The results revealed a high hygric capacity for this material compared with other classical building materials. The moisture buffer value and the effect of temperature on successive adsorption/desorption cycles were also assessed under dynamic conditions. It was found that the sorption process is highly affected by the temperature. Furthermore, this bio-based mortar was classified as hygroscopic and breathable material with excellent moisture buffer capacity. In the second part of the thesis, we have experimentally investigated the hygrothermal behavior at wall scale. The investigation was performed using a climatic chamber where the variation of temperature and relative humidity were applied on one side of the wall. These both parameters were measured at different depths of the biobased wall using sensors. Several thermo-hygric phenomena were highlighted such as the high coupling effect between the heat and moisture transfer due to the evaporation-condensation and adsorption-desorption phenomena. Besides, significant thermal and hygric inertia was observed through the DPC wall which allows mitigating overheating and reducing interstitial condensation for sustainable constructions
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Bisschop, Hervé de. "Se former à diriger en situations de formations simulées de haute intensité : une activité de présence à soi et à autrui : une approche par l’activité : le cas des stages d’aguerrissement suivis par les élèves-officiers de l’École Militaire InterArmes." Thesis, Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020UBFCH011.
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Cette recherche s’intéresse à l’activité « apprendre à diriger » à partir de l’étude d’une formation entraînant des professionnels à savoir agir face à l’imprévu, l’inattendu, l’incertain, voir l’insoutenable.À partir des théories de l’activité et plus spécifiquement du cadre théorique et méthodologique du cours d’action (Theureau 2004, 2006, 2009), elle tente de saisir, décrire, comprendre et expliquer : (i) comment s’organise la structure de cette activité, (ii) en quoi les différentes dimensions somatiques, affectives et cognitives participent aux apprentissages des acteurs, et enfin (iii) quelles sont les différentes catégories de situations génératrices de perturbations.Nous y soutenons la thèse qu’apprendre à diriger au sein de dispositifs de formations simulés de haute intensité conduit les individus, par une mise à l’épreuve, à déployer des apprentissages par corps, qui participent à la transformation de leur manière d’être au monde dans le sens d’une vigilance à soi et aux autres, qui n’est autre qu’une coprésence à ce qui est et advientThis PhD dissertation examines the activity “learning how to command” thanks to a study of professionals undergoing training to learn how to face unpredictable, unexpected, uncertain, and even unbearable situations.This dissertation relies on theories of activity and more specifically on theories and methodologies of action course (Theureau 2004, 2006, 2009), and aims at grasping, describing, understanding, and explaining: (i) the structure of that activity, (ii) how the different somatic, affective and cognitive dimensions participate in the learning processes of participants, and finally (iii), what the different categories ofsituations generating perturbations are.This PhD dissertation argues that learning how to command within high-intensity simulated training environments lead individuals to experientally deploy learning activities involving their body. In turn, that bodily learning participates to the transformation of the individuals’ being in the world and to the development of both self and other-oriented forms of vigilance. Such a vigilance can only be described as a co-presence to what takes and will take place
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Dufour, Maxime. "Clauses contractuelles et non-concurrence : approche de droit des affaires." Thesis, Bordeaux, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016BORD0316.
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Dans notre monde actuel, les entreprises utilisent, pour se prémunir de toute atteinte et protéger au maximum leurs intérêts économiques, des techniques contractuelles élaborées par la pratique telles que les clauses de non-concurrence, les clauses de confidentialité, les clauses de non-réaffiliation et les clauses de non sollicitation.Ces clauses occupent de multiples champs de l’activité contractuelle en mêlant le droit des contrats, le droit des affaires et le droit du travail. Elles visent à interdire au cocontractant, d’exercer une activité professionnelle, de divulguer des informations secrètes, ou encore d’embaucher certains collaborateurs. Ainsi, elles viennent limiter une liberté fondamentale, plus spécialement la liberté du commerce et de l’industrie. Dès lors, il semble nécessaire d’élaborer un régime juridique commun à toutes ces clauses afin de préserver d’un coté la protection de l’activité économique des entreprises et de l’autre la sauvegarde de la liberté économique des contractants soumis à de telles clauses. L’intérêt d’un régime commun est d’anticiper les conditions de validité et de mise en œuvre des ce type de clauses. De cette façon, la prévisibilité ne ferait plus défaut aux contractants. L’élaboration de ce droit commun passe par deux étapes. La première est relative à l’identification des clauses limitatives de concurrence. Il s’agit de saisir leur autonomie par rapport aux contrats dans lesquels elles peuvent être insérées et d’en tirer les conséquences au niveau leur validité. La seconde est relative à la mise en œuvre de ces clauses. Leur application est délicate car dépendante pour une grande partie de la précision de leur contenu. En cas de non-respect, un vaste choix de remèdes est offert au contractant déçu pour venir sanctionner le manquement contractuel constatéIn the modern world, to guard themselves from damage and to protect at best their economical interests, companies use contractual techniques developed by usage such as non-compete clauses,confidentiality clauses, non-reaffiliation clauses and non-solicitation clauses. These clauses cover many fields of contractual legality, mixing contract law, labor law and business law. Their aim is to prohibit the co-contractor to practice a professional activity, to disclose secret information, or even to employ specific colleagues, or contributors. Thus, they are brought to restrict a fundamental freedom, specifically the freedom of trade and of industry. As a result, it appears necessary to formulate a common legal system for all these clauses so as to preserve on one side the protection of the economic activity of the companies et on the other side the safeguard of the economic freedom of the co-contractors subject to these clauses. The benefit of a common legal system is the anticipation of the conditions of validity and implementation of this type of clause. In this way, the cocontractants will not lack in foresight. The development of this common right is in two steps. This includes confirming their autonomy relative to the contracts in which they may be inserted and draw the necessary conclusions regarding their validity. The second step is relative to the implementation of these clauses. Their application is sensitive because it depends for the most part on the precision of their content. In case of a breach of contract, a large array of legal remedies is available to the aggrieved contractor to penalize the breach of contract
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(9873176), Quang Dao. "Addressing the Recommender System Data Solicitation Problem with Engaging User Interfaces." Thesis, 2020.
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With autonomous systems bringing greater demand for user data, in some
applications, this also brings an opportunity to solicit data from users. To exploit this, a user
interface will need to be designed to coax the user into achieving system
goals, like data solicitation. One approach is to design a system to leverage
an already present tendency for people to socially interact with technology. In this thesis, I argue that such an approach would involve
incorporating interaction concepts that facilitate engagement into the design
of recommender system interfaces that will improve the likelihood of obtaining
data from users. To support this claim, I synthesize past work on
human-computer interaction and recommender systems to derive a framework to
guide scientific investigations into interface design concepts that will
address the data solicitation problem.
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KUO, SHANG-WEI, and 郭上維. "Case Study of Takeover Contest-From tender offer & proxy solicitation." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/11182865595736237833.
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碩士國立交通大學
管理學院財務金融學程
104
Tender offer and proxy solicitation are the most common practice in takeover contest. Tender offer system originated in the west. In 1988 our Securities Exchange Act (SEA) was amended, introducing this system from the west. Later, lawmakers had the authorities promulgate ”Regulations Governing Public Tender Offers for Securities of Public Companies” to regulate this system. Since the above mentioned regulations was set on Sept 5, 1995, it had been amended 9 times in just 20 years, which proves that our tender offer system is still on development stage, and overall caseload is inadequate compared to the west.Therefore, many related law issues need to be solved. Furthermore, when it comes to unsolicited tender offer (hostile takeover), what kinds of responsibility and liability should the directors of target company take for? Can those various offense measures developed by US companies be applied in domestic case? Should the right to execute offense measures belong to shareholders’ meeting or just to board of directors? The regulations concerning all above matters are still in lack. As for proxy system, it has decoupled from the original purpose and turned into a tactic in takeover contest. By means of proxy solicitation, some shareholders can control a company even though their actual holdings are just a few, which might deeply impact internal stability and normal operation in a company and damage the majority of shareholders. Moreover, under the current Company Act, the unbalance in information gathering between company side and market side makes proxy system harder to function originally. All in all, the aim of this paper is to point out related law issues through 3 cases discussion (tender offer by ASE Group to SPIL; the battles between company side & market side within CPDC and SYM) and raise several possible amending suggestions, such as to heighten liability of directors, to publish the register of shareholders and so on, which hopefully could be adopted as reference in planning regulations.
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Yu-YunHo and 何宥昀. "Contests for Corporate Control and Directors' Fiduciary Duties: Focusing on Proxy Solicitation." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/49287290714523106817.
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碩士國立成功大學
法律學系
100
Abstract Due to the scandals of corporations in Taiwan and the United States in these years, it becomes more important to know how to balance between monitoring mechanism and efficiency. And that’s why the concept of “corporation governance“ is well discussed all over the world. In the United States, One usually takes over the corporation by tender offer; however, one in Taiwan uses tender offer as well, but other than that, proxy is another way to get to the same purpose. By the use of proxy, in the good way, one could replace the improper incumbents; but on the other, one could also abuse the power of proxy, and do harm to the corporation. Prof. Loss said that “Unregulated, it is an open invitation to self-perpetuation and irresponsibility of management. Properly circumscribed, it may well turn out to be the salvation of the modern corporate system.”, therefore how to regulate the use of proxy becomes a major issue which needs to be discussed. The use of proxy is quite often In Taiwan, but the regulation still has some improvement to be done, such as the neutral of proxy rules, the shareholder list, and the expense of proxy solicitation. Therefore by introducing the regulation in the United States, we will know which concepts could be improved in Taiwan, and can also look into the fiduciary duty of directors at the same time. Last by these real cases happened in Taiwan, we can apply the theory mentioned above in order to examine the possibility of applying same rule. Keywords: corporation governance, tender offer, proxy system, regulations of proxies, shareholder’s list, souvenir of shareholders’ meeting, expense of proxy solicitation, fiduciary duty
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Lin, Hsien-Chou, and 林䜢州. "How Consumers Value Stickers: The Tradeoff Decision between Payment and Advertisement Solicitation." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/xv982k.
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碩士國立臺灣科技大學
工業管理系
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Although previous studies have investigated advertising avoidance in traditional media and on the internet there have been little investigation of advertising on instant messaging apps. Advertising media changed extremely since internet explosively growth little is known about internet user behavior toward advertising on the internet, much less what characterizes consumers these attitude toward? A smartphone become more and more popular uses of social media on the mobile devices have grown explosively. Most popular instant message App in Taiwan LINE provided not only text but same like sticker、animation、picture and video consumers could send/receive in one click. Previous studies have investigated purchase intention on LINE sticker design in various way but few of them emphasized the sticker commerce model “Add friend, get free sticker” the relationship between prices and be advertised. In this study, we developed a research framework based on the price level and period of time consumer accept to be advertised of a popular social mobile messaging app LINE. The purpose of this research is to study the relationship between sticker price and acceptance level agree to “Add friend, get free sticker” awareness within advertising avoidance. To test this, an in country sample of over 600 participates with at least LINE users tested via online survey. We examined hypothesis in theoretical model. The results revealed no significant correction of price level with advertising duration in gender. Though gender is not significantly, generation under 25 years old performing higher acceptance level of advertising disruption especially for younger male.
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Hsu, Kang-ting, and 徐綱廷. "The impacts of the amendments of the "proxy rule" on the proxy solicitation." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/27752207099984894584.
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碩士國立成功大學
會計學系碩博士班
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The proxy solicitation plays an important role in the corporate governance. Therefore, finding the way to improve its efficiency is a great task. Many studies focus on the origins and the effects of the proxy solicitation, however, rare is for the regulations. In order to detect the relationship between the regulations and the proxy solicitation in Taiwan, we study the impacts of the amendments of Taiwan’s “ Regulations Governing the Use of Proxies for Attendance at Shareholder Meetings of Public Companies”(the proxy rule) on proxy solicitation, board characteristics and operating performance. We intend to examine whether the amendments made by the legislature is in right direction, and to determine whether the purpose of the amendments has been achieved. The results of this study can provide empirical evidence for legistators in later amendment for the proxy rule. Based on the companies listed in the Taiwan Stock Exchange in the period starting from January 2003 to December 2006, we get the following empirical results: 1. The board characters could be improved when there are at least one dissident in the board. 2. The dissidents can improve the corporate governance and the operating performance. 3. The amendments of the “proxy rule” can induct more dissidents into the boards to replace the current poor-performed directors.
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CHUANG, WEI-CHENG, and 莊崴幀. "A Study on Operational Risk Management of Solicitation Documents for Life Insurance Agent." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/gdd3gx.
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碩士逢甲大學
金融碩士在職學位學程
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According to Article 8 of the Insurance Act: " The term "insurance agent" as used in this Act means a person who, on the basis of a contract of agency or a letter of authorization, collects remuneration from an insurer and acts as a business agent on the insurer's behalf." A insurance agent who acts as a business agent on the insurer's behalf should take due care of the attention of the good manager and be responsible for the scope of the agency contract when operating or executing the business. However, in practice, insurance agents still have the omissions in the implementation of the new contract document control, acceptance, and preservation. This has caused the high notification ratio of insurance companies, and the number of cases of administrative sanctions imposed by the competent authorities. In fact, these problems that arise in the work of new contract documents can all be managed through appropriate internal work processes, so that effective job risk control can be implemented and insurance agent job risk can be reduced. This study uses the documentary analysis to analyze and summarize life insurance agent's new contract document operation risk and operational risk management mechanism. Afterwards, using the case analysis to explain how to use the new contract document operation risk management mechanism and supplement the risk management process to achieve the effect of operational risk management when accepting new contract documents. The study found that the risk of the new contract document can indeed be managed through the risk management process to reduce the possibility of operational risk, as well as to optimize the quality of acceptance of the new contract document, so as to enable the company to develop a sound business.
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Chang, Hsin-Fang, and 張馨方. "Proxy Solicitation, Board Reelection, and Shareholders’Wealth：Market-adjusted vs. Non-market-adjusted Empirical Findings." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/kumm2w.
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碩士朝陽科技大學
財務金融系碩士班
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Proxy solicitation is the most often used means to obtain corporate control in Taiwan. It is for this reason that proxy solicitation constructs the subject of the present study. The present study utilizes 886 proxy solicitation associated with listed-companies on Taiwan Securities Exchange（TAIEX）during 1994-2004 to re-examine the impact of proxy solicitation on shareholders’ wealth by use of both market-adjusted and non-market-adjusted methods. Following Gili Yen（1992）, the present study adopts listed companies without proxy solicitation as the control group. The major empirical findings are as follows：First, when compared with listed companies without proxy solicitation, it is found that the proxy solicitation is not beneficial to shareholders. Second, based on matched-group comparison taking into account the outcomes of the board re-election, the empirical findings arising from two estimation methods are different. Third, whether the capital market can effectively anticipate the outcomes of board reelection, the evidence is also inconclusive. Based on the about reported somewhat unexpected findings, some further studies are called for.
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Chi, Hsiu-Feng, and 紀秀鳳. "The Impact of Proxy Solicitation on Shareholder’s Wealth: Evidence from Listed Corporation in Taiwan." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/03473104863181754397.
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碩士淡江大學
國際貿易學系國際企業學碩士在職專班
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According to Corporate Law No. 174, “decisions of stockholders’ meetings, should be attended by a quorum of over half the shareholders of all issued shares, and shall be agreed to by over half of those present.” Yet, domestic listed companies have a decreasing ratio of shares held by board members, so when the listed company wants to hold stockholders’ meetings, they must find ways to piece together over half of the share ownership. Those unable to do so only have two methods: buy stocks from the market or conduct proxy solicitation. Proxy solicitation is the most commonly used method in Taiwan and it is also one of the methods that incur the least expenses. If the listed company only seeks to hold stockholders’ meetings, then the costs are lower. If the company seeks to have elections of board members, and there are internal conflicts in the company or if a third party without goodwill seeks to intervene in the company management rights, proxy solicitation becomes an important means for the company to acquire company management rights. Thus, this study hopes to explore the influences of proxy solicitation and changes in management rights on investors, in hopes of providing investors with correct concepts. After empirical analysis, the conclusions are as follows: 1. Sample company with board seat elections had greater shareholder wealth increase than the sample company without board seat elections, and the difference between the two achieved statistical significance. 2. Two sample companies with change management rights and no change in management rights both had significant positive accumulated abnormal return. Also, the sample company with changes in management rights had a greater accumulated abnormal return than the sample company with no changes in management rights, but it was not statistically significant. 3. The sample companies with higher and lower cash ratio, both had significant positive accumulated abnormal return. Also, the sample company with higher cash ratio, in comparison to the sample company with lower cash ratio, had a greater effect on shareholder wealth, and the difference is statistically significant. 4.The study indicates that the EPS is significantly negative relative to the shareholders’ wealth of the proxy solicitation company in statistics. The lower the EPS is, the higher the unusual return would be. This also means that the company with poor performance would have a hard time in proxy soliciting.
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Hsu, Yue-Ling, and 徐玉玲. "The Policy Evaluation of“Standards of Outstanding Performance Troupe Solicitation and Award Plan”for Hsinchu City." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/52117429442962707538.
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碩士國立臺北藝術大學
藝術行政與管理研究所
104
During the past two decades, in order to enhance the performance abilities of the performing arts industry,there have been various subsidy policies to be arranged by central and local governments. Among the initiatives, “Standards of Outstanding Performance Troupe Solicitation and Award Plan” is a subsidiary owned by Ministry of Culture (MOC) aiming at improving performing arts in each county, its main objectives are supporting the cultural affairs bureaus in local governments to build capabilities and award excellent performing groups. Hence, local performing arts groups will be enable to stabilize their administrative operation, enhance professional standards of creativity, expand the size of performing arts audience, of performing arts resources. Cultural Affairs Bureau of Hsinchu City Government has executed the support and award plans for outstanding performing groups according to“CCA Directions of Subsidies for Municipalities and County(City) Governments”(1996), “ Standards of Outstanding Performance Troupe Solicitation for Counties”(1998), and “MOC Subsidy Directions for Performing Arts”.Therefore, this study is focusing on the in-depth interviews towards the managers and staff in Cultural Affairs Bureau, and seven remarkable performing arts group which are selected by Hsinchu City Government. By utilizing six indicators of policy evaluations – effectiveness, efficiency, adequacy, equity, responsiveness and appropriateness as the basic structure of framing analysis and recommendations, with the opinions from policy stakeholders. This study found that adequate funding, rehearsal room and performance area are the most urgent issues that require assistance. There are over 50 performing arts groups registered in Hsinchu, however, lesser than 15 groups are able to attend the selection by Hsinchu City Government. The main reason has been lack of funds.The inconsistency of the application timeline & procedures over the past years, no orientation has been hold, the flaws in the evaluations mechanisms…..the specified groups regard this title of “Outstanding performing arts groups” only has symbolic meanings but doesn’t be related to essential supports. This study suggests that Cultural Affairs Bureau should extend the subsidiary budget to increase the participating incentives for performing arts groups, implement cultivation of art talent and art inheritance, execute rating systems and consummate application processes. On the other hand, performing arts groups should also enhance team management and abilities of administration and planning, actively build collaboration relationships with enterprises and establish cross-county alliances. In that case, the policies can be well-implemented and achieve the anticipating benefits.
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Hsieh, Sheng-Ying, and 謝昇穎. "An Empirical Study of Whether Abnormal Returns Do Exist When Companies Have Impact of Proxy Solicitation." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/2fb6uw.
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碩士銘傳大學
管理研究所碩士在職專班
95
This research utilizes the Event Study Method to discuss whether there is any abnormal return in stock prices when companies have their impact of proxy solicitation as well as the changes of the systematic risk before and after the proxy. After examining the data of 235 companies, it is found that abnormal returns do exist before and after the impact of proxy solicitation. However, systematic risks do not show many differences before and after the impact of proxy solicitation according to the data. Keywords: proxy solicitation, event study, announcement effects, systematic risk.
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Nian, Ya-wen, and 粘雅雯. "The Impact of Intent of Proxy Solicitation on Shareholders’ Wealth: An Empirical Analysis of TAIEX-listed Companies." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/34302934429846570661.
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碩士朝陽科技大學
企業管理系碩士班
93
The present thesis examines empirically the impact of intent of proxy solicitation on shareholders’ wealth. Following Yen’s studies (2003, 2004a), the sample of the present study consists of listed companies on TAIEX during the period 1997 to 2004. After grouping sampled firms into three mutually exclusive categories on the basis of intent of proxy solicitation, the present study examines the impact of proxy solicitation on shareholders’ wealth accordingly. The major empirical findings can be summarized as follows: 1.When compared with listed companies without proxy solicitation, the sampled firms with proxy solicitation with the intent to obtain corporate control is associated with a much greater gains in shareholder wealth. The inter-group differences as expected are statistically different at 0.05 level of significance. 2.When compared with listed companies without proxy solicitation, the sampled firms with proxy solicitation with the intent to take part in the decision-making is associated with a relatively larger gains in shareholder wealth. The inter-group differences as shown empirically are statistically different at 0.05 level of significance. 3.The sampled firms with proxy solicitation with the intent to guarantee the general meeting of shareholders can be held according to schedule are associated with a negative change in shareholder wealth. But the magnitude of change in shareholder wealth, as expected, is statistically insignificant.
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Huang, Cheng-Chung, and 黃正中. "The Study on Stockholders Convention to Exercises Stockholders Right of the Intermediate Establish Proxy Solicitation of Warrants." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/82sgq5.
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碩士銘傳大學
財務金融學系碩士在職專班
93
This paper attempts to deliberate upon what the resolved right of the communication of developed countries to establish proxy solicitation of warrants by Intermediates for Taiwan. Intermediates are useful to promote entrusted willing of stockholders and to advance the efficiency of corporate governance and then conform to international practices. Intermediates are helpful to stockholders that participate and exercise functions of the stockholders convention that for reduce convoked cost of stockholders convention, establish electronic proxy solicitation of warrants by communicated voting, expand shareholders voting right to contribute to promote corporal democracy, consolidate ability of corporate governance, correct mistake of stockholders that exchange warrants for souvenirs of stockholders convention for to make sure stockholders exercise resolving and voting rights in order to manifest functions of stockholders convention. In addition, Taiwan to be skilled at high technology and internet fields therefore we should apply technology of internet and Electronic Signatures in stockholders convention that for facilitate stockholders convention to take place by communication. This paper acquired conclusions and suggestions with inductively infer of warrants intermediates of UK, USA and Japan. Conclusions and suggestions as following: 1. To establish proxy solicitation of warrants of stockholders convention. 2. To assess performance of Intermediates of stockholders convention. 3. Supervision department and relate to units of securities should provide help and encourage issued companies co-operate with investors. Keyword：intermediates, warrants, corporate governance, communicated voting, corporal democracy, Electronic Signatures.
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Wu, Kuo Lun, and 吳國倫. "A Study on the Key Factors of Contract Award to Unreasonably Low Price Bids in Public Construction Solicitation." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/d5x9eq.
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碩士國防大學
運籌管理學系
103
" Awards Resulting In Unreasonably Low Price Bids " on the domestic public engineering is undoubtedly a negative impact, however, resulting in low bids and the reasons are many, construction firms face competitive pressure and market wind constantly reviewing government procurement system, in order to maintain the normal operation of the company, while cheap grab standard of behavior, it is an indisputable fact. Therefore, the engineering procurement staff should reduce information asymmetry and the omission of standard single misjudged the situation arising, detailed formulation and review of contract documents, contract documents to make more explicit the content and implementation of the supervision management mechanism in order to avoid speculative mentality manufacturers seek remuneration; Also, learn to create a key factor in the competitive nature of the market, the impact of firm size differences bidding strategy, prevention is still the organ manufacturer of low bids and engineering procurement staff if they can based on "public interest, purchasing benefits or professional judgment" to act, with the crisis management capability, actively managing partner, sincere negotiations to obtain mutual trust, in order to avoid future controversy problem. In this study, the transaction cost theory, principal-agent theory, incomplete contract theory, industrial organization theory and game theory as the basis, through literature review, supplemented explained the key factors causing low standard of looting, this study suggests that low bids and will intermediary internal and external factors and compliance disputes, and afterwards the relationship between transaction costs, mechanisms and trust relationships and supervision moderating effect; Secondly, military engineering Nations procurement staff as research subjects, collected questionnaires to search the entire data; Finally, the empirical results show that both have significant correlation between the internal factors and external factors and cheap grab mark; then mark also cheap grab and post transaction costs and compliance dispute presents significant effect, and supervision mechanism and any relationship does not regulate the relationship between phenomenal standard cheap grab and post transaction costs and compliance dispute between; this study and look forward to ways of reducing public works cheap grab the standard of the key factors and prevention, which allows contracting authorities reduce the provincial budget, vendor Get deserved profits and create a win-win situation.
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Chiang, Chien-Yi, and 江芊儀. "The Interactive Effect of Self-Efficacy and Leadership Self-Efficacy on Leaders' Empowering Behavior and Managerial Solicitation of Voice." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/hbm8mj.
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碩士元智大學
經營管理碩士班(領導學程)
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Leadership self-efficacy, was defined as the belief of one’s capability to execute the leader’s role (Bobbio & Manganelli, 2009). It will be important to support leaders be willing to face the challenge with organization. And there is the other concept of self-efficacy, general self-efficacy was defined as the belief of one’s capability to execute their own tasks. When the person changes the role and become a leader, how do these two different kinds of self-efficacy affect their leadership behavior? The purpose of this study is to exam that LSE may positively related to empowering leadership and improvement-oriented employee voice. Empowering leadership may positively influence the autonomy in work (Bennis & Townsend, 1997) and voice was defined as the positive and promotive behavior (Van Dyne & LePine, 1998), which were all important to the organization. More specifically, this paper demonstrated the interaction between leader’s self-efficacy and LSE. And how do leader’s self-efficacy influence the relationship between LSE and leadership behavior. Fifty-night sets of groups with 399 respondents were collected from workers in Taiwanese companies. Results shown that self-efficacy may weaken the relationship between LSE and improvement-oriented employee voice. Leaders with high LSE and lower self-efficacy may tend to accept voice.
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Tang, Li-Ghih, and 湯立治. "Studies on Listed or OTC-Listed Companies Annual General Meeting Matters: Proxy Solicitation and the Electronic Communication Voting System of Shareholders." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/26850563857125983237.
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碩士銘傳大學
管理學院高階經理碩士學程
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Listed or OTC-listed company normally use shareholders meeting souvenirs for soliciting minor shareholders’ proxy in order to smooth the annual general meeting (AGM). Because the major shareholder’s shares are much more concentrated, those minor shareholders don’t have the influence on the AGM agenda and are willing and are used to transfer the proxies to those proxy solicitors. With the technical progress and in order to encourage the minor shareholder’s willing to participate in AGM, the authority has developed and promoted the electronic communication voting system of shareholders since 2003. But the effect is not significant. The proxy solicitation still dominated the AGM proxy voting issue. This study analyzes the behavior of listed or OTC-listed companies and minor shareholders; the affect of transaction cost; and the listed or OTC-listed companies’ willing to using the electronic communication voting system. Through the analysis, the difficulty and consideration about promoting the electronic communication voting system are presented. Discriminate Analysis method is employed in this study and the results are as follows: 1.The willing for listed or OTC-listed companies to adapt the electronic communication voting system is not affect by the government’s policy, the system setting up cost, and the internet security, except for the control of proxy. That is because the control of proxy is the most important matter those listed or OTC-listed companies concerned; therefore, the more the minor shareholders’ participant in the AGM through the electronic communication voting system, the less the control power of proxy by the proxy solicitor, usually the major shareholders who run the company. 2.For those shareholders who have the willing to transfer the proxy right to proxy solicitor, the major consideration point is whether there are souvenirs or not. The welling to use the electronic communication voting system is not affected by the transaction cost, the earlier process, the internet security, the familiar with the website interface.
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Chen, Chi-hsing, and 陳崎星. "Intentions of Proxy Solicitation, Resistance from the Incumbent Management, and Long-term Stock Price Movements: An Empirical Analysis of the TSE-Listed Companies." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/06923311562420370975.
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碩士朝陽科技大學
企業管理系碩士班
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Abstract Following Yen’s (2003) study, the sample of the present study consists of listed companies on TSEC during the period 1997 to 2004 (under the same regulatory environment in which cash payment for proxy is for bidden). After grouping sampled firms into mutually exclusive categories on the basis of intentions of proxy solicitation and resistance from the incumbent management, the present study examines the impact of proxy solicitation on shareholders’ wealth by observing long-term stock price movements. The major empirical findings can be summarized as follows: 1. Concerning the intentions of proxy solicitation, regulations including raising the threshold of minimal shareholdings, lengthening the minimal shareholding period, reducing the number of shares to be represented, or making it more costly to send out the proxy materials all point to the position that the government views the incumbent is management superior to challenging management teams. In terms of long-term stock price movements, the present study finds the dissident groups do not have better performance record than that of the incumbent management. And no matter whether proxy contest aims for control, the presence of proxy solicitation exerts significant adverse effect on shareholders’ wealth. Based on the above reported empirical findings, the hypothesis that the incumbent management team is better than the challenging management teams has gained strong empirical support. 2. Concerning the resistance from the incumbent management, in terms of long-term stock price movements, the present study obtains the following empirical findings: the smallest reduction in shareholder wealth is associated with the group which dissidents are winning no seats; the largest reduction in shareholder wealth is associated with the group which dissidents are winning some seats; the magnitude of reduction in shareholder wealth falling somewhere in between for the group which dissidents are winning majority. Again, the hypothesis that the incumbent management is better than challenging management teams has gained strong empirical support.
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Kryštof, František. "Sexuálně motivovaná kybernetická kriminalita." Master's thesis, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-347080.
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1 Thesis title, keywords and abstract Thesis title: Sexually motivated cybercrime Keywords: cybercrime, virtual child pornography, sexting, pornographic performances, cyber grooming, sexual solicitation of children This master thesis deals with the issue of cybercrime against persons more specifically with sexually motivated crimes. The thesis is divided into five separate chapters. The first chapter deals with cybercrime in general, its taxonomy and the necessary terminology, it also describes some of the criminogenic factors of cybercrime relevant for the issue. The second chapter presents the most important applicable international legal instruments. The third chapter describes the issue of illicit pornography especially child pornography. For the subsequent chapters the author's own taxonomy was used and they overlap in part. The fourth chapter explores the phenomenon of sexting and the use of web cameras for sexual purposes as a consensual activity. In the fifth chapter the misuse of these activities for the purposes of child grooming, extortion and commercial sexual exploitation of children is examined. The chapters three to fine represent the core of the thesis and are outlined as follows: First, the criminological aspects are analyzed. Then some general thoughts on legal regulation of the given...