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McCollister, Robert Jarrett. "Summit diplomacy : the consequences of cold war summits /." The Ohio State University, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487776801319461.
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Naylor, Tristen A. "Closure games : the politics of clubs in international society." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e1e4c6f8-f163-43bf-9b87-5640db21f090.
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This thesis develops a theory of international social closure to examine (i) the politics of membership in status groups – or, clubs – in international society and (ii) the persistence of clubs in international society. This thesis offers new concepts to improve the English School’s understanding of international society, its expansion, and its reproduction. In so doing it also addresses limitations and gaps in the IR status literature and the global governance and diplomacy literatures concerned with clubs and networks. This thesis analyses strategies of exclusion, entry, and incorporation used by actors to deny, attempt, or grant inclusion into clubs as well as the institutional contexts underpinning those clubs. Specifically, this research undertakes a study of instances of exclusion, entry, and incorporation in the context of three clubs: the Family of Civilised Nations, the Great Powers club, and G-summitry. In the first two cases, this research relies primarily on secondary sources while in the case of G-summitry it presents original empirical research gathered through archival research, interviews, and ethnographic participant observation. This thesis presents four main conclusions about the operation of closure: (i) the logics of different closure games are defined by overarching normative institutions of international society; (ii) despite a collectivist closure rule, closure in international society is predominantly individualistic; (iii) actors seeking entry tend to employ deferential entry strategies that reproduce a stratified status quo order; and (iv) incorporation promotes stratification along both functional and cultural lines. This thesis also draws three specific conclusions that run counter to much current scholarship: (i) contemporary international society is neither more open nor less hierarchical than nineteenth century international society; (ii) hierarchy is reproduced to a large degree by entry and incorporation strategies rather than exclusion strategies; and (iii) closure does not run along a ‘west versus the rest’ fault line.
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Ewald, Robert Charles Jr. "The Summit Studios, LLC." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/579337.
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One line pitch: Capitalize on the decentralization of filmed entertainment production from California by rebuilding the Tucson film production infrastructure capable of supporting continuous production and augment the arts schools of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Arizona.
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Chawansky, Megan E. "Scaling Summitt : towards a feminist coaching methodology." Connect to resource, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1140639149.
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Voigt, Sonja. "World summit on the information society." Universität Potsdam, 2008. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2009/3655/.
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Johansson, Sävenberg David. "Projektering av ett LAN; Summit Kista." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad fysik och elektronik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-128699.
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Syftet med detta projekt är att bygga ett lokalt nätverk åt företaget Summit i stadsdelen Kista utanför Stockholm. Det lokala nätverket ska ha möjlighet att nyttjas av minst 400 kunder och det ska samtidigt vara stabilt och säkert. Projektarbetet startades med en förstudie där jag tog fram viktig information kring olika metoder som kan användas för att bygga nätverk. Under projektets gång har jag valt ut lämplig hårdvara efter min kravspecifikation, konfigurerat hårdvaran och dokumenterat nätverket efter hur det är uppbyggt. När jag var klar med konfigurationen och dokumentationen av nätet installerade jag allt på plats i byggnaden. Resultatet av projektet var en stor succé med ett fullt fungerande nätverk och med alla dess krav uppfyllda. Kraven handlar om allt från hastighet på nätverket till hur nätet är uppdelat för bästa säkerhet kring känslig data.<br>The purpose of this project is to build a local area network for Summit, a company in Kista outside the city of Stockholm, which is also for the use of their customers. The aim was that the local area network should be usable by at least 400 customers simultaneously and that the LAN should be both reliable and secure. I began the project with a pilot study where I researched different methods I could use to help me build the network. Over the course of the project I chose hardware that was suitable for the network’s needs; I configured it; and I documented the whole network. When I was finished with the configuration and documentation I installed the whole network in the building. The result of this project is a huge success as a fully working local area network. I also managed to implement all the network’s needs described in the specification: everything from the network’s speed to how the network is segmented for the most secure way of handling sensitive data.
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Westlund, Robin. "Kontrollerad interaktion för kreativare möten : Summit Flexiwall." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för teknik- och naturvetenskap, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-14233.
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During the spring semester 2012 Robin Westlund has accomplished “Controlled interaction for more creative meetings - Summit Flexiwall” with the individual focus on social communication based on visual interaction in future office. The project was a part of the course Degree Project for degree of Bachelor of Science in Innovation and Design Engineering (MSGC12) which includes 22,5 ECTS Credits. The course is a part in the program Innovation and Design Engineering program within the Faculty of Technology and Science at Karlstad University. Assigner of the project was Moelven Eurowand AB with their head office in Örebro. The company manufactures and assembles entire room solutions for offices. Supervisor at the company was Pernilla Irewhärn. Supervisor at Karlstads University was adjunct and program holder Monica Jakobsson. Examiner has been professor at the Faculty of Technology and Science at Karlstad University, Fredrik Thuvander. Moelven Eurowand is the market leading company and intends to maintain that position. To keep that position the company needs to take the lead of developing new room solutions. With that in mind this project was initiated. In the beginning of the project the main focus was to identify the needs on future offices. These were analyzed and summarized. The summary resulted in a vision which was visualized as an adjustable dimmer for fully control of the environment on the individual workplace. The dimmer was vital for further development of a realizable product and operated as a symbol through the entire project. Summit Flexiwall is a product developed to satisfy the needs of an office worker in terms of privacy and social interaction. Summit Flexiwall is a flexible panel wall who operates as a screen wall when necessary. The product is designed to encourage spontaneous meetings because these kinds of meetings are the ones who are the most creative and leading the work forward. Summit Flexiwall creates room in a room and because of this very suitable for Moelven Eurowand AB product range.<br>Under vårterminen 2012 har Robin Westlund genomfört ”Kontrollerad interaktion för kreativare möten - Summit Flexiwall” med den självständiga inriktningen social kommunikation utifrån visuell interaktion för framtidens kontor. Projektet genomfördes i kursen Examensarbete för högskoleingenjörsexamen i innovationsteknik och design (MSGC12) och omfattade 22,5 hp. Kursen ingår i högskoleprogrammet Innovationsteknik- och designingenjörsprogrammet som tillhör Fakulteten för teknik och naturvetenskap vid Karlstads universitet. Uppdragsgivare för projektet var Moelven Eurowand AB med huvudkontor i Örebro. Företaget tillverkar och monterar kompletta rumslösningar för kontor. Handledare från företaget var Pernilla Irewhärn. Handledare från Karlstads universitet var adjunkt och programledare Monica Jakobsson. Examinator för examensarbetet var professor vid Fakulteten för teknik och naturvetenskap vid Karlstads universitet, Fredrik Thuvander. Moelven Eurowand AB är branschledande och har för avsikt att behålla sin position på marknaden. För att företaget ska fortsätta vara branschledande så behöver företaget leda utvecklingen av rumslösningar. Detta föranledda till projektet som denna rapport behandlar. Projektet gick inledningsvis ut på att identifiera behov för framtidens kontor. Dessa analyserades vidare och sammanställdes. Sammanställningen mynnade ut i en framtidsvision som visualiserades i form av en ställbar dimmer för fullständig kontroll av omgivningen på den individuella arbetsplatsen. Dimmern var en symbol som det vidare arbetet senare utgick ifrån i utvecklingen av en realiserbar produkt. Summit Flexiwall är en produkt som är utvecklad för att tillfredsställa kontorsarbetarens behov i form av avskildhet och samhörighet. Summit Flexiwall är en flexibel panelvägg som skärmar av beroende på behov och arbetssituation. Produkten är framtagen för att uppmuntra till spontana, kreativa möten som leder arbetet framåt. Produkten skapar rum i rummet och passar således väl in i Moelven Eurowand AB:s produktflora.
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Iverlund, Hans. "Akustisk kontroll av framtidens kontor : Summit Flexiwall." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för teknik- och naturvetenskap, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-14257.
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The project presented in this report was conducted by Hans Iverlund and was the final thesis of the Study programme in innovation and design engineering at Karlstad University. The project included 22,5 ECTS credits. Parts of the project were carried out in collaboration with Robin Westlund, who also did his final thesis of the Study programme in innovation and design engineering. The project was conducted in collaboration with Moelven Eurowand AB, which is a company that manufactures, sells and installs room solutions consisting of wall systems, door portals and some furniture, mainly for offices. Supervisor from Moelven Eurowand AB was Pernilla Irewährn, tutor from Karlstad University was Monica Jakobsson and examiner for the project was Professor Fredrik Thuvander. Moelven Eurowand AB wished to get better insight for how the future office would look and operate, so that they could develop their future products in the right direction. To gain that insight, the project began with extensive research, consisting of literature studies, field studies and interviews with people that work in offices. Parameters that were identified as important for the future of office were the ability of control over the surroundings and the need for acoustical and visual privacy and social interaction with other people. This resulted in a vision for the future that was visualized with a continuously variable dimmer switch that controls the acoustic environment and the visual interaction with other people in the area in which the individual office employee is located. The dimmer switch became the aim for the development of a product that would fit into this vision for the future. The product development was carried out using a list of demands, idea generation and a systematic generation of concepts. The product that was developed was called Summit Flexiwall, and was a flexible panel-wall solution that enabled control of the acoustic environment and the amount of social interaction. The product may serve several different functions in an office environment.<br>Projektet som presenteras i denna rapport genomfördes av Hans Iverlund och var ett examensarbete på Högskoleingenjörsprogrammet i innovationsteknik och design vid Karlstads universitet. Examensarbetet omfattade 22,5 högskolepoäng. Delar av projektet genomfördes tillsammans med Robin Westlund som även han gjorde examensarbete på högskoleingenjörsprogrammet i innovationsteknik och design. Projektet genomfördes i samarbete med företaget Moelven Eurowand AB som tillverkar, säljer och monterar rumslösningar i form av systemväggar, dörrportaler och viss inredning, till framförallt kontorslokaler. Handledare från Moelven Eurowand AB var Pernilla Irewährn, handledare från Karlstads universitet var Monica Jakobsson och examinator var professor Fredrik Thuvander. Moelven Eurowand AB önskade få bättre insikt i hur framtidens kontor kommer se ut och fungera, för att kunna anpassa sitt produktsortiment. Projektet inleddes med en omfattande research bestående av litteraturstudier, studiebesök och intervjuer med kontorsanställda, för att på så vis skaffa den insikten. Faktorer som identifierades som viktiga för framtidens kontor var möjligheten till kontroll av sin omgivning och behovet av enskildhet och samhörighet. Detta resulterade i en framtidsvision, i form av en steglös dimmer som styr den akustiska miljön och den visuella interaktionen med andra människor, på den plats som den enskilde kontorsarbetaren befinner sig. Resultatet av detta blev sedan målbilden för utvecklingen av en produkt som skulle passa in i denna framtidsvision. Produktutvecklingen genomfördes med hjälp av en kravspecifikation, idégenereringar och en systematisk konceptgenerering. Produkten som utvecklades kom att kallas Summit Flexiwall, och var en flexibel panelväggslösning som möjliggör kontroll av den akustiska närmiljön samt valfrihet när det gäller enskildhet och samhörighet. Produkten kan fylla flera olika funktioner i en kontorsmiljö.
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Petrbok, David. "Návrh komunikační kampaně projektu Pražský studentský summit." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-162300.
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This diploma thesis deals with issue of communication campaigns planning in the environment of Czech non-profit organisations sector which is characterized by specific approach to communication and quite limited financial resources. Theoretical part of the thesis analyses problematic of marketing and creation of marketing mix. It is also focuses on description of communication mix itself and all of his elements. In conclusion, theoretical part describes Czech non-profit sector and specifics of communication which need to be followed. The second part of the thesis focuses on the case of Prague Student Summit Project, its history and how the project is being implemented. It also defines main competitors and their possible influence on the project itself. The third and final part consists of strategic situational analysis and analysis of current communication mix. SWOT analysis, based on synthesis of strategic situational analysis and current communication mix analysis, then results in proposal of the new communication strategy which could be used by the project organizers in the future.
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Lai, Sherman. "Shared displays to support collaborative exploration of ocean summits." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/711.
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In group decision support systems, understanding the roles, dynamics and relationships between participants is imperative to streamlining the decision-making process. This is especially true when decision makers have varying interests. Research has shown that decision-making processes amongst groups with varying interests will often reach bottlenecks with issues, such as unwillingness to share information, or a limited ability of the participants to share ideas at the same time. We explored this research territory of group decision-making by implementing collaboration software to support Ocean Summits, a new approach that uses real-time simulations as part of the decision-making process for stakeholders to explore fisheries management policies. The research reported in this thesis has three goals: (1) to better understand the decision-making process in fisheries management, (2) to build a prototype system to tackle the major issues in the decision-making process and (3) to determine the best way to share and display information critical to the stakeholders' decision-making process by exploring the use of shared screens and information in comparison to private displays. We discovered that the use of shared screens with shared information yielded the best results, as opposed to private screens with shared information or private screens with private information. It was observed that sharing information allowed participants to explore more alternative solutions.
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Venn, Susanna Elizabeth, and Susanna Venn@nt gov au. "Plant recruitment across alpine summits in south-eastern Australia." La Trobe University. School of Life Sciences, 2007. http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au./thesis/public/adt-LTU20080526.160815.
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This thesis investigated aspects of plant recruitment across an altitudinal gradient of mountain tops in the Victorian Alps, Australia, and provides a baseline for the patterns and processes of alpine plant recruitment in the absence of large-scale disturbance.
The patterns in alpine vegetation across the study sites were described in relation to abiotic environmental factors. Temperatures were lower and precipitation was higher at the high altitude sites. The vegetation did not differ significantly between the sites, although sites at low altitudes were shrubbier than those at high altitudes. Analysis of the soil seed bank revealed high mean densities of germinable seed (80 to 1400 seeds m-2) across the gradient of sites. The similarity between the seed bank samples and the standing vegetation was low (qualitative similarity: 0.08 to 0.2; quantitative similarity: 0.03 to 0.19).
In laboratory germination experiments, I found rapid and substantial germination. Final percent germination was above 90% for most species. One species, Aciphylla glacialis, showed evidence of dormancy mechanisms. In subsequent experiments, I found that innate primary seed dormancy in this species could be broken with cold-wet stratification.
There were no significant patterns in natural seedling recruitment across the altitudinal gradient. Similarities between the seedling flora and the standing vegetation
were low (qualitative similarity: 0.18 to 0.45: quantitative similarity 0.04 to 0.09). Mean seedling density was best predicted by a combination of soil wilting point, altitude and plant litter. In some cases, seedling density was greater than 80 seedlings m-2.
The relative importance of either negative (competitive) or positive (facilitative) interactions between seedlings with adjacent vegetation were investigated in relation to seed germination, seedling growth and seedling survival. Facilitative interactions were common at the higher altitude sites. At lower altitudes, facilitative and competitive interactions were common. Without close neighbours at high altitudes, seedlings were unlikely to survive into their second year.
An understanding of plant recruitment can provide a useful basis for predicting species responses to large-scale disturbance and climate change.
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Venn, Susanna Elizabeth. "Plant recruitment across alpine summits in south-eastern Australia /." Access full text, 2007. http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/thesis/public/adt-LTU20080526.160815/index.html.
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Thesis (Ph.D.) -- La Trobe University, 2007.<br>Research. "A thesis submitted in total fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Botany, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora". Includes bibliographical references (leaves 173-187). Also available via the World Wide Web.
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Bourgeois, C. Saskia. "The radiative properties of snow at Summit, Greenland /." Zürich : ETH, 2006. http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/show?type=diss&nr=16758.
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Sarma, Sridevi Vedula. "A segment-based speaker verification system using SUMMIT." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/43406.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1997.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 75-79).<br>by Sridevi Vedula Sarma.<br>M.S.
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Kirkland, Rosemary Dunkley. "Developing a fitness program for Summit Intermediate School." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1996. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1136.
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This project is a plan whereby Summit Intermediate School will implement a new fitness and health oriented curriculum. The Prudential Fitnessgram will be utilized as the change vehicle through which students will face a variety of fitness activities, assessments, and goal setting opportunities during physical education class.
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Bakule, Martin. "Role Evropské unie v Latinské Americe: změna po riodejaneirském summitu?" Doctoral thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2002. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-77142.
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The thesis "Role of the European Union in Latin America: a Change after the Rio Summit?" focuses on alternations of the position of the European Union (EU) in Latin America after the Rio Summit (1999) which was supposed to be a milestone in European-Latin-American relations. The main objective is to identify and explore the EU role and its trends which result not only from the economic links but also the actions of the EU institutions. Factors of unequal position of Latin America in mutual relations, as well as the impact of the interregional strategy of the EU are of special focus. The thesis is organized as follows. The chapter 1 lays conceptual and theoretical grounds and develops the methodology of "the Atlantic triangle" to frame the issue in interregional relations concepts. The chapter 2 analyses the EU and Latin America as subjects of interregional relations. As for the Latin-American region, its social-economic features, development strategy orientation and its impacts and subregional integration are examined. The EU region subchapter is focused on the interregional strategy, its design and development, as well as the multidimensional nature of the relations and its component dynamics (trade, political dialogue, development cooperation). The Chapter 3 identifies and explores external factors which influence the European-Latin-American ties. According to the triangle methodology, the inevitable influence of the United States (the Anglo-American region in the thesis concept) is studied separately from the global environment and other regions. The Chapter 4 quantifies the economic links of the Latin-American region. It examines the shares and trends in trade, investment, development cooperation transfers and migration. The Chapter 5 studies the institutionalised relations within the Atlantic triangle. It classifies the existing links of the Latin-American region (treaties, fora), assesses the role of interregional summits, compares the political approaches from the United States (US) and the EU in trade, development and security areas and studies in detail the EU impact on several aspects of Latin-American institutional configuration (e.g. regional integration). Among others, the most important conclusions drawn in the last chapter are the following: The unequal position of Latin America in relations with the EU can be attributed to its development characteristics as well as its fragmentation that has recently been progressing. It results in week coordination capability of Latin-American countries on the subregional level and absence of effective coordination on regional level. The interregional strategy of the EU aimed at building "Birregional Strategic Partnership" has not met Latin-American expectations. Although the situation in both regions and global environment has changed substantially from the strategy initiation, the strategy concept remains unaltered which is reflected the mutual relation stagnation. The EU strategy has not proved to be effective in fostering the EU role in Latin America. The free trade negotiation balance of the EU and the US is unfavorable to the EU which has not been able to conclude the association agreements (a basic tool to build the partnership) with its major Latin-American partners (MERCOSUR). The mid/long-term trends in the economic positions on the Latin-American markets have been also unfavorable to the EU in favor to the US and Asian partners. The ineffective strategy did not reverse nor stop such trends. However, the EU role is still not negligible in Latin-American aspirations to diversify its external links from the US influence. The relations with the EU display evident counter-balancing features. The EU also plays the role of "external federator" on subregional level but its influence is rather limited. The overall conclusion is that the Rio Summit did not start closer cooperation. The weakening economic relations are not supported by an effective interregional strategy from the EU. The role of the EU is therefore diminishing.
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Rutherford, Paul. "Business environmental discourses at global Earth Summits : comparing Rio and Johannesburg." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2007. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21677.
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Studies of global environmental politics have not paid much attention so far to the role and views of the international business community. This thesis seeks to analyse how the business community has approached global environmental issues as discussed at the so-called 'Earth Summits' in 1992 and 2002. The specific focus is to address the question of how the international environmental discourses of business have changed from one summit to another. Are there sufficient empirical grounds to suggest that business is progressing towards a unified and cohesive set of discursive themes and issues? The method used combines qualitative discourse analysis with quantitative content analysis. Combining the 'best of' these two approaches means that a more detailed and rigorous analysis of the content of a large amount of material can be undertaken. This is applied to compare the business discourse at the 1992 Rio and the 2002 Johannesburg Earth Summits. These are two of the key events in the formation of international environmental politics discourses and provide an excellent opportunity to examine the changing role of business over time. The empirical results of this work reveal some continuity, but also major changes within the discourses used by business actors at mega earth summits. There is a high level of continuity not only in the commitment to free market principles but also in the notion that embracing sustainable development is good for business. Looking at changes over time, among the key findings is that business appears increasingly willing to reach accommodation with environmental non-governmental organisations and is keen to overcome its traditionally defensive, reactive role, adopting a proactive approach to shaping the international environmental agenda. While the main elements of a new master business environmental discourse were formulated in 1992, the new approach only become dominant afterwards. By 2002, the discourse had not only been refined and extended, but it had also achieved a much higher level of consensus with the business community taking an active part in the Johannesburg summit. The thesis concludes by discussing the significance of these findings in our understanding of the environmental role of business within global environmental debates.
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Makino, Emi. "Appreciative Inquiry summits and organizational knowledge creation: A social systems perspective." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/80.
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The purpose of this exploratory study is to develop alternative models for analyzing the systems dynamics of a large group conference format called appreciative inquiry (AI) summits. I apply Luhmann’s social systems theory to the strategizing activities of AI summits to examine how this particular format is capable of generating organizational knowledge. An AI summit is a strategic planning conference in which hundreds of internal and external stakeholders collectively design the future of the organization through structured activities. It applies the principles of AI, a consulting method used in organizational development that attends to the positive aspects of an organization as opposed to its problems. Critics challenge this unconditional focus on the positive, questioning the validity of its methods and techniques. Indeed, very few rigorous evaluations of AI methods including AI summits exist.
I propose a new approach for assessing the effectiveness of AI summits. I focus on knowledge creation as the dependent variable. Previous studies have shown that successful AI interventions generate new knowledge, not just transformational change. I conceptualize an AI summit as a strategic episode that allows an organization to temporarily suspend its routines and structures for strategic reflection.
According to social systems theory, organizations are autopoietic (self-reproducing) systems that maintain their identity through an ongoing production of decision communications. An AI summit consists of three different types of systems that co-evolve and are structurally coupled: an organization system, interaction system and the individual participants’ psychological systems. I propose a typology for analyzing episodes during an AI summit as a starting point for determining the structural dynamics inherent in an AI summit system.
Using illustrative examples from a case study, I identify five structural features of an AI summit that facilitate organizational knowledge creation, including reduced communication barriers and the production of decisions during the conference. The study contributes to the existing literature by identifying the important but understudied role of self-organizing project teams in the knowledge creation process at an AI summit. Limitations and implications are discussed.
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Cohen, Lana D. "Boundary layer characteristics and ozone fluxes at Summit, Greenland." Diss., Connect to online resource, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1433466.
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Rosemond, Mack Rashad. "Marketing and crisis plan for Summit Place Apartment Homes." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2072.
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The objective of conducting primary research for the Summit Place Apartment Homes is to create a profile of people that are presently living in Summit Place. When dealing with apartment properties, marketing plans are definitely a necessity, as well as a good crisis plan. The residents' main concerns were safety and better customer service.
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Mallison, Theodore R. "Summit County Historical Society: A Membership Program Case Study." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1460121253.
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Daza, Aramayo Lourdes Gabriela. "Analysis of Trade Relations between the European Union and Latin America from 1995-2011." Doctoral thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-196936.
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The Doctoral Thesis "Analysis of Trade Relations between the European Union and Latin America from 1995-2011" focuses on the determination Latin America's potential as a trading partner for the European Union. It will be based on an analysis of the region's trade relationships between 1995 and 2011 through different econometric models and a macroeconomic analysis. It will make recommendations for improving economic relation policies with Latin America and the European Union as well as identify the sectors which could represent great potential for trade between both regions. The research is divided into seven chapters: The first chapter covers international trade theory; this part comprises the theoretical aspects directly related to international trade. The second chapter analyzes the macroeconomic features of Latin American countries and compares them with data from the European Union. A separate, detailed analysis of 17 Latin American countries was performed and the potential of each one to make their importance known to the world and define their geopolitical position is described. The third chapter details the trade policies of the European Union and Latin America. The fourth chapter discusses trade relations between Latin America and the European Union through a look at the trade agreements that have been signed between the European Union and Latin American countries and tries to identify possible causes of failures for agreements not signed. This chapter also studies the sectorial composition of trade between the two regions, emphasizing the asymmetry between these trades flows as they enter the countries studied. The fifth chapter, the heart of this research paper, analyzes the trade relations between the EU and Latin America through a gravity model, identifying the obstacles and barriers to international trade between the two regions. The second part of this chapter discusses institutional factors, which, as a result of the conclusions from the gravity model explained earlier in the chapter, play an important role in international trade between Latin America and the European Union. This section contains a comparative analysis of the situation of the institutional factors in the 29 Latin American countries which were analyzed in the gravity model. This chapter also includes a trade simulation between the Czech Republic and Latin America with the institutional factors in Latin America showing a 10% improvement. In the sixth chapter, the competitiveness of 17 Latin American countries is calculated using the results of the barriers to international trade through a new method based on the comparison of indicators, ranked by dimension and according to the weight thereof for a period of time. The last chapter focuses on the identification of the variables determining foreign direct investment in Latin America, represented by 29 countries and over a period of time from 1995 to 2011. It considers variables traditionally not considered such as the number of patents registered, the tax rate and institutional factors, which have revealed important explanatory variables as well as those traditionally considered such as GDP, inflation, population, the share of GDP by sector, income level, etc. The last part of this research lists the conclusions reached and proposes recommendations for economic relations policy development between Latin America and the European Union.
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Wagner, Gerhard Walter. "Die kosmogenen Radionuklide ¹°Be und ³⁶Cl im Summit-GRIP-Eisbohrkern /." Zürich, 1999. http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/show?type=diss&nr=12864.
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Bibriesca, Jonathan. "Community Organizing Summit| A curriculum for undergraduate social work students." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1586847.
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<p> Research demonstrates that community organizing and social work share historical commonalities which have influenced the development of social work as a profession. The purpose of this thesis was to create a Community Organizing Summit Curriculum to increase the knowledge, skills and interest of undergraduate social work students in community organizing and its application to social work with marginalized communities. The curriculum is a one day training focusing on the historical context of social work and community organizing, models of community organization in macro social work, community organizing models and current local trends in organizing. This curriculum consists of a session by session manual to help guide social work educators working with undergraduate social work students using a combination of lecture presentations, interactive group activities and a panel discussion featuring local community organizers.</p>
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Hu, Jason. "Seasonality and sources of light-absorbing aerosols at Summit, Greenland." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/53838.
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The Greenland ice sheet (GIS) is a key component of the warming Arctic climate, having the potential to dramatically influence sea level through melting. Light-absorbing aerosols are thought to be significant contributors to warming in the Arctic, because of their effect on the radiation balance through both aerosol absorption in the atmosphere as well as absorption in surface snow after particulate deposition. At this time it is not possible to estimate the impact of aerosol absorption on the radiation balance over Greenland due to the lack of in-situ measurements. Here, we present time series and estimates of key aerosol optical properties in order to better understand the seasonality and sources of aerosols over central Greenland, and compare their values with other Arctic sites. In-situ measurements made at Summit, Greenland from May 8, 2011 to December 31, 2014 include aerosol light absorption coefficient (σap) and light scattering coefficient (σsp); calculated parameters include absorption Ångström exponent (AAE), and single scattering albedo (ωo). The light absorption and scattering coefficients were found to be low in the winter and highest in the spring and summer. Spring-summer means of σap and σsp were 0.15 ± 0.15 Mm-1 and 2.35 ± 2.80 Mm-1, respectively. Mean AAE was 0.97 ± 0.29 in the spring and summer, indicating that black carbon (BC), and not dust and/or organic brown carbon (BrC), is the main aerosol light absorber. Mean ωo was 0.93 ± 0.03, which is similar to values measured at Barrow, Alaska, USA (0.94 ± 0.05) and Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, Norway (0.95 ± 0.06). Summit exhibits ωo as low as Barrow and Ny-Ålesund although it is an isolated high-altitude site indicating the importance of aerosol light absorption over the most remote Arctic locations.
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Liberatore, Stephen. "Changes in Geomorphic Equilibrium on Furnace Run, Summit County, Ohio." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1365872441.
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Pell, David James. "Political commitment by the UK's environment cities to the expectations of Agenda 21." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 1997. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/7116/.
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The literature attributes a great deal of activity in many UK local authorities to their commitment to the •sustainable development green ideology of the Earth Summit's Agenda 21 action plan for managing our Planet's future. Most studies of this response have focused on behaviour and process, including that of some of the four UK Environment City local authorities, alleged front runners in this field ie. Leicester, Middlesbrough, Leeds and Peterborough. This thesis, however, examines closely the degree of actual political commitment by the leaderships of these local authorities and the effect which the EC Programme has had on them. The assessment of EC leadership commitment is made against the radical assertion that Agenda 21 expects local authorities to lead a major shift of both behaviour and altitude. In part, the assessment relies on a novel use of Schein's (1987) method for uncovering levels of culture in combination with a new typology of political commitment. It is found that actual, as opposed to declared and organisational, ideological commitment is generally weak though varying widely between the local authority leaderships and is strongest in Leicester, the 'lead' Environment City. Explanations are presented for this. From public policy agenda building and implementation theory perspectives, the designation of 'Environment City', itself, is judged to have been effective in influencing behaviour and to a more limited extent, deeper levels of commitment. Theory improvement helps to explain this through several newly defined concepts including those of 'public policy franchising', 'issue wooden horsing' the 'politics of embarrassment' and 'grand mastery'. Other insights into how greater commitment by local authority leaderships is encouraged is drawn from the case studies including the utilized opportunity for greater local governmental power offered by the Agenda 21 role and the existence of environmental 'statesmanship'. Citizens in the Environment Cities are found to be more environmentally positive than has been reported of the UK population at large. Also, local level evidence is presented of the nationally observed positive relationship between our concern for each other as 'welfarism' and our concern for the rest of nature as 'environmentism'.
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Nylander, Anna. "Where the real change happens? : Global climate governance from below: investigating the COP counter summit in Paris 2015." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-313312.
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Ever since the governments began to meet for the Conferences of the Parties (COP) to try to come to agreement over an international climate agreement, civil society organizations involved in the climate issue have also gathered for their own conferences in relation to the COP. Still the role of these re-occurring “COP counter summits” in global climate governance have not been researched in depth. In order to contribute to a better understanding of the role the COP counter summit in climate governance in general, the aim of this study is to conduct a qualitative single-case study of one of these meetings. This is carried out by a field study to the COP counter summit in Paris 2015 with methods of participatory observation and semi-structured interviews with informants. An analytical framework was developed based on theory within related research fields, like parallel summits, social movements and globalization studies. The study contributes with research about what functions of the COP counter summit in Paris had for civil society and how these functions were performed.
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Anklin, Martin Josef. "Kohlenstoffdioxid Bestimmungen in Luftproben aus einem neuen Tiefbohrkern von Summit (Grönland) /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1994. http://www.ub.unibe.ch/content/bibliotheken_sammlungen/sondersammlungen/dissen_bestellformular/index_ger.html.
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Barrett, Kelly Ann. "Identifying building sites in Summit County, Colorado geography, geology, and GIS /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1238024467.
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Toivainen, Sanne. "A study of haemoglobin : Egg laying, hatching, growth and summit metabolism." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för fysik, kemi och biologi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-131412.
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Haemoglobin and its functions in various organisms is well known; it increases the ability to obtain precious oxygen and it is crucial in aerobic performance. However, if high values of haemoglobin are always beneficial, why is there a large natural variation? This study investigated the effects of varying concentrations of haemoglobin on several stages in the lifespan of Red Junglefowl: egg production and hatching, chicken growth, haemoglobin and summit metabolism. Red Junglefowl were tested for fertility in both eggs laid and eggs hatched. The offspring were individually measured for whole blood haemoglobin concentration and tested for growth and summit metabolism. The results show that there is a difference in haemoglobin after two weeks of age and that growth differs at the same time. High Hb animals do not lay smaller nor fewer eggs than low line birds but their offspring are smaller at the same time as there is a difference in haemoglobin levels. There was also a difference in the summit metabolism between the lines, where the high line animals performed better. Importantly the increase in haemoglobin did effect the growth of the animals negatively, and this would imply that higher levels of haemoglobin is not detrimental to growth.
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Barrett, Kelly A. "Identifying Building Sites in Summit County, Colorado: Geography, Geology, and GIS." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1238024467.
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Fruits, Gregory C. "Crime and Obesity: A Case Study Using Akron, Summit County, Ohio." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1556193301454261.
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Yilmaz, Ismail. "A Historical Analysis of the Failures of Camp David 2000 Summit." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2005. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4799/.
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This research seeks to understand the reasons for failures of Bill Clinton, Yasser Arafat, and Ehud Barak's Camp David Summit that was held in July, 2000. The Summit was arranged to complete the last phase of Oslo Peace Process. Numerous researches have attempted to reveal the facts of the summit but, so far, they have failed to present the complete details of what happened before, during, and after the summit. This research explores all aspects of the problem including the various variables that would have had effected the breakdown of the Middle East peace process. Finally, the researcher determines the parameters needed to maintain a substantial peace in the Middle East and what proposed strategies might be followed in order to avoid the previous mistakes in future peace negotiations.
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Geraghty, Peter James. "Computer based decision support systems for environmental assessment." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.367243.
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Raposas, Marites. "Civic Advocacy Journalism in Practice: Reports on the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Medier och kommunikation, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-136970.
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With the changing political, economic, cultural and environmental landscape of global societies, journalistic writings on social development issues and concerns have become more relevant in recent times. Through civic advocacy journalism (CAJ), the agenda and programs of social development movements, civil society groups, international development organizations and non-government organizations are promoted and advanced. It is essential to understand the forms and representations of CAJ in practice, concepts and theories in the light of its relevance to media practice and to society at large. However, there is very little literature on the scope and extent of CAJ knowledge and practice. A researcher needs to look into actual practice and connect this with available literature to establish the application of CAJ. For this study, a qualitative content analysis method was used to assess CAJ practice in online print media reports at the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit.
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Winkowitsch, John Jay. "Friendship the source and summit of moral virtue in Aristotle's Nichomachean ethics /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2006. http://www.tren.com.
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La, Chia-Hao 1980. "Infrastructure development for integration of lip reading into the SUMMIT Speech Recognizer." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/29670.
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Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2003.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 51-52).<br>This thesis describes a method for augmenting an audio-only speech recognizer with visual lip-reading information, in order to improve the performance and robustness of the recognizer. The speech recognizer's variable length audio segments are resolved with the fixed length video frames using segment constrained Hidden Markov Modeling. A Viterbi search over the per-segment Hidden Markov Model resolves the variable asynchrony between the audio and video streams. The two streams are combined according to a relative weighting scheme, which is determined by optimizing on a held-out data set. Although a full audio-visual system has yet not been implemented, this thesis describes the infrastructure that has been developed to accommodate integration with a visual lip-reading module that will be completed in the near future.<br>by Chia-Hao La.<br>M.Eng.
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Rock, Amy E. "Identifying the spatial patterns of homelessness in Summit County, Ohio using GIS." Ohio : Ohio University, 2005. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou----------.
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Shaw, Kelly Ann. "Assessing Two Centuries of Anthropogenic Impacts on Silver Lake, Summit County, Ohio." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1365692437.
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Rock, Amy Elizabeth. "Identifying the Spatial Distribution of Homelessness in Summit County, Ohio, using GIS." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1113832608.
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Wytovich, Dominick Andrew. "RESERVOIR ANALYSIS OF THE CLINTON INTERVAL IN STARK AND SUMMIT COUNTIES, OHIO." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1276625315.
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Mitchell, Stephanie Bianca. "Sediment Dispersal Processes and Anthropogenic Impacts at Rex Lake, Summit County, Ohio." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1442416877.
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Workmon, Mitchell R. "Extending the market: increasing sustainability potential through public transit in Lee’s Summit." Kansas State University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13686.
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Master of Landscape Architecture<br>Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional & Community Planning<br>Blake Belanger<br>Investigating historical trends of public transportation, two distinct groups of riders are targeted. First, individuals living and working in large metropolitan centers, and second, people who are dependent upon public transit; referring to people who cannot afford personal automobile transportation, possess no driver’s license, or are physically unable to drive (Garrett and Taylor, 1999). Analyzing the national demographics related to age and poverty levels, transit dependents make up only approximately 25% of the United States population. Expanding transit ridership will make our nation’s transportation sector more sustainable. Public transportation systems yield exceptional benefits including economic and community vitality, gasoline consumption reduction, air quality improvement and diverse cultural interactions promoting social cohesion (Metro Transit- St. Louis, 2010).
This report focuses on ridership potential in the Rock Island Corridor, an unused rail thoroughfare in Kansas City. Local governing organizations are analyzing the corridor for future commuter rail implementation. In order to attain higher ridership and ensure long-term viability, the commuter rail must attract residents that are not dependent upon public transportation. This project maps transit dependencies along the Rock Island Corridor looking at income levels, home values, and commuting distance. The findings illustrate that Lee’s Summit is not dependent upon public transit and has tremendous potential to impact the ridership and development direction along the corridor. Looking into the future of the corridor the time to plan is now. Lee’s Summit is expected to see a population increase of 40,636 people (a 50% increase) by the year 2040 (Mid-America Regional Council, 2010).
The strategies applied to Lee’s Summit are applicable to other similar suburbs of Kansas City, ultimately making Lee’s Summit a catalyst for the region. The organization of the project is focused around three major sections. The first section explores and analyzes current public transit practice in terms of ridership and aesthetics. The second section explains a three-part strategy focused around a park-n-ride and a transit-oriented development, both supported by a municipal feeder bus system. The third section demonstrates design and program ideas for the park-n-ride station that provide the community with visions to promote smart growth and a sustainable future.
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Harms, Charissa. "Translating the True North: Exploring Representations of Canada Around the 2010 G8 and G20 Summits." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/30981.
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A country’s international reputation has profound implications for its citizens; given that national image or reputation is built and circulated using language on a global scale, translation is necessarily involved. This project draws on bilingual corpora of government and media texts to examine how Canada was framed in the discourses and narratives in circulation in its two official languages at the time of the 2010 G8 and G20 Summits, using concepts and techniques from Critical Discourse Analysis, narrative theory, and corpus linguistics. Examining some aspects of language in use such as collocation, semantic relations, and metaphor, several of the ways in which Canada was framed in the two contexts and languages were compared. The project concludes that discourses and narratives may differ between sources and languages, thereby highlighting the importance of recognizing the impact of translation on the variety of national representations within discourses and narratives.
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Kamel, Maha. "International monetary and financial negotiations in times of crises : the G20 leaders' summits (2008-2011)." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.709000.
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Aldous, Richard James. "Harold Macmillan and the search for a summit with the USSR, 1958-60." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.262473.
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Daro, Vinci E. F. Holland Dorothy C. "Edge effects of global summit hopping in the post-Seattle period, 2000-2005." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,2298.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009.<br>Title from electronic title page (viewed Jun. 26, 2009). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Anthropology." Discipline: Anthropology; Department/School: Anthropology.
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Death, Carl. "One World comes to one country? : governing sustainable development from the Johannesburg Summit." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2160/c822a917-58a1-4e59-8c42-a8a78ac1b3a2.
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This thesis interrogates the political effects of sustainable development discourse as seen through the lens of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), held in Johannesburg, South Africa. By approaching sustainable development from the perspective of Michel Foucault’s work on power, discourse and government, it argues that negotiations at the Summit re-orientated sustainable development in terms of cooperation, consensus and voluntary partnerships. By showing how summits are more than just institutional mechanisms for producing agreement but are also stages on which theatrical and symbolic modes of exemplary politics are performed, the thesis draws attention to how the WSSD functioned as a key technique of exemplary governmentality. Yet the Summit also facilitated the emergence of new constellations of political actors, and provided a stage for myriad political protests and demonstrations. One of these protests – a mass march on 31 August 2002 – was the largest anti-government protest in South Africa since the end of Apartheid. By approaching these protests as Foucauldian ‘counter-conducts’ rather than ‘pure’ acts of resistance or revolution, the thesis shows how they were implicated within forms of advanced liberal rule. As such the thesis contributes to a discursive understanding of sustainable development in the post-Johannesburg era; to an appreciation of the evolving role of global summits as forms of theatrical exemplary government; and to the political effects of resistance and protest. It concludes that the WSSD worked to make politically sustainable a global order which is manifestly unsustainable – whilst also providing opportunities for the status quo to be protested and resisted.
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Kasper, Nicholas Raymond. "An Assessment of the Lafever Dam Pool, Middle Cuyahoga River, Summit County, Ohio." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1279299769.
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