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Fang, Tao. "The integration of line loading and material handling." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/30709.
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Zeeshan, Ahmed. "Integration of Variants Handling in M-System-NT." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Avdelningen för för interaktion och systemdesign, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-2128.
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This Master thesis proposes a solution to manage variabilities of software product line applications. The objective of the research is to support software decision makers in handling additional software complexity introduced by product line architectures. In order to fulfill this objective an approach to analyze, visualize, and measure product line specific characteristics of the C/C++ source code are proposed. The approach is validated in an empirical experiment using an open source software system. For that purpose the approach is first implemented into ®1 M-System-NT, an existing software measurement tool developed at Fraunhofer. The target hypothesis of the Institute for Experimental Software engineering research master thesis to perform static analysis of C/C++ source code, measure traditional and product line measures to identify the correlation between measures and indicate the fault proneness.<br>Official Address: Researcher Zeeshan Ahmed, Mechanical Engineering Informatics and TU Virtual Product Development Division (MIVP) Vienna, Austria Permanent Address: Zeeshan Ahmed, Humdered Street Mohala Garhi Shadula Sahib Gujrat, Pakistan
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Jansen, van Nieuwenhuizen Rudolph Johannes. "Development of an automated robot vision component handling system." Thesis, Bloemfontein : Central University of Technology, Free State, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11462/213.
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Thesis (M. Tech. (Engineering: Electrical)) -- Central University of technology, Free State, 2013<br>In the industry, automation is used to optimize production, improve product quality and increase profitability. By properly implementing automation systems, the risk of injury to workers can be minimized.
Robots are used in many low-level tasks to perform repetitive, undesirable or dangerous work. Robots can perform a task with higher precision and accuracy to lower errors and waste of material.
Machine Vision makes use of cameras, lighting and software to do visual inspections that a human would normally do. Machine Vision is useful in application where repeatability, high speed and accuracy are important.
This study concentrates on the development of a dedicated robot vision system to automatically place components exiting from a conveyor system onto Automatic Guided Vehicles (AGV).
A personal computer (PC) controls the automated system. Software modules were developed to do image processing for the Machine Vision system as well as software to control a Cartesian robot. These modules were integrated to work in a real-time system.
The vision system is used to determine the parts‟ position and orientation. The orientation data are used to rotate a gripper and the position data are used by the Cartesian robot to position the gripper over the part.
Hardware for the control of the gripper, pneumatics and safety systems were developed. The automated system‟s hardware was integrated by the use of the different communication protocols, namely DeviceNet (Cartesian robot), RS-232 (gripper) and Firewire (camera).
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Lennvall, Tomas. "Handling aperiodic tasks and overload in distributed off-line scheduled real-time systems /." Västerås : Mälardalen University, 2003. http://www.mrtc.mdh.se/publications/0541.pdf.
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Lagomarsini, Massimo. "analisi e ottimizzazione della linea di collaudo e ispezione della toyota material handling manufacturing italia." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2018. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/17319/.
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Eustace, Colin. "Development of 3D on-line stacking algorithms for a parcel loading system /." St. Lucia, Qld, 2001. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe17915.pdf.
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Ho, John Kin Lim. "Some object-oriented design and software control methods of a flexible material handling system, operating in a CIM environment." Thesis, University of East London, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.282914.
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Popa, Emil Horia. "Algorithms for handling arbitrary lineshape distortions in Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Spectroscopic Imaging." Phd thesis, Université Claude Bernard - Lyon I, 2010. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00716176.
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Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) and Spectroscopic Imaging (MRSI) play an emerging role in clinical assessment, providing in vivo estimation of disease markers while being non-invasive and applicable to a large range of tissues. However, static magnetic field inhomogeneity, as well as eddy currents in the acquisition hardware, cause important distortions in the lineshape of acquired NMR spectra, possibly inducing significant bias in the estimation of metabolite concentrations. In the post-acquisition stage, this is classically handled through the use of pre-processing methods to correct the dataset lineshape, or through the introduction of more complex analytical model functions. This thesis concentrates on handling arbitrary lineshape distortions in the case of quantitation methods that use a metabolite basis-set as prior knowledge. Current approaches are assessed, and a novel approach is proposed, based on adapting the basis-set lineshape to the measured signal.Assuming a common lineshape to all spectral components, a new method is derived and implemented, featuring time domain local regression (LOWESS) filtering. Validation is performed on synthetic signals as well as on in vitro phantom data. Finally, a completely new approach to MRS quantitation is proposed, centred on the use of the compact spectral support of the estimated common lineshape. The new metabolite estimators are tested alone, as well as coupled with the more common residual-sum-of-squares MLE estimator, significantly reducing quantitation bias for high signal-to-noise ratio data.
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Vianelli, Giovanni. "Sviluppo e applicazione del Plan For Every Part per una linea di assemblaggio. Il caso Toyota material handling." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2020.
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L’elaborato presenta lo sviluppo e l’applicazione del Plan For Every Part per una linea di assemblaggio all’interno dello stabilimento di Toyota Material Handling Manufacturing Italy. Il PFEP costituisce uno strumento quantitativo per il supporto alle decisioni nella supply chain, attraverso la mappatura degli imballi, dei flussi e delle scorte di tutti i componenti gestiti all’interno dello stabilimento. In primo luogo, l’elaborato ne descrive la struttura e le logiche per la progettazione e implementazione. In particolare, vengono introdotti i parametri di classificazione del materiale, vengono identificate le locazioni logistiche e viene definito il concetto di famiglia di componente. L’elaborato presenta inoltre gli obiettivi che l’azienda mira a raggiungere, su diversi livelli, mediante l’applicazine dello strumento. Un livello operativo, riguardante l’accesso rapido a informazioni strutturate e organizzate, per la gestione delle attività quotidiane in carico alla funzione logistica. Un livello tattico, il cui orizzonte temporale è più ampio, riguardante le attività di progettazione e pianificazione delle attività. Un livello strategico, sia inerente alla definizione dei flussi logistici ottimali, sia inerente all’implementazione di nuove metodologie per la gestione dei progetti interfunzionali. Quindi, partire dalle informazioni contenute nel PFEP, vengono proposte delle modifiche dei flussi logistici attuali per un perimetro di componenti rappresentativi del totale. Infine, vengono valutati gli impatti delle modifiche proposte sia dal punto di vista economico finanziario sia dal punto di vista dell’efficienza operativa e di gestione delle scorte.
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Beggio, Silvia. "Manutenzione preventiva della Rail Line tramite il metodo MAGEC." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2016.
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L'elaborato è il risultato del progetto di tesi svolto presso l’azienda Lift Truck Equipment L.T.E. di Ostellato (Ferrara) che opera nell’ambito della progettazione e produzione di gruppi di sollevamento ed attrezzature per carrelli elevatori all’interno del gruppo Toyota Material Handling. Il progetto è stato svolto nel periodo da gennaio a marzo 2016 in collaborazione con l’ufficio di Ingegneria di processo di L.T.E. e riguarda l’applicazione del metodo MAGEC (Modi e Analisi dei Guasti e delle Criticità) per l’analisi dei guasti di una linea produttiva dell’azienda, la Rail Line.
Nel primo capitolo viene inquadrato il sistema produttivo dell’azienda in aderenza con la filosofia del TPS (Toyota Production System) per chiarire l’ambito in cui è nato il progetto, le motivazioni che hanno portato al suo sviluppo e l’ottica secondo cui è stato svolto.
Nel secondo capitolo è fornita una descrizione dell’approccio utilizzato, che consiste in una variante della FMECA, il metodo più utilizzato per le analisi in ambito affidabilistico. Inoltre sono riportate le attività di pianificazione che sono state svolte preliminarmente all’inizio del progetto.
Successivamente nel terzo capitolo sono illustrati in modo dettagliato i vari step dell’implementazione del metodo, dalla raccolta dati, effettuata presso l’azienda, all’elaborazione.
L’ultimo capitolo è dedicato ai risultati dell’analisi e a una breve descrizione di come tali risultati sono stati utilizzati nelle attività di manutenzione preventiva.
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Dahlin, Hampus, and Martin Pihl. "Factors that Impact Inventory Levels in a Supermarket System Supplying a Manufacturing Line." Thesis, Tekniska Högskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, JTH, Industriell organisation och produktion, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-24069.
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Purpose - The purpose of this thesis is to identify factors that have an impact on supermarket inventory levels that supply a manufacturing line and investigate how the impact of these factors can be controlled. In order to fulfill the purpose it was broken down into two research questions. What factors have an impact on supermarket inventory levels supplying a manufacturing line? 2. How can the impact of these factors be controlled? Method - To answer the research questions a literature study and a case study were conducted. The empirical findings from the case study and the literature study were used to find the answer to the first research question. The identified factors in the first research question were then analysed with the theoretical framework in order to answer the second research question. Different techniques have been used in order to collect necessary data including documentation studies, interviews, observations and basic training in the case company’s procurement system (GILM). Findings - Total safety lead time, firm time and shortage impact were discovered during the case study. These factors were not to found during the literature study because they were specific parameters that are predetermined in the case company’s procurement system. Internal material handling and supermarket order quantity were factors also found during the case study. The identified factors are divided after which tool or method that can be used to gain control over the factor. Four different tools have been identified as solutions to gain control over the internal material handling. The factors that only have one identified tool as a solution are either case specific or not attentive in the theoretical framework as the other tools. Implications - The identified factors from the literature study are considered as common factors that can be applied for companies that have a supermarket inventory. If manufacturing companies are facing problems with their supermarket inventory levels they can increase control by investigating the tools and methods presented in this thesis. Contributions - The factors that were identified during the case study have contributed with new discoveries in the field of study, since there is limited research done in this subject regarding supermarket systems. Research limitations - More case studies could have been performed at similar companies, in order to investigate how generalizable the answers to both research questions are.
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Acksteiner, Jozo. "Stability in a 2-station re-entrant line under a static buffer priority policy and the role of cross-docking in the semiconductor industry." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/25590.
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Kane, Charles B. "Plasma modification of linen." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.274070.
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Alameri, Abdulla. "Front-line service employees' service recovery performance : a practice theory-based study into customer complaint handling in the Abu Dhabi Police Force." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 2018. http://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/33838/.
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Research Justification: Since 2011, the United Arab Emirates' federal government launched several programs emphasising high-quality service to customers. Subsequently, all federal and local agencies, including the Abu Dhabi Police, are now required to improve service recovery and customer complaint handling. Moreover, many scholars have focused on the relationship between service recovery and customer satisfaction and on the public's goodwill, trust, compliance, cooperation and commitment in public services. Research Objective: The primary objective of this paper is to explore and determine the effect of various police social structure aspects and managerial action on front-line service employees' service recovery performance. Moreover, the researcher aims to use these findings to complete his review of service recovery and complaint handling with the Abu Dhabi Police from the management, customer and front-line service employees' perspectives. Practice Theory: Based on Chan's (1996) field and habitus framework (which has been used extensively to understand change within police organisations), the researcher adopted the concepts of habitus, field and capital from Bourdieu's practice theory to understand the effect of each factor on front-line service employees' performance in service recovery and complaint-handling procedures. Methodology: The researcher adopted a critical realist research philosophy. The stratified ontology of the critical realism allowed the researcher to explore not only events and experiences but also associated causal mechanisms. In turn, these helped in further understanding service recovery and complaint-handling procedures within the Abu Dhabi Police. A qualitative strategy was adopted, using interviews to the double with practice participants and in-depth interviews with practice observers. Research Design: In this study, interview responses come from both front-line service employees and practice observers working in the Directorate of Traffic and Patrols (DTP) Department within the Abu Dhabi Police. As there are two sets of interviews, the researcher developed an interview guide specifically for each set. The researcher fulfilled the ethical requirements for the Research Ethics Committee at NTU. All interviews with practice participants and practice observers were conducted in Arabic at the interviewees' workplaces. The researcher adopted Atlas.it to help in the thematic analysis of the interview transcripts. Data Analysis: The research findings were derived from 42 interviews: 25 were conducted with participants using interviews to the double and 17 were conducted with practice observers. The analysis of the interview transcripts was completed in three stages. First, the researcher analysed the interviewees' instructions to the double, which was used to identify the experiences and events from the empirical and actual domains, respectively. Second, a thematic analysis of both the interviews to the double and in-depth interviews with the practice observers was performed. This was used to explore and identify the mechanism from the real domain of reality. Third, the researcher used a retroductive backward reasoning from the experiences and events from the empirical and actual domains, respectively, to the causal mechanisms from the real domain. Findings: Based on the literature review and research findings, the researcher identified nine factors affecting front-line service employees' service recovery performance within the Abu Dhabi Police as follows: police cultures, the social structure of the field, leadership style, employee empowerment service strategy, the nature of service, the national culture, multicultural society, and human resource practices. Moreover, the research findings showed that there is an inconsistency in the service recovery and complaint-handling procedures within the DTP, due to the differentiation and of front-line service employees' service recovery performance. The differentiation and inconsistency of front-line service employees' service recovery performance was caused by several of these factors. Based on the research findings, the researcher argues that the adopted combination of transformational and transactional leadership styles by some officers in charge within the DTP would negatively influence customers' satisfaction with service recovery and complaint-handling procedures in the Abu Dhabi Police Force through affecting the public's goodwill, trust, compliance, cooperation and commitment, which are essential to police services. Additionally, the researcher argues that for the service recovery and complaint-handling procedures within the Abu Dhabi Police to change, the change should be aimed at all police sub-cultures (habitus) within the Abu Dhabi Police, and not just at those of the front-line service employees.
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Östlund, Gustaf. "Läsa: Mellan Rutorna : Reading: Between the Lines." Thesis, Konstfack, Grafisk design & illustration, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-8001.
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Projektet handlar om att utforska hur man läser och skapar en serietidning. Under mitt liv har jag använt mig av min fantasi för att lösa problem. Jag växte upp i en idyllisk och konservativ villaförort i norra Stockholm, där man förväntades vara som normen. Jag hade svårt att passa in och flydde istället in i min fantasi och det var då jag började läsa serietidningar.
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Donaghy, John Anthony. "Factors affecting the retting of linen flax." Thesis, University of Ulster, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.278388.
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Horák, Aleš. "Projekt zabezpečení chodu poloautomatické linky na výrobu plastových oken." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta strojního inženýrství, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-228392.
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This diploma thesis deals with plastic windows semi-automatic production line in the company RI-Okna. The system of storage, handling and weaknesses of the production line are described. The solution is fleshed out into a technological project, including economic evaluation and technical drawings.
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Altrabulsy, Osama. "A Simulation-based Optimization Approach for Automated Vehicle Scheduling at Production Lines." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för ingenjörsvetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-18454.
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The world becomes more integrated and sophisticated, especially in the birth of advanced technologies, which have influenced all life aspects. Automated systems could be considered an example of those aspects, which have been affected by recent changes in today’s life. The competition in the market is putting increasing pressure on different manufacturing organizations to find the best methods that enable them to stay up to date with the latest technologies in the industrial field. One of the most famous dilemmas that exist in this field is designing an efficient and flexible material handling system. This issue draws the attention of both decision-makers in different companies and software developers who put considerable effort into making that desired system real. Inclusive research needs to be performed to obtain such a system, and the most significant part of the research that requires special attention is the applied methodology.The approach to be adapted determines the degree of stability of a particular material handling system to function effectively in the case studied. Several methods are available and could be implemented to design that effective system such as meta-heuristic algorithms, and approaches that depend on simulation software tools. The latter approach, which is the simulation approach, seems to get increasing attention from developers of the industrial system since it plays a vital role in reducing the cost and preserving available resources. Besides, it helps predict future changes and scenarios of the system to be analyzed.In this project, a discrete-event simulation model was built for the proposed layout of the main shop floor owned by a Swedish manufacturing company. The corporation located in the south of Sweden, and it produces a vast range of manufacture of goods. The chosen methodology is a combination of lean, simulation, and optimization approaches. It has been implemented on the proposed layout in which material is handled into production lines by using automated guided vehicles (AGVs) as a means of transportation. The analysis of results shows potential benefits, where the production process became more efficient and organized since the operational cost has been reduced by decreasing the number of required vehicles. Moreover, the simulation approach facilitated testing new ideas and designing improved scenarios without the necessity to change the current state of the factory layout or disturbing the regular activities.
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Cicognani, Giacomo. "Analisi e ottimizzazione dei flussi logistici dei componenti per le linee di assemblaggio di forni e piani cottura nello stabilimento di Forlì: Il caso Electrolux S.p.A." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2020. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/20086/.
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Ho iniziato lo svolgimento del mio tirocinio presso lo stabilimento di Forlì di Electrolux nel mese di ottobre 2019. Sin dal giorno in cui mi è stata fatta la proposta di stage nell’ambito della logistica interna dello stabilimento, nutrivo curiosità e voglia di scoprire le tecniche e le pratiche lavorative utilizzate quotidianamente in una grande realtà globale come Electrolux. Il mio interesse precedente per la Logistica ha aiutato il mio inserimento in un team con una mentalità proattiva e volta al cambiamento continuo e migliorativo. In particolare, il progetto iniziale nelle intenzioni del management riguardava lo sviluppo dei flussi da e verso una nuova pressa per lo stampaggio di componenti in lamiera, situata in un’area facente parte dello stabilimento fino a prima ma utilizzata come semplice “zona di deposito provvisorio”: questo ha comportato la necessità di un cambiamento nel modo di pensare e vedere questo spazio da parte di tutte le funzioni aziendali.
Una volta iniziata la raccolta dati ci siamo domandati, dato lo stato già avanzato dei progetti riguardanti la nuova pressa, se potesse essere interessante considerare lo stabilimento con uno sguardo da più dall’alto e mettere in discussione l’attuale stato dei flussi interni del materiale con lo scopo di scovare perdite e proporre ambiti di miglioramento. Abbiamo così deciso di dare inizio alla revisione del carico di lavoro dei trenisti che sono presenti all’interno dello stabilimento per quanto riguarda ogni tipologia di componente trasportato verso le linee di produzione.
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Robinson, Margaret Joyce. "The linen industry of North-West England, 1660-1830." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.266666.
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Hood, Susan Eleanor. "The landlord-planned nexus at Strokestown, County Roscommon : case study of an Irish estate town, c.1660 - c.1925." Thesis, University of Ulster, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.242006.
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Dolan, Alice Claire. "The fabric of life : linen and life cycle in England, 1678-1810." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/17196.
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'The Fabric of Life: Linen and Life Cycle in England, 1678-1810' is structured around the human life cycle to draw out the social and cultural importance of linen for all ranks of society. Human and object life cycles are juxtaposed in the thesis to analyse co-dependent activities and processes rather than focusing on one facet of daily life. For thousands of years flax was a staple fibre, used for textile production in many parts of the globe. Cotton only overtook linen as the most popular textile in England at home and on the body during the nineteenth century. This thesis examines the preceding century to reveal why linen remained a daily necessity in England between 1678 and 1810, a period which encompassed a series of significant changes in the production, trade and use of linen. Linen was ubiquitous as underwear, sheets, table linens and for logistical purposes therefore it provides a unique insight into the early-modern world; a means of understanding the multifaceted experiences of daily life, of integrating understandings of the body, domestic, social, cultural and commercial activities. This thesis is social history through the lens of linen, reading a society through its interactions with a textile.
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Hoffman, Leonora. "Konflikdinamika binne 'n staalmaatskappy te Potchefstroom / Leonora Hoffman." Thesis, North-West University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/1222.
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South African organizations experienced more conflict in the past ten years because
of all the changes in the management of labour relations. Employees at lower, middle
and upper management levels within organizations are not well informed about the
different types of conflict, the functionality and dysfunctionality of conflict, how
conflict takes place within the different job-levels and how to manage and resolve it.
Dysfunctional conflict can be destructive and it can affect the productivity of the
organization.
Because of the lack of knowledge regarding conflict within the steel organization and
the necessity for it to be handled correctly, it was decided to seize the opportunity to
contribute to the existing knowledge of conflict.
Objectives of the study
The major objectives of this study are as follows:
To determine how literature conceptualizes conflict dynamics by examining
theory, industrial sociology, organizational behaviour and general
management.
To determine the following aspects by means of an empirical study:
- What the main reasons are for conflict within the steel organization.
- How the handling of conflict differs among the middle and lower
job levels within the organization.
Research study and methodology
The research study is divided into a theoretical and an empirical framework. Chapters 2,
3 and 4 outline the theoretical basis. Various aspects of conflict and handling or
managing it are discussed in detail. The study employs the conflict theories of Ralph
Dahrendorf and Karl Marx as points of departure, as found in chapter 2, in an attempt to
provide a framework for the problem statement and to attempt the attainment of the set of
objectives. This chapter discusses conflict and analyzes it as a social interaction
characterized by force, strife and animosity. It also offers and analysis of Dahrendorf s
and Marx's theories to determine their suitability to the study.
Chapter 3 discusses conflict within a business context with reference to functional and
dysfunctional conflict. different approaches to conflict. types of conflict, different
reactions to conflict as well as its different stages. Chapter 4 addresses the course,
handling and management of conflict by analyzing the conflict process while it keeps the
theories of Marx and Dahrendorf in mind.
Chapter 5 analyzes and describes the data and results found by means of empirical
research according to specific statistical methods. The empirical study was conducted
among the employees of a steel company. A standardised questionnaire and personal
interviews were used.
Major findings
Chapter 6 consists of analysed information about the assembled data. The major findings
of the study support the set of research objectives and prove all of them. Major findings
include the following:
Cooperation, discipline and communication are problem areas within the
steel organization.
A large number of employees show dissatisfaction about the nature and
extent of their work.
Some of the employees misuse their authority and this is a major cause of
conflict.
A total of 95% of the population show that they would like further training in
the dynamics of conflict management.
Half of the population show that they are unaware of any policies and
procedures of conflict management in the steel company.
Conclusion
In conclusion as found in chapter 6 the study makes a number of recommendations
centring on the training of employees to handle conflict and policy-making about
conflict-handling and management.<br>Thesis (M.A. (Industrial Sociology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2006.
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Andersson, Ellen, and Charlotte Klingspor. "Materialflödeseffektivisering mellan godsmottagning och montering : en kartläggning av aktiviteter mellan godsmottagning och montering." Thesis, Tekniska Högskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, JTH, Logistik och verksamhetsledning, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-45444.
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Syfte – Syftet med studien är att undersöka förbättringsmöjligheter i materialflödet mellan godsmottagning och montering. Syftet har brutits ner i tre frågeställningar: Vilka aktiviteter påverkar materialflödet mellan godsmottagning och montering? Hur påverkar aktiviteterna materialflödet mellan godsmottagning och montering? Hur kan materialflödet mellan godsmottagning och montering effektiviseras? Metod – En förstudie genomfördes för att definiera en problemformulering, vilket låg till grund för utformandet av studiens syfte och frågeställningar. En litteraturgenomgång och fallstudie har utförts parallellt med varandra. Datainsamlingen gjordes genom metoderna observation, dokumentstudie och intervjuer. Litteraturgenomgången genomfördes för att skapa det teoretiska ramverket. Syftet och frågeställningarna besvarades genom empirisk data och teorier. Resultat – Flera problem identifierades under studien som direkt påverkar materialflödet. I Icke värdeskapande aktiviteter, exempelvis hanterings- och lagerpunkter, påverkar ett materialflöde då det binds kapital och kräver resurser. En korrekt informationsdelning och ett nära samarbete mellan avdelningar anses vara en viktig faktor för materialflödets effektivitet. Genom att använda line back-principen kan aktiviteter som inte skapar värde för materialflödet förflytttas uppströms i försörjningskedjan för att möjliggöra en implementation av just in sequence. Implikationer – Då det redan existerar mycket teori inom problemområdet har ingen ny forskning etablerats. Däremot har studien belyst en ny synvinkel inom redan befintlig teori, där förhållandet mellan just in sequence och line back-principen belysts. Studien kan även användas som ett diskussionsunderlag för att kartlägga och effektivisera verksamheters materialflöde mellan godsmottagning och montering. Begränsningar – Studiens generaliserbarhet kan ifrågasättas då den endast involverar ett fallföretag. Då fallföretagets materialflöde ständigt är i rörelse försvårades datainsamlingen. Detta kan ha påverkat studiens resultat.<br>Purpose – The purpose of the thesis is to explore potential enhancements for the material flow between the goods receiving and the assembly line. The purpose has been broken down to three research questions: What activities affect the material flow between the goods receiving and the assembly line? How does the activities affect the material flow between the goods receiving and the assembly line? How can the material flow between the goods receiving and the assembly line be more efficient? Method – A pilot study was conducted to define a problem, which the purpose and research questions of the thesis was based on. A review of literature was carried out alongside a case study. Observations, document studies and interviews were the methods of choosing for the collection of data. To establish the theoretical framework a literature review was carried out. A comparison between the findings of the case study and theoretical framework answered the study’s research questions. Findings – The study identified several problems with an immediate impact on the material flow. Non-value adding operations such as material handling and stock locations ties capital and requires resources. To correctly share information and to have a close cooperation between departments is considered as an important factor for the material flow’s efficiency. By using line back principle non-value adding operations can be pushed upstream in the supply chain to enable an implementation of just in sequence. Implications – The studied area consists of already existing theories therefor no additional research has been contributed. However, a new aspect of already existing theory has enlightened the relationship between just in sequence and line back principle. Organizations can use the case study as a basis of discussion for a mapping and improvements of the material flow between the goods receiving and the assembly lines. Limitations – The thesis ability to generalize can be questioned since it consists of only one case company. The material flow was constantly in motion which complicated the collection of data. Therefor the findings of the study can be affected by this.
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Hamill, Jonathan. "A study of female textile operatives in the Belfast linen industry : 1890-1939." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.301699.
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Wolf, Zanine Nadia. "'Airing dirty linen': the problems of establishing a women's rights organisation in contemporary Swaziland." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11692.
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Bibliography: leaves 80-84.<br>This dissertation is about the power of tradition to influence domestic behavioural norms in Swaziland. I set out to demonstrate that, although the Swaziland Action Group Against Abuse (SWAGAA) has rendered itself indispensable to Swazi women, it still has a long way to go before realising its goal of the empowerment of abused women. This is due, primarily, to the organisation's adherence to international standards of women's human rights which cannot readily be applied in the particular context of Swaziland because they are resisted by those who seek to preserve what is claimed to be the traditional order. SWAGAA's counselling service is based on the premise that if an abused woman can be encouraged to make an informed, independent decision then she will have been empowered to take control of her life, and, ultimately, to free herself of the abuse. I argue that this approach, despite good intentions, is highly unrealistic in the locality of Swaziland. When a woman attempts to confront gender andlor domestic violence using the empowerment approach advocated by SWAGAA, she comes up against a number of entrenched ideological and practical constraints that undermine her power to negotiate. Foremost amongst these is the strong negative responses to any practice of 'airing dirty linen in public', such as consulting SWAGAA, for which a woman may be severely chastised. Women are reprimanded for seeking counsel beyond what are regarded as family boundaries because, they are told, by the police and by those around them, that this is inconsistent with acceptable and normative 'traditional' practice. I argue that the pressure placed upon women to adhere to practices of social organisation which are upheld as traditional, is rooted in a legacy of mistrust of foreign ideologies and practices. The leadership of the country has been, and continues to be engaged in an ongoing struggle to retain some semblance of what it regards as the traditional order. SWAGAA comes up directly against this legacy. Firstly, the women whom they counsel are constrained from making the individualistic decisions that SWAGAA wishes them to make. Secondly, women themselves are so embroiled in a social situation where men act as their advocates that they do not easily relate to the idea of individual empowerment. Yet SWAGAA persists with an approach that tries to undermine everyday normative practices, rather than working within the parameters of those norms. Its radical approach renders SWAGAA's counselling service too ambitious in Swaziland. What I thus advocate is an incremental approach that aims, gradually, to encourage women to empower themselves, given the persistence of the ideological and practical resistance to those attempts.
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Iizuka, Bruno de Abreu 1985. "Variabilidade em tratamento de exceções em linha de produtos de software." [s.n.], 2012. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/275670.
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Previous issue date: 2012<br>Resumo: Atualmente, muitos esforços vêm sendo feitos para se obter um maior grau de reutilização durante o desenvolvimento de sistemas. Linha de Produtos de Software (LPS) é uma abordagem que promove a reutilização de software. A Arquitetura de Linha de Produtos (ALP) provê uma perspectiva global das variabilidades da linha, ao passo que engloba os conceitos tradicionais de uma arquitetura de software. Devido às variabilidades de software de uma ALP, a evolução arquitetural é ainda mais complexa, do que quando comparado com evolução de arquiteturas de software convencionais. Tratamento de exceções é uma técnica bastante conhecida para a detecção e tratamento de erros em sistemas de software. Porém, apesar da sua popularidade, o seu projeto e a sua implementação são constituídos de tarefas muito complexas que não recebem uma atenção adequada dos processos de desenvolvimento existentes. Separação de interesses é um dos objetivos do tratamento de exceções para separar o comportamento normal e excepcional do sistema de software. No contexto de uma LPS, a separação de interesses é importante para o design das variabilidades de software relacionadas às estratégias do comportamento normal e do comportamento excepcional, como a escolha de diferentes tratadores de exceções por diferentes características. O objetivo principal deste trabalho é apresentar um método para especificar e implementar a variabilidade de tratamentos de exceções em LPS baseadas em componentes. O método MVTE (Método de Variabilidade de Tratamento de Exceções) é uma combinação de métodos já conhecidos na literatura (PLUS e UML Components) e os modelos COSMOS* e COSMOS*-VP. Para validar o método MVTE foram utilizados dois estudos empíricos, e para medir a sua qualidade foram utilizadas as métricas de impacto de mudanças, acoplamento entre módulos e difusão de interesses<br>Abstract: Nowadays, many efforts are being made to achieve a higher degree of reuse during the development of systems. Software Product Lines (SPL) is an approach to improve software reuse. A PLA provides a global view of the variability's of a SPL, while it embodies the concepts and advantages of the traditional software architecture. Due to its variability's, a PLA is harder to evolve than a conventional software architecture. Exception handling is a well known technique to detect and treat errors in software systems. However, despite its popularity, its design and implementation are constituted of very complex tasks that do not receive the adequate attention from the existing development processes. Separation of concerns is one of the overarching goals of exception handling in order to keep separate normal and exceptional behavior of a software system. In the context of a software product line (SPL); this separation of concerns is also important for designing software variability's related to normal and exceptional behavior, such as the choice of different handlers depending on the set of selected features. The main goal of this work is to present a method to specify and implement the variability of exception handling in SPL components-based. The method MVTE (Variability of Exception Handler Method) is a combination of methods known in the literature (PLUS and UML Components) and models COSMOS* and COSMOS*-VP. To validate the method MVTE, it was studied two empirical studies, and to measure their quality it was used the metrics impact change, coupling between modules and diffusion over concerns<br>Mestrado<br>Ciência da Computação<br>Mestre em Ciência da Computação
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Gurunath, Pramod. "OCL exception handling." Thesis, Texas A&M University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/1281.
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Object Constraint Language (OCL) is part of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) specification and can be used to enforce constraints on the attributes or methods of a class. It would greatly help the software developers if such non-executable OCL constraints specified in a UML model could be enforced on the executable code generated from the model. This thesis discusses the concepts, ideas and the approach in transforming a model developed in the Rational Rose software with OCL constraints into Java code shells, complete with fragments of code to detect the run-time violations of the constraints. The implementation and testing of a prototype tool that incorporates these ideas is also discussed.
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Karlslätt, David. "Improved Statistics Handling." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Computer and Information Science, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-18238.
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<p><p>Ericsson is a global provider of telecommunications systems equipment and related services for mobile and fixed network operators. </p><p>3Gsim is a tool used by Ericsson in tests of the 3G RNC node.</p><p>In order to validate the tests, statistics are constantly gathered within 3Gsim and users can use telnet to access the statistics using some system specific 3Gsim commands.</p><p>The statistics can be retrieved but is unstructured for the human eye and needs parsing and arranging to be readable. </p><p>The statistics handler that is implemented during this thesis provides a possibility for users of 3Gsim to present information that favors their personal interest.</p><p>The implementation can produce one prototype output document which contains the most common statistics needed by the 3Gsim user. A main focus of this final thesis has been to simplify content and format control for the user as much as possible.</p><p>Presenting and structuring information now comes down to simple text editing and rid the user of the time consuming work of updating and recompiling the entire application.</p><p>Earlier, scripts written in Perl, an iterative oriented language, were used for presenting the statistics. These scripts were often difficult to comprehend since there were many different authors with inadequate experience and knowledge.</p><p>The new statistics handler has been written in Java, a high-level object-oriented language which should better suite the users and developers of 3Gsim. </p></p>
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Reinosdotter, Karin. "Sustainable snow handling." Doctoral thesis, Luleå : Division of Architecture and Infrastructure, Department of Civil, Mining and Environmental Engioneering, Luleå University of Technology, 2007. http://epubl.ltu.se/1402-1544/2007/12/.
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Bieber, Martin. "Åtgärd eller handling." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Lärarutbildningen (LUT), 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-35025.
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Min tanke med mitt arbete var att ta reda på om det fanns ett behov av att ta fram ett nytt åtgärdsprogram på skolan enligt mina kollegor och ledningen. Dessutom ville jag presentera ett alternativt åtgärdsprogram som jag kallar Handlingsprogram, helt i linje med Lösningsinriktad pedagogik. Jag har intervjuat tre av mina kollegor samt en person ur ledningen, jag har gjort en nulägesanalys och jag har sökt information runt den lösningsinriktade pedagogiken i böcker för att finna teorier om hur jag ska utforma mitt handlingsprogram. Resultatet blev att vi hade ett behov av ett nytt åtgärdsprogram och jag har skapat ett handlingsprogram som vi kommer att införa på skolan.
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Puerta, Marcus Vinicius [UNESP]. "A utilização dos conceitos de manufatura enxuta e da teoria das restrições no abastecimento de uma linha de montagem." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/143417.
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Previous issue date: 2016-06-24<br>O grande número de competidores globais existentes no mercado tem levado as indústrias da cadeia automotiva a buscarem incessantemente melhorias na gestão operacional, e nesse sentido esse trabalho apresenta uma proposta de integração das técnicas e abordagens da Manufatura Enxuta e da Teoria das Restrições, através de uma aplicação prática, visando a melhoria da sistemática de abastecimento de componentes para utilização em células de solda pertencentes a uma linha de montagem de chassis. Em uma primeira etapa foram apresentados os conceitos e as possibilidades de integração de ambas as teorias e, a partir de um diagnóstico inicial do sistema de abastecimento, foram propostas alterações, de maneira evolutiva, em que melhorias baseadas na Manufatura Enxuta eram implementadas a cada rodada de experimento, culminando com a implementação de melhorias baseadas na Teoria das Restrições, integrando ambos os conceitos. O resultado final obtido corrobora a eficiência da integração das duas abordagens para a melhoria de processos, as quais contribuíram para uma diminuição dos tempos de ciclo de abastecimento na ordem de 89% para a célula alvo estudada, sendo superior ao resultado obtido utilizando-se apenas uma das técnicas, sem que houvesse necessidade de investimentos e/ou despesas significativas.<br>The large number of global players in the market has led the automotive industry chain to incessantly seek improvements in operations management to increase their results and, based on this fact, this paper presents a proposal for integrating the techniques and approaches of Lean Manufacturing and Theory of Constraints through an action research application, aiming at improving the material supply system of welding cells from a chassis frame assembly line. In the first stage were presented the concepts and possibilities of integration of both theories and, from an initial diagnosis of the supply system, changes were proposed in an evolutionary way, in which improvements based on Lean Manufacturing were implemented on each experiment round, culminating in the implementation of improvements based on the Theory of Constraints, integrating both concepts. The final result confirms the efficiency of the integration of these two approaches as a way to improve processes, which contributed to an 89% decrease of the supply cycle times of the studied target cell. This result is better than the result obtained using only one of the techniques, without the need for investments and / or significant expenses.
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Trouton, Lycia Danielle. "An intimate monument (re)-narrating 'the troubles' in Northern Ireland the Irish Linen Memorial 2001-2005 /." Access electronically, 2005. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20060517.113223/index.html.
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Mitchell, David Malcolm. "Fine table linen in England, 1450-1750 : the supply, ownership and use of a luxury commodity." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1999. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10043021/.
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From the fourteenth century, diaper napery with small geometric patterns was imported from the Low Countries. Towards 1450, the drawloom was adapted in Flanders to weave white linen damasks with figurative patterns. These were expensive and initially covered the tables of the great. During the seventeenth century, new centres of manufacture in Germany provided cheaper figured table linens which were increasingly bought by the 'middling sort'. Dining was always more than the simple provision of sustenance whether for a king publicly 'to glase his glorie' or a merchant privately 'for love or business'. Dining ceremony which responded to these different purposes and to changing concepts of hospitality and civility, generated the furniture of the dining chamber and in turn the supplies of napery. This thesis examines the changing requirements for table linens using courtesy and household books in conjunction with a data set of some one thousand inventories. The patterns of importation by both English and stranger merchants are drawn from the London port books. Responses to the military situation on the continent and customs rates at home are considered, together with the degree to which a fashionable luxury commodity determined the trading strategies of individual merchants. The distribution of table linen is appraised including the dominant role of London linen drapers. This is followed by an evaluation of its changing ownership and the effect of differential rates of inflation of various household goods upon consumer preferences. The results are set within the context of the discussion of conspicuous consumption both by contemporary commentators such as William Harrison and the modem protagonists in the debate on the 'consumer revolution'. By linking pattern descriptions in inventories with surviving linens, the range of damasks sold in England is delineated and the influence of religious and political attitudes upon subject and design explored.
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Kinik, Ayça. "Safety while handling trailers." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen Designhögskolan, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-82492.
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Road transportation grew by 3.3 % per year over the past ten years which is faster than the economic growth of 2.3 % per year. European Commission plans for an increase of 55 % for road transportation between 2000 and 2020. This growth puts pressure on current trucking industry considering fuel consumption, emissions of green house gases, and traffic congestion. High demand logistics industry and current pressure creates trends towards flexibility and longer vehicle combinations for efficiency and to reduce the number of engines on roads, challenging the current coupling methods of the trailers. Primary method called 5th wheel coupling comes from a similar coupling used on 4 wheel horse-drawn carriages of the 19th century which is reliable in terms of attaching truck and trailer but has significant safety, efficiency and comfort issues for driver and the vehicles-people around. So what if hauling setup could be safer and smarter?
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Lepine, Yves. "Strawberry handling in Quebec." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61839.
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Bengtsson, Sebastian, and Kristoffer Nilsson. "EBH - Easy Battery Handling." Thesis, Halmstad University, School of Business and Engineering (SET), 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-1689.
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<p>The project Easy Battery Handling - EBH has been carried out in our auspicial and completed</p><p>for Devantini Corporation, a development company in Halmstad with its main concern in</p><p>environmental friendly innovations.</p><p>EBH has solved one of many technical challenges in one of Devantini corporation’s larger</p><p>projects. This main project involves the development of an electric powered formula racing</p><p>car. The part of this car that involved EBH was the battery handling to guarantee safe and</p><p>quick battery exchanges during pit-stops.</p><p>The solution became an entire battery module, hanging on the side of the car on two spears</p><p>pointing out from the car. The batteries are exchanged by a specially designed trolley that is</p><p>inserted under the battery module. To secure the batteries whilst driving they are also secured</p><p>with a locking device that is quick and simple to unlock when it is time to exchange the</p><p>batteries.</p><p>The project resulted in a battery handling system that in comparison to already existing</p><p>solutions reduce the burden on the mechanics and performs an exchange of batteries in less</p><p>than half the time.</p>
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Hassinger, Elaine, and Jack Watson. "Fertilizer Storage and Handling." College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/146420.
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2 pp.<br>Certain fertilizer nutrients can be harmful for animals and humans if they enter groundwater or surface water sources. Nitrate is the fertilizer nutrient that most often causes water contamination problems. This publication asks you to answer questions to help you determine whether your fertilizer storage and handling practices may pose a risk to groundwater.
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Hassinger, Elaine, and Jack Watson. "Pesticide Storage and Handling." College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/146421.
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2 pp.<br>Pesticides are important for the agricultural industry. But they can show up where they're not wanted, such as in groundwater or surface water and hence pose health risk to humans and animals. This publication discusses the health risks pesticides cause and proper pesticide storage and handling practices.
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Young, C. S. "Preslaughter handling of sheep." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.233699.
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DAMASCENO, KARLA NAZARE FERREIRA. "CONTEXT-SENSITIVE EXCEPTION HANDLING." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2006. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=9181@1.
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CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO<br>FUNDAÇÃO PADRE LEONEL FRANCA<br>Tratamento de erros em aplicações móveis sensíveis ao
contexto não é uma
tarefa trivial devido às características peculiares destes
sistemas, como
mobilidade, comunicação assíncrona e aumento de
imprevisibilidade.
Mecanismos convencionais de tratamento de exceções não
podem ser utilizados
por vários motivos. Primeiro, a propagação de erros deve
considerar as mudanças
contextuais que ocorrem constantemente nestes sistemas.
Segundo, as atividades
de recuperação de erros e a estratégia de tratamento de
exceções também precisam
freqüentemente ser selecionadas de acordo com as
informações de contexto.
Terceiro, a própria caracterização de uma exceção pode
depender do contexto dos
dispositivos envolvidos. Embora vários middlewares
orientados a contexto
ofereçam suporte ao desenvolvimento de aplicações móveis,
estes sistemas
raramente fornecem suporte adequado ao tratamento de
exceções. Este trabalho
realiza uma análise das soluções existentes para
tratamento de exceções,
considerando os requisitos de sensibilidade ao contexto.
Além disso, são
propostos um modelo para tratamento de exceções sensível
ao contexto e um
mecanismo implementado a partir de MoCA (Mobile
Collaboration Architecture).
MoCA é um middleware publish-subscribe que oferece suporte
ao
desenvolvimento de aplicações móveis colaborativas através
da incorporação de
serviços de contexto. Finalmente, este trabalho avalia o
mecanismo de exceções
proposto através de sua utilização em alguns protótipos de
aplicações
colaborativas desenvolvidas a partir de MoCA. Através do
mecanismo, foram
implementadas diferentes estratégias de tratamento de
exceções que consideram
as informações de contexto das aplicações.<br>Context-sensitive exception handling on mobile systems is
not a trivial task
due to their intrinsic characteristics: mobility,
asynchrony and increased
unpredictability. Conventional mechanisms of exception
handling can not be used
for many reasons. First, error propagation needs
considering the contextual
changes that often occur in these systems. Second, error
recovery and exception
handling strategies also frequently need to be selected
according to contextual
information. Third, the characterization of an exception
may depend on the
contextual situation of involved devices. Even though
there are now several
context-oriented middleware systems that provide support
for the development of
mobile applications, they rarely provide explicit and
adequate features for contextsensitive
exception handling. This work presents an analysis of
existing exception
handling mechanisms, which to some extent consider the
context-awareness
requirements. Besides, it proposes a general model for
context-sensitive exception
handling and a supporting mechanism implemented using the
MoCA (Mobile
Collaboration Architecture) infrastructure. MoCA is a
publish-subscribe
middleware supporting the development of collaborative
mobile applications by
incorporating explicit services to empower software agents
with contextsensitiveness.
Finally, this paper reports our experience in implementing
contextaware
exception handling strategies in some prototype
collaborative applications
built with the MoCA system.
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Donelan, Amy K. "Consumer poultry handling behaviors." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/20477.
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Master of Science<br>Human Nutrition<br>Delores H. Chambers<br>Understanding how consumers handle poultry can highlight gaps in consumer knowledge and practice of food safety. Quantitative research provides only a partial image, whereas qualitative data is helpful in gaining a complete picture of a shopper's behaviors. The objective of this study was to determine what poultry product microbes could potentially be transferred during purchasing and home storage; using a shop-along observational technique to observe actual shopping, transporting, and storing behavior of consumers with raw poultry products. In 71% (n=97) of the situations observed there was no visible hand sanitizer or wipes in the meat section of the grocery store. Plastic bags could be found in the meat section 85% (n=97) of the time, which only 25% of shoppers (n=82) used the bag for their poultry products. During transportation, the consumer bagged the poultry separately from other products in 71% of the observations. A majority of shoppers (59%) stored poultry without using a plastic bag or other container. Overall, there needs to be an increase in food safety education on the handling of poultry during purchasing, transporting, and storage.
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NILSSON, OSCAR. "Optimization of substrate handling." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-299190.
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The client is an organization founded and is operational in Sweden, Stockholm. The company focuses on manufacturing of clean tech solutions with its self-developed technology. Their technology generate power from renewable sources. The technology is applied to a substrate which is manufactured inside the factory, today's handling of the substrate must be made more effective. The purpose of the work is to analyze and optimize the handling of substrate in the factory. This includes from substrate manufacturing to storage to the next process in the chain. The approach to the work began with a background study, preparation of a schedule, development of concepts and concept evaluation. To structure the work, the decision was made to follow the methods developed in the book Six Sigma’s. The background study gathered information and knowledge about the subject to give a more profound understanding. Market studies were also conducted to find suitable solutions as well as components and products. Several concepts were developed using brainstorming. The concepts were evaluated intuitively and using Pugh's matrix. The most suitable concept was further developed and dimensioned based on the conditions. Computer models were manufactured for the development and illustration of concepts. The project resulted in the way the company transfer rolls today is the most optimal with the conditions that exist. The focus was therefore shifted to the development of a paternoster plant for storing rolls. The storage system that was developed holds up to 10 rolls at a time with a weight of 450 kg each. The construction has a maximum height of 3,17 meters, width of 3 meters and a depth of 1,6 meters. The concept will increase the efficiency of the workers by making it easier to sort rolls and reduce the workload. There are several possibilities for improvement for optimizing the substrate handling in the factory and these are discussed in the last chapter.<br>Uppdragsgivaren är ett företag grundat och operativa i Sverige, Stockholm. Företaget inriktar sig mot tillverknings av lösningar för grön energi med sin egenutvecklade teknik. Tekniken appliceras på ett substrat som tillverkas i fabriken, dagens hantering av substratet måste effektiviseras och automatiseras. Syftet med arbetet är att analysera och optimera hanteringen av substrat i fabriken. Detta omfattar förflyttningen från substrattillverkning till lagring, till och med nästa process grupp i kedjan. Tillvägagångssättet för arbetet började med en bakgrundsstudie, upprättning av tidsschema, utveckling av koncept och konceptevaluering. För att strukturera arbetet togs beslutet att följa metoderna framtagna i boken Six Sigmas. I bakgrundsstudien samlades information och kunskap kring ämnet för att ge en djupare förståelse. Marknadsstudier genomfördes även för att finna lämpliga lösningar samt komponenter och produkter. Ett flertal koncept utvecklades med hjälp av brainstorming. Koncepten utvärderades med hjälp av Pughs matris. Det mest lämpliga konceptet vidareutvecklades och dimensionerades utifrån förutsättningarna. Datormodeller tillverkades för utveckling och illustrering av koncept. Projektet resulterade i att sättet förtaget förflyttar rullar idag är det optimalaste med dom förutsättningarna som existerar. Fokuset förflyttades därför till utveckling av ett paternosterverk för lagring av rullar. Lagrings systemet som utvecklades håller upp till 10 rullar samtidigt med en vikt på 450 kg styck. Konstruktionen har en maximal höjd på 3 meter, bredd på 3 meter och ett djup på 1,6 meter. Konceptet kommer öka effektiviteten för arbetarna genom att enklare sortera rullar och minska arbetsbelastningen. Flera förbättringsmöjligheter finns för optimering av substrathanteringen i fabriken och dessa tas upp i sista kapitlet.
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Gavutienė, Jurgita. ""Klastotė"." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2007. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2007~D_20070115_212457-52232.
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The counterfeit phenomenon was analyzed in this magisterial work, and was interpretation made of it.
In any museum appears to discover some forgeries that can be clarified only with time though time can veil it. Forgeries are made usually by faired people who lengthened manner or style of one or another famous artist. On one glance to history is clear, that the phenomenon of adulteration is popular in these quarters, where finances and profit are in hand also in the world of art. This phenomenon does not passes neither history nor politics. Some myths and legends are so vital, that it can encourage the modern man to a fantasies, that embolden to falsification of a facts.
The rigging is not only material wealth, but intellectual property can be rigged too. Though the religious society declaring Christian moralities speak against any inferiority or lying and cheating, there are facts of its members can not resist a temptation to firm up their positions in peoples harts by invoking worldly unfair games.
The erect hypothesis approved there for the proposition can be made that so widely spread forgery is not popular as a peace of art itself.
There is gathered and systematized information allows to make an abstract opinion on forgery in this magisterial work. The oeuvre part of this magisterial work “Fake” is important up to date this theme was not used as artificial expression, there for it can become not only an object of exhibitions, but perform the social function:... [to full text]
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Van, Allen Timothy Karl. "Handling uncertainty when you're handling uncertainty, model selection and error bars for belief networks." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0012/MQ59891.pdf.
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Berggren, Patrik. "Examensprojekt. Från tanke till handling." Thesis, Kungl. Musikhögskolan, Institutionen för jazz, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kmh:diva-907.
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Karapetyan, Margarit. "Social Media and Complaints Handling." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för marknadsföring (MF), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-28612.
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AbstractTitleComplaints Handling and Social MediaPurposeThe purpose of the project is to describe how companies conduct complaints handling in socialmedia and how they listen, talk and energize with the help of social media in terms of complaintshandling.Research QuestionsHow do companies perform complaints handling in social media? How do companies listen, talkand energize in social media in terms of complaints handling?Theory and ConceptsComplaints handling; encouraging customers to voice a complaint; the role of front-lineemployees in complaints handling; the role of compensation in complaints handling; socialmedia and relationship marketing; listening in social media; talking in social media; energizingon social mediaMethodologyThe study is descriptive with deductive approach. The research is qualitative and the researchstrategy is one-to-one interviews. Interviews were conducted with social media representatives ofBeeline, SAS supermarkets’ chain and Figaro restaurant group in Armenia.ConclusionsFrom the research it was concluded that SAS supermarkets’ chain and Figaro restaurant group interms of complaints handling mainly embrace the relationship potentials social media provides.That is they listen to complaints on social media; they always response to complaints either bytaking proactive measures or describing the situation; however, they do not energize customerswith stories about successful complaints handling experiences. While, in terms of complaintshandling, Beeline does not use the tools of listening, talking and energizing properly. It was alsoconcluded that both SAS supermarkets’ chain and Figaro restaurant group conduct complaintshandling in social media environment mainly in accordance to theories about how successfulcomplaints handling can be done, while Beeline does not.
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Neumann, Christoph [Verfasser]. "Distributed Case Handling / Christoph Neumann." München : Verlag Dr. Hut, 2013. http://d-nb.info/1033041637/34.
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Sheikh, Muhammad Jamal. "Exception handling in software analysis." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21999.
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With the advancement in technology, software systems are more and more in control of devices that we use in our daily lives. Complex computer systems are increasingly built for highly critical tasks. Failures of such systems may have severe consequences ranging from loss of business opportunities, physical damage, to loss of human lives. Systems with such responsibilities should be highly dependable. Discovering and documenting potential abnormal situations and irregular user behavior that can interrupt normal system interaction is of tremendous importance in the context of dependable systems development. Exceptions that are identified during requirements elicitation have to be systematically carried over to a subsequent analysis phase, and included in the system specification in order to ensure that the implementation of the system later on can deal with all relevant exceptional situations. This thesis advocates a more methodical approach to exception handling by extending the requirements elicitation and analysis phases of the Fondue development process to address exceptions. Exceptions are discovered at the requirements stage of software development using a use-case based approach, and then mapped to the Fondue specification models: the environment model, in which exceptional messages that signal exceptional situations to the system, the concept model, in which exceptional state is specified that keeps track of the failures of secondary actors, and the operation model, in which recovery functionality is specified. The proposed ideas are illustrated by a comprehensive case study, the 407 ETR Electronic Toll Collection system.<br>Avec les avancements d'aujourd'hui, les appareils que nous utilisons dans notre vie quotidienne sont de plus en plus dans contrôles des systèmes informatiques. Les systèmes informatiques complexes prennent une nouvelle importance dans la réalisation des tâches hautement critiques. Un échec dans un tel système peut causer des pertes d'occasions d'affaires, des dommages physiques ou, dans le pire des cas, la perte de vies humaines. Les systèmes avec de telles responsabilités doivent être très fiables. La découverte et la documentation des situations potentiellement anormales, sans oublier le comportement irrégulier d'utilisateur qui peut interrompre les interactions régulières du système, sont d'une grande importance dans le contexte de développement de systèmes fiables. Les exceptions qui sont identifiées pendant la phase de collecte des spécifications doivent être systématiquement utilisées a la phase d'analyse, et doivent être également intégrées dans les spécifications systèmes pour assurer que l'implémentation du système peut réagir a toutes les situations exceptionnelles relatives. Cette thèse propose une approche plus méthodique pour la gestion des exceptions en prolongeant les phases de collection de spécifications et d'analyse du processus de développement Fondue pour y ajouter la gestion d'exceptions. Les exceptions sont découvertes dans la phase de spécification du cycle de développement en utilisant une approche cas d'utilisation "use case", pour ensuite les associer aux modèles de spécification Fondue : le modèle d'environnement ou se trouve les messages exceptionnels qui sont envoyés au système dans le cas d'une situation exceptionnelle, le modèle conceptuel, ou les états exceptionnels sont spécifiés un suivi des échecs des acteurs secondaires est effectué; et finalement le modèles opérationnel, ou les fonctionnalités sont spécifiées. Les idées proposées sont illustrées par une étude de cas é
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Litborn, Erik. "Sample handling in nanoscale chemistry." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Chemistry, 2000. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-2975.
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<p>Miniaturization is a strong on-going trend within analyticalchemistry. This has led to an increased demand for newtechnologies allowing smaller volumes of samples as well asreagents to be utilized. This thesis deals with the use of openchip-based reactors (vials); a concept that offers an increasedflexibility compared to the use of closed reactors. The vialsare manufactured by anisotropic etching of silicon.</p><p>First, a short introduction is given on the benefits ofperforming chemistry in miniaturized formats. Different typesof reactors useful for performing chemistry in nanoscale aredescribed and the advantages and disadvantages of using aclosed contra anopen system are discussed.</p><p>Precise dosing of nanoliter-sized volumes of liquids incontact mode is performed by using miniaturized pipette tips orcapillaries<b>(Paper I, III&IV)</b>. Also, non-contact dosing usingpiezo-electric dispensers is demonstrated by performingnanoliter sized acid-base titrations<b>(Paper II)</b>. Standard deviations on the order of 1% wereobtained.</p><p>Several strategies for handling the evaporation of water,while performing tryptic digests of native myoglobin in lownanoliter sized vials, are demonstrated. An increasedconversion rate of the protein to peptides was observed when ananovial (15 nL) reactor was used compared to the use of aconventional plastic vial (100 µL). Principles based onreducing the driving force for evaporation<b>(Paper III)</b>, continuous compensation of evaporatedmaterial<b>(Paper IV)</b>as well as covering the reaction liquid witha volatile liquid lid of solvent<b>(Paper V)</b>are used. The volatile liquid lid is also usedwhen performing PCR in volumes as low as 50 nL<b>(Paper VI)</b>.</p><p>Short descriptions of the analytical methods utilized in thethesis; capillary electrophoresis<b>(Paper III, IV, V&VI)</b>, matrix assisted laserdesorption/ionization time of flight mass spectrometry<b>(Paper I)</b>and fluorescence measurements<b>(Paper II&VI)</b>are presented.</p><p>Finally, an outlook of the developed technologies is giventogether with a discussion concerning possible futurerequirements in miniaturized chemistry.</p><p>Keywords: capillary electrophoresis, continuouscompensation, enzymatic degradation, evaporation,lab-on-a-chip, liquid lid, MALDI, miniaturization, myoglobin,nanoliter, nanoscale chemistry, parallel, picoliter,piezo?dispenser, polymerase chain reaction, reactor, titration,tryptic digest, vial</p><p>© Erik Litborn, 2000</p>