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This thesis presents a cost-benefit analysis of tidal power generation with specific reference to the installation of a 300MW tidal farm in the Minas Passage, in Nova Scotia, in 2020, as a case study. Nova Scotia has set aggressive targets to increase the share of renewables in the province’s electricity generation mix and tidal energy is considered to be the ?sleeping giant? amongst renewable energy sources. After having estimated the many costs and benefits and having calculated the net present value of such a project, it is concluded here that the project should not proceed as its costs greatly surpass its benefits. However, it is recommended that further studies evaluating the costs and benefits at different levels of tidal penetration be conducted for the province.

Thesis (M.A.)--Liberty University, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references.

Inaug.-Diss.--Giessen. / Lebenslauf.

This study examined the factors related to intergenerational conflict as perceived by immigrant and non-immigrant adolescents. The study replicated the work of Doreen Rosenthal (1989) using a modified version of the questionaire she administered to adolescents in Melbourne, Australia. This study was administered to 300 grade eleven students in two Vancouver high schools. The data was analysed to determine the effect of the following factors on intergenerational conflict: immigrant status, bicultural adaptation, gender, ethnicity, age at time of immigration, presence or absence of a common complex language with parents. Analysis revealed that students in general reported a moderate amount of conflict with their parents. Intergenerational conflict was not affected by whether or not the adolescent was an immigrant to Canada. Female adolescents reported higher conflict with their fathers, but no gender differences were noted with mothers. Of the three largest ethnic groups in the study, Indo-Canadians reported significantly more conflict with mothers than did either Euro-Canadians or Chinese-Canadians and a greater amount of conflict with fathers than did Chinese-Canadians. Chinese-Canadians reported less conflict with either parent than did either Indo-Canadians or Euro-Canadians. Bicultural students did not report significantly less conflict than traditional, assimilated or marginal adolescents. Age at the time of immigration did not affect the amount of intergenerational conflict. And finally, adolescents who speak a common language with their parents in the home perceived less conflict with mothers. While few recommendations could be made as a result of the findings, a framework for the analysis of integration patterns was developed, a comprehensive review of the literature conducted and questions for future research on intergenerational conflict were raised. / Education, Faculty of / Graduate

Abstract With the tremendous growing of mobile communication and internet market in the 90s decade, electronic commence (EC) and broadband multimedia also begin to demonstrate their market potential in next few years. We can almost be sure that a combination of these markets equals success. The 3G system, created to meet the requirements mentioned above, undoubtedly to be the star of future. Basically, the 3G system is an extension of the 2G system. There is no question that, to date, Japan has been the mobile Internet success story with its legendary i-mode service. But in much of the world, mobile internet market has generally not materialized quite as quick as anticipated, due to a number of factors. Mobile EC and multimedia markets are facing the same situation. It reveals that 3G market, unlike the explosively growing 2G market, will be full of uncertainty. This thesis focuses on the uncertain 3G market. Base on the theory of ¡§Strategy under Uncertainty¡¨ , we will provide some competition strategies for telecom operators. We also provide a risk¡Vanalysis model, with the theory of ¡¨ Discovery Driver Planning¡¨, for the operator to evaluate the high risk in such an uncertain market.

Date: June 1st, 2011 Program: MIMA – International Marketing Course name: Master Thesis (EFO705) Title: Differences of Consumers’ Perception and Attitude towardsMarketing Communication through media: comparison generation X, Y, and ZinThailand Problem: How each generation perceive and react to marketingcommunication differently: comparison Generation X, Y, and Z. Research question: What are the particular differences ofperception and attitude towards marketing communication through media among eachgroup of consumers: comparison Gen X, Y, and Z in Thailand? Purpose: To compare differences of perception and attitude betweengeneration X, Y and Z towards marketing communication through the chosen media(television, print, and internet). Method: A qualitative method was used to achieve the purpose ofthis thesis. The primary data was gathered by using semi-structured interviewwith twelve respondents in three different generations: X, Y and Z. Secondarydata such as online documents and textbooks were also supported to enhance thevalue of the findings. Conclusion: Comparing the perception and attitude toward marketingcommunication by media between generation X, Y and Z are almost the same. Thereason is that the technology is changing over time and has more impact fortheir life. As a result their lifestyle is dominated by internet. Advertisingon TV is still much alive while print ads are almost end for generation Y and Zsince this kind of media is unattractive as well as the new generations are readless.However, print ads are effective for generation X.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file as well as 10 media.jpg files. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on November 12, 2008) Includes bibliographical references.

Automatic story generation has a long-standing tradition in the field of Artificial Intelligence. The ability to create stories on demand holds great potential for entertainment and education. For example, modern computer games are becoming more immersive, containing multiple story lines and hundreds of characters. This has substantially increased the amount of work required to produce each game. However, by allowing the game to write its own story line, it can remain engaging to the player whilst shifting the burden of writing away from the game’s developers. In education, intelligent tutoring systems can potentially provide students with instant feedback and suggestions of how to write their own stories. Although several approaches have been introduced in the past (e.g., story grammars, story schema and autonomous agents), they all rely heavily on handwritten resources. Which places severe limitations on its scalability and usage. In this thesis we will motivate a new approach to story generation which takes its inspiration from recent research in Natural Language Generation. Whose result is an interactive data-driven system for the generation of children’s stories. One of the key features of this system is that it is end-to-end, realising the various components of the generation pipeline stochastically. Knowledge relating to the generation and planning of stories is leveraged automatically from corpora and reformulated into new stories to be presented to the user. We will also show that story generation can be viewed as a search task, operating over a large number of stories that can be generated from knowledge inherent in a corpus. Using trainable scoring functions, our system can search the story space using different document level criteria. In this thesis we focus on two of these, namely, coherence and interest. We will also present two major paradigms for generation through search, (a) generate and rank, and (b) genetic algorithms. We show the effects on perceived story interest, fluency and coherence that result from these approaches. In addition, we show how the explicit use of plots induced from the corpus can be used to guide the generation process, providing a heuristically motivated starting point for story search. We motivate extensions to the system and show that additional modules can be used to improve the quality of the generated stories and overall scalability. Finally we highlight the current strengths and limitations of our approach and discuss possible future approaches to this field of research.

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka attityder till arbetet och om dessa kan kopplas till generationstillhörighet. Vi utgår ifrån de personalansvarigas perspektiv där vi ser till om de upplever några skillnader i attityder. Dessutom undersöker vi pensionsavgångarna, hur dessa hanteras och om de upplevs som ett problem.  Upplever HR personalen att det finns skillnader i attityder till arbetet och är dessa i så fall bundna till generationstillhörigheten? Upplevs pensionsavgångarna som ett problem, och hur hanteras de i så fall? Vi har använt oss av en kvalitativ metod där vi har intervjuat sex personer från olika branscher, som arbetar med rekrytering på respektive arbetsplats. Vi har använt oss av ett strategiskt urval. Frågeställningarna har besvarats med hjälp av sociologiska och socialpsykologiska teorier. Vi har kommit fram till att kopplingen mellan generationstillhörighet och olika attityder känns igen av samtliga respondenter men att det dock är få som upplever sig se någon större skillnad på sin arbetsplats. Vad gäller frågeställning två så visar det sig att det inte är pensionsavgångarna i sig som upplevs som ett problem utan snarare planeringen, och kompetensen som försvinner när de amställda går i pension. / The purpose for this essay is to examine attitudes towards work as related to generations. When examining this, we have a human resource perspective where we investigate if HR staff experiences any differences in attitudes. Furthermore we examine retirement and the handling off this matter and if it is perceived as a problem.  Does HR staff experience any attitude differences towards work, if so, are they generation bound?   Does HR staff experience any problems with retirement, if so, how are they dealt with? We have used a qualitative method where we have interviewed six people who all work with recruitment, but in different branches and workplaces. We have used a strategic selection. Our issues have been answered using sociological and social psychological theories.We have found that the connections between generations and different attitudes are well known among our respondents, but only a few of them experience any significant difference at their workplace. Issue number two shows that the retirement matter are not perceived as an issue, as much as planning it and the problem concerning the loss of competence when staff retire.