A computação em nuvem tem recebido um grande destaque, ao propor um novo e eficiente mecanismo para disponibilizar recursos computacionais. Dos investimentos cada vez maiores nessa plataforma, inclusive pela academia, surge a oportunidade de compartilhar estes recursos computacionais entre diferentes instituições. As grades computacionais são um mecanismo bem estabelecido para o compartilhamento de alguns tipos de recursos computacionais. Através do entendimento de como isso é feito nestas estruturas, esse trabalho avalia as soluções existentes e propõe um arquitetura alternativa que permite a criação das federações de nuvens computacionais. / Cloud computing is a new model to provide computing resources. The growing interest and investments on this platform creates an opportunity to share this resources across different institutions. The grid computing is the standard way of achieving this. Using grid as reference, this work survey current technologies and present an alternative design to allow the development of academic cloud computing federations.

[pt] O advento da WEB propiciou a disseminação de bases de dados distribuídas e heterogêneas. Por vezes, a resposta a uma consulta demanda o uso de várias destas bases. É necessário, então, algum nível de integração destas. A publicação dessas bases nem sempre segue um padrão semântico. Em função disso parece ser essencial existir um meio de relacionar os diferentes dados para satisfazer tais consultas. Este processo é comumente denominado de integração de dados. A comunidade de Banco de Dados tem conhecimento de métodos para dar conta desta integração no contexto de federações de Bancos de Dados heterogêneos. No entanto, atualmente existem descrições mais ricas e com mais possibilidades de semântica, tais como aquelas induzidas pelo conceito de ontologia. A comunidade de Banco de Dados tem considerado ontologias na solução do problema da integração de Banco de Dados. O alinhamento ou merge de ontologias são algumas das propostas conhecidas da comunidade de WEB semântica. Este trabalho propõe o uso de métodos de merge de ontologias como solução ao problema da construção de uma federação de ontologias como método integrador de fontes de dados. O trabalho inclui a implementação de um estudo de caso na ferramenta Protegé. Este estudo de caso permite discutir aspectos de escalabilidade e de aplicabilidade da proposta como uma solução tecnologicamente viável. / [en] The WEB has spread out the use of heterogeneous distributed databases. Sometimes, the answer to a query demands the use of more than one database. Some level of integration among these databases is desired. However, frequently, the bases were not designed according a unique semantic pattern. Thus, it seems essential to relate the different data, in the respective base, in order to provide an adequate answer to the query. The process of building this relationship is often called data integration. The Data Base community has acquired enough knowledge to deal with this in the context of Data Base Heterogeneous Federation. Nowadays, there are more expressive model descriptions, namely ontologies. The Data Base community has also considered ontologies as a tool to contribute as part of a solution to the data integration problem. The Semantic WEB community defined alignment or merge of ontologies as one of the possible solutions to the some of this integration problem. This work has the aim of using merge of ontologies methods as a mean to define the construction of a Federation of ontologies as a mean to integrate source of data. The dissertation includes a case study written in the Protegé tool. From this case study, a discussion follows on the scalability and applicability of the proposal as a feasible technological solution for data integration.

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Canadian federalism has experienced pressure for change in recent years. By the end of the twentieth century, collaboration became the catch word and federations throughout the world, including Canada, witnessed an emergent movement toward collaborative governance, collaborative public service delivery, collaborative management and collaborative approaches to addressing social and economic issues. But even if the number of collaborative arrangements has grown since the 1990s, the understanding of the design, management and performance of collaborative arrangements in the Canadian federation remains weak. Accordingly, this dissertation argues that, in order to understand and open the black box of intergovernmental collaboration, it is necessary to put collaboration in a historical context and explore the roles of elites and political institutions in shaping intergovernmental collaborative practices. The role of the former provides the necessary complement of agency, while that of the latter represents a perspective that gives theoretical importance to political institutions. The integration of the two theoretical schools, elite theory and historical institutionalism, into one approach constitutes an attractive solution and offers the tools necessary to explore the complex processes of intergovernmental collaboration. The theoretical framework constructed in this dissertation is then applied to analyze whether the Agreement on Internal Trade, the Social Union Framework Agreement and the Council of the Federation can be considered in reality as examples of collaborative federalism.

Coaching knowledge is an essential resource for improving competition quality. The purpose of this study was to explore the needs and wants of elite coaches from the African and small island regions of the Commonwealth at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland. Specifically, their development of coaching knowledge and their context was analyzed to understand their needs and wants. Using a knowledge management framework, 19 semi-structured interviews identified the process of combining knowledge as predominant in the development of coaching knowledge within these regions. Tacit knowledge was developed through their social environment, mentorship, and athletic or coaching experience. The need for formal knowledge development opportunities and basic coaching resources were also identified. Finally, technology helped to reduce challenges around accessibility to knowledge, and coach certification programs helped with the transition from athlete to coach.

The Dominion government appointed a Royal Commission in April 1903 to investigate the causes of strikes that began in February between the Canadian Pacific Railway Company and the United Brotherhood of Railway Employees at Vancouver and the Wellington Colliery Company and the Western Federation of Miners at Extension and Cumberland on Vancouver Island. The Boyal Commissioners were instructed to report whether in their opinion these and other American unions should have their activities in Canada curtailed. After a month of hearings the Commissioners reported that the United Brotherhood and the Western Federation were undesirable unions for Canadian workingmen to join. The Commissioners concluded that both unions had conspired to bring about strikes in the Wellington Colliery mines. The Nanaimo Miners' Union, Local 177 of the Western Federation, was accused by the Commissioners of assisting in the conspiracy to tie up the coal mines in the adjacent towns. As the Canadian Pacific Railway Company depended in part on the Wellington mines for steam coal for its trains at Vancouver, it was apparent that the unions concerned tried to break the strike for recognition between the railway company and the union in favour of the union. The Commissioners also reported that these American unions were spreading revolutionary socialism in British Columbia. The main result of this political action, concluded the Commissioners, was to instil in workingmen a belief in the inevitability of class conflict between themselves and their employers. The transportation and mining industries of the province were in danger of having their businesses seriously disrupted if these foreign unions remained in Canada. The Commissioners stated that a few socialists in Vancouver, Nanaimo, Extension and Cumberland were responsible for encouraging these radical unions to organize the workers. The question as to whether the Western Federation actually caused the strikes on the island has never been seriously explored. Historians have been divided on the question and on their assessment of the validity of the Commissioners' Report. The official hearings disclosed that James Dunsmuir, the president and owner of Wellington Collieries, locked out his miners once they had formed unions. The Commissioners argued that the conspiracy plan depended on the predictable reaction of Dunsmuir to the formation of unions in his mines. In the past he had never permitted unions to exist for long in his mines before he dismissed the union leaders. It has never been satisfactorily demonstrated whether the miners joined the Western Federation for reasons of their own and then struck for union recognition or whether they were, as the Commissioners alleged, tricked into the Federation only to find themselves locked out. The Commissioners admitted in the Report that Wellington Collieries and other large employers of labour bore some responsibility for the fact that working men organized unions in order to protect themselves from the arbitrary and unjust treatment they often received from managers and foremen. Although the Commissioners stated that shorter hours and higher wages would make workingmen more content, they did not report that grievances over working conditions and wages were the real reasons why the miners joined the Western Federation. Yet the official hearings of 1903 contained ample evidence that the strikes at Extension and Cumberland occurred for reasons that lay primarily within and not outside the coalfield. The Commissioners misinterpreted the reasons why the miners joined the Western Federation because their attention was directed solely to the issue of the advance of American unions into Canada. An analysis of the official evidence of the Commission reveals that the miners formed unions at Wellington Collieries in 1903 in order to resolve problems that had become traditional sources of dispute on the coalfield. The traditional problems that embittered relations between miners and companies were geological, social and economic in character. The faulted condition of the coal seams made mining both difficult and dangerous. Since 1871 Wellington miners had organized unions to fight for improvements in safety and working conditions underground. However, the increased employment of illiterate and inexperienced Oriental workers increased the dangers of mining to all concerned. Miners demanded the exclusion of Oriental workers from the mines for another important reason than the question of safety. Oriental workers competed for the jobs of mine labourers and were often used in place of white miners during strikes. During strikes in 1877, in 1883 and in 1903 Chinese workers kept the mines running while white miners were locked out. In contrast to the Wellington mines, unions emerged at the Nanaimo mines and working conditions steadily improved after 1883. A miners' union grievance committee was established in the mines by 1883. An eight hour day, oriental exclusion and union recognition were in effect in the Nanaimo mines by 1891. Attempts by union leaders from Nanaimo in the years 1890 to 1901 failed in their purpose of organizing the Dunsmuir mines. When the Nanaimo miners joined the Western Federation of Miners in 1902 in order to improve their weak bargaining power, miners in the adjacent Dunsmuir mines saw their opportunity to join the Federation. With the financial and moral support of a large union behind them the Dunsmuir miners demanded union recognition as the first step in their plan to negotiate improvements in wages and working conditions. / Arts, Faculty of / History, Department of / Graduate

Diploma thesis deals with analysis of legal and accounting requirements for mergers in Russia and comparison of conditions on M&A markets of Russia and the European Union. After description of essentials of M&A theory in the first part of the thesis the description of European and Russian regulations of mergers is performed. The final part of the thesis is devoted to the analysis of an example of the merger implemented in Russia.

A goal of this graduation thesis is subscribtion of geoeconomic and geopolitical situation of Kaliningrad Oblast of the Russian Federation. Particularly its relations with the Russian Federation, the European Union, Lithuania and Poland. Beginning part of the thesis consider historical relationship of the Kaliningrad Oblast to Germany, explication of conceptions as exclave and enclave, and economic situation of the Kaliningrad Oblast, that is affected by Special Economic Zone regime. Second part of the thesis describes relationship between Kaliningrad Oblast and Moscow, from perspective of its constitutional framework, administration, security and defence. Attention is paid to observance of the Treaty of Conventional Armed Forces in Europe and relations to NATO. Final part is concentrating on relationship with the European Union and bilateral cooperation with members of the European Union.

Aims of this work are to provide comprehensive information on the development of cooperation between the Czech Republic and Russia in recent years, to assess the results achieved in bilateral trade exchange, to describe the perspective of Czech business entities in the Russian market, taking into account cultural differences.

Diploma thesis deals with the topic of information integration. The aim of the thesis is to characterize the market of IT resources for supporting Enterprise Information Integration. To achieve its objective, it will be first introduced the area of EII. The results will serve for formulating criteria that will be used to analyze the market of these IT resources. Based on the formulated criteria, there will be evaluated market offerings and then specified its key characteristics. The author's contribution to this work lies in the submission of a comprehensive description of the Enetrprise Information Integration.