Title: Comparison of the badminton match in men's and women's singles Objectives: The goal is identify the most effective a choice combinations of the first three shots, leading to the acquisition point in singles between the best Czech male and female players. And also to discover determine and compare which was the usage of different types of serve, return and the third shots. Methods: Comparison of differences in badminton match between genders was based on indirect observation - video analysis. Statistics were used for data processing. Results: The results shower huge difference in tactical approaches among men and women players. Women preferred long high service and most of the service returns were played into back backhand court area and the third shot usually routed into back forehand court area. It means that the most played shot was a clear shot and the most occupied part of court was a back backhand corner. Despite more successful was when women players played drop by their third shot. Domination of short backhand service was seen by men players, the second shot routed the same direction like women players second shot - to the back backhand court, but also to the front part of the court. Third shot was mostly played into back backhand part of the court. If players wanted to be successful,...

[pt] O patrocínio esportivo é uma das atividades promocionais de marketing que mais se desenvolveu nos últimos anos. Estimativas indicam que os valores investidos mundialmente nessa atividade cresceram mais de mil por cento nos últimos 20 anos, alcançando a soma de 21 bilhões de dólares em 2004. Apesar dos investimentos necessários para se conduzir um programa de patrocínio esportivo serem cada vez mais volumosos, nem sempre as empresas obtém o retorno esperado de seu investimento. Este trabalho tem como objetivo central compreender a efetividade do patrocínio esportivo junto aos consumidores. Para realizar esta análise, selecionou como objeto de pesquisa a Seleção Brasileira de Futebol e os seus três patrocinadores durante a Copa do Mundo de 2006: Nike, Vivo e Guaraná Antarctica. A efetividade do patrocínio esportivo foi avaliada segundo dois fatores principais: o correto reconhecimento das empresas patrocinadoras (mais comumente referido como recall) e o aumento na intenção de compra de produtos dessas empresas por parte dos entrevistados. Três modelos foram desenhados para mensuração da efetividade do patrocínio, sendo dois deles para mensuração de recall e um para mensuração do aumento na intenção de compra. Foi então conduzida uma pesquisa de campo com 382 indivíduos. Os dados coletados foram analisados utilizando técnicas estatísticas multivariadas, tais como análise fatorial, regressão linear múltipla, e regressão logística. Os resultados obtidos evidenciam que alguns fatores têm maior influência para a previsão do recall dos patrocinadores do que outros. Foi o caso do interesse por parte dos entrevistados em futebol, como também do hábito que estes têm em assistir transmissões esportivas. Outra evidência encontrada foi a de que a percepção de similaridade, dos patrocinadores com a Seleção Brasileira de Futebol, influenciou de formas distintas o recall de cada uma das 3 empresas patrocinadoras. Por fim, em termos da intenção de compra, a pesquisa encontrou evidências de que os entrevistados têm sua decisão influenciada a favor dos patrocinadores quando fazem uma avaliação positiva da marca e, também, quando percebem haver similaridade de imagem entre o patrocinador e a Seleção. / [en] The use of sports sponsorship as a marketing tool is in the rise. Estimates indicate that the values invested in this activity have grown over one thousand per cent in the last twenty years, reaching the total sum of US$ 21 billion in 2004. Despite the fact that the capital needed to conduct a sponsorship program is growing considerably, companies that invest in this kind of marketing activity are often not able to obtain the expected return. The main objective of this study is to examine sports sponsorship effectiveness on the consumers. In order to achieve this objective, The Brazilian National Soccer Team and its three official sponsors – Nike, Vivo and Guaraná Antarctica – were used as a case-study. The effectiveness of the sponsorship was evaluated according to two main factors: the correct recall of the sponsors and the increase of the purchase intention of sponsors’ products. Three different models were used to measure the sponsorship effectiveness: two of them to measure recall, and one to measure the increase of the purchase intention. A field research was then conducted with 382 individuals. Three different methods of statistical analysis were used to examine the data: Factor Analysis, Multiple Regression and Logistic Regression. Results showed that some factors have more influence on predicting recall than others. It was the case of the interest that individuals have for soccer, as well as the frequency that they watch sports events through television. Perceived similarity between the sponsors and the team has also influenced the recall of the sponsors, but in a different way for each one of the sponsors. Finally, research showed that the purchase intention tends to be affected by how positive individuals evaluate the brands, and also, when they perceive an image similarity between the sponsor and the Brazilian National Soccer Team.

A new hypothesis, The Adaptive Markets Hypothesis (AMH), is applied to the Swedish stockmarket context by testing the variability of the risk-return trade-off over different investment horizons and market environments. Yearly returns and volatility are measured on OMXS30 index between1986 and 2017 over a variety of different investment horizons. Through the sample observations, a number of distinct market environments become apparent. A regression analysis is then used to test the statistical significance of the risk-return relationship. The results show a weak – and varying – statistical relationship between risk and return, implying that risk is not a reliable explanatory variable for average returns. The length of the investment horizon and the market environment the investment is being made in are shown to be influential factors on changes to the risk-return relationship. These findings from the OMXS30 index support the AMH, showing that the risk-return relationship is dynamic and subject to changes over different investment horizons and in different market environments.

O objetivo dessa tese é analisar empiricamente a participação dos homens idosos no mercado de trabalho urbano brasileiro e estimar os ganhos econômicos a partir do Censo Demográfico de 2010. Os dados das PNADs entre 1995 e 2012 permitiram observar que a taxa de atividade média dos aposentados no período foi de 28% e dos não aposentados foi de 76%. Também foi possível constatar uma ligeira queda dessa taxa de atividade no final do período que pode estar relacionada com o envelhecimento populacional, ganho real do valor do benefício e melhora na economia. Os principais atributos dessa participação são: escolaridade, idade, rendimento de aposentadoria, condição na família, estado de saúde e emprego autônomo. A partir dos modelos empíricos, observou-se uma inter-relação entre a decisão de aposentadoria e oferta de trabalho e que a chance de ofertar trabalho aumenta para os idosos brancos, instruídos, que estudam, chefes de família, casados, residentes em áreas metropolitanas e que vivem com outros moradores no domicílio. Por outro lado, a idade, baixa escolaridade e problemas de saúde contribuem para elevar a chance de aposentadoria. A aposentadoria reduz os ganhos econômicos dos idosos no mercado de trabalho, principalmente dos menos instruídos, sustentando a hipótese de que os aposentados trabalham por necessidade de manter um padrão de vida e que a postergação da aposentadoria poderia aumentar o bem-estar dessas pessoas. Enfim, constatou-se que a condição de aposentadoria afeta a inserção ocupacional dos idosos e que a probabilidade de trabalho assalariado aumenta para aqueles que possuem elevada escolaridade, negros, estudam, residem em área metropolitana, possuem outros moradores do domicílio e com a elevada taxa de desemprego adulta. Por outro lado, ser branco, possuir elevada idade, chefe de família, casado e ter outras fontes de renda colabora para atuação por conta própria. A variável problema de saúde reduz a probabilidade de ingresso do não aposentado como autônomo, mas eleva essa chance para o caso do aposentado. O trabalho autônomo aumenta os ganhos econômicos dos não aposentados, mas reduz o retorno econômico do aposentado, principalmente os de baixo nível de estudo, indicando que os aposentados se inserem nessa ocupação para complementarem a renda de aposentadoria, de acordo com a necessidade que possuem. / The aim of this thesis is to make empirical analyses of the participation of elder men in the Brazilian urban labor market and to estimate the economic gains using the Brazilian Census of 2010. From the Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios or PNAD (National Household Survey) between 1995 and 2012, it was observed that the average activity rate of the retired men was about 28% and for non-retired it was 76%. However, the participation of the elderly in the labor market showed small decrease in the period, which may be related to the aging population, the actual gain in the value of the retirement benefit and the improvement of the economy. The main attributes of this participation are: schooling, age, retirement income, family condition, health’s status and self-employment. The empirical models showed that the labor supply and the retirement are related. The opportunity to work increases for white people, educated, studying, head of household, married, living in the metropolitan areas and with other residents at home. On the other hand, age, low education, and health problems contribute to increase the possibility of retirement. The retirement reduces the economic gains of the elderly in the labor market, especially for the less educated, supporting the hypothesis that the retirees work by need to maintain a standard of living and therefore, the postponement of retirement could increase the well-being of these people. Finally, the results indicate that the occupation and retirement are associated and the variables that increase the wage-and-salary employment likelihood are: higher education, black race, studying, metropolitan area, other people living in the house and adult’s unemployment rate. The self-employment opportunity increases to white people, aged, head of household, married and have other sources of income. The health problem decreases to the self-employment probability to non-retired but it increases for the retired. Besides, self-employment rises the economic gains of the non-retired, but it reduces the economic return of the retiree, especially for those with low-level of study, and thus indicates that retirees may be involved in this occupation to supplement its retirement income, according to the need they have.

This thesis provides analytical and forensic tools for data cabling, with particular focus on Ethernet cabling to assist designers and those involved in deployments in analyzing cable performance and the reasons behind the actual performance obtained. The need for higher bandwidth to accommodate increasing demand for multimedia services and data centers network infrastructure led to the formation of IEEE P802.3bq to create standards for 40GBASE-T over twisted pair cables. The 40GBASE-T is expected to offer bandwidth of up to 2000MHz over a maximum channel length of 30m. The research investigated means of predicting key performance parameters in Ethernet cabling standardization using the 40GBASE-T as an example. The performance parameters prediction method provided is equally applicable to ongoing and future high data rate Ethernet cabling standardization such as the 2.5/5GBASE-T and 50/100GBASE-T. Another problem in the Ethernet networking world is the availability of counterfeit and non-standards compliant twisted pair cables in the market. The significant amount of communications cables in the market containing copper clad aluminum cable or other non-standards compliant conductors disguised as Category 6 cables can pose serious problems to companies’ networks, the contractors or the installers. This is in view of the growing demand for internet of things (IOT) services that makes it imperative to have a reliable Ethernet driven communication network to support the required infrastructure. This thesis therefore, provides techniques that can be used to evaluate cables key performance parameters using the Feature Selective Validation method and the Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) test. The technique can help engineers avoid subjective judgement and make objective decisions in the selection of cables. The research provided a technique that can be used to reverse engineer impedance profile from the return loss measurement of Ethernet cables using genetic algorithms. The method can be applied in situations where time domain tests are inaccessible or only simple (magnitude) tests in the frequency domain are available and there is the need for impedance profiles of cables to evaluate their performance or physical integrity before or after installation. The method can also be useful where only simple (magnitude) tests are the only historical data available for the cables and facilities for time domain reflectometry measurements are inaccessible. This research also presented a method of evaluating and predicting NEXT in unshielded twisted pair (UTP) using Category 6 cables as an example. The results obtained from the evaluation were used to provide crosstalk parameters for fast NEXT prediction in Category 6 (UTP) cables. The research used the measured NEXT of three Category 6 (UTP) cables from different manufacturers for evaluation and validation. The evaluation and modeling method can thus be useful to engineers investigating NEXT in the design of data communication systems.

Desde que foi publicado, em 1975, Lavoura arcaica vem intrigando os leitores com a sua dessemelhança. Em meio a livros que absorviam a violência do regime militar brasileiro, Raduan Nassar surgiu com uma obra estranha, que se nutria de uma linguagem poética profundamente ressonante, do pensamento monoteísta mediterrâneo, da herança cultural árabe, da subversão pela via da sexualidade. O tempo passou, o escritor abandonou a literatura, muita coisa interessante foi dita sobre o romance, mas seus enigmas são ainda sementes lançadas em solo fértil. Lavoura arcaica é mais uma releitura da prolífica parábola do filho pródigo, presente no Evangelho de Lucas e reelaborada inúmeras vezes ao longo dos seus dois mil anos de existência. A história do jovem rebelde que decide romper os laços com a família para se lançar no mundo tem se mostrado generosa para com a imaginação de muitos autores, que se dispuseram a reescrevê-la com o filtro de suas óticas particulares. Alguns deles estão no presente trabalho: Gide, Kipling, Kafka, Rilke, Dalton Trevisan, Lúcio Cardoso e também o teólogo católico Henri Nouwen. Apesar das variações, a volta para casa ocupa em todas as narrativas um lugar privilegiado. Essa é uma história, afinal, sobre os motivos que levam o sujeito a ir embora e, mais ainda, sobre as razões que fazem com que regresse. Arrependimento, recomeço, fraqueza, derrota, amor? A despeito das muitas antíteses que encontramos no texto de Raduan, elas não exigem que façamos uma escolha entre o arcaico e o moderno, entre ficar ou partir, entre o individual e o coletivo, entre a contenção e a entrega. Essa é a questão: Lavoura arcaica não é um livro sobre a luta do bem contra o mal, da liberdade contra a opressão, mas um painel que mostra como tudo isso se mistura na mesma paisagem ou, parafraseando o personagem André, como as coisas só se unem se desunindo / Since it was published in 1975, Lavoura arcaica keeps puzzling readers with its dissimilitude. Amongst books that absorbed the violence of Brazilian military dictatorship, Raduan Nassar came out with a strange work full of distinctive elements: a deeply resounding poetic language, thoughts inspired by Mediterranean monotheism, Arab cultural inheritance, subversive sexuality. Time has passed, the writer has abandoned literature and many interesting things have been said about the novel, but its enigmas still are seeds sown on good soil. Lavoura arcaica is another reinterpretation of the prolific parable of the prodigal son, found only in the Gospel of Luke and many times retold. The story of the rebellious young man who decides to break bonds with family to throw himself into the world has been generous to the imagination of many authors, who have rewritten it using their own particular lenses. Some of them are here: Gide, Kipling, Kafka, Rilke, Dalton Trevisan, Lúcio Cardoso e also the catholic theologian Henri Nouwen. Despite variations, the homecoming occupies a privileged spot in their narratives. After all, this is a story about the motives that causes somebody to leave and, more than that, about the reasons why he or she returns. Repentance, a new beginning, weakness, defeat, love? In spite of the many antitheses that can be found in Raduans text, we are not required to make a choice between the archaic and the modern, between staying or leaving, between the individual and the collective, between restraint and fulfilled desire. That is the point: Lavoura arcaica is not a book about the conflict between good and evil, freedom and oppression, but an overview that shows us how all those things are mixed together or, paraphrasing the character André, how things connect themselves only by disconnecting themselves

This theses deals with productivity and economic performance of small and medium-sized enterprises of chosen sector of manufacturing industry in Czech Republic. The main goal of this thesis is to assess the relation between labour productivity and economic performance in the selected sector of furniture manufacture. Required data are gained from database Albertina. The theses is devided into two sectors. The first part of thesis describes scientific findings about productivity and economic performance.Practical part focuses on analysis of labour productivity and economic performance of chosen companies. The last section of pratical part is devoted to proving the relations between labour productivity and economic performance represented by indicator ROA and indexes of financial health: IN99 and Reliability index. Regression and correlation analysis evaluates described relations from the static and dynamic view.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:32:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-02-26Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:42:45Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 tanaka_alr_dr_jabo.pdf: 606668 bytes, checksum: 5a7196c5b2fd4fce98bad3e0e8e4765f (MD5) / Objetivou-se avaliar a eficiência reprodutiva por meio de um índice denominado retorno maternal (RMat) (kg/vaca/ano), composto pelas características: precocidade sexual (PS), permanência produtiva (PP) e produtividade materna (PM), considerando o custo de mantença (CM) da fêmea. Para o estudo, utilizou-se o banco de dados da raça Nelore do programa PAINT®, da CRV Lagoa. Inicialmente, estudos específicos da PS e da PP foram conduzidos separadamente. A idade ao primeiro parto (IPP) e a inclusão no rebanho (IReb) foram utilizadas como expressões da PS. A PP foi avaliada pela habilidade de permanência (HP) no rebanho aos 48, 60 e 72 meses de idade. Os grupos de contemporâneos foram formados pela concatenação das variáveis rebanho, ano e estação de nascimento. Os parâmetros genéticos e ambientais foram estimados mediante metodologias frequentista e bayesiana. Os valores de herdabilidade da IPP (0,02), da IReb (0,00) e da HP nas três idades estudadas (0,00) permitiram concluir que para esses rebanhos, não seria eficaz a inclusão destas em um índice econômico de seleção, pelo fato de não se apresentarem herdáveis. Sendo assim, a combinação dessas características se deu de forma fenotípica mediante o emprego do RMat. Este índice bioeconômico apresentou valor médio de 48 kg/vaca/ano e se mostrou herdável (0,45 ± 0,02). Portanto, eficaz na identificação de touros cujas filhas tenderam a ser precoces, produziram dois bezerros até os quatro anos de idade e estes, de desempenho superior para a produção de carne, sem aumentar os custos de produção. A PP até os 53 meses foi o componente que resultou em maior variação do RMat, quando houve o aumento, em uma unidade, do número de partos da fêmea. A combinação da PS, PP e PM, considerando o CM das vacas, no índice RMat, foi eficaz na identificação de touros para eficiência reprodutiva / The objective of this research was to evaluate the reproductive efficiency of Nelore female cattle, using the index maternal return (MatR, kg of live weight/cow/year), considering the maintenance costs (MC) of females and including the following traits; sexual precocity (SP), stayability (ST), maternal productivity (MP). For this research the data bank of the breeding program PAINT® of CRV Lagoa has been used. Initially, the specific studies of SP and ST were been done separately. The age of first calving (AFC) and inclusion in the herd (IH) were used as SP expressions. The ST was evaluated at an age of 48, 60 and 72 months. Genetics and environmental parameters were estimated based on the frequentist and bayesian methodology. With heritability values of AFC (0.02), IH (0.00) and ST (0.00) at the three different ages one could conclude that for these herds it would not be efficient to include those traits in an economic selection index, due to the fact that those would not show inheritable. Therefore the combination of these traits was done in a phenotype way through the use of MatR, which estimated an average of 48 kg/cow/year. MatR proved to be heritable (0.45 ± 0.02) and was efficient to identify sires which daughters started their reproductive life at an early age; had assiduity; daughters were calving twice until four years of age; and had offspring with higher performance for beef production without increasing the production costs. The ST until 53 months of age was the component that resulted into more MatR variation, when increasing one extra calving. The combination between SP, ST and MP, considering MC of cows, in the MatR index was efficient to indentify sires for reproductive efficiency

A relação entre Variáveis Macroeconômicas e o Retorno de Ações é de alta importância para pesquisas econômicas e financeiras, já que, quando descoberto, um mecanismo de conhecer ou prever o impacto dessas variáveis oportuniza uma melhor performance de investidores no mercado acionário. Nesse sentido, nosso trabalho testa nove variáveis macroeconômicas (Preço de Commodities, Taxa de Desemprego, Inflação, Agregados Monetários, Taxas de juros, Relative Money Market Rate (RMM), Produção Industrial, Hiato do Produto (GAP) e Taxa de juros dos EUA) contra o retorno real do Ibovespa, empregando regressões lineares, como tradicional na literatura, e modelos de mudança de regime markoviana (MSM), para avaliar melhor o impacto e poder de previsão do retorno sob uma economia tão perturbada por planos econômicos e crises financeiras. Além disso, realizamos uma rigorosa avaliação do poder preditivo através de testes dentro e fora da amostra, incluindo avaliações dos coeficientes estimados defasados, critérios de Informação de AIC e BIC, Razões de Erro Quadrático Médio e o Erro Absoluto Médio e testes de encompassing de Diebold e Mariano (1995), de Clark e Mccracken (2001) e de Mccracken (2007), combinados aos novos valores assintóticos de Clark e Mccracken (2001,2004). Os resultados indicam que o Ibovespa possui dois regimes, e que a variável Hiato do Produto se destaca por ser a variável mais significativa e de maior poder de previsão, tanto nos modelos lineares como nos nãolineares. Além dessa, a variável RMM, também se mostrou capacitada para prever o retorno quando estimada no MSM, assim como as variáveis inflação e agregados monetários também apresentaram poder preditivo quando acompanhados da variável GAP. Entretanto, Produção industrial e taxa de juros não tiveram qualquer evidência de capacidade preditiva. Por fim, nos horizontes trimestrais e semestrais, os MSM tiveram dificuldade de encontrar os diferentes regimes, e por isso, não conseguiram se mostrar sistematicamente superiores aos modelos lineares. / The relationship between Macroeconomic Variables and stock returns is of high importance for economic and financial research because, when discovered, a mechanism to know or predict the impact of these variables allows a better performance of investors in the stock market In this sense, our research tests nine macroeconomic variables (Commodities Prices, Unemployment Rate, Inflation, Money Stock, Interest Rate, Relative Money Market Rate (RMM), Industrial Production, Output Gap (GAP) and United States Interest Rate) versus the Ibovespa Real Stock Return, with linear models, as in traditional literature, and with Markov Switching Models, to gauge the impact and the predictive power of the assumption of an economy so troubled by economic plans and financial crises. In addition, we conducted a rigorous predictive ability evaluation by testing in-sample and out-of-sample, including a lagged coefficient estimated evaluation, information criteria of Akaike and Schwarz, Mean-square Error, Absolute Mean Error and encompassing tests of Diebold e Mariano (1995), Clark e Mccracken (2001) and Mccracken (2007) combined with the new asymptotic values of Clark e Mccracken (2001,2004). The results indicated that the Ibovespa has two states and the Output Gap variable stands out for being the most significant variable and with the greatest predictive ability for both linear and nonlinear models. Besides, the RMM variable has also shown to be able to predict the stock return when estimated in the MSM. Furthermore, the inflation and money stock variable also presents predict ability when estimated models is addicted with GAP variable. Industrial production and interest rates had no evidence of predictive ability. Finally, in the quarterly and semiannual horizons, the MSM had difficulty in finding the different regimes, and therefore failed to show themselves consistently higher than the linear models.

Esse trabalho traz os resultados do retorno salarial de se investir em educação no Brasil e desagregado para cada Estado da Unidade da Federação. Diferentes técnicas econométricas foram estimadas, como Mincer, Mincer Adaptado, Método de Variáveis Instrumentais, Método de Heckman e por fim Metodologia de Hansen (2000) que permite inovar a idéia de não linearidade na equação de rendimento proposta por Jaccob Mincer estimada de forma endógena. A analise empírica foi feita com base nas PNAD´s de 2001 a 2008 com dados em dados cross-section. Os resultados apresentados diferenciam em magnitude de cada método econométrico utilizado em destaque o Método de Hansen que permitiu identificar limiares em que o retorno de se investir em educação muda a partir de certo nível de escolaridade quebrada a hipótese de linearidade. Implicando que a não consideração de tal hipótese pode acabar distorcendo a compreensão da função que a educação em si exerce, por exemplo, na distribuição de renda. / This paper presents the results of the wage return of investing in education in Brazil and the disaggregated for each member of the Office of the Federation. Others Different from econometric were estimated as Mincer, Mincer Adapted, All Variable Instrumental, Method of Heckman and finally Methodology Hansen (2000) to innovation to go from no linearity in the equation the revenue proposed by Mincer Jaccob estimated and endogen. The analysis empiric was based on PNAD´s from 2001 to 2008 data with data in cross-section. The presented results differ in magnitude for each method used econometric highlighted the method of which Hansen identified thresholds at which the return of investing in education change it from a certain point of education to broken hypothesis linearity. Implying that if consideration in such a hypothesis can end up distorting the understanding of the function what education the exercise it, for example, distribution the income.