Im Mittelpunkt des Vortrags steht der Aufbau eines FEM-Modells in Creo Simulate, Berechnung von Schrauben, Lagerung von Wellen sowie die Anwendung des Tools Fatigue Advisor für die Ermüdungsanalyse, UML sowie Dehnungs-Wöhler-Kurven.

Database systems employ physical structures such as indexes and materialized views to improve query performance, potentially by orders of magnitude. It is therefore important for a database administrator to choose the appropriate configuration of these physical structures (i.e., the appropriate physical design) for a given database. Deciding on the physical design of a database is not an easy task, and a considerable amount of research exists on automatic physical design tools for relational databases. Recently, XML database systems are increasingly being used for managing highly structured XML data, and support for XML data is being added to commercial relational database systems. This raises the important question of how to choose the appropriate physical design (i.e., the appropriate set of physical structures) for an XML database. Relational automatic physical design tools are not adequate, so new research is needed in this area. In this thesis, we address the problem of automatic physical design for XML databases, which is the process of automatically selecting the best set of physical structures for a given database and a given query workload representing the client application's usage patterns of this data. We focus on recommending two types of physical structures: XML indexes and relational materialized views of XML data. For each of these structures, we study the recommendation process and present a design advisor that automatically recommends a configuration of physical structures given an XML database and a workload of XML queries. The recommendation process is divided into four main phases: (1) enumerating candidate physical structures, (2) generalizing candidate structures in order to generate more candidates that are useful to queries that are not seen in the given workload but similar to the workload queries, (3) estimating the benefit of various candidate structures, and (4) selecting the best set of candidate structures for the given database and workload. We present a design advisor for recommending XML indexes, one for recommending materialized views, and an integrated design advisor that recommends both indexes and materialized views. A key characteristic of our advisors is that they are tightly coupled with the query optimizer of the database system, and rely on the optimizer for enumerating and evaluating physical designs whenever possible. This characteristic makes our techniques suitable for any database system that complies with a set of minimum requirements listed within the thesis. We have implemented the index, materialized view, and integrated advisors in a prototype version of IBM DB2 V9, which supports both relational and XML data, and we experimentally demonstrate the effectiveness of their recommendations using this implementation.

Database systems employ physical structures such as indexes and materialized views to improve query performance, potentially by orders of magnitude. It is therefore important for a database administrator to choose the appropriate configuration of these physical structures (i.e., the appropriate physical design) for a given database. Deciding on the physical design of a database is not an easy task, and a considerable amount of research exists on automatic physical design tools for relational databases. Recently, XML database systems are increasingly being used for managing highly structured XML data, and support for XML data is being added to commercial relational database systems. This raises the important question of how to choose the appropriate physical design (i.e., the appropriate set of physical structures) for an XML database. Relational automatic physical design tools are not adequate, so new research is needed in this area. In this thesis, we address the problem of automatic physical design for XML databases, which is the process of automatically selecting the best set of physical structures for a given database and a given query workload representing the client application's usage patterns of this data. We focus on recommending two types of physical structures: XML indexes and relational materialized views of XML data. For each of these structures, we study the recommendation process and present a design advisor that automatically recommends a configuration of physical structures given an XML database and a workload of XML queries. The recommendation process is divided into four main phases: (1) enumerating candidate physical structures, (2) generalizing candidate structures in order to generate more candidates that are useful to queries that are not seen in the given workload but similar to the workload queries, (3) estimating the benefit of various candidate structures, and (4) selecting the best set of candidate structures for the given database and workload. We present a design advisor for recommending XML indexes, one for recommending materialized views, and an integrated design advisor that recommends both indexes and materialized views. A key characteristic of our advisors is that they are tightly coupled with the query optimizer of the database system, and rely on the optimizer for enumerating and evaluating physical designs whenever possible. This characteristic makes our techniques suitable for any database system that complies with a set of minimum requirements listed within the thesis. We have implemented the index, materialized view, and integrated advisors in a prototype version of IBM DB2 V9, which supports both relational and XML data, and we experimentally demonstrate the effectiveness of their recommendations using this implementation.

Sprendžiami, veiklos taisyklių specifikavimas ir klasifikavimas manipuliavimo mechanizmais. Tiriama, kaip, duomenų bazės struktūra transformuojama į veiklos taisyklių kūrimo aplinką, neprarandant duomenų struktūros elementų, ir užtikrinant pilną sąveika su duomenų baze.Išanalizuota veiklos taisyklės sąvoka ir jos pritaikymo galimybės veiklos procesų architektūroje. Apžvelgtos šiuolaikinės veiklos taisyklių manipuliavimo mechanizmų architektūros. Plačiau išnagrinėtos Blaze Advisor sistemos galimybės, kaip veiklos taisyklių valdymo sistema. Išnagrinėta 18 literatūros šaltinių. Sudaryta projektavimo metodika. Kurioje atsispindi pagrindiniai principai kaip transformuojama duomenų bazės struktūrą į veiklos taisyklių valdymo sistemos duomenų struktūrą. Laikantis metodikos atliktas eksperimentas tarp Blaze Advisor sistemos ir duomenų bazės. Sudarytos konceptualios schemos vaizduojančios duomenų srautus vykdymo metu informacinėje sistemoje: nuo duomenų bazės iki sprendimo. Suformuota metodika yra skirta praktiniam panaudojimui; ją taikant užtikrinamas sklandus veiklos taisyklių susiejimas su duomenų bazėje saugomais duomenimis sistemos projektavimo ir realizavimo etapuose. / Nowadays, nearly all of the commercial and government organizations are highly dependent on software system. Due to the inherent dynamic nature of their business environment, software evolution is inevitable. The growing of needs in management of global organizations similarly is growing the expert systems designing companies, which offer their own organizations management systems. This paper substance is how to transform the data structures to the business rules management systems, without losing the database structure elements, and ensuring fully interaction with the database. Representing the concept of business rules, analyzing architecture of business rules manipulation mechanisms. Exploring the Blaze Advisor as tool of business rule management system, which is implement of components such as: rule sets, decision trees, decision tables, and etc. These components are developing the processes of organization, which helps to efficient maintain and control the operations of internal logic. A study carried out between the Blaze Advisor tool and database, and established how to filtering the data from database, and then a data are transformed into information, and under information using the components to get the solution. To give spirit of this work was formulated a method of transforming data structures into development environment of business rules.

Doctor of Philosophy / Department of Special Education, Counseling and Student Affairs / Linda P. Thurston / Navigation and completion of a doctoral degree presents numerous challenges, including managing and understanding the faculty advisor/advisee relationship. Research shows faculty advisors are a critical aspect of the doctoral student experience; however faculty advisors and doctoral students do not always have the same perceptions of the advisor/advisee relationship. This study focused on measuring perceptions of faculty advisors and doctoral students in STEM and social science disciplines on various aspects of the advisor/advisee relationship. Likert-style survey items were used to measure perceptions of six constructs, advisor attributes and characteristics, roles and functions, relationship behaviors, and the faculty advisor role in student academic success, professional socialization, and engagement. Surveys were completed by 137 faculty advisors and 131 doctoral students. Analysis of data was conducted using various methods, including comparison of descriptive statistics, independent samples t-tests, and a factorial analysis of variance. Results of the data analysis revealed some significant differences between the perceptions of faculty advisors and doctoral students on several constructs. The discussion of results focuses on connections to current literature, as well as implications for future research and practice.

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This thesis examines the group of political advisors within the government offices of a right-wing and left-wing government, showing differences between the two in terms of recruitment. The political advisors, among many roles both inside and outside the government offices, fall under the category of policy professionals. The policy professionals are defined as a social group employed without being elected, but perhaps capable of affecting policies. With collected resumes of policy professionals inside the government offices, the backgrounds of the policy professionals are examined showing differences in the qualities valued most in recruitment between the two governments selected for the thesis. The political profiles ‘media-talent’ and ‘party democrat’ show what type of government metamorphosis is present on the basis of Bernard Manin’s theory of the representative democratic form of government. The results showed a majority of policy professionals belong to the party democratic profile representing Bernard Manin’s second metamorphosis. The growing group of media-talent profiles within both governments however show, that the metamorphosis might be in a state of change, moving towards the public democracy.

<p>Many banks provide very similar services and that is why creating and maintaining relationships to clients is a differentiation strategy to get customer to return. Private advising is one service provided by banks where much interaction occurs and relationship is of great importance. The relationship between private advisers and their clients is therefore suitable for research.</p><p>Knowing why a relationship ends is a strategic piece of information to improve the firm’s ability to keep customers in a relationship. The purpose of this paper is to identify the issues that lead to dissolution of a relationship and where they occur in the relationship development process between private advisors and clients.</p><p>A pre-study was first made on Swedbank, through interviews, to obtain a holistic view of the situation. More in-depth interviews followed as well as triangulation through a questionnaire.</p><p>The thesis presents seven issues that can lead to dissolution of the relationship: better offering from competitors, availability, personal factors, unachievable demands, no need for service, lack of certain services, and requirement not fulfilled. These issues have also been related to where in the relationship development process they occur and ranked in order to know how common it is for them to occur.</p> / <p>De flesta banker erbjuder sina kunder väldigt snarlika tjänster och därför har skapandet av relationer blivit en differentierings strategi för att få kunder att komma tillbaka. Privatrådgivning är en tjänst som banker erbjuder där mycket interaktion sker och relationer är oerhört viktiga. På grund av detta så är relationen mellan privatrådgivaren och dess klient passande att undersöka</p><p>Att veta varför en relation avslutas är väldigt viktig strategisk information som kan användas för att förbättra en firmas möjlighet att bevara kunder. Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att identifiera de problem som kan leda till att en relation bryts och även att identifiera vart i relationsbyggnads processen dessa problem uppstår.</p><p>En förstudie genomfördes först för att få en överblickande bild över ämnet. Efter denna så följde även mer djupgående intervjuer samt metodtriangulering med hjälp av ett frågeformulär som skickades ut till Swedbanks privatrådgivare.</p><p>Uppsatsen presenterar sju problem som kan leda till upplösningen av en relation: bättre erbjudanden från konkurrenter, tillgänglighet, personliga faktorer, ouppnåeliga krav, inget behov av tjänst, brist på en viss tjänst samt att kunden inte uppfyller krav. Dessa problem har även relaterats till vart I relationsbyggnads processen de uppstår och rankats i ordning beroende på hur vanligt de är att problemen uppstår.</p>

Physical education (PE) for pupils with special educational needs (SEN) is an important contemporary issue for primary teachers and other practitioners. In particular, how they are to include pupils with SEN in their classroom activity is a processing concern. This study is concerned essentially with how policy influences the ability of teachers to deal with SEN' pupils in PE. It explores the relationships between education policy on SEN and its implementation within PE when SEN pupils are placed in mainstream school settings. The main aims of this thesis are to explore how 'equality' and 'inclusion' are expressed in legislation, for example the National Curriculum in England and the Grade 1- 9 Curriculum Guidelines in Taiwan, and how teachers, local education authority (LEA) Advisors, pupils with physical disability and their parents interpret policy and engage in practice for SEN. The findings of the study are intended to provide guidance on education policy needed to promote 'inclusion' and connect SEN policy and its implementation within PE. This thesis develops and utilizes a theoretical model to illustrate the 'flow' of policy from government to schools. This framework has followed Bernstein's (1990) assertion that knowledge is produced and reproduced at different sites of practice and that 'discourses' are recontextualized in each. Qualitative research methods were used to explore these relationships. The research fields were located in the Midlands in England and in the North of Taiwan and investigate LEAs and primary schools. The research employed interviews, documentary analysis and observation to explore policy and its implementation for SEN pupils from not only a 'macro' but also a 'micro' perspective. Accordingly, this thesis has explored the relationships between teachers, the learning support assistants (LSA), pupils with physical disability and their activities in PE classrooms in order to throw light on processes of inclusion within PE and the difficulties associated with policy implementation for pupils with physical disability. The findings suggest that the implementation of SEN policy within PE was driven by ideals of inclusion and attempted to achieve equality. However, SEN policy and its implementation was rendered difficult by the production and reproduction of particular understandings of inclusion, and inadequate provision (training and resource) for teachers to deal with SEN pupils in PE. Compared with teachers in England, PE teachers in Taiwan seemed to be more 'able' to include SEN pupils in PE as they were less regulated by National Curriculum texts.

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