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Miljövårdsberedningens arkiv 1968 - 1994 : Ett ordnings- och förteckningsarbete på RiksarkivetBergmark, Victor January 2012 (has links)
This memo discusses and problematizes the work of organizing and cataloging the archive of the Environmental Advisory Council.The archive mainly consists of records concerning meetings which the Environmental Advisory Council has participated in, but also records concerning different tasks of the council and a few records concerning the coun-cil itself.The overriding problem, which is discussed in the final part of this memo, is the lacking knowledge about the creator of the archive and the creation of the archive itself and how this effects the work of ordering and catalog-ing. An attempt is made to evaluate the archive as a source of information to the Environmental Advisory Coun-cil and its work.This is a one year master’s thesis in Archival Science
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AN ADVISORY SYSTEM FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF UNCONVENTIONAL GAS RESERVOIRSWei, Yunan 16 January 2010 (has links)
With the rapidly increasing demand for energy and the increasing prices for oil
and gas, the role of unconventional gas reservoirs (UGRs) as energy sources is becoming
more important throughout the world. Because of high risks and uncertainties associated
with UGRs, their profitable development requires experts to be involved in the most
critical development stages, such as drilling, completion, stimulation, and production.
However, many companies operating UGRs lack this expertise. The advisory system we
developed will help them make efficient decisions by providing insight from analogous
basins that can be applied to the wells drilled in target basins.
In North America, UGRs have been in development for more than 50 years. The
petroleum literature has thousands of papers describing best practices in management of
these resources. If we can define the characteristics of the target basin anywhere in the
world and find an analogous basin in North America, we should be able to study the best
practices in the analogous basin or formation and provide the best practices to the
operators.
In this research, we have built an advisory system that we call the
Unconventional Gas Reservoir (UGR) Advisor. UGR Advisor incorporates three major
modules: BASIN, PRISE and Drilling & Completion (D&C) Advisor. BASIN is used to identify the reference basin and formations in North America that are the best analogs to
the target basin or formation. With these data, PRISE is used to estimate the technically
recoverable gas volume in the target basin. Finally, by analogy with data from the
reference formation, we use D&C Advisor to find the best practice for drilling and
producing the target reservoir.
To create this module, we reviewed the literature and interviewed experts to
gather the information required to determine best completion and stimulation practices
as a function of reservoir properties. We used these best practices to build decision trees
that allow the user to take an elementary data set and end up with a decision that honors
the best practices. From the decision trees, we developed simple computer algorithms
that streamline the process.
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Participatory philanthropy: an analysis of community inputs impact on grantee selectionMcGinnis, Jasmine A. 27 March 2012 (has links)
Institutional philanthropy (which includes the spectrum of all formalized grantmaking organizations) remains one of the least understood and researched aspects of giving. There is also limited scholarly attention to the relationship between foundation governance and grantmaking, despite normative claims about 'elite' foundation boards selecting 'elite' nonprofit's. Yet, foundations are increasingly using committees of community volunteers to allocate grants, rather than leaving grant decisions to a traditional board of directors. The goal of community involvement in grantmaking is better grant decisions, due to community members' information advantage and consequently greater knowledge of community needs. However, no one has tested whether community boards are making different decisions than traditional boards, much less whether their decisions are better. Drawing on a sample of 6 funders who use both community and traditional boards, their 616 grantees, and 955 comparable non-grantees I build on the economic model of giving to identify differences and similarities in the characteristics of nonprofit's that receive grants. Although I find much more congruence between grant decisions of community and traditional boards than literature expects I explore this finding through an in depth case study of two foundations who do this type of work. I find, similar to previous work in the public sector that simply involving community members in a grants process does not automatically generate different organizational decisions. Instead, it is only when a public participation program is effectively designed that grant decisions truly reflective community input.
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ADONIS -- A Case Study of a Legal Advisory System Using Adaptive ProgrammingBürgel, Sven 01 July 2002 (has links) (PDF)
Software evolution and maintenance have received great attention with the steadily increasing complexity of software systems. One recent approach in this field is adaptive programming, which focuses on the evolution of large class hierarchies. Its main objectives are to manage the change in evolutionary systems and to keep costs for adaptive maintenance low. In this thesis we present our experiences with the application of adaptive programming for modeling and implementing the legal advisory system ADONIS. Unlike most other information systems, ADONIS does not simply process data but regulations. Since regulations and laws are frequently a subject to change, we have chosen this domain as the basis for our practical research on adaptive programming. / Die Evolution und Wartung von Software haben wegen der stetig wachsenden Komplexität von Softwaresystemen deutlich an Beachtung gewonnen. Ein aktueller Ansatz auf diesem Gebiet ist die adaptive Programmierung, welche sich auf die Evolution von großen Klassenhierarchien konzentriert. Ihre Hauptziele liegen darin, die wechselnden Anforderungen in evolutionären Systemen zu bewältigen und die Kosten für adaptive Wartung gering zu halten. In dieser Arbeit präsentieren wir unsere Erfahrungen mit der Anwendung der adaptiven Programmierung zur Modellierung und Implementierung des rechtlichen Beratungssystemes ADONIS. Im Gegensatz zu vielen anderen Informationssystemen verarbeitet ADONIS nicht einfach Daten, sondern Vorschriften. Aufgrunddessen, daß Vorschriften und Gesetze häufig geändert werden, haben wir diese Domäne als Grundlage für unsere praktischen Nachforschungen zum Thema adaptive Programmierung ausgewählt.
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An analytical study of a family life education program to prepare young adults for marriage : an analysis of the pre-marriage course of the Catholic Marriage Advisory Council /Chan, Yiu-hung, John. January 1981 (has links)
Thesis (M.S.W.)--University of Hong Kong, 1982.
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A case study of grassroots political activity in education /Guard, Barbara Jean. January 1981 (has links)
No description available.
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A qualitative-quantitative social science comparison of two community workshopsFleischacker, Michael J. January 1997 (has links)
This study has contributed to two areas of growing interest and involvement: the knowledge base of public participation in community workshops for design practitioners and Muncie's White River project.Two community workshops were conducted and compared to study their processes and end results. All variables were constant between both workshops with the exception of a video, When the Wind Stops by Dianne Haak and Bernard Wilets, shown at the beginning of only one workshop. The group dynamics of the workshops were reviewed to understand their influence. It was determined that group size, persons conducting the workshops, the video, and the composition of the participants all affected the workshops' process and results.Focusing on the proposed White River Corridor Greenway, participants generated 183 ideas for increasing use and extending ownership of the river to the community. Participants produced 51 benefits, 85 potential physical development, and 47 programs and activities for improving connections to the creation and use of the river greenway. / Department of Landscape Architecture
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Negotiating fences : interaction in advisory encounters for nature conservation /Bergeå, Hanna Ljunggren, January 2007 (has links) (PDF)
Diss. (sammanfattning) Uppsala : Sveriges lantbruksuniv., 2007. / Härtill 4 uppsatser.
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The experiences of Chinese women and school councils in Toronto.Yuen, Elaine, January 2005 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2005.
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Relief agency, hegemon, or failure? an evaluation of the IMF as crisis manager /Baechel, Nicholas John. January 2006 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Akron, Dept. of History, 2006. / "December, 2006." Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed 12/31/2008) Advisor, Walter L. Hixson; Co-Advisor, Jane Kate Leonard; Department Chair, Walter L. Hixson; Dean of the College, Ronald F. Levant; Dean of the Graduate School, George R. Newkome. Includes bibliographical references.
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