Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of Economics. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

In my dissertation there are all basic data and abstracts, which involve the questions of fleet of Zdravotnická záchranná služba Jihočeského kraje. Mostly I was concentrated on the structure of fleet as well as costs. Currently I tried to describe the problems of logistics and fleet management. Through the analysis of fleet I solved the questions related to costs and incomes of this company. Further I prepared structural analyse, which concentrates on the number and types of cars, also the satisfaction, which is connected with their using. The detailed analysis enabled me to penetrate and explore the branch of costs and incomes. All data are described with graphs and tables.

The master thesis focuses on the project design of hackathon and application of project management methods in the selected company. The first part is devoted to theoretical background in the area of project management, the second part contains the analysis of the current situation in the company. The output and third part of the thesis is devoted to the project itself.

Introduction: In Ontario, prior to 1994, planned home birth attended by midwives was a self-paid service. Since the introduction of regulated midwifery in 1994, home birth is a government-funded service, and uses common resources. As such, there is a need to examine the impact that choice of planned location of birth puts on scarce resources. To date, costs associated with planned place of birth in Ontario have not been evaluated. Objectives: The primary objective is to answer the question: Do planned midwifery-attended home births from the onset of labour cost the Ontario health care system more or less than planned midwifery-attended hospital births from the onset of labour among a comparable low-risk cohort of women? Specifically, this analysis examines the cost of midwifery intrapartum care, from the onset of labour until hospital discharge or the first two days after delivery. Methods: This cost-analysis used a third-party payer perspective (health services costs) to analyze data from the Ontario Midwifery Program, which included 12, 886 midwife-attended births that occurred between April 1, 2003 and March 31, 2006. Three main sources of information were used to determine unit cost and health care utilization: the Ontario Midwifery Program data (2003-2006); data from the Ontario Case Costing Initiative; and the 2010 Schedule of Benefits for Physician Services. Data was analyzed using an intention to treat approach, i.e. based on planned rather than actual location of delivery. Results: Hospital birth is more expensive than planned home-birth. Results were significant with a P value =< .001. The median cost from the onset of labour was $995.95 (IQR $995.95 to $995.95) for planned home birth compared to $2118.12 (IQR $1467.12 to $3610.00) for planned hospital birth. Conclusions: Home birth, a choice that women in Ontario will continue to choose, does not result in costing the Ontario health care system more money. / Thesis / Master of Science (MSc) / This thesis answers the question: Do midwifery-attended planned home births cost the Ontario health care system more or less than midwifery-attended planned hospital births? This thesis examined midwifery-attended births that occurred in Ontario between April 1, 2003 and March 31, 2006 and associated costs that were incurred for both the mother and the baby from the onset of labour until two days following the birth. Since 1994 when midwifery was legislated in Ontario, registered midwives have been providing care to women in both home and hospital settings. While there is general consensus within the midwifery community that home births do not cost the health care system more money, a thorough analysis of costs incurred by midwifery-attended births has not been meaningfully analyzed. Midwifery is the only group of health care professionals providing maternity care that is increasing in size. Given the shortage and the current crisis of maternity care providers, the number of midwives in this province is likely to continue growing. At the same time, a cost analysis of the resources consumed through the provision of maternity care – both at home and at hospital- has not been conducted. This study provides key stakeholders with information regarding resources used and needed and the costs associated with these resources so that resource allocation and planning can be conducted in a responsive manner.

A Pesca é uma atividade extrativa, expandindo-se nos tres setores da economia. No setor primário, quando considerado a atividade de captura do pescado. No secundário, quando considera-se a atividade de industrialização e, no terciário quando esta se reporta à exportação. A simulação da utilização do método ABC na indústria pesqueira do Estado do Ceará objetiva comparar o resultado desse método com o atualmente utilizado para fins de evidenciaçaõ de resultado. / Fishing is an extractive activity and, therefore, part of the primary sector, but it also part of the secondary sector once several techniques of fish processing are considered, and it is part of the tertiary sector while companies sell their products in the domestic and in foreign markets. The primary sector is constituted by the fishing fleet, by the fishermen, and by fishing apparels, while fishing terminals are basic elements of the logistics of the ship-building process and disembarkation of the fish caught. The secondary sector is constituted by the fishing companies that can act in the phases of capture, storage, processing, and export of products, and by autonomous fishing trappers, owners of embarkations, that work in partnerships with the companies in order to guarantee the supply of raw materials for processing and commercialization. In the tertiary sector, exporting companies earn revenues when they sell their products in order to repay the expenses made in the other two sectors. The idle capacity of the fishing industry and the elevation of costs have contributed to weaken and to discourage fishing activities that, in despite of the difficulties, continue to be an important generator of exchange value through exports and of job-opportunities in the nation. In this context, the present work approaches the most significant aspects of both the national and international fishing sectors, and provides a vision of the managerial, commercial, and economic aspects of fishing companies in Ceará. It is also approached the difference among Systems, Methods, and Costing Forms, approaching the fundamental characteristics of the most important costing methods studied and used in the world, with relevance for the ABC. In the last part of the work a case study is presented, approaching a simulation of the method of Costing Based Activities (ABC), in the fishing companies in Ceará with the objective of comparing the result of this costing method with the ones used in the companies in order to verify if its utilization is more efficient in the control of costs and result evidencing.

La implementación de un sistema de costos para empresas industriales de porcelanato en base a la arcilla y esmaltes requiere definir ciertos temas que influyen en la determinación del costo de producción. Así tenemos, que la materia prima, mano de obra y los costos directos e indirectos agregados para la fabricación influye en la determinación del costo a ser aplicados a la producción en el periodo correspondiente. En el presente trabajo de investigación tiene como objetivo proponer a la gerencia general el sistema de costos estándar para calcular los elementos del costo con mejor precisión. La metodología consiste en presentar el caso de una empresa industrial – porcelanato dedicado a la producción de porcelana, pisos y revestimientos cerámicos, implementando como el sistema de costos estándar implica en la determinación del costo unitario. Se concluye que el sistema por estándar tiene incidencia en la determinación del costo de producción de una empresa industrial – cerámico. Ya que a la fecha la empresa no cuenta con un apropiado sistema de costos que incide en la determinación y cálculo en los impuestos, en el control y cálculos de los inventarios. Implementation of the United Nations System Cost for Industrial Enterprises in the base porcelain clay and glaze requires defining certain issues that influence the determination of the production cost. Thus, we have the raw material, labor and direct and indirect costs for manufacturing aggregates influences the determination of Being a cost applied to production in the corresponding period. In the present research aims to propose to the general management system standard costs to calculate the cost elements with more precision. The methodology is to present the case of an industrial enterprise - porcelain tile dedicated to the production of porcelain floors and ceramic tiles, implemented as the standard cost system involves determining the unit cost. It is concluded that the system standard has an impact on the determination of cost of production of an industrial company - ceramics. Since the date the company does not have an appropriate cost system that affects the determination and calculation of taxes, control and inventory calculations.

This diploma thesis deals with financial subsidies in agricultural company ``A{\crqq}, especially it is concentrated on financial subsidies of plant production and livestock production in this company in 2005-2008. The theoretical part describes problems of agriculture and reasons why the society has to support the agriculture then there are mentions of strangeness costs in agriculture and a costing model. Of course there are a list of institutions providing subsidy policy in the Czech Republic and the description of its financial supports. There is a financial analysis in the next part. Two situations are compared. Starting situation is economy of the farm without dotations and then the changes when the farm recieves the dotations. On the basis of this comparison, there are some of procurations concerning costs and returns. Another part reviews the structure of the costs.

A Pesca é uma atividade extrativa, expandindo-se nos tres setores da economia. No setor primário, quando considerado a atividade de captura do pescado. No secundário, quando considera-se a atividade de industrialização e, no terciário quando esta se reporta à exportação. A simulação da utilização do método ABC na indústria pesqueira do Estado do Ceará objetiva comparar o resultado desse método com o atualmente utilizado para fins de evidenciaçaõ de resultado. / Fishing is an extractive activity and, therefore, part of the primary sector, but it also part of the secondary sector once several techniques of fish processing are considered, and it is part of the tertiary sector while companies sell their products in the domestic and in foreign markets. The primary sector is constituted by the fishing fleet, by the fishermen, and by fishing apparels, while fishing terminals are basic elements of the logistics of the ship-building process and disembarkation of the fish caught. The secondary sector is constituted by the fishing companies that can act in the phases of capture, storage, processing, and export of products, and by autonomous fishing trappers, owners of embarkations, that work in partnerships with the companies in order to guarantee the supply of raw materials for processing and commercialization. In the tertiary sector, exporting companies earn revenues when they sell their products in order to repay the expenses made in the other two sectors. The idle capacity of the fishing industry and the elevation of costs have contributed to weaken and to discourage fishing activities that, in despite of the difficulties, continue to be an important generator of exchange value through exports and of job-opportunities in the nation. In this context, the present work approaches the most significant aspects of both the national and international fishing sectors, and provides a vision of the managerial, commercial, and economic aspects of fishing companies in Ceará. It is also approached the difference among Systems, Methods, and Costing Forms, approaching the fundamental characteristics of the most important costing methods studied and used in the world, with relevance for the ABC. In the last part of the work a case study is presented, approaching a simulation of the method of Costing Based Activities (ABC), in the fishing companies in Ceará with the objective of comparing the result of this costing method with the ones used in the companies in order to verify if its utilization is more efficient in the control of costs and result evidencing.

Orientador: José Vicente Hallak d'Angelo / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Química / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-25T15:12:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Andrade_ThallesAllan_M.pdf: 2702197 bytes, checksum: 32c6cee79361c26e4489867146b0682e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Por se tratar de um combustível fóssil menos emissor de gás carbônico ao meio ambiente do que outros combustíveis, a demanda mundial de gás natural para sua utilização como fonte energética tem aumentado nos últimos anos. No entanto, quando a quantidade requerida de importação do gás natural é alta e é grande a distância entre os países fornecedores e compradores, o transporte do gás por meio de gasodutos torna-se inviável, acarretando na necessidade de produção de gás natural liquefeito. Ao se liquefazer a uma temperatura próxima a -160 °C, o volume do gás natural é reduzido em até 600 vezes, permitindo ser transportado a grandes distâncias por meio de embarcações especiais. Na liquefação do gás natural estão envolvidos ciclos de refrigeração que podem ser utilizados por diferentes rotas. Os principais tipos de ciclo de refrigeração são o ciclo de compressão de vapor e o ciclo de absorção. Nesse trabalho, foram simulados no programa Aspen HYSYS, versão 7.3, os ciclos cascata e APCI para a produção de GNL, que utilizam ciclos de refrigeração por compressão de vapor. O coeficiente de desempenho global do ciclo APCI alcançado com as simulações foi maior que o do ciclo cascata: 1,690 contra 0,839. Em seguida, um dos subciclos de compressão de vapor envolvidos no ciclo APCI foi substituído por um subciclo de absorção de efeito simples, utilizando-se diferentes combinações de pares refrigerante/absorvente (NH3/H2O, NH3/DMF, R22/DMF e R134a/DMF). O ciclo com o par NH3/DMF foi aquele com os melhores resultados para o coeficiente de desempenho. Finalmente, foram realizadas duas etapas de otimização dos ciclos propostos: uma delas através da maximização do COP dos ciclos de refrigeração e outra baseada na minimização dos custos dos processos, referentes aos custos dos principais equipamentos envolvidos. A maximização conseguiu atingir COP igual a 2,062 para o ciclo cascata e 2,505 para o ciclo APCI. Dentre os pares avaliados no ciclo APCI modificado, o par NH3/DMF manteve-se com o melhor COP do subciclo de absorção. Na minimização dos custos, obteve-se o custo dos equipamentos de US$ 4,1 milhões para o ciclo cascata e US$ 14,3 milhões para o ciclo APCI original. Em relação aos pares do ciclo APCI modificado, o par NH3/H2O apresentou os menores custos, tanto antes quanto depois da otimização, alcançando US$ 9,8 milhões / Abstract: Because it is a fossil fuel that emits less carbon dioxide to the environment than other fuels, worldwide demand for natural gas for use as energy source has increased in recent years. However, when the required amount of imports of natural gas is high and there is a great distance between suppliers and buyers of the gas, the gas transportation through pipelines it is not feasible, resulting in the need to produce liquefied natural gas (LNG). When the gas reaches a temperature close to -160 ° C, its volume is reduced by up to 600 times, allowing the liquefied natural gas to be transported over long distances through special ships. Liquefaction of natural gas involves refrigeration cycles that may be used by different routes. The main types of refrigeration cycle are the cycle vapor compression cycle and absorption cycle. In this study, it was simulated, on Aspen HYSYS, version 7.3, the cascade and the APCI cycles, to roduce LNG using vapor compression refrigeration cycles. The overall COP for the APCI cycle achieved after the simulations was greater than that the cascade cycle coefficient of performance: 1.690 against 0.839. Then, a vapor compression subcycle involved in the APCI cycle has been replaced by a single-effect absorption cycle, using different combinations of refrigerant/absorbent pairs (NH3/H2O, NH3/DMF, R22/DMF and R134a/DMF). The modified APCI cycle using the pair NH3/DMF was the one with the best results for the coefficient of performance. Finally, two stages of the proposed optimization cycles were performed: one through the maximization of the COP of the refrigeration cycles and one based on the minimization of process costs, regarding the costs of major equipment involved. Maximization has achieved COP equal to 2.062 for the cascade cycle and 2.505 for the APCI cycle. Among the pairs evaluated in the modified APCI cycle, the pair NH3/DMF remained with better COP of the absorption subcycle. In minimizing of costs, it was obtained the equipment cost of $ 4.1 million for cascade cycle and $ 14.3 million for the original APCI cycle. Regarding the modified APCI cycle, the pair NH3/H2O had showed the lowest cost, both before and after optimization, reaching $ 9.8 million / Mestrado / Engenharia Química / Mestre em Engenharia Química

Tato diplomová práce pojednává o využití metod a nástrojů projektového managementu v rámci specifické akce. Teoretická část se věnuje popisu základních pojmů a teoretických poznatků souvisejících s problematikou řízení projektů. Ve druhé části jsou provedeny analýzy současného stavu, udržitelnosti, marketingu a konkurence akce. Návrhy a příspěvky jsou diskutovány ve třetí části. Jednotlivé metody, modely a nástroje byly vybrány pro maximální využití v rámci tohoto konkrétního projektu.