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Facilitating the use of cadastral data through the World Wide WebPolley, Iestyn Unknown Date (has links) (PDF)
Over recent years the cadastral industry has become increasingly reliant on digital data. Many surveyors now submit digital survey plan data to accompany the legally required hardcopy maps and documentation, although it will not be long before total digital lodgement will be possible. In this environment it will be ideal to capitalise on computer networking technology such as the present day Internet and World Wide Web (WWW) to better facilitate the transmission of digital data. This work provides a study of the current climate in the cadastral industry and further identifies how the Internet and its related technologies can be used to facilitate the transmission of digital cadastral data. The focus is to provide a prototype application that facilitates these data transactions in the most effective manner that benefits both user and data provider. This involves a study of the different underlying Internet technologies and how they can be used within the cadastral context. The work presents how the Internet and the WWW can bring benefits in the form of increased data distribution, and, in data integration and update for data maintainers, who need efficient ways of passing digital data to and from different locations.
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Pension reform: an analysis of the economic foundations of private pensionsVidler, Sacha January 2003 (has links)
The dissertation investigates support by economists for the global policy shift away from unfunded public pension schemes towards funded private pension schemes. Influential economists and institutions, including the World Bank, present a suite of economic arguments that suggest that this shift will have positive effects on national economies, particularly in the context of aging. The arguments may be categorised according to their relation to the operation of three sets of institutions: capital markets, labour markets and political systems. In capital markets, the transition is purported to increase private and national saving, increase the quantity and quality of investment, and provide more efficient private administration. In labour markets, it is claimed that the shift will reduce labour market distortions associated with public pensions, which inhibit competitiveness, produce unemployment and encourage early retirement. According to the World Bank, public pensions systems cause these distortions without achieving their stated objective of reducing inequality. In the political sphere, the shift is purported to insulate the pension system from political pressures, which otherwise inevitably lead to crisis. The thesis provides evidence which refutes these claims. The best research, including studies by orthodox economists, indicate that the shift does not increase savings or investment, or improve the quality of financial investment. The main effect of tax concessions associated with private pension systems is to divert to private pension funds savings that would occur in any case via other mechanisms. The tax concessions are also regressive, even in systems with compulsory elements. Private administration of pensions, particularly in a plural consumer market setting, is highly inefficient, with customers at a disadvantage in dealing with providers due to the complexity and opacity of products and pricing. A negative relationship is found between public pension spending and levels of elderly poverty, suggesting that reducing public pension spending increases levels of elderly inequality. Public pensions are found not to explain differences in economic growth between regions. Elements of system design which distort labour markets, such as by encouraging early retirement, can easily be adjusted. However, such elements are explicit government policy in several countries. A review of public and private pensions finds that examples of public system crisis are associated with instances of economic and political collapse, rather than system design. Private funded systems are found to be more vulnerable, not less, to the same external influences. Relatively generous universal public pension systems are found to be financially sustainable despite demographic change, assuming modest levels of economic growth.
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Interrogating the World Banks Policy on Innovative Delivery for Higher EducationBurgessmj@yahoo.com, Madeline Jane Burgess January 2006 (has links)
Over the past thirty years, the World Bank has intensified its activities relating to
education in developing countries. Notable developments in the World Banks policy
on education include promotion of innovative delivery, which refers to the use of new
and existing Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in education. The
World Bank claims that the unique characteristics of ICTs have the potential to produce
new forms of delivery in higher education that can overcome existing barriers to
education and facilitate student-centred learning (World Bank, 1999, 2005).
Many forms of innovative delivery, such as distance education and open learning, are
not new forms of instruction. However, promotion of innovative delivery as a global
priority for education in developing countries is new. In this thesis, I interrogate the
World Banks assumptions concerning innovative delivery as expressed in their
landmark policy statement on education, the 1999 Education Sector Strategy Report
(ES99) (World Bank, 1999). I focus on the assumptions that underlie views put forward
in the ES99 on the nature of technology and its role in education, the role of innovative
delivery in overcoming existing barriers to education, and the potential of innovative
delivery to facilitate student-centred learning. A central aim of this thesis was to better
understand the socio-cultural and pedagogical issues that may arise when these
assumptions are put into practice in different cultural contexts. This was achieved by
comparing the assumptions put forward in the ES99 with the reported perceptions of, attitudes toward, and use of ICTs by students and lecturers from three different cultural
contexts.
Qualitative and quantitative methodologies were used to gather detailed empirical data
on end-users perceptions, attitudes to and use of online technologies at universities in
Australia, Malaysia and the United States. The findings suggested that across all three
cultural contexts, respondents attitudes were not consistent with the World Banks
technocratic view of innovative delivery. Moreover, the findings cast doubt on the
extent to which technology-mediated education can overcome existing barriers to
education and facilitate a student-centred approach to education. I conclude by
suggesting that the World Bank needs to adopt a more questioning stance toward the
potential effectiveness of innovative delivery. Other findings point to the contextual
nature of technology adoption and the pedagogical implications of this mode of delivery
across cultural contexts.
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Developing a concept of life in the end times in a local congregationWomack, David Steven. January 1987 (has links)
Thesis (D. Min.)--Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1987. / Bibliography: leaves 305-310.
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Navigationsanalyse Methodologie der Analyse von Prozessen der Online-Navigation mittels Optimal-Matching /Iske, Stefan. Unknown Date (has links) (PDF)
Duisburg, Essen, Universiẗat, Diss., 2007.
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Design and implementation of collective bargaining support system (CBSS) : a web-based negotiation support system /Suarga. January 1997 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D) -- McMaster University, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 140-144). Also available via World Wide Web.
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The women's voluntary services a study of war and volunteering in Camden 1939-1945 /Willis, Ian Colin. January 2004 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wollongong, 2004. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references: leaf 336-368.
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Entwicklung webbasierter Eignungsberatungen für Hochschulen /Fischer, Sonja. January 2008 (has links)
Universiẗat, Diss.--Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2007.
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A transcultural student, teacher, and composer : Henry Cowell and the music of the world's peoples /Schimpf, Peter John, January 2006 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)---Indiana University, 2006. / Computer printout. Adviser: Burkholder, J. Peter Includes bibliographical references (leaves 292-297) and vita.
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WTO und TelekommunikationKrystofiak, Julia January 2007 (has links)
Zugl.: Mainz, Univ., Diss., 2007
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