When filling upp management positions it is all about the perfect match where the right person is at the right place. By interviewing five recruitment specialists insight was gained in how important personal traits are in their opinion when it comes to hiring managers, how they decide which traits are relevant for the position, which methods are used when evaluating candidates personal traits and which challegenges they meet. Personal traits was considered as highly important and their profile of demands was based on the competence needed. The participants used interviews, personality tests and references when evaluating candidates personality traits and the challenges in evaluation consisted in insincere impression given by the candidate and difficulties in making an objective evaluation. / När en chefsposition ska tillsättas gäller det att få en perfekt matchning där rätt person är på rätt plats.  Fem rekryteringsspecialister har intervjuats med syftet att ta reda på hur viktigt deltagarna ansåg att personliga egenskaper är vid chefreskrytering, hur de kommer fram till vilka personliga egenskaper som ska bedömas, vilka metoder som används för denna bedömning samt utmaningar de såg med bedömningen. Deltagarna ansåg personliga egenskaper som oerhört viktigt vid chefsrekrytering och att kravprofilen utformas baserat på kompetensbehov inom företaget. Deltagarna använde intervjuer, personlighetstest och referenser vid bedömning av kandidaters personliga egenskaper och upplevde att utmaningar kan vara att kandidaten ger ett ouppriktigt intryck av sig själv, samt  svårigheter med att utföra en objektiv bedömning.

The family situation and its development are complicated in Lithuania today: the traditional famyli qualities are disappearing, low birthrate cannot ensure generation change, and the number of social-risk families and abandoned children is really worrying.

Due to the relatively complex land cover configuration and a series of significant ecological implications, the issue of land cover changes in the Big Creek area are of critical value to environmental conservation groups, policy makers, and relevant stakeholders. In consultation with the Carolinian Canada Coalition (CCC), the potential of IKONOS imagery as a high spatial resolution remote sensing product is assessed for significant habitat mapping, and a change detection methodology is developed and implemented for the Big Creek area that will be of value to decision makers and policy analysts. In order to take advantage of the synergistic strengths of multiple change detection techniques, a hybrid approach is adopted in this study, aiming to detect and stratify land cover changes over the time span from 2004 to 2012. On the basis of an assessment of the capability of differentiating changed from unchanged areas, the image differencing method based on Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) was found to be the most accurate among the three change detection techniques employed in this study. As an attempt to incorporate local spatial autocorrelation information into the change detection analysis, the Getis statistic was used as a spatial filter in conjunction with the image differencing technique, and it showed great promise for improving the change/no change maps both qualitatively and quantitatively. In particular, the extreme Getis statistic proposed in this study demonstrated strong potential for automatically determining the optimal scale for spatial smoothing, which could greatly improve the efficiency and accuracy of change detection practices. In addition, the performance of the post-classification comparison approach was found to be highly dependent on the intrinsic characteristics of the individual classified maps, rather than simply the accuracy scores of the classifications subject to the comparison. Therefore, it is recommended that a benchmark approach be taken to compensate for this uncertainty of the post-classification comparison method, such that the negative impact of the misclassification errors in the individual classified maps could be reduced to an acceptable level. The findings of this research will contribute to a better understanding of the usefulness of some widely used change detection techniques in a relatively complex physical environment with abundant vegetation cover. In addition, the application of the Getis statistic as a spatial filter is proven useful for suppressing potential "salt and pepper" effects in the context of change detection analysis, especially if high spatial resolution imagery is employed. With minor modifications, the workflow proposed in this study is likely to reliably fulfill the purpose of monitoring land cover dynamics in other environments as well. However, it should be noted that clear awareness of the characteristics of the study area and needs of information is a premise to the successful application of any change detection approach in different environments.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of Plant and Animal Sciences, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 14-21).

Thesis (Th. M.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 52).

Thesis (Th. M.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 52).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 2009. / Abstract. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 128-132).

Thesis (Th. M.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 52).

Theses (M.A.)--Marshall University, 2006. / Title from document title page. Includes abstract. Document formatted into pages: contains iv, 55 pages. Bibliography: p. 45-50.