For the past century the federal government has been an active partner with state and local agencies to develop water supplies in the arid West. The last of the large-scale federal reclamation projects to be completed is the Central Utah Project or CUP. The CUP has generated considerable controversy throughout its history. The projects opponents have criticized its expense in terms of both dollars and environmental damage while others have worried about its impact on their water rights. Because of its cost and complexity, planning and construction have spanned decades. This has allowed individuals, organizations, and government agencies opportunity to attempt to influence the plans for the project to address their concerns. During six different periods—the initial congressional debate, project planning, the drafting of environmental impact statement in response to the passage of the National Environmental Policy Act, a lawsuit challenging that document, President Jimmy Carter's reevaluation of the project as a part of the so called "hit list," local reauthorization of the projects repayment contract—these groups worked to alter the Bureau's plans to reduce the environmental, social, and fiscal impacts of the project. Despite multiple attempts, they failed to significantly alter the Bureau's, increase environmental mitigation, or decrease environmental impacts. However, the project's opponents had been given a seventh opportunity. In the late 1980s, after a half century of planning and more than 20 years of construction—the Bureau knew that it could not finish the project without increasing the congressionally authorized spending limits. At a time of waning federal support for such projects, the Democratic leaders of both the House and Senate committees controlling Bureau projects, Senator Bill Bradley (D-NJ) and Congressman George Miller (D-CA), blocked the bill until the Utah delegation addressed the environmental concerns and objections of the project's critics. Determined to keep the project alive, Utah's sole Democrat in Congress, Wayne Owens, acted as a mediator and began to negotiate a compromise. A determined five year effort resulted in a seventy-five page compromise bill that allowed the project to move forward while addressing the major concerns of the project's opponents. Congress passed the Central Utah Project Completion Act in October 1992. The Completion Act cut some of the projects irrigation features, increased the amount of local cost share, shifted planning and oversight for the remaining features from the Bureau to the local water District, and mandated increased environmental mitigation overseen by a new independent federal agency. This thesis identifies the primary concerns of the CUP's critics and traces their attempts to alter the Bureau's plans to address these concerns. Further, it provides a more detailed account of the arduous, but ultimately successful attempt to alter the project during the Congressional debates that created and authorized the Central Utah Project Completion Act. Finally, it assesses the success of the legislation to meet it stated goals during the first decade of implementation.

Navajo students who attend residential schools that are located off the reservation and hours away from their homes, communities, and tribes may experience issues with development of a meaningful cultural identity. The purpose of this study was to better understand and identify key themes related to how Navajo students' cultural identity may be affected while living in an off-reservation residential hall. Phinney's ethnic identity development theory was used to explain the psychosocial process of developing industry and identity in adolescents. The primary research question addressed how former students' experiences of living in an off-reservation residence hall affected their development of cultural identity. A qualitative case study design was used. A purposeful sample of 12 Navajo former students who lived in a Bureau of Indian Education off-reservation residential hall between 2010-2014 was interviewed. The interviews were coded, and 7 themes related to loss of native language ability, yearning for native language and culture, tutoring, supportive teachers, responsibility and independence, generational legacy, and culture were identified. Based on the findings, a professional development plan was developed to train board members, administrators, and staff at the study site about how to promote students' development of positive cultural identity while living in a residential hall. With this knowledge, residential hall leaders and staff may be better able to ensure that Navajo students in their charge achieve successful educational outcomes and retain their tribal culture, practices, and language, to ensure that Navajo students can achieve successful educational outcomes and a positive cultural identity.

The temporal and spatial variability in wind speed and direction was investigated in a study of the mesoscale wind fields in the Canberra region. The statistical description of the winds was based on twelve months of three-hourly data at seventeen sites obtained in a joint program carried out by the Division of Land Use Research, CSIRO, the National Capital Development Commission, and the Bureau of Meteorology. The statistical analysis proceeded in stages. The first two stages were concerned with the determination and examination of averages and measures of dipersion. Information on the temporal variability in regional wind, defined as the average of the winds at the seventeen collection sites, provided the first insight into the important determinants of winds in the region. The data were then categorized on the basis of the information thus obtained, and the averages over time for each site were analysed in each category. The variation between sites revealed the extent of the spatial variability in the region. For each category, for each site, there were perturbations around the average state, and in the last stage of the study, the analysis examined how the perturbations were related across sites using correlation coefficients. Generalized Procrustes Analysis was used, followed by the extensive use of cluster analysis. Linear modelling techniques were used at all stages of the study, not only for wind speed, but also for wind direction which is an angular variate and thus required different modelling procedures. The models related the variables of interest to terrain features such as position, elevation and surface roughness. These models allowed an informed judgement to be made on the likelihood of accurately estimating the winds at other locations in the region using interpolation techniques.

Ce travail aura pour but central d'analyser le fonctionnement des bureaux de placement publics pour ouvriers établis à Montréal et à Québec, en 1911, par le ministère provincial des Travaux publics et du Travail. Cette politique sera, par la suite, supervisée et financée, en 1918, par le gouvernement fédéral canadien. La Loi de coordination des bureaux de placement et le Service d'Emploi du Canada viendront ainsi, dans la période d'après-guerre, occuper le champ de la distribution de la main-d’œuvre au pays. Notre thèse aura, dès lors, pour fonction d'étudier le programme provincial et le régime fédéral de bureaux d'emploi pour chômeurs et chômeuses au Québec. Cette analyse nous permettra, entre autres, de comprendre le processus de formation de la catégorie sociale de solliciteur d'emploi durant les années 1910. Cette étude portera également un regard sur les agences de placement privées pour ouvriers et servantes opérant à Montréal à la même époque. La fermeture de ces agences payantes sera souhaitée notamment par les organisations ouvrières. Les critiques répétées des représentants syndicaux viendront ainsi pousser le gouvernement québécois à établir des bureaux de placement gratuits et désintéressés et à légiférer sur les agences privées. Le réseau de bureaux de placement publics, nommés aussi bureaux d'enregistrement pour ouvriers, constitue un moyen d'intervenir sur le chômage de manière bureaucratisée et scientifique qu'il sera nécessaire d'analyser. Nous nous attacherons donc à comprendre la mécanique régulatrice et les caractéristiques de l'intervention étatique en ce domaine. Cet exercice permettra d'ouvrir un champ historique nouveau au Québec, puisque l'historiographie, québécoise et canadienne, a peu porté d'éclairage sur les chômeurs et les chômeuses des années 1910-1920 et sur les bureaux de placement provinciaux coordonnés par l'État fédéral après la Première Guerre mondiale. Ces premières décennies du 20e siècle constituent pour le Canada et le Québec une période embryonnaire façonnant les prémisses de la construction de l'État providence en matière d'assistance gouvernementale et nationale aux chômeurs et chômeuses du pays. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Canada, Québec, Montréal, 1909, 1910, 1920, 1932, État, chômage, chômeur, travail, emploi, assurance-chômage, bureau de placement public, agence de placement privée, Stewart, Service d'Emploi du Canada, ministère du Travail, Travaux publics, bureau d'enregistrement, servante, journalier, bûcheron.

For the current trend of global planning and management, free trade port district can help industries to manage global marketing. In the meantime, it can develop economics and also enterprises. Taiwan government promote the policy of free trade port district in order to cooperate the project:¡¨Challenge 2008¡GGovernment Development Plan¡]2002¡Ð2007¡^¡v. To use Taiwan¡¦s location and also manufacturing advantage, the government set into the free trade port district policy which can develop international physical distribution business. The free trade port district of Kaohsiung harbor has been started since Jan 2005. There are automatically security system, information platform which can connected all computers from related departments. In this research, we found there are still some problems such as no suffice space or difficulty to extend which caused limitation for new enterprises or industries. A lot of problems which cased the difficulty for scale economy and cybotaxis benefit. Kaohsiung harbor hope to be the pivot of physical distribution in Asia so it should continue to develop space and cooperate the needs from enterprises or industries. To keep improve the laws and regulations in order to smooth all operations procedure in Kaohsiung harbor. From this paper, it can be reference for free trade port district development strategy.

From 2002, Bureau of National Health Insurance attempted to solve the problem that the average time that a doctor uses to diagnose a sickness is to short by Global Budget System. However, in 2007, Micheal Porter argued that the average time that a doctor uses to diagnose a sickness is only three minutes. Therefore, Bureau of National Health Insurance is failed to solve this problem. In this research, we find that the time that a doctor uses to diagnose a sickness is not decided by doctors but sickness. However, the target that Bureau of National Health Insurance wants to influence is doctors. Besides, although Bureau of National Health Insurance wants to influence doctors, the people who are real influenced are operators. As the result, the average time that a doctor uses to diagnose a sickness is still short and Global Budget System lets operators not only fire inferior doctors hardly but also less invite better doctors to help. Thus, it causes sickness rights and interests damage. Besides, we try to find the high leverage solution to solve this problem. We consider three ways, including limiting doctors` patient, increasing price and helping doctors to improve their skill. After studying, we find that only helping doctors to improve their skill would not cause any side effect.

Thesis (M.Ed.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2000. / Bibliography: leaves 95-102.

Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on Feb 25, 2010). The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Dissertation advisor: Dr. Benyamin Schwarz. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

In conformity with the principles laid down in article 26 of the Chicago Convention and its Annex 13 concerning technical aircraft accident investigations, the United States and France respectively set up and developed their own investigation Boards, the NTSB and the BEA, which may be different by their organization and functioning but both aim at the same objective: the promotion of Air Safety. / To fulfil their complex mission in the best possible conditions and despite eventual pecuniary constraints, the pressure of the media, or the occasional tensions which may arise in case of concomitance with other investigations, the NTSB and the BEA rely on the renowned professionalism and high technical skills of their employees as well as on the participation in the investigation of members of the aeronautical industry who bring their expertise and contribute to the improvement of air safety.

For a pre-cast concrete manufacturing company to obtain a Botswana Bureau of Standards (BOBS) certification time, money and effort have to be spent and yet it is not known whether the consumers will use the BOBS certification as a buying decision factor. The Botswana Bureau of Standards certified pre-cast concrete manufacturing companies have to comply with rigorous inspections to ensure that standards are maintained. Competition in the concrete manufacturing industry is contested by certified companies and uncertified companies and yet the market is shared amongst these players. This dissertation will endeavour to analysis the effects of Botswana Bureau of Standards certification on buyer decision on pre-cast concrete products in Gaborone Botswana. Therefore, the research findings will establish whether BOBS certification can be used as marketing tool. A sample of forty was drawn from the population in Gaborone to represent the whole of Botswana. Date was collected using both semi-structured and structured questionnaires. Responses were sorted according to similarities and then interpreted. Results in this research indicated that BOB certification influences concrete consumers' decisions. It was also indicated that BOB certification is actually a marketing tool that sways positively concrete products buyers' decisions. Therefore, it was recommended that concrete manufacturers should exploit this marketing tool to gain a larger market share. Those concrete products manufacturers whose products are not certified should consider this marketing tool in their marketing strategy in order to remain competitive. BOBS must also launch a massive public awareness to popularise the use of the certification by the manufacturers. Lastly, It is recommended that the Botswana Government must continue supporting BOBS to improve quality standards in the country. / (MBA) North-West University, Mafikeng Campus, 2005