<p>Loyalty card is one of the most commonly used promotional activities in business. Thus far, there are some research has been done on luxury hotel, but very few researches are on budget hotel. So, the purpose of the thesis is finding out the Swedish customers’ attitude and behavior towards budget hotel’s loyalty card; getting to know what factors influence Swedish customers’ response towards the loyalty card and budget hotels.</p><p>In the thesis, the main research problem is “<em>How do Swedish customers respond to the Budget hotel’s Loyalty Card promotional activity in Sweden</em>?” Under the main research problem, four sub questions and four hypotheses are designed. Face-to-face interview is implemented for collecting primary data. Interviewees include business traveling interviewees and leisure traveling interviewees, altogether 23 interviewees are interviewed. Secondary data is from articles and journals. The secondary data includes Purchasing/Decision making, Marketing communication, Sales promotion, Pricing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Relationship marketing, Customer satisfaction and loyalty, Personality and Marketing segmentation. The secondary data and primary data are mixed together for the main research problem’s analysis.</p><p>After the research, the thesis comes out that Swedish loyalty card holders show much awareness/ preference/ satisfaction/ loyalty towards the membership budget hotel. Swedish customers use loyalty card in a constant manner only when the benefit is large and the benefit can be gained fast. For the Swedish customers, the Budget hotel loyalty card’s benefit is important, but the benefit is not big enough to make them feel excited. Simple and clear loyalty card rules are appreciated. Reference groups’ comments, fast internet information, loyalty card rule’s complexity, customers’ previous experiences, original price, psychological quality feeling and perceived price level also affect the loyalty card’s effectiveness. By implementing loyalty card, the membership customers’ satisfaction can be increased. The non-membership customers’ satisfaction isn’t negatively affected. Compared with the Swedish leisure travelers, Swedish business travelers show even stronger and much more stable loyalty towards the membership hotel. Leisure traveler is much benefit oriented. But the business traveler is habit oriented. Psychologically, business travelers think that a budget hotel loyalty card can not provide them as much good feeling as the luxury hotel’s loyalty card does.</p>

The combination of the existing mobile system and the IEEE standard for WLAN makes way for development of the 4th generation mobile systems. Access for laptop-users to WLAN is today a reality giving a taste of that new generation. Designing a product that introduces WLAN networking for handheld computers would be a major step in the development spoken of. Accommodating existing WLAN PC Card for laptops to handheld PDAs gives a short time to market. Therefore a product prototype for a compact flash module was designed and manufactured to make way for the 4th generation indoor networking facilities on the market.

Loyalty card is one of the most commonly used promotional activities in business. Thus far, there are some research has been done on luxury hotel, but very few researches are on budget hotel. So, the purpose of the thesis is finding out the Swedish customers’ attitude and behavior towards budget hotel’s loyalty card; getting to know what factors influence Swedish customers’ response towards the loyalty card and budget hotels. In the thesis, the main research problem is “How do Swedish customers respond to the Budget hotel’s Loyalty Card promotional activity in Sweden?” Under the main research problem, four sub questions and four hypotheses are designed. Face-to-face interview is implemented for collecting primary data. Interviewees include business traveling interviewees and leisure traveling interviewees, altogether 23 interviewees are interviewed. Secondary data is from articles and journals. The secondary data includes Purchasing/Decision making, Marketing communication, Sales promotion, Pricing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Relationship marketing, Customer satisfaction and loyalty, Personality and Marketing segmentation. The secondary data and primary data are mixed together for the main research problem’s analysis. After the research, the thesis comes out that Swedish loyalty card holders show much awareness/ preference/ satisfaction/ loyalty towards the membership budget hotel. Swedish customers use loyalty card in a constant manner only when the benefit is large and the benefit can be gained fast. For the Swedish customers, the Budget hotel loyalty card’s benefit is important, but the benefit is not big enough to make them feel excited. Simple and clear loyalty card rules are appreciated. Reference groups’ comments, fast internet information, loyalty card rule’s complexity, customers’ previous experiences, original price, psychological quality feeling and perceived price level also affect the loyalty card’s effectiveness. By implementing loyalty card, the membership customers’ satisfaction can be increased. The non-membership customers’ satisfaction isn’t negatively affected. Compared with the Swedish leisure travelers, Swedish business travelers show even stronger and much more stable loyalty towards the membership hotel. Leisure traveler is much benefit oriented. But the business traveler is habit oriented. Psychologically, business travelers think that a budget hotel loyalty card can not provide them as much good feeling as the luxury hotel’s loyalty card does.

The essay intends to problematize the notion of heroism in Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game by contemplating the hero himself as well as his enemies. Particular focus will be placed on the good and evil dichotomy, arguing that it is essential to the heroic tale since the hero is supposed to fight evil and foster good. Seeing that Ender is also a murderer, the matter debated will be that he both is and is not a hero.

Improvement is an essential act for restricting increasing performance pressure in organizational activities. In this paper, a framework for carrying out performance measurement process in order to strengthen the balanced score card application is developed. The proposed framework is increased to 11 procedural steps with the modification of analytic hierarchy process methods (AHP) within the balanced score card (BSC) problem solving and continuous improvement. The framework was examined with a case study of city library in Sweden. The framework enabled the service providers’ as the decision maker to assess their performance on their service rendering with respect to customer requirement, identify key measures and select the most preferred and improvement means. The motivation for this proposed framework was evident of how the step 4 can be prioritized by addressing the measure to be taken that can lead the organization in improving their performance.

In today's industry it is of mayor concern to keep the manufacturing processes as effective and flexible as possible. The usage of robots and automatic technology is a much known way to achieve the goals of rationalization. The disadvantage lays in the fact that implementation of robots is usually a very resource consuming task. However, in some circumstances a solution to this matter may be to simply implement mobile robots instead of fixed robots. The task of this project is to successfully control and understand the system of a mobile robot in a automatic manufacturing process.

The overall target of the maintenance management system is to improve the role of a maintenance organization in positively impacting production capacity, products quality, safety and also overall production cost. In the course of ensuring the above mentioned benefits, the maintenance system should be designed under an umbrella of appropriate strategy that is developed in line with the company’s major business objectives. The thesis work is focused on developing a model that assist the design of a maintenance strategy which is linked with the company’s major business objectives. And for this the balanced score card approach is utilized. Then the model’s application is tested in a case company with the general procedures described below. The business requirements by the customers, which are translated to business objectives of the case company, were used as starting points. Then the production performance indicators were checked for their effectiveness in addressing the business objectives of the company. After this, a maintenance strategy with approaches to address the business objectives of the company, which are expressed by the production performance indicators, was developed with potential maintenance performance indicators. The result showed that the different elements incorporated in the model developed are appropriate in linking the maintenance activities with the company’s business objectives as can be observed from the analysis made on the case company.

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The study is based on the financial statistics published by the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) to analysis the behavior of Taiwan credit cardholders after the dual card crisis and the global financial storm. In the meantime, the data as of September and November 2008 is applied to examine the impact of credit cardholders in different segments who have cash needs after the regulation implementation. The study concludes that: 1. The behavior of credit cardholders impacted by the dual card crisis and the global financial storm Using various statistical charts and one-way ANOVA analysis can be found that after the dual card crisis and global financial storm, the revolving credit balance of credit card market reduced year by year. Obviously, a correct concept of card usage is established gradually. Cardholders should not only enjoy the convenience of credit card, but also control the burden of over spending. 2. The cash advance amount deteriorated due to FSC regulation implementation After a series of guided actions launched by FSC, people no longer rely on credit card as a financing tool but treat it as a payment implement. The amount of cash advance shrink while the cardholders who have cash advance need get financing from personal loan. 3. The impact is various between each segment by regulation Using Independent-Sample T Test, it is found that there are no significant differences in credit card cash advance features for cardholders who have debt burden ratio greater than 22 times of the monthly income, the internal employee, and cardholders whose credit line is greater than NT$800,000.

Several research studies have been conducted on the effectiveness of check-in/ check-out (CICO) procedures in behavior education programs (BEPs). However, little research has been conducted on implementing CICO procedures specifically for special education students. This study examined the effects of CICO procedures on six junior high students receiving special education services. Baseline data of targeted behaviors were collected during the first two weeks of the third six weeks grading period. The participants were receiving special education services due to a previous Admission, Review, and Dismissal (ARD) committee decision. CICO procedures are part of a secondary level behavior support system typically found in the BEP. The CICO procedures include a morning check-in, teacher feedback on a daily behavior report card (DBRC), an afternoon check-out, and weekly parent notification of student performance. A token economy system and behavior team meetings are two components also involved in implementing the CICO procedures. Intervention data were collected during implementation of the CICO procedures during the remaining three weeks of the third six weeks grading period. The intervention was not implemented the last week of the grading period due to final exams. The CICO procedures had high social validity ratings. Reliability, limitations and implications for future research on the current study are discussed.