Thesis (M.S.)-- Brigham Young University. Dept. of Church History, 1961.

Thesis (M.S.)--B.Y.U. Dept. of Church History. / Electronic thesis. Also available in print ed.

For more than 100 years, vocational psychologists and educational researchers have sought to identify the significant influences shaping occupational interests. This descriptive study used a series of vocational card sort exercises with 139 rural high school youth to identify gender differences in occupational interests toward working in 60 of the nation's fastest growing occupations, including new and emerging 21st century green energy roles. Through a classroom-based exercise, youth sorted cards from four decks into piles (1 - 5) at their desk. Sorting the card into pile (1) expressed Strong Dislike; pile (2) Dislike, pile (3) No Interest, pile (4) Some Interest, or pile (5) Strong Interest toward the occupational information depicted on each card. Four decks of 60 cards were used to measure youth expressed interest toward performing the occupational tasks (A), holding the occupational titles (B), working in the type of workplace environments (C), and using the type of tools and technology (D) used by workers in each occupation. A Total Occupational Interest Score reflected the summation of four scores from deck (A+B+C+D) by each youth toward each occupation. Significant differences in occupational interests were found. Female youth expressed strongest interest toward health care, and lowest interest toward green energy roles. Male youth were most interested in construction, transportation, advanced manufacturing, and homeland security. Both groups most preferred working in traditional roles for each gender to perform in the workplace.

According to the Forest Care Act, an approved rejuvenation is required no later thanthree years after rejuvenation has been made. Approved rejuvenation methods arenatural rejuvenation, sowing or planting. In 1903, the first law on recapture wasintroduced and since then the law has gradually changed. From 1993 onwards,environmental and production goals are equal. Replanting has to be reported bylandowners to the Forest Board and this is done by filling in and returning a reply card.The report shows the growth in the field and compares this with the answers from theresponse cards. Hylte municipality, all response cards match the observations in thefield. In Halmstad municipality, 18 areas have been observed, of which 14 have beenreported by the landowner that a rejuvenation has been carried out.The intention of the report is also to review how the response cards look and howlandowners perceive them. What could be improved on current response cards?Landowners have been interviewed and data has been collected through fieldobservations. The results have then been compiled and describe the differences observedbetween two different municipalities. In Hylte municipality, the proportion ofrejuvenated areas is 95 percent, while in Halmstad municipality only 79 percent.

Masters of Science / Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). TB mainly affects lungs of patients but other parts of the body can also be affected. It kills approximately 2 million people annually. HIV/AIDS and drug resistance make TB difficult to control. Mtb CarD protein forms a physiological complex with Ribonucleic Acid Polymerase (RNAP). This complex causes Mtb to undergo dormancy rendering it difficult to control using current antibiotics. CarD and a size-reduced subunit β1 (denoted β1m for “minimized”) of Thermus thermophilus RNAP, in which the central domain has been replaced by a Gly-Gly linker, were produced and purified using affinity nickel nitrilotriaceticacid and glutathione-Stransferase (GST) affinity chromatography techniques respectively. CarD N terminal domain (CarDN) was generated from CarD by inserting a stop codon by site directed mutagenesis. CarD was stabilised by adding 5 % (v/v) glycerol to PBS pH 7.4 ensuring protein stability of up to 67 days rather than 2 days without glycerol. CarDN was stable in PBS pH 7.4 without addition of glycerol. This suggests that the CarD C terminal domain may be responsible for CarD instability. To further purify the proteins both anion exchange and gel permeation chromatography techniques were used. CarD and CarDN degrade immediately after anion exchange potentially because of the high ion concentration which partially unfolds the protein making it prone to proteolytic cleavage. GST-pull down assays were used to demonstrate complex formation between RNAP β1m and both CarD and CarDN confirming that complex formation is dependent on the N-terminal domain of CarD.

The goal of the first part of the thesis is to describe the options of wide usage of chip cards in different segments of our life. Consequently it is necessary to mention hardware and software equipment of smart card, its communication with terminal and data security. In this thesis we focus on Java Card environment in which we will try to create two applications, one for electronic purse and the second for user identification. Basically, we need to mention multiapplicational rules of sharing data and objects. At the end of the thesis we are focusing on the possibility of mutual interference between the applications and on protection against attacks. Also future applications of this technology are described.

This work attempts to analyze causes of divergent transposition of the Blue Card directive, regulating the conditions of immigration of highly-skilled workers from third countries, between individual EU Member States. The differences are analyzed on two levels. Firstly, in terms of timeliness and correctness of transposition, secondly, from a perspective of a different manner of transposition of the discretionary clauses entailed in the Blue Card directive (whether the Member States opted for an open or for a restrictive way of transposition of these provisions). Scholarly literature about transposition compliance and highly-silled immigration policies creates the foundation, by means of which the author identifies several variables and articulates hypotheses aiming at providing explanation of the divergent transposition of the directive in the respective Member States. The author classifies the Member States in groups and clusters according to their transposition performance and its results embody a point of departure for a subsequent analysis. From each group, certain number of countries is selected for a detailed country-level analysis in order to ensure universality and geographical representativeness of the outcomes. To review how the individual hypotheses confirmed in the Member States, the...

En el presente documento se presentará el proyecto de una aplicación que brindará tarjetas de presentación digital para personas mayores de 18 años, cuyo estudio se realizó en Lima Metropolitana. Dicho estudio arrojó una demanda insatisfecha debido a que no existe una aplicación en la cual puedan registrar sus datos, como una tarjeta de presentación, y dar a conocer a sus clientes potenciales su contacto. Debido a esto, nació la idea de negocio KITCard, el cual consiste en brindar tarjetas de presentación digital a personas de que deseen expandir su red de contactos networkers, además está tarjeta no solo podrá dar a conocer el contacto, sino podrá mensajear, ver la ubicación del centro laboral de su contacto, ver la agenda, entre otras múltiples opciones. Para poner en marcha el proyecto, se realizará un profundo análisis del mercado, los posibles clientes potenciales y al sector a quien será dirigido nuestro proyecto. Posteriormente se desarrolló el Plan Estratégico, Plan de Operaciones, Plan de Marketing, Plan de Recursos Humanos, Plan de Responsabilidad Social Empresarial y Plan Financiero. En cada una de estas áreas daremos a conocer los objetivos y las estrategias que se deseen lograr en los primeros tres años. / This document will present the project of an application that will provide digital business cards for people over 18 years of age, whose study was carried out in Metropolitan Lima. This study yielded an unsatisfied demand because there is no application in which they can register their data, such as a business card, and make their contact known to potential customers. Due to this, the KITCard business idea was born, which consists of providing digital business cards to people who want to expand their network of contacts, also this card will not only be able to publicize the contact, but will be able to message, see the location of the workplace of your contact, see the agenda, among many other options. To launch the project, an in-depth analysis of the market, potential clients and the sector to which our project will be directed will be carried out. Subsequently, the Strategic Plan, Operations Plan, Marketing Plan, Human Resources Plan, Corporate Social Responsibility Plan and Financial Plan were developed. In each of these areas we will announce the objectives and strategies that you want to achieve in the first three years. / Trabajo de investigación

Kaplan and Norton have provided a framework to link control to an organization's vision-the balanced scorecard. This approach provides measures in four areas: (1) Customer, (2) Internal Business, (3) Innovation and Learning and (4) Financial. This article provides a starting point in adapting this method to a church by looking at four measurement perspectives: (1) Members/Attenders, (2) Internal Ministry Processes, (3) Ministering, and (4) Innovation and Learning. An example is then developed using a church's mission and visio.

Managing medical care for patients with diabetes mellitus requires a comprehensive approach that includes empowering the patient to be an active participant in the management of their disease as lifestyle management, in addition to medical therapy, is a crucial component in the care of the diabetic patient. The objective of this project was to determine if implementing diabetic care cards in a family medicine residency clinic would increase patient engagement with their care in the form of knowledge concerning A1C values and subjectively feeling in control of their diabetes. The initial phase of the project involved providing diabetic patients a brief anonymous survey concerning their A1C and asking if they felt in control of their diabetes; these surveys were collected for several months. The next phase consisted of an educational lecture during formal resident physician didactic time where diabetic guidelines were discussed, diabetic care cards were introduced, and the resident physicians were encouraged to utilize the cards with their diabetic patients. After several months of implementation of the diabetic care cards in the clinic, the same anonymous survey was repeated with diabetic patients. A total of 93 anonymous patient surveys were collected prior to formal resident physician education concerning diabetic care cards and a total of 40 anonymous surveys were collected after formal resident physician education. The data from the pre and post educational surveys were then reviewed and compared and data was analyzed. Overall, A1C values did not significantly differ between the pre- and post-survey groups. Although there was a slightly higher percentage of patients who reported knowing their A1C level after the diabetic card implementation, this was not statistically significant and there was not a statistically significant difference in the percentage of patients that felt in control of their diabetes between survey groups. It was found that higher A1c values were associated with patients feeling less in control of their diabetes. A limitation of this study was realized with the methodology; it is not known if every patient who completed a survey also directly encountered the diabetic care card. The study yielded some valuable insight into patient perspective of diabetes control. It was found that an A1C less than or equal to 7%, which is the A1C goal for most diabetic patients, did not necessarily correlate with diabetic patients feeling in control of their diabetes. It was felt that this indicated that there is room for improvement in patient education concerning A1C goal. It also revealed a need for further investigation of the factors that influence whether a patient feels they are in control of their diabetes.