The report describes the thesis that the students along with the company Bonesheart made on agenre of motorcycles called cafe racers and its sub genres.It's a project about the procedures in the making of several design concepts for these kind ofmotorcycles. All the way from brainstorming to the final result.The report describes how the members of the project proceeded with the methodology they learntfrom their education and how they partly developed and established their own approach in thedevelopment of the motorcycle concepts.Because it is a genre of motorcycles that has not been affected by this type of work before, thegathering of information has been a big part in the beginning of the project.A survey was mailed to 140 motorcycle clubs, which gave the project a good starting point.It is critical for this kind of project that there is an understanding of the subject and that you cantake advantage of the knowledge gathered to get a good results.The results presented in this report have been designed from a design methodology that takesadvantage of several factors. For example, the restrictions given by the company that wasinvolved in the project and answers from the survey.With a wide range of sources to retrieve information, the result has been designed to whatbecame the concept of four motorcycles. / Rapporten beskriver det examensarbete som eleverna tillsammans med företaget Bonesheartutförde på en genre av motorcyklar som kallas för Café racers och dess subgenre.Projektet handlar om hur utförandet av arbetet vid att ta fram flera designkoncept på dessanischade motorcyklar gick till. Hela vägen från brainstorming till det slutgiltiga resultatet.Rapporten beskriver hur projektmedlemmarna gick tillväga med den metodik som de lärt sigunder utbildningen och hur de delvis utvecklade och etablerade ett eget arbetssätt vidframtagningen av koncepten på motorcyklarna.Eftersom det är en genre av motorcyklar som inte berörts av denna typ av arbete förut, harinformationssamling varit en stor del i uppstarten av projektet. Bland annat gjordes ettenkätutskick till 140 motorcykelklubbar, vilket gav projektet en bra ståndpunkt att utgå ifrån. Detär kritiskt för ett arbete att det finns en förståelse för området och att man kan ta tillvara på denkunskap som samlats in för att få ett bra resultat.Det resultat som presenteras i denna rapport har utformats efter en designmetodik som tar tillvarapå flera faktorer. Till exempel de begränsningar som givits från företaget som var delaktig iprojektet och svar från enkätutskick.Med en bred mängd källor att hämta information ifrån har resultatet utformats till vad som blevkoncept på fyra stycken motorcyklar.

The broad aim of this thesis is to develop a holistic conception of the self in relation to the complex interplay between education for ethical literacy and the notion of an agent as an ontological reality capable of self-transformation and self-realisation. To this end, ethical literacy, as a function of a holistic education, is conceived as enabling individuals to realise their essential nature through leading morally decent lives. The purpose of enquiry into the concept of the self is to highlight that since the self- transformative aims of ethical literacy are exercised on the self by the self, revitalising the focus on the agent’s ethical development therefore depends on grasping the true nature of the person who will live or aspire to live an ethical life. The notion of ethical literacy, as a moral empowerment that enables individuals to understand, analyse, reflect and practice that which makes them humane, postulates a holistic understanding of what it means to be human, which in turn implies that it is in understanding who human agents truly are, how they are to better themselves and what they can become, that the question of ethical literacy acquires a more concrete meaning. This thesis is divided into four parts, with part one providing a brief analysis of the moral landscape existing within the global community and highlights the need for effecting an equitable and compassionate moral horizon through education for ethical literacy. Part two, engages with the conceptual understanding of three influential ‘self‘ paradigms, namely, those of Descartes, Hume and Freud, which in tracing a line of these significant ‘self’ paradigms within the Western evolution of the concept of the self, places contemporary views on this subject in a historical context and informs how the conceptual consequences of these have formed, affected and influenced the postmodern humanist understanding of the self experienced today. To this end, in the search for a model of the self that may have the potential to close the epistemic gap existing between the differing concepts of the self, part three investigates the model postulated by the contemporary Eastern philosopher, Nour Ali Elahi, which in considering the self as an ontological reality, puts a special emphasis on the bi-dimensionality of human beings. Finally, in part four, the thesis is concluded by drawing on the analysis of the aforementioned influential self-paradigms, whose concepts of the disengaged individualistic self, the sense-content illusory self and the drive-driven fragmented self, have contributed to the prevalent ambiguity of the notion of the self in terms of relationality, in terms of continuity in time, and in terms of depth. By contrast, Ostad Elahi’s holistic model of the self, as an integrated theory of the self constitutive of its psychological, ontological and metaphysical dimensions, is offered as providing an alternative underpinning for a form of education for ethical literacy that is conducive to the enhancement of one’s sense of dignity.

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 21, 2002 / Town & Country Hotel and Conference Center, San Diego, California / Embedded GIS in Intelligent Navigation System is a special information system. This paper puts forward several basic principles and constraints during design for Embedded GIS at first, and then analyzes the feature of embedded platform and the function of Intelligent Navigation System, and presents a realization scheme of Embedded GIS.

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between culture, affordance and proficiency. Further, to study the possibility of a cognitive gap between artists and the audience they design for, akin to the Designer-User gap in interaction design and user experience research. In order to contextualize the issue studied, relevant theories in ecological psychology, visual literacy, image interpretation and cognitive models are presented and discussed alongside contemporary industry issues that may have arisen from this type of cognitive gap. As artist and audience might have these vastly different interpretations of identical visual material, conveying or communicating specific design ideas or aesthetics may be compromised or lost in translation, negatively influencing visual communication. The study compared a set of individuals matching either the label of concept artist or target game audience on their unmediated reactions and mental heuristics when encountering a novel design from a familiar genre, using a method of concurrent verbalization. Results were discussed and compared to prevailing theories in cognition, user experience design and the presented research question. Said results indicate that there are distinct variations between how artists and audience apply their heuristics for unmediated design interpretation, although it also provides a few tentative suggestions as to a few methods in which said issue could be circumvented or surmounted.

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Research indicates that cultural mistrust can have negative impact on academic attitudes and outcomes for Black American students. However, few studies have specifically investigated the role that cultural mistrust has on student's academic self-concept, or perceptions of their academic abilities. Further, no study has explored to what degree student's perceptions of interpersonal relationships with faculty can impact the link between cultural mistrust and academic outcomes. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the impact of cultural mistrust in education and training and interpersonal relationships on academic self-concept in a population of undergraduate Black American students enrolled at a predominately white university. Secondarily, the study sought to examine whether aspects of student-professor interaction, specifically faculty approachability, caring attitude, and connection, mediate or moderate the effect of cultural mistrust on academic self-concept. Results of this study show that faculty approachability and caring attitude mediate the effect of the interpersonal relationships sub domain on academic self-concept. Student-professor interaction did not moderate the relationship between cultural mistrust and academic self-concept. Results support the need to facilitate and encourage positive student-faculty interactions with Black American university students. Perhaps mentoring initiatives could aim to foster positive interactions with students and promote the recruitment and retention efforts of African American faculty members. / text

<p>Successful concept decisions are crucial for product development organisations. Failure in theconcept decision-making process means costly rework, requiring resources that could havebeen spent on innovative work with new products instead. This licentiate thesis tackles theconcept decision-making process and how to improve it. The research presented here is thefirst part of a research project, with an action research approach, that will develop newsupporting working procedures for concept decision making and thereby contribute to moresuccessful products.Empirical studies were conducted in Swedish industrial practice, particularly focusing oneorganisation, and it was found that concept decisions are not made at a certain point in time.Instead, many decisions and activities, on several organisational levels, were adding up to theconcept decisions in the investigated organisations. The concept decision-making process wasfound to be a web of interconnected activities, with many decisions integrated and embedded in the process. Itwas also found that both formal and informal factors influence the concept decision-makingprocess and main factors were identified as: Project and product request, Supporting structures androutines, Individual competence and driving forces, Teamwork and company culture and Contextualcircumstances. These factors represent different perspectives, meaning on what level theyinfluence concept decision making: individual, team, project, organisation, and context, and in orderto create improvements in the concept decision-making process all levels have to beconsidered. The knowledge of the different perspectives has implications for howimprovements should be designed.Larger product developing companies do often have internally defined formal workingprocedures that prescribe how to develop products within the company. The thesis discusseshow the internal working procedures relate to academic theory and to practice. It wasconcluded that internal formal working procedures has not been discussed in a sufficient wayin earlier engineering design research. Furthermore, means for improving the concept decisionmakingprocess are discussed, and it was concluded, based on interviews with practitioners,that the strongest pragmatic means for improvement were developing mindset and applyingmethods. Mindset addresses the awareness, attitude and approach needed for management (andco-workers) working in early product development phases. Methods mainly addresses the needfor having relevant supporting working procedures in general and templates for evaluationalternative solutions in particular. Finally, recommendations for future design of a template forevaluation alternative solutions are presented.</p>

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Employee’s need satisfaction requires benefits or environmental conditions that their expectances and fulfill their needs. Evaluation system means that a personnel system which evaluates civil servants include a merit-based performance evaluation system that rewards good employees and punishes poor ones, open and fair competition in recruitment and promotion to assure the quality of government officials, and a system based on law that provides continuity and consistency for government policies. Motivational concept is a concept of work motivation incorporating theories of motivation-concept that have been proposed in the sociological and psychological literatures. Traditional theories of work motivation are reviewed and presented. How the motivational-concept influences behavior in organizations is explained and used to develop a theory of motivational sources. The purpose of this study is to measure satisfaction with evaluation system in the Taipei, Hong Kong and Shanghai City Police Department as a motivational concept. A 39-item survey questionnaire was developed to conduct a survey on satisfaction with evaluation systems in order to measure what kinds of motivation were more effective for police personnel management in the Taipei, Hong Kong and Shanghai City Police Department, and to get a comprehensive understanding of the motivational concept in the above mention Department. The conclusions of this study are presented as follows: 1. The Taipei City Police Department Side: （1）. For an “A” assessment the evaluation system should not restrict the proportion of employees to be assessed on this level to 75%. （2）. The current evaluation system should be in accordance with a fair reward-punishment system. （3）.The current reward-punishment imbalance is due to different positions and functions, there should be a limitation of reward as well as overtime pay. 2. The Hong Kong City Police Department Side: （1）. The majority of respondents think that the current evaluation system is fair, so the whole evaluation process satisfies them, and the current system of rewards and punishments is just and fair. （2）. Some issues, in evaluation system, are too abstract to be useful for and the opinions of evaluation should be assessed according to or refer to some incident and should not be based on the evaluator’s personal and subjective impressions. （3）. Except for rewards given to the first line of staffs (directly with people), proper awards also should be given to support and logistic employees. 3. The Shanghai City Police Department Side: （1）. Although the reward-punishment evaluation system exists in this evaluation system, it can’t be used for the function of removing a staff member who performs very badly. The main reason is that in China personal relationships in traditional society are beyond any similar system, which evaluated based on managerial power. （2）.The proportion of “excellent” grades where employee are to be assessed limited on this level 10%, and can not exceed at most 15 %. No matter if employees work performance is good or bad, they are forced to accept this quota; and actually have hurt those who work with enthusiasm. （3）. Formulate and perfect an incentive mechanism for the evaluation system, and research corresponding coordinative systems to offer systematic support for the reward-punishment system.

Emotional intelligence (EI) encompasses abilities (ability EI; AEI) and self-perceptions (trait EI; TEI) related to the expression, understanding, and management of emotions. Research on its developmental dynamics remains heavily weighted by the AEI perspective, whereas TEI has received virtually no attention in the developmental literature. This is a major oversight, as the two EI components are conceptually distinct and contribute independently to the prediction of important outcomes. Using multi-wave data from the Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth, this project examined rank-order stability (Study 1) and mean-level change (Study 2) in TEI over a 6-year period from late childhood (age 10-11) to adolescence (age 16-17). Longitudinal measurement invariance of the TEI assessment was also tested (Study 1). Longitudinal mean and covariance structures models (Study 1) and latent growth curve models (Study 2) were fitted to the data from 773 children (51% girls) who completed the Emotional Quotient Inventory–Youth Version Brief form at four biannual waves. Principles from the self-concept literature were used to outline an integrative theoretical framework within which the developmental dynamics of TEI could be studied and understood. Study 1 found that three of the four TEI domains could be measured consistently and reliably over time, and that individual differences in these domains became progressively more stable with age. Contrary to the maturity principle guiding the development of AEI, Study 2 found that mean-level changes in TEI followed a curvilinear trajectory characterizing the development of self-concepts: EI self-perceptions declined between late childhood and early adolescence and then increased later in adolescence. These findings provide, for the first time, important validity evidence for the TEI construct as developmentally distinct from AEI and developmentally similar to self-concept. From an applied standpoint, this implies that enhancing EI abilities alone may not necessarily result in concomitant increases in EI self-concepts, and vice versa. Instead, both AEI and TEI may need to be targeted to maximize the effectiveness of intervention efforts. From a theoretical standpoint, the conceptual link between TEI and self-concept theories suggests that other properties of self-concepts might also generalize to TEI – an important avenue for future research. / Thesis (Ph.D, Psychology) -- Queen's University, 2013-01-29 17:40:30.322