The purpose of the study is to develop a project health check model to evaluate the status of projects within the coal mining industry. The model will be based on the Buttrick (2000) project health check model as described in his book “The Interactive Project Workout”. The model assesses the current “health” or status of a project. It looks at the full project environment and uses a set of question results in an assessment of the overall risk associated with the project. The model evaluates seven key project success factors which include: 1. Project Plan 5. Expertise 2. Resources 6. Clear Specification 3. Ownership 7. Top Level Support 4. Justifiable Case The model fulfils two roles: • As a checklist, and • As a tool to indicate where a project manager’s efforts should be directed. This study will give an overview of the coal mining industry and the way projects are being evaluated and prioritised. The Buttrick (2000) project health check model will be assessed and adapted to evaluate projects within the coal mining industry. The “new / adapted” model will be applied to the Douglas / Middelburg Optimisation (DMO) to evaluate the health status of the project which is currently at the end of definition (feasibility) stage within BHP Billiton Energy Coal South Africa. The results obtained from the new health check model showed that the DMO project was in a healthy state with a project health check score of 47.33. It could 4 thus be concluded that the DMO project is ready to move in to the execution phase of the BHP Billiton capital investment process. The results obtained from the project team member participants were split into management perception and team members’ perception. The overall health of the DMO project between the two parties gave similar results with the team members score of 43.76 being slightly lower than the management health score of 45.42. The only major difference was observed on the “Communication” project evaluation criteria where the management perspective on the communication effectiveness was higher than that of the project team members.

ABSTRACT   INSTITUTION:                                        Institutionen för pedagogik                                                                 Avdelningen för bild                                                                Växjö Universitet ADRESS:                                               351 95 Växjö TELEFON:                                              0470 - 70 80 00 HANDLEDARE:                                      Margareta Wallin-Wictorin TITEL:                                                     Konst och verklighet? – En undersökning                                            av den samtida konstutställningen Reality Check. ENGELSK TITEL:                                    Art and Reality? – A study of       the contemporary art exhibition Reality Check. FÖRFATTARE:                                       Nina Wennberg ADRESS:                                                Hertered, Ekebo 182                                                                 310 38 Simlångsdalen TELEFON:                                              0707-124957 TYP AV UPPSATS:                                 C-uppsats VENTILERINGSTERMIN:                       Ht 2008.   I uppsatsen behandlas den samtida konstutställningen Reality Check och dess tema – konst och verklighet. Fokus läggs på att undersöka hur man arbetat kring tema och hur man gjort urvalet av konstnärer utifrån det. I uppsatsen undersöks även hur man arbetat med konstpedagogik för att nå ut till sin publik och hur man lyckats med detta. Diskussioner förs kring teorier om verklighet och huruvida det går att återspegla verkligheten genom konst.   Keywords: samtidskonst, verklighet, Reality Check, konstpedagogik.

This study is aim to develop and validate the Creative Life Style Check List by analysis of the literature scale and integration expert opinions. This scale for the self-report scale, a total of 28 questions, uses Likert five-point scale scoring. There were four subscale, ¡§wildly life experiences ¡§, ¡§imagination¡¨, ¡§new creation and expression¡¨, and ¡§openness mind¡¨. Purposive sampling method to extract the Sun Yat-sen University, Ministry of students as the study sample, the pre-pilot scale a total of 304 samples, a total of 983 formal scale samples. The MPCM analysis by the Rasch model is to examine the scale of reliability and validity. Content validity Infit MNSQ is between 0.75 ~ 1.3logits, each subscale internal consistency from .831 to .893. Scale internal consistency reliability was .93. Construct validity of the comparison of PCM and MPCM that estimated residuals of MPCM smaller than PCM. That means four-dimensions model more fit than one-dimension model. The correlation between each subscale is in the range of 0.684 ~ 0.861. The validity generalization, the scale of the boys and girls difficulty estimate differences in the range of 0.000 to 0.198, on behalf of this scale is no gender differential item functioning (DIF). Participants separated reliability coefficient of 0.844 to 0.900 that means this scale can stability measure the location of participants of the creativity construct. Difficulty estimated values of each subscale in the formal questionnaire and the pre-test scale ranged from .815 to .944 is high correlation. And p <0.05 show the scale has cross-sample stability.

Today, with so many developed new communication technology, it is indispensible to modern people absorbing and searching information through the Internet. By both receiving and releasing news, it is getting more easier to us sharing ideas, exchanging information, having more interactions and maintaining closer relationship nowadays. Based on such situation, the relationship and trust among people would sometimes cause massive influence than mass communication media. luence we have is more than mass media. The service of ¡§Facebook Places¡¨ has been creating a massive trend to millions of users to leave a message or upload a photo by ¡§check-in¡¨ via Facebook recently no matter where, when, what or with who. And such situation has plenty of similarities with the ¡§Word of Mouth¡¨ concept which we have learned before. Based on the Word of Mouth theory, the aim of the research is to discuss if the effect of ¡§Word of Mouth¡¨ and the consumer behavior would be influenced by Facebook ¡¨check-in¡¨ service. The research is focusing on 300 Facebook users ( no matter one who have tried the ¡§check-in¡¨ service before or not) through questionnaires by paper and online. In conclude, it is related between the effect of ¡§Word of Mouth¡¨ and Facebook ¡§check-in¡¨ service, because most users would have much concerns on these places or stores appearing on Facebook via ¡§check-in¡¨ service, and would have high willingness to visit them since their friends or families have ¡§check-in¡¨ before.

<h1>ABSTRACT</h1><p> </p><p>INSTITUTION:                                        Institutionen för pedagogik</p><p>                                                                Avdelningen för bild</p><p>                                                               Växjö Universitet</p><p>ADRESS:                                               351 95 Växjö</p><p>TELEFON:                                              0470 - 70 80 00</p><p>HANDLEDARE:                                      Margareta Wallin-Wictorin</p><p>TITEL:                                                     Konst och verklighet? – En undersökning                                            av den samtida konstutställningen <em>Reality Check.</em></p><p>ENGELSK TITEL:                                    Art and Reality? – A study of</p><p>      the contemporary art exhibition <em>Reality Check.</em></p><p>FÖRFATTARE:                                       Nina Wennberg</p><p>ADRESS:                                                Hertered, Ekebo 182</p><p>                                                                310 38 Simlångsdalen</p><p>TELEFON:                                              0707-124957</p><p>TYP AV UPPSATS:                                 C-uppsats</p><p>VENTILERINGSTERMIN:                       Ht 2008.</p><p> </p><p>I uppsatsen behandlas den samtida konstutställningen <em>Reality Check</em> och dess tema – konst och verklighet. Fokus läggs på att undersöka hur man arbetat kring tema och hur man gjort urvalet av konstnärer utifrån det. I uppsatsen undersöks även hur man arbetat med konstpedagogik för att nå ut till sin publik och hur man lyckats med detta. Diskussioner förs kring teorier om verklighet och huruvida det går att återspegla verkligheten genom konst.</p><p> </p><p>Keywords: <em>samtidskonst, verklighet, Reality Check, konstpedagogik. </em></p>

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The use of consumer credit background checks in employee selection has been increasing and, in recent years, has been the topic of heated debate. Supporters and opponents contest the benefits and consequences of the use of credit background checks for personnel selection, with arguments on both sides predominantly based on anecdotal evidence; empirical research is missing from the debate. The lack of research to support these arguments is concerning due to the historical, evidence-based, relationship between employee selection and organizational justice. Job applicants pursue employment to fulfill economic and socio-economic needs and expect fair processes and outcomes. Imbalances in the input-to-output ratio have been suggested to result in behavioral outcomes intent to restore balance. Two experimental studies examined justice-related consequences of the use of ECCs in personnel selection. Study 1 examined potential applicants' perceptions of organizational justice as well as their engagement in both pro-social (organizational citizenship behaviors-OCB) and anti-social (counterproductive workplace behavior-CWB) behavior as a result of failing a job selection hurdle on the basis of a poor ECC outcome (in comparison to a standard personnel selection criteria- job qualifications and work experience). A sample of adults (N = 171) was recruited from Amazon MTurk to ostensibly pilot test an online employee selection battery. They were randomly assigned to either pass both the ECC and Job Qualifications/Experience tests or to fail one or the other (thus being dropped from further consideration). Applicants denied employment based on their consumer credit experienced significantly lower distributive and procedural justice. They were also more likely than those denied employment on the basis of qualifications and experience and those passing both assessments to engage in a CWB. There were no effects on OCB. The effect of failing on the basis of ECC on CWB engagement was mediated by justice perceptions. Study 2 examined how applicants with weak credit, in comparison to applicants with weak qualifications/experience are perceived by raters. Study 2 also examined the potential for disparate treatment against minority applicants on the basis of ECCs - an issue of distributive justice. A similar sample of (N = 155) working adults recruited from Amazon MTurk were asked to make personnel selection judgments of applicants who varied by type of Applicant Credential (weak consumer credit history but strong job qualifications and experience; or weak job qualifications and experience but strong consumer credit history) and race (White/Black). Type of Applicant Credential significantly affected employability ratings such that those with weak qualifications and experience but strong credit were rated as less employable than those with strong qualifications/experience but weak credit. Also, applicants with weak credit (but strong qualifications/experience) were perceived as more likely to exhibit behavioral indicators of fraud than applicants with weak qualifications/experience (but strong credit). Race of the applicant did not moderate these effects. These studies provide evidence of both individual, and organizational, level outcomes associated with the use of ECCs as well as potential retaliatory behavior (CWB) directed at the organization from applicants denied employment based on credit. However, the findings also suggest that ECCs are not prone to race discrimination effects. The findings fill a necessary gap in the research literature by providing empirical evidence directly related to the use of consumer credit in selection.

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This master’s thesis is made to increase the understanding of the dynamic characteristics of a typical large swing check valve used in a system that transports pressurized water to a reactor tank.3D FSI-simulations are performed for a number of transients in order to study the dynamic characteristics their dependence of the deceleration rate. The purpose is to find information about the dynamics that could be used in a future improvement of a 1D-model.Steady state simulations are performed for angles in the whole spectrum. Seven transient FSI-simulations with different constantly decelerating flows from 630 kg/s2 (6.7 m/s2) to 40 320 kg/s2 (430 m/s2) have been performed. The pressure on the disc caused by the hydraulic torque is integrated and the corresponding torque contribution, together with the weight torque, is used in the second law of motion to calculate the movement of the disc throughout the transients.Steady state simulations yield the pressure drop over the valve, which could be compared with field measurements in order to validate the CFD-simulations. Comparison of the pressure distribution on the disc for the steady state and transient simulations shows the importance of taking the disc angular velocity into account when modelling in 1D. Correlations between the angle, angular velocity, torque and mass flow are obtained from the transient FSI-simulations. Torque coefficients according to (Li &amp; Liou, Vol. 125) are also brought out from the simulated transients, but in order to create a model in line with this approach further simulations have to be performed. A prediction of the pressure rise that occurs when a swing check valve closes in backward flow according to the Joukowsky equation is brought out and gives an idea of the loadings that the system has to be able to handle.

More than 20,000 primary- and secondary-level schools, which represent 20% of all schools in the United States, are implementing school-wide positive behavior supports (SWPBS) to enhance socially desirable behavior and promote a decline of problematic behavior among students. The overall efficacy of the 3-tier SWPBS framework is well documented. However, a paucity of empirical research addresses the use of check in/check out (CICO), a Tier 2 intervention, for youth who present as quiet and withdrawn, and who are at risk of academic and social disengagement. Accordingly, this quasi-experimental, nonequivalent groups study assessed the overall effectiveness of CICO and considered the differential effects of conducting a functional behavior assessment (FBA) at the secondary level of SWPBS. Twelve students from 1 middle school formed the convenience sample. Analysis of covariance repeated across time, with the preintervention scores being the covariate, was used to assess between group differences in the students' internalizing behaviors on the Behavior Assessment System for Children-Second Edition (BASC-2) Self-Report, teachers' BASC-2 ratings of adaptive skills, and office discipline referrals. Paired sample t tests were conducted to assess within-group effects. Findings indicate that CICO was an effective intervention for students presenting with a pattern of internalizing behaviors. For participants in the experimental group, a significant effect was found on the functional communication scale. Social change implications include educators having a better understanding of how Tier 2 interventions can be enhanced to meet diverse needs and that inclusion of youth's self-reports is needed when determining effects of supports.