Thesis advisor: Yvette D. Kuiper / Crystallographic Preferred Orientations (CPO) are common in deformed rocks, and usually result from crystal plastic deformation by dislocation creep. Whether deformation mechanisms that occur at lower differential stress and lower temperature than dislocation creep, such as Dissolution-Precipitation Creep (DPC), may result in the development of a CPO is less certain. DPC, a process also known as pressure-solution creep or dissolution creep, has caused substantial removal and reprecipitation of quartz within the Purgatory Conglomerate of Rhode Island. The conglomerate is exposed within the southeastern region of the Pennsylvanian Narragansett basin and experienced folding during the Alleghanian orogeny. Strain within the southeastern portion of the Narragansett basin increases from west to east and is associated with a metamorphic gradient from very low grade greenschist facies in the west to the lower biotite zone in the east. Within the Pugatory Conglomerate DPC has led to the dissolution of quartz along cobble surfaces perpendicular to the shortening direction, and to be precipitated as overgrowths at the ends of the cobbles (strain shadows), parallel to the maximum extension direction. This offers a unique opportunity to study the effects of dissolution and precipitation separately, because the quartz grains within the cobbles experienced dissolution only, while precipitation occurred in the strain shadows. Cathodoluminescence (CL) analysis was conducted on regions within the strain shadow in order to determine what amount of the quartz was formed authigenically. The results suggest that quartz-rich areas of the strain shadow were comprised primarily of authigenic quartz and formed channels or wedges. Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD) analysis was used to test whether quartz dissolution processes within the cobbles and/or quartz precipitation within the strain shadows resulted in CPO development. Quartz grain c-axis orientations of various domains within the cobbles and strain shadows indicate that CPO patterns are absent in both domains of dissolution and of precipitation irrespective of the degree of strain or metamorphic grade. The existence of discrete mica selvages along the cobble margins suggests that quartz dissolution only occurred along the cobble surface and did not affect the grains, or result in a CPO, within the cobble's interior. Quartz precipitation within the strain shadows did not result in a CPO, probably because the strain shadows are truly localized regions of low strain with little to no differential stress, allowing quartz grain growth in random orientations. / Thesis (MS) — Boston College, 2010. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Geology and Geophysics.

Orientador: Otávio José de Oliveira / Banca: José Paulo Alves Fusco / Banca: Márcio Cardoso Machado / Resumo: O aumento cada vez mais acentuado da competitividade faz com que as empresas busquem formas de se manter no mercado. Esse objetivo muitas vezes é alcançado formando-se clusters industriais que fornecem vantagens competitivas, melhorias no fluxo de informações, cooperação, aprendizagem entre outros. Este trabalho tem por objetivo criar e validar uma proposta para o desenvolvimento de Círculos de Controle de Qualidade em clusters industriais para que os processos sejam melhorados. Desta forma realizou-se uma pesquisa bibliográfica para que os conceitos sobre o tema fossem entendidos e fixados, confeccionou-se a proposta composta por dois focos de atuação, um para o cluster e um para as empresas, de forma a desenvolver os Círculos de controle da qualidade em clusters industriais e realizou-se sua validação. Esta pesquisa é composta pelas seções, introdução, referencial teórico, proposta pré-validação, validação da proposta, proposta para o desenvolvimento de círculos de controle da qualidade em clusters industriais, conclusão, referências e apêndice. Após a realização de todas as modificações feitas com base na experiência dos respondentes, está adequada à realidade de um cluster industrial / Abstract: The indrease in competitiveness makes companies seek ways to stay in the market. This goal is often achieved by forming industrial clusters that provide competitive advantages, improvements in the flow of information, cooperation, learning, and more. This work aims to create and validate a proposition for the development of Quality Control Circles in clusters for industrial processes to be improved. Thus, we carried out a literatura search to understand the concepts and formulate the proposition that is composed of two focuses, first, on the cluster and second, on companies. This research is composed of the following sections: introdution, theoretical framework, proposition before validation, validation of the proposition, the proposition for the development of quality control circles in industrial clusters, conclusion, references, and appendix. After completion of all stages of this research, is was noted that the proposition is applicable and with subsequence modifications based on the experience of respondents it became adequate to the reality of an indutrial cluster / Mestre

Throughout the James Ranges and Gardiner Range the Arumbera Sandstone forms prominent strike ridges with distinctive dark reddish slopes and pale red to orange-white cliffs. Because of their lithologic and stratigraphic similarities, the names Eninta and ''Quandong" for these units should be suppressed in favor of the name of Arumbera Sandstone, which has precedence. The stratigraphic and lithologic differences observed between the Quandong Conglomerate in the type locality and the Arumbera Sandstone in the study area suggest that these units are not equivalent. Similarites with the Areyonga Formation suggest the Quandong Conglomerate could be part of the Areyonga Formation. Lithofacies la, ld, and 2b, and Unit 3 of the Arumbera and its equivalents are typically recessive arkoses, subarkose, and mudrocks. They are interpreted as nearshore-marine to coastal deltaic deposits which include intertonguing tidal-flat, tidal-channel, and beach sediments. Lithofacies 1b and 2a consist of cliff-forming arkoses, subarkoses, and lithic arkoses. Lithofacies 2c is also resistant, and consists of orthoconglomerates and conglomeratic sandstones. Lithofacies 1e is moderately resistant, and consists of paraconglomerates, conglomeratic sandstones, and mudrocks. It and lithofacies 2c contain pebbles and small cobbles of chert, quartzite, vein quartz, silicified ooids, and limestone, dolostone, shale, and sandstone. These four lithofacies are interpreted as braidplain and fluvial sheet sands. In the east-central part of the Amadeus Basin the Arumbera Sandstone probably was deposited in a coastal environment as a sequence of deltaic sediments that was dominated by fluvial processes. The Arumbera Sandstone appears to be the molasse derived from the Late Proterozoic and Early Cambrian Petermann Ranges orogeny. Source rocks include sedimentary, low- to middle-rank metamorphic, and plutonic granites. Grain mineralogy and weathering characteristics suggest a hot, semiarid climate during deposition of the Arumbera. The Arumbera Sandstone and Quandong Conglomerate contain fair to good porosity and permeability, and petrographic evidence shows mesogenetic generation of secondary porosity. Previous and present burial depths are adequate for the generation of petroleum. The presence of suitable underlying .source rocks, overlying salt of the Chandler for a seal, and stratigraphic and structural traps suggest a good potential for petroleum. Production of dry gas from the lower part of the Arumbera at Dingo field, north of Deep Well Homestead, confirms the petroleum potential of this formation.

近年來不少上市公司以交叉持股方式炒作或維持股價，而使公司因資金調度困難而爆發財務危機後，讓人不得不注意上市公司過度交叉持股的嚴重性。由於公司法對公司持有庫藏股仍有諸多的限制，集團企業為達其特定目的，大多以交叉持股的方式買賣股票。然而集團若過度的使用交叉持股這個高財務槓桿的方法，是會使整體集團處於高財務風險狀態，大大提高發生財務危機的可能。因此集團以交叉持股方式買賣股票，對集團整體股價會產生什麼樣的影響，便是本研究主要想瞭解的。以期能找出在什麼樣的情況下，集團以交叉持股買賣股票，對集團整體的股價會有最顯著的影響，也希望能從研究過程中提供相關的資訊與建議給有關單位參考。 本論文係以民國85年1月至87年12月，台灣集中市場78家上市公司共33個集團為研究對象，採用事件研究法市場模式，探討集團以交叉持股方式買賣股票對集團整體股價的影響。經實證結果得如下結論： 一、買進組部分在事件期有顯著的異常報酬，顯示集團以交叉持股方式買進集團的股票對股價具有一定程度的影響力，且此影響力為正的。而賣出組因樣本不足則無法做推論。 二、Beta值大於一的集團，其以交叉持股方式買進股票的效果比Beta值小於一的集團為佳。 三、集團以交叉持股買進集團股票，在多頭市場時較易推升股價；但在 空頭市場時要穩定股價，只有在事件發生月有顯著效果，之後則無。 四、若集團在事件發生月之後，仍有持續的買進集團股票，則事件期中 的異常報酬率會比無持續買進的有較高較顯著的異常報酬。 第壹章 緒 論 1 第一節 研究動機 1 第二節 研究問題 2 第三節 研究流程 3 第四節 研究架構 4 第貳章 集團企業之定義 5 第一節 集團企業相關文獻的定義 5 第二節 相關法令的定義及規範 11 第參章 研究設計與研究方法 13 第一節 研究範圍與期間 13 第二節 研究設計 18 第三節 統計檢定方法 21 第四節 研究限制 25 第肆章 實證結果與分析 26 第一節 市場模式適切性檢定 26 第二節 集團間以交叉持股方式買賣股票對集團整體股價的影響 32 第三節 Beta值不同的集團以交叉持股方式買進股票對集團整體股價 影響 36 第四節 在多頭與空頭市場集團以交叉持股方式買進股票對集團整體 股價影響 41 第五節 集團是否以交叉持股方式持續買進股票對集團整體股價影響 之比較 50 第伍章 結論與建議 54 第一節 結論 54 第二節 建議 56 參考文獻 58 一、英文部分 58 二、中文部分 60 附錄一 61 公司法關係企業專章 61

The new era of knowledge economic arrived. Knowledge has become the most important strategic asset of the firms. Utilize effective knowledge management to enhance the knowledge in the organization is a key issue for firms to compete in the 21st century. How to share the knowledge among the business units in conglomerate is also the main factor of enterprise¡¦s synergy. To establish a measuring tool for performance of knowledge transfer promotes the competence of the conglomerate richly. The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between the conglomerate¡¦s diversification strategies , control management system and performance of knowledge transfer. The index of the measuring tool also be established for performance of knowledge transfer in this study. The empirical results are as follows : 1. There is obviously influence between knowledge transfer performance and types of diversification strategy. 2. There is not influence between control management system and types of diversification strategy.

This dissertation explores the transformation of American financial organization and governance over the postwar period. Through a case study of Citigroup, it seeks to explain how and why the global financial services supermarket became the dominant form of business organization in American finance and society. My core claim is that generational change in the late 1950s and 1960s swept into power a group of Interwar generation elites bearing with them a concept for the large financial firm and a vision of market order whose roots traced back to the Gilded Age. The timing and pattern of organizational and institutional change was, however, contingent on battles won and lost over particular features of their institutional environment.

Typescript. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1988. / Bibliography: leaves [312]-332. / Photocopy. / Microfilm. / xi, 332 leaves, bound 29 cm

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 1993. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 259-273).

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