Thesis (M.S.)--Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 2000. / Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2715. Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 175-180) and abstract.

In this work some progressive object–oriented requirement definition methods were analyzed (ICONIX, Reggio, Scores). Rules and principles of these methods were generalized and comprehensive content of requirements model was presented. Requirements definition must define state and behavior of target information system independently of future design. Requirements model was proposed where use cases are presented as interfaces together with associated classes of problem domain, operations are specified with signatures, pre and post conditions wich must be written in formal language OCL. Model was described using UML class, sequence diagrams, state charts and OCL constraints and is illustrated with examples from case study.

Looking at defining factors of garment, means to look at garments that has the possibility to be reduced to a extent and would still be seen as a specific garment. So, which garments are we so familiar with, both visually and the meaning, to the extent that we only need a small amount of information in order to recognise and understand it? This work investigates defining factors in garments that would be enough to describe and recognise a certain type of garment. The aim of this work is to explore the use of details as a way to define a garment and to question our learnt knowledge and presumption of what we refer to as a certain type of garment. The work is built on the objectification of a garment and is explored through the methods of abstraction and reduction. The result from this investigation consists of physical examles and conclusions in regards to the approached methods and knowledge about archetypal garments. What is presentend in this thesis, is nine examples of how one could describe a garment. Not what is the right way, but an alternative of combinations and the use of details as a refernce to the original garment we have knowledge about.

Syftet med studien är att söka förståelse för hur svenska små och medelstora företag arbetar med CSR implementering på en utvecklingsmarknad och vilka problem och möjligheter de möter i arbetet med detta. / The aim with this thesis is to seek understanding on how Swedish small and medium enterprises work with CSR implementation in a developing market and what problems and opportunities they face in dealing with this.

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka hur några förskollärare ser på begreppet barn i behov av särskilt stöd och vilka barn som omfattas av begreppet enligt dem. De forskningsfrågor vi ställde var hur förskollärare definierar begreppet barn i behov av särskilt stöd, hur förskollärare gör bedömningen av vilka barn som är i behov av särskilt stöd samt hur förskollärare tolkar förskolans uppdrag när det gäller barn i behov av särskilt stöd. För att undersöka dessa frågor använde vi oss av kvalitativa intervjuer samt en fiktiv fallbeskrivning. Förskollärarna i vår studie såg begreppet som omfattande och det visade sig att det går att lägga många olika innebörder i begreppet. I vår studie fann vi även att begreppet kan ha olika innebörder även för en och samma förskollärare. I vårt resultat gick det att utläsa att förskollärarna ansåg att särskilt stöd är den kompetens de tar in utifrån då den inte finns på den enskilda förskolan.

The aim of this thesis is to formulate a better definition of religion for legal purposes than the formulation arrived at by the High Court of Australia in the 1983 decision of Church of the New Faith v Commissioner of Pay-roll Tax (Vic). In that case, known in Australia as the Scientology (or Church of the New Faith) case, two of five justices of the High Court of Australia considered belief in a supernatural Being, Thing or Principle to be an essential prerequisite for a belief system being a religion. Two other justices stated that if such belief were absent it was unlikely that one had a religion. There are major problems with the High Court’s formulation in the Scientology case. First, it does not accommodate a number of important belief systems that are generally regarded as being religious belief systems, even though they do not involve any notion of the supernatural in the sense in which that word is ordinarily understood. Secondly, the Court provided little or no guidance as to how one determines whether a particular belief system involves a supernatural view of reality. The guidance that was given is ill-conceived in any event. Thirdly, it is philosophically impossible to postulate a meaningful distinction between the “natural” and the supposedly “supernatural” in a way that would enable the courts and other decision makers to meaningfully apply the “test” enunciated by the Court. The thesis combines a phenomenological approach and the philosophical realism of the late Professor John Anderson with a view to eliciting those things that permit appreciation or recognition of a thing being “religious”. Ultimately, religion is seen to comprise an amalgam of faith-based ideas, beliefs, practices and activities (which include doctrine, dogma, teachings or principles to be accepted on faith and on authority, a set of sanctioned ideals and values in terms of expected ethical standards and behavior and moral obligations, and various experientially based forms, ceremonies, usages and techniques perceived to be of spiritual or transformative power) based upon faith in a Power, Presence, Being or Principle and which are directed towards a celebration of that which is perceived to be not only ultimate but also divine, holy or sacred, manifest in and supported by a body of persons (consisting of one or more faithxvii based communities) established to give practical expression to those ideas, beliefs, practices and activities. The new definition is tested against 3 very different belief systems, Taoism (Daoism), Marxism and Freemasonry.

Universiẗat, Diss.--St. Gallen, 2007. / Zsfassung in engl. Sprache.

Universiẗat, Diss.--Hamburg, 1998. / Literaturverz. S. 333-345.

Thesis (doctoral)--University of Tartu, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-176).

Teilw. zugl.: München, Techn. Universiẗat, Diss., 2008 u.d.T.: Voigt, Annette: Theorien synökologischer Einheiten.