Approved for public release, distribution is unlimited / alities. The extensible Markup Language (XML) is used for data storage and message exchange, Extensible 3D (X3D) Graphics for visualization and XML Schema-based Binary Compression (XSBC) for data compression. The AUV Workbench provides an intuitive cross-platform-capable tool with extensibility to provide for future enhancements such as agent-based control, asynchronous reporting and communication, loss-free message compression and built-in support for mission data archiving. This thesis also investigates the Jabber instant messaging protocol, showing its suitability for text and file messaging in a tactical environment. Exemplars show that the XML backbone of this open-source technology can be leveraged to enable both human and agent messaging with improvements over current systems. Integrated Jabber instant messaging support makes the NPS AUV Workbench the first custom application supporting XML Tactical Chat (XTC). Results demonstrate that the AUV Workbench provides a capable testbed for diverse AUV technologies, assisting in the development of traditional single-vehicle operations and agent-based multiple-vehicle methodologies. The flexible design of the Workbench further encourages integration of new extensions to serve operational needs. Exemplars demonstrate how in-mission and post-mission event monitoring by human operators can be achieved via simple web page, standard clients or custom instant messaging client. Finally, the AUV Workbench's potential as a tool in the development of multiple-AUV tactics and doctrine is discussed. / Civilian, Singapore Defence Science and Technology Agency

半導體產業自 1950/1960 年代創始以來, 即以高度垂直整合的型式存在. 電路設計, 製程技術開發, 晶圓製造, CP測試, 封裝, 以及 FT測試 都是在同一公司完成. 至今日為止, 雖然仍然有不少的高度垂直整合的半導體公司存在, 許多的半導體公司已開始轉向為較低度垂直整合的型式存在. 在現代的產業術語中, 這些不同的產業單位被稱為整合元件廠 (IDM), 輕晶圓廠公司 (Fab-lite), 無晶圓廠公司(fab-less), 晶圓代工(wafer foundry), 外包封裝測試公司 (OSAT), 等等. 半導體產業自高度整合的IDM模式走向設計與製造分離的商業模式是一個許多人有興趣探討的課題. 其中一項很明顯的因素就是半導體製程開發及產能建置所需的龐大資金所造就出的專業晶圓代工模式. 但是,當專業晶圓代工模式帶入大量的經濟效益的同時, 眾多的公司在半導體產業中跨公司的交易成本亦大量增加. 在本論文中, 作者試圖以個案分析的方法, 探討半導體產業中一家專業晶圓代工公司 (A 公司) 如何使用協同電子商務來降低與客戶之間的交易成本. Coase and Williamson為主所發展出的交易成本經濟學 (Transaction Cost Economics, TCE)為本論文提供了一個良好的理論架構. 這些專精不同的半導體公司(Firms)在半導體產業中(Market)交易(Transact). 當面對不同程度的交易障礙時, 都會努力使這些障礙降低. 本論文之目標是以 Coase/William的TCE為架構, 定性分析出晶圓代工產業的協同電子商務在降低交易成本的效益. 在針對Ａ公司的個案研究中，研究結果指出, 協同電子商務在降低監督成本上是相當顯著的. 其次為搜尋成本及訂約成本的降低. 效益較不顯著的則為違約成本的降低. / The Semiconductor Industry started out in the 1950/1960 time frame, in the form of highly vertical integration. Circuit design, process technology development, wafer manufacturing, circuit probe operations, assembly manufacturing and final testing operations were all performed within a company. Although vertically integrated semiconductor companies still have strong presence in today’s industry, many others have turned much less vertically integrated. In semiconductor industry’s jargons, these various entities are: IDMs (Integrated Device Manufacturers), Fab-lite, Fabless, wafer foundries, OSATs (Out Sourced Assembly and Test), etc… This phenomenon of the semiconductor industry going from being highly integrated towards being highly disintegrated is of interest to many. One of the obvious driving forces is the emergence of the wafer foundry segment in the industry due to the heavy investment in the process technology development and the manufacturing capacity build-up. Given the need for the tight collaboration among various semiconductor industry functions, this disintegration undoubtedly imposed much inter-company collaboration barrier along the value chain. In this paper, the study focuses on how a company (“Company A”) in the wafer foundry segment uses collaborative commerce to provide an integration platform for its trading partners to reduce the barrier of conducting business with each other. Transaction Cost Economy (TCE), a term coined by Coase and Williamson, provided an excellent research framework for this case. The barrier existing in these interdependent semiconductor companies along the value change can be viewed as “firms” in the “market”, while facing the significant barrier (transaction costs), looking for ways to maximize the profits for individual firms, and hopefully for the whole value chain as well. In short, this paper analyzes the qualitative effect of the collaborative commerce in a semiconductor foundry company in reducing the inter-company transaction cost within the Coase and Williamson TCE framework. Based on the case study of company A, the results indicate that Collaborative Commerce has significant impact on monitoring cost reduction. It also helps reduce the cost of searching and contracting. On the enforcement cost reduction, Collaborative Commerce plays a relatively weaker role. Key Words: Transaction Cost, Collaborative Commerce, Semiconductor, Foundry, Integration, Dis-integration

Background Recently, Taiwan has been faced with the migration of numbers of women from Southeast Asian (SEA) countries. It was estimated that the aggregate number of SEA wives in Taiwan was more than 131,000 in 2007 (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2006).These women are often colloquially called, “foreign brides” or “alien brides”; most of them are seen as commodities of the marriage trade, whose marriages are arranged by marriage brokers. Some women can be regarded as being sold for profit by their families. These young Vietnamese immigrant women come to Taiwan alone, often with a single suitcase, and are culturally and geographically distinct from Taiwanese peoples; the changes in culture, interpersonal relationships, personal roles, language, value systems and attitudes exert many negative impacts on their health, so greater levels of acculturation stress can be expected. This particular group of immigrant women are highly susceptible and vulnerable to health problems, due to language barriers, cultural conflicts, social and interpersonal isolation, and lack of support systems. The aims of this study were to examine the relationships between acculturation and immigrantspecific distress and health outcomes among Vietnamese transnational married women in Taiwan. This study focuses on Vietnamese intermarriage immigrants, the largest immigrant group in the period from1994 through to 2007. Methodology The quantitative study was divided into two phases: the first was a pilot study and the second the main study. This study was conducted in a communitybased health centre in the south of Taiwan, targeting Taiwanese households with Vietnamese wives, including the Tanam, Kaohsiung, and Pentong areas. This involved convenience sampling with participants drawn from registration records at the Public Health Centre of Kaohsiung and used the snowball technique to recruit 213 participants. The instruments included the following measures: (1) Socio-demographic information (2) Acculturation Scale (3) Acculturative Distress Scale, and (4) HRQOL. Questions related to immigrant women’s acculturation level and health status were modified. Quantitative data was coded and entered into the SPSS and SAS program for statistical analysis. The data analysis process involved descriptive, bivariate, multivariate multiple regression, and classification and regression trees (CART). Results Six hypotheses of this study were validated. Demographic data was presented and it revealed that there are statically significant differences between levels of acculturation and years of residency in Taiwan, number of children, marital status, education, religion of spouse, employment status of spouse and Chinese ethnic background by Pearson correlation and Kendall’s Tau-b or Spearman test. The correlations of daily activity, language usage, social interaction, ethnic identity, and total of acculturation score with DI tend to be negatively significant. In addition, the result of the one-way ANOVA supported the hypothesis that the different types of acculturation had a differential effect on immigrant distress. The marginalized group showed a greater immigrant distresses in comparison with the integrated group. Furthermore, the comparison t-test revealed that the Vietnamese immigrant women showed a lower score than Taiwanese women in HRQOL. The result showed higher acculturative stress associated with lower score of HRQOL on bodily pain, vitality, social functioning, mental health, and mental component summary. The CART procedure to the conclusion that the predictive variables for the physical component of the SF-36 (PCS) were: alienation, occupation, loss, language, and discrimination (predicted 28.8% of the total variance explained). The predictive variables for the mental component of the SF-36 (MCS) were: alienation, occupation, loss, language, and novelty (predicted 28.4% of the total variance explained). Conclusion As these Vietnamese immigrant women become part of Taiwanese communities and society, the need becomes apparent to understand how they acculturate to Taiwan and to the health status they acquire. The findings have implications for nursing practice, research, and will assist the Taiwanese government to formulate appropriate immigrant health policies for these SEA immigrant women. Finally, the application of this research will positively contribute to the health and well being of thousands of immigrant women and their families.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T20:05:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DissLEBS.pdf: 1626270 bytes, checksum: c18112f89ed0a1eea09a198885cf2c2c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-06-14 / Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos / Abstract In this dissertation we will study how extended Poisson process can be applied to construct discrete probabilistic models. An Extended Poisson Process is a continuous time stochastic process with the state space being the natural numbers, it is obtained as a generalization of homogeneous Poisson process where transition rates depend on the current state of the process. From its transition rates and Chapman-Kolmogorov di¤erential equations, we can determine the probability distribution at any …xed time of the process. Conversely, given any probability distribution on the natural numbers, it is possible to determine uniquely a sequence of transition rates of an extended Poisson process such that, for some instant, the unidimensional probability distribution coincides with the provided probability distribution. Therefore, we can conclude that extended Poisson process is as a very ‡exible framework on the analysis of discrete data, since it generalizes all probabilistic discrete models. We will present transition rates of extended Poisson process which generate Poisson, Binomial and Negative Binomial distributions and determine maximum likelihood estima- tors, con…dence intervals, and hypothesis tests for parameters of the proposed models. We will also perform a bayesian analysis of such models with informative and noninformative prioris, presenting posteriori summaries and comparing these results to those obtained by means of classic inference. / Nesta dissertação veremos como o proceso de Poisson estendido pode ser aplicado à construção de modelos probabilísticos discretos. Um processo de Poisson estendido é um processo estocástico a tempo contínuo com espaço de estados igual ao conjunto dos números naturais, obtido a partir de uma generalização do processo de Poisson homogê- neo onde as taxas de transição dependem do estado atual do processo. A partir das taxas de transição e das equações diferenciais de Chapman-Kolmogorov pode-se determinar a distribuição de probabilidades para qualquer tempo …xado do processo. Reciprocamente, dada qualquer distribuição de probabilidades sobre o conjunto dos números naturais é pos- sível determinar, de maneira única, uma seqüência de taxas de transição de um processo de Poisson estendido tal que, para algum instante, a distribução unidimensional do processo coincide com a dada distribuição de probabilidades. Portanto, o processo de Poisson es- tendido se apresenta como uma ferramenta bastante ‡exível na análise de dados discretos, pois generaliza todos os modelos probabilísticos discretos. Apresentaremos as taxas de transição dos processos de Poisson estendido que ori- ginam as distribuições de Poisson, Binomial e Binomial Negativa e determinaremos os estimadores de máxima verossimilhança, intervalos de con…ança e testes de hipóteses dos parâmetros dos modelos propostos. Faremos também uma análise bayesiana destes mod- elos com prioris informativas e não informativas, apresentando os resumos a posteriori e comparando estes resultados com aqueles obtidos via inferência clássica.

The purpose of this degree project is to study a work evaluation project in a municipality, on the basis of key participants. The municipality is the employer, per-forming the workplace project and the chief objective is to reach gender equality between the employees. Equal pay for equal work. Through work evaluation is it pos-sible to find out which of a lot of different jobs, which have equal requirements. The jobs, which have equal requirements, should have equal pay. According to Swedish law, all employers need to analyse and survey their salary/wage distribution, to identify and remedy sexual discrimination concerning that area. One way to do that is to do a work evaluation and to study the result. Studying the result was what the municipality was doing, when got in contact with it. My focus is to find out what the central issues, problems and hinders are, or can occur when an employer is trying to follow the law. This study is based on qualitative research. The empirical material (interviews and ob-servations) from key participants, who took part in the project in the municipality, is presented through excerpts. They speak about different problems and other aspects they have experienced during the work process with the result from the evaluation project. The material is then analysed in the light of different theories. The theories treat areas as gender and organisation. For example is not al of the involved unions of the same opinion about the project. Money is one aspect that the key persons talk about and the circumstances around how to reach the goals of the project is another subject. The result of the study has shown that it could be useful within the project to have greater concern about the system of gender and to stronger point out the gains of ex-tended gender equality. Thou a lot of money are needed if equal pay for equal work should be reached, the gain in efficiency from the employed might compensate that.

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The proposition is that the dialectical relationship between the norm and the life, through work and social-cultural practices, promotes landslidings of meaning both in form and content of the urban spaces, thus, provoking a new (Dis)order in these cities. The term “not welcomed subjects” was coined by the author of this paper on her master’s degree dis sertation as a way of referring to the capital Goiânia builders, once that, despite these workers represented a bigger contingent on the city building process, there wasn’t even a reserved space for them on the original planning. This fact allowed the relationship assessment of what was once imputed to the workers, the time elapsed on the city building wasn’t counted as well as the right to live over the edifications they crafted. This phenomenon, that has also happened in the city building of Brasília and Palmas, goes on until today, revealing that the not welcomed subjects on cities planned spaces are not only the builders. Another huge contingent of workers is added to the “not welcomed” group forced out of their homes for numerous reasons like, expelling from the countryside, lack of work, housing and better life perspective, etc., these individuals migrated to Goiânia, Palmas and Brasília hoping to find better living conditions. Another important assessment is that these cities were built and managed wit hin the bounds of capitalist development. They are cities initially planned, as claimed by some authors and researchers, by and for the capital. However, despite agreeing with the socio -spatial analysis that come from these precepts and also understanding the hegemonic financier and market driven logic through the capital-cities urban spaces configuration, we believe that they are insufficient to comprehend the development of these cities urban areas, once that, the final product of the capital-work relationship is privileged, while the not welcomed subjects’ struggles for surviving and fixing themselves in the new city is ignored. Therefore, we add to the relationships studied here the symbolic, political and social meanings. There is a spatial living that cannot be ignored; it’s within it that the not welcomed subjects’ movement against the logic of hegemonic capital is acknowledged. It’s over this space that the dialectical contradictions are revealed: the dialectic between the conceived and perceived spac e and the lived one; between the historical time and the social one; between alienation and creation; between frustration and possibility; between domination and insurgency; demonstrating that human beings cannot be totally alienated, through struggles, creations, changes, they resist and (re) exist. When doing it, they break the established order and portray a new ( Dis)order, which, in one way or another, will be materialized in the urban areas and alter its form and contend. And it’s exactly within this movement that a transforming praxis can be glimpsed. / O objetivo principal dessa tese é analisar o processo de espacialização dos sujeitos não desejados nas cidades-capitais planejadas do Cerrado: Goiânia, Brasília e Palmas. A proposição é que a relação dialética entre a norma e vida, por meio do trabalho e das práticas socioculturais, promove deslizamentos de sentidos nas formas e nos conteúdos dos espaços urbanos provocando, assim, uma nova (Des)ordem nestas cidades. O termo 'sujeitos não desejados' foi cunhado pela autora em sua dissertação de mestrado para referir -se aos trabalhadores construtores da cidade de Goiânia, uma vez que, apesar de estes trabalhadores representarem o maior contingente envolvido no processo de construção de Goiânia, não havia sequer um espaço a eles reservados no plano original. Tal fato levou à constatação sobre a relação que se tentou imputar entre a temporalidade da construção destas cidades e o direito destes operários de nelas residirem, ou melhor, o direito de usufruírem de suas obras nas/das cidades que contribuíram para edificar. Este fenômeno, que também aconteceu no processo de construção de Brasília e Palmas, perdura até os dias de hoje, revelando, assim, que os sujeitos não desejados nos espaços planejados destas cidades hoje não são apenas os trabalhadores construtores. Acrescenta-se a este grupo um enorme contingente de trabalhadores que impulsionados por diversos fatores, como a expulsão do campo, a falta de trabalho, de moradia e de perspectiva de vida digna em suas cidades etc., migram para Goiânia, Palmas e Brasília na “esperança” da possibilidade da perspectiva de trabalho e de melhores condições de vida. Outra constatação importante é que estas cidades foram construídas e são geridas dentro da lógica do modo de produção capitalista. São cidades inicialmente planejadas, como anunciam alguns autores e pesquisadores, pelo e para o capital. Todavia, apesar de comungar com as análises socioespaciais que partem destes preceitos e compreender a hegemonia desta lógica financista e mercadológica no processo de configuração dos espaços urbanos, entendemos que eles são insuficientes para compreender a formação dos espaços urbanos dessas cidades-capitais, uma vez que ao privilegiar o produto final da relação capital-trabalho, ignoram a luta dos sujeitos não desejados para se fixarem nesta cidade. Deste modo é que acrescentamos as relações e os seus significados simbólicos, políticos e sociais. Há um espaço vivido que não pode ser desconsiderado. É nele que se percebe o movimento dos sujeitos não desejados contra a lógica hegemônica do capital. É nele que as contradições, consequentemente, a dialética, entre o espaço concebido, o espaço percebido e o espaço vivido; entre o tempo histórico e o tempo social, econômico; entre alienação e criação; entre frustração e possibilidade; entre dominação e insurgência irão revelar -se e demonstrar que o ser humano não é passível de alienação total. Ele, o ser humano, luta, cria, modifica, enfim, resiste e (Re)Existe. Ao fazer isso, rompe a ordem estabelecida e cria uma nova ( Des)ordem, (des)ordem esta que, de uma forma ou de outra, irá materializar -se nos espaços urbanos e alterar a sua forma e o seu conteúdo. É exatamente neste movimento que se pode vis lumbrar a possibilidade da práxis transformadora.

In this thesis, two studies of the diffractive phenomena in the electron proton collisions with the H1 detector at HERA are presented.<p>The first is the study of the inclusive elastic diffractive events $ep \ / Doctorat en Sciences / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

This study is about information and materiality, more specifically how the different material manifestations of information affects the archivists in the Swedish Court archives. The primary focus is on how materiality affects archivists work with physical and digital information and how materiality affects the archivists themselves. This study uses interviews with archivists within the Swedish court archives as its primary source for analysis. By using primarily Actor-Network Theory and Discourse-theory alongside other scientific texts this study has shown in what ways materiality affects the daily work of archivists and their self-image. This study is relevant in many ways but primarily because there is little to none research of this kind that focuses on the court archives and as a result of that this study is relevant in the way it illustrates the importance and possibilities court archives for a dedicated scholar within archival science and other areas of information science. The results are as follows: materiality have many different ways of affecting the archivists and it does so on many different levels. With the focus on digital and physical information this study has come to the conclusion that materiality is an important aspect that cannot be overlooked. It affects how archivists work, how they think and how they practically handle physical and digital information.

Vibraphone performance continues to be an expanding field of music. Earliest accounts of the presence of the vibraphone and vibraphone players can be found in American Vaudeville from the early 1900s; then found shortly thereafter in jazz bands as early as the 1930s, and on the classical concert stage beginning in 1949. Three Pieces for Vibraphone, Opus 27, composed by James Beale in 1959, is the first solo concert piece written exclusively for the instrument. Since 1959, there have been over 690 pieces written for solo concert vibraphone, which stands as evidence of the popularity of both the instrument and the genre of solo concert literature. Christopher Deane has contributed to solo vibraphone repertoire with works that are regarded as staples in the genre. Deane's compositions for vibraphone consistently expand the technical and musical potential of the instrument. Performance of Deane's vibraphone works requires a performer to utilize grips and specific performance techniques that are departures from standard performance practices. Many of the performance techniques needed to successfully execute these pieces are not routinely found in either percussion pedagogy courses or performance ensemble situations. As a result, most percussionists are not familiar with these techniques and will require additional assistance, instruction, or demonstrations. The impetus of this document is to present explanations and solutions for performance areas that require extended performance techniques, to offer recommendations on the creation, choosing, and manipulating of special implements, and to propose varied choices related to artistic interpretation of three of Deane's vibraphone pieces: Mourning Dove Sonnet (1983), The Apocryphal Still Life (1996), and Dis Qui Etude (2004).

Mit den konstituierungsbezogenen Rechtsbehelfen behandelt die Arbeit den Aspekt personeller Konfliktsituationen eines schiedsrichterlichen Verfahrens nach der ZPO. Es geht insbesondere um die Fragen, wie Schiedsrichter bei unterbliebener Mitwirkung einer Partei bestellt werden, auf welchem Weg eine Verfahrenspartei einen Schiedsrichter ablehnen oder dessen Amt sonst beenden kann und wie gegen einen Schiedsspruch vorzugehen ist, wenn die Konstituierung nicht ordnungsgemäß verlief. Definiert und systematisiert werden die Grundsätze und Begriffe der Konstituierung (Kapitel 1 und 2) sowie die Konstituierungshindernisse und Kriterien für die Bestellung von Schiedsrichtern (Kapitel 3 und 4). Im Detail und mit Blick auf die Praxis folgt die Erörterung aller konstituierungsbezogener Rechtsbehelfe (Kapitel 5 bis 8): Während des schiedsrichterlichen Verfahrens handelt es sich dabei um die Verfahren der Ersetzung von Schiedsrichtern (§ 1034 ZPO), der Ersatzbestellung von Schiedsrichtern (§ 1035 ZPO) und der Nachbestellung (§ 1039 ZPO), der Ablehnung von Schiedsrichtern (§ 1037 ZPO) und der Beendigung des Schiedsrichteramts (§ 1038 ZPO). Abschließend wird untersucht, wie Fehler der Konstituierung in den Verfahren nach dem Schiedsspruch geltend zu machen sind, also im Aufhebungsverfahren (§ 1059 ZPO) und im Vollstreckbarerklärungs- oder Anerkennungsverfahren (§§ 1060 f. ZPO). Ausgewertet ist neben der schiedsverfahrensrechtlichen Literatur und Kommentierung insbesondere die umfangreiche Rechtsprechung. / The text discusses the legal remedies for and in connection with the constitution of the arbitral tribunal, in regards to any personal conflict of arbitral proceedings as per the German Code of Civil Procedure (CPO). Hence the focus is on questions of how an arbitrator is to be appointed if one party fails to cooperate, of how a party may challenge an arbitrator or otherwise terminate an arbitrator''s mandate, and of how to proceed with an arbitral award issued by an unduly constituted arbitral tribunal. Chapters 1 and 2 deal with the principles, terms and definitions of the arbitral tribunal’s composition. Chapters 3 and 4 systematise obstacles to such a tribunal’s composition, and the criteria for an arbitrator’s appointment. Chapters 5 to 8 continue with a detailed examination, and focus on current practice with all corresponding remedies. During the arbitral proceedings such remedies make provision for an arbitrator’s replacement (section 1034 CPO), the appointment of an arbitrator (section 1035 CPO) or substitute arbitrator (section 1039 CPO), the challenge of an arbitrator (section 1037 CPO), or the termination of an arbitrator’s mandate (section 1038 CPO). Finally, for cases where an arbitral award has already been granted, the text discusses how an unduly constituted tribunal may be dealt with through proceedings for setting aside an award (section 1059 CPO), or for an award’s enforcement or recognition (sections 1060 f. CPO). In addition to the literature on arbitration and the annotations of the CPO, the substantial amount of legal precedent is particularly evaluated.