The thesis deals with occupational safety and health systems at work. In theory is about risk assesment methods. The practical part of the thesis is concerned with methods application on my distinguished firm.

This thesis is comparing impacts defined by Regulatory impact assessment (RIA) with real impacts discovered with online survey related to the specific Czech environmental legislative act. There is described RIA, experience with RIA in Czech and comparison of development and experience of RIA in EU and USA. As a result, comparison of the impacts within RIA and the ones identified by the survey is that real impacts are different from the predicted ones within RIA. The summary of this thesis is that process RIA is alright but accuracy of predicted impacts is dependent on RIA processor, rigorousness and complexity of RIA.

The purpose of this study is to examine how a group of experienced teachers of English respond to pupils’ written work in year nine. Further, this study also examines what kind of responses a teacher of English gives to some pupils’ texts. The methods used combine semi-structured interviews and analysis of one teacher’s response to six texts written by pupils in year nine to gather the data needed. The main findings concern experienced teachers’ of English thoughts about providing feedback to pupils’ written work and the results from the analysis of a teacher’s response to six pupils’ texts. The teachers find it important to maintain a good balance between criticism and encouragement when providing feedback to pupils’ written work. Teachers use different formats and approaches depending on the type of learners and the type of texts and they always use predetermined criteria when responding to pupils’ written work. Further, the results from the analysis of the teacher’s response to six pupil texts show that the teacher focuses on language, content and task-specific requirements when responding to pupils’ written work.

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Les déplacements de personnes et de marchandises sont responsables d’une part importante des impacts environnementaux à l’échelle de la ville. Cette thèse part des hypothèses que, les impacts environnementaux des phases situées en amont ou en aval de la phase d’usage ne sont pas négligeables et que l’étude différenciée des besoins de mobilité peut apporter un éclairage nouveau aux méthodes traditionnelles d’évaluation. La façon de répondre à chaque besoin induit, a priori, des impacts environnementaux différents. Ces derniers sont calculés à l’aide de la méthode d’Analyse de Cycle de Vie. La méthodologie a été développée sur un cas d’application : les émissions de GES de l’Agglomération de Saint-Etienne afin de se confronter à la réalité du terrain et de se procurer des données spécifiques. Ce cas d’application a donné une première série de résultats, confirmant à la fois la part non négligeable d’impacts hors phase d’usage et la disparité des émissions pour une personne.kilomètre selon le besoin de déplacement. Ensuite, une proposition de typologies urbaines a été faite en réalisant une Analyse en Composantes Principales, couplée à une Classification Ascendante Hiérarchique, sur les grandes aires urbaines de France, sur des variables influentes pour la mobilité. Trois classes d’aires urbaines ont été étudiées. La méthodologie a été appliquée aux données des Enquêtes Ménages Déplacements de Bordeaux, Toulon et Valenciennes. Des disparités sont observées pour certains motifs et il est possible de calculer des marges de progression pour chaque agglomération. Enfin, l’utilisation de l’ACV, multicritère a également révélé la nécessité de travailler avec plusieurs indicateurs. / Transportation of goods and people is known as a key environmental impact contributor in a city. However, traditional impact assessment methodologies don’t consider environmental issues all over the life cycle. The cause of a trip is also rarely taken into account in an environmental assessment. This thesis aims at proposing a new impact assessment methodology that considers the influence of indirect emissions (using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology) and causes of trips on the environmental footprint. Two main hypotheses are settled at the beginning: the environmental impacts of mobility do not only occur during the use phase (the trip by itself) but all over its life cycle. Also the trip purposes may change the choice of way to travel and consequently affect environmental impacts. The global Functional Unit (FU) is “transport people and good in a French urban area during a year” and is divided in intermediate FU referring to each trip purposes, such as “allow commuter trips in a French urban area during a year”. The methodology was developed, tested and validated through a real case: the agglomeration of Saint-Etienne (France). During this phase, mobility territorial actors were met and real data provided that allows facing methodology to possible field limitations. This application case shows first results. First, it confirms importance to consider impacts all over the life cycle (17% of GHG emissions occur out of the use phase). Second, it shows significant differences of emissions by person.kilometer between trip purposes categories. Then a typology of urban area was proposed based on literature about travel determinants. Principal Component Analysis used on French big urban areas (more than 250 000 inhabitants) identified 5 classes. The methodology was applied to three of them (Bordeaux, Toulon and Valenciennes) using data from a standardized survey on households and mobility in order to compare them. It shows disparities on global results partly due to total annual travel distances. The trip purposes differentiation also shows important differences between urban areas. For each cause trip category and emission reduction potentials were calculated for each urban area by extrapolating differences for a pkm to the total annual distance for the trip. This can provide helpful information to deciders. Finally, the need to provide a multicriteria evaluation that is provided by LCA was committed. However methodological improvement would be necessary to better reflect local and regional impacts in LCA.

La malhonnêteté académique au cours d’épreuves présente des enjeux importants quant à l’intégrité des évaluations. La présence des TIC étant de plus en plus importante en cours de passation dans les épreuves, il est important avec ce mode de récolte de données d’assurer un niveau de sécurité égal ou même supérieur à celui présent lorsqu’un mode de récolte de données traditionnel, le papier-crayon, est utilisé. Il existe plusieurs recherches sur l’utilisation des TIC dans l’évaluation, mais peu d’entre elles traitent des modalités de sécurité lors de l’utilisation des TIC. Dans ce mémoire, treize organisations québécoises ont été rencontrées: six qui utilisaient les TIC dans la passation, cinq qui utilisaient le papier-crayon dans la passation mais qui désiraient utiliser les TIC et deux qui utilisaient le papier-crayon et qui ne désiraient pas utiliser les TIC. Les organisations sont des établissements d’enseignement (primaire, secondaire, collégial, universitaire), des entreprises privées, des organismes gouvernementaux ou municipaux et des ordres professionnels. Des entrevues semi-structurées et une analyse qualitative par présence ou absence de différentes caractéristiques ont permis de documenter les modalités de sécurité liées à la récolte de données en vue de l’évaluation en utilisant les TIC. Ces modalités ont été comparées à celles utilisées lors de l’utilisation du papier-crayon dans la récolte de données en vue de l’évaluation afin de voir comment elles varient lors de l’utilisation des TIC. Les résultats révèlent que l’utilisation des TIC dans la passation complexifie et ajoute des étapes à la préparation des épreuves pour assurer un niveau de sécurité adéquat. Cependant elle permet également de nouvelles fonctions en ce qui concerne le type de questions, l’intégration de multimédia, l’utilisation de questions adaptatives et la génération aléatoire de l’épreuve qui permettent de contrer certaines formes de malhonnêteté académiques déjà présentes avec l’utilisation du papier-crayon dans la passation et pour lesquelles il était difficile d’agir. Toutefois, l’utilisation des TIC dans la passation peut aussi amener de nouvelles possibilités de malhonnêteté académique. Mais si ces dernières sont bien prises en considération, l’utilisation des TIC permet un niveau de sécurité des épreuves supérieur à celui où les données sont récoltées au traditionnel papier-crayon en vue de l’évaluation. / Academic dishonesty in assessments presents important issues regarding its integrity. The presence of ICT being increasingly important in the examinations, it is important with this method of data collection to ensure a level of safety equal to or even higher than the one present when the traditional method of collecting data, the paper and pencil, is used. There are several studies on the use of ICT in assessment, but few of them talks about the security arrangements in the use of ICT. In this study, thirteen Quebec’s organizations were encountered, six of them who used ICT in the assessment, five who used paper and pencil in the assessment but who wished to use ICT and two who used paper and pencil and did not wish to use ICT. The organizations are educational institutions (elementary, high school, college, university), private companies, government or municipal agencies and professional associations. Semi-structured interviews and a qualitative analysis by the presence or absence of different characteristics documented the security arrangements related to data collection for the assessment using ICT. These modalities were compared with those used when there is utilization of paper and pencil in the collection of data to see how they vary when using ICT. The results show that the use of ICT in the assessment makes it more complex and adds steps to the preparation of the examination to ensure an adequate level of security. However, it also allows new features regarding the type of questions, the integration of multimedia, the use of adaptive questions and random generation of test that can counter some forms of academic dishonesty already present with the use of paper and pencil in the assessment and for which it was difficult to act. However, the use of ICT in assessment can also bring new opportunities for academic dishonesty. If these are taken into consideration, the use of ICT allows a higher security level than the assessment where the data were collected with traditional paper-and-pencil.

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A three-phase study was performed to examine abiotic and biotic metrics at southern pine beetle infestation sites in northern Georgia in 2002 to find early indicators that can be leveraged by forest managers to mitigate the effects of future outbreaks: creation of a 2003 Final Impact Map, determining if MODIS MOD13Q1 EVI 16-day image composites can distinguish differences in biomass indicators among healthy and infested loblolly pine and hardwood forests, and creation of an Infestation Risk Map derived from significant climate and physical variables at known infestation sites.Three land cover classification techniques (change vector analysis, enhanced wetness differencing index and standard land cover classification analysis of Landsat 5 TM) were compared to determine which would provide the best estimate of final infestation damage. Classification accuracy results indicated that the latter provided the most reliable site damage information and it became the reference map against which outbreak model results were compared.Using time series analysis of MODIS composites acquired March 2000 - December 2006 to measure 11 phenology metrics for infested and healthy loblolly and hardwood stands showed that the imagery differentiated between forest classes. Results indicated the lowest base vegetation biomass in 2001 for infested loblolly, relative to healthy loblolly, with many metrics trending towards hardwood values following infestation.Abiotic influences included those related to landscape position and climate. Statistical testing showed increased beetle success: 1) along ridge tops at maximum solar exposure, 2) in areas with canopy density>60%, 3) in areas experiencing cooler summers and warmer winters, and 4) where precipitation was significantly lower at infested sites in the 2 years preceding outbreak.The Infestation Risk Map was developed from significant physical and climate indicator variables using the fuzzy theory modeling approach. Comparison of model output to infestation sites resulted in Chi-squared and Cramér's V values of 55.4 and 0.16, respectively, indicating that infestation risk distributions strongly paralleled site infestation. Comparison of model output and low, medium and high infestation density clusters resulted in Chi-squared and Cramér's V values of 241.24 and 0.66, respectively, indicating a more substantive relationship between infestation density and risk classes.

Bakalauro darbe vertinami specialiosios pedagogikos studijų programos logopedijos moduliai. Suformuluotas tikslas – išsiaiškinti, kaip studentai vertina specialiosios pedagogikos studijų programos logopedijos modulių kokybę. Tyrime dalyvavo Šiaulių universiteto Socialinės gerovės ir negalės studijų fakulteto 31 nuolatinių studijų bei 48 ištęstinių studijų studentai. Anketinės apklausos metodu buvo tirta, kas studentus paskatino rinktis specialiosios pedagogikos (specializacija: logopedija) studijas, kaip studentai vertina visų specialiosios pedagogikos (specializacija: logopedija) studijų programos mokomųjų dalykų svarbą logopedo darbe, kokia studentų nuomonė apie logopedijos moduliuose dėstomas temas, kokius logopedo praktikos organizavimo aspektus vertina teigiamai, kokius siūlytų tobulinti. Tyrimu norėta sužinoti, kokių pasiūlymų studentai galėtų pateikti logopedijos modulių tobulinimui. Atlikus tyrimą nustatyta, jog studentus pasirinkti specialiosios pedagogikos (specializacija: logopedija) studijas paskatino šeimos narių patarimai bei žinios apie kalbos sutrikimų turinčius vaikus ir noras jiems padėti. Studentai iš visų mokomųjų dalykų išskyrė logopedijos, protinės raidos sutrikimų, specifinių mokymosi negalių, autizmo sindromo, lietuvių kalbos didaktikos, specialybės kalbos kultūros žinias, kaip būtinas logopedo darbe. Gauti rezultatai rodo, kad, studentų nuomone, beveik visoms logopedijos moduliuose dėstomoms temoms laiko skiriama pakankamai. Keletui temų, pagal... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The present Bachelor Thesis assesses speech therapy modules of special education study programs. The set aim – to find out how students assess the quality of speech therapy modules of special education study program. 31 student of full-time studies and 48 students from part-time studies of Faculty of Social Welfare and Disability Studies of Šiauliai University have participated in the survey. The following items were subject to research by applying questionnaire method: reasons having encouraged students to choose special education (specialization: speech therapy) studies, how students evaluate the importance of all subjects of special education (specialization: speech therapy) study program within the work of speech therapist, what is students’ opinion about topics lectured in modules of speech therapy, which aspects of organization of practice of a speech therapist are assessed in a positive manner and which should be improved. The survey was intended to find out what suggestions could be provided by students in order to improve modules of speech therapy. Upon completion of the survey it was determined that students’ choice of special education (specialization: speech therapy) studies was encouraged by advice of family members as well as knowledge about children having speech disorders and the desire to help them. From all subjects students denoted the knowledge of speciality language-communication culture, disorders of mental development, specific learning disabilities... [to full text]

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