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Världen står inför en klimatkris som kräver omedelbara åtgärder. Byggnader är Europas största konsument av energi och står för över 30% av växthusgasutsläppen. För att förbättra detta har EU kommit ut med direktivet om byggnaders energiprestanda (EPBD) som står inför officiell publicering inom en snar framtid. Direktivet består av en rad riktlinjer om bland annat energiprestandanivåer, ekonomiska incitament och solcellsutveckling som medlemsstaterna kommer behöva anpassa sig till. Statlig styrning är inte någonting nytt för fastighetsbranschen men EPBD är det mest omfattande för branschen som har kommit från EU någonsin. Denna studie syftar till att reda ut vad EPBD kommer att innebära för svenska fastighetsbolag och dess intressenter. I första hand vilka styrmedel direktivet innehåller. Sedan till vilken grad fastighetsföretagen kommer behöva anpassa sig efter dessa styrmedel samt vad de tycker om direktivet. För att se till detta undersöks även tidigare styrmedel tillika EPBD för att se ifall det finns likheter eller olikheter och hur väl de har fungerat i verkligheten. Vidare intervjuas fastighetsföretag och kringliggande intressenter för att besvara frågeställningarna. Slutligen kom vi fram till att delar av direktivet kan anses svagt där fastighetsföretagen ofta har mer ambitiösa interna mål än riktlinjerna EPBD ställer på dem. Konsensus var dock att direktivet välkomnas av fastighetsbranschen och trots sina svagheter finns delar om energideklarationer och minimikrav som anses nyttigt för branschen. / The world is facing a climate crisis which requires immediate action. Buildings are Europe's largest energy consumers and account for over 30% of greenhouse gas emissions. To address this, the EU has introduced the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD), which is set for official publication in the near future. The directive includes a range of guidelines on energy performance levels, economic incentives, and solar energy development that member states will need to adapt to. Government regulation is not new to the real estate industry, but the EPBD is the most comprehensive regulation the sector has ever received from the EU. This study aims to clarify what the EPBD will mean for Swedish real estate companies and their stakeholders. Primarily, it examines what means of control the directive entails. Secondly, it assesses the extent to which real estate companies will need to adjust to these means of control and their opinions on the directive. Additionally, the study investigates previous regulatory measures similar to the EPBD to identify similarities or differences and evaluate their effectiveness in practice. Interviews with real estate companies and related stakeholders are conducted to answer the research questions. It is concluded that parts of the directive may be considered weak, as real estate companies often have more ambitious internal goals than those set by the EPBD. Consensus was however that the directive is welcomed by the industry, and despite its weaknesses, elements such as harmonization of energy performance certificates and minimum standards are deemed beneficial for the sector.

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 17-20, 1994 / Town & Country Hotel and Conference Center, San Diego, California / This paper describes a system in which multiple embedded processors are used for real-time processing of telemetry streams from satellites and radars. Embedded EPC-5 modules are plugged into VME slots in a Loral System 550. Telemetry streams are acquired and decommutated by the System 550, and selected parameters are packetized and appended to a mailbox which resides in VME memory. A Windows-based program continuously fetches packets from the mailbox, processes the data, writes to log files, displays processing results on screen, and sends messages via a modem connected to a serial port.

Business process modeling plays an important role for the documentation and analysis of organizational processes and for the specification of requirements for information systems. Currently, there are many standards for process modeling, and each represents a different approach to modeling and provides different opportunities for creating models. Thus, same models created in different modeling languages differ in terms of their expressiveness, according to each standard. The goal of this thesis is to evaluate the effectiveness of selected business process modeling standards. The effectiveness of standards will be evaluated on two levels. First, in terms of their semantics and second, in terms of their syntax. Evaluation of standards in terms of their semantics will be based on the comparison of standards with a business process metamodel created within the project Opensoul. This model defines a set of basic elements and their associations at a basic level of process modeling. Evaluation of standards in terms of their syntax will be based on the comparison of standards with a framework proposed by Moody and Hillegersberg. The results of this comparison should show which standard best supports defined criteria. The evaluation framework will be applied on the following process modeling standards: BPMN, EPC and IDEF3. Based on the results obtained their strength and weaknesses will be discussed. The main contribution of this thesis can be seen both in the analysis of the element set of selected process modeling standards and further in the comparison of standards according to the evaluation framework.

本文主要目的是從比較統一前的西德與統一後的德國在歐洲政治合作中的角色，來探究德意志聯邦共和國於統一後是否會繼續支持歐洲政治合作的進展，並且解析其繼續支持與否的態度對歐洲政治進一步統合的影響。本文各章的重點如下：第一章前言說明本文分析德意志共和國在歐洲政治合作中角色的分析架構。第二章則對歐洲政治合作的歷史發展作概要性的敘述，並說明歐體與歐洲政治合作運作上的關係。第三章則從西德西歐整合的外交政策取向，分析其加入歐洲政治合作的動機。第四章由德意志聯邦共和國在歐洲政治合作中的行動來觀察其角色。一是從德意志聯邦共和國在統一前與統一後對歐洲政治合作加深與擴大的支持態度；二是從統一前、後德意志聯邦共和國在歐洲政治合作處理國際危機中的行動轉變來觀察。第五章是歸結德意志聯邦共和國在歐洲政治合作的角色轉變，並從歐洲政治統合對德意志聯邦共和國的重要性，以及德意志聯邦共和國對歐洲政治合作影響力的互動中，解析統一後的德國在歐洲政治合作中扮演的角色，將對歐洲政治合作的進展持有何態度，且對歐洲政治統合的進一步發展有何影響。第六章結語則提出本文的研究發現與心得。

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The Homeless Workers Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Teto- MTST) struggles for twenty years for habitation and dignified life in the city. This struggle builds other forms of hegemonic sociability. The hegemonic relations are founded on the commodification of every realm of life. It is in the relationship between goods that the universalization of reified social relations and commodity fetishism happens: when goods acquire a life status and life itself becomes a mere object. Through this naturalization process, domination is universalized as hegemony and does not limit itself to direct coercion, but also determines a cultural direction and helps consolidate social consensus between dominant and dominated classes. With the restructuring of capital, information and communication technologies (ICTs) have a central role in affirming hegemony. Communication studies centered around the political economy of communications (Economia Política da Comunicação- EPC) are crucial in this process, as they help understand the role of mediation in the cultural industry and, from there, understand if a counter-hegemonic type of mediation process is possible, one that understands how the working class - specifically in the case of MTST - finds ways to resist and comes to terms with their understanding of the world. This work uses bibliography review - from the perspective of the urban political economy and approaches to concepts and categories like differential income, right to the city, urbanization - and urban ethnography methodology to the fieldwork applied to the workers of the MTST camps in Sao Paulo. This work also comprehends that MTST through their spatial actions of occupation and organization, creates a counter-hegemonic process that proposes a new mediation that, combined with a social appropriation of ICTs, optimizes popular communication. / O Movimento de Trabalhadores Sem Teto (MTST), luta há vinte anos pela moradia e a vida digna na cidade. Nessa luta constrói formas de sociabilidade diferentes das hegemônicas. Estas se baseiam na mercantilização de todas as esferas da vida e assim, que se desenvolve a universalização das relações sociais coisificadas. O fetiche da mercadoria acontece quando a mercadoria ganha status de vida e a própria vida subjuga-se à condição de objeto. Através dessa naturalização, a dominação é universalizada como hegemonia, que não se resume a uma coerção pura, mas também a uma direção cultural e à consolidação de consenso social entre a classe dominante e a classe dominada. No contexto da reestruturação do capital, afirma-se a hegemonia através do uso das tecnologias de informação e comunicação (TIC). Os estudos em Economia Política da Comunicação (EPC) têm um papel crucial nessa conjuntura porque caberá a eles a tarefa de esclarecer a função de mediação da indústria cultural. A partir disso, propõe-se estudar se outra mediação é possível na contra-hegemonia, entendendo como a classe que vive do trabalho – especificamente no caso do MTST – realiza sua resistência e suas disputas de concepção de mundo. Para isso, realiza-se uma revisão bibliográfica, desde a perspectiva da economia política da cidade abordando conceitos e categorias como renda diferencial, direito à cidade, urbanização, e utilizando a metodologia da etnografia urbana para o trabalho de campo aplicado junto a trabalhadores de ocupações do MTST em São Paulo. Nesse sentido, o presente trabalho compreende que o MTST através de sua ação espacial de ocupação urbana e forma de organização, cria um espaço contrahegemônico, realizando uma mediação contra-hegemônica o que somado à apropriação social das TIC, potencializa sua comunicação popular. / São Cristóvão, SE

Les accidents vasculaires cérébraux (AVC) représentent l’une des premières causes de morbi-mortalité dans les pays industrialisés et sont en constante augmentation. Pour l’heure, aucune autre thérapie que la thrombolyse intraveineuse n’est validée, or moins de 10% des patients y sont éligibles.Les premiers essais de thérapie régénérative par greffe de progéniteurs endothéliaux ont montré leur efficacité au niveau préclinique sur la récupération fonctionnelle, mais très peu de cellules parviennent jusqu’au site de la lésion pour y exercer leurs effets. De précédents travaux ont montré que l’érythropoïétine (EPO) augmentait la mobilisation et la prolifération de progéniteurs endothéliaux depuis la moelle osseuse, ainsi que leur adressage vers les sites ischémiés in vivo.Nous avons formulé l’hypothèse que l’EPO pouvait permettre aux progéniteurs endothéliaux vrais (ECFCs) d’atteindre le site ischémié en plus grand nombre pour y exercer un effet plus important, plus rapidement. Nous avons donc décidé d’évaluer trois stratégies d’optimisation : coadministration d’ECFCs et d’EPO, administration d’ECFCs prétraités à l’EPO, et enfin coadministration d’ECFCs et d’un dérivé de l’EPO dénué d’effet hématopoïétique. Pour nos derniers travaux, nous nous sommes aidés de l’imagerie isotopique µSPECT/CT pour quantifier l’adressage au niveau de la lésion des ECFCs avec ou sans optimisation pharmacologique à l’EPO, et évaluer longitudinalement leurs effets bénéfiques sur la rupture de la barrière hémato-encéphalique, l’apoptose cérébrale et le débit sanguin cérébral résiduel, en complément des techniques référentes et de l’évaluation clinique neurofonctionnelle. / Stroke represents a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in industrialized countries and prevalence steadily increases. For now, no other therapy that intravenous thrombolysis is validated, still, less than 10% of patients are eligible.The first preclinical regenerative therapy trials using endothelial progenitor cells engraftment gave evidence of their efficacy on functional recovery, although very few cells reached the site of injury to exert their effects are. Previous works showed that erythropoietin (EPO) increased mobilization and proliferation of endothelial progenitor cells from bone marrow, as well as their homing to the ischemic sites in vivo.We hypothesized that EPO could enable true endothelial progenitor cells (ECFCs) to reach the ischemic site in larger quantity, faster, to exercise a greater effect. We decided to evaluate three optimization strategies: coadministration of ECFCs and EPO, administration of EPO-pretreated ECFCs, and finally coadministration of ECFCs and an EPO derivative devoid of hematopoietic effect.In this work, we used μSPECT/CT imaging to quantify the ECFCs homing to the ischemic site with or without EPO optimization after cerebral ischemia, and longitudinally assessed their beneficial effects on blood-brain barrier disruption, cerebral apoptosis and residual cerebral blood flow, complementary to the referent techniques and neurofunctional clinical evaluation.

This diploma thesis deals with the modeling and evaluation tools that are used for process modeling. The aim is to provide a method of selecting the most appropriate tool for selected requirements. This goal is achieved by using several subgoals, which include tools analysis for process modeling, design criteria for the selection of tools, their weights calculation, design and construction method for selecting tools in Excel and create case studies that will demonstrate the principles of selection tools. At the beginning of the thesis is characterized by the area of process management, its history, actual trends and definitions related thereto. Another chapter is a description of notations that are used for modeling processes. The largest part of the chapter is devoted to the characteristics Notation Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN), which together with their graphic design described all the elements of notation. The remaining part of the chapter describes the notation event-driven process chain (EPC) and the Unified Modeling Language (UML). A description of tools for process modeling is dedicated to the fifth chapter includes a detailed characterization of each instrument. Based on the individual tools and literary sources, the next chapter in the proposed criteria by which the tools will be evaluated. For calculating the weights of the proposed criteria is used Fuller method. The chapter concludes with evaluation tools previously described and a description of how to select the creation tools in Excel. The work ends with case studies which serve to illustrate the procedure for selecting tools.

Master thesis called "Business processes reengineering in an integrated information system and the e-commerce application" proves the hypothesis that the key to successful internet business is to have correctly set the process management of a company, which, through an automated connection, displayed externally for customers through the presentation layer of the e-commerce application. The results are useful for owners of eshops, for their conception of setting up the operations of their companies and especially for the company, where the analysis was performed. According to selected company Penny Ltd., this analysis sets for its eshop Elektro-partner.cz twenty elementary processes, whose implementation will lead to saving staff time, maximum use of the information system including the possibility of implementing new modules, setting up workflow processes and possibility to make a profit and higher customer satisfaction. In the theoretical part are marketing tools 4P for eshops enhanced by services and competitiors. There is also a specially adapted Porter's value chain for eshops and is used a model of e-commerce trust. On this basis it is created the current marketing strategy of eshop including the SWOT analysis and definition of strategic objectives. Identified processes were divided into elementary, key and support groups and relationships between them were made. For the optimization process is used Hammer and Champy methodology and feasibility and success of the thesis is evaluated according to best practises reengineering projects. Reengineered processes are defined with specification, exploited documents, information system and eshop application modules, illustrated by using EPC model and they are defined metrics and specifically listed areas of improvement.

The thesis is mainly driven by the modelling of business processes focusing on process optimization namely processes related to Investment Banking. The main goal of the thesis is driven by the EPC process modelling for optimization the key Investment process in a particular company APS HOLDING SE. The theoretical part contains processes descriptions optimizations and process modelling standards. The practical part is devoted to design and optimize of the process related to Debt Assets Investment Banking under the EPC modelling standards. Each part of the Investment process is described below the model. Reader can feel more comfortable by using the glossary of terms attached in appendix. Focus on higher efficiency of the Investment management process will be the key goal for the company management in 2016.