Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 132-144). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (M.Soc.Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 112-117) Also available in print.

Thesis (M.Soc.Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 82-86) Also available in print.

Thesis (M.A.)--Bowling Green State University, 2006. / Document formatted into pages; contains x, 82 p. Includes bibliographical references.

Att få anordna ett världsmästerskap i fotboll ses som en stor ära, då det bygger upp förväntningar en nation, eller flera, kan bygga en gemenskap omkring. I juli år 2000 valdes Tyskland som arrangör till mästerskapet i fotboll år 2006 och således började förberedelser ta fart. Syftet med denna uppsats är studera huruvida fotbolls-VM i Tyskland (2006) var ett samhällsekonomiskt lönsamt projekt eller inte. Tidigare studier i området pekar på att det finns en överskattning i de nettofördelar som landet visar sig få. I studien kommer en nytto-kostnadsanalys (CBA) att utföras där relevanta nyttor och kostnader lyfts fram och ställs mot varandra. Kostnadssidan är mer tillförlitlig då de största utgifterna är officiella, medan nyttosidan inte är lika tillförlitlig på grund av att många siffror är estimerade. Dessutom finns det nyttor som inte kan räknas i monetära-termer (n.m) vilket också försvårar analysen. Slutligen pekar resultatet på att det inte var samhällsekonomiskt lönsamt för Tyskland att arrangera mästerskapet då kostnaderna övervägde nyttorna. För enskilt året 2006, kan det dock ses som samhällsekonomisklönsamt på grund av kostnadsfördelningen på fem år på de stora kostnadsposterna. / Organising a World Cup is seen as a great honour, as it builds up expectations and is something that one or more nations can build a community around. In July 2000, Germany was chosen to host the championship and so preparations began to take off. The purpose of this paper is to study whether the World Cup was socio-economically profitable or not in Germany (2006). Previous studies in this area indicate that there is an overestimation of the net benefits that the country will receive. In this study, a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) will be carried out where relevant benefits and costs are highlighted and compared. The cost side is more reliable as the largest expenditures are official, while the benefit side is less reliable as many figures are estimated. In addition, some benefits cannot be calculated in monetary terms, which also complicates the analysis. Finally, the result indicates that it was not a socio- economic benefit for Germany to organise the FIFA World Cup as the costs outweighed the benefits. However, only looking on the year of 2006, it can be seen as socio-economically profitable due to the five-year cost distribution of the main cost items.

Written in the tradition of the classic spy novels of Ian Fleming and the detective novels of Raymond Chandler, The Agolmirth Conspiracy represents the return to the thriller of its traditional elements of romanticism, humanism, fast-moving action, and taut suspense, and a move away from its cynicism and dehumanization as currently practiced by authors such as John Le Carre' and Tom Clancy. Stanford Torrance, an ex-cop raised on "old-fashioned" notions of uncompromising good and naked evil and largely ignorant of computer systems and high-tech ordinance, finds himself lost in a "modern" world of shadowy operatives, hidden agendas, and numerous double-crosses. He is nevertheless able to triumph over that world when he puts his own honor, his own dignity, and his very life on the line, proving to himself and to his adversaries that such things can still make things easier to see amid today's swirling moral fog.

Seminario para optar al título de Ingeniero Comercial, Mención Administración / A lo largo de la historia, se han efectuado numerosos estudios en el campo de los dividendos. El presente trabajo lleva a cabo una investigación sobre los retornos anormales de las acciones chilenas en torno a su Ex-Dividend Day, es decir, la fecha límite de suscripción para tener derecho a dividendos por parte de los accionistas, y tiene como objetivo determinar su existencia. Además, busca complementar los estudios expuestos por Castillo y Jakob (2006), y Fuenzalida y Nash (2004), esta vez, analizando específicamente los retornos anormales accionarios previos al Ex-Dividend Day. La metodología utilizada es la de “Estudio de eventos”, la cual tiene como objetivo comprobar si se ha generado algún tipo de rentabilidad extraordinaria en algún activo financiero. El principal resultado determinó la existencia de retornos anormales promedio acumulados (CAAR) significativos para un mes y dos semanas previas al Ex-Dividend Day, inclusive éste, corroborando lo expuesto por Eades, Hess and Kim en 1984.

Continuous monitoring of physiological parameters such as pH and oxygen (O2) are of great importance in determining the health status of a patient. Arterial blood gas analysis is a current clinical method used to measure pH, PCO2, PO2, and the concentration of variety of ions, typically with blood withdrawn from an artery. The need for robust, and a rapidly responding technology to enable bed-side monitoring has driven considerable efforts to produce better sensor devices. Optical sensing systems have experienced rapid growth, with drivers including low-cost optical fibres, and the availability of miniature optical set-ups (light sources, detectors, etc.). Herein, polymer-based optical fibre sensors for pH and O2 sensing were developed. The pH and/or oxygen reporters were immobilised at the end of an optical fibre by photo-polymerisation, and their performance in measuring pH and O2 concentration investigated. pH sensing was based on fluorescence detection using single excitation/single emission (Chapter 2), and single excitation/dual emission (Chapter 3). O2 sensing was based on the luminescence quenching of metalloporphyrins by oxygen (Chapter 4). In the last chapter, the in vivo applicability of an O2 sensor was investigated by measuring O2 level changes inside an ex vivo lung.

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