This thesis deals with the business plan for the establishment of a café. Its aim is based on marketing research and market analysis to design a small firm that could fill a gap in the market at a particular location and present it as an effective investment for the investor and beneficial for the residents of the area.

Can a tool effectively aid user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) designers, along with frontend developers, in implementing more energy efficient websites? The foundation for formulating the thesis questions and identifying the issue was laid through an exploration of related work. This study aims to present the development of a tool encompassing recommendations and practices from existing research, providing valuable support for designers and developers.  Several methods, namely six, were established to better define and concretise the problems. The idea phase continued exploring potential solution both through looking at similar solutions as well as doing workshops together with potential users. In this phase the guidelines, now named SCOPES - System Conscious of Potential Energy Saving, started taking shape. The prototype was designed to assist web designers and developers in reducing energy consumption during website development. The study and especially the test phase found that guidelines empowered web designers to create energy efficient web pages, and users accept lower energy pages when aware of their efficiency, given that essential functionalities are retained.  The results of this thesis, supported by a total of 16 methods and 64 users with various backgrounds, ethnicities, and genders, emphasize the importance of addressing the challenges, posed by our energy-demanding society, pointing to potential pathways for a more sustainable and efficient future.

As cooperativas de crédito são instituições financeiras que têm como finalidade principal a prestação de serviços bancários e de intermediação financeira voltando-se para a geração de benefícios ao cooperado, através de benefícios econômicos encontrados sob a forma cooperativada. Considerando o objetivo destas organizações, o presente trabalho teve por objetivo avaliar a eficiência das mesmas considerando duas vertentes: 1) a atividade de intermediação financeira; e 2) a atividade de prestação de serviços bancários, a partir de variáveis contábeis. A técnica utilizada para a avaliação da eficiência foi a Análise Envoltória de Dados e foram analisados os determinantes da eficiência por meio de regressões do tipo Tobit. A amostra é composta por 315 cooperativas singulares listadas na base de dados do Banco Central do Brasil e foram utilizados os dados dos balancetes anuais e semestrais (soma dos semestres para as contas de resultado de cada ano) apresentados para período de 2007 a 2014. Os resultados indicaram baixa eficiência das cooperativas na prestação de serviços bancários, com 73% da amostra apresentando ineficiência ao longo de todos os anos do período em análise. Na atividade de intermediação financeira 20 cooperativas foram eficientes ao longo do período completo, com as demais apresentando graus de ineficiência abaixo de 16% em todos os anos. Quanto aos determinantes da eficiência, verificou-se como principais fatores na atividade de intermediação financeira a Imobilização, a Insolvência, o Descasamento Passivo e as Despesas Administrativas, enquanto na atividade de prestação de serviços os principais determinantes foram a Captação por Floating e as Despesas Administrativas. Os resultados da eficiência na intermediação financeira indicaram baixos graus de ineficiência, enquanto os altos graus de ineficiência na prestação de serviços bancários alertaram para a pouca importância dada ao fornecimentos destes serviços e para a importância de se utilizar dois modelos distintos para a avaliação da eficiência em cooperativas de crédito, dado o comportamento desvinculado entre as duas atividades avaliadas. / Credit unions are financial institutions whose main purpose is the provision of banking and financial intermediation turning to the generation of benefits to the cooperative through economic benefits found in the cooperative form. Considering the purpose of these organizations, this study aimed to evaluate the efficiency of these organizations considering two aspects: 1) the financial intermediation activity and 2) the activity of banking services. For this aim it was used accounting variables. The technique used for the assessment of efficiency was the Data Envelopment Analysis and the determinants of efficiency were analyzed using Tobit regressions. The sample is composed of 315 individual cooperatives listed in the Central Bank\'s database of Brazil and it was used the data of the annual and semi-annual balance sheets (sum of semesters for the result accounts of each year) presented for the period 2007 to 2014. The results indicated low efficiency of cooperatives in providing banking services, with 73% of the sample showing inefficiency over each year of the period. In the financial intermediation activity 20 cooperatives were effective over the entire period, and the other cooperatives presented degrees of inefficiency below 16% in every year of the period. As the determinants of efficiency, it was as key determinants in financial intermediation activity: the immobilization, the insolvency, the mismatch liabilities and the administrative expenses, while in activity of providing services the main determinants were the capture by floating and the administrative expenses. The results of efficiency in financial intermediation were considered satisfactory, but the high degree of inefficiency in the provision of banking services warned of the low priority given to the provision of such services and the importance of using two different models for the assessment of efficiency in credit cooperatives, given the unlinked behavior between the two activities evaluated.

As cooperativas de crédito são instituições financeiras que têm como finalidade principal a prestação de serviços bancários e de intermediação financeira voltando-se para a geração de benefícios ao cooperado, através de benefícios econômicos encontrados sob a forma cooperativada. Considerando o objetivo destas organizações, o presente trabalho teve por objetivo avaliar a eficiência das mesmas considerando duas vertentes: 1) a atividade de intermediação financeira; e 2) a atividade de prestação de serviços bancários, a partir de variáveis contábeis. A técnica utilizada para a avaliação da eficiência foi a Análise Envoltória de Dados e foram analisados os determinantes da eficiência por meio de regressões do tipo Tobit. A amostra é composta por 315 cooperativas singulares listadas na base de dados do Banco Central do Brasil e foram utilizados os dados dos balancetes anuais e semestrais (soma dos semestres para as contas de resultado de cada ano) apresentados para período de 2007 a 2014. Os resultados indicaram baixa eficiência das cooperativas na prestação de serviços bancários, com 73% da amostra apresentando ineficiência ao longo de todos os anos do período em análise. Na atividade de intermediação financeira 20 cooperativas foram eficientes ao longo do período completo, com as demais apresentando graus de ineficiência abaixo de 16% em todos os anos. Quanto aos determinantes da eficiência, verificou-se como principais fatores na atividade de intermediação financeira a Imobilização, a Insolvência, o Descasamento Passivo e as Despesas Administrativas, enquanto na atividade de prestação de serviços os principais determinantes foram a Captação por Floating e as Despesas Administrativas. Os resultados da eficiência na intermediação financeira indicaram baixos graus de ineficiência, enquanto os altos graus de ineficiência na prestação de serviços bancários alertaram para a pouca importância dada ao fornecimentos destes serviços e para a importância de se utilizar dois modelos distintos para a avaliação da eficiência em cooperativas de crédito, dado o comportamento desvinculado entre as duas atividades avaliadas. / Credit unions are financial institutions whose main purpose is the provision of banking and financial intermediation turning to the generation of benefits to the cooperative through economic benefits found in the cooperative form. Considering the purpose of these organizations, this study aimed to evaluate the efficiency of these organizations considering two aspects: 1) the financial intermediation activity and 2) the activity of banking services. For this aim it was used accounting variables. The technique used for the assessment of efficiency was the Data Envelopment Analysis and the determinants of efficiency were analyzed using Tobit regressions. The sample is composed of 315 individual cooperatives listed in the Central Bank\'s database of Brazil and it was used the data of the annual and semi-annual balance sheets (sum of semesters for the result accounts of each year) presented for the period 2007 to 2014. The results indicated low efficiency of cooperatives in providing banking services, with 73% of the sample showing inefficiency over each year of the period. In the financial intermediation activity 20 cooperatives were effective over the entire period, and the other cooperatives presented degrees of inefficiency below 16% in every year of the period. As the determinants of efficiency, it was as key determinants in financial intermediation activity: the immobilization, the insolvency, the mismatch liabilities and the administrative expenses, while in activity of providing services the main determinants were the capture by floating and the administrative expenses. The results of efficiency in financial intermediation were considered satisfactory, but the high degree of inefficiency in the provision of banking services warned of the low priority given to the provision of such services and the importance of using two different models for the assessment of efficiency in credit cooperatives, given the unlinked behavior between the two activities evaluated.

The goal of this thesis is to study the possibilities of Artificial neural network as an innovative mathematical methods for financial analysis of company performance, to find out what are today´s requests for performance evaluation of companies are and to identify possible ways how to use this relatively new concept in this area. When processing the possibilities of the computer program Maple for mathematical calculations will be applied. Intermediate objectives are then acquainted with the basic principle on which the artificial neural networks works, to analyze the financial performance of specific company and evaluate potential predictive abilities of the proposed network. The result of the work should be evaluating the success of this approach to financial analysis and evaluation of its use in practice.

The objective of this master´s thesis is evaluation of the financial situation and the efficiency of a company. The theoretical part is focused on the elementary methods of the financial analysis and the Economic Value Added as an efficiency measure. This theory is then applied to a particular company. The practical part contains calculation of selected ratios of the financial analysis and the Economic Value Added. The entire financial situation of the company is evaluated on the basis of results, included recommendation of appropriate deficiencies.

Demografische Veränderungen, ein sich wandelnder Arbeitsmarkt und konjunkturelle Schwankungen mit unterschiedlich dominierenden Gewerbezweigen erfordern Gebäude, die sich an verändernde Nutzeranforderungen anpassen können. Zur Erhöhung der Ressourceneffizienz sind Gebäude nicht nur hinsichtlich des Materialeinsatzes und Energieverbrauchs zu optimieren, sondern darüber hinaus für einen langen Nutzungshorizont auszulegen. Um die Anpassungsfähigkeit von Geschossbauten an verschiedene Nutzungsformen bewerten zu können, wurde im Rahmen des Innovationsprogramms „Zukunft Bau“ das Forschungsprojekt „Adaptive Gebäudestrukturen zur Erhöhung der Ressourceneffizienz von Geschossbauten im städtischen Raum“ durchgeführt. Im folgenden Beitrag werden die Motivation zum Forschungsprojekt, eine Übersicht zu wesentlichen Fragestellungen und die Ergebnisse in einer zusammenfassenden Darstellung vorgestellt. / Demographic changes, a transforming labour market and economic volatility with different dominant industries require buildings that can adapt to changing user requirements. In order to increase resource efficiency, buildings must not only be optimised in terms of material use and energy consumption, but also designed for a long horizon of use. In order to be able to evaluate the adaptability of multi-storey buildings to different forms of use, the research project “Adaptive building structures to increase the resource efficiency of multi-storey buildings in urban areas” was carried out within the framework of the „Zukunft Bau“ research initiative. In the following article, the motivation for the research project, an overview of the main aspects and the results are presented in a summarising form.