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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Roadmap de tendencias de TI

Perleche Quintanilla, Kenneth Andersson, Inga Arangurí, Jaime Eduardo 01 December 2018 (has links)
Este proyecto tiene como propósito presentar, de manera estructurada, tendencias de tecnologías de información hacia los próximos años. Asimismo, identificar cuáles son las principales tecnologías que van a ser más relevantes y, a partir de esta fuente, elaborar una cartera de proyectos orientado a los conocimientos que se proveen dentro de la EISC. A través de esto, se podrá contribuir al desarrollo de futuros proyectos en la Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas. Las fuentes de referencia de las tendencias de TI serán las que brindan Gartner, Forrester e IDC. Asimismo, realizar un benchmarking sobre las metodologías que brindan cada una de estas organizaciones. El proyecto se desarrolla en diferentes etapas, las cuales serán plasmadas dentro del documento a través de capítulos, donde se define la descripción del proyecto, objetivo de estudio, problemática y planteamiento de la solución. Esto se verá reflejado en el desarrollo de la investigación tomando como base las tecnologías y profundizando el contexto y su aplicación hacia el futuro. Asimismo, el desarrollo del proceso metodológico para la obtención de resultados y la gestión debida para estos. / This project aims to present in a structured, trends of information technology to the next five years. Also, identify key technologies that will be more relevant and, from this source, develop a portfolio of projects oriented knowledge are provided within the EISC are. Through this, it will contribute to the development of future projects in the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences. Reference sources IT trends will be providing Gartner, Forrester and IDC. Also, perform benchmarking on methodologies that provide each of these organizations. The project is developed in different stages, which will be reflected in the document through chapters, where the description of the project, study objective, problem and approach of the solution is defined. This will be reflected in the development of the research based on the technologies and deepening the context and its application to the future. Likewise, the development of the methodological process for the obtaining of results and the due management for these. / Tesis
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Is Building Construction Approaching the Threshold of Becoming Unsustainable: A Systems Theoretic Exploration towards a Post-Forrester Model for Taming Unsustainable Exponentialoids

Fernandez-Solis, Jose Luciano 15 November 2006 (has links)
The construction industry is a major emissions contributor and a main resource consumer. Because of this, the industry is formulating short and long-term 'sustainability targets'. The trend points towards an unsustainable future, within the next 75 years, due to actual and projected increases in resource consumption and emissions generation in response to global population growth, and improving living standards, affluence. There are no reliable studies that predict whether the required reductions in ecological impacts can actually be realized, and if so, on what time scale. In fact, currently no available system representations of the industry can serve as the basis for studying long-term sustainability through the twenty-first Century. Hard dynamic systems, based on reductionism, are no longer adequate representations to study the dynamics of complex systems. A worldview that includes complexity requires foremost a philosophical induction (a theory) of the nature of all the forces that move the industry and a mechanism for understanding how complex forces aggregate and affect growth. The dissertation examines the current understanding of the Theories of Complexity in general, and in building construction, as preparation for a deeper understanding on how sustainability and its opposite, exponential growth (or "exponentialoid") relate. Guaranteeing sustainability transcends the current arsenal of counter measures such as LEED, high-performance measures, waste containment, conservation, lessening demand, renewable resourcing, greening of the industry, creation of high-performance buildings, penalizing the polluter, carbon trading, and others… Sustainability is re-framed as the (artificial) force that tames an unsustainable exponentialoid. Sustainable forces are represented by elements of influence acting like vectorials that appear to have identifiable origin, direction and magnitude. A hypothetical example of how the heuristic/theory works is presented, pending future studies (needed to supply the necessary data required for a working model). This is pre-paradigmatic work, using both a novel worldview and method of analysis that points to increasingly detailed research work to be performed in the future.
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Investigating the female detective : gender paradoxes in popular British mystery fiction, 1864-1930 /

Dzirkalis, Anna M. January 2007 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ohio University, June, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 338-348)
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Análisis de los factores y políticas comunitarias que favorecen el diseño y ejecución de la planificación estratégica de grandes ciudades y áreas metropolitanas, basándose en las experiencias de Barcelona, Bilbao y Valencia

Quintas Alonso, José 06 May 2008 (has links)
La planificación estratégica urbana efectuada en grandes ciudades / áreas metropolitanas es un caso de estudio que reúne la problemática específica de la planificación estratégica junto con las interacciones producidas por el factor humano cuando ejerce funciones políticas formales en un contexto complejo, originado por la enorme riqueza de instituciones diversas focalizadas en su tarea principal dentro de un entorno metropolitano. En esta tesis se inicia la construcción de un modelo que intenta explicar el grado de éxito alcanzado por la planificación estratégica urbana en función de los valores de las variables independientes. Abstract Urban strategic planning carried out in big cities/ metropolitan areas is a case study which gathers the specific problems of the strategical planning, together with the interactions produced by the human factors, whenever it performs formal political functions within a complex context. This context is rooted in the enormous wealth of different institutions witch are focused on their main task within a metropolitan setting. In this thesis the construction of a model witch tries to explain the degree of success achieved by the urban strategic planning depending on the values of independent variables is presented. Resum. La Planificació estratègica urbana efectuada en grans ciutats/àrees metropolitanes és un cas d'estudi que reuneix la problemàtica especifica de la planificació estratègica junt amb les interaccions produïdes pel factor humà quan exerceix funcions polítiques formals en un context complex, originat per l'enorme riquesa d'institucions diverses focalitzades en la seua tasca principal dins d'un entorn metropolità. En aquesta tesi s'inicia la construcció d'un model que intenta explicar el grau d'èxit aconseguit per la planificació estratègica urbana en funció dels valors de les variables independents. / Quintas Alonso, J. (2006). Análisis de los factores y políticas comunitarias que favorecen el diseño y ejecución de la planificación estratégica de grandes ciudades y áreas metropolitanas, basándose en las experiencias de Barcelona, Bilbao y Valencia [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/1848 / Palancia
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Theologies Speak of Justice : A Study of Islamic and Christian Social Ethics

Callewaert, Teresa January 2017 (has links)
The purpose of this study is to investigate how religious ethics, while retaining its identity, can contribute to political debate and to the understanding of justice. The inquiry addresses these issues by focusing on theological perspectives which challenge the solutions offered to these questions by the liberal paradigm. Three kinds of challenges are studied, each of which is represented by one thinker from the Islamic tradition and one from the Christian tradition, in order to enable a comparative perspective on the contributions of religious traditions. The thinkers studied are: 1) modified liberalism, represented by Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im and Duncan B. Forrester; 2) liberationism, represented by Ali Shariati and Gustavo Gutierrez; and 3) radical traditionalism, as developed by Tariq Ramadan and John Milbank. The study is organized around three main questions. First, how can innovative interpretations of religious tradition be plausibly justified? Second, what role should religious arguments and reasons play in the political sphere? Third, what can religious ethics and theological thought contribute to the understanding of social justice? The questions are engaged by means of a critical and reconstructive engagement with the six thinkers. The suggested solutions are assessed in terms of the criteria of authenticity, communicability, and potential for transformation. It is argued that a religious ethic can rely on a tradition without accepting conservative understandings of that tradition. Furthermore, it is argued that the coherence of religious ethics can be made available for public discourse but that the hospitability of the public forum to such contributions needs to be realized through a deepened democratic culture and a critique of power structures which condition perceptions of rationality. While religious ethics do not articulate complete alternative understandings of justice, they articulate contributions by relating justice to human sociality and to transcendence.
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Causes of the bullwhip effect : A study of the bullwhip effect in the Volvo Group Service Market Logistics’ supply chain

Dahlin, Klara, Säfström, Oscar January 2021 (has links)
The bullwhip effect is defined as an upstream amplification of demand variability and has received interest within multinational companies for decades. As early as in the 1950’s, Forrester (1958) discussed what is today known as the bullwhip effect, which has a negative impact on the customer service, costs, and inventory investment in a supply chain (Lee et al., 1997). Even though the bullwhip effect has been noticed in various industries, the consequences, in form of decreased availability and increased costs the further up the supply chain the bullwhip goes, still remain. The employees at Volvo Group Service Market Logistics suspect that their supply chain has been affected by the bullwhip effect and want to know if it is correct and subsequently know why it has occurred. Therefore, this master’s thesis highlights the root causes of the bullwhip effect and presents strategies to mitigate it. To understand how the bullwhip effect affected the Volvo Group Service Market Logistics’ supply chain, the purpose was formulated as follow: The purpose of this study is to identify events in the Volvo Group Service Market Logistics’ supply chain where the bullwhip effect has occurred, its root causes, and how to reduce or eliminate the bullwhip effects.  The studied flow was from the Central Distribution Center (CDC) in Ghent, to the Regional Distribution Center (RDC) in Brazil, to the Dealers associated to the RDC in Brazil, and the customers. Data was collected from each node and events were studied to find bullwhip events. After sorting out the part numbers that passed the criteria for bullwhip events, the amount of data had to be reduced even more. A couple of different conditions were applied which resulted in four suitable bullwhip events. Thereafter, the authors conducted interviews with Logistics Managers at each node of the supply chain to find the root causes of the bullwhip effect in each studied event.  Among the several found root causes, lack of information transparency was the most frequent occurring root cause, found in three out of four studied bullwhip events. Insufficient communication and lack of information sharing cause bullwhip effects, and the authors found that improved communication both between and within the nodes will contribute to better planning, and consequently avoided bullwhip effects. Other root causes found were issues with the ordering system, lack of learning and experience, neglected lead times, fear of empty stock, price fluctuations, and phase-out of the spare part.  To reduce or eliminate the bullwhip effect, the focus was on mitigating the root causes since the root causes create opportunities for the bullwhip effect to occur. Four suggestions were given with suitable mitigation strategies found in the literature, where the four suggestions were sales campaigns, prepare for boosts, keep track of manually placed orders, and ordering system and Logistics Manager behavioural issues. The suggestions could then be connected to the different found root causes. The stated suggestions and mitigation strategies focused on mitigating the root causes in a long-term perspective and consequently the bullwhip effect itself.

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