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In this master’s degree thesis potential utilization of excess heat on Gotland is investigated. The report first identifies potential sources and users of excess heat and creates seasonal heat profiles for a few of them. The heat profiles are then matched and studied from technical, economic, and environmental perspectives to provide a comprehensive understanding of the investigated cases. The study reveals that large scale refrigeration systems and greenhouses, data centers and greenhouses, and electrolysers and ultra-pure water purification processes could potentially benefit from synergies created by excess heat utilization. However, challenges such as mismatched heat profiles and the risk of investments in excess heat capture technology may hinder such collaborations.

This thesis deals with talent show Got Talent and through this television format compares four culturally different adaptations. This comparision is based on analysis of these four shows: Česko Slovensko má talent, America's Got Talent, Britain's Got Talent and China's Got Talent. Content of the shows is different in many respects thanks to distincts in television histories and diverse culture in each territory. The theoretical part focus on culture and development in television broadcasting in selected countries. Another chapter describes the market with licenses for television formats and differencies in local adaptations of shows and series. Content analysis itself was based on comparison of selected series of the show Got Talent and particular episode. It was found that worldwide television formats differ in many respects. Rules of the show, roles of the judges, dramaturgical structure of episode and casting of contestants are adapt to local culture and lifestyle. There are some common features in shows on the other hand: emphasis on personal life stories of the contestants and effort to create integrated story for whole episode through specific structure of the episode. We can say that television shows has influence on culture and culture affects content of the programme.

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Denna rapport visar hur man kan designa ett generiskt ramverk över HTTP/JSON för textredigerings-/programmerings-samarbete över internet. Ramverket implementeras i form av en server, en webbklient och ett insticksprogram i en textredigerare. Prestandan samt användarupplevelsen av implementeringen utvärderas och vi kommer fram till att implementationen fungerar och känns till stor del naturlig att använda. Prestandan skulle kunna blir bättre genom att minska belastningen på servern genom att optimera samt flytta delar av den designade algoritmen ut till klienterna. Ramverket gick att använda men saknade många hjälpmedel för att användaren bättre skulle kunna kommunicera genom samarbetsverktyget. Designen är kort sagt mer generisk än andra liknade samarbetssystem, men samtidigt saknas många väsentliga funktioner, vilket öppnar för framtida utbyggnader av verktyget.

Submitted by William Justo Figueiro (williamjf) on 2015-06-25T22:45:28Z No. of bitstreams: 1 36.pdf: 722185 bytes, checksum: bb2b2ac90091605c7e2f999df9a7f628 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-06-25T22:45:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 36.pdf: 722185 bytes, checksum: bb2b2ac90091605c7e2f999df9a7f628 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Este estudo foi realizado num dos mercados que apresenta uma das maiores competitividades em escala mundial, que é o setor bancário. Esta pesquisa objetivou analisar os fatores mais associados ao desempenho de gestores de relacionamento em agências bancárias de varejo. A empresa onde a pesquisa foi aplicada é uma das três maiores instituições financeiras do Brasil, empresa de economia mista com mais de 100 mil funcionários e 5 mil agências de varejo. O público pesquisado foi de gestores de micro e pequenas empresas; há outros segmentos do varejo que não foram explorados (pessoa física, rural, empresas de médio e grande porte). Para isso, elencaram-se fatores presentes e recorrentes na literatura e investigou-se a influência destes sobre a lucratividade, inadimplência e desempenho atitudinal dos gestores de relacionamento do varejo bancário. Os fatores analisados foram: conflitos de interesse, uso do empowerment, concessões, redução da complexidade, conservadorismo, relacionamento, fazer certo da primeira vez e competência, bem como migração para serviços automatizados. Foi realizado um survey envolvendo 291 gestores de relacionamento dedicados ao atendimento de micro e pequenas empresas. Os achados revelaram uma relação representativa de “fazer certo da primeira vez e competência”, “relacionamento” e “conservadorismo” com o aumento do desempenho atitudinal. “Fazer certo da primeira vez e competência”, e “relacionamento” também tiveram relação com a redução da inadimplência. “Concessões” também apresentaram relação negativa com a inadimplência. Os demais constructos analisados (conflitos de interesse, uso do empowerment, redução da complexidade e migração para serviços automatizados) não demonstraram relação com o desempenho. O presente estudo foi realizado em empresa de economia mista. Outros estudos são necessários para verificar se os mesmos resultados ocorrem nas demais instituições financeiras. / This study was conducted in one of the world´s highest competitive market, which is the banking sector. More specifically aimed to examine ways to increase the performance of retail banking units, which constitute the largest volume of business in this sector. Factors were listed, based in the literature, and investigate the influence on profitability, reduction of nonpayment and attitudinal performance of relationship managers in the retail banking. The constructs analyzed were: conflicts of interest, use of empowerment, concessions, reduced complexity, conservatism, relationship, got it right the first time and competence, and migration to automated services. A Survey was conducted with 291 relationship´s managers dedicating to serving micro and small business in one of the three largest financial institutions in Brazil. The findings revealed a representative relation of "got it right the first time and competence", "relationship" and "conservatism" with increased performance attitudinal. "Got it right the first time and competence," and "relationship" were also related to the reduction of non-payments. "Concessions" also showed negative relation with non-payment. The other constructs analyzed (conflicts of interest, use of empowerment, reducing complexity and migration to automated services) showed no relation with performance. The present study was conducted in a mixed company. Further studies are needed to see if the same results occur in other financial institutions.

Literature, films, and even the daily news often address war, an event that unfortunately has been a constant in modern society. Large scale, modern warfare with global involvement began with the First World War, and following the war, a global war literature boom occurred. Two bestselling novels whose anti-war themes still resound today, Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front) by Erich Maria Remarque and Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, emerged from this sea of literature. Both of these novels focus on the pain that is inherent in warfare and its detrimental effects on society as well as on individual soldiers. The graphic imagery and anti-war sentiment that is present in these novels has generated controversy throughout their histories; however, the popularity of both works has prevailed, and Remarque and Trumbo’s novels remain two of the most referenced in academic disciplines as well as in popular culture. This thesis explores the long-lasting success of these two works as anti-war novels, as measured by initial sales and popularity as well as by a plethora of mass cultural adaptations.

The aim of this study is to examine to what extent Swedish writers, who write in English, use the modals must, have to and have got to. The hypothesis being tested argues that the core modal must is not being challenged by the emerging modals have to and have got to in this non-native variety of English. The objective of this thesis is to be accomplished by attempting to answer the following research questions: 1) What is the frequency and usage of the English modals must, have to and have got to in the material? 2) How do the frequencies in the Swedish material compare with the frequencies in the British and American corpora and to the previous studies? 3) How do the Swedish writers use the modals with regard to epistemic and deontic meaning? The study is corpus based, and the corpora used consist of Swedish newspapers in English (SWENC) and material from blogs and tweets which are written in English by Swedes (SESMC). These are compared with the press sub-corpora in BE06 (the British 2006 corpus of CQP web at Lancaster) and in AE06 (the American 2006 corpus of CQP web at Lancaster), which represent British and American native varieties of English. The method is quantitative and the results are presented after the process of normalization. The results show that must, have to and have got to are used in SWENC and SESMC although, to greatly varying degrees. The core modal must is more frequently used in the Swedish corpus than in the British and American sub-corpora. The emerging modal have to is used more frequently than must in all three corpora. The second emerging modal have got to is very seldomly used. Additionally, a qualitative examination of the modals and their meanings reveal that the writers in SWENC and SESMC use the older modal must alongside the newer have to and newest modal have got to, but with a preference for a toned-down style of language. The conclusion drawn is that the core modal must is indeed being challenged by the emerging modal have to even in the non-native variety of English.

This master thesis deals with the phenomenon of Westernization of pop culture in mainland China on the example of the Chinese adapted version of the Talent Show China's Got Talent. (CHGT) In its theoretical part it outlines the overall globalizing and Westernizing tendencies and sets a theoretical framework of the main terminology of media studies. The research goal of the thesis was to analyze the audience reception of CHGT in China and their ideas and views on pop culture The research goal is included in the broader context of cultural imperialism theories and the specifics of talent and reality shows are elaborated. Furthermore a historical overview of the evolution of pop culture in mainland China is provided. In the practical part, the applied methodological approaches and their potential strengths and weaknesses are described. A basic thematic analysis of certain selected social media like Weibo, QQ and Baidu was conducted. The two versions of the adapted Got Talent format were compared as far as the formal features are concerned, the British version of Britain's Got Talent and the Chinese adaptation China's Got Talent. Moreover qualitative in-depth interviews with Chinese respondents in the PRC and the UK were performed. The group in the UK served as a control group for comparison and the...

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