Bakom uppsatsen finns ett genuint intresse för kartmedier samt funderingen om kartan genomgår en evolution till att bli ett digitalt och interaktivt medium. I aktuella styrdokument för gymnasiegeografin framgår att såväl kartor som GIS skall finnas med i undervisningen, motiveringen är dock bristfällig. I syftet väcktes därför frågor om vilka belägg som fanns för digitala undervisningsmetoder inom geografi? Syftet kondenserades till frågeställningarna: Vad skrivs i litteraturen om digitalt lärande i geografi i allmänhet? Vad skrivs i litteraturen om att använda digitala kartor och programmet Google Earth i undervisningen i synnerhet? Hur svenska geografilärare ser på samt i vilken omfattning de använder digitala kartmedier? För att besvara frågorna genomfördes en litteraturstudie samt en enkätundersökning. Litteraturstudieresultatet visade främst två saker. För det första att valet av digitala eller analoga undervisningsmetoder har liten betydelse för inlärning av grundläggande kunskaper. För det andra ifrågasattes användandet av alltför avancerade digitala kartmedier. Enkätundersökningen visade att väggkartan är det kartmedium som används mest bland respondenterna. Slutsatsen var att resultatet inte gett något svar om vilken metod som är bäst för inlärningen men att enklare digitala applikationer, såsom Google Earth, kan bidra till en förbättrad undervisning om de används på ett ändamålsenligt sätt.

In this paper, I analyze Bitcoin price formation and adoption rates at a global and national level. In determining Bitcoin prices, I consider contemporaneous and lagged values of traditional determinants of currencies, such as inflation and industrial production, and digital currency specific factors, primarily public interest. Using monthly time-series data across five years (2011 – 2016), I find that global public interest in Bitcoin, measured by Google searches for the keyword ‘Bitcoin,’ has a positive and significant impact on Bitcoin prices. I extend the analysis to a country level by employing a proxy for adoption rates, represented by the number of local Bitcoin client downloads, which is a useful predictor of prices. I examine pooled data across 12 countries to show that searches for ‘Bitcoin’ can be used to predict adoption rates and, consequently, prices. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first academic article to study Bitcoin usage at a national level. I find that contemporaneous values of traditionally used macroeconomic determinants of currency prices, except inflation, do not have a significant impact on Bitcoin prices.

The 711-acre Mueller development is located just three miles northeast of downtown on the former site of the Robert Mueller Municipal Airport. Planned as one of Austin’s major transit-oriented New Urbanist developments, Mueller contains a pattern of pedestrian and bike friendly streets to encourage a range of transportation options for residents and visitors. Mueller is 30% complete and provides housing and jobs to over 3000 residents and 3000 employees. This professional report seeks to understand how current residents, employees, and visitors use the bike lanes, sidewalks, and roads in the Mueller community. To evaluate the transportation infrastructure, the author designed and coded a custom Google Maps survey that asked residents to draw common routes, points of interest, and points of concern related to their transportation choices. Field observations were conducted to verify and triangulate the information reported in the online survey. This study investigates whether the transportation principles for the development are or are not achieved by comparing the expressed principles of the development with the actual behavior reported and exhibited by frequent users. / text

Kelly Michael Donovan is an M.F.A. Candidate in Transmedia in the Department of Art and Art History. Kelly Donovan creates artwork that examines our relationship to digital culture and technology, particularly the Internet. Following the global security disclosures in June 2013, Kelly Donovan created a series of work utilizing webcams, Internet search engines and a list of keywords used for monitoring social media to curate information and images relating to surveillance, privacy and national security. / text

<p>Mobile Ad Hoc Networks are flexible, self configuring networks that do not need a fixed infrastructure. When these nets are simulated, mobility models can be used to specify node movements. The work in this thesis focuses on designing an extension of the random trip</p><p>mobility model on a city section from EPFL (Swiss federal institute of technology). Road data is extracted from the census TIGER database, displayed in Google Earth and used as input for the model. This model produces output that can be used in the open source network simulator ns-2.</p><p>We created utilities that take output from a database of US counties, the TIGER database, and convert it to KML. KML is an XML based format used by Google Earth to store geographical data, so that it can be viewed in Google Earth. This data will then be used as input to the modified mobility model and finally run through the ns-2 simulator. We present some NAM traces, a network animator that will show node movements over time.</p><p>We managed to complete most of the goals we set out, apart from being able to modify node positions in Google Earth. This was skipped because the model we modified had an initialization phase that made node positions random regardless of initial position. We were also asked to add the ability to set stationary nodes in Google Earth; this was not added due to time constraints.</p>

<p>Taking into account the rapidly changing of the environment nowadays and the necessity of being different between organizations, this paper tries to show how to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage in companies, through talented people using talent management strategies.</p><p>Here is included all theoretical framework where we will explain our understanding of talent management, talented people and the creativity as a talent. This framework gives us the tools needed to be able to analyse a real talent management strategy.</p><p>During the analysis we will discover that a talent management strategy has to be fitted with the corporate strategy and with the corporate culture and also, that there are infinite ways to develop the talent management activities, it depends on the organization which develops it. For instance we are going to study two companies, Zerogrey and Google, which are very different between them but both of them have a talent management strategy.</p>

現今企業處於高度競爭的經營環境，面對市場需求快速變動，企業需不斷的提昇核心競爭力以能推出創新性新產品、服務或新技術以能使企業持續成長。在知識經濟的環境裡，產品開發所需的技術與知識比重越來越高，但相對的知識越來越分散，以致企業開發新產品所需投入的研發比重持續上升。 Chesbrough (2003)認為，企業過去「封閉式創新」的作法已不符合競爭環境的需求，企業為提高競爭力，必須走向「開放性創新」。「開放性創新」的思維在軟體產業裡已是的創新來源，網路世界最基本的法則就是越多人用就越有價值，透過開放式原始碼與開放式軟體API，讓企業外部的開發者運用企業的資源，貢獻他的創意，才能快速滿足網路使用者需求，這也讓企業能吸收外部知識，進而更新企業的核心能力，提昇競爭力。 本研究在文獻探討部份，以開放式創新、軟體開放式平台與動態能耐三部份為主，其中在探討軟體開放式平台，分為外部技術網路、虛擬社群創新與平台領導者三個子構面加以探討。個案分析選擇軟體產業的領導廠商-Google為個案分析公司，藉由專訪的初級資料與其他次級資料，歸納出個案公司採用開放式創新的思維，運用軟體開放式平台的經營，並因應外部環境更新企業核心能力的方式。 本研究的結論分為兩部份：一是在「開放式創新」的概念下，軟體企業建立開放性平台以連結與運用外部資源的做法包含︰定義企業經營的範疇、建立虛擬互動平台、建立與管理社群與創造平台價值。二是軟體公司透過開放式創新，建立企業動態能耐的做法有︰確認價值活動、強化專屬資產、建立知識管理機制與規劃扁平的組織結構。

Šio darbo tikslas – sukurti efektyvius įvykių atpažinimo filtrus duomenims, gautiems pasitelkiant pagreičių matavimo prietaisus mobiliosiose technologijose. Atlikus sukurtų filtrų nuodugnius tyrimus įvertinti, kurie iš filtrų įvykius atpažįsta efektyviausiai. Neuroninių tinklų pagalba išskirti duobę ir greičio ribojimo kalnelį iš bendro įvykių srauto. Sukurtą prototipą realizuoti praktiškai ir išsamiai atvaizduoti gaunamus rezultatus. Taip pat susipažinti su kitų autorių sukurtais atpažinimo modeliais bei sistemomis, palyginti jų sukurtų algoritmų bei šio darbo atpažinimo rezultatus, praktiškai realizuoti išnagrinėtą modelį. Užfiksuotoms eismo įvykių koordinatėms pritaikyti tinkamiausią duomenų grupavimo algoritmą ir išsamiai atvaizduoti gautus rezultatus. / The aim of this work was to analyze the data which was gotten from accelerometer mounted in mobile device during the test drives through the city together with GPS (Global Positioning System) coordinates, to detect and report the surface conditions of roads as well as to find the way, how it could be represented in the map. The research was started by analyzing oscillation data from accelerometer. We had to keep in mind that there can be road bumps, pit holes, speed bumps and other road anomalies, car can accelerate quickly and break sharply or even crash into something, what would cause a sudden stop. In order to recognize events, different detection filters were applied on data. In addition to this, neuron network was used to recognize pit holes and speed bumps from all event flow. The results of event detection algorithms were compared with other scientist’s works. In order to represent results clearly, database was created holding coordinates of the road events and other information like time, etc. The results were represented using an application programming interface made-up by Google, which was really suitable solution in our case. The whole system was programmed using Java servlets, which allowed to gather data from database using SQL (Structured Query Language) queries. While trying to represent accelerometer data, we faced difficulties in representing these road events on the map, as GPS each time returned answer with small variation of coordinates. In this case, we... [to full text]

Magistro darbo temos pavadinimas – Elektroninė leidyba: autorių teisių aspektai. Darbo tikslas yra išnagrinėti esamą autorių teisių, reguliuojančios elektroninę leidybą, reguliavimą, įvertinti, ar jis atitinka šiuolaikines ekonomines ir technologines tendencijas, palyginti nacionalinį, Europos Sąjungos ir įtaką turinčių kitų valstybių, ypatingai JAV, reguliavimą bei pasiūlyti reikalingus pokyčius teisiniame reguliavime arba tinkamą esamo reguliavimo aiškinimą. Elektroninės leidybos sąvoka yra nagrinėjama plačiai, įtraukiant ir elektroninių bibliotekų, darančių didelę įtaką tiek leidėjų ekonominiams interesams, tiek visuomenės poreikiui į lengvą kūrinių prieinamumą, klausimą. Nagrinėjami Lietuvos, Europos Sąjungos teisės aktai, turintys įtakos elektroninei leidybai bei elektroninių bibliotekų kūrimui. Pirmoje darbo dalyje nagrinėjamas nacionalinio reguliavimo tinkamumas besivystantiems elektroninės leidybos teisiniams santykiams – teisinio reguliavimo skirtumai tarp materialių ir nematerialių laikmenų, tarp tradicinių ir elektroninių knygų. Nagrinėjamas platinimo teisės išnaudojimo principo taikymas, knygų panauda bibliotekose, reglamentavimo ypatumai, atsirandantys dėl nematerialių formų nepatekimo į išleidimo sąvoką, reprografinio atgaminimo išimties taikymo aspektai. Patariama, kaip reikėtų pritaikyti leidybos sutartis, siekiant išlaikyti autorių ir leidėjų teisių pusiausvyrą elektroninėje leidyboje. Analizuojami nauji Autorių teisių ir gretutinių teisių įstatymo pakeitimai... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The title of this master's thesis is E-publishing: Aspects of Copyright. The purpose of this paper is to examine the current E-publishing copyright legislation, evaluate its compliance with modern-day economical and technological tendencies, compare national and European legislation, suggest the necessary changes or interpretations of current legislation. The term “E-publishing” is considered broadly and analysis includes digital libraries legislation and legal perspectives, which has a significant impact on both public interest and interests of copyright right holders – publishers and authors. Firstly, the national copyright legislation and its relevance to electronic publishing is analyzed – legal differences between tangible and intangible media, including differences between traditional and electronic books, rights exhaustions principle, book lending in libraries, photocopying exception, etc. Adaptations of publishing contracts necessary for E-publishing are suggested. The new wording of Law on Copyright and Related Rights and its compliance with E-publishing is analyzed, focusing on new copyright exemptions, especially reproduction of a work for teaching and scientific research purposes, allowing public libraries to make digital copies of books and make them available to the public by dedicated terminals on the premises of the said institutions. Finally, the digital libraries and their legislation as well as perspectives and suggestions are analyzed, including the famous... [to full text]

The importance of evaluating the usability of e-commerce websites is well recognised and this area has attracted research attention for more than a decade. Nearly all the studies that evaluated the usability of e-commerce websites employed either user-based (i.e. user testing) or evaluator-based (i.e. heuristic evaluation) usability evaluation methods; but no research has employed softwarebased (i.e. Google Analytics software) in the evaluation of such sites. Furthermore, the studies which employed user testing and/or heuristic evaluation methods in the evaluation of the usability of e-commerce websites did not offer detail about the benefits and drawbacks of these methods with respect to the identification of specific types of usability problems. This research developed a methodological framework for the usability evaluation of e-commerce websites which involved user testing and heuristic evaluation methods together with Google Analytics software. The framework was developed by comparing the benefits and drawbacks of these methods in terms of the specific areas of usability problems that they could or could not identify on ecommerce websites. The framework involves Google Analytics software as a preliminary step to provide a quick, easy and cheap indication of general potential usability problem areas on an e-commerce website and its specific pages. Then, the framework enables evaluators to choose other methods to provide in-depth detail about specific iv problems on the site. For instance, the framework suggests that user testing is good for identifying specific major usability problems related to four areas: navigation, design, the purchasing process and accessibility and customer service, while the heuristic evaluation is good for identifying a large number of specific minor usability problems related to eight areas including: navigation, internal search, the site architecture, the content, the design, accessibility and customer service, inconsistency and missing capabilities. The framework also suggests that the heuristic evaluation is good at identifying major security and privacy problems. The framework was developed based on an extensive evaluation of the effectiveness of the three methods in identifying specific usability problems in three case studies (e-commerce websites) in Jordan. This highlighted the usefulness of the methods and therefore helps e-commerce retailers to determine the usability method that best matches their needs. The framework was tested and the results indicated the usefulness of the suggested framework in raising awareness of usability and usability evaluation methods among e-commerce retailers in Jordan. This will help them address usability in the design of their websites, thus helping them to survive, grow and achieve success.