In this essay I examine and criticize Jeffrey Kaplans fifth wave theory of terrorism, the theory is an addition and through the elaboration of professor David C. Rapoports classic Fourth wave theory. I have chosen to do that   by comparing al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and the Islamic State using their corresponding magazines Inspire and Dabiq. The goal of this exercise is to prove that what we experience with the Islamic State is not the beginning of a new wave of terrorism as Kaplan call it, but a state in making. Kaplans fifth wave gives us a good method to analyze terror organizations in between the state of organization and state but fails to live up to a new wave of terrorism. I therefore argue that what we are seeing for the movement is not the birth of a fifth wave, but rather a new development of a fourth.

Studien är en kvalitativ innehållsanalys av den amerikanska tv-serien Orange  is the new black, där vi har undersökt hur etniska stereotyper konstrueras i serien. Orange is the new black har omtalats som en tv-serie som bryter mot många av de klassiska fördomarna kring etniska grupper. Genom att undersöka vilka stereotyper som tidigare har förekommit i media har vi sedan kunnat undersöka hur etniciteter framställs i vårt undersökningsobjekt, hur de framställs i relation till varandra och om serien lyckas utmana gamla stereotyper, och i så fall hur? För att undersöka detta har vi använt semiotik som metod. Problemet som vi ser är att människor påverkas av vad de ser i medierna och att media påverkar hur samhället ser ut. Med hjälp av postkolonial teori och begreppen stereotyp och hegemoni undersöker vi hur en tv-serie kan hjälpa till att styra samhällets strukturer och attityder gentemot andra etniciteter. Den postkoloniala teorin menar att västerländsk kultur ofta är etnocentrisk och bidrar till att skapa klyftor mellan “vi” i väst, och “de” andra.   Vi kom fram till att Orange is the new black bekräftar existerande stereotyper snarare än att bryta mot dem, och att serien i hög grad bidrar till att förstärka skillnaden mellan etniska grupper. Vi har därmed dragit slutsatsen att tv-serien också då påverkar samhällets hegemoni genom att porträttera den vita medelklassen som en grupp som står över afroamerikaner, latinamerikaner, asiater och white trash. Som vidare forskning föreslår vi att fokus förflyttas från innehållet till hur mottagarna uppfattar stereotyper i Orange is the new black.

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Trying to dive deeply into social dimension of everyday aesthetics one can find himself being an everyday artist. A possibility of seeing beauty in all the objects, ideas and actions from a somebody’s daily routine defines a new figure of the artworld who is no more just an artist or just a viewer, but – a perceiver. Art Agenda is a clutch of everyday capturing my works from first to thirty-second of May 2014. / Kai giliai paneri į kasdienybės estetikos socialinę dimenciją, patiri jausmą, kad esi kiekvienos dienos menininkas. Kai turi galimybę pastebėti grožį visuose objektuose, idejose bei veiksmuose, sklindančiuose iš tavo rutinos, tuomet tampi meno pasaulio asmeniu, kuris nebėra jau vien tiktai meno gamintojas ar meno žiūrovas, bet - stebėtojas. "Darbų kalendorius" - tai mano kasdienybės ryšulys, kuriame yra užfiksuoti darbai nuo šių metų gegužės pirmosios iki trisdešimt antrosios dienos.

Software implementation projects struggle with the delicate balance of low cost, on-time delivery and quality. The methodologies and processes used to create and maintain a quality software system are expensive to deploy and result in long development cycle-time. However, without their deployment into the software implementation life-cycle, a software system will be undependable, unsuccessful. The purpose of this research is to identify a succinct set of software implementation success criteria and assess the key independent constructs, activities, carried out to ensure a successful implementation project. The research will assess the success of a software implementation project as the dependent construct of interest and use the software process model (methodology) as the independent construct. This field research involved three phases: (1) criteria development, (2) data collection, and (3) testing of hypotheses and discriminant analysis. The first phase resulted in the development of the measurement instruments for the independent and dependent constructs. The measurement instrument for the independent construct was representative of the criteria from highly regarded software implementation process models and methodologies, e.g., ISO9000, Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model (SEI CMM). The dependent construct was developed from the categories and criteria from the Delone and McLean (1992) MIS List of Success Measures. The data collection and assessment phase employed a field survey research strategy to 80 companies involved in internal software implementation. Both successful and unsuccessful software implementation projects (identified by the Delone/McLean model) participated. Results from 165 projects were collected, 28 unsuccessful and 137 successful. The third phase used ANOVA to test the first 11 hypotheses and employed discriminant analysis for the 12th hypothesis to identify the "best set" of variables, criteria, that discriminate between successful and unsuccessful software implementation projects. Twelve discriminating variables out of 67 were identified and supported as significant discriminators between successful and unsuccessful projects. Three of the 11 constructs were found not to be significant investments for the successful projects.

The widespread distribution of personal computers (PCs) throughout organizations has made a substantial impact on information systems. Additionally, the tremendous growth of the Internet has changed the way business is carried out. As the user population evolves into a much more technical and demanding group, their needs are also changing. With this change, Management Information Systems (MIS) departments must develop new ways of providing service and support to the user community. This study investigates the relationship between information systems support structures, support services, service quality and the characteristics of a diverse user population. This includes investigating technical support issues influencing user satisfaction. This study attempts to improve the understanding of the support function within MIS. The results of this study clarify the support needs of the users and identify user satisfaction factors, as well as factors relative to the quality of the support received. Six streams of prior research were reviewed when developing the research framework. These include: user support, end users and end-user computing, identifying and classifying user types, information centers, user satisfaction, service quality and other sources of computer support. A survey instrument was designed using the (UIS) user satisfaction instrument developed by Doll and Torkzadeh (1988) and the SERVQUAL instrument as modified by Kettinger and Lee (1994). The survey was distributed to 720 individuals. A total of 155 usable responses were analyzed providing mixed results. Of the ten hypotheses, only four were rejected. The finding of this study differ from those in earlier studies. The variables that were found to be significant to the users for service quality are the method of support that is provided to the user, i.e., help desk or local MIS support and the support technician's experience level. For user satisfaction the location of the service personnel made a difference to the end user. As with service quality, the support technician's experience level added to the users' satisfaction with MIS support. The results of this study are pertinent to managers of MIS departments as it clarifies the support needs of the users and identifies issues of user satisfaction and service quality.

ABSTRACT The following thesis documents the costume design process and execution for the staged production of Mark Twain’s Is He Dead? as adapted by David Ives. It was produced at the University of New Orleans as part of the Film, Theatre, and Communication Arts Department 2011-2012 season in collaboration with New Orleans theatre company, The NOLA Project. In conjunction with the director and the design team, it is the role of the costume designer to support the overall concept of the production. The documentation of this process begins with the textual, historical, and visual research pertaining to the design concept. The various aspects of the costume design process are presented leading up to the execution of the final designs and successful realization of the play, concluding with a final analysis of the work. Supporting visual documentation and sources used to illustrate the phases of design are contained within the subsequent appendices. Costume Design, Mark Twain, Is He Dead?, Theater Design

Submitted by Setor de Tratamento da Informa??o - BC/PUCRS (tede2@pucrs.br) on 2016-09-22T10:54:26Z No. of bitstreams: 1 TES_RODRIGO_FERREIRA_BASTOS_COMPLETO.pdf: 2550648 bytes, checksum: 33a726a21f731a2dd38bdc307b55428f (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-22T10:54:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 TES_RODRIGO_FERREIRA_BASTOS_COMPLETO.pdf: 2550648 bytes, checksum: 33a726a21f731a2dd38bdc307b55428f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-17 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior - CAPES / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Cient?fico e Tecnol?gico - CNPq / One of the key stones of aquatic ecology field is the understanding on the origin and flow of energy and matter along food webs. Several hypotheses and theories try to explain (1) the differential contribution levels of production in terrestrial habitats and (2) the differential trophic chain lengths between different parts and types of aquatic habitats. About 60 years ago, the isotopic ratios of the components of trophic webs, mainly carbon (?13C) and nitrogen (?15N), has been used to identify and quantify the relationships between them. Carbon provides the identification of sources of matter because its isotope ratio almost no change between the consumer and the resource. On the other hand, the nitrogen provides the opportunity to measure the trophic position of consumers, since their isotopic ratio changes in a similar way between subsequent trophic levels. Since then, various analytical techniques have been emerged to overcome the assumptions and limitations on the use of stable isotopes. At least two key factors are identified for estimating trophic positions, to trace the assimilation of resources and to compare these in different situations: (1) the consideration of isotopic values on the baseline of the food webs, and (2) the trophic discrimination factors (TDF), or the change which occurs in the isotope ratios between a source and the organism that consumes it. In the first chapter, the trophic structure of a lake and a wetland at Taim Ecological Station was evaluated during the dry (summer) and wet (winter) seasons. The hypothesis are that the lake, a larger and more stable habitat, will present (1) a larger trophic complexity whereas the wetland, being smaller and more instable will present (2) greater relationship with terrestrial sources, especially during flood period. In addition, the proposition of the use of trophic position (PT) replacing ?15N as proxy for vertical dimension on the isotopic space metrics, was made in order to consider differences in baselines between situations. The trophic structure of the wetland was simpler than the lake, and was more related to terrestrial material during flood, as well as the trophic length was higher during flood, confirming those hypotheses related to the size, hydrological pulse and stable environments. In the second chapter, populations of livebearer Jenynsia multidentata, an omnivore consumer, were studied over a estuarine gradient to evaluate the effect of using different values of TDF, including those associated with specific diets (carnivore and herbivore), on the assimilation and PT estimates. Furthermore, a new method for TP estimation of consumers subject to different sources of variation in the FDT was proposed. The new method (TPPA) takes the proportion of food assimilation estimates for each source and its associated TDF, with this being the proportional value used to give weight for TDFs of each source to the final TDS. The results indicated that most of the plant material consumed was not assimilated, and thus even when animals were less ingested, these were the most assimilated resource. Furthermore, the proposed method was suitable to trace the assimilation and reveal that the use of widely used means of TDFs may not be suitable when the consumer presents different types of diet. The results obtained, contribute to improve the knowledge about the structure and functioning of globally important conservation areas present in the Rio Grande do Sul state and also seem to contribute to the development of analytical techniques involving stable isotopes as tracers along the food webs. / Uma quest?o central no entendimento da ecologia aqu?tica ? a origem e o fluxo de mat?ria e energia nas teias alimentares. Diversas hip?teses e teorias tentam explicar (1) os diferentes n?veis de contribui??o da produ??o nos ambientes terrestres (2) os diferentes comprimentos de cadeia tr?fica entre diferentes por??es e diferentes tipos de ambientes aqu?ticos. H? cerca de 60 anos, as raz?es isot?picas dos componentes das tramas tr?ficas, principalmente carbono (?13C) e nitrog?nio (?15N), tem sido empregadas para identificar e quantificar as rela??es entre eles. O carbono proporciona a identifica??o das fontes de mat?ria, pois sua raz?o isot?pica muda pouco entre o consumidor e o recurso. J? o nitrog?nio propicia a oportunidade de mensura??o das posi??es tr?ficas dos consumidores, uma vez que sua raz?o isot?pica muda de maneira similar entre um n?vel tr?fico e o subsequente. Desde ent?o, diversas t?cnicas anal?ticas emergiram para a supera??o dos pressupostos e limita??es no uso dos is?topos est?veis. Pelo menos dois fatores chave s?o identificados para estimar posi??es tr?ficas, tra?ar a assimila??o de recursos e comparar estes em diferentes situa??es: (1) a considera??o dos valores isot?picos na base das cadeias, ou baselines, e (2) os fatores de discrimina??o tr?fica (FDT), ou seja, a mudan?a que ocorre nas raz?es isot?picas entre uma fonte de mat?ria e o organismo que consome esta. No primeiro cap?tulo a estrutura tr?fica de uma lagoa e um banhado na Esta??o Ecol?gica do TAIM foi acompanhada durante o per?odo seco (ver?o) e o de inunda??o (inverno). A hip?tese de que a lagoa, por ser um ambiente maior e mais est?vel que o banhado apresentaria uma (1) complexidade tr?fica maior, e que o banhado, por ser menor e mais inst?vel (2) apresentaria maior rela??o com material terrestre, principalmente no inverno foi trabalhada. Al?m disso, ? feita a proposi??o do uso da posi??o tr?fica (PT) em substitui??o ao ?15N para as medidas verticais das teias alimentares, pois assim ? considerado o baseline de cada situa??o comparada. A estrutura tr?fica do banhado foi mais simples do que a da lagoa, e foi mais ligada ao material terrestre durante o inverno, per?odo em que os comprimentos das cadeias tr?ficas foram mais elevados, corroborando hip?teses relacionadas ao tamanho, pulso hidrol?gico e estabilidade dos ambientes. No segundo cap?tulo, popula??es do barrigudinho Jenynsia multidentata, um consumidor omn?voro, foram estudadas ao longo de um gradiente estuarino para avaliar o efeito do uso de diferentes valores de FDT, incluindo os associados com dietas espec?ficas (carn?vora e herb?vora) sobre as estimativas de assimila??o e PT. Ademais, um novo m?todo para estimativa de PT de consumidores sujeitos a diferentes fontes de varia??o nos FDT, foi proposto. O novo m?todo (TPPA) considera a propor??o de assimila??o de cada fonte alimentar e o FDT associado a esta, sendo o valor proporcional de assimila??o usado como peso do FDT de cada fonte para o FDT final. Os resultados mostraram que grande parte do material vegetal consumido n?o foi assimilado e assim, mesmo quando animais foram menos ingeridos, estes foram o recurso mais assimilado. Al?m disso, o m?todo proposto foi o mais adequado para tra?ar a assimila??o e a PT revelando que o uso de m?dias amplamente usadas podem n?o ser adequadas quando o consumidor apresenta diferentes tipos de dieta. Os resultados aqui obtidos, al?m de contribuir para um maior conhecimento acerca da estrutura e funcionamento de ?reas de preserva??o globalmente importantes e presentes no estado do Rio Grande do Sul, colaboram para a melhoria das t?cnicas anal?ticas envolvendo is?topos est?veis como tra?adores de mat?ria ao longo das tramas tr?ficas.

Diplomová práce pojednává o implementaci ERP systémů do středně velkých firem. Zabývá se celým procesem implementace od přípravy projektu, přes výběrové řízení, implementaci ERP systému až po rutinní provoz, a to se zaměřením na specifika a rizika ERP projektů. V praktické části se zabývá konkrétním projektem implementace SAP R/3 do podniku Soluziona, s.r.o.

Cílem této práce je uspořádat a obohatit teoretickou základnu řízení rizik v projektovém managementu, analyzovat a zhodnotit přístup k této problematice dle metodiky PMBOK a poskytnout základní praktický pohled na řízení rizik ve skutečných projektech z oblasti IS/ICT. Vlastní text je strukturován do sedmi kapitol, z nichž první poskytuje úvod a vymezení celé práce. Ve druhé kapitole je proveden úvod do oblasti řízení rizik v projektech a dále analyzován přístup a základní principy metodiky řízení projektu PMBOK. Ve třetí kapitole je uveden seznam projektových rizik, který byl vytvořen a popsán na základě průzkumu literatury, diskusí s odborníky a praktických zkušeností autora. Ve čtvrté kapitole, která obsahuje řadu nových teoretických pojmů, jsou poté popsány autorem identifikované různé způsoby řízení rizik projektu podle jeho základních charakteristik. Pátá kapitola se zaměřuje na posouzení metodiky PMBOK vzhledem ke všem zjištěným typům rizik a identifikovaným způsobům jejich řízení a pokouší se o její doplnění. V šesté kapitole jsou konečně využity všechny poznatky získané ve všech předchozích kapitolách a je provedena jejich aplikace na oblast IS/ICT, mimo jiné pomocí vzorového příkladu obsahujícího některé autorem navržené analytické nástroje. V sedmé kapitole je provedeno závěrečné zhodnocení.