Reliability-Cenetred Maintenance (RCM) is a well-known maintenance process developed in the aviation industry. It has yielded great success and hence was the process adapted to be used in the more industrial environments, such as the process developed by Moubray (1997) called RCM2. The RCM process is considered by many to be a very effective and comprehensive maintenance process that can, if implemented correctly, improve reliability and plant availability substantially. However, many maintenance practitioners and maintenance experts who have used RCM will tell you that it is an overcomplicated process and that it is difficult to implement. In many cases the process is abandoned and left incomplete due to the amount of resources required and the slow initial results delivered by the process. This dissertation investigates the reason for this and considers the viability of implementing the RCM process on an industrial level. The Hot Strip Mill (HSM) at the ArcelorMittal Vanderbijlpark plant was used as a case study. The viability of using RCM to improve the HSM maintenance practices was investigated. A suggested maintenance improvement plan was developed that is more suitable for the HSM maintenance environment and culture. / MSc (Development and Management Engineering), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2015

Reliability-Cenetred Maintenance (RCM) is a well-known maintenance process developed in the aviation industry. It has yielded great success and hence was the process adapted to be used in the more industrial environments, such as the process developed by Moubray (1997) called RCM2. The RCM process is considered by many to be a very effective and comprehensive maintenance process that can, if implemented correctly, improve reliability and plant availability substantially. However, many maintenance practitioners and maintenance experts who have used RCM will tell you that it is an overcomplicated process and that it is difficult to implement. In many cases the process is abandoned and left incomplete due to the amount of resources required and the slow initial results delivered by the process. This dissertation investigates the reason for this and considers the viability of implementing the RCM process on an industrial level. The Hot Strip Mill (HSM) at the ArcelorMittal Vanderbijlpark plant was used as a case study. The viability of using RCM to improve the HSM maintenance practices was investigated. A suggested maintenance improvement plan was developed that is more suitable for the HSM maintenance environment and culture. / MSc (Development and Management Engineering), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2015

A college community health improvement plan (CHIP) focusing on the indicators of nutrition and weight status, and physical activity and fitness is designed with the goal of reducing obesity risk, improving health, and preventing chronic disease. The precede proceed model, logic model, innovative care for chronic conditions model, self-care theory, and Bandura's social cognitive learning theory were used as a research design framework for assessing, planning, and managing sustainability through a two-year college health clinic. The research questions were: what are the current health promotion inputs and activities in terms of environment, ecology, education, and policy and what could be supplemented to improve outputs and health outcomes? An integrated review of the literature, observation of the site, regulatory investigation, and focus group sessions were the methods of data collection. The precede-proceed model provided the analytical strategies to assess initiatives and resources, and to determine supplementary initiatives and resources. Results showed that environmental, educational, administrative, and policy resources were available but limited and not well promoted. Conclusions were that health promotion, wellness staffing, and education exist, but are underutilized, under promoted, and funding is necessary. Recommendations include a wellness program, increased activity initiatives, case management, grant funding, and increased community partnerships. The contribution to nursing is to fill a gap-in-practice for health planning in 2-year colleges. The implications for positive social change are improved knowledge, sustained health behaviors, decreased amount of obesity, improved health outcomes and quality of life, decreased chronic diseases, and lower healthcare costs.

Intelligibility is one of the major concerns among ESL learners due to its impact on their ability to communicate with native speakers of English (Derwing & Munro, 2005). Even though pronunciation is often addressed in classrooms, it is difficult to tackle all intelligibility issues relevant for each student. Therefore, it is crucial for ESL learners to spend some extra time outside of class improving their pronunciation. Faced with a daunting task of regulating and taking charge of their own learning, they often have questions with respect to what exactly they need to work on, what activities will help them achieve their goals, how they need to organize those activities, and how long they should practice until they can see results. In such an endeavor, issues like motivation to persist and put forth great effort arise and influence outcomes. In sum, many factors are in play when ESL learners strive to improve their intelligibility. The main purpose of creating Sofia’s ESL Pronunciation Lab is to guide ESL learners in improving intelligibility, while helping them feel confident and motivated about what they are doing. Thirty students participated in the pilot-testing phase of this project. They participated in six weeks of self-regulated instruction followed by the completion of a survey at the end of that period. The results show that Sofia’s ESL Pronunciation Lab accomplished its purpose. Students thought that the website guided them well in the creation and implementation of their own improvement plan. They also thought that the online guide was professional and informative. Several students gave constructive feedback to further enhance the website. Most suggestions were related to including more graphics and visuals as well as adding more content, such as examples and activities. Overall, students believed that the online guide was a helpful addition to the current instruction they were receiving as part of an intensive English language program of study.

The purpose of the study was to describe the process of simultaneous implementation of the Indistar model of school improvement and the University of Virginia School Turnaround model of school improvement and how those models influenced school improvement practices in a rural Southwest Virginia school system. Best practices from each of the school improvement models were identified and adopted, which led to the establishment of a hybrid model of school improvement. The study documents how and why the practices were adopted and used in the hybrid model. The paper includes a literature review which examines the evolution of school improvement in the U.S. The description of the historical development of school reform sets the context for in-depth reviews of five current research studies. The studies selected for review, as well as the research study, focus on the role of the central office in school improvement. A synthesis of the studies' findings provided evidence that further research was needed. Data sources for the study include an individual interview of the superintendent, focus group interviews of central office administration and school leadership teams, archival records, and documents. The focus group interviews were conducted to describe the process of implementation of the two school improvement models and to identify school improvement practices that were adopted by the division. This study identifies the practices that were adopted and implemented throughout the rural Southwest Virginia school system. Best practices that are used in the hybrid model of school improvement are Professional Learning Communities, acceleration teams, 90-day school improvement plans, and a tiered remediation program. Barriers to implementation of school improvement were time, the initial lack of support in the Indistar model, involvement, and the understanding of data and data analysis. The themes of professional development, external and internal supports, and sustainability of school improvement are discussed in Chapter 5. Recommendations for practice and future research are presented. / Ed. D.

The study of health disparities and the social determinants of health has resulted in the call for public health researchers to investigate the mid- and upstream factors that influence the incidence of chronic diseases (Adler & Rehkopf, 2008; Berkman, 2009; Braveman P. , 2006; Braveman & Gottlieb, 2014; Krieger, 2011; Rose, 1985). Social ecological models (SEMs) provide important conceptual tools to inform this research and practice (Krieger, 2011; Golden & Earp, 2012; Story, Kaphingst, Robinson O'Brien, & Glanz, 2008; Glanz, Rimer, & Lewis, 2002). These models can help us look at the social and physical environments in rural Arizona communities and consider how health policies and environmental interventions address mediating factors, such as disparities in access to fresh food, that contribute to ill health in marginalized, rural, populations. Rural residents are at greater risk for obesity than their urban counterparts (Jackson, Doescher, Jerant, & Hart, 2006; Story, Kaphingst, Robinson O'Brien, & Glanz, 2008). And while human life expectancy has steadily increased over the past thousand years, current projections indicate that the rise in obesity-related illnesses will soon result in its decline (Olshansky, et al., 2005). One reason for this decline, may be the reduced availability of healthy food – an important predictor of positive health outcomes including reduced obesity and chronic disease - in many parts of the United States (Brownson, Haire-Joshu, & Luke, 2006; Ahen, Brown, & Dukas, 2011; Braveman & Gottlieb, 2014; Braveman, Egerter, & Williams, 2011). The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) defines food deserts as geographic areas in which there is limited access to grocery stores and whose populations have a high rate of poverty. In Arizona, 24% of the rural census tracts are considered food deserts; compared to an average of eight percent of rural census tracts across the nation (United States Department of Agriculture, 2013). Food deserts are one example of the upstream factors influencing the health of rural populations. Local health departments have been encouraged through the National Association for City and County Health Officials (NACCHO) and through the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) to conduct community health assessments (CHAs) in order to identify unique contexts and community resources, health disparities, and the social determinants of health as well as potential areas for advocacy, policy change, environmental interventions, and health promotion interventions. Public health challenges like chronic diseases, which have multiple causes, can be explored in-depth through CHAs. CHAs often contain recommendations for action and/or are followed by community health improvement plans (CHIPs) which help local health departments prioritize resources and set measurable goals. In Florence, AZ recommendations made in a CHA are being acted upon by a non-profit agency, the Future Forward Foundation (3F). This investigation explores two interrelated issues regarding the use of CHAs and CHIPs as practical tools to set public health priorities. First, what makes a CHA useful to rural public health practitioners? What methods of conducting a CHA and subsequently analyzing the data results in actionable policy recommendations and/or environmental level interventions? Second, to what extent can public health agencies engage nontraditional partners to work in partnership to address the social determinants of health? As an example, I will look at the impact of a volunteer-based non-profit agency, located in a rural food desert on improving the social and physical nutrition environment as recommended by a local CHA. This inquiry will provide insights to public health practitioners seeking to identify and implement policy and environmental change addressing complex, multi-causal, public health issues, and provide insights regarding engaging nontraditional partners who may not self-identify as public health agencies.

Submitted by SBI Biblioteca Digital (sbi.bibliotecadigital@puc-campinas.edu.br) on 2018-05-09T11:58:18Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DANIELA SILVA SANTOS KROGH.pdf: 11659753 bytes, checksum: 86f9f5e903c8c2415e31bebd8d504018 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-05-09T11:58:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DANIELA SILVA SANTOS KROGH.pdf: 11659753 bytes, checksum: 86f9f5e903c8c2415e31bebd8d504018 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-02-21 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior - CAPES / This research aims to investigate the debate about the city planning in Campinas, when, from the late 1920?s, the need to remodel the city was posed. The start point of the urban planning debate in Campinas is the year 1928, when Mayor Orosimbo Maia hired the engineers Jorge de Macedo Vieira and Carl A. Oelsnner to elaborate the Campinas city Cadastral Plan, delivered in 1929, which would be the basis for the technical work for a town-planning plan. In 1929, the councilman Waldemar Rangel Belfort de Mattos, resumed the debate in the City Hall, stating that the city should hire an urban planner to carry out a plan to remodel its urban area, indicating the renowned professor of urbanism at the Polythechnica School of S?o Paulo, Luiz I.R. de Anhaia Mello. After understanding between the mayor of Campinas, Orosimbo Maia and Anhaia Mello, the urban planner presented a report on October 12, 1929, published both in the local press and in the city of S?o Paulo. Anhaia Mello, although he presented an initial proposal, he did not elaborate a plan for the remodeling of Campinas. The political events of the period, with the coup of 1930, and the armed conflict of 1932, emptied the debate on city planning in the city. In 1933, a new proposal for road remodeling was presented by engineer Carlos W. Stevenson and in 1934, the engineer-architect Francisco Prestes Maia was contracted to prepare the plan, approved by the municipality in 1938, which was called Urban Improvement Plan. The approved plan was set up as a reduced version of the Anhaia Mello proposal, limited to a road plan, with the opening of major central avenues, and the destruction of the architectural heritage, whose implementation was coordinated by the Commission for Urban Improvements, represented by local technicians. These proposals are part of the international debate in the field of urban planning, as the references to the international ideology are present both in the Anhaia Mello Report of 1929 and in the proposals of Prestes Maia in 1934. It also presents a case study on the plan drawn up for the city of Marseille (France) in 1931, by the architect and professor of the Institute of Urbanism of the Paris University, Jacques Greber. / Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo investigar e analisar o debate sobre o urbanismo em Campinas, quando, a partir do final da d?cada de 1920, foi colocada quest?o sobre a necessidade de remodela??o da cidade. O marco do in?cio do debate sobre o urbanismo em Campinas ? o ano de 1928, quando o prefeito Orosimbo Maia contratou os engenheiros Jorge de Macedo Vieira e Carl A. Oelsner para elaborar a Planta Cadastral de Campinas, entregue em 1929, que seria a base para os trabalhos t?cnicos para um plano de urbanismo. No ano de 1929, o ent?o vereador Waldemar Rangel Belfort de Mattos retomou o debate na C?mara Municipal, afirmando que a cidade deveria contratar um urbanista para realizar um plano de remodela??o de sua ?rea urbana, indicando o ent?o renomado professor de urbanismo da Escola Polythechnica de S?o Paulo, Luiz I. R. de Anhaia Mello. Ap?s entendimento entre o ent?o prefeito de Campinas, Orosimbo Maia e Anhaia Mello, o urbanista apresentou um relat?rio em 12 de outubro de 1929, veiculado tanto na imprensa local, como na paulistana. Anhaia Mello, embora tenha apresentado uma proposta inicial, n?o chegou a elaborar um plano para a remodela??o de Campinas. Os acontecimentos pol?ticos do per?odo, com o golpe de 1930, e o conflito armado de 1932, esvaziaram o debate sobre o urbanismo na cidade. Em 1933, uma nova proposta de remodela??o vi?ria foi apresentada pelo engenheiro Carlos W. Stevenson e, em 1934, decidiu-se pela contrata??o do engenheiro-arquiteto Francisco Prestes Maia para elabora??o do plano, aprovado pela municipalidade em 1938, o qual denominou-se Plano de Melhoramentos Urbanos. O plano aprovado configurou-se como uma vers?o reduzida da proposta de Anhaia Mello, limitando-se a um plano vi?rio, com a abertura de grandes avenidas centrais, e a destrui??o do patrim?nio arquitet?nico, cuja implanta??o foi coordenada pela Comiss?o de Melhoramentos Urbanos, representado pelos t?cnicos locais. Estas propostas se inserem no debate internacional no campo do urbanismo, na medida em que as refer?ncias ao ide?rio internacional est?o presentes tanto no Relat?rio Anhaia Mello, de 1929, e nas propostas de Prestes Maia, de 1934. Ainda, apresenta um estudo de caso sobre o plano elaborado para a cidade de Marselha (Fran?a) em 1931, pelo arquiteto e professor do Instituto de Urbanismo da Universidade de Paris, Jacques Greber.

This thesis, firstly, examines the main characteristics of comprehensive and strategic spatial planning and by comparing both planning understandings indicates that strategic spatial planning is thought as more suitable to the demands of both developing and developed countries in the contemporary era. Then, the main argument of the thesis is presented as Ulus Historical Center Conservation and Improvement Plan is an example of a strategic plan prepared for the purposes of conservation (development). In conformity with the general conviction that strategic plan is more flexible, adaptable to changing circumstances, action oriented, open to negotiation by various actors involved in the planning process and allowing participation by beneficiaries of the planning process, this study aims to find out the strategic plan characteristics of Ulus Historical Center Conservation and Improvement Plan by looking at its development stage, main characteristics and the implementation process. As a conclusion, displaying an alternative view and as a planning process Ulus Planning Project is different than the traditional comprehensive conservation (development) plans more displaying the characteristics of strategic spatial planning.

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O trabalho analisa como a produção arquitetônica e a atuação política de quatro engenheiros contribuiu para o processo de modernização espacial da cidade de Campinas nas décadas de 1930 e 1940. O período estudado coincide com o momento de elaboração e implantação do Plano de Melhoramentos Urbanos, desenvolvido pelo urbanista Prestes Maia, sob encomenda do poder municipal. Entre o grupo restrito de atores envolvidos no projeto de modernização da cidade, destacou-se a participação dos engenheiros Eduardo Badaró, Hoche Néger Segurado, Lix da Cunha e Mário Penteado. O primeiro, funcionário da prefeitura, foi responsável pela implantação do plano, e os demais representavam os escritórios de engenharia mais operosos da cidade. Estuda a forma como a produção arquitetônica desses engenheiros foi realizada e investiga os fatores envolvidos no processo de sua constituição: referências artísticas e conceituais influenciadas pelos ecos tardios do embate teórico entre modernos e acadêmicos, travado nas primeiras décadas do século XX e que motivou engenheiros e arquitetos na busca por novos paradigmas inspirados nas vanguardas europeias; os meios materiais tendo no concreto armado um novo definidor do sistema construtivo; a herança das formações acadêmicas distintas; os jogos econômicos atrelados à industrialização da cidade; as estratégias políticas para a legitimação da implantação do plano de modernização urbana; as ações dos recém-fundados órgãos de classe no processo de afirmação da categoria profissional e, por fim, as demandas e aspirações de suas clientelas. Ao abordar as circunstâncias que envolveram a transformação do espaço urbano, tendo como corresponsáveis esses profissionais, a investigação dá ensejo a uma reflexão sobre ideias de modernidade que ultrapassam o campo das artes, que não obedecem a uma linha evolutiva homogênea e, sobretudo, que reconhecem a existência de várias categorias arquitetônicas, representantes das muitas correntes envolvidas em um processo de modernização mulltifacetado. / This paper analyses how the architectural production and political action of four engineers contributed to the spatial modernization process of the city of Campinas in the 1930s and 1940s. The studied period coincides with the time of the preparation and implementation of the Urban Improvement Plan, developed by the urban planner Prestes Maia and commissioned by the municipal power. Among the group of professionals involved in the modernization project of the city, the participation of the engineers Eduardo Badaró, Hoche Neger Segurado, Lix da Cunha and Mario Penteado stood out. The first engineer, who worked for the city hall, was responsible for implementing the plan, and the other engineers represented the most distinguished architecture offices in the city. It is of great interest to understand how the architectural production of these engineers was carried outand investigate the factors involved in its creation: conceptual and artistic references influenced by the late echoes of the clash between modern and academic in the early decades of the twentieth century that motivated engineers and architects in the search for new paradigms inspired by the European avant-gardes; the material resources having in the reinforced concrete a new determinant in the construction system; the inheritance of different academic backgrounds; the economic relations closely related to the industrialization of the city; the political strategies for the legitimation of the implementation of the urban modernization plan; the actions of the newly founded professional entities in the process of assertion of the professional category, and finally, the demands and aspirations of their clientele. By addressing the circumstances surrounding the transformation of the urban space, having these professionals as mutually responsible for all these changes, the investigation brings up a reflection on an idea of modernity that goes beyond the arts, does not follow a smooth evolutionary path and, above all, that recognizes the existence of various architectural categories, representing many streams of a multifaceted modernity.