In the arid west large areas of soil contain soluble salts in sufficient concentrations to inhabit crop growth. Of the 1,416,957 acres of soil surveyed in Utah from 1899 to 1920, reported that 43.58 per cent contained 0.2 per cent or more of salts. The management and reclamation of these soils present serious problems. The difficulties are futher accentuated by the fact that many streams used for irrigation contain appreciable quantities of salt. Generally under these conditions removal of the salt from the soil becomes impracticable, and the problem is one of elarning how to get along in spite of the salt. An early study by Lipman and gericke and some preliminary tests at the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station have indicated that crops growing on salty soils may be benefited by applications of copper salts. Because of the economic importance of any procedure for increasing crop production on salty soils, additional studies were proposed to further investigate the problems involved. The research on this problem was planned to investigated the value of copper sulfate in increasing crop yields on salty soils and to study ways in which coppyer might benefit plants under these conditions. Further studies were planned to determine whether an antagonism can be produced in saline soils between sodium cholride and copper sulfate and to determine whether this antagonism is specific for copper or whether it might alos be produced by other ions.

The increasing importance of informal relationships derives from the steadily evolving and proceeding conditions in which we are involved in on a daily basis. These conditions range from the overall environment we are living in, over to our organizational working context and end up in our very own personal setting, namely our minds: in the end, we as human beings are the primary cause for the forming of such relationships, as they are established through our needs, concerns, wishes and fears. Furthermore, we are also highly influenced by our surrounding conditions, and so are the causes, types and effects of the so formed relationships. Our research offers an analytical as well as personal approach to bring the increasing importance of informal relationships to the minds of our readers. Especially leading figures in various organizational contexts are our target audience, as they have to cope with the also growing responsibilities and requirements that are accompanied by this process. Among scholars of this research field, there are many terms and expressions existing of such informal elements and happenings. Some speak of them as the ‘hidden assets’ of organizations, others entitle them as their ‘underlying powers’ and there also exist highly analytical notations, like for example ‘secondary adjustments’. However, all of them cannot entirely reproduce the thoughts and feelings we connect with our work. As we are now acting within the circle of these scholars, we take the liberty to add our own expression, which is best able to demonstrate our perception of such informal forces. We have given them the term ‘Lurking Lions’. They are powerful but also hard to encounter, as they are very well hidden behind the bushes of the formal organization and present without any noise. However, if our entitled lions realize some changes, threats or incentives in their environment, they are likely to reveal themselves and exert a drastic influence on the ones who caused them. By getting in contact with them, most people are likely to be overwhelmed as no one really knows about their thoughts, intentions and upcoming actions. Therefore, we tempt you to listen carefully, observe deeply and find out the nature of these ‘Lurking Lions’. By doing so, you can get a new powerful informal ally on your side.

This dissertation includes two parts. Part 1 develops a geostatistical method to calibrate Texas NexRad rainfall estimates using rain gauge measurements. Part 2 explores the asymptotic joint distribution of sample space-time covariance estimators. The following two paragraphs briefly summarize these two parts, respectively. Rainfall is one of the most important hydrologic model inputs and is considered a random process in time and space. Rain gauges generally provide good quality data; however, they are usually too sparse to capture the spatial variability. Radar estimates provide a better spatial representation of rainfall patterns, but they are subject to substantial biases. Our calibration of radar estimates, using gauge data, takes season, rainfall type and rainfall amount into account, and is accomplished via a combination of threshold estimation, bias reduction, regression techniques and geostatistical procedures. We explore a varying-coefficient model to adapt to the temporal variability of rainfall. The methods are illustrated using Texas rainfall data in 2003, which includes WAR-88D radar-reflectivity data and the corresponding rain gauge measurements. Simulation experiments are carried out to evaluate the accuracy of our methodology. The superiority of the proposed method lies in estimating total rainfall as well as point rainfall amount. We study the asymptotic joint distribution of sample space-time covariance esti-mators of stationary random fields. We do this without any marginal or joint distri-butional assumptions other than mild moment and mixing conditions. We consider several situations depending on whether the observations are regularly or irregularly spaced, and whether one part or the whole domain of interest is fixed or increasing. A simulation experiment illustrates the asymptotic joint normality and the asymp- totic covariance matrix of sample space-time covariance estimators as derived. An extension of this part develops a nonparametric test for full symmetry, separability, Taylor's hypothesis and isotropy of space-time covariances.

<p>BT Products avdelning för slangtillverkning har i dagsläget problem med att klara av dagens produktionstakt. Målet med detta arbete är att identifiera och komma till rätta med dagens problem samt förbereda avdelningen inför en taktökning från dagens 50 000 till 60 000 truckar per år. </p><p>I arbetets första skede gjordes en beskrivning av nuläget. Detta genom att observera och aktivt delta i arbete på avdelningen, intervjua personal, samla in data och göra en tidsstudie. Med resultatet av tidsstudien och datainsamlingen gjordes en beräkning av hur mycket tid som behövs för att hinna med dagens produktionstakt. Beräkningen visade att drygt hälften av den tillgängliga tiden borde räcka för att klara denna och att maskinernas kapacitet gott och väl räcker till. De problem som identifierats som orsak till att produktionen ändå inte hinns med är främst dålig layout, ineffektiva arbetssätt, onödiga arbetsmoment samt planeringsproblem kopplat till eftersläpning i produktionen. </p><p> </p><p>För att åtgärda dessa problem och förbereda slangavdelningen för en 60 000 takt har en rad förbättringsförslag arbetats fram. Ett förslag på en ny layout har gjorts för att uppnå ett bättre flöde i produktionen med mindre transporter och färre onödiga förflyttningar. Ett införande av standardiserat arbete bör göras för att säkerställa att alltid det mest effektiva arbetssättet används. Fler maskiner behöver inte införskaffas för att klara av produktionen, om de inte köps in i syfte att användas som säkerhetskapacitet, men en del hjälputrustning bör införskaffas för att underlätta och förbättra arbetet på avdelningen. Exempel på detta är en bättre slangvinda, streckkodläsare och monteringsutrustning.</p> / <p>The department for hydraulic hose manufacturing at BT Products has problems keeping up with today’s productionpase. The goal for this project is to identify and fix today’s problems and prepare the hosemanufacturing department for an increasment in productionpase from today’s 50 000 to 60 000 forklifts per year. </p><p>To begin with an analysis of the situation today was made, this by observing and participating in the daily work at the department, interviewing the personal, collecting data and performing a timestudy. The results of the timestudy combined with the collected data were used to calculate the time needed to cope with today’s productionpase. The calculation showed that a little more than half the available time should be enough to do this and that the capacity of the machines is by far more than needed. The problems identified causing the department falling behind is mainly bad layout, ineffective operation routines, unnecessary operations and planning problems due to delays in the production. </p><p> </p><p>In order to fix these problems and prepare the hosemanufacturing department for the increased productionpase a series of suggestions for improvement has been developed. A suggestion for a new layout has been made in order to reach a better productionflow with less transports and unnecessary movements. An implementation of standardized operations should be made in order to be sure that the best operations routine always is used. Investments in new machines are not necessary to cope with the future productionpase unless they are bought in purpose to serve as safetycapacity. However investments in some smaller equipment are necessary to ease and improve the daily work at the department. Examples of equipment needed are a better hosereel, barcode reader and assemble equipment.</p>

BT Products avdelning för slangtillverkning har i dagsläget problem med att klara av dagens produktionstakt. Målet med detta arbete är att identifiera och komma till rätta med dagens problem samt förbereda avdelningen inför en taktökning från dagens 50 000 till 60 000 truckar per år. I arbetets första skede gjordes en beskrivning av nuläget. Detta genom att observera och aktivt delta i arbete på avdelningen, intervjua personal, samla in data och göra en tidsstudie. Med resultatet av tidsstudien och datainsamlingen gjordes en beräkning av hur mycket tid som behövs för att hinna med dagens produktionstakt. Beräkningen visade att drygt hälften av den tillgängliga tiden borde räcka för att klara denna och att maskinernas kapacitet gott och väl räcker till. De problem som identifierats som orsak till att produktionen ändå inte hinns med är främst dålig layout, ineffektiva arbetssätt, onödiga arbetsmoment samt planeringsproblem kopplat till eftersläpning i produktionen. För att åtgärda dessa problem och förbereda slangavdelningen för en 60 000 takt har en rad förbättringsförslag arbetats fram. Ett förslag på en ny layout har gjorts för att uppnå ett bättre flöde i produktionen med mindre transporter och färre onödiga förflyttningar. Ett införande av standardiserat arbete bör göras för att säkerställa att alltid det mest effektiva arbetssättet används. Fler maskiner behöver inte införskaffas för att klara av produktionen, om de inte köps in i syfte att användas som säkerhetskapacitet, men en del hjälputrustning bör införskaffas för att underlätta och förbättra arbetet på avdelningen. Exempel på detta är en bättre slangvinda, streckkodläsare och monteringsutrustning. / The department for hydraulic hose manufacturing at BT Products has problems keeping up with today’s productionpase. The goal for this project is to identify and fix today’s problems and prepare the hosemanufacturing department for an increasment in productionpase from today’s 50 000 to 60 000 forklifts per year. To begin with an analysis of the situation today was made, this by observing and participating in the daily work at the department, interviewing the personal, collecting data and performing a timestudy. The results of the timestudy combined with the collected data were used to calculate the time needed to cope with today’s productionpase. The calculation showed that a little more than half the available time should be enough to do this and that the capacity of the machines is by far more than needed. The problems identified causing the department falling behind is mainly bad layout, ineffective operation routines, unnecessary operations and planning problems due to delays in the production. In order to fix these problems and prepare the hosemanufacturing department for the increased productionpase a series of suggestions for improvement has been developed. A suggestion for a new layout has been made in order to reach a better productionflow with less transports and unnecessary movements. An implementation of standardized operations should be made in order to be sure that the best operations routine always is used. Investments in new machines are not necessary to cope with the future productionpase unless they are bought in purpose to serve as safetycapacity. However investments in some smaller equipment are necessary to ease and improve the daily work at the department. Examples of equipment needed are a better hosereel, barcode reader and assemble equipment.

Darbo uždaviniai: 1. Išanalizuoti finansinės bei konkrečiai pelningumo analizės, teorinius aspektus. 2. Atlikti UAB „Q“ finansinę analizę. 3. Identifikuoti UAB „Q“ veiklos pelningumo didinimo problemas. 4. Atskleisti UAB „Q“ pelno poveikį vertės kūrimui. 5. Modeliuoti UAB „Q“ pelningumo didinimo scenarijus 6. Pasiūlyti vadybinius sprendimus UAB „Q“ pelningumo didinimui. / Job tasks: 1. To analyze the financial and profitability analysis, the theoretical aspects. 2. Make UAB "Q" financial analysis. 3.To identify the "Q" posibilities to improve profit 4. Disclosure UAB "Q", the profit impact of value creation. 5. Modeling Ltd. 'Q' profitability improvement scenarios 6. To offer management solutions UAB "Q" to increase profitability.

The paper presents a formal analysis which incorporates returns to transportation into a Ricardian framework to predict trade patterns. The important point to be gained from this analysis is that increasing returns to transportation, coupled with appropriate distances between trading partners can be shown to reverse Ricardian predictions even when there are no international differences in tastes, technology, or factor endowments. Additional gains from trade may emerge from reductions in aggregate delivery costs owing to scale economies. (authors' abstract) / Series: Discussion Papers of the Institute for Economic Geography and GIScience

There is an increasing awareness that human beings are disconnected from nature. Physical disconnectedness from nature may lead to psychological and spiritual malfunctioning. Those who are aware of this disconnectedness try to compensate by spending leisure time in nature. The urge to go 'back to nature' was the start of ecotourism. The increase in tourist traffic and the concomitant development brings about negative effects, subjecting tourists to disappointment. Development has destroyed the specific experience which the people came for in the first place. Should environmental degradation continue the enriching experiences people have in nature will no longer exist. The preferred outcome for eco tourists is to acquire a sense of spiritual sustenance that could enhance their optimal functioning after experimenting a natural environment. A disregard for sound principles of responsible ecotourism development could result in lost opportunities. The research problem is located in the fact that individuals are seldom aware of their disconnectedness from the natural environment. Secondly, there is a need for more pristine, natural environments where humans can restore their encounters with the nature. Ecotourism development should be sensitive to the tastes of tourists who have as their objectives memorable experiences in natural environments. During this exploratory study, interviews, questionnaires and field observations were used to collect qualitative and limited quantitative data. Findings confirm that human beings are part of nature. Technological progress has led to an indoor lifestyle that causes humans to become disconnected from nature. Disconnectedness also involves a spiritual dimension. To restore a sense of connectedness between human beings and nature, people need to spend time in nature. Ecotourism originated from and exists because of the desire of individuals to reconnect to nature. They fulfil this desire by experiencing unspoilt natural environments, both physically and spiritually. Although a pattern of phases in a nature experience can be distinguished, every individual attaches a personal meaning to the experience. People have satisfying nature experiences in any natural environment. The intensity or fulfilment of such experiences depends on personal perceptions as well as external disturbances, such as litter and inappropriate behaviour. People attach meaning to experiences by structuring them into stories. The more we talk about the nature experience, the more knowledge is added to it. Consequently the experience becomes powerful, adding quality to people's lives and relationships. In this regard, aspects of rituals, metaphors and symbols, as well as spiritual experiences, play a significant role in the meaning people find in natural environments. / Thesis (Ph.D. (History))--North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2005

There is an increasing awareness that human beings are disconnected from nature. Physical disconnectedness from nature may lead to psychological and spiritual malfunctioning. Those who are aware of this disconnectedness try to compensate by spending leisure time in nature. The urge to go 'back to nature' was the start of ecotourism. The increase in tourist traffic and the concomitant development brings about negative effects, subjecting tourists to disappointment. Development has destroyed the specific experience which the people came for in the first place. Should environmental degradation continue the enriching experiences people have in nature will no longer exist. The preferred outcome for eco tourists is to acquire a sense of spiritual sustenance that could enhance their optimal functioning after experimenting a natural environment. A disregard for sound principles of responsible ecotourism development could result in lost opportunities. The research problem is located in the fact that individuals are seldom aware of their disconnectedness from the natural environment. Secondly, there is a need for more pristine, natural environments where humans can restore their encounters with the nature. Ecotourism development should be sensitive to the tastes of tourists who have as their objectives memorable experiences in natural environments. During this exploratory study, interviews, questionnaires and field observations were used to collect qualitative and limited quantitative data. Findings confirm that human beings are part of nature. Technological progress has led to an indoor lifestyle that causes humans to become disconnected from nature. Disconnectedness also involves a spiritual dimension. To restore a sense of connectedness between human beings and nature, people need to spend time in nature. Ecotourism originated from and exists because of the desire of individuals to reconnect to nature. They fulfil this desire by experiencing unspoilt natural environments, both physically and spiritually. Although a pattern of phases in a nature experience can be distinguished, every individual attaches a personal meaning to the experience. People have satisfying nature experiences in any natural environment. The intensity or fulfilment of such experiences depends on personal perceptions as well as external disturbances, such as litter and inappropriate behaviour. People attach meaning to experiences by structuring them into stories. The more we talk about the nature experience, the more knowledge is added to it. Consequently the experience becomes powerful, adding quality to people's lives and relationships. In this regard, aspects of rituals, metaphors and symbols, as well as spiritual experiences, play a significant role in the meaning people find in natural environments. / Thesis (Ph.D. (History))--North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2005

Thesis (Ed. S.)--Miami University, Dept. of Educational Psychology, 2006. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 35-39).