<p>This thesis discuss the matter of non-profit-making associations as a self regulatory technique out of a theoretical concept of power. The object for the study is the non-profit-making association Ditt Nya Hageby, which work in the neigborhood of Hageby, a suburb to Norrköping. In the study the association is placed in a contemporary postmodern social context and analyzed through semi- structured qualitative interviews, accordingly to hermeneutical method, with five active members of the association as informants. The association consists of members who lives in the neighborhood. Together with a hired organizer they realizes their own ideas in to projects which unquestionably improves the social and physical enviroment in Hageby. The author of this thesis, however argues their activities also can be looked at in a normative way concerning social order in a non-compelling sence. Thus the author means that the association, in this particular sense, could be understood theoretically by implying Michel Foucaults govermentality concept. In order to reach the final conclusion the informants experience concerning sense of community and identity in relation to Ditt Nya Hageby is analyzed. Further theoretical framework is provided by Ferdinand Tönnies concepts of gemeinschaft/gesellschaft and Jürgen Habermas civil publicity. The paper also accounts for what the authorbelieves to be the ideological/methodological basis for Ditt Nya Hageby’s activities by presenting and discussing the"from the inside out"-perspective which is recomended by John P. Kretzman&John.L McKnight regarding the reconstruction, in a wider sense, of exposed neigborhoods.</p>

<p>In this age of ubiquitous advertisement, people are getting more and more burdened withadvertising clutter. Digital Signage (DS) has evolved to be a new medium that can cut throughthis clutter and reach a large number of consumers. Though Digital Signage was introduced asan in-store advertising medium, soon it started to replace traditional static billboards with thebenefit of technological advancement.</p><p>While advertising effectiveness is a much discussed subject, effectiveness of an advertisingmedia is still a less explored area. Our research explored the effectiveness of Digital Signageas an advertising media in terms of its placement inside of a store and outside of a store. Atthe beginning we developed a model to measure the effectiveness of Digital Signage on thebasis of an existing model, termed as Advertising Response Model (ARM). Based onprofound study and analysis of previous literature on advertising and media effectiveness,consumer psychology, outdoor advertising and intermediate measurement variables weconstructed the modified version of ARM that deemed to be the best fit with our purpose. Wefurther developed four hypotheses on the basis of the four major variables of our model.</p><p>The result of our study indicated that placement of Digital Signage inside and outside of thestore environment impacts the variables of Attention, Recall and Media Liking of theaudience differently. However, no significant difference in consumers’ Buying Interest issupported. Placing Digital Signage inside of the store as well outside of the store both hasdifferent degrees of impact on consumers in terms of Attention, Recall and Media Liking. Thecorrelations among the variables were also explored and thus we presented some strategicinsights about the placement of Digital Signage and practical implications for managers in thescope of our study.</p><p>Our research area has received comparatively less academic attention than other advertisingmedia. However, considering the growing importance of Digital Signage as a groundbreakingadvertising medium and scope of future research work, we believe Digital Signage will be asubject of interest for the academics, the advertisers as well as for the companies.</p>

In this age of ubiquitous advertisement, people are getting more and more burdened withadvertising clutter. Digital Signage (DS) has evolved to be a new medium that can cut throughthis clutter and reach a large number of consumers. Though Digital Signage was introduced asan in-store advertising medium, soon it started to replace traditional static billboards with thebenefit of technological advancement. While advertising effectiveness is a much discussed subject, effectiveness of an advertisingmedia is still a less explored area. Our research explored the effectiveness of Digital Signageas an advertising media in terms of its placement inside of a store and outside of a store. Atthe beginning we developed a model to measure the effectiveness of Digital Signage on thebasis of an existing model, termed as Advertising Response Model (ARM). Based onprofound study and analysis of previous literature on advertising and media effectiveness,consumer psychology, outdoor advertising and intermediate measurement variables weconstructed the modified version of ARM that deemed to be the best fit with our purpose. Wefurther developed four hypotheses on the basis of the four major variables of our model. The result of our study indicated that placement of Digital Signage inside and outside of thestore environment impacts the variables of Attention, Recall and Media Liking of theaudience differently. However, no significant difference in consumers’ Buying Interest issupported. Placing Digital Signage inside of the store as well outside of the store both hasdifferent degrees of impact on consumers in terms of Attention, Recall and Media Liking. Thecorrelations among the variables were also explored and thus we presented some strategicinsights about the placement of Digital Signage and practical implications for managers in thescope of our study. Our research area has received comparatively less academic attention than other advertisingmedia. However, considering the growing importance of Digital Signage as a groundbreakingadvertising medium and scope of future research work, we believe Digital Signage will be asubject of interest for the academics, the advertisers as well as for the companies.

La venue de l'Internet a modifié le statut du texte, notre approche, nos méthodes de lecture et nos modalités de compréhension. En devenant numérique, le texte s'est ouvert à de nouvelles possibilités: il est devenu malléable, interactif, hyperlié et fragmentaire. De fait, une autre approche de lecture est exigée, une lecture aléatoire, saccadée, non-chronologique et hypermédiatique. Le lecteur ne parcourt plus un texte stable, mais navigue dans les eaux mouvantes composées de mots et d'animations, de vidéos et de trames sonores. Afin de rendre compte de cette réalité, l'étude suivante propose l'analyse de trois oeuvres littéraires hypermédiatiques en vue de dégager les particularités de cette littérature, mais surtout dans l'optique de cibler la manière dont le lecteur expérimente l'oeuvre par une lecture que nous qualifions de « lecture en hypermédia ». Les oeuvres du corpus, soit Perte de temps, de Julie Potvin, Principes de gravité, de Sébastien Cliche, et Inside: A Journal of Dreams, d'Andy Campbell et Judi Alston, ont été choisies en fonction de la présence d'une figure de la perte émergente, tantôt symbolisée dans la reprise d'un poème de Baudelaire, tantôt représentée par la figure du livre à l'écran. Nous verrons qu'il se dégage un imaginaire de la fin annonçant la venue d'une nouvelle pratique, la lecture à l'écran, qui s'expérimente à travers un parcours labyrinthique dont la perte est incontournable et l'oubli nécessaire, afin de comprendre le sens qui se dégage des oeuvres. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Littérature hypermédiatique, Lecture, Remédiatisation, Figure, Perte.

In today’s world the multi-standard wireless receivers are gaining more and more popularity. End-users want to access voice, data and streaming media from a single wireless terminal. An ideal approach for multi-standard receiver front-end is to digitize a wide band RF signal available from the antenna. All radio functions such as downconversion, demodulation and channel selection can be then performed in the digital domain. Analog to Digital Converter in such a case should guarantee very high linearity, speed and bandwidth specifications while consuming a lot of power. Unfortunately an ADC with such stringent requirements cannot be realized in today’s CMOS technology. In a typical receiver a mixer is used to downconvert the RF signal to baseband (or IF) before digitization is performed. A passive mixer is often used in this case to mitigate the effect of the low frequency flicker noise. Specially it can be a sampling mixer which also serves as a S/H circuit usually required for A/D conversion. In this thesis a lowpass sigma-delta converter with RF sampling is presented. The ΣΔ modulator is SC passive circuit plus comparator, so an operational amplifier usually needed to realize the integrator is avoided. To reduce the complexity, the sampling mixer in front of the modulator is merged with the passive loop filter. As a result the sampling mixer is closed in the modulator loop, so the overall linearity of the frontend is improved to some extent. Downconversion is combined with digitization that reduces the circuit complexity as well.The challenges while digitizing high frequency RF signal are discussed in details. Switches required to realize the loop filter are very critical and tend to be nonlinear. Parasitic effects associated with MOS transistors strongly show up at GHz frequencies. Optimized transistor sizes are obtained through simulation while addressing the speed and linearity trade-off. Another major challenge is the kT/C noise that is the real bottleneck in high frequency SC circuit design. A thermal noise model for ΣΔ-modulator with second-order loop filter is presented and it is shown that a passive ΣΔ-modulator is  in fact thermal noise limited rather than quantization noise limited. It is because the capacitor values are limited by the very high sampling frequency used in this case.The downconverting lowpass ΣΔ modulator with second order SC passive loop filter and 1-bit quantizer is simulated at transistor level in 90nm CMOS process. This modulator can operate at very high sampling frequency upto 4GHz and can sample RF signal with carrier of upto 4GHz as well. The designed ΣΔ modulator is flexible and supports sub-sampling by 2 to 8 (fs = 500MHz, ... 2GHz). Besides, the presented design is very power efficient as it does not use OpAmps – which consume most of the power in the typical ΣΔ modulators. From schematic simulation on average, signal-to-noise and distortion ratio (SNDR) of 52 dB is obtained (ENOB = 8.3). SNDR results does not vary much for three different cases of baseband digitalization, RF sampling and RF sub-sampling. This SNDR value seems to be a good number for a passive sigma-delta modulator. The detailed simulation results for the three cases discussed in the thesis work shown that, the modulator performs equally well for a wide range of sampling and RF signal frequencies.

公司內部監控機制是影響公司營運成果的重要因素，我國公司內部監控設計包括股東會、監察人、董事會及經理階層等權責運作機制，其中，內部監控以往主要的模式係採監察人制度為主。監察人主要功能在於監督董事會等經營階層，並降低經營階層之代理成本問題。監察人應監督公司業務之執行，並得隨時調查公司業務及財務狀況，查核簿冊文件，並得請求董事會或經理人提出報告。因此，監察人功能發揮之良窳，往往對公司健全運作有深遠影響。 近年來，一些上市公司經營者的利益輸送、背信案件層出不窮，董事會濫權，監察功能不彰厥為主要原因。這些內部監控問題的產生，促使學界及實務界亟思提出改善之道，針對內部監控效能不彰，究其主要原因在於，監督者缺乏獨立性，監督者專業能力不足，大股東操弄董事會等問題無法有效解決。獨立董事制度，主要針對這些問題提出解決，在獨立董事制度引進且法制化之後，我國並未完全捨棄監察人制度，監察人制度及獨立董事，在公司法制上同時並存。獨立董事制度設置目的，在於制衡董事會中，代表控制股東利益之內部董事，發揮應有的監督功能，但是獨立董事及相關配套措施，在理論及實務上仍有許多問題存在，及不易克服之盲點。本文亦針對美、日、德等不同國家之公司內部監控模式提出比較研究，同時，對我國內部監控制度之改造，提出看法及建議。 / Internal corporate governance is an important factor affecting a company’s performance. The internal administrative structure in a company should be a system including the right restraint and the setting up of obligation among Shareholders' Meeting, Supervisors, Board of Directors and managers in Taiwan. The system of Supervisors is an important part of the corporation’s administrative structure, as well as a choice for corporation’s functional department to restrain the Board of Directors and to cut down the cost of agency. Supervisors shall supervise the execution of business operations of the company, and may at any time or from time to time investigate the business and financial conditions of the company, examine the accounting books and documents, and request the Board of Directors or managerial personnel to make reports thereon. The supervisory function will strongly affect the healthy development of the company. In recent years, several major problems have come into being in some of the public listed company, such as a director or managerial officer acting contrary to his duties or misappropriating company assets. These problems may result from abusing the power by Board of Directors or the director, and functionless Supervisors. A series of problems in corporation supervision urge us to try our best to resolve them, such as the lack of independent of Supervisors, lacking of supervisory ability, the main Shareholder’s controlling of Board of Directors etc. There are two Supervision system, the one-tire system and the two-tire system, in western stock company. After the Independent Director’s system has been introduced and legislated, the situation that two kind of supervision coexist has appeared in the structure of the company in Taiwan. It aims at using the independent status of the Independent Director to restrict inner directors who are for the holding shareholder’s benefits in Board of Directors. But the system of Independent Director still has many problems both in the theory and practice. This study also has comparative research on the corporation’s administrative structure in America, Japan and Germany. Meanwhile suggestions of how to improve the system of internal corporate governance are offered.

A family is the first educational institution where a child acquires his basic social standards. A family is also the most important institution for human socialization having a great influence on the development of a child‘s personality. Parents form the biggest part of a child‘s environment the development of a child‘s personality greatly depends on them. The aim of this work is to analyse the typical psychological relation between junior schoolchildren and their mothers on the bases of sex and family status. 400 people (200 children aged 9-11 and their 200 mothers) took part in a survey. 5 questionnaires were used for assessing children‘s psychological feelings, inside calmness, self - assessment, worries about school and motivation for learning. For assessing their mothers‘ psychological feelings, inside calmness and self – assessment 3 questionnaires were used. While carrying out a survey there were given 3 hypotheses which turned to be partly approved. A significant relation was defined between girls‘ inside calmness and their mothers‘ psychological feelings as well as between their self – assessment, whereas the same kind of relation between boys and their mothers was not confirmed. There was also defined a significant relation between boys‘ worries about school and their mothers‘ psychological feelings. A second hypotheses which states that in a two – parent family there is a closer relation between the children‘s inside calmness, psychological mood at school... [to full text]

Lietuvos akcijų rinkos pasiūlos ir paklausos srautų analizei buvo pasirinktos 9 akcijos. Jas, pagal įvykusių sandorių skaičių ir vertę, galima suskirstyti į tris grupes: nelikvidžios, pusiau likvidžios ir likvidžios akcijos. Šių akcijų, viešai skelbiami rinkos gylio ir įvykusių sandorių, duomenys buvo imami iš Vilniaus vertybinių popierių biržos internetinio puslapio http://www.baltic.omxgroup.com/ nuo 2008 02 25 iki 2008 04 18. Darbe buvo skaičiuojami paprastas (inside bid-ask spread), efektyvus (effective spread) ir užfiksuotas kainų skirtumai. Roll matas skaičiuojamas remiantis akcijų įvykusių sandorių kainomis, kurių skirtumų stacionarumas ištirtas RA-kriterijumi (reverse arrangement test). Kaip ir buvo galima tikėtis, parodyta, kad pasirinktų akcijų rinka yra neefektyvi. Dėl šios priežasties, kiekvienai akcijai apskaičiuotas Roll matas yra labai grubus. Naudojant C++ programavimo kalbą, buvo sukurta programinė įranga: • Duomenų skaitymui iš interneto; • Duomenų bazės kūrimui, apdorojimui ir redagavimui; • Duomenų analizei. / Nine types of stock were chosen to analyse quoted bid-ask spread of Vilnius Stock Exchange. According to the value and number of transactions of the stock, it can be divided into three groups: non-liquid, half-liquid and liquid stock. Public market depth information and data of trade was taken from Vilnius Stock Exchange website http://www.baltic.omxgroup.com/ during the period from 25th February 2008 to 18th April 2008. In my work I have analysed inside bid-ask spread, effective spread and fixed prices. Roll measure was measured using trade prices of stock; stationarity of differences of trade prices were examined using reverse arrangement test. As had been expected, I came to conclusion that the stock market for chosen stocks is informationally inefficient. Due to this reason the Roll measure is not correct. By using C++ programming language the following programming tools were created: • Data reading from internet tool; • Data collection and correction tool; • Data analysis tool.

The main purpose of this thesis is to examine the simultaneous determination of debt, dividend, and inside ownership policies in Sweden. We apply a simultaneous equation model estimated with 3SLS. The results reveal a positive two-way causal relationship between debt and dividend polices. We also find a two-way causal relationship between inside ownership and dividend policies, but dividends affect inside ownership in a positive way while inside ownership affects dividends in a negative way. Further, we find a relationship between inside ownership and debt policies, but any causality appears to run from inside ownership to debt in a negative way. This study supports the notion that the convergence of interest and the entrenchment theory are not mutually exclusive. We also show that a SEM estimated with 3SLS is justified empirically over the OLS and that the difference between using 3SLS compared to 2SLS is negligible in our model.

The focus of the dissertation is on the performance of the yoiks, what the yoikers tell the audience and what the yoikers mean with their narratives. The results demonstrate that the verbal art of yoik includes both song and spoken messages. The analysis of the yoik tradition is couched within performance theory. The discussions of the performance give keys to understanding storytelling, oral history, verbal art and a means to recognize when a yoiksong, vuolle, begins or when it stops and why the performer yoiks its vuolle the way he or she does. I argue that an inside perspective in conjunction with performance theory, provides a highly fruitful method to research in yoik tradition. In order to understand the tacit knowledge in the performance, it has been highly relevant to discuss the seminal work by the Sami author Johan Turi and to compare his theories with Sami scholars like Israel Ruong, Nils Jernsletten and Harald Gaski. In the 1900s there were three broader documentation projects of yoik tradition in Sweden. The first one was conducted in the 1910s by Karl Tirén, who used the phonograph and wax cylinders. In the 1940s the Institute of Language and Folklore (ULMA/SOFI) undertook a documentation project and in the 1950s the Swedish Radio did so too. Now, it was now possible, with the modern technology, to analyse the yoik tradition in new ways. It enables re-listening to the stories that was told and to see them in a context where the performers’ artistic skill, together with their social background and their relation to their audience is made visible. It has been discussed if there was an epic yoik tradition in South Sami areas. One hypothesis says that epic yoik was found only in northern areas in close connection to Finnish culture. However, this study shows that there was an epic yoik tradition in southern Lapland and probably the last of these epic singers passed away in the 1960s. The yoikers presented here are all good representatives of an epic yoik tradition. Sara Maria Norsa, Nils Petter Svensson, Jonas Eriksson Steggo and Knut Sjaunja are my main informants in the archive material, where their performances are described with accuracy. This makes it possible to analyse the events they are participating in. They are all in fact telling their lives’ stories by describing reindeer herding. This dissertation demonstrates the yoik tradition in its context, and I show that the vuolle has a structure where one can recognize when it begins and when it ends. The yoik tradition is not only music or song, the story that is told is equally important. The way of presenting a vuolle is also a part of the yoik tradition and one has to consider both the spoken and the sung messages in order to understand what the performer means. In short, yoik must be recognized as verbal art or storytelling.