Marknaden för mobila applikationer är mycket stor och växer hela tiden. För att kunna konkurrera på en sådan marknad behöver en applikation ha en hög nivå av användbarhet, den behöver vara lättanvänd och ha ett genomtänkt användargränssnitt.  I detta arbete har en mobilvänlig applikation utvecklats från idé till färdig produkt.  Med hjälp av ett för mobila applikationer anpassat utvecklingsramverk och användartester har en produkt med en verifierad hög nivå av användbarhet utvecklats.

In the current pluralistic societies, public policy-makings had to take into account various stakeholders as well as the social values. In this thesis, based on the integrated framework for public affairs management(PAM), and Value Capacity Support¡]V.C.S.¡^strategy management and Simple multi-attributes rating technique(SMART), defined the applicable operational variables which includes three major factors of Value, Capacity, Support, and twelve derivative attributes, three situations. Although they will influence the stakeholders as decision-makers while deciding if they should advance tax reform of efficiency and fairness. For research design, we employed in-depth interview to call on stakeholders, and analyze the feasible strategy for three major factors and twelve derivative attributes of tax reform. And then, we will design questionnaire and survey to the stakeholders in SMART, so that understanding the cognition judgment of decision-makers. At last, we will select the best alternative. Finding of this thesis include¡G 1. As the Statute for upgrading Industries carried on expiration, to assess among the three situations of all cancel, retain four items factor, government direct subsidy of tax incentive. The most is ¡§all cancel¡¨, the second is ¡§government direct subsidy¡¨, and then the third is ¡§retain four items factor¡¨. 2. Reform of the Statute for upgrading Industries reached the efficiency and fairness, eleven interviewers of all twelve considered only efficiency. 3. Under three situations, analyze weights of three factors and twelve derivative attributes in SMART. ¡]1¡^situation one¡]all cancel¡^¡GThe most is ¡§sound government finance¡¨, the second is ¡§government internal integrated opinion and establish consensus¡¨, and then the third is ¡§reducing poverty gap¡¨. ¡]2¡^situation two¡]retain four items factor¡^¡GThe most is ¡§economic continuing grow¡¨, the second is ¡§sound government finance¡¨, and then the third is ¡§estimate the loss of reducing tax and draw a complete alternative¡¨. ¡]3¡^situation third¡]government direct subsidy¡^¡GThe most is ¡§sound government finance¡¨, the second is ¡§economic continuing grow¡¨, and then the third is ¡§estimate the loss of reducing tax and draw a complete alternative¡¨. 4.In theoretically and method¡GThis is a new try and approach for V.C.S. combined with SMART, and make use of the strategy management for decision-makers and cognition judgment for stakeholder.

National Health Insurance (NHI) can be said to play the most significant role among all the other social securing systems. People pay great attention to its policy and institution. NHI is an obligatory social insurance, protecting all the citizens in Taiwan. The insured is required to enroll into the NHI only by their employers¡V be it a school, a business company, an institution, an organization, private business employer or any other work unit. When the insured are underwritten by or withdrawing from the system, all the changes must be made through the employers who refer to and enroll their employees with the NHI. The Bureau of National Health Insurance, operating in coordination with the e-government policy that aims to provide much more convenience to the Taiwanese people and to improve government efficiency, as well as for the sake of energy conservation and carbon reduction, has been encouraging people to use on-line applications for the NHI affairs. As much effort as they have put on promoting such policy to the employers who are responsible to insure their employees with the NHI, currently, the popularity of using on-line applications for NHI affairs is barely satisfactory, as a matter of fact. Many parties are involved in the procedure of processing on-line applications for NHI affairs; therefore, this dissertation uses Nominal Group Technique (NGT) and Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) from Interactive Management (IM) theories conducting the research. All participating parties will have conversations with one another; therefore, there will be a workshop. The purpose and subject for this workshop is to explore practical strategies that would effectively promote the usage of on-line applications with the NHI affairs. Through such an interactive dialogue collecting diverse viewpoints, there are thirteen strategies concluded to be effectively helpful achieving the aim: The NHI sectors responsible for on-line applications should (1) provide favorable incentives for on-line applicants, (2) simplify the net identification procedure and the NHI operational network and (3) the logging-in system, (4) increase the network bandwidth, (5) resolve NHI insurers¡¦ qualms of network security using online-applications. Also, they may need to redesign the network platform and (6) simplify procedure for users, and (7) more frequently promote the advantages using on-line applications and expand contents of their service, so that (8) the web search function for the NHI will be able to provide wider, faster, more efficient service. (9) the relative NHI sectors should really receive guidance and assistance carrying out this project, and (10) negotiate the assigned policy with their superior supervisory sectors to give clear order to their subordinate sectors using on-line applications and (11) set up trainings for instructors to establish future training resource, and (12) hold workshops to give more information and verification on the scene permitting the participants of the workshops to use on-line applications, and (13) finally achieve the aim that to have applications for NHI affairs completely done on-line. Among them all, strategy 3, ¡¥simplifying logging-in system¡¦, ranks 11 using NGT sequencing (strategy 11, 12, 13 all get the same points in the vote). However, in the enhancement structure, strategy 3 ranks number 1, has net score points 10. Therefore, strategy 3 should be given as much priority as to and carried out with strategy 1 ¡¥providing favorable incentives for online applicants¡¦ that gets the most points, in the NGT sequencing process. This research has given the participants questionnaires at two stages during the interactive workshop. The participants¡¦ concern, or understanding of using on-line applications for NHI affairs, appears to have risen after the workshop. There is unexpected, significant satisfaction over the promising conclusions from the workshop, which proves the workshop to be non-redundant and have reached consentient results. Also, the research, primarily using ISM program, has reduced the voting numbers when comparing two strategies from 156 times to 58. This has saved great amount of the time from the voting procedure in discussion, so that the workshops was able to finish in one day and hence did not exhaust the participants¡¦ enthusiasm. ISM is therefore proved to be efficient in saving time and assures that not losing the participants in different stages of the workshop.

This master's thesis is focused on the system of internal controls which is, in some form or another, implemented in every organization. In the theoretical part, the internal controls are specified according to the worldwide accepted integrated COSO framework for internal controls. Furthermore, there is briefly characterized internal audit, its aims and relation to the system of internal controls. The practical part deals with internal controls implemented in a specific organization. There were analysed control mechanisms implemented into the basic enterprise's process, the Order to Cash process.

This thesis deals with the internal control concept according to the COSO Integrated Framework for Internal Controls. Internal control definition, objectives and components are reviewed and commented. The emphasis is put on the auditor's understanding the entity's internal control and his responsibility to identify and assess the risk of material misstatement in the financial statements.

The aim of this study was to identify factors affecting facility-based delivery with the purpose of developing a framework for the promotion of facility-based delivery among women living in rural Ethiopia. Explanatory mixed methods design, comprising of four phases-the descriptive (quantitative), explorative (qualitative), meta-inference and development phases was employed. The quantitative phase was conducted first using a structured questionnaire to identify the variables influencing facility-based delivery care seeking behaviour. A sample of 389 responses were used for data analysis using Structural Equation Modeling. The quantitative phase conducted next to explain the determinants that contributed to influencing facility-based delivery care seeking behaviour. Sixteen participants who were involved the first phase were involved in the follow-up second phase. As illustrated by the results of the study, the majority of women in the study areas continued to deliver at home, putting themselves at risk of dying from pregnancy related causes. As highlighted by the key findings from the quantitative and qualitative data of this study, the most influential factors in predicting and explaining delivery care seeking behaviour are response efficacy, attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioural control which are shaped by mothers’ confidence in the outcome, quality of care, interpersonal relations with family members, willingness to conform, access to services, and their decision making power. The way these findings emphasized the factors attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavioural control were consistent with the Theory of Planned Behaviour, while the significance of response efficacy was in line with Protection Motivation Theory. The study developed a framework to help promote facility-based delivery among mothers living in rural Ethiopia. / Health Studies / D. Litt. et Phil. (Health Studies)

Since the time of colonialism the Colombian territory has experienced many problems, which brought a lot of instability in society throughout its history. Colombia has been bleeding all these years, but especially in the time known as “The Violence”. With the creation of the Guerrilla group FARC, of Paramilitary organisations, and Drug Cartels, the problems were intensified. Different attempts to find a solution have unfortunately failed, as is shown over a period of history. This paper argues that to deal with such conflicts there is need for an alternative concept for building sustainable peace. The model of John Paul Lederach, “Professor of International Peacebuilding at the University of Notre Dame“, is described as a possible solution that goes beyond what has been achieved by the peace efforts of President Andrés Pastrana. The Churches, both Catholic and Evangelical, have a role to play in building peace as part of a Transformational Mission effort. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / M.Th. (Missiology)