Following the approach of knowledge generation of economy, knowledge has become a mean of business survival competition and an advantageous implement or creative competition. How to share knowledge among businesses as to expand the productivity and ability, as to produce new knowledge and promote competitive advantages out of mutual agitation of knowledge, and how a business can applicably perform the informative facilities as to circulates in this scientific generation, shall be the one and only way of continuous operation of present business. Firstly, the research shall establish a relevant theory of knowledge management, develop and design questionnaires in connection with the local¡¦s transnational business trading. The relationship between the movement of multi-national business knowledge management and global configuration strategies can be conferred with the researched statistical analysis. Then, the research shall discuss the system that the business shall operate as to push the knowledge management and the influences that may incur. Secondly, the research shall discuss the relevance of business qualities and knowledge management, as to clarify the influences of knowledge transferable strategy under different industrial stages. Lastly, the research will describe the relationship between the subject of knowledge management and global resources configurative strategies. The research came up with the following discoveries after applying quantitative analysis and collected data integration: 1. The greater tends of organizational culture toward open-up and active shape, the greater help it will be for the business movement for knowledge management. In addition, basic information development of knowledge organization has influences toward the organizational movement of creating new knowledge, transfer of knowledge and management of knowledge. In other words, the more complete that the business information construction is, the more systemized and greater help it will be to push the knowledge management. 2. An enterprise must pay great attention to the transfer of knowledge during its development period. During the business development period, the entire environment is developing and changing rapidly. Thus, the enterprise must have great alert of the market behavior, and mostly important, to have frequent communication with the employees and share experiences with them. 3. There are greater influences on the distribution of organizational resources during the development period of the business¡¦s industrial stage rather than its maturity period.

The main purpose of this study is to explore the connection between those surfaces which include course content planning and disposing, elements of course design direction, teaching methodology and teaching material of general education which talent cultivation systems of military academies to input, and all kinds of leading and managerial talents as well as fostering result which talent cultivation systems to output. This study chooses junior and senior midshiomen in Naval Academy as well as graduates who have served from one to three years for their naval careers as study sbjects, and also surveyes their satisfaction extent as to each surface of input and output of talent cultivation systems as well as differencies between background variable of study subjects and every surface. Through pragmatically analyzing effective samples, the results and suggestions of this study are as follows in summary: 1. In the surfaces of teaching methodology and teaching material which talent cultivation systems input, the methodological factors of ¡§student cadres in campus¡¨, ¡§honor instition¡¨ and ¡§field trip outside school within summer vacation time¡¨apparently influence ¡§managerial and commanding talents¡¨ and ¡§professional managerial talents of defence and service¡¨ which military academies cultivate. 2. In recognition of the importance as to ¡§all kinds of leading and managerial talents¡¨ which talent cultivation systems output, the junior and senior midshiomen in Naval Academy as well as graduate subjects who have served from one to three years for their naval careers, think cultivating ¡§managerial and commanding talents¡¨ is the most important thing. 3. In efectiveness evaluation as to course content planning and disposing of general education and management programme, the male¡¦s satisfaction extent is higher than the femal¡¦s. 4. In perceiving extent as to getting the benefit from course content planning and disposing general education which includes ¡§humanity, social science, natural sciece, lliberal programme and core military science, those graduates who have served three years for their naval careers, are higher than those who have served one years for their naval careers. 5. This study suggests the seminar on ¡§course planning and design, excellent teaching and evaluation, and teaching material composition¡¨ should be hold regularly. 6. Improving the important job with ¡§student cadres pacticing in campus and military-professional field trip outside school¡¨ should be hold to improve teaching features of military academies. 7. This study suggests the exchange activities of ¡§teaching improvement between civil teachers and military instructors in campus, and civil teachers and military instructors making a field trip to all of flotillas¡¨ should be strengthened. 8. This study suggests when military academies(civil universities and colleges) and practice circle carry on talent cultivation, should focus on perfect person and moral education.

<p>Background: Focus on processes within organisations emerged during the nineteen ninetees and has since then become the most dominant management method. The main aim and positive features of process orientation is the customer focus and increased flexibility/efficiency. There is not much academic research conducted to leadership combined with processorientation. With this thesis we will minor that gap. The change into a process oriented approach makes a drastic change and the leadership could be a key factor or problem when implementing it.</p><p>Purpose with the thesis: The purpose of this thesis is to increase the understanding of how leadership is affected, on a top managerial level, as a result of implementing a process oriented approach.</p><p>Method: In this thesis we have used a qualitative method and a hermeneutic approach to increase the understanding of how the leadership is affected of process orientation. We have made a case study on the Swedish Road Administration, Vägverket who has done a process orientation. We have made six interviews with topmanagers at their headoffice.</p><p>Conclusion: We have come up with a model that states that a leader within a process oriented organisation can be compared with a tour guide. The model is based on our five key findings of how leadership is affected by changing into process orientation. These are: lead change, achieve aims, increase teamwork, increase communication and increase holistic view. These characteristics applies on a leader when changing into a process oriented organisation.</p> / <p>Bakgrund: Fokus på processer inom organisationer började under 1990-talet och har sedan dess varit den dominerande ledarskapsmetoden. Det främsta målet och fördelarna med processorienteringen är kundfokuseringen samt ökad flexibilitet och effektivitet. Det finns inte mycket forskning beträffande ledarskap kombinerat med processorientering. Med denna uppsats vill vi bidra med en undersökning. Förändringen till ett processorienterat synsätt innebär en drastisk förändring och ledarskapet har en nyckelroll i samband med implementeringen.</p><p>Syfte med uppsatsen: Syftet med denna uppsats är att öka förståelsen för hur ledarskapet påverkas, på högsta chefsnivån, med anledning av implementeringen av ett processorienterat synsätt.</p><p>Metod: I denna uppsats har vi använt en kvalitativ metod och ett hermeneutiskt tillvägagångssätt för att öka förståelsen av hur ledarskapet påverkas av processorientering. Vi har genomfört en fallstudie av Vägverket som genomfört en processorientering och intervjuat sex chefer på deras huvudkontor.</p><p>Slutsats: Vi har tagit fram en modell som säger att en ledare inom en processorienterad organisation kan jämföras med en turguide. Modellen är baserad på våra fem viktigaste områden om hur ledarskap påverkas vid en förändring till ett processorienterat synsätt. Dessa är : att leda förändring, uppnå mål, ökad teamwork, ökad kommunikation och ökad helhetssyn. Detta kännetecknar en ledare när man förändrar till en processorienterad organisation.</p>

A novel numerical method solves the VIScous Vorticity Equation (VISVE) in 3D in order to model the Leading Edge Vortex (LEV) of propellers is proposed and implemented in this dissertation. The spatial concentration of the vorticity is exploited in the method, which is designed to be spatially compact and numerically efficient, in the meantime, capable of modeling complicated vorticity/solid boundary interaction in 2D and 3D. The numerical model can work as a viscous correction on top of the traditional Boundary Element Method (BEM) results. The proposed method is first applied in the case of a 2D hydrofoil at high angle of attack. The results are correlated with those from Navier-Stokes (N-S) simulation. The method is then used to model the LEV and tip vortex of a 3D swept wing. The results of the 3D simulation show great similarity to those from N-S. In the end, the method is applied in the case of propellers at low advance ratios. All the essential flow characteristics (LEV and tip vortex) are predicted. The objective of this dissertation is not developing a mathematically equivalent numerical method to the full-blown Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) solver, but inventing an accurate and computationally efficient tool to model the effects of the LEV on the propeller performance for engineering's purpose. / text

The receptivity process by which two-dimensional, time-harmonic freestream disturbances generate instability waves in the incompressible Blasius boundary layer is investigated analytically. The importance of the leading edge region and the linear nature of the receptivity process are discussed, and Goldstein's (1983a, 1983b) theoretical framework for the leading edge receptivity problem is reviewed. His approach utilizes asymptotic matching of a region close to the leading edge, which is governed by the linearized unsteady boundary layer equation, with a region further downstream, which is described by an Orr-Sommerfeld type equation. The linearized unsteady boundary layer equation is solved numerically, using the slip velocity and pressure gradient obtained from the inviscid interaction of the freestream disturbance with the semi-infinite plate. A new method is developed to extract the receptivity coefficient from this numerical solution. The receptivity coefficient determines the amplitude of the instability wave--a quantity not available from classical stability theory. The freestream disturbances investigated are oblique plane acoustic waves, vortical gusts of various orientations convected downstream with freestream speed U(∞), and a Karman vortex street passing above the plate surface with speed U(p). In addition, the case of a semi-infinite plate in a channel of finite width subject to an upstream traveling acoustic wave on the upper plate surface is considered. For oblique acoustic waves, the dominant receptivity mechanism is related to scattering of the waves by the leading edge. In contrast, for vortical gusts the receptivity produced by leading edge scattering is very small. The boundary layer receptivity to a Karman vortex street is found to be a strong function of the speed ratio U(p)/U(∞). A pronounced influence of channel walls, which is related to the alternate cut-on of higher modes in the upstream and downstream channel halves, is found. A comparison of the present results with available experiments shows good qualitative and quantitative agreement.

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In documents, which decides about the training in comprehensive schools is said, that it is necassary to educate a person, who is able in self-contained and together to deal one‘s and community‘s problems, creativly answer in nowadays world‘s challenges, capable to give a sense his life in contradictory reality of nowadays. One of the vicissitude of education determing factors – vicissitude of school‘s and place community. That means, that to realize the point is nessesary school‘s community‘s undivided attention and collective work. Just from the schools head‘s dessicions depends how will develops rapports of education and how will the points will be realized, how changes will be in progress on parents and educators communication. Parents are part of the furniture in school‘s community‘s life, whom concentration into schools community is the main school‘s improving process point. Not even the schools educates the student, but the whole community‘s life, especially the family, where the child grows. That becouse it is important not just a collective activity of school‘s heads, teachers and parents, but as well as parent‘s education. From this, how it will succeed for school to organise and coordinate the activity of the head‘s of the classes and special educators, which are connected with collaboration with parents, depends education success. School‘s work organising, coordinating and control‘s function belongs to manager. States and abroad‘s educators attention for school‘s... [to full text]

It is generally accepted that the association between leading indicators and stock prices is evidence that the market efficiently prices the contribution of the leading indicators to future earnings. In this study, I examine whether investors incorporate the implications of one leading indicator, order backlog, in an efficient manner when determining stock prices and earnings forecasts. Furthermore, I investigate whether there is a difference between how the sophisticated and unsophisticated investor values order backlog given the fact that consensus analysts’ forecasts correctly incorporate the information in backlog for future earnings. I find that the market is more efficient in pricing the implications of order backlog with regards to firms with a high percentage of sophisticated investors compared to those with a low percentage of sophisticated investors. Moreover my results imply that unsophisticated investors overly-fixate on order backlog information.

The propagation of premixed flames in turbulent flows is a problem of wide physical and technological interest, with a significant literature on their propagation speed and front topology. While certain scalings and parametric dependencies are well understood, a variety of problems remain. One major challenge, and focus of this thesis, is to model the influence of fuel/oxidizer composition on turbulent burning rates. Classical explanations for augmentation of turbulent burning rates by turbulent velocity fluctuations rely on global arguments - i.e., the turbulent burning velocity increase is directly proportional to the increase in flame surface area and mean local burning rate along the flame. However, the development of such global approaches is complicated by the abundance of phenomena influencing the propagation of turbulent premixed flames. Emphasizing key governing processes and cutting-off interesting but marginal phenomena appears to be necessary to make further progress in understanding the subject. An alternative approach to understand turbulent augmentation of burning rates is based upon so-called "leading points", which are intrinsically local properties of the turbulent flame. Leading points concepts suggest that the key physical mechanism controlling turbulent burning velocities of premixed flames is the velocity of the points on the flame that propagate farthest out into the reactants. It is postulated that modifications in the overall turbulent combustion speed depend solely on modifications of the burning rate at the leading points since an increase (decrease) in the average propagation speed of these points causes more (less) flame area to be produced behind them. In this framework, modeling of turbulent burning rates can be thought as consisting of two sub-problems: the modeling of (1) burning rates at the leading points and of (2) the dynamics/statistics of the leading points in the turbulent flame. The main objective of this thesis is to critically address both aspects, providing validation and development of the physical description put forward by leading point concepts. To address the first sub-problem, a comparison between numerical simulations of one-dimensional laminar flames in different geometrical configurations and statistics from a database of direct numerical simulations (DNS) is detailed. In this thesis, it is shown that the leading portions of the turbulent flame front display a structure that on average can be reproduced reasonably well by results obtained from model geometries with the same curvature. However, the comparison between model laminar flame computations and highly curved flamelets is complicated by the presence of negative (i.e., compressive) strain rates, due to gas expansion. For the highest turbulent intensity investigated, local consumption speeds, curvatures, strain rates and flame thicknesses approach the maximum values obtained by the laminar model geometries, while other cases display substantially lower values. To address the second sub-problem, the dynamics of flame propagation in simplified flow geometries is studied theoretically. Utilizing results for Hamilton-Jacobi equations from the Aubry-Mather theory, it is shown how the overall flame front progation under certain conditions is controlled only by discrete points on the flame. Based on these results, definitions of leading points are proposed and their dynamics is studied. These results validate some basic ideas from leading points arguments, but also modify them appreciably. For the simple case of a front propagating in a one-dimensional shear flow, these results clearly show that the front displacement speed is controlled by velocity field characteristics at discrete points on the flame only when the amplitude of the shear flow is sufficiently large and does not vary too rapidly in time. However, these points do not generally lie on the farthest forward point of the front. On the contrary, for sufficiently weak or unsteady flow perturbations, the front displacement speed is not controlled by discrete points, but rather by the entire spatial distribution of the velocity field. For these conditions, the leading points do not have any dynamical significance in controlling the front displacement speed. Finally, these results clearly show that the effects of flame curvature sensitivity in modifying the front displacement speed can be successfully interpreted in term of leading point concepts.

Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2005. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains xiv, 86 p. : ill. (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 73-76).