The goal of this research was to assess the Virginia three-year provisional teaching license preparation path for earning a teaching license with an endorsement in Business and Information Technology (BIT) and Marketing Education (MKED). The study examined BIT and MKED teacher preparedness as it relates to core teaching and program management competencies for CTE educators who enrolled and completed Virginia's three-year teacher provisional licensure route to determine the effectiveness of the routes themselves. The research studied how the participants teacher preparation path impacted teachers' preparedness and how the elements of the provisional path contributed to the teacher's confidence in teaching. The study had one main research question and two sub-questions. The first sub-question emerged into five themes. They include lack of support system, struggle to implement essential teaching competencies, struggle to implement essential program management competencies, taking coursework while teaching does not work, and slight improvement by third year, but still a struggle. The second sub-question emerged into three themes. They include the need for effective support system, need for increased funding for teacher pay and required college courses, and need for focused training on specific CTE competencies. Three key conclusions from the study were BIT and MKED teachers need specific preparation training focused on core CTE teaching and program management competencies prior to entering the classroom, need a student teaching and/or co-teaching experience prior to entering the classroom by themselves, and need effective and active mentoring as well as administrative feedback and support during the entire three-year provisional licensure process. / Doctor of Philosophy / The study examined BIT and MKED teacher preparedness as it relates to core teaching and program management competencies for CTE educators who enrolled and completed Virginia's three-year teacher provisional licensure route to determine the effectiveness of the routes themselves. A qualitative research design was used for this study to determine the factors that affect the first year and third year provisionally licensed BIT and MKED teacher competency obtainment in the state of Virginia. A pre-survey of essential core teaching and program management competencies was given to create awareness of the interview topic to the interviewees. This survey was followed by an in-depth interview to gather rich data relating to the obtainment of core competencies. Three key conclusions from the study were BIT and MKED teachers need specific preparation training focused on core CTE teaching and program management competencies prior to entering the classroom, need a student teaching and/or co-teaching experience prior to entering the classroom by themselves, and need effective and active mentoring as well as administrative feedback and support during the entire three-year provisional licensure process. The results of the research may help improve the provisionally licensed teacher path route for prepare beginning BIT and MKED teachers in Virginia. The research will add to the literature by providing (1) information on how to improve provisional-teacher license preparation programs, (2) suggesting methods of training in these programs, and (3) showing the significance of beginning CTE teachers' professional relationships with administrators and mentor teachers. The results of the study could also assist school districts to better allocate resources and staff to effectively help provisionally licensed teachers.

License plate recognition/identification (LPR/I) applies image processing and character recognition technology to identify vehicles by automatically reading their license plates. In the United States, however, each state has its own standard-issue plates, plus several optional styles, which are referred to as special license plates or varieties. There is a clear absence of standardization and multi-colored, complex backgrounds are becoming more frequent in license plates. Commercially available optical character recognition (OCR) systems generally fail when confronted with textured or poorly contrasted backgrounds, therefore creating the need for proper image segmentation prior to classification. The image segmentation problem in LPR is examined in two stages: license plate region detection and license plate character extraction from background. Three different approaches for license plate detection in a scene are presented: region distance from eigenspace, border location by edge detection and the Hough transform, and text detection by spectral analysis. The experiments for character segmentation involve the RGB, HSV/HSI and 1976 CIE L*a*b* color spaces as well as their Karhunen-Loéve transforms. The segmentation techniques applied include multivariate hierarchical agglomerative clustering and minimum-variance color quantization. The trade-off between accuracy and computational expense is used to select a final reliable algorithm for license plate detection and character segmentation. The spectral analysis approach together with the K-L L*a*b* transformed color quantization are found experimentally as the best alternatives for the two identified image segmentation stages for US license plate recognition. / Master of Science

This study examines the legibility of two typefaces designed for the Swedish license plates. By using quantitative methodologies, the study compares the current typefaces used on license plates, with Motor, a typeface designed by me as part of this project. Through exposure tests focusing on character recognition the study sheds light on some of the challenges with the current typeface used on license plates. The findings indicate that Motor performs better in terms of legibility. However, the study does not demonstrate whether this would translate into improved safety in the traffic environment. Lastly, the study highlights the significance of further research to determine the potential impact of typeface legibility on traffic safety.

知識經濟時代的來臨，財富的創造已不是來自土地與勞工等傳統生產要素，而是在於知識的創造與累積，台灣土地貧瘠、缺乏天然資源，但擁有豐富的科技人力資源，能有效運用這些知識資本，將是台灣經濟發展的重要關鍵。大學研究經費豐足、聚集博士級以上頂尖研究人才、其研究領域多屬前瞻、初期階段的發現，雖具開發成為新產品或服務之潛力，但現階段未必為業界所青睞的應用科技解決方案。如何尋求具備遠見，願擔風險投入早期技術研發的合作廠商，建立長期的合作關係，將大學強大的研發能量擴散、釋放到民間，有效地將政府資助大學所得的研發成果，移轉予產業界進行商業化的步驟，是促進產業升級經濟發展的重要機制。 是以近年來各國極力推動產學間的合作，希冀在大學知識傳授與探索研究之基本任務仍得確保的前提下，建立有效的技術授權機制，將學界創新研發的能量，引導入產業界，協助產業提升創新研發之競爭力，同時也能為學校的研發成果創造新的價值，而達產學雙贏的局面。 授權契約是技術移轉流程的最後一步，但往往為人忽視，前階段的評估協商與最後的擬約訂約被切割處理，特別在欠缺法務資源的大學技轉單位，簽訂授權契約時，僅使用制式、簡陋之契約範本，填入授權時間、授權金、權利金、授權標的等項目，少就契約文字進行訂正，並檢視契約範本設計之用字遣詞是否符合該次授權協議談判之內容。在此背景下，本研究即欲將策略思考帶進契約的設計，探討大學技術授權之策略考量，以及如何將之轉化成契約文字，使技術授權之目的能被落實。 本研究試圖從探討產學合作之機制與困難、大學技術移轉模式相關之豐富文獻中，整理出大學技術移轉授權的策略考量，並進一步分析在確定策略考量與策略目標之下，可能的授權模式為何，各種授權模式在實際運用時常遭遇何種的困難，這些困難是否能透過契約設計之安排，使技術移轉的策略目標順利達成。接著將進一步以美國技轉績效傲人的史丹福大學，與台灣研發能量最豐、學術資源最足的台灣大學兩校之授權契約範本作為研究個案，比較契約設計的應然與實然。 本研究透過對我國與美國技術授權相關文獻的分析，並以美國史丹佛大學與國立台灣大學之契約範本作為個案研究對象，歸納整理後得出結論為台灣各大學因為技轉的風氣未盛，契約的使用量與重要性自然被嚴重低估，我國大學並未設計與其策略與發展領域、特色相符的契約範本，大部分都直接沿用國科會提供之契約範本，契約條款的設計不夠細緻，容易流於只是策略的宣示，未能透過交易條件的安排達到授權策略預設的目標。相較美國史丹福大學因技轉風氣興盛，契約的類型發展成熟，契約內容與授權策略高度呼應，使授權的進行與大學原始的教學研究使命可以相輔相成。我國大學之技術授權契約存在很大的改善空間。 本研究建議大學應制訂明文之技轉策略書，向廠商宣傳大學技術授權之使命，並儘快對現行使用契約之契約進行撤底檢視與修正，完備契約範本的內容，可以有效增進締約的效率，同時可以思考契約作為宣傳性質的工具，例如因應技術特性，設計技術移轉的定型化契約，讓潛在被授權人清楚瞭解大學技術授權契約的交易條件，透過網路將完整的資訊揭露與友善便宜的締約程序，以有效提高的授權活動的效率與成功率。 / In knowledge based economy, how to create and accumulate knowledge assets dominates the fortune-making. Taiwan is short of natural resources but full of technology human reseources. Hence, how to apply knowledge adequately become the key factor to improve Taiwan’s economic growth. The abundant funds and outstanding research professionals are the advantages of university. However, the researches usually belong to early-stage ones and hardly meet the practical needs of industries. Universities need foresighted industry partners who is willing to risk investing in technology commercialization. University-Industry Cooperation is the important mechanism that helps the industry development through knowledge transfer. Thus, governments encourage enthusiastically the cooperation between university and industry. The target of Univeristy-Industry Cooperation is to assure the essential function of education and research of the university and build up an effective mechanism of technology licensing to introduce academic R&D energy into the industry. The cooperation can thus enhance the innovation competency of industry and create new value for the R&D results of academia, to build a win-win situation. License agreement is the last mile of the whole technology transfer process but its importance is usually ignored. For the limited legal resources of university TTOs (technology transfer office), all Taiwan universities use a formulaic contract provided by NSC (National Science Council) and seldom amend the details to meet their own need for individual transactions. However, licensing approaches, even for comparable technologies, can vary considerably from case to case. This thesis will bring licensing strategy into contract design, analyze university licensing strategy, and elaborate the transformation from strategy to contract for the purpose of technology licensing. This paper reviews literatures concerning university-industry cooperation and the technology transfer models and outlines university licensing strategy. The discussion further elaborate goals of licensing, possible licensing models and pathways, and find out the difficulties during license process. The design of contract also try to solve all these problems and fulfill the purpose of technology transfer. The thesis also compare the difference between the ideal and practice of licensing contract design through the study of contract format of Stanford University and National Taiwan University. Through the studies, the thesis propose that the significance of licensing contract is much underestimated due to the immaturity of university-industry license transactions in Taiwan. Unlike universities in the U.S., Taiwan’s universities do not design licensing contracts according to their licensing strategy and academic developments. The disregard of contract design will cause the impracticality of licensing strategy and thus be unable to achieve the original goal of technology transfer. A mature contract design which corresponds to the licensing strategy will connect the technology transfer to the academic research purpose, which can be observed in the case of Stanford University. This paper suggests that universities should set up a clear licensing strategy book of their own and widely announce to industry. Taiwan universities should reform the contract format as soon as possible and learn to take licensing contracts as a marketing tool, to promote a model contract for special technology licensing with detail information on it, to help potential licensee to understand the bargaining condition of the contract. Universities can provide complete information and easier contracting process through the internet, to improve the efficiency and prosperity of technology transfer.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:29:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Claudia Carvalheiro.pdf: 993414 bytes, checksum: 7dbbb6ca11fb949ca3bddc99f1e5fccf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-05-25 / Since the 1970s the number of petrol stations in Brazil has increased a lot. It s known that nowadays there are about 32.000 petrol stations working in Brazil in which 8.500 are in São Paulo state and 2.000 are in São Paulo capital. These petrol stations use underground containers to store automotive fuel and sell it afterwards. Although this is a potencially polluter activity, the establishments had never been asked by the government any kind of urban or environmental license in order to protect the environment. The situation started to change in the beginning of this decade when a law passing number 38.231/99, from São Paulo City Hall, determined the changing of the underground containers and the adequacy of the petrol stations equipments to environmental and security rules, and when a Resolution CONAMA 273/00 determined that not only the new petrol stations, but also the old ones had to have a license at the environmental organ called CETESB in São Paulo state. The importance of this subject is getting clearer as far as CETESB declared in its last report (November 2008, published in March 2009), that from 2.514 contaminated areas in the state of São Paulo, 1.953 are caused by petrol stations. Therefore, in this paper several theorical and practical issues will be mentioned about the development and implementation of a license for the new petrol stations and for the ones that are already working in São Paulo city. There will be also mentioned the interpretations and the possible solutions of the conflicts that can come from this process as well as the explanations and conclusions for each case / A partir da década de 1970 houve um aumento significativo do número de postos no país. Hoje estima-se que existam cerca de 32 mil postos de gasolina em operação no Brasil, dos quais aproximadamente 8.400 situam-se no Estado de São Paulo e em torno de 2.000 na Capital paulista. Estes postos utilizam tanques subterrâneos para armazenar os combustíveis automotivos que revendem ao consumidor final e, apesar de exercerem uma atividade potencialmente poluidora, nunca lhes foi exigido qualquer tipo de licenciamento ambiental e nem urbanístico para defesa do meio ambiente. Essa situação só mudou no início desta década, em razão, primeiro, do Decreto 38.231/99, da Prefeitura de São Paulo, que determinou a troca dos tanques e adequação dos equipamentos dos postos da Capital às normas ambientais e de segurança, e, segundo, da Resolução CONAMA 273/00, que determina que todos os postos, novos e em operação, devem se licenciar perante o órgão ambiental competente, a CETESB no caso do Estado de São Paulo. A importância deste tema fica ainda mais evidente quando se verifica, pelas informações que a CETESB forneceu em seu último relatório, sobre as áreas contaminadas no Estado de São Paulo, em novembro de 2007, que, das 2.272 áreas contaminadas, 1.745 são postos de combustíveis. Portanto, serão abordados os diversos aspectos, teóricos e práticos, que influem no desenvolvimento e implementação do licenciamento dos postos de gasolina (novos e em operação), situados no município de São Paulo, e como são interpretados e aplicados na solução dos conflitos decorrentes desse processo, com explanação, em cada caso, das posições e conclusões adotadas pela autora

This degree project deals with license management for EBITool. It´s about providing protection and monitoring for a Java Application via a license server, and the construction of it. An analysis that discusses the approach and other possible courses of action is also included. Additionally, it covers a discussion of a prototype implementation of the model solution from the analysis. The prototype is a Java EE application that deploys to JBoss AS7. It´s developed using the JBoss Developer Studio 5.0.0, an Eclipse IDE with JBoss Tools preinstalled. It exposes web services to Java Applications through SOAP via JAX-WS. Using Hibernate, the web service Enterprise Java Beans get access to a PostgreSQL 9.1 database via entity classes mapped to the database through the Java Persistence API.

The construct validity of six hypothesized dimensions was explored for an Accountancy majorgraduation examination, in order to understand the underlying process of responding. Using answers from 313 examinees to an intentional sample of 17 objective items administered on large scale, a confirmatory factorial analysis was carried out, with a Multi-Trait Multi-Method matrix (MTMM): Traits represented three cognitive operations required to solve the items and the methods represented three knowledge fields of the content. Each item was linked to a cog- nitive operation and to a knowledge field. The resulting model showed convergent validity in two constructs and its manifest variables and divergent only between technical and combined knowledge. Thus, the answering process was explained, simultaneously by the Understanding operation influenced by Theoretical knowledge. Implications to understanding the answering process in this type of examination through construct validation are discussed. / Se investiga la validación de constructo de seis dimensiones que están en la base del examende egreso de una licenciatura en contabilidad, con el fin de entender el proceso de respuesta subyacente. A partir de las respuestas a 17 ítems objetivos aplicados de manera grupal a 313 participantes seleccionados según muestreo intencional, se realizó un análisis factorial confirmatorio MRMM, en el que se representaron tres operaciones cognitivas demandadas para resolver los ítems y los métodos, así como los tres campos de conocimiento del contenido que se evalúa en ellos. El modelo resultante muestra bondad de ajuste, validez convergente entre dos constructos y sus variables manifiestas, además de validez divergente solo entre el conocimiento técnico y el combinado. El proceso de respuesta fue explicado, simultáneamente, por la operación comprender, influida por el conocimiento teórico. Se discuten las implicancias para comprender el proceso de respuesta en este tipo de examen a partir de la validación de constructo realizada.

The thesis deals with analysis and design of system for automatic localization and recognition of the license plate. The input images are from different sources, and contain large scenic and weather variations. The aim was to create a system able to find the licence plate on the image and recognize its alphanumeric figure. In this work, there is a focus on analysis and implementation of localization and optical character recognition methods. One own and four other localization methods are compared. There are also compared three classifiers for optical character recognition. Localization and OCR methods are tested on real data and evaluated in accordance with the calculated evaluation parameters. The work also contains sensitivity analysis of the proposed system.

二十一世紀是知識經濟的時代，知識與創新是全球企業核心競爭力的關鍵。有鑑於知識內容產業在於數位經濟時代發展之重要性，行政院經濟部宣布將2002年訂為「數位元年」，並提出「新世紀兩兆雙星產業發展計畫」，其中，「數位內容產業」不但被選為新世紀全力發展的明星產業，其預期產值於2006年將達到3,700億新台幣。我國政府正積極推動數位內容產業的發展，但在資源與經費有限的情況下，目前選擇以「電腦動畫」及「線上遊戲」為我國的重點推動產業。在消費者日益重視視覺享受的今天，如果要發展內容產業，動畫產業的發展勢必成為關鍵之一。本研究即針對數位內容產業的「電腦動畫」作個案研究分析。 由於我國動畫產業之業務以往多為代工模式，缺乏內容授權、智財保護與行銷等相關知識經驗。故儘速發展我國動畫產業之智慧財產管理與授權業務，實乃當務之急。 有鑑於新興產業環境尚未成熟，因此本研究採取個案深入訪談法，個案對象之選取，乃從國內動畫產業中各選取具有代表性與業界口碑良好之廠商共三家。本研究針對「電腦動畫」廠商所涉及之智慧財產管理與授權管理，做一體系性的介紹並探討廠商目前之做法，同時探討動畫製作流程中可能會遇到之相關智慧財產問題。其研究建議茲分述如下： 一、國內動畫廠商應加強智慧財產觀念，妥善處理智慧財產問題，避免產生不必要之糾紛。 二、國內動畫廠商應建立動畫與其衍生商品之授權策略。 三、國內動畫廠商須依照自身能力、已有資源、關係與定位來選擇最合適的發展模式。 四、政府應檢討現行數位內容法案對於動畫廠商之實際效益，並參酌各國政府建立產業環境與機制之做法，衡量台灣目前之狀況，選擇合適之做法。 / The 21st century is the era of knowledge economy. Knowledge and innovation are crucial for global companies in order to enhance their core competency. Because of the importance of knowledge content industry in this digital economy age, the Taiwan government has announced the year 2002 “the First Digital Year,” and has formulated its "Two Trillion and Twin Star Industries Development Plan”. This plan indicated that the digital content industry is a promising area of which the expected production value will reach NT$ 370 billions in 2006. Right now our government are promoting digital content industry positively, but due to limited resource and money, choose ”3D animation” and “on-line game” as our country’s key industry. Nowadays, consumers pay more attention to enjoyment of vision, if we want to develop content industry; the develop of animation industry is the key point. Therefore, this study explores the current situation of animation companies in Taiwan. Because of the lack of content license, intellectual property protection, marketing, and other related knowledge and experiences, it’s the most important thing to expand intellectual property management and license of animation companies in Taiwan. As a result of the environment of oncoming industry has not matured as yet, this study uses ”in-depth interviews” of case study, selecting three representative and well-known companies from animation industry in Taiwan. This study explores the current situation of intellectual property management and license of animation companies in Taiwan, furthermore, searches for the related intellectual property problems in the course of animation creation. Major suggestions are stated as follows: 1.Animation companies in Taiwan should strengthen intellectual property concepts, and handle the related intellectual property problems properly, to avoid unnecessary conflicts. 2. Animation companies in Taiwan should establish licensing strategy of animated cartoon and derivative products. 3. Animation companies in Taiwan should select a suitable develop model according to their own capability, resources, relationship and position. 4.The government should review the actual benefit of current digital content law and deliberate about other countries’ methods of establish industry environment; Consider current situation of Taiwan and select a suitable method.

<p>Swedish clubfootball of today involves more money than ever before. This development</p><p>depends on the higher interest for football in Sweden which generates more revenues from</p><p>audience and TV-contracts, which leads to more money from sponsors and an increasing</p><p>market for selling souvenirs. Despite the fact that the increasing interest has generated more</p><p>revenues, we can still see reports in the media about economic problems in some clubs. What</p><p>is the reason for this? Do the clubs have the ability and knowledge about economic control</p><p>that it takes to run such a business as the clubfootball in Sweden has become?</p><p>Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the economic control in a number of clubs</p><p>playing in the two Premier Divisons of the Swedish Football League. The purpose is also to</p><p>get a better understanding of how and why such problems occur and how to possibly prevent</p><p>them.</p><p>Method: We have used a qualitative study based on five interviews with representatives from</p><p>different football clubs in Sweden. The method has been chosen to give us a better</p><p>understanding for how the economic control works in the different clubs.</p><p>Theory: The theoretical framework of the study involves the context that non-profit</p><p>organizations and stock companies act in. Furthermore the study describes different theories</p><p>in the area of economic control with extra focus on budget.</p><p>Empirical foundation: The five interviews with representatives from AIK, Djurgården,</p><p>Hammarby, IFK Norrköping and Jönköping Södra IF constitutes the empirical foundation of</p><p>the study.</p><p>Conclusions: The study shows that all clubs use budget to control their economy. They all</p><p>believe that they have good control over their financial situation, which can be explained</p><p>partly by the introduction of the club license. The goals are still to reach good sport results</p><p>and the economy is seen as means to reach these goals. The study also shows that more</p><p>independence in the boards of the clubs could be something to strive for.</p> / <p>Svensk klubbfotboll är idag mer business än någonsin tidigare. Detta beror på det ökade fotbollsintresset i landet vilket lett till ökade publikintäkter, mer pengar från tv-avtal, som i sin tur leder till ökade pengar från sponsring och en ökad souvenirförsäljning. Samtidigt som det ökade intresset har genererat större intäkter nås vi titt som tätt av mediernas rapportering om att föreningar hamnat i olika typer av ekonomiska problem. Vad kan detta bero på? Har föreningarna verkligen de förutsättningar och den kunskap om ekonomisk styrning som krävs för att bedriva en så pass affärsmässig verksamhet som elitfotbollen i Sverige utvecklats till? </p><p>Syfte: Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur ekonomistyrningen går till i ett antal elitsatsande svenska fotbollsföreningar, få en bättre förståelse för hur och varför ekonomiska problem kan uppstå i en fotbollsförening samt hur de kan förhindras. </p><p>Metod: Vi har använt oss av en kvalitativ metod i form av fem semistrukturerade intervjuer med representanter för olika elitsatsande fotbollsföreningar i Sverige. Metoden har valts för att ge en bättre förståelse för hur ekonomistyrningen fungerar i de valda föreningarna. Teori: Den teoretiska delen av uppsatsen består till en del av de förutsättningar som ideella föreningar och idrottsaktiebolag verkar inom. Dessutom beskrivs olika teorier inom området ekonomistyrning med fokus på budget. </p><p>Empiri: Empirin består av fem intervjuer med representanter för de allsvenska föreningarna AIK, Djurgården och Hammarby samt IFK Norrköping och Jönköping Södra IF från Superettan. </p><p>Resultat: Studien visar att budget är det ekonomiska styrverktyg som används. Föreningarna säger sig ha god kontroll över den ekonomiska situationen, vilket delvis kan förklaras av den så kallade elitlicensens införande. Dock är de primära målen sportsliga och ekonomin ses som ett medel att nå dessa mål. Studien visar även att fler oberoende ledamöter i föreningarnas styrelse skulle kunna vara något att sträva efter.</p>