In diploma thesis is general design testing stand during the tractor manufacture, centred on design and calculation main skeleton and strength calculation. Thesis include particular calculation and concrete design parts of measure stand, design and calculation main skeleton, strength calculation, drawing dokumentation of main skeleton and selected parts of measure stand. Thesis also include picture of 3D model whole of measure stand like appended documents.

This thesis deals with the creation of a program for collecting data from three optional systems of temperature sensors (RS232, USB and PCI DAQ), torque shaft and a power analyzer (GPIB) in LabVIEW. The implementation of the results to Excel by the automatic periodical writing of the gained data (LabVIEW › Excel).

PhDRDV / Institute for Rural Development / In South Africa, various government and private sector-led initiatives have been directed towards promoting youth involvement in small retail businesses. This was designed to counter the high unemployment and poverty rates among youth. However, high failure rates of the initiatives consistently frustrate these noble efforts. Even though this is the case, neither attributes of youth-run small retail business resilience nor the factors that predispose them to the high failure rates are well-known. This situation demands taking urgent action to foster resilience in the youth-run small retail business sector. Thus, the current study focused on identifying the major threats and strengths to business and determining a set of objective criteria and indices for use in measuring resilience. Potential resilience strategies were also sought. The study was conducted in Vhembe District of Limpopo Province in South Africa. An explorative mixed research approach was employed. Participants were selected using both snowball and cluster sampling procedures. Data were collected using semi-structured interview guides and questionnaires. Qualitative data were analysed using Atlas ti version 8 software techniques such as network diagrams and code primary document tables. For each objective, in-depth results were obtained, further interrogated in a survey and analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences software (IBM SPSS; version 25) in the subsequent phase. The main statistical techniques utilised were Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Kruskal-Wallis tests. Significance was determined at P< 0.5. Results from PCA test reviewed three major threats to small retail business resilience that included poor infrastructure (28.54 %), financial infrastructure (20.97 %) and competition (14.94 %). The three factor structure accounted for a total variance of 64.46 %. Poor infrastructure and financial inadequacy threats did not vary with distance from the urban area (P > 0.05) while competition significantly varied with distance from the urban area (P< 0.05). With regard to strengths, PCA analysis produced a four factor structure that explained a total variance of 54.59 %. The four major strengths included marketing ability (16.97 %), good customer care (14.42 %), business knowledge (12.08 %) and commitment (11.13 %). A six dimension criteria for measuring small retail business resilience was established using PCA. The six dimensions encompassed security measures (18.01 %), outsourcing abilities (13. 70 %), marketing strategies (10.07), risk management (8.54 %), financial management (8.43 %) and innovation (7.89 %). The six factor structure explained a total variance of 66.67 %. These resilience pillars were related to threat detection, prevention and adaptation business mechanisms. Four resilience dimensions (security measures, marketing abilities, risk management and innovation) were similar across distance variations from the urban area (P> 0.05). However, significant differences between urban and rural areas were observed in two variables, that is, joining business alliances (P=0.012) linked to outsourcing abilities and keeping money away from the business premise (P=0.034) associated with financial management. Resilience indices were further developed utilising the six building blocks of the criteria. The indices for measuring small retail business resilience were expressed in the formula: R1= ƒ (SM1, OA1, MS1, RM1, FM1, I1, S1) + e where SM=Security Measures; OA= Outsourcing Abilities; MS= Marketing Strategies; OM=Risk Management; FM= Financial Management; I= Innovation; S= Subjective resilience dimensions and 1= particular time; e= error. The assumption underpinning these indices was that, small retail business resilience is not observable and thus it can be measured through assessing each dimension separately at a particular time. The outcomes reflected that, measuring youth-owned small retail businesses resilience encompasses a clear understanding of area specific threats and the subsequent customised performance measures. Resilience dimensions may change with time due to socio-economic changes, government policies and local conditions. As such, it is crucial to constantly assess youth small retail businesses in order to determine their current status and changes in resilience components. Current strategies and potential interventions for promoting small business resilience were also reviewed. Small retailers were currently utilising strategies such as business collaboration, specialisation and stock diversification. To, address the weaknesses associated with presently utilised strategies, potential interventions that encompassed financial support, provision of cheap stands, need for financial assistance and provision of business training and infrastructure upgrades were proposed. The present study provided a criteria and resilience indices that can be used by policy implementers, development agencies and funders to determine resilience drivers, monitor changes in resilience attributes over time and identify necessary interventions in the small retail sector. This assists decision makers to make pre-informed decisions before providing support to youth small retailers. The use of participatory research methods in the present study helped to ground the work in the youth small retail sector and thus, contributing to community engagement practices. The use of mixed study approaches has been consistently recommended in studies related to resilience measurement methods. As a result, the mixed research methods utilised in the present study provides directions for future replication in studies aimed at developing approaches for measuring resilience in the small business sector. Lastly, the simplicity of the criteria and indices make it easier for small retail business owners and other practitioners to use in future. / NRF

La précision dans la mesure du temps est considérée par l’historiographie comme un élément qui a émergé simultanément avec la géométrisation des phénomènes naturels. Les savants du XVIIe siècle sont ainsi étudiés dans ce cadre comme des Philosophes Naturels qui considèrent comme seul argument fiable les résultats quantitatifs de mesure et de précision. Dans cette thèse nous avons étudié cette émergence, dans le cadre emblématique de la théorie gravitationnelle de Newton. Dans un premier temps nous avons défini la précision du temps comme un élément qui demande une amélioration constante par le biais des instruments. Nous avons ensuite découpé la connaissance scientifique en trois parties distinctes : la construction de la théorie, son application et la confirmation de cette dernière. Nous avons étudié la précision dans la mesure du temps et son rôle en tant qu’élément de validation dans les trois parties en mettant l’accent sur la première. Dans ce cadre d’étude nous avons démontré que la thèse couramment répandue dans l’historiographie jusqu’ici est problématique. La précision dans la mesure du temps n’a pas de relation de causalité directe avec la géométrisation de la nature. Son importance au sein des théories, au cas par cas, est évolutive et s’est pendant longtemps retrouvée cantonnée dans les aspects techniques du savoir avant de trouver en retour une place importante dans la théorie. L’étude des aspects techniques nous ont amené à l’exploration de documents liés à la détermination des longitudes en mer, et sa relation intrinsèque au développement du commerce entre continents. Dans ce cadre nous avons détaillé des aspects jusque là obscurs du « mesureur de temps » de Galilée, proposé par ce dernier comme un instrument de grande précision qui participe à la solution des longitudes. / Precision in time measurement is considered by historiography as an element that emerged simultaneously with the geometrization of natural phenomena. The scholars of the seventeenth century are therefore studied in this context as Natural Philosophers who consider as the only reliable argument the quantitative results of measurement and precision. In this thesis we have studied this emergence, in the emblematic framework of Newton's gravitational theory. At first we defined the accuracy of time as an element that requires constant improvement through the instruments. We then divided the scientific knowledge into three distinct parts: the construction of the theory, its application and the confirmation of the theory. We studied the accuracy (here as synonym of precision) in the measurement of time and its role as a validation element in all three parts with a focus on the former. In this framework of study we have shown that the thesis commonly used in historiography so far is problematic. Precision in the measurement of time has no direct causal relation with the geometrization of nature. Its importance in theories, on a case-by-case study, is evolutionary and has for a long time been confined to the technical aspects of knowledge before finding an important place in the theory. The study of technical aspects led us to explore documents related to the determination of longitudes at sea, and its intrinsic relationship to the development of trade between continents. In this context we have detailed previously unclear aspects of Galileo's "time measurer", proposed by the later as an instrument of great accuracy being part of the longitude solution.

In the Tampa Bay region, increasing population and changing demographics have begun to alter the characteristics of established neighborhoods. An increase in suburban growth has triggered a shift in the location and profitability of food establishments in socially disadvantaged neighborhoods. Supermarket closures have garnered attention from public health officials who are concerned with the overall availability of fresh food throughout Hillsborough and Pinellas Counties. Unfortunately, there has been little research surrounding the quality of food sold at establishments in both the Tampa Bay region and abroad. Instead, many geographic studies have chosen to group both fresh and prepared food establishments into a singular category for analyses. While helpful for a generalized understanding of food access overall, these methods do little to convey access to fresh foods which are essential for a balanced diet. This study offers a different perspective from traditional food access studies by categorizing food stores into fresh and prepared categories. For each food category, the Cumulative Opportunity Measure (COM) was first applied to measure food accessibility at the census block group level; a descriptive analysis was then employed to examine the relations between food accessibility and socioeconomic variables. In order to provide a meaningful comparison, these same steps were taken to emulate the results of the combined model (fresh and prepared) that is often utilized in previous studies. Finally, a map displaying the COM ratio of fresh to prepared food by block group was created to highlight areas with disproportionately more fresh (or prepared) food opportunities. Results indicate that rural may be at a disadvantage with respect to fresh food accessibility. Also, a discrepancy between the fresh model and the prepared and combined models, in relation to female headed households, may indicate that food establishment classification has a significant effect on food accessibility. Overall, positive relationships were observed between factors relating to minority status, no GED, room occupancy, public assistance, limited English, poverty, and lack of vehicle ownership for the fresh, prepared, and combined food accessibility models. Finally, the ratio of fresh to prepared food establishments could explain why some populations exhibit higher rates of obesity even when in direct proximity to fresh food opportunities.

Author's name: Bc. Sára Miczová Supervisor:: Mgr. Miriama Dědková, DiS Opponent: Thesis title: Occupational therapy practise guidelines in patients with functional upper limb impairment after stroke in subacute phase To be able to provide occupational therapy intervention of high quality the occupatioal therpaists should rely on relevant standards of clinical care and clinical guidelines. (Švestková, 2018). Occupational therapists as well as other members of the interdisciplinar team provide professional care to the patients recovering from stroke. Those patients often have to deal with upper limb impairment which leads to decrese of quality of life. Relevant studies focused on this topic were searched via key words in PubMed, Web of Science and OVID Evidence Based Medicine Reviews databasis. The criterias of selection were: public access to the content, english language which were mainly focused on stroke patients rehabilitation. The suggestion of guideline was created based on methods accepted by department. The occupational therapist as well as physiotherapeutist of early rehabilitation were included in the process of creating the guideline using the GRADE programme for it. Only 48 out of 4054 studies were used, these were divided into two cathegories, one being the cathegory of assessment, the...

The problem of this study is to determine the relationship that may exist among the variables of racial status, puberty status, anthropometric measurements, and physical fitness. Particularly of interest are the anthropometric differences that may exist among Negroes and Caucasians and the effect that these differences may have upon physical fitness as measured by the AAHPER Physical Fitness Battery. Differences among racial groups and puberty groups will be determined by analysis of variance technique and relations among anthropometric measures and physical fitness components will be compared and determined by correlational techniques.

We consider a class of partial differential equations whose solutions are elements of a space of measures. The motivation for modeling with measures is that sometimes selection-mutation models or models of for example population dynamics or opinion-formation are designed to describe not functions, but rather evolving distributions which can be described by measures. We present a way to prove wellposedness for a particular class of models. Additionally, we briefly discuss a couple of ways to perform the numerical approximation of the evolving measures so that their expected behaviour can be captured. / Vi undersöker en klass av partiella differentialekvationer vars lösningar tillhör rum av mått. Motivationen för att modellera med mått är att selektion-mutations modeller och modeller inom till exempel populationsdynamik och opinionsformation ibland inte beskriver funktioner utan snarare tidsberoende distributioner som kan beskrivas av mått. Vi presenterar ett sätt att bevisa att en specifik klass av dessa modeller är välställda. Vi diskuterar även lite om ett par sätt att använda numeriska approximationer för att visa det förväntade beteendet av de tidsberoende måtten.

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Statement of the problem Psychology is currently unable to demonstrate that psychotherapy is effective because it has no reliable no-inference objective measures of behavior and behavior change. Reliable measures of therapeutic outcomes are currently nonexistent. The problem with which this study was concerned was one of reliably evaluating psychotherapy outcomes and behavioral change. Objective The objective of this study was to develop and assess new measures of behavioral change. The assessment was directed toward those distressing behaviors which cause adult clients to seek psychotherapy. Methods and procedure Development of a Behavioral Checklist which would assess the distressing behaviors which brought clients to therapy required a list of specific behaviors which may cause a client stress. A questionnaire which would measure stress required not only a list of behaviors, but also a measure of the stress caused by each behavior. A Behavioral Checklist which would measure the degree that specific behaviors were representative of the client's behavior was developed and each behavior was quantified by the S's self-report, as to degree of stress. When the degree that the behavior represents the client was multiplied times the amount of stress caused by that behavior, the result was a multiplicative measure of the behavior and the distress concomitant with that behavior which brought the client to therapy. The test-retest reliability of the Behavioral Checklist for a one week period was obtained from a University class of 21 undergraduate students. This reliability study revealed that 40 of the questionnaire's original 203 items had low test-retest reliability. After the 40 unreliable questions were deleted, the questionnaire's reliability ranged from .816 to .865 depending upon which of the first three scoring techniques were used. Following its development, the Behavioral Checklist was used to evaluate a "clinical" population to determine if it would measure change due to psychotherapy. Findings of the Study Using the therapist's ratings of improvement, the Ss were divided into an improved and an unimproved group. At test for each of the three scoring techniques used on the Behavioral Checklist revealed that Ss judged improved had significant gains on each scoring technique post therapy while Ss not so judged did not have significant gains. The Behavioral Checklists, pre less post scores, yield correlations varying from .54 to .78 when correlated with the therapist's rating of therapy outcomes. Specific Target Behaviors, which are operational definitions of the reasons clients came to therapy, were scored and evaluated in the same manner as the Behavioral Checklist. The Specific Target Behaviors yielded correlations ranging from .33 to .407 when correlated with the therapist's rating of therapy outcomes. Summary and Conclusions The current study indicates that a client's self-report of no-inference objective behaviors will measure change resulting from psychotherapy. Self-report no-inference behaviors will measure change due to psychotherapy whether they are from a prepared list of no-inference behaviors (Behavioral Checklist) or operational definitions of the client's own statements about the reasons that he came to therapy {Specific Target Behaviors). The results of the current study indicate that using no-inference, overt, quantifiable behavior is a fruitful area in which to study therapy outcomes with a clinic population.