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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
321

Breakthrough Tech. Centre II /

Tam, Wai-kee. January 1997 (has links)
Thesis (M.Arch.)--University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes special report study entitled : [1] Flexibility.--[2] Photovoltaics. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.
322

The development of cultural complexity among the Luiseño

Jones, Carleton S. January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.)--California State University, Long Beach, 1992. / Abstract preceding title page. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 132-142).
323

Developing sustainable product semantics for consumer products a sustainable designer's guide /

Guyton, Allison Amis. January 2006 (has links)
Thesis (M. S.)--Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007. / Wayne C. Chung, Committee Chair ; David Ringholz, Committee Member ; Richard Braunstein, Committee Member.
324

Wage structures and employment outcomes in New Zealand, and their relationship to technological change /

Hector, C. J. January 2007 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D. Economics)--University of Waikato, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 179-213) Also available via the World Wide Web.
325

The Department of Defense net-centric data strategy implementation requirwa a joint community of interest (COI) working group and joint oversight council /

Bigger, Clinton R. January 1900 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (M.S. in Joint Campaign Planning and Strategy)--Joint Forces Staff College, Joint Advanced Warfighting School, 2007. / Title from title screen; viewed on July 9, 2007. "17 May 2007." Electronic version of original print document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-71).
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A proteção do conhecimento e a inovação na Universidade Estadual de Londrina

Gonçalves, Adriana Aguillera 05 October 2012 (has links)
A Universidade é notoriamente reconhecida como fonte de geração e disseminação de conhecimentos. A inovação, por sua vez, decorre de conhecimento científico, que por meio de instrumentos de propriedade intelectual, como a patente, pode ser protegido, o que garante os direitos dos atores envolvidos quanto à apropriação indevida do conhecimento, possibilita o compartilhamento seguro e, por fim, contribui para o desenvolvimento tecnológico. Com essa abordagem, o presente estudo procurou analisar os recursos que a Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL) disponibiliza aos pesquisadores para a proteção do conhecimento visando ao surgimento de inovações no meio acadêmico. Para alcançar esse objetivo, foi desenvolvida uma pesquisa descritiva de caráter qualitativo por meio do estudo de caso envolvendo gestores da AINTEC e pesquisadores que solicitaram patentes no período de 2008 a 2010. A coleta de dados foi realizada em duas etapas. Na primeira, por meio da pesquisa documental, foi analisada a resolução que contém as diretrizes em relação à proteção do conhecimento e o currículo da Plataforma Lattes de todos os participantes, com vistas a identificar o perfil dos mesmos, produção científica e número de solicitações de patentes. A segunda etapa possibilitou, por meio de entrevistas, conhecer a Agência de Inovação Tecnológica da UEL (AINTEC), enquanto recurso indispensável para a proteção do conhecimento. Para tanto, foram investigados aspectos referentes à infraestrutura da agência, apoio e suporte dado aos inventores. Ainda nessa etapa, foram reunidas considerações dos pesquisadores sobre a atuação da AINTEC, a sensibilização para a proteção do conhecimento, os mecanismos mais utilizados para disseminação de uma nova tecnologia e as dificuldades encontradas pelo pesquisador no processo de patenteamento. Os resultados demonstram que os pesquisadores, apesar de estarem atuando há muito tempo na instituição, não estão sensibilizados para a proteção do conhecimento, priorizando o artigo como veículo de divulgação científica. O processo de patenteamento é visto como algo complexo, burocrático e moroso. A AINTEC, por falta de pessoas preparadas para a função, não consegue desempenhar suas atividades a contento. As diretrizes de proteção do conhecimento existentes estão voltadas essencialmente para a participação dos inventores nos ganhos financeiros. Com esses resultados foi possível identificar um cenário não muito favorável ao surgimento de inovações, considerando, para isso, a escassez de mão de obra; escassez de recursos para a realização de pesquisas de cunho inovador; falta de equipamentos de última geração; e aspectos da cultura vigente no meio acadêmico, como o ato contínuo do compartilhamento livre de ideias e conhecimentos e a falta de conhecimento do pesquisador sobre os benefícios da proteção do conhecimento. Talvez, por essas razões, a transformação do conhecimento em produtos palpáveis que beneficiem a sociedade ainda não é ação comum da comunidade científica da UEL. Um longo caminho deve ser percorrido ainda para que a inovação seja intensificada no meio acadêmico e a universidade tenha participação efetiva no processo inovativo. / University is notoriously recognized as a source of generation and dissemination of knowledge. Innovation derives from scientific knowledge, which in turns, through instruments of intellectual property such as patents, can be protected assuring the rights of the involved agents concerning to misappropriation of knowledge. Therefore, those instruments allow secure sharing, and eventually contribute to technological development. By this approach, the present study aimed at analyzing the resources the State University of Londrina (UEL) provides to researchers in terms of knowledge protection having the rise of innovations in the academic environment as objective. To achieve this goal, we developed a descriptive qualitative research through case study involving AINTEC managers and researchers who have applied patents in the period from 2008 to 2010. Data collection was performed in two stages. At first, through documentary research, we analyzed the resolution containing guidelines regarding protection of knowledge and the curriculum of Lattes platform for all participants in order to identify their profiles, their scientific production and the number of patent requests. The second stage allowed through interviews to come to know UEL Technological Innovation Agency (AINTEC), indispensable resource at knowledge protection. Thus, aspects related to the infrastructure of the agency were investigated along with the help and support that the inventors are given. Also at this stage, accounts from the researchers about the AINTEC performance, the awareness for the protection of knowledge, the most used mechanisms for the dissemination of a new technology and the difficulties found by the researcher in the process of patenting were gathered. Although the researchers have been working for long at the institution, the outcomes show that they are not aware of the knowledge protection in putting the article as primary importance as a mean of scientific promotion. The patenting process is thought as something complex, bureaucratic and slow. AINTEC cannot carry out its activities properly because of lack of trained personnel. The existing knowledge protection guidelines are mainly aimed at the inventor’s participation in the profits. With these results, it was possible to identify a scenario not very favorable to the rise of innovations considering the lack of labor, lack of resources in order to carry out research of innovative nature, lack of state-of-art equipment, aspects of culture in force in academic environment such as the continuous act of free sharing of ideas and knowledge, and the researcher’s lack of understanding on the benefits of knowledge protection. Perhaps for those reasons, bringing the knowledge to fruition, which benefits the society, has not been common action at UEL scientific community yet. There is still a long way to run for the innovation to be intensified in the academic environment and for university to have an effective participation in the innovative process.
327

Models and applications of wireless networks in rural environments

Li, Yang January 2005 (has links)
Magister Scientiae - MSc / With the unprecedented growth of the communication industry that the world is experiencing, the demand from rural inhabitants for high quality communications at an economically affordable cost is growing. However, rural areas are rather restricted from deploying communication services due to the rough natural environment, and the shortage of rudimentary communication facilities and technical personnel. Appropriate models for building rural wireless networks and a concomitant simulation environment are, therefore, expected to enable the construction of technologically-optimal and economically-efficient networks in specified rural areas.The research has set up two independent models, one for the economic need and the other for the technical need of building networks in rural areas. One model was the Impact of Telecommunications Model, which disclosed the importance of building a wireless network in specified rural areas by choosing an economic parameter to forecast the profitability of the network. The other was the Service Model, which collected primitive data from given rural areas and abstracted these data by flowing them through four technical layers to form the predicted technical wireless network. Both of the models had been applied to real-world cases to demonstrate how to use them.A simulation environment was finally designed and implemented to realize the above two models for the sake of instantiation. This environment could simulate the specified rural network by constructing a wireless network on the invented areas and evaluating its quality and economic efficiency. It was written in Scilab simulation language, which was an open source. / South Africa
328

A common analysis framework for simulated streaming-video networks

Mulumba, Patrick January 2009 (has links)
Distributed media streaming has been driven by the combination of improved media compression techniques and an increase in the availability of bandwidth. This increase has lead to the development of various streaming distribution engines (systems/services), which currently provide the majority of the streaming media available throughout the Internet. This study aimed to analyse a range of existing commercial and open-source streaming media distribution engines, and classify them in such a way as to define a Common Analysis Framework for Simulated Streaming-Video Networks (CAFSS-Net). This common framework was used as the basis for a simulation tool intended to aid in the development and deployment of streaming media networks and predict the performance impacts of both network configuration changes, video features (scene complexity, resolution) and general scaling. CAFSS-Net consists of six components: the server, the client(s), the network simulator, the video publishing tools, the videos and the evaluation tool-set. Test scenarios are presented consisting of different network configurations, scales and external traffic specifications. From these test scenarios, results were obtained to determine interesting observations attained and to provide an overview of the different test specications for this study. From these results, an analysis of the system was performed, yielding relationships between the videos, the different bandwidths, the different measurement tools and the different components of CAFSS-Net. Based on the analysis of the results, the implications for CAFSS-Net highlighted different achievements and proposals for future work for the different components. CAFSS-Net was able to successfully integrate all of its components to evaluate the different streaming scenarios. The streaming server, client and video components accomplished their objectives. It is noted that although the video publishing tool was able to provide the necessary compression/decompression services, proposals for the implementation of alternative compression/decompression schemes could serve as a suitable extension. The network simulator and evaluation tool-set components were also successful, but future tests (particularly in low bandwidth scenarios) are suggested in order to further improve the accuracy of the framework as a whole. CAFSS-Net is especially successful with analysing high bandwidth connections with the results being similar to those of the physical network tests.
329

Inovação : estudo de caso em uma encarroçadora de ônibus de Caxias do Sul

Rodrigues, Edvania Rocha 30 April 2015 (has links)
Com a crescente globalização de mercados e o aumento gradativo da concorrência, a inovação pode propiciar às organizações resultados positivos tais como rentabilidade e a criação e manutenção de vantagem competitiva sobre os seus concorrentes - elementos indispensáveis à sobrevivência em longo prazo. A prática da inovação contribui para o desenvolvimento econômico por oportunizar a criação de novos mercados e o aperfeiçoamento de mercados existentes, gerando benefícios para produtores e consumidores de produtos novos ou melhorados pela inovação. Desta forma, justifica-se a existência de uma constante busca pela inovação. Seja ela pelo lançamento de um novo produto, melhoria de prestação de serviço, no processo de produção, na entrada de um novo mercado, entre outras formas de inovar. A ocorrência de inovações é a responsável por mudanças na dinâmica do desenvolvimento, sendo a adoção de novas tecnologias a manifestação explícita dessa dinâmica. A partir desta contextualização, esta Dissertação teve como objetivo identificar as inovações tecnológicas em produtos e processos, classificando-as em radicais e incrementais, ocorridas na empresa ALFA. A inovação tecnológica contribui para a teoria de inovação como base para a descrição da importância dos conceitos pertinentes ao processo de mensuração da inovação. O método de pesquisa utilizado possui abordagem qualitativa e quantitativa, com objetivo exploratório e descritivo. O procedimento técnico utilizado foi o estudo de caso único. Na fase quantitativa, foi utilizada uma survey, com um questionário estruturado como instrumento de coleta de dados, que foi aplicado aos funcionários das áreas de qualidade, engenharia e processos de uma empresa do setor metalmecânico, totalizando uma população de 60 entrevistados. A análise dos dados ocorreu em duas etapas, na etapa qualitativa, foi utilizada a análise de conteúdo das entrevistas realizadas com os gestores, coordenadores e supervisores das áreas de qualidade, engenharia e processo, e na etapa quantitativa foi utilizada análise descritiva, através da análise de frequência do Qui-quadrado dos dados obtidos dos questionários aplicados aos colaboradores das áreas de qualidade, engenharia e processo e os questionários aplicados aos coordenadores, gestores e supervisores das áreas de qualidade, engenharia e processo. Os resultados da fase qualitativa identificaram a implantação de inovação em produtos e processos na empresa estudada. Os resultados quantitativos identificaram que a inovação em produtos e processos implantadas na empresa são classificadas como incrementais. Por meio da análise de frequência, foram identificadas diferenças entre as respostas dos gestores e dos colaboradores sobre as denominações de inovação implantada na empresa. / Submitted by Ana Guimarães Pereira (agpereir@ucs.br) on 2015-10-05T12:11:58Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Edvania Rocha Rodrigues.pdf: 2338966 bytes, checksum: 48eeff3805fb7bd1d502e866f1c2c47a (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-10-05T12:11:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Edvania Rocha Rodrigues.pdf: 2338966 bytes, checksum: 48eeff3805fb7bd1d502e866f1c2c47a (MD5) / With the increasing globalization of markets and the gradual increase of competition, innovation can provide positive results to organizations such as profitability and competitive advantage of the creation and maintenance over its competitors - essential elements to the long-term survival. The practice of innovation contributes to economic development by giving the opportunity for new markets creation and improvement of existing markets, generating benefits for producers and consumers of new products or improved products by the innovation. In this way, it is justified the existence of a constant search for innovation. Either by the launch of a new product, or improvement in service delivery, improvement in the production process, the entry into a new market, among other ways to innovate. Innovations are responsible for major changes in the dynamics of development and the introduction of new technologies the most explicit manifestation of this dynamic. From this contextualization, this essay aims to identify the technological innovations in products and processes occurred in the company ALFA, classifying them into radical and incremental. Technological innovation contributes to innovation theory as a basis for the description of the importance of relevant concepts to the process of innovation measurement. The research method used has qualitative and quantitative approach with exploratory and descriptive purpose. The technical procedure used was a single case study. In the quantitative phase, a survey was used with a structured questionnaire as data collection instrument, which was applied to the employees of the quality area, engineering and processes of a company in the metal-mechanic industry, with a total of 60 respondents. The analysis of the data occurred in two stages. The analysis from the interviews content conducted with managers, coordinators and supervisors of the quality area, engineering and process was used in the qualitative stage. And, in quantitative stage was used descriptive quantitative analysis by chi-square frequency analysis of the data from questionnaires given to employees of quality area, engineering and process and from questionnaires given to managers, coordinators and supervisors of the same areas. The results of the qualitative phase identified the innovation implementation in products and processes in the studied company. The quantitative results indicate that innovation in products and processes implemented in the company are classified as incremental. Through frequency analysis, differences were identified between the responses of managers and employees on innovation denominations established in the company.
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Influência dos sistemas de informação (SI) fornecidos pelo APL de software no sudoeste paranaense sob a perspectiva da inovação organizacional

Ferreira, Rafael Henrique Mainardes 24 February 2015 (has links)
CAPES; CNPq / O presente trabalho tem como principal objetivo a avaliação da influência dos Sistemas de Informação (SI) fornecidos pelo Arranjo Produtivo Local de Software (APL) do Sudoeste do Paraná para a região em questão, orientado pelos preceitos de inovação, especificamente, inovação organizacional. A partir da utilização de questionários semiestruturados, foram realizadas entrevistas com os gestores e usuários de empresas que adquiriram os Softwares das empresas que compõem o APL em questão. Após a busca e seleção das empresas a serem pesquisadas – junto aos dados coletados pelo Núcleo de Tecnologia da Informação (NTI) -, foi possível contatar os entrevistados e ouvir os depoimentos a respeito da inovação de produtos, processos, estruturas organizacionais que permitam conceituar as empresas nos mercados em que atuam, bem como, posteriormente, verificar a aceitação e desenvolvimento do Software adquirido nas empresas, de forma a buscar evidências que corroborem a inovação organizacional. Após o levantamento dos depoimentos, foi possível confrontar alguns dados referentes à visão dos gestores e dos usuários dos sistemas encontrados, verificando a convergência ou divergência de conceitos acerca do assunto, bem como analisar, em conjunto, a aceitação dos usuários para essa nova forma de rotina nos processos. O trabalho proporcionou a análise dos fatores que posicionam o APL de Software do Sudoeste paranaense como um importante desenvolvedor de atividades que não somente buscam a negociação, desenvolvimento, compra e venda de produtos e sistemas, mas também como um importante elo entre a empresa e o cliente, atendo-se às necessidades e dificuldades encontradas após a aplicação de novidade nos processos empresariais. A pesquisa revelou que o APL em questão, portanto, é capaz de atuar como um forte desenvolvedor de práticas sociais, configurando o ambiente externo empresarial e modificando as estruturas internas, de forma a auxiliar os envolvidos na busca do novo, acelerando processos e aproximando os stakeholders. / This study aims to evaluate the influence of the Information Systems (IS) provided by the Software‟s Cluster of Southwest‟s Paraná for the region in question, guided by the precepts of innovation, specifically, organizational innovation. Through semi-structured questionnaires, it was possible to conduct interviews with managers and business users who purchased the Software companies that make up the cluster in question. After the search and selection of companies to be researched - from the data collected by the Information Technology Center (NTI) - it was possible to contact the respondents and hear the testimonials about the product innovation, processes, organizational structures to conceptualize companies in the markets in which they operate, and subsequently verify the acceptance and development of Software acquired in companies in order to seek evidence supporting organizational innovation. After surveying of the statements, it was possible to compare some data on the vision of managers and users of the systems found by checking the convergence or divergence of views on the matter and consider jointly, user acceptance for this new form of routine processes. The work, in addition to the objectives achieved, considering the analysis of factors that place the southwest of the Software APL Paraná as a developer of activities that not only seek the negotiation, development, purchase and sale of products and systems, but also as an important link between the company and the customer, being guided by the needs and difficulties encountered after applying novelty in business processes. The research showed that the APL in question, therefore, is able to act as a strong developer of social practices, setting the business external environment and modifying the internal structures in order to assist those involved in the new search, accelerating processes and approaching the stakeholders.

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