This report will be covering further development of the Realtime-Updated Dashboard made by two students for Flex Applications in VT2017. The task now is to integrate the Dashboard with Outlook calendar. A theoretical deepening into the General Data Protection Regulation was made due to recent development in the European Union. This was used to set strict guidelines for design, consent and security of the application.   The application is a back-end service written mostly in C#, however some TypeScript language was used with Angular 2 framework along with LESS and HTML5. The application is developed as a stand-alone project as the Realtime-Updated Dashboard is now live in the system and it would pose a security risk for Flex which was a great opportunity to study and learn more about ASP.NET MVC model along with TypeScript, Angular2, LESS and HTML5. Integrating with Outlook calendar was just the first step, more calendars will be added in time. The main point of the application is to give the Realtime-Updated Dashboard added value and prove/show integration with Outlook calendar was possible.

Orientadores: Gilberto de Martino Jannuzzi, Sergio Valdir Bajay / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Mecanica. / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-13T07:43:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sant'Ana_PauloHenriquedeMello_D.pdf: 2598332 bytes, checksum: 2f261558acbb7fb96d777666818bcdad (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: Nos últimos 20 anos, inúmeros países vêm realizando reformas estruturais na indústria do gás natural, buscando a eficiência e a racionalidade econômica através da introdução da competição em determinadas etapas da cadeia. A presente tese buscou responder à seguinte pergunta: Qual é o arcabouço legal e regulatório adequado para a atração de investimento e o desenvolvimento da competição na indústria do gás natural no Brasil, considerando-se o atual estágio de desenvolvimento desta indústria no país? Para tanto, o trabalho efetuou uma fundamentação teórica sobre a teoria da regulação, analisou a experiência internacional na reestruturação do setor de gás natural, as particularidades do regime legal e regulatório no Brasil, a experiência brasileira da reestruturação do setor elétrico e a Lei 11.909/09, conhecida como a Lei do gás. Com o provável excedente de oferta de gás natural a partir de 2011 no Brasil, haverá condições propícias para o desenvolvimento da competição em algumas etapas da cadeia da indústria do gás. Dentre os principais pontos do arcabouço legal e regulatório considerado ideal para a atração dos investimentos e do desenvolvimento da competição, destacam-se: 1) regime único de autorização para a construção de gasodutos de transporte, vinculado a um parecer da EPE sobre o planejamento do mercado a ser conectado; 2) Planejamento participativo, coordenado pela EPE; 3) Acesso e prazo de carência a ser elaborado caso a caso pela ANP; 4) Regulação tarifária para as atividades de transporte 5) Foco na transparência de informações; 6) Criação de uma câmara de comercialização de gás natural; 7) Estimular o livre acesso, uma regulação tarifária eficaz e a transparente no downstream. / Abstract: During the last 20 years, several countries have been carrying out structural reforms in the natural gas industry, trying to achieve efficiency and economic rationality with the introduction of competition. The objective of the thesis is to review the Gas Law 11.909/09 in Brazil and present an analytic approach to the development of competition and infrastructure of the Brazilian natural gas industry. According to the market projection carried out in this work, by 2011 there will be a possible surplus of natural gas in the country. The critical revision of the Gas Law shows several positive points and others that need improvements. This analysis and the new approach proposed herein seek to stimulate the development of competition and infrastructure in the Brazilian natural gas industry. It tries to stimulate it through non-discriminatory open access, tariff regulation for the transport activities and information transparency. The government role in this process is also shown, that is mainly regulation and outlook activities, aiming the development of the infra-structure. The main points to achieve a sound legal and regulatory framework are: 1) authorization for transmission activities, with the requirement of the opinion of the government research company EPE; 2) Participative planning; 3) Open access and exclusiveness period to be elaborated in a case by case basis by ANP; 4) Tariff regulation for transmission; 5) Focus on information transparency; 6) Creation of a wholesale market; 7) Granting open access and tariff regulation on the distribution. / Doutorado / Doutor em Planejamento de Sistemas Energéticos

Vid möteshantering används många olika groupware, några av de groupware som används är intranät och e-post. Något som blir allt vanligare är att integrerade intranät och e-postlösningar (exempelvis Sharepoint) används vid möteshantering. Det behövs fler jämförelser om hur användbara olika informationssystem är vid möteshantering. Den här studien syftar till att jämföra hur användbart integrerat intranät och e-post är jämfört med separat intranät och e-post vid möteshantering. För att besvara frågan så har groupware walkhtrough och enkäter använts. Studien har skett på Stena Line i två olika grupper. Resultatet pekar mot att integrerat intranät och e-post är mer användbart vid möteshantering än separat intranät och e-post. Det krävs dock fler liknande undersökningar på andra arbetsplatser för att kunna generalisera resultatet.

This thesis is the report of an investigation to determine and to evaluate the methods and the philosophy of the teaching of English in the secondary schools of Texas.

Utdelningspolitiska beslut representerar ett väsentligt ställningstagande för företag avseende kapitalallokering. Ekonomiska utsikter tenderar att föregå fluktuationer i den ekonomiska aktiviteten, som i slutändan samspelar med företags operationella verksamhet och förmåga att generera kapital. Informationen kan således vara betydelsefull på bolagsnivå för att bedöma om utdelningspolitiska beslut är genomförbara med hänsyn till framtida förväntningar. Studien undersöker empiriskt hur ekonomiska utsikter påverkar företags benägenhet att betala kontant utdelning och återköpa aktier i Sverige under perioden 2000–2019. Mer specifikt undersöks det med hjälp av att tillämpa en logistisk regressionsanalys för att beräkna sannolikheten att företag betalar kontant utdelning, höjer den kontanta utdelningen, sänker den kontanta utdelningen och återköper aktier när de ekonomiska utsikterna är positiva alternativt negativa. Ekonomiska utsikter baseras på data från Konjunkturinstitutets konjunkturbarometer. Finansiell bolagsdata och återköpsdata inhämtas från Thomson Reuters Eikon och Nasdaq. Resultatet indikerar att ekonomiska utsikter endast är positivt relaterat till svenska företags kontanta utdelningsökningar. / Economic outlook provides substantial information about future economic activity, information that could be used to decide whether payout policies will be implementable given future expectations. Dividend policy represents a major commitment from firm decision-makers regarding capital planning. Economic outlook predicts future economic activity, which ultimately interacts with firm’s future operational activities, and in the end, firm’s ability to generate future capital that could be used to fund payouts. This paper empirical examines how economic outlook affects the propensity for firms to pay cash dividends and repurchase shares using public available data from The National Institute of Economic Research in Sweden, financial statement data from Thomson Reuters and repurchase data from Nasdaq. Our results suggest that economic outlooks are positively related to dividend increase.

Students experience many developmental changes as they experience adolescence. They begin to examine their identities in relation to others and often question their original values and beliefs that have been guiding their behavior. In fact, this susceptibility to peer influence can lead adolescents to engage in risky behavior rather than consider the future consequences of their actions. Despite the large body of literature that delineates peer influence and its effect on adolescent behavior, researchers have yet to examine the impact of high quality friendships on adolescents’ ability to resist to peer influence, and the following effects that this resistance to peer influence has on the youth’s identity and future consideration. Friendship quality was chosen as a moderating variable in the present study, as resistance to peer influence’s effect on identity and future outlook is believed to depend on whether or not the adolescent is in a high quality friendship. Specifically, the present study aims to answer the following research question: Does friendship quality moderate the effect of resistance to peer influence on identity and future outlook in adolescents after controlling for gender, socioeconomic status, and parental involvement in schooling? Many theories support the hypothesis that resistance to peer influence is associated with identity and future consideration, such as Social Comparison Theory, as well as theories associated with motivation. This study analyzed data collected as part of the NICHD–SECCYD comprehensive longitudinal study. Specifically, the effects of resistance to peer influence on identity and future consideration was analyzed in AMOS 22, using a multiple group path model with friendship quality as a moderator.

Artificial intelligence is often believed to have a detrimental effect on employment. However, when reviewing employment forecasts from The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, no information could be found indicating whether they considered the potential impact of artificial intelligence on employment. This thesis aims to examine the relationship between the 2022 employment forecasts and the artificial intelligence exposure measure for occupations developed by Felten, Raj and Seamans (2021) in “Occupational, industry, and geographic exposure to artificial intelligence: A novel dataset and its potential uses” to determine if there is a significant correlation between the two. Using a dataset of 669 observations resulting from matching occupations using their standard occupational classification codes (SOC), a strong correlation was observed. Yet, it remains unclear whether this is due to deliberately accounting for artificial intelligence or any other factors. Nor can it be asserted that this correlation accurately depicts the continuously evolving job market.

This paper is the companion paper of Remote Microgrids for Energy Access in Indonesia “Part I: scaling and sustainability challenges and a technology outlook”. This part II investigates the issues of photovoltaic (PV) systems with respect to the planning, design, and operation, and maintenance phases in microgrids in Indonesia. The technology outlooks are also included as PV has an important role in providing electricity in the underdeveloped, isolated, and border areas. The data in this paper are from PV microgrids located in Maluku and North Maluku, which are two provinces where there is barely any grid connection available and thus very dependent on remote microgrids. The data are obtained from interviews with Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) and NZMATES, which are an Indonesian utility company and a program for supporting role for the PV systems in Maluku funded by New Zealand respectively. Common issues with respect to reliability and sustainability are identified based on the provided data. Advanced technologies to increase reliability and sustainability are also presented in this paper as a technology outlook. Among these solutions are online monitoring systems, PV and battery lifetime estimation, load forecasting strategies, and PV inverters technology.

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Kommunikation är en grundpelare för alla verksamheter och företag där möten är ett av de primära sätten för att samtala och fatta gemensamma beslut. Problemet som kan uppstå i samband med att en bokning av ett möte ska utföras är att försöka finna en tid då alla önskade mötesdeltagare kan delta vilket kan vara en tröttsam och tidskrävande process om många deltagare ska ingå i mötet. Detta är ett bekymmer som uppstår hos IT-företaget Easit som fokuserar på mjukvarulösningar åt företag och myndigheter. Arbetet syftar till att undersöka de anställdas uppfattning kring mötesbokningar, vilka verktyg de använder i dagsläget för att boka möten och slutligen formulera och implementera en byggsten i form av en målfunktion för att förhindra de problem som beskrivs i undersökningen. Konstruktionen sker i form av en webbapplikation skapat med främst programmeringsspråket Java men också olika ramverk och verktyg för att förenkla processen i att uppnå en dynamisk applikation. Applikationen upprättar koppling till Microsoft Outlooks API där data sedan extraheras från kalendrar baserat på delvis modifierad data från en anställds schema på företaget. Målfunktionen tillämpas på den data som extraherats för villkor som användaren fyllt i, på det vis beräkna ett slags betyg för potentiella mötesbokningar. Målfunktionen som är en optimerad algoritm jämförs med en greedy-algoritm för att presentera den optimerade algoritmens potential för problembeskrivningen. Den fortsatta utvecklingen utförs genom att formulera bivillkor vars syfte är att bredda den optimerade algoritmens flexibilitet och djup. Resultatet för arbetet är en grund för optimering av scheman med potential för fortsatt utveckling. / Communication is a foundation pillar for all businesses and companies where meetings is one of the primary ways to converse and take collective decisions. The problem which can arise in the procedure of booking a meeting is trying to find a suitable time for every desired participant which could be a tedious and time-consuming task if many participants are to be included in the meeting. This is an issue that has risen at an IT company named Easit which focuses on software solutions for other companies and authorities. The aim of the project is to investigate the employees opinion of this issue, the tools they use today for the process of booking a meeting and finally formulate and implement a building block in the form of a target function which will be used to prevent the problems that are stated in the investigation. The construction is to be performed in the form of a web application created with the programming language Java together with different frameworks and tools to simplify the process of achieving a dynamic application. The application establishes a connection to the Microsoft Outlook API which will then be used to extract data from different calendars based of partly modified data from an employee’s schedule. The target function will be applied to the data extracted dependent on the conditions stated by the user and based on that; a kind of grade will be applied to every possible meeting time found. The target function which is an optimized algorithm is compared to a greedy-algorithm to present the optimized functions potential for the problem specified. If future work is to be done on the project, the main focus should lie on formulating additional constraints and parameters which can widen the optimized algorithm flexibility and depth. The result for this project is a foundation for optimizing schedules depending on multiple calendars together with potential for future work.