Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Salzburg, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 368-375).

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The purchase of millions of dollars in Government property by various programs within the Department of the Navy in the development of many ACAT-1 Major Systems acquisition programs need to be reviewed to determine if the proper regulatory guidance exists. The purpose of this research was to investigate what, if any policies, provide Program Managers of Major System Acquisition with the proper guidance in the management control and of Government acquired property. The thesis examines an existing ACAT-1 program within the Department of the Navy, provides a full accounting and value of the property acquired to date. The research will determine to what extent the existing property management regulations were used, the current status of the property acquired and what actions have been taken to ensure that all the property acquired to date is fully accounted for. Recommendations will focus on areas associated with the establishment of Department of Navy regulatory policy at the property management level as well as the development of policy guidance for the proper purchase, distribution and control of property at the program level. / Department of the Navy author (civilian)

This thesis explores the design of a stakeholder-driven collaborative spatial decision support system (CSDSS) to facilitate relative and absolute valuation of the worth of relatively large areas of land for activities traditionally difficult to quantify in monetary terms. A possible solution is offered by taking advantage of the development of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) towards Spatial Decision Support Systems (SDSS), and subsequently to Collaborative Spatial Decision Support Systems (CSDSS). It reports on the development of a methodology to aid in the valuing of land use activities difficult to quantify. The thesis explores an alternative to planner-driven land valuation, placing the valuation responsibility instead on stakeholders. Three experiments are carried out. The first employs tourism experts as subjects. They conduct a gestalt based land valuation on a topographic map of the area surrounding Penticton, British Columbia. A second experiment examines the same area, but with a larger sample of subjects. The final experiment explores system developments with stakeholders from Galiano Island, BC. The thesis justifies and explains its use of a gestalt methodology. It introduces different types of decision support information products that can be derived to facilitate consensus building. It summarises experience gained when evaluating the proposed methodological procedure using the three experiments. It concludes that computing technology has advanced to make it reasonably straight-forward to collect information about individual stakeholders’ land valuations, and that the resultant information can be packaged effectively in a collaborative spatial decision support system (CSDSS) to facilitate consensus building. / Graduate

Thesis (B.Sc)--University of Hong Kong, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 128-137)

Thesis (B.Sc)--University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-92)

Thesis (LL. M.)--Judge Advocate General's School, U.S. Army, 1969. / "April 1969." Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaf 103). Also issued in microfiche.

Electronic patterns found on Pb quantum islands can serve as a template to grow nanoclusters spontaneously. Nanoclusters of different materials display various growth behaviors. Compared to Pb adatoms, Ag nanoclusters can be fabricated in a perfectly ordered form. In the work, using density-functional theory, we demonstrate that how the interaction between adatom and substrate affects the atomic motion on the Pb quantum islands of electronic origin.

Thesis (Eng.D.)--City University of Hong Kong, 2009. / "Submitted to Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Engineering Management in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Engineering Doctorate." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 319-354)

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 1970. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 143-148). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center.