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Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2000. / Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

This report is the result of a thesis performed at Westermo Industrial Ltd with its headquarters in Stora Sundby and it sums up the author's studies for University Engineering in Innovation, Production and Logistics at Mälardalen University. The main goal of the thesis was to identify problems and suggest actions that lead to the reduction of the repair time from 3 weeks to 2 weeks. The key questions that were answered in order to achieve the thesis objectives are:   What are the biggest challenges that make the repair process time last for 3 weeks?   What are the necessary means and measures in order to reduce the repair length to 2 weeks?   The author adjusted the work to the Swedish repairs, repair issues that arise from sell unit Westermo Data Communications AB with its office in Västerås and performed the status report by mapping the repair process, through using observations, interviews and bibliography research studies. A flow map of four sub-processes (Inbound Delivery, BackOffice, Repair Department, and Logistics) was made and each section was observed, where also the employees were interviewed. Data that has been collected was analysed by the author and the decision to execute a workshop that affects Repair Department and Logistics was made. Consequently to this, these two services will prove to have the greatest impact on repair time.   It is notified that the main reason for the repair process length today is so long is due to the fact that the owner of the repair process does not exist, which leads to so many unanswered questions and unclearness through the whole process, which occur and result in the situation where the process does not work as a whole, but each sub-process is acting separately on its own. Problems also arise because of the persons that are bound to the process, where both engineers at repair department are specialized in their own field and cannot perform the second engineer's work. Furthermore, due to the incomplete description that is usually provided by the customers, makes even more difficult to define the problem, which is yet another reason why the repair time is so long today.   The suggestions for improvement that are recommended, in the first place to reduce the length of the repair process - is to create an entirely new position within repair process – the owner. In order to correct the deficiency with incomplete error descriptions from the clients, they should introduce network-based fault reports, which contain a number of mandatory fields that the customer must fill out in order to describe the problem and the conditions that existed when the fault with their unit occurred. This would simultaneously also eliminate the waiting length on the warranty of the unit if it is not applicable, and a response regarding that particular repair for the customer. Furthermore, training of repair engineers should be initiated for them, so they will be able to fix all units coming in for repair. The key objective here is to reduce the waiting length when the unit is on wait to be treated by the "right" engineer.   In future, with the aforementioned, and other improvement proposals that are developed and explained in this report, repair time can be significantly reduced, which will further on improve the entire repair process.

Thesis (M. English and Comparative Literature)--Murdoch University, 2003. / Thesis submitted to the Divison of Arts. Bibliography: leaves 109-110.

Prosperity was the positive goal of America's postwar policy. For several years, the United States was successful in her attempt to be at the same time politically aloof and economically opportunistic. But politics and economics were radically intertwined in the reparation settlement, and when reparations interfered with the prosperity of the Atlantic community, it shattered as well America's resolve to "let Europe stew in her own juice," and caused American reinvolvement in European concerns. America's postwar settlement can be expressed in two words: disentanglement frustrated.

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Thesis (LL.M.). / Written for the Faculty of Law. Title from title page of PDF (viewed 2008/05/13). Includes bibliographical references.

Stuttgart, Univ., Diss., 2002.

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In this thesis, I examine the theoretical and practical implications of understanding asylum as a form of reparation. My basic contention is that offers of asylum potentially constitute a means through which states can discharge their special obligations towards refugees for whose flight they are responsible. Asylum, on my account, is an institution that can contribute to the rectification of the unjustified harms that states may have caused refugees by forcing them to flee. The thesis is divided into three main parts. In Part I, I lay out a basic theory of asylum as reparation, explaining my conception of asylum and its potential moral functions in Chapter 1, and demonstrating the ways in which asylum may act reparatively in Chapter 2. In Part II, I seek to identify the conditions under which states owe asylum as reparation to refugees. Over the following three chapters, I argue that states have such an obligation when they bear outcome responsibility for unjustified harms experienced by refugees as a result of their flight, and when asylum is the most fitting form of reparation for those harms that is available. In Part III, I apply my theory to the case of Iraqi refugees generated since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and explore some of the practical implications of my approach. In Chapter 6, I argue that the US and UK owe asylum as reparation to large numbers of Iraqi refugees. In Chapter 7, I examine the implications of my approach for domestic asylum politics, questioning how states should prioritise refugees to whom they owe reparation vis-à-vis other refugees, and exploring its potential impact on debates over asylum. In Chapter 8, I identify its implications for the international politics of refugee protection, anticipating some of the incentives that it might create for states.