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Τα συστήματα διαχείρισης περιεχομένου (Content Management Systems) χρησιμοποιούνται ευρέως στην κατασκευή εφαρμογών του παγκόσμιου ιστού. Το κυριότερο πλεονέκτημά τους είναι ότι άνθρωποι που δεν γνωρίζουν τις τεχνολογίες διαδικτύου μπορούν πολύ εύκολα μέσω διεπαφών να δημιουργήσουν αλλά και να συντηρήσουν την δική τους ιστοσελίδα.Ένα από τα δημοφιλέστερα CMS συστήματα είναι το Joomla. Το Joomla είναι open source οπότε και μπορεί κάποιος να το κατεβάσει δωρεάν ,να το χρησιμοποιήσει αλλά και να δει τον πηγαίο κώδικά του. Ξεχωρίζει από τα υπόλοιπα CMS συστήματα λόγο της απλότητας χειρισμού του και της μεγάλης κοινότητας χρηστών που το υποστηρίζουν. Η WebML είναι μια γλώσσα μοντελοποίησης διαδικτυακών εφαρμογών. Στόχος της είναι η παρουσίαση της δομής μιας τέτοιας εφαρμογής. Με την χρησιμοποίηση των WebML μονάδων ως επίπεδο αφαίρεσης μιας διαδικτυακής εφαρμογής είναι έυκολο να διακρίνουμε την δομή αλλά και τον τρόπο λειτουργίας της. Στην παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία χρησιμοποιείται η WebML για την μοντελοποίηση των ιστοσελίδων που παράγει το Joomla.H μοντελοποίηση αυτή μας βοηθάει να διακρίνουμε τα σχεδιαστικά πλεονεκτήματα αλλά και τις αδυναμίες που μπορεί να παρουσιάζει μια διαδικτυακή εφαρμογή δημιουργημένη με το συγκεκριμένο CMS. Η μοντελοποίηση γίνεται αυτόματα με ένα εργαλείο που έχει υλοποιηθεί στην γλώσσα προγραμματισμού Java και παρουσιάζει τα αποτελέσματα τόσο σε γραφική όσο και σε XML μορφή. / Content management systems (Content Management Systems) are widely used in the construction of Web applications. The main advantage is that people who are not familiar with internet technologies can very easily through interfaces create and maintain their own websites.One of the most popular CMS system is Joomla. Joomla is open source so anyone can download it free of charge, use it and see the source code. It distinguishes itself from other CMS systems because of the simplicity of use and the large user community that supports it. The WebML is a modeling language for web applications. Its aim is to present the structure of such an application. By using WebML units at an abstraction level in a web application it is easy to discern the structure and how it works. In this thesis WebML is used for modeling the web pages produced by the Joomla CMS. The modeling helps us to discern the design strengths and weaknesses that a web application created with this CMS may present. The modeling is done automatically with a tool that has been implemented in the Java programming language and presents the results both graphically and in XML format.

A new method of sea water desalination, Centrifugal Reverse-Osmosis (CRO), is developed from concept to patented design and functional prototype of capacity 11,355 litres of fresh water per day. CRO is shown to have significant benefits relative to the leading existing desalination technology, conventional reverse-osmosis. These benefits include: lower energy consumption, reduced initial and replacement membrane costs, lower noise levels and improved reliability. CRO is projected to show increasing cost efficiency as plant capacity increases. For a relatively large CRO plant, 65lm³ fresh water per day, the total cost of desalinated water is projected to be 25.9% lower than the total cost of water produced by a conventional RO plant of equivalent capacity. The current patented design requires further development in order to realize this potential. Toward this end, a computational and experimental study of rotor windage losses and an experimental study of fluid flow losses through the rotor are conducted. In addition a new method for the analysis of stresses in a filament wound rotor shell under combined centrifugal and pressure loading is developed. / Graduate

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:35:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-05-17Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:07:11Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 toledohernandez_c_dr_guara.pdf: 1092055 bytes, checksum: 0b2c543a0058afd866f34854073b41e5 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / O aumento do número de produtos com vida útil menor, a intensificação no uso do comércio eletrônico, leis cada vez mais exigentes de responsabilidade sobre descarte dos produtos e uma crescente consciência ambiental têm gerado um elevado número de retornos, fazendo crescer a importância da Logística Reversa para as empresas e para a sociedade, de forma geral. Contudo, constatou-se na literatura que se trata de uma área ainda pouco explorada, que carece de histórico e estatísticas que a mapeiem e, portanto, não existem dados concretos para se trabalhar e explorar as oportunidades de melhoria. Com o intuito de mitigar esta carência, foi realizada uma pesquisa bibliográfica acerca da relação entre a Logística Reversa e o desempenho empresarial, bem como uma pesquisa junto às empresas procurando verificar como se dá este relacionamento. A utilização de um método de pesquisa misto com estratégia exploratória possibilitou captar informação sobre os programas e atividades específicas da Logística Reversa nas empresas brasileiras. Como resultados principais desta tese obteve-se um modelo conceitual para abordar a Logística Reversa na estratégia das organizações e um conjunto de indicadores que possibilitam avaliar o seu desempenho. Adotou-se um Método de Tomada de Decisão com Múltiplos Critérios para ajudar na escolha dos indicadores, que foi a chave para o funcionamento adequado do modelo proposto. A validação do modelo, junto a especialistas das empresas envolvidas na pesquisa, demonstrou que seu uso é factível e que ele oferece alternativas sobre como intervir nas atividades da Logística Reversa no sentido de alinhá-la aos objetivos estratégicos das empresas. / The increase in the number of items with a lower useful life, the massive use of ecommerce, an increased environmental awareness and increasingly demanding laws on disposal of products responsibility, has created a elevated number of returns, making to grow the importance of Reverse Logistics for society and companies, in a general fashion. It was found in the literature, however, that Reverse Logistics is still a poorly explored activity, without historical and statistical data that maps it and consequently, there is no concrete data to work with and to explore the opportunities for improvement. With the goal of minimizing this deficiency, a bibliographic research about the relation between the Reverse Logistics and the business performance was made, besides a research along the companies seeking to verify how this relationship is made. Using a mixed research method with exploratory strategy allowed picking up information about the programs and specific activities of Reverse Logistics in Brazilian companies. As the main result of this thesis, a conceptual model for addressing the Reverse Logistics in the organizations strategy and a set of indicators that allow assessing their performance was obtained. A Multiple Criteria Decision Making was adopted to help in the choice of indicators, which was the key to the proper functioning of the proposed model. The validation of the model, along with experts from companies involved in research, has demonstrated that its use is feasible and it offers alternatives on how to intervene in the activities of Reverse Logistics in order to align it with the strategic objectives of companies.