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<p>Title: The Pursuit of Sustainable Competitive Advantage – A Profile of the Starbucks Corporation</p><p>Authors: Benjamin Adam White & Ettore Moraschinelli</p><p>Advisor: Jean-Charles Languilaire</p><p>Date: 2009 May 29</p><p>Program: International Business and Entrepreneurship</p><p>Purpose: To study sustainable competitive advantages using Starbucks as a case study.</p><p>Methods: The qualitative method was utilized to collect the secondary data used in this type of thesis, being a case study. This approach applied to both the theories used in the analysis as well as the empirical data about Starbucks.</p><p>Conclusion: Nothing is sustainable in business including a company’s such as Starbucks competitive advantages.  It is the pursuit of the utopian idea of sustainable competitive advantages that can actually be sustained.  This approach does not guarantee success, but important components of a company’s pursuit are their leadership, innovative nature and relationship management.  Accordingly these theories do not cover all aspects or offer a full explanation of Starbucks success. Therefore, it is recommended for others to research Starbucks using different theories and perspectives in order to draw out other analyses from the empirical case</p>

<p>Examensarbetet visar en selektivbedömning för lågspänningställverk T15 på SCA Edet bruk. Ställverket har ett 40 tal motordrifter och matas av en 690V transformator på 3,5MVA. Grundprinciper för de vanligaste lågspänningsskydden presenteras samt mer specifika detaljer om installerade skydd i aktuellt ställverk. Olika typer av selektivitet är kortfattat presenterat i rapporten. Vid beräkning och dokumentering med hjälp av datorprogrammet Febdok visade det sig att installerade skydd inte fanns med i programmets skyddsregister. Implementering har skett för merparten av skydden i anläggningen. Arbetet påvisar hur programmet Febdok arbetar samt redovisar några av de selektivplaner programmet genererat. Tyngdpunkten läggs på att kontrollera felmeddelanden som programmet genererar och relatera det till anläggningen. Ett av felen har varit att kortslutningsströmmen i ställverket överstiger brytares märkdata. Anledningen till detta är att kortslutningseffekten ökat i matande nät till transformatorn sedan byggnation. Hållfastheten för kablar har kontrollerats enligt svensk standard med avseende på stötströmmen vid en kortslutning. Kontrollen visar att några grupper inte uppfyller svensk standard.</p>

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Title: The Pursuit of Sustainable Competitive Advantage – A Profile of the Starbucks Corporation Authors: Benjamin Adam White &amp; Ettore Moraschinelli Advisor: Jean-Charles Languilaire Date: 2009 May 29 Program: International Business and Entrepreneurship Purpose: To study sustainable competitive advantages using Starbucks as a case study. Methods: The qualitative method was utilized to collect the secondary data used in this type of thesis, being a case study. This approach applied to both the theories used in the analysis as well as the empirical data about Starbucks. Conclusion: Nothing is sustainable in business including a company’s such as Starbucks competitive advantages.  It is the pursuit of the utopian idea of sustainable competitive advantages that can actually be sustained.  This approach does not guarantee success, but important components of a company’s pursuit are their leadership, innovative nature and relationship management.  Accordingly these theories do not cover all aspects or offer a full explanation of Starbucks success. Therefore, it is recommended for others to research Starbucks using different theories and perspectives in order to draw out other analyses from the empirical case

Examensarbetet visar en selektivbedömning för lågspänningställverk T15 på SCA Edet bruk. Ställverket har ett 40 tal motordrifter och matas av en 690V transformator på 3,5MVA. Grundprinciper för de vanligaste lågspänningsskydden presenteras samt mer specifika detaljer om installerade skydd i aktuellt ställverk. Olika typer av selektivitet är kortfattat presenterat i rapporten. Vid beräkning och dokumentering med hjälp av datorprogrammet Febdok visade det sig att installerade skydd inte fanns med i programmets skyddsregister. Implementering har skett för merparten av skydden i anläggningen. Arbetet påvisar hur programmet Febdok arbetar samt redovisar några av de selektivplaner programmet genererat. Tyngdpunkten läggs på att kontrollera felmeddelanden som programmet genererar och relatera det till anläggningen. Ett av felen har varit att kortslutningsströmmen i ställverket överstiger brytares märkdata. Anledningen till detta är att kortslutningseffekten ökat i matande nät till transformatorn sedan byggnation. Hållfastheten för kablar har kontrollerats enligt svensk standard med avseende på stötströmmen vid en kortslutning. Kontrollen visar att några grupper inte uppfyller svensk standard.

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The aim of this study is to find out if there is any difference between how a state-owned company and a publicly listed private company communicate its sustainability performance in its sustainability report. It also aims to find out if the communication regarding sustainability has changed over time. The poll was conducted in two Swedish companies, Sveaskog AB and AB SCA, operating in the forestry industry and through a quantitative content analysis, the companies' sustainability reports from 2005 and 2010 were examined. To get a result, the reports has been examined by the GRI framework (Global Reporting Initiative) and an assessment of the communication was made based on a scale of 0-3. The results has been evaluated based on stakeholder theory, legitimacy theory and the growing interest in CSR.  The analyses found evidence that there is a link between the form of ownership of the company and how it communicates regarding sustainability. The results shows that the state-owned company has an inferior communication regarding these issues compared to the publicly listed private company. The results also shows that the communication has improved for both companies during the period for the analyses.

As the complexity of software increases, so does the complexity of software testing. This challenge is especially true for modern military communications as radio functionality becomes more digital than analog. The Software Communications Architecture was introduced to manage the increased complexity of software radios. But the challenge of testing software radios still remains. A common methodology of software testing is the unit test. However, unit testing of software assumes that the software under test can be decomposed into its fundamental units of work. The intention of such decomposition is to simplify the problem of identifying the set of test cases needed to demonstrate correct behavior. In practice, large software efforts can rarely be decomposed in simple and obvious ways. In this paper, we introduce the fuzzing methodology of software testing as it applies to software radios. Fuzzing is a methodology that acts only on the inputs of a system and iteratively generates new test cases in order to identify points of failure in the system under test. The REDHAWK implementation of the Software Communications Architecture is employed as the system under test by a fuzzing framework called Peach. Fuzz testing of REDHAWK identified a software bug within the Core Framework, along with a systemic flaw that leaves the system in an invalid state and open to malicious use. It is recommended that a form of Fault Detection be integrated into REDHAWK for collocated processes at a minimum, and distributed processes at best, in order to provide a more fault tolerant system. / Master of Science

The Software Communications Architecture (SCA) specification defines a framework that allows modular software components to be developed and assembled to build larger radio applications. The specification allows for these components to be distributed among a set of computing hardware and to be connected by standard interfaces. This research aims to build a spatially distributed SCA application for the Open Source SCA Implementation: Embedded (OSSIE) implementation using low-cost Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) hardware. The system collects signals from multiple spatially distributed collection devices and use those signals to compute precision estimates for the location of emitters using time difference of arrival (TDOA) computations. Several OSSIE components and tools are developed to support this research. Results are presented showing the capabilities of the geolocation system. / Master of Science