Habil.-Schrift Univ. Zürich, 2006. / Habilitationsschrift Univ. Zürich, 2006. Literaturverz.

<p>The maritime industry is experiencing one of its longest and fastest periods of growth. Hence, the global maritime surveillance capacity is in a great need of growth as well. The detection of vessel activity is an important objective of the civil security domain. Detecting vessel activity may become problematic if audit data is uncertain. This thesis aims to investigate if Bayesian networks acquired from expert knowledge can detect activities with a signature-based detection approach. For this, a maritime pilot-boat scenario has been identified with a domain expert. Each of the scenario’s activities has been divided up into signatures where each signature relates to a specific Bayesian network information node. The signatures were implemented to find evidences for the Bayesian network information nodes. AIS-data with real world observations have been used for testing, which have shown that it is possible to detect the maritime pilot-boat scenario based on the taken approach.</p>

<p>System integration, interoperability, just in time delivery, window of opportunity, and dust-to-dust optimization are all keywords of our computerized future. Survivability is an important concept that together with dependability and quality of service are key issues in the systems of the future, i.e. infrastructural systems, business applications, and everyday desktop applications. The importance of dependable systems and the widely spread usage of dependable system together with the complexity of those systems makes middleware and frameworks for survivability imperative to the system builder of the future. This thesis presents a simulation approach to investigate the effect on data survival when the defending system uses knowledge of the current situation to protect the data. The results show the importance of situation awareness to avoid wasting recourses. A number of characteristics of the situational information provided and how this information may be used to optimize the system.</p>

<p>Bröstcancer är en utav de vanligaste cancerdiagnoserna bland kvinnor. Omkring 7 000 svenska kvinnor blir diagnostiserade med sjukdomen varje år. Trots mängden bröstcancerdiagnoser ser prognosen god ut och 75 procent av kvinnorna överlever sjukdomen under en tioårsperiod. Syftet med denna studie var att belysa kvinnors upplevelser av hur bröstcancer påverkar livssituationen. Metoden var en litteraturöversikt. Analysen resulterade i tre huvudteman och sju underteman. Huvudtemana blev: <em>Förvandlas från frisk till sjuk, Existentiella förändringar </em>samt<em> Vårdpersonalens betydelse.</em> Resultaten visar att kvinnor med bröstcancer förlorar sin identitet. Förlusten leder till känslor av rädsla och lidande. Deras livsperspektiv förändras och de inser vad som är viktigt i livet. Fokus läggs nu relationer och egna intressen. Vidare visade vårt resultat att kvinnor upplevde stöd från närstående och vårdpersonal som betydelsefullt.</p> / <p>Breast cancer is one of the most common cancer diagnoses among women. Approximately 7 000 Swedish women are diagnosed with the disease every year. Despite the amount of breast cancer diagnoses the prognosis are good and 75 percent of the women survives from the disease during a 10 year period. The aim of this study was to shed light on women’s experiences of how breast cancer affects their life situation. The method was a literature review. The analyse resulted in three main themes and seven subthemes. The main themes became: <em>Transition from healthy to sick, Existential changes </em>and<em> The impact of health care providers. </em>The results showed that women with breast cancer lose their identity and these losses lead to feelings of fear and suffering. Their life perspective changed and they realized what’s important in life. They now focus on relationships and their own interests.   Furthermore, our result showed that women experience support from relationships and health care providers as important.</p>

Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-17T15:02:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1933222 bytes, checksum: a5468415ed69d69b97e184f7629ec4a0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-07-25 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The imagery organizes the images produced by homo sapiens in their anthropological path. This process occurs in psychophysiological level interaction with the cosmic environment and cultural, or vice versa. In this process, the imagination has the function of euphemization, that's why man creates images and symbols to mediate the harsh reality of time and the inevitability of death. Regarding the phenomenon "population in street situation", it is understood as being a group of people that lives in the streets and of it, usually, of their own will, or for reasons beyond his will. Crisscrossing these two concepts, this study aimed to analyze the symbolic images produced by people on the street to identify their religious imagery. The research subjects are housed in Casa de Acolhida of the City of Joao Pessoa and people living on the streets at the Mercado do Peixe of Tambaú in João Pessoa-PB. As a theoretical contribution, we used the General Theory of the Imagery (GTI) developed by G. Durand who supported the analysis of the images. We also seek the input of Discourse Analysis (DA) of the french line, with the concepts espoused by Foucault. The study was developed from the fieldwork that is one of the designs of the qualitative method. The research instruments were the Life History of the deponents and the implementation of a semi-structured interview, which allowed the collection of data relating to the religious imagery of the people on the street. In developing the survey, we could understand the formation of religious images from reflexology and arquetipology; we understand that modern man has the need of (re)encounter with the sacred, possibly, because spirituality is part of its constitution. The study results indicated that the religious imagery of the people on the streets in João Pessoa-PB features a convergence of daytime and nighttime images, since these images pointed upwards, towards the light and at the same time, indicated fall. These images are typical of the antithetical scheme - Daytime Conditions. On the other hand, the images converged to the center, to the intimacy of the house and the cup that are the expression of the euphemization of negative images from living on the streets. The religious imaginary the people in street situation analysis here unveiled, still, the religion an under prospective prism regarding the search for better days and a resignation about your own destiny. In this connection between utterances, we found the religious discourse crossed by syncretism and by pluralism with greater emphasis on images of Christianity. / O imaginário organiza as imagens produzidas pelo homo sapiens em seu trajeto antropológico. Esse processo ocorre em nível psicofisiológico em interação com o meio cósmico e cultural, ou vice-versa. Nesse processo, a imaginação tem a função de eufemização, por isso o homem cria imagens e símbolos para mediar a dura realidade do tempo e da inexorabilidade da morte. Quanto ao fenômeno população em situação de rua , compreende-se como sendo um grupo de pessoas que mora na rua e vive dela, geralmente, por vontade própria ou por razões alheias a sua vontade. Entrecruzando esses dois conceitos, este estudo teve como objetivo analisar as imagens simbólicas produzidas por pessoas em situação de rua para identificar seu imaginário religioso. Os sujeitos da pesquisa são os albergados da Casa de Acolhida da Prefeitura Municipal de João Pessoa e as pessoas que vivem em situação de rua no Mercado do Peixe de Tambaú, em João Pessoa-PB. Como aporte teórico, fizemos uso da Teoria Geral do Imaginário (TGI) elaborada por Durand (2002), que deu suporte à análise das imagens. Buscamos também o aporte da Análise do Discurso (AD) de linha francesa, com os conceitos defendidos por Foucault. O estudo foi desenvolvido a partir da pesquisa de campo, que é um dos delineamentos do método qualitativo. Os instrumentos da pesquisa foram a História de Vida dos depoentes e a aplicação de uma entrevista semiestruturada, os quais possibilitaram a coleta de dados referentes ao imaginário religioso das pessoas em situação de rua. No desenvolvimento da pesquisa, pudemos compreender a formação das imagens religiosas a partir da reflexologia e da arquetipologia; compreendemos ainda que o homem contemporâneo tem a necessidade de um (re)encontro com o sagrado, porque a espiritualidade faz parte de sua constituição. O resultado do estudo indicou que o imaginário religioso da população em situação de rua em João Pessoa-PB apresenta uma convergência das imagens diurnas e noturnas, uma vez que essas imagens apontaram para o alto, para a luz e, ao mesmo tempo, indicaram queda. Essas imagens são próprias do regime antitético Regime Diurno. Por outro lado, as imagens convergiram para o centro, para a intimidade da moradia e da taça, que são a expressão da eufemização de imagens negativas da vivência nas ruas, próprias do Regime Noturno. O imaginário religioso das pessoas em situação de rua aqui analisado desvelou a religião sob um prisma prospectivo no que tange à busca por dias melhores e uma resignação quanto ao seu destino. Nessa relação entre os enunciados, encontramos o discurso religioso atravessado pelo sincretismo e pelo pluralismo com ênfase maior nas imagens do cristianismo.

Att utveckla och bibehålla situation awareness (SA) är en av de mest kritiska utmaningar i en stab i dagens konflikter. Det får avgörande betydelse för utgången av en konflikt. Om SA hanteras eller förstås felaktigt kan det leda till ökat mänskligt lidande i konfliktområden och förluster av människoliv. Det ökande internationella samarbetet gör att planeringsofficeren förutsätts kunna hantera flera olika processer. Syftet med uppsatsen var att jämföra och belysa skillnader hur SA skapas inom olika planeringsprocesser, samt vad försvårar utväxlingen av SA mellan processerna. Detta återspeglas i form av likheter och skillnader mellan planeringsmodellerna SPL, MCPP och COPD. Resultatet visar att det fanns stor likhet mellan processerna men det fanns också avgörande skillnader. I SA nivå 1 fanns en diskrepans mellan begreppen Centre of Gravity, caveats och gender. I SA nivå 2 skiljer bearbetningsprocesserna mellan planeringsmodellerna. I SA nivå 3 fanns den största och mest avgörande skillnaden där det kan konstateras att planeringsprocesserna inte utgår från samma byggstenar när det gäller att bygga planen. Medvetenhet och insikt för de olika planeringsprocessernas särart minskar risken för missförstånd.

abstract: This thesis describes a synthetic task environment, CyberCog, created for the purposes of 1) understanding and measuring individual and team situation awareness in the context of a cyber security defense task and 2) providing a context for evaluating algorithms, visualizations, and other interventions that are intended to improve cyber situation awareness. CyberCog provides an interactive environment for conducting human-in-loop experiments in which the participants of the experiment perform the tasks of a cyber security defense analyst in response to a cyber-attack scenario. CyberCog generates the necessary performance measures and interaction logs needed for measuring individual and team cyber situation awareness. Moreover, the CyberCog environment provides good experimental control for conducting effective situation awareness studies while retaining realism in the scenario and in the tasks performed. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.C.St. Computing Studies 2011

Psoriasis är en hudsjukdom som syns på grund av dess röda och fjällande hudflagor på huden. Sjukdomen beror på både miljö- och genetiska faktorer. Det kan vara både psykiskt och fysiskt påfrestande att leva med diagnosen eftersom sjukdomen innebär en livslång behandling men går inte att bota. Vårt syfte är att undersöka hur personer med psoriasis accepterar sin livssituation. Metoden som användes var en allmän litteraturstudie. Resultatet visade på att personer med psoriasis kan acceptera sin livssituation med hjälp av familj och vänner, social samhörighet och genom anpassningar i deras liv. Detta genom att de drabbade fick stöd från närstående och kunde prata ut med andra personer som befann sig i samma situation, då var det enklare att acceptera sin livssituation. Förmågan att kunna koppla bort negativa kommentarer och fokusera på sin inre krets istället var till hjälp. Genom att belysa hur personer med psoriasis upplever sin livssituation kan det underlätta till acceptans hos den drabbade. / Psoriasis is a skin disease that is visible due to its red and scaly skin flakes on the skin. The disease is due to both environmental and genetic factors. It can be both mentally and physically stressful to live with the diagnosis because the disease involves a lifelong treatment but can not be cured. Our purpose is to investigate how people with psoriasis accept their disease. The method used was a general literature study. The result showed that people with psoriasis can accept their life situation with family and friends, social cohesion and through adjustments in their lives. This because the victims were given support from related people and were able to communicate with other people who were in the same situation, it was easier to accept their life situation. The ability to disconnect negative comments and focus on their inner circle instead was helpful. By highlighting how people with psoriasis experience their life situation, it can facilitate acceptance of the victim.

The thesis "Economic Analysis of an Agricultural Company" aims to provide overall evaluation of the financial situation and performance of Zemědělská společnost Kosova Hora, a.s. in the years 2005 2015, applying standard methods of financial analysis. The aim was achieved by applying a ratio analysis, credibility and bankruptcy models, economic value added (EVA), analysis of operational indicators, inter-company comparisons based on selected criteria and evaluation of the project of constructing a biogas station. In all these areas the company was compared with a selection of other agricultural companies. Based on the results summarized in the concluding chapter, the analysed company scored very high both from the financial and operational perspectives.

In my thesis I focus on the issue of death in relation to helping the bereaved, especial when they are children. I would like to show how children perceive the death of a loved one and how does this crisis situation project into their school life. As a College of Education student I am interested in how does this matter penetrate inside the school environment, whether it is included in the content of classwork and how is it accepted by the pupils. From my position of a starting teacher I would like to find out, by means of this thesis, whether there are any practices on how to treat a pupil who finds himself in this uneasy situation. This is a very timely topic, however it is often concealed and tabooed. From my point of view we should talk about death more, the topic of death should get more into the awareness of the pupils, because not only happy moment are a part of our lives, unfortunately there are also misery and sadness.