Thesis advisor: ALI BANUAZIZI / How can one think of the possibility of emergence of democracy in non-Western countries? Such an idea had been approached in pessimism for a long time in academia. This is because the conditions deemed indispensable for democratic development (such as high rates of urbanization and literacy) rarely existed in those countries. Thus, the concept “Western democracy” was considered an oxymoron, since, according to earlier scholars of democracy, only Western polities could meet the conditions/prerequisites for the genesis of democracy. Nevertheless, this long-held prophecy was challenged as non-Western countries demonstrated significant progress towards establishing a democratic rule, despite having “so-called” unfavorable conditions (such as religion or poor economic performance) to democratic development. Despite this global resurgence of democratic governance, the countries in the Middle East and North Africa were never able to develop a democratic rule, a situation that has long been explained by pointing at the “exceptional” characteristics (primarily Islam) inherent in the region. Yet, the events that began on December 17, 2010 in Tunisia opened up the possibility for the countries that had been long-ruled by autocrats to embark on a democratic transition. The uprisings that eventually unseated longtime authoritarian rulers (only occurred in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, and Libya) enabled divergent socio-political forces to become involved in transitional processes in the aftermath of regime breakdowns. However, only the first two cases had meaningful steps that were taken towards sustaining the transition. This research has been built on the argument that four key factors have played important roles in transitional processes of these two cases, namely Tunisia (the transition to a democratic governance) and Egypt (the restoration of a new form of authoritarianism): the formation of the state, pact-making compromises among revolutionary actors, moderation of religious parties, and civil society activism. In addition to explaining the divergence in these two countries’ transitional processes, this research has been written in response to the prolonged pessimism that the regimes in the region are destined to stay non-democratic. / Thesis (MA) — Boston College, 2017. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Middle Eastern Studies.

Abstract During the process of marketing strategy planning and positioning in a new venture, the formation process of top management team plays an important role where it¡¦s interesting for research. However, it¡¦s the answer a new venture is eager to know that the marketing strategy and position can meet requirements of market ornot. But, it¡¦s pity the research about fitness of marketing strategy and position is very few. The Spring Hill Resort will be scheduled to be open this November, it¡¦s an issue how it creates a whole new blue ocean with past experiences of building industry. Besides, I would like to know the demands of targeted customers through queationnaires which hopefully provide more objective suggestions as references for future operation and marketing activities. The method of literatures analysis was explored to collect the meeting minutes, marketing plans, and business plans. In accordance with thrughoutly understand the whole pictures of marketing plans and positioning, the research hyposis are set up. Then The three segmentations which separately are engineers of Lu-Zu Science Park & Tainan Science Park, and consumers of Royal Resort in Jiao-Sea and Spring Resort in Jin Mountain. The 150 copies were collected by either email or direct delivery, but only 75 copies meets requirement in the thesis. The primary data were put into Minitab, and subsequently T test or ANOVA were applied to test fitness, which can be concluded as the followings. We concluded that the targeted customers significantly support the positioning and marketing strategy(p-value are all less than£\=0.05). To be analyzed with ANOVA, the groups of both 600-800 thousand dollars & above in personal annual income are indifferent in between, but below the group of below 600 thousand dollar relatively supports the above viewpoint. The entertainment expenses are minority to the low income, thus they would not like to pre-pay big deal money, but oppositely the high imcome would relatively like to do in it. Likewize, the low incomes do not support the positioning of health as strongly as the high income. But for strategy alliances with other companies, the same attractiveness does not differ from the three. Under the consideration of transportation, the accessible of destination is not so important to the targets (P=0.049<£\=0.05), due to 96% people drives to travel domestically. And this result can be applied to service of shuttle bus; they think it¡¦s not necessarily as well. In aspects of spring quality, the expectation of the targets is the same and means a lot (P=0.00<£\=0.05), and this can be taken as a prerequisite. Finally, we can find opinions of customers diversified relatively (see table 4-18), but it¡¦s a little weired that quality of room space is not so emphasized than other aspects and this can be futher discussed. Key words: marketing strategy and position, spring resort,

Inaug.-diss.--Greifswald. / Lebenslauf. "Quellen-verzeichnis": p.[7]-11.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Pennsylvania State University, 1999. / Diskette not included. --UMI note. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 88-92).

Thesis (B.S.)--University of Missouri, School of Mines and Metallurgy, 1904. / Plates 1 and 2 are missing from text. Plate one is a topographical map of the surrounding country and Plate 2 shows the results of cross sectioning of the stream obtaining current discharge readings. The entire thesis text is included in file. Typescript. Illustrated by authors. [Handwritten and illustrated in entirety by author]. Title from title screen of thesis/dissertation PDF file (viewed January 29, 2009)

Southern Illinois University’s Department of Theater presented the musical Spring Awakening by Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik on September 28, 2018. The musical journeys in between two worlds, a provincial German town and the song world. This thesis details the process taken to develop, execute, and reflect on the lighting design for this musical. The first chapter examines the themes, plot structure, design process structure and beginning goals. Chapter 2 explains my initial ideas, inspirations, and includes rough draft plans of the plot. Chapter 3 lays out the implementation, installation, and final decision making of the design. Lastly, Chapter 4 offers a reflection of my work, evaluation, and future endeavors and goals as a designer.

Master of Science / Department of Computer Science / Daniel Andresen / Web services have become quintessential in web application development. RESTful web services are one way of providing interoperability between computer systems on the internet. REST-compliant web services allow requesting systems to access and manipulate textual representations of web resources using a uniform and predefined set of stateless operations. These services, which are online APIs, can be accessed from various applications and the results can be used to offer specific functionality to users. This project consists of an Android app, a Server application and a Client application. The Server application exposes a REST API (Web Services developed using REpresentational State Transfer (REST) protocol) using, which the consuming client applications can make use of various functionalities as services across the network. The Android app would be installed in the smart phone present in each vehicle of the fleet, this app would send live location data to the database using the REST API. The manager uses the client application to track the vehicles in real time, the manager can also choose to track a particular vehicle. The API could also be used to integrate the services with other systems. This project serves to a wide variety of users, from small local businesses owning tens or hundreds of vehicle to parents who would like to track the location of their children in real time. This project aims to help the managers/owners better control and track the vehicles. Also, the exposed API could be used by other developers to customize or extend this application. This project is easy to install, use and hence friendly for users with even minimal computer skills.

La programación reactiva es un paradigma enfocado en el trabajo con flujos de datos de manera asíncrona. En este webinar veremos cómo Spring Framework implementa la programación reactiva con WebFlux.

MA (Economics) / Department of Economics / Tourism is regarded as a modern day engine of growth globally. In light of this, the South African government aims to increase tourism’s contribution, both direct and indirectly to the economy. In 2012 tourism in South Africa contributed 7, 9% (R189.4 billion) to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and it is estimated to increase to R499 billion by 2020 (South Africa National Department of Tourism). The purpose of the study was to assess the sustainability of hot spring tourism in Limpopo Province with regard to their competitiveness and potential to contribute to the economy of the country. The study employed a Delphi technique which is designed as group communication process which aims to achieve a convergence of opinion on a specific real world issues. The research developed a set of appropriate indicators that determines hot spring destination competitiveness. Data was collected through two sets of questionnaires administered and addressed to experts in the Limpopo Department of Economic Development and Tourism; academic staff in the department of tourism at University of Venda and tourism managers and practitioners in the tourism hot spring sector. From the findings of the study, recommendations have been made to assist the Limpopo Department of Economic Development and Tourism in designing strategies to make hot spring destinations competitive and sustainable as a tourism activity in Limpopo province.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Leg-Spring Stiffness (LSS) is the measure of the musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, and biomechanical functions of the human body, and an appropriate evaluation metric for changes brought on by Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction (ACLr). ACLr can lead to flexion and extension loss, resulting in increased stiffness of the musculotendinous units of the ACLr leg and thus changes in LSS. LSS can be measured using Kleg, but little is known about the validity and reliability of the different methods of LSS and Kleg calculations. The purpose of this study was to determine if ACLr leads to a change in LSS (as measured by Kleg) during hopping, and to compare results of the Spring-Mass calculation and knee Joint Torsional stiffness methods in the computation of the overall Kleg. Video data synchronize with GRF were used to compute the kinematic and kinetic variables. Mann-Whitney U tests were used to determine significant differences between the control and experimental group for the Spring-Mass method of calculation (p = 0.004), Joint Torsional method (p =0.44), Kknee (p = 0.29), and Kankle (p = 0.17). Cohen’s effect calculations showed small to medium effects for the KKnee, (d = 0.383) but moderate effect size for the KAnkle, (d = 0.541). Wilcoxon Signed Rank comparison for all the legs and (N=42) between computational methods were significant differences between computational methods (Z = 5.65, p = 0.000), and with a large effect size (Cohen’s d = 3.14). Similar results were found when comparing only the ACLr leg values (p = 0.005, Cohen’s d = 4.88). The comparison between ACL Leg vs Non-ACL leg for experimental group subjects was not significant in either calculation method (Spring-Mass p = 0.20, Z = -1.27; torque calculation p = 0.96, Z = -0.05). The spring-mass method was more stable and able to detect differences between the control and ACLr group. The lack of statistical differences in the joint torsion calculation method, as well as in comparing the unaffected leg to the ACLr leg in the experimental group, suggests that LSS may not be a precise enough measurement to determine the effects of an ACLr.