Berlin, Humboldt-Universiẗat, Masterarbeit, 2007. / Online-Ausg. im Internet.

The purpose of this paper is the prep1ration of environmental criteria to be used to aid future developers, county planning board, and county commissioners in the evaluation of sites for proposed small scale residential developments, and whether that development will have an irreparable environmental impact. The criteria are intended to fill the gap between standards for housing developments and finished design and that of environmental impact of small scale housing developments in Cache County, Utah.

quot; Organisational critical activities quot; (OCAs) are activities which must be conducted by the organisation constantly in order to be successful in the industry. They are recognised as being essential to short, medium, and long-term success in that industry, have been significantly resourced and receive regular senior management monitoring and direction. Although these activities are extremely important, some empirical studies have shown that they are not well supported by organisations, particularly in the area of Web support. This thesis develops an evaluation methodology called the quot;organisational critical activity Web support evaluation methodology quot; (OCAWSEM) which can be utilised to elicit OCAs from organisations, evaluate whether an organisation acutes; OCAs are being supported by its Web site, and provide guidance on how the organisation can improve its Web site. To develop the OCAWSEM, this thesis reviews the relevant literature and proposes a prototype OCAWSEM. A new iterative case design (ICD) approach has been used in order to further develop the prototype, and then to test the improved OCAWSEM. The selected field cases were eight universities in New Zealand. In total, 43 semi-structured interviews were conducted with senior teams, middle level managers, and Web teams. A systematic review of these universitiesacute Web sites was performed from the provideracutes, rather than the useracutes perspective. The outcome shows that the Developed OCAWSEM is a valid and reliable methodology for the evaluation of the support for OCAs from Web sites in the universities in New Zealand. This thesis provides useful lessons, drawn from the development and testing processes, as the basis from which to develop more specific OCAWSEMs for use in other organisational and industry contexts. Both practitioners and academicians can gain a deeper understanding of the notion of OCAs, better elicit OCAs from management, conduct Web site evaluations, and discuss the support of the Web sites for the OCAs.

This study evaluates the content coverage of Google Scholar and three commercial databases (Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Bibliography of the History of Art and Art Full Text/Art Index Retrospective) on the subject of art history. Each database is tested using a bibliography method and evaluated based on Péter Jacsó’s scope criteria for online databases. Of the 472 articles tested, Google Scholar indexed the smallest number of citations (35%), outshone by the Arts & Humanities Citation Index which covered 73% of the test set. This content evaluation also examines specific aspects of coverage to find that in comparison to the other databases, Google Scholar provides consistent coverage over the time range tested (1975-2008) and considerable access to article abstracts (56%). Google Scholar failed, however, to fully index the most frequently cited art periodical in the test set, the Artforum International. Finally, Google Scholar’s total citation count is inflated by a significant percentage (23%) of articles which include duplicate, triplicate or multiple versions of the same record.

This thesis focuses on web site evaluation by using structural evaluation and scope of business based content comparison. Firstly, web site measurement techniques and evaluation methods are reviewed. Then a structural evaluation and content comparison method introduced. This thesis also includes a web based implementation of these methods for evaluating web sites which is partially automated for structural evaluation method.

Please read the abstract in the section 00front of this dissertation. Copyright / Dissertation (MCom)--University of Pretoria, 2010. / Marketing Management / MCom / Unrestricted

A system is described for identifying obstacle-free landing sites for a vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) semi-autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) from point cloud data obtained from a stereo vision system. The relatively inexpensive, commercially available Bumblebee stereo vision camera was selected for this study. A "point cloud viewer" computer program was written to analyze point cloud data obtained from 2D images transmitted from the UAV to a remote ground station. The program divides the point cloud data into segments, identifies the best-fit plane through the data for each segment, and performs an independent analysis on each segment to assess the feasibility of landing in that area. The program also rapidly presents the stereo vision information and analysis to the remote mission supervisor who can make quick, reliable decisions about where to safely land the UAV. The features of the program and the methods used to identify suitable landing sites are presented in this thesis. Also presented are the results of a user study that compares the abilities of humans and computer-supported point cloud analysis in certain aspects of landing site assessment. The study demonstrates that the computer-supported evaluation of potential landing sites provides an immense benefit to the UAV supervisor. / Master of Science

Importance of web services increases as the technology improves and the need for the challenging e-commerce strategies increases. This thesis focuses on web market analysis of web sites by evaluating from the perspectives of static, dynamic and content. Firstly, web site evaluation methods and web analytic tools are introduced. Then evaluation methodology is described from three perspectives. Finally, results obtained from the evaluation of 113 web sites are presented as well as their correlations.

nÃo hà / The main objective of this work is to present a site evaluation study for the Power performance generator of small scale wind turbines (AEPP). The Brazilian norm ABNT NBR IEC 61400-12-1 and its annexes A (obstacle valuation) and B (terrain assessment) were used as reference. Two source codes were written in the R language in order to automate the evaluation process. Both source codes were validated through direct comparison between the results of the developed R codes and the results obtained by DNV GL, which has ISO17025 international laboratory certification for power performance measurements of wind turbines according to the IEC standard. The validated code was then used to evaluate possible positions for the AEPP power performance measurement in UFC. The topographic map was downloaded from the free database SRTM and the characteristic obstacles were determined by satellite images and photos of the area. Altogether, three areas and their respective pairs AEPP â anemometric tower were analyzed regarding their available measurement sector and the necessity or not to perform site calibration. / Este trabalho tem o objetivo de apresentar o estudo de avaliaÃÃo do local para mediÃÃo de curva de potÃncia de aerogeradores de pequeno porte (AEPP). Foi utilizada como referÃncia a norma brasileira ABNT NBR IEC61400-12-1 e seus anexos A (avaliaÃÃo de obstÃculos) e B (avaliaÃÃo do terreno). Foram escritos dois cÃdigos-fonte na linguagem R para automatizar o processo de avaliaÃÃo. Os cÃdigos-fonte foram validados por comparaÃÃo direta entre os resultados obtidos pelos cÃdigos desenvolvidos em R e os resultados obtidos pela empresa DNV GL, que possui certificaÃÃo internacional de laboratÃrio ISO17025 para mediÃÃo de curva de potÃncia de aerogeradores segundo a norma IEC. O cÃdigo validado foi entÃo utilizado para avaliar possÃveis locais para mediÃÃo de curva de potÃncia de AEPP na prÃpria UFC. O mapa topogrÃfico do local foi adquirido da base de dados gratuita SRTM e os obstÃculos do local foram caracterizados por imagens de satÃlite e fotos da regiÃo. No total, trÃs Ãreas e os respectivos pares AEPP â torre anemomÃtrica foram analisados em relaÃÃo ao setor de mediÃÃo disponÃvel e a necessidade ou nÃo de calibraÃÃo do local.

Introduction: Effusion cytology can be performed for the purpose of diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of malignant disease. A common analysis of effusion cytology samples is the May Grunwald Giemsa stain.    Aim: The aim of the study was to compare May Grunwald Giemsa stain and May Grunwald Giemsa Quick Stain in order to determine the best quality stain and suggest ways to improve the current staining protocol.     Materials and Methods: The methods used in this study are the routine laboratory’s standard procedures for  May-Grunwald Giemsa stain and May-Grunwald Giemsa Quick Stain but with adapted washing steps that investigates the effect of tap water, distilled water, and phosphate buffer on stain quality. Two pleural effusion samples were stained in the initial experiment and two pleural effusions and one ascites sample in the second experiment.    Results and Conclusion: All samples gave a greater score when stained with May-Grunwald Giemsa Quick Stain compared to traditional May-Grunwald Giemsa stain. For the traditional May-Grunwald Giemsa, the use of any of the three phosphate buffers scores higher than the routine washing where tap water is used. In conclusion, it would be of benefit to further investigate and implement phosphate buffer in traditional staining or proceed with the May-Grunwald Quick Stain for all pleural and ascites effusions.