Title: Health Problems of Swimmers participated Specialized Training Objectives: The goal of this thesis is to find out information about health problems occuring by swimmers participated in specialized swimming training and about the course of their swimming career. The next interest of our research is the common duration of swimming career, the causes of its end and whether the main cause are health problems. Another aim of this work is to find out whether health problems of swimmers are connected with their specialization to swimming strokes, which type of disease was the most frequent among swimmers, and the most frequent causes of their health problems. Methods: In the research the method of non-standardized questionnaire was used. The responders were swimmers, which participated in specialized training during their swimming career and their swimming career already ended. The results of questionnaire are elaborated by graphs and tables with legends. Results: We have found out that swimming career was rather short-term. The swimmers have finished it often between 17th and 18th year due to health problems, studies and loss of motivation. Between incidence of infectious and musculoskeletal diseases was not significant difference in frequency. The most frequent disease was tonsillitis, influenza...

Ce travail s’inscrit essentiellement dans le cadre de la terminologie en ce qu’elle utilise et étudie les termes. A partir des propositions de la terminologie, de la traductologie, ainsi que ceux de la praxématique, nous menons une étude sur la terminologie scientifique et technique du vocabulaire de la gestion de l’eau en français (FR) et en arabe (AR). Notre objectif principal est de rapprocher le terme du praxème à partir de leurs fonctionnements discursifs. L’analyse est sémantique puisque nous étudions le comportement du terme en discours. Différents niveaux de discours se distinguent par le biais de différents phénomènes discursifs. Nous avons effectué un essai de catégorisation des genres de discours de la gestion de l’eau en français, et l’avons comparé à celui du corpus arabe. Des paires d’équivalents termes FR/AR sont établies ouvrant un autre horizon d’études terminologiques et traductologiques. / The present work generally subscribes into the terminology frames (studies and uses of terms). From the propositions of terminology, translatology as well as praxematics, we have conducted a study of scientific and technical terminology applied to the water management vocabulary in French (FR) and Arabic (AR). Our main objective is to bring closer the term to the “praxème” from their discursive behaviors. The analysis is semantic because we have studied the behavior of the term in discourse. Different levels of discourses are distinguished through the discursive recurring phenomena. We have conducted a test of discursive genre categorizations in French, and compared it with the Arabic data. Pairs of equivalent terms FR/AR have settled other new horizons in terminology and translatology studies.

The determination of the right number of servers in a multi-server queueing system is one of the most important problems in applied queueing theory. The problem becomes more complex in a system that consists of both cross-trained and specialized servers. Such queueing systems are readily found in the call centres (also called contact centres) of financial institutions, telemarketing companies and other organizations that provide services to customers in multiple languages. They are also found in computer network systems where some servers are dedicated and others are flexible enough to handle various clients' requests. Over-staffing of these systems causes increased labour costs for the underutilized pool of agents on duty, while under-staffing results in reduced revenue from lost customers and an increase in queue times. The efficient design and analysis of these systems helps management in making better staffing decisions. This thesis aims to develop models for establishing agent staffing levels in organizations with cross-trained and specialized staff with a view to minimizing cost and maintaining a desirable customer satisfaction. The work investigates the effect of various traffic loads on the number of agents required and the cost. It also considers how using specialized agents, flexible agents and a combination of both categories of agents affects the system. It uses a contact centre that has agents with monolingual, bilingual and trilingual (English, French and Spanish) capabilities to do the study.

Lavenders (Lavandula) are widely grown for their essential oils, which have extensive applications in cosmetics, hygiene products and alternative medicine. The therapeutic and olfactory properties of lavender essential oils are attributed to monoterpenes, a class of low molecular weight (C₁₀) isoprenoids. Oil composition in these plants is primarily determined by plant genotype, but can also be influenced by developmental and environmental factors. In order to define some of the mechanisms that control monoterpene abundance in lavenders, I measured the abundance of quality-defining monoterpenes in several L. angustifolia and L. x intermedia cultivars grown in the Okanagan. Data obtained confirmed that essential oil yield, as well as the abundance of camphor, borneol, linalool, and limonene was species-specific. L. angustifolia cultivars contained high amounts of linalool but yielded little oil, whereas L. x intermedia cultivars were rich in camphor and total oil. Monoterpene abundance changed during flower development, and differed between vegetative and reproductive tissues indicating differential regulation of the biosynthetic pathways, or specialized ecological functions. The abundance of linalool correlated with the transcription of the linalool synthase gene, suggesting that linalool production is in part regulated transcriptionally. However, the degree of correlation between linalool abundance and linalool synthase transcription differed between L. angustifolia and L. x intermedia, suggesting additional, and differing mechanisms that control linalool abundance in these species. In addition, monoterpene abundances were subject to loss during storage and suboptimal detection, two factors that must be considered in future analyses. Results obtained in this study provide insight into the regulation of monoterpene production in lavenders, and build the basis for future research aimed at improving essential oil production in these plants.

The determination of the right number of servers in a multi-server queueing system is one of the most important problems in applied queueing theory. The problem becomes more complex in a system that consists of both cross-trained and specialized servers. Such queueing systems are readily found in the call centres (also called contact centres) of financial institutions, telemarketing companies and other organizations that provide services to customers in multiple languages. They are also found in computer network systems where some servers are dedicated and others are flexible enough to handle various clients' requests. Over-staffing of these systems causes increased labour costs for the underutilized pool of agents on duty, while under-staffing results in reduced revenue from lost customers and an increase in queue times. The efficient design and analysis of these systems helps management in making better staffing decisions. This thesis aims to develop models for establishing agent staffing levels in organizations with cross-trained and specialized staff with a view to minimizing cost and maintaining a desirable customer satisfaction. The work investigates the effect of various traffic loads on the number of agents required and the cost. It also considers how using specialized agents, flexible agents and a combination of both categories of agents affects the system. It uses a contact centre that has agents with monolingual, bilingual and trilingual (English, French and Spanish) capabilities to do the study.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceived opinions of Turkish sports high school teachers, students and managers about these high schools. In order to reveal the practical conditions of sports high schools, three survey instruments were developed separately for sport high school students, teachers and managers related to school perception. Participants of this study were 1283 students, 50 teachers, and 26 managers of 11 sports high schools in Turkey. According to the results, participants&rsquo / expectations were not fully satisfied due to insufficient facility, personnel and material infrastructure of sports high schools. Results of this study also revealed that the majority of the students had shown high state of belonging and contentment to their particular sports high school, although managers and teachers had shown neutral scores according to state of belonging and contentment.

The research object of this paper is the Economic Daily Paper that is a newspaper specialized in economic topics. The purpose is to find out the relation between the IC semiconductor industry and the media's report by using the content analysis of dissemination as a research method. It studies and analyzes the industrial development and investor behaviors based on the front and second pages of Economic Daily in the past ten years, separated a year into four different industrial seasons starting January, April, July and October. The conclusions are as follows: 1.After the analysis, the circulation appears to be the information on the semiconductor industry and it disseminates mostly in the form of ¡§News¡¨. Because the semiconductor industry accounts for the large volume in the Economic Daily Paper, I chose this newspaper to be the reference of my paper. 2.¡§Security¡¨, as an important index to the readers, is the most valued topic because the profitability of a company affects the management efficiency of the company. Followed by ¡§security¡¨ is the ¡§management strategy¡¨. The companies of the semiconductor want to fully utilize the management skill, so they would have to focus on the business management strategies. 3.As we look at the industry development from the reports, we can easily find that the industry development obviously push forward the report of the development. 4.Semiconductor is a high technological industry, and its development can be divided into six stages: research and development, establishment, growth, maturity, expansion, and success. The sources of capital can be divided into foundation fund, development fund and expansion fund. After a high-tech company succeeds, it should make the stock listed and disperse the stocks as quickly as possible to raise the fund.

Between the 1970s and 2014, Winnipeg experienced dramatic change in the distribution of healthy food retailers in inner-city neighbourhoods. Winnipeg’s “active core” neighbourhoods identified through Dr. David Gordon’s research on Canadian suburbs (Gordon & Jean 2011), have undergone a decline in accessible healthy food options and a rise in food deserts. This practicum identifies the causes of food retail decline and possible strategies for improving accessible healthy food retail options within Winnipeg’s active core. The changes in the distribution of food retail over time in Winnipeg are displayed through a series of maps: one for 1971 and every five years thereafter until 2011, and the year 2014, using data collected through telephone directories. Spatial data of Winnipeg’s active core is compared with population density data, informational maps, and other statistical data. Finally, various stakeholders, including planners, current and former business owners and other experts are interviewed to discuss these trends, lessons learned, and possible solutions. / October 2015

This study analyzes the changes in disability-specific curriculum that took place in one specialized school for the blind driven by academic priorities from 1995 to 2005. The framework used in this case study approach analyzed the school's past and present (1) Artifacts - visible organizational structures and materials, (2) Expressed Values- explicitly written or stated beliefs and policies, and (3) Underlying Assumptions- unspoken attitudes and beliefs. Variables for change among the areas of teacher training, team teaching, evaluation systems, IEP's, state standards, the school improvement plan, short term and summer programming, as well as the residential program were all targeted to balance academics with an Expanded Core curriculum. The results indicate a balanced curriculum for some of the variables while other areas continue to reflect the struggle of mandates.

Lavenders (Lavandula) are widely grown for their essential oils, which have extensive applications in cosmetics, hygiene products and alternative medicine. The therapeutic and olfactory properties of lavender essential oils are attributed to monoterpenes, a class of low molecular weight (C₁₀) isoprenoids. Oil composition in these plants is primarily determined by plant genotype, but can also be influenced by developmental and environmental factors. In order to define some of the mechanisms that control monoterpene abundance in lavenders, I measured the abundance of quality-defining monoterpenes in several L. angustifolia and L. x intermedia cultivars grown in the Okanagan. Data obtained confirmed that essential oil yield, as well as the abundance of camphor, borneol, linalool, and limonene was species-specific. L. angustifolia cultivars contained high amounts of linalool but yielded little oil, whereas L. x intermedia cultivars were rich in camphor and total oil. Monoterpene abundance changed during flower development, and differed between vegetative and reproductive tissues indicating differential regulation of the biosynthetic pathways, or specialized ecological functions. The abundance of linalool correlated with the transcription of the linalool synthase gene, suggesting that linalool production is in part regulated transcriptionally. However, the degree of correlation between linalool abundance and linalool synthase transcription differed between L. angustifolia and L. x intermedia, suggesting additional, and differing mechanisms that control linalool abundance in these species. In addition, monoterpene abundances were subject to loss during storage and suboptimal detection, two factors that must be considered in future analyses. Results obtained in this study provide insight into the regulation of monoterpene production in lavenders, and build the basis for future research aimed at improving essential oil production in these plants.