This exploratory qualitative study seeks to describe and understand the career decision-making process of unemployed American women who make up the younger cohort of the baby boom generation, namely those born between 1955 and 1964. Career decision making is a complex process involving a number of generational characteristics as well as personal and economic considerations. Unemployment further complicates this process, especially in the decade prior to receiving retirement benefits. This study uses interpretative phenomenological analysis to analyze semi-structured interviews with eight unemployed younger baby boom women to investigate how their thoughts, assumptions, and opinions affect their career decision-making experience. Bronfenbrenner's bioecological model (2005), Erikson's lifespan theory (1959), and selected career development theories provide lenses through which these women's experiences can be understood. Eight themes emerged from the data, including the following: unemployment as a preparation period; career aspirations; digital natives; age discrimination; bioecological systems influence; generativity vs. stagnation; identity expressed in career decision making; and influence of intuition, chance, and personal factors. The findings suggest that the women used the period of unemployment to become self-aware and thoughtful about future career decision making, and enhance their computer as well as career decision making skills. Implications for theory and counseling practice as well as suggestions for future research are provided. / School of Education; / Counselor Education and Supervision (ExCES) / PhD; / Dissertation;

The thesis provides an analysis of Swedish economic development since the accession to the EU till present with emphasis on a period of boom and crisis at the beginning of the 3rd millennium. Basic macroeconomic indicators, such as GDP growth, inflation rate, public balance, general government debt, unemployment rate, foreign direct investment, current account of balance of payments are used to describe the economic development of Sweden. The first chapter focuses on the Swedish economy from the accession to the EU till the turn of the millennium. The second chapter deals with the Swedish economic development during the years 2000-2006. The third chapter describes the economic development of Sweden during the global economic crisis in 2007-2009 including selected issues related to the crisis.

Language: English Title: The Housing Bubble in China Abstract: This paper studies the housing price boom in recent decade since 2003 in China. The study focuses on four municipalities of China, Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin and Chongqing. Despite the fact that the whole country is suffering a sky soaring housing boom, this paper reveals a regional difference between two types of big cities. Better developed cities such as Beijing and Shanghai are experiencing greater volatility in the boom and economic fundamentals have less explanatory power to the price increases. Oppositely, less developed cities such as Tianjin and Chongqing have relatively sustainable housing prices which are better supported by economic fundamentals. Finally, this paper concludes that Beijing and Shanghai are experiencing a bubble in the housing prices, if the public expectation on economic growth cannot maintain, the bubble will burst.

In Belgium, the Boom Clay is currently studied as the reference host formation for the disposal of high-level and long-lived radioactive waste. In case of direct disposal of spent fuel, uranium isotopes are important contributors along with their daughters to the dose rate at very long term. Therefore, it is essential to study the migration of uranium in the host formation. The present work contributes to improve the knowledge of uranium speciation in the Boom Clay, U(IV) versus U(VI), and of the mechanisms controlling the uranium mobility such as solubility, sorption and complexation by organic matter. The information necessary to interpret the migration behaviour is derived from the study of naturally occurring uranium in the rock and from laboratory experiments conducted under conditions representative for the Boom Clay. Uranium naturally present in the Boom Clay is concentrated in detrital heavy minerals and in authigenic iron(II)-bearing minerals such as siderite and glauconite. Despite its reducing capacity, pyrite is surprisingly depleted in uranium relative to the mean content. Furthermore, uranium is also associated with the surfaces of clay minerals. The clayey fraction contains about 4 ppm uranium and is the main contributor to the total uranium content of the Boom Clay since it constitutes up to 60 wt. % of the rock. The correlation observed on the field between uranium and organic matter suggests that uranium is reduced, likely during the early diagenesis process of bacterially-mediated sulphate reduction. If hexavalent oxidation state of uranium predominates as predicted by geochemical calculations based on the most recent thermodynamic data of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), less than 5% of uranium is complexed by humic acids in the Boom Clay pore water. The U(VI) speciation is dominated by the inorganic carbonate complexes, merely UO2(CO3)34-. The conditional constant determined for the complexation of U(VI) by humic acids under in situ Boom Clay conditions is log exp = 12.4. However, experimental studies show that UO2(CO3)34- is reduced by interaction with pyrite, the main reducing mineral present in the rock, and precipitates as a mixed oxide of U(IV)/U(VI), i.e. UO2+x. Moreover, electromigration experiments suggest that U(VI) is not stable in the Boom Clay: U(VI) is reduced and precipitates as U(IV) oxy-hydroxides. The experimentally measured solubility of U(IV) amorphous oxide, UO2(am), in Boom Clay pore water is about 10 8 mol•l 1. This solubility value is not increased by complexation of U(IV) with dissolved organic matter. The dominant effect of organic matter on the dissolution of UO2(am) is the stabilisation of U(IV) real colloids which increase the uranium concentration by three orders of magnitude. However, the mobility of these colloids is expected to be very limited because of the compaction level of the Boom Clay and its ultra-filtrating feature. The diffusive transport of dissolved uranium is furthermore retarded by significant sorption onto clay minerals. In conclusion, the presence of organic matter in the Boom Clay has no negative effect on the uranium retention which is dominated by the solubility and sorption of U(IV) species

Thesis (Ed. D.)--University of La Verne, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 160-169).

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 205-208).

ITC/USA 2012 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-Eighth Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 22-25, 2012 / Town and Country Resort & Convention Center, San Diego, California / The Western Aeronautical Test Range of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Dryden Flight Research Center needed to address the aging software and hardware of its current situational awareness display application, the Global Real-Time Interactive Map (GRIM). GRIM was initially developed in the late 1980s and executes on older PC architectures using a Linux operating system that is no longer supported. Additionally, the software is difficult to maintain due to its complexity and loss of developer knowledge. It was decided that a replacement application must be developed or acquired in the near future. The replacement must provide the functionality of the original system, the ability to monitor test flight vehicles in real-time, and add improvements such as high resolution imagery and true 3-dimensional capability. This paper will discuss the process of determining the best approach to replace GRIM, and the functionality and capabilities of the first release of the Positional Awareness Map 3D.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Oregon State University, 2008. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 77-93). Also available on the World Wide Web.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Texas at El Paso, 2007. / Title from title screen. Vita. CD-ROM. Includes bibliographical references. Also available online.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file as well as 10 media.jpg files. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on November 12, 2008) Includes bibliographical references.