Universiẗat, FB Physik, Diss., 2001--Marburg.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ohio University, August, 2006. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--University of Washington, 2006. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 214-233).

El texto completo de este trabajo no está disponible en el Repositorio Académico UPC por restricciones de la casa editorial donde ha sido publicado. / The microfinance sector has a strategic role since they facilitate integration and development of all social classes to sustained economic growth. In this way the actual point is the exponential growth of data, resulting from transactions and operations carried out with these companies on a daily basis, becomes imminent. Appropriate management of this data is therefore necessary because, otherwise, it will result in a competitive disadvantage due to the lack of valuable and quality information for decision-making and process improvement. The Master Data Management (MDM) give a new way in the Data management, reducing the gap between the business perspectives versus the technology perspective In this regard, it is important that the organization have the ability to implement a data management model for Master Data Management. This paper proposes a Master Data management maturity model for microfinance sector, which frames a series of formal requirements and criteria providing an objective diagnosis with the aim of improving processes until entities reach desired maturity levels. This model was implemented based on the information of Peruvian microfinance organizations. Finally, after validation of the proposed model, it was evidenced that it serves as a means for identifying the maturity level to help in the successful of initiative for Master Data management projects. / Revisión por pares

We investigate the some of the many subtleties in taking a microscopic approach to modelling the decoherence of an Open Quantum System. We use the RF-SQUID, which will be referred to as a simply a SQUID throughout this paper, as a non-linear example and consider different levels of approximation, with varied coupling, to show the potential consequences that may arise when characterising devices such as superconducting qubits in this manner. We first consider a SQUID inductively coupled to an Ohmic bath and derive a Lindblad master equation, to first and second order in the Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff expansion of the correlation-time-dependent flux operator. We then consider a SQUID both inductively and capacitively coupled to an Ohmic bath and derive a Lindblad master equation to better understand the effect of parasitic capacitance whilst shedding more light on the additions, cancellations and renormalisations that are attributed to a microscopic approach.

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Using a sample of 57 master limited partnerships (MLPs) formed from corporate assets between 1982 and 2011, I examine the share price effects on parent corporations from forming MLPs. Specifically, I compare announcement period returns during the first and second waves of MLP formations—1982-1987 and 1988-2011, respectively—to assess the effect of structural changes in the MLP agency and operating environments on the market response to MLP formation. I document significantly higher 3-day and 5-day announcement period returns for second wave MLP formations, suggesting that changes to the MLP agency and operating environments have enhanced the value impact of MLP formation. I also find evidence that parent corporations benefit from the increased opportunity to exploit conflicts of interest with the MLP, which arise from these changes. Finally, I examine the prediction of prior literature that MLP formation improves the parent company’s information environment, finding support for this assertion in the form of reduced idiosyncratic return volatility.

A ocorrência da poluição luminosa foi detectada a partir de 1970 pela redução da visibilidade dos corpos celestes no período noturno, sendo posteriormente associada a implicações negativas relacionadas à fauna, à flora e aos indivíduos. É definida como os efeitos nocivos causados pela iluminação elétrica inadequada, sendo a iluminação pública responsável por grande parte do problema. Em Porto Alegre o fenômeno é confirmado por imagens de satélites que medem o brilho artificial do céu noturno e apontam níveis máximos na região central da cidade. Situação essa que pode ter sido agravada por grandes projetos de modificação da iluminação pública, desenvolvidos desde 2013, para aumentar o número de luminárias e iluminâncias na cidade. Inciativas que não estão previstas no Plano Diretor de Iluminação Pública da cidade, embora esse seja um instrumento que deveria orientar a implantação do sistema e, que tem entre seus objetivos combater a poluição luminosa. Neste contexto, investigou-se como a iluminação pública do Centro Histórico de Porto Alegre pode estar contribuindo para a poluição luminosa, considerando as legislações vigentes e práticas de projeto. Essa investigação foi feita por meio de uma pesquisa qualitativa, desenvolvida a partir de revisão da literatura, pesquisa documental em Planos Diretores de Iluminação, no contexto nacional e internacional, e estudo de campo no Centro Histórico de Porto Alegre. Os resultados apontaram que na área de estudo o problema está relacionado principalmente à temperatura de cor do sistema empregado e à fotometria das luminárias que provocam iluminação intrusiva, ofuscamento e brilho do céu, que são componentes da poluição luminosa. / Light pollution has been detected since 1970 due to the reduction of visibility of celestial bodies, it was associated to the consequences to the fauna, flora and human beings. It is conceptualized as the harmful effects given by electric lighting. Public lighting is responsible for the biggest part of the problem. In Porto Alegre the phenomenon is confirmed by satellite images that measure sky glow and shows the highest levels in downtown area. The situation could be intensified due to large projects of public lighting remodeling have been developed since 2013, in order to increase the number of light fixtures and the illuminances in the city. These initiatives haven´t been on Porto Alegre´s Public Lighting Master Plan, although it is a document that could guide the implantation of the system and help to fight against light pollution. With this, to propose research of how the public lighting of Porto Alegre´s historic downtown can contribute to lighting pollution, considering the currents laws and project actions. This study was organized through a qualitative research, developed from a literature review, documental research at Urban Lighting Master Plans, from international cities as well as in Brazil, and field study in Porto Alegre´s downtown area. The results show that the main cause of lighting polluion is related to lighting fixtures´ high color temperature and the equipment that allows the up light emission, causing light trespass, glare and sky glow.

A well-functioning property system is a criterion for a country to have good opportunities in social development. This study looks into one of the development opportunities in Rwanda’s real estate system, especially the provision and the updating of the country’s management in the land use process. The problems in Rwanda are described as a combination of lack of communication and knowledge from the authorities and the population. The methods in this study conducted of a qualitative interview combined with a literature review. This in order to gain the fact needed to answer the research questions of this study were the aim was to find some difference between the Master Plan and the physical reality and suggestions in how to establish effective and efficient land use in Rwanda. At first the study aimed to perform a comparative analysis but while performing the methods it was showed that the comparison method was impossible to go through with, instead the study got depended on a literature review along with interviews to be able to answer the research questions of the study. The results from the methods are presented in two steps, first the results from the interviews and then is the results from the literature review presented. The different interviews gave similar results in four main categories which made the conclusion obvious. The land use planning law needs to be reviewed and that the Ministry of Lands and Forestry have a lack of concrete tolls and power to prevent illegal land use.

Diante das transformações sociais, que exigem cada vez mais dos juristas um dinamismo, o ordenamento jurídico interno viu-se na necessidade de implementar novos mecanismos processuais que objetivassem defender e garantir o direito de agir dos já garantidos pelo artigo 5º, inciso XXXV da Constituição Federal de 1988, assegurando a possibilidade de submeter à apreciação do Poder Judiciário toda e qualquer lesão ou ameaça ao meio ambiente histórico cultural, em face do que estabelecem os artigos 225, 215 e 216 da Constituição Federal. Entretanto, embora esses mecanismos representem um grande avanço para o ordenamento jurídico pátrio, há a necessidade de outras alternativas que visem ampliar o acesso à Justiça em defesa da proteção ao patrimônio histórico dos municípios, de maneira cada vez mais eficiente e democrática. É uma realidade a desafiar os profissionais jurídicos. Abordar, no plano diretor dos municípios, a tutela a um meio ambiente cultural bem como sua valoração, até então, não reconhecidos por atos do Poder Executivo ou do Poder Legislativo, descrevendo quem deve ser o responsável pela preservação bem como se a legislação existente assegura a preservação do patrimônio histórico cultural dos municípios, apresenta-se como um desafio. Ou seja, urge, no ordenamento jurídico brasileiro, uma nova forma de interpretar e aplicar uma tutela ao meio ambiente histórico cultural municipal, bem como a busca de outros instrumentos como o Código de Obras, o Código de Posturas, o Código Tributário, a Lei do Parcelamento do Solo a fim de garantir-lhes uma proteção mais efetiva. Esta segurança de proteção visando a não deixar cair no esquecimento a história de um povo bem como a dissipação da memória da geração anterior deve ocorrer, principalmente, a nível local, por meio de determinações nos planos diretores dos municípios sendo, portanto, uma função pública. / Submitted by Marcelo Teixeira (mvteixeira@ucs.br) on 2014-05-22T12:55:49Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Juliana Chilanti Tonial.pdf: 782543 bytes, checksum: 3ca77fdaf1665630ff32684690d6aa60 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-05-22T12:55:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Juliana Chilanti Tonial.pdf: 782543 bytes, checksum: 3ca77fdaf1665630ff32684690d6aa60 (MD5) / Given the social transformations that increasingly require the operator of a dynamic law, the domestic legal system found itself in the need to implement new procedural mechanisms which aimed to defend and guarantee the right to act those already guaranteed by Article 5, the XXXV CF/88, ensuring the possibility to submit to the Judiciary any injury or threat to the environment cultural history, in the face of what lay Articles 225, 215 and 216 of the Federal Constitution. However, although these mechanisms represents a major breakthrough for the legal parental rights, there is a need for other alternatives aimed at increasing access to justice in defense of protecting the heritage of the municipalities, of ever more efficient and democratic. It's a really challenging legal professionals. Approach, in the master plan of the municipalities, the guardianship to a cultural environment as well as its valuation hitherto unrecognized by acts of the Executive or the Legislature, describing who should be responsible for the preservation and the existing legislation ensures the preservation of the cultural heritage of the municipalities, presents itself as a challenge. That is, it is urgent, the Brazilian legal system, a new way to interpret and apply a protection to the environment historic cultural city, as well as search for other instruments such as building codes, the Code of postures, the Tax Code, Law the Installment Land in order to guarantee more effective protection. This security protection in order not to let fall by the wayside the story of a people as well as the dissipation of the memory of the previous generation should occur mainly at the local level, by determining the master plans of the cities and is therefore a public function .