I dagens samhälle är det svårt att sticka ut och vara unik. Städer, regioner och nationer konkurrerar alla om turism och för att lyckas att vara konkurrenskraftig måste en gemensam bild lyftas fram. När detta görs uppfattas destinationen som attraktiv men det finns också fler sätt att skapa en attraktiv destination på. Ett exempel är ”best practice” som är en metod där framgångsfaktorer inom marknadsföring överförs från en destination till en annan. Studiens syfte är att undersöka till vilken grad det faktiskt är möjligt att överföra framgångsfaktorer inom marknadsföring mellan destinationer.   För att undersöka detta har Visit Värmland jämförts med Smålands Turism, turismavdelningen på Karlstad kommun jämförts med Destination Jönköping och Karlstad Airport har jämförts med Jönköping Airport, detta görs i empirikapitlet. Uppsatsen grundar sig på kvalitativa semistrukturerade intervjuer med informanter från de tidigare nämnda organisationerna. I analyskapitlet ställs det empiriska materialet mot det teoretiska ramverket vilket behandlar ämnen som destination, resurser, platsmarknadsföring, ”best practice” och flygplatsernas betydelse för turism. I de slutliga delarna av studien besvaras syftet och frågeställningarna samt förslag på vidare forskning inom ämnet ges.   Resultatet av studien är att framgångsfaktorer av en destinations marknadsföring går att överföra till viss del. Exempel som ges till Visit Värmland och Karlstad kommun är att arbeta mer med resurserna som finns på plats, samarbeta mer samt involvera det lokala samhället i marknadsföringen. Detta tyder på att studien fyller den kunskapslucka som finns angående om best practice går att använda som metod för att öka en destinations attraktionskraft. Studien bidrar med kunskap om hur en destination kan inspireras av en annan destination för att lyckas bättre med sin marknadsföring. / In today's society it's hard to stand out and be unique. Cities, regions and nations compete for tourism and in order to be competitive, a common picture needs to be emphasized. If this is perceived the destination will appear attractive, there are more ways to create an attractive destination though. One example is “best practice”, which is a method of transferring success factors from one destination to another. Therefore, the purpose of the study is to investigate whether it is possible to transfer success factors between destinations.   To investigate this, Visit Värmland has been compared with Smålands Turism, the tourism department at Karlstad municipality has been compared to Destination Jönköping and Karlstad Airport has been compared to Jönköping Airport, this is done in the empirical chapter. The essay is therefore based on qualitative semi-structured interviews with informants from the previously mentioned organizations. In the analytical chapter, empirical material is placed against the theoretical framework, which addresses topics such as destination, resources, location marketing, best practice and the importance of airports for tourism. The final parts of the study answer the purpose and the questions as well as suggestions for further research that can be done on the subject.   The result of the study is that the success factors of destinations marketing can be transferred to some extent. Examples given to Visit Värmland and Karlstad Municipality are to work more with the resources available, collaborate more, and involve the local community in marketing. This indicates that the study fills the knowledge gap that exists about whether best practice can be used as a method of increasing the attractiveness of a destination. The study contributes knowledge of how a destination can be inspired by another destination to succeed better with its marketing.

Text in Afrikaans / lnternasionale erkenning van die konsep van kinderregte skep die grondslag vir state om op nasionale vlak inisiatiewe te loads wat op die kweek van 'n kinderregtekultuur gerig is, wat sal meebring dat 'n sensitiwiteit vir kinderregte ontwikkel en prioriteit aan die beskerming van daardie regte verleen word. Dit is 'n omvattende taak wat grondwetlike bepalings raak en wetgewing en administratiewe programme vereis ten einde 'n balans te vind tussen ouers se aansprake op gesinsoutonomie en die strewe om in gepaste gevalle aan kinders die bevoegdheid te verleen om self besluite oar hul lewens te neem. Die belangeatweging vind plaas teen die agtergrond van die primere oorweging van die beste belange van kinders ten opsigte van aspekte wat hulle raak . . / International recognition of the concept of children's rights lays the foundation for states to launch initiatives on national level which are aimed at developing a culture of children's rights. This will lead to an increased sensitivity to children's rights and the fact that priority will be given to the protection of those rights. It is a wide·ranging task which affects constitutional provisions and requires legislation and administrative programmes in order to strike a balance between parents' claims to the autonomy of the family and the attempt to enable children, in suitable instances, to make decisions about their lives themselves. This weighing up of interests takes place against the background of the primary consideration of the best interests of children with respect to aspects which affect them. / Constitutional, International and Indigenous Law / (LL.M)

O escopo deste trabalho é investigar a natureza e as funções dos ônus de argumentação em suas relações com o sistema jurídico e com a argumentação jurídica. O pano de fundo para o desenvolvimento dessas análises é o triplo condicionamento do direito. De acordo com essa visão, o direito e a argumentação jurídica são condicionados extrínseca, intrínseca e institucionalmente. Nesse cenário, defende-se, por um lado, que os ônus argumentativos são componentes necessários de um sistema jurídico que compreende regras e princípios. Analisados estruturalmente, os ônus argumentativos são compreendidos, por outro lado, como efeitos de regras e standards que consolidam relações de prioridade normativas. A partir dessas relações, defende-se que ônus de argumentação são mecanismos de redução e controle da incerteza que caracteriza necessariamente a subidealidade do sistema jurídico ao (i) facilitarem a manutenção das relações de prioridade que os sustentam na solução de casos concretos, (ii) dificultarem a inversão dessas relações e (iii) instituírem pontos de parada na argumentação jurídica em situações nas quais o desenvolvimento de cadeias argumentativas não é capaz de garantir se, em determinado caso concreto, certa relação de prioridade deve ser mantida ou invertida. / The goal of this thesis is to analyze the nature and functions of burdens of argumentation, within the context of their relationship with the structure of the legal system and their role in legal reasoning. Such analysis understands law as limited domain, subject to constraints that can be analytically represented by a three-level approach. According to this view, law and legal reasoning are extrinsically, intrinsically and institutionally constrained. In this complex scenario, the argument of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, it claims that burdens of argumentation are necessary components of a legal system that contains rules and principles. On the other hand, by looking at their structure, it claims that these burdens can be understood as effects of rules and standards that establish normative priority relations. On the basis of these analyses, I argue that burdens of argumentation are mechanisms of control and stabilization of the uncertainty that characterizes the suboptimal character of law. First, they make it easier to justify the maintenance in concreto of a preexistent relationship of priority between different principles. Second, they make it harder to invert these relationships of priority. Lastly, burdens of argumentation create stopping points in legal reasoning whenever there is uncertainty about whether the development of new chains of arguments is enough to justify the maintenance or the inversion, in a concrete case, of a given normative relationship of priority.

O escopo deste trabalho é investigar a natureza e as funções dos ônus de argumentação em suas relações com o sistema jurídico e com a argumentação jurídica. O pano de fundo para o desenvolvimento dessas análises é o triplo condicionamento do direito. De acordo com essa visão, o direito e a argumentação jurídica são condicionados extrínseca, intrínseca e institucionalmente. Nesse cenário, defende-se, por um lado, que os ônus argumentativos são componentes necessários de um sistema jurídico que compreende regras e princípios. Analisados estruturalmente, os ônus argumentativos são compreendidos, por outro lado, como efeitos de regras e standards que consolidam relações de prioridade normativas. A partir dessas relações, defende-se que ônus de argumentação são mecanismos de redução e controle da incerteza que caracteriza necessariamente a subidealidade do sistema jurídico ao (i) facilitarem a manutenção das relações de prioridade que os sustentam na solução de casos concretos, (ii) dificultarem a inversão dessas relações e (iii) instituírem pontos de parada na argumentação jurídica em situações nas quais o desenvolvimento de cadeias argumentativas não é capaz de garantir se, em determinado caso concreto, certa relação de prioridade deve ser mantida ou invertida. / The goal of this thesis is to analyze the nature and functions of burdens of argumentation, within the context of their relationship with the structure of the legal system and their role in legal reasoning. Such analysis understands law as limited domain, subject to constraints that can be analytically represented by a three-level approach. According to this view, law and legal reasoning are extrinsically, intrinsically and institutionally constrained. In this complex scenario, the argument of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, it claims that burdens of argumentation are necessary components of a legal system that contains rules and principles. On the other hand, by looking at their structure, it claims that these burdens can be understood as effects of rules and standards that establish normative priority relations. On the basis of these analyses, I argue that burdens of argumentation are mechanisms of control and stabilization of the uncertainty that characterizes the suboptimal character of law. First, they make it easier to justify the maintenance in concreto of a preexistent relationship of priority between different principles. Second, they make it harder to invert these relationships of priority. Lastly, burdens of argumentation create stopping points in legal reasoning whenever there is uncertainty about whether the development of new chains of arguments is enough to justify the maintenance or the inversion, in a concrete case, of a given normative relationship of priority.

The aim of this study was to propose a new model of charging for water use which considers the granted rights, the capitation volumes, and the discarded domestic sewage. For this purpose, the main charging models applied in federal river basins, implemented by the ANA, were analyzed: ParaÃba do Sul river, Piracicaba, Capivari and Jundiaà rivers, and SÃo Francisco river. After defining the model that better adapts to the reality of Cearà State, considering simplicity and applicability of each model, the valuation of water as an economic good was performed in the Salgado river basin, in Cariri region. Optimal prices for water supply and domestic sewage was calculated based on the economic theory of general equilibrium, known as second best. The results showed that elasticity of demand, for each purpose of use, is inelastic reinforcing the results of other studies on water charging. The calculated optimal prices were R$ 0,0148/m3 for water supply, and R$ 0,1914/kg DBO for domestic sewage. / O objetivo deste estudo à propor um novo modelo de cobranÃa pelo uso da Ãgua que considere volumes outorgados, captados e lanÃamento de efluentes domÃsticos. Para tanto, foram analisados os principais modelos de cobranÃa adotados nas bacias hidrogrÃficas de rios federais, implementados pela AgÃncia Nacional de Ãguas (ANA): rio ParaÃba do Sul, rios Piracicaba, Capivari e JundiaÃ, e rio SÃo Francisco. ApÃs a definiÃÃo do modelo que melhor se adÃqua à realidade do CearÃ, considerando os aspectos de simplicidade e aplicabilidade, procedeu-se à valoraÃÃo da Ãgua como bem econÃmico na bacia hidrogrÃfica do rio Salgado, na regiÃo do Cariri. A determinaÃÃo dos preÃos Ãtimos pelo uso da Ãgua, para os usos de abastecimento pÃblico e esgoto domÃstico, foi calculada com base na teoria econÃmica de equilÃbrio geral em second best. Os resultados demonstraram que a elasticidade-preÃo da demanda, em cada um dos usos, à inelÃstica, reforÃando os resultados de outros estudos sobre a cobranÃa. Os preÃos Ãtimos calculados foram de R$ 0,0148/m3 para o abastecimento pÃblico, e R$ 0,1914/kg DBO para o lanÃamento de efluentes domÃsticos.

The purpose of this study was to identify Core components perceived by faculty to be effective in their prominent graduate entrepreneurship education programs. The study sought to identify the best practices in graduate entrepreneurship education programs from the perceptions of faculty in the field. Research questions guiding the study were: (1) What Core components related to the following Broad question areas are perceived by faculty to be effective in their prominent graduate entrepreneurship education programs: Activities and initiatives; Adult education principles and practices; Alumni and mentoring; Course offerings; Curriculum and degrees; Faculty data; Institutional characteristics; Instructional methods; Student companies; and Student data. (2) What other Core components and/or general observations are identified by faculty in the survey comments? (3) What are faculty perceptions of the popular marketplace publication rankings of graduate entrepreneurship education programs? A survey was distributed via the internet to faculty at 54 prominent graduate entrepreneurship education programs identified by The Princeton Review, US News & World Report, or the AACSB Entrepreneurship Spotlight Challenge. The survey was developed through several phases using panels of individuals with expertise related to this study. The resulting 106 Core components were divided into 10 Broad question areas and were evaluated individually and averaged for each Broad question area. Questions regarding the accuracy of graduate program rankings and student intent were also included, along with demographics, open-ended questions regarding additional Core components, and additional survey comments. The results of the study indicated the most important Core components in the Broad question areas were Alumni and mentoring and Institutional characteristics, while the Curriculum and degrees area was perceived to be much less important to graduate entrepreneurship education effectiveness. The results also indicated that student intent and popular marketplace publications were only moderately accurate in evaluating entrepreneurship education effectiveness. Four top programs dominated the perceptions of faculty as effective programs: Stanford, Babson, MIT, and Harvard. Findings indicated that faculty perceptions differed from other measures of effectiveness of graduate entrepreneurship education programs.

La numérisation 3D telle que pratiquée aujourd'hui repose essentiellement sur les connaissances de l'opérateur qui la réalise. La qualité des résultats reste très sensible à la procédure utilisée et par conséquent aux compétences de l'opérateur. Ainsi, la numérisation manuelle est très coûteuse en ressources humaines et matérielles et son résultat dépend fortement du niveau de technicité de l'opérateur. Les solutions de numérisation les plus avancées en milieu industriel sont basées sur une approche d'apprentissage nécessitant une adaptation manuelle pour chaque pièce. Ces systèmes sont donc semi-automatiques compte tenu de l'importance de la contribution humaine pour la planification des vues.Mon projet de thèse se focalise sur la définition d'un procédé de numérisation 3D automatique et intelligente. Ce procédé est présenté sous forme d'une séquence de processus qui sont la planification de vues, la planification de trajectoires, l'acquisition et les post-traitements des données acquises. L'originalité de notre démarche de numérisation est qu'elle est générique parce qu'elle n'est pas liée aux outils et méthodes utilisés pour la réalisation des tâches liées à chaque processus. Nous avons également développé trois méthodes de planification de vues pour la numérisation d'objets sans connaissance a priori de leurs formes. Ces méthodes garantissent une indépendance des résultats par rapport au savoir-faire de l'opérateur. L'originalité de ces approches est qu'elles sont applicables à tous types de scanners. Nous avons implanté ces méthodes sur une cellule de numérisation robotisée. Nos approches assurent une reconstruction progressive et intelligente d'un large panel d'objets de différentes classes de complexité en déplaçant efficacement le scanner / The manual 3D digitization process is expensive since it requires a highly trained technician who decides about the different views needed to acquire the object model. The quality of the final result strongly depends, in addition to the complexity of the object shape, on the selected viewpoints and thus on the human expertise. Nowadays, the most developed digitization strategies in industry are based on a teaching approach in which a human operator manually determines one set of poses for the ranging device. The main drawback of this methodology is the influence of the operator's expertise. Moreover, this technique does not fulfill the high level requirement of industrial applications which require reliable, repeatable, and fast programming routines.My thesis project focuses on the definition of a procedure for automatic and intelligent 3D digitization. This procedure is presented as a sequence of processes that are essentially the view planning, the motion planning, the acquisition and the post-processing of the acquired data. The advantage of our procedure is that it is generic since it is not performed for a specific scanning system. Moreover, it is not dependent on the methods used to perform the tasks associated with each elementary process. We also developed three view planning methods to generate a complete 3D model of unknown and complex objects that we implemented on a robotic cell. Our methods enable fast and complete 3D reconstruction while moving efficiently the scanner. Additionaly, our approaches are applicable to all kinds of range sensors.

Web Intelligence has been quiet a popular topic lately. This thesis doesn't try to form the exact definition of Web Intelligence, because it's impossible. The aim is to demonstrate practical use of WI in retail banking instead. Since Web Intelligence can be seen as some kind of advanced Web Analytics system, the text starts off with explaining basics of Web Analytics. Then a hypothetical story about Mr. Cerny ' looking for a bank that would give him a mortgage loan is told. Meanwhile, a bank that provides Mr. Cerny 's current account tries to sell its own mortgage loan to him. Unfortunately, wrong channel at a wrong time is used to communicate the message which ends up with Mr. Cerny denying the offer instantly. Obvious mistakes made by the bank are then picked up and discussed. The conclusion is you need to know your customer very good to have long and healthy relationship. One way to achieve this is to deployWeb Intelligence solution that would reveal online habits of every one of your customers. Event Driven Marketing online campaigns can then be used to identify customers needs and target them at the right time, through the right channel and with the right message. If everything works well, the customer starts to percieve marketing communication as a personal support rather than annoying advertisement.

Durant les dernières décennies, l’évolution de la puissance de calcul a conduit au développement de codes de simulation en physique des réacteurs de plus en plus prédictifs pour la modélisation du comportement d’un réacteur nucléaire en situation de fonctionnement normal et accidentel. Un cadre d’analyse d’incertitudes cohérent avec l’utilisation de modélisations Best Estimate (BE) a été développé. On parle d’approche Best Estimate Plus Uncertain-ties (BEPU) et cette approche donne lieu `a de nombreux travaux de R&D à l’international en simulation numérique. Dans cette thèse, on étudie la quantification d’incertitudes multi-physiques dans le cas d’un transitoire d’ éjection de Grappe de contrôle (REA- Rod Ejection Accident) dans un Réacteur à Eau Pressurisée (REP). La modélisation BE actuellement disponible au CEA est réalisée en couplant les codes APOLLO3 R (netronique) et FLICA4 (thermohydraulique-thermique du combustible) dans l’environnement SALOME/CORPUS. Dans la première partie de la thèse, on examine différents outils statistiques disponibles dans la littérature scientifique dont la réduction de dimension, l’analyse de sensibilité globale, des modèles de substitution et la construction de plans d’expérience. On utilise ces outils pour développer une méthodologie de quantification d’incertitudes. Dans la deuxième partie de la thèse, on améliore la modélisation du comportement du combustible. Un couplage Best Effort pour la simulation d’un transitoire REA est disponible au CEA. Il comprend le code ALCYONE V1.4 qui permet une modélisation fine du comportement thermomécanique du combustible. Cependant, l’utilisation d’une telle modélisation conduit à une augmentation significative du temps de calcul ce qui rend actuellement difficile la réalisation d’une analyse d’incertitudes. Pour cela, une méthodologie de calibrage d’un modèle analytique simplifié pour le transfert de chaleur pastille-gaine basé sur des calculs ALCYONE V1.4 découplés a été développée. Le modèle calibré est finalement intégré dans la modélisation BE pour améliorer sa prédictivité. Ces deux méthodologies sont maquettées initialement sur un cœur de petite échelle représentatif d’un REP puis appliquées sur un cœur REP à l’échelle 1 dans le cadre d’une analyse multi-physique d’un transitoire REA. / The computational advancements of the last decades lead to the development of numerical codes for simulating the reactor physics with increa-sing predictivity allowing the modeling of the beha-vior of a nuclear reactor under both normal and acci-dental conditions. An uncertainty analysis framework consistent with Best Estimate (BE) codes was develo-ped in order to take into account the different sources of uncertainties. This framework is called Best Esti-mate Plus Uncertainties (BEPU) and is currently a field of increasing research internationally. In this the-sis we study the multi-physics uncertainty quantifi-cation for Rod Ejection Accident (REA) in Pressuri-zed Water Reactors (PWR). The BE modeling avai-lable in CEA is used with a coupling of APOLLO3 (neutronics) and FLICA4 (thermal-hydraulics and fuel-thermal) in the framework of SALOME/CORPUS tool. In the first part of the thesis, we explore different statistical tools available in the scientific literature including: dimension reduction, global sensitivity analy-sis, surrogate modeling and design of experiments. We then use them in order to develop an uncer-tainty quantification methodology. In the second part of the thesis, we improve the BE modeling in terms of its uncertainty representation. A Best Effort coupling scheme for REA analysis is available at CEA. This in-cludes ALCYONE V1.4 code for a detailed modeling of fuel-thermomechanics behavior. However, the use of such modeling increases significantly the compu-tational cost for a REA transient rendering the uncer-tainty analysis prohibited. To this purpose, we deve-lop a methodology for calibrating a simplified analytic gap heat transfer model using decoupled ALCYONE V1.4 REA calculations. The calibrated model is finally used to improve the previous BE modeling. Both de-veloped methodologies are tested initially on a small scale core representative of a PWR and then applied on a large scale PWR core.

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