The reuse of software units, such as classes, components and services require professional knowledge to be performed. Today a multiplicity of different software unit technologies, supporting tools, and related activities used in reuse processes exist. Each of these relevant reuse elements may also include a high number of variations and may differ in the level and quality of necessary reuse knowledge. In such an environment of increasing variations and, therefore, an increasing need for knowledge, software engineers must obtain such knowledge to be able to perform software unit reuse activities. Today many different reuse activities exist for a software unit. Some typical knowledge intensive activities are: transformation, integration, and deployment. In addition to the problem of the amount of knowledge required for such activities, other difficulties also exist. The global industrial environment makes it challenging to identify sources of, and access to, knowledge. Typically, such sources (e.g., repositories) are made to search and retrieve information about software unitsand not about the required reuse activity knowledge for a special unit. Additionally, the knowledge has to be learned by inexperienced software engineers and, therefore, to be interpreted. This interpretation may lead to variations in the reuse result and can differ from the estimated result of the knowledge creator. This makes it difficult to exchange knowledge between software engineers or global teams. Additionally, the reuse results of reuse activities have to be repeatable and sustainable. In such a scenario, the knowledge about software reuse activities has to be exchanged without the above mentioned problems by an inexperienced software engineer. The literature shows a lack of techniques to store and subsequently distribute relevant reuse activity knowledge among software engineers. The central aim of this thesis is to enable inexperienced software engineers to use knowledge required to perform reuse activities without experiencing the aforementioned problems. The reuse activities: transformation, integration, and deployment, have been selected as the foundation for the research. Based on the construction level of handling a software unit, these activities are called Software Construction Activities (SCAcs) throughout the research. To achieve the aim, specialised software construction activity models have been created and combined with an abstract software unit model. As a result, different SCAc knowledge is described and combined with different software unit artefacts needed by the SCAcs. Additionally, the management (e.g., the execution of an SCAc) will be provided in a service-oriented environment. Because of the focus on reuse activities, an approach which avoids changing the knowledge level of software engineers and the abstraction view on software units and activities, the object of the investigation differs from other approaches which aim to solve the insufficient reuse activity knowledge problem. The research devised novel abstraction models to describe SCAcs as knowledge models related to the relevant information of software units. The models and the focused environment have been created using standard technologies. As a result, these were realised easily in a real world environment. Softwareengineers were able to perform single SCAcs without having previously acquired the necessary knowledge. The risk of failing reuse decreases because single activities can be performed. The analysis of the research results is based on a case study. An example of a reuse environmenthas been created and tested in a case study to prove the operational capability of the approach. The main result of the research is a proven concept enabling inexperienced software engineers to reuse software units by reusing SCAcs. The research shows the reduction in time for reuse and a decrease of learning effort is significant.

This report recognizes the common mistakes students make solving single variable equations and attempts to connect these errors to varying levels of developmental readiness. Striving to meet the needs of all students, this report offers an alternative to lecture based mathematics lessons by exploring the benefits of a unit based curriculum. The unit poses an overarching problem for the students to investigate and answer, while the students still receive the instruction on solving algebraic equations. The goal is to move beyond traditional procedures when solving equations to help students become more familiar with symbol manipulation involved in solving real world story problems. / text

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International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 17-20, 1994 / Town & Country Hotel and Conference Center, San Diego, California / The Royal Artillery Range (RA Range) is the British Army's weapons practice range in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. The large sea range is also used by the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy for new weapons system evaluation and in service practice firing. This paper describes the telemetry facility comprising of two prime sites separated by 40 miles of open sea. Tracking antennas and receivers are at the remote island site of St Kilda with data processing and control at the Range Control Base (RCB), Benbecula. To improve operational capabilities and effectiveness, full remote control and monitoring of the multiple receivers and combiners has been installed. Radar tracking outputs are processed in the telemetry computer to produce individual antenna pointing demands.

I dedicated my thesis to the matters of flat ownership in Czech Republic. I chose the topic not only because it is my area of interest, but also because it is an acute problem, which impacts more than 1.5 million of Czech citizens. During the 17-year existence of the legislation and despite 13 amendments of the legislation, its application is often unclear. In my opinion, the legislation lacks sufficient regulations of the following: the establishment of a unit owners association, ensuring a proper management of unit owners association executive organs. In addition, some institutes have not been legislated but only regulated by secondary legislation - a Model Article - that however does not have to be adhered to by a unit owners association. In many cases, vague regulations or issues that have not been legislated, had to be resolved by judgment. First chapter provides an overview of the subject and the scope of the Flat Ownership Act (Act) and its concept and correlation with other acts, particularly the Civil Code. The second chapter discusses various types of establishment of flat ownership. The third chapter discusses various types of abolishment of flat ownership, including expropriation. The fourth chapter is dedicated to the amendment of the Act and acquisition of legal personality, that is...

Unit Owners Association as a Subject of Law Objective of my thesis is to describe development of legal regulation of the Unit Owners Association, to analyse the current legal regulation of the Unit Owners Association in the Act No. 72/1994 Coll., on apartment ownership and to compare the current legal regulation with latest legal regulation in the new Civil Code. This topic is very live, because the issue of apartment ownership concerns more and more residents. The unit owner is also co-owner of common parts of a building. The Unit Owners Association is a legal entity determined for administration of common parts of the building. The thesis is composed of four chapters. Chapter One describes development of the legal regulation of the Unit Owners Association in the Act No. 72/1994 Coll., on apartment ownership, which was amended several times. Chapter Two analyses the current legal regulation of the Unit Owners Association mainly from the point of view of its legal capacity and internal arrangement. Legal capacity of the Unit Owners Association is restricted, because this legal entity is legally competent to execute rights and to commit itself only in the cases related to administration, operation and repairs of common parts of a building. This chapter consists of six parts which focused on formation of the...