The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between the physical activity levels and the time management practices of selected university students, and to identify the differences between physical activity levels and time management practices in terms of gender. The subjects of this study were 128 male (55,9%) and 101 female (44,1%) university students from six universities in istanbul, Turkey which were selected on a volunteer basis. The Physical Activity Assessment Questionnaire (PAAQ) and the Time Management Questionnaire (TMQ) were used to gather data. The data were analyzed by employing a Statistical Package for Social Statistics. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. The level .05 of significance was selected. There was significant correlation between total hours spend in a week and time planning, and negative correlation between time wasters. There was significant correlation between total MET spend in an hour and time attitudes, between total MET intensities and time attitudes. According to Chi-squared analysis gender difference is dependent of the PA levels in terms of &ldquo / sport MET&rdquo / and &ldquo / total MET&rdquo / intensities. Multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) indicated a significant main effect. Subsequent unvaried analysis indicated differences in Time Management in terms of gender.

In developing training for new technologies, designers encounter many options in an effort to increase system knowledge and produce effective system usage. Technological advancements do, however, provide the opportunity for more dynamic and interactive training methods. Moreover, technology may require the acquisition of time-sensitive skills. Many technologies have automatic shut-off or low-power functions, like the shutting off the backlight of a cell phone after 30 seconds. These system functions may lead to errors for novice users or for infrequent tasks. To develop effective training for time-sensitive tasks, the learner needs instruction on how to accurately perform the task at a particular pace. One potentially fruitful avenue of exploration is to provide the learning goal during training through the pace of the training materials. This presentation pace is the rate at which training tasks are presented to the learner during training; this pace may be fixed or self-regulated. The goal of the current study was to examine the role of presentation in learning a complex technology using four types of pacing for younger adults (Experiment 1) and older adults (Experiment 2). The results of this study show there seems to be a benefit of self-paced training for younger adults and older adults. These findings provide insight into future studies investigating the underlying mechanisms related to the benefits of self-paced training. Additionally, the findings have implications for the development of training paradigms for time-sensitive technologies.

In the contemporary workplace individuals differ considerably in the manner they approach their work and achieve outcomes. This thesis examined the construct of polychronicity (preference for undertaking multiple tasks simultaneously) within two intellectually intensive academic work environments. The impacts of imposed polychronicity on performance, job satisfaction, perceived stress and wellbeing were explored. Data was collected from 116 lecturers, teachers, supervisors and managers working in Northern Queensland, Australia. A quantitative approach was taken to data collection. Existing scales were used to measure a range of variables including preferred polychronicity, experienced work unit polychronicity, organisational commitment, job satisfaction, and perceived stress. To provide a qualitative perspective, respondents were asked for comments which were used to add depth and breadth to the study. The findings indicated that preferred polychronicity and experienced work unit polychronicity did not differ over genders or occupations which suggests that polychronicity is likely to be a personal trait. Responses were divided into polychronic, neutral or monochronic preference categories. The findings indicated that when polychronicity was high organisational commitment was high, but when monochronicity was high organisational commitment was lower. Further the findings indicated that when organisational commitment was high, job satisfaction was high and when organisational commitment was low stress was high, although polychrons relationship with stress was lower than that of monochrons. This may suggest that polychrons work better in an imposed polychronic environment than monochrons which supports previous research. The implication for employers is that through understanding the tasking preferences of employees they may be able to tailor strategies to improve and enhance personal wellbeing which in turn may increase job satisfaction, performance, wellbeing and reduce turnover.

L’utilisation des charges de manière active et intelligente et leur gestion optimale sont parmiles préoccupations majeures des gestionnaires, des fournisseurs, des commercialisateurs et desconsommateurs d’énergie, et constitue l’un de axes privilégies du projet smart-grid.L’objectif de cette thèse est de développer et réaliser un système de pilotage des charges desbâtiments résidentiels ou tertiaires en temps réel en utilisant des réseaux de capteurs sans fil. Lesméthodes de gestion de charge ont été développées afin de minimiser les pics de consommation,maintenir le confort thermique et minimiser le coût global de consommation. Une conception dusystème de gestion des charges en temps réel sans fil a été proposée avec la communicationstandardisée ZigBee. Des démonstrateurs basés sur la régulation adaptative des chauffages et desclimatisations d’une part et sur une méthode de délestage doux pour des cuisinières d’autre part ontété développés. Le prototype du système proposé a été réalisé et testé lors de campagnes demesures sur un appartement expérimental afin de montrer l’intérêt et les performances des méthodesproposées. Le système développé permet d’éviter l’utilisation des modèles prédictifs qui sont trèsdifficiles à identifier et à reconfigurer en cas d’ajout de nouveaux appareils électriques dans lesbâtiments contrôlés. / Load management in an active and intelligent way is one of the major concerns of distributionsystems operators, suppliers and consumers of energy, particularly in the context of the smart-gridproject.The aim of this thesis is to develop and implement a real-time energy management systembased on wireless sensor networks in buildings (residential and tertiary sector). The methods of loadmanagement have been developed to minimize peak demand, maintain thermal comfort, andminimize the cost of consumption. A concept of real-time load management using a wireless sensornetwork has been proposed, based on the ZigBee communication standard. Demonstrators ofadaptive control of heating and air conditioning and of intelligent load shedding for electrical cookershave been developed. The prototypes of the proposed systems have been built and tested on anexperimental apartment to demonstrate the usefulness and effectiveness of these methods. Thedeveloped system allows to avoid the use of predictive models that are very difficult to identify andself-reconfigure when new electrical devices are added in a building.

Orientadores: Douglas Tacla, Orlando Fontes Junior / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Civil e Arquitetura / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-12T10:42:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PeixotoNeto_AlbertoGracaLopes_M.pdf: 1281299 bytes, checksum: 513af220564dc97ae53dcaf28e246403 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Resumo: Este trabalho tem o objetivo de mostrar a eficiência da aplicação da metodologia Lean Six Sigma na Logística, isto é, mais especificamente na redução do tempo de atendimento a pedidos. Tanto o Lean quanto o Six Sigma, até então aplicados de maneira isolada, tinham reduzido significativamente o nível das perdas (estoques) ou melhorado a velocidade dos processos ou reduzido a variabilidade. Porém, se fazia necessária uma abordagem diferente e completa para se reduzir ainda mais o lead time dos pedidos. E, a partir daí, um método é proposto e aplicado neste trabalho para focar a atenção na redução destas perdas, melhorar o processo de atendimento aos pedidos e, conseqüentemente, diminuindo o tempo de atendimento. A metodologia LeanSigma proposta para processos da Logística consiste basicamente em melhorar o gerenciamento dos inventários, isto é: _ Logística é basicamente lidar com inventários, estejam eles onde estiverem na cadeia de suprimentos. _ Por outro lado, inventários para o Lean são um dos desperdícios que devem ser atacados._ Temos que Logística Lean consiste basicamente em reduzir todos os inventários em excesso._ Seis Sigma, como anteriormente citado, se preocupa com a redução da variabilidade dos processos e com a eliminação de defeitos._ Portanto, Logística Sigma está focada na redução da variação dos processos Logísticos, garantindo assim, sua confiabilidade. _ Por fim, temos que Logística Lean Sigma são esforços direcionados para redução dos estoques e, conseqüentemente, melhoria dos tempos de fluxo logísticos. / Abstract: In a world each time more competitive the reaction's velocity on attending technical requirements with lower and lower costs is fundamental to the success of the companies. In this time, the Lean and the Six Sigma distinguished methodologies with oriented focus to decrease key processes variability and consequently decrease associated losses, like overproduction, inventory, transportation, motion, waiting, rework, down time, etc., focused on financial return to the company, has been used by a growing quantity of industries all over the planet. As the competitive environment changes the way companies do business, companies are embracing both (Lean and Six Sigma) initiatives together to support cost reductions and quality improvements in several different business areas. This work has the objective of showing the efficiency application of the Lean Six Sigma methodology applied in the Logistics context and more specifically in the order leads time reduction. As much Lean as Six Sigma, up to now applied in an isolated way, they had reduced the level of the losses (stocks) significantly or improved the speed of the processes or reduced the variability. A method is proposed and applied in this work to focus the attention in the reduction of these losses, to improve the service process to the requests and, consequently, reducing the time of service. The application of this methodology certainly will help to increase the competitiveness of the national industries by improving their Supply Chain mainly due to the combination of Lean for pursuit simplicity which means efficiency focus and Six Sigma for pursuit perfection which means effectiveness focus. / Mestrado / Transportes / Mestre em Engenharia Civil

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-05-03T20:14:46Z No. of bitstreams: 1 marcospaulodeoliveira.pdf: 1682616 bytes, checksum: 115e4d18162632d8fbe117fd56c8bc09 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-06-07T15:20:29Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 marcospaulodeoliveira.pdf: 1682616 bytes, checksum: 115e4d18162632d8fbe117fd56c8bc09 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-07T15:20:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 marcospaulodeoliveira.pdf: 1682616 bytes, checksum: 115e4d18162632d8fbe117fd56c8bc09 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-07-14 / O presente trabalho investigará o uso do tempo na gestão, identificando as demandas das diferentes funções de gestão (financeira, administrativa e pedagógica) no cotidiano do gestor escolar. O uso adequado do tempo na gestão escolar é de extrema relevância para a eficácia das estratégias desenvolvidas pelo gestor à frente do processo de ensino e aprendizagem dos educandos. Uma gestão escolar que tenha como objetivo oferecer educação de qualidade à população deve se sustentar nas atividades-meio funções administrativas e financeiras de modo que estas estimulem e apoiem as atividades fim, estas ligadas diretamente à gestão pedagógica. Dessa inquietação,veio o desejo de investigar o uso do tempo como categoria de avaliação da gestão escolar, de analisara prática de planejamento do tempo adotada pelos gestores escolares, além de apontar possíveis procedimentos a serem desenvolvidos,a fim de contribuir-sena gestão e consequentemente na melhoria do processo de ensino e aprendizagem dos estudantes das unidades escolares. A presente pesquisa abrangeu os vinte gestores das escolas municipais da Gerência Regional de Educação Norte.A estratégia metodológica utilizada se deu por meio de aplicação de questionário/diário junto ao grupo de gestores especificamente citado. A análise dos dados obtidos pelos instrumentos de pesquisa demonstra que, apesar de haver outros fatores relevantes na obtenção de resultados positivos no desempenho pedagógico das instituições, observa-se que o planejamento pedagógico e o tempo dedicado à gestão pedagógica influenciam na qualidade da gestão e consequentemente no desempenho escolar dos alunos. Outra constatação foi a ausência de um planejamento mais eficaz-por parte da Secretaria Municipal de Educação -em relação às reuniões externas em que os gestores são convocados a participar, fato que vem a comprometer parte desta eficácia na gestão escolar. / This study will investigate the use of manager's time, identifying the demands of different management functions (financial, administrative and educational) in the school manager every day. Proper use of time in school management is extremely important in the effectiveness of the strategies developed by the manager in charge of teaching and students' learning process. A school management that aims to provide quality education to the population must sustain support activities, administrative and financial functions, in order to stimulate and support the core activities linked directly to the pedagogical management. From this unrest came the desire to investigate the appropriate use of time as a category of evaluation of school management, analyze the time planning practice adopted by school managers, while identifying possible procedures to be developed in order to contribute to the management and consequently improving teaching and learning process of students in school units. This survey has covered twenty managers of municipal schools in the Northern Regional Education Management. The methodological strategy was based on questionnaire/diary with the group of managers specifically cited. The analysis of data obtained by the research instruments shows that, despite recognizing other relevant factors in achieving positive results in the educational performance of institutions, it is observed that the educational planning and the time devoted to educational management influence the quality of management and consequently the results of academic performance of students. Another conclusion was to the absence of more effective planning by the Department of Education regarding external meetings in which managers are invited to participate. This fact contributes to the loss of part of this effectiveness in school management.

The topic of this thesis is procrastination. Procrastination is "the illogical, but deliberate delaying of planned action, which is accompanied by a commitment to alternative activities." (Sliviaková 2010, p. 3). Occasional procrastination however mostly harmless is only a small step from procrastination chronic. Chronic procrastination already points at undesirable situation, the malfunction of a healthy lifestyle and self-control. That view is the starting point for the research work of the problem, which investigates the symptoms of procrastination among primary and secondary school pupils. Procrastination is usually being considered in relation to adults' behaviour. The question asked is whether it is relevant to consider procrastination also in relation to children at primary school. In the theoretical part, we therefore first gathered and compiled the available data about the topic from various Czech and foreign sources, mainly to define with necessary precision the object of the study (procrastination) and learned the wider context of the issue (time management, self- management). The survey is based on interviews with six parents and thirty pupils from 1st to 5th grade. The method of research used with pupils was author a story that allowed them to identify themselves with a certain type of...

The thesis named "The Application of self-management methods to prevent burn- out syndrome of the kindergarten headpersons" follows the objective to identify self- management methods and time and stress managements for kindergarten headpersons. In the theoretical section the work is based on findings about the kindergarten headpersons, their motivation, competence, self-management, self-reflection and regards also self- development. The work futher deals with burn-out syndrome, its symptoms and prevention methods, time and stress managements, tools and methods assisting time managements and refers also so called time thieves. Equally the work mentions the stress which is accompanying the headpearsons and describes the stress symptoms, its positive and negative efects on individual and describes also the prevention which should be helpful to control the stress situations. The theoretical section of the work is based on expert literature and explains terms and views of authors dealing with self, time and stress- managements. The research inquiry was aimed at identification of methods from the sphere of self,time and stress-managements applied by kindergarten headpersons within the frame of their self-management which are helpfull to prevent stress and consequent burn-out syndrome. The research iquiry...

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The master's thesis 'Lifestyle of students of University of Economics in Prague' focuses on the concept of healthy lifestyle, its definition and sub-areas, such as health in general, nutrition, work-life balance and time management. The aim of the thesis is to analyze the lifestyle of students of the University of Economics in Prague, namely in the areas of living, eating and physical habits, work-life balance and time management. The online questionnaire survey carried out a quantitative research, which was attended by 612 VŠE students. Based on the theoretical part, four hypotheses had been established at the beginning of the application section, which were either confirmed or refuted based on the results of the questionnaire survey.