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The purpose of this Thesis is to show ways of the selfmanagement and to include them into daily life. Using several publications I suggest possibilities of personal progress and its benefit for our life. I research the awareness about the selfmanagement and its principles. I lead the respondents to deeper thinking about their life attitude and self-respect. It is focused on purpose of living, life goals and principles, time management, self-control, a creativity and alternative ways to personal progress. I would like to explain connections between personal and working life. Well-balanced and creative person, who is cultivating himself, has better potencial for satisfied working life. The process of writing Master's Thesis was enriching and I hope it was also an inspiration for the respondents. I find it very important to focuse not only on outside world, but first of all on inside world. I wish the selfmanagement would come closer to more people and help them to build a happy life.

Magister Artium (Child and Family Studies) - MA(CFS) / Adolescence can be understood as the transitional period between childhood and adulthood. During adolescence individuals tend to experiment and discover who they are in terms of their unique social identity and are more susceptible to health risk behaviour engagement. Health risk behaviour place individuals at risk for numerous health complications. The most common forms of health risk behaviours are smoking, drinking, illicit drug use, risky sexual behaviour, violence and physical inactivity. Life skills development has been proven to reduce many health risk behaviours in adolescents. The Life Effectiveness Questionnaire (LEQ) is a psychometric instrument which has been developed to measure life skills. Social Cognitive Theory posits that people are not driven by inner forces nor are they controlled by external stimuli, rather there is a reciprocal triadic relationship where the environment, cognition and personal factors influences learning through observation. When in the presence of their peers, adolescents are more likely to engage in health risk behaviour because of peer influence and immediate rewards. This study aimed to study the effects of the LEQs life skills domains as it relates to the engagement in health risk behaviour among Grade 8 learners in a selected high school in Paarl. This study used a quantitative methodology with a cross-sectional design employing written surveys. The sample consisted of 104 Grade 8 learners. The data was collected using self-reported questionnaires. One was the LEQ (Appendix 5 and 6) which measures life skills and the other was the Youth Risk Behaviour Surveillance Survey (YRBSS) (Appendix 7) which measures the prevalence of health risk behaviour engagement. The data was analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences V24 (SPSS). The results suggested that there is still a high prevalence of health risk behaviour engagement among Grade 8 learners with increases evident in some of the health risk behaviours.

Kong, Kwok Ho. / "August 2011." / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 67-68). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.ii / 摘要 --- p.iii / Acknowledgements --- p.iv / Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 2. --- Literature Review --- p.4 / Chapter 2.1 --- The Retirement-Consumption Puzzle --- p.4 / Chapter 2.2 --- Food Expenditure and Food Consumption --- p.7 / Chapter 2.3 --- Heterogeneous Impact of Retirement on Consumption Expenditure --- p.7 / Chapter 3. --- Data Sources and Description --- p.10 / Chapter 3.1 --- Surveys --- p.10 / Chapter 3.2 --- Sample --- p.12 / Chapter 4. --- Methodology --- p.16 / Chapter 5. --- "Comparison of the NHAPS, ATUS, and ASEC Estimates" --- p.18 / Chapter 6. --- Empirical Results-Demographic Characteristics --- p.21 / Chapter 6.1 --- Male and Female Householders --- p.23 / Chapter 6.2 --- Marital Status --- p.25 / Chapter 6.3 --- Education --- p.27 / Chapter 7. --- Empirical Results-Financial Characteristics --- p.29 / Chapter 7.1 --- Housing Ownership --- p.30 / Chapter 7.2 --- Interest and Dividend Income --- p.32 / Chapter 8. --- Empirical Results-Dependency Status --- p.35 / Chapter 9. --- Potential Bias of Using Age as an Insturment for Retirement --- p.38 / Chapter 10. --- Robustness Checking --- p.40 / Chapter 10.1 --- Estimation with Restricted Samples --- p.40 / Chapter 10.2 --- Ordinary Least Square (OLS) Estimation --- p.41 / Chapter 11. --- Conclusions --- p.43 / Chapter Figure 1 --- Level Changes of Time Spent on Food Production for Household Members by Three-year Ranges --- p.46 / Chapter Figure 2 --- Percentage Change of Time Spent on Food Production for Household Members by Three-year Ranges --- p.47 / Chapter Table 1 --- "Descriptive Statistics of Non-retired and Retired Individuals in NHAPS, ATUS, and ATUS-ASEC" --- p.48 / Chapter Table 2 --- Descriptive Statistics of Time Spent on Home Food Production (in minutes per day) of Non-retired and Retired Households --- p.49 / Chapter Table 3 --- Comparison of Regression Result between the Estimation of Aguiar and Hurst (2005) and the Author's Estimation --- p.50 / Chapter Table 4 --- Descriptive Statistics of ATUS Non-retired and Retired Individuals by Gender --- p.51 / Chapter Table 5 --- 2SLS Estimates of ATUS-ASEC Householders by Gender --- p.52 / Chapter Table 6 --- 2SLS Estimates of ATUS-ASEC Female Householders by Marital Status --- p.53 / Chapter Table 7 --- 2SLS Estimates of ATUS-ASEC Male Householders by Marital Status --- p.54 / Chapter Table 8 --- 2SLS Estimates of ATUS-ASEC Householders by Education Attainment --- p.55 / Chapter Table 9 --- 2SLS Estimates of ATUS-ASEC Householders by Housing Ownership --- p.56 / Chapter Table 10 --- 2SLS Estimates of ATUS-ASEC Householders by Interest Income and Dividend Income during the Survey Year --- p.57 / Chapter Table 11 --- 2SLS Estimates of ATUS-ASEC Householders by Dependency Status during the Survey Year --- p.58 / Chapter Table 12 --- Comparison of Regression Results under Full Samples and Restricted Samples --- p.59 / Chapter Table 13 --- Comparison of Regression Results between the Use of 2SLS and OLS Methods --- p.60 / Chapter Appendix: --- Data --- p.61 / Chapter Appendix Table 1 --- Time Spent on Home Food Production (in Minutes per Day) of Householders by Marital Status --- p.62 / Chapter Appendix Table 2 --- Time Spent on Home Food Production (in Minutes per Day) of Householders by Education Attainment --- p.63 / Chapter Appendix Table 3 --- Time Spent on Home Food Production (in Minutes per Day) of Householders by Housing Ownership and the Sum of Interest Income and Dividend Income --- p.64 / Chapter Appendix Table 4 --- Housing Ownership and Education Attainment of Individuals in 2003-2009 ATUS-ASEC --- p.65 / Chapter Appendix Table 5 --- Time Spent on Home Food Production (in Minutes per Day) of Householders by Dependency Status --- p.66 / References --- p.67

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The purpose of this study was to compare the achievement of adult high school students enrolled in a one-semester economics course allocated 60 hours of instruction to the achievement of regular high school students in the same course that was allocated 73 hours of instruction.From three large high schools in Indiana offering both regular high school and adult high school credit programs, a sample of 178 students was selected. One case was dropped from the study, reducing the sample size to 177.The structure of the available adult education delivery system did not permit a direct comparison of adult high school credit classes with differing instructional time allotments.As a result, the achievement comparison was made between adult high school and regular high school students. To control for possible initial differences between the two groups of students with regard to academic aptitude, the Test of Cognitive Stills was administered.The Test of Economic Literacy Form A was selected as a pretest to measure each student's prior knowledge of economics. The Test of Economic Literacy Form B was administered at the completion of the course to measure the achievement gain.A two-by-two analysis of covariance was used to statistically analyze the data.FindingsThe null hypothesis was tested for significance at the .05 level. The null hypothesis of no difference was not rejected, and the following conclusion was made:ConclusionThe allocation of thirteen additional hours of classroom instructional time to senior high economics classes did not produce a significant gain in achievement.

Syfte: Vårt syfte är att analysera hur inre- och yttre motivation (Self-Determination Theory) och användning av tidsplaneringsverktyg (Time Management) interagerar inom Svensk Fastighetsförmedling. Vidare syftar studien till att analysera de eventuella kopplingar mellan Self-Determination Theory och Time Management som studien frambringar. Metod: Studien är av kvantitativ art och med grund i tidigare forskning utformades en enkät med totalt 38 frågor. Enkäten har konstruerats i Google Drive och distribuerats till respondenterna via e-post genom vår kontaktperson på Svensk Fastighetsförmedling. Totalt erhölls 303 enkätsvar, vilket innebar en svarsfrekvens på 38 %. Enkätsvaren har analyserats med hjälp av en korrelationsanalys och en faktoranalys.    Resultat & slutsats: Vår empiriska studie resulterade i viktiga upptäckter avseende mäklares motivation och deras inställning till tidsplanering. Det som främst driver mäklarna visade sig vara den inre motivationsfaktorn meningsfulla relationer. Gällande tidsplanering fann vi bland annat att majoriteten av mäklarna upprättar listor över saker som ska göras. Faktoranalysen verifierar kategoriuppdelningen inom SDT, trots att indelningen av subkategorierna inte stämmer överens till fullo, medan TM inte stämde lika väl överens med dess teoretiska grund. Förslag till vidare forskning: Det vore intressant att genomföra denna studie på andra mäklarbyråer för att se om de får liknande resultat, vilket leder att vår studies reliabilitet höjs och resultaten kan därmed generaliseras. Det skulle även vara intressant att bredda forskningen till helt andra branscher för att se om sambandsmönster kan utläsas även där. En annan vinkling kan vara att genomföra denna studie med en kvalitativ metod för att få djupare kunskaper om varför respondenterna anser som de gör. Uppsatsens bidrag: Att undersöka kopplingen mellan teorierna SDT och TM är den första studien av sitt slag och vår studie bidrar därmed till utveckling av de två teorifälten. Studien kan även bidra till att företagsledare inser vikten av att veta vad sina anställda motiveras av och hur bra de är på att planera sin tid. Med vetskap om detta kan de individanpassa sitt ledarskap, vilket kan öka de anställdas välmående och prestation.

Thesis--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. / This report was prepared for the Manpower Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, under research and development contract (grant) no. 91-25-75-17-1. Available from the National Technical Information Center, Springfield, Va. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 300-311).

While most western hydropower sites are already developed or protected by legislation, the aging hydropower park requires refurbishment actions. Especially to tackle the challenges of an increased fluctuation at the grid coming from the expansion of other renewable energy sources such as wind power. The company Fortum is carrying out a number of major refurbishment projects every year and want to enhance their time performance during the outage. Delayed projects are resulting in unexpected costs and production losses. By investigating 20 historical refurbishment outages from a project manager perspective, the delays are related to different sections of the outage time. These sections are referred to as work packages, meaning a set of activities related to a functional part of the plant. The material is based on interviews and project documentation. The outages are divided into three groups depending on the amount of delay and some additional set of factors are used in a comparison. The results are discussed from a time management and a multi-project perspective. The study can be viewed as an initial study to address time management challenges in a company. The methodology proves to be an efficient way to get time management challenges at a company to the surface. The results displays late manufacturing deliveries and overruns of assembly and erection durations as the most common reasons of delay. A number of potential success/failure factors are suggested. It is also pointed out that small projects are at risk being more delayed compared to larger ones.

The management of the home has been a central component of Home Economics since the early 1900s. It is, however, an enigmatic behavior that has not yielded easily to research. Recognizing that meal provision and food consumption by families incorporate management processes and occur on a regular and frequent basis, it was thought that it would be possible to focus on meal management as a step toward understanding resource management. Using time diary and questionnaire data collected in Utah as a part of Regional Research Project S-206, the objectives of this study were (1) to identify variables which may predict the management strategies and time expenditures of meal preparation in two-parent, two-child Utah families, and (2) to assess any changes in current meal patterns in two-parent, two-child families with those reported by Peterson (1979) in a comparable 1977 study. Guided by the Deacon and Firebaugh (1988) family systems perspective, stepwise multiple regression was used to identify predictor variables. It was found that homemaker's education was a statistically significant predictor of shopping frequency(+), frequency of use of a microwave oven(+), number of meals eaten together(+), and homemaker's time in food preparation and dishwashing (-). Seven additional variables, including urban/rural residence, homemaker's hours of employment, age of oldest child, age of youngest child, homemaker's age and a mean score on homemaker's self-reported management skills, were statistically significant predictors of selected management strategies and time expenditures in meal preparation. Decade comparisons revealed few changes of practical significance in meal patterns. The findings of the study were used to suggest hypotheses for further research in family resource management. / Graduation date: 1992