Approved for public release, distribution is unlimited / The objective of this thesis is to obtain a better understanding of cloud-top entrainment through an in-depth analysis of entrainment-zone structure. In situ aircraft measurements taken during the Atlantic Stratocumulus Transition Experiment (ASTEX) were used for this purpose. Using data collected from multiple cloud-top penetrations, the presence of an interfacial layer in-between the top of the cloud mixed-layer and the base of the free atmosphere is identified and consequently defined as the entrainment zone. The depth of the entrainment zone is on the order of tens of meters, where turbulence and sometimes cloud droplets are detectable. Inhomogeneous mixing was found to occur within the entrainment zone. Parcels of inversion-layer air and boundary-layer air are identified within the entrainment zone. Analyses suggest that turbulence intensity and cloud amount in the entrainment zone vary depending on the distribution of entrainment mixing fraction. Furthermore, continuous mixing in the entrainment zone appears to dissipate the upper-cloud layer. However, continuous dissipation of the upper-cloud layer has not been observed. Further study is needed to determine the interaction between cloud-top entrainment and the full integration of boundary-layer dynamics. / Captain, United States Air Force

Introduction: Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), also called domestic violence, is defined as any physical, psychological, or sexual violence, and emotional violence perpetrated by an intimate partner (CDC, 2016). Sexual violence or rape is defined as a sexual act committed against someone without that person’s freely-given consent (CDC, 2017). IPV is experienced among heterosexual women globally, although this phenomenon is not unique to this population. IPV also disproportionately affects young gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) (Stults et al., 2016). The purpose of this study is to examine the association between IPV victimization and the increased risk of HIV and other health outcomes among YBMSM. Methods: The 6-month follow-up was conducted in Jackson, MS. A total 600 YBMSM were eligible to participant in the study. The participants were recruited from two local clinics that were focused on diagnosing and treating STI’s. Also, recruiters promoted the opportunity to enroll in the study through social media, attending bars, and nightclubs. Inclusion criteria were: 1) assigned male at birth; 2) self-identification as Black/African American; 3) 15-29 years of age; 4) attending the clinic to be tested for HIV or other STIs, 5) having engaged in anal sex with a male partner at least once in the past 6 months, and 6) the ability to speak and comprehend English. Results: The overall study sample consisted of 600 YMSM. All participants were identified as African–American. The average age of the sample was 22.6 years (SD=±3.2). Bottoms were more likely to experience rape (AOR=1.7,CI 1.1,2.6; p=.02). YBMSM who experienced IPV since enrolling in the study, as compared to those who did not experience IPV, were more likely to use marijuana, alcohol, crack, and painkillers (AOR=7.7 ,CI 5.1,11.7; p= Conclusion: These findings suggest that IPV and Rape shows a significant association with decreased condom use, decreased condom negotiation, sexual position, drug use and HIV risk among YBMSM in Jackson, MS.

Alarming statistics provides that only 10,2 percentage of companies listed on the Swedish stock exchange has achieved gender equality in their top management. The fact is that women being discriminated, since men dominates these positions of power. The study is of a qualitative nature and aims to achieve a deeper understanding and knowledge contribution of how gender equal companies´ has achieved this gender diversity in their top management. Sweden's highest ranking business leaders has been interviewed in order to obtain their view, and the companies they represent, in order to get an answer to what the most important requirements has been in the achievement. The study's main result has shown that strong core values and corporate culture are basic and required condition for a successful gender equality strategy. A deliberate or emergent strategy can then be successfully implemented, and it is mainly the impact of structural barriers that determine which strategy a company uses. At a deliberate strategy, following measures are in additional to core values and corporate cultural crucial; commitment towards gender equality, a specific plan with clear objectives, and a conscious objective recruitment process. The result found aboute these two factors and three measures also identified a required specific order to follow in order to achieve gender diversity in top management. These findings, which in a near future, aims to contribute to a more gender equal Sweden.

This thesis consists of four separate chapters which address different aspects of inequality and income determination. The first three chapters are country-level studies which examine (1) how incomes are shaped by spatial price differences, (2) the factor income composition, and (3) enterprise size. The final chapter analyses how income inequality changed at the global level. The first chapter investigates the implications of regional price differences for earnings differentials and inequality in Germany. I combine a district-level price index with administrative earnings data from social security records. Prices have a strong equalising effect on district average wages in West Germany, but a weaker effect in East Germany and at the national level. The change in overall inequality as a result of regional price differences is small (although significant in many cases), because inequality is mostly explained by differences within rather than between districts. The second chapter is motivated by the rapid increase in top income shares in the United States since the 1980s. Using data derived from tax filings, I show that this pattern is very similar after controlling for changes in tax unit size. Over the same period as top income shares increased, the composition of these incomes changed dramatically, with the labour share rising. Using a non-parametric copula framework, I show that incomes from labour and capital have become more closely associated at the top. This association is asymmetric such that top wage earners are more likely to also receive high capital incomes, compared with top capital income recipients receiving high wages. In the third chapter, I investigate the positive cross-sectional relationship between enterprise size and earnings using panel data from Ghana. I find evidence for a significant firm size effect in matched firm-worker data and a labour force panel, even after controlling for individual fixed effects. The size effect in self-employment is stronger in the cross-section, but it is driven by individual time-invariant characteristics. The final chapter studies the global interpersonal income distribution using a newly constructed and improved database of national household surveys between 1988 and 2008. The chapter finds that the global Gini remains high and approximately unchanged at around 0.7. However, this hides a substantial change in the global distribution from a twin-peaked distribution in 1988 into a single-peaked one now. Furthermore, the regional composition of the global distribution changed, as China graduated from the bottom ranks. As a result of the growth in Asia, the poorest quantiles of the global distribution are now largely from Sub-Saharan Africa. By exploiting the panel dimension of the dataset, the analysis shows which decile-groups within countries have benefitted most over this 20-year period. In addition, the chapter presents a preliminary assessment of how estimates of global inequality are affected by the likely underreporting of top incomes in surveys.

2008年全球金融海嘯與近年持續動盪的歐債危機，使得多數民眾在這兩次金融風暴中遭受鉅額損失，對於金融商品及銀行也產生了疑慮，導致出許多投資者與銀行端之間的消費糾紛，經過多次險峻的經濟波動及金融危機，投資市場中仍然有許多頂尖財富管理業務人員，他們歷經多次金融危機仍屹立不搖，績效穩定及深受客戶信賴，這其中差異值得深入研究探討。 本文主要探討台灣財富管理頂尖業務銷售成功關鍵因素，利用「三特質」問卷方式收集資訊並分析，藉此了解頂尖業務平日的工作內容、專業能力、人格特質、銷售行為及投資決策模式。研究最終可得知以下幾點結論：(1)透過MBTI性格分類法，頂尖業務以發明家、記者型、學者型為最多。(2)頂尖業務特質若具備積極負責、誠信、易於溝通，較容易與高端客戶產生長久互動與黏著度。(3)頂尖業務多具備強烈企圖心，不斷設定目標突破自我極限。(4)歷經過1~2次金融危機及景氣循環的頂尖業務，相對危機處理能力較強，能適時判斷投資進出時機，協助客戶完成理財目標機率也會比較高。 / Due to the global financial disasters in 2008 and the recent European debt crisis, domestic investors had suffered tremendous losses in investment. Consequently, concerns of financial products' profitability have raised drastically among investors and occasionally led to disputes between banks and investors. However, there are still many wealth managers who excelled at their job and were trusted by their customers even after going through several devastating economic events. The purpose of this paper is to determine the distinguishing characteristics of the top asset managers in D bank. With Myers-Briggs Type Indicator questionnaire we would portray and analyze their personalities, work capabilities, sales methods, and investment process. In conclusion, most elite financial advisors have characteristics of an inventor, a journalist, or a scholar. They also tend to have a proactive mindset toward their job and communicate with compassion. Because of these qualities, clients would deem their advisor as trustworthy and were satisfied with the services that they received. And most of all, they have the ability to support clients through financial difficulties and reach their financial goals.

Legal protection of domain names This diploma thesis provides overall introduction of domain names problematic, the topic which has witnessed stable rise of popularity over the last two decades, with special emphasis on its legal aspects and possibilities of legal protection. Mass expansion of the domain names over the years came hand in hand with some displeasing side effects, namely increasing occurrence of speculative behaviour residing in bad faith registration of attractive domain names. This practice, so called cyber squatting, rests in systematic abuse of key domain name registration principle first come first serve. As a result of increasing number of intellectual property infringements, namely trademark rights, the need for adequate techniques of domain name protection was highlighted. This task however was not going to be easy. From the legal point of view, domain names are very specific institution in a sense that explicit legal regulations are typically lacking and the rules of this exciting sphere are defined based on the soft law principles drafted by the nongovernmental domain names authorities. Therefore an enforcement of effective measures is not as smooth as for traditional institutions. To investigate this particularity, I have tried to prove presumption, that distribution of...

Cette thèse s’inscrit dans une perspective compréhensive des processus de patrimonialisation de grands sites naturels bretons, de leur découverte à leur réhabilitation, ici la pointe du Raz, le cap Fréhel et la côte sauvage de Quiberon. Ces promontoires littoraux, objets inventés au 19e siècle, sont devenus au fil du temps des supports d’oeuvres littéraires et picturales, d’introspection et de fascination exercée par la puissance des éléments marins. Ces lieux ont accueilli depuis les années 1950 des fréquentations touristiques de plus en plus importantes, ayant provoqué des phénomènes de mise à nu des sols, que l’administration de l’Environnement a jugé menaçants pour leur intégrité. Il y a une trentaine d’années, elle a donc décliné une politique de réhabilitation dont la matérialisation principale fut la conduite d’‘Opérations Grands Sites’. De quelle manière ces projets de réhabilitation sont-ils menés et selon quelles doctrines ? Comment prennent-ils en compte les différents usages et valeurs attribuées à ces patrimoines ? Cette thèse analyse les aménagements, désaménagements et réaménagements de ces sites, l’imbrication de la montée de la doctrine écologique et des jeux d’acteurs qui s’y développent, et, interroge leur incidence sur le patrimoine et les modalités de son appropriation, ce que nous appelons le processus de patrimonialisation. La première partie retrace la patrimonialisation des grands sites naturels emblématiques de France, leur invention (chapitre 1), les politiques publiques mises en place en vue de leur protection (chapitre 2 et 3), et se focalise sur nos terrains d’étude (chapitre 4). La seconde partie montre les évolutions du cadre doctrinal, organisationnel et normatif de l’action publique, favorisant la protection de l’environnement et l’aménagement touristique. Elle montre le renouvellement des principes d’action publique (chapitre 5) et les transformations des espaces induites par les doctrines et les jeux d’acteurs (chapitre 6 et 7). Enfin, la troisième partie aborde les effets de ces réhabilitations sur le patrimoine et le processus de patrimonialisation contemporains (chapitre 8 et 9) et propose une réflexion sur la dimension normative des opérations de réhabilitation : nous démontrons qu’elles sont constitutives du processus de patrimonialisation. / This work analyzes in a comprehensive perspective the heritage making of the Brittanygreat sites, namely the point of Raz, the cape of Fréhel and the wild coast of Quiberon. These coastal headlands, objects invented in 19th century, became over time supports of literary and pictorial works, of introspection and fascination exercised by the power of the marine elements. Since the 1950s, aincrease of tourist attendances has led to the degradation of their ecosystems, that the administration of the Environment considered that’s a threat for their integrity. Thirty years ago, this administration introduced a policy of rehabilitation the main realization of which was the conduct of « Opérations Grands Sites ». How are these projects of rehabilitation led and according to which doctrines? How dothey take into account the various uses and the values attributed to these heritages? This thesis analyzes the land planning, dis-planning and re-planning of these sites, the rise of the ecological doctrine and stakeholders' interactions and questions their incidence about the heritage and the modalities of its appropriation, that we call the process of heritage making. The first part redraws the heritage making of the big symbolic natural sites of France, their invention (chapter 1), the public policies creation with the purpose of their protection (chapter 2 and3), and a more precisely a focus on our study fields (chapter 4). The second part shows the evolutionsof the doctrinal, organizational and normative dimension of the public action, favoring the environmental protection and the tourist development. It shows the renewal of the principles of publicaction (chapter 5) and the transformations of the spaces, which it led from stakeholders' interactions in presence (chapter 6 and 7). Finally, the third part approaches the effects of these rehabilitations on contemporary heritage and process of heritage making (chapter 8 and 9) and proposes a reflection on the normative dimension of the operations of rehabilitation. We make the demonstration that they area part of the process of heritage making.

Title: Efficiency of fast breaks and its effects on the outcome of the top class handball matches. Goals of the reaserch: Main goal of this essay is to discover how the effectivness of the fast breaks influence the outcome of the top class handball matches during the most important tournaments (ME, MS). Second goal is to discover if there is a link between effectivness of the fast break (or portion of the fast breaks from the total of breaks) and final place scored on the previously mentioned tournaments. Methods: Statistic analysis, ratio of fast breaks, comparism of the ratios Results: It was discovered, the teams with greater efficiency of the fast breaks took better places, in the sample of the reaserched tournaments, than the teams with lesser efficiency of the fast breaks. Teams that won the match used more fast breaks and with greater efficiency than teams that lost. There is a greater ratio of the fast breaks from the total number of breaks in the winning match than in the loosing match. Keywords: handball, fast break, efficiency of the fast break, portion, comparism of portions, place on the top class tournament.

Title: Utilization of physical activity to the influence of the health of top managerr Author: Bc. Martin Vojáček Supervisor: Prof. Ing. Václav Bunc CSc. Objective: Author of the diploma thesis Utilization of physical activity to the influence of the health of top managers deals with health issues stemming from the specific nature of the job of top managers. A key issue is the work related stress and its impact on the health of managers. The negative effects of stress and poor lifestyle are "lifestyle diseases" such as diabetes, obesity, hypertension, ischemic heart disease, disorders of the musculoskeletal system, burnout syndrom and chronic fatigue syndrome. Appropriately chosen physical activity based on the temperament can reduce risk, mitigate health problems and prevent the development of disease in all the aforementioned cases. The research survey conducted for 6 months on a group of five top managers attending in Fitness Slavia showed that exercise programs individually prepared on the basis of temperament have a positive impact both on mental and physical health of top managers. Methods: In this thesis these methods are used: measuring and testing, interviews, observation, study of specific literature and research. Results: The results obtained should help formulate the basis of the next...

This thesis is an analysis of the extensive transformation of the Olympic movement, which occurred at the end of the 20th century. The main focus is on the importance of the XXIII Olympiad in Los Angeles, regarded as a major milestone in the history of the modern Olympic movement. The introductory chapter deals with the 1970s' crisis of the Olympic movement. The second chapter describes the complications related to the allocation of the Olympic Games to Los Angeles. Based on the XXIII Olympiad, the third and the fourth chapter analyse the revolution in Olympic marketing. The objective of the fifth chapter is to demonstrate the need for the financial independence of the Olympic movement in the context of the Cold War, the Soviet boycott in particular. The last two chapters deal with the commercialization of the Olympic movement, the reform of the IOC and the discussion regarding the timeliness of the Olympic values.