One of the most important factors of the prosperity in each company is people -- its employees. It is well known, that when the employees are unsatisfied, they don't use so much effort in their work or in a worse case they loose interest to stay in the company and they start to seek for another one. Remarkable influence on stabilization of employees in a company certainly has their successful adaptation to the new employment. This diploma work focuses on an analysis of the adapting process in the company Siemens Ltd. Using a questionnaire there were inefficient components of the contemporary programme for adaptation of new employees discovered and recommendations for the management of Siemens Ltd. were proposed.

This written portion of my thesis will document and codify how I as dramaturg, writer and director adapted and staged the classic Harlem Renaissance novel Infants of the Spring by Wallace Thurman. I walk the reader through how seeing as a director influenced my creative choices through key aspects of production: script development, design, and building the ensemble. The thesis will conclude with a post-production reflection and summary.

Yes / UK South Asian women are less likely to engage with cancer screening than the general population and present later with more advanced disease. Tailored interventions are needed to address barriers to these women accessing screening services. 'Wise up to cancer' is a community-based health intervention designed to increase cancer screening uptake. It has been implemented within the general population and a study was undertaken to implement it within a South Asian female community. This paper explores one workstream of the wider 'Wise up to Cancer' study which involved working out how best to adapt the baseline questionnaire (the first part of the intervention) for South Asian women in an inner-city location in Northern England. The aim of this workstream was to evaluate what worked well when implementing the adapted 'Wise up to Cancer' with South Asian women. In 2018, we conducted qualitative semi-structured interviews and focus group with 14 key stakeholders; women who had received the intervention, health champions and community workers to explore their perspectives on how the adapted intervention worked within a South Asian female community. The interviews were audio recorded or (notes taken), data were transcribed verbatim and the dataset was thematically analysed. We found that training peers as community health champions to deliver the intervention to address language and cultural barriers increased participant engagement, was beneficial for the peers and supported participants who revealed difficult social issues they may not have otherwise discussed. Accessing women in established community groups, following planned activities such as English language classes worked but flexibility was needed to meet individual women's needs. Further research is needed to explore the impact of adapting 'Wise up to Cancer' for this community in terms of engaging with cancer screening. / Tampon Tax, The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Gov UK (Grant number A1967)

no / Diplomatic representation, both as a concept and in terms of its structures and processes, does not receive the attention that it deserves. Th is is surprising given that it forms a central concern for both analysts and practitioners of diplomacy, with the latter confronting multiple challenges in adapting modes of representation to changes in their international and domestic political environments. One facet of this can be identifi ed in responses to factors that have assumed a signifi cant place in the development of diplomacy — namely distance and proximity. To the growth of proximity in both spatial and issue-oriented terms, the challenge of the ‘special relationship’ is added in specifi c contexts. Both factors come together in the case of Canada’s attempts to manage its policies towards the United States. Here, strategies have moved through distinct phases responding to domestic and international changes. Th e latest phase, which is associated with substantial rethinking of the role and structure of Foreign Aff airs Canada, assumes the form of what has been labelled the Enhanced Representation Initiative (ERI). Th e ERI is interesting not only in the Canadian-US context, but because it reveals more general problems for governments seeking to manage the pressures of proximity and a growing number of relationships that assume aspects of ‘specialness.

Different modes of assisted ventilation were investigated in cats before and after lung lavage and after instillation of surfactant. The activity of single units of slowly adapting pulmonary stretch receptors (PSRs) in the vagal nerve and the integrated phrenic nerve activity were recorded. The instantaneous impulse frequency (fimp) of PSRs was calculated and related to transpulmonary pressure (Ptp), tidal volume (Vt) and the calculated energy storage of the lung (ΣP*ΔV). Respiratory rate (RR), inspiratory and expiratory time, and Vt were measured, and their coefficients of variation were calculated. During assist control (A/C) ventilation with different pressure waveforms, PNA was shorter and lower in amplitude with squarewave pressure waveform than with linear and sinusoidal pressure waveforms in cats with normal lungs, concomitantly with earlier peak fimp during inspiration and prolonged fimp during expiration. The type of pressure waveform can thus influence the spontaneous breathing effort during A/C ventilation. Proportional assist ventilation (PAV) is a new mode of assisted ventilation which servo-controls the applied airway pressure continuously in proportion to the breathing effort. After lung lavage and surfactant instillation, PAV improves ventilation markedly, with lower PNA and oesophageal pressure deflection and higher RR and variability of breathing, compared to CPAP. In addition, an earlier and higher maximal fimp was observed during PAV. Under conditions of low work and maintained control of breathing, PAV seems to be an attractive mode of ventilatory support. Low-threshold (LT) and high-threshold (HT) PSRs respond to the surfactant content of the lung partly independent of Ptp and Vt in spontaneously breathing cats, implying a possible effect of surfactant on PSRs. The PSR fimp normalized to ΣP*ΔV confirmed these findings and showed that LT and HT PSRs are intrinsically the same. After instillation of surfactant, compliance and PSR activity increased, but the breathing still remained shallow and rapid, suggesting a control of breathing less dominated by PSR activity.

<p>This thesis emphasizes on surveying the state-of-the-art in software requirements specification with a focus on, autonomic, self-adapting software systems. Since various requirements are brought forward accord with environments, modeling requirements for adaptive software systems may be changed at run-time. Nowadays, Keep All Objectives Satisfied (KAOS) is an effective method to build goal model. Various manipulations, such as change, remove, active and de-active goals, appear new goals, could mediate conflicts among goals in adaptive software system. At specification time, specifications of event sequences to be monitored are generated from requirements specification.</p>

This thesis emphasizes on surveying the state-of-the-art in software requirements specification with a focus on, autonomic, self-adapting software systems. Since various requirements are brought forward accord with environments, modeling requirements for adaptive software systems may be changed at run-time. Nowadays, Keep All Objectives Satisfied (KAOS) is an effective method to build goal model. Various manipulations, such as change, remove, active and de-active goals, appear new goals, could mediate conflicts among goals in adaptive software system. At specification time, specifications of event sequences to be monitored are generated from requirements specification.

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Real-world optimisation problems often are of a dynamic nature. Recently, much research has been done to apply particle swarm optimisation (PSO) to dynamic environments (DE). However, these research efforts generally focused on optimising one variation of the PSO algorithm for one type of DE. The aim of this work is to develop a more comprehensive view of PSO for DEs. This thesis studies different schemes of characterising and taxonomising DEs, performance measures used to quantify the performance of optimisation algorithms applied to DEs, various adaptations of PSO to apply PSO to DEs, and the effectiveness of these approaches on different DE types. The standard PSO algorithm has shown limitations when applied to DEs. To overcome these limitations, the standard PSO can be modi ed using personal best reevaluation, change detection and response, diversity maintenance, or swarm sub-division and parallel tracking of optima. To investigate the strengths and weaknesses of these approaches, a representative sample of algorithms, namely, the standard PSO, re-evaluating PSO, reinitialising PSO, atomic PSO (APSO), quantum swarm optimisation (QSO), multi-swarm, and self-adapting multi-swarm (SAMS), are empirically analysed. These algorithms are analysed on a range of DE test cases, and their ability to detect and track optima are evaluated using performance measures designed for DEs. The experiments show that QSO, multi-swarm and reinitialising PSO provide the best results. However, the most effective approach to use depends on the dimensionality, modality and type of the DEs, as well as on the objective of the algorithm. A number of observations are also made regarding the behaviour of the swarms, and the influence of certain control parameters of the algorithms evaluated. Copyright / Dissertation (MSc)--University of Pretoria, 2012. / Computer Science / unrestricted

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