In this day and age where technology is rapidly improving and developing, it is essential that information should be managed accurately, fast and dynamic. Information systems not adhering to the requirements of the environment must be replaced or updated. Dependable, available information is worth its value in gold to individuals, organisations and the government. Training information is one of the most controversial themes of our times, because of the dynamic nature of this field. The question is what is available in the market to manage training in its entirety? Legislation in South Africa has certain expectations and requirements, which have to be adhered to. A training management system that will satisfy the needs of individuals, organisations and the government is designed and developed to address the problems experienced by Sasol Utilities. Abbreviations such as SAQA, NQF, NSB and SETA are used generally and are an integral part of the training problem. The Computer Assisted Training Management System is designed to address the development possibilities of certain job categories and individuals. This includes the.management of all training information such as historical background, scheduling, the determination of certain short comings and achievement evaluation. Various reports, which are valuable for management purposes can be generated. The Computer Assisted Training Management System is designed in such a way that it can be adapted to suit a variety of needs. Information can be added, changed or deleted according to the specific needs. However, information can only be changed as determined by the administrator. A built in security system ensures that the integrity of the information is maintained and protected. The idea behind the design and development of the Computer Assisted Training Management System is that the system must be user friendly, dynamic, unique and functional and that it must comply with all the technical aspects. The need for training differs from institution to institution, as well as from the requirements laid down by the government. This system is therefore designed in such a way that it would not become obsolete in the near future. In fact, follow-up systems may originate from the current Computer Assisted Training Management System. The Computer Assisted Training Management System is therefore a dynamic and unique management tool for the processing of training information and is able to adapt to changing circumstances, without forfeiting integrity. / Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2001. / Education Management and Policy Studies / unrestricted

This diploma thesis is concerned with the perception of the teacher's authority by pupils of the 6th and 9th grades of a grammar school. The main aim of the thesis is to compare the perception of the teacher's authority by students of the above mentioned age groups from different perspectives. These aspects include ontogenetic stages of their development, the gender and the milieu. They are one of the topics that will be paid attention to in the theoretical part of the thesis. Another theme of the work includes the concept of authority and the authority of the teacher. The research is based od a quantitative survey, carried out through a questionnaire created for research purposes. The task of the questionnaire is to find out whether the perception of the teacher's authority changes depending on the age of the pupils, which means a specific stage of ontogenetic development, and how the above mentioned points affect the perception of teacher's authority by pupils of 6th and 9th grades. In order to confirm or specify the obtained questionnaire data or add information to them, a semi-structured interview was conducted with selected teachers. The interview was attended by five respondents, two men and three women of various age, with different length of work experience at various schools. The aim of...

Angesichts der zentralen Rolle der Root-Zertifizierungsstellen als Vertrauensanker der Web PKI und der in der Vergangenheit aufgetretenen Vorfälle mit unberechtigt oder inkorrekt ausgestellten Zertifikaten, ist die Transparenz und Verantwortlichkeit dieser Root CAs von großer Bedeutung. Seit der Einführung von Certificate Transparency Logs werden alle von Certificate Authorities ausgestellten Zertifikate in diese öffentlichen Logs eingetragen. Die Arbeit stellt die Problematik der eingeschränkten Zugänglichkeit dieser Daten für die Wissenschaft dar und entwickelt ein Werkzeug, dass eine unabhängige Aufzeichnung und Auswertung von Certificate Transparency Logs ermöglicht. Das entwickelte System nutzt eine containerbasierte Architektur und Elasticsearch zur effizienten Speicherung und Analyse der Daten. Es bewältigt ein hohes Datenaufkommen von durchschnittlich 25 Millionen Log-Einträgen pro Tag und ermöglicht eine anpassbare Datenverarbeitung und -auswertung. Die Vorverarbeitung und Indexierung sowie die Auswertung der Daten erfolgte mit Python, was eine flexible Anpassung des Systems an unterschiedliche Forschungsfragen erlaubt. Über einen Zeitraum von 42 Tagen wurden insgesamt 645 Millionen CT Log-Einträge aufgezeichnet und analysiert. Aus den Auswertungen geht hervor, wie verschiedene CAs und deren Root-Zertifikate genutzt werden und wie stark die unterschiedlichen CT Logs von CAs verwendet werden. Die Arbeit identifiziert jedoch auch Herausforderungen, wie den hohen Speicherbedarf und notwendige Optimierungen in der Datenindexierung.:1 Einleitung 1.1 Problemstellung 1.2 Zielstellung 2 Grundlagen 2.1 X509-Zertifikate 2.1.1 Felder 2.1.2 Erweiterungen 2.2 Certificate Transparency 2.2.1 Certificate Transparency Log 2.2.2 Überprüfung durch User Agents 2.2.3 Überprüfung durch Monitors 2.2.4 Eintragung durch Certificate Authorities 3 Konzeptionierung 3.1 Abfrage der CT Logs 3.2 Verarbeitung der Zertifikate 3.3 Speicherung & Auswertung der Daten 3.4 Überwachung 3.5 Docker 4 Implementierung 4.1 Plattform 4.2 Überwachung 4.3 certstream-server 4.4 Verarbeitung 4.4.1 Pufferung (stream-to-queue-publisher) 4.4.2 Vorverarbeitung (cert-indexer) 4.5 Elasticsearch 4.5.1 Speicherverbrauch 4.5.2 Field Mappings 5 Auswertung 5.1 Logs & Log-Betreiber 5.2 Certificate Authorites 5.3 Zertifikats-Größe 5.4 Gültigkeitsdauer 6 Schluss 6.1 Fazit 6.2 Ausblick A Beispiel X509 Leaf-Zertifikat B Beispiel X509 Root-Zertifikat C Beispiele Elasticsearch Abfragen Literatur Abbildungsverzeichnis Tabellenverzeichnis / In view of the central role of the root certification authorities as trust anchors of the Web PKI and the incidents that have occurred in the past with unauthorised or incorrectly issued certificates, the transparency and accountability of these root CAs is of great importance. With the introduction of Certificate Transparency Logs, all certificates issued by Certificate Authorities are now entered in public logs. The work presents the problem of the limited accessibility of this data for science and develops a tool that enables an independent recording and evaluation of Certificate Transparency Logs. The developed system uses a container-based architecture and Elasticsearch to efficiently store and analyse the data. It can handle a high volume of data, averaging 25 million log entries per day, and enables customisable data processing and analysis. Python was used to pre-process, index and analyse the data, allowing the system to be flexibly adapted to different research questions. A total of 645 million CT log entries were recorded and analysed over a period of 42 days. The analyses show how different CAs and their root certificates are used and how much the different CT logs are used by CAs. However, the work also identifies challenges, such as the high memory requirements and necessary optimisations in data indexing.:1 Einleitung 1.1 Problemstellung 1.2 Zielstellung 2 Grundlagen 2.1 X509-Zertifikate 2.1.1 Felder 2.1.2 Erweiterungen 2.2 Certificate Transparency 2.2.1 Certificate Transparency Log 2.2.2 Überprüfung durch User Agents 2.2.3 Überprüfung durch Monitors 2.2.4 Eintragung durch Certificate Authorities 3 Konzeptionierung 3.1 Abfrage der CT Logs 3.2 Verarbeitung der Zertifikate 3.3 Speicherung & Auswertung der Daten 3.4 Überwachung 3.5 Docker 4 Implementierung 4.1 Plattform 4.2 Überwachung 4.3 certstream-server 4.4 Verarbeitung 4.4.1 Pufferung (stream-to-queue-publisher) 4.4.2 Vorverarbeitung (cert-indexer) 4.5 Elasticsearch 4.5.1 Speicherverbrauch 4.5.2 Field Mappings 5 Auswertung 5.1 Logs & Log-Betreiber 5.2 Certificate Authorites 5.3 Zertifikats-Größe 5.4 Gültigkeitsdauer 6 Schluss 6.1 Fazit 6.2 Ausblick A Beispiel X509 Leaf-Zertifikat B Beispiel X509 Root-Zertifikat C Beispiele Elasticsearch Abfragen Literatur Abbildungsverzeichnis Tabellenverzeichnis

The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) Transit Oriented Development (TOD) program has been expanding the number of stations being considered for development of surface parking lots and into the air rights over certain rail stations. As of 2015, MARTA has six rail stations in various stages of TOD development, which will increase multi-modal options for metro Atlanta residents. The overarching goal of TOD development is to increase transit ridership and reduce auto-dependency; hence quantifying the potential benefits of TOD development in terms of ridership is paramount. Despite several drawbacks, travel demand models have historically been utilized to forecast ridership for land use changes and transit improvements. Direct ridership models (DRMs) are transit demand forecasting methods that can be applied to land development in cases where traditional travel demand models (TDMs) are not well suited. DRMs leverage geographic tools commonly used by planners to take advantage of small scale pedestrian environment factors immediately surrounding transit stations. Although DRM data and methods can achieve greater precision in predicting local walk-access transit trips, the lack of regional and large-scale datasets reduces the ability to model ridership generated from riders outside the immediate vicinity of the rail stations. Stations that have high multi-modal access trips, particularly via personal vehicle and connecting buses, are not typically accounted for by DRMs. Hence, this study focuses on pedestrian-based rail boardings only, a metric that also allows the use of a large scale onboard survey distributed by the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) in late 2009 and early 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia. Analysis of the large scale on-board ridership survey also reveals variables that may be useful in forecasting ridership at the station level when coupled with available census data. Comparison of variables such as income, age, gender, ethnicity, and race from census data with the large scale survey guided the selection of candidate variables to be included in a DRM for MARTA rail stations. Results from the comparison showed that using census data in DRMs does not always accurately reflect the ridership demographics. Notable differences in pedestrian-based ridership and transit catchments appear to occur in populations making less than $40,000, African American populations, and the young and elderly populations. Large differences in the survey and census data reported around the stations raise questions about the usability of census data in predicting ridership at rail stations. Despite the shortcomings of using census data to directly predict walk access transit ridership, an ordinary least squared (OLS) regression model predicts a high proportion of variance of pedestrian-based ridership in Atlanta, Georgia. A small number of variables were incorporated into a DRM to show the strong relationship of employment density with pedestrian based ridership. The number of low income residents was also influential in increasing ridership via walk access.

Syftet med uppsatsen är att presentera internationella studenters perspektiv och tolkningar på hur hierarki och auktoritet kan utrycka sig inom det svenska universitet. För att synligöra detta kontrasteras den svenska kontexten med informanternas tidigare erfarenheter utomlands. Faktorer som informanterna anser påverkar de sociala strukturerna inom universitetet är studiebakgrund, finansieringsutformning och samhällets symboliska syn på högre utbildning. Några skillnader som kontrasteras av informanterna återfinns inom områdena tid, organisation, värdering, ansvar och tävlingsmentalitet. Andra skillnader som uppkom är hur man tilltalar och hälsar på varandra, rollfördelning och skillnaderna mellan personlig och professionell interaktion. Summerat beskriver generellt informanterna den svenska kontexten som mer jämlik, mindre auktoritär och att de sociala relationerna mellan student och lektor kan tolkas som vänskapliga. / The purpose of this paper is to present international students' perspectives and interpretations of how the hierarchy and authority will be expressed in the Swedish university. To make the structures visible will the Swedish context be compared to the informants' previous experiences abroad, to visualise the contrasters. Factors that the informants thinks may will affect the social structures within the university can be found in areas of educational background, financing, responsibility and the society approach to higher education. Some differences that are contrasted by the informants can also be found in the areas of time, organisation, evaluation, accountability and competitive mentality. Other social differences that arose is greetings, academic roles and the differences between personal and professional interaction. In summary the informants overall describes the Swedish context as more equal, less authoritarian and the social relations between the student and the lecturer can be interpreted as amicable.

Museums Connect stands at the intersection of public history and public diplomacy. The program, which has both public history and public diplomacy agendas, is sponsored by the United States Department of State and administered by the American Alliance of Museums. This dissertation examines the competing impulses of transnational public history and public diplomacy made manifest in Museums Connect and its ramifications for public history theory and practice. The project demonstrates both the seeming similarities between public history’s ideas of shared authority, dialogic museum practice, and community engagement and public diplomacy’s “people-to-people” diplomacy, as well as the limits of these similarities. This dissertation also considers the ramifications of these dynamics on museum and public history practice and theory. It is shown that the assumptions of public diplomacy found in Museums Connect inform the program’s structure and operation, while also precluding a truly shared authority between the American museums and their international partners. The appointment of the American museums as “lead” museums and the Department of State’s choice to focus on young people as the target audience for the program foregrounds didactic relationships between the museums and their “communities” for the projects. Through three case studies of Museums Connect projects between the United States and Afghanistan, Morocco, and South Africa, this dissertation challenges the seminal theoretical literature of public history, articulated in Michael Frisch’s A Shared Authority, that interpretive and meaning-making authority in public history is inherently shared. Each case study reveals different factors that either promote or preclude more balanced power dynamics between the museums and their communities within the broader power dynamics established by the grant. Staff reflection-in-action, project activity and partner museum choice, and the non-American public history and museological contexts are all revealed to uniquely influence the dynamics between the museums and their communities. Throughout, the agency of the non-American participants, highlighted through the responses and reactions to the unequal dynamics of the projects, complicates notions of the singular democratic public sphere that underpin the paradigm of the museum as forum.

This research critically investigates the adoption and implementation of transfer pricing regulations in Nigeria with a particular emphasis on the petroleum sector. It opportunely chose Nigeria as a case study of transfer pricing issues in developing countries as Nigeria was devising and implementing its own transfer pricing regulation. In early 2012, Nigeria issued draft transfer pricing regulations for consultation with a view to publishing them at the end of the same year. In order to gauge the reaction of the stakeholders in Nigeria to the adoption and implementation of transfer pricing regulations and other related issues, a questionnaire was designed and administered to 140 respondents from eight different stakeholders groups including Nigerian tax authority, multinational companies in the petroleum sector and other organisations involved in tax matters. The questionnaire elicited their views on the (i) form of adoption of transfer pricing regulations; (ii) motive behind the adoption of the regulations; (iii) administrative resource capacity of the Nigerian tax authority; (iv) barriers that might hinder successful implementation of the regulations; and (v) needs for guidance and support. Institutional theory and resource-based view were employed as a theoretical lens through which to guide the study and to provide a platform against which to analyse the responses to the questionnaire and the interviews. The analysis of the responses to the questionnaire was thus undertaken subsequent to the adoption of the transfer pricing system which enabled informed reflection and critical analysis to be carried out on the results of the analysis. In addition, interviews with 16 experts were conducted subsequent to the issue and preliminary analysis of the responses to the questionnaire in order to gauge their reaction to the views being expressed by the respondents. This enabled a reflective analysis to be undertaken when assessing the information content emerging from the responses. The findings of the study indicate that the OECD transfer pricing framework, which is the transfer pricing system of choice amongst the developed countries, is not the most preferred framework for the regulation of transfer pricing in Nigeria. It also reveals that whilst the Nigerian tax authority has the administrative capacity to develop a transfer pricing team and other necessary platforms for the adoption and implementation of transfer pricing regulations, the lack of sufficient transfer pricing experts, political will and inadequate comparable information are the major potential barriers that might hinder the successful implementation of transfer pricing regulations in Nigeria. These findings should enable policy makers and other stakeholders in Nigeria to review their transfer pricing policies and find a way to overcome the identified potential barriers. This thesis is the first of its kind to empirically investigate the transfer pricing regulations in Nigeria with a particular emphasis on the petroleum sector. It also further establishes the use of institutional theory and resource-based view framework in transfer pricing studies and especially, by extending its application to the adoption and implementation of transfer pricing regulations with a particular emphasis on the petroleum sector.

En lagändring trädde i kraft i plan- och bygglagen den 1 januari 2015 för att förenkla och effektivisera detaljplaneprocessen. Lagändringen innefattade en ny roll för lantmäterimyndigheten i planprocessen samt nya regler för exploateringsavtal. Studiens syfte var att beskriva hur samverkan mellan kommun, lantmäterimyndighet och exploatör fungerar gällande exploateringsavtal samt hur lagändringen i plan- och bygglagen angående exploateringsavtal påverkat dessa parter. För att besvara studiens frågeställningar sändes en webbenkät till Sveriges alla kommuner för att erhålla en överskådlig bild av lagändringens påverkan över landet. Det genomfördes även semistrukturerade telefonintervjuer i fem kommuner med antagna riktlinjer för exploateringsavtal. Exploateringsingenjörer, lantmäterichefer och exploatörer intervjuades för att erhålla olika perspektiv på samverkan och hur lagändringen påverkat dessa parter. Studiens resultat visade att förhandlingen mellan kommun och exploatör gällande exploateringsavtal har påbörjats tidigare i processen efter lagändringen i plan- och bygglagen. Kommunen måste även efter lagändringen betala ersättning när de tar mark i anspråk för allmän plats. Lantmäterimyndighetens mer aktiva roll har bidragit till att oklarheter och brister kan korrigeras i exploateringsavtalen. Emellertid har det gått för kort tid för att helt kunna avgöra vad lantmäterimyndighetens roll bidragit till i exploateringsavtalen. Exploatörerna har fått större möjligheter att påverka exploateringsavtalen. Samarbetet mellan kommun, lantmäterimyndighet och exploatör har blivit tydligare och till viss del förbättrats, men i det stora hela är uppfattningen att samarbetet är oförändrat. På sikt finns det möjlighet till en förbättring. / On January 1st 2015 an amendment passed in the Planning and Building Act in order to simplify and rationalize the detailed development plan process. The amendment includes a new part for cadastral authority in the plan process and new rules for development agreement. The municipalities should adopt guidelines for these agreements. The aim of this study was to describe how the collaboration between municipality, cadastral authority and developer works when it comes to development agreement and how the amendment in the Planning and Building Act concerning the development agreement has affected these participants. To answer the thesis a web survey was sent to all municipalities in Sweden to get an overview of how the amendment has influenced the country. Semi-structured telephone interviews were also performed in five municipalities that have adopted guidelines for the development agreements. The interviews were performed with land development engineers, cadastral supervisors and developers to receive their perspective of the collaboration and how the amendment has affected them. The results of the study have shown that negotiations have started earlier between municipalities and developers after the amendment in the Planning and Building Act passed. The municipalities also need to pay compensation when they take land for public places after the amendment. The cadastral authority’s more active part has contributed to assure that ambiguities and shortcomings might be solved in the development agreement. However, it is still too early to tell what the cadastral authorities part has contributed in the development agreements. The developer has got a major opportunity to influence the development agreements. The collaboration between municipalities, cadastral authorities and developers has become clearer and improved but overall it is unchanged. There are opportunities for improvement in the long term.

Theses (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2002. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Dual lines of responsibility and authority that exist in the matrix structure's approach to project management lead to conflict and power struggles between project managers and functional managers with regards to personnel and resources. Most problems associated with the matrix structure have to do with the inability of the upper managers to work out the required power sharing in the organization. Responsibility can be defined as feeling obligated to perform assigned work, while authority is the power to apply resources to carry out the work. A common problem that arises as a result of the need to share power in the matrix organization is the responsibility - authority gap that project managers face, i.e. project managers charged with the responsibility of attaining ambitious goals often lack sufficient formal authority to meet them. It is accepted that authority should be commensurate with responsibility, but feedback suggests that general managers are often reluctant to assign sufficient formal power to project managers. The objectives of this research study are to, through study of literature, investigate the characteristics of matrix organizations that create the responsibility - authority gap and its implications on the organization in order to identify certain recommendations and tools that will assist management to address responsibility and authority issue. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die matriks organisasie stuktuur het dubbele lyne van verantwoordelikheid en autoriteit wat dikwels lei tot konflik en mags konflik tussen die projek en funksionele betuurders met betrekking tot personeel en hulpbronne. Meeste van die probleme wat gepaardgaan met die matriks struktuur spruit voort uit die onvermoee van top bestuur om die gewenste balans van magsdeling in die organisasie te bewerkstellig. Verantwoordelikheid kan gedefinieer word as die neiging om verplig te voel om toegedeelde werk te vervul, terwyl autoriteit die mag is om die werk te kan doen. 'n Algemene probleem wat voorkom as 'n gevolg van die nood om mag te deel in die matriks organisasie, is die verantwoordelikheids - autoriteits gaping. Projekbestuurders is dikwels toegedeel met die verantwoordelikheid om ambisiuese doelwitte van projekte te bereik terwyl hulle nie die nodige autoriteit toegedeel word om die doelwitte te bereik nie. Daar word dikwels gesê dat autoriteit verantwoordelikhied moet aanvul, maar terugvoering is dat algemene bestuurders dikwels nie genee is om genoegsame formele autoritiet aan projekbestuurders toe te staan nie. Die studie se doel is om, deur literatuur studie, die elemente van die matriks organisasie wat tot die verantwoordelikheid - autoriteits gaping lei, en die impak daarvan op die organisasie te ondersoek ten einde voorstelle en aanbevelings aan projek bestuurders en algemene bestuurders voor te lê wat hulle in staat sal stel om effektiewelik die probleem te kan bestuur

Extensive computer use is creating a society where its citizens are communicating outside the norm of real life. These diversions from real life communication behavior have been named the Online Disinhibition Effect (ODE). The effect is a psychological model that is structured with different types of elements which can be triggered by different communication mediums. There are two sides of the effect; a benign, where compassion and a reveal of emotions are more likely, and a toxic, where anger, frustration and threats are in focus. In the online video game industry, ODE is active, but as the medium is different than regular internet use the effects are different as well. This paper looks at how online video games are affected by ODE. By using the most current disinhibition model made by Suler and looking at modern cyberpsychology in online games, this paper found eight features that have the possibility to decrease disinhibition amongst users. This paper concludes with a warning that games are becoming more immersive and without the proper authority features, games will increase their disinhibition effect amongst its users.