Ministry research project (D. Min.)--Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2004. / Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Ministry Degree. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 254-257).

Ministry research project (D. Min.)--Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2004. / Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Ministry Degree. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 254-257).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2004. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 254-257).

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An essential blend between competencies, personality and skill is sought after for successful branch managers in today’s banking world in order to achieve a high level of quality, on-time delivery, as well as customer and employee satisfaction and loyalty. In this study the predictive relationship between competencies (as a portrayal of personality and abilities) and work performance was investigated among the branch managers. The scores on the essential Universal Competency Framework competencies, the Person- Job Match and performance data for three years were used to conduct correlation and regression analyses. The study was conducted among 95 branch managers at a banking institution in South Africa. A theoretical relationship was determined, and this was supported by the significant relationship that was evident between the identified essential competencies of the branch managers and their work performance. The regression model summary indicated significance when using all essential competencies combined against the overall criterion score. / Industrial and Organisational Psychology / M.A. (Industrial and Organisational Psychology)

A diferença entre estações de trabalho é considerada desprezível em linhas de montagem tradicionais. Por outro lado, linhas de montagem heterogêneas consideram o problema de indústrias nas quais os tempos das tarefas variam de acordo com alguma característica a ser selecionada para a tarefa. No Problema de Balanceamento e Atribuição de Trabalhadores em Linhas de Montagem (do inglês Assembly Line Worker Assignment and Balancing Problem, ALWABP), os trabalhadores são responsáveis por estações de trabalho e de acordo com as suas habilidades, eles executam as tarefas em diferentes quantidades de tempo. Em alguns casos, os trabalhadores podem até ser incapazes de executar algumas tarefas. No Problema de Balanceamento de Linhas de Montagem Robóticas (do inglês Robotic Assembly Line Balancing Problem, RALBP), há diferentes tipos de robôs e o conjunto de tarefas de cada estação deve ser executada por um robô. Robôs do mesmo tipo podem ser usados múltiplas vezes. Nós propomos métodos exatos e heurísticos para a minimização do tempo de ciclo destes dois problemas, para um número fixo de estações. Os problemas têm características similares que são exploradas para produzir limitantes inferiores, métodos inferiores, models de programação inteira mista, e regras de redução e dominância. Para a estratégia de ramificação do método de branch-and-bound, entretanto, as diferenças entre os problemas forçam o uso de dois algoritmos diferentes. Uma estratégia orientada a tarefas tem os melhores resultados para o ALWABP-2, enquanto uma estratégia orientada a estações tem os melhores resultados para o RALBP-2. Nós mostramos que os limitantes inferiores, heurísticas, modelos de programação inteira mista e algoritmos de branch-and-bound para estes dois problemas são competitivos com os métodos do estado da arte da literatura. / The difference among workstations is assumed to be negligible in traditional assembly lines. Heterogeneous assembly lines consider the problem of industries in which the task times vary according to some property to be selected for the task. In the Assembly Line Worker Assignment and Balancing Problem (ALWABP), workers are assigned to workstations and according to their abilities, they execute tasks in different amounts of time. In some cases they can even be incapable of executing some tasks. In the Robotic Assembly Line Balancing Problem (RALBP) there are different types of robots and each station must be executed by a robot. Multiple robots of the same type may be used. We propose exact and heuristic methods for minimizing the cycle time of these two problems, for a fixed number of stations. The problems have similar characteristics that are explored to produce lower bounds, heuristic methods, mixed-integer programming models, and reduction and dominance rules. For the branching strategy of the branch-and-bound method, however, the differences among the problem force the use of two different algorithms. A task-oriented strategy has the best results for the ALWABP-2 while a station-oriented strategy has the best results for the RALBP-2. The lower bounds, heuristics, MIP models and branch-and-bound algorithms for these two problems are shown to be competitive with the state-of-the-art methods in the literature.

The main goal of this Diploma thesis is to find the most suitable form of an entry of the Czech company into the Ukrainian market. In the theoretical part, I focus on the forms of an entry into the foreign markets. In the practical part I present the Czech company Green Energy Machine Product, Ltd., doing analysis of companys surroundings, SWOT analysis and portfolio analysis. Based on the information I chosed the most suitable form of an entry and proposed implementation of the entry into the Ukrainian market.

Ao longo do século XX, o Direito do Trabalho esteve associado a um arranjo político e social cujos sentidos estavam vinculados, entre outros aspectos, à civilização das relações de classe e à reprodução do capitalismo com democracia, no âmbito dos Estados nacionais. O propósito desta pesquisa é investigar como ocorreu o processo de deslocamento e reinterpretação desses sentidos (equivalente à codificação da razão do mais forte), no contexto da forte hegemonia política da coalizão de centro-direita que governou o país entre 1995 e 2002. Nesse período, o Poder Executivo Federal, as principais organizações patronais, setores importantes da mídia impressa e a Força Sindical estiveram empenhados na promoção de profunda alteração dos traços centrais do modelo brasileiro de relações de trabalho, no qual a lei é mais importante na definição dos direitos substantivos do trabalho do que os contratos coletivos. Para justificar politicamente essas alterações, o Poder Executivo e seus apoiadores apontaram a responsabilidade do modelo legislado pelos elevados custos do emprego formal, a perda de competitividade da indústria, o aumento da informalidade e do desemprego durante o governo FHC. Por meio da leitura das justificativas dos projetos encaminhados ao Congresso Nacional pelo Poder Executivo, das manifestações de suas principais lideranças e dos apoiadores na mídia e no meio sindical, a pesquisa busca interpretar o sentido político dessa leitura, apresentada como se fosse solução técnica e modernizante para uma legislação que estaria ultrapassada. Consideramos que a reforma trabalhista tinha claros propósitos políticos pois, além de repassar aos trabalhadores os custos do ajuste econômico nos anos 90, permitiu justificar na cena pública a retração do papel do Estado, bem como fortalecer o apoio de setores importantes do patronato a esse projeto político. / Throughout the twentieth century, labor law has been associated with a political and social arrangement that, within the national states, reproduced capitalism and civilized class relations. The research aims to analyze the shift in the interpretation and meaning of labor law, in the context of strong political hegemony of the center-right coalition that governed Brazil from 1995 to 2002. Throughout this period, the Federal Executive branch, the main employer organizations, important sectors of press and unions had been engaged in a battle to change the Brazilian model of work relations, in which labor law is more important than collective contracts, with regard to the definition of labor rights. In order to justify those changes, the Federal Executive branch and its supporters have considered the burden of the Brazilian model for the formal employment high costs, the competitiveness loss of local industries, the unemployment and informal sector growth during the Cardoso administration. The research analyzes the justifications of legislative initiatives sent to National Congress by Federal Executive branch, the speeches of its political leaders and supporters in the media press and among unions with the purpose of interpret the political meaning of this project, sold to public as a technical and modern solution to a legislation that, presumably, was old-fashioned. The research evidences allow us to affirm that the labor reform had clear political purposes: besides transferring to the workers the economic costs of the neoliberal reforms during the nineties, it had also been useful to justify the retreat of state from the economy and to gain the political support of the main employer organizations.

abstract: A Cyber Physical System consists of a computer monitoring and controlling physical processes usually in a feedback loop. These systems are increasingly becoming part of our daily life ranging from smart buildings to medical devices to automobiles. The controller comprises discrete software which may be operating in one of the many possible operating modes and interacting with a changing physical environment in a feedback loop. The systems with such a mix of discrete and continuous dynamics are usually termed as hybrid systems. In general, these systems are safety critical, hence their correct operation must be verified. Model Based Design (MBD) languages like Simulink are being used extensively for the design and analysis of hybrid systems due to the ease in system design and automatic code generation. It also allows testing and verification of these systems before deployment. One of the main challenges in the verification of these systems is to test all the operating modes of the control software and reduce the amount of user intervention. This research aims to provide an automated framework for the structural analysis and instrumentation of hybrid system models developed in Simulink. The behavior of the components introducing discontinuities in the model are automatically extracted in the form of state transition graphs. The framework is integrated in the S-TaLiRo toolbox to demonstrate the improvement in mode coverage. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Computer Science 2016

O uso de sistemas quâticos como parte de sistemas de comunicação tem sido fonte de interessantes problemas muitos ainda sem solução. No presente trabalho, apresentamos os conceitos básicos em teoria da informação e mecânica quântica necessários ao entendimento do problema do cálculo da informação acessível, cuja solução maximiza a informação mútua de Shannon para um canal definido por um ensemble de estados quâticos dados a priori. Propomos o uso do método de otimização global Branch and Bound aliado à aritmética intervalar para a estimação de limites mais precisos que os teóricos disponíveis para a informação acessível. Experimentos numéricos e resultados relacionados são apresentados. / The use of quantum systems as part of the communication systems has been source of interesting problems many without solution. In the present work, we show the basic concepts of information theory and quantum mechanics necessary to understand the accessible information problem, whose solution maximizes the Shannon mutual information for a channel defined by an ensemble of quantum states given a priori. In order to estimate more precise bounds for accessible information, we propose the use of Branch and Bound method with interval arithmetic. Numerical experiments and related results are exhibited.