The aim of this thesis is to analyze the global market with Business Intelligence, recognize the most significant companies running a business in this area and try to estimate the future trends and development of the market and then to analyze BI tools of two important companies on the market, Microsoft and Oracle. Analysis and comparison of these tools will be done according to specified metrics, which will focus on both technological and business features of the tools. The main contribution should be complex comparison of quality of tools from two big competitors on the market.

Review of Nation Builder: John Quincy Adams and the Grand Strategy of the Republic by Charles N. Edel.

<p>What traces of their actions are the Building Corporations in Sweden leaving in their archives and are they followingsome archival policies? This thesis is trying to answer that question. For that reason 25 archives fromSwedish Building Corporations have been investigated concerning their size, contents and age. Furthermore apoll performed by the Swedish National Archives in cooperation with the Swedish Employers’ Confederationhas been analyzed. As a complement to these investigations some people responsible for the archives at SwedishBuilding corporations have been interviewed about their companies’ archival policies.The result of this study is, sadly enough, that the Swedish Building Corporations are neglecting their archives.Most of the archives that were studied are very small, less than half a running metre. A few builders of thegeneration born in the late nineteenth century have left more or less extensive archives, but they were very poorlyorganized. But generally the will to build up archives for the need of the future researchers and for the culturalheritage seems to be very poor in the Building Corporations, even poorer than in the Swedish companies in general.Almost no archival strategies could be discerned, other than that most companies preserve their record onlyfor that time the law and their own immediate needs prescribe. That is a shame, concerning the Building Corporations’importance for the cultural heritage in that that the buildings they are making are forming our culturalenvironment.This is a two years master’s thesis in Archival Science.</p>

Le sujet de cette thèse est " L'étude dans le canal avec deux leptons de même signe de la physique du top au-delà du Modèle Standard avec le détecteur ATLAS au LHC et l'étude du niveau de déclenchement L1 du calorimètre ". Cette thèse porte sur la recherche de processus de nouvelle physique au LHC faisant jouer au quark top un rôle particulier. Le LHC est un collisionneur de protons, conçu pour un fonctionnement nominal avec une énergie dans le centre de masse de 14 TeV. Jusqu'à fin 2011 il a fonctionné avec une énergie de 7 TeV dans le centre de masse. Les premières données recueillies (5 fb−1 à 7 TeV) nous ont permis de contraindre certains paramètres de la nouvelle physique recherchée. C'est dans ce cadre que s'inscrit cette thèse. Celle-ci est divisée en trois parties. La première décrit rapidement l'accélérateur avant de s'intéresser à l'expérience ATLAS et au fonctionnement de son détecteur. Le bon fonctionnement des cartes de sommation du signal du calorimètre électromagnétique pour le premier niveau de déclenchement des événements a été tout particulièrement étudié. La deuxième partie est une analyse phénoménologique de la physique au-delà du Modèle Standard avec quatre quarks top dans l'état final pour plusieurs modèles théoriques. Cette étude a été effectuée principalement au niveau générateur pour 14 TeV dans le centre de masse mais nous commentons également les perspectives à 7 TeV. Elle peut être appliquée à l'expérience ATLAS comme à l'expérience CMS. La troisième partie est une étude expérimentale, réalisée avec le détecteur ATLAS, recherchant des manifestations d'un modèle de Higgs composite prédisant l'existence de partenaires exotiques au quark top (T5/3) et d'un modèle de théorie effective de production des 4 tops. Une limite sur la masse du partenaire exotique a été obtenue ainsi qu'une limite sur la section efficace des événements exotiques à quatre tops.

What traces of their actions are the Building Corporations in Sweden leaving in their archives and are they followingsome archival policies? This thesis is trying to answer that question. For that reason 25 archives fromSwedish Building Corporations have been investigated concerning their size, contents and age. Furthermore apoll performed by the Swedish National Archives in cooperation with the Swedish Employers’ Confederationhas been analyzed. As a complement to these investigations some people responsible for the archives at SwedishBuilding corporations have been interviewed about their companies’ archival policies.The result of this study is, sadly enough, that the Swedish Building Corporations are neglecting their archives.Most of the archives that were studied are very small, less than half a running metre. A few builders of thegeneration born in the late nineteenth century have left more or less extensive archives, but they were very poorlyorganized. But generally the will to build up archives for the need of the future researchers and for the culturalheritage seems to be very poor in the Building Corporations, even poorer than in the Swedish companies in general.Almost no archival strategies could be discerned, other than that most companies preserve their record onlyfor that time the law and their own immediate needs prescribe. That is a shame, concerning the Building Corporations’importance for the cultural heritage in that that the buildings they are making are forming our culturalenvironment.This is a two years master’s thesis in Archival Science.

Rising world petroleum prices and global warming are contributing to interest in renewable energy sources, including energy produced from agricultural crops and waste sources of biomass. A network of small mobile pyrolysis units may be the most cost effective system to convert biomass from agricultural feedstocks to bio-crude oil. Mobile pyrolysis units could be moved to the feedstock production fields thereby greatly simplifying feedstock logistics. In the North Central (NC) region of the U.S., possible feedstocks are corn stover, energy sorghum, and switchgrass. A grid-based Geographic Information System (GIS) program was developed to identify optimum locations for mobile pyrolysis units based on feedstock availability in the NC region. Model builder was used to automate the GIS analysis. Network analysis was used to find the best route to move the mobile pyrolysis units to new locations and to identify the closest refinery to transport the bio-crude oil. To produce bioenergy from feedstocks, the removal of biomass from agricultural fields will impact the hydrology and sediment transport in rural watersheds. Therefore, the hydrologic effects of removing corn stover from corn production fields in Illinois (IL) were evaluated using the Soil Water Assessment Tool (SWAT). The SWAT model was calibrated and validated for streamflow and sediment yields in the Spoon River basin in IL using observed data from the USGS. The modeling results indicated that as residue removal rates increased, evapotranspiration (ET) and sediment yields increased, while streamflows decreased. Biochar is a carbon-based byproduct of pyrolysis. To ensure that the mobile pyrolysis system is economically and environmental sustainable, the biochar must be land applied to the feedstock production fields as a soil amendment. An assessment of hydrologic changes due to the land application of biochar was made using the SWAT model in the Spoon River basin and changes in soil properties due to incorporation of biochar into the soil obtained from laboratory experiments by Cook et al. (2012). Model simulations indicated that a biochar application rate of 128 Mg/ha decreased water yield, and sediment yield in surface runoff and increased soil moisture and ET.

As a practice, archiving preserves and protects information that would otherwise be lost, offering important resources to researchers to interpret, chart and define what the archives represent, allowing the public to reflect on records held within them. Archiving is open to many disciplines, organisations and institutions with distinctions made in the care and organisation of records maintained under these disciplines. In terms of animation, archiving finished films on various formats is an established practice, and researchers interpret those films within their own research, but the animation production materials, used in the creation of the films are not privy to an established form of archival practice. Whilst these archives – or collections of materials do exist, they are archived without any unified, peer reviewed specialist interpretation of the care and organisation of the collections using a taxonomy that reflects the unique aspects of animation production. There is a clear need to establish the archiving of animation production materials as a distinct practice with its own taxonomy and philosophy. Examining the current practices from other forms of archiving that are applied to animation production collections and developing a distinct model of practice from these models can achieve this. Once archiving animation materials is an established practice and data is managed in a way that reflects the acknowledges the distinctive aspects of animation as a form, data and records created from the collections can then be used as empirical evidence to enhance the study of animation. This thesis begins that work by developing and applying a model of practice, using a collection of previously uncatalogued materials to explore the possible ways in which an animation production archive would best be used as primary research material. The collection is used to conduct an investigation into British children's television animation. As a form, animation is often neglected and often lost in semantics as a children's genre and within that neglect is a disregard even within the study of children's programming itself, a body which would claim to take children's televisual content seriously. Even bodies such as the Office of Communications (Ofcom) and the British Audience Research Board (BARB) have no definition of what an animated television show for children is, and yet continues to provide data with this absent definition present in their research. By using a collection of animation materials to create a taxonomy and studying the records created whilst using this taxonomy it is possible to define the form of children's television animation and in doing so prove the use of a collection of animation materials as a model of research and the practice of animation archiving as worthy of its own district identity, philosophy and practice which can continue to be developed for all types of animation.

Desde a introdução da World Wide Web para o mundo nos inícios de 1990, usando a Internet como uma rede para transferir dados, empregando uma forma de expressão chamada de Hipertexto, a qual liga as informações relacionadas e combinadas com multimídia, os Webs resultantes têm aberto novas possibilidades de expressão e comunicação. A quantidade de tráfego de dados na Web e o número de computadores ofertando informação vem crescendo dramaticamente, mas falta expressividade e qualidade interativa na Web; ainda assim, vem despertando um grande interesse instrutivo e útil. O ilimitado universo de possibilidades da Web para acessar aplicações seguras, portáveis e independentes para cada plataforma em hardware e software e que possam chegar a qualquer lugar sobre a Internet, surge a linguagem Java da Sun Microsystem [DEC 95]. A habilidade de Java para executar código sobre hosts remotos de uma maneira segura é uma necessidade crítica para muitas organizações de desenvolvedores de software e provedores de Internet na atualidade [ARN 96]. A linguagem Java é realmente valiosa para redes de ambientes distribuídos como a Web. Entretanto, Java vai mais longe deste domínio ao fornecer uma linguagem de programação de propósito geral poderosa e adequada para construir uma variedade de aplicações que não dependem das características da rede [ARN 96]. O modelo imperativo tradicional é padrão e quase universal vem tendo uma profunda influência sobre a natureza das linguagens de programação e ainda continua a tendência de sempre ter uma direção para fornecer mais e mais formas abstratas de resolver problemas, tentando mudar a simplicidade na programação com rapidez na execução de programas [FIE 88]. Parece. portanto, natural e quase inevitável o desenvolvimento em tecnologia das linguagens. Os amplos esforços gastos em desenvolver métodos rigorosos para especificar, produzir, verificar software e produtos de hardware, mas os esforços foram restringidos às linguagens convencionais. A aproximação natural de Von Neumann tem contribuído a esta falha desde a noção de um estado global que pode mudar arbitrariamente em cada passo da computação e vem sendo provado ser intuitivamente e matematicamente intratável. Esta falha tem tornado ao software o componente mais caro para muitos sistemas de computação [GLA 84]. Os primeiros passos para solucionar estas falhas foram tomadas pela programação estruturada ao trabalhar nas áreas de especificação formal, verificação de programas e na semântica formal que ainda continuam em pesquisa. O crescimento numeroso de pesquisadores têm certeza de que os problemas originam-se da aproximação fundamental à filosofia de Von Neumann e estão voltando-se para uma linguagem de um novo tipo. Uma de tais aproximações é a tomada pelas linguagens de programação funcional [PLA 93]. Num programa funcional, o resultado de uma função chamada é unicamente determinado pelos valores atuais dos argumentos da função [PLA 93]. As linguagens de programação funcional têm a vantagem que elas oferecem um uso geral das funções, o qual não esta disponível nas linguagens imperativas clássicas. Devido a ausência de efeitos colaterais, as provas de correção dos programas são mais fáceis que nas linguagens imperativas. As funções podem ser avaliadas em qualquer ordem assim como a disponibilidade total das mesmas, a nova geração de linguagens funcionais também oferecem uma elegante noção de uso amigável [PLA 93]. Os padrões e a proteção que fornecem ao usuário um acesso simples a estruturas de dados complexos, basicamente não tendo a preocupação do gerenciamento da memória, como faz a linguagem Java. O objetivo principal deste trabalho é a descrição da implementação de um Construtor de Funções Java (LispJ), usado para gerar funções Lisp em código Java utilizando a linguagem Java da Sun Microsystem como ambiente de desenvolvimento. A descrição compreende a codificação de um Interpretador Lisp da linguagem funcional LISP, e a codificação do Construtor de Funções Java visualizado através de um applet Java utilizado como interface entre o Construtor de Funções Java e o usuário sobre a Internet. / Since the introduction of the World Wide Web to the world in the beginning of the nineties, using the Internet as a network to transfer data, using a form of expression called Hypertext, which connects related and combined information with multimedia, the resulting Webs have opened new possibilities of expression and communication. The amount of data traffic in the Web and the number of computers offering information have been growing dramatically, but there is a lack of interactive expressivity and quality in the Web; nevertheless, its instructive and useful interest is growing wider. From the unlimited universe of possibilities of the Web to access safe, portable and independent applications for each platform in hardware and software and that are able to get anywhere on the Internet, there is the Java Sun Mycrosystem language [DEC 95]. Java's ability to perform code on remote hosts in a safe way is a critical need for many software developing organizations and Internet providers nowadays [ARN 96]. Java language is really valuable for network environments arranged as the Web. However, Java extends further from this domain as it provides a broad programming language that is powerful and adequate to build a variety of applications which do not depend on the characteristics of the network [ARN 96]. The prevailing traditional model is a pattern and almost universal, has had a deep influence on the nature of the programming languages and there is still a trend of one direction to provide more and more abstract ways of solving problems, trying to change the simplicity in the fast programming in programs run [FIE 88]. It seems, therefore, natural and almost inevitable the development in technology of the programming languages. Wide efforts were made to develop strict methods to specify, produce, check software and hardware products, but the efforts were restricted to conventional languages. Von Neumann's natural approximation has contributed to this gap since the notion of a global state which can change arbitrarily in each step of the computer science and has proven to be intuitively and mathematically intractable. This gap has turned the software into the most expensive component for many computing systems [GLA 84]. The first steps to solve these gaps were taken by the structured programming when working on the areas of formal specification, programs checking and the formal semantics, which are still being researched. The ever growing number of researchers are sure that the problems come from the fundamental approximation to Von Neumann's philosophy and are turning to a new kind of language. One of such approximations is the one through the functional programming languages [PLA 93]. In a functional program, the result of a called function is determined only by the present values of the function arguments [PLA 93]. The functional programming languages have the advantage of offering a general use of the functions, which is not available in the classic prevailling lan guages [PLA 93]. Due to absence of side effects, the correction tests in the programs are easier than in the prevailing languages. The functions may be evaluated in any order and so may their total disposal. The new generation of functional languages also offers an elegant notion of friendly use [PLA 93]. The patterns and protection offer the user a simple access to complex data structures, basically by not worrying about memory management, as occurs with the Java language. The main objetive of this work is the description of the implementation of a Java Functions Builder (Lisp1), used do generate Lisp functions in Java code utilizing the Java language from Sun microsystem as a developing environment. The description covers the code of the Lisp Interpreter of the LISP functional language, and the Java Functions Builder code visualized through a Java applet utilized as interface between the Java Functions Builder and the users on the Internet.

Desde a introdução da World Wide Web para o mundo nos inícios de 1990, usando a Internet como uma rede para transferir dados, empregando uma forma de expressão chamada de Hipertexto, a qual liga as informações relacionadas e combinadas com multimídia, os Webs resultantes têm aberto novas possibilidades de expressão e comunicação. A quantidade de tráfego de dados na Web e o número de computadores ofertando informação vem crescendo dramaticamente, mas falta expressividade e qualidade interativa na Web; ainda assim, vem despertando um grande interesse instrutivo e útil. O ilimitado universo de possibilidades da Web para acessar aplicações seguras, portáveis e independentes para cada plataforma em hardware e software e que possam chegar a qualquer lugar sobre a Internet, surge a linguagem Java da Sun Microsystem [DEC 95]. A habilidade de Java para executar código sobre hosts remotos de uma maneira segura é uma necessidade crítica para muitas organizações de desenvolvedores de software e provedores de Internet na atualidade [ARN 96]. A linguagem Java é realmente valiosa para redes de ambientes distribuídos como a Web. Entretanto, Java vai mais longe deste domínio ao fornecer uma linguagem de programação de propósito geral poderosa e adequada para construir uma variedade de aplicações que não dependem das características da rede [ARN 96]. O modelo imperativo tradicional é padrão e quase universal vem tendo uma profunda influência sobre a natureza das linguagens de programação e ainda continua a tendência de sempre ter uma direção para fornecer mais e mais formas abstratas de resolver problemas, tentando mudar a simplicidade na programação com rapidez na execução de programas [FIE 88]. Parece. portanto, natural e quase inevitável o desenvolvimento em tecnologia das linguagens. Os amplos esforços gastos em desenvolver métodos rigorosos para especificar, produzir, verificar software e produtos de hardware, mas os esforços foram restringidos às linguagens convencionais. A aproximação natural de Von Neumann tem contribuído a esta falha desde a noção de um estado global que pode mudar arbitrariamente em cada passo da computação e vem sendo provado ser intuitivamente e matematicamente intratável. Esta falha tem tornado ao software o componente mais caro para muitos sistemas de computação [GLA 84]. Os primeiros passos para solucionar estas falhas foram tomadas pela programação estruturada ao trabalhar nas áreas de especificação formal, verificação de programas e na semântica formal que ainda continuam em pesquisa. O crescimento numeroso de pesquisadores têm certeza de que os problemas originam-se da aproximação fundamental à filosofia de Von Neumann e estão voltando-se para uma linguagem de um novo tipo. Uma de tais aproximações é a tomada pelas linguagens de programação funcional [PLA 93]. Num programa funcional, o resultado de uma função chamada é unicamente determinado pelos valores atuais dos argumentos da função [PLA 93]. As linguagens de programação funcional têm a vantagem que elas oferecem um uso geral das funções, o qual não esta disponível nas linguagens imperativas clássicas. Devido a ausência de efeitos colaterais, as provas de correção dos programas são mais fáceis que nas linguagens imperativas. As funções podem ser avaliadas em qualquer ordem assim como a disponibilidade total das mesmas, a nova geração de linguagens funcionais também oferecem uma elegante noção de uso amigável [PLA 93]. Os padrões e a proteção que fornecem ao usuário um acesso simples a estruturas de dados complexos, basicamente não tendo a preocupação do gerenciamento da memória, como faz a linguagem Java. O objetivo principal deste trabalho é a descrição da implementação de um Construtor de Funções Java (LispJ), usado para gerar funções Lisp em código Java utilizando a linguagem Java da Sun Microsystem como ambiente de desenvolvimento. A descrição compreende a codificação de um Interpretador Lisp da linguagem funcional LISP, e a codificação do Construtor de Funções Java visualizado através de um applet Java utilizado como interface entre o Construtor de Funções Java e o usuário sobre a Internet. / Since the introduction of the World Wide Web to the world in the beginning of the nineties, using the Internet as a network to transfer data, using a form of expression called Hypertext, which connects related and combined information with multimedia, the resulting Webs have opened new possibilities of expression and communication. The amount of data traffic in the Web and the number of computers offering information have been growing dramatically, but there is a lack of interactive expressivity and quality in the Web; nevertheless, its instructive and useful interest is growing wider. From the unlimited universe of possibilities of the Web to access safe, portable and independent applications for each platform in hardware and software and that are able to get anywhere on the Internet, there is the Java Sun Mycrosystem language [DEC 95]. Java's ability to perform code on remote hosts in a safe way is a critical need for many software developing organizations and Internet providers nowadays [ARN 96]. Java language is really valuable for network environments arranged as the Web. However, Java extends further from this domain as it provides a broad programming language that is powerful and adequate to build a variety of applications which do not depend on the characteristics of the network [ARN 96]. The prevailing traditional model is a pattern and almost universal, has had a deep influence on the nature of the programming languages and there is still a trend of one direction to provide more and more abstract ways of solving problems, trying to change the simplicity in the fast programming in programs run [FIE 88]. It seems, therefore, natural and almost inevitable the development in technology of the programming languages. Wide efforts were made to develop strict methods to specify, produce, check software and hardware products, but the efforts were restricted to conventional languages. Von Neumann's natural approximation has contributed to this gap since the notion of a global state which can change arbitrarily in each step of the computer science and has proven to be intuitively and mathematically intractable. This gap has turned the software into the most expensive component for many computing systems [GLA 84]. The first steps to solve these gaps were taken by the structured programming when working on the areas of formal specification, programs checking and the formal semantics, which are still being researched. The ever growing number of researchers are sure that the problems come from the fundamental approximation to Von Neumann's philosophy and are turning to a new kind of language. One of such approximations is the one through the functional programming languages [PLA 93]. In a functional program, the result of a called function is determined only by the present values of the function arguments [PLA 93]. The functional programming languages have the advantage of offering a general use of the functions, which is not available in the classic prevailling lan guages [PLA 93]. Due to absence of side effects, the correction tests in the programs are easier than in the prevailing languages. The functions may be evaluated in any order and so may their total disposal. The new generation of functional languages also offers an elegant notion of friendly use [PLA 93]. The patterns and protection offer the user a simple access to complex data structures, basically by not worrying about memory management, as occurs with the Java language. The main objetive of this work is the description of the implementation of a Java Functions Builder (Lisp1), used do generate Lisp functions in Java code utilizing the Java language from Sun microsystem as a developing environment. The description covers the code of the Lisp Interpreter of the LISP functional language, and the Java Functions Builder code visualized through a Java applet utilized as interface between the Java Functions Builder and the users on the Internet.

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