During the second half of the 20th century the Stock Car Racing enjoyed substantial growth and development. General enthusiasm for fast cars built within American culture by racers, hot rodders, and automaker advertising campaigns helped fuel rapid acceptance of production-based racing. Widespread popular fascination with automotive speed helped stock car racing withstand criticism of the violent nature of the sport leveled by public safety groups and politicians during the first decade of its organization. Indeed, the perceived rebelliousness of stock car racing helped drive stock car racing to develop a loyal fan base in the American South. For the National Association for Stock Car Automobile Racing (NASCAR) control over the technology of competition and the conduct of race events brought respectability, scale, and profitability to this entertainment phenomenon between 1949 and 1979. The power to specify technology offered NASCAR leverage over the actions of racers who, despite their status as independent contractors, remained fiercely loyal competitors. Control over the technology of competition also helped maintain strictly stock perceptions of NASCAR racing that made corporate sponsorship attractive to automakers and held the interest of the general public. After initial forays across the nation, NASCAR chose advantageous concentration on the southeastern markets where racing spectacle found the most enthusiastic and devoted audience. This thesis is an account of the process of systematization that brought the grass-roots phenomenon of production-based to a region and an nation, and how NASCAR relied on a stock-appearing racecar as a device to simultaneously control participants, lure corporate promotional dollars, and attract fans.

Magistro baigiamojo darbo tikslas – sudaryti automobilių stovėjimo aikštelių ir atskirų automobilių stovėjimo vietų informacinę sistemą Vilniaus mieste. Taip pat sudaryti geoinformacinę sistemą, kurią naudojant galima parodyti automobilių aikštelių ir informacinių stendų išsidėstymą tarp atskirų rajono dalių, bei jų tipų ir automobilių aikštelių užimtumą. Magistro darbe analizuojama ir įdiegiama keturių lygmenų informacinė sistema t.y. Vilniaus miesto priemiesčiuose ties įvažiavimais, centrinėje miesto dalyje, gyvenamuosiuose rajonuose ir atskirose automobilių stovėjimo aikštelėse. Panaudojant GIS, sukurta automobilių aikštelių informacinės sistemos duomenų bazė, kuri leidžia lengviau susisteminti duomenis. / The goal of this paper is to create an informational system generalizing information on distribution of car parking in Vilnius. As well as this, to create a geoinformational system which could be used to visually demonstrate distribution of car parking information system between separate parts of Vilnius area and analysis of distribution of their types and car parking busy. In the paper the full analysis and instal car parking four level informational system of the town near entry, of the town centre, living district. Using GIS was created car parking information basis.

abstract: Driving is already a complex task that demands a varying level of cognitive and physical load. With the advancement in technology, the car has become a place for media consumption, a communications center and an interconnected workplace. The number of features in a car has also increased. As a result, the user interaction inside the car has become overcrowded and more complex. This has increased the amount of distraction while driving and has also increased the number of accidents due to distracted driving. This thesis focuses on the critical analysis of today’s in-car environment covering two main aspects, Multi Modal Interaction (MMI), and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), to minimize the distraction. It also provides deep market research on future trends in the smart car technology. After careful analysis, it was observed that an infotainment screen cluttered with lots of small icons, a center stack with a plethora of small buttons and a poor Voice Recognition (VR) results in high cognitive load, and these are the reasons for the increased driver distraction. Though the VR has become a standard technology, the current state of technology is focused on features oriented design and a sales driven approach. Most of the automotive manufacturers are focusing on making the VR better but attaining perfection in VR is not the answer as there are inherent challenges and limitations in respect to the in-car environment and cognitive load. Accordingly, the research proposed a novel in-car interaction design solution: Multi-Modal Interaction (MMI). The MMI is a new term when used in the context of vehicles, but it is widely used in human-human interaction. The approach offers a non-intrusive alternative to the driver to interact with the features in the car. With the focus on user-centered design, the MMI and ADAS can potentially help to reduce the distraction. To support the discussion, an experiment was conducted to benchmark a minimalist UI design. An engineering based method was used to test and measure distraction of four different UIs with varying numbers of icons and screen sizes. Lastly, in order to compete with the market, the basic features that are provided by all the other competitors cannot be eliminated, but the hard work can be done to improve the HCaI and to make driving safer. / Dissertation/Thesis / Date collected about reaction time in the experiment_Excel / Masters Thesis Computer Science 2015

This thesis is focused on the segment of motorail services in the international long-distance passenger rail transport. It presents this service in the Czech Republic and also in the context of international passenger rail transport. The practical part is aimed at analyzing the potential and competitiveness of this service compared to road individual car transport and at exploring options of this product for practical usage by the final customer in choosing an appropriate service or means of transport for long-distance passenger transport in conditions of the Central European market.

The content of this Master thesis is the creation of the car repair shop services informational security model and also the creation of commensurate e-commerce system solution for this car repair shop.

The master thesis deals with the proposal of marketing communication for selected business activities of the company TKTD s.r.o., which are car wash, tire and car services. The thesis is divided into three main parts. The first part includes theoretical knowledge relevant to marketing and marketing communication. The second one focuses on the company situation analysis, company´s general and sector environment analysis. The last part includes concrete final proposals and procedures based on results of analyses, which should contribute and improve the company´s current situation on the local market.

Структура магистерской диссертации включает в себя введение, три главы, заключение, список использованной литературы. В первой главе работы изучены теоретические основы автокредитования как направления — потребительского кредитования, определены риски автокредитования, присутствующие в банковской деятельности, Во второй главе, исходя из общих теоретических положений, рассмотренных в первой главе, проведен анализ современных тенденций в сфере автокредитования и состояние автокредитного рынка России, а также проведен анализ практики кредитования на примере ООО «Медиа-микс». В третьей главе на основе проведенного анализа выявлены проблемы и перспективы развития рынка автокредитования в России, рассмотрены основные тенденции развития рынка автокредитования. В заключении подводятся итоги проведенного исследования, делаются основные выводы по работе. / The structure of the master's thesis includes an introduction, three chapters, conclusion, bibliography. In the first chapter of the work, the theoretical foundations of car lending as a direction - consumer lending are studied, the risks of car lending present in banking are identified.In the second chapter, based on the general theoretical provisions discussed in the first chapter, an analysis of modern trends in the field of car loans and the state of the auto loan market in Russia , as well as an analysis of the lending practice on the example of LLC "Media-mix". In the third chapter, on the basis of the analysis, the problems and prospects of the development of the car lending market in Russia are identified, and the main trends in the development of the car lending market are considered. In the conclusion, the results of the study are summed up, the main conclusions are drawn.

Georgia Tech has the privilege of competing in EcoCAR 3, a four-year competition in which 16 universities are given a stock 2016 Chevrolet Camaro and work to transform it into a hybrid electric sports car. In this thesis, an overview of the first two years of the author’s work on the team as the Engineering Manager, the graduate student overseeing all vehicle engineering work, will be detailed. The competition will be introduced and described before a discussion on vehicle electrification and the various ways it has been achieved by manufacturers and competition teams. Next, the design of the Georgia Tech vehicle will be presented with a focus on powertrain and supporting component selection. The vehicle model underlying many of these decisions will then be discussed in detail, showing how the team used Simulink and Engineering Equation Solver to effectively predict vehicle performance, emissions, energy consumption, and cooling needs. Building on this, the controls design process known as model/software/hardware in the loop will be discussed in the context of the Georgia Tech team’s use of this process. Finally, a progress update will be given, including photos of the team vehicle in current build state weeks before the Year 2 Competition.

This quantitative study investigates on how the attitudes amongst people in Tampa are towards the use of public transportation and also analyse which factors they consider vital for its development. The data is collected with the help of an online questionnaire and later compared with the current comprehensive plan and transportation plan in Tampa, after a qualitative literature review, in order to analyse and compare if there are any differences between the respondents and the planners. In other word’s compare theory to what is happening in reality. The results show that both the planners and the respondents acknowledge the dominance and negative effects of car use and that an expansion of public transportation is necessary in order to enhance the overall quality of life but also sustainability. The biggest difference was the attitude toward and belief in Mobility Management and soft measures. As the plan documents do not put any emphasis on the importance of changing attitudes with the help of soft measures, the respondents showed that Mobility Management and services linked to it could be a vital factor to change overall attitude towards public transportation if it were implemented.

Biomolecular systems, in particular those involving proteins and their constituents, have been the focus of much research in the last century. The relationship between experiment, development of models and simulation has enabled vast improvements in our knowledge of subjects such as protein folding and the processes by which key biomolecules affect the human body. In particular, vital information can be obtained from understanding the building blocks of polypeptides and proteins involved in these processes. This work focuses on simulating two such building blocks; glutamate, the salt of the proteinogenic amino acid, glutamic acid, and glycine-proline-glutamate, or GPE, a related tripeptide. Both are important in neurotransmission processes in the brain. Glutamate is the most abundant neurotransmitter in the central nervous system and GPE is an important neuroprotective agent. This work aims to elucidate the key structural properties of aqueous solutions of glutamate and GPE, focusing on the solute-solute as well as the solute-solvent interactions. Both systems were considered with classical empirical potentials using the CHARMM22 force-fi eld. The glutamate system has also been studied using Car-Parrinello Molecular Dynamics and classical parallel tempering. In both the aqueous glutamate and GPE systems the molecules formed a large proportion of bifurcated bonding motifs with both carboxyl groups, but not with the amin (N-terminal) of the molecules. Bifurcated bonds form between solute molecules as well as in the solute-solvent interactions. The structure of the glutamate solution was found to be dependent on the initial con figuration and thus the parallel tempering simulations enabled better sampling of the conformational landscape. In addition, in the glutamate system single water molecules form a stable structure by bonding to both the amine (N-terminal) and C -carboxyl within the same glutamate molecule.