本研究之目的為：(一)探討大學圖書館館藏遺失損毀現況。(二)探討大學圖書館館藏資料安全防護措施與政策。(三)比較大學圖書館主管與館員及使用者對館藏安全看法與態度，並據以進行分析整理，以作為圖書館館藏安全措施與政策未來發展建議。 本研究以相關文獻為基礎，並採用深度訪談法做為研究工具，綜合研究結果與分析，整理研究結論如下： 一、因公德心低落，大學圖書館館藏遺失損毀問題以錯架、註記居多 二、期刊比其他館藏容易遺失，經費與驗收狀況需彈性處理 三、制訂讀者違規處理辦法，有助於減少館藏遺失損毀的發生 四、圖書安全系統目前仍是維護館藏安全最普遍設備 五、偷竊館藏行為目前仍無強硬措施 六、政策執行著重分層負責與溝通 七、圖書館使用者在意館藏遺失問題，希望多舉辦政策推廣活動 由研究結論歸納建議如下，期能供大學圖書館及未來之研究者做進一步研究之參考。 一、館藏安全管理層面 (一)圖書館需重視館藏遺失與損毀事前預防工作(二)加裝多層防護裝置(三)多元化的人力運用(四)善用科技減少人力成本(五)建立政策溝通管道。 二、行政執行層面： (一)成立館藏安全維護工作小組並制訂政策(二)訂定館藏安全工作手冊(三)政策修訂與時俱進(四)政策執行著重分層負責與溝通(五)期刊建議以經常門編列或以系統驗收(六)處理違規行為應以教育為目的(七)保留館藏安全事件完整紀錄(八)透過實質合作加強圖書館與其他單位之互動關係(九)運用社群媒體與推廣活動宣導政策與服務(十)推廣公德心教育與使用者建立良善互動。 / The purposes of this research are: 1) Study the current situation of collections loss and mutilation in University Libraries. 2) Study the collections security policy for University Libraries. 3) Analyze, collate and come up with suggestions for library collections security policy which are based on the comparison of the views and attitudes of University Librarians with users about the library security. On the basis of the relevant literature, we used in-depth interview as the experimental tool to draw the conclusions according to the analysis and results. The study gets results in six aspects: 1.Because low public morality, the majority problem of the collection lost, mutilation for the university library are wrong frames and notes. 2.Periodicals are less likely to be lost than other collections, so budgetary and acceptance methods need flexibility. 3.Formulating rules for readers' violation help to reduce library collection lost and mutilation. 4.Library Security System is still the most common equipment for maintaining library security. 5.There are still no tough measures to steal the collection and without any deterrent effect of punishment. 6.Library policy implementation should focus on stratified responsibility and good communication. 7.Library users care about the loss of the collection, and hope library to hold more policy promotion activities. The conclusion obtained from this research has led to the suggestions below that we hope to provide the University Library and later researchers a reference. 1.The Aspect of Collections Security Management 1) Library shall attach importance to the pre prevention work for the loss and mutilation of library collection. 2) Add an extra protective device for special collection. 3) Human resource utilization diversification. 4) Making good use of science and technology to reduce human cost. 5) Establishing a policy communication pipeline. 2.The Aspect of Administration and Execution 1) The library should set up the group for security maintenance working amd draw up a policy for collection security. 2) Set up the collection security handbook, 3) Revise the policy regularly to keep up with the times. 4) Policy implementation should emphasize that stratified librarians communicate and take responsibilities. 5) Periodical budget suggest for using current account fund, and check and accept by library OPAC, 6) Handling of irregularities should be used for the purpose of education, 7) Keep a complete record of the collection security events, 8) Strengthening the interaction between Library and other units through substantive cooperation, 9) promotion policies and services by social media and library promotion activities, 10) Promoting public moral education and establish the good interaction with library users.

The goal of this master thesis is to optimise the collection service process of the company DHL Global Forwarding (CZ) s.r.o. and to identify the best collection service provider. The optimisation process will be based primarily on price comparison but also other criteria will be included. To achieve the goal, the content of the work was divided into four parts. In the first chapter, the term of collection service is defined as well as briefly described, including the legal context of collection services. Second chapter provides general information about the collection service market and the collection services currently provided by DHL Express. It also contains a case study -- DHL Global Forwarding -- which describes the role of collection services within the seafreight transportation of this company. Third chapter is the analyses part that provides information about a standard consignment, requirements for the analyses, selection of companies, comparison of their prices and finally comparison of transport conditions and extra services provided by the least expensive companies. The last chapter of this master thesis tries to find solutions to revealed problems and make overall suggestions for DHL Global Forwarding (CZ) s.r.o. as well as DHL Express and BOHEMIA CARGO.

A main goal of the diploma thesis is to perform a strategic analysis of a selected enterprise with the purpose of examining a current situation and trends in external and internal environment of the enterprise, and, based on the analysis, to suggest recommendations concerning a future strategy of the company.

The population growth in many urban cities and its activities in developing countries have resulted in an increased solid waste generation rate and waste management has become a global environmental issue. Routing of solid waste collection vehicles in developing countries like Pakistan poses a challenging task. In the process of solid waste management, collection and transportation play a leading role in waste collection and disposal, in which collection activities contributed the most to total cost for solid waste collection activities. Therefore, this study describes an attempt to design and develop an appropriate collection, transportation and disposal plan for the twin cities of Pakistan by using Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) techniques to determine the minimum cost/distance/time efficient collection paths for the transportation of the solid wastes to the landfill sites. In addition to this, identification of solid waste disposal sites and appropriately managing them is a challenging task to many developing countries and Pakistan is no exception to that. The existing landfill sites for the twin cities are not technically viable and environmentally acceptable and are thus damaging to the environment due to their location and the type of waste dumped. Therefore, the second aim of our study was to find out the suitable landfill sites for the twin cities and the study employed Multi-Criteria Evaluation (MCE) methods to combine necessary factors considered for landfill site selection for the twin cities. Hence, our present study has proved that GIS is a tool that can be used in integration with other techniques such as MCE for a identifying new landfill sites and it can help decision makers deal with real-world developmental and management issues. Finally, the study has developed a Wed-Based Decision Support System (DSS) via Application Programming Interface (API) which will help decision-makers to search for cost-effective alternatives and it can be operated by people who don’t have knowledge of GIS. The proposed study can be used as a decision support tool by the municipalities of the twin cities for efficient management and transportation of solid wastes to landfill sites, managing work schedules for workers, etc.

The adaptation of existing psychometric data data-collection instruments are is often utilized utilised in cross-cultural research as an alternative to the development of a new data data-collection instrument for a particular population, as the latter may not always be a viable option. However, given the relative novelty of this practice, several authors call for further research in this practicefield. The research assistants’ subjective experience in the administration of culturally tailored psychometric data data-collection instruments in a South African context was identified as a silence gap in the body of literature under review. The purpose of the study was to explore and describe the experience of research assistants during the administration of culturally tailored psychometric data data-collection instruments in order to broadly inform the practice of psychometric data data-collection instrument adaptation and cross-cultural assessment broadly. This study adhered to the meta-theoretical paradigm of Constructivism, while the methodological paradigm of qualitative research was adopted. Furthermore, a qualitative content analysis research design was employed, with document analysis of two focus focus-group discussions as a data data-collection strategy. The data was analysed by means of a theme analysis of the datea. The study found that the research assistants of the Kgolo Mmogo project experienced difficulty with regard to the language and comprehension of certain items of the culturally tailored psychometric data data-collection instruments. Their experiences also indicated the presence of culturally inappropriate questions, the presence of contradicting responses during the administration of the instruments, as well as the phenomenon of participants providing what they perceived to be the ‘correct’ response. Furthermore, the findings from this study suggested that the research assistants experienced the culturally tailored psychometric data data-collection instrument to have an informative and educational value. It seemed to informthat mothers felt informed about their children’s development, while it also served as a tool for HIV/AIDS education. Finally, the findings of this study suggested that the research assistants sometimes experienced that the assessment to placed an emotional strain on them. Their experience of emotional strain was related to difficulty with regard to role definition, as well as dealing with the often unrealistic expectations of the participants. The research assistants furthermore seemed to experience difficulty in relating to the interview-participant relationship. However, it seemed as if the research assistants’ experience of the participants’ spirituality rendered provided some relieve relief from the emotional strain they experienced during the assessments. Copyright / Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2009. / Educational Psychology / unrestricted

The growing municipal solid waste generation rates have necessitated more efficient, optimized waste collection facilities. The majority of the US collection fleet is composed of diesel-fueled vehicles which contribute significant atmospheric emissions including greenhouse gases. In order to reduce emissions to the atmosphere, more collection agencies are investigating alternative fuel technologies such as natural gas, biofuels (bio-gas and bio-diesel), and hybrid electric technology. This research is an in-depth environmental analysis of potential alternative fuel technologies for waste collection vehicles. This study will evaluate the use of alternative fuels by waste collection vehicles. Lifecycle emissions, cost, fuel and energy consumption were evaluated for a wide range of fossil and bio-fuel technologies. Moreover, the energy consumption and the tail-pipe emissions of dieselfueled waste collection vehicles were estimated using MOVES 2010a software. Emission factors were calculated for a typical waste collection driving cycle as well as constant speed. Finally, the selection of fuel type by the waste collection industry requires consideration of environmental, security, financial, operational, and safety issues. In this study, a qualitative comparison between alternative fuels was performed; a multifactorial assessment of these factors was conducted taking into account the opinion of the waste collection industry of the importance of each factor. Liquid-petroleum fuels have higher life-cycle emissions compared to natural gas; however landfill natural gas has the lowest life-cycle emissions compared to all other fuel categories. Compressed natural gas waste collection vehicles have the lowest fuel cost per collection vehicle mile travel compared to other fuel categories. Moreover, the actual driving cycle of waste collection vehicles consists of repetitive stops and starts during waste collection; iv this generates more emissions than constant speed driving. Finally, the multifactorial assessment indicates that natural gas and landfill gas have better environmental, economical, and energy security performance than current liquid-petroleum fuels.

Master of Science / Department of Computing and Information Sciences / Gurdip Singh / Ad hoc based routing protocol is a reactive protocol to route messages between mobile nodes. It allows nodes to pass messages through their neighbors to nodes which they cannot directly communicate. It uses Route Request (RREQ) and Route Reply (RREP) messages for communication. Wireless sensor networks consist of tiny sensor motes with capabilities of sensing, computation and wireless communication. This project aims to implement data collector application to collect the temperature data from the set of wireless sensor devices located within a building, which will help in gathering the information by finding the route with minimum number of hops to reach destination and generates low message traffic by not encouraging the duplicate message within the network. Using this application, wireless devices can communicate effectively to provide the network information to the user. This system consists of a mobile wireless sensor device called base station which is connected to a PC to communicate and is the root of the network. It also consists of set of client sensor devices which are present in different parts of the building. This project has been evaluated by determining how well the ad hoc protocol performs by measuring the number of messages and time consumed in learning about the complete topology. This application will eventually find the path with minimum number of hops. Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is also used to monitor the sensor nodes remotely. This project was developed using nesC and C programming languages with TinyOS and UNIX based operating systems. It has been tested with a sufficient number of motes and evaluated based on the number of messages generated and number of hops traveled for each route request.

A microcomputer based hardware, the Time Interval Board, was designed and the software interface control program was developed. The board measures time intervals between consecutive pulses from a discriminator output. The data is stored in on-board 16K x 16 memory. The microcomputer empties and processes the data when the on-board memory is filled. Data collection continues until the preset collection period is finished or a forced end is initiated. During this period, control is passed between the hardware and the microcomputer via the interface circuit. The designed hardware is IBM PC compatible.

Master of Science / Department of Chemistry / Christopher T. Culbertson / The study of aphid salivary secretome has practical importance on understanding interactions of aphids and their host plants. Around 250 species of aphids out of the identified 4000 aphid species are considered as serious pests. The experiments were performed with pea aphids (Acyrthosiphon pisum) that were feeding on bean plants (Vivia fabe). Pea aphids feed on plant phloem sap by probing their stylet into the sieve elements of the plant and secreting saliva for external digestion. In order to collect aphid salivary proteins from the secreted saliva, small scale and large scale sample collection methods were carried out. The small scale sample method was performed in microfluidic devices using 10-25 aphids. Aphids were able to feed on the artificial diet by probing through a stretched ParafilmTM and survived for 2-3 days in the microfluidic devices. The experiments proved that the aphid survival and feeding rate could be improved with the factors such as ventilation, light intensity and increasing diet volume. However it was difficult to collect sufficient amounts of aphid saliva for detection using small scale devices. The large scale sample collection method was performed by feeding 8000 aphids in large screened chamber for 24/48h. The collected salivary samples after undergone a concentration process was capable of collecting detectable aphid salivary secretions. The experimental conditions were adjusted to obtain optimized HPLC separations. Finally, LC/MS/MS followed by peptide sequence database searching were able to identify potential aphid salivary proteins.

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 18-21, 2004 / Town & Country Resort, San Diego, California / Reliable System Services Corporation (RSS Corp.) presents the feasibility of a low cost, low power, high capacity, robust RF Communications Network using SATCOM and UAV relays. The developed architecture will be suitable for OTH Large Area Test and Training exercises as well as applications for OTH Digital Battlefield scenarios. A specific application is shown for the planned Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) missions, although the developed architecture will have broader applications for any surface combatant requiring an Over-the-Horizon (OTH) data link to distributed players and sensors. A conceptual design for the IP network radio system will implement RSS Corp. developed secure IRIDIUM global full duplex data links and Harris Corp. developed long range high bandwidth 802.11 full duplex data links. The results will be significant, and the developed system could be a cornerstone of the future digital battlefield combat communications architecture. The developed technology will also have significant use in any application for Test, Evaluation and Training Ranges requiring net centric, command/control and wide bandwidth TLM data collection from distributed remote players and sensors.