Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-12T17:42:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 arquivo7488_1.pdf: 2696600 bytes, checksum: c580dacde3637e2e5e3b13d9ba753aab (MD5) license.txt: 1748 bytes, checksum: 8a4605be74aa9ea9d79846c1fba20a33 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / Atualmente, as empresas estão se tornando cada vez mais dependentes de informações para alcançarem seus objetivos institucionais. As empresas privadas precisam de informações para competir no mercado; as públicas, para garantir o bem estar da população. Em qualquer caso, a área de tecnologia da informação (TI) exerce um papel fundamental que é o de apoiar a estratégia empresarial. No entanto, evidências históricas têm mostrado que as empresas falham ao investir nessa área, seja por ineficiência no seu modelo de gestão ou no de governança. Ademais, nem sempre esses investimentos são vistos pelos executivos como justificáveis, considerando que, muitas vezes, eles tendem a fixar atenção apenas no retorno financeiro que da tecnologia da informação pode advir. Faltam, neste caso, métricas não financeiras capazes de avaliar a contribuição dessa área à organização. Este trabalho apresenta um modelo de governança de TI, baseado no Balanced Scorecard e Quality Function Deployment. Tais ferramentas serão utilizadas no planejamento da função, de forma a alinhá-lo à estratégia do negócio, dotá-lo de métricas de avaliação e identificar as necessidades de sistemas informações para, finalmente, priorizar investimentos. Concluindo, será apresentado um estudo de caso com a área de TI da Secretaria de Defesa Social de Pernambuco

Purpose: Describe the perceptions of military registered nurses (RNs) on being prepared to provide nursing care during a deployment. Background: Injuries sustained by war are different from trauma-related injuries occurring within the Unites States. Nurses who provide care during overseas deployment encounter patients with poly-trauma, multiple and highly complex injuries; consequently, this type of nursing requires strong clinical skills beyond what is required in stateside facilities. Additionally, military nurses undergo intense stress related to overseas deployment in a war zone. In fact, military medical providers have one of the highest rates of post-traumatic stress post-deployment. Methods: This project employed a qualitative, case study approach. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with military RNs who worked as nurses during overseas deployment. A script was developed to guide the interview, and further discussion stemmed from participant responses. Recorded interviews were transcribed into text and analyzed for commonalities. Findings: Five military nurses who previously provided nursing care during overseas employment participated in this study. Commonalities included the realization that higher acuity injuries are seen in a deployed setting versus a military stateside hospital. Participants also shared fears that they would not be prepared enough to provide excellent patient care. Another commonality was not knowing how to prepare for an unknown experience. A positive commonality was the sense of pride expressed by the participants regarding their military service and deployment experience. All participants outlined what they had learned and what might have helped them to better prepare for deployment. Unanimously, more clinically relevant training was recommended. The participants shared that they had grown and changed from their deployment experience. Implications: All five participants felt a gap in perceived adequate pre-deployment preparation. They believed they lacked the training to care for the high acuity patients they would encounter during overseas deployment; this shook their self-confidence and caused them to worry about being an effective team member. Military preparedness programs should be expanded to include skills and knowledge relevant to nursing in high acuity, hostile environments. Research looking at the personal preparations, specifically mental and emotional, of military members may be helpful in determining any links between mental resilience and the development of PTSD.

Since the beginning of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, more than 2 million military-connected children experienced separation from a parent due to a military deployment. The purpose of this study was to identify and build upon the tools and techniques used by social workers when providing services to military children during a parental deployment. Bowen’s family systems theory provided the conceptual framework for this study. Family systems theory relies on the belief that military families are interdependent of one another and to fully understand what may be happening with military youth; social workers must look at and understand the entire family system. The questions that guided this study were designed to explore the tools and techniques social workers use to help military children understand deployment, reduce the adverse effects they may experience, and assist them to become more resilient during a parental military deployment. Data collection consisted of a focus group of 7 social workers providing services to military youth. Overall, participants noted a positive impact with current resources that are available for military youth and families during all phases of deployment. The lack of funding for additional resources were noted as limitations to effective practice with military youth during a deployment. The study has the potential to contribute to social change and improve services provided to military children and their families by increasing understanding of the emotional well-being and resiliency of military youth who experience parental deployments. The military can use the information from this study to provide more culturally competent support programs to military families during every stage of deployment.

The elderly social care IT company Phoniro is developing solutions for deploying software using docker technologies. To secure quality in their deploy pipelines Phoniro would like to do automatic selenium testing within Docker containers. The project should set the framework and required technical solution to enable this and also run some basic test including suitable reporting on test success. This is a concept that is new to Phoniro that would allow them, if proven, to automate testing in a safe environment, and pushing their web applications to deployment faster. The purpose is to prove this concept by creating a framework that will easily let the user run web applications inside a Docker container. Then run this framework inside of a pipeline to see the testing capabilities. The user is supposed to be able to do this without any previous knowledge of how docker works. We have developed a framework in Python that enables the user to build and run their web application inside a docker container. We built a pipeline and connected it to the repository with the source code for the web application. The framework is run inside the pipeline to start the container, followed by simple selenium tests that we created to test the concept. We have proven the concept to run and test web applications in docker containers inside of pipelines to work. It is possible connect a web application in development to a repository, connect it to a pipeline and have it automatically test the application every time a change is made to the source code. By designing proper selenium tests the pipeline can save a lot of time and effort that is otherwise spent on manual testing

The recent allocation and auctioning of the largest spectrum currently available has positioned Local Multipoint Distribution Service (LMDS) technology as a major contender in the race to provide broadband connectivity to customers. With the focus on solving the "Last Mile" problem, LMDS provides a significant reduction in both the time it takes for system deployment as well as the cost of the implementation. However, as with all emerging technologies, the lack of standardization and the risks involved in being the pioneer of an emerging market have resulted in a slower commercialization of such systems. The issues mentioned above served as the catalyst for this paper, to examine the factors that affect deployment strategies for an LMDS system in a rural commercial environment. In order to provide a better understanding of this technology, a review on the background issues in the areas of terrain, coverage/capacity, and networking will be presented. By evaluating these criteria, a strategy that can be employed to facilitate the implementation of LMDS systems is generated. Finally, the application of these methodologies will be demonstrated on a case study performed for a commercial environment in the county of South Boston, Virginia. Through evaluating the possible designs and the feasibility of the business case, it was determined that a point-to-multipoint system will best match the needs of the proposed location. / Master of Science

Deploying unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks to provide coverage for outdoor users has attracted great attention during the last decade. Terrain information requires extensive attention in outdoor UAV networks, and it is one of the most important factors affecting coverage performance. Providing tractable models and common methods is necessary to generalize the terrain-based outdoor UAV positioning strategies. In this thesis, we demonstrate that UAVs can provide stable coverage for regularly moving users based on the existing local terrain reconstruction methods with UAV sampling. Next, a coarse-grained UAV deployment can be performed with a simple set of parameters that characterize the terrain features. A stochastic geometry framework can provide general analytical results for the above coarse-grained UAV networks. In addition, the UAV can avoid building blockage without prior terrain information through real-time linear-trajectory search. We proposed four algorithms related to the combinations of collecting prior terrain information and using real-time search, and then their performances are evaluated and compared in different scenarios. By adjusting the height of the UAV based on terrain information collected before networking, the performance is significantly enhanced compared to the one when no terrain information is available. The algorithm based on real-time search further improves the coverage performance by avoiding the shadow of buildings. During the execution of the real-time search algorithm, the search distance is reduced using the collected terrain information.

A review of literature, coupled with years of personal clinical experience treating combat veterans, particularly those serving in National Guard and Reserves, indicates a dearth of research on the impact repeated combat deployments have on veterans in their family relationships. Reintegration problems are too often manifested as work/life readjustment stress, family role adjustment issues, relational dysfunction, child neglect and abuse, and domestic violence. These pressing problems highlight the need for greater focus by behavioral health, healthcare, federal agencies and other non-governmental organizations to create reintegration protocols and programs that enable combat veterans to more successfully reintegrate within their marital and family relationships. This qualitative study utilized a single case-study approach to explore spousal perceptions of marital and family relationship disturbances resulting from repeated combat deployment and reintegration of long-term active-duty service members. Although based on the responses from one military spouse, four themes emerged from this study that are likely to be common for other spouses and families who live through repeated deployment cycles: choice, progression, adaptability, and acceptance. Based on these thematic findings, there must be a greater focus on feedback, insights, and constructive suggestions directly from service members, their spouses and children as related to coping more successfully with repeated deployments and reintegration cycles. The results of this research are expected to be useful for military officials, governmental agencies, counselors, educators, and other mental health service providers who engage with this at-risk population of service member and their families about more effective educational and treatment options that can improve comprehensive services. / Doctor of Education / A review of literature, coupled with years of personal clinical experience treating combat veterans, particularly those serving in National Guard and Reserves, indicates a lack of research on the impact repeated combat deployments have on veterans in their family relationships. Reintegration problems are too often manifested as work/life readjustment stress, family role adjustment issues, relational dysfunction, child neglect and abuse, and domestic violence. These pressing problems highlight the need for greater focus by behavioral health, healthcare, federal agencies and other non-governmental organizations to create reintegration protocols and programs that enable combat veterans to more successfully reintegrate within their marital and family relationships. This qualitative study utilized a single case-study approach to explore spousal perceptions of marital and family relationship disturbances resulting from repeated combat deployment and reintegration of long-term active-duty service members.

Gender is a context by which males and females are socialized. Social stereotypes based on gender influence emotional expressions. This study examined the emotional expression and adjustment of male and female adolescents who have experienced military deployment. Group interviews were held and transcripts were analyzed for gender differences in frequency and adherence to social display rules. The relationship of emotional expression and adjustment was also analyzed. Findings support the existence of gender differences in frequency of emotional expression, specifically that males had lower frequency of emotional expression in the interview. However, this study did not support adherence to social display rules. Males and females in the study expressed emotions that were both typical and atypical of display rules. Gender differences in adjustment were not found in this study. Clinical implications, limitations to research, and future research suggestions are also given. / Master of Science

This study examined the processes associated with bonadaptation and maladaptation among adolescents with a deployed military parent. Specifically, this inquiry explored general themes of adaptation as well as those that are associated with the phenomenon of ambiguous loss. To examine the data this qualitative study used the constant comparative as well as modified analytic induction. Focus groups of 107 adolescents ranging in age from 11 to 15 were used to find five high adjustment adolescents and five low adjustment adolescents. This study found that common themes from each group included parental deployment status and frequency; formal and informal supports; changes in discipline; coping and stress reduction; changes in living arrangements; and contact with the deployed parents. This study found that there were commonalities within the members of the group and differences between the two groups themselves. It was also discovered that both groups exhibited indicators of ambiguous loss but were at different ends of the adjustment continuum. This study attributes this difference to the utilization of formal and informal supports as well as positive meanings attached to the deployment due to perceived benefits of the parent being deployed. / Master of Science

No / This paper presents a novel taxonomy of the critical success factors in enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation process. ERP benefits cannot be fully realised unless a strong alignment and reconciliation mechanism is established between technical and organisational imperatives based on the principles of process orientation. It is suggested in the taxonomy that measurement takes place in a balanced perspective, and for the purpose of providing useful information that can enable the decision making process and, which can help deliver the corporate objectives and therefore lead the business competitively forward. Upon this premise, the taxonomy is based on a comprehensive analysis of ERP literature combining research studies and organisational experiences. The taxonomy reflects the essential features of ERP systems, as being built based on the principles of business process management. Furthermore, it illustrates that ERP benefits are realised when a tight link is established between implementation approach and business process performance measures.