By interviewing 10 people in leadership positions from various companies and      countries, this thesis had as main objective to find out how the view the of what environment promotes the intrapreneur to make the organizations more competitive and successful. By transcribing and interpreting the interviews, we have found the keywords that could answer our research question. Our method has been based on a qualitative approach with an inductive direction. The leadership has been shown to have a significant role in terms of company culture and the intrapreneurs ability to contribute to the development of the organizations. The culture is essential. If allowed, the intraprenur will have an impact on both strategies and operational conduct. This thesis highlights intraprenuer promotion roles within the organization.

Ultra high performance concrete, specifically Ductal® concrete, has begun to revolutionize the bridge design industry. This extremely high strength material has given smaller composite sections the ability to carry larger loads. As the forces being transferred through composite members are increasing in magnitude, it is vital that the equations being used for design are applicable for use with the new materials. Of particular importance is the design of the horizontal shear reinforcement connecting the bridge deck to the top flange of the beams. Without adequate shear transfer, the flexural and shearing capacities will be greatly diminished. The current design equations from ACI and AASHTO were not developed for use in designing sections composed of Ductal® and Lightweight concrete. Twenty-four push-off tests were performed to determine if the current horizontal shear design equations could accurately predict the horizontal shear strength of composite Ductal® and Lightweight concrete sections. Effects from various surface treatments, reinforcement ratios, and aspect ratios, were determined. The results predicted by the current design equations were compared to the actual results found during testing. The current design equations were all found to be conservative. For its ability to incorporate various cohesion and friction factors, it is recommended that the equation from AASHTO LRFD Specification (2004) be used for design. / Master of Science

This thesis presents new productivity and well testing formulae of horizontal wells. Taking a horizontal well as a uniform line source, this thesis finds velocity potential formula and the productivity formulae for a horizontal well in an ellipsoid of revolution drainage volume by solving analytically the involved three-dimensional partial differential equations. These formulae can account for the advantages of horizontal wells, and they are more accurate than other formulae which are based on two-dimensional hypotheses. This thesis also presents new well testing formulae of horizontal wells in a single porosity system and a double porosity system. Compared with the formulae published in the literature, our formulae, which do not use the sum of infinite series, are more reasonable and easy to be used in well testing analysis. / Master of Science

Thesis (M.Eng.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2005. / Bibliography: leaves 112-116.

Conjugation is a fundamentally important mechanism of horizontal DNA transfer between bacteria, bacteria x archea, and bacteria x eukaryotes. This work has concentrated on conjugation between bacteria x eukaryotes, specifically Escherichia coli x Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Four hypotheses were tested, investigating the barriers to this particular form of DNA transfer. The first investigated if a mutation that altered the cell-surface of the recipient S. cerevisiae could inhibit DNA transfer. The final three utilised a recombination-dependent-conjugation assay to investigate the barrier to DNA transmission through recombination. The hypotheses tested if the frequency of recombination, in this recombination-dependent-conjugation assay, differed when using similar or diverged DNA substrates, if a mismatch repair mutation within the recipient could affect the frequencies of recombination observed, and if the position on the plasmid of the gene of interest affected the frequency of transmission. Transmission of the Ura3 DNA sequence in the recipient S. cerevisiae was used to test all four hypotheses. The cell wall mutants mnn9, knr4, fks1 and kre6 were utilised to investigate if the cell-surface of the recipient could affect the frequency of transmission. The similar and diverged substrates utilised in the investigation of the affect of sequence similarity on recombination were the DNA sequences of ura3 from S. cerevisiae and Saccharomyces carlsbergensis, respectively and the MMR mutants utilised were msh2, pms1 and pol30-52. Cell wall mutants were not found to limit the frequency of transfer once donor-recipient contact was induced through the solid surface mating procedure. Sequence similarity, MMR and the relative position of the ura3 DNA sequence on the conjugative plasmids were shown to have little effect on the frequency of transmission in S. cerevisiae. This suggests that any DNA that enters the nucleus of S. cerevisiae (eukaryotes) can recombine with the chromosome and alter it to the same extent. However, trends within the data also suggest that DNA is transferred into the recipient and then transported to the nucleus to recombine with the chromosome as a single-stranded DNA molecule.

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「紅色供應鏈」的崛起已讓與之相關的產業人士聞之色變，近期電視新聞媒體、報章雜誌、學者專家、產業公會及相關業者都在討論「紅色供應鏈」。許多人在討論此議題時，往日的自信神態不復存在，更多的是憂心忡忡、蹙眉唏噓，言談之中「紅色供應鏈」似乎就如紅魔鬼一般可怕，隨時會將台灣廠商吞噬殆盡，一時之間風聲鶴唳，山雨欲來。 「紅色供應鏈」的崛起，其當然存在強大競爭力，其不僅對中國大陸市場俱有重大影響力，對全球其他巿場的影響亦是至關重要，近期更是對以中、小企業型態各自經營發展的台灣廠商產生重大影響。這些經過多年發展的優秀台灣廠商們，會不敵只經短短數年發展的「紅色供應鏈」而束手無策嗎?本研究想協助找出因應「紅色供應鏈」崛起的策略性方法，以供先進們參考。 經由研究發現，其實台灣廠商多年來，各自在不同領域發展，早已發展出不同的核心競爭力，因此得以在其面對的市場中生存並發展，透過水平併購策略，將台商們各自單一但具互補性的核心競爭力相加後，所產生的綜效是強大的，將讓結合後的台灣廠商競爭能力大幅度提升，甚至讓併購前個別廠商的劣勢幾乎完全消失，不只足以對抗「紅色供應鏈」，更是足以進軍甚至稱霸全球市場。

The growth of networks in international development, accelerated by communications possibilities provided by new social media, offers the potential for richer access by local groups to information and ideas on which to base development activities. However, a long history of participation in development shows that information is often imparted in a top down way, vesting control and power in institutions external to the local groups who wish to make use of it. Frameworks for social learning such as Communities of Practice tend to focus on collaborative learning from experience, rather than such a 'top down' transmission of information, offering the possibility that they may enable horizontal learning between geographically distributed groups linked by social media. Through a three year co-operative enquiry within the newly established Global Network for Disaster Reduction, this action research investigates whether horizontal learning employing social media can enable this network to share learning and thereby support grassroots development. The research finds that the structure and relationships within such an internationally distributed network lead to a qualitatively different mode of learning framed as a Community of Praxis. It proposes that this framework can be further elaborated and applied within network contexts to encourage the possibility of a different emphasis in development.

Tese de mestrado. Mestrado integrado em Engenharia Civil - Especialização em Vias de Comunicação. Faculdade de Engenharia. Universidade do Porto. 2012