Thesis--University of Minnesota, 1925. / Vita. Running title: Rural trade centers and farm supplies.

Dissertation (MBus) -- AUT University, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references. Also held in print (88 leaves ; 30 cm.) in the Archive at the City Campus (T 381.45663 WEN)

Thesis (M.S.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1993. / Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 61-62). Also available via the Internet.

Thesis (M.Phil.) - University of Queensland, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2006. / Title from PDF title page screen. Advisor: Barbara Dyer ; submitted to the School of Human Environmental Sciences. Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-180).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2006. / Advisor: Leisa Flynn, Florida State University, College of Business, Dept. of Marketing. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Sept. 19, 2006). Document formatted into pages; contains xiii, 129 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

Η εν λόγω διπλωματική εργασία έχει ως αντικείμενο τον σχεδιασμό και τη δημιουργία ενός ηλεκτρονικού καταστήματος, που θα διαθέτει προς πώληση προϊόντα που θα εξυπηρετούν τις ανάγκες του συνόλου των επαγγελματιών που σχετίζονται είτε άμεσα είτε έμμεσα με τη γεωργία και την κτηνοτροφία, συστατικά στοιχεία του Πρωτογενούς Τομέα παραγωγής. Εν αρχή παρουσιάζονται οι Υπηρεσίες και οι Τεχνολογίες του Διαδικτύου, οι οποίες εξελίσσονται ταχύτατα και παράλληλα συμβάλλουν στην ανάπτυξη της μορφής του εμπορίου που είναι γνωστή με τα ονόματα “Ηλεκτρονικό Εμπόριο” ή “e-Επιχειρείν”, τη μορφή δηλαδή της πώλησης προϊόντων μέσα από το Διαδίκτυο, δημιουργώντας έναν δικτυακό χώρο που θα περιλαμβάνει τις δυνατότητες και θα παρέχει τις υπηρεσίες που απαιτούνται για την ολοκληρωμένη λειτουργία ενός καταστήματος. Ο συνδυασμός των τεχνολογιών αυτών δημιουργεί εργαλεία που μας βοηθούν όχι μόνο να τις κατανοήσουμε καλύτερα, αλλά και ταυτόχρονα δημιουργείται ένα πιο φιλικό περιβάλλον εργασίας, με αποτέλεσμα την αυξανόμενη εξοικείωση των χρηστών που επιθυμούν να ασχοληθούν με το συγκεκριμένο αντικείμενο. Αν τώρα στα παραπάνω συνυπολογίσουμε τη ραγδαία αύξηση της κοινωνικής δικτύωσης, μπορούμε εύκολα να αντιληφθούμε πως, προσθέτοντας στο ηλεκτρονικό μας κατάστημα μία σύνδεση με ένα μέσο κοινωνικής δικτύωσης, τότε έχουμε πραγματοποιήσει ένα μεγάλο βήμα προς την ταχεία διάδοση του καταστήματος και των προϊόντων του, και μάλιστα χωρίς καμία συνδρομή για δημιουργία διαφημίσεων. Στο πρώτο μέρος της υλοποίησης κατασκευάζουμε ένα ηλεκτρονικό κατάστημα με χρήση των τεχνολογιών του Διαδικτύου, ξεκινώντας από το σχεδιασμό και τη δημιουργία της βάσης δεδομένων μας κι έπειτα δημιουργούμε τις συναρτήσεις (functions) εκείνες που δημιουργούν τις λειτουργίες που θα έχει το κατάστημα, ενώ στη συνέχεια δημιουργούμε τη διεπαφή με τον χρήστη-πελάτη, αλλά και με τον διαχειριστή, που θα αναλάβει τη συντήρηση, ενημέρωση και ορθή λειτουργία του ηλεκτρονικού καταστήματος. Στο δεύτερο μέρος της υλοποίησης, χρησιμοποιούμε ένα Σύστημα Διαχείρισης Περιεχομένου (Content Management System - CMS) που είναι ένα από τα εργαλεία που έχουν δημιουργηθεί για την ταχύτερη δημιουργία και ανάπτυξη δικτυακών τόπων. Θα δημιουργήσουμε και πάλι ένα ηλεκτρονικό κατάστημα με προϊόντα σχετικά με τον πρωτογενή τομέα και θα δώσουμε τη δυνατότητα στον πελάτη-χρήστη να διαμοιράζεται το περιεχόμενο, τις λεπτομέρειες του κάθε προϊόντος στο μέσο κοινωνικής δικτύωσης Facebook, ώστε να επιτύχουμε σε μεγαλύτερο βαθμό προώθηση και διαφήμιση των προϊόντων που πωλούνται από το κατάστημά μας. Σε αυτό θα μας βοηθήσει η εγκατάσταση και διαχείριση μίας εφαρμογής ηλεκτρονικού εμπορίου που είναι στοιχείο του CMS που εγκαταστήσαμε. Τέλος, περιγράφεται η διαδικασία που ακολουθείται για το uploading των αρχείων που έχουμε δημιουργήσει, ώστε το κατάστημα από τον προσωπικό μας υπολογιστή να είναι διαθέσιμο στο Διαδίκτυο, εκεί που θα μπορεί να προσφέρει τις υπηρεσίες στους χρήστες. / This thesis deals with the design and creation of an online store which will have as object the sale of products that serve the needs of both customers and professionals who are associated directly or indirectly with agriculture and livestock production, basic components of the Primary Production Sector. In the beginning the services and Technologies of the Internet are demonstrated. Internet technologies are evolving very rapidly and at the same time contribute to the development of a form of trade which is known by the names "e-Commerce" or "e-business" the form of the products sale through the Internet, by creating a website that will include the features and will provide the services required for integrated operation of an online store. The combination of these technologies creates tools that help us not only to understand them better, but at the same time it creates a more friendly interface, resulting in the increasing familiarity of users who wish to deal with this subject. In addition to this, if we count in the rapid growth of social networking, we can easily understand that, by adding the possibility of a social networking tool to our online store, we'll have taken a big step towards the speedy promotion of the shop and its products, even without any assistance for creating ads. In the first part of the implementation, we create an online store using Internet technologies, starting from planning and creating our database and the functions that represent the store's services and then creating the user's and administrator's interface, who will assume the maintenance, update and correct operation of the store. In the second part of the implementation, we'll use a Content Management System (CMS), one of the tools that have been created for faster web development. Again we will create an online store with products of the Primary Production Sector and will give the possibility to the customer to share the content of each product in Facebook, in order to achieve a greater degree of promotion and advertising of the products of our store. In this we'll have the support of installation and management of an e-commerce application which is a component of the CMS we are about to use. Finally, the process used for the created files uploading is described, so that the store will work on the Internet, where it will be able to offer the services to the users.

Recently, automotive industry recorded decrease of their profits. In these days, however, the situation has improved since the neighbouring countries have approved car-scrapping bonuses. Thanks to it, cheaper branches increased their sales more rapidly. The automotive companies' suppliers are thus to enlarge their stocks so as to satisfy the companies' demand. Having sufficient reserves of goods became nowadays an indispensable part of their property. The aim of this thesis, which I called ``Purchase, processing and sales of goods in an automotive company``, is to analyze the complications connected with purchase, processing and sales of goods in the Edscha Bohemia s.r.o. automotive company. The goods are accounted according to the A-method. The purchased goods are priced with their purchase prices. When the goods are delivered from stock, weighted average method is then used. Smaller assets up to 3000 CZK is included in consumption costs. When purchasing goods, account no. 111 is not used as usually; stock account no. 112 is used instead. In my opinion, the company uses a well-designed stock-accounting system: the analytical accounts system, which is used by the company, makes the accounting process more effective. In Germany, sub-accounts are being used for the stocks, which makes their accounts more effective than the accounts in the Czech Republic are; they are using special sub-accounts for empties, compensations for defective goods, and also secondary purchase costs. The rest of the assets from those sub-accounts are transferred to root accounts at the end of the accounting period. If I had the chance to influence the stock-accounting system in the Czech Republic, I would definitely open sub-accounts for stock accounts. From this place, I could only recommend the accounting entities using as many analytical accounts as possible. In my opinion, in general, when analyses are being utilised, accounting with them becomes more effective, and is of a good service then.

Context: Mobile application stores like Google Play, Apple store, Windows store have over 3 million apps. Users download the applications from their respective stores and they generally prefer the apps with the highest ratings. In response to the present situation, application stores provided the categories like editor’s choice or top charts, providing better visibility for the applications. Customer reviews play such critical role in the development of the application and the organization, in such case there might be flawed reviews or biased opinions about the application due to many factors. The biased opinions and flawed reviews are likely to cause user review untrustworthiness. The reviews or ratings in the mobile application stores are used by the organizations to make the applications more efficient and more adaptable to the user. The context leads to importance of the user’s review trustworthiness and managing the trustworthiness in the user feedback by knowing the causes of mistrust. Hence, there is a need for a framework to understand the trustworthiness in the user given feedback. Objectives: In the following study the author aims for the accomplishment of the following objectives, firstly, exploring the causes of untrustworthiness in user feedback for an application in the mobile application stores such as google play store. Secondly, Exploring the effects of trustworthiness on the users and developers. Finally, the aim is to propose a framework for managing the trustworthiness in the feedback. Methods: To accomplish the objectives, author used qualitative research method. The data collection method is an interview-based survey that was conducted with 13 participants, to find out the causes of untrustworthiness in the user feedback from user’s perspective and developer’s perspective. Author follows thematic coding for qualitative data analysis. Results:Author identifies 11 codes from the description of the transcripts and explores the relationship among the trustworthiness with the causes. 11 codes were put into 4 themes, and a thematic network is created between the themes. The relations were then analyzed with cost-effect analysis. Conclusions: We conclude that 11 causes effect the trustworthiness according to user’s perspective and 9 causes effect the trustworthiness according to the developer’s perspective, from the analysis. Segregating the trustworthy feedback from the untrustworthy feedback is important for the developers, as the next releases should be planned based on that. Finally, an inclusion and exclusion criteria to help developers manage trustworthy user feedback is defined.

A questão ambiental e de higiene no trabalho é cada vez mais reconhecida e cobrada pela sociedade civil e pelos órgãos do governo em todas as suas instâncias. Alguns dos pátios de estocagem de minérios, que hoje estão a céu aberto, poderão precisar no futuro serem fechados para atender às normas ambientais cada vez mais rígidas, cobradas pela sociedade através dos órgãos ambientais de controle, que almejam que pátios de armazenamento tenham estanqueidade similar aos silos ou que haja um sistema de contenção de poeira e material particulado eficiente. Uma das saídas viáveis para esta questão é a estocagem do minério em galpões confinados, que demandam um custo de implantação mais elevado mas, que por outro lado, têm um baixo custo operacional. Nos pátios que possuírem fechamento, a iluminação passa a ser uma questão primordial, uma vez que proverá condições de funcionamento à produção, principalmente em caso de trabalho ininterrupto durante 24h. Desta forma, passam a ser consideradas, não somente as questões de segurança, como também de uma iluminação que estimule a produtividade através de um nível maior de iluminância, maior contraste, menor ofuscamento e seja confortável para as tarefas que serão realizadas no ambiente. Em áreas nas quais o material particulado é altamente combustível, tais como pátios de carvão mineral, uma iluminação adequada e segura é questão fundamental, pois se mal projetada, pode ser ignitora de incêndios, explosões e trágicos desastres acometendo trabalhadores e o ambiente de trabalho. Este trabalho é composto por uma extensiva revisão bibliográfica. A primeira parte apresenta os conceitos de iluminação; a segunda trata da higiene e segurança no trabalho, com ênfase no agente físico iluminação. A terceira parte comenta as normas nacionais e internacionais relacionadas à iluminação e analisa às suas solicitações. A quarta parte versa sobre áreas classificadas e atmosferas explosivas, procurando discriminar em linhas simples o que são áreas classificadas, quais os critérios envolvidos, os riscos de ignição de poeiras mais comuns e normas relacionadas a estas áreas. Na quinta parte comenta-se sobre a iluminação de galpões em áreas industriais, relacionando os critérios a serem utilizados para um projeto adequado. Na sexta parte o trabalho cita equipamentos de iluminação, lâmpadas e luminárias com aplicação industrial disponíveis no mercado. Por fim, apresenta-se de um estudo de caso realizado em uma empresa do interior de São Paulo que possui pátios para estocagem de carvão em pó, analisando-se os resultados através de dados obtidos no local e da medição dos níveis de iluminância, efetuada em horários alternados. Tais dados foram comparados às normas e recomendações de boas práticas para concluir sobre a adequação da iluminação do galpão e alternativas para solução dos problemas encontrados foram propostas. A conclusão a que se chega é que é possível contribuir para uma melhora significativa nas instalações que provêm iluminação em galpões de minérios, padronizando-as, fazendo uma manutenção adequada, substituindo equipamentos obsoletos e observando-se as normas, visando o aumento de produtividade, segurança e conforto dos trabalhadores. Estas ações implicam ainda em economia e um menor consumo de energia, cooperando com a sustentabilidade ambiental e atendendo a requisitos da família das normas NBR ISSO 14.000. / Environmental questions, occupational health and safety management are each time, more recognized and required by civil society and public agencies in all levels. Some of the ore stores that are opened today will need in the future to be closed to comply with stronger environmental regulations, required by society through controlling environmental agencies. Those agencies require the stores to be air tight or to have an efficient system of dust and particulate airbone. One feasible possibility for this question is the storage of the ore in closed sheds, which demand a higher cost of implementation, but on the other hand, it has a low cost of operation. In closed stores, the lighting is very important, since it provides necessary conditions for the workers productivity, particularly in the case of a continuous twenty four hour working day. Also, in addition to safety management, there are questions which should be considered, namely, an adjusted illumination that stimulates productivity, throughout higher illuminance, higher contrast, less glare and at the same time is comfortable for the tasks that will be carried through that environment. In environments in which the particulate material is highly combustible, such as coal stores, an adequate and safety illumination is an elementary question and if badly designed, can cause fires, explosions and tragic disasters that can injure people and destroy the working area. This work was composed by reference to an extensive bibliographical revision. The first part is a review of lighting concepts; the second refers to health and safety matters, security in the work place and also reference to the lighting. The third part highlights the national and international rules for lighting and analyzes it\'s requests. The fourth part deal with hazardous areas and explosive atmospheres, and explains in simple terms what are classified areas, which are the criteria involved, the risks of common different types of dusts and related regulations. The fifth part explains about lighting of industrial stores, with related criteria used in an adequate lighting design standard. In the sixth part it outlines the selection of lighting fixtures, light bulbs and lighting ancillaries used for industrial applications available in the market. A case in a company in the state of São Paulo, that possesses storage facilities of coal dust was carried out. The results were analyzed through data collected throughout the store and the measurement of the illumination realized at different times of the day. Such data was compared to rules, regulations and best practices in order to decide on lighting adequacy of the store and alternatives to solve the encountered problems were proposed. The conclusion is that it is possible to contribute to a significant improvement in the installations that provide illumination in the ore stores by, standardizing them, providing adequate maintenance, substituting obsolete equipment and observing rules and regulations. These measures increases the productivity, security and comfort of the workers. This action also results in cost savings, less energy consumption and ensures cooperation with environmental sustainability and complies with the requirements of NBR ISO 14.000 series.