El texto completo de este trabajo no está disponible en el Repositorio Académico UPC por restricciones de la casa editorial donde ha sido publicado. / The department with the greatest economic dependence on the fruit is Ancash, and the Province of Casma is most important in production, as it only produces mango; however, at the productivity level, is a marked difference of 8.2 t/ha compared to the highest worldwide producer, Mexico. Taking this data into consideration, an analysis of the MSEs producing mango in Casma was conducted and problems were seen in the management of resources and processes, both at the levels of planning and control. Considering the problems of MSEs from Casma, a basic Production Planning and Control model was designed based on Process Management and agricultural best practices. The model consists of applying process management tools, such as the flow diagram, the SIPOC turtle, data sheet indicators, procedures, and formats for each sub-process, all with the aim of better understanding the proposal’s development and increasing the productivity of MSEs.

The purpose of this paper was: (1) To compare the number of years of formal education of participants in the Latter-Day Saints Indian Student Placement Program with those that had not participated. (2) To see if the number of years a student participates in the Indian Student Placement Program had an effect on the amount of formal education he receives. (3) To compare the future educational and employment plans of the two groups. (4) To see how students evaluated their educational program. The results showed no differences between the two groups in number of years of formal education, future educational and employment plans. The majority of students preferred the Latter-Day Saints Indian Student Placement Program as an educational program whether they had been participants or not.

Teachers and administrators in a Title I elementary school in a southeastern state are concerned that there has been a trend over the past 3 years of declining standardized assessment scores in mathematics for students in Grades 3, 4, and 5. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore teachers' perceptions of practices, and professional development (PD) for differentiating mathematics instruction. This study was grounded in the conceptual framework of Vygotsky's zone of proximal development and Tomlinson's differentiated instruction (DI). Purposeful sampling was used to select 8 teachers and 1 mathematics coach, who worked with students in Grades 3, 4, and 5 at the target school. Data were collected through interviews and classrooms observations with participants. Open coding and thematic analysis were used to identify emergent themes from the data. The key findings were that, while some teachers attempted to differentiate mathematics instruction for struggling students, the participants felt they needed more PD related to specific strategies for differentiation and more planning time to collaborate with other educators in order to implement differentiated instruction effectively for all students. In response to these findings, a PD project was created for teachers in Grades 3, 4, and 5 to involve them in construction of a variety of strategies for planning and implementing differentiated instruction in mathematics. Positive social change might occur when teachers feel supported by the district to schedule ongoing opportunities to collaboratively plan and implement effective differentiated mathematics instruction to advance students' mathematics achievement in the local Title I school.

Tyrimo objektas – apskaitos politikos formavimas įmonėje. Darbo tikslas – nustačius veiksnius, sąlygojančius apskaitos politikos pasirinkimą, sudaryti apskaitos politikos pasirinkimo pelno atžvilgiu modelį ir patikrinti jo tinkamumą Lietuvos įmonėse. Uždaviniai: 1) nustatyti pelną didinančios/mažinančios apskaitos politikos pasirinkimą sąlygojančius veiksnius; 2) išskirti ir nustatyti pelną didinančius ir pelną mažinančius apskaitos metodus, kuriuos pasirinkdamos įmonės formuoja savo apskaitos politiką; 3) sudaryti apskaitos politikos pasirinkimo pelno atžvilgiu modelį ir patikrinti jo tinkamumą Lietuvoje veikiančiose įmonėse; 4) patikrinti hipotezes, kurių priėmimas ar atmetimas gali parodyti teigiamą ar neigiamą ryšį tarp įmonės rodiklių ir pelną didinančių/mažinančių apskaitos metodų ir būdų pasirinkimo. Tyrimo metodai – mokslinės ir teisinės literatūros analizė ir sintezė, palyginimo, apibendrinimo, loginis ir grafinis modeliavimas. Išanalizavus lietuvių ir užsienio autorių darbus bei apskaitą reglamentuojančius norminius aktus, sudarytas apskaitos politikos pasirinkimo pelno atžvilgiu modelis, kuriame atsispindi ryšys tarp veiksnių, sąlygojančių apskaitos politikos pasirinkimą, ir apskaitos metodų, kurie lemia pelną didinančios/mažinančios apskaitos politikos formavimą įmonėje. Sudaryto modelio tinkamumas buvo tikrinamas Lietuvos įmonėse. / The object of the research is accounting policy formation in a company. The aim of the research is when the factors which influence the choice of accounting policy will be identified, prepare theoretical model of accounting policy choice in point of income and test this model in Lithuanian companies. Objectives: 1) To assign factors influencing income increasing/decreasing accounting policy choice. 2) To except and assign income increasing and income decreasing accounting methods, with this selection a company can form it’s accounting policy. 3) To make a model of accounting policy choice in point of income, and check how this model fit in Lithuanian companies. 4) To test hypotheses, which can show negative or positive relationship between factors, influencing accounting policy choice, and income increasing/decreasing accounting methods choice? The research methods include science and legislation literature analysis and synthesis, comparison, generalization, logical and graphical modeling. After analysis of Lithuanian and foreign literature and regulation of accounting policy, was made accounting policy choice in point of income model, which shows the connection between factors influencing accounting policy choice and accounting methods, which determine income increasing/decreasing accounting policy formation in a company. This model’s possibilities of adaptation were verified in Lithuanian companies.

In wastewater management big variations in flowrates, caused by precipitation, leads to high peak loads forcing treatment facilities to maintain large over capacity. Wastewater management is a capital-intensive industry, meaning that new investments are costly and should therefore be avoided. But as peak load levels increase and stricter regulations are imposed it becomes increasingly hard to maintain sufficient reduction rates and facilities are likely to face new investments if the highest flowrates can’t be reduced. One way to reduce flowrates is to charge higher prices for the peak loads through an efficient tariff design. This thesis includes a literature review to define what constitutes an efficient tariff and then moves on to develop a model including marginal cost pricing and increasing block tariff design that examine how the marginal cost price is affected by constructing the tariff in different ways. The results show that the marginal price can be significantly increased by adapting this approach compared to a two part tariff with one fixed and one variable part which is commonly used by wastewater utilities today. The biggest deciding factor will be how the marginal block is defined.

Fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) composites have been used for strengthening concrete structures since early 1990s. More recently, FRP has been used for retrofitting concrete structures for high energy events such as impact and blast. Debonding at the FRP-to-concrete interface is one of the predominant failure modes for both static and dynamic loading. Although extensive research has been conducted on the static bond behaviour, the bond-slip mechanics under high strain rates is not well understood yet. This thesis is mainly concerned with the FRP-to-concrete bond behaviour under dynamic loading. Because debonding mostly occurs in the concrete adjacent to the FRP, the behaviour of concrete is of crucial importance for the FRP-to-concrete bond behaviour. The early emphasis of this thesis is thus on the meso-scale concrete modelling of concrete with appropriate consideration of static and dynamic properties. Issues related to FE modelling of tensile and compressive localization of concrete are first investigated in detail under static condition using the K&C concrete damage model in LS-DYNA. It is discovered for the first time that dilation of concrete plays an important role in the FRP-to-concrete bond behaviour. This has led to the development of a model relating the shear dilation factor to the concrete strength based on the modelling of a large number of static FRP-to-concrete shear tests, forming the basis for dynamic modelling. Concrete dynamic increasing factor (DIF) has been a subject of extensive investigation and debate for many years, but it is for the first time discovered in this study that mesh objectivity cannot be achieved in meso-scale modelling of concrete under high strain rate deformation. This has led to the development of a mesh and strain rate dependent concrete tension DIF model. This DIF model shall have wide applications in meso-scale modelling of concrete, not limited to the topic in this thesis. Based on a detailed numerical investigation of the FRP-to-concrete bond shear test under different loading rates, taking on the above issues into careful consideration, a slip rate dependent FRP-to-concrete dynamic bond-slip model is finally proposed for the first time. The FE predictions deploring this proposed bond-slip model are compaed with test results of a set of FRP-to-concrete bonded specimens under impact loading, and a FRP plated slab under blast loading, validating the model.

This paper deals with the definition of Corporate Communication and the specifics of telephonic communication with the customer, and further definition of the Process and Process Management focused on process analysis ,which is part of the practical part. Extensive section is devoted to practical study. The benefit of this paper is a comprehensive view at the business model of BEZREKLAMKY s.r.o. The paper deals with analyzing the present state of business model, under which are determined possibilities to increase the efficiency of the process. The last part is devoted to assess the advisability of establishing cooperation at a distance by phone. This process is designed with all the formalities so that it can be directly imlplemented into the current model.

Esta dissertação procurou localizar, identificando e analisando por meio do espaço, como a espacialização da globalização econômica (setor financeiro e de serviços) na cidade de São Paulo, especificamente no centro Berrini, contribuiu para fragmentar ou para desdobrar a centralidade de São Paulo. Nosso objeto de pesquisa foram as possíveis relações e os impactos que o Centro Berrini considerado como uma área das mais recentes na cidade de São Paulo a concentrar um significativo afluxo de investimentos para escritórios de empresas transnacionais, \"um centro de negócios mundial\", estabeleceu e desencadeou provocando ou não transformações em relação ao Centro e a centralidade da Cidade de São Paulo. A globalização da economia influenciou em várias cidades mundiais a formação ou criação de centros com as chamadas atividades do Terciário Moderno (setor de serviços e financeiro) de forma muito semelhante ao que ocorre no Centro Berrini. No entanto, mesmo com o afluxo de investimentos globais, sua gênese não pode ser entendida sem a articulação com o processo de crescimento e expansão urbana da cidade, o desdobramento de sua centralidade que continua a acontecer, de tal forma, que a centralidade expande alcançando áreas que antes eram consideradas como fazendo parte da periferia. O resultado é um novo conflito sócio - espacial induzido por um modelo de produção em que a centralidade econômica ocupa espaços antes periféricos. E, de forma contraditória e desigual, nesses espaços parcelas da população tenta resistir e às vezes incorporando ações e valores do próprio modelo que a produziu. / This dissertation is centred upon identifying and analysing through the space idea how the economic and global spaciousness (financial and trade centres) at São Paulo city, specifically at Berrini center, had been contributing to fragment or increase São Paulo\'s centrality. Our research\'s object focus the possibles relations and impacts that the Berrini centre, considered as the newest area in the city of São Paulo that concentrates a significative investment affluences to world-wide business offices, \"a world business center\", had established and incremented by causing or not transformations between the Centre itself and the centrality of São Paulo. The economic globalization had influenced on many cities of the world the formation or creation of centers whose activities is kown as Modern Third (trade and financial sectors) in the same way that occurs at Berrini centre. Otherwise even with the global investments affluences its genesis can\'t be understand without the articulation with the growing process and the urban expansion of the city , the improvement of its centrality that\'s still being done in such a way that the centrality increases reaching out areas that former were considered as being part of periphery. So the consequence is a new spacious and social conflict induced by a production model where the economic centrality occurs in spaces before considered peripheral. And in a contradictory and unequal way on these spaces some kind of the population intends to resist by incorporating sometimes moral principles and actions of the same model that had created it.

The purpose of this thesis is analysis process of increasing financial resources on the foreign exchange market. This thesis is devided into two parts. Firts part gives basic information about foreign exchange market. Operative part contains analysis steps of entering into foreign exchange market and trading system aplied in real market.

The non-increasing rearrangement of a measurable real function defined on an appropriate measure space is of the enormous significance in disciplines such as theory of function spaces or interpolation theory and their applications in PDEs. Unfortunately, while it has good and widely applicable mapping properties, it is virtually impossible to calculate the non-increasing rearrangement of a concrete given function precisely. Numerical algorithms for approximation are desirable for this reason. Such method of approximation, based on interpolation by a linear spline, is presented in this thesis. In the first half of this thesis, the developed method is described, while the error estimates of the method are subject to the second part.