Declining harvest levels, static agency research budgets, and increasing tension among scientists, managers, and industry members are the legacy of the present research and management institutions in the West Coast groundfish fishery. Cooperative research, the active participation of the commercial fishing industry in scientific research, is receiving increased attention as a potential alternative to current practices. Its strongest attributes are its potential to improve the spatial and temporal coverage of fisheries data collection and its potential to reduce marginal research costs. Despite these potential benefits, there are several obstacles to adopting cooperative research on a large scale including concerns about biased data, compatibility and continuity with current data gathering regimes, and the motivations of the participants. This paper examines the role that attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions play in influencing one's willingness to participate in cooperative research. Six focused discussions were held with industry, scientists, and managers in the West Coast groundfish fishery to define the key issues of cooperative research and to assist in designing a written questionnaire. The questionnaire was mailed to scientists, managers, and industry members in the groundfish fishery to elicit responses on issues including the current science and management process, uncertainty, industry-scientist working relationships, and the costs and benefits of potential cooperative research projects. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to examine response differences among groups, and discriminant analysis was employed to identify characteristics that differentiated among groups formed as a result of their survey responses. Results indicated that both scientists and industry believe cooperative research has potential for improving fisheries science, however there were significant differences between the groups on most other issues. Generally, industry respondents were more critical of the industry-scientist working relationship and scientists' and managers' commitment to cooperation than were the scientists and managers themselves. Scientists tended to be more skeptical than industry about the direct involvement of industry in fisheries science projects such as port interview programs and independent industry scientist research organizations. Both groups demonstrated considerable heterogeneity, although industry tended to hold a greater diversity of opinions and perceptions than did scientists. Significant differences on certain issues were often explained by one's degree of involvement in the management process, state of residence, employer, job description, and gear type. The results of this survey provide useful data for the selection and design of future cooperative research projects and identify areas upon which scientists, managers, and industry need to improve if cooperative research is to play a larger role in fisheries science. / Graduation date: 2000

Considering the continuous design activities that are performed throughout the design projects, design students go through several stages of decision makings, and sometimes they experience problematic situations in between consecutive supervisory meetings. Revealing all experiences during the discussions with supervisors, thus communicating the ideas could be sometimes difficult. In order to provide a better guidance, it is also important for supervisors to understand students&rsquo / process in between these meetings. There are available tools used in the fields like education or health in order to monitor an individual&rsquo / s daily life in relation to the context (e.g. time, place, activity) and personal circumstances (e.g. emotions, feelings, ideas). These tools are developed based on experience sampling method (ESM), a research method focus on collecting self-reported data from participants in order to measure their daily life experiences, especially during a long period of time. Since the target group and experience has different characteristics for each context, design of experience sampling tools are also gaining importance to address these specific experience according to individuals&rsquo / needs and expectations. Aiming at assisting design students to do regular self-reporting on their experiences, this study presents a background research for designing experience sampling tools that would be used by students and supervisors to keep track of students&rsquo / experiences throughout design projects. In this sense, this study intends assisting students self-reporting activities, translate the main design requirements of experience sampling tools into the context of design projects, as well as revealing guidelines for the future implications of ESM tools in design education

Reservoir simulation studies are one of the key tools in an integrated reservoir management study. A successful reservoir simulation application requires representative input data for reservoir rock and fluid properties. This study aims to develop a road map from laboratory measurements to the input data file of reservoir simulation and to make a probabilistic approach for the estimation of unknown parameters. Raw data of reservoir rock and fluid properties of a selected oil field of Turkey will be interpreted and prepared in a way that they will be used as input data of a simulator.

This dissertation is a social and cultural history of chemical industrialists and their role in the development of both science and capitalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It focuses on the case of Germany, where many chemists became some the most powerful industrial leaders during this period. Since the late nineteenth century, chemistry in Germany constituted a cosmos radiating from the large industrial sites, of which the academic discipline was just the tip of the iceberg. The chemical Industry supported a formidable scientific research system, and industrial chemists rose to the highest social circles, from which they exerted unique forms of activism. In particular, science philanthropy provided chemical industrialists with a point of entry to elite German society. Their status as scientists, combined with their manufacturing social backgrounds, led to an inclination towards supporting scientific research through direct participation and political lobbying, with less emphasis on the financial donations common in American philanthropy. Crucially, this support extended beyond chemistry, to other applied sciences and even apparently non-industrial pursuits such as astronomy. In these other fields, they sought to replicate the industrial support system that existed in chemistry, while opening the opportunity to participate directly in their amateur scientific interests. I contend that these non-financial forms of support for science played an important role during the radical changes in twentieth-century Germany, including war, hyperinflation, extreme economic cycles, and the increasing political polarization of the Weimar era. / History of Science

Thesis (M.Sc. (Physics & Electronics)) - Rhodes University, 2009. / A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Stanford University, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 168-172).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wollongong, 2004. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references: leaf 237-244.

The aim of this study was to compare motivational techniques used in analytical laboratories in South Africa from. The three different size laboratories selected were: Those in large corporations, those in smaller companies and contract laboratories located in Gauteng. The researcher attempted to find an underlying lack of motivational techniques being applied in this particular industry. This was achieved through a qualitative interpretation of data gathered during interviews with the laboratory managers. The interviews investigated the motivational techniques being applied in accordance with well known theories on what motivates employees. The three laboratories selected were chosen because of their unique circumstances and to be able to ascertain if the motivational techniques being applied differed between laboratories as a result of the size of their environments. A literature review was conducted detailing the findings of well known authors and their theories on what motivates people. The research of Hertzberg, McClelland, Maslow and others mentioned in the review gave evidence to support the concept of motivation in terms of: What motivates employees and evidence that motivated employees work better improving productivity. The research methodology was a qualitative analysis of responses to semi-structured interviews with the laboratory managers of the selected laboratories. The questions were divided into three sections. The first section dealt with the interviewee’s demographics. The second section focussed on the environment within the laboratory. The third section dealt with laboratory motivators being applied relative to the theories discussed in the literature review. From the results it was apparent that motivators were generally well applied in all three laboratories within the constraints of the organisations size and opportunities available. The research was successful in demonstrating the influence of the work environment on motivators being applied as well as recognising common motivational techniques used between laboratories and organisations. Future studies should focus on the effectiveness of motivators being applied from the perspective of an analyst. Following this their views should be compared with the opportunities made available by the organisation and the way in which they are applied by the laboratory managers from different laboratories. / Dr. D. J. Theron

Cette thèse de doctorat en histoire porte sur les interactions entre les universités belges et les milieux industriels. Elle tente de dégager les mécanismes qui ont permis de faire se rapprocher sur le temps long ces deux envrionnements institutionnels, sur les plans particuliers de l'enseignement et de la formation (relations indirectes), d'une part, et de la recherche (relations directes), de l'autre/This doctoral dissertation in history focuses on the interactions between Belgian universities and the industrial milieus. It aimed at describing on the long run the mechanisms that brought the two institutional environments closer together in the fields of teaching and training (indirect connections), on the one hand, and research (direct connections), on the other.

User experience with public products needs special attention considering the specific context. Different from other consumer or personal products that users own, public products do not belong to the user / they are shared with and used in front of other people. Thus, different concerns and problems are incorporated affecting the user experiences. This thesis dwells on the effects of presence of other people on user-public product interaction. The relationships between social context, users&rsquo / feelings, and task performances constitute the basis of the thesis. These relationships were investigated by consulting to the literature, but mainly by conducting three empirical studies. All these studies revealed that the presence of other people affects the users&rsquo / feelings and task performances greatly.