This thesis is an attempt to inquire the origins of the Cyprus conflict by analyzing the historical developments that laid the ground for the inter-communal dispute in the late 1950s, while focusing on the structural dimension of the rise of ethnonationalisms in the island. The special emphasis is given to the British period 1878-1960 in the historical analysis since the ethno-religious identity consciousnesses of the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities in the island started to turn into ethnonational ones and later into antagonistic nationalisms during this era. The study&rsquo / s underlying premise is that although different identity perceptions existed much earlier among the two communities of the island, the inconsistent policies of the British administration that shifted in accordance with its interests in the Mediterranean region enabled the emergence of a conducive environment for the politicization and manipulation of these diverse identity perceptions. The Greek and Turkish nationalisms gained strength in this era and gradually transformed into antagonistic nationalisms motivated by different political goals about the future of the island. These developments would be the main reason of the inter-communal violence in Cyprus that arose in late 1950s and also in the following years till the permanent territorial partition in 1974.

This study aims to improve transportation held between six auction centers, Inter-Auction Transportation, of FloraHolland. FloraHolland serves ninety eight percent of the Dutch market and is the largest auction in floriculture industry. The company wants to give the best sale opportunities with the costs as low as possible and this is the main initiative of this study. In this line of thought, FloraHolland wants to have a improvement on its current routing and scheduling mechanism. Exact models do not work due to the complexity and the size of the problem. Therefore, we developed a two-stage approach specific to this study. With this approach, we split exact approach into two, a mathematical model followed by a heuristic. In the exact approach, trucks are routed and scheduled at the same time. On the other hand, our solution approach first determines most efficient routes to be followed with Cycle Assignment Model and then, with Scheduling Heuristic, trucks are assigned to the routes, so within day transportation is planned in detail. Overall, each stage of this approach works in harmony and brings good solutions in a short CPU time.

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With the coming of digital times, global competition resulted in every industry expanding their requirements in supply chain integration and enterprise resource planning. The importance of information system integration industries also increases with time. When all kind of industries continues to integrate supply chain and establish cooperative partnerships, trying to exploit cooperation to acquire more competencies in the market, we want to know whether the information system integration industries establish their cooperative relationship. Therefore, our study tried to review the actives and relationship between integrators by the systems integration service process. Through the theory¡¦s guiding, we attend to induce the factors of inter-firm cooperation in system integration industries. We use multiple case study to design our research¡Aand select three cases to study. Semi-structural interview is used to collect needed data to understand the true cooperative relationship between integrators. According to transaction cost theory, resource-base theory and social exchange theory, we propose some theoretical propositions to guiding the real cases analysis. The conclusions not only describe the real cooperation in Taiwan system integration industries, but also induce several factors of cooperative relationship between integrators, including product characteristics, transaction cost, resource, trust and guanxi. Moreover, the transaction cost is the most important element in the cooperative relationship between information system integrators.

The objective of this study is to elucidate the efficiency of enation-structure (at node) recognition method at pre-flowing stage and to understand the population genetic variation of the Mikania weeds in Taiwan. The plant materials collected by recognizing enation-structure symptom method from North, Central, South and East Taiwan and off-shore islands. Using PCR¡V sequencing marker techniques, the sequencing revealed that nrDNA ITS region could identify three Mikania weeds and the 97% similarity of phylogenetic relationship between M.cordata and M.micrantha are more closer than that between M.cordata and M.scandens, whose ITS sequence is obtained from GeneBank. However ,the sequences of chloroplast DNA of M.cordata and M.micrantha at trnL intron¡]436bp¡^or trnL-trnF IGS¡]345 bp¡^are almost the same and could not be used as molecular markers. The recognizing techniques of enation-structure was supported by the nrDNA ITS region and ISSR results at the end, thus the finding can be recommended to the Council of Agriculture in order to eliminate the weed and to reduce the impact on M.cordata, which is native in Taiwan. Moreover, the findings of ISSR analysis in the aspect of population genetic variation indicated that high genetic differentiation ¡]Gst>0.5¡^was found among the M. cordata and M.micrantha populations. Based on the Mantle test, there was no relationship between genetic distance and geographic distance in M.micrantha¡]r=0.0053,p=0.47¡^.This phenomenon revealed that populations of M.micrantha had complex population variability within the short-term invaded into Taiwan that might be resulted from the random dispersion of human activities. The population of M.micrantha was established by few individuals (founders) and grown rapidly in Taiwan, resulting in population differentiation via genetic drift. In contrast to M.micrantha ,there was relationship between genetic distance and geographic distance in M.cordata ¡]r=0.44,p=0.025¡¯¡^.It revealed that populations of M.cordata agreed to the concept of isolation by distance model, which might be evolved from the result of natural dispersion. In conclusion, the population structure of M.micrantha in Taiwan is stable , suggesting that control of Mikania population should be based on different populations where have large differentiation among them .

Abstract Human resources have always been recognized as an important factor in determining the core competitiveness of a business. Business groups with a large organization have the relative advantage of flexibility in human resources utilization. As a result, personnel transfer among member companies within a group has become a normal behavior. In this research, we try to identify the key factors influencing the adaptive performance of employees after such inter-company job transfer, focusing on the pressures faced by the transferees and their career potential; i.e., whether the achievement motivation and role stress of transferees will influence their adaptive performance to the job after the inter-company job transfer, Also, understanding that the Perceived organization supporting by transferees may vary when different human resources approaches are adopted, we will also probe whether the Perceived organization supporting is a moderating factor on the adaptive performance of transferees. The targets of this research are employees of business groups in Taiwan who have experienced inter-company job transfer. A total of 406 questionnaires were distributed and 174 valid questionnaires were collected (The adaptive performance of the employee was assessed by their direct supervisors). Diversified statistical analysis has been conducted, including gap, correlation, regression and multiple regression analysis. The following specific results have been achieved: 1. The employment status of the employee after the transfer, as well as the terms and conditions for the transfer, both lead to different results in various aspects of the research: i. Employees transferred to work at the head office have obtained higher scores in various aspects relating to adaptive performance. ii. Employees offered less favorable conditions for the transfer normally have a higher score in the perception of role ambiguity. iii. Employees offered more favorable conditions for transfer normally have a higher score in terms of the Perceived organization supporting. 2. Achievement motivation shows a negative influence rather than a positive influence on the adaptive performance of the transferees. 3. role stress has no impact on the adaptability of the transferees. 4. Perceived organization supporting shows no significant moderating effect in this research.

The ultimate goal of the development of aerial photogrammery is to acquire rapidly and accurately the ground measurements. However, traditional photogrammetric technologies, particularly in the continuous digital images stitching technique, is still very limited. In the past, the ground control points were used as the references for the image registration, however, it is very time and resource consuming, as well as human visual capability constraint. Accuracy and efficiency are two key factors which need to be enhanced to meet the practical requirement for aerial imageries stitching. The SIFT (Sale Invariant Feature Transform) algorithm was used in the computer vision to perform feature extraction in good condition. The extracted SIFT features are invariant to image scale, rotation, noise and change in illumination, and it is a robust and abundant feature extraction algorithm. SIFT algorithm extracts feature points from multi-scale space. For a large scale aerial image containing huge amount of image contents, it will spend a lot of time to extract features from imagery. Therefore, this study proposes a new method, called Inter-Grid Down-Sampling (IGDS) method, to reduce the image size and relative amount of image information to improve the computing efficiency. The correspondent extracted features are matched in the adjacent images with additional RANSAC outlier removal procedure to select correct and characteristic feature points. Finally the Hugin-Panorama Photo Stitching software is used to stitch all the continuous photogrammetric images for producing a panorama imagery of all flight lines. The experiment results indicate that sub-pixel accuracy for extracted feature points can be obtained when the down-sampling factor 3 was selected for the IGDS method, and it only needs half of the computing time. Compared to the Nearest-Neighbor Interpolation and Cubic Interpolation methods to reduce the image size, the IGDS method can increase more feature extraction efficiency without scarifying the location accuracy. When threshold value for SIFT was set between 0.4 to 0.6, we can achieve the largest correct matching rate. In addition, the RANSAC outlier removal procedure can effectively select the best matching feature points both in numbers and locations. For image stitching, the Hugin-panorama photo stitching software can effectively be used to match feature points and do geometric correction and color adjustment to obtain a consistent panorama imagery. Finally, the proposed method in this study can derive a low-variant in resolution and measurements significance for a stitching image from continuous aerial images.

<p>Background: Information technology (IT) has drastically changed the traditional way to do business. In theory, coordinating information sharing among organisational partners offers notable advantages through cost savings, productivity, improved decision making, and better customer service. Supported by modern information technology, business processes can change and be developed into new more effective forms, both internally and externally. However, as IT facilitates new business opportunities, it requires a steady flow of information and information exchange, both within intra- and inter-organisational contexts where a consensus on terms and definitions coordinating the uniform communication is vital.</p><p>Purpose: With the focal point on inter-organisational information exchange, the purpose of the thesis is to define a set of guidelines for AI that can be used and adjusted according to the needs of a specific situation or context.</p><p>Method: The thesis was carried out with a Multi Grounded Theory approach. Interviews were conducted at a local IT-company and with an associate professor of Informatics at Jönköping International Business School.</p><p>Results: Five categories were discovered which impact AI: integration governance, project management, context, integration content, and testing. The result also implied the importance to distinguish between an operational and strategic level when working with Application Integration.</p>

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<p>In recent decades much effort has gone into reducing particle emissions in the exhaust gases of heavy-duty diesel engines. Engine development has now reached the stage where it is worth to put heavy focus on the contribution of lubricating oil to particulate emissions in order to further reduce these emissions.</p><p> </p><p>A literature study demonstrates that the cylinder system is usually the largest source of oil-related particles. Oil consumption in the cylinder can be divided into <em>throw-off</em> effects when inertia forces act on the piston, piston rings and oil; <em>evaporation</em> from hot surfaces; <em>reverse blow-by</em> when gas pressure drives the oil consumption; and <em>top land scraping </em>when oil is scraped off the cylinder liner.</p><p> </p><p>The pressure between the compression rings strongly affects the stability and position of the upper compression ring as well as the oil consumption caused by the reverse blow-by. A method to measure the inter-ring pressure was developed and evaluated. The measurements showed that cycle-to-cycle variations were small, but that the inter-ring pressure varied over time. Calculations with AVL Excite Piston and Rings confirmed that ring gap positions can have a major influence on the inter-ring pressure.</p><p> </p><p>The measured particle size and number distributions at motoring conditions show interesting and unexpected results. The high number of particles with a diameter of around 100 nm was greatly reduced when the temperature in the diluter was increased. The mean number particle diameter decreased until 10 nm and then became stable independent of further temperature increase. Other authors have found that the small particles (nucleation mode) are reduced and the larger particles (accumulation mode) are more or less unaffected when exhaust gases are heated up and diluted.  </p><p> </p>