The purpose of this study was to determine the service needs being met and the needs not being met as perceived by the chronically homeless who call the park their home. The authors thought this an important study to examine to better understand the service needs of the homeless. The study used a qualitative design for collecting data which involved face-to-face interviews with ten of the homeless people at the park. Four primary themes, three of which had two subthemes each, were identified through a thematic analysis. The primary theme of mistrust of services had subthemes of safety and restrictions and ineffective services. The primary theme of services needed was subdivided into problem identified and potential solutions. The families theme contained subthemes fractured families and park community as family. The theme of hopelessness did not have any subthemes. It was concluded that research should continue in this field and funding should be used to focus on providing services as specified through these themes.

Accessibility is the most important concept in transportation planning because it describes the ease of travel to opportunities vital for everyday needs. Theoretically, people locate closer to transit corridors if accessibility improves. One desired benefit from light rail is denser land use patterns in the form of Transit Oriented Development (TOD) that captures population growth. In October 1994, the City of Denver, CO, joined the list of American cities that have implemented light rail within the last 33 years. Since then, five corridors have opened there, and planners are retooling their zoning codes to allow TOD near light rail. The hope is to mitigate road-centric policies that enabled sprawl during the second half of the 20th Century. This thesis investigates light rail in the Denver region in the context of accessibility. It asks the following research question: What land use and transportation conditions must exist to encourage the general population to locate near light rail? Five linear regression models test a range of accessibility variables. Evidence suggests that accessibility to jobs and housing near station areas is important for facilitating population growth near light rail. Specifically, land use policy needs to allow residential and non-residential mixed uses near station areas for population growth to occur. It is too early to draw any definitive conclusions for the Denver region. Anecdotal evidence indicates that planners are achieving land use goals of growth, even though many of the region's TOD-supportive policies were recently adopted.

<p>Den här uppsatsen handlar om motivation i monotona arbeten. Vi har även undersökt lönens betydelse i monotona arbeten. Det vill säga arbetar man endast för lönens skull eller finns det andra faktorer som spelar in?</p><p>Undersökningen är av en kvantitativ form och är gjord på Posten logistik och på ett brevbärarkontor i Karlstad. Först utgick vi från Maslow, Herzberg samt Hackman & Oldham för att koppla samman monotont arbete och motivation. Vi har även tagit upp aspekter som ledarskap och kommunikation för att se kopplingen mellan dessa faktorer och motivation.</p><p><strong></strong>För att få svar på våra frågor så har vi använt oss av en enkätundersökning. Vi har utgått ifrån en deduktiv ansats vilket innebär att vi använt oss av redan befintliga teorier för att förklara vårt resultat.</p><p>Resultatet visar på att det finns olika faktorer som motiverar individer till att arbeta i monotona arbeten. Dessa faktorer utgörs av lön, medarbetare och arbetsgivare. Att visa uppskattning genom positiv feedback är några av faktorerna som kan öka motivationen. Men det finns de som anser att lönen som är den avgörande faktorn till att vilja arbeta.</p>

Den här uppsatsen handlar om motivation i monotona arbeten. Vi har även undersökt lönens betydelse i monotona arbeten. Det vill säga arbetar man endast för lönens skull eller finns det andra faktorer som spelar in? Undersökningen är av en kvantitativ form och är gjord på Posten logistik och på ett brevbärarkontor i Karlstad. Först utgick vi från Maslow, Herzberg samt Hackman &amp; Oldham för att koppla samman monotont arbete och motivation. Vi har även tagit upp aspekter som ledarskap och kommunikation för att se kopplingen mellan dessa faktorer och motivation. För att få svar på våra frågor så har vi använt oss av en enkätundersökning. Vi har utgått ifrån en deduktiv ansats vilket innebär att vi använt oss av redan befintliga teorier för att förklara vårt resultat. Resultatet visar på att det finns olika faktorer som motiverar individer till att arbeta i monotona arbeten. Dessa faktorer utgörs av lön, medarbetare och arbetsgivare. Att visa uppskattning genom positiv feedback är några av faktorerna som kan öka motivationen. Men det finns de som anser att lönen som är den avgörande faktorn till att vilja arbeta.

This research considered overlay districts as one technique to supersede Euclidian zoning, broaden its application to regulate land use, promote retention of industrial space and improve job development. Since the 1950s America has been losing industrial or manufacturing jobs and space in cities throughout the country. Moreover economic indicators following the great recession of 2007 reflected an aggregate loss of 8 million jobs, and an increase in national and regional industrial vacancy rates, which have recently, began to decline. Some researchers and local officials argue that industrial space, market and job losses were affected in part by less-protective, inflexible and/or inadequate Euclidian zoning regulations. In addition, it is argued that inadequate industrial zoning has contributed to the loss of investment of financial and human capital in local communities. Traditional zoning known as Euclidian zoning is a predominant form of land use control in the U.S. Today, it is a technique designed to separate and protect adjacent uses from encroachment, incompatibility and nuisances. The primary goal of this study was to explore and describe how overlay districts (located in inner urban/inner-ring suburbs) supersede Euclidean zoning, promote economic development and affect the creation of jobs through industrial development and\or urban redevelopment. Theoretical constructs informing this research included zoning, land use, local economic development and location theories. The fundamental research question asked is: "Do overlays protect industrial land and jobs better than Euclidian zoning and does the protection facilitate greater confidence in industrial investment? To address the research question of this dissertation and analyze data, a mixed methods research design was employed. The design consisted of Internet research, a qualitative multiple (six) case-study analysis, interviews of agency personnel, field reconnaissance, and a sample survey of implementing agencies (which used a data base of over 2700 ordinances from the Municipal Code Corporation). The conclusion of this study is that overlays protect industrial land and jobs better than Euclidian zoning and the protection does facilitate greater confidence in industrial investment. Manufacturers and other industrial oriented-users have located in EDODs and have in some cases lobbied the local governments for continuation of the district. Jobs have also been added in consecutive years within key EDODs. Moreover, newly established EDODs have been used to target investments in infrastructure and incentives to underwrite the cost of industrial development. Policy implications of this study will inform planners regarding the need for industry and manufacturing uses to create sustainable employment within their communities.

This paper aims to examine the prospects for success for sustainable economic development planning on the local level. The first section provides background on this question, examines how best to define the Green Economy, and discusses the four most important factors influencing its future growth. This includes the current economic landscape and the hopes that have been pinned on sustainable development. The paper then examines the classification issues that have helped shape the nature of the discussion of this subject, and explores the most prominent methods and partnerships currently being designed and utilized in an attempt to stimulate local sustainable development and job growth. Also discussed is the effect that the current political climate is having on government investment in renewable energy and conservation at the federal and state level. The paper then designates the cities of Oakland, Toledo, and Austin as case studies as a way to illustrate how these efforts are playing out in the current landscape. Each city has been chosen because it is a leader in an influential sustainable economic development strategy that is being pursued by other cities around the country. Given the four factors influencing growth in the Green Economy, the paper evaluates the strengths and weaknesses demonstrated by each approach. Finally, the paper identifies the most important lessons that can be applied to the biggest challenges of local sustainable economic development strategies. / text

Real-time systems require a-priori temporal guarantees. While most of the normal operation in such a system is modeled using time-driven, hard-deadline sporadic tasks, event-driven behavior is modeled using aperiodic jobs with soft or no deadlines. To provide good Quality-of- Service for aperiodic jobs in the presence of sporadic tasks, aperiodic servers were introduced. Aperiodic servers act as a sporadic task and reserve a quota periodically to serve aperiodic jobs. The use of aperiodic servers in systems with caches is unsafe because aperiodic servers do not take into account, the indirect cache-related preemption delays that the execution of aperiodic jobs might impose on the lower-priority sporadic tasks, thus jeopardizing their safety. To solve this problem, we propose an enhancement to the aperiodic server that we call a Cache Delay Server. Here, each lower-priority sporadic task is assigned a delay quota to accommodate the cache-related preemption delay imposed by the execution of aperiodic jobs. Aperiodic jobs are allowed to execute at their assigned server priority only when all the active lower-priority sporadic tasks have a sufficient delay quota to accommodate it. Simulation results demonstrate that a Cache Delay Server ensures the safety of sporadic tasks while providing acceptable Quality-of-Service for aperiodic jobs. We propose a Integer Linear Program based approach to calculate delay quotas for sporadic tasks within a task set where Cache Delay Servers have been pre-assigned. We then propose algorithms to determine Cache Delay Server characteristics for a given sporadic task set. Finally, we extend the Cache Delay Server concept to multi-core architectures and propose approaches to schedule aperiodic jobs on appropriate Cache Delay Servers. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of all our proposed algorithms in improving aperiodic job response times while maintaining the safety of sporadic task execution.

Orientador: Marcelo Weishaupt Proni / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Economia / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-16T05:36:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Shungu_LikeleHamidu_M.pdf: 1016104 bytes, checksum: 91427c3514ac592106fb0356d975c640 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: Acredita-se que o emprego é a melhor maneira de combater a pobreza. O governo da Tanzânia, após a adoção de políticas neoliberais, esperava que uma economia de mercado criasse empregos produtivos que aumentariam a renda da classe trabalhadora. O que motiva o autor a realizar este estudo é o fato de que, após o início da globalização neoliberal, houve uma criação e a reprodução do grupo de pessoas que estão trabalhando, mas elas ainda são pobres: os "trabalhadores pobres".Portanto, este estudo, através da utilização de fontes secundárias, tentou entender os impactos das reformas neoliberais sobre a criação e a reprodução do grupo de trabalhadores pobres. Ao invés de empregos de qualidade, recebemos empregos sem qualidade que se caracterizavam por baixos salários.O estudo veio com a descoberta de que algumas tendências - privatizar ou sacrificar os serviços sociais para as forças de mercado, através de políticas de distribuição de renda, fiscal, monetária e comercial, bem como a flexibilização da legislação trabalhista - contribuiu com o surgimento de baixa e má qualidade dos empregos e com a diminuição do salário real dos setores que foram deixados para enfrentar as forças do mercado. Este estudo deverá beneficiar os políticos e os atores sociais, dando-lhes argumentos para melhores políticas que aumentem a renda da classe operária e transformem a sociedade tanzaniana, de trabalhadores pobres para trabalhos de qualidade e dignos / Abstract: Employment was believed to be the best way to tackle poverty. The Tanzanian government after adopting neoliberal policies from socialism expected that a market economy would create productive jobs that would increase income of the working class. What motivates the writer to undertake this study is the fact that, prior to the onset of neoliberal globalization, there have been a class of people who are working, but yet they are still poor: "the working poor". Therefore this study through the use of secondary sources attempted to understand the impacts of neoliberal reforms to the creation of the working poor. Instead of decent and productive work we receive unproductive and non decent jobs. The study came with the findings that some tendencies - privatizing or sacrificing social service for market forces, through policies for distribution of income, fiscal, monetary and trade policies as well as flexibilization of the labour law - contributed to the rise of unproductive jobs and decline of real income of sectors that were left to confront market forces. This study is beneficial for policy makers and social actors by giving them arguments for better policies that would increase income of the working class and transform Tanzanian society from working poor to productive and decent jobs / Mestrado / Economia Social e do Trabalho / Mestre em Desenvolvimento Econômico

Significant advancement in technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine-learning, and robotics has sparked broad debate amongst economists, futurists, and current business leaders regarding the future of jobs. The purpose of this research was to determine the impact of technological change on jobs and workforce structures. The study involved a structured collection, classification, and analysis of secondary data. It aimed to (i) determine a relationship between futures and labour economics literature, (ii) identify occupational groups with higher susceptibility to job automation, and (iii) project changes in workforce structure for various industries. This study found that there is alignment between predicted probabilities of job automation and parameters of task routineness and task complexity from the routine-task-biased and complex-task biased technological change models. Routine-simple occupations are more susceptible to job automation, followed closely by nonroutine-simple occupations. Complex occupations are least susceptible. Stratum I occupations were more susceptible to job automation than occupations in higher strata of workThe projected change in workforce structures is highest for large hierarchical industries such as machine bureaucracies and divisionalised forms (Type 1 and 2 industries). Technological change will bring about both productivity improvements and technological anxiety. Business in affected industries must develop appropriate innovation and workforce strategies to manage this disruption. / Mini Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2017. / Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) / MBA / Unrestricted

Under the United Nations’ proposal of downsizing military plans for peacekeeping, countries are continuously decreasing their military personnel size, resulting in a global military personnel decrease of 10% in twenty years, which is equivalent to a decrease of 3 million soldiers. Sweden, on the other hand, decreased its military personnel by 15% in just one year (2020), leaving these military personnel for the quest of new careers in civilian jobs.The purpose of this study is to understand how military experience affects the perception of recruiters in Swedish Civilian Job. This study will be able to help Swedish individuals with military experience who are switching careers to civilian jobs to understand the perception of recruiters on them and provide guidance for successful employment. For recruiters, this study can be used as a measurement model of how to accurately evaluate veterans, which can more effectively translate expertise for organizations, and help to enrich their human resources.This paper conducts a qualitative study, collecting responses from thirteen Swedish civilian recruiters by the method of semi-structured interviews to ensure effective data collection. Through the analysis of the data by NVivo coding program, and further analysis by the researchers, the theoretical model is established and discussed.The findings show that military experience does affect the perception of recruiters in swedish civilian jobs. The effect is overall mirthful and positive because military experience is perceived to affect personality and skills positively. However, the findings also showed that in the eyes of recruiters, military experience may generate some obstacles to employment if the individual did not obtain other qualities or sets, such as education, job experience before their military service, good communication skills, and emotional intelligence.