Enterprises can be empowered to live up to the potential of becoming dynamic, agile and real-time. Service orientation is emerging from the amalgamation of a number of key business, technology and cultural developments. Three essential trends in particular are coming together to create a new revolutionary breed of enterprise, the service-oriented enterprise (SOE): (1) the continuous performance management of the enterprise; (2) the emergence of business process management; and (3) advances in the standards-based service-oriented infrastructures. This thesis focuses on this emerging three-layered architecture that builds on a service-oriented architecture framework, with a process layer that brings technology and business together, and a corporate performance layer that continually monitors and improves the performance indicators of global enterprises provides a novel framework for the business context in which to apply the important technical idea of service orientation and moves it from being an interesting tool for engineers to a vehicle for business managers to fundamentally improve their businesses.

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 23-26, 2000 / Town & Country Hotel and Conference Center, San Diego, California / The interoperability of Feher-patented Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (FQPSK) systems with future and legacy data links is discussed in this paper. In particular, the benefits of “forward” interoperability with 3G (3rd Generation) wireless systems such as WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) up to 40 Mchips/sec are highlighted. Other proposals of forward interoperability with future data links include an enhanced, ultra-bandwidth efficient FQPSK and 16-state FQAM (Feher’s Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) architectures. In addition, since FQPSK based systems have been proven in “dual use” systems and extensively tested and evaluated by the Department of Defense (DoD) and NASA, the analysis of “backward” interoperability with legacy data links such as GSM is also included in this paper.

The “Software as a Service” model in service-oriented computing allows loosely coupled software components to be designed and integrated with other software systems. Web services, together with service-oriented architectures, are promising integration technology to facilitate legacy system Webification. However, since most components in a legacy system were not designed and developed as services, the current software systems need to be converted into a set of loosely coupled services. Therefore, a service-oriented software reengineering process is essential for legacy systems to survive in the service-oriented computing environment. In this service-oriented software reengineering process, understanding, decomposing and reusing legacy code turn to be important activities. In this thesis, a methodology for Service-Oriented Software Reengineering (SOSR) is proposed to support the identification, extraction and integration of reusable legacy code. According to both the result of legacy system assessment and a service-oriented analysis and design process, a reengineering decision is made by proposed rules. Based on the service-oriented software reengineering decision, ontologies for SOSR, which consists of Domain Concept Ontology (DCO), Functionality Ontology (FO) and Software Component Ontology (SCO), are developed by the ontology development methodologies. These ontologies store knowledge on both application domain and code entities, which support further legacy code analysis. The identification of service candidates in legacy systems is achieved by mapping FO and SCO via a novel method combining Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) and Relational Concept Analysis (RCA). After the service candidates are identified, the reusable legacy code is extracted by dependency analysis and program slicing. Some rules are defined in code query language for the detection of dead code. Program slicing techniques are applied as main reverse engineering techniques to recover executable legacy code. An Executable Union Slicing (EUS) algorithm is defined to generate executable legacy components with high cohesion and low coupling properties. In the integration phase, extracted legacy components with core legacy code can either be wrapped into Web services for the service orchestration in the business layer, or be composed in a software service provider. The proposed SOSR methodology is proved flexible and practical to migrate legacy applications to service-oriented architectures by the case studies. It can be customised according to different legacy systems. This methodology can help software developers and maintainers to reengineer the tightly coupled legacy information systems to the loosely coupled and agile information systems.

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Based on Prime Minister Harper’s 2008 Apology for the Indian Residential School (IRS) system, this thesis addresses the need to confront the intergenerational legacy of this system on non-Indigenous Canadians in order to challenge our ability to actually ‘journey together’ with Indigenous Survivors. Aiming to break the silence that has surrounded this legacy, the voices of non-Indigenous descendents of former staff, as well as my own as a non-Indigenous Canadian, expose personal experiences of the lived reality of the IRS legacy. Working from a narrative methodology from within a decolonizing framework, this research includes interviews with two descendents of former staff, as well as an auto-ethnography of myself, as researcher, to capture the lived experiences with relation to this legacy. Results from this introductory work illustrate a variety of themes needing to be acknowledged, and deals with notions of opening dialogue, violence, guilt and responsibility within the context of the IRS system. / Graduate / 0334 / 0626 / 0630 / khaiste@gmail.com

1 Abstract Legacy of current law of succession This master's dissertation focuses on the traditional legacy of Roman law institute which, through the law no. 89/2012 of the Civil Code, has found its way back to the Czech legal system. The text of the paper is divided into two main parts which are not split equally by what they cover, however, the aim of the dissertation determined such division. The first part the dissertation outlines the historical foundations for the nowadays' form of the legacy. In short, the shape of the Roman law is covered in the introduction as an essential ground for further law adjustments. A comparison of two, from these days' perspective most important sources of law modification - the legacy's modification of the ABGB, and the modification of unimplemented government proposal of civil code of 1937 - follow. The comparison is replenished by an overview of the diminishing legacy's modification of civil code of 1950, and of the final legacy's refusal in civil code of 1964. The second part of the dissertation covers the in-force legal form of the Civil Code. The current form of the legacy is elaborated, following the taxonomy of the law. There is an emphasis put- alongside on the general description of the set issue - upon the dealing with chosen conflict situations which arise...

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:37:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Denise Radesca Alvares Scaff.pdf: 1215506 bytes, checksum: adf7d7e8d8c173dad2b31f0d2b701350 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-10-20 / This study focuses on the construction of fatherhood, from hearing the histories, demands and anxieties of men-fathers before their young children. The main point of this process is the father's wish for this child, the thread that ties this singular subject's history crossed by cultural injunctions, in a single way, to this child. The wish originated in the relationship among the subjects is always tributary of vicissitudes found in the course to the other who will love us. It is expressed in reality by facing transient and mutable objects, often impregnated by our fantasies because not said or fully satisfied. As Freud emphasized, we cannot prescind the other, who supports and who is the object of this reality that constitutes and confronts us. The father is part of this reality and for beyond this function which is nowadays shared with mothers, experts and in a way with the State in the new family ties and modernity ideas, we plead a position takeover. This position is based on solutions that each man provides for his oedipal conflicts, on the pacts that makes with the wife and on the reality of the group he belongs to and by which he is supported. The modernity social plot requires us to investigate the narratives, the narcissistic threads of our individual history which weave the oedipal conflict and in its ties with the others constitute us as subjects of wish. This is the object of our study, the listening to this plot, the knotting of these threads is the modernity narcissistic matter in which every man will take over a position in relation to the child, granting him the place of child and his wish, a single legacy orientated to this singular subject / Este estudo centra-se no processo de construção da paternidade, a partir da escuta das histórias, demandas e angústias de homens-pais frente a seus pequenas filhos. O cerne deste processo é o desejo do pai por este filho, fio que ala a história desse sujeito singular atravessado pelas injunções culturais, de modo único, a esta criança. O desejo originado na relação entre os sujeitos é sempre tributário das vicissitudes encontradas no percurso até um outro que nos ame. Não podendo ser dito ou realizado em sua plenitude, o desejo expressa-se na realidade, no encontro com objetos transitários, mutáveis e sempre embrenhados por nossas fantasias. Como assinala Freud, não podemos prescindir do outro, que sustenta e é objeto desta realidade, que nos constitui e confronta. O pai é parte desta realidade e para além de uma função, que atualmente é dividida nos novos arranjos familiares e no ideário da modernidade com as mães, os especialistas e de certo modo com o Estado, pleiteamos a assunção de uma posição. Esta posição sustenta-se nas soluções que cada homem constrói para seus conflitos edípicos, nos pactos que faz com a mulher e na realidade do grupo ao qual aderiu e do qual se nutre. A trama social da modernidade nos impõe indagar as narrativas, os fios narcisistas de nossa história individual que tecem os conflitos edípicos e em seus laços com os outros nos constituem como sujeitos do desejo. Este é o objeto deste estudo, a escuta desta trama, do enodamento destes fios junto à tela narcisista da modernidade em que cada homem assumirá uma posição em relação à criança, transmitindo-lhe o lugar do filho e o seu desejo, um legado único endereçado a este sujeito singular

Component-based development is an approach that revolves around the construction of systems form pre-built modular units (components). If legacy code can be reverse engineered to extract components, the extracted components can provide architectural re-usability across multiple systems of the same domain. Current component directed reverse engineering approaches are based on component models that belong to architecture description languages (ADLs). ADL-based components cannot be reused without configurational changes at code level and binding every required and provided service. Moreover, these component models neither support code-independent composition after extraction of components nor the re-deposition of a composed configuration of components for future reuse. This thesis presents a reverse engineering approach that extracts components and addresses the limitations of current approaches, together with a tool called RX-MAN. Unlike ADL-based approaches, the presented approach is based on an encapsulated component model called X-MAN. X-MAN components are encapsulated because computation cannot go outside of a component. X-MAN components cannot interact directly but only exogenously (composition is defined outside of a component). Our approach offers code-independent composition after extracting components and does not need binding of all the services like ADLs. The evaluation of our approach shows that it can facilitate the re-usability of legacy code by providing code-independent composition and re-deposition of composed configurations of components for further reuse and composition.

London 2012 was the 30th Olympiad, and the third time that London had hosted an Olympic Games. The rationale for hosting the Games was to undertake a large-scale regeneration of Stratford and the East London region. The research explored the experiences of community representatives who live and/or work in East London. The research was inductive and focused on the empirical findings of the research via a sociological lens. Three overarching research themes (urban regeneration, socioculturalism, governance and economics). The original contribution to knowledge relates to the limited amount of research previously conducted which take into account all three of these overarching themes. 19 semi-structured interviews were conducted and analysed alongside official documents and newspapers using narrative thematic analysis and critical discourse analysis. Two main findings emerged from the analysis; Marginal Gains and the Ripple Effect. It is recognised that the positivity found throughout the presented narratives may have been present due to the time period in which the research was undertaken. Future research should focus on whether the time period has an influence on the experiences of community representatives and whether similar (economic and governance) is experienced by future host cities.

Excerpt The most traditional-sounding of first-generation bluegrass music greats, Carter (1925-1966) and Ralph Stanley (1927-2016) were from Dickenson County, Virginia.