Thesis (M. For. Sc.)--University of Canterbury, 2008. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 46-47). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (M.S.)--Ohio University, June, 1989. / Title from PDF t.p.

Inaug.-Diss.--Heidelberg. / Lebenslauf.

Thesis--Jena, 1674. / Date of publication from Kress Lib. Reproduction of original from Kress Library of Business and Economics, Harvard University. Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 02070.1.

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MPH, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, 2006

A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science. April 2013 / We study the action of the dilatation operator on restricted Schur polynomials labeled by Young diagrams with p long columns or p long rows. A new version of Schur-Weyl duality provides a powerful approach to the computation and manipulation of the symmetric group operators appearing in the restricted Schur polynomials. Using this new technology, we are able to evaluate the action of the one loop dilatation operator. The result has a direct and natural connection to the Gauss Law constraint for branes with a compact world volume. We find considerable evidence that the dilatation operator reduces to a decoupled set of harmonic oscillators. This strongly suggests that integrability in N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory is not just a feature of the planar limit, but extends to other large N but non-planar limits.

The demand for reduced-size components and devices is pervasive throughout industrial and commerical sectors. This drive to reduce the achievable size of parts and features has furthered the developmen of processes and tools capable of micro scale fabrication. In particular, one of the directions this field has taken is in scaling down traditional machine tools. Being a relatively young area of manufacturing, the area of miniaturized machining is still developing and a significant portion of work remains yet to be done. As a thorough understanding of this area is still developing, experimental tests play a significant role furthering this process. Therefore the direction of this project has been to explore this field using a predominantly experimental approach. The aim of it being to realize a miniaturized machine tool capable of fabricating features and even parts on the micro scale. Additionally the machine should be controlled as a standard milling machine and also be capable of generating free form three dimensional parts. In parallel to developing a machine tool, the project has also been directed at examining the machine's capabilities through a range of tests. For creating such a machine tool, the process was carried out in a two stages. Each stage involved a miniaturized machine tool at a different level. The first machine tool produced primarily served as a proof of concept structure. By performing a range of tests on this machine, it allowed for useful insights be to gained for developing the subsequent stage along with establishing some base performance characteristics which were also used for subsequent comparisons. The primary contributions made in this research include: the development of a miniaturized machine, the completion of experiments that map out the machine's capabilities, and theoretical calculations which further define these limits.

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This thesis examines costing systems adopted within Turkish and British paper industries and assesses the appropriateness of Activity Based Costing for this area. It includes two case studies, one of which was performed in a Turkish paper mill and the other in a British one, that describe and examine product costing methods adopted and cost drivers employed within the costing system. The study also contains the results of two questionnaire surveys, one of which was applied to the Turkish and the other to British paper industry. All paper mills in the two industries were included within the survey response rates of which are 65.2% and 40.25% of the Turkish and British mills respectively. The questionnaire survey was designed to shed light into the costing practices adopted within the two paper industries. The results of the case studies and surveys indicated that the existing costing methods adopted and cost drivers employed within the two industries were appropriate for their manufacturing environments. Almost all the mills surveyed were found using traditional methods for their product costing and decision-making needs. Although ABC was implemented by a small number of factories, it was found inappropriate by two mills (one Turkish and one British) and hence abandoned. Different production processes and product types were identified as the main reason of this unsuitability. Also, most non-volume-related activities that may produce cost distortion in electronic and machinery-parts industries either do not exist or the effect of which over products is not important in the paper industry. Machine hour and production tonne cost drivers were found as being employed generally in both paper industries studied.