Thesis (M. Eng.)(Mechanical)--University of Pretoria, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references. Available on the Internet via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Alberta, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 253-285). Also available online (PDF file) by a subscription to the set or by purchasing the individual file.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Alberta, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 253-285).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Alberta, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 253-285).

The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz defines “double time” as “the apparent doubling of the tempo […] achieved by halving the prevailing note value.” A more precise term for this concept is “double-time feel.” The question of how a musical performance creates double-time feel has received little scholarly attention. Grove’s explanation is incomplete because “halving the prevailing note value” is sometimes perceived by listeners as diminution within an unchanged tempo. My hypothesis is that swing rhythm, pervasive in many styles of jazz, not only facilitates the use of double-time feel but allows for subtle gradations in its use. I offer a model that classifies rhythms according to how strongly they support (or undermine) a double-time feel in a swing rhythm context, and I apply the model to performances by Louis Armstrong and Lee Morgan. My analysis demonstrates these artists’ fine-grained control over double-time feel and suggests directions for future research.

The aim of this diploma thesis was to assess the use of manager´s time and to suggest changes that would lead to make their work more efficient. It focuses on managers working in the public sphere. Following offices were chosen to take part in the research: Revenue Authority for South Bohemian Region - Territorial Departement in České Budějovice and Regional Authority of South Bohemian Region. The main topic of this work is time management which is extremely important nowadays. Twenty managers were asked to take part in the research, ten from each office. Questionnaire survey was the basic tool used to collect information about their time management. They were also interviewed afterwards to specify some information from the questionnaires more deeply. It was discovered that most of the respondents have no experience with the time management in general. The lack of such experience brings many problems of course and the managers fight with the difficulties of time planning very often. On the basis of those facts, some changes were proposed, that could lead to more efficient work.

Dissertação (Mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnologico / Made available in DSpace on 2016-01-08T21:42:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 108849.pdf: 2533552 bytes, checksum: 43aa439d393bafdd67216fa4c0cd57e4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1997 / Em uma sociedade onde os consumidores estão cada vez mais exigindo por qualidade nos produtos e nos serviços, e com os mercados globalizados, dinâmicos e altamente competitivos, há uma crescente preocupação nas empresas não só em manter, mas em incrementar seu desempenho no que diz respeito a qualidade e produtividade. Devido a estes fatos, as filosofias japonesas de manufatura e administração, especialmente a Filosofia Just-in-Time (JIT), têm-se mostrado tão atrativas. O JIT é baseado no conceito de eliminação total das perdas do sistema produtivo através da estratégia de redução dos estoques. O sistema kanban age como a base do JIT, sendo a sua função direcionar a matéria prima somente quando necessário e na quantidade certa. Apesar do sistema kanban ser uma técnica simples, com a sua aplicação em diferentes situações nas quais as condições de operação da filosofia JIT não estejam plenamente concretizadas, gerou-se a necessidade de conhecer mais sobre como o sistema kanban se comporta e como pode ser otimizado na planta fabril. Assim, para que se possa obter os beneficios da utilização do kanban, o ajuste e compreensão do funcionamento do sistema kanbans é essencial. Considerando os aspectos mencionados, tem-se como objetivo deste trabalho desenvolver uma metodologia para o ajuste dos parâmetros do sistema kanban que proporcione melhores condições de operação de acordo com as metas do JIT. Objetiva-se também analisar como os parâmetros do sistema kanban influenciam no comportamento do sistema produtivo, e quais as penalidades ao sistema kanban caso as condições de operação do JIT estejam abaixo do ideal.

CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior / A luta pela reduÃÃo da jornada de trabalho se configura como uma das maiores reivindicaÃÃes trabalhistas da histÃria do movimento operÃrio. A busca pela reduÃÃo do tempo de trabalho tambÃm possibilita a reflexÃo acerca da vida e do autocontrole em relaÃÃo ao tempo laboral, se configurando como ponto de partida importante para compreender a relaÃÃo do sujeito trabalhador com seu prÃprio tempo. ApÃs um perÃodo de latÃncia, surge no Brasil movimentos de diversas categorias profissionais em busca da reduÃÃo da jornada de trabalho para no mÃximo 30 horas semanais, uma dessas categorias à a dos psicÃlogos, profissionais investigados nesse estudo. Dentre as questÃes apontadas para demonstrar a importÃncia da reduÃÃo da carga horÃria de trabalho estava a necessidade do profissional de reduzir sua jornada para conseguir conciliar outros empregos durante a semana. A necessidade de mÃltiplos vÃnculos laborais à justificada pelas condiÃÃes precÃrias as quais os profissionais sÃo submetidos e os baixos salÃrios ofertados à categoria. Diante de tal cenÃrio, foram realizadas entrevistas com oito (8) profissionais sobre a sua jornada de trabalho e sua participaÃÃo na luta pelas 30 horas semanais. A anÃlise sociolÃgica do discurso foi utilizada para interpretaÃÃo dos dados coletados, encontrando na fala dos entrevistados uma modelo de representaÃÃo e de compreensÃo do texto concreto em seu contexto social e histÃrico. A interpretaÃÃo das entrevistas ressaltou a grande fragmentaÃÃo da categoria profissional analisada, o que possibilita a individualizaÃÃo dos profissionais, que nÃo chegaram a participar da luta pela reduÃÃo da sua jornada de maneira coletiva. AlÃm disso, foram identificadas nas falas a naturalizaÃÃo da precariedade da profissÃo e uma assimilaÃÃo do discurso produtivista, advindo, sobretudo, da difusÃo da ideologia neoliberal, na qual os profissionais buscam atravÃs de si mesmo, modificaÃÃes pontuais para amenizar a situaÃÃo precÃria do seu trabalho, no caso dos psicÃlogos, procurando um outro trabalho e buscando reduzir sua jornada laboral. A busca pela reduÃÃo da jornada de trabalho, dessa forma, parece servir mais à intensificaÃÃo das relaÃÃes de exploraÃÃo, do que possibilitar a emancipaÃÃo desses trabalhadores. / The struggle for working time reduction configures as one of the biggest laborist claims of all laborer movement history. The pursuit of working time also enables the reflection about life and self-control towards labor time, which emerge as an important starting point for worker subject relation with their own time comprehension. After a latency period, arise in Brazil movements coming up from several professional categories aiming for workload reduction for thirty hour per week, maximum. One of those professional categories is Psychologists, objects of the present study. Among all exposed issues, reducing working time for conciliate more than one job is one of them. The need for multiple employment bonds is related to precarious conditions and low wages. In light of this, eight interviews with Psychologists about their labor time and fight for thirty-hour work week were arranged. The discourse sociological analysis has been chosen as a method to interpret the collected data, finding a comprehension and representation model for concrete text of their social and history context. Such interpretation highlighted a huge fragmentation in the professional category, which enables the individuation of those Psychologists whom did not take part in working time reduction discussion in a collective way. Besides that, precariousness naturalization and productivity discourse assimilation could be noticed, emerging, foremost, from neoliberal ideology widespread. According such ideology, professional pursuit, through themselves, punctual modifications to ease the precarious conditions. In Psychologists example, they get a second job and fight for labor time reduction. Such struggle seems to contribute to intensify exploration relationships more than to propitiate workerâs emancipation.

The aim of this thesis is to provide a comprehensive look at the evolution of schedule of working time legislation and to highlight the longtime process of the institute to evolve to its present form. Since the Czech Republic is the member of the European Union, the thesis is prepared with regard to the law of the European Union. The thesis consists of introduction , three chapters and conclusion. In the introductory chapter, I briefly focuses on the development of schedule of working time legislation. Historical overview began in 1918, although it is certainly possible that the institute had already existed earlier. This chapter deals mainly with the law No. 65/1965 Coll., Labor Code, the predecessor of the current legislation. The second chapter deals with the schedule of working time under the current Labor Code and focuses in detail on the various types of working time schedule, particularly working time account, which is a novelty in our legal system. The final chapter describes schedule of working time in relation to an international documents and European Community law, which the Czech legal system must be consistent with.

The purpose of this research is to develop an optimal kernel which would be used in a real-time engineering and communications system. Since the application is a real-time system, relevant real-time issues are studied in conjunction with kernel related issues. The emphasis of the research is the development of a kernel which would not only adhere to the criteria of a real-time environment, namely determinism and performance, but also provide the flexibility and portability associated with non-real-time environments. The essence of the research is to study how the features found in non-real-time systems could be applied to the real-time system in order to generate an optimal kernel which would provide flexibility and architecture independence while maintaining the performance needed by most of the engineering applications. Traditionally, development of real-time kernels has been done using assembly language. By utilizing the powerful constructs of the C language, a real-time kernel was developed which addressed the goals of flexibility and portability while still meeting the real-time criteria. The implementation of the kernel is carried out using the powerful 68010/20/30/40 microprocessor based systems.