When donating to a charity there is an implied assumption that a proportion of the donation will be used to support the administration functions of the charity. The present study investigated whether it was possible to obtain direct donor support for the administration function of a charity. A ‘donation splitting’ technique was used, whereby participants could split a donation into a proportion that the charity could use for administration, and a proportion that could be used to deliver the charity’s programmes and services. Two experiments were conducted using an on-line format. All participants were reimbursed $5 for participating, and this money was made available for the participants to donate with. The primary aim of Experiment 1 was to determine whether participants were willing to allocate a proportion of their donation directly to the administration function of the charity. Sixty-two students from the University of Canterbury participated in Experiment 1, with 37 participants making a donation to the charity. Results from Experiment 1 confirmed that it was possible to obtain direct donor support for administration. Experiment 2 aimed to replicate this finding, and to examine the influence that providing information about the charity’s administration expenditure had on the donation split. Sixty students from the University of Canterbury participated in Experiment 2, with 38 making a donation to the charity. Results from Experiment 2 replicated those of Experiment 1, and indicated that it may be beneficial for a charity to provide donors with information about the nature of their administration expenditure, but this information should be kept to a minimum. The donation splitting approach gives the donor an element of control over how their money is used, as well as providing the charity with valuable information to guide administration spending. Results are discussed in terms of how the donation splitting approach can help generate and maintain the public’s trust in a charity.

Due to infrequent and imprecise maintenance inspection in power-line corridors, accidents can be caused by interferences, for instance, surrounding trees. Transmission power-line inspection conventionally relies on the participation of ground personnel and airborne camera to patrol power-lines, and is limited by intensive labour, and difficult working conditions and management. Airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) has proven a powerful tool to overcome these limitations to enable more efficient inspection. Active airborne LiDAR systems directly capture the 3D information of power infrastructure and surrounding objects. This study aims at building a semi-automatic 3D reconstruction workflow for power-lines extracted from airborne LiDAR data of 138 kV transmission line corridors (500 m by 340 m) in Nanaimo, BC, Canada. The proposed workflow consists of three components: detection, extraction, and fitting. The power-lines are automatically detected with regular geometric shape using a set of algorithms, including density-based filtering, Hough transform and concatenating algorithm. The complete power-lines are then extracted using a rectangular searching technique. Finally, the 3D power-lines are reconstructed through fitting by a hyperbolic cosine function and least-squares fitting. A case study is carried out to evaluate the proposed workflow for hazard tree detection in the corridor. The results obtained demonstrate that power-lines can be reconstructed in 3D, which are useful in detection of hazard trees to support power-line corridor management.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1982. / Bibliography: leaves 182-202. / Microfiche. / xiii, 202 leaves, bound ill., maps, plates 29 cm

Assembly Sequence Planning (ASP) is part of Assembly Planning. The assembly sequence is the most important part of an assembly plan. Assembly has an important share in both lead time and cost of a product. Therefore, its optimisation is necessary to ensure the competitivity of manufactured goods. The aim of this thesis is the optimisation of assembly sequences for mechanical products, for real/realistic problems and constraints. This thesis represents an integrated approach in assembly sequence planning and optimisation. It tackles real problems by building the generality in the models. / Thesis (PhD)--University of South Australia, 2003.

Thesis (M.S.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, Dept. of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, Department of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 117-120).

Thesis--Carnegie Institute of Technology. / Bibliography: p. 113-115.

Thesis (M.S.)--Ohio University, November, 1990. / Title from PDF t.p.

Thesis--Carnegie Institute of Technology. / Bibliography: p. 113-115.