Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-11T13:53:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTACAO LAURA.pdf: 1173557 bytes, checksum: 423b42fe647838c32e2b662a99271e86 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-02-27 / FAPEAM - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Amazonas / The foreign trade through exports, representing one of the most important instruments of regional development and the identification of the pattern of export specialization in an economy, reveals to some extent, the technological potential of the same, allowing the establishment of policies and other actions necessary for economic growth, a fundamental condition of social development. Thus, the objective of this research is to analyze the foreign trade of the Amazon, considering the inclusion of exports in world markets, the main tool of this analysis to determine the pattern of specialization for the period involved in the study. In order to measure the skills and the integration of Amazon exportable products in foreign markets, the index is calculated Revealed Symmetric Comparative Advantage - VCRs and Trade Balance - SC. The choice of these two indicators aimed at a more complete analysis of the data export and import of a particular area. The VCR is the level of specialization SC sets up a bias of imports of the site analyzed. In this study we could verify what was the highlight of the primary sector exports and manufactures, in breakdown indicates the electronics sector as the most dynamic. But even if the rates of VCRs show comparative advantage for this sector, it presents indices of CS negative, ie, low contribution to the balance of local business. This phenomenon is related to the fact that many electronic products exported and imported inputs that are used in its own production, featuring an importing economy, noting that the ZFM, in his view, was inserted in a context of public policy development, and therefore had the character of the area for import. / O comércio exterior, por meio das exportações, representa um dos instrumentos mais importantes do desenvolvimento regional e a identificação do padrão de especialização das exportações de uma economia, revela de certa forma, o potencial tecnológico da mesma, permitindo o estabelecimento de políticas e outras ações necessárias para o crescimento econômico, requisito fundamental do desenvolvimento social. Nesse sentido, o objetivo geral desta pesquisa é analisar o comércio exterior do Amazonas, considerando a inserção das exportações no mercado mundial, tendo como principal ferramenta desta análise a determinação do padrão de especialização para o período envolvido no estudo. A fim de mensurar a especialização e a inserção dos produtos amazonenses exportáveis no mercado externo, será calculado o índice de Vantagem Comparativa Revelada Simétrica - VCRS e o Saldo Comercial - SC. A escolha desses dois indicadores visa uma análise mais completa dos dados de exportação e importação de uma determinada área. O VCRS trata do nível de especialização o SC configura-se um viés das importações do local analisado. Neste trabalho o que se pôde verificar foi o destaque nas exportações do setor primário e das manufaturas que, em desagregação, indica o setor eletroeletrônico como o mais dinâmico. Porém, mesmo que os índices de VCRS mostrem vantagem comparativa para este setor, o mesmo apresenta índices de CS negativo, ou seja, baixa contribuição ao saldo da balança comercial local. Este fenômeno está associado ao fato de que muitos produtos eletrônicos exportados, importam insumos que são utilizados em sua própria fabricação, caracterizando uma economia importadora, observando que a ZFM, em sua concepção, estava inserida em um contexto de políticas públicas de desenvolvimento, e, portanto, tinha caráter de área destinada a importação. Palavras-chaves: exportações, padrão de especialização, PIM.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-11T13:53:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DAUTON ALVES AMOEDO.pdf: 708240 bytes, checksum: 96ddfd4279c888c0ceb7b74d379eebb8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-04-27 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The main objective of the research was to characterize the expenditure on R&D typifying by categories and behaviors of its actors (companies, institutes and part government, FNDCT) in which LI s systematic, where companies producing BIT have an obligation to invest in R&D resources . The research occurred from 1996 to 2006, in which, from the results established a discussion about the theory of innovation territorial basis of GREMI (Groupe Européen de Recherche sur les Mileux Innovateurs) with complement of the theories of Porter (Solution diamond and five forces model), and also make use of the PIM and BIT literature and other more specific elements that reinforce a dynamic indication of the PIM that shows structural elements of an economy grounded in innovation in territorial basis. The results provided an overview of distributions about the resources for R&D performed in Manaus in which one might observe a profile of incremental innovation process developed predominantly by private institutions sectors, whose rise of resources, in most cases, is foreign. The research shows features of PIM through the analysis of types of innovative environments (GREMI), featuring under the light of this theory, observe the reality of the local territory where is studied, shows eventually the characteristics of an Industrial District (not marshaliano) and eventually an innovative environment. / O principal objetivo da pesquisa foi caracterizar os gastos em P&D tipificando por categorias e o comportamento de seus atores (empresas, institutos e a parte governamental (FNDCT)) na sistemática da LI, em que as empresas produtoras de BIT têm a obrigação de investir em recursos de P&D. A pesquisa vislumbrou o período de 1996 a 2006, em que, a partir dos resultados foi estabelecida uma discussão a respeito da teoria de inovação da base territorial do GREMI - Groupe de Recherche Européen sur les Mileux Innovateurs com complemento das Teorias de Porter (Solução do Diamante e modelo de 5 forças), além destes se fez também o uso da literatura do PIM e do BIT e mais outros elementos pontuais que reforçam a indicação de uma dinâmica no PIM que apresenta elementos estruturantes de uma economia calcada em inovação em base territorial. A análise dos resultados apresentou um panorama de distribuições de recursos de P&D realizadas em Manaus no qual se pôde observar um perfil de inovação incremental de processo desenvolvida predominantemente por institutos provenientes da iniciativa privada, cuja origem do recurso, em sua maioria, é estrangeira, pôde-se ainda distinguir características do PIM por meio da análise de tipologias de ambientes inovadores(GREMI), caracterizando sob este prisma, a realidade do território local em que ora se observa características de Distrito Industrial (não o marshaliano) ora em ambiente inovador.

Product Information Management (PIM) is a field that deals with the product master data management and combines into one base the experience and the principles of data integration and data quality. Product Information Management merges the specific attributes of products across all channels in the supply chain. By unification, centralization and standardization of product information into one platform, quality and timely information with added value can be achieved. The goal of the theoretical part of the thesis is to construct a picture of the PIM, to place the PIM into a broader context, to define and describe various parts of the PIM solution, to describe the main differences in characteristics between the product data and data about clients and to summarize the available information on the administration and management of knowledge bases of the PIM data quality relevant for solving practical problems. The practical part of the thesis focuses on designing the structure, the content and the method of filling the knowledge base of the Product Information Management solution in the environment of the DataFlux software tools from SAS Institute. The practical part of the thesis further incorporates the analysis of the real product data, the design of definitions and objects of the knowledge base, the creation of a reference database and the testing of the knowledge base with the help of specially designed web services.

This thesis is focused on Master Data Management of Product Data. At present, most publications on the topic of MDM take into account customer data, and a very limited number of sources focus solely on product data. Some resources actually do attempt to cover MDM in full-depth. Even those publications are typically are very customer oriented. The lack of Product MDM oriented literature became one of the motivations for this thesis. Another motivation was to outline and analyze specifics of Product MDM in context of its implementation and software requirements for a vendor of MDM application software. For this I chose to create and describe a methodology for implementing MDM of product data. The methodology was derived from personal experience on projects focused on MDM of customer data, which was applied on findings from the theoretical part of this thesis. By analyzing product data characteristics and their impacts on MDM implementation as well as their requirements for application software, this thesis helps vendors of Customer MDM to understand the challenges of Product MDM and therefore to embark onto the product data MDM domain. Moreover this thesis can also serve as an information resource for enterprises considering adopting MDM of product data into their infrastructure.

This work deals with a monitoring application for multicast sessions. The general aim is to develop the application for monitoring multicast sessions from network elements of a laboratory computer network. The first part describes possibilities of monitoring computer networks in terms of monitoring techniques and protocols. The second part contains a topology of the laboratory computer network and several basic commands for setting of the multicast in Cisco IOS. The third part is devoted to the developed application for monitoring the multicast in Java language. The last part describes the testing on an actual multicast network and an example of such testing is stated there.

e-Learning, defined as the use of information and communications technology (ICT) for supporting the educational process, has motivated Tanzania to apply ICT in its education systems. Tanzanian secondary schools which are geographically and socially isolated face a number of problems, including a way to get learning materials. The impact of these problems is poor performance in National Examinations. This poor performance however is most noted in science and mathematics. The problem in get- ting learning materials can be reduced by employing ICT. This research developed an interactive e-learning management system (e-LMS) to be used by Tanzanian secondary schools. Tanzania Secondary Schools e-Learning (TanSSe-L) system is the name adopted for an interactive e-LMS developed. The re- search is aimed at supporting teaching and learning functions by allowing for the creation and storage of learning materials, making them available, easily accessed and sharable by students from different secondary schools in Tanzania. It is a context- driven research work of knowledge production in a specific context for application. Initially, the research work focused on two selected pilot schools; Kibaha Secondary School and Wali-ul-Asr Girls’ Seminary in Kibaha town, Pwani region. Features of the TanSSe-L system represent the standard form of any secondary school registered by the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training. The development of the TanSSe-L system made use of software engineering discipline. The research used Unified Modelling Language (UML) and integrated Object-Orient- ed System Analysis and Design (OOSA&D) and Model Driven Architecture (MDA) to address the System Development Life Cycle (SLDC) in a systemic way. UML design class diagram (DCD) is a Platform Independent Model (PIM) that was transformed into a Platform Specific Model (PSM) in MDA for implementation. Implementation made use of open source LMS to help generate a timely solution to TanSSe-L system development. In this specific context, focus group discussion as inspired by action re- search methodology was used. The research evolved into a triple helix process in close cooperation with other stakeholders. Finally, it is considered that replication and mirroring will make learning materials highly available to end-users.

This thesis deals with the Master Data Management (MDM), specifically its implementation. The main objectives are to analyze and capture the general approaches of MDM implementation including best practices, describe and evaluate the implementation of MDM project using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Master Data Services (MDS) realized in the Czech environment and on the basis of the above theoretical background, experiences of implemented project and available technical literature create a general procedure for implementation of the MDS tool. To achieve objectives above are used these procedures: exploration of information resources (printed, electronic and personal appointments with consultants of Clever Decision), cooperation on project realized by Clever Decision and analysis of tool Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Master Data Services. Contributions of this work are practically same as its goals. The main contribution is creation of a general procedure for implementation of the MDS tool. The thesis is divided into two parts. The first (theoretically oriented) part deals with basic concepts (including definition against other systems), architecture, implementing styles, market trends and best practices. The second (practically oriented) part deals at first with implementation of realized MDS project and hereafter describes a general procedure for implementation of the MDS tool.

Le travail présenté dans ce mémoire de thèse porte sur les systèmes tolérants aux défauts, plus<br />précisément la synthèse d'une méthode de reconfiguration et/ou de restructuration intégrant<br />la fiabilité des composants. La tâche de reconfiguration permet d'amener le système dans un<br />état de fonctionnement permettant d'assurer des performances désirées tout en préservant la<br />stabilité. Sous l'hypothèse qu'il existe plusieurs structures de fonctionnement résultant de la<br />déconnexion des sous systèmes défaillants, chaque structure impose des nouvelles conditions<br />de fonctionnement et par conséquent une nouvelle valeur de la fiabilité et du coût. Parmi<br />ces structures, une structure optimale doit être choisie. Dans un contexte multicritères, ce<br />travail propose de déterminer la structure optimale en intégrant les performances du système,<br />la fiabilité et le coût.<br />– La première méthode proposée traite uniquement les performances statiques conduisant à<br />considérer la fiabilité et le coût des composants. La détermination de la structure optimale<br />se fonde sur une estimation en ligne de la fiabilité et des coûts des composants.<br />– Une seconde méthode utilisant les performances des régulateurs est ensuite développée. La<br />méthode pseudo inverse PIM est utilisée pour synthétiser les régulateurs. Des modifications<br />de la méthode PIM sont proposées afin d'assurer la stabilité du système et d'atteindre des<br />objectifs dynamiques définis. Un indice de performances dynamiques est intégré dans le critère<br />de choix de la structure optimale.<br />– Les deux méthodes développées sont intégrées afin de définir une stratégie tolérante aux défauts.<br />Elle est appliquée sur un système hydraulique et thermique à 3 cuves.

Die Forschungsarbeit beabsichtigte den Zusammenhang zwischen Kultur und der wahrgenommenen Bedienbarkeit der PIM Software seitens deutscher und indonesischer Anwender, welcher in zwei Experimenten untersucht wurde, zu erforschen. Die Entwicklung der PIM Technologie in beiden Ländern, sowie deren kultureller Wert, insbesondere Unsicherheitsvermeidung (UA) und Individualismus-Kollektivismus (INCOL), repräsentieren die zentralen Beweggründe der vorliegenden Untersuchung. Der betrachtete kulturelle Hintergrund und die verwendete Methodik stellen die Verbindung zwischen der ersten und zweiten Studie dar. Die Experimente waren in zwei Studien aufgeteilt, da jeder kulturelle Hintergrund ein unterschiedliches Erhebungsdesign benötigt: UA steht in Beziehung mit der ersten vs. der zweiten Aufgabe und INCOL wurde mittels zwei verschiedenen Wegen der Vervollständigung erfasst (Individual- vs. Gruppenaufgabe). Während sich der Fokus der ersten Studie auf den Vergleich zwischen der deutschen und indonesischen Kultur richtet, konzentrierte sich die zweite Studie auf Kulturen zwischen (Deutschland vs. Indonesien) und innerhalb eines Landes (Individualismus vs. Kollektivismus). Die Ergebnisse legen dar, dass deutsche Anwender ein höheres Level an Unsicherheitsvermeidung als indonesische Anwender zeigen. Lediglich hinsichtlich der Zufriedenheit weisen indonesische, verglichen zu deutschen Benutzern, einen höheren Wert auf, wobei der Haupteffekt der Zeit nur bezüglich der Höhe der Effizienz signifikant ist. Es zeigte sich außerdem ein positiver Zusammenhang zwischen UA und der Effizienz beider Aufgaben, sowie eine negative Korrelation zwischen UA und der berichteten Zufriedenheit. Hinsichtlich der Höhe von UA und der Effektivität ließ sich kein negativer Zusammenhang nachweisen. Desweiteren, betreffend INCOL, lässt sich zusammenfassen, dass der Hauptinteraktionseffekt Aufgabe*INCOL statistisch signifikant ist. Bezüglich Effizienz und Zufriedenheit ist entscheidend, dass, je höher die Ausprägung von Individualismus und Kollektivismus auf Seiten der Anwender ist, desto weniger Zeit beanspruchen diese für die Ausführung individueller Aufgaben und desto zufriedener wenden die Benutzer das PIM und GIM Tool an. Mit eingeschlossen ist jedoch, dass sich zwischen Individualismus und Kollektivismus deutscher und indonesischer Bediener kein Zusammenhang mit der Höhe der Effektivität darstellen lasst. Zusammenfassend ist festzuhalten, dass die Entwickler der PIM Software mit einer internationalen Anwendergruppe beachten sollten, dass die Ergebnisse von Usability Messungen seitens Benutzeranfänger in verschiedenen Kulturen unterschiedlich sein können.

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