Approved for public release, distribution is unlimited / It is unknown if the Summer Seminar program, which gives rising high school seniors a six-day look at Naval Academy life, has resulted in a more successful midshipman. While not previously discussed in literature, there are an abundance of studies on civilian recruiting and orientation programs, as well as realistic job previews and expectation-lowering procedures. Based on this literature, it is theorized that Summer Seminar program participation will be positively correlated to increased graduation rates and increased academic cumulative quality point ratings, as well as increased military and physical performance. This hypothesis was tested using multiple hierarchical regressions on population data obtained from the Classes of 1997 through 2003. Success is defined using seven dependent variables organized by academic, military, and physical performance. The key independent variable is participation in the Summer Seminar program, while eleven other independent variables control for demographics, selection criteria, and proven indicators of success. Participation in the Summer Seminar program had a significant relation to increased graduation rates, increased academic cumulative quality point ratings, increased military cumulative quality point ratings, and increased physical readiness test scores. This study concludes that the Summer Seminar program makes a unique contribution to midshipman success at the Naval Academy. / Lieutenant, United States Navy

In this article, the authors describe how the International Financial Corporation of the World Bank, and the 77 global financial institutions that have signed on to the Equator Principles, have come to the conclusion that social conflict with indigenous communities needs to be resolved through the application of free, prior, informed and consent. While the requirement to obtain consent of an indigenous people would appear to make it more difficult for extractive industry projects to proceed, theories of dispute resolution developed by the Harvard Negotiation Project suggest that where consent is obtained, it is more likely thatc onflicts will be reduced.

The objective of this article is to review and analyze the different arguments and legal excuses made by the Government and the private sector in Peru, this for the purpose of that the first-mentioned institution fails or avoids its juridical obligation of execute the preview consultation process for the indigenous peoples in Peru, this whenever the State is going to adopt a legislative or administrative measure susceptible that will affect directly to the indigenous peoples. In summary, this article seeks to analyze about the juridical problems founded at the moment of the implementation of the preview consultation process in our Legal System. If we consider that Convention 169 ILO, and the right to consult has been in force since February 2nd of 1995, and the Constitutional Court established on binding jurisprudence that the Convention in question is a norm that no needs a legislative development for its effectiveness, thus we can conclude that, rather than arguments is about legal excuses. / El objetivo del artículo es revisar y analizar los diferentes argumentos y pretextos jurídicos utilizados por el Gobierno y el sector privado en el Perú, para que el primero incumpla o evada su obligación jurídica de realizar el proceso de consulta previa con los pueblos indígenas en el Perú, esto cada vez que el Estado prevé adoptar una medida legislativa o administrativa susceptible de afectar directamente a los pueblos indígenas. En buena cuenta lo que hace el artículo es analizar los problemas jurídicos encontrados al momento de implementar la consulta previa en nuestro ordenamiento jurídico. Si tenemos en cuenta que el Convenio 169 de la OIT, y el derecho a la consulta estaban vigentes, y eran exigibles en el Perú desde el 2 de febrero del año 1995, y que el Tribunal Constitucional ha dicho en jurisprudencia vinculante, que el referido convenio es una norma que no necesita desarrollo legislativo para desplegar sus efectos normativos, podemos concluir, que más que argumentos, se trata de pretextos jurídicos.

Recently, sensors such as radars and cameras have been widely used in automotives, especially in Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS), to collect information about the vehicle's surroundings. Stereo cameras are very popular as they could be used passively to construct a 3D representation of the scene in front of the car. This allowed the development of several ADAS algorithms that need 3D information to perform their tasks. One interesting application is Road Surface Preview (RSP) where the task is to estimate the road height along the future path of the vehicle. An active suspension control unit can then use this information to regulate the suspension, improving driving comfort, extending the durabilitiy of the vehicle and warning the driver about potential risks on the road surface. Stereo cameras have been successfully used in RSP and have demonstrated very good performance. However, the main disadvantages of stereo cameras are their high production cost and high power consumption. This limits installing several ADAS features in economy-class vehicles. A less expensive alternative are monocular cameras which have a significantly lower cost and power consumption. Therefore, this thesis investigates the possibility of solving the Road Surface Preview task using a monocular camera. We try two different approaches: structure-from-motion and Convolutional Neural Networks.The proposed methods are evaluated against the stereo-based system. Experiments show that both structure-from-motion and CNNs have a good potential for solving the problem, but they are not yet reliable enough to be a complete solution to the RSP task and be used in an active suspension control unit.

This thesis focuses on problems related with new graduates at the „Department of New Employees Training“ of TŘINECKÉ ŽELEZÁRNY joint stock Company. The work evaluates to what extent the participants are satisfied with the training period, work of each mentor assigned to them and how they are involved in solving concreate tasks. Later suggestions are made on what measures should be taken to improve the program, for future participants to be satisfied.

The transport industry is experiencing a disruption as fully autonomous vehicles are introduced in traffic. The intelligent, driverless vehicles will reduce cost, liberate human effort and increase safety. Today, the hardware technology seems to have reached the required processing power, but the decision-making algorithm still has a long way to go until they’re proven to be road-safe. Among these is the problem of lateral path tracking control. This thesis will consider the lateral control problem with the goal to send the right signal to the steering actuators so that the vehicle follows a predetermined trajectory. The vehicle in question is a triaxial, rigid, electric truck with active steering on both front and rearmost wheels. With servo latency and large inertial parameters in mind, a highly accurate model of the lateral and yaw behavior must be identified in order to predict the vehicle dynamics for a given steering input. Then, the properties of an optimal lateral controller are iteratively improved until a sufficiently low tracking error is obtained. Lastly, the controller is tuned to guarantee robustness for a range of uncertain vehicle parameters. The derived triaxial model with servo actuation is proven to be better at predicting the vehicle dynamics compared to other models common in literature with only one active steering input. When constructing a lateral controller, the importance was shown of considering 1) state feedback control of the lateral error, 2) feedforward control operating on future road curvature, 3) integrating control which combats biases and model errors, 4) using a tailored triaxial model and 5) minimizing the control signal change. Lastly, the derived controller was shown to have a decent stability margin with respect to estimated uncertainties. / Transportbranschen är i ett skifte då helt autonoma fordon införs i trafiken. De intelligenta, förarlösa fordonen minskar kostnader, ökar säkerheten och låter oss människor syssla med annat. Idag verkar det som att hårdvarutekniken har den processorkraft som behövs men de beslutsfattande algoritmerna har fortfarande en lång väg att gå tills de har visat sig vara helt vägsäkra. Bland dessa är problemet med lateral styrningskontroll som kommer ses över i denna avhandling. Fordonet i fråga är en rigid lastbil med tre hjulaxlar och aktiv styrning på både de främre och bakersta hjulen. Med tanke på servofördröjningar och de stora tröghetsparametrarna måste en noggrann modell av dynamiken identifieras för att förutspå responsen för en viss styrvinkel. Därefter utvecklas en optimal lågnivåregulator iterativt tills ett tillräckligt lågt spårningsfel erhållits. Slutligen ställs regulatorn in för att garantera robusthet för ett set av osäkra fordonsparametrar Den härledda triaxialmodellen med servostyrning var bevisbart bättre på att förutspå fordonsdynamiken jämfört med andra modeller som återkommer frekvent i litteraturen. Vid regulatorkonstruktionen påvisades vikten av att överväga 1) återkoppling av laterala felet, 2) förhandsgranskning som tittar på den kommande vägkrökningen, 3) integrering av styrfelet som åtgärdar modellfel, 4) en skräddarsydd fordonsmodell med tre axlar och 5) minimering av ändringen utav kontrollsignalen. Slutligen visades den härledda regulatorn ha en skaplig stabilitetsmarginal gentemot uppskattade osäkerheter av parametrar.

本研究之目的在瞭解網路招募情境中，具預告真實工作情境（Realistic Job Preview，簡稱RJP）效果的廣告，其負向訊息比例與重要性對組織吸引力之影響，並探討求職者「對工作的期望」與「對組織的信任」在此關係的中介效果以及「求職者知覺的市場競爭力」在此關係的調節效果。本研究採用二因子受試者間實驗設計，所操弄的獨變項為招募廣告負向訊息佔總訊息量的比例，分為10％、20％、30％、40％、50％五種程度；以及負向訊息的重要性程度（高、低），依變項為組織吸引力。 本研究透過網際網路建置虛擬組織的招募網頁，吸引正欲求職的大學四年級及研究所學生經由網路進行實驗，得到466筆有效的實驗資料。研究結果顯示不同負向訊息比例對整體組織吸引力與各分量表的影響有顯著差異，而其在整體組織吸引力、組織正向情感、與工作吸引力有非線性的影響效果，即負向訊息的比例為20%者，其效果最高；負向訊息的高、低重要性程度會對整體組織吸引力與各分量表有不同的影響效果，越重要的負向訊息導致越高的組織吸引力。研究者並以ANCOVA檢驗工作期望的中介效果，結果顯示整體工作期望、工作內容期望、與一般性期望在負向訊息比例與組織吸引力之間有中介效果，組織信任的中介效果則沒有獲得驗證；負向訊息重要性會透過工作內容期望的中介效果影響組織吸引力，但無法確認組織信任有無中介效果。研究者以二因子變異數分析求職者知覺的市場競爭力的調節效果，結果顯示求職競爭力僅在公司期望與組織吸引力之間的關係有顯著的調節效果。研究者分別就結果加以討論，提出可能的解釋，並說明本研究之限制與貢獻。 / The purpose of this study is to empirically examine the effects of proportion and importance of negative information (having the function of realistic job preview with respect to web recruitment advertisements) on organizational attractiveness. The mediation effects of job expectation and trust toward organization on the previous relationships and the moderation effects of perceived job competitiveness on the previous relationships were examined. The independent variables of this study are proportion of the negative information (10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, or 50%) and importance of the negative information (low vs. high). The dependent variable is organizational attractiveness. Totally 466 seniors and graduate students who were hunting for a job joined in the experiment through the fictitious organization recruiting webpage. The result reveals that proportion of negative information has non-linear effect on organizational attractiveness. Recruitment ads with 20% of negative information had the strongest effect on organizational attractiveness. Negative information of higher importance induced more organizational attractiveness than that of lower importance. ANCOVA was used to examine the mediation effects. It shows that the job expectation mediates the relationship between proportion of negative information and organizational attractiveness. However, the mediation effect of trust toward organization on the relationship between proportion of negative information and organizational attractiveness hasn’t been confirmed. Via the mediation effect of job content expectation and trust toward organization, importance of negative information can affect organizational attractiveness.

The Pre-listening Stage in L2 Listening Instruction to A2 - B1 Adult Learners By Hana Ždímalová This dissertation deals with listening instruction to adult EFL learners in the Czech Republic and the phenomenon of pre-listening, which is currently under-researched. It examines adult EFL students' perspectives and perceptions of listening instruction and of the inclusion of different pre-listening techniques, particularly at CEFR A2-B1 proficiency levels. The theoretical part of the study focuses on current developments in listening research and the historical context of the development of listening instruction in classical FLT methodology. The pre-listening stage has been integral to L2 listening instruction since the beginning of Communicative Language Teaching. However, some controversial issues have recently been raised. For example, teachers are sometimes suspected of spending too much time on the pre- listening stage (Field 2002; 2008) and the overall usefulness of previewed comprehension questions in testing listening has been challenged (Sherman 1997). Moreover, adult students' listening needs and their perceptions of listening instruction have not yet been thoroughly researched (Graham 2006; Graham and Macaro 2008). This study argues that we should ask the students about their perceptions...