In my dissertation, I explore the relationship between capital controls and the choice of the maturity structure of external debt in a general equilibrium setup, incorporating explicitly the role of international lenders. I look at specific types of capital controls which take the form of date-specific and maturity-specific reserve requirements on external borrowing. I consider two questions: How is the maturity structure of external debt determined in a world general equilibrium? What are the effects of date- and maturity-specific reserve requirements on the maturity structure of external debt? Can they prevent a bank run? I develop a simple Diamond-Dybvig-type model with three dates. In the low income countries, banks arise endogenously. There are two short-term bonds and one long-term bond offered by the domestic banks to international lenders. First I look at a simple model were international lending is modeled exogenously. I consider explicitly the maturity composition of capital inflows to a domestic economy. I show that the holdings of both short-term bonds are not differentiated according to date. Second, I consider international lending behavior explicitly. The world consists of two large open economies: one with high income and one with low income. The high income countries lend to low income countries. There exist multiple equilibria and some are characterized by relative price indeterminacy. Third, I discuss date-specific and maturity- specific reserve requirements. In my setup reserve requirements play the role of a tax and the role of providing liquidity for each bond at different dates. I show that they reduce the scope of indeterminacy. In some equilibria, I identify a case in which the reserve requirement rate on the long-term debt must be higher than that on the short-term debt for a tilt towards a longer maturity structure. Fourth, I introduce the possibility of an unexpected bank run. I show that some specific combination of date-and maturity-specific reserve requirements reduce the vulnerability to bank runs. With regard to the post-bank-run role of international lenders, I show that international lenders may still want to provide new short-term lending to the bank after the occurrence of a bank run.

Aquacultural production of hybrid striped bass (HSB) Morone chrysops × M. saxatilis is highly vulnerable to losses from bacterial pathogens such as Streptococcus iniae. Therefore, research was conducted to evaluate various dietary factors that may enhance immunocompetence and disease resistance of HSB. In the first experiment, purified and practical diets were supplemented with β-glucan and selenium in a factorial arrangement and fed to juvenile HSB for 6 wk followed by a S. iniae challenge. Weight gain (WG) and feed efficiency (FE) were higher for fish fed either practical diets or purified diets supplemented with selenium, but not those supplemented with β-glucan. Survival after disease challenge for fish fed the selenium-supplemented practical and purified diets was 75% and 35%, respectively. Because selenium supplementation also improved WG and FE, and because selenium and vitamin E have complementary biochemical functions, a second experiment evaluated potential interactions by feeding purified diets with or without vitamin E or sodium selenite (Na2SeO3), singularly or in combination, for 12 wk. Dietary selenium significantly affected whole-body selenium concentration but there was no effect of dietary selenium, vitamin E or their interaction on WG, FE, survival or blood neutrophil oxidative radical production. Three additional 12-wk experiments were conducted to establish selenium essentiality, toxicity, tissue deposition, dietary requirements, bioavailability and nonspecific immune responses using purified diets with a basal selenium level of 0.11 mg/kg. In one experiment, diets had selenium concentrations of 1.19, 2.00, 5.17 and 21.23 mg/kg from Na2SeO3. Another experiment had selenium concentrations of 0.90, 1.26 and 2.55 mg/kg from seleno-DL-methionine. The third trial utilized selenium from Na2SeO3, seleno-DL-methionine and selenium yeast at approximately 0.15, 0.30 and 0.60 mg/kg diet. No overt selenium deficiency signs were observed in any of the three latter experiments, but based on selenium retention values, a minimum dietary requirement of approximately 0.1 mg/kg was estimated. Selenium toxicity was observed in fish fed the diet containing more than 20 mg/kg. Bioavailability of selenium sources was ranked as seleno-DL-methionine > selenium yeast > Na2SeO3.

Software development of R.O.C. military maintenance parts inventory control system¡¦s integrated requirement used to adopt data flow approach. Data flow approach not only flunks to guide users to describe their real need but also fails to provide a coalescence picture that integrates the operating personnel, materials data sources and logistic system together with completeness and consistency. Using architecture-oriented approach, structure elements, services, connections, and interaction behaviors of R.O.C. military maintenance parts inventory control system¡¦s integrated requirement are adequately documented. With this transparent document, developers and users shall obtain full integrality and consistency of technical support and requirement provision during the system development. This research embraces the structure behavior coalescence, abbreviated as SBC, approach to construct the architecture-oriented analysis-model of military maintenance parts inventory control system¡¦s integrated requirement, abbreviated as AOAMMMPICSIR. AOAMMMPICSIR shall be referred as an R.O.C. military architecture-oriented analysis tool and it shall help outsource the software development of military maintenance parts inventory control system¡¦s integrated requirement with success and quality.

Poster presentation from the Living the Future 8 Conference, April 23-24, 2012, University of Arizona Libraries, Tucson, AZ. / The College of San Mateo institutionalized information competency proficiency as a graduation requirement in Fall 2010. This session will trace the evolution of the requirement from conception to implementation, the multiple ways that the requirement can be satisfied, and its impact on students and library services.

Syftet med den här studien är att utforska hur några musiklärare anser att de skapar förutsättningar för elever att uppnå kunskapskraven i musik. Vilka redskap beskriver några musiklärare att de använder sig av för att eleverna ska uppnå kunskapskraven i musik? Hur anser lärare att de formar undervisningsmiljön för att mediering av kunskap ska kunna ske? Tre musiklärare verksamma i årskurs 1-6 och med lång erfarenhet av musikläraryrket har intervjuats. Studiens metod är kvalitativ intervju och dess teoretiska utgångspunkt sociokulturellt perspektiv. Resultatet presenteras med hjälp av följande teman: Redskap som möjliggör eller begränsar där det framgår att respondenterna ges varierade förutsättningar när det gäller tillgång till pedagogiska redskap och Formande av undervisningsmiljön där respondenterna ger sin syn på betydelsen av musiklärares personliga förutsättningar för elevers lärande. I diskussionskapitlet diskuteras resultatet utifrån följande teman: Förutsättningar, Bedömning, Pedagogiska handlingar samt Sociokulturella begrepp där tillgång till musiksalar, instrument och tid lyfts fram som viktiga faktorer för musiklärarnas möjlighet att mediera kunskap. / The aim of this study is to investigate how some music teachers considers they are creating conditions for their pupils to achieve the knowledge requirements in the school subject music. What tools do some music teachers describe that they use for the pupils to achieve the knowledge requirements in music? How do teachers consider they are creating teaching environment for mediation of knowledge? Three music teachers with long experience working from first to sixth grade in primary school have been interviewed. The method of this study is qualitative interviews and the theoretical point of view is a socio cultural perspective. The result is presented in the following themes: Tools that enables where differences are shown in the respondents access to pedagogical tools, Shaping the teaching environment where the respondents describe the importance of music teachers personal circumstances. In the discussion chapter the result is discussed by the following themes: Conditions, Assessment, Teaching approaches and Sociocultural concepts where access to a music hall, instruments and time are highlighted as important factors for the music teachers possibility to mediate knowledge.

Syfte: Syftet med denna studie är att förklara hur revisionsbyråers storlek påverkar kravprofiler vid rekrytering. Metod: För att få fram resultat för den empiriska analysen har ett positivistiskt synsätt, en deduktiv ansats och en kvantitativ metod använts. Teoretiskt perspektiv: Studien har använt sig utav tidigare teori som rör ämnet. Teorikapitlet innehåller information om kravprofil och byråstorlek. Empiri: Studiens empiriska material är baserad på en enkätundersökning som genomfördes på byråernas personal- och rekryteringsansvariga. Svaren av enkäten sammanställdes med hjälp av det statistiska programmet SPSS. Resultat: Analysen visade att det inte finns några skillnader mellan större och mindre byråers kravprofiler. / Purpose: The aim of this study is to explain how audit firm size affects the recruitment profile. Methodology: To obtain results for the empirical analysis, a positivistic view, deductive approach and a quantitative method was applied. Theoretical perspective: The study has used previous theory related to the subject. The theory chapter contains information about requirement profile and firm size. Empirical foundation: Study's empirical material is based on a survey conducted on the firm’s personnel and recruiting managers. The answers of the survey were consolidated using the statistical program SPSS. Conclusion: The analysis showed that there are no differences in requirement profiles between large and small firms.

There are many Information System requirement specification methods, but not much of them are related with goals. This work presents analysis of methods related with goal modelling and requirement specification. The field of this work is specification methods of goals and requirements. The object of this work is goal driven requirement specification process. The problem of the work is alignment of requirements to business goals and tracing the compliance of goals, requirements and design artefacts during development process. The main result of analysis is revealing of perspectives for extending requirement specification method with goal modelling and analysis, relating and tracing goals to requirements and software artefacts, and integration of these steps into standard unified development process. For this purpose, a UML profile was created and implemented in CASE tool “Magic Draw”. Experimental investigation of created means by applying them to IS development demonstrated the suitability of the approach. / Daugelyje organizacijų aktuali informacinių technologijų atitikimo veiklos poreikiams problema. Vienas iš būdų ją spręsti – susieti informacinių sistemų programinės įrangos reikalavimų specifikacijas su veiklos tikslais. Dėl reikiamų modeliavimo priemonių CASE įrankiuose nebuvimo tikslų modeliavimas praktiniuose kūrimo procesuose yra neatliekamas arba atliekamas tik dalinai. Planuojant informacinių sistemų projektus, tikslinga analizuoti tikslus, nes taip galima padidinti informacinių sistemų tinkamumą veiklos poreikiams. Todėl tikslais grindžiamo reikalavimų specifikavimo metodo sukūrimas yra aktuali ir novatoriška problema. Šio darbo tyrimo sritis yra tikslų ir reikalavimų specifikavimo metodai. Darbo tyrimo objektas yra tikslais grindžiamas reikalavimų specifikavimo procesas. Šio darbo tyrimo problema yra reikalavimų suderinamumas su veiklos tikslais, taip pat tikslų, reikalavimų ir juos realizuojančių artefaktų atitikimo sekimas projektavimo metu. Darbo tikslas yra sudaryti reikalavimų specifikacijos modelį, kuriame specifikacijų elementai būtų susieti tarpusavyje ir turėtų ryšį su organizacijos tikslais. Taip pat reikia pateikti priemones tikslų, reikalavimų ir artefaktų atitikimui sekti projektavimo metu. Sukurtas tikslais grindžiamų reikalavimų metamodelis ir UML profilis, realizuotas UML CASE įrankio Magic Draw DSL kūrimo priemonėmis, leidžia vaizduoti tikslus, su jais susijusius panaudojimo atvejus ir detalizuotus reikalavimus. Taikydami sudarytą metodiką... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]

Socialinis darbas ir slauga tam tikrais aspektais yra labai susijusios profesijos, bendradarbiaujant ir kooperuojant šias paslaugas į namus atsirastų galimybė labiau patenkinti pagalbos į namus gavėjų lūkesčius ir pagerinti esamos pagalbos kokybę. / Social assistant and nursing at home are the same profession in some aspects. The cooperation of this service would allow are more to satisfied service home users wishers and would improve surrent quality of aid.

In the early stage of building a new informational system requirement engineering involves all the processes related to the requirement system and research of problems emerged during this process. In this stage the requirements specification of corresponding information system are built. Many different notations serve for this purpose, selection of which is dependant on available resources and project goals. Requirements specification must be of good quality. It is evaluated by characteristics of quality. Specifications could be analyzed and improved by using various tools including CASE tools. The specification is developed and its quality is improved by making analysis of requirements. Well done specification is basis for creating high leveled functionality system.

Magistro darbo pagrindinis tikslas ištirti Šiaulių universiteto gimnazijos moksleivių turistinių kelionių poreikius. Nepatenkinti šio segmento poreikiai – tai nauji turizmo produktai, kuriuos gali pasiūlyti besiplečianti turizmo rinka. Pirmojoje magistro darbo dalyje teoriniu aspektu išanalizuota paslaugos, vartotojo sampratos bei poreikių atsiradimo priežastys. Analizė paremta gimnazistų turistinių kelionių, kuriose jie dalyvavo su tėvais ar mokykla vertinimais bei pageidavimais, į kuriuos reikėtų atsižvelgti organizuojant gimnazistams skirtas keliones. Gauti tyrimo rezultatai parodė, jog gimnazijos moksleivių pagrindinis poreikis – savarankiškumas, kuris pasireikštų renkantis bendrakeleivius, formuojant kelionės maršrutą, kelionės trukmę. Kita vertus Šiaulių universiteto gimnazijos moksleiviai prisitaikė prie esamos situacijos, nes didžioji dalis respondentų patenkinti įvykusiomis turistinėmis kelionėmis. Jose sužinojo daug naujo bei pritarė mokyklinių turistinių kelionių skaičiui per metus. / The main aim of Master Thesis is to research touristic journey needs of Siauliai University Gymnasium pupils. Unsatisfied needs of this segment are the new tourism products, which can be offered by developing tourism market. In the first part of Master Thesis the services, consumer’s conceptions and the reasons of arising needs are analyzed in theoretical aspect. The analysis is based on evaluations of touristic journeys of gymnasium pupils, where they participated together with parents or school, and requests which should be taken into account while organizing journeys, intended for pupils of gymnasium. Received research results revealed that the main need of Gymnasium pupils is independence, which can be revealed by choosing fellow passengers, planning route and time for travelling. On the other hand the pupils of Siauliai University Gymnasium adjusted to the current situation, as the bigger part of respondents are satisfied with touristic journeys. They found out much during them and approved the number of school touristic journeys during the year.