New fish products on the market and the methods of the sensorial quality assesment are still a very important part of the business strategy. After killing and filleting fish there are problem with the use of the remaining parts of the fish body. The solution of this problem is the fish separate, which is suitable for development of new fish products (e.g. fish sausages). These fish products are senzory evaluated then. There are various methods for the judgement of the sensorial profile of the picked fish product and this is practised either by means of the machines or by the subjective judgement of the educated experts. The changes of the sensorial marks (smell, taste, aftertaste,consistence) are judged according to the form of the quality criteria. Fish meal, mainly that of fresh water fish, is a type of commodity which should be enforced and which seems to have a good perspective in the market. That´s why learning these methods and of course their subsequent application is very important for the demand of fish meal.

The observation was performed in brick buildings for dairy cows breeding. The stabling was created as lose boxes with litter (made from separated slurry) and with grid dung-passage. The aim of the work was assessed evaluation the availability of separated slurry used as a plastic litter from the animal cleanness, welfare and microclimatic parameters of stabling. During experiment was ascertained, that not founded negative impact at the animals.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-11T13:54:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Wanderlei Pires da Silva.pdf: 2987112 bytes, checksum: 949d7d9c015542bede48e81ae311af9f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-09-19 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Since the Manaus Free Trade Zone creation in 1967 the solid wastes become serious problem in whole urban Manaus City. In 2002, the generation of per capita Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) in Manaus was 1 kg/inhabit./day in average, representing a production of 1,300 t/day. The objectives this present work were i) evaluating the Manaus inhabitant perception on the MSW and the recycling, ii) characterizing the current form of MSW management applied, and iii) proposing a alternative program for MSW managing for town hall of the Manaus. Structured questionnaires were applied in six Manaus geographical zones in which the inhabitants answered on socioeconomic, MSW problems, recycling several aspects, separate collection questions. Findings showed that the Manaus town hall public politics have been completely deficient for solving the MSW problems. However, the results also revealed Manaus inhabitants having a good perception on MSW problems. The respondents were agreed with the implantation of an alternative MSW management including separate collection. / A partir da criação da Zona Franca de Manaus, em 1967, os resíduos sólidos urbanos se tornaram um sério problema em toda a área urbana da cidade de Manaus. Em 2002, a geração de RSU per capita em Manaus era de 1 kg/hab./dia, em média, o que significava uma produção de 1.300 t/dia. Os objetivos do presente trabalho foram: i) avaliar a percepção sobre RSU e reciclagem dos habitantes de Manaus, ii) caracterizar a forma atual de manejo dos RSU praticada e iii) propor um programa alternativo para o gerenciamento de RSU no município de Manaus. Questionários estruturados foram aplicados em seis zonas geográficas de Manaus, nos quais os habitantes responderam sobre questões sócio-economicas, problemas de RSU, vários aspectos da reciclagem e coleta seletiva. Os resultados mostraram que as políticas públicas do município de Manaus tem sido completamente deficientes para resolver o problema dos RSU. Entretanto, os resultados reveleram também que os habitants de Manaus têm boa percepção sobre os problemas de RSU. Os entrevistados se mostraram receptivos à implantação de um programa alternativo de gerenciamento de RSU, incluindo coleta seletiva.

Video super-resolution (VSR) aims to recover a realistic high-resolution (HR) frame from its corresponding center low-resolution (LR) frame and several neighbouring supporting frames. The neighbouring supporting LR frames can provide extra information to help recover the HR frame. However, these frames are not aligned with the center frame due to the motion of objects. Recently, many video super-resolution methods based on deep learning have been proposed with the rapid development of neural networks. Most of these methods utilize motion estimation and compensation models as preprocessing to handle spatio-temporal alignment problem. Therefore, the accuracy of these motion estimation models are critical for predicting the high-resolution frames. Inaccurate results of motion compensation models will lead to artifacts and blurs, which also will damage the recovery of high-resolution frames. We propose an effective wide activated separate 3 dimensional (3D) Convolution Neural Network (CNN) for video super-resolution to overcome the drawback of utilizing motion compensation models. Separate 3D convolution factorizes the 3D convolution into convolutions in the spatial and temporal domain, which have benefit for the optimization of spatial and temporal convolution components. Therefore, our method can capture temporal and spatial information of input frames simultaneously without additional motion evaluation and compensation model. Moreover, the experimental results demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed wide activated separate 3D CNN.

Considering the recent corporate scandals over the past couple years – VBS Mutual Bank, McKinsey & Trillian, Steinhoff, EOH and possibly Tongaat Hulett to name but a few – many shareholders may seek to hold the directors and management of such entities personally liable for their involvement or negligence. Especially where their actions were tantamount to fraud, they benefited in some way and or as a result the company, and possibly the shareholders, suffered damages. This is especially true when a company as consequence is liquidated and cannot institute action on its behalf. It is submitted that directors are rarely held personally liable for failing to fulfill their duties, let alone liable to the shareholders. The risk of failing to monitor internal controls or business risks, and to hold those acting on behalf of the company responsible and accountable for their actions, is dangerous due to the significant effect that such failure could have on the economy, for example the economic collapse with respect to the recent Steinhoff debacle. Whereas the earlier Companies Act 61 of 1973 did not necessarily ‘spell out’ directors’ duties in detail, the Companies 71 of 2008 comprehensibly records their statutory and common law duties. To this extent the board is held accountable and can ensure proper governance in the company’s internal affairs. Shareholders expect management to maximise the value of a company for the benefit of the shareholders and to act in their best interest. In achieving this, directors are required to act in the best interests of the company. However, directors may use their elevated position for their own personal gain and self-interests. Thus, in which circumstances will courts pierce the corporate veil, stepping aside from a company’s unique legal personality, to impute liability to the wrongdoers lurking behind? The relationship between directors, a company and its shareholders is a fiduciary one which imposes certain duties upon directors. However, it is well established in law that directors’ duties are owed to the company itself. Thus, considering common and statutory law, on what legal basis would shareholders be able to bring a claim against directors for the loss or damage they suffered due to an act of the directors? Considering the above, this paper seeks to explore directors’ liability to shareholders within South Africa’s common and statutory law, bearing in mind entrenched legal principles, such as the argument that fiduciary duties are duties owed to the company and not to individual shareholders; and that as a result only the company can impose liability on its directors. / Mini Dissertation (LLM (Corporate Law))--University of Pretoria, 2019. / Mercantile Law / LLM (Corporate Law) / Unrestricted

Video super-resolution (VSR) methods align and fuse consecutive low-resolution frames to generate high-resolution frames. One of the main difficulties for the VSR process is that video contains various motions, and the accuracy of motion estimation dramatically affects the quality of video restoration. However, standard CNNs share the same receptive field in each layer, and it is challenging to estimate diverse motions effectively. Neuroscience research has shown that the receptive fields of biological visual areas will be adjusted according to the input information. Diverse receptive fields in temporal and spatial dimensions have the potential to adapt to various motions, which is rarely paid attention in most known VSR methods. In this thesis, we propose to provide adaptive receptive fields for the VSR model. Firstly, we design a multi-kernel 3D convolution network and integrate it with a multi-kernel deformable convolution network for motion estimation and multiple frames alignment. Secondly, we propose a 2D multi-kernel convolution framework to improve texture restoration quality. Our experimental results show that the proposed framework outperforms the state-of-the-art VSR methods.

Separate power of communities and regions and supervision Abstract The diploma tries to find the basis of territorial self-government, criteria differentiating territorial self-government and the state and state administration, identify the content of self-government, fulfilment of separate power, supervision and control of separate power, obligation to fulfil of self-government and point out some problematic issues of self-government, relations of self-government and the state and territorial self-government units to each other. The first part of the thesis focuses on the basis and constitutional foundations of territorial self-government, including reflection on the question of whether territorial self- government is an essential part of a democratic rule of law and whether it is an expression of decentralization of public authority. It also deals with the holders and executors of territorial self-government in individual territorial self-governing units. It focuses on the distributions of power between the executors of territorial separate power in individual territorial self-governing units. In the case of municipalities, it also deals with the issue of the status of towns and cities and the status of chartered towns together with the issue of their territorial subdivide and the legal status of its...

My master´s thesis deals with the question of creating a new separate workshop. The objective of the work is to formulate out the mentioned establishment of the workshop in the light of theory and practice. Special attention is devoted to detailed analysis of surroundings and market, where the company would operate. A view of the workshop's function is presented by working up of business plan which is the basic document for any new project.

Corporate veil and its limits in the Czech Republic This thesis deals with the corporate veil of a company and related legal institutes. Moreover, the thesis interprets instruments that can lead to responsibility or liability of shareholders for the company's obligations. The thesis identifies three model situations related to the corporate veil and the question of its possible pierce that are recognized by foreign legal systems. The first chapter of the thesis focuses on the description of basic Czech legal institutes connected to the corporate veil, which are the concept of legal person and its legal personality, classification of legal persons and separate ownership of a company and a shareholder. The end of the first chapter is focused on a description of corporate veil itself and foreign doctrine of piercing the corporate veil. The second chapter of the thesis describes instruments of Czech company and civil law which may result in piercing the corporate veil between the shareholder and the company. Shareholder's statutory liability, cases of business groups (influence, controlling, and concern) and other theoretical institutes that are potentially able to conclude delict liability of a shareholder for obligations of the company: principles of fair act, and prohibition of apparent abuse of a...

To become a successful company today all costs, must be kept to a minimum. To make sure they are companies need to try new methods and policies to get closer to an optimum production. One of the things that need attention is the inventory of spare parts and the replacement of the same. The companies want their machines to have as many active hours as possible and therefore they need to replace components in them from time to time. This study will compare the current policy with a new one to see if it is economically justifiable to minimize the inventory of spare parts. This will be done by replacing two identical components in the same machine before they fail and production stops. We call it the proactive block replacement policy. To test this new policy a simulation based on historical data was made where the costs associated with the different replacements such as cost of component, cost o lost production and cost of the two types of replacements. All these costs were considered to see is the company could save money through this change. The result showed that the new policy was not suitable for this specific component because the cost of the component and the variation of lifetime on it was too high. Because of the big variation of lifetime, the time of the replacement had to be set after fewer hours of production which means more components will be used and the cost per active hour will be higher. This study is limited because only one specific component at a specific machine was studied and it is not possible to make any assumptions for other components from this study. This had to be done to get the most precise information from the company to get the best result. The conclusion of this study is that the company should keep their current replacement theory and not change into the new one. Though there might be possible ways of lowering the costs by only having one component in inventory instead of two. / För att bli ett framgångsrikt företag i dagens samhälle måste alla kostnader hållas till ett minimum. För att försäkra sig om detta måste företagen försöka hitta nya metoder och strategier för att komma närmare en optimal produktion. En av de saker som behöver undersökas är lagerhållningen av reservdelar och byten av de samma. Företagen vill att deras maskiner ska ha så många aktiva timmar som möjligt och därför behöver de ersätta komponenter i dem ibland. Denna undersökning kommer att jämföra den nuvarande strategin med en ny för att se om det är ekonomiskt fördelaktigt att minimera lagret av reservdelar. Detta görs genom att byta två identiska komponenter i samma maskin innan de hinner gå sönder och produktionen stannar. Vi kallar det för den proaktiva blockersättningspolicyn. För att testa den nya strategin gjordes en simulering baserad på historiska data där kostnaderna förknippade med de olika bytena, som till exempel komponentkostnad, kostnader och förlorad produktion och kostnad för de två typerna av byten. Alla dessa kostnader användes för att se om företaget kunde spara pengar genom att byta strategi. Resultatet visade att den nya strategin inte var lämplig för den specifika komponenten eftersom kostnaden för komponenten och variationen i livstiden, var för hög. På grund av den stora variationen i livslängden måste tiden för bytet planeras in efter färre timmars produktion, vilket betyder att fler komponenter kommer behöva köpas in och kostnaden per aktiv timme blir högre. Denna studie är avgränsad på så vis att endast en specifik komponent, på en specifik maskin, har studerats och det är inte möjligt att göra några generella antaganden för andra komponenter utifrån denna studie. För att få rättvisa och exakta resultat valdes att endast en komponent skulle undersökas för bästa resultat. Slutsatsen av denna studie är att företaget bör behålla sin nuvarande strategi för byten av komponenter och inte förändra till den nya. Trots detta kan det finnas möjliga sätt att sänka kostnaderna genom att bara ha en komponent i lager istället för två.