Along with the popularization of the SMS (Short Message Service) as a communication tool among big companies, such as flight and train companies, post offices and banks, a new branch started to take place in the mobile communication industry: bulk-SMS business. The companies send the SMS to their costumers through an aggregator, which in turn send the SMS further to the customers’ mobile phone. The aggregator consequently needs to monitor the SMS traffic constantly so they can assure good quality of their services. In case of an interruption in the system, their support group needs to be notified directly, so the problem can be fixed straightaway. The aim of this project was to develop an application integrated to the intranet of a company that works in the business of bulk-SMS (CLX Networks), in order to replace the current monitoring system, called OpenNMS. The system was developed using Zend Framework (PHP) and MySQL database.The project resulted in an application that allows the administrator to configure alarms and notifications and to add clients and suppliers accounts to the monitoring system. Whereas the interaction between the user administrator and the system is already implemented, the connection between the system and the CDR- and RR-database is still under development.

Interaction is an important and essential aspect of the educational learning processes, since it can be used in a wide range of educational settings, in diverse ways (Anderson, 2002). Personal response system technologies (PRS), also known as Clickers, facilitates interactivity with an audience, enabling participants to instantly respond to posed questions and provides a representation of the collected data. The implementation of such systems in real pedagogical settings enables teachers to obtain interactions within big classes while preserving the lesson’s flow (Martyn, 2007).SMS-HIT is a PRS based on mobile devices enabling student interactions via SMS or web, designed and developed in order to support learning and assessment activities in real educational or training situations (Kohen-Vacs, Ronen, & Bar-Ness, 2012). The users create and manage various activities in different topics and pedagogical goals. Types of interactivities offered by this system include voting by selection, free text and submission of quantitative data.A Design based research was conducted in order to evaluate different capabilities that SMS-HIT enables; this study aims to develop additional types of interactions to be added to the system, in order to promote the use of class interaction supported by PRS. During each of the three research iterations, the users’ usage, needs and suggestions have been investigated. According to the findings suitable additions were developed using .NET, combined with JQuery, HTML and CSS.The additional capabilities that have been developed, engage in a new ability of SMS-HIT - sequences activities: creating and managing sequences activities, presenting them and allowing audience to respond to them using mobile devices – one activity after the other.As a result of improving the system, users enjoy new and effective capabilities that were developed to meet these needs. In practice, the use of the SMS-HIT has become wider as more users create varied activities which contains diverse pedagogies.

Depuis le début du XXIème siècle, la pratique du SMS interroge sur l’usage qui est fait des normes linguistiques traditionnelles dans les écrits du quotidien. Au regard de l’histoire de l’écriture, la rapidité de son avènement en tant que pratique privilégiée de la communication interpersonnelle renvoie aux questionnements sur la diffusion de toute pratique émergente : comment les gens l’utilisent-ils ? Dans quelle mesure le support qu’est le téléphone portable influence-t-il la graphie ? Les divers choix rédactionnels sont-ils liés aux paramètres d’âge, de genre, de lieu de résidence, de niveau d’études, ou d’expérience du SMS ? L’écriture SMS possède-t-elle des caractéristiques homogènes ? Quel rapport entretient-elle avec l’oral ? Peut-elle être le creuset de futures évolutions de la langue écrite ? Par l’analyse linguistique manuelle de plus de 10 000 SMS authentiques rédigés en français, issus de collectes réalisées en Belgique, sur l’île de la Réunion, en Suisse, au Québec et dans le sud de la France, cette étude montre que l’écriture SMS, générée dans le cadre d’échanges majoritairement informels où le contexte joue un rôle crucial, tend vers l’appropriation personnelle du code graphique, sans que la norme orthographique standard soit systématiquement mise à mal. Il en ressort que l’écriture SMS apparait comme révélatrice de l‘identité de chacun, en termes de rapport à l’écriture et de capacités d’adaptation du discours. Ces recherches indiquent également que l’écriture SMS présente parfois des traits qui rendent compte de l’existence d’un lien fort entre code graphique et oralisation cognitive d’un message. / Since the beginning of the XXIst century, the SMS practice questions the use of traditional linguistics norms in daily writings. According to the history of writing, its rapid growth as a prefered practice in interpersonal communication refers to questions about the dissemination of any emergent practice: how people use-it? In which way does a support such as a mobile phone influence the way of spelling? Could the writings depend on the age, gender, place of residency, education level or experience of SMS? Does SMS writing have homogeneous characteristics? Is-it related to the oral language? Can it be the cradle of the evolutions of written language? By manual analysis of linguistic of more than 10,000 authentic SMS in French, from corpora collected in Belgium, Reunion Island, Switzerland, Quebec and southern France, this study shows that SMS writing is aimed at personal appropriation of the graphic code, without orthographic standard systematically suffering. It shows that SMS writing reveals everyone’s identity, in terms of their relationship to writing and ability to adapt the discourse. This research also indicates that SMS writing can sometimes present caracteristics that account for the existence of a strong link between graphic code and cognitive oralisation of a message.

This thesis deals with the controlling environment in the Revenue Assurance team of the telecommunication company Vodafone Inc. Its main goals are the suggestion of realizing and implementation of a new controlling process in Revenue Assurance. The individual goals of the thesis are introducing the term Revenue Assurance, so that the reader would understand the basic connection, and explanation of understanding the Revenue Assurance concept in other companies. The term is further compared to other controlling concepts such as controlling, risk management and internal audit, and the main differences among them are stated. Additionally, it explains the connection between the Revenue Assurance concept and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. This thesis' part is then followed by an explanation of understanding the Revenue Assurance concept in the telecommunication company Vodafone CZ. The key part of the thesis is the description of the suggestion, realizing and implementation of the control into the company process. This part is preceded by a descriptive part dealing with description of the chosen method and the analysis of a telecommunication environment. The final part then deals with the question if the control has been implemented successfully and how it was working during its existence. Finally, I state the benefit for the company according to the number of the cases and the revealed amount of revenue leakage.

This diploma thesis is focused on measurement of the physical quantities by fiber optic sensors based on multimode interference. The objective is to evaluate the appropriate method of signal provided by the spectrum analyzer. Firstly, a review of optics, optical phenomena and fibers is performed. The basic theory necessary for the realization of measurements and the principal of fiber optic sensors and SMS (singlemode–multimode–singlemode) structures are discussed. Finally, the automated measuring workplace for absorption spectrum measurement is created and described. Given data are finally evaluated by an artificial neural network and a sensor concept for practical utilization is designed.

Researchers at Mobile Life Centre are working on a project called “Delete by Haiku - Concept development and visualization of persistence/an SMS log dilemma” (subproject of “Re-Mobiling -breaking apart time and technology”, 2012-). The purpose of that project is to evaluate an approach of handling the growing amount of users’ digital data in phones (especially SMS logs) by trying to create, in the deletion process of old SMS, something potentially meaningful in a playful manner: poems. The students’ project aimed to develop a concretized demo for their idea, an SMS log deleting and poetry generating application, more particularly the Japanese poetry form “haiku” as chosen style, developed on the mobile platform Android. The goal: to give the researchers a basis to proceed with into the user study and demonstration phase of their project. The result of the development process was a full scale working demo application, although naturally left with many improvement and addition possibilities due to the limited time plan for the student project, and presentation of solved solutions of arisen programming and design implementation challenges. / Forskare på forskningscentret Mobile Life Centre jobbar på projekt kallat “Delete by Haiku –konceptutveckling och föreställning av behållning/ett SMS-log dilemma” (delprojekt av ”Re-Mobiling – isärbrytning av tid och teknologi”, 2012-). Syftet av det projektet är att utvärdera ett sätt att hantera den växande mängden av användares digitala data i telefoner (speciellt SMS-loggar) genom att försöka skapa, i raderingsprocessen av gamla SMS, någonting potentiellt meningsfullt i lekfull stil: dikter. Studenternas projekt var att utveckla en konkretiserad demo för deras idé, en SMS-log-raderande och poesigenerande applikation, mer bestämt den japanska poesiformen ”haiku” som valt format, utvecklat på den mobila plattformen Android. Målet: att ge forskarna en grund att fortsätta med in i användarstudie- och demonstrationsfasen av deras projekt. Resultatet av utvecklingsprocessen var en fungerande demoapplikation i full skala, emellertid givetvis lämnad med många förbättrings och tilläggsmöjligheter på grund av den begränsade tidsplanen för studentprojektet, och presentationer av lösta programmeringsoch designimplementationsutmaningar.

The main motivation for the development of various strategies to represent written text in a concise way among mobile phone users all over the world is the need to communicate full messages in abridged forms in order to save time, energy and money. These alternative forms of words and phrases are especially employed by the youth. In this paper, the innovative adaptation of global SMS texting trends in the form of intricate abbreviation and contraction of words and phrases in Kiswahili in Tanzania is examined and compared with trends in SMS texting language in English in Ghana. Using empirical data made up of SMS texts from students of the University of Dar es Salaam and University of Ghana, localized as well as convergent and divergent trends and the socio-pragmatic motivations of the phenomena are analysed and discussed.

The aim of the research was to explore the relationship between the use of SMS communication by adolescents and their perceived feelings of loneliness. The SMS seems to be the new communication medium for young people as they are most comfortable with and enthusiastic about this technology and its applications. The adolescent stage is characterised by the building of own social networks, the definition of boundaries between themselves and parents, self-presentation constructed on a social stage in relation to others and characterised by the development of romantic attachments, feelings of anxiety, self-esteem development and maintenance which may result in feelings of isolation and loneliness. Loneliness can be defined as an emotional and cognitive reaction to having fewer and less satisfying relationships than one desires. This includes the absence or self-perceived absence of satisfying social relationships and the unpleasant experience that occurs when a person's network of social relations is deficient in some important way. The motivation for this research was to get insight into the relationship between the use of SMS communication and loneliness in the South African context. An internet search on the 13th February 2006 indicated that no research has yet been done on the relationship between the use of the SMS and loneliness of adolescents in South Africa. An availability sample was used. One hundred and seventeen Grade 11 and 12 learners from two schools in the North West Province participated in the research project. An explanatory cross-sectional survey design with features of qualitative data analysis was used in this investigation. Three methods were used to obtain data, namely the UCLA Loneliness Scale (Version 3), Satisfaction with Life Scale as well as a self-compiled questionnaire. After scoring the UCLA scale the researcher determined which of the participants had the highest level of loneliness and the lowest level of loneliness. Two groups were chosen, each consisting or 15 learners, according to the highest and lowest scores on the loneliness scale respectively. These two groups represented the top and bottom 14% of the sample. The data obtained from the self-compiled questionnaire and Satisfaction with Life scale were qualitatively compared. Analysis of the data indicated that there might be a relationship between the experience of loneliness and the following: gender; number of siblings; involvement in romantic relationships; amount of money spent on bill (financial constraints); quantity of SMS messages sent and received; need to stay in contact with friends over the weekend; reasons for sending SMS messages; feelings regarding sending or receiving SMS messages; feelings regarding no response to SMS messages; feeling with regard to not receiving SMS messages from a friend for a long time; initiating of friendships via cellphone and the SMS rather than face-to-face communication. Suggestions for future research projects were made. / Thesis (M.A. (Clinical Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2007

Syftet med studien är att undersöka förekomsten av sms-och chattspråk i elevers skriftspråk genom att undersöka 28 berättelser skriva av elever i sjätte klass. Berättelserna har analyserat utifrån bedömningsmatrisen som är kopplat till nationella provet i svenska för årskurs 6. Det har även genomförts intervjuer med grundskolelärare i svenska med lång erfarenhet för att ge en kunskap om hur elevers skriftspråk har förändrats över tid. Resultatet visar i de genomgångna berättelserna att eleverna sällan använder sig sms- och chattspråk i sin textproduktion utan det som framträder är användningen av talspråk.

Syfte och frågeställningar Syftet med denna studie är att se hur motiverade alpina skidgymnasieelever är för sitt deltagande i idrotten. ·       Drivs alpina skidgymnasieelever av inre eller yttre motivation? ·       Ändras motivationen från första året till sista året? Metod Denna studie har en kvantitativ ansats för att den ska kunna svara på frågeställningen. En kvantitativ metod används också för att kunna jämföra mätbara enheter. Studien är gjord i samarbete med svenska skidförbundet. Deltagarna i denna studie är elever i årskurs 1-4 på alpina skidgymnasium. Det är 95 elever som deltar i studien av ca 200 skidgymnasieelever. Frågeformulär som ingår i undersökningen är The Sport Motivational Scale- II (Pelletier et al. 2013, s. 329-341) som är översatt till svenska (Johansson, & Olsson 2014). Enkäten innehåller 18 påståenden som täcker sex motivationsformer, tre påståenden inom varje motivations riktning. Resultat Resultatet av undersökningen visade att alpina skidgymnasieelever drivs till största del av en inre motivation. Det har även visat vara en förändring av motivation från första året till sista året. Slutsats Med resultatet som påvisats i denna studie, att skidgymnasieelever drivs av en inre motivation, samt att den yttre motivationen förändras från första till sista året, bör tränare och lärare på skidgymnasium ta detta i beaktning. Vikten av ett självbestämmande klimat har påvisat gynnar idrottarna (Gillet et al. 2009, s. 155-161). Därför bör tränare och lärare förespråka och tillämpa ett självbestämmande klimat i sin pedagogik och lärande.​