Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester, 1986. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 91-93).

by Ng Chung Ying Davy. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 91-103). / ACKNOWLEDGMENT --- p.1 / ABSTRACT --- p.2 / Chapter CHAPTER 1 : --- INTRODUCTION --- p.3 / Chapter CHAPTER 2 : --- LITERATURE REVIEW --- p.5 / Chapter 2.1. --- The History of Laser --- p.5 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- Pre-Maser History (1917 - 1952) --- p.5 / Chapter 2.1.2. --- The Development of the Maser (1953 - 1959) --- p.6 / Chapter 2.1.3. --- The Development of the Laser (1960 - 1961) --- p.7 / Chapter 2.1.4. --- Expanding the Laser Concept (1962 - 1966) --- p.8 / Chapter 2.1.5. --- New Laser Development (1967 - at present) --- p.11 / Chapter 2.2. --- Basic Laser System --- p.11 / Chapter 2.2.1. --- The Active Laser Media --- p.12 / Chapter 2.2.2. --- The Source of Excitation Energy --- p.12 / Chapter 2.2.3. --- A Febry-Perot Interferometer --- p.13 / Chapter 2.3. --- Basic operational principles of laser --- p.13 / Chapter 2.4. --- Characteristics of Laser Radiation --- p.14 / Chapter 2.5. --- Laser Reactions in Living Tissue --- p.15 / Chapter 2.5.1. --- Laser Interactions with the Eye --- p.15 / Chapter 2.5.2. --- Laser Interaction with the Skin and its Appendages --- p.16 / Chapter 2.5.3. --- Laser Interaction with other tissues --- p.16 / Chapter 2.6. --- Thermal Effect of Laser Irradiation of Living Tissues --- p.20 / Chapter 2.7. --- Medical lasers and their applications --- p.21 / Chapter 2.7.1. --- Neodymium-doped yttrium-aluminium- garnet (Nd:YAG) laser --- p.21 / Chapter 2.7.2. --- Argon laser --- p.21 / Chapter 2.7.3. --- Carbon dioxide laser --- p.22 / Chapter 2.7.4. --- Tunable dye laser --- p.22 / Chapter 2.7.5. --- Gold Vapour Laser --- p.23 / Chapter 2.7.6. --- Copper Vapour Laser --- p.23 / Chapter 2.8. --- Port-wine stains --- p.24 / Chapter 2.8.1. --- Pathology of port-wine stains --- p.24 / Chapter 2.8.2. --- Treatment of port-wine stains by lasers --- p.24 / Chapter 2.9. --- Laser Therapy in the Gastrointestinal Tract --- p.28 / Chapter 2.10. --- Esophageal varices --- p.30 / Chapter 2.10.1. --- Etiology of oesophageal varices --- p.30 / Chapter 2.10.2. --- Pathology of oesophageal varices --- p.31 / Chapter 2.10.3. --- Diagnosis of esophageal varices --- p.31 / Chapter 2.10.4. --- Treatment of esophageal varices --- p.33 / Chapter CHAPTER 3 : --- ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS --- p.42 / Chapter 3.1. --- General Materials --- p.42 / Chapter 3.1.1. --- Equipment --- p.43 / Chapter 3.1.2. --- Drugs and chemical --- p.47 / Chapter 3.1.3. --- Laboratory Animals --- p.48 / Chapter 3.1.4. --- Surgical Instruments --- p.49 / Chapter 3.1.7. --- Disposable --- p.49 / Chapter 3.1.8. --- Sutures --- p.49 / Chapter 3.1.9. --- Histopathological Preparation --- p.50 / Chapter 3.2. --- Experiment 1 : Iatrogenic perforation of the rat's stomach by the continues application of the Copper Vapour Laser at different power level --- p.51 / Chapter 3.2.1. --- Introduction --- p.51 / Chapter 3.2.2. --- Methods --- p.52 / Chapter 3.2.3. --- Results --- p.55 / Chapter 3.2.4. --- Discussion --- p.60 / Chapter 3.3. --- Experiment 2 : Obliteration of the rats' mesenteric vein with the Copper Vapour Laser --- p.61 / Chapter 3.3.1. --- Introduction --- p.61 / Chapter 3.3.2. --- Method --- p.62 / Chapter 3.3.3. --- Results --- p.63 / Chapter 3.3.4. --- Discussion --- p.65 / Chapter CHAPTER 4 : --- CONCLUSION --- p.67 / REFERENCES --- p.91

Thesis (M.B.A.)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2003. / "MBA professional report"--Cover. Advisor(s): Tarek Abdel-Hamid and Bill Gates. Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-64). Also available online.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-05T18:36:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 12 / Nenhuma / As organizações desenvolvem-se em mercados competitivos e globalizados, necessitando adequar seus processos produtivos à entrega de produtos customizados e no menor tempo possível. Dentre os complexos elementos essenciais para a sobrevivência, a gestão da cadeia de suprimentos é estrategicamente importante por agregar alguns fatores para melhorar a competitividade: (1) a formação de redes que agreguem valor a cadeia produtiva; (2) monitoramento e controle de materiais para redução de custos e aumento da lucratividade; (3) redefinição das instalações para melhorar os processos produtivos; (4) o uso de tecnologia de informação como integrador das cadeias; (5) a customização de produtos; (6) a formação de parcerias para melhorar o processo de fornecimento e de desenvolvimento de produtos. Com base nestas condições, como melhoria na gestão da cadeia de suprimentos, este trabalho buscou um aprofundamento sobre os conceitos teóricos englobados para o desenvolvimento da cadeia de suprimentos. Com esta discussão em / Companies develop in competitive global markets, needing to adjust their productive systems to deliver of the products with costs elaborated and in less time possible. From among essential elements to the survival, the management of the supply chain is strategically important for aggregate some factors to improve the competitively: (1) formation of processes that associate value to productive chain; (2) observation and control of materials to costs reduction and lucratively increase; (3) definition of new installations to improve the productive systems; (4) utilization of technology information as chains integrator; (5) elaboration of the products costs; (6) creation of partnerships to prosper the supply process and development of the products. Have grounds in these conditions, this work searched to deepen the theoretical conception conglomerated to the evolution of the supply chain. This discussion, connected with a case study, proposed the development of a supply system for integration of three different pr

The green supply chain concept occurs to mitigate environmental degradations and controlair, water and waste pollution through the adoption of green practices in manufacturing andbusiness operations. The essential ideology behind green concept is to enhance environmental sustainability. This can be through some reviews which can be done on some previous studies, articles or /and papers which includes within its concept caring about the environmental issues. Since the environmental issues are increasing concerning the green supply chain a researchabout the actual supply chain performance and its greening in an integrated environmental management system (EMS) is required to be done. This will be shown in this research. As well as the SC is shown to be driven to ISO 14001 to meet the requirements of life cycle incombination with design and development. A modified model of EMS is suggested aftergreening the SC. It is of great importance to green the SC to come till the objective of this thesis. That is tosatisfy the customer by greening the SC and to modify an EMS which includes practisinggreening the supply chain (SC), certain themes should be studied. Firstly, description of someconcepts related to the topic of this research will be forwarded. The definitions of the SC, SCM and how together they integrate in environmental thinking will be clarified in the first hand.This will simplify the comprehensive of greening SC/SCM in an EMS. The green supply chain(GSC) can reduce the environmental pollution and production costs and it can also balance theeconomic process, create competitive advantage in terms of greater customer satisfaction, positive image and reputation. In this research the SC is also to be driven to ISO 14001, the standardization regarding theenvironmental issues and its impact management. It is valuable also to mention and not to forgetthat, as general nowadays, the increase in industry greenhouse emission are considered as aserious matter that may raise the taxes regarding the emission of more carbon dioxide, whichin turn affects the environmental impacts measure. Sweden depends on the natural resourcesand is the leading producer of ores and metals such as zinc, copper andlead. People also depend on the lakes for water so there must be certain means for a continuousimprovement, a decreasing and not an increasing in the environmental impacts which may leadto pollution and contamination. This comes to reality when an environmentally friendly inputsare utilized and transformed into outputs that can be reclaimed and re-used at the end of theirlife cycle thus creating a sustainable supply chain, considering the manufacturing process from product design development, material selection, delivery to the end the life cycle managementafter the product’s useful life. Through the review of 33 papers/studies, four of these reviews are explained and will be justified here in this research. It will be shown clearly and actually that the questions of thisresearch will get an answer and the objective will be met. In another words this research focuseson the green SC with respect to product life cycle and the design development which will beshown to be a key to customer’s satisfaction. SC performance measure; i.e. quality, delivery,cost and flexibility play an essential role on that. This will be shown when an EMS is structured keeping the basis of ISO 14001 (can be the latest version: 2015). The methodology followed is the collection of data from the papers and studies, analysis oftheir results, observations of their conclusions and the comparison of the similarity and contrast of their contributions. Extra conclusion to the conclusions of the papers can be added if found. Some recommendation is given for future studies so as a continuous gain obtained while developing the studies.

This dissertation work is focused on issues related to a purchasing process in business subjects. It examines issues related to an evaluation of suppliers for a particular order. It also deals with issues within supplier-purchaser relationship, its creation and management through the SCM - Supply Chain Management. The topic of this thesis is very progressive as the selection and the evaluation of the suppliers is a very important factor in the terms of purchase and purchase expenses. A good management of the supplier-purchaser relationship can save expenses to business subjects. The elaboration of this dissertation thesis used not just theoretical findings acquired from the Czech and international literature, but also findings from surveys. The primary survey was carried out through the quantitative research, in particular research questionnaires. The findings from the primary survey were evaluated through the application Microsoft Excel and UNISTAT ® Statistical Package Version 5.6.06 Light. The acquired results were used to define the most important factors, which affect an evaluation of suppliers as well as an evaluation of the SCM in companies and data about purchases in companies. In addition the findings from the research questionnaires helped to evaluate the appointed hypothesis of the dissertation thesis. A partial outcome of the dissertation thesis is the proposal of the methodology of the evaluation of new and current suppliers including the weighting of individual evaluation parameters. For a common suppliers’ evaluation, an evaluation frequency is set by the importance of supplied material. Additionally, it methodologically describes how to evaluate supplier in time for day-to-day supply and for one-off supply. An additional partial outcome is the proposal of the methodology for an evaluation of a level of the SCM. The conclusion of the dissertation thesis is dedicated to the summary of findings, discussion of preconditions for implementation of the proposed methodology to real situations and possibilities of an additional scientist work in appropriately related subjects.