The relationship between politics and business administration is neutral, somehow, it may usually be considered as a negative phrase. In general, most people may judge this kind of relationship as something like corruption, bribery and rent-seeking. This research will focus on the example of transferring of control of a Department Store, and use this case to discuss the law, social benefit and traditional cultural issues about the transferring process. The relationship between legislative and business is mutual, not only business-political relationship could affect legislative process, the law itself could also heavily influence the behaviors between politics and business. A proper law could be measured by active and passive aspects, for passive one, it could have enough power to stop corporations from illegal activities; for active one, business law could direct corporations to enrich and fulfill its social responsibilities. Therefore, when the legislative tries to build up some relevant laws for business, it could not be done by only some narrow law-orientated elites but consult various fields of other expertise. The case is a classical one about joint loan of business, in traditional way, the case should be solved by professional bank workgroups. However, during the whole process, this case evolved to a competition of control of corporation between different business clans. Besides, this case also involved some debate about political influence, therefore this case cannot be considered as a pure business event but a more complicated issue.

<p>Syftet med litteraturstudien var att beskriva de skador som uppkommer hos vårdpersonal i samband medpatientförflyttning och vad som kan göras för att förebygga dessa skador. De ingående studierna har granskatsoch kvalitén på dessa har värderats. Resultatet visade på ett globalt problem eftersom de vetenskapliga studiernagjorda i ämnet kommer från flera delar av världen. Det var övervägande kvinnliga studiedeltagare i de studiersom granskades. Patientförflyttningar, stress, arbetsbelastning samt personalens sinnesstämning och hälsa fannsvara orsaker till vårdrelaterade skador hos personal. Brist på utbildning i förflyttningsteknik, brist på hjälpmedeloch hur hjälpmedlen ska användas fanns också vara orsaker till skador. Den form av skada som oftast förekomvar ryggskador. Med hjälp av skadeförebyggande program där det på arbetsplatser introducerats bland annatmekaniska liftar och utbildning i förflyttningsteknik har det påvisats en minskning av muskuloskeletala skadorhos vårdpersonal. Hjälpmedel vid förflyttningar kunde förebygga både fysisk och psykisk stress samt känslanav säkerhet för både patient och personal.</p> / <p>The purpose of the literature study was to describe the injuries that occur amongst nursing staffwhen handling and transferring patients, and what can be done to prevent such injuries. In-depthstudies on the subject have been reviewed and the quality of them has been valued. These studieshave been carried out in different parts of the world, and the result of the review indicates thatthis is a global problem. The participants of the reviewed studies were predominantly female.Transferring and handling patients, stress, heavy workloads and the attitude and basic health ofthe employees were found to be the main reasons for nursing related injuries. A lack ofeducation in patient transferring techniques, a lack of transferring aids and how to use them werealso proven to be reasons for injuries. The most common type of injury was back injuries. Adecrease in musculoteletal injuries have been proven in workplaces where injury-preventingprograms, including mechanical lifts and education in patient transferring techniques, have beenintroduced. Transferring aids were shown to prevent both physical and mental stress, and also thefeeling of security among both patients and nursing staff.</p>

Syftet med litteraturstudien var att beskriva de skador som uppkommer hos vårdpersonal i samband medpatientförflyttning och vad som kan göras för att förebygga dessa skador. De ingående studierna har granskatsoch kvalitén på dessa har värderats. Resultatet visade på ett globalt problem eftersom de vetenskapliga studiernagjorda i ämnet kommer från flera delar av världen. Det var övervägande kvinnliga studiedeltagare i de studiersom granskades. Patientförflyttningar, stress, arbetsbelastning samt personalens sinnesstämning och hälsa fannsvara orsaker till vårdrelaterade skador hos personal. Brist på utbildning i förflyttningsteknik, brist på hjälpmedeloch hur hjälpmedlen ska användas fanns också vara orsaker till skador. Den form av skada som oftast förekomvar ryggskador. Med hjälp av skadeförebyggande program där det på arbetsplatser introducerats bland annatmekaniska liftar och utbildning i förflyttningsteknik har det påvisats en minskning av muskuloskeletala skadorhos vårdpersonal. Hjälpmedel vid förflyttningar kunde förebygga både fysisk och psykisk stress samt känslanav säkerhet för både patient och personal. / The purpose of the literature study was to describe the injuries that occur amongst nursing staffwhen handling and transferring patients, and what can be done to prevent such injuries. In-depthstudies on the subject have been reviewed and the quality of them has been valued. These studieshave been carried out in different parts of the world, and the result of the review indicates thatthis is a global problem. The participants of the reviewed studies were predominantly female.Transferring and handling patients, stress, heavy workloads and the attitude and basic health ofthe employees were found to be the main reasons for nursing related injuries. A lack ofeducation in patient transferring techniques, a lack of transferring aids and how to use them werealso proven to be reasons for injuries. The most common type of injury was back injuries. Adecrease in musculoteletal injuries have been proven in workplaces where injury-preventingprograms, including mechanical lifts and education in patient transferring techniques, have beenintroduced. Transferring aids were shown to prevent both physical and mental stress, and also thefeeling of security among both patients and nursing staff.

Nanocrystal has non-negligible ratio of the surface atoms. The photophysics of the nanocrystal is strongly influenced by the surface states.There are two surface-related phenomena: the on-off blinking and the red-emission. On-off blinking is a phenomenon commonly observed in thesingle emitters, such as dye molecules and semiconductor quantum dots (QD).In the QD, the charged state caused by the charge transferring from the core to the surface states explains the off-state. Another surface-related phenomenon is the red-emission, which is the emission from the low-lying surface trapped states. This thesis investigates the correlation between the on-off blinking and the red-emissions of the semiconductor nanocrystals. CdSe/ZnS core/shell colloidal nanocrystals with 2.1nm in diameter and emission peak at 515nm were examined. PL spectrum in the solution indicates that besides the band-edge emission, there is a broadband emission spanning the wavelength range of 590 ¡V 800 nm, which is called the red-emission. The lifetime of the band-edge emission is about 20ns, and that of the red-emission is about 200ns. Since they are with different fluorescence lifetime, the band-edge emission and the red-emission are from distinct emission species. Emission intensity from individual QDs of the band-edge emission and the red-emission are recorded by an imaging CCD. Most QDs exhibit band-edge emission. Only few QDs show the red-emission. Both emissions exhibit clear on-off blinking, indicating the two phenomena are with different mechanism.Moreover, the band-edge emission and the red-emission are mutual exclusive.None QDs exhibit both emissions. This indicates the tiny structure difference from one QD particle to another QD particle resulting in a dramatic different of the excitation energy relaxation pathway.

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Although there is an extensive amount of literature on the developmental stages of beginning therapists and the challenges they face, little is known about one of their most difficult challenges; transferring theory learned in class to their practice. This study is a qualitative look at how beginning therapists learn to apply theory to their practice. Ten students who were beginning therapists with at least 75 hours of client contact hours were interviewed from four different universities with accredited marriage and family therapy programs. The study was conducted using a phenomenological perspective to explore how beginning therapists begin to apply theory to their practice. Using the constant comparison method of analysis, five major themes emerged from the interviews as well as a general developmental process that help to describe how beginning therapists apply theory to their practice. The main themes found include before seeing clients, early process of theory application, what was helpful, later process of theory application and a reflection of that process. Implications for beginning therapists and training programs as well as future research are indicated. / Master of Science

Physics education research found that graphs in kinematics have been a problem to students, even at university level. The study hence investigates what deficiencies first-year Physics students at the Central University of Technology, Bloemfontein, South Africa have in terms of transferring mathematics knowledge and understanding when solving kinematics problems. According to the National Department of Education (DoE, 2003), mathematics enables learners to have creative and logical reasoning about problems in the physical and social worlds. Graphs in kinematics are one of the domains that need that skill in mathematics. DoE (2011) further emphasises that learners should be able to collect, analyze, organize and critically evaluate information at the end of their FET sector and that include graphing in kinematics. The study started by exploring graph sense and comprehension from literature. The study further explored from a literature review students‘ problems and possible solutions in transferring their mathematics understanding and knowledge to solve physics problems. The literature study served as conceptual framework for the empirical study, i.e. the design and interpretation of questionnaires, and interview questions. The mathematics and kinematics questions of the questionnaire were divided into four constructs, namely area, gradient, reading coordinates and form/expression of graphs. The participants undertook the questionnaire and interviews voluntarily according to the research ethics. Hundred and fifty two (152) out of 234 students registered for first-year physics from the faculties of humanities (natural science), health and environmental science and engineering and information technology undertook the questionnaire. The researcher interviewed 14 students of these participants as a follow up to the responses of the questionnaire. The responses of the participants were analysed statistically to conclude this study. The average percentages of the questionnaire showed that the majority (62.7% participants) have the mathematics knowledge compared to the low percentage of 34.7 % on physics knowledge. With regard to the constructs the participants generally performed similarly on gradient, reading coordinates and form/expression, i.e. they could either answer both the corresponding mathematics and physics questions and neither of them. In the area construct, most participants with the mathematics knowledge did not transfer it to the physics context. The study further revealed that the majority of interviewees do not have an understanding of the basic physics concepts such as average velocity and acceleration. The researcher therefore recommends that physical science teachers in the FET schools should also undergo constant training in data handling and graphs by subject specialists and academic professionals from Higher Education Institutions. Other remedial actions are also proposed in the dissertation. / MSc (Natural Science Education), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2015

Physics education research found that graphs in kinematics have been a problem to students, even at university level. The study hence investigates what deficiencies first-year Physics students at the Central University of Technology, Bloemfontein, South Africa have in terms of transferring mathematics knowledge and understanding when solving kinematics problems. According to the National Department of Education (DoE, 2003), mathematics enables learners to have creative and logical reasoning about problems in the physical and social worlds. Graphs in kinematics are one of the domains that need that skill in mathematics. DoE (2011) further emphasises that learners should be able to collect, analyze, organize and critically evaluate information at the end of their FET sector and that include graphing in kinematics. The study started by exploring graph sense and comprehension from literature. The study further explored from a literature review students‘ problems and possible solutions in transferring their mathematics understanding and knowledge to solve physics problems. The literature study served as conceptual framework for the empirical study, i.e. the design and interpretation of questionnaires, and interview questions. The mathematics and kinematics questions of the questionnaire were divided into four constructs, namely area, gradient, reading coordinates and form/expression of graphs. The participants undertook the questionnaire and interviews voluntarily according to the research ethics. Hundred and fifty two (152) out of 234 students registered for first-year physics from the faculties of humanities (natural science), health and environmental science and engineering and information technology undertook the questionnaire. The researcher interviewed 14 students of these participants as a follow up to the responses of the questionnaire. The responses of the participants were analysed statistically to conclude this study. The average percentages of the questionnaire showed that the majority (62.7% participants) have the mathematics knowledge compared to the low percentage of 34.7 % on physics knowledge. With regard to the constructs the participants generally performed similarly on gradient, reading coordinates and form/expression, i.e. they could either answer both the corresponding mathematics and physics questions and neither of them. In the area construct, most participants with the mathematics knowledge did not transfer it to the physics context. The study further revealed that the majority of interviewees do not have an understanding of the basic physics concepts such as average velocity and acceleration. The researcher therefore recommends that physical science teachers in the FET schools should also undergo constant training in data handling and graphs by subject specialists and academic professionals from Higher Education Institutions. Other remedial actions are also proposed in the dissertation. / MSc (Natural Science Education), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2015

Facial expression and animation are important aspects of the 3D environment featuring human characters. These animations are frequently used in many kinds of applications and there have been many efforts to increase the realism. Three aspects are still stimulating active research: the detailed subtle facial expressions, the process of rigging a face, and the transfer of an expression from one person to another. This dissertation focuses on the above three aspects. A system for freely designing and creating detailed, dynamic, and animated facial expressions is developed. The presented pattern functions produce detailed and animated facial expressions. The system produces realistic results with fast performance, and allows users to directly manipulate it and see immediate results. Two unique methods for generating real-time, vivid, and animated tears have been developed and implemented. One method is for generating a teardrop that continually changes its shape as the tear drips down the face. The other is for generating a shedding tear, which is a kind of tear that seamlessly connects with the skin as it flows along the surface of the face, but remains an individual object. The methods both broaden CG and increase the realism of facial expressions. A new method to automatically set the bones on facial/head models to speed up the rigging process of a human face is also developed. To accomplish this, vertices that describe the face/head as well as relationships between each part of the face/head are grouped. The average distance between pairs of vertices is used to place the head bones. To set the bones in the face with multi-density, the mean value of the vertices in a group is measured. The time saved with this method is significant. A novel method to produce realistic expressions and animations by transferring an existing expression to a new facial model is developed. The approach is to transform the source model into the target model, which then has the same topology as the source model. The displacement vectors are calculated. Each vertex in the source model is mapped to the target model. The spatial relationships of each mapped vertex are constrained.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-21T14:42:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 REGIANEWLODARSKI2.pdf: 1079467 bytes, checksum: dbe7185d80c87128c998f45df4079a7a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-02-16 / Brazilian society is marked by social inequality and the high poverty rate which are related to the economical, political and social development model adopted in the country. Poverty in Brazil comes from the high social inequality rates which are due to the irregular process of wealth distribution. Poverty is constructed and consolidated as a result of the ways men are organized in society and it exclude the population from the access to goods and services, to the social relations and to right of citizenship. In this way, it is necessary intervention of the State, as a social regulatory institution, offering to the whole population access to goods and services through out social policies. These actions, directed by the public policies, are often the only way of insertion to the access to goods and services and to citizenship. It increases the discussion about the formulation of actions for the population with the right and principally, the population which is in poverty, taking into consideration the needs of the population, getting to know the reality of these people, to reach their goals. The proximity with the poverty theme and the vision of its problems in the city of Ponta Grossa – Paraná which, according to the Demographic Census of 2000, has 12 000 families in poverty, being the second city of the State of Paraná in number of shanty towns, led to the development of the study, which wants to analyze: the income transferring programs in the city of Ponta Grossa, Benefício de Prestação Continuada – BPC and Bolsa Família, as actions to face poverty. From the proposed object, it was tried to understand how these programs have being carried out in the city and to know better which is the population that is in poverty, where this population is located, who are the actions of income transferring directed to in the city and how these actions help to face poverty. / A sociedade brasileira está marcada pela desigualdade social e pelo grande índice de pobreza, reflexo do modelo de desenvolvimento econômico, político e social adotado no país. A pobreza no Brasil decorre dos grandes índices de desigualdade social, onde a distribuição de bens e riquezas se deu de forma desigual. Construída e consolidada como resultado das formas de organização dos homens em nossa sociedade exclui a população do acesso a bens e serviços, das relações sociais e do direito à cidadania. Neste sentido, torna-se necessário a intervenção do Estado, enquanto regulador social, proporcionado a toda a população o acesso a bens e serviços, através das políticas sociais. Estas ações direcionadas pelas políticas públicas são muitas vezes as únicas formas de inserção e de acesso aos bens e serviços, de acesso à cidadania. Amplia-se desta forma, a discussão em torno da formulação das ações voltadas a população de direito e principalmente a população que se encontra em situação de pobreza, levando em consideração as necessidades da população, conhecendo a realidade destas pessoas, para que as ações consigam atingir seus objetivos. A proximidade com o tema da pobreza e a visualização dos problemas gerados por esta no município de Ponta Grossa - Pr, que segundo dados do Censo Demográfico de 2000, possui 12 mil famílias em situação de pobreza, sendo a segunda cidade do Estado do Paraná em maior número de favelas, levou ao desenvolvimento do estudo, que pretende analisar: Os Programas de Transferência de Renda do Município de Ponta Grossa, Benefício de Prestação Continuada – BPC e Bolsa Família, como ações de enfrentamento da pobreza. Tendo em vista o objeto proposto, buscou-se compreender, como estes programas vêm sendo implementados no município e conhecer melhor quem é a população que se encontra em situação de pobreza, onde ela localiza-se, a quem é direcionada as ações das políticas de transferência de renda no município e como estas ações atuam no enfrentamento da pobreza.