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<p>In 2005, Outokumpu began to implement its system of continuous improvement, OK> 1, at Avesta Jernverk. OK> 1 has not generated sufficient results on plant KPI:s. The purpose of this study is to identify the understanding,  participation and commitment regarding to OK> 1, and to suggest some actions to make OK> 1 more successful with emphasis on these three aspects. The thesis shall also determine whether there are any differences in the attitude towards OK>1 between Blue Collars and White Collars.</p><p>The study consisted of a survey, and interviews. The output from these methods were processed and analyzed and finally resulted in a SWOT – analysis and suggested actions for improving the understanding, participation and commitment towards OK>1. The thesis work also covered a literature study concerning Lean Production, to get a deeper understanding of how to implement Lean Production successfully.</p><p>The results of the survey pointed out that Blue Collars do not understand OK>1 as well as White Collars, and that they do not participate as actively as White Collars in improvement activities. To improve the results on plant KPI:s the thesis suggests following actions: <em>education, simplification of methods </em>and <em>increased feedback from the management.</em></p>

This research examines a two-way relay network consisting of two transceivers and multiple parallel relays, which are equipped with single antennas and operate in a halfduplex mode. In this system, the two transceivers prefer to exchange their information via relays. It is assumed that the relays have the full instantaneous channel state information (CSI) and relay the signals using the amplify-and-forward (AF) method. The performance of two AF bi-directional network beamforming schemes, namely multiple access broadcast channel (MABC) strategy and time division broadcast channel (TDBC) protocol, under joint optimal power control and beamforming design are studied and compared. To do so, we first design a TDBC-based bi-directional network beamformers, through minimization of the total power consumed in the whole network subject to quality of service (QoS) constraints, for the case with a direct link between the two transceivers. The corresponding power minimization problem is carried out over the transceiver transmit powers as well as relay beamforming weights, thus resulting in a jointly optimal power allocation and beamforming approach. We devise optimal secondorder cone programming based solutions as well as fast gradient-based solutions to these problems. Then these solutions are exploited to compare the performance of the underlying TDBC-based approach to that of the MABC-based technique developed in [1]. This comparison is important because the TDBC approach appears to have certain advantages which can be exploited towards improving the performance of two-way network beamforming. These advantages include the additional degree of freedom as well as the possibility of benefitting from the availability of a direct link between the two transceivers. Interestingly, in the absence of a direct link between the two transceivers, we show that when the QoS constraints are imposed to meet certain given probabilities of un-coded error (or, equivalently, to meet certain signal-to-noise ratio constraints), these two schemes perform closely in terms of the minimum total transmit power. However, when the QoS iv constraints are used to guarantee certain given rates, the MABC-based scheme outperforms the TDBC counterpart. In the case when a direct link exists between the two transceivers, the TDBC-based approach can outperform the MABC-based method provided that the direct link is strong enough. / UOIT

The purpose of this project was to produce visual work that examined a possible nostalgia that unfolds around the breakfast meal. The method of examination involved creating a process breakfast that was followed thirty times. The result of following this process was the taking of three hundred Polaroids that were then edited for their potential to visually reconstruct the ideal process breakfast. This process of discovery has resulted in a number of significant insight into the narrative of breakfast: that an idealized narrative could exist in the visualization of the process breakfast; that elements of nostalgia that may exist within the work are contingent on the viewer; and the level of authenticity of the project affects the nature of the idealization in effect.

In 2005, Outokumpu began to implement its system of continuous improvement, OK&gt; 1, at Avesta Jernverk. OK&gt; 1 has not generated sufficient results on plant KPI:s. The purpose of this study is to identify the understanding,  participation and commitment regarding to OK&gt; 1, and to suggest some actions to make OK&gt; 1 more successful with emphasis on these three aspects. The thesis shall also determine whether there are any differences in the attitude towards OK&gt;1 between Blue Collars and White Collars. The study consisted of a survey, and interviews. The output from these methods were processed and analyzed and finally resulted in a SWOT – analysis and suggested actions for improving the understanding, participation and commitment towards OK&gt;1. The thesis work also covered a literature study concerning Lean Production, to get a deeper understanding of how to implement Lean Production successfully. The results of the survey pointed out that Blue Collars do not understand OK&gt;1 as well as White Collars, and that they do not participate as actively as White Collars in improvement activities. To improve the results on plant KPI:s the thesis suggests following actions: education, simplification of methods and increased feedback from the management.

The purpose of this project was to produce visual work that examined a possible nostalgia that unfolds around the breakfast meal. The method of examination involved creating a process breakfast that was followed thirty times. The result of following this process was the taking of three hundred Polaroids that were then edited for their potential to visually reconstruct the ideal process breakfast. This process of discovery has resulted in a number of significant insight into the narrative of breakfast: that an idealized narrative could exist in the visualization of the process breakfast; that elements of nostalgia that may exist within the work are contingent on the viewer; and the level of authenticity of the project affects the nature of the idealization in effect.

The purpose of this study was to examine perceptions of possible factors that lead to academic success for African American children who participated in two-way immersion programs. In order to examine the perceptions, the following areas were explored: 1.) The evolution of the academic achievement gap that exists between African American and Anglo children and the reasons theorists gave as to why the gap exists, as well as the importance of this connection to two-way immersion program participation 2.) The evolution of the modern two-way immersion language program via its development through bilingual education, and 3.) The development of Canadian twoway immersion language programs, and how political, economic, and cultural factors have impacted their successful implementation. The research method consisted of purposeful sampling of six African-American children in fourth and fifth grade who are participants in an elementary two-way immersion language program and their primary caregivers. The interviews were audio taped with notes taken for clarity. The data revealed that the primary caregivers perceived the participation of their children in a two-way language immersion program to be an educational move which would enhance the lives of their children economically, educationally and socially. The primary caregivers maintained involvement in the education of their children through facilitating homework completion in Spanish, communicating with teachers on a regular basis, participating in PTO, and facilitating structured and unstructured extra curricular activities with family and friends. The children perceived positive teacher interaction to play an important role in their academic success. They had positive experiences speaking Spanish with friends, family, and persons that they did not know. The primary caregivers perceived that the school and the district did not provide enough additional support to facilitate Spanish language acquisition for their children. This would indicate that more support from the school and the district is needed for future groups of African-American children in two-way immersion language programs.

With the progress of science and technology and change of market demand, add it under the request for ' the basic telecommunication protocol ' (Basic Telecom Agreement ) of World Trade Organization (WTO ), requiring various countries to open their domestic telecommunication markets in the world, telecommunication industry liberalization , publicly-owned undertaking privatization have already been an inevitable result. So, there are open pressures outside , under the popular double strength catalysis of opening the demand inside, the speeds with open telecommunication industry of the countries all over the world are very fast. Chinese telecommunication Company finish privatization is already different from the past era that engage in without competition 2005, the telecommunication industry is facing so fierce market competition, no matter resource distribution , output are being made up or the scale is being adjusted, all face the great challenge. In order to meet the market choosing the customer as the direction , are managing and must plan with the efficiency of management and " opening " valid management " actively ", just have a chance of struggle for existence. Research this serve for Chinese telecommunication firm network, use the materials to wrap up and hold analytic approach DEA way in place with a net, regard ' staff's number ' , ' the funds budget ' , ' the amount of the assets ' as and invest the key element. With ' customer count ' , is it is it count to inform to explain always , ' total obstacle count ' , as the key element of the output ' satisfaction ' another, collecting Chinese telecommunications from January of 2005 to March of 2006, privatization is during seven months from beginning to end, 27 , such as Taiwan , Penghu and Jinmen ,etc. operate obstacle of customer of the unit and explain and inform the materials, assess the service performance appeared of customer satisfaction while investing, via studying the income result, probe into privatization to the company's firm network communication service quality of Chinese telecommunication, the satisfaction experienced actually, and firm network communication serves the business efficiency between three middle and southern districts of the north of quality wholly, do a analysis discussion . This result of study is found: 1different areas and attribute customer group, to the service quality and satisfaction offered of Chinese telecommunication company, its consent level experiencing the degree actually has difference of showing, it is the most efficient with the center district among them, it is the south occupy time is the north again. 2under the circumstances that telecommunication liberalization operates continuously, the private telecommunication industry of our country person can be expected to shrink with the Chinese disparity of telecommunications gradually, and more efficient than before privatization after Chinese telecommunication privatization, and can be expected to be more efficient in the telecommunication market competition in the future. Propose improving the service item on negative appraisal actively, could maintain its competition advantage 3Participate in comparing and assess 27 decision units, at returns to scale not regular it is the for having 66% the above 0.8 in efficiency in unit in decision ,Taibei district , the pair not west efficiency for DMU 1 with, hit by Li, Tainan, Taitung decision unit of 5 pieces. 4 is shown that CRS (the regular returns to scale ) rises by 1% each time, SATIS (satisfaction ) is reduced by 0.14 by the result of study, have 1% statistics dominance (confidence level). 5 shown a person by the result of study to prove too , SATIS (satisfaction ) rises by 0.01, but does not have dominance . As the budget rises by 1%, SATIS (satisfaction ) rises by 0.01, does not also have dominance .

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