Drug consumption is a voluntary decision based on preexisting situational contexts, social events, personal traits and cultural circumstances. Because of this, drug consumption is not pathological but rather normal and ubiquitous. It is only as a result of persecution by the authorities of...

This thesis examines the management of change in bureaucracies, with a study focus on the Egyptian civil service sector. The main research aims are to identify what are the main problems of the Egyptian civil service sector, identify the main barriers against the current change programmes...

Thesis advisors: Dr. Steven Cades, Dr. Catherine P. Mulder

The literature to date on the effect of demand uncertainty on public hospital costs and excess capacity has not taken into account the role of expense preference behaviour. Similarly, the research on expense preference behaviour has not taken demand uncertainty into account. In this paper, we...

Bei zunehmenden Investitionsausgaben f?r Informationstechnologie (IT) ist die aktuelle Situation, dass ca. 70% der IT-Investitionen die geplanten Ziele nicht erreichen (vgl. Chaos Report der Standish Group), kaum tragbar. Dieser Zustand resultiert u.a. aus einer Fehlallokation von Ressourcen...

In Zeiten von Globalisierung, kurzen Produktlebenszyklen und schnellem technologischen Fortschritt gewinnen Projekte ?ber alle Branchen zunehmend an Bedeutung ? so auch in der Softwarebranche. Nahezu jedes Unternehmen muss derzeit gro?e Anstrengungen im Bereich Projektmanagement unternehmen, um...

The Congestion Mitigation/Air Quality Program (CMAQ), established in 1991 by the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) to provide about $1 billion per year to fund transportation projects that improve air quality, is intended both to support traditional transportation control...

The current ACIAR (Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research) guidelines forimpact assessment of agricultural development projects see impact assessment as being usefulfor both accountability to stakeholders and as a learning tool to find out what works, whatdoesn’t work and...

A utilização de sementes de alta qualidade é fundamental para que os sistemas de produção desoja apresentem adequados resultados técnicos e econômicos. No entanto, para que essesinsumos sejam ofertados com alta qualidade, em geral, são necessários expressivosinvestimentos. Assim,...