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Perspectives on the Future of Public Private Partnership in the UK
No full textDuring the past two decades the UK has played a leading position in the development and application of Public Private Partnership (PPP) based infrastructure procurement through its Private Finance Initiative model. This model had been developed during the last years of the Major Government and expanded during the early years of the Blair Government. The banking and economic crisis of 2007-09 has created major challenges to the use of PPP in the UK, making the sustainability of past levels of PPP investment and the future direction of PPP based infrastructure procurement in that country uncertain. This chapter summarises key developments in UK PPP up to the crisis; reviews the economic issues that have led up to the crisis; discusses the immediate impact of the crisis on the UK PFI and PPP market together with the transition arrangements that were put into to place by the Brown government; and, lastly, looks at recent initiatives taken by Cameron’s Conservative-Liberal Coalition Government under the designation of Private Finance 2 (PF2)
Performativity and the Construction of Children's Citizenship in Backa Theatre's Staging of Lille Kung Mattias (2009/2010)
No full textThe aim of this article is to investigate and explain how performativity, as defined by J.L. Austin and Judith Butler, can be viewed as an important element within the narrative framework of Lille Kung Mattias (Little King Mattias), as performed by Backa Theatre in Gothenburg, Sweden, during the 20092010 season. Lille Kung Mattias, directed by Mattias Andersson, is based on the novel Król Macius ́ Pierwszy (1923) by Polish author Janusz Korczak, and has been performed for children aged 11 upwards. I explore how class, age and gender are »made« (and also fail to be made) performatively, and show how being a king is revealed as a performative act precisely then, when Mattias receives all the attire and the title but doesn’t move or talk like an adult king. Thus he fails to fulfil expectations. But thereafter, in terms that Butler uses, Mattias pushes the borders of what a king can be and do by iteratively »making« a new kind of king. In the end, the audience also change their behaviour by becoming an active part of the performance
Performativity and the Construction of Children’s Citizenship in Backa Theatre’s Staging of Lille Kung Mattias (2009/2010)
Get PDFSandra Grehn is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature
at the University of Gothenburg. Her research interests are
theatre for children and young people, intersectional studies
and women playwrights during the end of the19th century.The aim of this article is to investigate and explain how
performativity, as defined by J.L. Austin and Judith Butler,
can be viewed as an important element within the narrative
framework of Lille Kung Mattias (Little King Mattias), as
performed by Backa Theatre in Gothenburg, Sweden, during
the 2009-2010 season. Lille Kung Mattias, directed by Mattias
Andersson, is based on the novel Król Macius´ Pierwszy (1923)
by Polish author Janusz Korczak, and has been performed for
children aged 11 upwards. I explore how class, age and gender
are »made« (and also fail to be made) performatively, and show
how being a king is revealed as a performative act precisely
then, when Mattias receives all the attire and the title but
doesn’t move or talk like an adult king. Thus he fails to fulfil
expectations. But thereafter, in terms that Butler uses, Mattias
pushes the borders of what a king can be and do by iteratively
»making« a new kind of king. In the end, the audience also
change their behaviour by becoming an active part of the
performance
Possibilities of improving cost accounting in example of OÜ Mattias Café
No full textKäesoleva bakalaureusetöö eesmärgiks oli analüüsida OÜ Mattias Cafe kuluarvestuse olemust ja teha ettepanekuid ettevõtte kuluarvestuse täiustamiseks.
Tulenevalt eesmärgist on käesolevas bakalaureusetöös täidetud järgmisi uurimisülesandeid:
• Anda ülevaade kuluarvestuse teoreetilistest alustest
• Anda ülevaade OÜ Mattias Cafe majandustegevusest
• Iseloomustada ja analüüsida OÜ Mattas Cafe kuluarvestust.
• Teha ettepanekuid OÜ Mattias Cafe kuluarvestuse täiustamiseks
Bakalaureusetöö koosneb kahest peatükist. Töö esimeses peatükis on käsitletud kuluarvestuse teoreetilisi aluseid. Tuues ülevaade kuluarvestuse olemusest ja eesmärgist, kuluarvestuse mõistest ja arengust, kulude liigitamisest ja käitumisest ning kaasaegsetest kuluarvestussüsteemidest. Pikem ülevaates on esitatud traditsioonilisest ja tegevuspõhisest kuluarvestussüsteemist.
Bakalaureusetöö teine peatükk sisaldab OÜ Mattias Cafe tutvustust, ülevaadet ettevõttes toimuvast kuluarvestusest ja kuluarvestuse täiustamistest OÜ Mattias Cafes, kus on töö autor teinud ettepanekuid ettevõtte kuluarvestuse täiustamise võimalustest.
Ettevõte OÜ Mattias Cafe alustas oma tegevust 2005. aasta detsembris, avades Tartu linnas kohvik-restorani nimega Werner. Ettevõtte põhitegevusalaks oli toitlustamine. Praeguseks on sellest välja kujunenud Cafe-lounge Werner, mis koondab endasse järgmised kulukohad: kohviku, restorani, cateringi ja kondiitri. Ettevõttes töötab hetkel 47 inimest.
Konkreetset kaasaegset kuluarvestussüsteemi OÜ Mattias Cafes tegelikult ei eksisteerigi. Kui vaadelda bakalaureusetöö peatükis 1. toodud kolme peamist funktsiooni, mida kulude arvestamise süsteem peaks täitma, siis OÜ Mattias Cafe kulude arvestamist silmas pidades on autor seisukohal, et Kaplani ja Cooperi toodud kolmest funktsioonist täidab ettevõtte kuluarvestus ainult esimest funktsiooni. Ehk praeguse seisuga on võimalik selgelt hinnata vaid varusid. Isegi tööjõukulud jaotatakse juhtkonna poolt kinnitatud koenfitsientide alusel.
OÜ Mattias Cafes on siiani praegune kulude arvestamise praktika toiminud, kuid seoses planeeritud tootmismahu märkimisväärse suurenemisega on vajadus kuluarvestuse täiustamise järele. Praegune kuluarvestus ei võimalda saada detailset infot juhtimisotsuste langetamiseks, kuna sisaldab suure osa kulude kaudset jaotamist toodanguühikule.
Ettevõttes ei arvestata kulusid kulukohtade ehk allüksuste lõikes. Kulukohti on hetkel ettevõttes vaid üks- ettevõte tervikuna.
OÜ Mattias Cafes on oluline määratleda kulukohad, kinnistada kulukohtade koodid, mis annab juhtkonnale võimaluse saada infot selle kohta, millistes ettevõtte konkreetsetes osades kulutused tekivad ja milliste kulukandjatega antud kulukohad on seotud. Töö autori arvates võiks OÜ Mattias Cafe kulukohtadeks olla kohvik, restoran, pagar-kondiitri osakond, catering ja kontor.
Kulukohtade arvestuse jaoks tuleb ettevõttes kasutusel olevas kontoplaanis muudatusi teha. Täiendatud kontoplaanis hakkab kontonumbri viimane number märkima vastavat kulukohta. Kuludele, mida ei saa ühelegi kulukohale siduda, märgitakse kontonumbrile viimaseks numbriks 0.
Ettevõtte kui terviku majandustulemuse kujunemise jälgimiseks on vajalik arvestussüsteem, mis näitaks, kuidas see kujuneb erinevates kulukohtades. Ettevõttesisene arvestussüsteem peab olema ülesehitatud nii, et juhtkonnale vajalik objektiivne ja analüütiline informatsioon oleks kättesaadav, kergesti jälgitav ja õigeaegne.
Selleks, et leida objektiivset väärtust sellele, kui palju täpselt toote valmistamine ettevõttele maksma läheb, on vajalik lisaks otsekuludele vaadelda ka toodanguga kaudsemalt seotud kulude osakaalu. Selgitamaks välja, millised kulud OÜ Mattias Cafes on kulukohaga otseselt ning millised kaudselt seotud, koostas töö autor ettevõtte kulukohtadest lähtuva jääktulupõhise kasumi aruande, mis on koostatud nii, et oleks selge iga üksiku kulukoha tulemus ehk jääktulu.
OÜ Mattias Cafe’le koostatud jääktulupõhine kasumiaruanne, võimaldab välja selgitada kulud, mis on kulukohtadega otseselt seotud ning need, mis jaotuvad toodete vahel kaudselt ning vajavad seetõttu õigeid jaotusbaase. Jääktulupõhise aruande jaoks koondatakse üksuse ning allüksuste müügitulu, ja sellele vastavalt otse- ja kaudkulud.
Antud ettevõtte puhul on töö autor leidnud sobivaks kuluarvestussüsteemiks tegevuspõhise kuluarvestussüsteemi, millest oli juttu töö teoreetilises osas. Antud meetod on valitud põhjusel, et tootmis- ja teenindusettevõtte puhul on kulukohtade lõikes selgelt eristatavad erinevad tegevused, mis kulusid tekitavad ning seetõttu peab kulude jaotamisel arvestama erinevaid jaotusbaase.
Käesoleva bakalaureusetöö koostaja on välja töötanud näitliku ja lihtsustatud tegevuspõhise kuluarvestussüsteemi OÜ Mattias Cafe pagar-kondiitri osakonnale. Ühe osakonna valiku tingis asjaolu, et tegevuspõhise kuluarvestussüsteemi välja töötamine kogu ettevõttes kujuneks mahukamaks, kui bakalaureusetöö maht ette näeb. Töö autor on teadlik, et tegevuspõhist kuluarvestust on vaja rakendada kogu ettevõttes, et tagada kogu ettevõtte ja nende üksikosade efektiivsus.
Tegevuspõhise kuluarvestuse kohaselt on kulude põhjustajateks tegevused, mitte tooted. Toodete valmistamiseks kasutatakse tegevusi. See tähendab, et mitte kulud ei põhjusta tegevusi, vaid tegevused põhjustavad kulude teket.
Antud bakalaureusetöö on mõeldud selleks, et anda ülevaade OÜ Mattias Cafe kuluarvestusest ja selle täiustamise võimalustest. Lisaks et ettevõtte juhtkonnale esitada vajalik informatsioon, kuidas saaks ettevõtte kuluarvestust paremaks muuta.The purpose of this study is to analyze the essence of OÜ Mattias Café cost accounting and make proposals for improvements of company’s cost accounting.
By reference to the purpose the following explorative tasks are completed in this study:
• To give overview of the theoretical base of cost accounting
• To give overview of OÜ Mattias Café economic activities
• To characterize and analyze OÜ Mattias Café cost accounting
• To make proposals to improve OÜ Mattias Café cost accounting
This study consists of two chapters. In the first chapter cost accounting theoretical foundation is covered by bringing overview of cost accounting essence and purpose, definition and developments of cost accounting, cost classification and cost behavior and modern cost accounting system. More thorough overview is given on traditional and activity based cost accounting system.
The second chapter of this study includes OÜ Mattias Café introduction and overview of cost accounting taking place in the company, wherein the author brought out possibilities for improving the cost accounting in OÜ Mattias Cafe.
The Bachelor thesis is composed in Estonian , it contains 56 pages. In the Bachelor thesis there are 5 tables and 6 figures
Polaritonic nonlocality in light-matter interaction
No full textSub-wavelength electromagnetic field localization has been central in photonic research in the last decade, allowing to enhance sensing capabilities as well as increasing the coupling between photons and material excitations. The strong and ultrastrong light-matter coupling regime in the THz range with split-ring resonators coupled to magnetoplasmons has been widely investigated, achieving successive world-records for the largest light-matter coupling ever achieved Ever shrinking resonators have allowed to approach the regime of few electrons strong coupling, in which single-dipole properties can be modified by the vacuum field. Here we demonstrate, theoretically and experimentally, the existence of a limit to the possibility of arbitrarily increasing electromagnetic confinement in polaritonic systems. Strongly sub-wavelength fields can excite a continuum of high-momenta propagative magnetoplasmons. This leads to peculiar nonlocal polaritonic effects, as certain polaritonic features disappear and the system enters in the regime of discrete-to-continuum strong coupling<br/
An engineered planar plasmonic reflector for polaritonic mode confinement
No full textIt was recently demonstrated that, in deep subwavelength gap resonators coupled to two-dimensional electron gases, propagating plasmons can lead to energy leakage and prevent the formation of polaritonic resonances. This process, akin to Landau damping, limits the achievable field confinement and thus the value of light-matter coupling strength. In this work, we show how plasmonic reflectors can be used to create an artificial energy stopband in the plasmon dispersion, confining them and enabling the recovery of the polaritonic resonances. Using this approach we demonstrate a normalized light-matter coupling ratio of ΩR/ω0 = 0.36 employing a single doped quantum well with a resonator's gap size of 250 nm equivalent to λ/3000 in vacuum, a geometry in which the polaritonic resonances would not be observable in the absence of the plasmonic reflectors
”Jag tror att det var rätt i tiden” - En studie av beslutsprocessen bakom införandet av sprutbytesprogrammet
No full textAuthor: Mattias Olsson Title: “I think the time was right” A study of the decision making behind the needle exchange programme Supervisor: Eva-Malin Antoniusson Assessor: Mats Hilte The aim of this Bachelor thesis is to highlight the decision making process of the Scanian politicians regarding the local needle-exchange programme by using Kingdons agenda-setting theory. It is based upon interviews with five Scanian politicians. I have come to the conclusion that the HIV-epidemic was the one thing that enabled the making of the first programmes. The social services and doctors specialized in drug abuse were the two groups with the most influence on the political decision making
Hyperuniformity and Hyperfluctuations for Random Measures on Euclidean and Non-Euclidean spaces
Get PDFIn this thesis we study fluctuations of generic random point configurations in Euclidean
and symmetric curved geometries. Mathematically, such configurations are interpreted
as isometrically invariant point processes, and fluctuations are recorded by the variance
of the number of points in a centered ball, the number variance. Hyperuniformity and
hyperfluctuation of such configurations in the sense of Stillinger-Torquato is characterized
in terms of large-scale asymptotics of the number variance in relation to that of an ideal
gas, and equivalently by small-scale asymptotics of the Bartlett spectral measure in the
diffraction picture.
Appended to the Thesis are three papers:
In Paper I we provide lower asymptotic bounds for number variances of isometrically
invariant random measures in Euclidean and hyperbolic spaces, generalizing a result by
Beck. In particular, we find that geometric hyperuniformity fails for every isometrically
invariant random measure on hyperbolic space. In contrast to this, we define a notion of
spectral hyperuniformity which is satisfied by certain invariant random lattice configura-
tions.
In Paper II we establish similar lower asymptotic bounds for number variances of
automorphism invariant point processes in regular trees. The main result is that these
lower bounds are not uniform for the invariant random lattice configurations defined by
the fundamental groups of complete regular graphs and the Petersen graph. We also
provide a criterion for when these lower bounds are uniform in terms of certain rational
peaks appearing in the diffraction picture.
In Paper III we prove the existence and uniqueness of Bartlett spectral measures for
invariant random measures on a large class of non-compact commutative spaces, which
includes those in Papers I and II. For higher rank symmetric spaces governed by simple
Lie groups, we prove that there is a power strictly less than 2 of the volume of balls that
asymptotically bounds the number variance of any invariant random measure from above.
Moreover, we derive Bartlett spectral measures for invariant determinantal point processes
on commutative spaces and define a notion of heat kernel hyperuniformity on Euclidean
and hyperbolic spaces that is equivalent to spectral hyperuniformity
Weekly change on the Beck Depression Inventory-II during treatment and Beck Depression Inventory-II scores at each assessment point.
No full text<p>Weekly change on the Beck Depression Inventory-II during treatment and Beck Depression Inventory-II scores at each assessment point.</p
"Min sociala anknytning" : -Tolv tjejer om relationen till mobiltelefonen
No full textAbstract Title: “My social extension” – Twelve girls on the relationship with the mobile phone (“Min sociala anknytning” – Tolv tjejer om relationen till mobiltelefonen) Number of pages: 42 (43 including enclosure) Author: Mattias Köhlmark Tutor: Göran Svensson Course: Media and Communication Studies D Period: Spring semester 2006 University: Division of Media and Communication, Department of Information Science, Uppsala University. Purpose/Aim: To investigate the emotional aspect of mobile phones and the source of those emotions. Material/Method: The data presented stems from three unstructured focus groups with participants at the age of 16-19 years. Main results: The key findings largely supports Vincents theories that the emotional language guided towards mobile phones comes from the friends it allows us connect with. Also emancipation can be seen as a driving force behind these emotions. Keywords: mobile phone, mobility, absent present others, emancipation, cell phone, emotion, emotional language
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