220 research outputs found
Microsoft Powerapps -ohjelman soveltuvuus matka- ja kululaskutuksen mobiilisovelluksen luomiseen : toiminnallinen toteutus Digia Oyj:lle
No full textTässä opinnäytetyössä tarkastellaan mobiilisovelluksen luomista Microsoft PowerApps -virtuaalialustalla, joka ei vaadi aiempaa ohjelmointiosaamista. Tutkimus on toteutettu luomalla matka- ja kululaskujen syöttöön tarkoitettu mobiilisovellus. Matka- ja kululaskut syötetään mobiilisovelluksella web service -rajapinnan yli Microsoft D365 Business Central -toiminnanohjausjärjestelmän tietokantaan jatkokäsittelyä varten.
Työssä tutkimus on tehty toiminnallisena työnä hyödyntäen kirjallisuus- ja verkkomateriaalia, asiantuntijahaastatteluita ja vertailuanalyysia. Opinnäytetyön laatija on työskennellyt asiantuntijatehtävissä 2018 alkaen työn toimeksiantajayrityksessä, Digia Oyj:ssä.
Haastattelut on tehty opinnäytetyön kohdeyrityksen työntekijöille. Niissä tarkennetaan PowerApps-sovelluksen tarpeita ja sen tuomia mahdollisuuksia, ja verrataan niitä työssä tehtyihin havaintoihin. Vertailuanalyysi toteutuu luomalla vastaava mobiilisovellus suoraan toiminnanohjausjärjestelmän käyttöliittymään.
Tutkimuksen tuloksina syntyi matka- ja kululaskujen sovellus Microsoft PowerAppsilla ja Microsoft Business Centralilla toteutettuna. Näiden sovellusten kehitysten pohjalta on kirjattu päätelmät teknillisestä ja kaupallisesta näkökulmasta, vertailu asiakkaan ja sovellustoimittajan hyödyistä sekä sovelluksen jatkokehitysideat.In this thesis is inspected creating a mobile software with Microsoft PowerApps virtual platform which requires no prior programming experience. Study is done by creating a mobile software for feeding travel expense and bill of service entries. The entries are inserted over web service API to Microsoft D365 Business Central ERP’s database for further handling.
Research has been done through a practical implementation by utilizing book and web material, specialist interviews and comparison analysis. The author of the thesis has worked as a specialist from 2018 onwards in the case company, Digia Plc.
Interviews are done for the case company’s employees. Questions are to pinpoint needs and opportunities of PowerApps and to compare them to observations done by the author. Comparison analysis is done by creating a similar software UI in the ERP.
As a result of the research, a software for travel expense and bill of service was made with Microsoft PowerApps and Microsoft D365 Business Central. Conclusions have been written on the basis of the software development from technical and commercial aspects, comparison of customer’s and vendor’s benefits and further development ideas for the software
[Re] Introducing the Concept ‘Intra-Local Governmental Relations’ for Proper and Future Usage in Public Administration Research and Education: A Possible Case for Bathos
No full textUsage of the phrase ‘conceptual bathos’ in this paper is simply to engender curiosity of the readership but above that, it is used to caution emerging researchers [especially in the field of public administration] against overlooking or demeaning important subjects or concepts to simple or ordinary ones. Specifically, the paper refers to ‘Intra-local governmental relations’ as a concept that has suffered the same cause of negation to argue for its proper usage in future. This concept is found within the orbit of intergovernmental relations (IGR) and is a term of reference for various internal municipality relations. However, it is suspected that because of the inherent similarities and motherhood relationship between IGR and ILGR researchers have failed to draw differences thereby causing confusion. The extent of this confusion may lead to a suggestion that these concepts are inseparable and therefore can be used to explain each one’s context. The current paper characterises such acts as tangential and generalist conceptual approach which is often not aware of the important groupings (classifications) of governmental relations. By collecting and unpacking data from the existing research outputs, books, journal articles and government publications, the current paper finally realised its objective, which was to re-introduce ILGR into the academic discourse and the anticipation is that emerging Public Administration researchers and scholars will use the concept properly and correctly
Governance communication: A primer (In the context of disaster risk reduction and management)
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Introduction
Communication and Governance
Government Communication
Governance Communication
Components of Governance Communication System
- Government policies supporting the provision of communication services
- Government institutions providing communication services
- Communication human resources or personnel
- Communication infrastructures/media to support communication services
- Coordination mechanism for governance communication
- Public sphere/platform for public dialogues
Annex(EXCERPT)
Governing is comparable to a situation where a family head talks and listens regularly to each of his/her family members’ concerns and interests. As with the head of the family, the government’s focus on its people’s welfare encompasses a multitude of concerns – health, food security, education, employment, peace and order, and disaster risk reduction and management (DRRM), to name a few. DRRM has been a vital concern in recent years due to worldwide climate change conditions that have been wreaking havoc in the country and unduly affecting all aspects of people’s lives.
In implementing the policies, programs, and projects, communication is seen as one of the fundamental and crucial factors in the process of governing and in achieving the government’s development-oriented objectives.
Basically, this primer on governance communication is essential in understanding governance communication (govcomm) and its components (policy, institutions, personnel, media, communication mechanisms, and public sphere). This is important among government officials and stakeholders because it will serve as guide in studying their govcomm that will lead policy makers, and all the participants in the process, in formulating policies and ordinances related to governance and communication.Disclaimer
"The views expressed in this paper are entirely and solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect official thinking and policy of the Republic of the Philippines or any Local Government Unit in the Country.
Monitoring and evaluation of the indigent exit programme in selected metropolitan municipalities in South Africa.
No full textSubmitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Public Affairs in the Department of Public Management, Faculty of Humanities,
Tshwane University of TechnologyEradication of extreme poverty is one of the major socio-economic challenges that is of great concern for national and international policy development today. Extreme poverty is defined as “the most severe type of poverty characterized by severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education and information. It depends not only on income but also on access to government services" (United Nations, 2010). Governments worldwide have put so much effort in eradicating or substantially reducing poverty with the support of different business and non-profit organisations. Despite all these efforts, the levels of poverty remain unsustainable high in many parts of the world. In South Africa, poverty levels are very high with as much as 25.2 % or 15.0 million of the population living below the food poverty line (Stats SA, 2017). The government has been making efforts to eradicate extreme poverty in the country and has set a target of zero percent for people living in extreme poverty by 2030 in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of the United Nations (UN). In order to achieve this goal, the government has implemented a number of various context specific programmes and strategies. Of interest in this study was the National Framework of Municipal Indigent Policies which was developed as an additional social assistance
programme to enable the poor local inhabitants to have access to basic municipal services. The local sphere of government, being the only sphere of government closest to the people responsible for provision of water and sanitation services, is therefore tasked with the responsibility of operationalising this programme in line with the Municipal Systems Act of 2000. South African municipalities are required to design and implement their own tailor-made municipal indigent programmes to enable access to basic municipal services by their residents. With sustainability of the municipal indigent programmes in mind, these municipal indigents programmes offering free basic municipal services brought a very difficult reality that indigents could not be supported for life irrespective of whether one remained indigent for life in some way or another. Municipalities are therefore tasked with the responsibility of coming up with realistic
indigent exit strategies that would enable the indigents to be capacitated and empowered so that they could be graduated from the indigent register. However,
planning realistic exit strategies for indigent households in the current socio-economic conditions in South Africa has proven to be a mammoth task (Bhorat & Cassim, 2014). The primary question that this study intended to investigate was whether the current approaches used by the municipalities to exit the indigents from the indigent register were effective in alleviating their poverty pressures. Another key objective of the study was to critique the monitoring and evaluation strategies used by the municipalities to assess the impacts of their municipal indigent exit programmes in order, and in instances where the current M&E strategies are found not to be effective to design the most appropriate and effective M&E model to implement the municipal indigent exit strategies in selected metropolitan municipalities in South Africa. In order to address these questions, a qualitative research design, using interviews and questionnaires was employed to collect primary data from the municipal officials working in the indigent departments. A combination of a purposive and convenience sampling was employed for the selection of participants and to segregate the sample for the study. Descriptive statistics, multiple regression and exploratory factor analysis
were used to analyse questionnaire results while thematic analysis was used to analyse interview findings. This study was focused on two selected metropolitan municipalities in South Africa which are located in the Gauteng Province and are the City of Johannesburg (CoJ) and City of Tshwane (CoT). The two metropolitan municipalities or metros have both developed and implemented their municipal indigent programmes and these have been active for over ten years. They also have a working framework for indigent exit strategies, however, lack appropriate and effective monitoring and evaluation (M&E) model or framework to ensure that their programmes produce the required outcomes or achieve the set goals. The results of the Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) extracted four factors from the processed data which were linked to the perceptions of the staff on the current suit of indigent exit programmes employed by the two metropolitan municipalities, namely: the administration of the indigent exit strategies, the accessibility and effectiveness of the indigent exit strategies, and perceptions on the clarity of policy and legal framework. The results showed that the perceptions of the Free Basic Service (FBS) staff on the indigent exit strategies administration and the perception on the accessibility and effectiveness of the indigent exit programmes were slightly positive to positive, which could be interpreted to mean that the staff was slightly satisfied with the efforts of the municipality to manage the indigent exit programmes. The perceptions on the accessibility and effectiveness of the indigent exit programmes for the City of Tshwane staff was about two times lower than that of the City of Johannesburg. The perceptions of the FBS staff on the accessibility and effectiveness of the indigent exit strategy was positively related to all extracted factors and is
statistically significant. The perceptions on the current suit of indigent exit programmes employed by the municipalities and the clarity of policy and legal framework were found to be areas of concern, with the majority not satisfied in both municipalities. This was also corroborated by the interviews which showed that there were problems with monitoring and evolution of the programmes in both municipalities. It was also found that there were problems with the implementation framework for indigent exit strategies as no framework for impact evaluation existed. Multi-regressional analysis also showed that the clarity of the policy and the legal framework was one of the main predictors driving the sentiment of the municipal employees in their perceptions of the currently implemented indigent exit programmes, and their accessibility and effectiveness to the indigents. The study concluded that an implementation framework for the indigent exit strategies as well as a monitoring and evaluation framework for the indigent exit strategies needed to be (re-)developed to mitigate the highlighted problems. As a result, the Monitoring and Evaluation model for the implementation of the Indigent Exit Strategies for the selected metropolitan governments has been developed as a contribution of this research study to the discipline of Public Administration. The M&E model is also proposed for adoption by the selected metropolitan municipalities and could be tailor-made to monitor and evaluate the implementation of the same in all municipalities in South Africa and abroad
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A study of the musical settings of Langston Hughes' poetry in Ricky Ian Gordon's song cycle "Genius Child"
No full textThis study examines and describes Ricky Ian Gordon's musical interpretation of Langston Hughes' poetry in the song cycle, Genius Child. Chapters 2 and 3 contain biographies of the composer, Ricky Ian Gordon and the poet, Langston Hughes. Chapter 4 is a singer's analysis of each of the ten songs in Genius Child. Appendix A contains a discography. Appendix B contains a personal interview with the composer discussing his compositional process for Genius Child and his life in general. The author performed Genius Child in a doctoral recital on May 1, 2000. The song cycle was written for American soprano, Harolyn Blackwell, who sang the premiere at the Bermuda Festival in 1993. She also recorded Genius Child on her 1994 debut release from RCA Victor entitled Strange Hurt. Genius Child was published by Williamson Music in 1995.</p
Maybe it\u27s us? An organizational and systems level approach to reducing barriers to student success.
No full textThe author will be presenting a deep dive on the project and subsequent publication Systemic Solutions Driving Retention and Graduation Efforts at a Large, Selective Private Institution: A Scalable Project for Student Success by Ricky Urgo and Sonja Ardoin. Through the lens of an organizational analysis, the author will provide tangible takeaways for practitioners and faculty to bring back to their campuses and replicate. This is an important and necessary venture, as institutions increase their attention and resources on the recruitment and retention of first generation and working class students. Institutions were not constructed with these populations in mind, but we can make organizational, structural, and systemic changes to better serve these students, especially as our shortcomings as universities disproportionately impact this community (Flaherty, 2023; Urgo & Ardoin, 2024). Simultaneously, the author hopes to encourage exploration of the following:1) identifying new institutional barriers to student success, 2) improving understanding of how stakeholders navigate institutional infrastructure, 3) creating a culture where auditing internal practices and knowledge bases are commonplace, 4) uplifting student voice and experience, and 5) creating greater outcomes for all students
The structure and spatial distribution of dark matter halos
No full textThis is a study of how the distribution and properties of dark matter halos can be utilized as probes of fundamental questions in modern cosmology. Spatial clustering of dark matter halo carry a wealth of information regarding its evolution history and environment. In particular, I study halo assembly bias, which refers to the assembly history dependence of spatial clustering for dark matter halos at fixed mass, using observational and cosmological simulation data. Understanding and modeling assembly bias provides insight into the context of hierarchical structure formation theory. Apart from spatial clustering I also study shapes of dark matter halos and how to measure them using three-point galaxy statistics, which itself serves as an astrophysical constraint on properties of dark matter.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2020-12-01The student, Chun Yin Ricky Chue, accepted the attached license on 2018-07-17 at 01:19.The student, Chun Yin Ricky Chue, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2018-07-17 at 01:24.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2018-07-19 at 09:04.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #12897 on 2019-02-08 at 11:37:25Made available in DSpace on 2019-02-08T18:39:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3
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