12 resultados para Treasury bills.

em Doria (National Library of Finland DSpace Services) - National Library of Finland, Finland


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The goal of this research was to make an overall sight to VIX® and how it can be used as a stock market indicator. Volatility index often referred as the fear index, measures how much it costs for investor to protect his/her S&P 500 position from fluctuations with options. Over the relatively short history of VIX it has been a successful timing coordinator and it has given incremental information about the market state adding its own psychological view of the amount of fear and greed. Correctly utilized VIX information gives a considerable advantage in timing market actions. In this paper we test how VIX works as a leading indicator of broad stock market index such as S&P 500 (SPX). The purpose of this paper is to find a working way to interpret VIX. The various tests are made on time series data ranging from the year 1990 to the year 2010. The 10-day simple moving average strategy gave significant profits from the whole time when VIX data is available. Strategy was able to utilize the increases of SPX in example portfolio value and was able to step aside when SPX was declining. At the times when portfolio was aside of S it was on safety fund like on treasury bills getting an annual yield of 3 percent. On the other side just a static number’s of VIX did not work as indicators in a profit making way.

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Työn tarkoituksena oli kehittää yrityksen nimikkeiden hallintaa osana uuden toiminnan-ohjausjärjestelmän käyttöönottoprojektia. Tavoitteena oli toiminnanohjausjärjestelmän ja suunnittelun tietojärjestelmien välisen tuotetiedon löydettävyyden ja käytettävyyden kehittäminen tuotteen tilaus –toimitus prosessin näkökulmasta. Työn ongelmaa tarkasteltiin ja analysoitiin tuotetiedon hallintaan ja toiminnanohjausjärjestelmiin liittyvän kirjallisuuden pohjalta. Aineistona käytettiin myös aihepiiriin liittyneitä aiempia tutkimuksia. Diplomityön tuloksena saatiin toiminnanohjausjärjestelmään standardoitu nimikkeistö ostettavista materiaaleista ja sekä itse valmistettavista tuotteista. Suunnittelun ja toiminnanohjausjärjestelmän välinen nimiketietojen siirto mahdollistettiin määrittämällä yhteydet ERP- ja CAD -järjestelmien välille. Järjestelmäintegraation ansiosta suunnittelussa muodostettuja tuoterakenteita voidaan käyttää hyväksi ERP –järjestelmän eri prosesseissa, kuten esimerkiksi tuotannossa ja hankinnoissa. Tehokkaan tuotetiedon hallinnan perusta on toimiva ja standardoitu nimikkeistö. Onnistuneen tiedonhallinnan edellytyksiä ovat tiedon yksikäsitteisyys, ajantasaisuus ja saatavuus. Olemassa olevaa tietoa tulee pystyä käyttämään mahdollisimman tehokkaasti hyväksi

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The goal of this thesis was to research what TransPromo is, why companies want to implement TransPromo communication, and what the elements of effective Transpromo communication are. Furthermore, the goal was to develop a TransPromo communication strategy and a normative model for TeliaSonera Finland, which depicts the elements of effective TransPromo communication when the electronic bill is a medium. Abductive reasoning was utilized in this thesis, which means that empirical and theoretical worlds are alternating in researcher’s reasoning process. This thesis didn’t rely on any specific theory nor did it utilize any previous theoretical model. However, certain theoretical connections existed so this thesis cannot be considered purely inductive. The empirical part of this thesis was conducted by examining secondary industry data and by conducting specialist interviews at TeliaSonera Finland and Strålfors. Grounded Theory approach was utilized in the analysis of the interview data and content analysis was used in the analysis of secondary industry data. This thesis increases knowledge in the area of TransPromo communication, and provides one definition of TransPromo communication. As a result of this thesis, a TransPromo communication strategy and a normative model for TeliaSonera Finland was built. The model depicts the elements of the effective TransPromo communication when the e-bill is a medium. The TranPromo communication objective is to utilize transaction documents, such as bills, in order to deliver targeted and personalized marketing messages to current customers. The aim is to strengthen the customer relationship, and to enforce up-sell and cross-sell opportunities and cost savings.

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The Krem Trekker Diaries is the first social polling made in modern China. The research was made at a Southern China university during two years and reveals the thoughts and attitudes of Chinese students, i.e. the future decision makers. The research is a treasury for every brand manager, businessman or politician interested in the inner world of the rising middle class of China.

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Tässä diplomityössä tarkastellaan tietomallintamista eng. BIM (Building Information Modeling) LVI-suunnittelun näkökulmasta sekä esitellään tietomallintamisen vaikutuksia ja hyötyjä suunnitteluprosessiin. Tietomallintaminen mahdollistaa esimerkiksi LVI-suunnittelijan tuottaman määräluettelon 3D-mallista, jonka seurauksena eri toimijoiden väliset rajapinnat tulevat luultavasti kokemaan muutoksia. Työssä vertaillaan käsin laskettuja ja 3D-mallista tuotettuja määräluetteloita toisiinsa. Työhön sisällytetään myös urakoitsijoiden haastatteluja, joissa pyritään selvittämään heidän näkemyksiään suunnittelijan tuottamiin määrätietoihin.

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Asbesti on yleisnimike kuitumaisille silikaattimineraaleille. Sillä on monia hyviä ominaisuuksia. Siksi sitä on käytetty useisiin eri käyttötarkoituksiin jo yli 4 000 vuoden ajan. Sisäänhengitettynä asbesti aiheuttaa kuitenkin vakavia terveyshaittoja, mm. asbestoosia, keuhkosyöpää ja mesotelioomaa. Vuosina 1918-1988 Suomessa käytettiin asbestia 300 000 tonnia. Yleisintä käyttö oli 1960-70-lukujen vaihteessa. Sairauksien viive altistumisesta on 10-40 vuotta. Sairauksien esiintyminen onkin nyt suurimmillaan. Suurin osa sairauksista on hyvänlaatuisia keuhkopussin paksuuntumia eli plakkeja. Vuosittain asbestin aiheuttamiin sairauksiin, etupäässä syöpiin, kuolee Suomessa noin 100 ihmistä. Yhteensä altistuneita arvellaan olevan 250 000. Heistä elossa on noin 50 000. Vaarallisuutensa vuoksi asbestin käyttö on useissa maissa kielletty, mutta maailmalla sitä käytetään edelleen suuria määriä. Suomessa asbestin käyttöä rajoitettiin jo 1970-luvulla. Pieniä poikkeuksia lukuun ottamatta täyskielto tuli voimaan 1.1.1994. Suomessa asbestia esiintyy edelleen vanhoissa rakennuksissa. Asbestipurkutyö on luvanvaraista. Asbestitöissä on huolehdittava siitä, että kukaan ei altistu asbestille. Asbestipitoisen materiaalin tunnistaminen silmämääräisesti on vaikeaa. Materiaali luokitellaan asbestipitoiseksi, jos siinä on asbestia yli 1 painoprosenttia tai jos sitä voidaan pölyävyytensä takia pitää vaarallisena. Asbestipitoisen materiaalin kartoituksessa voidaan käyttää rakennussuunnitelmia, vanhoja asiakirjoja kuten urakoitsijan laskuja sekä tuntemusta rakennusajan yleisistä rakennustavoista. Varmuus saadaan kuitenkin vain tutkimalla materiaali esimerkiksi laboratoriokokeissa. Tässä diplomityössä on pyritty selvittämään, voidaanko asbesti tunnistaa ChemPro 100 -keinonenällä. Laite perustuu ioniliikkuvuusspektrometriaan eli eri yhdisteiden erilaiseen liikkuvuuteen kaasumaisessa väliaineessa. Menetelmä on nopea ja yksinkertainen. Tutkimusta varten hankittiin asbestipitoisia materiaaleja, joista saatuja tuloksia vertailtiin toisiinsa. Nykyiset asbestintunnistusmenetelmät ovat monimutkaisia ja hitaita. Jos keinonenä pystyttäisiin kouluttamaan tunnistamaan asbestimateriaali, helpottaisi se asbestikartoituksen tekemistä.

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Songs have the power to get through to people. When lyrics are combined with a tune, the result is an entity where the first few notes of a melody can evoke emotions of recognition and belonging. A song treasury consists of such songs that are part of a canonized song tradition. The process where certain songs become part of an established song treasury is long, and many other aspects than the tune itself influence the forming of a song treasury. By examining the characteristics of a song tradition, the history of an ethnic group can be illuminated. In this study, music, pedagogy, and the sociocultural context are merged into a whole where a common song tradition, the song treasury, is in focus. The main aim of this study is to deepen the understanding of a song treasury, its development and contents. This understanding is accomplished by analyzing the musical and lyrical characteristics of 60 songs, which have been sung in schools, homes, and communities, thereby becoming popular among the Swedish-speaking Finns during the 20th century. The songs have been chosen by combining three song lists, of which two lists are closely related to school curricula. The third song list is a result of a survey on favourite songs, according to the situation around year 2000. The songs are examined in their notated versions, a number of song books and text books (n = 29) forming the empirical material. In this study, a hermeneutical approach is applied, content analysis being the method. The analysis is based on three perspectives: the sociocultural perspective, the music-pedagogical perspective, and the musico-analytical perspective. Within each perspective, two aspects are studied. This results in a hexagonal model which forms the structure of the study as a whole. The first two perspectives form the background; a historical context where nation, education, home country, and homestead are regarded as highly important. A common song repertoire is considered to be an effective means of building collective identity within ethnic groups, the common language and the cultural heritage being used as rhetorical arguments. During the early 1900s, choir festivals become an educational platform where conceptions of a common belonging are developed and strengthened through religious, patriotic, and poetical expressions. National school curricula in singing and music have similar characteristics, cultural heritage and values education being in focus. The song lyrics often describe nature and emotions, and they also appear to be personal and situated in a given time and place. Patriotic expressions and songs about music are also fairly common. The songs generally express positive attitudes, which are intensified by major tonality, rich and varied melodies with stable rhythms, and a strong tonal base. The analyzed details of the studied aspects are merged into a thick description, which results in an interpretation pattern with three dimensions: a song treasury can be considered an expression of collective identity, cultural heritage, and values education.

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Työn lähtökohtana oli tieto siitä, että Valtiontalouden tarkastusvirasto (VTV) on lähtenyt tarjoamaan kustannuslaskentajärjestelmien sertifiointeja valtion virastoille ja laitoksille. Ensimmäisenä tavoitteena oli selvittää, mitä kustannuslaskentajärjestelmien sertifioiminen valtionhallinnossa tarkoittaa. Työn toisena tavoitteena oli selvittää, miten Maanmittauslaitoksen kustannuslaskenta muuttuu vuoden 2014 vaihteessa tapahtuvan organisaatiouudistuksen johdosta, ja miten ja milloin tämä uusi kustannuslaskentajärjestelmä voidaan sertifioida. Diplomityö toteutettiin tapaustutkimuksena ja empiirinen aineisto kerättiin kvalitatiivisin menetelmin tekemällä organisaation sisäisiä ja ulkoisia haastatteluja. Maanmittauslaitoksen lisäksi haastateltavat osapuolet olivat VTV, Ernst & Young, sertifiointiprosessin lähes läpikäyneen Riista- ja kalatalouden tutkimuslaitoksen entinen ja nykyinen talouspäällikkö, Maa- ja metsätalousministeriö ja Valtiokonttori. Haastatteluiden lisäksi valtion virastoilta ja laitoksilta kysyttiin ovatko he kuulleet VTV:n tarjoamasta sertifiointipalvelusta ja ovatko he kiinnostuneita tästä kyseisestä palvelusta. Työn tuloksista käy ilmi, että VTV:n palvelu etenee samalla tavalla kuin mikä tahansa muu sertifiointiprosessi. VTV:n palvelu eroaa kuitenkin jonkin verran sertifioinnin perusrakenteesta, koska kustannuslaskentajärjestelmien tapauksessa ei ole laadittu yleisiä standardeja kustannuslaskennalle. Tämän vuoksi perusrakenteessa ei ole ollenkaan standardin omistajaa. Standardin omistajan paikalle sijoittuvat laki valtion talousarviosta ja asetus valtion talousarviosta. Maanmittauslaitoksen kustannuslaskenta muuttuu organisaatiouudistuksen myötä odotettua enemmän. Uuden organisaatiorakenteen vuoksi kustannuksia ei tarvitse vyöryttää toimintayksiköille, tulosyksiköille ja vastuualueille. Kustannukset vyörytetään jatkossa vain tuotteille ja projekteille. Maanmittauslaitoksen kannattaa sertifioida uusi kustannuslaskentajärjestelmänsä vuonna 2014, vaikka seuraavien vuosien aikana on tiedossa uusia muutoksia sekä organisaatioon, että tietojärjestelmiin. Ennen varsinaista tarkastusta Maanmittauslaitoksen kustannuslaskentajärjestelmä kuvattiin uudelleen.

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Modern research on literacy, the scriptualization of the administration and the interaction between the governing and the governed as part of the political culture, has brought to the fore the issue of different scripts and their terms. The present dissertation focuses on the parish scribes in the county of Ostrobothnia during the period 1721–1868. The peasantry had been given the right to pay parish scribes in 1624. The parish scribes who were to assist the peasants in connection with the collection of taxes simultaneously supervised the bailiffs who collected the taxes. Their writing skills made the scribes indispensable also in many other contexts. In Ostrobothnia, the peasantry had use for parish scribes, who worked as mediators between Swedish and Finnish, between the oral and the written and vice versa. The aim of this dissertation is on the one hand to explore the recruitment of parish scribes, and on the other to examine the parish scribes as a professional and social group. The parish scribes’ significance for the peasantry in everyday life, local decision-making and in connection with political processes will be analyzed by examining their work and professional activities. The recruitment of parish scribes and has been analyzed as a decision process where different actors were able to influence the election. The parish scribes’ competence requirements and terms of employment have been analyzed. The parish scribes as a professional body or a social group has not previously been explored. The examination of the 154 parish scribes as a professional and social group has been carried out in the form of a collective biography. Parish scribes’ tasks originally consisted of the collection of taxes, but the duties within the parish administration increased in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The private writing assignments consisted of many different documents: bills of sale, probate inventories and estate distributions, wills, land tenancy agreements, life annuity and crofter agreements, promissory notes, auction records and different survey documents. The interaction with state power has been analyzed by examining five political decision-making processes that the peasants actively participated in.

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Many-core systems provide a great potential in application performance with the massively parallel structure. Such systems are currently being integrated into most parts of daily life from high-end server farms to desktop systems, laptops and mobile devices. Yet, these systems are facing increasing challenges such as high temperature causing physical damage, high electrical bills both for servers and individual users, unpleasant noise levels due to active cooling and unrealistic battery drainage in mobile devices; factors caused directly by poor energy efficiency. Power management has traditionally been an area of research providing hardware solutions or runtime power management in the operating system in form of frequency governors. Energy awareness in application software is currently non-existent. This means that applications are not involved in the power management decisions, nor does any interface between the applications and the runtime system to provide such facilities exist. Power management in the operating system is therefore performed purely based on indirect implications of software execution, usually referred to as the workload. It often results in over-allocation of resources, hence power waste. This thesis discusses power management strategies in many-core systems in the form of increasing application software awareness of energy efficiency. The presented approach allows meta-data descriptions in the applications and is manifested in two design recommendations: 1) Energy-aware mapping 2) Energy-aware execution which allow the applications to directly influence the power management decisions. The recommendations eliminate over-allocation of resources and increase the energy efficiency of the computing system. Both recommendations are fully supported in a provided interface in combination with a novel power management runtime system called Bricktop. The work presented in this thesis allows both new- and legacy software to execute with the most energy efficient mapping on a many-core CPU and with the most energy efficient performance level. A set of case study examples demonstrate realworld energy savings in a wide range of applications without performance degradation.

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Today industries and commerce in Ghana are facing enormous energy challenge. The pressure is on for industries to reduce energy consumption, lower carbon emissions and provide se-cured power supply. Industrial electric motor energy efficiency improvement is one of the most important tools to reduce global warming threat and reduce electricity bills. In order to develop a strategic industrial energy efficiency policy, it is therefore necessary to study the barriers that inhibit the implementation of cost – effective energy efficiency measures and the driving forces that promote the implementation. The aim of this thesis is to analyse the energy consumption pattern of electric motors, study factors that promote or inhibit energy efficiency improvements in EMDS and provide cost – effective solutions that improve energy efficiency to bridge the existing energy efficiency gap in the surveyed industries. The results from this thesis has revealed that, the existence of low energy efficiency in motor-driven systems in the surveyed industries were due to poor maintenance practices, absence of standards, power quality issues, lack of access to capital and limited awareness to the im-portance of energy efficiency improvements in EMDS. However, based on the results pre-sented in this thesis, a policy approach towards industrial SMEs should primarily include dis-counted or free energy audit in providing the industries with the necessary information on potential energy efficiency measures, practice best motor management programmes and estab-lish a minimum energy performance standard (MEPS) for motors imported into the country. The thesis has also shown that education and capacity development programmes, financial incentives and system optimization are effective means to promote energy efficiency in elec-tric motor – driven systems in industrial SMEs in Ghana