No variance for filed orders: Hayes v Westpac Banking Corporation [2015] QCA 260

In Hayes v Westpac Banking Corporation [2015] QCA 260 the Queensland Court of Appeal examined the relationship between rules 7 (extending and shortening time) and 667 (setting aside) of the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 1999 (Qld), and held that r667(1) does not enable the court to set aside or vary an order after the order has been filed. The court found that, to the extent that this conclusion was contrary to the decision in McIntosh v Linke Nominees Pty Ltd [2010] 1 Qd R 152, the decision in McIntosh was wrong and should not be followed.

Structuring the Calibration of Qualitative Data as Sets for Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)

Most studies that apply qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) rely on macro-level data, but an increasing number of studies focus on units of analysis at the micro or meso level (i.e., households, firms, protected areas, communities, or local governments). For such studies, qualitative interview data are often the primary source of information. Yet, so far no procedure is available describing how to calibrate qualitative data as fuzzy sets. The authors propose a technique to do so and illustrate it using examples from a study of Guatemalan local governments. By spelling out the details of this important analytic step, the authors aim at contributing to the growing literature on best practice in QCA. © The Author(s) 2012.

QCA Systolic array design

Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) technology is a promising potential alternative to CMOS technology. To explore the characteristics of QCA and suitable design methodologies, digital circuit design approaches have been investigated. Due to the inherent wire delay in QCA, pipelined architectures appear to be a particularly suitable design technique. Also, because of the pipeline nature of QCA technology, it is not suitable for complicated control system design. Systolic arrays take advantage of pipelining, parallelism and simple local control. Therefore, an investigation into these architectures in QCA technology is provided in this paper. Two case studies, (a matrix multiplier and a Galois Field multiplier) are designed and analyzed based on both multilayer and coplanar crossings. The performance of these two types of interconnections are compared and it is found that even though coplanar crossings are currently more practical, they tend to occupy a larger design area and incur slightly more delay. A general semi-conductor QCA systolic array design methodology is also proposed. It is found that by applying a systolic array structure in QCA design, significant benefits can be achieved particularly with large systolic arrays, even more so than when applied in CMOS-based technology.

Análise qualitativa comparativa (QCA) da implantação de novos cursos (NSD) : educação executiva no Brasil

Este trabalho analisou a combinação de recursos e processos utilizados no desenvolvimento de novos cursos (NSD) de educação executiva, modalidade pós-graduação lato sensu, nas escolas de negócios do Brasil. Para isso foi utilizada a metodologia de análise qualitativa comparativa (QCA), em um estudo de múltiplos casos com uma amostra de 14 instituições de ensino superior. A partir da revisão de literatura conceitual e empírica sobre desenvolvimento de novos serviços (NSD), foi testado o modelo de competência e desempenho em NSD dos autores Menor e Roth, 2008. Os resultados forneceram evidências de que o modelo de competência em NSD identificado na literatura internacional também se aplica ao Brasil. Porém o resultado desse estudo aponta casos contraditórios ao modelo que podem ser base para futuras pesquisas. Em especial pela ausência da dimensão de formalização dos processos de NSD nos casos em questão.