The thesis of Wei Zhang was reviewed and approved * by the following:

Abstract. Our paper investigates issues where sports management and public finance intersect. Both in the Czech Republic and Slovakia sports are significantly dependent on grants from different levels of public administration. But to access and use this money is not straightforward. In the first part of our paper we analyse the system of allocation of the public finance grants to sport organizations in both countries. The second part deals with two selected problems of resource allocation -transparency of allocation of public resources to sports and financial management problems connected with rigid rules regulating the use of public resources allocated to sport organizations (on the Slovak example). The results are interesting -the allocation of resources from central level is transparent, predictable, program and performance based, however this is not valid for local government grants. The obligation to use public grants to sport organizations in the same way as state budgetary organizations causes real problems form financial managers of sport bodies.

Consider a set of sensors estimating the state of a process in which only one of these sensors can operate at each time-step due to constraints on the overall system. The problem addressed here is to choose which sensor should operate at each time-step to minimize a weighted function of the error covariances of the state estimates. This work investigates the development of tractable algorithms to solve for the optimal and suboptimal sensor schedules. A condition on the non-optimality of an initialization of the schedule is developed. Using this condition, both an optimal and a suboptimal algorithm are devised to prune the search tree of all possible sensor schedules. The suboptimal algorithm trades off the quality of the solution and the complexity of the problem through a tuning parameter. The performance of the suboptimal algorithm is also investigated and an analytical error bound is provided. Numerical simulations are conducted to demonstrate the performance of the proposed algorithms, and the application of the algorithms in active robotic mapping is explored.

I, Wei Zhang, hereby declare that this thesis and the work presented in it is entirely my own. Where I have consulted the work of others, this is always clearly stated. Signed: Wei Zhang

This article cites 39 articles, 27 of which can be accessed free

This article cites 39 articles, 29 of which can be accessed free

and Water Quality ’ programmes. We would like to thank Levi Timar and Wei Zhang for comments and assistance. The authors remain responsible for any errors or omissions.

S-SAD phasing study of death receptor 6 and its solution conformation revealed by SAXS

this article. Address for reprints: Wei Zhang, Ph.D., Cancer Genomics Core Laboratory, Department of Pathology, Box 85, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd., Houston, TX 77030; Fax: (713) 792-5549; E-mail: wzhang@mdanderson.org Received July 13, 2001

I would like express my sincere appreciation to the people that made this thesis possible. First I wish to thank my advisor Dr. Xiaoli Ma for her inspiration and constant prodding. I would also like to thank my committee for their patience and guidance. In addition I would like to thank Wei Zhang