hypertext , computer mediated communication , Internet literature , use & gratification

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P/paradise , stepping in , language , narrative strategy

Morrison opens Paradise by constructing a black community based on a traditional, unrelenting patriarchal discourse which seems to be subverted by a rather trivial, private or ¡

IF steel , fatigue

AbstractIF steel with two grain sizes ( 70

IBIS

Recently clock rates in digital system reach in GHz range, and therefore EMC problems were occurred. Based on the FDTD modeling approach, signal integrity (SI) and electromagnetic radiation (EMI) for high-speed digital circuits to get accurate results ,including the active IC into FDTD method is the key issue on the printed circuit boards (PCB) are investigated.IBIS (I/O buffer information specification) model is one of the good choices to show the behavior of digital devices. In this paper we p...

Principal Component Analysis , Fingertips , Gesture Recognition

To have a voice link with other diving partners or surface personnel, divers need to put on a communication mask. The second stage regulator or mouthpiece is equipped with a circuit to pick up the voice of the diver. Then the voice is frequency-modulates into ultrasonic signal to be transmitted into water. A receiver on the other side picks up the ultrasonic signal and demodulates it back to voice, and plays back in diver s earphone set. This technology is mature but not widely adopted for its p...

Sympathetic vasomotor tone , Rostral ventrolateral medulla , Lipopolysaccharide , Heat shocks protein , Survival and mortality

Heat shock proteins (HSPs) are abundantly produced in cells that are under stress or injury by acting as a chaperone or promoting folding, unfolding, packing, degradation or denaturing of proteins or peptides. This study evaluated the role of HSP60, HSP70 or HSP90 in the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM), in experimental endotoxemia in the rat.Adult, male Sprague-Dawley rats maintained by i.v. infusion propofol (25 mg/kg/h) were used. During experimental endotoxemia induced by intravenous adm...

iNOS , tissue damage , ERKs burn

Burn-induced intestinal barrier failure has been proposed to be a potential cause of subsequent multiple organ failure after burn. Studies have shown that the increased iNOS activity is closely related to intestinal and pulmonary damage in rats after burn. Expression of iNOS and MMP-9 is regulated by nuclear factor NF-

gene therapy , b-endorphin , adenovirus , neuropathic pain , POMC

The use of gene-based techniques to produce antinociceptive molecules has been actively investigated for treatment of neuropathic pain and trauma of central nervous system. Among the endogenous opioids, b-endorphin (b-EP) is the most potent one, which is derived from pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC). In addition to b-endorphin, POMC is also the precursor of many neuropeptides such as adrenocorticotropin hormone (ACTH), melanocyte-stimulating hormone (a-MSH), ¡Ketc. Appropriate administration...

probability of informed trading , PI , Fama-French three factor model

Following the model developed by Easley, Kiefer, O¡¦Hara and Paperman (1996), I estimated the probability of informed trading (PI) in the TSEC. The result in my study is that the probability of informed trading is highly related with the trading volume of each stock. More active stocks will have lower probability of informed trading, so investors trading with active stocks will face less information asymmetry.Feather more, my research followed the study of Easley, Hvidkjaer, an...

industrial cluster , Non-profit Marketing & Sales , agglomerate economy , social interaction , competitive advantage , biotechnology , biotech science park , biotical industry

In the beginning of 21st century, like many nations across the world, Taiwan has worked hard in an attempt to establish a new economy. This new economy will be comprised of intellectual property and high-tech industries which high economic return, low pollution, and all other added values will truly bring another phase of prosperity to Taiwan. Ideally, the government hopes to pattern the successful model of Hsinchu Science Park to the new establishment of biotechnology-related science parks acro...

Tutorial systems , Senior High School TEachers

AbstractThis study aims to investigate the attitude of senior high school teachers toward the present tutoring system. It includes attitudes toward system-related regulations, the importance of the system, satisfaction in tasks included in the system, and possibility of exercising multiple tutors. The study is based on the survey on public and private senior high school teachers by the use of questionnaires. Some major findings, which are concluded from 541 out of 800 teachers, are listed below....

Female Information Supervisor , Healthcare Information Unit

ABSTRACTDue to the continuous variation of medical policies, the competition of healthcare services markets are even more drastic and face more challenges. Among them, the advantage in competition for each hospital and clinic is information service, as a result, the superintendent of information unit in hospitals must obtain not only knowledge about information specialty but also general disposition of healthcare system; the superintendent of routine interactions between authorized superior offi...

Labour Party , Tony Blair

This study examines the process by which the British Labour Party is transformed into New Labour Party, under the leadership of Tony Blair. Tony Blair declared that the Labour Party Government was elected as New Labour and that they would be govern as New Labour in 1997. How did Tony Blair as leader seek to define New Labour to win an election for the Labour Party after four successive defeats?¡

TFT¡ÐLCD , L¡ÐG Model , Free Cash Flow Model

After semiconductor industry, TFT-LCD technology has become the other valuable technique for Taiwan to play an important role in the world. Both government and investors have already spent lots of effort to make it grow during last decade. To be able to increase the competitive, we are looking forward to merge the TFT-LCD manufactories. This paper focuses on the market expectation of merge of TFT-LCD industry in Taiwan. This paper has use two stock market public corporate, A.U.O. and Q.D.I, as o...

educational dependency , research productivity , research and publishing patterns , the third world countries , university faculty members

A Study of Research and Publishing Patterns among University Faculty Members in TaiwanHuei-Yu HuangAbstractThe main purposes of this study were (a) to investigate if the research and publishing patterns of university faculty members in Taiwan indicates the educational dependency phenomenon; and (b) to compare if the research and publishing patterns of the faculty with different variables (including gender, the country where faculty members acquired the highest degree, rank, years of service in u...

Multi-national Company , Taiwan Subsidiary , China Subidiary , Interface Role

AbstractThere is more than 20 years since Mainland China implemented the ¡

CMOS Low Noise Amplifiers , Noise Figure

This thesis deals with two kinds of RF CMOS low noise amplifiers (LNA). The low power LNA and the image-reject LNA.The impact of gain, noise figure, and stability on RF CMOS image-reject LNA has been studied. Through this study, the fundamental properties of image-reject LNA can be understood by a simple but physical concept.A current-reuse RF CMOS source-degenerated cascode LNA is also presented, which adopts a combination of source-degenerated NMOS inverter and Cascode topology to improve gain...

dislocation loop , barium titanate

Dislocation loops in pressureless-sintered undoped BaTiO3 ceramics have been analysed via transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The Burgers vector b = [100] of the loops was initially determined by the contrast analysis of the g

organizational commitment , professional commitment , money ethic

The financial market in Taiwan shook away its bondage and startedto move forward after the government declared the dissolution of financialpolicies in 1990. The approval of the installation of private banks in 1991 even flamed the competition existing in the monetary and financial market into a blaze.To make the situation even more drastic is our participation in the World Trade Organizations that international financial organizations are allowed to run theirbusinesses here. Our local financial ...

functions of colleges & universities , categories of colleges & universities , evaluation indicators of colleges & universities

AbstractsThe study was designed to achieve three purposes : the first was to explore the categories of universities in China, Netherlands, Taiwan, Japan, United Kingdom and United States. Second one was to build an evaluation model of performance indicators of colleges & universities in terms of three functions : research, instruction and service¡Fand to figure out a model of factorial structure which could grasp the conditions of colleges & universities. Finally, to cat...

Ad Hoc Networks , Scatternet Formation , Bluetooth , Piconet

In this paper we propose a distributed algorithm to construct a scatternet for multi-hop ad hoc networks of Bluetooth devices. This algorithm is fully distributed and does not require the nodes in the networks being in-range(i.e., each pair of nodes in the network may be unable to communicate with each other directly). The role-selection process in existing scatternet formation mostly uses the strategy of message exchange and comparing their weights like IDs or power strength. This results in a ...

job standard factor , performance standard factor , organizational commitment , job evaluation , employee attitud

AbstractFor many years now, the base to Taiwan¡¦s economic development has been from the medium and little-sized business enterprises, but with the restrictions of domestic economic development, the rising costs of labor, and the intense competition of the international environment, many proprietors believe that for these enterprises to weather through another winter is in itself a difficult task, how would they have the time for discussions of the improvement and development o...

Face Recognition , Maximum-Likelihood Estimation , Hard-Limited Karhunen-Loeve Transform , Linear Discriminate Analysis , Face Detection , Karhunen-Loeve Transform

The design of a face recognition system ( FRS ) can been separated into two major modules ¡V face detection and face recognition.In the face detection part, we combine image pre-processing techniques with maximum-likelihood estimation to detect the nearest frontal face in a single image. Under limited restrictions, our detection method overcomes some of the challenging tasks, such as variability in scale, location, orientation, facial expression, occlusion ( glasses ), and lighting chan...

environmental sustainable development , senior high schools¡¦ student , environmental sustai , environmental sustainable knowledge

AbstractThe main purposes of this study were to investigate current status of environmental sustainable knowledge, attitude and behavior among high school students in southern Taiwan. Factors: such us gender, group, sequence of birth, education and occupation of parents, condition of families and areas are independent variables; Moreover, cohesion between these independent variables and dependent variables such as environmental sustainable knowledge, environmental sustainable attitude and enviro...

text summarization , event detection , environmental scanning

Environmental scanning, which acquires and use the information about event, trends, and changes in an organization¡¦s external environment, is an important process in the strategic management of an organization and permits the organization to quickly adapt to the changes of its external environment. Event detection that detects the onset of new events from news documents is essential to facilitating an organization¡¦s environmental scanning activity. However, ...

international political economy , structure , structrual power analysis , new diplomacy , risk , value

AbstractSusan Strange who is British, female, a master and a mother of six children. This woman can be one of us but who has much rich life than anyone. She is foundation of IPE of British, and foundation of British International Studies Association (BISA), and who also is one of two non-American chairmen of American International Relations Association (ISA) in 20 century. She also visits many countries worldwide American, European, Asia and Australia areas for promote her ideas of IPE, which sh...

stage of concern , information technology integrated into English instruction

The aim of this study is to investigate junior and senior high school English teachers¡¦ concerns and behaviors about integrating information technology into English instruction, then to observe the variance resulting from teachers having different backgrounds, and finally to explore the relationships among them.The participations in this study are332 junior and senior high school English teachers from Taipei and Kaohsiung cities. ¡

Supervised Document Clustering , Personalized Document Clustering , Document Clustering , Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering

With the proliferation of an electronic commerce and knowledge economy environment, both organizations and individuals generate and consume a large amount of online information, typically available as textual documents. To manage the ever-increasing volume of documents, organizations and individuals typically organize their documents into categories to facilitate document management and subsequent information access and browsing. However, document grouping behaviors are intentional acts, reflect...

Term Association , Query Expansion , Thesaurus , Text Mining , Information Retrieval , Word Mismatch , Cluster-based Query Expansion , Document Clustering

As advances in information and networking technologies, huge amount of information typically in the form of text documents are available online. To facilitate efficient and effective access to documents relevant to users¡¦ information needs, information retrieval systems have been imposed a more significant role than ever. One challenging issue in information retrieval is word mismatch that refers to the phenomenon that concepts may be described by different words in user queri...

Mevinphos Intoxication , he Rostral Ventrolateral Medulla , Muscarinic Receptor Subtypes

We investigated the role of muscarinic receptor subtypes at the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM), the medullary origin of sympathetic neurogenic vasomotor tone, in mevinphos (Mev) intoxication. Adult Sprague-Dawley rats anesthetized by pentobarbital (45 mg/kg) and maintained by propofol (30 mg/kg/h) were used.Co-microinjection bilaterally of Mev (10 nmol) and artificial cerebrospinal fluid (aCSF) into the RVLM resulted in an increase (Phase I) followed by a decrease (Phase II) in the power d...

polysaccharides , mitochondrial DNA , antrodia camphorata , triterpenoids

Antrodia camphorata is a Taiwan-unique fungus which grows on the walls inside the core of decayed Cinnamomum kanehirae. Antrodia camphorata provides many bioactive substance and it is cultivated mainly via mycelium nowadays.First section of this research is focused on Antrodia camphorata (CCRC-35716) in liquid cultivation medium and the changes within extracellular polysaccharides, trierpenoids, pH and growth. It also uses HPLC to analyze the differences of mycelium triterpenoids. This experimen...

Job Involvement , Self-directed Learning , Organizational Climate

The Study of the Relationship among Organizational Climate Awareness, Self-directed Learning, and Job Involvement ¡V Taking One International Express Corporation as ExampleAbstractOrganizational climate has an influence on the awareness of organization personnel, and its not only affect their mind, but also behavior. In the changing world, the competition between people has been expanded from one country to the whole world. Learning is necessary for people to keep their competition adva...

national identity , culture industry , cultural policy , political imagination

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Third Generation , 3G , MVNO , Mobile Virtual Network Operator

AbstractMobile phone is one essential communication product to most Taiwanese nowadays. As the market approaching its full capacity, service providers are now facing more competitions than ever. Some much lower profit and decreasing number of users can also be expected. Hence all the telecommunication service providers are trying to increase their revenue through providing mobile digital services to compensate the decreasing revenue from voice sector.To be more precisely, telecommunication servi...

elementary school , organization reestablishing , organization efficiency

This study is aimed to investigate the relationship of organization reestablishing of elementary schools and organization efficiency. The purposes of the study are as follows:1.Investigating the meaning and content of administration organization reestablishing of elementary schools.2.Understanding the consensus of the elementary school staffs on organization reestablishing.3.Understanding the differences among the elementary school staffs on organization reestablishing and organization efficienc...

types of organizational politics perception , perceptions of politics scale (POPS) , cluster analysis , Perceptions of Organizational Politics

AbstractPolitical behavior in organization is undeniable, while studies of organizational politics lasting for recent decades had accumulated abundant understanding in this area. However, there are still many arguments against this complex subject needed further research. The purpose of the research is 1) to test and verify the input model of Organizational Politics Perception Model¡C 2) to test the effectiveness and reliability and solve the controversy of dimensions of POPS ¡...

curriculum development , the evaluation of school based curriculum development , the effect of school based curriculum development , teachers profession development , school based curriculum development

Summary of ThesisTitle: Investigation of the Related Factors of School Based Curriculum Development in Elementary and Junior High Schools in KaohsiungSummaryThe purposes of this research are to investigate the related factors of school based curriculum development and its present condition of practice in elementary and junior high school in Kaohsiung, analyze how different background variables vary in different levels in SBCD, and predict the effect of practice this curriculum.In order to achiev...

occupational commitments , work satisfaction , work involvement , locus of control

AbstractThe development of the nutritionist will be twenty years in Taiwan. The role of nutritionist is changed from meals management of group to education and consulting of nutrition in the period of the prosperous eighties till now. In the meantime, the top ten causes of death are changed from emergency medical case to chromic disease in Taiwan. The custom of weight reduction is spread over Taiwan in the eighties. The general public is eager to receive the instruction of nutritionist. However,...

governance , states , advanced states / developing states , civil society , globalization

AbstractThe end of the Cold War represented a construction transformation in international politics - from bipolar to multipolar . Nevertheless the end of the resistance between Eastern and Western, did not mean the arrival of peace and prosperity , on the contrary , there were many latent crises like security, politics, ecology and cultural gradually emerging to people. Therefore, how to mobilize the power to resolve the global problem is a very realistic and urgent issue .Due to the new situat...

England , historical institutionalism , limited democracy , local democracy , maximizing satisfiers

There isn¡¦t any clear definition on the discussion of Local Democracy. There are some similar concepts that are easily confused with us, such as local government, local autonomy, localism, and local democracy¡Ketc. Therefore, it¡¦s necessary to clear and find out the relationship among them. In addition, the dichotomy of democracy in the UK polity is particularly conspicuous in relation to local government. Consequently, The challenge is that how we ...

the character of human resource management and international competence , knowledge management , multinational corporation , globalization arrangement

AbstractThe management and development of corporation is typically of its own periodical stage. Growth is quite the primary strategy goal for most corporation groups. In addition, the ¡

data envelopment analysis , nursing units , relative efficiency

In the recent years most of the studies related to the hospital efficiency focus on the issues of the ownership, size, physician team work, and clinical performance. It is certain that nursing units are the major profit centers for hospitals. However, the relative efficiency of nursing units regarding the resource use and outputs is seldom investigated. Therefore the aim of this study is to investigate the influence of each input and output item on the relative efficiency using Data Envelopment ...

Comprehensive High School , Vocational High School

The comprehensive high school is one of the tremendous reforms in the post-secondary education of our country to withstand the shift of times. The Ministry of Education adopted the suggestions from the seventh meeting of National Education and started to work intensively on the experimental curriculum of the comprehensive high school in 1996. Therefore, take National Lungtan vocational senior high school as an example to explore this kind of transformation of the formal education system. The aim...

PURPA , Process Approach , model , EPA , System , Problem solving Approach , power station , deregulation , HRM , Public Utility , QF , IPP

Power business is a somewhat special business¡CIt has no stocks.Because of this, power business is classified into inherent monopoly business for a very long time before.Nowadays, most governments of developed countries changed their point of view; they modified the relevant law and began to allow more than two power companies to run on the same power supply area since few years ago. Taiwan s government is affected by this thinking and doing in 1990 and adopted it later since 1994. Firs...

incentive , employee stock option , employee stock bonus

AbstractEmployee Stock Bonus (ESB) is a unique bonus model to link employee salary package with company performance under the current regulation in Taiwan. Comparing with Employee Stock Option (ESOP) in USA, ESB is different in accounting process, company¡¦s actual cost and the model of employee gain in spite of the principle of linking employee salary package to corporate performance is the same. Moreover, the incentive effectiveness and the impact on shareholders¡&am...

Venture Capital , Investment Decision-Making

A Study of Venture Capitals¡¦ Investment Decision-Making and Performance in Taiwan:A Case of C Venture CapitalAbstractInfo-tech industry plays an important role in Taiwan¡¦s economic development, and for the last eighteen years a huge amount of capital invested in domestic high-tech industry by Taiwan¡¦s venture capitalists has been spurring capital formation of its high-tech industry. Moreover, the investment by venture capitals in earlier t...

Organizational/Brand Identity , Organizational/Brand Identifications

Most researches done in recent time on the topics of Branding and Organization focus on investigating Brand Identification and Organization Identification, with lesser work done on the relationship between Brand Identity, Organizational Identity and employee efficiency. While Organization Identity has been a widely studied and recognized topic in the west for the past 20 years, it remains an alien name to researcher on organizational behaviors and practitioners in Taiwan¡]®}&am...

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electrolytic ionized water , electrofiltration , electrodialysis , chemical mechanical polishing

In this work, membrane set(s) had been incorporated into different crossflow electrofiltration (CEF) /electrodialysis (ED) treatment modules for treating various CMP wastewaters and simultaneously generating two streams of electrolytic ionized water (EIW). In general, CMP wastewaters have high alkalinity, turbidity, total solids content and silica content. In this investigation, CMP wastewaters were obtained from two wafer fabs in Taiwan and characterized by various standard methods. Then they w...

hospial-acquired infection , pulsed-field gel electrophoresis , Staphylococcus aureus , MRSA , community-acquired infection

Staphylococcus aureus is one of the most important pathogens both in community- or hospital-acquired infections. The first part of this study analyzed the similarity of molecular types of S. aureus isolates cultured from nares and blood in patients with S. aureus bacteremia (SAB) by pulse-fielded gel electrophoresis (PFGE) of digested chromosomal DNA by Sma I at Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital from August 1, 2000 through July 31, 2001. The results showed that the PFGE types of 78 (82.1%) pai...