Liu, Chih-Sheng

The study is based upon the Vertical Line Array (VLA) of the Asian Seas International Acoustic Experiment (ASIAEX), dated from May 3, 2001 to May 16, 2001, in which the ambient noise was measured and the six frequencies (including 50, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1,200 Hz) were analyzed. The depth dependence of ambient noise levels in shallow water is not significant, and the fluctuations of ambient noise levels can be measured by Fourier analysis. With the similar analysis on static water pressure and t...

Sheue, Chiuo-Rong

Mangroves are a group of the intertidal plants with unrelated phylogenetic affinity distributed in regions of estuaries, riverbanks or along the coastlines of tropical and subtropical areas. The four genera of tribe Rhizophoreae of Rhizophoraceae are important members of mangroves, namely Bruguiera, Ceriops, Kandelia and Rhizophora and also known as mangrove Rhizophoraceae, with a wide distribution range. Fourteen of 17 species of mangrove Rhizophoraceae distributed in the areas between the East...

Chiang, Ching-Ying

Organisms of Formosan soft coral Xenia sp. (GN51) (collected at green island off Taiwan) were freeze-dried to give 600 g of a solid, which was extracted with CH2Cl2 and CH2Cl2/MeOH (1:1). After removal of solvent in vacuo, the residue was chromatographed over Sical gel 60 separation resulated in the isolation of two new diterpenes, GN51-118 (5) (new carbon skeleton) and GN51-119 (6), five known diterpenes isoxeniolide-A (1), xeniolide-B (2), floride A (7), xenione (8), 13-epi-9-desacetyl-xenicin...

Chang, Mei-Yu

The purpose of this study is to investigate the wintertime distribution of the fish eggs along the coast of southwestern Taiwan, and to elucidate the fish spawning ground in this area. Moreover, the distribution of striped mullet eggs was also investigated.Two kinds of sampling methods were used in this study, including the surface and vertical trawling. The former applied vertical and oblique towing along the coastline. One sampling was proceeded in November, December 2000, and January 2002 by ...

Kung, Tien-Fa

In Taiwan, residential businesses is one of the most important supports for the city economy, and that¡¦s why it has gained the reputation of the leader of the industry. Its rises and falls will influence the living quality of the people as well as the general economy of the city. Hence, residential businesses is the key factor for economic rebuilding.The government has adopted various measures to promote ¡��City Vitalization¡¨. However, these policie...

Chung, Wen-Sung

Cephalopods become one of the most important commercial marine resources worldwide. The knowledge of the basic biology and population dynamics of these resources is the way to ensure the resource to be utilized properly. In Taiwan, cephalopods are traditionally used and prized as foods with high market price. Sepioteuthis lessoniana is an important fishery species. Its distribution is concentrated around the northeastern and the southern coasts of Taiwan, and the Peng-Hu Island. Although there a...

Chen, Yi-Tsung

The thesis uses the case study of software industry development to investigate the role of the state, relationship with the private sectors, and its transformation. Besides, This paper adopts Peter Evans¡¦ ¡��embedded autonomy¡¨ and Linda Weiss¡¦s ¡��governed interdependence theory¡¨ to explain these situations. As far as Taiwan, the state helped develop software industry after 1980s. At that time, there wa...

Lin, Jia-yin

The research is to study how the difference of economic development between cities is from by observing the change in investment. The different main bodies of investment will make different investment decisions in different stage of life cycle of urban industries. The state-owned units are policy tools, and will invest in urban infrastructure, which is not for profit. In contrast, the only goal of non-state owned enterprises is to maximize the profit, but evade the risk, so they will invest in a...

Pan, Tai-An

The sharpnose pufferfish Canthigaster valentini is widespread over the Indo-Pacific tropical coral-reef region. The social system contains territorial male, non-territorial male, and territorial female. Territorial male always occupy a fixed territory and own several territorial females forming a harem in its territory. Previous researches were concerned about field observations or laboratory tests for agonistic respondences towards self-mirror stimuli. Research on dyad interaction is rarely see...

Chuang, Shih-Fung

The genus Petrolisthes is the largest, the most widely distributed genus in the family Porcellanidae. It contains over 100 species distributed around the world , including over 16 species commonly found near the shore of Taiwan . We discuss the diversity and phylogeny of them, and the similarities and dissimilarites of between the molecular biology and traditional morphology.We got 15 pocerlain crabs specimen and almost 900bp and 800bp of them in the 16S rRNA and 12SrRNA of MtDNA respectively. T...

Chang, Fang-chia

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Lai, Kuo-Shun

Dolby AC-3, the audio signal compression standard adopted by the United States Advanced Television System Committee (ATSC), and wildly used in other applications DVD and digital TV. In order to improve the compression quality, the AC-3 defines two block lengths for IMDCT, one 512-pt.(long block) and the other 256-pt.(short block,).In the thesis, we realize the AC-3 audio decoder on the ARM-based platform. Our simulation results show that the IMDCT takes about 66% computation time of all decode p...

CHI, HO-MING

During the past planned economy in China, the local government established too many and too small-scale state-owned enterprises, and disregarded market faculty in order to be self-sufficiency. After carried out the market economy in China, those medium, small-scale state-owned enterprises would have faced harsh competition and test, and the scale economy in the market would be leading the industrial structure transforming of China in the future. The main purpose of this research is probing into ...

Wong, Annie

Past discussions about paradigm shift mostly put emphasis on evolution, exploiting paradigm shift or not and exist or not. Existence or not problem basically fall into block logic and expire the possibility of recombination. The dissertation explore the happening of paradigm shift according to the loading on China shipping forwarder market from 1987-2001 for Taiwan shipping forwarders, focus on exploring happening than evolution.In the second chapter about literature reviews, the dissertation ex...

Tsung, Shao-Cheng

Asian dust storms invaded Taiwan in springtime. During the Asian dust-storm periods, the dust particles suspended in the atmosphere could not only deteriorate the ambient air quality, mainly high particulate matter concentration and low visibility, but also cause severely adverse effects on human health. In this study, Asian dusts were sampled at Pencadores Islands and characterized the physical and chemical characteristics to investigate the influence of Asian dust storms. Due to its clean atmo...

Yu, Feng-Chao

ABSTRACTThis thesis was to develop a simplified technique for the analysis of 210Pb in sediment samples with gamma spectrometry. Compared with the results of the conventional beta method, we found that the gamma method yields values that are 1.5 times higher. This discrepancy awaits further investigation. However, the results determined on two sediment-trap samples and a 210Pb source by the gamma technique agree within 10 % to those determined by the same method at the Institute of Earth Science...

Lin, Kuo-Wei

Two experiments were conducted to study the effects of dietary protein quality on the growth of juvenile cobia Rachycentron canadum. Experiment I was to find out the maximum level of steam dried blood meal and spray dried blood meal can be used in the diet for juvenile cobia. Experiment II examined how juvenile cobia utilizes supplemental amino acids. In Experiment I, 9 test diets were evaluated. In the first group, steam dried blood meal was used to partially replace fish meal. The replacement ...

Wang, Hsiao-ting

In recent years, the skin and muscle hemorrhagic ulcer occurred in grouper hatchery, suggesting that the bacteria extracellular protease was involved. In this study I surveyed the extracellular protease activity of marine bacteria and investigated the characteristics of the pathogen isolated from diseased grouper. The sampling sites of background survey were located along the coast of Taitung. The cultured media were MB2216 and PPESII. The extracellular protease activity was measured using milk ...

Chang, Ling-famg

Since Taiwan joined the WTO (World Trade Organization), Taiwan¡¦s agriculture confronted with great challenges. Taiwan government plans for the fishery into three expanded directions. Those are traditional fishery, breed fishery, and recreation fishery. Recreational fishery offers a wide range of recreations, including pond angling, touring of the sea bottom, and various types of sport fishing such as trolling and angling. The ¡�DBlue High Way¡¦ is a ...

Liu, Le-lea

Electroplating industry is one important industries in Taiwan. Its wastewater has lead to pollution of the river, ocean, and underground water. Thus, the reduction of the concentration of heavy metals such as Cu, Zn, Ni, Cr, Pb etc. from wastewater is critical. Conventional strategies to remove the heavy metals involve adding abundant chemical agents which results in largy quantity of heavy metal sludge. Secondary pollution might occur as due to the heavy metal sludge contacted with acid.Aquatic...

Huang, Hui-chu

BACKGROUNDBecause the medical envirement continously progresses, all the people working in hospital or health department are concerned in the health issues. Although the Intergration Delivery System was used for management of respiratory care, but the medical quality still was suspected. Therefore, this study discusses what are the significantly related factors of plan or unplan extubation to elevate the quality of respiratory care.PURPOSEThe purposes of this study are described bellow¡...

Prince, Robert T.

Thesis (M.S.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1998. | Title from electronic submission form. Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references.

Kalo, Altin A.

Thesis (M.S.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1998. | Title from electronic submission form. Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references.

Walters, JoAnn E.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1997. | Title from electronic submission form. Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references.

Klawiter, Kathryn Alyce.

Thesis (M.S.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1998. | Title from electronic submission form. Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references.

Ali, Dina Fathi.

Thesis (M.U.R.P.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1998. | Title from electronic submission form. Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references.

Phillips, Jennifer Brooke.

Thesis (M.S.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1997. | Title from electronic submission form. Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references.

Bandara, Aloka B. P. A.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1997. | Title from electronic submission form. Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references.

Toporkov, Jakov V.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1998. | Title from electronic submission form. Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references.

(Christopher Bryn) Davidson, Christopher B.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1997. | Title from electronic submission form. Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references.

Sauter, Hermann.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität des Saarlandes, 1997. | Title from title screen (viewed June 5, 2001). Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Bukvic, Ivica.

Thesis (Master of Music)--University of Cincinnati, 2000. | Title from title screen. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.

Holzer, Jenny Rebecca.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Cincinnati, 2000. | Title from title screen. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.

Graves, Arthur S.

Thesis (M.S.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2001. | Title from electronic submission form. Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references.

1974- Xia, Jianjun,

Thesis (M.S.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2001. | Title from electronic submission form. Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references.

Piñero, Juan C.

Thesis (M.S.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2001. | Title from electronic submission form. Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references.

Temeles, Anthony B.

Thesis (M.S.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2001. | Title from electronic submission form. Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references.

Chan, Matthew D.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2001. | Title from electronic submission form. Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references.

Whitfield, Cindy Carol.

Thesis (M.S.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1999. | Title from electronic submission form. Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references.

1966- Netto, Theodoro Antoun,

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1998. | Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 169-172). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

1970- Etcheverry, Leandro,

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1998. | Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 210-215). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

1975- Snyder, Jeffrey D.,

Thesis (M.S.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1999. | Title from electronic submission form. Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references.

Waltz, Christopher S.

Thesis (M. Arch.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2000. | Title from electronic submission form. Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references.

1963- Chen, Jianli,

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1998. | Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 138-144). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

1958- Becerril Bárcenas, Ricardo,

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1998. | Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 96-101). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

Roach, John Paul.

Thesis (M.S.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2000. | Title from electronic submission form. Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references.

Adcock, Ambre Michelle.

Thesis (M.S.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1999. | Title from electronic submission form. Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references.

Mattern, Jeanne Marie

This study hypothesizes that the majority of the casesin this sample will remain unchanged with regard to lifesatisfaction after retirement; that retirement will notnegatively impact life satisfaction. This conjecture is supportedby previous literature. A close look is given to predictors ofcontinuity of life satisfaction as well as predictors of change.Even though the majority of cases is hypothesized to remainunchanged, special interest exists in discovering someinformation about why change in...

Chang, Kieyoung

Conversion of{dollar}{bsol}eta{bsol}sp4{dollar}-cycloheptatriene-Fe(CO){dollar}{bsol}sb2{dollar}P(OPh){dollar}{bsol}sb3{dollar}(2.23) tocycloheptadienone-Fe(CO){dollar}{bsol}sb2{dollar}P(Ph){dollar}{bsol}sb3{dollar}(2.25) was accomplished by hydroboration/oxidation followed bySwern oxidation. Methylation and hydroxylation of the enolatefrom 2.25 proceeds with complete stereoselectivity, anti to themetal moiety, and introduction of two methyl or hydroxyl groupsat the {dollar}{bsol}alpha{dollar} a...

Pearce-Novatney, June Elizabeth

This study examines the older stepparent-adultstepchild relationship. After adulthood, children are involvedwith careers and nuclear family obligations. Support for olderparents may be difficult to provide. Research conducted withstepfamilies with minor stepchildren have focused on thedifficult and ambiguous nature of step relationships and have notconsidered step relationships as a potential source of support.In this research, three concepts similar to those reported instudies conducted with bi...