碩士 / 義守大學 / 應用英語學系 / 104 / English proficiency is required in all professional areas but it becomes essential in the tourist industry because of its specific characteristics. Needs analysis plays a vital role in developing English for specific purposes curriculum. This study aims to examine needs and problems of English language use of tourism employees at international travel companies in Hue, Vietnam. Quantitative approach was used in this study which included the survey research to collect and analysis data. The findings showed that speaking is most important need among English language skills of tourism employees at their workplaces, and then followed by listening, writing and reading, respectively. In contrary, reading is most faced problem of English language at employees’ routine jobs out of writing, listening and speaking, respectively.

碩士 / 國立政治大學 / 英語教學碩士在職專班 / 104 / This study aims to examine how the teacher and students respond to cultivating critical thinking skills through picture books and to the six strategies suggested by Law (2012). Besides, it also explores what problems occur in the teaching/learning process and how to adjust the lessons to solve the problems. This study adopted a qualitative case study design. The participants were forty-four eleventh graders in one class taught by the teacher researcher. They learned critical thinking through two picture books in an eight-week study. The foci of the teaching were the four critical thinking skills, namely, (1) being able to compare, classify and sequence various information, (2) being able to identify the causal relationship between information based on the context, (3) being able to distinguish facts from opinions and then one advanced ability, and (4) being able to assess different pieces of information and propose reasonable judgments or suggestions. The students’ and the teacher researcher’s responses were collected from video-taped classroom observations, worksheets, learning/teaching logs, and focus group interviews. The important findings are listed as follows. First, picture books were helpful in the enhancement of critical thinking skills, the improvement of English skills and a high level of learning motivation. Second, the nature of illustrations in picture books resulted in some comprehension problems, which could be solved through a multi-sensory approach and teachers’ purposeful guidance. Third, the six strategies recommended by Law (2012) assisted the students a lot in promoting critical thinking skills. It is noted that when implementing these six strategies, the teacher were advised to give sufficient wait time for students, join students’ discussion, and select picture books with real-life themes and suitable difficulty levels. Fourth, interactive read-alouds and questioning the author were also proved to be useful strategies for high school students to develop their critical thinking through picture books. This study suggests that following the 2010 New Guidelines of English Curriculum in Taiwan, teachers can integrate critical thinking skills into picture book reading and create a good learning environment for students to become productive citizens. Pedagogical implications and suggestions for future studies were presented as well.

碩士 / 國立高雄第一科技大學 / 國際管理碩士學位學程 / 104 / Since the development of Internet and logistics, many things in the world become easy to achieve without borders and time limitation. Online shopping is a very obvious example; it gradually turns to a habit for modern people. Therefore, online shopping websites are booming and springing up in various countries, the competition is also fierce. However, although Internet makes our lives convenient, customers can''t actually see and touch items in front of the computer screen while browsing the online shopping website. Having no confidence to buy what they want online and concerning the risk of fraud or other factors are the major problems faced by those online shopping websites. Nowadays, numerous shopping sites show up, how to get consumers choose one in a million and become loyal customers is an important issue for all of them. To raise the purchase intention, the first step is to eliminate the presence of information asymmetry between buyers and sellers, perceived risk and providing customers with adequate information and sufficient trust. Different from previous researches, this study focus on information quality of the website, which content, feedback mechanism and online customer service of Taobao as variables to trust. Exploring whether those variables impact on consumer’s online shopping intention and analyzing the data with Smart PLS. The results of this study indicated that website information quality of TaoBao online marketplace have significant influence on consumers’ trust. The result also shows that feedback mechanism of TaoBao online marketplace has positive impact on trust. Nevertheless, there is non-significant impact on online customer service.

碩士 / 國立高雄第一科技大學 / 國際管理碩士學位學程 / 104 / Integrating the technology acceptance model and the theory of behavior planned, this study presents a theoretical model for understanding loyalty intention of use Starbucks mobile payment app. An empirical study was conducted to examine the model. The results indicate that user''s perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, perceived playfulness, and perceived risk will be affect use attitude. The more positive a user’s attitude is, the higher his or her loyalty intention to use of Starbucks mobile payment app will be. In addition, perceived behavioral control will affect the user to use the Starbucks payment app loyalty intention. According to the results of empirical study, implications and suggestion for future research are discussed.

碩士 / 國立高雄第一科技大學 / 國際管理碩士學位學程 / 104 / Looking for boycott events in past years, it can be found that individual consumers initiated or called several boycott actions in Taiwan. They intend to influence firm through consumer groups’ power of boycott. And there is a boycott action gaining great response from public. October 2014, groups of Taiwanese consumers boycott on all products and services provided by T Company, which had named in all major toxic food scandals that revealed in Taiwan. Taiwanese consumers attempt to get further negotiations with firm. Taiwanese consumers’ motivations and attitude toward participation in boycott are worth following issue. The study analyzes actual event with six moderators to investigate what factors motivates consumers’ boycott decision. The purpose of this thesis is to examine: 1. whether consumer perceived egregiousness have effects on consumers’ attitude toward boycott? 2. the factors influenced Taiwanese consumers to participate in boycott. 3. whether considerations for consumers boycott moderate relationship between egregiousness and boycott decision? 4. whether Internet empowered consumers can possibly boycott? the study developed a framework and hypotheses to test. And The study empirically tested hypotheses in an actual and ongoing boycott event. After a quantitative survey was conducted, the study gathers survey data and performs regression analysis. The results of research are as the follows: 1. The Motivation Perceived Egregiousness, Make a difference, Self-enhancement, Counterarguments, Constrained Consumption, Customer Empowerment, Hostility are significant for consumer participation in boycott. 2. The Motivation Make a difference and Self-enhancement enhance the relationship between egregiousness and the boycott decision. 3. The Motivation Constrained Consumption weakens the relationship between egregiousness and the boycott decision. 4. The Motivation Counterarguments, Customer Empowerment and Hostility do not moderate relationship between egregiousness and boycott decision. 5. The greater the motivation Perceived Egregiousness, the more negative is the brand image; it is a negative relationship between boycott and brand image.

碩士 / 國立高雄第一科技大學 / 應用英語系口筆譯碩士班 / 104 / China is the most populous country and the second largest economy. Publications on China’s urbanization as a subject have become voluminous. If readers in Taiwan or China would like to obtain a dose of knowledge regarding China’s urbanization, reading through translations can be one of the workable and viable approaches to it. The permission of translation granted by Dr. Xue-fei Ren, the author of Urban China, makes this project possible. This technical report consists of Chinese translations of the three chapters selected from Urban China, and the applications of functional theories in Translation Studies to the processes of translating such issues as terminology, glossary of modern Chinese urbanization, idiomatic expression, word choice, and long sentence. Examples related to the aforesaid translating issues are chosen for discussion and analysis, which can also be used as references for applications of functional theories in Translation Studies. In addition, a glossary of Chinese urbanization is provided as seen in Appendix II to facilitate future translations of the books on recent Chinese urbanization.

碩士 / 國立高雄第一科技大學 / 應用英語系口筆譯碩士班 / 104 / English business contracts are important tools in business transactions across borders or between the companies in different countries. However, they are also highly specialized genre that has an unique writing style and uses expression derived from the fields of law and others. From my working experience as an editor in a translation company, I notice that the special characteristics of English business contracts cause obstacles to the translators. Thus, to reduce the challenge of business contract translation, this study aims at providing a simple but comprehensive translation approach that the translators may follow when they translate business contracts from English to Chinese. First, four English business contracts with the topics that are most commonly seen in the real market are selected and translated by me. Second, based on the text typology theories proposed by Bühler and Newmark, contracts are defined as the text type with the primary vocative function and the secondary informative function, and therefore Newmark’s communicative translation approach is applied to complete my translation. Third, the translations of four selected contracts are analyzed to identify some principles and strategies for translating contracts at the lexical and syntactic levels. The strategies are often closely related to the specific features of English business contracts. The results of the study show that the four principles at the lexical level include the use of fixed translation for legal and industry terms, explication of defined terms, reduction of the wordy segments and change of the word class of some words. The other four principles include change of passive voice, conversion of negative into/from affirmative expression, shift of post-noun modifiers to pre-noun modifiers, and rearrangement of the original word sequence at the syntactic level. Additionally, the translation strategies of literal translation, recognized translation, explication, reduction, transposition, modulation and shift are applied to make the translations comply with the conventional verbal presentation of the target language. By analyzing the translation strategies from the perspective of Newmark’s communicative translation, this thesis proposes a holistic approach to business contract translation based on the eight principles and some strategies I have identified from my own translations of four business contracts. Overall, this thesis has taken on some practical significance that future legal translation can use my recommended holistic approach to make the translation meet the expectation of the target audience. Additionally, this approach can be applied to the translation of other types of legal documents with the same function of effective communication.

碩士 / 國立中正大學 / 資訊工程研究所 / 104 / We know many of the multi-unit auctions theses are discussions about how many items auctioneers are selling to bidders. In this thesis, we are reversing the facade into how many items are going to be bought from different sellers, each seller has a private value for each units minimum price and a unit limit on sale in the auction. We propose a mechanism for buying all the units and it is two rules are applied, they are decision rule is based on sellers' unit and value to decide whether a seller will be assigned any units and pricing rule is based on sellers' unit to decide the price for buying from each participants unit which they sale. In our designed mechanism, two properties of fairness, Truthfulness and Near Pareto optimality are satisfied. And our algorithm is compared with Greedy algorithm. In our experimental evaluations, our algorithm can prevent seller from lying his value and units for making profit. Keywords: Multi-Unit Auctions, Truthfulness, Near Pareto Optimality

碩士 / 中央警察大學 / 外事警察研究所 / 103 / In this globalization era where the involvement of information, technology and transportation more increasing make the boundaries between country easily to access, it causes the movement people from one country to another country become very fast. The location of Indonesia on free trade lines allows many people to enter the territory of Indonesia and it used by some people who are not responsible for committing crimes, one of them is drug trafficking. This research tries to describes about Indonesia effort to tackle drug trafficking enter the Indonesia territory through Soekarno Hatta international airport. Based on some of drug trafficking cases that occurred in Soekarno Hatta international airport make Indonesia established an agency called National Narcotics Agency. National Narcotics Agency as a focal point in the field of preventing, eradication, abuse of drugs and illicit drug trafficking in Indonesia has a duty to carry out surveillance and reconnaissance against international drug syndicates. In tackling drug trafficking enter the Indonesia territory through Soekarno Hatta international airport National Narcotic Agency does not work individually but by the cooperation with Indonesian immigration and Indonesian customs. This research also analyses how the form of cooperation of National Narcotics Agency with Indonesian Immigration and Indonesian Custom and what kind of modus operandi used by the syndicate in do their action smuggled drug enter Indonesia territory. This research will be conducted at Soekarno Hatta internasional airport using a qualitative descriptive approach where this research describe the actual situation facts and outlining the facts that exist in the field accordance with the reality.

碩士 / 嘉南藥理大學 / 環境工程與科學系 / 104 / Surfactant enhanced soil washing remediation, was a process that combines the use of specialized surfactant formulations with physical washing of contaminated soil. The aim of this study was to investigate the potential utility of the washing process of diesel and toluene contaminated soil with Ethylene Glycol mono-Butyl Ether as surfactant. The three type of soil sample were taken from south of Taiwan. The soil samples were contaminated with diesel and toluene amount to achieve the concentration of 0.1 g diesel/ g soil and 0.1 g toluene/ g soil, respectively. The contaminated soil were investigated under varying concentration of surfactants, surfactant volume, mixing time and reused 0.1 %surfactant. The process began with mixed surfactant with soil by magnetic stirrer machine after that took slurry to centrifuge 30 min, 4000 rpm, removed supernatant and dried 5 h. The performance in this study were analyzed soil organic carbon measure. The optimum removal efficiency was obtained as for diesel and toluene contaminated soil 30 mL of 0.1 %surfactant, mixing time was 40 min, and 50 mL 0f 0.1 %surfactant, mixing time was 40 min, respectively. The best round for reused surfactant was the fourth and third for CF and CC, respectively. These results were of practical interested in developing effective surfactant remediation technology of diesel and toluene contaminated soil.