Since the accelerating development of globalization and market opening, the competitive advantages in this economic environment are innovation, information and market access. Passive component industry usually takes price cost-down strategy to keep the advantage to adapt this formidable pressure from the vicious competition in the market, and the fastest way to implement this strategy is merger & acquisition, then a tendency is formed at this kind of economic situation. This paper focused on 2 M&A models which composed of 4 passive component companies, Yageo, Compostar, Walsin and Pan Overseas. It based on the model analysis for the related issues regarding the common stock exchange ratio in their M&A process. Our study and observation models adopted from the L-G model brought up from Kermit D. Larson and Nicholas J.Gonedes. Furthermore, we take systematic risk indicator(£]) to adjust the marginal condition derived from the highest and lowest exchange ratio of L-G model, then we analyzed by comparing with the actual ratio. With regards to the budget EPS, it was applied to estimate by the reduced form model from Terry A. Marsh and Robert C. Merton. Comparing the estimate result with the actual public M&A information, we found the more information we can use for regression estimation, the much precise estimate results will be. For example, it is close to the results by comparing to the reference estimate digits from Yageo & Walsin models. The decision of actual exchange ratio depends on the bilateral negotiation abilities, and we used L-G model to estimate the reasonable range of exchange ratio. Because of many factors which can not be quantified during the merger negotiation process, the importance of the exchange ratio estimate range from is paper is providing the bottom line for the negotiation, and these key information should be helpful for both parties during the M&A discussion. Recently, M&A process in passive component industry occur frequently, it was said that 2006 is the M&A year for this industry. I wish the empirical result in this paper can provide the reference indication to help the development of passive component industry in the future.

There are three purposes in this thesis. First of all, the thesis examines the market herding behavior of real estates in Taiwan. Second, if herding exists in the markets, what factors cause herding behavior? Finally, how does herding behavior affect market performance? The empirical results show there is no herding evidence in the real estates markets when market moves downward. There are different results between different real estates and periods when market moves upward. There is obvious herding behavior in the pre-sale houses in Taipei City. Herding behavior also exist lag phenomenon. During lag period, there is obvious herding behavior in the pre-sale houses in Taipei when market moves upward. There is weak herding behavior in the other real estates, including pre-sale houses of Taipei County, existing houses and land. We find that macro factors such as money supply, GDP growth rate, saving amount, incoming and micro factors such as market depth and market return in the last period will cause herding behavior. Finally, herding behavior, price volatility and transaction amount volatility have Granger causality. Herding behavior will makes price more efficient and increases transaction.

Based on her novel notions on the fundamental nature of creativity and the psychosocial need for an adequate assessment, Amabile (1983) proposes consensual assessment technique (CAT) to provide a "product-based" quantitative approach to evaluate creativity. The essence of CAT is that it delineates factors that influence and determine the "product" to be truly "creative", and emphasizes that a product or an observable reaction is the testimony of creativity. Amabile (1983) also implies creativity is not an individual phenomenon, but consists of three major components: task motivation, expertise and creativity skills. The purpose of this study is to examine the validity of Amabile's component model of creativity and to apply his model into the essay writings in primary school students, hence to test the attribution of CAT in providing a valid appraisal in creativity assessment. A "product-based" CAT was performed on 110 essays with 5 different topics written by 22 6th grade school students. A group of Chinese experts, made up of 3 children literature professors and 6 experienced primary school teachers, are in charge of evaluating all these essays. The evaluated results are used to determine if to determine if Amabile's model can be comparable to current psychosocial norms and if it can accurately delineates individual's creativity talent. According to our hypothetical working framework, the following results were expected; (1)motivation has a positive effect on creativity, (2)professional techniques have a positive effect on creativity (3)creative technique has a positive effect on creativity (4)the results of CAT showed a mutual consensus on defining creativity amongst the professional judges.

The research was focus on exploring the growth strategy of small and medium business in Taiwan. We are interested in finding the orbit and the logic of Taiwan¡¦ small and medium business, which are growing rapidly and becoming global business recently. However, how to explicit the competitive advantage of business growth is a complicated and tacit task. The methodology of the research applied the grounded theory to do the qualitative analysis. After sampling from Taiwan passive component industry base on the strategic group, we will proceed the in-depth interview with the top management team of the businesses. The first-hand data and information from interview will be analysis, comparative, and coding repeatedly and iteratively. Gradually, the category and abstract concept will be emergent from the outcome of coding. The theory will be constructed from the relation of the concepts until the saturation it reached. The research founded that to catch the "strategic timing fit" was the orbit and the logic of Taiwan¡¦ passive component industry. There were three timing in the rapidly changing and creative environment: a) timing of technological paradigm transition; b) timing of production transition; c) timing of entrance and existence of competitors. The leaders of the firms in the case showed that they built the strategic capabilities and resources within the organization to meet the "strategic timing fit", which was the key factor of rapid growth in the past decade.

As a large number of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and microsatellite markers are available, high resolution mapping employing multiple markers or multiple allele markers is an important step to identify quantitative trait locus (QTL) of complex human disease. For many complex diseases, quantitative phenotype values contain more information than dichotomous traits do. Much research has been done on conducting high resolution mapping using information of linkage and linkage disequilibrium. The most commonly employed approaches for mapping QTL are pedigree-based linkage analysis and population-based association analysis. As one of the methods dealing with multiple alleles markers, mixed models are developed to work out family-based association study with the information of transmitted allele and nontransmitted allele from one parent to offspring. For multiple markers, variance component models are proposed to perform association study and linkage analysis simultaneously. Linkage analysis provides suggestive linkage based on a broad chromosome region and is robust to population admixtures. One the other hand, allelic association due to linkage disequilibrium (LD) usually operates over very short genetic distance, but is affected by population stratification. Combining both approaches plays a synergistic role in overcoming their limitations and in increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of gene mapping.

<p>The Software Management Organizer (SMO) application is used by telecom operators for remote software and hardware handling of telecommunication equipment. The graphical user interface (GUI) provided by SMO is called SMO GUI and is costly to maintain, extend and test.The Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) provides a platform for building component based GUIs with rich functionality. This thesis is to evaluate how the Eclipse RCP can be used for building a new SMO GUI. The evaluation will be performed by building a prototype for a new SMO GUI based on the Eclipse RCP. The thesis shall investigate the difficultness of integrating the prototype in the existing SMO architecture and evaluate how problems that exist in the current SMO GUI can be solved by using the Eclipse RCP.It was possible to implement a prototype based on the Eclipse RCP that integrates with the existing SMO architecture. The Eclipse RCP provides good support for creating a flexible, extensible and testable application. The drawback of using the Eclipse RCP is the lack of support for detecting configuration errors and the lack of documentation of new features.The Eclipse Rich Client Platform can be used as a base for building a new SMO GUI. An Eclipse RCP application can be integrated in the existing SMO architecture. The Eclipse RCP provides support for creating an application without the architectural, extendable, testable and quality problems that exists in the current SMO GUI.</p>

Thesis (D. Ed.)--Ball State University, 2009. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Nov. 12, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 148-159).

Diss. (sammanfattning) Linköping : Linköpings universitet, 2008. / Härtill 5 uppsatser. Includes bibliographical references.

The condition monitoring of multi-component systems utilizes multiple sensors to capture the functional condition of the systems and allows the sensor information to be used to reason about the health information of the systems or components. Chapter 3 considers the situation when sensor signals capture unknown mixtures of component signals and proposes a two-stage vibration-based methodology to identify component degradation signals from mixed sensor signals in order to predict component-level residual lives. Specifically, we are interested in modeling the degradation of systems that consist of two or more identical components operating under similar conditions. Chapter 4 focuses on the interactive relationship between tool wear (component degradation) and product quality degradation (sensor information) that widely exists in multistage manufacturing processes and proposes a high-dimensional stochastic differential equation model to capture the interaction relationship. Then, real-time quality measurements are incorporated to online predict the residual life of the system. Chapter 5 develops a strategy of dynamic workload adjustment for parallel multi-component systems in order to control the degradation processes and failure times of individual components, for the purpose of preventing the overlap of component failures. This chapter opens a new research direction that focuses on the active control of degradation rather than only the modeling part.

In recent years, a central focus of the field of early intervention/early childhood special education has been to investigate ways to effectively support young children with challenging behavior and their families (Center for Evidence-Based Practice: Young Children with Challenging Behavior, 2003; DEC, 1999). Positive behavior support (PBS) is one of the most promising evidence-based practices for young children with challenging behavior and their families. The central purposes of PBS are to both help people develop and engage in socially desirable behaviors and to help minimize patterns of socially stigmatizing responding (Koegel, Koegel, and Dunlap, 1996). Research documenting the utility and applicability of PBS with preschool-aged populations remain scarce, particularly within natural environments (e.g., Blair, Umbreit, and Eck, 2000; Duda, Dunlap, Fox, Clarke, and Lentini, 2004; Moes and Frea, 2000). Several gaps in the research remain, including studies incorporating natural intervention agents, natural settings, and studies measuring technical aspects of behavior change (e.g., maintenance). Though studies of maintenance may be difficult to execute, they may provide researchers with a greater understanding of which factors in the change process are most critical to successful implementation, as well as to enhance the goodness of fit between specific plan components and the ecology in which implementation occurs (Albin, Lucyshyn, Horner, and Flannery, 1996). The purpose of this research study was to first assess the relationship of support plan components to behavior change, and then systematically fade the functional components, reducing the plan to naturalistic strategies that may be easy for the family to use over time. Results indicated each of the three child participants consistently maintained low levels of challenging behavior and high levels of engagement within each routine, despite the fact that clear functional relationships among individual intervention components were not attained. Procedural fidelity data indicated that intervention components were both implemented by the mother on a consistent basis and were easily adapted into natural family routines over time.