Abstract Along with the continuous merging innovations and break-through technologies on the development of stem cell study, there are more researching resources in the global market which have been invested in the studies of stem cell, and consequently stem cell can be utilized in more and more different fields. A professional biotechnology research institution; Jain PharmaBiotech, predicts that the market scale of stem cell collection and storage worldwide will reach 100 million US dollar in year 2010. Since the concept of stem cell application was introduced into Taiwan, a trend on the storage, and research and development of stem cell from cord blood has progressively arisen. The market of stem cell application will become more popular and the whole industry will be more well developed, especially when Taiwan Department of Health will allow the transplant of stem cell of cord blood being categorized into the ordinary surgical treatment, surgeons will have more experience on stem cell transplant and more successful cases will be conducted in the near future. However, the quantity of stem cell in cord blood and the chance of self-utilization have been the concerns and been questioned by the public now and then. Therefore, Bionet Corp. has been promoting a ¡§Donatable Family Banking (DFB)¡¨ project from middle of year 2004 and trying to address the above concerns. DFB project is expected to deliver the outcomes in protecting the self usage right of self payment clients on the stem cell saving of cord blood, and increasing the value and opportunity on the utilization of stem cell at the same time. Moreover, DFB project shall also be able to combine the advantages of public donation and self-saving, in order to increase the utilization rate on stem cell of cord blood, simultaneously not to cause any big financial burdens from the huge storage expenses, and eventually to reach a win-win situation between donators and service providers. In order to further verify the feasibility and confirmation of this innovative DFB project, a Analytical Hierarchy Process will be applied through analyzing the perspectives of economy, technology and medical ethics. Key terms Stem Cell; Cord Blood, Donatable Family Banking, Analytical Hierarchy Process

The quantity of solid waste generated in Nigeria has increased at an alarming rate over the decades with lack of efficient and sustainable waste management in most cities of the country. This can be attributed to incessant increase in population, expansion of urban areas, industrialization and consumption rates. This study focuses on the ancient city of Ibadan and used Ibadan North Local Government as the case study. There are many environmental and sanitation problems in Ibadan due to improper waste management by the stakeholders involved. The result and analysis of the situation reveals that there are indications that most residents are ignorant of waste handling methods irrespective of their educational and economic status coupled with poor management of waste and lack of good environmental policy. The study analyzes options for adopting Integrated Solid Waste Management (ISWM) which comprises of waste hierarchy. Activities of Oyo State Solid Waste Management Authority (OSSWMA), Ibadan North Local Government (IBNLG) and Private Refuse Contractors (PRCs) in terms of technical know-how, financial capacity and waste equipment are not adequate to meet the tasks. In order to overcome these challenges, this research work discusses if and how Integrated Solid Waste Management can be implemented.

All life is organized hierarchically. Lower levels, such as cells and zooids, are nested within higher levels, such as multicellular organisms and colonial animals. The process by which a higher-level unit forms from the coalescence of lower-level units is known as “individuation”. Individuation is defined by the strength of functional interdependencies among constituent lower-level units. Interdependency results from division of labor, which is evidenced in colonial metazoans as zooid polymorphism. As lower-level units specialize for certain tasks, they become increasing dependant on the rest of the collective to perform other tasks. In this way, the evolution of division of labor drives the process of individuation. This study explores several ways in which polymorphism evolves in colonial marine invertebrates such as cnidarians, bryozoans, and urochordates. A previous study on the effect of environmental stability on polymorphism is revisted and reinterpreted. A method for quantifying colonial-level individuation by measuring the spatial arrangement of polymorphic zooids is proposed and demonstrated. Most significantly, a comparison across all colonial marine invertebrate taxa reveals that polymorphism only appears in those colonial taxa with moderately to strongly compartmentalized zooids. Weakly compartmentalized and fully compartmentalized taxa are universally monomorphic. This pattern is seen across all colonial marine invertebrate taxa and is interpreted as a “rule” governing the evolution of higher-level individuation in the major taxa of colonial marine invertebrates. The existence of one rule suggests that there may be others, including rules that transcend levels of biological hierarchy. The identification of such rules would strongly suggest that new levels in the hierarchy of life evolve by a universal pattern that is independent of the type of organism involved. / Dissertation

Specifying a prior distribution for the large number of parameters in the linear statistical model is a difficult step in the Bayesian approach to the design and analysis of experiments. Here we address this difficulty by proposing the use of functional priors and then by working out important details for three and higher level experiments. One of the challenges presented by higher level experiments is that a factor can be either qualitative or quantitative. We propose appropriate correlation functions and coding schemes so that the prior distribution is simple and the results easily interpretable. The prior incorporates well known experimental design principles such as effect hierarchy and effect heredity, which helps to automatically resolve the aliasing problems experienced in fractional designs. The second part of the thesis focuses on the analysis of optimization experiments. Not uncommon are designed experiments with their primary purpose being to determine optimal settings for all of the factors in some predetermined set. Here we distinguish between the two concepts of statistical significance and practical significance. We perform estimation via an empirical Bayes data analysis methodology that has been detailed in the recent literature. But then propose an alternative to the usual next step in determining optimal factor level settings. Instead of implementing variable or model selection techniques, we propose an objective function that assists in our goal of finding the ideal settings for all factors over which we experimented. The usefulness of the new approach is illustrated through the analysis of some real experiments as well as simulation.

Medical examination is the use of modern physical and chemical methods, laboratory technology, medical equipment for clinical diagnosis and treatment, provide a reference. In vitro diagnostic medical devices (IVD) known as the medical testing equipment in addition to early and accurate diagnosis, as well as effective monitoring of patient treatment. "Medical Technology" is a very professional industry knowledge and application of the medical laboratory is through the manufacturers to develop transferred to the medical practitioners, industrial and information technology improved rapidly in recent years, resulting in the medical inspection of product innovation; as knowledge economy era, the diversification of customer needs, business risk increases, more intense market competition, companies want to stand out in a competitive environment, it is necessary to construct their own core competence in order to create competitive advantage. Operators to think about how to find, identify the core competitiveness of the way, helping the enterprise training, consolidation, application and conversion of the core competitiveness in order to obtain sustainable competitive advantage. In this study, on the one hand through literature, to understand the definition of the core competence, type and resolution; the other hand, the AHP method, defined in accordance with the core competence of literature, characteristics, and characteristics of the industry of medical testing equipment industry made the questionnaire,expert questionnaire, and a successful visit to the case of high-end decision-making management of mid-level management and senior grassroots cadres of 20 experts, to discuss the company's core competence of medical testing equipment. According to the results: the core competence of the medical testing equipment industry in order (1) after-sales service, (2) professional and executive power, (3) high-end quality of decision making, (4) Product Marketing, (5) Management capabilities, (6) network capacity, (7) human Resource Management, (8) product competence, (9) organizational culture, (10) logistics Management, (11) Brand / goodwill (12) market coverage.

ABSTRACT In recent years, the iPhone and iPad enter to the market; lead the rapid growth of the touch panel. Taiwan is the largest 3C products OEM base in the world. Therefore, many foundries have invested in the production technology and process development of touch panel, but there are too many competitiors so that the average price will be dropped in the future and the profit willdecline too. Hence, the touch panel foundries should try to face the problems of increase yields, reduce costs and robust profits. In this study, the author selected the ¡§Taiwan Touch Panel Industry¡¨ as the research object. Then, collect, collate, generalization and analysis the literature of¡§Key Successful Factors¡¨, combined with interviews of experts and AHP (Analytical Hierarchy Process) questionnaire. The AHP questionnaire is designed by selection of assessment criteria, and filled by the manufactures. According to the summarization of AHP method to make a comparative and sort weights. And base on the results to give the conclusuins and recommendations. The study proposes five dimensions and 28 key success factors and future development trends. The author finds that the importantance of each aspect as fllows: the production capacity (38.9%), innovation capability (22.2%), financial planning ability (16.4%), marketing planning capacity (11.9%), human resource management (10.6%). By analysis results, the study gives the recommendations as below: 1. The cost and experience is the motive of technology innovation and development of touch panel industry. 2. Equally emphasize of materials and technology development trends.

Abstract Due to the development and proliferation of information and communication technologies, people¡¦s daily lives are indispensably relied on these tools. Based on concepts of safety, energy conservation, convenience, and comfort, intelligent buildings¡¦ designs have gradually become the main stream of the present and future architectures. Taiwan introduced the idea of the intelligent building since 1989. With the push of the automatic idea of the building, the security and surveillance systems integrators had become the new popular industry and the competition of the industry is more and more fierce. Understanding the key successful factors objectively is important of making administrative decision to security and surveillance systems integrator managers. In view of this, this research adopts the expert focus group interview and analytic hierarchy process theory. The author interview 10 high-level experts of the security and surveillance systems integrators and 10 customer experts of intelligence building traders to develop a set of the key success factors appraisal procedure to the security and surveillance systems integrators for intelligent buildings. Based on enterprise factor, staffs factor, and products factor, the author calculate the ranks and weights of the criterion and sub-criterion of the key successful factors. This can offer the security and surveillance systems integrator managers for intelligent buildings to make administrative decision. The study chooses three companies as an example to do empirical study, and compares their advantage and performance of the key successful factors. The result of study finds as follows. In criterion, the most important is produce factor, the less is staffs factor, and the end is enterprise factor. In sub-criterion, the most important is staff's professional ability technology, the less are price, products diversification, and customize degree. In ranks and weights, the last are productions separately, organized scale, and popularity and impressions. The conclusion can offer the security and surveillance systems integrator managers for intelligent buildings to make administrative decision.

Biogeographic patterns across a landscape are developed by the interplay of environmental processes operating at different spatial and temporal scales. This research investigated dynamics of salt marsh vegetation on the Skallingen salt marsh in Denmark responding to environmental variations at large, medium, and fine scales along both spatial and temporal spectrums. At the broad scale, this research addressed the importance of wind-induced rise of the sea surface in such biogeographic changes. A new hypothetical chain was suggested: recent trends in the North Atlantic Oscillation index toward its positive phase have led to increased storminess and wind tides on the ocean surface, resulting in increased frequency, duration, and magnitude of submergence and, hence, waterlogging of marsh soils and plants, which has retarded ecological succession. At the mid-scale, spatial patterns of vegetation and environmental factors were examined across tidal creeks. Sites closer to tidal creeks, compared to marsh interiors, were characterized by the dominance of later-successional species, higher bulk density, and lower nutrient contents and electrical conductivity. This finding implies that locations near creeks have experienced a better drainage condition than the inner marshes, which eventually facilitated the establishment of later-successional plants that are intolerant to physical stress. At the micro-scale, this research examined how the extent and mode of facilitation and competition vary for different combinations of plant species along physical gradients. Both positive and negative relationships were spatially manifested to a greater degree on the low marsh than on the mid marsh. This insight extends our current knowledge of scale-dependent interactions beyond pioneer zones to higher zones. On the low marsh, different types of bivariate point pattern (i.e., clustered, random, and regular) were observed for different combinations of species even at similar spatial scales. This finding implies that it is difficult to generalize at which scales competition and facilitation occur. To conclude, this research stresses the need for a holistic approach in future investigations of salt marsh biogeography. For example, based on results of this current research, it would be meaningful to develop a comprehensive simulation model that incorporates salt marsh ecology, geomorphology, and hydrology observed across scales.

With the extension of the World Wide Web, more than 7 million new pages being exploited each day, the problem of information overload due to a large number of coping, spreading and sharing causes the decreasing information quantity, diverse format of information and low quality of information. More researchers research what methods including search and recommendation can help users gather the critical topics. Whatever methods use historical purchasing or browsing data to find the proper information usually, can not considering all attributes affecting decision results. Therefore, the research uses Analytic Hierarchy Process belonging Multiple Critical Decision Theory to develop recommendation system. Providing a single, easy understand model, using hierarchic structuring reflecting the nature tendency of the mind, considering all attributes affecting decision results, Analytic Hierarchy Process takes into consideration the relative priorities and select the best alternative. Furthermore, it can show the subjective consciousness of the user in a structure way and assist designer to determine a more rational and conformable judgment. Based on Analytic Hierarchy Process, the commerce recommendation system expects to help user to find more satisfactory merchandise. It is found that the recommendation system using Analytic Hierarchy Process finds the accurate products for user and gets the higher satisfaction. However, the operation satisfaction is not higher that rank-based but still in available and satisfaction scope.

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