Abstract Banking industry which contributes significant annual economic growth rate is one of the most important industries in Taiwan. Since the trend that many countries give up the cash-based monetary system, the financial environment grows toward liberalization and globalization. Banking industry has shown more and more influence on the stability of economy. The financial Commissioner of MOU which signed on November 16, 2009 and effected on January 16, 2010 has taken the financial cooperation between Taiwan and China to a new stage. Under the framework of the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA), Mainland China will become an important part of Taiwan banking industry¡¦s future global distribution. With the impact of global financial tsunami and European sovereign debt crisis, the overall economic environment of Taiwan banking industry has been more difficult. On the other side, the number of competitor of the same nature increases since 16 new banks are approved to be set up from 1991 to 1992. According to the statistic of Financial Supervisory Commission, Executive Yuan, there is a total of 38 domestic banks with 3,398 branches and a total of 28 foreign banks with 53 branches over Taiwan. The business volume and profitability of traditional banks has been reduced, and wallet share ratio has been declined too. Thus, it is a must that bank adjust their traditional role from borrowing funds to a assist of asset management as quickly as possible to support customers a omni-bearing service provider. After the implement of Financial Holding Company Act in July 2001, the financial legislation has been lifted. It allow not only the establishment of financial holding companies but also the cross-industry operation of banking, insurance, securities, venture capital, investment trust business that providing customers on stop shopping service. Moreover, based on the principle of equity, the financial authority allow non-financial holding companies including banking, insurance, securities could development cross-industry service. Thus, non-financial holding companies should review their future development strategies and opportunities. The study is based on the simplified financial and insurance market structure which includes a bank and three insurance companies. When a individual bank cooperates with certain insurance company, there are two cooperation models¡Xthe establishment of financial holding company and cross-industry strategic alliance. The establishment of financial holding company adopts ¡§joint marketing¡¨ mode which vertical and horizontal integrates the flow of business, cash, logistic, information and talent to create a synergy of business profit. However, if there are differences of business culture and philosophy, the benefit may not be shown and may even adversely affect the alliance. The strength of ¡§strategic alliance¡¨ lies in the flexibility of operation of business and organization. With the cross-industry operation mode, managers could develop business strategy according to the difference structure and property thus not only retains original business idea and thinking but also capture unique niche of cross-industry then achieve the goal progressively. Through literature review and analysis of banking and insurance strategies, the study develops the research framework, questionnaire and dimensions in the background and motivation of cross-industry alliance, the condition and term of alliance partner selection strategy and interactive communication in the process of strategic alliance and cooperation to discuss the factors that influence the channel strategies of bank-insurance companies and the critical factors that make successful business expansion. The study hope to provide a reference for future development of bank ¡Vinsurance business to enhance the competitiveness of bank insurance industry in Taiwan.

In Taiwan, prior to the petroleum industry liberalization starting from 1990, the whole petroleum market was highly regulated and monopoly. Since 90s, the first private owned gas station was built in 1997; the Formosa Petrochemical Corporation went public in September, 2000; the Petroleum Administration Law was implemented on October 13th, 2001; and almost all famous international petroleum businesses had plans to establish branches in Taiwan. As the result, the monopoly market gradually became more and more competitive during that period. The China Petroleum Corporation, one of the state-owned enterprises, was the only price leader in the market, and currently still has absolute influence. This research, therefore, is focus on how CPC adjusting its business strategies and marketing management while facing the intensive competition in this liberalizing market. The main findings are as follows: 1. Since the Formosa Petrochemical Corporation and other international petroleum companies joined into this competitive market, CPC has actively adopted much adjustment. However, the company and all staffs must try harder if they plan to keep 70% market share. 2. For future competition, CPC has adopted not only some defensive tactics to keep the current market shares, but also many aggressive strategies so that the company can continuously penetrate, expand, and diversify the new market . Moreover, CPC has asked its staffs to provide their best service in order to secure the client base and to improve the competence. In fact, those good business strategies really helped CPC increase its total sales and profits; or keep its current market shares at least. However, CPC still need to deploy some other marketing approaches such as to keep its cost down, to better off its service, and to train qualified staffs, so that the company can advance its competitive preference and diversify its marketing strategies as well. Keywords: petroleum industry liberalization, the Petroleum Administration Law, business strategies, and market share

This research purpose is a theoretical foundation shared with social capital and knowledge share. How to utilize the social capital and knowledge share to leverage inside knowledge with the relation between the project teams to research IC design industry in Taiwan, apply it to new product development and technological uniqueness. This case will xplore how the social capitial, knowledge share and innovation performance of three research parameters interact among themselves. This research shows that three dimensions of social capital are in the different results of knowledge share, social capitial can produce the result of promoting with the innovation performance and knowledge share, also the social capital of the metaphor is that one kind regards other resources as long-term investment that invest the key element and can expect to produce the flow of benefit in the future just like other capital, is worth to pay attenation and reappraises the research in IC design industry. Based on the IC design industry and the project team as the research object, it is the parent to grind the 300 companies of ITIS institute on the Taiwan IC design industry, this research, in accordance with the classification of the products (logic design and memory design), in accordance with dividing one floor of random samplings, 18 logic design companies and 12 memory design companies, each one company grants 10 questionnaires, 30 companies grant 300 questionnaires altogether. The research examines for the executive of project team of IC design, adopt the network questionnaire to construct examining, 103 effective questionnaires are collected altogether, effective questionnaire is 34.3% of rate of recovery. The result of study of this research is as follows: 1. There are significantly positive correlations among social capital, knowledge share, and innovation performance. 2. Different control variables has partially significant positive effect on social capital, knowledge share, and innovation performance. 3. There are significantly positive effects among the structural dimension and cognitive dimension. 4. Each structural and congnitive dimensions has a significantly positive effect on relational dimension. 5. Each structural,relation, and congnitive dimensions has a significantly positive effect on knowledge share. 6. Knowledge share has a significantly positive effect on innovation performance. Key Words: project teams, social capital, knowledge share, innovation performance

Existing edge and core routers in DiffServ networks require an effective scheduling mechanism. In this thesis, we design and implement a DiffServ scheduler on Linux platform to provide QoS for different PHB requirements. We first modify the PDD model proposed by Dovrolis, and then develop two new scheduling algorithms. The first algorithm is referred to as Priority Queue with Quantum (PQWQ) and the second one is referred to as Average Delay Queue (ADQ). PQWQ can provide lower delay for EF traffic than Deficit Round Robin (DRR), and higher network utilization than Priority Queue (PQ) with EF Token Bucket. In addition, PQWQ can guarantee a minimum bandwidth for AF and Default PHBs and avoid starvation in case of low priority PHBs. The second scheduler, ADQ, is designed to provide different levels of delay for AF classes. The average delays of the four AF classes can be proportional by adjusting the Delay Differentiation Parameter (DDP). This proportional scheme may allow the higher priority class to send packets more quickly, and therefore achieve higher QoS. Finally, we implement the two schedulers, PQWQ and ADQ, on Linux platform. We adopt share buffer scheme for AF PHB. Share buffer management can effectively improve the buffer utilization and avoid the unnecessary packet dropping due to the unfair buffer allocation. From the experimental results, we can observe that the new DiffServ schedulers not only provide lower delay and higher bandwidth utilization for EF PHB, but also achieve proportional delay among different AF classes.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2001. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 70-71). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2001. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 70-71). Also available on the Internet.

Förekomsten av dolda indexfonder har flitigt diskuterats i media den senaste tiden. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur aktivt förvaltade svenska aktivt förvaltade aktiefonder verkligen är. Detta ska genomföras genom att titta på tre olika aktivitetsmått vilka är active share, aktiv risk och omsättningshastighet. Tidsperioden för denna studie sträcker sig mellan åren 2012-2014. I undersökningen granskas sexton Sverigefonder. Tretton av dessa är aktivt förvaltade och tre indexfonder är med som referens. Alla fonder har SIX Portfolio Return Index som sitt jämförelseindex. Resultatet av denna undersökning visar på att flera av de svenska fonderna inte når upp till önskad aktivitetsnivå. Detta kan innebära att det existerar en stor andel dolda indexfonder på den svenska marknaden.

This report explores the long-term demographic changes occurring near Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) stations. The study area chosen to employ the shift share method consists of two segments of DART stations along the Red Line in Dallas, Texas. The downtown DART study area consists of census tracts surrounding light rail stations: Cedars, Convention Center, Union Station, West End, Akard, St. Paul, and Pearl, and the DART suburban study area consists of census tracts around the following stations: City Place, Mockingbird Station, Lovers Lane, Park Lane, Walnut Hill, Forest Lane, and LBJ/Central. Using the shift share method with demographic data obtained through the US Census Bureau from 1990 and 2005-2009 American Community Survey estimates, this analysis illustrates demographic changes over time as a result of light rail transit investments. The results indicate that demographic characteristics of residents have changed considerably since the introduction of light rail in Dallas. Although the growth trends in the DART neighborhoods are comparable to the growth trends of the city, the DART census tracts on average have experienced greater increases in population, attracted an influx of highly educated residents with higher household incomes, and experienced significant increases in high-density development surrounding transit stations. For the most part, growth has been stronger locally than on a citywide level, and these trends have occurred most noticeably in the downtown DART neighborhoods, where transit and financial measures have sparked a development boom in which total population and housing units have grown by the hundredth and even thousandth percentile. Additionally, these demographic changes create unintended consequences that affect people of varying socio-economic statuses. Although the shift of highly educated, wealthier individuals in neighborhoods creates a greater social mix among residents, lower-income residents of these transit neighborhoods quickly get priced out of their neighborhoods. / text

This dissertation presents a theoretical study of soft hadron production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The aim is to explore the principles governing the hadronization of the expanding quark-gluon plasma (QGP) fireball, and to understand its properties. Strange hadron production and strangeness abundance in the QGP help us to look before the instant of hadronization. Consideration of entropy and charm production further enhances the reach back in time to the first instances of the heavy ion collision. Much of the ongoing effort is to demonstrate the validity of a QGP hadronization model which describes the particle production data accurately and thus allows us to carry out the above research program. We perform a centrality dependent study of multistrange hadrons from Au-Au collisions at √SNN = 62.4 GeV, data obtained at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). We show that the statistical hadronization model (SHM) well describes particle production. For all centralities, the particle production conditions are compatible with the earlier proposed critical hadronization pressure suggesting a set of universal hadronization conditions of QGP. Heavy-ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) present a new challenge for SHM in describing particle production at TeV energy scales. The chemical non-equilibrium model gives a good description of the hadron production in Pb-Pb collisions at √SNN = 2.76 TeV consistently as a function of centrality. Moreover, the model parameters, such as chemical freeze-out temperature, assume expected values suggested by results from previous studies at lower energies. The quark-gluon plasma fireball hadronizes at the same universal hadronization conditions, that is a common critical pressure, entropy and energy density. At LHC energies, a significant amount of charm is expected to be produced. It is therefore crucial to incorporate charm into the present description of particle production. We present a new tool, an upgraded SHARE with CHARM program, that quantifies the effect of charm on the yield of lighter hadrons and physical properties of the hadronizing fireball. In addition to light flavors (u,d,s), SHARE with CHARM describes charm hadron production and decays of charm hadrons. According to present experimental results, charm decays mainly affect the yields of multistrange particles. This dissertation begins with an introduction to the particle production in heavy-ion collisions and SHM framework, followed by a summary of results that are either published or submitted to peer-reviewed journals and others which are published as conference proceedings. Reprints of the publications are attached to the dissertation as appendices. Each appendix is prefaced with a short summary of presented results, and my contribution to these works is described.