How does air cargo industry impact the development of global trading? Also, what does the global air cargo industry develop in nowadays? As being the world factory, how do we know the development of air cargo industry in China today? Particularly, how foreign investments enter this large market, prepare their strategic arrangements to share the cake with others under serious restrictions and limitations? In addition, what trends on Express Delivery Industry in China? This research is through the analysis of the development of global economy and the transformation of China¡¦s Industry to recognize the significant of air cargo. Via case study of Federal Express in China, this research determines that each Express Delivery service has to enter China under joint venture approach on early stage. Furthermore, we find that this service is the industry which highly depending on locations of network. Another key point here is the traffic right acquiring, it could be the significant factor for developing the express service in China. I hope this research will help reader to discover the actuality situation and the trends of development of Express Delivery Industry in China.

Taiwan has entered the aging era, after the post-war baby boomers, it is ready to enter the era of the old generation. In recent years, the official statistic has indicated that the proportions of ¡§parents living with their spouse¡¨ are decreasing. Does the statistic indicate that the acceptance of the old generations to live in the elderly residential or nursing home increased? To revaluate the problem, this study distinguished five kinds of living patterns for the old generations scaling with a quantitative life- style pattern, and distributes 392 valid questionnaires for Kaohsiung City's 40-year-old to 59-year-old middle-aged civil servants and teachers. Not only does the research shows the correlations between demographic variables and the preferences of residential patterns, but it also classifies civil servants and teachers of Kaohsiung into four categories¡G ¡§knowledge-LOHOS Group¡¨, ¡§conservative family group¡¨, ¡§easy-going group¡¨ and ¡§active independent group¡¨ . The results showed the accepted level for the five kinds of residential patterns for the old generations have increased; the most favorite and the most likely living type are ¡§living alone or only living with one¡¦s spouse¡¨ and ¡§with children in the same neighborhood¡¨, ¡§elderly residential¡¨ and ¡§live with their children¡¨ are in the second place, and last is the ¡§nursing homes¡¨. And by the independent samples T-test, one-way ANOVA and two variables correlation analysis showed that the preferences of five kinds of residential patterns have significantly related with the ¡§age¡¨, ¡§gender¡¨, ¡§educational level¡¨, ¡§total household monthly income¡¨ , etc. Besides, ¡§active independent group¡¨ is the most acceptable group to stay in elderly residential and nursing homes, but is unwilling to live in the same neighborhood. The ¡§knowledge-LOHOS Group¡¨ like living with their children in the same neighborhood than ¡§active independent group¡¨ do, and it is more likely for the group to live in the same neighborhood than ¡§conservative family group¡¨ do. Finally, this study proposes some recommendations to the operators of the elderly residential and nursing homes, for instance, when the proportion, ¡§with their children in the same neighborhood¡¨ and ¡§living alone or living with their spouse¡¨, have increased for the middle-aged people, it means that the government should have more active and effective strategies in facing the care network of general residential and community. In addition to regard the ¡§active independent group¡¨ as a target market, it also needs to take other groups¡¦ need into account.

This study examined factors that influenced loneliness among rural elders in China. Data were collected from the latest wave of Living and Employment of Population Survey in 2005 (provided by Renmin University, China). The sample of this survey consisted of 284 rural elders in China. T‐tests was used to examine the influence of gender, marital status, health, financial support, and living arrangements differences in loneliness perception among Chinese rural elders. Multiple regression analysis was conducted to understand the influences of age and socio‐economic status on loneliness among the rural elders. This study provided insights for a better understanding of individual, social, and familial factors that influenced subjective loneliness in later life. Findings from this study might contribute to policymaking decisions regarding improvements of psychological well‐being among older adults in China.

This thesis details a method of enumerating bases of hyperplane arrangements up to symmetries. I consider here automorphisms, geometric symmetries which leave the set of all points contained in the arrangement setwise invariant. The algorithm for basis enumeration described in this thesis is a backtracking search over the adjacency graph implied on the bases by minimum-ratio simplex pivots, pruning at bases symmetric to those already seen. This work extends Bremner, Sikiri c, and Sch urmann's method for basis enumeration of polyhedra up to symmetries, including a new pivoting rule for nding adjacent bases in arrangements, a method of computing automorphisms of arrangements which extends the method of Bremner et al. for computing automorphisms of polyhedra, and some associated changes to optimizations used in the previous work. I include results of tests on ACEnet clusters showing an order of magnitude speedup from the use of C++ in my implementation, an up to 3x speedup with a 6-core parallel variant of the algorithm, and positive results from other optimizations.

Thesis (M.M.)--Missouri State University, 2008. / "December 2008." Instrumentation: piccolo, flute 1 and 2, oboe 1 and 2, bassoon 1 and 2, clarinet 1, 2 and 3, bass clarinet, alto sax 1 and 2, tenor sax, baritone sax, trumpet 1, 2 and 3, horn 1, 2, 3, and 4, trombone 1 and 2, bass trombone, euphonium, tuba, timpani, chimes, mallets, vibraphone, percussion 1, 2, and 3. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 58-59). Also available online.

Title from title page of PDF (University of Missouri--St. Louis, viewed February 16, 2010). 4 MP3 files included. 1 MOV file included. Includes bibliographical references (p. 136-137) and discography (p. 138-196).

Treatise (D.M.A.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2001. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Available also from UMI Company.

Thesis (M.M.)--Duquesne University, 2005. / Title from document title page. Abstract included in electronic submission form. Includes bibliographical references (p. 9) and index.

Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio State University, 1986. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 93). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center

p. 1-177 / Submitted by Santiago Fabio (fabio.ssantiago@hotmail.com) on 2013-03-25T21:01:48Z No. of bitstreams: 1 22222222.pdf: 910969 bytes, checksum: 7edf0ad4306b3582f4c28562e2dd4948 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Tatiana Lima(tatianasl@ufba.br) on 2013-04-22T18:08:06Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 22222222.pdf: 910969 bytes, checksum: 7edf0ad4306b3582f4c28562e2dd4948 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-04-22T18:08:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 22222222.pdf: 910969 bytes, checksum: 7edf0ad4306b3582f4c28562e2dd4948 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2003 / Este trabalho é um estudo de caso exploratório sobra a comunidade de Maragogipinho, onde avaliamos a existência ou não de uma configuração de Arranjos Sócio Produtivo Local (ASPL) e sua influência no desenvolvimento da micro-região. Maragogipinho é uma pequena comunidade, situada no município de Aratuípe, e é conhecida internacionalmente como “o maior centro cerâmico das Américas”, já que lá existem 74 olarias e mais de 70% das pessoas do local estão diretamente ligadas à atividade. Esta dissertação, em primeiro lugar, aborda os conceitos e teorias de desenvolvimento, arranjos produtivos locais, território e governança e faz uma conexão entre estes conceitos e a metodologia do SEBRAE para atuação em Arranjos Produtivos Locais. Em seguida, através do estudo de caso, é apresentado Maragogipinho, sua história, sua cultura, seus dados sócios econômicos, e contextualizamos a localidade no cenário atual. As realizações do censo dos oleiros e das entrevistas focais, nos propícia uma visão bastante realista de como se relacionam os conceitos apresentados e a vida na comunidade. Nos mostra que é possível haver uma configuração ideal de Arranjo Sócio produtivo Local, mas que ainda esta longe de haver uma convergência neste sentido e que muito ainda tem por se fazer para alcançarmos tal êxito. / Salvador