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A comparative study on international education aid between Tzu Chi Foundation and World Vision Taiwan.Wang, Peng 18 January 2006 (has links)
Having been the target country of the international non-governmental organization for the past decades, Taiwan has survived and strived to be the giver in the international community. During the process, education has played an important role.
The study used comparative method proposed by Bereday in addition to a qualitative data analysis software, NUD*IST. Three major purposes were identified as follows:
(1) Discuss the conception and importance of international education aid. (2) Compare the experience of international education aid of Tzu Chi Foundation and World Vision Taiwan. (3) Give suggestions for other organizations to promote international education aid.
Finally, the researcher concluded that the idea of international aid had developed from economic aid toward social development project with an emphasis on the sustainable development. In addition, there existed several common features between the Tzu Chi Foundation and World Vision Taiwan and terms of general conception and model of education aids. Even though, the Tzu Chi Foundation more on the logistic equipment of educational practices, whereas the World Vision Taiwan proclaimed the human right for children as their focus of aid.
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Research and Marketing Strategies of Leisure- agriculture at Chi Mei DistrictHsiao, Yu-Ying 13 August 2008 (has links)
The population of the villages and towns in Chi Mei District in Kaohsiung county has been agriculture-based from the early days and has been their primary source of income ever since.
However, the town has been suffering from the impact of the modernization created by the joining of WTO and the introduction of newer technologies in farming, and environmental deterioration caused by industrialization and urbanization.
The intended changes did not provide the necessary platform in the areas of product improvement, new marketing methodology and sadly it did not improve the present overall lifestyle of the town as we see the trend of moving towards modern industrial economy.
Recently with the introduction of organic products, the benefits and increasing demands has initiated more openings of organic farms which double up as a retreat for interested individuals looking for a short stay away from their usual fast paced urban areas.
Realizing the attraction of the trend, traditional agriculture-based the villages and towns in Chi Mei District can make full use of its favorable locations and with suitable business coupled with marketing strategies. These proposals can provide and open up discussions on the viable options to adopt including the potential of grooming the town as tourist attractions on their modernize farms as a retreat hot spot in the future.
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Statistical tests of complementary palindromes: An application of searching virus origin of replicationChen, Chun-Lin 19 July 2009 (has links)
The human cytomegalovirus (CMV) is one of the viruses which extensively infect in the world. In order to grow and reproduce, the CMV invades designated cellular lives and influences their behavior. The origin of replication (also called the replication origin) is a particular sequence in the CMV DNA genome at which replication is initiated. In this study, we develop some statistical tests of complementary palindromes, which can be applied to narrow the search for replication origin of the CMV DNA sequence.
Let X_(2k) be the number of complementary palindromes with length 2k and Y_(2k) be the number of non-covered complementary palindromes with length 2k inside a given DNA sequence. Consider the null hypothesis that the marginal probabilities of the four nucleotides remain the same (1/4) over the given sequence versus the alternative hypothesis that the marginal probabilities are different. The likelihood ratio test based on the joint distributions of Y_(18) and Y_(2k) | (Y_(2(k+1)), ...,Y_(18)), where k=1, ..., 8, under the null and the alternative hypotheses are derived. The null distribution of the test statistic is approximated by a scaled chi-squared distribution. The scale parameter and the degree of freedom are estimated by the method of moments. The Pearson's chi-squared test based on the marginal distributions of X_(2k), where k=1, ..., 9. The null distribution of the test statistic is also approximated by a scaled chi-squared distribution. There is an another focus about ratios statistics X_(2k)/X_(2(k+1)) and Y_(2k)/Y_(2(k+1)), which approximate a specific value under the null hypotheses. Simulation studies are performed to confirm the theoretical findings.
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Tonsils : a risk factor for moderate and severe chronic periodontitis? /Wynn, William Bernard. January 2002 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis--University of Oklahoma. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 39-41).
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Mundart in global modernism : the poetry and poetics of Hwang Chiu and Ingeborg Bachmann /Rhee, Sharlyn. January 2003 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of Comparative Literature, December 2003. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.
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The construction of gender identity in Hong Kong cinema /Kwok, Yin-wai, Joseph. January 2002 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 94-100).
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SAR remote sensing of soil MoistureSnapir, Boris 12 1900 (has links)
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has been identified as a good candidate to
provide high-resolution soil moisture information over extended areas. SAR data
could be used as observations within a global Data Assimilation (DA) approach
to benefit applications such as hydrology and agriculture. Prior to developing an
operational DA system, one must tackle the following challenges of soil moisture
estimation with SAR: (1) the dependency of the measured radar signal on both soil
moisture and soil surface roughness which leads to an ill-conditioned inverse problem,
and (2) the difficulty in characterizing spatially/temporally surface roughness of
natural soils and its scattering contribution.
The objectives of this project are (1) to develop a roughness measurement method
to improve the spatial/temporal characterization of soil surface roughness, and (2)
to investigate to what extent the inverse problem can be solved by combining multipolarization,
multi-incidence, and/or multi-frequency radar measurements.
The first objective is achieved with a measurement method based on Structure
from Motion (SfM). It is tailored to monitor natural surface roughness changes which
have often been assumed negligible although without evidence.
The measurement method is flexible, a.ordable, straightforward and generates
Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) for a SAR-pixel-size plot with mm accuracy. A
new processing method based on band-filtering of the DEM and its 2D Power Spectral
Density (PSD) is proposed to compute the classical roughness parameters. Time
series of DEMs show that non-negligible changes in surface roughness can happen
within two months at scales relevant for microwave scattering.
The second objective is achieved using maximum likelihood fitting of the Oh
backscattering model to (1) full-polarimetric Radarsat-2 data and (2) simulated
multi-polarization / multi-incidence / multi-frequency radar data.
Model fitting with the Radarsat-2 images leads to poor soil moisture retrieval
which is related to inaccuracy of the Oh model. Model fitting with the simulated
data quantifies the amount of multilooking for di.erent combinations of measurements
needed to mitigate the critical e.ect of speckle on soil moisture uncertainty.
Results also suggest that dual-polarization measurements at L- and C-bands are a
promising combination to achieve the observation requirements of soil moisture.
In conclusion, the SfM method along with the recommended processing techniques
are good candidates to improve the characterization of surface roughness. A
combination of multi-polarization and multi-frequency radar measurements appears
to be a robust basis for a future Data Assimilation system for global soil moisture
monitoring.
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Relationship of rehabilitation counselors' ethnicity match and cultural competency to service provision and employment outcome for vocational rehabilitation consumersJorgensen-Wagers, Kendra Lara 27 April 2015 (has links)
The purpose of this dissertation is to explore whether rehabilitation counselor/consumer racial similarity is related to rehabilitation services provided and employment outcomes achieved. This research contributes additional information to the research base on how to educate and train practicing vocational rehabilitation counselors to support culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) consumers more effectively. Information regarding racial dyads may help to articulate whether CLD counselors are more effective with CLD consumers. Utilizing the RSA-911 data file submitted by California for fiscal year 2006 as well as 189 Multicultural Counseling Inventory (MCI) surveys collected on practicing vocational rehabilitation counselors, ANOVA, MANOVA, ANCOVA and chi-square analysis were used to measure relationships among counselor and consumer dyads that were either similar or dissimilar in ethnicity and case service variables and outcome variables. Additional analysis focused on the influence of high versus low cultural competency of rehabilitation counselors and the same consumer case service and outcome variables. Study results revealed statistically significant differences on MCI total scores between counselor ethnic groups, with Hispanic counselors demonstrating the highest mean scores overall on the MCI. In addition, significant differences existed between counselor ethnic groups on MCI total scores, as well as all four subscale scores. Chi-square was used to investigate the effect of counselor ethnicity and cultural competency scores on the case service variables of job search, rehabilitation technology, maintenance and college training, as well as outcome variables of competitive employment. MANOVA and ANCOVA were used for the continuous outcome variables of cost of services, wages at closure and weekly earnings at closure. Significant chi-square results were found for some of the service and outcome variables for both the matched counselor/consumer dyads and the counselor competency score groups. More significant findings existed in the ANCOVA analysis for cultural competency scores than for matched ethnicity groups. Implications of the findings and suggestions for future research are discussed. / text
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Mixture distributions with application to microarray data analysisLynch, O'Neil 01 June 2009 (has links)
The main goal in analyzing microarray data is to determine the genes that are differentially expressed across two types of tissue samples or samples obtained under two experimental conditions. In this dissertation we proposed two methods to determine differentially expressed genes. For the penalized normal mixture model (PMMM) to determine genes that are differentially expressed, we penalized both the variance and the mixing proportion parameters simultaneously. The variance parameter was penalized so that the log-likelihood will be bounded, while the mixing proportion parameter was penalized so that its estimates are not on the boundary of its parametric space. The null distribution of the likelihood ratio test statistic (LRTS) was simulated so that we could perform a hypothesis test for the number of components of the penalized normal mixture model. In addition to simulating the null distribution of the LRTS for the penalized normal mixture model, we showed that the maximum likelihood estimates were asymptotically normal, which is a first step that is necessary to prove the asymptotic null distribution of the LRTS. This result is a significant contribution to field of normal mixture model.
The modified p-value approach for detecting differentially expressed genes was also discussed in this dissertation. The modified p-value approach was implemented so that a hypothesis test for the number of components can be conducted by using the modified likelihood ratio test. In the modified p-value approach we penalized the mixing proportion so that the estimates of the mixing proportion are not on the boundary of its parametric space. The null distribution of the (LRTS) was simulated so that the number of components of the uniform beta mixture model can be determined. Finally, for both modified methods, the penalized normal mixture model and the modified p-value approach were applied to simulated and real data.
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Revitalization of the building activityWong, Shu-man, Ken., 黃書文. January 2004 (has links)
published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Architecture
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