This study investigated the criteria conductors use to select repertoire for beginner secondary school choirs and is based on a qualitative research design. The research was guided by a social constructivist worldview and is an explanatory case study. Data were collected through interviewing five experienced and established choir conductors who conduct secondary school choirs. Five themes crystallised through the data analyses, which are Education, Vocal ability, Type of choir, Programme choice and Audience preference and development. This study leads to further recommendations about possible research on repertoire that is best suited for beginner secondary school choirs and choir singing as experienced by the choristers and the audiences themselves. / MA (Musicology), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2015

This study investigated the criteria conductors use to select repertoire for beginner secondary school choirs and is based on a qualitative research design. The research was guided by a social constructivist worldview and is an explanatory case study. Data were collected through interviewing five experienced and established choir conductors who conduct secondary school choirs. Five themes crystallised through the data analyses, which are Education, Vocal ability, Type of choir, Programme choice and Audience preference and development. This study leads to further recommendations about possible research on repertoire that is best suited for beginner secondary school choirs and choir singing as experienced by the choristers and the audiences themselves. / MA (Musicology), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2015

Published Article / This study was conducted to ascertain which of two techniques would result in more diagnostic films of patients with possible neck trauma. Twenty individuals were examined at the Radiology Department, Universitas hospital, Bloemfontein. Two exposures were done on each member of the sample: firstly the swimmers projection and secondly the orientation of the patient's arms was reversed. Using specific criteria to standardize evaluation, the films were evaluated by a radiologist. The adapted swimmers projection had better results in 50% of the categories. The swimmers projection was better in 33.3% of the categories. One category for both projections (16.7%) was equal.

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Venture capitals have been playing an important role in helping new and small businesses. Even though venture capital currently isn¡¦t part of banking business but it has some banking capital properties. In the future, it can be part of banking products. This research is to study how venture capital can achieve its investment goals and decrease the loss from thorough pre-investment assessment and the control of its investment. This study is to analyze the assessment of the venture capital company , the advantages and the disadvantages of the strategy, and hope to develop a better and feasible investment strategy. Venture capital companies are facing some problems in these years, such as, difficulty of raising funds¡B searching cases and withdraw as well as poor performance. This study has discovered some suitable strategies, they are: 1. Choosing the right case is more important than do the case right. 2. Sell stocks out at the right time is more important than choosing the right case. 3. The success of the case depends on choosing the mainstream industry. To avoid the loss of the investment depends on the management team. Conclusion: After the most prosperous period for venture capital in year 2000, venture capital has been facing some unfavorable issues like many companies moving out of Taiwan¡Bfewer cases and the withdraw of funds. However, venture capitals should continue to provide the function of incubation for new business. When facing the changes of the environment, it¡¦s necessary to change the investment strategies. This study has provided some feasible strategies for venture capital companies. They are: 1.Develop the uniqueness of the company. 2. Set up global offices. 3. Educate employees with international vision. 4. Merge companies to become a bigger cooperation. 5. Raise funds and invest globally. Suggestions: 1. Suggest the government removing limitations of investing categories for venture capitals. 2. Venture capital companies should enlarge the size. Government should allow venture capitals to invest in the stock market. 3. Merge companies with poor performance 4. Differentiate the investment strategies. Raise funds from different resources. 5. Take good advantages of private equity funds to conduct company restructuring.

The purpose of this research is to identify the selection criteria used by the management professors when they interview the candidates for MBA entrance examination in Taiwan. Seven famous graduate schools of business management were chosen for this study. With Q-method and survey, this study ranks and classifies the selection criteria of each graduate school. The samples include professors of those graduate schools and students who have gone through the selection interview. By using factor analysis, the research found the different types of professors with different selection criteria. The finding can be very useful for the graduate schools to know what students their faculty really wants. In addition, it is also informational to those applicants who want to enter the MBA program through selection channel to choose an appropriate graduate school. The findings of this research indicated: 1.These seven graduate schools used different selection criteria. 2.Most of all professors agree that the analyzing ability and foreign language are the two most important criteria. 3.Comparing the ¡§my own view¡¨ and ¡§perception of colleagues¡¦ view¡¨, the research did find some significant differences. 4.Higher consensus exists among the professors at Cheng-chi, Yuan Ze and FuJen Catholic University. The professors of Sun Yat-sen University, Cheng-Kung University and Taiwan University were more diversified. 5.Attitude towards selection criteria is not the same among the professors from different countries where they were educated. 6.Five types of Professors can be distinguished is terms of the selection criteria used.

English Abstract Evaluating the cases is the most important work in Venture Capital Company. So the key successful factor is to correctly and efficiently choose the invest case. In the past researches, they probed the important of evaluating criteria and ranged the evaluating criteria. But no study researches were from characters of manager, so the study wants to know the relationship between the characters of manager and the evaluating criteria. The results show that the venture capital managers who have commerce background would pay more attention to the marketing ability of enterprise team; managers who have science or engineering background would pay less attention to the financial ability of enterprise team; managers who have the experience in high-tech industry would pay less attention to marketing ability of enterprise team. And the emphases on managerial ability and product and technology innovation would grow up with the age of the venture capital managers. Besides that, this study finds that in the venture capital industry managers are very young and have high educational background.

As mobile devices manage more and more sensitive information they have become a more targeted platform to exploit. To maintain system integrity while providing a highly responsive product, platform developers have developed hardware as well as software solutions to improve security. Until recently however, it was only possible to devise hardware solutions to achieve the security requirements of EU’s Restricted VoIP protocol. This thesis investigates whether a software solution can provide the necessary levels of assurance to protect EU Restricted Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications. The thesis covers a literature study over possible approaches to protect sensitive information, which was used in the risk analysis to derive five tests to evaluate the trusted execution environment. The tests show that the trusted execution environment does provide good protection but that the implementation and design greatly influence the robustness and level of assurance that can be expected from the trusted execution environment.