by Au Yeung Yuk Hang, Tong Henry. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 84-89). / TABLE OF CONTENTS / ABSTRACT --- p.ii / TABLE OF CONTENT --- p.iii / LIST OF TABLES --- p.vi / LIST OF FIGURES --- p.vii / Chapter / Chapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter II. --- METHODOLOGY --- p.4 / Chapter III. --- FAVORABLE OUTCOMES --- p.5 / Synergy Effects --- p.5 / Economies of Scale --- p.6 / Economics of Scope --- p.7 / Better Management --- p.7 / Attract and Retain Talents --- p.8 / Tax Benefits --- p.8 / Risk Diversification --- p.9 / Assets (Loan) --- p.10 / Liabilities (Deposit) --- p.11 / Earnings --- p.12 / Increase Market Share --- p.12 / Entry into New Market --- p.14 / Improve Financial Performance --- p.14 / Too Big To Fail --- p.15 / Ability to Issue Highly-rated Paper --- p.15 / Cheaper Offered Price --- p.16 / Too Big To Swallow --- p.17 / Chapter IV. --- CAUSES OF FAILURE --- p.18 / Culture Clashes --- p.21 / Management Changes --- p.22 / Customer Grievance --- p.23 / Employees Dissatisfaction --- p.24 / Computer System --- p.24 / Y2K Problem --- p.25 / Controversy before merger or acquisition --- p.26 / Relationship between Acquirer Bank and Acquired Bank --- p.27 / Lack of Agreed Objective --- p.27 / Unfulfilled Acquirer Bank Management Promises --- p.28 / Improper or Unstable Position in the merged bank --- p.29 / Over Dependence on a Few Executives --- p.30 / Acquired Bank Out of Acquirer Bank's Expectation --- p.30 / Acquirer Bank Deceived by Acquired Bank --- p.31 / Paid Too Much --- p.32 / Corporate Indigestion --- p.32 / Acquirer bank does not understand the business of the acquired bank --- p.33 / Improbable Events --- p.33 / Family Control --- p.34 / Anti-takeover Response --- p.35 / Litigation by Target Firm --- p.36 / Poison Pills --- p.36 / Greenmail --- p.36 / Keeping the Stock Price at High Level --- p.37 / White Knight --- p.37 / Chapter V. --- CASE STUDY: THE ACQUISITION OF OVERSEAS TRUST BANK (OTB) BY DAO HENG BANK (DHB) --- p.38 / Introduction --- p.38 / Company Background before the Acquisition --- p.39 / Dao Heng Bank (DHB) --- p.39 / Overseas Trust Bank (OTB) --- p.40 / Highlights in Acquisition --- p.42 / Timetable of Major Events --- p.42 / Financing Package --- p.43 / Favorable Outcomes to Dao Heng Bank in the Acquisition --- p.43 / Gigantic Organic Growth and Being One of Regional Banking Leaders --- p.44 / Extraordinary Financial Performance --- p.44 / Improving Operating Efficiency by Synergy --- p.45 / Risk Diversification --- p.47 / Adequate Capital for Exploring New Opportunities --- p.48 / "Recruitment, Retention and Retraining Banking Professionals for Future Development" --- p.49 / Able to Issue High-rated Paper --- p.50 / Difficulties to Dao Heng Bank in the Acquisition --- p.50 / Culture Clashes --- p.51 / Sudden Change of Management Level --- p.51 / Maintaining the Customer Confidence --- p.52 / Agreement with the Government --- p.52 / Employees Distress and Dissatisfaction --- p.52 / The Compatibility of Computer System --- p.53 / Chapter VI. --- RECOMMENDATIONS --- p.54 / Structural Changes --- p.55 / Criteria of a healthy Structural Change --- p.55 / Process and Operating System Changes --- p.55 / Culture Change --- p.56 / Good Planning --- p.57 / Easing Culture Clash --- p.58 / Respecting Cultures --- p.58 / Systematically Learning about Partners' Cultures --- p.59 / Determine Merged Culture --- p.60 / Employee Satisfaction --- p.60 / Good Employee Communication --- p.61 / Manage Psychological Force & Emotional Climate --- p.63 / Reward Right People and Let Wrong People Go --- p.63 / Get Employee Involved --- p.64 / "Deal with Disparities in Compensation, Benefits, and Incentive Programs" --- p.64 / Customer Retention --- p.65 / Focus on the Business Customer Base --- p.65 / Deal with Customers' Uncertainty --- p.66 / Conducts Extensive Researches --- p.66 / Measuring Customers Satisfaction --- p.67 / Recognize and Reward Top Retainers --- p.67 / Computer Systems --- p.68 / Determining business requirements --- p.68 / Due Diligence --- p.68 / Assessing compatibilities --- p.69 / Setting priorities --- p.69 / Developing an integration plan --- p.70 / Well Documentation --- p.70 / Get System managers involved before Mergers and Acquisitions --- p.71 / Y2K Problem --- p.71 / Chapter VII. --- FUTURE PROSPECT --- p.72 / APPENDIX 1 --- p.74 / APPENDIX 2 --- p.77 / APPENDIX 3 --- p.80 / APPENDIX 4 --- p.81 / APPENDIX 5 --- p.82 / APPENDIX 6 --- p.83 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.84

Thesis (M.Phil.)--Hong Kong Baptist University, 2001. / Thesis submitted to the Dept. of Religion and Philosophy. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 178-210).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2006. / Title from first page of PDF file. Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-247).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Logos Evangelical Seminary, 2003. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 252-267).

The concept of Web3 is increasingly entering into mainstream discourses. With many terming 2021 the ‘year of NFTs’ (non-fungible tokens), 2022 has been labelled as the ‘year of DAOs’ within the Web3 ecosystem. Decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs) are groups that come together as a result of a specific purpose or interest and pursue their collective goals through leveraging Web3 technologies and governing over a shared treasury. Curious about these trends, I joined a community with a music, creative expression, and culture focus which had plans to become a DAO. A few months into being a member of this community, I was hired to join the community’s Core Team. While there have been a few articles published on the topic of DAOs, none focus specifically on what members of these DAOs value and how these priorities change over time. Utilising my unique perspective of being deeply involved in a DAO as a Core Team member, this thesis addresses this gap through an autoethnographic analysis of the shifting priorities of the most active members over the course of ten months within the first year of the community/ DAO being established. Bourdieu’s lens of different types of capital, together with a more modern extension of e-capital, and field theory are applied. The analysis reveals trends in the types of capital that are most valued during different phases of development of the community/ DAO being examined and how these are linked to specific milestone events that occur.

The goal of this study is to identify the current application areas and some possible application areas for blockchain; blockchain is a distributed database that is currently most known for being the technology used for storing transaction information of digital currencies such as the Bitcoin. Through a literature review and interviews with domain experts, we identified some current application areas for blockchain, that is, money transactions, decentralized data and privacy protection, and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO). Within the area of decentralized data and privacy protection, we further identified the two sub-areas of smart contracts and secure identities. In addition, we identified some possible application areas by conducting a second literature review. Some of these application areas are: storing mind files and human intelligence, on-line voting, supply chain management, stock trading, Internet of Things (IoT), and banking. The contribution of this study can be used for further studies through each of the above application areas in order to identify possible advantages and disadvantages.

黎燕芬. / "2009年8月". / "2009 nian 8 yue". / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 107-129). / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / Li Yanfen. / 緒論 --- p.1 / Chapter 第一章 --- 新會潮連的傳統農村生活 --- p.9 / 明中葉潮連地方社會 --- p.10 / 蘆鞭盧氏 --- p.16 / 小結 --- p.22 / Chapter 第二章 --- 中國新思潮 --- p.23 / 婦女的參政空間 --- p.23 / 婦女的法律地位 --- p.32 / 婚姻和納妾 --- p.35 / Chapter (一) --- 結婚 --- p.35 / Chapter (二) --- 離婚 --- p.40 / Chapter (三) --- 納妾 --- p.42 / 婦女就業 --- p.44 / Chapter 第三章 --- 參政空間：農村的婦女主任 --- p.48 / Chapter 第四章 --- 從戶口登記而來的財產問題 --- p.61 / Chapter 第五章 --- 虛假的宗族氣氛 --- p.70 / Chapter 結論 --- p.86 / Chapter 附錄一 --- 民國潮連地圖 --- p.89 / Chapter 附錄二 --- 洪聖廟碑文 --- p.90 / 劉敏，《重修南海神廟碑記》1784年。 --- p.90 / 作者不詳，《捐題洪聖殿嘗營名碑》1816年。 --- p.91 / 李豐，《重修昭明殿碑記》1818年。 --- p.95 / 區天民，《聖像洪聖古廟記》1861年。 --- p.99 / 作者不詳，《洪聖廟頭門碑記》1874年。 --- p.102 / 區德霖，《重修南海洪聖廣利王廟碑》1905年。 --- p.103 / Chapter 附表1.1 --- 〈潮連ˇёإ民在明朝時獲取的功名表〉 --- p.105 / Chapter 附表1.2 --- 〈新會蘆鞭盧氏族譜線圖〉 --- p.106 / 參考書目 --- p.107

The understanding, I draw from this inquiry has come through a muddy, and complex entangledprocess. I have been re-turning like a "Baradian" earthworm, to experiences of being, in spacesof not-knowing. Digesting the mud, moving it, once more, like worms do, through the body.By doing an agential cut, into two spaces, eventually three strong agents unfold: Risk,Vulnerability, and Trust. Out of this result, an ethical and pedagogical question arise: How totake account of Vulnerability and Trust when encouraging our students to Risk?Entering a space of not knowing is at the foundation of my art practice. When as an arteducator,I went to China to inquire into the educational strategies of Chinese Classical Painting,I found myself thrown into a multitude of spaces of not knowing. This thesis, is an inquiry intohow being in such spaces, perform knowledge. To explore this, I return to the field-notes andvisual material including a report in the form of a visual essay of the study from 2011. I re-turnto this material with new tools and concepts inspired by Karen Barads metaphors of diffractionand earth-worms approach, as well as my artists tools: brush, water colours, ink, and paper;inrtoducing painting as a tool for analysis.As a theoretical approach, I entangle the flat ontology of Deleuze and Guattari, and theonto-epistem-ology of Barad, with the philosophical traditions in China of Buddhism and Dao.From an onto-epistem-ological perspective, I ask the question: "If we know about the worldbecause we are of the world," what knowledge then appear, when we experience our being in theworld as a space of not knowing. In this study, I have found that a space of not knowing performlearning through experiences of Vulnerability, Risk and Trust.The art part of this thesis is connected to Risk as well as to Vulnerability and Trust. Itfeatures a rope hanging from the ceiling to the floor. It is a rope that has been used during severalyears by a Circus artist during performances; hanging high up in the ceiling — demanding focusand presence from him. The installation at Konstfack spring-show 2018 featured the Circus artistrope together with a painting made in the context of Buddhist Vipassana meditation, entanglingmy tactile approach in art, with the text of this thesis.

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Diploma thesis deals with the contemporary object-relational mapping (ORM) technologies for Java. It briefly describes also competing technologies for persisting objects in files, object and object-relational databases. However main part of the thesis is the persistence of objects in relational databases using ORM frameworks. The work begins with studying general methods and issues, that these frameworks have to solve. Next, it chooses and deeply describes some ORM frameworks. They are later demonstrated on the demo application. In the following part there is a description of the problems I have been facing during the implementation of the persistence using these frameworks. Finally, there is an evaluation and a comparison of these frameworks.