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by Liu Chun-kwong Alex. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 85-87). / ABSTRACT --- p.iv / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.vii / LIST OF TABLES --- p.x / ACKNOWLEDGMENT --- p.xii / Chapter / Chapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / The Nature of MBA --- p.1 / A Degree of Controversy --- p.1 / The Aim of MBA --- p.2 / Variety of MBA --- p.2 / The Purpose of The Study --- p.2 / Scope of The Study --- p.3 / "Full Time, Two Year MBA" --- p.4 / Participating MBA Programmes --- p.4 / "Full-Time, Two-Year MBA Students" --- p.5 / Personal Interview with Faculty Members of MBA --- p.5 / Literature Review --- p.6 / Methodology of Study --- p.7 / Objectives --- p.7 / Design of Questionnaire --- p.7 / Test of Questionnaire --- p.8 / Sample Size --- p.9 / Method of Approaching Respondents --- p.9 / Anonymity --- p.10 / Data Analysis --- p.10 / Chapter II. --- LITERATURE REVIEW --- p.11 / Report of the Project by Porter and McKibbin --- p.11 / Large Scale Changes in MBA in the United States during the early 1990s --- p.12 / Current Trend of change of MBA in the United States --- p.13 / MBA in Asia --- p.15 / MBA in Hong Kong --- p.15 / MBA in Taiwan --- p.16 / Chapter III. --- PROFILE OF THE PARTICIPATING FULL TIME MBA PROGRAMMES --- p.18 / Full Time MBA Programme of The Chinese University Of Hong Kong --- p.18 / Establishment --- p.18 / Objectives --- p.18 / Entry Format --- p.19 / Curriculum --- p.19 / Specific Activities for Students --- p.20 / Overall Characteristics --- p.20 / Full Time MBA Programme of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology --- p.21 / Establishment --- p.21 / Objectives --- p.21 / Entry Format --- p.22 / Curriculum --- p.22 / Specific Activities for Students --- p.23 / Overall Characteristics --- p.23 / MBA of National Chengchi University --- p.23 / Establishment --- p.24 / Objectives --- p.24 / Entry Format --- p.24 / Curriculum --- p.25 / Specific Activities for Students --- p.25 / Overall Characteristics --- p.26 / MBA of National Taiwan University --- p.26 / Establishment --- p.26 / Objectives --- p.27 / Entry Format --- p.27 / Curriculum --- p.27 / Specific Activities for Students --- p.28 / Overall Characteristics --- p.28 / Chapter IV. --- RESEARCH FINDINGS AND ANALYSIS --- p.29 / Response Rate --- p.29 / Overall Sample Characteristics --- p.30 / Sex --- p.30 / Age Range --- p.31 / Highest Academic Qualification Obtained --- p.32 / Working Experience --- p.33 / Major Source of Financial Support of Study --- p.34 / Motivations of Taking MBA --- p.34 / Criterion of Choosing Present MBA --- p.36 / Emphasis on Quality of Students by Faculty --- p.37 / Usefulness of Various Methods of Selecting Students in Recruitment --- p.38 / Emphasis of Present MBA on Various Quality of Students --- p.39 / Performance in MBA of Students According to Various Quality of Student --- p.40 / Attributes of Performance of Students --- p.41 / Usefulness of Specific Fields/Subjects --- p.42 / Usefulness of Various Kinds of Course Work --- p.43 / Emphasis in Academic Development Versus Practical Development --- p.44 / Abundance of Electives and Availability of Electives --- p.45 / Number of Elective Courses --- p.45 / Variety of Elective Courses --- p.46 / Availability of Favorite Elective Courses --- p.46 / Courses Wanted to See Added --- p.47 / Performance of Faculty of MBA --- p.48 / Likelihood of Fulfillment of Goal --- p.49 / Overall Findings --- p.50 / Chapter V. --- RECOMMENDATION --- p.54 / APPENDIX --- p.65 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.85

For as long as I can remember words and stories have been my safe haven. Whenever the demands of the real world feel overwelming I take my refuge in my imagination. So I decided to base my collection on this world of mine, this haven. The materials and silouettes describe my world, each outfit describing a different charachter. / Program: Modedesignutbildningen

The Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDDM), a growing field of study argued to be very useful in discovering knowledge hidden in large datasets are slowly finding application in Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs). While literature shows that KDDM processes enable discovery of knowledge useful to improve performance of organisations, limitations surrounding them contradict this argument. While extending the usefulness of KDDM processes to support HEIs, challenges were encountered like the discovery of course taking patterns in educational datasets associated with contextual information. While literature argued that existing KDDM processes suffer from the limitations arising out of their inability to generate patterns associated with contextual information, this research tested this claim and developed an artefact that overcame the limitation. Design Science methodology was used to test and evaluate the KDDM artefact. The research used the CRISP-DM process model to test the educational dataset using attributes namely course taking pattern, course difficulty level, optimum CGPA and time-to-degree by applying clustering, association rule and classification techniques. The results showed that both clustering and association rules did not produce course taking patterns. Classification produced course taking patterns that were partially linked to CGPA and time-to-degree. But optimum CGPA and time-to-degree could not be linked with contextual information. Hence the CRISP-DM process was modified to include three new stages namely contextual data understanding, contextual data preparation and additional data preparation (merging) stage to see whether contextual dataset could be separately mined and associated with course taking pattern. The CRISP-DM model and the modified CRISP-DM model were tested as per the guidelines of Chapman et al. (2000). Process theory was used as basis for the modification of CRISP-DM process. Results showed that course taking pattern contextualised by course difficulty level pattern predicts optimum CGPA and time-to-degree. This research has contributed to knowledge by developing a new artefact (contextual factor mining in the CRISP-DM process) to predict optimum CGPA and optimum time-to-degree using course taking pattern and course difficulty level pattern. Contribution to theory was in extension of the application of a few theories to explain the development, testing and evaluation of the KDDM artefact. Enhancement of genetic algorithm (GA) to mine course difficulty level pattern along with course taking pattern is a contribution and a pseudocode to verify the presence of course difficulty level pattern. Contribution to practise was by demonstrating the usefulness of the modified CRISP-DM process for prediction and simulation of the course taking pattern to predict the optimum CGPA and time-to-degree thereby demonstrating that the artefact can be deployed in practise.

We study the degree structures of the strong reducibilities $(\leq_{ibT})$ and $(\leq_{cl})$, as well as $(\leq_{rK})$ and $(\leq_{wtt})$. We show that any noncomputable c.e. set is part of a uniformly c.e. copy of $(\BQ,\leq)$ in the c.e. cl-degrees within a single wtt-degree; that there exist uncountable chains in each of the degree structures in question; and that any countable partially-ordered set can be embedded into the cl-degrees, and any finite partially-ordered set can be embedded into the ibT-degrees. We also offer new proofs of results of Barmpalias and Lewis-Barmpalias concerning the non-existence of cl-maximal sets.

We study the degree structures of the strong reducibilities $(\leq_{ibT})$ and $(\leq_{cl})$, as well as $(\leq_{rK})$ and $(\leq_{wtt})$. We show that any noncomputable c.e. set is part of a uniformly c.e. copy of $(\BQ,\leq)$ in the c.e. cl-degrees within a single wtt-degree; that there exist uncountable chains in each of the degree structures in question; and that any countable partially-ordered set can be embedded into the cl-degrees, and any finite partially-ordered set can be embedded into the ibT-degrees. We also offer new proofs of results of Barmpalias and Lewis-Barmpalias concerning the non-existence of cl-maximal sets.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2003. / Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains x, 224 p.; also includes graphics. Includes abstract and vita. Advisors: George E. Newell and Diane Belcher, College of Education. Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-224).

Color stability and cooked muscle color were evaluated in relation to myoglobin content, oxygen consumption rate, pH, lipid oxidation, oxygen penetration depth, metmyoglobin reductase activity, Hunter L*- a*- b*- values, discoloration, and degree of doneness for the M. Infraspinatus (IF), M. Triceps brachii (TB), M. Teres major (TM), M. Rectus femoris (RF), M. Vastus lateralis (VL), M. Semimembranosus (SM), M. Biceps femoris (BF), M. Semitendinosus (ST), M. Gluteus medius (GM), as well as the M. Psoas major (PM), and M. Longissimus lumborum (LL). Steaks from these muscles were segmented into a low oxygen dark, low oxygen light, high oxygen, and PVC overwrap packaging environment for six days of retail display. There were no major differences in pH, oxygen consumption rate, or myoglobin reductase acitivity between shelf-life days and packaging environments for the muscles used in the study. The VL, TB, ST, SM, and the GM had higher levels of lipid oxidation in the later days of shelf-life storage and were higher (P < 0.05) in high oxygen packaging compared to the other three treatments. Oxygen penetration depth was greater (P < 0.05) over all storage days for the high oxygen treatment in the TB and LL as compared to the other treatments. Hunter CIE a* and b* values significantly decreased across all muscles for the high oxygen and PVC treatments. Discoloration increased significantly as storage days increased in the high oxygen and PVC treatments for the TB, SM, VL, BF, IF, GM, PM, and TM. Degree of doneness was higher (P < 0.05) for the PM, TB, and SM muscles in a high oxygen atmosphere as compared to the low oxygen light and low oxygen dark treatments. Aerobic reducing ability tended to decrease as retail shelf-life day increased. A high oxygen environment increased rancidity, oxygen penetration depth, redness values, and degree of doneness (P < 0.05) when compared to a low oxygen light and low oxygen dark modified atmosphere package.

In this work we study the following problem on constrained approximation. Let f be a continuous mapping defined on a bounded domain with piecewise smooth boundary in R^n and taking values in R^n. What are necessary and sufficient conditions for f to be uniformly approximable by C^1-smooth mappings with nonnegative Jacobian? When the dimension is equal to one, this is just approximation by monotone smooth functions. Hence, the necessary and sufficient condition is: the function is monotone. On the other hand, for higher dimensions the description is not as clear. We give a simple necessary condition in terms of the topological degree of continuous mapping. We also give some sufficient conditions for dimension 2. It also turns out that if the dimension is greater than one, then there exist real-analytic mappings with nonnegative Jacobian that cannot be approximated by smooth mappings with positive Jacobian. In our study of the above mentioned question we use topological degree theory, Schoenflies-type extension theorems, and Stoilow's topological characterization of complex analytic functions.

In this work we study the following problem on constrained approximation. Let f be a continuous mapping defined on a bounded domain with piecewise smooth boundary in R^n and taking values in R^n. What are necessary and sufficient conditions for f to be uniformly approximable by C^1-smooth mappings with nonnegative Jacobian? When the dimension is equal to one, this is just approximation by monotone smooth functions. Hence, the necessary and sufficient condition is: the function is monotone. On the other hand, for higher dimensions the description is not as clear. We give a simple necessary condition in terms of the topological degree of continuous mapping. We also give some sufficient conditions for dimension 2. It also turns out that if the dimension is greater than one, then there exist real-analytic mappings with nonnegative Jacobian that cannot be approximated by smooth mappings with positive Jacobian. In our study of the above mentioned question we use topological degree theory, Schoenflies-type extension theorems, and Stoilow's topological characterization of complex analytic functions.