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.

This study investigated the examinees&rsquo / perceptions about an online assessment tool and an online assessment center. In this study, a computer literacy exam (Bilisim Seviye Tespit Sinavi, BSTS) was delivered in purposively designed environment, an online assessment center, at CEC, METU (Continuing Education Center, Middle East Technical University). The data were collected from 117 participants through the &ldquo / User evaluation questionnaire&rdquo / , in depth interviews with 43 examinees and 7 experts. 7 participants and the experts were interviewed individually while the rest 36 participants were interviewed in 6 focus groups (composed of 6 examinees). Descriptive statistics, frequency distributions and comments of participants and experts were used to express the results of the study. The results showed that the examinees perceived the online assessment tool and the online assessment center suitable for delivering online assessments. However, both participants and experts reported that a few changes could be done to the interface of online assessment tool. They also suggested that the computer literacy assessments be more authentic.

Abstract This study concerns contents of several organotin compounds, monobutyltin (MBT), dibutyltin (DBT), tributyltin (TBT), monophenyltin (MPhT), diphenyltin (DPhT) and triphenyltin (TPhT), in seafood. Seafood samples were collected from markets and coastal zone in Taiwan, and contents of organotins were analyzed by Grignard reagent derivation coupled with GC/FPD. Besides, the tolerable daily intake (TDI) of (TBT+DBT), mean body weight of Taiwan citizen and the consumption of seafood were used to derive the tolerable average residue level (TARL) of the compounds. The risk assessment was implemented by comparing the content to TARL. The contents of TBT, DBT, MBT, TPhT, DPhT and MPhT in seafood ranged N. D~48.36 ng Sn/g wet wt., N. D~36.68 ng Sn/g wet wt., N. D~79.19 ng Sn/g wet wt., N. D~225.53 ng Sn/g wet wt., N. D~128.16 ng Sn/g wet wt., N. D ~ 95.44 ng Sn/g wet wt., respectively. Reference survey showed that mean body weight of Taiwan citizen is 54.42 Kg, and seafood consumption rate is 127.59 g/day/person. A TARL of 44.27 ng Sn/g wet wt. is derived accordingly. Of all the 71 samples, only 4 contain more (TBT+DBT) than the TARL. On the other hand, (TBT+DBT) contents weighed by consumed ratio averaged 3.87 ng Sn/g wet wt., which is far under the TARL. Different visions lead to the same conclusion that (TBT+DBT) content of seafood in Taiwan is far away from dangerous level. This study also concluded that cooking process doesn¡¦t affect the contents of organotin compounds of seafood, and the Grignard reagents contribute to the TBT blank signal. Furthermore, the independence between organotins and factors such as classifications, sampling area or habitat was discussed.

Since the 1970s, various private and governmental agencies have conducted studies to assess potential unconventional gas resources, particularly those resources contained in tight sands, fractured shales, and coal beds. The US Geological Survey (USGS) has assessed the amount of unconventional gas resources in North America, and its estimates are used by other government agencies as the basis for their resource estimates. While the USGS employs a probabilistic methodology, it is apparent from the resulting narrow ranges that the methodology underestimates the uncertainty of these undiscovered, untested, potential resources, which in turn limits the reliability and usefulness of the assessments. The objective of this research is to develop an improved methodology to assess potential unconventional gas resources that better accounts for the uncertainty in these resources. This study investigates the causes of the narrow ranges generated by the USGS analyticprobabilistic methodology used to prepare the 1995 national oil and gas assessment and the 2000 NOGA series, and presents an improved methodology to assess potential unconventional gas resources. The new model improves upon the USGS method by using a stochastic approach, which includes correlation between the input variables and Monte Carlo simulation, representing a more versatile and robust methodology than the USGS analytic-probabilistic methodology. The improved methodology is applied to the assessment of potential unconventional gas resources in the Uinta-Piceance province of Utah and Colorado, and compared to results of the evaluation performed by the USGS in 2002. Comparison of the results validates the means and standard deviations produced by the USGS methodology, but shows that the probability distributions generated are rather different and, that the USGS distributions are not skewed to right, as expected for a natural resource. This study indicates that the unrealistic shape and width of the resulting USGS probability distributions are not caused by the analytic equations or lack of correlation between input parameters, but rather the use of narrow triangular probability distributions as input variables. Adoption of the improved methodology, along with a careful examination and revision of input probability distributions, will allow a more realistic assessment of the uncertainty surrounding potential unconventional gas resources.

The completion of the enlistment has become an important goal to us. To realize the policy of establishing modern military force of proper quantity, high quality and strong power, the need of high standard man power, operation and the equipment maintenance has become highly crucial. The history of enlisting professional enlisted men/women has been around 5 or 6 years, and the number of the quantity is growing gradually every year. However, the personal efficiency assessment of enlisted man/women is so far following the rules set for the officers and the NCOs (Non-Commissioned Officer), and doesn¡¦t have a specific assessment themselves. Therefore, we still don¡¦t have a concrete and complete report for the actual quality of the enlisted man/women, the satisfaction at their performance, and the fulfillment of realizing the original target of the enlistment. Nevertheless, the assessment is fairly important for it is closely related to the optimization of our army. The enlisted men/women are the basic manpower and also the major part of our force, hence, they must be well-qualified, extremely loyal, highly magnanimous, and also have a great performance. Therefore, with the limited number of the enlisted men/women, we have to have a restrained, effective, perfect management of human resource to select, train, employ, keep the superior, and eliminate the inferior. Moreover, the content, the category, and the overall grade of the assessment given to our army usually come with ranks, which have too wide range and lack of objectivity. Besides, the fairness is often influenced by the artificial factors and the results may affect certain people¡¦s right and interest. Therefore, we try to use Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to transfer the rankings into the weighted scores, and by doing so, we are able to effectively reduce and constrain the parts which are over influenced by artificial factors, so that our assessments can be fairer and more reasonable. Also we can develop a specified assessment of working performance for the enlisted men/women to separate from the ones set for the officers and the NCOs, and most important of all, for the reference to authority concerned to assess the enlisted men/women.

Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2001. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 96 p. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-96).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2000. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 56-59).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2001. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 141-148). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Liberty University School of Education, 2009. / Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Kent State University, 2008. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Jan. 20, 2010). Advisor: Lyle Barton. Keywords: Differential Reinforcement of Other behaviors; DRO; behavior intervention; autism; single subject design. Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-149).