This study discusses main risk factors of ovarian tumor to determine a tumor type. Since symptoms of ovarian tumor are not obvious as the tumors are located in pelvic, the ovarian tumor is difficult to detect. The symptoms are mostly stomach or lower abdomen swellings, which are often ignored. The probability of ovarian cancer is lower than cervical cancer, but the mortality rate is the highest of all gynecologic diseases. The study uses statistical methods to analyze risk factors of patients to determine the tumor type and an early treatment in order to reduce the death rate. The sources of the studies are from Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital and are classified according to different cases of tumors based on ultrasound checks and other relevant risk factors, such as ages and tumor marks so as to provide a determined method to distinguish among benign, borderline and malignant ovarian tumors in order to create appropriate classification criteria for followups, surgeries, and references for tracking. To differentiate between malignant and nonmalignant (benign and borderline) cases, we use risk factors to construct classification and regression trees so as to help physicians to determine the tumor type. In the situation in which the non-malignant tumor may be determined, we use logistic regression model according to the degree of influence of risk factors to further classify between benign and borderline tumors. The aforementioned process can determine tumor types precisely and can also determine surgery types so as to help determining whether patients would need a follow-up.

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In the age of Knowledge-based Economy, knowledge will become the main motive power of economic growth. Patent, as one of the indicators of intellectual properties, is suitable for measuring the competition potential, technology capabilities, and innovation performance of corporations. In the model of mass production and fast manufacturing, the price of goods decrease acutely and getting the Taiwanese corporations into the low margin age. How to make the most of intellectual properties and patents to increase the additional value is the key to success. Taiwanese companies had starting to apply for patents in many countries, but the licensing fee and litigation are still in high level. That express that the qualities and quantities of the patents are still not enough to cover the technologies and products of Taiwanese companies. This study takes computer heat dissipation industry for example, and using the patent analysis, Logistic curve, and patent strategy matrix to discuss the patent application and patent strategy. The research result shows that the computer heat dissipation industry is in the mature stage, the degree of patent is crowded, and the rate of change is slow. Most of the Taiwanese companies are small scale and not good at inventing in the most advanced technologies. Especially in this mature industry, this study suggest Taiwanese corporations should take licensing, avoiding existing patents, and improvement development as basic patent strategies. Not to apply lots of patents in small scope to suit each other, but should establish patent alliance or co-development, even join or make the industry standard to earn competition advantages.

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Books and magazines are the two most popular merchandises traded through e-Commerce. This thesis is a case study of the largest online bookstore ¡§Books.com.tw¡¨ in Taiwan. It was founded in 1995 and was the first online bookstore for Chinese Internet customers. Without brick-and-mortar bookstore, ¡§Books.com.tw¡¨ has focused on the advances of information technology and the efficiency of e-commerce operation. This research analyzes the trends of online bookstore and the impact of the 24-hour delivery service by ¡§Books.com.tw.¡¨ The qualitative research method was adopted for the research design, data collection and analysis. The research results are summarized into the following four findings. First, the e-commerce strategies of ¡§Books.com.tw¡¨ have extended to from selling books, CDs or DVDs to become an e-retailer. Second, the word-of-mouth marketing and virus marketing play important role for the online bookstore that can effectively approach its target customers. Third, the success of ¡§Books.com.tw¡¨ can be comprised of the three online transaction characteristics that are convenience, safety and speed. The service has built customers¡¦ royalty and increased repurchase rate as well as the sales and the profits. Finally, with the information integration associated with the efficient logistic management, ¡§Books.com.tw¡¨ successfully executes the 24-hour delivery policy that has firmly assured its leading position of online bookstore in Taiwan for recent years.

The research of corporate financial distress prediction model is always one of the important topics in financial management; and mostly people do the research and extract sample companies based on the definition for corporate default by Taiwan Economic Journal. However, we think the timing to observe the potential corporate financial distress is extremely vital; the actual benefit will not be good even with high accuracy if relevant counterparties recognize it too late to undertake certain action for mitigating loss. The main purpose of this study is trying to alert potential corporate financial distress as early as possible, and then could contribute some to this topic. This study extracts 34 financial alerted sample companies with share prices plumped by 50% dramatically or alternatively with share prices diminished below their face value while the stock market index rose in 2007. We matched each sample company by another financially healthy company from the same industry, chose 25 financial ratios to be the variables, and running through each year by adopting logistic regression analysis. We put all variables into the regression formula and weeded out insignificant prediction variables one by one by Wald Backward Elimination, and then sieved out relatively meaningful ones. The first conclusion of this study is that we should use quarter as the financial intervals for this type of sample companies. Secondly, we found that in December and September 2007 there were three significant variables, i.e. Return on Equity (ROE), net income, operational profit ratio, inventory and account receivable to equity ratio. Thirdly, there were three significant variables in June 2007, i.e. earning before tax ratio, growth ratio of operational profit and total liability/ total equity.

This paper provides a credit risk quantification system for banks to estaminate the credit risk of loans to small and mediume nterprises(SMEs). As we know, the most difficult thing for banks to handle SME loans is whose financial reporting lacks transparency and no valuable reference. We use non-financial variables and employ the logisitic regression to develop the credit risk predict model. We concludet: first, when construct a SMEs credit rating system, non-financial factors should be seriously considered and adopted. Second, because of positioned different stage of firm life cycle, the credit rating model should be set up differently by different stage of firm. Third, SME loans should to make much of establishing ¡§relationship-based¡¨ in order to meet the various demands of risk management.

<p>Unibrands is a small company that has implemented a postponement strategy without knowing it. However, they have not implemented completely because they do not know the theories behind it. This report is an attempt to understand and analyze the problems of the implementation of postponement in the supply chain of Unibrands, in terms of examining the theoretical succeeds factors of postponement implementation in the case of Unibrands.The purpose is to determine what type of postponement strategy the supply chain use and what factors can hinder the use of postponement strategy in a SME fashion supply chain by applying an qualitative research approach. The collection of empirical data was through the interview guide approach in which we used meetings and telephone interviews with people representing Unibrands and their contact trading company. The results of this research can be concluded in few perspectives. Unibrands is imple-menting postponement in an improper format, with the results of several gaps in the supply chain related to the success factor in postponement. The request for the fully customization in colors and materials, the bottleneck of relationship developing which is caused by factory manager,  complicated procedures for sample testing, and lack of knowledge of different relationships in the supply chain. Postponement is never perfect, but for Unibrands some problems could very well hinder the efficiency in the supply chain. Solutions are proposed to solve the problems in chain. The proposals suggest re-lationship improvement and information sharing. In addition, culture adaptation by in-volving the right people in the right process.</p>