Avian Influenza (AI) has made hundreds of people dead in Europe. The hospital system of Taiwan, standing in the first line of prevention and treatment, has to effectively employ the experience of SARS in order to tackle the new serious challenge of AI. Though Taiwan is not yet an epidemic area of AI, it is important for us to be well prepared to confront it. Given that prevention is more important than treatment. It is essential that we try our best to build up an efficiently preventive system for AI. This study aims to investigate what is most important and critical in the preventive system. More specifically, what is a priority to do in such a preventive system, especially in a limited condition of budgets and human resources? According to the five stages of crisis management proposed by Mitroff (1988) (see page 35), the current study focuses mainly on operations in the second stage, preparation and prevention of crisis. In terms of analytic hierarchy process (AHP), it designs a questionnaire to systematically interview 12 doctors. Since four of them are outliers when the consistency test is considered, results are based primarily on the opinions of the remaining 8 doctors. The results are summarized as follows. 1. Before the crisis comes, both ¡§the training of doctors and nurses¡¨ (weighted value = 0.3195) and ¡§the regularization of preventive process¡¨ (weighted value = 0.2978) are most important. 2. The regularization of preventive process (weighted value = 0.3066) is most economic in the limited condition of budgets that is available to the preventive operations. Accordingly, it is a best way to regularize the individual operations and spread the concept of the regularization. 3. The training of doctors and nurses (weighted value = 0.3513) is most important in the limited condition of human resources, that recently appears gradual reduction among hospitals. That is, by means of rehearsal of related operations and of training courses, the crew in a hospital can have an understanding of AI spreading in a short period of time. 4. In consideration of hard equipments, the doctors to be questioned hold similar opinions, as mentioned above. Apparently, the mastery of various preventive operations in the preventive system plays a critical role in that whether the AI crisis will continue to develop. 5. Only in consideration of the effects of prevention, the training of doctors and nurses is also most important. In conclusion, the experts all think that the training of doctors and nurses is a priority, regardless of in what conditions. The findings of the study hope to provide references for other hospitals by manifesting the order of the importance of different preventive operations in the preventive system.

Det här är en studie med utgångspunkt i journalisten och musikern Kristian Gidlunds självbiografiska bloggberättelse i kroppen min, som han skrev sedan han blev sjuk i cancer i mars 2011 tills dess att han dog i september 2013, strax innan sin 30-års dag. Bloggen hade omkring 1,5 miljoner läsare i oktober 2012 och gavs ut i bokform med titeln I kroppen min: resan mot livets slut och alltings början under våren 2013. Studien ansluter till ett Netnografiskt fält som syftar till att undersöka social samvaro på internet, då jag undersöker bloggen i kroppen min som bärare av en samtida, meningsskapande funktion. Utifrån ett fenomenologiskt perspektiv och ett Foucaultinspirerat perspektiv om makt och tystnad undersöker jag bloggen som en erfarenhetsvärld mellan en subjektiv och objektiv livsvärld, där subjektet får utrymme att kontrollera sin livsberättelse (sitt livsslut) i relation till en upplevd samtid.

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Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att tolka Janne i Peter Pohls Janne, min vän utifrån ett queerteoretiskt perspektiv. Genom att använda mig av queerteorins tankar om kön/genus, normalitet och identitet tror jag mig kunna ge en alternativ bild av Jannes liv. Mitt mål är att försöka hitta en bild som skiljer sig från den, så ofta förekommande i tidigare forskning, om flickan som måste klä ut sig till kille för att ha en chans till frihet. Istället kommer jag fokusera på hur Janne, i vänskapen med Krille och gänget, får möjlighet att skapa en identitet och ett liv på egna premisser.

Uppsatsen undersöker och diskuterar begreppet "implicit författare" med utgångspunkt i en hypotetisk-intentionalistisk tolkningsmodell för skönlitterära texter. Uppsatsens syfte är att fördjupa och precisera begreppet "implicit författare", samt att visa hur begreppet kan vara behjälpligt vid en analys av ett skönlitterärt verk. Uppsatsen avslutas med en exemplifierande analys av inledningen till Karl Ove Knausgårds roman Min kamp.

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A fair and optimal mechanism is required for allocating bandwidth to virtual machine migration in a WAN environment. In this thesis, we propose a dynamic resource allocation algorithm running in either centralized or distributed environments. The centralized version of our algorithm collects information from individual users and dynamically allocates bandwidth according to their demands. The distributed version of our algorithm is running on the internal nodes (e.g. routers) in the network. In the distributed case, we show that even when the routers and the users do not exchange allocation information, the allocation is still stable and optimal if the users are elastic users. Another interesting problem we solved is emergency handling, which is also critical in virtual machine live migration.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2005. / Added title page in Korean: Hanmin Kyohoe yugŭpcha sayŏk kaebal Orientation 880-02 Includes bibliographical references (leaves 98-103).

Afscheidscollege--Utrecht. / Includes bibliographical references.

Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 466-487). Also available online in ProQuest, free to University of Oregon users.