This study includes six dimensions: article¡¦s attributions, author¡¦s traits, the identities of censors, the opinions of censors, the results of judgment and the processes of publication; uses content analysis to describe the present editorial situation of Journal of Human Resource Management (JHRM) and constructs the regression model by the logistic regression using four dimensions except the results of judgment and the processes of publication. The findings indicate two sides, the first one is on the content analysis: it has a significant difference between the year of contribution and references, article¡¦s issue, total pages, number of authors, days from submission to acceptance, days from submission to publication; and different academic title also affect the article¡¦s research method. The second one is on the effect factor of the article is published or not: article¡¦s attributions and author¡¦s traits, including 16 variables, have no any effects on the acceptance of an article, but the identities of censors and the opinions of censors, including 8 variables, do have significant effects on it. The important factors to the article are the number of censors, the application of entirety, the innovation of deliverance and the completeness of viewpoint and as the order for influencing the acceptance of an article.

Taiwan is usually considered as a small open economy. Trade and exchange rate policies in Taiwan have substantially changed since the mid-1980s. Not only has trade been liberalized, but exchange rates of the New Taiwan Dollar(NTD) were also allowed to fluctuate. This paper applies the Threshold Regression Model that puted forward of Cancer and Hansen (2004) and combines the expectation-augmented Phillips curve with a threshold for the pass-through. The paper examines whether the short-run magnitude of the pass-through is affected by the business cycle, direction and magnitude of the exchange rate change. For that purpose, two variables are tested as thresholds: (1)output gap, (2)exchange rate change. The results indicate that the short-run pass-through is higher when the economy is booming, as well as the exchange rate depreciates above some threshold. And they have important implications for monetary policy and are possibly related to pricing-to-market behavior and menu costs of price a djustment.

In the thesis, we study the data collected from VICU of Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital.The data consists of the following two kinds. The data of the first kind is ten minute ECG data with sampling frequency 500Hz. The data of the second kind is long term one minute average heart rate. There are two main topics studies in this thesis. In the first part, we consider the standard deviations which be taked log and medians of RR intervals, PR intervals and RT intervals, respectively derived from first kind data. By considering the odds ratio¡Bsensitivity and specificity, and we select the heart classification vectors. The object is to classify among normal and ventricular heart disease (VSD), normal and ventricular heart disease with congestive heart failure (VSD+CHF). We proposed a method of both variables and two-step classification procedure. Furthermore, we built the logistic regression models. In the second part, we derive the distribution of the spectrum power ratio of low frequency to high frequency. Shewhart control chart and Tabular cusum chart are constructed to monitor RG. Also, we discover the periodicity of RG. Finally, there exists positive correlation between RA¡]or RG¡^ and autocorrelation of lag one of RR interval.

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Sample size calculation methods for ordinal logistic regression are proposed to test statistical hypotheses. The author was motivated to do this work by the need for statistical analysis of the red imported fire ants data. The proposed methods use the concept of approximation by the moment-generating function. Some correction methods are also suggested. When a prior data set is available, an empirical method is explored. Application of the proposed methodology to the fire ant mating flight data is demonstrated. The proposed sample size and power calculation methods are applied in the hypothesis testing problems. Simulation studies are also conducted to illustrate their performance and to compare them with existing methods.

Globalization in business has become increasingly common, so stronger company that is seeking for growth tends to merge and acquire other companies since it is more beneficial to take over an existing firm's operations and niche compared to expanding on its own. Integration shortly after merger and acquisition is key to a company¡¦s long-term success, because top-management team must alter an organization¡¦s structure and establish new strategies to adjust to the rapid changing environment. Therefore, we can conclude that the role of top-management teams during the process of mergers and acquisitions is critical. After merger and acquisition, whether or not the top-management team of the target firm should be replaced remains a good question. Not only should the working ability and the accomplishment of the top-management teams be considered, but other internal and external reasons that might affect this alteration should also be considered. This research looks to discuss why the top-management team for the target firm should or should not remain in the office. We¡¦ve selected acquisition firm and target firm from the listed companies at the stock exchange market, over-the-counter market, and emerging stock market in 1997 to 2006 to be our study sample. We will try to figure out the retained ratio for the top management teams by using regression model analysis. The result of this study shows that the type of M & A, the experience of the acquisition firm, and the type of industry they are in have great impact on the retained ratio of the top-management teams.

<p>Today's young people are well-educated ever but in a poor employment situation. At the beginning of this paper, I first state the situation both in the world and in China, revealing the poor employment situation of youth. Then I introduce systems related to youth employment in China and measures the government taken to help graduate students to find a job. The purpose of this paper is to analyze employment of youth people in China especially among the medium and highly educated people and find which and how the factors contribute to it. By using the Logistic Regression by STATA, I find that the main factors are gender, age, living area, and political status, major and educational level. The result reveals that the discrimination and gap between rural and urban area are severe issues in China. Last but not least, I give some suggestions both to the society and the individual to improve the youth employment.</p>

Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on March 10, 2010). The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Thesis advisor: Dr. Mark Fine. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M. Phil.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 44). Also available in electronic version. Access restricted to campus users.

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