Along with the progress of Information and Communication Technology, there has been a great change in the field of e-learning. For instance, the Distance Teaching, the Web-Based Teaching, and the Digital Teaching System, they all strengthen diversified Information and Communication Technology and applications of multi¡Vmedia content. Meanwhile, teachers must make good use of those new teaching tools in their teaching soon to make the tools effective. In order to make the Digital Teaching System soon become a teaching tool for teachers, this study makes the service system get involved with the Digital Teaching System and the teaching satisfaction. The Digital Teaching System uses TAM to learn the willing to use Information and Communication equipment. With the service system, which includes hardware, software, teacher training (teaching materials), and customer service, and finally teachers are provided with the Digital Teaching System to be more willing to use the equipment and moreover, to improve their teaching effectiveness. ¡@ Based on Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), this study tries to point out if the teaching satisfaction will be improved after the service system gets involved with the Digital Teaching System. Many different cram schools with their classes using tools of e-learning in Kaohsiung City are chosen and 200 questionnaires are collected to be analyzed in detail. ¡@¡@ The result shows that the service system has a distinct direct positive impact on the Digital Teaching System. Moreover, the impact on the Digital Teaching System also improves the teaching satisfaction indirectly. Hopefully, the study will prove that the service system can help the process of digital teaching go well, and the related institutions which want to promote Classroom of the Future can work faster and more easily in the future.

The past research concerning pets mostly focused on the assistance rendered by pets. Due to the climate of lesser child and never-go marry, more and more people treat pets like their children indeed. What they care does not limit to practical purposes such as guard and accompany, but also the pet¡¦s needs. They are willing to offer their pets all sorts of foods, goods and services so that their pets are happy with. On the other hand, the video technology reaches its maturity and is widely applied to mobile communication, house monitoring, and kindergarten monitoring. In addition, such technology is accessed to pet hotels, pet parlors, pet sitters and pet clinics where the pet owners can surf on their 3G phones to watch their pets at any time. This study aims to explore the pet owners¡¦ recognition of perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use and use intention in terms of video technology. This study is based on the framework of TAM, using raising attitude as external variable whereas subjective norm as independent variable to willingness to use. The questionnaires were sent to the pet owners through random sampling in Taiwan. 481 copies were retrieved and conducted SPSS and AMOS analysis. The findings indicate that all hypotheses are validated except two hypotheses- one is the pet owners ¡¥s mental propensity toward their pets is not related to the perceived ease of use of video technology, the other is perceived ease of use is not related to use intention. Therefore, the results confirm that¡G1. The feelings of the pet owners for their pets incur positive impact on their recognition toward the perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use of video technology, 2. With subjective norm, the pet owners are more willing to use video technology. 3. If video technology facilitated easy caring for pets, the pet owners could easily recognize its perceived usefulness. 4. If the pet owners consider video technology perceived usefulness for keeping their pets, they have no intention to use such device to care about their pets. 5. For pet business sectors, it is imperative to make use of video technology in order to convince the pet owners of its conveniences which can be always appealing to the pet owners.

ABSTRACT The main purpose of this study is to investigate the usage of web-based teachers' training in elementary and high school. This study adopts motivational orientations and TAM to explore the related factors that affect the usage of web-based teachers' training. The study depends on literature analysis and uses the questionnaire to collect data. A total of 658 subjects attending teachers' training courses are from K12 Digital School. The collected data is processed and analyzed with SPSS for Windows 10.0, and statistical methods adopted in this study are descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, regression analysis and so on. The main findings show that there are 8 motivational orientations for web-based teachers' training and motivational orientations are significant differences among subjects in different age, status, school level and teaching years. Furthermore, computer self-efficacy, social relationships and attitude toward using will significantly affect the usage of web-based teachers' training positively, and perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use toward web-based training system will significantly affect attitude. As for perceived ease of use toward web-based training system, it will significantly affect perceived usefulness toward web-based training system and be affected by computer self-efficacy positively. Finally, based on the research findings, this study proposes conclusions and suggestions for the related organizations and the follow-up research.

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With the rapid growth of cellur phone users in Taiwan,the voice service market is going to mature.The 2.5G and 3G become the main stream.The license of 3G has released in last year.Therefore,mobile value-added services are more and more important for telecommunication service oprators.The study combines the TAM and task-technology fit theory to analyze the adoption of mobile value-added services.

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 1982.

Hematopoietic cells are recruited to and co-opted by the growing tumor making expansive tumor growth possible. Although several cell types become associated with the growing tumor, macrophages play a fundamental role. The movement of macrophages across the basement membrane and through the extracellular matrix to the tumor site requires the activation of proteases, such as plasmin, at their cell surface. The proteolytic aspect of macrophage recruitment may represent an exploitable aspect of tumor growth in terms of therapeutic strategies. Here I show that the S100A10 protein facilitates the infiltration of macrophages into the site of tumor growth by stimulating the generation of the protease plasmin at their surface. Using a mouse model in which wild-type (WT) and S100A10-null mice are inoculated with tumor cells, a decrease in tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) and greatly diminished tumor growth in tumors grown in S100A10-null mice was observed. Although tumor growth in S100A10-null mice could be restored by intraperitoneal injection of WT macrophages, S100A10-null macrophages only restored tumor growth when directly injected into the tumor. Lastly, selective depletion of macrophages from a WT mouse by liposome encapsulated clodronate treatment resulted in similar tumor growth deficits as in the S100A10-null mouse. These results highlight a new role for the S100A10 protein in the recruitment of TAMs to the tumor site and demonstrate a potential therapeutic strategy in which the tumor associated cells may be targeted.

Today, one of the foremost tools used by the library staff is the library catalogue search tools. It has come to our understanding that some library staff are dissatisfied with how the search tools works. The aim of this study is to illuminate the library staff's negative experiences of the search tools, and to present a basis for future discussion and development. To our help we have used a quantitative survey which were sent to library staff that used one of the two largest integrated library systems in Sweden, BOOK-IT and Mikromarc. The questions regarded the library staff's perception of a number of features in the search tools. The results showed that in general, the overall impression of the catalogue search tools were positive, even though dissatisfaction with specific features could be observed, e.g. the system's way of handling misspellings and the ability to search the catalogue when the system is offline. This study can be seen as a small step on the way to better search tools in the library catalogue, giving the library staff better and more effective ways of providing service to the library users.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Leicester in association with University of Hong Kong, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 126-136). Also available in print.

Användandet av tekniska verktyg förutspås vara en viktig del av hur camping- och hotellverksamheter utvecklar sina kundrelationer. Existerande forskning fokuserar mestadels på Augmented Reality och gamification som separata koncept. Tidigare forskning visar att Augmented Reality såväl som Gamification kan nyttjas av serviceverksamheter för att skapa värde för sina kunder i form av stärkt kundengagemang, sociala fördelar och en stärkt marknadsposition för företaget. Det blir allt vanligare för företag att använda digitala marknadsföringsverktyg för att styra sina kunders beteende och skapa kundlojalitet. En avsaknad av att tillämpa tekniken som ett förenat koncept, AR-Gamification, inom camping- och hotellverksamheter har noterats. Denna studie ämnar öka förståelsen för vilket intresse och acceptans det finns för AR-Gamification inom camping- och hotellverksamheter. För att undersöka detta har en marknadsundersöknings gjorts. Som verktyg för undersökningen har TAM använts. I tidigare forskning används denna modell för att studera hur ny teknik tas emot och accepteras, vilket ligger i linje med denna studies syfte. Påverkande faktorer i hur teknik tas emot och accepteras identifieras i TAM i variabler kring externa faktorer, uppfattad användbarhet samt uppfattad användarvänlighet. Start up-företaget JIVVIS produkt, en AR-Gamifierad Skattjakt har använts för att konkretisera tekniken som studeras. Utifrån det har slutsatser dragits gällande AR-Gamification i stort för hela camping- och hotellbranschen. Marknadsundersökningen resulterar i en modifierad TAM för studiens kontext. Denna slutgiltiga TAM genereras utifrån tidigare forskning och modifierats utifrån resultatet som presenteras utifrån studiens insamlade empiri. Studiens empiri bekräftar vissa aspekter av tidigare forskning men har även resulterat i oanade teman vilket ses som studiens teoretiska bidrag. Av de externa faktorer som identifierats i tidigare forskning kunde variabeln målgrupp bekräftas vara en påverkande faktor utifrån studiens insamlade data. Utöver detta uppkom oanade teman i användbarhet såväl som användarvänlighet av AR-Gamification inom camping- och hotellkontext. Användbarhet av AR-Gamification inom verksamheterna sågs inte bara i den AR-Gamifierade Skattjakt som presenteras utan även som verktyg för att effektivisera och underlätta gästernas hotellvistelse i form av en AR-Gamifierad Karta. Respondenterna i studien betonade, precis som tidigare forskning, den tekniska komplexitetens inverkan på acceptansen med tillskottet att den bör beaktas både ur slutanvändarperspektiv samt verksamhetsperspektiv. Studiens resultat kan stå till grund för om och hur JIVVI såväl som andra bolag med ARGamificationrelaterade tjänster/produkter ska närma sig camping- och hotellbranschen. Studien ger även ökad förståelse för intresset och acceptansen för AR-Gamification och kan därigenom ge företag insikter om hur de bör anpassa sin produkt/tjänst utifrån branschens önskemål.