published_or_final_version / Urban Planning / Master / Master of Science in Urban Planning

This research project proposed a unique solution to make use of these base stations to keep all subscribers alerted with warning of possible disaster should that be required. As the current, network does not provide a provision for such a noble approach, a new network model has been developed and simulated to interface a sensor (weather station, WeS), with WiMAX weather station. The weather station is based on DSP processor to receive a digitised sensor values, process these values, analyse them and if they fall within the alert zones, packet them according to WiMAX protocol and send them to subscribers. The developed standard bypasses any commercial network to offer free transmission to subscribers. This setup is also able to extract information on weather condition or react on uncertainty, i.e. disaster scenarios. Natural disasters, such as torrent, tornado/ hurricane, volcano eruption, earthquake, Tsunamis or landslide are increasing. Unfortunately they bring with them human tragedies, environment catastrophes, villages, cities and counties are subject to endless devastation during and after the destructive forces. Water, electricity and gas supply are most disrupted and difficult to restore in short time. However, communication is another item that can be affected adversely but WLAN with specific considerations, should be excluded from the effect. This project presents a solution, albeit minor relative to the maximum effect of the disaster, but will keep the telecommunication/communication in operation. Our novel technique, a “Clone Wireless Wide Area Network (CloneWAN)” is a clone wireless network to the wired Network. In the event of natural calamities, it gives continuity of network operation. It is based on WiMAX. The realization of CloneWAN has been formed and simulated to set the national network of the UAE at its correct form. CloneWAN model has been simulated with Opnet platform. All results revealed that the model is complete. The interface to Alerting System is discussed. Results show that the dynamic behavior of the parameters delay and Throughput of CloneWAN model is stable over various and different load scenarios. WiMAX is a de-facto standard in the current and future network requirement standards. Its main component is the Base Station which is normally stationed in the air, high enough to couple signals from other base stations. It is purpose is merely focused on networking signals for commercial purposes. The suggested hardware interface for the Weather Station is based on DSP SHARC processor. The model has been written in C and simulated under Opnet package. A number of scenarios have been set to represent different disasters worldwide. All results are listed and discussed later in the thesis.

The aims of this research investigate and discuss the possibility of how a local government can construct city image by organizing local festivals with its marketing campaign. In generally, most of festivals and events can inject economic revenues and build up the city images upon branding marketing. Basically, the local government remains the main authority to coordinate the festival promotion and marketing, but festival branding and marketing even meet many challenges and struggles. Significantly, many of phenomena in Taiwan tourism markets presented those current festivals facing many potential problems and unpredictable impacts with respect to festival management and sustainability. However, these problems and dilemma including local government please tourists, lack of culture protection, demolishing local specialty and lack of innovation as well as the purposes of this festival. Wan-Nien Festival was chosen as the case study of this research since Wan-Nien Festival has exhibited for more than ten years to be the most popular and historical event of Taiwan official festivals as a result of its amazing campaign and diverse contents. Due to its entirely empirical characteristics and comparing with other short-lifecycle festivals in Taiwan tourism market, Wan-Nien Festival has been already authorized by Taiwan Tourism Bureau to call for the 2010 main folk festival t. On the contrary, a number of festival managements might face the end situation due to the limitation of budgets even though those festivals have already experienced and accumulated high popularity and reputation such as Yilan International Children¡¦s Folklore ¡® Folkgame Festival. Similarly, Wan-Nien Festival might face the same challenge and difficulty for its sustainability without money injection. In contrast, many famous festivals and events are still in the process and development, such as Edinburgh International Festival which has been held for more than sixty years (from 1947). However, these famous festivals still attract many tourists all over the world as a result of their marvellous activities and they also turn into highly-acceptations festivals by the branding marketing. According to the argument of above description, the purpose of this research intends to discuss the possibility of Wan-Nien Festival branding-building and branding management. The methodology of this research can be divided into three perspectives. First of all, Three outstanding international festival, Edingburgh International Festival, Qingdao International Beer Festival, and Yilan International Children¡¦s Folklore and Folkgame Festival will beanalysed, induced, and compared the significant key factors and impacts to result in the success of these festivals. Secondly, referring to the branding management, research strategy adopt semi-construct interview to ask eleven relative stakeholders such as governors involved in holding festival, representative from Wan-Nien Festival local committee, village wardens, scholars specialize in festival marketing and tourism and business representatives. This research method tries to build up complete theory in the base of grounded theory and utilize the Atlas.ti 5.6.3 software to integrate and collect these interview data. The main research process is to record all correspondents interview conversations by the step to open coding, family coding, illustrating network diagram and finally constructing research theory. Due to the deep interviews with 11 relative stakeholders who might directly or indirectly participate in Wan-Nien Festival marketing and branding, this dissertation illustrated several significant discoveries and valuable information. These results demonstrate that there are numbers of key factors of a success festival such as well-using of the local resource, festival organizing and support with more assistance from a local government, and integrating local community agreement. The research results also recapitulate that local participators involvement seem main power to drive the local feature and shape the festival organization. In addition, the main attraction to identify the difference of marketing branding and marketing position is to plan the local stories.

Thesis (M. Arch.)--University of Hong Kong, 1996. / Includes special report study entitled: Open space in urban fabric. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M. Arch.)--University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes special report study entitled: Designing urban plaza and square. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M. Arch.)--University of Hong Kong, 1996. / Includes special report study entitled: Vegetable handling for wholesale vegetable market at Cheung Sha Wan. Includes bibliographical references.

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

Thesis (M.L.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references.

Hadīth scholarship and its erudition among the Jāwah or the Muslims from the Malay Archipelago (the term applied to them in the Hejaz) in the periods prior to the twentieth century is almost a neglected area of study on Islam and its development in the Southeast Asian region. While this may be surprising considering the sublime status and influence of hadīth on the religious outlook of the Jāwah, perhaps the dearth of surviving materials on hadīth and its study during these periods might have also aggravated this apparent gap in their religious and intellectual history in the pre-modern era. However, this study proposes that despite the feasibility of an early presence of hadīth studies and its scholarship among the Jāwah, it was actually in the nineteenth century that significant development in its scholarship and discourse took place through Lubāb al-Hadīth. This is a collection of four hundred traditions attributed to al-Suyūtī (d. 911/1505), which has managed to attract serious scholarly interests from two important Jāwah scholars in Mecca namely, Nawawī of Banten (d. 1314/1897) and Wan ‘Alī of Kelantan (d. 1331/1913), who undertook their adaptations and commentaries of the text. Even though both scholars shared similar cultural and scholarly milieu of Arabia, their approaches, methods, and choices of languages in commenting on the text are markedly divergent. The fact that both works are still being distributed and read until the present day indicates their significance and relevance as an influential legacy of Jāwah h}adīth scholarship and its discourse in the nineteenth century. Thus, this study examines the important issue of hadīth scholarship in the nineteenth century through the case of Lubāb al-Hadīth and a comparative study of its two commentaries as mentioned above. Although the primary focus of discussion is on their methods on hadīth and selected religious views as presented in their commentaries, the anonymities surrounding the origin, authorship and significance of the base work is also analyzed. In turn, this has lead to a more detailed account on the place and influence of these works on the general development and characteristics of Jāwah hadīth scholarship and its discourse in the nineteenth century which also had their impacts in later years.

Thesis (M.CM)--Hong Kong Baptist University, 2006. / Dissertation submitted to the School of Chinese Medicine. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 22-23).