Gian-Carlo Menotti (1911-2007) is one of America¡¦s most distinguished contemporary opera composers. He composed twenty-seven operas. The telephone is a one act play which was composed in 1947 as a curtain raiser for The Medium. The Telephone is his shortest opera which only takes 25 minutes to perform. Menotti wrote all the text in this opera himself. Although The Telephone is short, the structure is complete. It¡¦s one of Menotti's greatest popular operas. The main character of The Telephone, Lucy, is a soprano. The success of Lucy¡¦s performance is the key to success of the whole opera. Because of the importance of "Lucy", I select "Lucy" as a research topic of the article. Except the preface, my essay contains four main sections: the biography of Menotti and the main operatic works of Menotti, textual analysis of Menotti¡¦s The Telephone and the characterization of Lucy, and the dramaturgy of Lucy. The purpose of this study is to explore how Menotti made use of music device to express the effects and atmosphere in theater, how to create emotional changes of Lucy, and expect to reinforcing profundity in performance.

Under the development trend of globalization, enterprises are forced to follow the vision of corporate governance. Enterprises must construct an effective internal controlling system in the basic running environment, and strengthen the enterprises risk management, follow the SOX norm to improve the corporate image then march toward the internationalization. This research adopts the case study, choosing the representative enterprise, the ASE Incorporated. By the way of depth interview and analysis in the relational papers, we have the main conclusions as the result as follows. First, Strength the stratagems of corporate governance: Raising the information transparency, establishing the internal management process and strengthen the enterprises risk management, etc. The ASE Incorporated combines the SOX and internal control norm, in order to make the result of resources integration. Second, balance the legal systems and practices of independent director: Shown in the secondary materials and analyze other information of this research, the legal systems and practices are not in opposing side. The considerations of setting up the independent director can improve the quality of decision and raise the effects, but do not influence the decision-making by way of full powers. However, it can intensify the governance efficiency. We make some suggestions for the enterprises. It is including place importance of internal control system and internal audit management and enhancement the information system. The good institutional framework can be expected the development goal of corporate governance.

To supervise the executive authorities to strengthen their public services and to deal with pleading cases effectively, The Executive Yuan promulgated ¡§the executive authorities dealing with pleading cases major points¡¨ in 1973 which was following amended in 1984, 1995. Nevertheless, while the ¡§Administrative Procedure Act¡¨ (APA) announced in 1999, this essentials was found its inconsistent with Article 150 ¡¨ the content of regulations and orders should stipulate the basis of its legal authority, and shall not exceed the scope authorized by law and the spirit of the legislation¡¨ and Article 15, Section 1, Paragraph 2 ¡§any regulation and order without authorized by law and deprive or limit people¡¦s freedoms and rights is void". In APA Article 174-1 "before implementation of this Law, the executive authorities according to the Central Regulation Standard Act: those have to be regulated by law or stipulate its legal authority shall be modified or specified by mandated regulations or stipulate its legal authority within two years after the implementation of this Act; overdue failure¡¨ and Article 175 ¡§the implementation of this Act (APA) starts from 1 Jan, 2001¡¨. Thus, according to the APA Article 170, Section 1, the Executive Yuan re-amended the 1973¡¦s ¡§the executive authorities dealing with pleading cases major points¡¨ to ¡§the Executive Yuan and its organs dealing with people¡¦s pleading cases major points¡¨, subtitle with ¡§All level authorities affiliated to Executive Yuan provide services for the people major points¡¨ in May 25, 2000. The APA has been implemented since 1 Jan, 2001. There is chapter 7 ¡§Pleading¡¨ is related with people¡¦s petition and its legalization. The appropriateness of pleading law making process is examined herein by the basic methods of administrative law, namely, the five major frameworks, including administrative principles, administrative organization, limitation of administrative power, administrative relief, and administrative supervision from every respect and viewpoint. Furthermore, practical implementation and suggestions for regulations and actions concerning executive authorities to deal with pleading cases are provided to achieve the goals of protecting people¡¦s right and maintaining social orders as well.

Thesis (doctoral)--Lund, 1981. / Thesis t.p. laid in. Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-191) and index.

Thesis--PlanB (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references.

The new trend of Crowdfunding is worldwide changing the market for start-ups, as well as small- and medium-sized enterprises to finance their business, as well as increasing the opportunities and possibilities for realizing ideas. Thus, this thesis aims to enlighten the concept of Crowdfunding and its effects. Especially, the interrelation of the concepts of Crowdfunding, Entrepreneurship and Leadership is of utmost importance in this research. As a result of this relation a new era of leaders, differentiating themselves from other leaders by their specific skills and behaviours, gained through the act of Crowdfunding, is initiated. Those skills and behaviours are included in their leading of others in newly crowdfunded ventures.In order to analyse this further, qualitative research and empirical data was used, including interviews with experts as well as crowdfunded entrepreneurs. Furthermore, academic literature as well as insights gained from an online Crowdfunding community built the basis for elaborating this concept further.Concluding the following results were achieved. 1.) Crowdfunding can be perceived as a process, being based in the interaction between the entrepreneur and the crowd and is influenced by particular forces. 2.) Entrepreneurs, funding their idea via Crowdfunding, develop specific skills and behaviours impacting their development as leaders. Hence, also their act of leading in newly crowdfunded ventures. These results indicate that a new era of leaders, showing distinctive leadership skills and behaviours, has begun.

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Although scholars have widely acknowledged the prevalence of religious reference in the work of Cormac McCarthy, no studies have yet paid any adequate attention to the most pervasive religious trope in all his works: the image of sacrament, and in particular, of eucharist. I contend that a thorough and appropriately informed study of sacrament in the work of Cormac McCarthy can uniquely illuminate his whole body of writing and I undertake that study in this dissertation. Two things are obvious in the work of Cormac McCarthy: that these novels attempt to establish some sort of moral system in light of metaphysical collapse, and that they are often adorned with sacramental imagery. My argument is that these two facts can and do intelligibly speak to one another, and that a particular theological understanding of sacrament demonstrates how. By reading McCarthy alongside postmodern accounts of action, identity, subjectivity, and narration, I show how he exploits Christian theology in order to locate the value of human acts and relations in a sacramentally immanent way. This is not to claim McCarthy for theology, but it is to assert that McCarthy generates an account of what goodness might look like in a death-ridden world through reference to the theological tradition of sacrament. I begin by addressing the scope and source of McCarthy’s violence. In Blood Meridian and No Country for Old Men I read McCarthy as following Nietzsche in scorning an ascetic ideal that locates the value of life beyond life. The ideas of reason and fate in Nietzsche as they develop in Adorno and Arendt is then studied in these same novels. Arendtian ideas of action deeply influence my reading of Suttree next, and this lead into a study of storytelling in the three novels of the border trilogy which is again deeply indebted to Arendtian notions of narration. Last, I look to contemporary theology and The Road for examples of sacrament that can cohere these various themes under a single sign and establish the grounds for a postmodern morality.

A Thesis submitted to The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Medicine. / Since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law in March of 2010, there have been multiple large survey studies focusing on physicians’ thoughts towards health care policy issues. 1‐6 Unfortunately, there has not been adequate attention paid to medical students’ feelings on reform in the literature. Today’s medical students will enter their practice at a vital time in the ACA’s implementation and will play an integral role in health care reform throughout their careers.7,8 This study is a national project that used a survey tool to demonstrate how well medical students know the details of the ACA and what their feelings are on the legislation. The survey was sent to eight different medical institutions across the country with ten total medical school campuses, using SurveyMonkey to collect results. The institutions were chosen based on their geographic location, mix between private and public institutions, and available investigators at each institution. The survey tool was developed by Tyler Winkelman, MD, from the University of Minnesota after a comprehensive literature review, adaptation of items from his previous survey of medical students in Minnesota performed in 2012, and consultation with physicians and policy experts.9 The survey focuses on student’s opinion of the ACA, knowledge of nine key provisions in the ACA, level of support of key health care policies, feelings towards health care policy education in medical schools, and socio‐demographic information, including political ideology, debt amount and intended specialty. Data analysis was performed using Pearson’s Chi‐square tests and multiple logistic regression models at The University of Minnesota to test for associations between students’ opinion of the ACA and five key predictors: debt, medical school year, political ideology, ACA knowledge, and intended specialty. A total of 2,761 out of 5,340 medical students (52%) responded to the survey, with 63% of students indicating support for the ACA, 75% agreeing that they understand the key ACA provisions, and 56% indicating professional obligation to assist in implementation of the ACA. Students intending to enter surgery or a surgical subspecialty and students who identified themselves as conservative were found to have less support and professional obligation of the ACA when compared to students entering primary care (Internal medicine, family medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine/pediatrics, or emergency medicine) or identifying themselves as liberal or moderate. Students that were most knowledgeable of the ACA were found to more likely support the ACA and indicate professional obligation towards the legislation. In conclusion, our study found that the majority of medical students indicate support for the ACA and feel they have a professional obligation in assisting implementation. The views of the ACA differ based on student’s political ideology, anticipated specialty, and knowledge of key ACA provisions, but overall, there is optimism that this high level of support can lead to advocacy and successful health care reform down the road.

Previous research has suggested that making certain items visually salient, or highlighting, can speed performance in a visual search task. But designers of interfaces cannot always easily anticipate a user's target, and highlighting items other than the target can be associated with performance decrements. three experiments were performed which demonstrated that people's performance in a visual search task is differentially sensitive to highlighting's predictiveness of target location. That sensitivity depends upon the proportion of instances in which highlighting actually predicts target location. A cognitive model constructed using the ACT-R architecture inferred that people evaluate and adjust their visual search behavior at a very small level of the task. / pages 71-83 and 88-95 are missing from hard copy of text