The quality of drinking water effects not only human health, but also plays a decisive role in daily life. Although the Taiwan water corporation has improved water quality of Kaohsiung in recent years and most of the random testing results of the drinking water done by the EPB could meet the drinking water standards, many people still lack confidence in the tap water. This study (1) select 500 multi-unit residences from 11 districts in Kaohsiung and survey the water quality of the indirect water supply storage devices to understand the tap water quality of indirect water distribution network in Kaohsiung. (2) Aiming at the inhabitants living in multi-unit residences, a questionnaire about the satisfaction with the tap water in Kaohsiung is undergone by random sampling in order to understand the satisfaction with the tap water of the public. (3) The monitoring values of total trihalomethanes (TTHMs) in tap water distributional network in four seasons from December 2006 to September 2007 are used to analysis the seasonal changes, the equal concentration distribution figure, and the ration of all kinds of compounds of the THMs to the total amounts. The results of above analyses can be offered to Taiwan Water Corporation to make improvement and as the references of following studies. The result of the survey of satisfaction shows that 47% people incline to use tap water as drinking water¡F53% people don¡¦t have confidence in tap water and choose to the bottled water from water stations as drinking water source. 49.1% people living in cluster housing in Kaohsiung consider the quality of tap water common¡F15.4% people are satisfied with the tap water quality and 35.7% people are not satisfied with it. The main reason is the old pipelines, and the secondary reason is about the distasteful water. Most people wish to renew old pipelines as soon as possible, and give priority to strictly control the tap water quality. The analysis result of THMs concentrations shows that the average value of THMs in each district is highest in spring and lowest in autumn, especially in Cianjhen, Siaogang, and Cijin districts. The THMs concentration distribution of Cianjhen district is higher in the spring and winter. The proportion of CHCl3 (chloroform) to total amount of THMs is the highest in the water supply network, and it is also the major source of THMs.

Volatility is an important measure of stock market performance. Competing securities market makers keep abreast of the pace of volatility change by adjusting the bid-ask spreads and bid/ask quotes properly and efficiently. For intradaily high frequency transaction data, the observed volatility of stock returns can be decomposed into the sum of the two components - the realized volatility and the volatility due to microstructure noise. The quote adjustments of the market makers comprise part of the microstructure noise. In this study, we define the ratio of the realized integrated volatility to the observed squared returns as the proportion of realized integrated volatility (PIV). Time series models with generalized error distributed innovations are fitted to the PIV data based on 70-minute returns of NYSE tick-to-tick transaction data. Both retrospective and dynamic online control charts of the PIV data are established based on the fitted time series models. The McNemar test supports that the dynamic online control charts have the same power of detecting out of control events as the retrospective control charts. The Wilcoxon signedrank test is adopted to test the differences between the changes of the market maker volatility and the realized volatility for in-control and out-of-control periods, respectively. The results reveals that the points above the upper control limit are related to the situation when the market makers can not keep up with the realized integrated volatility, whereas the points below the lower control limit indicate excessive reaction of the the market makers.

<p>Our project presents the research on visualization of statistical contents. Here wewill introduce the concepts of visualization, software quality metrics andproposed visualization technique (line chart). Our aim to study the existingvisualization techniques for visualization of software metrics and then proposedthe visualization approach that is more time efficient and easy to perceive byviewer.In this project, we focus on the practical aspects of visualization of multipleprojects with respect to the versions and metrics. This project also gives animplementation of proposed visualization techniques of software metrics. In thisresearch based work, we have to compare practically the proposed visualizationapproaches. We will discuss the software development life cycle of our proposedvisualization system, and we will also describe the complete softwareimplementation of implemented software.</p>

This study explores the human-object relationship through the design of a flowerpot that amplifies object/ human communication. Humans frequently anthropomorphize artifacts in their environment, attributing feelings and features to artifacts, so transforming them into companions. For example people commonly name and ascribe gender to their favorite vehicles. Recent advances in digital and interface design have afforded new possibilities for shaping future human/ object interaction. I have chosen to focus my investigations on possible feedback loops that connect human emotionally to the plant. The Morphological chart was the method used in order to generate a broad range of the concepts. The method provides a structure for a less predictable and more experimental form of ideation. The concepts generated focused on defining new roles for, and ways of seeing houseplants and potential routes for interaction and communication between human and plant. The designs focused on attributing human values and features to both the form of the plant pot and communication system used. / text

In the sawmill industry, it can be very profitable to monitor the dimensions of sawn boards so that operators quickly can detect errors and take cor-rective action. In this master’s thesis project, Statistical Process Control (SPC) methods have been implemented to achieve this. SPC is a set of statistical methods whose purpose is to minimize the variations in an in-dustrial process. In particular, the SPC method used here is the control chart, which with an upper and lower control limit quantifies the bounds of natural variation. To find the most suitable control chart, five control charts monitoring the process mean, and two monitoring process variability were tested with help of both a simulation study and an empirical evaluation. The result of the evaluation was that the ”Average Moving Range” chart was regarded the most suitable for changes in process mean, and the Range chart was regarded as the best at detecting changes in process variability. Both charts are constructed for individual boards and not subgroups of boards (as is more common) due to compatibility reasons with the existing measurement practice. The two methods were deemed to be quite able to detect process changes, but some results indicate that the methods might work better for double arbour saw lines than single arbour ones. / Det kan vara mycket lönsamt för sågverk att övervaka mått på plankor så att personal snabbt kan hitta och åtgärda fel som uppstår i processen. I det syftet har det här masterarbetet gått ut på att implementera statistisk processkontroll (SPC) för råmåttkontroll på sågverk. SPC är en mängd olika statistiska metoder vars syfte är att minimera spridningen i en tillverkningsprocess. Den metod som är i speciellt focus i det här arbetet är det så kallade styrdiagrammet som med en övre och undre gräns kvantifierar hur stor den naturligt förekommande spridningen är. För att finna det mest lämpade styrdiagrammet utvärderades fem styrdiagram som övervakar processens medelvärde och två styrdiagram som övervakar processens spridning. Denna utvärdering bestod både av en simuleringsstudie och tester gjorda för empiriskt data. Utvärderingen resulterade i att det så kallade ”Average Moving Range” diagrammet rekommenderades för övervakning av medelvärde och ett räckviddsstyrdiagram rekommenderades för spridningen. Båda styrdiagrammen konstruerades för enskilda plankor och inte för stickprov av flera plankor (vilket är vanligare) på grund av kompatibelitetsskäl med gängse mätmetodik. De båda metoderna ansågs vara ganska bra på att upptäcka processförändringar men vissa resultat tyder på att metoderna kanske fungerar bättre för sågverk med mötande klingor än enaxliga sågverk.

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Šiame baigiamajame bakalauro darbe nagrinėjamas techninės analizės taikymas valiutų prekyboje. Dažniausiai pasitaikantys grafikų modeliai, techniniai indikatoriai, ir jų savybės bei galimybės. Pagrindinis baigiamojo darbo tikslas yra išanalizuoti techninės analizės patikimumą euro ir dolerio poroje 4 valandų grafike. Pirmoje baigiamojo darbo dalyje pristatomi techninės analizės pradininkai, taip pat pristatoma techninė analizė teoriniu aspektu. Antroje darbo dalyje analizuojami grafiniai modeliai buvę 2011 metais, pateikiami pavyzdžiai su galimais pelno tikslais. Pateikiama populiariausių indikatorių gaunami signalai pirkti – parduoti valiutų porą. Pateikiama lentelė pagal ,,MacD‘‘ histogramos divergencijos 2011 metų parodymus. Paskutinėje baigiamojo darbo dalyje pateikiamos išvados ir pasiūlymai. / Bachelor’s Final Work presents the research of technical analysis in currency trading. The most common graphic patterns, technical indicators, and their properties and possibilities are described. The main goal of this thesis is to analyze the technical analysis of the reliability of the euro-dollar pair of 4-hour chart. The first part presents technical analysis pioneer, also presents a theoretical analysis of the technical aspect. The second part of the thesis provides graphic patterns which were in 2011, are examples of the potential for profit. Provides the most popular indicators has signaled buy - sell currency pair. A table according to,, MACD histogram divergence'' of 2011 signals have been showed. Last part of the thesis contains the summary of thesis, conclusions and suggestions, references.

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A total of 1,018 charts of people who died from August 1, 2008 through July 31, 2009 were reviewed to describe and examine current end-of-life care needs and care practices provided in two acute care hospitals. The mean age of those who died was 72.5, the majority of decedents were elderly (73.8%), a slight majority were male (53.0%), a slight majority were not married (53.0%), and most were urbanites (79.5%). The most common primary diagnosis was cancer (36.2%). More than half of deaths were expected (54.6%). Only 40.3% of those who had an expected death had a palliative care referral. Of all decedents, 13.8% had CPR performed, and a total of 13.9% of people died without having a DNR order. A written will was provided in 30.8% of cases. Most had technologies in use at the time of death (97.3%). Of those who died with pain, most received analgesia (98.6%).

Transmission ellipsometry is governed by the transmission ellipsometric function (TEF) of a film-substrate system. The function can be analyzed through a series of constant-thickness contours and constant-angle-of-incidence contours in the complex plane. It has been observed that these TEF contours for a zero film-substrate system bear strong resemblances to the families of curves that make up the Smith chart for transmission lines. In this thesis we present a comparative study of the TEF and the Smith chart, specifically through the distinct similarities of their respective families of curves. It is shown that both TEF and Smith chart have similar contours in both the positive and negative imaginary half planes. The Smith chart’s contours originate from a complex plane with linear boundaries. It is bisected into symmetric positive and negative imaginary half planes of equal areas that are conjugate of each other. When transformed to the Smith chart, it is normalized and the conjugate relationship remains intact. All contours in the positive imaginary half plane of the Smith chart are symmetric to all of the contours in the negative half plane of the Smith chart. TEF contours originate from a non-complex reduced thickness plane. This plane has a non-linear upper boundary. It is bisected into two equal areas but non-symmetric, half planes. When transformed to the complex τ plane, the likeness of the constant-angle-of-incidence contours and constant-thickness contours to the Smith chart contours become a function of the material indices. As the film-substrate systems material indices are increased, the range of the non-linear boundary of the ф – dr plane is reduced and the TEF contours more closely resemble the Smith chart.