This study is aimed to investigate the relationship of organization reestablishing of elementary schools and organization efficiency. The purposes of the study are as follows: 1.Investigating the meaning and content of administration organization reestablishing of elementary schools. 2.Understanding the consensus of the elementary school staffs on organization reestablishing. 3.Understanding the differences among the elementary school staffs on organization reestablishing and organization efficiency. 4.Analyzing the relationship between elementary school organization reestablishing and organization efficiency. 5.Providing practical suggestions to educational administration institutes according to the results of the study. Literature analysis, survey, and interviews are adopted in this study. In literature analysis, the related literature of organization reestablishing and organization efficiency is analyzed to make the implement and to induct the theoretical model. Then, the study is structured by the ¡§ the program of administration organization reestablishing and human resources planning of middle schools and elementary schools¡¨ implemented by Education Bureau in the school year of 2002. In surveys, the schools, which participated ¡§the program of administration organization reestablishing and human resources planning of middle schools and elementary schools¡¨, are sampled. The number of the persons sampled is 800. The self- edited ¡§questionnaire of the relationship of elementary school organization reestablishing and organization efficiency¡¨ and ¡§semi- structured interview¡¨ are used in the study. Data collected are analyzed through SPSS. Item analysis, factor analysis, mean scores, standard deviation, product- moment correlation, t test, ANOVA, and regression analysis are processed. In field interviews, 2 schools are selected. Six people, including the principal, directors and section chiefs, in each school are interviewed by ¡§semi- structured interview¡¨. The results of the study are as follows: 1.The cognition of the explanations of organization reestablishing A.Elementary staffs gain initial consensus on ¡§organization reestablishing¡¨. B.Elementary school principals and directors have better cognition than teachers on ¡§organization reestablishing¡¨. C.Male principals have high cognition on ¡§actuating school-base management¡¨. D.Teachers who have served for more than 30 years have high cognition on ¡§activating school organization¡¨ than teachers who have served less than 10 years. E.Staffs working in the countryside have high cognition on ¡§actuating school-base management¡¨. 2.Cognition on the content of organization reestablishing A.Elementary school staffs have high consensus on ¡§content of organization reestablishing¡¨. B.Elementary school staffs serving in the city area have high perception on ¡§content of organization reestablishing¡¨. C.Female principals have high cognition on ¡§reducing responsibility¡¨ and ¡§functioning¡¨. D.Educators in the schools that have established for less than 10 yeas have highest scores on ¡§reducing responsibility¡¨. 3. Cognition on the elementary school organization efficiency A.Elementary school staffs have initial consensus on the integrated perception of ¡§organization efficiency¡¨. B.Teachers in the elementary schools containing 25~48 classes have higher perception on organization efficiency. C.Staffs in the elementary schools containing less than 12 classes or over 49 classes have high perception on organization atmosphere. D.Staffs in the elementary schools that have established for less than 10 years or over 21 years have high perception on organization efficiency. E.Staffs in the elementary schools that have established for over 21 years have high acceptance on organization efficiency. 3.The relationship between explanation of reestablishing, content of reestablishing and organization efficiency. A.The more they accept the explanation the higher scores they get on organization efficiency. B.The more they accept the content of organization reestablishing the higher score they get on organization efficiency. C.Significant positive correlation is found between the perception of elementary school organization reestablishing and organization efficiency. D.Significant positive correlation is found between the perception of the content of elementary school organization reestablishing and organization efficiency. E.The degree of acceptance of the explanation of organization reestablishing of elementary school staffs can predict significantly organization efficiency. F.The degree of acceptance of the content of organization reestablishing of elementary school staffs can predict significantly organization efficiency. G.The explanation and content of reestablishment can significantly predict organization efficiency. According to the above conclusion, the study provide following suggestions: 1. Suggestions to Educational Administration Institute A.Improve the promotion of the policy and communication and listen to the opinions from the education staffs. B.Revise Civil Education Law and its bylaws to actuate the spirit of organization reestablishing. C.Increase the number of school clerks, and some of the section chiefs should be taken charge by the clerks to make administration more professional. 2. Suggestions to Elementary School A.Adjust the organization structure of each divisions with the Civil Education Law and its bylaws to meet school¡¦s need and enhance administration efficiency. B.Enhance elementary school teacher¡¦s perception of organization reestablishing through consistent communication. 3. Suggestions to future studies A.Extend sampling subjects. B.Increase study variables. C.Combine other study methods and have long-term and follow- up studies. D.Improve study implement E.Have further investigation on organization efficiency.

In the recent years most of the studies related to the hospital efficiency focus on the issues of the ownership, size, physician team work, and clinical performance. It is certain that nursing units are the major profit centers for hospitals. However, the relative efficiency of nursing units regarding the resource use and outputs is seldom investigated. Therefore the aim of this study is to investigate the influence of each input and output item on the relative efficiency using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The research samples included 44 units of two government owned hospital accredited as medical centers in 2002. The research samples are divided into 5 groups. The inputs items include full time nurse, continuous education hours, cost expand, specialties, patient care hours and workload. The output items are length of stay, number of admission, occupancy rate and total patient days. Every nursing unit is considered as a Decision Making Unit (DMU). The data were collected from Jan. to Dec. 2002 to evaluate the overall efficiency, technical efficiency and scale efficiency. Efficiency reference sets were found to be reference for inefficiency nursing units. The ways to improve the resources inputs or outputs of those inefficient nursing units were suggested using scale variable analysis. The influence of each input and output variable on the relative efficiency were assessed using sensitivity analysis. The results are summarized as follows:. 1. Overall inefficiency nursing units: A hospital has 4 (20%), B hospital has 5 (20%), both A and B hospitals have 9 (21%), medical nursing units have 5(17%)and surgical nursing units have 7 (47%). 2. Technical inefficiency nursing units: A hospital has 2 (10%), B hospital has 2 (8%), both A and B hospital have 3(6%), medical nursing units has one (3%)and surgical nursing units have 4(27%). 3. Scale inefficiency nursing units: A hospital has 4(20%), B hospital has 5 (20%), both A and B hospital have 9 (21%), medical nursing units have 5 (17%)and surgical nursing units have 7(47%). 4. Relative inefficiency nursing units with overall efficiency value between 0.9-1 belong to the marginal inefficiency units. The overall inefficiency of nursing units due to scale inefficiency. 5. From slack variable analysis the first three inputs needed to reduced are continue education hours, patient care hours and number of full time nurse. The outputs needed to increase are the number of admission and the length of stay. In this study, the input items to evaluate the efficiency of nursing units are mainly based on the data of clinical productivity. However, the quality of nursing care, the index of patient satisfaction, the number of medical equipments and the standard on patient care activities are not considered. It is highly suggested that service index and equipment allocation should be considered while evaluating efficiency.

ABSTRACT This thesis aims to evaluate the government electronic procurement (e-procurement) systems¡¦ efficiency from the viewpoint of process reengineering. Recently, with the improvement of information technology, internet grows rapidly and flourishing e-commerce, many countries and organizations are paying a lot of attention on this trend. Our government also keeps up with this trend by performing the ¡§E-Government projects¡¨. For example, the e-government¡¦s ¡§E-procurement project ¡§ is one of these, which aims to construct a public, transparency, fair and efficiency procurement environment. In this thesis, we take the Kaohsiung City Government (KCG) as the research object. In order to evaluate the efficiency of the KCG e-procurement and get further understandings, we select three dimensions: time, cost, and labor, and construct the measurement index of e-procurement to analyze 2002 KCG e-procurement performance, and interview with KCG¡¦s labors. According to the results of this study, we can find that government e-procurement system actually brings benefits to our government procurement, such as budget-savings, making procurement decisions more efficient and cheaper, streamlining the entire procurement process from initiating a requisition through awarding, offering buyers an automated procurement process, and giving vendors easy access to more opportunities with less paperwork and reduced cost. Progress is being made in implementing government e-procurement systems; the more reengineering benefits will accrue from the continued expansion of electronic interaction to government and business.

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This thesis presents a systematic scheme to determine the optimal propulsive/axial force ratio of a single-sided permanent magnet axial-flux motor (SPMAM) along with its operational constraints on both the winding currents and the speed induced voltages. According to the rotating magnetic field theory with combining the recoil line characteristics of permanent magnet and the equivalent operational magnetic circuits, appropriate projection of the stator currents to achieve an optimal ratio of the machine propulsive/axial forces has been confirmed through detailed three-dimensional finite element analysis (3-D FEA) and numerical studies. From these evaluations, a feasible operational guidance for SPMAM field oriented control (FOC) scheme realizations can be suitably provided. Finally, based on the proposed optimal scheme, a DSP-based drive system has been successfully implemented, and the desired operational strategy realization can be achieved.

Abstract There are gradually prosperous trades in foreign exchange markets, agents could hedge, speculate and arbitrage in markets. Market efficiency therefore is worthy of investigate in international finance. There are a lot of empirical studies examine whether the long-run relationship would exist between spot exchange rate and forward exchange rate in conventional linear models. However the conclusions were not similar. Sarno and Chowdhury¡]2003¡^mentioned that linear models imply residuals of model adjust to equilibrium by fixed speed. If dynamic adjustment of nonlinear model exists, linear model is hard to capture the dynamic adjustment. Ender¡]1995¡^also mentioned that cointegration has long run linear relationship in variables. Theoretically, nonlinear relationship may exist. Furthermore, some literatures demonstrate how transaction cost and technical analysis induce nonlinear adjustment of the deviation for equilibrium exchange rate. We consider a new approach that Tersävirta and Anderson¡]1992¡^provided the Smooth Transition Autoregressive Model¡]STAR¡^, to re-examine the long-run relationship between spot exchange rate and forward exchange rate. According to the empirical results, we can find that all variables can be modeled by nonlinear models. The results of relationships exist between spot and forward exchange rates in France, Germany, Canada, Japan, Norway, Spain, Australia, Ireland, Italy, .Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Greece and New Zealand, but it doesn¡¦t exist in the United Kingdom and Finland.

Abstract The removing efficiency of surface roughness for the hydrodynamic polishing process under semi-contact lubricating condition was investigated in this thesis. The experimental relationships between surface roughness and polishing were first examined. From the relationships, the potential influential factors of the removing efficiency and the magnitude of surface roughness were identified. Finally, a mathematical model that was related to the removing efficiency and the magnitude of surface roughness was proposed. Based on the experimental study, it was shown that the surface roughness would be rapidly reduced at the beginning by polishing process and then hardly improved afterward. This trend implied that surface roughness would not be completely removed during the polishing process. It was proposed that the amplitude and wavelength of surface roughness would affect the removing efficiency of surface roughness. Further, the removing efficiency was not sensitive to the tool velocity. From the mathematical model, several points were concluded. First, the removing efficiency was positively proportional to the amplitude of surface roughness. Second, the removing efficiency was inversely to the amplitude of surface roughness. Third, the removing efficiency was inverse proportional to a waviness of tool surface. Fourth, the removing efficiency was not sensitive to tool velocity. Finally, there existed an achievable minimum surface roughness for a surface with specific wavelength. The magnitude of a minimum surface roughness was shown to be proportional to the wavelength of work surface.

Abstract The aim of the thesis is to examine equality ,efficiency and legitimacy of public housing policy in Singapore from 1960 to now. The major point of the research is to analyse equality of public housing policy in Singapore. A ruling party at every country operates policys to gain the advantageous position.Therefore, there is a normal condition in politics that a ruling party often fulfills some policy to ingratiate people. Althoug the PAP government obtain people¡¦s surport and enhance its legitimacy by the means of the Upgrading Programe ,the promise of public housing policy and other issues as the elections , it still takes equality and efficiency of public housing policy into consideration. There are five chapters in this thesis. Chapter one is introduction and it illustrated the study motivation ,the study background ,the study goal ,document reversal and research methods. Chapter two is the public polciy theory adopted in this thesis. Chapter three is the backgroud of public housing policy in Singapore. Chapter four is the building of the laws and systems of public housing policy ing Singapore. Chapter five is the operation of public housing policy in Singapore. Chapter six evaluates public housing policy in Singapore. Chapter seven is the concluion.

This thesis consists of two parts. Part 1 introduces the characteristics of Class E power amplifier. Part 2 is focused on the implementation of Class E power amplifier for 2.4GHz Bluetooth applications. The design procedure follows the theory of class E power amplifier, and is implemented in MMICs and modules. For MMICs, the GaAs HBT foundry services are provided by the GCTC Ltd. and WIN Ltd.. Under single supply voltage of 3.3V and the output power of 20dBm, two designed MMICs have gain 23dB and 11dB, and power added efficiency (PAE) 57% and 72%, respectively. For Hybrid modules, RF transistors are provided by the Filtronic Ltd.. Under the same supply voltage of 3.3V, the measured output power, gain, and power added efficiency are 20 dBm, 25dB, and 75% respectively. Compared with the other types of power amplifiers on the market, Class E power amplifier has higher power added efficiency, and thus can increase the using time of communication system.

Financial analysts are considered inefficient when they do not fully incorporate relevant information into their forecasts. In this dissertation, I investigate differences in the observable efficiency of analysts' earnings forecasts between firms that consistently meet or exceed analysts' earnings expectations and those that do not. I then analyze the extent to which the market incorporates this (in)efficiency into its earnings expectations. Consistent with my hypotheses, I find that analysts are relatively less efficient with respect to prior returns for firms that do not consistently meet expectations than for firms that do follow such a strategy, especially when prior returns convey bad news. However, forecast errors for firms that consistently meet expectations do not appear to be serially correlated to a greater extent than those for firms that do not consistently meet expectations. It is not clear whether the market considers such inefficiency when setting its own expectations. While the evidence suggests they may do so in the context of a shorter historical pattern of realized forecast errors, other evidence suggests they may not distinguish between predictable and surprise components of forecast error when the historical forecast error pattern is more established.