In the past decade, the number of universities and colleges grew rapidly. The nature of the advanced education has also changed substantially. The change of the elite education into the democratic education could remove the pressure for students to enter a higher and more prestigious educational institute, but it causes the financial problems on the government and also the deterioration of educational quality. It leads to the dispute about distribution and application of university¡¦s resources, promotion of the university¡¦s competitiveness and the diversification of advanced education. Due to the fierce competition of the advanced education environment that grows gradually, the performance of operation and management of national universities become more important. This research chose one national technical university as the sample to discuss its performance management system and applied the concept of Balanced Scorecard on the case based on the characteristics of the school, so that it can design an appropriate performance management system, which is exclusively suitable for every different school. This research conducted interviews and distributed questionnaires for a further discussion. After compiling the results from interviews and questionnaires and information gathered from literature review, the main conclusion could be summarized as follows: 1. The current performance management system of the case school is not complete. It could not integrate long-term strategies and the bonus system properly that should be improved. 2. The performance management system of Balanced Scorecard¡¦s framework could fully carry out the strategies of the research case school. It helps promote the cooperation between departments, solve the difficulties the university is facing, and it is efficient to deal with the future changes of the advanced education. 3. The most representative performance measurement indexes of each perspective of the research case school include ¡§the ranking of students joint recruiting¡¨ for customer perspective, ¡§the rate of freshmen¡¦s enrollment¡¨ for financial perspective, and ¡§the satisfaction of in-campus learning environment¡¨ for internal business process perspective. As for the learning and growth perspective, ¡§the willingness of cooperation required for both the ability and position of faculty¡¨ can represent the index. 4. National universities always have distinguishing features, prospect and the projects of middle-long term. Using four perspectives of Balanced Scorecard to establish measuring criterion and standards that can build a well consideration and direction for action-project of competition for school¡¦s strategies. In this study, we found that the four different perspectives can obtain a uniform chance for development by questionnaires from directors of the case school and experts of the universities in south area. From interviewers, we also got the results that the Balanced Scorecard can be used in other national universities. Based on reasonable performance results, the Balanced Scorecard could be applied for all national universities. The conclusion could be a reference for the research case school to apply the Balanced Scorecard on the performance management system in the future, so that when the university encounters the impacts of fast-paced society, it could adopt the appropriate methods and respond in real time. The process and method adopted in this research could also provide the national universities a reference to develop their own perfect performance management system.

ABSTRACT The domestic economic activity has been still in recession for several years. Besides moving outwards, the enterprises gradually decreased predominance in competition and are obliged to try every endeavor to find out any of proper management system. Hoping via applying diversified thinking model and managing skills that could revive the enterprises. Firmly, improve the management performance and promote the competence. The Balanced Scorecard¡]BSC¡^,a new management method, has been presented in such an occasion¡]by Kaplan & Norton in 1990¡^.This management system starts from erecting the company¡¦s vision and mission, further to choose his own strategy. However these strategic targets are planned to form a strategy- map, which consisting of four dimensions. Moreover in each dimension respectively to have various Key Performance Index¡]KPI¡^and those KPI will drive future performance -evaluation-indicators. Precisely speaking that BSC can transform the strategic targets into practical actions. As BSC can link strategy with execution, evaluation and learning to be a feedback loop so that performs to test strategy and adjust it to conform to the variation of external environment. Finally a company, which has applied above system will form a high-performing organization. This case study is based on the biggest domestic integrated stainless steel producer. Reviewing its constructed procedure of introducing the BSC and comparing its actual performance data of before and after applying of BSC system. At the same time, reconfirm by analyzing the outcome of questionnaires & visiting data. Hopefully, to prove applying BSC is an effective way to improve management performance. About this section, first of all, referring to data collection, to collect the questionnaires which are respondent from all of department managers and customers of case company. Secondly, to choose specific top managers of main departments of case company for deep visiting- survey. Finally, to analyze above data and get the following conclusions: 1. There are still some unrevealed problems existing in case company after the analysis of data acquired. 2. There is an only effective way to promote management performance that should be under a combination between monitoring KPI and incentive system. 3. The BSC can promote the management performance indeed. This study can offer a reference for other related steel producer or other enterprises to adopt the BSC in future. Absolutely, to construct such a system could make company act efficiently response against the impacts resulted from the fast variation of external environment and no doubt that could keep the management more flexible and more competent forever. Keywords: Balanced Scorecard Management performance Key performance index

The purpose of this study was to investigate the ability of the Kolbe A Index to predict learners' attitudes and achievements within a web-based training context. The Index is used to measure the conative capacities of individuals. The Index translates raw scores into four Action Modes: Fact Finder, Follow Thru, Quick Start, and Implementor. A web-based simulation of training on customer service excellence was created containing four modules designed to match the respective learning style of each of the four Action Modes suggested by the Kolbe Corporation. Research questions were as follows. To what extent do the four Kolbe A Index Action Modes predict 1) how well learners will like content formatted to match the learning styles of the four Modes, 2) how well learners will remember content formatted to match the learning styles of the four Modes, and 3) how well the learners will remember the content regardless of the format? Three experts in applications of the Kolbe A Index then validated the simulation. Five other experts, each with a Ph.D. in the social sciences, validated the evaluation of learners' attitudes and achievements. Then a pilot study to collect data for a reliability analysis was conducted. Sixty graduates from an international program in economics in Thailand participated in this study. Data were collected entirely through the Internet and in English. Multiple linear regression analyses with backward stepping method were performed to answer the research questions. Based on the limitations and data analyses of this study, the Kolbe A Index Action Modes did not predict how well learners liked content formatted to match the learning styles of the four Modes, how well learners remembered content formatted to match the learning styles of the four Modes, nor how well the learners remembered the content regardless of the format. More research is needed to explore how the Kolbe A Index Action Modes can be used to predict learners' attitudes and achievements.

In this thesis, two separate research topics are undertaken both in the general area of compact RF/microwave circuit design. The first topic involves characterizing the parasitic effects and error due to unused post-production tuning bars. Such tuning bars are used in microwave circuit designs to allow the impedance or length of a microstrip line to be adjusted after fabrication. In general, the tuning bars are simply patterns of small, isolated sections of conductor adjacent to the thru line. Changing the impedance or length of the thru line involves bonding the appropriate tuning bars to the line. Unneeded tuning bars are simply not removed and left isolated. Ideally, there should be no coupling between these unused tuning bars and the thru line. Therefore, the unused tuning bars should have a negligible effect on the circuit??s overall performance. To nullify the parasitic effects of the tuning bars, conventional wisdom suggests placing the bars 1.0 to 1.5 substrate heights away from the main line. While successful in the past, this practice may not result in the most efficient and cost-effective placement of tuning bars in today??s compact microwave circuits. This thesis facilitates the design of compact tuning bar configurations with minimum parasitic effects by analyzing the error attributable to various common tuning bar configurations with a range of parameters and offset distances. The error is primarily determined through electromagnetic simulations, and the accuracy of these simulations is verified by experimental results. The second topic in this thesis involves the design of compact microwave resonators using the transmission line approach to create negative refractive index metamaterials. A survey of the major developments and fundamental concepts related to negative refractive index technology (with focus on the transmission line approach) is given. Following is the design and measurement of the compact resonators. The resonators are also compared to their conventional counterparts to demonstrate both compactness and harmonic suppression.

The trend in personal finance and retirement planning has changed, more and more investors have focused on the popular issue of wealth allocation across asset classes and specific investments. As a result, mutual fund investment companies have become an increasingly effective conduit for current income generation, capital appreciation, and the benefits derived through diversification. As time goes by, the amount of offshore funds introduced in Taiwan is increasing. We investors always want to ask which one could perform well and bring the investors a good return based on the past performance information. Thus the purpose of this paper is to give an overview and performance persistence of the largely unexploited Taiwan offshore and international American, European, Japanese, and Global equity mutual funds compared to Taiwan equity mutual funds and the Information Technology equity mutual funds. To do this, we evaluate fund performance applied for the Composite Index to cooperate the highly cooperate the colinearity problem of the performance indices which is introduced from Lee (2007) and Chou (2007). We focus on 6 biggest off-shore mutual fund market in Taiwan which are American, European, Global, Taiwan, Japan and Information Technology. All the performance information and fund characteristic are from Lipper. We restrict our sample to pure equity funds with at least 36 months of data. Performance details and specific fund characteristics are collected by the end of 2006. We develop the Composite Index component weights by factor analysis from January 2003 through December 2004 and rank the funds by the Composite Index score to exam the performance persistence through January 2005 through 2006. All returns are almost in local currency. We have the conclusion which all the difference in performance of the top 10% and the bottom 10% in each market is significant from zero except for the Information Technology industry. We find the effect of the Composite Index would depend on the maturity, variety, and the characteristic of the market. The more mature the market is, the less significant the performance between top deciles and bottom deciles, American mutual fund is the best supportive evidence. All the return-based indices are not adding value to select funds. Though the performance of the Composite Index is better than the other index, the raw annual return is not so high to be applied. As to the variety, the different categories and the range of the distribution of monthly return in the market have the effect to the significance of the difference in performance between the top 10% and the bottom 10%, markets of European, Global, Japan, and Taiwan are the best explanations. Finally, the higher the risk is the better the fund perform is the one special rule selecting fund in the market of Information Technology.

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In this thesis, it mainly studies the performance characteristics of the bending losses in semiconductor waveguides and the quantum dots semiconductor optical amplifier. We used InP-subtract and InGaAlAs /InAlAs multiple quantum wells epitaxial wafer grown by MBE as our material(£fg=1.41£gm). We had successfully fabricated a series of bending strip-loaded waveguides. On the quantum dots semiconductor optical amplifier, symmetric InGaAlAs/GaAs quantum well structure is used to fabricate the optical waveguide. We have established an automatic optical measurement system to measure the device characteristics more accurately. Design respect of bending waveguide, we design a series of radius, is 60£gm, 80£gm, 110£gm, 170£gm,and 260£gm respectively, and utilize Fabry-Perot resonant, measurement and estimate the loss of bending waveguide in quantity. We find the bending waveguide loss as radius for 260£gm and contain deeply etching process was quite equal to straight waveguide loss. On the quantum dots semiconductor optical amplifier, we design a single mode waveguide and a broad area waveguide to compare the difference of their electron-hole combination situation. A single mode waveguide with longer cavity length had better combination situation than shorter (C311 of cavity length 4000£gm ,0.00066£gW *A/cm2). And the broad area waveguide had more better combination situation to single mode waveguide (C311 of cavity width 150£gm, length 4000£gm , 0.0966£gW *A/cm2). For the gain to the pump signal, C311 singe mode waveguide (emission peak:1211nm,pump signal:1260nm) could get a gain about 3.56dB¡Fand C374 singe mode waveguide (emission peak:1255nm,pump signal:1260nm) could get a gain about 6.1dB.

Local land administration office is to execute registering of lands and buildings. Its objective is to implement local land policy. In the mean time, its functions are about citizen¡¦s property rights. Because the social, economy and political environment have been changed rapidly, demands for land administration and service quality have been growing as well. Therefore, the first priority work for government is to improve whole administrative efficiency and effectiveness, by using modern technology. It thus needed to electronic-wise land office, to set up a computerization system of land information management so as to provide complete land information, to execute modern administration, to promote competition, and to provide convenient and efficient services. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to research these first-line local offices so as (i) to promote its efficiency after being computerized (ii) to compare the implementing result before and after the computerization in Kaohsiung county and city, and (iii) to study the influences of the computerized process, finally (iv) to suggest local offices decision makers the future direction of improvement. This study uses DEA and SFA to compute their efficiency after computerization of the local land offices in Kaohsiung county and city. To do this, we collect annually statistics and use DEA-Solver software and Frontier 4.1 computer program to evaluate their productivities, and to make an efficiency analysis. The results revealed that the annual average technology efficiency descended before computerization and ascended after computerization for all land offices. CCR model revealed that annual averages of technology efficiency are stable before computerization and it ascended after computerization for all land offices. SFA analysis revealed that annual averageefficiency score slightly ascends before computerization and ascends after computerization except for year 2001. For technology changes, their productivities slightly descends for all land offices in Kaohsiung county but ascends for all land offices in Kaohsiung city. For efficiency slack analysis, all five land offices must reduce their inputs in Kaohsiung county. For output slack, only Chi-Shang land office must expand its output 13.01% so as to reach a relatively inefficient DMU. Between the Kaohsiung county and city, information difference between city and country has influences on efficiency. Land offices in Kaohsiung city have general higher average technology efficiency than those in Kaohsiung county. This study uses DEA and SFA to analyze land offices in Kaohsiung county and city, and it was found that whole efficiency scores increased after computerization. And it is suggested several important problems and the possible directions of productivity improvement in the future for all land offices.

This paper tests the relationship between corporate governance and corporate value and the relationship between corporate governance and firm performance. A ¡§Governance Index¡¨ is built based on three aspects of the company governance structure: 1. the performance of the broad of directors, 2. ownership structure 3. involvement of capital markets. This index is used as a proxy measure of the effectiveness of the governance mechanism. We propose the firms under good governance should outperform those under poor governance. This paper finds a striking relationship between Governance Index and firm performance. The results imply that the Governance Index built in this paper is successful in evaluating the effectiveness of the governance mechanism of firms in Taiwan.

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