Under the well developed economy and the medical, aged population brings up the related medical service demands. In the future, the service quality is a key to determines the life of long-term-care institutes. The purpose of this study to address the relationships among the product factors by which people make a decision. Besides, the construction of what degrees of people emphasis on them is also explored as well. Based on the above, ten nights were used to collect 1097 effective samples by making phone calls. After analysis by statistics software, the conclusions are as below, 1. Men pay more attention to opinions of medical professionals than women. In the inspections of reference group, opinions of relatives & friends (46%) hardly differ from them of medical professionals (47%). However, It was found that man intends to refer more of medical professionals than women, and women put more emphasis on them relatives and friends than men in the cross analysis of gender-reference group. 2. The better educated people put more emphasis on quality of institutes. We can expect the better educated people earn more incomes, and they usually can accept the more expenses which are set as 25 thousands for each month. And this also highlights they concern the service quality than other groups even they¡¦re charged more. 3. It determines the service quality whether an institute has medical professionals or not. This highlights the expectations and trust of people to an institute with medical professionals. Under the trends of diseases changes of the older, the daily care of them is not only included, but also long term tracing or inspection on diseases is necessary. 4. In the past affections on filial piety of China, people thought that distances between the institute and home will be a key factor to choose for visit and take over the older easier. However, People do not care how far from home, when an institute with good service quality can also provide better prices. Key words: Kaohsiung Area, Long Term Care Institute

The Port of Kaohsiung is the biggest port of Taiwan. Because South Taiwan is full of industries, the port of Kaohsiung ranked world number three. And as the production industry moved to Mainland China, the port of Kaohsiung regressed to the sixth container harbor in the world in 2008. The president, Ma Ying-jeou, elected in 2008, proposed that the port of Kaohsiung would become Eco-port in the future. There are many migratory birds visiting the port of Kaohsiung every April and May. This research referred to the development module in other countries¡¦ eco-ports, and tried to do the feasibility study on the development of Eco-port Kaohsiung. The method includes documents study, expert interview, sites investigate and sum up. This research hopes to let the port of Kaohsiung become the first Eco-port of Taiwan. And let the human development and ecosystem conservation coexists, reach the win-win situation.

In the developing history of city of Taiwan, Great Kaohsiung Area (including Kaohsiung City and Kaohsiung County) always act to lead the locomotive of heavy industry. These developments had created countless miracles economically but sacrificed the resident's living environment and inhabited quality of Great Kaohsiung Area at the same time, and made Kaohsiung becoming marginalization in the trend of humanism quality and afforest in the whole world. However, in order to make the city change in a way of lively personality, creatively and even more, to have humane breath of depth through the way of the urban renewal, it is necessary to reconstruct the city by the vision of residents. Accordingly, this research based on the regional development and resource such as Qiao-tou, Yun-chou, Zuoying, Nanzou, etc. to put forward and build a future development plan which constructs the College Town of Kaohsiung (CTK), hope to inject a whiff of fountainheads of innovation into excessively industrialized Great Kaohsiung Area. In this research of the construction of CTK, I set three subject parts: industry, education and living environment. I referred to relevant researches and the development policies of government in the past, cases of the developing history of foreign college town, and consulted the main person of industry, government, and academy to get the professional opinion to make this research more completely.

The sea transport is a foundation of world¡¦s development that has driven the development of industrialization at the surrounding area of the port. However, the excessive use and development have caused the port environments of a lot of countries to face the awkward situation of great pollution. The harbor of Kaohsiung is one of Taiwan¡¦s large international commercial ports, while becoming Asian-Pacific Operation Centre, but it is facing the challenge for being a port in achieving the sustainable industrialization as well as a clean environmental harbor city. The present research is initiated to collect the data information of international major ports on their organization related to environmental protection measures in achieving their targets to develop the Green port and Eco-port. These consists of the methodology development and strategy on fulfilling the green policy of the environmental obligation and building the goal of sustainable environment to reduce the impact of environment, life and ecology owning to the development of port. The case studies include long beach and Los Angeles of USA, Hong Kong, Amsterdam and Rotterdam of Holland, Yokohama and Osaka of Japan, Tianjin of China. Our objective is to summing up and analyzing these case studies for suggestions that can provide the direction to Kaohsiung plan to become a Green port and Eco-port. Comparing to Marine Environmental Protection Committee (MEPC) guidelines on demanding the continuously decrease of the sulfurous content of fuels to prevent port environment from more pollution, Taiwan government is lack of stipulating policies about the environmental measures for the port, but blindly pursuing economic growth and unlimitedly to enlarge the ships. These cause the deterioration of environment to an irreversible situation. For the long-term development of the harbor, Taiwan government should take advantage of IT to improve the service-quality, integrate the harbor and regenerate the river bank for achieving the goal of coexistence between development and conservation in order to reform the port of Kaohsiung to be the first Green Harbor in Taiwan.

The re-building and redevelopment of major port and harbours in the world have been a great challenge and opportunities to coastal and harbour cities. The old scheme design of harbour port areas are losing its esteem and fading away because of the raising industrialization, changes, production and business structure. These have made many major harbours to adapt a brand new reform on the use of port areas. The unused piers should be re-planned through a good reform on the port space. The development strategy and policy including the decision making and implementation must be undergoing a restrict plan, design and assessment. These consists of the components such as sustainable development, ecological factors, vision of science, product related industries and the competitiveness of port city. These are becoming seriously components to the port city for its success in the reform of harbours re-planning. The present study was initiated to research the modern port harbours in vary countries of their reform strategy for a better re-building or redevelopment scheme and strategy on harbour city . This aims to assist in finding a comprehensive suitable and applicable model on the future Kaohsiung port city. The present work collects data information consisting of San Francisco of USA, Hamburg of Germany, Victoria Harbour of Hang Kong, Nagoya of Japan, and Singapore. A comparative study and analysis was also made between Kaohsiung Harbour and the aforementioned international port cities. It is intended to accomplish a comprehensive planning, strategy and recommendation for Kaohsiung port city.

Estimation of the transport of persistent organic pollutants via air-water exchange requires precise field concentrations from advanced experimental techniques and adequate physic-chemical parameters generated from proper methods. In this study, concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and hexachlorobenzene (HCB) in the ambient air and water column of Kaohsiung Harbor lagoon were measured and used to determine the air-water exchange fluxes of these compounds from December, 2003 to January, 2005. The Whitman¡¦s thin-film model was used by taking temperature and salinity corrected Henry¡¦s law constants into the model to calculate the fluxes. In addition, particulate concentrations and composition in the ambient air and water column were used to apportion PAH sources and dry particle deposition of PAHs, PCBs and HCB. Instantaneous air-water exchange fluxes of PAHs, PCBs and HCB were calculated from twenty-two pairs of air and water samples. The highest net volatile (+3560 ng m-2 day-1) and absorptive (-1230 ng m-2 day-1) PAH fluxes in this study were both obtained from the three-ring PAH, phenanthrene on April 7 and January 27 in 2004, respectively. Differences of flux magnitude and direction between dry and rain season were obvious for PAHs in this study. Most net fluxes of PCB homologues and HCB in this study are from water to air (net volatilization). The highest net volatile flux observed was +172 ng m-2 day-1 (dichlorobiphenyl) in December, 2003 due to elevated wind speed and dissolved concentration, while the only net absorptive flux observed in this study was -0.03 ng m-2 day-1 (dichlorobiphenyl) in January, 2004. Mean daily PAH diffusive fluxes were -727 ng m-2 day-1 influx in dry season but +808 ng m-2 day -1 efflux in rain season and integrated 3.6 kg and 4.0 kg of PAHs were absorbed into and emitted from harbor lagoon surface waters in dry and rain seasons, respectively. The net PCBs and HCB fluxes suggest that the annual sum of 69 PCBs and HCB measured in this study were mainly volatile (57.4 and 28.3 ¡Ñ103 ng m-2 yr-1, respectively) and integrated 1.5 kg and 0.76 kg of PCBs and HCB emitted from harbor lagoon surface waters to ambient atmosphere in the year. Sources apportionment by the isomer ratios, PAHs in the air phase were mainly from grass, wood and coal combustion and some from liquid fuel combustion. Unlike that in air phase, fluoranthene / fluoranthene + pyrene ratios of water phase suggest PAHs were from incomplete-combusted fuel particles emitted from vehicle exhaust. Principal component analysis (PCA) extracted three meaningful PCs for air and water samples, respectively. For the air samples, the three major sources suggested by three sources are vehicular emissions, volatilization to the air from contaminated soil or waters and the coal-burning emission. Among the water samples, the three major sources suggested by three sources are vehicular emissions, oil spill source and coal-burning emission. Air particulate concentrations of PAHs, PCBs and HCB were also used to calculate their dry particle deposition. Throughout our sampling campaigns, PAH dry particle fluxes were quite comparable to fluxes of air-water exchange. On the contrary, PCB and HCB dry particle deposition flux were negligible comparing to their air-water exchange fluxes. Our results suggest PAHs exhibits strong absorptive or weaker volatile fluxes in the dry season but the opposite in the rain season. However, for PCBs and HCB, Kaohsiung Harbor water is potentially an important source to ambient air.

The randomly sampled subjects in this study are elementary school English teachers from Kaohsiung city, Kaohsiung and Ping-Tung counties. The study was designated into a questionnaire survey with the aim to investigate elementary school English teachers¡¦ attitudes and consideration factors toward the integrative use of games and their English-teaching practices. 302 subjects were randomly selected, data were analyzed through several statistical measures, such as item analysis, factor analysis, reliability analysis, descriptive statistics, independent sample t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson correlation, stepwise multiple regression. It is hoped to promote more active, motivating and inspiring teaching in English instruction. According to the analyses of the questionnaire, several major findings are as follows¡G 1. Most elementary school English teachers agreed that integrative use of games in the English-teaching did not necessarily promote their students¡¦ learning achievement. 2. Elementary school English teachers used games in English class at least once per week. 3. The least used teaching aid for Elementary school English teachers was building blocks. 4. Elementary school English teachers used to attend the workshops that were sponsored by the schools and publishers were more likely using games in their English-teaching; while those who attended workshops sponsored by University¡¦s English departments less likely used games in their teaching. 5. English teacher, English teaching experience in the elementary school is over 16 years, teaching over 21 English instructional sessions per week, Elementary school English teachers joined the institutions that held the workshops on games by ¡§elementary schools¡¨, spent much time using games in their English teaching. 6. English teachers¡¦ attitudes and consideration factors toward the integrative use of games showed little correlation with their actual practices in English-teaching. Finally, based upon the above findings, the researcher provided several suggestions for teachers, elementary schools and future researchers who might be interested in this topic.

Kaohsiung Harbor is the most significant container harbor of Taiwan. Embracing the excellent geographical features for container transportation, it used to be the most attractive hub port for most of container liners. However, because of Taiwan¡¦s conservative cross-strait policy and the transformation of industries, Kaohsiung Harbor became less and less attractive for its clients in recent decade. To figure out a solution for the authority of Kaohsiung Harbor, the researcher used the Grounded Theory to interview 10 container transportation experts. Then find out 97 concept of how container liners choose their hub port when they¡¦re planning their routes. After this, the researcher integrates those concepts into 16 categories and finds their organic connection in between. Finally, researcher refines 5 central categories out of the 16 categories. Base on the relations between the central categories, researcher creates the hub port selecting model of container liners. According to what researcher found, we acknowledge that within this model, the most important hub port selecting factor for container liners is Operation Cost, then goes to Efficiency, Influence of Authority, Government Policy, and Safety.

This study was focused on understanding the students and parents of high school who how to face school accountability, including attitude, approaches and context index. The research process included literature review and questionnaire survey. The population of this study was the high school students and parents across Southern Taiwan, Kaohsiung area, 751 students and 443 parents¡¦ questionnaires were returned. The data was analyzed through item analysis, explore factor analysis, reliability analysis, descriptive statistic, one-way ANOVA, two-way ANOVA, multipack regression. The findings of the study were as follows: A. There are six types of school accountability approaches in students and parents, they are: respond to government, school chose, professional and democratic teaching, professional school administration, school route for retreat and respond to politician. B. There are six types of school accountability contexts in students and parents, they are: school equipments, administrational strategies, students¡¦ learning achievements, teaching and learning efficiency, origin and vent of students, percentage of satisfaction with students and parents. C. High school students and parents show high and positive attitude toward school accountability, especially in parents are higher then students. D. Different backgrounds of students and parents affect to school accountability attitude, approach and context index. E. The professional school administration affect students to school accountability attitude deeply; the respond to government approach, teaching and learning efficiency approach, and origin and vent of students affect parents to school accountability attitude deeply. The suggestions of the study for Taiwan policymakers were as follows: A. Promoting school accountability system can help parents and students to choose school. B. Promoting school accountability should be satisfied to any sort of school stakeholders¡¦ needs. C. School accountability should run in circle that was including in input, process, output and feedback. D. Different schools should be evaluated by different criterion.

Abstract This study investigated the distributions of polyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the sediment cores collected from continental shelf of Gaoping submarine canyon. The sediment cores were analyzed for PAHs to reconstruct historical contamination record of these compounds and to find out the possible sources, trends and fluxes. The average concentrations of £U50 and £U16 PAHs ranged from 568 to 816 ng/g and from 169 to 256 ng/g, respectively. Except for sediment cores L10 and L26, the high molecular weight PAHs (4-6 ring PAHs) were found dominant in 1960s-2006, while the low molecular weight PAHs (2-3 ring PAHs) were found dominant before 1960s. Results from diagnostic ratios and hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) both suggested that sources of PAHs in the cores of southern continental shelf were primarily from petrogenic, while those in the cores of northern continental shelf were from pyrogenic and petroleum combustion. There is a significant increasing of total PAH concentrations between 1930-1950, suggesting that might be an evident during the World War II. Due to increase of importing fossil fuel and the growth of heavy industrials in Gaoping area, the total concentrations of PAHs showed an increasing trend again since 1950s in the core from continental shelf of Gaoping submarine canyon. In addition, during 1990-2006, the total concentrations of PAHs showed a decreasing trend might result from the environmental protection laws. It is noteworthy that in L28 and L29 sediment cores, the increase of total PAH concentrations recorded during 1990-2006 may be due to the dumping of the sludge from dredged Kaohsiung harbor sediments. Comparing with the sediment quality guidelines (SQG), the PAH concentrations in the northern continental shelf sediment samples were higher than the Threshold Effect Level (TEL) value, suggesting there might be an adverse biological effects caused by PAHs. Keywords¡GPolycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), Kaohsiung harbor, Sediment quality guidelines (SQG)