Thesis (M.A. (Human Resource Management))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2007.

The objective of this paper is to discuss the financial status of Kaohsiung city after the impact of the Governing Allocation of Revenues and Expenditures Act and the merge of Kaohsiung city and county. After Kaohsiung city-county consolidation to elevate status on December 25, 2010, the new government, by the law, needs to accept the obligations and responsibilities of Kaohsiung County in addition to the original outstanding debts of two governments. It is therefore interesting to ask if the restructuring of administrative regions policy leads to the budget deficit of the new government too large. To this end, we test whether the Kaohsiung fiscal deficits are too large to be sustaintable over the period 1987-2010. Our empirical results have shown that, at the present system of laws, the fiscal deficits of the Kaohsiung city-county consolidation are satisfied since they are stationary.

The management of Human Resources is concerning on the issue of employee retention following a merge and acquisition. This study focused on the effects of employee retention and how the Human Resources Department adjusts their salary following a merge and acquisition. Individual case study is used as the methodology of this study and the research subject is Winteck Corporation, which merges and acquires with HannStar LTD. (Yang-Mei 1st and 2nd Factory). Subsequently, the study will use both organizations¡¦ staff financial data such as their annual income, salary structure and benefits, enterprise system, and the corporate culture to do the analysis and comparison. In addition, the discussions had been made about how the salary system adjustment of Winteck Corporation affected the employee retention and the methods found are as following, using the team performance as the standard assessment for the adjustment of original factory employees¡¦ salary, and authorized supervisors to adjust the salary according to employees¡¦ performance. Overall, there is a standard method for the company to select, train and utilize the talented employees as well as to retain employees after a merge and acquisition. Select the employees based on their capability; train the employees after a merge and acquisition as well as clam down their unstable emotion; utilize their professional skills and experiences into the new organization after a merge and acquisition; retaining the employees by paying the original salary while their job structure, position, benefits, and so on are based on the Winteck Corporation. The advantages following a merge and acquisition: 2. upgrade the quality of employees; 3. higher rate for employee retention; 1. increase the production of new products.Discussions: 1. how to develop a standard structure of the salary system following a merge and acquisition; 2. the proposal of salary system for employee retention in the original factory following a merge and acquisition.

Increasing demand on freeway facilities is a major challenge facing urban areas in the United States and throughout the world. Active Traffic Management (ATM) strategies can be used to increase the performance of these facilities through improved operations without the significant expenditure associated with adding capacity. One ATM strategy that has been widely deployed in the current state of practice is ramp metering, which controls the traffic demand placed on a freeway. Merge control strategies are less prevalent and largely undeveloped. This study examines the recurrently congested northbound section of Interstate Highway 35 that approaches downtown Austin, Texas. Using the VISSIM microsimulation platform, a model of this segment was developed and calibrated to reflect current peak-hour congestion. Within this model, ramp metering and merge control technologies were implemented. The impacts on traffic throughput, speed and travel time for each of these proposed systems are evaluated. / text

Recent developments in linguistic theory carried out within the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995; Adger 2003;) provide a functional and concrete framework for an analysis of noun phrases in the Indonesian language, a Western-Malayo Polynesian sub-branch of the Austronesian language family. An analysis of Indonesian noun phrase structure within this framework demonstrates that the head noun occurs in a base-generated position, at the bottom of a DP, while pre- and post-nominal modifiers are contained within a number of additional projections that merge above the head noun. In this thesis, the proposal is made for a relatively unrestricted adjunction analysis, whereby head adjunction via Merge allows for the direct expansion of the head N at various levels of the Indonesian DP. Evidence is presented to show that the adjoined status of attributive nouns and adjectives, a plural feature [PL], and the feature [DEF] generates a complex hierarchical structure in which there is no predefined order between a specifier or complement and the head noun. In addition, it is argued that bare nouns are neutral with respect to number and, given that number-marking, possession and (in)definiteness are optional, all projections that merge above the head N are optional and context is needed to accurately interpret an Indonesian bare noun.

Much change has resulted from pressures at a global level, which now impact on South Africa as a member of the international community. Some changes were dramatic and, to a limited extent, resulted in revolutionary transformation. Various problems were experienced in the higher education sector in general. Merging of some higher education institutions in South Africa as part of transformation seemed to be an obvious solution. This was welcomed by some, yet resisted by others. Various forces started to evolve in the merging process. Owing to one of the most important characteristics of a force, namely its directedness, it can only be perceived (visibly) in its psychological context. The first objective of this study was to conceptualise some psychological forces within the context of a merging higher education institution. The second objective was to determine the perceptions and attitudes of academic school directors, deans and vice-rectors towards the thematically identified psychological forces in a quantitative manner. The last objective was to make recommendations on how the psychological conceptualisation of forces could be utilised in the future development of the merged university in this study. A qualitative exploratory and descriptive design was used to identify items that could be used in a quantitative survey. The quantitative data collected were used to assess interrelations among constructs. Constructs consisted of items related to the force as well as the psychological domain. Cronbach alpha coefficients and factor analysis of items linked to each construct were performed to confirm uni-dimensionality. Practically significant differences between certain constructs were reported by using Cohen's d-value. A measure of sampling adequacy (MSA) was also conducted as developed by Kaiser. Variances were explained and communalities were also indicated. Regarding the first objective, it was determined that the government, council, management, students and alumni, culture, strategy, peers and resources were identified in the three psychological domains. Regarding the second objective, the results indicated the highest affectivity towards management and the lowest towards council; the highest cognition for management and the least for council; and a positive conation towards management and a less positive conation towards council. However, communalities lower than 50% were reported on the construct "conative towards council". It could therefore be concluded that, based on the identified forces and their respective links with the psychological domains, evidence exists of negative affectivity towards and limited understanding of council. The contrary, however, applies in the case of management, which attracted much affectivity, cognition and conation in respect of the merger. Recommendations are made for the organisation and for future research. / Thesis (M.A. (Human Resource Management))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2007.

Recent developments in linguistic theory carried out within the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995; Adger 2003;) provide a functional and concrete framework for an analysis of noun phrases in the Indonesian language, a Western-Malayo Polynesian sub-branch of the Austronesian language family. An analysis of Indonesian noun phrase structure within this framework demonstrates that the head noun occurs in a base-generated position, at the bottom of a DP, while pre- and post-nominal modifiers are contained within a number of additional projections that merge above the head noun. In this thesis, the proposal is made for a relatively unrestricted adjunction analysis, whereby head adjunction via Merge allows for the direct expansion of the head N at various levels of the Indonesian DP. Evidence is presented to show that the adjoined status of attributive nouns and adjectives, a plural feature [PL], and the feature [DEF] generates a complex hierarchical structure in which there is no predefined order between a specifier or complement and the head noun. In addition, it is argued that bare nouns are neutral with respect to number and, given that number-marking, possession and (in)definiteness are optional, all projections that merge above the head N are optional and context is needed to accurately interpret an Indonesian bare noun.

Much change has resulted from pressures at a global level, which now impact on South Africa as a member of the international community. Some changes were dramatic and, to a limited extent, resulted in revolutionary transformation. Various problems were experienced in the higher education sector in general. Merging of some higher education institutions in South Africa as part of transformation seemed to be an obvious solution. This was welcomed by some, yet resisted by others. Various forces started to evolve in the merging process. Owing to one of the most important characteristics of a force, namely its directedness, it can only be perceived (visibly) in its psychological context. The first objective of this study was to conceptualise some psychological forces within the context of a merging higher education institution. The second objective was to determine the perceptions and attitudes of academic school directors, deans and vice-rectors towards the thematically identified psychological forces in a quantitative manner. The last objective was to make recommendations on how the psychological conceptualisation of forces could be utilised in the future development of the merged university in this study. A qualitative exploratory and descriptive design was used to identify items that could be used in a quantitative survey. The quantitative data collected were used to assess interrelations among constructs. Constructs consisted of items related to the force as well as the psychological domain. Cronbach alpha coefficients and factor analysis of items linked to each construct were performed to confirm uni-dimensionality. Practically significant differences between certain constructs were reported by using Cohen's d-value. A measure of sampling adequacy (MSA) was also conducted as developed by Kaiser. Variances were explained and communalities were also indicated. Regarding the first objective, it was determined that the government, council, management, students and alumni, culture, strategy, peers and resources were identified in the three psychological domains. Regarding the second objective, the results indicated the highest affectivity towards management and the lowest towards council; the highest cognition for management and the least for council; and a positive conation towards management and a less positive conation towards council. However, communalities lower than 50% were reported on the construct "conative towards council". It could therefore be concluded that, based on the identified forces and their respective links with the psychological domains, evidence exists of negative affectivity towards and limited understanding of council. The contrary, however, applies in the case of management, which attracted much affectivity, cognition and conation in respect of the merger. Recommendations are made for the organisation and for future research. / Thesis (M.A. (Human Resource Management))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2007.

The special architecture of the Cell BE processor has made scientists revisit the problem of sorting. This paper implements and tests a variant of merge sort where a number of 2-to-1 mergers are connected in a pipelined tree. For large trees there are many more such mergers than processors which means they must be mapped to the processors in some way. Optimized mappings are tested and results show that changing the model used when optimizing might be beneficiary. It is also shown that the small size of the local storages on the co-processors is not limiting the performance.

O objetivo geral desta dissertação é fornecer um quadro amplo da formação dos compostos nas línguas naturais, deflagrando o que deve ser visto como universal em sua formação e o que deve ser visto como particular às línguas. Partindo de uma língua específica, o português brasileiro, demonstramos como a composição se estabelece em um sistema particular, e, no contraste entre as propriedades de seus dados e as propriedades atestadas nesse processo em trabalhos taxonômicos e tipológicos, delineamos as fronteiras entre o geral e o específico. Admitimos que sejam duas as propriedades universais da composição que devem ser abarcadas em um sistema gerativo: (i) o estabelecimento de uma relação gramatical entre os membros de um composto, a saber, uma relação de subordinação, atribuição ou coordenação fato bem comprovado translinguisticamente nos trabalhos de Bisetto e Scalise (2005), Guevara e Scalise (2009), e Scalise e Bisetto (2009) , e (ii) a criação de um domínio categorial acima de dois núcleos complexos conectados em determinada relação gramatical, o qual garante que uma estrutura complexa quase-sentencial seja interpretada como uma única unidade sintática. O particular nesse processo de formação de palavras reside no modo como as línguas naturais emolduram morfologicamente seus compostos, ou se a partir de uma combinação entre radicais, ou se a partir de uma combinação entre palavras, bem como os processos fonológicos que determinam a composição em um sistema linguístico específico. Essa assunção é evidenciada pela variedade de estruturas morfológicas encontrada nos compostos translinguisticamente, e pela assistematicidade de processos fonológicos que se aplicam nos compostos a fim de demarcá-los em uma língua. Para explicar esses fatos, assumimos um modelo não-lexicalista de gramática, a Morfologia Distribuída (cf. HALLE; MARANTZ, 1993; EMBICK; NOYER, 2007), e, com base nesse aparato teórico, demonstramos que as propriedades universais da composição são diretamente abarcadas no componente sintático. As relações gramaticais, primeiramente, são formalizadas através dos tipos de aplicação da operação Merge, tal como definidos em Chomsky (2000, 2004), nomeadamente, set-Merge e pair-Merge, enquanto que o domínio categorial é formado a partir da concatenação de um núcleo definidor de categoria acima de duas ou mais raízes categorizadas. As estruturas morfológicas, por sua vez, serão emolduradas pós-sintaticamente, nos componentes morfológico e fonológico da gramática, onde a variação translinguística se processa. Para tanto, argumentamos que a informação de classe carrega um papel importante na variação estrutural dos compostos translinguisticamente, pois será a presença ou ausência dessa informação que determinará quando uma raiz sintática será um radical ou uma palavra, distribuindo, desse modo, as estruturas sintáticas dos compostos em combinações morfológicas variadas / The main goal of this thesis is to provide a broad picture of compounding in natural languages, triggering what should be considered universal and what should be considered languagespecific in this word formation process. Starting from a particular language, Brazilian Portuguese, we demonstrate how compounding is established in a linguistic system, and by the contrast of the properties present in its compounds with the attested properties provided in taxonomic and typological works on the subject, we outline the boundaries between what is general and what is specific to this language. We argue that there are two universal properties of compounding that should be accounted for a generative system: (i) the establishment of a grammatical relation between the constituents of a compound, namely subordination, attribution and coordination a crosslinguistically well-proven fact in the works of Bisetto and Scalise (2005), Guevara and Scalise (2009) and Scalise and Bisetto (2009) and (ii) the formation of a categorial domain above two constituents connected in a specific grammatical relation, which ensures that a quasi-sentential structure will be interpreted as a single syntactic unit. What is language-specific in this word formation process lies in how languages frame their compounds in morphological structures, whether in a combination of stems or in a combination of words, as well as the phonological processes that specify compounding in some linguistic systems. This assumption finds evidence in the variety of morphological structures found in compounds through the languages of the world, and in the unsystematicity of phonological processes that apply to compounds to demarcate it in a particular language. In order to explain all the above-mentioned facts, we assume a non-lexicalist approach to grammar, the Distributed Morphology framework (see HALLE; MARANTZ, 1993; EMBICK; NOYER, 2007), and based on its tenets we demonstrate that the universal properties of compounding are straightforwardly accounted for the syntactic component of the grammar. Primarily, the grammatical relations are formalized through the nature of the operation Merge, as defined in Chomsky (2000, 2004), namely, set-Merge and pair-Merge, while the categorial domain is created by the concatenation of a category-defining head above two or more categorized roots. The morphological structures of the compounds will be framed post-syntactically at the morphological and phonological components, where crosslinguistic variation takes place. To this end, we argue that class marker information plays an important role in the variation of compounds morphological structure crosslinguistically, since it will be the absence or the presence of this feature that will define whether a syntactic root will be externalized as a stem or as a word, distributing this way the syntactic structure of a compound in various morphological combinations