This thesis uses aluminum porous board (AP board) to study the noise reduction for cooling tower. It sets the barrier to isolate the sound propagation. But it will happen diffracted phenomenon when sound wave impinging at the edge of barrier. So the mathematical model of acoustic diffraction on the barriers, which is set up by Hayek, is applied in this thesis. Base on this theorem, the AP board and the paths of sound propagation are analyzed. In experiment, it uses the sound intensity method to measure the cooling tower for determining the major source first. The major source is determined by ranking the sound power. And the suitable insulation material is selected by analysis the frequency band of major source. After analyzing, the major source of cooling tower is the region of fans by motor driven that is located upper the cooling tower. And its frequency range is between 25 Hz to 2500 Hz. So the AP board is a candidate since it has broadband characteristic on noise insulation. After aim of the major source, the noise barrier is studied for noise reduction. In this thesis, the U profile of barrier (looking down from above), which considers the situation in the field, is designed to surround the cooling tower. This barrier is made of aluminum board, and the aluminum porous board is applied to add on the upper barrier for noise reduction. To study the acoustic diffraction on the boundary of barrier, the thick of porous board is added on the upper barrier. The insulation effect is compared in the different condition after measuring the transmission loss. The T shape barrier is also designed for noise reduction evaluating in this thesis. Finally, the best-insulated effect is obtained when the complex board is added on the upper barrier. And the noise level is down to 59 dB around the environment. This result is matched the EPA noise standards.

This study is to discuss the correlation between financial firms and non-financial firms through board linkages and the relationship between these connections and lending and borrowing behavior. Although a board linkage may provide the benefit of better information flows between the lender and borrower, a person on the board of both a bank and a borrowing firm board linkage may face a conflict of interest: the person has a fiduciary duty to both the bank and the firm and these interests may diverge. Many studies suggest that the information benefits of connections outweigh the costs of conflicts. In this way, the study is to find out what kind of firms will attract banker on the board, and the relationship between these connections and lending and borrowing behavior. The conclusions of this study are presented as the following. On firm characteristics, financial firms will choose companies with better credit risk to be the directors. In addition, on the lending and borrowing behavior, the bankers will be the directors of the companies that have longer borrowing terms. The purpose is to monitor these companies. It also can be implied that non-financial firms with banker on the board will have longer borrowing terms than the financial firms.

This thesis examines the formative years of the Joint Army and Navy Board, 1903 to 1919. It serves as an institutional history, focusing on the function of the interservice coordination body. The Joint Board is examined within the context of formulating American military strategy and U.S. diplomatic affairs from its creation in July 1903 to its reconstitution in 1919. At present no comprehensive historical study exists focusing on the Joint Board. Currently, interservice cooperation and coordination during this period receive no more than peripheral analysis in war plan studies. Thus, this work begins the first comprehensive history of the precursor to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. This thesis analyzes the origins and creation of the Joint Board, the Board??s basic duties and responsibilities, and Joint Board actions as they impacted U.S. diplomacy and military strategy concerning the homeland and coast defense, the Caribbean and Cuba, the Panama Canal, as well as the Pacific and the Philippines. Within this geographical framework, this thesis explores the relation of the Joint Board to the Navy General Board and Army General Staff, the cooperation of the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy between the Spanish-American War and World War I, the impact of Joint Board actions on American civil-military relations, and the efficacy of interservice cooperation. This thesis is based largely on unpublished as well as published primary sources, including the records of the Joint Board, Navy General Board records, Army War College Division records, and members?? personal papers housed at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. In addition, secondary sources are used to place the Joint Board within the larger contextual framework of interservice cooperation, U.S. civil-military relations, and American military history during the early twentieth century.

This research study was a qualitative study involving eight current or former school board members of a recently annexed, rural, impoverished, Latino school district in South Texas. The purpose of this intrinsic case study was to highlight the plight of rural education, specifically the plight of a poor school district by examining the perceptions of the school board members. This study was organized around the following sensitizing concerns (Blumer, 1969; Patton, 2002; Schwandt, 2001): What were the school board members' perceptions about the school district prior to the annexation? What were the school board members' perceptions of the factors that contributed to the annexation? What were the school board members' perceptions of the effect of the annexation on the community? The method of inquiry was conversational information interviews (Patton, 2002), two unstructured interviews with each school board member, going where the interviews took me (Fontana & Frey, 2005). The themes revealed in the research included (1) power dynamics, with three sub-themes, (a) trusting those in power, (b) deferring to those in power, and (c) becoming those in power; (2) denial of the obvious, and (3) unspoken paternalism-the Anglo patron system. This study offers implications for policy, practice, and additional research in the areas of rural communities and rural school districts, but most importantly, it provides evidence that rural colonias located along the U.S.-Mexico border have unique educational needs. Rural school districts located along this border need strong school leaders with "a critical leadership of place that support community as a context for learning, understand that schools and their local communities are inextricably linked and that the ability of each to thrive is dependent upon the other" (Budge, 2006, p.8).

The article is about the factors that influence the Taiwanese businesses¡¦ decision to go abroad for listing. Our data are mainly about the Taiwanese businesses¡¦ in Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Shanghai, and Shenzhen. The requirements of main board listing in Hong Kong and Singapore are strict and those in Thailand and Vietnam are loose. There are higher average economic growth rate and better market return in foreign listing market. Although the new listing number is higher than Taiwan, the stock liquidity is lower than Taiwan except Shanghai and Shenzhen market. As the P/E ratio , foreign market is similar to Taiwan except Shanghai¡B Shenzhen and Thailand markets. Overall, the advantages of Taiwan IPO market are not too many except the liquidity. As overseas Listing of Taiwanese businesses, we find that shoes companies and growth enterprise will get together in Hong Kong, and the average market values and money- raising ability are higher. In Singapore, the industries of Taiwanese business are widely distributed. Moreover, the industry in Thailand, Vietnam and China are mainly construction and living- related. The founding years before listing of foreign Taiwanese business are longer than those listing in Taiwan. Therefore, Taiwanese businesses display different styles in different listing market. We divided the influencing factors into macro factors, market factors, industry factors, listing requirement factors and unique factors. We used binary logistic regression as our model and found that the macro factors, the market factors, and listing requirement are related to the Taiwanese businesses¡¦ decisions. When there was higher economic growth rate, higher stock return rate or there were more new listed companies in overseas security markets, more Taiwanese business went abroad for listing. But opposite to our intuition, Taiwanese business did not list in a market with higher P/E ratio. The strict listing requirement did not stop Taiwanese business to list there. Therefore, we think only by lowering the listing requirement will not attract Taiwanese business to come back to Taiwan for listing. Finally, we command that by setting three different ways of Taiwanese businesses¡¦ listing, reducing the money limit and strengthening the collecting industries in Taiwan, we can attract more overseas business coming back to Taiwan for listing.

The firmer the structure of public higher education¡¦s board of regents and the more properly the board is operated, the greater the impact it produces upon the decision-making of the president, thus effectively boosting the efficiency of school conference, promoting the professional development of the faculty and showing the spirit of campus democracy. But, if the board of regents is not well-structured or not operated properly, it will inflate the administrative power led by the president and thwart the conference proceeding, causing factional disruption when it comes to polling time, which in turn undermines campus harmony and the function of the university as a whole. This study aims to find out factors that lead to the malfunction of the administrative power and the board of regents and ways that will help boost interaction of the two so as to uplift the efficacy of faculty professionalism. In particular, such aims consist of l) analyzing factors leading to ill-operated administrative power, 2) analyzing factors leading to ill-operated board of regents, 3) finding out ways for interaction between the two authorities, 4) finding out effective ways for conference proceeding, and 5) offering reference for boosting faculty¡¦s professional efficacy. Two approaches were taken for those aims: 1) questionnaire survey and 2) interview survey. For the first, a total of 384 copies were handed out and 359 of them returned. The results of the survey were further analyzed through such statistical techniques as median, standard deviation, cause analysis, t-test, one-way ANOVA and LSD. For the latter, five participants were interviewed, including the principal, chiefs for academic affair and administrative affair, and non-executive faculty staff. And the study was made through qualitative approach to the survey stuff. It was found that when the principal was at odds with the board of regents, the board members will discuss with the principal as to the vision of the university to reach common ground. When the board members are at odds with each other, they will take the decision made by majority vote. Gender and experience in executive jobs show significant difference in the board of regents¡¦ contribution to school reform. The same is true for staff position, school location, school nature, and school size. The top three contributions by the board to school shape-up as agreed by the respondents are 1) emphasizing school development as a whole, 2) helping cultivate school features and 3) granting more opportunities for school staff¡¦s involvement in school affairs. With respect to the respondents¡¦ opinions as to the board¡¦s IV functions in cultivating school reform, the interviewees show less approval in such items as ¡§ covered-all development ¡§, ¡§member growth¡¨, ¡§cause pursuit¡¨ and ¡§performance uplifting¡¨. As there are not enough male professors in the board, some universities have to fill the vacancy by adding some associate professors to them. But, the meetings of the board of regents were often aborted due to the fact that neither male nor female members hold up to one-third of the posts. So, before the rule was amended by the government authority, the president might as well pick professors from outside to hold the jobs so that outside experience or rule may be learned to upgrade the operation quality of the board of regents. The survey of this in depth interview also find a principal who honors faculty professionalism and fully delegates power to the board will produce more loyal board members to guarantee the smooth operation of the board, and thus exercise its functions to the full.

In the modern enterprises, the capital structures are made up by the specific or the non-specific populace sources. In the separation of management rights and ownership, their common interests may not be the same, so the agency problems are arising. In recent years, the public has serious doubts about unreasonable compensation of directors with higher ranks. The study samples are companies listed in Taiwan Stock Exchange from 2005 to 2007, but excluding banks and insurance companies. This study investigates the relationship between corporate governance and earnings management. The corporate governance variables include director stock ownership, the pledged share ratio of directors, chairman of the board as general manager, percent of independent directors on the board, the average compensation of directors, foreign investors¡¦ ownership, and institutional ownership in the firm. The empirical results show that chairman of the board as general manager who has significant influence on earnings management in the whole industry, electronic industry, and non-electronic industry; the average compensation of directors with higher ranks have significant influence on earnings management in the whole industry and non-electronic industry. In different industries, some empirical results support the hypotheses while other hypotheses do not hold. Thus, this research study has believed that the interconnection between the corporate governance variables and earning management will be affected by characteristics of certain industries. In addition, this research study has also found that there are no direct relationships between corporate governance and earnings management. Hence, the corporate governance in Taiwan is still considered not long enough and can not become an independent factor to affect earnings management inhibition of behavior. Therefore, certain parts of hypotheses will not establish.

Thesis--Harvard, 1954. / Bibliography: p. [322]-360.

Thesis (M.S.)--Oregon State University, 2010. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 57-61). Also available on the World Wide Web.

Thesis (PH. D.)--University of Chicago, 1915. / Originally issued by Houghton Mifflin company without thesis note. This issue is identical except for the addition of the thesis t.p. Includes index. "Bibliographical note": p. [241]-248. "List of cases cited": p. [249]-257. Also available on the Internet. Also issued online.