Dissertations / Theses: 'Global research systems'

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Kasper, Eugene F., and Gary Leong. "AIR-GROUND TELEMETRY SYSTEMS FOR RESEARCH HELICOPTERS." International Foundation for Telemetering, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/605377.

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International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 20-23, 2003 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada
This paper describes the development of a compact mobile telemetry system using commercial-off-the-shelf components. The personal computer-based systems support microwave pulse code modulation and serial spread-spectrum radio modem telemetry. The mobile ground station provides data display and archiving of test activities, air-ground communications between experimenters and the flight test crew, and acts as a flight test Differential Global Positioning System base station. The success of the systems indicates that functional telemetry capabilities can be established for small flight test programs at modest cost.

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Bleyle, Derek J. "A secure Web based data collection and distribution system for Global Positioning System research." Ohio : Ohio University, 2004. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1097605631.

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Danchev, Valentin. "Spatial network structures of world migration : heterogeneity of global and local connectivity." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:81704dfc-4221-4ef4-81cf-35d89dfc364a.

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The landscape of world migration involves multiple interacting movements of people at various geographic scales, posing significant challenges to the dyadic-independence assumption underlying standard migration models. To account for emerging patterns of multilateral migration relationships, we represent world migration as a time-evolving, spatial network. The nodes in the World Migration Network (WMN) are countries located in geographic space, and the edges represent migratory movements for each decade from 1960-2000. In the first part of the thesis, we characterise the spatial network structure of the WMN, with a particular focus on detecting and mapping mesoscopic structures called 'communities' (i.e., sets of countries with denser migration connections internally than to the rest of the WMN). We employ a method for community detection that simultaneously accounts for multilateral migration, spatial constraints, time-dependence, and directionality in the WMN. We then introduce an approach for characterising local (intracommunity) and global (intercommunity) connectivity in the WMN. On this basis, we define a threefold typology that distinguishes 'cave', 'bi-regional', and 'bridging' communities. These are characterised with distinct migration patterns, spatial network structures, and temporal dynamics: cave communities are tightly-knit enduring structures that channel local migration between contiguous countries; bi-regional communities merge migration between two distinct geographic regions; bridging communities have hub-and-spoke dynamic structures that emerge from globe-spanning movements. Our results suggest that the WMN is neither a globally interconnected network nor reproducing geographic boundaries but involves heterogeneous patterns of global and local ('glocal') migration connectivity. We examine a set of relational, homophily, and spatial mechanisms that could have possibly generated the 'glocal' structure we observe. We found that communities of different types arise from significantly different mechanisms. Our results suggest that migration communities can have important implications for world migration, as different types of community structure provide distinct opportunities and constraints, thereby distinctively shaping future migration patterns.

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Ospina, Medina Daniel. "Is cropland-dominance in landscapes an alternate social-ecological regime? : An empirical exploration of patterns in global cropland cover data." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Stockholm Resilience Centre, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-79674.

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Land use/cover change (LUCC) is a major force affecting ecosystems and the services theyprovide at local, regional and global levels. Traditionally, LUCC has been approached as aseries of linear and unidirectional single cause–effect processes, but it is now increasinglyincorporating notions from complex systems to enrich this view. This study explores thepotential benefits of using the concept of regime shifts to understand LUCC. A globalcropland cover dataset was analyzed to empirically identify patterns that suggest theexistence of alternate regimes. Results indicate that in some countries cropland-dominatedand (semi)wild landscapes likely represent alternate social-ecological regimes.Furthermore, results suggest that a theoretical feedback relating market access andagglomeration of economic activates plays a strong role in maintaining these alternate regimes in some contexts. These results highlight the need for LUCC studies to go beyondthe focus on external drivers and environmental template conditions, to incorporate feedback mechanisms and the potential for regime shifts to better understand the nature of LUCC.

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Atal, Ignacio. "Cartographie globale des essais cliniques." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCB071/document.

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Pour comprendre comment se construisent les connaissances sur l’effet des interventions en médecine, il est nécessaire de savoir où est faite la recherche clinique dans le monde, quelles maladies sont étudiées, et quels acteurs la mettent en place. Une vision globale du système de recherche peut aider à identifier des lacunes dans la production de connaissances et à orienter l’activité de recherche vers les priorités de santé, en particulier dans les régions où les ressources sont limitées. Dans ce travail nous avons construit des cartographies de la recherche clinique, c’est-à-dire des analyses agrégées de ce système complexe visant à extraire de l’information sur l’activité globale de recherche. Nous avons utilisé les registres d’essais cliniques inclus dans l’International Clinical Trials Registry Platform de l’Organisation Mondiale de la Santé pour cartographier l’activité de recherche. Dans un premier travail nous avons évalué pour 7 régions l’alignement entre l’effort local de recherche sur 10 ans et le fardeau de 27 groupes de maladies. Ce travail a nécessité le développement d’un algorithme de classification automatique des maladies étudiées dans les essais clinique basé sur des méthodes de traitement automatique du langage. À partir des données de 117,180 essais randomisés, nous avons montré que la recherche faite dans les pays riches était bien alignée avec leurs besoins. Dans toutes les autres régions nous avons identifié des lacunes dans l’effort de recherche. En particulier, en Afrique Subsaharienne, même si des causes majeures de fardeau comme le VIH et le paludisme reçoivent un effort de recherche important, d’autres priorités locales, les maladies infectieuses communes et les pathologies du nouveau-né, ont été négligées par l’effort de recherche. Dans un deuxième travail nous avons évalué l’influence du type de promoteur (industriel ou non-industriel) dans l’utilisation de réseaux de pays pour recruter des patients dans des essais cliniques multi-pays. Nous avons montré que 30% contre 3% des essais à promoteur industriel et non-industriel sont multi-pays, respectivement. Les pays d’Europe de l’Est participent dans leur ensemble de façon surreprésentée dans la recherche multi-pays industrielle. Ceci suggère les grandes capacités des industriels à globaliser leur recherche en s’appuyant sur des réseaux de pays bien définis. À l’échelle de tous les essais clinique enregistrés, nos travaux ont mis en évidence des lacunes majeures dans l’effort de recherche mondial, et montré l’influence des différents acteurs dans la globalisation de celle-ci. Ces travaux forment une brique pour le développement d’un observatoire global de la recherche médicale
By knowing what clinical research is undertaken worldwide, where it is conducted, which diseases are studied, and who is supporting it, we could have a better understanding on how is created the knowledge concerning health interventions. A global landscape of health research may inform policy makers on knowledge gaps and on how to reallocate resources to address health needs, in particular in low-resource settings. In this thesis we mapped clinical research, i.e. we analyzed at a macro-level the complex system of health research to bring information on the global landscape of health research effort. We based our analyses on clinical trial registries included in the International Clinical Trials Registry Platform from the World Health Organization. In a first project, we evaluated within 7 regions the local alignment between the effort of research and the burden for 27 groups of diseases. This work needed the development of a knowledge-based classifier of clinical trial registries according to diseases studied based on natural language processing methods. We mapped 117,180 randomized controlled trials. For high-income countries, the research effort was well aligned with the needs. In all other regions we identified research gaps. In particular, for Sub-Saharan Africa, where major causes of burden such as HIV and malaria received a high research attention, research was lacking for major causes of burden, especially for common infectious diseases and neonatal disorders. In a second project, we compared the mappings of multi-country trials for industry- and non-industry–sponsored clinical trials, and analyzed the networks of collaboration of countries participating together to the same multi-country trials. We showed that among industry- and non-industry–sponsored trials, 30% and 3% were multi-country, respectively. The collaboration within Eastern European countries was particularly over-represented for industry-sponsored research. Industry sponsors may thus have a greater capacity to conduct globalized research, using well-defined networks of countries. Our large-scale mappings of all registered clinical trials shed light on major gaps in the effort of health research as compared to health needs. In addition, we showed the influence of different sponsors in the globalization of clinical research. These projects are in-line with the development of a global observatory for health research

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Wojtara-Perry, Shery. "The Impact of Transformational Leadership Style on the Success of Global Virtual Teams." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2180.

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Organizations in the age of modern technology have a diverse workforce, who are spread around the globe, and the business leaders of the 21st century need to understand how best to manage, overcome new challenges, and know the various skills of team members to capitalize on their differences and unique skills. To allow those geographically dispersed workers to reach their full potential and facilitate team success. Global virtual teams (GVTs) operate in complex environments characterized by diverse cultural and organizational elements. The primary purpose of this correlational and nonexperimental quantitative research was to examine the impact of transformational leadership on GVTs, their productivity, and job satisfaction with leadership effectiveness. Using the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) and the Job Satisfaction Survey (JSS), data analyzes were completed through SurveyMonkey.com and SPSS software. The study measured transformational leadership, the independent variable, by the leader's ability to motivate workers to be satisfied and productive, and by the leader's effectiveness in the organization. Data were assessed by frequency analysis, moderation analyzes, and multiple regression analysis on the dependent variables of job satisfaction, leadership effectiveness, and productivity. The findings from this study reinforced the positive relationships found between transformational leadership, employee productivity, and leadership effectiveness in GVTs. Results also showed that motivated employees increase productivity and help in the organization's growth. Implications for positive social change included improvements in GVT interactions to increase the exchange of diverse ideas that lead to increased productivity and job satisfaction.

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Liao, Te-San. "Modeling and cost analysis of global logistics and manufacturing system." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/42803.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Operations Research Center, 1997.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 56-57).
by Te-San Liao.
S.M.

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Bleyle, Derek. "A Secure Web Based Data Collection and Distribution System for Global Positioning System Research." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1097605631.

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Monroe-White, Thema K. "A cross country investigation of social enterprise innovation: a multilevel modelling approach." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/51912.

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This dissertation presents a multilevel model of national-level factors and their impact on the organizational-level characteristics of social enterprises and their innovations. This study builds on the foundations of two theoretical frameworks: the national systems of innovation, which recognizes economic competitiveness to be a product of several interrelated institutions (e.g. financial, educational, cultural, historical) and where organizational-level innovation drives country level competitiveness; and the comparative social enterprise framework, which contends that national-level institutions (e.g., economic competitiveness, models of civil society) drive the size and shape of the social enterprise sector of a country. Data for this study were collected from multiple secondary global datasets representing 54 countries across seven world regions. Research questions and hypotheses are examined using ordinal and logistic hierarchical generalized linear modeling, two analytical techniques capable of explaining variation at one level (i.e., organizations) as a consequence of factors at another level of analysis (i.e., countries) for non-normally distributed dependent variables. Findings indicate that economic competitiveness, welfare spending, culture and quality of life significantly impact the odds of a business being a social enterprise. Fewer significant relationships were found social enterprise innovations. Conclusions and policy implications are discussed in light of data limitations and the current state of the field.

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OHASHI, Atsuko. "Global Economy and the Formation of the Cultivation System in Java, 1800-1840 : A Preliminary Research." 名古屋大学大学院国際開発研究科, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/16256.

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Meyer, Steven J. "GPS Receiver Testing on the Supersonic Naval Ordnance Research Track (SNORT)." International Foundation for Telemetering, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/609808.

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International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 27-30, 1997 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada
There is an interest in using Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers to find: Time Space Position Information (TSPI), miss distances between a missile and target, and using the data real time as an independent tracking aid for range safety. Ashtech, Inc. has several standalone GPS receivers they believe can work at high g levels. This paper investigates how the Ashtech GPS receivers work under high g loading in one axis. The telemetry system used to collect data from the receivers and the reconstruction of the data will also be discussed. The test was done at SNORT (Supersonic Naval Ordnance Research Track) located at NAWS, China Lake, CA. The g level obtained was about +23 g’s with a deceleration of -15 g’s. The velocity reached was about Mach 2.0. A summary of the errors is included.

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Porter, William Christian. "Community Earth System Model: Implementation, Validation, and Applications." PDXScholar, 2012. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/547.

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The Community Earth System Model (CESM) is a coupling of five different models which are combined to simulate the dynamic interactions between and within the Earth's atmosphere, ocean, land, land-ice, and sea-ice. In this work, the installation and testing of CESM on Portland State University's Cluster for Climate Change and Aerosol Research (CsAR) is described and documented, and two research applications of the model are performed. First, the improved treatment of cloud microphysics within recent versions of CESM's atmospheric module is applied to an examination of changes in shortwave cloud forcing (SWCF) and results are compared to output from older versions of the model. Second, the CESM model is applied to an examination of the effect that increased methane (CH4) concentrations have had on the catalytic destruction of stratospheric ozone (O3) by ozone depleting compounds (ODCs) such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and nitrous oxide (N2O).

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Uhrqvist, Ola. "Seeing and Knowing the Earth as a System : An Effective History of Global Environmental Change Research as Scientific and Political Practice." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema vatten i natur och samhälle, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-110654.

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Previous research connecting scientific knowledge production with governing of the global environment usually start in international climate change negotiations and related assessments. From that vantage point Earth system science and models are studied as an expansion of Global Circulation Models. By tracing of the history of the present Earth system outlook this thesis offers a reflection about how scientific knowledge produce and connects problems with descriptions of desired order of things and strategies to get there. Knowledge becomes a productive power by shaping fields of possible action in relation to the global environment. The interpreted empirical material consists of scientific discussions from the International global environmental change programmes and particularly the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and the International Human Dimensions Programme on global environmental change (IHDP). The studied period spans from the start of the planning of the IGBP in 1983 to the presentation of the new research programme Future Earth in 2013. The thesis is organised around the effects of the IGBP’s strategy to use predictive Earth system models as a tool to bring a broad range of scientific disciplines together. The results demonstrate the historicity of the present Earth system outlook by showing how ecosystems and human dimensions were attributed new and more important roles as drivers of global change. The thesis also argue for the need to approach the ‘Earth system’ as a result of a productive tension between top-down perspectives found in global modelling and bottom-up empirical research engaging with process interactions down to local scales.
Genom att studera diskussioner inom internationella miljöforskningsprogram spårar den här avhandlingen framväxten av dagens syn på planeten jorden som ett sammanlänkat system – Jordsystemet. Kopplingen mellan makt och kunskap, styrning och mentaliteter, ligger till grund för studiens tolkande ansats. Den knyter samman sätt att betrakta och beräkna den globala miljön, grunden för jordsystemperspektivet, och de handlingsalternativ det synliggör inom politik och vetenskap. Studien baseras primärt på analyser av arkivmaterial från International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) och International Human Dimensions Programme of Global Environmental Change (IHDP). Tillsammans representerar dessa två program ett brett nätverk för forskning om globala miljöförändringar. Den undersökta perioden startar i och med planeringen av IGBP 1983 och avslutas 2013 med att Future Earth etableras som ett nytt internationellt program för forskning om globala miljöförändringar. Avhandlingen undersöker effekter av IGBPs strategi att använda prediktiva Jordsystemmodeller som ett redskap för att integrera och koordinera forskningen om globala miljöförändringar. Studiens resultat visar på historiciteten i nuvarande sätt att betrakta Jordsystemet. Framförallt studeras hur introducerandet av ekologisk och social komplexitet i förståelsen och modelleringen av Jordsystemet hänger samman med en förändrad bild av relationen människa-miljö och därmed också bilden av globala miljöförändringar som vetenskapligt och politiskt problem. Avhandlingen visar att förståelsen av Jordsystemet vuxit fram i en produktiv spänning mellanovanifrånperspektivet i globala modeller och lokalt förankrad socio-ekologisk interaktion.

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Хоптар, Аліна Андріївна. "Томографія тропосфери на основі опрацювання даних мульти-GNSS спостережень." Diss., Національний університет "Львівська політехніка", 2020. https://ena.lpnu.ua/handle/ntb/56060.

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Kujiraoka, Scott R., and Russell G. Fielder. "USING COOPERATIVE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENTS (CRADA) TO REDUCE THE TRANSITION TO PRODUCTION RISK OF A MISSILE TELEMETRY SECTION." International Foundation for Telemetering, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/604581.

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ITC/USA 2007 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-Third Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 22-25, 2007 / Riviera Hotel & Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada
The Joint Advanced Missile Instrumentation (JAMI) Program’s main thrust has been the integration of Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking technology into the Department of Defense (DoD) Missile Test Ranges. This technology could be used for Time, Space, Position, and Information (TSPI), Flight Termination (FTS), or End Game Scoring purposes. However the Program’s main goal is to develop Proof-of-Concept components only. Transitioning Missile technology developed by the Government to Private Industry, so that it can be economically mass produced, has been quite a challenge. Traditionally, private industry has had to bid on proposals without much detailed information on how these components have been designed and fabricated. These unknown risks, Non-Recurring Engineering (NRE) and Missile Flight Qualification costs, routinely have significantly increased the price of these procurement contracts. In order so that the Fleet can economically utilize these components in the field, Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADA) between the Government and Private Industry have been used to successfully transition Government developed technology to mass production. They can eliminate the NRE and flight qualification costs to provide for an economical and low risk method of providing the Fleet with the latest advances in GPS Tracking Technology. This paper will discuss how this is currently being accomplished in the development of a conformal wraparound instrumentation antenna for a five-inch diameter Missile Telemetry (TM) Section.

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Lindner, André, and Jürgen Pretzsch. "An International Network on Climate Change Impacts on Small Farmers in the Tropical Andes - Global Conventions from a Local Perspective." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-108302.

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The agricultural sector of Andean countries like Peru and Bolivia perceives the consequences of climate change in increasing water stress due to melting glaciers and changing precipitation patterns. Therefore mainly subsistence agricultural systems are increasingly vulnerable. Traditional inhabitants of the tropical Andean region are aware of the recurrent diversity of climate related impacts and its consequences, thus livelihood strategies are based on principles of risk management. Andean farmers are nowadays applying traditional strategies in a combination of homegrown experimentation and scientific know-how to cope with and adapt to a changing climate. Understanding these adaptations has become one of the most important aspects of research into climate change impacts and vulnerability. It provides essential knowledge for developing and transferring strategies towards a sustainable management in agriculture and agroforestry systems. But there still is a lack of a comparative assessment, especially in regions with high impact of extreme climate conditions. The endogenously determined strategies, which are based on the experience of the farmers, are to be complemented by knowledge and experiences coming from outside farm-household systems and communities. In a collaborative way, this exogenous knowledge is to be placed at the disposal of local actors. The necessary network approach leads to a comprehensive involvement of local stakeholders. Therefore a participative network on climate change may work as a tool to bridge the gap between the global discourse on climate change and local action.

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Tiesler, Russell Colin, and n/a. "A Decade of GPS geodesy in the Australian region: a review of the GDA94 and its performance within a time series analysis of a 10 year data set in ITRF 2000." University of Canberra. Information Sciences & Engineering, 2005. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20051202.114435.

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The University of Canberra (UC) has been involved in GPS processing since the late 1980s. This processing commenced with the GOTEX 1988 campaign and progressed through a series of project specific regional campaigns to the current daily processing of a distributed set of continuously operating sites for the determination of precise GPS station positions for user applications. Most of these earlier campaigns covered only short periods of time, ranging from a few weeks to multiple occupations of a few days to a time over one to two years. With software developments, these multiple occupations were able to be combined to produce results from which crustal motion velocities could be extracted. This first became feasible with the processing of the Australian National Network (ANN), which yielded realistic tectonic velocities from two occupations (1992 and 1993) of sites 12 months apart. Subsequently, this was successfully extended by a further 12 months, with re-occupation of certain sites for a third time in 1994. Analysis of the results indicated that the accuracy of determining the earth signals improved as the time span from first to last observation was increased. The same was true also for the determination of the position of global references sites. However, by current standards the results achieved were poor. Consequently, the process was extended to combine the results of subsequent campaigns with the original ANN data set. From 1995 to 1999, campaigns were conducted across Australia, covering many State and tide gauge sites included in the original ANN solution. These provided additional multiple occupations to improve the determinations for both position and velocity. UC has maintained a data set of the global IGS sites, commencing with the IGS pilot campaign of 1992. Daily data sets for those global sites, which contained days common to the regional campaigns, were processed to produce our own independent global orbit and reference frame connection. The motivation for doing so was fourfold. �Firstly, to see if historic data could be reprocessed using current modern software and thus be able to be incorporated in this and other analysts research programs. �Secondly, to compare the results of the reprocessing of the original data set using modern software with the original ANN solution and then validate both the solutions. �Thirdly, to extend the timespan of observations processed to include more recent campaigns on as many original sites as possible. This to achieve a stronger solution upon which to base the determination of an Australian tectonic plate velocity model and provide quality assurance on the solution comparisons with re-observed sites. �Fourthly, to develop a set of transformation parameters between current coordinate systems and the GDA94 system so as to be able to incorporate new results into the previous system. The final selection of regional and global sessions, spanning from mid 1992 to late 2002, contained almost 1000 individual daily solutions. From this 10 year data span a well determined rigid plate tectonic motion model was produced for Australia. This site velocity model was needed to develop a transformation between the thesis solution in ITRF00 an the GDA94 solution in ITRF92. The significant advantage of the plate velocity model is that all Australian sites can now have computed a realistic velocity, rather than being given a value which has been interpolated between sites whose velocities had been determined over a one or two year span. This plate velocity model is compared with the current tectonic motion NNR-NUVEL-1A model and other recently published models. To perform the comparison between the thesis solution in ITRF00 and the GDA solution in ITRF92 a transformation was developed between the two reference systems. This set of transformation parameters, in conjunction with the plate velocity model developed, enables site solutions at any epoch in the current ITRF00 to be converted onto the GDA94, and vice versa, with a simple, non-varying seven parameter transformation. The comparisons between the solutions are analysed for both horizontal position and height consistency. There were 77 sites whose differences were compared. The horizontal consistency was within estimated precisions for 75 of the 77 sites. However, the vertical comparisons revealed many of the single epoch sites, especially in 1992, have inconsistent results between the two solutions. The heights from this thesis for some West Australian sites were compared with analysis done by DOLA and the height recoveries are very similar, indicating a weakness in the GDA94 solution for some of the single epoch sites. Some of these differences have been resolved but others are still under investigation. This thesis describes the repocessing of the original ANN data set, the addition of later data sets, the results obtained, and the validation comparisons of the old and new solutions. As well as the plate velocity model, transformation is provided which enables the user to compute between the GDA94 system, and any epoch result in ITRF00. Recommendations are made as to which sites need additional work. This includes sites which only need further analysis or investigation and those which require further observations to achieve a result which will have acceptable accuracy and reliability.

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Franzen, Samuel R. P. "Barriers and enablers to locally-led clinical trial conduct in low and middle income countries : strategies for developing locally sustainable health research capacity." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f539fa94-08db-498c-8148-23cc8d0fe34c.

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Many Low and Middle Income Countries (LAMICs) still lack sufficient health research capacity to build a local evidence-base with which to inform policy and improve population health. Recognising this, The 2013 World Health Report called for all nations to be producers of health research. To achieve this, new strategies that can develop sustainable locally-led capacity are required. Among the health research capacities needed, ability to conduct clinical trials is important. However, there is no evidence-informed guidance on the best ways to develop locally-led trial capacity. This thesis aims to fill this gap. Three cases-studies using qualitative methods to explore the barriers and enablers to locally-led trial conduct were conducted in Ethiopia, Cameroon and Sri Lanka. Current and potential local trial researchers and health research system stakeholders were recruited. A synthesis of the health research capacity development literature was conducted to compare the case-studies’ findings with wider published perspectives. These data permit an examination of the key issues facing the development of locally-led trial capacity in LAMICs. Barriers and enablers to locally-led trial conduct were found at macro, institutional and individual levels. Although different country research systems, and institutions and individuals within them, were variably successful at conducting trials, the key issues and mechanisms influencing successful trial undertaking were largely similar. Agreement among the case-studies and with the diverse literature suggests that many of the findings will be transferable to other LAMICs, and are also of relevance to other health research methods. A conceptual framework explaining the antecedents and consequences of locally-led trial undertaking in LAMICS is presented. This identifies the following factors as important for supporting locally-led trial undertaking: awareness and appreciation for health research and clinical trials; motivation to conduct clinical trials; availability of human resources with trial knowledge and technical skills; research leadership capabilities; ability to form collaborations, effective teams and acquire resources; trial management dedicated to sustainable capacity development and producing useful research; and system-wide prioritisation of health research. The theories of change presented within this framework are used to develop practical recommendations for development of locally-led trial capacity in LAMICs. These recommendations have four inter-related goals: fostering pro-research cultures in stakeholder institutions; developing trial leaders and staff; providing a facilitative operational environment for trials; and ensuring trial research has an impact. However, to create the will to enact change, advocacy from research champions and conducting trials in a way that benefits local institutions and population health is needed.

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Berrios-Ayala, Mark. "Brave New World Reloaded: Advocating for Basic Constitutional Search Protections to Apply to Cell Phones from Eavesdropping and Tracking by Government and Corporate Entities." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1547.

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Imagine a world where someone’s personal information is constantly compromised, where federal government entities AKA Big Brother always knows what anyone is Googling, who an individual is texting, and their emoticons on Twitter. Government entities have been doing this for years; they never cared if they were breaking the law or their moral compass of human dignity. Every day the Federal government blatantly siphons data with programs from the original ECHELON to the new series like PRISM and Xkeyscore so they can keep their tabs on issues that are none of their business; namely, the personal lives of millions. Our allies are taking note; some are learning our bad habits, from Government Communications Headquarters’ (GCHQ) mass shadowing sharing plan to America’s Russian inspiration, SORM. Some countries are following the United States’ poster child pose of a Brave New World like order of global events. Others like Germany are showing their resolve in their disdain for the rise of tyranny. Soon, these new found surveillance troubles will test the resolve of the American Constitution and its nation’s strong love and tradition of liberty. Courts are currently at work to resolve how current concepts of liberty and privacy apply to the current conditions facing the privacy of society. It remains to be determined how liberty will be affected as well; liberty for the United States of America, for the European Union, the Russian Federation and for the people of the World in regards to the extent of privacy in today’s blurred privacy expectations.
B.S.
Bachelors
Health and Public Affairs
Legal Studies

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Tavares, Lucas Alves. "O envolvimento da proteína adaptadora 1 (AP-1) no mecanismo de regulação negativa do receptor CD4 por Nef de HIV-1." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/17/17136/tde-06012017-113215/.

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O Vírus da Imunodeficiência Humana (HIV) é o agente etiológico da Síndrome da Imunodeficiência Adquirida (AIDS). A AIDS é uma doença de distribuição mundial, e estima-se que existam atualmente pelo menos 36,9 milhões de pessoas infectadas com o vírus. Durante o seu ciclo replicativo, o HIV promove diversas alterações na fisiologia da célula hospedeira a fim de promover sua sobrevivência e potencializar a replicação. A rápida progressão da infecção pelo HIV-1 em humanos e em modelos animais está intimamente ligada à função da proteína acessória Nef. Dentre as diversas ações de Nef está a regulação negativa de proteínas importantes na resposta imunológica, como o receptor CD4. Sabe-se que esta ação resulta da indução da degradação de CD4 em lisossomos, mas os mecanismos moleculares envolvidos ainda são totalmente elucidados. Nef forma um complexo tripartite com a cauda citosólica de CD4 e a proteína adaptadora 2 (AP-2), em vesículas revestidas por clatrina nascentes, induzindo a internalização e degradação lisossomal de CD4. Pesquisas anteriores demonstraram que o direcionamento de CD4 aos lisossomos por Nef envolve a entrada do receptor na via dos corpos multivesiculares (MVBs), por um mecanismo atípico, pois, embora não necessite da ubiquitinação de carga, depende da ação de proteínas que compõem os ESCRTs (Endosomal Sorting Complexes Required for Transport) e da ação de Alix, uma proteína acessória da maquinaria ESCRT. Já foi reportado que Nef interage com subunidades dos complexos AP-1, AP-2, AP-3 e Nef não parece interagir com subunidades de AP-4 e AP-5. Entretanto, o papel da interação de Nef com AP-1 e AP-3 na regulação negativa de CD4 ainda não está totalmente elucidado. Ademais, AP-1, AP-2 e AP-3 são potencialmente heterogêneos devido à existência de isoformas múltiplas das subunidades codificadas por diferentes genes. Todavia, existem poucos estudos para demonstrar se as diferentes combinações de isoformas dos APs são formadas e se possuem propriedades funcionais distintas. O presente trabalho procurou identificar e caracterizar fatores celulares envolvidos na regulação do tráfego intracelular de proteínas no processo de regulação negativa de CD4 induzido por Nef. Mais especificamente, este estudo buscou caracterizar a participação do complexo AP-1 na modulação negativa de CD4 por Nef de HIV-1, através do estudo funcional das duas isoformas de ?-adaptina, subunidades de AP-1. Utilizando a técnica de Pull-down demonstramos que Nef é capaz de interagir com ?2. Além disso, nossos dados de Imunoblot indicaram que a proteína ?2-adaptina, e não ?1-adaptina, é necessária no processo de degradação lisossomal de CD4 por Nef e que esta participação é conservada para degradação de CD4 por Nef de diferentes cepas virais. Ademais, por citometria de fluxo, o silenciamento de ?2, e não de ?1, compromete a diminuição dos níveis de CD4 por Nef da membrana plasmática. A análise por imunofluorêsncia indireta também revelou que a diminuição dos níveis de ?2 impede a redistribuição de CD4 por Nef para regiões perinucleares, acarretando no acúmulo de CD4, retirados por Nef da membrana plasmática, em endossomos primários. A depleção de ?1A, outra subunidade de AP-1, acarretou na diminuição dos níveis celulares de ?2 e ?1, bem como, no comprometimento da eficiente degradação de CD4 por Nef. Além disso, foi possível observar que, ao perturbar a maquinaria ESCRT via super-expressão de HRS (uma subunidade do complexo ESCRT-0), ocorreu um acumulo de ?2 em endossomos dilatados contendo HRS-GFP, nos quais também detectou-se CD4 que foi internalizado por Nef. Em conjunto, os resultados indicam que ?2-adaptina é uma importante molécula para o direcionamento de CD4 por Nef para a via ESCRT/MVB, mostrando ser uma proteína relevante no sistema endo-lisossomal. Ademais, os resultados indicaram que as isoformas ?-adaptinas não só possuem funções distintas, mas também parecem compor complexos AP-1 com diferentes funções celulares, já que apenas a variante AP-1 contendo ?2, mas não ?1, participa da regulação negativa de CD4 por Nef. Estes estudos contribuem para o melhor entendimento dos mecanismos moleculares envolvidos na atividade de Nef, que poderão também ajudar na melhor compreensão da patogênese do HIV e da síndrome relacionada. Em adição, este trabalho contribui para o entendimento de processos fundamentais da regulação do tráfego de proteínas transmembrana no sistema endo-lisossomal.
The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is the etiologic agent of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). AIDS is a disease which has a global distribution, and it is estimated that there are currently at least 36.9 million people infected with the virus. During the replication cycle, HIV promotes several changes in the physiology of the host cell to promote their survival and enhance replication. The fast progression of HIV-1 in humans and animal models is closely linked to the function of an accessory protein Nef. Among several actions of Nef, one is the most important is the down-regulation of proteins from the immune response, such as the CD4 receptor. It is known that this action causes CD4 degradation in lysosome, but the molecular mechanisms are still incompletely understood. Nef forms a tripartite complex with the cytosolic tail of the CD4 and adapter protein 2 (AP-2) in clathrin-coated vesicles, inducing CD4 internalization and lysosome degradation. Previous research has demonstrated that CD4 target to lysosomes by Nef involves targeting of this receptor to multivesicular bodies (MVBs) pathway by an atypical mechanism because, although not need charging ubiquitination, depends on the proteins from ESCRTs (Endosomal Sorting Complexes Required for Transport) machinery and the action of Alix, an accessory protein ESCRT machinery. It has been reported that Nef interacts with subunits of AP- 1, AP-2, AP-3 complexes and Nef does not appear to interact with AP-4 and AP-5 subunits. However, the role of Nef interaction with AP-1 or AP-3 in CD4 down-regulation is poorly understood. Furthermore, AP-1, AP-2 and AP-3 are potentially heterogeneous due to the existence of multiple subunits isoforms encoded by different genes. However, there are few studies to demonstrate if the different combinations of APs isoforms are form and if they have distinct functional properties. This study aim to identify and characterize cellular factors involved on CD4 down-modulation induced by Nef from HIV-1. More specifically, this study aimed to characterize the involvement of AP-1 complex in the down-regulation of CD4 by Nef HIV-1 through the functional study of the two isoforms of ?-adaptins, AP-1 subunits. By pull-down technique, we showed that Nef is able to interact with ?2. In addition, our data from immunoblots indicated that ?2- adaptin, not ?1-adaptin, is required in Nef-mediated targeting of CD4 to lysosomes and the ?2 participation in this process is conserved by Nef from different viral strains. Furthermore, by flow cytometry assay, ?2 depletion, but not ?1 depletion, compromises the reduction of surface CD4 levels induced by Nef. Immunofluorescence microscopy analysis also revealed that ?2 depletion impairs the redistribution of CD4 by Nef to juxtanuclear region, resulting in CD4 accumulation in primary endosomes. Knockdown of ?1A, another subunit of AP-1, resulted in decreased cellular levels of ?1 and ?2 and, compromising the efficient CD4 degradation by Nef. Moreover, upon artificially stabilizing ESCRT-I in early endosomes, via overexpression of HRS, internalized CD4 accumulates in enlarged HRS-GFP positive endosomes, where co-localize with ?2. Together, the results indicate that ?2-adaptin is a molecule that is essential for CD4 targeting by Nef to ESCRT/MVB pathway, being an important protein in the endo-lysosomal system. Furthermore, the results indicate that ?-adaptins isoforms not only have different functions, but also seem to compose AP-1 complex with distinct cell functions, and only the AP-1 variant comprising ?2, but not ?1, acts in the CD4 down-regulation induced by Nef. These studies contribute to a better understanding on the molecular mechanisms involved in Nef activities, which may also help to improve the understanding of the HIV pathogenesis and the related syndrome. In addition, this work contributes with the understanding of primordial process regulation on intracellular trafficking of transmembrane proteins.

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Chen, Ching-Mei, and 陳靜玫. "Global Distribution Systems Research -A Case Study in Amadeus." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/nh453s.

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碩士
國立暨南國際大學
管理學院經營管理碩士學位學程碩士在職專班
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Abstract Travel industry is facing the challenges due to the financial and economic changes and technological networks convenience. Since the development of tourism and the global economy are associated, and Global Distribution Systems also served as the role of partners in the travel industry, Therefore, to really understand the point of practitioners, choose the global Distribution systems company Amadeus as the main case study, The main understanding of the development of Amadeus Global Travel Distribution System and major trends affecting the future of the tourism industry in Taiwan and global growth application and characteristics of travel distribution system to be constructed out of future trends and develop strategies. Using qualitative research methods to study; Semi-structured interviews, access Amadeus customers in Taiwan, in order to understand current status of Taiwan's tourism industry using Amadeus's system, And cognitive tourism industry to create the future of tourism in the case of the four trends. Consolidation of data analysis on the interview follows: 1. Impact of emerging and frontier markets for Taiwan tourism, Online travel agency saw an opportunity to "increase the chance of sales" and traditional travel agencies see as a threat "to increase competition." 2. Respondents see two trends of Taiwan business travelers "more autonomy" "mobile devices rely on a higher" 3 The competitive aviation industry impact of travel agencies is "fast-growing LCC market" major shock reduction in customer loss and profit. 4 Seamless Travel- See the impact of mobile devices in the tourism industry once again. Finally, based on the above findings and interviews found , Do SWOT analysis for Amadeus and Abacus to understand their market advantages and disadvantages. Recommendations to Amadeus for future development. Keywords: Travel industry, GDS, Low Cost Carrier, Mobile devices

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Arunachalam, Subbiah. "The Global Research Village: A view from the Periphery." 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105377.

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There is a vast difference between the rich and poor countries in every respect. The difference is very pronounced in scientific and technical research, in terms of both volume and impact. Indeed the distribution of science is even more skewed than the distribution of wealth among nations. Science in the developing countries suffers from poor funding, poor laboratory and library facilities, low productivity and poor visibility. Developing country scientists have access to only a tiny fraction of the information they need and their own contribution to science is hardly noticed by others. They are often the also-rans in world science and are rarely members of international invisible colleges or collaboratories. It is important that these countries strengthen their scientific research and their scientists become fully integrated members of the worldwide network of science. But, unfortunately, the transformations effected in the conduct of science with the advent of the new ICTs (such as high bandwidth Internet) and the ever-increasing cost of subscriptions to journals and secondary services are widening the gulf between the industrialized and developing countries. Ironically, the steep rise in the cost of S&T information has helped Third World scientists in a way, as it forced scientists and librarians in the advanced countries to think of measures to overcome the â serials crisisâ many of which can benefit Third World scientists. These include, among others, the Open Archives and E-print Initiatives, Public Library of Science, the Budapest Open Access Initiative, SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), and BioMed Central. Also, eminent scientists like Bruce Alberts and editors like Richard Smith and world leaders like Gro Harlem Brundtland are championing the cause of enhanced access to information for Third World scientists. In response to such moves, commercial publishers of journals have allowed free delayed electronic access to a few high impact journals through institutions such as the Highwire Press of the Stanford University. Under WHOâ s Health InterNetwork, more than 25 commercial publishers have agreed to provide free (or low-cost) web access to about 2,000 biomedical journals for scientists, faculty and students working in universities, hospitals and other public institutions in the poor countries. To benefit from these initiatives, scientists in the Third World should have access to PCs and high bandwidth Internet, and many of them do not. As Bruce Alberts suggests, even if it means subsidising, such access must be ensured. Agencies such as the Third World Academy of Sciences, Inter Academy Panel, and the Inter Academy Council and Foundations such as the Soros Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Andrew Mellon Foundation, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation should work in unison to facilitate free flow of S&T information for the benefit of scientists and people everywhere. Scientists everywhere should stop publishing in expensive commercial journals and support efforts aimed at democratising access to scientific information. All this is easier said than done. Commercial publishers will not easily let go the stranglehold they enjoy now, and those who want to bring about drastic changes are dispersed around the world and cannot really act as a cohesive body that can take on the might of the commercial publishers. Mere idealism cannot win. Scientists in developing countries should take advantage of recent initiatives to open up free and low-cost access to scientific and technical information, examine the pros and cons of different possibilities that have become available and choose the right options and enlist the support of key organizations, both national and regional and international. They should become proactive. This is a background paper commissioned by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).

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Kun-You, Chen, and 陳坤佑. "The Research of Environment of Distributed Structure Applied to Global Wargame Systems." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/01108099966532057258.

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碩士
國防管理學院
國防資訊研究所
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With the quick development of the information networks, almost all the advanced countries in the world use all kinds of information systems to develop their own exercise and training function, and apply model, simulation and wargaming in replacement of most real exercises and CPX to execute the force’s training and development of doctrines. Furthermore, they can use it to be the basis of weapon requirement, acquirement, advancement and improvement equipment. Therefore, to achieve the goal of combining the exercise and training is the world trend. From the experience of Iraq war, the united forces operation also become the standard of future operation. So, the joint operation is the trend of development for the model, simulation and war gaming. In recent two or three years, our forces’ important exercise and training goals all focus on the concept of combining peace and war and the training of the joint operation. Nowadays, due to the retrenchment in the defense personnel and budget, how to apply the joint operation level’s wargaming system of distributive exercise structure to execute the joint exercise and training mission of future distributive remote joint operation is a significant topic. The main purpose of this research is to discuss about the applied environment of distributive exercise structure of global wargaming systems and then perform the simulation, verification, and analysis by using the joint operation level’s wargaming systems of distributive exercise structure. To propose the related suggestions for the forces is order to train the ability of joint operations and command mechanisms in exercise and training missions in the future.

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Xu, You-Jia, and 許祐嘉. "The Research on Developing an Architecture and a System Analysis Approach for Global Manufacturing Information Systems." Thesis, 1996. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/pwxnk4.

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Desai, Ketaki Vimalchandra. "Matching supply to demand: relating local structural adaptation to global function." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2658.

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The heart and microvasculature have characteristics of a complex adaptive system. Extreme challenges faced by these organ systems cause structural changes which lead to global adaptation. To assess the impact of myocardial interstitial edema on the mechanical properties of the left ventricle and the myocardial interstitium, we induced acute and chronic interstitial edema in dogs. With chronic edema, the primary form of collagen changed from type I to III and left ventricular chamber compliance significantly increased. The resulting functional adaptation allows the chronically edematous heart to maintain left ventricular chamber compliance when challenged with acute edema, thus, preserving cardiac function over a wide range of interstitial fluid pressures. To asses the effect of microvascular occlusions, we reintroduced the Pallid bat wing model and developed a novel mathematical model. We hypothesized that microvessels can switch from predominantly pressure-mediated to shear-mediated responses to ensure dilation during occlusions. Arterioles of unanesthetized Pallid bats were temporarily occluded upstream (n=8) and parallel (n=4) to vessels of interest (20-65 mm). In both cases, the vessels of interest rapidly dilated (36+24 %, 37+33 %), illustrating that they responded appropriately to either decreased pressure or increased shear stress. The model not only reproduced this switching behavior, but reveals its origin as the nonlinear shear-pressure-radius relationship. The properties of the heart and microvasculature were extended to characterize a “Research-Intensive Community” (RIC) model, to provide a feasible solution consistent with the Boyer Commission, to create a sustainable physiology research program. We developed and implemented the model with the aim of aligning diverse goals of participants while simultaneously optimizing research productivity. While the model radically increases the number of undergraduate students supported by a single faculty member, the inherent resilience and scalability of this complex adaptive system enables it to expand without formal institutionalization.

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Kizgin, Hatice, B. L. Dey, Y. K. Dwivedi, L. Hughes, A. Jamal, P. Jones, B. Kronemann, et al. "The impact of social media on consumer acculturation: current challenges, opportunities, and an agenda for research and practice." 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/17655.

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The concept of acculturation has been based on the assumption of an adaptation process, whereby immigrants lose aspects of their heritage cultures in favour of aspects of a host culture (i.e. assimilation). Past research has shown that acculturation preferences result in various possibilities and influence consumption behaviour. However, the impact of social media on consumer acculturation is underexplored, although the social purpose and information sharing online is utilized for a variety of social purposes. Recent studies have shown the transformation from an offline to an online context, in which social networks play an integral part in immigrants’ communications, relationships and connections. This study merges the views from a number of leading contributors to highlight significant opportunities and challenges for future consumer acculturation research influenced by social media. The research provides insights into the impact of social media on consumer acculturation.
We are grateful to Emerging Markets Research Centre (EMaRC), Swansea i-Lab (Innovation Lab), and Department of Business at the School of Management, Swansea University for their financial support and organisation.

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Phadke, Aboli Manas. "Designing and experimenting with e-DTS 3.0." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/4932.

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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
With the advances in embedded technology and the omnipresence of smartphones, tracking systems do not need to be confined to a specific tracking environment. By introducing mobile devices into a tracking system, we can leverage their mobility and the availability of multiple sensors such as camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Inertial sensors. This thesis proposes to improve the existing tracking systems, enhanced Distributed Tracking System (e-DTS 2.0) [19] and enhanced Distributed Object Tracking System (eDOTS)[26], in the form of e-DTS 3.0 and provides an empirical analysis of these improvements. The enhancements proposed are to introduce Android-based mobile devices into the tracking system, to use multiple sensors on the mobile devices such as the camera, the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth sensors and inertial sensors and to utilize possible resources that may be available in the environment to make the tracking opportunistic. This thesis empirically validates the proposed enhancements through the experiments carried out on a prototype of e-DTS 3.0.

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Pham, An. "Water Plans and Climate Change Plans in the Northeast and the Southwest." 2013. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/1077.

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To what degree are water managers in different regions in the United States thinking about and planning for climate change? To answer this question we reviewed water plans and climate change plans in all the cities with populations over 50,000 in the Northeastern and Southwestern regions of the United States. By locating and reviewing water and climate change plans in the described cities in the two regions, we found that of the 101 cities with over 50,000 people in the Northeast, 83 cities had water plans and/or climate change plans that could be found online; only 20 had plans that discussed climate change in the context of water. Of the 56 cities with over 50,000 people in the Southwest, 42 cities had water plans and climate change plans that could be found online; 22 cities had plans that discussed climate change in the context of water. Our initial analysis shows that in the Northeast population and whether a city is on the coast may be the main factors driving whether a city considers water and climate change jointly and in the Southwest population and political leaning may be the main factors, while the median income of the city, and average rainfall level appear to be irrelevant. We compare the current status of water-related climate change decision making in these regions before summarizing the types of water-related climate change mitigation and adaptation actions that these cities are currently undertaking or considering. Many of these plans mention both climate change mitigation and climate change adaptation actions, indicating that water managers who are thinking about and planning for climate change are approaching this issue broadly. These results provide a foundation for understanding the impacts of climate change on water-related decision-making.

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Lee, Yi-huei, and 李怡慧. "Research of Global Budget System on the National Health Insurance-Focus on Global Budget System." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/13458467970054151856.

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Peng, Kua-Hsin, and 彭廣興. "Strategy Research on the Global Budget System in Hospitals." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/hc7gr9.

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元培科學技術學院
經營管理研究所
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Because of the global budget system cuts of the Taiwan National Health Insurance (TNHI) program, hospitals in Taiwan face reduced incomes. So, the hospital, in order to reduce the costs, will take various measures. However, before choosing any strategy, each hospital must understand its own goals clearly and choose the strategy which best suits itself. In this way, the hospital can avoid the risk of failure. This study describes the ongoing development of an evaluation model to be used to help hospitals in choosing a suitable strategy. The evaluation model being developed in this study is an application of conjoint analysis combined with the analytic network process method to select a suitable strategy. This study expects to develop an effective hospital strategy evaluation model, in which a medical organization can have an objective and systematic method to choose the most suitable strategy. And by the successful combination of conjoint analysis with the analytic network process method, it is hoped to simplify the calculation procedure in order to help hospital policymakers more effectively and quickly choose a suitable strategy. In order to compare optimal strategy of different case hospital, this study chooses three case hospitals (A, B, C) decision makers carry on investigation separately. Finally, this study utilizes multidimensional scaling analysis (MDS) method to produce the perceptual map, and use perceptual map to discuss the difference strategy between the case hospitals (A, B, C).

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張沅嬪. "Research on Carrying out Global Budget System in Hospitals." Thesis, 2001. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/23759575825804603928.

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東海大學
企業管理學系碩士班
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Abstract By means of the applied research, one of qualitative researches, and with the assist of in-depth interview, this study collects and analyzes the related literature of global budget system, balanced scorecard, and health care system. With the background of the medical system in Taiwan, this research makes a thorough inquiry about the probable influences and impact on carrying out the global budget system. Facing the change of the budget system, this paper also proposes constructive suggestions on management for the hospitals. Creating a balanced scorecard for a hospital system Step 1: Selecting indicators Step 2: Determining relative performance Step 3: Collecting and organizing the data Step 4: Presenting the results Applying Activity-Based Cost Management for a hospital system ABM is the use of information obtained from ABC to make improvement in a hospital. When ABC is applied to marketing cost, it can lead the hospital managers to rethink the profitability of different customers and different channels of distribution. Take the long view, the ABM information can help managers position their hospitals to take better advantages of its strengths. Key word: hospital, global budget system, balanced scorecard,ABM

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Ma, Chin-Hung, and 馬景宏. "Car-Based Channel Model Research for Global Position System." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/63418255913167393435.

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中原大學
電機工程研究所
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Abstract This thesis investigates the car-based channel model to evaluate the wireless performance for handheld device in the open space by adding a factor from the “Scenario Signal Strength” method. Traditionally using the test equipment with antenna and “DUT(Device Under Test)” to find out the value of the signal strength is the most popular method to find out the DUT performance in the specific test environment. By using this method we can find out the relationship between the channel model and our test environment after analysis the test results. Rayleigh fading distribution and Rician fading distribution are the basic types for the LOS and none LOS environment. We will use the Global Position System for the 1575.42MHz signal strength research in LOS put the device in a car. In this thesis, we will use a “Scenario Signal Strength” method for the AUD performance estimation. We will introduce the CTIA test program in Chapter3.2 and we will test the AUT performance in a CTIA approved 3D chamber, and then provide several models to simulate the near field affection for the AUD. We can provide several different factors to compensate the near field affection for the antenna when we do the performance test in the car. “Scenario Signal Strength” factor is a compensation value for channel model when the antenna in the user equipment is impacted by the environments. In recent years the handheld product is more and more popular for people. The concept that adds the near field affection for a channel model is helped to have a more accurate value for evaluation.

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HUNG, CHUN CHIH, and 洪郡志. "The Research and Implement on Global Internet Telecommunication System." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/19981740462429553703.

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國立臺北科技大學
電機工程系碩士班
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“The Search and Implement on Global Internet Telecommunication System ” has been accomplished by this thesis. There are three features in this system : 1. Any user in the system has the only one phone number on the Internet and can roam around the world. 2. Any user in the system can call directly between two different NAT firewall pass over proxy server. 3. The free charge of telephone communication. We design the software of this system, the handset and phone adapter are provide by hardware provider.There are two points in the system: 1. Try to design a “Global Internet Telecommunication System” is similar to GSM system on the Internet. 2. Try to design a “Global Internet Telecommunication System” can communicate between real and virtual network. The standard of Internet Phone H.323 or SIP are only for enterprise but our system is focus of design global tel. Communication system. You can establish call between two different NAT firewall, but it is difficult to H.323 or SIP. Finally, every system can administer over 100,000 users, over 42,000 users around the world until now (2002.6.20). There are 25% users in the NAT firewall, over 16,000 call has been established everyday, success ratio above 99%. In each data shows, complete and stable Internet phone service has been provided by our system. When the users of our system grow up to 1,000,000, our system architecture may be the new communication standard after PSTN and GSM. Especially, the users of ADSL grow up recently and NAT firewall popular to everyone, the benefits can been expected in the future.

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wei, lin shin, and 林欣薇. "The Marketing Demand and the Application Research of Global Positioning System." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/27429511900994902589.

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亞洲大學
資訊工程學系碩士班
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The main purpose of this research is to helping domestic manufacturers to handle growing GPS equipment demands as far as the market is concerned. In terms of market demands and applications of GPS related equipments. With the merger of various solutions, the market is facing a significant changing. This essay will discuss potential developments of GPS electronic mobile products in terms of more usages and conveniences. Because of the increasing needs of functions, GPS mould manufacturers are not only maintain traditional technologies of mould making, but also providing more technologies in terms of design is able to satisfy few specific needs from deferent customers This research will analyses GPS market demand regarding to Taiwanese army materials in terms of SWOT. It is the system of elaboration that used the whole world navigate satellite system (Global Navigation Satellite System) Moreover, this marketing strategy might be one of the important developments of mobile communication industries.

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Chen, Hui-Fen, and 陳慧芬. "Research on the Global Executive Information System for the Monitor Industry." Thesis, 1999. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/98608500359272485214.

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東海大學
工業工程學系
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Rapid changes in the world economy and politics have accelerated the drive of business into international expansion. As a result of globalization, senior executives in corporation need the ability to enlarge monitoring current Executive Information System (EIS) that is heightened attentively by both executives and researchers who focus attention largely on domestic application in nature. This paper argues that future Executive Information System would have to be increasingly global in scope and would be vital for conducting global business. We call such system Global EIS. Critical to the development of Global EIS is the knowledge of the information requirements of such systems. It is hoped that the findings of the study would be useful in the effective design of future Executive Information System. We review pertinent literatures related to executive information and find that they typically have no reference to international environment in scope. The monitor industry in Taiwan, which often builds factories in other countries, is the biggest one in the worldwide markets. It’s appropriated that Global EIS is proposed for monitor industry. In the thesis, it is valuable and meaningful the way how global managers doing researches on the monitor industry make policies by using the information technology while they face the global competition. First of all, we discuss the necessity of necessity of the existence and the properties of the information systems by collecting the related materials. According to the properties of the monitor industry, we try to put the information requirements of the Global EIS in order. It is suggested that the Global EIS including the following information requirements which amount to nine items: (1)Buyers, (2)Suppliers, (3)Substitutes, (4) Industry Competitors, (5)Potential Entrants, (6)Industry Envirements, (7) External Envirements, (8)Official Information, (9)People Networks. Then the detailed analyses of the information requirements are made on basis of the above mentioned 9 items. Finally, we verify the feasibility of the information systems by interviewing and investigating the monitor companies.

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Lu, Yu-Hsin, and 呂育馨. "Analysis of Global Budgeting System and Hospital Pharmaceutical Economic Behaviors Research." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/54298714598534288045.

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世新大學
經濟學研究所(含碩專班)
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The purpose of the study is to evaluate the impacts of Global Budgeting (GB) on pharmaceutical behaviors in hospitals with a particular application on antidepressants. The Data, ranging from year 2000 to 2004, used in the analysis are obtained from National Health Insurance (NHI) Research Database. The analysis are in two parts: The Quantitative Analysis, using Ordinary Least Squares (OSL) and Quantile Regression Methods, examines the differences of costs and drugs quantities used in treatments prior and post to applying of GB. The trend of drugs used in hospitals of different geographical levels is also analyzed. The Probit Model evaluates the variance of the sources of pharmaceutical products before and after embracing GB. The results are concluded in the points followed. First, after applying GB, the decrease of other medical services is the consequence of the significant increase of using antidepressants. This result shows a mutual exclusive phenomena, between drug treatments and medical services, cause by GB. Second, the pharmaceutical reimbursements have risen drastically since the application GB. The causes of the rise include the introduction of new drugs to the market and the increase of prescription used by hospitals to add profits. Third, expensive antidepressants are not favored by hospitals while giving prescription. Fourth, medical centers spend more money on prescription drugs than local hospital and the quantity of drugs used in medical centers is also higher than in regional hospitals. This is why patients prefer going to medical centers than local hospitals. Fifth, there is no significant inconsistency in using domestic and imported antidepressants prior to and after applying GB. In addition, doctors tend to use the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI)-classified antidepressants when giving imported drugs after the implementation of GB. Several policies are recommended to NHI in the research. First of all, sufficient rules for checking and ratifying pharmaceutical prices must be set up to reflect the principle reimbursement cost. The second suggestion is that the SSRI-classified antidepressants need to be considered as one of the important items in the pricing survey. Thirdly, in order to curb the increase of prices within a reasonable range, the feedback from peer-hospitals are required. With the aim of avoiding asymmetric information of prescription drugs, the fourth recommendation is the drug quality-related full information is needed. It is also advised that should changes of drugs are needed, the new drugs have to comply with the principle of bioequivalence. Additionally, hospital should actually enforce referral system.

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Kuang-Hsiung, Cheng, and 鄭光雄. "The Research for Dentist Distribution and Variation factors in Dental Global Budget System." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/mbx99v.

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高雄醫學大學
口腔衛生科學研究所碩士在職專班
91
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to understand the changes of dentist manpower distribution, distribution of dental medical resource and towns and villages that have no dentists. The material of this study is collected from the data of dental medical fee from the Bureau of Health Insurance in the year of 1998, 1999, 2000，2001 and 2002. In 1998 there were 22，460，669 pieces, in 1999 there were 22，866，125 pieces, in 2000 there were 23，045，282 pieces in 2001 there were 24，390，269 pieces and in 2002 there were 25，178，786 pieces .。All together there were117，941，131 pieces in 5 years。 One year is treated as one period, the total is 5 periods. There are six health insurance districts in Taiwan. The number of county and city is 23, the number of townships is 359 ( It is not included the area of Kinmen and Matsu ). The dental medical fee, number of patients , number of visitations , the ratio of dentists and patients , the number of dentists in the population of 100,000, and the variation in the country and in the city. The result of this study has shown that the population growth is 0.75 % per year , the ratio of dentist growth is 4.25% annually. It is obvious that supply and demand will gradually be equal. The dentist market will be saturated or over-saturated. It is a fact that the location of dentists is not fairly distributed. The differences in the ratio of dentists and patients between the city and the country is huge. In Chiai County in 2001. the ratio was 1: 7562. In Taipei City in 2001，the ratio was 1 : 1247. The discrepancy between these two figures is 1: 6. In 2001 the number of no dentist available in the country was 66. The dental medical fee is higher in the country that has less dentist visitations ‧The dental medical fee is less in iii the area that has more dentists visitations. The dental medical resource is concentrated in urbanized areas. About 50% of health insurance supplementary fee was used in the area that the ratio of dentist and patient was less than 1 : 2500 during 1998~2001. The incentive of manpower variation depends much on the power of dentists’ market. The number of non-dentist available in the country is increasing each year starting from 2001, a policy which stipulates that the total of dentist supplementary fee must be used for its specified purpose only, it has caused the number of non-dentist available in the country is decreasing. Dental medical resources will be distributed equally in the country and in the city. key word : Dentist manpower

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Feng, Mao-Tsang, and 馮茂倉. "The Research for the Effects of Dental Expense Allocation in Dental Global Budget System." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/n268jx.

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高雄醫學大學
口腔衛生科學研究所碩士在職專班
91
Abstract We had analyzed the data, about 91.32 million pieces, of the dental health insurance between July,1997 and June,2001 in this research. The results of this research revealed that there were significant differences between the six divisions of the Nation Health Insurance, and between the different cities or counties in the same division , in the concentration rate of the dentists and in the use of the dental expenses. The results of this research were also revealed that the implementation of the dental global budget system had no significant effects on the changes of the concentration rate of the dentists in the past three years. In this research, we made choice of the Herfindahl index as the concentration rate of the dentists in the market of the dental global budget system. According to the results of the correlation analysis, the Herfindahl index were positive significantly related to the total payment points of each dentist in each month and the numbers of the patients who had been serviced in each half year. The Herfindahl index were also negative significantly related to the expense of each patient spending on visiting the dentist in each half year, the expense of each patient spending on visiting the dentist in each time , and the frequency of visiting the dentist. Therefore, we offered three suggestions in this reseach. The first, performing the method of discounting levels in the high dental expense that was paid to the dentist, using the Herfindahl index as a contracted factor. The second, fully using the portion of the total population in the dental global budget payment system to allocate the dental expense to the six divisions as soon as possible. The third, implementing the method of the profile analysis to control the higher dental expense that was paid to the dentist.The fourth,increasing the amounts of the dental service in the division of lower use of dental expenses. Finally,we shall appreciate and wish that the governors of the Nation Health Insurance can note the problems of the dental expense allocation in the dental global budget system. Key words: dental global budget system; dental expense allocation; Herfindahl index

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Ching-Chung, Hung, and 洪慶鐘. "The Research of Reasonableness on the Distribution of Health Resources After Dental Global Budget System." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/47196179570244483342.

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臺中健康暨管理學院
健康管理研究所
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Dental global budget system in Taiwan has been operated for six years since 1998 and many things are still under evaluating. My research is aim at finding out whether the distribution of dental health resources is reasonable. Also, I put more attention to the distribution of medical resources and the inequality between cities and counties under Nation Health Insurance’s six divisions. The data of this research comes from dental health insurance and the duration analyzed is form January 1997 to December 2002. By analyzing the reasonableness of providers’ distribution of dental medical resource, I try to discover the change in the distribution indexes after dental global budget system has been taken into effort. The analysis is focused on the equality of providers’ distribution in dental medical resource and therefore, the goal indexes will be the number of registered dentists, the amount of expenditures, the number of outpatients, and the number of patients seeing the dentist. Lorenz curve and Gini coefficient are used to analyze the degree of inequality in health resources distribution and t-test and f-test are used in the process of statistic. Here, I offer two hypotheses: Hypothesis 1: The distribution of dental medical resources is more equableafter dental global budget system has been operated. Hypothesis 2: The utilization of dental medical resources is more reasonable after dental global budget system has been operated. The results of this research show that 4 indexes for the equability in the distribution of dental medical resources are not significant besides the total amount of expenditures applied by each dentist in each year after dental global budget system has been operated. Thus hypothesis 1 is not established. On the other hand, 5 indexes for the reasonable utilization of dental medical resources are significant besides the number of insured patients seeing the dentist in each year and the amount of each outpatient spending on seeing the dentist each time after dental global budge system has been operated. Thus, hypothesis 2 is not established either. Accounting to this result, I also offer some suggestions for policy makers in the government while determining the decision of distribution as resource providers. Toward current operating system, the suggesting approaches of improvement will be aim at below dimensions: a.Regulate service places of dentists in order to balance the dentists spread. b.Enhance the supportable dental manpower or strengthen Integrated Delivery System for areas with lower dental resource distribution. c.Enhance the supportable dental manpower or strengthen Integrated Delivery System for areas with lower dental resource distribution. d.Allocate the budget for divisions of Nation Health Insurance in order to fit the meaning of “money to people” and eliminate the inefficiency of “having insurance but no service”. e.Improve the accessibility of the public, promote the dental service for more target patients, and regulate the division with value＞1. f.Transparent the information of dentists human capital so that dentists can choose where to practice. With no doubt, there are still more expectations in the long-term progress. My suggestion is focused on two aspects－test the dental capitation and develop the professional manager and administrator for the global budget system. Key words: dentist, global budget system, the distribution of resources, the utilization of resources, Lorenz curve, Gini coefficient.

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Wu, She-Nu, and 吳淑女. "Research of the Current Dental Global Budget Payment System of a Special Courser Referral Markup Task." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/28808137708575868641.

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高雄醫學大學
口腔衛生科學碩士在職專班
92
Background：Every citizen has the right to receive public medical care after the implementation of the National Health Insurance in which the promotion of referral system is one of the most crucial policies. The Dental Outpatient Total Payment System was implemented from Jan, 1999. The major goals of such a system are: (1) to improve the medial quality of dental clinic. (2) to rationalize the quantity of the rewards from the referrals (3) to increase the possibility of mutual referrals. Objectives: This study discuss the situation of the utilization of dental medical resources, distribution of different dental departments, referral rate, as well as the returning rate of the patients after the implementation of the referral system, and conduct a statistical analysis to reveal the dentists’ degree of satisfactory to this system. Methods: The health insurance information from a data bank (information gathered from Jan .1999 to Dec. 2003) was analyzed, and a survey (the informants were the dentists from the southern branch of the National Health Bureau) was conducted to study dentists’ degree of satisfactory and their opinions toward the report dental referral markup payment system. 250 effective questionnaires were collected. The overall returning rate was 38%. It is expected that the findings of this study can be used as a reference for dental policy makers and future research. Results：(A) National Health Data Bank: (1) Dental referral rate: the highest rate was in the southern branch (0.0856%), and the second was in the northern branch (0.0206% ). (2) Referral rate of different levels of dental institutions: academic medical centers was the highest: 0.4278 % ; regional hospitals were the second: 0.2916 %; district hospitals came next：0.0214 %; clinics were the final one:0.0004%. Obviously, the clinical referral rate was the lowest. (3)The referral rate of city and county: The highest rate was Tainan County’s and Chiayi city (southern branch) 0.1804﹪、0.1582, which was followed by Hsinchu citys (Northern branch) 0.0525%. Then, departments which accepted referrals were investigated. The referral rate of oral maxillofacial surgery was 54.51﹪(within which complicated tooth odontectomy was the highest，ccupied 60.98% of the total rate of the department of oral maxillofacial surgery). The following one was periodontics: 24.84% 【within which subgingival curettage(1/2 jaw) occupied 66.35%】 of the total rate of the department of periodontics.Endodontic treatment occupied 13.27%(within which three roots endodontic treatment occupied 47.51﹪)of the total rate of the department of endodontics). (B) The results of the survey by questionnaire indicated that the referrals which clinical dentists accepted the most were: (i) the department of the oral maxillofacial surgery which was also the highest (24.2%). (ii) Pedodontics (21.2%) (iii) endodonics (18.2%) (iv) periodontics (16.7% ). The referral rate of dentistry for disabled conjugate was 12.1%. the information of the data bank and the survey by questionnaire showed that the most frequently accepted referral department was oral maxillofacial surgery which was followed by periodontics, endodontics, pedodontics, dentistry for disabled, and operative dentistry. Conclusion： Based on the hypothesis of this study, the overall degree of satisfactory of the clinical dentists to the dental referral markup payment system was about 70%. The anniversary referral rate shows significantly increased differences. It is found that the referral rate increased especially in the year 2000 and 2001 when we studied the anniversary referral rate. The referral rate of 2002 and 2003 also grew up. This indicates that the payment system of a special courser for dental referral markup task is efficient currently and should be promoted it continually by increasing motivation.

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TZU-HUI, CHANG, and 張慈惠. "Evidence-based research on medical expense saving by medical center doctors under the global budget payment system." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/82105257352880001747.

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南台科技大學
高階主管企管碩士班
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The different indicators of the medical expense control classified by the global budget payment system are the base for randomly-reviewing medical charts: traditional diagnosis related groups (DRG), relative weights, and hospital stays. Relative weights are controversial, so fee base and case mix index (CMI) are unreasonable, impractical and unreliable. The study used the June 2003 DRG program for inpatient medical chart mix editing service announced by the second-generation medical information service system of the Bureau of National Health Insurance to sort. Year 2002 inpatient insurance claim data of National Health Research Institutes. The categorization considered the doctors the center of the evaluation of each case and expense. Subsequently the selection by Rasch model which was created by Rasch in 1960 for observing, learning, and assisting to save the global budget payment was: (1) the doctors and hospitals magnificently managing annual fees; (2) the abnormal insurance claim cases as the base of checking points; (3) the doctors and hospitals fabulously controlling the DRG fees. The study separated the 12-month collection of 899,573 DRG of 17 medical centers of Year 2002 in Taiwan into 662,896 cases. The classification rate was 73.69%. In addition to DRG, doctors, relative weights, hospital stays, baby fees, and transaction fees established by Microsoft Access, the indicators were 22 items (insurance claim fees ) of the total expense and the medical expense times 22 indicators of hospital stays. The total number of the indicators was 46. After more than 600,000 DRG data assorted, the mean of DRG and that of all the doctors-centered indicators were relegated into 111,058, as 495 DRG.. The standard deviation of each mean of each DRG which was divided into 5 points (from 1 to 5) was ± 0.3 and ±0.9. When the value was 0, no points were accumulated. Asides from the relative weights which increased as the increase of the points, the others had the increased points for the decrease in the points. The mean of all the doctors-centered indicators was 3,970 by rounding off, so the ranking of the doctors saving the medical expense was 3,970. The evidence-based research was characterized: 1.The excellent management of the medical saving by 100 of 3970 doctors of 17 medical centers of Year 2002 was ranked, so doctors were the center of the medical treatment quality, treatment service, or medical expense saving. 2.The more functional the hospitals were, the topper the ranking was. 3.The private medical centers had the topper ranking of medical expense saving and rewarded doctors; the public medical centers, that of treatment. 4.The medical expense saving of Taipei district should be improved, and so should the functioning and medical treatment of major diagnostic categories (MDC) of southern Taiwan.

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Lighezzolo, Rafael Andrés. "Integración de modelos numéricos de predicción meteorológica en sistemas de alerta temprana a emergencias." Master's thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11086/11521.

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En esta tesis se aborda la puesta operativa del modelo numérico acoplado de predicción meteorológica Global Forecast System - Weather Research and Forecasting (GFS-WRF), con el objetivo de satisfacer la necesidad de contar con datos de predicción meteorológica, para ser utilizados en sistemas de alerta temprana a emergencias desarrollados dentro de la CONAE, y para potenciales usuarios externos. La automatización completa de los procesos involucrados culmina en la publicación diaria de los datos generados en un servidor web. Se ofrece la opción de descarga en distintos formatos comúnmente utilizados en sistemas, modelos o algoritmos. Esta última modalidad no se brinda actualmente desde ninguna institución pública. Finalmente cabe destacar que las herramientas computacionales utilizadas en esta tesis son de acceso libre y gratuito.

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Robert, Emilie. "Supprimer les paiements directs des soins en Afrique subsaharienne : débat international, défis de mise en oeuvre et revue réaliste du recours aux soins." Thèse, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/12308.

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Chen, Jiann-Juh, and 陳建志. "The Research for the Management of Outliners with Profile Analysis in Dental Global Budget System－Example in Southern Division." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/37h4au.

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高雄醫學大學
口腔衛生科學研究所碩士在職專班
91
Abstract The administrative objectives of medical “accessibility” and “availability” have been achieved since the implementation of the National Health Insurance Program. The “Dental Global Budget System” has also had effective control over the upper limit of reimbursement since it was put into practice. However, there is no clear evidence showing whether the health condition of the whole population and the quality of health care are improving. Under the pressure of the point counting of the Global Budget System, the dentist circles usually list those medical institutes that have high declaration points as the objects for abnormality control. The inappropriate examining measures and administrative control adopted for those medical institutes not only fail to achieve the beneficial effects expected, but also cause the increase of disputable cases under consideration. In addition, studies show that the medical practice patterns of those medical institutes with high declaration points are not necessarily abnormal. On the other hand, the medical institutes without high declaration points are not always reasonable. The purpose of this study is to establish a quality control system for profile analysis. All medical institutes need to be examined openly to see if the basic requirements of medical ethics and principles are properly followed. When nothing is disbursed to those who provide unnecessary medical treatment and fail to conform to the requirements of empirical medical science, the medical rights of the patients can then be assured and respected, and the principles of the Dental Global Budget System conformed to. Among the eight profile analysis indexes of the study in the first four years of the implementation of the Dental Global Budget System in the southern division of the dentist community, the means of the four indexes in total declaration point, the percentage of root canal treatment to total processing fees, the percentage of cavity filling to total processing fees, and the average number of filling for patients with cavity are very close. No significant differences are found. The average number of filling for patients with cavity and the rate for repeated filling at the same institution within two years decline significantly in the fourth year when compared with those in the second or third year. This indicates effective suppression of inappropriate medical practice by dentists in the southern division in tooth filling for patients with cavity. The monthly points for each patient on average are significantly greater in the third and fourth year than those in the first and second year and those in the second year are significantly greater than those in the first year. This should have something to do with patients’ increasing use of the dental health insurance and the increment of standard imbursement point. The rate for repeated filling at a different institution within two years in the third and fourth year is significantly greater than that in the second year. This year-by-year increase should be specified as the focus of future control. The establishment of the profile analysis monitoring pattern can not only serve to screen out abnormal institutes and control medical quality to reduce unnecessary medical care, but also serves as the basis for the priority list of the assessment waiving system. It accelerates the operation of the assessment and avoids the waste of assessment resources, and it further sets up the evaluation files of medical practitioners as references for future contracts with medical institutes by the Bureau of National Health Insurance. It is believed that these reforms will benefit the continuous operation of the Dental Global Budget System.

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Pan, Chien Chou, and 潘建州. "Research on the Physicians’ Satisfaction Level Toward Global Budget Payment System – Taking a Certain Medical Center as an Example." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/00749977547116951579.

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東海大學
管理碩士在職專班
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It has been seven years since national health insurance (NHI) system first implemented in July 2002, in the cause of controlling increasing medical cost. Nevertheless, not too many researches have been devoted to the investigation of physicians’ satisfaction towards global budget payment system. Since physicians’ satisfaction has a great impact on the service quality they provide to the patients, this study intends to make in-depth investigation on the issue. Targeting the physicians at a certain medical center, and by adopting constructed questionnaire, this study aims to investigate the recognition, identification, perception and satisfaction they have with the global budget payment system of the NHI. Of all the 344 mailed questionnaires, 238 (69.2%) were returned, among them 182 are valid. Statistics data found that total responses of “very unsatisfactory” and “unsatisfactory” account for 63.2%; while “very satisfactory” and “satisfactory” occupy a merely 1.6%. Regression analysis on total satisfaction showed that physicians with the following traits are likely to have lower satisfaction level: (1) Having high perception on the current hospital’s measures; (2) Having low identification with the global budget payment system; (3) Having low affection toward global budget payment system; (4) Internists; (5) Physicians with a master degree; (6) Physicians have reported to duty prior to June 2002; (7) Physicians who have a lower understanding of the global budget payment system. The study proposes the following suggestions: (1) NHI system authority shall take appropriate consideration of the dilemma physicians are facing and their satisfaction toward the NHI system to prevent its adverse impact on patients’ rights and damage to the national interests; (2) Make improvement on income tax rate and NHI rate to maintain social fairness and justice; and (3) To adjust the under-proportioned governmental medical expenditures to GDP , to a level comparable to those of the advanced countries in EU and America, to guard against the declining of medical quality, or transferring of medical cost to the public, thus weighing a heavier burden on them.

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Yang, Pin-Jie, and 楊品潔. "A Study of Experience Marketing Research by using Health Risk Assessment System :Take Nice Life Global as an Example." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/32ypyp.

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國立高雄科技大學
資訊管理系
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With the extension of the average life expectancy of human beings and the increase of the elderly population, work and life pressures have gradually affected human health. Therefore, emphasizing on health and pursuing health has become a national movement. At present, most consumers purchase health care products from chain pharmacies, hospitals and clinics, and also buy through the direct sales company's practitioners. However, most consumers are often at a loss as to how to maintain, or how to choose the right health care products properly. This study introduced the Twelve Meridian Health Risk Assessment System with the foundation of Chinese and Western medical science as a tool for experiencing marketing services, which allowing consumers to enhance their emotional and intellectual value through experiencing marketing service models. It is hoped to reduce the expected gap through the verification of before and after using, thereby increasing consumer satisfaction and loyalty. Therefore, with the guidance of the theory of experiential marketing, this research used the five assessments of Sensory, Emotional, Thinking, Action and Relevance to explore their impact on experience value of emotion, knowledge and function generated in the service context, and how experience values impacted on customer satisfaction and loyalty. Results of this study found that functional value is the most important factor for customer satisfaction. In addition, the highest correlation coefficient with functional value is action experience, followed by thinking experience. This study also found that the satisfaction significantly predicts repurchase intentions and recommended behaviors of consumers, with substantial variance explained (R2=77.5%), indicating that the correlation is very high.

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Chu, Chiu-Lung, and 朱九龍. "The Research on Taiwan’s Policy and Legislations in Response of Global Climate Change Problem-Focus on the Emission Trading System." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/59622927892029320026.

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國立臺北大學
法律學系法律專業組
99
More and more serious environmental problems turn the human society into huge risk and crisis. The horrible earthquake happened in mid-Taiwan on September 21, 1999, another incredible earthquake happened in Sichuan, China in 2008, The typhoon caused the flooding and landslide perished the whole Shio-Lin village in southern Taiwan on August 8, 2010, the volcano eruption in Iceland made the whole world aviation grounded in 2010 and the Tsunami happened in Japan caused a complex nuclear disaster in 2011etc…. showed that the earth is facing the 21st century’ “Environmental Crisis”. Due to global climate changes, many similar environmental phenomena threat the survival and development of human seriously. To soothe and remediate the global climate changes, we must take total-quantity-control of the global warming gases produced due to rapidly expansion of world’s industries. Emission trading system(ETS) is an indirect control of “Economic Incentives System”(EIS). The developed countries already started to set up ETS. It can combine with the total-quantity-control for pollutants’ reduction. The indirect control of EIS is more flexible than the straightforward “Command-and-Control” system. However, the EIS still has problems to deal with such as economical scale, the effectiveness of distribution, the operation of market mechanism etc… So does ETS. Via the introduction of the system, the thesis is trying to analyze the “Emission Trading System” under the framework of Law system in Taiwan. It will point out factors needed to be considered while fulfilling the system later in Taiwan. “Emission Trading System” has become one of the main issues of our governmental administration in accordance with the content of “Air Pollution Control Act “and “Greenhouse Gas Reduction Act (draft)”. Our government has done many researches on how to establish ETS and has made progresses such as to amend the “Air Pollution Control Act “, to fulfill the total-quantity-control plans of air pollutants, and continuing to promote estimating the amount of air pollutants’ emission, and the regional total-quantity-control projects. However, the related check-up and management systems still need to be further planed to establish. It can refer to other developed countries having established serial procedures to coordinate with “Kyoto Protocol”. “Global Climate Change” has obviously become a long-term trend. Extremely weather disasters, such as flood or drought, earthquake or tsunami, happen frequently each year. How can we deal with the impact of climate change? In principle, legislation is the only and final solution. “The Working Committee on Global Environmental Change Policy” was expanded to “The National Council for Sustainable Development” by Executive Yuan in 1997 to share the function of integration. Unfortunately, it didn’t work as expected. We need to promote the concept of “total-quantity-control”, to accelerate the legislation on “Greenhouse Gas Reduction Act”, and establishing ETS, to inspect and revise all inadequate rules and regulations such as to fulfill the “total-quantity-control” policy will need to have the approval of Department of Economy. We then can survive from the tidal of gloal climate changes.To achieve sustainable development under the impact of “Global Climate Change”, the government and the people shall work together to promote environmental education and to implement relevant assignments in accordance with the new “The Environmental Education Act” and the promulgating the experience of “Climate Change Act “ in UK.

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Cheng, Yin Hua, and 鄭銀華. "Research into customer preferences factors in the field of global express logistics and conceptual design of customer service decision support system." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/31564387530537519044.

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國立政治大學
資訊管理研究所
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The maturity of industries and the saturation of markets make industrial competition more and more cost-oriented and service-oriented. To survive the keen market competition, the logistic industry has no choice but to reduce price, which leads to a lower level of service quality. With the uprising consumer awareness and service science, the management of service quality becomes more and more important. Driven by the need of higher service quality and lower cost, international logistic enterprises should combine relevant technical advantage and service science intellect to meet consumer demand, increase service efficiency, and innovate service. This research utilizes AHP method to create 4 service quality dimensions corresponding to customer demand and 12 criteria to measure these dimensions. After the establishment of customer preference framework, interview with 40 largest customer of a certain international logistic company and then examine the validity by the O.I.I. of Expert Choice. There are 32 questionnaires pass the consistency check. Analysis found that the weight of criteria which effect customer preference in sequence is “Integrity / trust worthiness”, “Easy to use”, and “speed of delivery”. As to dimensions, customers value “Respond” and “ Understand me” most. From the “Surprise” dimension we found customer need continuous improvement and steady service. Unsystematic changes and innovates are not preferred. In statistic analysis, “Speed of delivery” and “Integrity / trust worthiness” two dimensions have greater level of scatter on customer emphasis, which indicates there are some samples have special emphasis on these two factors and some factors have mid-level correlation. To practice the intellect and method of service science, this research combines the framework of factors that affect customer preference and decision support system. Concept designed by the 3 main part of a DSS : Database, Model base, and Dialog management, use IPA as the reference of service sequence improvement, and utilize QFD to bring in customer demand in the design and innovation of service. In addition, use weight and customer satisfaction as refer to understand international logistic service preference level and attitude toward programs. To bring more efficient and customer preference satisfied services.

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Ferng, Yuh-Neu, and 馮玉女. "Before and after practicing Global Budget Payment System the research of different levels of hospitals are mainly in Taoyuan ,Hsinchu and Miaoli." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/53386725519911943796.

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元智大學
管理研究所
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The research collects Bureau of National Health Insurance Northern Branch the services of 43 hospitals. The researcher compares the application data of insurance informations between the earlier one and half years and later one and half years. The informations include the fee of medical application, the data of medical man, the medical equipments, and the number of sickbeds. After the analysis, the researcher invites the expert representatives to Bureau of National Health Insurance Northern Branch to work on Focus Group. The researcher also combines the opinious from virious experts. According to the result of the meeting, we dicide to erase the data during（from April to June,2003）and renew the information. Based on the analysis of fixed quantity and quality, we come to the following conclusions： 1、 After practcing Global Budget Payment System of hospital, there are differences among parts of medical fee from different levels of hospitals. Generally speaking, we find the decrease of applications for hospitaizing cases, the total and single amount of hospitalization has increased; the clinical cases, money applications cases, and the amount of average cases have decreased. 2、 Since Global Budget Payment System of hospital is put in practice, different kinds of medical man in Academic Medical Centers appeare decrased. Medical members show decrased except the medical man of rehabilition and the other man show incrased. 3、 After practcing Global Budget Payment System of hospital the medical equipment of different levels of hospital shows incrased. 4、 Global Budget Payment System of hospital the sickbeds’ number from different levels of hospital have incrased.

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Aboualizadehbehbahani, Maziar. "Proposing a New System Architecture for Next Generation Learning Environment." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/10289.

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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
The emergence of information exchange and act of offering features through external interfaces is a vast but immensely valuable challenge, and essential elements of learning environments cannot be excluded. Nowadays, there are a lot of different service providers working in the learning systems market and each of them has their own advantages. On that premise, in today's world even large learning management systems are trying to cooperate with each other in order to be best. For instance, Instructure is a substantial company and can easily employ a dedicated team tasked with the development of a video conferencing functionality, but it chooses to use an open source alternative instead: The BigBlueButton. Unfortunately, different learning system manufacturers are using different technologies for various reasons, making integration that much harder. Standards in learning environments have come to resolve problems regarding exchanging information, providing and consuming functionalities externally and simultaneously minimizing the amount of effort needed to integrate systems. In addition to defining and simplifying these standards, careful consideration is essential when designing new, comprehensive and useful systems, as well as adding interoperability to existing systems, all which subsequently took part in this research. In this research I have reviewed most of the standards and protocols for integration in learning environments and proposed a revised approach for app stores in learning environments. Finally, as a case study, a learning tool has been developed to avail essential functionalities of a social educational learning management system integrated with other learning management systems. This tool supports the dominant and most popular standards for interoperability and can be added to learning management systems within seconds.

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