Dissertations / Theses: 'Issue discussions'

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Areljung, Sofie. "Room for discussion? : Examining the role of discussions in students' work with socio-scientific issues." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för naturvetenskapernas och matematikens didaktik, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-49201.

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In this thesis the students' experiences of science classroom discussions are examined as well as the nature of their discussions and their ability to take different perspectives while working with socio-scientific issues (SSI). Student questionnaires concerning their attitudes towards school science and science in society, a paper-and-pencil test and focus group discussions have been analysed. The results show that students get to discuss during science lessons, and that they learn a lot from doing so. They also show that the SSI work has brought about a lot of discussions, to which students have a positive attitude. When investigating students' written and oral demonstrationsfewexamplesof argument-based discussions or ofperspective-taking ability were found. Based on these results I argue that in-service teacher training should be carried out, focusing how to organise SSI discussions so that they support students' development of concepts and of generic skills.

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Jiang, Bo. "Issues and discussions of RFID adoptions in supply chain /." View abstract or full-text, 2005. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?IEEM%202005%20JIANG.

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Liljestrand, Johan. "Klassrummet som diskussionsarena." Doctoral thesis, Örebro University, Department of Education, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-13.

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Liljestrand, Johan (2002): Klassrummet som diskussionsarena. (The classroom as an arena for discussions)

The aim of the dissertation is to study whole class discussions in the Swedish upper secondary school, concerning issues subjected to controversy in the public debate. The empirical study is related to a wider question: the possibilities for the school to educate democratic citizens.

By using discourse analysis,14 videotaped lessons from social- and religious studies where analysed, with the ambition to investigate recurrent patterns of participation and meaning making. Five teachers and six classes participated in the study.

The analysis shows that the teachers have two concurrent goals: to focus on the students’ contributions on issues in the public debate, and introduce the students to different questions in the public debate. A consequence of these goals is that the role of the teacher often becomes complex. By acting on the basis of having responsibility for the students’ development of knowledge, and sometimes also calling attention to certain values, the teacher attempts to guide the students as not yet ready for the public debate. Features from other kinds of teacher-centred education are thereby present in the discussions. However, students can also act as more autonomous participants in relation to the teacher. When they are not answering the teacher’s questions in an expected way, and in particular, in situations in which they are interacting with each other, the students may discuss the public issues without being teacher-guided to the same extent as in other situations.

The last chapter concludes that the authority of the teacher is partly given by the official steering-documents. It is still possible to ask if the guiding role of the teacher itself could be subjected to discussion. This suggestion is made from the point that teacher authority is considered as more or less limited for developing a critical attitude among the students. One may also ask if the students’ could be offered possibilities to choose the topic for discussion themselves. This latter point is made against the background that classroom-discussion presupposes student’s viewpoints in order to be accomplished.

Key words: discussion, democracy, public issues, education, participation, meaning making.

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Ratcliffe, Mary. "Adolescent decision-making about socio-scientific issues, within the science curriculum." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.242414.

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Hess, Diana. "Discussing controversial public issues in secondary social studies classrooms : learning from skilled teachers /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7549.

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Kleinman, Steven Blake. "It's not always about the issues: The role of perceived personality trait similarity on interpersonal political discussion." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1366196383.

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Pechatnov, Valentine. "The issue of liturgical language discussion in the Russian press in 1905-06 /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1998. http://www.tren.com.

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Fox, James J., John Wheeler, Pamela J. Mims, Cathy Galyon Keramidas, Kimberly D. Hale, and M. Michaels. "Issues in Early Childhood/Early Childhood Special Education: Questions, Answers, & Discussion Forum." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/212.

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Birgé, Robin. "La tragédie de l’expert ou “Langagement en science-friction” comme réponse à la déconstruction de l’autoritarisme et du relativisme de l’expertise scientifique par la sociologie dramaturgique." Thesis, Montpellier, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018MONTG002/document.

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Mon travail de thèse propose une réflexion au sujet d’un paradoxe ancien mais qui demeure pertinent à travailler dans le contexte renouvelé des "controverses socioscientifiques" publiques. La position épistémique dominante au sein de la communauté scientifique peut être qualifiée de réeliste, à savoir qu’il existe en soi un monde extérieur à la pensée, qu’une connaissance objective et neutre de ce monde est possible, ce qui permettrait un progrès social. Par ailleurs les exigences de la démocratie, comme organisation de gouvernance en vue de construire un monde commun par l'accord du peuple, présupposent que chaque voix individuelle, chaque point de vue singulier est à considérer selon une éthique égalitaire. C'est ainsi que le statut de l'expert en démocratie est paradoxal. En effet, si l’expert est un scientifique appelé à répondre à une question définie par le politique pour laquelle, en contexte de controverse, les données scientifiques disponibles ne permettent pas de conclure, l'expert doit néanmoins proposer une réponse à la question qui lui est posée. C’est ainsi que, même en absence de réponses, l’expert est choisi sur la base de sa présupposée compétence, par le biais d’un accès privilégié au réel. Ce choix suggère que la parole de l'expert est toujours plus intéressante, plus pertinente qu’une parole non-experte, ce qui va à l’encontre du postulat démocratique.Face à la critique de l’expertise, il y a généralement deux craintes, deux spectres (dans le sens « d’apparition effrayante ») de réponses envisageables. D’un côté, il y a le renforcement de la légitimité traditionnelle de l’expertise qui est sous tendue par une épistémologie réeliste, et donc la peur de la confiscation du pouvoir qui en découle. De l’autre côté, altérer les frontières entre science et non-sciences, relativiser le pouvoir de la « grande science » pourrait conduire à une forme de nihilisme, à savoir la perte de la hiérarchie des valeurs, notamment la distinction entre connaissance et croyance, et la perte de la potentialité de fonder une connaissance pertinente nécessaire à une transformation sociale du monde.Mais je me demande également pourquoi l’appel à l’expertise, dont l’une des raisons réside dans la recherche d’une fin (clôture ou finalité, telle est la question) à la discussion, débat au cours duquel on échange des arguments. Selon les partisans d’un réelisme, la discussion scientifique n’est pas de même nature que le débat démocratique, mais dans le cas de mon constructivisme cette différence n’existe pas. Si étymologie de la controverse suppose un face-à-face et une clôture, la discussion pouvant se conclure par une reconstruction ou réarrangement semble plus approprié à une optique constructiviste. L’expertise résistera t-elle à notre enquête dramaturgique ?
My research topics focus on the social responsability of researchers, their involvement and political engagement, all the way from the construction of knowledge to its formulation (research aesthetic) and dissemination.As I study others' engagement and their legitimation strategies, I also aim at formulating mine: a constructivism that holds itself accountable for its creations.This thesis discusses the role of experts in democracy; it is written in French. I highly doubt that I am able to summarize it in English, just as I doubt that exclusively English-speaking readers would be able to understand the manuscript in French

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Tsakas, Constantin. "Renewing the discussion on service openness : measurement issues and service interconnections with goods trade." Aix-Marseille 2, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009AIX24009.

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Broodo, Beth (Beth Lauren). "Influence of Family Environment on Ease of Discussion of Sexual Issues With a Partner." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277679/.

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The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between ease of discussion of sexual likes and dislikes with a sexual partner and religious, expressive, and affectional influences in the family of origin.

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Ekl, Emily. "College Students' Understanding and Discussion of Mental Health Issues: An Analysis of Rhetoric and Context." Thesis, Boston College, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:107693.

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Thesis advisor: Stephen J. Pfohl
With the decline in college students’ overall mental health over the past several decades, social scientists and policymakers have sought to understand what has led to this increase in mental illness and what resources are most beneficial for students’ coping. This paper uses content analysis of student-run newspapers to investigate how students understand mental health and the resources available to them. By using a sample of four universities in Massachusetts with distinct characteristics, I examine how the rhetoric and content of articles related to mental health changed over time and varied across place. The most prominent changes common among universities over time appear to be a stronger and more apparent focus on mental health on campuses, an increased awareness of resources by students as well as a more diverse set of health resources available to them, and a more opinionated stance and call to administrators to facilitate change. Differences of understanding and context were apparent between universities as well and are linked to specific events and tragedies, campus culture, and prevalent organizations and groups. The topics most discussed at each university suggests the differences in how students should be treated and what resources will be most effective at combating different types of mental illness. The findings from this study suggest that universities are still struggling to keep up with the heightened demands of student mental health issues and that each campus’ unique characteristics must be taken into account when reforming health policy
Thesis (MA) — Boston College, 2017
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Sociology

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Isbilir, Erdinc. "Investigation Of Pre-service Science Teachers&#039." Master's thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612456/index.pdf.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate pre-service science teachers&rsquo
(PST) quality of written argumentations about socio-scientific issues in an online discussion environment in relation to their epistemic beliefs and argumentativeness. A total of 30 pre-service elementary science teachers who will teach elementary school science from 6th through 8th grade students after graduation voluntarily participated in this study. The sample was chosen by purposive and convenience sampling from the PSTs registered for the course named &ldquo
Science, Technology, and Society&rdquo
in the fall semester of 2009-2010 academic year at a public university in Ankara. In this study, the PSTs participated in an online discussion environment in which climate change, nuclear power, genetically modified foods, and human genome project issues were discussed for a total of four week period. The major data of this study were collected through the Epistemic Beliefs Questionnaire developed by Kuhn, Cheney and Weinstock (2000) and the Argumentativeness Scale by Infante and Rancer (1982). For the analysis of the quality of argumentations, an adapted version of Sadler and Fowler&rsquo
s (2006) argumentation analysis framework was employed. The results of the study illustrated that the PSTs frequently generated high quality argumentations for each socio-scientific issue which was interpreted as a positive indication that the online discussion environment was effective in promoting students&rsquo
argumentation. In addition, the results also showed that argumentation quality levels varied across socio-scientific issues. Another result of this study was that the PSTs&rsquo
argumentation qualities were higher for multiplist and evaluativist levels. Finally, the correlation results between argumentativeness and argumentation quality levels did not reveal a significant correlation between these variables. However, there was a significant correlation between epistemic belief levels and argumentativeness.

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Forsberg, Annelie. "Transfer Pricing and Business Restructurings : Risk Allocation as set out in Issues Notes 1 of the OECD Discussion Draft." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Rättsvetenskap, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-14020.

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The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the notion of risk as set out in Issues Notes 1, in the document “Transfer Pricing Aspects of Business Restructurings: Discussion Draft for Public Comment”. Furthermore, the approach of this draft is compared with the authorized OECD approach, established in the 2010 Report on the Attribution of Profits to Permanent Establishments. German law on transfer pricing provisions will also be examined to see whether domestic provisions could make a good example in allocating risks, as a supplement to the guidance from the OECD. Issues Notes 1 has been subject for a debate as to how it should be interpreted and whether the provisions laid down in the document provide the tax authorities of contracting states too much room for subjectivity in determining whether risk allocation scenarios as set up by associated enterprises have economic substance. It has also been argued that Issues Notes 1 is an attempt by the OECD to align risk allocation under Article 9 of the OECD Model Convention with the authorized OECD approach, applicable to permanent establishments, because risk allocation under Article 7 is conducted by applying the Transfer Pricing Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and Tax Administrations by analogy. There are however crucial differences between associated enterprises and permanent establishments which makes this impossible. The guidance under Issues Notes 1 is insufficient, why the OECD should seek to further clarify the concepts regarding business restructurings. The German way of implementing domestic provisions is incompatible with the provisions of the OECD and Article 9 and therefore violates most of its tax treaties.

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Jönsson, Robert. "Literature for the Intercultural Classroom : Discussing Ethnocentric Issues Using The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-41525.

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Abstract This essay takes as its starting point that the Swedish classroom often is an intercultural environment and that it is therefore important to address issues connected to ethnocentrism in it. In this essay I examine how the novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid can be used in schools to raise such ethnocentric issues. The novel’s didactic potential becomes clear by capturing some of the views held by the book’s protagonist as an alternative to Western ethnocentric concepts. Furthermore, the ambiguity of the novel allows for students to reflect on the identification processes that produce ethnocentrism. The power of nostalgia is also discussed in this essay, and with it nostalgia’s possibly alluring, yet counterproductive qualities. Together, these topics and themes from The Reluctant Fundamentalist combine to illuminate a use of literature within the context of intercultural education. Keywords: Intercultural education, Ethnocentrism, Calvinism, Islam, Capitalism.

Dominant cultures exist in many different guises, yet may function almost invariably in symbiosis with double standards and discrimination. However, these acts are often only recognised by those being subjected to them, not by those practising the same. Selective concern and empathy depending on who the practitioners happen to be, as well as who the recipients of said acts are, actually helps to illustrate the precise definitions of these terms.

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Johansson, Jeanette. "De viktiga samhällsfrågorna! : En kvalitativ studie av vilka didaktiska strategier som lärare i årskurs 1-3 har i arbetet med aktuella samhällsfrågor." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Lärarutbildningen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-34210.

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The aim of this study is to find out which didactic strategies teachers use in grades 1-3 when they are working with current social issues in a social science classroom. Previous research in the field of social science is poorly studied and especially studies on how it is in the classroom. There are no studies for grades 1-3. In order to achieve the goal in this investigation, I have used interviews and observations as a method. The observation is done in three classes, one class for each grade. After the observations I have conducted interviews with the teachers of the classes. In order to analyse the subject matter, I have used Odenstad’s three profiles. The profiles are: orientation, analysis and discussion. With these three profiles I have categorized the content of the lessons. The result shows that there are both similarities and differences between the three teacher strategies and lessons. All teachers’ work is more or less between the orientation- and the discussion profile. Strategies that all three teachers use are to describe and explain to show association in the matter. One teacher has a strategy of using the subject of history to make associations. She also relates to the students' previous knowledge and impressions. Another teacher seems to have the strategy that the lesson about current social issues should give the students new concepts. Another strategy is to use a map of the world to make association in the matter. The last teacher also uses a world map to increase understanding and when she does it she take the opportunity to repeat the continents and countries. She also seems to have a strategy of using the social science lesson to train students to a suitable behaviour. Previous research shows, among other things, that social science is an invisible subject and that it works as a support to the other socially oriented subjects. In my study, I can see parts of that invisibility, but I can also see that social science is it’s own subject and a very living one.

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McClenning, Judy. "A discussion of the origins of the issues and subject matter present within the video, She used to bake me cookies /." Online version of thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/12133.

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Nordgren, Johannes. "An Alien discussion : Using the film Alien to highlight and discuss sexual violence and gender roles in the Swedish upper secondary EFL classroom." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-101923.

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The essay attempts to analys the film Alien directed by Ridley Scott and released in 1979 to see if the film’s themes and iconography can be interpretedas metaphors forsexual violence and gender norms. investigates if the film can be used in a Swedish upper secondary EFL classroom as a basis for discussing the societal problems of sexual violence and oppressive gender norms. Methods for film analysis by Barker and Austin is applied along with the gender theories of Moi and Connell among others.

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Hershey, Katherine Randon. "Engaging with diversity examining the relationships between undergraduate students' frequency of discussions of socio-cultural Issues and their understanding of diversity and self- awareness /." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/7237.

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Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2007.
Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Counseling and Personnel Services. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.

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Rimmer, Valerie. "Dance, history and deconstruction : Giselle and Beach Birds for Camera as contrasting sites for a discussion of issues on meaning in dance." Thesis, City University London, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.301104.

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Schmidt, Rebecca Ann-Maude Elizabeth. "Homeland security: a discussion of issues concerning definition and awareness in domestically violent heterosexual couples and homeland security: a play in one act." Thesis, Boston University, 2004. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27759.

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Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses.
PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.
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Davis, Geoffrey W. "The fate of neonate calves : a discussion of the bovine infant health implications of dairying in antiquity, using archaeozoological studies of six Orcadian contexts." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/4928.

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A methodology for ageing foetal and neonatal cattle is developed, involving radiographic examination of infant mandibles for early developmental stages in molariform teeth; tooth-wear methodologies are imprecise at this stage before wear commences. Known-age modern bovine foetal and neonate material are collected as a control assemblage for method development (n=73); six Neolithic to Norse era assemblages from Orkney are examined using the modified technique together with standard tooth-wear analysis and other methodologies. Foetal and died-at-birth material is diagnosed at most sites using the new technique, together with a range of other peri-natal age-groups. Ageing at this early stage is highly relevant in the diagnosis of milking as a palaeoeconomy: the accepted view is that unwanted (male) calves were slaughtered to maximise milk for human consumption, hence a surfeit of neonate calf remains, as at the study sites. The diagnosis of foetal and died-at-birth material challenges this view, suggesting that attritional causes may have contributed to deaths at this stage. Although milking was probably carried out at most of the study sites, this may have been combined with slaughter of cattle for meat in a pragmatic exploitation strategy. Literary research shows possible attritional causes of abortion and early death in calves, in particular dietary insufficiency in pregnant cows, microbial infections, and also inadequate colostrum uptake. Additionally, research is used to consider the challenges to health that early milking might have posed, to the calf as mentioned, but also to the cow, where three main health issues are highlighted: infertility, mastitis and lameness.

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Geschier, Sofie M. M. A. "Trying to make sense of the Trojan Horse incident: using historical documents to prompt discussion of politically sensitive issues in secondary schools in Cape Town." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15418.

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In this qualitative research, I hoped to get some impression of ways teachers and learners in five Cape Town schools deal with the process of making sense of a violent past. I offered five teachers material on the Trojan Horse Incident, partly generated by the TRC, and pondered the questions what for them and their learners is politically sensitive and how they position the people involved in the incident and how they position themselves. I understand by 'politically sensitive issues', issues centering on political and social divisions of the past and their ramifications in the present in this country. Applying a 'Foucaultian' approach to discourse analysis, I used the concepts 'indescribable' and 'undiscussable' as structuring categories, next to a differentiation between the discourse of classroom talk, and informal discourses outside the classroom situation. I also differentiated between the sense making processes of teachers, being part of a generation that lived through Apartheid, and of learners, the 'new' generation who didn't have that experience. The results of this research are: Firstly, teachers and learners in the five schools positioned themselves, the people involved in the incident and the researcher through dynamic practices of in- and excluding (shifting between 'us' and 'them') and of past and present framing (shifting between past and present tenses). Both groups seem to prefer to position themselves as 'observers'. In most classes, most of the time was spent on how exactly the Trojan Horse Incident took place (when, where, which tactics the policemen used, consequences,). Moral questions ('why' questions) were left for the end of the period or left implicit. Secondly, there was not a lot of space during classroom interactions for emotions and personal stories. The power/knowledge structure of the discourse of schooling seemed to be very strong, although it was also a matter of personal choices by teachers and learners. An 'official' image of Apartheid, with clear differentiations between victims and perpetrators prevailed. Personal stories were only situated in formal discourses of schooling before or after the actual lesson (learners speaking with the teacher about their personal experiences of or reactions to violence) or when 'others' were present, be it learners from 'another' community than the majority of learners and the teacher, or be it the researcher. Thirdly, a discourse of reconstructing personal histories and identities had more space in informal discourses (for example learners talking to one another during breaks) and during interviews with me. South African youth might have (similar to German and Irish youth) a 'fatigue' towards 'official', 'consensus' knowledge of the past and they might not to be able or not want to make sense of the 'wall' of silenced personal stories of those who have experienced the conflicts in the past. Fourthly, 'sensitive issues' were mostly expressed outside the classroom interactions. These were violence in past and present; moral stances towards violence and responsibility; schooling (teaching but also disciplining); and stereotypes people have of 'other' South Africans and the separate lives they have.

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Fong, John. "Electronic word-of-mouth and country-of-origin effects a cross-cultural analysis of discussion boards /." Phd thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/28611.

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Thesis by publication.
Thesis (PhD) -- Macquarie University, Macquarie Graduate School of Management, 2008.
Bibliography: leaves 124-133.
Introduction - Literature review -- Online word-of-mouth: a comparison of American and Chinese discussion boards -- Electronic word-of-mouth: a comparison of stated and revealed behaviour on electronic discussion boards -- A cross-cultural comparison of electronic word-of-mouth and country-of-origin effects -- Conclusion.
The growth of electronic discussion boards has enabled consumers from different cultures to communicate with people of similar interests. Through this online channel, marketing concepts such as word-of-mouth (WOM) and country-of-origin (CoO) effects have the potential to become more important because of the potentially large number of participants involved. The US and China, being the largest and second-largest online population in the world respectively, are ideal countries to investigate the frequency and extent of these marketing concepts. --The thesis consists of three separate but inter-related papers which have been published in journals or have been accepted for publication. Each paper builds on the one before and analyses different aspects of online consumer behaviour such as information-giving, information-seeking and the CoO statements made by participants of discussion boards. By examining and comparing the frequency and content of discussion postings on discussion boards within US and China based websites, the thesis makes a comparison of the information-giving and information-seeking behaviour of the discussants and also looks at the extent and the content of CoO statements made. Online observation of discussion postings from six different discussion boards (three each from the US and China) was conducted over two 90-day period in 2004 and 2005 and a total of 5,993 discussion postings were downloaded for analysis. In addition, an online survey of 214 participants was conducted to compare the stated and actual (or "revealed") behaviour of discussants on the US and China based discussion boards. -- Overall, the findings indicate consistent differences over a 12-month period in the bahaviour of the US and Chinese discussants. The US discussants were found to provide more information than their Chinese counterparts while the Chinese discussants exhibited more information-seeking bahaviour on the discussion boards. The findings also indicate that the Chinese discussants demonstrated more negative CoO statements and these statements were observed to be related to Japan and/or brands that originated from Japan. The findings suggest that such negative CoO statements can increase rapidly online and it appears that the negative sentiments by the Chinese were apparently unrelated to product quality; instead they appear to have been predominantly associated with war related animosity. -- These findings have important implications for marketers selling to the Chinese as discussion boards appear to be more important as a source of information for the Chinese than the Americans. Also, given that the Chinese discussants demonstrated a high level of negative CoO statements relating to products from Japan, marketers selling Japanese products to the Chinese must understand the underlying issues related to these negativeCoO statements and take steps to prevent non-purchase of Japanese products.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Lytvynova, Maryna. "Statut sémantico-discursif des relatives appositives en "qui" du français : approches linguistique et psycholinguistique." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015USPCA088/document.

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La thèse porte sur le statut sémantico-pragmatique des propositions relatives appositives (PRA), étudié à travers l’examen du fonctionnement discursif des phrases complexes de la forme ‘Matrice, qui PRA’ du français. Dans beaucoup de langues, les PRA n’interagissent pas sémantiquement avec les opérateurs présents dans leurs propositions enchâssantes et tendent à s’interpréter pragmatiquement comme porteuses d’informations non-centrales ou secondaires pour la question en discussion (QUD) du discours en cours. Plusieurs analyses (Holler 2005, Arnold 2007, Koev 2012) dissocient ces deux propriétés en dérivant la projection des PRA de leur statut d’assertions indépendantes et en expliquant leur lecture pragmatique à l’aide de principes généraux de gestion du flot discursif. En effet, lorsque les PRA apparaissent en fin de phrase, elles sont susceptibles d’interagir avec la QUD tout en ayant une portée large vis-à-vis du reste de la phrase. Certains phénomènes discursifs semblent néanmoins contredire l’idée que les PRA constituent des assertions indépendantes. D’abord, les PRA peuvent interagir avec la QUD seulement si leurs matrices véhiculent également des informations pertinentes pour le sujet en discussion. Ensuite, contrairement à ce que l’on peut observer dans une séquence de deux propositions indépendantes, dans une séquence formée d’une proposition matrice et d’une PRA, quel que soit l’ordre de leur linéarisation, la matrice s’interprète toujours comme centrale pour le discours, alors que le statut pragmatique de la PRA dépend fortement du degré d’informativité du reste de la phrase vis-à-vis de la QUD. Enfin, les résultats de deux études comportementales conduites pour la thèse montrent que, suite au traitement de phrases complexes comme ‘Matrice, qui PRA’, les référents du type ‘individu’ mentionnés par la matrice restent hautement saillants pour le discours subséquent contrairement à ceux dont il est question dans la PRA, qui jouissent d’un degré d’accessibilité assez faible. Partant de ces données, nous concluons que la lecture pragmatique centrale des PRA n’est pas une conséquence de leur statut d’assertions indépendantes mais résulte de l’intégration de leur contenu dans le domaine focal de leurs matrices. Plus généralement, en nous appuyant sur les travaux d’Ander Bois & al. (2010) et Schlenker (2013, ms), nous défendons l’idée que le manque d’interaction entre les PRA et le reste de leurs phrases d’accueil ainsi que leur prédisposition à une interprétation non-centrale pour le discours proviennent du fait, qu’à la différence de leurs matrices, dont l’énonciation s’accompagne de l’introduction d’un référent propositionnel nouveau, les PRA sont des anaphores propositionnelles, dont la portée sémantique et l’interprétation pragmatique dépendent de la position discursive de l’expression important dans l’univers du discours le référent auquel s’applique le contenu qu’elles expriment
The thesis focuses on the semantic-pragmatic status of appositive relative clauses (ARC). We address this question by examining discourse functioning of complex sentences of the form ‘Matrix, qui ARC’ in French. Crosslinguistically, ARC fail to interact semantically with scope taking operators contained in their embedding clauses and tend to be interpreted pragmatically as carrying non-central or secondary information for the question under discussion (QUD) in the ongoing discourse. Several analysis (Holler 2005, Arnold 2007, Koev 2012) dissociate these two properties, deriving the ARC projection from their status of independent assertions and explaining their pragmatic reading with independent principles of the discourse flow management. Indeed, when an ARC follows linearly its embedding clause, it can interact with the QUD while still receiving a wide scope relatively to the rest of the host sentence. Some discursive phenomena seem nevertheless contradict the idea that ARC constitute independent assertions. First, an ARC can interact with a QUD only if its matrix clause also conveys information relevant to the subject under discussion. Second, contrary to what we observe examining sequences of two independent clauses, in sequences formed of a matrix clause and an ARC, regardless of the order of their linearization, the matrix clause is always interpreted as being at-issue for the discourse, while the pragmatic status of the ARC depends to a great extent on the degree of informativeness of the rest of the sentence relatively to the QUD. And, third, the results of two psycholinguistic experiments conducted as part of this study show that after processing a sentence such as ‘Matrix, qui ARC’, the entity-type referents realized by the matrix clause are highly salient for the subsequent discourse unlike those realized by the ARC, which have a rather low accessibility degree. Based on these data, we conclude that at-issue pragmatic reading of ARC is not a consequence of their functioning as independent assertions but results from integration of their content into the focal domain of the embedding clause. More generally, building on the works of AnderBois & al. (2010) and Schlenker (2013, ms), we defend the idea that the lack of interaction between ARC and the host sentences as well as their tendency to receive a not at-issue reading in discourse arise from the fact that unlike their matrix clauses, whose utterance has the effect of introducing a new propositional referent, ARC are propositional anaphora, the semantic and pragmatic interpretation of which depends thus on the discourse position of their antecedent expression, importing into the discourse the propositional referent the ARC’s content applies to

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Ringer, Laurie. "A select concordance of some 400 Middle English texts : a study of Wycliffite discourse with particular discussion of the issues of contemporary poverty, pious practice, substantive law, and anticlerical style." Thesis, University of Hull, 2007. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:11615.

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The first part of this thesis, which is closely connected to the second part and reliant on the concordance data therein, considers a selection of vocabulary data from heterodox texts associated with the range of positions often referred to as Wycliffite or Lollard. As the more flagrantly heretical statements, for example on dominion, translation, pilgrimage, or transubstantiation, have already received much scholarly attention, this study also seeks evidence of Lollardy in vocabulary that is less commonly associated with the heresy. This vocabulary, which forms the basis of the four chapters, is clearly linked to Wyclif, and reveals Lollardy both in the more and in the less vituperative texts. Following the Introduction, the concordance results frame the four supporting chapters, showing the extent to which less obvious topics such as Chapter 1's Contemporary Poverty, Chapter 2's Pious Practice, Chapter 3's Substantive Law, and Chapter 4's Anticlerical Style are Lollard concerns, whereas there is statistically less representation of the more notorious vocabulary. This apparently innocuous vocabulary often links back to Wyclif, reveals misconceptions about the heresy, and functions as alternative doorways into more notorious heretical positions. The second part of this thesis presents the first publication, in Lollard studies, of a concordance, designed to provide quantitative data both for the present study and to supplement further qualitative examination of Lollard discourse. This Select Concordance of 395 headwords is drawn from 432 of the vernacular texts generally treated as having Lollard affinities. All concordanced texts treat at least one, if not more, of the four chapter areas. As the Conclusion states, the Select Concordance encourages consideration of issues thought heretofore to be less than heretical and hints at what else these Lollard texts might impart about their heterodoxy and about their connections to John Wyclif.

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Chan, Man Yuen Grace. "Copyright protection in the People's Republic of China: a discussion of issues as discerned in the case of WuGuan Zhong v. Shanghai Do Yun Xuan and Hong Kong Yong Cheng AntiqueCompany Limited." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B38627905.

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Oinonen, Marta. ""Isolate a honeybee from her sisters and she will soon die" : Discussing sensitive issues in the Swedish EFL classroom based on Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-82399.

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This essay argues that literature enhances the discussions of sensitive issues in a Swedish EFL classroom. Building on reader-response theory and Judith A. Langer's envisionment building, the themes affinity, suicide and discrimination found in Sue Monk Kidd's novel The Secret Life of Bees could be discussed. The reader-response theory gives the pupils an emotional outlet that the envisionment builds on. However, the identified themes also need to be critically analysed to create rewarding discussions, and to be able to fulfil Langer's envisionment. This will hopefully make the pupils think more deeply about these social issues and question their own possible prejudices.

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Jacoby, Jill Beth. "Art, Water, and Circles: In What Ways Do Study Circles Empower Artists to Become Community Leaders around Water Issues." [Yellow Springs, Ohio] : Antioch University, 2009. http://etd.ohiolink.edu/view.cgi?acc_num=antioch1260285346.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Antioch University, 2009.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed March 25, 2010). Advisor: Jon Wergin, Ph.D. "A dissertation submitted to the Ph.D. in Leadership and Change program of Antioch University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy 2009."--from the title page. Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-245).

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Пономаренко, О. В. "Завдання та функції кримінального права: дискусійні аспекти." Thesis, Чернігів, 2021. http://ir.stu.cn.ua/123456789/25235.

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Пономаренко, О. В. Завдання та функції кримінального права: дискусійні аспекти : випускна кваліфікаційна робота : 081 «Право» / О. В. Пономаренко ; керівник роботи І. М. Колодій ; НУ "Чернігівська політехніка", кафедра кримінального права та правосуддя . – Чернігів, 2021. – 88 с.
Соціальні та економічні зміни, які відбуваються на сучасному етапі розвитку суспільства, мають за мету забезпечити реалізацію положень Конституції України, яка проголосила Україну правовою державою. Важливу роль у цьому напрямку відіграє якість кримінального закону, основною задачею якого є охорона особи, суспільства і держави від злочинних посягань. Кримінально-правова політика являє собою базовий елемент усієї політики держави у сфері боротьби зі злочинністю, яка розробляє стратегію і тактику, формулює основні завдання, принципи, напрями та цілі кримінальноправового впливу на злочинність, визначає засоби їх досягнення. Це складна конструкція (система) з двома підсистемами - політичною і юридичною, яка формується з розвитком якісно нових відносин в українському суспільстві, що потребують правової регламентації. Відповідно, необхідність приведення вітчизняної науки та практики кримінального права до міжнародних стандартів, проблеми визначення завдань і функцій кримінального права, дискусійні аспекти зазначених категорій обумовлюють актуальність та важливість комплексного наукового дослідження широкого кола питань, пов’язаних з розумінням правової природи завдань і функцій кримінального права та їх місця в системі категорій кримінального права. Розділ 1 присвячено загальній характеристиці та правій природі завдань кримінального права. У розділі 2 досліджуються теоретико-методологічні основи функцій кримінального права у розрізі порівняльно-правового аналізу. Наукова новизна отриманих результатів полягає у тому, полягає в тому, що кваліфікаційна робота є узагальненим теоретико-правовим дослідженням, в якому на основі вивчення сучасного стану національної правової системи виявленні проблеми реалізації законодавства в Україні та визначенні основні напрями підвищення його ефективності. Удосконалено поняття «функції кримінального права», що розглядається як об’єктивно існуюче явище, що являє собою основні напрямки кримінально-правового впливу на суспільні відносини, за допомогою яких можливе досягнення цілей і вирішення задач кримінально-правового регулювання на даному етапі розвитку суспільства.
Social and economic changes that take place at the present stage of the development of society are aimed at ensuring the implementation of the provisions of the Constitution of Ukraine, which proclaimed Ukraine by a law. An important role in this direction plays the quality of the criminal law, the main task of which is the protection of a person, society and state from criminal encroachments. Criminal law policy is the basic element of the state policy in the field of struggle against crime, which develops a strategy and tactics, formulates the main tasks, principles, directions and goals of criminal-law influence on crime, determines the means of achieving them. This is a complex design (system) with two subsystems - political and legal, which is formed with the development of qualitatively new relations in the Ukrainian society, which require legal regulation. Accordingly, the need to bring the domestic science and practice of criminal law to international standards, the problems of defining the tasks and functions of criminal law, the discussion aspects of these categories stipulate the relevance and importance of a comprehensive scientific study of a wide range of issues related to the understanding of the legal nature of the tasks and functions of criminal law and their places in the system of categories of criminal law. Section 1 is devoted to the general characteristics and the right nature of the tasks of criminal law. Section 2 examines the theoretical and methodological bases of criminal law functions in the context of comparative and legal analysis. The scientific novelty of the results lies in the fact that the qualification work is a generalized theoretical and legal study, which is based on the study of the current state of the national legal system to identify the problem of implementing legislation in Ukraine and the definition of the main directions of increasing its efficiency. The concept of «criminal law» was improved, which is considered as an objectively existing phenomenon, which is the main directions of criminal-law influence on social relations, through which it is possible to achieve goals and solving problems of criminal-legal regulation at this stage of society’s development.

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Chan, Man Yuen Grace. "Copyright protection in the People's Republic of China a discussion of issues as discerned in the case of Wu Guan Zhong v. Shanghai Do Yun Xuan and Hong Kong Yong Cheng Antique Company Limited /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/HKUTO/record/B38627905.

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Thesis (LL.M.)--University of Hong Kong, 1998.
"Dissertation presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the LL.M. Degree." "July 1998." Includes bibliographical references (l. 1-5). Also available in print.

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Leleisi'uao, Andy. "My Samoan accent an investigation discussing issues that emanate out of my identity as a New Zealand born Samoan artist : [an exegesis [thesis] submitted to the Auckland University of Technology in partial fulfilment of the degree of Master of Arts (Art and Design), 2004.]." Full thesis. Abstract, 2004.

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Butler, Douglas. "Presentations Using Autograph." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-79554.

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Hsu, Shian-Neng, and 許獻能. "Discussion on Issues of Customs Act." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/39593539602604456720.

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碩士
中原大學
會計研究所
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Recently, Taiwan committed to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), for a fair competition in the international market environment,in order to reduce our industry''s crisis was pushed. Given the high standards of the TPP , it is necessary to continue to review the internal trade system and establish a regulatory environment in line with international standards,and also towards Customs liberalization. 　　This research is following three issues: 1.With the Customs Act,to discuss Customs evasion and protection . 2.After States signed the Free Trade Agreement(FTA), think of the vision and effect that Taiwan push to join the TPP.　 3. To combine Customs Act with Business Tax Act.　　　　First of all, through introduction to related literature and Customs Act for readers preliminary understand. Secondly, in accordance with Customs Act related legal interpretations to resupply practical cases and practices. Finally, discuss with Customs Act dispute in Taiwan. 　　This research suggestions: 1.To scared industry''s attempted evasion purposes by check, strengthen Customs Act with Business Tax Act are mutual audit. Application of information technology will collected and linked with internal and external data for customs now , when going through the completeness and correctness of the information. Only for premeditated evasion industry should be punish heavier and take criminal responsibility, limiting their import and export customs clearance in future. 2. Customs officers should be have the principles of honesty, avoiding collusion.Through education and training to strengthen internal control, to tell industry their responsibility and avoid to escape attempt on misconduct. If customs officers deliberately break the law that should be punish heavier and also take criminal responsibility. 3. Suggests that the Customs Department to redeploy human resources,to solve the phenomenon of the serious shortage of human resources. To strengthen check avoid people who make false on evade rules and taxes. 4. Currently, Taiwan push to join the TPP should communicate with the relevant domestic industries and formulate related measures, to solve people for asymmetric information or conflict of interest issues in the future agreement. 5. We should develop TPA, awarded within a certain period that the President enter into negotiations with foreign country and right to sign a trade agreement . 6. To amend legislation of Customs Act become zero customs,for combine Customs Act with Business Tax Act,in other words that only levying Business Tax Act. It does not exist between States and foreign customs,and without unfair customs treatment and obstacles to trade measures. For internal,we should improve international standards with other countries, such as sign the FTA and customs cooperation agreements etc. 　　Conclusion of this research can provide the Ministry of Finance as a reference for its measures to improve.

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Lin, Hsin-Hua, and 林信華. "Discussion on the issue of police and Soil Conservation affairs." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/21225731388939494266.

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國立中興大學
水土保持學系所
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Forest soil and water resources protection is everyone''s responsibility, the police authority with the implementation and Water Conservation Act related matters are also relevant norms, however, such laws and regulations can be corrected more complete, will enable to maintain the natural ecological environment and promote the welfare of mankind. Although the open mountain roads can be easily accessible, but also makes it more vulnerable to forest mountain offenders inappropriate development, such as land cleared for farming overrun use discovery, deforestation, excessive construction, excessive and indiscriminate abandoned burial and other violations of Soil and Water Conservation, hillside land that text, hydrological conditions and characteristics of the occurrence of great changes, when heavy rain occurs easily in water and soil and Hajime disaster, not only endanger the lives and property of the people, and caused the loss of state and the general public. 　　In recent decades, due to the extreme weather, resulting in increasingly frequent natural disasters, the threat of disaster scale and people''s lives and property suffered by the also growing. Because of gravel trucks play an important role in land development and coastal or river training works and even the formation of the black gold has been economic, but gravel trucks belong to the higher load carrying capacity and means of transport, earth and rock in the handling process, it could　easily lead to speeding, overloading, leakage, severe pressure loss pavement, dusty roads and pollution, often resulting in major traffic accidents, resulting in very huge proportion of casualties, how to reduce the aforementioned issues, is currently the subject of urgency. In this study, the implementation of existing laws and investigate surface found 2 paragraph 4 of Article 29 of the Road Traffic Regulations on Administrative Penalties "... car loaded with a cargo passing through the one kilometer road weighbridge premises and may force it to weigh ..." provisions of the non-existent, especially in if the platform from the downtown station 1 km to 3 km, it would be more realistic and the feasibility of implementing it have. This provision has serious flaws because of its one kilometer and enforce its provisions have to weigh it and unreasonable, and because of a serious shortage of law enforcement equipment, and there is no statute mandated legal platform with the industry, often make gravel industry has drilled to find legal loopholes the opportunity, resulting in difficulties in the implementation of the law enforcement units, besides the above provisions nor the principle of proportionality. Nevin then for like as analysis on soil and water conservation and police affairs and responsibilities of the Executive "mountain inventory" and to explore the use of case studies, and then to make recommendations and to amend the relevant laws and regulations as the.

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Chang-Chien, Shu-Hua, and 張簡淑華. "Discussion on the system of real estate transaction NET logon issue." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/00997666723087090470.

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碩士
國立高雄應用科技大學
財富與稅務管理系碩士在職專班
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Taiwan under the impact of globalization and liberalization of international trade, the real estate prices logon net will indeed contribute to open actual real estate transactions into the public to avoid imperfect competition markets. Its main object is to bring estate prices in line with open, fair, impartial and to reach the function of suppressing the prices, and realize the goal of "living justice" actively promoted by the Government. Due to the net logon system provides information on real estate transactions, help balance the buyers with the housing market in the "information asymmetry" situation, prices can be kept in a reasonable range. Therefore, the net logon system enriched the people with greater knowledge of real estate information who are originally relatively weak in this field, also according to personal budget and ability to choose their own real estate, and further on the subject of bargaining. So that to boost the real estate trading information transparent is the most basic requirements of Living Justice. On housing transactions, the useful information normally comes from consumer’s correct recognition and references, if there is drop point on sources and timing, very liable to cause the vulnerable to information transparency and credibility at this stage of the blind spot, and influence decision-making of house buyer. And this characteristics of only provides but not analyzing the information, it lead consumers never truly understand the meaning of information. This text with reference to the assessment of pointer system of information transparency established by the scholars both at home and abroad, and review on the preliminary results of transparency system put into force for almost 3 years, while also investigating to set the policy and target, and according to the author's own practical experience to put forward some suggestion in the system, in the hope that real estate transaction NET logon information transparency and implementation of living justice can be of positive help.

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李明雄. "A Discussion of Company Value under the Issue of Mergers and Acquisition." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/62941019524922965925.

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大葉大學
事業經營研究所
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ABSTRACT This study aims at understanding whether the range of overprice is reasonable and the attitude of the takeover company when a corporate hostile takeover takes place .Through the case of the actual mergers and acquisition happened in Taiwan，Tingyi （Cayman Islands）Holding Corporation’s hostile takeover of WeiChuan Corporation ，this study analyzes if the evaluations of company value through evaluation models before the takeover support the actual acquisition price and examines the target company’s performance in operating efficiency after the takeover . This study hopes to give takeover companies some help in their evaluation processes . This study also uses different evaluation models to evaluate the target company value. The cost of Free Case Flow （FCF）in the evaluation model is calculated by Weighted Average Cost of capital （WACC）. And the company’s cost of Equity is calculated by Capital Asset Pricing Model（CAMP）. Findings of the Case Study and Suggestions： The case of the mergers and acquisition of Tingyi Holding Corporation’s purchase of stocks of WeiChuan Corporation is a typical and interesting case of the Hubris Hypothesis theory . After a systematic analysis，two main points comes out of this study，which can be considered by the takeover company when doing evaluation of the target company value：（1） The range of reasonable overprice：The range of overprice is in positive proportion to the realizability of the motivations of the hostile takeover . That is , the higher the realizability of the motivations , the higher the overprice . （2） Avoid Hubris evaluation：If a hostile takeover company overestimates its management ability and underestimates the target company’s operating efficiency , and therefore pays too high an overprice to take over , this will result in serious capital loss and causes operating inefficiency after the takeover , and consequently bring about great risk . Key Words : hostile takeover , corporate evaluate , Hubris hypothesis , range of overprice

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Chen, Shu-Mei, and 陳淑美. "Discussion on the Issue of Implementing Transfer Pricing Taxation System in Taiwan." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/62180249279186227212.

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輔仁大學
會計學系碩士班
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Abstract Title of Thesis：Discussion on the Issue of Implementing Transfer Pricing Taxation System in Taiwan Student：Shu-Mei Chen Advisor：Dr. Mei-Juh Huang Total Pages：108 Month/Year：06/2015 Key Words：Transfer Pricing, Profit-Seeking Enterprise Income Tax, Affiliated Enterprises Abstract： In order to minimize the effective tax rate for group of companies, the multinational enterprises manipulate the trading price between controllable affiliated enterprises to put the business profit in low tax rate country. As a result, that not only erodes the other country's tax base but also violates the principle of tax neutrality. For the purpose of deterring tax avoidance for multinational enterprises and assuring the tax collection and the right to tax them, Governments all over the world made the law to regulate transfer price when trading between related party or affiliated enterprises and it became a part of their tax law. In the light of that, most countries have set up transfer pricing regulations in recent years, and they keep an eye on whether all of the controlled transactions among overall affiliated enterprises conform to regular business practice. Regulations Governing Assessment of Profit-Seeking Enterprise Income Tax on Non-Arm's-Length Transfer Pricing (hereinafter referred to as the " Transfer Pricing Regulations") are enacted pursuant to the provisions set out in Paragraph 5,Article 80 the Income Tax Act by Ministry of Finance at Dec.28 2004 so as to meet the tax collecting trend worldwide and to secure the right to tax. This is the first anti-tax avoidance measure in Republic of China. It has been 10 years since the Transfer Pricing Regulations was issued. This study with a point of view of a tax auditor who conducts investigations of TP cases, and included 20 multinational enterprise cases which were found have tax avoidance through the transaction arrangement from 2006 to 2013. Moreover, this study analyzed why the cases were chosen by tax collection authority, how the chosen enterprises filed their income tax, where/what countries the foreign affiliated enterprises were located in as well as the types of controlled transactions, and which parts the tax collection authority will adjust, etc. This study also examined the error types and problems in companies’ TP report for tax collection authority to choose the enterprises to audit. The results of this study can be a reference for multinational enterprises to avoid some mistakes when filing profit-seeking enterprise income tax returns, and for the TP report makers when making the TP reports. After the investigation of this study, we found some deficiencies about transfer pricing regulations. And this study would like to give some suggestions for policy makers, multinational enterprises and certified public accountants, respectively.

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Hsu, Pei-hsien, and 許倍銜. "Discussing a Issue of Organ Transplantation from Descartes “Mind-Body Dualism”." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/05145494484421319276.

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Lin, Yu-Hsuan, and 林郁軒. "A Discussion of Safety Issues and Management in Polarizer Plants." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/zzhg62.

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碩士
嘉南藥理大學
職業安全衛生系
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In the last ten years, Taiwan's main industry has been the LCD display (LCD/LED). The industry started from using generation 3.5 machines to now using generation 8.5 machines. In just seven or eight years, LCD panel plants have built bigger plants, recruited more people, and expanded the scale of the panel plants to accommodate more production lines. Apart from market demand and the need to cut cost, such a rapid development has been driven by the technology that produces the panel. Faced with larger and highly automated machinery, the recruiting and training of human resources is bound to be more challenging as the risk of injury in the workplace increases. The study intends to address the issue of work safety by focusing on a polarizer plant in Southern Taiwan Science Park, using questionnaires as the tool. After the case company established its Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OHSAS), its disabling injury rate has decreased; however, there are still a few disabling injury cases. It seems that unsafe behavior among workers and unsafe workplace environment are still present in the case company. To develop countermeasures, it is worth examining the safety culture and issues in the case company. The results of the survey show that among the items in the aspect of safety culture, "the use of protective gear," "automatic check," "safety awareness," "outsourcing management," and "employee involvement" are highly recognized and appreciated, by contrast, recognition for "safety leadership" and "reward and punishment" is relatively low. Therefore, in terms of "safety leadership," top management needs to improve its safety demonstration and execution; in terms of "reward and punishment," a comprehensive system is needed in the case company to motivate employees and to strengthen the effectiveness of health and safety management.

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施博升. "Discussion on Legal Issues concerning Virtual Currency-- centering on Bitcoin." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/hr3vjb.

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碩士
南臺科技大學
財經法律研究所
107
Abstract Governments are faced with a series of new legal issues with the appearance of bitcoin in people’s lives. The characteristics of bitcoin pose threats to the currency authority and foreign exchange regime of a country. The supervisory work of bitcoin is a legal difficulty that every country faces. This study aims to discuss the legal nature of bitcoin under the law system in Taiwan and suggest a way to cope with it by analyzing the supervisory methods at home and abroad. Chapters 1 Introduction: background, research motivation, methodology, scope, limitations of the research and research outline. Chapter 2 Discussions on currency and virtual currency and the definition, characteristics of bitcoin as well as the way bitcoin works. Chapter 3 Indepth discussions on legal issues coming from with bitcoin. The relevant and possible legal issues, including future investments, product trade tax, the risk of illegal fund-raising and money laundry, inefficient supervisory work of the bitcoin trade platform. Chapter 4 Exploration and analysis of the relevant legal issues in each country, including Americas, EU, and Asia. Chapter 5 Several legal issues of bitcoin in People’s Republic of China and possible solutions. Chapter 6 Current policy and situation in Taiwan. Chapter 7 Suggestions for Taiwan. As everyone knows, innovative activities of bitcoin have been affecting social and economic activities around the world. However, the legislative and supervisory works fall behind comparatively. In this condition, it is suggested that Taiwan should establish the regulations through analyzing basic principles and legal issues concerning bitcoin. The researcher further suggests that Taiwan should welcome bitcoin with an open-minded attitude and set up a sound legal system and prevent frauds, money laundry and illegal fund-raising to face the challenging innovation. Key words: Bitcoin, financial supervisory work, money laundry, financial innovation

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CHENG, YUN-PENG, and 鄭雲鵬. "Discussing the issue of Euthanasia with the perspective of Ethic and Law." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/89295995705440698569.

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碩士
國立臺北大學
法律學系一般生組
96
The journey of life is inseparable from birth, aging, illness, and death. Most of us are busy making the ends meet and thus seldom take the time to contemplate death. Life and death is something every life form must face, and discussing them with discreetness is certainly better than ignoring them and being caught by surprise. Making death a part of our life plan is the right way to proceed. In this dissertation, we examine the meaning of euthanasia and its origin. We will focus on the discussion of active and passive euthanasia and make reference to relevant, past literatures. We then look at the relevant discussions on euthanasia in different religions, such as Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and the Chinese Confucianism and Taoism. By examining the history and legislation regarding euthanasia in different nations, we will also discuss how different scholars support or reject it. In addition, the definitions and origins of Taiwan’s regulations regarding assistance suicide and hospice service are explained. The current status of hospice service in Taiwan is discussed, and its legal problems are also analyzed. Lastly, by examining actual cases of euthanasia, we will also make reference to relevant statistics and determine the basis for its legalization in our modern society.

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Chen, Chien-chou, and 陳建州. "A Discussion and Critique on European Migration Issue within the Prospective of “Societal Security”." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/kc72xn.

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碩士
國立中山大學
政治學研究所
96
Since the end of cold war, Europe have been suffering non-military security issues, such as migration, competing identity, which attract attention of Barry Buzan and Ole Waever who are named for Copenhagen School. They observer the evolution of new security issues and work out a specific explanatory concept Societal Security and Securitization to analysis why does societal security come out and become a serious issue in European. The main tasks of this thesis is try to figure out what does Societal Security and Securitization work and how to use these conceptual tool to analysis European migration issue, which are the basis for further reflection. After that, this article will also adduce critical opinion to demonstrate the deficiency of the theory of Societal Security and Securitization.

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Lin, JunZe, and 林君澤. "Discussion on the Sovereign Issue of the Diaoyutai(Senkaku)Island -Focus on Future Trends-." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/29312303054723781651.

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碩士
國立高雄第一科技大學
應用日語研究所
101
ABSTRACT September 11,2012,the Japanese government nationalized the diameter line of Diaoyutai, including Diaoyu Dao and its affiliated islands/Senkaku Islands. This will not only lead to the strong protest and dissatisfaction of Taiwan and China governments, who hold the same claim to the rights of sovereignty over the Diaoyutai, and the anti-Japanese demonstrations occurred in the Chinese mainland, which are the most unprecedented scale since WW2. This instantaneously froze the Chinese-Japanese relations, causing the East China Sea in a tense situation. The Chinese-Japanese confrontation situation hasn''t changed until now, and there is a great possibility of becoming long-term oriented situation under the trend of recent struggles. Recalling the history of the Diaoyutai''s disputes, after the United Nations Economic and Social Organization confirmed on the continental shelf in the East China Sea is rich in resources since 1968, the issue of Diaoyutai got attentions instantly. Diaoyutai dispute hadn''t formally flared up until 1971 the United State''s returning Okinawa to the Japan government, the agreement is concerning the Ryukyu Islands and the Daito Islands" between Japan and the United States of America. The dispute has developed for more than 40 years, which is still on the tense and grimly explosive situation. Undoubtedly, the Diaoyutai issue in the East Asia has become an unexploded ordnance. As for the Diaoyutai issue, on the one hand, the rich resources on the continental shelf near the archipelago as mentioned are suspected; on the other hand in reality, its geographical position、strategic advantage and the continental shelf delimitation disputes in the future are all reasons that these countries are unable to make concessions on the issue of sovereignty. In addition, before the disputes between states which are over the islands occurred, what''s the difference between historical acknowledge on the belonging problem from country to country? Moreover, how can this dispute be left aside for such a long period of time after the dispute? These III problems which has failed to resolve so far, and solutions for negotiations will all be the focus issues in this essay. The overall framework of this essay is based on the historical data of the both sides. The Instrument Of Surrender of Japan after wars.The Treaty of San Francisco、agreements for returning Okinawa, and the circumstances of the Diaoyu Islands dispute are all going to be investigated, and analyzing the dispute incident after the development to the present situation. Finally, I would like to take the advantage of this research, dealing with the international territorial issue key points, exploring the trends of the Diaoyutai in the future, depending on the current Chinese-Japanese government official information、 news to understand the position and attitudes and identifying the key points of both sides.

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LU, WEI-I., and 呂威億. "A Discussion of Credit Rating Issues Raised in Current Financial Crisis." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/58598926565315403528.

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碩士
輔仁大學
金融研究所
98
After the recent financial crisis which started in mid-2007, criticism is mounting on Basel II Capital Accord and credit rating agencies. Those seemingly harmless structured financial products turned out to be a mass destruction weapon, leading to the (near) collapse of financial giants like Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Fortis, AIG, etc., within a short span of time. Credit ratings suddenly became the scapegoat and rating agencies are facing an insurmountable battle to regain market confidence. Basel II Capital Accord not only failed to prevent the financial crisis from occurring in advance, but many regard it as the last straw to break the back of the bank system. It is obviously by now that both the banking supervision and credit ratings systems are urgently in needs of a critical overhaul. This thesis begins with a review of the code of conduct for credit rating agencies prescribed by IOSCO, followed by a discussion of the drawback of the capital requirement under Basel II and the critique on credit rating agencies. The objective is to analyze whether and how the newest proposals from Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and credit rating agencies can enhance the soundness and stability of the financial system.

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Chen, Tsung-Ting, and 陳宗廷. "Identification and Discussion of Critical Issues for Corporate Green Inventory Management." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/90675667720134256273.

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國立臺北大學
自然資源與環境管理研究所在職專班
99
This thesis, basically on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), analyzes international regulations and clauses about the concept of life cycle or the contents as well as information structures of the inventory tools. In the paper, we make a review of literatures and Experts’ opinions to organize a corporate green inventory, in which relevant graphics and suggestions are listed. This thesis is the analysis and statistical study of the data in the evaluation reports according to Product Category Rules (PCR). The sources in this study are also based on the guidelines of ISO 14040, ISO 14041, ISO 14044, ISO 14025, ISO 14045, ISO 14047, PAS 2050, ISO 14048 and the guidelines of the clauses of the directives of the Carbon Label in Taiwan. The standards of the directives and the database of inventory tools are applied to analyze the contents of the information provided in a variety of clauses. The results also are illustrated in the Matrix lists. Such Matrix lists are verified with the experts’ interviews and their suggestions on detectives and the categorization of the Matrix lists. Besides, a discussion is brought up after a thorough investigation on data is made; a complete information-demanded matrix about different life cycle reports is generated, which provides corporations with more systematic information while conducting a corporate green inventory. In this thesis, while a corporate green inventory identification matrix list and the system degree list are presented as the reference to promote green system directives, a green inventory list on energy and material categorization is also presented with a hope of the establishment of the green inventory which is suitable to different fields.

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Chang, Heng Hsuan, and 張姮萱. "Discussion of the animation 《Rebirth》 and media works about environmental issues." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/z2ptad.

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碩士
國立臺中科技大學
多媒體設計系碩士班
100
The topic of animation “ Rebirth” describes a disaster due to a typhoon. It also talks about yearning of the livings for people who passed away in that typhoon but still alive in people’s memories. Cel animation is used for showing how beautiful their home town was. We avoid to use obvious and bloody frames but use a kind of metaphor.. This animation ends up with a brand new start for the land and the view of strength of life. The earliest animation was shown as fresco, wall-painting, which describes what had happened during hunting. Nowadays, we use may-ways of multi-media to achieve different impression. But most of all, touching stories organized by passionate directors are most important. In this article, we analysis what are important factors of the stories, and how they affect the whole story especially in the topic of environmental protection.

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Lin, Shih-ho, and 林史和. "Taipei entire constructs in the housing renewal present stage execution faced with the topic and the suggestion discussion －ShuiYuan Rd one issue of, ShuiYuan Rd two, three issue of and WuXing St two issues entire constructs housing as example－." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7w52hc.

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碩士
國立臺灣科技大學
建築系
94
Taipei entire constructs in the housing renewal present stage execution faced with the topic and the suggestion discussion －ShuiYuan Rd one issue of, ShuiYuan Rd two, three issue of and WuXing St two issues entire constructs housing as example－ Postgraduate：Lin,Shih-ho Academic advisor：Dr. Lee,Wei-i Date： July, 2006 Abstract Taipei entire constructs the housing one of for Taipei City government housing renewal policy important administration, near for ten year government positive impetus, besides all previous revision metropolis renewal rule and the correlation law do law of basis for the impetus renewal, and invests the suitable manpower, the physical resource and the funds impels to construct the housing renewal entire, because besides a ShuiYuan Rd one issue entire constructs the housing the M.R.T cataclysm to complete the renewal, other 24 renewal progress still not obvious result ,therefore this research mainly aims at entire constructs in the housing present stage renewal execution to hinder the progress impetus reason the discussion, and attempts the suggestion countermeasure by to take entire constructs the housing renewal impetus improvement the reference. This research by way of entire constructs the housing development, the literature and the law review, the success completes the renewal and right now impels to renew the case investigation and the analysis and the interview expert, the controlling organization, develops the entrepreneur and so on to understand although entire constructs the housing renewal at present under government's impetus, however in the law mechanism, government's system stratification plane and the execution stratification plane and inhabitant's cognition and the mutual recognition still had the following topic: (1) inhabitant conformity is unable to achieve the mutual recognition (2) entire to construct the housing property right to be unable with the dissipative (3) the present volume reward is unable to satisfy inhabitant's expectation (4) renewal fund not clear to originate has not had in the whereabouts (5) renewal to lack the explicit inhabitant to place plans (6) government the role which acts in the renewal impetus could not to be clear about (7) present stage folk to develop the entrepreneur non-wish to participation entire constructs the housing to renew the enterprise (8) to lack to entire constructs the significance and the advantage which the housing inhabitant education and the guidance impetus renews and so on, hindrance renewal impetus march, now is as follows after this research discussion analysis suggestion improvement countermeasure: (1)Concerned inhabitant conformity mutual recognition: the suggestion leads by the government establishes the male department station work room, unifies the social worker personnel, the community plans resources and so on teacher to give in psychological and the specialty guidance and the education inhabitant, in addition in advance arranges in order the budget payment impetus renewal initial period by the government to need the funds, after the renewal obtains the part deduction again by the inhabitant, enhances the inhabitant conformity mutual recognition and participates in the renewal. (2) Related property right unclear and dispute: the suggestion had been established “entire by the government constructs the housing special case group” and subscribes decides “the property right to recognize and “the temporary agreement recognizes the means” with the ownership means” the property right unclear part, in addition to dispute male supposes the property right which and disobeys constructs, fast subscribes “male supposes the sell means” and the relocation compensation way, (3) Present volume reward is unable to satisfy the inhabitant to expect that, suggestion station work room which had been established by the government, penetrates the social worker personnel, the community gauge artist and so on carries on thorough investigation each household inhabitant to use the demand actually and to bear ability, whole computation community overall demand volume, and after considers the local public utility receptivity and social fairness gives the adjustment volume to satisfy the inhabitant to use and to bear ability actually the demand. (4) Related renewal capital source: if suggestion by government for leads the executor, still wrote up the guarantee by the government to lend money the fund to the bank loan, if develops the entrepreneur by the folk to participate in the renewal, then by should develop the entrepreneur to process voluntarily. (5) Related reproduction periods inhabitant places the question: regardless of the suggestion leads by the government or by the folk is the executor, the government must initiative or the assistance, unified collective placement, needs the funds to include bears together. (6) Related government acts in the housing renews: suggested the separable two stage (1) first stage may introduce the folk by government leadership conformity inhabitant and the property right clear (2) second stage to develop the entrepreneur to unify the specialized team to participate in the renewal enterprise plan and the right transformation applies for and builds the construction, finishes hands over the room and so on, picks up the government and the folk leadership superiority characteristic impetus renewal enterprise. (7) Related present stage folk develop the entrepreneur non-wish participation renewal: the suggestion works out “the folk by the government to participation entire constructs the housing renewal means” the preferential benefit means and the reward measure, attracts the folk to participation together entire constructs the housing renewal work. (8) Related guidance and educates the inhabitant to participate in the impetus renewal: the suggestion arranges in order the budget by the government, plans the teacher by the station work room social worker personnel and the community and specialized enlightens and the education on the inhabitant psychological factor, the time causes the inhabitant to melt in the heart to have doubts and the understanding renews to individual, the community may promote the housing quality and improve the metropolis function. Key word: entire constructs the housing, urban renew

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LIN, CHENG-SUNG, and 林正雄. "A Discussion on Legal Issues Related to Emerging Technology and Information Protection." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/p9s353.

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碩士
嶺東科技大學
財經法律研究所
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In recent years, internet infrastructure has become increasingly perfect, users in the signal wherever they quickly search, download the required information, misconception is the executive function of your mobile device, and ignore the fact that "cloud computing" is a powerful computing power, The people need to change the information required to integrate the application of the form, directly through the internet, cloud computing is a recent forward-looking, representative of the emerging technology, Promote and accelerate the rise of information technology Such as "big data", "mobile business" and other technologies. In the seemingly beautiful technology products will lead the masses to a convenient, comfortable tomorrow, followed by a hidden "information security" crisis。Such as: users can not ensure that data is placed in the cloud industry server, Will it be stolen, lost or implanted with malicious programs, will cause great harm to business secrets and personal privacy, cloud computing services are covered by a wide range of legal issues, Including privacy, confidentiality of personal data, data jurisdiction, contract, intellectual property rights and trade secrets and other issues, This article to cloud computing and other emerging technologies, To summarize the interaction, contribution and influence, But the masses enjoy their convenience, Virtually also pay part of the price, And a legal issue that violates the law and triggers "information security", Due to numerous violations of personal rights, The legal issues discussed in this paper focus on the privacy rights that people suffer.

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Chang, Hsiao-Fei, and 張曉菲. "A Discussion on Autonomy Issues of Teenagers Based on Kant's Education Philosophy." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/48223713893756168616.

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碩士
華梵大學
哲學系碩士班
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Abstract There are purposes for students to study in school. Studying in school is a kind of work, not a game. We need discipline for work to get efficiency rather than pleasure. Achieving a specific goal, we obey various rules and restrain numerous desires. Discipline always starts from someone else’s demands and then into our own decisions. It transfers external restriction to self-behavior control. How discipline and personal freedom can coexist has been a tough educational problem. Since the implementation of education shall be based on theory, this issue is based on Kant’s education philosophy. First of all, elaborating the importance of discipline in school education, I think the core of education for students in this period should focus on cultivating the habit of regular life and obeying the rules in order to lay the foundation of retraining-bad-habit abilities. Discipline for growing and irrational students is the important character on their transit stage to help them keep the autonomy of action in the future. Punishment can cultivate law-abiding attitude for students, so students who break the rules should be punished. Teachers must comprehend clearly the way and the aim of punishment. The most important of all is teachers should have the correct attitude of punishment to avoid hurting students and themselves. Second, training and discipline will lose their affects day after day when students grow up. They will follow their ethic of the inner world of the heart as the highest guiding principles. What a manifestation of autonomy is to exhibit moral action based on code of ethic. Finally, try to conclude the way and the target of teenager’s morality by Kohlberg’s moral development stages and help teachers in the first line of education can have theoretical and specific approach of moral education. Achieve the objective of moral education: learn to observe discipline and get true freedom by autonomy.

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