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Alaoui, Aziz Bouchra. "La knowledge city : un modèle pour la ville du futur en Afrique ? L'expérience du Maroc." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Sorbonne université, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024SORUL142.
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En Afrique, malgré des ressources naturelles abondantes et une population jeune et créative, le continent peine à impulser une croissance durable. Les cicatrices laissées par des décennies de colonisation, aggravées par des conflits internes, continuent de freiner ce décollage tant espéré. Alors que les aides internationales et les programmes de lutte contre la pauvreté n'ont pas encore réussi à transformer en profondeur les fondements économiques du continent, l'avènement des nouvelles technologies offre à l'Afrique une opportunité unique : celle de réaliser un saut qualitatif en misant sur l'économie de la connaissance. Pour réussir cette transition, il est essentiel de créer des territoires de la connaissance, des espaces propices à l'innovation. Cette thèse explore la capacité du continent à adopter ce modèle, en prenant comme exemple le Maroc, qui pourrait inspirer d'autres nations africaines vers un développement durable basé sur le savoir. Elle interroge ainsi en profondeur les concepts d'économie de la connaissance et de knowledge cities, afin d'examiner leur potentiel à catalyser une transformation radicale du continent africain en véritable pôle d'innovation et de savoirIn Africa, despite abundant natural resources and a young, creative population, the continent continues to struggle to spark sustainable growth. The scars left by decades of colonization, compounded by internal conflicts, still hinder the much-anticipated takeoff. International aid and poverty alleviation programs have yet to deeply transform the economic foundations of the continent. However, the advent of new technologies offers Africa a unique opportunity to make a qualitative leap by focusing on the knowledge economy. To achieve this transition, it is essential to create "knowledge territories", spaces conducive to innovation. This thesis explores the continent's capacity to adopt this model, using Morocco as a case study, which could inspire other African nations toward sustainable development based on knowledge. It deeply examines the concepts of the knowledge economy and "knowledge cities," evaluating their potential to catalyze a radical transformation of the African continent into a true hub of innovation and knowledge
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SU, HYEWON. "CIUDAD DEL SABER / CITY OF KNOWLEDGE / MASTER PLAN." The University of Arizona, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/555259.
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SUSSMAN, RACHEL M. "CREATING EXPERIENCES: THE CITY OF KNOWLEDGE INTERPRETIVE NETWORK." The University of Arizona, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/555270.
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Yelkenci, Guler Irem. "An Assessment of Knowledge City Foundations: The Case of Istanbul." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc_num=ucin1243315593.
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Thesis (Master of Community Planning)--University of Cincinnati, 2009.Advisor: Rainer Vom Hofe. Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed Aug. 26, 2009). Includes abstract. Keywords: knowledge economy; knowledge city; Istanbul; Turkey; urban planning. Includes bibliographical references.
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Klaasen, I. T. "Knowledge-based design developing urban & regional design into a science /." Delft : Delft University Press, 2004. http://www.ebrary.com/.
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Seutlwadi, Lebogang. "Adolescents' knowledge about abortion and emergency contraception a survey study." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002561.
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Adolescents have become focal points of discussions and debates regarding sexuality and reproductive health matters. However, little research has been done particularly in South Africa to examine their knowledge concerning abortion and emergency contraception. Research indicates that a substantial proportion of adolescent pregnancies are unintended or unwanted. Abortion and emergency contraception are both time-sensitive services. Thus having accurate and comprehensive knowledge about both abortion and emergency contraception is pivotal, in the case of unintended or unwanted pregnancy or when engaging in unprotected sex or experiencing contraceptive failure that could lead to pregnancy. The 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) defined reproductive health rights for both men and women as the right to "decide freely and responsibly the number, spacing and timing of their children and to have the information and means to do so" (p. 60). That is, men and women should "have the right to make decisions concerning their reproduction free of discrimination, violence and coercion" (ICPD, 1994, p.60). Based on these definitions, it is rather evident that comprehensive and accurate knowledge are at the core of one's ability to make an informed consent. This is confirmed by Adler's (1992, p. 289) definition of informed consent or choice "a) access to sufficient information b) understanding the information c) competence to evaluate potential consequences d) freedom to make a choice and e) the ability to make and express that choice". It is from this framework that this study emerged. The aim of this study was to examine adolescents' knowledge concerning abortion and emergency contraception. The participants were Grade 11 learners between the ages of 15-24 years from five different schools in the Buffalo City Municipality. A sample of 514 was achieved. Data were analysed using descriptive cross-tabulation, chi-square and qualitative methods where appropriate. The results revealed that most of the participants did not have sufficient accurate knowledge concerning the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act, consequences of legal abortion and emergency contraceptive pills to make informed decisions. Furthermore, data also revealed that the participants' schools playa role in their sexual activity, their knowledge about the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act and about emergency contraceptive pills. Although this method made it feasible for the researcher to make general assumptions, non-responses were one of the limitations of the study. Similar research in various municipalities/cities in and outside the Eastern Cape is recommended so as to increase further awareness concerning the level of knowledge that adolescents have about contraceptive pills particularly emergency contraceptive pills, the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act and abortion in general.
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Sibeko, Xhobani Phethelo. "Innovation and the city in the era of the knowledge economy." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/19986.
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Thesis (MPhil-)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Innovation can be defined as a process whereby radical and incremental changes in thinking, in a process and in services lead to novel processes, products and services on a global scale. The nature of this “process” distinguishes it from similar processes concerning development and competitiveness with which it is often confused. Given their unique characteristics and challenges, cities are often the ideal and most likely sites for innovation in a globalised world. In the past, cities were mainly tasked with managing the affairs of their citizens. However, modern-day cities often find themselves facing more significant challenges, such as competing with other cities for investment, knowledge and tourists. In addition, cities in the 21st century are challenged to develop city cultures that are conducive to a knowledge-based economy and lifestyle. Against this background, the purpose of this thesis was to determine the relationship between innovation and cities in a knowledge-based economy (chapter 1). The chosen research methodology entailed critically analysing core concepts, namely cities (chapter 2), innovation (chapter 3), and the relationship between cities and innovation in the knowledge economy (chapter 4). Based on this, the researcher proceeded to postulate recommendations and suggestions for policies of innovation in cities (chapter 5). In so doing, the foundation was laid for the future development of a policy regarding innovation in developing cities (chapter 6).
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Innovasie kan gedefinieer word as ’n proses bestaande uit radikale en inkrementele veranderinge in denkpatrone, in ‘n proses, produkte en dienste wat uiting kry in die ontwikkeling van nuwe prosesse, produkte en dienste op ‘n globale skaal. Die aard van hierdie “proses” onderskei dit van soortgelyke prosesse rakende ontwikkeling en mededingendheid waarmee dit menigmaal verwar word. Stede word dikwels beskou as die ideale (en mees waarskynlike) gebiede waar innovasie in ’n geglobaliseerde wêreld kan plaasvind, vanweē hul unieke karaktereienskappe en die uitdagings wat hulle in die gesig staar. In die verlede was stede slegs belas met die belange van hul inwoners, maar hedendaagse stede moet dikwels ander uitdagings, soos strawwe kompetisie vir beleggings, kennis en toeriste, teen ander stede die hoof bied. Terselfdertyd, word daar van stede in die 21ste eeu verwag om stedelike kulture te ontwikkel wat bevorderlik is vir ’n kennis-gebaseerde ekonomie en leefstyl. Teen hierdie agtergrond was die doel van hierdie tesis om die aard van die verhouding tussen innovasie en stede te bepaal (hoofstuk 1). Die gekose navorsingsmetodologie het die kritiese analise van kernkonsepte behels, naamlik stede (hoofstuk 2), innovasie (hoofstuk 3) en die verhouding tussen stede en innovasie in die kennisekonomie (hoofstuk 4). Op grond van hierdie analise, het die navorser aanbevelings en voorstelle rakende innovasie-beleide in stede gepostuleer en geformuleer (hoofstuk 5). Op hierdie manier, kon die grondslag gelê word vir die toekomstige ontwikkeling van ’n beleid vir innovasie in ontwikkelende stede (hoofstuk 6).
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DI, ROCCO LAURA. "The role of geographic knowledge in sub-city level geolocation algorithms." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Genova, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11567/941686.
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Geolocation of microblog messages has been largely investigated in the lit-
erature. Many solutions have been proposed that achieve good results at the
city-level. Existing approaches are mainly data-driven (i.e., they rely on a
training phase). However, the development of algorithms for geolocation at
sub-city level is still an open problem also due to the absence of good training
datasets. In this thesis, we investigate the role that external geographic know-
ledge can play in geolocation approaches. We show how di)erent geographical
data sources can be combined with a semantic layer to achieve reasonably
accurate sub-city level geolocation. Moreover, we propose a knowledge-based
method, called Sherloc, to accurately geolocate messages at sub-city level, by
exploiting the presence in the message of toponyms possibly referring to the
speci*c places in the target geographical area. Sherloc exploits the semantics
associated with toponyms contained in gazetteers and embeds them into a
metric space that captures the semantic distance among them. This allows
toponyms to be represented as points and indexed by a spatial access method,
allowing us to identify the semantically closest terms to a microblog message,
that also form a cluster with respect to their spatial locations. In contrast to
state-of-the-art methods, Sherloc requires no prior training, it is not limited
to geolocating on a *xed spatial grid and it experimentally demonstrated its
ability to infer the location at sub-city level with higher accuracy.
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Szymczak, Ted C. "A profile of Polish urban dwellers their knowledge of and attitude towards the gospel /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.
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Klaasen, Ina T. "Knowledge-based design : developing urban & regional design into a science /." Delft : Delft University Press, 2004. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0607/2005377632.html.
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Lam, Wai-kuen Rita. "Knowledge sharing in a University : a case study /." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2004. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31457253.
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Best, Gary F. "The social construction of a city-university relationship : a case study concerning shared cultural knowledge between city and university administrators /." The Ohio State University, 1996. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487940665437395.
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PACHOULAS, LAMPROS. "OPENNESS AND CITY. A public square and its surroundings as a tool to break the consumerist approach of the city." Thesis, KTH, Stadsbyggnad, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-297406.
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Jacobson, Alma. "A Cohesive Downtown from a Knowledge City Perspective - A Study in Urban Planning." Thesis, Tekniska Högskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, JTH, Byggnadsteknik, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-19870.
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The escalating urbanization process has given rise to various complications in the urban structure. One of the major issues is the one concerning urban cohesion. As modern cities are facing a transformation from industrial to knowledge societies, many aspects have to be taken into consideration in the planning of cities. This thesis aims to study the significance of a cohesive city centre from a social and spatial point of view, and to understand modern cities’ development towards innovative Knowledge Cities. The objective is to present proposals for how a unification of a fragmented downtown can be made possible seen from a Knowledge City perspective. The two main research questions of this thesis are answered by literary reviews of existing theories in urban planning, by a case study of the downtown area in the Swedish city of Jönköping, and finally also by a design proposal showing on how urban cohesiveness can be obtained from a Knowledge City perspective. If cities are to become successful knowledge cities they have to promote culture, attractiveness and above all an innovative urban environment. Innovation is mainly achieved by so called “innovation engines” – simple urban elements, such as a café or a library. For innovation to emerge, human interaction and meetings have to occur in the urban environment, why innovation engines are key factors in the development towards knowledge cities. As human interaction is maximized in the simple meetings between people, added interaction possibilities are enabled in public spaces such as a square or a pedestrian street. Public spaces are used as a tool for assembling people in the city. They have positive impact on the city only when they are part of a whole, and works as a network system in the urban structure. This is why urban cohesiveness is essential in the planning of modern cities. Public space is a fundamental feature in the urban structure, endorsing coherence, urban quality and human affiliation, making it an essential element if a city is to be coherent. Cohesion in public spaces can be regulated by the design and planning of cities and either stimulate or dampen the public areas. Gathering people creates opportunities for people to interact on an individual level and thereby stimulate each other, and it is people that need to be gathered rather than buildings. Urban activities and the complementarity between public spaces needs to promote social dynamics, which in turn enhances the urban experience, enables urban cohesion and minimizes social exclusion and urban fragmentation.
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Carrera, Fabio 1961. "City knowledge : an emergent information infrastructure for sustainable urban maintenance, management and planning." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/28790.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2004.Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-256).
(cont.) updates. It produces plan-ready information, by exploiting the self-serving and opportunistic pursuit of instant return-on-investment by frontline offices. Thanks to its emergent qualities, City Knowledge engenders unexpected plan-demanding situations, where the ability to conduct second-order analyses leads to deeper knowledge of our cities. In the end, this dissertation proposes a paradigmatic shift by recommending that information be considered as a bonafide infrastructure and be consequently treated with the same attention that cities reserve to other infrastructures such as utilities and roads. It proposes that communicative planners become catalysts of this transformation away from the "hunting-and- gathering" of urban data and toward the "farming" of municipal information.
Recent advances in geo-spatial technologies, together with a steady decline in their cost, have inspired many spontaneous bottom-up municipal GIS initiatives aimed at improving many aspects of urban maintenance, management or planning. Some communities have institutionalized top-down citywide urban information systems with limited results, due to many organizational and institutional factors. Despite some encouraging progress, comprehensive urban information systems are still not commonplace and planners and decision makers still struggle to acquire the rich information that they need to conduct in-depth analyses and to make important decisions. This dissertation suggests a plausible strategy and several practical tactical solutions to set municipalities on a trajectory leading to City Knowledge. The concept of City Knowledge is introduced by first presenting numerous case studies ranging from the maintenance of the canals in Venice, Italy, to tree management in Cambridge to planning for Worcester, Massachusetts. Each of the cases reveals some lessons about City Knowledge, contributing to the identification of fourteen desirable qualities and consequently to the distillation of the six foundations of City Knowledge: (1) the "middle-out" approach; (2) informational jurisdictions; (3) fine-grained, distributed data management; (4) sustainable updates; (5) information sharing and (6) interagency coordination. The middle-out approach combines the virtues of top-down rigor and reliability with the bottom-up qualities of energy and creativity. Being an emergent system, City Knowledge leverages the dominant plan-demanded mode of data acquisition to gradually and inexpensively accumulate high-return data and to ensure sustainable, low-cost
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Ncoyini, Samuel. "Factors that influence knowledge management systems to improve knowledge transfer in local government: a case study of Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/1918.
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The demand for improved service delivery requires new approaches and attitudes from local government. One of the ways this can be achieved is to focus on continuous improvement by driving innovation and lessons learnt from the municipalities’ past successes and failures. For local government authorities to rethink service delivery, they need to find better ways to share information assets, business processes and staff expertise with their citizens and business partners. The lack of Knowledge Management (KM) and, therefore, a low level of information and knowledge transfer in the public services have been identified as two of the main contributors to poor service delivery. The implementation of knowledge transfer process is one of the factors that will impact on the improvement of service delivery. The main purpose of this research study was to investigate how knowledge management systems can be used to improve the knowledge transfer at Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality (BCMM). The research study focused on knowledge transfer within the Municipality as the general area of research. The objective of this study was to produce critical success factors that would improve knowledge management systems and knowledge transfer among employees at BCMM, which would ultimately improve service delivery.
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Siqoko, Kolisa. "An investigation of knowledge management practices in the Old Mutual, Buffalo City Metropole branch." Thesis, Port Elizabeth Technikon, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/252.
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The study has sought to examine knowledge management practice in the Old Mutual, Buffalo City Metropole. The study has been conducted against the backdrop of measuring how far South African companies are in applying Knowledge Management (KM) tools and techniques to improve their competitive advantage. The study was conducted based on the assumption that insurance companies in South Africa are at the forefront in the use and application of technology. Various concepts are defined throughout the study. In reviewing literature for example, the study introduces the reader to various theories, views and approaches to KM. The most significant of these are the cultural and social systems approach on one hand and the product or process approach on the other. The study relied on the use of a variety of data collection methods such as questionnaires, interviews and participant observation for the purposes of collecting primary data. From the primary data collected, it was discovered that the largest number of responses came from marketing, sales and customer services departments. The employees have limited flexibility in terms of decision making and team work, due to the rigidity of tasks. The findings revealed that the company has a loosely structured infrastructure, where each strategic business unit (SBU) manages its own IT tools and documents. All these underlying aspects are not conducive to the promotion of and growth of KM in any company. The final chapter concludes with a model for KM implementation and the procedures to be followed to ensure that the practice adds value to the company.
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Yeung, Kin-ho, and 楊建豪. "Power-knowledge in district-based planning : the case of regeneration in Kowloon City District." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/206568.
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For the past decade, Hong Kong’s redevelopment strategy has been dictated by property-led urban regeneration. This approach is highly controversial as it often neglects the voices of people in the plan-making process. The growing desire for transparency and public involvement in the city’s governance system prompted the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government to introduce broad-based public engagement (PE) procedures to its institutional framework. In 2011, the new Urban Renewal Strategy (URS) endorsed a “People First, Districtbased, Public Participatory” approach to strengthen urban renewal at the district-level. Subsequently, the pilot District Urban Renewal Forum (DURF) was established in Kowloon City (KC) to foster a bottom-up, district-based approach to urban regeneration planning.
This change in Hong Kong’s urban regeneration strategy is highly relevant to Foucault’s concept of governmentality that emphasize on how contemporary arrangements and structures are developed to govern society, which raise important questions when it comes to the distribution of power and knowledge in the planmaking process. Foucault argued that knowledge is power and vice versa, but it is rather difficult to determine where power truly resides in the plan-making process. This dissertation will examine the power-knowledge nexus in the first pilot KC DURF programme, and analyze whether the newly implemented procedures will set unprecedented improvements in carrying out urban regeneration.
Hung Hom and To Kwa Wan in Kowloon City District are chosen as case studies to investigate whether the proposed mitigation measures in the URP for KC could truly respond to residents and key stakeholders’ concerns, needs and aspirations, which are key knowledge inputs documented in the Planning Study (PS), Social Impact Assessments (SIA) and PE Reports. The issues of incompatible land uses in Hung Hom and To Kwa Wan sub-districts demonstrate that key public comments advocating for stronger social renewal initiatives are clearly neglected in the URP for KC. Despite efforts to promote a people-centred model, the analysis reveals that power derives from two main sources: the existing power structures of the KC DURF within Hong Kong’s current top-down institutional framework and authorized knowledge, i.e. situated knowledge generated from dialogues of engagement activities.
The study further reveals important gaps between the nexus of power and knowledge in the pilot KC DURF framework where authorized knowledge is identified as an exploit of professional knowledge to justify the rationality of powerholders in districtbased planning. To justify discrepancy between the initial aspirations from the local community and the mitigation measures proposed in the final plan, responses from government officials are provided to rationalize what is deemed acceptable based on a rigid set of values and requirements set out in the existing institutional framework. The DURF is, nonetheless, a form of governmentality; and the incompetence for key stakeholders to affect plan-making decisions asserts the limits of power for the layman citizen. These factors subsequently contribute to the loopholes in the pilot KC DURF programme.published_or_final_version
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Bischof, Stefan, Andreas Harth, Benedikt Kämpgen, Axel Polleres, and Patrik Schneider. "Enriching integrated statistical open city data by combining equational knowledge and missing value imputation." Elsevier, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.websem.2017.09.003.
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Several institutions collect statistical data about cities, regions, and countries for various purposes. Yet, while access to high quality and recent such data is both crucial for decision makers and a means for achieving transparency to the public, all too often such collections of data remain isolated and not re-useable, let alone comparable or properly integrated. In this paper we present the Open City Data Pipeline, a focused attempt to collect, integrate, and enrich statistical data collected at city level worldwide, and re-publish the resulting dataset in a re-useable manner as Linked Data. The main features of the Open City Data Pipeline are: (i) we integrate and cleanse data from several sources in a modular and extensible, always up-to-date fashion; (ii) we use both Machine Learning techniques and reasoning over equational background knowledge to enrich the data by imputing missing values, (iii) we assess the estimated accuracy of such imputations per indicator. Additionally, (iv) we make the integrated and enriched data, including links to external data sources, such as DBpedia, available both in a web browser interface and as machine-readable Linked Data, using standard vocabularies such as QB and PROV.
Apart from providing a contribution to the growing collection of data available as Linked Data, our enrichment process for missing values also contributes a novel methodology for combining rule-based inference about equational knowledge with inferences obtained from statistical Machine Learning approaches. While most existing works about inference in Linked Data have focused on ontological reasoning in RDFS and OWL, we believe that these complementary methods and particularly their combination could be fruitfully applied also in many other domains for integrating Statistical Linked Data, independent from our concrete use case of integrating city data.
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Ringel, Felix. "Knowledge in time : an ethnography of hope and the future in Germany's fastest shrinking city." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610578.
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Assmann, Dirk [Verfasser], and Gabriel S. [Akademischer Betreuer] Lee. "City Growth: The Role of Knowledge Spillovers and Entrepreneurship / Dirk Assmann. Betreuer: Gabriel S. Lee." Regensburg : Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1096751798/34.
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Alotaibi, Nasir. "Saudi Arabia’s Media City Implementation: A Delphi-Method Examination of Innovation Challenges and Knowledge Solutions." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för teknik och samhälle (TS), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-44758.
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Anderson, Donald Nathan. "In Cisio Scribere: Labor, Knowledge, and Politics of Cabdriving in Mexico City and San Francisco." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/556879.
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This dissertation investigates cabdriving as a form of spatial work, involved in the production and reproduction of social space through three interrelated products: physical movement from place to place; the experience of movement, of connection made between places; and the articulation of these places, movements, and experiences with visions of society and the social. The particular forms of knowledge involved in this work, and the politics in which taxicabs are entangled, are explored through fieldwork conducted in two very different cities: Mexico City and San Francisco, California. The political context of cabdriving knowledge changes as new technologies are introduced into the cab to reframe the relationship between the interior of the cab (where passengers and drivers interact) and the exteriors (urban and informational spaces) through which it passes. In Mexico City, interviews with libre, base, and sitio cabdrivers about their knowledge and work strategies revealed three aspects of cabdriving as a rhythm analytical practice: 1) the points of confluence, i.e., the spatial pattern or method by which drivers link up with passengers; 2) the temporal and monetary patterns of constraint the occupation puts on drivers; and 3) the sense of the city which emerges, as this is described by drivers. Each form of taxicab has different patterns of movement, and different spatial and technological means of establishing contact with customers, which results in differing experiences and strategies elaborated by drivers. In San Francisco, interviews were conducted with taxi, limousine, and "ridesharing" drivers on the impact of smartphone-enabled "e-hailing" technology. The term allegorithm (the productive co-deployment of a socially relevant allegorical script and a software-mediated algorithm) is borrowed from gaming studies to describe how interfaces reframe the cab-riding experience. Of particular interest is the emergence of "ridesharing," or the overcab (a cab-riding experience which is superior to the experience of riding in a cab). The effectiveness of the overcab’s reframing project depends on the acceptance and performance by participants of the "overcab" narrative. There are indications that the transcendence of the overcab is fragile, and that cracks are developing in the experiences of both drivers and passengers, due to continuing tensions which the overcab has failed to resolve, or which have been introduced as part of its regulating mechanism.
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Abdalla, Mohammed Ammar. "Environmental knowledge and city perception, with a focus on the energy link to environmental aesthetics." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/26845.
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Architecture exists to respond to environmental problems that affect human life, many of which are directly related to energy principles. In the early stages of man's adaptation, these challenges set the criteria for indigenous architecture. Certain formal solutions became recognised as more reliable in meeting environmental potentials and a deep appreciation of these emerged. This persisted even as the evolution of the intellect allowed man to move away from direct, survivalist responses to the environment into a more symbol -based and mutual relationship. The process of change, however, has developed into one of internationalisation. In Libya, the subject area of this thesis, building techniques are used that have no relevance to the environment. This fracture between the natural and artificial has created many problems. This thesis will research these accumulated problems by studying the city image, which lead the author to assert the role of energy in setting the criteria for environmental quality.
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Karlsson, Viktoria, and Emma Mörlin. "Participatory climate research : impacts on the medium-sized city Kota, India." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema Miljöförändring, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-157311.
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This thesis aims at increasing knowledge about climate research in developing countries and how research can be constructed, implemented and evaluated to be useful for local capacity building and climate action. This has been achieved by studying a concrete research project in Kota, India. Semi-structured interviews and one workshop has been conducted with researchers, stakeholders and one research financier to identify their perspectives on the studied research project as well as future participatory climate research. In the analysis, some identified opportunities for climate research were local knowledge and engagement, stakeholder awareness about the studies issues, a common platform to discuss research outcomes and research that presents possible solutions to local problems. Identified barriers were a lack of representation of specific groups, organizational problems among stakeholders, complex texts and a lack of policies or guidelines. This thesis also suggests some important factors to consider when performing participatory projects, such as planning the project carefully with a thought about timing, evaluation and involvement of many societal groups.
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Dombroski, Jane Elizaabeth. "An evaluation of the effectiveness of an urban environmental education program for inner city children." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/40863.
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see documentThis study measured gain in environmental knowledge, attitudes, and behavioral intentions during an environmental education program for inner city children. The ten-day day camp consisted of environmental education activities implemented at local community natural areas and more distant field trip locations. Three "pencil-and-paper" tests were administered in a pretest/posttest fashion; one measuring environmental knowledge, one measuring attitudes, and another measuring behavioral intentions. Raw test scores revealed children gained in knowledge, but already possessed very positive environmentally sensitive attitudes and behavioral intentions before the program. Children exhibited little gain in knowledge, attitudes, and behavioral intentions in a statistical sense. Parents responded very favorably to the program, indicating their reasons for enrolling their children were well satisfied. A small amount of support was found suggesting that the more parents indicated they were involved with their children about the program content, the less their children learned. Moderate support was found suggesting that children learned more when their parents enrolled them to learn about nature. A small amount of support was found suggesting test scores increased as the number of previous family nature visits increased. Finally, little support was found for a positive relationship between the level of children's interest in nature and the amount they learned. It is suggested that future environmental education programs for inner city children should be long-term, helping guide children through the entire environmental education process. Future program evaluation should include a pilot test of the program and evaluation instruments and also employ a variety of assessment instruments and procedures.
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Fisher, Karen Toni, and Karen Fisher@anu edu au. "Meeting Urban Water Needs: Exploring Water Governance and Development in Tagbilaran City, the Philippines." The Australian National University. Faculty of Science, 2006. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20061221.100356.
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Water is subject to uncertainty of supply (quantity) and quality, which affects decisions determining allocation, use and management for human and environmental functions. Tensions concerning water and its allocation reflect conflicting ideologies influencing development. Focusing on water governance enables the allocation and management of environmental resources and tensions in development to be explored.
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This research has as its central argument the notion that water governance is conceptualised differently at different scales and as discourses become localised, hybrid forms emerge. Place-specific hybrid governance systems which are cognisant of transformations in the local political economy and environmental characteristics can be useful in managing risks and uncertainty about water supply. This is particularly so where local knowledge about formal institutions regulating water governance and environmental conditions is low. This is because hybrid systems are more likely to be responsive to local needs than national or supra-national discourse allows. However, there are limitations with hybrid systems, particularly in terms of allocating responsibility and risk, which require effective coordination.
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The aim of this research is to uncover local perspectives and knowledge about water governance and hybridity in urban environments which can be used to shape and influence urban water management. I explore the hybridisation of water governance by considering the problem of ensuring urban water supply in a developing country context. The research was undertaken as an inductive, qualitative inquiry comprising a case study in Tagbilaran City, Bohol, the Philippines. Tagbilaran is a small sized city with a population of approximately 87,000 people. The city is experiencing relatively rapid population growth along with urban development and expansion in which water demand already outstrips water supply. Ethnographic, interpretive techniques were used to distil local perspectives about water governance which are juxtaposed with official policy and discourse. Research methods included participant observation, semi-structured interviews with government employees, government officials and key informants from other organisations. Other methods included structured household surveys and the use of documentary sources.
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This research reveals how formal approaches to urban water governance systems have been shaped by international development thinking and discourse. Current strategies to manage water emphasise an integrated approach which encompasses environmental, social and economic domains. At the same time neoliberal discourse exerts a powerful influence over how urban water is conceptualised and managed, and who should be responsible for its provision. The case study allows for the exploration of the ways in which development and water governance discourse have been articulated and the consideration of the local factors which have enabled the emergence of hybrid water supply services embedded in a localised hybrid governance system.
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I show how water governance in Tagbilaran is hybrid because of the global-local dialectic that informs policy and practice, public-private engagement in water provision, and inter-jurisdictional water sharing. I also demonstrate how households experiences of water supply and their physical environment influence decisions about household allocation and perceptions about human-environment interactions and water security. As a consequence, knowledge about water governance held at the household level emerges as localised and specific in which everyday experience shapes ideas around responsibility and agency such that local forms of government and engagement have more meaning for households than national and supra-national discourse. The juxtaposition of formal, bureaucratic governance institutions with household knowledge exposes multiple understandings of water governance and water supply in Tagbilaran.
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The findings of this research reveal that household conceptions of water governance are divorced from formal conceptions of water governance. There is a risk, therefore, that an over-emphasis on network expansion without due consideration of water resource management may lead to greater levels of consumption. This will continue to place pressure on resources and may ultimately lead to water insecurity. This is because local knowledge of the formal political, economic, and administrative institutions is limited at the household level. Therefore, this research argues that local perspectives and knowledge need to be incorporated more into management and policy decision making. Alternatively, greater effort needs to be made to communicate formal policy to the household level.
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Hasirci, Hediye Nur. "A Comparative Evaluation Of Knowledge And Income Spillovers: The Case Of Antalya And Izmir City Regions." Thesis, METU, 2008. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12610075/index.pdf.
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The empirical literature in economic geography has recently dealt with two fundamental questions, whether growth or innovation is spatially bounded or not and how far the economic growth is determined by knowledge. In this thesis, relations between economic growth and knowledge relation is discussed from spatial spillovers perspective with the help of spatial econometric techniques. Adding city-region discussion to the existing literature, the thesis aims to evaluate the economic growth and knowledge spillovers from a broader perspective. The selected cases are two dynamic and rapidly transforming centers, namely izmir and Antalya City-regions and the results suggest the strong relevance of proximity effects and spillovers in both of the cases. Moreover, the analyses show that growth and knowledge spillovers operate in opposite directions rather than a parallel pattern as expected in Knowledge Based Economy discussions.
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Levitt, Linda Susan. "A questionnaire to assess knowledge of seasonal affective disorder among nurses in an urban Manitoba city." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/mq23382.pdf.
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HIROSE, Ayano, and 文乃 廣瀬. "A Knowledge-Creating City : The Case of Mitaka City." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10086/19332.
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RAUCH, NADIA. "Architecture and Knowledge Modelling for Smart City." Doctoral thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2158/957131.
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This thesis presents and details a smart-city ontology, called KM4City that is a knowledge model for the city and its data.
The knowledge model pursues the objective of interconnect data gathered in the city, to transform it into semantically interoperable information.
In fact, a variety of Open/Closed Data information sources are available from public administrations ranging from structural, statistical to real-time information. In most cases, this information has different formats, presents inconsistencies, incompleteness, and their semantic description is not sufficient to automatically compose them to have integrated global information of the area.
Smart City ontology is not yet standardized, and a lot of research work is needed to identify models that can easily support the data reconciliation (essential in order to effectively interconnected data to each other), the management of the complexity, to allow the data reasoning. In this thesis, a system for data ingestion and reconciliation of smart cities related aspects as road graph, services available on the roads, traffic sensors etc., is also proposed. The system allows managing a big data volume of data coming from a variety of sources considering both static and dynamic data. These data are mapped to the presented KM4City ontology, and stored into an RDF-Store where they are available for applications via SPARQL queries, to provide new services to the citizens via specific applications of public administration and enterprises.
In this thesis, the results that could be obtained by applying the ontology created, are also shown, which allowed to combine all data provided by the city of Florence and the Tuscany region including: maps, traffic status, weather conditions and forecast, parking status, real time sensors on public and private vehicles, point of interests in the city as museums, monuments, restaurants, hotels, hospitals, etc. but also statistical data like travel accidents, per street per year. Finally, an application that take advantage of the created repository and ontology, will be shown, which implement new integrated services related to mobility.
The dissertation also presented the work performed about reconciliation algorithms and their comparative assessment and selection.
The KM4City ontology realized in this thesis, has also been involved in the activity of DISIT lab mainly related to a number of smart city projects, especially among them Sii-Mobility which aims at collecting and exploiting data by solving the above mentioned problems and providing integrated data to be used for implementing smart city services for citizens mobility, public administrations, and SMEs.
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Hsieh, Pei-Ling, and 謝佩凌. "Building a Knowledge city - The case of 22@Barcelona plan." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/65tp8s.
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碩士國立中山大學
劇場藝術學系碩士班
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The political and economic environment has transformed due to trends in globalization, cities has gone beyond national boundaries and became the most important nodes in the network of global affiares, and unfold its power and influence. Cities around the world are eager to learn from banchmark cities, and look for appropriate narratives that brings the driving force for innovation. After examining theories and city models, scholars have proposed that city innovation derives from education and knowledge. The current research aims to explore a “knowledge-based” concept of a city, how it transforms and shapes into a future knowledge city. Based on the case of Barcelona, which positioned itself as the “City of Knowledge” with its advantages in cultural and arts. The 22@Barcelona Project was implemented in Poblenou since 2000. It is aimed to become the new model for knowledge cities, by planning and promoting the 5 strategic industry clusters: media, ICT, energy, Med Tech and design. These clusters are designed through five nodes, which are “the government, educational and research institutions, corporate companies, financial institutions and intermediaries mechanism”. The city attracts talents by its government, educational and research institutions, corporate companies and intermediary institutions; and retains talents through the government, financial institutions, corporate companies and intermediary institutions. The cluster networks link local university campuses with research institutes, build up a supportive environment for innovation and entrepreneurs; intermediary institutions are established by the public or private enterprises, join efforts in projects such as intellectual property and technology transfer, employment promotion and international investment. In addition, Barcelona is enthusiastically developing into an international convention and exhibition center, bidding for international events related to urban strategy and knowledge innovation, for example the Mobile World Congress 2014, in order to make Barcelona a global attraction for knowledge workers.
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Liao, Shiuang-chi, and 廖軒琦. "Knowledge Management through Information Technology：A Case Study of Computerized Knowledge Management System in Taipei City Government." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/93157516459495104280.
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碩士世新大學
行政管理學系
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There are three purposes of this study(1)what were that knowledge management process? (2) what was information technology plays role in these process? (3) A Case Study of Computerized Knowledge Management System in Taipei City Government. According to the result of the substantial evidence by e-mail questionnaire, users were satisfied with system quality, information quality, service quality, user satisfaction and net benefits about that Knowledge Management System. But the system didn’t enforce to use, the utilization of system is low. According to the above, this dissertation suggests mainly(1) to clarify the system location, (2) to developing system usage.
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Cheng, Yu-Hsin, and 鄭宇芯. "The study of ECC knowledge, attitude for parents in HsinChu city." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/kg79st.
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碩士高雄醫學大學
口腔衛生科學研究所碩士在職專班
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Background: According to the Taiwan National Health Promotion Administration in 2011 survey, Taiwan 5-6 year-old children deft index was 5.44 , the prevalence rate of dental caries in 5 to 6 years old children was 79.32%.Therefore, early childhood caries is currently the most important disease of children , parents and pediatric dentistry academics have to pay attention on children &;apos;&;apos;s oral health. The purpose: The aim of this study were to assess the oral health status and find out the risk factors of caries of children in Hsinchu city who under 6 years-old children, and to evaluate the relationship between the oral hygiene behavior, eating habit and parents knowledge, attitudes of dental caries. Method: This research survey samples collection focused on preschool children aged from 0 to 6 in Hsinchu city. The sample number were 350 children,312 children had completely surveyed, the respond rate were 89.14%.Collected data from oral health inspection、 food intake、 tooth brush and parents oral hygiene knowledge and attitude were include. All data were coded by SPSS 19.0, and used T-test and ANOVA to analyzed. Results: The number of caries was 0.92±1.93,deft index was 2.08±2.9, early childhood caries prevalence was 32% and the filling rate was 53%。The deft index was statistically significantly different by age, parental education, speed of eating, sleeping with baby’s bottle, children cleaning teeth performer and parent’s oral health knowledge and attitude scores Conclusions: This study found that preschool children’s deft index increased progressively by lower parental oral health knowledge and attitudes, feeding time is longer, often sleeping with baby’s bottle and who like to eat sweets and sugary drinks, lower frequency of brush teeth and without the use of fluoride. Advocacy correct feeding habits, oral hygiene methods and children under five years old children free of fluoride to improve early childhood caries early-onset problems.Advocacy correct feeding habits, oral hygiene care and children under five years old have free of fluoride application twice a year to decrease early childhood caries problems.
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黃盛榮. "A study on elementary school teacher’s knowledge management in Kaohsiung city." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/00841843799072851580.
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碩士國立高雄師範大學
工業科技教育學系
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The purpose of this study was, first, reveal the status quo in Kaohsiung city of elementary school teachers’ knowledge management. Secondly, to differentiate elementary school teachers’ cognition about knowledge management due to variations in background and environment. Third, to offer suggestions to school for further study in knowledge management. The study used surveying as a major research method. The researcher designed a questionnaire about the status quo of elementary school teachers’ knowledge management. In total, 740 copies of questionnaire were distributed to 34 schools in Kaohsiung city . Among them, 585 copies of valid questionnaire were collected; the return rate was 79%. The collected data was then processed and analyzed with mean, percentage, t-test and one-way ANOVA. Some findings of the study are as follows: 1.The status quo of elementary school teachers’ knowledge management was above average, with a high level in “knowledge application” and a low level in “knowledge sharing”. 2.Teachers with a higher education background show a stronger cognition about knowledge management. 3.Adminwastrative staff has a stronger cognition than teachers about knowledge management. 4.Teachers who are frequent computer users have a stronger cognition than teachers who seldom use a computer. Finally, thwas study submits suggestions to adminwastrative departments in education, schools and elementary school teachers in hope of offering references on knowledge management.
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Chao, Pi-Fen, and 趙碧芬. "Professional knowledge for inclusion within early childhood teachers in Kaohsiung city." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/14020080140999004157.
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碩士國立臺東大學
特殊教育學系碩士在職專班
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The aim of this study was to investigate the current status of the professional knowledge of the teachers of early childhood inclusive education in Kaohsiung county area. In this study, a survey method, based on the "Survey for Measuring that Amount of Professional Knowledge Teachers of early Childhood Inclusive Education Possess" by Shu-Ju Huang, was employed. Total 237 public kindergarten teachers in Kaohsiung county area participated in this survey. Among those questionnaires, 209 effective samples were collected with a survey recycle rate of 88%. Statistical methods, such as frequency distribution, percentage, average, one-way ANOVA, then, were applied for data analyses. The results of this research were as follows. 1. Most of those teachers acknowledge the importance of professional knowledge toward inclusive education. 2. The personal backgrounds of those teachers display a significant factor into the attitude toward the professional knowledge of inclusive eduction. 3. The professional knowledge is regarded as a necessity to teachers of early childhood inclusive education. 4. Different years in teaching of inclusion education, teachers of different special education classes, did not display much difference in their professional knowledge and their need for professional knowledge. 5. Different age, different years in teaching of inclusion education, teachers of different special education classes, did not display much difference in their professional knowledge and their need for professional knowledge. 6. The professional knowledge the teacher possessed and the need for professional knowledge displayed positive correlation. 7. The professional knowledge the teacher should possess displayed major predictability toward the need for professional knowledge. We gave suggestions to early education administrative institutions, teachers ofkindergarten inclusive education, future researchers to serve as reference according to the results of this research.
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Reis, Inês Filipa Coutinho. "A knowledge-based decision support system for sustainable city livability evaluation." Master's thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/14605.
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The real estate industry is an important indicator of national economies and is
influenced by the environment in which it operates. Several countries were
seriously affected by the most recent international financial crisis, including
Portugal. Nevertheless, it is still an interesting area to invest in, in spite of
the challenges cities may face nowadays that influence their sustainable
livability. For this reason, it seems logical to develop and apply methodologies aimed at
evaluating sustainable city livability. It is worth noting, however, that there are
methodological limitations typically associated with the majority of the current
applications (e.g. how to select and weight criteria in the evaluation), which have been
hampering the progress. Hence, this dissertation aims to develop a knowledge-based
decision support system to evaluate sustainable city livability, in a transparent and
informed way. To achieve this goal, it combines cognitive mapping techniques and the
Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). The advantages and limitations of this integrative
evaluation model are also analyzed and discussed.O mercado imobiliário é um indicador importante das economias mundiais e é influenciado pelo ambiente em que opera. Muitos foram os países seriamente afetados pela mais recente crise financeira internacional, incluindo Portugal. Não obstante, este continua a ser uma área de investimento interessante, ainda que, hoje em dia, as cidades possam enfrentar desafios que influenciam a sua habitabilidade sustentável. Por essa razão, parece lógico o desenvolvimento e a aplicação de metodologias que permitam avaliar a sustentabilidade habitacional de uma área urbana. No entanto, limitações metodológicas comuns à maioria das aplicações (e.g. processo de seleção e ponderação dos critérios de avaliação) têm dificultado os progressos alcançados. Assim, a presente dissertação pretende desenvolver um “termómetro” de habitabilidade sustentável que, de forma informada e transparente, permita apoiar a tomada de decisão no mercado imobiliário urbano, através da combinação do uso integrado de técnicas de mapeamento cognitivo e da metodologia Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). As vantagens e as limitações do uso deste sistema integrativo de avaliação serão também analisadas e discutidas.
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CHIEN, LI-HUA, and 簡莉華. "A Study on Consumers’ Emotional Perception and Knowledge Moving of City Art Café in Daan Dist., Taipei City." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/y4t2kb.
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碩士國立臺北教育大學
社會與區域發展學系碩士班
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The purpose of this study is to realize the distribution and the development of Taipei city art café, as well as to explore the characteristics and relevance of emotional perception and knowledge moving. All of the samples were from Daan District, Taipei City. In Daan District of Taipei City, art café developed rapidly after 2010. Especially from 2010 to 2012, it was twice amount of increasing café. Within four years, there were 76%, about three-forths of art cafés might be eliminated from the market, and 24% might survive with stable income. In this study, art cafés are classified into three types in five areas. Three types are classical, food-focusing and art exhibition cafés. Classical cafés contain the most amount. Five areas are National Taiwan Normal University & National Taiwan University area, Yongkang area, Zhongxiao Fuxing area, Zhongxiao Yanji area, Fuxing Dunnan area. The most amount are in Zhongxiao Yanji area. Through questionnaires and data analysis, consumers who are from business and service industry, visiting food-focusing cafés often, emphasize classical art. People who stay over 2 hours , at least once a month & spending over 200 dollars each time, enjoy interaction in cafés. People who are 31~40 years old, military & public servants & teachers, with over 50,000 dollars income per month, are highly interested in atmosphere in cafés. People who are over 51 years old, with over 50,000 dollars income per month, staying over 3 hours, love knowledge resonance in art cafés. Knowledge moving and situational story, art appreciation and participation, situational story and confidence creating, all achieve a high degree of positive correlation.It indicates that consumers experience emotional perception of the unique environment in cafés. The experience not only can improve opportunities for consumers to participate in art and cultural activities, but also to create the existence of knowledge moving, and find their self-identity.
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Hsu, Kuei-Fang, and 許貴芳. "The Study of Network Society and Knowledge Government -Taichung city Government Example." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/39723573538163718514.
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(Wei, Hsing-Fang), and 魏杏芳. "Constructing the knowledge map of Creative City Innovative ideas and development models." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/55461200195216481964.
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碩士中華大學
行政管理學系碩士班
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This research explores innovative ideas and development models of “Creative City”, using ZMET(Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique) which is developed in the 1990s by marketing scholar Zaltman .ZMET is a method developed to understand people by eliciting metaphors that reveal important aspects of their underlying mental models with images .Researcher utilized ZMET incorporating one-on-one “in-depth interviews” with six high involvement person in the city .And the study found that the most important elements of creative cities from ZMET interviews are “environment”, “environmental protection” , “life” and “art and culture”. Reviewing the interview process, we found that basically the respondents shape Creative City with environment and culture, rather than technology or economy into consideration. “Friendly urban landscape”, “the unique culture and history” and “the convenience of daily life and work” should be features as required content in Creative City. Therefore, compared with relevant quantitative findings, the conclusions of this study not only can be confirmed , but also provide a richer understanding of the content. In other words, the validity of the application with ZMET which was used to explore people’s ideas of Creative City got an initial proof.
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Chuang, Kun-Ying, and 莊琨瀅. "Investigating Knowledge Networks and the Evolutionary Trends : A Study of Smart City." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/yf7ufd.
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碩士國立臺灣科技大學
科技管理所
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“Smart city” is an important trend that has changed global urban development in recent years through the use of information and communication technologies, combined with knowledge innovation, to bring resilience to the city's social, economic and environmental conditions and to provide a better life for people. However, few articles discussed the growth trajectory of scientific research related to smart cities in the past. Therefore, this study sums up the academic literature of smart cities and aims at gaining a better understanding of the evolution of smart cities, development in different stages and focus of topics. Through the Scopus database, this study collects the relevant academic literature of smart city from 1990 to 2017, and got 1,359 valid samples. By main path analysis, we identify the overall and phased scientific knowledge development from the smart city relevant studies. The other analysis, cluster analysis, helps to identify different major topics in a systematic way. From the results of main path analysis, we found that there are two main contexts of the overall knowledge network. One is “Urban Transformation and Sustainable Development”. The other is “Application of Smart Cities and Technologies”. Both of them contain the concept of social, economic and environmental balance. In different periods, the focus of research on smart cities has been pointed out. From three stages, different perspectives were identified. From 1990 to 2000, the focus was on urban transformation and green trends. From 2001 to 2010, policy roles were added to explore sustainable urban forms and policy planning. From 2011 to 2017, most of studies focused on the application of science and technology in smart cities. With the progress of era, more prominent technological elements, as necessary tools, help to achieve sustainable development. The results of cluster analysis show six important subtopics, including “Smart City and Technology”, “Entrepreneurial and Ecological Urban Development”, “Creative City Planning and Implementation”, “Urban Sustainability Definition and Indicators”, “Urban Sustainability Policy”, “American Urban Policy and Sustainable Development”. In the end, the aforementioned results are integrated and analyzed comparatively to illustrate the contributions made in theory and practice. The scholars aiming at smart city studies can learn more about the knowledge evolution of smart cities efficiently and effectively. Moreover, the results also provide the latest critical issues that policy makers could learn for future practical planning.
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LIN, SHAO-JI, and 林紹璾. "Older Adults Knowledge, Attitude, and Behavior about Dairy Product Consumption in Taichung City." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/smkf7n.
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碩士東海大學
餐旅管理學系
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From national nutrition surveys can be found in the dairy intake of all ages are less than the phenomenon, this study investigated the seniors demographic variables on dairy intake knowledge, attitudes and behavior, and dairy intake of knowledge, attitudes and behavior the relationship between like and dislike and will further explore the factors that intake of dairy products. A total of 466 valid questionnaires, found There was no significant difference between pre-retirement career and gender marital status.and only a portion of the differences in education . Correlation between dairy intake was positively correlated with attitudes toward behavior knowledge, attitude and behavior between each other Knowledge of the dairy intake was positively correlated with intake of behavior, but the intake of dairy products do not have the knowledge of the correlation between intake of attitude. In this study, respondents were summarized favorite dairy intake and exclusion factors, including the order to increase calcium diet, food safety concerns, lactose intolerance, economic factors, health factors, convenience, dairy flavor.
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Liu, Ching-Yu, and 劉清友. "Studies on Nutrition Knowledge and Dietary Behavior ofthe Police officers’ in Tainan City." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/41117495965267378249.
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碩士台南應用科技大學
生活應用科學研究所
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To investigate the Studies on Nutrition Knowledge and Dietary Behavior of the Police officers’ in Tainan City. 1245 copies of questionnaires were delivered to the police officers who services in Tainan city. 1075 valid questionnaires were enrolled. Among those subjects, 988 were male and 87 were female. The ages varied from 20 to 60 years old with average of 40.9 years old. The length of service as a policeman varied from 1 to 40 years with average of 19.6 years. Using software SPSS 12, descriptive statistics, independent sample t-test （t-test）, single factor analysis of variance （one-way ANOVA）, canonical correlation and the simple regression analysis, and were examined by the Pearson coefficient test. 1. Scores of nutrition knowledge were significantly correlated with the ages, length of service as a policeman, body mass index, difference of service unit, state of health, sources of nutrition. 2. The dietary behavior were significantly correlated with the educational level, difference of service unit, and performance character. 3. Regarding the dietary behavior, the balance between six classes of food was significantly correlated with the scores of nutritional knowledge for awareness and function of nutrients, and relation between nutrition and health. Also the diet content was significantly correlated with the scores of nutrition knowledge for definition, awareness, and function of nutrients, and relation between nutrition and health. However, the dietary habit and healthily eating behavior was significantly correlated with the scores of nutrition knowledge for the function of nutrients. Low average scores of nutrition knowledge （44.023%） and dietary behavior （59.564%） demonstrated that the nutrition knowledge was poor and the dietary behavior was decadent for the policemen who serviced in Tainan city. We observed no improvement for the dietary habit and healthily eating behavior despite of the nutrition knowledge for function of nutrients. We recommend that a programmed instruction course by nutrition specialists to improve the dietary behavior of the policemen is mandatory.
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Cheng, Fang-Chi, and 鄭芳枝. "A Correlational Study of Knowledge Managementand School Effectiveness of Elementary Schoolsin Taipei City." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/82493186565345162033.
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碩士國立臺北教育大學
教育政策與管理研究所
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the present situation and relevance of knowledge management and school effectiveness of elementary schools in Taipei City, and compare the difference among elementary school teachers’ perceptions on the aspect of knowledge management and school effectiveness . Moreover, this study makes out the suggestions for improving school effectiveness through knowledge management based on the research results to provide references to educational administration organizations, elementary schools, and the following related researches . Questionnaire investigation is applied in this study. Subjects were 658 teachers in 47 elementary schools filling out the questionnaires made by the researcher. The data is analyzed in statistics way,inclusive of standard deviation, t-tests, One Way ANOVA,Pearson Product-moment correlation,regression model and etc. Main conclusions made up from the research are as the following: 1.Kowledge management is an effective way in which orgnizations create wisdom and effective managing strategies which achieve orgnizations’ goals by acquiring, saving, using, sharing, innovating knowledgement. 2.School effectiveness is that schools function planfully and systematically in order to achieve their educational goals. Schools’ excellent performance can meet the needs of members and expectations of the society. 3.Elementary school teachers in Taipei City have positive perceptions for knowledge management, and ‘’knowledge acquisition’’ is at the best level. 4.Elementary school teachers in Taipei City have positive affirmation for school effectiveness, and ‘’teacher’s teaching’’ is at the best level. 5.In elementary schools in Taipei City, knowledge management and school effectiveness have high correlativity, and this unveils the fact that the better knowledge management is, the higher the school effectiveness will be. 6.Knowledge management can effectively predict the performance of schools, especially the aspect of ‘’the knowledge sharing’’.
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KE, HSU-SHENG, and 柯旭升. "Elementary Teachers’ Information Literacy, Knowledge Management and Lifelong Learning among in Kaohsiung City." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/03033910365809689028.
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碩士國立屏東大學
教育視導與評鑑碩士學位學程
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The study examined the relationships of teacher information literacy, knowledge management and lifelong learning for teachers in public elementary schools in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan. A survey method was conducted and the “Information literacy, Knowledge management and Lifelong learning for Elementary Teachers in Kaohsiung City Questionnaire” was developed based on literature review and related research. Likert 5-Point Scale was utilized in scoring. A stratified random sampling was applied with the population of teachers in public elementary schools in Kaohsiung City in the school year of 2015. 610 teachers received the questionnaires. 589 participants returned the questionnaires and 581 of them were valid, suggesting a valid rate of 98.6%. Data analysis plans included descriptive statistics, Independent Sample t Test, One-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), and Stepwise Multivariate Regression Analysis. Below are findings of data analysis: 1.Elementary teachers indicate moderate to high levels of information literacy, knowledge management and lifelong learning. 2.Male or mster's degree teachers have hatter information literacy. 3.Teachers serve as director or metropolitan area teachers have better knowledge management. 4.Teachers serve as director or metropolitan area teachers have better lifelong learning. 5.Teachers’ information literacy, knowledge management can be explained by lifelong learning. Knowledge utilization is the most important factor to increase teacher’s lifelong learning. Suggestions, implications for teachers and schools, as well as directions for future research are provided.
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Hsu, I.-ling, and 徐宜鈴. "The Study of Global Knowledge and Attitudes of Six Graders of Kaohsiung City." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/91073295392195614893.
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碩士國立中山大學
教育研究所
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The purpose of this study was to determine the current levels of global knowledge and attitudes of sixth grade elementary school students in Kaohsiung City; to compare the differences of students’ global knowledge and their global attitudes between different personal background; to analyze the relations between students’ global knowledge and their global attitudes, and to explore the forecasting abilities of students’ global knowledge and global attitudes on students’ personal background. The field of “global knowledge”, as used in this study, consists of four sub-categories that include world history and geography, global systems, global issues, and cross-cultural understanding. The filed of “global attitudes”, as used in this study, consists of five sub-categories that include the area of interdependence, the human rights, international cooperation, acceptance of people from other countries and a desire for peace, instead of war. The study took into consideration differences in knowledge and attitudes which stemmed from different backgrounds and experiences. The correlations among the knowledge, attitudes, and other variables, i.e., school location, gender, ethnicity, parents’ social economic status, source of information, frequency of going abroad, and tutoring hours for learning English per week were explored. The researcher compiled questionnaires about global knowledge and global attitudes for the sixth graders in Kaohsiung City. The sample was consisted of 790 students with collected 749 valid questionnaires from public primary schools. The data was analyzed by using the SPSS software, Independent t test, One-way ANOVA, Scheff’s method statistical methods ,Pearson Product-moment Correlation, and Stepwise Regression Analysis. The empirical results of the above study were synthesized as follows: (1)The average ratio of correct answers among sixth-graders in the area of global knowledge was 56.45 %, while performance levels across the four sub-fields varied. The best scores were achieved in global issues; the second highest in cross-cultural understanding, the third in global system, and the lowest scores, in world history and geography. (2) On a Likert scale of 1 to 5, the average score on the scale measuring global attitudes was fixed at a positive 4.31. The degree of inclination in attitudes toward five dimensions on the global attitude scale differed. The most positive attitude was toward the area of interdependence; the second favored the human rights; the third indicated international cooperation; the forth was acceptance of people from other countries and the final measurement of student attitudes confirmed a desire for peace, instead of war. (3) Students’ global knowledge and global attitudes were positively correlated. (4) Variables of parents’ social economic status, tutoring hours for learning English per week and school location proved to be reliable predictors of different levels in the global knowledge possessed by the sixth grade students participating in the study. Students who were high parents’ social economic status had higher scores than those who were low. Students whose tutoring hours were longer for learning English, scored higher than those who have not. School location was near to urban area, also scored higher than that was far from urban area. (5)Variables of school location, tutoring hours for learning English per week, parents’ social economic status, and gender proved to be reliable predictors of different levels in the global attitudes possessed by the sixth grade students participating in the study. When school location was nearer to urban area, students’ global attitudes were more positive; Students’ tutoring hours for learning English per week were longer, their global attitudes were more positive. Students with higher parents’ social economic status showed more positive attitudes. Female students’ global attitudes were more positive than males. According to the results of this study, the researcher makes some suggestions for families, primary schools, the society and the future investigations.
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LAN, WAN-CHEH, and 藍婉甄. "Knowledge Utilization of Government-Commissioned Research Projects: A Case Study of Taipei City Government." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/2b3kqz.
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碩士國立臺北大學
公共行政暨政策學系
102
Government need to response to the rapid social development which brought out the public affairs. Since 58th years of ROC, they actively promote the work of research and development which will be handled in accordance with the government commissioned business study or business agency development needs, and commissioned by universities, research institutions, or Government-Commissioned Research Projects etc. They hope to combine theoretical and practice to let policy research to maximize the beneficial. Base on this, they have been cumulate commissioned research results annually, and follow Research, Development and evaluation commission, Executive Yuan, to conduct the statistics of the ministries research. Research proposal was not actually used over half of the proportion of practice in government departments and most of them are used for reference purposes. Above of those, the research take Taipei City Government as example, the study aims to understanding the case of local government commissioned research status and the application of its policy knowledge. The theory explains the gap between practice and academia whether as it says in the Two-Community, and adds the view point of the agent theory as a supplement to the Two-Community. The further steps will explore the research proposal by the government departments and will not be adopted characteristics. It hopes to proposed the recommendations policy of enhance the knowledge of the government departments to use. The researches frameworks are the combination of Two-Communities Theory, Agency Theory, and knowledge Utilization as the basic analysis. It also uses documentary analysis and depth interview to prove the purpose of the research as above. As empirical study discovered, Taipei City Government has commissioned research and obtained the case study which are highly recommend for multiple use recently. And, practitioners and academics are not having the same explanation as the past Two-Community theory which is the extremely big gap between them. The two communities have mutual progress and growth today, and they have more and more opportunity to recognize and linked each other. The research teams are more able to understand the purpose and handle the practitioners commissioned case studies of the research needs. Although the commissioned research wishes and involved motivation are different than principal of the government, this will not failed or affect research teams to accomplish the commission research provided by government departments. However, when they execute the commissioned researches, the report still shows the information asymmetry happen on the agency problems.
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Li, jng-lan, and 李靜嵐. "A Study of the Teachers’ Legal Knowledge in the Elementary School in Taichung City." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/66171442219923170244.
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碩士國立臺中教育大學
教育學系
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Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate the teachers’ legal knowledge in elementary school. For approaching the purpose, reading and analyzing relevant references was the most essential step. The target population of this study was the teachers who serviced in Taichung City. For understanding the current situation teachers’ legal knowledge, this study selected questionnaire surveyed as its research method. The questionnaires developed by researcher were distributed to 750 teachers in Taichung public elementary schools, and 637 copies were returned, which included 29 invalid copies. Thus the total effective copies were 608, and the returned ratio was 81.06%. After analyzing the data by statistical methods of mean，standard deviation, t test, one-way ANOVA and Kai-squared test, the results of this study were as follows: 1.The teachers’ legal knowledge in the elementary schools was rated middle level. 2.The larger the schools scale were, the higher knowledge the teachers had. 3.The teachers with the administrative position facilitated to prompt the teachers’ legal knowledge. 4.Taking law-courses was benefit to enhance the teachers’ knowledge.
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Lin, Hsiang-Chi, and 林湘綺. "The needs of elementary school English teachers' professional knowledge and skills in Taipei City." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/88875757310359525455.
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碩士國立臺北教育大學
兒童英語教育學系碩士班
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ABSTRACT This study aimed to investigate the needs of elementary school English teachers’ professional knowledge and skills, and attempted to analyze the differences in English teachers’ needs of professional knowledge and skills based on teachers’ background variables. The research instrument used for this study was the questionnaire designed by the researcher, and validated by professionals. The subjects were the public elementary school English teachers in Taipei City. The researcher sent 550 questionnaires out, and received 297 valid copies, with the response and returning rate of 54%. These collected data were analyzed through frequency distribution, percentage, one-way ANOVA and t-test. The results of this study were shown as below: 1. The needs of elementary school English teachers’ professional knowledge and skills were distributed in different aspects. 2.The teachers with different kinds of educational background displayed significantly different levels of needs in the categories of “English subject matter knowledge and skills” and “thinking and researching knowledge and skills”. 3.The teachers with different kinds of major background demonstrated significantly different levels of needs in the category of “English subject matter knowledge and skills”. 4.The teachers with different kinds of qualification background exhibited significantly different levels of needs in the categories of “subject knowledge and skills”, “English subject matter knowledge and skills”, “English pedagogical content knowledge”, and “professional knowledge and skills concerning education”. 5.The teachers with different kinds of English teaching years background revealed significantly different levels of needs in the categories of “subject knowledge and skills”, “English subject matter knowledge and skills”, “English pedagogical content knowledge”, “professional knowledge and skills concerning education”, “general curricular or pedagogical knowledge and skills”, and “awareness of educational environment and context”. 6.The teachers with different kinds of job background showed significantly different levels of needs in the category of “awareness of educational environment and context”.
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Shieh, Po-Tsung, and 謝伯聰. "The study of oral implant knowledge and attitude of university strdent in Kaohsiung city." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/78066529139994485690.
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碩士高雄醫學大學
口腔衛生科學研究所
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This study collected data by questionnaire and tried to investigate the relationship between the baseline data, the oral condition, the knowledge and attitude of university students in Kaohsiung City. The sum of the sample size is 8628 students studied in the Kaohsiung medical university （KMU）（2531 students）,the National Kaohsiung Normal University （NKNU）（2650 students）,exception of the medical and dental departments. In the future, the students of university will play an important role in society, so the aim of this study is try to investigate the relationship between the baseline data, the knowledge of the oral change about the extracted teeth area, oral implant knowledge and attitude of university students in Kaohsiung City. This study collected data by questionnaire then analyzed it for the reference of the policy promotion and oral hygiene education about oral implant. The questionnaire was sent to 650 two and three grade of the students by the ratio of the account of the three universities, and the response rate was 88.80%. In the result of this study, of the Kaohsiung university students, 69.3% had heard of oral implants. Dentists (20.2%), newspapers (18.5%) and TV (15.5%) were the most frequently indicated sources of information. The average score of university students’s knowledge of the oral change about the extracted teeth area was 1.52±0.75(the total is 3). The lower family income, the lower score. The score of students who was treated with oral implants is higher than the others. The average score of university students’s oral implant knowledge was 5.36±2.68(the total is 13), bad. Compared by schools, KMU is obviously higher than NSYSU and the NKNU. Compared by the quality of departments, the departments related to medicine is higher than science and liberal arts. The score of students who realized that “if there are no prostheses over the extraction area, it may cause the malocclusion, caries and periodontitis,” was higher than the others. In the result of correlation analysis of oral implant attitude, of the Kaohsiung university students 52.8% evaluated oral implants positively. The major reasons for not wanting dental implants were not realizing oral implant, cost and surgery needed.