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Horváth, Réka. "Cooperation in research and development." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/4024.
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Esta tesis contribuye tanto a la literatura teórica como a la literatura empírica sobre proyectos conjuntos de investigación.En primer lugar analizo el problema que los proyectos conjuntos de investigación no garantizan siempre una cooperación beneficiosa porque las empresas que participan no actuan siempre como seria de esperar. También hay vezes que proyectos conjuntos de investigación que parecen beneficiosos no se realizan. Este fenomeno se puede explicar por la existencia de información asimetrica entre los participantes y el hecho que ellos no pueden firmar contratos sobre la transferencía de conocimiento. Este problema es especialmente importante quando las empresas compitenen el mercado de producto o en otras actividades de I+D y consecuentemente no tienen incentivos propios para transferir su conocimiento. En mi tesis propongo una solución para este problema: las empresas se pueden comprometer con su nivel de deuda para transferir su conocimiento. Demuestro que elnivel de deuda tiene influencia sobre la transferencia de información y que existen unas condiciones sobre la función de benefício que guarantizan que las empresas tengan deuda positiva en equilibrio. Gracias a la posibilidad de financiación por deuda el nivel de trancferencia de información en equilibrio es más alto que en caso de financiación interna. Es decir que la deuda funciona como instrumento de compromiso para compartir información. Por eso contratos sobre el nivel de la deuda sustituyen parcialmente los contratos sobre la transferencia de conocimiento y esta posibilidad aumenta el nivel de bienestar. Tambien presento una prueba empirica de mi modelo y concluyo que empresas con mas deuda participan en proyectos conjuntos de investigación con una probabilidad más alta.
En la segunda parte de mi disertación utilizo tecnicas de microeconometria para investigar la relación entre participación en proyectos conjuntos de investigación y productividad. Hay que tener mucho cuidado con la evaluación de beneficios en productividad de cooperación en I+D porque la cooperación también tiene un impacto sobre los gastos de investigación y la estructura de competencia en la industría. Teniendo en cuenta estos efectos utilizo un panel muy grande de empresas de los EEUU, Japón y la Unión Europea. Encuentro que los proyectos conjuntos de investigación aumentan la productividad de los participantes. También presento resultados que indican indirectamente que empresas en cooperación horizontal de I+D comparten los gastosde la investigación.
En la tercera parte de mi tesis analizo los incentivos para iniciar proyectos conjuntos de investigación. Ademas de investigar los incentivos generales de empresas presto atención a la cooperación horizontal de I+D. Encuentro que empresas en este tipo de cooperación comparten los gastos de de investigación. Este resultado confirma los resultados de la literatura teorica.
The work presented in this dissertation contributes both to the theoretical and the empirical literature on research joint ventures.
Firstly, I analyse the problem that in spite of the advantages mentioned above, research joint ventures do not always guarantee fruitful cooperation as partners may not deliver what is expected from them. Also, there are cases when firms do not start potentially very profitable RJVs. These failures can be due to the problem that firms cannot contract the transfer of the know-how and without the required amount of information disclosure the RJV is not profitable. This problem arises especially when firms are competitors either in the product market or in other R&D activities and therefore do not have the right incentives to share their knowledge. I propose a novel way to alleviate this problem. I show that firms can use their debt level as a commitment to disclose know-how. I find that there is a direct relationship between the debt of a firm and the incentives to disclose its know-how in a RJV. Moreover, I show conditions on the profit functions under which firms, in equilibrium, finance at least partially with debt. Due to the possibility of debt financing, the equilibrium level of disclosure is higher than in case of equity/internal financing. That is, the leverage acts as a commitment device to share knowledge. Hence, contracting on debt levels is sometimes a partial substitute of contracting on disclosure of know-how. Therefore, the possibility of debt financing is likely is improve welfare. I also present empirical evidence that firms with more leveraged financial structure are more likely to participate in horizontal research joint ventures.
In the second section of the thesis I provide a microeconometric analysis of the impact of RJV participation on productivity. Evaluating the overall benefits of cooperative research is very difficult because the cooperation may have an impact both on R&D spending and the competitive structure of the industry. Controling for this effects, I study the productivity implications of research joint venture participation using a large panel of European, Japanese and US companies. I find evidence that joint R&D increases productivity. I also find indirect evidence for cost sharing in horizontal research consortia.
Finally, I analyse the firms' incentives to engage in cooperative research. After conducting a simple investigation into general firm characteristics that are associated with RJV participation, the analysis mainly focuses on horizontal research joint ventures, i.e. when firms engage in cooperative research with their direct competitors. I find evidence for cost sharing in horizontal research joint ventures, which is consistent with the results of the theoretical literature.
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Spenceley, Gene Donald. "Process Development in Steel Research." Thesis, Teesside University, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.517466.
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Parker, George Gian. "Participatory research in community development." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/51869.
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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2000.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study focuses on the use of participatory research in community development settings. Participatory research, which is normally referred to by the abbreviation PR, is a relatively new social research methodology that arose out of a general sense of dissatisfaction with the way that traditional research was being conducted in development. Participatory research consists of a large variety of related research methodologies that emphasize participation, social learning and action. Epistemologically it is founded on the metatheories of critical theory and to a lesser extent phenomenology and feminism. It is primarily based on the idea of allowing people to participate as full researchers in their own research process so as to create knowledge about their own social reality with which they can initiate change. By creating their own social knowledge, which they use to address and change their social reality, participants become part of a continuous cycle of analysis - action - reflection. By participating as full co-researchers, participants become part of their own dialogical process of social praxis that allows them to enter into a continuous cycle of social learning, capacity building and conscientisation that gives them an increased sense of empowerment which in turn makes them able to engage in their own selfreliant sustainable development initiatives. Both community development and participatory research are grassroot level development initiatives. They both form part of the people-centered, participatory and social learning process - approaches to development. Both share a commitment to: realizing concrete and abstract goals, a social learning process, participation, empowerment, conscientisation, and sustainability. Both these development initiatives are orientated around operating in small homogenous groups as opposed to working with the whole community. In both participatory research and community development the person from outside the community who is initiating the development is required to fulfil the role of guide, advisor, advocate, enabler, and facilitator. Community development and participatory research share a similar research cycle that consists of the following stages: contact making, formal need identification, planning or analysis, implementation or action, and evaluation or reflection. Both research cycles are also committed to the same objectives namely: creating a community profile and need and problem profile, to draw up strategies to address some of the needs and problems, and to monitor and evaluate the strategies that were implemented. Both community development and participatory research therefore share a number of similarities in their objectives and goals, the most important of which is their shared commitment to development in which participation leads to an increase in social learning, capacity building and conscientisation that in tum results in participants experiencing an increased sense of empowerment which allows them to undertake their own self-reliant, sustainable development initiatives. Consequently this study concludes that participatory research is suitable for and beneficial to the practice of research in community development.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie fokus op die gebruik van deelnemende navorsing in gemeenskapsontwikkelling. Deelnemende navorsing, wat alom bekend staan as PR, is 'n relatief nuwe sosiale navorsingsmetodologie wat ontstaan het uit "n algemene gevoel van ongelukkigheid met die beoefening van tradisionele navorsing in ontwikkeling. Deelnemende navorsing bestaan uit "n wye verskeidenheid navorsingsmetodologieë wat klem lê op deelneming, sosiale leer en aksie. Epistemologies is dit gebaseer op die metateorieë van kritiese teorie en tot 'n mindere mate fenomenologie en feminisme. Dit is primêr gebaseer op die idee dat mense volledig moet deelneem as navorsers in hulle eie navorsingsproses sodat hulle, hul eie kennis kan skep van hul eie sosiale realiteit waarmee hulle dan sosiale verandering kan meebring. Deelnemers in hierdie proses word deel van "n aaneenlopende kringloop van ontleding-aksie-refleksie. Deur hulle plek vol te staan as navorsers word deelnemers deel van "n proses van eie dialogiese sosiale praxis wat hulle toelaat om deel te hê aan 'n aaneenlopende siklus van sosiale leer, kapasiteitsbou en psigologiese bewuswording wat hulle "n groter gevoel van selfbemagtiging gee wat hulle dan toelaat om hul eie selfonderhoudende ontwikkelingsinitiatiewe te loods. Beide gemeenskapsontwikkeling en deelnemende navorsing vind plaas op grondvlak. Dit vorm altwee deel van die mensegesentreerde, deelnemende en sosiale leerprosesse van ontwikkeling. Beide is gemik op die realisering van konkrete en abstrakte doelstellings, 'n sosiale leerproses, deelname, selfbemagtiging, psigologiese bewuswording, en selfonderhoud. Beide hierdie benaderings tot ontwikkeling geskied in klein homogene groepsverband. In beide deelnemende navorsing en gemeenskapsontwikkeling is dit 'n persoon van buite die gemeenskap wat die proses inisieer en "n rol speel as voog, adviseer, advokaat, daarstelIer en fasiliteerder. Gemeeskapsontwikkeling en deelnemende navorsing deel "n navorsing siklus wat bestaan uit die volgende stadiums: kontak maak, die identifisering van behoefte, beplanning of ontleding, implementering of aksie, en evaluering of samevatting. Beide hierdie ondersoeksiklusse deel die volgende doelstellings, naamlik: die opstel van 'n gemeenskapsprofiel sowel as "n behoefte en probleem profiel, die optrek van "n strategie!:! om behoeftes en probleme aan te spreek, en laastens om die strategie!:! wat geïmplementeer is te monitor en evalueer. Beide gemeenskapsontwikkeling en deelnemende navorsing deel "n verskeidenheid ooreenkomste in terme van hulle doelstellings, waarvan die mees belangrikste 'n gedeelde toewyding tot ontwikkeling is waarin deelname lei tot "n toename in sosiale leer, kapasitieitsbou en psigologiese bewuswording wat tot gevolg het dat deelnemers "n toenemende sin van hulle eie selfbemagtiging kry wat hulle toelaat om hulle eie selfonderhoudende ontwikkelingsaksies te loods. Hierdie studie kom tot die gevolgtrekking dat deelnemende navorsing geskik is en bevorderend is vir die proses van navorsing in gemeenskapsontwikkeling.
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Hurlburt, George F. "TECNET Research and Development Initiatives." International Foundation for Telemetering, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/611915.
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International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 26-29, 1992 / Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center, San Diego, CaliforniaBACKGROUND - THE TECNET VISION STATEMENT: The Test and Evaluation Community Network (TECNET) is governed by a Tri-service Steering Committee which reports to the Joint Commander's Group for Test and Evaluation (JCG(T&E)). In keeping with its JCG(T&E) approved TECNET Project Management Plan (PMP), the TECNET Steering Committee adopted the following TECNET Vision Statement in 1991: "To systematically migrate existing TECNET resources to a standards compliant, multi-level secure communications and processing capability which links DoD test and evaluation entities to a shared, but controlled user community information resource". TECNET GENERAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT: The life blood of ongoing TECNET operations is the continual improvements and user support provided by a leading University. This Research and Development contract directly contributes to the continued well being of TECNET. This contract sustains TECNET as a state of the art communication tool for its users who are continually increasing their capabilities. They expect their T&E network to keep pace. This is particularly true as more executive users adopt TECNET. PLANNED MULTI-LEVEL SECURE (MLS) EXPERIMENTS: Near term MLS experiments are designed to lay a foundation for longer term objectives. The foremost characteristic of the second generation TECNET is that host computers and all associated user nodes be eventually capable of processing information ranging in classification from UNCLASSIFIED through SECRET, depending upon the nature of the information requirements of the user. Specific components of the TECNET MLS plan include secure network devices and MLS accredited hardware running MLS accredited software. These characteristics will permit TECNET to operate in the requisite secure mode per COMSEC directives, support T&E program officials and T&E practitioners with timely and meaningful value added information concerning T&E, and permit near real time exchange of T&E data. MLS experiments are tri-service in nature. DATA DISTRIBUTION RESEARCH: The TECNET Distributed Data Plan calls for tri-service participation in building a T&E common data dictionary in 1992. The RCC agreement to form a common Range data Dictionary Group sets the stage for such a cooperative effort. One necessary and highly desired product of this process is a detailed catalog of all known and emerging T&E related data bases. TECNET plans to field and populate such a catalog of T&E data bases during 1992. Further, using the generic data extraction and conversion tool offered to TECNET, the demonstration of third party data base data population from the ranges will be accomplished. A significant effort has been undertaken to perform the necessary analysis to establish this tool to work with the RCC defined common data elements and the target data bases. Finally, TECNET proposes to develop specific training materials in print and computer based training media, as well as on site training support, for selected data bases of widespread value to the T&E community.
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Povshedna, Iryna. "Research and development on drugs." Thesis, Київський національний університет технологій та дизайну, 2019. https://er.knutd.edu.ua/handle/123456789/13115.
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Hammick, Marilyn Rosemary. "Research supervision : process and relationship; an action research study." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.361071.
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Brugman, Olaf. "Organizing for competence development in research and development : an exploratory study on organizational conditions for individual competence development in industrial research and development /." [S.l. : s.n.], 1999. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=008991152&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Morgen, Scott Alexander. "Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRDA)." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1993. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA275268.
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Esch, Ernst-Ingo. "Detector development for dark matter research." [S.l. : s.n.], 2001. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=962819433.
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Kourteff, Michael James. "Industrial research and development in Australia /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1992. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09EC/09eck882.pdf.
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Samulis, Leopold. "Research and development of imidazolidinone organocatalysts." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2011. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/54218/.
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In Chapters 6 and 7, efforts to develop a predictive computational model for imidazolidinone catalyst activity is described based around the experimental results obtained previously in the thesis. The knowledge gained was then used to design structures with the potential to exhibit high turnovers and extremely high levels of stereoselectivity. Expansion of this model to encompass
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Buttery, E. Allan. "New paradigm research within systems development." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.314519.
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Curtin, Thomas B. (Thomas Brian) 1945. "Managing choice in research and development." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/29709.
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Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2003.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 41-49).
Effective innovation is the product of an iterative series of key decisions by lead researchers, lead users, and lead sponsors/investors. Lead sponsors are critical. Sponsors at the efficient frontier creatively link technical communities and potential markets. The value of research and development (R&D) lies primarily in creating choices; R&D managers add value by managing choice effectively. An approach has been developed to align portfolio balance with strategic balance in managing R&D. A system dynamics model is used for strategy and a real option model for portfolios, calibrated with data from the Office of Naval Research. An implied risk strategy has been determined describing how managers have historically made R&D choices. With this profile, historical R&D budget allocations from 1962 to the present have produced of order one commercial product annually. A strategy for maximizing product development rate is described. From the perspective of a manager choosing specific projects to fund, the three phase R&D model can be viewed as a compound call option. An R&D Factor quantifies R&D contributions to the total value of effective innovation. Technical Readiness Levels (Technical Risk), Market Readiness Levels (Market Risk) and Network Connection Levels (Diversity Risk) comprise a three component risk vector whose magnitude is the project Volatility Index. Option value, calculated for a set of ONR-relevant product classes, is found to change investment decisions. Sensitivity studies reveal a critical transition interval in volatility, where managerial effort should be focused. Two organizational questions underlie this work. How can corporate managers propagate strategy without micromanagement? How can portfolio managers align project investment choices with corporate strategy without losing flexibility? To strike a balance, mechanisms for alignment of choices have been constructed. Corporate strategy is linked to portfolio management in aggregate balance through budget ratios related to target output, and in specific project prioritization through market risk parameterizations. Implications about organizational structure are discussed.
by Thomas B. Curtin.
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McGinley, Susan. "Creating RangeView: Cooperative Research and Development." College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/622215.
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Stich, Christine. "Development of scales for Aesthetic research." Toulouse 2, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004TOU20088.
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L'intérêt de cette recherche etait d'évaluer les perceptions individuelles de beauté face à des objets dans l'environnement immédiat. Le Chapitre 1 suggère que des réponses esthétiques consistent de deux dimensions orthogonales qui représentent des réponses affectives aux objets respectivement beaux et laids. La recherche décrite dans le Chapitre 2 montre comment le "Multidimensional Unfolding" peut aider à identifier des dimensions qui sont utilisées comme critères de jugement. Le but de Chapitre 3 était de décrire le développement d'une échelle qui mesure la sensitivité esthétique. La fiabilité et la validité de l'échelle doit être réévaluée dans des recherches futures. Dans la recherche décrite dans le Chapitre 4, des critères qui ont été dérivés dans des enquêtes d'experts, et confirmés par des études de "Multidimensional Unfolding" ont été utilisés pour la création de stimuli quotidiens variés systématiquement. Un nouveau standard externe est proposéThe aim of the research was to evaluate individual differences in the perception of beautiful objects that belong to people's everyday environment. The findings described in Chapter 1 suggest that affective aesthetic responses do not range on one dimension from beautiful to ugly but rather consist of two orthogonal dimensions representing affective responses to beautiful objects and ugly objects, respectively. The research described in Chapter 2 shows how common criteria of aesthetic judgments can be identified using Multidimensional Unfolding. The aim of Chapter 3 was to describe the development and psychometric properties of a scale for measuring visual aesthetic sensitivity towards everyday objects. The reliability and validity of the scale has to be reevaluated in future research. In the research described in Chapter 4 criteria that were derived from expert interviews and confirmed by Multidimensional Unfolding were used to construct systematically varied stimuli. A new external standard is proposed
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Gallegos, Frank. "After the Gulf War Balancing Spacepower's Development /." Maxwell AFB, Ala. : Air University Research Coordinator Office, 1998. http://www.au.af.mil/au/database/research/ay1995/saas/gallegf.htm.
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Cajander, Åsa. "Values and perspectives affecting IT systems development and usability work /." Uppsala : Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, 2006. http://www.it.uu.se/research/publications/lic/2006-011/.
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Falkingham, Leslie T. "A study of the strategic environment of an R&D section within a larger organisation." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1826/838.
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This work addresses the problem of how an R&D section should decide on a strategy to guide its work when there is no strategic direction supplied from above by the company. The work includes a participant observer case study carried out over five years in a single R&D section, an analysis of research papers on the subject of management of section level R&D, and a review of textbooks on strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
From the case study it was concluded that the company itself formed the strategic environment which the strategy of the R&D section had to address, and that the section’s strategic environment was chaotic in the mathematical sense. From the review of management textbooks it was concluded that standard theories do not give usable guidelines for the manager in this situation. A theory was developed that R&D strategy can be thought about in four distinctly different ways. Publications concentrate on two of these, while the case study and surveys of practising managers revealed that the other two were more pertinent in practice.
The analysis of research papers was carried out using a newly developed technique, which showed that this body of literature is in a pre-paradigm state. The new technique was also used to show that the four different ways of thinking about R&D are present in the papers. The new literature analysis technique and the theory that R&D strategy can be thought about in four different way were tested by means of questionnaires filled in by authors of papers and by groups of R&D practitioners.
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Rahim, Humaira. "Athena: An online proposal development system." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2856.
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Athena - Online Proposal Development System was the first version of a vision of Dr. Richard Botting, Professor, Department of Computer Science at California State University, San Bernardino. The program, a JSP based system incorporating a MySql database, moves the writing, review, and annotation of project proposals into the digital environment. It allows Computer Science Master's students to provide their project proposals online for review and annotation by the committee members.
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Dison, Arona. "Research capacity development of individuals at three South African university research centres." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2007. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_7177_1253849279.
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In South Africa, there has been recognition of the need for increasing research capacity at South African universities and within the national science system. Furthermore there has been a need to address imbalances in the racial and gender profile of researchers. There has been a growth of application-oriented, multidisciplinary research centres at South African universities in response to changing national and international knowledge contexts. Many research centres have a research capacity development component and run postgraduate programmes in collaboration with academic departments. This it was relevant to investigate what types of contexts these centres provide for research capacity development and postgraduate education. In this study, individual research capacity development was examined as a process of identity formation and socialisation through social, organisational and epistemological lenses.
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Goldman, Michael. "Webinar Case research development workshop. Entrenando con la North Case Research Association." Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/652067.
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Profesor de la Universidad de san Francisco. Investigador del Institute of Business ScienceWebinar Case research development workshop. Entrenando con la North Case Research Association
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Close, Brett T. "Solar energy research and development in California." Pomona College, 2007. http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/stc,16.
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The energy crisis of 2001, high prices for gas and electricity and worries of climate change have caused a growing awareness about energy issues in California. The problems are clear. This paper looks at the next step of finding and implementing solutions. In this case the contribution that solar photovoltaic and solar thermal generation could make toward solving the problem. This paper looks at technological change, the current state of solar energy research, current government policies on solar energy, and finally makes policy recommendations to meet the stated problem.
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Nicklisch, Andreas. "Experimental studies on strategic research and development /." Berlin : Dissertation.de, 2005. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=014766248&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Flavel, Matthew James. "Returns to research and development in Australia /." Title page, abstract and contents only, 1993. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09EC/09ecf588.pdf.
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Huang, Ning. "Essays on capitalizing Research and Development expenditures." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/11557.
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The next international version of the System of National Accounts (SNA) will recommend that Research and Development (R&D) expenditures be treated as capital formation instead of immediate expenses as in the present SNA 1993. This recommendation brings in challenges to many aspects of measuring R&D capital stocks. This dissertation focuses on measurement issues associated with capitalizing R&D expenditures.
In the first paper, we develop a simple model on production technology that allows for monopolistic competition. It enables estimation of annual depreciation rates for R&D capital. We treat R&D capital as a technology shifter instead of an explicit input factor. Both the R&D stock and the time trend are used to capture technological progress. The R&D depreciation rates and markup factors are estimated for the U.S. manufacturing sector and four U.S. knowledge intensive industries.
The second paper looks at the net benefits of a R&D project in the context of a very simple intertemporal general equilibrium model and suggests that R&D expenditures be amortized using the matching principle that has been developed in the accounting literature. This approach matches fixed costs of a project to a stream of future benefits. Of particular interest is the evaluation of the net benefits of a publicly funded project where the results are made freely available to the public.
In the third paper, we propose a new method of treating R&D expenditure in the growth accounting framework and investigate how to construct the associated measures for the stock of the R&D capital. We distinguish general knowledge from the more specific technologies applied in goods and services production, and treat them differently in the growth accounting framework. In addition, we derive a general formula to measure the newly created knowledge increments that depend not only on R&D expenditures but also on the existing general knowledge stock and knowledge productivity. We illustrate our new methodology for the treatment of R&D using U.S. manufacturing data for the last half century.
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Ortiz-Fernandez, Salvador. "International trade, research and development and growth." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.302409.
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Szesztay, Margit. "Professional development through research : a case study." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.341339.
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Hutchinson, W. B. D. "Action research, educational change and professional development." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.381565.
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Wang, Pi-hua, and 王碧華. "Research Farmhouse Development." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/14547835022535527325.
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wen-chi, Chou, and 卓文記. "The Research of Research & development engineers'' career development and personnel policy." Thesis, 1995. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/55065151168596152741.
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LIOU, YUAN-HAO, and 劉元豪. "Taiwan's Hanliu Development Research." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/6bt6u7.
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碩士國立清華大學
中國語文學系所
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"Hanliu (meaning:keep chinese culture)" is a large anti-Qing resuciatate-Ming family and is related to secret organizations such as Hongmen, Tiandihui and Qingbang. It originated from the officials of the late Ming Dynasty and was passed on to Taiwan.Zheng Chenggong establish "Jintaisan" and using Taiwan and Jinmen as untouchable lands against the Qing and Ming Dynasty. Through the military strategic consultant of Chen Yonghua, he joined Hanliu in cultivating Taiwan,introduce Hanliu to overseas.made Anti-Qing Dynasty operation has expanded to all places. Hanliu stays with the principle of "to preserve the spirit of the Han nationality let stay forever and never die." However, the subsequent development was related to the tide of overseas immigration caused by the overpopulation at that time. Too many people caused social problems and the economy and food were insufficient. Overburdened people, people suffer under starvation and can only look for new opportunities overseas. However, this wave of immigration has also led to the development of Taiwan’s society. There are clan families who come to Taiwan for wasteland reclamation, and there are also a lot of bachelors who go to overseas by themself. The ancestors came to new land to seek protection for their personal safety and dependability, relying on the group and living in the development of their ancestral settlements, or their association with different families. They build up a force to help each other through temple activities in their hometown deities. The thoughts and inheritances were carried out in the way of imparting martial arts and temple parades, and the screening of the open in public and under the table two ways was able to pass on the talents of the Hanliu culture, select them into the secret society, and finally enter the core of Hanliu. Hanliu is not only an anti-Qing organization, but also has the meaning of inheriting Han culture. However, its development is inherited from the secret society. This has been run for hundreds of years, and the traditional rules that the modern society still adheres to have not changed. The spirit of Hanliu was still guarded by the generations of the people. but it gradually withering.
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Li, Chun-Hsien, and 李春賢. "Research on Material Management for Research and Development Organization." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/18935049707110459447.
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碩士中原大學
工業工程研究所
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This research uses a systematic approach to investigate the advantages and disadvantages of the material management system of a defense research and development organization. Based on the analysis and evaluation, it proposes an improved inventory control and material management policy to reduce inventory level. The proposed policy integrates several systems including procurement management, production control, inventory control, quality control, finance management, and project management. The new policy requests vendors to provide gradual delivery rather than one-time delivery for each order. This leads to a significant reduction of inventory level. This research also suggests data transparency and consistency to facilitate a more effective and efficient planning and integration of materials among different functional departments. A better data base management system is designed accordingly.
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Huang, Chiung-chen, and 黃瓊貞. "Taisun Business Development History research." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/15865404620575389337.
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碩士國立中山大學
企業管理學系研究所
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This study is about the history of a family-owned business. In Taiwan, there are not many researches talking about the company history which are very useful and important to discover what makes a business thriving or failure."Taisun” is a family-owned business which is famous on producing “Salad Oil” controlled by Zhan family and is observed to discover how this family keeps their business thriving as the industry structure changes. The research method is to gather information about Taisun from the historical data、news reports、magazines and interviews, and then to analyze the development stages of Taisun. This study covers the business performance review 、the business developing processes、business diversification and the leadership of the business controller. “Business Transition” and “Transfer Issue” were found two challenges to Taisun in the future. The food industry is in the mature period so that Taisun tries hard to lead business transition into the correct direction and keep the business alive. In the other hand, the organization becomes aged and there are difficulties to appeal to high-educated candidates, generation transfers would be an important issue for Taisun in the future.
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Chen, Ju-Chi, and 陳袽琪. "Government research and development subsidies to small and medium enterprise research and development of input and output of additionality research." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/65317285935952785876.
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碩士國立彰化師範大學
企業管理學系國際企業經營管理
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Government R & D subsidies are important policy tools to small and medium enterprise to put more efforts on new product or service development.All advanced countries,like European,American, want to understand the R & D projects or enterprise-level extended to the entire national innovation system its plans or the business itself, and even the economic and social aspects of the impact and benefits because of the subsidies and support by the policy tools by its plans or the business itself. Government R & D subsidies for R & D projects or enterprises in their activities is an additional activity to stimulate research and innovation, but it is not a simple task. Government R & D funding should be seen as "extra" R & D subsidies on the enterprise itself in spending. Effective use of government funds to support industrial R & D and innovation can expand the scope of innovation activities and promote the whole development of the national innovation system directly or indirectly. This study was to explore the government R & D subsidies for small and medium enterprise whether or not has the effect of strengthening the relationship to development input and output between 2008-2010 case of manufacturers information for subsidy questionnaire research which had applied CITD Development Program by the Ministry of Economic Affairs Industrial Development Bureau . Then, we discuss the empirical research of subsidies on the government which put their own R & D of small and medium enterprise and its impact factors of the output of additional product research and development. To confirm the results of this paper, we have two views at least: one is the R & D input of enterprise will be an additional positive effect of R & D output, the other is the amount of R & D subsidies, will strengthen the relationship between the R & D input and added output factors.
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Rosales, Allan Brent. "Drawing assessments and adults with developmental delays : research and development." Thesis, 2005. http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/8671/1/MR10342.pdf.
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Using historical-documentary method the literature with respect to art-based research and psychological assessments with developmentally delayed populations was investigated. Additional emphasis was made towards the dominant trends in the research and the approaches to demonstrate assessment reliability and validity. Consequent recommendations are made for developing an empirically informed drawing test for developmentally delayed adults.
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Lin, Yu Hsiang, and 林餘詳. "A Research on Overconfident CEOs, Independent Directors Research and Development." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/336z43.
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Chang, Wen-Chi, and 張文奇. "Research on Agile Project Management Equipment Research and Development Model." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/43302462136374165685.
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碩士國立高雄應用科技大學
工業工程與管理系碩士在職專班
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In project management, Waterfall Method is a traditional approach, comparing to Agile Project Management. This conventional model has been preferred by many busine- sses, including several equipment companies. In recent years, the competition between those companies has become more and more severe, which has drawn people's attentions to the discussion of program process efficiency. Many companies' executives begin reth- inking about efficiency control and the question of how to maximize limited labor power to promote team work for assigned tasks. It is no doubt that to advance a company's com- petitiveness, it is crucial to inspect a company's project management process to assess its effectiveness. Agile, a project management method, has developed for years and become an ackno- wledged approach for project management. Little discussion has been done on the applied model theory for companies with equipment research emphasis. This study attempts to demonstrate the compatibility of the model and equipment research management, and to provide with discussions as well as analyses to exhibit the probability of strong perform- ance efficiency to increase a company's competitiveness. This study discusses theoretical perspective of Agile Project Management Model and gives emphasis to the use of the me- thod in equipment management. Combined with practical examples and technical exami- nations, it posits that Agile Project Management Model is applicable to equipment mana- gement. Moreover, the application facilitates efficiency control in equipment manageme- nt, particularly for the departmental activities that aggressively requires positive time ma- nagement. It is evident that this research is suited to an industrial equipment research co- mpany. This study is also a good reference for future researchers.
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Rutsaert, Pauline M. J. C. "Research and development cooperation in an open economy." 1994. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/32990073.html.
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Molala, Potjo J. Patrick. "Gear: is it a development strategy?" Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/579.
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Chou, Li-Chin, and 周麗菁. "Taiwan Tea Culture Industry Development Research." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/b6c35a.
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碩士銘傳大學
經濟學系碩士在職專班
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The geographical climate and environment is very suitable for Tea Tree to grow in Taiwan, and Tea is also the characteristic Culture Industry in our country. Through the connotation of tea culture and Taiwanese tea industry development, it is expected to understand the advantage, disadvantage, opportunity, threat issues and problems that the tea culture industry is facing to research countermeasures and bring up conclusions and suggestions with the research results, for people of our country and industry to pay much attention to the development of this industry, to be the national trademark and to the unique fascination of our country, that is the motivation and purpose of this research. This research uses the literature analysis, to make out, analyze and conclude the development of the Taiwanese tea culture industry, the conclusion are as follow: 1.The continuity of the spirit of Taiwanese tea culture should proceed from family and school. 2.The conservation of Taiwanese tea culture feature should combine with the traditional and innovation technologies. 3.The expansion of Taiwanese tea culture should be multiple operated and marketed. 4.To be globally known, Taiwanese tea culture should train the expert ability certification.
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"Optimal contract of research and development." Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5887202.
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by Wong Tak-Kwong.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 76-81).
Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1
Chapter 2 --- Literature Review --- p.7
Chapter 3 --- R&D Activities and Competing for a Researcher --- p.12
Chapter 3.1 --- Licensing Decision of a Successful Innovator --- p.16
Benefits of Firm i with Licensing
Benefits of Firm j with Licensing
Chapter 3.2 --- Competing for the Researcher --- p.23
Characterization of Equilibrium
Chapter 3.3 --- Concluding Remark --- p.29
Chapter 4 --- Innovation from An Independent Researcher --- p.30
Chapter 4.1 --- Licensing with Bargaining --- p.34
Licensing Decision of the Researcher
Licensing Decision of Firm i
Licensing Decision of Firm j
Chapter 4.2 --- Ownership Re-allocation --- p.44
Chapter 4.3 --- Concluding Remark --- p.48
Chapter 5 --- An Analysis of Sequential Innovation --- p.50
Chapter 5.1 --- Choices of Licensing and Conducting R&D --- p.55
Decision of the Follower
Licensing by the Successful Innovator
Chapter 5.2 --- Equilibrium of Sequential R&D --- p.65
Chapter 5.3 --- Simultaneous R&D or Sequential R&D --- p.68
Chapter 5.4 --- Concluding Remark --- p.74
Chapter 6 --- Conclusion --- p.75
Chapter 7 --- Bibliography --- p.76
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Yeh, Jun-Sheng, and 葉俊生. "Research and Development of Plastic Magzine." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/gt469n.
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Chien, Chao-Chun, and 簡詔群. "Research and Development ofGreen Energy House." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/htg7ut.
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博士國立臺北科技大學
機電科技研究所
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This research aims at the development of the newest green house system. It contains three parts: the research of gathering solar system, the establishment of using wind power to make hot and cold system, and the development of making hot water with high effective solar system. First of all, applying with solar system and direct current condensed water electrolysis turns condensed water in indoor air conditioner and water saving from raining into hydrogen and oxygen. This study makes use of oxygen us an indoor supply which decreases the waste of air-conditioning drafting air from outdoor. Secondly, if employing wind power drive air-conditioning system which means kinetic energy drive open-end compressor, it may reduce the efficiency loss of transferring energy. Wind power facilitates refrigerant recycling. The cold energy of an evaporator may use for indoor air conditioning. The heat of condenser may recycle as hot water saving for daily use which may be applied for wind power. Further, utilize hot water which is produced by improved high effective solar hot water system and by heat pump, and then save in hot water storage, which may be used as the energy for bathing, dishing, drier, and floor heat, as well as the newest drinking fountain. Last, concluding all the system to Green Energy House. Families in general, the average monthly electricity consumption of about 600kWH, according to Taiwan Power Company reported information, can reduce the CO2 per kWH of approximately 0.637 kg. Research and development in this study the most advanced green energy house which does not need electricity supply energy. City power only could use as a substitute for energy damage or power insufficient, it can reduce CO2 per household per month about 382 kg. In today’s modern world, every country is proposing “saving energy and reducing carbon”. Creating new energy is the value of the study and the necessary issue.
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Chou, Yi-Yin, and 周怡音. "Research and Development of Card Dispensers." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/b539qh.
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碩士國立臺北科技大學
機電整合研究所
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The card dispenser designed in this research combined the merits of linkage-driven type and frictional-wheel-driven type card dispensers. The new design utilized the motion characteristics of reciprocating straight-line motion and speed-reduction at both ends of a slider-crank mechanism, together with the rack and pinion and large frictional wheel to increase the tangential velocity to move the card to a required distance with shorter slider stroke to reduce the total volume of the dispenser and programming task. The new design is interchangeable with the existing dispensers. This research collected all patents of existing card dispensers, classified them according to their card-dispensing patterns, and analyzed their merits and defects for design reference of the new card-dispenser. The new dispenser mechanism was designed according to the design requirements. 3D model was constructed by using 3D CAD software. Motion simulations and interference check were done. The outcomes of this research were filed for patent application.
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Lin, Yu-Chieh, and 林昱傑. "Research and Development of Tag Gun." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/pkn4a2.
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碩士國立臺北科技大學
機電整合研究所
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The tag gun developed in this research consists of housing, trigger, compound gear, rack, and feeding mechanism. Its design characteristics include: improvement of trigger to allow the user to operate the tag gun by using fingers with more strength; adopting compound gear and rack to achieve desired stroke; accepting plastic staples of different pitches according to the user’s choice. The merits of the new tag gun are: simplifying its mechanisms to lower the cost; more precise movement to avoid malfunction; improvement of the trigger to reduce the fatigue for long-standing operation. This research collected all relevant patents to determine the basic structure of the new tag gun. This research also verified the movement and interference of the mechanisms by constructing its 3D computer model. Finally, a prototype was built to verify the feasibility. The results of this research were filed for patent application.
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Sone, Bi-Shon, and 寸碧秀. "Research and development of portable pupillometery." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/rxypdv.
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碩士國立交通大學
電控工程研究所
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In the daily life, symptoms of autonomic neuropathy are not obvious, it’s easily to ignore. Currently the method and evaluation of the autonomic nervous system, due to the instruments were expensive, or the measurement methods were not objective, measurement errors will be caused by human factors, the existing measurement methods cannot be a golden standard. Pupil response was controlled by small fibers of the autonomic nerve system. Clinical experience showed that the peripheral nerve is prone to damage such as diabetes mellitus and hypertension. Therefore, through the pupil response, it’s expected to identify the early diabetes with autonomic neuropathy. In this research, we design a simple, easy, portable, and small pupillometery to record the pupil response stimulated with different intensity, 1.2 cd and 0.12 cd and different wavelength light, white, red(650 nm), green(534 nm) and blue(470 nm). Ten parameters derived from pupil diameter, pupil response time, and pupil response speed will be evaluated for healthy and diabetic. The healthy subjects are used to be a control group that with low myopia(<-6.0D). The subjects with diabetes are used to be experiment group, their eyesight is normal, without any retinopathy and optic neuropathy. Non-parametric statistics was used for analysis. The experimental results show that resting pupil diameter of diabetic is significantly smaller than those of healthy subjects (p=0.02). Duration between the minimum pupil size restoring to the 50% pupil size and the maximum restoring speed were longer and slower in diabetics (p<0.05). The latency after 0.12 cd and 1.2 cd white light stimulate was significantly longer in diabetics (p<0.05). After 0.12 cd W,R,G and 1.2 cd W,R,B stimulation, the average restoring velocity is slower in diabetics (p<0.05).
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Wu, Chi, and 吳騏. "Research and Development of Magnetorheological Damper." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/07086098425882055979.
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博士國立成功大學
土木工程學系碩博士班
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Over the past three decades, the applications of structural controls for seismic hazard mitigation have been paid close attention to, with many innovative ideas proposed and new control devices designed, including the active, passive and semi-active. These systems usually employ supplemental damping devices to increase the energy dissipation capability of the protected structure. One of the most promising new devices proposed for structural protection is magnetorheological (MR) dampers. It is filled with MR fluid that can be changed, when exposed to a magnetic field, regularly from free flowing liquid, linear viscous one to semi-solid. Because of their mechanical simplicity, high dynamic range, low power requirements, large force capacity, and robustness, this class of devices has been shown to mesh well with application demands and constraints to offer an attractive means of protecting civil infrastructure systems against severe earthquake and wind loading. In this dissertation, a fundamental understanding of the behavior of MR dampers has been researched and developed through the modeling, design and experimental verification of a MR damper. The manufacture, design and performance test details of MR fluid and MR damper are provided, and a phenomenological model based on the Bouc-Wen hysteresis model is adopted to predict both the force-displacement behavior and the complex nonlinear force-velocity response. The design cases of seismic control using MR dampers on structures are investigated, but the applying of fuzzy control rules has always to deal with the classic problem of optimization. And due to the structural responses of analysis results, it can be confirmed that the reducing effects have an obviously improvement after an optimization by genetic algorithm. The TMD system is usually designed to reduce the first mode vibration of structure or the resonance of some particular frequency. The MR damper is also chosen to reinforce the structural seismic resistance ability of the TMD system in this dissertation. In accordance with the simulation results, it can be shown that TMD can effectively reduce the response of the structure; however, it can provide further reducing effects with the reinforcement of the MR damper both in displacement and acceleration responses. The studies reported in this dissertation are intended to provide insight into the behavior of MR dampers and their potential applications to structures. This work is expected to accelerate the implementation of these dampers in the areas of natural hazard protection and vibration mitigation in structures.
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Hsu, Wei-Chen, and 徐維辰. "The Research of Performance Model Development." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/76424112220077173898.
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碩士淡江大學
管理科學學系碩士班
102
In the enterprise, the approach of balance scorecard can be used to evaluate and set up the performance model and business process related to planning, objective, analysis, communication, data evaluation, action, and effect of results. The performance model can have the impact on business performance. In this research, the practical case is used to establish the performance management with respect to the customers, quality, and benefit model, and will be beneficial for business improvement.
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Chuang, Meng-Jung, and 莊孟融. "Advanced PoP Process' Research & Development." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/89270218971137031281.
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碩士國立高雄大學
電機工程學系--先進電子構裝技術產業研發碩
95
This thesis focuses on the study of the PoP technology and provides solutions for the bottleneck in PoP’s development. Taguchi methodology is used to analyse the factors of warpage (coplanarity) in which can be improved by using different shrinkage rate of epoxy molding compound. Ball to ball interconnection technology is used to shorten the ball pitch and to minimize the package. It is also found that optimization of ball size’s collocation for specific mold cap makes PoP’s size more flexible. In addition, MAP PoP’s structure and process is proposed to solve the problem of PoP’s development caused by molding system for saving the mold chase’s investment and lowering the epoxy molding compound’s consumption rate.
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Tsai, Yu-Tsun, and 蔡育純. "The Research of Development and Application." Thesis, 1998. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/52552107645955138790.
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