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The Relationship between TESG and the Performance of Companies in Taiwan
No full textThis study aims to examine the link between the performance of Taiwanese-listed firms and the TESG indicators created by the Taiwan Economic Journal (TEJ). A regression analysis was conducted using the TESG scores from 2015 to 2020 as the independent factors. The dependent variables are financial indices like Tobin's Q, ROI, ROE, and ROA. The dependent variables are financial indices like Tobin's Q, ROI, ROE, and ROA. It was demonstrated that the TESG positively correlated with Tobin's Q as well as ROE. For each indicator, the environmental indicator has a positive correlation with ROE and ROA. Social indicators have no significant impact. Governance indicators are positively correlated to Tobin's Q and negatively correlated to ROI and ROE. There are 18 companies in the sample that belong to the technology industry. Further exploring the impact of ESG on the technology industry Tobin\ue2s Q is significantly improved by TESG. ROE and ROA are influenced positively by ENV. Tobin's Q is positively influenced by governance. However, GOV has a negative impact on ROI and ROE. The contribution of this study is to examine the quantitative TESG for the Taiwan market and to provide more objective quantitative information for investors and stakeholders to predict corporate performance
Exploring the impact of IT identity on employees' in-role and extra-role behaviors: the moderating effect of organizational identity and role identity
No full textIn recent years, various organizational transformations driven by digital technologies have had a significant impact on businesses. The introduction or adoption of digital technologies often forces employees to change their work habits, leading to resistance and reluctance to accept change, ultimately affecting their job performance. Consequently, organizations frequently contemplate how to minimize such occurrences during times of change. Previous research has indicated that enhancing employees' in-role behavior and extra-role behavior can help mitigate the negative effects of organizational change.
In recent years, scholars have focused on the impact of Information Technology Identity (IT identity) on organizations. However, most studies have primarily examined the influence of IT identity on employees' in-role behavior, while neglecting the exploration of its relationship with employees' extra-role behavior. Furthermore, if IT identity plays a crucial role in the context of organizational adoption or implementation of new technologies, understanding how to amplify its effects on both in-role and extra-role behavior becomes crucial.
This study adopts an identity and fit perspective to examine the specific fits that can effectively influence IT identity, organizational identity, and role identity. Furthermore, it aims to investigate how IT identity, organizational identity, and role identity impact employees' in-role behavior and extra-role behavior. This research employed a questionnaire survey targeting a telecommunications customer service company in Taiwan, collecting a total of 220 valid responses. Except for the dimension of extra-role behavior, which was answered by supervisors based on their objective observations of subordinates' actual behavior, all other dimensions were self-reported by the employees.
The results of the study indicate that IT identity is an important influencing factor for employees' in-role behavior and extra-role behavior. Organizational identity contributes to strengthening the relationship between IT identity and extra-role behavior, thus playing a positive moderating role in the causal relationship between IT identity and extra-role behavior
An Action Research on Influencer Promotion in the Bakery Industry
No full textIn 2018, Wang Peng-jie(\ue7\ue9\ub5\uac\ue5) won the championship in the artistic bread category at the World Bakery Contest, proving Taiwan's status as the bread champion kingdom and its position as a leader in the trend of Asian baking industry. However, the baking industry is generally similar to a monopolistic competition market, with relatively low entry barriers and intense competition. Although manufacturers can use differentiated products as a competitive advantage in the short term, in the long term, the continuous influx of manufacturers will lead to a reduction in product differentiation. If businesses cannot understand the market, they will find it difficult to survive (Chen, 2016).
Given the competitive trend mentioned above, this paper attempts to analyze and compare the Ice Cream Vienna Bread product through action research and three rounds of influencer marketing and social media marketing. Through the design of action research and the researcher's actual participation, the development of the baking industry and the consumption characteristics of baking products online were analyzed. Finally, a strategy for generating an online promotion model for the baking industry was proposed.
Based on the researcher's actual actions and comparisons, this study produces the following conclusions:
1. The characteristics of influencers will affect the effectiveness of product promotion.
2. Blogging is the most effective promotional channel, followed by social media and then live streaming.
3. The target customers of Ice Cream Vienna Bread are mainly housewives, group mothers, and members who value family relationships.
4. Consumer preferences for taste are generated based on concerns arising from information asymmetry.
5. Promotional methods such as social media, live streaming, and blogging are difficult to collect consumer information for precision marketing
The Co-movement of Investors' Attention and Stock Returns in Taiwan
No full textThis study investigates how investor attention impacts stock returns using Google Search Volume Index (SVI) to measure attention and significant lottery jackpots in Taiwan as an external attention shock. The dataset covers Taiwan's listed and OTC stock mar kets between 2014 and 2022. The findings are as follows: (1) Investor attention and large lottery jackpots exhibit a negative relationship; (2) On days with such jackpots, the correlation between stock returns and the market substantially rises. This impli es that within a context of limited attention, investors pay more heed to overall market news, leading to the infusion of greater macroeconomic information into stock returns. Additionally, among lottery type stocks favored by retail investors, the correla tion between stock returns and the market is even more positive, independent of gambling sentiment. This underscores that in Taiwan's stock market, significant lottery jackpots capture investor attention, prompting them to selectively concentrate on macroe conomic market data, thereby generating a synchronized co movement between stock returns and the market
Understanding the impact of professional obsolescence on IT professionals
No full textThis study aims to explore the impact of professional obsolescence on employees' career choices and job performance, examine whether job burnout affects quiet quitting and performance, and investigate the influence of career choices. In terms of research motivation, previous studies have focused on the effects of professional and organizational commitment and self-efficacy on career choices, but there has been less research on being eliminated due to professional obsolescence and striving to balance life and work, leading to a need for career reselection. In terms of research objectives, this study aims to investigate the effects of professional obsolescence on job demands, job burnout, quiet quitting, and career choices. A questionnaire survey was used as the research method. The study found that professional obsolescence has a positive impact on job demands, job burnout, quiet quitting, and career choices
Effects of STMN3 Gene and Mutations on Its Phosphorylation Sites on Bladder Cancer Cells
No full textAbout 90% of bladder cancers are identified as bladder urothelial cell carcinoma, which is the most common type of bladder malignancy. It is often caused by smoking, exposure to carcinogens in the workplace and environment, or genetic variability. The treatment of bladder urothelial cell carcinoma is accompanied by a very high recurrence rate, which also imposes a heavy burden on patients and medical resources. This study investigates the function and mechanism of microtubule destabilizing phosphoprotein STMN3 and its five highly conserved phosphorylation site mutations in bladder cancer cells. Our research results show that the up-regulation of STMN3 gene induces cell proliferation, non-adherent cell growth, increases the degree of cell migration, invasion, and angiogenesis, intensifies microtubule dissociation, and changes the microtubule morphology in cells. On the STMN3 protein, Serine mutations at positions 50, 60, 65, 73 or Threonine 98 to Alanine can reduce the ability of STMN3 to regulate cells, reduce the degree of microtubule depolymerization, and it is found that STMN3 (S73A) may have a greater impact on cellular processes. The prediction of potential STAT3 transcriptional binding sites of STMN3 suggests that STAT3 may regulate the expression of STMN3 genes. The analysis of STMN3-related genes and signaling pathways by NGS provides direction for the exact biological pathway of STMN3
Subaqueous Soil Liquefaction Depth and Angle of Failure in Submarine Landslides
No full textSubmarine landslides are one of the significant catastrophes that can lead to tsunamis or inflict harm upon underwater structures. The extent of damage caused by submarine landslides is influenced by various factors, including the characteristics of the failure surface and the angle of failure. These factors can lead to variations in subsequent water flow and alter the destructive force on underwater structures. This study focuses on investigating the characteristics of the failure surface through experiments involving planar submarine landslides. The experiments involve altering fluid properties and particle sizes to observe the resulting failure surfaces. The experimental results indicate a correlation between the angle of failure (failure angle) and the type of failure observed. When the failure angle approaches a right angle, the failure mechanism exhibits a breaching collapse characterized by a gradual collapse along the wall surface. Conversely, when the failure angle deviates from a right angle, the failure mode transitions to a sliding collapse characterized by a wedge-shaped sliding failure. Moreover, this study discovered a correlation between the failure angle and the Darcy number, where the Darcy number represents the ratio of pore pressure to gravity. An analytical solution for the relationship between the Darcy number and the failure angle was provided, and subsequently, the simulation capability of the two- phase flow model concerning the failure angle was verified.
In addition, liquefaction is also one of the reasons for the reduction of soil strength. The soil liquefaction induced by vibrations alters the soil's strength and may lead to the development of failure surfaces. Therefore, this study primarily investigates the liquefaction depth caused by vibrations. Building upon the aforementioned two-phase flow model, this research modifies the solid pressure term to incorporate the particle compression effect induced by vibrations. Subsequently, a numerical solution for the liquefaction depth is derived and validated against the data provided in the reports from the National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering. The research findings indicated that the numerical solution provided by this study could roughly predict the depth of liquefaction but still exhibited some overestimations and underestimations. Furthermore, we compare the time series of pore water pressure generated from the numerical solution with experimental data from previous studies. The research findings indicate that the numerical solution can simply describe the process of pore water pressure increment. However, its accuracy is contingent upon the evaluation of the liquefaction depth
Effects of autophagy inhibitory peptide on colorectal cancer and hepatocellular cell carcinoma cells
No full textGastrointestinal cancer is the major leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the world, particularly in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and colorectal cancer (CRC). The common types of treatments used for cancer include surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, targeted therapy and immunotherapy. Targeted therapy provides an effective way to treat cancer without too many side effects. However, current targeted therapy for gastrointestinal cancer is not sufficient.
\uce\ub1-helix is an important region for protein-protein interaction. Our previous study has found that three \uce\ub1-helical peptides (H1, H2, H3), according to secondary structure of ATG4B substrate protein GBRL2, inhibited ATG4B activity. GBRL2H2 has the best inhibitory effects on ATG4B proteolytic activity. The peptide GBRL2H2 fused with cell penetrating peptide TAT (TAT-GBRL2H2) further inhibited cellular autophagy, which is survival pathway in cancer cells. Herein, we further tested to see whether they have effects on the growth, metastasis and apoptosis of cancer cells.
The effects of TAT-GBRL2H2 on growth and metastasis of HCC and CRC cells were detected by CellTiter Glo assay, coloby formation and migration assay. We further used fluorescent staining to observe the status of cell death along with several different inhibitors of program cell death. Finally, flow cytometry was used to detect the effects of TAT-GBRL2H2 on the cell cycle progression.
Our results showed that TAT-GBRL2H2 inhibited cancer cell viability, metastatic characteristics and increased cytotoxicity. This peptide Tat-GBRL2H2 can inhibit the autophagy in cancer cells. In addition, pretreatment with general and mitochondrial ROS rescued TAT-GBRL2H2 peptide-killed HCC and CRC cells. Thus, our finding would provide a potential peptide for future development as an anticancer drug
Analysis of Taiwan Examination Matching System - A Case of National Farmers' Association, R.O.C.
No full textWe discuss the issue of Taiwan's examination system by taking the National Farmers' Association, R.O.C. examination as an example. We study the existing examination system of the National Farmers' Association, R.O.C. and find that the current rules have room for improvement. We use Gale & Shapley (1962)'s marriage model and their deferred acceptance algorithm (DA) to improve the current rules. In addition, we use the method proposed by Gale & Sotomayor (1985) to reduce many-to-one matchings to one-to-one matchings in our simulations. Finally, through simulations, we conclude that when the National Farmers' Association, R.O.C.\ue2s quotas are larger, the person taking the exam will prefer the improved mechanisms introduced in this paper
Bilateral Sidewall Engineering Si1-xGex iTFET for Low Power Display Application
No full textAs semiconductor devices continue to miniaturize, they face several challenges. These challenges include the physical limitations of traditional silicon-based materials, decreasing tolerance to heat accumulation, and difficulties in controlling dopant shapes to achieve optimal conditions. As a result, device performance has been negatively affected. To address these issues, we propose a novel approach using metal-semiconductor interfaces instead of conventional PN interfaces. By using metals with different functionalities to create Schottky or Ohm contacts, we can induce doping-like properties at the metal-semiconductor interface, enabling the realization of different device types. This approach shows great potential for overcoming existing challenges and exploring new possibilities for device design.
This thesis is divided into two parts. The first part focuses on the use of silicon-germanium material as a channel to simulate silicon-germanium back-gate tunneling field-effect transistors. In this part, the metal makes direct contact with the semiconductor to form a Schottky contact, which induces a small number of carriers on the surface of the gold and the semiconductor, resulting in doping-like characteristics. We address the humping effect observed in the device by adjusting the Mole fraction of the double sidewall silicon-germanium source electrode to improve the subcritical oscillation, as previously proposed. Element operation and parameter modulation are also discussed.
The simulation results of this device, with a device size of 45 nm and a doping concentration of 1\uc31019 cm-3, a drain voltage of 0.2 V, a Schottky contact at the source (\ucfB = 0.7 eV), and an ohmic contact at the drain, give a switching current ratio of 1.5\uc310^6 and a maximum on current of 1.2\uc310-6 (A/\uce\ubcm). The minimum subcritical swing is 15.4 mV/dec and the average subcritical swing is 42.6 mV/dec, demonstrating excellent performance in terms of high switching current ratio and low subthrehold swing.
The second part builds on the devices introduced in the first part and further enhances their electrical performance by incorporating a carrier-enhanced oxide layer. The operation and parameter modulation of the device are also discussed in detail.
The simulation results of this device with a device size of 45 nm and a doping concentration of 1\uc31019 cm-3, a drain voltage of 0.2 V, a Schottky contact at the source (\ucfB = 0.7 eV) and an ohmic contact at the drain show significant improvements. The device achieves a switching current ratio of 5.51\uc3106 and a maximum on current of 3\uc310-6 (A/\uce\ubcm). It also exhibits a minimum subthreshold swing of 10.5 mV/dec and an average subthreshold swing of 28.8 mV/dec. These results highlight the superior performance of the device in terms of high switching current ratio and improved subthreshold swing.
In this thesis, we present a novel concept of using gold half-junction sense carriers instead of conventional PIN junctions. This innovative approach effectively addresses the problems associated with high thermal bias after doping and annealing, while reducing process costs. In addition, by utilizing gate and source overlap, we achieve reverse bias in the PN junction, resulting in line tunneling, and utilize a larger tunneling area to overcome the limitations of conventional tunneling field-effect transistors with low on-state current.The proposed gold half-junction concept not only solves existing problems, but also paves the way for new types of devices. The designed tunneling FETs exhibit low subthreshold oscillation and high on-off current ratios, making them suitable for applications in the Internet of Things (IoT) and low-power devices. In addition, these advancements align with the semiconductor industry's future requirements for technology development and research in the 5G era. We expect our research results to play a critical role in shaping the future of semiconductor technologies