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Measuring and analyzing German and Spanish customer satisfaction of using the iPhone 4S Mobile Cloud service
Full text linkThis paper presents the customer satisfaction analysis for measuring popularity in the Mobile Cloud, which is an emerging area in the Cloud and Big Data Computing. Organizational Sustainability Modeling (OSM) is the proposed method used in this research. The twelve-month of German and Spanish consumer data are used for the analysis to investigate the return and risk status associated with the ratings of customer satisfaction in the iPhone 4S Mobile Cloud services. Results show that there is a decline in the satisfaction ratings in Germany and Spain due to economic downturn and competitions in the market, which support our hypothesis. Key outputs have been explained and they confirm that all analysis and interpretations fulfill the criteria for OSM. The use of statistical and visualization method proposed by OSM can expose unexploited data and allows the stakeholders to understand the status of return and risk of their Cloud strategies easier than the use of other data analysis
Growth responses, enzyme activities and component changes as influenced by Rhizoctonia orchid mycorrhiza on Anoctochilus formosanus Hayata
No full textBrain Segmentation ? A Case study of Biomedical Cloud Computing for Education and Research
No full textMedical imaging is widely adopted in Hospitals and medical institutes, and new ways to improve existing medical imaging services are regularly exploited. This paper describes the adoption of Cloud Computing is useful for medical education and research, and describes the methodology, results and lesson learned. A working Bioinformatics Cloud platform can demonstrate computation and visualisation of brain imaging. The aim is to study segmentation of brains, which divides the brain into ten major regions. The Cloud platform has these two functions: (i) it can highlight each region for ten different segments; and (ii) it can adjust intensity of segmentation to allow basic study of brain medicine. Two types of benefits are reported as follows. Firstly, all the medical student participants are reported to have 20% improvement in their learning satisfaction. Secondly, 100% of volunteer participants are reported to have positive learning experience
Wen-Chi Chang Oboe Recital Program Notes
No full textThe essay is the program notes of Wen-Chi Chang`s Oboe Recital which was performed on May 9th, 2019. The recital includes four different periods of oboe repertoire, baroque period, classical music period, romantic music period, and modern music period. The recital opened with Antonio Lucio Vivaldi: Oboe Concerto in D Major, RV. 453, Vivaldi was the most important Italian composer and violinist in the Baroque period. His numerous works are in a great astonishment which are including various genres. The second peice is Domenico Cimarosa: Oboe Concerto in C Major, Cimarosa is the most famous Italian opera composer in the 18th century. His opera works are mainly comedy.
\ue3\ue3 The second half of the recital was opened with Charles Camille Saint-Sa\uc3\uabns: Sonata for oboe and Piano, Op. 166, Saint-Sa\uc3\uabns was a French composer, keyboardist and music educator. He has created many important musical works and has a profound influence on future generations. And ended was Paul Hindemith: Sonata for Oboe and Piano, Hindemith was the most representative German composer in the early twentieth century, and an outstanding music performer and music educator. In this program notes article, I will use these four musical works as the topic to overview the life of the four composers, the background of the music composition and the interpretation of each works
THE HEROINE MULAN ON THE CHINESE OPERATIC STAGE DURING THE KOREAN WAR: CHANG XIANGYU AND HENAN OPERA HUA MULAN
No full textThis dissertation examines the political significance of celebrity-making and reinterpreting the well-known heroine story about Mulan in the early years of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), especially the popularization of the popular Henan opera Hua Mulan and the promotion of its leading actress Chang Xiangyu during the Korean War (1950-1953)—communist China’s first international crisis after its establishment in 1949. This study looks at the coercive influence of the Chinese state on individual artists and artistic works pertaining to a thematic political culture. It also examines the audience’s emotional responses to Chang Xiangyu’s state-promoted artistic works as expressed through ethnographic interviews of oral history.
Based on original research, this dissertation provides the first documentation of Henan opera or Yuju and its popularization in China in a Western language. With a comprehensive case study of Chang Xiangyu and the Yuju Hua Mulan, this project sheds light on the development of Chinese regional opera in the early PRC, revealing the wartime propaganda strategies of the Chinese communist government. In addition, this study provides a historical review of different versions and interpretations of the Mulan story in Chinese performing arts, addressing the sociopolitical significance of the story in modern China
Daily Scheduling for R&D Semiconductor Fabrication
No full textThis paper presents the development of a daily scheduling tool, Electronic Research & Service Organization Fab Scheduler (ERSOFS), for a research & development (R&D) pilot line of semiconductor wafer fabrication. An integer programming problem formulation is first given, which captures the salient features such as high variety & very low volume, cyclic process flows, batching at diffusion machines, single mask for each photolithography operation, loop test & engineering splitting & merging of wafer lots. A solution methodology based on Chang & Liao’s approach [SI for scheduling flexible flow shops is then extended to this class of problems. The solution methodology is implemented & validated in an R&D fab. Results indicate that ERSOFS efficiently generates schedules of high quality. The rescheduling function of ERSOFS provides fast & smooth adjustments of schedules to cope with the high production uncertainties in an R&D fab. Analysis of the algorithmic properties demonstrates the potential of ERSOFS for application to larger fabs
Comparative Enfreakment: Rhetorical History of the Lives and Exhibitions of Chang and Eng Bunker, “The Original Siamese Twins”
No full textThis dissertation argues that Chang’s and Eng’s lives and exhibitions offer a case study to reconsider scholarly accounts of the politics of curiosity, representation of differences, and public techniques of social exclusion and inclusion. The conjoined twin brothers’ exhibitions worked to sustain and contest liberal formations of nation, race, gender, sexuality and class grounded in 19th century conceptions of possessive individualism. The invention of the Siamese Twins began in the convergence of colonial curiosity, liberal discourses of free trade, and notions of individual self-possession that gave way to racialized and ableist commodification of Chang’s and Eng’s bodies by American and British merchants. The early exhibitions of Chang and Eng as the Siamese Twins under the Coffins’ ownership and management mixed exoticized and aggrandized modes of racialized enfreakment with popular curiosity and medical curiosity. Chang’s and Eng’s expressions of possessive individualism in 1830s were animated by a series of performances of masculinity, disassociation from slavery, and the construction of a self-made man narrative that included a re-presentation of themselves to the public as “their own men” staging themselves “under their own direction.” Chang and Eng faced a series of oscillating inclusions and exclusions as they became American settler citizens, husbands and fathers, and emerged as part of the slave owning Southern elite in the 1840s and 1850s, and yet became entangled with a rising anti-Asian discourse in their public exhibitions shortly before and after the United States Civil War. Despite appearances of their closely approaching full integration, Chang and Eng were never fully accepted within U.S. society. I suggest scholars reconsider Chang’s and Eng’s exhibitions as the Siamese Twins within a framework of “success,” arguing a critical and comparative rhetorical history of their lives and exhibitions makes clear that such successes were qualified, conditional, and problematically sustained by their own performative dominion over others. I conclude by highlighting a few ongoing connections of the 19th century discourse to contemporary curiosity in science, medicine, and popular entertainment and close by suggesting that performances of curiosity otherwise are an urgent political praxis for living together in a world of differences
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