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The Influence of Environmental Consciousness on Willingness to Pay\uef\ubcA Case of Cheng-Cing Lake Tourists
No full text"User charges " is a term that has been widely known by the public in recent years, that is, users who have enjoyed a certain resource, product or service must bear related costs. "Cheng-Cing Lake Scenic Area" has been open to Kaohsiung citizens for free admission since September 18, 2013. However, in recent years, due to the rising trend of "environmental consciousness", certain free to visit scenic or recreational areas were developed a "payment mechanism". Therefore, the main purpose of this study is to explore whether tourists have the willingness to pay under current policy, and what is the price? Is it related to the environmental consciousness of tourists?
This study uses a questionnaire survey method to explore the relationship between the environmental consciousness on willingness to pay of tourists. The payment card format is designed in the questionnaire to understand the price tourists will pay. Through convenience sampling there were 400 questionnaires distributed to tourists, with 390 questionnaires returned and valid. It is representing a return rate of 97.5%. This research uses SPSS statistical methods to conduct descriptive statistical analysis of the questionnaire, independent sample t-test, single factor analysis of variance, Pearson correlation analysis and regression analysis. It has been verified that\uef\ubc
1. Different background attributes of tourists (such as marital status, visiting frequency) have a partial influence on environmental consciousness.
2. Different background attributes of tourists (such as educational level, occupation, personal monthly incomes, whether citizens of Kaohsiung) influence the willingness of pay.
3. Tourists\ue2 environmental consciousness on willingness to pay has a positive correlation.
4. Kaohsiung citizens will pay NT52.12 for tickets when they visit Cheng-Cing Lake, tourists from other cities will pay NT83.22.
Finally, this study recommends that the Kaohsiung government should review the "Free Admission for Kaohsiung Citizens" policy. And the management agency of Cheng-Cing Lake can organize environmental education actively to raise the public\ue2s environmental consciousness
Graduate recital, piano. Cheng, Y.-J., 1999
No full textRecorded during a live performance at Dalton Center Recital Hall, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, April 15, 1999, 5:00 p.m., the 484th concert of the School of Music's 1998-1999 season.Yuan-Jen Cheng, piano.In partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Master of Music degree in piano performance, Western Michigan University, 1999.Information from performance program.Partita no. 1 in B-flat major, BWV 825 / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Six bagatelles, op. 126 / Ludwig van Beethoven -- Intermezzo no. 1 in C major. Presto con fuoco ; Intermezzo no. 2 in D-flat major. Assez modéré mais sans lenteur ; Intermezzo in A-flat major. Très allant, tout droit, sans aucun rubata / Francis Poulenc -- Sonata reminiscenza in A minor, op. 38, no. 1: from Forgotten melodies, first cycle / Nicolas Medtner -- Songs without words. Kinderstücke, op. 102, no. 5. Allegro vivace ; Spinnerlied, op. 67, no. 4. Presto ; Duetto, op. 38, no. 6. Andante con moto / Felix Mendelssohn
The political role of the people's liberation army 1949-1973
Full text linkThis thesis is to study the political role of the People's Liberation Army from the approach of structure and function. The framework of the thesis consists of three major parts, first, the influence of Chinese traditional political culture on, and the formation of, the political role of the PL A; second, the influence of domestic political struggles and external military conflicts on the development of the political role of the PLA; and the third, the analysis of the transition of the PLA's political role from the structure and personnel arrangements of the CCPCC Within the above-mentioned three scopes, this thesis make a thorough discussion on the following: (1) The relationship between the structure of the PRC and the formation of the PLA's political role; (2) How has ideology influenced the army's political role; (3) What is Mao's viewpoint and his influence on the development of the army's political role; (4) What is the link between the army and the party, and how has this developed; (6) What accounts for the expansion of the PLA's political functions; (7) What is the influence of political factional struggles on the PLA's political role; (8) Is it political institution or military institution that controls the recruitment of the military elite; (9) What are the disparities between the military elite in handling international conflicts and what are their political considerations; (10) What is the Party's position in the army; (11) How have the Party’s important meetings and personnel arrangements influenced the rise and fall of the PLA's political role
[[alternative]]The Effect of Wai Tan Kung Exercise on Energy Expenditure And Heart Rate Variability
No full text[[abstract]]The Effect of Wai Tan Kung Exercise on
Energy Expenditure And Heart Rate Variability
Graduate student: Cheng-Kun Wu
Advisor: Cheng-Chung Lin ,Ph.D.
Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of long-term Wai Tan Kung exercise on heart rate (HR), energy expenditure, oxygen uptake (VO2), ventilation (VE), heart rate variability and blood pressure. Two different groups of older adults were recruited. One group subjects (n =16; 65.0 ± 4.2 yrs, 163.3 ± 7.3 cm, 63.3 ± 7.3 kg) had been participated at least 10 years of regular Wai Tan Kung exercise (long-term group, LTG), and the other (n = 16; 59.0 ± 3.7 yrs, 162.0 ± 3.9 cm, 65.7 ± 3.6 kg) had been participated as same exercise as LTG but less than one year (short-term group, STG). The results of this study showed that there were significant differences (p < .05) in rest systolic pressure, and HR, energy expenditure, VO2, VE, high frequency power (HFP) and low frequency power (LFP) during exercise between LTG and STG (p < .05). LTG subjects had a significant lower in rest heart rate and blood pressure (p < .05) than STG subjects, and the former also reached higher (p < .05) exercise intensities during exercise testing than the latter. Moreover, there were significant higher heart rate, VO2 and VE during exercise testing for LTG than STG, suggesting that LTG subjects had higher metabolic rate. Additionally, LTG had a higher HFP than STG, suggesting that there was a significant increase in parasympathetic division of autonomic nervous activity during exercise testing for LTG than STG, indicating LTG subjects may prevent from coronary artery disease and improve functions of the heart. It is concluded that older adults participate in regular long-term of Wai Tan Kung exercise have a positive effect on their cardiovascular fitness. Therefore, such kind of exercise may especially fit for older adults.
Key words: oxygen uptake (VO2), ventilation (VE), heart rate, heart rate variability, Wai Tan Kung exercise.
Risk assessment of geohazards along Cheng-Kun railway using fuzzy AHP incorporated into GIS
No full textThis article presents a case study on the risk assessment of geohazards along Cheng-Kun railway line. Cheng-Kun railway passes through a region of highly varied elevation and faults and the operation of Cheng-Kun railway has been frequently interrupted owing to geological disasters. A hybrid method via integrating triangular fuzzy number (TFN) and the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) (here after simply call TFN-AHP) into a geographic information system (GIS) is employed in this study to perform the geohazards assessment. The assessment results showed that TFN-AHP with GIS can effectively predict the distribution of geohazards risk in the study region within the last 10 years. The results also showed that the TFN-AHP method is more efficient in identifying high-risk areas compared with using original AHP. Based on the assessment results, prospective management measures to prevent risk are recommended
A Study on Luo Zhi Cheng\ue2s Historical narrative poems
No full textLuo Zhi Cheng is an important poet in the field of Taiwanese modern poetry, who is known for distinctive linguistic style and intense creative consciousness that are respected. Based on his powerful imagination and flourishing creativity as two primary advantages, through the mediation of poetry, prose, remarks, and commentaries, he maximally amplifies the implication of literature, and thereby composes himself and enriches the character. Distinguished from the majority of researchers focusing on Luo\ue2s lyric works, this study particularly found a writing context of \ue2avoidance of lyric sensibility\ue2 in Luo\ue2s poems, that is, his series of works historical themes in the form of long poems utilizing narrative skills to exhibit the remarkable consistency between the internality and the externality of the author.
\ue3\ue3This study conducted a comparative investigation of Luo\ue2s poetry work (The Book of Zhuzi) and prose works (Austral Court\ue2s Notandum and The Initiation of Civilization) to build a relatively more multi-faceted \ue2author\ue2s image of Luo Zhi Cheng\ue2 according to the writing of works of historical themes. Using the methodology of narratology, I departed from the internality of the text (the collection of poems) to identify how Luo forms the ideal spectrum of character by shaping historical persons; and meanwhile, I equally departed from the collections of prose to grasp the external information of the texts, and thereby clarified that Luo may treat \ue2writing, individual, and society\ue2 as a process of self-fulfillment. It is the two corresponding identities \ue2poet\ue2 and \ue2the intellectual\ue2 that are the mechanism of his constructing self-justification. Such investigation of the internality and the externality of text confirmed the complex relationships of the sustained \ue2opposition,\ue2 \ue2coexistence,\ue2 and \ue2conflict\ue2 between Luo and his works of historical themes
Effects of intrathecal injection of T-type calcium channel blockers in the rat formalin test
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sj-doc-1-taj-10.1177_20406223231222828 – Supplemental material for Tafamidis improves myocardial longitudinal strain in A97S transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis
No full textSupplemental material, sj-doc-1-taj-10.1177_20406223231222828 for Tafamidis improves myocardial longitudinal strain in A97S transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis by Yuan-Kun (Aden) Wu, An-Li Yu, Mei-Fang Cheng, Lung-Chun Lin, Ming-Jen Lee, Chia-Hung Chou, Chia-Tung Shun, Hsueh-Wen Hsueh, Jimmy Jyh-Ming Juang, Ping-Huei Tseng, Siao-Ping Lin, Mao-Yuan Su, Chi-Chao Chao, Sung-Tsang Hsieh, Cheng-Hsuan Tsai and Yen-Hung Lin in Therapeutic Advances in Chronic Disease</p
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