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Portrait of Hawaii Senator Hiram L. Fong, approximately 1960s
No full textHandwritten on image: Aloha. To a great Senator and a distinguished friend, Henry M. Jackson. Hiram L. Fong, U.S.S., Hawai
Senator Hiram L. Fong
No full textScan of photo of Hiram L. Fong, Republican Senator of Hawaii, who served from 1959 to 1977, the first Asian American in the Senate. Inscribed "Aloha, Mike Masaoka...
Design incubatees' perspectives and experiences in Hong Kong
No full textPurposeThis paper discusses the services and support from one of the government design-based business incubators in Hong Kong. The characteristics of a design business incubator are explained, and a multiple-case study indicates the perspectives of incubatees from different design disciplines after their graduation from the incubation programme.Design/methodology/approachThe research under discussion in this paper was based on eight design incubatees in different design disciplines within two years of incubation period, all of whom had participated in one of the government-funded business incubation programmes for designers in Hong Kong. The programme is unique because there are no other government-based incubation programmes for designers in Hong Kong. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to collect feedback from incubatees in areas ranging from terms of service to support of the incubation programme.FindingsThe services of training, mentorship and finance were found to be the most important to design start-ups. Financial support and flexible funding allocation were another important issue for design incubatees, but training in these subject areas was not included in the incubation programme. However, it was confirmed that funding provided may have helped a number of the incubatees in developing their start-up businesses as a result of the reduced financial burden and office allocation.Research limitations/implicationsThe research focused on one incubation programme because of the lack of incubation programmes for designers in Hong Kong, therefore future research which compares different types of business incubation programmes is suggested.Practical implicationsThe outcomes of the research not only identified the possible areas of development and improvement of business incubation in entrepreneurship but they will also be useful for the government, universities, institutions, designers, policy makers, entrepreneurs and practitioners. These, in addition to industry stakeholders who want to evaluate their entrepreneurship programmes and develop their plans for potential development in incubation- or entrepreneurial-related programmes or training, especially in the area of design, will find the results useful
Business incubation process for design start-ups : case studies on government-based and university-based business incubators in Hong Kong
No full textThe importance of entrepreneurship in the past 20 years has been recognized as an economic driver to the first-world countries' Gross Domestic Profit (GDP) growth index. Many entrepreneurship programmes, including business incubators, accelerators, innovation hubs and co-working spaces were established in the past 20 years. Business incubator is one of the entrepreneurship programmes that was well established in the past 50 years worldwide. It provided hardware and software, including infrastructure, business services and funding support to entrepreneurs. Most of these business incubators mainly focused on technology start-ups. Considering the incubation process and service supplied by the incubator, previous studies were limited to the incubator's perspective and that of the incubatee was rarely included. This was the research gap to be filled by this study. In recent years, cultural and creative industries have played a crucial role in the economies of many countries, and so their entrepreneurship became a new topic in the field. However, there have been few studies on design and creative entrepreneurship. This is the main research gap identified in this research, specifically, 'there are no framework of business incubation process for design start-ups'. Based on the above research gaps, one main research question was defined: 'What is the business incubation process for design start-ups?' Following on from this, three sub-questions were developed. These sub-questions were: (SQ1):'What are the incubator's expectations and perspectives of their design incubatees and the programmes'; (SQ2):'What are the design incubatees' expectations and perspectives on their business incubators in terms of services and support'; and (SQ3): 'What are the key elements of business incubation process for design start-ups'. The first two sub-questions identify the differences of incubators and incubatees' perspectives in the business incubation process. And the third sub-question targets on the key themes of the business incubation process for design start-ups. Based on these research questions, the three objectives of this study were defined. These were (1) to establish an understanding of government-based and university-based incubation process for design start-ups; (2) to explore the business incubation process for design start-ups from two perspectives, these being, incubator and incubatees; and (3) to develop a framework of incubating design start-ups by incubator with a process-based view. To explore the answers to the research questions and achieve the objectives, a qualitative approach comprising multiple case studies was selected and applied in this research. Data from two perspectives, incubator and incubatee were collected to fill the previous research gap of the limited perspective based on incubator study. Two cases of business incubators in Hong Kong were explored. They were: Hong Kong Design Incubation Programme by Hong Kong Design Centre as a government-based incubator and HKPolyU Micro Fund as university-based incubator. To obtain a rich description of the cases, data were collected through multiple sources, including semi-structured interviews, site visits and documents. In the semi-structured interviews, representatives of both incubators and incubatees were interviewed. A total of thirty-two semi-structured interviews were conducted. The interviews were audio recorded and transcribed. Three incubation centres were visited. Data triangulation was applied to explore the individuals' perspectives in a business incubation process. All the collected data were sorted in a dataset. According to the literature review, six categories of the business incubation process were reported as the result of first code. It supplied a frame to guide the data collection and analysis. Since it was generated based on the previous studies, it also represented the incubator's perspectives and non-design start-ups. Based on the first codes, the researcher highlighted the quotations in data set and the transcriptions by using the software, ATLAS.ti. The second codes were generated as the result of the analysis. Through comparing second code of incubator's perspective in the two cases with the first code, the characteristics of business incubation for design start-up were reported. Through comparing incubatee's perspective of the second codes in the two cases, the opinions of business process from incubatees were identified. The second code results from the two perspectives in the two cases were further synthesized via cross-case analysis to obtain the first themes of the business incubation process. After comparing the first themes with the literature review, the final themes were reported. To validate the results, these findings were reviewed by a group of experts from academia and industry in the fields of business incubation. Overall, there are four main findings reported in this research. (1) six categories of business incubat..
Fong See San
No full textsatu kajian ke atas 'plume' semasa air surut telah dijalankan di bahagian laut kawasan Muara Terengganu dari bulan Jun. ke September, 1999. Tujuan kajian ini adalah untuk menentukan keluasan dan ketebalan 'plume' dari Muara Terengganu. Untuk mencapai tujuan ini, data saliniti, suhu dan turbiditi diambil dengan menggunakan
Hydrolab. Keluasan kawasan kajian adalah lebih kurang 4,940,000 m2? Jarak stesen terdekat dari tebing adalah 20 m semasa air surut
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
Mediation : positive conflict management
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (p. 271-272) and index.John Michael Haynes, Gretchen L. Haynes, Larry Sun Fong
"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.
No full text"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states.
By M. Carey, member of the American philosophical, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and author of The Olive Branch, Cindiciae Hibernicae, essays on banking, on political economy, and on internal improvement.
To which are now added the English editor's comments on the subject; together with Important Advice to Emigrants, and Cautions Against Impositions Practiced in the Outports
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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