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Kuo Eddie C. Y. & Wong K. Aline, The Contemporary Family in Singapore
No full textLombard-Salmon Claudine. Kuo Eddie C. Y. & Wong K. Aline, The Contemporary Family in Singapore. In: Archipel, volume 22, 1981. pp. 239-241
The emission ratios of 630/1P, 630/762, 762/1P obtained from Kuo et al. (2008) and the SPARTAN code
No full text<p>The avairable variables in Matlab data format<br>
From results of Kuo et al. (2008)<br>
kuo_K: Temperature (K)<br>
kuo_r_630by1P: ratio of 630 to N2 1P<br>
kuo_r_762by1P: ratio of 762 to N2 1P<br>
kuo_r_630by762: ratio of 630 to 762<br>
From results of SPARTAN code<br>
SPARTAN_K: Temperature (K)<br>
SPARTAN_r_630by1P: ratio of 630 to N2 1P<br>
SPARTAN_r_762by1P: ratio of 762 to N2 1P<br>
SPARTAN_r_630by762: ratio of 630 to 762</p>
Constructing Sobol' sequences with better two-dimensional projections
No full textDirection numbers for generating Sobol' sequences that satisfy the so-called Property A in up to 1111 dimensions have previously been given in Joe and Kuo [ACM Trans. Math. Software, 29 (2003), pp. 49–57]. However, these Sobol' sequences may have poor two-dimensional projections. Here we provide a new set of direction numbers alleviating this problem. These are obtained by treating Sobol' sequences in d dimensions as (t, d)-sequences and then optimizing the t-values of the two-dimensional projections. Our target dimension is 21201
A Study of Marketing Service Quality and Satisfaction Based on "Kuo Hua Life Insurance Co,Ltd"
No full textAbstracts
This survey is done, based on the medium-large sized insurance company, Kuo-Hwa Life Insurance Company. It is focused on the interactions of its marketing, service quality, insurer\ue2s expected service, perceived service, perceived service quality, customer satisfaction, loyalty, persistency, repurchase and recommendation, in order for the company to evaluate and establish guidelines of the marketing st-rategy.
Those who were questionnaired are the insurers over 18-years-old in the metropolitan areas of Tainan. The personnel of Customer Service within the company have distributed 800 questionnaires. Among these, 586 questionnaires were returned with 20 of them void, making it 566 valid. EXCEL, SPSS statistics software were applied to analyze the insured age, marital status, education, annual income and occupation, to better understand tleir perceived service quality, satisfaction, loyalty, persistency and the intention of repurchase of other products from Kuo-Hwa Life Insurance.
The research has resulted in:
Positive reflection between Perceived Service versus Perceived Service Quality;
Positive reflection between Expected Service versus Perceived Service Quality;
Positive reflection between Perceived Service versus Satisfaction;
Positive reflection between Perceived Service Quality versus Satisfaction;
Positive reflection between Expected Service versus Satisfaction;
Positive reflection between Satisfaction versus Persistency and Repurchase of
Other Insurance Products;
Positive reflection between Customer Satisfaction versus recommendation
Kwanghwana Karun., C. H. Kuo & K. D. Hyde 2020, gen. nov.
No full textKwanghwana Karun., C.H.Kuo & K.D.Hyde, gen. nov. INDEX FUNGORUM NUMBER. — IF557100. FACESOFFUNGI NUMBER. — FoF 07775. ETYMOLOGY. — Refers to the collection site Kwang Hwa. TYPE SPECIES. — Kwanghwana miscanthi Karun., C.H.Kuo & K.D.Hyde, sp. nov. DESCRIPTION Associated with Miscanthus floridulus (Poaceae) leaf sheath. Sexual state Ascomata. Immersed or semi-immersed, visible as minute black dots on host surface, uniloculate, subglobose, brown to dark brown, solitary; centrally ostiolate, circular, papillate. Peridium. With 7-9 layers at the apex and 3-4 layers at the base, thinner towards the base, the outer layers composed of brown, thick-walled cells of textura angularis, the inner layers composed of hyaline to pale brown, thin-walled cells of textura prismatica. Hamathecium. Composed of numerous, hyaline, frequently septate, broadly cellular wide pseudoparaphyses,often constricted at the septa, branching at the mid-point, embedded in mucilage. Asci. 8-spored, bitunicate, cylindrical to cylindric-clavate, short pedicellate, apically rounded with well-developed narrow ocular chamber, smooth-walled, arising from the base of the ascoma. Ascospores. Fusiform, broadly fusoid with rounded ends, hyaline, overlapping or irregularly biseriate, 3-septate, the cells above and below are broader, upper cell is comparatively broader, smooth-walled with large guttules. Ascospores germinate within 12 hours on PDA, geminating from end cells. Asexual state Unknown. NOTES The new genus Kwanghwana Karun., C.H.Kuo & K.D.Hyde, gen. nov., is morphologically and phylogenetically well supported (100% ML/1.00 BYPP).Published as part of Karunarathna, Anuruddha, Phookamsak, Rungtiwa, Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hyde, Kevin D. & Kuo, Chang H., 2020, Kwanghwana miscanthi Karun., C. H. Kuo & K. D. Hyde, gen. et sp. nov. (Phaeosphaeriaceae, Pleosporales) on Miscanthus floridulus (Labill.) Warb. ex K. Schum. & Lauterb. (Poaceae), pp. 119-132 in Cryptogamie, Mycologie 20 (6) on page 124, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamiemycologie2020v41a6, http://zenodo.org/record/782632
The Image of Ch'ao Yun in San-kuo Yen-i
Get PDFIn San-kuo Yen-i, Ch'ao Yün plays an active role as a general in the Kingdom of Shu 蜀. In the story, he is portrayed as "bold and careful". How does the author build up such an image for this protagonist? What kind of role has he assigned to Ch'ao Yün? These are two points that I shall examine in this paper. Juxtaposing San-kuo Yen-i and San-kuo-chih 三國志, we may easily notice that Ch'ao Yün plays a much more active role in the former story. However, there are scenes where the two books resemble each other closely. An example of which is the scene where Ch'ao Yün remonstrates with Liu Pei. Another point that should not be neglected is that the role of Ch'ao Yün in San-kuo Yen-i has become much more important than in the two sources upon which it is based, namely San-kuo-chih P'ing-hua 三國志平話 and the Yüan Tsa-chü 元雜劇. While retaining his intellectual image as portrayed in San-kuo-chih, the author exaggerates his valiant quality in San-kuo Yen-i. Thus Ch'ao Yün becomes both an intellectual as well as a militarist in San-kuo Yen-i. This also explains why he enjoys the status of being the third most competent general in the Kingdom of Shu, second only to Kuan Yü 關羽 and Chang Fei 張飛, although in history he has been ranked, at the most, as the fifth general. One of the reasons behind such a treatment of Ch'ao Yün in San-kuo Yen-i is that the author probably wishes to make him the counterpart of Chang Fei. Such a device is not unusual in Chinese novels. The contrast between Chang Fei and Ch'ao Yün in San-kuo Yen-i is obvious. While Chang is portrayed as a brave but emotionally unstable warrior, Ch'ao remains a calm and discerning person who almost never errs. Another reason perhaps is that the author has intended Ch'ao to be a character who can be summoned conveniently both as a warrior in the battle-scenes and as a thinker in the field of strategy. Finally, perhaps we may also look at Ch'ao Yün as a character to fill the gap when such leading figures as Liu Pei, Kuan Yü and Chang Fei have all passed away
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