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The Wrong Stuff? Creative Class Theory and Economic Performance in UK Cities
No full textRichard Florida’s ‘creative class’ theory suggests that diverse, tolerant, ‘cool’ cities will outperform others. Ethnic minorities, gay people and counter-culturalists attract high-skilled professionals: the presence of this ‘creative class’ ensures cities get the best jobs and most dynamic companies. This paper examines Florida’s ideas, focusing on the evidence in British cities. Drawing on previously published work, it first tests the Florida model on a set of British cities, finding weak support for the creative class hypothesis. It then examines this hypothesis in detail. It finds little evidence of a creative class, and little evidence that ‘creative’ cities do better. The paper concludes that the creative class model is a poor predictor of UK city performance. There is other, stronger evidence that diversity and creativity are linked to urban economic growth.cities, economic development, urban economics, creative class, diversity, culture, creativity
An Interview with an Author and Editor: The View from Taiwan
No full textORCID Engagement Manager Asia-Pacific, Estelle Cheng, recently spoke with Wen-Yau Cathy Lin, an academic, author and scholarly journal editor about ORCID and its use in Taiwan
Panel II: The Practitioner’s Perspective: The Effect of Patent Non-Practicing Entities on Industry
No full textModerator: John B. Sganga, Jr. – Partner, Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP, Orange County Lee Cheng – Chief Legal Officer, SVP-Corporate Development and Corporate Secretary, Newegg Inc. Robert D. Fish – Founding Partner, Fish & Tsang LLP Ian D. McClure – Director, Intellectual Property Exchange International, Inc. (IPXI) Congressman Dana Rohrabacher – U.S. Representative for California\u27s 48th Congressional District Nathan Shafroth – Partner, Covington & Burling LL
Publisher’s Erratum to: Metamaterial-based graphene thermal emitter
No full textThis is the final version. Available from Springer Verlag via the DOI in this record.The article to which this is the erratum is in ORE: http://hdl.handle.net/10871/30747The article Metamaterial-based graphene thermal emitter, written by Cheng Shi, Nathan H. Mahlmeister, Isaac J. Luxmoore, and Geoffrey R. Nash, was originally published electronically on the publisher’s internet portal (currently SpringerLink) on December 6th 2017 without open access. With the author(s)’ decision to opt for Open Choice the copyright of the article changed in February 2018 to © The Author(s) 2018 and the article is forthwith distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, duplication, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made. The original article has been corrected
Chinese Cooking with Theresa Cheng : Results
No full textStanding wok-adjacent, chef and cookbook author Theresa Cheng displays a dish made during the Chinese Cooking program, while another person eyes the demonstration table
[[alternative]]The Analysis of Master's Theses in Sport Management in Taiwan
No full text[[abstract]]The Analysis of Master’s Theses in Sport Management in Taiwan
Lin, Wen-Cheng
Advisor：Philip Cheng, Shao-Tung, Ph.D.
Abstract
The purposes of this study were to understand and analyze the contents and the status of the development of 398 master’s theses and their 26803 references in sport management during 1993-2003 in Taiwan. The Content Analysis was used as the study’s main research method, with the assistance of the Citation Analysis. The instrument “content analysis checklist of master’s theses in sport management in Taiwan” was used to collect data. The data was statistically analyzed in terms of Frequency Distribution and Percentage, Chi-square. The results showed as the followings：
1.The total number of master’s theses in sport management has been growing significantly since 1998. The total number of master’s theses in sport management in different areas has been in unbalanced distribution. There were six major universities playing the key roles in terms of sport management research.
2.The main three research topics of the master’s theses were Sport Marketing Management（Sponsorship included）, Sport Management, Organization and Leadership, Sport Leisure Management.
3.There was no significant correlation found among master’s theses in different years and research topics. The significant correlations were found between these master’s theses were correlations among research purposes, research areas, research instruments, and computerize statistical software.
4.There was no significant correlation found among master’s theses in different areas, research purposes, research areas, research instruments, and computerize statistical software. The significant correlations were found between these master’s theses and their respective research topics, and research instruments.
5.The quantity of references has been increasing. The languages of the references were mainly Chinese and English. Most of the references were published between the year of 1991 and 2003. The main types of the references were books and journals. The most cited English author was Chelladurai, P., and the Chinese counterpart was Ministry of Education（Taiwan）.
This study provides the research information and analysis of Master’s Theses in Sport Management in Taiwan during recent 10 years, and expects the increasing application of qualitative research method in sport management. It would be combined together between Sport Marketing Management and Sport Leisure Management to create benefit for organization, and it would be a future trend.
Key words：Content Analysis, sport management.
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
[[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.
[[alternative]]The study for Master Cheng-Yen’s gratitude leadership and its educational practice.
No full text[[abstract]]The study for Master Cheng-Yen’s gratitude leadership and its educational practice.
Abstract
This thesis is based on personal experiences in education and admiration for Master Cheng-Yen’s Great Love for the world. Thus, this thesis aims at working out the theoretic system of Master Cheng-Yen’s Gratitude Leadership, including its nature and practice. Further, its contributions for educational leadership are approached.
In order to reach the above aim, critical analysis is used for clarifying the works by Master Cheng-Yen. In addition, a questionnaire and semi-structure interview questionnaire are designed for identifying the nature and practical approaches of Gratitude Leadership. It is by this way, Master Cheng-Yen’s theory and practice of Gratitude Leadership can be grasped which affords help for educational leadership, in terms of theory and practice in schools.
Finally, the results of this thesis are as follows:
a) Master Cheng-Yen’s Gratitude Leadership makes significant contribution for democratic education via purifying human heart and harmonizing the society;
b) it is helpful for promoting inner motivation of educational organization; and
c) it develops characteristics of creativity with non-power leadership style with effectiveness.
Chinese Cooking with Theresa Cheng : Demonstration
No full textA seated audience fills the meeting room for a Chinese cooking program presented by local chef and cookbook author Theresa Cheng, who stands with an aproned assistant behind tables set up with ingredients and two woks on burners
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