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Ma Huan (original author), Wan Ming (ed.) Ming chaoben " Yingya shenglan " jiaozh
No full textPtak Roderich. Ma Huan (original author), Wan Ming (ed.) Ming chaoben " Yingya shenglan " jiaozh. In: Archipel, volume 71, 2006. Autour de la peinture à Java. Volume II. pp. 240-244
Revisiting the Mitra-Wan Tree Farm.
No full textThe tree-farm model of T. Mitra and H. Wan (1985) contains novelties: a continuum of optimal cycles appear for small discounting and the cyclicality survives perturbations. To isolate the source of novelties, the author studies the simplest case: trees live naturally for two periods. This model specializes the general theory of multisector development under four conditions. It becomes a Ramsey type model, augmented by a cross-vintage constraint: the present acreage under trees, age n, must not be less than the acreage under trees age n + 1, one period hence. Novelties emerge when this constraint bounds the graph of the state-to-control correspondence. Copyright 1994 by Economics Department of the University of Pennsylvania and the Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association.
Malaysian women and family members’ narratives of their breast cancer decision-making experiences
No full textBreast cancer is one of the most prevalent cancers among women worldwide. Disharmony and imbalance can be created in the lives of women diagnosed with breast cancer as well as in those of their family members. They may face many decisions related to breast cancer, including on disclosure and treatment, and on their own lifestyle and career. The decision-making experiences might be different across nations. Previous research literature has tended to focus on specific aspects of decision-making regarding breast cancer, but no study has sought to recruit women with all stages of breast cancer (together with their family members) with the aim of providing an understanding of their decisions. Little is understood regarding this issue and how the process takes place among Malaysian women with breast cancer and their family members. The purpose of this study is to explore the decision-making experiences of Malaysian women and their family members, focusing on the time between first realising that something is abnormal in the breast and the women undergoing their first conventional treatment in hospital
A study of investment activity of venture capital in PRC.
No full textby Wan Chui-wan Susan, Kwan Shiu-keung Ronald.Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 76-78).ABSTRACT --- p.iTABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iiiLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --- p.vLIST OF TABLES --- p.viACKNOWLEDGEMENT --- p.viiCHAPTERSChapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1Chapter II. --- METHODOLOGY --- p.7Research Strategy --- p.7Interview Generation --- p.8Interview Description --- p.9Research Limitation --- p.10Chapter III. --- ENVIRONMENT ： CAPITAL MARKET IN CHINA --- p.13Economy in China --- p.13Industry --- p.15Unification of Exchange Rate --- p.17Tax Reform --- p.18Stock Market Development in China --- p.19Chapter IV. --- VENTURE CAPITAL INVESTMENT IN CHINA --- p.22Chapter V. --- A MODEL OF ANALYSING VENTURE CAPITALIST'S INVESTMENT ACTIVITY --- p.25Comparison of four Different Decision Models --- p.28Tyebjee and Bruno Decision Model --- p.31Deal Origination --- p.32Screening --- p.32Evaluation --- p.33Deal Structuring --- p.33Post-investment --- p.34Chapter VI. --- AN ANALYSIS OF THE VENTURE CAPITAL INVESTMENT ACTIVITY IN PRC --- p.37Step 1 一 Deal Origination --- p.37Step 2 - Screening --- p.40The Size of the investment and the investment policy of the venture fund --- p.40Geographic Location --- p.44Stages of Financing --- p.45Industry Preference --- p.46Step 3 - Evaluation --- p.47Venture Evaluation Criteria --- p.48Information Validation Mechanism --- p.51Step 4 - Deal Structuring --- p.53Pricing of the deal --- p.54Protective covenants --- p.54Equity stakes among different investors --- p.56Step 5 - Post-investment Activities --- p.56Chapter VII. --- THREATS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR VENTURE CAPITALISTS IN PRC --- p.59"Accounting, Auditing and Financial Reporting Standards" --- p.59"China Stock Market, Corporate and Securities Law" --- p.60Competition With Other Venture Capitals and Corporate Investors --- p.61Exchange Rate Movement --- p.62Political Instability --- p.63Chapter VIII . --- CONCLUSION --- p.64APPENDIXChapter I. --- OUTLINE OF THE INTERVIEW QUESTIONS --- p.66Chapter II. --- MAP OF CHINA'S COASTAL CITIES --- p.74BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.7
A Knowledge Distribution Model to Support an Author in Narrative Creation
No full textAdjusting the knowledge of characters and the reader is a critical task for an author in narrative creation. Throughout a narrative, both characters and the reader experience events according to their own timelines and perspectives. They interpret information accumulated through their experience and update knowledge to the narrative-world which the author constructed. In this paper, we present a Knowledge Distribution Model which supports an author in finely controlling the knowledge of characters and the reader. Within the model, the Knowledge Structure is constructed by connecting event, information, and knowledge. The Knowledge State is evaluated as the degree of belief under the knowledge structure. We adopted a probabilistic reasoning model to calculate the knowledge state. The change in knowledge state, defined as Knowledge Flow, is visually presented to the author. We designed a GUI prototype to implement the proposed modeling process, and demonstrated the knowledge flow with an actual cinematic narrative
Identifying Author Fingerprints in Texts via Graph Neural Networks
No full textThe world is generating more and more network data in many different areas (e.g., sensor networks, social networks and even text). A unique characteristic of these data is the coupling between data values and underlying irregular structure on which these values are defined. Thus, researchers developed Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to use deep learning approaches on these irregular network data. GNNs developers tried to replicate the recent success of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and developed its graph counterpart Graph Convolutional Neural Network (GCNN) and more different variations of GNNs (e.g. EdgeNet). However, all these architectures are relatively young, and the impact of different parameters to classification result is not well researched compared to regular neural network architectures. To address this issue, we propose to use authorship attribution problem to research the impact of different architectures and their variations to classification accuracy and how GNNs can be used to improve on authorship attribution task compared to the baseline architectures. Explicitly, we define the dataset which is going to be used throughout the experiments and the method to convert text excerpts of authors into the network that can be classified with GNNs (called WAN). WAN is as a network that captures unique author fingerprint. We also define the set of GNN architectures (and different combinations and variations of them), baseline architecture (SVM) and experiments that are used with those architectures. This experiment setting allows us to compare different GNN architectures among themselves and the baseline architecture. Also, we define a method to reduce the dimensions of author fingerprints (WANs) and use these sparse author fingerprints for the same experiments with the same architectures. Numerical results show the improvement over the baseline architectures in nearly all defined experiments. Also, we found that more complex GNN architectures (e.g. EdgeNets) are superior to shallower architectures with more laborious experiments (e.g. classification by gender). More complex architectures also require hyperparameter re-tuning in order to achieve optimal results. Furthermore, experiments with sparse author fingerprints showed that we could achieve comparable results to standard fingerprints with faster training times and significantly reduced dimensions. GNN architectures used with sparse author fingerprints were usually superior to baseline architectures
Student Expectations in the New Millennium
No full textHigher education has experienced vast changes as a result of global political and economic developments. Cultural and social changes in the last decade have also added to the continuing evolution of higher education. These changes inevitably lead to changing expectations of students entering higher education. An adequate understanding of student expectations is crucial in ensuring a good fit between higher educational institutions and their students. This study attempts to carry out a baseline descriptive-quantitative research on student expectations in the higher education of Hong Kong. Four scales have been developed to measure students’ attitude toward: 1. job-oriented curriculum design, 2. user-friendly course delivery method, 3. opportunities for lifelong learning, and 4. student consumerism. Students’ priority of what makes a good university, their reasons for going to university, and their self-perception of ability to cope with university life are also explored. The Student Expectations Questionnaire (developed by the author) was used to gather data from 857 first-year undergrads from nine institutions of higher education in Hong Kong. Analyses include, among others, gender, age, major of study as well as institution comparisons
Rethinking Import-substituting Industrialization: Development Strategies and Institutions in Taiwan and China
No full textimport-substituting industrialization, export-oriented industrialization, development strategies, institutions
Supplemental Material, Appendix_2_-_Clinician_Survey_720601 - Patient and clinician perspectives of an integrated electronic medication prescribing and dispensing system: A qualitative study at a multisite Australian hospital network
No full textSupplemental Material, Appendix_2_-_Clinician_Survey_720601 for Patient and clinician perspectives of an integrated electronic medication prescribing and dispensing system: A qualitative study at a multisite Australian hospital network by Grace Lau, Jayde Ho, Susan Lin, Karen Yeoh, Tiffany Wan, and Marisa Hodgkinson in Health Information Management Journal</p
Supplemental Material, Appendix_1_-_Patient_Survey_-720601 - Patient and clinician perspectives of an integrated electronic medication prescribing and dispensing system: A qualitative study at a multisite Australian hospital network
No full textSupplemental Material, Appendix_1_-_Patient_Survey_-720601 for Patient and clinician perspectives of an integrated electronic medication prescribing and dispensing system: A qualitative study at a multisite Australian hospital network by Grace Lau, Jayde Ho, Susan Lin, Karen Yeoh, Tiffany Wan, and Marisa Hodgkinson in Health Information Management Journal</p
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