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Resume: Jie-chang YANG 杨诘苍
No full textThis resume briefly records the artist, Jie-Chang Yang\u27s educational background and exhibition history from his birth to 1989. (Zhuocheng Jiang \u2726)https://digital.kenyon.edu/zhoudocs/1355/thumbnail.jp
Review: YANG JIECHANG, ART OF THE REAL
No full textThis is an abstract from an exhibition catalogue. The author, Hou Hanru, a celebrated Chinese critic and curator who lives and works in Europe and the US, discusses how Jie-Chang Yang used his calligraphy and ink paintings to deconstruct the exoticized image of Chinese art. Some manufacturing details of Yang\u27s work are introduced later in the essay. Jie-Chang Yang\u27s idea of the relationship between man and nature as well as man and culture is embodied via these arts, according to the author. (Zhuocheng Jiang \u2726)https://digital.kenyon.edu/zhoudocs/1356/thumbnail.jp
Measuring and analyzing German and Spanish customer satisfaction of using the iPhone 4S Mobile Cloud service
No full textThis paper presents the customer satisfaction analysis for measuring popularity in the Mobile Cloud, which is an emerging area in the Cloud and Big Data Computing. Organizational Sustainability Modeling (OSM) is the proposed method used in this research. The twelve-month of German and Spanish consumer data are used for the analysis to investigate the return and risk status associated with the ratings of customer satisfaction in the iPhone 4S Mobile Cloud services. Results show that there is a decline in the satisfaction ratings in Germany and Spain due to economic downturn and competitions in the market, which support our hypothesis. Key outputs have been explained and they confirm that all analysis and interpretations fulfill the criteria for OSM. The use of statistical and visualization method proposed by OSM can expose unexploited data and allows the stakeholders to understand the status of return and risk of their Cloud strategies easier than the use of other data analysis
The Christian Writing in Chang Show Foong's Literary Works
No full textThe Christian Writing in Chang Show-Foong's Literary Works
Abstract
Since the 19th century, Christian brings some degree of influence on modern Chinese literature. Chinese literati subsumed the terms and spirit of Christianity in their works. They achieved the development of Chinese Christian literature.
Chang Show-Foong is one of Modern Chinese literature writers, whose literature works are outstanding in weight and depth. Her text is full of Christian faith dimension, attempting to manifest the thought of Christian. In the context of Chinese literature, her writings of Jesus Christ is her interpretation of the Christian faith. It is her experience as a Christian in person. This thesis uses Chang Show-Foong's literature as a subject of study. Probing into the depth and breadth of the Christian faith, I expound and explore her literary and artistic creation, and finds that her writings of Christ are unique and ground-breaking, digging out the apocalypse and artistry on literature. This thesis is divided into six chapters\uef\ubc
Chapter 1 preface\uef\ubcTo describe the motivation, purpose, scope, term definition, methods, procedures, and the theology premise of Christian literature.
Chapter 2 Chang Show-Foong who elucidate Christ's ethics\uef\ubcTo explore faith, hope and love that Chang Show-Foong interpret in Chinese situation on the exposition of humanity and divinity and the people to pray, repent, obey, serve to God.
Chapter 3 Chang Show-Foong of the " Bible " of the use of text\uef\ubcTo explore the absorption, utilization on the" Bible "story\ue3word by Chang Show-Foong and explore the Chang Show-Foong follow up and expansion of the epistolary and the prayer of the " Bible ".
Chapter 4 Chang Show-Foong inherited aesthetics of Christ\uef\ubcDivided into three parts to explore the beauty of natural\ue3the beauty of human and the beauty of artistic.
Chapter 5 Chang Show-Foong's the way of practice\uef\ubc To explore the course of the Gospel of Christ which Chang Show-Foong resoundes.
Chapter 6 conclusion\uef\ubcA summarize interpretation of the research results of this thesis, in order to establish Chang Show-Foong's position and contribution of Chinese Christian literature history
Yang Hoe Chang
No full text학위논문(박사)--아주대학교 일반대학원 :경영학과,2009. 8 …………………………………………………………... iii
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CHAPTER 1 : INTRODUCTION ……… ……………………………………...1
CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW …… ……………….......................8
A. KEY VARIABLES AND THEIR ROLES……………... ………….....................8
B. PUBLIC, PRIVATE AND HYBRID ORGANIZATIONS ……………………22
C. PERSON-ENVIRONMENT FIT AND PERSON-ORGANIZAITON FIT. ....35
CHAPTER 3: STUDY DESIGN …… …………………….. ………….…….42
A. RESEARCH QUESTIONS AND HYPOTHESES ………................................ 42
1. WORK RELATED VARIABLES WILL BE DIFFERENT AMONG
ORGANIZAITONAL TYPES ………………………………………………...44
2. ORGANIZATIONAL TYPE AND ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE AS A
MODERATOR MODEL ………………………………………………………54
3. P-O FIT, INTRINSIC MOTIVATION AND SELF-EFFICACY AS A
FACILITATION MODEL ……………………………………….……………59
4. IMPLICIT APPROACH TO JOB SATISFACTION …..……………………..64
B. METHODS ……………………………..………………………………………..... 67
C. ANALYSIS …………………..…………………………………………………......70
CHAPTER 4: RESULTS & FINDINGS ………….………………….……..72
A. DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS AND CORRELATIONS ……………………...72
B. MODERATING EFFECTS OF ORGANIZATIONAL TYPES .……………..84
C. ANALYSES OF THREE-WAY INTERACTION EFFECTS..………………..86
D. TESTS OF THE FACILITATION MODEL ……...…………………………...94
E. IMPLICIT APPROACH TO JOB SATISFACTION …………………………96
CHAPTER 5: DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION …………………..... 98
A. FINDINGS ………………………………………………………………..……..98
B. IMPLICATIONS ………………………………………………………………104
C. LIMITATIONS AND FUTURE RESEARCH ……………………………….106
D. CONCLUSION ………………………………………………………………...108
REFERENCES ……………………………………………..…................109
APPENDIX I: EXPLICIT MEASURES. .…....……..……………….148
APPENDIX II: CRONBACH’S ALPHA…… …………………………149MasterHow can reform and restructuring efforts be successful? Is the American way always appropriate in other cultures? The nature of work is changing and the Person-Environment (P-E) fit theory is a general framework that has been used extensively to understand thinking and behavior in organizations. Specifically, the understanding of Person-Organization (P-O) fit, a sub-domain of P-E fit, has become an increasingly important aspect of successful reform and restructuring.
This study focused on the characteristics of public, private and hybrid organizations in South Korea and explored the relationships between personality traits (extraversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness, intrinsic motivation, and self-efficacy), and organizational climate variables such as organizational relationship quality (colleague support, colleague conflict and role stress) and organizational effective outcomes (job satisfaction, organizational commitment, OCB, and turnover intention). This study also examined the relationship between personality variables and organizational effective outcomes (i.e., the person side of P-O fit), and between positive collegial organizational climate and organizational effective outcomes (i.e., the organization side of P-O fit) with facilitating variables (e.g. intrinsic motivation and self-efficacy).
Overall, the results showed levels of role stress, intrinsic motivation and turnover intention were highest in the private organization. But levels of job satisfaction, organizational commitment, OCB and implicit job satisfaction were highest in the hybrid organization. Consistent with expectations of the characteristics of public organizations in Korea, levels of agreeableness and impression management were highest in the public organization because of the characteristics of public organizations (e.g., social responsibility, variety of regulations, limited autonomy and freedoms). But the highest levels of role stress and turnover intention in private organizations may reflect an organizational culture that promotes competition, and consistent with the notion that private organization members are motivated by a system that compensates based on individual effort. Higher level of job security and the higher level of pay offered by hybrid organizations may have a large positive effect on job satisfaction. And the highest levels in organizational commitment, OCB, impression management and implicit job satisfaction in hybrid may reflect the fact that it enjoys the influence of having the positive qualities of both public and private organizations. Results of two-way interaction analysis investigating the relationship between key variables by organizational type showed significant differences between organization type for the relationship between extraversion and job satisfaction, conscientiousness and OCB, self-efficacy and job satisfaction and the relationship between intrinsic motivation and OCB. The three-way interactions showed that the relationship between several key variables was significantly moderated by organizational type and collegial relations in private and hybrid organizations compared to public organizations. Specifically, this shows that employees with high levels of extraversion in public organizations will feel more job satisfaction than in hybrid organizations when they perceive positive collegial relationships. Also, this implies that they feel less job satisfaction in public than private organizations when they perceive negative collegial relationships. The relationship between extraversion and OCB shows that employees with high levels of extraversion will show more OCB in public organizations compared to public organizations when they perceive positive collegial relationships. The relationship between conscientiousness and OCB shows that employees with high levels of conscientiousness in public organizations will show more OCB compared to hybrid organizations when they perceive positive collegial relationships. The relationship between intrinsic motivation and OCB shows that employees with high levels of intrinsic motivation in hybrid organizations will be show more OCB compared to public organizations. The relationship between self-efficacy and OCB, and the relationship between self-efficacy and turnover intention shows that employees with high levels of self-efficacy in private organizations will show more OCB and experience less turnover intentions compared to public organizations when they perceive positive collegial relationships. Investigation of the three-way interactions showed that agreeableness and OCB was significantly moderated by organizational type and colleague conflict in hybrid organizations compared to public organizations. This result shows that employees with higher levels of agreeableness in hybrid organizations will show more OCB than in public organizations when they perceive negative collegial relationships. This result reflects that those who are high in agreeableness are more likely to use constructive tactics when in conflict with others, whereas people low in agreeableness are more likely to use coercive tactics (Jensen-Capbell & Graziano, 2001). SEM analyses testing whether facilitating variables would enhance the relationships between positive collegial environment, job satisfaction and organizational outcomes model were tested. Interestingly, the facilitating variables led to lower turnover intention with positive collegial relations in the overall sample. These results suggest that by providing a positive atmosphere and finding ways to encourage employee self-development (i.e. facilitating intrinsic motivation and self-efficacy), would increase P-O fit, and would lead to greater job satisfaction and lower turnover intentions. Furthermore, exploratory analyses revealed that intrinsic motivation was a superior facilitating factor than extrinsic motivation. Results are discussed in light of differences between Western and South Korean cultural perspectives. In addition, an implicit measure of job satisfaction was developed, which demonstrated divergence from self-report methods
Competition favors the prepared firm: Firms RD responses to competitive market pressure
No full textThis paper aims to contribute to the literature on the long-debated relationship between market competition and firm research and development (R&D) by investigating the effect of competitive market pressure on firms' incentives to invest in R&D. The paper shows that a firm's R&D response to competitive market pressure depends primarily on its level of technological competence or R&D productivity: firms with high levels of technological competence tend to respond aggressively (i.e., exhibit a higher level of R&D efforts) to intensifying competitive market pressure, while firms with low levels of technological competence tend to respond submissively (i.e., exhibit a lower level of R&D efforts). The differential effect of competitive market pressure on firm R&D, conditioned primarily by the level of firms' technological competence, is empirically supported by unique firm-level data from the World Bank. Furthermore, the role of firm-specific technological competence in conditioning the R&D-competition relationship is more evident and statistically more significant for firms facing consumers whose utility is relatively more elastic to product quality than to price. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.The author thanks his dissertation advisor at Harvard, Frederic
M. Scherer, and other seminar participants at Harvard and KAIST
Business School for their invaluable comments and advice on the
early version of this paper. The author also thanks Editor Stefan
Kuhlman andtwo anonymousreferees for their encouragement and
invaluable comments.
Metahomaloptera Chang
No full text[[Metahomaloptera Chang]] The hillstream loach genus Metahomaloptera was erected by Chang (1944), with M. omeiensis as the type species. Chang (1944) identified Metahomaloptera using the following characters: “head and anterior part of body greatly depressed and ventrally flattened; snout broad, rounded, and trenchant; eye superolateral, with free orbital margin; mouth inferior, crescent-shaped, and of moderate size, with 8 barbels, 4 rostral and 4 maxillary; upper lip narrow, with single row of papillae; both jaws provided with sharp horny edges; gill-opening very small, crescent-shaped, situated entirely above the base of pectoral; pectoral fin with 20-23 rays; pelvic fin with 17-21 rays.” Xie, et al. (1984) described a subspecies of Metahomaloptera omeiensis, M. o. hangshuiensis, from a tributary of the upper Yangtse River. At present, only one species of Metahomaloptera has been recorded from the upper Yangtse River. Chen (1990) recorded M. omeiensis omeiensis in Yanjin and Weixin, Yunnan Province, China. He also added a note regarding a specimen of Metahomaloptera collected in Fumin County, Yunnan, China, and listed some differences between this specimen and M. omeiensis omeiensis, but lacking enough material, did not describe it as a new species.Published as part of Jian Yang, Xiaoyong Chen & Junxing Yang, 2007, A new species of Metahomaloptera (Teleostei: Balitoridae) from China., pp. 63-68 in Zootaxa 1526 on page 6
[[alternative]]A Study of Program Planning for the Teacher-Chang College of Psychology
No full text[[abstract]]A Study of Program Planning for the Teacher-Chang College of Psychology
Ya-Yen Chang
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to understand the program planning practices of the College of Psychology and tried to plan an ideal program finally. The qualitative study approach and the questionnaire investigation were adopted to examine the Teacher-Chang College of Psychology program. The program planners were interviewed concerning their beliefs of the program goals, the curriculum design of the programs and their evaluation procedures. Through interviews and questionnaire investigations the findings are as follows:
1. People didn’t know the Teacher-Chang College of Psychology very well.
2. The recruiting of lecturers were mainly inner teachers. The groups and workshops were their main curriculum style. The curriculum contents were almost about self-growth and human relationship. The problem of curriculum design was that the Teacher-Chang College of Psychology didn’t have steady lecturer recruit.
3. The Teacher-Chang College of Psychology didn’t have enough program planners and program planners didn’t have enough ability. However there was a discrepancy between the head of Teacher-Chang and other centers.
4. There were not concrete marketing strategy and experts. Marketing strategy is to use old-fashioned media.
5. The main evaluation was quantitative and interview, while qualitative evaluation and whole program evaluation were being neglected.
Key words: Program planning, Teacher-Chang, adult education,
College of Psychology
Chang Ko (Thailand), Mai Yang tree
No full textSalak Phet Valley, Tambon Goh Chang, Amphur Laem Ngop. Changwat Trat. Dec. 3, 1936. Panatomic Proms. Rollerflex. Burned-out basin in Mai Yang for gathering 'oil'. 5.6 1/10 -.GrayscalePendleton nitrate negative, Box 191 of 38
Learning-by-doing in RD, knowledge threshold, and technological divide
No full textThis paper presents a simple R&D-based growth model of the "technological divide," in which learning-by-doing (investing) in R&D and a threshold level of technological knowledge jointly determine the pattern of economic growth. Specifically, the model generates differences in the growth pattern primarily by modifying the underlying parameters that govern the evolution of economy-wide technological competence or dynamic R&D productivity. The technological divide arises at the threshold level of technological knowledge, which is largely affected by the quality of socio-technological infrastructure. Government policies aimed at enhancing the quality of socio-technological infrastructure can help countries escape from the "technology divide" trap by lowering the knowledge threshold. While the model preserves the spirit of the R&D-based endogenous growth model in the sense of its policy effects and the endogenous evolution of technological competence, the model does not need to reach the scale effect directly, where an increase in the size of an economy generates more rapid growth.The author thanks Editor Luigi Orsenigo and two anonymous reviewers for
their invaluable and constructive comments and suggestions.
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