311 research outputs found
sj-docx-1-opp-10.1177_10781552221104773 - Supplemental material for Perspectives toward biosimilars among oncologists: A Malaysian survey
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-opp-10.1177_10781552221104773 for Perspectives toward biosimilars among oncologists: A Malaysian survey by Soon Cien Chong, Retha Rajah, Poh Lee Chow, Hsio Ching Tan, Chin Man Chong, Kar Yee Khor, Wan Ping Lee and Wan Ying Tan in Journal of Oncology Pharmacy Practice</p
TTA school-based research consortium initiative, the evaluation, final report
No full textThis is the final report of the evaluation of th School-Based Research Consortium Initiative which ran in England from 1998 to 2001. The initiative was sponsored via a public/private partnership between the Teacher Training Agency (TTA), a UK Government agency, and the Centre for British Teachers (CfBT), a private not-for-profit company. The aim of the initiative was to create local infrastructures of support and action for teachers to engage ‘in and with’ research. Those infrastructures were made up of consortia, consisting in each case of a small number of schools together with a university department of education and at least one local education authority (LEA). Over the three years that it ran, the initiative spawned a considerable range and volume of research activities, including peer observation of teaching, peer review of videos of teaching, interview-based study, surveys measuring such things as rewards and sanctions in the classroom. In addition to well-developed teacher-university collaborations and some joint work with local education authorities, there were many examples of teacher-teacher collaboration (some of it between different schools), and also times when teachers and pupils worked together to devise, carry out or interpret research activity. In practice, the initiative created an environment in which it was possible to develop new research relationships across a range of partners, rather than merely transfer the locus of research to schools. Three aspects of teacher experience of the initiative are important to highlight. The first was the overwhelming testimony of teachers that the value of the initiative for them was the rediscovery of their professional confidence in a climate of low trust accountability, characterised by constant monitoring, target setting and bureaucratic demands. The second was the growth of familiarity with research practices that teachers gained through working collaboratively with their peers, with pupils, and with colleagues from the university. The third was how the process of research itself was necessarily situated in teachers’ own practices
Evaluations of ingroup and outgroup as a function of threat moderated by procedural just world beliefs.
No full textIngroup and outgroup evaluations were investigated as a function of prototypicality threat and distinctiveness threat manipulations, with Procedural Just World beliefs as a moderator. Ninety university undergraduates were randomly assigned to 4 groups: high prototypicality-high distinctiveness, high prototypicality-low distinctiveness, low prototypicality-high distinctiveness, and low prototypicality-low distinctiveness. Participants were given bogus feedback on a bogus personality test. Levels of favouritism and derogation on both ingroup and outgroup were measured. Results supported that predictions of Brewer (1991, 2007)‟s optimal distinctiveness theory may only be reflective of public but not private manifestations of individuals‟ behaviours. In the present study, Procedural Just World beliefs failed to moderate the effects of social identity threats.Bachelor of Art
Evaluations of ingroup and outgroup as a function of threat moderated by procedural just world beliefs.
No full textIngroup and outgroup evaluations were investigated as a function of prototypicality threat and distinctiveness threat manipulations, with Procedural Just World beliefs as a moderator. Ninety university undergraduates were randomly assigned to 4 groups: high prototypicality-high distinctiveness, high prototypicality-low distinctiveness, low prototypicality-high distinctiveness, and low prototypicality-low distinctiveness. Participants were given bogus feedback on a bogus personality test. Levels of favouritism and derogation on both ingroup and outgroup were measured. Results supported that predictions of Brewer (1991, 2007)‟s optimal distinctiveness theory may only be reflective of public but not private manifestations of individuals‟ behaviours. In the present study, Procedural Just World beliefs failed to moderate the effects of social identity threats.Bachelor of Art
CUHK electronic theses & dissertations collection
No full textChan, Ching King.Thesis Ed.D. Chinese University of Hong Kong 2015.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 107-123).Abstracts also in Chinese; some appendixes in Chinese.Title from PDF title page (viewed on 03, January, 2017)
Law, foreign direct investment and economic development in Taiwan
No full textThis research looks at the legal regime governing foreign direct investment
(FDI) in Taiwan, and at the interaction between the Government's economic
policies, legal reform and FDI in the economic development of Taiwan. The
research for this thesis is focused on the period of 1945 to the present; however, a
study of the pre-1945 period is provided as a basis for analysing the post-1945
developments. There are three principal aims of this thesis. First, the thesis is
designed to illustrate how the economic success of Taiwan challenges traditional
views put forward in development theories and in law and development theories, in
particular. Secondly, the thesis considers the role of law in the development
process. By examining the evolution and operation of the FDI legal regime in
Taiwan in its economic, social, political and historical context, this research
suggests that the role of law is as a 'doorkeeper' for a country's development. If
consistent with a public-interest-oriented economic policy, an appropriate and wellconsidered
legal regime can help a country's development without risking its
economic sovereignty. Finally, this thesis examines Taiwan's current FDI regime
for its appropriateness. Using international law as a reference-point, a detailed
analysis is made of Taiwan's current FDI laws. The thesis suggests that certain of
these laws are out of date and that further legal reform is required.
The thesis concludes by slightly modifying the developmental model for law
and FDI which is put forward in Chapter 1, in order to emphasise the important role
of government economic policy in Taiwan's development. It is submitted that the
Government's choice of development strategy in each of Taiwan's different
development phases has been crucial to Taiwan's success. The thesis also
concludes that an appropriate legal regime remains important for a country's
development regardless of its development status
Ingroup-outgroup evaluations under threats to group’s distinctiveness and self’s social identity, and the moderating effect of social value orientation.
No full textThe current research aimed to investigate the effects on ingroup and outgroup evaluations when both the individual’s social identity and the individual’s ingroup are threatened simultaneously, as well as how individual differences in social value orientation moderates these ingroup-outgroup evaluations. Threats to ingroup and to the self were manipulated through false feedbacks. After manipulation, participants (N = 90) evaluated fellow NTU students of the same major of study as themselves (ingroup) and students of a different major of study (outgroup) on two measures. Results revealed that social value orientation significantly moderated the effects of threats to self and to ingroup on ingroup-outgroup evaluations in multiple ways, depending on social contexts and target of evaluation.Bachelor of Art
Genomic profiling of medulloblastomas
No full textMedulloblastoma is the most common malignant brain tumor in children. Multimodality treatment regimens involving surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, have significantly
improved survival rates for this disease; however, approximately one third of patients with medulloblastoma remain incurable and current treatment result in severe
neurocognitive sequelae among long term survivors. Outcome prediction using clinical parameters and biomarkers has failed, owing to the biological heterogeneity of medulloblastomas. Molecular profiling offers an attractive approach for risk stratification of treatment and has identified at least two distinct subgroups of medulloblastoma with activation of sonic hedgehog and Wingless pathways; the remaining subgroups are poorly defined. Granule cell precursors are believed to be the cell of origin of at least a subset of medulloblastoma. Aim 1: We hypothesized that the gene expression of
medulloblastoma is possibly accounted for by not only the pathogenesis of the tumor, but also the cell of origin. We hypothesized that the medulloblastoma subgroups which
are non-sonic-hedgehog-activated arise from a different cell of origin and speculate that knowledge on the identity of the cell of origin may provide insights to the tumorigenesis of the poorly understood subgroups of tumors. We also explored independent prognostic biological markers within each molecularly distinct medulloblastoma subgroup for higher
clinical utility. Aim 2: To elucidate the role of the immune system in the biology and clinical outcome of medulloblastoma, we hypothesize that immune cells infiltrating
medulloblastoma create a unique microenvironment which may alter the tumor biology an immune-regulated gene expression signature that can be linked to prognostic
outcome.Doctor of Philosophy (SBS
Riben da xue de ying yuan tuan ling dao: xun zhao ying yuan tuan cheng nuo, ji lu, biao xian he guan xi dui dui yuan de yi yi
No full textM.Phil.Ōendan (応援団) (cheer groups) are commonly found in high schools, colleges and universities in Japan. The ōendan in Japanese universities commonly consist of three sections: leaders (リーダー), brass band (吹奏楽団) and cheerleading (チアリーダー). In this thesis, I focus on the leader section of the ōendan in Japanese universities, the core of the cheer group. The leader section cheers for their school sports teams, and represents the school. They have tended to be all-male groups whose cheering differs considerably from the feminine cheerleading styles originating in the United States. In the mass media and popular culture, the ōendan represent traditional values and practices that are considered to be exaggerated in the context of contemporary society. In recent years, ōendan have been relaxing its rules, but the practices and views of ōendan remain exaggerated, arguably leading to declining membership. However, the ōendan still serve as a traditional sports club in many prestigious universities. The study compares ōendan of four universities over space, time, school culture and gender and is based on 1) participant observation, 2) semi-structured interviews and 3) textual and media analysis. In this research, I argue that members follow harsh and exaggerated traditional customs in the ōendan to establish and maintain group identity. Members find meaning in joining and participating in the ōendan community. They value the discipline that participation brings to their lives, and are inspired to smoothly perform different social roles while broadly expanding their social networks.應援團（Ōendan）常見於日本的高中，學院和大學。日本大學的應援團由三部分組成：領導（リーダー），銅管樂隊（吹奏樂團）和啦啦隊（チアリーダー）。這項研究重點關注於日本大學應援團的領導部分，因為他們是該組織的核心。他們為學校的運動隊打氣歡呼，並代表著學校的聲望，其特徵與美國的啦啦隊風格不同。在大眾傳媒和流行文化塑造下的應援團形像，往往被認為在現代社會中過份嚴苛地遵循著日本傳統價值和習俗。近年來，應援團已放鬆規則迎合現代社會標準，但是應援團的做法和觀點仍然嚴苛，導致成員數目日漸下降。雖然如此，應援團仍然是許多日本著名大學的傳統體育團隊。在這項研究中說明應援團仍在遵循嚴苛和不合理的傳統習俗，深入研習下亦洞悉到應援團活動與成員嚴謹的生活態度、日常表現和社會關係有相關意義。本研究比較四所日本大學應援團在日本社會中的空間，時間，學校文化和性別，進行研究和分析，所得研究結論來自: 1）參與者觀察，2）半結構化訪談，3）文本和媒體分析。Fan, Ching Wan.Thesis M.Phil. Chinese University of Hong Kong 2019.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 171-175).Abstracts also in Chinese.Title from PDF title page (viewed on 16, February, 2021).Fan, Ching Wan
Prototipo de Control y Monitoreo para una Máquina Campaneadora IPM BA500
No full textProyecto de Graduación (Bachillerato en Ingeniería Electrónica) Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica. Escuela de Ingeniería Electrónica, 2001.The traditional coupling technology for PVC water pipes consists in attaching a belling end with a normal end of another tube, applying paste for PVC. However it has been reached to the conclusion that this method is not ideal due to the tendency to create leaks because of pressure.
Therefore, research and development works led to what is known as the RIEBER System. This system consists basically on a special belling of the PVC tubes, where metallic packing covered with rubber is incorporated. This allows joining to tubes without the necessity to use paste for PVC, the two ends are coupled by means of pressure.
At the moment most of the belling machines are designed to do belling without packing. For this reason, it becomes necessary to carry out a conversion in these machines.
Additionally, to implement the conversion of these machines to the new system it is appealed to the employment of several makers PLC´s. In general, incompatibilities exist between the I/O interfaces among PLC´s.
In this project the control and simulation of a belling machine with high level programming (InControl and InTouch) was developed.
This allows reusing the generated code without a great effort. Avoiding the dependence of the PLC manufacturers and their incompability of programming languages, that causes of having to generate new code for the control of a specific process.
The software used in the project also offers programming flexibility, since it allows the use and interaction of diverse programming languages like: Relay Logic Ladder (RLL), Structured text and Sequential Function Chart (SFC).La tecnología tradicional de acople en tuberías de PVC para agua consiste en
empatar un extremo campaneado con el extremo normal de otro tubo y aplicando
pegamento para PVC. Sin embargo se ha llegado a la conclusión de que este
método de acoplamiento no es ideal debido a la tendencia a crear fugas por causa
de presión.
Entonces labores de investigación llevaron a lo que se conoce como sistema
RIEBER (Junta Integrada), el cual consiste básicamente en un campaneado especial
de los tubos PVC, donde se incorpora un empaque metálico revestido de hule, esto
permite el acople entre tubos sin necesidad de pegamento para PVC, esto es,
acoplando los dos extremos mediante presión.
Actualmente la mayoría de las máquinas campaneadoras fueron diseñas para
realizar campaneo sin empaque, por lo que se hace necesario realizar una
conversión en dichas máquinas.
Adicionalmente, para realizar la conversión de estas máquinas a este nuevo
sistema se recurre al empleo de PLC´s de diversos fabricantes, y por lo general
existen incompatibilidades entre las interfaces de I/O entre PLC´s.
Con este proyecto se desarrolló el control y simulación de una máquina
campaneadora con programas de alto nivel (InControl e InTouch)
Esto permite reutilizar el código generado sin un gran esfuerzo; a diferencia de
un PLC, que dependiendo de una marca a otra; la incompatibilidad de lenguajes
ocasiona el problema de tener que volver a generar el código para el control de un
proceso específico, partiendo casi de cero.
Además ofrece la flexibilidad de programación, ya que permite la utilización e
interacción de diversos lenguajes de programación como: lógica en escalera (RLL),
texto estructurado y SFC.Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica. Escuela de Ingeniería Electrónica.
Automatización Industrial de Centroamérica S.A
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