Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Founder text'

From 1930 to 1955, Amon Carter, publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, exerted his power to create modern Fort Worth. Carter used his stature as the publisher of the city's major newspaper to build a modern city out of this livestock center. Between 1930 and 1955, Carter lobbied successfully for New Deal funds for Fort Worth, persuaded Consolidated Aircraft to build an airplane plant in the city, and convinced Burlington Railways to stay in the city. He also labored unsuccessfully to have the Trinity River Canal built and to secure a General Motors plant for Fort Worth. These efforts demonstrate that Carter was indeed the founder of modern Fort Worth.

Random numbers are integral to many areas of computer science, it is used in everything from video games to encryption of important messages and simulations. These numbers are often generated by mathematical algorithms and it is highly important for these generators to generate numbers that are truly random and unpredictable, as patterns, cycles or other discrepancies might at worst cause serious security flaws that can be exploited. Random numbers can also be generated with the aid of a source of entropy, for this report the source used was the text found on the social media site Twitter to see if text is a good source of randomness. A data analysis on a sample of the text was made that showed some inherent structure in the text that could be removed to improve the randomness. Multiple generators were then made to further analyse the behaviour of the text and to find possible implementations for a good random number generator. We found that generators that only took the characters one by one to build a random number did not produce random enough numbers so some kind of a transformation involving multiple characters was necessary. The type of generator that performed the best was an implementation of a linear congruential method random number generator where the additive part varied with input from the text. This generator performed, in the randomness testing, comparably to an implementation of Mersenne Twister showing that with the right implementation it is possible to generate good random numbers from the text found on social media. The limiting factors are that the generation of the random numbers is dependent on the speed at which it is possible to access new data and a security risk from the potential to tamper with the data sent to the generator.<br>Slumptal används inom många områden av datavetenskap, det används inom allt ifrån spel till kryptering av viktiga meddelanden och simuleringar. Dessa slumptal är ofta genererade av matematiska algoritmer och det är viktigt att dessa generatorer generar tal som är så slumpmässiga och oförutsägbara som möjligt, då mönster, cykler eller andra avvikelser kan orsaka allvarliga säkerhetsbrister som kan bli utnyttjade. Slumptal kan även genereras med hjälp av en källa till entropi och för den här rapporten så användes text hämtat ifrån det sociala mediet Twitter. En dataanalys på ett urval av texten gjordes som visade vissa inbyggda mönster i texten som kunde tas bort för att förbättra hur slumpmässig datan var. Ett flertal slumptalsgeneratorer skapades sedan för att ytterligare analysera beteendet hos datan och för att hitta möjliga implementationer till en bra slumptalsgenerator. Vi fann att generatorer som enbart tog karaktärerna en för en från texten för att bygga ett slumptal inte producerade tillräckligt slumpmässiga tal, så någon form av transformation med flera karaktärer från texten behövdes. Typen av generator som presterade bäst var en implementation av en linjär kongruensgenerator där den additiva delen varierade med indata från texten. Den här generatorn presterade, i slumptalstesten, jämförbart med en implementation av Mersenne Twister vilket visar att med rätt implementation så är det möjligt att generera bra slumptal från texten från social media. De begränsande faktorerna är att genereringen av slumptalen beror på hastigheten att få tag på ny data och en säkerhetsrisk i att datan som sänds till generatorn skulle kunna vara manipulerat.

La ṣaḥīfa de Médine, a suscité l’attention des érudits occidentaux depuis la deuxième moitié du dix-neuvième siècle,à un tel point que P.L. Rose la considère comme « une struc- ture squelettique » qui contrôle les rapports de la Sīra. Elle a été préservée grâce à deux historiographes du 3ème/9ème siècle : Ibn Hishām et Abū ‘Ubayd ; la recherche contemporaine la place, dans l’ensemble, dans les cinq premières années de l’hégire. Elle illustre clairement, à travers ses variantes présentes et dans le texte lui- même et dans sa chaîne de transmission, les aléas, forcément dommageable,du passage d’une culture de l’oralité à l’écrit. L’accès à l’écrit n’était pas si simple que nous avons toujours cru. Le tournant capital était,lorsque le Barmakide, Ja‘far Ibn Yaḥya (m. 187/803), introduit, vers la fin du 8e/ début du 9e siècle, l’usage du papier dans les bureaux officiels. Cette réforme est due au coût moins élevé de cette matière,et notamment à l’impossibilité de gratter ou laver le papier, à l’inverse du papyrus et du parchemin. Cette Ṣaḥīfa a été fondamentalement produite durant la période prophétique,mais elle a été sans doute modifiée postérieurement,en rajoutant des paragraphes, omettant d’autres, en rajoutant des paragraphes, omettant d’autres, et en particulier en réorgani-sant ces derniers d’une façon qui ne se conforme pas toujours à son classement initial. Ce Texte nous fournit également les connotations originales des grands termes islamiques, comme mu’min et kāfir<br>The Ṣaḥīfa of Medina, has drawn the attention of the Western scholars since the second half of the nineteenth century, to such an extent that P. L. Rose considers it as a “skeletal structure’’, which controls the veracity of Sīra-reports. It has been preserved thanks to two historiographers of the 3rd/9thcentury : Ibn Hishām and Abū ‘Ubayd ; the contemporary research situates it, on the whole, in the first five years of Hijra.It clearly illustrates, through its variants present in the text itself as well as in the chain of transmission, the vagaries, necessarily harmful, moving from an oral transmission, culture to a written one. The access to the writing was not so simple that we have always believed. The crucial turning point was when the Barmakid Ja‛far Ibn Yaḥya, (d. 187/803), introduced, by the end of the 8th/ beginning of the9th century, the usage of the paper in the government offices. This reform was due to the ower cost of this material and in parti- cular to the impossibility of scratching or washing paper, unlike papyrus and parchment.This Ṣaḥīfa wasfundamentally produced during the Prophet’s life time, however it was doubtless modified later, adding paragraphs,deleting others, and particularly organizing them in a way thatdoes not always comply with its initial ranking. This Text provides too original connota- tions of great Islamic words,like mu’min and kāfir

Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2004.<br>Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Curriculum and Instruction. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.

Proučavane su koroziona postojanost i tendencija lepljenja različitihmaterijala u kontaktu sa tečnom Al&ndash;Si&ndash;Cu legurom. Ispitivanjem suobuhvaćeni čelik za rad na toplo, plazma nitrirani čelik i dupleksslojevi sa CrN, TiAlN, TiAlSiN i CrAlN prevlakama, različitog nivoapovršinske hrapavosti. Za ispitivanja pomenutih fenomenaprimenjena je metoda izvlačenja, koja je unapređena kako bi se povećalenjena tačnost i verodostojnost simulacije procesa livenja. Korozioniefekti su pojačani tako što su uzorci osim kratkog kontakta sa odlivkomzadržavani i u dužim periodima u kontaktu sa tečnom legurom (5 i 20min). Uprkos opštim stavovima, za ispitivane materijale jeustanovljeno da su sile izvlačenja uzoraka iz Al&ndash;Si&ndash;Cu odlivakanezavisne od njihovog hemijskog sastava. Uticaj hrapavosti je izraženkod uzoraka sa prevlakama kod kojih pri smanjenju hrapavosti dolazi dopovećanja sile izvlačenja. Sve ispitane prevlake su sklone mehaničkomlepljenju Al&ndash;Si&ndash;Cu legure za svoje površine, ali sa aspekta korozije utečnom metalu značajno prevazilaze performanse čelika i plazmanitriranog sloja. Duži kontakt livene legure sa površinama prevlakauzrokovao je niže vrednosti sila izvlačenja, što je posledicaoksidacije površina prevlaka. Ustanovljeno je da su ispitivaneprevlake inertne ka tečnoj leguri aluminijuma. Međutim, dolazi dooksidacije i korozije materijala podloge kroz greške rasta koje suprisutne u prevlakama. Stečena znanja o identifikovanimmehanizmima habanja i propadanja zaštitnih slojeva prevlakaposlužiće daljem razvoju dupleks slojeva namenjenih za zaštitu alataza livenje pod pritiskom.<br>Corrosion resistance and soldering tendency of different materials in moltenAl&ndash;Si&ndash;Cu alloy were studied. Hot-working tool steel, plasma nitrided steel andduplex layers with CrN, TiAlN, TiAlSiN and CrAlN top coatings, which wereproduced to various degree of surface roughness, were covered by the study.An ejection test was employed for investigation of the concerned phenomena.The ejection test was improved in order to increase its accuracy and thereliability of process simulation. Samples were examined in both short andextended periods of contact (5 and 20 min) with liquid casting. Castingsolidification was extended in order to intensify the corrosion effects. Contraryto common findings, it was found that the ejection force of the investigatedmaterials does not depend on their chemical composition. For the coatedsamples, a pronounced dependence of the ejection force on the surfaceroughness was found. The ejection force increases with decrease in surfaceroughness. All investigated coatings are prone to mechanical soldering by Al&ndash;Si&ndash;Cu alloy. Still, their corrosion resistance substantially exceeds the corrosionresistance of steel and plasma nitrided layer. Longer exposure of coatedsamples to cast alloy induced lower ejection forces, which is a consequenceof coatings oxidation. It was found that the investigated coatings are inert toliquid aluminium. However, the underlying material undergoes oxidation andcorrosion through coating growth defects. The findings concerning the wearmechanisms of protective layers support further development of duplex layersintended for die casting tools protection.

<p>Hårdgörning av trä syftar till att göra materialet hårdare. Detta går att åstadkomma genom komprimering, det komprimerade materialet tenderar dock att återgå mot sin ursprungsform då materialet utsätts för fukt om ingen låsning sker. Låsningen kan ske mekaniskt i en treskiktskonstruktion som motverkar träets fuktrörelser. Dessa skivor har dock visat sig vara instabila och tidigare försök har uppvisat deformationer i form av kupning. Denna undersökning syftar till att utreda förutsättningarna för att använda komprimerad asp samt att ta fram underlag för framtagning av en kommersiell produkt.</p><p>Praktiska tester har genomförts för att studera hårdhet, återfjädring och densitet hos det komprimerade virket. Vidare har treskiktsskivor tagits fram för att testa om det går att få en stabil konstruktion genom att variera tjockleken på spärrskiktet. Även skillnader i acklimatiseringstid och fuktkvotens inverkan för virkets återfjädring har studerats.</p><p>Resultaten visar på att aspens hårdhet efter komprimering blir i samma nivå som bok och ask, en låg fuktkkvot vid komprimering av materialet ger en låg återfjädring, komprimerat material har en längre acklimatiseringstid till jämviktsfuktkvot och materialet går att låsa tvärs fiberriktningen i en treskiktskonstruktion.</p><br><p>To make wood harder it can be densified. This can be achieved by compression, the compressed material tends to return to the original shape when it is exposed to moisture fluxations and if no form of fixation occurs. The fixation can be done mechanically in a three-layer panel construction which reduce movements in the timber. These panels have been found to be unstable and previous attempts have shown deformations in form of cupping. This study aims to evaluate the conditions for using compressed aspen wood, and to provide a basis for development of a commercial product.</p><p>Practical tests have been conducted to study hardness, springback and density of the compressed wood. In addition, three-layer panels have been developed to test whether it is possible to have a stable construction by varying the thickness of the buttom layer. Differences in acclimatisation time and the moisture contents effect on the springback has aslo been studied.</p><p>The results show that the hardness of aspen wood after compression is in equal levels with beech and ashes, a low moisture contet provides a low springback, compressed timber have a longer time for acclimatisation and it is possible to fixate the material in the direction across the grain in a three-layer panel construction.</p>

La present tesi doctoral s’ha centrat en el repte d’aconseguir, mitjançant Fabricació Additiva (FA), models per a assaig quirúrgic, sota la premissa que els equips per fer-los haurien de ser accessibles a l’àmbit hospitalari. L’objectiu és facilitar l’extensió de l’ús dels prototips com a eina de preparació d’operacions quirúrgiques, transformant la pràctica mèdica actual de la mateixa manera que en el seu moment ho van fer tecnologies com les que van facilitar l’ús de radiografies. El motiu d’utilitzar FA, en lloc de tecnologies més tradicionals, és la seva capacitat de materialitzar de forma directa les dades digitals obtingudes de l’anatomia del pacient mitjançant sistemes d’escanejat tridimensional, fent possible l’obtenció de models personalitzats. Els resultats es centren en la generació de nou coneixement sobre com aconseguir equipaments d’impressió 3D multimaterials accessibles que permetin l’obtenció de models mimètics respecte als teixits vius. Per facilitar aquesta buscada extensió de la tecnologia, s’ha focalitzat en les tecnologies de codi obert com la Fabricació per Filament Fos (FFF) i similars basades en líquids catalitzables. La recerca s’alinea dins l’activitat de desenvolupament de la FA al CIM UPC, i en aquest àmbit concret amb la col·laboració amb l’Hospital Sant Joan de Déu de Barcelona (HSJD). El primer bloc de la tesi inclou la descripció de l’estat de l’art, detallant les tecnologies existents i la seva aplicació a l’entorn mèdic. S’han establert per primer cop unes bases de caracterització dels teixits vius -sobretot tous- per donar suport a la selecció de materials que els puguin mimetitzar en un procés de FA, a efectes de millorar l’experiència d’assaig dels cirurgians. El caràcter rígid dels materials majoritàriament usats en impressió 3D els fa poc útils per simular tumors i altres referències anatòmiques. De forma successiva, es tracten paràmetres com la densitat, la viscoelasticitat, la caracterització dels materials tous a la indústria, l’estudi del mòdul elàstic de teixits tous i vasos, la duresa d’aquests, i requeriments com l’esterilització dels models. El segon bloc comença explorant la impressió 3D mitjançant FFF. Es classifiquen les variants del procés des del punt de vista de la multimaterialitat, essencial per fer models d’assaig quirúrgic, diferenciant entre solucions multibroquet i de barreja al capçal. S’ha inclòs l’estudi de materials (filaments i líquids) que serien més útils per mimetitzar teixits tous. Es constata com en els líquids, en comparació amb els filaments, la complexitat del treball en processos de FA és més elevada, i es determinen formes d’imprimir materials molt tous. Per acabar, s’exposen sis casos reals de col·laboració amb l’HJSD, una selecció d’aquells en els que el doctorand ha intervingut en els darrers anys. L’origen es troba en la dificultat de l’abordatge d’operacions de resecció de tumors infantils com el neuroblastoma, i a la iniciativa del Dr. Lucas Krauel. Finalment, el Bloc 3 té per objecte explorar nombrosos conceptes (fins a 8), activitat completada al llarg dels darrers cinc anys amb el suport dels mitjans del CIM UPC i de l’activitat associada a treballs finals d’estudis d’estudiants de la UPC, arribant-se a materialitzar equipaments experimentals per validar-los. La recerca ampla i sistemàtica al respecte fa que s’estigui més a prop de disposar d’una solució d’impressió 3D multimaterial de sobretaula. Es determina que la millor via de progrés és la de disposar d’una pluralitat de capçals independents a fi de capacitar la impressora 3D per integrar diversos conceptes estudiats, materialitzant-se una possible solució. Cloent la tesi, es planteja com seria un equipament d’impressió 3D per a models d’assaig quirúrgic, a fi de servir de base per a futurs desenvolupaments.<br>La presente tesis doctoral se ha centrado en el reto de conseguir, mediante Fabricación Aditiva (FA), modelos para ensayo quirúrgico, bajo la premisa que los equipos para obtenerlos tendrían que ser accesibles al ámbito hospitalario. El objetivo es facilitar la extensión del uso de modelos como herramienta de preparación de operaciones quirúrgicas, transformando la práctica médica actual de la misma manera que, en su momento, lo hicieron tecnologías como las que facilitaron el uso de radiografías. El motivo de utilizar FA, en lugar de tecnologías más tradicionales, es su capacidad de materializar de forma directa los datos digitales obtenidos de la anatomía del paciente mediante sistemas de escaneado tridimensional, haciendo posible la obtención de modelos personalizados. Los resultados se centran en la generación de nuevo conocimiento para conseguir equipamientos de impresión 3D multimateriales accesibles que permitan la obtención de modelos miméticos respecto a los tejidos vivos. Para facilitar la buscada extensión de la tecnología, se ha focalizado en las tecnologías de código abierto como la Fabricación por Hilo Fundido (FFF) y similares basadas en líquidos catalizables. Esta investigación se alinea dentro de la actividad de desarrollo de la FA en el CIM UPC, y en este ámbito concreto con la colaboración con el Hospital Sant Joan de Déu de Barcelona (HSJD). El primer bloque de la tesis incluye la descripción del estado del arte, detallando las tecnologías existentes y su aplicación al entorno médico. Se han establecido por primera vez unas bases de caracterización de los tejidos vivos – principalmente blandos – para dar apoyo a la selección de materiales que los puedan mimetizar en un proceso de FA, a efectos de mejorar la experiencia de ensayo de los cirujanos. El carácter rígido de los materiales mayoritariamente usados en impresión 3D los hace poco útiles para simular tumores y otras referencias anatómicas. De forma sucesiva, se tratan parámetros como la densidad, la viscoelasticidad, la caracterización de materiales blandos en la industria, el estudio del módulo elástico de tejidos blandos y vasos, la dureza de los mismos, y requerimientos como la esterilización de los modelos. El segundo bloque empieza explorando la impresión 3D mediante FFF. Se clasifican las variantes del proceso desde el punto de vista de la multimaterialidad, esencial para hacer modelos de ensayo quirúrgico, diferenciando entre soluciones multiboquilla y de mezcla en el cabezal. Se ha incluido el estudio de materiales (filamentos y líquidos) que serían más útiles para mimetizar tejidos blandos. Se constata como en los líquidos, en comparación con los filamentos, la complejidad del trabajo en procesos de FA es más elevada, y se determinan formas de imprimir materiales muy blandos. Para acabar, se exponen seis casos reales de colaboración con el HJSD, una selección de aquellos en los que el doctorando ha intervenido en los últimos años. El origen se encuentra en la dificultad del abordaje de operaciones de resección de tumores infantiles como el neuroblastoma, y en la iniciativa del Dr. Lucas Krauel. Finalmente, el Bloque 3 desarrolla numerosos conceptos (hasta 8), actividad completada a lo largo de los últimos cinco años con el apoyo de los medios del CIM UPC y de la actividad asociada a trabajos finales de estudios de estudiantes de la UPC, llegándose a materializar equipamientos experimentales para validarlos. La investigación amplia y sistemática al respecto hace que se esté más cerca de disponer de una solución de impresión 3D multimaterial de sobremesa. Se determina que la mejor vía de progreso es la de disponer de una pluralidad de cabezales independientes, a fin de capacitar la impresora 3D para integrar diversos conceptos estudiados, materializándose una posible solución. Para cerrar la tesis, se plantea cómo sería un equipamiento de impresión 3D para modelos de ensayo quirúrgico, a fin de servir de base para futuros desarrollos.

碩士<br>國立清華大學<br>高階經營管理碩士在職專班<br>96<br>Abstract Semiconductor is one of the most important industries in Taiwan during the past 30 years. The output value of semiconductor in 2004 has been over 1.1 trillion NT dollars which is the first industry hitting the target of 6-year government economic strategy named「Two Trillion & Twin Star」addressed in 2000. The Industrial Development Bureau Ministry of Economic Affairs forecasts that the output value of Taiwan semiconductor industry in 2008 will reach 1.75 trillion NT dollars and more than 2 trillion NT dollars in 2009. For the Taiwan wafer foundry industry, the worldwide market share of wafer fabrication has launched to 69.2%; IC packaging and testing has reached 44.8% and 60% worldwide market share respectively in 2005. Although Taiwan has been playing the most important role in the wafer foundry industry of the world, there still existing a lot of challenge from their international competitors such as Chartered, SMIC (Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation) and other new comers. In order to keep the leading edge in this foundry business, all the foundry Fabrication companies have to keep developing not only their advanced process technology with best quality system, but have to try to extend their service scope from wafer manufacturing to the very early stage of IC design and related IP verification. On the other hand, Foundry should elaborate to extend their wafer manufacturing service to the backend test and packaging whole solution to pursue more differential and added value. The “ Test and Packaging” divisions of foundry Fabs have been playing the most critical value chain for the process linkage between them. The major purpose of this thesis is trying to analyze the core value of test and packaging divisions including provide the fast yield feedback information to their front-end wafer fabrication manufacturing in order to enhance their process yields. On the other hand, this division also provides their foundry customers with backend total solution in order to make their customer win in the market. In order to approach the above two core values of test and packaging division of foundry fabs, this division needs to keep the advanced technology roadmap on both testing and packaging engineering. Meanwhile this division also has to integrate all the backend resources with cost effective and differential ways to provide the best services to either fabless or IDM customers and create the exclusive added value and competency while compete with her competitors.

Text-to-speech synthesis is a key component of interactive, speech-based systems. Typically, building a high-quality voice requires collecting dozens of hours of speech from a single professional speaker in an anechoic chamber with a high-quality microphone. There are about 7,000 languages spoken in the world, and most do not enjoy the speech research attention historically paid to such languages as English, Spanish, Mandarin, and Japanese. Speakers of these so-called "low-resource languages" therefore do not equally benefit from these technological advances. While it takes a great deal of time and resources to collect a traditional text-to-speech corpus for a given language, we may instead be able to make use of various sources of "found'' data which may be available. In particular, sources such as radio broadcast news and ASR corpora are available for many languages. While this kind of data does not exactly match what one would collect for a more standard TTS corpus, it may nevertheless contain parts which are usable for producing natural and intelligible parametric TTS voices. In the first part of this thesis, we examine various types of found speech data in comparison with data collected for TTS, in terms of a variety of acoustic and prosodic features. We find that radio broadcast news in particular is a good match. Audiobooks may also be a good match despite their largely more expressive style, and certain speakers in conversational and read ASR corpora also resemble TTS speakers in their manner of speaking and thus their data may be usable for training TTS voices. In the rest of the thesis, we conduct a variety of experiments in training voices on non-traditional sources of data, such as ASR data, radio broadcast news, and audiobooks. We aim to discover which methods produce the most intelligible and natural-sounding voices, focusing on three main approaches: 1) Training data subset selection. In noisy, heterogeneous data sources, we may wish to locate subsets of the data that are well-suited for building voices, based on acoustic and prosodic features that are known to correspond with TTS-style speech, while excluding utterances that introduce noise or other artifacts. We find that choosing subsets of speakers for training data can result in voices that are more intelligible. 2) Augmenting the frontend feature set with new features. In cleaner sources of found data, we may wish to train voices on all of the data, but we may get improvements in naturalness by including acoustic and prosodic features at the frontend and synthesizing in a manner that better matches the TTS style. We find that this approach is promising for creating more natural-sounding voices, regardless of the underlying acoustic model. 3) Adaptation. Another way to make use of high-quality data while also including informative acoustic and prosodic features is to adapt to subsets, rather than to select and train only on subsets. We also experiment with training on mixed high- and low-quality data, and adapting towards the high-quality set, which produces more intelligible voices than training on either type of data by itself. We hope that our findings may serve as guidelines for anyone wishing to build their own TTS voice using non-traditional sources of found data.

碩士<br>雲林科技大學<br>工業工程與管理研究所碩士班<br>97<br>Facing the severe challenges nowadays, a corporation needs to enhance its competitiveness and chase after the high-quality and the optimum cost and lead time to meet the market demands. However, the corporation may face the risks and the unexpected reactions from customers while it tries to find out the improving actions and management methods. The corporation must check the effectiveness and review the improving actions and management methods continually, and optimize the measures in order to strengthen its competitiveness. This study is a research of FMEA (Failure Mode & Effects Analysis), an engineering management technology of the reliability. This tool extensively applies to products abnormal analysis---to review problems in design step and to carry out the quality management and improving actions in process step for the predicting of possible issues. This study also applies to Delphi Method to identity the practicability of FMEA and proposes the follow-up improving suggestions. Summary: This study analyzes the customer’s complaint data of the latest 3 years and finds out the amount of complaint cases has been reduced to 10 from 20. It is obviously that it has actual effectiveness at continuous improving & prevention of abnormal cases. The questionnaire has been executed for 3 times via Delphi Method for each of the same testee and there is consistency on 7 key factors. The key factors are the quality planning and predicting performance of FMEA、quality continuous improving performance、process trouble shooting performance、executive efficiency of design change、operation efficiency of process change、in-house technology experience performance、process integrated performance. There are marked effects on new products development and continuous process improving via this analysis tool---FMEA.

abstract: This thesis describes the design of a Single Event Transient (SET) duration measurement test-structure on the Global Foundries (previously IBM) 32-nm silicon-on insulator (SOI) process. The test structure is designed for portability and allows quick design and implementation on a new process node. Such a test structure is critical in analyzing the effects of radiation on complementary metal oxide semi-conductor (CMOS) circuits. The focus of this thesis is the change in pulse width during propagation of SET pulse and build a test structure to measure the duration of a SET pulse generated in real time. This test structure can estimate the SET pulse duration with 10ps resolution. It receives the input SET propagated through a SET capture structure made using a chain of combinational gates. The impact of propagation of the SET in a >200 deep collection structure is studied. A novel methodology of deploying Thick Gate TID structure is proposed and analyzed to build multi-stage chain of combinational gates. Upon using long chain of combinational gates, the most critical issue of pulse width broadening and shortening is analyzed across critical process corners. The impact of using regular standard cells on pulse width modification is compared with NMOS and/or PMOS skewed gates for the chain of combinational gates. A possible resolution to pulse width change is demonstrated using circuit and layout design of chain of inverters, two and three inputs NOR gates. The SET capture circuit is also tested in simulation by introducing a glitch signal that mimics an individual ion strike that could lead to perturbation in SET propagation. Design techniques and skewed gates are deployed to dampen the glitch that occurs under the effect of radiation. Simulation results, layout structures of SET capture circuit and chain of combinational gates are presented.<br>Dissertation/Thesis<br>Masters Thesis Electrical Engineering 2017

碩士<br>雲林科技大學<br>工業工程與管理研究所碩士班<br>97<br>The laboratory provided the special report of precise measurement and product verify, to astablish the quality control system of ISO/IEC 17025.The system included both control level that have organization, document, contract, authorize, purchase, record, correct, prevent etc. and technique level that have worker, environment, method, equipment, measurement, sampling, report etc. for reliable requirement of test and calibration customer to continue. Since ISO/IEC 17025:2005 revision, more emphasis on 4.7.2, The laboratory should be to feedback any commend of positive or negative from customer. That improve control system of integer laboratory via analysis. This research is refer to the server quality of SERVQUAL Scale Parasuramen, Zeithamel & Berry (PZB) in 1988. That investigate the customer and internal worker of laboratory of the assembly and test foundry. The result is via statistic analysis to include 22 items in 5 type.the customer meet expect level and real feelings of service quality is the difference to include 20 items. There are difference between customer and worker of laboratory, that expect level of two items and real feelings of five items. For customers in line with the ISO / IEC 17025 Accreditation laboratory with the real feelings of the degree of overall satisfaction were significantly related; Finally, the customers of various dimensions of the actual feelings of satisfaction with the overall high correlation, and the physical nature of the actual experience to ensure that of overall satisfaction have a positive influence. This study suggests that the laboratory should be targeted with the customers significant differences between the review of services to improve the laboratory experimental zone is divided into internal and external service areas, to build the external customer service counter, as a laboratory interface to communicate with customers to strengthen the response to customer demand for pipes, In addition, build customer response systems, as well as the person responsible for handling, regular satisfaction surveys as a basis for sustained improvement in the laboratory to enhance the quality of the laboratory customer service satisfaction.

碩士<br>國立交通大學<br>管理學院管理科學學程<br>103<br>This study applies Analytic Hierarchy Process（AHP） to select key performance indicators from the perspective of foundry plants for a customer service （CS） department in an outsourced IC assembly house. The main purpose of this research is to serve customers more effectively and enhance customer satisfaction. The hierarchy structure was established by literature review and experts’ advices. Through verifying and analyzing questionnaires, the ranking of CS dimensions and criteria were developed. The result shows that from the perspective of foundry plants, the most important dimension of CS is “Reliability,” and the second is “Customer Service Skill.” Among 28 selected criteria, the top 8 critical performance indicators are Service and Integrity of Information, On-time Delivery, Customer Complaint Response, Problem Solving Ability, Immediate/Quick Response on LT/OTD, Responsiveness on Inquiry, and Cross Functional Ability. The weights for these 8 indicators exceed 50%. This research determines several key indicators and the result is suitable for enterprises to adopt in practice. Based on customers’ and experts’ judgments, CS department can reset the priority, rearrange resource and reorganize efforts to fulfill customers’ expectations.

In this thesis statement I explore Sikh-Punjabi masculinity in the diaspora. I am concerned with questioning the construction of my identity and the possible impact of new forms of masculinity on the next generation of diasporic Sikh-Punjabi youth. I use found text and video to examine these new identity constructions. As a foundation for these explorations into masculinity, I am concerned with unveiling concealed and erased memories and realities as related to Sikh-Punjabi diasporic communities. This thesis looks at my work along with the work of other artists.