Dissertations / Theses: 'Material acceptans'

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Rosén, Therese. "RosaNovum : En studie om att skapa materialacceptans genom en Material driven designprocess för en cirkulär ekonomi." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-44451.

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Cirkulär ekonomi bygger på principerna om att designa bort avfall, där avfall ses som en råvaruresurs. För att övergå till ett fossilfritt samhälle kommer material från förnyelsebara råvaror att behövas. Biobaserade material har oftast inte samma tekniska egenskaper och estetiska uttryck som befintliga material, biobaserade DIY-material utvecklade från okonventionell råvaruresurs kan väcka starka positiva och negativa reaktioner hos användarna. Studien har undersökt hur man i en Material driven designprocess genom form och kultur kan skapa acceptans för ett biobaserat DIY material från en okonventionell råvaruresurs. Studiens huvudsyfte har varit att bidra med ny kunskap för att underlätta för designers i en Material Driven Designprocess, att identifiera användningsområden och produktform som kan stärka materialacceptans hos användare. Fördjupningsområden i studien är teorier för Hållbar utveckling, Cirkulär ekonomi, Bioekonomi, Material Driven Design for Sustainability och Culture Sensitive Design. Huvudmetoden i studien har varit Material Driven design, vilket innefattas av ett flertal designmetoder. Studien visar på att den kulturella koppling mellan användarna och råvarans ursprung har i denna studie haft en signifikant betydelse för material acceptansen genom att skapa mening för användaren och att materialet primärt behöver applicerat i en produkt på ett sådant sätt att användaren känner tillit till dess prestanda. Resultatet presenteras i form av ett förslag på en användare studie och en produktprototyp.
A circular economy is based on the principles of designing away waste, where waste is seen as a raw material resource. To move to a fossil-free society, materials from renewable raw materials will be needed. Bio-based materials usually do not have the same technical characteristics and aesthetic expressions as existing materials, bio-based DIY materials developed from unconventional raw material resources can provoke strong positive and negative reactions among users. This study has investigated how a Material-driven design process through form and culture can create acceptance for a bio-based DIY material from an unconventional raw material resource. The study's main purpose has been to contribute with new knowledge to make it easier for designers in a Material Driven Design process to identify uses and product forms that can strengthen material acceptance among users. In-depth areas in the study are theories for Sustainable Development, Circular Economy, Bioeconomy, Material Driven Design for Sustainability and Culture Sensitive Design. The main method of the study has been Material Driven Design, which is covered by several design methods. The study shows that the cultural link between the users and the origin of the raw material has had a significant impact on material acceptance by creating meaning for the user and that the material primarily needs to be applied in a product in such a way that the user has confidence in its performance. The results are presented in the form of a proposal for a user study and a product concept.

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Hernandez, Ileana. "The Moderating Mediation Effects of Maternal Psychological Control and Maternal Acceptance on the Relation Between Maternal Acculturation and Youth Anxiety." FIU Digital Commons, 2012. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/599.

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The present study examined the relations among maternal psychological control, maternal acceptance, maternal acculturation and youth anxiety within the framework of a (partially) moderated mediation model. The sample consisted of 535 Hispanic-Latino youth (46% girls; M = 9.79 years) and their mothers. The study’s data were analyzed using structural equation modeling in the MPlus statistical software program. Results indicated that maternal psychological control and youth anxiety are significantly and positively related. Results also indicated that more acculturated mothers were more psychologically controlling than less acculturated mothers. Results further provided evidence for a partial mediational role of maternal psychological control on the relation between maternal acculturation and youth anxiety symptoms. In addition, there was a direct, positive relation between maternal acculturation and youth anxiety symptoms. No significant findings were observed regarding the moderating role of maternal acceptance on the relation between maternal psychological control and youth anxiety. The findings’ theoretical and clinical implications are further discussed.

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Nayak, Preetham. "Real-time grade estimation and online acceptance or rejection of mined material." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/52143.

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The mineral industry is currently challenged by low metal prices and depletion of high grade resources with increasing depth combined with complex geology. Achieving profits in-spite of these difficulties has been challenging and the standard industry response to tackle the situation is by pursuing economy of scale. Only large scale companies can adopt this method due to the high capital investment involved. The alternate solution is to recognize and introduce low cost mining and mineral processing methods. The current research aims at increasing profitability of a mining operation by efficiently utilizing the mineral resource and increase the recovery. The research focuses on exploiting inherent heterogeneity in an orebody with the development of a sophisticated tool that can perform real time, with online analysis and decision support systems to designate the destination of the material being mined. The research includes measuring and modeling a deposit’s heterogeneity at both BHP Billiton’s Spence and Escondida mines. This is followed by the development of two digital models to evaluate the opportunity to adopt selective partitioning of ore, prior to hauling the mined material to the mill. An apparent increase in profitability is observed due to increased ore recovery. Determining and exploiting this heterogeneity offers different insights in orebody grade distribution, evaluating resources and reserves and production planning, all leading to more complete utilization of the resource. Supplementary video material is available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/52134
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Mining Engineering, Keevil Institute of
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Farmer, Charles E. Saye John W. "An examination of factors affecting the acceptance of innovative social studies curriculum materials." Auburn, Ala, 2008. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/EtdRoot/2008/SPRING/Curriculum_and_Teaching/Dissertation/Farmer_Charles_38.pdf.

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McKelvy, Tara N. "An Examination of Maternal Acceptance among Mothers and their Children with ADHD Symptomatology." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2011. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc84248/.

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The current study examined the role of self-reported and child-reported maternal lack of acceptance in increasing the likelihood of developing internalizing and externalizing symptoms among children with ADHD symptomatology. The effects of a social desirability bias on mother’s self-reports of rejection were controlled for. Mother-child agreement about parenting behaviors like warmth/affection, hostility/aggression and indifference/neglect was also investigated. In addition, variables with the potential to affect agreement (i.e., parents’ social desirability bias, child age, child sex) were examined. Participants included 120 boys and 90 girls, 6 to 11 years old (M = 8.25, SD = 1.18) with and without ADHD and their primary parent/guardian (N = 209). Parent and child participants completed self-report instruments separately. Results indicate that the relationship between mother-and-child-reported ADHD symptoms and internalizing symptoms is strongest when mothers exhibit low levels of rejection. Among the ADHD subsample, maternal lack of acceptance acts as a risk factor by strengthening the relationship between hyperactive/impulsive symptoms and externalizing symptoms. In addition, mothers and their children report significantly different levels of parenting behaviors. Child age and child sex were significant predictors of parent-child disagreement.

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Mathews, Brittany Lynn. "The relationship of attachment, maternal emotional socialization, and maternal coping with social anxiety during adolescence." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1334094262.

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Jellison, Jessica Lynn. "Electron Accepting Materials Based on Cyclopenta[H,I]aceanthrylenes and Dicyclopenta[DE,MN]tetracenes." OpenSIUC, 2014. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1377.

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This thesis is based on a research project aimed at creating new electron acceptors from cyclopenta-fused polycyclic hydrocarbons (CP-PAHs). We have utilized Pd-catalyzed cyclopentenelation reactions to create 2,7-bis(trimethylsilyl)cyclopenta[hi]aceanthrylene 1 and 2,7-dibromocyclopenta[hi]aceanthrylene 3. Upon bromination these fullerene fragments serve as a building block for creating both small-molecule and polymeric electron acceptors. The resulting materials are dark green and possess narrow band gaps with low-lying lowest occupied molecular orbitals (LUMO). A fluorescence quenching at poly(3-heylthiophene) demonstrates the electron accepting behaviors of the materials. Traditional semiconductors are integrated with an CP-PAH core creating small molecules (or small molecules are created consisting of a CP-PAH core, complementary semiconductor, and aromatic substituents).

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Rodriguez-Santiago, Alan J. "Synthesis and Characterization of Fe8-based Materials as Electron Acceptors for Solar Energy Applications." FIU Digital Commons, 2018. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3805.

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The urgent need to find alternative sources of energy has been recognized as a major challenge of the 21st century. Many ideas have been proposed, but harvesting the energy of the Sun has been identified by many as the most promising alternative to satisfy the world’s increasing energy demand. Among the current technologies to harness solar energy, photovoltaics and artificial photosynthesis (photocatalysis) stand out. Although very different in their strategies, both technologies entail a core principle, the generation of a charge-separated state. To this end, both methods employ electron acceptors that will receive the photo-electron; in most cases this role is played by C60 or its derivatives. Our research group has synthesized and characterized an octanuclear iron-oxo cluster with remarkable electrochemical properties which compares favorably with the reduction potentials of C60 and derivatives. This dissertation explores the use of this octanuclear cluster as electron acceptor for solar energy applications. To assess the viability of Fe8 as an electron acceptor in photocatalysis, electron donors that could coordinate to its iron atoms via phenol groups were synthesized and characterized. These electron donors were used in efforts to make molecular dyads, but coordination was not achieved. The altenative strategy studied was the preparation of Fe8-based hybrid materials that can be casted with known polymer electron donors. Several hybrid materials were prepared and their general properties investigated. These materials exhibited the desired electrochemical traits as well as the general castable behavior of the polymer host. These hybrids are now ready to be tested in polymer solar cells.

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Engindeniz, Murat. "Acceptance criteria for fiber-reinforced polymeric bridge deck panels." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/21507.

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Woodward, Ian S. "The good, the bad and the ugly : taste, domestic material culture and narratives of aesthetic judgement /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2001. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe16180.pdf.

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Gavagna, Jacopo. "Quality Inbound: Analisi delle metodologie di controllo del materiale in inbound e dimensionamento delle politiche di controllo associate." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2017.

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Oggetto della Tesi Aziendale è la definizione delle politiche di controllo e dimensionamento nell’ambito del Controllo Qualità in Accettazione (CQA) per materiale acquistato dai fornitori, volto alla strutturazione del processo in una realtà aziendale, con lo scopo di identificare il tipo di controllo qualità da associare a ciascun codice e dimensionare la quantità da controllare. Dopo alcune considerazioni generali sulla importanza del controllo qualità nell’odierno contesto industriale e sui benefici apportati dai metodi statistici per il miglioramento della qualità (SPC, Statistical Process Control), (DOE, Design Of Experiments) (Acceptance Sampling) la trattazione illustra i piani di campionamento in accettazione, i rischi e i vantaggi tipici del campionamento. Il nucleo centrale, dopo l’analisi della situazione di partenza (caratterizzata da assenza di strutturazione del CQA) e delle criticità riscontrate, è focalizzato su una versione semplificata del modello di campionamento Semplice dello standard MIL STD 105 E (ISO 2859-1), che consente di mantenere la qualità al livello di riferimento. Infine, dopo aver discusso le tipologie di controllo, le categorie degli articoli individuate (assegnando per ciascuna un set di possibili AQL), le dimensioni del campionamento e le regole di commutazione (Switching Rules) si è cercato di fornire le motivazioni tecniche-gestionali ed economiche delle scelte effettuate e i vantaggi delle decisioni adottate. Nella parte finale vengono mostrate le schermate principali del Tool applicativo sviluppato, con indicazione sintetica delle possibili analisi che consente grazie alle tabelle: Aggregato Controlli, Aggregato Andamenti e Storico Cause NC.

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Raleie, Naledi. "Chromium and Titanium based Stannum Nanocomposites materials as electron acceptors for next generation bulk Heterojunction photovoltaic cells." University of the Western Cape, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/6398.

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Philosophiae Doctor - PhD (Chemistry)
Renewable energy has become the centrepiece of research in resolving the energy crisis. One of the forms of renewable energy is solar energy. This form of energy is costly to develop. Organic molecules are promising materials for the construction of next generation photovoltaic cells considering their advantage of lower cost compared to crystalline silicon that is currently used in solar cells. This forms the basis of this research, which focused on the synthesis and characterisation of poly(3- hexylthiophene) P3HT, stannum (Sn) nanoparticles and stannum-based bimetallic stannum-titanium (SnTi), stannum-chromium (SnCr) and stannum-vanadium (SnV) nanoparticles for the application in the construction of heterojunction photovoltaic cells (PVCs).
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Saritas, Dilek. "The Effects Of Maternal Acceptance-rejection On Psychological Distress Of Adolescents: The Mediator Roles Of Early Maladaptive Schemas." Master's thesis, METU, 2007. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12608127/index.pdf.

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The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationships between perceived maternal rejection and psychological distress of adolescents. In addition to that, mediator roles of early maladaptive schemas in this relationship were explored. A total of 356 second-grade high school students (198 females and 158 males) were participated in the study. Participants ranged in age from 15 to 18 (M = 16.17, SD= 0.53). Data was collected by a questionnaire packet consisting Demographic data form, Young Schema Questionnaire (YSQ), Parental Acceptance and Rejection Questionnaire (PARQ) , trait part of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-T), trait part of State-Trait Anger Inventory (ANG-T) Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS). Preceding the main analyses, factor analysis for YSQ was performed. It yielded three higher-order factors for YSQ as Impaired Limits- Exaggerated Standards, Disconnection-Rejection, and Impaired Autonomy-Other Directedness. Following factor analysis, ANOVAs were employed to assess differences between adolescents perceiving high acceptance and high rejection in terms of psychological distress measures (i.e., anger, positive affect, negative affect, and anxiety). It was found that adolescents perceiving high rejection were more likely to experience anger, negative affect, and anxiety than those perceiving high acceptance. In order to test whether Impaired Limits-Exaggerated Standards, Disconnection-Rejection, and Impaired Autonomy-Other Directedness mediate the relationship between perceptions of maternal rejection and adolescents&rsquo
anger, positive affect, negative affect, and anxiety respectively, separate hierarchical regression analyses were conducted as suggested by Baron and Kenny (1986). Mediation analyses revealed in general that both maternal rejection and schema domains had main effects on psychological distress measures. However, none of the schema domains did mediate the relationship between maternal rejection and psychological distress measures except for the disconnection-rejection schema domain. The result revealed that disconnection-rejection schema domain mediated the relationship between maternal rejection and anger. These findings were discussed with reference to the relevant literature. Future research topics were suggested and therapeutic implications of the study were discussed.

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Butler, Heidi Marie. "Maternal and paternal perceptions of hostility toward their adolescents links to adolescent peer-reported social acceptance and social behavior /." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/8734.

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Thesis (M.S.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2008.
Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Psychology. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.

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Ariyo, Oluwatosin. "Correlates of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccine Acceptance in Appalachian Tennessee." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3238.

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Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most prevalent sexually transmitted infection in the U.S., where one HPV-related cancer is diagnosed every 20 minutes. The most common HPV-related cancer is cervical cancer, with an estimated incidence of 12,000 cases annually, a third of which lead to death. Cervical cancer disparately affects women of ethnic minority groups and geographically isolated regions, such as Appalachia. Tennessee ranks third highest in cervical cancer incidence in the country. Many cases of cervical cancer could be prevented through vaccination against HPV, however, vaccination rates for females in Tennessee are among the lowest in the country. This mixed-methods study included an in-depth exploration of the factors that influence HPV vaccine acceptance in Appalachian Tennessee. Healthcare providers, mothers of adolescent girls, and college-aged women were recruited to participate in the study. From October 2016 to January 2017, interviews were conducted with healthcare providers (n=12), focus groups were conducted with mothers (n=13), and a survey was administered to college women (n=479). Interview and focus group sessions were recorded, transcribed and analyzed using a thematic framework. Survey responses were analyzed using descriptive tests, comparison of means, and regression analyses. The predominant barriers to vaccine acceptance identified in the study were: cost and novelty of the vaccine, vaccine safety, lack of school-entry requirement, and the implication of vaccine acceptance on adolescents’ sexual activity. Most negative perceptions towards the vaccine appeared to be propagated by the sociocultural influence on sex and reproductive health communication within the community. Perceived benefits for cancer prevention and receipt of strong and personal provider recommendations facilitated vaccine acceptance. Additionally, college students who reported vaccine acceptance reported discussing sexual health topics with their mothers more often than those who had not been vaccinated. The findings from this study provide foundational insights about the facilitators and barriers of HPV vaccine acceptance in Appalachian Tennessee. Identifying and understanding these factors is crucial to improving HPV vaccination rates and essential to maximizing the primary benefit of the vaccine in addressing the existing cervical cancer disparity in the region.

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Gohlke, David Christopher. "Tuning the Properties and Interactions of Manganese Acceptors in Gallium Arsenide with STM." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1354669837.

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Kosgei, Cosmas Kipyego. "Investigation of the effect of basicity and Concentration ofproton accepting bases on the potential of Quinones for highpotential quinone based cathode materials." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för fysik och astronomi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-288369.

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Saroha, Ekta. "Caste as a determinant of utilization of maternal and neonatal healthcare services in Maitha, Uttar Pradesh, India." Thesis, Birmingham, Ala. : University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2007. https://www.mhsl.uab.edu/dt/2008r/saroha.pdf.

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Silberman, Stephanie G. "Effects of Grandmother Childcare Involvement, Supportiveness, and Acceptance on Latina Adolescent Mother-Child Dyadic Synchrony." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1469737222.

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Patton, Emily. "Youth Emotion Regulation and Processing: Risk and Resilience Factors in the Context of Maternal Depression." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1466092135.

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Ebenhoch, Bernd. "Organic solar cells : novel materials, charge transport and plasmonic studies." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/7814.

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Organic solar cells have great potential for cost-effective and large area electricity production, but their applicability is limited by the relatively low efficiency. In this dissertation I report investigations of novel materials and the underlying principles of organic solar cells, carried out at the University of St Andrews between 2011 and 2015. Key results of this investigation: • The charge carrier mobility of organic semiconductors in the active layer of polymer solar cells has a rather small influence on the power conversion efficiency. Cooling solar cells of the polymer:fullerene blend PTB7:PC₇₁BM from room temperature to 77 K decreased the hole mobility by a factor of thousand but the device efficiency only halved. • Subphthalocyanine molecules, which are commonly used as electron donor materials in vacuum-deposited active layers of organic solar cells, can, by a slight structural modification, also be used as efficient electron acceptor materials in solution-deposited active layers. Additionally these acceptors offer, compared to standard fullerene acceptors,advantages of a stronger light absorption at the peak of the solar spectrum. • A low band-gap polymer donor material requires a careful selection of the acceptor material in order to achieve efficient charge separation and a maximum open circuit voltage. • Metal structures in nanometer-size can efficiently enhance the electric field and light absorption in organic semiconductors by plasmonic resonance. The fluorescence of a P3HT polymer film above silver nanowires, separated by PEDOT:PSS, increased by factor of two. This could be clearly assigned to an enhanced absorption as the radiative transition of P3HT was identical beside the nanowires. • The use of a processing additive in the casting solution for the active layer of organic solar cells of PTB7:PC₇₁BM strongly influences the morphology, which leads not only to an optimum of charge separation but also to optimal charge collection.

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Fernando, Juwanmandadige Roshan. "Tuning the Opto-Electronic Properties of Core-Substituted Naphthalenediimides through Imide Substitution." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1401984667.

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Moalosi, Richie. "The impact of socio-cultural factors upon human-centred design in Botswana." Queensland University of Technology, 2007. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16353/.

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This thesis explores the relationship between culture and human-centred design in Botswana, a topic on which there is little previous research. The pinnacle of good product innovation is when it is grounded on sensitive cultural analysis of users' culture; however, it has been observed that designers have not yet been able to encode cultural phenomena to the same extent as cognitive and physical human factors. The study develops a theoretical framework of cultural analysis, comparing traditional with contemporary socio-cultural factors that can be applied to designing products. The content analysis method was used to extract and synthesise traditional and contemporary socio-cultural factors from Botswana's cultural sources. An experimental study was undertaken in Botswana to investigate how socio-cultural factors can be integrated in product design, and the participants' challenge was to transfer and apply these into product features that reflect Botswana's culture. This data was analysed using the qualitative method of textual and visual content analysis. A culture-orientated design model has been proposed to assist designers to consciously integrate culture in their design practice. The framework demonstrates how to specify, analyse and integrate socio-cultural factors in the early stages of the design process by advancing local thought, content and solutions. It advances a new approach to design education, theory, research and practice. It emerged that culture can be used as a resource of information and a source of inspiration for product innovation that connects with users' traditions. The research findings show that culture-orientated products have meaningful content that reflects users' lifestyles as well as providing them with symbolic personal, social and cultural values, and that these aspects facilitate product acceptance.

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Tasdemir, Nagihan. "The Relationships Between Vertical And Horizontal Individualism-collectivism, Religiosity, And Parenting Styles From Perspective Of Parents And Their Children." Master's thesis, METU, 2006. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12607128/index.pdf.

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The main purpose of the present study was to explore the relationships between vertical and horizontal individualism-collectivism, religiosity and parenting styles from perspective of parents and their children. It was also aimed to examine SES related differences and the differences between mothers, fathers, and their children in terms of the study variables. In addition, the differences between authoritative, authoritarian, indulgent, and neglectful families in terms of vertical individualism (VI), horizontal individualism (HI), vertical collectivism (VC), horizontal collectivism (HC), and religiosity were investigated. For these purposes data were collected from 230 families including mother, father, and their young adult child &ndash
in the age range of 17-25-. Three participants from each family responded to similar measurement of the study variables, namely Vertical and Horizontal Individualism-Collectivism Scale, the Measurement of the Child Rearing Styles Scale, Religiosity Scale, and Demographic Information Form. According to the results, age, family income, VI, and VC for mothers and age, VI, and religiosity for fathers were significant predictors of parental control whereas education level, HI, HC, and VC for mothers and only VC for fathers were significant predictors of parental acceptance. The regression analyses for the child sample of the study indicated that the predictors of VI are education level and perceived parental control
the predictor of HC is perceived parental acceptance
the predictors of VC are perceived parental control and acceptance
the predictor of HI is gender
and the predictors of religiosity are family income and perceived parental control. Results also showed that there were significant differences as well as similarities between all considered groups. The findings of the study were discussed in the light of the related literature.

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Tucknott, Maria. "An investigation into the impact of childhood abuse and care-giver invalidation on psychological inflexibility in clinical and subclinical eating disorders." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/14569.

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As a whole, eating disorders have been characterised as having the following key features: a persistent over concern with body size and shape; and weight control behaviours such as fasting, exercise, and self-induced vomiting. However, there tends to be a blurred line between those that do and do not meet diagnostic thresholds as the level of psychological distress is comparably similar. This study examined whether psychological inflexibility (from an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy perspective) was associated with eating disorders and whether it mediated the relationship between childhood abuse and invalidation and eating disorders. This was considered to be important because high rates of abuse have consistently been found in this population, yet not everyone goes on to develop an eating disorder. In addition, the role of emotional abuse has been largely neglected. A clinical sample of 190 participants with a clinical or subclinical eating disorder were recruited from eating disorder charities and support forums; they completed a range of questionnaires measuring experiences of abuse and maternal/paternal emotional invalidation in childhood, current levels of cognitive fusion and experiential avoidance and current levels of eating pathology. The sample was split into three groups based on their Eating Disorder Risk Composite scores: elevated, typical and low clinical range. It was found that those in the elevated clinical range (most severe eating pathology) had the poorest emotional processing and significantly higher levels of psychological inflexibility, thought-shape-fusion, depression and anxiety than those in the low clinical range (least severe eating pathology). In terms of predicting current levels of eating pathology, three variables emerged as significant predictors: emotional processing, thought-shape fusion and depression. In terms of predicting current levels of psychological inflexibility, five variables emerged as significant predictors: childhood emotional abuse, emotional processing, thought-shape-fusion, depression and anxiety. The results add novel findings to the literature regarding the role of early experiences on the development of psychological inflexibility, and the role of psychological inflexibility in the maintenance of eating pathology and psychological distress. Clinical implications of these findings in relation to assessment, formulation, intervention and prevention are discussed.

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Jean, Bruno. "Propriétés électriques, optiques et électro-optiques du semiconducteur CdIn2 Te4." Bordeaux 1, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994BOR10553.

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Cette these est consacree aux proprietes electriques, optiques et electro-optiques du semiconducteur ternaire cdin#2te#4. La premiere partie de la these est consacree a l'etude des proprietes optiques et de transport par absorption optique, photoluminescence, photoconductivite et effet hall. La compensation du materiau, due a des defauts antisites dans le sous reseau cationique, a ete mise en evidence par effet hall. Un niveau accepteur situe a environ 40 mev de la bande de valence a ete observe en photoconductivite. D'autre part, l'asymetrie des mesures de conductivite par la methode de van der pauw et aussi des spectres dlts (deep level transient spectroscopy) dont la forme depend de la tension de polarisation ont montre la presence d'un desordre a moyenne distance. Les fluctuations spatiales des bords de bandes qui en resultent permettent d'expliquer la plupart des resultats experimentaux. Enfin, un niveau donneur profond, situe a 0. 5 ev environ sous la bande de conduction, a ete observe par luminescence sur les echantillons presentant un ecart a la stchiometrie important. La seconde partie de ce travail est consacree au reexamen de la mesure du coefficient electro-optique r#4#1 en mode longitudinal. Nous montrons que les classiques mesures en detection synchrone peuvent conduire a des resultats errones si les electrodes transparentes n'ont pas un caractere ohmique. Un modele theorique est ensuite developpe pour rendre compte de la distribution particuliere du champ electrique due au caractere schottky des contacts. Les resultats de diverses mesures en champ electrique continu sont en bon accord avec le modele et nous permettent alors de proposer une nouvelle valeur du coefficient r#4#1, proche de 3pmv##1

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Fan, Shih-Ling, and 范詩苓. "A Study on Consumer’s Acceptance of Green Building Material: A Technology Acceptance Model." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/82560198519471019488.

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會計學系碩士班
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Green building materials are not emerging technologies in internationally, but they are relatively new in Taiwan. Although most of consumers have heard about them, but few consumers used them. Even many people only heard about green building material but didn’t understand deeply with it. The research explores the acceptance of green building material that people who live in Taiwan. This study uses Technology acceptance model some factors that contain perceive quality, environmental attitudes, and consumer demand. In this study, we expect to offer some suggestions to make the popularity of green building materials more. This study shows that most people who have heard and used of green building material will tend to use it. Although consumers agree that green building materials generally results in better quality of life and convenience, but they do not agree with the green building material is easy to use. Consumers think it is difficult to obtain and maintain. Because of the above reasons when consumer build the house, they won’t take the initiative to ask or buy green building materials. This research suggests that green building materials should popularize its diversity, so that consumers will know green building materials can be used into the general household building material.

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Tien, Shiao-Hua, and 田曉華. "A Study on build hospital’s material acceptance model." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/05612226275165361795.

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國立雲林科技大學
工業工程與管理研究所碩士班
92
The medical material is not deficient to hospital. How to buy the standard medical material fit to hospital is not to ignore of medical quality assure plan. But the most accept procedure of hospital is to check the amounts and gather the accounting datum. The quality inspection with regard to medical material is hard to concrete describe and not much to do by accepter. Therefore, it is not to ignore of subject about to confer the medical material accept procedure. The study is help hospital to build an effective acceptable system of buy the medical material. To analysis the problem about to use medical material by hospital, and to gather the situations about the property is related to medical material in Taiwan. The next step is to confer the laws whether clear and define about the accept procedure of medical material. First, I interviewed 14’s experts of the medical material manufacturers, the users in hospital and the expert of government. And used the Delphi method to gather the opinions about the experts. I collected the tentative programs about the experts’ medical material opinions. That separated three components about the characteristic of medical material, the consult standard of inspection and the plan of acceptance sampling. Final, the study will verify the method can apply to hospital. That selected the case study objects are Department of Health, Executive Yuan, Southern District Hospital Alliance, to build the acceptable model.

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Chen, Han-hsiang, and 陳涵湘. "A Study on Acceptance for Specific English Digital Materials Learning." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/54536216340662985055.

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碩士
世新大學
資訊傳播學研究所(含碩專班)
99
This study was driven to discuss the intentions of the students who are learning the hosipitality English via digital hospitality English learning materials. In the beginning, the study disclose hospitality teaching history in Taiwan, and also discusses developments of English learning for General Purpose and English for Specific Purpose education which were applied in hospitality industry. In addition, this alignment of the related applications of Technology integrate with academic subjects, and bases on Technology Acceptance Model to research the acceptance and intentions of college students who use digital hospitality English learning materials. The aspects of this model separated into technology accomplishment, learning interaction, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, attitude to using, intention to use, and attitude of behavior. In order to verify the relation about these dimensions, this research uses questionnaire which specific designed to suit the aspects. According to the result of the questionnaire, the study goes further to synthesizes the effective data methodically through Structural Equation Modeling which can substantiate these hypothesis are established or not. The result shows the acceptance and perceive intention for college students were related positively. In conclusion, the study provides the research results and advisements for colldeges or educational as the institution reference to further discussion.

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Chuang, Po-Cheng, and 莊伯誠. "A Study on Digital English Learning Material Use Behavior Based on Technology Acceptance Model." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/q6943f.

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碩士
朝陽科技大學
資訊工程系碩士班
96
The purpose of this research is based on technology acceptance model(TAM) to explore “characteristics of digital learning material” and “Interaction of digital learning between classmates” – how the students come to accept the technology and the degree of influence. It helps us to understand how students using the system of digital learning materials to further improve their curriculum outcome.To probe teachers into digital learning material the frequency of using and make digital learning materials in the classroom instruction at present.This research is targeted on a group of high school students who study the English Assessment Curriculum and current teachers of four different public and private high schools. From that aspect of research, we inputted digital learning materials to the technology acceptance model. We used questionnaires as a survey method to collect information, and SPSS statistical formula as instrument to process information on a statistics analysis, reliability analysis and factor analysis – to confirm the motive of students’ behavior on using digital learning materials. The result of this research has demonstrated the correlations of each hypothesis were all above level, which has significantly indicated most of students were able to use the digital learning materials to improve their learning motive. To achieve the learning aim is by using the advantage of digital learning materials, i.e. repetitious practice, to facilitate students of a lack on curriculum learning. In terms of teachers, it showed the current teachers need to strengthen their ability on utilizing digital learning materials, in particular, there is a variation of attitude on how public/ and private teachers come to accept digital learning materials.

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LIN, BAO-MING, and 林寶明. "Studies on acceptance criteria for in-combustibilies of interior finishing building materials." Thesis, 1992. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/09488742472494655964.

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Churchill, Keating Becky L. "Maternal depression and acceptance of child negative emotion, child symptomatology and emotion cognition." 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pMQ66378.

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Thesis (M.A.)--York University, 2001. Graduate Programme in Psychology.
Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 103-116). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pMQ66378.

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Wu, Hsiang-Kai, and 吳祥愷. "A Study of Acceptance Sampling Plan Applied to Materials Incoming Inspection for Enterprises." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/81815828306269890308.

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碩士
元智大學
工業工程與管理學系
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“Sampling Inspection” has been not only applied to the quality management for the industries in Taiwan, But also the inspections of the materials from the suppliers. As the raise of the high-tech industries, The manufacturing technology have been increased continuously. For the strict requirement of the quality the outdated traditional, Sampling Plan seems like can not satisfy the request in dudes high quality or zero defect from customers. On the other hand, Under the competitive condition of diversified quality, The competition of products may be decreased because of the inspection is to guarantee the quality of produces. From the view of inspection, Many experts think the new concept of quality control is to improve the quality of products from the supplier but the inspection. This research will focus on the electronic-related industries, and discuss the condition of application, The necessity and the advantage under the strict quality requirement by different condition factors, Such as the requirement of ISO the requirement from customers and the relationship between receivers and suppliers. We attend to define the role and the placement of Sampling Plan for the regular industries, and provide it as a reference of quality management and administration. We also hope it can be a contribution to the regular Industries in Taiwan.

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Salib, Madonna Atef Boulos. "Exploratory analysis of pH reference materials for quality control acceptance by chemometrics algorithms." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/13985.

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O National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) tem procedimentos definidos para a aceitação dos seus Materiais de Referência Certificados (MRC) para medição de pH. Estes procedimentos são morosos e destrutivos para a amostra. A sua substituição por métodos quimiométricos recorrendo a técnicas de análise não destrutivas traria grandes benefícios, por um lado em termos da rapidez e simplicidade do procedimento de aceitação de MRC. Neste trabalho recolheram-se espectros no infravermelho próximo (NIR) e espectros Raman e trataram-se os dados através de análise de componentes principais (PCA), a fim de realizar uma análise qualitativa de três diferentes MRC de pH: carbonato de cálcio (CaCO3), tetraborato de sódio decahidratado ( bórax) e hidrogeno ftalato de potássio (KHP). O método foi testado para distinguir entre MRCs produzidos pelo NIST e outros materiais candidatos a MRC, assim como amostras comerciais de menor pureza que serviram como controlo negativo. Uma coleção de 87 amostras de CaCO3, 52 amostras de bórax e 63 amostras de KHP foi analisada por espectroscopia NIR e Raman. No caso do CaCO3, o PCA alcançou uma boa discriminação, coerente com o método de referência NIST para aceitação de MRC de pH. No caso do bórax, obteve-se boa discriminação entre as amostras, mas que se revelou inadequada para controle de qualidade dos materiais candidatos. No caso do KHP, a discriminação entre amostras foi insuficiente, mas não exclui a possibilidade de aplicar o método proposto ao controle de qualidade de materiais candidatos visto o método de referência NIST também foi incapaz de distinguir os controlos negativos. A diferenciação obtida por PCA para o caso do CaCO3 foi explicada por difração de raios-X, tendo-se verificado que os diferentes grupos observados por PCA correspondem a diferentes polimorfos de calcite, aragonite e vaterite. No caso do bórax, a análise termogravimétrica revelou que o bórax tende a perder parte de sua água de cristalização ao longo do tempo de armazenamento e se transforma lentamente na forma pentahidratada. A análise por PCA diferenciou grupos de acordo com o grau de hidratação das amostras. As amostras de KHP não foram suficientemente separadas na análise por PCA, com exceção de amostras com maior grau de cristalinidade, o que se explicou devido à presença de água oclusa nos cristais de KHP. Este estudo prova que o uso de quimiometria e sua capacidade de discriminar entre amostras quimicamente diferentes é potencialmente uma ferramenta poderosa para garantir a identidade e a qualidade de MRC para pH, e para simplificar o procedimento de aceitação de novos MRC.
Spectra collected with near infrared (NIR) and Raman spectroscopic methods were used along with unsupervised pattern recognition, namely, principle component analysis (PCA), to conduct a qualitative analysis of three different pH materials: calcium carbonate (CaCO3), sodium tetraborate decahydrate (borax) and potassium hydrogen phthalate (KHP). The NIR and Raman based fingerprinting with PCA were tested to distinguish between standard reference materials (SRM‘s) produced by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and other potential candidate materials, and commercial samples of lower purity. A collection of 87 samples of CaCO3, 52 samples of borax and 63 samples of KHP were measured by NIR and Raman spectroscopy. In the case of CaCO3, PCA achieved a good discrimination coherent with the NIST reference method for acceptance of pH SRM‘s. In the case of borax, good discrimination was obtained between the samples but inadequate for quality control of candidate materials. In the case of KHP, insufficient discrimination was obtained between samples. This does not exclude the possibility of applying the proposed method to the quality control of candidate materials, because the NIST reference method was also unable to distinguish negative controls from SRMs. The PCA clusters were further explained by X-ray diffraction (XRD) in case of calcium carbonate, which revealed that the PCA discrimination is based on the phase transformation of polymorphs of calcite, aragonite and vaterite. In the case of borax, thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) revealed that borax is not a stable substance but it tends to lose some of its crystallization water and transforms slowly into the pentahydrate. This is in good agreement with the different groups distinguished on the PCA. KHP was characterized by the impurities within the samples. The dominant impurity was proven to be the occluded water. This study proves that the use of chemometrics and its ability to discriminate between chemically different samples could be a powerful tool to assure the identity and quality of the pH buffer materials and to streamline the acceptance procedure of new issues of SRM‘s.

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Lu, Min-Chen, and 呂敏禎. "Synthesis of Fluorene-Based Non-Fullerene Acceptors and Interlayer Material for the Application in Organic Photovoltaics." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/9k6qyx.

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國立交通大學
應用化學系碩博士班
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In this study, two fluorene-based non-fullerene acceptors, DTFIC and DTFIC-4F and a new interlayer material, DTFNIC were synthesizd. Both DTFIC and DTFIC-4F contain a fluorene and two thiophene fused heptacyclic ring as electron-rich central core and 2-(3-oxo-2,3-dihydroinden-1-ylidene)malononitrile (IC) and 2-(5,6-difluoro-3-oxo-2,3-dihydroinden-1-ylidene)malononitrile as electron-deficient unit on both ends respectively. Both compounds exhibit strong absorption in the range from 500 to 700 nm. Compare to DTFIC, DTFIC-4F demonstrates red-shifted absorption and downshifted energy level alighment. The bulk heterojunction solar cells based on J71:DTFIC and J71:DTFIC-4F were fabricated with the structure of ITO/ZnO/active layer/MoO3/Ag. Their best power conversion efficiencies exhibit as 7.89% and 8.62% respectively. The effects of fluorine substituent on the photovoltaic property, electro-optical property and film morphology were investigated. In the second part of this study, an interlayer material, DTFNIC was synthesized. DTFNIC contains two thiophene-flanked fluorene core with alkyl triazolium side-chain and end-capped with two IC units. When the interlayer was applied between ITO and ZnO layers, the bulk heterojunction solar cells, ITO/interlayer/ZnO/active layer/MoO3/Ag, show the enhanced PCEs of 7.57% and 8.92% for both PBDB-T:ITIC and J71:DTFIC-4F systems.

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Wu, Chang-Jer, and 吳尚哲. "A Study of the Acceptance of Cloud Computing Services and QR Code Technology for Improving Medical Material Management." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/70675453183168881519.

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南華大學
企業管理學系管理科學碩博士班
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The main purpose of the study is to improve the acceptance of medical material management by using QR code technology and cloud computing services. It investigates the variables such as relationship quality when cloud computing technologies is used to established medical material management as well as information quality, system quality, service quality, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use and the willingness to use that affect the net benefits . It finds that perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use have the mediator effect to the willing to use and as well as to the net benefits. 　　The research model is the information systems which utilizing QR code and cloud computing. Field research gathers information from the medical institutions and medical material suppliers. Convenience sampling survey has been used and the result is verified by descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling. By analyzing what the medical institutions and medical material suppliers in Taiwan do to collect information by QR code and comparing with the existing medical management practices comes out with the way how QR code can be applied in the platform and in the system process of the medical material management and then proceeds the research of utilizing QR code and cloud computing services on the improvement of medical material management. 　　The results indicated that by using the QR code and cloud computing technology to the material management cloud platform and medical material management information systems integrates information exchange and collaborative management platform which can be used on the application of medical material management. It helps to track and manage the patients’ health and reduced the maintenance costs of the medical material management. And it certainly will be the best tool for every medical institution and medical material supplier to improve the quality of medical material management.

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Liu, Cheng-Feng, and 劉承鋒. "Using Technology Acceptance Model Study Digital Teaching Materials in Character Education on Junior High School Teachers." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/22371477040018685640.

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華夏技術學院
資訊科技與管理研究所碩士在職專班
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ABSTRACT Twelve-year compulsory education will be executed this year, and the teaching of character education will be integrated into every subject. After collecting related data, I indicated that every junior high school set their own 42 core targets, each of which was distractive and not precise enough. Hence, this study demonstrated that through interviews, the core value projects the teachers considered students to possess were in order of respect, gratitude, responsibility, honesty, and care, and that digital media in character education have already been set up in the websites such as Ministry of Education for Character Education, National Academy for Education Research, and Education Bureau in New Taipei City. In addition, during the process of interviews, I found that that though most of the teachers were aware of digital media auxiliary materials, they barely integrated them into their teaching. To explore the reasons, based on technology acceptance model (TAM) and taking the variations into consideration such as educational policies, support from administration, and the acquirement of teaching materials. I aimed to explore the influences digital media auxiliary materials had on character education with the help of the software, SmartPLS 2.0. Therefore, I targeted at junior high school teachers, adopted Questionnaire Survey, and received 149 effective samples. The study showed that the factors such as educational policies, support from administration and the acquirement of teaching materials significantly influence teachers’ willingness to apply digital media auxiliary materials to the teaching of character education. In addition, teachers’ awareness that digital media was accessible also influence teachers’ willingness to apply digital media auxiliary materials to the teaching of character education. As a result, the interviewed teachers consider that the accessibility and effectiveness of the digital media auxiliary teaching materials will influence their willingness of using them. As explained above, under the policy of promoting character education, these factors will exalt teachers’ attempts to apply media auxiliary teaching materials to the teaching of character education, including support from administration, and the acquirement of teaching materials. All in all, I believed that relevant government agencies in education can promote character education more efficiently as long as they regulate the core value targets more specifically and put more efforts in guiding teachers the utility of digital media auxiliary materials.

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Sesel, Rok. "Determinants of acceptance of e-materials : an empirical investigation in the context of slovenian elementary education." Master's thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/31906.

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Dissertation presented as the partial requirement for obtaining a Master's degree in Information Management, specialization in Information Systems and Technologies Management
For the past few years we have been commonly hearing that the only thing which is constant is change. One of the main reasons for that is development and use of new information technologies (hereinafter: IT). In many industries, implementation of IT solutions has improved and changed process flows. Impacts of IT can also be found in educational processes. Nowadays, marks of chalk in classrooms can only be found within an Art class. Majority of classrooms are equipped with at least one of the IT innovations; computer, projector, interactive white board, internet connection, etc. Since today’s pupils are raised with presence of modern IT at every step and consequently with the modern lifestyle, they are losing the initial contact with the traditional way of learning. That is why it makes sense to think about alternatives to traditional learning, to raise the motivation among students and prepare them to accept more information, as well as to link new information with the already obtained knowledge and store it in long-term memory (Clark & Mayer, 2011, p. 36). Integrating technologies in educational process offers alternative channels to deliver knowledge in pursuit of promoting learning and motivating pupils. In the last few years, we have been witnesses to a large promotion of e-materials use in classrooms. However, use of e-materials does not only require technologically equipped classrooms, but mostly a change in the way of teaching. Since the educational system has been moving quite slowly towards changes, there has not been a massive adoption of e-materials in classrooms, especially by teachers (Demetriadis et al., 2003, pp. 19-20).

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Chen, Chin-Ming, and 陳嘉銘. "A Study of Digital Media Teaching Material on Math Textbook Selection in Elementary School: Based on Technology Acceptance Model." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/93212058438991807385.

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國立臺北教育大學
數位科技設計學系(含玩具與遊戲設計碩士班)
103
The research aims at examining how elementary school teachers select textbooks through Technology Acceptance Model. Through the perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use in Technology Acceptance Model, the inter-relationship of electronic textbook and computerized item bank system of digital media teaching material on textbook selection .‘ The significant results of this study are listed as below： 1.The influence factors on textbook selection: (1) Teachers regard highly on the content of digital media teaching materials; (2) Teachers place emphasis on the ease of use of electronic textbook; (3) Teachers place emphasis on the ease of use of computerized item bank system. 2.Selecting textbooks among teachers from different backgrounds. (1) There is no significant difference on textbook selection with digital media teaching material between genders, education backgrounds, teaching grades and the textbook series; (2) Teachers with over 21 seniorities regard more on the ease of use of electronic textbook than those with 6-10 seniorities; (3) Teachers with 6-15 seniorities regard more on the usefulness of computerized item bank system than those with over 21 seniorities; (4) Teachers in Keelung City regard more on the content of digital media teaching materials than those in Taipei City and New Taipei City; 5. Teachers who work in the schools with 28-48 classes regard more on the ease of use of computerized item bank system than those who are in the schools with over 48 classes. 3.The analysis on predicting the behavior of textbook selection: (1) The use of ease of electronic textbook is the predictive factor of textbook selection; (2) The usefulness of computerized item bank system is the predictive factor of textbook selection. Based on the findings above, several recommendations are proposed for educational administrative organizations, publishers and future research.

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Yang, Feng-Ching, and 楊豐菁. "The Study of Using the Technology Acceptance Model and 7Cs Framework to Explore the Maternal and Child Web Site." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/14416410203623201560.

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國立交通大學
管理學院資訊管理學程
103
With the highly developing of the internet and mobile service, communication between people, learning knowledge and shopping are finished fast by the internet. Nowadays, women who grow in the internet explosion of gestational age in the 1970s are into baby boom generation. Maternal and child websites are the main information sources beside elders and friends. Today the relative research of maternal and child websites are a few that the study is collected and organized by case analysis method and in-depth interview. First, using 7c framework analyze the function of the six famous maternal and child websites in Taiwan. Furthermore, summarize and analyze the in-depth interview by technology acceptance model. According as the interview of users analyze to know, functions and characteristics of websites affect the habits of users. By 7c framework and technology acceptance model, easy to use, abundant information and providing social media of community for users who exchange experience of maternal and child websites influence Perceived Usefulness and Perceived Ease of Use. Online store of maternal and child websites has not a strong effect on consumption pattern.

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Jiang, Tzuu Hwa, and 姜祖華. "The Study on the Extension of the Technology Acceptance Model Exploring the Behavioral Intention to Use of Multimedia Teaching Materials." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/93063278101294479134.

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亞洲大學
經營管理學系
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Facing the advent of the new era of digital learning in the 21stcentury, it is inevitable for teachers and learners to apply multimedia materials to teaching and learning. Based on the study of rational behavior theory, planned behavior and technology acceptance model, the study adds the perceived self-efficacy, perceived financial cost, long-term results as well as the perceived credibility as four constructs to set up an extension of technology acceptance model, exploring the impact of college teachers’ behavioral intentions to use of multimedia teaching materials. This study using structural equation model (SEM) collected valid samples from 16 colleges and universities in central Taiwan. The results indicate that not only perceived financial costs have the significantly positive effects on behavioral intention, but also both perceived credibility and long-term consequence have the significantly positive effects on behavioral intention. Meanwhile, perceived usefulness does not have the significantly positive effects on attitude toward using multimedia teaching materials. On the other hands, perceived self-efficacy has the significantly positive effects on both behavioral intention and perceived ease of use. Long-term consequence has the significantly positive effects on attitude toward using multimedia teaching materials. Furthermore, perceived ease of use has the significantly positive effects on perceived credibility, perceived usefulness, and attitude toward using multimedia teaching materials. Also, attitude toward using multimedia teaching materials has the significantly positive effects on behavioral intention. The study also shows that the deleterious influence of behavioral intention on instructor-related outcomes, such as perceived self-efficacy, perceived financial cost, perceived credibility, long-term consequence, perceived ease of use, and perceived usefulness is conditional and depends on the combination of antecedent conditions that occur in the causal statements. For this study, the major contribution is using fsQCA to explore the instructors’ behavioral intention on multimedia teaching materials lead to high membership in the three outcome conditions: (1) PEU (Perceived Ease of Use), (2) ATT (Attitude) and (3) BI (Behavioral Intention) and the secondary contribution is to make a comparison with the results of both methods between SEM and fsQCA. In this study, the empirical analysis results are presented with detailed explanation and recommendations on the management implications and practices are stated for reference in the further study.

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Chang, Ching-Mei, and 張靖梅. "The experienced and coping behaviors of advanced maternal age from being informed need to acceptance amniocentesis to actual implement period." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/22430076691604393454.

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國立臺灣大學
護理學研究所
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Abstract The objective of this qualitative study is to explore the experienced and coping behaviors of advanced maternal age from the time of being informed need to perform acceptance amniocent esis to actual implementing period. The subjects to be studied were 22 women who were pregnancy after age 34. The field methodo logy “observer as participant” was adopted in this study. In this study, the researcher served as a caregiver as well as nurs e-participant observer while researching data was being collect ed. The period of data collection started from the time of bei ng informed need to perform acceptance amniocentesis to actual implementing was about 2-4 weeks. During this period, the research used “conversation” and “participant observation” method to understand researched subjects’ opinion and behavior reaction, and provide necessary consultation and nursing. The researcher wrote down as narrative process recording including the spontaneous verbal and non-verbal behavior expressed by these advanced maternal age. The data were analyzed, classif ied, and categorized through out content analysis. The results of this study are as follows. The five themes of the experienced by advanced maternal age from the time of being informed need acceptance amniocentesis to actual implementing period are: 1. enmeshing information in the negative of doctor-patient relationship, 2. besiege mother hood distress, 3. experienced struggle of innermost choices, 4.facing balancing problem of supporting system, 5. facing afrai d of body boundary invaded and integrity destroyed. There are also seven other themes derived from these women’s coping strategies: 1. recognizing the fetus impact of amniocen tesis, 2. looking for experience and information from someone else in order to support themselves, 3. looking for innermost support and approve from themselves, 4. making sure examination process safety, 5. seeking safety process for themselves and babies, 6. reducing concerned distress from families and friend s, 7. exerting themselves to maintain body boundary integrity. In conclusion, the results of this research indicate that it can help physics and hygiene unite together to make prenatal genetic diagnosis policy. Besides, it also can support medical professionals as well as nursing staffs deeply understand actu al need of advanced maternal age from the time of being informed need to perform acceptance amniocentesis, therefore lead to better nursing practices. Key words： Advanced maternal age；amniocentesis；experience；coping behavior

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Osburg, Victoria-Sophie. "Products consisting of materials based on renewable resources: Drivers of purchase intention, consumers' information needs and target groups." Doctoral thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1735-0000-0022-5FEC-8.

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LEE, RONG-HWA, and 李榮華. "The study on using AHP for investigating the crucial procedure and process innovation acceptance of allocation operation based on naval logistical support material demand." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/84975806662815038176.

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中華大學
科技管理學系碩士在職專班
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By summarizing the various factors of future war type, enemy threat, and overall national resources allocation, Ministry of National Defense has been continuously promoting the “Refining Program” from 2011 to 2014 based on the considerations of military strategy, national finance and policy guidance, and promotion of voluntary military service system in order to establish a national defense force that is “small but excellent, small but strong, small but skillful”. Our national military should achieve the objectives of refined reorganization and military force modernization in response to task adjustment and changes in national defense resources. For the Navy Logistics Support Command to maintain organizational competitiveness and operation quality in this tide of revolution, the intangible assets of manpower within the organization must not be overlooked. In response to the requirements of flat logistic organization structure and the regional support of national military, the naval logistical support materials demand allocation operation must be refined in order to provide supplies with proper timing, proper location, proper quality, and proper quantity, to maintain the survival endurance and battle sustainability of our troops. The important task is to figure out how to utilize modern information technology and equipment to improve the efficiency of military supply, to establish and strengthen logistical supply operation in order to effectively support the implementation of army building and military missions. In this study the naval logistical unit is the research object for the purpose of investigating the crucial procedure and the process innovation acceptance of allocation operation based on naval logistical support material demand by using AHP. In order to achieve the aforementioned objectives, in this study we plan to adopt the “Allocation operation process flow based on naval logistical support material demand questionnaire” as the tool for conducting questionnaire survey with units to be supplied in all regions of navy, and the analysis will be conducted with respect to 30 valid samples based on statistical methods of percentage, mean, and hierarchical analysis. In this study it is found that, in terms of personal attributes, there is significant statistical difference in service years and the acceptance of process innovation. According to the results of empirical analysis, the most important part of process flow of the naval logistical support materials demand allocation operation is “acceptance procedure”, followed by the “allocation procedure”, and “return and replacement procedure” in last place. The results of this study indicate that most interviewees agree that the process innovation can enhance work efficiency without addition work load. Therefore, managers can be more confident in the results of hierarchical analysis, avoid the maladaptation or increased error rate of operators due to process flow variation, and convene all relevant personnel to proceed with investigation and implementation of major process flow improvement, and then evaluate improvement direction of the next stage based on trial results.

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Chen, Ching-Hui, and 陳慶輝. "A Study of Technology Acceptance Model of Materials Management Information System in Health Care Industry’s Employees - An Example on Intensive Care Unit." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/71410777235967547630.

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國立中正大學
資訊管理所暨醫療資訊管理所
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Since the National Health Insurance was implemented in 1995, the medical costs are rising and rising. The National Health Insurance already couldn’t make ends meet. It is imperative for the hospital perpetual survival. Study found that materials cost constituted a major proportion of expenses in the hospital. And a large proportion of materials cost are used in the Intensive Care Unit. So it is an important subject to find an effective way to control materials cost of Intensive Care Unit in the hospital. Because Information System has been regarded as a powerful tool which can promote the enterprises’ competitiveness. The Materials Management Information System is useful to manage materials and control cost. Therefore, the research framework is based on Technology Acceptance Model and Management Support, Communication, and Computer Self-Efficacy are invovled to survey the staff’s Behavior Intention on using Materials Management Information System in ICU. The results revealed the predictive power of Behavior Intention is 69.1%. It indicated that the model could be used to predict the materials management staff ‘s behavior on using Materials Management Information System in ICU.

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Mitrovich, Rachel Christine. "Examining determinants of vaccine acceptance for maternal immunization in a low-resource setting in Zambia: a qualitative assessment from the perspective of women and providers." Thesis, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/38125.

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BACKGROUND: Recently there has been a shift in the global health arena towards maternal immunization as the missing link to protect mother, fetus, and infant. However, as research is being conducted across the maternal immunization portfolio to address underlying immunological mechanisms, effectiveness, stability, and safety, there is minimal data regarding acceptance from the perspective of women and providers, specifically in low-resource settings. Serving as a factor that informs a global and national recommendation for vaccine use, closing this knowledge gap will be necessary to reach policy decisions, develop strategies to introduce maternal vaccines into National Immunization Programs, and secure uptake of such policies on the part of intended beneficiaries. METHODS: Qualitative data was collected across three health facilities (urban, peri-urban, rural) via focus group discussions (women), key informant interviews (family/community members), and clinical vignettes (women). Thematic analysis was guided by the World Health Organization’s Model of Determinants of Vaccine Hesitancy using the seven stages of the Framework Method. RESULTS: Results demonstrated that while women showed confidence in the safety and efficacy of vaccines, hesitancy towards maternal vaccination was fostered by misinformation, religious beliefs, use of traditional medicine, social norms, family involvement, and concerns about risk benefit profiles. In contrast, providers expressed service delivery barriers such as long wait times, husband involvement in decision-making, and religion as main reasons why women were hesitant to be vaccinated during pregnancy. Providers believed that these barriers could easily be overcome with proper outreach, education, and modifications to service delivery. Additionally, providers displayed confidence in their own understanding of the vaccine ecosystem and the level of knowledge women possessed about vaccines. CONCLUSION: To ensure the full potential of maternal vaccines, policies, national strategies, and implementation approaches will need to consider knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs expressed by women and providers, as well as the cultural dynamics of the setting in which vaccines are being administered. Furthermore, research is required to understand the relative strength of explanatory factors in deciding to be vaccinated during pregnancy, as well as exploration of how these factors change over time and contribute to policy and program implementation approaches.
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Lin, Ya-Ling, and 林雅玲. "Applying Technology Acceptance Model on Customers＇Actual Behavior of Out-of-pocket Medical Materials on Price Comparison Websites : the Moderating Effect of Job-relatedness." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/mnzqfm.

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國立臺中科技大學
企業管理系碩士班
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The research mainly aims for the discussion on the correlation among the factors that affect users’ attitudes and behavioral intentions towards the Ministry of Health and Welfare-Price Comparison Network for self-supporting medical devices, and to include them into the dimension of trust to explore the mutual influence between perceived ease of use and trust and the interference effect of job relevance on them. Thereby, it is an important objective of the research to understand the potential users’ intention to use Ministry of Health and Welfare- Price Comparison Network for self-supporting medical devices, and the possible factors affecting the intention to use due to the nature of work. This research was based on the theory of Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) put forward by Davis (1989). It adopted the method of questionnaire survey. A total of 188 valid questionnaires were collected. And PLS analysis method was used to verify the research framework. The users were divided into two categories: the users in the first category were the professionals highly correlated with the medical field; the users in the second category were the professionals uncorrelated with the medical field. The purpose of this research is to verify, analyze and compare the technology acceptance model for job relevance. The results of the research shown that there are significant differences of facet relevance of technology acceptance model between the professionals highly correlated with the medical field and the professionals uncorrelated with the medical field, which means that there are certain differences between the two groups. The results of this research will be benefit to establish the technology acceptance model and provide more understanding modes and interpretation of technology acceptance model for users.

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Lee, I.-Ching, and 李依親. "The Contribution of Social Network Interaction System on Maternal Depression and Acceptance of Cleft Lip and/or Palate Infants: Moderating Effect and Main Effect." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/08838905859742383907.

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國立臺灣大學
心理學研究所
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Mothers of cleft lip and/or palate (CLP) infants have to face chronic facial, physical, and psychological problems of their children. The psychological adjustment of those mothers thus is worth in-depth investigations. The present study adopted a system approach of social network interaction investigating (1) the positive/negative feature (i.e., social support and social undermining), (2) the types (i.e., emotional, informational, and instrumental support/undermining), and (3) the resource (i.e., husband, parents, and parents-in-law) of social network interaction. The goal was to examine the moderating effect (i.e., buffering or exacerbating) and main effect of the social network interaction system on maternal depression and attitude toward accepting the CLP child. Fifty mothers of CLP infants, who have already finished the first lip repair surgery (mean age = 135 days), and 49 mothers of healthy infants (mean age = 49 days) participated in this study. Between-group comparisons with respect to the perceived social network interaction system, the degree of depression, and acceptance toward the CLP infants were conducted. Mothers of CLP infants perceived more social support but were not more depressed or less accepting compared with those in the healthy group. Hierarchical regression analysis on the predictability of social network interaction system to degrees of depression and acceptance indicated that perceived social support significantly predicted the degree of acceptance; while perceived social undermining predicted both acceptance and depression, and its interaction with maternal sense of personal impact over giving birth to CLP infants predicted acceptance negatively. These findings supported the main effect of social support and the main and exacerbating effect of social undermining. This study also found that emotional and informational support were correlated with acceptance, informational undermining with depression, support from husband with acceptance, and social undermining from husband, mother-in-law, and father-in-law with depression. On the whole, this study supported the cross-over effect hypothesis of social undermining and suggested social undermining has a unique contribution, both in terms of main effect and moderating effect, toward maternal psychological adjustment of CLP infants. Moreover, this study also demonstrated that maternal adjustments were most vulnerable to several particular types of social support and social undermining, which may be related to the social network and interaction pattern embedded in Chinese family structure. Clinical suggestions derived from findings of this study were also provided.

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Su, Hui-Mei, and 蘇惠美. "A Study of Elementary School Teachers' Intention of Using Multimedia Materials Based on the Technology Acceptance Model-A Study of Elementary Schools in Chiayi County." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/u987ea.

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吳鳳科技大學
應用數位媒體研究所
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With the rapid development of information technology, the traditional school education mode is greatly changed into the era of computer multimedia assisted teaching. Through the provision of a wide range of multimedia resources, help is given to elementary school teachers to enhance students’ learning interest. At the same time, it provides an opportunity for teachers to share teaching resources for students. In this study, the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) was used as the basic model to explore the effects of the IT environment on the cognitive usefulness, cognitive usability and attitudes of teachers in the use of multimedia teaching materials in teaching, and the relevance and influence of attitudes on behavioral intention. In terms of interviewing primary school teachers in Chiayi County, multimedia assisted teaching can not only enhance teachers 'teaching quality, but also can effectively convey teaching content, improve students' learning motivation and learning achievement.

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Chang, Chun-Ya, and 張純雅. "The Influence of Locus of Control on the Attitude and Willingness of Digital Teaching Materials -Technology Acceptance Model and the Theory of Planned Behavior Orientation." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/32f8ec.

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國立臺中教育大學
管理學院國際經營管理碩士在職專班
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In today's reform under the system of students' learning motivation and interest is generally poor, so when actively cultivate students' enthusiasm for learning, so that students can shift from passive learning to active learning, the activation areas and diverse development pattern. The Ministry of education in 103 years began to promote the school e-learning innovation model, the use of digital teaching materials is innovation the learning based wave. So this study will be to cram schools in Taichung area high school high school students as the object of study and questionnaire, the technology acceptance model (TAM) and the theory of planned behavior (TPB) as the guidance, to explore the relationship between personality variables related analysis using the attitude and willingness of the digital teaching materials. The results showed that perceived behavioral control and behavior has no positive correlation, which means the decision when students use digital teaching materials more, but its usage and number less. Therefore, if we can in the digital material promotion and application with the teaching of the school, the students in digital teaching materials based learning the environment, increase the new learning mode of thinking, then influence and stimulate the students' enthusiasm to improve the effectiveness of the use of digital teaching materials. This study can be used as a reference for a new generation of digital learning and popularization of digital teaching materials.

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