Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Mirror cases'

La intel·ligència artificial ha estat un concepte que captiva la humanitat des de fa mil·lennis. Des de l'antiguitat, els humans estan obsessionats amb la idea de crear un ésser humà artificial perfecte amb diferents objectius, com ara la companyia o l'ajuda domèstica, i han escrit sobre ells en textos antics de diverses cultures. Això va evolucionar cap a la literatura de protofantasia o protociència-ficció a l’alta edat mitjana. Tanmateix, no va ser fins al segle XIX que la influent obra de Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818), va reunir diferents aspectes de la creació artificial de vida humana artificial en el debat d’una comprensió psicològica social més àmplia. Amb l'arribada dels mitjans audiovisuals al segle XX, aquestes representacions dels humanoides creats artificialment o d'altres creacions amb cert grau de consciència han poblat tant la gran pantalla com la televisió. Aquesta tesi se centra en les connexions socials d'aquestes representacions de la Intel·ligència Artificial, a partir de la sèrie de televisió Black Mirror (Charlie Brooker, 2011), així com en les pel·lícules Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2014) i Her (Spike Jonze, 2014), per tal d’analitzar la relació entre la Intel·ligència Artificial i els humans des de perspectives i paradigmes diversos. L’anàlisi audiovisual de les obres seleccionades és seguida d’una exploració de com s’estan produint aquests recents avenços tecnològics en la nostra societat actual, per relacionar-los amb les advertències que proposen les obres seleccionades i que ofereixen una lectura per al futur que requereix la implementació de normatives estrictes sobre la Intel·ligència Artificial per tal d’alleujar les angoixes humanes respecte a la tecnologia. Paraules clau: Intel·ligència artificial, tecnologia, ciència ficció, distopia, estudis cinematogràfics, societat.
La inteligencia artificial es un concepto que fascina a la humanidad durante milenios. Desde la antigüedad, los humanos han estado obsesionados con la idea de crear un humano artificial perfecto para diferentes fines, como la compañía o la ayuda doméstica, y han escrito sobre ello en textos fundacionales de diversas culturas. Esto se convirtió progresivamente en literatura de protofantasía o proto-ciencia ficción en la Alta Edad Media. Sin embargo, no fue hasta el siglo XIX cuando la influyente obra Frankenstein (1818) de Mary Shelley reunió diferentes aspectos de la creación de un ser humano artificial, discutidos dentro de una comprensión psicológica y social más amplia. Con la llegada de los medios audiovisuales en el siglo XX, estas representaciones de humanoides creados artificialmente o de otras creaciones con cierto grado de conciencia han poblado tanto la gran pantalla como la televisión. Esta tesis se centra en las conexiones sociales de dichas representaciones de la Inteligencia Artificial, centrándose en la serie de televisión Black Mirror (Charlie Brooker, 2011), así como en las películas Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2014) y Her (Spike Jonze, 2014), analizando las relaciones entre la Inteligencia Artificial y los humanos desde una variedad de perspectivas y paradigmas diferentes. El análisis audiovisual de las obras seleccionadas va seguido de una exploración sobre cómo estos avances tecnológicos recientes se están produciendo en nuestra sociedad actual, vinculándolos con las advertencias que formulan las obras seleccionadas y ofreciendo una lectura de futuro que requiere la implementación de una estricta normativa en torno a la Inteligencia Artificial para aliviar las ansiedades humanas sobre la tecnología. Palabras clave: inteligencia artificial, tecnología, sociedad, ciencia ficción, distopía, estudios cinematográficos.
Artificial Intelligence has been a concept that has infatuated humankind for millennia. Since antiquity, humans have been obsessed with the idea of creating a perfect artificial human for different aims such as companionship or domestic help, and ancient cultures have devoted foundational texts to the artificial human. This literary occupation gradually evolved into proto-fantasy or proto-Science Fiction literature in the early middle ages. However, it wasn’t until the 19th century that Mary Shelley’s influential work Frankenstein (1818) brought together different aspects of creating an artificial human discussed within a broader social and psychological understanding. With the advent of audiovisual media in the 20th century, such representations of artificially created humanoids or other creations with some degree of consciousness have populated both the silver screen and television. This thesis focuses on the societal connections between such representations of Artificial Intelligence, focusing on the TV show Black Mirror (Charlie Brooker, 2011) as well as the films Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2014) and Her (Spike Jonze, 2014) by analyzing the Artificial Intelligence - human relationships from a variety of different perspectives and paradigms. The audiovisual analyses of the selected works are then followed by an examination of how such recent technological developments are taking place in our current society. These texts under examination exhort us to beware the potential dangers of AI technology, which require implementation of strict regulations around the Artificial Intelligence framework in order to alleviate human anxieties about technology. Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, technology, technology and society, Science Fiction, dystopia, film studies, society.

El presente trabajo aplicado consiste en la gestión y desarrollo integral de un proyecto inmobiliario, para lo cual se ha realizado el análisis de preinversión e inversión a nivel de factibilidad, considerando para este proyecto inmobiliario un edificio residencial ubicado en el distrito de San Miguel sobre un terreno de 91413m2

Bibliography: leaves 163-169.
How do history classes reflect the ways in which teachers and students in Cape Town schools are dealing with their nation in transition? I ask through this research. To address this question, I developed a methodology based on ethnographic methods in the belief that I could gain a unique perspective by being in the history classrooms and in schools themselves for sustained periods of time. I spent three weeks in each of four schools with different histories: Peninsula High, Transkei High, Plain High, and Central High. I have presented my representations of these schools each as a separate case study. Through extracts from interviews with teachers and students, moments of classroom lessons and discussions, and descriptions of informal interactions in various school settings, I have constructed narratives to explore what is going on in schools in a time of transition. I have used the textual devises of narrative and rhetoric to highlight the situations of teachers and students in schools and to contextualise and to problematise the different ways in which they were dealing with an education system in transition. I trace the common threads that ran through history teaching in each school and juxtapose the thoughts and actions of teachers and students. In so doing, I have attempted to create conversations between teachers and students from different schools. These conversations seek to mirror first how teachers and students were dealing with education and history teaching in a time of transition, not only in isolation, but also collectively; and, secondly, to examine what was working, what wasn't, and why. It is an endeavour to provide an always unfinished, yet thought-provoking, discourse about where education and history teaching might go from here.

The role of infinity as an antagonist in Jorge Luis Borges's oeuvre is undeniable. His stories in El jardi­n de senderos que se bifurcan (1941), Ficciones (1944), and El Aleph (1949) exhibit Borges's tendency to evoke dreams, labyrinths, mirrors, and libraries as both conduits for infinity and sources of conflict. Oftentimes, Borges's characters experience discomfort upon encountering the limitations of secular temporal succession. This discomfort is rooted in Borges's pessimism about the subject which is explored in Borges's most comprehensive essay on the issue of time: "A New Refutation of Time." Consequently, this thesis considers Borges's attitude towards the issue of time as postulated in "A New Refutation of Time" and exhibited in his early fiction, continues to acknowledge infinity as a fundamental conflict in Borges's work, and proceeds to search for a solution to this conflict. The analysis in this thesis relies heavily on a comparative study of the themes and symbols in Borges's fiction in order to establish a pattern wherein infinity is portrayed negatively. More importantly, the use of interviews, biographies, and Borges's own fiction, facilitates the construction of cohesive conception of time in his work. Subsequently, this study looks to establish a solution to the problem of infinity and establish a new pattern wherein there is a positive resolution to the narrative. Ultimately, the goal of this thesis is to acknowledge the problem of infinity in Borges's work and then propose a way to escape it.
B.A.
Bachelors
Arts and Humanities
English; Literature

For many years, theorists have turned to popular movies and books to help interpret the difficult principles of Jacques Lacan. However, one story that has gotten very little attention is Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and its derivative body of film adaptations. Both the novella and Rouben Mamoulian’s 1931 film are a small part of an intertextual body of work which contains scenes that play out the Lacanian principles of the mirror stage and the gaze very well. Since art imitates life, an in depth exploration of the way that these scenes play out can illuminate how Lacan’s abstract theories might look in the real life formation of identity and in male/female relations.

Sustainable Development is one of the most important arguments now a day. How we can make our world more sustainable in nature is the most significant phenomena for all of us. It is very difficult to transform the old, traditional and historically significant places to a more sustainable and modern in nature without hampering their values and historic resources. Cultural significances of old historic places represent the sense of connectivity and provide a continuation of past experience to the present and future generations (ICOMOS, 1999). These are the old urban characters which shapes the modern urban culture and identity over the time. They should treat as the most important belongings of history to go forward towards more advanced future. Future is always shaped by the past. Hence if we forget our history; it would be very difficult to get proper guidelines for future development. It is necessary for us to preserve our deteriorating heritage resources to develop our own future. However, globalization, rapid and uncontrolled urbanization and technological advancement make these attempt challenging. Urban heritage conservation in a very integrated way would be one of the solutions for conserving old values and ideas with their own traditional nature. Conservation with sustainable manner should be taken as the top priority in all development planning agendas. Moreover, proper urban heritage conservation can help to transform historical places as the source of history, culture and socio-economic advancement for the local community and can change unsustainable community into more sustainable in nature. Dhaka is one of the major old cities in South Asia. It has a various combination of historic places and communities which give Dhaka a unique urban character. It has long history of urbanization and this urban growth pattern has influenced mainly by the topography, socio-economic and socio-cultural characteristics along with inherent morphological quality. However over population growth, uncontrolled urbanization, poor infrastructure facilities and weak urban management contribute to deteriorating these urban heritages rapidly. There are several discussions about urban heritage conservation of developing countries but little discussions have found which has focused on the conservation with empowering local traditional economy to develop the sustainable community. By enhancing local economy through proper planning and policy and promote sustainable tourism can contribute to conserve heritage resources of Dhaka and support sustainable community development. Two historically significant communities are chosen for representing Dhaka‟s heritage which is unique in nature for their traditional professions, significant local arts, handmade crafts, life style, religious and social festivals, urban fabric and built heritage. These are Benarashi Palli at Mirpur and Shakhari Bazaar at old Dhaka. They had a self-sustained economy in the past which becomes declining day by day due to rapid and poor urban development management and ignorance of historical values and ideas. However, still these two communities are trying to survive with their own efforts and make them represented of the glorious past to us. The main focus of this study is to revive their past well-sustained economic conditions with proper conservation of heritage resources and community participation. At the same time explore several guidelines of comprehensive conservation for sustainable urban community in Dhaka. The research identifies that there is a severe lacking of integrated conservation policies in Dhaka. In fact, the importance of heritage conservation is still very far away from national planning policies in Bangladesh. Dhaka has several development control agencies however; they are not so well-integrated and well-organized to provide a comprehensive heritage planning policies for Dhaka as well as Bangladesh. Moreover, incompetent rules and regulations with scattered organizations make this problem more severe. The study has tried to incorporate all these issues and formulate a comprehensive conservation planning for Benarashi Palli and Shakhari Bazaar as well as Dhaka. Furthermore, the study tries to accommodate sustainable tourism for providing a sustainable urban economy which has always ignored in Bangladesh context. However, tourism could be a strong way of promoting heritage conservation in Dhaka which has already followed by many developing countries in South Asia.
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Urban Planning and Design
Master
Master of Science in Urban Planning

The purpose of this thesis is to present an approach for good practice with regards to using cost benefit analysis (CBA) as a value-adding activity in the information security investment process for large enterprises. The approach is supported by empirical data.

From a MIO model perspective, this report is focused on the phase of strategic choices regarding organization, i.e. trying to find optimal investments for efficient operations. To assess, improve and monitor the operational effectiveness and management’s internal control environment is essential in today’s business execution. Executive management and boards are increasingly looking for an information security governance framework that encompasses information technology and information security: a single framework through which all information assets and activities within the organisation can be governed, to provide the optimum capability for meeting the organisation’s objectives, in terms of functionality and security.

The investment decision is one of the most visible and controversial key decisions in an enterprise. Some projects are approved, others are bounced, and the rest enter the organisational equivalent of suspended animation with the dreaded request from the decision makers to “redo the business case” or “provide more information.”

The concept of cost benefit analyses of information security helps management to make decisions on which initiatives to fund with how much, as there needs to be an approach for measuring and comparing different alternatives and how they meet business objectives of the enterprise. Non-financial metrics are identified using different approaches: governance effectiveness, risk analysis, business case analysis or game theory. The financial performance metrics are driven by the main value disciplines of an enterprise. These lead to the use of formulas enabling the measurement of asset utilisation, profit or growth: ROI (ROIC), NPV, IRR (MIRR), FCF, DCF, Payback Period, TCO, TBO, EVA, and ROSI.

The author shows research in the field of good corporate governance and the investment approval process, as well as case studies from two multinational enterprises. The case from Motorola demonstrates how IT governance principles are equally applicable to information security governance, while the case from Ericsson demonstrates how an information security investment decision can be supported by performing a cost benefit analysis using traditional marketing approaches of business case analysis (BCA) and standard financial calculations.

The suggested good practice presented in this thesis is summarised in four steps:

1. Understand main rationale for the security investment

2. Identify stakeholders and strategic goals

3. Perform Cost Benefit Analysis (non-financial and financial performance metrics)

4. Validate that the results are relevant to stakeholders and strategic goals

DISCLAIMER

This report is intended for academic training only and should not be used for any other purposes. The contents are not to be considered legal or otherwise professional advice. No liability is taken, whatsoever, by the author.

碩士
國立東華大學
企業管理學系
102
The rapid rise of social network sites (SNSs) changes the distance between people and the way of life. SNSs have become the most popular platform in which Internet users interact with each other. Therefore, SNSs have drawn tremendous amount of attention from both academic and businesses. This study applied Social Cognitive Theory as the fundamental theory to explore the SNSs’ influence on its users’ positive and negative perspectives in which subsequently influence their behaviors. The SNSs users were divided into three groups—“moderate,” “fanatic,” and “apathetic.” The results showed that, among all groups, connecting with old friends influences SNSs users’ interactions. SNSs users’ interactions significantly affect individuals’ positive perspectives but not the negative ones. SNSs users’ perspectives positively correlate with their behaviors. However, SNSs users’ behaviors significantly differ from one group to another. Flow experience, enjoyment and angry have mediating effect between SNSs users’ interactions and their behaviors.

碩士
康寧大學
休閒管理研究所
99
In recent years, the leisure lifestyle has become increasingly popular; the leisure expenditure on the part of the public has increased significantly, and the trend of watching performing arts also continues to rise year by year. Currently, performing arts groups rely mainly on the sale of tickets as their source of revenue to sustain their operation. Hence, audience satisfaction and methods of attracting new potential audiences have become very important topics of study. Another challenging question faced by these groups is whether government policies value the promotion of performing arts. Taiwan’s theatrical groups are diversified and include magic shows; they have become very popular in recent years. Due to their promotion through television programs in recent years, Taiwan’s magic show business has gradually flourished. Many magic lovers began to show off their skills on television, whereby numerous magic performance artists and groups have thus gained popularity. However, a common factor among magic and other performing arts is that, one has to personally watch it in order to experience the overwhelming power. This study focused on the business characteristics, management and operational issues of the magical theatre group, “The Mirror Theatre”. The study also analyzed the marketing issues faced by the performing arts group and proposed solutions; in addition, the directions required to expand its customer base were also investigated. Through an in-depth understanding of the problems faced by the magical theatre group the study aimed to propose an appropriate marketing strategy. The study found that: 1. Developing new potential audiences is essential in order to increase the theatre group’s popularity and profit. 2. The theatre group should make use of the Internet to explain its characteristics and focus in order to better reach out to its viewers and enhance their interest in the performances. 3. In combination with street performances and impromptu performances, the activities and reputation of the theatre group can reach more people. 4. In the future, theatre operators should observe the trend of the audience groups and society, and selectively increase their performances and services in order to increase profit and a knowledgeable population. Keywords: magic, theatre group, performing arts, marketing

Researchers have identified the need to explore the context in which disordered eating is a reasonable response to violence and socio-cultural expectations, and the need for prevention programs that link fat phobia with other forms of oppression (Burstow, 1992; Herman, 1997; Orbach, 1994; Piran, 1999; Sesan, 1994; Steiner-Adair, 1994, Thompson, 1992). To date, the House of Mirrors Community Development Pilot Project (the "HOM") is the only community-based program in Canada that addresses these issues. The HOM is a visual arts installation of twenty-six full-length mirrors onto which women, girls and artists of various cultures, ages, and body types portrayed how violence and fat phobia have impacted their lives. The purpose of this multiple method study was to assess the efficacy of the HOM as a facilitator of working relationships between the health, business, art, and education sectors in Campbell River, B.C. The process was documented in two focus group interviews with five members of the HOM Subcommittee and in a survey of the HOM subcommittee and the Eating Disorder Program Advisory Committee. Evaluating the project's effectiveness distinguished different levels of community involvement as connections, relationships, and partnerships. The evaluation highlights differences between prevention and community development initiatives and the need for an emphasis on partnership building in social work. This knowledge will be used to inform future policy and practice decisions.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1989.
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碩士
國立臺灣藝術大學
戲劇學系
103
Henri Lefebvre’s Space Theory opposes simply treating space as the container to store materials. He believes that there are other elements existing in the space that affects relationships between each component. This article tries to analyze new media and how theatre space changes and its ups and downs after the introduction of the new media using Henri Lefebvre’s Conceptual Triad theory in his work The Production of Space. McLuhan Marshall thinks that all media is the extension of human race. And theater is the vehicle to broadcast that information and actors, space, and all other elements become the extension of the information in the eye of audience other than just illusions. The article uses Spatial Practice, Representations of Space, and Spaces of Representation to demonstrate the complex relationships among materials, spiritual, and society. The first part is to analyze and compare new media. The second part is using Black Mirror to investigate and find evidence for existence of space. The third part is to understand and summarize the possibilities of new media extension through interviewing media workers and cross examinations. This three- part then in the space theory Lefebvre order to discuss the development of " Black Mirror " .The unlimited expansion and extension is inevitable in today’s world where the media is constantly changing.

碩士
逢甲大學
企業管理學系
105
A qualified product whose critical quality should be met by customers’ requests. The critical quality involves many items. In usual, the process capability index is a useful tool for evaluating the product’s quality. But the past researches aimed to the single characteristic quality. This research considers the advantage of Cpm that could measure processes’ loss to propose a new index which could evaluate multiple characteristics. In advance, we use the concept of six sigma to establish the table of level for quality control personnel used easily. Then the MPCAC (Multiple characteristics process capability analysis chart) is constructed for quickly finding out the relationship between precision and accuracy. Eventually, a case for assembly process of is used to illustrate the DMAIC process of six sigma with . The is used to measure the driving mirrors and MPCAC can analyze qualities characteristics’ precision and accuracy. Then the cause and effect diagram could find out the the most important factor which should be improved. Finally, the control chart with process precision  and accuracy  is used to monitor the quality after the improveing. The proposed method can quickly evaluate the product with multiple characteristics and indicate directions for improving to the related manufacturer.

碩士
國立彰化師範大學
翻譯研究所
107
Due to time and space constraints, it is likely for subtitle translators to adopt simplification strategies. This study chooses season one of the anthology series Black Mirror as the research material. Six simplification strategies proposed by Blum and Levenston (1978), namely superordinate terms, approximation, synonymy, transfer, circumlocution, and paraphrase, are applied to draw a comparison between the official version Netflix and the fansubbed version YYeTs and to explore how the two versions utilize simplification strategies. 　　 The study shows that the fansubbed version tends to adopt simplification strategies more frequently than the official version. However, the official version is generally more concise when simplification strategies are applied to the subtitles. On the contrary, the fansubbed version is not necessarily more concise when simplification strategies are applied to the subtitles. The underlying reason may be the simplification strategies that translators choose and the expressions that translators choose to translate. In sum, six simplification strategies proposed by Blum and Levenston (1978) are effective in terms of making subtitles more concise; however, the extent to which simplification strategies successfully applies to subtitles depends on how translators render the source texts.

碩士
國立中興大學
科技管理研究所
99
Driven by the trend of globalization, information and communication technology (ICT) has become essential infrastructure for countries to develop. ICT always played an important role in the evolution of the government, the innovation of industry, and even people’s lives. With the advantage of the electronic industry, the significant resources from the government and the civil, ICT has been the key developed and successful industry in Taiwan. Along with the close cooperation of industry, government, academia, and research, the forward-looking technology has broken through. Because of the manufacturing side, the supply side, and extension to the usual server ICT applications are so diverse that always create more values with various industries. Technology commercialization is often seen as a process of value creation which completed only by one company or a unit. In the technology commercialization process, each stage needs some capacities to do some work and different due to different industrial cooperation. The main purpose of this research of ICT was developed by Chung- Shan Institute of Science and Technology (CSIST), applies in bathroom equipment. It is the case of Wireless Mirror Display and Digital-Controlled Shower System. According to Jolly’s technology commercialization process be a major framework for recording the practice process of the R&D side of CSIST, FullWell etc. ,and the market side of Wellpoint Group. Then I will analyze the relationship of the abilities and their practices between alliance units and each stage. I expect that can supply suggestions and increase the rate of success for technology commercialization.

博士
國立清華大學
動力機械工程學系
93
Optical Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) have recently emerged as a powerful means of implementing such functions in compact and low-cost form, owing to the unique capability of this technology to integrate optical, mechanical, and electrical components on a single wafer. Various optical MEMS components, such as laser printer, display, and optical cross connects, have been demonstrated. However, how to used planar fabrication for commercialized optical MEMS device is one of key challenges. This work integrated two-poly MUMP’s process, multi-depth DRIE etching and bulk micromachining to accomplish superior poly-Si micro-optical systems. The thickness and depth-difference of the devices was significantly increased using the trench-refilled structure. In addition, the space between the devices and the substrate was remarkably increased to ~100µm by bulk silicon etching. Moreover, the self-aligned vertical comb actuators were available through the multi-depth DRIE etching for high performance out-pf-plane actuator. In applications, he scanning mirrors driven by self-aligned vertical comb actuator were demonstrated. These multi-depth optical devices can further integrate with the MUMP’s devices to establish a more powerful MOEMS platform.

This study used Bhaskar’s Critical Realist ontology as meta-theory reinforced by Margaret Archer’s Social Realist Theory as an analytical framework to help obtain a deeper understanding of the contributory mechanisms to the provision of equal opportunities to learn in racially diverse South African classrooms in a chosen primary school in Pretoria, South Africa. The study applied Archer’s Morphogenesis/Morphostasis analytical framework in an attempt to understand whether or not the school has transformed or reproduced the status quo on opportunities to learning after democracy. In particular, the study focused on the provision of equal opportunities to learn irrespective of their racial or cultural backgrounds. Archer’s analytical dualism was used to scrutinise the interaction between ‘parts’ (structure and culture) and the ‘people’ (agency). Thus, the focus was to uncover the fundamental factors that enable and constrain the provision of equal opportunities to learn in a class with racially diverse learners. This entailed the separation of structures (policies, systems, and the school governance structures), cultures (beliefs and values and how do they affect teaching and learning) and agents (people such as teachers, learners, school principals, amongst others and their ability to act (agency) within and upon their own world with regard to their social roles and positions to stimulate their emergent properties and powers. In this study, I explored how the emergent properties and powers contained in the learning resource material, policies, and ideational and agential components assisted in the production of certain actions and practices in relation to teaching and learning in a racially diverse environment. I examined these generative mechanisms to identify whether they enabled or constrained the provision of equal opportunities to learn within a racially diverse classroom context. Qualitative research methodologies were applied through the use of semistructured interviews, classroom observations and document analysis as data collection methods. At the domain of structure, the findings of the study revealed that the notion of ensuring that all learners have access to basic education without discrimination of any kind was a critical mechanism that provided learners from racially diverse contexts with physical access. Arabia (pseudonym) Primary School had enough classrooms and teaching and learning materials to cater for all learners. The South African Schools Act1 (SASA) (1996) and the admission policy of the school were found to be enabling factors in terms of admission of racially diverse learners into the school as there is no encouragement of discrimination of any kind. The school’s religious policy was also found to cater for the learners’ diverse religions, however, it is silent about learners who are not religious. The study found that there was a mismatch between the staff complement and learner enrolment as teachers were predominantly White while learners were mainly Black Africans. Ideally, it will be better for the school to strive towards a racially diverse teaching staff complement to match the racially diverse learners. The current situation may have implications for the provision of equal opportunities to learn. The study also realised that, since there was evidence of racial and cultural incongruity between learners and teachers, it might take time for the school to match the now racially diverse learner enrolment with a racially diverse staff complement. This may require transforming the staff complement through the employment of teachers who can speak different African languages and can accommodate and represent diverse cultures in teaching and learning. A constraining mechanism to the provision of equal opportunities to learn was the time assigned to some of the lessons. In some instances, it was found that lessons scheduled for thirty minutes were limited in terms of teaching and learning activities possible in this time frame, thereby hampering the provision of equal opportunities to learn. Within the domain of culture, an important mechanism that was identified was the discourse of the language of learning and teaching (LOLT). The LOLT, specifically English, was found constraining to the provision of equal opportunities to learn to learners of African descent. Learners whose home language was English benefited more in terms of knowledge and understanding of lessons compared to the majority of black African learners who spoke indigenous languages. This points to the need to review the language policy of the school in order to accommodate the local indigenous African languages. However, this may be a complex exercise considering that the black African learners speak different indigenous languages. In the domain of agency, the study found that the Head of Department (HoD) possessed the authority to guide teachers regarding the Learning Areas that they teach, the approaches to teaching and learning, as well as the learning activities that they have to carry out. This meant that they provided curriculum leadership, thus they could exercise more agency in this regard. Data also revealed that, although the curriculum was found to be relevant to racially diverse classes, teachers were unable to integrate racial diversity to the topics covered in the prescribed textbooks, particularly those that were largely based on western knowledge. This implied that teachers who participated in the study were not prepared for racially diverse classes. It will be necessary to integrate learners’ indigenous knowledge into the western knowledge content and concepts in order to enhance their epistemological access and provide equal opportunities to learn, thus appreciating local community knowledge in education and development. Curricula should also be reviewed in order to align them to the school’s clientele base/learners towards enabling the provision of equal opportunities to learn. Overall, this study concludes that, although the school had experienced Morphogenesis in terms of learner enrolment from a predominantly racially singular to a racially diverse learning population. However, the apartheid-era culture of the school was still reproduced due to the Morphostasis of the (White) teacher complement, the languages taught and the dominant school culture that was not congruent with the majority of the (Black) learners. I believe that the findings from this study may provide the conceptual and empirical foundations towards understanding whether teachers provide or fail to provide equal opportunities to learn in racially diverse classrooms in a country emerging from apartheid. I note that this is a singular case study that is not necessarily generalisable. However, it can provide insights into the extent of provision of equal opportunities to learning for the racially diverse learner population across South African schools.
Science and Technology Education
D. Phil.

碩士
長庚大學
職能治療學系
105
Introduction: Stroke is an important health issue worldwide. Patients with stroke commonly have unilateral upper-limb (UL) motor impairments which result in long-term dependence of patients. Action observation therapy (AOT) is a new rehabilitation approach based on the mechanism of mirror neuron system (MNS). During AOT, patients were asked to observe the actions performed by another healthy person in the videos and imitate the actions intentionally. Mirror therapy (MT) is another recent prominent rehabilitation intervention. MT required patients to look at the reflection of the unaffected hand in the mirror and imagine it as the affected one, which is known as mirror visual feedback. Both AOT and MT apply different patterns of visual feedback but involve motor observation and imagery and share some similar neural bases of MNS. However, their effectiveness in stroke rehabilitation is equivocal. Therefore, there were two purposes of this study. The first study aim was to investigate and compare treatment effects between AOT and MT on UL motor function measured by clinical scales in patients with subacute stroke. The second aim was to examine neural mechanisms between action observation related task and mirror related task by using the Magnetoencephalography (MEG). Methods: Eleven participants were recruited in this study to receive AOT or MT intervention for 60 minutes per day, 5days per week for 3 weeks. The clinical outcomes were selected based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). Body functions level was assessed by the upper-limb subscale of Fugl-Meyer Assessment (FMA-UL), Box and Block Test (BBT) and revised Nottingham Sensory Assessment (rNSA). The Activity and Participation levels were assessed by the Wolf Motor Function Test (WMFT), Functional Independence Measure (FIM), Motor Activity Log (MAL) and physical function domains of Stroke Impact Scale (SIS). Mann-Whitney U test was applied to evaluate the treatment effects between the 2 groups. Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test was applied to examine within-group changes. In the MEG experiment, four participants were recruited to execute 6 conditions in action observation related task and mirror related task. Kruskal-Wallis test was used to examine the differences on the beta oscillation activity with different conditions of the 2 tasks. Mann-Whitney U test was used for the post hoc analysis. Results: There were 6 participants randomly assigned to the AOT group and 5 participants assigned to the MT group. The AOT group significant improved on the total score (p = .05) and distal part score (p = .04) of the FMA-UL and BBT (p = .05). Besides, the AOT also improved on the WMFT-Time (p = .03), the total score (p = .03) and motor subscale (p = .03) of FIM, MAL-AOU (p = .03), MAL-QOM (p = .03), and hand function subscale (p = .04) and physical domains (p = .05) of the SIS. MT could significantly enhance on the WMFT-FAS (p = .04), the total score (p = .04) and motor subscale (p = .04) of FIM, MAL-AOU (p = .04), MAL-QOM (p = .04), and hand function subscale (p = .04) of the SIS. In addition, the results of MEG recordings showed significant differences in different conditions of action observation related task (p = .03). The post hoc analysis showed that the beta oscillation activities of “combined video and action” (p = .03) and “action only” (p = .03) conditions had significant decline compared to the “resting” condition. The beta oscillation activity of “combined video and action” condition decreased more compared with the activity of “action only” and “video only” conditions, although no statistically significant differences were found between these conditions. The comparison of beta oscillation activity among in the conditions of mirror related task also showed significant difference (p = .04). In the comparison between “mirror” condition and “no mirror” condition, there was no significant difference (p = .69). Further, no significant difference of beta oscillation activity was found in “combined video and action” condition compared with “mirror” condition (p = .49). Conclusion: Both AOT and MT improved UL motor function and daily function in patients with subacute stroke. AOT have more improvement on UL motor function than MT. The findings of MEG suggested that both action observation and mirror conditions can facilitate activation of primary motor cortex in patients with subacute stroke. Further studies to enroll more participants and administer a follow-up assessment are suggested.

碩士
崑山科技大學
企業管理研究所
99
Motorcycle is one of the most important transportations in Taiwan and it is used by a wide age level. However, there is abundance of accidents caused by motorcycle every year; therefore, this transportation should not be disregarded for such serious problem; otherwise, many more casualties are inevitable. So far as the rear-view mirror for the motorcycle concerned, it is equipment which increases safety. Nevertheless, because of the limited angle of view, the public has the safety concern on those rear-view mirror son the market. Hence, this research focuses on how to have innovative changes which are not only able to add the visible angles of view on the rear-view mirrors but also adjust through different shapes of motorcycle riders, in order to raise the safety for people. In Chapter Two, I introduce the methods of searching for patent firstly; after that, collecting the patent of the rear-view mirrors nowadays is as followed; and then analyzing these present advantages and disadvantages regarded as an object lesson. All the things mentioned above are for figuring out the most appropriate rear-view mirror assists for the numerous motorcycle. Furthermore, the merits owned by this new patent, and the way how to commercialize it into a real product are illustrated in this research. We all know successful merchandise that we can consult by the successful patent commercialization cases previously, ought to have a strong connection with business administration. In Chapter Four, I analyzed from the directions from production, financial affairs, marketing and market research to increase the successful rate on this merchandise. In addition to utilizing above-mentioned resources to raise its value; on the other hand, allow the applicants take this as an advantage to run their own business. Consequently, giving either those researchers who contribute to research and development or the entrepreneur sad vises that can enhance the successful rate on the patented commodity and make the commodity be full of value.

碩士
大葉大學
國際企業管理學系碩士班
92
We have faced with economic depression in Taiwan at present. Many new and developing industries rise and decline in a short time because of the fast changing computer technology. How the conventional industries accept the challenge under the circumstances becomes an important study. I take the traditional glass industry for example in this study. The case study was on Taiwan plate glass processing industry of Taiwan Mirror Glass enterprise LTD. The concrete purposes of this research were: 1.To analysis the present situation of the international competition of the flat glass processing industry. 2.To analysis the management model and resource integrate model of Taiwan Mirror Glass Enterprise., Ltd. 3.To find the stay in Taiwan competitive advantage for the plate glass processing industry in Taiwan. 4.To find the stratagem for the traditional plate glass processing industry in Taiwan. We have to train professional talents in professing technology in Taiwan, and integrate resources with all cooperative companies if we want to compete with other countries in the plate glass processing industries. It is so called resources sharing and simplified management. By utilizing the natural geographical advantage, we can stay the traditional glass industry in Taiwan. We can create resources integration model according to the actual operation of TMG. It also can be an index for us to establish managing strategies in the future.

碩士
朝陽科技大學
休閒事業管理系碩士班
101
Tourism Factory is a new type of travel attraction, which it combine manufacturing, cultural industries and tourism. Therefore, it is worthy to understand what make the visitors’ come, and take it as a travel choice, so they would like to revisit. Hence, this study tries to investigate the impact of visitors'' motivation, tourism attraction and perceived value on revisiting. This research took the visitors’ of Taiwan Mirror Glass Enterprise as the objects, and 324 effective questionnaires were collected. The results showed that majority of the visitors are female, with age of 21-30, university level of education, unmarried dominated, services industry of occupation, Central region, monthly income of NT $ 20,001-30,000. The motivation, tourism attraction and perceived value were about the upper levels, and revisit intention is moderate. Regression analysis showed that both tourism attraction and perceived value have a significant positive impact on revisiting willingness, with the perceived value a higher degree of impact. MANOVA showed that the subjects'' personal information to visit the motivation, tourist attraction, perceived value and revisiting willingness individually partly significant differences. Therefore, this study suggests that regular replacement of industry exhibition and experience, and interpretation through game could be used as way to increase the willing of revisit. In addition, we proposed environmental education and combined with communities and to reduce the gap between weekdays and weekends crowds.

碩士
國立臺灣大學
職能治療研究所
104
Background and objectives: Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a non-invasive brain stimulation for changing the damaged cortical excitability of stroke patients. It is a promising therapeutic technique in neurorehabilitation. Mirror therapy (MT) has been effective for improving sensorimotor functions of the upper extremity in stroke rehabilitation. To verify whether tDCS may be combined with MT for augmented treatment effects, this study was designed to investigate the effects of hybridizing tDCS with MT in patients with stoke. Methods: A randomized, double-blinded and sham-controlled study was conducted. Ten participants with chronic stroke were randomly assigned to receive tDCS combined sequentially with MT, or sham-tDCS combined with MT. All participants in the two groups received the intervention for 90-min five times a week for 4 weeks. Fugl-Meyer Assessment (FMA), revised Nottingham Sensory Assessment (RNSA), and Motor Activity Log (MAL) were administrated as primary outcomes, moreover; Wolf Motor Function Test (WMFT), Modified Ashworth Scale (MAS), Grip and Pinch Strength, kinematic assessment and actigraphy were secondary outcomes at pre- and post-treatment. Moreover, tDCS adverse effects questionnaire was applied in the study for monitoring the adverse effects. Results: For primary outcomes, tDCS + MT group had significant changes and large effect on the distal subscale of FMA (P = .048, r = .577); and the quality of movement subscale (P = .028, r = .596) and the amount of use subscale of MAL (P = .048, r = .562) for between-group comparisons. Sham-tDCS + MT group compared to another group were statistically different on the proximal subscale of FMA (P = .016, r = .681). Although there were few statically significant findings on secondary outcomes in both groups, MT+ tDCS group compared to Sham-tDCS + MT group may have trends of greater changes on lateral pinch strength, angular change of kinematic assessment; and caloric consumption and activity counts for actigraphy. Sham-tDCS + MT group showed a superior trend in tactile sensation and sterognosis of RNSA, the proximal subscale of MAS, and the time subscale of WMFT. Conclusion: The research supports the positive effects of tDCS combined with MT on motor and daily functions after stroke. With the case series designed in the study, the conclusion should be carefully inferred. Further studies with more sample size or long-term follow-up are needed to examine the present findings.

The study critically explored the language of reportage of the Zimbabwe Land Reform programme as presented in selected Shona and English newspapers in Zimbabwe. The study focused on Kwayedza, The Herald, The Daily News and The Daily Mirror. The objective was to find out whether or not the verbal and visual languages used in reporting the Land Reform programme left readers more knowledgeable about the programme, and then adopt a critical attitude towards the Land Reform exercise. The study used qualitative textual analysis to unpack the language frames used in representing Land Reform in the selected newspapers. Some relevant critical voices from readers were also enlisted in order to support or complicate interpretations of how Land Reform was portrayed in the selected stories. Kwayedza and The Herald unequivocally supported the Land Reform. This official stance was contested in Chapter Four in which The Daily News adopted an ideological position opposed to both the idea of the Land Reform and the confiscatory way the land was repossessed. The Daily News’ extremely negative criticism of the Land Reform was challenged and then modified in The Daily Mirror. The Daily Mirror criticised both the government’s extremely supportive view of the Land Reform. The Daily Mirror also openly criticised The Daily News for refusing to acknowledge the historical inevitability and necessity of the Land Reform. The Daily Mirror advanced a perspective that suggested that Land Reform programme should benefit the masses more than the elites. It was argued that in contexts of political change such as that of Zimbabwe, newspapers take a stance and support particular ideological interests.
African Languages
D. Litt. et Phil. (African Languages)

碩士
大葉大學
管理學院碩士在職專班
103
With the popularity of mobile devices and mobile Internet, consumers use trivial time to watch movies on the Net and sharing them through community websites. Therefore, the prevalence of micro-film is resulted. This study explores the effects of micro-film story marketing from the perspective of Heuristic theory and wants to know if micro-film storis would evoke customers’ empathy and emotion reaction,thereby affect the perception of their brand image and purchase intention. This survey were limited for Taiwan's Internet users, and had simultaneously Internet and paper questionnaire respondents . Removing invalid samples, the total recovery was 375 copies. This study took a main view of consumers’ perception and the results showed that the story which has stronger narrative and close to the self-relevant of customerst can trigger emotional responses of consumers and enhance the brand image and stimulate buying interest.