Abstract

Faced with declining student numbers and decreasing government grants, universities around Taiwan are increasingly compelled to search for alternative sources of revenue to meet their financial needs. Donations made by alumni constitute a major component of these supplemental sources of revenue. The purpose of this research was to determine the factors that influence alumni donations to universities, and to measure the relative importance of each of these factors. A survey of 510 alumni from four different universities of education was carried out, and the results demonstrate that while university of education alumni do indeed make generous donations, only 3.5% of their donations go to their alma mater. Moreover, different types of fundraising programs have dramatically different effects on different donor groups. Thus the use of several different fundraising programs, instead of one unified program, can enhance fundraising efficiency.

It has been noted that many drug addicts relapse to drug use after discharged from successful treatment and rehabilitation programs. Thus it is imperative and timely to address the issues that prompt relapsed addiction.  400 drug addicts on relapse cases were selected from eight drug rehabilitation centres throughout Peninsular Malaysia to examine factors influences the relapsed addiction to drug use. Consistent with previous research, self-efficacy, family support, community support and employers support were identified as main factors that influenced the relapsed addictions tendency amongst addicts. Suggestions to curb relapsed addiction to drugs were discussed in relation to the findings.  

This study investigated a cross-cultural comparison of self-regulated learning (SRL) skills between Korean and Filipino college students. Specifically, it identified and analyzed the motivational and learning strategies adopted by Korean and Filipino students. To measure their SRL skills, the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire was administered. Results of this study showed that the degree of Filipino students’ SRL skills was higher than one of Korean students. Cultural and educational contexts of the two countries were examined to identify possible factors underlying the differences between two countries’ college students in SRL skills.

This study investigates on the relationship between demographic factors and the usage of Islamic credit card as well as Conventional credit card demonstrates their interdependencies. The debatable issues as been addressed by many authorities not only in terms of the numbers of credit card flooding the nation’s economy, but the amount of transactions that end up with payment default and the numbers of credit card fraud as been recorded which threatened the economy should be seriously focused. Nevertheless the advances and changing habits in purchasing activities significantly contributed the diffusion of credit card as becoming more important and relevant in maintaining the purchasing activities. The study was conducted involving 305 respondents as a sample of study. While 26 items were used for addressing the research questions. Section A of the questionnaire seeks for information concerning the demographic profile of the respondents whilst section B and C that used Likert scale aimed to investigate information related to income and usage of credit card. The results of the study offer certain important managerial implications for the policy makers, finance institutions and the authorities bodies that take controls the credit card activities.

The charmingly written Chapter 11 of Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorain Gray seems overlooked by the critics, but actually, it is a best footnote of Wilde’s literary creation of aestheticism and a great achievement of his writing with extreme simplicity. Its presentation of luxurious arts, though strikingly different from that of The Dream of the Red Mansion by Cao Xueqin, results in the same excellence. Making an analysis of the different approaches to the “display” of the four luxurious artistic works: fragrance, music ,jewelry and embroidered work, this paper finds that although there seems no comparison between Wilde’s aestheticism and Cao’s realism, simplest as Wilde and most elaborate as Cao, they both delivered the world the extraordinary beauty of arts with their pens and both revealed their thoughts on literary creation through the extreme beauty.

The problem of linguistics in language teaching has been discussed for many years in SLA. Researchers try to find out the relationship between linguistics and language teaching. In this paper, the author gives her own opinion about their relationship on the basis of some linguists’ theories and attempts to show the implication of linguistic theories on the practice of language teaching.

Postmodernism has risen from 60’s of last century and had a wide range of influence on the world. However, to date, no consensus has been reached on its definition. While anchoring to “adaptation” and “development”, postmodernism could be redefined. By analyzing problems existing in teaching objective, curriculum, teaching methods, result assessment of current local normal universities’ postgraduate education in China, and taking advantage of the new view of postmodernism, four strategies for reform are provided.

This article elaborates connotation and characteristics of leading industries, and summarizes selection norm of leading industries under requirements of sustainable development outlook. Then, the authors establish selection index system for leading industries and provide theoretical evidence for further rational determination of leading industries in economic development.

Ancient Chinese working people created a wide range of different advertising styles in the process of adapting themselves to and transforming nature, such as object ads, sound ads, sign ads, couplet ads, poetry ads, print ads and hall decoration ads, etc. These advertising forms reflect the folk customs of different stages of development and the ideology of all sectors of the ancient society and demonstrate a variety of advertising content and life information.

In view of the present situation of China’s biopharmaceutical industry and by analyzing the status quo of supervision in the fields of bio-pharmaceutical registration, production and circulation, this text tries to propose some appropriate measures for improvement. And some conclusions are made that supervision over biopharmaceutical industry must be continually improved; measures should be made by the State Food and Drug Administration to make the biopharmaceutical industry have a sound development.

This thesis aims to probe into the relationship between language transfer and the three error types of Chinese ESL learners’ acquisition of passive voice. On the basis of analysis of the result of a self-designed test, I come to a conclusion that under-passivization is the main characteristic of Chinese learner’s passive acquisition and negative transfer has a strong effect on Chinese learners’ acquisition of passive voice.

In this paper, functional tenor is modified into a set of discursive strategies which conceptualize the institution relation established between addressors/writers and addressees/readers through the choices of a systemic-functional kind, where participants in the process in any instance are engaged in a series of negotiations, during which the addressor/writer inclines to orient the addressee/reader toward certain field and, at the same time, certain ideological idea, etc. To put it simply, through constructing certain kind of relationship between addressors/writers and addressees/readers, the addressors/writers can facilitate the ideology to the addressees/readers. The main function of news report is the ideology instilment. Functional tenor plays a central role in the ideology inculcation. This paper testifies how the functional tenor facilitate ideology inculcation by the news report register.

Agricultural investment and financing systems in USA, France and Japan have their own features and advantages. Through comparison of agricultural investment and financing systems in foreign advanced countries, this article is going to put forward some enlightenments for reform of agricultural investment and financing system in China.