National Chengchi University

About: National Chengchi University is a education organization based out in Taipei, Taiwan. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & China. The organization has 3465 authors who have published 6342 publications receiving 118821 citations. The organization is also known as: NCCU & Chengda.

Factors, process and outcomes of recovery from psychiatric disability: the unity model.

Abstract: Background: Despite the fruitful findings on related issues of recovery in the West, some researchers have called for more studies on the factors that facilitate recovery and international literature on recovery to be made available. Moreover, to date, a united model that integrates outcome, component process and contextual factors of recovery has not yet been developed. Thus, this study explored the recovery experiences of persons with psychiatric disabilities (hereinafter called consumers) in Taiwan and extracted the key facilitators for developing a preliminary unity theory of recovery.Material: In-depth qualitative interviews of 15 consumers in recovery and their caregivers were held. Over a research period of two years, consumers were interviewed twice. The dialogue of each interview was transcribed into text and a narrative summary of the storyline for each participant was also prepared.Discussion: For most consumers, the journey of recovery was an incremental process of progress, yet few of them me...

Building a Value-Centric e-Government Service Framework Based on a Business Model Perspective

Abstract: The main objective of e-government is to create public values by delivering public services to citizens, businesses, and government agencies. Since business models have been noted as proper means to illustrate the concept and methods of value proposition and creation, the aims of this paper is at proposing a value-centric e-government service framework based on the business model perspective for guiding and ensuring successful development, management, and delivery of e-government systems and services. Four adapted value-centric business model perspectives include public beneficiaries, government internal organization and process, government service chain, and society and national environments. Identified generic e-government service functions encompass profile management, security and trust management, information navigation and search, transaction and payment, participation and collaboration, personalization and customization, as well as learning and knowledge management.

How Sure Are We about Purchasing Power Parity? Panel Evidence with the Null of Stationary Real Exchange Rates

Abstract: This article presents evidence on mean reversion in industrial countries' real exchange rates in a setup that accounts naturally for cross-sectional dependence, is invariant to the benchmark currency and actually tests for the null of interest, i.e. purchasing power parity. Our results are based on the Kwiatkowski et al. (1992) test for the stationarity null generalized in a multivariate random walk plus noise model by Nyblom and Harvey (2000).