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The objective of this study was to determine the relationship among some intrapersonal factors including individual professional competency, interdisplinary ability, social skills, and team cohesion. Results showed that each of these factors could influence the innovation competency of students enrolled in design programs. To scrutinize effects of these factors on innovation competency, this study examined their correlations with innovation competency and their internal structure in order to comprehensively understand influential processes and paths for innovation competency enhancement in design education. The validated questionnaire was delivered to 296 students enrolled in design programs of universities in Taiwan. SPSS 18.0 and AMOS statistics were used to analyze collected data. To address research questions of this study, t-test, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), Pearson correlation analysis, Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) were performed. The following crucial conclusions were reached: (1) Students enrolled in design programs generally possessed high levels of professional competency, interdisplinary ability, social skills capability, team cohesion, thinking style, and innovation competency; (2) There were significant and positive relationships among these factors. This implies that these intrapersonal factors are highly relied on each other because they co-exist and interact with each other. Thus, any change in one factor would create chain effects; and (3) These highly correlated intrapersonal factors can be developed in real environment through understanding their interactive, hierarchical, and consecutive processes rather than through focusing on effects of a single factor. These conclusions could provide several suggestions for professionals, managers, and, more importantly, school educators in relevant fields. Two suggestions are provided for future high quality and comprehensive research to further understand and improve strategies needed for design education.

The groundwater level in an unconfined aquifer near a river is strongly affected by rainfall and river level. The linearized Boussinesq equation has been used in numerous studies to analytically investigate the changes in groundwater level. A perturbation method was used to determine the non-linear term of the Boussinesq equation. The generalized integral transform technique (GITT) was subsequently used to obtain a semi-analytical solution. We compared this solution with a linearized analytical and non-linear numerical solution and investigated the influence of each parameter that affects the number of convergent terms in analytical solutions. To estimate the recharge volume, two methods, the Horton infiltration formula and a method in which the fraction of rainfall intensity is considered, were employed. Subsequently, the simulated groundwater levels were compared with the field data. Finally, the recharge type, namely unimodal, with and without the Horton infiltration formula was used to model the groundwater flow. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study, taking statistic test approach, was conducted to explore the manifest components, focusing on organizational culture, organizational empowerment, and self-efficacy, which have been approved as crucial factors vitalizing nursing staff' career enthusiasm. We adopted a cross-sectional research design, and used the organizational culture, organizational empowerment and self-efficacy scales as the research instruments. From August 10 to September 25, 2021, the head nurses collected data using questionnaires. Selected participants were the nursing staff in hospitals from Taiwan, Indonesia and Vietnam, with a total of 302 valid questionnaires were collected. Descriptive statistical analysis, independent sample t-test, analysis of variance test, Pearson correlation analysis, regression analysis was carried out. Taiwan's organizational culture score is the highest, followed by Vietnam and Indonesia; In terms of organizational empowerment, Indonesia has the highest score, followed by Taiwan and Vietnam; In terms of self-efficacy, Vietnam has the highest score, followed by Taiwan and Indonesia. Organizational empowerment indirectly affects self-efficacy through organizational culture. Organizational culture plays an important role in organizational empowerment that affects self-efficacy. It is recommended that qualitative and in-depth research and face-to-face in-depth interviews will be helpful for the depth and connotation of the research data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]