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Asian Pacific Islander Desi Awareness Month Keynote Lecture with Dr. Gordon H. Chang hosted by the APIDA Commission
No full textDr. Gordon H. Chang will speak on the history of anti-Asian violence in America on April 27, 2023, at 1:00 EDT for one hour. Dr. Chang recently stepped down as the Senior Associate Vice Provost for Under Graduate Education at Stanford and is a professor of history. He is also the Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities at Stanford University. He is the author of nine books, primarily on U.S. China relations and the Asian-American experience
Measuring and analyzing German and Spanish customer satisfaction of using the iPhone 4S Mobile Cloud service
Get PDFThis paper presents the customer satisfaction analysis for measuring popularity in the Mobile Cloud, which is an emerging area in the Cloud and Big Data Computing. Organizational Sustainability Modeling (OSM) is the proposed method used in this research. The twelve-month of German and Spanish consumer data are used for the analysis to investigate the return and risk status associated with the ratings of customer satisfaction in the iPhone 4S Mobile Cloud services. Results show that there is a decline in the satisfaction ratings in Germany and Spain due to economic downturn and competitions in the market, which support our hypothesis. Key outputs have been explained and they confirm that all analysis and interpretations fulfill the criteria for OSM. The use of statistical and visualization method proposed by OSM can expose unexploited data and allows the stakeholders to understand the status of return and risk of their Cloud strategies easier than the use of other data analysis
On the Studies of Detrusor-Sphincter Synergia of Wistar Rats via Karhunen-Loève Expansion
Get PDF[[abstract]]In normal Wistar rats, we have found that the voiding of the bladder has a synergic cooperation between the detrusor and the sphincter. On the contrary, the suprasacral spinal cord injured (SCI) rats usually exhibit dyssynergic contractions of the bladder and the external urethral sphincter (EUS). In this study, the cystometrograms (CMG) of the detrusor and the electromyograms (EMG) of the EUS of intact and SCI female Wistar rats are used to investigate the eigenmodes of synergic cooperation during micturition via Karhunen-Loève expansion (KLE). Here we show that the three different phases of urination of intact rats: initial, bursting and relaxation phase, have different number of eigenmodes. The SCI rats are also investigated with the KLE method. Results have indicated that our understanding of micturition mechanism of Wistar rats can be mightily improved.[[fileno]]2030149010046[[department]]電機工程學
A 2 h periodic variation in the low-mass X-ray binary Ser X-1
No full textSpectroscopy of the low-mass X-ray binary Ser X-1 using the Gran Telescopio Canarias have revealed a ?2 h periodic variability that is present in the three strongest emission lines. We tentatively interpret this variability as due to orbital motion, making it the first indication of the orbital period of Ser X-1. Together with the fact that the emission lines are remarkably narrow, but still resolved, we show that a main-sequence K dwarf together with a canonical 1.4 M? neutron star gives a good description of the system. In this scenario, the most likely place for the emission lines to arise is the accretion disc, instead of a localized region in the binary (such as the irradiated surface or the stream-impact point), and their narrowness is due instead to the low inclination (?10°) of Ser X-1
Chang, Stephen H. The Chinese around the World
No full textO'Reilly Patrick. Chang, Stephen H. The Chinese around the World. In: Journal de la Société des océanistes, n°41, tome 29, 1973. p. 379
Yenan, China, Owen with Y. H. Chang
No full textAn image scanned from a black and white photograph with a handwritten caption on the back that reads, Owen with Y. H. Chang, National Salvation Association leader (p. 17). One in a series of photographs documenting a trip taken by Thomas Arthur Bisson and related to his subsequent publication, Yenan in June 1937: Talks with the Communist Leaders.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/spec_photos/3496/thumbnail.jp
Search for new hadronic decays of h c and observation of h c → p p ¯ η
No full textAbstract A search for the hadronic decays of the h c meson to the final states p p ¯ π + π − π 0, p p ¯ η , and p p ¯ π 0 via the process ψ(3686) → π 0 h c is performed using (4.48 ± 0.03) × 108 ψ(3686) events collected with the BESIII detector. The decay channel h c → p p ¯ η is observed for the first time with a significance greater than 5σ and a branching fraction of (6.41 ± 1.74 ± 0.53 ± 1.00) × 10 −4, where the uncertainties are statistical, systematic, and that from the branching fraction of ψ(3686) → π 0 h c . Strong evidence for the decay h c → p p ¯ π + π − π 0 is found with a significance of 4.9σ and a branching fraction of (3.84 ± 0.83 ± 0.69 ± 0.58) × 10 −3. The significances include systematic uncertainties. No clear signal of the decay h c → p p ¯ π 0 is found, and an upper limit of 6.59 × 10 −4 on its branching fraction is set at the 90% confidence level
Brain Segmentation ? A Case study of Biomedical Cloud Computing for Education and Research
No full textMedical imaging is widely adopted in Hospitals and medical institutes, and new ways to improve existing medical imaging services are regularly exploited. This paper describes the adoption of Cloud Computing is useful for medical education and research, and describes the methodology, results and lesson learned. A working Bioinformatics Cloud platform can demonstrate computation and visualisation of brain imaging. The aim is to study segmentation of brains, which divides the brain into ten major regions. The Cloud platform has these two functions: (i) it can highlight each region for ten different segments; and (ii) it can adjust intensity of segmentation to allow basic study of brain medicine. Two types of benefits are reported as follows. Firstly, all the medical student participants are reported to have 20% improvement in their learning satisfaction. Secondly, 100% of volunteer participants are reported to have positive learning experience
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