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Visual Artist Talk with Jen Liu
No full textJen Liu is a visual artist based in New York and Vermont, working in video/animation, choreography, biomaterial, and painting to explore national identity, gendered economies, neoliberal industrial labor, and the re-motivating of archival artifacts. She is a 2019 recipient of the Creative Capital Award, 2018 LACMA Art + Technology Lab grant, and 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship in Film/Video. She has presented work at The Whitney Museum, MoMA, and The New Museum, New York; Smithsonian American Art Museum, DC; Royal Academy and ICA, London; Kunsthaus Zurich; Kunsthalle Wien; the Aspen Museum of Art; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; MUSAC, Leon; UCCA and A07 @ 798, Beijing; and the 2014 Shanghai Biennale and 2019 Singapore Biennale
Soil Characteristics and Clay Mineralogy of Two Subalpine Forest Spodosols With Clay Accumulation in Taiwan
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[[alternative]]CREATE YOUR OWN FATE :TWO RUNNER’S LIFE STORY
No full text[[abstract]]CREATE YOUR OWN FATE :
TWO RUNNER’S LIFE STORY
Master’s Thesis, June, 2006 Wu, Bae-Chyi
Advisor: Liu, I-Min Ph.D.
Abstract
“Running is the Way for Runner to Achieve Self-Realization and Mental Fortitude”. This article explored two runners’ experiences of marathon running and presented through the telling of life’s stories. To experience personally what inspirations running could bring to life, the author chose running as a total novice. From the initial physical and mental anguish, struggle and through continual adaptation, training and retrospection, the author gradually discovered the fun of running and the wide spectrum of emotions it generated - tranquility, flowing, soul-searching, torment, bondage, contradiction…etc. These voices enriched and changed the life of the author in a subtle way. The author was also able to discern life’s philosophies in the process. In the lapse of time, the author reviewed his own life story back and forth, and shared the story of runner Ahdar. He re-discovered himself, re-acquainted with himself, and realized that he still held many dreams and that running was a goal he could achieve. The temple of marathon is a symbol. Stepping into this temple is as if breaking through the cocoon in a rebirth, during which pain is a part of the experience. The pain suffered during training for marathon helps accumulate the strength to face future challenges. A person who has completed the pilgrimage of marathon will be likely to gain greater strength to realize other dreams in life.
Key words: Running, Runner, Life story
Subalpine Loamy Spodosols in Taiwan: Characteristics, Micromorphology, and Genesis
No full textFour subalpine loamy Spodosols with illuvial clay in the spodic horizons were selected for study to understand their characteristics, micromorphology, and genesis. These Spodosols, located in central Taiwan, are covered by coniferous vegetation, receive high levels of precipitation, and occupy gentle slope positions at elevations >2400 m. Soil textures, which range from loam to clay, are finer than those of Spodosols formed in temperate regions. The pedogenic products in the soils of the study area are mainly organo-metallic complexes or illuvial clay mixed with organo-metallic complexes in the spodic horizons. Typical micromorphological features in the spodic horizons of these Spodosols revealed infillings of organo-Fe complexes, argillans, or argiferrans along the irregular voids. The four selected pedons have loose spodic horizons where illuvial clay also has accumulated. The large amounts of spodic materials and illuvial clays in the spodic horizons indicate that podzolization and clay accumulation were the two dominant pedogenic processes. Some of the illuvial clay translocated into the spodic horizons is mixed with organo-Fe (or -Al) complexes along the irregular voids of the spodic horizons. This may also have resulted in a lack of well-oriented clay in these horizons despite the occurrence of large amounts of illuviated clays
Soil characteristics and clay mineralogy of two subalpine forest spodosols with clay accumulation in Taiwan
No full textTwo Spodosols with significant spodic morphological characteristics and clay accumulation were selected from a subalpine forest region where the elevation ranges from 2400 to 2700 meters, with high precipitation and low temperatures, and cool and humid weather conditions prevail. The objectives of this study were to investigate the soil characteristics, weathering patterns of clay mineralogy, and genesis of the two Spodosols with clay accumulation in the Chunta Mountain region of central Taiwan. We have also proposed modification of the description of Spodosols in Soil Taxonomy. Soil characteristics, clay distribution, low soil pH, and very low base saturation percentages caused by strongly leaching processes indicate that podzolization and clay illuviation are the pedogenic processes in the study area. The subsurface horizons of the two Spodosols meet the chemical criteria of the spodic horizon defined in Soil Taxonomy, which suggests that translocation of spodic materials has occurred. The value of organic carbon and Fep/Feo or Alp/Alo ratio reaches a profile maximum in the spodic horizon, which suggests that the spodic horizon was formed predominantly by the illuviation of organo-metallic complexes. Soluble organic matter leached with soil solutions along the soil pores from the upper horizons to the spodic horizon. The spodic horizon is characterized by many black and other dark pellets of organic matter. The clay mineralogy of the A and albic horizons is dominanted by illite, vermiculite and vermiculite-illite interstatified minerals (VI), but the Bhs horizons contain mainly vermiculite and hydroxy-interlayer vermiculite (HIV). The clay mineralogy of the eluvial horizons differs somewhat from that in the illuvial horizons as a result of moderate weathering. The weathering sequence of clay minerals in these two loamy Spodosols is: illite --> vermiculite (or VI) --> HIV. According to the USDA Soil Taxonomy, the two pedons with clay accumulation can be classified as a Typic Haplohumod and a Typic Haplorthod
Jonathan Chyi, cello, Tiffany Liu, piano, Thursday, November 6, 2014
No full textIn partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Artist DiplomaIn partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Master of Musi
Removal of 2,4,6-trichlorophenol from a solution by humic acids repeatedly extracted from a peat soil
No full textHumic acid (HA) is one of the major components of soil organic matter. It strongly affects the sorption behavior of organic and inorganic contaminants in soils. To obtain a better understanding of the interactions of contaminants with HA, a repeated extraction technique has been applied to a peat soil to obtain HA fractions with varying aliphaticity and aromaticity, which were subsequently correlated to the sorption properties of 2,4,6-trichlorophenol (TCP). HA fractions were extracted repeatedly using an alkaline solution and each HA fraction was separated into two portions with an air-drying or re-suspending (denoted as RSHAs) process. Solid-state 13C NMR and elemental analysis demonstrated that the aromaticity and polarity of HAs decreased with extractions. Kinetic results indicated that air-dried HAs exhibited two-step first order sorption behavior with a rapid stage followed by a slower stage. The slower sorption is attributed to the diffusion of 2,4,6-TCP in the condensed aromatic domains of HAs. Conversely, sorption of 2,4,6-TCP on RSHAs was extremely rapid and could not be fitted with any kinetic model. For air-dried HAs the sorption capacity (Koc) was weakly correlated with the chemical compositions of HAs. However, a positive trend between Koc and aromaticity was observed for RSHAs. Compared with the results of air-dried HAs with their counterparts of RSHAs, it is therefore concluded that air-drying may alter the structure of HAs through artificially creating a more condensed domain in HAs. The structural alternation may result in an incorrect interpretation of the relationship between sorption capacity and chemical composition of HAs and a misjudgment of the transport behavior of 2,4,6-TCP in soils and sediments
When Low Birth Weigh Babies Grow Up: Can 』Well-Educated』 Parents Buffer this Adverse Factor?" Lin, Ming-Jen, Liu, Jin-Tan,;Shin-Yi Chou"
No full textStatistical Designs of Clinical Trials
No full textClinical Trials
FDA (21 CFR 312.3, April 1994)
A clinical trial is the clinical investigation of a
drug which is administrated or dispensed or
used involving one or more human subjects.
Chow and Liu (July 1998)
A clinical trial is a clinical investigation in
which treatments are administrated,
dispensed or used involving one or more
human subjects for evaluation of the
treatment
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