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Practical Equality: Discussion with Author Robert L. Tsai
No full textProfessor Timothy Zick discusses a new book titled Practical Equality: Forging Justice in a Divided Nation, with its author, Professor Robert L. Tsai of American University Washington College of Law. Timothy Zick is the John Marshall Professor of Government and Citizenship at William & Mary Law School. His scholarship has explored a wide variety of constitutional issues, with a special focus on the First Amendment. Robert L. Tsai is Professor of Law at American University and a prize-winning essayist in constitutional law and history. Recorded before a live audience at William & Mary Law School on March 14, 2019. The event was sponsored by the American Constitution Society. Professor Tsai was also a panelist during the annual Bill of Rights Journal Symposium on March 15 & 16, 2019
Comments on “Sluggish diffusion in Co–Cr–Fe–Mn–Ni high-entropy alloys” by K.Y. Tsai, M.H. Tsai and J.W. Yeh, Acta Materialia 61 (2013) 4887–4897
No full textThe wrong estimation of the diffusion coefficients following the quasi-binary approach and subsequent analysis by Tsai et al. in Co-Cr-Fe-Mn-Ni high entropy alloy are explained. Since this approach, formulated by the present author before the publication by Tsai et al., has potential to emerge as an efficient technique in multicomponent systems, the correct steps of estimation of the diffusion coefficients are explained in detail. At present state, the diffusion data reported in high entropy alloy Tsai et al. has no significance unless estimated again following the correct steps
[[alternative]]The study of the life stories that the female ceramic artist Lien, Pao – Tsai in Taiwan Ceramic Life force Social culture
No full text[[abstract]]The study of the life stories that the female ceramic artist
Lien, Pao – Tsai in Taiwan
Ceramic Life force Social culture
Abstract
This study is aimed to explore the aspects that the ceramic female artist Lien,
Pao-Tsai in Taiwan has influenced by way of her individual life forces based on some important life experiences of this subject.
1.Explore the life force that this artist has shown by
establishing herself and other people up.
2.Explore how an artist should do to enliven a social culture
and how can a social culture deepen an artist’s life.
3.Illustrate the model of a cultural worker in Taiwan.
4.Explore the nature of human life by way of the artist’s
important life experiences.
Adopting some measures of data collecting for a qualitative methodology such as documentary analysis and depth interviews etc., it has conducted a study of individual life experiences. During this research, with data from documentary analysis, construction of deep interview for topics, five topics axles of “important life experiences”, “learning history of artistic creation”, “art creative style”, “ceramic lessons at Ceramic House”, and ”social and cultural events” have been based to be the five basic axles when conducting interviews about important life experiences of the subject and her life stories. The sorting-out and analysis of the research data has been cross-examined and –analyzed triangulation in order to have a complete and accurate study of the subject’s life experiences.
Based on the life stories of the female ceramic artist Lien, Pao-Tsai, we have found some results after interpreting these data:
1.As far as an artistic learning history is concerned, during
the process when an artist pursues the growth of his artistic
life, it seems that she not only achieves her artistic and
creative life by fully developing the potentials of her own
life, she has also help others achieve their artistic lives by
enriching others’ lives.
2.As far as an the content of artistic creation is concerned,
it is found that the artist’s sympathetic with various kinds
of darkness in this society that even birth, aging, sickness
and death she deals with that one by one. As an artist of a
heart full of light, she helps carry all kinds of “sufferings” in the in the mundane world by way of artistic
creation, hoping to purify the pain in people’s hearts by way
of art.
3.As far as the social and cultural influences of an artist is
concerned, in the “Heart of History” exhibition of
decorative art, through internal awakening of an artist and
with female resilience and maternal courage, she has
demonstrated the way that she should take under her artistic
and creative conscience. She knows that the reflection and
recreation of culture is not an easy path. In the creation
for public art known as ”National Prosperity and People
Security”, the artist has inspired a chance for dialogues
about renewal of local culture and enlivened the thinking
about cultural issues of the local society with her unique
creative style and courage of renovating artistic culture.
Combined with above, it is found that the important life experiences of this artist has formed the core values of her life guiding her direction and her pursuit for self artistic creation, enthusiasm for artistic teachings for the students, and mission about handing down and renovation of the social culture, even her concerns about the general public are the firm beliefs of her life. It is known to her that “transcend human hearts with art” is not an easy path, yet the deepest and the warmest power from the bottom of her heart is coming from her belief that “human life has unlimited possibilities”.
Key word：Female Ceramic Life force Life story Social culture
Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai Interview
No full textKelly Zen-Yie Tsai is a Chicago-born, Brooklyn-based Chinese Taiwanese American spoken word artist who fights for cultural pride and survival through how she spits and how she lives.
Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai has been featured in over 400 performances worldwide at venues including the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, the House of Blues, the Apollo Theater, Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, and three seasons of the award-winning “Russell Simmons Presents HBO Def Poetry.” The author of Inside Outside Outside Inside (2004) and Thought Crimes (2005) and the CD Infinity Breaks (2006), Tsai has shared stages with Mos Def, KRS-One, Sonia Sanchez, Talib Kweli, Erykah Badu, Amiri Baraka, and many more.
Kelly was a part of the original collective for Mango Tribe, an Asian Pacific Islander American women’s multidisciplinary spoken word theater troupe. She wrote, performed, and choreographed for Mango Tribe’s three mainstage productions (”Sisters in the Smoke” (2002), “The Creation Myth Project” (2004), and “Un/knowing Desire and Empire” (2006)), as well as Mango Tribe’s national tour from 2002-2006.
Kelly’s formative experiences as a community organizer, domestic violence counselor, oral historian, and youth worker deeply inform her commitment to the arts and entertainment as a means to forge the foundations for social justice, non-violence and the uplift of underrepresented people, ideas, and movements. She holds a double B.A. with high honors in Urban Planning and Comparative Literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is proud alum of Michelle Obama’s Public Allies and also worked previously with the Posse Foundation Inc., founded by MacArthur Genius Grant recipient Debbie Bial.
(Information from Zen-Yie Tsai’s official website: www.yellowgurl.com
A Key for Memory--The Study of Rural Literature Creation of Tsai Wen-Chang
No full textMr. Tsai, his literary creation is writing about his hometown, Kangshan. People can have the picture of the past memory about Kangshan due to his writing. As rural literature creation, it may not easy to catch people\ue2s attention. However, for people that have the same background of Mr. Tsai, his rural literature creation is the key to open our memory, and this is the reason I choose his creation as my research study.
This research is mainly investing about 12 published books of Mr. Tsai. There are five chapters in this study.\uef\ubcChapter one, abstract; this chapter presents the background of the study, the purpose of the study, the research questions, definitions of the key terms, and the significance of the study.
Chapter two, Literature Review, includes the review of three relevant studies for the readers who could have initial understanding regarding author\ue2s works. In Chapter three, the main focus is on researching for the context inside Mr. Tsai\ue2s rural literature writing. In this research, I find his writing always contains the attention to homeland, hometown concerning and social awareness. The foresaid observation leads to a summary which I categorize his writing into four main topics : Sentiment, Land, Society and Nature.
In Chapter four, I try to analyze the value of Mr. Tsai\ue2s literary works. To respond and reflect the topic of this thesis, A key for the memory, the value of Mr. Tsai\ue2s works record the folks, events and things exist in the past, and those records have become the inheritance for the descendents. Chapter five, Conclusion; in this chapter, a summary of the study will be firstly presented. Eventually, limitations of the study and suggestions for further research will be presented
Extending Tsai-Hill and norris criteria to predict cracking direction in orthotropic materials
No full textmethods of lifetime measurement are discussed
[[alternative]]iApplying aberrant response indexs on Mathematics misconception in the Basic Competence Test：An example of junior high school studentsin Nantou Conuty
No full text碩士教育研究所[[abstract]]摘 要
本研究旨在探討運用異常作答指標（W，B，Cw，MB）分析國中學生基測數學迷思概念，診斷學生學習情況，提供教師施行補救教學參考之用。本研究對象是南投縣某國中三年級學生，以古典測驗理論的難易度、鑑別度、Pearson積差相關、逐步多元迴歸等統計方法進行資料分析，茲將研究結果摘要如下：
該校學生作答情形符合基測試題難度與鑑別度適中的特性；對整體基測試題而言，該校學生作答情形，會粗心和會猜測的學生與認知高低有顯著關係，但作答會粗心的學生與迷思無關；該校高能力與低能力的學生都會發生作答粗心情形，呈雙峰現象。整體基測試題作答有迷思的學生與單元數與量、幾何作答粗心是無關的，且與能力取向記憶與理解的粗心也是無關的；整體基測試題作答會粗心的學生與能力取向操作與使用迷思、解題與思考迷思無顯著相關。
就從單元概念題型異常作答指標值間關係與能力取向概念異常作答指標值間關係可診斷學生認知迷思，亦能預測之，瞭解彼此影響程度強弱。而學校的模擬考異常作答指標對基測成績有顯著的預測力
本研究結論，針對學生數學迷思，提出對國中數學各單元概念及能力指標上之補救教學與未來相關研究之建議，可供教師、學生、家長及研究上之參考。[[abstract]]Applying aberrant response indexs on Mathematics misconception
in the Basic Competence Test：An example of junior
high school students in Nantou Conuty
Advisor: Tsai-Wei Huang, Ph.D.
Author : Chu-Chui Tsai
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study is to discuss applying aberrant response indices(W,B,Cw,MB )on mathematic misconception in the Basic Competence Test. The aberrant indices will provide teachers with a reference in remedial and daily teaching. The samples of this study are 9th grade students in Nantou County. The data were analyzed by methods such as difficulty indices and discrimination indices in the Classical Test Theory, Pearson’s Product-Moment correlation ,Multiple Regression Analysis. The main results of this study are:
The students’ responses in the Basic Competence Test are indeed consistent with the characteristics of moderate difficulty and discrimination. Students’ aberrant response indices had significant relationships between W&B & Cw, but had no significant among W and MB in the Basic Competence Test. The high-ability group and low-ability group of students are both careless, it’s graph showing double peaks with graphs.
Those students can be diagnosed congnitiv misconception regarding relationships of the students’ aberrant indices from number and quantities(statistics and probability), algebra, geometry and memory-understanding, operation-using, problem-solving and thinking. Those indices may alos be used to predict each indices of whole test, to understanding influence. The aberrant indices of the simulation-based tests are significant predictors for the Basic Competence Test scores.
This study provides some suggestions in the math misconception of the math textbooks and ability index that can be the references for teachers in remedial and daily teaching, students and parents in learning math.
Keywords ： Basic Competence Test，Aberrant Response Indices，Mathematics Misconceptio
A Study of Six Selected Songs from Ricky Ian Gordon's Song Cycle \ue2Genius Child\ue2
No full textRicky Ian Gordon (1956-) is one of America\ue2s most distinguished contemporary composers. Though successful in writing for opera, dance, theater and film, he has gained great recognition for his song compositions. Composed in 1992, Genius Child is a song cycle of 10 songs which sets the poems of American poet, Langston Hughes (1902-1967).
The study is divided into five parts for discussion: An overview of Gordon\ue2s life, art music of Gordon, an introduction to poet Langston Hughes; the background to composing Genius Child; and music analysis of six selected songs from Genius Child. By analyzing six songs from Gordon\ue2s Genius Child, the study is to discuss how Gordon tightly combines music and poems together through vocal, melody, rhythm and other music techniques, which enables to depict the poem\ue2s conception.
Gordon often properly utilizes simple rhythms and relaxing genre of music, and integrates them with the textures and harmonies of classical music, to create elegant music with style. His music can appropriately reflect the conception and deep meaning of the poet writing a poem. In addition, Gordon adds popular music elements into music to express the styles of popular music, reflecting modern urban life
[[alternative]]Analyzing Pierre de Coubertin’s thought about Olympic
No full text[[abstract]]Analyzing Pierre de Coubertin’s thought about Olympic
Student：Chin-Ping Liu Professor：Jen-Siung Tsai
Finishing Date：2002/7
Abstract
Coubertin’s thought about Olympic had great influence on the development of the Olympic Games. The methodology the author adapts is personage thinking, and the author not only explicates the thought but analyzes from a critic angel. There comes the following conclusion:
1.Phyilosophy, imperialism, capitalism, body awareness, technology, and modernized sports in late 1900s have constructed the essential base to revive the Olympic Games.
2.Coubertin’s thought about Olympic derived from his background, and this included his blue blood, access to the English sport education and enlightenment from the history of the ancient Olympic Games.
3.Coubertin created a beautiful and esteemed sport palace by combining nationalism and the beauty of art.
4.Coubertin unknowingly fell into the trap of imperialism and class division. This was because: first, he advocated the Western sport culture from their standpoint; second, the competitive character of the Olympic Games provided a breeding ground for imperialists; third, he devised an unequal dominance relationship between NOC and IOC; and fourth, he forbade non-amateurs and women participating in the Olympic Games.
5.Coubertin’s thought about Olympic is not a kind of precise knowledge because of there existing lots of contradictions and unrealistic thoughts.
6. IOC and all people in the world should face the real world more pragmatically, respect every country’s sport culture and abandon dogmas, and the IOC should be consisted of NOCs. By achieving those, the IOC will advance toward a more globalized and more realistic realm.
Keywords: Coubertin, IOC, Olympic, thought, sport
Vehicular fuel composition and atmospheric emissions in South China : Hong Kong, Macau, Guangzhou, and Zhuhai
No full textAuthor name used in this publication: Tsai, W. Y.Author name used in this publication: Chu, K. W.2005-2006 > Academic research: refereed > Publication in refereed journalVersion of RecordPublishedC
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