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Liquid democracy: a comparative study of digital urban democracy
No full textIn Liquid Democracy, author Yu-Shan Tseng offers a bold new framework for understanding democracy as a dynamic, fluid process. Challenging the idea that AI and digital tools are inherently anti-democratic, this innovative volume bridges theory and practice to investigate various “liquid conditions,” a novel concept capturing how political action flows and transforms like water within the intersections of urban spaces and digital technologies.Through an in-depth comparative study of three groundbreaking digital democracy platforms—Decide Madrid in Madrid, OmaStadi in Helsinki, and vTaiwan in Taipei—Tseng explores how digital platforms can foster participatory governance, pluralism, and alternative democratic futures. In-depth chapters critically examine the interactions between humans, algorithms, and urban systems, revealing how digital tools reconfigure the boundaries of political participation, decision-making, and collective action. Throughout the text, Tseng offers fresh insights into how democracy emerges under contingent conditions shaped by technology and geography.Drawing from years of ethnographic fieldwork, Liquid Democracy is essential reading for master’s and PhD students in geography, political science, and urban studies, as well as scholars, practitioners, and policymakers interested in digital governance, smart cities, civic technology, and algorithmic politics
Regrounding the ‘Ungrounded Empires’: Localization as the geographical catalyst for transnationalsim
No full textEffects of Physician Specialty on Use of Antidiabetes Drugs, Process and Outcomes of Diabetes Care in a Medical Center
No full textNon-Attendance in Endocrinology and Metabolism Patients
No full textBACKGROUND/PURPOSE: Non-attendance in outpatient clinics might disrupt medical care, interfere with outpatient clinic processing, and waste health service resources. This study was performed to identify predictive factors for non- attendance in endocrinology and metabolism (Endo/Meta) patients. METHODS: Non-attendance was examined for a period of 6 months in Endo/Meta outpatient clinics in a medical center in Taiwan. Effects of physician, clinic, and patient characteristics, and appointment patterns in non-attendance were assessed by (2) test and multivariate logistic regression. RESULTS: During the study period, a total of 13, 584 patients booked appointments for 609 Endo/Meta clinics managed by 11 specialists. The mean number of appointments per patient was 2.3 1.1. The total number of registered visits was 31,143. The total number of non- attendances was 2272. The overall proportion of non-attendance in Endo/ Meta patients was 7.3%. The proportion of non-attendance varied with different physician teaching status and on different weekdays. In multivariate logistic regression, physician age (p = 0.0009), physician teaching status (p = 0.0013), number of physician shifts per week (p< 0. 0001), patient age (p< 0.0001), first-time appointment (p< 0.0001) and registration order in the clinic (p < 0.0001) had significant effects on non-attendance, whereas physician and patient sex, weekdays and daytimes of clinics had no significant effect on non-attendance. CONCLUSION: Determinants of non-attendance in Endo/Meta patients include older physician age, lower physician teaching status, number of physician shifts per week, younger patient age, first-time appointment, and later registration order in the clinic. Research on non-attendance should be applied to improve quality of medical care. Optimal ways to ensure attendance deserve further investigation
Prognostic Factors of Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma
No full textBackground and purpose: Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC) is one of the most aggressive malignancies. We tried to elucidate the possible prognostic factors. Methods: A retrospective review was conducted of ATC patients in National Taiwan University Hospital from 1978 to 2003. Their demographic characteristics, clinical presentations, laboratory data and treatment modalities were reviewed. Possible prognostic factors for survival were evaluated. Results: Forty-five patients (114 males and 31 females) of mean age 61.9 +/- 12.6 yr were included in this study. The median survival time was 94 days (range 6 to 776 days). The overall survival rate was 27% at 6 months and 10% at 1 yr. Thirty-two patients receiving intervention regimens had a median survival of 106 days, while 13 patients receiving palliative therapy had a median survival of 39 days. The difference in survival is statistically significant (logrank test, p= 0.017). Adjusted with sex and age, increment in white blood cell count ( per 10(9)/l) and serum albumin (per 1.0 g/l) had a hazard ratio of 1.12 ( Cox regression, p 10(10)/l] or hypoalbuminemia (serum albumin <35 g/l) had significant shorter survival than patients without leukocytosis or hypoalbuminemia (logrank test p=0.008 and p=0.032, respectively). Patients with serum T-4 levels lower than 64. 35 nmol/l had significantly shorter survival than patients without hypothyroxinemia (median survival 24 vs 128 days, logrank test, p=0.004). Conclusions: ATC is an aggressive malignancy. Leukocytosis, hypoalbuminemia and hypothyroxinemia indicated poor prognosis. Survival time might be prolonged if intervention treatment is tolerable
Viewing the Fall of Ming China through the Lens of Climate Change: Timothy Brook: The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2023. 256 pp.
Full text linkReview by Yu-lung Tseng on Timothy Brook\u27s The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2023.Tseng Yu-lung Tseng\u27s recenziója Timothy Brook: The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China című kötetéről (Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2023)
Coherent selection of invisible high-order electromagnetic excitations
Full text linkResearch data for Coherent selection of invisible high-order electromagnetic excitations, Ming Lun Tseng, Xu Fang, Vassili Savinov, Pin Chieh Wu, Jun-Yu Ou, Nikolay I. Zheludev, and Din Ping Tsai, Scientific Reports 7, 44488(2017)</span
sj-docx-1-aut-10.1177_13623613221125620 – Supplemental material for Differences in white matter segments in autistic males, non-autistic siblings, and non-autistic participants: An intermediate phenotype approach
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-aut-10.1177_13623613221125620 for Differences in white matter segments in autistic males, non-autistic siblings, and non-autistic participants: An intermediate phenotype approach by Yi-Ling Chien, Yu-Jen Chen, Wan-Ling Tseng, Yung-Chin Hsu, Chi-Shin Wu, Wen-Yih Isaac Tseng and Susan Shur-Fen Gau in Autism</p
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