113 research outputs found
[[alternative]]The Reconstruction of Taiwan's Education According to Fa Tzang's "shin shr shiuan"
No full text[[abstract]]The goal of education is to cultivate a whole, healthy personality. In other words, education emphasizes autonomous self-enlightenment, harmonious relations between human beings and the natural environment and harmonious relations between individuals and society. However, as society changes and scientific technology develops, the practice of education does not function very well in Taiwan.Problems of autonomous self-enlightenment can be seen on people who lack freedom of studying , teaching and learning, and the individual who is poor in critical thinking. Problems of the disharmonious relations between human beings and natural environment are the destruction of natural environment, the control of instrumental reason.
Problems concerning the disharmonious relations between human beings and society are mainly caused by the long-time authoritative rule and the diseased education which serves as a slave to policy. All the mentioned subjects show clearly the main, basic shortage and problems in Taiwan's diseased education.
Religion, like education, manages to afford people a whole and basic concern towards the meanings of life. Besides, the spirit of Buddhism has much enlightenment to reconstructing education. Therefore, this thesis applies the concept "Everything Has No Black "in Fa Tzang's "shin shr shiuan"（法藏「新十玄」）to bring a new vision to Taiwan's education.
Firstly, the thesis points out the mentioned three kinds of education problems in Taiwan. Then we try to find the relevant concepts about three kinds in Fa Tzang's "shin shr shiuan" In this way, we suggest proper solutions to reconstruct Taiwan's education. That is, this thesis discusses the reconstruction of Taiwan's education according to Fa Tzang's "shin shr shiuan" .
As reconstructing the autonomous self-enlightenment is concerned," shin shr shiuan"supplies as the concept of freedom that emphasize the importance of breaking one's insistence. Thus, it is important to focus on the practice of home-town education, to make teachers and students enlighten themselves, to allows teachers having professional freedom and to cultivate students to think critically "shin shr shiuan"'s round-whole scientific concept of cosmos is useful to solve problems of the disharmonious relations between human beings and natural environment.
By establishing harmonious relations between human beings and natural environment, emphasizing both instrumental reason and values reason, and nothing scientific methods and developing scientific spirit, we people can transcend the objective-subjective, universe vision .The reconstruction of education is therefore possible.
In addition, "shin shr shiuan" holds concepts of equality and compassion. The former can be viewed as the concept of democracy that emphasizes equality among beings, and the later can be viewed as the concept of love that insists on sympathizing and benefiting the other beings.
Finally, according to Fa Tzang's "shin shr shiuan" the thesis concludes that freedom, science, democracy , love made the base of reconstructing education in Taiwan.
Analytical and simulation models for flexible, robotic automotive assembly lines
No full textThesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2018.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-120).To adapt to the rapidly changing market, the automotive industry is interested in flexible assembly lines that can handle disruptions due to machine failures or schedule changes. In this thesis, we propose a new assembly line layout (flexible layout) that uses mobile, robotic platforms to transport cars, which can move out of the line when disruptions occur to prevent blocking other cars on the line. We use discrete event simulation and analytical models to analyze the throughput of the new layout in a single band and two bands with a finite buffer. The simulation results show that the new layout achieves an average of 25.6% and 35.9% speed up over the conventional layout for the single band and two bands cases respectively. We improve previous two-machine line analytical models by augmenting the state of the Markov chain to model every machine in a band. We show that the augmented discrete Markov chain model predicts the throughput within 13% and 18% of the simulation throughput for the conventional and flexible layouts respectively. We further evaluate whether the flexible layout can improve its throughput by learning a policy for parking the platforms. By modeling the agents as independent learners, we apply single-agent reinforcement learning algorithms and show that the policy learned works well but suffers from lack of coordination.by Yi-Shiuan Tung.M. Eng
Association of clinical symptomatic hypoglycemia with cardiovascular events and total mortality in type 2 diabetes a nationwide population-based study
Full text linkOBJECTIVE Hypoglycemia is associated with serious health outcomes for patients treated for diabetes. However, the outcome of outpatients with type 2 diabetes who have experienced hypoglycemia episodes is largely unknown. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS The study population, derived from the National Health Insurance Research Database released by the Taiwan National Health Research Institutes during 1998–2009, comprised 77,611 patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes. We designed a prospective study consisting of randomly selected hypoglycemic type 2 diabetic patients and matched type 2 diabetic patients without hypoglycemia. We investigated the relationships of hypoglycemia with total mortality and cardiovascular events, including stroke, coronary heart disease, cardiovascular diseases, and all-cause hospitalization. RESULTS There were 1,844 hypoglycemic events (500 inpatients and 1,344 outpatients) among the 77,611 patients. Both mild (outpatient) and severe (inpatient) hypoglycemia cases had a higher percentage of comorbidities, including hypertension, renal diseases, cancer, stroke, and heart disease. In multivariate Cox regression models, including diabetes treatment adjustment, diabetic patients with hypoglycemia had a significantly higher risk of cardiovascular events during clinical treatment periods. After constructing a model adjusted with propensity scores, mild and severe hypoglycemia still demonstrated higher hazard ratios (HRs) for cardiovascular diseases (HR 2.09 [95% CI 1.63–2.67]), all-cause hospitalization (2.51 [2.00–3.16]), and total mortality (2.48 [1.41–4.38]). CONCLUSIONS Symptomatic hypoglycemia, whether clinically mild or severe, is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular events, all-cause hospitalization, and all-cause mortality. More attention may be needed for diabetic patients with hypoglycemic episodes.Pai-Feng Hsu, Shih-Hsien Sung, Hao-Min Cheng, Jong-Shiuan Yeh, Wen-Ling Liu, Wan-Leong Chan, Chen-Huan Chen, Pesus Chou, Shao-Yuan Chuan
People-Related and Task-Related Authoritarian Leadership: The Mediating Effect of Psychological Empowerment and the Moderating Effect of Benevolent Leadership
No full text威權領導是華人企業組織中鮮明的領導風格。歷經了時代的變遷，此種被西方學者視為戕害部屬效能的領導行為，卻仍然普遍出現在當代華人企業組織中。本研究深入探究法家「勢法術」的思維後，認為威權領導的內涵包含了控制人的「專權」成分與控制事的「威嚴」成分。接著，藉由部屬心理賦能的探討，釐清專權與威嚴領導對部屬內在動機產生之不同的影響機制，進而瞭解威權領導如何透過心理賦能的中介來預測態度效能。最後，檢驗專權、威嚴領導與仁慈領導在心理賦能上的交互作用，澄清「恩威並濟」的真實面貌。以36家台灣企業進行研究，分析788筆有效樣本後發現，專權與威嚴領導不僅具有構念的區分性，各自的影響效果亦不同。研究結果顯示：專權領導對心理賦能的意義、自我決定、影響力，以及態度效能具有負向效果；而威嚴領導對心理賦能的意義、能力、影響力，以及態度效能具有正向效果。再則，專權、威嚴領導與部屬態度效能間的關係，會受到意義與影響力的中介。此外，根據本研究結果，恩威並濟的效果，主要發生在威嚴與仁慈的互動上，並顯見於意義、自我決定及影響力。最後，本文針對研究結果進行討論，並對研究限制、未來研究方向、理論貢獻及管理實務意涵加以闡述。Authoritarian leaderhip is a vivid leadership style in Chinese organizations. With the passage of time, this leadership style is still prevailing in contemporary Chinese organizations, even though Western researchers regard it as a leadership behavior that may undermine subordinate effectiveness. Exploring Fajia’s ideology of “Shih, Fa, Shu”, the concept of authoritarian leadership includes people-related control and task-related control components. The purpose of this study is to clarify different influence mechanism of people-related and task-related authoritarian leadership on subordinates’ intrinsic motivation through psychological empowerment, so as to understand the relations between authoritarian leadership and subordinates’ attitude effectiveness. Finally, in order to demonstrate the specific effect of “benevolent authoritarianism”, this study also explores the interaction effect between people- related authoritarian leadership, task-related authoritarian leadership and benevolent leadership on psychological empowerment. After conducting a survey research of 788 valid samples form 36 Chinese businesses in Taiwan, this study find the people- related and task-related authoritarian leaderships have significant distinctive constructs and different effects on outcome variables. Next, meaning and impact mediating the relation between people-related, task-related authoritarian leadership and subordinates’ attitude effectiveness. Besides, the results show that people-related authoritarian leadership has negative effect on psychological empowerment dimensions of meaning, self-determination, and impact, as well as attitude effectiveness. Task-related authoritarian leadership has positive effect on psychological empowerment dimensions of meaning, competence, and impact, as well as attitude effectiveness. Furthermore, the interaction effect between authoritarianism and benevolent primary occurs on task-related authoritarian leadership and benevolent leadership interaction, and shows on meaning, self-determination and impact. The discussion, limitations, further research directions, theoretical and managerial applications are discussed at the end.第一章 緒論.....1二章 文獻探討.....5 第一節 威權領導.....5 第二節 威權領導與態度效能.....17 第三節 賦能.....19 第四節 威權領導與心理賦能.....28 第五節 心理賦能的中介效果.....33 第六節 仁慈領導的調節效果.....35 第七節 研究架構.....38三章 研究方法.....41 第一節 研究樣本.....42 第二節 研究程序.....42 第三節 研究工具.....44 第四節 資料分析.....54四章 研究結果.....59 第一節 測量模式的比較.....59 第二節 各研究變項之相關.....60 第三節 主要效果與中介效果之檢驗.....65 第四節 仁慈領導的調節效果.....70五章 討論與建議.....75 第一節 結果討論.....75 第二節 研究貢獻.....77 第三節 研究限制.....79 第四節 未來研究方向.....82考文獻.....85錄一 內容效度問卷.....101錄二 研究一問卷.....103錄三 研究二問卷.....11
Two-Level preconditioners for Image Restoration Problem
No full text在影像處理中，對於影像的去雜訊與去模糊問題一直研究的課題，而去雜訊與去模糊本身就是背道而馳。
在第二章中，定義 toeplitz 與 circulant 矩陣以及 block toeplitz 與 block circulant 結構，並將離散型傅立葉變換應用於模糊算子K中，加速模糊算子作用於影像的速度。最後定義粗網格子空間以供網格的分解。
在第三章中，利用 two-level preconditioner 於 ill-conditiond 方程組 Au=b，並對粗網格使用共軛梯度法。之後使用Schur Complement Conjugate Gredient 演算法。
在第四章中，介紹實際使用此演算法的細節，並將結果畫於圖中。This paper is organized as follows. In section 2, we introduce some notations and properties which will be used. In section 3, two-level preconditioner is referred. And finally, in chapter 4 we make numerical test based on the above methods.Table of Contents iv
1 Introduction 1
2 Notations 4
2.1 Toeplitz and Circulant matrices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.2 Block Toeplitz and Block circulant Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.3 Discrete Fourier Transform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.4 Coarse Grid Subspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3 Two-Level Preconditioning 9
3.1 Schur Complement Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4 Implementation 14
4.1 What is the question? . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.2 Details . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.2.1 Implementation for and . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.2.2 Approximation of K K . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
4.2.3 Compute A.......................................19
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The Impact of Advertising on Investors\ue2 Behavior: Disposition Effect and Threshold Effect
No full textPrevious researches find that advertising expenditure and performance can significantly influence fund flows. With a unique data from Securities Investment Trust and Consulting Association (SITCA) of Taiwan, we can use monthly data of exact purchasing amounts, redemption amounts and advertising expenditures to gain more insight into investors\ue2 investment behavior. We examine the impact of advertising on mutual fund investors\ue2 behavior and the performance-flow relationship. This paper differs from the existing literature, which only concerned with the average advertising effect on fund flow. We follow the procedure of Tsay (1989) time series autoregressive processes model and modify it to cross-section variables threshold model to examine whether threshold effect of advertising on fund flows exists. We generate four empirical results. (1) Performance is significantly associated with higher fund flows. (2) Advertising is significantly associated with higher fund flows. (3) Disposition effect exists in Taiwanese mutual fund market and advertising expenditure can partially enhance the disposition effect. (4) We also measure the threshold effect of advertising on fund flows
Abstract 4428: A miRNA signature linked to human environmental risk defined from carcinogen-induced and genetically-driven colon carcinogenesis models
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Heterocyclic amines (HCAs) produced during high-temperature cooking have been studied extensively in terms of their genetic effects, but recent work has implicated epigenetic mechanisms involving non-coding RNAs. We reported that colon tumors induced in the rat by 2-amino-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo[4,5-b]pyridine (PhIP) have altered microRNA (miRNA) signatures linked to dysregulated pluripotency factors, such as c-Myc and Krüppel-like factor 4 (Klf4). The corresponding miRNAs prioritized from PhIP-induced colon tumors were examined in other target organs from a one-year carcinogenicity bioassay, and compared with miRNAs dysregulated in the Apc-mutant polyposis in rat colon (Pirc) genetic model. Multiple let-7 family members were downregulated in colon, skin, lung, small intestine, and Zymbal’s gland tumors, and were associated with Myc and Hmga2 upregulation. A “PhIP miRNA signature” with the profile mir-21high | mir-126low | mir-29low | mir-215low | mir-145low was linked to reduced expression of Klf4 in multiple target organs of the rat, and was predictive of poor prognosis in human pan-cancer and colorectal cancer datasets (https://cancergenome.nih.gov/). Findings from The Cancer Genome Atlas suggested that PhIP signature miRNAs might serve as an arbiter of HCA exposure, defining a subset of human tumors linked to environmental carcinogen exposure. We conclude that future studies should examine the miRNA signatures of other HCAs, and determine their possible predictive value for human risk assessment. This work was supported in part by NIH grants CA090890, CA122959, ES00210, and ES023512, the John S. Dunn Foundation, and a Chancellor’s Research Initiative. We are most thankful to Robert Hawk for providing a graduate student fellowship in aid of Y-S Chen.
Citation Format: Ying-Shiuan Chen, Rong Wang, Wan-Mohaiza Dashwood, Christiane Löhr, David E. Williams, Emily Ho, Susanne Mertens-Talcott, Roderick H. Dashwood. A miRNA signature linked to human environmental risk defined from carcinogen-induced and genetically-driven colon carcinogenesis models [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2017; 2017 Apr 1-5; Washington, DC. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2017;77(13 Suppl):Abstract nr 4428. doi:10.1158/1538-7445.AM2017-4428</jats:p
[[alternative]]A Study of Infant Music Appreciation Guide
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本論文以幼兒階段的音樂欣賞引導為主要的研究重心。有別於一般在學校中所進行的制式教程，音樂欣賞引導強調的是非正式的教學方式，以簡單的音樂要素學習為主要的引導訴求，同時亦著重幼兒音樂聽想(心聽)能力的自然養成。透過文獻的探討，分別歸納並演繹出「鑑賞性」與「功能性」的音樂引導教學方法，協同音樂欣賞引導認知與情意能力活動的配合，提升幼兒自發性的學習意願。
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鑑賞性音樂欣賞引導的運用，在於配合某個故事、圖畫或是主題(標題)，使幼兒運用其豐富的想像力與創造力去感受所給予的音樂課題，是屬於配合感性思考，讓他(她)們「靜態地」參與的一種智慧型音樂欣賞活動。至於題材的取用，除了全新創作的標題性音樂之外，亦囊括了為豐富幼兒多元文化思考而重新予以包裝的固有樂曲。
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相較於鑑賞性音樂的引導，功能性音樂欣賞引導所強調的是各種音樂要素及基本概念的「教育功能」。樂曲中會設計單一或二至三項如節奏、曲調、音階形式、力度、句法、……以及音樂風格等的要素組合，讓幼兒能夠獨自、與同伴或是與其父母一起，藉由簡單的「鍵盤遊戲」、「節奏跟隨」、「肢體律動」或是「親子活動」等的方式去體會音樂的進行，是屬於「動態地」欣賞，並著重親身參與的一種統合型音樂欣賞活動。
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音樂欣賞引導在實施上的建構性規劃是必要的。蘊含要素教學的設定，加上配合聽覺、視覺、觸覺以及動覺等感官運用的活動設計，除了能夠讓幼兒在遊戲中進行既定的教育行程，亦可使幼兒在音樂基礎能力的培養上產生事半功倍的學習績效；此外，融入美感經驗的鑑賞性教學，則能夠徹底活化幼兒腦神經徑的連結，全面提升幼兒豐富的想像力與創造力。
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論文的最後部份，建議音樂欣賞引導這一主題未來的後續研究者，可以針對人生其他不同的階段發展，嘗試去作不同的引導設計與教學規劃。然而就家長的角色扮演上，最重要的，莫過於陪伴自己的孩子在這一路上「一起學習、共同成長」。
Discrete rough set analysis of two different soil-behavior-induced landslides in National Shei-Pa Park, Taiwan
No full textAbstractThe governing factors that influence landslide occurrences are complicated by the different soil conditions at various sites. To resolve the problem, this study focused on spatial information technology to collect data and information on geology. GIS, remote sensing and digital elevation model (DEM) were used in combination to extract the attribute values of the surface material in the vast study area of Shei-Pa National Park, Taiwan. The factors influencing landslides were collected and quantification values computed. The major soil component of loam and gravel in the Shei-Pa area resulted in different landslide problems. The major factors were successfully extracted from the influencing factors. Finally, the discrete rough set (DRS) classifier was used as a tool to find the threshold of each attribute contributing to landslide occurrence, based upon the knowledge database. This rule-based knowledge database provides an effective and urgent system to manage landslides. NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index), VI (Vegetation Index), elevation, and distance from the road are the four major influencing factors for landslide occurrence. The landslide hazard potential diagrams (landslide susceptibility maps) were drawn and a rational accuracy rate of landslide was calculated. This study thus offers a systematic solution to the investigation of landslide disasters
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