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A Study of the Old Men in Ching-Wen Cheng\ue2s Short Stories
No full textChing-Wen Cheng has been writing for more than 50 years. He uses easy Chinese and describes the deep side of human beings. He cares about the normal people in Taiwanese society. In this thesis, the author emphasizes on the old men, which few researchers notice. The first chapter is about the motivation of this research and the issues discussed in this study. The second chapter is about Ching-Wen Cheng\ue2s growing background,the history of his life, his litrature creating process and how these elements make him special.The third chapter is about the physical and psychological aging process of old men and how Ching-Wen Cheng depicts it in a sociological way. The fourth chapter analyzes old men in several ways. The author writes about controversial topics in traditional and modern societies and explores the meanings of life with past memories. The fifth chapter is the conclusion
Dataset supporting journal article "Robust optical picometrology through data diversity"
No full textThis dataset supports the publication: Robust Optical Picometrology Through Data Diversity by Cheng-Hung Chi, Eric Plum, Nikolay I. Zheludev, and Kevin F. MacDonald
in JOURNAL: Optical Materials Express
The file contains data for optically measured vs. actual displacement values and corresponding std. dev. values (exemplified in Figs. 3a-c and 4a-c, from which Figs. 3d-e, 4d-e, 5, and S2 are derived).
[Figures 1, 2, and S1 are schematic diagrams]
The project was sponsored by:
Next Generation Metrology Driven by Nanophotonics
EPSRC EP/T02643X/1
Dataset available under a CC BY 4.0 licence
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Complications of intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography in adult cardiac surgical patients- Experiences of two institutions in Taiwan
No full textA study on the participative motives of silver-haired Tai Chi Chuan Participants in Kaohsiung City
No full textIn recent years, the progress of medical care has increased the longevity much. Hence, the aged people hold a growing proportion of total population in developed countries. Besides, people in Taiwan have more spare time because the authority regulates workers in Taiwan own two holidays per week. And under such trend, people put sports recreation and health care at a premium.
Among a lot of sports that aged people engage in, Tai Chi Chuan is considered to benefit our health. At this moment, over 100 countries have established Tai Chi Chuan associations and some activities of them call more than 10 thousand people to participate in. However, most of present researches just focus on the advantages that Tai Chi Chuan do for physical and mental functions. But there is still in lack of research about their participative motives.
Hence, this research is making efforts to find out the primary motives that influence the silver-haired people to participate in Tai Chi Chuan, and then separate the aged people into different groups by their motives. And the promoters will be able to work out their marketing strategy toward these aged participants.
About the research methods, this research adopts in-depth interview first. By abundant experience of Tai Chi Chuan masters, the participative motives of their students and the features of Tai Chi Chuan are found out. Later, through a focus group interview, the motives of Tai Chi Chuan participants are also discussed. Then, these found motives are used to make the questionnaire.
Because of lack of member book of the participants the questionnaires are distributed on a convenient basis. In the research, 380 questionnaires are distributed to silver-haired participants who are over 50 years old. 280 questionnaires are received and the valid samples attain to 259. After factor analysis, five factors are extracted, including \ue2Extrinsic behavior and identity\ue2, \ue2Improving physical and mental health\ue2, \ue2Pursuit of Tai Chi Chuan philosophy and skills\ue2, \ue2Recreation, escape from pressure, and making friends\ue2, \ue2Longevity and soul inspiration\ue2, and \ue2Body shaping\ue2. And then according to cluster analysis, three groups are separated on the basis of the five factors. Each of them is named \ue2Pursuit of extrinsic identity\ue2, \ue2Pursuit of soul inspiration and mental health\ue2, and \ue2Pursuit of balanced physical and mental health\ue2. Finally, by Chi-square test and ANOVA analysis, this research discovers that the average years of practice is significant related to \ue2Extrinsic behavior and identity\ue2, \ue2Improving physical and mental health\ue2, \ue2Longevity and soul inspiration\ue2.
Therefore, promoters can find the needs of the silver-haired Tai Chi Chuan participants by these chief motives and design unique activities for each segment to make their promotion more effective
Wen-Chi Chang Oboe Recital Program Notes
No full textThe essay is the program notes of Wen-Chi Chang`s Oboe Recital which was performed on May 9th, 2019. The recital includes four different periods of oboe repertoire, baroque period, classical music period, romantic music period, and modern music period. The recital opened with Antonio Lucio Vivaldi: Oboe Concerto in D Major, RV. 453, Vivaldi was the most important Italian composer and violinist in the Baroque period. His numerous works are in a great astonishment which are including various genres. The second peice is Domenico Cimarosa: Oboe Concerto in C Major, Cimarosa is the most famous Italian opera composer in the 18th century. His opera works are mainly comedy.
\ue3\ue3 The second half of the recital was opened with Charles Camille Saint-Sa\uc3\uabns: Sonata for oboe and Piano, Op. 166, Saint-Sa\uc3\uabns was a French composer, keyboardist and music educator. He has created many important musical works and has a profound influence on future generations. And ended was Paul Hindemith: Sonata for Oboe and Piano, Hindemith was the most representative German composer in the early twentieth century, and an outstanding music performer and music educator. In this program notes article, I will use these four musical works as the topic to overview the life of the four composers, the background of the music composition and the interpretation of each works
Taiwanese Females\ue2 Europe Writing since the 1990s: Taking Han Liang-Lu, Cheng Hua-Chuan and Hu Ching-Fang for example.
No full textDue to the progress of these decades, women\ue2s rights have been more and more emphasized, and females are not restricted in their families anymore. Independent travelling became to flourish in late 1990s, thus female travel writing shows various styles. Females may fulfill their lives through the process of continuous travelling and conversation.
European civilization developed relatively early, and had long history of art and culture, so Europe is considered to be the dreaming destination of many travelers. The study aims to discuss the female travel writers including Han Liang-lu, Cheng Hua-Chuan and Hu Ching-Fang and etc\ue2\ua6, to analyzes their writing of travelling in Europe to understand the females themselves, find out how it would be like when eastern and western cultures encounter, as well as the image of Europe in the female writers\ue2 articles. The study will analyzes the texts of prose to find out the meaning of travelling to the new-generation female writers through their interation with others, observation and experience in travelling writings.
Han Liang-lu\ue2s downshifting style aims to see the human comedy and diversity of Europe. Cheng Hua-Chuan\ue2s positive description and female writing style are full of passion for knowledge. Finally, Hu Ching-Fang sees the world in the perspective of outsider to remind us to put away prejudice and look into the truth of what is happening right now. These all allow us to have more understanding about traveling
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