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Choreographing Collapsing Bodies
No full textChoreographing Collapsing Bodies examines the choreographic in the arrangement of different material bodies, agencies and affects. This artistic research investigates the affective power of everyday objects and their role in performance, focusing on chairs and tables as co-performers. The main question of this written thesis revolves around the methods of choreographing a performance that encompasses different material agencies and modes of expression. This research interest is informed by my experience of living in an environment marked by frequent seismic activity. This intimate awareness of unpredictable earth movements influences a choreographic approach that reflects on precarity in performance practice. I explore the subtle perception of things as a way of building my relationship with objects and allowing their vibrancy to guide my action through stillness, precarious formations, collapse, irregular rhythms, images of hybrid bodies, multiple affects and material expressions. I research choreographic methods including score-based improvisation and instant composition to create a performance situation which allows for the affective exchange between different material bodies and provides the space for chance happenings.
The thesis is structured into three main chapters. Each chapter delves into my artistic journey and the theoretical framework that underpins the exploration.
In the first chapter, I revisit three selected experiences from my embodied archive, exploring how my bodily knowledge nourishes the question of how to create choreography with everyday objects.
In the second chapter, I elaborate on the choreographic thinking behind “collapsing bodies,” beginning with the presentation of pluralistic and indeterminate definitions of choreography. I then reflect on “collapsing bodies” through my situated knowledge, influenced by my precarious living conditions, and my artistic practices with everyday objects in two of my performance projects Still Changning and Relaxing on a Shaky Ground.
The third chapter examines the performativity of the objects in choreography. I explore the notion of intermateriality, introduced by Daniela Hahn in Things that Dance (2019), reflecting on chance encounters and intermaterial dialogues in the creative process. This chapter also investigates my choreographic practice through the lens of assemblage and thing-power from Jane Bennett’s theory in Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (2010).
In summary, Choreographing Collapsing Bodies is an artistic and theoretical exploration that examines choreography through the performativity of everyday objects, a subtle perception of things, an entangled dynamic between stillness and movement, score and chance, and the exploration of memory and dreaming. This thesis attempts to contribute to the fields of choreography, performance art and movement practice with my embodied knowledge and theoretical insights
Scales_used_in_the_research-_online_supp-2018-8-31 – Supplemental material for Do Regulations Always Work? The Moderate Effects of Reinforcement Sensitivity on Deviant Tourist Behavior Intention
No full textSupplemental material, Scales_used_in_the_research-_online_supp-2018-8-31 for Do Regulations Always Work? The Moderate Effects of Reinforcement Sensitivity on Deviant Tourist Behavior Intention by Tao Li and Yun Chen in Journal of Travel Research</p
sj-R-1-smm-10.1177_09622802231181704 - Supplemental material for Sample size determination for adaptive crossover trial in detecting gene-drug interactions
No full textSupplemental material, sj-R-1-smm-10.1177_09622802231181704 for Sample size determination for adaptive crossover trial in detecting gene-drug interactions by Hua Yun Chen and Dawood Darbar in Statistical Methods in Medical Research</p
sj-R-2-smm-10.1177_09622802231181704 - Supplemental material for Sample size determination for adaptive crossover trial in detecting gene-drug interactions
No full textSupplemental material, sj-R-2-smm-10.1177_09622802231181704 for Sample size determination for adaptive crossover trial in detecting gene-drug interactions by Hua Yun Chen and Dawood Darbar in Statistical Methods in Medical Research</p
Appendix – Supplemental material for Can Training Enhance Public Employees’ Public Service Motivation? A Pretest–Posttest Design
No full textSupplemental material, Appendix for Can Training Enhance Public Employees’ Public Service Motivation? A Pretest–Posttest Design by Chung-An Chen, Chih-Wei Hsieh and Don-Yun Chen in Review of Public Personnel Administration</p
Effect of salinity on the biological treatment of wastewater from fish processing industry / Ching Yun Chen
Get PDFThe fish processing industries produce large volumes of saline wastewater with high
organic and nutrient concentrations. This research was aimed to study the effect of salt
(NaCl) concentration on the biomass yield and biodegradation of fish processing
wastewater in batch and continuous flow system by natural biodegradation. Three
categories of synthetic wastewater were prepared according to random concentration
which was diluted from the average concentration of fish processing wastewater; with
the dilution at 30, 50 and 100 fold dilution. Each concentration of synthetic wastewater
was later added with 12 series of salt concentration ranging from 0.0 g/L to 70.0 g/L of
NaCl. All synthetic wastewater including the control were tested in the lab using 2.0 L
bioreactor (oxygenated continuous stirred) with agitation speed at 250 rotation per
minute (rpm) and operating temperature at 30oC. Studies were carried out using batch
and continuous operation with a 5-day cycle treatment. In continuous flow system, the
first phase of the experiments were focused towards the evaluation of system
performance via evaluating biomass yield and substrate removal at 9 different operating
hydraulic retention time (HRT) range of 2-10 day in the 30-, 50-, and 100-fold diluted
wastewater without salt content in the reactor. The second phase of the experiments was
to investigate the effects of eleven different salt content (NaCl: 0.5-7%) in the 30-, 50-,
and 100-fold diluted wastewater at the obtained optimal HRT of 10, 9 and 8 day. In
each run of continuous system, daily samples are taken at set time to analyze the
concentration of biomass and substrates for study the biomass growth and substrate
removal efficiency. Organic and nutrient removal together with biomass yield were used
indicators for its performance efficiency. In the batch operation, the efficiency of
substrate removal and biomass yield dropped at 2.5% NaCl for all types of synthetic fish processing wastewater. The efficiency of substrate removal and biomass yield
dropped for continuous operation after 3.0% NaCl. The most efficient substrate removal
and biomass yield took place at the salt concentration of 1.0% salt for batch and
continuous operation in all types of synthetic fish processing wastewater. Continuous
operation has shown that the longer hydraulic retention time (HRT) give the better
efficiency of substrate removal up to 10-day HRT. Meanwhile for biomass yield, the
HRT eight days has given the best results with 49.0% growth percentage found in the
30-fold diluted fish processing wastewater. The biomass yield and the substrate removal
were decreased with bigger dilution factor of the diluted influent in both of the batch
and continuous flow system. Results from this study could potentially increase fish
processing saline wastewater handling and the treated wastewater reuse as an
environmental friendly liquid fertilizer in agriculture, which is expected to yield high
economic value
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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