Articles from the 2008 International conference on "Glocalizing Joyce: The East Asian & Other Perspectives," Seoul : Imaging Motherland in Ulysses: Rethinking a Global/Local Gendered History

Yen Yen Hsiao 한국제임스조이스학회 2008 제임스조이스저널 Vol.14 No.2

This paper focuses on the intriguing complexity of Joyce`s representation of mother/land at the intersections of imperialism, nationalism, sexual dominance, and colonial modernity. From the perspectives of Irish studies, feminist theories and post-colonial discourses, my study observes that Joyce underlines the paradoxical significance of both the central and marginal role of mother that lays bare Ireland`s repressed cultural consciousness. The confrontation of amor matris and paternal authority enacts a psychohistory full of dialogical tension in Ulysses. For Asian Joyceans, the intrinsic historical, political and socio-cultural specificity of each country should be rethought and contested in face of the global Joyce studies. My arguments highlight the intriguing representational narratives of maternity in the discourses of inventing motherland in Taiwan as a case for comparison. The repressed mother/land powerfully sheds light on Joyce`s cultural and political imagination. Joyce subverts nationalist iconography of mother Ireland by creating a cardinal authentic emblem of m/other Molly. With this maternal otherness, Joyce envisions Ireland as a vibrant world of hybrid cultures rather than a land embedded in folkloric Celtic purity. This paper concludes that Joyce rewrites cultural sites of repression as routes to liberation in which his challenging narrative art negotiates a new relation to imperial power.

The Rapture/Rupture of Geographical Memories -Displacement and Misplacement in Joyce

( Yen Yen Hsiao ) 한국제임스조이스학회 2010 제임스조이스저널 Vol.16 No.2

This paper aims to explore the intricate configuration of places in Joyce`s texts that underscores the mapping of collective cultural memories of displacement and misplacement. I interpret the discursive emanation of place names and their references in Joyce`s oeuvres as revealing symptoms of colonial anxiety and obsession of cultural marginalization, and thus the geographical imagination of Joyce`s characters weaves a rich tapestry of phantasmagoric foreign places to resist their claustrophobic fear. The tropes of travel in Joyce`s works map out a ubiquitous Irish unconscious that torn between rapture and rupture of geographical memories. This volatile spatial identification registers a problematic nexus of Ireland`s turbulent history and colonial city/landscape. I contend that the relationship of self and places in Joyce signifies a profound cultural and socio-political process of dis/identification, and thus the discursive everyday practices of conceptualization of places result in amnesia or awakening of Dubliners` personal and national history. The dialogical tension of home/land and exotic places reinforces internalized alienation and paralysis of will, while the desire for otherland sustains Joyce`s characters to resist colonial dominance in various forms. Imagining an otherland beyond home/land, Joyce`s Dubliners move through different places to experience escape or liberation by geographical transgression in their own way. My study employs postcolonial discourses to pinpoint the route of spatial imagination in Joyce`s texts, and the rapture or the rupture of collective geographical memories illuminate Joyce`s aesthetic geo-narratives of writing his motherland.

Imaging Motherland in Ulysses: Rethinking a Global/Local Gendered History

Yen-Yen Hsiao 한국제임스조이스학회 2008 제임스조이스저널 Vol.14 No.2

This paper focuses on the intriguing complexity of Joyce’s representation of mother/land at the intersections of imperialism, nationalism, sexual dominance, and colonial modernity. From the perspectives of Irish studies, feminist theories and post-colonial discourses, my study observes that Joyce underlines the paradoxical significance of both the central and marginal role of mother that lays bare Ireland’s repressed cultural consciousness. The confrontation of amor matris and paternal authority enacts a psychohistory full of dialogical tension in Ulysses. For Asian Joyceans, the intrinsic historical, political and socio-cultural specificity of each country should be rethought and contested in face of the global Joyce studies. My arguments highlight the intriguing representational narratives of maternity in the discourses of inventing motherland in Taiwan as a case for comparison. The repressed mother/land powerfully sheds light on Joyce’s cultural and political imagination. Joyce subverts nationalist iconography of mother Ireland by creating a cardinal authentic emblem of m/other Molly. With this maternal otherness, Joyce envisions Ireland as a vibrant world of hybrid cultures rather than a land embedded in folkloric Celtic purity. This paper concludes that Joyce rewrites cultural sites of repression as routes to liberation in which his challenging narrative art negotiates a new relation to imperial power. This paper focuses on the intriguing complexity of Joyce’s representation of mother/land at the intersections of imperialism, nationalism, sexual dominance, and colonial modernity. From the perspectives of Irish studies, feminist theories and post-colonial discourses, my study observes that Joyce underlines the paradoxical significance of both the central and marginal role of mother that lays bare Ireland’s repressed cultural consciousness. The confrontation of amor matris and paternal authority enacts a psychohistory full of dialogical tension in Ulysses. For Asian Joyceans, the intrinsic historical, political and socio-cultural specificity of each country should be rethought and contested in face of the global Joyce studies. My arguments highlight the intriguing representational narratives of maternity in the discourses of inventing motherland in Taiwan as a case for comparison. The repressed mother/land powerfully sheds light on Joyce’s cultural and political imagination. Joyce subverts nationalist iconography of mother Ireland by creating a cardinal authentic emblem of m/other Molly. With this maternal otherness, Joyce envisions Ireland as a vibrant world of hybrid cultures rather than a land embedded in folkloric Celtic purity. This paper concludes that Joyce rewrites cultural sites of repression as routes to liberation in which his challenging narrative art negotiates a new relation to imperial power.

The effect of ferulic acid ethyl ester on leptin-induced proliferation and migration of aortic smooth muscle cells

Yung-Chieh Tsai,Yen-Mei Lee,Sy-Ying Leu,Hsiao-Yen Chiang,Mao-Hsiung Yen,Pao-Yun Cheng,Chih-Hsiung Hsu 생화학분자생물학회 2015 Experimental and molecular medicine Vol.47 No.-

Leptin is a peptide hormone, which has a central role in the regulation of body weight; it also exerts many potentially atherogenic effects. Ferulic acid ethyl ester (FAEE) has been approved for antioxidant properties. The aim of this study was to investigate whether FAEE can inhibit the atherogenic effects of leptin and the possible molecular mechanism of its action. Both of cell proliferation and migration were measured when the aortic smooth muscle cell (A10 cell) treated with leptin and/or FAEE. Phosphorylated p44/42MAPK, cell cycle-regulatory protein (for example, cyclin D1, p21, p27), β-catenin and matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) proteins levels were also measured. Results demonstrated that leptin (10, 100 ng ml−1) significantly increased the proliferation of cells and the phosphorylation of p44/42MAPK in A10 cells. The proliferative effect of leptin was significantly reduced by the pretreatment of U0126 (0.5 μM), a MEK inhibitor, in A10 cells. Meanwhile, leptin significantly increased the protein expression of cyclin D1, p21, β-catenin and decreased the expression of p27 in A10 cells. In addition, leptin (10 ng ml−1) significantly increased the migration of A10 cells and the expression of MMP-9 protein. Above effects of leptin were significantly reduced by the pretreatment of FAEE (1 and 10 μM) in A10 cells. In conclusion, FAEE exerts multiple effects on leptin-induced cell proliferation and migration, including the inhibition of p44/42MAPK phosphorylation, cell cycle-regulatory proteins and MMP-9, thereby suggesting that FAEE may be a possible therapeutic approach to the inhibition of obese vascular disease.

MuBike : Cloud Communication Service Composition Platform for Automatic Renting Bikes

Yen-Chiu Chen,Tse-Shih Chen,Hui-Ching Hsieh,Tai-Hua Hsiao 보안공학연구지원센터(IJUNESST) 2014 International Journal of u- and e- Service, Scienc Vol.7 No.4

Room-temperature flexible thin film transistor with high mobility

Hsiao-Hsuan Hsu,Chun-Yen Chang,Chun-Hu Cheng 한국물리학회 2013 Current Applied Physics Vol.13 No.7

We report a room-temperature and high-mobility InGaZnO thin-film transistor on flexible substrate. To gain both high gate capacitance and low leakage current, we adopt stacked dielectric of Y2O3/TiO2/Y2O3. This flexible IGZO TFT shows a low threshold voltage of 0.45 V, a small sub-threshold swing of 0.16 V/decade and very high field-effect mobility of 40 cm2/V. Such good performance is mainly contributed by improved gate stack structure and thickness modulation of IGZO channel that reduce the interface trap density without apparent mobility degradation.

The Effect of the Ecological Wetlands on Releasing the Respondents’ State-anxiety Level

Hsiao-Chang Huang,Chun-Yen Chang 한국원예학회 2006 한국원예학회 기타간행물 Vol.- No.-

Computational Procedure for Evaluating Sampling Techniques on Watershed Model Calibration

Yen, Haw,Jeong, Jaehak,Tseng, Wen-Hsiao,Kim, Min-Kyeong,Records, Rosemary M.,Arabi, Mazdak American Society of Civil Engineers 2015 Journal of hydrologic engineering Vol.20 No.7

Chemoprevention of Colitis-Associated Dysplasia or Cancer in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

( Shun-wen Hsiao ),( Hsu-heng Yen ),( Yang-yuan Chen ) 대한소화기학회 2022 Gut and Liver Vol.16 No.6

The association between inflammatory bowel disease and colorectal cancer is well known. Although the overall incidence of inflammatory bowel disease has declined recently, patients with this disease still have a 1.7-fold increased risk of colorectal cancer. The risk factors for developing colorectal cancer include extensive colitis, young age at diagnosis, disease duration, primary sclerosing cholangitis, chronic colonic mucosal inflammation, dysplasia lesion, and post-inflammatory polyps. In patients with inflammatory bowel disease, control of chronic inflammation and surveillance colonoscopies are important for the prevention of colorectal cancer. The 2017 guidelines from the European Crohn’s and Colitis Organisation suggest that colonoscopies to screen for colorectal cancer should be performed when inflammatory bowel disease symptoms have lasted for 8 years. Current evidence supports the use of chemoprevention therapy with mesalamine to reduce the risk of colorectal cancer in patients with ulcerative colitis. Other compounds, including thiopurine, folic acid, statin, and tumor necrosis factor-α inhibitor, are controversial. Large surveillance cohort studies with longer follow-up duration are needed to evaluate the impact of drugs on colorectal cancer risks. (Gut Liver 2022;16:840-848)

Optimization on Ready-Mixed Concrete Dispatching Problem via Sliding Time Window Searching

Machine Hsie,Chun Yen Huang,Wen-Ta Hsiao,Ming-Yen Wu,YuanChi Liu 대한토목학회 2022 KSCE JOURNAL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING Vol.26 No.8

The dispatching of ready-mixed concrete (RMC) is usually scheduled manually and difficult tomeet the demand of construction sites. The inefficient dispatching plan causes concretedefects of discontinuous casting (cold joint formation) or long on-site queuing (concrete earlyhardening inside RMC truck). The RMC dispatching literature focus on optimizing thedispatching intervals to minimize RMC truck on-site queuing, system operation costs of RMCplant and construction sites, or tradeoff. The previous research methods include mixed-integerlinear programming (MILP) and evolutionary algorithms. They have the limitations of providingoptimal solutions or computation efficiency. This paper develops a Binary Linear programmingwith Sliding Time-Window (BLSTW) to overcome these limitations. The BLSTW model subtlydetermines the dispatch of RMC trucks through binary variables incorporated into sliding timewindow search approach. Two perspectives, from the RMC plant supplier and constructionsite demanders, are discussed respectively. Three case studies are conducted to verify theefficiency improvement of the developed model including one largescale example of 25 sites. The comparisons made with two cited results shows the superior of the developed model.