繁、簡體字讀者漢字認知技巧的遷移

Tianyin Liu,Janet Hui‐wen HSIAO 한국한자한문교육학회 2013 국제한국한자한문교육학회 학술대회 Vol.2013 No.1

There are currently two Chinese writing systems in use in Chinese speaking regions, namely simplified and traditional Chinese, and the effects of simplifying the script have aroused some discussion over last two decades. Recent research suggested that analytic/reduced holistic processing (i.e., identifying individual components of an object rather than gluing features together into a gestalt) is an expertise marker in Chinese character recognition (Hsiao & Cottrell, 2009), which depends mainly on readers’ writing rather than reading experience (Tso, Au, & Hsiao, 2011).  Based on these findings, the current study took a cognitive perspective and examined whether and how simplified and traditional Chinese readers perceive simplified and traditional Chinese characters in terms of holistic processing. Results showed that when processing characters that are shared between the two Chinese scripts, both simplified and traditional Chinese readers demonstrated a similar level of reading and writing abilities, as well as holistic processing. When processing characters that are distinctive in the two scripts, simplified Chinese readers were more analytic than traditional Chinese readers in perceiving simplified characters; this effect depended on their writing rather than reading/copying performance. On the contrary, the two groups of readers did not differ in holistic processing of traditional characters, regardless of their performance difference in writing/copying of traditional characters. In sum, these results indicate that both simplified and traditional Chinese expert readers have developed analytic processing skills in the scripts they are familiar with; nevertheless, whereas simplified Chinese readers could transfer this skill to the processing of traditional characters, traditional Chinese readers could not in the processing of simplified characters. The better generalization ability in simplified Chinese readers may be due to a larger variance in visual form of simplified characters as compared with that of traditional counterparts. 

Productivity Growth in Newly Developed Countries The Case of Korea and Taiwan

FrankS.T.Hsiao,ChangsuhPark 한국경제연구학회 2002 Korea and the World Economy Vol.3 No.2

The Nominative/Genitive Alternation in Modern Inner Mongolian Relative Clauses: A Statistical Perspective

( Su Ying Hsiao ) 경희대학교 언어연구소 2012 언어연구 Vol.29 No.2

Hsiao, Su-ying, 2012, The Nominative/Genitive Alternation in Modem Inner Mongolian Relative (lames: A Statistical Perspective. Linguistic Research 29(2), 351-380. This paper investigates the nominative/genitive alternation in Modem Inner Mongolian from a statistical perspective, and accounts for the different preferences of nominative or genitive subjects in relative clauses between Mongolian and Japanese from a synchronic point of view, It is proposed that finiteness of relative clauses accounts for the subject Case marking alternation. Nominal subject occurs in a finite relative clause, and genitive subject occurs in a non-finite, nominal relative clause. Our statistical study shows that nominative subjects are less preferred than their genitive counterparts in Modem Inner Mongolian. Compared to Mongolian nominative/genitive alternation, nominative subjects are more common in Japanese. It is claimed that the developments of verbal noun aspectual suffixes to finite indicative suffixes also occurred in the history of Japanese, and Japanese goes faster than Mongolian does, Aspectual suffixes have evolved into indicative suffixes in Japanese, while in Inner Mongolian it is an ongoing development.

Antenatal Depression in East Asia: A Review of the Literature

Mei-Chun Hsiao,Mei-Chun Hsiao,Chia-Yih Liu 대한신경정신의학회 2012 PSYCHIATRY INVESTIGATION Vol.9 No.2

This current study’s goal is to summarize the literature regarding Antenatal Depression (AD) in the East Asian countries of Taiwan, China (including Hong Kong and Macau), Japan, and Korea. The main search utilized a Pub med Chinese Electronic Periodical Service (CEPS) literature review using keywords ‘AD’, and ‘Prenatal Depression’ with searches for ‘Japan’, ‘Korea’, ‘Taiwan’, ‘Hong Kong’ and Macau’. The rates of AD in East Asia appear to be relatively close to those in the Western literature, although certain studies showed slightly decreased rates. Many of the risk factors for AD were the same in the Eastern and Western literature. These risk factors included demographic factors such as younger age, smoking, low education and income, and unemployment. Other risk factors were physical symptoms such as menstrual pains and nausea. Finally, psychological factors such as a poor response to the pregnancy, poor spousal support, and poor family support were associated with AD. With regard to treatment, there were no studies examining the administration of psychotropic medications for AD. The literature from East Asia both confirmed many Western findings and made unique contributions to the literature on AD. The treatment of AD in East Asia appears to be an entity which, despite its morbidity, has not been adequately studied.

Skill of Western North Pacific Tropical Cyclone Intensity Forecast Guidance Relative to Weighted-Analog Technique

Hsiao-Chung Tsai,Russell L. Elsberry 한국기상학회 2016 Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences Vol.52 No.3

The accuracy of the western North Pacific tropical cyclone intensity forecast guidance products available at the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) is evaluated relative to a new skill metric called Weighted Analog Intensity Pacific (WAIP) that includes knowledge of the JTWC official track forecast and the current intensity, which is information that is available at the time the intensity forecast is generated. An intensity consensus technique called S5XX that includes statistical-dynamic intensity forecasts plus other dynamic and thermodynamic prediction techniques has statistically significant smaller errors than WAIP at 24 h and 48 h and has similar accuracy through 120 h. While the track consensus CONW is a critical input to the JTWC official track forecast, it has no skill relative to WAIP as an intensity forecast. Three regional numerical models also have no skill relative to WAIP, and especially at forecast intervals beyond 72 h because their mean absolute errors are statistically significantly larger than for WAIP. Furthermore, these regional models have statistically significant positive or negative intensity biases relative to the verifying intensities. However, an experimental consensus technique called CMES that includes these three regional models has small accuracy relative to WAIP in the 24 h to 72 h forecast intervals. Geographical-based comparisons of the intensity guidance products with the WAIP indicate almost all of the products are more accurate than WAIP over the South China Sea region. The statistical-dynamic consensus technique S5XX does have skill through 72 h for landfalling situations along the coasts of China and Southeast Asia. At 120 h, the WAIP has superior performance over the guidance products over most areas of the western North Pacific, but again the S5XX is more accurate than WAIP for landfalling tropical cyclones on the Philippine Islands, Southeast Asia, South China, and northeastern Japan. This information will be useful to the forecaster in deciding when and where (or how much) to rely on each guidance product in preparing the five-day intensity forecast once the official track forecast has been established.

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.

Political Economy of Cross-Strait Investments : The Taiwanese High-tech Industry as an Example

Hsiao-hung Nancy Chen 서울대학교 경제연구소 2011 Seoul journal of economics Vol.24 No.2

The data analyzed in this paper revealed that Taiwanese hightech companies that invested in China have grown larger. Industrial clusters have been established in the Greater Shanghai area and to a lesser extent, along the Shenzhen-Dongguan-Guangzhou corridor. These clusters were established along the principles of vertical differentiation. Will the post-ECFA China-Taiwan relations create the "Chiwan" phenomenon or will it present Taiwan with a "prisoner's dilemma"? The paper proposes that in taking advantage of China's huge domestic market, Taiwanese high-tech enterprises should maintain their comparative advantage in the world ICT market. In terms of production functions, aside from capital, innovation-driven human resource is perhaps equally, if not more, important in maintaining enterprise profitability and sustainability.

Closing achievement gaps and beyond: teachers’ reactions to the remedial education policy in Taiwan

Hsiao-Lan Sharon Chen,Patricia Yu 서울대학교 교육연구소 2016 Asia Pacific Education Review Vol.17 No.4

Educators have increasingly implemented remedial education in elementary and secondary schools throughout Taiwan as a systemic approach toward closing achievement gaps. However, students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds and those in remote areas have shown little improvement in academic achievement. This issue raises the question of how educators are providing needed learning support to disadvantaged students in school and classroom settings. Thus, this study applies grounded theory to investigate teachers’ reactions to the remedial education policy in Taiwan, to have a reflective assessment on the policy, and to provide suggestions for policy implementation. The findings suggest that teachers’ responses to this government-imposed, centralized approach—classified as “cosmetic compliance,” “professional commitment,” and “try-out participation”—vary widely based on whether their ideological underpinnings are consistent with the government’s policy intent to close achievement gaps, and on whether they are equipped with professional knowledge and practical strategies to support the effective implementation of remedial education. Based on the findings, this study develops an interactive systemic model for more effectively implementing the remedial education policy, which illustrates a conceptualization that educational practitioners can hold professional autonomy while improving teaching and learning for low-achieving students.

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.-

Flow Experience and Horticultral Activities Influence Horticultural Therapy

Hsiao Lan Lai,Sheng Jung Ou 한국원예학회 2006 한국원예학회 기타간행물 Vol.- No.-