Formulaic Sequences as Frames to Facilitate EFL College Students with Engineering Majors in Oral Presentations

Hsin-Yi Cyndi Huang,Ming-Lung Roger Yang 아시아테플 2022 The Journal of Asia TEFL Vol.19 No.2

CONSTRUCTING CONFIGURATIONAL INDICATORS FOR CREATING INDUSTRIAL TOURISM VALUE: A TOURISM-VALUE-CHAIN APPLICATION

Fei-Hsin Huang,Yi-Jin Ye,Li-Hua Hsin 글로벌지식마케팅경영학회 2018 Global Marketing Conference Vol.2018 No.07

Value creation is essential for successfully operating a firm and becomes a critical issue for realizing cross-firm competition and industrial performance distinctions. Tourism scholars have viewed tourism value-chain (TVC) as a useful tool to measure the efficiency and effectiveness of performance through controlling the impact factors in tourism products and services. However, few extant studies focus on the works of performance measurement in the tourism industry. This study applies Yilmaz and Bititci’s (2006 a, b) concept to develop novel performance measurement and value creation indicators for industrial tourism and customers through a crisp-set qualitative comparative analysis (QCA). The QCA approach considers asymmetric relationships—reporting conditions that are sufficient or necessary to cause an outcome condition. QCA allows exploring the causal-effect relationship between the variables. In-depth interview with five senior managers and five customers were conducted. The QCA results showed that industrial tourism and customer performance indicators have complex links with value creation. The main theoretical contributions of this study extends through four stages of TVC on both manufacturing and industrial tourism, developing causal-effect connections of industrial tourism, and customer performance on value creation. The study describes how proprietors and service providers promoted brand identification and firm’s reputation for achieving industrial tourism value. The findings beneficially provide practical implications for proprietors and customers for applying performance indicators once aiming to develop an appropriate marketing strategy and create industrial tourism and customer values.

새로운 다수제적 혼합제도에 대한 대만 시민의 인식도 -코호트 분석

( Chi Huang ),( Ching Hsin Yu ),( Yi Ching Hsiao ) 한국선거학회 2011 선거연구 Vol.1 No.2

선거제도는 투표를 의석으로 전환하는 규칙을 제공하며, 그에 따라 선거에서 누가 승리하고 패배하는가를 결정한다. 선거제도가 정치에서 수행하는 역할에 의문을 던지는 사람은 별로 없을 것이다. 그러나 기존 연구는 일반 시민들이 선거제도를 어떻게 인식하고 이해하고 있는가 (특히 선거제도가 근본적 변화를 경험하고 있는 이행기 동안에) 라는 질문에 대해서 이상하게도 침묵을 지키고 있다. 대만의 선거제도 개혁 경험은 이러한 빈 공간을 채울 수 있는 좋은 기회를 제공해 준다. 대만은 2008년에 의원 선거제도를 변화시켰는데, 지난 50년간 지속되어 왔던 단기비이양식(SNTV) 제도에서 다수제적 혼합선거제도 (MMM)로 바꿨다. 새로운 다수제적 혼합선거제도는 전체 의석 수, 선거구 크기, 선거 공식, 그리고 투표 구조 등에 있어서 과거의 단기비이양식 제도와 상당히 달랐다. 이 글은 새로운 선거제도를 소개하고 이 제도전반에 대한 시민들의 인식도를 알아보고자 한다. 또한 이 글에서는 시민들의 선거제도에 대한 지식이 2008년 선거 이전과 이후에 어떻게 변화했는지 살펴본다. 두 선거 제도 사이에 상당한 차이가 존재하기 때문에, 먼저 새로운 제도에 대한 시민들의 전반적 지식을 조사한다. 그 다음 설문조사 자료를 사용하여, 선거 기간과 비선거 기간 사이에 시민들의 지식 변화를 고찰한다. 분석 결과에 따르면, 다수의 시민들이 새로운 다수제적 혼합선거제도의 주요 구성 요인에 대해 완전히 이해하지 못하고 있다. 특히, 최소 조건에 대한 조항이 가장 적은 관심을 받고 있다. 더 나아가, 새로운 선거제도에 대한 시민들의 지식은 선거 모멘텀에 영향을 받아, 선거일이 다가옴에 따라 지식이 올라가고 선거일 이후에는 감소하는 것으로 나타났다. 마지막으로, 보다 구체적인 코호트 분석을 통해 시민들 중에 어떤 집단이 선거제도 변화와 관련된 정보를 가장 잘 획득하는지를 고찰한다. 본 연구 결과는 선거제도 지식에 대한 선거 주기 가설을 부분적으로 지지해준다. Electoral systems provide the rules of translating votes into seats and thus decide who wins and loses in elections. Few would doubt the critical roles that electoral systems play in politics. Yet current literature is curiously silent about how ordinary citizens perceive and understand the electoral system, especially during the transition period when the system is undergoing fundamental changes. The experiences of electoral reform in Taiwan provide an opportune case to fill up this gap. Taiwan transformed its legislative electoral system from a half-century long SNTV (single non-transferable vote) system to a MMM (mixed-member majoritarian) electoral system in 2008. The new MMM system is a sharp departure from the original SNTV system in the total number of legislative seats, the district magnitude, electoral formula, and ballot structure. This essay intends to introduce the new MMM system and explore citizens` awareness of the new MMM system in general. Also, it explores the changes of citizens` knowledge of the new electoral system before and after the 2008 legislative election. Given the significant differences between the SNTV system and the MMM system, it firstly tests of citizens` overall knowledge of the new MMM system. Then, with the help of survey data, it examines the changes of citizens` knowledge in election periods and non-election periods. The findings show a majority of citizens are not fully aware of the institutional components of the new MMM system. In particular, the threshold regulation receives the least attention by citizens. Furthermore, it finds that citizens` knowledge of the new MMM system is a function of electoral momentum, i.e., citizens` knowledge rises as the election date approaches and declines after the election date. Then we proceed with a more detailed cohort analyses to examine which groups of citizens are more likely to pick up information related to the electoral system changes. Our findings partially support our electoral cycle hypothesis of electoral system knowledge.

The Relationship Between Night Shift Work and the Risk of Abnormal Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone: A Hospital-Based Nine-Year Follow-up Retrospective Cohort Study in Taiwan

Chen, Hsin-Hao,Chiu, Hsiao-Hui,Yeh, Tzu-Lin,Lin, Chi-Min,Huang, Hsin-Yi,Wu, Shang-Liang Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute 2021 Safety and health at work Vol.12 No.3

Background: Health-care providers typically undergo shift work and are subjected to increased stress. Night shift work may induce disturbed sleep cycles and circadian rhythm. The objective of this study was to explore if night shift workers (NSWs) show an increased risk of abnormal thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH). Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of 574 employees without thyroid disease and abnormal TSH at baseline who underwent annual check-ups between 2007 and 2016 in a medical center. NSWs were defined as those with working time schedules other than daytime hours. We calculated the incidence rate and estimated the adjusted hazard ratio (HR) for incident abnormal TSH and subclinical hypothyroidism compared with non-NSWs using a Cox regression model. Results: A total of 56 incident abnormal TSH cases and 39 subclinical hypothyroidism cases in NSWs were identified during 3000 person-years of follow-up. In models adjusted for age, sex, obesity, and working departments, we found no increased relative risk for incident abnormal TSH (HR: 0.72, 95% confidence interval: 0.33-1.60) or subclinical hypothyroidism (HR: 0.52, 95% confidence interval: 0.19-1.45) when comparing NSWs to non-NSWs; nor were incidence rates significantly different among exclusively medical employees after excluding administrative staff. Conclusion: In this hospital-based nine-year follow-up retrospective cohort study, NSWs were not associated with increased relative risk of incident abnormal TSH and subclinical hypothyroidism, in contrast to previous cross-sectional studies.

Study on Cellar Behaviors on Different Nanostructures by Nanoporous Alumina Template

Chiung-Fang Huang,Yung-Kang Shen,Hsin-Chung Cheng,Yi Lin,Chih-Wei Wu 한국정밀공학회 2014 International Journal of Precision Engineering and Vol. No.

Nanoporous anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) templates are fabricated using an nodization method. The mean diameters of nanoporousanodic aluminum oxide templates are 100 nm and 200 nm by various processing parameters of the anodization method. A moldedplastic thin film nanostructure is fabricated by nanoimprinting using the AAO template as a mold insert. The surface properties ofthe molded plastic thin film are discussed using various nanoimprinting process parameters. Contact angles of the molded plastic thinfilm with the nanostructure exceed those without the nanostructure. The molded plastic thin films with a nanostructure and ahydrophobic surface are formed, and their contact angles exceed 90o. This study observes the behavior of osteoblast-like cells (MG63)cultured on nanostructure thin films, i.e., AAO, polylactic acid (PLA) and polycarbonate (PC). Cell growth behavior indicates thatthe AAO template with a 200 nm nanostructure is best. This study shows that cell adhesion and spreading are influenced by surfacetopography in the nanometer feature.

台灣社區營造之資源盤點及整合模式建立研究

陳亭伊(Ting-Yi Chen),謝杏慧(Hsing-Hui Hsieh),林漢明(Han-Ming Lin),陳怡昌(Yi-Chang Chen),黃招憲(Jau-Hsien Huang),郭殷豪(Yin-Hao Kuo),Hsin-Mien Wang 한국외국어대학교 대만연구센터 2016 대만연구 Vol.- No.9

For the promotion of community development, the first step is to investigate the specialty resources and human resources, to understand the process and the current appearance of community development, and to explore the future development vision or direction should be promoted. Secondly, the local smart people must have the abilities of cooperation, communication, cross-domain integration, and linking external support. It is one of the keypoints of adding-value workforce. Therefore, leaders of a community must find the local characteristics of the championship, and have the capacity to promote citizen participation and to integrate external support and cooperation, so that communities can acquire and integrate diverse and sufficient resources in order to succeed in community sustainability. Therefore, the main purpose of this paper is to establish a model of resource inventory and integration. Through the methods of literature analysis and focus group discussion, this paper explores the community cases of Guantu area in Taipei, Shennong Street and Jingliao community in Tainan how to inventory both natural and human resources, to seek community development and value-added directions, to promote civic participation, cooperation, and to link external groups, so as to achieve the success of internal and external resource integration.

Comparisons of Moisturizing Function Between Rayon Fabric with Collagen Peptides from Fish Scales and Regular Rayon Fabric Under Various Relative Humidity

Chi‑Shih Huang,Erh‑Jen Hou,Ying‑Chou Lee,Tzong‑Huei Lee,Yi‑Jun Pan,Ta Yu,Wei‑Hsin Lin,Chun‑Han Shih,Wei‑Che Chang 한국섬유공학회 2023 Fibers and polymers Vol.24 No.12

The study was inspired by the specialized facial masks made of rayon non-woven fabrics which contained collagen peptides for improving moisturizing function. This study explored the moisturizing function of a rayon fabric containing collagen peptides extracted from tilapia fish scales under various conditions of relative humidity. This research had implications for the development of clothing that can prevent dry skin. A two-stage nested design experiment was adopted. The first-stage factor such as the fabric has two levels and the second-stage factor such as the relative humidity with three levels nested under each level of the first-stage factor. Preliminary results indicated that introducing a new variable (i.e., fabric moisturizing value, which combines the moisture regains of adsorption and desorption) would be useful. The moisturizing value of the novel rayon fabric and regular rayon fabric increased with the increase in relative humidity, and moisturizing effect of the novel rayon fabric with collagen peptides was better than that of the regular rayon fabric. Therefore, the novel rayon fabric may be suitable for preventing dry skin in winter.

Does Labor Market Rigidity Matter for Economic Performance? Evidence from the Four Asian Tigers

Li-Hsuan Huang,Julia Hsin-Yi Huang 한국학술연구원 2013 Korea Observer Vol.44 No.3

With the increments of labor market institutions, the potential problem caused by labor market rigidity is emerging within the four Asian tigers, namely, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. This study emphasizes the impact of labor market rigidity on economic performance in the four Asian tigers over the 1980-2010 period. Through the estimation of the aggregate production function, we find that labor market rigidity has a negative impact on output and economic growth. On the other hand, without imposing any labor market institutional adjustment that would lower the standard of labor conditions, the rises in country’s competitiveness can serve as a balancing force to mitigate the negative impacts of labor market rigidity. A crucial insight for policymakers is to determine the most efficient method for giving labor effective protection without hurting economic performance.

Growth of SiGe Film By Using A Single-wafer Rapid Thermal Processing UHV/CVD System

Wen Tao Huang,Chang Chun Chen,Xi You Li,Xiao Yi Xiong,Zhi Hong Liu,Wei Zhang,Jun Xu,Pei Hsin Tsien 대한금속학회 2004 METALS AND MATERIALS International Vol.10 No.5

Smart and versatile biomaterials for cutaneous wound healing

Minxiong Li,Wenzheng Xia,Yi Min Khoong,Lujia Huang,Xin Huang,Hsin Liang,Yun Zhao,Jiayi Mao,Haijun Yu,Tao Zan 한국생체재료학회 2023 생체재료학회지 Vol.27 No.00

The global increase of cutaneous wounds imposes huge health and financial burdens on patients and society. Despite improved wound healing outcomes, conventional wound dressings are far from ideal, owing to the complex healing process. Smart wound dressings, which are sensitive to or interact with changes in wound condition or environment, have been proposed as appealing therapeutic platforms to effectively facilitate wound healing. In this review, the wound healing processes and features of existing biomaterials are firstly introduced, followed by summarizing the mechanisms of smart responsive materials. Afterwards, recent advances and designs in smart and versatile materials of extensive applications for cutaneous wound healing were submarined. Finally, clinical progresses, challenges and future perspectives of the smart wound dressing are discussed. Overall, by mapping the composition and intrinsic structure of smart responsive materials to their individual needs of cutaneous wounds, with particular attention to the responsive mechanisms, this review is promising to advance further progress in designing smart responsive materials for wounds and drive clinical translation.