WOULD YOU COME WITH ME

I believe we are connected with everyone and everything around us, and we are all connected by invisible lines. In my generation, loneliness is common. We are living on the border of virtual and physical spaces, reality and imagination mix together and create chaos. We send out signals through both these virtual and physical spaces even though it is becoming harder and harder for us to tell the difference between the virtual and real world these days. But we still need these two world to process our emotions, to digest our daily stress, and to make sure that we are alive. Therefore, my works begin to regulate this chaos to turn it into some kind of harmony. Not trying to find the answers, but trying to find a way to realize who we really are

Mapping orthographic and phonological neighborhood density effects in visual word recognition in two distinct orthographies

A central issue in word recognition is how readers retrieve and select the right representation among others in the mental lexicon. Recently, it has been claimed that recognition of individual words is influenced by the degree to which the words possess unique vs. shared letters or sounds relative to other words, that is, whether the words have few or several neighbors. Research on so-called neighborhood density effects advances understanding of the organization and operation of the mental lexicon. Orthographic neighborhood effects have been claimed to be facilitative, but recent studies of visual word recognition have led to a revised understanding of the nature of the orthographic neighborhood density effect. Through a reexamination of orthographic and phonological neighborhood density effects, the specific objective of the present research is to understand how orthographic and phonological representations interact across two different writing systems, i.e., English (an alphabetic orthography) and Chinese (a morphosyllabic orthography). The phenomena were studied using a joint behavioral (lexical decision) and neural imaging approach (near infrared spectroscopy, or NIRS). Orthographic and phonological (more, specifically, homophone) neighborhood density were manipulated in three lexical decision experiments with English and three with Chinese readers. After different sources of facilitative inter-lexicon connections were controlled, orthographic and phonological neighborhood density effects were found to be inhibitory in both writing systems. Inhibitory neighborhood density effects were also confirmed in two NIRS experiments of English and Chinese. The present research provided a better control of lexical characteristics than was the case in previous research on neighborhood effects and found a clear and consistent pattern of neighborhood density effects. This research supports interactive-activation models of word recognition rather than parallel-distributed models, given the evidence for lateral inhibition indexed by inhibitory neighborhood density effects. As such, the present study furthers the understanding of the organization and operation of the mental lexicon

FFTPL: An Analytic Placement Algorithm Using Fast Fourier Transform for Density Equalization

We propose a flat nonlinear placement algorithm FFTPL using fast Fourier transform for density equalization. The placement instance is modeled as an electrostatic system with the analogy of density cost to the potential energy. A well-defined Poisson's equation is proposed for gradient and cost computation. Our placer outperforms state-of-the-art placers with better solution quality and efficiency

Large scale simulation of watershed mass transport – a case study of Tsengwen reservoir watershed

The Tenth International Symposium on Mitigation of Geo-disasters in Asia Matsue Symposium Place: Shimane Civil Center, Matsue Date: 8 October 2012We present the large scale simulation of watershed mass transport, including landslide, debris-flow and sediment transport. A case study of Tsengwen reservoir watershed under the extreme rainfall triggered by typhoon Morakot is simulated for verification. This approach starts with volume-area relationship formula with inventory method to predict temporal and regional landslide volume production and distribution. Then, debris flow model, Debris-2D, is used to simulate the mass transport of debris-flow from hillslope to fluvial channel. Finally a sediment transport model, NETSTARS, is used for hydraulic and sediment routing in river and reservoir. The integrated simulation for the whole watershed gives a very good agreement with the temporal variation of sediment concentration recorded at the very downstream location

Word frequency modulates the Basic Orthographic Syllabic Structure (BOSS) effect in English polysyllable word recognition

An empirical study of English polysyllabic word segmentation.Do native readers segment polysyllabic words based on orthographic/morphological criteria or phonological criteria? Research by Taft (1979, 2001) argues in support of the former, as readers were faster in split-word lexical decision tasks when the words were segmented by orthographic/morphological principles based on Basic Orthographic Syllable Structure (or BOSS) units than when they were phonologically segmented following the Maximum Onset Principle (MOP). However, a BOSS-based preference has been difficult to replicate. The present research examined three factors potentially modulating a BOSS-based segmentation preference: whether a given BOSS unit is or is not present in other words, reading experience, and word frequency. The results showed that across higher and lower ability readers, and across words with shared or unique BOSSes, a BOSS preference was reliably obtained in low but not in high frequency words. Thus, word frequency appears to modulate the segmentation strategy of polysyllabic English words

COMPARISON OF KINESIO TAPING AND SPORTS TAPING IN FUNCTIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR COLLEGIATE BASKETBALL PLAYERS: A PILOT STUDY

The purpose of this study was to identify the effects of kinesio taping and sports taping for collegiate basketball players in functional activities. Seventeen collegiate basketball players were recruited in particapitate this study and divided into three groups(Kinesio taping group, sports taping group and control group) in random. The ankle range of motion, plantarflexor muscle strength and endurance, vertical jump, and dynamic balance were measured before and after taping applied. The results was showed significantly increasing in ankle plantar-flexion range for Kinesio taping group(p=.03). There were no remarkable difference in the other measurements. In conclusion, the Kinesio Taping would not restriction the ankle plantar-flexion range. In future, we may recruited more subjects to identify the effect of Kinesio taping in functional activities for collegiate bsketball players

Assessing children’s reading comprehension by the component processes tasks

The purposes of this study were to develop a theoretical-based, comprehension process assessment and to measurechildren’s reading comprehension processes. This assessment was based on Hannon & Daneman’s (2001) paradigm and Han-non & Frias’ (2012) component processes tasks, including the memory measure, the inference measure, knowledge access andintegration measure, and modified to two parts in order to assess 4th to 6th graders’ reading comprehension processes. Wereduced the difficulties and complexity of this comprehension measure for younger children. Four-hundred-and-fifty partic-ipants (at 4th to 6th grade level) were recruited from four elementary schools in Chia-Yi, Taiwan. The results show that theCronbach’s alpha coefficients were .75 to .87 and the citerion-reference validity was around .70 to .75 with the Chinese ReadingComprehension Test. There were good item discriminations and difficulties, analysed by the Rash model

KINETIC AND EMG ANALYSIS OF THE NEW DEDIGN STEPWISE LOADING SYSTEM

The great muscle strength and power are important factors for successful sport performance. Many strength coaches instructed their athletes to move the weight for developing muscle strength. However, most weight training systems consist of lifting a steady load, this having the drawback of nol accounting for the change in strength with the change in muscle length. In order to solve this problem, this study developed a stepwise weight training system using linkage which is capable of increasing the load in isotonic contraction, then compared kinetics and muscle activation between the stepwise contraction and the traditional isotonic contraction. The results showed that both the normalized peak tension and the angle of peak tension of the stepwise contraction were significantly larger than traditional isotonic contraction. The normalized impulse and the integrated EMG of the stepwise contraction was more than traditional isotonic contraction but not reached the significance The findings suggest that stepwise loading system can provide greater stimulus to muscle training effect than traditional weight training systems