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Beat that Word : How Listeners Integrate Beat Gesture and Focus in Multimodal Speech Discourse
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Civil Mediation in Taiwan: Legal Culture and the Process of Legal Modernization
The process of legal modernization in Taiwan began in 1895, when the Japanese colonial government first imposed westernized modern law on Taiwan. Before 1895, the code of imperial Ch\u27ing - deeply influenced by the Confucian legal culture which emphasized social harmony and opposed lawsuits - had been the state law for more than two centuries. A second major transition started in the 1920s, during which Taiwanese people gradually became accustomed to access modern courts for their civil disputes, and the number of civil lawsuits eventually surpassed that of cases under mediation. The positive attitude toward civil litigation continued after the Nationalist government retreated to Taiwan in 1949. As a historical coincidence, the Nationalists also applied German- and Japanese-style legal codes in Taiwan, including double tracks of town mediation and family court mediation. Besides addressing this law-versus-custom dichotomy, the following article concerns itself mainly with the continuing and ever-evolving process of dialectic and mutual resistance between the different legal orders
Civil Mediation in Taiwan: Legal Culture and the Process of Legal Modernization
The process of legal modernization in Taiwan began in 1895, when the Japanese colonial government first imposed westernized modern law on Taiwan. Before 1895, the code of imperial Ch\u27ing - deeply influenced by the Confucian legal culture which emphasized social harmony and opposed lawsuits - had been the state law for more than two centuries. A second major transition started in the 1920s, during which Taiwanese people gradually became accustomed to access modern courts for their civil disputes, and the number of civil lawsuits eventually surpassed that of cases under mediation. The positive attitude toward civil litigation continued after the Nationalist government retreated to Taiwan in 1949. As a historical coincidence, the Nationalists also applied German- and Japanese-style legal codes in Taiwan, including double tracks of town mediation and family court mediation. Besides addressing this law-versus-custom dichotomy, the following article concerns itself mainly with the continuing and ever-evolving process of dialectic and mutual resistance between the different legal orders
Bubbling 1/2 BPS solutions of minimal six-dimensional supergravity
We continue our previous analysis (hep-th/0412045) of 1/2 BPS solutions to
minimal 6d supergravity of bubbling form. We show that, by turning on an axion
field in the T^2 torus reduction, the constraint F \wedge F, present in the
case of an S^1 x S^1 reduction, is relaxed. We prove that the four-dimensional
reduction to a bosonic field theory, whose content is the metric, a gauge
field, two scalars and a pseudo-scalar (the axion), is consistent. Moreover,
these reductions when lifted to the six-dimensional minimal supergravity
represent the sought-after family of 1/2 BPS bubbling solutions.Comment: 17 pages, late
Bottom-up Photonic Crystal Lasers
The directed growth of IIIâV nanopillars is used to demonstrate bottom-up photonic crystal lasers. Simultaneous formation of both the photonic band gap and active gain region is achieved via catalyst-free selective-area metalâorganic chemical vapor deposition on masked GaAs substrates. The nanopillars implement a GaAs/InGaAs/GaAs axial double heterostructure for accurate, arbitrary placement of gain within the cavity and lateral InGaP shells to reduce surface recombination. The lasers operate single-mode at room temperature with low threshold peak power density of ~625 W/cm^2. Cavity resonance and lasing wavelength is lithographically defined by controlling pillar pitch and diameter to vary from 960 to 989 nm. We envision this bottom-up approach to pillar-based devices as a new platform for photonic systems integration
Timing of Supplemental Feeding for Tilapia Production
The staged addition of feed to fertilized fish ponds was evaluated by adding fertilizers to 15 ponds stocked with Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus , then adding feed at half ad libitum rates once fish in the ponds reached a target weight. Each pond was stocked with 750 fish (3 fish/m 2 ), and each treatment included three ponds with first feeding at (a) 50 g, (b) 100 g, (c) 150 g, (d) 200 g, and (e) 250 g. Ponds in Thailand (at the Ayutthaya Freshwater Fisheries Station, Royal Thai Department of Fisheries) were maintained for 236â328 d until the fish reached 500 g. Growth was similar for all treatments under fertilizer alone (1.17 g/d) and was also similar when feed was applied (3.1 g/d). Feed application rates averaged 1.17% BW/d, indicating substantial use of natural food. Pond water quality did not deteriorate under supplemental feeding. Feed conversion rates averaged 1.03. Multiple regression indicated that 73.8% of the variance in growth was explained by design variables (feed input and days), while 86.2% of the variance in growth was explained by adding dissolved oxygen content and alkalinity into the equation. The most efficient system was to grow fish to 100â150 g with fertilizers alone, then add feed. First adding feed (at 50% ad libitum) once fish reached 100 g produced the highest predicted annual revenues ($6,164 per hectare). Results of this experiment indicated that either critical standing crop occurred early (before the first fish sample) or did not occur at all in these ponds.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/73113/1/j.1749-7345.1996.tb00625.x.pd
T-duality, quotients and generalized Kahler geometry
In this paper we reopen the discussion of gauging the two-dimensional
off-shell (2,2) supersymmetric sigma models written in terms of semichiral
superfields. The associated target space geometry of this particular sigma
model is generalized Kahler (or bi-hermitean with two non-commuting complex
structures). The gauging of the isometries of the sigma model is now done by
coupling the semichiral superfields to the new (2,2) semichiral vector
multiplet. We show that the two moment maps together with a third function form
the complete set of three Killing potentials which are associated with this
gauging. We show that the Killing potentials lead to the generalized moment
maps defined in the context of twisted generalized Kahler geometry. Next we
address the question of the T-duality map, while keeping the (2,2)
supersymmetry manifest. Using the new vector superfield in constructing the
duality functional, under T-duality we swap a pair of left and right semichiral
superfields by a pair of chiral and twisted chiral multiplets. We end with a
discussion on quotient construction.Comment: 18 page
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Comparison of family centered care with family integrated care and mobile technology (mFICare) on preterm infant and family outcomes: a multi-site quasi-experimental clinical trial protocol.
BackgroundFamily Centered Care (FCC) has been widely adopted as the framework for caring for infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) but it is not uniformly defined or practiced, making it difficult to determine impact. Previous studies have shown that implementing the Family Integrated Care (FICare) intervention program for preterm infants in the NICU setting leads to significant improvements in infant and family outcomes. Further research is warranted to determine feasibility, acceptability and differential impact of FICare in the US context. The addition of a mobile application (app) may be effective in providing supplemental support for parent participation in the FICare program and provide detailed data on program component uptake and outcomes.MethodsThis exploratory multi-site quasi-experimental study will compare usual FCC with mobile enhanced FICare (mFICare) on growth and clinical outcomes of preterm infants born at or before 33âweeks gestational age, as well as the stress, competence and self-efficacy of their parents. The feasibility and acceptability of using mobile technology to gather data about parent involvement in the care of preterm infants receiving FCC or mFICare as well as of the mFICare intervention will be evaluated (Aim 1). The effect sizes for infant growth (primary outcome) and for secondary infant and parent outcomes at NICU discharge and three months after discharge will be estimated (Aim 2).DiscussionThis study will provide new data about the implementation of FICare in the US context within various hospital settings and identify important barriers, facilitators and key processes that may contribute to the effectiveness of FICare. It will also offer insights to clinicians on the feasibility of a new mobile application to support parent-focused research and promote integration of parents into the NICU care team in US hospital settings.Trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov, ID NCT03418870. Retrospectively registered on December 18, 2017
Probabilistic forecast of nonlinear dynamical systems with uncertainty quantification
Data-driven modeling is useful for reconstructing nonlinear dynamical systems
when the underlying process is unknown or too expensive to compute. Having
reliable uncertainty assessment of the forecast enables tools to be deployed to
predict new scenarios unobserved before. In this work, we first extend parallel
partial Gaussian processes for predicting the vector-valued transition function
that links the observations between the current and next time points, and
quantify the uncertainty of predictions by posterior sampling. Second, we show
the equivalence between the dynamic mode decomposition and the maximum
likelihood estimator of the linear mapping matrix in the linear state space
model. The connection provides a data generating model of dynamic mode
decomposition and thus, uncertainty of predictions can be obtained.
Furthermore, we draw close connections between different data-driven models for
approximating nonlinear dynamics, through a unified view of data generating
models. We study two numerical examples, where the inputs of the dynamics are
assumed to be known in the first example and the inputs are unknown in the
second example. The examples indicate that uncertainty of forecast can be
properly quantified, whereas model or input misspecification can degrade the
accuracy of uncertainty quantification
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