Temperature Monitoring for Quality Prediction and Inventory Control in Cold Chain: a Case of 18℃ Ready-to-eat Food in Taiwan

The aim of the study was the development of a quality prediction model combined with the incoming analysis for temperature control in 18 degree ready-to-eat food during logistics flows. And analyzed how temperature monitoring improves inventory decision. Base on the growth of Pseudomonas sp., the model was developed by mathematical model with Gompertz model. The model predicts for quality as well as shelf life in the monitoring temperature is about 19.5 h. On the other hand, the incoming analysis shows that the inventory quantities at 7 ℃ and 18 ℃ is more than at 25 ℃.The model can be considered to be an effective tool (in combination with temperature monitoring) for improvement of quality management with the incoming consideration. Moreover, our results suggest that temperature-controlled food companies could share temperature information with its chain partners which emphases a food quality and logistics cost balance in supply chain

Allocating the costs of multi-purpose water resource development: a case study of Chi-Chi Weir in Taiwan

Most multi-purpose water resources have been planned and constructed by governments in Taiwan to meet the water demands of different users. However, economic and solvency differences among parties using water create conflicts regarding the reasonable and equitable allocation of investment and operational costs. The Chi-Chi Weir in Nantou County, which was completed in 2002, meets the high water demand of residents and the needs of industrial growth in central Taiwan. Thus, multi-purpose water reservoirs are designed to serve agriculture, the public and industry. Three analytical methods, the quantity-based method, marginal cost method, and separable cost remaining benefit method (SCRB), are employed to compare the cost allocation for different parties using water. The quantity-based method indicates that proportional costs allocated to agriculture, the public, industry and new irrigated areas are 88.02, 3.63, 7.86, and 0.49%, respectively. Via the marginal cost method, the proportional costs allocated to agriculture, the public, hydropower, industry and new irrigated areas are 68.44, 2.51, 28.71, and 0.34%, respectively. The marginal cost price of water is NT$ 2.97 ton(-1); industrial use has the highest price. Based on the SCRB method, the proportional costs allocated to agriculture, the public, hydropower, and new irrigated areas are 18.2, 22.2, 51.8, 4.8, and 2.9%, respectively

Relationship between population genetic structure and riparian habitat as revealed by RAPD analysis of the rheophyte Acorus gramineus Soland. (Araceae) in Taiwan

Acorus gramineus Soland. (Araceae) is a rheophyte and is distributed in southeastern Asia. Its populations are restricted to riparian habitats. The discontinuous distribution might result in high genetic diversification among plants of different river systems. In the present study, leaf samples were collected from populations along six river systems in western Taiwan and the genetic variation was investigated by employing RAPD markers. A total of 255 samples from 17 sampling sites was studied. Eighty random 10-mer primers were screened and six of them, which showed better amplification results, were selected to analyse all of the samples. Data of 34 high-intensity and highly reproducible polymorphic fragments were used in statistical analyses. The results of AMOVA analyses indicated that, of the total variation, 46.84% was attributable to differences among river systems, 16.88% to differences among sampling sites within river systems, and 36.28% to differences among individuals within sampling sites. The results of cluster analysis and principal coordinate analysis revealed that sampling sites of each river system formed distinct clusters and the sampling sites of six river systems were clustered into three main groups according to latitudinal relationships. The results of the present study indicated that the population genetic structure of the plants of different river systems is highly diversified, which seems to imply that the gene flow among them is very limited

Theoretical Thinking on the Fault Lines of Theory, Commonsense, and Reform

本文將以回應晚近外文學者對外文研究領域之知識生產與學門建 制的反思為切入點，來探討理論知識在外文建制中的位置及其實踐的議 題。藉由這些最新關於外文學門建制歷史的爬梳及對外文研究對象的提 問，筆者試圖將當代不限定對象的「理論」放在「外文研究」如何回應一 波波西方思潮的歷史脈絡下，以「改革」這個議題連結不同時間點的反 思：「理論」在成為合法的研究對象之後，亦即理論知識在外文學術建制 中佔有一席之地後，是否已失去其前瞻性及現實的議題性？「理論」在台 灣是否仍具有引介歐美思潮之餘的「批判與改造自身」之歷史意識？「理 論」究竟是個清楚的標籤、屬性、和學院位置，還是一個「依稀模糊的方 向與理想」？而除了思索「何謂理論」的問題外，我們是否也需面對「為 何理論」的提問？本文也將檢視在改革浪潮中以「進步」力量自許的「理 論」與「常識」之間的關係，探討理論介入、回應現狀常識、催生新常識 的可能。透過這些議題的探討，本文最終嘗試提出以下對理論的看法 (或說是願景)：首先，理論曾經是、也應該是一種改革論述。再者，理 論不應僅僅是一個外文研究的對象(雖然它當然是眾多研究對象之一)； 理論既逸出既定之研究對象之外，故可以是促使新研究對象、領域和典範冒現之思維與驅力。理論的生產與實踐繫於本地知識主體折衝各方思 想衝擊，跨越不同文化與認知型態間的翻譯和比較，其批判與回應之對 象同時是本土也是外來。Starting from critical responses to both the series of debates on the “death of theory” in Western academia and the latest efforts in Taiwan to rethink the conditions of local (re)production of knowledge, this essay reflects on the current status of “theory” in Taiwan by reexamining the historical context in which “theory” was first introduced, disseminated, and appropriated by local intelligentsia in the early years of post-martial law Taiwan. The relentlessly selfproblematizing penchant in Western theory and the urgent call for reform in the greater socio-political milieu converged to give rise to the “theory boom” in Taiwan in the 1990s, thereby rendering the dominant strain of theoretical thought a “reformist discourse.” It is on account of theory’s potential for being a reformist discourse within and outside the academy that we should rethink the relationship between theory and its unlikely ally, common sense. Taking my cue from Gramsci’s somewhat paradoxical conception of the continuum between common sense and theory, I argue that theory emerges from the inherently porous, inconsistent, even contradictory field of common sense. Rather than suturing the latter’s constitutive fissures, theory should perform the difficult task of “witnessing” the history of the present—the often forgotten meaning of theoria—on their intersecting fault lines

Temperature Monitoring for Quality Prediction and Inventory Control in Cold Chain: a Case of 18℃ Ready-to-eat Food in Taiwan

The aim of the study was the development of a quality prediction model combined with the incoming analysis for temperature control in 18 degree ready-to-eat food during logistics flows. And analyzed how temperature monitoring improves inventory decision. Base on the growth of Pseudomonas sp., the model was developed by mathematical model with Gompertz model. The model predicts for quality as well as shelf life in the monitoring temperature is about 19.5 h. On the other hand, the incoming analysis shows that the inventory quantities at 7 ℃ and 18 ℃ is more than at 25 ℃. The model can be considered to be an effective tool (in combination with temperature monitoring) for improvement of quality management with the incoming consideration. Moreover, our results suggest that temperature-controlled food companies could share temperature information with its chain partners which emphases a food quality and logistics cost balance in supply chain