Copyright © 2009 NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY All rights reserved. http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/ 6 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:01 GMT http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/commentary/e/20100319/1.html Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:01 GMT Commentary
The Ministry of Education (M.O.E.) always centers on human resource concerns when making educational policy, especially in setting quota for academic and vocational high schools, or ... ]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/commentary/e/20100319/2.html Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:01 GMT Commentary th.

During the “lengthy” two hours, the passengers were left in bewilderment and panic because no clue was given. What the passengers needed to know was: WHY the sudden stop? Though the THSR staff had made several brief announcement broadcasts, ... ]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100319/1.html Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100319/2.html Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100319/3.html Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100319/4.html Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest -9 meter. By comparison, a single human hair is about 80,000 nanometers wide. Nanotechnology is the understanding and control of matter at dimensions of roughly 1 to 100 nanometers (nms), where unique phenomena enable novel applications. Many challenges confronting nanotechnology research call for solutions from a multi-disciplinary approach. Statistical techniques, ... ]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/news/e/20100319/1.html Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:01 GMT News Release th, from 6 pm to 9 pm, in Cheng-Hsing Hall. The insightful speeches delivered by student representative Yi-Lin Tsai of the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering and Synnex Technology International CEO Shu-Wu Du received enthusiastic response.

President Michael Ming-Chiao Lai and Vice President for ... ]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/commentary/e/20100312/1.html Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:01 GMT Commentary th Flood disaster area in Kaohsiung, and many in southern Taiwan could imagine the life-threatening effect of earthquakes. This is another over the 5-magnitide major earthquake succeeding the Haiti and Chile earthquakes in 2010. Along with these repeated quakes came a sense of crisis in many countries. ... ]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/commentary/e/20100312/2.html Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:01 GMT Commentary http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/commentary/e/20100312/3.html Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:01 GMT Commentary http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100312/1.html Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest Abstract
Potentio-dynamic polymerization of buffered urease and pyrrole monomer onto carbon papers was conducted to fabricate an immobilized urease electrode for measuring the urea concentration. The potentiometric response corresponding to ammonia, the product formed from the urease catalyzed urea reaction, was employed for the urea concentration measurement. ... ]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100312/2.html Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest Streptococcus (GAS) is a common pathogen for pharyngitis, impetigo, myositis, and lethal streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS). It infects hosts through a number of paths: nasal, pharyngeal, and dermal. GAS contains various virulence factors which facilitate its infection and dissemination. SPE B is an important streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxin in GAS. ... ]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100312/3.html Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100312/4.html Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/news/e/20100312/1.html Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:01 GMT News Release http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/news/e/20100312/2.html Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:01 GMT News Release th, 2010, after 58 days of rehabilitation in the Taijiang Cetacean Rescue Center in Tainan County, southern Taiwan.

A satellite transmitter, battery-powered to work for six months to 200 days, was implanted on Meimei's fin. ... ]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/opportunities/e/20100312/opportunities.html Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:01 GMT Opportunities

The Keio Medical Science Prize

]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/commentary/e/20100305/1.html Fri, 5 Mar 2010 00:00:01 GMT Commentary Cultural Creativity Enterprises Development Law is designated to promote, is facing protests from residents in Wanhua District (Wanhua is Báng-kah, rendered as “Monga” in Taiwanese) in Taipei, owing to their once dominant “radical” gangster culture being vividly depicted in the movie “Monga.” They worried that the movie's ... ]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/commentary/e/20100305/2.html Fri, 5 Mar 2010 00:00:01 GMT Commentary th Art Festival from the summer of 2009. Inaugurated with the installation of Master Ju Ming's sculpture “Jumping,” more artworks created by celebrated foreign and domestic artists and sculptors were installed on NCKU campus. This art festival, themed on “Dialogues between Generations,” is a successor of the ... ]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100305/1.html Fri, 5 Mar 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest 2 emission to 5% of their 1999 levels by 2012. To protect economic ... ]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100305/2.html Fri, 5 Mar 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100305/3.html Fri, 5 Mar 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100305/4.html Fri, 5 Mar 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/news/e/20100305/1.html Fri, 5 Mar 2010 00:00:01 GMT News Release http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/news/e/20100305/2.html Fri, 5 Mar 2010 00:00:01 GMT News Release http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/activities/e/20100305/activities.html Fri, 5 Mar 2010 00:00:01 GMT Activities

The 7^th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2010)

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Joseph W. Wu Scholarship 2010 Application ends on May 20, 2010

]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/commentary/e/20100226/1.html Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:01 GMT Commentary th Anniversary of the Kaohsiung Incident (美麗島事件), the Universal Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights that are highly regarded by President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) became effective. From now on, “…the two covenants' provisions ... ]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/commentary/e/20100226/2.html Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:01 GMT Commentary Van Gogh: the Flaming Soul is on exhibition in the National Museum of History. As a newly appointed Director, Vincent van Gogh, whom I have loved since my youth, is dear to my heart.

I like this person! Even if he was a loser!

From the secular perspective, Vincent van Gogh was good for nothing. He failed as a son, brother, lover, friend, and student – the five important ... ]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100226/1.html Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100226/2.html Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100226/3.html Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100226/4.html Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/news/e/20100226/1.html Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:01 GMT News Release
With the financial support from the National ... ]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/news/e/20100226/2.html Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:01 GMT News Release th. Under the blessings of the colleagues in ... ]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/news/e/20100226/3.html Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:01 GMT News Release
During his leadership with Purdue, the university has progressed in student access and ... ]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/opportunities/e/20100226/opportunities.html Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:01 GMT Opportunities

Pilot Test of Test Of Proficiency-Huayu in March, 2010

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UW-NCKU Bilateral Workshop in Nano/Bio-Photonics

The 2^nd International Symposium on Aware Computing (ISAC 2010)

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President Chao Nee Memorial Scholarship Application for Year 2010 until April 15^th, 2010

]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/commentary/e/20100212/1.html Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:01 GMT Commentary http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/commentary/e/20100212/2.html Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:01 GMT Commentary “A successful outcome of ongoing climate change negotiations matters for human rights. A new climate change agreement must be fair, balanced and sufficiently ambitious to be effective. Climate change is related not only to environmental factors but also to poverty, discrimination and inequalities – this is why climate change is a human rights issue”
Kyung-wha Kang, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, June 2009. ... ]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/commentary/e/20100212/3.html Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:01 GMT Commentary For Asia and Australasia, a change in thinking could lead to an era of progress in developing a socially just, environmentally sustainable regional order, write Chris Abbott and Sophie Marsden.

As in much of the world, the current security discourse in Asia and Australasia is dominated by what might be called the “control paradigm”, based on the premise that insecurity can be controlledthrough military force or balance of power politics and containment. ... ]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100212/1.html Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100212/2.html Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest Taipei People, has a significant meaning, that is, the heroine Yin Hsueh- yen in this fiction was regarded as a priestess, Bodhisattva, and the fiend who fell to the earth.

Then according to the heroines in Taipei People, it's  a scenario that all of them would encounter the bad fortune and never end it, ... ]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100212/3.html Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest I. Introduction

Chitin and chitosan are polymers of b-D-glucosamine and of N-acetyl-glucosamine, respectively, and is a key structural component of helminths, arthropods and fungi [1,2]. Water-soluble chitosan (WSC) derivatives has been reported to have anti-tumor, anti-fungal, and antimicrobial properties [4,5], to have potential as sustained release carriers for drugs [6], ... ]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100212/4.html Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/news/e/20100212/1.html Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:01 GMT News Release http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/news/e/20100212/2.html Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:01 GMT News Release nd to 4^th in the International Conference Hall at NCKU. Six scientists from the Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. attended this event. This year marked a milestone in the development of physics research and education in Taiwan. Prof. Da Hsuan Feng (馮達旋), ... ]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/activities/e/20100212/activities.html Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:01 GMT Activities

「International Symposium on Grid Computing（ISGC）2010

2010 University Scholars Leadership Symposium

10^th INDC - International Nutrition & Diagnostics Conference

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With great pleasure and honor, I represent President Michael M. C. Lai (賴明詔), President of National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), to say a few words to ... ]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100205/1.html Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100205/2.html Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest Introduction
Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have received significant attention in the past decade and energy conversion efficiencies up to 10-12 % have been reported for the DSSCs. However, such efficiency can only be obtained using a liquid electrolyte. The presence of a liquid electrolyte in a DSSC raises several practical problems including the solvent evaporation and leakage of the liquid electrolyte. ... ]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100205/3.html Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100205/4.html Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/news/e/20100205/1.html Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:01 GMT News Release th to 10^th. The theme of the annual meeting was “Culture as Creativity and Business: Re-examining the Entanglement of Symbol, Capital, and Power”. ... ]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/opportunities/e/20100205/opportunities.html Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:01 GMT Opportunities

2010 Summer Short-term Leadership Program at California State University, Fullerton

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The Panel members who attended the meetings are listed below in alphabetical order:

Mark Becker, President of Georgia State University ... ]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100129/1.html Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100129/2.html Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100129/3.html Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100129/4.html Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/news/e/20100129/1.html Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT News Release th, 1662, Koxinga's troop attacked the Dutch who were colonizing Tayoan (大員, now Anping "安平" of Tainan City). About 2,500 bombs were fired at Fort Utrecht and Fort Zeelandia. After this decisive battle, Koxinga and the Dutch signed a peace treaty, the first official international treaty in the history of Taiwan.

In the first Article, it was emphasized that ... ]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/news/e/20100129/2.html Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT News Release http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/commentary/e/20100122/1.html Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT Commentary th, 2009, showing that the authorities highly emphasize the water scarcity problem and recognize that the prolonged drought is a national security crisis. ... ]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/commentary/e/20100122/2.html Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT Commentary President Evo Morales,
Mr. Leonardo Boff,
Ambassadors and Representatives of Member States, Ladies and Gentlemen,
and a special thanks to Bolivia and the more that 50 Sponsors of the Resolution. ... ]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100122/1.html Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest Abstract
The composition effects on the sintering behavior, microstructure evolution, dielectric and magnetic properties of BaO‧(Nd0.8Bi0.2)2O3‧4TiO2 (BNBT) + Bi2O3-B2O3 -SiO2-ZnO (BBSZ) glass-NiCuZn ferrite composites were investigated in developing low-temperature-fired composites for high frequency EMI devices. X-ray diffractometer (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), ... ]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100122/2.html Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100122/3.html Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100122/4.html Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/news/e/20100122/1.html Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT News Release http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/commentary/e/20100115/1.html Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT Commentary
As far as governing a nation is concerned, "hope" can be referred to as the vision for the nation's development. The vision that people "hope" is that it is well planned by an effective ... ]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/commentary/e/20100115/2.html Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT Commentary (1)

In 1990 John Paul II had spoken of an "ecological crisis" and, in highlighting its primarily ethical character, pointed to the ... ]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100115/1.html Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100115/2.html Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100115/3.html Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100115/4.html Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/news/e/20100115/1.html Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT News Release Abstract
On behalf of National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) and assigned by Dr. Da Hsuan Feng, Senior Executive Vice President of NCKU, Prof. Wen-Bin Young and Prof. Ray-Lee Lin attended the Franco-Taiwanese Strategic Seminar, Toulouse, France, from Nov. 23 to Nov. 26, 2009, hosted by the Toulouse-III University (Université Paul Sabatier: UPS) with other professors from four Taiwanese institutes ... ]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/commentary/e/20100108/1.html Fri, 8 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT Commentary At the beginning of the twentieth century, the chemical foundations for life were a mystery. Today we know how many of the most important processes function, all the way down to the atomic level.  The 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded for the detailed mapping of the ribosome – the cell’s own protein factory. The ribosome translates the passive DNA information into form and function. ... ]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/commentary/e/20100108/2.html Fri, 8 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT Commentary http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100108/1.html Fri, 8 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100108/2.html Fri, 8 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest IG^ep,p mode, into a vortex array laser beam consisting of p × p optical vortices. Figure 1 shows the proposed configuration, which is similar to the unbalanced Mach-Zehnder interferometer, but with a rotated Dove prism embedded in one arm. ... ]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100108/3.html Fri, 8 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest
How firms obtain and maintain a superior competitive position is a key issue in management research. Moreover, according to the resource-based view (RBV), firms can leverage the effect of existing capital on firm performance with configuration, complementarily, and integration of capital to arise their performance . Therefore, it's a meaningful and important issue in the researching field. ... ]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100108/4.html Fri, 8 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest 1 QDs have narrow emission bandwidth, ... ]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/news/e/20100108/1.html Fri, 8 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT News Release th, at the Conference Room in the Library of National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan. ... ]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/commentary/e/20100101/1.html Fri, 1 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT Commentary
The Workshop with the aforementioned title, is organized by NCKU's Department of Mathematics from the College of Science, National Center for Theoretical Sciences (South) and a colleague, Professor Yuusuke Iso (磯祐介) from Kyoto University's Dept. of Applied Analysis and Complex Dynamical Systems. ... ]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/commentary/e/20100101/2.html Fri, 1 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT Commentary http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/commentary/e/20100101/3.html Fri, 1 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT Commentary th Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen, Denmark, concluded with a weak political statement by world powers, provoking lots of moral and emotional criticisms and dampening the future of human existence.

The Copenhagen Climate Change Conference revealed three cruel truths that must be taken seriously. ... ]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100101/1.html Fri, 1 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100101/2.html Fri, 1 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest ds) and ... ]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100101/3.html Fri, 1 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest 1 Phosphorylation of these residues results in the generation of specific SH2 interaction sites. Several studies clearly demonstrate a role for paxillin in cell motility and metastasis. ... ]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20100101/4.html Fri, 1 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT Article Digest Phalaenopsis spp. has been developed as an important cash plant in Taiwan ornamental industry. ... ]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/news/e/20100101/1.html Fri, 1 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT News Release
After one and a half days of extensive discussions, the International Advisory Board of BC CBMP reports the following findings. ... ]]> http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/opportunities/e/20100101/opportunities.html Fri, 1 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT Opportunities

Visiting Scholar Recruitment from Chonnam National University, Korea

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