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University Autonomy-Governance-Accountability(大學法人化): Taiwan’s New Era of Higher Education?
Da Hsuan Feng
Senior Executive Vice President, National Cheng Kung University
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Ever since September of 2007, when I became associated with National Cheng Kung University (NCKU,) one of the two comprehensive and research intensive universities in Taiwan, I learned about a novel (to me, that is) Chinese term大學法人化. The direct translation in English of this term is quite awkward. It is “University Legalization of Persons.” After spending much effort in
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UNIVERSITY GOVERNANCE AND AUTONOMY： PROBLEMS IN MANAGING ACCESS, QUALITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY Dr. Michael Stevenson
President and Vice-Chancellor Simon Fraser University
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Ladies and Gentlemen:
It is my great pleasure today to address this conference and I thank the Director General of Higher Education for his kind invitation. I feel very much in the company of friends, although we have not met before. Simon Fraser University (SFU) has a long history of engagement in Indonesia that we value very much. We particularly value the friendship with those colleagues
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Doubly dressed states in a ladder-type system with electromagnetically induced transparency
Chin-Chun Tsai
In the early 20th century scientists developed a complete mechanics--Quantum Mechanics. In quantum mechanics, a physical system is described using eigenfunctions or states by solving the corresponding Hamiltonian. The experimental measurement is the result of the corresponding (the operator) probability or expectation value. Quantum mechanics is essential to understand the behavior of
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Strong Chaos in One-Dimensional Quantum System
C. D. Yang
According to the Poincare’–Bendixson theorem, a minimum of three autonomous equations is required to exhibit deterministic chaos[1]. Because a one-dimensional quantum system is described by only two autonomous equations using de Broglie–Bohm’s trajectory interpretation, chaos in one-dimensional quantum systems has long been considered impossible[2,3]. We will prove in this paper that chaos
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Suppression of transcription factor early growth response 1 reduces herpes simplex virus lethality in mice
Shun-Hua Chen
Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) infects about 80% of young adults worldwide and induces encephalitis. HSV-1 encephalitis is the most devastating consequence of all HSV infections and also the most common cause of sporadic, fatal encephalitis, with an incidence of 1 in 200,000 individuals per year. The mortality rate of untreated patients is over 70%, and only 2.5% of all patients return to
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The Effects of Concept-Mapping Learning Strategy and Spatial Ability on Elementary Students’ Cognitive and Metacognitive Strategies and Science Academic Performance
Fu-Yun Yu
Introduction
Contemporary education emphasizes the notion of students actively interacting with incoming messages, aiming for cognitive structuring or restructuring. As such, learning strategies that highlight information processing and knowledge representation, such as concept-mapping gain increasing attention.
In brief, a concept-map is a
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Multiclass SVM-RFE for product form feature selection
Meng-Dar Shieh
The way that a product looks is one of the most important factors affecting a consumer’s purchasing decision. Traditionally, the success of a product’s design depended on the designers’ artistic sensibilities, which quite often did not meet with great acceptance in the marketplace. Many systematic product form design studies have been carried out to get a better insight into consumer preferences
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