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Research Express@NCKU
Research Express@NCKU
- Experiences of Teaching Engineering Students in Taiwan from a Western Perspective
During the spring semester of 2005, the first author was a visiting professor in Taiwan. The second author invited the first author to give a technical course in English for a class of engineering students. The objective was to teach technical content and to help develop the students’ English language competence and foreign cultural understanding. This experiment also provided the third author ... - Thickness-Dependent Structural Evolutions and Growth Models in Relation to Carrier Transport Properties in Polycrystalline Pentacene Thin Films
Organic molecular semiconductors, used as active elements, in optoelectronic devices are increasing rapidly today. Different organic molecular semiconductors have now demonstrated performance, which makes them suitable for application in thin-film based device technologies. One of the examples is thin-film transistors (TFTs), where organic semiconductors are deposited upon gate dielectrics, e.g. ... - Effect of soil texture and excitation frequency on the propagation and attenuation of acoustic waves at saturated conditions
In recent decades, exploration of porous medium structures and interstitial fluid properties in subsurface environments with seismic waves has become a powerful, non-destructive technique extensively used in the field of hydrogeology. One of the critical goals of subsurface exploration is the use of seismic data to infer hydrological parameters of soils, such as porosity ... - Support vector networks pruning on flood forecasting and data mining
Flood forecasting is an important countermeasure for flood disaster mitigation. This study established a flood forecasting model using the support vector machines (SVMs), and then applied two pruning strategies to simplify the network structure of SVMs to investigate the forecasting ability of pruned flood forecasting models. ... - Experimental Comparisons of Face-to-Face and Anonymous Real-Time Team Competition in a Networked Gaming Learning Environment
The use of computer and online games for serious educational purposes has increasingly drawn attention from educators and researchers worldwide (Aldrich, 2005; Jenkins, 2002). While the characteristics, usage patterns, and motivations of users of these environments have produced valuable insights for both researchers and game designers (Dondlinger, 2007; Jansz & Tanis, 2007; Yee, 2006), empirical ... - Dynamic Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) on Low-Temperature Polycrystalline Silicon (LTPS) Thin Film Transistors
The low-temperature poly-Si thin film transistors prepared on glass substrates (LTPS TFTs) have been studied extensively for active matrix liquid crystal display applications. Comparing to the amorphous silicon TFTs (a-Si TFTs), the LTPS TFTs have several orders of magnitude higher electron mobility. In addition, it is possible to integrate the LTPS TFTs with peripheral circuits on same glass ... - “Proper Health Care is the Most Economical”Dr. Jyh-Hong Chen, Superintendent of NCKU Hospital won Outstanding Manager Award
With a core philosophy of “proper health care is the most economical”, Dr. Jyh-Hong Chen, Superintendent of NCKU Hospital, won the 6th Outstanding Manager Award of the Taiwan Entrepreneurship Award sponsored by DHL and the China Times. Six winners distinguished from 141 participants. This award started from six years ago and is esteemed as the Nobel Prize of entrepreneurship. ... - Industry-Academia Cooperation between NCKU and Celxpert
National Cheng Kung University, the second largest university in Taiwan, and Celxpert Energy Corp. (加百裕公司), the renowned Li-ion battery manufacturer, jointly established a platform for industry-academia cooperation, especially with a focus on fuel cell development. The kick-off party was held on the 1st December 2008, at the Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics of NCKU, represented by ... - Rainbow Over the Cape
A medical school student found out that he had lost faith and passion for a career in medicine upon starting internship. After a heart to heart talk with him, I realized he was trapped in exam-oriented life values and was detached from real life. More importantly, he did not know how to find his way with logical thinking and did not know how to give himself force to move forward with arouses in ... - Laboratory Tests for Simulating Abrasion Damage of a Woven Geotextile
ABSTRACT
As a part of the study into the durability of geosynthetic tubes (or bags) used for seashore and streambank protections, a circular flow chamber was used to investigate the abrasion damage of a woven geotextile subjected to various turbid flow conditions, such as test durations, flow velocities and particle concentrations. The ultimate strength loss of the tested woven geotextile ... - Isolation and Total Synthesis of Antofine as the Potent Anticancer Prodrug
The cancer has been ranking high ten greatest leading cause of deaths in Taiwan, and still is successively rising. Cancer is not only the most serious health problem in Taiwan, but also one of the rigorous challenge items that an international community has to face. Owing to the lately technological achievement changes with each passing day, new drugs and methods of curing the cancer are been ... - A Possible Therapeutic Strategy for CNS Repair:To blockade calcium regulation of glutamate aspartate transporter regulation in astrocytes
Introduction
Astrocytes, the predominant glial population in the CNS, regulate neuronal maturation, neuronal metabolic/neurotransmitter homeostasis and synaptic plasticity in developing and adult CNS. During excitatory synaptic transmission in the healthy CNS, glutamate is briefly released at a high concentration into the extracellular space, and normal physiological levels are maintained by ... - Enhancement of the light output performance for GaN-based light-emitting diodes by bottom pillar structure
For the demand of having higher light output power at a lower power consumption, the conventional GaN-based LED chips fabricated on the sapphire substrate still could not achieve such a requirement because of having a relatively low value of the external quantum efficiency (ηext). The main reason for such a low efficiency value is resulted by the great extent of the total internal ... - Investigation of Bulk Traps Enhanced Gate Induced Leakage Current in Hf-based MOSFETs
Recently, Hf-based high-k dielectrics have been investigated widely in order to replace conventional SiO2 for reducing gate leakage current. However, because of the high density of bulk traps, device with Hf-based dielectric also suffers mobility degradation and poor reliability. In addition, it has been reported that the bulk traps significantly enhance the gate induced drain leakage ... - Common Fate Connects Kyoto University and National Cheng Kung University
Kyoto University (Kyodai) and National Cheng Kung University have some things in common: geographic location, academic achievement, situated in the ancient culture city and ranks the second in home country, etc., which makes them like two peas in a pod and can learn from each other. On November 18, 2008, Professor Hiroshi Matsumoto, President of Kyoto University, visited NCKU and exchanged ... - NCKU Alumnus Dr. Ken Chong Named ASME Fellow
Dr. Ken Chong, Engineering Advisor and Program Director for the Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) in the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering, has been named a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Chong is cited for his extensive research and policy contributions to the area of solid mechanics. ... - Activities
Recent Events at NCKU- Special Exhibition on Collaboration Projects between NCKU and Purdue University during US Aid Era
- Green Island in the City—Special Exhibition on NCKU Ecology and Po-Yi Villa Cultural and Historic, Relics Exhibition—NCKU during the Shōwa Period