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Currently, the hybrid perovskite solar cells were exclusively dominated by the Pb or Sn-based perovskite materials, and these materials, however, exhibit long term instabilities associated with ambient hydrolysis and oxidation, limiting their widespread applications. In this work, two layered cupric bromide hybrid perovskite compounds are prepared as light absorbers for application in heterojunction...
Location based services of trackers can keep dementia patients safe, but traditional GPS tracker or smartphone based solution device need to be removed for recharging or when taking bath. A water-proof Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) tag with a CR2302 battery can be used over a year so that it can be worn all the time. By combining BLE technology, smartphones and cloud services provided by Google, we can...
The purpose of this research is to improve the cognitive and upper extremity functions of the elderly by teaching Erhu via distance learning. In this study Elderly Music Taste Survey showed the preference scores of Taiwanese folk rhyme (M=24.62), popular music (23.46), traditional Chinese music (M=18.92), Chinese folk rhyme (M=14.23), and western classics(M=9.69) respectively. Significant improvement...
Osteoporosis is a common bone disease in the elderly, which often causes back pain and kyphosis. In Taiwan, 51.9 percent of the elderly over 45 years old need rehabilitation and the demand of wearing orthoses aids in the aging of society has increased significantly. Physicians don't know the rehabilitation effectiveness and the patient compliance behaviors and related factors of the disease until...
This study presented to insert a small-scaled microphone of the ear-set of a smart mobile (Amazing A6, Taiwan MobileTM) into an eartip of the stethoscope, the sound can be transmitted by the mobile when it dialed to another phone or mobile. In this study, we employed another smart phone (Galaxy R GT19103, SamsungTM) to be the receiver. The results were showed by spectrogram which demonstrated the...
The macrophage migration‐inhibitory factor (MIF) is a pro‐inflammatory cytokine first known for its effect on macrophage migration and activation. Recent studies have shown that MIP plays a critical role in tumor growth, angiogenesis, and metastasis. Chondrosarcoma is a type of highly malignant tumor with a potent capacity to invade locally and cause distant metastasis. However, the effects of MIF...
Beginning in 2009 the second-leading cause of death for Taiwanese aged 15 to 24 has been suicide, accounting for 12.4% of deaths that year in this group and rising in the years since. The Taiwan Suicide Prevention Center (TSPC) provides a modest mental survey (MMS), also called the “feeling thermometer”, for evaluating individual psychological condition. The MMS has determined suicidal tendency with...
Problem: In Taiwan, approximately 62.1% of all music majors in universities have suffered musculoskeletal injuries. [1] Health Promotion in Schools of Music Conference (HPSM) 2004 proposed that university music departments provide a “course that covers the occupational health concerns related to music.” [5] The conference concluded that schools of music play a vital role in helping reduce the incidence...
Users interact with most electronic entertainment games via some specific electronic sensors, which are not part of the existing equipment in most household. As well, some electronic entertainment games claim to have medical rehabilitative effects. This research designs a series of web-based serious games (SGs) for rehabilitation utilization with a proposed framework that lets family users easily...
This research intended to study the effects of utilizing games in health e-learning network on teaching third graders in elementary schools about nutrition. The studied groups of this research were 2 classes of 33 third graders; the two classes were separated into experimental and control group. The experiment was implemented in a four-week duration. The experimental group learned the knowledge of...
Entering the 21st century, the aging process and increasing chronic diseases in Taiwan society have become more prevalent. To deal with the problem, we develop a ubiquitous healthcare (u-Health) system platform that integrates wireless telecommunication, sensor network, and information technology to take care of patients having chronic diseases. The u-Health system provides not only telecare at home...
Even as the 21st Century dawns, Taiwan has already become an aging society. As of 2007, more than 10% of the population is composed of elderly people over 65 years of age. Due to a decrease in total fertility rate to 1.1 in 2008, the proportion of elderly people in the general population will increase more rapidly in the next two decades. The increasingly elderly population, coupled with a corresponding...
In order to counter the barriers of care for mobility-impaired person, like ageing citizens and terminal cancer patient, we plan a platform, u-care system that integrates wireless telecommunication, sensor network, and information technology to take care of the mobility impaired person, elderly and terminal cancer patient. Through the u-care system, the digital art contents were streaming through...
The percentage of the elderly population grew rapidly in recent years, so the tremendous life and health care needs became an issue of focus in an aging society. The elderly nursing home plays an important role and intends to provide a comfortable environment and living space and serve as safe and healthy place for the elderly. However, the frailty and fragility of the elderly in both physiologically...
This study aims to add tele-ultrasound techniques and emergency physician support to improve the quality of pre-hospital medical emergency services. On the other hand, a diagnostically useful FAST scan is dependent on the skill level of the EMTs using the portable ultrasound unit. However, providing adequate tools is still a prerequisite to the successful execution of a job. In the future, an improved...
This paper illustrates a sustained conceptual service quality improvement process for the management of software development within a healthcare enterprise. Our proposed process is revised from Niland's healthcare quality information system (HQIS). This process includes functions to survey the satisfaction of system functions, describe the operation bylaws on-line, and provide on-demand training....
Taiwan started to be an 'aging society' from 1993, and the aging process will progress more rapidly due to markedly decreased child birth in recent year. Facing very high old age dependency ratio as 1 to 2 in year 2030 which means every two working age persons (age 15 - 64 years) have to support one elderly people. That would be an enormous burden for every family and society. In this study a U-Care...
As the computer data storage capacity increases and technology of digital imaging progresses rapidly, today we can access and manipulate huge image database on the Internet. How to search and access intelligently on content based image database become an important focus in the field of multimedia research. In this study, a preliminary system of grid-distributed, contextual and semantic based, intelligent...
The percentage of the elderly population grew rapidly in recent years, so the tremendous life and health care needs became an issue of focus in an aging society. The Elderly Nursing Home plays an important role and intends to provide a comfortable environment and living space and serve as safe and healthy place for the elderly. However, the frailty and fragility of the elderly in both physiologically...
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