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In many gas sensors, the selectivity is still a big issue, which makes the real concentration distortion. We introduce a way to estimate its concentration in gas mixture condition. The system consists of three gas sensors, carbon dioxide sensor, carbon monoxide sensor and humidity sensor in environment-controlled chamber, which give lots of different concentration combinations. To estimate its concentration,...
In this paper, we analyzed near-threshold-voltage (NTV) CMOS circuits with various body bias and proposed an NTV adder design with dual body bias. By adopting different body bias in the same time, adder delay and leakage power can be reduced. Also, the critical path is optimized to achieve better energy efficiency. The performance analysis are all performed under TSMC 90nm CMOS process with Monte...
In this paper, the variational iteration algorithm-II for generalized diffusion problems is theoretically constructed. Then, the sufficient conditions that ensure convergence of variational iteration method applied to this type of two-point boundary value problems are established with an error analysis. Some nonlinear diffusion problems are investigated to elucidate the convergence concept and the...
According to the results of syllabus adjustment of senior vocational high school made by the competent education authorities of Taiwan, the study conducts a general questionnaire survey and analysis of the in-service teachers teaching Civil Engineering at senior vocational high schools of the whole Taiwan in order to understand the difference in basic personal particulars of the in-service teachers,...
In the 1920s and 1930s, the U.S. automobile enterprise Ford made its retail debut in Taiwan and mainland China markets. At that time, Taiwan was under Japanese colonial rule and had went through a series of assimilation policy; while China was in the period of semi-feudalism and semi-colonialism, a stage in which all sectors of society, from politics to economy, were invaded and controlled by foreign...
The Fund for Peace conducted an annual ranking of 178 nations based on their levels of stability and the pressure they face to maintain and improve it. Out of this number, Mozambique was ranked at 45 meaning high warning. In order to make the situation better in terms of stability and involve the citizens in peace making process we propose a prototype for e-Paz, a system utilizing Cloud Computing...
Server virtualization is one of the critical cloud computing technologies since it enables the use of software-based virtual machines (VMs). Many enterprises have already adopted this technology to build their cloud platforms because of its scalability and flexibility. However, high availability (HA) remains a challenging issue on such a virtualized cloud platform. That is, the time for VM failover...
People nowadays would rather spend less time with their friends than on the services like Facebook or Twitter on their smartphones. Many business and enterprises start to use software robot to promote their products and interact with customers with less cost and more efficiency. Due to various APIs from different social platforms, developers have to follow specific rules while developing robots. Therefore,...
The ACG website for creative artifact work sharing supports artists at every level by offering a range of services to connect, inform, educate and promote digital artists worldwide together. A total of 347 digital multimedia design students majors related with ACG works from universities of north Taiwan served as research subjects. The findings of this study provided empirical evidence to support...
The feature of central projection will result the pixels offset for UAV aerial photos. This problem can be solved by way of correcting relief displacement of DEM that was constructed by dense point cloud. During the image processing procedure, the creation of dense point cloud spent the most time. By cutting the image into blocks to reduce the creating time of high dense point cloud is the main issue...
Preschoolers as digital native cannot avoid gadgets. Game applications are more accessible to them. People believe that games have a negative impact such as bad character and violence. Nevertheless, the game can be developed into a fun tool. This research aimed to design a game prototype boosting cognitive abilities for preschoolers. Prototyping and testing the game system were the method. A preschoolers'...
This research will collate and analyze the structure and form attributes of the 3D space created by the rules of folding used in origami, the art of paper-folding, to provide more references for practical design application and more possibilities for interdisciplinary integrated development.
It's really important that how to keep cognitive functions of elderly. According to several research result shows, regular doing exercise or playing games may help elderly slowing down degeneration. In this study, we attempt to combine narrative concept and dynamic assessment theory to develop a kinect-based game for elderly on cognitive functions training. Moreover, a Web-based management system...
Inquiry-based learning is kind of learning activities that involves students' entire capabilities in exploring and investigating particular objects or phenomenon using critical thinking skills. Recently, information technology tangibly contributes in any education aspects, including the existence of e-learning, a widely spreading learning model in the 21st century education. This study aims at initializing...
This study adopts the action research method to investigate how a grocery store can survive in the rural area. The grocery store is located in Yenpu Township of Pingtung, southern Taiwan, the resident is less than 27000 people. This study tracked the grocery store's development process and operations performance for 18 months to examine the influences of sales models, product categories, and folk...
A polygon approximation based approach is proposed to improve the query efficiency in querying spatial data in digital achieving system. Although the query efficiency can be increased if the number of sides of n-sided polygon decreases, the search precision can be reduced accordingly. Thus, in the proposed approach, the query efficiency and search precision can be well controlled according to the...
Stroke is the primary cause of serious long-term disability in the world. A long period of a rehabilitation program is required for those patients with the function loss of upper limb motor. In order to track the progression of the rehabilitation, the approaches to assessment of upper limb performance is the important task to evaluate the effectiveness of therapies. However, the typical assessment...
The Heart Sūtra, recited easily by many people, has several translation versions. The main character of the sūtra was translated as Bodhisattva Guanshiyin (Bodhisattva Avalokitêśvara) and Bodhisattva Guanzizai by Dharma Masters Kumārajīva and Dharma Masters Xuanzang respectively. Although these two translations are literally different, are they truly different in meaning as well? Based on research...
Xuanzang was extremely knowledgeable. He traveled to India, obtained large number of Sītra and treatises back to China, translated them into the Chinese language, and propagated extensively the principle of Consciousness-Only. On the other hand, Huineng was said to be illiterate, nonetheless, he broadly advocated the lineage of the Chan tradition which focused on the notion of “not establishing words...
The number of patients undergoing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is on the increased. However, there are too few MRI machines, resulting in long waiting times for the patients. In order to address this problem and shorten the waiting time, this study focuses on the prospects of sharing of resources with other hospitals and increase in equipment availability. The purpose of this study is to analyze...
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