Physics and Astronomy
Refractive index of a liquid specifies its temperature. Here, I turn a real laser spot into a line light-source to probe the temperature variations along the incident line in a liquid comple…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Innate immune response is the protective response of the human body to defend against harmful invaders. However, excessive or dysregulated inflammation may harm human body. Steroids are ofte…
Chemistry
Third Award
The photo-responsive fluorescence behaviors (Photomechanofluorochromism and the Photomechanical effect) of a pentiptycene-anthracene hybrid system substituted with a semifluorinated alkoxy c…
Mathematics
Second Award
The purpose of this research is to enumerate the number of ways of dissecting a convex polygon with arbitrary prescribed conditions on the allowable polygon pieces. It is well known that the…
Animal Sciences
Fourth Award
The mushroom body (MB) is an intelligence center of the Drosophila brain. It plays essential roles in many aspects of behavior, including learning and memory, motivation, courtship, and slee…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
It is well known that the perceived color of a neutral stimulus can be altered by the presence of a surround. Here, we aimed to identify the neural mechanism underlying the phenomenon of col…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Anemia is a common disease that affects 24% of the world population. The standard practice for diagnosis of anemia requires blood analysis, which is invasive and time-consuming. Physicians o…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Observations indicate that offset inner-eyewall of the double eyewall typhoons would rotate counterclockwise inside the outer eyewalls. The rotation results in a trochoidal track when the ty…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Well-designed small wind turbine generators demonstrate high potential to capture turbulent wind power. We can break up the load of a large generator to many smaller ones to power local resi…
Mathematics
This research aims to find strategies to solve the following problem: the minimum number of ant-sucking machines which are needed to guarantee the capture of all ants on an m by n grid graph…
Embedded Systems
Functional ambulation is essential to good life quality and active social participation. Research studies have indicated that the use of visual cues is effective in gait training and that pr…
Mathematics
A k-derangement is a special kind of permutation of n objects, such that no subset of size k from the n objects is invariant. A 1-derangement is a permutation that has no fixed points. Count…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
We investigate the impacts of the interannual climate oscillations on the global mean sea level (GMSL) with data derived from satellite radar altimeter observations since 1992. After removin…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Since Taiwan Education Bureau passed the “Three Types of Experimental Education Act”, many Indigenous Experimental schools have sprung up. Seeing the advocacy of "Culturally Responsive Curri…
Systems Software
Nowadays, the need of bilingual speaking and typing increases due to globalization. In countries where people speak non-Latin languages, it requires users to switch IME (input method editor)…
Physics and Astronomy
It is known that applying electric field is able to adjust the viscosity of a non-conducting fluid emerged with dielectric particles, known as electrorheological (ER) fluid, and the viscosit…
Plant Sciences
Pollen germination and tube growth are critical for successful double fertilization, which is important for sexually propagated seed production in higher plants. Upon landing on stigma surfa…
Microbiology
Solar power is an important green energy, but it is almost impossible to generate electricity using a solar PV panel at night. We thus developed a Bio-photovoltaic “Boxed Micro-Biosphere” (B…
Animal Sciences
Soft oyster leech can cause severe damage to the oyster farming industry worldwide by breaking through oyster’s robust defense mechanism effortlessly. So, what is its unique attacking method…
Chemistry
Nowadays, hypochlorite is mostly used as a sterilizer. However, long-term exposure or attaching hypochlorite may damage our body, while the announced hypochlorite detection method required t…