Chin-Wei Chang, Kai-Chi Chang, Ya-Shun Chen, Chien-Lin Huang, Chia-Ling Ko, Jia-Horng Lin, Ching-Wen Lou and Wen-Cheng Chen* Department of Fiber and Composite Materials, College of Engineering, Feng Chia University, Taichung 40724, Taiwan School of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung 40402, Taiwan Department of Biotechnology, Asia University, Taichung 41354, Taiwan Institute of...

In this paper, we show by an example that Enns ke quency weighted balanced reduction procedure when applied to a scalar stable transfer function with input and output weights can result in an unstable reduced order model. A variation on the method is then presented which is guaranteed to yield stable reduced order models even when both input and output weighti n g ~ are included. The method is ...

Tourism in the third millennium has become one of the most thriving economic activities around the world, and many developmental planners and policymakers refer to tourism as the main pillar for sustainable development. Tourism is considered as one of the most complicated occupations in numerous countries worldwide and as a multi-aspect activity possessing various positive effects and utilizati...

In an interval society, voters are represented by intervals on the real line, corresponding to their approval sets on a linear political spectrum. I imagine the society to be a representative democracy, and ask how to choose members of the society as representatives. Following work in mathematical psychology by Coombs and others, I develop a measure of the compatibility (political similarity) o...

Knowledge of the photosynthetically active radiation is necessary in different applications dealing with plant physiology, biomass production and natural illumination in greenhouses. Nevertheless, as a result of the absence of widespread measurements of this radiometric flux, it is often calculated as a constant ratio of the broadband solar radiation. This ratio is affected by many parameters. ...

S-Y. Tsai, S. Posse, L. L. Wald, C-W. Ko, H-W. Chung, F-H. Lin Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Chalestown, MA, United States, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, MIND Institute, 801 University Blvd SE, Suite 200, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Department of Psychiatry and Department of Electrical...

Animal Models for the Study of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Oliver Oakley, Po-Ching Lin, Phillip Bridges, CheMyong Ko Reproductive Sciences Graduate Program, Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington KY; Department of Animal and Food Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington KY; Department of Comparative Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine University of Illinoi...

This study is focused on core competencies for lifelong learning for the knowledge society, especially on the digital competence. The aim of study is twofold. First, to examine the level of the digital competence in sample of graduate university students. Second, to give a proposal of procedure for measuring the level of competence in construction company. The results of research concerning the...

This research combines recent discussions in the cross-disciplinary areas of e-learning, social software, and training motivation. On the one hand, e-learning with its role in a fast paced knowledge society, its potential to revolutionize education and the gap between research and practitioners is already in discussion for years. Discussions are becoming more intense with the rise of social sof...

Learning plays a key role in ageing societies as it can help to address many of the related challenges and opportunities. Opportunities to learn should be given to senior citizens through appropriate local lifelong learning programmes. There is a need to improve research and development on learning tools and approaches designed to meet the different needs of older people. ICT has an important r...