Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Exceptional membership and liminal space of identity: Student migration from Taiwan to China

The opening of China’s economy has attracted an inflow of Taiwanese migrants, including student migration for higher education. Taiwanese migrants in China have created a ‘transnational social field,’ which is simultaneously an exceptional space of sovereignty and a liminal terrain of identity. Based on in-depth interviews with 61 Taiwanese students in China, this article looks into the paradoxes between nationalization and globalization at the intersection of state policy, migration trajectory, and identity politics. The Chinese government has offered Taiwanese citizens exceptional membership and privileged access to college admission, in order to uphold China’s claim of sovereignty over Taiwan and promote the agenda of reunification. Taiwanese students capitalize on such institutional privilege and cultural ties to facilitate their transnational mobility and flexible capital accumulation. They also develop different strategies to negotiate their ethnic or national identification: assimilating as Chinese, reasserting a Taiwanese identity, and claiming a cosmopolitan identity.
Research on Characteristic of Rockburst and Rules of Microseismic Monitoring at Headrace Tunnels in Jinping II Hydropower Station

In this paper, the characteristics and laws of rockburst at headrace tunnels in Jinping II hydropower station are summarized basing on a mass of rockburst incidents recorded during tunneling, including the law of rockburst distribution with mileage, the way of failure of rock surrounding tunnel, the relationship of rockburst and distance, the laws of position of rockburst on cross section, etc. According to relationship of the microseismic incidents and rockburst, the availability of application of microseismic monitoring technique to prediction of rockburst is argued, and the accuracy and reliability of it are proved.
Macroeconomic Effects of World Oil and Food Price Shocks in Asia and Pacific Economies: Application of SVAR Models

This study, by employing structural vector auto regression models, investigates the macroeconomic effects of world oil and food price shocks in the context of selected Asia and Pacific countries. The study reveals that the economic activities of resource-poor countries that specialise in heavy manufacturing industries, like Korea and Taiwan, are highly affected by world oil price shocks. On the other hand, the economic activities of oil-poor nations such as Australia and New Zealand, with diverse mineral resources other than oil, are not affected by oil price shocks. Furthermore, countries that are oil poor but specialise in international financial services, such as Singapore and Hong Kong, are also not affected by oil price increases. Moreover, some developing countries, in this case, India, with limited reserves of oil are not affected by oil price shocks, whereas other such countries, like Thailand, possessing a number of natural resources other than oil are more strongly affected by oil price shocks. With regard to food price shocks, limited impacts from food price increases can be recorded for India, Korea and Thailand. Overall, the effects of external oil and food prices depend on the economic characteristics of the countries.
Newly diagnosed dementia and increased risk of hemorrhagic stroke: A nationwide population-based study.

BACKGROUND This retrospective cohort study was designed to assess whether there is an association between newly diagnosed dementia and the risk of stroke. METHODS From Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database of reimbursement claims, we identified 2811 patients with newly diagnosed dementia and 14,055 randomly selected, age-matched patients without dementia. A Cox proportional hazards model was constructed to calculate the development of stroke, including ischemic stroke, and intracerebral, or subarachnoid hemorrhage. RESULTS During the 3-year follow-up period, 339 patients with dementia (12.06%) and 691 patients without dementia (4.92%) developed stroke. The adjusted HRs of developing stroke among newly diagnosed dementia patients were 2.33-times (range, 2.05-2.66), and the incidence of hemorrhagic stroke was higher than that of other stroke types. Patients who had Alzheimer's disease were at the highest risk of hemorrhagic stroke. CONCLUSION Individuals with dementia, especially Alzheimer's disease, are at greater risk of developing stroke, especially in intracerebral and subarachnoid hemorrhage than patients without dementia. Early mental screening programs and health education should be initiated for dementia patients.
Intelligent Investigation Mechanism based on Fuzzy Markup Language for social media application

The Intelligent Investigation Mechanism (IIM) based on Fuzzy Markup Language (FML) and genetic learning ability for social media application is presented in this paper. We take the social media contents of presidential election domain on Facebook as an example in this paper, and construct the presidential election ontology for defining the knowledge base and rule base of FML. Seven categories, including Presidential Candidate, Municipality Mayor Supporter, Beneficial Event, Common Student Supporter, Famous Student Supporter, Common People Supporter, and Famous People Supporter, are adopted to present the president election domain ontology. With the defined ontology, we apply the FML to describe the fuzzy variables and fuzzy rules of the presidential election for IIM. The proposed IIM infers the possibility of Candidate Support Degree for each presidential candidate based on the fuzzy variables and the posts on Facebook (FB). The experimental results on 2016 Taiwan President Election show that the proposed IIM with the ability of FML and machine learning is feasible to apply to social media domain. In the future, we will compare our proposed approach with the existing ones and further analyze the experimental results with the actual data.
Remaking Tank Man, in China

Tank Man, the image of the lone protestor who faced down the tanks near Tian’anmen Square in 1989, leads a vibrant afterlife in political cartoons, memes, and YouTube remixes. In an era when staying memorable increasingly means being searchable online, these digital remakes have helped to keep his image fresh – outside China anyway. In China itself, though, Tank Man is a famously verboten image, mostly policed out of online sight. The digital artists who have repurposed his image are typically so harried by the censors that their work cannot hope to endow Tank Man with mass viral visibility, let alone the iconic status he possesses abroad. But precisely because of their fugitive character – which produces audiences who are alert, amused, and on the qui vive – these repurposings ensure that Tank Man remains the grit in the clam of public secrecy about 1989.
Is Anti-Cyclic Citrullinated Peptide Antibody a Good Value Biomarker for Alzheimer Disease?

Background: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the most important neurodegenerative disorder. Anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (anti-CCP) may all be involved in the development of vascular disease such as AD. The aim of this study is detection of seropositivity for anti-CCP antibody in AD patients. Methods: In our study, 30 patients with AD and 29 healthy controls (age and-sex matched) were recruited. Homocysteine and anti-CCP was measured by spectrophotometrically and immunoassay. Results: Mean ± SE anti-CCP was higher significantly between AD (13.6 ± 3) and healthy subjects (4.8 ± 0.2) (P = 0.006). In the patients, anti-CCP serum level was in high range (32.1%) of abnormal levels, but there was no significant difference in serum homocysteine in AD patients compared with controls. There is no correlation between anti-CCP and homocysteine levels in AD patients (P = 0.75), but between age and anti-CCP level observed a significantly correlation (P = 0.04). Conclusions: It needs more studies to clarify confirmation the role of anti-CCP antibody production in AD patients.
Interaction between smoking, the shared epitope, and anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide: a mixed picture in three large North American rheumatoid arthritis cohorts.

OBJECTIVE Recently, Swedish members of the Epidemiological Investigation of Rheumatoid Arthritis (EIRA) provided evidence that smoking may trigger RA-specific immune reactions to citrullinated protein in carriers of HLA-DR shared epitope alleles. In an effort to confirm this interaction between smoking and shared epitope alleles, we performed a case-only analysis of 3 North American RA cohorts. METHODS A total of 2,476 white patients with RA were studied, 1,105 from the North American Rheumatoid Arthritis Consortium (NARAC) family collection, 753 from the National Inception Cohort of Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients (Inception Cohort), and 618 from the Study of New Onset Rheumatoid Arthritis (SONORA). All patients were HLA-DRB1 typed, and tested for anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (anti-CCP) and rheumatoid factor. Information about smoking history was obtained by questionnaire. RESULTS A significant association was found between smoking and the presence of anti-CCP in the NARAC and the Inception Cohort, but not in the SONORA. The shared epitope alleles consistently correlated with anti-CCP in all 3 populations. Using multiple logistic regression analyses, shared epitope alleles were still the most significant risk factor for anti-CCP positivity. Weak evidence of gene-environment interaction between smoking and shared epitope alleles for anti-CCP formation was found only in the NARAC. CONCLUSION Unlike the EIRA data, we could not confirm a major gene-environment interaction for anti-CCP formation between shared epitope alleles and smoking in 3 North American RA cohorts. Our data indicate a need for further studies to address the full range of environmental factors other than smoking that may be associated with citrullination and RA.
How Does Trauma Beget Trauma? Cognitions about Risk in Women with Abuse Histories

This study examined the associations between perceived risks and benefits of drug use, unsafe sexual behavior, alcohol consumption, and aggressive/illegal behavior and reports of expected involvement in those behaviors in a sample of 340 college women with and without histories of interpersonal victimization (i.e., child sexual abuse, child physical abuse, adult sexual assault, and aggravated assault). Trauma victims reported greater perceived benefits and lower perceived risks associated with risky sexual behavior, illicit drug use, and heavy drinking, but not aggressive/illegal behavior than nonvictims. Victims also reported greater expected involvement in risky sex behavior, drug use, and heavy drinking. Regression analyses revealed that the relationship between victim status and expected involvement in risky behaviors was mediated by cognitions about risks and benefits of risky behavior, controlling for trauma-related symptoms. Implications of the findings for the understanding of repeat victimization are discussed.
Subspecies typing of Vibrio parahaemolyticus by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis

Vibrio parahaemolyticus is one of the most important food-borne pathogens in Taiwan, Japan, and other costal regions. We report on the development of a pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) method for the molecular typing of this pathogen. Genomic DNA was digested with SfiI, and the fragments were resolved on 1% agarose with a contour-clamped homogeneous electric field apparatus set at 190 V and a pulse time of 3 to 80 s. A total of 130 selected isolates obtained from outbreaks during 1993 and 1994 on Taiwan were also characterized by this PFGE method. These isolates were grouped into 14 PFGE types which consisted on one to six patterns, and a total of 39 patterns were identified. Most of these domestic clinical isolates could be clustered into several major types (types A, B, C, and G). These major types showed relatively low degrees of similarity to several foreign strains and other domestic but environmental strains. Strain CCRC12863, which originated from Japan, was close to the group consisting of F, G, and H PFGE types, suggesting a clonal relationship between this Japanese strain and other domestic isolates.
Exploring User Behavioral Intention of the Tourist Guiding System by Users' Perspective

Taiwan has lifted a restriction to tourists from China since 2008, Chinese tourists increasingly tour in Taiwan. People can get tourism information everywhere and every time, but such amount of information usually confuses users. This study adopted Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) to verify the Mainland China tourist guiding system (MTGS). This study collected the feedbacks from China’s students that want to visit Taiwan through an online questionnaire. There are 120 participants finished the questionnaire. The results are the following: (1) “performance expectancy”,” effort expectancy”, and “facilitating condition” has no effect with “behavioral intention”; (2) “social influence” positively affect the “behavioral intention”; (3) only “effort expectancy” affected by “age”. The results of this study can be a reference for the tourism agencies and application developers to understand the factors which can influence the behavioral intention of the tourist for further improvement.
The Influence of Entrepreneurial Orientation and Family Business’s Resources and Capabilities on Ìarketing Performances

This paper uses data from the Successful Transgenerational Entrepreneurship Practices Project (STEP Project) to investigate the influence of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and family business’s resources and capabilities towards marketing performance. Previous researches represent an evidence of a relationship between EO and firm performance. Nevertheless, there are limited studies to investigate both psychological and physical aspects of family business like EO and family business’s resources and capabilities to firm performance. The empirical analysis includes a STEP project data set of 28 countries (n = 1,008) in 4 regions of the world; Asia-Oceania (Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand), Europe (Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, Russia), Latin America (Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Peru, Puerto Rico, Venezuela), and North America (Canada, Mexico, USA) which was collected during 2013-2015. SEM is used to investigate the effect of EO and family business’s resources and capabilities on marketing performances.The findings support the relationship of EO and family business’s resources and capabilities on entrepreneurial performances. The results of the study show that both EO and family business’s resources and capabilities affect positively to the entrepreneurial performance. This study provides insights to researchers, practitioners and managers on the significance of both entrepreneurial orientations and firms’ resources and capabilities for the survival and growth of family businesses.
Global social media, local context: A case study of Chinese-language tweets about the 2012 presidential election in Taiwan

Purpose – Social media connect individuals in different geographical location and allow people of different political and cultural backgrounds to discuss and participate in events that occur in distant corners of the globe. But, this does not suggest that social media promote homogeneous globalization. Rather, the local and its interactions with the global or regional views remain a powerful force in the realm of social media. The purpose of this paper is to take on the local/global factors in the social media service Twitter and analyzed the keyword-captured Chinese language tweets relating to the 2012 presidential election in Taiwan. Design/methodology/approach – Language code usage was used to sort out the community origins of Chinese language tweets relating to the election, given that distinct types and codes of Chinese characters are used within each political border. Community-specific patterns of communication were identified by cross-correlating language styles, tweeting frequency and participati.
Long-term antidepressant use and the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus: a population-based, nested case-control study in Taiwan.

OBJECTIVE Antidepressant drugs might induce weight gain and increase diabetes risk. We examined the diabetes risk with long-term antidepressant use in a general population. METHOD This study was a population-based, nested case-control study using Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database between 1998 and 2009. A total of 47,885 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (ICD-9 codes: 250.x; excluding 250.x 1 and 250.x 3) and 95,770 controls were identified. We used a conditional logistic regression model for data analysis and 1-year latent period before the diabetes diagnosis to account for the quantification of treatment duration of antidepressant (defined by Anatomic Therapeutic Chemical classification code N06A). Sensitivity analyses were performed using a propensity score matching method, as well as different lengths of latent periods. RESULTS Compared with nonusers, patients with cumulative antidepressant use (> 2 years) had an increased risk of diabetes (adjusted OR = 1.20; 95% CI, 1.05-1.37). Moreover, increasing mean daily dose or use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or serotonin antagonist and reuptake inhibitors was associated with increased diabetes risk. The increased diabetes risk with long-term antidepressant therapy in patients aged 44 years or less (adjusted OR = 2.39; 95% CI, 1.46-3.90) was higher than that in older adults (adjusted OR = 1.15; 95% CI, 1.00-1.32). CONCLUSIONS The findings suggest that long-term antidepressant use may be associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus, especially for young adults. Therefore, long-term antidepressant use should be evaluated more cautiously for its benefits and the potential risk of diabetes.
Corporate governance and listing location of Chinese firms: the bonding theory revisited

Abstract This study develops and tests several bonding theory-derived hypotheses using a panel dataset covering the Chinese firms cross-listed in the US, Hong Kong, Singapore and London over the period 2001–2012. Our empirical results challenge the general postulate of bonding theory that cross-listing in international stock markets helps to improve the corporate and financial performance of firms whose home countries have weaker institutions and lower-level legal enforcement to protect minor investors. We show that the bonding theory only holds partially for Chinese firms cross-listed in the United States markets, whereas it is not evidenced for the rest of share markets in the sample. It is argued that the general bonding theory needs to contextualise endogenous characteristics such as firms’ listing locations.
Frenemies in the Media : Maritime Sovereignty and Propaganda Regarding the South China Sea

When Indonesia struggles to fight illegal fishing in 2016, Indonesian Navy has caught several Chinese fishing boats in its 200-mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ) off the Natuna Island. Although, many have trespassed Indonesia’s EEZ, conducted illegal fishing and been scuttled, China is the only country that backs up their fishermen with military forces. After Indonesia officially sent diplomatic protest note over the incident, China replied that the seizing had no official grounded as the area was actually claimed as traditional fishing ground by China. This position may leave Indonesia in frenemy position with China. Regional conflict such as South China Sea has been diligently highlighted in international coverage. If it’s about involvement of home country conflict, the concept of objectivity journalism has been under questioned. This embodied-concept has raised because of broad range of contextualization in international coverage. Interdependency between media systems and political systems interprets how propaganda influences on the media within the national interest frames of ideology, particularly when the global issue involving their home countries. There are nine propaganda techniques including name calling, glittering generalities, transfer, testimonial, plain folks, card stacking, bandwagon, frustration of scapegoat and fear. Applying comparative content analysis of Indonesian and Chinese state-run wire services of ANTARA and Xinhua, and three most popular news websites: China Daily, People’s Daily and Kompas. This study identifies types of national interest frames including common, conflict, and threat interest frames. It is found out that media perform propaganda techniques which later depict the frenemy position according to their national interest frames.
Toward geopolitical gaming: exploring the tension between Blizzard Entertainment and political forces

ABSTRACT Why did Blizzard Entertainment sanction a professional esports player for showing support for the 2019 Hong Kong protests during an official streaming event and later reduce the penalty? Drawing on public primary source documents including press releases, tweets, statements, and the Congressional Record, I argue competitive gaming has developed to a level where various forces are politicizing esports events to increase the visibility of social issues and influence the policymaking process. This is possible because the global nature of esports provides an economic incentive for video game developers to maintain a presence in particular markets through actions other markets may deem politically untenable, while also giving players a worldwide platform to communicate activist messages. The case study explores the broader political context around esports by offering a novel description illuminating the #BoycottBlizzard consumer movement and how esports events can act as fora for geopolitical tensions to unfold.
Global Stagflation

Global inflation has risen sharply from its lows in mid-2020, on rebounding global demand, supply bottlenecks, and soaring food and energy prices, especially since the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine. Markets expect inflation to peak in mid-2022 and then decline, but to remain elevated even after these shocks subside and monetary policies are tightened further. Global growth has been moving in the opposite direction: it has declined sharply since the beginning of the year and, for the remainder of this decade, is expected to remain below the average of the 2010s. In light of these developments, the risk of stagflation—a combination of high inflation and sluggish growth—has risen. The recovery from the stagflation of the 1970s required steep increases in interest rates by major advanced-economy central banks to quell inflation, which triggered a global recession and a string of financial crises in emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs). If current stagflationary pressures intensify, EMDEs would likely face severe challenges again because of their less well-anchored inflation expectations, elevated financial vulnerabilities, and weakening growth fundamentals. This makes it urgent for EMDEs to shore up their fiscal and external buffers, strengthen their monetary policy frameworks, and implement reforms to reinvigorate growth.