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Chapter and Conference Paper
Application of Growth Curve in Agricultural Scientific Research
This paper introduces the application of logistic curve in agricultural science, and gives a division method of parameter estimation of logistic curve. Because the logistic curve contains three parameters, it ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
PiChat: Smartphone Application to Expand the Social Network for the Elderly
The success in medical and multidisciplinary research has resulted in the longevity in human age. Longevity in human age has caused an increase in the elderly population, and this condition becomes a new pheno...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Study of the Work Parameters of the Corn Harvester Cutter
In this paper, the analytical method of multivariate variance is applied to study the function of the various performance factors of the straight-edge cylindrical cutter. Research results indicate that the mai...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Entropy-Assisted Emotion Recognition of Valence and Arousal Using XGBoost Classifier
Emotion recognition is an essential function to realize human-machine interaction devices. Physiological signals which can be collected easily and continuously by wearable sensors are good inputs for emotion a...
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Feasibility of Utilizing E-Mental Health with Mobile APP Interface for Social Support Enhencement: A Conceptional Solution for Postpartum Depression in Taiwan
Postpartum depression (PPD) is a common issue in global scale. Social support enhancement were proved to be effective for reducing PPD. Currently, there are few researches in Taiwan concerning the subject whic...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Interpretation of Space: From Images to Vocabulary
Interior design can be executed in various stages, during which designers (the sender) deliver their ideas to client s (the receiver) via communication channels (the medium) in the form of language, words, ima...
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The 100,000 Participant Laboratory - A Crowd-Centered Approach to Design and Evaluate the Usability of Mobile Apps
Mobile apps play important roles in our daily lives. Software developers typically follow the user-centered design (UCD) approach to develop products that optimize usability. However, most usability methodolog...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Designing an Interactive Map of Musical Culture and a Digital Humanity App
An array of elements such as history, culture, music and delicacy can easily attract travelers’ attention. In this paper, we attempt to design a mobile and visual search platform to help tourists understand th...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Experimental Research of the Thumb’s Comfortable Control Area
Thumb control area is a significant concern for manipulating handheld controllers. In order to obtain the thumb’s comfortable control area of Chinese people, experimental measurements were designed and carried...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Correlation Analysis on the Main and Basic Body Dimension for Chinese Adults
In this paper, the correlations between the basic and five main body dimensions are studied based on the latest anthropometric data for the Chinese adults. Then the linear regression equations are established,...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Gamification Design for Increasing Customer Purchase Intention in a Mobile Marketing Campaign App
Mobile apps have been developed for marketing purposes and for creating new opportunities for firms to communicate with and satisfy their target audience. However, numerous mobile apps are added daily to the G...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Use of Eye Tracking in the Study of Airline Cabin Safety Communication
The purpose of this study is intended to address the current state of comprehensibility of airline safety briefing cards by adopting the eye-tracking experimental method and comprehension test to solve the rel...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Kinematic Analysis of Remote Target Pointing Hand Movements in a 3D Environment
The study investigates kinematics of target pointing hand movements in a free-hand, touchless, 3D environment. Consistent with Fitts’ original information processing model, target pointing hand movement time i...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Can I Help You?: Towards the Improvement of Occupational Experience for Convenience Store Employees in Taiwan
This article explores the occupational experiences of convenience store frontline service employees in Taiwan. We find that in addition to physical labor, employees must incorporate job crafting to effectively...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Message-Oriented Middleware with QoS Awareness
Publish/subscribe messaging is a fundamental mechanism for interconnecting disparate services and systems in the service-oriented computing architecture. The quality of services (QoS) of the messaging substrat...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Secure and Efficient Three-Pass Authenticated Key Agreement Protocol Based on Elliptic Curves
Key agreement protocol is of fundamental importance in providing data confidentiality and integrity between two or more parties over an insecure network. In 2004, Popescu [14] proposed an authenticated key agr...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Critical Success Factors for ERP Life Cycle Implementation
ERP implementations are complex undertakings. The purpose of this study is to establish ERP implementation model in China firms based on project life cycle theory. ERP implementation is an information system p...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Reliable Transporting and Optimal Routing on Rate-Based for Ad Hoc Networks
Owing to the inflexibility of the structure, the conventional layered protocols suffer from the inability to distinguish between losses due to route failures and congestion. Recently, in efforts to overcome th...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
On Scalability and Mobility Management of Hierarchical Large-Scale Ad Hoc Networks
With the increased interest in the mobile wireless communication, the development of large-scale ad hoc networks has drawn a lot of attention and the scalability of ad hoc networks has been the subject of exte...