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Effects of working memory and relevant knowledge on reading texts and infographics
Infographics are a new type of reading material comprising textual and visual information that has been used worldwide. Nonetheless, there has been limited research investigating people’s infographic-reading p...
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Colletotrichum species causing anthracnose disease on avocado fruit in Taiwan
Anthracnose disease caused by Colletotrichum spp. is a limiting factor in avocado production worldwide. In Taiwan, Colletotrichum spp. cause post-harvest disease on avocado and greatly reduce the shelf life of th...
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Open AccessDiagnostic accuracy of symptoms for an underlying disease: a simulation study
Symptoms have been used to diagnose conditions such as frailty and mental illnesses. However, the diagnostic accuracy of the numbers of symptoms has not been well studied. This study aims to use equations and ...
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Refined use of the eye-mind hypothesis for scientific argumentation using multiple representations
Our objective in this study was to investigate how the eye-movement behavior and concurrent verbal protocols of students with high-/low-prior-knowledge were reflected in the use of multiple representations for...
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Eye-movements reveal children’s deliberative thinking and predict performance on arithmetic word problems
Despite decades of research on the close link between eye movements and human cognitive processes, the exact nature of the link between eye movements and deliberative thinking in problem-solving remains unknow...
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Identification and characterization of Colletotrichum species associated with mango anthracnose in Taiwan
Mango is widely grown in Taiwan and anthracnose is one of the most important diseases of this crop. The aim of this study was to investigate Colletotrichum species associated with mango and the pathogenicity of t...
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Open AccessUsing syndrome mining with the Health and Retirement Study to identify the deadliest and least deadly frailty syndromes
Syndromes are defined with signs or symptoms that occur together and represent conditions. We use a data-driven approach to identify the deadliest and most death-averse frailty syndromes based on frailty sympt...
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Open AccessProtection from hydrogen peroxide stress relies mainly on AhpCF and KatA2 in Stenotrophomonas maltophilia
Aerobically-grown bacteria can be challenged by hydrogen peroxide stress from endogenous aerobic metabolism and exogenously generated reactive oxygen species. Catalase (Kat), alkyl hydroperoxidase (Ahp), and g...
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Open AccessComposite diagnostic criteria are problematic for linking potentially distinct populations: the case of frailty
Composite diagnostic criteria are common in frailty research. We worry distinct populations may be linked to each other due to complicated criteria. We aim to investigate whether distinct populations might be ...
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Open AccessA proposal for a self-rated frailty index and status for patient-oriented research
Frailty indices are important predictors of major health outcomes, but mostly designed by and for researchers and specialists. Three of the most commonly used theory-based indices are composite measures that a...
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Eye Movements in Integrating Geometric Text and Figure: Scanpaths and Given-New Effects
This study explored the processes in which adult readers integrate text-figure information when reading geometric descriptions. Because geometry conveys rich spatial information, we investigated the reading sc...
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Chapter
A Study of High School Students Doing Physics Experiments with Arduino and Other Data-Logging Devices
Conventional high school physics labs rely on manual data logging or logging devices with a slow data acquisition rate and low precision. This study aims to design data-logging devices and a modelling tool for...
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Open AccessA network perspective on patient experiences and health status: the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey 2004 to 2011
There is a growing emphasis on the need to engage patients in order to improve the quality of health care and improve health outcomes. However, we are still lacking a comprehensive understanding on how differe...
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Pendulum experiments with three modern electronic devices and a modeling tool
Traditional physics labs in high school suffer from slow data acquisition so that some dynamic behavior of variables could be hidden from students. Modern electronic devices such as Lego Mindstorms NXT, smartp...
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Using Eye Tracking to Investigate Semantic and Spatial Representations of Scientific Diagrams During Text-Diagram Integration
We investigated strategies used by readers when reading a science article with a diagram and assessed whether semantic and spatial representations were constructed while reading the diagram. Seventy-one underg...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Mobile Devices and a Modelling Tool for Physics Experiments in High School
Traditional physics labs in high school suffer from slow data acquisition so that dynamic values of variables are hidden from students. Modern mobile devices such as Lego Mindstorms NXT, smartphones and Arduin...
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Open AccessRisk adjustment and observation time: comparison between cross-sectional and 2-year panel data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)
Risk adjustment models were used to estimate health care consumption after adjusting for individual characteristics or other factors. The results of this technique were not satisfying. One reason could be that...
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Protocol
Reconstitution of Active and Stoichiometric Multisubunit Lysine Acetyltransferase Complexes in Insect Cells
Protein lysine acetyltransferases (KATs) catalyze acetylation of the ε-amino group on a specific lysine residue, and this posttranslational modification is important for regulating the function and activities ...
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Performing Transgender Desire: Male Cross-Dressing Shows in Taiwan
Cross-dressing performances, particularly female impersonation, have a long tradition rooted in Chinese and Taiwanese culture. Two of the best-known examples are the **gju (Bei**g opera) in China and zidixi (ju...
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Kinase Gene Expression and Subcellular Protein Expression Pattern of Protein Kinase C Isoforms in Curcumin-treated Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma Hep 3B Cells
Curcumin, a yellow component of turmeric or curry powder, has been demonstrated to exhibit anti-carcinogenic effects in vitro, in vivo, and in human clinical trials. One of its molecular targets is protein kinase...
