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The Efficacy of Acupuncture in Post-Operative Pain Management: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
(2016-03-09)
Wu, Ming-Shun
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Chen, Kee-Hsin
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Chen, I-Fan
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Huang, Shihping Kevin
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Tzeng, Pei-Chuan
Background Postoperative pain resulting from surgical trauma is a significant challenge for healthcare providers. Opioid analgesics are commonly used to treat postoperative pain; however, these drugs are associated with a number of undesirable side effects. Objective This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated the effectiveness of acupuncture and acupuncture-related techniques in treating postoperative pain. Data Source MEDLINE, Cochrane Library, and EMBASE databases were searched until Sep 30, 2014. Study Eligibility Criteria Randomized controlled trials of adult subjects (>= 18 years) who had undergone surgery and who had received acupuncture, electroacupuncture, or acupoint electrical stimulation for managing acute post-operative pain were included. Results We found that patients treated with acupuncture or related techniques had less pain and used less opioid analgesics on Day 1 after surgery compared with those treated with control (P < 0.001). Sensitivity analysis using the leave-one-out approach indicated the findings are reliable and are not dependent on any one study. In addition, no publication bias was detected. Subgroup analysis indicated that conventional acupuncture and transcutaneous electric acupoint stimulation (TEAS) were associated with less postoperative pain one day following surgery than control treatment, while electroacupuncture was similar to control (P = 0.116). TEAS was associated with significantly greater reduction in opioid analgesic use on Day 1 post surgery than control (P < 0.001); however conventional acupuncture and electroacupuncture showed no benefit in reducing opioid analgesic use compared with control (P >= 0.142). Conclusion Our findings indicate that certain modes of acupuncture improved postoperative pain on the first day after surgery and reduced opioid use. Our findings support the use of acupuncture as adjuvant therapy in treating postoperative pain.
Dielectric Engineering of a Boron Nitride/Hafnium Oxide Heterostructure for High-Performance 2D Field Effect Transistors
(2016-03-09)
Zou, Xuming
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Huang, Chun-Wei
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Wang, Lifeng
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Yin, Long-Jing
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Li, Wenqing
A unique design of a hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN)/HfO2 dielectric heterostructure stack is demonstrated, with few-layer h-BN to alleviate the surface optical phonon scattering, followed by high-kappa HfO2 deposition to suppress Coulombic impurity scattering so that high-performance top-gated two-dimensional semiconductor transistors are achieved. Furthermore, this dielectric stack can also be extended to GaN-based transistors to enhance their performance.
Optical properties of one- and two-dimensional excitons in m-plane ZnO/MgZnO multiple quantum wells
(2016-03-09)
Chen, H. R.
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Tsai, C. Y.
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Huang, Y. C.
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Kuo, C. C.
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Hsu, H. C.
Five pairs of ZnO/Zn0.9Mg0.1O multiple quantum wells (MQWs) with fixed barrier thickness of 55 nm and three well widths of 4, 8 and 16 nm have been grown on m-plane sapphires by pulsed laser deposition. Due to 2D quantum confinement with decreasing well width, the emission of excitons bound to the basal-plane stacking faults, which are one-dimensionally confined in MQWs, encounters larger blue shift than that of the near-band edge excitons. Furthermore, remarkably reducing coupling of free excitons with A1 longitudinal optical phonons is closely correlated with increasing exciton binding energy but enhanced coupling of E-2-low phonons is a result of increasing interaction with the interface phonons with decreasing well width.
Picosecond Motional Relaxation of Nanoparticles in Femtosecond Laser Trapping
(2016-03-10)
Muramatsu, Masayasu
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Shen, Tse-Fu
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Chiang, Wei-Yi
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Usman, Anwar
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Masuhara, Hiroshi
Repetitive drag and release dynamics by impnlsive force is characteristic of optical trapping by femtosecond laser pulses. We studied the dynamics utilizing double pulse train and found that trapped polystyrene particles are ejected repetitively from the focal spot and its frequencies become less for longer interval of the pulse trains. The ejection changes drastically in a few-ps interval region, although particles cannot move appreciable distance in such a short time. It means that displacement of particles by a conventional diffusive motion is not dominant and another fast process has an important role in femtosecond pulse trapping. We also revealed that the silica nanoparticles shows a decay at few-ps, indicating that the picosecond decay is not due to a material property but considered to be a general dynamics. We propose that a picosecond relaxation process of inertia force of particles is important for understanding laser trapping dynamics by femtosecond laser pulses.
Optimization of a guided-mode resonance filter by varying the thickness of the buffer layer
(2016-03-10)
Hsu, Hsiang I.
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Wu, Po-Tsung
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Huang, Cheng-Sheng
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機械工程學系
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Department of Mechanical Engineering
In this Letter, we demonstrate that by adjusting the thickness of the buffer layer, the optical responses of a guided-mode resonance filter (GMRF) can be improved for sensor applications. The GMRF is fabricated using a replica molding with a plastic substrate and a UV-curable polymer. SiO2 buffer layers of different thicknesses are deposited before the waveguide-layer deposition. The sensitivity of the GMRFs decreasds slightly with-increasing SiO2 layer thickness. By contrast, the full width at half-maximum reduces substantially with increasing SiO2 layer thickness, resulting in the improvement of the overall figure of merit.
Live無邊界　實況浪潮來襲
(2016-03-13)
吳偉立
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Department of Communication and Technology
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傳播與科技學系
簡述實況的概況，並且分析台灣觀看實況的情形。
熟男熟女　越老越美麗
(2016-03-13)
謝萱穎
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Department of Communication and Technology
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傳播與科技學系
社會大眾面對老化大多抱持抗拒、逃避的態度，因為無法對「變老」感同身受，反而因此衍生更多對熟齡的傷害。
「紫爆」來襲　空汙知多少
(2016-03-13)
鄭宇茹
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Department of Communication and Technology
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傳播與科技學系
空氣汙染影響的不只是我們的活動，還有健康，關注相關議題找出保護自己也保護環境的方法。
Fabrication of titanate nanotube-supported carbon-zerovalent iron nanocomposites for enhanced dechlorination of tricholoroethyelen
(2016-03-13)
Doong, Ruey-An
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Tsou, Feng-Ju
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環境工程研究所
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Institute of Environmental Engineering
Efficiently controllable hybrid micelle of poly(3-adeninehexylthiophene)/[6,6]-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester for a flexible metal-insulator-semiconductor device
(2016-03-13)
Lin, Yen-Ting
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Singh, Ranjodh
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Ko, Fu-Hsiang
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Cheng, Chih-Chia
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材料科學與工程學系
創意無限　玩轉手中程式
(2016-03-13)
楊淑斐
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Department of Communication and Technology
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傳播與科技學系
介紹應用程式的製作流程。
時隔半世紀　殺戮演繹
(2016-03-13)
翁世樺
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Department of Communication and Technology
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傳播與科技學系
一九六五的印尼九三〇事件震驚全球，五十萬人遭到殘忍屠殺。【殺戮演繹】讓世人重新檢視這件慘案。
進擊媒體　敘述方式進化
(2016-03-13)
劉敏慈
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Department of Communication and Technology
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傳播與科技學系
媒體從媒材、內容及產製進行優化，作者更必須思考讀者閱讀的情況，網路時代讓說故事的方式有更多可能。
塑膠垃圾　海生破壞
(2016-03-13)
馮鈞鈺
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Department of Communication and Technology
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傳播與科技學系
每年約有八百萬噸的塑膠垃圾流入海中，不只破壞環境，也造成許多海洋生物誤食而死亡。
流行歌曲面面觀
(2016-03-13)
吳和謙
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Department of Communication and Technology
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傳播與科技學系
台灣的流行音樂中，曲風、唱腔與音量表情無疑是聲音藝術的核心內容。
性少數知多少
(2016-03-13)
呂安文
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Department of Communication and Technology
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傳播與科技學系
性別並不只有絕對的男女，而是一道連綿不絕的光譜，在這道光譜中每個人都有自己的位置。
渺渺　國片愛情電影的影子
(2016-03-13)
黃吏玄
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Department of Communication and Technology
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傳播與科技學系
用《渺渺》一片，來探討台灣國片在愛情劇的安排與困境。
美人魚的願望
(2016-03-13)
王雪琪
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Department of Communication and Technology
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傳播與科技學系
童話故事【美人魚】的童真與美好，改編成電影之後，挖掘許多現實中值得去探討的環境問題以及社會生存之道。
Highly diastereoselective synthesis of substituted cyclopentenes through multicomponent reactions of phosphines, enynedioates, and benzylidene malononitriles via an unexpected phosphine alpha-addition-delta-evolvement of an anion pathway
(2016-03-13)
Chuang, Shih-Ching
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Sung, Shih-Ping
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應用化學系
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Department of Applied Chemistry
窺見新聞業　失焦的真相
(2016-03-13)
許人文
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Department of Communication and Technology
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傳播與科技學系
分析【獨家腥聞】與【真相急先鋒】兩部與記者相關的電影，從中窺見新聞業生態。