Wei‐Lieh Huang, Shu‐Sen Chang, Shang‐Chi Wu, Shih‐Cheng Liao,
The nationwide prevalence of somatic symptom disorder (SSD) has not yet been investigated in Asia. SSD is often comorbid with depression and anxiety, and the effects of these conditions on medical utilization await clarification. We hence performed a study in Taiwan to explore these issues.Using telephone-based sampling and interview, we obtained data for 3161 participants whose age, gender and living area were compatible with the Taiwan population. We gathered scores of the Patient Health Questionnaire- ...
Tópico(s): Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
2022 - Elsevier BV | Asian Journal of Psychiatry
Yi‐Lung Chen, Shang‐Chi Wu, Yen‐Tyng Chen, Po‐Chang Hsiao, Ya-Hui Yu, Te-Tien Ting, Chuan‐Yu Chen, Yu‐Kang Tu, Jiun‐Hau Huang, Hao-Jan Yang, Chung‐Yi Li, Carol Strong, Cheng‐Fang Yen, Chia-Feng Yen, Wei J. Chen,
The different profiles of e-cigarette users in different age groups have seldom been investigated, particularly in populations facing a high prevalence of cigarette smoking. This study aims to examine the prevalence and correlates of e-cigarette use separately for adolescents and adults in nationally representative samples in Taiwan.Among 17,837 participants in the 2014 National Survey of Substance Use in Taiwan, 4445 were aged 12 to 17 years and 13,392 were aged 18 to 64 years. Individuals' lifetime ...
Tópico(s): Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
2018 - Japan Epidemiological Association | Journal of Epidemiology
Ming‐Yen Lu, Shang‐Chi Wu, Hsiang‐Chen Wang, Ming‐Pei Lu,
The mechanisms of threshold voltage shift evolution of MoS 2 FETs after electron beam irradiation were demonstrated experimentally for the first time.
Tópico(s): Ferroelectric and Negative Capacitance Devices
2018 - Royal Society of Chemistry | Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Sin‐Syue Li, Ya‐Ting Hsu, Chen Chang, Shang-Chi Lee, Chi-Chieh Yen, Chao-Neng Cheng, Jiann-Shiuh Chen, Sheng‐Hsiang Lin, Kung‐Chao Chang, Tsai‐Yun Chen,
Tópico(s): Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
2018 - Springer Science+Business Media | Annals of Hematology
Wei J. Chen, Shang‐Chi Wu, Wen‐Ing Tsay, Yen‐Tyng Chen, Po‐Chang Hsiao, Ya-Hui Yu, Te-Tien Ting, Chuan‐Yu Chen, Yu‐Kang Tu, Jiun‐Hau Huang, Hao-Jan Yang, Chung‐Yi Li, Carol Strong, Cheng‐Fang Yen, Chia-Feng Yen, Jui Hsu,
This study examined variation between users of 'club' and 'hard' drugs in Taiwan in terms of prevalence of use and demographics and psychosocial characteristics.Data were derived from a survey of 17,837 Taiwanese civilians, aged 12-64 years, using stratified, multi-stage, random sampling. Participants completed a computer-assisted self-interview on tablet computers which covered use of legal substances, sedatives/hypnotics and prescription analgesics; use of illicit drugs/inhalants, risky sexual experiences; ...
Tópico(s): Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
2017 - Elsevier BV | International Journal of Drug Policy
Shang-Chi Lin, Chung-Yuh Tseng, Po‐Liang Lai, Min‐Yen Hsu, Shueh-Yao Chu, Fan‐Gang Tseng, Chao‐Min Cheng,
Here, we discuss the development of a paper-based diagnostic device that is inexpensive, portable, easy-to-use, robust, and capable of running simultaneous tests to monitor a relevant inflammatory protein for clinical diagnoses i.e. C-reactive protein (CRP). In this study, we first attempted to make a paper-based diagnostic device via the wax printing method, a process that was used in previous studies. This device has two distinct advantages: 1) reduced manufacturing and assay costs and operation ...
Tópico(s): SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
2016 - Nature Portfolio | Scientific Reports
Zheng-Han Wang, Shang‐Chi Jiang, Xiang Xiong, Ru‐Wen Peng, Mu Wang,
We report here the design and realization of a broadband, equal-intensity optical beam splitter with a dispersion-free binary geometric phase on a metasurface with unit cell consisting of two mirror-symmetric elements. We demonstrate experimentally that two identical beams can be efficiently generated with incidence of any polarization. The efficiency of the device reaches 80% at 1120 nm and keeps larger than 70% in the range of 1000–1400 nm. We suggest that this approach for generating identical, ...
Tópico(s): Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
2016 - American Institute of Physics | Applied Physics Letters
Min‐Yen Hsu, Yu‐Chien Hung, De‐Kuang Hwang, Shang-Chi Lin, Keng‐Hung Lin, Chun-Yuan Wang, Hin-Yeung Choi, Yuping Wang, Chao‐Min Cheng,
Abstract Intraocular vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) levels play an important role in the pathogenesis of blindness-related diseases, such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Here, we aimed to develop a paper-based enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (P-ELISA) to analyze the suppression of aqueous VEGF concentrations following intravitreal injection (IVI) of anti-VEGF antibody (bevacizumab or ranibizumab). A total of 25 eyes with wet AMD, one with myopic neovascularization, and one with ...
Tópico(s): Retinal and Optic Conditions
2016 - Nature Portfolio | Scientific Reports
Shang‐Chi Jiang, Xiang Xiong, Yuan-Sheng Hu, Shengwei Jiang, Yuhui Hu, Di‐Hu Xu, Ru‐Wen Peng, Mu Wang,
Great efforts have been devoted to control the polarization state, the transmission direction, and the phase of light within a very confined space in recent decades. Here, we present a two-dimensional metastructure made of an array of unisized split rings with different opening orientations on the surface of a $\mathrm{Si}{\mathrm{O}}_{2}$-silver bilayer. This structure possesses an unexpectedly high polarization conversion ratio and generates significantly strong anomalous reflection beams (over 70% ...
Tópico(s): Photonic Crystals and Applications
2015 - American Physical Society | Physical Review B
Shang-Chi Lin, Min‐Yen Hsu, Chen-Meng Kuan, Hsi‐Kai Wang, Chia‐Ling Chang, Fan‐Gang Tseng, Chao‐Min Cheng,
A good diagnostic procedure avoids wasting medical resources, is easy to use, resists contamination and provides accurate information quickly to allow for rapid follow-up therapies. We developed a novel diagnostic procedure using a "cotton-based diagnostic device" capable of real-time detection, i.e., in vitro diagnostics (IVD), which avoids reagent contamination problems common to existing biomedical devices and achieves the abovementioned goals of economy, efficiency, ease of use and speed. Our ...
Tópico(s): Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies
2014 - Nature Portfolio | Scientific Reports
Xiang Xiong, Yuan-Sheng Hu, Shang‐Chi Jiang, Yuhui Hu, Ren‐Hao Fan, Guobin Ma, Da‐Jun Shu, Ru‐Wen Peng, Mu Wang,
In this letter, we report a full-metallic broadband wave plate assembled by standing metallic L-shaped stereostructures (LSSs). We show that with an array of LSSs, high polarization conversion ratio is achieved within a broad frequency band. Moreover, by rotating the orientation of the array of LSSs, the electric components of the reflection beam in two orthogonal directions and their phase difference can be independently tuned. In this way, all the polarization states on the Poincaré sphere can ...
Tópico(s): Photonic Crystals and Applications
2014 - American Institute of Physics | Applied Physics Letters
Shang-Chi Jiang, Xiang Xiong, Yuan-Sheng Hu, Yu-Hui Hu, Guo-Bin Ma, Ru‐Wen Peng, Cheng Sun, Mu Wang,
Metamaterials, artificial structures with unexpected properties, only function over a limited spectral window. Scientists have recently determined that the technique of combining a metallic metamaterial with a dielectric interlayer creates a device that modulates light over a wide range of frequencies.
Tópico(s): Photonic Crystals and Applications
2014 - American Physical Society | Physical Review X
Hsin‐Yang Huang, Hao‐Li Liu, Po‐Hung Hsu, Chih‐Sheng Chiang, Chih‐Hung Tsai, Huei‐Shang Chi, San‐Yuan Chen, You‐Yin Chen,
A novel magnetically guidable nanobubble is designed for disrupting the blood–brain barrier (BBB) by combining magnetic guidance with focused ultrasound in vivo. The magnetic-nanobubble platform also demonstrates the potential to serve as a unique theranostic tool via performing focused ultrasound (FUS)-induced BBB disruption and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)/ultrasound dual-modality contrast-agent imaging to improve the drug delivery of therapeutic substances or gene therapy into the central nervous ...
Tópico(s): Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery
2014 - | Advanced Materials
Yi‐Ting Yen, Wu‐Wei Lai, Kai‐Wei Chang, Kung‐Chao Chang, Shang-Chi Lee, Sheng‐Hsiang Lin, Ming-Ho Wu, Yau‐Lin Tseng,
BackgroundThere are few data on factors predicting recurrence of completely resected thymic carcinoma. This study analyzed prognosticators for recurrence and postrecurrence survival.MethodsEighty-two patients with surgically treated thymic carcinoma were reviewed between June 1988 and March 2013, and 54 who underwent complete resection were enrolled. Sex, age, myasthenia gravis, tumor histologic classification, Masaoka staging, characteristics of locoregional invasion and recurrence, and the treatment ...
Tópico(s): Pituitary Gland Disorders and Treatments
2014 - Elsevier BV | The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
Ren‐Hao Fan, Yu Zhou, Xiaoping Ren, Ru‐Wen Peng, Shang‐Chi Jiang, Di‐Hu Xu, Xiang Xiong, Xianrong Huang, Mu Wang,
A freely tunable polarization rotator for broadband terahertz waves is demonstrated using a three-rotating-layer metallic grating structure, which can conveniently rotate the polarization of a linearly polarized terahertz wave to any desired direction with nearly perfect conversion efficiency. This low-cost, high-efficiency, and freely tunable device has potential applications as material analysis, wireless communication, and THz imaging.
Tópico(s): Microwave Engineering and Waveguides
2014 - | Advanced Materials
Xiang Xiong, Zhen-Hong Xue, Cong Meng, Shang‐Chi Jiang, Yuhui Hu, Ru‐Wen Peng, Mu Wang,
Conventionally a flat, shiny metal surface can be used as a reflector. Here we show that a microstructured metal surface can be switched from a perfect reflector to a perfect absorber by merely changing the polarization of the incident light. The structure consists of arrays of three-dimensional standing U-shaped resonators (SUSRs), which are fabricated by two-photon polymerization followed by blanket coating of the metal. For the incidence with a specific polarization, light can be perfectly reflected. ...
Tópico(s): Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
2013 - American Physical Society | Physical Review B
Xiang Xiong, Shang‐Chi Jiang, Yuhui Hu, Ru‐Wen Peng, Mu Wang,
A new type of absorber, a four-tined fish-spear-like resonator (FFR), constructed by the two-photon polymerization process, is reported. An absorbance of more than 90% is experimentally realized and the resonance occurs in the space between the tines. Since a continuous layer of metallic thin film covers the structure, it is perfectly thermo- and electroconductive, which is the mostly desired feature for many applications.
Tópico(s): Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies
2013 - | Advanced Materials
Shang‐Chi Jiang, Xiang Xiong, Paulo Sarriugarte, Shengwei Jiang, Xiaobo Yin, Yuan Wang, Ru‐Wen Peng, Di Wu, Rainer Hillenbrand, Xiang Zhang, Mu Wang,
We report here an approach to tune efficiently the phase difference of light in two orthogonal directions, $\ensuremath{\Delta}\ensuremath{\varphi}$, by controlling the time retardation with a microstructured surface made of L-shaped metallic patterns. The time retardation through the judicious microstructures can be adjusted on the femtosecond level, and $\ensuremath{\Delta}\ensuremath{\varphi}$ can be linearly tuned accurately from $\ensuremath{-}{180}^{\ensuremath{\circ}}$ to 180${}^{\ensuremath{\circ}}$ ...
Tópico(s): Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
2013 - American Physical Society | Physical Review B
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Tópico(s): Digital Games and Media
2012 - Association of College and Research Libraries | Choice Reviews Online
Yu‐Shin Cheng, R. Rouvier, Liu HsiaoLung, Shang-Chi Huang, Yu-Chia Huang, Chung-Wen Liao, Jui-Jane Liu Tai, C. Tai, Jean-Paul Poivey,
Abstract A 12-generation selection experiment involving a selected line (S) and a control line (C) has been conducted since 1992 with the aim of increasing the number of fertile eggs laid by the Brown Tsaiya duck after a single artificial insemination (AI) with pooled Muscovy semen. On average, 28.9% of the females and 17.05% of the males were selected. The selection responses and the predicted responses showed similar trends. The average predicted genetic responses per generation in genetic standard ...
Tópico(s): Animal Nutrition and Physiology
2009 - BioMed Central | Genetics Selection Evolution
Pao Sheng Yen, Beng Tiong Teo, Cheng Hui Chiu, Shang Chi Chen, Tsung Lang Chiu, Chain Fa Su,
Characterization of WM alteration using MR imaging is important in the pre- and intraoperative assessment of brain tumors. This study characterizes the extent and severity of WM tract alterations near brain tumors using DTI in an effort to determine preoperative viability or resectability of the adjacent WM tracts. Fractional anisotropy is an important DTI-derived metric of MR imaging. Twenty-one patients underwent MR DTI. Eighty-six WM tracts composed of 43 WM lesions paired with 43 contralateral ...
Tópico(s): Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders
2009 - Elsevier BV | Surgical Neurology
Pao Sheng Yen, Beng Tiong Teo, Shang Chi Chen, Tsung Lang Chiu,
✓Bilateral mycotic aneurysms of the intracavernous segment of the internal carotid artery (ICA) are exceedingly rare. The authors present the case of a 46-year-old man with bilateral mycotic intracavernous carotid aneurysms, which were treated with a stent-assisted vessel wall remodeling technique with preservation of the parent arteries. The patient recovered quite satisfactorily after completing the whole course of treatment. Based on an extensive review of the literature, no reported case of bilateral ...
Tópico(s): Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases
2007 - American Association of Neurological Surgeons | Journal of neurosurgery
Wendy Wong, J Zhang, Shang‐Chi Wu, Travis S. K. Kong, Davina C. Ling,
Objectives: To explore the characteristics and issues specific to HIV related risk behaviours among men who have sex with men (MSM) in rural China. Method: Qualitative study using semistructured in-depth interviews in Dali prefecture, Yunnan. 24 informants recruited through a local MSM network, snowballing and by word of mouth. The main outcome measures were themes identified as increased exposures and risks to HIV. Results: Risk behaviour, social stigma, one child policy and concepts of traditional Chinese ...
Tópico(s): HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
2006 - BMJ | Sexually Transmitted Infections
Shu Ling Lin, Jack H.W. Penm, Shang-Chi Gong, Ching-Shan Chang,
This study applies the index of insolvency-risk (IR) to the failure risk in Taiwan's banking industry during 1993–2000, to explore the relationship between capital adequacy (CA) in assessing on IR and financial performances. Specifically, the current work is to indicate the diverse effects before and after the revision of capital-adequacy regulation in Taiwan, that is, at the end of 1998. The empirical results show a positive relationship between the CA and the IR index, and a significantly positive ...
Tópico(s): Corporate Finance and Governance
2005 - Elsevier BV | Research in International Business and Finance
Shang-Chi Gong, Tsong-Pei Lee, Yea-Mow Chen,
We used a crisis measure of financial market as defined by Sexena (1998) to study the nature of crisis transmission and the channels through which the 1997 crisis was transmitted among Asian financial markets. Estimated with a vector autoregression (VAR) and an OLS model on Asian financial markets from January 1990 to December 1998, we found that: During the crisis period, crisis transmission was more significant than during other noncrisis periods; Comparing the crisis transmission within the industrialized ...
Tópico(s): Banking stability, regulation, efficiency
2004 - Elsevier BV | International Review of Financial Analysis
Yu Shin Cheng, R. Rouvier, Jean Paul J. P. Poivey, Jui Jane Liu Tai, C. Tai, Shang Chi Huang,
A seven-generation selection experiment comprising a selected (S) and a control (C) line was conducted with the objective of increasing the number of fertile eggs (F) of the Brown Tsaiya duck after a single artificial insemination (AI) with pooled Muscovy semen. Both lines consisted of about 20 males and 60 females since parents in each generation and each female duck was tested 3 times, at 26, 29 and 32 weeks of age. The fertile eggs were measured by candling at day 7 of incubation. The selection criterion ...
Tópico(s): Genetics and Plant Breeding
2002 - BioMed Central | Genetics Selection Evolution
Ying-Chuan Wang, Chi‐Lung Li, Hsi‐Liang Tseng, Shang‐Chi Chuang, Tu‐Hsin Yan,
Enantiopure cis-α,β-epoxy acids were prepared via a modified Darzen's reaction employing the titanium-mediated bromination–aldolization of chiral acetate thioimide enolate.
Tópico(s): Advanced Synthetic Organic Chemistry
1999 - Elsevier BV | Tetrahedron Asymmetry
Benjamin Klein, Robert Crawford, Armen A. Alchian,
... https://doi.org/10.1177/14657503211066013Kershen Huang, Chenguang Shang, Chi Zhang Working hard for long‐distance relationships: Geographic ...
Tópico(s): Capital Investment and Risk Analysis
1978 - University of Chicago Press | The Journal of Law and Economics
Wei‐Chen Huang, Hui-Shang Chi, Yi‐Chao Lee, Yu‐Chun Lo, Ta-Chung Liu, Min-Yu Chiang, Hsu-Yan Chen, Ssu‐Ju Li, You‐Yin Chen, San‐Yuan Chen,
Optogenetics is a recently established neuromodulation technique in which photostimulation is used to manipulate neurons with high temporal and spatial precision. However, sequential genetic and optical insertion with double brain implantation tends to cause excessive tissue damage. In addition, the incorporation of light-sensitive genes requires the utilization of viral vectors, which remains a safety concern. Here, by combining device fabrication design, nanotechnology, and cell targeting technology, ...
Tópico(s): Molecular Communication and Nanonetworks
2019 - American Chemical Society | ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
Jang‐Ming Lee, Shang-Chi Chen, Shun‐Mao Yang, Ying-Fan Tseng, Pei-Wen Yang, Pei‐Ming Huang,
Tópico(s): Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes
2016 - Springer Science+Business Media | Surgical Endoscopy