Chang Gung University

Short-film–based world café for faculty development in medical humanities: a mixed-method evaluation across three teaching hospitals

Clinical educators play a central role in guiding the professional identity formation, ethical reasoning, and communication skills of medical students. Rapid changes in healthcare, including evolving legal frameworks, increasing visibility of gender diversity, and the emphasis on...

Reliability-aware dual-representation DCE-MRI segmentation with disagreement-guided quality control for breast tumor delineation

Automated breast tumor segmentation on dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) may support quantitative imaging analysis, but case-level segmentation failures remain a concern in heterogeneous multicenter data. We evaluated a reliability-aware dual-represen...

Clinical and radiological outcomes of reverse shoulder arthroplasty without preoperative 3D digital planning: a single-surgeon retrospective cohort study

This study aimed to evaluate whether reverse shoulder arthroplasty (RSA) can achieve reliable clinical and radiological outcomes when performed using standard instrumentation without preoperative 3-dimensional (3D) digital planning in patients with relatively normal anatomy. We c...

A randomized pilot trial of non-flickering 40 Hz light stimulation: EEG activity and cognitive outcomes in cognitively normal older adults

Background Gamma-frequency (40 Hz) sensory stimulation is a promising non-pharmacological approach for modulating neural activity and cognitive function in aging and Alzheimer's disease. However, conventional flickering stimulation is often poorly tolerated, and evidence for non-...

Decision continuity under speech compression in voice-pathology detection: A paired audit at matched false-alarm budgets

Background and objective: Telemedicine assesses voice from recordings sent over telephone and video links, where lossy speech codecs commonly sit between the voice and the screening model, and clinicians act on each patient’s flag. Codec studies report aggregate accuracy, yet two...

Green synthesis of copper oxide nanoparticles using Persea americana leaf extract for mosquito control and antibacterial activity

This study focuses on the green synthesis of copper oxide nanoparticles (CuO NPs) using Persea americana leaf extract to control dengue vectors and selected human pathogens. GC-MS profiling revealed phytoconstituents responsible for stabilization and capping during CuO NPs format...

Continuous infusion of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor is associated with an advantage in neutrophil recovery in pediatric oncologic disorders

INTRODUCTION: The use of intensified chemotherapy has significantly improved overall survival (OS) and relapse-free survival (RFS) in cancer patients. However, it also increases the risk of chemotherapy-induced neutropenia (CIN). Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) is c...

Three-dimensional evaluation of dental adaptation and skeletal stability following posterior open-contact surgical occlusion

Abstract This study evaluated the effects of different surgical occlusion designs, particularly posterior open contacts, on dental movement, skeletal stability, and occlusal outcomes in orthognathic surgery. A total of 49 skeletal Class III patients were classified into tripod co...

Targeting a miRNA–mRNA regulatory network to overcome radioresistance in head and neck cancer: identification of I-OMe-AG-538 via transcriptome-guided drug repurposing

Abstract Radioresistance is a major obstacle to successful radiotherapy in head and neck cancer (HNC), leading to treatment failure, recurrence, and poor patient outcomes. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are key post-transcriptional regulators implicated in radiosensitivity, but comprehensive...

Body Weight in Relation to the Effectiveness of Intravenous Alteplase in Acute Ischemic Stroke: The ENCHANTED Trial

BACKGROUND: The prognostic significance of body weight in patients receiving thrombolysis for acute ischemic stroke remains uncertain. This study aimed to determine whether body weight modifies the comparative effects of low- versus standard-dose intravenous alteplase and to eval...

Coordination chemistry governing practical aqueous zinc batteries: From solvation-Shell reconstruction and interfacial complexation to failure-aware cell design

Aqueous zinc batteries combine nonflammable electrolytes and abundant Zn with attractive cost and safety, yet practical cells remain limited by chemistry that spans the Zn 2+ solvation shell, the electric double layer, and both electrode interfaces. This review develops a coordin...

Establishing dementia care core competencies and developing a self-assessment tool in gerontological healthcare students

The rapidly increasing global prevalence of dementia, coupled with the absence of clearly defined professional competencies in many regions, highlights the need to define and assess essential competencies for effective dementia care. Although some international frameworks for dem...

What pass@k Measures When Attempts Share State: Count Runs, Not Attempts

Search trees, planners and self-correcting agents make the attempts of one run share a random state, yet their results are often scored with a pass@k estimator built for independent draws, which public harnesses apply to whatever attempts they receive. Prior work separates the pr...

What pass@k Measures When Attempts Share State: Count Runs, Not Attempts

Search trees, planners and self-correcting agents make the attempts of one run share a random state, yet their results are often scored with a pass@k estimator built for independent draws, which public harnesses apply to whatever attempts they receive. Prior work separates the pr...

Input Calibration and a Specificity Audit of Auditory-Scene-Analysis Cue Scores in Music Foundation Models

Do music foundation models encode auditory-scene-analysis (ASA) cues, the grouping principles behind source perception? A high cue score alone cannot answer this: the ordering may be inherited from the model's input transform or, for timing, arise from onset positions alone. We i...

Targeting the Gut Vascular Axis in Atherosclerosis: Probiotic and Phytoantioxidant Crosstalk as a Hypothesis-Generating Framework for Residual Cardiovascular Risk

Despite decades of effective statin therapy, a clinically important proportion of patients with atherosclerosis continue to experience ischemic events, even when low-density-lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) is at guideline-recommended levels. This shortfall is increasingly attribu...

Lumikine Attenuates Ventilation-Induced Lung Injury in Mice with Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Lung Fibrosis

Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) induces pulmonary fibrosis by increasing microvascular permeability and inducing severe inflammation and extracellular matrix accumulation. Mechanical ventilation (MV), although life-sustaining, can increase inflammatory cytokine production, oxidative str...

Maximizing area coverage for multi-robots using cloud

Abstract This paper presents an integrated framework for multi-robot task allocation and area coverage using an MQTT-based cloud communication architecture for waypoint delivery. A cost-based allocation strategy is proposed, incorporating factors such as battery level, robot age,...

A bioactive cell sheet interface regulates scaffold–host interactions for cartilage regeneration

Abstract Cartilage tissue engineering remains challenged by uncontrolled scaffold–host interactions after implantation, particularly host tissue infiltration that can disrupt cartilage formation and compromise scaffold integrity. Although biomaterial‐based encapsulation strategie...

Intrinsic Fermi Level Pinning and Reversible Depinning at Ultralow-Defect Epitaxial MoSe2/Au(111) Interfaces

Abstract Fermi level pinning (FLP) fundamentally limits contact engineering in two-dimensional semiconductors, yet its intrinsic origin remains obscured by the presence of interfacial disorder and defect-induced gap states. Although theoretical models attribute FLP to metal-induc...