Ming Chuan University

Ensemble Voting of Large Language Models for Multiple-Choice Answer Prediction

Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) has become a key benchmark for evaluating natural language processing systems, and multiple-choice question answering is widely adopted for assessing reasoning, comprehension, and commonsense inference capabilities. However, traditional embeddi...

Photolytic formation of silver nanoparticles under violet light and their antibacterial efficacy against Escherichia coli

Silver nitrate is a well-known antimicrobial, but its photoactivation under visible light remains underexplored. This study demonstrates that violet light (λₘₐₓ = 403 nm) illumination of Escherichia coli treated with silver nitrate leads to the formation of silver nanoparticles w...

Scale-dependent effects and thresholds in urban climate regulation: The roles of local and surrounding environmental influences

Urban green spaces are widely recognized as effective nature-based solutions for mitigating the urban heat island effect. Although previous studies have highlighted the spatial continuity and dynamic characteristics of climate regulation services, most have relied on single-scale...

From bad to worse: customer mistreatment and service sabotage across encounters

Purpose Customer mistreatment is a significant issue in both practical and academic contexts, especially in the service industry. Drawing on the stressor–emotion model, this study aims to use a sequential two-encounter field design to test the lagged effects of customer mistreatm...

Psychological Well-Being, Activity Satisfaction, and Perceived Social Support Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults in Intergenerational Participation: An 18-Month Longitudinal Study

Using an observational longitudinal design, this study examined psychological well-being, activity satisfaction, and perceived social support among 91 middle-aged and older adults participating in community-based intergenerational activities in Taiwan. Across eight waves over 18...