National Taipei University of Education

Reimagining the past: Historical imagination in theory and practice

Historical imagination is not merely an auxiliary tool in historical understanding but its constitutive condition—a claim articulated consistently across Collingwood’s re-enactment, Dilthey’s Verstehen, and Gadamer’s fusion of horizons, and supported by cognitive neuroscience. Ye...

Resistance training performed under a partial range of motion elicits favorable hormonal responses in untrained young men

This study aimed to examine the acute effects of full range of motion (FROM) versus partial range of motion (PROM) resistance training on metabolic and hormonal responses in untrained men. Ten untrained men (24.1 ± 1.2 yrs) performed three sets of back squat and bench press exerc...

Exploring the Columbian Exchange: plant introductions to Taiwan in the 17th century

The Columbian Exchange is a well-known process of massive intercontinental translocation of animal and plant species triggered by European colonialism starting in the 16th and 17th centuries. Detailed studies of local processes of introduction of plant species are not abundant in...

Phylogeny and taxonomic revisions of Piper (Piperaceae) in Taiwan

Taiwan, located at the northernmost extent of Huxley's Line, marks the furthest point along this biogeographic boundary where exchanges of flora and fauna occur. The genus Piper, a globally distributed and taxonomically complex group of both economic and evolutionary importance,...