National Taiwan Normal University

Culturally Familiar Nostalgic Virtual Reality Cognitive Training for Older Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Day-Care Centers

OBJECTIVES: This study examined the effectiveness of a virtual reality based nostalgic cognitive training program for older adults attending day-care centers. METHODS: = 55; mean age = 81.24 years), participants received 12 sessions of VR-based nostalgic cognitive training integr...

Mapping Women-Only Health Research in Taiwan: A Bibliometric Analysis of Research Trends, Collaboration, and Thematic Clusters (2015–2025)

Background: Research on women’s health is essential for addressing sex-specific healthcare needs and informing evidence-based policy. However, women-only health research in Taiwan has not been systematically examined. Methods: We conducted a Scopus-based bibliometric analysis of...

Acute Caffeine Administered in Chewing Gum May Improve Functional Firefighting Balance After Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid Supplementation: A Double-Blind Crossover Trial

Background: This study investigated whether caffeinated chewing gum enhances sympathetic activity and improves functional firefighting balance performance after gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) supplementation. Methods: Fourteen active-duty elite firefighters (age: 36 ± 5 years; he...

Urban–Rural Disparities in School Lunch Food Composition: Evidence from 12.7 Million Dish Records in Taiwan’s National School Food Registry

Background/Objectives: For many schoolchildren—particularly those in low-resource areas—the school lunch is the most reliable balanced meal of the day, so its composition is a direct determinant of dietary equity. The aim of this study was to quantify urban–rural disparities in s...

Observation of Magnetic‐Anisotropy Crossover and High‐Temperature Skyrmions in the Dirac Magnet Fe 3 Ge with a Distorted Kagome Lattice

ABSTRACT Topological materials that simultaneously host robust high‐temperature skyrmions and nontrivial electronic band structures have attracted tremendous interest owing to their distinctive advantages for both fundamental research and prospective technological applications. H...

Tracing Spatial Interaction and Collaborative Inquiry Learning in a Metaverse: A Log-Based Comparison Study of Gather Town and a Web-Based Environment

Spatial virtual environments enable proximity-based communication and continuous awareness of others’ locations, potentially reshaping how learners coordinate collaborative inquiry. This study compared a spatial metaverse environment with a functionally comparable web-based syste...

Service sustainability across cultures: leveraging the SHIFT framework for mobile service engagement

Purpose Although prior studies on sustainable services have examined the issue in contexts such as health care and fashion, existing theories often focus on isolated drivers and therefore offer limited insight into sustained engagement with mobile services for essential daily con...

Terminology for describing the 24-h cycle of physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep: a scoping review

Abstract Background Physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep are three behaviours which occupy the 24-h cycle and interact to influence a multitude of health outcomes. Different terms are currently used to describe these behaviours collectively (e.g., movement behaviours...

Latent patterns in pitch-shift responses: association with working memory and temporal changes in response magnitude

This study investigated how working memory capacity is associated with individual differences in vocal responses to auditory perturbations during speech production. Fifty-two native Mandarin speakers participated in an altered auditory feedback (AAF) experiment, sustaining the vo...