National Tsing Hua University

Enhancing nasal irrigation adherence through a multimodal health communication strategy: a phased improvement study

Abstract The adherence of chronic rhinitis patients to self-administered treatments is generally very low, which often presents a significant challenge in healthcare. The adherence of chronic rhinitis patients to regular nasal irrigation hygiene care is even lower. Therefore, in...

Protective effects of Abelmoschus manihot flower extracts against blue light-emitting diode light-induced retinal photoreceptor cell damage in vivo and in vitro.

BACKGROUND: flower extract (AME), rich in flavonoids, possesses antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties; however, its protective effects on the retina have not been fully elucidated. METHODS: analyses included cell viability assays, TUNEL staining, reactive oxygen species (R...

Beyond Caregiving: Recovery and Growth Among Primary Caregivers Following the Loss of a Family Member Living With Dementia

BACKGROUND: Caring for a family member with dementia places long-term emotional, physical, and social strain on primary caregivers. Although extensive research has examined the caregiving phase, relatively few studies have explored caregivers' recovery experiences following berea...

Orchestrating Anion–π + Interactions to Accelerate Metal‐Free Room‐Temperature Phosphorescence

ABSTRACT Overcoming the long‐standing trade‐off between efficiency and radiative rate in metal‐free phosphorescence remains a central challenge in molecular photophysics and is pivotal for the next‐generation optoelectronic technologies. Here, we demonstrate that tuning the stren...

Expanding horizons: a decade of synergy between light sheet and expansion microscopy

Abstract Over the past decade, biological imaging has been revolutionized by the convergence of two distinct technologies: expansion microscopy (ExM) and light sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSFM). ExM bypasses the diffraction limit of light by embedding biological specimens in a...

Digital Data Engagement and Health Behavior Diversity Among Smartwatch Users

Smartwatches generate continuous personal health data, yet their value for self-care depends on users’ ability to engage with these data meaningfully. Using a cross-sectional survey of 838 adult smartwatch users in Taiwan, this study examined digital data engagement (DDE) as a da...

A Mode-Aware Hybrid Machine-Learning Framework for Full-Field Warpage Prediction of Fan-Out Panel-Level Packaging After Debonding

Fan-Out Panel-Level Packaging (FO-PLP) enables high area utilization and manufacturing efficiency, but process-induced warpage caused by the coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) mismatch and polymer shrinkage remains a major challenge. This study presents a classifier-gated hyb...

The Verdict Is a Function of the Slice: Auditing a Published Quantization Superiority Claim

A published comparison is read as deployment guidance, and what that reader needs is that its verdict holds on the files they are about to download. Two moves are supposed to make such a reading trustworthy: fix what will be read before the data exist, and reproduce it on a secon...

Adaptation, Not Priming: A Repulsive In-Context Aftereffect Carried by a Sparse Set of Attention Heads

In-context learning is assumed to assimilate: repeated exposure pulls the next prediction toward the repeated pattern, as induction and copy mechanisms attest. We report the opposite sign for graded scalar attributes, and establish three things about it. The phenomenon. Across fi...

Adaptation, Not Priming: A Repulsive In-Context Aftereffect Carried by a Sparse Set of Attention Heads

In-context learning is assumed to assimilate: repeated exposure pulls the next prediction toward the repeated pattern, as induction and copy mechanisms attest. We report the opposite sign for graded scalar attributes, and establish three things about it. The phenomenon. Across fi...

Minimum Partition of Polygons under Width and Cut Constraints

We study the problem of partitioning a polygon into the minimum number of subpolygons using cuts in a fixed set of directions such that each resulting subpolygon satisfies a given width constraint. A polygon satisfies the unit-width constraint for a set of directions if the lengt...

Reproduced Numbers, Unlicensed Claims: Preregistered Acceptance Contracts for Post-Training Compression

Reproducing a published table does not settle whether the sentence it supports was ever specified tightly enough to be accepted or rejected as written. We study that gap through the acceptance contract---the six fields a quality-preservation claim must fix before it is testable (...

Block Copolymer-Stabilized Complex Emulsions for Flow-Injection Detection of Perfluorooctanoic Acid in Multiple-Well Flow Chips

Abstract Rapid, field-deployable screening methods are needed for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), particularly in high-load and non-potable water streams. Here, we report a responsive complex-emulsion platform in which acid-reactive block copolymers (BCPs) stabilize h...

Dynamic helical poly[4]helicene nanoribbon

<title>Abstract</title> The precise synthesis of helical graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with a controlled handedness has a transformative potential as the promising chiral carbon materials. We now report the first synthesis of a dynamic helical poly[4]helicene nanoribbon, a novel cl...

High-Spatial-ResolutionNear-Infrared ThermographyUsing an Uncooled Silicon-Based Camera

Abstract The demand for noncontact temperature measurements is growing as the microelectronic features to be probed become progressively smaller. However, traditional thermal imaging with infrared cameras is fundamentally constrained by the micron-long wavelength of thermal emiss...

Smyca-FOXM1 ribonucleoprotein complex promotes homologous recombination and tumor immune evasion to define a therapeutic target of triple-negative breast cancer

BACKGROUND: Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is the most aggressive subtype of breast cancer with limited treatment options. Although PARP inhibitor (PARPi) offers great promise in treating TNBC with deficiency in homologous recombination (HR), most TNBC patients are HR-profi...

A population-specific genomic reference panel for Taiwan: NHRI-RP-1

Abstract Background To enhance the efficiency of identifying rare variants within the Taiwanese population and to support genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and imputation studies for genetic risk prediction in the Han population, we have developed the National Health Researc...

Low-Power IGZO TFTs with Improved Positive Bias Stability via Atomic Layer Deposition-Based H2O Treatment

In this work, a plasma-free atomic layer deposition (ALD)-based H2O post-treatment method is proposed to precisely modulate hydrogen-related (H-related) traps in indium gallium zinc oxide (IGZO) thin-film transistors (TFTs) by the number of H2O treatment cycles. Under the optimiz...

Solving the Gross-Pitaevskii equation with quantic tensor trains: Ground states and nonlinear dynamics

We develop a tensor network framework based on the quantic tensor train (QTT) format to efficiently solve the Gross-Pitaevskii equation (GPE), which governs Bose-Einstein condensates under mean-field theory. For sufficiently regular functions, the QTT approach enables exponential...

Modeling suicidal thoughts and behaviors in university students: integrating suicide theory with interpretable machine learning

University students are at risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STB), with prevalence rates higher than those in the general population. Machine learning (ML) enhances the accuracy of STB prediction and provides new possibilities and explanatory frameworks for this issue. Thi...