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Mental Disorders Doubled in Taiwan over Last 20 years, 《Lancet》 Reports (Chinese Version)
Academia Sinica Newsletter (2012/11/16) A research team led by Professor Andrew Tai-Ann CHENG, a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute of the Biomedical Sciences has found that the prevalence of common mental disorders (CMDs) in Taiwan has doubled over the last twenty years (1990 to 2010), parall
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Open Data and Information for a Changing Planet — CODATA International Conference at Academia Sinica (Chinese Version)
Academia Sinica Newsletter (2012/10/29) The International Council for Science Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) 23rd International Conference is being held at Academia Sinica from October 28 to 31, 2012. The theme of this year’s conference is “Open Data and
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Universities in Southern Taiwan Team Up to Explore Human Mind (Chinese Version)
NCKU News (2012/04/25) Tainan-based National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) announced recently that the universities at southern Taiwan will team up to explore human mind and behavior with the help of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology.
With the technology, which allows researchers to decode
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Taiwan Needs Industrial Transformation Aiming at Humancentric Innovation: Official (Chinese Version)
CNA (2012/03/19) IAMOT 2012 Taiwan (International Association for Management of Technology 2012 Congress in Taiwan), hosted by the Institute of Technology Management, National Tsing Hua University, took place in Hsinchu on March 19. Facing the present global competition, Taiwan needs another i
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Taiwan Academic Chief Urges for Bill on Research Involving Human Subjects (Chinese Version)
China Times E-paper (2011/10/26) A biobank collecting more than one million local human biological samples is going to be destroyed in February, 2012. Academia Sinica President Chi-huey WONG said, the bill on research involving human subjects should be hastened. The controversy in Article 29 could be by
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International Study of over 1 Million Confirms Body Weight Influences Risk of Death in Asians (Chinese Version)
Academia Sinica Newsletter (2011/03/22) The Asian Cohort Consortium (ACC) including Dr. Yuan-Tsong CHEN and Dr. Chen-Yang SHEN, principal investigators at the Taiwan Biobank and the Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, as well as researchers from Japan, Korea, China, Si
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Taiwan Academics to Hold Research Integrity Symposium at Academia Sinica (Chinese Version)
Academia Sinica Newsletter (2010/12/08) Four scholars, three of whom were instrumental in the compilation of the Singapore Statement on Research Integrity signed by key members of the international scientific community earlier this year, will give lectures on research ethics and responsible research cond
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MoEA Approved HP's and IMEC's Applications to Set R&D Centers in Taiwan; the Number of Foreign Investors to Set R&D Centers in Taiwan in 2010 May Reach 14 (Chinese Version)
Udn.com (2010/10/22) Ministry of Economic Affairs (MoEA) announced on 21 that the number of foreign investors to establish research and development (R&D) centers in Taiwan may reach 14 this year with a total investment of 4
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The Third Pan Pacific Symposium on Stem Cells Research Held in Taichung, Introducing New Parkinsonism Treatment (Chinese Version)
The Liberty Times & udn.com (2010/04/19) Beside of the drug treatment and chip treatment on Parkinsonism, an American scholar presented a new method, stem cells treatment, at the Third Pan Pacific Symposium on Stem Cells Research, which took place in Taichung on Apr
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Taiwan's BioBank Act through Third Reading (Chinese Version)
China Times E-paper & Radio Taiwan International (2010/01/07) Legislative Yuan just gave final approval to the BioBank Act on January 7, by which the right to establish BioBank is exclusively entitled to governmental, medical and academic institutions solely for the purpose of bio-medical researches, ruling out the judicial purpose.
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Cloud Computing Included as Emerging Industry: Premier WU (Chinese Version)
Commercial Times (2009/12/12) & cnYes.com (2009/12/08) After Executive Yuan's announcement of the list of Taiwan's major six emerging industries including bio-tech, green energy, medical care, cultural creative, tourism and intensive agriculture in May, Premier Den-yih WU points out at the opening ceremony of Informat
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Academia Sinica Publishes《Health Care Policy Proposal》, Spurring Present Heath Care Regime in Taiwan (Chinese Version)
Academia Sinica announced in its newsletter on 15th-Jul. the content of its Health Care Policy Proposal (trans. temp.) respectively in one concise version and one complete version. So far Academia Sinica has published three proposals, including Energy Policy Proposal Regardin
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Incomplete BioBank Regulations Put People at Danger of Privacy Infringement, Calls the Lawmaker (Chinese Version)
Many transnational pharmaceutical companies are collecting and exporting blood and bio-samlpes in Taiwan, causing the concerns with privacy infringement and the further ethical issues. Lawmaker Sue-ying HUANG thus urges Department of Health to keep strict check on this and to co
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Research Report: The No. 6 Naphtha Cracking Project and the Cancer Rates in Its Settlement Are “Highly Relevant” (Chinese Version)
Liberty Times (2009/06/08) NTU-Institute of Occupational Medicine and Industrial Hygiene Professor Chang-chuan CHAN presents his investigation report “The Risk Assessment of the Effects of Air Pollution on the Environment and Residents' Health in Coastal Areas”
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Bio-data Collecting Program Allures Ethical Controversy (Chinese Version)
According to UDN.com (2009/05/12), Taiwan BioBank Program, due to its plan of collecting blood for analysis, stirs up controversy regarding ethics and human rights. On 11th-May, it was heard that in order to get the financially supporting organization Department of Health assured of the program's being so carried out,
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China Mobile's Moving into Taiwan Gets Stuck; However Chinese Capital May Legally into Taiwan by the End of May (Chinese Version)
On 26th-Apr., the third CHIANG-CHEN Meeting signed a MOU, allowing for Chinese capital's entering Taiwan. On 29th-Apr., Far Eastern Group chairman Douglas HSU held a press meeting in Hong Kong, announcing the biggest tele-company in China China Mobil Limited will p
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