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New Applications of EGG Detection: Image Motion Controlled by Thinking (Chinese Version
BCC News (2009/09/11) A technology compnay and National Chin-Yi University of Technology present new mind control products of their technology cooperation. With wearing the mind control headset, people can control the motion of images or objects on computer screen. The technology will be applied to educatio
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Licensing Forum to Tout Taiwan Academic's Discoveries to Business Sector (Chinese Version)
Academia Sinica Newsletter (2009/09/09) Three of Taiwan's top research institutions —Academia Sinica, the National Health Research Institutes and National Taiwan University — will hold a joint seminar to introduce the recent discoveries of their researchers to business and industry. The seminar, which wi
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China Fishers' Cross-border Fishing Makes the Valuable Species Wenchan Fish Publicly Recognized (Chinese Version)
Udn.com & EpochTimes (2009/09/12) Taiwan Offshore Flotilla 9 (Kimnen), Coast Guard Administration, seized 62 fishers from Xiamen who came to fish for “wenchan fish” beyond the border. Wenchan fish, whose length is shorter than 5 cm, is actually not fish; it is a living fossil, the
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Pacific Neighborhood Consortium Annual Conference to Feature Keynote Address by Dr. Stephen M. Griffin from the U.S. National Science Foundation (Chinese Version)
Academia Sinica Newsletter (2009/09/07) This year's Pacific Neighborhood Consortium (PNC) 2009 Annual Conference and Joint Meetings to be held from 6th- to 8th-October 6 at Academia Sinica will feature a keynote speech by Dr. Stephen
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ITRI Sets up Cloud Computing Research Center (Chinese Version)
The Liberty Times E-paper, NowNews (2009/09/08), udn.com and China Times E-paper (2009/09/09) ITRI announced on 8th-September that Cloud Computing Research Center for Mobile Applications (CCMA) has been set up, whose leadership is to be exercised by Dr. Tzi-cker CHIUEH.
Cloud computing, repeating ITRI President Johnsee LEE, wil
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Yahoo News Platform Production Project Shifted to Taiwan (Chinese Version)
China Times E-paper & ZDNet (2009/09/08) Yahoo is shifting its Yahoo News production team – product management, engineering and user-interface design team – overseas to Taiwan. Yahoo HQ will only retain the editorial practices.
Yahoo Asia Managing Director Rose TSOU says on 8th that Taiwan is selected to conduct the
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ITRI Succeeds in PID Development and Transfer (Chinese Version)
Commercial Times, NowNews & udn.com (2009/09/04) ITRI presentes its new achievment on 3rd-September – a personal internet device, PID, which is the globally first device embedded with WiMAX chip and Android platform together. Its transmission speed is five times higher than 3G, and its video streaming quality is two to three times
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Animal Technology Institute Taiwan Presents Novel Bio-gas Desulfurization System (Chinese Version)
China Times E-paper (2009/09/05) Animal Technology Institute Taiwan succeeds in developing a novel biocatalytic desulfurization system which can produce bio-energy and fertilizers from swine waste and decrease the volume of waste water. Not only the total cost in swine farms is directly reducible
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NSC Approves Four Proposals for Academic Summit Program (Chinese Version)
China Times E-paper & RTI (2009/09/02) In order to cultivate internationally advanced researchers, NSC Academic Summit Program offers long-term sponsorship to support outstanding researchers that have been internationally advanced or are recognized as highly potential. The final review was completed in the middle of Augu
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“Climate Change, Homeland Conservation and Taiwan Aborigines' Socio-cultural Vision Conference” Takes Place on 1st-September (Chinese Version)
88 Flood has inflicted great looses on South Taiwan especially on the aboriginal tribes. Academia Sinica – Institute of Ethnology with its long-term care for the aboriginal tribes' survival and development issues hosts a cross-field conference and invi
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National Chen Kung University in Tainan, Taiwan; Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, N.Y., USA; and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel, Form A Global Research Institute (Chinese Version)
NCKU Realtime News (2009/08/27) National Cheng Kung University in Tainan, Taiwan; Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, N.Y., USA; and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Ha
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Taiwan Power Company Looks for Partners to Develop Superconducting Technology (Chinese Version)
Dajiyuan (2001/02/01) reported in 2001 that the contemporary President of Academia Sinica Yuan Tseh LEE invited American superconducting specialists to Taiwan and hoped to carry out superconducting technology in three to five years. It was expected that with the technology which could not only help
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Bureau of Energy Invites 19 Service Industry Groups to Voluntary Energy Conservation Signing Conference (Chinese Version)
NowNews, Awakening News Networking (2009/08/25) & Commercial Times (2009/08/26) Taiwan government not only vigorously looks for new energy solutions but also actively encourages the public energy moderation. On 25th, Bureau of Energy, MoEA, invited 7 supermarket groups an
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HTC and China Mobile Will Present the First Chinese 3G Cellphone Together (Chinese Version)
Chinese Wall Street Journal (2009/08/24) & NowNews (2009/08/25) Chairman of China Mobile Jianzhou WANG and Chairlady of HTC Cher WANG signed MoU to develop TD-SCDMA smartphones together. China Mobile will invest RMB 47 million to develop several TD-SCDMA 3G smartphone models with HTC, including one pre
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NSPO Taiwan's Satellite Pictures Show the Danger of Avalanche Lakes (Chinese Version)
udn.com (2009/08/14) and The Liberty Times E-paper (2009/08/24) The National Space Program Office (NSPO), NSC, presented the images taken by Formosa Satellite 2 (FS2) and warned of the danger of the avalanche lakes induced or worsened by Typhoon Morakot. NSC notified that the number of barrier dams was appar
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Typhoon Morakot's Heavy Rain Damaged Hydrological Ecosystem in Taiwan (Chinese Version)
BCC / PChome-News (2009/08/21) Typhoon Morakot (88 Flood) caused serious damage to South Taiwan, and at the same time also brought great lashes against the plant and animal ecosystems in this area.
Environmental activists pointed out that many birds, snakes and large mammals such as Formosan Macaque, F
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Academia Sinica: Severe Obesity in Han Chinese Linked to New Loci of Two Specific Genes (Chinese Version)
Academia Sinica Newsletter (2009/08/21) Dr. Wen-Harn PAN, a Research Fellow at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, and her colleagues have linked severe obesity in Han Chinese to two specific genes. Their research, published in the August volume of the American Journal
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Academia Sinica Researchers Find Link between a Cancer-causing Bacterium involved in Gastric Diseases and the Cells Lining the Stomach (Chinese Version)
Academia Sinica Newsletter (2009/08/20) Dr. Chun-Hung LIN and colleagues from the Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academia Sinica, have discovered an interesting and important interplay between the bacterium known to be the major cause of
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Taiwan – Panama Economic Conference: Both Sides Promised to Enhance Bilateral Cooperation (Chinese Version)
CNA-News / udn.com (2009/08/18) Taiwan Trade and Investment Delegation, led by Chairman of Chinese International Economic Cooperation Association Chung-Yu WANG, attended the 4th Joint Economic Cooperation Meeting between Taiwan and Panama (Panama, 17th to 18th-Aug.). The industries ment
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CEPD: Women's Digital Drop Reduction Program Will Continue in 2009 (Chinese Version)
China Times E-paper / CNA-News (2009/08/16) Council for Economic Planning and Development (CEPD), Executive Yuan, will continue the promotion of “Women's Digital Drop Reduction Program 2009” (trans. temp.). Twenty thousand women's job opportunities are expected, and about thirty million NT dollars will be spe
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ITRI Will Provide “Eagle Eye” to Help with Disaster Response and Management (Chinese Version)
Commercial Times (2009/08/14) In response to the serious damage induced by 88 Flood in South Taiwan, ITRI President Johnsee LEE proposed to introduce ITRI's techniques in the present disaster management as well as the post-disaster reconstruction and the everyday preparedness. Johnsee LEE said, ITRI
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Academia Sinica Academician Chenming HU and Academician Tingye LI Awarded 2009 IEEE Honors Medals (Chinese Version)
Academia Sinica Newsletter (2009/08/10) 2009 IEEE Honors Ceremony held on June 25 in Los Angeles, Academician Chenming HU awarded IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal for his technical contributions to MOS device reliability, scaling of CMOS and compact device modeling. And Academici
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Academia Sinica's Institute of Ethnology Web Archive Portal and Digital Ceremonial Song and Dance Archive Launched (Chinese Version)
Academia Sinica Newsletter (2009/08/13) To celebrate the completion of the second stage of Academia Sinica - Institute of Ethnology's Digital Archive Project, the Institute of Ethnology will hold the 2009 Academia Sinica Institute of Ethnology Digital Archive Ex
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Responding to the Disaster, Taiwan Scholars Suggested: Reinforce People's Sense of Crisis and Stop Striving for Land with Nature (Chinese Version)
Awakening News Networks (2009/08/11) Typhoon Morakot caused serious damage to many areas in Taiwan. Professor Su-Chin CHEN, Chair of Department of Soil and Water Conservation, National Chung Hsing University, believed the major crux was not about
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Due to Typhoon Morakot, 6,300 City Telephones and 550 Cellular Phone Antennas in South Taiwan Broke Down, Chunghwa Telecom Offered Satellite Phones for Disaster Relief (Chinese Version)
BCC (2009/08/10) Chunghwa Telecom expressed, due to Typhoon Morakot, plenty telecommunication equipment had been damaged. Statistics compiled by 18:00 on 9th-August showed the damaged communication equipmen
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ScienceDaily (Aug. 8, 2009) — Historically, many scientists have regarded itching as just a less intense version of pain. They have spent decades searching for itch-specific nerve cells to explain how the brain perceives itch differently from pain, but none have been found.
Now researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have discovered that those itch-specific neurons
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Premier LIU: Taiwan Cannot Say “No” to Nuclear Power (Chinese Version)
Economic Daily (2009/08/07) Premier Chao-shiuan LIU in an interview of Dow Jones Newswires on 6th-Aug., 2009, expressed that Taiwan had determined to advance nuclear power as part of the low-carbon energy policy. He said, although the former government stuck to the “Nuclear-Free Home” policy, nuclear power is more advanta
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Nepal Academy of Science and Technology and Academia Sinica Pledge Closer Cooperation, Sign Memorandum (Chinese Version)
Academia Sinica Newsletter (2009/08/06) Academia Sinica and the Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding in a pledge to help promote a cooperative academic relationship between Nepal and Taiwan.
The signing ceremony wa
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Fiber to the Village! PLC Applied in Taiwan Remote Village (Chinese Version)
The Liberty Times (2009/08/05) Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) and FETnet, associated by Ministry of Economic Affairs ( MoEA ) and National Communications Commission ( NCC ), inaugurated a PLC ( power line communication ) experimental network in a village at an elevation of 1200 meter, Dahu Village,
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TMC Incorporated! IDB: No Operational Plan Received Yet (Chinese Version)
cnYes.com (2009/08/04) Taiwan Memory Company (TMC) was incorporated on 31st-Jul., but the officials of Industrial Development Bureau ( IDB ) said on 4th-Aug. that until then no operational plans had been received yet. Ministry of Economic Affairs passed “Proposal for the Reformation of Taiwan's DRAM Industry” on 21st
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