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University Social Responsibility in China: The Mediating Role of Green Psychological Capital.

Int J Environ Res Public Health

February 2023

Department of Business Administration, National Taipei University, 151 University Rd., San Shia District, New Taipei City 237303, Taiwan.

Generation Z represents the young people of today. They are considered as "digitally literate" and were born between mid-to-late 1990s to early 2000s. Generation Z pays more attention to popular environmental issues such as global warming, high energy consumption, overgrazing, and university social responsibility (USR), which are present around the world.

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Hearing loss and the related otologic manifestations are receiving increased scrutiny as significant causes of morbidity in Fabry disease. However, the relative risks of auditory deficits among patients with Fabry disease relative to the general population without a diagnosis of Fabry disease have not been studied. This study aims to explore the associations between Fabry disease and hearing-related manifestations using a nationwide population-based dataset.

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Quantifying public preferences for healthcare priorities in Taiwan through an integrated citizens jury and discrete choice experiment.

Soc Sci Med

December 2022

Department of Public Finance, National Taipei University, 151 University Rd., San Shia District, New Taipei City, 23741, Taiwan. Electronic address:

Priority setting is a critical process for national healthcare systems that need to allocate limited resources across unlimited healthcare demands. In recent decades, health policymakers have identified the need to combine technical dimensions of priority setting with political dimensions relating to community values. A range of methods for engaging the public in priority setting has been developed, yet there is no consensus around the most effective methodology.

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Rapid Assessment of Acute Ischemic Stroke by Computed Tomography Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks.

J Digit Imaging

June 2021

Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taipei University, 151 University Rd., Taipei, 237, Sanshia, Taiwan.

Acute stroke is one of the leading causes of disability and death worldwide. Regarding clinical diagnoses, a rapid and accurate procedure is necessary for patients suffering from acute stroke. This study proposes an automatic identification scheme for acute ischemic stroke using deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) based on non-contrast computed tomographic (NCCT) images.

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The trafficking of women and girls in Taiwan: characteristics of victims, perpetrators, and forms of exploitation.

BMC Womens Health

November 2017

Graduate School of Criminology, National Taipei University, 151 University Rd., San Shia District, New Taipei City, 23741, Taiwan.

Background: Prior to the passing of 2009 Human Trafficking Prevention Act (HTPA), human trafficking was underestimated in Taiwan. In the past, domestic trafficking in women and girls often targeted vulnerable groups such as young girls from poor families or minority groups. Since the 1990s, an increasing flow of immigrant women, mainly from Vietnam and Indonesia and some from China, into Taiwan has created a new group of Human Trafficking victims.

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Identifying risk factors for household burdens of road traffic fatalities: regression results from a cross-sectional survey in Taiwan.

BMC Public Health

November 2016

Graduate School of Criminology, National Taipei University, 151 University Rd., San Shia District, New Taipei City, 23741, Taiwan.

Background: Road traffic fatalities (RTF) are among the top ten causes of deaths in the world. The risk factors for RTF fatal victims have been extensively characterized, but studies of household burden of RTF have been very few in number. Accordingly, this article investigates post-crash impacts on RTF victims' family members, including the adverse impacts of lost income, occupational disruption, unfavorable family dynamics, and residential relocation.

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Modeling health survey data with excessive zero and K responses.

Stat Med

April 2013

Department of Statistics, National Taipei University, 151 University Rd., San Shia District New Taipei City, 23741,Taiwan.

Zero-inflated Poisson regression is a popular tool used to analyze data with excessive zeros. Although much work has already been performed to fit zero-inflated data, most models heavily depend on special features of the individual data. To be specific, this means that there is a sizable group of respondents who endorse the same answers making the data have peaks.

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