We need to find unique and creative solutions to the emerging technological challenges that are paradoxically the result of tremendous progress in Information and Communication Technology (ICT), sensors, embedded computing, and related areas. Computing began with a focus on data, and in the last two decades has shifted to a focus on information and communication. We believe that to address the ...

In Taiwan, there is a world-class geological landscape Yehliu Geological Park, which has been noticed in the recent years by the world. It is a shame that the concept of preservation of geological landscapes has never been implemented, allowing tourists to seriously damage natural environments, threatening the image of Taiwan. In order to solve this problem, the government has aggressively deve...

Recently, efforts have been made to better understand constructs that are associated with difficulties in emotion regulation in hopes of identifying underlying mechanisms that may be valuable targets for intervention. Against this background, the present study had two aims. Firstly, we wanted to explore the relation between emotion regulation, experiential avoidance and alexithymia by determini...

The purpose of this survey study was to compare students’ measured Likert scale perceptions of posttest school climate survey, relevance, rigor, and relationships domain scores following 11thand 12th-grade participation in either an integrated experiential zoo-based academic high school science program (n = 18) or a same school district integrated experiential school-based academic high school ...

Ruminative self-focus on mood, problems and other aspects of self-experience can have both mal adaptive consequences, perpetuating depression, and, adaptive consequences, promoting recovery from upsetting events. Increasing evidence suggests that these contrasting effects may be explained by distinct varieties of ruminative self-focus, each with distinct functional properties. This study tested...

Although emotional avoidance may be a critical factor in the pathway from psychological distress to self-injury and/or suicidality, little is known about the relative importance of differing functional coping dynamics and experiential avoidance between people with self-injury histories of differing intent (e.g., Non-Suicidal Self-Injury only vs. Non-Suicidal Self-Injury plus Suicidal Behaviour;...

Medical education increasingly involves online learning experiences to facilitate the standardization of curriculum across time and space. In class, delivering material by lecture is less effective at promoting student learning than engaging students in active learning experience and it is unclear whether this difference also exists online. We sought to evaluate medical student preferences for ...

Active Learning (AL) has recently drawn a lot of attention within the Learning from Demonstration (LfD) community. We are particularly interested in the potential of AL to significantly improve the efficiency of learning new skills from human demonstrators. In this paper we review the different types of queries proposed in the AL literature and exemplify how they can be applied to LfD problems....

The hallmark characteristic of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is poor reciprocal social communication. Interventions designed to improve this core deficit are critically needed. Social skills interventions such as direct training, peer mediation, and video modeling have contributed to improvements in various social skills in children with ASD. This paper reviews existing social competence inter...

This paper describes the development, implementation, and students' perceptions of a new trilayer approach of teaching (TLAT). The TLAT model involved blending lecture, in-class group activities, and out-of-class assignments on selected content areas and was implemented initially in a first-year integrated pharmacy course. Course contents were either delivered by traditional lectures or by the ...