Notes for the Presenters

• Student Forum of KyushuU-NTU Colloquium is designed for students of both universities to present their research works and share their experiences. Every presenter will have 5 minutes for presentation. Before your presentation, please briefly introduce yourself (name and affiliation)

• The total of 20 presentations are divided into 5 groups, and assigned into 5 sub-sessions according to your topics of research. Q&A will be at the end of each sub-session.

• This session will be conducted online via ZOOM, and live broadcast on Youtube.

  • Presenters of Kyushu University please join the ZOOM meeting using your own device and user account​

  • Presenters of National Taiwan University please come to the physical meeting room of R208, NTUC&INC (計資中心 208 會議室).

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13:05-13:10   (Taiwan)

14:05-14:10   (Japan)

13:10-13:15   (Taiwan)

14:10-14:15   (Japan)

13:15-13:20   (Taiwan)

14:15-14:20   (Japan)

13:20-13:25   (Taiwan)

14:20-14:25   (Japan)

13:25-13:30   (Taiwan)

14:25-14:30   (Japan)

KU       Shunta TOMIMATSU

NTU    Guan-Yun WANG

KU       Chao-Zhi SHI

NTU    Wen-Ning SU

An exploratory analysis of technical issues in remote education between international medical institutions

Higher education innovation and online learning

Japanese literature of the 19th century

The Lyrical Pedigree of “Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang” in Renga

Q&A

14:05-14:10   (Taiwan)

15:05-15:10   (Japan)

14:10-14:15   (Taiwan)

15:10-15:15   (Japan)

14:15-14:20   (Taiwan)

15:15-15:20   (Japan)

14:20-14:25   (Taiwan)

15:20-15:25   (Japan)

NTU    Meng-Tsen KAO

KU       Saefudin JUHRI

NTU    Mei-Chun SHEN

Fossil bear and the hidden story from Taiwan

Approaches on the Removal of Silica from Geothermal Water in Dieng Geothermal Power Plant, Indonesia

Small Molecule Cancer Drugs Targeting G-4 and Alkaline Phosphatase

Q&A

14:50-14:55   (Taiwan)

15:50-15:55   (Japan)

14:55-15:00   (Taiwan)

15:55-16:00   (Japan)

15:50-15:05   (Taiwan)

16:00-16:05   (Japan)

15:05-15:10   (Taiwan)

16:05-16:10   (Japan)

15:10-15:15   (Taiwan)

15:10-16:15   (Japan)

15:15-15:20   (Taiwan)

16:15-16:20   (Japan)

KU       Si-Ting CHEN

NTU    Ting-Ting TSENG

KU       Alessandra FERRER

NTU     Long-Jing HSU

NTU     Ching-Yin HUANG

Land Development Status and Tendency of Shinkansen Station Area

Enhancing Urban Livability through Social Housing Policy: a Case Study on Taipei

The Trajectory of Official National Identity Discourse in the Republic of China on Taiwan (1949-2017)

The Impact of Social Media on Social Capital and Loneliness of Older People

How technology improves older person’s quality of life: Investigation in Taiwan and Japan

Q&A

14:45-14:50   (Taiwan)

15:45-15:50   (Japan)

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     16:20-       (Japan)

Wrap-up

KU       Haruna KASAI

New immigrants and the rhetoric of ‘Multicultural Taiwan’: Insight into policy and practice of mother tongue education

(Kyushu U)

Shunta TOMIMATSU

Ph.D. Student

Graduate School of Design, KU

Email: 

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An exploratory analysis of technical issues in remote education between international medical institutions 

International education programs that use videoconferencing (VC) are common now and many are being implemented in the medical field. Irrespective of the value of the content, the learning process can be disrupted when technical quality of VC is compromised. In this study, a participatory design (PD) was used with focus group discussion between technical support staff to determine and classify the causes of technical issues in international remote medical education by VC. As a result, a quality of experience (QoE) -based framework was developed based on the technical issues raised. User behavior and three factors (context, human and system factors) influence technical errors, either preventing or creating difficulties, and affecting each other. For future prototyping of the PD process, it is suggested to have a flexible and specific operational procedure which considers variables of engineers’ background.

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(Kyushu U)

Chao-Zhi SHI

Graduate Student

Graduate School of Humanities, KU

Email: 

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Japanese literature of the 19th century 

Three hundred years ago in Japan, it was called Edo. What kind of literature was dominant at that time. Recently I’m working on the novels written by Kyokutei Bakin. Kyokutei Bakin is a famous novelist who lived in Edo Period (the 19th century).Here’s a picture of him. From his works, I can easily find out that he had cited many novels of Ming-Qing Dynasties(ancient China). Such as The Water Margin, Jiandeng Xinhua. His writing style was deeply influenced by those novels from ancient China. What’s more, before digging deeper of Kyokutei Bakin’s novels, there’s a person we need to know. That’s Santō Kyōden. Santō Kyōden was a famous writer in the same period. To conclusion, I made my research on Kyokutei Bakin’s works basically from two aspects. One is comparing his novels with the original works he had cited. Through the comparison, I could clearly analyze how he made creation in his own work. The other one is comparing his works from Santō Kyōden’s work which were written in the same period to see the differences.

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(Kyushu U)

Erika KAWAKAMI

Graduate Student

Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences, KU

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Effects of declining of understory vegetation on leaf litter decomposition in a Japanese cool-temperate forest 

Understory vegetation, dominated by dwarf bamboo (Sasa spp.) in Japan, has been damaged by an overabundance of deer. Declining Sasa density may induce a decrease in litter decomposition due to the changes in soil environments and decomposers. The effect of the environmental changes may also differ among litter from different tree species. The objective of this study was to examine effects of declining Sasa density via environmental changes on litter decomposition in a cool-temperate mixed forest. The decomposition of three litter species was evaluated using litter bags with two different mesh sizes to consider different litte decomposability and control the accessibility of soil mesofauna. With decreasing Sasa density, soil water content increased whereas the number of soil mesofauna decreased. Litter mass loss decreased with declining Sasa density. Soil water content was negatively correlated with litter mass loss in the smaller mesh. This result suggested that decreasing Sasa density increased water input to soil and reduced the activity of decomposers and litter decomposition rates due to high precipitation in this study site.  This study suggested that understory degradation by Sika deer adversely affects litter decomposition and may, therefore, modulate various forest ecosystem functions such as nutrient cycling.

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(Kyushu U)

Nurrahman ANDRIANTO

Graduate Student

Graduate School of Systems Life Sciences, KU

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Assessment of classification techniques for coral reef mapping using satellite image

While use of satellite imagery has become a viable method for environmental assessment in tropical coral reef research, the accuracy of maps produced would crucially depend on 
the methodology adopted for underwater habitat classification. We selected three different classification techniques and tested how well they performed with SPOT-6 satellite imagery. The area around Tidung Island in Java Sea, Indonesia was chosen as the target site, as it had a complex mixture of geomorphological and habitat features (e.g. flat reefs, lagoons, fore reefs, corals, macro algae, seagrasses, and sand/rubble substrates, etc). Classification techniques tested were Iso Cluster Unsupervised Classification (ICUC), Maximum Likelihood Classification (MLC), and Image Segmentation (IS). ICUC provided the highest overall accuracy among the three. The application of water column algorithm (WCA) to reduce the interference effect of water column improved the accuract of ICUC to the extent that it is “ready-to-use” (>80% accuracy).

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(NTU)

Meng-Tsen KAO

Graduate Student

Department of Life Science, NTU.

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Fossil bear and the hidden story from Taiwan.

Asian black bear, Ursus thibetanus, is the only living bear species in Taiwan. We have limited information about when bears came to Taiwan and their subsequent history due to poorly sampled fossils and insufficient relevant research. In my research, I study a new fossil (about 0.88 – 0.46 million years ago) from Tainan, Taiwan. This fossil only includes a partial mandible (lower jaw), but it shows critical differences from the only known bear - Asian black bear - in Taiwan. Therefore, my research, for the first time, demonstrates the hidden diversity of bear and promises to reveal more exciting stories from Taiwan.

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(NTU)

Mei-Chun SHEN

Senior Undergraduate Student

Department of Chemistry, NTU

Email: 

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Small Molecule Cancer Drugs Targeting G-4 and Alkaline Phosphatase

Small molecules have been utilized widely for different purposes, such as crime scene investigation, influenza treatment, and especially cancer therapy. They can inhibit cancer growth and eventually lead to cancer cell death. However, the off-target side effects caused by drugs often worsen the illness. Hence, small molecule drugs with high selectivity are desired. To this end, my research works on development of DNA alkylating agents targeting G-4 structures and alkaline phosphatase, which are specific biomarkers overexpressed in cancer cells, so as to achieve high therapeutic effect and hope to improve cancer patients’ quality of life.

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(NTU)

Hung Hsi LIN

Intern

School of Medicine, NTU

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Emergent coronary angiography- A livesaving procedure for cardiac arrest patient

Cardiac arrest remains one of the leading causes of death despite great advance in resuscitation and post-cardiac arrest care within recent years. However, the benefit of emergent coronary angiography (CAG) to cardiac arrest survivors without ST-segment elevation remains controversial. Therefore, we conducted a retrospective, observational study to investigate the association of emergent CAG with outcomes in cardiac arrest survivors from NTU hospital.

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(Kyushu U)

Si-Ting CHEN

Ph.D. Student

Human Environment Studies, KU

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Land Development Status and Tendency of Shinkansen Station Area

The Shinkansen stations usually serve as the transportation hubs in the cities, and a good station-area planning is usually prerequisite for the eventual successful operation of an HSR station. For over half a century, the construction of Shinkansen stations has been planned to drive the urban development of the surrounding areas. Around Shinkansen stations, urban development plans were carried out to improve the quality of living environment, attract investments and led population aggregation and commercial prosperity. However, Japan’s total population has been decreasing since 2010, which indicated that depopulation has become an inevitable new reality for urban planners and policymakers. This study aimed to elucidate the current development status and development tendency of all 92 Shinkansen station areas under the depopulation background. Through the Principal Component Analysis and Hierarchy Cluster Analysis, the land development around 92 Shinkansen stations were classified into 6 typologies: 1). Primitive state 2). Low-density residential-oriented 3). Dense mixed residential-oriented 4). Low-density commerce-oriented 5). Densely commerce-oriented 6). Integrated core. Then, according to the growth of population and employment in the station area, the development tendency of Shinkansen station areas was clarified.

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(Kyushu U)

Alessandra FERRER

Ph.D. Student

Graduate School of Human-Environment Studies, KU

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The Trajectory of Official National Identity Discourse in the Republic of China on Taiwan (1949-2017)

This doctoral dissertation aims to illuminate the trajectory of the Republic of China’s (ROC) official discourse of national identity. Although there is no shortage of scholarship investigating official conceptions of national identity in the ROC on Taiwan, few studies examine official portrayals of non-Han peoples who reside in “Greater China”. Thus, this dissertation investigates the shifting rhetoric of the ROC’s Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission (MTAC) publications throughout its history on Taiwan, conducting document analysis according to content and theme. The on-going study has yielded several preliminary thematic results, finding that until a significant rupture in discourse in the 21st century, 20th century portrayals of Mongolian and Tibetan peoples were painted according to Han-centric ideals of civilization, culture, and history, with appeals to a Han civilizing mission across China’s “frontier” (邊疆) regions. Following some expansion in range of content and a less aggressive stance against the Soviet and Chinese Communist Parties in the 1990s, after the election of the Democratic Progressive Party Chen Shui-bian, MTAC rhetoric turned toward a discourse of multicultural and multinational exchange, with a widespread incorporation of English language.

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(Kyushu U)

Haruna KASAI

Graduate Student

Graduate school of Human Environmental Studies, KU

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New immigrants and the rhetoric of ‘Multicultural Taiwan’: Insight into policy and practice of mother tongue education

Driven by the national ideology of multicultural society, language policy and planning in Taiwan has increasingly adopted the rhetoric of multilingualism and multiculturalism since the 1990s.  As part of its policy planning, Taiwan has recently implemented new immigrant’s native language education under the new 12 year basic education.  With this reform, seven Southeast Asian languages were officially included into the national curriculum for primary school level for the first time.  This new educational reform signals new official attention to this previously overlooked group.  This also implies a turn in identity politics in Taiwanese society regarding new immigrants.  However, research on language education in relation to national identity politics is still very limited, especially those that focus on new immigrants.  Thus, my MA dissertation aims to explore where new immigrants stand regarding the identity politics under the rhetoric of Taiwanese multiculturalism.  In order to achieve this goal, the study will examine policy and practice of new immigrant language education to analyse the representation of new immigrants in the new 12 year basic education curriculum, textbooks and inside the classroom, and the transformation of these representation through the process of the policy implementation.

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