Chun-Wei Chen Livres

Ever since the end of China's civil war in 1949, Taiwan has embarked on its own distinct, divergent path of development. In light of its remarkable achievements and inherent difficulties, therefore, Taiwan should not be considered a renegade province of China, but a society with a democratically-elected government that has taken a route different from the rest of China in developing its own cultural norms and values. This book examines the issues of democratic transition, political imprisonment and the political economy in Taiwan.

The Impact of Environmental Factors on the Production of English Narratives by Spanish-English Bilingual Children Wei Chen & Liang Chen University of Georgia English learners (ELs) entering the U. S. educational system form a heterogeneous group, with different patterns of home language use, different instructional programs, and different socio-economic background. The present study explores the impact of these environmental factors on the development of narrative skills in Spanish-speaking ELs. Three independent studies are reported, focusing on ELs’ use of referring expressions, evaluative expressions, and relative clauses in the English oral narratives. While the results did not provide direct evidence for “the astounding effectiveness” (Collier & Thomas, 2004) of bilingual immersion program in aspects of the ELs’ narrative production, results suggested that this might have resulted from the modulating roles of family socioeconomic status and home language use. Indeed, socioeconomic status was found to play a more important role in predicting individual differences in adequately managing references and using richer evaluative devices in oral narratives than other environmental factors. The study contributes to the field by highlighting the need to examine the interactions of environmental factors to maximize ELs’ language and literacy outcomes. ISBN 9783862887965. LINCOM Studies in Bilingualism 03. 142pp. 2017.

This thesis is devoted to the study of the Bohman-Frieze-Wormald percolation model, which exhibits a discontinuous transition at the critical threshold, while the phase transitions in random networks are originally considered to be robust continuous phase transitions. The underlying mechanism that leads to the discontinuous transition in this model is carefully analyzed and many interesting critical behaviors, including multiple giant components, multiple phase transitions, and unstable giant components are revealed. These findings should also be valuable with regard to applications in other disciplines such as physics, chemistry and biology.

This research book provides a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art subspace learning methods for pattern recognition in intelligent environment. With the fast development of internet and computer technologies, the amount of available data is rapidly increasing in our daily life. How to extract core information or useful features is an important issue. Subspace methods are widely used for dimension reduction and feature extraction in pattern recognition. They transform a high-dimensional data to a lower-dimensional space (subspace), where most information is retained. The book covers a broad spectrum of subspace methods including linear, nonlinear and multilinear subspace learning methods and applications. The applications include face alignment, face recognition, medical image analysis, remote sensing image classification, traffic sign recognition, image clustering, super resolution, edge detection, multi-view facial image synthesis.

Während sich die Risikogesellschaft zu einer Sicherheitsgesellschaft wandelt, entsteht im modernen Strafrecht ein Paradigmenwechsel, wonach das Risiko- zum Gefährdungsstrafrecht eskaliert. Der Autor analysiert die vielfältigen Hintergründe und kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass der Kern und die Lösung der Legitimationskrise des modernen Gefährdungsstrafrechts die Begrifflichkeit des Gefährdungsvorsatzes ist. Hierzu setzt er sich mit der jahrzehntelangen Dogmengeschichte des Gefährdungsvorsatzes auseinander, die bereits zahlreiche dogmatische Erkenntnisse hervorgebracht hat. Demgemäß rekonstruiert er das Wesen des Gefährdungsvorsatzes, das sich auf die Risikoethik gründet, die mit dem Schuldprinzip und der Perspektive der Freiheit verbunden ist.