德生 01/27/07

Details of the talk:
Time: 1/27/2007, 2:00PM
Place: UTC 3.110
Speaker: Teh-Sheng Ma (馬德生)
Host: Sheng-Cheng Huang (黃聖程)

Title:
Listening to what you cannot hear: from Parkinson's Disease to Rat Ultrasound Vocalization

Abstract:
Parkinson's Disease is a neurodegenerative disease that targets a certain type of neurons in the human brain. The death of these neurons result in the lost of muscle coordination in the human body. Tremors during hand movements are the most obvious symptoms in Parkinson's patients. Other symptoms like speech loss also brings detriments to the social life of patients.

Unlike other disease that can be treated with medicine, Parkinson's Disease is a progressive disease that torments patients for their remaining days. Dreaded by this irreversible result, researchers have been trying to find ways to relieve the symptoms or early detect this deadly disease.

My talk will be focused on the rat vocalization model that I have developed to help tackle this issue. In this talk, you will learn about the most recent clinical therapy for speech loss in Parkinson's patients and also how the rat model parallels the speech loss in human patients. You will also learn why patients are not aware of their speech loss and how this vocalization model might become an early detector for future Parkinson's Disease translational studies.

Spring 2007 Talk schedules

Hello TT Forumers,

2007 New year represents new hope, new resolutions. For this Forum, it also represents a new era for our new blood to present their professions to others. Being the oldest member in the Forum right now(hopefully not long), I will head start the series and setup a model for the new ones to follow.
If you have any questions regarding the arranged schedule, please talk to the next coming host, 聖誠, and he'll help you exchange dates with other presenters. His email is: huangsc@mail.utexas.edu

Have a great holiday!!

Teh-Sheng Ma

日期 Speaker
1/29 德生(Neuroscience) <聖誠>
2/10 志成(Government) <湘韻>
(2/18) (農曆新年)(暫停一周)
2/24 維瑄(EduPsychology) <承甫>
3/17 靜慧(Foreign Language) <凱滿>
3/31 怡礽(Early Childhood) <家誠>
4/14 怡慧(C & I) <維邦>
4/28 國維(AMD)
5/12 期末聚餐

力榕 12/2/06

Time: Saturday (12/2) 2PM
Location: UTC 3.102.
Speaker: Li-Jung Chen (MBA, School of Business)
Topic: How to read a financial report...


Li-Jung, a MBA student in business school, will share with us from her professional training of how to fully grasp useful information hidden within financial reports of large corporations.

Following this session, house business will take place and schedules for next semester's speakers and hosts will be discussed.





posted by Teh-Sheng Ma

聖程 10/28/06

Time: Saturday (10/28) 2PM
Location: UTC 3.102.
Speaker: Sheng-Cheng Huang (School of Information).
Topic: A Semiotic View of Information: Semiotics as a Foundation of LIS Research
in Information Behavior.

Traditional information behavior studies in library and information science (LIS) research have focused on primarily two trends: one is to provide physical access to material objects and the other is to direct users to certain thoughts and ideas. Both focuses are two sides of the same problem that LIS researchers have worked to address: how to provide a better system or service to accommodate people's need for information. Among the domains of users, material objects, and meaningful ideas, applying the concept of information as sign with semiotics not only joins these two trends in the analysis of the pragmatic-syntactic relationship and the pragmatic-semantic relationship, but it also gives an additional focus on the syntactic-semantic relationship. It is this additional focus that helps LIS professionals/researchers understand an individual's states of knowing and ways of obtaining knowledge through physical and mental interactions with informative objects. The author conducts a review of information studies, the epistemological concerns and pragmatic traditions in LIS, and semiotics in an attempt to seek a holistic principle that will incorporate both the traditional trends of LIS research and provide an additional awareness in assisting users to make connections between material objects and ideas in information behavior studies. By applying a semiotic view of information and the concept of information as sign, LIS researchers of information behavior will find semiotics a useful epistemological framework.


台灣聊天室；
1) “王建民現象“.
我們可延伸討論運動產業的國際化與在地化，台灣職棒的生存～Lanew熊封王的職業觀效應，媒體與巨蛋迷思，甚至分享看過的大聯盟與小聯盟經驗。
2) 討論下學期 Schedule.

凱滿 10/21/06

Time: Saturday 10/21 2-4PM
Location: UTC 3.102
Speaker: 張凱滿 (Kai-man Chang), the expert of director Tsai
Synopsis:
看蔡明亮的電影，我常會覺得自己好像被迫去注視一具具無言的軀體，平凡卻又詭異的空間，和永無止境的孤寂。看完後我又不自覺不停地去思索電影中想要呈現的是什麼。看似簡單的故事，為何會讓許多人看不懂，又為何會讓我頭殼壞掉地去拿他的電影來寫論文。歡迎TT-Forum的朋友們一起來探討和分享看蔡明亮電影的經驗。我的報告會簡單介紹一些西方學者對身體性別和空間的論述，並播放電影“河流” 和“不散” 中的一些片段來分析身體和空間之間情慾交流與對話的可能性。

關於蔡明亮導演： imdb; wikipedia