Contents
27 Apr 2017
Issue 2
From the Kyoto Protocol to the Paris Agreement: Climate Change 2.0
The year 2016 saw two surprising events in the world of climate change governance. First, the Paris Agreement ....more
The Role of Cities in Climate Governance
Urban climate governance has become a vital aspect of contemporary global governance. In 1976, when the United Nations held the first UN....more
Scientists plumbing the depths of the central equatorial Pacific Ocean have found ancient sediments suggesting that one proposed way to mitigate climate warming—fertilizing the oce....more
Rising sea level is a threat to people living in and near coastal regions. Therefore, accurately predicting and understanding changes in sea level are critical, especially in the f....more
No, they are not due to global warming
Taiwan, which is situated in one of the main paths of western North Pacific tropical cyclones (TCs), has experienced a series of TCs with ....more
Providing probabilistic flood forecasts using an ensemble precipitation forecasting technique
Dr. Edward Norton Lorenz, an American mathematician and meteorologist, realized tha....more
Dr. Chuan-Chou Shen, a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University (NTU), collaborated with Dr. Jud Partin of the University of Texas (UT) ....more
NTU College of Medicine uncovers new global drug safety insights by using big data from the National Health Insurance Database
A research team at the National Taiwan College of Me....more
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a heterogeneous disease with various pathogenesis, treatment responses and clinical outcomes. Personalized treatment according to individual patient....more
Do you know about the “YongLin Biomedical Engineering Center” at National Taiwan University (NTU)? What is the “Biomedical Engineering Center?” What exactly can it do for us? Why d....more
The Interview
Mystery unraveled: Age-dependent immunity against hepatitis B virus
Hepatitis B is a global epidemic. An estimated 240 million people are chronically infected wit....more
Gastric cancer is a major global health threat and is the third-leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide, as the disease causes more than 720,000 deaths per year globally. Gastric....more
Researchers led by Prof. Fang-Jen S. Lee of the College of Medicine’s Institute of Molecular Medicine recently published an innovative study revealing for the first time that induc....more
A research team led by Professor Po-Nien Tsao at the National Taiwan University (NTU) Hospital discovered that Notch signaling is crucial for the differentiation, repair and regene....more
Drug relapse can be initiated by environmental cues and stress even after extended periods of abstinence, leading to the failure of drug rehabilitation programs. Currently, there a....more
Klebsiella pneumoniae is an encapsulated gram-negative bacillus that frequently causes outbreaks of nosocomial infections in hospitalized patients. K. pneumoniae can also afflict a....more
Nano- and fine-sized zinc oxide (ZnO) particles are widely used for environmental and industrial applications. Previous studies revealed that inhalation of ZnO particles can induce....more
Ectopic expression of aphid genes in fruit flies lead has led to the discovery of sequences critical to the localization of germline protein Vasa to the germ plasm.
Germ pla....more
For approximately 3.5 billion years, solar light has been the main energy source for all life forms on Earth. Therefore, the ability of proteins to capture solar rays and convert t....more
NTU entomologists collaborate with Japanese natural history museum on the taxonomy of Cantharidae (soldier beetles)
Comprehensive taxonomic studies are fundamental to biology. T....more
All forms of life, from those that live in the icy water of the Arctic Circle to those inhabiting the boiling hot sands of the Kalahari Desert, share one thing in common: their phy....more
Literary Men and Intellectual Transformations in Tang China, by Jo-shui Chen, Distinguished Professor of History, National Taiwan University, is a major study of intellectual chang....more
In the shining crown that is the history of Chinese literature, “Dream of the Red Chamber” is undoubtedly the brightest gem. The author Cao Xueqin’s depths of thoughts and culture,....more
In Greek mythology, the goddess Dikē (Justice) is a daughter of Zeus and Themis. She has two sisters, Eunomia and Eirene, and together they are called the Horae and embody order an....more
Most of the existing literature on FDI roughly divides multinational activities into two broad forms: standard vertical integration and horizontal integration. However, the product....more
Geoscience researchers identified orbital forcing-controlled East Asian-Australian monsoon variability
The Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), the most important realm for th....more
The spatial distribution of wildlife is sensitive to climate variabilities. Classic ecological hypotheses have suggested that to adapt and become tolerant to high seasonal climatic....more
Due to increasing interest in consumer electronics, there is great demand for high-density, high-speed, long retention time (non-volatile) and low power consumption memory devices.....more
The optical and biofunctional properties of an intraocular lens are customizable
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he research team of Professor Hsien-Yeh Chen (Department of Chemical Engineering) at National....more
Western blotting (WB) is widely used in life science studies and clinical diagnoses to detect target proteins in tested samples, such as cells or tissues, via specific antibody–ant....more
Typhoons are one of the most catastrophic types of natural hazards, and they can cause severe devastation in coastal regions. Taiwan is one of the most typhoon-impacted regions in ....more
metallic surface states makes controlling the spin signal through currents possible. In addition, electron transport through three-dimensional (3D) TIs generates a fully spin-polar....more
Structural ordering and charge variation induced by cation substitution in (Sr,Ca)AlSiN3:Eu Phosphor
Red-emitting phosphor materials have been extensively developed to increase ....more
Using in situ X-ray scattering to probe the active phase for water oxidation during gas evolution
Electrochemically converting water into oxygen/hydrogen gas is ideal for hig....more
Jr-Chuan Huang, email: riverhuang@ntu.edu.tw
Associate Professor in Department of Geography, National Taiwan University
Although anthropogenic reactive nitrogen (Nr) increases....more
Scientists plumbing the depths of the central equatorial Pacific Ocean have found ancient sediments suggesting that one proposed way to mitigate climate warming—fertilizing the oce....more
The role of cities in climate governance
Urban climate governance has become a vital aspect of contemporary global governance. In 1976, when the United Nations held the first UN....more
From the Kyoto Protocol to the Paris Agreement: Climate Change 2.0
The year 2016 saw two surprising events in the world of climate change governance. First, the Paris Agreement ....more