#chang hsiao chuan

[movietonight]

Thanks to my university library and my technical know-how, I can present you a copy of Yonfan's 2009 film "Prince of Tears" with English subtitles.

[watchingalotofmovies]

Au revoir Taipei

Au revoir Taipei    [trailer]

A turbulent night begins, in which a bunch of wannabe crooks kidnaps Kai's best friend, a not-so-cool policeman confuses duty and love, and Kai loses sight of Paris because he falls in love with Susie, the bookseller.

I can see how some viewers may find the movie charming in its naiveté. But I found it mostly too lightweight and slow-paced.

There were also too many dim-witted characters. And the jazzy score got on my nerves.

[goalhofer]

2024 olympics Taiwan roster

Archery

Yu-Hsuan Tai (Taipei)

Chih-Chun Tang (Taipei)

Zih-Siang Lin (Taipei)

Tsai-Chi Li (Taipei)

Yi-Ching Chiu (Taipei)

Chien-Ying Lei (Taipei)

Athletics

Chun-Han Yang (Yuli Xiāng)

Ming-Yang Peng (Hsinchu Xiàn)

Yu-Tang Lin (Penghu)

Bo-Ya Zhang (Hsinchu)

Badminton

Tien-Chen Chou (Taipei)

Yang Lee (Kaohsiung)

Chi-Lin Wang (Taipei)

Hong-Wei Ye (Taichung)

Tzu-Ying Tai (Kaohsiung)

Chia-Hsin Lee (Kaohsiung)

Boxing

Chia-Wei Kan (Taipei)

Chu-En Lai (Pingtung Xiàn)

Hsiao-Wen Huang (Taipei)

Yu-Ting Lin (Taipei Xiàn)

Shih-Yi Wu (Taipei)

Nien-Chin Chen (Hualien Xiàn)

Breakdancing

Chen Sun (Taipei)

Canoeing

Shao-Hsuan Wu (Taipei)

Kuan-Chieh Lai (Taipei)

Chu-Han Chang (Taichung)

Fencing

Yi-Tung Chen (Taipei)

Golf

Cheng-Tsung Pan (Bellevue, Washington)

Chun-An Yu (Scottsdale, Arizona)

Pei-Yun Chien (Taipei)

Wei-Ling Hsu (Taipei)

Gymnastics

Chia-Hung Tang (Taipei)

Hua-Tien Ting (Taipei)

Judo

Yung-Wei Yang (Taichung)

Chen-Hao Lin (Taipei)

Chen-Ling Lien (Taipei)

Shooting

Meng-Yuan Lee (Taipei)

Kun-Pi Yang (Taipei)

Heng-Yu Liu (Taipei)

Wan-Yu Liu (Taipei)

Ai-Wen Yu (Taoyuan)

Chia-Chen Tien (Hsinchu)

Chia-Ying Wu (Taipei)

Yi-Chun Lin (Taoyuan)

Swimming

Kuan-Hung Wang (Taipei)

An-Chi Han (Taipei)

Table tennis

Cheng-Jui Kao (Taipei)

Yun-Ju Lin (Taipei)

Chih-Yuan Chuang (Kaohsiung)

Tung-Chuan Chien (Taipei)

I-Ching Cheng (Tainan Chéngshì)

Szu-Yu Chen (Taipei)

Taekwondo

Chia-Ling Lo (Taipei)

Tennis

Su-Wei Hsieh (Taipei)

Chia-Yi Tsao (Taipei)

Hao-Ching Chan (Taipei)

Yung-Jan Chan (Taipei)

Weightlifting

Wan-Ling Fang (Taipei)

Hsing-Chun Kuo (Yilan Chéngshì)

Wen-Huei Chen (Taipei)

[jcmarchi]

This ultrasound sticker senses changing stiffness of deep internal organs

New Post has been published on https://thedigitalinsider.com/this-ultrasound-sticker-senses-changing-stiffness-of-deep-internal-organs/

This ultrasound sticker senses changing stiffness of deep internal organs

MIT engineers have developed a small ultrasound sticker that can monitor the stiffness of organs deep inside the body. The sticker, about the size of a postage stamp, can be worn on the skin and is designed to pick up on signs of disease, such as liver and kidney failure and the progression of solid tumors.

Credit: Courtesy of the researchers

In an open-access study appearing today in Science Advances, the team reports that the sensor can send sound waves through the skin and into the body, where the waves reflect off internal organs and back out to the sticker. The pattern of the reflected waves can be read as a signature of organ rigidity, which the sticker can measure and track.

“When some organs undergo disease, they can stiffen over time,” says the senior author of the paper, Xuanhe Zhao, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “With this wearable sticker, we can continuously monitor changes in rigidity over long periods of time, which is crucially important for early diagnosis of internal organ failure.”

The team has demonstrated that the sticker can continuously monitor the stiffness of organs over 48 hours and detect subtle changes that could signal the progression of disease. In preliminary experiments, the researchers found that the sticky sensor can detect early signs of acute liver failure in rats.

The engineers are working to adapt the design for use in humans. They envision that the sticker could be used in intensive care units (ICUs), where the low-profile sensors could continuously monitor patients who are recovering from organ transplants.

“We imagine that, just after a liver or kidney transplant, we could adhere this sticker to a patient and observe how the rigidity of the organ changes over days,” lead author Hsiao-Chuan Liu says. “If there is any early diagnosis of acute liver failure, doctors can immediately take action instead of waiting until the condition becomes severe.” Liu was a visiting scientist at MIT at the time of the study and is currently an assistant professor at the University of Southern California.

The study’s MIT co-authors include Xiaoyu Chen and Chonghe Wang, along with collaborators at USC.

Sensing wobbles

Like our muscles, the tissues and organs in our body stiffen as we age. With certain diseases, stiffening organs can become more pronounced, signaling a potentially precipitous health decline. Clinicians currently have ways to measure the stiffness of organs such as the kidneys and liver using ultrasound elastography — a technique similar to ultrasound imaging, in which a technician manipulates a handheld probe or wand over the skin. The probe sends sound waves through the body, which cause internal organs to vibrate slightly and send waves out in return. The probe senses an organ’s induced vibrations, and the pattern of the vibrations can be translated into how wobbly or stiff the organ must be.

Ultrasound elastography is typically used in the ICU to monitor patients who have recently undergone an organ transplant. Technicians periodically check in on a patient shortly after surgery to quickly probe the new organ and look for signs of stiffening and potential acute failure or rejection.

“After organ transplantation, the first 72 hours is most crucial in the ICU,” says another senior author, Qifa Zhou, a professor at USC. “With traditional ultrasound, you need to hold a probe to the body. But you can’t do this continuously over the long term. Doctors might miss a crucial moment and realize too late that the organ is failing.”

The team realized that they might be able to provide a more continuous, wearable alternative. Their solution expands on an ultrasound sticker they previously developed to image deep tissues and organs.

“Our imaging sticker picked up on longitudinal waves, whereas this time we wanted to pick up shear waves, which will tell you the rigidity of the organ,” Zhao explains.

Existing ultrasound elastrography probes measure shear waves, or an organ’s vibration in response to sonic impulses. The faster a shear wave travels in the organ, the stiffer the organ is interpreted to be. (Think of the bounce-back of a water balloon compared to a soccer ball.)

The team looked to miniaturize ultrasound elastography to fit on a stamp-sized sticker. They also aimed to retain the same sensitivity of commercial hand-held probes, which typically incorporate about 128 piezoelectric transducers, each of which transforms an incoming electric field into outgoing sound waves.

“We used advanced fabrication techniques to cut small transducers from high-quality piezoelectric materials that allowed us to design miniaturized ultrasound stickers,” Zhou says.

The researchers precisely fabricated 128 miniature transducers that they incorporated onto a 25-millimeter-square chip. They lined the chip’s underside with an adhesive made from hydrogel — a sticky and stretchy material that is a mixture of water and polymer, which allows sound waves to travel into and out of the device almost without loss.

In preliminary experiments, the team tested the stiffness-sensing sticker in rats. They found that the stickers were able to take continuous measurements of liver stiffness over 48 hours. From the sticker’s collected data, the researchers observed clear and early signs of acute liver failure, which they later confirmed with tissue samples.

“Once liver goes into failure, the organ will increase in rigidity by multiple times,” Liu notes.

“You can go from a healthy liver as wobbly as a soft-boiled egg, to a diseased liver that is more like a hard-boiled egg,” Zhao adds. “And this sticker can pick up on those differences deep inside the body and provide an alert when organ failure occurs.”

The team is working with clinicians to adapt the sticker for use in patients recovering from organ transplants in the ICU. In that scenario, they don’t anticipate much change to the sticker’s current design, as it can be stuck to a patient’s skin, and any sound waves that it sends and receives can be delivered and collected by electronics that connect to the sticker, similar to electrodes and EKG machines in a doctor’s office.

“The real beauty of this system is that since it is now wearable, it would allow low-weight, conformable, and sustained monitoring over time,” says Shrike Zhang, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and associate bioengineer at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, who was not involved with the study. “This would likely not only allow patients to suffer less while achieving prolonged, almost real-time monitoring of their disease progression, but also free trained hospital personnel to other important tasks.”

The researchers are also hoping to work the sticker into a more portable, self-enclosed version, where all its accompanying electronics and processing is miniaturized to fit into a slightly larger patch. Then, they envision that the sticker could be worn by patients at home, to continuously monitor conditions over longer periods, such as the progression of solid tumors, which are known to harden with severity.

“We believe this is a life-saving technology platform,” Zhao says. “In the future, we think that people can adhere a few stickers to their body to measure many vital signals, and image and track the health of major organs in the body.”

This work was supported, in part, by the National Institutes of Health.

[salvadorbonaparte]

Thanks to our library I can watch the last (?) entry in this cinematic universe. Thank you Chang Hsiao-chuan.

"straight and neurotypical actors shouldn't be in queer and neurodivergent projects" oh so you want Joseph Chang to lose his job???

[stuff-diary]

The Post-Truth World

Movies watched in 2023

The Post-Truth World (2022, Taiwan)

Director: Chen I-Fu

Writer: Nai-Ching Yeh

Mini-review:

The Post-Truth World is a well acted, solid thriller. It's not brilliant by any means, but it's entertaining enough and it makes some great point about how far the media is willing to go in order to get views. That being said, I didn't like the final part, cause I think it took the easy way out and the ending turned out rather underwhelming. The cast is great, though, and it carries the movie through its weakest points.

[fannishlove]

I love Joseph Chang so much. The Victim's Game is the first time I watched him in 2020 and I never stopped after that. I like that he tries many different things and even when a script is not that great, he does his bit so well. Looking forward to his upcoming works.

Also in addition this is a very self indulgent Shane/Jonathan collage from Eternal Summer. I really like this movie so much, despite the frustrating parts, it's still one of my favourite movies. It might not leave you happy, it still makes me feel things. A beautiful coming of age story.

[awu-wangxuan]

now that I've almost finished watching the victim game, I truly truly hope the second season will give us a little bit of intimacy between fang yi ren and xu hai yin and that their relationship will be better developed and showcased because, truth to be said, they do have chemistry. these two are the only ones that understand each other, they literally conduct their life in the exact same way, which is deemed as reckless and egoistic by others, so i feel like there could be a level of sympathy among them that no one else really gets and which could be the element of contrast in the drama.

i don't think we are ever going to get romance, it wouldn't "suit" the characters' trajectory, but i do hope they develop some sort of friendship and attachment towards each other. the drama has everything except for that level of warmth that comes out of a well meaning relationship, in fact everything seems very disrupted, brutal and almost hurried. there is very little space for affection and that too is reserved for relationships that couldn't get their happy ending. at this point (episode 7), it almost feels repetitive. this is why I'm hoping for something different to happen in season 2, especially if it comes as a stronger bond between fang yi ren and xu hai yin. it would also be significant for depicting a more positive version of a relationship and possibly help two extremely lonely and self-isolating individuals to come out and try to find solace in the presence and the existence of the other.

[masterkirby]

I just watched it as part of this year's Five Flavours Asian Film Festival in Warsaw

It was very touching and moving and bittersweet, but ultimately it had more hope than sadness, despite a lot of tragedy going on in the background.

Injustice and empathy... I'm still mulling it all over but ultimately I think I care deeply about following in the footsteps of 爸, to have similarly warm and caring shoulders like him.

But some of 狐狸 words also ring true, pragmatically -- it's hard to survive when you don't fight for yourself in our competitive and individualistic reality.

I feel Jie was supposed to be a merge of both worldviews in giving up some naïvety that Tai-Lai might've had in excess but also firmly deciding that he will not be like Boss Xie.

Our screening had an additional e-interview with Hsiao Ya-Chuan where he disclosed that his daughter felt uncomfortable with the movie because of how cruel the world is -- which he acknowledged that, all matter-of-fact and period.

True. But maybe we can manage to fight for warmth and justice.

Also when comparing this to my own region and its history, we also had a system change in 1989 with the transformation (transformacja ustrojowa) and I can see lots of parallels when it comes to mentality and housing issues and so on.

昨天看了部电影…… 一老一小…感觉…难以言喻……

老的一句"喝口冰水,两眼一闭,心里默念一句干我屁事",差点教坏小的…… 是说…这老头也是被世事教的老奸巨滑…说他有错…好像也不大对……索性小的到底没被教坏……

万幸。

陈慕义这个老戏骨,每一举手投足间都是那么自然毫无戏路痕迹,看的教人舒爽——

果然是老狐狸!😆

能跟上老前辈的小童星也是可圈可点～ 很难忘记他那口口声声

"卖我爸房子"

像魔咒一样的烙印在孩子的心上,也烙进了观众的心里……

[melodious-tear]

Pandora’s Box (2021) ep. 11

[cinemadrunk]

RecentWatch (9/9)

The Laundryman 2015

It starts off strong, but then it takes a turn. It’s not bad. I wouldn’t watch it again.

4/10

Life Itself 2018

I like the idea of this movie, how it’s threaded. Yet and still, it is very hard to say I liked it. you can watch it if you want.

5/10

[movietonight]

This is also how I look like when I want to show people my blorbos except of course he's not a blogger he's a deadbeat dad and that's not his blorbo that's his criminal daughter <3

[oceanusborealis]

The Post-Truth World (罪後真相/Zui Hou Zhen Xiang) - Movie Review

TL;DR – A compelling tale of murder and coverup, where there are many potential suspects, and in the end, the truth might be the biggest casualty.      ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4 out of 5. Post-Credit Scene – There is a mid-credit sceneDisclosure – I paid for the Netflix service that viewed this film. The Post-Truth World Review – One of the most essential topics in modern times is the notion of truth…

[filmlababry]

275.

盛夏光年 (2006) | Dir. Leste Chen

[byneddiedingo]

Jonathan Chang and Nien-Jen Wu in Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)

Cast: Nien-Jen Wu, Issei Ogata, Elaine Jin, Kelly Lee, Jonathan Chang, Hsi-Sheng Chen, Su-Yun Ko, Chuan-Chen Tao, Shu-shen Hsiao, Pang Chang Yu. Screenplay: Edward Yang. Cinematography: Wei-Han Yang. Production design: Peng. Film editing: Po-Wen Chen. Music: Kai-Li Peng. 

In his Criterion Collection essay on Yi Yi, Kent Jones does something that I endorse completely: He compares writer-director Edward Yang's film to the work of George Eliot. As I was watching Yi Yi, I kept thinking that it gave me the same satisfaction that a good novel does: that of participating in the lives of people I would never know otherwise. George Eliot's aesthetic was based on the premise that art serves to enlarge human sympathy. It's an idea echoed in the film by a character who quotes his grandfather saying that since the introduction of motion pictures, we now live three times longer than we did before -- we experience that many more things  The remark in context is ironic, given that the character, a teenager (Pang Chang Yu) who will later commit a murder, mentions killing as one of the experiences now vicariously afforded to us by movies. But the general import of the observation stands: Yi Yi gives us the sweep of life, beginning with a wedding and ending with a funeral, and taking in along the way birth, found and lost love, and other experiences of the Jian family and acquaintances in Taiwan. The central character, N.J. (Nien-Jen Wu), is a businessman caught up in the machinations of his company while trying to deal with family problems: His mother-in-law suffers a stroke and lies comatose; his brother-in-law's wedding to a pregnant bride is interrupted by a furious ex-girlfriend; his wife has an emotional breakdown and leaves for a Buddhist retreat in the mountains; his daughter, Ting-Ting (Kelly Lee), is in the throes of adolescent self-consciousness and blames herself because her grandmother suffered a stroke while taking out the garbage Ting-Ting had been told to take care of; his small son, Yang-Yang (Jonathan Chang), refuses to join the family in taking turns talking to his comatose grandmother, and he keeps getting in trouble at school. And these matters are complicated by the reappearance of N.J.'s old girlfriend, Sherry (Sun-Yun Ko), now married to a Chicago businessman, who joins N.J. in Tokyo on a business trip that puts him at odds with his company. The separate experiences of N.J., Ting-Ting, and Yang-Yang overlap and sometimes ironically counterpoint one another, and the film is laced together by recurring images and themes. Although it's three hours long, Yi Yi never seems slack. A lesser director would have cut some of the sequences not essential to the narrative, such as the performances of Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata and the Cello Sonata No. 1, or the long pan across the lighted office windows in nighttime Taipei, but these give an essential emotional lift to a film that has rightly been called a masterwork.

[salvadorbonaparte]

CLASS GOT CANCELLED!! Chang Hsiao-chuan I can watch your sad gay movie nr.4 today.

Campus is opened later today because of snow but I have a class before that so let's see how that's going to work this time. Last week there was a full snow day so we already lost one class we wanted to make up for this week.