This project was undertaken to ascertain the perceptions of a group of Taiwan’s fourth-year bachelor of science in nursing (BSN) students regarding death and help expected from nurses during the dying process. Within the Chinese culture, death is one of the most important life issues. However, in many Chinese societies it is difficult for people to reveal their deepest feelings to their significant others or loved ones. It was in this context that this project was developed because little is known (...) about how Taiwan’s nursing students perceive death and the dying process. Using an open-ended, self-report questionnaire, 110 senior BSN students recorded their thoughts on: (1) their fears before physical death; (2) afterlife destinations; and (3) the help they would expect from nurses when dying. The data were analyzed using a three-layer qualitative thematic analysis. The students’ reported needs during the dying process were directed towards three main goals: (1) help in reaching the ‘triple targets of individual life’; (2) help in facilitating in-depth support so that both the dying person and significant others can experience a blessed farewell; and (3) help in reaching a destination in the afterlife. The results support the belief of dying as a transition occurring when life weans itself from the mortal world and prepares for an afterlife. (shrink)

Metrics and their weaker forms are used to measure the difference between two data. There are many metrics that are available but not desired by a practitioner. This paper recommends in a plausible reasoning manner an easy-to-understand method to construct desired distance-like measures: to fuse easy-to-obtain pseudo-semi-metrics, pseudo-metrics, or metrics by making full use of well-known t-norms, t-conorms, aggregation operators, and similar operators. The simple reason to do this is that data for a real world problem are sometimes from multiagents. (...) A distance-like notion, called weak interval-valued pseudo-metrics, is defined by using known notions of pseudo-semi-metrics, pseudo-metrics, and metrics; this notion is topologically good and shows precision, flexibility, and compatibility than single pseudo-semi-metrics, pseudo-metrics, or metrics. Propositions and detailed examples are given to illustrate how to fabricate an expected or demanded WIVP-metric in practical problems, and WIVP-metric and its special cases are characterized by using axioms. Moreover, some WIVP-metrics pertinent to quantitative logic theory or interval-valued fuzzy graphs are constructed, and fixed point theorems and common fixed point theorems in weak interval-valued metric spaces are also presented. Topics and strategies for further study are also put forward concretely and clearly. (shrink)

Engineering ethics education is a complex field characterized by dynamic topics and diverse students, which results in significant challenges for engineering ethics educators. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a systematic approach to determine what to teach and how to teach in an ethics curriculum. This is a topic that has not been adequately addressed in the engineering ethics literature. This systematic approach provides a method to: (1) develop a context-specific engineering ethics curriculum using the Delphi technique, a (...) process-driven research method; and (2) identify appropriate delivery strategies and instructional strategies using an instructional design model. This approach considers the context-specific needs of different engineering disciplines in ethics education and leverages the collaboration of engineering professors, practicing engineers, engineering graduate students, ethics scholars, and instructional design experts. The proposed approach is most suitable for a department, a discipline/field or a professional society. The approach helps to enhance learning outcomes and to facilitate ethics education curriculum development as part of the regular engineering curriculum. (shrink)

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought hunger to millions of people around the world. Social distancing measures coupled with national lockdowns have reduced work opportunities and the overall household incomes. Moreover, the disruption in agricultural production and supply routes is expected to continue into 2021, which may leave millions without access to food. Coincidentally, those who suffer the most are poor people. As such, food security and tourism poverty alleviation are interlinked when discussing social problems and development. While the corporate interest (...) in tourism poverty alleviation is as old as the industrial revolution, little research has been conducted to show how social innovation can be leveraged to reinforce food security and alleviate poverty. Thus, this case study examines the food industry in rural China to establish how it conducts social innovation in food production and distribution to facilitate social development and mitigate poverty. (shrink)

Against the backdrop of economic internationalization and market globalization, the world has witnessed faster competitive contents with a more dynamic market environment, a more rapid technological innovation, and more diverse customer needs. Thus, for every enterprise especially led by entrepreneurs, the focus is to maintain the sustainability of competitive advantages and dynamically transform core capacity to avoid rigidity. This paper introduces the process of the deepened rigidity in WS Co. Company, which occurs due to the wrong cognition of Dr. S (...) and his teams who managed or failed to respond to the rigidity encountered by the company during different periods. The rigidity of its capacity is believed to be caused by the cognitive errors of the entrepreneur and his team facing every period of potential rigidity, which makes them fail to deal with it, thus leading to complete rigidity. This paper intends to explain how rigidity takes shape from the cognitive aspect of senior managers, which may serve as illuminations for the similar enterprises led by entrepreneurs. (shrink)

This paper demonstrated the influences of initiation, development, turn-down, and reinitiation of the dynamic capability of an entrepreneurial firm in the solar energy industry. The focus is on the impact of entrepreneurial hubris, which may affect the decision of ambidexterity that can vitalize dynamic capability. The findings indicate that, when the major decision maker has the trait of hubris, the decision-making process may be overly arbitrary, and a decision of being exploratory or exploitative alone is likely to be made. On (...) the contrary, when the founder entrepreneur is aware of the hubris and shares decisive power, the decision of being ambidextrous as a dynamic capability is more freely achieved. This paper contributes by discovery of the cognitive-based microfoundation of entrepreneurial ventures and linkage of such microfoundation to organizational ambidexterity. (shrink)

Photovoltaic power forecasting can provide strong support for the safe operation of the power system. Existing forecasting methods are ineffective for grid scheduling decisions or risk analysis. The novel multicluster interval prediction method is proposed to consider the volatility and randomness of PV power output. First, this method utilizes the sparse autoencoder and Bayesian regularized NARX network for point forecasting of PV power. Second, density peak clustering improved by kernel Mahalanobis distance is applied to classify the dataset into multiple clusters, (...) including forecasting error and meteorological factors. Finally, the joint probability density is established by multivariate kernel density estimation to accomplish the PV power interval prediction. The proposed hybrid method is applied for the interval prediction of PV power at Yulara, Australia. Comparative research of point forecasting is implemented to evaluate the machine learning and deep learning methods, with the proposed SAE-BRNARX under four different periods. Results shows that the average values of nRMSE, MRE, nMAE, and R2 for the four periods are 4.45%, 0.90%, −0.15%, 3.39%, and 95.93%, respectively. Moreover, the results of interval prediction obtained by the other interval prediction approaches are compared with the proposed KMDDPC-MKDE. It shows that the average values of PICP, PINAW, ACE, and nMPICD for four periods are 93.93%, 9.50%, 3.93%, and 7.10% at 90% confidence level, respectively. Outcomes demonstrate that the proposed method can obtain more accuracy, a higher coverage rate, narrower average bandwidth, and a closer distance between the middle of interval and actual value than other methods. (shrink)

人生不如意事十常八九，誰都只想耍廢良久， 遭遇生命卡關接二連三，恭請37位哲學家帶我們破廢闖關！ 學校不會考，但一定要懂得哲學思考，人生困惑難解，卻能睿智面對。傅佩榮教授以輕鬆小品、深入淺出的方式，引領現代人換一顆哲學家的腦袋，用多元化的思維，應對各式各樣的生命大哉問！ 工作壓力神大，靠購物宣洩變成月光族，問問哲學家該怎麼辦？！享樂主義的代表魯克雷休斯教人搞清楚到底毛病出在哪裡，知道真正的快樂止於何處，敲開致富的最佳途徑。 生活充滿各種不大不小的痛苦，讓人軟弱無力受不了！看看西塞羅怎麼說？他認為要練習做到能忍受時就忍受，不能忍受時就躲開，逃避並不可恥而且可用。 傅佩榮教授介紹日常就在思索人生課題的三十七位西方哲學家，從古希臘時代的蘇格拉底、柏拉圖、亞里斯多德，以至中世紀的奧古斯丁、多瑪斯等人，透過同樣在愛恨情仇中努力活著的先哲的故事，以及一個精闢的觀念或一句 犀利的名言，常常可以想通某種奧妙的道理。原來，柏拉圖的戀愛使人陷入神聖的瘋狂，開始活出真正的自己，而西塞羅指出決定未來的是自己的勇氣，有了面對命運的勇氣，將更有誠意珍惜現在。灰心喪志想尋求力量？厭世耍 廢想找到良方？哲學是處理煩惱和焦慮的指南，傅教授從現代角度解讀哲學家的思考歷程，只要傾聽他們的忠告，就能翻轉腦袋，逆轉人生。 — 作者簡介｜ 傅佩榮 上海市人，臺大哲學研究所畢業，美國耶魯大學哲學博士，曾任臺大哲學系教授、系主任兼哲學研究所所長，比利時魯汶大學、荷蘭萊頓大學講座教授。 在臺大開設「哲學與人生」課程，座無虛席，受教者上萬人；另外，多次應邀前往馬來西亞、韓國、美國、新加坡等地的華人社團作傳統文化講座，亦在大陸多家電視臺主講國學。曾獲國家文藝獎、中正文化獎、教育部教學特優 獎，及大學生社團推薦最優通識課程、新浪、搜狐二〇〇七年度傑出文化人物、《民生報》評選校園熱門教授等獎項。 傅佩榮潛心研究國學，專心注解，並重新解讀《論語》、《孟子》、《易經》等傳統經典。他不但長年致力於國學的普及與推廣，更兼具中西文化之深厚學養，集四十年潛心治學心得，以哲學建構和邏輯分析的視角，搭建起東西 方思想的橋梁，堪稱中西文化的擺渡者。 已出版作品有《原來老子這樣說》、《原來孔子這樣說》、《原來莊子這樣說》、《原來孟子這樣說》、《論語的人文之美》[第一部]、《論語的生命解惑》（《論語的人文之美》第二部）、《人生困惑問莊子》[第一部]、 《人生困惑問莊子》[第二部]、《荒謬之外──卡繆思想研究》、《會思想的蘆葦》、《最後一張王牌》、《傅佩榮的易經入門課》、《無用的日子讀老莊》等書。 傅佩榮國學官方頻道：https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk9S7VJzSXFj41-V6UV2sNA.

This study investigates the impacts of intellectual capital through Value-Added Intellectual Capital (VAIC) and its components: human capital efficiency (HCE) and structural capital efficiency (SCE) on financial performance in terms of return on assets (ROA) and return on equity (ROE). In addition, this study compares the effects between firms from financial and pharmaceutical industries. A total of 149 Vietnamese firms comprising of 108 financial firms and 41 pharmaceutical firms were examined. Based on the findings, VAIC and HCE show beneficial impacts (...) on both financial performance measures, ROA, and ROE. However, SCE shows adverse and beneficial implications on ROA and ROE, respectively. In terms of industry comparison, VAIC has positive effects on ROA and ROE among the firms from financial industry, whereas it has no effect in the firms from pharmaceutical industry. The effect of HCE on ROA is stronger in the firms from financial industry than firms from pharmaceutical industry while the effect of HCE on ROE is stronger in the firms from pharmaceutical industry than firms from financial industry. The effect of SCE on ROA is stronger in the pharmaceutical firms than financial firms while the effect of SCE on ROE is stronger in the financial firms than pharmaceutical firms. Lastly, the implications of the importance of knowledge-based resources on value creation were elaborated. (shrink)

哲學巨擘傅佩榮，獻給愛智者最真摯的禮物 總結懸命半生的重磅著作，橫跨2600年、120位哲學家 ➢哲學就是愛智慧，陪你思考人生問題，掌握人生方向； ➢哲學就是人生經濟學，用最少時間，達成最大效果。 哲學有益人生。傅佩榮教授於「得到」知識平臺開設熱門課程： 「傅佩榮的西方哲學課」，超過四萬訂戶。 本著作為此課程整理修訂而成，完整梳理西方哲學史2600年的120位代表人物， 一套三冊，分為： ．上：古代＋中世紀—介紹古希臘與中世紀哲學 ．中：近代—介紹近代哲學 ．下：現代—介紹現代哲學 本冊為【上：古代＋中世紀】 本著作是哲普作品，也是西方哲學簡史，清楚表述哲學家在愛智過程中所領悟的心得， 與對現代人生的啟發，綜合哲學家用生命驗證的成果，展示西方的核心理念， 讓我們在品味西方哲學時，還能建立起自己的宇宙觀、人生觀、價值觀。 ||上：古代＋中世紀|| 如何讓神從神壇走向廚房？擁有魔戒，你會做什麼？ 悲劇可以淨化心靈嗎？享樂主義的快樂清單說什麼？ 若我受騙，則我存在？有多少力量，就有多少愛？ 古希臘哲學留給後世無限寶貴財富，探討宇宙及萬物的來源； 接續的中世紀哲學由基督宗教主導，綿延1300年， 卻被稱為「黑暗時代」，哲學成為神學的女僕。 但不能忽略基督宗教維持社會穩定、保存文化命脈、塑造西方心靈、 助人面對人生奧祕，是開啟近代哲學的關鍵時期！ ◤哲學讓人生更香甜，改變你對生命的想像！ ．未經反省檢查的人生，是不值得活的。──蘇格拉底 ．對自我有強烈的執著，是一切罪惡的最常見來源。──柏拉圖 ．從事哲學思考，就是學習如何死亡。──西塞羅 ．不要滿不在乎的過日子，好像你可以活一千年似的。──奧雷流士 ．不要從你自身離去，因為真理棲息於人的內心世界。──奧古斯丁 ．人的良心，就是為他引航的最佳嚮導。──司各特 ||書籍特色|| ☆每節結束附上「學習心得」、「問題思考」、「補充說明」， 便於讀者複習重點、換位思考哲學家的觀點進而迸出心靈火花、補充說明關鍵概念。 ☆書中加入作者長年研究儒家與道家的心得，有助讀者在對照比較中， 既可欣賞西方哲學，又能覺悟中國哲學的特色與價值。 ☆書末附有索引，詳列詞條在各冊的頁碼，方便讀者對照查找。.

本书主要从五个方面对老庄生命哲学进行梳理和阐发.一是老庄生命哲学形成的原因分析.二是老庄的生命本质论.三是老庄的生命价值论.四是老庄的生命过程论.五是老庄的生命境界论.

當我們用一隻眼睛看著未來，就只剩下一隻眼睛看著現在。必須兩眼都看著現在，才能走穩每一步。 ★ 臺大哲學系傅佩榮教授新作★ 尋找與安排人生的重心，找到重新出發的生命動力 品味人生靠自己，追求活得更有智慧的幸福人生 同樣的一生，有人活得多采多姿，有人活得黯然神傷；同樣的一天，有人過得充實美好，有人過得了無生趣。人生際遇各有不同，但是追求幸福之心並無差異。幸福的定義可能言人人殊，但是它與人的自我實現必有密切關係。 現代人的生活充滿逆境，應付每天的困難都措手不及。如何認識及提升自己的抗壓力，使自己擁有百折不回的毅力，努力攀上人生的頂峰？ 活著，就須不斷自我超越。經營充實的生活，當務之急是激發潛能、培養創意、堅定信心，才有能力在充滿變化的世局中，讓身體像行雲一般自在，心靈像流水一樣自由，活得灑脫而愉快。 ★臺大哲學系傅佩榮教授以西方哲學為基礎，後轉向研究儒家、道家與易經……等哲學。 他樂於分享自己的學習經驗，暢談人生問題之種種，希望讀者能透過本書12個主題，開啟創意人生，進而品味人生： 1. 創意人生靠自己在這個焦慮與憂鬱的世代，可以重新閱讀《論語》，把握創新的契機，由「知、情、意」三方面開發自己的潛能。 2. 身心安頓的三條路──哲學、藝術、宗教實踐哲學智慧，自我提升；培養嗜好，增加生活趣味，就能超脫執著局限、優游適意活在當下。 3. 起落的生命──談自我肯定的人生哪裡有困難，就從哪裡站起來，主動對生命負起責任。選擇目標去奮鬥，建立自信正面的人生觀，活出生命的光彩。 4. 如何讓自己活得更有智慧處於變動拼湊的新社會形態，應讓理性和智慧引領人生，以「約、恕、儉、敬」自我約束，借用哲學家的智慧反思自身。 5. 給自己一個活下去的理由遇上情感上的衝擊，應尋求宗教寄託，並理性給予支持力量，更要確立人生的價值觀，掌握生命藍圖。 6. 尋找與安排生命的重心人生在世，要設法掌握生存、生活、生命三個世界，選出自己珍惜的價值，期許自己走向人生的更高境界。 7. 豐富的趣味人生從孔子的休閒精神、荷蘭人的週休時光，了解休閒生活的智慧，從中肯定生命存在之喜樂，體驗生命的完整，思考回歸生命原點。 8. 生命的虛無與熱情生命有限，值得珍視。掌握生命的意義，謙卑地做出情感抉擇。持續尋找心靈能量，從「身心」往「靈」的方向發展。 9. 拓展人際視野了解自我防衛系統如何運作，才能探討如何拓展人際視野。慎選來往的人，與他們一起成長，努力朝新的目標、新的境界發展。 10. 重新出發的生命動力逆境是客觀存在的，需拓展心與靈的彈性，若處之有道，何懼逆境。我們應仿效孔子德行，提高逆境智商，用智慧面對逆境，維持生命的動力。 11. 青少年成長的心路歷程了解青少年成長的重要三階段、成長階段面臨的考驗，以及如何著手進行生涯規畫，並鼓勵其自由選擇、有負任責的勇氣。 12. 行雲流水的生活情調後現代社會的人一方面得到解脫的機會，但也帶來全新的責任。應設定目標，活在當下；提升審美品味，但求任心自在。.

本书分九章,内容包括:逍遥自在的人生智慧;胸怀天下的忍者之心;行如流水的无形心态;积水成渊的成事智慧;道法自然的处世箴言;顺其自然的发展规律;超然脱俗的真挚情感;得民心者的治理之要;行之有效的领导智慧 。.

Ben shu gong liu pian, Nei rong bao kuo:zhong guo ren de pin de, Wo men xu yao shen me yang de she hui he zheng fu, Min zhu yu zi you, Shi ye yu ren sheng, Wo men xu yao shen me yang de wen xue, Wo men xu yao shen me yang de jiao yu deng.

本书前半段以西方为焦点,探讨“思想方法”、“人生的真相”、“神话与悲剧”等普通的知识背景,提供由人生省思走向哲学的途径。后半段以“中国哲学的起源与特质”、“儒家的风格”与道德智慧为主题,揭示中国传统文 化中体大思精的人生哲理与玄妙卓越的人生境界。.

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Remarks at Harvard University Memorial Service for Benjamin I. SchwartzYu-sheng LinAmong the eminent intellectual historians in the world after World War II, Ben Schwartz was one of the most subtle and profound. He was deeply rooted in—but not confined by—the humanist tradition of Montaigne and Pascal, and this provided him with insights into the wretchedness as well as the grandeur of the human condition and with a conscious Socratic (...) moral and intellectual drive toward self-examination as a prerequisite for any inquiry into human affairs. Indeed, the distinctivecharacter of Ben's scholarship lay in his integration of morality and intellect. These humanistic resources in combination with his outstanding intellectual endowment enabled Ben to reach great heights of scholarly endeavor.To mention just a few of his many enduring achievements: Ben's thesis, advanced as early as 1951 and based on a study of the inner history of the rise of the Chinese Communist movement from a comparative perspective, developed the idea that the trajectory of Marxism eastward to Russia and China was, in fact, "a steady process of decomposition." This powerful argument has stood the test of time, whereas both the notion, on the Right, of a monolithic world communism and the idea, on the Left, of the Chinese Communist movement as the embodiment of the intellectual and moral legitimacy of Marxism fell by the wayside.His In Search of Wealth and Power: Yen Fu and the West, which offers a double mirror, with modern China illuminated by the modern West and vice versa, is a trailblazing work in intercultural intellectual history. Furthermore, The World of Thought in Ancient China, Ben's prizewinning magnum opus, which treats the whole range of ancient Chinese thought from a world-historical perspective, has achieved a methodological, no less than a historiographical, breakthrough. Ben's discussion of the need to "descend from the level of total cultural orientations to the level of shared problématiques" advances boldly beyond Max Weber's ideal-typical analysis in comparative world history. Historiographically, Ben's study of the general orientations in ancient China and their dialectical relations with the problématiques manifested in different schools of thought is the most incisive and comprehensive treatment of ancient Chinese thought to date.These great achievements derived from his ability to combine deep insights into historical realities with a humane simplicity in holding onto what is central in life. Such a simplicity was manifest in his spontaneous humility, a quality that furnished him with the moral and intellectual resources by which to develop empathetic understanding of the various strands of thought in China as well as in the West. Ben's analyses of human problems from a world-historical perspective, while characteristically erudite, subtle, complex, and at times extraordinarily brilliant, were singularly free from any trace of the influence of intellectual fashions and from any sort of [End Page 187] posturing or self-exhibition. He always struggled at the center of life and history, making the best effort to enter into the depth of human reality, drawing out its significanceas fully as he could. These great attainments were, I submit, a natural outgrowth of the strength of his moral and intellectual character, which led him to be truly open-minded and thus acutely perceptive. It was because he was so seriously interested in the study of humanity that he so seriously studied the Chinese. His universalist concerns fused with his humanist humility and thus empowered him to lift the field of Chinese studies out of its various forms of parochialism.The Confucian philosopher Xun Zi once said that the genuine scholar "explains with a humane compassion, listens with a studious attitude, and engages in disputation with an impartial mind." I know no one other than Ben Schwartz to have attained this ideal. His absolute joy in intellectual give-and-take and his delight, with his eyes gently sparkling, in reaching an understanding of a complex issue were infectious. It was indeed my good fortune and great privilege to be able to sit at the feet of Professor Schwartz. He embodied most eloquently the very essence of humanistic scholarship; his spirit is and shall always be a... (shrink)

本书通过对生态思想的追溯,对中国古代、印度古代、西方古代和近代哲学思想中自然观念的分析,对现代性理论与生态哲学之复杂关联的探讨,以及对复杂性理论的产生、发展和现状的介绍,描述了未来的复杂性生态哲学应有 的品格,为构建一种复杂性生态哲学系统作出了可贵探索。.