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Dr. Jeen-Hwa (Dept. of Earth Sciences, and aftershocks from of Earth Sciences Wang Nat'l Central Univ.) spring-slider systems Thu 10/08 Wed 10/14 Thu 10/15 Interstellar Molecules and High-resolution Spectroscopy: From Hydrogen to Amino Acid Dr. Jung-Hsin Lin Dr. Ying-Cheng Chen Division of Life Sciences Thu 10/08 16:30 Group Benefits, Auditorium, 1st Floor, Insider-outsider Conflict and Dr. Lucia Liu Dr. Sheng-Feng Shen, Biodiversity Research Univ. of Cambridge, UK the Evolution of Cooperative Severinghaus Center Social Groups Mon 10/12 14:00 B1B Lecture Room, The Pathobiology of Redox Prof. Joseph Loscalzo, Inst. of Biomedical Dysregulation in the Harvard Medical School Sciences Vasculature. 14:30 Conference Room, 2F, Inst. of Cellular and Organismic Biology Dr. Patrick C.H. 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Taiwan Univ. Moderator China Model and Development Paths of Authoritarian Regimes: A Cluster Analysis of the World Governance Indicators Dr. Ji-Ping Lin 14:00 IPSAS Conference Room B Dr. Szu-chien Hsu, Assistant Research Fellow , IPSAS 14:30 Room 802, 8F, Inst. of Sociology Dr. Chin-fen Chang, Research Fellow, Inst. of Sociology The Attitudes toward Unionization and Changes in Dr. Yu-yueh Taiwan: 1990 to 2005 Tsai 【in Chinese】 10/20(二) 10:00 2nd Conference Room, Institutum Iurisprudentiae (Preparatory Office) Dr. Yun-Chien Chang, Assistant Research Fellow, Institutum Iurisprudentiae Are Condemnees in Taiwan Under-Compensated? Normative Standard, Empirical Study, and Reform Suggestion of Land Condemnation Compensation 10/20(二) 14:30 Conference Room, Prof. Charles Forceville, Multimodal Metaphor in 1F, Inst. of European Univ. of Amsterdam, the Image Culture and American Studies Netherlands Thu 10/15 Fri 10/16 3