Yu-Ju Lin's research while affiliated with Purdue University and other places

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Aims: Cellulose nanofibrils (CNF), cellulose nanocrystals (CNC), and Tempo (2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-1-oxyl radical) oxidized CNF (Tempo-CNF) were compared for the short-term effect on mice fed with a high-fat and high-sugar (Western diet, WD) to investigate their effect when combined with a sub-optimal diet. Scope: Thirty C57B/C female mic...
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This study was conducted to explore the effects of an augmented-reality (AR) creative project on English L2 learners’ perceptions of creativity, as well as to investigate how to stimulate students’ learning motivation. The AR project was developed and integrated into the course syllabus of a university English class, and 39 Taiwanese freshmen compl...
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Teachers in K-12 settings increasingly demand instructional materials beyond textbooks to follow the upward momentum of personalized instruction. Especially during the outbreak of COVID-19, K-12 teachers are forced to quickly adapt to online teaching and thus have more difficulties of delivering personalized instruction in a relatively resource-res...
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Following a mixed-methods approach, this study investigated the effect of a virtual reality (VR) creative project on EFL learners’ creative self-efficacy as well as their intrinsic motivation toward using VR technology. A class of 39 university students in Taiwan participated in the VR-supported creative project with the instructor’s guidance step...
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Cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) as a novel ingredient in foods and pharmaceuticals still lacks the safety and functionality information. We aimed to assess the absorption of CNC in small intestine and the effect on cell viability. In the second part, the impact of CNC on substance permeation through mucus layer, including the potential functionality i...
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Self-regulation (SR) is a vital trait whereby people adapt to the environments and achieve goals, yet measurements of general SR remain scant in Asian countries. Due to insufficient items in several dimensions, in this study we revised and revalidated our previous work of the Short Self-Regulation Questionnaire for Taiwanese college students (TSSRQ...
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Teachers in K‐12 settings often teach out of textbooks in order to provide differentiated instruction. Open educational resources (OER) might be an effective alternative to traditional textbooks for K‐12 teachers because of a free access to a rich collection of open‐licensed educational materials. Understanding how to encourage teachers to accept O...
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Previous studies of cellulose nanofibrils (CNF) in decreasing fat absorption and glucose release suggested their potential application as food additives or supplements in diets containing high contents of fat and sugars. However, the long-term effects of CNF uptake remained unknown. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of subchron...
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The mucoadhesive properties of three types of nanocellulose (CNF, CNC, and Tempo-CNF) was investigated in the digestive condition with ex vivo and in vitro assays. In the ex vivo flow-through method, three nanocellulose materials showed different levels of retention on porcine gastric and intestinal mucosal surfaces. Fluorescence microscopy confirm...
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The Internet offers easy access to open resources, especially for educational use. However, the quality of open resources has been constantly criticized (). The purpose of this study was to examine English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) open educational resources (OERs) and to make recommendations for designing ESL OER websites that supported open lang...
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This study investigated whether applying enhanced open educational resource (OER) videos in English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) classes could improve university students’ multicultural competence, and it also explored their perceptions of OERs. The study was implemented with 65 students who were enrolled in two General English classes at a public u...
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While self-regulation has long been recognized as an important characteristic of an individual, instruments assessing the general aptitude of self-regulation remain limited especially in Asian countries. This study re-validated Carey et al.'s (2004) Short Self-Regulation Questionnaire based on a national sample of Taiwanese college students (N = 1,...
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Numerous instructional strategies have been applied to minimize statistics anxiety. Instructors are likely to consider those strategies a burden and may hesitate to apply them in their courses if there is a lack of continuous support. Open educational resources (OERs) enabled by information and communication technology have the potential to resolve...
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The Internet offers easy access to open resources, especially for educational use. However, the quality of open resources has been constantly criticized (). The purpose of this study was to examine English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) open educational resources (OERs) and to make recommendations for designing ESL OER websites that supported open lang...

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... Since the same HPLC method as well as wavelength (520 nm) were utilized for the determination of CR content in the samples analyzed under different pH conditions, a slightly higher CR content was detected at a lower pH (1.2 and 0.1 M HCl) than in purified water (pH ≈ 4.5), where the total CR content was determined, due to the increased anthocyanin solution color intensity at a pH between 1-3. Namely, with regard to a wide pH range (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14), it is known that anthocyanins exist in five different structural forms in the equilibrium state (Figure 4) [54], characterized by different colors (flavylium cation as red, carbinol pseudo base as colorless, quinoidal base as purple and blue, or chalcone as yellowish), whereby the red flavylium cation is dominant in the acidic medium (pH = 1-3) [53,55]. Increasing the pH leads to a decrease of the flavylium cation concentration, followed by the reduced color intensity of the solution [55]. ...
... Applying social cognitive theory in the context of creativity, researchers have suggested that relevant creativity beliefs (i.e., implicit theories of creativity) may play a facilitating (or inhibiting) role in creativity motivation, thereby leading to enhanced (or reduced) creativity-related behavioral tendencies (e.g., Li et al., 2021;Sternberg and Karami, 2021;Emami et al., 2023;Lin and Wang, 2023). For example, researchers built on social cognitive theory and proposed the Creative Behavior as Agentic Action (CBAA) model to explore the motivational function of creativity beliefs on creative outcomes (Karwowski and Beghetto, 2019;Karwowski et al., 2020;Beghetto and Karwowski, 2023;Karwowski, 2023). ...
... In the end, two themes emerged from the data. To ensure the rigor and trustworthiness of the themes, member checking (Tang et al., 2020(Tang et al., , 2021 was performed with the interviewed participants, who all confirmed that the themes reflected their experience with the robotics-based intervention. In addition, rich, direct quotes from the participants' interview were provided as a measure to assess the rigor of the findings. ...
... Several review articles on NC extracted from plant or bacterial sources are available in the specialised literature (Dong & Snyder, 2013;Gómez et al., 2016;Klemm et al., 2006;Klemm et al., 2011;Lee et al., 2017;Lin et al., 2021;Shatkin & Kim, 2015;Thakur, 2014). However, to the best of our knowledge, none of these articles have examined the potential health benefits of using NC in food. ...
... Some scholars have explored how to enhance students' creative thinking; for example, Resnick and Rosenbaum enhanced elementary school students' creativity through design-thinking game activities, in which students can enhance their creative thinking in the process of designing, making, and improving their own games [27]. Lin and Wang utilized virtual reality to enhance college students' creative self-efficacy and intrinsic motivation in English writing, and the results suggested that virtual reality technology is an effective way to promote students' creative thinking [28]. However, the results of this study lacked generalizability due to the small sample size and the lack of a control group. ...
... In addition to these various ideas, some researchers [5][6][7]12] have tried to examine the quality and accessibility of OERs. Krajcso [5] proposed some classification and quality criteria for OERs in the field of foreign language learning. ...
... Reading of the papers excluded seven papers that were reviews (Brown, 2011;Double et al., 2020;McMillan, 2016McMillan, , 2019Van der Kleij & Lipnevich, 2020;Vogl & Pekrun, 2016, Wise & Smith, 2016, five that had no measure of student perceptions of assessment (Babaii & Adeh, 2019;Chen & Lin, 2020;Gordienko, 2015;Natsis et al., 2018;Taghizadeh & Kazemzadeh, 2019), one Brown was a content analysis of syllabi (Panadero et al., 2019), two were qualitative analysis of student drawings (Brown & Wang, 2013;Wang & Brown, 2014), and two were qualitative analysis of student comments (Cleland, & Walton, 2012;Murillo & Hidalgo, 2017). Unfortunately, two studies cited the SCoA but instead used the Teacher Conceptions of Assessment inventory (Brown, 2003) to do comparative studies between faculty and students (Fletcher et al., 2012;Hodgson & Garvey, 2020). ...
... In the end, two themes emerged from the data. To ensure the rigor and trustworthiness of the themes, member checking (Tang et al., 2020(Tang et al., , 2021 was performed with the interviewed participants, who all confirmed that the themes reflected their experience with the robotics-based intervention. In addition, rich, direct quotes from the participants' interview were provided as a measure to assess the rigor of the findings. ...
... The safety of cellulose nanomaterials in food applications has been researched extensively [2][3][4][5][6]. Chen et al. [7] noted that CNFs nonspecifically decrease intestinal absorption, potentially posing a nutritional risk after long-term exposure. Carboxymethylated CNF (CMC) has been widely used as a food additive [8]. ...
... However, an initial study carried out by Liu and Kong (2019) to evaluate the absorption behaviour of CNF upon oral exposure found that CNF particles size did not change at each digestion phase. In addition, CNF also exhibited mucoadhesion properties and entangled with intestinal mucosa layers, which eventually resulted in retaining the CNF at the intestinal mucosal surface (Lin et al., 2019). The stable particle size at each digestion phase, mucoadhesion property and ability to retain at intestinal mucosal surfaces of the CNF upon oral exposure may further impact their fate and toxicity in the gastrointestinal tract, which needs further study (Liu & Kong, 2021). ...