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This paper aims to demonstrate the process of Taiwanese professional baseball players' sporting practice and, further, to explain their forms of capital and their strategies in various fields. Semi-structured interviews with six elite professional baseball players were conducted during this research. The results show that these players are capable of managing their own subjectivity and mobility while pursuing their careers. They are aware of their advantages in terms of physical capital, and manage to transmit this into various other forms of capital. However, the benefits terms of economic status and education may ultimately impact adversely on their decision-making. In addition, the value of physical capital is associated with the ideology of the working class in Taiwan and, according to social norms, all species of capital derived from it are regarded as useless and without value. In order to assess the inputs of these players and the outcomes that follow, this study points to blind spots in both the e...

A two-stage nanofiltration (TSNF) approach was designed to concentrate and purify the chromium (IV) or chromate for reuse from a spent plating solution. Chromate is a divalent species with pKa2 of 6.5. Therefore, monovalent HCrO4– is dominant for pH 6.5. Since NF can remove divalent ions but for monovalent to pass, in the first stage of the TSNF system, NF was used to retain nickel in the concentrate stream, but HCrO4–, the dominant at a low initial pH ≈ 3, can pass through the membrane in the permeate stream, and separation of HCrO4– and nickel was achieved at a high system recovery. The permeate stream from stage 1 was then adjusted to pH > 8 to convert HCrO4– to CrO42–. Thus in the second stage NF can concentrate CrO42– at a high system recovery. The result shows that at a pressure of 80 psi and water recovery 10% more than 90% mass of nickel and chromium were separated and recovered in the TSNF system. Moreover, a reflection factor σ for HCrO4– was determined as 0.2725 in the first stage and 0.9961 for CrO42– in the second stage. With almost the same molecular weight, the reflection factors were completely different. Therefore, the selectivity of these two chromium species (HCrO4– and CrO42–) for the TSNF system was dependent on the charge repulsion instead of the molecular weight.

The Study of Body Culture – Towards a Bottom-Up Phenomenology of Human Movement.

The concentrations of Zn and sulfhydryl (SH) groups in the digestive tract tissue of common carp and some aquatic animals were studied. It was found that Zn and bound SH groups could be used as indicators for detecting the Zn-binding protein in the digestive tract tissue of common carp. The digestive tract tissue of the fish underwent subcellular fractionation, and it was found that the nuclei/cell debris fraction contained most of the DNA (85%), Na+/K+-ATPase (82%), organic phosphate (90%) and the Zn-binding protein (79%), but only part of the 5′-nucletidase and alkaline phosphatase (