Source Parameters of Regional Earthquakes in Taiwan: January-December, 1997

Taitung earthquakes in Taiwan

Contrary to the normally observed increase in groundwater radon that occurs prior to earthquakes, we have measured anomalous decreases in radon concentration prior to the 2003 MW1⁄4 6.8 Chengkung and 2006 MW1⁄4 6.1 Taitung earthquakes that occurred within a 55 km radius from the Antung D1 monitoring well in eastern Taiwan. The v-shaped pattern of radon anomalies recognized at Antung is valuable...

AANA Journal, December 1997

Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a progressive, chronic illness that is enigmatic because the mechanisms for its pathogenesis have yet to be determined. Syndromes synonymous with CRPS are reflex sympathetic dystrophy, reflex neurovascular dystrophy, causalgia, algoneurodystrophy, sympathetically maintained pain, clenched fist syndrome, and Sudek's syndrome. The diagnosis of CRPS is cate...

Knowledge Systems Laboratory December 1997

Virtual worlds offer great potential as environments for education, entertainment, and collaborative work. Agents that function effectively in heterogeneous virtual spaces must have the ability to acquire new behaviors and useful semantic information from those contexts. The human-computer interaction literature discusses how to construct spaces and objects that provide "knowledge in the world"...

VISTA Status Report December 1997

Point of Care December 2008/January 2009

Background Restorative dentists and orthodontists have described severely fluorotic teeth as the most difficult surface for bonding.1,2 The difficulty arises from the composition of the enamel of such teeth, which has an acid-resistant, hypermineralized outer layer. As a result, it is very difficult to mechanically treat the surface with conventional 37% phosphoric acid to allow for effective b...