COEFFICIENTS: KEY ISSUES AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS WITH Nano-SIMS. Y. Luo, Q. Z. Yin, J.C. Ayers , F. Ryerson, and I. Hutcheon Department of Geology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA ([email protected]; [email protected]), Department of Earth and Environmental sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235-1805, USA ([email protected]), Experimental Geophysics Group, L...

In this article I propose a Yin Yang perspective to understand culture. Based on the indigenous Chinese philosophy of Yin Yang, I conceptualize culture as possessing inherently paradoxical value orientations, thereby enabling it to embrace opposite traits of any given cultural dimension. I posit that potential paradoxical values coexist in any culture; they give rise to, exist within, reinforce...

A. Introduction Acute gastrointestinal illnesses rank second only to acute respiratory illnesses as the most common disease worldwide. In children less than 5 years old, attack rates range from 2-3 illnesses per child per year in developed countries to 10-18 illnesses per child per year in developing countries. In Asia, Africa, and Latin America, acute diarrheal illnesses are a leading cause of...

Chinese tonifying herbs such as herba cistanche, ganoderma and cordyceps, which possess antioxidant and/or immunomodulatory activities, can be useful in the prevention and treatment of age-related diseases. Pharmacological studies on Yang and Yin tonifying herbs suggest that Yang tonifying herbs stimulate mitochondrial adenosine triphosphate (ATP) generation, presumably through the intermediacy...

On the basis of eight principles traditional Chinese medicine, Prof. Shen Shuwen, with more than 50 years clinical experience, proposed a "three-dimensional and six-pronged" method identification treatment for gastric precancerous lesions, in which six cold heat, emptiness solidity, stagnation reversal are integrated into three-dimensional system cause, nature, condition digestive diseases, is ...

© A Formal Foundation for Failure Avoidance and Diagnosis Terence Kelly, Yin Wang, Stephane Lafortune, Matt Welsh

Contribution of tourism development to protected area management: local stakeholder perspectives Jianying Xu a , Yihe Lü b , Liding Chen b & Yang Liu b a College of Resource, Environment and Tourism , Capital Normal University , Beijing, China b State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for EcoEnvironmental of Science , Chinese Academy of Sciences , P.O. Box 2871, Beij...

The article continues an analysis of the genetic 8-dimensional Yin-Yang-algebra. This algebra was revealed in a course of matrix researches of structures of the genetic code and it was described in the author's articles arXiv:0803.3330 and arXiv:0805.4692. The article presents data about many kinds of cyclic permutations of elements of the genetic code in the genetic (8x8)matrix [C A; U G] of 6...

A 71-year-old man was stable on warfarin (2.25 mg daily) therapy with an international normalized ratio (INR) of 1.8-2.2 after a heart valve replacement surgery. Recently, he consumed the liquid-like herbal product called shengmai-yin (10 mL daily) against medical advice. Seven days after the daily consumption of shengmai-yin, he was admitted to the intensive care unit because of consciousness ...

This study aimed to investigate the correlation between age-related macular degeneration (AMD) of the liver-kidney yin-deficiency type and complement factor H (CFH) polymorphism, and to determine whether the C allele of the T1277C (Y402H) variant is a risk factor for this condition. We performed a case-control investigation of 60 patients with liver-kidney yin-deficiency AMD and 60 normal contr...