The novel and generic meta-interface (MI) paradigm proposed in this paper automates the generation of customized telemedicine software systems (CTSS), directly from the customized application interface (CAI) specifications given. The MI paradigm was tested and verified in the TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) telemedicine environment of Nong’s Company Limited of the PuraPharm Group, a local Ho...

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is characterized by regulating the integrity of the human body and has accumulated thousand-year experience in the use of Herb Formula (“Fu-Fang” in Chinese) for managing complicated TCM Syndrome (“ZHENG” in Chinese). In recent years, there has been increasing concern about the application of bioinformatics and systems biology approaches for deciphering the sc...

Introduction. Previous studies have demonstrated the advantages of TCM use among asthmatic children. However, there is a paucity of epidemiologic reports on features of TCM users among asthmatic children. This cohort study aimed to investigate child's, parent's, and provider's characteristics associated with the use of asthma-related TCM services among newly diagnosed asthmatic children. Materi...

Introduction Tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy (TCM) is an acute cardiac syndrome with severe hypokinesia of the left ventricle (LV), often affecting the apex causing apical ballooning and heart failure. Sympathetic stress is a trigger of TCM and is probably underdiagnosed and not uncommon in ICU patients [1]. We have developed an experimental rat model of TCM, in which LV apical akinesia develops afte...

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is practiced in the Chinese health care system for more than 2,000 years. In recent years, herbal medicines, which are used to treat Alzheimer's disease (AD) in China based on TCM or modern pharmacological theories have attracted considerable attention. In this paper, we discuss etiology and pathogenesis of AD, TCM therapy, and herbal extracts for the treatmen...

BACKGROUND To characterize the utilization of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) among patients with hepatitis C (HC). METHODS This study examined datasets from the National Health Insurance Research Database in Taiwan. One cohort, including one million patients randomly sampled from the beneficiaries of the National Health Insurance Programme from January 1 to December 31 in 2010, was chosen...

This paper describes the Thin Component Model (TCM), a small and lightweight model for use in devices with limited resources. TCM components have properties, provide and require interfaces and are configurable via XML data. We explain the component definition and specification, it’s lifecycle, and the TCM environment. Using TCM components can help to build better structured systems, which are e...

The demand for high data rates in coded OFDM systems requires codes with high bandwidth efficiencies. A recently introduced concatenated coding scheme employing trellis coded modulation (TCM), the so-called staggered TCM, is very promising for this purpose. Due to its block-convolutional structure an iterative decoding procedure is possible whereas the rate of the constituent TCM is preserved f...

Tongue diagnosis in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) assesses the health by investigation of tongue coating. The science and technology of tongue coating analysis have become a significant issue for modernization of TCM. The relationship between microecology of tongue coating and TCM was relevant to the syndrome differentiation in TCM, such as the cold/hot syndrome may exhibit different speci...

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), an age-old healthcare system derived from China, is a mainstream medicine in China and is also popular in many other parts of the world [1-3]. Due to historic reasons, the scientific base of TCM awaits consolidation but emerging evidence has be‐ gun to illustrate TCM as an area of important medical rediscoveries. For example, the 2011 Lask‐ er-DeBakey Clinica...