*University College London, Institute for Global Health and Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, †University College London, Institute for Global Health, ‡University College London, Department of Geography, §London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Department of Social and Environmental Research, ¶University College London, Department of Geography, **School of Oriental and African ...

Background: Oriental medicine is based on the 5-phase theory, in which the balance among the 5 viscera – the liver, the heart, the spleen, the lung and the kidney – is important. It is confusing that the viscera in Oriental and Occidental medicine have the same name. Out of the 5 viscera in Oriental medicine, it is the spleen that differs most from that in Occidental medicine. It mainly corresp...

In January 2016, a 20-year-old female oriental small-clawed otter (Aonyx cinereus) from Night Safari in Singapore was euthanized and diagnosed with a thyroid gland carcinoma. Postmortem examination and histology also revealed metastasis to the regional lymph nodes and severe visceral pentastomiasis. Grossly, the lymph nodes were infested, and encapsulation was observed on the visceral serosal s...

Professor Katsutoshi Terasawa was born in Tokyo in 1944. He graduated in 1970 from the School of Medicine at Chiba University. He became Director of the Department of Japanese Oriental Medicine at Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University in 1979. He was Director of the School of Medicine (1999–2000) and then President of the Hospital and Vice-President (2002–2004) of Toyama Medical and Phar...

In this paper, three new species of Nasimyia Yang & Yang, 2010, N. eurytarsa sp. nov., N. rozkosnyi sp. nov. and N. elongoverpa sp. nov. from the Oriental region are described and illustrated; N. nigripennis Yang & Yang, 2010 is found to be a junior synonym of N. megacephala Yang & Yang, 2010 (syn. nov.). Chelonomima signata de Meijere 1924 is combined as Pseudomeristomerinx signata (de Meijere...

Extracting useful and meaningful patterns from large volumes of text data is of growing importance. In the present study we analyze vast amounts of prescription data, generated from the book of oriental medicine to identify the relationships between the symptoms and the associated medicines used to treat these symptoms. The oriental medicine book used in this study (called Bangyakhappyeon) cont...

Shin-Hyoung Park, Jung-In Kim, Yong Kee Jeong and Yung Hyun Choi* Department of Pathology, Department of Biochemistry, College of Oriental Medicine and Research Institute of Oriental Medicine, Department of Biomaterial Control, Graduate School and Blue-Bio Industry Regional Innovation Center, Dongeui University, Busan 614-714, Korea School of Food and Life Science, College of Biomedical Science...

This paper to study the potential of expressing ink-and-wash painting through interaction, and present a direction that can coincide with modern paintings by developing ink-and-wash painting from a traditional aspect through analyzing the theories and tech-niques instilled in my works.This work is an interactive visualization of an oriental cymbidium using modern technology which our oriental a...

Li-Ling Peng 1, Guo-Feng Fan 1, Min-Liang Huang 2 and Wei-Chiang Hong 3,4,* 1 College of Mathematics & Information Science, Ping Ding Shan University, Pingdingshan 467000, China; [email protected] (L.-L.P.); [email protected] (G.-F.F.) 2 Department of Industrial Management, Oriental Institute of Technology, 58 Sec. 2, Sichuan Rd., Panchiao, New Taipei 220, Taiwan; minglianghuang2016@gmail...

Orthosia Ochsenheimer, 1816 is a Holarctic-Oriental noctuid genus comprising more than 60 described species, with most distributed in the eastern and southeastern Palaearctic and Oriental regions. Many species have recently been described from Asia (Hreblay 1991, 1993, 1994; Yoshimoto 1993; Hreblay & Plante 1994; Hreblay & Ronkay 1998, 1999; Ronkay et al. 2010, Saldaitis et al. 2011, etc.). The...