1 Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan; 2 Institute of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan; 3 School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan; 4 Department of Surgery, Cathay General Hospital and School of Medicine, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan; 5 Institute of Biochemistry an...

Metaheuristic algorithms, especially those based on swarm intelligence (SI), form an important part of contemporary global optimization algorithms (Kennedy and Ebarhart, 1995; Yang, 2008; Auger and Teytaud, 2010; Auger and Doerr, 2010; Blum and Roli, 2003; Neumann and Witt 2010; Parpinelli and Lopes, 2011). Good examples are particle swarm optimization (PSO) (Kennedy and Eberhart, 1995) and fir...

Authors' Affiliations Institute of Oral Biology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan Department of Life Science, Fu-Jen University, New Taipei City, Taiwan Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Department of Dentistry, School of Dentistry, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan Graduate Institute of Chinese Medical Science and Institute of Medical Science, Chi...

Recently, Yang and Shieh proposed two password authentication schemes by employing smart cards. One is a timestamp-based password authentication scheme and the other is a nonce-based password authentication scheme. In 2002, Chan and Cheng pointed out that Yang and Shieh’s timestamp-based password authentication scheme was vulnerable to the forgery attack. However, in 2003, Sun and Yeh pointed o...

the purpose of this paper is to study the strong convergence of an implicit iteration process with errors to a common fixed point for a finite family of asymptotically pseudocontractive mappings and nonexpansive mappings in normed linear spaces. the results in this paper improve and extend the corresponding results of xu and ori, zhou and chang, sun, yang and yu in some aspects.

Bruinier and Yang conjectured a formula for intersection numbers on an arithmetic Hilbert modular surface, and as a consequence obtained a conjectural formula for CM(K).G1 under strong assumptions on the ramification in K. Yang later proved this conjecture under slightly stronger assumptions on the ramification. In recent work, Lauter and Viray proved a different formula for CM(K).G1 for primit...

Recent development in particle-particle random phase approximation (pp-RPA) broadens the perspective on ground state correlation energies [H. van Aggelen, Y. Yang, and W. Yang, Phys. Rev. A 88, 030501 (2013), Y. Yang, H. van Aggelen, S. N. Steinmann, D. Peng, and W. Yang, J. Chem. Phys. 139, 174110 (2013); D. Peng, S. N. Steinmann, H. van Aggelen, and W. Yang, J. Chem. Phys. 139, 104112 (2013)]...

We study theories with sixteen supercharges and a discrete energy spectrum. One class of theories has symmetry group SU(2|4). They arise as truncations of N = 4 super Yang Mills. They include the plane wave matrix model, 2+1 super Yang Mills on R × S2 and N = 4 super Yang Mills on R × S/Zk. We explain how to obtain their gravity duals in a unified way. We explore the regions of the geometry tha...

We study axially symmetric monopoles of both the SU(2) Yang-Mills-HiggsDilaton (YMHD) as well as of the SU(2) Einstein-Yang-Mills-Higgs-Dilaton (EYMHD) system. We find that equally to gravity, the presence of the dilaton field can render an attractive phase. We also study the influence of a massive dilaton on the attractive phase in the YMHD system.

Objective. To determine the association between Yang-Deficient Constitution and the clinical outcomes of HIV/AIDS patients who have initiated highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). Method. A total of 197 antiretroviral-naive adults who initiated HAART between 2009 and 2011 were recruited. The participants were asked to complete a questionnaire twice to assess their Yang-Deficient Constit...