We report on three patients with lead poisoning following use of the Chinese herbal pill Bao ning dan, prepared by the same traditional Chinese medicine practitioner. The patients had varying degrees of exposure to Bao ning dan and different clinical manifestations. Blood lead concentrations did not correlate with clinical severity. Two patients received chelating therapy and blood lead concent...

The expansion of the Universe appears to be accelerating, and the mysterious antigravity agent of this acceleration has been called "dark energy." To measure the dynamics of dark energy, baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) can be used. Previous discussions of the BAO dark energy test have focused on direct measurements of redshifts of as many as 10(9) individual galaxies, by observing the 21 cm ...

Cross realm client-to-client password authenticated key exchange (C2C-PAKE) schemes are designed to enable two clients in different realms to agree on a common session key using different passwords. In 2006, Yin-Bao presented the first provably secure cross-realm C2C-PAKE, which security is proven rigorously within a formally defined security model and based on the hardness of some computationa...

We present cosmological constraints arising from the first measurement of the radial (line-of-sight) baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) scale in the large scale structure traced by the galaxy distribution. Here we use these radial BAO measurements at z = 0.24 and z = 0.43 to derive new constraints on dark energy and its equation of state for a flat universe, without any other assumptions on the...

Baryon acoustic oscillations, measured through the patterned distribution of galaxies or other baryon tracing objects on very large (> ∼ 100 Mpc) scales, offer a possible geometric probe of cosmological distances. Pluses and minuses in this approach’s leverage for understanding dark energy are discussed, as are systematic uncertainties requiring further investigation. Conclusions are that 1) BA...

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Korean Ginseng Center and Ginseng Genetic Resource Bank, Kyung Hee University, 1 Seocheon, Giheung-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, 449-701, South Korea.

Long-term, but not transient, threshold shifts alter the 1 morphology and increase the excitability of cortical pyramidal 2 neurons 3 4 Sungchil Yang, Wendy Su and Shaowen Bao 5 6 Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Running title: Hearing loss changes neuronal morphology and excitability 16 17 18 19 Total number of pages: 24 ...

NEUROTRANSMITTER GABA REUPTAKE Hua-Ping Fan ‡§, Feng-Juan Fan ‡§, Lan Bao‡ and Gang Pei‡ From the ‡Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences and the §Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences; 320 Yue Yang Road, Shanghai 200031, People’s Republic of China. Running Title: SNAP-25...

The concept of upper and lower semicontinuity of fuzzy mappings introduced by Bao and Wu [Y.E. Bao, C.X. Wu, Convexity and semicontinuity of fuzzy mappings, Comput. Math. Appl., 51 (2006) 1809–1816] is redefined by using the concept of parameterized triples of fuzzy numbers. On the basis of the linear ordering of fuzzy numbers proposed by Goetschel and Voxman [R. Goetschel, W. Voxman, Elementar...