Background: Niu Huang Jie Du Pian (NHJDP) is a widely used realgar-containing Chinese medicine remedy. Most brands are composed of eight ingredients: Niuhuang (Calculus Bovis), Xionghuang (realgar), gypsum (calcium sulphate), Dahuang (Radix et Rhizoma Rhei), Huangqin (Radix Scutellariae), Jugeng (Platycodon grandiflorum), Bingpian (borneol), and Gancao (Radix Glycyrrhizae uralensis, licorice ro...

This paper reports on the participation of CASIA (Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences) at the evaluation campaign of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation 2009. We participated in the challenge tasks for Chinese-toEnglish and English-to-Chinese translation respectively and the BTEC task for Chinese-to-English translation only. For all of the tasks, system per...

The recent wave, dating from the mid 1990s, of newcomers within the Chinese Diaspora in South Africa has managed to establish and dominate a line of trade supply all the way from the ports of China to the homes of millions of South Africans. This paper examines the economic environment within which small ‘China shops’ are active, exploring competition within the group of Chinese traders in part...

Objectives. To evaluate eight modified equations developed in Asiatic populations in type 2 diabetic patients in China. Methods. A total of 209 Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes were recruited. Using the technetium-99m diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid-glomerular filtration rate (GFR) to act as the reference, comparisons of their efficiency to estimate GFR in the subjects were made between...

An Ontology-based Fuzzy Event Extraction (OFEE) agent for Chinese e-news summarization is proposed in this article. The OFEE agent contains Retrieval Agent (RA), Document Processing Agent (DPA) and Fuzzy Inference Agent (FIA) to perform the event extraction for Chinese e-news summarization. First, RA automatically retrieves Internet e-news periodically, stores them into the e-news repository, a...

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introduction: heavy ions are nucleus of elements of iron, argon, carbon and neon that all carry positive electrical charges. for these particles to be useful in radiotherapy they need to accelerated to high energy by more than thousand mega volts. also the cosmic environment is considered to be a complicated mixture of highly energetic photons and heavy ions such as iron. therefore, the health ...

This paper reports on the participation of CASIA (Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences) at the evaluation campaign of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation 2009. We participated in the challenge tasks for Chinese-toEnglish and English-to-Chinese translation respectively and the BTEC task for Chinese-to-English translation only. For all of the tasks, system per...

Objective. The aim of this systematic review is to evaluate effect of Chinese medicine combined with conventional therapy on blood pressure variability (BPV) in hypertension patients. Methods. All randomized clinical trials (RCTs) comparing Chinese medicine with no intervention or placebo on the basis of conventional therapy were included. Data extraction, analyses, and quality assessment were ...

This paper proposes an automatic approach to build Chinese emotion lexicon based on WordNet-Affect which is a widely-used English emotion lexicon resource developed on WordNet. The approach consists of three steps, namely translation, filtering and extension. Initially, all English words in WordNet-Affect synsets are translated into Chinese words. Thereafter, with the help of Chinese synonyms d...