1389-1286/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2012.12.005 ⇑ Corresponding author at: School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Jiangsu, Nanjing 210096, China. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (F. Shan), [email protected]. edu.au (W. Liang), [email protected] (J. Luo), [email protected] (X. Shen). Feng Shan a,e,⇑, W...

1Department of Chemistry, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan 2Research and Development Department, Yusheng Biotechnology Co. Ltd., Taichung, Taiwan 3 Institute of Biochemistry, College of Life Science, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan 4Department of Life Science, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan 5Department of Applied Chemistry, Chung Shan Medical University,...

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Chung Shan Medical University, Faculty of Clinical Medicine, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taichung, Taiwan Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, International Islamic University, Kuantan, Malaysia Department of Pathology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Chung Shan Medical University, Faculty...

Convergence to the Poisson distribution, for the number of occurrences of dependent events, can often be established by computing only first and second moments, but not higher ones. This remarkable result is due to Chen (1975). The method also provides an upper bound on the total variation distance to the Poisson distribution, and succeeds in cases where third and higher moments blow up. This p...

Bajijiasu is an oligosaccharide extracted from the traditional Chinese medicine Radix Morindae Officinalis (Morinda officinalis F.C. How) used for disease about intelligence and memory. The effects of Bajijiasu on learning and non-cognitive disturbances have been confirmed. However, its potential to protect against Alzheimer’s disease was not clearly studied. In this work, we want to study the ...

Graphical Abstract „If I had one year of paid leave would spend half a travelling around the world and other in world-renowned organic chemistry research group as visiting scholar … Chemistry is fun because it creates its own objects.“ Find out more about Weijie Chen his Introducing Profile.

In China and South East Asia, the duck (common duck) is important in egg production for human consumption. Plumage color is a breed characteristic and of economic importance, together with egg production. Our aim in this study was to investigate the inheritance of plumage color in three Chinese indigenous egg-type duck breeds, Shan Ma (S), Putian White (F) and Putian black (P), and some of thei...

This issue of Medical Humanities signals a turning point for an area of scholarship that is made up of several ‘contested and fragmented fields’ (p. 17) and has been criticised for lacking a central theory, method or politics. At first glance, there may seem to be little in common between recognisable ‘medical humanities’ scholarship—typically engaging with illness experiences, patient–clinicia...