P.-S. Tsai 1,2,3, C.-S. Hsu 4,5, Y.-C. Fan 6 and C.-J. Huang 4,6,7* 1 Graduate Institute of Nursing, College of Nursing, Taipei Medical University, 250 Wu Shin St., Taipei 110, Taiwan 2 Department of Nursing, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, 111, Section 3, Hsing-Long Rd., Taipei 116, Taiwan 3 Sleep Science Centre, Taipei Medical University Hospital, 252 Wu-Hsing St., Taipei 110, T...

Paul F. Austin,* Stuart B. Bauer, Wendy Bower, Janet Chase, Israel Franco, Piet Hoebeke, Søren Rittig, Johan Vande Walle, Alexander von Gontard, Anne Wright, Stephen S. Yang, and Tryggve Nev eus From the Division of Urology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis Childrens Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri Department of Urology, Childrens Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachuset...

The influence of non-equilibrium and equilibrium processes during growth of LaAlO3/SrTiO3 (LAO/STO) heterostructures is analyzed. We investigate the electronic properties of LAO/STO heterostructures obtained at constant growth conditions after annealing in different oxygen atmospheres within the typical growth window (1 × 10(-4) mbar -1 × 10(-2) mbar). The variation of annealing conditions is f...

Foot and mouth disease (FMD) causes sporadic disease outbreaks in the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR). As the Lao PDR is a major thoroughfare for transboundary animal movements, regular FMD outbreaks occur, causing economic hardship for farmers and their families. In this review of the recent history of FMD in the Lao PDR between 1997 and 2006, the authors examine the virological and...

X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Raman spectroscopy were used to investigate stress dependence on thickness in PbTiO3 (PTO) films grown by pulsed liquid injection Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition on a LaAlO3 (001) substrate (LAO). Films on sapphire substrate (R-plane) were used as polycrystalline film reference. Epitaxial PTO films with a dominant c-domain structure are grown on LAO substrate ...

BACKGROUND Current knowledge of the epidemiology of Clostridium difficile infection in Asia, and in particular the Greater Mekong Subregion, is very limited. Only a few studies from Thailand and Vietnam have been reported from the region with variable testing methods and results, and no studies from Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR). Therefore we investigated the presence of C. difficile i...

OBJECTIVE To compare infant and young child feeding practices in children aged 0-23 months across nine East and Southeast Asian countries. DESIGN Secondary analyses of cross-sectional data from available Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS; Indonesia, Philippines, Timor-Leste, Cambodia and Vietnam), Multiple Indicator Country Surveys (Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) and Myanmar) an...

OBJECTIVE We aimed to compare the operator and patient radiation exposure in standard projections during elective diagnostic coronary angiography procedures via transradial (TRA) versus transfemoral (TFA) approaches. METHODS In this analytical cross-sectional study, a total of 202 consecutive patients who were candidates for diagnostic coronary angiography were randomized to undergo the proce...

M.A. Ahlering, S. Hedges, A. Johnson, M. Tyson, S.G. Schuttler & L.S. Eggert Genetic diversity, social structure, and conservation value of the elephants of the Nakai Plateau, Lao PDR, based on noninvasive sampling Conservation Genetics 12 (2011) 413-422 Abstract. The Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) may have the largest Asian elephant population in Indochina. However, elephants on Lao PD...

In the early 1990s, two of Taiwan’s humanistic Buddhist groups—Buddhist Tzu Chi Compassionate Relief Foundation (Tzu Chi) and Dharma Drum Mountain (DDM)—began incorporating modern environmentalism as a major component in their religious teachings, practices, behavioral norms. Neither group had been clearly pro-environmental before but Venerable Cheng Yen, founding master Chi, Sheng DDM, redefin...