OBJECTIVE Following the isolation of a Marseillevirus from the stool of a healthy young Senegalese and a Mimivirus from a Tunisian patient with pneumonia, we attempted to isolate other giant viruses of amoebae from a large human stool collection. METHODS During the period 2010-2011, a total of 1,605 stool samples, including 115 from Tunisian patients with pneumonia, were cultured on amoebae. ...

The Tian Shan range lies in the actively deforming part of the India-Asia collision zone. The uplift rate and deformation pattern of the Tian Shan are important for understanding the dynamics of crustal deformation in the region. The river terraces in northern Tian Shan provide key records of past changes in climate and/or regional tectonics. In this study, a terrace sequence along the Manas Ri...

Sedimentary rocks in Tibetan Plateau basins archive the spatiotemporal patterns of deformation, erosion, and associated climate change that resulted from Cenozoic continental collision. Despite growing understanding of basin development in northeastern Tibet during initial India-Asia collision, as well as in the late Miocene–Holocene, surprisingly little is known about the intervening period: a...

Institute of Medicine, College of Medicine, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Center, Tungs’ Taichung MetroHarbor Hospital, Taichung Emergency Department, Tungs’ Taichung MetroHarbor Hospital, Taichung Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, College of Medical, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung Center for Molecular Medicine, China Medical University Ho...

1School of Biomedical Sciences, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan 2Department of Medical Research, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan 3Department of Protein Structure, Function and Design, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan 4Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA 5Institute of Biomedical Informatics, National Yang-M...

Intermediate quantiles play an important role in the statistics of extremes with particular applications in risk management. For interval estimation of quantiles, Chen and Hall (1993) proposed the so-called smoothed empirical likelihood method. In this paper, we apply the method in Chen and Hall (1993) to construct confidence intervals for an intermediate quantile and show that the choice of th...

1 Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung 402, Taiwan 2Department of Medical Research, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung 402, Taiwan 3Graduate Institute of Applied Living Science, Tainan University of Technology, Tainan City 710, Taiwan 4Department of Pharmacology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119077 5 Tissue ...

In 2001, Chen and Shao gave the nonuniform estimation of the rate of convergence in Berry-Esseen theorem for independent random variables via Stein-Chen-Shao method. The aim of this paper is to obtain a constant in Chen-Shao theorem, where the random variables are not necessarily identically distributed and the existence of their third moments are not assumed. The bound is given in terms of tru...