background: the electrical dose selected for electroconvulsive therapy (ect) must have an acceptable efficacy and no or minimal cognitive side-effects. we evaluated the clinical efficacy and cognitive side-effects of ect in relation to the stimulus dose administered.   method: this study assessed 71 depressed patients who were treated with bilateral ect. for evaluation of depressive and cogniti...

We propose a pre-reordering approach for Japanese-to-Chinese statistical machine translation (SMT). The approach uses dependency structure and manually designed reordering rules to arrange morphemes of Japanese sentences into Chinese-like word order, before a baseline phrase-based (PB) SMT system applied. Experimental results on the ASPEC-JC data show that the improvement of the proposed pre-re...

the purpose of this study was to examine the effect of aerobic training on levels of vascular and intracellular adhesion molecules in overweight middle-aged women. 20 sedentary obese women (mean+age: 46.1+6.88 years, bf%: 36.7+ 6.18, weight: 73.56+10 kg and bmi: 59.5+4.15 kg.m2) were selected and randomly divided into two groups. training program consisted of 50-60 min. running with an intensit...

Advances in genomic science are rapidly increasing our understanding of disease and toxicity at the most fundamental biological level. Some say this heralds a new era of certainty in linking toxic substances to human illness in the courtroom. Others are skeptical. In this Article I argue that the new sciences of molecular epidemiology and toxicogenomics will evince both remarkable explanatory p...