Over the past two decades, maritime transportation and container traffic worldwide has experienced rapid and continuous growth. With the increase in maritime transportation volume, the issue of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission has become one of the new concerns for port managers. Port managers and government agencies for sustainable development of maritime transportation considered "green ports" t...

Pulsed dye laser (PDL) is an effective treatment for port- wine stain and can cause some short- term and long- term side- effects. Pyogenic granoluma is one of its late- onset adverse effects. Herein, we present two cases of pyogenic granoluma following treatment of port- wine stain with PDL.

sea surface topography (sst) by definition is the separation between the geoid and the mean sea level (msl). the separation between the geoid and msl is caused by various non-gravitational physical effects. if determination of the geoid as the zero point of the height systems from the tide gauge observation be the goal, it is necessary that the affect of the physical effect be precisely compute...

Abst rac t We develop a new governance perspective on port–hinterland linkages and related port impacts. Many stakeholders in a port’s hinterland now demand tangible economic benefits from port activities, as a precondition for supporting port expansion and infrastructural investments. We use a governance lens to assess this farsighted contracting challenge. We find that most contemporary econo...

Aiming at the internal leakage problem of spring type nuclear safety valve sealing surface, flow field and sound characteristics height 0.5mm between disc seat surface were studied, numerical simulation was carried out based on large eddy simulation(LES) mohring acoustic analogy method, compare effects wall pressure fluctuation(AWPF) turbulent fluctuation(TWPF) as excitation source external val...

Water-pumped storage systems have become an ideal alternative to regulate the intermittent power delivered by renewable energy sources. For small-scale operations, a type of centrifugal pump coupled asynchronous machines represents adequate solution due their techno-economic feasibility in addition ability operate as reversible systems. This work provides novel port-Hamiltonian modelling approa...

Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan* School of Medicine, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan** Institute of Medicine, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan*** School of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan**** Received: April, 2009 Revised: May, 2009 Accepted: June, 2009 Correspondenc...

Proton beam radiotherapy (PBR) has gained acceptance for the treatment of breast cancer because of unique beam characteristics that allow superior dose distributions with optimal dose to the target and limited collateral damage to adjacent normal tissue, especially to the heart and lungs. To determine the compatibility of breast tissue expanders (TEs) with PBR, we evaluated the structural and d...

A robust and low dead volume world-to-chip interface for thermoplastic microfluidics has been developed. The high pressure fluidic port employs a stainless steel needle inserted into a mating hole aligned to an embedded microchannel, with an interference fit used to increase pressure resistance. Alternately, a self-tapping threaded needle screwed into a mating hole is also demonstrated. In both...

INTRODUCTION Single-port thoracoscopic surgery has widened the current minimally invasive surgical techniques toward more less invasive procedures in terms of reducing the number of incisions. However, the current status of oncologic outcome with this technique is not well known for lung cancer surgery. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the oncologic outcomes in early stage lung cancer f...