Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is characterized by regulating the integrity of the human body and has accumulated thousand-year experience in the use of Herb Formula (“Fu-Fang” in Chinese) for managing complicated TCM Syndrome (“ZHENG” in Chinese). In recent years, there has been increasing concern about the application of bioinformatics and systems biology approaches for deciphering the sc...

Introduction. Previous studies have demonstrated the advantages of TCM use among asthmatic children. However, there is a paucity of epidemiologic reports on features of TCM users among asthmatic children. This cohort study aimed to investigate child's, parent's, and provider's characteristics associated with the use of asthma-related TCM services among newly diagnosed asthmatic children. Materi...

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is practiced in the Chinese health care system for more than 2,000 years. In recent years, herbal medicines, which are used to treat Alzheimer's disease (AD) in China based on TCM or modern pharmacological theories have attracted considerable attention. In this paper, we discuss etiology and pathogenesis of AD, TCM therapy, and herbal extracts for the treatmen...

BACKGROUND To characterize the utilization of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) among patients with hepatitis C (HC). METHODS This study examined datasets from the National Health Insurance Research Database in Taiwan. One cohort, including one million patients randomly sampled from the beneficiaries of the National Health Insurance Programme from January 1 to December 31 in 2010, was chosen...

The demand for high data rates in coded OFDM systems requires codes with high bandwidth efficiencies. A recently introduced concatenated coding scheme employing trellis coded modulation (TCM), the so-called staggered TCM, is very promising for this purpose. Due to its block-convolutional structure an iterative decoding procedure is possible whereas the rate of the constituent TCM is preserved f...

Tongue diagnosis in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) assesses the health by investigation of tongue coating. The science and technology of tongue coating analysis have become a significant issue for modernization of TCM. The relationship between microecology of tongue coating and TCM was relevant to the syndrome differentiation in TCM, such as the cold/hot syndrome may exhibit different speci...

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), an age-old healthcare system derived from China, is a mainstream medicine in China and is also popular in many other parts of the world [1-3]. Due to historic reasons, the scientific base of TCM awaits consolidation but emerging evidence has be‐ gun to illustrate TCM as an area of important medical rediscoveries. For example, the 2011 Lask‐ er-DeBakey Clinica...

Each of 11 tumors tested produced a factor that markedly suppressed the ability of macrophages to release H2O2 or O.2- in response to phorbol myristate acetate or zymosan. Four of seven normal cell types produced a similar activity, which was 3.5-7 times lower in titer than that in tumor cell-conditioned medium (TCM), and which was much more rapidly reversible in its effects. TCM caused 50% inh...

In this study, we used the trans-contextual model of motivation (TCM) to examine the effect of Sport Education (SE) on students' participation in a voluntary lunch recess sport club. A total of 192 participants (ages 9-14 years) completed measures of the TCM constructs before and after a 12-week SE intervention period. Participants had the opportunity to participate in weekly, voluntary lunch r...

The traditional waveform coding techniques for digital communication systems convert the original analog input signal into a digital bit stream using uniform sampling in the time domain, i.e., PCM, DM, ADPCM. In this paper we propose the Time Code Modulation (TCM) technique as an alternative coding scheme, where information is extracted from the signal, only at the time instants when necessary....