Thromboangiitis obliterans (TAO) is a thrombotic-occlusive as well as an inflammatory peripheral vascular disease with unknown etiology. Recent evidence has supported the immunopathogenesis of the disease, however, the factors contributing to the altered immune function and vascular tissue inflammation are still unclear. This review was intended to collate the more current knowledge on the regu...

Translating fine-grained activity detection (e.g., phone ring, talking interspersed with silence and walking) into semantically meaningful richer contextual information on a call for 20 minutes while exercising) is essential towards enabling range of healthcare human-computer interaction applications. Prior work has proposed building ontologies or temporal analysis patterns limited success in c...

Q&A sites continue to flourish as a large number of users rely on them as useful substitutes for incomplete or missing search results. In this paper, we present our experience with developing Confucius, a Google Q&A service launched in 21 countries and four languages by the end of 2009. Confucius employs six data mining subroutines to harness synergy between web search and social networks. We p...

In the framework of his transcendental philosophy Kant strictly separates morality from aesthetics. The pleasure in the good and the pleasure in the beautiful are two different kinds of pleasure (zwei Arten des Wohlgefallens). As a consequence, a moral act as such cannot be beautiful. Only in a second step does Kant indicate possible connections between morality and aesthetics in his comments o...

Most rhetorical readings of Confucius’s Analects have focused on his views on eloquence, reflecting an insuppressible impulse among comparative rhetoricians to match Confucian rhetoric to Greco–Roman rhetorical framework. My reading of the text argues that Confucius was more concerned about the suasory power of the multimodality of ritual symbols than narrowly verbal persuasion. To achieve the ...

Chinese ancient prose culture has a long history and occupies an important place in the world civilization. Translation activities have played role process of cultural dissemination since times. Xu Yuanchong, Centennial translator China, is outstanding representative field translation. Eco-translation, as theory adaptation transformation, great practical significance to study translation contem...

This paper examines whether the modern bioethical principles of respect for autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice proposed by Beauchamp and Childress are existent in, compatible with, or acceptable to the leading Chinese moral philosophy-the ethics of Confucius. The author concludes that the moral values which the four prima facie principles uphold are expressly identifiable in Co...

Till familjen " I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. " Confucius (551BC-479BC) Abstract iii List of publications vi List of abbreviations vii Definitions viii Sammanfattning (summary in Swedish) ix Introduction 1