Background. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), when given as a therapy for symptom relief, has gained widespread popularity among diabetic patients. The aim of this study is to analyze the utilization of TCM among type 2 diabetic patients in Taiwan. Methods. The use of TCM for type 2 diabetic patients were evaluated using a randomly sampled cohort of 1,000,000 beneficiaries recruited from the ...

Traditional coordination services for distributed applications do not scale well over wide-area networks (WAN): centralized coordination fails to scale with respect to the increasing distances in the WAN, and distributed coordination fails to scale with respect to the number of nodes involved. We argue that it is possible to achieve scalability over WAN using a hierarchical coordination archite...

In this paper, I examine the liminal states of Taiwanese guitarist/composer Huang Wan-ting, particularly as these states articulate with similar liminal states of “indie music” and the island of Taiwan. I use the term ‘liminal’ in a non-ritual sense to refer to a structural position on the interstices of recognized roles and identities. In addition, I propose a second type of liminality: a posi...

Qibao Meiran Wan is a Chinese herbal product sold as a therapy for tonifying the liver and kidney, dizziness, premature graying of hair, backache, constipation, and night sweats. It is widely available in Chinese pharmacies and drugstores and is sold without prescription. We describe a case of acute liver injury in a 26-year-old Chinese man who developed symptomatic hepatitis 1 month after star...

2. The Carlitz-Witt suite 5 2.1. The classical ghost-Witt equivalence theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.2. Classical Witt vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.3. The Carlitz ghost-Witt equivalence theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.4. Carlitz-Witt vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2.5. F -modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

Yuanxun Ge, Jianjun Cao, Zhenhua Shen, Yuanlin Zheng, Xianfeng Chen, and Wenjie Wan* Department of Physics, The State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China University of Michigan–Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China *Corresponding author: wenjie....

Emerging evidence suggests that gut microbiota contribute to the treatment of post-inflammatory irritable bowel syndrome (PI-IBS). Our previous studies have demonstrated that a Chinese formula, Wuji Wan, has the ability to mitigate abdominal pain and diarrhea in PI-IBS rats. However, little is known about the underlying mechanism and whether the gut microbiota mediate the effect of Wuji Wan on ...

We construct a three-country model to determine how the formation of free trade areas (FTAs) affects optimal tariffs and welfare. We find that, at constant rest of the world (ROW) tariffs, the adoption of internal free trade induces union members to reduce their external tariffs below the Kemp–Wan [J. Int. Econom. 6 (1976) 95–97] level, and causes ROW’s terms of trade to improve and its welfare...

1Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Coastal Zone Environmental Processes, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, ChunHui Road 17, Yantai, Shandong 264003, PR China 2Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Environment of the State Forestry Administration, Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Wan Shou Shan, Beijing ...

A wide area network (WAN) is a communications network utilizing devices such as telephone lines, satellite dishes, antennas, and microwaves to span a larger geographic area than can be covered by a local area network (LAN). Typically, a WAN consists of two or more LANs. A metropolitan area network, or MAN, is a term sometimes used to describe a system that falls somewhere between a WAN and LAN ...