CHIH-HENG KE, CE-KUEN SHIEH, WEN-SHYANG HWANG AND ARTUR ZIVIANI Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering National Kinmen Institute of Technology Kinmen, 892 Taiwan Department of Electrical Engineering National Cheng Kung University Tainan, 701 Taiwan Department of Electrical Engineering National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences Kaohsiung, 807 Taiwan National Laboratory...

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We report on a deep search for radio pulsations toward five unidentified ASCA X-ray sources coincident with EGRET g-ray sources. This search has led to the discovery of a young and energetic pulsar using data obtained with the new Wideband Arecibo Pulsar Processor. PSR J2021 3651 is likely associated with the X-ray source AX J2021.1 3651, which in turn is likely associated with the COS B high-e...

A graph G = (V, E) is said to be represented by a family F of nonempty sets if there is a bijection f:V--*F such that uv ~ E if and only iff(u)Nf(v)q=~. It is proved that if G is a countable graph then G can be represented by open intervals on the real line if and only if G can be represented by closed intervals on the real line, however, this is no longer true when G is an uncountable graph. S...

Let (G, u) be an Archimedean norm-complete dimension group with order-unit. Continuing a previous paper, we study intervals (i.e., nonempty upward directed lower subsets) of G which are closed with respect to the canonical norm of (G, u). In particular, we establish a canonical one-to-one correspondence between closed intervals of G and certain affine lower semicontinuous functions on the state...

Dulaglutide is a once-weekly glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist approved for the treatment of type 2 diabetes (T2D). Integrated data from 9 phase II and III trials in people with T2D (N = 6005) were used to evaluate the effects of dulaglutide on estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR [Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration]), urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio (UACR) and kid...

Given a graph G = (V, E), with each subset X of V is associated the subgraph G(X) of G induced by X. A subset I of V is an interval of G provided that for any a, b ∈ I and x ∈ V \ I , {a, x} ∈ E if and only if {b, x} ∈ E. For example, ∅, {x}, where x ∈ V , and V are intervals of G called trivial intervals. A graph is indecomposable if all its intervals are trivial; otherwise, it is decomposable...

BACKGROUND Evidence of an association between low socioeconomic position (SEP) and inflammatory markers is scant. This study aimed to examine how life-course SEP predicted C-reactive protein (CRP) and interleukin (IL-6) in older age from a national cohort. METHODS We collected data from 1036 participants in the Social Environment and Biomarkers of Aging Study in Taiwan. Four SEP time points, ...