This study was conducted in order to determine the relationship between air pollution and the varying prevalence of allergic diseases in the city of Taichung and the rural town of Chu-Shan. We used questionnaires to screen children aged from 7 to 15 years in Taichung and Chu-Shan and compared the results from these 2 areas with the factors related to air pollution. The study included 11,580 chi...

Decades of neglect and abuses by the Burmese government have decimated the health of the peoples of Burma, particularly along her eastern frontiers, overwhelmingly populated by ethnic minorities such as the Shan. Vast areas of traditional Shan homelands have been systematically depopulated by the Burmese military regime as part of its counter-insurgency policy, which also employs widespread abu...

The Barkol Tagh and Karlik Tagh ranges of the easternmost Tien Shan are a natural laboratory for studying the fault architecture of an active termination zone of a major intracontinental mountain range. Barkol and Karlik Tagh and lesser ranges to the north are bounded by active thrust faults that locally deform Quaternary sediments. Major thrusts in Karlik Tagh connect along strike to the east ...

Material of the paederine genus Lathrobium Gravenhorst, 1802 from the Chinese provinces Heilongjiang, Ningxia, Qinghai, Henan, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hunan, Chongqing, Guizhou, Yunnan and Guangdong was examined. Twenty-one species were identified, seventeen of which are described as new: L. liuae (Heilongjiang: Hongwei); L. ningxiaense sp. n. (Ningxia: Heshangpu); L. baiyunense sp. n. (Henan...

Shan Shui in the World presents shanshui (山水, landscape) paintings of selected places in the world (Manhattan, New York in this first production) generated by a computational process based on geography-related information. This project revisits the ideas implicit in Chinese literati paintings of shan shui: the relationship between urban life and people’s yearning for the nature, and between soc...

Eight apterous species of the paederine genus Lathrobium Gravenhorst, 1802 from the Chinese province Sichuan are described, illustrated, and distinguished from closely related and/or geographically close congeners: Lathrobium erlangense Peng & Li sp. n. (Erlang Shan), Lathrobium blandum Peng & Li sp. n. (Labahe N. R.), Lathrobium yelense Peng & Li sp. n. (Yele), Lathrobium obscurum Peng & Li sp...

Hao-Ping Liu, Chih-Ching Wu and Yu-Sun Chang* Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, National Yang Ming University, Shih-Pai, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, Proteomics Core Laboratory of Chang Gung Molecular Medicine Research Center, Chang Gung University, Kwei-Shan, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Republic of China and Graduate Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chang Gung University, Kwei-Shan, Tao...

Paederus (Gnathopaederus) xuei Peng & Li sp. n. (Yunnan: Dawei Shan) and P. (G.) cheni Peng & Li sp. n. (Hunan: Badagong Shan) are described and illustrated. Additional records of P. (G.) bursavacua Willers, 2001, P. (G.) szechuanus (Chapin, 1927) and P. (G.) yunnanensis Willers, 2001 are reported.

Yi Zhun Zhu, Chew Lan Chong, Shin Chet Chuah, Shan Hong Huang, Huey Shan Nai, How Teng Tong, Matt Whiteman, and Philip K. Moore National University of Singapore Cardiovascular Biology Research Group and Department of Pharmacology, National University of Singapore; Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, Fudan University; Emergency Department, National University Hospital; and Department...