Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a highly lethal malignancy mostly because of metastasis, recurrence and acquired resistance to conventional chemotherapy. Arsenic trioxide (ATO) is successfully used to treat hematological malignancies, and has been proven to trigger apoptosis in HCC cells. However, the phase II trial evaluating the efficacy and toxicity of ATO in patients with HCC showed that ...

Richard Stanley suggested the problem of finding the characteristic polynomial of a certain hyperplane arrangement defined by xi + xj = 0, 1, which is called the Shi threshold arrangement. We present the answer of the problem, using the finite field method.

This paper investigates a Description Logic, namely SHI+, which extends SHI by adding transitive closure of roles. The resulting logic SHI+ allows transitive closure of roles to occur not only in concept inclusion axioms but also in role inclusion axioms. We show that SHI+ is decidable by devising a terminating, sound and complete algorithm for deciding satisfiability of concepts in SHI+ with r...

Four new species of Pentacentrus Gorochov from China are described and illustrated, P. acutiparamerus Liu & Shi sp. nov., P. biflexuous Liu & Shi sp. nov., P. emarginatus Liu & Shi sp. nov. and P. parvulus Liu & Shi sp. nov. A key and a distribution map of the Chinese species of this genus are provided.

This paper discusses the proposals of Li and Thompson (1977), Yen (1986), and Feng (1993) in relation to the development of the Chinese copula and argues that Li and Thompson’s suggestion of a topic mechanism, Yen’s analogical change, and Feng’s phonological pause are unsatisfactory in explaining the development of the copula. It is suggested that Katz’s (1996) cognitive concept of existence in...

In this study, a series of hemp shives (chènevotte) with different chemical compositions and properties, namely raw (SHI-R), washed water (SHI-W), three samples chemically modified KOH (SHI-OH), Na2CO3 (SHI-C) or H3PO4 (SHI-H), sample prepared by grafting carboxylic groups (SHI-BTCA), were used as adsorbents for the removal copper present in aqueous solutions. This article presents abatements k...

The description logic SHI extends the basic description logic ALC with transitive roles, role hierarchies and inverse roles. The known tableau-based decision procedure [9] for SHI exhibit (at least) NEXPTIME behaviour even though SHI is known to be EXPTIME-complete. The automata-based algorithms for SHI often yield optimal worst-case complexity results, but do not behave well in practice since ...

You do not know who this Zhuangzi is, not even if it is the name of a man; you don’t know either what a shi or a cheng is. But on the basis of the author's authority, you believe that the sentence “Zhuangzi's principle is that you cannot get a shi without having a cheng” is true. You do not understand this sentence, for you do not know what it means, therefore you don't believe that Zhuangzi's ...