HHigh-k LaAlO3 (LAO) thin films with and without Al2O3 buffer layers were deposited on n-type silicon substrates using a pulsed laser deposition method. The dielectric constant of the LAO thin film increased from 5.2 to 23.1 as its thickness increased from 20 to 500 Å. The effective dielectric constants of the LAO (120 Å)/Si and LAO(105 Å)/Al2O3(15 Å)/Si were 12.5 and 23.2, respectively. The fl...

1 Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Buddhist Dalin Tzu Chi General Hospital, No. 2, Min-Sheng Road, Dalin, Chia-Yi 622, Taiwan 2 School of Medicine, Buddhist Tzu Chi University, No. 701, Zhongyang Rd., Sec. 3, Hualien 97004, Taiwan 3Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Medical University Hospital, No. 252, Wuxing Street, Taipei...

Health-related physical fitness, academic achievement, and neuroelectric measures in children and adolescents Chien-Heng Chu, Feng-Tzu Chen, Matthew B. Pontifex, Yanlin Sun & Yu-Kai Chang To cite this article: Chien-Heng Chu, Feng-Tzu Chen, Matthew B. Pontifex, Yanlin Sun & YuKai Chang (2016): Health-related physical fitness, academic achievement, and neuroelectric measures in children and adol...

Epilepsy in Lao Peoples’ Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) is a neglected condition. After 5 years of research, we established some baseline information for people living with epilepsy in Lao PDR. Prevalence was 7.7 per thousand population. Stigma and misconceptions were common. Traditional beliefs and practices were prevalent. The treatment gap was 90% or more. Phenobarbital was available in less ...

Symmetry reduction has significantly contributed to the success of classical planning as heuristic search. However, it is an open question if symmetry reduction techniques can be lifted to fully observable nondeterministic (FOND) planning. We generalize the concepts of structural symmetries and symmetry reduction to FOND planning and specifically to the LAO⇤ algorithm. Our base implementation o...

BACKGROUND HIFU can achieve PVI, but severe esophageal complications have happened. We analyzed relative position of HIFU balloon catheter (BC) to esophageal temperature (ET) probe and correlated it to ET changes. METHODS AND RESULTS Before each ablation relative position of HIFU BC to ET probe was recorded in RAO 30º and LAO 40º. We compared ablations where ET at end of ablation was <38.5ºC ...

Woei-Cherng Shyu,1* Shinn-Zong Lin,1* Ming-Fu Chiang,2 Dah-Ching Ding,1 Kuo-Wei Li,1 Shih-Fen Chen,1 Hui-I Yang,1 and Hung Li3,4 1Department of Neurology, Neuro-Medical Scientific Center, Tzu-Chi Buddhist General Hospital, Tzu-Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan 970, 2Department of Neurosurgery, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Mackay Junior College of Nursing, Taipei, Taiwan 112, 3Institute of Molecular ...

TERRY B. J. KUO,1,2 TSANN LIN,3 CHERYL C. H. YANG,4 CHIA-LIN LI,5 CHIEH-FU CHEN,6 AND PESUS CHOU5 1Institute of Neuroscience and 4Department of Physiology, Tzu Chi College of Medicine and Humanities, Hualien 970; 2Department of Neurology, Tzu Chi Buddhist General Hospital, Hualien 970; 3Yu-Chi Health Station, Nan-Tou 555; 5Community Medicine Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipe...

We present a new optimization for or-parallel logic programming (Prolog) systems, called Last Alternative Optimization (LAO). The LAO follows from the Flattening Principle and the Principle of Duality of or-parallelism and and-parallelism. Originally LAO was conceived as the dual of the Last Parallel Call Optimization [4] an optimization developed by us for and-parallel systems. LAO enables Pro...

Information and communication technologies are often cited as one major source, if not the causal vector, for the rising intensity of transnational practices. Yet, extant literature has not examined critically how digital media appropriation affects the constitution of transnational organizations, particularly Chinese spiritual ones. To address the lack of theoretically grounded, empirical rese...