Wei-chin Lee is Associate Professor of Political Science at Wake Forest University. His publications have appeared in a number of scholarly journals, including Asian Survey, Asian Perspective, Issues and Studies, Journal of Contemporary China, Journal of Asian and African Studies, Ocean Development and International Law, SAIS Review, Studies in Comparative Communism, and World Affairs. His most...

The influence of surfactant hydrocarbon tail on the solute/pseudostationary phase interactions was examined. Four anionic sulfated surfactants with 8-, 9-, 10-, and 11-carbon chains having a polymerizable double bond at the end of the hydrocarbon chain were synthesized and characterized before and after polymerization. The critical micelle concentration (CMC), polarity, and aggregation number o...

The perimeters of the Oued-Souf region are irrigated by salty water coming from phreatic and thus progressive salinization soil occurs. This study aims at a qualitative analysis evolution salinity in soils pivot irrigation for several years. For this, three plots were pivots each agricultural region. choice these 3 is justified number years their cultivation: plot 1 has been cultivated 2 (2016–...

Aromatase inhibitors are the most important targets in treatment of estrogen-dependent cancers. In order to search for potent steroidal aromatase inhibitors (SAIs) with lower side effects and overcome cellular resistance, comparative molecular field analysis (CoMFA) and comparative molecular similarity indices analysis (CoMSIA) were performed on a series of SAIs to build 3D QSAR models. The rel...

Background: South Asian Immigrants (SAIs) are the second fastest growing Asian immigrant population in the US, and at a higher risk of type 2 diabetes (diabetes) than the general US population. Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) is the principal cause of mortality globally, particularly in diabetic subjects. In this study, we sought to determine the; 1) distribution of risk factors for CAD in diabet...

The aim was to elucidate how the population of digital nerve afferents signals information about the shape of objects in contact with the fingerpads during fine manipulations. Responses were recorded from single mechanoreceptive afferent fibers in median nerves of anesthetized monkeys. Seven spherical surfaces were used, varying from a highly curved surface (radius, 1.44 mm; curvature, 694 m-1)...

The mechanical state encoded by slowly adapting type 1 mechanoreceptors (SAI) during indentation was examined using an isolated preparation in a rat model. Skin and its intact innervation were harvested from the medial thigh of the rat hindlimb and placed in a dish, with the corium side down, containing synthetic interstitial fluid. The margins of the skin were coupled to an apparatus that coul...

We introduce GCIS, a grammar compression algorithm based on the induced suffix sorting algorithm SAIS, presented by Nong et al. in 2009. Our solution builds on the factorization performed by SAIS during suffix sorting. We construct a context-free grammar on the input string which can be further reduced into a shorter string by substituting each substring by its corresponding factor. The resulti...