—Over low bit rate channels, we adopt the streaming of nonlinearly sampled video frames (i.e., key-frame slideshow) synchronized with the audio stream. Given the channel and buffer limits, we wish to obtain a set of sampled frames that is not only feasible (i.e., no frame drop) but also optimal in terms of maximal information flow (given that the semantic information contents of each frame can ...

Traditional Eulerian air quality models are unable to accurately simulate sub-grid scale processes, such as the near-source transport and chemistry of point source plumes, because they assume instantaneous mixing of the emitted pollutants within the grid cell containing the release, and neglect the turbulent segregation effects that limit the near-source mixing of emitted pollutants with the ba...

Proteins of the PIWI subfamily Aub and AGO3 associated with the germline-specific perinuclear granules (nuage) are involved in the silencing of retrotransposons and other selfish repetitive elements in the Drosophila genome. PIWI proteins and their 25- to 30-nt PIWI-interacting RNA (piRNAs) are considered as key participants of the piRNA pathway. Using immunostaining, we found a large, nuage-as...

Corresponding to the concept of 'Think globally, act locally and plan regionally' of sustainable development, this paper discusses the approach of planning a sustainable community in terms of systems thinking. We apply a systems tool, the sensitivity model (SM), to build a model of the development of the community of Ping-Ding, located adjacent to the Yang-Ming-Shan National Park, Taiwan. The m...

Li-Jun Yin ([email protected]) Yu Zhang ([email protected]) Ping-Ping Lv ([email protected]) Wei-Hua He ([email protected]) Yan-Ting Wu ([email protected]) Ai-Xia Liu ([email protected]) Guo-Lian Ding ([email protected]) Fan Qu ([email protected]) Chen-Ming Xu ([email protected]) Min-Yue Dong ([email protected]) Xiao-Ming Zhu ([email protected]) He-Feng ...

Tzung-Jiun Tsai1,2 and Ping-I Hsu1,2* 1Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 2National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan *Corresponding author: Ping-I Hsu, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, 386 Ta Chung 1st Road, Kaohsiung 813, Taiwan, Tel: +886-7-...