PURPOSE The present study investigated the validity of personality classification using four pillars theory, a tradition in China and northeastern Asia. MATERIALS AND METHODS Four pillars analyses were performed for 148 adults on the basis of their birth year, month, day, and hour. Participants completed two personality tests, the Korean version of Temperament and Character Inventory-Revised-...

The objectives of this study are to establish microsatellite loci for the Mongolian gerbil based on mouse microsatellite DNA sequences and to investigate genetic variation in the laboratory gerbil (Capital Medical University, CMU) and 2 wild gerbil populations (from Yin Chuan city [YIN] and the Hohehot Municipality [HOH]). In total, 536 mouse microsatellite markers were chosen to identify polym...

AND EXTANT U-Pb SYSTEMATICS IN THE EARLY SOLAR SYSTEM. Qing-Zhu Yin, Yuri Amelin, and Benjamin Jacobsen, Department of Geology, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA ([email protected], [email protected]), Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Building 61, Mills Road, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia (yuri.amelin@anu...

The genus Tyrus Aubé is redescribed with major diagnostic features illustrated. The first male specimen of T. sinensis Raffray (Type locality: Yunnan, China) is reported from Xizang, China, and two new species, Tyrus sichuanicus Yin & Nomura, sp. n. and Tyrus yajiangensis Yin & Li, sp. n., are described from Sichuan, China. All treated species are (re-)described, illustrated and distinguished.

BULK CARBONACEOUS CHONDRITES AND ITS ASTROPHYSICAL SIGNIFICANCE. Qing-Zhu Yin, K. Yamashita, A. Yamakawa, R. Tanaka, E. Nakamura, A. N. Krot, and B. S. Meyer. Univ. of California Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA ([email protected]). PML, Institute for Study of the Earth’s Interior, Okayama Univ. at Misasa, Japan. University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, USA. Dept. of Phys. & Astron., Clemson Univ., Cle...

The tmesiphorine genus Ancystrocerus Raffray, 1893 is newly recorded in China, and a new species, A. chinensis Yin, Wang & Li sp. n., is described, figured, and compared with its congeners. New collection data of a previously described species Tmesiphodimerus sinensis Yin & Li is given.

265 Received February 25, 2010; revision accepted for publication June 22, 2010. doi:10.1620/tjem.221.265 Correspondence: Yin Ding, D.D.S., Ph. D., Department of Orthodontics, School of Stomatology, Fourth Military Medical University, 145 West Changle Road, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710032, China. e-mail: [email protected] (Xiangwei Kong); [email protected] (Yin Ding) Tohoku J. Exp. Med., 2010, 221, 26...

To explore the effects of traditional Chinese medicine constitution (TCMC) on transformation of good health status to suboptimal health status (SHS), we conducted a nested case-control study among college students in China. During the 18-month mean follow-up time, 543 cases of SHS (42.7%) occurred in 1273 healthy students. There was a significant (P = 0.000) and marked reduction in SHMS V1.0 to...

Ancient Chinese philosophers discovered Yin and Yang the laws of movement during their exploration practice nature more than two thousand years ago, applied them to life, science, philosophy medicine, playing an important role in achievement ancient civilization. Through historical changes, yin yang have gradually been regarded as a concept or theory, thus making it difficult for people underst...

OBJECTIVE To explore the characteristics of traditional Chinese medical syndrome (TCM syndrome) of hepatocirrhosis. METHODS Clinical information from the four diagnosis methods of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and related laboratorial indexes were systematically collected from 223 hepatocirrhosis cases, and the multi-statistical methods including systematic cluster analysis, principal co...