OBJECTIVES Anaphylactic shock can be fatal to people who become hypersensitive when bee venom pharmacopuncture (BVP) is used. Thus, sweet bee venom (SBV) was developed to reduce these allergic responses. SBV is almost pure melittin, and SBV has been reported to have fewer allergic responses than BVP. BVP has been administered only into acupoints or intramuscularly, but we thought that intraveno...

OBJECTIVES This case report is to present a complete recovery from Kaposi's varicelliform eruption (KVE) that occurred in a patient with atopic dermatitis by applying Korean Medicine therapies. METHODS Hwangyeonhaedoktang pharmacopuncture (HP), 0.3 mL, and 25% bee venom pharmacopuncture (BVP), 0.1 mL, were injected, 0.2 mL each, at both BL13 acupoints once a day in the morning. Acupuncture wa...

In this paper we propose a rigorous numerical technique for the computation of symmetric connecting orbits for ordinary differential equations. The idea is to solve a projected boundary value problem (BVP) in a function space via a fixed point argument. The formulation of the projected BVP involves a high-order parameterization of the invariant manifolds at the steady states. Using this paramet...

Under hilly road conditions, it is difficult to achieve near-optimal performance of energy management strategy (EMS) of fuel cell hybrid electric vehicle (FCHEV). In order to achieve near-optimality, optimal state reference trajectory is predicted based on future information, and thus reference tracking controller is often considered as real-time predictive EMS. There are two approaches dependi...

leads to a sequence of BVPs for φn in the unperturbed domain (r > a); φ0 is the unperturbed solution and subsequent φn are forced by φm with m < n. The idea behind the boundary perturbation technique is old and familiar. For example, it is used in the theory of small-amplitude water waves, wherein the nonlinear boundary conditions on the (unknown) free surface z = F (x, y) are ‘linearized’ abou...

Video summarisation techniques aim to abstract the most significant content from a video stream. This is typically achieved by processing low-level image, audio and text features which are still quite disparate from the high-level semantics that end users identify with (the ‘semantic gap’). Physiological responses are potentially rich indicators of memorable or emotionally engaging video conten...

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