This erratum is being published to correct the third author's name. The third author, Young-Woo Kim should read as Ying-Yu Jin. Young-Woo Kim is a Korean-Chinese. The original legal name of Young-Woo Kim is Ying-Yu Jin. The corrected version of this article is available in the Archive (http://jmb.or.kr).

In this note, we give a simple proof of the combinatorial conjecture proposed by Tang, Carlet and Tang, based on which they constructed two classes of Boolean functions with many good cryptographic properties. We also give more general properties about the generalization of the conjecture they propose.

Two new species of the Stenus indubius group from China are described: Stenus huapingensissp. n. from Guangxi Province and Stenus zhujianqingisp. n. from Zhejiang Province. Habitus photos and illustrations of diagnostic characters of the new species and two described species, Stenus paradecens Tang & Li, 2005 and Stenus guniujiangense Tang & Li, 2005, are provided.

Xiao-Chai-Hu-Tang is a blended traditional oriental medicine, which consists of seven crude extracts of Bzipleuri radix, Pinetliae ttiber, SZuteltariae r dix, Ziz.yPhi .frticttts, Ginseng radix, Glycvrrhizae radix and Zingiberis rhiaoma. It has been reported (1, 17, 29) that Xiao-Chai-Hu-Tang has many pharmacologic efli2cts including anti-inflammatory action, anti-allergic action, immunoactivat...

BACKGROUND Obesity is a public health concern in many countries due to its increasing prevalence. Euiiyin-tang is an herbal medicine formula often used as a clinical treatment for obesity. It acts to eliminate humidity and purify the blood, the causes of obesity identified by the theoretical framework of Korean medicine. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Euiiyi...

BACKGROUND Xerostomia, a subjective sense of dry mouth, is not generally regarded a disease despite its high prevalence among the elderly, and therefore continues to impair affected patients' quality of life. In traditional Korean medicine, 'Yin-Deficiency' has been implicated in the pathogenesis of xerostomia among the elderly. Yukmijihwang-tang is a famous herbal prescription used to relieve ...

BACKGROUND Chronic cough, defined it lasts more than 8 weeks. The symptom is common, but highly troublesome, and it reduces quality of life. Despite much effort to develop a protocol for diagnosis and treatment of chronic cough, it remains problematic to determine its cause. As a result, treatment is often unsuccessful. Thus, there is much interest regarding the use of symptomatic drugs to cont...