OBJECTIVE Our objective in this study was to examine how family social-support expectations have changed among older Chinese and Korean U.S. immigrants. METHODS Fifty-two Cantonese- and Korean-speaking immigrants older than 60 years participated in eight focus groups. Transcripts were translated into English. Themes were developed based on a coding structure and compared to past research. R...

DesignScript, as the name suggests, is positioned at the intersection of design and programming. DesignScript can be viewed as part of the continuing tradition of the development of parametric and associative modeling tools for advanced architectural design and building engineering. Much of the thought processes that contribute to the effective use of DesignScript builds on the tradition of par...

Zurich where he became 'privat-dozent' for neurology, the first appointment of its kind in Switzerland. The following year in a borrowed room in the Pathological Institute, von Monakow assisted by a young American zoologist, Henry Donaldson, established the laboratory which was to become the Hirnanatomisches Institute. Von Monakow developed a very active private practice, first as a general phy...

In this paper we describe non-photorealistic rendering techniques for volumetric data sets. First, we outline an automatic approach that generates line drawings to illustrate such data sets and to augment traditional volume rendering techniques. For a number of seed points that are placed appropriately to represent selected volume structures curvature lines are traced and encoded by a sparse se...

In this research project, I focus on transnationalism through trans-Pacific migratory processes and its implications on the evolution of identity in Hong Kong families in Vancouver, Canada. Under the system of reference of social and cultural geography, three main parts are discussed: a conceptual one presenting surrounding aspects of transnationalism and its underlying concepts of identity, pe...

We introduce a novel volume illustration technique for regularly sampled volume datasets. The fundamental difference between previous volume illustration algorithms and ours is that our results are shape-aware, as they depend not only on the rendering styles, but also the shape styles. We propose a new data structure that is derived from the input volume and consists of a distance volume and a ...

A prolonged decrease in serum sodium concentration can cause chronic hyponatremia, a condition that is frequent among the elderly and that, in spite of a reputation for being asymptomatic, is increasingly recognized as being potentially harmful. This paper proposes the inhibition of 11hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2 (11-HSD2) as a novel means of treating chronic hyponatremia. They identif...