763 research outputs found
Self-treatment of major and minor illnesses to ensure physical and mental comfort
No full text[Abstract] The author has been in a suboptimal state of health for an extensive period of time and had experienced difficulties in work and life. The goal was to identify a simple method for implementing self-treatment. The author used a method referred to as ‘inward vision’ to observe, perceive, feel, and record her own physical condition. A set of simple and convenient self-diagnostic methods to determine the location and nature of a disease was summarised through consideration of these ‘records of perceived observations’. A series of oral capsules constituting traditional Chinese remedies was developed based on these records and literature review. This set of Chinese remedies is extraordinary and unusual, comprising dozens of species of traditional Chinese herbal remedies, there are a considerable number different combinations of these herbs for the treatment numerous diseases and symptoms. It is safe and easy to consume. Over the years, the author has self-treated various symptoms and improved her health. If a large proportion of people are able to self-treat their illnesses, the world would be improved. It would be a step forward in the ability of humans to fight diseases. The diagnostic and therapeutic method described herein is simple, convenient, efficient, and cost-effective. This could be efficacious in solving socio-economic problems such as lack of access to effective medical treatment. It can be used to conduct research on several aspects, including food, plants, animals, and medical equipment. Furthermore, ‘inward vision’ as a method of thinking may be helpful to researchers in other disciplines. The author Xiuli Yang is the founder of Yang’s six-position treatment method and the developer of the Zhenshanliyang series Chinese remedies. This article is a supplement to another article.The Chinese version of this article was published in the magazine titled, The China Health Care and Nutrition in January 2013 (pp. 457-458). This magazine is published between the 21st and 30th of each month. Links are below
Self-treatment of major and minor illnesses to ensure physical and mental comfort
No full text[Abstract] The author has been in a suboptimal state of health for an extensive period of time and had experienced difficulties in work and life. The goal was to identify a simple method for implementing self-treatment. The author used a method referred to as ‘inward vision’ to observe, perceive, feel, and record her own physical condition. A set of simple and convenient self-diagnostic methods to determine the location and nature of a disease was summarised through consideration of these ‘records of perceived observations’. A series of oral capsules constituting traditional Chinese remedies was developed based on these records and literature review. This set of Chinese remedies is extraordinary and unusual, comprising dozens of species of traditional Chinese herbal remedies, there are a considerable number different combinations of these herbs for the treatment numerous diseases and symptoms. It is safe and easy to consume. Over the years, the author has self-treated various symptoms and improved her health. If a large proportion of people are able to self-treat their illnesses, the world would be improved. It would be a step forward in the ability of humans to fight diseases. The diagnostic and therapeutic method described herein is simple, convenient, efficient, and cost-effective. This could be efficacious in solving socio-economic problems such as lack of access to effective medical treatment. It can be used to conduct research on several aspects, including food, plants, animals, and medical equipment. Furthermore, ‘inward vision’ as a method of thinking may be helpful to researchers in other disciplines.The author Xiuli Yang is the founder of Yang’s Six-position Treatment Method and the developer of Zhenshanliyang series Chinese remedies.This article is a supplement to another article.The Chinese version of this article was published in the magazine titled, The China Health Care and Nutrition in January 2013 (pp. 457-458). Links are below
Further Insights into the Mechanisms and Clinical Implications of Run-Mu-Ling Granules in Dry Eye Disease [Letter]
Full text linkWei Wei,1 Haoming Gao,2 Xiuli Guo,2 Chen Chen3 1Armed Police Force First Mobile Corps Hospital, Baoding, Hebei Province, People’s Republic of China; 2People’s Liberation Army 32183 Troops Hospital, Baicheng, Jilin Province, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of Ophthalmology, Dalian Women and Children’s Medical Group, Dalian, Liaoning Province, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Chen Chen, Department of Ophthalmology, Dalian Women and Children’s Medical Group, 154 Zhongshan Road, Xigang District, Dalian City, Liaoning Provinve, People’s Republic of China, Email [email protected]
Identification of Immune Gene Signature Associated with T Cells and Natural Killer Cells in Type 1 Diabetes [Corrigendum]
Full text linkWang N, Wang G, Feng X, Yang T. Diabetes Metab Syndr Obes. 2024;17:2983—2996.
The authors have advised the affiliation callouts in the author list on page 2983 are incorrect. The correct author callouts should read as follows:
Na Wang1, Guofeng Wang1,2, Xiuli Feng1, Teng Yang
Contrastive study of reference chains in french and chinese : case study on a parallel corpus constructed by Jean-Christophe of Romain Rolland and its translation by Lei Fu : volume I
No full textLes discussions sur la notion de chaîne de référence et les notions connexes en français et en anglais ont été initiées dans les années quatre-vingt-dix. Cette notion et ses diverses approches relatives en français sont développées dans la thèse de Schnedecker (1992) et ses publications ultérieures ainsi que par de nombreux auteurs supportés par le projet ANR DEMOCRAT (2016-2020). Cette notion textuelle et discursive est fondamentale pour comprendre la continuité d’un texte, en particulier celle des textes longs lorsque les connecteurs ne suffisent pas à garantir seuls la cohérence textuelle. Les chaînes de référence semblent alors être les seules unités linguistiques qui permettent de comprendre ces textes longs comme un ensemble sans rupture de sujet. À partir d’une adaptation de la notion de chaîne de référence par les auteurs français, nous proposons dans un premier temps une définition de cette notion en chinois avec des hypothèses formulées au sujet de divers composants éventuels et divers critères quantitatifs et qualitatifs. Dans la deuxième partie de notre travail, nous cherchons à résoudre des questions méthodologiques détaillées par le biais de la constitution d’un corpus franco-chinois annoté des chaînes de référence dans les extraits du roman-fleuve Jean-Christophe, textes narratifs longs. Ce corpus nous permet, dans la troisième partie, d’obtenir les résultats quantitatifs pour toutes les chaînes de référence significatives du roman, et de démontrer, de manière qualitative, les caractéristiques des chaînes de référence en chinois dans le contexte général du roman et dans des conditions textuelles spécifiques.Discussions on the notion of reference chain and related notions in French and English started in the 1990s. This notion and its various relative approaches in French are developed in the thesis of Schnedecker (1992) and her subsequent publications, as well as by many authors supported by the ANR project DEMOCRAT (2016-2020). This textual and discursive notion is fundamental to understanding the continuity of text, in particular that of long texts when connectors alone are not enough to guarantee the textual coherence. The reference chains then seem to be the only linguistic units that allow these kind of long texts to be understood as a whole without breaking the subject. Based on an adaptation of the notion of reference chain by French authors, we first propose a definition of this notion in Chinese with hypotheses formulated about various possible components and various quantitative and qualitative criteria. In the second part of our work, we seek to solve detailed methodological questions through the constitution of a French-Chinese corpus annotated with the reference chains in the extracts of the river-novel Jean-Christophe which are long narrative texts. This corpus allows us, in the third part, to obtain quantitative results for all the significant reference chains of the novel, and to demonstrate, in the qualitative way, the characteristics of the reference chains in Chinese in the general context of the novel and in specific textual conditions
Engineering Micro- and Nanoscale Cavities for Applications in Light Manipulation.
Full text linkWith highly controllable optical field confinement, subwavelength-scale structures are capable of manipulating light behavior at UV, visible, and IR wavelengths. This light manipulation further enables ones to improve performance of optical devices such as lasers, photovoltaics, and detectors. In this dissertation, two applications of such subwavelength-scale cavities for improved optical performance will be introduced. First, the lasing threshold and optical property of photonic crystal microdisk lasers is improved in the presence of dielectric nanostructures, and the design concept of the nanostructure further paves the way toward higher efficiency microcavity lasers as light sources for photonic integrated circuits. Secondly, several designed plasmonic nanocavities will be presented in this thesis for spectrum filtering. These plasmonic nanostructures enable ones to achieve multifunctional structural color filters with high efficiency (>60%), good color purity (linewidth<70nm), and robust angular response (+-80 degree). The proposed plasmonic nanostructures have great potential for structural color filtering in LCD TV displays to further allow highly efficient displays with sharper colors and ultra-small pixel sizes. The proposed plasmonic nanocavities also open up the opportunity for a wide variety of applications such as photovoltaics, nanocavity emitters, miniature hyperspectral imaging, and high sensitivity index sensors.PhDElectrical EngineeringUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/97799/1/ykwu_1.pd
Targeting prostate cancer cells with hybrid elastin-like polypeptide/liposome nanoparticles
No full textWei Zhang,1 Yunmei Song,1 Preethi Eldi,1 Xiuli Guo,2 John D Hayball,1,3 Sanjay Garg,1 Hugo Albrecht1 1Centre for Pharmaceutical Innovation and Development, Centre for Drug Discovery and Development, Experimental Therapeutics Laboratory, Sansom Institute for Health Research, School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia; 2Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan, China; 3Robinson Research Institute and Adelaide Medical School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia Abstract: Prostate cancer cells frequently overexpress the gastrin-releasing peptide receptor, and various strategies have been applied in preclinical settings to target this receptor for the specific delivery of anticancer compounds. Recently, elastin-like polypeptide (ELP)-based self-assembling micelles with tethered GRP on the surface have been suggested to actively target prostate cancer cells. Poorly soluble chemotherapeutics such as docetaxel (DTX) can be loaded into the hydrophobic cores of ELP micelles, but only limited drug retention times have been achieved. Herein, we report the generation of hybrid ELP/liposome nanoparticles which self-assembled rapidly in response to temperature change, encapsulated DTX at high concentrations with slow release, displayed the GRP ligand on the surface, and specifically bound to GRP receptor expressing PC-3 cells as demonstrated by flow cytometry. This novel type of drug nanocarrier was successfully used to reduce cell viability of prostate cancer cells in vitro through the specific delivery of DTX. Keywords: ELP-GRP, micelle, liposome, docetaxel, prostate cancer, GRPR, GPC
Corncob-derived activated carbon for roxarsone removal from aqueous solution: isotherms, kinetics, and mechanism
No full textIn this study, the adsorption of roxarsone (ROX) onto corncob-derived activated carbon (AC) was optimized using response surface methodology (RSM). Following this, the AC was comprehensively characterized by FT-IR, SEM, and EDS analysis. The results showed that the highest ROX adsorption efficiency of 304.34 mg/g was obtained at the contact time of 262 min, initial pH of 2.5, adsorbent dosage of 0.4 g/L, and initial concentration of 240 mg/L. Besides, it was found that the adsorption equilibrium data was fitted well to the Langmuir and Sips isotherm models. The thermodynamic parameters (e.g., ΔG, ΔH, and ΔS) revealed the spontaneous and exothermic nature of ROX adsorption. As indicated by pseudo second-order kinetics model, the adsorption of ROX onto AC could be achieved through the hydrogen bond, π-π adsorbate–adsorbent interaction, and electrostatic interaction between AC surface functional group and molecular species variations of ROX at different pH values. Overall, it can be concluded that corncob-derived AC is an alternative option for removing ROX from aqueous solution.Science and Technology Department of Henan ProvinceProcessing and Efficient Utilization of Biomass Resources of Henan Center for Outstanding Overseas Scientist
Variable speed control of a permanent magnet synchronous motor drive without mechanical sensors
No full textPermanent Magnet Synchronous motors (PMSMs) have been used in a wide range of applications due to their high torque to inertia ratio, higher power density and efficiency. To drive the motor, the instantaneous rotor position is needed to perform electronic commutation. This is normally achieved by using position encoder or resolver mounted onto the motor shaft. Due to the disadvantages and limitations of the mechanical position sensors, there has been an increasing interest in developing techniques for eliminating the position sensors to improve reliability and to reduce the cost of the drive system.Master of Engineerin
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