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Social transform and commercial growth of overseas Chinese = Hai wai hua ren de she hui bian ge yu shang ye cheng zhang
No full textDi 1 ban Hai wai hua ren de she hui bian ge yu shang ye cheng zhang / Yan Qinghuang zhuhttp://trove.nla.gov.au/work/2103578
Insulin Resistance Surrogates May Predict HTN-HUA in Young, Non-Obese Individuals
No full textYu-Qiang Zuo,1 Zhi-Hong Gao,1 Yu-Ling Yin,1 Xu Yang,1 Xing Guan,2 Ping-Yong Feng3 1Department of Physical Examination Center, The 2nd Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Physical Examination Center, The People’s Hospital of Shijiazhuang City, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of Imaging Center, The 2nd Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Ping-Yong Feng, Department of Imaging Center, The 2 nd Hospital of Hebei Medical University, and the Master Instructor of MM of the Imaging Medicine, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, People’s Republic of China, Email [email protected]: To compare the associations of three surrogate markers of insulin resistance (IR) [glucose and triglycerides (TyG index), TyG index with BMI (TyG-BMI), and the ratio of triglycerides divided by HDL-C (TG/HDL-C)] with hypertensive patients (HTN) plus hyperuricemia (HUA) (HTN-HUA) in young, non-obese individuals.Methods: Data from a cross-sectional epidemiological study of an annual health check-up population aged younger than 66 years were used to calculate the three IR surrogate indexes. The association with HTN-HUA and insulin resistance surrogates was examined with multinomial logistic regression and a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve.Results: A total of 6952 participants were included, including 671 (9.65%) participants with HTN alone, 272 (3.91%) participants with HUA alone, and 62 (0.90%) participants with HTN and HUA. Binary multiple-logistic regression results showed that TG/HDL-C was significantly correlated with HTN, HUA, and HTN-HUA. Compared with the lowest quartile, the odds ratios (95% CI) of the highest quartile of TG/HDL-C for HTN-HUA were 3.462 (1.138~10.530). TG/HDL-C and TyG-BMI had moderate discriminative abilities for HTN-HUA, and the area under the curve was 0.748 (0.682~0.815), 0.746 (0.694~0.798).Conclusion: Our study suggests that TG/HDL-C had a significant correlation with HTN-HUA and that TG/HDL-C had moderate discriminative abilities for HTN-HUA.Keywords: insulin resistance, TyG index, TG/HDL-C ratio, HTN-HU
Interference-Free Broadband Single- and Multi-Carrier DS-CDMA
No full textThe choice of the direct sequence spreading code in DS-CDMA predetermines the properties of the system. This contribution demonstrates that the family of codes exhibiting an interference-free window (IFW) outperforms classic spreading codes, provided that the interfering multi-user and multipath components arrive within this IFW, which may be ensured with the aid of quasi-synchronous adaptive timing advance control. It is demonstrated that the IFW duration may be extended with the advent of multicarrier DS-CDMA proportionately to the number of subcarriers. Hence, the resultant MC DS-CDMA system is capable of exhibiting nearsingle-user performance without employing a multi-user detector. A limitation of the system is that the number of spreading codes exhibiting a certain IFW is limited, although this problem may be mitigated with the aid of novel code design principles
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THE "LIU-I SHIH-HUA" OF OU-YANG HSIU (CHINA).
No full textPoetry occupies an eminent position in the history of Chinese literature because almost all the traditional men of letters had experience in composing poems. However, it was not until the Sung Dynasty that the criticism of poetry became very popular; this was singled out by the appearance of a number of books called, shih-hua (icons omitted) (remarks on poetry). Since the Sung period on, shih-hua has received both praise and censure. Traditional critics tended to evaluate shih-hua from a practical viewpoint. For example, Wang Shih-han (icons omitted) criticised the content of shih-hua as trivial because it deviated from the subjects of filial piety, trust, and other Confucian merits. On the other hand, Kuo Shao-yu (icons omitted) proclaimed that shih-hua preserved a great deal of worthy materials for the study of poetry. Modern scholars tend to evaluate shih-hua from the aesthetic viewpoint. For instance, Yen Yuan-shu (icons omitted) describes shih-hua as "vague and obscure" and "lacking systematic discourse." Yet other scholars such as Yeh Wei-lien (icons omitted) claim that the shih-hua offers readers a chance to recapture the world of rich imagery in poetic composition. In order to make a more objective judgement between the above two extremely different evaluations of shih-hua, the following issues must first be resolved: the definition of shih-hua which is related to Ou-yang Hsiu's (icons omitted) Liu-i shih-hua (icons omitted) the first book titled shih-hua, what kind of poetic tradition the Liu-i shih-hua inherited, what kind of person its author was, under what kind of literary environment it was produced, what were the contents of the work, and what kind of influence it exerted on the development of the shih-hua genre. Then we may tentatively reach an answer: the practical criticism of poetry only covers one part of the content of shih-hua. To make a complete evaluation of a shih-hua book or the shih-hua genre itself, a critic must take all the issues above into consideration
Cerapanorpa Gao, Ma & Hua, 2016, gen. nov.
No full textKey to species of Cerapanorpa gen. nov. (males) 1. Tergum V bearing an anal horn on posterior margin.................................. C. bicornifera (Chou & Wang) - Tergum V without an anal horn........................................................................... 2 2. Anal horn on tergum VI at most 0.2 times as long as tergum VI; wing membrane hyaline; hypovalves only extending to middle of gonocoxite..................................................................... C. brevicornis (Hua & Li) - Anal horn on tergum VI at least 0.3 times as long as tergum VI................................................. 3 3. Doral valves of aedeagus bilobed apically, or bifurcate at the base...............................................4 - Doral valves of aedeagus simple, without furcation........................................................... 9 4. Basal region of forewing slightly yellowish, remaining region hyaline............................................ 5 - Whole forewing uniformly hyaline........................................................................ 6 5. Dorsal valves of aedeagus with inner branches bowed and approaching each other at middle, outer branches shorter and thinner................................................................................ C. fulvicaudaria (Miyaké) - Dorsal vales of aedeagus straight, with inner branches shorter and thicker than outer ones........... C. arakavae (Miyaké) 6. Wings with only an interrupted pterostigmal band; abdominal segments V and VI widened and obconical...................................................................................................... C. galloisi (Miyaké) - Wings with two conspicuous bands: an apical band and a pterostigmal band; abdominal segments V and VI slightly narrower than preceding segments................................................................................7 7. Paramere furcate; abdominal segments VII–XI reddish black.................................. C. gokaensis (Miyaké) - Paramere simple; abdominal segments VII–XI reddish brown.................................................. 8 8. Apex of paramere sharply pointed, without spines....................................... C. cornigera (MacLachlan) - Apex of paramere blunt, bearing thick spines along medial margin............................... C. acutipennis (Hua) 9. Paramere with thin stalk, then abruptly swollen into broad plate from middle portion, with long and stout spines along inner margin............................................................................................. 10 - Paramere with apical portion lanceolate or slightly curved, only slightly broader than its stalk, inner margin bearing fine spines................................................................................................... 11 10. Paramere short, reaching approximately 4/5 of gonocoxite, quadrate plate above the stalk, with an L-shaped subapical branch................................................................................. C. byersi (Hua & Huang) - Paramere almost reaching the posterior margin of gonocoxite, palmate in the middle, lanceolate at apex, with spines much lon- ger than the width at where they inserted; dorsal valve of aedeagus tapering towards the apex......... C. centralis (Tjeder) 11. Paramere constantly linear, not broaden above its stalk, only slightly thick than stalk, bearing a column of very short spines..................................................................................................... 12 - Paramere broad and flat above the stalk, markedly broader than its stalk......................................... 14 12. Wing membrane slightly yellow-tinted, with conspicuous dark-brown markings; middle and hind legs with brownish black coxae and trochanters; paramere curved almost at a right angle near its base............................ C. reni (Chou) - Wing membrane hyaline, without markings, or only with faint apical band; all three pairs of legs with yellowish coxae and tro- chanters; paramere straight, only slightly curved apically..................................................... 13 13. Paramere dark brown, reaching the hind margin of gonocoxite, at apex with a thorn, bearing spines on the back.............................................................................................. C. liupanshana sp. nov. - Paramere yellowish brown, reaching middle length of gonostylus, blunt apically, bearing spines along inner margin......................................................................................... C. dubia (Chou & Wang) 14. Paramere sinuate or geniculate.......................................................................... 15 - Paramere straight lanceolate, or somewhat bending medially.................................................. 17 15. Paramere conspicuously sinuate, nearly bow-shaped, especially its apical half; dorsal valves of aedeagus short, not exceeding gonocoxite, truncated at apex.............................................................. C. sinuata sp. nov. - Paramere slightly geniculate on apical portion; dorsal valves of aedeagus elongate, reaching the posterior margin of gonocoxite or more............................................................................................ 16 16. Rostrum yellowish to reddish brown; males with anterior half of abdominal segment VI brownish black and posterior half paler; paramere with comb-like long spines along medial margin.................................. C. obtusa (Cheng) - Rostrum blackish brown to black; abdominal segment VI entirely black; paramere covered ventrally by short spines at apex.................................................................................... C. nanwutaina (Chou) 17. Hypovalve short, barely reaching mid-length of gonocoxite..................................... C. horiensis (Issiki) - Hypovalve extending well beyond mid-length of gonocoxite, reaching posterior margin of gonocoxite................. 18 18. Paramere extending to middle portion of gonostylus or slightly further.......................................... 19 - Paramere extending nearly to the apex of gonostylus or beyond............................................... 20 19. Wings with prominent apical band and pterostigmal band; hypovalve with bristles along medial magrin; paramere with spines above its stalk......................................................... C. wangwushana (Huang, Hua & Shen) - Wings almost without markings, only with faint indication of apical band; hypovalve with a regular column of bristles on medial margin; paramere with spines from its middle length.............................. C. funiushana (Hua & Chou) 20. Wings with pterostigmal band and apical band; paramere nearly reaching apex of gonostylus, bearing spines longer than the width at where they inserted along its medial margin........................................ C. emarginata (Cheng) - Wings without markings; paramere extruding beyond gonostylus, with spines shorter than the width at where they inserted along its medial margin................................................................ C. protrudens sp. nov.Published as part of Gao, Chao, Ma, Na & Hua, Bao-Zhen, 2016, Cerapanorpa, a new genus of Panorpidae (Insecta: Mecoptera) with descriptions of three new species, pp. 93-104 in Zootaxa 4158 (1) on page 98, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4158.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/26293
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Preparation and antiherpetic activities of chemically modified polysaccharides from Polygonatum cyrtonema Hua
No full textThe chemically modified polysaccharides including sulfated phosphorylated carboxymethylated acetylated and sulfonylated derivatives were prepared from a neutral polysaccharide (PD) extracted from Polygonatum cyrtonema Hua These compounds were characterized by FT-IR H-1 NMR and C-13 NMR spectroscopy Antiherpetic activities of natural and modified P cyrtonema polysaccharide against herpes simplex virus (HSV) Induced by cyclophosphamide (CP) were then evaluated on vero cells using cytopathic effect (CPE) inhibition assay The phorphorylated derivative (P-PD) and sulfated derivative (S-PD) exhibited significant inhibitory activity against HSV in comparison with the native ones especially P-PD presented better antiviral potency In addition the sulfonylated derivative (Ts-PD) was found to be as effective as PD and the acetylated derivative (Ac-PD) to be slightly less antiviral effective whereas carboxymethylated derivative (C-PD) was shown to be almost inactive The results indicated that the types of function groups appeared to be very important for the antiherpetic activity of polysaccharides (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserve
Sinopanorpa Cai & Huang & Hua 2008, gen. nov.
No full textKey to species in Sinopanorpa Cai & Hua gen. nov. (male) 1 Terga I–V brown; basal lobe of gonostylus much narrower, its proximal and apical parts almost the same width and bifurcated transversally at apex (Fig. 4E); ventral parameres slender and very long, extending to 3/5 of gonostylus and beyond the mesal process (Fig. 4D); gonocoxite blackish..................................... ............................................................................................................. Sinopanorpa nangongshana sp.nov. - Terga I–V dark brown to black; basal lobe of gonostylus wider, with apical part much wider than basal part; ventral parameres short, only reaching the basal lobe of gonostylus at most; gonocoxite yellowish brown to brown............................................................................................................................................2 2 Gonostylus smoothly bent outwards (Fig. 3B–C); basal lobe of gonostylus very developed, broadly opened at apex with two acute distal hooks (Fig. 3D); ventral parameres extending slightly over the basal lobes, with quite short brown spines along their mesal margin (Fig. 3E). Sinopanorpa digitiformis sp.nov. - Gonostylus strongly bent outwards (Fig. 1C–E); basal lobe of gonostylus prominent, flake-like, bifurcated apically; ventral parameres only extending to the basal lobes, with long comb - like dark spines along mesal margin at distal half (Fig. 1E) ................................................................ Sinopanorpa tincta (Navas)Published as part of Cai, Li-Jun, Huang, Peng-Ying & Hua, Bao-Zhen, 2008, Sinopanorpa, a new genus of Panorpidae (Mecoptera) from the Oriental China with descriptions of two new species, pp. 43-54 in Zootaxa 1941 (1) on page 45, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1941.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/523106
HUA treatment reduces survival and impacts morphogenesis.
No full text(A) Embryonic survival curves under Mock, HUA, or HUAwo condition. Data from n ≥ 3 biological replicates/condition; mean ± SEM. The individual quantitative observations can be found in S5 Data (sheet 1). (B) The first morphological effect of HUA treatment is apparent at stage NF19 as a delay in neural tube closure (in mock, black arrowhead points to the dorsal midline; in HUA, 2 black arrows point to separate neural folds). Under higher magnification, HUA embryos contain larger cells. After hatching (stage NF37/38), HUA-treated embryos lack tails, have reduced eyes and malformed fins, and are largely deficient in melanocytes. (C) Comparison of temporal expression profiles for selected marker genes in Mock and HUA conditions by qRT/PCR, normalized to odc mRNA. Genes are grouped according to their activation time point. N = 3 biological replicates/condition; mean ± SEM. Significant difference was detected only in case of pax6 expression level at NF32 stage (Student t test [two-tailed, paired]; * p S5 Data (sheet 2). CNS, central nervous system; HUA, hydroxyurea and aphidicolin; HUAwo, HUA washout; qRT/PCR, quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction. (TIF)</p
Synthesis and selenation of tandem multicomponent condensation adducts
No full textA number of four-component condensation adducts, which were readily obtained from one-pot reaction of aryl carboxylic acids, arylaldehydes, arylamines and c-hexylisocyanide, were treated with two equivalents of Woollins’ reagent leading to the formation of a series of novel selenoamides with one or two C=Se groups, or heterocyclic compounds such as 1,3-selenazole and 1,3-selenazolidin-5-onePeer reviewe
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