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Asterolaurins A-F, Xenicane Diterpenoids from the Taiwanese Soft Coral Asterospicularia laurae
No full textFull-Thickness Central Corneal Grafts in Lamellar Keratoscleroplasty to Treat Limbal Dermoids
No full textChina's Economic Reform: Two Levels of Dual Economic Institutions in the Market Socialism
No full text中國經濟改革的特殊之處在於轉型的過程中保留了相當程度的國有企業，同時也開放和逐步健全了混合所有制的財產制度，也就是柯爾奈(J?anos Kornai)所謂的「雙重經濟體制」。除此之外，中國在國有企業的改革內容裡，更建立了國有企業本身的雙執制，也就是以市場機制和計畫經濟同時調節國有企業的運作。兩個層次的雙重經濟體制(雙層雙重經濟體制：two levels of dual economic institutions)同時運作，一方面透過保留下來的國有企業可以穩定改革帶來的衝擊，一方面透過和有化健全的過程可以追求改革所欲提高的市場生產效率。雙層雙重經濟體制運作的最主要邏輯，在於國家在經濟轉型過程中始終保持主導的地位，透過兩種體制的建立，政府意圖在穩定中尋求經濟的成長。The economic reform in China led by Deng was to form an economy based on a marketed socialist economy system. Yet the system cannot guarantee the success of the reform. In regards to the specific character of the economic reform in China, J?nos Komai suggests the so-called "dual economic systems." During the transition period, China not only retains the state-run enterprises to some extent, but also improves the mixed-ownership system openly and gradually. Moreover, it also establishes the two levels of dual economic institutions, which adjust the operation of the state-run enterprises by the market system and the planned economy. In doing so, the retained state-run enterprises can reduce the impact of the reform, while the private ones can seek for a higher efficiency of the market productivity. The major logic concerning the two levels of dual economic institutions lies on the state's dominant position during the transition period. The intention of the government is to look for a stable economic growth through the establishment of the dual systems. This article will focus on the logic of the two levels of dual economic institutions as well as the state role in the new institutions. I will also discuss the influence of the two levels of dual economic institutions on the economic reform
Lack of efficacy of troglitazone at clinically achievable concentrations, with or without 9-cis retinoic acid or cytotoxic agents, for hepatocellular carcinoma cell lines
No full textAlthough the PPARg agonist troglitazone has been shown to induce growth inhibition of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cells at high
concentration, this study indicates troglitazone does not significantly inhibit the growth of HCC cells at clinically achievable
concentrations (1–10 mM), and this lack of activity could not be improved by the addition of 9-cis-retinoic acid. Furthermore, no
synergistic effect was found between troglitazone and cytotoxic anticancer agents
The application of cluster analysis in geophysical data interpretation
No full textA clustering algorithm which is based on density and adaptive density-reachable is developed and presented for arbitrary data point distributions in some real world applications, especially in geophysical data interpretation. Through comparisons of the new algorithm and other algorithms, it is shown that the new algorithm can reduce the dependency of domain knowledge and the sensitivity of abnormal data points, that it can improve the effectiveness of clustering results in which data are distributed in different shapes and different density, and that it can get a better clustering efficiency. The application of the new clustering algorithm demonstrates that data mining techniques can be used in geophysical data interpretation and can get meaningful and useful results, and that the new clustering algorithm can be used in other real world applications.Science Foundation Irelan
A two-layer night-time vehicle detector
No full textWe present a two-layer night time vehicle detector. At the first layer, headlight detection [ref] is conducted to allocate areas (eg, bounding box) where are the possible pairs of the headlights in the image, the Haar feature based Adaboost framework are then applied to decide the vehicle front at night time. This approach has achieved significant performance for vehicle detection at night time. Our results showed that the proposed algorithm can reach over 90% of detection rate at 1.5% false positive rate. Without any code optimization, it also performs at a faster speed compared to Haar feature based Adaboost approachWeihong Wang, Chunhua Shen, Jian Zhang and Sakrapee Paisitkriangkra
A Randomised Control Trial and Comparative Analysis of Multi-Dimensional Learning Tools in Anatomy
Full text linkResearch was funded by the Cakmak Lab and the University of Otago, Otago Medical School. Author notes: These authors contributed equally: Ben Kei Daniel and Mustafa Asil. Contributions: Conception and Design of Study: Y.C. and C.W.; Design of materials: Y.C. and C.W.; Randomization of participants: P.K.; Acquisition of data: C.W.; Data analysis and interpretation: Y.C., M.A., B.D. and C.W.; Drafting of manuscript and/or critical revision: C.W., Y.C., M.A., B.D. and P.K.; All authors read and approved the final manuscript.Peer reviewe
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