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Former residence of Henry C. Shinn
No full textOnce the home of author Henry C. Shinn and Wollner's stor
Heat tolerance and flowering-heat-delay sensitivity in relation to cell membrane thermostability in chrysanthemum
No full textRethinking Import-substituting Industrialization: Development Strategies and Institutions in Taiwan and China
Get PDFimport-substituting industrialization, export-oriented industrialization, development strategies, institutions
Security analysis of Yeh-Tsai security mechanism
No full textYeh and Tsai recently proposed an enhanced mobile commerce security mechanism. They modified the lightweight security mechanism due to Lam, Chung, Gu, and Sun to relieve the burden of mobile clients. However, this article shows that a malicious WAP gateway can successfully obtain the mobile client's PIN by sending a fake public key of a mobile commerce server and exploiting information leakage caused by addition operation. We also present a countermeasure against the proposed attack.open111sciescopu
Diltiazem suppresses collagen synthesis and IL-1β-induced TGF-β1 production on human peritoneal mesothelial cells
No full textThe political role of the people's liberation army 1949-1973
Get PDFThis thesis is to study the political role of the People's Liberation Army from the approach of structure and function. The framework of the thesis consists of three major parts, first, the influence of Chinese traditional political culture on, and the formation of, the political role of the PL A; second, the influence of domestic political struggles and external military conflicts on the development of the political role of the PLA; and the third, the analysis of the transition of the PLA's political role from the structure and personnel arrangements of the CCPCC Within the above-mentioned three scopes, this thesis make a thorough discussion on the following: (1) The relationship between the structure of the PRC and the formation of the PLA's political role; (2) How has ideology influenced the army's political role; (3) What is Mao's viewpoint and his influence on the development of the army's political role; (4) What is the link between the army and the party, and how has this developed; (6) What accounts for the expansion of the PLA's political functions; (7) What is the influence of political factional struggles on the PLA's political role; (8) Is it political institution or military institution that controls the recruitment of the military elite; (9) What are the disparities between the military elite in handling international conflicts and what are their political considerations; (10) What is the Party's position in the army; (11) How have the Party’s important meetings and personnel arrangements influenced the rise and fall of the PLA's political role
Fighting against Viral Hepatitis: Lessons from Taiwan
No full textViral hepatitis and its sequelae are important health problems worldwide, including Taiwan. For the last 40 years, Taiwan's scientists and health care providers have worked hard to control these sequelae, and the results have been excellent. The author, Ding-Shinn Chen, had a key role in planning and establishing the control program in Taiwan, and participated in the endeavors from the very beginning. In this perspective, he describes how he became interested in research as a medical student, his encounters with hepatitis B and C, how he and his colleagues started early detection of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), how he helped Taiwan's government create and implement the Viral Hepatitis Control Program, and how the effectiveness of the program in the decrease of hepatitis B carriage and HCC was monitored. He also discusses how he pioneered the use of interferon- plus ribavirin to treat chronic hepatitis C. Hepatitis B viral load as a risk factor for HCC and cirrhosis in hepatitis B surface antigen carriers is reviewed briefly, as is the prevention of sequelae by antiviral therapies. Finally, Dr. Chen discusses unresolved issues that must be addressed and predicts the changes of the patterns of liver disease in Taiwan beyond the mid-21st century, which is in part affected by the fight against viral hepatitis that was initiated in the early 1980s . CONCLUSION: Dr. Chen's perspective illustrates Taiwan's fight against viral hepatitis over the last 40 years. This experience can be shared by other countries in which the disease is equally prevalent
Simplified Swarm Optimization with Sorted Local Search for Golf Data Classification
No full textGolf Swing is one of the most difficult techniques in sports to perfect, and a smooth swing canât be achieved without a correct process of bodyweight transfer between the feet during the motion, which is known as weight shift in golf. As pointed out by various professional players and coaches, a proper weight shift is critical in hitting a shot with good accuracy and range, and therefore it would be beneficial for golfers to obtain weight shift data corresponding to their swing motions, so that analysis and improvement on the swing pose can be made. Weight shift data collected through common methods such as using electronic scales may contain noise data due to factors such as pre-swing movements, and in order for the data to be useful, it is necessary to distinguish actual swing motion from noise. In this paper a data mining approach named Simplified Swarm Optimization with Sorted Local Search (SSO-SLS), which is based on a variant of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), has been proposed to classify golf swing from weight shift data. In the proposed approach a novel Sorted Local Search strategy has been introduced to remedy the issue of premature convergence facing PSO by allowing particles to obtain information from their nearest neighbors and improve swarm diversity. Experiments on UCI datasets and weight shift data in golf show that SSO-SLS is competitive with common classification techniques, and is an ideal approach for classifying golf swing from weight shift
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