The question of how public funds for research should be allocated has led to participatory priority-setting in prosperous democracies like Taiwan, Republic of China. Useful criteria for research priorities are scientific merit, social benefit and feasibility. Taking a health needs approach and using these criteria, nearly 200 nurses from service and education in a national forum participated in...

The Botzone Intelligent Agent Platform is an online intelligent agent competition platform. The Botzone is designed to evaluate the intelligence of agents through competitions between them. The Botzone provides a context for users to learn basic AI knowledge and apply a variety of AI algorithms. It has been used as a teaching system and has served National Olympiad in Informatics (NOI) as a com...

The Northeast China (NEC) was the most important agriculture areas and known as the Golden-Maize-Belt. Based on observed crop data and crop model, we design four simulating experiments and separate relative impacts and contribution under climate change, planting date shift, and varieties change as well change of varieties and planting date. Without planting date and varieties change, maize yiel...

Using a CGE model, PRCGEM, with an updated 2002 I/O table, this paper explores how earnings will be affected in each of 40 separate industries across 31 regions (or 8 regional blocks) of China for the period 2002–07. Labour movement between regions within China is considered. It is found that the direct contribution of WTO membership is small to the whole economy in terms of growth and developm...

A major problem addressed in railway network planning relates to distinguishing the role of the railway line in the network, and making a reasonable classification of the lines based on their role. Accessibility has been widely used to measure the role of transportation infrastructure in various studies, but few quantitative models for the classification of the role have been presented yet. In ...

China’s Railway Transportation (CRT) is enjoying a time of unprecedented development thanks to huge government investment and a series of aggressive favorable policies. Understanding the opportunities and challenges facing the CRT affords the practitioners and policy makers a better perception of development regarding this important transportation mode. This paper attempts to comprehensively as...

AIM The aim of this study was to test community-based nursing education about breast self-examination to see whether self-examination frequency could be increased. BACKGROUND Breast cancer rates in China are rising rapidly, especially in cities. The majority of Chinese women does not know about breast self-examination, and the Chinese health care system cannot provide mammograms for the milli...

abstract background: there are several evaluation models that can be used to evaluate the effect of in‑service training; one of them is the kirkpatrick model. the aim of the present study is to assess the in-service training of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (cpr) for nurses based on the kirkpatrick’s model. materials and methods: this study is a cross‑sectional study based on the kirkpatrick’s ...

The role of nursing care is especially significant for patients receiving radiation therapy for esophageal cancer. Esophageal cancer, including cancer arising from the gastro-esophageal junction, is a challenging disease worldwide. Recently statistics indicated that the crude incidence of esophageal cancer ranked fifth in all cancer sites with rate of 22.14/100,000 in Chinese population [1]. Ra...

BACKGROUND Patients undergoing pacemaker implantation often experience anxiety and fear. As such, studies have focused on the mechanisms that relieve the negative emotions caused by the intervention. Continuous nursing is a safe and effective nursing mode. In this study, continuous nursing intervention was provided for elderly patients undergoing pacemaker implantation and an empirical investig...