Acupuncture is performed by inserting special hair-thin needles into the skin at specific sites, known as acupuncture points, for desired therapeutic and preventive purposes. Acupuncture is called “Jin Jiao” in Chinese. It consists with the practice of “acupuncture” and “moxibustion.” Moxibustion, warming sensation of moxa (artemisia vulgaris) over the acupuncture points, can be also used for t...

Three mothers dominate filmmaker Gaylene Preston’s new autobiography. One is Tui her mother, the person in family who coped (“she very strong me. I have to fight off constantly but she travels with me always.”); another mother’s mother Elsie had a personal relationship Jesus.”); then there herself as Chelsie (“my best ambassador.”), and towards end own suffering dementia.

Ein Projektteam der IBM AS GmbH entwickelt seit mittlerweile 15 Jahren Legacy-Anwendungen für Immobiliendienstleister im öffentlichen Dienst. Einige dieser Legacy-Anwendungen wurden auf die Client/Server-Plattformen Windows NT bzw. AIX migriert. Im Rahmen dieses Beitrages werden dabei gewonnene Erfahrungen vorgestellt. 1 Die Entwicklungsumgebung VisualAge Generator 4.5 IBM VisualAge Generator (...

Plant species preferences of birds were determined by comparing the proportional bird use of plant species during direct observations with the proportions of plant species present on point-height intercepts in lowland rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum) forest in North Okarito, Westland. Plant species and bird use of plant species were divided into 5 m height classes, and rimu trees were divided into ...

OBJECTIVE To explore contemporary practices and clinical recommendations regarding the use of acupuncture for infants by Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practitioners in Shanghai. DESIGN A qualitative study consisting of four field visits between February 2014 and March 2015. Data was collected using participant observation, focus group interview, in-depth interview, textbook page analysis...

Five-minute bird counts were made on Rangitoto Island in 1998 and 1999, 8 and 9 years after the start, and 1 and 2 years after the completion of a 7-year programme that resulted in eradication of the introduced brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) and brushtailed rock wallaby (Petrogale penicillata). These were compared with counts made in 1990 (immediately before the start of the programme...

Using two-stage Rosen’s model, this evaluation aims to deduce the implicit prices of coral-reef fish species most commonly encountered in road-side market Moorea (French Polynesia) during 2014–2015, from bundles species, called tuis. Index value are calculated which vary, all else equal, between 33% (Selar) and 137% (Acanthurus) price reference (Scarus). Estimating translogarithmic specificatio...

Mandarin Chinese often expresses motion events with more than one verbal motion morpheme, e.g., 退 tui ‘recede’ and 回 hui ‘return’ in 退回房間裏 tui-hui fangjian-li recede-return room-inside ‘return into the room’. Building on recent work on “scale structure”, this paper proposes a “Motion Morpheme Hierarchy” that can be used to better predict the order of co-occurring motion morphemes: specifically,...