Correspondence: Kenny Yat-Choi Kwong Division of Allergy-immunology, Department of Pediatrics, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, 1000 west Carson Street Box 491, N-25, USA email [email protected] Abstract: Current national and international asthma guidelines recommend treatment of children with asthma towards achieving and maintaining asthma control. These guidelines provide more stringent recommen...

PURPOSE To correlate the radiographic measurement, cord diameter shown on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and clinical hand sign of cervical myelopathic patients. METHODS Patients with clinical cervical myelopathy who had had MRI in Kwong Wah Hospital between January 2001 and December 2002 were enlisted. Their cervical spine radiographs and clinical records were reviewed. RESULTS Of 36 pa...

An equation-of-state (EoS) scheme to correlate the solubility of solids in supercritical fluids is presented. The solute fugacity coefficient obtained using pure-solvent compressibility factor, and empirical solute-to-solvent parameter ratios cohesion factors covolumes. proposed method simpler than conventional EoS calculations since no iteration required. We retain link classical cubic mixing ...

As was shown by Kaper and Kwong Diierential and Integral Equations 3, 353{362], there exists a unique R > 0, such that the diierential equation u 00 + 2 + 1 r u 0 + u ? u q = 0; r > 0; (0 q < 1, 0) admits a classical solution u, which is positive and monotone on (0; R) and which satisses the boundary conditions u 0 (0) = 0; u(R) = u 0 (R) = 0: In this article it is shown that u(0) is bounded, b...

From July 1994 to February 2001, 60 patients underwent varicocoele surgery in the Day Surgery Centre, Department of Surgery, Kwong Wah Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, PRC. The mean age of these patients was 25.9 years (ranged 9–66). Their symptoms included pain/discomfort (41.7%), mass/swelling (36.7%), infertility (8.3%) and cosmetic reasons (1.7%). In seven patients the indication was not clearly de...

With improvement and advancement in screening technology, treatment techniques and enhancement of public awareness, early detection and timely treatment for breast cancer are achievable. Although being a good medical breakthrough, this inevitably poses implications and demands on post-cancer care to a growing population of young breast cancer patients who are facing various quality-of-life and ...

In this paper, we prove that each of the following functions is convex on R: f(t) = wN(AtXA1?t ? A1?tXAt), g(t) wN(AtXA1?t), and h(t) wN(AtXAt) where A &gt; 0, X Mn N(.) a unitarily invariant norm onMn. Consequently, answer positively question concerning convexity function t w(AtXAt) proposed by in (2018). We provide some generalizations extensions wN(.) using Kwong functions. More precisely, w...

This study reports liquid–liquid equilibrium (LLE) and liquid–liquid–liquid (LLLE) data for binary (phenol + n- dodecane, or n -hexadecane) ternary (water phenol systems measured under atmospheric pressure. The compositions of coexisting phases were determined with analytical cloud point methods at temperatures 298 K – 353 K. Non–Random Two–Liquid (NRTL) excess Gibbs energy model was employed t...