On September 21, 1999 the 921 or Chi Chi earthquake struck the centre of Taiwan. The earthquake’s magnitude was ML 7.3, and MW 7.7 and the epicentre depth was 8 km. The earthquake hit at 1:47 am, and left about 2,471 dead and 11,305 seriously injured. Over 10,000 buildings collapsed and direct losses were estimated at US$14 billion. This paper describes some of our preliminary findings on a Nat...

Resonance Raman studies of visual pigment analogues regenerated with 10-D, 10,l 1-D2, 11-D, 1 1,12-D2, 12-D, 15-D, and 20,14-D4 isotopic derivatives of retinal have been used to assign the intense hydrogen outsf-plane (HOOP) vibrations in the spectra of rhodopsin, isorhodopsin, and bathorhodopsin. Low temperature 77 K photostationary steady-state experiments show that the unique 853-, 875-, and...

I. History and Discovery 904 A. Calcitonin gene-related peptide: a novel neuropeptide 904 B. Adrenomedullin: a tissue-derived peptide 905 C. Amylin: a pancreatic peptide 905 II. Structure 905 III. Distribution and Regulation of Genes and Peptides 906 A. CGRP: a wide distribution 906 B. AM: upregulation in disease 907 C. Amylin: relevance to diabetes 908 IV. Receptors 908 A. Cloning of CGRP rece...

The Asian Oceanian Congress of Radiology (AOCR) was held in Bangkok, Thailand, by the Royal College Radiologists Thailand (RCRT) and Radiological Society (RST) a hybrid format, offering an opportunity for participants to attend meeting virtually or person meet international colleagues face-to-face (Figure 1). It well-attended 1,162 from 29 countries around world with 241 overseas 921 local part...