For the next decade, the ‘‘support’’ that comes from Group Support Systems (GSS) will be increasingly directed towards culturally diversified groups. While there have been many GSS studies concerning culture and cultural differences, no dedicated review of GSS researches exists for the identification of current gaps and opportunities of doing cross-cultural GSS research. For this purpose, this ...

Through about 130 years of the history of experimental aesthetics, preferences of figures have been summarized in representative values such as the golden ratio. Researches especially in the golden-section hypothesis overshadowed the basic and profound problem of how people's individual preference would be decided. In the present study I returned to simple quadrangles, and investigated each per...

BACKGROUND Preparation of KBr tablets, used for Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) analysis of urinary calculus composition, is time-consuming and often hampered by pellet breakage. We developed a new FT-IR method for urinary calculus analysis. This method makes use of a Golden Gate Single Reflection Diamond Attenuated Total Reflection sample holder, a computer library, and an artificial neural...

Although distributed Group Support Systems (GSS) are getting popular, there are still some limitations. One of the limitations is few substitutions for face-to-face (FTF) interaction (whether it is related to meeting content or not), so we may say that FTF interaction is one of the advantages of proximate types of GSS. However, there are few studies that focus only on the role of FTF interactio...

A woman reporting the homicide and burial of an infant in 2004 prompted creation experimental simulated neonate grave shortly before real search commenced. The case, documented here, did not use aerial imagery, but used ground-penetrating radar (calibrated to test site described here) identify two locations that were probed for gas release deployment victim recovery dogs. We suggest technologic...

INTRODUCTION Gorham-Stout syndrome (GSS) is a rare but severe subtype of idiopathic osteolysis. There are no guidelines for the treatment of GSS. We analysed different diagnostic and therapeutic regimes and we describe the sucessful treatment of GSS considering individual patient factors. METHODS We diagnosed three patients with shoulder-specific GSS using clinical, radiological and histopath...

The growth and development of adipose tissue are believed to require adipogenesis, angiogenesis, and extracellular matrix remodeling. As our previous study revealed that ginseng reduces adipose tissue mass in part by decreasing matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) activity in obese mice, we hypothesized that adipogenesis can be inhibited by ginseng and its active components ginsenosides (GSs). Treatm...