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Propranolol (PL), a non-selective beta-blocker, is a cardiovascular drug widely used to treat hypertension. The present study was concerned with assessing the cytogenetic effects of this drug on Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell line. MTT assay was then carried out to determine the cytotoxicity index (IC50) of the drug. The IC50 value of PL was 0.43±0.02 mM. To investigate the clastogenic effect...

Chinese poetry is the soul of Chinese literature and Chinese culture. A good translation of a Chinese verse can promote the prevalence of Chinese culture. In the translation of Chinese poetry, translators should not only keep the characteristics of Chinese poems, but also embody the English characteristics. This article analyzed some versions of translation and proposed factors affecting the tr...

China's enterprise reform has resulted in large-scale layoff of workers from state and collective owned enterprises. Mainstream Chinese economists argue that many of the workers in these enterprises are " disguisedly unemployed " and have to be laid off to achieve better economic performance. In this paper, I argue that the productivity of state and collective owned enterprises to a large exten...

China is in the process of rapid urbanization, and wise land use is critical to the longterm sustainability of Chinese cities. Promotion of a compact city is typically believed to be a helpful for sustainable land use management. However, given the fact that Chinese cities are characterized by high population densities, the applicability of a more compact solution to expanding cities in China r...

1 Department of Animal Science, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan. 2 Taitung Animal Propagation Station, Livestock Research Institute (LRI), Council of Agriculture (COA). No. 30, 27 Line, Binlang Vil., Beinan Township, Taitung County 95445, Taiwan. 3 Department of Animal Science, Chung Hsing University, Taiwan. 4 Animal Products Processing Division, LRI, COA, Tainan...

The words that people use could reveal their emotional states, intentions, thinking styles, individual differences, etc. LIWC (Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count) has been widely used for psychological text analysis, and its dictionary is the core. The Traditional Chinese version of LIWC dictionary has been released, which is a translation of LIWC English dictionary. However, Simplified Chinese ...

Current Chinese event extract ion systems suffer much from the low recall due to unknown triggers. To resolve this problem, this paper firstly introduces morphological structures to better represent the compositional semantics inside Chinese triggers and then proposes a mechanism to automatically identify the head morpheme (either verb or noun) as the governing sememe of a trigger. Finally, it ...

In this study, the Felder learning styles inventory was administered to students who were non-English majors in a Chinese University. Descriptive statistics identified that participants do vary in their preference for particular learning styles with a great variety of learning style preferences distributed unevenly among the sample population. A large number of the participants showed mild pref...