cated in the scenic Jackson Hole Valley and is a major gateway to the Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks. In addition, it is home to the world’s largest ball of barbed wire. (It’s amazing what you learn when studying healthcare finance!) Jen Latimer, a recent graduate of Idaho State University’s healthcare administration program, was just hired to be Big Sky’s practice manager. One of h...

In his paper, "Asian-American Literature and a Lacanian Reading of Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey," Fu-jen Chen explores the protagonist's subjective progression into the post-Symbolic Real in Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey -from subject as Demand, through subject as Desire, to subject as jouissance. Tripmaster Monkey records Ah Sing's transformation from a racial paranoiac at the begin...

An extension of regular nets, a class of coloredd nets, to a stochastic model is proposed. We show that the symmetries in this class of nets make it pos sible to developp a performance evaluation by constructingg only a graph of symbolic markings, which ver tices are classes of states, insteadd of the whole reachability graph. Usingg algebraic techniques, we prove that all the states in a class...

racic needle biopsy Yeun-Chung Chang, M.D., Ph.D. , [email protected] Chong-Jen Yu, M.D., Ph.D. , [email protected] Wen-Jen Lee, M.D. , [email protected] Sow-Hsong Kuo, M.D. , [email protected] Cheng-Hsiang Hsiao, M.D. , [email protected] I-Shiow Jan, MD, Ph.D. , [email protected] Fu-Chang Hu, M.S., Sc.D. , [email protected] Hon-Man Liu, M.D., [email protected] Wing-Kai Chan, ...

The ‘missing women’ phenomenon in many Asian countries has previously been regarded as the result of son preference and change in economic conditions. However, some studies later argued that since the sex ratio of the offspring of Hepatitis B mothers is around 150, half of the missing women can be explained by this natural disease. Using an atypical national data set from Taiwan, we demonstrate...

Traditional mean-field rate equations of chemical kinetics for spatially uniform systems1−3 and the corresponding reaction−diffusion equations describing spatial heterogeneity4−6 have proved immensely useful in elucidating catalytic processes. However, it is well-recognized that standard mean-field rate expressions neglect spatial correlations in the reactant and/or product distribution. It is ...

The authors are listed out of order, and the first three authors, Ning Hung, Li-Yu Hu, and Cheng-Che Shen, should be noted as contributing equally to this work. Please view the correct author order, affiliations, and citation here: Ning Hung, Li-Yu Hu, Cheng-Che Shen, Yu-Wen Hu, Chiu-Mei Yeh, Chung-Jen Teng, Ai-Seon Kuan, San-Chi Chen, Tzeng-Ji Chen, Chia-Jen Liu 1 Department of Psychiatry, Kao...

Hepatocelulární karcinom (HCC) je nejčastější primární zhoubný nádor jater, který se ve většině případů rozvíjí v terénu jaterní cirhózy různé etiologie. Jen časná stadia onemocnění jsou indikována k chirurgické, potenciálně kurativní léčbě. přibližně třetina HCC zachycena časných stadiích. Screeningovým vyšetřením rizikových skupin pacientů ultr...