The use of computational steering for smog prediction is described. This application is representative for many underlying issues found in steering high performance applications: high computing times, large data sets, and many diierent input parameters. After a short description of the smog prediction model, its visualization and steering are described. The amount of computation needed to solve...

Background Long-term antiepileptic drug (AED) therapy is considered a risk factor of atherosclerosis. Furthermore, the duration of therapy contributes to acceleration of large-vessel atherosclerosis. Therefore, in this study, we tested the hypothesis that long-term AED therapy plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis of microangiopathy in patients with epilepsy. Methods We recruited 120 patie...

In this research, we seek to advance the understanding of heterogeneity in entrant survival rates. We suggest that the innovative environment at the time of entry can explain the variation in likelihood of survival for entrants. We conceptualize innovative environment in terms of two dimensions: the technological regime operating in a specific industry at the time of entry, and the technology i...

The Sino-French 2012 Conference in Thoracic Oncology, held November 17-18, 2012, was hosted by the Department of Thoracic Surgery at Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center and organized in collaboration with two prestigious French hospitals: Institute Gustave Roussy and Marie Lannelongue Hospital. The conference was established by leading experts from China and France to serve as an international...

1 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C. 2 Department of Physics and Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, R.O.C. 3 Center for Condensed Matter Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. 4 Material Science Center, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Tai...

This chapter explores and offers a critique of the ways that foreign aid projects engage with the problem of violence against women in Papua New Guinea. Inspired by the work of Amartya Sen and Stephen Lewis, writers who bravely defend humanist ideals and enable the exposure of much of the empty rhetoric about diversity and equality as public relations talk, I argue that aid projects directed at...

Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma (NPC) patients' end-of-treatment survival status has drawn more attention in recent years. Telephone follow-up, as a most operative approach among all the clinical follow-ups, is an effective means to extend medical service to patients' home and is thus widely used in clinical practice. This study aimed to analyze the post-radiotherapy NPC patients' phone response rate ...

The bicycle is constantly being updated in order to meet market needs, the developing trend of bicycle shifting gear has changed from manual shifting fashion into automatic shift fashion. In this paper, a systematic approach is proposed to synthesize the design concept of the three-speed automatic speed changer. In this paper, we accord to the design concepts of planetary gear trains with two d...

Tobias Schuh,1 Timofey Balashov,2 Toshio Miyamachi,1 Shih-Yu Wu,3 Chein-Cheng Kuo,3 Arthur Ernst,4 Jürgen Henk,4 and Wulf Wulfhekel1 1Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Physikalisches Institut, Wolfgang-Gaede Str. 1, D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany 2Centre d’Investigacions en Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (ICN-CSIC), E-08193 Barcelona, Spain 3Department of Physics, National Sun Yat-sen University, Ka...

Vol. XLVI (April 2009), 247–259 247 © 2009, American Marketing Association ISSN: 0022-2437 (print), 1547-7193 (electronic) *Keith Wilcox is a doctoral candidate in Marketing (e-mail: [email protected]), and Sankar Sen is Professor of Marketing (e-mail: [email protected]), Baruch College, City University of New York. Hyeong Min Kim is Assistant Professor of Marketing, Carey B...